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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 211• FRIDAY JULY 17, 1970 The Tory attack is on Miners 1926 Dockers 1970 IN ULSTER and on the docks British imperial- BY THE CUlIOR ism is on the warpath. The refusal of the employers-backed up The strike by the Tory government and the CBI-to grant a penny on the basic rate of the dockers and Above: T&GWU delegate withdrawal of 2,000 troops from Ulster is Ernie Rice speaks to Royal nothing less than a declaration of war on the group dockers ayesterday. whole trade union movement.

is solid Below: Some of the container ts comparabe oniv to mne decision or me mine- owners in 1926 to cut the miner's wages and lengthen trainc outsice tne aladstont dock, Liverpool. It was driven nis nours of work. a decision wich tea arrecuy to une attempt to General Strike. there in a Deal te sunke acadane the same way as they used the Royal Com- mission in the mines in PORTS were at almost complete standstill y to prepare lor 1920. yesterday as dockworkers welcomed the delegate so too today the employers conference's strike decision and made prepara- are usine une Devin rian tions for a protracted struggle.

as a battering ram against the most multant section By mid-morning the

BY MARTIN ARROP

National Dock Labour Ol the working class: the aockers. Koard estimated that 200u1 use the halle which is within within three-quarters of Britain's area - for further

SEA-LAND

people in to warn 46.500 dockers were and 2,000 dockers strike

SEA

In NAND came our use can t night midnight last clearing cargoes emergency gang is stable atter yesterday. in danger sun the Tomes General Workers Secretary All earnings will go lowards raNsath's speech had only one theskidi y machi said: statement on machine al urseu name en he trade unthe No pickets ber ne verset bac stri To blame all this on the necessary on the report-back from the dele- Merseyside Navy personnel bave been

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noved into en mites ot docks genti. hurry to return to work. • worried abou Workers stewards-close on at their their strike plans. a report-back. dockers heard first moves 1 heur meting on Saturday in that Bay te cold te recerin Pre frates Wednesdars dele hip hork ton tu ma. cales of the strikes dek More said that there nad boen accepted ners Deanin Phase Twer Stayed ares

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* Mort of the dakeates k said, as

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very words.

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Jones had stated that if t sance ras passed the follow- vrong on Monday nothin would be district in state orie Pas en ai ene cal 'If the atriotic as they say the stopped. P.m. most work had long term contingenc! potor Merse dearly 12 000 factory for And nyele Edwards refusak ers we dock manage •

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Convenor Jones Emergency declared a state

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and last August.' anniversary Leaflets the

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Soviet of the already begun to appear

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claim year Calling

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vigi- would not affect piece-

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work or bonus rates, talks lawyers judgés and on Devlin Phase Two AT St Peter Port in GUERN- ale a link the power structure or a socialist

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would and the cockers were on state. until their colleagues cide dicial 'coin- 'Blue' union would be miST ports Kritish handma with the policy of the CP Channel urged traito to join in the the central committes decided whether and Federal govern- (zech negotiations on modern- work. ments, he added. ization. This is what Jack Foodstuffs The tone Nemec's which arrived from Southampton un- marks, Jones told delegates who loaded and all inter-island suppression blocked his move to call cargo boats are being worked dication that normally. off the strike on Tuesday.

are embark Exports from series show

T&GWU

delegate almost Ernie tals against Rice hese opponents Ene anticipated strike Jones to port. DovIet Invasion The shipments and the massed at Party burge workers drive against Dubcek are part Britain in the past few weeks.

docks and parcel of this preparation.

their Must carol omela spokesman for the Irish strike. Export Board said: apparently justified ones "Last his •defer

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decision The Britair Great

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strike ano Television of t403 million expbriousay anneator a return to work of £403 million National Docks because, 'small as it may seem people's side, tha worr anvenine cat semousy ninders Mr lones thought that having conference trade WIth britain got some movement from the terribly serious from our point employers of view.' Satal Rensla he delegate The effect of the strike on conference, said Rice imnorted truit and vegetanle salization under workerse He that supplies was considered at trol'. disagreement, meeting the Emergency Credentials and further details to the Committee the National deferment strike of Fruit and ortained Trom Cavanagh, 5, Gamlin St, ¡rade in nandon ve Birkenhead.

