Workers Press no. 225

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OCT 29 1970

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

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NUMBER 225 • THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Continuous clashes in Ulster as courageous 'Night-sight' Swift moves youth and women face troops rifles now to Middle Army terror in Belfast East deal PREPARATIONS for negotiations on a Middle-East stepped up settlement are now moving at breakneck speed. United Nations mediator Dr Gunnar Jarring has already begun separate discussions in New York with representatives of Israel, Jordan and Egypt, and a ceasefire could be declared very soon. Under pressure from the Soviet bureaucracy, the Arab leaders will begın bargaining away the future of the Palestinian people dispossessed by the Zionist state, in return for a promise of Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967.

AFTER ALMOST a year of military occupation unluya broke out and six consecutive nights of vicious fighting Women have led many of the militant demonstrations i Ulster during the occupation and during curfews. On Sun- Libera certain between British troops and Irish workers in day they stormed the Antrim Rd, Beltast, barrucks wävin) eneshe gon bad frt assured Belfast, Ulster is being rapidly turned into an atestin banners ane canting sogans agalnst me croods hent s deset would strengthe and imperialist charnel house.

al no tinding withdraw declar Action It is also evident hat been

BY THE EDITOR

the reaction to the briust rt was he declaration army's policy of shooting, thr Habula, Catholic and ine gre-1967 borders looting and booting, which ho prensiy has already claimed live

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BY ROBERT BLACK

are '"Leumi Ine iv and ess lost ne Now on sale d first-hand (!) conne ofi the ON THE occasion of the 50th Home Office, Gener Pak pilicstos aa Catholic minority" Cenevel thạt Book sabout Free hand tea min the Sinne Uster bae came what use of British troops ormation nent w othe inl of the diabolical IN USE in Refast ast Inis Is Just andlead and new atest me Tores. License 1e Sivenl a tree 'trom Park Put one soldier looks e bich ts Inquiry intra-rea aiming CS-gas ne saols up al d More weeping and E2 hard Phase sage e ea h and RUC, has the sen been more Cover. PI Two wailing trom Tory leaders African moves British-Leyland 1970: Thirty years leaders plan since Trotsky's continue prepare to assassination BRITISH-LEYLAND chairman Lord Stokes added his arms deal MANOEUVRES by London Tuesday to the anti-strike clamour belng voice on port employers and Transport generated by company executives in an efort to explain fight miners opposition

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and enera workers unlol the group's nose-diving profits.

officials push through have been re- Ine ucurm Liduc

BY JOHN SPENCER

FOnEr, Maisda and zam.

LABOUR

LEADERS of Britain's 300,000 miners today submit which ne nad forecast In three-week sumea diler Hebruary had not pay demands which the National Coal Board claims interruption. materialized, told bin he

LEAGUE

would increase its national wage bill by up to 33* pel shareholders in London. cent in a full year. s called eo ang rt caple he mihon cim inclu cos ed an e72

BY DAVID MAUDE

valuable Been Dunding car demende of 20a weer wage - Memorial b make s Trish 1 E:30 torem e23 and 135 or désibe.

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ACTON

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TOWN HALL

Warning a major sead anter en High St, Acton last words: Tory govern- ant rank-and-file support for roductivity deals in pay pa 1 am confident of vest tost mhners wil have on's S Cumberland Sunday I6 tehis seratire the victory of the Serade sips prod Threads seriously Union Fourth International s tanid reil omncial: August 23 ceceney berne the paign for this claim. ihon proposal, broken in turn, was Go forward'! King NUM general secelat tir trom tion Far delining, the andermeer the Yorkshire miners' om ths Con C, Lod tot

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starts 3 o.m with placar Admission 2s Southampton cranemen This means:

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new Tory sovennen With he return Forward with the lord. Stokes first Trotskyist

DOCKERS

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Reistance as far under the miss- cover on August 1 by the national Keep Left). Saturday, August 15 Sunday, September 6 daily newspaper- n No Company i country

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HOOVER

OCT 29 1970

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League :ORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 225 • THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1970 Continuous clashes in Ulster as courageous 'Night-sight' Swift moves youth and women face troops rifles now to Middle Army terror in Belfast East deal PREPARATIONS for negotiations on a Middle-East stepped up settlement are now moving at breakneck speed. United Nations mediator Dr Gunnar Jarring has already begun separate discussions in New York with representatives of Israel, Jordan and Egypt, and a ceasefire could be declared very soon. Under pressure from the Soviet bureaucracy, the Arab leaders will begin bargaining away the future of the Palestinian people dispossessed by the Zionist state, in return for a promise of Israel withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967.

AFTER ALMOST a year of military occupation In ner knesset (rarnament, and six consecutive nights of vicious fighting Solda Meir decl: Women have led many of the militant demonstrations in Ulster durng the occupaton and curig curews un dun between British troops and Irish workers in day they stormed the Antrim Rd, Belfast, bart. ks wüving banners and chanting slogans against the ironps Washington had first assured Ulster is being rapidly turned into an Belfast, israels defences strenglen imperialist charnel house.

