Workers Press no. 20

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

NUMBER 20 • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1969

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one-day Will carry a statement by the Political Committee Daly ot the Socialist Labour present

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League on the strike economlc and a ace great as- CrISIS. appointment throughout Britain's coalfields at the By an Industrial correspondent of the executive of the National Union Be sure of SHOP stewards representing 185,000 workers through- strike: Mornin your copy nov by ordering out the brush Levana combine are to recommend a one-day stoppage of all BMC workers if the Standard- By an industrial correspondent —Bryn Williams, Irom : British 186a Clapham High St. Triumoh strike is not settled by November 10.

vital Stalinism London SW4 THE REFUSAL of NUM leaders to take a vote at the delegate conference at Porthcawl South Wales strike leader after hearing of the break-

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Birmingham on on Wednesday is being seen by unofficial strike

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passed a re surice to aown talks leaders in South Wales as a betrayal.

standards on 1uesaay. • Everpol, Murders More 16,000 weren Uproar at are on strike at Los. inc pits in support of a demand guaranteed lay-off pay. an eat nour ady, cluding breaks, Com 6,000 suriace workers. Porthcawi Birmingham Liverpool as a result. behind the discre- could meeting true, damag i nere Coventry comparable Though the strike has been " closure jon& have Engine by an industrial correspon has still to make it Sir ThEord's AT A PORTHCAWL delegate conference on Wednes- poor day NUM officials again succeeded in diverting the

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decision to call out the whole South Wales coalfield in pointed out after tary Daly. "3ta was had Coachloads

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in driving up piece-work Teachers' leaders riding a tiger Four carrying fight to paday. banners demanding standard strike was e including raised. Although ther They brainwashed the met paralered nph could be meal breaks, 100 per cent into accepting the pour at united strike on surtace. * is are sues ally see said. meras hours or resinion But ahis fell hat en me question of la faor at splat orn, whe piecework com- 800 crowded steal to maide the strik Pis in loade they put the

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mandard might 10,000 bakers C.I.R. diversion willars told president Glyn negotiations wi ther

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point in worrying abo • in East join wages the sarional exe- Mood change andvea to call a

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restle ton or an he become the local Kilbride strike dispute

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minority Standargue offensive GEORGE WOODCOCK'S Commission on Industrial • shownbe 'No deal' ULSTER'S hated B-Special Relations is to report on the ten-week-old recognition for the police are to continue as a return • statu: strike at Better Sound Reproductions. East Kilbride quu repressive lorency. By Peter Read

DANGEROUS

he press campaign tor Delore. Workers' Press corresponden!

an well This is shown very clearl the reterence of the strike BAKERS' union officials are to meet the em- This would be a dangerous should be a to the

CIR

ov recent eveni concession should certainly be warning that this is a gov- he Ulster Prime Minist ployers today to discuss the north-west bakery ernment-inspired ester-Cl Department of Emploch said Than Secials are not 1 workers' strike, which has grown rapidly step towards united u fert ne strike This ar d she weekend, as "The s sue unions miner is going tc such approaches. through the week. from will ated in she meantime. thay-oreading Star® 1 nev pickets had be yet another section o reported the preparati ick Mon 0,000 push the fight through to lower-paid workers has British-Leyland ato what Joined the wades orensive.

MERSEY 'NO'

companys main Bad eers from the galle ee Der onci Minishe che chairman to be still workin refuel ca scene filiance workers had Will stay

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of Liver- An eaten Judin Har. to suppress.

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that in the pit Doo bakers Wednesdat 1 he 11/ B-specials in Net vianchester ana tonards, voted solidly to continue the stanorasnire

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persuaded to port strike. have force. the miners meetings There was a roar of 'NO!'

pers sace. i The cor CIR's fuse vention their said that the chemen carried the strates strike. when the area secretary

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an extra £2 a week. the Bakers' Union told the growing crisis ta This is all part of Wilson's for our men th this ne Confusion strikers to return. dustry. about the bencheste nish to join in that it men ended in co He told Bakeries wousand

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Speaker: Frank Willis The now part-time workers. Young Socialists candidate Police protection

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Cachoic force strong Young Sobralists in the parliamentar by-election trolled by the Labour go continue to prote and got, Thursday, October 30 Bh-speciais

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More than 1,000 Liverpoo Wednesday, October 29 simpl nspect the most anti-Cathc ers voted at a meeting or cic spare esday to continue ° D.In

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Swindon Town Hall am compation of the tre simple maintair movement

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and fore all to thi

FRANK WILLIS

Saturday, Nov. 29 accept ine package tered connivance with the employers supplies are Dangers of productvity Please contact Central Committee Rooms bargaining' 5a Milton Road, Swindon Sunday October 26, 8 p.m.

C.A.V. Sudbury to

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Canning down public Hal Canniors open 12 nobic Hall Towr phone: swindon bub/0 strike for pay

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the!

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maka you sew? knit our Bazaa thought of Williams. 'Trade Unions and the something fo

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sent bad been ten are dertime workers Press reportel give something towards ou the loast cake non-union years or betraye Workers' Press'

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Have you a tin of grocery? jumble?

Sunday, October 26, nitted management This Saturday, October 25 Help us make this the best bazaar ever held!

7.30 p.m. Help us raise the money for our daily paper- swept away ormance ironicall, last Assemble Gorse Hill recreation ground 3 p.m.

(or Mercand Street weeks. machine at a central control Meeting Town Hall 4 p.m and night shift workers were striking. underground) As one remarked. panict.

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• NUMBER 20 • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1969

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"THERE will be great dis- throughout Britain's coalfields at the of Iclusal or the Ivanonal Union or ilneworkers 10. call an savs Wednesdav's "Morning —Bryn Williams, organ of British Star Stalinism. THE REFUSAL of NUM leaders to take a one stars vote at the delegate conference at Porthcawl South Wales strike leader For ail alone on Wednesday is being seen by unofficial strike long the par leaders in South Wales as a betrayal.

its secretary 16,000 i the cust of the More. than Uproar at on strike at 23 Welsi strikr its in support of a deman eight-hour day, for But the or the strike at any surface workers. Porthcawl 'Morning Reeling from the demorali deter- and a to let I ainst the take ited bod Wednesday, October 15, i Wilson government meeting s not the ised exe strike maort the strike ers sv an inoustria, correspondenl Thigoralemni Pi losses, un hours men. followed conditions desperation. AT A PORTHCAWL delegate conference on Wednes- the miners call not rebutted day NUM officials again succeeded in diverting the decision to call out the whole South Wales coalfield in The e nas been ampport of an eight-hour day for sürficemen.