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workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 211 •

FRIDAY JULY 17, 1970

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Appeal Fund, munist Party newspaper 'Rude Pravo yesterday car- ried a full-page attack deposed Dockers former Party leader Alexander Dubcek. It described him as a 'right -wing opportunist and giving 'new facts' about the reasons tor his expulsion from the Com- 1970 IN ULSTER and on the docks British imperial-

BY THE EDITOR

ism is on the warpath. The refusal of the employers -backed up The strike by the Tory government and the CBI-to grant Royal group on the basic rate of the dockers and Above: T&GWU delegate

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the withdrawal of 2,000 troops from Ulster is Ernie Rice speaks to Royal dockers yesterday. nothing less than a declaration of war on the order days of the son a mas: critical of mauren ine da she occasion whole trade union movement.

ISLANDS

It is comparable only to the decision of the mine- Below: Some of the container is solid traffic outside Gladstone

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owners in yo to cut the miners wages ano engthen.

his hours of work, a decision which led directly to the Jones cock, Liverpool. It was arvel

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there in a vain attempt to

AFFECTED

Irenera strike. beat the strike deadline.

appear this already begun to In the same way as they _used the _ koval com-

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claim PORTS were at almost complete standstill mission in the mines in

BY A WORKERS PRESS

the course de re would not affect piece- 1925 to prepare for 1926, courts yesterday as dockworkers welcomed the delegate work or bonus rates, talks

CORRESPONDENI

so too today the employers Devlin Phase Two conference's strike decision and made prepara- are using the Devlin Plan would and the tions for a protracted struggle.

as a battering ram against 'Blue' union would the most militant section By mid-morning the join the urged to

BY MARTIN ZARROP

whether not tr ot the working class: the National negotiations on modern- Dock i abour the the hall-whem is in hin Board estimated that about ization. This is what Jack to allow The Socialist Labour League footed three-quarters of Britain's for further Jones told delegates who and blocked his move to call 46,500 dockers coro boats are being worked dication that the Czech Stalin meetings. strike When volunteers were called off the strike on Tuesday.

and 2,000 dockers series in sto in N IRELAND came out heard can't use the hall wer midnight night • doubled shen rosed at port after clearing cargoes •Dubeek and the formedmer moreang drive against yesterday. oods in danger of deteriora- and parcel of this preparation A spokesman for the Irish Tories Workess secretat Jack fores All earnings will go statement on the

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said: Hospital, Tilbury that ments, the National Docks No pickets cal. The peting of so darty d that there conference Emergency many is outstanding. declared 'Our we get a reasonable inside vegetable rik To blame all tris on the importec fruit back necessary on The report back to a de. picious pres campaign and THE IOKY Cabinet decree Credentials and further details modernization 1%o Merseyside the con Sure. obtained conference Cavanagh, 5, Gamlin St, will fightestion Pickets dock

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his hated strike. in the auton IT IS understood that Royal cary winte

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Pockets at No. I gate said: Powers Summer this in to do seen mies of dock year. We know what the hurrv to return to work Transport and General Privy Council m hurried require them tor as Two Cheap labor l and no appal sud be malor set back

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from standstill oi the trade among their strike plans. a Tounced at mad minde director genera bo bert has percen larry Battie. postpone the srike meeting on Saturday morning.

such Noc rand able fooddes • Mey- Delegates The Miniatun of Dafanca i move- will report back into work ton Tuesda drawing up contingency plan ment. He said that there Be used to man eat iles of the strikes dece meet No lead & PAGE FOUR COL. Sunily avy no work lighhers.

