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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 221 • FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1970 What No retreat on Pearson — 100 think: Prepare Tory press scream for union laws to fight

THE TORY

an use Liverpool dockers collecting their strike pay yesterday.

Scanlon's Devlin 'Out two weeks for nothing

SAY MERSEY DOCKERS

WEDNESDAY'S retreat by docks delegates on the Pearson Report face dockers with an even It Minness is 'IT'S FANTASTIC commented Liverpool throu rank-and-filer Tony Legg, as

BY THE EDTOR

act of Employm greater danger - a complete rout over the Devlin dockers queued for strike pay outside their Phase Two modernization plans.

union's city headquarters yesterday.

first We came out for £20 With the militant Merseyside and London doesn't basic, Pearson dockers still to meet, the Pearson question is certainly not resolved for the Tories.

But the give us a penny, so we spectre of Devlio saill hovers over their decision.

go back alter two weeks for nothing. We should This is the harsh logic of compromise which can- stav out. not be alsguised by any amount or bureaucrauc many rhetoric or enaced by rank-and-ne threats to leave the 'White' T&GWU and join the "Blue' NAS&D.

Dockers must not allow their frustration and hatred ards include side of the full-time officials-and there is plenty of both Communist isabe, in dockland now-to get the better of them.

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The shop stewards have for the f20 basic wage. The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

RESPONSE to the treachery of 'unconditional Nasser's accept- ance' of the Rogers 'peace plan' is a wave of protest by the Arab masses. from Under pressure this movement, the Iraqi leaders have opposed the July E1000 Fund deal, and announced that 10,000 Iraqi troops sta- stands at tioned in Jordan are to be put under the command of £957 5s 5d the guerrilla Central Com- mittee. one day to go The Syrian government, led by a different wing of the Ba'ath Party from the Iraq IN SPITE of the slow start also opposed the regime, has this month, it looks as if we Rogers plan, but more will reach our €1,000 goal.

equivocally. We received f55 15s 5d Jordan Prime Minister, bringing our Fund yesterday, Rifai, who has favoured the total to £957 5s 5d. This plan, is at present in Damas- means we need to raise talking Syrian £42 14s 7d first cus to by post leaders. Saturday. We know it's been a diffi- Yesterday, a two-hour strike of holi- cult month because by the was called in Jordan days, but the donations Palestine Liberation Organiza- coming in this week have tion. really shown that our readers are ready make big Wednesday had Baghdad seen sacrifices. demonstration in Let's make it a fighting against any acceptance of a finish. settlement leaving Palestine. Post your donations at once - under Zionist control. to: Workers Press The guerrilla radio stations, Appeal Fund, closed down Nasser and 186a Clapham High Street, his Sudanese associates, are from London, SW4. noW operating again Syrian territory. The Democratic Popular Court martial Front for the Liberation of led by Nayef Palestine, Hawatmeh, has issued a state- threat breaks Nasser's denouncing ment action as 'the opening of hos- tilities against the resistance Madrid and the beginning of an attempt to liquidate it'.

So far, however, the Central metro strike Committee of the. guerrilla organizations, dominatedi Al-Fatah, has not commented AFTER THE first strike ever on the stopping of the Cairo guerrilla broadcasts. Madrid's underground since it was opened 51 years 4.000 Metro workers

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ago. returned to work yesterday An Al-Fatah representative under a threat of military dis- is still engaged in discussions cipline and court martial in Cairo with the Egyptian authorized by General Franco.

Apart from halting all trains Metro, Meanwhile, the final agree- on the the strike ment to begin negotiations on crippled the surface transport Pagers the plan are held up system in the capital. whil Busworkers the Israeli cabinet tries consider- to 1 id a united formula for ing sympathetic strike action when the Spanish acce stance of the US pro- Cabinet decided posals. at an emergency session on Wednesday night to The most likely OuLCOMe place all strikers under mili- seems to be a split, in which tary discipline. the Gahal right-wing party Refusal to work would then refuses to accept the deal, but have been treated as mutiny, the majority of Meir's cabinet and court martials would cer- agrees to it.

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FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1970

Liverpool dockers collecting their strike pay yesterday.

SAY MERSEY DOCKERS

WEDNESDAY'S retreat by docks delegates on

'IT'S FANTASTIC

commented Liverpool the Pearson Report face dockers with an even

T&GWU

rank-and-filer Tony

BY THE EDITOR

Legg, greater danger - a complete rout over the Devlin dockers queued for strike pay outside their Phase Two modernization plans.

union's city headquarters yesterday.

