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MILITARY activity in Belfast has been sharply Foundry workers ne stepped up as polling day nears in Ulster.

That the man Yesterday police and troops searched houses and moorland in the Ligoniel for arms they claim are hidden there. One The search produced a total find of 50 stolen shirts, 15 alarm clocks publishes and a number of tins of peas. Of the the do candidat st her One shirt tor every 12th soldier involved in Sing nominee Boyd the • cacilise It iste for't te third o i- Walle this somewhat un Were own to the Poo George Powellite ac employment to the state lause numbers of sea fort the Schwarzen. of trouble are Jobless an Briness Army occupation. Like Malaya mitigated Half dress is dotes tolation me tinese as the one which ations against the ea - part PRECISELY four-and-a-half minutes of early-evening ment in the liberation move.

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MILITARY activity in Belfast has been sharply stepped up as polling day nears in Ulster. Yesterday police and troops searched houses and moorland in the Ligoniel for arms they claim are hidden there. • has with- orner le is AEF executiv The search produced Coute of the Magist a total find of 50 stolen PuBise The Worth Britain Gollan peddles shirts, 15 alarm clocks and a number of tins ° is here con diare bere of peas. little doubt. T.V. reformism One shirt for every 12th soldier involved in the exercise se was in It ise fort te third o will

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GLADSTONE WILSON, a Nottingham municipal busman NEITHER HEATHS programme organized in the Transport and General Workers, told us : nor his manifesto provide alternative to Wilson. He says he is going to take action to prevent workers from striking; continuadon Barbara Castle's policies.

Heath can't do any better than Wilson to tries to restrict the stop unemployment. There will be If he unemployment whenever there is freedom at the unions be will be faced with strikes. There will no market for goods. Personally, be big trouble if low-paid work- I wasn't going to vote. I was ers are told they cannot fight going to stay neutral. But for an increase. after reading the Socialist Labour League's manifesto I think I will have to change my decision. Heath can't do any better than Wilson to stop unemploy- ment. There will be unemploy- whenever there ment market for goods. Personally, I wasn't going to vote. I was going to stay neu- tral. But after reading the Social- ist Labour League's manifesto, I think I will have to change my demision to anstain. I will vote Labour. I think the government should freeze excess profits to help the balance of payments and the profits I Bv economy. excess mean what firms have left when they have paid all their costs This would take the burden off the working cass. We must fight for nationaliza- tion. especially of the banks: for the withdrawal ot all troops from abroad; for the withdrawal of all support for Nixon's war in Indo-China. I am opposed to entry into the Common Market. With six days to go before polling day, we continue our countrywide series on the class issues in Many members of my T&GWU the General branch—in fact, between 80 and Election. Views 90-are considering chucking in come this week cards because their membershin from Wales, the they think the union has let them Midlands and down. We put in for a straight Yorkshire. basic weekly wage of f23 with no honus strings. which the man- agement has refused. By letting negotiations drag on the branch leadershin has dissi- pated the militancy of the mem- To faht for union democracy.

you must first of all reorganize the members. Then a new leader- chin is needed.

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Name Address THE MAIN ISSUE, both in this election and after it, is whether we can negotiaté wages and not be interfered with by the govern- ment. The Labour government, if returned, will carry on with the same policies— there has been no 'wages explosion' and only some easing up on wages before the election. Wages are still held down by taxes and rising prices.

* Labour MPs who advocate pay rises being tied to productivity deals should be opposed. As far as the Tory proposals are concerned, I am completely opposed to any suggestion of the control of the working class in the interests of capitalism by laws which are said to be neces- sary to restrain pickets and demonstrators. The Labour government has brought about high unemploy- ment through the modernizing and rationalization' of private enterprise with workers' money.

The CIR is known to be an exact replica of Mussolini's use of the state to maintain and bolster up capitalism. Their economic policies are designed to force British capital- ism to take a lead in the rat- race against Europe and the US.

Vorster has made a classic remark that he hasn't changed, it is the British who have changed. We hope that the feel- ing against S Africa will develop J. BOULTON, a National Society of steward at British-Leyland's Cover International plant, said : clothing. They're a mild form of Toryism. Look at Lord Carron, who died léaving bags of money.

He was director of various boards and had investments in stocks and shares. This may well be going on throughout the Lab- our leadership. There must be the fight for true socialism.