'was star trimon its Sinc official movements to strike Coachloads militant arrived Teachers' leaders riding a tiger FouR miner: A True eight-hour , 100 ре "They cent accepting policy was lobbying strike olly he said. and men's 'It terrificalls has omgas noir or residi• adverse they put the

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C.I.R. diversion pits in jeopardy. But then, so ti shuttin South Wales president worrying about th

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point in won miners should accept the • in East work cutive to calt a strike. Mood change

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might be thought that this then. the a deline of the lined, Kilbride strike tron the in rity of lodesed delesares.

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point bitter " maker his GEORGE WOODCOCK'S Commission on Industrial 'No deal' ULSTER'S hated B-specia SoUth wales have said in the Relations is to report on the ten-week-old recognition police are to continue as a Notord y Bryno wales strike at Better Sound Reproductions, East Kilbride.

force exactly pa lead, but there y didnt are The press campaign for ately, bu Workers' Press correspondent the reference i nis is snown very ciearl said Mr Brrow Monday too should be by recent events. night deal with the Lani no deal this is a gor- lavouica a 1clull. secre- Milants. ernment-insorea alversion Other The most urgent i need re Chiusminer is going to from espe the weekend, compas had been hours on the su face feated in she meani sar i wishes to hour,. graph the fight through to airel win the ne par indurade ad to hat is al reat East headets action must be s Bar- miners Chech from the alter called star th of believed to be still Will stay Thi against notlany. The 117 B-Specials in New- *The mini which the lodge nmittee dy said mat he wil

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in the force! pickets the strike meetings their tactics is all part of Wilsons working full

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the the Confusion a up with there He to Pon Bet men • striple what the force

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Speaker: Frank Willis To side th Young Socialists candidate Police protection in the parliamentary ung Somalists trolled by the labor ocon by-election 80t, up. He called for, and the 8,000-strong berate the most anti-Catho- scab labour need the tec

GRAND XMAS

ne diately closed Wednesday, October 29 phe conference 8 p.m. she recordion strike

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Swindon Town Hall supported he same offi mply maint companion of the forse to hi to thin package eated Saturday, Nov. 29 Dangers of productivity connivance with the emnlovers

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bargaining' Sunday October 26, 8 p.m.

C.A.V. Sudbury to Swept away Canning Town Public Hall loors open 12 noor ewpoll noa strike for pay

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Can you sew? knit? paint? thought of y plain make something for our Bazaar? "Trade Unions and the sent had beet an impose errime workers' Press reporter give something towards our bazaar? The deo raliayan over pid Workers' Press Have So a as by trayal Sunday, October 26, These. factories zaar ever held! Help . over Help us raise the money for our daily paper- 7.30 D.m. Partick Bu Street two

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Will carry a statement by the Political Committee of the Socialist Labour League on the present economic and political crisis. By an Industrial correspondent Be sure of SHOP stewards representing 185,000 workers through- your copy now out the British-Leyland combine are to recommend a by ordering one-day stoppage of all BMC workers if the Standard- trom Triumph strike is not settled by November 10.

186a Clapham High St. London SW4 The combine shop stew- ards' committee. meeting in Birmingham on Wednesday, after hearing of the break-

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passed a resolution to call down of

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talks token strike action Standards on Tuesday. The Standard-Triumph workers Cros Live pool, striking tory bonus 10s. mucicast guaranteed lay-off Day 1,150 are on strike e an mone has laid more commany 6,000 Than otter workers coventri birminorin aure Liverpool rechit The feeling of Wednesday's combine committee

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stewards could not tolerate situation which the • LiV about thạn comparable Coventry. jobs in Though the strike has been for eight Foundry• auxineerle has still to make it workers. oincial.

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Stewards after pointed meeting that • The combine had come

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driving up s riding a tiger FouR earnings. The Standard strike was a fight for parity. raised A thou, there were vl at tie meen anoodo Trium po could The in Standard- showing the feeling there is on the question- teachers could be paralleled from inner and outer London stayed away, knowing any demand situation Leyland for strike action would be squashed. Piece the cam- ings are bine averare expressed Some steward: tears that the emplovers micni stancare sorce as a lever the present pro cedure negotiations with the

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The union mecorate. procedur for which ment under status restorallon cuo wille nekoualrons olall proceed The stewards feel the com pany may argue disputes the strike, Standard which have not gone through proce dure should be barred by the union for status quo clause. By Peter Read

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would be BAKERS' union officials are to meet the em- This dangerous "should certainly be union's concession ployers today to discuss the north-west bakery part ane resisted workers' strike, which has rapidly grown call is " he • Kirmingham important step towards united through the week. the combine's workers against the spreading Yet another section of the preparation lower-paid has workers British-Leyland cies the joined the wages offensive.

combine.

MERSEY 'NO'

All car workers should give By Wednesday, more than it their fullest suppori 10,000 bakery workers had The shon stewards' decision A MASS meeting of Liver- also sets he scre on Merseyside, CrAnA The struck in Trade Alliance pool bakers Wednesday Manchester North on and car workers' conference. voted solidly to continue the Staffordshire. held Birmingham on November strike strikers have rejected The conference The stri Witne motor plants to discuss the agreed earlier There was a roar of 'NO!'

together Cal this month by the and when the area secretary 01 major demanding employers and are employers are stratedy Rakers Union told the the growing crisis in the car in dustry. strikers to return. Manchester In the area about six bakeries were out involving several

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workers. Bread there chand Aither had bread one to potiom supplies at am loaf had Thursday, October 30 1,000 Liverpoo More than bakers voted at a meeting Wednesday to continue their Help is urgently needed in the YOUNG Some hakeries are SOCIALISTS' campaign for candidate and worked executives other staff, but only restricted

FRANK WILLIS

supplies are being produced. Please contact Central Committee Rooms 5a Milton Road, Swindon

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Five hundred women WOr-

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kers at the Chamnion hakery Store on.Trent one.

