Workers Press no. 191

After election money crisis near? Election results special

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What think Once again: Why vote Labour?

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clete naour guestion: them where no *A Marxist looks askance real disuse eal, programmes. Angerous 0. man ordan or see pu theoretical eden The Red Mole Teas Tor the Lour 1f arty in tore wish for a Labour victory, ampaig Irishn to put up candidates (Practical proof of this ecte apor Vitor and area , that the her scon- in far, indistry able. from the They found themselves in facto alliance pointed man)

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Negro mayor PRESIDENT NIXON'S television broadcast on American economy has one overriding the IN THE election for mayor.

significance - whichever party emerges victor-

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

ious after yesterday's British General Election, WITH LIBERATION forces reported to be it must face a capitalist economic crisis of serious closing in on Phnom Penh from all sides, the proportions. This will be ready by noon today.

three-nation Cambodian "peace' mission which Union chiefs The political leader of world imperialism. speak- Telephone all orders to 720-2000.

arrived in Moscow on Wednesday continued its ing only 14 hours before the first votes were cast, refuse decent talks with Soviet leaders yesterday.

tersely listed the symptoms of the crippling disease.

The mission is composed 'Unemployment has increased; the price index The outside pages of this edition of Workers Press will t —claim wage- changed to take in reports, comments and pictures from the rebresentatives tron Guerrilla continues to rise; pronts have gone down; the stock polling booths and count in yesterday's General Election.

three openly anti-com- Market has declined; interest rates are too high.'

strikers munist regimes tWo clashes a which - Indonesia and Malaysla are al this ver 'U.S. plot' cos the eipto one tat bol: fighting bloody moment that explosion men wars exterminator -Hussein Roaring inflation and a against communist - led querrila movements third government- investment and government ostpone the day of reckon

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imperialis upplyin spending

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United States stride bureaucracy, has chime perc fighting in Amma to the as a result of a US plot.

1969. voters Profits

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escorted the faming rate of pr the catholle resist- honourab poline statons vesterda Jordaniar the predominantly e death throes Protestant district of Wes effort in one direction Belfast. ization backed ler Nas rat come to terms with Hussein arrangedican a ns nad Dee visaving registered als, ti- journals said the Lon Not *Al-Fatah head Arata PICKETS WERE again manning all entrances to thi clash avoide any A ma camated engineers and rounaryworkers recklan Belfast rder to go to the headquarters yesterday in support of the ten-day-old polling booths to support him verted to wage pay strike of non-salaried staff there Creases s determini thei

BY DAVID MAUDE

When Wilson singin "Graphical the Kremlir this Nixon re opposing a new

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Workers Press: ng he executs of a strike hat, as lite the co OT Joseph's_ ing the enect would have to sink in this way. Are they gain e i de can beno doub profits up are refusin action salers i to give us a decent wage.

'ANOTHER bit of encouraging news for the British insistence that compulsor wishing to Digging in Grand Metropolit hausen do it people. was Mrs barbara caste s pol-untea deseripuor rage legislation of yesterday's unemployment figures.

Rebutting charges that th rofit™ caThere are also ary deseral by Than He be any cater i ornes as take that ris Claim admittin With tradi nanegotiate unde ported that vants know refusing, to 10 23,365,000 often ming sian that "Although the and conditions ris he Sures, guerrillas amone umeployment is an. essential as the agent y through recession functioning ing up the and war. st Zionisn af the imperialists regime per Not confident the Express number of 1,800 more lay-offs many or tease in stimate that underline the threat to jobs ithdraw its forc Yet they are hey boor the sna 14 or 50 he co come any las means successfully their at Corby steel works takeover pose his Soviet ase in the need ot morase her page section of course is A FOR TeRR ban only 2s. were set Compar Britist

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AEF execute that free the ndancies as a result

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-evaluation, man entered its 90 per cent from fourth jobs may be lost. the employers Paris, to and mathing industry lenned, that Persi Italy to Faster work tion managers continue. Minister class to the e takinxi Fonte no Codia Radio London shares indecisive baheds study, sardin ..Spain • Nguyen Minh Comroposing his redundancies National hid Could mean a lot of things.

Radio on Tus i Hunti Espan da same Hungarotex Vietnam peace talks Mates rega mon After some minor falls, the Productivity, he stated Lens a military personnel ike an easy nin tion Heck by da Madrid the prodies or till die flourishin out, but they are really duced into Laos.

