Workers Press no. 1098

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

THE TORY government's economic strategy plunged to new disaster with the announce- ment of the biggest ever trade deficit. The gap between im- ports and exports of f209m for May means an annual balance of payments loss of at least £1,750m. BY Such a rate of deficit, which

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rising steadily for a has been year, cannot much longer be tolerated by international Britain capital. is now SO surrendering to Heath's demands deeply in the red and even further than they have the al- Phase Two. reserves, mainly in dollars, pro- ready done so over vide a thin cover for outstand- (See back page.) ing debts that drastic measures period of rapidly- In this for the dis- will be demanded to stem the maturing crisis credited capitalist the system, losses. leaders' support for trade union This massive deflation means Torv government's the policies order to cut the is imminent in amount to the most colossal be- bill now running at import traval of the working class's in- £1.119m a month against £910m which force the terest, to 1S for exports. Even with estimated Tories as quickly to resign as invisible from banking earnings possible. and insurance, of £58m The economic will situation month, the current account is deteriorate, the steadily forcing £151m in deficit for May.

eventually to make bid Tories to establish a fully-fledged state and annihilate porate Consumption working-class resistance to their economic demands. To preserve their position in The only way a Tory govern- the capitalist world, the ruling ment knows cut imports is class must now gear up imme- hold back the consumption to diatelv the most ruthless for goods by the working class. of trade war. This further massive means The competitive devaluations attack on the standard of living

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of currencies since the collapse through higher prices. 15. 1971. August of the services. more rent in- cocial Woods fixed still tighter Bretton parity creases and state agreement have been the open- control on wages. ing shots in this trade war.

But the trade figures were be- The much-vaunted floating of announced three hours

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the pound, while giving a tem- fore the leaders trooped 10 Downing one-sided advantage to obediently into porary British capitalists. and find of part of Street try ways to

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unstable inherently monetary free-for-all which has plunged the whole trading system into chaos. The dramatic rises in the ree market price of gold anc the floods of hot money into and out of specific currencies reveal this. British capitalism's trade diffi- culties are ultimately only in- tensified by these fluctuations, which in the end will reduce the amount of trading possible be- cause of the breakdown of con- fidence in the credit which finances trade. Undercut The United States is on the verge of announcing drastic mea- sures to cure their own trade and monetary ills (see page 2).

The downward floating dollar has already undercut British and any new large- exports, scale US deflation and tariff barriers would cripple sections of British industry. At the same time, the French are insisting that Britain cease her unilateral floating and tie the pound to the EEC fixed parity system. This will place enormous burdens on further the economy which the Tories.

once again, only pass off can onto the working class in the form of further deflationary cuts in living standards. The trade war is an unmiti- 4p 14, 1973 • No 1098

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gated disaster for the whole class, but in world's working capitalist terms Britain is the most unfavourably placed of all the major countries to survive the trade war. Every previous attempt at an inflationary boom has led to a stop-go crisis. But the capitalist system has so deterioriated that the delibe- rately stoked-up inflation has not even been able to affect greatly the basic level of investment in Britain (see page 11). At the same time, the infla- tionary jolt simultaneously in several countries has proved the last straw on the back of mone- tary stability and prices are out of control. The ruling class has no answer to the crisis except further attacks on the working class through speed-up, wage cuts, and lay-offs. Every day the Tories remain in office brings further grave dangers to the working class. Transform The only way forward is to force this weak and bankrupt government to resign and de- mand that a Labour government bring in socialist policies.

To achieve this, the transfor- mation of the Socialist Labour League into the revolutionary party is the vital development.

Chrysler pickets out yesterday.

Combine- wide backing for car strike see p. 12

£100,000 PARTY

BUILDING FUND

YESTERDAY'S

post brought £5.61- —£1.51 from Swindon and 24 from Our western region. tota stands at £51,216.62 now It certainly is a magnificent effort. It is also enormous encouragement for us te begin the second stage o!

the fight -to reach our £100,000 bỳ October 31, We need to raise anothe £48,783.38. So start today -let's go into action right away.

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

THE TORY government's economic strategy plunged to new disaster with the announce- ment of the biggest ever trade deficit. The gap between im- ports and exports of £209m for May means an annual balance of payments loss of at least £1,750m. BY Such a rate of deficit, which

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has been rising steadily for a longer be cannot much year, tolerated by international Britain is now capital. SO surrendering to Heath's demands red deeply in the and the even further than they have al- reserves, mainly in dollars, pro- ready done so over Phase Two. vide a thin cover for outstand- (See back page.) ing debts that drastic measures In this period of rapidly- will be demanded to stem the for the dis- maturing crisIs credited capitalist system, the losses. trade union leaders' support for massive deflation This means Tory government's policies the is imminent in order to cut the amount to the most colossal be- running at import now trayal of the working class's in- £1,119m a month against £910m which is to force the terest, Even with estimated for exports. quickly Tories to resign as as banking invisible earnings from possible. of £58m and insurance, etc. The economic situation will account is month, the current steadily deteriorate, forcing the £151m in deficit for May.

Tories eventually to make a bid to establish a fully-fledged cor- and annihilate porate state Consumption working-class resistance to their demands. To preserve their position in The only way a Tory govern- world, ruling the capitalist the knows cut imports ment to class must now gear up imme- hold back the consumption to the ruthless diately Ior most of goods by the working class. •trade war. further This means massive standard of living The devaluations the competitive attack on

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of currencies the through higher prices, since collapse 15, 1971, of the social services, more rent in- on August Woods still tighter Bretton fixed parity and state been control on wages. agreement have the open- ing shots in this trade war.

But the trade figures were The much-vaunted floating of announced three hours be- Just TUC leaders the pound, while giving fore the trooped a tem- one-sided 10 advantage to obediently into porary British capitalists, is part of an to try and find Street ways

NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY JUNE 14, 1973

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOC

unstable inherently monetary free-for-all which has plunged the whole trading system into chaos. The dramatic rises in the free market price of gold and the floods of hot money into and out of specific currencies reveal this. British capitalism's trade diffi- culties are ultimately only in fluctuations, ensified by these which in the end will reduce the amount of trading possible be- cause of the breakdown of con- fidence in the credit which finances trade. Undercut The United States is on the verge of announcing drastic mea- sures to cure their own trade and monetary ills (see page 2).

The downward floating dollar has already British undercut and any new large- exports, scale US deflation and tariff barriers would cripple sections of British industry. At the same time, the French are insisting that Britain cease her unilateral floating and tie • to the EEC fixed the pound parity system. This will place further enormous burdens on the economy which the Tories, once again, can only pass off onto the working class in the form of further deflationary cuts in living standards. The trade war is an unmiti- 14, 1973 • No 1098 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

OFFICIAL

FICKET.

SUR

gated disaster for the whole world's working class, but in capitalist terms Britain is the most unfavourably placed of all the major countries to survive the trade war. Every previous attempt at an inflationary boom has led to a stop-go crisis. But the capitalist system has so deterioriated that the delibe- rately stoked-up inflation has not even been able to affect greatly the basic level of investment in Britain (see page 11). At the same time, the infla- simultaneously in tionary several countries has proved the last straw on the back of mone- tary stability and prices are out of control. The ruling has no class the crisis answer to except further attacks on the working speed-up, class through wage cuts, and lay-offs. Every day the Tories remain in office brings dangers to the further grave working class. Transform The only way forward is to force this weak and bankrupt government to resign and de- mand that a Labour government bring in socialist policies.

To achieve this, the transfor- mation of the Socialist Labour League into the revolutionary party is the vital development.

Chrysler pickets out yesterday.

Combine- wide backing for car strike see p. 12

£100,000 PARTY

BUILDING FUND

YESTERDAY'S

pos! brought £5.61- -£1.51 from Swindon and {4 from Our western region. total al £51,216.62 now stands It certainly is a magnificent effort. It is also enormous for us encouragement to begin the second stage o!

the fight to reach our £100,000 October by 31. We need to raise anothe £48,783.38 So start today —let's go into action right away.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday, June 14, 1973 PRESIDENT NIXON was due to announce his package of measures to 'curb inflation' in a television broadcast last night. But according to sources in the White House it will to the emergency across-the-board involve a return not controls he introduced in August 197l.

"They will not be as sweeping, one official said.

"They will be strictly enforced, but selective instead of across the board.'

