Workers Press no. 1107

workers press We salute the victorious Chrysler workers

REAL VOICE OF THE

WORKING CLASS

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

BELLE VUE

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

Special showing of the Pageant film THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWER' and songs and scenes from history

BY A WORKERS PRESS RE

FOUR WEEKS ago the Chrysl out to break and intimidate the class. They have failed miseral strength of the working class strated. DEPUTY Labour Party leader Edward Short has forecast a General Election in the autumn, Speaking at Halifax he said: It is now highly unlikely that the boom can be kept going until next spring-let alone the autumn of 1974. In these circumstances there is a real likelihood of an election in the autumn of this year probably in the midst of Royal euphoria - and before wedding massive price the further in- creases which are coming along.

Labour Party throughout The Britain should prepare itself now for this possibility. He said premier Edward Heath borrowing £4,500m to was balance the budget-'the greatest internal deficit Britain has ever had in peace or war, and our deficit with the rest of the world will be at least £1,000m.

He is trying to pull the oldest the book-a election trick massive pre-election boom, just as the Tories tried to do in 1963 and 1964.

NAKED GREED

*Capitalism is today more ruthless, savage and selfish than in the dark days of the Indus- trial Revolution. Its motivation today is naked greed = the acquisition and accumulation of utterly unearned wealth on a reduced trade scale which union wage claims to peanuts.'

As far as it goes, what Short says is correct. But he doesn't say that it was he, along with 68 other pro-Marketeers, who the Tories on Oc- voted with tober 28, 1971, to keep them in office. Not once has Short called for a fight to force the Tories out of office. Indeed he is on the record as criticizing the miners' strike and the dockers who fought for the release of the Pentonville Five.

INCORPORATING THE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CEN

PRESS REPORTER

: Chrysler management set date the Coventry working miserably. Once more the ig class has been demon- While the basis of to- day's return-to-work has not cleared up all the questions, the 1 men can justifiably say that Chrys- ler's have been forced to back down on their most punitive demands. Workers Press salutes the workers who fought this reactionary management so determinedly. determination This same is very much in evidence in the Perkins Diesels dispute, Peterborough. During the building wor- kers' strike last year Tory MPs and their Fleet Street Press howled about 'flying so-called 'in- pickets' and timidation'. Yet during their weekend Home Secretary speeches, Robert Carr, Sir Geoffrey Howe other Tory and Ministers did not utter a word about Chrysler's hiring of picket-busters for a commando-like raid on the Stoke engine plant. While there will be a full return to work by tomorrow, the battle on the major issues goes on. The cost of living con- tinues to skyrocket at an uncontrolled rate. Food prices have risen • 10 per cent since the start of the state pay laws last November and a staggering 36.5 per cent since the All Trades Unions Kings Hall: Be Special showing of the TING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY JUNE 25, 1973 • No 1107 • 4p

HE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LE/

Tories took office three years take on the government and its state pay laws and win.

ago. When the AUEW dele- With the standard of say they don't want gates living of millions of workers Scanlon the

TUC

being cruelly eroded by price and to continue collaborating with increases, the TUC prepares Heath, they are clearly say- for a fresh round of talks to that fight must Three ing a implement Phase of waged against the corporatist this vicious wages policy.

lawmakers-the Tory govern- The Tories can't disguise ment. and their dismay disgust We absolutely with the AUEW conference are con- vinced under stop Hugh that revolu- instruction to Scanlon from going to 10 tionary leadership the work- ing class can defeat capitalism Downing Street. and take power.

RESOLUTIONS

That is why next Sunday's national conference at Belle Transport and At the Vue, Manchester, called by General Workers' Union the All Trades Unions weeks' conference in two vitally im- Alliance is so time there are no less than portant. telling seven resolutions All factories and trade Jones he has to stop Jack should im- union branches collaborating too. mediately elect delegates to If the Chrysler strikers can attend this conference. defeat their management, • Forward to Belle Vue! they have the capacity to Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defen all: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday , of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' an TICKETS £1: Still available from 186a, Clapham High Street, London, Coaches will be leaving from all areas and trains from London, Portsmout Swindon, Reading and Oxford.

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NO Dopt. Gover Artists' union marchers THE NEWLY-FORMED Artists' Union staged a march and demonstration from Hyde Park to Imperial College, Kensington, on Saturday. The focal point of their present campaign is against the Tory plans to axe the number of part-time art lecturers and to introduce two 'A' level qualifications for college entrants. The union, which is shortly to affi- liate to the Technical And Supervisory Staff (TASS) of the AUEW, is planning to organize a series of 'disruptions' to pre- vent the implementation of the Tory recom- mendations. defence of democratic rights nday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

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workers press We salute the victorious Chrysler workers

REAL VOICE OF THE

WORKING CLASS

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

BELLE VUE

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

Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history

BY A WORKERS PRESS RE

FOUR WEEKS ago the Chrysl out to break and intimidate the class. They have failed miseral strength of the working class strated. DEPUTY Labour Party leader Edward Short has forecast a General Election in the autumn.

Speaking at Halifax he said: 'It is now highly unlikely that the boom can be kept going until next spring-let alone the autumn of 1974. 'In these circumstances there is a real likelihood of an election in the autumn of this year- probably in the midst of Royal euphoria — and before wedding price in- further massive creases which are coming along.

Labour Party throughout The Britain should prepare itself now for this possibility.' He said premier Edward Heath borrowing £4,500m to was balance the budget-'the greatest internal deficit Britain has ever had in peace or war, and our deficit with the rest of the world will be at least £1,000m.

'He is trying to pull the oldest election trick in the book—a massive pre-election boom, just as the Tories tried to do in 1963 and 1964.

NAKED GREED

'Capitalism is today more, ruthless, savage and selfish than in the dark days of the Indus- trial Revolution. Its motivation greed the is naked today acquisition and accumulation of utterly unearned wealth on reduced trade scale which union wage claims to peanuts.'

As far as it goes, what Short says is correct. But he doesn't say that it was he, along with 68 other pro-Marketeers, who the Tories on Oc- voted with tober 28, 1971, to keep them in office. Not once has Short called for a fight to force the Tories out he is on the of office. Indeed record as criticizing the miners' strike and the dockers who fought for the release of the Pentonville Five.

INCORPORATING THE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CEN

PRESS REPORTER

• Chrysler management set date the Coventry working miserably. Once more the ig class has been demon- While the basis of to- day's return-to-work has not cleared up all the questions, the men can justifiably say that Chrys- ler's have been forced to back down on their most punitive demands. Workers Press salutes the workers who fought this reactionary management so determinedly. This same determination is very much in evidence in the Perkins Diesels dispute, Peterborough. During the building wor- kers' strike last year Tory MPs and their Fleet Street Press howled about 'flying pickets' and so-called 'in- timidation'. Yet during their weekend Home Secretary speeches, Robert Carr, Sir Geoffrey other Howe i Ministers did not utter word about Chrysler's hiring picket-busters commando-like raid on the Stoke engine plant. While there will be a full return to work by tomorrow, the battle on the major issues goes on. The cost of living con- tinues to skyrocket at an uncontrolled rate. Food prices have risen per cent since the start of the state pay laws last November and a staggering since per cent All Trades Unions Kings Hall: B Special showing of the ATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY JUNE 25, 1973 • No 1107 • 4p

HE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEI

Tories took office three years take on the government and state pay laws and win. its ago.

AUEW

When dele- With the standard • of they don't want gates say living of millions of workers Scanlon and the

TUC

to being cruelly éroded by price continue collaborating with the TUC increases, prepares Heath, they are clearly say- for a fresh round of talks to ing that fight must be Three a implement Phase of waged against the corporatist this vicious wages policy.

lawmakers—-the Tory govern- The Tories can't disguise ment. and their dismay disgust We absolutely the AUEW conference are with vinced that under revolu- Hugh instruction "to stop tionary leadership the work- 10 Scanlon from going to ing class can defeat capitalism Downing Street. and take power.