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GEORGE GUTHRIDGE, who is a Dra Technicians' Association member, a munist Party and secretary of Hudde cil, told us : into a working-class movement to end the war in Vietnam and fascism in Spain, Greece and elsewhere. The Labour government must be returned. D South African gold-miners al Society of Metal Mechanics shop land's Coventry Standard-Triumph I think the Workers Press is possibly the only true socialist paper in this country. You can't that about the Morning Star'. It weaker gets weaker ... and that applies to their members as well. The war in Vietnam seems to be the death-throes of the old imperialism. They're defeated, but they will not admit they are defeated. Friday, June 12, 1970 who is a Draughtsmen and Allied n member, a member of the Com- tary of Huddersfield Trades Coun- five-and-a-half tendeavour se uld the cader about evers. We must to return socialist principles. Vorster has made a classic remark that he hasn't changed, venis nearey it is the British who have changed. FRANK PATTISON is chairman of the National Union of We hope that the Tailors and Garment Workers' Leeds district committee, feeling against vice-chairman of the union's Leeds No. 1 branch and S Africa will chairman of Sumries' factory committee. He said: develop into a working-clasS movement to end the war in Vietnam In E Leeds our Labour candidate is -and fascism in Denis Healey, the man who Spain, Greece, congratulated British troops etc.... on the job they are doing in N Ireland... that I the thinking Tate Libour in the coker gust mean that if the boss goes down eral election. with him; down that we y disse- It is Words luca very completely Tories industrially eed The meat of this is in Heath's in dustrial These Ideas have been peddled ov the ront wine anato som thinking extent anis melnoa O1 within exe clothing industry. OWIl even more thar while It's that we une team all he fore competitive events of the last few months have shown tha They complete repression of the working class East This if themmmention ent.

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Friday, June 12, 1970 THIS BOOK is parti- cularly useful in making available many of Che Guevara's little - known early writings and utter- ances. It shows that he never the liberal- broke from pragmatist outlook which he shared with the leaders of the Cuban revolution and which has stunted its de- velopment ever since. When hard pressed in an interview with Maurice Zeitling in 1962 on Trotskyism Stalinism, to which we will return later, he declared: I am not accustomed to dis- cussing theory. I try be to pragmatic. Sometimes we theorize about Cuba, sometimes about Latin America, but we never go as far as to theorize about the world,' In another interview in April 1959, when asked if he had known anything about Cuban agriculture when he came over with Fidel Castro to Cuba in 1956 he admitted: I did not know it, nor did I smoke cigars then.' It should be remembered that the Zeitling interview took place well after the Cuban govern- including Che, ment, had de- clared themselves Marxists.

Nothing about the Cuban revolution was planned and its leaders are proud of the fact.

The history of its leadership has been a long string of empirical adaptations to circumstances and never based on any fundamental principles, or scientific appraisal of the role of social classes and their relationship to the means of production. Original the original guerrilla Even focus, later elevated into a universal formula for peasant revolution, was the result of chance: 'We all thought about arriving at some place in Cuba and after few cries, several heroic battles, a few radio broadcasts and several deaths, we would expel dictator Batista and achieve power!' ('Development of al Marxist Revolution', July 28, 1960.) The 12 who survived the original invasion catastrophe and reached the relative safety of the Sierras did not even have an agrarian policy: "The rebel was born with very vague social ideas the army integrated integrated had one s men from conception of the countryside.'

(April 28, 1959, Interview.)

Che describes in numerous Castro's articles how guerrillas • evolved an agrarian policy purely a means of winning the as peasantry to support the struggle 'against Batista's dictatorship, not they because identified them- selves with the social aspirations scientif essential or ed tive contradictions between the interests the small farmers and Batista's social base - US its enormous imperialism and landholdings and the native Cuban latifundists: 'We did not invent agrarian reform, it was an idea that came from the peasants . • The peasantry compelled the revolu- tion to make an agrarian reform.'

The ferment in the Cuban peasantry took Castro's men to power in 1958, a process facili- tated by the crisis of confidence of both the Cuban national bour- 66 but which left many acres, geoisie and the US imperialism in large farms intact. corrupt and wasteful The manner of the taking of regime. all the major social and economic But Castro néver understood measures of the Cuban revolution the very process which took him is well described by Che.

to power and has always been the prisoner of the social forces Empirical and conditions which he has adapted, and Che likewise.

