Workers Press no. 1084

workers press Poulson, Lonrho, Polwarth, Lambion-Jellicoe

WHY LABOUR

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

BY ROYSTON BULL

union leaders' refusal to Far from launching a national campaign of industrial and political action to make the Tories resign, the Labourites and TUC oppor- tunists are working might and main to shore up a tottering administration.

At the weekend, Victor Feather's letter was deli- Heath proposing further collaboration vered to between the TUC Tory government over and the holding back workers' wages under Phase Three to help the capitalist class make more profits and sur- vive their inflationary economic crisis.

va Sue to heath whose administration is on pr briess Such an approach at such a time is of of losing all credibility and acceptability.

In the Commons, the Labour leadership's main was to show the ruling class they do not concern intend making political capital out of the govern- ment's crisis. Harold Wilson's opening words to Heath- echoed by virtually the whole Parliamentary Labour Party- were: All of us recognize how deeply distressing and painful it has been for you to make this statement to the House. So the greatest crisis yet to the authority of this country was turned by capitalist rule in Labour MPs into a maudlin display of phoney sentiment for a universally disliked Tory politi- cian. The Labourites don't want a public inquiry be- cause they fear as much as the Tories too much light being shed on what goes on among top people.

Their lack of opposition over this affair is because their own positions are threatened by this break-up of established authority.

The mystique of parliamentary power depends on the authority of the ruling class in all its depart- -the monarchy, the Lords, the judiciary, and ments- other displays of pomp, ceremony, and, above all, righteousness. The two-party system is part of this set-up and get to be MPs become en- the favoured few who tirely divorced from the lives of ordinary working- class people and have to pay very little regard to what their constituents want.

The Labour leaders have been silent about: But the real issue is that the

LAMBTON-JELLICOE

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whole system of bourgeois rule affair just as they remained very is beginning to break up under muzzled over the mounting pressure of the

THE LONRHO

affair, where most colossal economic crisis in member of the Royal Family all history. Labour leaders are the involved, and The bourgeoisie thinking for

THE

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affair where, the workers' within movenend from Reginald Maudling apart And their existence is now who had to as Home threatened no less than that Secretary and a few Tory MPs, the ruling class. mostly their own people is At time when a massive who are involved. of working-class mili- upsurge If for no better excuse than could be mobilized to tancy that they are implicated in some bring down the government, the Party scandals. the Labour Communist refuses to of these support the call to the leaders cannot speak out.

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CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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One of the women who have role of the Labour and trade been sitting in at Garrard union leaders. Swindon, Wilts. factory in Calling for an end to Wilson's Commons display 'nauseating is of The whole role not enough. the labour bureaucracy in colla- borating with the Tories must be exposed, including that of the trade 'lefts' who al- union are ways defended by the Stalinists.

The working class must smash through the obstruction the Labour and trade union leaders Communist Party the and bureaucracy in order to mobilize demand for the socialist behind policies and an end to this Tory government.

APR.30 1974

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OUR fund is enjoying tremendous response. The pre-conference of the Party brought in the magnificent £1,057.67. collection of Socialist Labour League branches are waging a ter- rific campaign. Battersea £43.50; Brixton £101.25; Leicester £128.80; Lewisham £40; Portsmouth Wandsworth £23; £15; Castleford £10; ' Swindon £7.50; Croydon £92.80; Ton- bridge £23.64; East London £34; Merthyr £18.50; Totten- ham £37; Jarrow £50; Sou- thampton £57; Leeds Liverpool Central £164.55; £59.50; Toxteth 24; Bootle £9; Birkenhead £8; Wins- ford £10; Luton £142.95; Watford £23; Swansea 25; Southwark £183.50: Man- £28; Hackney chester £54.90; £35.50; Aberdeen Dundee £7; Slough £42.20; Southall £124; Preston £6; Nottingham £20; Sheffield £20; Willesden Rolls-Royce £3.50 Willesden £340.50; £179.70; Holloway Castle. ford 240; Sunderland £25; Paddington £146.75; Ban- £27.18 bury £11; Bristol Oxford 267; Reading_£100; Basingstoke £37: Exeter £12.50; Wolverhampton £12.20; Chatham £36; New- castle £10; Blackpool £5; St Helens £6.40; Sheffield £11; Cambridge £10; Tod- morden £9.19; Bradford £74; Dagenham £45: Mid- dieton £10; Doncaster £9; Camden £213; Basildon £12.50. Our total has shot up to We began £30,958.70. the campaign on April 3. Our target is £50,000 by May 31 Post all donations at once to: Party Building Fund 186a, Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG

workers press Poulson, Lonrho, Polwarth, Lambton-Jellicoe

WHY LABOUR

IS SILENT

INCORPORATING THE NEV

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

BY ROYSTON BULL

leaders' refusal to union for accept Far from launching a national campaign of industrial and political action to make the Tories resign, the Labourites and TUC oppor- tunists are working might and main to shore up a tottering administration.

At the weekend, Victor Feather's letter was deli- Heath further collaboration vered to proposing the TUC between and the Tory government over holding back workers' wages under Phase Three to help the capitalist class make more profits and sur- vive their inflationary economic crisis va Sue to nappose ministration is of the bris Such an approach at such a time is of of losing all credibility and acceptability.

In the Commons, the Labour leadership's main concern was to show the ruling class they do not intend making political capital out of the govern- ment's crisis. Harold Wilson's opening words to Heath-echoed bv virtually the whole Parliamentarv Labour Party- 'All of us recognize how deeply distressing and painful it has been for you to make this statement to the House? So the greatest crisis yet to the authority capitalist this was turned by rule in coumtry Labour MPs into a maudlin display of phoney sentiment for a universally disliked Tory politi- cian. The Labourites don't want a public inquiry be- as the Tories much cause they fear as much too light being shed on what goes on among top people.

Their lack of opposition over this affair is because positions are threatened by this break-up their own of established authority.

The mystique of parliamentary power depends on depart- the authority of the ruling class in all its ments-the monarchy, the Lords, the judiciary, and other displays of pomp, ceremony, and, above all, righteousness. The two-party system is part of this set-up and MPs become the favoured few who get to be en- tirely divorced from the lives of ordinary working- class people and have to pay very little regard to what their constituents want.

The Labour leaders have been silent about: But the real issue is that the

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LAMBTON-JELLICOE

whole of bourgeois rule system affair just as thev remained very is beginning to break up under muzzled over of the the mounting pressure

THE LONRHO

affair, where most colossal economic crisis in the Roval Family member of is all history. The Labour leaders the involved, and are for bourgeoisie thinking agency

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POULSON

affair where, within the workers' movement. Reginald apart from Maudling And their existence is now Home who had to resign as threatened no less than that of Secretary and a few Tory MPs, the class. ruine mostly their own people massive At time when who are involved. of working-class mili- upsurge mobilized If for no better than could be to excuse tancy bring down the government.

the that they are implicated in some Communist the Labour Party of these scandals. TA the call to the leaders cannot speak out. support INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY MAY 29, 1973 • No 1084 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Were out for

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One of the who have role of the Labour and trade sin Swindon, oden Canare union leaders. factory in Wilts. an end to Wilson's 'nauseating Commons display' is Letters The of not enough. colla- une labour vulcaulialy borating Tories WIth …The must threaten be exposed, including that of the 'lefts' trade who Swindon ways detended by the Stalinists The working class must smash obstruction of the through sit-in union leaders Labour alla laud and Communist Ene rally bureaucracy in order to mobilize behind the demand for socialist see p.12 policies and an end to this lory government. " 2' OUR fund is enjoying a tremendous response. The pre-conference of the Party brought in the magnificent of £1,057.67. collection Socialist Labour League branches are waging a ter- rific campaign. Battersea £43.50; Brixton £101.25; Leicester £128.80; Lewisham £40; Portsmouth £23; £15; Wandsworth Castleford £10; ' Swindon £7.50; Croydon £92.80; Ton- bridge £23.64; East London £34; Merthyr £18.50; Totten- ham £37; Jarrow, E50; Sou- £57; Leeds thampton £164.55; Liverpool Central £59.50; Toxteth £4; Bootle £9; Birkenhead £8; Wins- ford £10; Luton £142.95; Watford £23; Swansea £5; Southwark £183.50; | Man- chester £28; Hackney £35.50; Aberdeen £54.90; Dundee £7; Slough £42.20; Southall £124; Preston £6; Nottingham £20; Sheffield £20; Willesden Rolls-Royce £3.50 Willesden £340.50; Holloway £179.70; Castle- ford £40; Sunderland £25; Paddington £146.75; Ban- bury £11; Bristol £27.18; Oxford £67; Reading £100; Basingstoke £37; Exeter £12.50; Wolverhampton £12.20; Chatham £36; New- £10; Blackpool £5; castle St Helens £6.40; Sheffield {11; Cambridge £10; Tod- morden £9.19; Bradford £74; Dagenham £45; Mid- dleton £10; Doncaster £9; Camden £213; Basildon £12.50. Our total has shot up to £30,958.70. We began the campaign on April 3. Our target is £50,000 by May 31.

Post all donations at once to: Party Building Fund 186a, Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG.

We will not yield one inch PAGE 2 Workars Press, Tuzeday May 2 Rupert Murdoch (J), owner of the 'News (with Lord Drogheda, managing directi now being criticized openly in Fleet Si IN OCTOBER last year the 'News of the World' ran a series of articles called 'The Strifemakers'. For successive Sundays the Rupert Murdoch- owned Press published scur- rilous attacks on trade union- ists and left-wing groups.

In an editorial published at the The time we said: Although repeatedly approached, the SLL and Workers Press had no truck whatsoever with these reactionary hacks. This means that the "News of the World" had to resort to sub- terfuge and spying to collect some morsels of gossip and innuendo.' Murdoch's men infiltrated one But of our paper-selling teams for couple of days. This same technique was used on a more extensive scale in relation to other parts of the series.

stooge was planted on a build- ing site in the north and all details of site meetings were Bouverie relayed back to the paper's red- Street for baiting project. We vigorously repudiated the allegations in the articles. We said the real 'strifemakers' were the Tories and their corrupt system. In one edi- torial we made the point: "The ruling class has had a very turbulent six months. All the signs are that things are going to get juicier and juicer.'