1 claseire It is also evident that peact

BY THE EDITOR

the reaction to the British int was hes army's policy of shooting, looting and booting, which the i.re-1967 borders. has already claimed hive

1PPROV! T.

dead, dozens injured and " th. under nunareus would be much greater in

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• deliberately rouble Britain if it wasn't for the Gahal IN and • suence distortion pursued by the Gahale is

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Beigin's mass media in this country

BY ROBERT _BLACK

The TV and press lost no (National he tenir Now on sale giving

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been admit Two wailing from Tory leaders African moves 1970: Thirty years British-Leyland leaders plan since Trotsky's continue prepare to assassination BRITISH-LEYLAND chairman Lord Stokes added his arms deal anti-strike clamour being MANOUVRS bv London voice on luesday port employers and Transport fight miners generated by company executives in an effort to explain General Workers' Union opposition

SOCIALIST

the group's nose-diving profits.

through omclal. push trade upturr modernization have been which he had forecast

BY JOHN SPENCER

FORER Ministers of Rena LEADERS of Britain's 300,000 miners today submit sumed after the three-week

LABOUR

rebruaty pay demands which the National Coal Board claims Stokes interrupuon. materianzeu on the worteis would increase its national wage bill by up to 334 per

LEAGUE

encored dalles ester snarenolaers in condon cent in a full year. Nairobi at ng called to int The claim costed at £72 Pearson settlement ands de 20 a week

BY DAVID MAUDE

tor surfacemen, f22 for •Memorial mendations to thet • heads of grande n tor sate issed action on coal-face itselt. Meeting Strike action if the claim is of be- ils concent est. reen E3 and f6 a wee Friday the London zation

ACTON

Although carried by only a Leon Trotsky's small ma rity

TOWN HALL

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DOCKERS

MINERS

Resistance ver and pose chemi

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Young Socialists film Youth in Action in further emrite tos For further details lamite 5i the Year of Lenin and Trotsky.

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CISSY

LODGE

VISITS

THE CLAES

OLDENBURG

EXHIBITION

AT THE TATE

GALLERY-

SHOWING

UNTIL

AUG. 14.

Bedroom Ensemble (the first

OLDENBURG'S

works were a kind of art, recording trash-can his impressions of New York's lower East Side. He lived in New York in the late 1950s, the centre of artistic development at that time, when Abstract Expres- sionism was at its height.

had Although York NeTA By cois time, hating of panties time, having taken over this themselves Paris. were dominated by a teeling of depression and despair Abstract expressionism was the tendency mosT American painting during the 1950s. It developed one side of sur- brought realism that had been to America by Andre Kreton The abstract expressionist artists tried express of the subconscious Torces subordinating ThA an automatic process, whereby the artist spontaneous created works morougn unorovisagon •'Ihranah thic method paint- lock and Gorky made ings that had recognizable no which expressed torma that related rhythms above all to moods stemming their individual lives. from sense their painting In this was subjective and introspec- tive Oldenburg's early works are the creater through aUto matin mathor he ninta forms to discover themselves scrawls and fragments of newsnaner and wood Extreme too Put alraady hic are ic related to an immediate environment Ranana Sundae than general feeling: rather 1062 It is a men t f th loft. The street.* Artist With Soft Ghost version Sharp break 1970 Below: Floor- There is a sharp break from sureer Giant painters like Mamouroer, ordo and Patteria. The real world material enters abruntlu in the form of a burlap garbage bag. But the materials are not used to represent they are nacec into a context which they represent some thing else. piece of wood are turned and shoe heel into the American flag. Manv of the leading articto abstract expressionism ended their lives through The death of Rothko a few months ago reflected the pres- sure of American ari The tramonanio tencione and contradictions in Ameri- at its most power- society decadent its found ano warantino rather in their artists, deaths. movement of Pop Art The New that Vork Havannad at the end of the 1950s. was acutely conscious of this cul- tural heritage attitude the anticto American society and values is both brash and ironic, critical. the first I would like information about For 1ng ana time American articte trepr themselves from the domina- tion of European capitalism Americar hor anarcadad capitalism many years before. The American ruling class with hecame Torren Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL innuancing hautolitu The contradiction between

LEAGUE,

SECRETARY,

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dream the American

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

reality the amit onen when • ontarad Viatnam Amarinano Oldenburg writes that he is Name for "US government inspected Grade Regular art art. Address *Drawn from Oldenburg's impressions New York's Lower East Side Streets.

WORKERS PRESS

Ensemble (the original installation at the Sidney Janis Gallery, January 1964).

