Workers Press no. 237

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED F

1970: Thirty years since Trotsky's assassination

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUE

Memorial Meeting

ACTON

TOWN HALL

Leon Trotsky's High St, Acton last words: I am confident of August 23 the victory of the Sunday Fourth International Go forward'! Starts 3 p.m. Admission 2s Speakers: This means: G. HEALY (SLL national

SLAUGH-

secretary), C. Forward with the

TER (SLL

Central Com-

JENNINGS

mittee ), A. first Trotskyist (Editor, Keep Left) daily newspaper- Chairman: M.

BANDA

(Editor,

WORKERS PRESS

Workers Press) ALSO: The first public showing of the latest Young Socialists' film-'Youth in Action in the Year of Lenin and Trotsky.

I hat we think Stalinist and

THIRTY YEARS

ago on the haunts the evening of August 20, Social -Democratic bureau- Ramon 1940, Stalin's agent, cracy and from which in the Mercader Tacson), ( end there will be no escape.

(alias Trotsky with The Trotskvist movement, struck Leon must be stated, might have an ice-axe. remained small but it never as he lay The evening next died. his dying Trotsky dictated It never under, and and went famous and moving vale- conceded never its and dictorv to his friends to an alien hand, or its pro- comrades: 'please say to our to a hostile group. gramme friends I am sure It survived and developed into of the victory... of Fourth the force it is today only today force it ic International. assimilated, concretized and This last message was more than a verbal encouragement enriched the dialectical method and the materialist to the movement he repre- sented and founded. outlook of the great the capitalist It summed the whole Marxists of up of his life and era. essence That is the secret of our sur- labour, his great strategical for vival and success. the aim material and spiritual liber- The Socialist Labour League proud of ation of all the oppressed is extremely its and exploited this struggle to fulfill the testa- on ment of Trotsky which was planet. the creation of viable revo- Trotsky's optimism about the equipped of his lutionarv parties victory mauement with a daily press. Stalinist reaction against

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and fascist barbarism, the time seemed which at enormously powerful, was not a passing mood but the profound Announcement of product Viarxist of analysis the and of the epoch nature

IN APRIL

of this year, of the revolutionary role Comrade G. Healy, national the working class. of the Despite the catastrophic de- secretary Socialist Labour League, feats of the working class, made ap- proaches to Pierre Frank, the ideological monstrous member of the "United reaction expressed by Stalin- Secretariat of the Fourth ism and the scepticism. of International' in Paris. and the revisionists within the suggested that a way should Fourth Trot- International hel found to begin discus- sky never lost confidence between the Inter- prospects for the sions in tha national Committee of the International. Fourth International and He was absolutely convinced.

the United Secretariat, in both by the practical which the possibility of uni- of Russian example the fication could be raised.

Revolution the theo- and We are pleased to note retical and philosophical that on July 5, the United preceded, struggles which accompanied and followed Secretariat announced that was prepared accept that new revolutionary this proposal for discussion.

leadership could. and would, the time, the be created out of the chaos same representatives of the United and carnage of the Second Secretariat Britain (the World War. "International • Marxist Trotsky's optimism, after the Group') and other of three decades sup- passage porters of the Pabloites. and the virtual decimation pub- of have, since July 5, of the original cadres lished political attacks on Trotskvism within and with- the SLL. today the

USSR,

is out powerfully justified by the The latest of these is the of " The pamphlet entitled Phoenix-like resurgence Trotskvism in the most ad- Credibility Gan - the poli- tics of the SiL' by Tony vanced imperialist nations: Whelan. France and the Britain, We assume from this that United States of America.

United Secretariat There is nothing fortuitous in the and British its members wish this development. furnace of fought Tempered in the the polemic to be publicly while the Stalinist slander and im- internal the discussion proceeds. and perialist repression International, des- we are therefore preparing Fourth a political reply to Whelan's pite the loss of individual grew and strength- pamphlet. to appear in the leaders. ened itself. Workers Press in the very paradox which This the near future. is The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. 237

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1970

UBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

FERODO

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

MOTOR-INDUSTRY struggles are hotting up on every front. and speed-up, car workers are pushing forward for higher wages in factory after factory.

WITH THE reluctant acceptance of the Devlin Phase Two proposals by London tally-clerks yesterday, the dock employers surmounted virtu-

LT ENGINEERS

-SUPPORT -

union last hurdle to introducing speed-up, ally the shift-work and Measured-Day Work on the docks.

INS/S

Their success is a major setback for dockers setback for which the union leaders - both 'white' and £1,000 August 'blue' — bear the prime responsibility.

Devlin could and should

LT ENCINEERS

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Appear Fund have been defeated by the

CORRESPONDENT

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national dock strike

CLAIM 11%

stands at

INSIST

olie boats £447 Os 3d Transport and General

(OST OF

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leade sos aide dinue is ati tha gence, disciplinary Stevedores Instant dismissal for anyon also be a condition wou

BLESSING

about claras the Prague boycott 30 London tha spond o donations to : wins big support complacentl workers tress readersm! hich stands over them. Anneal rund. Street, PRA workers. vourn oa Clapnam n one robby Good progress and housewives gave wide- represented London depots taste of All Trades Unions including work spread support to the boy cott called for the second Alliance Conference and the we're anniversary ollne soviet

MINERS

extremely and mit set anything invasion on August 20-21, Notations Storal se second 'Change minds periodically described it: "6d on the rate Sunday, September 6 1900. status. the apocatiate date, ade Transport Union leader Jack Danum Hotel vitaly ho were em reading on what strike action High St to take

DONCASTER

newspapers mes wage but at the starting i that ti

FURTHER

DETAILS

SOVIET UNION

But Wilson putting its proposals into

CASTLEFORD, YORKSHIRE.

des. Tories have no such capital as the calm before a march Burmah 200 MERSEYSIDE shop stew- Smallest sign Prote the Tole are deca hursday night and decided Point por the set on the Over the look-out smallest sig it will go to line emonstrations - bitters

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

Magnates of the A YOUNG SOVIET oppositionist has been locked in a as demonstra- so employa lunatic asylum for an indefinite period after being found nationalization of the docks- worto era million. Trades guilty of 'anti-Soviet activities.

demonstrated.