At that time the Sunday articles were enthusiastically praised by the Tory government (and, of course, by Reginald Pren- shadow Employment tice, the Secretary) in a special debate arranged in parliament. Not a word was raised about the underhanded way the informa- was gathered and the tion articles concocted. Today the 'News of the World' is in the forefront of publishing information . the Lambton- on Jellicoe affair. Very commendable, you would think. But not among the Tories. There is outrage, if about certain if you please, journalistic techniques used by the 'News of the World'. In the capitalist Press yesterday and Sunday there were the firmest indications that the 'News of the World' is in deep trouble with the other Fleet Street barons. The 'Daily Express', owned by Sir Max Aitken, a close friend of Lord Lambton, said: Who took the pictures of Lord Lambton the call girls? The public needs to know...

'By whose authority and for what purpose were the photographs taken? Who set up the scene?

•Who paid for it? These ques- immediate require tions an- swers.' These censorious statements fol- lowed an interview by the edi- torial director of News Inter- national Limited, who is re- ferred to disparagingly in "The Times' as 'Mr "Larry" Lamb'.

Asked if his paper, the 'News of the World', had taken pictures positions, Lamb replied: can't say.' Asked if the paper had been in- volved in taking the pictures or organizing the pictures, Lamb said: 'I'm not sure which pictures you are talking about.

lay May 290.1873 the 'News of the World' and the 'Sun' ng director of the 'Financial Times') 1 Fleet Street. We have never made any secret that we have had pictures, which are relevant, taken by staff photographers. can't say at this stage in the game which they took. I am not prepared to say what they show! The clamour is on to birch and keelhaul those responsible for "improper' employing these journalistic techniques. We thus have the class position of these privately-owned news- completely exposed. papers When it is witch-hunting the workers' they movement are. free to use all their long-range spying and secret cameras, recording of conversations.

But when the subject happens to be an aristocratic peer who is a delence Minister in the lory government, then there is an outcry. Demands for information about how the pictures were obtained show sections of the bourgeoi- siein government, the Press, the police and the City of Lon- don—are now openly warring with each other as a result of the disintegration of the eco- nomic foundations of British capitalism. The economic and political con- ditions are ripe for a campaign and throughout the labour trade union movement to force the Tories out of office. That campaign must be directed by all our readers and sympa- thizers against Wilson, Feather and the trade union leaders.

To International Committee com- rades. From • the central committee of the Liga Comunista and members of the Liga Comunista We are writing to you from to the State Security prison. We are being held in a filthy cell hardly 20 metres square with more than 25 comrades who were arrested in Lima, Moquegua, Are- quipa and Puno: we are all stu- dents and workers who have been accused by the dictatorship and of threatening the safety of the military government. We have been in prison i for about five days during which time have been • harshly interro- we gated by members of the State Security forces. During our interrogation on the first three days in prison we ma sleep. It anc not allowed were to would take a long time to list the the wretched savagery of the instru- be ments of repression of the bour- let geois state against all those parti- cipating in the struggles of the working classes and peasantry.

Now we are completely uncer- tain of our legal position. How- ever, the whole repressive appar- atus of the bourgeois state has not been able to lessen in the slightest our communist convic- tions, but on the contrary it has fully confirmed every one of our positions against the military dic- tatorship, against their anti-

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE MUTINY on the Greek destroyer 'Velos' has ripped aside the fa- cade of 'national unity' which the military re- gime uses to justify its dictatorial rule. At the same time, how- the in- ever, it has revealed ability of dissident groups of officers to strike decisive blows against the regime, even. when they have the backing of their men. Even within the armed forces the colonels' regime is regarded with loathing by many who are supposed to be its staunchest up- holders. Captain Nicholas Pappas, the leader of the mutineers, who 1s now a political refugee in Italy, said the majority of the military heirarchy did not back the re- which was founded gime, on deceit. convicted of

EIGHT MEN

treason, espionage and sabotage, were executed by an army firing squad in the southern Iranian oil town of Ahwaz yesterday.

Four of them had been arres- ted in Dasht Mishan region near the Iraqi border in • south Iran. government spokesman. said A Kalashnikov four Russian-made machine-guns, light rocket a light mortar laun- launcher, a ammunition and three cher, mortars were seized from them.

The others had passed on in- formation to unidentified foreign Iran's frontier agents about posts on the Iraqi border in re- turn for money, the spokesman said. They also planted explo- border sives and mines on bridges and roads, causing death and injury to Iranian gendarmes.

early The men, all arrested tried by last month, were military court which sentenced them to death. Letter from jailed Peri Workers Press is proud to publist from the jails of the Velasco mili by our comrades of the Liga C heroism and steadfastness of the all sections of the British labour a rom to demand their immediate and u the restoration of all their rights.

working class policies against and jobs of wages, trade unions, the working class, the youth and peasantry. Our arrest and the destruction of our press is for us a circum- stantial event in our struggle for Bourgeois repression socialism. has for the moment succeeded in silencing the only revolutionary weekly in Latin America, but that will not be for long. 'Comunismo will come out again with more strength than ever and will be read by the masses in spite of the bourgeoisie and its Stalinist agents within the workers' movement. It will be a guide and a lead to the pro- letariat in Peru and Latin Amer- ica and organize the party and the working class. This is not just some mystical recourse of rhetoric. This is a conviction born of ten months' conviction fully experience; a by our arrest and tor- confirmed ture in prison, our relations with workers and students in prison and the present situation nation- ally of the working class.

The most advanced sectors of He said he was not a monarch- nd since this reactionary treat rganization has backed the col ist or a communist: onels to the hilt ever since, this question betrays either astonish- ing naivete or a touching concern for the interests of imperialism.

forces of Greece who have em- The overthrow of the Greek barked on this action because we regime is not a question to be are faithful to our oath of loyalty confined to conspiratorial circles to the Greek constitution'.

of officers acting out of concern the This is precisely why for NATO, but is a task posed in colonels were able to deal so front of the working class and easily with the mutiny. Their op- all and oppressed the exploited ponents made no attempt to ap- sections of the country. peal to the masses and explicitly Their movement against the ruled out embarking on civil war What colonels cannot and must not be to overthrow the regime. confined they wanted within the framework was a palace coup of the pre-1967 which would restore 'democracy' constitution, or the restoration of parliamentary in Greece. democracy. said that rather than Pappas The Greek is working class civil he had provoke war, faced with the task of over- chosen to go into exile. He said: throwing the capitalist system 'My action could have been more from which the colonels' dictator- For dynamic. instance, could ship sprang. have sailed to some Greek island with the 8,000 rounds of high ex- I had ammunition plosive • pi ARGENTINA'S new president, board. Dr Hector Campora, plans to 'Under the threat of our can- visit Spain and take former could have demanded nons we Argentinian strongman Juan the Spanish anything-as minimum Peron aberation of all our back with him, offi- fellow Foreign Minister Gregorio Lopez detained. But Bravo cers who are said in Madrid the at I hadn't didn't because weekend do it after from returning taken the decision to Campora's inauguration. provoke civil bloodbath and war in Greece.' UNIDENTIFIED group failed in Captain Pappas added that attempt to set to the though the Greek regime pre- Madrid offices of 'Fuerza Nueva' sented itself as representing the ('New Force'), published by Blas armed forces, this was not the Pinar, right-wing member of a Perhaps the most revealing Spain's Cortes (parliament), on statement he made was his ques- Sunday. General Andrew Good- tion to paster, the NATO commander:

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farmer was ensure the 'How Greece can arrested in the East Transvaal flank defence of NATO's eastern killing after three adults and when half of her military officers two-year-old boy. The farmer are in jail and the other half are berserk and went after row busy guarding them?' shot at the Africans. A white Since it was NATO that mas- motorist shot African dead terminded the 1967 coup which Johan- argument in after an nesburg street at the weekend.

brought the colonels to power i Peruvian Trotskyists class in Arequipa, Puno, Moque- • publish the following letter sent Cuzco, Tacna and Piura gua, asco military dictatorship in Peru shows today that not only has Liga Comunista. We salute the not been liquidated, •Comunismo' s of these comrades and call on but such struggles that prepare This labour and trade union movement its necessary reappearance. is the pledge of those of us in te and unconditional release and State Security the cells of the prison. We cannot yield one inch in this. crushed. be Our party cannot the Peruvian have proletariat Our and the dictator- torturers lived for a period of ten months ship know this full well; our con- the of the Marxist, experience sistent, principled struggle based materialist view of the world sur- the active development of rounding them. They receive this Marxism and the strength of an experience through the pages of undefeated proletariat make this 'Comunismo', the experience in task impossibility for the an of the struggle against the bour- bourgeoisie and its government.

geoisie, the opportunists the bur- Now it is being confirmed in eaucrats and Stalinists. our own experience that only the Today the proletariat in the implacable struggle against oppor- provinces is coming out onto the tunism, the bureaucracy, and all streets and showing in its actions the agents of the bourgeoisie, im- that it has assimilated this expe- perialism and Stalinism can guar- The Peruvian proletariat, rience. of Marxism antee the continuity and especially its most advanced against any torture, imprisonment more militant and sectors, are and armed repression. not and be the same as cannot Not one step backwards, com- before. rades! However much Stalinism may Our struggle must be an exam- in stopping the members of the have succeeded the ple for all of 'Comunismo' publication Fourth International and as such through out-and-out crookery the destroy all best weapon to slander it cannot be- and cheap the falsifiers of Marxism, the tray with complete freedom.

agents of the enemy. Ten months of uncompromis- Long live the International ing struggle against Stalinist trea- Committee of the Fourth Inter- chery also weighs on the con- national! sciousness of the members of the live the Long and especially its proletar-

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Liga Comunista! The present nucleus. ian unre- strainable development in the Political Committe class struggle of the working f the LC

HONEYWELL

COMPUTERS

THREATENS

JOBS

UNION

A threat is emerging to the jobs and union organization of the 1,200 employees at the Newhouse, Lanarkshire, fac- tory of Honeywell Com- puters. Honeywell produces all its H-200 series computers for the European market at Newhouse.

also produces the Newhouse H-600 series computers, the computer range acquired from General Electric at the time of the merger two years ago, as well as discs, keytapes and data preparation equipment. The value of the annual out- put from Newhouse is estim- ated to be in the order of $100m. Currently, some $20m of the output is in the form of refurbished equipment. This is second-hand equip- ment returned to Honeywell by computer users at the end of its lease or because of a change of computer system.

