Workers Press no. 251

What think: Release Alain Geismar What is Geismar's "crime'?

That many ote let wher National Assembly last maid tenance of des learn that he was probably framed by police the hien against the conduct 'Le Monde im plies that Geis- arrest and trial were Appen er this won ic Refuting Mutualité on May lawsrotest against repressive • Вола: partist Test-wing studen Every Geismar, political Croydon sackings Crown Factore staff at the Aled Team And nanagemer last Friday and DATA me bbers a ts inn another 56 to s7 from floor in the fight against th sackings. workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

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The retreat from Brighton Porters win Fierce TUC opens the fight new fall- near back rate govt door to Tory HQ y our middle Et FIERCE fighting again flared up in the Jordan capital Amman yester- day. attack Retreat on around buildings quarter ease-fire order given 923 EEC and the Cordanian army the leader werch is the heaviest get sies productivity From our Industrial correspondent DAVID MAUDE in Brighton ties are thought to be NONE OF THE Tory union bashers due to assemble for their Party's conference in three By Industrial reporter armed forces to and weeks' time will have been deterred by the ed for They call the forma- Natio militant noises brighton, thursda TWO VITAL issues for rank-and- i of maintaining

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over lock, stock and barrel here Brighton this Hussein regime proverperals, Either this morning to the not-so-tendel mercies of Trades Union Congress week. he guiescence of the Sovie leadership. If anything Tory hopes can be no national A strong anu Common will have been strengin- counted by unity Brighton ened the I other unions dom fighters. metal workers chatter. two-and-a-half million rock AFTER a week and a half mi On v vague dangers were Tolera coulell s glimpsed by delegates

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The retreat from Brighton Porters win Fierce TUC opens the fight new fall- near back rate govt door to lory HQ 3y our Middle Eas FIERCE fighting again flared up in the Jordan capital Amman yester- day. attack Retreat on There were 30 order given 843 EEC and severa • he vice genda the productivity From our Industrial correspondent DAVID MAUDE In Brighton Casualties are thought to be NONE OF THE Tory union bashers due to very Dama assemble for their Party's conference in three By industrial reporter weeks' time will have been deterred by the tion of cal militant Brighton, Thursday noises Government TWO VITAL issues for rank-and- made by

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AT THE Socialist Labour pre-revolutionary nor rapidly developing into a pre-revolu- League's 1969 annual tionary situation, and, rather than being absolutely correct congress, before the re- [a reference to our assessment], treat by Wilson on the it is most probably incorrect and a waste of time to engage legislation, we concen- in such candidatures'. trated all attention on the we I lime Because Whelan is elaboration of a 'socialist member of revolutionary a party, because he has never policy for the crisis. participated in the consistent against the struggle to unite all the We warned different aspects of party work dangers inherent in a purely in the working class, to test 'economist' conception of the out every development of class consciousness, to educate the fight against the anti-union party and the youth through laws, even where it involved an all-sided experience, he is a fight against the govern- of incapable any other con- clusion. ment. from Everything proceeds It was therefore absolutely external impressions like the principled number of votes. correct and to From the sidelines Whelan carry on the electoral fight tells us that had been begun in the •.. the main damage- -and Swindon by-election cam- it is very great- -done by Wil- the withdrawal son is the spread of demoraliza- paign, after tion and confusion through the of the legislation, and to ranks of the Labour move- place socialist policies at the ment'; and concludes with a centre of the campaign. yawn: 'it's a waste of time to candida- engage such The fact that the changed tures... emphasis, after the disappear- The SLL is naturally of Wilson's proposed thema to such demoralized laws, meant less votes, was in petty bourgeois (and it is they, no way a consideration. not the working class, who are fight It was to necessary demoralized). against the idea in the working The Young Socialists and the defeat of the class that the SLL understand well very laws could lead to anti-union candida- that the by-election in the political relaxation ture was, like everything else struggle. we undertake, a struggle, com- The opposite is the case.

bined with all other aspects of The defeat of the anti-union work, against the pre- OUr laws opened the flood-gates for dominant political tendencies workers' action on wage in the working class. demands on the biggest scale The many months of politi- for a whole And generation. cal campaigning in the town, the wages offensive naturally and the insistence on prin- only intensified the drive of cipled politics throughout the the employers to hit back with election campaign, played a plans for a Tory government.

big role in the develop- very The Socialist Labour ment of political consciousness League's 'Political Challenge' the most advanced among of Öctober 1969, against which workers in a vital industrial Whelan directed SO much centre. It provided a new basis was precisely focussed wrath, for political work in the trade on this political preparation.

unjons, and this has created Whelan, on the other hand, new situation in the local • labour movement. was expressing his confidence Not only the building of the that Wilson would bide his Young Socialist branches, the time and create a 'pre-election boom'. Since he parades him- Socialist Labour League, and self as a scientist, perhaps he the circulation of the Workers would Press, but also in the impact which of care To say of this campaign on the poli- 'hypotheses' has been these of the struggle validated? tical level in the fac- the trade unions and is of What the essence tories, the by-election campaign Whelan's conclusions from the played a very important role.