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day strike on Tuesday against the use labour

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to load cakes. This Saturday, October 25 later ad- The management and mitter Assemble Gorse Hill recreation ground 3 p.m.

agreed to pay the women for Meeting Town Hall 4 p.m. the time they striking.

'The Yakirs, the Balitskys... and the other riff-raff wanted to let * in the German fascists... and make the Ukrainian workers slaves Our regular readers will have been both deeply moved and politically inspired by Pyotr Yakir's speech at the graveside of the old Bolshevik which we reproduced Alexis Kosterin, in Workers' Press of October 11, 1969.

P. Yakir comes from a family of Bolsheviks, so many of the anti-Stalinist oppositionists i like in the Soviet Union today.

With the rehabilitation of Stalin in full swing and the denigration of his countless victims daily taking on a more strident tone, it is vital to place the present struggle against Soviet Stalinism in its correct historical setting.

In the case of Pyotr Yakir, we can best do • this by outlining the political career of his father, 1. E. Yakir, underlining at the same time the counter-revolutionary role of all those, from the rulers of the Kremlin down to the most wretched British Stalinist, who helped to destroy him.

потт THIS COLLECTION of Thus one of the co-accused, Dobrovolski, made a 'confes- documents records part sion' pointing to the collusion struggle of the of the of his fellow with prisoners

NTS.

anti-Stalinist opposition of Venezuelan A student in the period from the nationality and Russian, origin Sinyavsky - Daniel trial was also produced at the to the middle of this trial as an

NTS

agent who had come to Russia with year. kit fantastic expionage to Ginz- with The young writers, make contact expressly Ginsburg and Galanskov. burg and Galanskov, known for their critical views, were

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put on trial in Moscow in All through the struggle of Janary, 1968. the intellectual opposition the They had been arrested in organs of the NTS, capitalist the previous following publishing houses year and jour- the circulation by them of a nals have had no difficulty in 'White Book' the or Sing obtaining the clandestine condemnation Sinyavsky material circulating in Russia, and Daniel. including whole books. The prosecution tried to One has to ask: who could prove that they had been ac- benefit from such activity?

ting on behalf of anti-Soviet Not the oppositionists, who agencies financed from thereby tended become to abroad, notably the Russian discredited the eyes of In émigré organization the

NTS.

Russian opinion. As arranged by the KGB well known It has been (state the since the 1930s that émigré wase cutended tice security trial Russian organizations such to discre dit the the NTS have been penetrated courageous young in- tellectuals who had, no doubt by the KGB. like Brooke, in a confused way, been op- Agents the rehabilitation of British visited posing the teacher who Russia, have easily been de- Stalin and calling for the re- cognition in practice of the tected. rights to free expression writ- But it is also probable that ten into Soviet law. opposition material is fed What could be better than the NTS and similar organiza- tion by the Russian state se- to link the oppositionists with the NTS, the émigré organiza- curity apparatus in order to tion in Germany, tainted as it discredit the opposition.

was with collaboration It is with these questions in with Nazism during the war and mind that the trial has to be backed by the Central Intelli- understood, as the preface to gence Agency? this volume shows. By Robert Black I. E. YAKIR, father of Pyotr Yakir, the out- standing fighter against present-day Stalinism in the Soviet Union, was a revolutionary from his early youth. Born in Bessarabia in 1896, he joined the Bolshevik Party in 1917. From the first days of the revolution, he was in the thick of the fighting, organizing partisan groups in the Ukraine. He became a leading mem- ber of Bessarabian the Soldiers' Committee, taking part in the Civil War cam- paigns against Denikin and white-guard Poland. By dint of military and poli- tical skill, I. E. Yakir won rapid promotion in the Red Army, and after commanding the 14th Rifle Corps, he was appointed by Trotsky to or- ganize the Military Education and Training Administration departments. In this new post, Yakir was drawn into collaboration with Tukhachevsky, the bri- liant ex-Tsarist officer, who in convinced 1917 became a communist and threw in his lot with the working class and the Revolution. These two, against the careerist element creeping into the Party and the army, fought to develop a revolu- tionary military strategy linked to both the latest de- velopments in military tech- niques and the international imperialism struggle between and the working class. After Lenin's death a furi- ous offensive against Trotsky began in the Party, which had inevitable its repercussions in the armed forces, of which he was the head. Military leaders, especially those in the party, were com- pelled to take sides in the struggle between the Opposi- tion and the Stalin-led bur- eaucratic clique that mas- queraded as the defender of Bolshevism. Even after Trostky's re- moval from the Red Army leadership early in 1925, the struggle continued. Stalin used the danger of intervention imperialist to blackmail the Opposition into surrender. Trotsky refused to be in- timidated in this way and in- sisted that side by side with his unconditional defence of the Soviet Union, he would continue to fight to correct the false policies of the party and change its leadership.

'L'AFFAIRE GUINZBOUR

Presented by Jean-Jacques Mai Translated from the Russian and Nadine Ma Paris. Editions di The method of provocation used by the prosecution runs parallel to that employed in the Moscow Trials of the 1930s. In this case, there was no question that Ginsburg had circulated documents against the imprisonment of Sinyav- sky and Daniel. In fact, the Letter to an Old Friend' subjects which the case to detailed analysis had been sent to the KGB it- self. There is no doubt that he understood the risks that he was running and that he was committing a political act.

But it was aimed against of Stalinist-type repression opinion and had nothing in • with the pro-West- common anti-Soviet NTS politics.