It was an empirical guarantee The honeymoon •Period with that under other the the co-existence rebel the regime might not attempt adapt- army and the old liberal poli- ations in an opposite direction to ticians, with Urrutia as president, those taken in the early 1960s end. The rebel of all (nationalization army was a genuine peasant force dustries and the state monopoly with. peasant aspirations and foreign trade nationalization Castro was forced to alienate all or distribution of all big farms): his new-found allies, with even of the the implementation first 'US Cuba has on pressure timid reform, which made necessary the "radicaliza- gave all farmers a minimum of tion" of the revolution. To know FOR A WEEK Billy Graham has the whoop-up general resulting been packing them in--55,000 at from his biblical-style oration.

a time -during his East Tennessee The Knoxville police also in- his predict- terpreted Nixon's contribution in able concoction warnings of the apocalypse and the immi- an other worldly way. nence of the second coming. For a few days later 57 war- He told his rants were sworn audience at the against University of Tennessee 'there anti-war nrotesters of heckling the President will be history at generation in Graham's meeting. whose problems are so great that there is no human solution'.

atmosphere Into this fevéred on the seventh day came a sur- The accused wére identified prise speaker- old friend of -an from police photographs of the Graham's-President Nixon.

crowd and charged with disrup- tion of a religious servicel Graham is also expected help stage-manage another Nixon's at first public relations lamboree for slightly puzzling, is actually no Nixon on July 4 when the Rever- surprise. end and comedian Bob Hope are 'Honour planning America For the President was making Day'. his first speaking appearance be- fore a student audience since the invasion of Cambodia. Nixon's choice of audience perhaps concerned

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with earthly maters as the Indo- China war-was quite deliberate.

Nixon had already verified the almost universal hostility to the Cambodian invasion on the cam- even from his own 1968 buses. campaign supporters. He had earlier discreetly sent out young White House aides to spy out the land. Nixon After a glowing introduction from Graham, Nixon warmed to his earnest listeners. Hope exposed the reactionary nature of this crusade when he explained: His style of speaking adopted that evening probably helped 'We are trying to keep the war to out of this' the object break down any barriers: and that is to 'rally round the flag to show I want this nation to national unity'. peace and we shall be,' he in-..

The all-day rally which the toned. hoping will attract sponsors are 'I want the air to be clean and hundreds of thousands of partici- it will be clean. I want the water unbelievably- is almost to be pure and it will be pure.

to be managed by Walt Disney I want better education ... and productions. that shall be. Even Disney magic may well Nixon's that the be strained in this latest attempt crisis of US imperialism could be 'silent to animate the majority' solved without divine interven- into demonstrating their support tion probably went unnoticed in for the Indo-China war.

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how much further Cuba will go, it will be easier to ask the US government how far it plans to go? (Interview. November 8, 1960.) The US embargo and success- ful attempt to deprive Cuba of all her traditional markets forced the revolutionary government to strike again and at the again internal allies of US imperialism.

But for some two years the Castro regime vigorously 'hurled back the branding réproach of communism' and sought to come to terms with the US. In 1961 Che participated in the Inter-American Economic and Social Council conference, where he proposed a modus vivendi to Richard Goodwin, representative of the Kennedy Administration.

THE DEATHS in 1968 of 78 miners in fires and explosions at the Consolidation Coal Com- pany's Number 9 mine in W Virginia pushed Congress into passing the Coal Mine and Health and Safety Act last year.

became But the Act which partly effective in April is un- likely ever to be fully imple- mented. This became clear when the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee turned down the President's nominee for the post of director of the Bureau of Mines—J. Richard Lucas. The Bureau is the agency re- sponsible for administering the Safety Act. Lucas, a professor of mining engineering at the Virginia Poly- technic Institute had, seemed a certainty for the job. But the Senate Committee re- versed what was expected to be THE Trotskyist Workers League is continuing its fight for the in- dependent political mobilization of the working class against the Indo-China war. The League took part in New York's recent Memorial Day anti-war demonstration when about 20,000 demonstrators marched through the city to a rally in Central Park. The Workers League contin- gent-one of the largest and most spirited on the march-placed its central emphasis on the call for a labour party in its slogans: 'US out of Indo-China, build a labour party now' and Nixon's war is the bosses' war, build a labour party now' Neither the revisionist Social- ist Workers Party nor the Com- munist Party had contingents marching under their own ban- ners. * The organizers of the demon- stration-liberals and Stalinists —sought to contain the march within the politics of a popular front between workers and the so-called liberal capitalists on a reformist programme. Union bureaucrats who spoke 'dove' Mayor Lindsay, also known for his strike-break- ing activities and his advocacy of wage-freezing. The SWP leadership Dlays a

