Workers Press no. 175

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• MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 175 Deep splits in ruling party Eire crisis brings civil war danger

BY THE EDITOR

THE IRISH ruling class took a step towards civil Glassmen bitter over 'Ponty' sackings war when it arrested ex-ministers Haughey and Blaney on gun-running charges and precipitated a major crisis in the ruling Fianna Fail party last week. The arrests were fol- 'Britain lowed immediately by a US backs Dencose promising statement Dy should Albania- Local Government Min- ister Mr Kevin Boland. He aemanaea a clear out' Greece special Ara neis con- ference) of the Fianna party deal ral remove -Blaney Premier Lynch from once accusing nim of 'unparalleled treachery against the people OlIv THE ALBANIAN trade dele Ireland. talks the sk counties of fran his Rathere one only or five prominent irishes ber vina, to eh hepriations en charges e of the sacked rontypool truckers speaking al satura Wise to themselves t Boland I biu questions nang over tomorrows lalks at tne secretary, 1 rades Union Congress s London headquarters, between bluntly: union chiefs and members of the rank-and-file com- mittee which led the strike at Pilkington's St Helens court inks glassworks. Greek colonels serve under no hat co HELENS work I.O.S. staggers paralleled Assistance hey saint described at Saur Ca Caughey agent in Greeters stares into deeper strikes for 1o years Bombshell have Workers at the key t on selects Us deseren bombshell whid crisis the investment- THE COLLAPSE of Mr Meekers governm John M. King's attempt to wage-cuts redundancies. salvade Crisis ten and the

BY PETER JEFFRIES

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We are really grateful for this splendid gesture. Now the socialist cour teague became the first Trotskyist for an early start with our June Fund.

organization in the world to publish a daily paper (Tues- day to Saturday inclusive).

With the publication this special election issue we proudly become the first Trotskyist ordanization publish six days a week. This will continue until the election is over when we will return to our original schedule-five days a week.

Dubcek returns to Prague

AVG CORRESPONDENT

Ankara on Saturday by air for Prague. DIPLOMATIC MANOEUVRES by the Soviet Com- The Party bureaucracy in Cambodia have now become so Crecy, bak Panty blatant that even the opportunist Tito leadership ion sinich campaign in Yugoslavia has been able to adopt a critical the Czech rise to fears that attitude towards them. oreparine In a recent Zagreb Radio frame un against him Milika Subdic broadcast, in Turkey The embassy

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USA are far tions with the were instant • to the Sovie Union. although it is bothered [!] by what the USA in Asia. Snoundar ratione after more than ten years of mutual have improved markedly in recent

BY MARTIN ZARROP

THE ECONOMIC crisis, wage freeze, trade union laws

'THAW'

and unemployment-almost every vital issue facing the The have bogan tre the working class was notably absent from Harold Wilson's Kremlin , both 70-minute election speech in Eltham, SE London, on Slinkie, opposed be or are the Saturday. Communist Parties. his employment!' Speaking to a packed audi- brought There now explained Wilson agreement food prices grade and reine to avoid tor advanced which lift bar- polemics at the time ot the snat Warkets to thousands nat al hamity dion tween the louiet anoihinese spend the Party cannot and the fear of a Tory W.n.21 does

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attack on the proposed value added tax and Tory rent 7 *When me hagga thai nit hunt agar tha lact months index' he said they did tent tell too her he biggest time to raise was council house rents. Heckling wil- Amidst loud heckling, son dene Tory either tioning landslide in the local envern had ment elections nare or the goveraments cut house building programme. "Tary policy inevitably roduced to paid deep chhatantin! meone roads into social services. become acquainted with the revolu means-testing they will the tionary Maris pot to be. social We have made extensive plans in order to do this. They a private enter- Prise ever, include i the audience was May 30 and advertising In The Guardlan and Observer on determine

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

NUMBER 175

MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1970

Deep splits in ruling party Eire crisis brings civil war danger

BY THE EDITOR

THE IRISH ruling class took a step towards civil Glassmen bitter over 'Ponty' sackings war when it arrested ex-ministers Haughey and Blaney on gun-running charges and precipitated a major crisis in the ruling Fianna Fail party last week. The arrests were fol- 'Britain US backs dowed immediately by a bellicose promising statement D' should Albania- Losal Government Min- Ister yir kevin boano. clear out He Greece special Ard Fheis (con- Terence ot the ranna Fail party deal —Blaney Lynch from rremier office accusing him of treachery' "unparale ed British against the people of N day that t if the

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trend s could Ire ana. trial finek traderies aces or bettern. his Rathoodle only he six He to Milord, na. Fail dinne One of the sacked t Helens mass mes speaking at baturday charges mass meeting rise to tra Poland, is the Fianna TWO BIG questions hang over tomorrow's talks at the said joint The Storm Trades Union Congress's London headquarters, between secrelary: union chiets and members of the rank-and-hle com ere is a state and ended mittee which led the strike at Pilkington's St Helens there stance I pre. strings to end partition.

classwurks. serve iT diate work to I.O.S. staggers committee chery chai main Caugheys Saturday's se in the fire sage at counties.' assisted in the first attempts into deeper "sikes for 100 years. more Bombshell issues Workers at the key Triples reflects desire bondone which shock the crisis THE COLLAPSE of Mr tarved Albaniar regait th John M. King's attempt to threat crisis-ridden salvage redundancies.

BY PETER JEFFRIES

vestors Overseas Services Heath regime puts an even bigger ques- So the Cret Forei arnounced lame Haa d Dook value or ove tion mark against the billion lays urn Albanile das future of the world's rejecter Prevented largest mutual trust fund.

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When we reported on the Fund last Friday we over- history looked the fact that we would be publishing the Election report on the Special' today and so have the facility to latest stage of the Fund, a day before it closed.

again readers pulled up with a jerk wnen thes presented with a Saturday post that brought in us £89 18s 7d.

ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1969,

the Socialist Labour League We are really grateful for this splendid gesture. Now became the first Trotskyist for an early start with our June Fund.

organization in the world to publish a daily paper (Tues- day to saturday inclusive ).

With the publication of this special election issue we proudly become ine tirst Trotskyist organization to publish six days a week. This will continue until the election is over, when we will return to our original schedule-ve cays a week. Dubcek returns to Prague

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

ALEXANDER

DUBCEK left Saturday by air for Akara on DIPLOMATIC MANOEUVRES by the Soviet Prague deposec Com munist now Party leader. bureaucracy in Cambodia have now become so Czechoslovak Ambassador Turkey, been blatant that even the opportunist Tito leadership a rising in Yugoslavia has been able to adopt a critical wallpal which given Ilab attitude towards them. Tears thal the are In a recent Zagreb Radio trame-up against him. broadcast, Milika Subdic The embassy in Turkey an-

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from suspenaea auty recognized without anv • vacI- ing Government cer's WItA was recentl movesusallon. hann the permission leave The cout appear in court in National Unity of Cambodia They will. Czechoslovakia. Prince Sihanouk. Moscow, the with the still on main- tains contacts put- Rela- cust covernmen

EKEND SPEECHES

USA are tions with [!] by what the USA has done Sino-Yugoslav elatis of after recriminations, improved markedly in recent

BY MARTIN ZARROP

months THE ECONOMIC crisis, wage freeze, trade union laws

"THAW'

and unemployment—almost every vital issue facing the The 'thaw' began after the working class was notably absent from Harold Wilson's Kremlin In vason 70-minute election speech in Eltham, SE London, on slovakia, opposed by hoth the and Yugoslavian Chinace Saturday. Communist Parties. employment!' brought his Speaking to a packed audi- seems be hare ninu speech to a agreement between Bel- ence. LaCiL it's a grade and Peking to rising tood Ine size or te meec prices problem for every meeting was held acrid • anvanced an overtow the split nodern country' and justi- The hal-snows at the care axation 'the thousands Soviet and Chinese tween une national family spend workers cannot to the bureaucracies in you! and the fear of a Tory return not raise Tito, who has had However of taxation bitter the So cat line with policy expenences Tories Accusing the of in- crisis treacherous Stanist bureat dulging in the 'luxurv of nega during and after Wilson's cracy, both the Class enemy the last war, carefully steer- tiVe Annosition' Prime wafiling speech non- Minister concentrated

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THE POLITICS of N Ireland have generally been presented as some kind of anomaly on the British scene. The gerrymandering of constituency boundaries, vio- lent passions aroused by religious divisions and the dominance of the most reactionary section of the Tory Party used to be regarded as an exception to the orderly process of parlia- mentary democracy. In the 1970 crisis General Election, however, Ulster must be understood as show- ing the way political life is developing in the country as a whole. In this crisis, all the prob- capitalism lems of British are with greatest force in felt Britain's oldest colony, Ireland.

Partition, embodied 1921 Treaty, and reaffirmed in government's 1949 the Labour Republic of Ireland Act, only changed the form of Ireland's national oppression. that the Six fact The very Counties involved in the are election of a British parliament symbolizes the situation in which the Irish working class is cut in two. The semi-colonial position of Ireland is reflected in the back- industry and of its wardness the agriculture and extreme poverty of its working class.

The continued division of the lines is workers on religious likewise a product of the impos- sibility resolving Ireland's national problems so long as capitalism remains. This is why the implications dangers in of the the crisis, front of the working class and the urgency of the struggle for revolutionary leadership, appear and openly than earlier more anywhere else in Britain.

Menace The return of a Tory govern- Westminster on June ment to 18 would be an even greater menace to the Ulster workers than to the rest of the working N Ireland, where class. In 7 or 8 unemployment runs at normal' cent in times, per world economic crisis can mean total collapse. Unionism represents the most reactionary section of the British capitalist class. It is based on the 'settler' and depends middle class, entirely on the maintenance of divisions in the the religious working class. The Protestant workers, many of whom still vote Tory, are among the most oppressed and exploited sec- tions of workers. With the Unionist Party com- ing more and more under the extreme right control of the wing, led by Craig and Faulkner, establishment of a right- dictatorship, protected by wing direct the becomes Army, threat to all workers, in Eng- as well as Ireland. The land Special Powers Act is already a step towards this. Meanwhile, Paisley continues to advance. In April, he and his

ULSTER ELECTION R

Antrim N Clark (Unionist) 31,927; Moore (Liberal) 8,941 Maj: 56.2 per cent; Poll 56.7 per cent., Antrim S Cunningham (Unionist) 40,840; Stewart (NI Labour) 22,672. Maj: per cent; Poll: 55.9 per 28.6 cent. Armagh Maginnis (Unionist) 34,687; McGlennan (Republican) 13,467.

Maj: 44 per cent; Poll: 63.3 per cent. Belfast E McMaster (Unionist) 21,283; McBirney (NI Labour) 17,650.