'We came out for £20 With the militant Merseyside and London basic, Pearson dockers still to meet, the Pearson question is give us a penny, so we certainiv not resolved for the lories.

But the go back after two weeks spectre nf Devlin will hovers over their decision.

We should Ior nothing. This is the harsh logic of compromise which can- stay out.' any nOT amount or bureaucrate ere follow. This was the effaced by rank-and-file threats to leave rhetoric or ng the 51-31 the 'White' I&GWU and join the Blue NAS&D.

Dockers must not allow their frustration and hatred of the full-time officials-and there is plenty of both Levelers in dockland now-to get the better of them.

for heistronics, hist eed testerday morning all dockers called for Heath in his address to tr Committee called on th Not

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De decided men are steward ve enough' prepared mobilize Turthe troops. e derade union leade and after yes- cry as ve have don Tilbury returns state

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Worders Prese could stem retreat or wards summarized by mented on on the day of tetstrike calle Torshinders from the for let can ten yo from MASS meetings at London's main docks this morning the as cemal to nood 1g parts The fact that including evlin will be considering delegates' recommendations to return rective a to work on the basis of the Pearson inquiry terms.

Workers Press. solution told the meeting:

BY JOHN SPENCER

leadership toa and filer Dachy Hop sons deconimendatich the Pear- Confusion over the meaning it doesn't no going back on the prosed videncson was very much 1 Union Congress but aire deeply the reacteon of marry dockers one the 3 Yes. • docks intrate ference ce the lores to resi it. I don't think T&GWU mem rect was mered in the live other have called and effect was Pothers, stall depend Spposed its demonstratively dy will tea t the going back. Nobody getting the best e Devlin The CP,

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BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

RESPONSE to the treachery of Nasser's 'unconditional accept- ance' of the Rogers 'peace plan' is a wave of protest by the Arab masses. from Under pressure this movement, the Iraqi leaders have opposed the July £1000 Fund deal, and announced that 10,000 Iraqi troops sta- Stands at tioned in Jordan are to be put under the command of £957 5s 5d the guerrilla Central Com- mittee. one day to go The Syrian government, led by different of the a wing Ba'ath Party from the Iraq

IN SPITE

of the slow start . regime, has also opposed the this month, it looks as if we Rogers but plan, more will reach our £1,000 goal.

equivocally. We received £55 15s 5d Minister, Jordan Prime yesterday, bringing our Fund Rifai, who has favoured the total £957 5s 5d. This to plan, is at present in Damas- need means to raise cus talking to the Syrian £42 14s by first post leaders. Saturday. We know it's been a diffi- Yesterday, a two-hour strike cult month because of holi- was called in Jordan by the days, but the donations Palestine Liberation Organiza- coming in this week have tion. really shown that our readers Wednesday are ready to make big had seen sacrifices. Baghdad demonstration in Let's make it a fighting against any acceptance of a finish. Palestine settlement leaving Post your donations at once - under Zionist control. to: The guerrilla radio stations, Workers Press closed down Nasser and Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High Street, his Sudanese associates, are from London, SW4. now operating again Syrian territory. The Democratic Popular Court martial Front for the Liberation of Nayef Palestine, led by Hawatmeh, has issued a state- threat breaks Nasser's ment denouncing action as 'the opening of hos- the resistance tilities against Madrid and the beginning of an attempt to liquidate it'.

So far, however, the Central metro strike guerrilla Committee of the. organizations, dominated by Al-Fatah, has not commented AFTER THE first strike ever on the stopping of the Cairo Madrid's on underground guerrilla broadcasts. since it was opened 51 years ago, 4,000 Metro

DISCUSSIONS

workers returned to work yesterday An Al-Fatah re ›resentative under a threat of military dis- is still engaged in discussions cipline and martial in Cairo with the Egyptian authorized by General Franco.

government. Apart from halting all trains Meanwhile, the final agree- the Metro, the strike to begin negotiations on crippled the surface transport ment the Pogers plan are held up system in the capital. Busworkers whil the Israeli cabinet tries were consider- to f id a united formula for ing sympathetic strike action when the acce itance of the US Spanish Cabinet pro- decided posals. at an emergency session on Wednesday night to The most likely place all strikers under mili- i seems to be a split, in which tary discipline. the right-wing Gahal party Refusal to work would then refuses to accept the deal, but have been treated as mutiny, the maiority of Meir's cabinet and court martials would cer- agrees to it.