US 'READY-TO-EAT' ART

Price Art, Yellow Oldenburg's 'bedroom' ripe art, of Extra Fancy art, Ready-to-eat exaggerates the qualities art, Best-for-less art, Ready-to bourgeois taste imitation cook art, Fully cleaned art, furs, imitation marble. Spend-less art, Eat better art, As he says: Ham art, pork art, chicken art, 'Nothing real or human. All tomato art, banana art, apple styles on the side of death'.

art, turkey art, cake art, cookie The distorted perspective, art'. the greys, blacks and whites Oldenburg thus appears to excite a feeling of horror.

celebrate the achievements and In making these works culture of capitalist society.

Oldenburg draws on American commercial art. But the past of the abstract He that 'American says anxiety expressionists, their commercial art ... while pre- and doubt has not just been eminently hot senting matter overcome. The development of "object pornography" Pop how Art shows art of the is in a way a model develops through the conflict "objective expressionism" of opposites: abstract expres- practice. sionism is the opposite of Pop Art. Unrest But these seemingly bland and innocent hamburgers, His works the express and typewriters pies that unrest in a society that is Oldenburg places before our capable of producing com- eyes constantly undermine modities to satisfy itself many their own reality. times over, but in which those They are created with tech- commodities and niques derived from the wealth is completely alienated painters of the 1950s, from those who produce it.

The 'Typewriter' negates all All Oldenburg's objects are our ideas about typewriters— impossible to use. it's a ghost, 'softly inflatable So far Oldenburg has made object. some interesting statements.

BBC 1

12.35 p.m. Y'Steddfod. 1.30 Watch with mother.

1.45-1.53 News and weather. 2.30-3.00 Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales 1970. 4.20 Play school. 4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Adventure weekly 5.15 Wild world.

5.44 Abbott and Costello. 5.50 News and weather.

6.00 LONDON, NATIONWIDE. 6.45 THE DOCTORS.

7.10 TOM AND JERRY. 7.15 TOP OF THE POPS.

8.00 THE EXPERT. 'The Witness'. Part two.

8.50 NEWS and weather. 9.10 SCOTTISH MINSTREL. Sir Harry Lauder-commemorative pro- gramme.

10.00 WENDY CRAIG'S CINEMA. 10.30 24 HOURS.

11.05 WORLD CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIPS FROM LEICESTER. 11.25

Weather. 11.27 THE EXPANDING CLASSROOM. 'Elizabethan Village'.

REGIONAL BBC

All regions as BBC 1 except: 6.45-7.10 10.30 Yebteddynolds show.

North, South and West and Scotland: 6.00-6.45 Scot- tonight. 11.57 News, weather.

Nationwide. News, land weather. Ireland: sit champi Gallaher Ulster Wales: 2.30-3.30 Eisteddfod 6.00-6.45 gened- laethol around rhydaman siX. 6.00-6.15 Yales today. 0.10-0.20 wide. News weatner. Road 6.20-6.45 Nationwide. Newelon. Works eDom.

BBC 2

11.00-11.20 a.m. PLAY SCHOOL.

7.30 p.m. NEWS and weather.

NOT A WORD. 8.30 THE MONEY PROGRAMME.

8.00 9.10 'EDWARD I|'. By Christopher Marlowe. With lan McKellen as King Edward. NEWS and weather. 11.20 LINE-UP.

11.15

ITV

2.55 p.m. Journey of a lifetime. 3.10 Ideas in print. 3.50 F troop. 4.17 rigami. 4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 Flipper. 5.20 How. 5.50 News

APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE!

6.02

6.30 PEYTON PLACE.

7.00 NEVER MIND THE QUALITY, FEEL THE WIDTH.

7.30 FILM: 'They Rode West'. With Robert Francis and Donna Reed.

Western about a doctor unpopular for his support for an Indian tribe. 9.00 THE WORKER. 'A change Is as good as a rest'.

9.30 THIS WEEK. 10.00 NEWS.

CINEMA. A look at the career of Jane Fonda.

10.30 11.00 THRILLER: 'Return of a Stranger'. With John Ireland and Susan Stephen. A mysterious man terrorizes a young wife, driving her to the brink of insanity.

a.m. PROTEST! Glen Gibson asks Tessa Gill and Laura Conro 12.10 vhat the aims of the Woman's Liberation Workshop are

REGIONAL ITY

Houseparty. captains. i sad die. Scarlet IveWS. With Abroad'. Crossroads. family 11.00 Hadleigh. 455 TeWS: 4.27( is Honeybun. 6.00 Gus Honeybun. News. Diary. 11.55 Faith for life Midnight weather He regards the bourgeois world with a mingled horror and fascination. He is trying to reach out and create an art that will 'take its form from life itself'. But the more he reaches out to objects, the more they recede into an unreal world, and a feeling of frustration, boredom and despair arises.

Trotsky's criticism of the Formalist school applies equally to Oldenburg: 'An apparent objectivism based on secondary, accidental, and inadequate characteristics leads inevitably to the worst subjectivism.' The world does not consist, as Oldenburg would have us believe, of a mere collection of sensations impinging on our brains. Reality cannot be grasped through contemplation, through man's struggle to change it. All the objects Oldenburg creates are seen separately, in no relation to man. To show us the spectacular in American life is not to show us America. 3.30-4.04 London bubble.