The White House said the new package would not include a freeze on wages, but said there is 'close to an even bet' some sort of price restraint will be imposed. There indication was no from the White House what plans Nixon and his advisers have drawn• for action up against the European capita- lists which is being demanded powerful by protectionist lobby of US big business In August 1971 Nixon not only imposed a complete ban increases, all on wage but stopped the sale of gold from the US Treasury and imposed a 10 per cent surcharge on imports. His whole political future could hang what on measures he now takes. If he proves unable to take decisive action this time, in accordance with what big business in the United States wants, then, with his position already undermined by Water- gate, he could very quickly be driven from office. Fears of a third dollar de- valuation have increased in Tues- the past 48 hours. On day there was a huge demand for the West German currency and for forward marks rates the Euro-currency markets on under 9 per cent to rose from nearly 18 per cent. This reflected continued 'We're living in a si lack of confidence in the dollar, which was not impro- values have become ved by persistent reports of divisions within Nixon the cabinet over what should be done to meet the economic crisis. THE PERUVIAN military dictatorship has forced strikers at the Chimbote steel plant to return to work under threat of stringent legal penalties.

The 3,000-strong workforce hunting the Trotskyists of the at the plant had been on strike Liga Comunista. days in support local fishermen whose Liga Comunista leaders have trade been thrown and into prison union rights were being taken subjected to savage tor- away. because the junta recog-

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They returned work to on Trotskyists the the as Monday after the military junta implacable enemies of corporat- had ruled that the strike would and fascism and the most ism be illegal from that day on. The consistent and principled de- departmental trade union fede- fenders of basic rights. ration also called off a strike it open strike-breaking of The week ago in support. began a the Peruvian military regime of the steel workers. added force to must give the Rear-Admiral Alberto Jiminez, demand for the immediate re- the Minister for Trade and In- lease of the Liga Comunista dustry, threatened action against inembers in the regime's prisons the strikers if they failed to •go of and the restoration their back to work. full rights. The unions at the state-owned Trade union branches, shop the strike steel plant had called stewards' committees, trades demand for to respect trade and councils other working- union independence which was class organizations should send taken from the being away their protests to the Peruvian fishermen. Sloane Street, demand London central of the strike-which spread to all sec- tions of the working class in the of the area-was removal Bagzu, Baca agent of the dic- tatorship fishermen's in the union. CENTRAL rule from New Delhi This man is and a gangster imposed yesterday the was on

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leader of the the state- Uttar north Indian of state He has controlled 'union'. held Pradesh, following the resigna- Chimbote fisher- control of the tion Tuesday of the on state men's union at gunpoint with in the wake of government protection of the the open police mutiny last month.

police, hold refusing to union elections for the nast five vears.

The Uttar Pradesh governor, Ali Akbar Khan, will take over State the trade control over administration of the state through the corporatist unions, guided civil union federation called Sanam s by senior servants seconded from New Delhi under of the central planks one 'president's the declaration of policy. the military regime's rule'. The dictatorship is supported Party, by the Communist which President's rule will certainly played witch- remain in force in the state for an active part in MILITANT trade unionists objecting to terms of settle- ment of a strike hurled rocks, fruit and vegetables at the Ford factory in suburban Melbourne yesterday, break- ing windows and knocking down a brick wall. The trouble erupted as the first shift at the Broad- meadows factory, numbering about 1,000 of the total work- force of 4,500, reported for work following their union's in a sick society in which th ecome practically worthless and...' Peru's President Velasco.

the next eight months, until the February elections to the state assembly. Kamalapathi Tripathi, the chief minister, has been under intense pressure to quit since the police mutiny three weeks ago. The Indian Army was called in to suppress the police and at least 42 people were killed and 100 injured in bloody fighting.

Before the revolt the Congress administration in Uttar Pradesh had been widely • accused of gross corruption, ineficiency and nepotism. acceptance of a company pay offer that ended a three-week strike. Police said about 450 mili- tant pickets gethered outside factory demanding that the 1,000 workers walk out again. stewards, speaking Shop through loud-hailers in four languages, dissuaded the mili- tants from carrying out a threat to charge a security gate to enter the plant. Some workers were evacu- ated from the factory and one ich the traditional thless- -the CHILEAN President Salvador bitter strike of copper miners i mine, is thinking of bringing his cabinet. The Teniente strike, now in its eighth week, has stayed firm despite the shooting of one striker by the police and the wounding of others. The Press has pro - government attacked the strike as inspired by the right wing. government—a coalition The Social-Democrats, Stalinists and Radicals—has said it will not recognize any other attempt mediation in strike, at which began over a wage demand to meet the soaring cost of living. Labour Minister Luis Figueroa Sergio and Mining Minister Bitar have jointly announced that the government has not accepted and will not accept 'any solution Tripathi's government. became a serious embarrassment to Mrs Indira Gandhi who wants to ensure that the party regains power in the February election despite its corrupt and inefficient record. Uttar Pradesh is India's most populous state, with almost 100 million people. The crisis here is symptomatic of the worsening economic and political situation facing the Indian government, which a mere 18 months ago peak of popularity was at the and power in the wake of the Bangladesh war. group of pickets turned a fire hose through a window and played a stream of water on workers inside. About 40 police, including three on horseback, subdued demonstrators, but a superintendent said no one had been taken into custody.

The company closed the plant yesterday afternoon. A spokesman said it would re- main closed today while union and company representatives confer. A mass meeting of the workers is planned later.

ARGENTINE President Hector Campora leaves Buenos Alres today for a six-day visit to Spain and will then accom- pany former president Juan Peron in a triumphal return after 18 years' exile as guest of fascist dictator Franco.

Peron is expected to direct the new government from be- Campora hind the scenes. was his nominee for the presl- dency and is known as the 77- faithful follower of former ruler of year-old Argentina. Campora's visit to Madrid Is at Franco's Invitation. The fascists have de- Spanish an 'expression scribed it as of the ties that united Spain with the Argentine Republic'.

head of General Lanusse, the military regime which re- linquished power to the Peron- this year, ists earlier was Franco's guest for four days in February. Salvador Allende, faced with a miners in the giant El Teniente ringing the military back into which means a double increase, that would constitute since an irritating privilege in favour of one group of workers'. Figueroa is a Communist Party member, while Bitar is a member of the so-called Christian left. The opposition Christian Democrats have called for their resignation, taking advantage of the government's hard-line atti- tude to El Teniente workers.

that The government claims the workers at the mine, which is nationalized, have already had under cost-of-living increases clauses in their contract, hence the reference to 'double wage increases' in the Ministers' joint statement. Allende's plan to bring the military back into the cabinet is a sinister step towards civil war. Three members of the armed forces were brought into the cabinet last November at the of the so-called "bosses' time strike. General Carlos Prats, the army chief-of-staff was made Interior Minister Rear-Admiral Ismael Huerta became Minister of Pub- lic Works and General Claudio Sepulveda took over the Ministry of Mines. In March this year they left the cabinet again. The has been government forced to suspend. copper ex- ports during the strike at El Teniente and has lost revenue to of several million the tune pounds. There is also a short- age of food in Chile.

Carr's heavy mob gets Picketing is No. 1 police target 'Mad Mitch' flies to tax-haven troublespot Police 'crowd-control' training stepped up go-ahead POLICE in England and sized that recruitment had be increased rapidly lo Wales will in future take deal 'public eki period. a new ten-week Home Office state- of training Dresen 'crowd control, initial training course, con- cludes stables involved with the gen- Why police being are are Home Office alc the an- eral public.' trained in know- 'home defence' a bubblalllial nounced yesterday. words the Home ledge or numerous In oulel and once war dues d Robert Carr, Home regulations. know- out _The cutting Ene the Tory government Secretary, authorized ledge that kind is long-established traditions not expecting the new training programme of the law training men In one of its Common Market really necessary tioner constable. There partners?

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the Police Training Council. therefore, for every need to Today's requirement is a Unlikely. An outline new large-scale of bruisers him Dale сусліи- The deal with eventualities only reason for this , sent yesterday to

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ane une sinister build-up concentrate on essentials. constables. uke a venera wike mUSL It is in line with the re- will The Home Office of the work- also de- lot repression quirements of the police in ing class. the method 'training clares that a 'continua- which with the LexI period, oblectives. it ww tiereore Ton course nas been crawn goes in line mass cut out a great deal of time peted police who sere com announcement last week Ine loe won inis ass sit telest study revision. months' that the spent on service. government annual last More will be giver It will include training in —fire manuactur subjects such defence, police war nited Kingdom or de tha -to be used 'inside the ac crow eon. home police commissioner, Sir and other and emergencies, the Mark, also empha- matters the police In which control purposes. slalcillcul bays

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seek to imitate in real life what they find New challenge' so absorbing on the screen.

picketing posed a new challenge to those who the British police force, Mr J. M Contol unese borent means or communi- cation bear a responsibility to ensure they Hill, the Chief Inspector of Consta- says report do not present excessive violence or extol bulary, said in his annual report yes- Is virtues. terday. Bout the he hole perillenese and extol virtues violence Describing the incidence of these dis- police to carry guns. He said the service 'new phenomenon' Hill said against guns being carried on a hones was duty of 'not Northern Ireland British only the police, to-day basis, adequate ter- precautions but also for the urade readers consistent with Ine risk in each case must ale licaca will awaras and con- ensure that their members be taken'. for shooting, harassing and all eves mendations are fully informed of the limits to which Hill also intimidating people. suggested that the blame for picketing may lawfully extend. When two policemen shoot and kill two Crie lay wiln tele Pakistani teenagers at India House they 1 urge to mill said inat a num. vision, the cinema and other media.

are congratulated by the coroner.

ber of recent incidents had required the He said more impressionable will COLONEL Colin ('Mad Mitch') Mitchell, Tory MP, flew to the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas yesterday to investigate the prospects of forming a mercenary.