RESOLUTIONS

That is why next Sunday's national conference at Belle and Vue, Manchester, called by General Workers' the All Trades Unions in two weeks' conference Alliance is so vitally im- time there are no less than portant. telling resolutions seven All factories and trade Tack Jones he has to stop union branches should im- collaborating too. mediately elect delegates to If the Chrysler strikers can attend this conference. defeat their management, • Forward to Belle Vue! they have the capacity to lall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester—Sunday • of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' an TICKETS £1: Still available from 186a, Clapham High Street, London, Coaches will be leaving from all areas and trains from London, Portsmout Swindon, Reading and Oxford.

BOOK NOW. Or telephone for details: 01-622 7029.

OUR LEAGUE

SAVE THE

-FOUNDATION

COURSES

'TECH

10

DU ATO

Gover clear. Artists' union marchers THE NEWLY-FORMED Artists' Union staged a march and demonstration from Hyde Park to Imperial College, Kensington, on Saturday. The focal point of their present campaign is against the Tory plans to axe the number of part-time art lecturers and to introduce two 'A' level qualifications for college entrants. The union, which is shortly to affi- Ilate to the Technical And Supervisory Staff (TASS) of the AUEW, is planning to organize a series of 'disruptions' to pre- vent the implementation of the Tory recom- mendations. defence of democratic rights nday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

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- Police protect French Secret Hong Kong inquiry into 'missing' police superintendent PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday June 25, 1973 A DEFENCE committee of friends and relatives of the Stoke Newington Eight have launched a campaign for the immediate re- lease of Hilary Creek who is seriously ill in Holloway. She is reported to have lost some 30 lb weight due to a nervous illness known as anorexia nervosa.

A friend who visited her recently reported to the defence committee: 'She looks terrible. If she continues the situation could to refuse to eat become fatal.' Hilary's mother yesterday visited Holloway and then had talks with the prison authorities. A meet- ing of the committee later laid plans for a special the Home Office to pet itpone sm seek her release. Workers Press: 'Hilary's told spokesman con- dition cannot be treated behind that it is such bars. If she is to get better she must be released.

Even the medical advisers make this point.'

Miss Creek, Miss Anna Mendelson, James Green- field and John Barker were jailed for ten years on charges of conspiracy to cause explosions. Last their appeals were turned down by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Widgery and two other High Court judges.

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

JOAQUIN GOROSTIDI and Francisco Larena, who were sentenced to death in the trial of the Burgos Six in December 1970 and reprieved as a result of international protests, are now seriously ill in prison.

The two are both members of the ETA, the Basque under- ground army which has been target of fascist a particular Though they were repression. reprieved after weeks in the death cell, they are now serv- ing 30 years' imprisonment. They have been transferred to the Carthagena prison from Soria prison, where with other political prisoners they have been on hunger strike for over Larena (I.) and Gorostidi.

three weeks. Weakened by beaten thee treatment of these prisoners. He they have been savagely beaten took decision to impose 40 the prison guards. Their condition is days' solitary confinement on all the hunger-strikers. so serious that the governor of Carthagena jail has refused to The families of the prisoners take any responsibility for their have expressed serious concern physical condition. about the fate of Gorostidi and Larena and have called for inter- When he arrived at Carthagena Gorostidi's leg was in plaster as national protests. a result of the beatings he had • In tomorrow's Workers Press Soria prison. received in we featuring are letter from Lawyers acting for the prisoners Soria Prison which details the have named José Manuel Fuente savage of torture and as the prison officer chiefly res- repression in the jails of Spanish ponsible for the ill- fascism. savage WORKERS at the Authi motor factory in Pamplona, Spain, vhich is part-owne by British-Leylanc , go back to work today after being 200 workers sacked at the Motor locked out by the manage- Iberica plant in the city.

The dispute has been not ment. settled and the General Strike 1,700 of the 1,800 About has spread to other parts of the workers locked out were on province of Navarre. There have Friday after about 100 had tried been major walk-outs in the to cross picket lines ortside the towns of Tudela and Irun.

There fighting factory. was be- The strike in Navarre the the pickets and riot police tween IS break first big face the brought in to the strike. test to new With most of other fac- Prime Minister Admiral Luis the the Carrerro Blanco, who was tories in Pamplona and in this month surrounding area, appointed earlier by Authi was on General Franco. strike all last week in support of THE HONG KONG colonial has begun hearings behind closed doors following his appointment administration has set up a one- by the Governor-in-Council. Chief Superintendent Godber into the was last man secret inquiry country reported staying in his disappearance of a police chief Rye, Sussex. cottage in superintendent wanted in con- He disappeared from the island early this month after being with alleged corruption. nection served with notice informing a him of plans Judge Sir Alistair Blair-Kerr to prosecute him

* FOR

DEMONSTRATORS picketed the London headquarters of the Na- tional Union of Teachers on Saturday demanding the with- drawal of charges against the 'Wandsworth Three'.

BY JOHN SPENCER

PROTECTED by a large force of police, the French fascist organiza- tion Ordre Nouveau suc- ceeded in holding a racialist, anti-immigration meeting in the centre of Paris last week. There were violent clashes between the police and thous- ands of left-wing demon- strators. Official figures put the number of police injured at 63. Of these 16 were sent to hospital and two are said to be in a serious condition.

No figures were available for the large number of demon- injured. Most of them strators had precaution of taken the coming armed with staves and wearing helmets. Armed Ordre Nouveau thugs It illustrates very clearly the rising militancy of the Spanish working class, for in the , past Navarre has not been a politically advanced region. Traditionally it base for the re- has been the actionary Carlist movement.

Leyland, together with other British and American car manu- facturers have invested heavily in Spain where they hoped to make use of cheap labour and the fact that trade unions are illegal to step up their profits.

But for all the efforts of the Civil Guard and the Spanish fascists the working •of class Spain is fighting back against exploitation. under the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance. A government spokesman has refused to give details of what witnesses have been called to testify. But it is known that deputy Police Commissioner Christopher Dawson, assistant of Immigration, Mr Director A. J. Carter and a number of iL Fred Scott, Eric Porter and David Whiteley, all members of the union's Wandsworth •Asso- clation, are being disciplined by the executive for alleged dis- ruption of a mass meeting on February 27. Fred Scott pointed out at an wearing helmets, dressed in black leather uniforms and carrying long clubs, were protected by several lines of police outside the meeting hall. Anyone trying to enter • the meeting was frisked by the Ordre Nouveau guards. Inside, the 1,000 or so fascists listened to a series of openly racialist speeches.

Secretariat member Alain Renault denounced the Pleven Law, similar to the Race Relations Act in Britain. "This law bans all discrimination, that is to say all differentiation in favour of our own fellow-citizens. It is therefore a racialist law, an anti.

French law,' he said. anti-Semitic shouts of Amid approval, the Ordre Nouveau secretary, Alain Robert, general announced: 'The right is order, state, above all when it is the the existing government fails in its mission.'

ARRESTS

After the meeting, still pro- tected by the police, the fascist squads marched in formation across the river to their head- quarters in district. the Halles The following day the head- quarters of the Pabloite Ligue Communiste, one of the bodies organized the which counter- demonstration, was raided by police. The police claimed to have two discovered rifles on premises. They arrested about 20 members of the Ligue who were on the premises at the time, committee among them political member Pierre Rousset. to the The protection given fascists and racialists in Paris is in marked with the contrast treatment meted out to immigrant workers. On Wednesday, June 20, the day before Paris the meeting, strike pickets at the huge Solmer building site in airline staff have been before ha the judge. All brushed past the Press and questions. refused to answer Following Godber's disappearance, Hong Kong issued a warrant for his arrest and reportedly sought Interpol help in attempts to him. locate Their attempts don't seem to .t'.'

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open-air meeting after the picket that the executive was acting prosecutor, judge and jury as in the case. The witch-hunt against the Wandsworth Three Is being ac- Com- tively supported by the munist Party. Fos-sur-Mer, Marseilles, near were savagely attacked by police.

The pickets, most of them Algerians, were badly beaten by the police, who made repeated tear gas charges. Four workers seriously injured in the were fighting, which lasted, with in- terruptions, from early morning until midday. Five hundred police of the Gardes Mobiles, armed with truncheons and carbines, carry- ing shields and wearing helmets, were involved in the attack. They let loose a continual stream of racialist abuse against the pickets and their union representatives.