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TOM HILLIER, an AEF shop steward at London's Acton CAV plant and a member of the factory's shop stewards' executive, says: betrayals of socialism by the Wilson government many workers couldn't bring themselves to vote for the Tories. WE NOW have a Tory govern- where trade unionists, affair, ment and soon many workers order to save their jobs, in will regret that they failed to gave up pay increases due to General them last year and made other vote Labour at the Election. important concessions to the employers. All sorts of reasons have been put forward as Government money - much to why of it workers' income tax-was Labour lost and much has been pumped in and the result, as said about the influence of the we know, has been redundan- Tory-owned press's opinion cies and threats polls. to sack large numbers of workers. But in view the major my cause of the defeat was The Labour government's Labour's open betrayal of any salvaging operation on British vestige of socialism. capitalism has been the at workers' expense. The high cost of living resulting from the 'prices and Its brake schools and on incomes policy' which curbed hospitals has been a diabolical wages whilst allowing prices to measure to ensure that the rocket, and the attempt to confidence of the international curb the unions our only moneylenders wouldn't run means of obtaining pay in- out. introducing In creases by Place of Strife': both caused *. shop stewards to fight a poli- tical battle against the govern- ment they had voted in. In my view many workers Having taken such a step it believe that there came was extremely difficult to per- difference be- really was no suade workers to vote Labour Labour's so-called tween to keep the Tories out. socialism and the Tory Party.

Many former Labour SuD- But despite all the sell-outs porters simply couldn't under- and betrayals of socialism by stand how a Labour the Wilson government many ment could attack the unions workers couldn't bring them- and try to solve the capitalists' selves to vote for the Tories: problems the of at expense working-class families have 600,000 on the dole. had a deep-down hatred for the party of the landlords and bosses for generations. Where does this leave us at the present time? We have a situation in They have seen-instead of which a Tory government has nationalization of the essential the power in parliament industries, banks and insurance does not hold sway on the companies-large slices of the shop floor. It will be of vital product doled gross national importance to the trade union out to private companies movement as a whole to see whose directors had no qualms Tories don't succeed that the money about accepting the where the Wilson government while chafing at government failed. interference'. The Labour government, The forthcoming period will with its development be tremendous plans, importance instead of capital to socialists in order to study pumping state-owned the actions of the trade union into enterprises like Merseyside, gave all kinds leaders who are currently of concessions to threatening the Tories. the cham- free pions of enterprise and It is noticeable that they are then attacked the ungrateful content to mutter, but they are workers who refused to content to mutter and are knuckle down to rates of pay loathe to take action. that were lower than other Only the independent action performing the areas same of the working class with its work. Marxist vanguard in the lead One has only to remember achieve socialism and can the huge redundancies caused eradicate the vile exploitation by the AEI-GEC merger and of the international proletariat the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and peasants. The Transitional Programme adopted by the Founding Conference of the Fourth International with the Statutes of the Fourth International Available from NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186a Clapham High St., SW4.

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Name Address i Following up our pre-election inter- view series-'Unions and Labour'-on what trade unionists from different areas of the country saw as the issues in the General Election, Workers Press reporters have been out in several working-class areas of Lon- don this week seeking views on the reasons for Labour's election defeat and on the fight against the Tories.

This is the second of a weekly discus- sion series to which we hope members of the labour movement in every area of the country will contribute.

The working class must be mobilized against the Tory attack before it gets off the ground in order to force them into a retreat. Laurie Smith addressing a strike meeting last Friday.

JOHN MANN, an Amalgamated Engineers and Foundry- workers gas welder at Gestetner's North London fac- tory, told the Workers Press: MY

FIRST

the it hard. When they got married reaction to election result was that I felt they lived in two rooms with a kitchen sickened. on the landing—no bathroom or outside toilet, and Labour voted and no hot water. thought everybody else voted Forty years later, where do Labour-though we all know me and my wife live? what Labour and Wilson are.