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A veritable campaign of de- was waged in the famation Soviet press against the ac- cused and their friends, as extracts given in this volume showed. Their relatives and friends were excluded from the court- room, which was packed with KGB supporters. Although the court was un-

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Above: Stalin (left) presides over the I Red Square. Below : The Red Army leade Voroshilov, Yegorov and Budyenny. Tukhach were shot some six weeks later under thi Above German spies. right: Marshal Yegorov, chief of staff; Marshal Blur in the Kremlin in 1936. Within the Red Army, the Stalinist Voroshilov stepped the witch-hunt against up Trotsky's old comrades. They hit back with a letter to the Party Politbureau, declaring support for the policies of the Left Opposition. One of its signatories was I. E. Yakir. It also declared Commissar for War Voroshilov to be in- condemnation competent, a they were later to pay for with their lives. With the defeat of the Left Opposition, Trotsky's suppor- ters in the Army turned away from political questions and concentrated on building up the armed forces of the Soviet Union, a task which they saw as being their only effective contribution to its defence.

This was undoubtedly an error of political judgement.

Stalin's reactionary home and international policies continued to undermine the position of the Soviet Union, and though the armed forces developed rapidly in a techni- I. P. Uborevich another victim of the repression.

JINZBOURG-GALANSKOV'

Jacques Marie and Carol Head he Russian by Jean-Jacques Nadine Marie. Editions du Seuil. able to establish any connec- tion between Ginsburg and Galanskov and the NTS, they were condemned to five and seven years deprivation of lib- respectively under erty a clause of the penal code relat- ing to 'anti-Soviet activity'.

The harshness of the sen- tence unleashed a wave of from the ranks of protest Soviet intellectuals associated with the opposition. The texts of some of the letters and appeals open which were circulated are re- produced in this volume. A number of them take up the discreditable way in which the press handled the case— particularly in trying to make an amalgam between the ac- cused and the NTS through the medium of the KGB tools, Dobrovolski and the 'Vene- zuelan', Brocks-Sokolov. The letter from A. Jacobson to the Union of Journalists even shows that the news- papers gave contradictory ac- counts of the activities of Brocks. It is no longer possible for the bureaucracy to get away with the crude falsifications employed in the Moscow Trials of the 1930s. A small but growing sec- and is ready to take the risk des over the 1937 May Day parade in Red Army leaders Tukhachevsky, Bielov, İyenny. Tukhachevsky, Bieloy and Yegorov later under the pretext that they were General Gamarnik, political chief; aff; Marshal Bluecher, far east commander cal sense, political leadership in the hands remained Stalin's men. Yakir was one of the lead- ing members of the group led by Tukhachevsky that con- stantly opposed the bureau- cratic methods introduced in- to the armed forces by the Voroshilov clique. And up to the middle 1930s, they seemed to be holding their own. In 1934, Yakir was elected to the Cen- tral Committee of the Bol- shevik Party at the same time as he took up his post as com- mander of the strategically vital Ukrainian military dis- trict. Soviet military policy up to the late 1920s had been to collaborate with the German General Staff a counter- as weight against the far more powerful Anglo-French threat of intervention through Po- land and from the south. Hitler's victory in 1933 brought a radical change in strategy. NaziR re-armament convinced Tukhachevsky's group that new allies had to be sought in the west. Official talks between the French and Red General Staffs were be- gun. Stalin was content to play along with this line after his early failure to at arrive an understanding with Hitler.

But under cover of the blare of 'popular front' pro- fascism, paganda against Stalin put out new feelers to Hitler, a turn that spelled doom for Yakir and his Red Army comrades. On January 29, 1937, two Soviet officials, Kandelaki and Friedrichson, met the director Reichsbank, of the Schacht, suggesting that the Nazi and Soviet governments should begin direct talks to- of publicly denouncing them.

Of the protests against the trial and demanding its re- vision, one was signed by and scientists, 121 writers another by 78, including some workers and one by 24 writers and artists. The most representative list contained 170 names from a wide range of occupations in parts of the Soviet various Union. All these letters of protest were sent openly to the press and to the government, though, needless to say, the papers did not publish them! No doubt the position of Ginsburg, and still more of Galanskoy-who is a pacifist and anti-militarist-does not have the sharpness of the new communist opposition which forward in the is coming Soviet Union and eastern Europe. Those who signed the let- ters and petitions of protest were no doubt still more con- fused. The important thing is that the resistance to Stalinist methods is gaining ground.

The repressive character of the regime and the real face of the bureaucracy are being revealed. The documents in this book indicate the presence of the advance signs of the coming political revolution. and Galanskov, Ginsburg like Daniel and Sinyavsky, are now in a corrective labour camp. They can write two letters a month, receive a visit every four months and a personal Red Army officers Marshals : Deputy Commissars 1 Members of Military Military District Com Naval and Air Chiefs Army Commanders: Corps Commanders: Divisional Commande Brigade Commanders Admirals : Out of an Officer Cor wards a mutual settlement of outstanding problems. The whole of the Bolshevik Party 'old guard' had to be kil visit once a year. In a letter written from the camp to the Presidium of the Ginsburg, Supreme Soviet, Galanskov and other prison- ers speak of lack of food and particularly of vitamins, ex- treme cold in the sleeping quarters and the confiscation of their warm clothing and in- humiliations numerable flicted illegally by the prison staff, including confiscation of toilet paper, beatings, disap- pearance of letters sent to or from the prisoners and so on.

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They end their letter by ad- mitting that conditions do not reach the depths of those im- posed Kolyma, Vorkuta at notorious and Taichet - the camps of the 1940s. But still they are bad enough and staff from these camps are still in command.

As a result the regime in the corrective labour camps falls far below what is sup- posed to be established by Soviet law. Some of the documents in this volume have appeared in English, but there does not to be a comparable appear collection which brings them together. In any case, the introduc- tion to this volume is valuable because it brings out the poli- tics behind the ferment now going on among Soviet intel- lectuals and exposes the role of both the western agencies and the KGB in misrepre- senting the character of this opposition to Stalinism. rmy officers purged from 1937/39 incle 3 out of Commissars for Defence: out of 11 rs of Military Soviet : 75 out of • District Commanders : and Air Chiefs of Staffs : 13 of out 57 out of nal Commanders : 110 out of 184 • Commanders : out of 8 out of an Officer Corps of 70,000, at least half were pl The Stalinists had del agent. His real crime h turn towards Hitler, wi Hitler Pact on August above shaking hands foreign minister. nt of led before the Nazi-Soviet pact could be rammed down the throat of the Communist In- ternational. And in the Red armed forces, Stalin's cynical man- eouvres were certain to meet an equally firm opposition.