Prior to the police attack there had been attempts to set fire to the local headquarters of the CGT, the Communist Party-led trade union. Scattered shots were fired at the building during the night. Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin, said in Vannes on Thursday, he was often asked why the police who were mobil- ized in the streets during demon- strations could not be used to.

fight crime.

GENDARMES

He said: 'In the first place, as everyone well knows, the role of the Mobile Gendarmes, the CRS, the intervention companies, is to prevent demonstrations from de- generating into all sorts of violence. 'In the second place, it is not CRS or the normal job of the the Gendarmes to hunt down criminals, burglars and people who commit hold-ups. This is a job for the judicial police.'

The growth of special police squads devoted solely to repres- sion of political and trade union demonstrations has been one of the most striking features of the in Gaullist regime. have been too serious. One of the questions the commission is examining is how Godber was able to leave the colony while he under investigation. In was London the Home Office says that Godber has committed no as offence in Britain, there is no question of any action being taken here.

THE PROPERTY MEN MOVE INTO PIMLICO

RICH

KILLINGS IN

EUROPE

'devel- British property opers'-read speculators —are out to make rich killings in Europe. Al- involved, ready deeply mainly in office develop- ment, in France, Belgium anl Holland they are now looking further afield, to Germany, Spain and Italy. About 60 British firms are engaged now- in commercial development in property of Europe and hundreds millions of pounds have been poured into the land and pro- perty markets. Most of the money for their activities has been raised abroad to acquire existing blocks build office anu ones. In the climate of gallop- ing Inlauon mney nop to curn this fast and over money realize handsome profits.

It is a business for hustlers, whose own activities on the market keep prices soaring. But the property boom can only go on as long as there is a demand for office space and as long as the rents are ade- quate. The latest field for action is Spain and a number of firms in Madrid nave scenes door and Barcelona. Building costs are relatively low but rental yields can be as high as in crowded Brussels. The whole business grows like a fungus on the inflation and spreads as fast. The acti- vities of the British 'develop- with hostility ers is meeting in some places where they are edging out the local firms. Re.

development or stricuons on steps control rents may their activities. curtail first of de- At whiff

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flation the whole boom can collapse quickly it started.

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BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDE

Thousands of workers living in London are be- ing driven out of their homes by landlords and developers out to make profits from enormous property. Tenants living in rented accommodation are fast falling prey to men who want them out as soon as possible. And then the houses, once homes for ordinary workers, are gutted and converted into luxury flats. These are then sold on long leases and the former tenants are left with the heart-rending problem of searching for some- where to live in London. Such a ruthless operation is currently under way in Pimlico, a West London neighbourhood near the Thames Embankment.

A compact residential district or early Victorian houses, two- thirds of its population has traditionally lived in rented flats and rooms. But a clear-out plan has changed all that. Over 2,000 people have been given notice to quit 'or otherwise prevailed upon to leave' in the last 18 a recent Shelter months, says report by Philip Pearson.

Where once workers lived the local Wetminster Tory council has allowed offices, hotels or converted luxury flats. profits for the The developers have been enorm- ous. An unimproved, four- storey house purchased a year ago at £20,000 would now fetch nearly £16,000 per floor and sold in when converted self-contained units. With most houses having five floors, including the base- ment, it adds up to a massive £80,000. Tenants in furnished accom- modation are the most vulner- able because they have no security of tenure under the

SPONDENT

law. Even unfurnished tenants, who cannot be evicted without a county court order, can still be prevailed upon to go. Pear- son describes the process in this way: "The stresses may be differ- ent: large cash inducements; the end of ordinary mainten- ance in a house where all other tenants have left; the isolation of being the last tenant in a large house where the landlord does not intend to relet; the fear of burglars or late callers.'

This is the way vacant possession is secured. The terrible sufferings of tenants is also confirmed by Citizens' Advice the local Bureau which dealt with 1,800 housing inquiries in 1971-1972, increase of over 300 on an 1970. Its report last year remarked: "The last year has seen tremen- dous changes in the lives of many furnished and unfurn- ished tenants and leaseholders in Pimlico. Many difficult situa- are caused when the tions leaseholder or landlord sells the freeholder or out to developer. In most cases he has to give notice to his fur- nished tenants, and if he sells with unfurnished tenants, pres- sure is immediately put on them to move.' At least five companies are prominently involved in the conversion of properties in Pimlico: D. S. Kelly Ltd., Cowldell Ltd., Seftonglade, Central Estates Belgravia) Ltd., and Swordheath Proper- ties Ltd. Two of these companies, Central Estates and Sword- heath, in fact own the free- holds of large areas of Pimlico, putting them in a most power- ful position. Central Estates, with co- Berger and directors Gerson Sighismond Berger, own about 42 acres in Pimlico, and have the freehold on nearly 1,000 the properties. Workers Press, Mo An adjacent estate owned by Swordheath comes to about 350 houses, giving both com- position of some panies a dominance. Two of Central Estates' furnished tenants recently re- ceived notice to quit. One notice was sent to two old ladies sharing one furn- ished room. The rent tribunal them two extensions of gave security. While they were still there the ceiling collapsed on top of one of the women, seri- ously injuring her back. After considerable pressure the land- lord offered alternative accom- modation, reports the Neigh- bourhood Aid Centre. And another documented case tells of two sisters, both over 60 and still working, given notice to quit because the landlord claimed he needed the room to do repairs ordered by the council. Of the other tenants, one has been report- edly offered £200 to go. Central Estates' annual re- port for last year was enthusi- 'The astic about prospects. company has very successfully continued its activities in pro- perty dealing and has also shown a profit in share deal- ing,' said the directors.

This penchant for property dealing' is all at the expens working •class. of the The Shelter report shows conclu- sively that the original tenants d., of these flats and rooms are dispossessed. The private tenants, especi- ally the furnished tenants, have no permanent rights of resi- dence. Those who cannot afford the deposit on a newly- converted dwelling must move.

'Money is the passport to Pimlico,' says Pearson. Of the local Tories, the re- port says: "The policy of West- minster city council towards the area is one of laissez-faire.

In April 1973 the council's housing management commit- tee refused to take action over Press, Monday Juno 25, 1973 PAGE 3 Above: Pimlico houses awaiting conversion redevelopment. or The tenants, were given notice to quit some time ago, and the have stood houses empty at two years. Dispossessed least tenants have a difficult task finding alternative accommoda- tion - but the property dey- elopers make big profits.

a petition signed by over 150 local residents which called on the council to press the gov- ernment for greater security for furnished tenants. 'The property companies fear that the need have no market for housing will be in- terfered with by the West- minster council, adds the report. While this report shows graphically how gentrification is leading to wholesale misery it for thousands of workers, offers, however, no perspective of changing the situation.

The extension of security of tenure to furnished tenants, changes in the plannig laws and a register of all rented property will not on its own have any effect on landlords and developers. Unfurnished tenants, who have supposed security, have fared no better when confront- ing the property merchants.

Like all Shelter reports, its conclusions are an attempt to eradicate what appear to be the worst evils of capitalism with a few well-meaning reforms. Labour's 1969 Housing Act, which gave birth to improve- ment grants, was also meant in that vein. The result has been enhanced profits for developers and eviction for tenants.

What is posed here instead is a socialist housing policy.

No more concessions to big landlords and property but their developers, expro- priation without a single penny compensation and with their holdings placed under the con- trol of the workers in the areas.

Nothing else will stop the creation of more 'Pimlicos'.

PAGE & Workers Press, Monday June A discussion around the be debated at the A Alliance conference at B ter, Sunday July 1st-3 p.