Maj: 9.4 per cent; Poll: 68.2 per cent. Belfast N Mills (Unionist) 26,891; Over- 19,927. Maj: end (NI Labour) per cent; Poll: 65.5 per 14.8 cent. Belfast S Pounder (Unionist) 23,329; Holmes (NI Labour) 12,364. Maj: per cent; Poll: 63.3 per 30.8 cent. Belfast W (Republican Labour) Fitt 26,292: Kilfedder (Unionist)

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declares that N Ireland remains part of His (Parliament hereby Majesty's Dominions and of the United Kingdom and affirms that in no event will N Ireland or any part tereor cease to de part ol His Maiesty's Dominions and of the United Kingdom without the leyites consent of the Parlia y by the Ireland. ment of Clause 1 of the Ireland Bill introduced by Attlee's Labour government in May. 1949. cn 1955, Berolini nad crisis dereleping in it the lection, and were both elected. both ouseate an nor ana makes this relationship sepresse convicte occus strengthened theft and two Crit this Civil the can pitw. For them, thi Mid-Ulster he storma retorms to be pusne ndependent stood in 1966, "romal pat of deply wan. Wa but more narrowly. The eld in Mid-Unster, ecst at h ard as Paisley to kee workers divided on religior

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eleer the niversity challen sal 915 Monday, June 1, 1970 Mondi THE COMING election, says the 'Scots Indepen- dent, weekly paper of the Scottish Nationalist Party, is not a matter of politics but one of they Mark national survival. Th The role of the SNP is in its therefore to obscure the class 'Bi issues in the election and to natio every confuse to the maximum Both those sections of workers land with who turned to Scottish farm nationalism in protest against busir the betrayals of the Wilson Ad oeuv: government. busir certa Of the 71 parliamentary but i seats from Scotland, 44 are and at present Labour and an- other six are marginal, in- cluding the one seat occupied by the SNP. A swing to nationalism could open the door to a decisive num- and secure the ber of Tories return of a Tory government, now urgently required by the capitalist class. The revisionists' policy which is to abstain in the election, comes very close to the form of radical middle-class protest-the form of politics of the SNP.

Such theories of abstertion, coupled with the proposal that the demand for a Scottish parlia- ment should be advanced as a transitional demand - as put forward by the revisionist Purdie International of the Marxist Group - must be viewed with great hostility. Prosperity Their aim is to feed into the working class all the confusion and frustration of the middle class. In the SNP everything is approached from the standpoint of the prosperity, the well-being and the (small) conscience of the doctors, lawyers and small busi- who make up nessmen the leadership. of the After three years this move- Labour government ment linked up with the anger and of Scottish frustration workers, building up the SNP into a party of 120,000. T clas In November 1967 in the dre Hamilton by-election, workers has voted in protest against Wilson's stru policies to turn a 16,576 Labour in l majority into a majority for the SNP candidate, Mrs • Winifred Ewing, of 1,799. the rett The Prices and Incomes Act and was in full swing and wage in- Soc creases for sections of Scottish Eur workers had been held back.

Unemployment was on the in- crease as were prices. les Easing said that the S swi vital head Lat was working-class anger. If the safety Ays valve of nationalism was not opened, then the result, she said, the would be explosion. dur Protected for centuries by the prosperity of capitalism, the I for middle class know that with the they developing crisis are coL threatened vot Above all they fear the up Soc urge of revolt which will come from industrial centres of the exI Scotland. Their fear is also why

he three nationalisms

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During the three vital weeks leading up to the ers Press will provide of all major campaigns in all parts of the is part of His nd affirms that math are the Unionist strong time when the movement in the to be part of working class was getting under fords: In strong- election, the n without the Pais will be working to pul Protestant farMarket, the ttlee's Labour favour Tyrone rermanagh helped unionist ranks, she wan the divided since was elected Will bet tain ermanagh Deling that 1 on that only anti- didates were their Tune can andidate Union- troops Vilson maintain the lead of the were prison ists. In Londonderrv-thi whole and were both ele ted. election. not regime were them she fRuitic i inher win support many keep the majority. the teions'. and two comes installer workers at westminster in toeir pac The On Viol Mid-Ulster Tea i be hide and Derry diso wined most cere Fermanagh and S Tyrone she wound National Unity NILP itself. 1966, well the stood e, in the sic perry city Unionist Republican ons out to be Mid won. the before 20,000 that are the and 10,000 Protestants elect 12 Unionist rep Protestants tati They held in Mid-Uber, best at was 1969 as possible, and preparing for the revolutionary solution.

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Gus H toybon: 10:40 1100 Two-sho Diversio cheese. pa university Monday, June 1, 1970 THE COMING election, says the Scots Indepen- dent', weekly paper of the Scottish Nationalist Party, is not a matter of politics but one of national survival. The role of the SNP is therefore to obscure the class issues in the election and to confuse to the maximum those sections of workers who turned to Scottish nationalism in protest against the betrayals of the Wilson government. Of the 71 parliamentary seats from Scotland, 44 are at present Labour and an- other six are marginal, in- cluding the one seat occupied by the SNP. A swing to nationalism could open the door to a decisive num- ber of Tories and secure the Tory return of a government, now urgently required by the capitalist class. The revisionists' policy which is to abstain in the election, comes very close to the form of radical middle-class protest-the form of politics of the SNP.

Such theories of abstention, coupled with the proposal that the demand for a Scottish parlia- ment should be advanced as a transitional demand - as put forward by the revisionist Purdie the International Marxist Group - must be viewed with great hostility. Prosperity Their aim is to feed into the working class all the confusion frustration of the middle and class. In the SNP everything is approached from the standpoint of the prosperity, the well-being and the (small) conscience of the doctors, lawyers and small busi- who make up nessmen the leadership. After three of the years Labour government this move- ment linked up with the anger and frustration of Scottish workers, building up the SNP into a party of 120,000. November 1967 in In the Hamilton by-election, workers voted in protest against Wilson's policies to turn a 16,576 Labour majority into a majority for the

SNP

candidate, Mrs Winifred Ewing, of 1,799. The Prices and Incomes Act was in full swing and wage in- creases for sections of Scottish workers had been held back.

crease as were prives on the in- Mrs Ewing said that the SNP's role vital to head off working-lans anner If the safety valve nationalism was opened, then the result, she said vould be explosion. Protected for centuries by the prosperity capitalism, middle class know that with the crisis they leveloping threatened. Above all they fear the up surge of revolt which will come from the industrial centres of Scotland. Their fear is also why Monday, June 1, 1970 tion of all diversions from the they the Common oppose Market. fight to keep out the Tories.