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Bonachea and Valdes, Editors The Mit Press $12.50 He offered compensation duction, could consull, their bourgeois con- the nationalized US concerns, no not destroy alliance with Communist sciousness, would any go béyond reformism. country and a guarantee not to export any revolution in return In an interview for a Chinese for the lifting of the embargo.

April 1959 Che magazine in But in the epoch of imperial- affirmed that The Cuban ism even the limited perspectives tion is not a class revolution, but be a liberation that has of agrarian retorm attained outside a fight to the overthrown a dictatorial, tyrani- cal government'. death with imperialism and the holdings of United Fruit.

All the social and political and Guevara found it méasures of the period Castro were more and more necessary to lean characterized by their mild re- and by a desire working formist on the international class as well as that of Cuba, but not to disturb the national bour- US and opportunist geoisie nor, imperialism. in an empirical way. In 1960 Che, in charge of the nation's finances, decreed that Terms foreign companies could still ex- port 50 per cent of their profits.

The only industries originally They came to terms reluctantly destined to be nationalized were with the Stalinist bureaucracy at the electricity and telephone com- home and abroad as panies. weight to the pressure im- perialism the peasant revolt they had Interview repre- sent. This is what is behind with Telemundo An interview Guevara's statement in July 1960 1959) Television (April 28, has the had that revolution dis- much that could well come out covered Marxism through prac- of the mouth of Harold Wilson: tice. 'If a rich invests his man This statement is the negation money he will have no problem. of Marxism. We shall give guarantees to the investor We are hungry As Lenin out in his for capital but we do not want pamphlet 'What is to be Done?', capitalists who are too hungry. Marxism cannot be learned from practical activity, it is based The latter remark stinks of the of the laws of on an appraisal social democratic illusion that it motion of society as a whole, the who only immoral capitalists social totality of and are excessively concerned for thus the Economists relations; profit. who sought to base themselves the experiences of the When asked his attitude purely on working class at the point of pro- employers who refused wage de- just a formality after receiving a to the long-standing charges that letter - the only the Bureau of Mines allows the oppo- Sition to Lucas's appointment mine-owners to proceed they an not unsignificantly which perhaps wish with few restaunts came from a Representative hail- It is thought that the Bureau's ing from coal mining district previous director was sacked be- in Pennsylvania. his apposition to the The letter alleged that Lucas mine owners. "totally unqualified'. was The Bureau is in any case un- able to enforce the recent regu- lations as its staff of 200 inspec- tors cannot with task cope a newspaper columnist then which needs five times about weighed in at the that number of men. right moment with a story that Lucas may have The like their rejected everywhere been by the Johnson counterparts else, administration for the director- are screaming that will the pits ship FBI report have to closed if the because of an be 1969 Act is enforced. that he had plagiarized part of his PhD thesis Columbia But the miners who remember University. that the grim toll of men killed US ooal mines since Lucas has vehemently denied 1900 has this charge, but his appointment has reached the 100,000 mark are has ground to a halt. reported to be already threaten- These manoeuvres over Lucas's the ing strike action safety 11 have added weight not implemented appointment measures are New York demonstration- Workers League contingent The revisionists divert the particularly pernicious role, .com- thousands of youth seriously want- refusing to raise the pletely de- ing to take the anti-war strug. mand for a labour party and to gle and the advanced forward place this. call at the centre of the sections of trade union the struggle against the war. movement away from the central the Having no perspective basud struggle independent mobilization of the working on the independent mobilization class against capitalism. of the the

SWP

working class The fight against the revision- trails behind the Stalinists and ists will the anti- union bureaucracy. continue called in Cleve- war conterence The Workers contin- land on June 16. gent on the Memorial Day march The conference, reflecting the fought to bring in the strength involvement of the labour move- and lessons of the May 21 rally ment in the anti-war struggle, unionists took 1n which trade has arnong its

