Workers Press no. 238

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATUF 'THIS MOVEMENT will struggle to revive all the fighting traditions of Chartism and the great English revolution of the 17th century and pre.

pare the working class to take the power', Gerry Healy, Socialist Labour League national sec- told a 1,000 strong capacity audience retary gathered in Acton Town Hall on Sunday to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

The meeting, one of the largest ever held by the What Labour Socialist League, itself contributed £820 I00 14s 10d towards the Trotsky Memorial Fund thinl: for the development of the Workers Press. The fund closed £6,168 Os 9d£1,168 over

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impending National Institute economic sume aas the target of £5,000. come from orcia and conomio Research most influential of the non-government fore- Opening nicci casting bodies. Workers Press editor

MIKE

BANDA said 'Everything our first the ot

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review moverent doeg s soiree oy one Tories took power, great laea ane one lea only: the establishment of the predicts dictatorship of the or mnemoiovmenl wull Col anue Mone winnaauo voted his entire lif ano fnac uness mne covern- to the victory the ment quickly reverses International and the triumph present policy furthe! sterling devaluation will be Ine world worke class inevitablé. "This meeting is an occasion the heelon This President o rededicate ourse ves of Pre implacable continue the Board of Trade Michae struggle begun totst against all those who seek to Noble's las smash Marxism and revise

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of jailed Soviet week wal ue econolly was class Ginsburg perverse

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dangerousv near TO

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nexanac! interests: But the Tories are unlikely to Lo dil even marsael nara

CLEE SLAUGHTER,

member labour Dason near Moscow Pates. attention Is ine atest cowaray reDu *Fourth Inter- of advice from of the Kremlin Stalinists to ui the mlasazine since thatPointed thea in care Nor mounting national tho oul taal have cratic struggle in the Soviet aar AUgUST 'prove analysis sympathy for its : 1440] when

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tria, Who assassinated things have hap- that a It was _éxposed designea pened that make this not nrst raDIal -Tisine levert u waters Daniel and Sinvavsky emolovment wil necessarly we have something "White solve the probiem ol in- nis lamous

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celebrate. flation. since pubisned in the west

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He was arrested on January alt tair ben ders wesbite policy. 1967 after with™ able to strating and rote o we cour hulshyls. perversion intelléc- Fourth Inter

TUC

tuals for the release of the the They found them leaders fondly imagine Halluual• Lwo mien selves today In taeir createsi But inside the Potma Only olicie designed evel MIstorical CrIsIs. ane rOT aise the level o nard labour camp, Ginsburg skyısm was on the march. unemploy carried on the nant ment aDove 'Different' literary freedom and against markoviding conditions ce thẻ Stalinist crushing of all whipr detests can bes activity. deteats can The revisionists talked of a flicted on the working class.

different KInC olannism. oppositionists-Peter and of its dual character, b uts But it is only througn impos among them--he took part would ichn alew speed-up, such Geteats-wilch comtade slaughter asked: in a nimsmusoedouT oI it a different kind of Stalin- Union, une SovieT WalCH productivity deals ism that broke the Spanish bureaucracy attacked the dustrial mias st ai dinerent t 50 for betrayal the Stati istm hat reported Was introduced bee riish Russian Révolution. tope Bro ser am pay of than weeks ago, he nie or the break his prison a letter resistance Tost rouna m maiellalnat to political pris- 1ciull UUICSsC workers?" cement markets. oners in Spain, Greece and Left' editor AILEEN this respect the latest under all right-wing regimes JENNINGS spoke the les statement on the economic • лесагіпе NIs Solaat the of Leon Barclay's sons lor youtn with them and asking them station Irom trotsky s lle consider plight hank muco nearer the the Sore bn Sa 'Outside the capitalist squecze and high those Stalin- realites it warns toat Ine class,' she said, *the greatest nemy of youth is bure Ginsburg's appea. interest must I he remcia, made into cre continue until in- In that Stalinist EL UlLy or social-democratic roads are from doing lal utIus! capis di vally Bureauch secure release Five the Young world, ycal. dru. The growing CrISIS iailed communists in these Socialists had

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concluded capitalism demands that the • countries, ana paruculariy extends a nanc rour- vedrnen alainst cap- abour bureaucracy headed b ories ana employers now wwon. Wn sonsn camps f the thee labor burgs, emark uDon Dolces wica Loet the sano ashar youth will bring them into sharper with millions

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but it had nlalers greas t ef the As alv ay. TUc aders. Bies tete- All Trades Unions vanguard Alliance Conference YOrULIn

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comrade Jen- oureau crack. nOW reparat dulc)i nings said. the Torv government as a Sunday, September 6 'fact' atter une Ice-pick Only ria new leadership pese Danum Hotel defeat ackeys and bring Stalin down the High St *Trotske Stalinists the Tory government will have murdered because,

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problem like the Labour leaders, they o7 miles 0

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had capitulated lock stock

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and barrel to the presind ther coming autumn and winter

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imperialism. stage ds LuCy CHLeL d llC

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ice-pick Trotskys sk ull was ick with the tnel Dallie employers. HutU Acton Town Hail snacked lies to he wong. *Trotsky stood for the itionare HEALY spoke

GERRY

the lad ear of oka Healy saited the basis o a terise theoreti bar movement todaycentre No control Trotskyist movement had been international commun- suppose And the i THE ENTIRE British anour movement must rally to the detence or a voung Korean. Pak, who faces execution within aew days at une pro-US of the nanas Korean regime Chung-Hee Park. 01 stroy it so that capitalism Labour and trade t union lea or them to dirty crisis at then expense: ve its Civil war Healy responsibility of English Marx the hi or the Despite all the attempts to Save No-Su Pak! sent the Korea. Visit 'crime' this charge accused him of visiti £1,000 AuguSt Appeal Fund EbUl JS 30

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us 860 3s Od bri post E507 3s 3d "send charles had duri per which had them leanin boon there. against all the dontrale or We could say toda Comrade

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2 → ite dance of sea. defence Pak hould not be left to fo to south korea Toda attempt to stop the execu Raise voice In the few days that ludicia murder of No-Su Pak. • See back page. col. • story The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. IN A magnificent demonstration of working- class solidarity against the Tories, the police and the employers, 6,000 Merseyside workers marched through Liverpool yesterday morning retreats in support of the 45 Burmah Oil strikers arrested on a peaceful picket four weeks ago.

As many as 60 construc- on

BY JOHN SPENCER

and building tion sites on Merseyside - including The 45 pickets are due to annet in cause at nester on major jobs at Runcorn, Thursday and Friday. Widnes and Fiddler's A nace ot nonour at the Ferry-responded with of demon tront vesterday's the

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Cone stration was occupied by 100 Union one-day strike to the call : workers General Council, up of the Stanlow, Durmal: • C+ next acked after a recent three-day and Carrington Oil site congress, makes it quite clea that the stewards. "This demonstration is the determined answer Robert Carr if he working cassin tne race thinks he the Tory offensive. Burmah While noting record post- McKenzie the meeting which war unemn ovment' over the strikers Sive past year, the strike followed vesterdays marce comes that under Contingents the mares attack; while the Tory govern- included ment hardly merits a mention.

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SUPPORT

came Council, Pilkington's rank-and- the the weekend na stan at the renart struggle of sacked Pilk- nie committee. Dollermakers on the structure and develop the miners Wigan union lodees. of the TUC, we find: uneton s passworkers.