The SNP stands very close to Independent said The 'Scots Toryism. Its housing policy is for in its May 23 issue: rent increases and grants to owner occupiers. 'But for the of this people nation, one Westminster evil 15 Run-down bit bad the other. Both are bent on dragging Scot- Common Market land into the the SNP In Glasgow coun- with all its tragic implications for cillors supported the Tories in and small farmers, housewives the determination to run down businessmen.' the direct labour building depart- ment. Advanced as a gigantic man- is taken But its programme against American big oeuvre from middlé-class impressions.

Common Roads must be built have business, the Market and the certainly threatens these sections, 'Scots Independent' the but its main objective is to defeat Freight Trans- and discipline the working class.

chairman of the Slum conditions in Glasgow.

opposition of the middle The port Association to explain why; Scottish class, which puts forward its pipe towns must be made more beautiful the 250.000 dreams of national independence, and do houses nothing with the which are scheduled for has struggle which must be engaged demolition must come down.

in by the working class. st how askin Scistish Natione alist possible That struggle must begin with under capitalism, he will point to the defeat of the Tories and the the from the export of revenue return of a Labour government, Scotch whisky. and it must go on to fight for the Socialist United States of Which, presumably is why the SNP is the export of Europe. opposed to water from the Scottish lochs. Swing Not all the Scottish middle class in for this form go of politics. That 1s why the instinctive workers wing back by There is now a growing swing which seeks to of the Tory Party Labour, which began with the draw them in behind all the re- Ayrshire by-election, was correct.

actionary policies of Powell.

That swing was continued in That is why the working class the Burgh council elections must take a very firm line with during the beginning of May.

nationalism, which has nurtured its own extreme reactionary wing In the Glasgow Calton ward, the 1320 Club and in for

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which advocate terroristic adven- councillor was defeated by 1,002 tures. VOTeS With the explosion into revo- The SNP lost in all the major lutionary struggle of the Scottish Scottish burghs. working class, thace No effort must spared to be "Tartan Tories' will jump straight explain the need for the elimina- into the camp of Powell. A VOTE for Plaid Cymru -the Welsh nationalist party - in the General Election on June 18 will be a vote for the enemies of the working class. Plaid Cymru is dangerous.

It conceals its reactionary policies with the language of and in labour reformism doing so deceives would-be supporters into thinking of it as the party of the people.

But it is nothing of the kind.

Its economic and constitutional policies submitted in evidence to the Royal Commission on the Constitution prove, beyond doubt, that it is the party of the Welsh national bourgeoisie. Plaid Cymru claims a member- ship of 40,000 in the 13 counties ot the Principality and emigre Welshmen in London and abroad. One seat The Party has obtained only one parliamentary seat, at Car- marthen, where Gwynfor Evans has a 2,436 majority over Labour.

But it claims that 'hundreds of its members sit on local councils' and as a measure of its support General Election Plaid in this candidates will fight all 36 Welsh constituencies. In 1966 they fought 23. Significantly Carmarthen is on the edge of rural Wales and Plaid draws considerable support from country districts where many of the nation's 26,000 Welsh lan- guage speakers live. Nationalism is attractive to some in the mid-Wales counties where there is a chronic problem depopulation and almost no industry other than farming.

The nationalists claim that the English are to blame for the neglect of the mid-Wales counties and argue that only a Welsh government with the interests of the Welsh people at heart will promote development on an ac- ceptable scale. In fact it has nothing to do with the English. The geographi- cal distortion and the industrial imbalance of the Welsh economy has been brought about by the haphazard operation of the capi- talist system which has every- where pursued profit regardless of social consequences. The Welsh bourgeoisie are en- gaged in a bid to protect their deteriorating economic position by attempting to build a state of their own the plunder from which they will not have to share with England. For this purpose they have chosen to exploit the presence of a distinct Welsh language which, because it is so effective as a cément to weld the nation to- gether has been elevated to a position of central importance in the Party's programme. A large number of Welsh speakers outside the rural areas are middle class. In 1870 it was claimed that 80 per cent of Welshmen spoke Welsh. But the effect of the Education Act was to convert the masses to English and they had no use, no time and no money for keeping up two languages. support for the Middle-class from professiona Plaid comes men like barristers and church- librarians, lecturers and men, teachers, students and business- men. The Welsh working class has up to now given only limited support to Plaid Cymru, which in 1936 was labelled "fascist'.

Real enemy Whenever the Welsh working class has been moved to action, has not against the it been English or for nationalism, but always against the real enemy, the employers and the capitalist system for which they are re- sponsible. In the main they have fought against the appalling living and working conditions which have more often than not obtained in S Wales through their trade through the labour unions or movement. There are plenty of historic examples of their activity. At an insurrection at Merthyr Tydfil in 1871 troops shot down 30 to 40 people and the heroic miners' leader Dic Penderyn was sub- sequently hanged for his part in the affair. In 1834 John Frost led 5,000 Chartists into Newport (Mon.) only to be met with a hail of bullets from the 43rd Foot Regi- ment.

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Throughout the 1830s mobs In ( Wales in and C roamed • an action known as the Rebecca Riots pull- betwee the po ing down • Toll Gates and de- manding food. class the th Metropolitan police and cavalry The were sent to Tonypandy in 1910 Plaid to put down rioting miners who Welsh have a long history of struggle capita against the employers on the coalfields. Today Plaid Cymru seeks to blame the economic plight of A I Wales on the English and not on will b the true cause-capitalism.

to th margi But if workers think they will splittil be any better off under the rule the T of the Welsh bourgeoisie, let them remember that much of the Gw: hardship suffered by their fore- Party' as much by fathers was inflicted capita Welsh bosses as by those from Nation England. 'Me The Cambrian Combine, Powell- behin Duffryn, the Lewis family favour Merthyr, the Davies family of their Llandinam; these and a host of who: smaller enterprises were all Thi Welsh owned. But their workers the 1 were little better off because of peopl it. they There is evidence from by- He election results that working- believ class disillusion with successive prope Tory • and Labour governments greate coupled with Plaid's success at has g Carmarthen in July 1966 has led growing The to support for the working nationalists among verse. existi people. owne: In • March 1966 at Rhondda and West, Plaid polled 2,172 votes, stand but a year later their share of the Thi vote soared to 10,067 putting Cymr them only 2,306 behind Labour tory who held the seat. It Slump emers 1925, middl At the same time at Caerphilly Pwllh won 3,940 votes, but by Plaid of c July 1968 the vote leapt to 14,274 cessic placing them only 1,874 behind the successful Labour candidate.