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Negro mayor PRESIDENT NIXON'S television broadcast on etrava overriding economy has one the American significance - whichever party emerges victor-

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

ious after yesterday's British General Election, Addonizio, who is on trial or WITH LIBERATION forces reported to be it must face a capitalist economic crisis of serious the the balco closing in on Phnom Penh from all sides, the 83 proportions. This will be ready by noon today.

three-nation Cambodian "peace' mission which The political leader of world imperialism. speak- Union chiefs Telephone all orders to 720-2000.

arrived in Moscow on Wednesday continued its ing only 14 hours belore the hrst votes were cast, decent refuse talks with Soviet leaders yesterday.

tersely listed the symptoms of the crippling disease: have The mission is composed The outside pages of this edition of Workers Press will be пропет. 'Unemployment has increased; the price index -claim from representatives from wage continues to rise; profits have gone down; the Stock changed to take in reports, comments anu pictures Guerrilla openly three anti-com. Market has declined; interest rates are too high.'

strikers two .of munist regimes, With these words, Nixon clashes a admit that every which - Indonesia and -are at this very Ma avia- 'U.S. plot' moment nghting bloody wars extermination men -Hussein no fire under the pot, Wan against communist - ec guerrilla movements. imperialis vernment- third

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spendings and rennet

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its tong had tax organ ceonths" of as a result of a us pas started 19ied to the same period in pons little voters Wall st The clashes NAPALM bombin oI Can the Profits bodia earlier this weel army unmoved plot agai escorted

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Dominating everything is Catholic voters the is growing polling stations yesterday péople'. the predominant se a gov Protestant district of West statement was in lin " to attack the backed by Naser, be tast. arranged by to terms with Hussein's after betw ethe their nighting be out. British werkinge No Nixons advisors alled overce say: Never again the 1930s' PICKETS WERE again manning all entrances to the sinthe barber Chief, Al-Fatah Amalgamated Engineers' and Foundryworkers' Peckham that preparis what it takes any clash the King & booths to support him. headquarters yesterday in support of the ten-day-olo pay strike of non-salaried staff there.

n the regime, em-

BY DAVID MAUDE

phasis.) Wilson ashin rin way to praise them con neer Sley that Geneva member of amonths be would the That the bates wine "he behave Joseph's_ vould have to sini way. Are they going profits up ANULHER bit of encouraging news for the britisn * her, want to get trike Digging in combine, insistence people, was Mrs barbara Castle's poll-tinted description settle out, Husseins downtain to ol yesterday s unemployment ngures Rebutting charges With the she As he aid that Claim Employment

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exels in and using the zou strikers so hao hat Administrativ The Ance rulers, s nse, refusing, to Workers 7s ans well

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the working 3, sures, interim pay class pay through recession a lob-evaluation o element. • Ziperianists the agenes out by consultants. Not confident 1,800 more lay-offs Strike leaders estimate that Arom Cambodia hat the unemployment even coNed they are by they hit on takeover dead *0 thei achieve at Corby steel works efore the strike " takeover successiully am! the United of work. anor present roosa after ductio

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I clothing industry nio modigial cont corpora the HaSi Faster work 5 Vietnamese the "haterest company re headed the told that We've London shares indecisive 10.00,000 dollars ry ven i lausand or s cracy while Hungarian mmission eminor falls, the Hungarian Lion meaniesly is valua- "hat the cection is the products of til tardice Madrid lors next govern- may bet like are really an week

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"THE FLAG hoisted at, •I I had been an Italian I Wolverhampton is begin- look like the ning to am sure that I should have been one that fluttered over with from the start to the finistou whole-heartedly Dachau and Belsen', said Anthony Wedgwood in your triumphant speaking about Benn, Powellism-and of struggle against the course he was right. bestial appetites and passions Of course Mr Wedgwood was a bit Benn's language of Leninism' Party for suruls lcaaers Tories winston Cnurchi: 1o Mary oli, 12zh9 Mr Heath ala not like it at all ana salel IT WOUel 'increase tensions'. Wilson commented, ased muhink words

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ohinkingy as an article was nowever. Lord Stamp, Lord Brocket, Lord McGowan and Lord The Fellowship had Lothian. certainly succeeded in attracting of 'names' the kind which it wanted! significant thing In fact the about the Anglo-German Fellow that this pro-Nazi organization decidedly These were middle-class cranks who wanted to feel big in uniform, your 'declassed' aristocrats, your lumpen. The Anglo-German Fellowship was headed by wealthy and powerful represent- atives of the British ruling class. About 30 Tory MPs were connected with the Fellowship. Among them was Sir Thomas Mooré, whose pro-Mosley views we quoted earlier. There were 30 Anglo-German also about Holose ship members the in House all Lords, of them figures. prominent Lord Mount Temple, who was of those who met Hitler, one been Tory MP, had under- Secretary for War Minister and of Transport. Lord Lothian was for under-Secretary time at the India Office. Lord McGowan was chairman of ICI.