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Olga Yoffe, a 20-vear old student of economics, Israel keeps was arresteu in vecelvel corpor of last year for having in hostages her possession Italiels and warning against the return old ate ISRAEL will continue satisfactory to all sections of Stalinism. Ahe two Arians 40 de-

198-2 VOTE

state Letore was from a British airliner a whis weeke prisoners held in Arab coul thi manage. the and brought to bureauc from the Nasser ceptable diffi + posts TRient, Our foreign editor writes.

tribunal on Thursday. Major doCument e management A £41 MILLION 'aid' she was not present wne Eligible

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udgement was given offer to Egypt Is the latest ploy of the Nixon to denationalization. Trotsky Memorial Lectures Administration standing campaign to win Nasser sharp point of the To second fore airline can éligible collahoration

WITH

Cynical Monday, 14 September the Zionists. cynical "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism' of heal redres. workers thémselves. Nassel Monday, 21 September Union-bashing "compensate' Arab refugees, reall Den mine, zation eins and "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' workers oh that tah neolution and in the

BEAVER HALL

The int Robertson labour palation eat the

GARLICK HILL

troy clear. cynical moany weet Mansion House tube aade that Rance the privetle route Not able Starts 8 p.m. Admission 2s also promised nationalized corporations, the hes Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) ments of Latin America. Nasser

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED F

1970: Thirty years since Trotsky's assassination LL Leon Trotsky's last words: 'I am confident of the victory of the Fourth International Go forward'! Speakers: This means: G. HEALY (SLL national ecretary), C

SLAUGH.

Forward with the

ER (SLI

Central Com-

JENNINGS

mittee), A. first Trotskyist (Editor, Keep Left) daily newspaper- Chairman: Morkers Press)

BANDA

(Editor,

WORKERS PRESS

ALSO: The first public showing of the latest Young Socialists film-'Youth in Action in the Year of Lenin and Trotsky' I! laget think and THIRTY YEARS ago on the the Stalinist August 20, Social -Democratic bureau- evening cracy and from which in the 1940, Stalin's agent, Ramon end there will be no escape.

(alias Tacson), Mercader The Trotskyist Leon Trotsky with movement, it struck must be stated, might have an ice-axe. remained small but it never as he lay The next evening died. dying Trotsky dictated his It and never went interner moving famous and vale- conceded its never dictory his friends and to an alien hand, or its pro- comrades: 'please say to our gramme to a hostile group.

friends • I am sure .. of the victory... of Fourth It survived and developed into today the force it is only International. because its leaders studied. This last message assimilated, concretized and was more than a verbal encouragement enriched the dialectical to the movement he repre- method and the materialist sented and founded. outlook of all the great It summed the whole Marxists of the capitalist life and his essence labour, That is the secret of our sur- his great strategical for the complete vival and success. aim The Socialist material and spiritual liber- Labour League ation of all the oppressed is extremely proud of its struggle to fulfill the testa- and exploited this on ment of Trotsky which was planet. the creation of viable revo- Trotsky's optimism about the parties equipped victory of his movement lutionary Stalinist reaction with a daily press. against

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barbarism, and fascist which at the time seemed powerful, enormously was not a passing mood but the Announcement product profound Marxist analysis of the epoch nature of the and Comrade G. Healy, national IN APRIL of this the revolutionary role of the working class. the Socialist Despite the catastrophic de- secretary Labour League, made ap- feats of the working class. Frank, proaches to Pierre the ideological monstrous «United reaction expressed by Stalin- a member of the Secretariat Fourth ism and scepticism of of the the International' in Paris, and the revisionists within the suggested that a way should Fourth International Trot- be found to begin discus- sky confidence never lost sions between the Inter- the prospects for the in of the national Committee International. Fourth International and He was absolutely convinced, the United Secretariat, in practical both by the which the possibility of uni- example of the Russian and fication could be raised.

Revolution the theo- We are pleased and to note retical philosophical 5, the United that on July struggles which preceded. announced that Secretariat accompanied and followed it was prepared to accept that new revolutionari this proposal for discussion.

leadership could, and would representativese the United be created out of the chaos same and carnage of the Second Secretariat in Britain (the World War. 'International • Marxist Trotskv's optimism, after the Group') and of three decades other sup- passage porters of Pabloites, the and the virtual decimation have, since July 5. pub- of the original cadres of political attacks lished Trotskyism within and with- on the SLL. the

USSR.

is today out The latest of these is the powerfully justified by the « The pamphlet entitled Phoenix-like resurgence of Gap poli- Credibility - the Trotskyism in the most ad- SLL' by Tony tics of the vanced imperialist nations: Whelan. Britain, France and the We assume from this that United States of America.

the United Secretariat There is nothing fortuitous in and British this development. its members wish pubi polemic to furnace of the be fought Tempered in the while the internal and im- Stalinist slander perialist the discussion proceeds, and repression Fourth International, des- we are therefore preparing pite the loss of a political reply to Whelan's individual pamphlet, press grew and strength- leaders. to appear in the ened itself. Workers in the very paradox which near future. This is the

SATURDAY, AUGUS1

UBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER

237 • WITH THE reluctant acceptance of the Devlin Phase Two proposals by London tally-clerks yesterday, the dock employers surmounted virtu- last hurdle to introducing speed-up, ally the shift-work and Measured-Day Work on the docks.

Their success is a major setback for dockers — a setback for which the union leaders - both 'white' and £1,000 August "blue' — bear the prime responsibility.

