Workers Press no. 230

HOOVER

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

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1970

PRICE 6d. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 230

Rift ...backing What Link with Tories anti-union plans we over think by Leyland Moscow Mersey dockers act A violation stewards too of democratic Pact rights

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

THE E

GERMANY Soviet THE WILLING collaboration over with re-appeared DELEGATES from the Glass and General after glass lock-out Workers' Union-representing the 600 workers sacked from Pilkington's glass factory, St Helens between -lobbied British-Leyland convenors at their Kosyoin 'Pravda' describes it as combine meeting in Birmingham yesterday.

important step the affirmed their right to strike su por saded men ast called the li solidarity na: been stepped up.

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

revealed THE HEROIC struggle of the Pilkington workers against the sacking of 800 militants has

THE

y Brandt.

PARTMENT

now received powerful support from Liverpool OF government by Comments E German Radio:

PLOYMENT

dockers. cation a treate with the

DUCTIVITY.

sonatinio Marchers At their meeting yesterday the T&GWU Ble Go upecial meetini o while endorsing the stewards, dockers' not brush formation of the Glass and General workers Union, voted to black all supplies of Pilkington aside glass and they will recommend a similar line of lawful forces, there will be no the national docks shop stewards backie are the action to • areas, senuine step towards European ban meetine dockers solidarity action he saidittee solidarity action must become an owen with the seekin Ger who example to all workers and not only to those ruling MORE than ›.0vv mem- handle Pilkington glass. bers ot the Protestant Apprentice Boys yester- We say this because the of the aded, wild ben treat and sectors cocked a of the Pilkington cause their friends in the Ulster militants inextricably company's its ernment tied up with the reaction- tAnd while ban ary proposals of the Tories dendered through London which, marching vil'tually industrial Relations Kill Resistance the Rome res and the equally reaction- Gerry. with one ezecti 202222 tion bedtee Toto Protestant cereal a band ary attempts of the lu Strikes up to new seriment, to seek a compromise with massive wave of militancy like nance Boys Formed payment cheloves w the atic government The systems Accodid police Depres and son this me se

YESTERDAY'S

pt to estate Hull dockers Tories lay ich a corporate ticularly in overtime heat-lightnin flash compared with what is into busmen the USSR and the dispute This is all the more charac-

ROBENS

alice of the this police and

BACKS

INITIAL reaction amongst busmen to the lining e combine committee ae

HULL

up of their employers with the Tory government done Park at maid Dem Party! suite the voice of workers

CARR

overtime bar strikes for Imposed all which regards against their wage claim is one of great anger.

a dispute with employers over

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COAL BOARD chairman Lor the minimum rate on which Chichester - Clark esterd Minister The claim by the three

BY A WORKERS PRESS

overtime is calculated. unions invoved for a t4 f increase in the basic wage government that way for a

CORHESPONDENI

Tran Onion 200,000 company 22 months sihat it is not ye and irkersat doco strike 1970: Thirty years this is. Contrast increase of 275 2d on the since Trotsky's The claim would bring most Of this assassination cabin ma ten had wentlo make matra ly for busmen up to a tzu Dasic.

as to the measures som Cynheidre The government is playing vertimer Status under the fortes trast osed under the new

SOCIALIST

Cond Trans Act. am i trom he remain Chad liberation clash Challenge Low basic

LABOUR

with French troops increase the

LEAGUE

LIBERATION forces regime "PPet Tombalbaye mention nave a percen ery low basic w govermendeat killed a French officer and a pert is likely to contain plan Pilking- soldier during Previous government closures and pre among ne the north recent clasnes In Memorial ame extr ern region of Chad Negroes of the Southricultura Fort Heroes Meeting i Bao Company scot, ex-Frenc

BIG FARES

of

ACTON

INCREASE

labour

TOWN HALL

Leon Trotsky's Bounced increte in 10 stor who High St, Acton last words: near the Gour the Southern sa Presider Tombalba Tral propose in hound use *I am confident of Lo, Siond Yranse ta taited resist ner si a hair enter declaration of a fare increasessport introduce: that s report fighters August 23 tore faters killed the victory of the operation of the union bureau- , claim Sunday now installed in Chaadvisers Fourth International peace The confirms that Cards Heath State adponsibility an ere tere Go forward'! and re decontion corporatis Stans 2% the

HAGE FOUR COL. 1

'effcient regimes. behalf tect, Normal working Nasser to recognize Israel this This means:

ATUA CONFERENCES

Forward with the - Egyptian series stren first Trotskyist

MINERS

DOCKERS

Keep Lert). and Janos recognize the State official Sunday, September 6 Saturday, August 15 ritanalt ex- daily newspaper- Chairman Contral Commitee. Se Nore Cornel resolution

SLAUGHTER

(SLL

WORKERS PRESS

Danum Hotel 2 p.m.-6 p.m. complement at An a President Nasser alks Egyptian s" witl the relation YMCA Room 1 High St or the sate o Nasser's semi-official

DONCASTER

Mount Pleasant mouth- recognition ALSO: The first public showing of the latest They will discuss the pro

LIVERPOOL

Young Socialists film-'Youth in Action in arsons 6l Dera write to Carlo earlier this week ace initiative a Golin Se Ferry Frystorkshire learn Budapest egun to implement the Year of Lenin and Trotsky.