It did 1 On both occasions the Tory exam vote fell, but the and Labour which majority of the votes were syndi snatched from Labour. move As by-elections these were It special circumstances and ex- Plaid perts predict that the share of Party the Plaid's vote in this election who could slump so low that the seat ing t at Carmarthen will be lost.

Nevertheless Plaid has shown itself capable of producing poli- cies which sections of the work- Th ing class find attractive.

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1, 1970 Monday, June 1, 1970 A VOTE for Plaid Cymru -the Welsh nationalist party - in the General Election on June 18 will be a vote for the enemies of the working class. Plaid Cymru is dangerous.

t conceals lls reacuunal y policies with the language of labour reformism and doing so deceives would-be supporters into thinking of it as the party of the people.

But it is nothing of the kind.

From R. SHAW economic. policies submittea in evidence national bourgeoisie. claims a member- of 40m in te 13 counties Principality alon Welshmen in London and emigre abroad One seat has obtaineat cal- ection, where Gwyntor Evans has a 2,436 majority over Labour.

depen- per of Rut it claims that hundreds o its members sit on local councis of its suppoid onalist as a measure ana s will fight tter of constituencies they of from the fought the Common all live she Toros appose fight to keep Market. Significantly Carmarthen cy is to Scots, issue: The SNE the edge of rural Independent' said vy ales ana ridi The Toryism. alaws in its May

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chen nations 26,000 he class Westminster evit ›eople or tal guage speakers live. natic "es bad every bit Run-down Nationalism mid-wates civunties the other attractive Both are bent on oron Marke some in the where there is a chronic problem workers In uasgow industry other than farming.

Scottish against English nationalists gigantic man- Wilson Advanced as a taken programme neglect of the mid-Wales counties oeuvre from middle-class impression Welsh must be built an Common Roads and th certainly 'Sairman of the Freight Trans 'Scots mentary 44 are and an- with the is hah. Tonio rap do nal, occupied distortion inaustlai econom of the capi sm could every- which has sive num- regardless where of social ronsequences. the cure consequeals. vernment by the ted in a bid to paste a the which plunder which they will not have to share with England.

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they purpos bstan that a disinto exploit it is ised area effective as cement nation weld une aurdie gether has pos Party's centrammportance in Marxi: wed witl middle ything standpoint Midale-class Plaid nen like barri well-being teachers, students and business- class has of the The welsh workine up nis move- Slum conditions in Glasgow.

the anger 5u1936 Was labelled "Fascist" why; The opposition of the Real enemy class, which puts forward its beautiful and the 250,000 dreams of national the Welsh working which are scheduled tor serby the working class demoltion must come down.

nas 76 Labour askia Sit ish Natione no for St how ationalism, but " Winifred will possibte against the That struggle must begin witl ahe es ployers and the capitalist real enemy, under capitalism, he the defeat of the lomes and in Scotch whie yrom the export of return of a Labour for which they die le • mege int sponsible. Scottish opposed to export of water from the Scottish lochs.

d back. Swing have all tars Not all Scottish 3 Vates not obtained in on the in- this form class through trade That labour through the SN' swing workers malicie Labo began with Ayrshire by-election, was correct.

ot historic actionary policies of Powell.

she said, council tinedois Merthyr com the reming or Masone was 1871 troops shot down 30 40 miners neroic ries by the eactionary wing apart see entir with which advocate terroristic adven- they

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John Frost led 5,000 The SNP lost in all the major Chartists into Newport (Mon.) lutionary struggle of the bullets from the fid Foot Regi Scottish burghs. only to these ex Main the eat be ene pared to also wov

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the 1830s mobs Throughout Wales in an action roamed known as the Rebecca Riots pull- ing down Toll Gates and" de- manding food. Metropolitan police and cavalry were sent to Tonypandy in 1910 to put down rioting miners who have a long history of struggle against the employers the on coalfields. Today Plaid Cymru seeks to blame the economic plight of Wales on the English and not on the true cause--capitalism.

But if workers think they will be any better off under the rule bourgeoisie, of the Welsh let them remember that much of the hardship suffered by their fore- fathers was inflicted as much by Welsh bosses as by those from England. The Cambrian Combine, Powell- Duffryn, the Lewis family of Merthyr, the Davies family of Llandinam; these and a host of enterprises all smaller were Welsh owned. But their workers were little better off because of it. There is evidence from by- results that working- election with successive class disillusion Tory and Labour governments coupled with Plaid's success at Carmarthen in July 1966 has led support for the to growing nationalists among working people. In March 1966 at Rhondda West, Plaid polled 2,172 votes, but a year later their share of the 10,067 vote soared to putting them only 2,306 behind Labour who held the seat. Slump At the same time at Caerphilly Plaid won 3,940 votes, but by July 1968 the vote leapt to 14,274 placing them only 1,874 behind the successful Labour candidate.

On both occasions the Tory but the and Labour vote fell, majority of the votes were snatched from Labour. As by-elections these were special circumstances and ex- perts predict that the share of the Plaid's vote in this election could slump so low that the seat at Carmarthen will be lost.

Nevertheless Plaid has shown itself capable of producing poli- cies which sections of the work- ing class find attractive.