Devlin could and should

BY A WORKERS PRESS

have been defeated by the

CORRSSPONDAN

stands at national dock strike last drive will he on in eamest to month. torce up productivity and cut £447 Os 3d But Transport and General the labour forcé. chief Jack of the Junat

TORIC

the report accept Tory Dians TOr toe nanona- rather r edison cucuiay ge | incustmes 11 ST The YESTERDAY'S post brought basic miners over the last ten years 101

LIC

which Sy for the been de mated tor pee ware. of £447 0s

LORI

He was aided in this by the capitalists, blue' oI tae readers Ivanonal For the first time today, Stevedores workers A maleemneted 210 0| able to print, have been of the to the pront Dockers. called no meet. of CoolE

DOLORADL

ings during the and strike arvate alrine operators trade SrOTS'Y Menon! Dosed no alternative to coopt- etanol,rra-atat cunnlement. acne anens ance of Pearson. is why, UnIon ences

COWI

such as these can mace the end the the TrOm BECinl acanisi Tae with the only help ot this blue' red unable "sécond-torce air ine. fund. monthly fight against the productivity They have contented them- selves platonic HA n ns ralce The remalle rotests to the Board of Trade, ing amount of reflection 31. Send all which Tories contemptu- bona Augs August wanted those dockers who to: the ouslu snore hoht the deal. but genera wretchedly and inadecuate Workers Press, Victor Feather complacently politically-bankrupt leadership that : Appeal Fund, which stands over them. avers seems doubtful if the Street, 186a Clapham High get off Good progress London, SW4 cecono torce will ever the ground. , It is premature at this stagé in •anv cące to All Trades Unions even thinking about any kind The es tace rot she etrea sitt on to it: Alliance Conference in oppo- being olans already

DIC-

MINERS

Dared anoten extremely 'Change minds' moortant incustna sectol Sunday, September 6 Negotiations tor the second force' airline merger netween Danum Hotel Transport Union leader Jack and Caledonian | are

BUA

whose "making good mem- High St ones. man y directly hit by the Brese as they near completion. bers will be

DONCASTER

Edwards lory alr plans, recent v tolol union's t tinplate

DETAILS

proposals, †ha conter ence that believed that 'provided trade unionists Devlin under nout wilson Labour bau ed trengthen their ranks, we can ernment. politicians' change outne ls DrODOSaIS SNnLO beo vernment 'shoula entect such said, recognized "he ories have no Burmah march life, inhibitions. a fact with Now nationalized that tha nrenarec necorate shall corporations are making money though them even 200 MERSEYSIDE shop stew-

BOAG

not change our political view- unionists met a record £31 million point'. night and decided Over few weeks, celed 192 demonstration are against dockers will be tasting the 45 pa mined that it will go to line the of the pickets on CILYDOCKeLS under the Tories Burmah Oil site. egotiations a f20 basic building and con- Magnates Al malor Significantly enough, the ad.

Merseyside stunchon sites the vent Tine t Sores Was will be stopping work Ior The merged company i4,500 signal for the complete drop.

dav in protest and to partici- employ about ping pate in Monday's the demangi demonstr?. airkas wod prz ma fone nationalization of the docks- called the Trades Council.

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In ordes ation financial magnates behind BUA Nixon makes £41m. Caledonian, the andan

BOAC

1zec corporations. ane be stripped of

KHA.

are to the Presin, Hussein of Jordan and their nrontanie routes offer to N tune of £6 milion revenue a Streeday Egypt ve Trade union ones, their talks Alexandria sion Congress They out in press were zoaau. projected plans for the ment 12n0l negotiations with Israel alon will continue government the lines of the Rogers plan juiciest shoute suce Une accepted

BOAC

and last monin. diffi. second torce run Into Our foreign editor writes: culties.

A £41 MILLION

'aid'

BOAC

"nance director Dérek Clover was absolutely the offer to Egypt ic right when he described the latest ploy of the Nixon econd-force proposal * The denationalization'. Administration its merely the sharp poent or in campaign to win Nasser Tor 'second force' airline case collaboration with wease. for the Zionists. oniv operate expense not of the oniy nationaizea beei recei vod abonralre has alread: airlines, hut the air ine workers thémselves. Nasser Nasser, of dip- Union-bashing 'ine recumDiOn omatic re ntions be nvedr the two contr es- -severer result MiO. after the June Denationalization means un- war ofyo Nasser- norers deale —is also expected soon. and their emplovment. wase-curune ahe to return the workers „non haçkną tor Dalactina homeland. TrOM large amoun *, vixon which they were expelled by „ țae ae vrnn well the Zionist wars of 1948 and The recent Rohewcon TenON to pay off Nasser's labour relations 1967. the debtsl Heathrow, e popical ian y mere largest needed roof made that very clear. were Not able Once profitable routes Nasser have been off Palestinians Nixon has also out nromised nationalized corporations, the Nasser lock. stock and barrel. help The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

FERODO

Craftsmen strike for El0 no 'strings'

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

MOTOR-INDUSTRY struggles are hotting up on every front. While the employers urgently require rationalization and speed-up car workers are pushing forward for higher wages in factory after factory.

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disciplineya collatore ELEVEN_p.c. estrings" Prague boycott increase This was the demand o 30% wins big support end Trans. PRAGUE workers, youth Mitet marker from Animed and housewives gave wide- represented & patternmaker spread support to the boy- includins cott called tor the second anniversary of the Soviet eath would be invasion on August 20-21, ise he added. their 1968. IF will be an immediate Already, reappropriate date ade Many shops were empty and replaced by the LiB newspapers. st action had asked that a starting

SOVIET UNION

wage

STRAIGHT RISE

Oppositionist struck 1 as the eno of te Smallest sign n the basic jailed as "insane' do read demonstration on the

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

A YOUNG SOVIET oppositionist has been locked in a lunatic asylum for an indefinite period after being found guilty of 'anti-Soviet activities!

Olga rone, a zu-year not accepte •e student of economics. Israel keeps was arrested in December or ast vear or save ln hostages leaflets her possession offer to Nasser i unless warning acainst me recur of Stalinism.

ISRAEL

Incine 1 den She was held in Moscow's

198-2 VOTE

ta in Arab coun In thé - a make an prisoners held come the bureaucracy "Both Algerians hold import- and posts in tribunal on Thursday. August 4, a i See was not present when Eligible medienne's security chief.

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of his desas to meet pl and ordered schizophrenies Trotsky Memorial Lectures held indefinitely in a 'psychiatric hospital'.