Honeywell is expecting the market for cheap refurbished equipment to increase due to the economic crisis. Also, the amount of returned equipment is likely to increase sharply with the announcement, at the end of the year, of Honeywell's new range of computers. Now Honeywell intends to transfer all the refurbishing small factory work to a new, at Greenford, Middlesex. This factory, which will be in full operation by the spring of next will employ a maximum year, of 40 men. Currently, the factory em- men. The factory ploys ten will, initially, be capable of refurbishing some 12 complete computer systems, 70 discs and a large number of keytapes and data preparation machines.

Workers at Newhouse fear that the men at Greenford will be non-union salaried staff computer engineers competent deci- to take major technical sions regarding the replace- ment or repair of components during the refurbishing process.

This would be in contrast to procedure where Newhouse all such decisions have to be referred by production workers to quality control engineers.

With the 'craft method of refurbishing, Honeywell would be able to cut labour costs.

Newhouse workers suspect that a major factor in deciding the location of the new factory the long strike of elec- was tricians' and plumbers' union members at Newhouse last year. The strike, which lasted months, several completely stopped production of com- puters for the United Kingdom and European markets. There is a growing fear that would try to use Honeywell the Greenford factory to break any future strikes at Newhouse.

Union members also say that Honeywell's example could be followed by other computer especially manufacturers, those such as ICL who have a large amount of leased equip- ment soon to be returned and suffering from the who are competition of computer brokerage firms dealing ex- clusively in secondhand com- puter equipment. ..

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Sir Max Aitken, head of the Daily Express' group of newspapers, follows in the footsteps of his great uncle, Lord Beaver- brook, in one important respect: he loves to dabble in politics. never held the He has Beaverbrook ' . delusion of building a new political party; nor has he shown ambitions to take up residence at No 10 Downing Street. But he has carried on Beaverbrook's tradition of 'sponsoring' members of par- liament. One of his proteges is Lord Lambton, the RAF minister, who has just resigned. In a statement, being Lambton admitted 'casual acquaintice' of a call- girl and 'one or two of her friends' and said the police had possession of photographs taken of him and the prosti- tutes. Since then he has been served with summonses alleg- ing possession of cannabis and amphetamines under the Dangerous Drugs. Act. His departure, along with of Cabinet the resignation Minister Lord Jellicoe, the Lord Privy Seal, has shaken the Heath government to its feeble foundations. It follows after the only 12 months deputy prime minister, Regin- ald Maudling, was forced to resign because of his relation- ship with the Poulson empire.

into the Lambton came Beaverbrook fold in the early 1960s when he began to criticize the Macmillan gov- ernment. He savaged many of and called for a return to good old Tory traditions of bashing the working class at home and the colonial peoples abroad. It was during the time that Macmillan, R. A. Butler and lain Macleod dominated the party that the Monday Glub was formed under the patron- age of Lord Salisbury. It was also the time when Lambton became a regular guest columnist to the London 'Evening Standard' and an un- political adviser official to Aitken and the 'Express' board. It brought Lambton into a wide variety of associations in Fleet Street. For example, the 'Standard's' leading book re- was none other than viewer Michael Foot, the Labour 'left. Another member of this literary fraternity Lady was Antonia Fraser, wife of Hugh Tory MP, and Fraser, the a close associate of Lambton.

Antonia, who wrote Lady the much-acclaimed biography of Mary Queen of Scots, is the daughter of Lord Longford, the Labour peer and former Labour leader in the Lords, Another part of this circle extended to include 'The Spec- tator' and the 'left-wing' New Statesman'. One of his more sardonic articles was an attack on John War Minister, Profumo, the who was forced to resign be- cause of his escapades with Christine Keeler. Lambton condemned Profumo in no un- certain terms. When Heath came to form his Cabinet it was apparently the Beaverbrook men who influenced him to give a post to Lambton. But it is also worth noting that Heath gave him a post - under-Secretary of Defence at the RAF— which was not as sensitive as, say, the army or the navy.

The appointment was made also on the recommendation of the Defence Secretary, Lord Carrington, who doubles as the Tory Party chairman. And although Lambton's reputa- tion as a man-about-town was the security widely known, services gave him a complete clearance. Heath gave him the job on powerfu recommenda- these tions, but also because of the necessity to build a 'balanced' ministry. That is to say, he had Left: Lord Lambton. Right: Sir Max Aitke to keep a number of the Tory squirearchy in the stable.

It is true, of course, that the 'Heathmen' tended to be 'the unit trust boys'. They predominated. But he salted Lambton, Balniel in the old and Bethell just to please the old Tory ladies in the shires.

Lambton was never at home in the Heath government. In private he would ridicule it and its petty-bourgeoisie pre- tensions. This is quite easy to appreciate. After all, Lambton comes from one of the wealth- iest aristocratic and most families in the country. There have been feudal lords at the Lambton Castle, County Durhan Lambton is . since the 14th century. directly descended to Mary, Queen of France, sister of Henry VIII. The family's more recent fortune has been founded on coal. The first Earl of Durham, Lambton's great, great grandfather, opened the great Durham coal- fields at the beginning of the last century. He owns estates covering 26,000 acres which some bring in an annual income of about £100,000. His personal fortune is believed to be well in excess of £15m, making him one of the richest peers in Britain. first cousin is Sir His Alec Douglas Home, the former Tory Prime Minister present Foreign and the Secretary. When the revelations about Lambton broke last week, the "Express' was clearly the paper A new English edition of the 'First Fiv Years of the Communist International' in corporating hitherto unpublished materia from Volume XIII of Trotsky's Works'

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Workers Press, Tuesday May 29, 1973 PAGE 3 Max Aitken, head of the 'Daily Express' group of newspapers. watch. How would it deal goes on in the of to parlours with the political figure which Belgravia and the game- had done keeper's hut. it so much to promote? But what we want to point The answer is contained in out is the absolute hypocrisy of the editorial last Thursday Tories and the Press an barons. They never cease entitled, 'A Harsh • Tudgment'. to 'Here in this modern so-called churn articles out urging splendid workers and their families permissive age a to member of parliament and work hard, save and be dili- junior minister has been cast gent. Strikes are condemned into the wilderness. automatically. Wages increases Can we really afford to dis- are outlawed and trade union card men of talent, wit and sneered at and rights are patriotism because their per- attacked in the courts. sonal lives short But when one of their own blameless perfection? There is caught squarely with his will be many who will assert down, they rush to do pants that this is going too far?

they try to cover-up and 'explain it away'. The 'Express' is noted for issue of The the its political somersaults change of line on the Common carried whole- a by the former Market, its attitude to Heath page article and to Powell-but these few the Derek editor of paper, Marks, who frankly admits he mark colossal sentences of all is one of Lambton's closest reversal previous 'Express' editorials friends. He also praises the on per- and attacks those who missiveness and corruption, peer feel his scandal is a reflection etc. It is Fleet Street's on the government. most 'hardline' newspaper. Its cam- about Lamb- His remarks 'dignified' paigns for moral decision purity, in- ton's to public spiritedness immediately . is only tegrity, resign they are legendary. rivalled by the statements They have exhorted millions of 'Express' made in the Commons by Wilson, the Harold Labour readers ever since Beaverbrook climbed on his high horse and leader. decided to 'cleanse' the human the resources of the All spirit and the British Tory Press are being thrown race. of the behind a But in a slip campaign to white- pen, told what Lambton wash the decay of the Heath we are was up to and we shouldn't Cabinet. judge him too harshly. But all the newsprint in Fleet Street can't paper over We are not interested in a crusade the the rising anger in the work- moral against ing class about the antics and Tories; we know what they of the Heath get up to; workers everywhere reaction know the sort of thing that government. Five or material The First Five Years of the Communist International This first volume of Trotsky's writings and speeches for the Communist International covers the period Congresses when the post-war of its first three then upsurge reached its peak and revolutionary began to recede. It establishes, without fear of con- tradiction, the important role which he played in the foundation of this, the Third workers' International, and 'in the formation and early development of the French; German and Italian Communist Parties. At this time the theory of socialism in one country' had was still not been invented and loseph Stalın a second-line Bolshevik leader who plaved no part in the international movement which he was later to pervert and eventually destroy.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday May 29 Anthony Legassick (26) is member: I don't think I would have started to take an active part in politics on my own- not until the situation had got a lot worse. It was through reading the Workers Press.

I started to take it regularly from the beginning. Once I knew it was a working man's paper I decided to take it.

Before that I was a vague communist. I saw the advan- tages of communism, but I didn't see much future in the Communist Party. I didn't know anything about Stalinism, but I could see they weren't making any effort to come forward. I knew communism was the only way for the working class, but I couldn't see it coming.

I think the working class today is in an extremely dan- gerous position. It's obvious is going that this country rapidly towards fascism. But a great deal of bad feel- ing about what the Tories are doing isn't enough. You must a planned programme. have You've got to have some sort of idea what to do. During our strike in 1970 we got pretty much what we wanted because it was a differ- ent situation then. It's obvious now that if people go on strike they don't get what they want.