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AN ITEM in Workers Press recently described how big business in America was encourag- ing the development of black capitalism ('When Black is Bountiful, Workers Press, July 10). The Ford Motor Com- pany had deposited 500,000 dollars in the new First Independence National Bank, opened in Detroit this month.

The president of this bank, Mr David B. Harper, was quoted as declaring: 'A Black bank is able to make money available to black people. This is what the bank is all about.' A number of big corpora- tions have set up black sub- sidiaries in the ghetto areas.

of every five Two out businesses in Harlem are black-owned these days. The Nixon Administration has been this encouraging development through the Business Office of Minority Enterprise, established in March 1969. The 'US News and World Report' has noted: 'Black capitalism is turning be a form of "Black out to Power" with • wide appeal to members of both races', and one which is 'gaining backers - and financial assistance — white businessmen, among bankers and industrialists' thinking Some of the behind this policy is quite simple and can be illustrated by remarks such as that made by Ralph T. McElvenny of the American National Gas Com- pany: "The Negro must have a stake in the economy that gives him more to lose than to gain by rioting and insurrection?

Community Mr Thomas Or, as H. Burress of Philadelphia who is active in the city's black business community explained: 'If people in the neighbour- a share of the hood own business, when someone with a Molotov cocktail approaches the place, windows will fly and residents will say open "Don't you dare burn my dol- lar's worth", Of course, the encourage- capitalism' ment of "black does not change the position of the black worker in American society any more than the employment of black police- men does away with police brutality. The problems remain. The youth are still unem- ployed, the slums are still there are still rats in slums, the tenements. The power remains in the hands of the ruling class which is respon- sible for these problems.

In fact, in a period when US capitalism is in decline, there is little real future for black capitalism anyway. This was pointed out in January of this year by a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and governor of the Federal Reserve System, the black economist Andrew Brimmer. In a paper presented to the American Economic Associa- tion Brimmer argued that black-owned businesses tend to be small, insecure, service industries-food stores, laund- ries, beauty parlours and so forth. Ghettos Most of them owed their • help existence to residential segre- tion, gation and catered for a poor market in the ghettos. They stood little chance of competing successfully with big business. 'Self-employment is a rather rapidly declining factor in our modern economy, said Brim- mer. For the great majority of the Negro population it offers a low and rather risky pay off.' He went on to warn that if more businesses were started they 'would certainly be more prone to failure than already firms, established and their failure would leave a lasting burden the individuals on starting these firms'. Furthermore ' . . the pur- suit of black capitalism may I would like inform Fill in the form below and se

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retard the Negro's economic advancement, by diverting attention from schemes that Of course the black capital- The aim is political - to and maintain a encourage layer of people in the black ghettos who have a stake, or believe they have a stake, in the continuance of capitalism.

These are the allies which the American ruling class has found, to help it maintain the oppression of the black masses.

If these new 'Uncle Toms' can talk 'black', if they can hide their ambitions behind militant - sounding 'black power' slogans, then they are so much more useful as allies.

They can be used to divert Police provoke black workers in Philadelphia. the militancy of the black and the youth into masses nationalist channels where it will not threaten the system.

the Ford Foundation So money into conferences puts 'community control' and on similar 'black power' causes.

Central Intelligence The in Agency, long experienced the selection of suitable friendly African nationalists to their help US imperialist penetra- tion, now looks for similar recruits in the United States working itself, usual as through the anonymity of various benevolent founda- tions with lots of funds. As an article on this topic in 'Ram- parts" magazine commented: Slogan •. • • Black Power hardly a revolutionary slogan seems today. It has been refined and domesticated, awarded a prom- inent niche in the American dream. And Carmichael's state- ment of a few years ago, that the President of the United 1'The CIA as an Equal Op- portunity Employer', 'Ram- I may parts', June, 1969.

