Workers Press no. 220

Despite docks delegates' vote to end strike The real fight has

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Since none of the docks dele- first their previous decision anc farson formula Alre wen t eleme Is, ech the Group, opted for Pearson. ins is not at all surprising ins that is going to decide the he on this Wilson and Heath. Their ow the have every. mento ers menting the retainer labour would als manded an increase in basic rades a 50 s and, in 1970, exchange their the ne ne and choine er coverin ion that hears acquiescence ten dockers to scab

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day on the terms dictated by Lord Pearson's Alree winker and 1s ech inquiry is not the end of the dockers' fight.

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AS NEGRO youth fought with police on the streets of several Ameri- can cities in the last fort- night, newspapers and police officials were anti- cipating that this would be the start of another long hot summer' in the black ghettoes. The reasons are not hard to find. At Ashbury Park, New Jersey, where fighting went on for three nights run- ning, a civil rights official said: 'Housing in the West side is among the worst I've ever seen. They can't even move from one hovel to another'.

Unemployment The local chief of police himself attributed the cause of the rioting to the high unem- ployment among Negro youth in the city. Having long been the most oppressed section the American working class, super- exploited, badly-housed, vic- tims of discrimination, racial insults and police brutality, black workers have also been the chief victims of unemploy- ment. The spread of mechanization taken and automation has • of the unskilled away many jobs to which they were con- fined, and they have usually the first to be laid off been in any recession. Large numbers of Negro youth have grown up in the black ghettoes without any prospect of a job, and, because they were either unemployed or in dead-end jobs, the black youth have been the main people to get drafted; sent which the society out oppresses them, to fight for its interests in Vietnam and else- where so as to help it oppress other people. in the ghetto Growing up slums, offered future no except unemployment and war, 'land suffering poverty in a of plenty', and oppression in free' the 'land of the the black youth are confronted daily in their poverty by the symbols- in shop windows, on television and in films-of the prosperity which is denied. I would like inform Fill in the form below and se

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Name Address In two parts: PART TWO v appear in Fri Workers Pre them, acting as an insult and an incitement to revolt. In one city after another, Watts beginning with the insurrection in 1965, these youth have taken to the streets and fought American capitalism, its police and its Their revolt has troops. exposed the basic rottenness at the heart of mighty America, the heart of world capitalism.

The Watts revolt was the first shots of the American revolution. It has often been observed that the threat of revolution is effective way of the most bringing reforms. It was only after insurrec- tionary conditions had arisen city after in one American another that the US establish- serious ment began paying attention to Negro demands and the government attempted to introduce some measure of reform. However problems like unemployment and racial oppression are built in to the structure of American very capitalism. Reforms The reforms introduced by the Nixon Administration have solved nothing and with the crisis of US capitalism grow- ing worse, unemployment is increasing.. In April this year the unemployment rate among Negroes rose from 7.1 per cent to 8.7 per cent. Among the youth the figure is much higher, having risen from 28 per cent to 34 per cent—more than one in three. government's The Nixon scheme to get firms to take on and train more black work- ers has proved a flop. Accord- ing to "Time' magazine of June 8: Launched with much fan- fare 18 months ago, the com- government-business bined - e information about below and send to NATIONAL

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o parts: r TWO will ar in Friday's ‹ers Press drive to hire hard-core unem- ployed—particularly blacks-is becoming a casualty of the economic slump' The JOBS scheme - Job Opportunities in the Business Sector-was established jointly by the Department of Labour and the National Alliance of Businessmen. The government undertook to pay training grants averag- ing $2,400 per man to com- panies that took on and trained unskilled labour. The expected that government 140,000 workers would be enrolled. Cancelled ending In June the year 1970, only 99,000 were hired, and of these fewer than 40,000 were still in their jobs by the end of March. The Chrysler Corporation cancelled a JOBS which would have contract provided for 4,450 workers.

Chrysler's Lynn chairman Townsend is also head of the National Alliance of Business- men. Another company which is involved in the JOBS scheme is Zenith Radio Corporation.

Since the scheme began, 28 per cent of their trainees have left, while another 61 per cent have been laid off. A Zenith spokesman, Mr Leonard F. Luce, stated: 'Should there be a further downturn in the economy, it Black Panthers prepare to face police attacks.

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Black Panthers protesting during the trial of leader Huey Newton.