Cynical Monday, 14 September Their "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism' wors Monday, 21 September • experience il and is "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' osition

BEAVER HALL

snow that chand coil

GARLICK HILL

Near Mansion House tube the incarnatis Starts 8 p.m. of General AdmissIon 2s ments of Capit Americern Grigorenko Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary)

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WORKERS PRESS

PAGE TWO

National rule of capital, the slavery of Akee tle de Mav (ili) Class and provoked decisive labour. Revolution ruggle: to secure the republi the bourgeoisie from or the bourgeoisle ana to p later stages revolution' remote. nall- the workers in unen place The seato of 'the big maale terrifying, hall-luaicrous ine prolelallals ween part enas. of the Tune defeat of the SinCe was ore- pared to identiry tne ınance Paris proletariat. Involve ln with answer in the invaded to ine cuesuon. previously ions and 'is into Mar's approach all such ansuncuons not to economic relations, but and Prussian yokes, the powers once again turned with conndence to the imposıuor their rule, sure that 'revolu real relationship of forces Provisional Government 1848 : Workers man a barricade during the February revolution breathed • Marx s analysıs necessities bourgeois une economy i rennmade with promises given to workers. phrase danger a standing protest against the undisturbed ecessary to have with the workers." Iwenty-four Mobile Guards were from the Paris lumpenprole order to be tariat 1r turkce ness is, of course, the core of Marxism. workers. Classic work Lenin's 'State and Revolu- is the work series of petty- ncourag : revolu- astern and centra even though written as a pam- rallied the working great battle pattern the hirst between the iwo casse Ihal society. It split modern Was a fight for the preservation or the essence his was Marx Si Ateliers, the common target With real fury sections' or became more daily more unbearable. A state ension for sham labour, tha tortune navine That state they growled to the chosen to altack brilliantly concise, poly of the finance They class during the latter's period form in sougnl section basıs ol Troce erow- geoisie. National the discovered that its banner hac been a false device by which the it lost independ. a leged machination: the gulde to many subsequenl aton ot toe principa. than Communists pelly nistorical silualions Powerlessness social proletaiat which. essiy ruptcy.' lished the new In the months class de rived trom sits om The this there was no alternative to the trom its maal ›ronouncement of a kepubil tarlat. smasning position, tassea between emancipanon geols scribed on its banners. class continued nespel table papers like the 'Moniteur show through no preparation equiva- them- had to propagate om cially the "wild ravings" which lent to that . o1 Ils enemy. not ot the bourgeose on one sıde the tne proletarlal on of the prole The experience experience and knowledge the tasks of the working class that and of Marxism meaning of the essence of its boltics and Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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accession to power Bonaparte, bring to- "Bv making its bunal-place Name the birthplace of the bourgeois ments republic, the proletariat com where economić object is to perpetuate illusions are analysed). (iv) Classes and their political ideologists. 'Upon the different forms of property, upon the social con- ditions of existence, rises an entire superstructure of dis- characteristically tinct and formed sentiments, illusions, modes of thought and views of life. The entire class creates and forms them out of its material foundations and out of the corresponding social relations. The single individual them through who derives tradition and education may imagine that they form the motives starting and real point of his activity.' These general remarks are made by Marx by way of ex- planation of his insistence that the Legitimists and Orleanists y revolution in Paris were divided not only by their explicit attachement to differ- ent royal houses, but by the property relations which deter- mined the lives of those making up the two groups: 'large landed proprietors, and ruling through priests lackeys', on the one hand; 'high finance, large-scale in- dustry, wholesale trade, i.e., capital, governed with retinue of lawyers, professors and orators', on the other.

The fact that loyalty to one or the other royal house pre- in dominates the conscIous motives of individual repre- sentatives of the class, that a whole political party takes its decisions according the to degree of fervour aroused from time to time on this question, does not alter the fact that the royal houses are only titles for class groupings, forms by which the class interest is held to- for certain gether purposes, but not the determinant of the content and social composition of the groups, despite a number of accidental adherents attached purely by loyalty to the dynasty. These different sections of the ruling class will under some circumstances (degree of strength of the opposed class, etc.) draw closer together and even merge their material in- and their ideological terests outlooks. Two general points are im- portant in this context: hirstly, the conformity of the whole ideological superstructure with the economic base is a process, working through the survival of older historical forms of represented in the thought lives of certain classes; sec- ondly, the individual ideo- logists have their own unique experiences and starting points in politics, but they make this experience in the matrix of conditions common to their its characteristic class, with emphasis within the ideology of the society. (oMarx, "The 18th Brumairé of Louis Bonaparte', 'Selected Works', Vol. II, p. 344.)

The individual will tend to Now the bourgeoisie must consolidate its rule. first regard the ideological expres- through raising its 'Republican' sions of his class interests as political representatives to the starting his own "rea]' point, since that is in fact where he head of state, and then liqui- the material class dating these same bourgeois but stalls. and the Republicans. These politicians, interests themselves, with their organ the 'National' impetus they give to a par- within the had formed the official opposi- ticular emphasis of the society, create tion under Louis Philippe.