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Other • Lords in the Fellowship included Lord Aberdare, the Marquess of Carisbrooke, Lord Redesdale (of the Guinness family and father-in-law of Mosley) Viscount Massereene Viscount Nuffield. and Lord I/M. Halifax, Foreign who became of the Secretary, was a guest society. Another of the significance of the Anglo-German Fellowship the of amount support it received from big Lord business. Stamp was of three directors of the Bank England of members who were of the Anglo-German Fellowship.

Lord Lothian was governor of the Bank of National Scotland. Lord McGowan was one of three Midland Bank directors who were members. The British Linen Bank also had three Fellowship members among its directors. Sir Leonard Lyle, of Tate and Lyle, was a member, as were directors Shell Trans post two the Distillers Company, Shell Tran and Trading its man- director, aging Mr Andrew Are Henry Fellowship member Shell Deterding, chairman, was a contributor Nazi Party funds when Hitler still struggling was to take power). A number of important firms acquired what was known membership of the corporate •Fellowship. board of directors appally.

This involved, the approval, and Parkins meant that the company as whole attached the Fellowship. that were Among i the firms members the Consolate were three big merchant bankers in City the of London: Guinness, And on Henry traded Lazard Brothers they minent Nazis. The Marquess of and J. Henry and Co. Londonderry, time. former Tory MP In the iron and steel industry * keen Yellow Stape member.

the and State for Air there Firth-Vickers Stain- on'. was a keen less Steêls. , Two other COr- this The 'Daily Sketch' reported porate members that deserve on September 21, 1937, that the mention Dunlop Rubber coun- Marquess had visited and Unilevers. they Germany where had The Anglo-German Fellow- pre- when viously been •the of ship crystallized the feeling of and str their General Goering Hitler. the Tory ruling class in this their Herr von Ribbentrop has country that Hitler was doing of Lord could Nazis also been god jay, tsat -guarding could fascism the guest Londonderry at his Irish ection Mount Stewart, County Down'. vested interests and that even big Among members of the Fellow- if it were not necessary as yet arded ship who personally met Hitler Britain, to introduce fascism luable were Lord Mount Temple, would be useful to have an m', if Admiral Sir Barry Domville, alliance with fascism in Europe. ve to were T ing a

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7.00 London. p.m 5.30 meet- As Channel except: 7.00 Thunderbirds. Kenor. News, weather. 11.%; Weats desk. 6.30 6.35 Cross- Report pro- GOn ties pro- Friday, June 19. 1970 They did their best to get an alliance with Hitler. Part of the price for such an alliance was Czechoslovakia. The Tories like talk about to Czechoslovakia today-they do not like to be reminded of the part they played in handing the Czechs over to Hitler. The Czech working class, however, has not forgotten the part played by the British ruling class in this deal. Following the Munich agree- ment Lord Londonderry, Tory peer, member of the Anglo- Fellowship, and friend German of Goering and Ribbentrop, was able to say on October 3, 1938, in the Lords: 'I welcome particularly the events of the last two weeks by reason of direct contact a having been made by our Prime Minister and the government of Germany. I, in a very humble have been endeavour- manner, ing for four years to do exactly same thing. the •.. I can say quite honestly happened that what has has been the fulfilment of the hopes which I have had in my mind.

I have seen what I have urged and what I have described ..: The politicians and the bour- geois historians like to cloud this period in myth. It is up to us to put the record straight. The Nazi regime represented the of German big power business attempting desperately to solve its crisis. The Tory Party, representing British big business, understood and sympathized with its fellow capitalists in Germany, even though imperialist rivalry might separate them, as it did in the Second World War. It was clash of interests, not of prin- ciples. The Tories were well disposed towards fascism as the ultimate for dealing with the weapon working class. The Labour leaders might like to pretend that the British ruling class is 'different', that it is not to be compared with the bosses in other countries who have resorted to fascism. We must get rid of this myth. Bosses are bosses, they under- stand each other. A Tory MP, Mr Patrick Donner, speaking sympathetically of the Spanish ruling class support for Franco, said in 1937:

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'They are all fascists, not though some of them may be.