THE NATIONAL Com- mittee of the All Trades Unions Alliance has called a national rally of trade unionists at Belle Vue, Manchester, for July 1, as a further step in the preparations for building the Revolu- tionary Party. This follows on the very successful ATUA conference of 2,200 workers at Birming- ham • on October 22, 1972, launched the cam- which paign. The founding conference of the Party will be held in London at the end of Octo- ber 1973. The basis of the draft perspectives and pro- gramme for the Party, which are currently being dis- cussed in the pages of the Workers Press, the was ATUA National Committee's adopted at Birm. statement ingham last year. In a statement adopted on May 13 by the ATUA in preparation for the July 1 conference, the National Committee declared: The further turn in the grave economic crisis caused by the political and economic effects of the Nixon scandal will have a profound influence on the inflationary • boom in Britain and the policies of the Tory and Labour leaders. The Tories have laid plans for a corporate state, but the sharpening class struggle resulting from the intensification of the crisis day June 25, 1973 nd the policies which will the All Trades Unions e at Belle Vue, Manches- -3 p.m. will more and more disrupt plans and these expose Phase Three of the state pay laws. It is this massive class basis for the launching of struggle which forms the Revolutionary Party. Therefore it is vitally urgent that these new devel- opments, which greatly as- sist the launching of the Revolutionary Party, should be discussed by the largest possible number of deie- gates and visitors to the July 1 conference. Arrangements are in hand to provide appropriate facili- ties for such discussion a at the Belle Vue, Manches- ter, one of the largest as- sembly halls in the north of England. Invitations to delegations have already gone out. The ATUA calls upon all those workers, who want to end the state pay laws and restore free negotiations for wages between trade unions and employers, to join the demand for break- ing off all talks with the government on Phase Three.

The fight for the defence of basic democratic rights is now inseparable from the struggle to build the Revolutionary Party. We believe that the July 1 rally can be an important landmark in the struggle to unite the working class on the basis of socialist poli- cies to create the necessary industrial and political con- ditions for forcing the Tory government to resign. I know the present leadership is rotten . . • they are reformist to the core' Eddie Rimmer is a shop steward at the Vauxhall car plant, Ellesmere Port, on Merseyside, and sec- retary of the local Trans- port and General Work- ers' Union branch. Do you think it is pos- sible to get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? As tar as the Tory government is concerned, these laws are here to stay. They are not, as a lot of people seem to think, temporary. The something employers, through Campbell have aready stated Adamson, they want to see an end to free bargaining. He made the a few weeks ago, statement and said it again after seeing Barber. The working class who think that Phase Three is some kind of let up—an attitude often promoted by many officials- are going to find they have been conned again. It might take a year, or it might take longer for them to realize that they will get away with no- thing on pay so long as this government stays in power. At the plant we have told them this all along and when they look back after 12 or 18 months they will realize we were right. The implications of this are enormous. The whole relation- ships have changed because of it. Any group of workers now have no choice at all; they are told by the management what they can have and when they can get it. It's merely a question of take it or leave it for a firm like Vauxhall's—it's a great_law for the employers. We have got a situation now in the plant where the men accepted the £l plus 4 per cent. But in the wake of this comes the massive speed-up in the track. They want more and more production on the basis of what was a wage-cut, and this is just the beginning.

I think the management wants the tracks going so fast in the industry that the men will fly off the corners. And as far as the officials in the union are concerned, they will get this without much oppo- sition. Do you think that the Labour and trade union leaders want to get rid of the Tory government? The greatest danger to the working class today is the dis- illusionment that results among workers from the activities of They their so-called leaders. see their leaders tripping in and out of 10 Downing Street —they say: 'What the hell is on?' Eventually anger going fades into disillusionment and cynical indifference. These men, like Scanion and Jones, are supposed to be our leaders. We put them there and we pay for them. We don't want to see them talking with enemy. The left-wing the element mouth the left words then the next time you see them they are smiling outside Heath house and talking about the possibility of a deal.

My branch has been very sharp on this issue. We have sent several resolutions to the TUC demanding explanation for this policy. One very hot letter was put up by a member in our branch, it really tore them up. He just got the usual brush-off reply. This situation is totally un- satisfactory. It cannot possibly within the work- be tolerated ing class any more. If Scanlon has been forced to pull out, 1 am very pleased.

But what a shocking thing that the man was allowed to carry it as far as he did without anyone in the union calling him to order. I know there were a lot of letters going in to the

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headquarters demanding he withdraw from negotiations ever since they began. Gradually I think lack of leadership is beginning to dis- turb the most non- even political men. I get blokes I never dreamed would i have taking an interest coming up to me now asking about what will happen in Phase Three.

They want to know what is going to happen in October and if the wages are going to stay controlled and what the hell are the TUC doing talking.

I tell them that the Tories have no intention of going back to free collective-bargain- ing. This means the working man is robbed of his only real right—to sell his labour time for the highest price he can get. He becomes a slave. What experience have you had that makes you feel that getting rid of the Tory government is an urgent task? There is not one. particular just whole experience, the lessons to be drawn from the action of the Tory government.

Right from the earliest days the working class were suffer- ing an assault on their rights.

Above left: Eddie Rimmer. Above: Campbell Adamson and Sir Michael Clapham of the CBI at 10 Downing Street. Above right: Scanion going to the talks in November last year.

Above left: Eddie Rimmer. Above: Camp The main instrument at first the National Industrial was Relations Court. Now things have further deteriorated be- cause the Tories have switched their strategy to the pay laws -this has been much more the trade effective because union leaders have done the dirty work for them by not fighting the laws. Even the housewife must realize this has got to be done.

Everyone knows that standards of living are falling. But for me one of the most important factors has been the step-up in the plant. The employers now want the very maximum effort while they push wages down. They had us in last night.

They want to speed-up the track; this is their continual theme now. As they say they are not in business for the fun of it, but for money, and primarily profit. All social consideration must be sacrificed to this end and now they are ove: Campbell Adamson and Sir Michael Clapl in a crisis workers must be driven on and on. So far most of the struggles have been kept at the level of protest and one-day strikes etc., is this enough? I went through all this—it was not effective. When our own pay deal was coming up this time we held a mass meeting.

One of the lads explained that it was necessary to de- mand the TUC call a General get rid of this Strike to government, but he was shouted down. He explained what would happen over the next few months if these kind of policies were not adopted. As it turned he was absolutely right out and now the people on the shop floor are beginning to realize-this is why I think there is much greater political interest in the plant now, because of the struggle carried hael Clapham of the CBI at 10 Downing Street out in the immediate past.

The protests, of course, in many ways had the opposite of the desired effect. There were many frustrated people who would go round cursing the 'bloody carworkers' and bloody dockers' for the one- day stoppages. These people, of course, do not fully under- stand the industrial situation, but half-hearted attempts to the government in- challenge crease their irritation and fling them into the hands of the Tories. On the other side many workers come to the con- clusion that one-day strikes are hopeless, therefore resist- ance is hopeless and the deadly apathy sets in. needed at the What was time was a General Strike policy. Three weeks of this and this government could not possibly have lasted. The only people who prevented this was the leadership. I did feel strongly about the Workers Press, Mor ing Street. Above right: Scanlon going to the May Day situation. There was not nearly enough people on the streets, but there again the leadership must bear the brunt of the blame. There was no clear lead at all from the TUC.

They should have come out clearly and made the strike mandatory. Are you in favour of building a new leadership that will force the Tory government to resign? I think there is little choice the working class. I facing came into Vauxhalls from the RAF. I was not really political in the services, but it was in that my educa- the car plants tion began. I wondered what had hap- pened to me. I never knew things could be like that. The life is like the life of some robot. It's amazing. You get conditioned. the bell rings, you When turn round, pick up your tools Press, Monday June 25, 1973 PAGE 5 ng to the talks in November last year.

and go to work. The bell rings and you stop work and have a break. This was what it was like when you hit the clock. I used to see young blokes in there wondering why the hell they were doing it. Now, if they things speed-up the track, will get impossible. This is what we live with. I want to change it. I know that the present leadership is rotten, they will never fight for the true free- dom of the working class, they are reformist to the core.

So it falls to us to build a new leadership for a better way of life. Belle Vue will be an impor- tant landmark. We have to bring to Belle Vue all the workers who are moving to- wards politics and even the trade unionist who doesn't feel he is political but simply wants to defend his rights.

Building a revolutionary leader- ship is the only way forward.