Radio, August 10)

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER O PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 230 • THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1970

HOOVER

What we think A violation of democratic rights reached the David Maude, workers has Been stoped up onfidentia gave S Industrial Relation: Sa will the our Bine. and workish and sou This under the fores that Golian 1, Matthews and company are taking up against the onslaught of this unionists The Workers Press will not be silenced.

BIG FARES

INCREASE

Bounced reass neares n Sunday the same • day y that Transpart introduces fare increases. London totes affected are from tronastbour wards Heath, Hostsmouth

ATUA CONFERENCES

DOCKERS

Saturday, August 15 2 р.т.-6 р.т. YMCA Room 1 Mount Pleasant

LIVERPOOL

° Caranas kenhead further The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League Rift ...backing Link with Tories anti-union plans over by Leyland Moscow Mersey dockers act stewards too Pact THE E GERMANY Soviet relations with real earera this DELEGATES from the Glass and General has week contrasting Workers' Union-representing the 600 workers after glass lock-out press and radio treatment of Soner Brandi and sacked from Pilkington's glass factory, St Helens —lobbied British-Leyland convenors at their 'Pravda aescribe. vards the combine meeting in Birmingham yesterday.

international The for their, he sce men and ale right reaction for all

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

logic spring cold radio are THE HEROIC struggle of the Pilkington workers against the sacking of 800 militants has

THE

[PARTMENT

now received powerful support from Liverpool OF Comments E German Radio:

IPLOYMENT

dockers.

AND

DUCTIVITY

Marchers At their meeting yesterday the T&GWU can showdown while dockers' stewards, not endorsing, The loss formation of the Glass and General Workers' brush cal and line Union, voted to black all supplies of Pilkington back on the company's aside glass and they will recommend a similar line of out a clear rebuft to action to the national docks shop stewards' genuine stee wards European meeting in London this weekend.

ban show dogr se inter- 1ne dockers sontarily must become dl example to all workers and not only to those who the Miass, side Most the 5,000 mem- able to get rid of their follow handle Pilkington glass. Protestant We say this because the Boys Aporenuice Pilkington the rukinglot aay cockea caust had been militants inextricably their Iriends in the vister ratheray. do not government 1gnoring tied up with the reaction- its ban on parades and ary proposals of the Tories' marching vintua v Industrial Relations. Bill hindered through London Resistance derry. and the equally reaction- Luca GOVEr ary attempts of the TUC service a band Toside hie Stinames Squat After Strikes up When Employment and to new to seek a compromise with and hundreds which coud, it not checke the payment government. sweep the government into atice Boys formed Strikes so 1970% were systems ehe thundea and the pt tin estab- Tories lay strikes Hul dockers some car e a te por 87 rugh cent over bargaini in overtime nath com paled hear highenins and the into busmen dispute is all mean this

ROBENS

a itor indispens

BACKS

INITIAL reaction amongst busmen to the lining • been

HULL

dockers yesterdas up of their employers with the Tory government attempts to blame strikes kes imposed an overtime ban in Demo

CARR

against their wage claim is one ol great anger regard a dispute with employers over The ilaimed for a three The claim

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rate keep

BY A WORKERS PRESS

overtime is calculated. government at way do

CORRESPONDENT

increase in me Dasic wage in farion i Britain ing 200.ou company and the Worker _busmenet 1970: Thirty years that municipa busmen is one o Contrast said last increase of 27s 2d on the Darade eclinercy the hrst to tace the govern- that since Trotsky's ment's pay curb strategy.

£20 one a gond usmen up to a 20 bas mos assassination The claim woul And can anitatiny where the tols 1US makelly, marked 1ne governmeal is pidyls Toad Traile Acher the new

SOCIALIST

Pilkington workers come in.

Chad liberation clash Challenge Low basic

LABOUR

with French troops boosted as ariz menous con ments on the need

LEAGUE

LIBERATION

forces regime. "Ppet , tast percentage 1 ombaldaye and killed a French officer and a Postion to the sober tha is likely Port government soldier during opposition to ductivity speedsures and pro recent clashes in the north- gaininge General and Municipal bureau- Memorial ern region of Chad T&GWU retreat cracis Neons of the Sougicultural dock strike. Meeting Heroes stalennel The in the Nor has eve- of

ACTON

crippl labour cord f

TOWN HALL

*egime, agreed to cle Leon Trotsky's Se trily High St, Acton last worde: near de our sis. their individual President Tombalbaye is to I am confident of 3, Can Were Ried and to August 23 pation of the mi sure. three the victory of the negotiated nex prisoner. Sunday month. Fourth International able tihht the fories will lean Leon to pres FROLINA cornerstone Go forward'! willingnessoth Tory corporativist with this in of sube iberationa movemen example of . the eficient regiAtrica

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Normal working born ory blackpol, Nasser to recognize Israel week over Ma Speakers This means: Forward with the the Ribble Bus Co. for a s2 States recognize it to A Sermon spokes man pian - Egyptian

MINERS

first Trotskyist Keep Left). declared that poker are to recognize the state official Sunday, September 6 And y in Calro that daily newspaper- Chairman: of November neil resolution There ear the crea Contral Commetoe BuL

WORKERS PRESS

SLAUGHTER

Danum Hotel President Maser.