In two rooms, kitchen on the landing, Our MP, Norman Atkinson, no bathroom to ourselves. And came down to our factory and we have a ten-year-old girl!

he and the convenor spoke. It was all 'don't worry, brothers, We can get a council house we're home and dry': complete when they pull block down, say the Tory council- complacency. that's but going to be ten years off, I believe. But the crunch has got to come. But really had no people The way I look at it is like alternative at this election.

this. I am just one man: I have No one votes for anything had no real political education.

any more, they just vote but I'm beginning to move and This is against things. what be thousands like there must happened to Labour. me all over the country. Now the Tories are in on a lot of promises on tax cuts: we'll see. They won't cut taxes, and if they do it will be at the expense of wages. Workers listen to the Marx- But I'll tell you the promises They ists, don't you worry. they will keep. might shout them down some- like they do at my times They'll keep their promises place — for bringing politics on attacking the trade unions, into everything, but it goes in reducing housing for the work- all right. ing class and stopping reform of they'll keep education I talk and talk and talk, and these all right. Its a damned you don't persuade people all shame. You at once, it goes in stages.

make a lot of ground when the like various issues come up that's productivity bargaining- when the message sinks in.

But I don't worry too much.

Workers need to be made We can't wait for ever for the to realize that what goes on in showdown. There is confidence their factory is not connected in the working class and in the just that place. It's not with unions: not in the leaders that their productivity deal- just is, but amongst the men. these deals are coming in be- cause of a whole movement Look This at Pilkington's. amongst the employers to save happen all could over the their them profits, behind country. is the government and behind You see, the point is, things them the bankers. haven't really changed. Here's where the Workers Take my in-laws: they had Press comes in.

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LAURIE SMITH, AEF convenor of and a leader of the eight-week-o member of his union's district mittees and a former member ‹ national committee. He said: LABOUR disillusioned a large number of people who would have voted with the policies they pursued: their attacks on the working class and their defence of the system. Incomes policy and, in particular, anti- trade union legislation played a big part here-together with the fact that they never toak up many of the basic problems facing society. Many workers saw the danger from the Tories and turned out to the poll. I know a number of lads on my fac- tory said they wouldn't vote, but did in the end. But others obviously just couldn't bring themselves to vote Labour again. There's a danger that some people will think the Tories will take it easy, but I don't think that's right at all. They're not in a strong position, but we mustn't let them get into one. The working class must be what happened to Labour. Before I read the paper and came into contact with some of your members I was in a hopeless position. I knew I was being fiddled but I couldn't put it into words. But reading the paper has changed all that.

You have just got to press on and on, like the 'Ragged- Philanthropist' Trousered his day. He saw just one man on his own, nobody took any notice. But look at the strength of the workers now: they are not going to allow their living standards to be beaten down.

Friday July 17, 1970 H. J. BRUNSDEN, a member of the Association of Clerical Technical Staffs—-clerical section of the Trans- port and General Workers' Union-at Coventry's British Celanese plant, told us: WHEN THE Labour Party was in legislation against the unions it didn't implement and 'law and order' powe fact, socialiss policies. In The entire working class has standards attacked une to be organized to nght against workers. going so tar as 1m the 5 Fish to government. This posing a wage treeze and try. means nand! ng to shackle thè unions.

against the unions Consequentlv. when it came orner proposals to mt workers to election time, Wilson nad standaros. CuTback socia services, etc. socialist record to stand on.

This made it easy for Heath The working class must fight to make the running and the : alternative leadership to get Tories able were swing the Labour who party sufficient of the voters to gair socialist Implemen Dower. of all kev nationalization dustries and large monopolies, do away with the élite-ist sys Tenn ecucation That The Conservatives had ne exists. policies which attracter They must also do away quiet and did but Wil forward but Wilson kept with quiet discrimination aralnst any alternative. The coloured members of ou society and all immigrants, a However the Conservatives different foreign policy must did have policies which die cory formed: brought Tory or indirectly for world vote, namely their proposals to bring imperialism When it came to election time, Wilson had to try and say as little as possible, because he had no socialist record to stand on. This made it easy for Heath to make the running. convenor of Erith's Sovex plant eight-week-old strike there, is a n's district and divisional com- member of its policy-making against Tory mohilizadl the attack before ground in into a reueal. While the trade unions are powerful, if this doesn't place will be in big we langer: dae Tories egal attack oncene never unions And the majority of trade union members. won't tolerate leaders who accept the union Tory plans. "here'c heen a ronairamha amount of fakery about having to work with any that's nonsense. Nhat's needed is a strong statement , or where trace movemeni stand..ma atatement which ni previous experience tends suggest we won't get. Wilenr

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Friday July 17, 1970

FANONS' STRENGTHS

AND LIMITATIONS

FRANTZ FANON was born in Martinique in 1925, studied medicine and France then in specialized in psychiatry.