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will be necessary to lay off the Of of this sort counse balance of those still with us.'

confined phenomenon is not 'Time' reports that a Senate to America. Labour Sub-committee look- We have seen something

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ing into the scheme very similar happening in this found that the scheme had not country when firms move to reached Negro teenagers at all development areas in Scotland and furthermore found serious the East and North and in abuses in the scheme. their altruism 'help' the unem- ployed by taking them on at 'A few companies have used government training low wages, helping themselves grants to subsidize their wage to nice fat government subsi- and have skimped dies into the bargain. costs on teaching. Others have used the It has happened in Britain programme to recruit and hold too that firms which have taken government subsidies for moving into these then proceed to lay off their workers at the first whiff of recession. Anarchy anarchy of The capitalist such production is that attempts to modify and regu- late it by government inter- vention usually end up merely schemes for Lords public into private money profit. The problems of the working class remain unsolved.

capitalism American can offer no future to the Negro youth. To solve the problem and bad unemployment housing requires the removal unskilled labour in dead-end of capitalist chaos, and its jobs. replacement by a socialist plan- 'A California company, for ned economy. contracted to give example, In this period of economic 322 hours of on-the-job train- crisis, capitalism ing at a cost to the government offer palliative reforms. This of $4,173 per but most man, is shown by the failure of the of the jobs were so simple that JOBS scheme. The Senate sub- it took only from two hours to committee which examined the two days to learn the routine.

programmes failure remarked: A Detroit manufacturer agreed 'To ask the private business to train machinists, but turned the JOBS pro- sector to use of some them into general labourers.' gramme as solution for in a declining unemployment These companies are obvi- like economy is asking them ously not interested in solving solve a financial to crisis by problems of unemployment or writing more checks? economic insecurity. Not only are the companies They are simply getting laying off workers whom they what they can out of the of cheap scheme a supply under the had recruited scheme, but the Nixon admin- labour and government subsi- intends dies as well. Very nice, says istration to cut its allocation of funds the capitalist! to the Washington DC: The scene of some of the most vicious police attacks on Nearo youth. not enjoying any

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programme, as part of a is certainly expendi- general new phase of expansion. cut-back in As for the 'arms economy', ture. the Vietnam war has only The of Nixon's failure compounded the contradictions reform programme underlines in the American economy and the seriousness of the capitalist helped breaking it along to United crisis centred on the point. States. If the US economy cannot Although Marxists have con- full employment in maintain sistently drawn attention to situation, then what war being the economic crisis as happens if the war ends? central political to present There will be no jobs for affairs, there been has no shortage of revisionists with the GIs returning home. theories about 'neo-capitalism' So whatever the course or 'permanent arms economy' takes it American ruling class according which America to faces a serious internal crisis.

should not be in any crisis at This means that the Ameri- all.' can bosses must turn to more However the American repressive measures against capitalists do not share the the working class, the students confidence and faith in capital- To pre- and the black youth. which 'socialists' some politically for reaction, pare seem to possess. behind their "law-and-order' United States capitalism, at slogan, the Democratic and the head of the whole system Republican leaders will turn T

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Thursday, July 30, 1970

INTERNATIONAL

FIVE STUDENTS shot dead Guar at Kent State University in , aimin May, university and schools strikes which swept the country after this and Nixon's Cambodian invasion, a Negro youth shot in Jack- son, Mississippi, and Kansas City riots by oppressed Negro youth in Ashbury Park, New Bedford and Michigan is just à basic record of recent cam- pus and town events in the United States. But these are not a repeat of previous years' struggles.

'Something basic has A street in Asbury Park, N.J., unemployed black y changed amongst US youth, the m a report by one young says American Workers League member. She was involved in the in New May student strikes York City College and has just visited Asbury Park, New Jersey where, during the July 4-5 Independence celebrations weekend, this small seaside town was the scene of a fero- cious rebellion by unemployed Negro youth. The background to the campaign young mem- bers of the Workers League to mobilize Negro and white youth is the increasing class tensions created both. by US capitalism's economic crisis and the extension of the SE Asia war into Cambodia. It is the heightening of this • that 1 conflict which leaves the liberal protesters, anarchists and 'do- your-own-thing' merchants way behind big sections of high school, college, unem- ployed and Negro youth mov- ing into political action for the first time. The Kent State shootings played a big, part in bringing about a basic change in the attitude of youth, says the report. The wave of college and high school strikes which immediately • followed against the shootings and the war revealed an elementary con- sciousness amongst many sec- tions that more was needed than just a student protest this time, because the National