DONCASTER

do " Moate ALSO: The first public showing of the latest had have already Young Socialists' film-Youth in Action in learn Budapest the Year of Lenin and Trotsky.

lessons of the docks retreat.

PAGE TWO

WINKLE ENL

E Germare

WHAT PRICE 'CO-EXISTENCE'?

WEST GERMAN

THE SOVIET-W GER-

MAN treaty, which was signed by Brandt in Mos- cow yesterday is in no way a guarantee of peace

PLANS FOR

in Europe. In fact the talks held be- tween inerwo governments nothing have achievea real benert ellner

RESTORING

peoples or a europe or to the German working Class. were moron her ince the calks Ind the Soviet bureaucracy

CAPITALISM

IN THE EAST

tell chaps the Morning Star can.

Common Market countries: (P.

sued its tee Res arom obich (Sese extracts are taken that o plane signed in Moscow all be intr

BY CHARLES PARKINS

Germany' D. 20. Pes, and e monit 0 the Germerman vernment council the short as possible my but nationally- owned and E Prussia). These unto nests Silesia cognition to Germa: these That steps were o withholding 1 To reintroduce private banks.

has come will be of advantage to conclude whether abolish the plan the first am • martby y utilization the Soviet question of what sort 3 To (p. 20.) redured factories of the nationally-owned ing a provisional period.

teps shall able meet the pa Britain different Social emand : of a market economy. We the Motto inter pact was signed in 1939, telli peace i he Molotov Rig, top "The monial insurance stem, it as a triumph Department Further plan method of implyin usual at in is ents among the commission this scat on the serm die * the reasonable rests (The Britain the reserving

FEET

tor are such e splical tera, 0mn What shall THE DEPOSITION of Kings theme recurring Mar- muzabetnan arama. lowe's 'Edward Il', broadcast we do with the King?'

DDL-L

last Inutsudy: grapples with it again. porn abrupt de chare Fudevice Marlowe employs to the

EDWARD II

the previou men objects of lo Satan pear faust he makes priest.) hown on BBC 2 on Thurgday, July a King ake and nonare came in an in of throwi his intersa prisoner, mocked by advisoral question. from being a dynamic and ever changing Factions and be c and all the aires were i morty, must go to 22 anticipates by Likewise are all the estab- "Must!' mewhat hard when kings reformation lished relations between men.

NAT German The upheaval on of these Fate centre of all thereby neurder Phanerati depravitintrigue, corrand manne Slowly realization of his fat and behaviour. dawns on him Article Kings when regiment is gone what the Brain Death Cores whis But Conjures Federal Republic well conjures up this created dire shortage Marlowe's play superstitious Bust perfect sh shadows in a sun- cultural sheep Tensine than Shake the the dool adde antichristian enjoying arch was just s To the 'aid' of the bankrupt was sadow, but a shadow nonethe- mater in Richard's rein I would like information about elves.

THE SOCIALIST

'Share it Disguised co troic with Gaveston. in great numbers

LABOUR LEAGUE

Both and Mar- attair sie, disguised. politics as the reing as oren send to NATIONAL Fill in the form below and but raward makes enemies on every side. datim these cheural dusk

SECRETARY,

SOCIALIST LAbOUK

LEAGUE,

his favourite

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

fee air ensic had taken To state me and eat your member arriage to a tenants beer • • Name (a woman Be in ere power sal nick dith Shan an ence. in bi hereit erent picture Address revolution before Marions vehicle fir to the No. taught them much the theatre nac anti-aristocratic sentiments. It is friends Thursday, August 13, 1970 for W German reaction- of restoring capitalism in places ermany is not just the policy politicians to whip up en- thusiasm for re-taking the 'lost handful of extremists, it is al W German

NATO

territories' in the East.

and The Soviet government is en- le fact that Willy Brandt titled to make any treaties it Social Democrat does not for the considers necessary defence of the Soviet Union so the fundamental nature of Terman capitalism, any more long these treaties are not to be under- Britain ceased regarded permanent an as takings to support the continued rialist power because there a Labour government. of capitalism, and do existence not interfere with the rights of le Social Democrats in W the workers' movement to over- nany, like their counterparts throw the capitalist governments on behalf of britain, govern with which the treaties are made.

real rulers, the capitalists, of 'peace- they have pursued a 'bi- The Soviet policy which was be- isan' foreign policy. ful co-existence' gun by Stalin, with his theory of was Brandt himself who socialism in country', is one recent book, e in a fairly reasons, wrong for both these denspolitik in Europa' that: and cannot be accepted by revo- reference to the frontiers lutionaries. ... must be seen as a The Stalinist policy for Ger- onable for starting point in half of 'socialism many, tiations for a peace treaty.'