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type army there. A group of islanders, the Council for Free Abaco, want to keep

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Abaco as a Crown colony when the Bahamas becomes independent on Tuly 10.

Mitchell said he had been including Dominica Minister, Mr Anthony Roberts, countries. A DaCO • wonder do zoe don asked by the council if I would and Vietnam. said he thought Colonel Mitchell's west of Grand Bahama, has 6,200 organize an army for them or Wer Bell inhabitants. closely linked Hussadaco Was something that. said Ilke sible' and that he would not be with the Council for Free Abaco.

The majority of the separatists "Of course not" But having came Britain some time welcome there. MA got involved in this business, looking The filed for 'certain security preparations for exiles. Pindling has the onlv thing i can Dav

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101 special Silualion incevendence test with toe sixon domais talon is get out there and see what The being cast in a shadow calling for action against the Colncil has neen warning if that civil war will break out the Abaco conspiracy Bahamian conspirators. the form is'. Abaco the included new Pindling. has So far he has received no reply.

Lynden went via

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vitchel ala not several times denounced Wer Bell republic from next Abaco directly. He via and Edwin Marger, Miami benina the patriotic claims ot Atlanta, Georgia, where he has of the cobnein. the council to remain a Crown lawyer, is behind the for- Mitchell with colony, lie been slaying powerful hialiull head Defence War describes It many them arguments. Systems International, an arms wealthy Americans 'international soldiers of fortune' hrm. to Abaco and involved under being in 'con- Wer Bell was indicted the territorial because of or coelll constitution soilacy aralas! Federal grand 1967 jury on integrity of the Bahamas'.

tne enormous tax advantages. with They want be another The government also says they cnarces Invasions against the Republic of Haiti. Cayman Islands, haven for 'Mafia-type have backing. from And by his own admission he their earnings and other emolu- orzanizaulons and memders 'geo- ments. the CIA who enjoy open support nas Deen political situations' in other The Bahamian Home Affairs from Washington. Deceptive attack on Phase Three by ii ENOCH POWELL ('I was Powell phy industry has sink to him. born a Tory, 1am a Tory and

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everv man tor self with profitability as the I will always remain a Tory') driving motive of big business. For Powell to be claiming yesterday continued to assail defend against the earners the Heath leadership of his under lois ree marker cor 24830 legal of intimidation cept workers wages have a very lue sale party. low priority indeed Is preposterous. This is the same Powell who After immigration and Powell made his attack the strike Common Market this time allackcu Leaces une roase oree aws vestercav three who also ago and Powell turned to the third plank years just the TUC leaders were favours the deportation of im- as t Downing Street This in nis populst platorm use going to migrants. state pay laws. carefully-timed Powell move by He is also on the record as He said that 'stage three ot is an attempt to seize a lollow- attacking the rights workers the freeze' 'compulsion ing among politically backward was duress brought bear upon insist on full unionization being workers who the citizen refrain their places oi work. He believes that the police irom acung in a particular way. BBy chatting with Powell in should but compulsion or duress which programme, has law and support in attacking picket foundation Friday, High 5 Ston of Carr's heavy mob, (see nol aoonca second above). of law. union, has helped to create the His attack the laws It has all the characteristics same impression. Day is deceptive. the im- creates consequences But Powell of that is an enemy ment without law; arbit- Dresson rOWCHI the capricious, favour giving higher wages working class and the trade Cot ¿ary, to workers. This is not true. union movement. Scanion musT covert, it is un- Certaill, Powellite philoso- be made to get up and say so. Under the appealable! ess, Thursday June 14, 1973 PAGE 3

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ELECTRICIANS and building workers were manhandled yesterday by the St anti-picket squad outside Thomas' Hospital site on the Thames Em- a national miners' Welsh president ess for March 20, 1973. rise next SHELL Chemicals (UK), which had a 6-per-cent price rise application turned down by the Prices Commission on Monday, is almost certain to get it on re-application.

The company was told that its request for a price increase to 'a loss-making situation' cover did not come within the provi- sions of the Prices Code 'as it was presented'. The implication was that if the company presented its case in a different form—including 'expected losses'-the Commis- sion would be more sympathetic.

The Shell rejection was the Price Commission's • first public refusal of an application-and it looks like nothing more than a short delay. Meanwhile, the British Gas joined the Corporation queue of nationalized industries seeking price increases with a formal application for a general 5-per-cent rise in gas tariffs.

Bulk contract prices with large users at fixed prices are not expected to be affected by the increases-which means that the domestic consumer is the one to be hit. Railway fare increases averag- ing 5 per cent come into force on Sunday. The much-boosted 'fare reduction' applies only to mid-week returns booked three weeks in advance.

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Workers Press, Thursday June 'A fascist or socialism' Leeds building worker and UCATT member Mr Trevor Jones (28), said: It was the building strike which made me realize that there was a real chance of changing the way things were set up. You could see from the strike that with that sort of action it was on the cards things could change. I realized during that strike that it was within our reach to make life better. Before that I didn't know how to go about it and I couldn't see any sign of move- ment in the union. Things seemed to be fixed. The 40 hours you worked • was fixed somehow and that was how you carried on. In the middle of the build- ing strike a leading member of the League told me that the people who were leading our strike would sell us out. I couldn't believe it because we were at the peak of the strike and there the leaders were saying all the right militant things. When it happened it just choked me. But it made me sday June 14, 1973 think and think again. The Workers Press was there in the strike and when what it forecast happened it made me think about a lot of things.

Now we've reached a point where it is illegal to have a strike like that. If we were to do the same things now it's quite obvious Tories the would act very hard against us. Two of my mates have arrested twice for pic- been keting. The strike shook me and when you're shaken in one belief, you're shaken in others as well and you start looking very closely at what you've been thinking in the past.

We're at a point where life's dominated by capital and the power of this money is main- tained by the police and the army and how else can you shift this set-up except by revolution? All I want is decent re- muneration for what I do, but you can't even get that by that sort of strike any more. After the strike I became a shop steward. I wanted to fight the employer because they'd kept us out for so long during the strike. I think its very urgent to build the League into a party.

When you look back at what happened in Germany when Hitler came to power, you can see we're getting the same thing here. In the position we're in to- day, with the confrontation between the capitalist class and the working class, it's going way or the to go one other. Either we're going to have a fascist dictatorship or we're going to have socialism. 'Leaders said all the rigt tive strikes and site strike last year the Shrewsbury 24 right to strike are at sta the right militant thing by site settlemen defeated. March 17. H are at stake.

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March 17. Here the right to picket and the 'There is no answer to the other than London housewife and mother of two, 31-year- old Mrs J. T., who came to England from Austra- lia ten years ago, said: I think the League is the only political group which seriously wants to do anything to change the system. All the other groups seem to hide behind discussion without any real action taking place. We are still managing to live, but a number of things have been cut out of our diet increased prices. because of We don't buy lots of fruit drinks which we used to have.

I don't know how anybody can possibly exist on £20 a week. A lot of women, mothers of young babies who don't really want to go out to work, but whose husbands earn a low wage, are being forced out to work. I think it's a right a mother should have-to with her children when they're very young. policy of selec- There no really good are wed the build- facilities for child care. There ation in support is no real state provision.

• picket and the The housing situation is

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The fact that you can't find accommod House in South London - a half way practically out of control. It's the stage where it's got to almost farcical. Here in Bal- ham, far from selling houses as whole houses, they are sub- dividing them into flats and I can see a situation where they will be subdividing them into and selling those at rooms £10,000 each. The price of food and the fact that you can't find accom- modation 1 find very striking.

Things which should be in- alienable rights, like a place to live, are no longer available.

The international currency situation means that it's get- ting more difficult for the employers to make a profit, so the screws are being put on the workers-very hard. Joining the Common Mar- ket and the recent decimal- ization has given prices a fantastic boost. Workers are on the receiving end of the 112 334 iccommodation I find very striking. Things whic half way house where families desperate for a whole lot. I came to Britain in 1963 just before the Labour govern- ment came to power. I didn't expect to see such a division between the rich and poor.

There was a tremendous amount of excitement, SO much so that you almost ex- pected a revolution. But it didn't work out like that and when the Tories came in to power things started to get worse. They seemed to make no bones about the fact that they were going to have a go at dismantling whatever nationalization there was, what little welfare there was.

immigration question The was going to be settled in no uncertain terms. It seemed to me they were in and they were going to change things. was brought up very strongly to believe that com- munism was an absolute evil.

hings which should be inalienable rights, like a rate for a home are sent to wait.