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sall Cutle y done at have and They put forward demands Kent State. Park riots,' fight youth immediate withdrawa the heart oll the gro ace in The rebellion ainst the common enemy, t from aise demands that unite the repression area. ena to that seven-block was ¿attacks alle dica burned and gutted. oppresses resses racism to divide one inemployment among agers. Hundreds of thousanck of youth without jobs confront very surged towards a luture unat is bleaker tha the working Tney met ever Delore into 'Many of them are Vietnam who have com future. once dr new easey stale force veterans Workers League has a basis to hack Negro and _ youth youth interviewed mobilize the multant said they hace • Workers League team Many of them are just passing join tne struggle until they become cannon unne ПРОМИТОЛА ТРИОРИ НЕ prospects in the future. Unem-

CLASS STRUGGLES

IN AFRICA By N. Makanda

SIMONSTOWN:

ONE OF the items of dis- A basic and in which Vorster, CUSSOn Smith, Rogers (US envoy), HeathR and were • others continual engaceo in was une Simonstown agreement. following the rebellion of government imperia Pete seren has a long h the murder of students, a halt link to Nixon's anti-labour offensive and for the building of a labour Bahne Nixon and his Wall St backers. Admiralty mad Naval guadron. Patrolled there both the Atlant but in San Francisco, and Indi Saint" nulade pna and ouner cities Spanish and english. Leanels asuributed in Students at the New York traffic, captur the Collur entate of New becameis ha ze Meroes Labour A model of an 1sth centure are at ahowine now cloely demanding York Mak aVas erentually • lal uney call tne rally.

for 8 se Napoleonic Wars, called in the s when Holland S allied at with France against Eng- 1814 movement against It was, says the reporter, a in the for cation of lo More of the cou 1955 Agreement big step forward also for the so-calle dated Jul The actual Depot the 0 195, eat is almost time working Under This and there was no pot-smoking Africane vi bourgeoisie recognized nor it ten the students d.

scared seized the irs deat or Hal Following hard on the heels continued British THE DAY Yuri Gagarin rocketed into space marked a new advance in the productive forces of mankind. That the Soviet Union rather than imperialist US initiated this new historical stage in technology demon- strated the inherent strength of the planned economy of a workers' state. However, not only did the Soviet programme high- space light the crisis of capitalism, but it turned spotlight on the crisis of the Stalinist bureaucracy, and in particular on the extremely contradictory their nature of development of technology.

The backwardness of Soviet and the shortage agriculture of consumer goods are proverbial.

Less well-known is the ex- tremely uneven development of industrial technology as Soviet a whole. There are very great weaknesses in vital industries such as the chemical and com- puter industries. Contradictions contradictions brought • These about by the extremely uneven development of the productive forces have forced the bureau- increasing cracy to attempt collaboration with imperialism in a frantic attempt to stave off an economic crisis in which the Soviet working, class will call nto question the existence of the bureaucracy. In 1920 Lenin stated: 'Not until the country is electrified and our industry, agriculture and buit up on the transport are foundation of up-to-date large scale production shall we be victorious.' (My emphasis.)

At no stage in history has the Stalinist bureaucracy been able to come up with more than a caricature of the necessary forces of production. As a result the sacrifices of the Soviet working class have been unnecessarily great and the overthrowing of world imperial- ism by the international working class delayed. In Bernal's 'Social Function of Science' (p. 443) there is a quotation from a Soviet article written in 1936: It is essential that the scientific research institutes shall become the most important factor in the progress of heavy in- • The reorganization dustry • of scientific research is one of problems of the . the greatest country. To a great extent the rate of subsequent development of Soviet economy and national defence depends on the success- ful solution of this problem.'

AFRICA

the same essential relations as they had previously done with the Smuts (United) Party.

This was doubly natural. because there has difference never any between the segration policy of Smuts, the hero of the British Empire and a co-founder of the 'Commonwealth', that of Malan, Verwoerd, Vorster and other Nationalist Party leaders.

There is, in fact, no difference at all between 'segregation' and 'apartheid'. The words mean exactly the same thing. Secondly, there has been no change in the nature of various British governments. Whether Labour or Tory in foreign policy, all governments have been imperialist govern- and objectively ments pro- apartheid. Continuity There has thus been a con- tinuity of policy both in S and the present 'talks' merely of this double continuity.

After the 1955 agreement handed Simonstown was over ceremoniously on April 2, 1957.

An essential part of the agree- ment was that Britain is guaran- teed the use of facilities at Simonstown 'both in war and peace'. Moreover, the Simonstown agreement is not an isolated one.

It is part of a much wider agreement between Britain and S Africa concerning 'the defence of the S Atlantic and Indian Ocean sea-routes' (as a S African handbook puts it diplomatically).