country', and Treaty made the in do not Moscow this week, achieve anything for peace or for Interviewed the working class. which the Soviet The September 12, 1967, eadership and its supporters in interviewed by was a the Communist Party are now about whether his spaper pushing, of a European Security policy could be served Conference, can/ only mean ex-Nazis who still pro- reality a preparation for a united ate in the diplomatic corps. attack by the Soviet bureaucracy idt replied: and the European capitalists on who able to nyone was those whom they regard as the esent the Third Reich as enemythe working common lly as the Weimar Republic, and class the revolutionary the German Federal Republic youths. as the Third Reich, loyally (Just as the Soviet government ıld have no difficulty in repre- informed

NATO

beforehand of ing to the world the changing its intention to invade Czechos- lopment of our democratic lovakia; and the French CP There has been helped de Gaulle many. no restore 'law k, only the expression of a and order' in France.) loping policy.' Peace will not be achieved by hen Albert secret diplomacy and deals with Speer, the Nazi the imperialists. manufacturer and war It will be achieved when the was released from he received the pleasant workers in W Germany, Britain, France,

USA

the and. smash rise of a gift of flowers from

NATO

and overthrow their y Brandt; and at Whitsun rulers, taking Brandt sent a personal power themselves. year, sage of greetings to the right- The struggle against those g-organized rally of Sudeten who support 'peaceful coexist- mans from Rumania. ence' policies is an essential hese rallies are customarily part of this struggle for power.

IMPORTANT

READING

NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS

IN

BRITAIN

A TROTSKYIST ANALYSIS

BY ROBERT BLACK

NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS

PRICE 22s Ed 86A Club. Hah, c Kellen as King Edward II.

Thursday, August 13, 1970

INTERNATIONAL

especially for the newer YS and

A DECISIVE

the turn on part SLL members which assisted with of layers of the British working from reformism class away and reading and questions from the which towards a fight to understand the secures were

HOL

Marxist stood. revolutionary nature of theory was clearly reflected in the In six full camp lectures given the response to summer camp Gerry Healy,

SLL

by national organized jointly by the Young on the fight for Marxist Socialist secrelary, Socialists and the theory and its relation to build- Labour League. ing the revolutionary party ques- thick tions came and fast. As With the largest attendance as 20 questions and con. manly ever at a summer camp since the tributions to discussion were Internationall Assembly ot Revo- dealt with at one lecture. lutionary Youth in 1967, the fort- night's lectures and discussions Such was the intense interest August from July 25 to con- in the work at the to Cal D firmed the impact of the Workers create a basis for understanding and Socialist Labour Press the Marxist theory and the dialectical League through its consistent materialist method that over 100 struggle for Marxist theory in decided for second to say the workers' movement- particu- week after attending the first.

larly amongst the youth. John Crawford gave two lec- The attended by camp was tures in the first course 'Capital- members of the Socialist Labour ism and its place in history' and League, the Young Socialists and 'Imperialism and the present the All Trades Unions Alliance.

capitalist crisis'. There were also a number of was followed h' Dialee- Peter foreign delegates who, as a result Jeffries who lectured on of able sacritice. were to Materialism and great tical idealism' make the journey to England to and 'The unions, the Trage attend. Labour i Party and the working class'. With the Tory government in and the betrayal of the The last lecture for this course, dockers' strike by national the 'Stalinism and the British work- reformist trade union leaders- class, Cliff ing was given by backed by the Stalinists - the Slaughter. question of training revolu- tionary cadres to build the party Second course lectures were was sharply posed for the whole begun by Cliff Slaughter on "Re- camp. formism Revolution'. Tom and Kemp on For two weeks intense discus- Imperialism' and 'Strategy and sion ranged from the basic ques- Revolution'. Tactics of Peter Marxist tion of theory the to Teffries concluded the fort- for of most complex ones party night for this course with "The building. history and characteristics of the Special study British working class'. groups in be- tween the lectures were organized The great interest in Marxist TV

BBC 1

11.25 a.m. Cricket. England v Rest of the World. 1.33 p.m. Watch with mother. 1.45-1.53 News and weather.

1.55-2.25 Maes a mor. 3.00-4.15 Cricket. 4.20 Play school. 4.40 Mole and the Green Star. 4.45 Dusty of the circus. 4.55 Adventure weekly. 5.15 Wild world. 5.44 Abbott and Costelio. 5.50 News and weather.

6.00 LONDON. Nationwide. 6.45

THE DOCTORS.

TOM AND JERRY.

7.10

7.15 TOP OF THE POPS.

8.00 THE EXPERT. 'The Gun That Walked'.

8.50 NEWS and weather. 9.10 SHIRLEY BASSEY. Singing special.

10.00 ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE. 'Take a Pryde In the Arctic'.

Report on Duncan Pryde, a legend in the Canadian Arctic.

10.30 24 HOURS. 11.15 Weather.

11.17 THE EXPANDING CLASSROOM.

REGIONAL BBO

All regions as BBC 1 except: 6.00-6.45 Scotland: Nationwide. Midlands and E Anglia: 6.00-6.45 Your weather Midlands. today. today. T. NEWs! N Ireland: 6.00-6.45 weather. six, Scene around six, Nationwice North England: 6.00-6.45 Your weather. Road works report.

ank North weather 1.47 News, weather South and West: 6.00-6.45 Your regior Vationwid Wales: 6.00-6.45 15.4a70 todad we abor toniont.. Dainte WeSt Conth toda Nationwide. potlight South-West, wea outh-West weather. 10.30 Bric-a-brac. ввс 2 11.00.11.20 a.m. PLAY SCHOOL.