HARLECH:

4.25 4.40 Hubble Women today. roads. Tanet Leigh London. Story Hart. 9.00 Tales Edgar Wallace. Midnight weather.

HTY (West) colour 423-4hannel 61 16.01-6.35 Scene westcept: above HTV (Wales) except 225-350 Coyal National above Eisteddfod. 5.20-5.50 11.00 gwyllt. Y dydd. 11.30-12 midnight Llygad y ffynnon. HTV Cymru/Wales black and white 2.25-3.30 service as above except: Royal National Eisteddfod. 5.20-5.50 gwyllt. 6.01 Y dydd. 6.30-6.35 Re- port Wales. 3.30-4.05 from

ANGLIA:

Sailing Cowes 4.30 Newsroom. 4.40 Paulus. 4.50 Flipper. 5.15 London. 6.00 About 6.35 Anglia. 6.20 Arena. Crossroads. "None But Brave'. 7.00 The With Frank Sinatra and Clint Walker. An American and a Japanese army pla- are stranded on the same island toon in Second World War. 9.00 London. 11.00 Prisoner. 11.55 Holiday reflec- tion. ATV MIDLANDS: 4.02 Women today.

4.10 Peyton Place. 4.40 Enchanted house. 4.55 Stingray. 5.15 London. 6.00 today. 6.35

ATV

Crossroads 7.00 7.00 Movie: Moses'. "Mister With Mitchum and Carroll Baker. A drifter finds himself an univited guest of a missionary and his daughter. 9.00 11.00 Untouchables. 11.56 London. Who knows, weather.

ULSTER:

4.30 4.50 Romper room. News. 4.55 Floris. 5.20 London. 6.00 News. Crossroads. and the professor. 6.05 Nanny 6.35 7.00 Cartoon treat. 7.10 Branded. 7.40 Name of the game. 9.00 London. 11.00 Avengers.

YORKSHIRE:

3.55 Houseparty. 4.10 Origami. 4.25 Matinee. 4.50 Skippy the London. bush kangaroo. 5.20 6.00 Calendar, weather. 6.05 Nanny and 6.35 Hark the professor. at: Barker. 7.05 Saint. 8.00 Mannix. 9.00 London. 11.00 Engelbert Mumperdinck. Mid- night weather. GRANADA: 4.10 News. Short story.

4.40 Enchanted house. 4.55 Forest 5.15 London. 6.00 Newsview.

rangers. Here'. 6.05 Living Round A film showing the life of some Liverpool girls. 6.30 Champions. 7.25 film: 'Go Blazes'. With Dave King, Robert Morley and Maggie Smith. ( British comedy. 9.00 London. 11.00 Invaders.

TYNE TEES:

4.05 Newsroom. 4.10 Please sir! 4.40 Hatty town. 4.55 6.00 Today at six. Floris. 5.20 London. 6.35 Sky's the limit. 6.30 Police call. 7.05 Love American style. 8.00 In- vaders. 9.00 London. 11.00 University challenge. 11.30 News. 11.45 Epilogue.

BORDER: 4.13 News. 4.15 Nanny and Enchanted house. 4.40 5.15 London. Mr Piper. New The karder Saints. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 With John Paul Douglas. small Derek and A polio epidemic. village is swept by a Week. 8.30 Hark at Barker. 9.00 This 11.55 10.00 London. 11.00 Homicide. News, weather. SCOTTISH: 4.15 London. 4.55 Forest rangers. 6.30 5.15 London. 6.00 Summer scene. otorlous Landlady': High living. 7.00 Film: "The With Kim Lemmon, Fred Novak. Jack Astaire 9.00 London. 11.00 and Lionel Jeffries. Late call. 11.05 Court martial.

GRAMPIAN: 4.20 Freud o. 6.00 NewS, Win a word. 5.15 London. weather. 6.10 F troop. 6.35 Crossroads.

6.55 Movie: The Notorious Landlady'.

9.00 London. 11.00 Man in a suitcase.

Thursday, August 6, 1970 MARXISM sees the real heartedly with the political pro- that of of the Socialist Labour world exists independently gramme individual human mind, League. The working class is the the taking things as they really only force that can destroy are, not as they are imagined to be.

capital and developed and practised method that Therefore the article on page 2 League, is the only Workers of Press July will enable the workers to do so.

headed "Like I Say Man, it's the Don't undermine Marxism by Revolution', does Marxism a dis- of Fleet St slurs. the adoption service. Don't waste time putting people The analysis of the so-called down because of their appear- The length of one's hair is 'underground' is, of course, cor- ance. It middle-class life- irrelevant. rect. 1s a style, except that it can be taken Short hair became fashionable further and stated his- as an under capitalism; the ruling class, torical fact 'under- that the and many of the working class of those ground' consists sec- accept short hair too, as the tions of the younger middle class norm. who are alienated from capitalism and find in _ unabe to place The gentlemen in blue, those 'straight' bourgeois society.