ideology ideological Their the conditions political programme which the individual was 'realized', in the sense that within works at his ideas. June 1848 brought them into office, but in a manner deter- example of Marx gives the mined by the real play of class It the bourgeoisie. can- petty forces and not at all by their not break from the rule of the own idea of how they would bourgeoisie or challenge any of office. Thus attain political but its basic categories, their fitted political illusions class position leads it always them very well for the specific to pose its own class interests required by the bour- role the general interests as after June 1848, but The geoisie of people'. society, 'the only because they were real content of its policies is : victims of these illusions: of •... the transformation "The republican bourgeois society in a democratic way, section, which had long regarded itself as the legiti- mate heir of the July mon- archy, thus found itself suc- hopes; it cessful beyond its however, attained power, not as it had dreamed under Louis through libéral Philippe, of the bourgeoisie revolt the throne, but against through a rising of the prole- capital, a rising tariat against laid low with grape-shot. What itself had pictured to as the revolutionary hap- MOSt pening turned out in reality to be the most counter- The fruit fell revolutionary. into its lap, but it fell from of knowledge, not the tree from the tree of life.'? In this relation between a class and its political represen- striking have tatives we illustration of the relation be- 'being and conscious- tween ness' which dominates the earlier writing of Marx. The French bourgeoisie as a class is involved in the making of history through the totality with other of its relations classes (particularly the pro- internal rela- letariat) and its tions; these again are part of world the development including the com- capitalism, pletion of capitalism's progres- a transformation within the rem- but sive struggle against the bounds of the petty bour- nants of feudal absolutism (as we saw in Marx's analysis of Only must not geoisie. form the notion that the petty relations the foreign principle, 1848 Republic and the bourgeoisie, con- wishes to enforce an egoistic sequences of the June insurrec- interest. Rather, tion's defeat). pace believes that the special con- ditions of its emancipation are Conscious under the general conditions which modern society can alone be saved and the class The conscious representa- struggle avoided. Just as little of the class, however, do tives that the must one imagine not develop their ideas, pro- democratic represéntatives are the grammes and policies on all shopkeepers or enthusiastic of direct and total basis of shopkeepers. champions translation of all these relation- their education According to ships. individual position and their Knowledge always repre- be separated from they may sents only an approximation to them as widely as heaven from reality, and in this case only earth. What makes them repre- through the specifically politi- bour- sentatives of the petty the cal relationships which that their life- the fact parties take to be geolle do minds they not go substance: this in addition to their which the beyond the limits the fact that ideological, non- latter do not go beyond in life, scientific thinking always takes consequently that they are as its material the historically theoretically the driven and does not penetrate given and solutions to same tasks to the preconditions and pro- and which material interest that cesses which produced social position practically drive 'given' dis- and prepare its This is in general the latter. solution. the relationship of the politi- changes When rapid take cal and literary representatives place in the life of a class, as of a class to the class that they in the torrent of 1848, in or represent. 'll the undetected developments the economic base of at A sort of process of 'selec- society, the political represen- tion' is involved, rather than tatives of the class will tend to the direct "production' by each the framework of persist of its own ideological in class ideas which they have in representatives. always worked. They are not (Here Marx issues his own the class itself, and are not corrective in advance against immediately subject to all the temptation to apply any changes affecting the life of mechanically his formulation in the class: the on contrary relation to the Orleanists and thev play a specific role, a poli- Legitimists, quoted earlier, and tical role, in the 'division of occurring only three pages be- labour' within the class.

we have just fore At times (Tune 1848) this passages cited at length.) conviction of the self- very Such ideological representa- contained charaoter of their tives of the class must not be own principles fits them for a for the itself, dominant historical role, mistaken class which is held together by its though, as we have seen, not in the way expect. At other particular historical basis in they property in the means of pro- times (1849-1850) they pay the duction. Marx brings this home penalty of their ideas being in describing the phase follow- tied in the past. ing the defeat of the Tune 1848 What this republican

TATO C

insurrection. section of the bourgeoisie?

(12Ibid. pp. 327-328.) (HIbid. p. 347.) Saturday, August 22, 1970

PART

FOURTEEN

'Under the bourgeois mon- archy of Louis Philippe it had formed the official Republican opposition and consequently a recognized, component part of the political world of the day. It had its representatives in the Chamber and a con- siderable sphere of influence in the press. Its Paris organ, the "National", was considered just as respectable in its way • as the "Journal des Débats".

Its character corresponded to this position under the consti- tutional monarchy. It was not of the bourgeoisie a section held together by great, com- mon interests and marked off by specific conditions of pro- duction.'3 In combination with our earlier quotations from Marx on class and ideology (The Materialist Conception of His- tory') these remarks must general, Marx's writings on 1848 remain the finest exposition of this rela- tionship. was in his polemic What against Proudhon a theoretical explanation of the class source petty-bourgeois ideology of here becomes concrete in the history of the vacillating role of these middle strata in a revolution, covered over always with their tendency to earn- estly express their own class interests in the guise of solu- tions for society as a whole.

One of the prime conclusions drawn by Marx from the 1848 experience was the need for the proletariat to strive for its complete political independ- ence from the petty bour- geoisie. Individuals Only on that basis would individuals or sections from the petty bourgeoisie then attach themselves politically to and the proletariat. Marx Engels carried this fight into German Social-Democracy to the end of their lives. 1848 provided for Marx a living fulfilment of his charac- terization of the type of social and economic reform put for- 'petty- ward by Proudhon as bourgeois'. Now the petty bourgeoisie moved to the acceptance of already outdated Utopian socialist schemes, as it sought for some way to express its specific complaint against capitalism: 'Capital hounds this class chiefly as its creditors, so it demands credit institutions; capital crushes it by competi- tion, so it demands associa- tions supported by the state; capital overwhelms it by con- centration, so it demands progressive taxes, limitations on inheritance, taking over a large growth by the state, and other measures that forcibly stem the growth of capital.

Since it dreams of the peace- ful achievement of its social- ism--allowing, perhaps, for a second February lasting a brief day-naturally the coming his- torical process appears to it as the application of systems, which the thinkers of society, whether in companies or as individual inventors, devise or have devised. Thus they become the eclectics and adepts of the existing socialist sys- tems, of doctrinaire socialism, which the theoretical was expression of the proletariat only so long as it had not yet developed further into a frée historical self-movement.""* Experience at the same time gave the proletariat a sense of free historical self- its own movement', and 'the proletariat rallies more and more round revolutionary socialism, round communism, for which the bourgeoisie has itself found the of name Blanqui. This socialism is the declaration of the permanence of the revolution, the class dictatorship of the proletariat as the inevitable transit point to the abolition of class differ- ences generally etc."5 (lIbid. p. 326.) ("Marx, "The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850*, 'Selected Works II', pp. 288-289.) ("Ibid.).

Saturday, August 22, 1970

SATURDAY TV

BBC 1

12.40 Weather. 12.45 Grandstand. 12.55 Football preview. 1.10 Ladies Haydock Park. 1.35, 2.05, 2.35. 3.05 Racing from show jumping. Boston Apprentices Handicap Stakes, 2.15 Wood Pit Sell- 1.45 Old 3.15 Wigan 2.45 Peacock Handicap Stakes, ing Stakes, Matthew 4.30 Motor Racing. 1.50, 2.20, 2.50, 3.20 Sprint Handicap Stakes. Rugby League: Bradford v St Helens. 4.50 Results 5.15 Best of Basil Brush. 5.40 Debbie Reynolds Show.