4.30-6.35 p.m. CRICKET. NEWS and weather. 7.30

8.00 NOT A WORD.

8.30 THE MONEY PROGRAMME.

9.10 OUT OF THE UNKNOWN. '1 + 1 = 1.5'.

10.00 JAZZ SCENE. The Ronnie Scott Club.

10.45 NEWS and weather. 10.50 LINE-UP.

ITy Show jumping from Hickstead. 4.17 Origami. 4.30 Cross- 2.00 p.m. roads. 4.55 Flipper. 5.20 How. 5.50 News.

6.02 BRANDED. 'Call to Glory'.

6.30 PEYTON PLACE.

7.00 NEVER MIND THE QUALITY, FEEL THE WIDTH.

7.35 FILM. 'Tarzan and the She-Devil'. With Lex Barker. Tarzan and Jane come to the rescue of a tribe captured by ivory thieves.

9.00 THE WORKER. 9.30 CINEMA.

10.00 NEWS.

10.30 THIS WEEK. 'Do What Turns You On'. Sex, love and marriage in California. 11.15 THRILLER: 'The White Trap'. With Lee Patterson. A convict becomes the obiect of a huge manhunt.

12.20 a.m. 'THE MUSICAL WESLEYS'.

REGIONAL ITV

SOUTHERN: 2.00 London. 4.00 House- CHANNEL: 2.30-3.30 States of arcar 4.55 lottery: a0 ay greet. London 155 F • 30 hirthdar narty 4.79 Forest 'angers, 5.20 London 6.35 7.05 Cilm. Scarlet. 5. Cheaters. 6.35 Cross- Desperate Hours'. Humphrey Bogar Bogart and March. Ятp(prіс 8.30 Engelt Humperdinck. Hodlaich 12 05 Weather. 12.20 Weas her. Action %.

Untouchables. As Channel 2.00 except:

WESTWARD.

4.25 25 News. 4.22 Gato for Nowa 4.27 Honey-

HARLECH:

1.25 4.40 Tandan Hubble bubble. Lite 12.15 Weath D. 5.20 landan 6.01 6in Mac Renort. theory was reflected by the crowd round the bookstall constantly where Socialist Labour the "Stalinism in Britain Publications Léague's recent by Robert Black and Germany 1931 to 1933' by Leon Trotsky were on sale along with books by Marx, Engels and Lenin. The record sale of approxi- mately £700 was reported by the end of the fortnight. A hallmark of the free time was the impromptu discussion groups which continued to talk over the questions raised by the main lectures. On a lighter note, but still very much part of the struggle for Marxist consciousness, were the evening's activities of films and stage productions. Professional actors presented productions by the Steam Stage Package' company of an adapta- tion from D. H. Lawrence and Shakespeare's • Midsummer Night's Dream'. There were also two antholo- gies - the 1926 General Strike and 'Women and industry".

There was a tremendous re- for the Young ception new Socialists' film 'Young Socialists in the Year of Lenin and Trotsky' which received its first showing ever at the camp. On the basis of the political development fought for at the camp the Socialist Labour League and the Young Socialists prepare to go forward to a six days a week Workers Press, a weekly 'Keep Left' next year and a mass anti-Tory rally of youth at Alexander Palace on February 14, 1971. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Movie: Majority With Alec Guinness Rosalind Russell. Isty of Jewish mother and a Japanese gentle- man have to learn to understand each other. London. 11.15 Tales of Edgar Wallace. 12.15 Weather.

HTV (West) colour channel 61 as above except: 4.23-4.25, 6.01-6.35 Scene West. HTV (Wales) colour channel 41 above except: 5.20-5.50 Y gwyllt. 11.15 Y dydd. 11.45-12.15 A quiet place.

HTV (Cymru/Wales) black and white 5.20-5.50 service as above except: Y Walls: 6.01 Y dydd. 6.306.35 Report

ANGLIA: 2.00

London. 4.30 News- room. 4.40 Paulus. 4.50 Flipper. 5.15 London. 6.00 About Anglia. 6.20 Arena. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 "Decision Before Dawn'. With Richard Basehart. Oskar Werner Gary Merrill and Hildegarde Neff. A prisoner of war agrees to spy against his own country for the Allies 9,00 London. 11.15 Prisoner. 12.10 Reflection.

ATV MIDLANDS: 2.00 London.

4.02 Women today. 4.10 Peyton Place. 4.40 Stingray Cross- House. Enchanted 4.53 5.15 London 7.00 Movie: ATV today. 6.35 6.00 roads. "Ferry to Hons Turgens. London. Kong'. With Curt Orson Welles and Sylvia Syms. 9.00 11.15 Untouchables. 12.10 Who knows!

Weather.