The hospital workers were a more deserving much case than we were. We got what we wanted, they didn't If they don't get a rise with the money they earn the higher paid won't get a rise.

I think a party like the League was always needed. I've always felt very annoyed at the way the Labour Party, in particular, completely lacked socialist policies. The need for the party is growing all the time. We're rapidly moving into a situation where either the Tories get what they want or the working class, led by the League, prepares to take power.

The crisis could come any day now. The gold situation is going. All the time new ideas are coming up about how to improve the League. It's not a static movement. It moves forward all the time. It's really accelerating in bringing new people into the League. think more people are definitely talking about politics.

You notice it at work. I've read the documents and the only thing I didn't under- stand at first was why we should elect a Labour govern- ment pledged to socialist poli- cies. Now I can see that it's to expose them. They're a reformist party. In the reformist days they knew they could get some reforms, but I think now they know ay May 29, 1973

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they're in the position where they've got to take what they're handed. It's a war and in a war there's middle ground. no You're either on one side or the other. That's the sort of situation we're approaching now. The Labour Party and the TUC know that if they take on the Tories it will be a fight to the finish. It won't be a fight to get a few reforms and then back to normal. If they're going to take them on they've really got to take them on.

They've got to defeat them.

They've got no intention of doing that so they won't do anything at all. They'll play even less of a militant role than they did before. They won't even go after reforms now because they know they can't get them.

The League's programme holds out the prospect changing the system altogether, ind a complete new culture, a complete new era. Capitalism's had its day and it's about time there was a change. As it is capitalism holds now world back, progress back, art and all the rest. Capitalism has the one aim —of making profit and no other. To do it, it completely holds the world back. been in the League I've about four months. There's a lot of work in it. But it's quite interesting work. There's some point to life. It's better than just sitting watching the telly.

Reading Marx and Trotsky is really fascinating. It's a completely new way of life.

It's not just a question of tak- ing power and nationalizing industry. It's a completely new culture. It will take mankind forward. a step As it is now, capitalism is destroying the completely and world with pollution everything. The only way for- ward is for world socialism.

And obviously it's no good in just one country. It's got to be world-wide. You're actually taking a hand in changing history. You can't change the situation with- out revolution. Capitalism itself came through revolution. Without the League the working class is finished. The working class have got to think of themselves now as one class. A lot of people who are working class think they are middle class. They've got to understand the situation they are really in. The middle class are seeing their standard of living rapidly deteriorating as well. A house that took them 65 years to pay Anthony Legassick. Above: Coun- cil workers during their strike in 1970. 'It was a different situation then. It's obvious that if now people go on strike, they don't get what they want.' for will now take them 165 years. They're losing as well.

If we don't build the party, I think there is a great danger of fascism developing in this country. A lot of people look to the right now. The National Front has got a hell of a lot of working-class people hind it. They don't know why.

They don't know what it really represents. This has got to be changed. The Party has got to change the situation and make these people see sense. We've got to think positively.

"Well, I It's no good thinking hope we can do this" and "we might have to do that". There's really no alternative. Either the working class led by the League takes power, or the capitalist class will turn this country fascist. This is what leadership is all about. If we're going to give think leadership we must positively. We've got to say: "This is the situation and we are going to do it." Some people think that bringing new people into the League will water it down, but I don't think so. It's the only way forward. You've got to build a mass party. We've got to get every working man in the party-and a tremendous number of middle class as well.

A lot of them are looking for a decisive policy that they can really follow. People are looking for a programme and a party they can follow. Although a lot of them will probably vote Labour, they've already lost confidence in the Labour Party. It's only a matter of exposing them now.

Their faith in the Labour Party has gone. A lot of people say "I vote for Labour because they're the working man's party, but they are no better than the Tories" To a certain extent they've already been exposed. People can see what Feather's up to. They're not silly. Going

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Number to 10 and chatting with Heath while away workers' standard of living is going the time. •owi There's a tremendous amount of unrest in the country at the A lot of people don't think politically because they see as a boring subject-as I did reading started the Delore Workers Press. This is all part of the capitalists' idea to make politics seem as boring as pos- sible, that people won't So lake an Interest 1n 10. The fact that the Tories get in at all shows that people are disillusioned either very Wills the Labour Party don't or They still shouldn't vote vative. It's a question of educating people. A lot of people don't like to think about politics. They've got two separate lives. There's work and leisure and they don't like mix the two. Work so monotonous, unpleasant, so boring. After work people want to get away from it all. But I think the Party must be built as quickly as possible.

This crash isn't somewhere in distant future. The whole crisis seems to be accelerating.

The more the price of gold goes up, the more the capitalists get worried and the quicker the whole thing goes. It's going to accelerate faster until and faster whole breaks up. There's go- system be a crash and all the ing. banks just going shut alc I think the crash is in the up. near future. very like 'Daily Mirror aers and the 'Sun' every- thing made to look great. That's because they're working papers and they've men's got to pull the wool over people's eyes. You buy a like 'The paper Times' truth because the working class tells don't read that They paper. talk about a crash and the danger of this boom. her This boom is built on in- the flation as far as I can see, on the worthless bits of paper. When this that crashes, it's just going to be catastrophe. is think there's any don't ive doubt that a lot of people in ink this country are going to get say: They a big shock very shortly.

we don't know it yet, but they're going to be fighting. When they hat do, the English working class the are going to show, as tney ve but done before, that they don't nly give in easily. I think the capitalists know got this. Kitson's book is an ex- in ample. They're definitely pre- pared. They know what is rell. do. coming up we Just as for They're training in Ireland now can for what's coming. They are spending a tremen- dous amount of money recruit- hey ing for the army-what is that of for? It's obvious. our, What they arming the are police for? You don't real only nave to comment on it. Is it oW. to shoot down kids in Embas- arty sies? No, of course it's not.

These special police stations rote spread all the around the working-class areas in London.

hey I think there's going to be es' People are real fighting here. y've going to get killed. But none of us have any choice. er's It's them or us. 1ng 'The pressure is building up on the working man' Derek Jones is an engineering worker at GEC Coventry: think every conscious worker has no choice but need agree revolutionary in party this Tories are country. What the doing is only too apparent and it is quite clear that the leader- ship the unions and the Labour Party will not take up the fight. What worries me though is not getting rid of the Tories— I think this is possible because everyone wants them out. The real difficulty comes, I think, with putting Labour back.

There will be this gap when Labour is in and we are fight- ing to get real socialism in Britain. I think we need to spell out absolutely clearly what the policy will be in this period. There is problems because though there is a lot of dis- cussion about what socialism means, when it comes to really getting in there, people are Workers Press, T Above: 'They're training in Ire- coming. land now for what's They are spending a tremen.

dous amount of money recruiting for the army-what is that for?

It's obvious.' Left: Derek Jones.

shy, they seem to get cold feet. This worries me because if we are like this now what will it be like under the Labour government when we have to go all out to win the working class over? I am really waiting now for the opportunity to arise. We have the end of the seen protest strikes. We now want a total strike or nothing—a General Strike to get rid of them. In even the some ways Labour Party is reflecting this mood. There is this talk about nationalization without com- pensation. But workers should be warned about this. It's just a cover-up for treachery and getting in on false pretences.

The situation in the working class is also changing. We are on strike and have been for seven weeks-this is the first serious trouble for 30 years.

The pressure is building up on the working man. The housewife is complaining about the cost of living, the kids have to be clothed and fed.

All the time he knows that is Press, Tuesday May 29, 1973 PAGE 5 the Tories are behind the big firms like GEC. But the leadership will not lift a finger to lead the work- ing class in this situation. We is happening know what nationally — more talks with Heath. But let's deal with the situation in my own union

(AUEW).

We have an official policy against Phase Two. But this is just words. At local level the officials don't press ahead with the struggle. In many are starting workers cases from the assumption that they put a claim in which must doesn't upset the government.

In the past it was 'Well what do you want lads?'-not What the government will allow you to have We need a tough lead this issue against the govern- ment at local level, but it just is not coming. Workers in Coventry might be well paid. But let there be no mistake, they have struggled for what they got. I struggled hard for every penny and now the government wants to take it from me. I won't let it happen - like the document says, it's a question of basic rights. think ready to am take up duties in this struggle.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday May 29, 197 A reply by Cliff Slaughter to an attack •Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary move- ment.' These words of Lenin have rightly been the watchword through- out this century of all those who have striven to build the revolution- ary parties necessary for the working class to win state power. One of the difficulties en- countered by workers coming towards Marxism is that they a number of different see groups all claiming to be Marxists. It is a very common for the enemies of trick Marxism to mislead such workers by arguing: 'If only they'd stop arguing about theory, everyone would get on with the real business of fighting the class enemy.

They all spend too much time attacking each other? This is a fundamental mis- take. It is not just a set of abstract ideas that is in ques- tion, but Marxism as the guide to action of the revolutionary party. Attacks on Marxism, at- tempts to 'reverse' it (which always means throwing out its revolutionary content while keeping the phrases) represent the pressure of the capitalist Tuesday May 29, 1973 hter to an attack on the SLL in the publication 'P class, its politics and philo- sophical outlook, on the work- ing class and the revolutionary movement. It follows that these theore- tical differences can be settled, not in words, but in the con- flict between theory and prac- which tice, in practice primary. The material content of these theoretical struggles is the proletarian revolution and the whole contradictory development of society and nature which make it necessary.

Only by taking theory back into the work, through prac- tice, thus encountering what is new in the development of matter, can our theory develop.