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"we shall States might say overcome" over national tele- vision, but would never call for Black Power, has also been disproven—-by Richard Nixon, seemingly the most unlikely of The country needs "more black ownership", Nixon said during his campaign, "for from this can flow the rest: black pride, jobs, and, yes, black Black Power"! In the in Workers past Press and in 'The Newsletter' we have insisted on drawing attention to the potentially reactionary aspects the 'Black Power' movement. While defending the rights of persecuted groups, such as the Black Panthers, our com- rades in the Workers League in America have opposed Black nationalism as a diversion and that have stood for the view the black masses can only be liberated by the overthrow of US capitalism which can only be achieved by the revolu- tionary unity of black and white workers in their own party. We have been attacked all along for taking this position by the revisionists who have taken up the 'Black Power' slogan uncritically and enthusi- astically and have supported Black Nationalism, claiming it to be a revolutionary move- ment. One of our political oppon- and ents an enthusiastic admirer of the Black National- ists, a Mr Bob Purdie, wrote series of letters in 1967 attacking our position and these were subsequently pub- lished as a pamphlet? by the International Marxist Group, a revisionist grouping of which Purdie is a leading member.

Since the revisionists were still circulating this pamphlet quite recently, we assume they still uphold its content as correct. In the course of replying to one of Purdie's letters Work- ers Press editor Mike Banda wrote: 'As was pointed out in last week's "Newsletter" the Black Power programme is a reform- ist one which excludes all unity of Negro and white workers in the struggle against capitalism. 'Marxists must distinguish between the Black Power idea or feeling of Negro workers and the Negro petty-bour- geoisie. "The former want political power in their own neighbour- hood to fight the police, the landlord and the capitalist. Their emphasis is on power. It is progressive and revolution- ary. The latter, however, ex- "A Marxist Debates the League', Socialist Labour Pioneer Book Service, 1968.

press the universal uncertainty and fear of the petty bourgeoi- sie-the fear of being prole- tarianized. It is reformist and reactionary. There is a world of difference between these "Black of two concepts Power"! Purdie thought it was wrong for Marxists to make the care- ful distinction which Mike Banda was making. He insisted on ignoring the petty-bourgeois 'Black Power' aspect of ideology and asserted that it didn't exist. According to Purdie, the Black Power movement was undeniably revolutionary, the petty-bourgeoisie were all inte- grationists and 'This is the reason for the most virulent opponents of Black Power being, precisely, the Negro petty-bourgeoisie' The simple, short answer to this statement is that it simply Although in the isn't true. past the Negro middle-class leadership was integrationist, doing its best to assimilate into society, American bourgeois there is a whole layer of ghetto petty-bourgeois who can't make it. They run shops and laund- ries in the ghettos. Their sons may be teachers, or in other professions. These people are also affected by dis- and other prob- crimination lems which affect the black proletariat, and they feel very Stokely Carmichael sensitively humiliations the imposed on blacks as an oppressed people. But unlike the black prole- tariat, they also feel, as pro- an instinctive perty owners, fear of revolution and hostility to socialism. It is these people who have turned to black nationalism and whose petty-bourgeois aspirations are contained in calls for 'black pride'. support of white If the trade union leaders for the system of oppression and the failure of liberal civil rights movements have led some black workers and youth, in the absence of a real revolu- alternative, to be tionary attracted to the superficial militancy of the black nation-

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alists, this does not alter the petty-bourgeois of character the nationalist ideology.

Nor does it provide any excuse for people who claim to be Marxists helping to spread nationalist illusions, as the revisionists have been doing. I would strongly recommend Tim Wolforth's pamphlet 'The New Nationalism and the Negro Struggle' for an analysis on this subject and an able exposure of the revisionism As for our own local revisionists, they can usually be counted on to expose them- selves. On the question of national- ism, Mr Purdie says: 'Banda remarks that the US Negroes do not -onstitute a By conventional nation. all standards of nationhood this may not be so, but the concept of nationhood ... is mobili- zing the black masses against the bourgeois state.' Myth In other words, never mind whether black nationalism is based on a myth, or whether it is true, so long as it serves to mobilize the masses! This remark betrays an petty-bourgeois opportunist, contempt for truth which is completely alien to Marxism.

As for nationalism mobili- zing the masses against the state, bourgeois this must surely make the American ruling class very peculiar people; they are, as we have supporting a seen, evidently movement against themselves!

The real role of nationalism in this situation is to enlist the black youth and workers behind the leadership of their 'own' middle class and to divert their movement so that it does not threaten the bourgeois state. Unlike the revisionists, the ruling American class has realized this. If black youth are attacking a store in the ghetto, the nationalists can tell them that the problem is that the store is white-owned, not that it is capitalist. Rats If there are rats in the tene- ment, and the schools are over- crowded and dilapidated, the ghetto people can be diverted into a movement for 'com- control' schools, munity of instead of attacking etc. capitalist landlordism and corrupt city government. The black nationalists showed their usefulness to the US ruling class when they encouraged scabbing during the New York teachers' strike, instead of working to unite and parents teachers, pupils into a movement to demand better education. And the revisionists in the SWP tried to apologise for and cover-up • this reactionary stand, which was splitting the working class. The capitalist system offers no future to the black youth.