6.05 NEWS and weather. 6.15

ICE SHOW.

Van Heflin, Yvonne 6.55 HIGH ADVENTURE. 'Tomahawk'. With DeCarlo. An Indian scout tries to avert a head-on collision between the US cavalry and the Sioux.

IT'S LULU: Guest star Bruce Forsyth.

8.15 A MAN CALLED IRONSIDE. 'A bullet for Mark'.

9.00 NEWS and weather. 9.50

MATCH OF THE DAY.

10.05 11.30 Weather.

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All regions as BBC 1 except: Paradise'. Wales: 11.00-11.20 Match of Midlands North Englandu 11.32 one 11.32 Weather. Northern на: 10.5.50 Weather. Ireland: results and 5.00-5.15 10.35-11.05 d 10.05-10.35 Scotland: Ardglass. Sportsreel. Curious char- Sports onal. people Weather •A kind of Britain. Haru ВВС 2 3.00-4.30 CINEMA: 'The Lemon drop kid'. With Bob Hope. A third- rate tipster has to find 10,000 dollars before Christmas or face the wrath of a New York gang leader.

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ULSTER: 12.45 London. 5.50 Laredo. Film: "Ivanhoe'. Robert 6.45 With Taylor, George Taylor Emlyn Elizabeth Joan Fon- Sanders, Wil- taine, liams. Romance and high adventure. 8.40 Sports result. 8.45 Ours is a nice house. 9.15 Maggie's place. 10.00 Lon- don. 11.10 Prisoner. YORKSHIRE: 1.30 Better driving.

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7.55 Screen: "Tea and sympathy'.

All that's expected housemaster's wife in a New England school is to give the boys tea and sympathy, but something more is needed 10.00 London. 11.15 Maynard Ferguson.

12.15 Weather. HTV (Wales) colour channel 4l and HTV (Cymru/Wales) black and white 1.30-1.55 service as above except: Testun Trafod. ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00-12.05 London 1.40 Douglas Fairbanks presents.

2.15 Star soccer. 3.15 'Cinderfella'. With Jerry Lewis, Count Basie and his adventures of Quentin Durward Robert music. 4.40 London. 7.25 Film: "The With Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Morley. Treachery and chivalry in 15th France. century 9.05 Saint. 10.00 News. 10.15 Maynard Ferguson. 11.15 Strange report. Weather. SCOTTISH: 1.45 London. 2.15 Farm progress. 2.45 Gazette. 3.45 University 4.15 challenge. London 5.30 Tom Grattan's war. 6.00 Popeye.

6.05 Lon- don. 7.55 "Geronimo'. With Chuck Connors, Kamala Devi. 10.00 London. 11.15 'Hoddinott Veiling'. 12.10 Late call.

ANGLIA: 11.00-12.05

London. 1.40 diary kenny Weather. 1.45 Farming 2.15 Match 3.15 of the Week. Everett explosion. 3.45 University chal- lenge. 4.15 London. 5.30 Tom Grat- tan' War. Weather. 6.05 London. 7.25 Comedy: "The Ladykillers'.

With Alec Guinness. Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers. An unsuspecting widow lodges dangerous a criminal and his friends. 9.05 Hawaii Five-O. 10.00 London. 11.15 Maynard Fer- guson. 12.10 In our time.

GRANADA: 11.00-12.05 London.

12.35 Imaginary dialogues. 1.00 Barenboim 1.25 All our on Beethoven. yester- 2.20 Foot- days. 1.55 Interpol calling.

ball. 3.20 Time tunnel. 4.15 Gilligan's Island. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.30 Car- time. toon 5.35 H.R. Pufnstuf. 6.00 Felix the cat. 6.05 London. 7.25 Ріс- "Come fill the cup'. ture: With James Cagney. Story of an ace newspaper- for whom nothing is tough man too - even beating alcoholism. 9.30 A man called Shenandoah. 10.00 London. 11.15 Felony squad.

ULSTER:

12.10-1.05 London. 1.50 2.45 London. Saint. 3.45 University challenge. 4.15 London. 5.30 Flipper. 6.00 Appeal. 6.05 London «Yesterday's 7.25 Brac- world. 8.20 Movie: enemy'. With Stanley Baker. Rolfe. A ruthless British captain in Burma in 1942 will resort even to the killing of innocent people to gain information about a major Japanese offensive. 10.00 News. 10.15 Maynard Ferguson. 11.15 Conceptions of murder. YORKSHIRE: 11.00-12.05 London.

1.05 100 school. 1.30 Yorkshire years at 1.50 Farming 2.20 matters. diary Soccer Donald Houston, n 3.20 "The girl in the picture'.

With Patrick Holt Maurice Kaufman Tom Grattan's war Junia Crawford 4.45 London. 5.30 6.00 Felix the cat. 6.05 London. 7.25 Cardinal'. Tom Film: "The With Tryon. A priest who begins his career in his native Boston and becomes 11.15 May- a cardinal. 10.00 London. nard Ferguson. 12.15 Weather.

SOUTHERN: 11.00 London. 2.15 Farm 3.45 2.45 London. Seaway. progress. 4.35 News. 4.45 London. 5.30 Magic boomerang. 6.00 London. 7.25 Film: "The opposite sex'. 9.30 Hark at Barker Maynard 10.00 News. 10.15 London. 11.15 Ferguson. 12.10 Weather. Action 70.