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Workers Press, Monday June 25, 1973

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Today's hearing in Wake- field of the Poulson bankruptcy has been postponed •.. indefi- nitely. Only 48 hours before the case was due re-open the. the Scotland Yard Fraud Squad Poulson arrested John ana his long-time friend, George Pottinger. Friday's arrests followed consultation between Director of Public Prosecu- tions, Home Secretary Robert Carr and Attorney-General Sir Peter Rawlinson. While warrants were being issued for Poulson and Pot- being Lineer. were also served in the Lambton-Jellicoe affair. Two women appeared at Marylebone court on vice charges and warrants were • issued for the arrest of Norma LeThe and her husband. of the Vakefield hearings means tha tentmay never knoth the con- files tents (weighing six tons) which the debtors' lawyers have been combing through since the case adjourned six It months ago. will be frustrating for Mr Muir Hunter, QC. He is the trustee in bank- ruptcy, one of the country's top authorities on bankruptcy, and the man charged with finding where John out Poulson's money went. He is utterly composed and intimidatingly patrician. While 'The thumbs through his hordes of hench- men room like ferrets. Two long benches are heaped with hundreds of files. One drooling Pressman away-invariably -only feet to his colleagues: 'What ra give tose filesty hands or of those Llewellyn John Garlick Poulson enters stiffly, some- what nervously. Who can file blame him? Every con- tains names of his associates in a design and construction business which is fraught with scandal. Who can forget the exchange between immortal the hunter and the hunted: Hunter: Now, it is plain, is it Mr Poulson, that you not, are a man with an immensely heart. Is that not generous right? Poulson: I used to think so.

Poulson: No. I think now, when I see these Hunter: Mr Poulson, you are 'stupid' would des- cribe it. sum to Mr Dan Hunter: Yes, stupidly gene- his companies exceeds the the situation was rous. whole of the unpaid income this, was it not, that you were tax for i which you are liable prepared to lash out large in your bankruptcy? permanent regular sums to Poulson: I see that now, sir.

your old chums? Hunter: You mean that you Poulson: 1 didn't know they were sort of spending money, were old chums; some of them as the saying is, like a drun- I had never even met. ken sailor, caring not what it Then there was the bizarre was for? piece cross-examination Poulson: No, there is no sug- gestion of that. concerning Pouslon's highest Dan Smith, T. paid official, Every session of the Poul- one-time public relations con- so far son hearing has Labour Party to the Suita duced excruciating exchanges and friend of Harold Wilson like this. As Hunter proceeds and George Brown. exquisitely and exactingly Hunter: Think, try again. interrogate his quarry, more Dan What was Smith tumble into the court. doing for the Poulson organi- Hallies On this page we present zation? Yes? profile of all Poulson: I can't think of any, comprehensive the named so far personalities sir. I just can't think, it's no in the case. It shows the ex. good. tent to which the Pontefract- Hunter: Look, you know this not, you know based empire had links do you lllall, the highest echelons of both him quite well? the Tory and Labour parties.

Poulson: I haven't seen him st is a ompell Sociossier a dossier for-l haven't seen him since of the 1969. support bour to League's Hunter: You mean he left the campaign ship when the drink ran out; build revolutionary party to take the working class to is that what you are suggest- ing? power. Workers Press, Monday June 25, 1973 61 Hadwin, 'Mr Newcastle', former appointed him Alderman Roy former Lord Newcastle, and ex-chairman the influential housing Poulson's Tees Television director. He received £155,000 from Poulson.

company. John Cordle, member of the Archbishops of Canterbury Sir Bernard Kenyon, Cannot outs cal Clerk for the West The late Sir Herbert Butcher, Tory MP, paid £21,666, secretary of South-West Metropolitan G. Braithwaite, Riding. Became chairman 'brains' on tax questions.

Hospital Board. Poulson gave was £2,500 wife. The to his Secretary. Labour MP for regional officer Reginald Maudling, former Home Mr and Mrs Andrew Cunningham both on Poulson payroll Albert Roberts, Norman A. J. Merritt, principat to Depart. George Pottinger, permanent secretary the Chairman companies to ham is member, NEC, of Labour Party and chairman Durhar. Police NUM-sponsored. Poulson paid hin of Health in Leeds. Received Poulson up the 1*500 for Authority. £11,508. 'advice'. bankruptcy.

MONTY JOHNSTONE

UBERAL APOLOGIST FOR

STALINIST BUREAUCRACY

Trotskyism and Stalinism: CP helps Transport House. Part three of a reply by Cliff Slaughter to a letter from Mir Monty Johnstone.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday Juni Trotskyism and Stalinism: Cl In the course of the Josef Slansky 'trial' in Prague, certain 'lefts' in Britain, for years supporters of the Soviet Union and fellow - travellers of the CP, were slandered as part of an 'international Titoite-fascist conspiracy against socialism and the

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'Evidence' that they were recruited as imperialist secret service agencies was manu- and internationally factured published, in Britain as well as elsewhere. The 'Socialist Outlook' and the Trotskyist movement de- fended these men (despite our fundamental political disagree- ments with them) and exposed the Slansky trial and the anti- Yugoslay campaign of the Kremlin bureaucracy. In the same period, this bureaucracy, supported by the munist parties, the revolution in Indo-China at the Geneva convention, thus de- priving the freedom fighters of the fruits of their victory over French imperialism, and laid the groundwork for the US genocidal intervention. What the Indo-Chinese wor- kers and peasants won on the the bureaucracy battlefield, took away through secret diplomacy and international class-collaboration. Only the 'Socialist Outlook' analysed and exposed this betrayal. Only the 'Socialist Outlook' carried out a prin- cipled struggle against the repulsive and anti-working- class chauvinism of the Stalinist campaign on German rearma- ment, and supported the anti- bureaucratic uprising of the East German workers in 1953.

the Stalinist pro- Against gramme of beheading the Ger- man working class and splitting Europe into 'spheres of in- fluence', we fought on the principled programme of socialist revolution in the west, political revolution against the bureaucracy in the east, for a United Socialist States of Europe. It was in response to these political differences that the British Stalinists did their best to emulate the repressions of their colleagues in Moscow and eastern Europe. They 'fingered' the 'Socialist Outlook'. In 1954 they published in 'World News', their party organ, an article under the pseudonym 'Barry McKaig' which gave the Labour right wing all the ammunition they . needed to ban the 'Socialist Outlook'. Of course, this did not pre- vent the CP from hypocritically inscribing on its banner the slogan of opposition to all bans and proscriptions in the labour movement! Following this article (in No 12 of 'World News' , 1954) came Lord Cooper's Transport House 'inquiry' and the pre- paration of the ban on the Outlook' 'Socialist at the September 1954 Labour Party conference. On page 165 of the Report Ho nday June 25, 1973 ism: CP helps Transport House. P ne:

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No. [Registered at the G.P.O. as a News •Socinlist Outlook' of July 17, 1953, carr of the 1954 Labour Party con- ference we read the reply of Alice Bacon for the Executive on the ban on the 'Socialist Outlook' 'We were used to communist organizations being proscribed and then raising their heads with a different name, but the Revolutionary Communist Party were much more clever.