ULIULI

in demonstration part mass leaders inam the United Auto the behind against war their Workers aard the Teamsters. union banmers. But the call for the confer- This development is only be- that the sponsors ence warls keep ing carried forward by the fight out, in of Workers League against fact to tie it to the bureaucracy the the union bureaucracy and the and the politics of the Demo- cratic Party. revisionists. Reviewed by

TONY SHORT

mands on the grounds that these would harm the revolution, Che opines that 'some labour demands are excessive . . • prices would increase'. His summary is a classic of reformism and petty-bourgeois contempt for the power of the working class. It reveals the Bonapartist nature of the regime: It is a mistake to think that a benefits social revolution all classes [quite rightl], but we are not going to attack the rich, in- stead we will regulate the rela- tionship that exists between em- ployer and employee' The article "The Working Class and the Industrialization of Cuba' gives very clear proof of the sheer opportunism of the Castro regime's turn to the working class and lip service to Marxism.

He explains that the peasants have had the fruits of their vic- tory. The regime, of course, soon found that the agrarian réform enhanced the buying power of the peasantry and their demand industrial and consumer goods. Che discovers that 'now we begin the road to industrializa- tion the role of the workers has very important. Not become before ! He tries to explain that the revolution had been based on the peasantry bécause the leader (Fidel) happened to be based in peasant regions. He then goes on to say that 'Cuba, like all under- developed countries, did not have a strong prolétariat'. Untrue This is absolutely untrue. The true peasantry, that is those who farm their own plot of land, is a relatively small grouping social in Cuba. The intensive capitalist penetration of Cuban agriculture, based largely on the sugar plan- tation, that the meant vast majority of Cuba's rural popula- tion were landless proletarians.

Before the revolution Cuba had a labour force of two million,.

42 per cent of which worked in agriculture. 70 per cent of these were wage workers in the sugar mills. Thus, the small peasant, the main social base of Castro's regime only represents between 10 per cent and 15 per cent of Cuba's population. Che goes on to say that the working class was divided be- cause of large wage differentials, as if this were not the case everywhere under capitalism.

This has not stopped 15 million Italian workers going out on strike against their employers and the state in the last few months, nor ten million French workers in May and June 1968. He fails to mention the enor- differentials the mous among peasantry, more dangerous than mere wage differences because the peasant is tied to capitalism by virtue of being an owner of means of production. He complains that 'many workers consider the state an- other employer. Our state is pre- cisely the opposite of a patron- state' (state capitalist?).

But he cannot prove this or demonstrate the difference in any way. The problem for Che at this stage is that many important factories are still in private hands and he is forced to ask the workers to enhance the profits of their owners: 'We ask for greater produc- tivity those factories con- in trolled by the state. More and more the large factories - the ones we will build of course — will be state controlled. State control will increase in time and the duty of the working class will increase too. But even in all the privately-owned industries, waste must be avoided and care emphasis. T.S.) machinery? (My taken of the Safeguard Both in order to saféguard their regime from its internal and enemies — imperialism, external big landowners and the rich peasants-and in order to placate the working class, Castro's men had to nationalize all big industry and extend the social services.

But the big problem remains for Castro, the problem of the working class. As Che said half way through 1960: 'We are not yet sure if the working class has understood the problems we face or how much they will help' The Cuban Communist Party has never had a Congress to elect its leaders—all of whom

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were chosen from above; no workers' councils or soviets have even been contemplated. Che condones and supports the persecution of Trotskyists in Cuba who raised the question of workers' control. They were 'acting against the revolution' and 'calling on the proletariat to exert pressure on the government, and even to carry out another revolution in which the proletariat would come to power, he complains. He continues: 'Some time ago when we had just created the workers' techni- the Trotskyists cal committees characterized them as a crumb given to the workers because the workers were asking for the direction (control) of the factor- ies' (Interview with Zeitling.)

Nowhere in his writings is there any perspective for, indeed any discussion of, what is meant by the dictatorship of the prole- tariat. Cuba remains a Bonapart- ist dictatorship which balances on a narrow petty-bourgeois péasant base between the working class and imperialism. Batlsta Che never gave up the search for an accommodation with im- perialism last major speech, in Algeria 1965, shows.