uniformed defenders of the capi- talist state, when not breaking spend of much their harrassing long-haired kids time Their more privileged position —with distinction drawn as has liberated certain sections of to whether they are young work- their consciousness and put them 'under- middle-class ers or they into conflict with what are grounders'. part of. At the same time, they are unable The most repressive right-wing to break decisively from capitalism and base them- police states arrest people with long hair and cut it. selves on the working class, the To only force capable of destroying survive-which it won't- capitalism has destroy all this society. to opposition. Naturally, it finds the Where the article does Marx- middle than class easier meat ism a disservice is by taking 'under- up the workers, but the slur of the capitalist a common ground' can at least be used by media by saying the 'under- the bourgeoisie to sharpen its grounds' 'wash themselves less fangs before it its on turns often'. attention even more repressively on the workers. This is complete negation This is underlined by the report of Marxism. This view, stated as on page 4 of the same issue, that is the expression of some- a fact. police are dressing up as hippies comrade's thing in some mind to catch drug-takers, just as they with no actual basis in the are mingling in demonstrations.

material world. In conclusion, I would say that if this letter, Where does the information

VOUT

reacton TO any, will be hostility to me, but come from that leads your corre- trust subjective will reactions spondent to assume that the predominate not over Marxist Manchester conference comprised It's a small point understanding. don't wash people who very I've but there have often? Was he there? taken up, been a lot of small points, such The article is based on what as your outrageously uninformed read he in "Black Dwarf'--no views cannabis. All these on small points add other sources of information were up to serious mentioned. If all he knows of discrepancies. the admit conference is Dwarf, what was good communist can 'Black he is reported in when to then Wrong, objectively why he must point out that their was so, i over- report does not say the people at ruling any demands of the selfish the conference were unwashed. ego to insist that is always right. Your correspondent's approach That would not be possible for is entirely unscientific.

those in constant conflict with bourgeois society. Generally Workers speaking, Press is an excellent newspaper. Michael Piggott I read it daily, and agree whole- Manchester

A REPLY

OUR remarks about the 'under- over the ideological left-overs of the bourgeoisie ground's' bias against soap and water seem to have provoked There is nothing new reader Piggott to try and marry revolutionary in the 'under- ground'. The social crisis Marxism and bohemianism. He Germany before the advent of is wasting his time. No such for Hitler, example, rise gave large Bohemian to 'under- reconciliation is possible.

ground', just sterile and degenerate as its modern coun- Far from being 'alienated terpart. from capitalism', the under- Their independence from the ground is symptomatic of the class struggle proved _just as degeneration of middle-class illusory. layers under the impact of the The 'underground' press, as crisis of capitalism. the "Black Dwarf' article showed. 'helped along is by the attitude It is the height of idealism to of the straight commercial that claim their privileged posi- world'. As the 'Dwarf' says: has "liberated tion certain sec- consciousness'. 'First the record i companies tions of their and the film Which sections? And how exactly now companies, have understood that a new can consciousness be "liberated'? pro- duct be up-dated can given an want-gard image [sic] if pushed the under- hrough ground press. On the contrary, 'under- the ground' are prisoners of the most That ought to be clear enough: and forms crude vulgar of the hippies have escaped the not bourgeois ideology. Idealism is 'commercial world' they profess idealism, whether it finds expres- to abhor. sion in Canterbury Cathedral or the pages the 'Occult Gazette'. It is the polar oppo- site of Marxism. Relving on the patronage of The respectability of the bourgeois advertisers, and dress- middle class is simply a symp- ing up in the tawdry remnants of its dependance the bourgeois thought, tom on these capitalists. To seek a personal middle-class undergrounders have liberation through dress." diet or complete nhilosonhical solidarity social habits is to be just as sub- with the semi-detached Din- servient to the ruling class.

stripe brigade, however much or little they wash. Capitalist society only be overthrown by the working class The physical hygiene of the leadership. under underground is really a second- Individuals of who out' ary issue. -as the underground does society- Their real crime is that they -do nothing challenge to the peddle dirty philosophical rule of wares. capitalism. On the con- trary, they welcome it. All the heavily soiled varieties of idealism are freely available * underground: drugs, bizarre religions, anarchism, self-support- Individualism is the basic ing and plain just nommunac of philosophy capitalism. which dropping out. exalts the right of the individual Marxists, basing themselves on employer to exploit his body of the fight for real class struggle. workers. freedom by subordinating their Caught between the employing subjective requirements to the class and the working class.

needs of the working class in the middle class is incapable of struggle to overthrow capitalism independent politics and is just and take the power. developing incapable of That is where we own independent world-outlook.

differ from and why we fight all the drop- 'free The thought' of the out merchants of the self-styled hippy simply consists in picking 'underground'.