They pretended to disband their organization. They car- ried on their activities The policy of the "Socialist Outlook" had been one of vilification, not only of Labour's political leaders, but of trade union leaders too, and it had unofficial supported every strike that had taken place as well as opposing Labour Party policy.... For these dastardly crimes 'Socialist Outlook' was the banned! And the information about the Trotskyists who worked on 'Socialist Outlook' their names and their past membership of the Trotskyist movement, had been supplied in March of the same year in McKaig's second 'World News' article 'Background to "Social- ist Outlook", Having fingered comrades Gerry Healy and William Hunter, McKaig went on: *Having noted the concen- tration of former members of the Trotskyist organizations in leading positions in "Socialist , it is worth examin- Outlook" ing the present role of that journal in the labour move- ment.' The Stalinists knew what the outcome : would be. The 'Socialist Fellowship' had already been proscribed in 1951. This was precisely the handle required by Transport ort House, and they resorted to the ouse. Part three of a reply by Cliff Slaughter to a letter from i

FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1953

.O. as a Newspaper] in "state reserves' Berlin, July 10/ important economic concessions to goods, put away the workers, and arrested the most the soldiers of Eastern Germ uprising in militant elements, who had led the basicin uerman anawwere misner Eastern Germany has fight in June. been by crushed multary centres. distributed among Socialist The leaders intervention and the proclama- ine Donulation

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Unity Party than 100 million dollars earmarke the state tion of of siege on hoped for investment heavy June 1?. were transferred rerain ine mass Oasis had lost, lodgings; another 100 workers iner own am ss on ucy On Julv 8 and 9. the while preventne same unc east serin any upsurge new nter imorant Incle rial centred militancy. On-the-spot Report from our Eastern Germany. This new upsurge comes after Correspondent

CONCESSIONS MADE

William Sprenger, D the The economic concessions they set made working he the big strike wave of June 16-19.

earmarked After the first moments of panic, was colars

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the military nrotecis were transiciter June caster clan Cause gu-19 sies est abolished. for investment in consumer good tried to react in a double manner. was industries. sale food and consume! At one ane the same ame made avanuses materials was immediately intro dorkers order allow do the badly The Fight For Workers Democracy epair job their lodgings The This is a picture of a Revolutionary Committee of Sailors taken in governmen to subordinate the 1917. laere are bureaucraw were.

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neavy standard of living- alone Tane WorKerS meone a

WORKERS' CRITICISMS

he leadere Unity Party rushed out to indica dha made uprising of East German we 1953, carrles a The we pointed exactly the same methods as fact that indicated by the Stalinists.

out that some of those witch- hunted were not Stalinists or would Johnstone like to fellow-travellers never pre- quibble about when the witch- vented us from defending those The hunting 'began'. plain

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who were, in the and facts that the expulsions are other unions, as well as in the of Trotskyists and the ban- Labour Party. At all times we ning of this paper came from defended the basic principle the 1954 Labour Party con- for ference, of democratic rights all and that the Stalinist socialist tendencies the including in leadership, John- labour movement. direct role stone, played a through their own publication It was for carrying out this of this material. principled political struggle on all questions that the Socialist They wanted the paper feared Labour League was proscribed banned because they in 1959. the growth of Trotskyist in- fluence and they were especially At the Labour Party con- in a hurry to do this because ference in Harry that year of the new stage in the inter- Nicholas, for the replying national crisis of Stalinism Executive, the 'in- repeated itself following Stalin's death formation' provided by the and the East German uprising 'infil- Stalinists so-called on of 1953. direct inter- Labour Party tration' of the vention of the Stalinists came by Trotskyists. It was at the at the decisive point the in same conference that Hugh witch-hunt. Gaitskell mounted his offen- this sive against 'Clause IV' and its In order to cover up role, Johnstone tries to build commitment to nationalization.

a picture of the earlier To carry through this objec- up Trotskyist work in the Labour leadership tive the Labour Party as 'anti-communist. could not tolerate the con- tinued membership of revolu- tionaries. Once again they were able to rely on the 'information' which supplied to them was in 1954. of "anti- accusation The communist by Johnstone only We certainly do not make for repeats the slanders of Stalin- any apology separating ourselves Stalinism. from ism since the origins of Stalinism is the principal Trotskyism. Comrade Healy Labour of counter-revolution, was speaking to agency and the whole reason for our conference. His task-in refer- ring to the colonial revolution independent existence as Trotskyists is because —was to bring out the respon- our predecessors, above all Trotsky, sibility of the British working- fought this degener- class movement to the colonial against ation. peoples. to Stalinism is Opposition There could be no way for- but the ward for the not . anti-communist, colonial masses defence of communism against except under the leadership of the bureaucracy. independent revolutionary an r from Mr Monty Johnstone.

Meaning of Beria's Arrest 3d. (See page 2) 'state reserves" | paganda could have only one of the future effect: to make the workers feel y, were rushed that all the concessions made by rant industrial the rulers of the country were the ibuted among result of their courageous struggles.

More Once the working class learns lars earmarked that it can win big concessions by heavy industry fighting, it will be easily induced • the building to fight again and again, every s; another 100 time it is confronted with new problems and is advancing new demands. This is precisely what has been happening since the end of June.

The concessions made by the strengthened the government militancy of the workers to a much greater degree than the for arrests of the strike leaders had ere transferred weakened it. The S.E.D. bureau- onsumer goods crats found themselves faced with of building a growing, not a declining. opposi- ediately intro- tion. the badly needed

THE RIGHT TO STRIKE

lodgings them- ment promised Already on June 24, «Neues development of Deutschland" that the reported of of the S.E.D., general secretary rd of living- Ulbricht, addressing the machine workers of Weissen- tool factory see, was asked why their comrades had been arrested on June 17 and why they didn't have the right to the Socialist Ulbricht replied, i strike. in a I out into the workers' brutal manner, that a cathe warkare ierman workers (Inset left).

party. The principal respon- sibility of Marxists in the metropolitan countries to the colonial masses was to fight for this alternative leadership and against Stalinism. The British Labour leaders were in office and were work- ing hand-in-glove with US imperialism. They used anti- Soviet propaganda to justify their actions. The Trotskyists at that time working in the Labour Party insisted that this was in fact a political fraud. The colonial fighting imperialism masses would remain dominated by Stalinism so long as a working- class leadership was not built independent of Stalinism, a leadership not subordinated to imperialism. Of course, to Johnstone, it is anti-communist to speak of handing the colonial peoples on a plate to Moscow. It was in fact anti-Stalinist. Johnstone equates com- munism with Stalinism. In fact they are opposites. Perhaps we may remind Johnstone that, even in terms of his own present position, he might give some thought to the fact that the 'Moscow' of that date (1950) was engaged on its bloody course of anti-Titoite judicial murders and conspiracy, trials. Laszlo Rajk was already in his grave.

Is it an entirely separate question that the betrayal of Vietnamese people the was also in preparation? And was not this, and its whole after- math, the consequence of not yet building a revolutionary alternative which • could take the colonial masses away from the disastrous tutelage of the Moscow bureaucracy?

CONTINUED TOMORROW

NO TO THE MONARCHY - DOWN WITH THE DICTATORSHIP

FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS GOVERNMENT IN GREECE!

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KAREEN TO NO

Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth Internati On June 1 the Greek the dollar in August 1971.

The crisis violently military regime declared over- throws all the old political the monarchy had been relations, not merely those be- deposed. The arch- tween the main social classes or between the main capitalist dictator Papadopoulos, nations, but also within the who had until then been ruling classes. the Regent, declared it creates splits and intense disputes of between sections himself president of the capitalists and within the state •.. democracy. machine in every country. The colonels' gesture follows Constantine's dethronement the abortive coup by Royalist was not simply a demagogic officers, the junta. Like naval unyielding move by the struggles by and the movement in the navy which students preceded beginning of undeclared strikes it, this action ex- the deepening crisis by the workers. presses and division of the Greek rul- It takes place under condi- tions of an unprecedented in- 1ng class. The change has not improved flationary crisis which is con- vulsing Greek society from top the position of the Greek work- to bottom. ing people. They continue to This crisis is not confined to be of deprived elementary Greece, democratic rights. The colonels but has an inter- national character. It cannot now hope to win sup- came sharply to the surface after US port for their regime. President Nixon's measures on The anti-monarchist feeling

MOSHE LEWIN

A study of the critical period of consolidation of the Soviet The book examines Lenin's state. irreconcilable struggle against the threat of growing bureau- cracy led by Stalin, and Lenin's collaboration with Trotsky in this task. Despite certain weaknesses the book is a powerful corrobor- ation of Trotsky's defence of Soviet democracy and his criti- cisms of the oppressive policies of Stalin against the national minoríties. Indispensable reading for all socialists.

LENIN'S LAST STRUGGLE

By Moshe Lewin. Published by Faber and Faber.