•Their underlying motive, main-spring of their creed, is the desire restoration of to ensure law and order and the unification of Spain.' (Our emphasis.) It was Hitler himself who said in 1932: 'There are too many students rioting What on our streets. we must have is law and orderl' As Sir Thomas Moore said: •. the instincts are the same We should not be surprised if the Tories turn to racialism as a political weapon at a time when capitalism is in crisis or if ele- ments in the Tory Party flirt organizations, , like, the -with National Front As the crisis of capitalism gets worse, the ruling class will move further to the right, and we well may see the flirtation become something stronger.

It is up to us to realize the real nature of the ruling class, to be prepared for such con- tingencies, and to build in the labour movement a new leader- ship capable of defeating the Tories for good and depriving them once and for all of their power. Laurence Harvey The the Crusaders' Harrison, and Virginia Mayo. of Europe are waging the Thir ion- Christian sany you should ask. do London.

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Friday, June 19. 1970 THE ASTURIAN work- ideas' it needs in order to 'unite deteats at the nands and Stalinism revolutionary Marxism with political opportunism'. ing class has been one today the build Trotskyist Spanish working eless for of the most important leadership. of the David sources of leadership in sons Spanish working the Second Republic Democra by Lenin and Trotsky.

and of the first books attempt analysed class during this century.

the political detailed analysis experience of this leading section Spanish capitalism was. off-spring In 1934 it set up a Soviet, or tae seals works cide weak of Belgium, which was brutally repressed.

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In 1936, after Franco's in- hus the spanish madie clas vas never able to make its owI surrection, the Asturian miners quickly defeated the Michail Bakunın the fascists, and hecame from shock force of the Second Spanish working class construct revolutionary Republic. the imperialism In 1970, as the Workers Press reported, their His empiricist method alows him only strike action is striking at tracmented aiscus- sion of the impact the heart of Franco's regime, and is exposing the role of Stalinism. : puts it, that Britain and Spack on unders it monolithic NAW YORK'S construction wor peaceful anti-war demonstrators. symbol Negroes enter said the president cannot Building Council are largely confined Trades to des and. and astablishment, Nixon Greater New York. Peter bren- Vietnam war. 'along with our great flag, nan, These beloved county patriotism to our particularly the relations this situatio the background to What agents leaders purpose the support of Nixon and the Dimary participa- political capital ot con. maximise the future. struction workers. supposedly to be used The union ors alame told The constantly to behind-the-s number contractor stren- their xon the sites and sub- vould be off work that day or bureaucracy's stitute workers with a minimum tull Dav. position. bureaucracy top based in this There some way. Recently, for example, Nixo ongres service measures against or Not tha that Nixon is any friend He with ALL cio was dent George Meany who helped backet work last Mar strikers Said "he keeps Nixon vy nen Nixon accente word ked 1 deel to Keeps Meany makes hard hat from his mine'. leaders. game of oni the tory knowledge picked soke had to instrate to lose his to ay Enter come cie brit toe the wort relentlessly hese conditions tie ortage, as already lestween lab and capital ker verv closely and union prom the for concessions to be- nine union open fon aloed away. renresentative the political services whatever comes the vital means of nego render heads tiating a whole range of issues had lixon's or any other administra- number agents bonus, -wages altruistic from each employed crat on every site and so a It should be remembered that called business in theng The representatives agents antiv are in a powerful position corruption surprisingly. Paper 'In Place of Strife'.

Possessing tul skils Often this takes the it is the deepenins men not repaying layine back ents ness in the working class.

"ormation from da sits. York's her forces- lice decisive The chiefs ather are asped ball workers colleagues traditional their of the agents are the n, vis leadership-may race Nixon after the just temporarily. the demonstration, presenting Nixon's refusal to President with a huilding worker.

hard Commander-in-Chie hot hard hat inseribed "Commande may well have hean due to an in Chiet. Motore storictio The inconsinus nolitical premoni- industri ts colour "The hard hat will stand as a tion.

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bourgeois revolution; repeated attempts at democratic reforms have led to the imposition by capital of autocratic regimes and military dictatorship.

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In Spain, as in Russia, it. is which only the working class can lead the struggle for demo- cratic reforms and consolidate them in a Socialist Revolution.