To overthrow this system they. not nationalist need, myths, but a real understand- ing of the social situation and a revolutionary movement of black and white workers to achieve workers' power. 'Black Nationalism' by the Nigerian writer Essien Udom, gives a very useful account of the Black Muslim movement, which indicates some inter- between it and connections black capitalism.

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Friday, July 31, 1970

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THE RUSSIAN painter sweeping Russia a tween 1914 and 1 Kasimir Malevitch wrote The new style of in 1916 that 'no torture painting' born at be understood ab chamber of the Aca- desire to express a man's history. demies can withstand the Behind passage of time. change lay the for national into history and 'Forms move and are born to come about, sw make newer and and we practice the old co newer discoveries. And it is absurd to force our age into the old forms of the past.

As royed the old ba "The hollow of the past cannot contain the gigantic constructions nations through t and tempo of our life.' duction, capital in fewer an With these words, he expresses it created SO of the almost fanatical some working class. enthusiasm and partisan feeling The change beg with which the artists in this exhibition embraced the changes pressionists EIGHT days ago, the United States Senate passed what has been described as the most controversial and in repressive laws seen Washington in years. The District of Columbia Crime Bill authorizes preventive deten- tion of suspected criminals, even though the local police force and the justice department admit that is no way yet to tell there whether a particular suspect will commit a crime if released before trial. Model Bill Fred Hampton: Shot d The importance of the Bill goes patients, on lawyers District far beyond the their clients, and ever the Nixon Ad- Columbia, for confessional ministration considers it a model priest sorting out the crime Bill, to be applied to all states in time if possible.

Finally, the Bill au police to break and el A struggle has taken place for without announcing t Congress to re- months in the move from the Bill its more con- The powers which t troversial parts, but this fight was places in the finally lost. todians of the US caj are staggering. This Bill's opponents-who in- clude hardened conservatives as • It gives the polic well as liberals-believe that it carte blanche in denies at least four of the amend- militants - first, b ments in the Bill of Rights.

some may be uttered on th All the controversial provisions and then infringe personal liberties.

without bail. Quite apart from the preven- —which amounts to tive detention- putting a man who may have committed a crime in prison in case he may commit another— As for police br there is the long-sought authority entering without ant the Bill puts the to tap conversations, whether on the telephone or any other way.

what was virtually th way. Administration The Nixon asked for and got the authority In the Chicago n to listen in to any conversation which Black Panther and not just to those that might ton was shot dead, knocked politely an relate to national security, which waited for the door t had been the guide until now.

before riddling the r The debate in Congress specifi- occupants with bullet cally referred to authority to tune Now they won't ha in on doctors talking to their

WORKERS PASS

DGE VISITS

AN

EXHIBITION OF RUSSIAN

ART

THE NON-OBJECTIVE WORLD. 1914-19

Annely-Juda Fine Art 11-12 Tottenham Mews, London W.I.

Until September 30 Malevitch Review by Cissy Lodge •Pencil Drawing No. 1 eep 19 and 1224. : Europe be- These ar of a rejection handa nd Philistine and the an idealist ruling class, reached a new stage.

of whole elements this Detor be inspiratio] starting point of all my en spoke. out Europe look i sure through the works o Think may Picasso and others, hit already the seething artistic world in Russi these scattered „torcing change What has this dfire, and angles? sweeping away 1n s got to actice the old conceptions revolution class, or with life at all Cubism The atm In Malevitch's 'pencil the developments On laws produces production of modern art in Europe with a tion of differently sh barriers been dominated hetween that had 'he most important thing to trade and Dro movement through spac remember that develope Kandinskyis: Pa with Finating Out of this • Kandinsky objective they cannot ment reaches a great c described society The change begun by the im- exnress a nev i that of forces in 1913: society has vet to be created AS THIS week opened with a report that the US balance payments deficit in the which second quarter will be be- $1,000 tween swingeing million and $1,500 million, began Congress is engaged in push- ing through a bill which is a Ways and M declaration of trade war.

It would impose quota restric of imported the where imports was 'freer trade' until recently.