AJS grows through fight against unemployment, conscription and Thursday, August 6, 1970

INTERNATIONAL

ON FEBRUARY 1, 1970,

10,000 young people from universities, factories and schools all over France converged on Le Bourget airport, Paris, to make the biggest rally of revo- lutionary youth since the Second World War. Organized by the Young Socialists' sister organiza- tion in France the Alliance des Jeunes pour le Social- isme (AJS), this great step forward for the world Trot- skyist movement reflected very sharply the growth in militancy and political aware-

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SOVIET INDUSTRY is not organized to make the best use of new tech- nical developments. It is production rather than development orientated. Man- agers receive bonuses according to the size of their payrole and their ability to meet the planned quota. They are therefore not major technical likely to make changes on their own initiative.

Mandel quotes one technician as saying: 'After the introduction of technical innovation, the screw of the plan will be tightened still and thereby the more, chance of fulfilling the plan and getting bonuses will be lessened.'

According to the OECD re- port the national planning system R&D has also met many problems and does not really work. It is extremely complic- time consuming. ated and criteria for success Its are abitrary, e.g., the number of subjects or measures planned or fulfilled, comparisons between planned and real costs. The overall research-production is badly planned and cycle organized and barriers often exist between the various phases.

They note that research in- stitutes of academic organizations are not only separate from in- also have dustrial R&D, but priority over industry. Despite the stupendous Soviet military R&D effort there is hardly any 'spin-off' to civilian industry. Industrial R&D is also divided amongst many different ministries and cross- communication is poor. Even within single industries and re- search institutes such barriers are found. Cause Of course the Soviet Com- munist Party and its advisers do not need the OECD to tell them this. They know it only too well, being the direct cause of it. They continually thresh around for some organizational formula to escape from the impasse. The OECD study describes the latest 'reforms', including new organ- centre, izations-the 'factory 'research complex, and 'research corporation'. The 'factory centre' integrates research institutes, design bureaus and particular production units into a single administration unit.

The 'research complex' is an association of research institutes and industries in several related fields. The research corporations' are organizations that possess research and pilot plant facilities which will do work for industry on a contract basis. Similar organizations are to be found in Britain and the US.

Besides developing these organ- izations there are a new series of 'economic incentives. These include the financing of research and design centres by instead contracts of budget grants, deliberate encouragement of competition between R&D organizations, larger cash bonuses

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ness amongst youth in France since the historic May-June days of 1968. With the betrayal of the working class by the Stalinist leadership at that time, and the ever-increasing bankruptcy of these Kremlin henchmen, in the face of French capitalism's rapidly increasing crisis, youth are turning more and more to the only movement fighting to build a revolutionary leader- ship of the working class.

Interview In a recent interview an AJS member explained about the conditions which are today producing militancy amongst many different sections of youth and how the French government desperately tries to curb what it sees as a dangerously developing threat

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....... and prizes for inventors and managers. The OECD report naturally finds these changes very satisfy- ing, noting with some relish that R&D in the USSR relies even more than capitalist countries on economic incentives. It believes that the struggle of communist and capitalist countries to achieve "both satisfactory organ- izational forms for R&D and satisfactory economic incentives to innovation ... should be of considerable mutual interest'.

Importance These struggles are of extreme importance to the working class also, though for quite opposite reasons. Because of the crisis in their roduction methods the Soviet Laying pipes for natural gas.

bureaucracy is turning even more readily towards imperialism for both material and technical aid.

Recently the Soviet govern- ment has attempted to collabor- ate with US and Japanese imperialism in the chemical field.

The chemical industry forms the basis for much modern tech- nology. Without a modern efficient chemical industry many other industries such as textiles will lag behind.

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to its own bourgeois rule, in Stalinist leaders' spite of the collaboration. 'Unemployment is extremely the increasing all high and •Already one time, she said. person in four is unemployed youth and most of them are 'Recent government reforms who have recently left school.

have eliminated completely the meaning of an apprentice- 'Only one in five of those ship as we know it. who are unemployed is on the the Universities, four dole. In "Young people will no longer out of five students are being be able to get an all-round kicked out.' Instead they will be training. specialized and work on one machine only? Redundant Firms that employ appren- tices get paid by the state in On top of all this 800,000 the form of tax reduction.

being declared workers are In one factory, near Cler- redundant. mont - Ferrand apprentices staged a strike against their Young people in the French conditions. 'We are not dogs!'

schools are very much aware they said. of the they fact that when leave there are no jobs wait- ing for them. Stalinists For those lucky enough to have jobs, or so-called 'appren- factory, the ticeships' in The Stalinist trade union struggle here is sharpened by instead of supporting leaders, the French the policies the youth in their fight, went government. to see the parents with a view 'Apprentices don't get of exerting pressure to get a any wages at all until they are 18, return to work, the AJS mem- said the AJS member. ber explained.