He occupied a major position the Algerian service during the mecical Algerian war. book, • blacke spin, whide Masks. White Masks'. Dine include

HIS

works Colonialism' (1961). Wretched Cember suffering TrON productive period of his life short last ten and coince? mainy with Iberation trom wrench rule volume "Toward The tha Alainam Raunintinn' many essays written and. notes during this strugge took up his post in Algiers He 1952 resigned it in 1956 and play part acuve National rront (FLN). against French imperialism.

He went to Tunis where Srant SANON was an editor of ofits a motor hide this +

'TOWARD THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION'

by Frantz Fanon Pelican Books, Middlesex, England. 5s.

FRENCH NATION

In February 1952 Fanon wrote «The North African psychological molitina! of the N African abroad. still speaks nation french of" metropolis is no such thing as an The so - called Euronean African which socialist afford to turn cannot neonle he states ther wonte inhuman attitudes Afriçan + the te neonle that fonaht. •condescencing wave Believe (P In 0121 peone. sneech to he ruled out, men i this not humanized', - With Fanan who own himcalf The latter is what Lenin called development at the time sufferer charnly from ha annis France social - chauvinist social. discriminatior Navarhelacc areas imperialist). Martinique His basic weakness "the coincide with consciousness reject the very The the rising but molticalv African nationalict mar who conder whe weaki crushed petty-bourgeois he called a social nationalist with colonies at heroism notwithstand- and contribution rge meassocialisas ma category. actual existence

NEGRO PEOPLE

form *African nationalism'. valuable agent of imperial- by Germany, when 10,000 racist Africa Branch Coilare urano dedical unfoldini remain in West Indian ports for misses of a four years. (p. 32.) was one of the Among the West West Indians 'Negritude Cesaire and Aboue until by 1945 the sophically alism. became Tedion to the man. "whites Contrary common Conn nisrepresentation whole, saving. in fact, that the area bind a at iting sea West Indian aftar white Despite his common mistake accus. manate of nointing ingly manifactotion among the Though he is far removed from Trotsky, this remark recalls what of back ato alism say on the A frain. that it black rad t had tie This equation white

WHAT IS THE

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the United Nations (UN) and

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IS IT GOING?

In reality, a colonial country (Pelgium country! France." riting Rritoin as aramalec regards racialism as colonialism product of A+ tha coma fimo the intellertunle alanine of purity the concente

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naivety, innocence' (p. 49) con- tained in "Negritude'. Fanon himself slips at But the times into ambiguity on question, paying less heed to his than warning he advised own should be done. This ambiguity his own political springs from position as a 'third-worlder', or, to use the term coined earlier, asocialist 'social-nationalist' i.e., the who really an is imperialist. So Fanon shows that he is a socialist who really represents militant the petty-bourgeois nationalist from the colonies.

He gives ample, evidence of in his essays on this outlook "Algeria'. This outlook has its social roots in the aspirant bourgeois oppressed petty by imperialism and striving for recognition as a class. Similarly social-chauvinism in the imperialist countries has its source in what Engels social years ago called the some 90 bourgeoisification of section a of the workers in the imperial- Ist countries, as a result of their corruption by the super-profits wrung out of the cheap labour of the colonial toilers. An understanding of these social roots is necessary to reply to 'African nationalism' on the one hand and to a social- democratic 'criticism' of this nationalism on the other, which is, at bottom, nothing but white racism - however subtly con- ealed-and, as such, is a mortal foe of a Marxist critique of Fanon. When Fanon resigned his post in Algeria in 1956, he wrote to the Governor-General stating that the immediate reason was the brutal by the punishment French of the workers who came out on strike July 5, 1956. (p. 64). He then wrote continuously for the FLN central organ, 'El Moudjahid' ('Fighter'). He condemned France for attempts to blame the FLN for anti-Semitic pogroms, which the FLN refuted in open let- an ter to the Jews of Algeria.