Hardback, 193 pages. Available (see below) at reduced price of £1.50. Available from the Paperbacks Gentre, 28 Charlotte St., London, W1 Or New Park Publications, 186a Clapham High St., London SW4 7UG International. of the masses is deep. But their problem is not to choose be- tween a dictatorship, with or without a king. They fight to get rid of the present oppres- sive regime, whether it governs in the name of the crown or not. In fact the abolition of the monarchy will not be disputed by the working masses when they overthrow the dictator- ship. It is the only action by which coincides the colonels with the will of the great majority of Greek people.

The explosive contradictions brought to the surface in the ruling class, also expose the complete bankruptcy of the Greek Communist Party. The Stalinists play down the importance of what has hap- characterized pened. They Constantine's dethronement as simply a 'manoeuvre'. They avoid taking a firm for Guru Fifteen-year-old Maharaji Ji is known as 'The Perfect One' to his devout followers. But reliability is not one of his perfections, it would seem.

Since he arrived in Britain, to be conveyed from the air- port in a flower-bedecked Rolls-Royce, it's become in- creasingly difficult for his worshippers to catch a glimpse of him. In Manchester recently hun- dreds of people turned up at the YWCA for an event which the Divine Light Mission modestly announced would be 'the brightest in the history of the world'. stand against the monarchy. On the contrary they show in- directly that they consider the invalid, dethronement SuID- posedly the Greek because people have no opportunity to their will under con- express ditions of political freedom.

This is what they meant bi 'When freed such phrases as: from the dictatorship Lne people will arrange their future according to their will,' and 'the victory must be a victory of the people'-which occur in the politburo resolution of the Central Committee of the Greek Communist Party dated June 2, 1973. conditions which Certainly the free of expression the will of the masses is the main question. But the Stalin- ists use this merely to avoid taking a stand against monar- chist reaction, with which they are ready to collaborate.

In the same resolution, they Above: Maharaji Ji In flower bedecked Rolls-Royce.

There was singing, dancing, chanting, coloured lights, per- fumed sticks and velvet- a covered throne-but no guru.

He sent a message to say he was sleeping and couldn't be disturbed Then 1,000 devotees of the three living god waited IOr hours for him to turn up as Prose, Monday June 25, 1973 PAGE 9 Left: Greek farmers on a de monstration. Inset: The arch. dictator Papadopoulos. classify the naval officers the anti-dictatorial among forces and call 'all the patriots; of whatever political colouring, all the parties and organiza- tions, to [form] a common front for the overthrow of the junta and the securing of the free expression of the people's will'. But the monarchy, the naval officers and the bourgeois poli- ticians like Karamanlis who are allied to it, are opposed to the junta because of their own interests. They represent a section of the Greek bour- geoisie as well as the European imperialists, particularly the British, who are competing with the Americans in Greek territory. They are not in- terested in the democratic freedoms of the masses. It is now known that the monarchy and all the belated 'opponents' of the dictatorship around it were preparing their own coup, a 'generals' coup' before the colonels snatched the power with the backing of the CIA. The opposition of all these people to the junta has nothing in common with the movement of the oppressed masses and the class struggle of the work- ing class. That is why their moves are with deep suspicion by met the masses and the rank-and- file sailors and soldiers. The working class does not ally itself with one section of the local bourgeoisie and the imperialists against another, but struggles to overthrow the whole capitalist reaction.

The Greek Communist Party refuses to take up this inde- pendent struggle by breaking off all relations with the bourgeoisie. Recent events have com- pletely uncovered the rotten- ness of the dictatorial regime and the fact that it remains in power only because of the lack of a real alternative solution.

This solution is an objective reality. But the Greek Com- munist Party opposes and independent diverts the struggle of the working class which alone can solve today's impasse by the conquest of power. Recent events emphasize, above all, the lack of revolu- tionary leadership. The Com- munist Party has split. The key to the situation is in the continuing struggle for build- ing a new revolutionary party of the working class which will overthrow the junta and estab- lish a workers' and farmers' government. The International Committee of the Fourth International pledges full support to its Greek section-Workers Inter- nationalist League — in the struggle to resolve the crisis of proletarian leadership and socialist through the carry revolution in Greece. June 16, 1973. bedecked Rolls-Royce. Fulham Town Hall. Again—no guru. Was there any likelihood that the Perfect One might just possibly turn up as arranged on any future occa- sion? 'Only the guru himself can answer that' said Press Officer John Minton.

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Name... Address. A curious sidelight of what an explosive politi.

cal subject inflation is has been shed by the peculiar tale of how a report on National Sav. ings has been suppressed by the Tory government. The Page report, finally pub- lished on Friday. reveals that the nest eggs many people trus- with the Post tingly deposit Office aré in fact losing value because the National Savings cannot keep interest rates pace with inflation. "The Sun' reported last month: The Cabinet has been sit- ting nervously secret on a report which will blow the lid off one of the biggest political scandals of all time.' 'The Times' commented: 'For reasons best known to itself, the government has yet to publish the Page report on National Savings, now some six weeks overdue.' 'The Times' continued: is The longer publication delayed, the greater will be the suspicion that the report's politically contents are con- tentious and that the govern- ment is unsure been one Inflation has of the chief political weapons of the capitalist class since World War II. The continued growth of the world economy was largely financed by endless outpourings of dollar gifts, loans, military aid, and US government purchases. But paper money is only a form of credit and the US bound to be currency was eventually undermined by the reckless printing of dollar bills regardless of the real mone- of the tary strength . US which can only be economy, measured in gold. It led to the abandonment on August 15, 1971, the US government of the mise to pay, enshrined in the billions of paper dollars cir- culating around the world.

when Nixon repudiated But the $35-an-ounce gold conver- tibility, he debased not just the new English edition of the First Fi Years of the Communist International' i corporating hitherto unpublished mater from Volume XIII, of Trotsky's Works

THE FIRST

FIVE YEARS OF TH

INTERNATIONAL

than 8 per cent, or whatever American but all currency, of inflation is, paper money in circulation.

the latest rate begin to lose their value.

The effects of this cataclys- The latest British Savings mic event have been working Bond has an 8.5-per-cent in- themselves out ever since in terest rate, an increase from of the world every country at a faster and faster rate.

the previous 7-per-cent Bond to keep in step with these in- all holdings of paper With flationary times. money suddenly worth far less But even these 8.5 per cent than they were thought to be Bonds, on which tax has to be worth, the value of real such as land, houses, wealth, works of art etc., as expressed in paper money terms (i.e. the began to rocket up- price, wards. This effect eventually wor- ked through to all commodi- as meat and other ties such seasonal crops whose supply cannot be immediately varied.

This the phenomenon is known as inflation and in due course, as confidence in paper further, money erodes still it becomes a universal economic feature. The capitalist governments have continued to pour out especially more paper money, the United States and Britain, in order to avoid one of the ultimate effects of inflation— in investment and stagnation general economic growth. These artificial attempts to 'boom' stoke up a new only aggravate still further the rav- ages of inflation. A measure of the extent to which currencies are being undermined is the free market Nixon broke the link between gold, now price of at about dollars and gold. August 15, 1971.

$120 an ounce. Gold, being a paid on the interest, are likely valuable commodity as well as to lose the investor money.

the only true money, goes up And with inflation continu- inflation, in price because erode and houses dờ. ing to paper money, as land just 3-per-cent even the tax-free At this rate, the US dollar bonus paid if the Bonds are is worth less than 30 per cent held for five years to maturity, worth only of what it was redemption giving upon Food two years ago. prices gross yield equivalent to 9.24 reflected have by no means per cent to a standard rate of inflation degree yet, this would still make a so there is still a long way to taxpayer, loss for the investor. before the price such go The government is sensitive commodities in world demand, like meat, cease rocketing up- about the Page report because it is sensitive to any demand wards. for an investigation of the As the cost-of-living index, of inflationthe real cause one measure of inflation, re- capitalist system itself.

goes up from 5 per lentlessly cent, to 6 per cent, 7 per cent, The Tories fear the solu- tion which is likely to to its current 8 per cent and sug- rid of bear itself: to get savings which gest more, SO capitalism. a lower effective interest rate rational' in- hed 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 of its first three Congresses when the post-war revolutionary upsurge reached its peak and then 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 not been invented and Joseph Stalin was still a second-line Bolshevik leader who played no part in the international movement which he was later to pervert and eventually destroy.