A pact with France com- pelled Hitler to face war on two fronts. A pact with Hitler pre- sented the Nazi forces with the opportunity of defeating his enemies one by one. The noose rapidly tightened round the necks of the Red General Staff. In his speech to the 22nd congress of the CPSU, Khru- shchev released a few details against of Stalin's plot the Red Army, but only a few: 'Such prominent leaders as Tukhachvesky, Yakir, Ubore- vich, Kork, Yegorov, Eideman and others were victims of the repressions. They were mili- tary men who had great ser- vices to their credit, especially Tukhachevsky, Yakir Uborevich, who were out- standing soldiers... A rather curious report once found its way into the foreign press to the effect when Hitler that was preparing his assault on our country he had his secret service fabricate a document describing Comrades Yakir. . • agents of the and others as German General Staff. "document", "This al- legedly secret, fell into the hands of President Benes of Czechoslovakia, and he .: forwarded it to Stalin. Yakir, Tukhachesvsky and other comrades were arrested and were then killed. What Khruschev does not reveal is Stalin's role in help- ing to frame up the Red Army leaders. On his instructions, Soviet intelligence agents contacted white emigre circles in Ger- Friday, October 24, 1969 937/39 included: 5 shot. 1l shot. 80 shot. All shot. Both shot. 15 shot. 85 shot. out of 195 shot. out of 406 shot. 8 shot. st half were purged. alinists had denounced Yakir as a Nazi lis real crime had been to oppose Stalin's wards Hitler, which ended with the Stalin- Pact on August 23, 1939. Stalin is seen hands with • Ribbentrop, Hitler's and through them, many, supplied documents to the Gestapo essential for the fram- ing of Yakir and his com- rades. Again with the co-operation of Stalinist agents, the forged documents were passed onto Czech government leaders, who, believing them to be genuine (and seeking Soviet against military guarantees Germany, passed them on to Stalin. The circle now completed, Stalin used this 'proof' to have first Yakir and Tukha- then thousands of chevsky, other Soviet military leaders shot. Until Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech' at the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956, Stalin- ists had denounced Yakir as a Nazi agent. His real crime had been to oppose Stalin's turn towards Hitler, consum- years later with mated two the Stalin-Hitler Pact of Au- gust 23, 1939. The History of the CPSU (Short Course), first pub- lished in 1938 and circulated in millions of copies through- out the world, says this of Yakir and his comrades: 'The trial of Pyatakov, Radek and others, the trial of Tukhachevsky, Yakir and others, and lastly, the trial of Rostain and Restin k Rosengoltz and others, showed that the Bukharinites and Trotskyites had long ago joined to form a common band of enemies of the peo- ple. . . . The trials showed that these dregs of humanity, in conjunction with the ene- mies of the people, Irotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev [the last two were shot in the first 1936 'trial"] had been in con- spiracy against Lenin, the Party and the Soviet state ever since the early days of Revolution.' October the (page 427).

'Such prominent leaders as Tukhachevsky, Yakir... were victims of the repressions. They were military men who, had Friday, October 24, 1969 1 Red Army leaders Tukhachevsky, Voroshilov, Yegorov (seated) Budyenny, and training, Trotsky appointed him to organize military education brilliant ex-Tsarist officer, who had become a convinced communist in 1917.

of the anti-Stalinist So according to Stalin, who leader Yakir opposition] who is working in this History'. wrote He Kazakhstan came to me. had been working against the about his father. revolution even as he led his asked me What could him? Red troops into battle against say to White Guards and the When we were examining the these cases in the Presidium armies of imperialist interven- and of the Central Committee tion. neither were informed that This foul slander against Tukhachevsky, Yakir nor the leaders of the Party and Uborevich had committed any the Red Army was not only against the Party, we crimes purveyed by Stalin. asked Kaganovich In his bid to strangle the and Voroshilov: in the Red and Army, favour of their rehabilita- Stalin found his most willing tion?" accomplices in the leaders of •"Yes are", they we an- the British Communist Party.

swered. "But it was you who 16, 1937 On June only people", executed those we four days after the murder of "When said indignantly. were Yakir, Central Committee the the dictates of you following the of British Communist your conscience, then or Party issued a statement wel- now?"! the military purges coming The same question must be and trials: Khrushchev addressed of "The Communist Party himself, as well as to his suc- Great Britain congratulates cessors in the Kremlin, Kosy- the workers and peasants of Brezhnev and company. gin, the Soviet Union, their Party this same speech, he re- and their government on the lates the events leading up to drastic which they measures „Yakir's death: taking to "root out the Shelepin....quoted are 'Comrade from wreckers and Spies Comrade Yakir a letter from their midst'. to Stalin, and read to you the resolutions on that letter. It should be said that at one time Stalin had a lot of re- the 1939 Congress of At Yakir. spect for add can the

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Stalin scoffed at that at the moment Yakir was the idea that military "Long purges he shouted live shot had weakened the Red Army: Long live Stalin!" the Party, foreign .When Stalin was told how 'Certain pressmen have been talking drivel to the Yakir had behaved before his death, he cursed Yakir.' effect that the purging of the of spies, Soviet organizations and wreckers like assassins Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, How did Khrushchev stand Yakir.. and other fiends has "shaken" the Soviet system..