EPTU, DATA

Union's key The ¿ransport is essential that strikes

CEU

Liverpool worker 1/667 Branch at Ford's. Dagen.

should properly thought from English Electric, Mat Mat- ham. has passed a resolution ut in tactical terms, should hase thew Hall. Dista, union's demanding that Engineerin Plessey's national executive take regard to their effects on other Lucas-CAV black all Pilkington unionists deliveries One demonstrator summed against such is precisely in conditi rall the principle at stake with strikes which have 'effects reinstated trade right orner trade unonists and are to ''Shop the Thererore anne the nana stewards Thorn Pie et work. interest that the lories hon: Electrical's Team Valley plant right to live their in the North-East- Industrial Relations Bill.

-themse ves

'SAME ENEMY'

MeLing Ene sacking no concidence that sheet metal workers dunno oh Prikington rank- Loudest at the meet- the TIC takes un this socition current their @trike .. hare declared full support for the ing were for at the same time as the Tom presse motor industr layoffs Pilkington secretary Iohn Potter the motor industry. allowed While sneak atter nrotests from tha the floor of the meeting. He said: disrupters The right and as ctrire picket was fought for by ta pave the propose the same resolution to Way forefathers the threat laws, the union anti-union union salsaact committee prison We eaders want to avoie conniet ane to ask or nece annot allow with the Tories at all costs.

port to Be orenzed. lost. We have resist all emplovers and ine government we have to even resist attack.

our Trom trade inion said, loud leadere applause. We're all fighting the same and we only win by standing together.

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reCent decision Swindon 1 AEF membership

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Garrard's -

I AM CONFIDENT OF

decided yesterday Salary

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withdraw from the All sur.

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vey and submit the claim £6 10s across the board with

GO FORWARD

no 'strings'.

1965 THAT MEANS FORWARD TO

2,500-strong meeting conveted ins decision. taken

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and addressed members the district

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Swindon area. before the It will now district committee for endorsed acess-the-board mage ace claims wage affecting some 7.000 workers Monday, 14 September Yesterday's neeting, approx- 2,500-strong, imately was and also "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism' almost unanimous enthusiastical agreed that the Garrard and Plessey shon Monday, 21 September stewards should form a liaison committee progress the "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' Tube strings

BEAVER HALL

GARLICK HILL

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attached to Near Mansion House tube derground maintenance work- National Starts 8 p.m. Admission 2s Union Railway. men's said yesterday. Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary)

workers press

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NUMBER 238

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • 'THIS MOVEMENT will struggle to revive all he fighting traditions of Chartism and the great English revolution of the 17th century and pre- pare the working class to take the power, Gerry Healy, Socialist Labour League national see- retary told a 1,000-strong capacity audience Hall on Sunday to gathered in Acton Town the 30th anniversary of the commemorate assassination of Leon Trotsky.

The meeting, one of the largest ever held by the Whad Socialist Labour League, contributer toul 10d towards the Memorial Fund Thinli for the development of the workers press. listens to secretary tun d closed $6,168 Os 9d-£1,168 over Cational Instipendi of Social and conomi the larger of 2,000. just the hand of Stalin hut most influential of the non-government fore WOpening every bureaucrat the the no old. Trotsky throuth the revolutionary Throughout bie aluation furthe Reels of Preside emitting stresse talin the last years of Trotskya jailed Soviet and

TRANSFEK

harsher shard But the Tonie are nikely to Founded Moscow or the makane Boutin inter the of the Nement do prome a it solve the problem of in- day when we have something comrade Healy said. flation. then bet basis er materialismeo out Trotsky ail sans that aren found then leaders fondly skyam was on the march ment above the 1.00000 No control mark had out Different' can be in Trotskyist movemen hich defeat diflere revisionists talker icted on the working class which the move- and of its dual characte dustria of Leo realities • the apratist bureaucracy Or socialidemocratic extends countries, ors. It is left to • Gins of the bire laay, abour

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As urial the greatest of th

THE ENTIRE

British All Trades Unions labour movement must belation vanguard Alliance Conference rally to the defence of a Korean, No-Su Yen-

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yuulls comrade Pak, who faces execution Sunday, September 6 within a few days at the Ice-pick Danum Hotel pro-US hands Korean High St regime of andro the Chung-Hee Park.

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FORTE

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Pak berned to 5 Korea

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verity for seven year Uni Thotskes skull wes not battle

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1970

o To back to he Is3as, talks to the A movement to the left italism to crisis at their expense. Civil war or aly added, had responsibility of & English revolution of the "Despite spite all the attempts to Save No-Su Pak! Britain the govern- ment of N Korea. Visit 'crime' oreme being death, tion to the S Korean regime

Y, AUGUST 25, 1970

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186a London, 55a. streel reach hac attempt to impose • the Angli Presby- Soland when precipitated all thé contradictions. Hale Tories ahead their press attack the trade union

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defen left to for attempt to stop the execu Raise voice that the must rais murder of No-su Pakicia See back page, col. 8 story The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. IN A magnificent demonstration of working class solidarity the Tories, the police against 6,000 Merseyside workers and the employers, marched through Liverpool yesterday morning in support of the 45 Burmah Oil strikers arrested on a peaceful picket four weeks ago.

As many as 60 construc- on

BY JOHN SPENCER

building tion and sites on Merseyside - including Tear in cockt at chester to cue to appear major jobs Runcorn, Thursday and Friday. Widnes and Fiddler's A place ot nonour at the Ferry-responded yesterday's demon- with tront

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REPORT

Congrese the Union one-day strike to the call st Helens General Council, the Stanlow, Durmal: sacked after a recent three-day nekt cussior Oil Carrington and site congress, makes it curle cical strike. that leaders are 'This stewards. aemonsuduon is un Getermined Carr if he working class in the lace ol can the unions around, Burmah Oi I convenor wole noting record post- told the Mckenzie

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lllas war unemployment' over the strikers sive rier acad micens wact the strike that ronowed vesterdavs maren.

Contingents on the march

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SUPPORT

came incluaca LIverPool irades the weekend the

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101 nie committee bouermakers on the of the sacked Pilk. surussie miners' DATA No. 5 division. Wigan EPTU, DATA No. Inston s glassworkers. ould essential that strikes une ransoort Union's ret Liverpool

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and workers 1/667 Branch at Ford's, Dagen- should English Electric, Mat- ham, is passed the resolution Dista, Petro demanding that Plessey's their executive take and regard to their effects on other black all Pilking ston tha 1Cas-A deliveries 'until Laut unlonists One demonstrator summed against such principle is precisely workers are unconditionally up sunkes waice nave erects or reinstated with which read: full Wade Pusica order trace unionists ane are right to strike, right union rights. theretore against the national Thorn

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stewards

DICKEL,

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interest' that the Tories hope Electrical's Team Vallev nlant tne mient to nve part their In the North-East-themselves Bill. sacking

'SAME ENEMY'

nghting the no coincidence that sheet metal workers their Loudest cheers at the meet.

at the leclared ful n. Poll no were tor "kington rank.

Poking on oke howls ando less retary allow Pote support allowec motor industry. locked-out glass- While speak after protests from the the press steps workers has by said: the brand the Callpalkl was tought serio and working class as disrupters in counch. WaCO oraer to pave une way propose ine same resolution to threat an undon aWS. The Union Ine union's district committee of prison and deportation. we conflict and to ask for financial sup.

leaders want to avoid with the Tories at all costs.

port to be organized. cannot allow this heritage to 'We have resist employers and the government.