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rich In 1963 Khrushchev announced sion. It du Pont iv imperialist Pierre S. the seven-year plan, which was of the giant American monopoly to be the major step in catching with and overtaking the chemical firm EI du Pont de up United States. This was to Nemeurs. of 'peaceful the economic basis It also included other leading co-existence' and the 'peaceful of the representatives American road to socialism'. chemical industry. Edwin Golin, Just how abjectly the president of Gauge Corp, (public Wattman— Kenneth the chemical industry failed can relations), be seen from the table: Mineral Plastics and Chemical Fertilizers Synthetic Resins Fibres Average annual rate of increase production 1966-69 10.1% 15.9% 9.4% 5.7% 12.5% 5.3% Rate increase 1969 1969 Production (thousand metric tons) 46,000 1,450 583 1963 target for 1970 80,000 4,000 1,300 Scaled-down, current 57,500 1,670 694 target for 1970 American and Soviet industry Atlas Chemical Industries both facing serious crises. Paul Mayo of Chemico are and The former of over-produc- one Curtis M. Hinsley of Hercules tion and the latter of under- Chemicals Co. production. They forced to are consider some form of collabora- They dealt directly with lead- officials Soviet tion. A few months ago the first ing of chemical industry. indust- Igor Kalichits, American chemical ever chemical section

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State sound out the possibility of US- of the Commission for Science and Technology, was chemicals and Soviet trade quite clear about the nature of chemical processes. he help they required This was the Delaware US aid was needed help Chemical Industries Trade Mis- Until recently, military ser- vice has lasted for 16 months.

Now it has been reduced to 12 but not from benevolence on the part of the French government. Compulsory Now it is compulsory to enter at 18. For students this studies. interrupted (Before it was possible to post- pone military service.) Girls are being encouraged to join the army with the promise of special attention in relation to their jobs once they have completed the 12 months period. In the course of working for their February 1 rally and in building the AJS, our French comrades learned many valuable lessons. 'We had to study the local and particular problems in the USSR develop the ideas of her scientists, to put theory into practice! 'Chemical As the journal Engineering, puts it: progressed 'The Soviets have further than the US in many basic research areas. But the US has developed better skills to findings into translate research useful technology.' The Stalinist bureaucracy harness the genius unable to of the Soviet scientific workers for help from US and pleads imperialism. Furthermore, Kalichits offered Soviet universities and to allow research institutes to do contract work for American industry. What is more they (the Stalinists) would observe all scientific and technical secrets. In other words, they would observe the norms of capitalist repression of knowledge. Recent discussions between the Soviet and Japanese petro- chemical representatives are also very revealing. Very large finds of natural gas have been made in central Siberia , Vilyuysk and Yakutsk, and also in the island of Sakhalin. These finds could revolutionize Siberian industrial development, to exploit the unfortunately fields very long and expensive pipelines are needed. For example to develop the Vilyuysk field would cost $300 million. Persuade The Soviet government is try- ing hard persuade the to Tapanese petro-chemical mono- polies to develop Siberian natural gas for them. The Japanese are, of course, playing hard to get. the Soviet The why reason the job government cannot do itself is that the Soviet steel industry is unable to make steel pipes in sufficient quantities for such long pipe lines. The bureaucracy is in a hurry gas because to export natural provide hard currency it will (dollars, marks, sterling etc.) to pay for those advanced goods which its own industries have failed to produce. In 1968 such Soviet imports from imperialist countries total- in value $2.1 billion led ($2,100,000,000). 'Chemical Engineering' (March 23, 1970) states: 'The Soviets desire to lure Japan-at apparently any cost- into developing Yakutsk fields. By proposing Magadan (a port in NE Siberia) at one end of the pipeline, the Russians give up hope supplying their far eastern industrial centres (Khaborovsky, Vladivostock and Komsotnoldk) with natural gas from Yakutsk: (My emphasis.)

These developments expose the bankruptcy of the bureaucracy's attempts to develop efficiently and in a socialist fashion the scientists) human (e.g. and material resources of the USSR showing again the utter futility of the Stalinist thesis of socialism in one country. H.B. each area we were working in,' said the AJS member. 'One very successful method of work was to encourage a group of youth who had signed up for the rally to organize their their own meeting in own factory or place of work.

'In this way we were able to draw in whole new layers of youth? The Pompidou government developments views these with undisguised alarm. It tries desperately to cripple the growing militancy, particularly amongst the youth.

Prohibited Both the Ligue Communiste (Pabloite revisionists), and the Lutte Proleterienne (Maoist) have been prohibited by the government. UNDER the so-called S arms embargo, African Hawker Siddeley was per- mitted to continue the supply spare parts for the of Buccaneer aircraft delivered in August 1966 under the Wilson government. The question of Buccaneers is high on list of present issues. The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod has also advertised been 'Commando', the African Defence Forces journal. And Hawker Siddeley was also allowed by the Wilson government to sell the HS-125 These 2-jet business aircraft. were reportedly bought by the S African Defence Forces. They are easily adaptable for use in anti-guerilla activity, as are some planes supplied by Italy.