In recent years the Inter- national Socialism group has been the natural meeting-point for middle-class people who want desperately to appear "revolutionary' but at the same time avoid the responsibility and political struggle posed by the existence of the Socialist Labour League. One of the tendencies which passed through the IS group in this way publishes a small journal called 'Workers Fight' They claimed to be Trotskyists within Is, working on the grounds that it was the place where there could be found the greatest number of indivi- duals genuinely seeking to be revolutionaries. This, in fact, summed up the publication 'Permanent Revolution', issued by their opposition to Trotskyism: turned towards a they ten- dency founded entirely on the rejection of Bolshevism, of the First Four Congresses of the Communist International, and of the Fourth International. This tendency calls the USSR 'state capitalist' and rejects the defence of the property rela- tions established in the Octo- ber Revolution. The Workers' Fight' ten- dency could do this because they started out only from their middle-class rejection of the Socialist Labour League's analysis of the economic crisis, the revolutionary nature of the epoch, and the overriding need to build revolutionary parties of the working class. Everything written by mem- bers of this group is an at- tempted justification of this position. They are part of a long line of centrists-starting with the Independent Labour Party in the 1930s-who put up determined resistance to the Fourth International. is to cut the Their aim British working class off from Marxism and internationalism, restricting it within the con- middle-class radical fines of control. These centrists are a left cover for the Fabian and trade union bureaucratic con- trol of the British Labour movement. Because a small group like lution', issued by the group called 'Workers Fight'.

'Workers' Fight' has this class significance-it is a definite weapon of the class enemy against Trotskyism—we must analyse and answer its material.

One issue of a self-styled 'theoretical' magazine 'Perma- nent Revolution' has recently appeared from 'Workers' Fight', and contains an attack the Socialist Labour on League's positions on philo- sophy, in the shape of criticism of the pamphlet 'Lenin on Dialectics', by C. Slaughter, The Dialectics of Sectarianism: Philosophy and Mr Slaughter', by Neal Smith. Life has been made extremely uncomfortable for groups like 'Workers' Fight' by the struggle of the SLL and the Inter- national Committee of the Fourth International to take the political differences in the Trotskyist movement to the basic level of Marxist method ana philosopny. We have tought to show that the opponents of Marxism who Fourth Inter- attacked the national from within had actu- ally abandoned dialectical materialism and capitulated to the philosophical positions of • the bourgeoisie. Trying to take us up on this ground, Smith finds himself openly attacking Marxist philo- sophy. This leads him into peculiar contradictions. Readers will recall that we have been by the attacked American Socialist Workers Party and others (Pierre Frank of the Pabloite 'Unified Secre- tariat') for being 'obsessive' about our members learning dialectical materialism. (Of course the question at stake is not that every party member fully grasps philosophy prerequisite for any- as the thing else, but the struggle for dialectical materialism as the basis of the training of the party, the development of its leadership and its policies.)

Now 'in general' Neal Smith seems to agree with us: 'Dialectical materialism is not optional but an essential weapon in the struggle of the working class to remake the world.' But does not the word 'optional' in this context ring a bell? It was George Novack, writ- ing for our opponents of the Socialist Workers' Party, who asserted that dialectical materialism was 'optional, and only the programme unites the revolutionary party. ('Intercon- tinental Press, July 3, 1972.)

Karl Marx: concern of modern day revisio The out of Marxism. Above: Trotsky who dialectic against Shachtman's break from Marxism.

Smith's years of str But and now 'Workers' Fight's' logic must He ci tion. contradict themselves, because pamphlet 'L the prime necessity is to attack •Nowhere the "SLL. Smith writes in the is there to same article that the Pabloite stration of tendency (including of course positions of anti- the

SWP),

with its flow directl Marxist position on philosophy, ticular epist nonetheless 'has on the whole knowledge] been a healthy tendency when to hold! compared with the dogmatic Continuin sectarianism of the SLL/OCI Lenin in hi forces'! ceeded di Wishing to make such flatly though hold contradictory assertions, it is on philosop no wonder that Smith needs exactly the theoretical to attack the quite consc 'rigidity' of the SLL! He also Shachtman "forgets' to mention that the break fro French OCI, in the two-year Marxism. public discussion on dialectical According materialism, come out has nobody ha essentially alongside the SWP ted' that re the SLL's positions. against (See our reply 'In Defence of needed dial Trotskyism'.) as their fou Smith soon reveals that he "agnostic' is a conscious opponent of the align himse Marxist method, fought for in pragmatists Burnham, en route to becoming a leading ideolo- gist for imperialism. Just as Shachtman clung to the argument about some sup- posed inconsistency on the question of dialectical mate- rialism and politics, in order to move towards some 'Ameri- socialism, so * can' brand of Smith today is seeking justifi- 'British' cation for a centrist position in opposition to the

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and International the Committee. He wants to erase the record of the long theore- tical struggle in the Trotskyist movement in order to clear his path. The real philosophical posi- tion of Smith and 'Workers Fight' is an idealist one. This means that they assert some independent reality for the mind, and cannot accept the materialist basis of Marxism.

But this rejection of material- ism is done by sleight of hand, rather than directly. Smith does not (like Tariq Ali, 'con- sciousness determines history') openly assert the primacy of ideas in relation to matter, but hides behind the word inter- action'. For him it is unthink- able that the objective world is the source of all ideas. He cannot understand that man, as part of this world, lives only through the struggle of real opposites, of practical struggle change world, to the and this practice develops through ideas which more and more accurately reflect the material world And so he objects to the sentence in Slaughter's pamph- let: 'Our concepts are a reflec- tion of the objective world of nature.' Smith says that 'reflection' is too 'passive and inactive...

is an eternal passive copy It of the real object-there is no dynamic interaction.' He ignores Engels' insistence that the first and greatest ques- tion in all philosophy is that of the relation between think- ing and being. Smith thinks that there must be some property of the mind is necessary which add to activity, movement, to the dead reflection of matter outside it.

As he puts it: •.. knowledge is the result of the interaction of these connections [between nature, society and thought]'. This outlook, in which the external world is contemplated as inert resistance to the free activity of with the mind, society as some sort of 'second nature', is, in one way or an- other, the basis of all current schools of bourgeois philo- sophy, sociology and psycho- logy. Rejecting the materialist theory that ideas reflect the material world, Smith writes: It is worth noting that the social determination of thought as in other is omitted here, material of the SLL, and with- out this essential point there cannot be a satisfactory con- take the ception of ideology and "false 939-1940 consciousness"' What is this 'social deter- mination knowledge'? of is ques- Marxists do not just contem- ughter's the way ideas develop. ¡lectics': plate This is what 'Lenin on Dialec- amphlet tics' had to (far from say demon- 'social' implica- ignoring the political tions of ideas: : groups 'Political and theoretical the par- subjective vacillations, re- leory of difficulties and to actions to upposed discipline, these were not sep- arate or partial questions; they es that had to be dealt with from the irs pro- point of view of building a even conditions of Russia.' Concrete movement ositions his was For this revolutionary start- - here ing point Smith substitutes ted—of 'the social determination of 39-1940 He Marxist thought. sees y and theory argument to as an straighten out his ideas about this 'determination', to elimin- chtman, ate 'false consciousness', (to nonstra- 'de-reify thinking' politics as its erialism fashionably phrased in the New Left), and not as the guide ith this philo- to action of the revolutionary fighting revisionism as sible to class, avowed instrument of the class the Workers Press, Tuesda enemy. This is why he can con- clude that Marxism is 'a fully- integrated conscious system'. With a 'fully-integrated such system' what need is there for unity and the of theory practice? The other favourite concept of Smith, like other enemies of the dialectic, is 'interaction' between thoughts and nature.

This enables him to do two things. First, it obscures the primacy of being over its pro- duct, thought. Second, eliminates the conflict between consciousness and its 'other', the material world, which is the only interaction. These idealists lovingly em- brace Lenin's formulation that ruth develops by 'an endless approximation of thought to the object, but only in order to give a picture of thought painlessly, gradually develop- ing. For Lenin, the essence of the question was an internal conflict of mutually-exclusive Concreteness is opposites. arrived at, truth is advanced, only in the conflict between theory and practice. To conceive of 'interaction' 'dynamic' interaction) (even thought and between nature without this conflict is to reject completely dialectical mate- rialism. It means a return to 'the standpoint of the isolated individual in bourgeois society' •deter- and his dilemna of minism' and individualism.

At this point our opponent finds himself in deep water. If of attacks the concept reflection, he must also attack Lenin, whose 'Materialism and Empirio-Criticism' was written to defend materialism against 'sophisticated' who critics wanted to capitulate to ideal- ism. And so Smith repeats the charge made so many times by from renegades Marxism: . in much of his pre-war writing on philosophy, Lenin was mechanical and often tended towards crude mate- rialism'. The good thing about Smith's article is that he makes clear the idealist thinking behind such attacks. Let us explain briefly: Lenin wrote 'Material- Empirio-Criticism' and against a group of thinkers who used supposedly new scientific concepts to reject the materialist theory of thought as a reflection of matter. These opponents of Marxism, some of them in the Bolshevik Party itself, were in reviving fact special theories about some independent activity of thought and of the social structuring of knowledge. They were bringing back in a disguised form the basic ideas of the 18th century German philosopher Kant. When Smith now returns to the attack on Lenin's material- ism, he affirms his own con- tinuity with these neo-Kantian idealists, who were part of a strong tendency in the bour- geois intelligentsia at the onset of the imperialist period, with their ideas directed entirely against Marxism and the work- ing-class Those movement. who, like Smith, ressurect these concepts in the workers' movement are once again try- ing to shape the ideological defences of imperialism. This brings us to a final and important point on the philo- of Smith's sophical aspects article. He claims that the SLL is wrong to say that Marx and Engels 'had only to stand Hegel on his head, or rather, on his feet, to arrive at dialectical materialism as a method. But we are back at Smith's familiar difficulty. If he attacks the SLL on this score, he must also put Marx himself right, for Marx said exactly that!

Actually Smith's attack here is French derived from Stalinist Althusser, now the inspiration of a majority of the 'intellectuals' in Stalinist rkers Press, Tuesday May 29, 1973 PAGE 7 Britain as well as in France.

Althusser considers that Marxism has been bedevilled and rendered unscientific by reason of Marxists taking liter- ally Marx's remark that he had only to stand Hegel on his feet.