Now I believe that socialism may be right, but there is the contradiction that while socialist system ought to work you have to account for Stalin- ism. You tend to think of communism as Stalinism. While thinking that social- ism ought to work, you are confronted with this picture of it in operation so you have confused ideas about it. It's only when you begin to hear all the facts behind thạt you are able to make any kind of judgement. The only people that 1 know who have attempted to explain this are the Socialist Labour League.

To me this is an extremely important thing. The distinc- clearly drawn tion has to be between what is communism and what is Stalinism. It seems to me that social- ism in a single country can't operate properly and these Workers Press, Thu hts, like a place to live, are no longer avallable.

various governments are eco- nomically bound to the capi- talist system. As well as that there's a degree of self-interest that has crept into these bur- eaucracies and people are lining their own pockets.

Workers have to take power.

There is no other answer to the problems created by the system than the : transference of power. That is for sure.

It's like the charity system.

You can hand out any amount of money you like to people don't who have houses or but the next genera- clothes, tion won't have them either. It never solves the problem.

None of the things which affect workers today can be changed unless we have the political power and the eco- nomic means to do it. Everything else is just fantasy. I find the theoretical discip- Press, Thursday Jüne 14, 1973 PAGE 5 • available. Above: Tenants at Chaucer co- line of the League difficult after spending a lifetime being a woolly-minded liberal. But it seems to me that the League is posing the questions and are the only people to answer them. Other people aren't even posing the ques- tions. They analyse everything that happens politically. It's a pro- cess of learning from political experience. I think it's abso- lutely marvellous to have a daily paper. I used to have the idea that Marxism was a set answer to everything rather than a day- by-day analysis of what hap- pens. The League shows that there are people who genuinely want political power and who are capable of holding it. They are the only people who seem to represent the interests of the working class.

Left: Housing conuitions for workers in Glasgow, where Smith did much of his work. Right: Queen Victoria and representatives of the parasitic ruling class (on stage and screen) in confrontation with London building workers (foreground-Pageant, Empire Pool, March 11, 1973). The working class emerged under capitalism, destined to become the gravedigger of capital and the ruling class.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday June 14, 1 Left: Housing conuitions for workers in Glasgov It is entirely appropriate that June 1973 should mark the 250th anniver- sary of the birth of Adam Smith, one of the greatest of all 18th century thinkers and one of the founders of the science of political economy. For Smith, above all in his famous 'Wealth Nations' of (1776), did much to uncover the laws of capitalist economy, those same laws which today tearing it asunder and are provoking world-wide economic and political breakdown. Adam Smith, who was Pro- fessor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, and later travelled widely through- out Europe where he met many Thursday June 14, 1973 r workers in Glasgow, where Smith did much of his work.

of the leading figures of his time, will always be remem- bered as among the first to attumpt a systematic analysis of the emerging capitalist system. This analysis was summed up in his concept of the 'hidden hand'. Capitalism, said Smith, was ruled, not by man's intention, but by the objective laws of the market. The task of political economy was there- fore to uncover these laws and to analyse to what extent they assisted or hindered the pro- duction of wealth. 'It is not from the bene- volence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their self- their regard to interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love... d much of his work. Right: Queen Victoria and representati Here, in a nutshell, is Smith's conception of capitalism as an objective system, obeying de- finite laws. This basically materialist approach to political economy found its reflection in Smith's treatment of the law of value.

He came to the conclusion (though he was by no means consistent) that the exchange value of commodities was determined by the labour-time involved in their production.

A definite law, the law of value, regulated the process of labour under capitalism.

Smith's great advance was that when considering 'labour' he was interested not in the particular (concrete) type of labour involved, but in labour in general (abstract labour). This was no accident. Like all new ideas, this concept of oria and representatives of the parasitic ruling class (on sta abstract labour reflected great social changes taking place in the 18th century. Capitalism was emerging as a new social system, a process seen nowhere more clearly than in Glasgow where Smith did much of his work. The par- ticular labour of pre-industrial capitalism was being smashed production for the up as market, commodity produc- of tion, achieved a position dominance. But Adam Smith will also always be remembered as among the first to investigate properly the relation between productive and unproductive labour. Here again he was deal- directly political ing with questions. In the 'Wealth of Nations' he set himself the task of exposing all those activities ruling class (on stage and screen) in confrontation with London which were parasitic on society —he wished, that is, to identify whose labour all those was unproductive. He showed that only those whose exchanging labour, directly against capital, pro- duces a surplus, were engaged in productive labour. He was thus able to show that whole sections of society Church, Monarchy, -the landed aristocracy, etc. were economic parasites. Like the school of political economy to which he belonged, Smith was showing that all these institu- tions-hangovers from the past -constituted a definite barrier to the expansion of the new capitalist system. It was not surprising that a group of writers, represented Rev Thomas later by the developed theories Malthus, ntation with London building workers (foreground-Pageant, Empi directed against Smith which tried to show that capitalism was impossible and tried also to 'justify' the high spending of the rich aristocracy on the grounds that this spending provided for employment others. Marx condemned Mal- as a 'bought advocate' thus and 'shameless sycophant' of the ruling class. Political economy as a science dealing with the 'wealth of nations' was born in the period of capitalism's early development as a new mode of 50 production which in the years after Smith's death (1790) was to dominate the whole of Britain and soon the world. Because of this, Smith (and later David Ricardo who car- ried forward his work) was able to analyse economic con- ditions in a highly-objective und-Pageant, Empire Pool, March 11, 1973). The workin The rising, powerful manner. and confident capitalist class could afford to look at social and economic relations 'as they really were as they struggled to remove all barriers to the development of capital. • 1840s the 1830s and things had changed radically.

Now the working class had as a powerful, emerged in- creasingly class conscious ranged against capital. Capital- ism, as the 'Communist Mani- festo' said in its famous phrase, had produced 'its own grave- digger'. Now the capitalist class was able no longer to analyse the capitalist system in anything approaching objective an manner. To do so would have to point to its central been contradiction: the conflict be- tween the working class and , 1973). The working class emerged under capitalism, des the capitalist class. After 1830 political economy as a science was destroyed. It was replaced by apologetic 'theories' which attempted to justify capitalism as the best and most rational system and 'harmony' where preached 'conflict' existed, It was left to Marx to take where political econom up and go beyond ad let ot it. He was among the greatest of Adam Smith's admirers, of the although fully aware severe limitations of his work.

His basic weakness was that he had tended, while analysing capitalism, to look upon it as eternal. 'Capital' Marx In proved that this is not the case. Capitalism, like all previous of society (slavery, stages feudalism etc.), was progres- Workers Press, Thursday under capitalism, destined to become the gravedigger of ca sive only for a certain period of its history. After a certain point it would no longer be able to carry forward man's struggle against nature, re- flected in the growth of the productive forces. Capital would become a giant fetter to the expansion of these forces, a fetter which the work- ing class would have to remove in establishing socialism.

Capitalism is now in its greatest-ever crisis. It long since ceased to be in any sense "progressive'; it faces mankind only with the prospect of another world war, fascism and slump. As Adam Smith's method did so much to establish, this 'crisis' is not an 'accident'. It will not go away! It reflects the laws of capitalist develop- ment. kers Press, Thursday June 14, 1973 PAGE 7 ... = he gravedigger of capital and the ruling class.

But the capitalists can neither understand nor control this crisis. Only Marx and the movement he founded can and grasp its real nature implications. Adam Smith's 'hidden hand' is now strangling the entire development of the productive forces, including the working class. This working class, led by the revolutionary party, now has the great historical task of breaking the grip of this hand, of putting an end to the capitalist anarchy which continued existence in- its volves, and establishing an economic which is system consciously regulated for the benefit of humanity. It is in this spirit that, in June 1973, we recall the birth of Adam Smith!

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BOOK REVIEW, PART THREE

BY MICHAEL NOLAN

'The General Strike, May 1926° By Christopher Farman. Rupert Hart-Davis. £3.50. In the 1926 General Strike, with millions of in a fight, and with the trade union and Labour leaders adopting a role of active obstruction and frightened ineflective- ness, the possibilities of building an alternative revolutionary leadership in the working class were opened up. This process did not deve- lop very far, for reasons which Farman only does a little to illuminate. The policy of en- couraging illusions in the 'left wing' of the TUC General Council through the Anglo- Russian Trade Union Commit- tee was the essential perspec- tive which the degenerating Communist International gave to the small group of revolu- tionaries in Britain. It is true that before the strike itself, the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) often secured the formation of councils of action and, in a few cases, of workers' defence corps. However, there was no political perspective given to these organizational successes.