Swindon by-election? Whelan of knows nothing It is the same as his general such problems; he thinks that political perspective of con- being a Marxist consists of capitalism fidence and observing from the study signs reformism: of politicization of the work- British ing class and adjusting one's working .. the and propaganda class is not, yet, moving in a campaigns accordingly. revolutionary direction or even, What he cannot understand in its masses accessible to is that the Young Socialists revolutionary socialist oropa- ganda: the situation is neither actually set about changing the - I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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Name Address 1604 colitont face of Swindon by confronting every type manifestation of reformism and 'trade union conscious- ness'. This is the only way to prepare the defeat of Stalinists and reformists.

In addition, it was an essen- tial part of the training of the Young Socialists for all future struggles of the British work- ing class that they gain thorough experience and train- ing in electoral work, not in order to the other be like Party machines, but precisely in order to develop revolution- ary methods of participating in parliamentary elections. Whelan may rest assured that this experience will be put to good use in the future. What was the principal work of the Pabloite International Marxist Group during the last two years of the Labour gov- ernment? Having opposed the fight of the Socialist Labour League against government policies since 1964, they joined with capitalists' 'state others to form the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. IMG (see According to the below), this campaign was the real location of all radicaliza- tion and the source of cadres for the revolutionary move- ment. They were turned com- pletely away from the working class, just as later they hailed revolutionary' student movement. Whelan's 'explanation' of the outcome of this tactic is an unequalled demonstration of impressionistic rubbish which he and his friends dish up as 'Marxism', Remember, 'the IMG is extremeleased pubish Cde.

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What happened after the Grosvenor Square demonstra- 1968? tion of October 27, Whelan deserves quoting at length: 'Since then, of course, the youth movement has waned rapidly throughout Europe. The reasons for this are un- clear: one can seek them in the turn, by most left organiza- tions, away from the defence of the Vietnamese revolution, and in the various peace man- oeuvres, but one cannot be found them; has sure one

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moreover, even if one had, it would not give one a magic key to solving the problem of how to reactivate it. (We suspect that the course of the Vietnamese revolution, through new NLF victories, may do so.)

But the time is appropriate for drawing a genuine, although tentative balance-sheet.' (p. 19.)

It is not, of course, 'the movement' that youth has waned. All over Europe, and particularly in France and Britain, the Trotskyist youth organizations have seen con- siderable growth. What has happened is that student the predominantly organizations, turned away from the working class, which were encouraged by revision- ists like the IMG and the 'state capitalists', began to dis- integrate. The student protest move- ment certainly • had its im- but Marxists from portance, the that beginning stressed such movements among stu- dents are always only the harbinger more basic developments in the working class. In such circumstances we must concentrate on directing student militants in the direc- of the working class, tion through a study of Marxist theory and the building of thé revolutionary party and youth movement. Whelan mistakes the col- lapse of the German SDS, the various anarchist and other revolutionary' groups in France, and the 'Revolutionary Socialist Student Federation'

PART TWO

Left and right: The October 27 demon- stration organized by the revisionist Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. Below: One of the marches held during the Young Socialists' Swindon by-election campaign. -the p in Britain, for the decline of 'Vietn the youth movement. It was in fact the ebb of the temporary middle-class protest and the open bank- of the revisionists' ruptcy orientation. But Whelan goes on: "The first, and most im- portant lesson is that every left-wing organization, with the exception of the CP and the

SLL,

has experienced a con- siderable growth in its forces, and these can if necessary [?], be turned to work in other fields; thus the participation in the movement is justified.'

The word 'thus' is not as innocent as it looks! Do Marxists test the correctness of their tactics and perspec- tives by asking if they made temporary numerical gains?

Opportunist adaptation to the twists and turns of the middle class may well persuade some of that middle class to upon the revisionists look more favourably. That is an- other question, however. These forces will certainly leave the revisionists in almost the same numbers in which they arrived (many of them have already done so), and they may even take a few of the 'originals' with • them. The balance sheet Let Whelan resume his tentative, 'genuine, although balance sheet': 'The second lesson is that, although considerable moral support has been given to the Vietnamese, the material im- pact of the movement has (except in the US) been extremely limited; outside Australia, we know of no cases where it has been possible to organize workers to black goods, carry out sabotage, etc.'