His concern is to take the dialectic out of Marxism, to theorize out of existence the unity of theory and practice, arrive at something and to called 'theoretical practice' (i.e. a theorizing which IS called practice, but is actually contemplation, comparable and adaptable the supposed to 'scientific' activity of bourgeois sociology. This is essentially a rationalization of the methods of bureaucracy and of the Stalinists' relation to bourgeois order and bourgeois ideology).

Smith's acceptance this Stalinist revisionism, of course, intimately related to the is political position of the 'Workers Fight' group-cen- which trism welcomes and adopts every way of attacking revolutionary Marxism. The dialectical understand- ing of how consciousness develops through revolutionary practice cannot be grasped of Hegel's without a • study "logic', and of the work of Marx and Lenin on it. Most significant of all is what might appear to be an obscure point.

Smith refers to Kant (we have already seen the connection, known or unknown to Smith, between Kant's basic outlook idealism. and Smith's own But he omits completely the great step forward made by Hegel in the theory of know- ledge through his critique of Kant. Once this is exposed, the central foundation (an idealist, Kantian foundation) of Smith's position will collapse. Kant considered that, how- ever advanced human know- ledge became, it could never penetrate to the 'thing in itself', the essence of the objects it tried to understand. The mind worked, according to Kant, with categories which have their own particular reality, a mental reality, and our understanding of the external world could never be separated trom these categories imposed by the mind Marx, Engels and Lenin in their philosophical writings as- unconditionally serted that Hegel had administered the decisive blow against this final idealist defence. He had demon- strated that Kant's 'thing in itself', far from being some irreducible and unattainable material reality, was itself a great abstraction, the product of speculative philosophy.

Secondly, Hegel showed in his "logic' that our concepts and categories, even the most elementary ones, are not to real knowledge, obstacles but essential steps to it, the path to knowledge. A quotation from Lenin's •Philosophical Notebooks' brings these points together, and exposes the philosophical position of those who, like Smith, attack Marx's debt to Hegel. They end up in the mire of idealism: 'Essentially, Hegel is com- pletely right as opposed to Kant. Thought proceeding from the concrete to the abstract— provided it is correct (NB) ...

does not from get away the truth [the 'thing in itself'] but comes closer to it. The abstrac- of matter, of a law of tion nature, theabstraction of value, etc., in short all scien- tific (correct, serious, i not absurd) abstractions reflect nature more deeply, truly and completely. 'From living perception to abstract thought, and from this to practice-such is the dialec- tical path of the cognition of truth, of the cognition of objec.

Kant tive disparages reality. order to make knowledge in way for faith: Hegel exalts knowledge, asserting that knowledge of matter, of nature, consigning God, and the philo- sophical rabble that defends the rubbish heap' God, to (Lenin Vol. 38, p. 171.)

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday May 29, 1973 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 their parasitic privileges at home and their control of losing. of the labour movement abroad, the Soviet bureaucracy has once again discredit and distort the begun a campaign to 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 In this series of the relations between Lenin and Trotsky. articles MICHAEL BANDA replies to this book.

still to be established. This is how the Soviet 'His- When the Brest-Litovsk of the Bolshevik Party', tory published in 1939, explained controversy was first dis- Trotsky: torted out of all propor- 'At that time it was not yet tion by the early Stalin- clear to the Party what was this anti- the real reason for ists in the 1920s it was a Party behaviour of Trotsky central feature of the and of the "left communists" argument that Trotsky 'But has been recently as established by the trial of the 'underesti- constantly "Bloc Rights anti-Soviet of mated' the peasantry. and Trotskyists" (beginning of Trotsky, so it was alleged 1938) Bukharin and the group by the Party hacks, wanted a of "left communists" headed revolutionary war against Ger- by him, with Trotsky joint y "left» because he Essars, many underesti- and the were mated the war weariness of already then in the secret the Soviet the peasantry. conspiracy against The purpose of this Trot- government. Bukharin, argu- ment was to woo the rich and sky and their fellow conspira- developed middle peasants on whom the tors, it has [sic] bureaucracy relied their aimed to annul the Brest in Peace Treaty, to arrest V. campaign against the opposi- I. Stalin, Ya M. Lenin, J. tion. Today, however, the bureau- Sverdlov, kill them, and form cracy has little need for such a government of new the rich Bukharinites, Trotskyites and argument, an since "left" ('Stalin' by peasants have long since been the Essars.' Trotsky 'liquidated as a class' as Stalin Vol II. Panther His- 21 1969) succinctly. put it. tore resent authors do not In the 1930s the 'underesti- mation of the peasantry' thesis resort to this calumny because was replaced by the retrospec- to do so would be to raise tive argument—outrageous and the vexed question of again the 20th and 22nd Congresses incredible-that Trotsky sabo- taged Brest Litovsk in the in- of the 1950s. terests of a fascism that had The convulsions of the bureaucracy, as Trotsky …ex- plained, here once again show how the requirements of his- torical falsification change.

Despite these thematic variations, the method of lar the present-day distorters re- mains essentially the same as their predecessors. They carefully conceal the identity of the most incor- rigible opponents of peace and the protagonists of revolu- tionary war: the faction of Left Communists, led by Buk- harin, Dzerzhinsky, Radek, Kollontai and others. This group comprised majority in the Bolshevik central committee. At the cen- tral committee meeting on January 8, 1918, called to decide on the acceptance of the first set of German terms for an armistice, the 'revolu- tionary war faction received 32 votes. Lenin, who for was immediate peace, got 15 and Trotsky's resolution of 'neither war nor peace' received 16, i.e. an aggregate of 31 votes.

Thus even if Trotsky had supported Lenin on this par- ticular occasion there is little evidence to show that peace on the German terms would have been • secured: The Buk- harin faction still had a war' The faction, as Lenin defined it, echoed the Philistine patriot- ism of the petty-bourgeois masses, which was consider- able. The interests of these social clearly groups were most articulated by the Left Social Revolutionaries who broke from the Bolsheviks and staged an insurrection against Soviet power after the conclusion of the Brest Treaty in March 1918 This position of 'revolu- tionary war' was a very far cry from Trotsky's defence of 'neither peace'. war nor Trotsky understood as well as Lenin the war weariness and of • land hunger of the Soviet peasantry who comprised a majority of the Russian army.

Bukharin, who led the faction of 'Left Communists', protagonists of revolutionary war. His attitude was completely opposed to the war faction, as he explained in his letter the Bureau of Party to History: 'If I stood, at the time, for postponing as long as possible the moment of capitulation to Hohenzollern, it was not for the purpose of calling forth a revolutionary war, but in order to arouse the workers of Ger- many and Austria-Hungary to revolutionary great a as activity as possible. 'The decision to announce a state of war as terminated, without signing a forced peace, was dictated by the in- tention of testing in action whether or not Hohenzollern was still able to wage war against the revolution. "The decision was adopted lu- by the majority of our Central Left: Two deserters returning home from the front. Above: A unit on the south western front who voted 'Down with the war.'

Committee* and approved by the majority of the fraction of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Soviets. 'Lenin regarded that de- cision as the lesser evil since a very considerable section of the party leadership was for the Bukharinist "revolution- ary war", ignoring not only the condition of the peasants, but also of the labouring masses. "The signing of the peace treaty with Hohenzollern ex- hausted entirely my episodic differences with Lenin on that question, and our work pro- ceeded in complete harmony ... Just a few days after the signing of the peace, I was placed—on the motion of Vladimir Llyich-at the head of the military work.' ('Stalin School of Falsification' Pion- eer Publishers 1962 p. 26-27.)

The Stalinist editors deliber- ately omit to , mention that it Trotsky's single vote was the 'peace' fac- that enabled tion to triumph over the 'war' faction at the decisive CC session held on February 18, 1918, to consider the very onerous terms dictated by General Hoffman after the German offensive which followed the breakdown of the Brest negotiations.

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* This is a reference to the January 11 (1918) CC meeting where Lenin proposed that the CC authorize Trotsky to delay the signing of neace by every Trotsky's possible means. motion to demobilize the army, to terminate the war but not to sign the treaty was passed by 9 votes to 7.

THE MURDER OF A REVOLUTION

Bavarla'. By 'Red Rising in Arthur Richard Grunberger. Barker Ltd. £2.75. 164 pages.

PART TWO

The vacillating Bavarian Independent Social De- mocrat Kurt Eisner not only gave way in 1918 to right-wing demands for elections to a Diet, which would take all power away from the workers' peasants' and soldiers councils, but arrested Max Levien and nine other revolutionaries. An antique dealer bought a complete set of army secrets for £5-and has refused an 'invitation' from the Ministry of Defence to contact them about the matter. Mr John Wajzner, of South- port, bought a complete course of training from the School of Military Intelligence in Pe 1943, at a London auction.

It contained a complete m (Levien had just returned from the Berlin conference of the Spartacists and the revolu- tionary shop stewards which set up the German Com- had munist Party.) Then Eisner responded to pressure from the other side and released the prisoners after a workers' demonstration.

The 'left' Social Democrat leader reaped his reward when the Diet election results were announced in January 1919.

He came bottom of the poll.

The voting (the newly-formed Bavarian Communist Party did not take part) was: Bavarian People's Party (i.e. the right wing Catholic Party: 66 seats (35%). Social Democrat Party: 61 seats (33%). German Democratic Party: 25 seats. (14%). Peasants League: 16 seats (90%0; Independent Socialist Party: seats (2.5%). On January 19 the German Independents also came bot- tom of the poll (Social Demo- crats 38 per cent, Catholic Centre 20 per cent, Democrats 18.5 per cent, Independents 7.5 per cent). Four days earlier the Reichs- the collaboration wehr, with of the Social Democratic lead- intelligence dossier on the formations of the japanese, Russian, German and Allied armies of that time, plus in- formation organization, on camouflage, British tactics and air security. A third of the dossier is marked "secret' and the rest 'restricted or "confidential. A Ministry of Defence spokes- man said: 'We think these papers are unlikely still to be classified, but we can't be sure until we see them.' Mr Wajzner says he intends to sell the dossier for £500.