His was faced whether to veto talks be. ally his own Bill. It Then, last month and a high turean apanese elegatio Minister Forens, failed to reach or course it is the re control Ers tectitician contimant imports from Japan. owever the idea 1s ra give te File Tobby and Hampton: Shot dead by Chicago police.

suotas Listene the sorting out the sinner. ally, the Bill authorizes the to break and enter a house ut announcing themselves.

ence the Banks are datesinty the the reduction of the C-s

SENATE

dalhautione now will decide taking pushing place the Us capif ist state difference. whether the giant Lockheed Litigation There is much here in corporation - the capitalist "expected Penn wo yexpected prod the in dealing ruptcy, where t world's largest defence con- made mone e which tractor is to teeter over could have the financial brink into bank- non't wait thet lond prevented the filing of the bank- There are rumours co the tolanhona this apparent stalemate lasting them in runtey petition Lockheed has been locked in written h° the strategists fail in Tarthaad hac Prancial argument with the administration Legal seal that some months chicanery. quarrel is over $1,000 dollars injected, immediately healingand threatened announcement, villain of the niece is the The see a huge Sala Galaxy iet cargo aircraft. then sea! whose cost over-runs krar singaofi 52,000 milloto an unprecedented annainted management. There have this recently The Dantogon illadoc that thic #har has Lockheed's diverted hepri patiently mintary e 1:1100 er military spending the door to be opened for thie til the • riddling the roo that they Auer ming on defanes which quarter of their planned life.

Lockheed into the mire. acious C-SA proiect. dragged w they won't have to knock.

This adds weight to t Corporation ratorte that

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REVIEWED BI

MAKANDA

THIS BOOK is a study, using

*STUDIES IN RURAL CAPITALISM

"social anthropology' rather than 'economics', it is claimed,

IN WEST AFRICA'

the and to investigate rise By Polly Hill of a local capitalist growth farming class. Cambridge University Press, 1970. 70s.

studv covers inter alla Ghanaiar cocoa farmers. relate the le in hot ever, ta adequate attention, the however titist role Hill giant been storala rarming emphasized marketing comprehend duction have capitalists detailed study of specific areas the wnom are strictly of rural production s same emphasis need not The study of the mistes gue described especially alvais be misleading economie stady of a region.

preserved detailed account semi-colonial owning local capitalists on the egion where industry has beer Accra plains, and deliberately starved more serious D. 1914-1924* herdsmen than Katsina trade I ne close book con- causes reasonable into the and cludes treating this sphere o rural tor the industrial and area only the Polly zraphs bibliography it is precisely manu- But it covered industry facture Hill's study. although Many at the worker on these October, althoug logical shapes seen through a Sometheprints much had to chang Whích others produced sky, as many stand no espase and movement.

the architecture of the new New World society. There objective belladse they. • wantedo itation and reproduction of objens. to express levis through it de junea

PROBLEMS OF CULTURE

Braolutely new do ta.

UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP

NE THE DROIETARIAT

a do ys, Pais miye lized. the time iches a great complexity.

Leon Trotsky ma aroprams cent bio Bauhaus headed: warsighted represen- le the exhihitio shows working class far more by in, with a Do even greater implications for stage in the Bauhaus experiment.

foreign the Bill was amended every •of Representatives Means Committee, her commodities inst he main issue for them is n e import of foreign commod about he heato of the relatively a two-thirds majority hiccitoly Proun 10 (lithaaranh) to becom e. it is the recess structure.

JUST OUT

64 pages deliver • Committee fo ty jolt to the export figures tich and Aurandan can

1970 THE YEAR OFLENIN AND TROTSKY

DOCUMENTS OF SOVIET OPPOSITION

LENIN

«LUXEMBURG

WIEBKNECHT

banks in owed Leavily from the 5100 million for i deposits o buses. banks ar bankrup The banks rea crisis-racked the money was specif

MCD DATING

Drico fe

IF ONE point emerges from to the the latest report shareholders of the giant

GEC-AEI-EE

corporation, amount of it is that no 'whizz-kid'-ing from Arnold Weinstock or anyone else has been able to bypass the capitalist economic crisis. Announcing a 1969-1970 tax of £64

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

profit before million - over £l million of 5,000 workers faced However, with this below directors' December 'uncertain' and 'very 1co competi- and 3,000 the company's Merseyside forecast - chairman Lord speed-up and plants. pany's plans for Nelson says: redundancies ale