We have to even resist attacks from leaders,' he said, a lause all fighting the same enemy and we Call

FOLLOWING

the Swindon decision of Plesse the

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WOrKCIS pro- mandrelent consultants •cavity deal ano Dress Ior a wage Stralent Increase

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'strings. 1965 This decision,

THE FIRST DAN TROT PAPE

taken 2,500-strong meeting convenec

197 THAT MEANS BUIL

ddresses and members the district THE Wi ot committee. affects four Garrard's factories une swindon area. It will now before the district endorsed for ip mean if endorsed. mean management nessev tace across-the-board wage claims affecting some 7,000 Monday, 14 September Yesterday's meeting, approx- imately 2,500-strong almost unanimous and "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism' enthusiastically Monday, 21 September committee Clalill. "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' Tube strings

BEAVER HALL

GARLICK HILL

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10.. pay new London Near Mansion House tube derground maintenance

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Starts 8 p.m. Admission 2s unacceptable. eLS dre Union Ivauonal nauway. Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) men s omcial sald yesterday.

PAGE TWO

Walking in the opposite S the crow flies, direction from Notting Hill Gate, Notting Hill Notting Hill lies we enter and the heart of North Ken- sington. I west of the City of This is the landlords' para- London. dise. Within this compass, the Almost every house in the 100 over years old. two faces of British capitalism High rents, families packed are there for all to see. From sometimes house, to woodwork, flaking the financial hub of the great rotting paintwork, crumbling masonry, imperialist octopus, once for the landlords dampness known as the British Empire, this means cash and lots of it.

to the crumbling slums of The misery of workers in the North Kensington - already area was the life-blood of Peter Rachman, landlord and Tory old in the imperial heyday excellence, but the thug- par is only a short distance.

gery that was employed against tenants his name in was as

ROYAL BOROUGH

of the much part system of Notting Hill Gate oppression that he operated as At the degrading Underground station, we are conditions that Tory- already within the his class imposed and con- controlled Royal Borough of tinues to millions Kensington and Chelsea. of workers throughout the To the South lie the fashion- country. able and of Rachmanism is the expensive areas essence South Kensington and Knights- of Toryism, as was clearly re- bridge, bordering the pleasant vealed in the Profumo scandal Kensington Gardens and Hyde of 1963, which exposed the depravity of Park. Sir Malby Crofton, and corruption stockbroker and leader of the the ruling class and rocked the Tory Party to its foundations.

council, owns a house in each but thousands of families Six years of the Labour gov- in his demesne changed nothing are not SO ernment fortunate. the conditions, if anything,

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Central Intelligence Agency? all well After all, only an idiot could aware, the role of United be opposed to intelligence.

States imperialism is to bring And take the International the blazing light of freedom Development Board the exudes and democracy to the four title the essence of brotherly love and assistance corners of the earth and to from its very pores, doesn't it?

heap the deprived upon But look a little closer.

multitudes — wherever they may be—the blessings of The International Develop- ment Board is situated in the science and tech- modern American capital under the nology. US the State same root as Department and is in charge Of course these activities of programmes for economic bastion the by the of free aid foreign to countries. world are often misconstrued.

Attached to the Board is Some misguided people Social Security Department, assistance' have ventured to sug- but the 'national gest that the ignorant hordes given is of a somewhat differ- unfortunate who are enough ent character to that which is to dwell in the dark regions a growing all too familiar to outside the 51 states do not number of many British work- fully appreciate the benefits of ers. napalm, "lazy dog' missiles and It has clear-cut functions: fragmentation bombs. namely, to help countries How can anyone be suspi- dependent the United on cious, for example, of an organ- States set up police true hallmark ization with an innocent- -not apparatus-the of every democracy. to say, cerebral-name like the - - I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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Name Address worsen. At the last count, in 1966, over 68,000 people lived in North Kensington. This worked out at 134 to the acre — nearly seven times greater than for Greater London as a whole. However, in the Golbourne the population density area rises in some parts to 240 to the acre. It is in this area that Acklam Road lies - flanked by the £30 million Westway new elevated road and, beneath it, a busy railway line. Since demolition began in 1964-65 to make way for this huge concrete-and-steel con- struction, the miseries everyday life for local tenants multiplied have been a hundredfold by noise, fumes and debris.

BASIC PROBLEMS

But whatever the immediate fate of those families who live alongside the motorway, the basic problems remain. We spoke to Granville Price —a West Indian worker-who has lived for the last eight years in Swinbrook Road, just off the Acklam Road. A steel machinist and a ¡Above, a vlew from the top floor of a new 20- storey block of the huge Westway roundabout which dominates Walmer Road on Its right.

Children play in Its shadow outside one of the srumbling houses (right), only a few miles from the Knightsbridge residence (left) of Sir Malby Crofton, leader of the Tory Kensington Borough Council.

US 'aid' to Vie police At 225 present advisers and instructors with 'great practical experience in the police service' are working in South Vietnam. They presumably went to S Vietnam because of the good money they can make there.

Pay is much higher in the than in the puppet state, to itse dance, its naplained.

to the dangerous nature these stalwarts' tasks in the country. What these tasks entail is not difficult to imagine..

for all these brave men worked as sheriffs or police chiefs in the southern states of America before going to Vietnam. They are now continuing the good work in pastures new- and the first urgent task has been to create a comprehen- sive file on the Vietnamese, which runs to hundreds of thousands of photographs and fingerprints (and collar sizes?)

= member of the Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers, he and his family occupy a small basement flat for which they pay f6 a week, exclusive of fuel bills. He told us about the conditions in the area.

'Generally the housing con- ditions are bad to a very great extent. Rents in comparison with other areas in the city and around Notting Hill are very high. 'In almost every house con- sisting of three floors there are an average of six families.

I think it is safe to say that the average per room is £4-£5 -flats cost £7-£9. Over the last few years rents have gone up tremendously, especially be- tween 1966 and 1970. 'In this area there's scarcely any repairs done to buildings by landlords and was it not for the ingenuity and industry of the people in the area many of these houses would have been uninhabitable now. It is the tenants themselves in most cases who have tried, with their own money and en- deavour, to repair the rooms and tenancies they occupy. There are quite a number of landlords outside of the area owning as many as a dozen houses, who never come into US 'aid' to Vietnam—Pentagon style.

To ease the load, the pro- cess has been automated. The Saigon authorities have signed with a contract Californian Systems Develop- ment Corporation, which supplying them with the neces- sary computers. US aid does not end there.

The latest models in confes- sion-rooms and sound-proof chambers vital torture are adjuncts efficient to every prison. The CIA has set up teams of S Vietnamese gendarmes, now headed by the Mississippi sheriffs, and it is believed that the latter are also spreading the word and imparting tradi- tional southern flavour of 'law and order' in other areas where national liberation movements are interfering with the smooth workings of the US 'aid' programmes. International Development, CIA-style, is certainly a many- sided thing.

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the area to see their property associate themselves to or with the grievances of the tenants. 'There have been quite a number of accidents occurring from falling masonry, broken steps and broken balustrades.

'I think the greatest depriva- tion is the absence of bath- rooms in very many houses and the inadequate cooking facili- ties which landlords provide for tenants.' The Notting Hill Housing Survey, carried out in 1967, reported that three-quarters of the households in the area con- sist of three rooms or less and that the same proportion have inadequate bedroom space.