He condemns the collabora- tionist Algerian Nationalist Movement (MNA), led by Mes- sali Hadj, as active agents armed and used by the French enemy.

But he failed to see the social seeds of the same collaboration —that which led to the Evian sell-out, in the FLN itself.

LOYAL PART

While it was the necessary task of the revolutionary party to be a loyal part of the military struggle the French against imperialist Fanon had enemy, little or no political independ. ence from the FLN, an equally necessary duty of the revolu- tionary in the war. This, again, bespeaks his petty bourgeois politics.

At the same time, in relation to the betrayal of Algeria and of their own lass interests by workers and 'French peasants 75), (p.. Fanon made several attempts to breach the 'national unity' of France by appeals to the French workers and sections of the French left. He is particularly merciless in dealing with the 'French intellec- tuals' who covered up French atrocities in Algeria, as Alleg's retold by Henri 'Ques- tion' and other accounts.

The war in Algeria was waged under leadership of the the French 'Socialists'. The Commun- ist Party complained that the war was 'costly' and constantly Algeria's opposed struggle by demanding Algerian victory not over France, but peace. Fanon shows how M. Laurent on March 17, 1957, Cassanova, defended the French CP betrayal by blaming the 'spontaneous atti- tude of the French popular masses on the question' (p. 95).

But the CP, like the Socialist Party, no lead for the gave French workers to act otherwise.

tical macky reflected the poli- backwardness 'masses' they had failed to edu- cate and lead. These facts of vital are importance especially to the revolutionary movement in the imperialist countries themselves, movements which cannot make headway until they recognize the political backwardness of these 'advanced' countries and the basic reason for this back- wardness: the colonial system under which imperialism feeds sections of the workers on the super-profits bled from the colonial workers — a corruption which is a root cause of the betrayals of social democracy- and to a lesser extent of Stalin- ism. Together with the semi- colonial bourgeoisie, they become the main betrayers of the working class internally.

Fanon's observations on the France 'left' in during the Algerian war offer many valuable this fundamental lessons on question: the contemporary of causes social-chauvinistic betrayals, such as those of the social democrats and Stalinists during the war in Algeria.

The betrayal of Algeria by the major 'left' parties of France did not prevent Fanon from addressing himself to the 'French calling left', upon them to strike, spread information and desert the French army. He saluted those who had the courage to refuse to take up arms against the Algerian people and who are now in prison (p.

101), lamenting only the small- of the number of such ness people. At the same time Fanon had the most naive faith in I. F.

Kennedy and, perhaps worse still, in the 'British Labourites' (p. 121), who deceived him where a M. Houphouet Boigny, the pro- French Quisling, could not.

(Fanon calls him 'the travel.

ling salesman of the French

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renovated sperate petty-bourgeois attem classes thei He (p. fore san reality. the Britis! coon tell for o (р. or neutralism and an nor nro-soviet

'BACK TO MARX'

Ameria World War.

'NEUTRALISM'

The nar an thon whee Messali HADJ advocated ayor (a vote he meterer ependent' He criticize independent. UN, which he sate p. 145 ench democratic illusion and The up of orial oT tact, is * sou are all tee no ma a new Rene on) i their imperialist masters lependencie 'We belong to the West.' endore the vie leaders encies endorseds the im s its reauty: lt is a pr later Algeria at the Evan conferene ent croco Any or an couper list citie sealed beior became a Frenci 'secret semi (economic) colony. eutralist of the nex Cumumba. (p. name There ic no d beet En tani spent some of mie between capitalism and socialisn lite inde- 'here aris - Of capitalist sod exadent countries in Africa.

met within the Kremlin and Peking. coble as their neth middle next Lumumba' alone this as unstable as their new bourgeois, nationalist, He was is a petty not