CUT-BACK

"Ihe pront 1s not as non al los soced. as we had expected, even six '[Rising prices have] im- In March, a report from the ago, due to posed both a and a Neddy' challence InCUSTrVS difficulties out- Toreat especially manu- vered that 30,000 Jobs were put and to heavier than 1967 and out between tacturers seeking secure major long-term contracts Tune last 48,000 and predicted anticipalcu cost increases back- further 1972- LOoKIng TO ruture. It 1s Ine this continue 15k per Everer percoack over the cent nOt possible, present improve our efficiency uncertain envronment predict meaningful with and continuous This could well be an under- support. degree of certainty or accuracy modernization the •VUl esumnalion

DOSILON

figures future lacturine plant. snould tne government earnings.' essential part of Common as s acree Market management by which we will entry. As on the docks, the Tories keep Intact the real value the capital entrusted to undoubtedly endorse

WEATHER

and at the same time by ' satis made by employers factorily increase unemployment. needs greates The redun- Londend, and Midrands, than nght deals rewards dancies in the security. combine must In waites at first. i ployees and shareholders integrated Rewards Tor snarenolders une demand nation. of course- and - out since the 1nıt1a. ration- for the rejection of the Tory tion Weinstock's employees plans, "security and its proposed azation anti-union legislation. C England: places, Fresh or Rather

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in the North. nuree Soum. Southampton IT IS CERTAIN that the 400,000 workers in the Post Office industries are to face a big onslaught from the

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employers on jobs and conditions in the near future.

Devlin Phase Two package deal'. the While As docker Kevin Hayes put Accounts

BY BERNARD FRANKS

it: shows £30,079,000 profit 1969 "The package deal raises thi €39.5 million) must be looked whole question of redundancy conti me senarate v. extremely dubious about chiployer. Office workers the pnet on't believe all this talk emonasize mulllon of £38 convinced that oss in mme postal secuion.

division preparation stil be dly thought we would that de-nationalization of the more communications section (probe.

insists profitable PrOCESS Labour government with their reorkanizator Post Office TrON

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SUEZ PLANE CLASH

placed for prefabricated m Israeli and holes and joint boxes TeLs Canal the Suez variety of clashedi over equipment for yesterday as the Meir Cabinet handling expected that even- 'peace computers oill _take accepted the control over Targe Arab other Office variety Post enders. operations. Job evaluation to systems Along with these valuation break job n between down demarcation jobs. Vorkers expected undertake task directed.

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WORKERS PRESS

suerrillas training 'Star backs US - Nasser deal IN US imperialism's attempt to impose its will on the Arab people through the Rogers plan, the role of Stalinism is crucial. It was in his Moscow visit that Nasser was persuaded to agree to the ceasefire and negotiations with the Zionists.

Cho is may be he a The 'Morning Star' for Palestine revolution several weeks has avoluce any alrect comment These moves. yesterday. however, manded by the endu storT Came out in the open. Foreign Editor - The actor boling ur i Prepare Middle-East negotiations.

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chang in the hope pret it wil 'Star interests of the workers.

obes Rese daptation to bureaucrac s adaptation to imperialisn see a Position. That is why the CP today Not new plan, President Nasser ha at it cont lade it that Masquerade Prelutiod application of the Guerrilla fighters trek through Court martial rough country Slowed

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ans and the imperial i eree din Palesti tainly have followed. Despite this threat, the vote Wethese opportunists, who did comes the pay-off. Now ·722 st state to remain mperialism Palestine. With she Middle- East" deal, but seet United Nateement in th Opened way This is really not addressing moves of imperialism Eed by arer was in open laser of trade prepared. or is one advocatin on Monday? Support Unlike Dare and the Woke res the government Mersey Tilbury dockers

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he prevaine condu or £20 that the en their 24* fact, threaten arrangements week. an Shall dans compet ban district denied secretar e fact tha the and seis wea emain the same docks satron and under wor lockers are defeate and Salinismith bureaucracy base Two will be weaken well knoers I pose of fine Feason Report political and economic assist- on the docks! continue unofficially. Friday, July 31, 1970 A BIG BATTLE for the Kirirom plateau is in progress some 70 miles SW of Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital. The Nol puppet