RACHMANISM

Rachmanism remains a reality. 'The Rachman exposure caused many like-minded land- lords to become reluctant to invest in the area,' says Gran- Price. 'Whereas certain ville repairs used to be done, cer- tain alterations made in the dividing of rooms etc., land- lords no longer really practise that. 'Rather than invest in the area they realize that they GLASGOW TORIES, taking their cue from the Heath government, are on the offensive. Rising unemployment on the Clyde has been worsened by Tory Corporation cut-backs in the educational and general building programmes. A recent ten-day strike of Glasgow Corporation building workers was only one round in the struggle against the Tories' attacks. Baillie Wood, leader of the Tory group on the City Coun- called it a "trial of strength, consciously sought by corporation workers to test out the Tory-dominated council. Joe Murphy, secretary of the Glasgow Council of the Fed- eration of Construction Work- ers and spokesman for the strike committee, agreed that it was a 'trial of strength'- but provoked by the corpora- tion. Tranfer The immediate issue in the strike was the management's decision to transfer four pro- duction squads to mainten- ance. This would have ended the men's bonus payments, but union officials say the real bone of contention is the building department's failure to consult them before announcing the transfer. With 1,600 men out on strike and the threat that another 2,000 would join them, conceded the management defeat and agreed to the men eturning to their origina obs and to consultation wit the unions on all such ques- could not make the Rachman- type interest, so all they were willing to do was to push up rents and leave the buildings in the same condition. 'In an area like this - especially at this time when there is a question-mark on the longevity of most of the houses—people are pressurized to give up tenancies so as to enable landlords to see their , is buildings while the going good. Most of the landlords fear that the time will soon come when the council will be able to step in and make com- pulsory purchases. "There has been a lot of evi- dence in Golborne of threats.

'We have had several cases.

The most recent of them being in St Ervans Road [off Ack- tions in the future, as laid down by long-established agreements. The Tories' attitude for basic trade union rights was expressed openly by the same Baillie Wood in a recent article in the 'Glasgow Herald' where he complained that Glasgow workers were pampered. Methods He called for the removal of all rent restrictions and a policy of exacting payment: for the use of all public facili- ties, beginning with libraries.

This has been coupled with the demand from Tory con- cillors that Glasgow business- men be each given two votes in local elections, one for their place of residence and one for their business, either to be used at their own dis- cretion. However, other methods of attack against Glasgow work- ers are not so refined. Glasgow police may be in a engaged campaign to boost their public image by organizing 'international an police tattoo', but indicative of their real intentions was the recent purchase of twelve new- style shotguns of a type used by the Chicago police for riot control'. The council was embar- rassed when the existence of this armoury was revealed to These preparations are warning to the Glasgow work- ing class. The Tories intend to use the rising unemployment as a basis for weakening and defeating the trade unions. The real face of Toryism is now being revealed. - Tuesday, August 25, 1970

SEVEN YEARS AFTER RACHMAN

tion in the Royal Borough as lam Road] where two families This excludes the Irish were forcefully evicted and the whole. families. doors of the building nailed up by the landlord. The proportion in North 'However, members of the Kensington is therefore much Social Rights Com- Golborne higher. Most earn low wages mittee did succeed in getting 1967, 40 per cent in the the landlord to allow re-entry.

Colville area earned less than £15 a week and 'It is also of interest to note many are unemployed. the that co-operation exists between the police in the area Particularly for immigrant and the landlords. workers, conflict with the 'On occasion when and police Rachmanism go landlords anticipate the possi- hand in hand. bility of violence due to their illegal they actions summon the police and nine times out of ten the police are willing to impose the landlord's wishes.'

Immigrant workers and their Research and interviews families came to the area in the 1950s and now constitute over a quarter of the popula-

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Right, a tenant paints posters in his narrow backyard. He never sees the landlord responsible for the cracked ceilings (lett) which make many rooms uninhabitable.

Above, a recent Black Power demonstration through N Kensington against police harrassment which ended with eighteen arrests. ввС 1 1.00-1.25 p.m. Dyna Wall. 1.30 Watch with mother. 1.45-1.53 News and 4.20 Play school. 4.40 Happy owls. 4.45 Kind-hearted weatner. ant. 4.55 Animal Magic. 5.20 Shazzan.

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a to see their property associate themse ves the snevances have quite y. burring and broker ink t absente of bata- the absence in verv mane nouses aue dequate cooking rach- lancioras proviae Hill H using d that three- three rooms or less and proportion have same dale bearoom space

ACHMANISM

manism remains a many like-minded land- Rachman she area reluctant says used terations made , and ot rooms o longer really practise er than that they ncy I calle iOW TORIES, taking une neaun nent. are on ine de has bion worsane programmes. cent ten-day strike o Corporation buildins was on'v one roun struggle against ine attacks. Wood. eader of th oup on the City Coun- lled "trial sought Prat Tory-dominated lurpny, secretary or tr of Cokesmati for Work- spokesman that ommittee. agreed a 'trial of strenen — voked by the corpora Tranfer mediate issue in the to transfer bouls pareren ded ther bonus payments, ofi coste say the the contenuon sutt menm falure them ing the transfer agreed to the original their to consultation witn Ions on all such ques- could not make the Rachman- type interest, so all they were willing to do was to push up rents and leave the buildings in the same condition. this — 'In an area • like especially at this time when there is a question-mark on the longevity of most of the houses—people are pressurized to give up tenancies so as to enable landlords to see their buildings while the going good. Most of the landlords fear that the time will soon come when the council will be able to step in and make com- pulsory purchases. 'There has been a lot of evi- dence in Golborne of threats.

'We have had several cases.

The most recent of them being in St Ervans Road [off Ack- p-f.g.mg tions in the future, as laid down by long-established agreements. The Tories' attitude for basic trade union rights was expressed openly by the same Baillie Wood in a recent article in the 'Glasgow Herald' where he complained that Glasgow workers were pampered. Methods He called for the removal of all rent restrictions and a policy of exacting payments for the use of all public facili- ties, beginning with libraries.

This has been coupled with the demand from Tory coun cillors that Glasgow business- men be each given two votes local in elections, one for their place of residence and one for their business, either to be used at their own dis- cretion. However, other methods of attack against Glasgow work- ers are not so refined. Glasgow police may be in a campaign engaged to boost their public image by organizing an 'international police tattoo', but indicative of their real intentions was the recent purchase of twelve new- style shotguns of a type used by the Chicago police for riot control'. The council was embar- rassed when the existence of this armoury was revealed to the press. These preparations are a warning to the Glasgow work- ing class. The Tories intend to use the rising unemployment as a basis for weakening and defeating the trade unions. The real face of Toryism is now being revealed. Tuesday, August 25, 1970

SEVEN YEARS AFTER RACHMAN

tion in the Royal Borough as lam Road] where two families This excludes the trish were forcefully evicted and the whole. doors nailed families. of the building up by the landlord. The in North proportion However, members of the Kensington is therefore much Golborne Social Rights Com- higher. Most earn low wages— mittee did succeed in getting 1967, in per cent in the the landlord to allow re-entry.

Colville earned less than £15 a week It is also of interest to note - and many are unemployed. the co-operation that exists between the police in the area Particularly for immigrant and the landlords. workers, conflict the with 'On occasion when every police and Rachmanism go landlords anticipate the possi- hand in hand. to their bility of violence due illegal they actions summon the police and nine times out of ten the police are willing to impose the landlord's wishes.'

Immigrant workers and their Research and interviews families to the area in came the 1950s and now constitute over a quarter of the popula- -

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Right, a tenant paints posters in his narrow backyard. He never sees the landlord responsible for the cracked cellings (left ) which make many rooms uninhabitable.