The Simonstown agreement is thus part of a general military agreement between Britain and the apartheid regime in S Africa, and this, in turn, is the S Atlan- tic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Heath who 'abhors apartheid' belongs to the same club as Vorster whose whole policy was, in fact, laid down firmly by another Englishman me i Cecil alist of Victorian John Rhodes. The Simonstown agreement is as thoroughly British (imperialist) as apartheid itself.

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This statement was made mental science (which is generally at time-1936. very significant therefore of an excellent stan- The old and great show trials of dard) at one time was Bolsheviks | were being prepared, supposed to achieve overall co- ordination (f R&D in USSR. The was the decimation of the Red Army high command. academies operate a large number of research institutes. In of Trofim biology the rise However, a series of sweeping Lysenko (see Zores Medvedev's the early 1960s took changes in of of the account this aspect some R&D institutes working on bureaucracy's mismanagement of industrial problems away from disastrous effect science ana Its the academy's control and gave on Soviet agriculture) had already them the appropriate indust- begun. rial ministries. The technical lead which the Although research is conducted Soviet Union had created in in the higher educational in-

VUZY.

stitutes - the - thev are generally successful as nOT their counterparts in Britain and US. This is because their staff have

PART TWO

enormous teaching loads, few. promotional possibilities and shortage of staff. auxiliary Furthermore, it extremely difficult to get a doctorate under the Soviet system. It takes about ten years compared to three in Britain. The various industrial minis- teries run whole series of R&D institutes, do the certain important aspects of military authorities. military technology-tank design No other country, apart and in the

DOS-

tactics —was sibly from the United States, initial stages of the war because exerts such an enormous R&D associated with officers they were effort. executed in the military trial.

The returns are not commen- Since the war the Soviet Union with the effort and surate the tremendous' advances Soviet has made Union has remained very in the fields of nuclear weapons, backward in whole range of aero-space technology etc., but important of technology. such nave been SuCCesses Beginning in the achieved in spite of the bureau- late 1950s, 'reforms' were made to redress and at and cracy great human the Soviet the situation and improve the material cost to central planning and organization working class. of R&D. The bureaucracy is, as I shall Since 1957 show in this article, still search- the bureaucracy has vacillated between tendencies ing for technical solution reduce its problems. centralization and TO tendencies to increase it. While The Stalinists are technological R&D co-ordination used to be determinists not Marxists and left to the Academy of Sciences believe technology prime ine and a series of separate minis- factor in history. 1961 tries, the State Com- One this consequence of is for Co-ordination of mittee Scientific that the bureaucracy is constantly Research was set up pragmatically for the searching to provide overall R&D co- magic wand with wordant technological organizational ordination. make their and political economic Failed problems disappear. An imperialist organization This failed to bring any radical

OECD

(Organization for Euro- improvement and in 1965 it was pean Co-operation and Develop- replaced by the State Committee published ment) last for Science and Technology.

The 700-page analysis of Soviet idea overall administrative Science Policy. co-ordination scrapped and was once more control devolved individual ministries. Report Soviet industry is extremely This estimates that in slow in applying research results 1965 4.9 million Soviet and the diffusion citizens of pro- new had received a higher education, cesses and products likewise third and them slow, spite of having 'engineers'. probably the world's largest technical information Their estimates of the number of people engaged in full-time In the

USSR

it takes from research and development (R&D) five to build seven years to ranged from 1.655.000 to large chemical plant and get 2,291,000 and for the total R&D 'on-stream' compared with one expenditures in 1965 they estim- years in Britain and the or two between $14.8 $20.7 and United States. billion. Bureaucratic Of this sum, between inefficiency and 10 and compartmentalization are one research less 50 per reason for such weaknesses.

than cent on development. For example, Atlac 382 resin In America 55.5 of per cent is widely employed in a French- R&D expenditure is spent on built fertilizer plant near Mos- development. It is generally be- cow. Even though this compound lieved that the Soviet Union has hundreds of other technical strong on research, but relatively a wide uses across spectrum of weak on development. industries, the Russians only use There are three centres it in the one plant. of R&D in the

USSR

the academies, Little wonder, since the industry and the re- higher education sponsibility for spreading in- The present Soviet formation about its usefulness to Academy of Sciences other industries the can trace its origins lay with back the Imperial Fertilizer Division of to Academy the of Sciences founded by Peter Chemical Industries who, of the Great in Besides did not care two kopeks the course,

USSR

about any other division.