As we shall see, the Spanish Socialist Party always limited its programme to one of democratic reforms (the line now followed, by the Spanish Com- of course, munist Party). In the Asturias of the 19th century, the small Spanish coal- companies were rapidly mining concentrated into two large companies by foreign capital.

The French capitalist Jacquet led one series of mergers, which was completed by the formation of the Duro-Felgueras company in 1900. In 1844, British capital formed the Asturian mining company, which was taken over by the French capitalists in 1851.

Guilhon, the French financier, WHEN Ohio National Guards- men gunned down four Kent State University students pro- testing against the extension of Nixon's in Indo-China, war Workers Press warned that their real fire was directed against the working class. Striking confirmation of this warning came with the news that the Guardsmen involved were fresh from strike-breaking against US Teamsters. The American working class, of course, is no stranger to vio- lent police repression-combined judiciously with the activities of vigilante strike-breakers and pro- vocateurs. And the old methods are now coming back. According to this week's issue of the US news weekly "Time', when student protesters from the University of California in Santa Barbara took to the streets of Isla Vista against the indict- ment of 17 students for an al- on a bank the, leged attack County Board of Supervisors im- posed a 7.30 p.m. curfew on the whole community. The Los Angeles County sheriff's riot squad was called in to enforce the curfew, and, by the time the curfew was lifted at the end of last week, there had been 667 arrests-many of them staff involving university and local residents. Complaints of in- discriminate a police brutality mounted. 'Time' also reports on another aspeot of US police activity amongst students, which, while again involving students, is an- other sharp warning the whole labour movement. Last month, it appears, two first-year students at New York State's Hobart College, Geneva, were arrested in connection with an alleged fire-bomb attack on the college's officers" training corps headquarters. Some months previously, a man claiming to be an young for the 'new left' organizer Students for Democratic a Society had appeared at the col- acting lege-talking left, wild and willing to instruct students carbine on the uses of the M1 of and the construction on various types of fire-bomb.

Then on June 5, the_young man—-who called himself "Tommy the Traveller'-arrived at the college in Ontario County Sheriff Ray Morrow's car, carry- ing a hand-gun, accompanied by deputy sheriff and several Geneva city police, and backed up by two dozen riot police.

It was a marijuana raid and revealed "Tommy the Traveller' in this project succeeded also in controlling the Langreo rail- way in Asturias, constructed by company in which he had capital. The mining company was finally merged in 1879 into the Fabrica de Mieres. The coal in Asturias was difficult to mine because of the inaccessibility of the coal-seams, and despite the foreign techniques, had use of competing with difficulty in French and British coal on the foreign and domestic markets. Asturian working Thus the involved from its class was creation in struggle with ruth- less emplóyers in a crisis-ridden industry. In the 1870s three sections of the First International were built in Mieres, Sama de Langreo and Oviedo. The fight of Marx against Bakunin in the General Council of the First International for the conception of a centralized revolutionary party was reflected in the Spanish section. Paul Lafargue won a leading group, F. Mora, J. Mesa and conception, P. Iglesias, to this away from the anarchism which gun 'Tommy the Traveller'. travel -later identified as Thomas ar Singkata Tongyai-as a police agent. There then emerged a tale of similar exploits-involving either Tongyai or someone very much like him-at colleges throughout the northern part of New York State and stretching back three years. Whose Tongyai employee really was during this time- Sheriff Morrow's office admits only that he had been working be an, for them for two-and-a-half months-is not clear. Appearing on CBS Television's 'Evening News' programme, how- Morrow defended evel, activities as necessary to bwild up his credibility amongst radi- cal students. N.B. Readers of the Workers remember that we Press will drew attention earlier this year to reports that one participant Whitehall adventure staged by the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign on January 25, when jumped on by six uniformed constables, obtained his release 'Special Branch! shouting Special Branch! We have been warned. dominated the Spanish working class and peasantry. This group formed the nucleus of the Spanish Socialist Party, but their Marxism was a dog- matic formula, an abstract theory of history. P. Iglesias and Vigil campaign for party- led the building in the Asturias. They continually advised a programme of class-collaboration more or less veiled in Marxist phrases. It was the same programme which provided the education of the Sindicato Minero, the miners' union, formed by Party militants in Asturias. The bureaucratic arrogant, attitude of Social Democracy towards the working class is Paul Lafargue evident in Vigil's attack on a group of anarchists: 'In the beginning, the leaders of the working-class movement were relatively educated people, but when the organization ex- panded to include all workers, a few anarchists were able to enter.' The period of the First World War, in which Spain was neutral, was a temporary economic boom coal-owners, for the Asturian who were able to take advantage of the involvement of the imperialists' industry in the war effort to take more of the market. The leaders of the SM and