WORKERS PRESG

EAST & WEST

MAJESTY'S loyal hands Tories cerned. of the 'Morning A recent issue Star August ummarize oncommon turopear rarila this vi incom 'exports' that and capital funds, Common Market by private monopo & whose decisions e Council ot are subject any democratic contro and are not discussed b Parliaments Delongieg to the Commity: countnes how points There is, material continuou the Com- trom into mon America, nee rea America and economic devel-

HUNGARIAN

more least a take wido. shae or the working costs most, Lazslo than widow. 10 1949 tsky a —executed Changes titoism brought 'accom- against Rakosi plished facts of European capi- talist integration-in mad cases accomplished. hougn these have been als in 1963) tor

CONFERENCE

amnesty see clared 'all authority during And last came eration of Trade Unions), news bureaucracy after months star viet kazaise in independent matter. While head monopolies at the instigation of the American mon- cribed this type o

THE

DEATH

yot remedy Then further blows hit the settling reforms- Italian working class and its reported Italy preserving the capital founders of the ist regime one line of the Italian Communist Partv opted —ine cenurists without egan to prevail in hesitation for the latter course.

and for a briet neriod a SuD- the growth of in the Soviet Union introduced porter of the Trotskyist Inter- l he lascists numerically national Left Opposition.

small un to this time. —gained He was also the last of the now recruite and conndence new contusions into une rarty and flung themselves on the and drove it back towards the sectarian school confused and exhausted Italian reformist nrogramme of thi Mussolini's Second International. Wing Communism' written in 'March on Rome' followed just Stalin's banner 1920, along CP and the eltrat under o so the carapse of the the British and the 'ultra- 'cocialiem in one country' thi So the collapse lefts' in Germany and Holland.

cen Italian Communist Party Wac trists and sacrificed along Reacting in an impression- comrades with their great test with the entire Italian work.

to the parliamentary the ing class-to the ravages of the.

splitting trom oDDor, tunists at the Cocast Party Conarace the centrists refused to accept the

EXPELLED

demand of the Second Comin work parliamentary Congress that relecting violently Bord this becayal altogether. the against rounding Journal exiled Party Soviet he rallied to Lenin and munist International) became a founder member of a expelled 1929 rotchus call for a new com.

sectarlallisil munist International and (This was at a time when the Party raced situation together with of Gramsel 'Ordine leadershin of Communist Inter where the working class was group of Gramse i denouncing in full retreat every variety of centrism and He failer to heed lenin's inside the old Italiar reformism as "social fascism'.)

particularly with Hic short association the Trotervict movement

FACTIONS

condemn existin dates from this period, during condemned attempted a critique organizations Though formally adhering to vanguard to isolation and stag- the followed by Togliatti from International, nation. Unlike Gramsci, he refused ¡talan socialst rarly was torn But Bordiga never learned Path into wiree socia factionin: the arowing social CrISIS I accent the tactic Cot the from Lenin's criticism Inited wront as develoned a oI sec Communists under the leader.

tarianism and the mistakes of the third and fourth conaresce and Gramscil ship of Bordiga the early 1920s - with Serrati as their centrists- 1922); instead from nic origina nanasi all reformist krisman and the the lines tion that wing led by reformists and fascists were al workers' organisations must be Turati and Lazzari. oycotted evolved the The great test of the cen.

one reactionary heap, and that had- -under trist leadership, con- which was wrong Stalinist regime -ceased to trolled both the trade unions advantage of any conflicts that and the majority of the party might arise between them a workers state developing factor The fascists thrived on the Koralaz e orke hand ss, rift the case ine created on the one thinking later to he taken weeks, the reformists' the hu athar panagadac from constitutional methads Trotskyist movement, both in man the United States and Britain argued that the Soviet Milan and luri engage unitea bureaucracy was a new exploit- haced with the stark choice actions on the older. coalition on the part of the big employers'. The existence of the Common Market became for Di Vittorio (Italian Stalinism's most import- ant figure in the trade unions, and therefore a key man in their plans for political collaboration with Nenni's Socialist Party) a reason 'to achieve agreement, at least for united action, among all workers' trade unions'.

Franchon's summary review of the topic', he said, was 'inade- quate' and underestimated the seriousness of the 'real prob- lems. Cutting across Franchon's stale together his rhetoric, with recommendation that workers should continue to fight for the Market's destruction, Di Vittorio proposed, as first step to a 'united action', that Communist Party trade unionists should sit with the reformists who had already accepted the offer of places on the Common Market bodies. In doing so, he anticipated the Italian Communist Party's future participation-as part of the Italian parliamentary • dele- gation-in the European Parlia- ment: a decorative body which has (wholly theoretical) some 'control' over the Council of Ministers. The Italian line' on the Com- mon Market has always had two strands-both equally treacherous and deceptive.

ALLIANCE

On the one hand, insofar as the Market is an alliance of the European and international capi- talist class, the threat it repre- sents can best be met from with- in. And on the other, it has a 'progressive' 'side. Already, in March 1957, the Party said (speaking of the Treaty of Rome): "The tendency . to new forms of international collabora- tion in the economic field is therefore understandable and also correct. The workers and the be labouring classes cannot principle to this hostile in tendency .. Even in 1962, when the Soviet Union (fearing British entry) put big pressure on the W European Communist Parties to oppose the Market, the Italians stood their ground. And now Lionardi's positions take up thread. We believe that a really inde- pendent European Community be in would a position to the countries of the approach World, Third as well as the Socialist countries, on the basis of a real policy of peace and interests and not of mutual power blocs .. 'We believe that Europe can fully develop and get the best Just over two years centrists Mussolini marche ing class, and not, as Trotsky insisted, a parasitic layer or caste, similar in many ways to labour bureau- parties of the capitalist world.

In the case of Bordiga (and later Schachtman and Burn- ham in the American Socialist Workers' Party) the theory involved the recognition of a totally new exploiting society -'bureaucratic collectivism'.

In the case of the Inter- Socialism' in national group Britain, it simply 'solved' the theoretical problems presented by the complexities of Soviet development by labelling the USSR "state capitalist'. But unlike the purveyors of this reactionary theory today, Bordiga had a long record of

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from its own resources only when it takes the road to socialism, Common Market and then a economy will become an essen- tial and indispensable factor.' (Our emphasis.) The road to socialism, in the atlas of the Italian Party, is per- fectly peaceful and passes by way of 'structural reforms'. Apparently it is not just Italy that can travel this road, but (thanks to the Common Market) the other countries of W Europe.

our feet are well And when planted on the road to socialism we shall find that the Common Market was an unmixed bless- ing in disguisesince the alli- ance of European capitalism in fact laid the 'indispensable' basis • the socialist develop- ment of Europe. Truly a miracle of Stalinist dialectics!