Academy each constituent republic has its own academy. н.в. The academy presidium exer- cises great control over funda- Continued next Thursday

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Cuban Fierce anti- crisis Stalinist grows film by CASTRO'S 17th anniversary speech has revealed an unprecedented break-down in the Cuban economy. The massing of man-

BY ROBERT BLACK

power and resources for the sugar cane harvest has Morement of the ed economic shown up in falls in pro- Opposition cucuon every olner hemisphere other tually profitable part of the N Arop can

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

25 per IN FILMED interviews smuggled out of the been al Caste communist Mexican dictator- Soviet Union, leaders of the anti-Stalinist opposition have made the fiercest attack yet on the bureaucracy by the Soviet 'underground'.

The film shown

REPERCUSSIONS

American TV on Tuesday who have tried to present it consists of speeches made by three leaders of the as stalinisutiona re crisis that will hav mam opposiuon groups. repercu Andrei Am almost pessimistis Leto this the over Den This war with China. deal iterary opposition from the political perspective Vladimir Bukovs tarse besmen impre Peter tender, who t of the Red eried ng ane prainst movement the we have Sa d about the Castro economic as well as Yakir's emerg article contains the text contribution and most advance world, iu the Moy cada we are all being arrested or the Being or For all those who have thats not th by th International. Jordan trade bout who criticize them. The breakdown in vital communications, essential to the agriculsual and industrial development, are just one aspect of the and there unionists will others,

«SONG UADN

Soviet bureaucrats face ville back to Sonat used to fight deal THE SOVIET bureaucracy is in the grip of a

JORDANIAN

Which caned the standa Defiant severe economic crisis which it finds increas- the ogers Middle Past peace Revolution would ingly difficult to disguise.

the Palestinian on settes small. But i dresse activity tion seems nicial bodies Pile Al-Fatah, as Sending retorture, i distric Sudanese gov- Egyptian • to Cairo, Ces the station is leader.

debate the indicate the labour code In stalin's day, millions o

AIR STRIKE

pedody knew art it 5 wall to deal directly vith the producers.

DISCUSSION

Concessions output and marketing ndustries BY ead Oppositionist document Whether these concessions work harder for

COUNCIL

'FOURTH INTERNATIONAL'

see advert inside farm private Differences were ari every dismisalery mutes and Skyways. pose, inks will sion Monday for pak paily wit workers pay parity with reply to the propoen And in the Sudan, followin Tuesday, the

SMITH READY

FOR TALKS

Go-slow The ban was imposed, said and *The TI ved a Sudanese governm labou of code is deal scarcely

LATE NEWS

use productivity at their expe

FRAGHINLOSS

rues london headuaters Tere he really 1909 profe Nationa Freigh Stiff measures • sitory manage rover his mind corporatio set up the soviet every- Abour producie y stiffer Contact beat red cadet to turnover cut in io of los

VAUXHALL LOSSES

year, includi of this year E1,090,000 28110B10 "Published smuggle street, torton, ow correspondent William partly lesponsivie Thursday, July 30, 1970

AUSTRALIAN LETTER

SYDNEY

the same business nary oapr 43-keaders frogging business

IN CV!

of the Shell s said was co sent of what he INSW. 2000 ge. not

AUSTRALIA

group's miliony to 520, malin (ele belonging and Yow Bribe (mostly a weer, by almost one dollar an increase of almost The centlemar unprecedented number taking down awareness on the sic head-on colith the alton. evicted partions were made to more police) point to this.

• FROM PAGE ONE

the this While most dockers suspected, thal "star did its damndest

• FROM PAGE ONE

pore detes stair "Though, win between he Star Mote Costello o ment and a group of natives 'Mir lones asked it he though "us gore back on ange is where rate is a move T&GWU militanmented last Deaded: Bossen Lord Pearson's on wighout the f20 out Devlin Phase omatic increase Tories Now welcome Muscat the agricultural and industrial development, are just one aspect of the

WEATHER

coup

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

LAST

WEEK'S

palace revolution in the Sultan- ate of Muscat and Oman represents no gain for the peoples of the Arabian Gulf. It took place with the blessing of the Foreign Office and the oil mono- while the British- poles, for Frida. By Tom Kemp officered armed forces of in the North. Tem the state alscreetly normal, particularly in the absented themse ves trom raises for the bureaucracy the scene. conscious labour thorkingantiss The issue od tries worens

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overtime will minimized can The Pearson to the out 1 i and divisions dres tobacco and wester will be ect Despot Labour Board somous in said, andhurst-trained Degeneration Germany, the Mig it servant of the id Far Ea in the labour force.

BRAZIL'S

notorious right- forced to promise counter- however, own powers to sle ot n, while real independence capitalism er the he unarmed renes Canberra Gonzales, pro-Chinese Communist Sorrat economy prob- cal whether there occupation fined to intellectuals as yet, 'breaking security regulations'.

States