In Carmarthen, Rhondda West and Caerphilly the Party gainec between 39 and 40 per cent of chaspoil, prespite a beavy toking- class representation two the three areas. There should be no doubt.

Plaid Cymru is the party of the Welsh bourgeoisie capitalism. Property A vote for Plaid on June 18 will be a vote for a party hostile working class and in to marginal seats it could also, by splitting the Labour vote, let the Tories in. Gwynfor Evans has made his Party's attitude to property and 'Welsh capital quite clear in Nationalist Aims': 'Men who have some property behind them in are a more favourable position to maintain their personal freedom than those who are propertyless? This is a recipe for riches for the few because the mass of people own no property nor will they ever. He goes on, the Party 'has of believed that abolition property would lead to evils far greater than those to which it has given rise in the past'.

The truth is exactly the re- verse. Only the abolition of the of property existing system ownership will increase freedom and guarantee a high living standard for all. The class interests of Plaid Cymru are revealed in the his- tory of its development. It was no accident that the of Plaid Cymru in emergence 1925, formed by a group of middle-class intellectuals at Pwllheli, coincided with a period catastrophic economic re- cession. It was no accident that they follow the did not choose to example of the Welsh proletariat which was turning to Marxism, syndicalism labour and movement. It was no accident because Plaid Cymru was and is the Party of the Welsh middle class who have no interest in destroy- ing the capitalist system of pro- perty ownership and economics, but only in making it work more effectively for them. Their goal is to safeguard theil the privileged position in economy and to do so Welsh economic decay must be arrested and reversed. Hence the cry for home rule. If Plaid Cymru achieved self government in Wales the result would be the operation of the crisis fraught capitalist same system but from Cardiff instead of Westminster. Their policies, offered to the Crowther Commission, make it clear that it is not revolutionary which iS sought change merely a switch of masters.

The economic plan of the Party says: "The case for self government is the duty we have in Wales to take full responsibility for our own affairs.' It is right that the Welsh people should have responsibility for their own affairs, but it is not the intention of Plaid to Medieval flummery at Caernarvon investiture: Plaid Cymru president Gwynfor Evans, MP, described the prince as 'a very popular young lad'. hand over power to the people, but to retain it in their own middle-class hands. Under a Welsh government the working class would continue to suffer during the inevitable crises brought about by periodic over-production and the need to develop new industries and run down old ones in order to com- in domestic and world pete markets. Profit economic Ironically Plaid's plan is dedicated to the working class: 'This plan is dedicated to the Wales who working people of have suffered so long from an economy not designed to meet their néeds.' As it stands it is a true state- ment. But capitalism is never ever suited to the needs of the Workown adiession paid con tinue to operate the system in Wales. There will be no economy de- signed to meet the needs of the vorking people until the capital st order is destroyed. The mainspring of the economy - according to the plan - will remain as before, profit.

In a section of the plan dealing with criteria for selecting in- eight reasons for the dustry, economic desirability of admit- ting any given firm are listed.

From IAN YEATS At the top of the list in first place comes 'pronitability. seventh comes 'the level of wages'.

The Welsh middle class is itself divided. There are those who believe that Wales, with 8,000 square miles and 2.6 million péople is too small to go it alone economically. They favour de- volution of power from West- minster. Against them are those, like Plaid Cymru, who believe that, 'self government is a prerequisite vi economic growth'. Both groups are pursuing common interests in different ways. working class The Welsh should not be deceived by 'left' phrases used by Plaid Cymru.

For example workers' control in the mouths of Plaid members collaboration with the means middle class in making the Welsh capitalist economy work. The Party says: 'We also think that consideration should be given to enabling trade union members to elect members of their union on to the boards of state-owned industries'. It must be noted that the areas from which workers' representa- tives are to be chosen is carefully limited to the union bureaucrats on whose loyalty they feel-with reason-they can rely. Control And, of course, it only applies to state-owned industries status of which Plaid would not change on the assumption of power, but which would ulti- mately form a small part of the predominantly private enterprise economy. The plan says: 'For the sake of this plan it is assumed that Wales will have a mixed economy with public enterprise living side by side with private enterprise. 'A self governing Wales will have under public ownership those manufacturing centres that are today publicly owned and that the remaining sectors stay in private hands.' Plaid Cymru will never allow genuine workers' control of in- dustry because of the danger of challenge to the decisive capitalist system to the pros- perity of which the future of their class is tied. Whatever its hopes of success, which are questionable, the plan envisages building Wales into a fully fledged industrial state.

But only under the system of world competition for markets is it necessary for each country the whole to try to produce range of manufactured goods.

To the festering industrial wounds of the S Wales valleys, peppered with slag heaps, abandoned and works mean villages Plaid towns and pro- add the prospect of poses to 'within 20 miles of industry almost every home in Wales'.

For the purpose of concrete forecasts the plan assumes that Plaid is about to come to power.

Bearing that in mind it will mean 650 miles of new roads, 160,000 new houses by 1976, a welter of new shops, offices and factories and the creation 100,000 new jobs in six years.

All this would take place within the framework of a com- mon . market with the other United Kingdom countries to pave the way for the free move- ment of people, goods and, of course, capital. Wales would have its own currency.

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It comes as no surprise that be recognized the Queen is to as head of state, her prerogative powers to be exercised in Wales by the First Citizen or Prime Minister. There is to be a bi-cameral parliament, a supreme court to law, administer capitalist Ombudsman and a defence court to 'permit the maintenance of internal law and order and civil security and act under the UN'.

Nothing could be clearer than this. The Welsh economy is to be by capitalist, the buttressed and necessary legal and familiar constitutional arrange- ments which protect the interests of the middle class. Cynical These policies are not aimed at improving the living standards of working people absolutely and continuously. They are not aimed at improving the quality of life or at improving the environment.