Above, a recent Black Power demonstration through N Kensington against police harrassment which ended with eighteen

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NOTTING HILL STIL

'Coloured people have been molested by local police, For some reason Price says. members of the police force in this area seem to have a great against coloured grievance people and at every opport- unity they are hounded and in many cases unlawfully arrested.

"There have been quite a lot of of beatings and. rumours beatings. "There are many coloured people who will not be seen out late at night enjoying even

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the sublimest of weather for fear they may run up against the law. "There are many too who will not go out unarmed in case they should be illegally ill-treated or sent to prison in strange country without having committed any crime?

The youth in particular resent this harrassment. Following series of a searches of the W Indian Man- grove restaurant in All Saints Road, the hostility to the police erupted during a recent Black Power demonstration, during which 17 policemen injured and 18 youth were i arrested. For the youth, social facili- ties are virtually non-existent.

For the children who cannot travel any distance for recrea- George Clark, chairman of the Golborr Social Rights Committee, hobnobs with th local Methodist minister at an Ackla Right, a flooded tollet In Pamber Stree 'The Sicilian Clan' Directed by Jacques Strauss LIKE THE Wild West, the Sicilian Mafia exer- cises a perennial fascina- tion over the film in- dustry. And like the West again, the version of the Mafia usually portrayed in crime films bears little resemblance to the reality. Born out of the underground peasant struggles to curb unjust feudal landowners, the Mafia consolidated its power in Sicily as Italy was dragged by the Ris- capitalist orgimento into the epoch. But as di Lampelusa showed in his great novel toe leopard it became the corrupt vicious instrument of a rural bourgeoisie as obscurantist and oppressive as the feudal land- owners themselves. Poverty, human misery, crime, vice and corruption have laid Sicily waste under the Mafia's grip. Hundreds of thousands of young men and their families flee every year from their homeland to escape the Mafia's omnipresent and stifling control. Terror The myth, of course, is some- thing different. The omerta, the law of silence-in reality an in- strument of Mafia terror-be- comes a noble expression of unity against the rest of the world.

And the harsh bandit morality of the vendetta becomes elevated to a high moral principle.

The Mafia chieftains of the celluloid fantasy-world swagger round like lords of creation.

But they remain faithful to the end their rigid—-if to own slightly absurd-moral code, a tion, there has only been the streets and the areas under the motorway itself; strewn with a variety of dangerous debris. Some of these areas have been cleared to provide make- shift 'playgrounds' and only recently, after lengthy protests, small squares-Colville three Gardens, Powis Square and Colville Square-were opened to children. Following the Rachman scandal, the then Tory govern- ment formed a local housing trust, supposedly to ease con- ditions in the area by piping in public money. Granville Price dismissed them as any solution to the housing problem: 'The trusts are a money- making concern and what they an of the Golborne , hobnobs with the ister at an Acklam Road meeting. : In Pamber Street. rustic aberration which generally leads them to a premature grave.

For them, crime is a kind of inverted crusade. Their great wealth (all Mafiosi in films are extremely wealthy) and their network of secret con- nections insulate them from the buffets to which the rest of humanity is prone and leave them to work out their stark ethics in knightly combat with the law and the rest of the under- world morally several (always cuts below the Mafia). Cover 'THE SICILIAN CLAN' (Carlton, Haymarket) draws a little from this myth and grafts it onto a _fairly ingenious - routine - if thriller story which is enlivened only by the participation of Jean Gabin and Alain Delon. As has now become the rule in this type of film, the trappings of modern technology are used to the full to cover the weakness of the plot and to carry the audience from denouement to denouement. an impressive Gabin alone, white-haired figure as the grasp- ing capo mafioso, gets an oppor- tunity to display a little of his genius. But for most of the film both he and Delon-who plays a hired gunman lifted' from police custody in order to carry out an ingenious jewel theft- walk about like zombies with their expressions glued to their faces. As is almost obligatory in films of this type, the women are simply convenient sexual adjuncts to the men, and have little more than a decorative function in the film. Gabin's sons are equally wooden characters, mere obedient satel- lites of the old man. The police inspector tracking another rigidly typecast figure, straight out f Maigret, complete with dis inguishing idiosyncrasie: Through most of the film he wears an unlighted cigarette in the middle of his face. This is his way of giving ul moking. Sooner or later frustra tion with his detective problems

WORKERS PRESS

MI do is to carry on a legalized form of Rachmanism, in that demo they don't crowd as many givin families into a building as tenar roun Rachman did but the rents are exorbitantly high.' On In the circumstances people -uSt have no choice but to acquire ing such accommodation and pay rehes the rents demanded of them.'

the west of Acklam becal To Wi Road — around the so-called hold Lancaster Road West develop- ment area-is Walmer Road, were much publicized recently in the press in connection with On motorway noise. room The construction of the electi highway has cut the road in with two and a small section of it, patro small on tr together with three cul-de-sacs, now stand in the shadow of the massive elevated roundabout, which is used day Th and night by cars and lorries.

Walmer Road and Pamber Street contain some houses At 72, 0 around 150 years old which have been occupied by genera- a we for 5 tions of the same family. Most of the houses are all but unin- electi habitable. when At No. 4 Pamber Street live tap. the Kemp family-Mr Kemp, Sir his wife, two children, and his moto mother and father. They pay collaj almost £5 rent and have failed and 1 to contact the landlord up till On fathe now. Guest revlewer

JOHN

SPENCER

will drive him to light it.

We wait, and sooner or later, sure enough, he does. In just the same way we know from the start that Delon will try at some point in the film to make Gabin's son's French wife, violating the family code • with catastrophic consequences both for himself and for her. That's the kind of film it is.

Slick, glossy and predictable.

In this fantasy world everything is acted out on the surface: none of the contradictions are real.

Even the deaths at the end of the film lack real horror. They are only clay figures knocked over. We know they'll get up again once the camera take is over. The plot carries distinct echoes of James Bond, tied rather incon- gruously to feeble undertones of 'psychological' drama. Spaghetti van is engineered so that he can take part in a raid on an inter- national jewellery exhibition. Gabin keeps him confined in the flat above his garage on the side of the Seine. We meet the Mafia family over a rather strained dinner, eating inevitably-spaghetti. (There a nice vignette of Gabin greedily doling himself out a vast helping of pasta, while watching Delon make eyes at his daughter-in- law.) Meanwhile, detectives try to track the escaped gunman down.

They nearly succeed when he breaks out for a night and nar- owly escapes from a broth edroom by leaping over a cour yard from a third-floor window.

fake The US branth of the "family' arres is called in to tackle the pro- away blem of the jewel heist-another the opportunity for by-play with wher alarm systems and sophisticated kidna devices. Eventually is al they decide to hi-jack the exhibits on their way to New York.

Th The law closes in as the hi- some jack date draws nearer. as secul posiT A passport forger making out

Tuesday, August 25, 1970

NOTTING HILL STIL

'Coloured people have been local police,' molested by Price says. For some reason members of the police force in this area seem to have a great grievance against coloured people and at every opport- unity they are hounded and in many cases unlawfully arrested.

"There have been quite a lot of beatings and rumours of beatings. "There are many coloured people who will not be seen out late at night enjoying even

MARTIN ZARROP

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_ STILL REMAINS

the sublimest of weather for fear they may run up against the law. "There are many too who will not go out unarmed in case they should be illegally ill-treated or sent to prison in strange country without having committed any crime.'

particular The youth in resent this harrassment. series Following of a searches of the W Indian Man- to chi grove restaurant in All Saints Road, the hostility to the police erupted during a recent : ment Black Power demonstration, during which 17 policemen injured and 18 youth were arrested. For the youth, social facili- ties are virtually non-existent.