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the celebrations Nixon's US Round-up $1.85 (15s) pread beer emon. Birch Society Team cleveland and acles So resisted Chicago did they sti 1975 by action in Vietnam ndoyt during an hour over 36 months Class tensions article official re-negotiation **The Ba break up Maoists • contract. so per cent. salesma ing class upsurge creates incapable of measuring up to the working-class methodise developing internal disc - tore than simply ti viously Cos is alvas sand absur loud occur, inevitably shain ass more in cour to aor negotiations Seriously their own position. can Maoist organizatio The 'Unsatisfied (USA) and splitting off in 1960 under Soldiers' Movement' celebrates July 4 role in PL si * In 1963 he bards placed on the

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NINE HUNDRED Rolls-Royce, Coventry, draughts- men have been on strike for the whole of this. week demanding a substantial wage increase.

The Draughtsmen's and

BY AORRESPONDEN

WORKERS PRESS

Allied Technicians' Associa- tion

(DATA)

Executive Committee has been nego- tiating for increase 'This important an is an throughout the Rolls-Royce The firm told wages issue. combine since June. if us that we could per- Rolls-Royce A 7 per suade other cent offer has factories to accept less than been rejected. 7 per cent they would give This led to various union Coventry

DATA

members on the sanctions company. more. Alternatively, if we Coventry, Rolls-Royce In accepted could strings we management wrote to all We refused to have more. DATA members that unless even discuss strings. they stopped these sanctions

'DATA

members in the would be suspended they rest of the combine are without pay as from Tues- giving us full financial sup- day. The men walked out port. Manual workers instead on Monday. giving support by US not DATA Executive member doing any work normally Dick Jones, strike leader at done by DATA. Coventry, told Workers Among the members Press: the picket lines was strong suspicion that the £20 million loan given by the government Industrial

WEATHER

Re-organization Corporation earlier this year contained London area, SE and central provisions for a rigid wages England, E and W southern policy to be pursued by the Midlands: Dry, Sunny periods. company. 23C (73F). Warm. Max. Central northern England: Mainly dry. Sunny periods. Some rain later. Near normal.

Max. 20C (68F). SW and NW Channel Islands, England: Rather cloudy,

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bright periods inland, drizzle and fog patches near coasts.

plans to prevent the Tories Wind light. Near westerly, and the from making press normal. Max. 19C (66F). the dockers into a scapegoat Edinburgh: Rather cloudy, for their devilish attacks. occasional or drizzle. rain Their policies, or lack of Brighter later. Wind westerly, them, facilitate the witch- hunts and light or moderate. Near government strike- normal. Max 19C (66F). efforts. breaking Glasgow N Ireland: If defeat is to be averted, Mainly dry, periods. if victory is to ensured, Rain at times. Wind westerly, then the whole labour light. Max. 19C (66F). movement must be mobi- Saturday and Sunday: Change- lizes arouill attack poli- lized around socialist able, rain at times, chiefly in North, but mainly dry in ism at its roots; in industry, South. Temperatures near banking, land and in the normal in East, below normal colonies. in West. This nationalization of capitalist economy without

ALL TRADES

compensation and under wor- kers control and the with-

UNIONS ALLIANCE

drawal of British troops from

MEETINGS

Ulster and all overseas terri- tories. The dockers' struggle is in- LEICESTER: Tuesday July Rutland that of Ulster separable from working class can defeat the workers against Unionism and Tories!'

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day to their delegates vote the for the amendment to strike resolution.

PETROL PRICE UP

BELGIAN BLACKING

Esso, Shell-Mex and BP all 'ahnounced a ‡ a gallon price DOCKERS at Zeebruge and rise from midnight last night. Belgium are to Antwerp in

WORK TO RULE ENDS

to black ships decide whether and BOAC engineer-

BEA

which have been diverted to ing and maintainance stewards of the Belgian ports because end work-to-rule agreed to dock strike. ban pending and overtime employers and union Port further negotiations over further having leaders. were holiday claim. of the Department

SOTON FORD BACK

talks at Employment and Productivity Tradesmen at Ford's South- on the dock strike yesterday. factory returned to meeting work after mass yesterday morning.