BY A

Lon

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

army has committed 3,000 troops against strongly- in the hands of forces loyal guerrilla defended posi- Sihanouk's to Prince exile government in Peking, the tions in the area, and has Kremlin still recognizes the requested air support from Lon Nol Phnom regime Penh as the legal Cambodian the US command. government and maintains its The behaviour of Saigon- embassy there. based troops who moved into In broadcast message to Cambodia Nixon's May the Cambodian people earlier with this Sihanouk 1 invasion has been attacked week, lashed even by a Phnom Penh com- the Lon Nol regime and those mander. who lent it diplomatic support: Asked if he intended *Look carefully at the policy of Saigon Nol regime. of the Lon The request the return forces to relieve the of friendship siege it seeks with 1S Phnom Penh, Lt-Col Ngin traitorous Saroeung replied: 'We kok, don't the Seoul, Taipeh and want Vietnamese to return. The which send their health- gon, discipline is no good. They did US war-mongers iest sons to into the forest after fodder. not as cannon Vietcong. They the broke in- Proud the of military to homer dependents, broke down the doors, and took gold and belongings.' Sihanouk pointedly omitted the Kremlin he when paid Bombing tribute to those governments supporting his struggles against Lon Nol and his US backers: North of Phnom Penh, near very proud to have am Siem Reap, heavy bombing Mao Tse-tung Kim Il-sung raids mounted [of N Korea], Ton Duc Thang were against Nguyen Huu guerrillas. Tho [both of Similar US air Vietnam] and Lin Piao, Chou cover was given to puppet troops in a En-Lai ... as comrades-in- with forces opposing clash liberation arms in US im- Kompong Thom. perialism and Asian and Indo- near With half Cambodia. Chinese renegades.

CHAIRMAN

of the Polish Party and State be must Television Com- Radio and accompanied by joint efforts Sokorski read the on the part of schools, poly- mittee, W. the country's technics and riot act to universities to workers and youth in a War- inspire with young people saw Home Service talk earlier of sense responsibility and this week. discipline. 'A problem to which The seriousness of the situa- we devote tion, which first exploded with must attention than hitherto is the introduc- the Warsaw student demon- tion of social discipline in the strations the spring of In widest sense of the word.

1968, is reflected in Sokorsky's In the socialist final remarks: countries, where the of merciless aw we must fight more competition has been replaced vigorously against individual by social duty, discipline has phenomena disintegration been considerably shaken we have witnessed a gradual which, though isolated and far from being universal, contri- weakening of the for need bute appreciably to an atmo- discipline both in schools and sphere of irresponsibility and in work establishments.. slackness. very Incentives Productivity 'We must state that these 'Unless we overcome them conditions can longer be we shall not be able to step tolerated, and that former productivity of up and social competition must be discipline the efforts by of replaced by socialist labour parents, schools, the Party and discipline, regulated and con- vocational trolled by a proper system of not only be universal in this material incentives.' but characterized by respect, To counter these unspeci- full solidarity, since only then fied of 'indiscipline' shall we be able and by to reach Polish youth, Sokorski recom turning point in the shortest mended 'the efforts of the possible time.' the were Civil jails

THE RESIGNATION

of Dr the full range of 20 Thomas Paine as Apollo administra- missions the pro- of the National involved the early cramme Aeronautics development of a space shuttle and Space Ad- the ministration has come at 50-man an system and space embarrassing moment for station by 1980, the establish- President Nixon. ment of a lunar base in the trail decade and next manned Despite Paine's assurances Mars landing expedition in the unexpected that his decision next two decades. has nothing to do with the virtual collapse of by any planned American space pro- now financially gramme, the point remains that he is returning the to an executive General post at Electric the midst the in of SPEAKING in Washington European negotiations with Wednesday, Dr Paine on governments for the additional predicted substantial Soviet funds refused by Congress.

advances in space within the for, Since Paine's next year. accession to

NASA

chief in tober 198, he has scene the He hoped that the Ameri- can Agency's budget would has budget space programme's be built up to its former pared to the bone and it is level. of possible that luke-warm European response to his was the final pleas for cash straw. question and even the space Yet despite NASA's finan- shuttle system unlikely to is the cial position, the space agency be functioning before 1980.

is to persist with expensive, The Venus-Mercury pro- with 'one-shot' projects. so-called ject. era, dou s the tuesday for

'NASA

On of all the Tour outer announced plans an -which begin planets- must in unmanned flight to Venus and September 1977 if it is to be Mercury in 1974. successful- -are very much of

NASA

A spokesman said it would sop to remaining be the first space vehicle to scientists extremely critical of cut-backs and their fly past Mercury, closest demoral- with the izing effects on the shrinking planet to the Sun. scientific teams. addition to Originally- -in