for Yakir when he up came under suspicion? One can only laugh at such (Problems of How did Khrushchev de- cheap drivel... fend the he Leninism', q. 645.) man whom claimed to well In his speeches of 1956 and know very thus 1961, Khrushchev described and obviously realized in a very dramatic way the him to be innocent? Like rulers of chaos and suffering that the the present Khrushchev Red Army purges created in the Kremlin, the first period of the war. climbed to power on a moun- Khrushchev takes great tain of corpses-all of them of care to present himself as a purged communists the staunch defender of the rights Party and the armed forces. and as of the purged leaders, His ascendancy in the the leading advocate of their Ukrainian •apparatus party followed dreadful blood rehabilitation. In his speech to the 22nd purge in which several gene- Congress of the CPSU (1961) of Bolsheviks rations were Khrushchev simply wiped out: poses as a close friend of Yakir in particular: 'Only after the faithful comrade Yakir Stalinist, Nikita Sergeyevitch knew well. I also knew Tuk- Khrushchev, arrived the 1n vcly hachevsky, but not as well as Ukraine did the smashing of Yakir. [How well we shall see the enemies of the people be- earnest.' (Visti VTs in a moment.) During a con- gin in ference in Alma Ata this year, VK' June 17, 1938.) [Pyotr Yakir, In Khrushchev's first major his the son, NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS, 186a ( Available from London, S.W.4 Budyenny, Bluecher (standing). Yakir, after ing, collaborated with Tukhachevsky, the speech in his new job as Stalin's chief executioner in the Ukraine, he demanded a stepping up of the purge: 'We got rid of a consider- able number of enemies. But Party workers the as Ukraine, ...we should not be conceited. We must not „re- lax ...Comrades, we have an- nihilated quite a few enemies, 'but not all of them.' dwelt on Khrushchev then lessons from the past purges: 'The Yakirs, the Balitskys ... and the other riff-raff wanted to let in the German facsists, the landowners and At Congress of the

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the 22nd released a few details of Stalin's plot agai but concealed that Stalin had supplied documents in order to implicate them.

bourgeois, and make the Ukraine a colony of the Polish-German fascists'. ('Bil- shovik Ukrainy' no. 6, p. 7.

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The lesson of I. E. Yakir's life and death that the struggle against Stalinism is decisive for the Soviet Union and the international working Class. Yakir believed that he could escape from Stalinism by turn- ing away from political struggle devoting himself purely and to the technical problems of the Army. But Stalinism was and re- mains all pervading. The bureaucracy will not yield a single corner or sphere of human activity without a unprincipled bloody and struggle. It crushed Bolshevism in in literature, in the arts, philosophy, in science and in historiography as well as in the International, the Party, the factories and the universi- ties. And least of all could it leave the armed forces as neutral territory. thousands of other Like communists, Yakir was used by Stalin. His brains were picked, his talents absorbed, and when the bureaucracy had sucked him dry, he was crushed. While Stalin chose to play along with France, the Yakir- Tukhachevsky group could be tolerated. Once Stalin made his deci- sive turn to Hitler, politics, poli- counter-revolutionary tics, burst in upon the High Command, cutting down in a matter of weeks the flower of the Red Army leaders trained and blooded in the Civil War.

Yakir's son Pyotr spent 17 humiliating years in a Stalin (his crime was to Slave camp (pictured above), Khrushchev talin's plot against the Red Army leaders, had supplied Hitler with the necessary be the son of his father) dwel- ling on the terrible lessons of his father's death. He was dragged off to the camp as a boy of 14, but re- turned from it after Stalin's death as a dedicated fighter against the Stalinist bureau- a partisan of the cracy, as pro-Leninist tendency in the Soviet Union. The sons and daughters of murdered Bolsheviks such as Yakir will be the first to build the Soviet section of the Fourth International. Forthcoming features on Soviet Union and Stalinism Saturday's Workers Press will publish 'HUSAK'S REPORT CONCEALS TRUTH', detalling Stalinist falsifications about the Invasion of Czechoslovakia, and

'BALANCE SHEET OF SOVIET

decim current conomich developments In the USSR.

As Stalinism moves to the right, so do its revisionist hangers-on. A case in point is the so-called International Marxist Group.

One of this group's leaders, Purdie, writes in the October Pabloite monthly journal 'International' attacking the Soclalist Labour League and favouring closer ties with the Stalinists. Cliff Slaughter analyses this Pabloite turn towards Stalinism in

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Review by Tom Kemp THE STEADY return, under Brehznev and Kosygin, to approval of Stalin, has found expres- sion in many spheres of Soviet life and neces- sarily in the writing of history. Medvedev, one of the younger generation of Soviet historians, who thus never had to pay obeisance to the cult, is one of those who has fought courageously against this trend. The main text of this book, to which the French editor gives the title 'Must Stalin be Rehabilitated?, consists of an article which Medvedev sent editorial board of to the 'Kommunist', the official theoretical organ of the Cen- tral Committee of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union. In it he strongly criticizes two articles in this review which had depicted Stalin as a great military leader during the war against Nazi Germany and as 'a fighter for the eman- cipation of the working class'.

HIS STAND

Medvedev takes his stand on the basis of the speeches and statements made during the 20th, 22nd and 23rd congres- ses of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union regarding Stalin's role. In the main, then, he re- peats what had formerly been officially admitted and does not go beyond that. It is difficult to know, from the article, which was not pub- lished by 'Kommunist' but has been circulated by the com- munist whether opposition, this done for tactical was reasons or because Medvedev has not yet grasped the full meaning of Stalinism. All the reliable evidence published since Khrushchev's secret speech' bears out his account of Stalin's conduct during the war. Stalin ignored warnings and signs of the coming Nazi attack. Troops were not de- ployed to meet it. Whole armies, like that in the South West, were cut off and anni-

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'FAUT-IL REHABILITER STALINE?'

By Roy Medvedev Translated and annotated by Francois Olivier.

Paris. Editions du Seuil.

nates elected to the Central hilated in the opening stages Committee in 1934, 110 were of the attack. During the first day or two victims of the purges. Most of Stalin hid himself the national and regional lead- of the i war ership of the Young Commun- and away in his villa, seeing His in- ist League also perished.

speaking to no one. the of fluence on conduct Over three people million be operations can shown, as were sent to the camps. Medreder does. to have beer harmful and positively disas- trous for the Red Army.

PURGES CONTINUE

A notable example was the offensive of January After the victory in 1945 February 1942 which and the continued. The purges Stalin proceeded with in the leadership of the Leningrad teeth of expert opinion, mili- party, which had carried the tary and economic. burden of the city's defence, This resulted the in ex- was liquidated. haustion of the troops and the 60 of the Some per cent Comintern using up of strategic reserves. of the apparatus It left the field clear for was killed on Stalin's orders.