ULSTER:

2.00-4.02 London. 4.30 Romper room. 4.50 News. 4.55 Floris. 5.20 London. 6.00 News. 6.05 Nanny the professor 7.10 Branded. 7.40 and 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Cartoon treat. Name of the game. 9.00 London. 11.15 Avengers.

YORKSHIRE:

2.0G London. 4.00 Origami. Houseparty. 4.15 4.30 Matinee. 4.50 Skippy the bush kanga- roo. 5.20 London. 6.00 Calendar, weather. 6.05 Nanny and the pro- fessor. 6.35 Hark 7.05 at Barker. Saint. 8.00 Mannix. 9.00 London. 11.15 Avengers. 12.10 Weather. GRANADA: 2.00 Show jumping. 4.10 story. News. Short 4.40 Enchanted house. 4.55 Forest rangers. 5.15 Lon- don. 6.00 Newsview. 6.10 Meanwhile back home. 6.30 Champions. 7.25 Film: "The Man White in the Suit'. With Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker. works labourer pro- duces a formula for a wonder fabric.

9.00 London. 11.15 Invaders.

TYNE TEES: 2.00 London. 4.05 News- room. 4.10 Please Sirl 4.40 Hatty town.

4.55 Floris. 5.20 London. 6.00 Today at six. 6.30 Police call. 6.35 Sky's the Invaders. London. 10.30 week. 11.15 University challenge. 11.45 News. 12 midnight magnetic personality. BORDER: 2.00 London. 4.13 Border news headlines. 4.15 Nanny and the 4.55 rofessor, 4.40 Enchanted house.

Mr Piper 5.15 London. 6.00 News. Lookaround 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 "Quebec' With Corinne Calvert, John Barrymore Ir. and Barbara Rush. 1837 Canada is torn by rebellion. 8.30 Hark at Barker. 9.00 London. 11.15 Homicide. 12.10 News, weather SCOTTISH: 2.00 London. 4.55 Forest 5.15 London. 6.00 Summer rangers. scene. 6.30 High living. 7.00 Film: "Strange Carro'. With Clark Cable and Late call. 11.20 Court martial.

Crawford. 9.00 London. 11.15 GRAMPIAN: 2.00 London. 4.20 Freud on food. 4.50 Win a word. 5.15 Lon- don. 6.00 News, weather. 6.10 F troop.

6.35 Crossroads. 6.55 Movie: Design- ing Woman'. 9.00 London. 10.30 Lon- don. 11.15 Man in a suitcase.

WORKERS PRESS

Above: GERRY HEALY National 1970 YS and SLL Summer

CLASS STRUGGLES

A VALUABLE selection of writings by W African nationalists, a British politician and a mission- ary are contained in Henry S. Wilson's book on the origins of African nationalism.* It has a selection of the writings of Edward Blyden, Stephen A. Benson, Alex- ander Crummel, James Afri- canus Horton, Casey Hay- ford and other pre-Garvey W African nationalists, mainly from Liberia and Sierra Leone. It also contains equally valu- able material from the writings of Earl Grey and the mission- ary Henry Venn—19th century forerunners of the policy of 'in- direct rule' and 'native authori- ties' elaborated by Lugard in par- ticular in the 20th century.

BLYDEN

In his introduction Wilson explains that Blyden's ideas were 'an open avowal of his belief in the geographical separation of the races, involving the return of the American Negro to bis home- land' (p. 35). Blyden's Garveyism was as old as 1857, a long time before Mar- cus Garvey himself, and ante- dating the Black Muslim and other Blyden-Garveyist move- ments by a whole century.

Wilson makes it clear that Blyden's acceptance of separa- tion from 'contemporary came European and white N American ideas of permanent racial divi- sions according to physiological and cultural characteristics'.

But he does not relate this racialism to colonialism and its later form, imperialism, the gen- eral causes of racialism, especi- ally of colour racialism the book con- Inasmuch as tains interpolations by Wilson, this remains its inherent weak- ness. Blyden, an early champion of the founding of Liberia, believed that 'the races were different, but not superior or inferior' (p.

35). We might add that this was also the expressed viewpoint of Dr Verwoerd, the white supre- macist murderer of the Africans at Sharpeville in 1960. It is also official S African policy on 'race'.

What Wilson fails to bring out in his own comments is that any acceptance of the existence of races among mankind is itself racialism. Blyden and Casely Hayford, with the Oborigines Rights Pro- tection Society and the National Congress of W Africa, which were formed under their influ- *Origins of West African Nationalism' by Henry S. Wilson.

Macmillan Press, University Glasgow, 1969. £2. HEALY National Secretary of the Socialist Labour Le d SLL Summer Camp. Below: A discussion group con questions

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BV N. Makanda ence or patronage, were direct forerunners of the nationalism and reformism of Kwame Nkru- mah, Azikwe and others in W Africa. In "Liberia as She Is', delivered by Blyden at Monrovia in 1857, he sees that 'Most of the talent of the country is in the employ and at the control of foreigners' (p. 79). Among these are the mission- aries. His solution was a form of segregation.

CRUMMEL

This idea was interwoven with that of American 'Negro' patron- age of the African 'natives' in Liberia, as expounded by Presi- dent Benson (p. 87) in 1858 and Alexander Crummel in 1862.