So, as the Party later admit- ted, their slogans were 'essen- tially defensive' and it was only after the General Strike was well under way that they began to call for the national- ization of the coal industry and the resignation of the Tory government. Party members simply acted super-militants doing as nothing to heighten or develop the struggle. As Farman cor- rectly puts it: 'During the period the strike lasted there was no sign of revolutionary initiative.' Thus Page Arnot, who was one of the leading members of the Party not in prison, could be active in the strike organ- ization in the north-east with- out aparently raising at all the political questions that were posed. More important still, the perspectives given to militant trade unionists by the Anglo- Russian Trade Union Commit- tee policy made it impossible for them to put forward any slogans to break the mass of workers from the trade union bureaucracy. Thus it was only at the very end of the strike that the Party called for action independent of the union lead- ers, by trying to secure local and national meetings of strike committees to discuss the con- tinuation of the strike. However, by that time little could be achieved by such gallant action. Despite the rearguard efforts of the local strike committees in the face of the collapse of their leaders and the determination of the that could be done was to en- sure that trade union organ- maintained and ization was that most of their members returned to work on some- thing like the same conditions as before. The importance of a correct understanding of the crucial political questions raised in such an enormous struggle is emphasized in a recent article in the revisionist International Marxist Group's 'Red Weekly' for May 12 1973 and entitled

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'Councils 1926, These inaccuracies and im- Action: written by one Oliver Mac- precisions derive from an eva- Donald. sion of the political struggle This article gives an inaccu- necessary to transform the rate and romanticized account militancy that exis- chorious of what happened, which ted in this situation into a compounded refusal struggle for coower. MacDonald writes at consider the political questions Thus were raised. and a com. length about the local organ- plete failure to refer to the izations of the working class of effectiveness, of the and their but VILd quesuon role Stilinism. For example, a non- speaks of CP policies in 1926 existent Durham Trades Coun- characterized 'wrong as cil is referred to. More signi- understanding uf the political ficantly, Page Arnot, whose problems facing the M10Ve leading role in the strike itself This ment'. statement misses as well as his many subsequent out the problems raised by Stalinism the development of writings on it are of kev 1m- portance, vaguely referred internationally in this period Communist Party manifestation the militant. British labour movement in such forms as the adoption of like All syndicalist slogans Power to the General Council'..

This leads to the false idea that the councils of action were 'embryos of class power' without the need for any poli- tical development. MacDonald does not under- stand that the councils of action rarely saw themselves as independent organs of class and that even when power, workers' defence corps were set up, in nearly all cases they worked closely with the police. He also overstates the 'thou- sands of humiliations' which were heaped on the employers.

In fact, Farman's volume makes it clear that the gov- ernment's emergency arrange- worked well enough ments during the strike. It was pre- cisely the CP's failure to give political perspective to any workers that made it impos- sible for them to confront the power of the capitalist state.

However militant and well- organized the working-class organizations were in this struggle, they could not take by their own action alone the necessary steps on the road to the struggle for power. The failure of "Red Weekly' to raise these vital matters leads on to a very interesting omission. MacDonald quotes extensively from a document presented to the Chopwell Council of Action by Arnot and entitled 'Plan of Campaign' but ignores the opening para- graph, which is worth quoting here full (with original emphasis): 'No time to be spent tonight on discussion of purpose of strike [to aid the miners] or origın or possible ending or national aspect or international aspect. Not concerned for next few days with wider any horizons; concerned only with concentrating on our limited objective' sentences typify the These CP's failure to beyond go militant rank-and-file struggle during the General Strike. The failure to mention them, or to deal with the problems they pose, underscores the whole approach of MacDonald and his mentors in the IMG and the so-called Unified Secreta- riat of the Fourth Interna- tional. This covering up of the role of Stalinism by these people is no mere matter of academic or antiquarian debate. It extends well beyond a harmful view of what happened in 1926 to a refusal to criticize the counter- revolutionary role of the Sta- linist-dominated Liaison Com- mittee for the Defence of Trade Unions in 1973 and an utter evasion of the relations between the Stalinists and the trade union bureaucrats of today. This leads in turn to a com- plete capitulation to any form of militancy, and a refusal to raise the question of political leadership that is as essential understanding of the to an General Strike as much as to a successful prosecution of the class struggle today.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

GLIMPSE AT CHINA'S ECONOMY

CONDENSED HISTORY OF VIETNAM

One section of workers in America watches avidly each day for the twists and turns on the world money markets.

For them the prospect of a further rise in the price of gold has an important and vital meaning. Every day they report to each other the outcome of speculation by the traders of Paris, London and Zurich. They are a relatively small section of workers-but none- theless a vitally important one.

They are miners from the aptly-named town of Lead, South Dakota. Lead is the site of the Homestake Mine-the largest gold mine in the western hemisphere. And over the past few weeks the town's 6,000-strong popu- lation has rejoiced at enormous rise in gold prices.

For the miners of Lead made a union contract last summer directly linked their which wage increases to the price of ... gold. And when gold reached $80 an ounce several weeks ago the miners finally won their long fight for a five-day-week with no loss of pay. When it reached $85 an ounce they won better pension benefits. The final wage increase pro- vided by the contract was to be put into effect when the price of gold averaged $90 an ounce for two months. That point has now been reached.

Local banker, Mr Wallace D. Furze, told newsmen that the people of Lead 'prosper the rest of the country when doesn't and vice versa'. And Mr Furze added: 'Watergate, Skylab-those things just have secondary here; gold is to be our primary interest." The local newspaper has had a front-page story almost every day now for the last four years —on the price of gold. But no one should think that management at the Homestake Mine are a bunch of philan- who were just pant- tropists ing to give their workers wage increases. The mine's manager, Mr Donald T. Delicate, said the officials had anticipated that the gold price would reach $63 an ounce in 1973. When man- agement and union negotiated the wage contract last summer neither side had 'any suspicion' that gold would be selling for an ounce within nine $110 months! Mr Delicate concluded: 'I'm a gold believer. I have this emotional feeling about gold.

I know that money had to be backed up • by something of precious value. If you work in gold all your life, you have to have faith.' A letter in a recent 'New Statesman' Richard from Devonald-Lewis, prospective Tory candidate for Islington Central: 'Sir, Crucifer, admittedly by hearsay, reports a meeting on the subject of immigration I recently organized, and by the same innuendo which he in his so strongly criticizes next article, implies that I should be a member of the National Front. 'Firstly, let us get the facts right. It was not an official Conservative meeting: it was an open meeting organized by London Monday North the Club, of which I am chairman, to which the Press were in- vited. 'It is a pity Crucifer's re- porter did not identify him- self or herself. The audience ranged from the International Socialists to the Natíonal Front" Fancy that! 'The Chinese Economy.' By Jan Deleyne. Andre Deutsch. £2.95.

Little has been written about the Chinese eco- nomy in recent years for the good reason that little information about it has been made available and the flow of visitors was virtually cut of by the "cultural revolution'. This book, published today under a pseudonym by what the cover describes as 'a very distinguished French econo- mist and journalist who has lived in China for many years' is intended to fill the gap.

After a cursory glance at China's economy before 1949, initial it deals with the at industrialization attempts in and collectivization not detail. The first much more Plan (1953-1957) was drawn up with the help of Soviet experts and based on the Stalinist model. In 1958 the Great Leap Forward began, a desperate A Dragon Defiant: A Short His- tory Vietnam. By Joseph Buttinger. David Charles. and $3.25. This condensed history of Vietnam published today was prepared as a course of lectures for American students be- fore the ceasefire and the withdrawal of American troops. It is written by a former member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party who is also the author of a full-length his- tory of the country. He be- lieved that the most likely end to the war was 'a united Viet- nam under some kind of com- munist control'. It is a useful introduction to its people, the country and whose history has to a large extent been a struggle against invaders, first against the Chinese, then against the French and later the American imperialists. Vietnamese society scarcely changed for hundreds of years until the French, whose mis- sionaries been in the had country since the 17th century, set out seriously to conquer it.

They did not finally succeed until General Paul Doumier became Governor-General in 1897. In the following years the French imperialists exploited unmercifully Vietnam as a source of raw materials and established their own adminis- tration. They created a land- lord class to secure their rule, which was contested through- out by repeated risings and then by the foundation of a national liberation movement.

Buttinger is rightly scathing in his criticism of French im- perialism. He shows that it was completely oppressive and even prevented 'the rise of a class property-owning middle of a liberal and pro-capitalist attempt to rush development which almost led to disaster.

There followed the split with the Soviet Union, the with- drawal of the Soviet experts and the end of Soviet econo- mic aid. In the period from 1961- 1966 'readjustment' was the watchword, with the emphasis on agriculture as well as in- dustry. The economy was dis- tinctly limping during these years with 'no sizeable finan- cial investment ... or the creation of large new fac- tories. Little is yet known about the objectives of the Third (1966-1970) or Fourth (1971-1975) Plans or how far they have been attained. Most of the book is descrip- tive of the situation in the 1960s before the 'cultural re- a useful and while it provides.

volution', and concise account it does not add much to what is already • known about the economy in this period. An problem of back- enormous wardness • bore down on the economy, a problem which the Maoists have always ap- proached from the standpoint of 'socialism in one country.