German counter-offensive The leaders of many foreign in the spring. communist parties in exile in By and ex- glossing over Russia were also victims. Many such mistakes, Med- cusing eminent leaders of the Party, vedev claims, 'Kommunist' is the state and the army, since deliberately ee pair of to rehabilitated, were among undermine the decision the Stalin's victims. 20th and 22nd congresses.

By is well All this, of course, 're- opening the way for the known and, since 1956, has Stalin, Soviet habilitation' of it was been admitted the in in high inspired by 'persons Union. So-called 'de-Staliniza- places'. tion' proved to be an extremely Medvedev replies to the lengthy business. Stalin had been There were too many 'people claim that fighter for the emancipation of in high places' -and still are- class' calling the working by who were not anxious to see the extent of the attention to inquiries into the past, For some purges. they e years now He claims that one million have the not arrested Communist Party members able process, they have been arrested between 1935 were to put it into reverse. and 1941. In a limited way, as yet, Of 139 members and alter- Medredev and many other Stalin ignored warnings of the Nazi attack and this resulted in German tank Soviet territory. в.B.C.-2 Yorkshire 11.00-11.20 a.m. Play School: 7.00 p.m. What Are The Facts? 11.00 a.m.-11.55 Schools. 1.40 7.30 Newsroom, Weather. p.m. Schools. 3.00 Racing From 8.00 Wheelbase. Doncaster. 4.00 Houseparty. 4.15 8.25 The First Churchills. News Headlines. 4.17 Hatty Town.

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supporters of the opposition, are fighting against this trend.

They are asking for all the documents and material on the past to be made available for research in order that his- torians can make an honest reckoning.

PAST DECISIONS

Medvedev fights as a Com- member who munist Party demands that its own past de- cisions should be respected.

He fight the There is no sign in his article that he has penetrated to the social roots of Stalinism in the of the bureaucratic growth canker. There is no sign that he recognizes that this degenera- tion was fought every inch of the way by the Left Opposition, who were Stalin's first victims.

Medvedev's call is as symp- tomatic of the currents stirring in the Soviet Union amongst the young intellectuals and workers as is the Stalinist hardening taking place at the top. We can be sure that as the archives are opened, if not Medvedev then thousands like him will link their cause to that of the Left Opposition and will set themselves to ac- complish that political revolu- tion which Trotsky called for from 1933. In this sense, his fight is linked to that of the many from the other statements Russian opposition which the Workers' Press is publishing.

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'WHEN the dustbins began to stink I never heard anything about 3½ per cent.' This re- mark in the course of Executive member Jack Jones' address to 2,500 greater London teachers brought thunderous applause in the Central Hall Westminster on Tuesday night.

The teachers are de- manding an interim salary By Mark Jenkins increase of £135 a year. It indicated just how Mike Coleman pledged the deeply the magnificent ex- support of the student teach- amples of the dustmen's for the NUT struggle. ers He had and miners' struggles have spoken to many who students were thinking penetrated into the tanks dropping out of their of the teachers. courses because of low It was a grand night for salaries. militant No speeches. other

CHANTS

kind would have been tolera- ted After the rally the teach- Mr Jones said: tired of waiting outside 'The minimum we are pre- parliament, began to chant pared to accept is £135. Even 'one-three-five' Some, Max Morris no has not brought inspired doubt by the dust- unusual you up date, for men, shouted 'Five-three-one'.

Max, because even in the last fortnight the whole In all the evening pattern an of local authority wage rates object lesson to those 'rank has been upset. We and file' who call are ask- pedagogues for teachers to 'rise' the ing no more than the on to and others.' level of trade dustmen union con-

CLOSE DOWN

The teachers neither are behind nor ahead of the rest Mr Jones continued of the to working class, but in draw enthusiastic with it. applause, ste they need not the instant- especially when he proposed: militancy' of duplicated 'We will close down educa- the sheets, but tion if we don't get £135!' socialist alter- leadership being built But he faltered before the Bove Unions the All Trades winning tape. Alliance. snatched One young girl that precious moment of follows silence that every "Tell us the ovation to shout date of the strike' and 'What about a strike fund?'. Then the of

OUT AT

surprise many, his tone changed. 'There are other things you can do' he said.

MONSANTO

'I want 500 letters from 500 schools demand to the Ex-

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ecutive call a special confer- ence followed a referen- dum the demand on for strikes in selected areas.'

OVER

1,400 workers at He also called for a one- Lansil Ltd., the Lancaster day strike. Gone was the heady atmos- man-made fibre factory, are phere of his early remarks.

strike on demanding Like the others who spoke, closed shop and higher executive members Max Mor- wages. Harry George, Mr ris and Pickets have been outside Jones was riding a tiger.

the gates 24 hours a day, since Friday when night

REVALUATION

morning, shift walked out in a dispute over bonus payments. Mr Morris spoke of 'stormy wind' that was blow- During Friday, almost all through the the profession, spinners came out, ing sup- the ported by the mixing and fil- teachers. young 'Thev do not tration departments bread- and the line salaries in the 1970s.

We acetate plant. must have a total Following mass meeting Saturday, tion of the salary structure. last the strike was made official branch level 'We are determined to win from 10 p.m. the £135! The whole of the union spokesman said : "maximum permissible" only 'We decided to strike from the is maximum you are 10 p.m. to allow other depart- prepared to fight for. ments to run down in accord- Mr Morris recalled the with safety regulations large minority that had voted ance against acceptance of the pre- Signing up vious inadequate award 1n the same Central Hall. Strike organizers say there 'That represented minority is 98 per cent support for the feeling of a majority of strike action. teachers. New members being are At the Isle of Man confer- signed up into the union ence the minority became strike committee headquarters majority, he said. The execu- and outside the factory gates.

tive now accepted that. Spinners But Mr Morris declined to claim that else- where in the area men attack the for its are Hyecutive earning 7s. 6d. an hour, while role in accepting the offer.