For the children who cannot travel any distance for recrea- George Clark, chairman of the Golborn Soclal Rights Committee, hobnobs with th local Methodist minister at an Ackla Right, a flooded tollet in Pamber Stree 'The Sicilian Clan' Directed by Jacques Strauss LIKE THE Wild West, the Sicilian Mafia exer- cises a perennial fascina- tion over the film in- dustry. And like the West again, the version of the Mafia usually portrayed in crime films bears little resemblance to the reality. Born out of the underground peasant struggles to curb unjust feudal landowners, the Mafia consolidated its power in Sicily as Italy was dragged by the Ris- orgimento into the capitalist epoch. But as di Lampelusa showed in his great novel "The Leopard', and it became the corrupt vicious instrument of rural bourgeoisie as obscurantist and oppressive as the feudal land- owners themselves. Poverty, human misery, crime, vice and corruption have laid Sicily waste under the Mafia's grip. Hundreds of thousands of young men and their families flee every year from their homeland to escape the Mafia's omnipresent and stifling control. Terror The myth, of course, is some- thing different. The omerta, the law of silence—in reality an in- strument of Mafia terror-be- comes a noble expression of unity against the rest of the world.

And the harsh bandit morality of the vendetta becomes elevated to a high moral principle.

The stifling, stagnant oppres- sion of the patriarchal family.

with its basis in the accumula- tion of property-is glorified.

The Mafia chieftains of the celluloid fantasy-world swagger round like lords of creation.

But they remain faithful to the end their own rigid—if to slightly absurd-moral code, a tion, there has only been the streets and the areas under the motorway itself; strewn with a variety of dangerous debris. Some of these areas have been cleared to provide make- shift 'playgrounds' and only recently, after lengthy protests, three small squares-Colville Gardens, Powis Square and Colville Square--were opened to children. Rachman Following the scandal, the then Tory govern- ment formed a local housing trust, supposedly to ease con- ditions in the area by piping in public money. Granville Price dismissed them as any solution to the housing problem: 'The trusts are a money- making concern and what they an of the Golborne hobnobs with the Ister at an Acklam Raad meeting. : In Pamber Street. rustic aberration which generally leads them to a premature grave.

For them, crime is a kind of inverted crusade. Their great wealth (all Mafiosi in films are extremely wealthy) and their network of secret con- nections insulate them from the rest of buffets to which the humanity is prone and leave them to work out their stark ethics in knightly combat with the law and the rest of the under- world (always morally several cuts below the Mafia). Cover 'THE SICILIAN CLAN' (Carlton, Haymarket) draws a little from this myth and grafts it onto a routine - if fairly ingenious — thriller story which is enlivened only by the participation of Jean Gabin and Alain Delon. As has now become the rule in this type of him, the trappings of modern technology are used to the full to cover the weakness of the plot and to carry the from denouement to audience denouement. Gabin alone, an impressive white-haired figure as the grasp- ing capo mafioso, gets an oppor- tunity to display a little of his genius. But for most of the film both he and Delon-who plays a hired gunman "lifted' from police custody in order to carry out an ingenious jewel theft— walk about like zombies with their expressions glued to their faces. As is almost obligatory in films of this type, the women are simply convenient sexual adjuncts to the men, and have little more than a decorative function in the film. Gabin's sons are equally wooden characters, mere obedient satel- lites of the old man. The police inspector tracking down the gunman is another rigidly typecast figure, straight out complete with dis- of Maigret, tinguishing idiosyncrasies.

Through most of the film he wears an unlighted cigarette in the middle of his face. This is his way of giving up smoking. Sooner or later frustra- tion with his detective problems

WORKERS PRESS

do is to carry on a legalized form of Rachmanism, in that they don't crowd as many families into a building as Rachman did but the rents are exorbitantly high.' In the circumstances people , have no choice but to acquire such accommodation and pay the rents demanded of them.'

To the west of Acklam Road — around the so-called Lancaster Road West develop- ment area-is Walmer Road, hold much publicized recently in the press in connection with motorway noise. The construction of the highway has cut the road in two and a small section of it, together with three small cul-de-sacs, now stand in the shadow of the massive elevated roundabout, which is used day and night by cars and lorries.

Walmer Road and Pamber Street contain some houses around 150 years old which have been occupied by genera- tions of the same family. Most of the houses are all but unin- habitable. At No. 4 Pamber Street live the Kemp family-Mr Kemp, his wife, two children, and his mother and father. They pay almost £5 rent and have failed to contact the landlord up till now. Guest reviewer

JOHN

SPENCER

will drive him to light it.

We wait, and sooner or later, sure enough, he does. In just the same way we know from the start that Delon will try at some point in the film to make Gabin's son's French wife, violating the family code with catastrophic consequences both for himself and for her. That's the kind of film it is.

Slick, glossy and predictable.

In this fantasy world everything is acted out on the surface: none of the contradictions are real. Even the deaths at the end of the film lack real horror. They are only clay figures knocked over. We know they'll get up again once the camera take is over. The plot carries distinct echoes of James Bond, tied rather incon- gruously to feeble undertones of 'psychological' drama. Spaghetti van is engineered so that he can take part in a raid on an inter- national jewellery exhibition. Gabin keeps him confined in the flat above his garage on the side of the Seine. We meet the Mafia family over a rather strained dinner, eating— inevitably-spaghetti. (There is a nice vignette of Gabin greedily doling himself out a vast helping of pasta, while watching Delon eyes at his daughter-in- make law.) Meanwhile, detectives try to track the escaped gunman down.

They nearly succeed when he breaks out for a night and nar- rowly escapes from a brothel bedroom by leaping over a court- yard from a third-floor window.

The US branch of the 'family' is called in to tackle the pro- blem of the jewel heist—another for by-play with opportunity alarm systems and sophisticated devices. Eventually electronic they decide to hi-jack the exhibits on their way to New York.

The law closes in as the hi- jack date draws nearer. A passport forger making out Mr Kemp, formerly a demolition worker and now giving all his time to the tenants' struggle, showed us round the house. On the first floor, a tin bath used for bathing and catch- ing the water that runs in it rains. Wallpaper when refuses to stay on the walls because of the damp. Window frames on the land- ing were rotten and unable to hold a pane of glass. There were no sash cords. On the top floor is the living room—almost totally without electricity because of rain and with a fine view of a police patrol-car parked constantly on the roundabout.

THE NORM

The conditions same worse prevail in every house.

At No. 3 Mrs Burrows, aged 72, occupies the top floor at £5 week and has lived there a for 57 years. She was nearly electrocuted two years ago when she turned on the water- tap. Since the building of the motorway, two people have collapsed because of the dirt and fumes. One of them was Mr Kemp's father, who is still in hospital.