TREATMENT

It is no accident that the line of the Italian Communist Party now receives such preferential the pages of the treatment in 'Morning Star'. vocal before Already highly June 18, an • ultra-right wing tendency within the Communist Stalin- Party has seized on the ist election fiasco to advocate even closer collaboration with the Labour, and especially "Tri- bune'-ite, 'lefts'. The 'theoretician' of this openly Fabian grouping, Monty Johnstone,. has long been partisan of the 'Italian Road' in the British Party, and has since 1968 become its main spokes- for Dubcek's so-called man 'socialism with a human face'.

And with the concluding of the West German-Soviet 'non- aggression pact' in Moscow last week, there are indications that Kremlin the old line the on Common Market will be revised, for, after 1974, all member coun- tries will have to cease individual dealings with Soviet-bloc states, have their trade relations and handled by the EEC. why the British Party is opposed to entry. Perhaps the clue is to be found in the authorship of the 'Morning Star' interview?

Tamara Philipps is the wife Philipps, of Wogan otherwise Lord Milford and (when he dons his ermine) the sole current CP representative in Parliament. Since the House of Lords is likely to be one of the casualties of British entry, it must be obvious to all clear-thinking and progressive persons that joining the Common Market - which the Communist would reduce Party's parliamentary representa- tion by 100 per cent-is, though only by an accident of history, altogether inconsistent with the British Road to Socialism.

ver two years after the betrayal of the ssolini marches on Rome (Oct. 1922) struggle within the workers' movement and - despite his sectarianism — played a key part in the fight to build a the section of Communist International in Italy. After his break with Trot- sky, he founded his own grouping, which even to this duplicated day produces material in France and other European countries. He remained faithful to his 'anti-parliamentarianism' to the very end. Such stobborness is worthy of a better cause. Sectarianism is a disease that will always afflict the workers' movement until its source-.the betrayals of the reformists - are over- come and a mass revolutionary leadership built in every capitalist country.

Saturday, August 22, 1970

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Moscow conference Guinea Midlands busmen fighters down aircratt angry at pay deal hails pact with W. BIRMINGHAM busmen are very dissatisfied at the retreat of a delegate meeting which caved in

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their original claim for a £5-a-week 'no on strings' increase and a reduction in the working week from 40 to 35 hours.

delegate The meeling Rover engine Germany Trotsky earner unis week, accepted an- Triplex Safety Glass Co.Itd.

by a two-thirds majority ment, which said it was strike a management's offer of £2

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stanaing passengers on une was the presents at solomin buses strike Guinea LEADERS of the seven Warsaw Pact countries Mayed be throngly bat nee An a tore once bet yesterday wound up their brief 'summit' meeting Remands strike, over *supplies ot Aurust, 1970 in Moscow with a statement hailing the recent engines to Solihull decisior in Commons t of the whole membe Moscow-Bonn treaty as 'a major step towards Thorn strikers relaxing European tension'.

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gas case to meet The Leader whie no detaus were release about ene subiects

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nto beheld England, —already agreea to Dy west Germany and rrance.

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Locommittee of the coura Meal Workers Union and th main date their es to dece An article in Thursday's

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House International Bonn- Count London esterday. remanded usi The Lone live the Socialist Labour Employmer doned delight sit one muran . for ".! -'.. Moscow pact has led gov- Cabinet. don pusher Boves to on ernment officials in west the Me scot of ensurin Germany to believe that tainly thrown France had the hast German leader walter bricht Lest. Person el/training Oficur 'put firmly Vibricht was and the sureties despite Union far from Centrists propose in his place' at the Moscow privilege, with Parlamentary orced by circumstance conference. letter above proves Wo years ago, over half a manded to bal a re in rec were sent insan rand hoh. leaders pact with CP Support grows that the two CS having relates and possibilies.

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• July in the THE FRENCH Unified Socialist Party (PSU) has pro- ven for the kind of national In reality-and as the Mos- for glass workers alace of Westminster posed an electoral and political agreement with the

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cow Ports Egan is charged with con- government s French Communist Party for the municipal elections were of these cal the teams Aboyson st the of Czechoslovakia, ec The union chiefs have never SUPPORT CONTINUES to come in for Pilkington's pere the due to be held in Marco ornext year.

princed, with the backing of

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sacked glass workers despite attempts to sabotage their The PSU's raison d'etre is

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to be the 'left conscience' suruptie psychiatric demand for nationaliting Shoring up

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GKN stay out of Stalinism. It provides a to say municipalities based or orms of permanen watering nole Crossfi Convenickl plead plaintivel The rene ary cheking on in the trusele Abandoned for all manner of revision- have blackin sick red ists and protest politicians.

Husal reine by Were and i led to the expansion ent there estabitimeneau is possible Poultice signing strike. Moscow satan hour in dais claiming black Pilkington products a 45 "alternative' moistice for diate Bonn Central asten ProVe recognition of East Germany.

CIA now active in Kosygin very quickly aban- exclusion on in Moscow was

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HAs delivered Go ahead weensiovania in connectiol Communist leadershi nalizat is ne with the polce blockade stil een tiger to gos give and figh he governmen we cause being mounted on the Cam Prague, recent o ent the barten which has been occupied for tself cracy in Czechoslovakia. have the So mist the last two weeks D sup aders esperately All-out fight Trayal or with the Sais porters of the exiled Sihanouk they workers fisut, out the Kre-line government. of the stewards are refusing to Since August 13, Chinese Cor the Brandt-Kosping deal Seventeen rose basic Soviet colae Middle East izing as its counterpart workers Nixor Enquire are concluded: there e an all-out fight withe -Puppet administration controlled areas.

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Tories' plans to sell off their houses.

Maress against more in clasnes win SuD political demon- porters of the Maoist-led The Greater London

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the ment on Thursday. torthern Cambodia 242 houses capitalist estate at Herne Sharp, a Brixton barones mob rule, The demonstration tonk to "Mail': Hill to the London Housing by the CIA,

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Armed the Trust miposed on Cambridge s tor t347,500 and s will tenants have already been Sates planes to t India (Marxist-Leninist).

sitizeet bomb warned that rents are to it wheels homan Sir ammunition dumps rise after certain improve- withdrawal of lun o Phe ts best

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ments are carried out. chiets • improvised weapons. Time hot sin Mathey cathet miled any a temet Rachman scandal. actio that

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