DOCKS INQUIRY AND

They walked out Wednes-

DEBATE

day lunchtime support of In Employment Minister Robert two suspended welders. announced yesterday Carr that a court of inquiry into the docks dispute is tó be set The Queen's up immediately. of declaring a state at tho message Workers emergency will be debated in Post Once. Published by ligh Street, Monday. the Commons next Printed by Ltd. (TU)

MANCHESTER CRITICAL

180b Clapham Loader Opposition expressed was Friday July 17, 1970

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Italian crisis Mass strike Pope's lackey paralyses W Bengal seeks reactionary

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

THE INDIAN state of W Bengal came to an almost tota standstil on luesdav as workers defied thousands of troops and police to stage a 24-hour 'bandh' (complete stoppage of work).

coalition

BY DAVID BARNES

All shops in the capital shut, were Calcutta,

GENERAL STRIKE

Onces i were closed ane. public transport private venices were on (or no housing the road.

IN CALABRIA

Traine his gent ana all lgals wer cancell the GIULIO ANDREOTTI, the right-wing Christian Democrat charged by İtalian President Saragat Played an ip ament aChinese Naxa. the general siled with reforming the centre-left coalition - of called Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, tanted cities Social- ists and Republicans which fell with the sentent the stor my ana le police are rage resignation of Prime Minister Rumor on july 6, is to meet Socialist Party leaders this evening day he indian capitalist class or tomorrow morning Though the parties is not only unable and unwill- be scarcely to apocal Strike solid divided any more on the essential class

ISSUCS

policy Andreotti Hallullal

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MANOEUVRING

into will be lucky to form of troops to government in the situa- main Stalinist par demonstrated between the bie he two of the reling his siation, ung the move and small ports. of double-talk. con- elanorkers in Britain

LION

spiracy and manoeuvre at indeed class centre of which Ine stands. Socialist altans with to enemy and frustrating hi Leadership A Communist President has already and policy about cahile in Emi Imperatin, the nan coon iSts (PSIUP) s Alliance. votes of his will try t left- party, A Red and chrisian Democraticans his favourite nolitician bumpet Andreotti.

• Soch Demorat but thi spearheac strike. paring for labour leaders The Italian economic crisis things if the evite seatines of the men lesser of two scare in anyal decks Essential tempermined and adam sen they let Royal ntee employer: planner then al rote for re the mines sensat Tr confies about rulie British bourgeoisie has been broug meish the"l road-an are the indian SPEAKING at last week's NUM conference, • Vatican, rough the most react force with which has the semblance pending devaluatio Sid Schofield, National Union of Mineworkers' nch of saidely taken with Capituladirectly their threatened arre vice-president, warned that 'agitators are at charace ei work in our midst. These the proletariat. agains Tory press praise for appears. art undermine the status Prologue of NUM officials'. They The dock strike is but the are 'distributing leaflets ex-C.P. DAVE BOWMAN, former member of the ana callne anollicial meetings. Communist Party's Executive, whose resignation destiny the from the CP was announced in the 'Morning . The railwayman Girish ta Star' on June 30, is this week the subject of tard role a tribute in an extreme right-wing Dundee 5 00 ra newspaper. dete Britain G0970 'Dundee The courier

BY JOHN CRAWFORI

and Advertiser reports From atic processitutional will be defeate ed one Tone that Bowman, a leading commistee is decide industrial Kelations. Beer enter tones enda member reheads and he cal Union of Railwaymen, has cation from the Come oint Party, with which Roundheads - the ra been accepted as a mem- political Marxist of Denirs ber of the Dundee Labour nois Railway. Tried and pard adamand lied in Party hose of rati Party in order to trade Pointery in ot eti representative has decided to resign resignation spherest ive is beate centenary has • OC 'Disagreement' he CP t i nation as saying lee has leaders have ese rese reliner return to that ere wilromo naty repared with tran in the Devind Phase Sales Union and Bitthead tear the Tories said another.