SNT,

the anarchist-led the forced by their union, were members call strikes for to improvement in conditions and wages. In 1916 they won a 20 per cent wage increase. opportunist However, the the leaders Socialist Party and the SM fostered trade union illusions in the possibility of the reform of capitalism. Like the leaders of the Social Democracy Second International, of the they limited the struggle of the working class to what seemed to be possible. They did not penetrate below the surface form of the struggle to its real content-the revolu- tionary struggle of the working class. In contrast, Lenin correctly that the world crisis saw posed before the imperialism world working class the task of Marxist leader- constructing a the overthrow of ship for capitalism and the establishment of socialism. This task required an under- standing of Marxism and an irreconcilable fight against bour- geois, trade union illusions in the working class, to build the Marxist party.

REPRESSION

general strike in August A 1917, called by the CNT and the UGT (the national union of the Socialist Party) led to the sup- pression of the Spanish parlia- and vicious military ment repression of the working class.

The end of the war brought back the Asturian crisis employers. The crisis forced the opportunist leaders of the SM quickly to the right, as they found themselves faced with the threat of wage-cuts and un- employment. Like Will Paynter, former NUM leader, they answered the crisis of capitalism by becoming tied more closely to capitalist state. was what seemed "pos- This sible. This is what all trade union leaders of the left or right reformist inevitably do variety when the working class needs to overthrow capitalism.

CRISIS

1921 the SM and the In Association of Employers called on the government to make the railways use Spanish coal.

employers used The the opportunist union leaders as a against the pressure group government, by getting them to a strike which call they sup- ported by closing the mines. This successful in staving was off the crisis only temporarily.

The employers had caused the crisis by their expansion during the war years and now expected pay for their their workers to vanished markets. Llaneza, SM leader, answered his left critics and Spanish sympathizers of the Bolsheviks in this way: 'If what were happening were only a problem for the bosses and the capitalists we would not only be overjoyed but would provoke the precipitation of the crisis; but in this situation it is the working class which suffers the direct consequences of the disaster, which is faced with a dark future full of worry, and we who move within this reality, to attenuate or avoid this critical situation, agree - because there is nothing else we can do but agree-with the other elements, threatened not with hunger but with the loss of their capital.

'And our action in defence of our interests is called collabora- tion by some who wish to dis- the leaders of this credit organization and others who only to hide their own wish misdeeds.' However the call of the Com- munist opposition for strike gathered strength among action the rank and file. At the end of 1921 the bosses demanded a 50 per cent wage- piecework rates in cut overtime. In Tune 1922 the bosses re- to increase tonnage and fused these maintain present rates, having been forced demands through the SM by a Com- munist group in the union.

regional congress of SM delegates demanded an all-out strike. The bosses, drawing strength from the softness of the trade Dolores Ibarruri union leaders, becoming were more authoritative and demanded order from the Governor civil of Asturias-'because the miners of their com- have given proof mon sense before, but now there operating two tendencies are within them'. The opportunist Llaneza re- mini- sponded immediately by mizing the original SM demands and declaring a 20 per cent reduction in rates was necessary.

At a strike meeting Llaneza executive pro- and the union ceeded to make a call against the strike, lost to the Communist got a of 'minority, but vote confidence to lead the movement.

The strike lasted during June and July. In this time the employers and the union got together to finally negotiate making a "compromise for a sell-out, return to work of a 5 per cent wages and a 20 reduction in per cent increase in production.

bourgeoisie, The faced with militant action by the working

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Reviewed by

PETER BUSH

'EL MOVIMIENTO

OBRERO

EN ASTURIAS'

By David Ruiz Amigos de Asturias S.A. Editorial 175 pesetas Asturian miners finish their shift. solus turned te formonapartise dictatorship of Primo de Rivere the form on the trade union ted Social labour movement. The concessions already made by the latter had prepared them well for greater participation in the state machinery of capitalism.

Llaneza was ready to help Primo to set up his Mussolini- style worker-employer councils.

This collaboration was opposed by the CNT and the Spanish Party by militant Communist The CP, formed in 1921 sections of the CNT, UGT and Socialist Party, had considerable among support Asturian working class, yet its role is seen as only that of a ginger group by Ruiz, who does not bother to analyse the level of its theoretical development. In 1927 the coal-owners ordered the face workers to accept a 12 per cent wage cut and to work one hour extra.