People are coming and going at the White House in the most breezy fashion. The re- had murdered Karl Lieb- ers, Luxemburg. KineCnt ROSd Meanwhile, Ebert was calling out the troops against the Ger- man workers. In Bavaria, a tene dals, goa o powerr or acw udydal constitutional device, and with the right calea lor umly Democrats. Even Social now, balancing his act continued. He wanted lean the to on councils, but the Social Demo- wanted to permit them Cialo only minor functions. Clearly, would have to fight to re- thev main in existence. Eisner uttered Accordingly a classic 'lett' phrase: stand or fall with the councils, but 1 cannot be a party to the threatened use of armed force.

Max Levien called for all power to the councils and dictatorship asserted that the of the proletariat was the only logical 'outcome of the council movement. Eisner's response was to put police surveil- Levien under -before running off lance aLeno loe asl oost•wo col ference of the Second Inter- national. The leaders of that body, of course, august hac just been exhorting their mem- for bers to mutual slaughter Richard Nixon: shifts have the been too fast for his Senate and House leaders. cent shifts have been so swift that Nixon's leaders in the Senate and the House of Re- presentatives heard of the the • . by reading Caduces newspapers. Workers Press, Ti four-and-a-half years. The 'left' leader's attempt to ride two horses continued to the very end. In one and the same day he spoke at a Congress of Coun- cils which voted to stay in being until the government conceded all its demands and then attended a cabinet meet- ing at which he supported the establishment of the Volks- right-wing private wehr-a army led by ex-army officers.

That same week the Ebert- in Scheidemann government Germany formed a coalition with the bourgeois Democratic and Catholic Centre Parties.

But in Munich a 15,000- strong march of workers and soldiers demanded 'All Power to the Councils', 'Remember Luxemburg' Liebknecht and 'Long Live Lenin and Trotsky.

Eisner's response was to de- clare: 'Let the bourgeois par- pursue their bourgeois policies... I long for the time when socialists without dis- tinction of party will finally cease to rule and become the opposition again.' He was actually on his way to the Diet to hand in his resignation and to place all power at the disposal of the C

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OL Now available from New Pa 186a Clapham High Street, i Press, Tuesday May 29, 1973 PAGE 9 Left: Red Army units assemble in the Ludwigstrasse for a march 'All Power demanding to the Far left: Kurt Elsner, Councils' Social Democrat. Independent He wanted to lean on the Coun- cils, show a 'left' face, while being unable to lead the work- ing class to power. Indeed he gave way to demands for a Diet, and even arrested Max Levien and nine other revolutionarles.

bourgeoisie when he was shot dead by Lieutenant Count Arco von Valley of the Life Guards. Had he sought to lead the workers to power, there is little doubt they would have him. followed Over 100,000 marched in his funeral proces- sion-and the bells of every church tolled, not because the priests were enthusiastic even for Eisner's brand of 'social- ism' , but because armed sol- diers forced them to pull the ropes. The ruling party was now the Social Democrats. And their outlook was aptly ex- pressed by one of their lead- ing spokesmen, the lawyer Dr Lowenfeld: 'We are not opposed to re- taining the councils in some form, but we will not support a proletarian dictatorship—of Russian which Bolshevism gives us a dreadful example.'

The flame of revolution still burned in central Europe. On March 22, 1919, there was insurrection in communist Hungary and an upsurge of revolutionary activity in Aus- tria. Workers, soldiers and un- employed demonstrated for an army of the proletariat and the proclamation of a Soviet Republic. Under this pressure the Independent Social Democrats, Peasants' League, .. the the Anarchists and some dissident Social Democrats declared the First Bavarian Soviet Republic.

Most of the government Cabinet ministers resigned and its leader, Hoffman, fled to Bamberg. But the central exe- cutive of the councils-the Zentralrat-was dominated by the spirit of Anarchism. Nowhere did this reveal it- self more clearly than in the choice of Commissars. The post of Commissar of Foreign Affairs went to a certain Dr Lipp, whom hardly anyone knew, but who the chairman of the Munich Independent Social Democrats said he had just happened to bring along.

Lipp was later discovered to be a recent inmate of a mental hospital. The Commissar for Finance was Dr Sylvio Gesell who in- troduced a new currency, the Schwundgeld, which automatic- ally lost a thousandth part of its value each week in order to prevent the accumulation of interest. An unseemly row broke out when a Peasants' League lead- er, Karl Gandorfer, advocated • nationalization of all estates above 330 hectares. An un- kind delegate pointed out that Gandorfer's own farm com- prised 300 hectares.

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Name... Address.. One of the worst-hit Watergate disaster areas is the Securities and Ex- change Commission, the 'watchdog' organization set up in 1934 to oversee Wall Street stock market operations in the wake of the Great Crash. The SEC was set up to pro- vide at least token protection for shareholders from the more blatant swindles committed by stockbrokers and share deal- ers and other market opera- tors. It has been widely regarded as above corruption—an illu- sion assiduously fostered both by the commission itself and by the share pushers who have no wish to see the bottom drop out of their market.

But Watergate has changed all that. Last Wednesday SEC chairman G. Bradford Cook resigned amid allegations that corruptly altered he had legal suit against financier Robert L. Vesco after pressure from Nixon aides. a week be- He was named fore he resigned in a Federal indictment which said he had deleted from an SEC com- plaint the fact that Vesco had made a $200,000 contribution to Nixon campaign funds. The charges was made by the Grand Jury which indicted Vesco, former Attorney- General John N. Mitchell, for- Commerce Secretary mer Maurice Stans and Harry L. Sears, an associate of Vesco, for conspiring to 'influence, obstruct and impede' the suit against Vesco. Vesco is said to have made off with some $224m from the offshore fund Investors Over- seas Services, which was once owned by Bernard Cornfeld, who is now in prison in Switzerland. Cook had been chairman of the SEC for only ten weeks when he resigned. He succeed- ed William J. Casey, who was shifted to the State Depart- ment. Casey was also impli- cated by the Grand Jury in the conspiracy discussions. When the Cook case first became public, Wall Street in- the Dow siders quoted by Jones agency said it would be highly damaging to confidence in a stock market already through the going worst period in several years. The agency cited the views of 'SEC insiders, Capitol Hill observers Wall Street executives' that the allegations were likely to: "Tarnish the agency's image as a tough incorruptible en- forcement unit just when the commission is working on some of the biggest cases in its history; and Upset investors at. a time.

when their confidence in Wall Street and Washington is at a low ebb.' This was by no means the final blow to the standing of the Securities and Exchange Commission, however. Norman P. Leblanc, who executive ot was once an several IOS subsidiaries, said in San Jose, Costa Rica, on Wednesday that disclosure of all the details of the Cook case 'will startle the world' and destroy investors' confidence in US securities around the world. In a statement, Leblanc im- plicated John Dean Ill, re- cently sacked from the White Irving House, Casey, Cook, Pollack, Stanley Sporkin and 'perhaps other officials of the SEC unknown to me'. Pollack has been a member of the SEC since 1946, but Sporkin was not immediately identified. It is relevant to note that Cook, Sporkin and others apparently have with- held extensive documentation that proves these facts from the US Senate, the New York Grand Jury and the Federal court hearing the (SEC) case,' Leblanc said. In view of these facts one could more properly come to the conclusion that Mr Vesco's political contribution was not made to obstruct justice, but was tantamount to extortion.'

The Leblanc statement came out the same day as the pub- lication in Washington of an internal memorandum to the presidential special former counsel Charles W. Colson from one of his partners, Charles H. Morin. • Colson to Morin wanted 'pressure from the mobilize White House' and 'lean on' Cook (who was still chairman of the SEC when the memo written) to obtain the was appointment of King Mallory as executive director of the

SEC.

Morin wrote in the memo: 'This is one of the chips we really should pick up, because it is a key job in the commis- one of extreme im- sion and portance in representing our clients.' ended: 'In short, let's He get this guy Mallory in that job or Cook may turn into a disaster for us.' Colson wrote across the top of the memo: 'I'll call Cook if necessary, but I think Jerry Jones could lock this one for us. Jones is the White House aîde in charge of recruiting personnel for top administra- tive jobs. Morin said the memo was 'internal office correspondence with my law partners and not publication'. Cook said for that he had been subjected to general pressure from attor- neys of Colson's firm. ime... Some of them had taken Bradford Cook - resigned. G. Above: Financier Vesco (second extreme left applauds row, Nixon, 1968. him to a posh Washington near the White restaurant with one of their House clients. 'I felt I was a peacock paraded around, being he said. Morin also said in the memo that Cook 'ought to be reminded of how he got the job and how he almost did not get the job', apparently implying that they had spon- sored his appointment. These revelations follow the huge Equity Funding insurance scandal, still reverberating in Wall Street, which demon- strated that one of the most prestigious and sought-after securities completely was worthless and built almost entirely on fraud. They will shatter the illus- ions of many investors who telt safe in putting their money on Wall Street so long as the SEC was around to ensure 'fair play'. the eve of the Now, on crash, the SEC turns out to be inhabited by the biggest sharks of all. During his first term of President Nixon's office Advisory Council on Execu- tive Organization reported that: 'The SEC is regarded as one of the ablest of independent regulatory commissions we believe the commission has for the most part carried out its congressional mandate and in so doing has earned a investor confi- measure of dence. This opinion would certainly need radical revision in the light of the latest revelations.

Of course, the problems of the Wall Street investor are re- mote from most readers of the Workers Press. But the lack of confidence on Wall Street is now so severe that any further shock to confidence could result in wave of panic-selling and precipitate a slump of enor- mous proportions. to be an What appears obscure branch of the Water- gate scandal could have the most devastating repercussions on the lives of millions of workers.