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The arms ban by Britain has thus been a fraud: not only because it came after sufficient supplies had already been given; not only because Buccaneer sales contracted were allowed by Wil- son's government to proceed, but also because the sale of military planes continued after the ban itself. The legalization of arms sup- plies from Britain to protect imperialism's immense British Africa stake in apartheid S merely removes the fraudulent nature of the arms ban.

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As a result of the recent Vorster and meeting between Banda of Malawi, the S African is hopeful of using regime Lilongwe airport as a military base. The Government Minister de Wet Nel declared earlier in 1970 that Lilongwe could become the most forward departure point.

'It is very strategically situ- ated. It is generally known that S Africa has military ties with Malawi.? It was significant that Hilgard Muller, top military man in Vorster's government, was with Vorster at the talks with Banda.

Thus through the Common- wealth, quite apart from Britain, the S African regime is able to circumvent the fraudulent arms embargo. Apartheid is defended not only by its British master, but also by its African servants, like Bantu- stan chief, Hastings Banda, lead- ing African Nationalist.

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The military connection between Malawi and S African apartheid is a by-product of the economic subjugation of Malawi migrant cheap • labour by the great British companies operat- ing in S Africa. 'his economic fact, in general is the basis of all the arms deal with S Africa. The armament companies sup- plying S Africa with arms are

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fight for the right of the Ligue Communiste and the Lutte Proleterienne to exist in struggle against the 'anti- smashers law'. In relation to their own position under this law, the AJS member said that because the organization roots established in the workers' movement and because the bourgeoisie has seen the mobi- lization of thousands of youth, it is nervous at the moment about openly attacking them.

'Since the fall of de Gaulle Foundation and the election of the Pompi- dou government, the French bourgeoisie become has increasingly conscious of the "They know we are a serious movement with big support necessity to smash the strength amongst the youth.' of the working class. Since its foundation follow- 'But they are extremely hesi- May-June days in ing the tant on how to do it. Minister 1968, the AJS has gone from of Justice Plevan has intro- strength to strength, recruiting duced a new law which is to its ranks young people who designed to put an end to all have come fresh into politica political activity outside parlia- action the basis of the on ment.' enormous development in the French working class, which Potentially any rank-and-file was thrown into sharp relief or trade union activity is illegal by the general strike two and criminal. Special permis- years ago. sion has to be asked from the government for any demon- strations. Bankruptcy Prevented I Unders Stalinist leadership The bankruptcy, heavily criticized by the rank The AJS was prevented and-file Party members on a from commemorating the 99th of issues, whole number anniversary of the Paris Com- including Czechoslovakia.

mune in the cemetry where Big political responsibilities the Communardes were shot of leadership are posed both down. in France and in the whole of Europe reto role evolutie to revolutionary (The Stalinists, however, Head the working as come d applied for similar permission and it was granted.) to establish a Socialist United The AJS has pledged to States of Europe. have

AAM

among the big British capitalist appeared on plat- S concerns with investments in forms and deputations. the anti-Springbok Africa. And in The extent of this investment Rugby and Cricket Tour pro- may be gauged from the fact that tests the

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worked with Liberal of the imperialist estimated British capital wing is Africa Party-a which had alone totals some wing 1n with S $10 billion i.e. some and that nier cent of the 100 billion connections the African Liberal Party which anti- S Africa biggest capitalist in apartheid movement in containes Britain have would touch with the longest interests broomstick. Africa's apartheid economy.

In place struggle, one the ot a

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"Uncle ConduCTS politics. The basic facts show that The latest this sort of British imperialism is the basis 'action' was a petition handed in of S African apartheid. at 10 Downing St Sunday, on From this follows that the Tuly 19 by Anglican-Liberals. apartheid This shortly surgic a9a1nST petition came separated the not be from after appeal' to passionate struggle against British imperial- ism. This coliaboration This implies that there can be of the open enemies non- no collaboration between the European oppressed of S Africa anti-apartheid movement and the backed the Communist agents of British imperialism.

Party of S Africa (CPSA), long- It is this fundamental prin- known as 'neo-Liberals' to real ciple which the so-called Anti- anti-apartheid fighters. Apartheid Movement (AAM) has This type of opportunism goes of consistently violated. In place with adventurism, as is together British struggle against always the case in politics.

this movement imperialism, puts The adventurism appeals to the imperialist United in this case takes the form of suicidal demon- Nations collaboration and with guerrilla raids from the British Liberals. Anglican Zambia into Rhodesia in which Church and Labour-imperialists.

well-trained guerrillas are mowed From the outset the

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down by waiting Rhodesian, (then the Anti-Apartheid Com- British and S African forces.

By mittee) had Barbara Castle as such 'guerrilla action' the

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speaker and she honorary makes 'show of force' in the blessed their journal. of the Organization for From the outset the leaders of African Unity (OAU) and United the apartheid Church Anglican Nations.

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