He appeals for a moral regener- ation in the Soviet bureaucracy and advises underdeveloped countries to seek financial aid from the imperialist powers.

Even in his last writings in 1967, set of instructions on a how the non-existent urban sup- port movement in Bolivia should be organized to give supplies and succor to the isolated guerrilla force, Che still firmly rejects any approach to the working class: 'The owner (sic) of a ware- house could organize the matter of supplies ... the owner of 'a transportation company would be in charge of organizing transpor- tation and so forth.' Wishfully He goes on to wishfully hope that 'the cadres must have un- shakeable ideological conviction'.

But what ideology? He does not explain. There is much that I have not dealt with: his guerrilla theories, his theories of moral incentives which have been discussed in earlier articles in Workers Press and 'The Newsletter'. But what is revealed in Che's early writings is the basic con- tradictions of his position and of the Cuban revolution through- out. A moralistic, Quixotic approach to human injustice which fails to start from the real material force in world society, which can eliminate those injustices.

Only the conscious overthrow of imperialism by the working class, led by Marxist parties pledged to create the dictator- se and mai dont ger che was never able to perceive the revolutionary nature of the work- ing class of the metropolitan countries. it. That is where Che ended up, despite his subjective desires the contrary.

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This butchery is going on in Portugu while the Kiev Ballet visits Lisbon. 'Peaceful co-existence'

BYA WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENI

working TWO HUNDRED men have been sacked from again! the Brocklehurst yarn factory in Cardiff, where they have been on strike for almost a fortnight.

The men, mostly immi- Vote walked l1 grants. out days ago after the manage- Scanlon! ment relused to concede a f2-a-week rise in basic

FROM PAGE ONE

pay in return for a 50-per- cent rise in productivity.

brocklehurst wantedi new system of seven eight- sures ben nour shilts a week replace the present work- week of five 12-hour ing While writing at length on the * 1922 Yok Sults. haseries abandoned by the FIRST ATHENS, then Madrid and now No matter how brutal the regime, Lisbon. acceptan Measy atiork, which effectively all are eligible candidates for peaceful co- the T&GWU that nothing cay existence' with the Kremlin.

becatse he sirike is soviet govern- Scalestions is rely deaf tiese these ment. tor the hrst time of the

BY DAVID BARNES

since the end Determined she pran. second world war, has Pres re derriese to trie established ofneıai con So scator cal nor on their struggle. or the see. Portu- conversation tacts with the guese dictatorship. siriker b. P.inomas saidi hantalinisme extends lared to disor his he ballet corps cards, but will sten side the actore every day:

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Peace in Indo-China will not brought nearer by silence in bureaucray me l and equivocation. Them aney wil coe anact there goet besterialippetites OSt cynicat move ste of trade union nich peaceful reactionary regimes in the union bureaucracy

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Only these involved like that at Pilkington's.

mandized vulcolonias wars three masses Bloody OI being behind the Africa MozamBigula, Gortuguese e most barbara

CIRCULATION

A notes this eside and ring the relations be imperialist states, Africa and the Stainists.

and the consolidation of the right. an Madridege po nison o ranks and other weapons a oution to socialism break the Spanish Deception

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areas into areas of deso- This is the reality behin end to the gry coins porn ha prails. While

LATE NEWS

ENTICEMENT

ere latest balan he Stalinists will le 2nd doers walked yesterda nturned atten capitalint regimes from American imperialism irect economie and but m ates of founds n psaid, ar that future balance of pas The Page lot Palestine' The Cairo Yeast called nent we p to the soarede totat of 2405,500,000.

harshe bankers are demanding miass, but the Part Leaders are on to beration absolutely *Street, London. after Tuand keep smiling until • broadcast Arica.

WORKERS PRESS

Portuguese Mozambiqu with sickening speaks Portugal haviour of a Stalinists in

'LAW AND

ORDER'

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audience So, be sure shed or we so resee victors • enas, really society. police 'And allow bigger reform ser essential. umonisn This is not true today unions are richer tean many held good quaint tales of Could zambique Portuguese imperialism com- mits daily atrocities in Africa.