ALAIN DELON

the plane carrying the jewels, impersonating kidnapped English security officer, The complications allow Gabin But the Tories, who are well aware of the squalor in which so many families live, are apparently in no hurry. While we were in Pamber Street, Sir Malby Crofton - leader of the Tory council- drove up in his large Bentley to have a quick look at the Walmer Road area. This took minutes. He precisely ten spoke to no tenants, he entered no house. When informed of the dam- age to health already caused by vehicle exhausts, his com- ment was: 'You get fumes in Oxford Street. Pollution is a general problem'. His assessment of Pamber Street: "Those houses look all right from here' The solution: 'Renovation and double glazing'. As Mr Kemp remarked: 'If in, you put double glazing it'll be the only thing holding them up!' Of course, the council is doing some building in the area. From Walmer Road, the tenants have had a perfect view of three skyscraper blocks and a number of maisonettes. A flat in one of the 20- Granville Price, left, has lived In the area for eight years. He was angry at the lack of playing space for children (right). Above, Tory leader Crofton leaves hurriedly in his Bentley as he is tackled by Mrs Nell Sutton of No. 3 Pamber St. storey blocks is around £8, and the rent for a maisonette is fI0 10s. If and when rehousing takes place it will not be in either of them and probably not in North Ken- sington at all. Local-authority housing in the area accounts for about 15 per cent of the total and the Tory plan is to make it a high-rent, 'desirable' resi- dential area in the future.

For the working-class family, it's just too bad.

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Trade union and political activity within the area is minimal. Granville Price told us that 'at no time in the history of the tenants' fight for better housing conditions over the past eight years I have been here have the unions associated themselves with the struggle. is not 'The Labour Party active in the area, but for election purposes they identify themselves with the aspira- tions of the people. Since the election very little assistance has been given.' The tenants' movement has remained in the hands of the social workers, liberal reform- ers and the local clergy who

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are only too willing to smile sweetly at the Tories in the hope of a few crumbs. A visit to Notting Hill is enough anyone to convince but the George Clarks of this world that it is far easier to fight for the nationalization of the land and the banks than to 'pressure' Sir Malby Croftor and his Westminster colleagues to raise one finger in support of the working class. For all his feelings and energy, many tenants feel that Mr Clark-full-time chairman of the Notting Hill Housing Service and the Golbourne Social Rights Committee-has settled for working within the system. Granville Price summed up: 'He has been schooled in the ways of the administration, and more or less plays the game according to the book.

'Very many of us have been forced to realize that the game once played by the book is played right, because never those who compile the books -I'm speaking about legisla- tion-never lend the type of consideration which is neces- for the betterment of sary working-class people any- where'

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ORKE O PRES

TWENTY - EIGHT sacked workers at Pilking- ton's Monmouthshire glass factory in Pontypool claim they have been badly let down by union leaders in their four-month fight for reinstate- ment. They feel there is now little hope of getting their lobs back. Harvesters' Unofficial strike com- mittee vice-chairman DON stewards By WILLIAMS told Workers back down Press at the weekend that lan 'it is only a matter of time and money betore we are Yeats

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defeated'. A MAS meeuns ol inter- in Bradford yester az-a-wek oler acen ae begin on the new wages struc- uckersc at mee 450-0rm Past wo of only s 15 tor 40 s carler in stew day, cet- overtime, with Kelly week. Stayed out the ATe 2> were eimise d f3-a-week

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nene and he Gererl Re Fres, It the had Helens staker while mt would not have he factory returned have be lucky to have fl The sacked men have hey'll be out. Apart from almost given raged to pustt their jobs. sacked April, the men 'Stuck by us'

WEATHER

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sential tat iao pas delided ito re decided to diplomatic diplomac! established in Warsaw some At the meeting held at Congress House today, May 22, between Mr Victor Feather, General Secretary of the IUC, and the Rank and File Strike Committee and the General Secretary and officers and representatives and Municipal Workers' Union, agreement of the General was reached as follows (a) all the parties concerned agreed that there would be no victimisation of any kind of any or group of individuals and that individual every endeavour would be made to remove present tensions at Pilkington's (b) the local GMWU representatives at Pontypool to the management for would make representations the reinstatement or re-employment of the twenty- seven workers at Pontypool whose employment had been terminated The May timé, but for less pay—be- agreement reached at the TUC's London head- cause the cranes were taking work away from us? quarters, above. One the Pontypool strikers speaking at More recently, he said, the St Helens, left. company had warned of re- dundancies to end a situation where some men could find five only hours' work in an eight-hour shift. 'We've always been after a guaranteed basic wage,' he said, 'but we want 'We wanted to stop the rat the company race of piece-rates it now because and have are using work-study to cut a guaranteed basic wage,' says make the down pay and Don Williams-explaining that men do moré work reorganization of the factory following timé - and - motion 'Only thing' studies bonuses was cutting forcing and work men to harder each week to maintain a similar wage. "The workers letting are down' Williams themselves Company teams had been continued. revising the piece-work system 'No firm should have been in such a way that more job units had to be worked to allowed to sack so many men.

earn the same money. They should all come out.

'Three Williams 'Pilkington's are attacking rears ago,' told us, the company brought our right to withdraw labour, for glass-handling and that's the only thing in cranes and this meant we were doing worker has. If he can't do slave.' double the work in the same that he's

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And what these done for the union leaders.

are Parlia- 'methods well-tried in Britain'?

Marxists recognize They reformist ment as part of the apparatus are of course methods. of rule of the capitalist class; Heffer likes, for purposes of they work inside Parliament getting a hearing, to refer to and in elections in order to his past, attack the parliamentary fraud *-r-r-revolutionary but he does not want to and to heighten the political say what class struggle i all questions. what reformism is, What is Heffer's it represents, and what has view? been its treachery. I must admit a change in He tries to tell his readers my outlook from past days. that the only lesson from the now see things somewhat history of the 'left' is that differently. all those who are not in the •Parliament is in a state of evolution. It is the place which Labour Party become isolated By sleight of hand he deduces reflects the class character from this that reformism and the class struggles of our can be fought only with society. It is at the same time the home establish- reformism! Perhaps Heffer will tell us: has a membership ment, yet from all when he decided he must get classes in our society.' Labour Party and into the become an MP. in order not

USUAL RIDER

did he to be isolated, also Heffer tells us that it is decide that reformism was no for MPs of the not necessary to longer the policy succumb "atmosphere' capitalist class within the to the workers' movement? and the 'charms' (!) of Parliament. that Did he decide men tell him now: the Harold Wilson, Hugh Let us like only way the pressure of the Gaitskell, Denis Healey, James ruling class, in the House Callaghan and so were of Commons not labour lieutenants of the or in any other be institution, can resisted. capitalist class', but honest is by carrying out revolution- reformers with whom there solidarity? ary work against it. Heffer could be simply calls upon us to press And will he maintain that for the reform of Parliament, Wilson and his Cabinet have though of course he adds the served directlv the in- not usual rider about terests of big business during extra- to sup- five-and-a-half years of Labour parliamentary government? port the parliamentary, just If not, what does he mean as does the Communist Party.