Lansil only pays 6s. he Instead provided them Shop steward Frank Corn- 'We with escape route. thwaite told reporters: were diddled', he said. 'This has been going on for months. The men want more money and I doubt very much All they will whether back until they get it.' He said three that weeks ago he and others in the mix- and filtration plant ing were sacked when strike took place over the use of fitters' Alliance tools. However, the firm had to reinstate them when spinners threatened strike action. Lansil Ltd. is owned by Monsanto, the American firm.

Some of the workers are comparing their struggle with conference what happened at the Stock- port textile engineering firm, Roberts-Arundel. All car, car components and delivery workers are invited to a motor workers' conference CAPITALISM works, de- Digbeth Civic Hall, clares Labour MP Mr Digbeth Raymond Fletcher, in an Birmingham article published in this Saturday November 8 week's 'Encounter' maga- 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. zine. Write for credentials to: This statement by a for- R. Parsons, 'left' mer and one-time 21 Strawberry Path, Blackbird Leys, prominent contributor to Oxford. "Tribune' shows very clearly reformism's bankruptcy and Conference fee: 5s. a person particularly its left variety.

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stuay made on loaaine car- supplementary payment. sal Work Dater Tons onto a baler Ar True hasis is placed which today means 120 stone in the wage ne Hunt report as jobs oe ' There was never any inteen the Ulste oh workers tee, h the back ofle! work-measurement samplers tor spee Rating This that they manual drawn up for ev Measured Day They had are in the alre alsohis 15 where a jomaone dock working. Car giants expand Standards Ir in Europe TWO OF the world's lead- ing car firms-Ford and Fiat-took steps this week tighten their grip on By Robert Black their share of the European market. to Paris French Minimum enetratic are due go- Italian Mond: with President Pompidou. reversal will mark vealed on had bought out has already to see a smaller Both de Gaule vouc wances nd Usually centred to the She reconomy tree cents. Sharp reversal Italy's biggest strikes in re- Back Chryslera nother ber hour, but it should b

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Shade since 1962ompany for Daly

FROM PAGE ONE

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he can tail about the prete he ferr Daly has now re- tween out in fraly Weddlese strikes beet dustneering Labour left' M.P. finds capitalism works I cared tent prais inter fighting broke out wit Workers' Press reporter The reaction of the working Beating for escribed s that capi cherished briefs most of our wave, which began tot revoludonary politics. • nearly all of may 'Logical' I.P.C. profits From this it foll the poi Humor met i Rome while the abandonilection drop Nowhere else fighting raged in the north.

them ust wouldit work: Work and have Mirror group. No. Mr ketcher The evolutionary is beir built in beform! or concessions Whart closure cronu our wades are at oct Most are loyal government; 1 his coal owners ° is Trot. industry, *Saint, joint secretary and lodge secretary a edely col AT LEAST half a million workers took part in Tuesday's Japanese d the Vietnam war Police arrested over 1 ,40 v demonstrator! througnout the country most Tokyo, them where about 00 Ob tended a rally called in op position the SUDDOrt US policies. thues to mint, peating new Unity tuesday's Lions bith the socialist and t Been achieve munist at oney should all be released First ever Bristol Wills Wednesday. Fee insecutive appea work wages Friday, October 24, 1969 PRIME MINISTER Rachid Karame of Leb- anon resigned on Wednesday after clashes be- tween Lebanese troops and units of the Palestinian liberation movement.

Shortly before, Syria By a foreign correspondent announced that it was seal- ing its border with Leb- The Palestinian Liberation anon following reports Organization claimed that that the Lebanese Army at one stage in the fight- ing, the guerrillas came un- had killed 14 Arab der simultaneous fire from mandos wounded and both Lebanese and Israeli another 25 after raids on forces. a guerrilla base stationed A issued after note an meeting of the in the Lebanon. emergency

PLO

executive stated that the attacks were the first stages 'imperialist in an American Palestinian plot to stab the revolution in the back'.

FLARE UP

arrests The Cairo-based Middle deposed East News Agency said that protest demonstrations flared in Beirut the against army action, while in Tripoli, north premier Lebanon, a curfew has been imposed after similar protests there.

DESPITE

that it assertions Syria's ruling body, the would continue the policy of Politbureau, warned that fur- overthrown government, ther attacks by the Lebanese the new military and police Palestinian comman- army on of Somalia have dos rulers would lead 'retalia- to arrested the deposed Prime tory action'. Minister Ibrahim Egal. similar pledge was given The country's new 'Revolu- by the Iraqi government, tionary Council', which seized which, unlike Syria, does not power on Tuesday in a blood- share with frontier announced coup, that Lebanon: Egal would shortly be stand- "Iraq considers it its ing trial. national duty to protect No references were made to Fedayeen over every yard of any specific charges. Arab land.' The new regime has already pledged itself, to abolish 'cor-

LONG CRISIS

ruption and tribalism'. The Lebanon army's treacherous blow against the

CHILE ARMY

Arab liberation movement comes at the end of pro-

REVOLT

longed crisis in the Lebanon.

Ex-Prime Minister Rachid

FAILS

Karame first resigned in April this year after 15 had

THE

been killed and many injured Chilean zovernment Wednesday in clashes between' police announced and demonstrators demand- that the Santiago freedom has collapsed follow- ing of action for mutiny Palestinian ing 12 hours of talks between commandos. After failing to form a more rebel army leader Roberto 'Dro Arab' Viaux Marambia and the head government, Karame carried commandant of the Santiago on until Wednesday with a 'caretaker' garrison. According to reports from cabinet. he Chile, the mutiny In resigning, declared was a pro- soldiers' pay. that the attack on the test against low 60H8- was not intended to had bring mandos been under- taken without his approval. down the Christian-Demo- cratic government of President Frei.

NEW ROUND

The Arab liberation struggle against Zionist-im- perialist aggression has drawn millions workers, peasants and students into politics, bringing them hard up against the reactionary, pro-imperial- ist policies of the Jordan and Lebanon regimes. This latest of repres- act sion has opened up a new round of struggle for national liberation and unification of the Arab people. Big dangers face this illion workers, youth and students movement while it remains by its dominated present 's Japanese demonstrations against leadership. *conference

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