Blyden himself took up the same 'white man's' theme in 1865 (p. 94). In 1870 Crummel put forward the basic thesis which Marcus Garvey copied much later-W African (Liberia in this case) as home' for all 'Negroes' (p.

114).

GREY AND VENN

Earl Grey, Colonial Secretary 1846- under Lord Russell from 1852, and Henry Venn, Secre- of the Church Missionary tary Society

(CMS)

were advocates of 'indirect rule' long before Lugard. They put forward a policy of using local 'self-governing institu- tions' in their colonies as media of rule-the early concept of 'native authorities'. These 'authorities' were to levy taxes, among other duties (p. The Chiefs were to be 125). important agencies of colonial rule (p. 126), wrote Grey as far back as 1853. The

CMS,

through George Nicol (1844), B. T. J. Bowen (1857) and Henry Venn (1868) advocated the use of 'native agencies' as vehicles of colonial administration. Venn went as far as propos- ing a 'native church' (p. 133), under the direction of the British Missionary Churches (p.

140). The CMS discussed the forma- tion of a 'native church' from 1851 onwards. It had to pay the salaries of 'native teachers' in the mission schools-an example of the cheapness to colonialism of the system of 'indirect rule'.

COLONIALIST

The colonialist ideas of Venn and Grey were logically and politically associated with the and Uncle Tom segregationism 'Black Power' ideas of Blyden, Benson, Crummel and, later, of James Africanus Horton (1835- 1883), of the Fanti Confederacy and another advocate of 'native self-help' (p. 155). on "self-rule' Horton's ideas well with Grey's 'native fitted in authority concept, which went to the point of formulating a Poll Tax Assembly ('native self- taxation' in the interests Britain). Horton himself put forward SNUBBING several Carib- bean United governments, Nations Secretary-General U Thant and a top-level 'face- saving' British scientific delegation, the United States Army is displaying its usual cavalier disregard for inter- national protest as it goes ahead with its plans to dump several train-loads of assorted chemical weapons into the Atlantic Ocean. The last consignment of obso- lete gas-filled ordnance left arsenals in Alabamah and Ken- ialist Labour League address the the weekend tucky at for sion group continues to talk over roundabout journey to Sunny questions raised in the lectures. will Point, N Carolina where it be loaded onto barges and sunk in 16,000 feet of water off the Bahamas.

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This is not the first such for the US operation Army, which maintains huge stockpiles chemical posing weapons, major disposal problem. Since the war at least 12 similar thought have signments to been sunk at sea. Some of the risk involved in the codenamed operation CHASE (cut holes and sink 'em) gauged from be the fact -can the Pentagon considered it that too dangerous to try and sepa- of rate the explosive parts the ordnance from the chemical it designed weapons to was deliver. Instead the whole consign- ment-13,000 rockets each con- taining I pounds of nerve gas- embedded in steel and nas been concrete 'coffins'. These, US Army spokesmen freely admit, will eventual leakage of the contents into the sea, but they hope the will dilute the chemicals SCa sufficiently to make them fairly harmless.

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ORIGINS OF AFRICAN

NATIONALISM

«by Henry S. Wilson. Macmillan University Press, Glasgow, 1969. £2. movement with the 'personality cult, later resus- authority' grist mill. citated by Liberal political Negro- for own propaganda anti-British, it served philists like Basil Davidson.

Ostensibly nobody other than Britain.

Horton was one of the early 1911 like Pastor By men marriage Oppose of 'Africa for the Agbebi could exponents Mojola Africans' (p. 171), which he 'inter-racial and said 'will be as well political demand social segregation (p. as biological truth (p. 171). 305) natural or else ordained by the 'great Archi- Before this Uncle Tom's Black God, tect of the Universe, his Power Utopia, however, the Afri- British Liberalism. have to be ruled by cans would Chiefs which may be appointed

HAYFORD

by the British Governor (of Sierra Leone). Ephraim Casely Hay- Joseph ford (1866-1930) synthesized the Horton's description of the preceding ideas of Blyden, Hor- Chief's council was substantially ton and their masters, Venn and Venn envisaged by and that Grey Grey. It was Black Power under He became disciple of a British rule. Blyden (p. 311). an appeal for He combined and In these early writers with 'native institutions' already clear that It 1s demand for 'a healthy imperial African nationalism is ser- for the Gold Coast and policy vant of British imperialism and Ashanti' 312) (p. as always, that the 'anti-white' nationalist is nationalism and the slave- most abject of the mental slave mentality go hand in hand.