On the other hand, once Soviet-style planning ceased to be the model, a good deal of flexibility was permitted ideo- with special emphasis laid on logical stimulants'. These con- sist of constant campaigns to raise productivity, especially by holding up particular enter- prises and communes as exam- ples. The lessons of their suc- cesses are then drummed home in a relentless manner all over China. This has particularly been the case during and since the 'cultural revolution'. Deleyne French attempts to re-establish the cr outlook', i.e. a national bour- geoisie. He briefly traces the strug- gles of the Vietnamese revolu- tionaries, including the setting up of soviets during the pea- sant insurrection of May 1930.

He mentions only in passing the important Trotskyist move- ment which, in the 1930s, won much support from Saigon workers. The more recent history is better known. The Japanese invaded the country and ex- ploited it with the co-opera- tion of the French colonial authorities. It was in this period that Ho Chi Minh and Giap came to the fore as leaders. The Viet Minh took power in Hanoi after the Jap- anese defeat and Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam an inde- pendent nation on September 2, 1945. The French then embarked on a costly and disastrous re- conquest aimed to re-establish Workers Press, Thu treats the latter in a sympa- thetic manner. He sees it as an attempt to accomplish an intellectual and moral reform- ation' and reaffirm the prin- ciples of genuine socialism'.

methods to conquer Chinese backwardness or even to set it on a path of continuous growth. It aimed to substitute ideological for material incen- tives, to harness the enthusi- asm of the masses and end the domination of members of the • ed Pre-revolutionary middle class economic and intellectual life. Deleyne claims that the 'cul- tural revolution' did not do as much harm to production as had been expected. There was, however, a check to industrial production and to loreign trade while it reached its heights. Since it ended produc- tivity has increased and there has been an improvement in the standard of living. It must be said that his account of the 'cultural revo- lution' is very uncritical and does not seem to be based on instead any personal contact; it refers to unidentited 'observers'. seems happened is What it that the Maoists made a prag- matic compromise with China's backwardness once those who hewed too closely to the old Soviet model had been re- . empha- moved. It has to be sized that China is still back- ward and investment and mili- tary outlays make a big de- mand on limited resources.

On the other hand it is cer- tainly true that that revolu- tionary overthrow of the old ruling class of landowners and sh the colonial regime collapsed after defeat the colonial regime. It ended in ignominy after the defeat at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954.

Buttinger emphasizes that the French action was not aimed only at the Viet Minh, but was naked colonial aggres- sion. Ho Chi Minh tried to make a deal with the French and agreed to the stationing of French troops in the north.

When French troops re- entered Hanoi there were Communist Party members in government in Paris (a the point Buttinger omits), as there were when the French Admiral High Commissioner, Thierry d'Argenlieu, de- the agreement and nounced began the reconquest. To the very last, however, Ho Chi Minh sought an agree- ment with France. Once the war began it became a popular struggle against the colonial The Geneva agree- oppressor. ment of 1954 created the two Vietnams, establishing the Press, Thursday Juno 14, 1973 PAGE 9 comprador capitalists and the establishment of a planned and nationalized economy had en- abled much better results to be achieved than in comparable countries, such as India, which have remained capitalist.

Moreover, it has been pos- sible to provide a large and still rapidly growing popula- tion with an adequate supply of food and clothing. Although China is a poor country there is no longer the mass poverty, disease, ignorance and wretch- edness to be found in other underdeveloped countries.

Chinese development is limited by the Stalinist policy of 'socialism in one country' and by the bureaucratic distor- tions to which it has led and which have reasserted them- despite the 'cultural selves revolution'. The developments since this book was first published in the Maoists French show abandoning all pretence at spreading the revolution in Asia and seeking an accommo- impe- dation with American rialism and the other capitalist countries. There has also been the as unexplained attempt by yet Lin Piao • to assassinate Mao and seize power. More gen- erally, the prevailing con- ditions of penury, despite the continuous exhortations of the generate capi- permanently satisfy the masses.

This book provides an intro- duction to China's economic problems which is readable and avoids jargon. But it can do no more than whet the appetite for a more detailed and thorough study. er defeat at Dien Bien Phu, 1954.

Saigon regime first under Bao Dai, then under Ngo Dinh Diem who was overthrown and murdered in an American- backed coup on November 1, 1963. This opened the way for a new stage in US intervention, going back to 1954, which is catalogued in the greatest de- tail in Pentagon Papers As Buttinger admits, this is source for the final his main chapter. In any case, the usefulness of Buttinger's book lies not in what he says about the Amer- ican attempt to conquer Viet- nam, about which much has written, but in the his- been torical and other background information which he skilfully puts together. But a book which crams so much • into barely 120 pages introduction, only be an can •and readers wanting more in- formation will have to follow up the bibliography.

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Force a Labour government to carry out socialist policies'.

CROYDON: Thursday June 14, 8 Coombe p.m. Ruskin House, Road. 'Force the Tories to resign'. p.m. 'Three Horse Shoes', Street. 'Labour to power, pledged to socialist policies of national- ization of land and property'.

LUTON: Thursday June 14, 8 p.m. Recreation Centre, Old Bed- 'Stalinism and the ford Road. struggle to defend democratic rights'. SHEFFIELD: Thursday June 14, 'The Hallamshire' 7.30 p.m. West Street. 'End taiks with the Tories' WILLESDEN: Thursday June 14, 8 p.m. Brent Labour and Trades Hall, High Road, N.W.10. 'Force Tory government to resign.

the TONBRIDGE: Thursday June 14, The Foresters', Quarry 8 p.m. Hill. 'Full support for the Belle Vue ATUA conference.' CENTRAL LONDON: Sunday June 17, 7.15 p.m. Holborn Coun- Holborn Town cil Chambers, 'The Hall, 197 High Holborn. case for one big entertainment union Chairman Roy Battersby and a panel of speakers from the relevant unions. ACTON: Monday June 18, 8 p.m.

'Six Bells', , High Street, W.3. revolutionary 'Build the party. Defend democratic rights'.

British Rall manager Mike Nev group Interviewed for Horizon's 'Do We Really on BBC 2. ANGLIA: 9.30 London. 12.04 News. Let's face 12.05 London. 2.30 it. 4.25 3.00 London. Romper room. 5.50 Lon- 4.50 Houndcats. 5.20 Lucy.

Anglia. 6.20 Arena. don. 6.00 About "The 7.00 Film: Love bar. 8.30 London. 9.00 Longstreet. War'. 8.30 10.00 London. 12.00 Epilogue.

ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London.

12.00 Women. Guide. 12.05 London. 2.30 5.20 3.00 London. 4.25 Lost in space.

5.50 London. 6.00 To- Elephant boy. 6.35 London. 7.00 Cartoon.

7.05 day. 9.00 Streets Banacek. 8.30 London. Francisco. 10.00 London. ot San News.

ULSTER: 11.00

London. 1.33 Schools. 2.40 Romper 1.40 room. 3.00 London. 4.25 News. 4.27 Pri- mus. 4.50 Joe 90. 5.20 General hos- pital. 5.50 London. 6.00 Uv news. 7.00 6.10 Doris Day. 6.35 London. Lon- Film: 'Saturday Island'. 8.30 London. don. 9.00

FBI.

10.00 4.25

YORKSHIRE:

9.30 London. Doris Skippy s.50 4.50 Houndcats. 5.20 Day. London. 6.00 Calendar. Weystery Street: -8.30, London.

Film: 9.00 Longstreet. 10.00 London. 12.00 There are ghosts everywhere. 12.30 Weather. Contents include: Ceylon: The Centrism of Bala Tampoe By a Ceylon correspondent April Dictatorship: The Tasks of the Greek Trotskyists Resolution of the 5th Congress of the Workers International League

UNIONS ALLIANCI

1, 8 LEWISHAM: Monday June 18, 8 HA nity p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, New Cross Road. 'TUC must nal- Tories to nationalize government Road. ment 8 p.m. Training Control Room. sign. socialist ment major indus- must tries' 7.30 p.m. Street, Textile Hall. der 20, 7.30 arty. Forward to people one of the Mike Newman We Really Need the Railways' at 9.25 GRANADA: 9.30 London. 4.20 Ele- 4.55 Houndcats. 5.15 nhant boy. 5.20 Crossroads. Nature's window. 5.50 London. 6.00 News. Put it in 6.30 Partridge family. 7.00 Filmns The Spoilers'. 8.30 London. Film: Hawk. 10.00 London. 9.00 TYNE TEES: 9.25 Forgetting and 9.30 London. 2.30 remembering Let's face it. 3.00 Lon- News. 2.31. 4.25 Rovers. 4.50 Stingray. 5.20 don. F troop. 5.50 London. 6.00 Today. 7.00 Film: •Mystery 6.35 Street'• 10.00 London. 9.00 Long- 8.30 11.30 News. street. 11.45 Police call• Greatest fights of 11.50 Man who 12.20 never was. the century. 12.35 Lectern.