COMPROMISE

This was accepted by Primo and the union agreed to a com- promise of a 6 houree wage-cut extra - 'to avoid men being sacked'. Delegates from 68 sections of the SM heard Laneza oppose a strike call. "The strike would be dangerous because we would be declared rebels against what has been agreed in our country. The struggle would be against our present government, and English coal would sufficient enter quantities for industrial and domestic consumption, sacking families hungry, making their workers and A minority forced a vote to be taken: 4,575 against strike action and 3,786 for it. Llaneza received his reward— • and , an offer of the place in dictator's Consultative Assembly.

The Asturian working however leader: class did not, follow the example of their Within days of voting against strike action they came out on strike, only be sold out to eventually by their rotten leader- ship. The CNT and the Communist Party ineffectual in pre- were venting analysis is given or eir role again by Ruiz. By fighting always for what seemed to be possible, the trade onened the was union leaders for defeats of their massive membership. As a result of dumping, German and British in 1928 4,000 miners were sacked. The SM was completely disorganized; membership had fallen from 20,000 in 1921 to 3,000 in 1929. in the The working class mines still fought against the dictatorship in a series of strike actions, but these were limited to calls for a bourgeois republic by the Social Democratic leaders. ( As a Socialist Party statement put it in 1930: ' Although it is not ours [i.e., not our Republic] we must pro- tect it from the extremism of the right and of the left.'

Meanwhile, the CP ints Congress had Pamplona • con- demned group in the Maurin Catalonia and the Bolsheviks of Nalon, in Asturias, as Trotsky- ists, and had elected Dolores Ibarruri, 'La Passionaria', to its central committee. This was the rotten pre- Asturian paration the and had for Spanish working class their heroic struggles in the Civil War. The British working class must learn from the degeneration of such leaders as Llaneza . the necessary lessons to defeat the similiar betravals which are now being worked out by the TUC, closer the as it moves to employers: not to fight for reforms' 'possible from crisis, but to - capitalist class in Marxist construct a party to overthrow the capitalist system.

WORKERS PRESS

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Argentina Italian schools, New regime faces hit by strikes Cordoba strikers o13-2 onth insease, school IN ARGENTINA President Levingston, appoin- children ted by the military junta which deposed General

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Ongania, faces a determined general strike in the go

FOREIGN

enment with strative the city of Cordoba, one of S America's main

CORRESPONDENT

24-hour strike industrial centres. lished newspapers were pub While union leaders in 24-hous nationa trade Buenos Aires prepared to open negotiations Japanese the Cordoba trade 1ew unions called the strike earlier this week in started workers win support of workers at the wat and Renault works in the city. Lal 10u pay Car workers have been They on strike almost contin. wage increase Backdate uously since the beginning of the month. demands by e Ma to me down the pleas Managements threat- NIXON is not alone in facing the problems shopmen arrested more that a 50 strikers of rapidly growing inflation and falling profits.

warrants According to a report shoparo kict mizatio just published by the Japan rederanion But having failed to break Employers' Associations, another taco. industrial workers nave this year won wage in-

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go the Ex-Laboundustrial concilia averaging poltica. creases basic per cent Termen are armed Party has already deno appo cord . o demands ght to strikr therefore province. Corde strength Not peaceful rance for the working class hroughout Latin America. wage ourna cing susible demonstration lenty anti-Communi Democra and managerial staff to March onganization (MSD), 1 research gains in the regi capi talism. some sections. Murders per cent). inrkers nress two National Liberation Army and his diego fenny cala dearly ortured before Seventeen y bullets Stars Demonstrations dem workers press place in the town Но вал но I themse beginning Arrests On eve of Lup, conference They had made ice an arres dor country left-wing Rootes' rin Bolivia and Brazil, as ir eye to right veing assass plants or the at a - 1l a yeaription Tor editoo days ven OR 82105 standstill ee monins

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AUSTRALIAI

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SOVIET

and E German reactions to last crushing Germany National week-end's state elections in

(FLN)

contrast so sharply it is now evident that a paratroops was french earlier this serious policy split is developing between the been mave monl! laris Ulbricht regime and the Kremlin.