They are aimed at the aggrandisement of the Welsh middle class at the expense of plan workers. Indeed the describes the building of social- ism as 'extremist' and dismisses it in one paragraph. Instead of policies to eliminate unemployment once and for all cynically of plan talks acceptable levels. It says the average excess unemployment on current figures will be around 16,000 and that the most that can be hoped for from self government to unemployment to the reduce level of England. admission they By their own will follow policies which will perpetuate one of the greatest hardships that workers ever have to bear-hardship brought about by the inevitable slumps caused by international competition.

There is a similar cynicism in which, the plan for education they say, must be improved, not to equip workers to lead richer lives but so that 'the labour force is trained in the skills employers will need'. Also it says that Welsh society must 'overcome the tradi- tional reluctance of women to work'. These policies mean that the lives of every man and woman to be harnessed to in Wales are of maintaining the the cause Welsh ruling class in the luxury to which they would like to become accustomed and which at present, see slipping they , away from them. In their conclusions to the economic plan the party says: 'We do not apologize in any way for concentrating our atten- tion the need to provide on work for the people of Wales.

'Without work we can neither maintain the social and cultural life of the towns and villages of Wales, nor can we provide the level of services and invest- ment which can make Wales a better place for our children.'

of Wales are to • from they will wealth i which receive crumbs in return for their labours and on which the middle class will grow fat.

Inequality Welsh nationalism is the pro- duct of the inequalities between nations resulting from imperialist exploitation. Nationalism is a backward development. But it is inevitable unless and created until a real equality • is between men and nations. Only under socialism will a nation's right to secede and start up on become meaningless its own because it will not be necessary.

Socialism is not hostile to the plurality of cultures which exist in the world. It does not seek to stamp them out. What socialism does seek to stamp out is state-building by a minority ruling class on the basis of regional cultures and languages because this perpetu- international inequalities ates and conflicts. People all over the warld can and live together fraternally enjoy equal living standards and freedom. But first there must be an end to the exploitation and oppression of individuals by capitalism and of nations by imperialism. This will only be done by socialist order.

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Eire Cliff Slaughter writes on crisis

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Why vote withe split in Fianna Feel step The he Hang Pai Pati 1. He scenainto resist sucn a move. A reply Whatever Creen Tories sublin the Labour? to the decisive ultra-lefts ruling diass Nomer and South. Terrified holademan state THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE has been But of course it would be organization to lead a the only consistent tust the be to sais state reste Enough them 00. Fied or are frist as teens struggle in the working class for socialist poli- farmers as the cies, against the betrayal of the Wilson govern- ad the Trade Unic They m border as ment. and In the summer a situation autumn preceding the 1964 Ing spokesmen using all t Glassmen General Election inside chem for a direct metho leadership toliet last few years have warned the working class, defeat the through "The Newsieller —forerunner of Workers tions against every attack.

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the Press - and through Blackburn's historical views Young Socialists' cam- •he Lather the betwee sauced ive wlass caro after thade paigns of the consequences ons are a travesty c of Wilson's leadership. the truth visionists disrupt advise aven at inat time it was Distorts clear to Marxists that the they post-war economic were was drawing to an end and That any british govern- British trade ment which did not break What -he labour expelled from their to

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economistic, have to carry out anti- members of the unionare working - class policies under conc unem- leading to severe and indus riplex and vice sacatings ployment and attacks on 'New Mode living standards. siderable bitterne The a one man care the day to So Saunt to ed not Republi Helens at the weekend. a 19, hen the sea ocialist coming tom Fredat both castiesn to power and unity. peror being semi-skilled and unskille near This than by herring or every day ce 18 aof Organisea or workers will be sentativesist, capitalist hesitack out the Labour meeting scheduled earl of a concuence, take place seren 'strike sara le will be the ossible Ulster now! nich the ey be it they carry or Real damn police it e ficularly in tel sat bare

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see one site is in at al dan. Tara Ali and the ti to me propon d me Quotation Omits entirely he Red Mo followed the same opportunist Left-Wi nation econd. vies at the Wilson from Socialis called we kee argued for th Parer can Is Buile up in are the Soon contes at are third me snich chrough independent' uning the Socialis grips, he anticipated the reing Internat he does not tell his eague as scornfully dismisses the From the Marxist We are absolutely convinced that our circulation can be considerably Increased over the next Nee election weeks. You have the opportuntty to Introduce readers by using our the cal election offer of lee my por sited The Si cohoes Thir commencin• June 1 TO 108 Get your new reader 1o ith 15sl the form below and pos none ourse things. so send Workers Press from June 1 to June 20 Please inclusive to : Best conditions Name Address question since strike ally hach plaped defeat wilso plan forminm Thon was reflected in the May 1, 1969, workers are going inrough a Postal order/cheque for 15s Point, there is no doubt that SLL's readers is tha Am which Ng trol Wrote want would of the young English com break central state power would take Ivocated voting selectia frica precisely the ame timer. asking

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tended experience a ran to keeping workers continue to t aSon to expect thie British Egyptian s reason for hiding the Sue earlone exchange orrept tactics to defeat it sume that ourgeoisie to standpoint bil not he notar boson is politicians for sraelei cappe standpoint seep for review Umbrella perilous experimentation en the political Crudest ent in urn a Labour govern- This is wh blackburn aski not a question of the 'lesse himse suppor contade intr , sephisticated tions. With ar gentlemen who have rudenment than the New Zealand, he or fast rotested against ap cam parta to heid by resigning from rugb ideology. presents the Labou electing them expression of the sees the Labour fore in a should disrupt unches. for as te • Londo have no fore it can eois Monday, June 1, 1970 LaBour have to seich the over the And existence Labour governments, while re- flecting the bourgeoisie's con- trol of the working class to a dangers eretend per this dangers of the end control. But working-class conscious less is Blackburn's last con sideration. By a foreign correspondent capitalism: All the evidence suggests of which