Sice 3.50 London. 4.25 Land of te line. 3.00 London. 5.50 Lon- 5.25 Cossads Flim giants. 6. "Dawnday. 8.30 6.30 •The don. Dawn'. London. Seventh 9.00 Department S. 10.00 London. 12.00 Late call. CRAMPIAN: 10.58 Londol• News.

1.38 Schools. Cartoon. 3.00 London. 5.20 General hospital.

5.50 London. 6.Condows 700 6.05 Try 6.35 London. • Film: for ten. 'Odongo'. 8.30 London. 9.00 Per- suaders. 9.55 Police news. 10.00 London. 12.00 Meditation.

Several translations of articles from the German Trotskyist newspaper Der Funke lent Italy's New Fascists By Stephen Johns

LENIN AND TROTSKY WRITING

ON EUROPE

and six International Committee statements

ANCE MEETINGS

, 8 HACKNEY: Wednesday June 20, 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Central ust Hall, Mare Street. "Labour must nationalize major industries' LIVERPOOL: Wednesday, June 'Defend democratic rights! For- to the ATUA conference!' SWINDON: Wednesday June 20, Hall, East 7.30 p.m. Co-op Street. 'Down with the pay laws. lize TUC must break off Phase Three talks.' CORBY: Thursday, Corby Candle' 8 p.m. 'Force the Tories to Resign.'

FULHAM: Thursday June 21, 8 p.m. 'The Swan', , Fulham Broad- way. 'Trade unions and the Tory government. GOOLE: Thursday, June 21, 8 The Station Revolutionary Party and the Fight against the Tories'. HOLLOWAY: Thursday June 21, ries capitalism'. KINGSTON: Thursday June 21, 8 p.m. Norbiton Hotel, Clifton Road.

'Force the Tories to resign. nationalize the Labour must major industries'. out.' LEEDS: Thursday June 21, 8 p.m. Peel Hotel, Boar Lane.

Defence of Trade Unions and Hall. democratic rights. Forward to the ATUA conference.' Speaker: Cliff Slaughter.

"Tories must be ready to deflate' suggestion in report Bank of England is worried by inflation and parity crisis

BY JACK GALE

THE

ABSOLUTE

im- passe of the British capi- talist economy and the searing effects of the in- ternational currency cri- ses are vividly revealed in this week's Bank of Eng- land Quarterly Bulletin. Antidote The Bulletin stresses that a floating rate is not a panacea for British capital- ism. It provides no simple antidote to a deficit in the balance of payments current account, the Bank says. The immediate effects of the depreciation of the cur- rency are to worsen the bal- ance of payments through the terms of trade and to increase inflationary expectations.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

given by Peter Jeffries Sunday June 17 Marxism and the study of history Sunday June 24 Trade Unions and political struggle in Britain Sunday July 8 Chartism, yesterday and today Sunday July 15 The Revolutionary Party and the British working class at Stanley Halls . Upper Parliament Street 3 p.m.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Given by Gerry Healy National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Sunday June 17 The materialist conception of History Sunday June 24 Dialectical Materialism-a Marxist theory of knowledge Sunday July 8 Theory and Practise of Marxism Sunday July 15 Role of the Revolutionary Party at The Red Lion Worsborough Near Barnsley 7.30 p.m. But the previous system, the Bulletin concludes, was even vulnerable crises of to more confidencel The February-April quarter was hit by two related crises —one over the fate of the dollar and the other over the currency parities established at the Smith- sonian conference in Washing- ton in December, 1971. This centred on the introduc- tion by the Italians of a two- tier exchange system of rates in January (which • led to the of the Swiss floating franc; the publication of a US trade $6 billion; and deficit of ovér the continued rapid rise domestic prices in the United of States. The result was massive sales of the dollar, despite enormous the West German efforts by authorities to deter capital in- flows.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Manchester given by Peter Jeffries Sunday June 17 Marxism and the study of history Sunday June 24 Trade Unions and political struggle in Britain Sunday July 8 Chartism, yesterday and today Sunday July 15 The Revolutionary Party and the British working class at Black Lion Blackfriars St/Chapel St near Salford Bus Station 7.30 p.m.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE

Leicester lectures given by Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) The Socialist Revolution In Britain: 1. Political tasks facing the British working class. Marxism and the revolutionary role of the working class. Lessons. of of the working the history class in Britain. 2. The roots of capitalist crisis: Marxism ind the con- tradictions of capitalism. Britain and the world crisis.

3. The state and revolution.

Reformism and revolution in Britain. The fight for demo- cratic rights today means preparing for working-class power. Basic reading: Perspectives for transforming the SLL into a revolutionary party. Marxist Analysis of the Crisis.

Problems the British Revolution (Trotsky). Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International, Communist Manifesto. Sunday June 17, 24, July 8 Stockingfarm Community Centre, Stockingfarm 7.30 p.m. No measures that the capital- ists could take were capable of removing deep-rooted doubts about the durability of their ex- change structure - because this reflected the lack of any basis in value of their paper cur- rencies ever since August 15, 1971, when Nixon took the dollar off gold. By the end of April every major currency in the world except sterling, was substan- against the US tially revalued dollar — and sterling, of course, has since taken the same road.

Gold This absence of confidence in paper currency lay behind the continuing astronomical rise in which only the price of gold, two years ago was less than $40 an ounce. In thed intatie has domi- un- controlled infiation has nated. Commodity import prices have been rising strongly since mid-1972, and particularly SO during the first quarter of this year. Manufacturing wholesale pri- ces went up nearly 10 per cent October-December and further 6 per cent in January- of this, April. Almost all Bank of England's Bulletin out, has yet to pass points through to retail prices.

During what it admits was a period of 'rapid rise in commo- dity prices', the Bulletin states OVER 2,000 engineers who have been occupying their factory for 13 weeks in Eccles will hold a key meeting tomorrow follow- ing talks between union officials and employers. The men-who work for L. Gardner and Sons, the diesel engine manufacturers-will hear proposals from local Amalgam- A 'MINI-WATERGATE' investi- gation was necessary to speed up inquiries into the Poulson case, Liberal MP Mr John Pardoe said yesterday. 'The same techniques of the investigation should Watergate be applied to this kind of issue.'

Pardoe said he was worried Workers Press, Thurs 'excessive that claims wage were being successfully resisted'.

Workers Press along, prices have soared while wages have been held down by the state.

Britain's exter- Despite this, nal trade deficit reached a new peak in March and, although this was said to be 'exceptional', the Bank's Bulletin reports that worsening terms of trade are still pronounced and that the benefits' 'expected of sterling depreciation last June had 'scar- cely begun to be felt. Meanwhile the deficit on the current account Britain's of balance-of-payments which em- erged in the second half of 1972 grew further in the first quarter of 1973. The visible trade deficit in- creased, after seasonal adjust- ment, from some £230m in the fourth quarter to about £350m. As there was a fall in the sur- invisible accounts on as well, the deficit on the current account widened from under £50m to some £200m. While exports at current prices went up 13.5 per cent above the average for the second half of 1972, imports went up 16 per cent. And the terms of trade, which had already become markedly less favourable to British capi- talism during the latter part of 1972 as sterling depreciated against other currencies wor- sened further. Import prices rose on average by about 10 per cent over the

IRE EI

ated Union of Engineering Workers officials on their dis- pute. Shop stewards yesterday kept the nature of the proposals a strict secret. 'We can say nothing at this The situation svery stage. delicate, said convener Eddie Ankers. 'The meeting will be for silence which is hampering the reported wall about Fraud Squad inquiries. The issue was not as impor- tant as Watergate because it did not involve central government.

But he believed that the Estab- lishment and the Press had not delved enough. 88, Thursday June 14, 1973 PAGE 11 quarter, compared with an aver- age increase of about 5 per cent per quarter over the previous six months. The average increase in ex- port prices, on the other hand, was only some 3 per cent-much the same as in the earlier period.

And, although exports have grown, the problem of lack of investment is still not overcome.