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Carmakers climb down to prepare new attack Chrysler men ready for next round PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday June 25, 1973

FROM IAN YEATS IN COVENTRY

'WE ONLY won the first round,' was the verdict of scores of Chrysler strikers after they agreed to call off their month-old stoppage at a mass meeting in Coventry on Saturday. reached Friday night after two-and-a-half hours of tri- Probe strike busters -MP Opposi-

HAROLD

WALKER,

Ion front bench sookesman employment, has «emene co an investigation into the role strike-busters' 'professional during the •solne He called for 'some kind of Inquest' into 'the appalling those behaviour who es Sonrl STERe-QUBG S doubt exacerbated the situa- tion'. will He raise the issue debate the durin• today's Commons on the motor dustry. Sir Gerald the Nabarro, Tory MP South right-wing for NO CAsTerne. yesterday cribed the outcome of strike as 'calamitous. It represen- ted capitulation the forces of organized labour, he said. should ment ngut ano ugnt agam matter what threat from any source.

@TOMORROW

- Who are the 'strike-busters'?

- ATUA MEETING '

Crisis in the Motor Industry

COVENTRY

MONDAY JUNE 25

7.30 p.m. Gosford Park Hotel St. Georges Rd/ Northfield Rd nr Chrysler (Stoke) plant Speaker: Alan Thornett •eol senio T&GWU steward at Morris Motors vowiey. UxIord (in a personal capacity)

- ATUA MEETING

Lessons of the Perkins Lock-out Peterborough

WEDNESDAY JUNE 27

7.30 p.m. The Still Cumbergate Speaker: Ken Tyrrell Shop steward Massey Ferguson (in personal capacity) londay June 25, 1973

EATS IN COVENTRY

first round, was the verdict strikers after they agreed to I stoppage at a mass meeting • American-owned company was er two-and-a-half hours of tri- partite talks at the City Council House. The company's Linwood, Dunstable fac- Luton and tories will remain open and Stoke and Ryton alC expected be back to to wcrking normal by to- morrow. When Transport and Union General Workers' secretary Bill Lapworth an- nounced the ureen meelng eruptea into cheers. Stapleton, steward LeeTe SOr uCUsl factory who thinks we have

BY DAVID MAUDE

Equity president Ernest Clark giving his address.

seen the end of this.'

ACTORS'

union delegates yesterday Roger Roberts Convenor instructed Equity leaders to open im- for the The eyes of Britain's car laws and pressing has had grave doubts about been riveted on mediate talks with the entertainment introduction of makers have the settlement: unlersal Measured-Day Work. aimed at producing single anrvser ano ıtis no acalacul unions 'Nothing that executive Gilbert Hunt said. It will blow Many Ryton men feel that union for the entire industry.

has been elected president the company is trying to use before long'. arall of the Motor Manufacturers A motion, which carried yesterday was reluctance for second The deal involves a sub- all y i •ang iraders secone atlernoon aDouL Iwo lo SunKe o ove a cc Dal- stantial climbdown from the term. ine, cemnde demanded the calling of a conference gain in the pay negotiations tough line Chrysler has this year to report back on on the plant agreement Since 1967, when Chrys- during adopted the past introduced Meas- which expires later this ler first merter necoualions. y leadershipi n emesa a month. They have agreed to: The success was Work •a renb! week. ured-Dav Coven- for the leadership Secre- the currency PAY all Ryton workers "They will be counting on try, WOrO Gerald Croasdell had urged delegates crisis Laly lay-oft week not striking again uS conditions vote against. which said track wages,' worker It was also a defeat for the Communist men were taken off the Chisholm.

CIST.

enver Party delegates, who had sought to amend company to desperation clock for 90 minutes. 'We had them over a barrel trade motion to call simpiy for a 'campaign way the over Une In effect this means the and we should have held out support amongst Equity for unions have blocked its un- mem sers for everything while we had the general proposition amalgamation. company fettered operation. the accused men Moving the said chance. Cronın

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Ryton worker Norman shoddy work'. basic ••emocrac were unce! Roberts :claimed the deal attack right across the entertainments

VULNERABLE

• PAY holiday money to all was a sell-out. the amalgamation proposal dustry, and that those who have not yet There were no guarantees big be the viewee

COLLERL

received it. the company put international economic crisis.

WOl Oł AS uc wcakeol alu musl vulnerable other men off the clock The Equity conference carried a resolution the American • SET UP a joint manage- offfi. establishment of special office the future and union the Calt cals. curvsiel ment-union committee with- for attempted to spearhead this pressed with the dlight Cars wil le ooo in five days campaign to force comensation for unemployed members. tre 130 establish for procedure most men had lost in earn suggested Milton, up productivity attacking mover by handling 'shoddy „uLule ings over the past month.

basic trade union rights.

disputes. work' regular British - Leyland, Birming- Strike leader Joe Molloy news sheets lor unemployea memoers.

It should also provide them with advice on told Workers Press: all hos mane ham, has announced that supplementary benefits. those Measured-Day Work will be who cannot io donit core mitti oh. se A motion calling for the election of deputies be- tied to their next round of who want compensation. emsoyca mume lalerv to represent unemployed members was defeated cause Ryton won't get back pay talks in September. strike for principle, by 180 votes to 130. yul full production until don't expect to be paid And Massey Ferguson, his presidential Ernest Clark address, tomorrow. Coventry which withdrew for it.' for that responsibility surcested TUlnE

UNI-

Work. Mick Stapleton said: Measured-Day pro- The Chrysler men believe employed actors should be shown by employers think we won a victory, but they posals lils year Ilas wallcd have won and Chrysler will try come it will raise it again next.

He attempted to shift the conference's but despite the back on something else.' Meanwhile the Canadian trade union Industria Relations omeials a Do1T amennon TrOM combine has adopted an un- industrial néw era of harmonious Act. This had 'forcibly diverted' the union for Britpens gar mages are in too long, he said. relations, workers get its orenune Stares ConDLOllloille salil the with problems offensive to force up pro- subsidiary, the verkins uresel wil ve walee Col- Illa Ul unc pacalt taking full Peterborough, where 5,700 pany like hawks for signs of ane o restnuc mg on cae Inlo a men are locked out. more decentralized and representative form'. the state pay he next attack. provided Unemployment the _vasis lol acmanas taal

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ınen covce vo aceve revolutionary change, he said. But he

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'Our members in genera will support revolutionary changes that ask make within we our protession but, quite rightly.

Iney will not support revoluton- to change society ary attempts SIR HARMAR NICHOLLS, Peter- in director and ran Conhed, the

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Massey Ferguson workers itself. Bernard as Coventry. borough's Tory MP, has stepped Introducing the Equity's coun- into the Perkins Diesels dispute in the absence of anv OClC • cil's report conference, U010N commitment from management, LOrne c s now in a wCs ta with a organize secretary Gerald Croasdell said fraud charges and the new Polise they utterly determined to seem Equity that any attempt

IOS,

Robert Vesco, is turn secel Dallol• fight. continue their direction Speaking at a Tory fête to raise ballot, Jeff Cain, the Rica wanted InLO DOluCal in Costa AS 10 a nule our been shown to be out of line money for his party, Nicholls said deputy convenor said: "The men by the swiss and Us police. feelings of the majority that many of the 5,700 locked- have their feelings known Meanwhile townspeople in made members. 'hazy, if not Peterborough are rallying behind out workers were and thev have not indicated that disregard counci would in dark, Mails aso said tote ConcLy WO OCe *irrelevant political pres- gards Nicholls said that Peter- Mr George Earl of Pell's Store: the real merl! elkei sures'. their case or that of the known has dropped the price of his borough may become as management'. might goods by 6 per cent to men carry- Nicholls is talking rubbish. On move away. Trenkins Cares the weekend hairdresser, Pizzo Franks, says picket lines at not tell his audience he will cut the hair of the locked- about his former close association renklins KATeW out men for 14 per cent less than why they were in dispute: they 01-720 2000 with a rogue company, mavestors want progress towards parity with Overseas Services. He was a UK normal prices.