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THE NATIONAL Association of Head Teachers has asked Tory Education Minister Mrs Margaret Thatcher to establish a disciplinary General Teach- ing Council. This body would have powers similar to the doctors' General Medical Council and would try of 'unprofessional beha- cases viour'. Headmaster Frank Mills told the annual conference of the 16,000-strong Association that growing numbers of militant tea- chers Mills claimed that history and social studies were the subjects most frequently taught 'with poli- tical bias' There can be little doubt that right-wing headteachers, who are paid and much better usually

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FIVE CHILDREN taken to hos- pital after a bomb exploded out- side their home in west Belfast early yesterday. The children, all Roman suffering from Catholics, were shock, said a police spokesman.

The bomb had been planted at the side of their terraced house at the corner of Wood- vale Road and Twaddell Avenue, a mainly Protestant area.

No warning was given and the explosion damaged the side wall. The five children were said to be aged between one and seven years. Their mother also suffered shock. All were being given treatment in hospital.

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Management at the Longbridge, ish- Birmingham, assembly factory and ody at Swindon have clearly had strict instructions to tighten the coW screws on the Measured-Day ek- Work pay system installed in both plants. • up. At Swindon the changeover from piecework to MDW brought on a 10 to 15 per cent initial drop am- in output. Jobs adding up to two stin million strokes of the press had and to be contracted out. nar- Now Leyland wants to bring pre- these jobs back in its own fac- tory with no increase in labour.

in- Where job times were at first egro between mutually agreed shop own stewards, foremen and super- will visors Leyland now wants to im- om- pose its own, trade war-orient- ed timings. Press operators began walking out last Monday when manage- ment began insisting on maxi- mum effort, described in the work-study handbooks as 100 BSI, on Allegro stampings.

4, On Wednesday théy voted to ial he stay out and not to meet again for another week. ory The strike has already led to about 100 lay-offs from other 4, sections. More will result if to- ub, morrow's meeting decides, as or- seems likely, to stay out.

ary • Allegro trouble is continuing at Longbridge, where maintenance and toolroom workers yesterday rth again failed to report for holiday ary work on a new line. et- m.

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SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Given by Gerry Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Wednesday May 30 Role of the revolutionary party at St David's Church Hall, Church Street, Merthyr 7.30 p.m.

SOCIALIST

LABOUR LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETING

Salford The Angel, Chapel Street Wednesday May 30, 8 p.m. 'The Revolutionary Party and the Working Class'. All Trades Unions Alliance Meeting After Jones-Aldington What next for dockers?

SOUTHAMPTON

Wednesday May 30, 7.30 p.m.

Conference Room Civic Centre Speaker: M. Banda (SLI Central Committee) All Trades Unions

HOSPITAL WORKERS'

MEETING

Hospital workers and the fight against the Tory government Tuesday May 29, 7.30 p.m.

Norfolk Room Caxton Hall, Caxton Street, London SW1 (admission 10p)

BUILDING WORKERS'

MEETING

TUC must break off talks with Tories! Build revolutionary party!

Wednesday, May 30, 7.30 p.m. Tudor Room Caxton Hall. Caxton Street, London SW1 (admission 10p)

POSTAL WORKERS'

MEETING

Break off secret talks with the Tories! Force the Tories to resign!

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Build the revolutionary party to take the power All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday May PLESSEY, the £210m electroni try and isolate a sit-in strike by Garrard record-player factory trading estate, Swindon, Wilts.

Garrard's 103 building at Cheney Manor is one of three group factories in the town, and over the weekend management sent out letters to all workers at the other two putting them on a four- day week. The strike at 103 bullding is over 'physically impossible' work-rates. Management is attempting to Swindon labour force split its by cutting the pay of those in still work and using this pressure to enforce speed-up on the strikers. The defeat of this is seen as crucial by strategy growing number of trade unionists in the town. The 1,200 women at 103 build- ing completed their third week of strike and occupation last Friday. They walked out when Gar- rard's attempted to push up tar- lines from get rates on some 55 to 74 record-player units an hour. All negotiations within the procedure laid down in a pay- and-productivity deal signed last December were either exhausted broke down. Sit-in strike or action began on May 4. During informal talks since the women started their action, man- agement has claimed that last December's deal gives them the right to set times, methods and patterns of work. This is hotly contested by the strikers, who point out that without the ability to negotiate these three elements, the trade union movement is powerless to its members against defend speed-up and eventual wage- cutting. The deal was only signed after the ending of a pay strike, when insisted that be- management cause of the Tory pay laws the only way the women could ob- tain a rise was through a pro- ductivity deal. Women walked off their jobs when management attempted to impose the new rates. Leading shop steward, Josie Ingram, said: "They are demand- ing too much. 'The present rates are physi- cally impossible to achieve.

"What they really want to do is save labour. They are cons- tantly changing production me- thods to push up our output.

If we don't reach these tar- gets, then we will lose money.

'We can't even keep up with Our wages the cost of living. do not stretch anywhere near as far as they did six months ago.

We will stick this one out, even if it takes months. The dispute was taken to a higher stage last week, when it spread the two other to Garrard factories in the town.

The machine shop at Bluns- don was brought to a standstill 450 workers walked out when aft ts were made to lay All Trade sday May 29, 1973 lectronics giant, has decided to trike by women workers at its actory on the Cheney Manor Some of the Garrard's women going In!

At Newcastle Street, the third Garrard factory in town, workers were progressively laid off all week. By Friday only a skeleton staff remained. Altogether about 3,000 work- ers were involved in the dispute, and Garrard's management said might have to terminate they ALL THOSE who have so far joined in helping to transform the Socialist La- bour League into a revolu- tionary party would be building a party for power, Gerry Healy, national secre- tary of the SLL, said on Sunday. He was speaking to a packed audience of workers, house- wives and youth at the Cam- den Town Hall at a pre- conference before the founding of the party later this year.

He said: We're not asking you to join an ideal party, but a party which in its theory and practice extends the traditions This will of Bolshevism. be a party of conflict. This kind of party is going to win support because workers will see in it a real body of revolutionary opinion that's living and fight- Joining ing. our movement accepting the responsi- means bility to be trained as a cadre.'

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How a centrist 'corrects' Marx and Lenin Cliff Slaughter replies to an attack on the SLL in the publi- Permanent Revol called cation issued by the group •Workers Fight' Order now-01-622 7029 Trades Unions Alliance Cont Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Pa • going into a meeting. the contracts of all staff per- sonnel. Then they decided on their new policy: isolation. All the signs are that Gar- rard's are settling in for a long fight. Their determination is only surpassed by that of the strikers.

Nor would it be a party of the centrist left - with a more left programme'. 'We are building a party for power, he said. 'We're prepar- ing to transform the working class into the ruling class that is the dictatorship of the proletariat. Are you ready for that? 'Building revolutionary a is leadership something that can't be rushed. It has to be built scientifically • with all the difficulties and differences that arise from the pressures of the class struggle brought out into where they can open clarified. 'This party we are founding will be based on Marxism as a theory of knowledge of the working class? four months, he The next said, would be the most impor- tant in the history of the Trot- skyist movement in Britain.

'We want to bring in thous- ands of workers, youth, students and intellectuals all over the country. They are going to come in a period of the greatest crisis of capitalism - with all this crisis interwoven with the de- velopment of socialist conscious- ness. 'This is not a crisis of indi- historical crisis. viduals, but a Capitalism in its heyday had authority of a bourgeoisie the which was actually developing e Conference: To discuss de oo Park: Manchester-Sunda

THE PROVISIONAL

and Official IRA got together in Londonderry on Sunday night for the first time in at least a year to plan demonstra- tions against the army. About 1,000 people were at Sunday night's meeting in the Bogside at which 24-hour token no-go areas and barri- cades in the Bogside and Creggan were planned for July 31. This is the anniversary of the 'Operation Motorman' army's last year which cleared the city of its no-go areas. The barricades are planned as non-violent protest against a internment. The two groups said they also planned a 24-hour General Strike in Londonderry on August the second anniversary of intern- ment. They said they were also or- ganizing four or five demonstra- the first next Sunday, tions, when marchers from the Creg- gan, Brandywell and Shantallow would converge on the city centre. Similar brief demonstrations by militant Protestant organiza- led normally by tions, the Ulster Defence Association, have been tolerated by the army—a fact that has not . gone un- noticed by the IRA. An IRA spokesman said: 'If the UDA can do this sort of thing and get away with it free there is no reason scot why we can't do the same.'

There was no official reac- tion to the joint IRA decision at production the means of and man's increasing wealth. They could • survive scandals of even But greater proportions. today the system has outlived its use- fulness. It's not possible for them to avoid the implications of the crisis of an economically doomed system. As in Watergate, objec- tive events have taken over.'

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iss defence of democratic ri TUC must break off all talks on Phase 3 Make the Tory government resign! Transform the Socialist Labour League into the Revolutionary Party! Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m the Northern Ireland army's headquarters. Privately, though were conced. security sources ing the return of the barricades to the Bogside and Creggan could place troops on the spot.

indicates that This clearly even token barricades could pro- vide the army with an excuse for an onslaught on unprepared people. substitution of barricades The for political programme to a unite the entire working class against British and Irish capital- ism leaves the Catholic working class exposed to real dangers and encourages the split within the working class on religious grounds - which deliber- was ately created by British imperial- ism in the first place. During the last two years 33,000 rounds of rubber bullets have been fired in Northern Ire- land, killing three people and injuring 90 others, 17 of whom permanently disabled were or disfigured. The four Belfast surgeons who have called for the withdrawal of the rubber bullets (see vester- day's Workers Press) 'the tissues of the eyer, and skull bones and brain are particularly susceptible to a blow from missile of this size, a weight and speed. 'Head injuries are particularly serious as brain damage may be fatal and . very high percent- age of injuries to the eye results in blindness.' the sales of and movement Workers Press. Immediately, a campaign is to begin throughout the trade union movement to make the All Trades Unions Alliance con- ference at Belle Vue, Manches- ter, on July 1, a great success.

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