The Bulletin reports that de- mand has strengthened since the previous quarter-but the volume of manufacturing invest- ment then was the smallest for five years. Inflation And it points out, too, that the improvement in industrial investment has 'more to been replace machinery than to in- crease output'. The main problem, however, remains inflation and the Bank warns that the government must be ready 'at any time' to take 'prompt action to bring the rate of growth back to a sustainable level'. So the fundamental crisis con- tinues to grow. No solution has been found for currency stabi- lity, inflation, the balance-of- payments problem or investment doubts. Only by the most ruthless attack on working-class rights and conditions can the ruling class hope to prolong the life of their system. all workers but not for the scabs who have been working during the dispute,' he said. picket outside Gard- A mass ner's involving other factories in the Manchester area was postponed yesterday because of the mass meeting. Some workers said they were angry that the result of the negotiations were being kept secret. The dispute began when management attempted to Intro- duce a bonus system. Workers suspended piecework which is their right under the Manchester piece agreement, but manage- ment retaliated by laying men off.

All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights

BELLE VUER

Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Thursday June 14, 1973 for themselves to blame CHRYSLER will have only what may happen next in their six UK plants, Linwood, Scotland, AUEW convenor Mr John Carty said after a of combine shop stewards two-and-half hour meeting at Coventry yesterday. He said in a statement:

FROM IAN YEATS

IN COVENTRY

"This meeting combine the to urges company immediately into enter with the negotiations Ryton trade unions. 'The attitude of the com- pany can only lead to irre- parable damage to itself and its employees.' to Coventry Labour MP Mr Huckfield Leslie added: 'Chrysler provoking are deliberate confrontation with the union? Over 4,500 at the men Ryton factory have been on strike for three weeks over the management's refusal to give them lay-off pay. 4,000 At 9 a.m. yesterday, workers at Chrysler's Stoke, Coventry, plant pledged not components and to handle material connected Ryton factory and • op ste- wards say the enti. he laid # force could the weekend. No definite pru, als were put to the 31 sl > ste- wards at yesterday's meeting

T&GWU

headquarters, at but Ryton leaders sair *ter- wards they were ery happy' with the outcome. The Ryton men are bas- ing their strategy on forcing Chrysler to lay off men at Stoke and Linwood at a cost of up to £500,000 per week.

Yesterday's meeting as- of the combine sured them they need to beat support France and Spain, Mr Wild back the management offen- 'This has not escaped said: at Ryton. sive Stoke

AUEW

our attention. convenor, Chrysler's A week Mr Ray Wild, said: 'We ago director Gibert Chrysler's attitude managing view Hunt threatened to halt in- with extreme alarm and one the UK far- vestment in unless which could have Ryton men returned to reaching consequences. the behind 'We can it a work. see Wild described ma- Mr possible attempt to bring in chinery at the Stoke factory the American concept 'Victorian' and he Measured-Day Work. as claimed there was no indi- whether he Asked cation of new investment. thought Chrysler might be to provoke trouble He claimed Chrysler's trying Britain order to in- action was in opposition to in in trade crease their investments in union practices. WORKERS at the Peter- there was a restriction which borough diesel engine factories amount of money under be offered the laws, of Perkins Limited yesterday said. accused the company of lock- But what the workers want ing them out in a bid to break had and the company their fight for parity. refused ently was an The 5,700 workers want a that there would be firm in that commitment principle gress towards parity when there will be situation permitted. move towards with the Ilth-hour clim parity of earnings Barring an Massey Ferguson tractor plant at down by the company, Coventry, which is part of the worker expected was 10.30 p.m. la same group. the factory at at the Peterborough Earnings night. 'actories, which are on Measured- Eighty per cent of Perkir £20 exported, Day Work, are at present but engines are at Coventry. behind those is almost shut-down certain Massey Ferguson has just tem- have a rapid effect on produ Massey's Coventry al porarily withdrawn an attempt to tion at Kilmarnock plants. Coventry

MDW

the impose at No further meetings betwe factory. At a mass meeting yesterday the company and the union scheduled, stewards and no more morning shop con- meetings were arranged yeste demned the company's decision to close down all production day morning. at because the Peterborough of overtime ban workers have been operating for the past ten weeks.

All Trades Unic wanted the The company shutdown. But yesterday's mass meeting endorsed a decision engineering union's district the that Perkins' action committee must be considered a lock-out.

Teff Cain Deputy convenor told Workers Press the com- taken the line it had pany had attempt to force the joint in an stewards' committee to shop accept its offer of f2, within the Tory pay laws. ceiling of the stewards accepted that The the Kings Hall: Registered as newspaper at Workers Post Office, Published by Clapham High Street, i86a Prece Special showing of t London pS SW4 71C. Dointod Ltd. (TU), 180b Plough ham High Street, London. Newsdesk: 01-720 2000. Circulation: 7029. 01-622 The latest dispute took place against a background of a general tightening up of efficiency throughout the combine. Mr Carty added: 'We can- not understand the attitude of this company. They seem to want to put themselves out of business. 'All we are asking them to do is to sit round a table with the Ryton stewards.'

Chrysler has said nego- tiations cannot be opened until the men return to work.

JUNE FUNI

£268.33 ion on the vhich could WE ARE now very conc le laws, he for our June Fund. Day slipping by and the respoi cers wanted much too slow. We rely e on you to help us reac ad consist- 1 indication target of £1,750. Let's all g • firm pro- action right away. the As thousands of workel involved in battle come lour climb- Chrysler's, Ford's, Perkins ny, the last other factories throughou to leave country only Workers Pres 0 p.m. last provide them with a political lead. of Perkins' More than ever we ne d, but the expand circulation our certain to reach out into more on produc- So don't waste another ventry and ent. Post all donations il lately to: gs between Workers Press June Appeal e union are 186a Clapham High Stri more mass London SW4 7UG ged yester- s Unions Alliance Conferei Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: ing of the Pageant film 'THE ROA Tickets £1: Available from R. Sm THE CONTINUATION of talks at Downing Street yesterday marked yet another effort by the TUC lead ers to help the Tory government out of its political and economic crisis. The fact that the trade union bureaucrats are finding it more difficult to sell out the interests of the working class by signing a corporatist Phase Three deal to continue the state control of wages is due solely to the enormous determination of workers at Chrysler's and elsewhere be made the scape- not to diffi- for capitalism's qual culties. The resistance to the Tory offensive government's against workers' basic rights and dard of living nothing all to Victor Feather, Jack Jones Hugh scanion. who have along shown their willingness to saconce workins-class in secret cabals at Chequers and 10 Downing Street. The belated and half-hearted on

CONLOS

and free collective pensions, talked bargaining Deme Jack Jones and company entirely conditioned by the crisis of bureaucracy and of the ruling class to de- failure decisively section feat major of the working class. Tones' of warning growing non-co-operation in to and passive resistance 1es government policies was not Heath, but the threat fears to of a worried man. Transport The and General Workers' Union leadership has had reverses recently some docks to its policy of allowing dockers into breach National ports In ot the Dock Labour Scheme. Jones' crisis is caused by that the

TUC

Crows awareless Heath has nothing to deliver to will the working class because not tolerate having its own con- ditions without the worsened most enormous fight. At the same time, the critical position of Britain's economy can offer the Tories means 110 worthwhile concessions what- WORKERS at a Manchester electrical instru- ment factory decided to black work yesterday soever. in support of staff who are demanding equal Any talk of exchanging Indus- trial Act amendments Relations Daly. for TUC agreement to the pay But at a mass meeting, AUEW members at laws is a total fraud: Eccles, Salford Electrical Instruments of the

GEC

down a These talks must now be combine, turned

DIO-

off and the posal 'not to cross staff picket lines.

broken for good If the decision is carried out, fight taken by the trade up be free production in the plant will leaders

…LLO

reSTOre hit. The dispue effects collective bargaining and the

FUND

severel SEI's Heywood factory independence trade strikers The women want pay increases of £3.70 as a step to- wards equal pay.

THE 80

plant attendants on They have mounted a very concerned British-Leyland's strike determined 24-hour picket. Days are at Ox- Cowley assembly plant Trouble flared again yesterday the response is ford yesterday overwhelmingly workers prevented a food We rely entirely When company's latest reiected the from leaving the plant reach our van offer. driver had almost run Let's all go into

•THAT THA

The men, who switch pro- down a woman picket. duction lines on and off, the staff workers be Strike-breakers want to be upgraded as crafts- side have also been aiming their battles at men. The company offer was cars at the picket line. Perkins' and their 2p an the throughout • Management at GEC Turbine semi-skilled rate, at the date kers Press can Generators, yesterday next pay clear, completely conceded to the view, plus union manage- claim for equal pay put forward ment investigation of whether we need to white-collar union

APEX.

to pay another 2p. by and Keith Standring, APEX districts. The strikers will meet again told Workers tive secreta dEc another Wednesday. Meanwhile mom- next "The decision Press: immed- factory remains the Cocat victory for the solidarity of men the management preferring alongside and women fighting all 12,000 ne Appeal Fund to lay off workers each other on the issue of equal than the 80 1 High Street rather meet pay. It also shows the SEI man- strikers' demands. well out of step agement to be with current thinking.' nference: To discuss defence of democratic rights Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

HE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history om R. Smith, 60 Wellington Street West, Salford 7, Manchester.