The photographs (above and left) taken by a member of the Portuguese Expeditionary Force in Mozambique, show the decapitation of an African captive. • Meanwhile the Kiev Ballet visits Lisbon to provide an umbrella for the first steps in "peaceful co-existence'.

YUGOSLAV

CP CHIEF

WARNS

STRIKERS

GROWING UNREST in the Yugoslav working class was admitted by Com- munist Party leader Kardelj in a speech at Dolejnske Teplic this week.

probably of the In what was i reference to the strike of 1,100 miners in northern Croatia, reported in Wednes- day's Workers Press, he said: 'There is no denying that there are many things in the present situation with which we are dissatisfied ... people are forgetting that they are jeopardizing something much more important than the few million dinars about which they are squabbling.' Dismissed demands Kardelj dismissed demands for higher wages as of 'second- rate importance' and warned against pressing such claims too far: It is necessary to respect all rules which make for equality and effective democratic deci- sion-making. One should not fear discussion, criticism, dis- putes or clashes of various interests. 'However, we must try to resolve our problems as work- ing people who enjoy rights , respect one an- and who other... Kardelj also defended the bureaucratic line being pur- sued by his government in foreign policy: "The struggle for peace and independence is waged in the political and economic struc- ture of international relations in general... 'Yugoslavia's foreign. policy continues to be consistent and but also respon- principled, sible to the greatest possible since loud-mouthed extent, adventurism or ultra-radical swings may be just as detri- mental as opportunist prag- matism ... Summed up However, 'opportunist prag- matism' neatly sums up the present direction of Tito's policy, which balance is to expertly between Peking, the USA and the Soviet bureau- cracy, while responding cau- tiously to the friendly noises now coming out of Albania.

At home-where it defends its privileges against the work- ing class--as well as abroad, the Yugoslav leadership re- mains completely tied to the politics Stalinism and peaceful co-existence. The new factor in Yugo- slavia-as throughout both E and W Europe--is the confi- dence and aggression of the working class and youth, who refuse to compromise with the 'pragmatic opportunism' the bureaucracy.

WEATHER

London area, SE, central southern, NW and central northern England, E 'and W Midlands, Glasgow area, N Ireland: Sunny spells. Scat- tered thunderstorms. Winds variable, light or moderate.

Hot. Max. 27C (81F). Channel Islands, SW England: Bright periods, but cloudy at times with occasional rain.

Wind SE, moderate. Warm. Max. 21C (70F). Edinburgh: Sunny intervals.

Wind light. Rather easterly, warm. Max. 18C (66F). Outlook for Saturday and Sunday: Little change, but be- coming cooler in most aréas.

Friday, June 12, 1970 French

LAOS

builders stop for 24 hours LEADERS of the Communist

(CGT)

and Catholic

(CFDT)

trade unions called a 24 hour hroughout France the demand DaLK national agreement coverine the bullaing industry. After the May-June 1968 general So tailed thieber strike employers

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

the taking agreed THE STRATEGIC S Laotian city of Saravane nexulialiulls basis. out have mo tact rerused was still in Pathet Lao hands yesterday after to do so serious v. which Yestercave strike their defeat of pro-imperialist forces earlier in supported Socialist the week. Ouvrier lemands for Despite use of US trade the Ilgils on Unle site an increase B-52 bombers and terror all grades I Day rol Pahran- Belgian tactics against the local tees against redundancy. of work and better concions Royalist population, the provision of training. , a reduc. miners win tion the were completely troops below the present hours 10 per cent routed, but not before they 60 d retirement at instead had looted hundreds of OT 1,600,000 workers alre homes and shops. the claim. атестев оі of the miners This latest victory for the Limburg coalfield, Despite The character of the industry, with have eturned liberation movement is a meal Nixon almost a quarter of a million 10 per blow against ministration's thee nimization- Ad- cent wage increase which depends temporary Stripeid phases of anti-communist immigrant workers Their which started em- Laos, ployed for the Cambodia an unofficial action at the and Thailand 10 ll.

SUDDOLL

SUNKe perinen tast weer. torced Socialist meetines held throughout The the Catholic and country, including 1l in Paris union make Essential leaders alone. official and provide strike pay.