'white man boss'. This does not mean that Hay- Thus Horton regarded 'the ford was towards not scallins English element (as) unquestion- civilizing Britain's mission' in ably the best civilizing agency' Africa. 199). (p. In a work of 1903 he wrote: He wanted a Codex Consti- "Take the labour It question. tutionum from Britain for the is dear the heart of the 204). Gold Coast (p. European. Herein he shows his In 1873 Governor Hen- Pope love for his black brother beyond nesey wrote to the Earl of Kim- all question. The black man fully Colonial Secretary, berley, the understands that has been he of 'utilizing as to methods the expressly created by kind Provi- element' a vehicle of native as dence to provide labour in the colonial rule (p. 222). black for the man's country Blyden's ideas on using the European' (p. 320). 'African tribal family' as a basic prevent Hay- This does not taken up unit for 'self-rule' was ford from dearly love saying later indeed by Julius very much this idea of Imperial West Africa' Nyerere, who made the 'family' (p. 333). social 'African the unit of his He offered no more than the Socialism'. Likewise Blyden's descriptions help of his aspiring, nationalist, of the common ownership of pro- middle class help Britain to realize this 'ideal'. 259) under tribalism (p. of sub- The book contains useful Socialist' theo- material Hayford's attitude sequent African on towards the Uncle Tom ries. segrega- T. Washington, 'Origins of West African tionist, Booker and towards W. E. Burghart du Nationalism' continues with many policy- Hayford criticized useful extracts from the Bois, whom being too cosmopolitan of the for and making statements late 19th century, such as the British not able to understand the need development' for 'racial (p. view: us, if we 361). "It is far better for can rule the people through their Hayford puts Blyden, the up chiefs, because they are ruled far victim of white racialism, open him that way' (p. as his apostle and follows more willingly in 278). to the end: develop- separate under British Britain used its own policy of which turns out to ment, Utopian Bantustan educational starvation and segre- feed the 'native hegemony.

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em This seems an illusory hope.

The contents of the rockets are among the most deadly military of cer- poisons known. One drop tain types of nerve gas, in con- tact with the skin for as little as 60 seconds, can cause a parti- cularly nasty death. Each rocket contains enough nerve gas to kill many thou- sands of people over a large area. The gases are lethal not to human beings, but to only most other forms of animal life.

It appears that the present consignment was made during the Korean war for use against the Chinese troops who turned the tide against the American forces on the Yalu river nearly 20 years ago. They have been stockpiled in the W Pacific since that time, no doubt on the off-chance that they might be needed in Viet- nam. The nerve gases are a family of the chemicals closely related to organo-phosphorus insecticides. fact, it was while he was In examining organo - phosphorus compounds for insect-killing power that Dr Gerhard Schrader, a chemist working at one of I. G.

factories, Farben's German stumbled on the first nerve gas.

This was tabun (also called GA) the first of a family of compounds known as G-agents.

Other G-agents include sarin, soman, GE and GF. All are highly toxic-much more poison- ous than previously discovered chemical weapons like mustard gas-and all the body act on mechanism which transmits nerve impulses. G-agents are invisible, The odourless and tasteless, can be absorbed through the skin as well as through the lungs, and can be spread as a liquid, as fine droplets (aerosol) or as a vapour.

All of them achieve their deadly effects by breaking a vital link in the chemical chain that impulses carries nerve through the body. They act on the nerves to prevent the trans- formation of the enzyme chol- inesterase and thus stop the nerve from functioning. This leads to rapid and pro- gressive paralysis of the body.

* The process has been described gory clinical detail by in Dr Harold C. Lueth of the American Medical Association: *Early include symptoms headache, blurring of vision, tightness of the chest and dizzi- ness. Rapidly there will develop severe headache, profuse saliva- tion, tightness and pain in the chest, nausea, vomiting, dimness of vision, early fatigue, drowsi- ness, cyanosis, collapse, convul- sions and death may supervene.'

Apart from G-agents, in them- selves quite lethal enough, the Sunny Point consignment con- tains a land-mine stuffed with the even more deadly V-agent VX. This compound was discovered in Britain and developed at Porton Down during the mid- and is a much 1950s more advanced weapon than the G- agents. Though relatively little detail is available about its action, it is drop known that even a small on the skin be almost can instantly fatal, and that the liquid form of VX will evaporate very the G- much more slowly than agents, making it possible to render whole areas sterile for long periods. What the effect of these chemi- cals will be once they escape from their undersea grave nobody knows. But at the very least they will almost certainly kill fish and other any sea animals in the vicinity. Since such very low doses are toxic, it seems reasonable to assume that the gases will be lethal even at very large dilu- tions-posing a potential hazard to human beings if the ocean currents carry the gas to inha- bited coasts. Since the dumping-ground is only 33 miles from Nassau in the Bahamas, this possibility is not as far-fetched as it might sound.

Only a week ago Ambassador Christopher H. Phillips, Nixon's representative on the bottom of the sea, told a United Nations International Seabed conference in Geneva that his government welcomed a draft convention on the use of the seabed as serving the interests and needs of all mankind' and promoting 'rational and sensible use of the marine environment for the future.

The draft agreement specifi- cally rules out activities carried out without 'strict and adequate safeguards for the protection of human life and safety and the marine environment'. No stretch of the imagination can force nerve gas dumping into this category. Imperialist barbarism finds its highest expression in these Pen- tagon preparations. Not only do they threaten the revolutionary struggles of workers and peasants in Asia with their poisons, but they endanger the oceans with their chemicals. The arrogance of the Penta- gon is surpassed only by its cheerful disregard for the fate of the millions of potential victims of its gases and poisons.

Twenty-five vears after Hiro- shima imperialism remains the number-one enemy of humanity.

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