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responses in E that the decision Party to vote for will be de- last week's Europe to termined less by class loyalty and more by of any kind Rome NATO conference calculation of which Party can run British capitalism better' have generally been fav- In other words, the workers are only interested in a well- ourable. capitalist system. run 'In such a situation', Black- The Bulgarian government burn it would be continues, for its servility -noted to- absurd for socialists to muddy wards the Soviet bureaucracy their propaganda and activi- announced through 'Rab- ties during the election by notnickesho Delo' Friday on of the commitment to any that 'the majority of W Euro- bourgeois parties [i.e. Tory or

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pean members of Labour].' unlike the USA, were favour- This is the old vice of ably disposed towards the fear of the real sectarian convening of a European con- but without the movement, Com- ference on security. of the virtues young munist movement, where at Though more cautious, Hungarian least those guilty of sectarian Radio commented tactics had made a thorough that while the NATO Council break with parliamentarian session had produced no tan- and middle-class politics. gible result', hopes that *rea- Blackburn and his friends son might prevail not were come from an entirely middle- quite groundless'. class political milieu which he calls the 'extra-parliament- Jarring note ary opposition' and boast can work in the organized • Jarring note was predic no bly struck by the E Germa labour movement. currently under The best summing-up of the government, ireat pressue from the Krem- whole attitude of this rotten tendency make diplomatic and Blackburn's 1S in political W closing paragraphs: concessions to Germany. 'In any case, he says, we must rid ourselves of the de.

'The meeting has above all lusion that our support iS revealed the dominating role likely to make any difference of the USA and W Germany the immediate outcome of to and their policy of tying the this election. NATO states down to a policy do not think that discrimination against the

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any revolutionary group in Britain can claim that Its This 'Neues comment by would "rope" support be Deutschland' flagrantly con- enough hang the strong to of tradicts the opinion the Labour Party.' (Lenin spoke of Bulgarian Stalinists, who em- Labour supporting as a rope phasized that the US had not supports a hanging man.) succeeded in forcing their line onto the majority of the NATO members! Urgency Ironically, the international Stalinist strategy of attempt- Everything is done to prove ing to play off the European the hopelessness of a revolu- capitalist classes the tionary intervention that can dealist

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(the Bonn- current carry any weight in the work- Moscow talks and the Warr- class. Ing saw Pact proposal for an all- working- The urgency for European Security Conference class and strength unity to and Treaty are central to this developed be and preserved plan) has led to splits in the through the anti-Tory struggle ranks of the bureaucracy as is completely ignored. well as the imperialists.

The influence and prospects of the revolutionary Marxist Deep crisis separate from party are not these interests. Stalinist Because the Only in so far as the revolu- bureaucracy has always tried tionary finds correct party its privileges to maintain by policies for the working class, balancing between imperialism and then fights to bring them and the international working home to the masses in their class it goes into deep experience, can the necessary crisis together with Im- change be made. perialism. Blackburn ignores this re- Support for Franco and the lation between the party and Greek colonels goes hand in the class. with hand talks with For him and his revisionist secret Brandt and the continued friends the working class is recognition of the CIA puppet of individuals condi- tioned by all-powerful capital- regime in Cambodia. ism, while the

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enlightened few As for this anti- around The Red Mole' mili- con- communist, imperialist methodsath imagin- tinue their of alliance is tary criticised by Stalinists disrupting the Hungarian be- meetings instead of fighting failed cause to produce for Marxist theory | and pro- 'tangible results' at its Rome meeting! gramme. The working class will re- As if NATO could achieve ject with contempt the adven- benefits either to the E Euro- of this and group, pean states or the working Marxists will learn, the in classes in the West. of course struggling against revisionists, such the ways which the bourgeoisie uses Cambodia apparently 'left' illusions the of the lower-middle-class in- tellectuals for its own pur-

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poses. ing a middle course between Kosygin and Mao. Hence the Radio Heath tator's judgement on Chinese diplomacy: although the negotia- •

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tions are the only correct way If a serious strike occurred to resolve problem and on termination of a contract conflicts, China did war not then 'a secret ballot would be make a mistake when it can- used'. the 137th celled meeting in Turning to immigration, Warsaw [with the US Ambas- Heath's only comment on sador] as mark of protest Powell's speech US icacuollar y against aggression In earlier in the day was: Cambodia.' It doesn't seem to me that Mr Powell saying any- Was

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thing which he had not said before. This careful for praise In fact, Heath's own policy Peking is, rounded however, differed little in substance off by a call for a resumption from that of Powell. of secret diplomacy when the It included no further times are more opportune: immigration save for strictly 'It is a good thing, too, that defined periods, an end to the its [the Chinese government's] right of Commonwealth immi- decision does not amount to become British citi- grants to doors closing the future to zens after five years' residence meetings, should the condi- in Britain and repatriation. tions for such meetings has Heath's Bexley speech exist.' ТогУ revealed clearly the Nevertheless, Zagreb Radio plans for dealing with the has made some telling points working class if they are counter-revolutionary on the elected on June 18. role of Stalinism in SE Asia.

Even after the resumption

ALL TRADES

last week of diplomatic rela- tions between the Lon Nol

UNIONS ALLIANCE

regime and Saigon, Thailand and the USA, the Soviet Am-

MEETINGS

bassador to Cambodia remains at Phnom Penh.

BIRMINGHAM

"The General Election and

EXPOSE

the Economic Crisis' With equal facility Kosygin Thursday, June 4, 8 p.m. his solidarity proclaims with the Cambodian people-and The Wellington awards diplomatic recognition Cnr of to the regime that is butcher- Bristol St/Bromsgrove St ing them. Without a constant cam-

COVENTRY

Stalinist paign to expose 'Beat the Tories' secret diplomacy and the aid that it renders imperialism, Thursday, June 4, 7.30 p.m.

there be effective can no Shakespeare Inn solidarity with the SE Asian Spoon St people today.