Heffer is determined when he says that the last to bring everything of the election was lost because out Labour's policies bag to settle the lingering were not doubts of his readers. enough? Why socialist were they not? 'After years of experience the Labour in movement at

'SPLITTERS'

all levels (!) I am convinced that the old argument about Heffer has become. politic- reform or revolution is, at the ally-speaking, a humbug. -and present time and under British dangerous a one. conditions (British condi- His talk of 'revolutionary tions??), an arid one. reformism' and his denuncia- 'It is nécesary to press of 'splitters' designed con. tion 1S How- tinuously for reforms. building of the to prevent the ever, it must be admitted that necessary revolutionary leader- under certain conditions where the struggle ship in against democracy destroyed or Tories, and the to preserve about to be destroyed revolu- the 'Labour' establishment for could possibly be the benefit of his friends. tions the only solution. Thus he tells us that In other words we are to trade unions are moving the illusions persist in reformist The re-election of to the left. bourgeoisie drops until the Hugh Scanion with larger majority is proof of this?

democratic and the mask. then 'possibly' consider be- of the is the chant revolutionary prepar- of labour ginning gravedigger the Every worker must be ations. movement. warned against this treacher- Just as he thinks he and ous talk. his associates are about to of their the benefits reap

STAGES

subordination to reformism. and become the "left' leaders The necessity of revolution does not arise accidentally just of social-democracy, the real from the passing character of of the class struggle issues no further for a go governmental regime, leave room reformism. But in their gamble historical of the crisis to preserve it, the Heffers are the whole system of capitalist turned attack class rule. to any

DOS-

'Democracy' "dictator- sibility of alternative revolu- and tionary leadership, which, at shin' are definite stages of this related the head of a mass movement, organically to CrisIs the only to the the development of the class is answer struggle. Revolutionary lead- capitalist crisis. Heffer's 'revolutionary ership has to be constructed re- formism' is strikingly similar through all these stagés.

to the famous parliamentary When Heffer tells In us, road socialism' of the in Europe to some countries Stalinists. from the (apart communist And it is noticeable that dictatorship ones) where a Heffer ends by inviting the exists there is no alternative Stalinists the Labour but here to join to revolution. in Party. No doubt he hopes Britain this is certainly not will do his work inside the case', we can be sure that they the Party just they if Heffer Greek as have were a or Tuesday, August 25, 1970 US VICE-PRESIDENT Spiro T. Agnew flew into the S Korean capital Seoul yesterday on the first leg of his four-nation SE Asia tour.

Discussions with the US

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puppet President Chung-

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Hee Park began today, with Agnew attempting to where they have been playing a key role in propping up the convince the S Korean Saigon regime. regime that US plans to This is not the only prob- lem facing Agnew on his Asia withdraw 20,000 of its tour. 60,000 garrison from the South will not mean an

NO RECALL

end to Nixon's support Before leaving the US base for Park's anti-communist at Guam for Seoul, he drew attention dangér to another dictatorship. area for US imperialism: Cam- bodia. Stressing that it would The Park regime has already that a US "impossible' recall intimated be to withdrawal from S Korea will troops from S Vietnam if his be countered by the recall of deepted, he said: puppets Cambodia were Seoul troops from S Vietnam, 'We are going to do every- thing we can to help the Lon Trades Council Nol government. .. the whole subject-matter of Cambodia is related to the security of our condemns ban troops in Vietnam.' In fact the advance of guerrilla-based liberation movements throughout. SE

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Trades Council Asia will be the main pre- has passed a resolution con- occupation of demning the banning of David Agnew in his discussions Workers with Maude, Press government his nine-day dustrial correspondent, from leaders during trip. membership of the Labour and Industrial Correspondents' Group.

ANTI-WAR

The Council demanded that After leaving Seoul, he will the ban be lifted immediately.

Thailand, ( Vietnam The passed go to resolution was and Formosa. by 14 votes, with none against and four abstentions. Agnew's main task will be to convince stooge governments in SE Asia that Cambodia claim despite the growth of anti-war feeling and actions in the US itself (not least in CAMBODIA'S National Front

ITS

army), Nixon will continue to defend have yesterday claimed to them against the growing control over two-thirds total wave of national liberation Cambodia liberating of movements in this strategic 2,800,000 of the six-million corner of Asia. population. Spaniard, he would be for the Stalinists 'democratic' and 'peaceful' strategies there also.

All this is to ram home Heffer's conclusions that

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the Labour Party is the only viable instrument to defend the principles of that we have to bring about Leninist internationalism.

socialism. And in answer to John How much despicable more Saville's charge that the par- therefore is the total silence liamentary Labour left is of the British 'Communist' the illusion that the veloping Party and its 'Morning Star' Labour Party can be trans- on these persecutions. formed into instrument of an In recent weeks, the 'Star' has social change', he replies: claimed daily that it is the paper for 'all the left'.

CHEAP JIBE

But these heroic anti-Stalinist fighters, now risking not 'There is no doubt that suc- only their liberty but their cessive Labour governments lives for the cause, are have achieved important apparently not numbered social reforms, reforms which among 'the left' of 'Star' have benefited greatly the editor George Matthews. working class, but perhaps When the first writers' trial you have to be working class ended with the jailing of to appreciate fully what these Daniel and Sinyavsky, Com- benefits are.' munist Party secretary John This is supposed to be a crack that Saville is not Gollan, under pressure from though what 'liberal' 'working class', opinion, criticized an MP more he way the trial was con- makes working "The class than a university teacher ducted : handling of this affair has done is hard to grasp. disservice the The real purpose of this greater to Soviet Union than have the cheap jibe is avoid the to of question of the Wilson gov- works Sinyavsky and Many who sin- Daniel. wish Soviet "important reforms' cerely the What Union well will look on this did it enact? On what im- episode and its conse- portant (or even minor) issues quences with deep concern.'

did it act against the interests the ('Daily Worker'," February of monopolies and for 15, 1966.) the working class? Let Mr Heffer find out from Thẻ 'protest' having been made. his working-class electors how Gollan and company doubtless hoped that much they these no appreciate more would be heard of the unspecified reforms. How was Soviet opposition. it that trade unionists had to But the movement has defeat the government on its not 'reform' of the unions? been intimidated by the re- According Heffer, the This to pressions. movement, 'left' MPs played a big role in with all its present political defeating the anti-union laws.

limitations and illusions, is History speaks differently.

swiftly assuming a strength which They consistently refused to threatens under- mine the precarious stability vote against the government throughout the of of the Stalinist caste of progress the Prices and Incomes legis- bureaucratic usurpers. lation, which prepared the Castle White ground for the Car industry Paper, and they moved only point where the trade at the union leaders, fearful of their lay-offs own interests, pressed even parliamentary right - wingers ike Douglas Houghton to tell Wilson to drop the legislation.

MANAGEMENT

refusal to It the action of settle the demands of 5,000 vanced trade unionists, led by GKN-Sankey strikers at the Socialist Labour League the car components plant in together with members and Shropshire yesterday led to Communist supporters of the further lay-offs in the industry.

Party, whose determined ac- Chrysler announced the impossible for tion made it laying off of its total produc- the TUC to collaborate any tion force of 3,200 the further in Wilson's and Coventry, factory. Ryton, Castle's plans in June 1969.

Triumph car plant in The The political cowardice of the same city was closed down the 'left' MPs throughout vesterday when 5,000 workers office Wilson's period of walked out after 2,000 col- played its own important role leagues had been laid off.

ensuring in the eventual re- This policy has been Tory Party, turn of the adopted by the Triumph men pledged to enact anti-union part of a campaign for laws. lay-off pay. All this, in Heffer's opinion, amounted 'keeping the to flag the

ALL TRADES

socialist fiving in House of Commons'! will be no fight for

UNIONS ALLIANCE

There socialist policies from Heffer

MEETINGS

and his friends, more any than there under the

BIRMINGHAM:

Tuesday, Labour government. Wellington, Bristol St Bromer The shows that, Heffer's article Brom sieve St. *Lessons of on the contrary, they will do dock

COVENTRY:

Thursday. ms. August 27. everything possible to obstruct Smith- 7.30 The p.m. the working class in its prin- The ford Coventry. Tory cipal task: thé building of in- unions.' attack dependent revolutionary lead-

VOTTINGHAM:

Thursday, August Socialist 27. p.m. ership, through the Derby Road. Lessons at the doct Labour League and the Young strike and fight against the Socialists. ories.