WaS WILdaw IUlIUWIS from Inreats violence right-wing Stalinist daily espened methods GDR, with OranaLOIs. The especially the A section of the news pro- Neues Deutschland' stated included was bluntly that the elections

NOTED

which prepared in the three states 'had secuence SnOWIN LOrtUre doubt GDR Cause

FLN

NO caores Trenca reflected 'especially the the growing sollers. ToHowea D- GeDate noted in Mos- already been political influence the Issues raised Ine o une Algerian war. right wing and the failure here, to The Prime Minister's office the election results was same of the Social Democratic Government completely different: генисьси which leadership to oppose it'.

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tine all feature, it judged its attempts 98 Unit Norden under- WilCh @esote Socialist "inopportune'. abstruat the development buro', Albert trends in werim Soviet-W German elation lined this To demonstrate their unable to block this road.'

Germany. dependence' the ORTF Significantly, this favourable "The exacerbation of the Cast debale witgoul lat estimation W as world-wide class confrontation scouence. broadcast beamed to Germany.

bereism socia Chaban - Delmas's interven-

FEARED

its xpressioa tion forced in Europe in the Oliver del ullaly The Ulbricht has 'Panorama' uerlau rexine thi programme, result of the of the alwavs feared a deal betweer who chance commented: and line-up oi farces in lavour • SOVeT onre nonac 'Under these conditions socialism which is in progress, imperialism at its expense. cannot journal- The successful progress lor allanoramae, responsibility and the assume against the socialist countries, Geran. government, Weli a pact' between

IVIOSCOW

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activities over the election continue squeeze the period then lies not in our profits of the employers since the Soviet bureaucracy advice about voting, That is the only reason TyPENe but why still of will vote backed instinct of of was in a position to assure govern- would bicul tual social-democratic more foreign troops stationed embrace. but the Cambodia 1 le lin vul lalle pluvasailla

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CRISIS

accression. voune ever cere mneo any- very rapidly Dring tae work- This is probably by' reply thing very much. ers and not oniv the van- letter the LIle SCIl Red Mole' June 1-15, with guato „tace „tace Ambassador Arena decisive political issues.

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THREADS

any th nti to never achieved anything All the threads of a worlde workers-and wide consollacy asallsl and auvalleu

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ana unelr. vanous unte- If this crazv from iaea correct oureaucrats. mediaries now, then why practice bigger wash t this wav co we enrica olf Enormous pressure 1964 „1s now correct in and theory and ano being on the North Nobody heard Jordan, i tor Vietnamese government for bi- truggles ahead. Blackburn their Present ll sap like Cambodian abstention How under the strike yester e the they even workers m Thai like Wilson or Brown, but futility strikes the Thant virtures of guerrilla war Decause uncy nale. acsoist the exchange Moscow and Phnom Penh. ana Tear 1 OrIes anu Insuliccul. The would predict- they also Decause Teel tnal strikers they can exo olt ue weak- Telect

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nesses contradictons ess avice wire tew well. of the government to their chosen words And al these develooments We own advantage in increasing urge all workers, youth take place when the lbera- .and students to reject this tion forces stand on the verge tey do not exr dangerous revisionist non- military victories Indo-China. the YS They and . Void Join the SLL, throughout and ire achery measure of Stalinist Labour alternative to

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contravene th scheme would internaa'onal convenuon forced labour, wnch Ausurale has ratified. government feels that The 'fairness' to the 99.8 per of Queensland, Mr According to union leaders Premier i vida claims willingly com- cent examination of 'work-value an Chalk. is usteo as navin plie Acth e disSidents shoua National Ser- plied 1,500 will prodi members of rates inor $6.30 family 1,000. $5.80 to 1anzie111 Comalco Ltd raising Jalea in a few weeks time The National Service $35,750,000 in scheme was wolu oGuced WHILE the workers are fight- most

BUILDERS'

abourers are ina tor a tew colan exira un its interests in Queensland.

back work atter a nitte theır pay packets, omers The - ch eim times violent struggle money seem to drop into the is owneo ov conzinc muoute $6-а- laps of the people at the top.

US ot Australa lo an ne week increase (about £3).

A hue and cry went up this Kaiser and Aluminium Chemical Corporation. in- hee Builden Labouere Australia's Comalco's shares were aluminium $2.75 each. They Federation claims integra ad offered the list successful'. Was ConFoieleLy week (June housands of shares to won interim ot T01! 1 nev Na V t 10) at $6. award of $1.75 to $2.50. une Ders or vantous state goveru- company has exaci amouni The MaStel merts. neTr wives anne 1 ne behind Association offered families. Kunders'

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at the beginning of the strike.

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