Saraváne stands close to the supply routes leading Vietnam liberated the South esSentiat ford armed t forces of the rainy The bewinning Sensor mont nina Incidas with the nanned with drawal of Nixon's Cambodian occupation force h Coquesti the US High could now how of these Manly have diverter North to fight in Laos? NLF capture 'WE ARE CONCERNED with a workers' democracy hamlet which lifts us to a higher grade of socialist life', wrote Drahomir Kolder, chairman of the Central Commission NATIONAL Liberation Front of the People's Control of Czechoslovakia, in 'Rude forces Caotured a rev name Pravo' earlier this week.

Guana vam neavince vAc terday, Saigon authorities have His article went on to spell

BY A WORKERS PRESS

admitted. what this means. however: Oul

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

The guerrillas evaded the "(rouns in certain tactomes puppet and advancer and enternrisec have shown the hamlet six miler interect restoring the ac- movement has southwest of Hoi An city péople's control tu of ha transtormea As the NLF organs and have its had actively

SUO-

new struggle of discip cencon nitensivA ported the students their US announced its neglect opposition to the hard- casualties for the struggle Stalinict An economy. line leadership. of Indo-China 119 efforts wine waste and article the Bratislava cece ve dead. 'Pravda' had this to the state and to Were vate sea. Cambadia. 'We remember well the ist ownersolo: and entorts Puppet losses to 600- which .. increase encieney nt local and improving the increase of 24 over maniacce towards pub decline management work, making it 1969 previous week. cheaper, etc.' work discipline, economic dis-

SPARKS

_ang even criminality. Relations Writing in

STRIKE

Czech Com- Rudolf Rohlicek said Mat Stee Minister The desperate June Hinance munist rarty cuss reveals

FOUR - THOUSAND

Dubcek administration creasine v the reall te ation abandoning te growin cians and plumbers in central hetween the Stalinist humean. he a crase caused staged half-day Scotland crach le purbing the Party s.

one tha wonting pace unofficial strike on Wednes- wage 19 м.) in against ahead the all except those who permanenty growth of labour productivity.

the present leadership's port the the bureaucracy Problems acy cannot t evader Glasgeti, 1,500 mer the Tha reeders bout are (tolinict centre of working class. desperately worried marched to the task is virtually union's head. The purgers finding somé social basis on Guarters and staged a nrotec: which to rest o renuild the Party. Rut it i demonstration demanding * roches base the that chauld find young people or workers economic face come out to speak to them age prepared to follow came out are superao e No no tanks may have Among the industries affec- en. it the same time the Stalin- the of h Petroleums strike sured remova the tad 410 c ist leaders continualls ence of wing asd the install- British Grange Duncer and the install. the widespread occurrence mouth are unable economic crimes •theyt landone hut thary still unde eated boring class.

ensure the obedience enema sea. In the past year, the entire several Glasgow building sites

MEETINGS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

ALL TRADES

BRISTOL UNIVERSITY

Political

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

UNIONS ALLIANCE

STUDENT SOCIETY

significance of

MEETINGS

Marxist General Week 'Fight the Tories' Election June 11-17 MIDDLESBROUGH. Friday Tune 12,

SWINDON

7.30 p.m. Friday, June 12, 7.30 p.m.

Labour Club, Linthorpe Road Co-operative Hall, East Street Speakers: G. secretary LL national Frank Willis (ATUA)

OXFORD

OLLERTON. Saturday, June 20, 1 p.m. secretary) Plough Inn. Workers Press. Meeting will include Meeting will orkers Press is ATUA and Young

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

produced. Socialists meeting

MEETING

ALL MEETINGS 8.15 p.m Eve of election meeting

STUDENTS' UNION

'Keep the Tories out' GLASGOW. Spotay Tune 1

QUEEN'S ROAD

Port Talbot, Sunday June 14, 3 p.m.

Rd.,

BRISTOL

Vinces St, St. George 4 Mos Waltoll ed by also

YOUNG SOCIALIST DEMONSTRATIONS

Vote Labour June 181 For Socialist policies! Expose Wilson! To keep the Torles out!

NEWCASTLE

SHEFFIELD

BIRMINGHAM

Saturday June 13 Saturday June 13 Saturday, June 13 Assemble 2.30 p.m. Issemble 3 p. Assemble 2.30 p.m. Waterloo St, Victoria Sq Young St, Moor Lorden St The demonstrations will be followed by public meetings.