This passage completely ignores the fact that the whole

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Vietnam Solidarity Campaign' • was organized in such a way as to turn young militants away from the labour movement, and above all to turn them away, from the building of Trotskyist parties, the only road to the working class being able to carry out solidarity actions. Indeed the first prerequisite for being able to fight for such actions to oppose Stalinists who stand in their way—and this is what the revisionists in VSC refused to do. It is exactly this point which is avoided by the first part of Whelan's 'balance sheet'.

When he talks about 'the left organizations' various turning away from the defence of the Vietnam revolution, he thereby obscures the fact that it is precisely Stalinism, and the revisionists' adaptation to it, which prepared this turn.

Was it not Tariq Ali who shared his platform with 'Comrade' Barney Davis of the Young Communist League and delivered to 10, Downing St his message; 'Dear Harold ..."?

And now we come to the pièce de résistance of Whelan's conclusions from the VSC campaign, in which he tells us: what next? "The third lesson is that the 75,000 who marched on October 27, 1968) must still be around somewhere, probably with much the same senti- ments, and that it ought to be a local possible, perhaps on rather than a national level, to find a road to them. The fourth isand it must be admitted that the number of young people of middle and lower proletarian origin involved in the movement has been strictly limited, and a road to them must be found in the future; those who have been mobilized are, all too often, hostile to or suspicious of the workers' movement. "Most probably, in our Friday, September 11, 1970 The strange case of Mr Webster Now it must be added that Vietnam is singularly un- Whelan fortunate choice for personally. In an article of this sort, we do not want to des- cribe the details of Whelan's dangerous political positively instability in earlier years.

However, Vietnam is a ques- which he expressed tion on himself publicly some years ago, and be the record must since Whelan himself, quoted, characteristically, makes no for his attempt account LO right-about this turn on question. We turn to 'The Newsletter' (forerunner of Workers Press) 1965, in which the of April 3, following lines appear: 'Dear Comrade Editor, Robert James' 'Comrade otherwise excellent articles on "lefts" the fake fight of the over Vietnam ... omitted to mention one group whose pre- "Marxism" and tentions to 'Trotskyism" make their out- pourings even more despicable.

opinion, one important way in I refer, of course, to the fissi- which road to the pro- parous "Unified Secretariat of will (TW's the Fourth International".

letarian youth emphasis) be opened will be by journal 'Their new English as they are "World Politics" contracting them included, in involved in the growing num- its edition of 8/3/65, a state- ber of industrial struggles and ment by the United Secretariat which we con- under the heading "Hands off movements fidently expect. Let us also not Democratic Republic of the Vietnaml" in which it is diffi- forget the need to link up with working-class women, cult to find a trace of Marxism.'

particularly through the move- The writer of this letter, ment for women's equal rights' signed himself who 'E. Web- (My emphasis. CS.) ster', concluded that the Pabloite article gave "The It is only human to be us: same old Pabloite theory! tempted to dismiss this rubbish "irresistible forces" prevent with a contemptuous laugh, the bureaucracies from betray- but that would certainly be a ing the revolution.' mistake. Further, said 'Webster': What Whelan is showing us 'Were there space enough to here is precisely the middle- "The waste on this gibberish in class, flippant outlook which Newsletter" and had we lies behind his whole attack on strong enough digestive system the revolutionary party. Having for this mushy diet, we could anything himself, never built •deal detail with several he is of course unable to make more points The whole 'balance sheet' of any politi- method is clearly wrong. cal experience. He does not 'The petty-bourgeois "revolu- from the and cannot start tionary" philistine, buffeted by of how to problem orientate powerful forces he does not himself and the cadres of the understand and therefore can- party into the changed situa- isolated from and not resist, tion, having checked his per- unable to build a movement of because he has no spectives, seeks fixed the working class, party, he is responsible to no points of support in a rapidly one. changing world. Unable to base And this, and this alone, is himself on the working class the his entire content of and its struggle for socialism, attack on the Socialist Labour he adapts himself to certain League. It is this content which apparently powerful social has determined that he end up groupings.' (for the time being) in the The same 'Webster', follow- camp of the Pabloite liquida- with another letter on ing up tionists, whose 20 of 24, refers to the 'utter years April have been bankruptcy' of Unified revisionism con- the centrated attack the Secretariat, on revealed its independent policy on Vietnam. He fulmin- revolutionary party.

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by-election in Rritain for the decine o the youth movement it was in tact the ebo temporary the macle-class protest open bank ruptcy orientation. But Whelan goes feston is mat 1 ne most la portant left-wing organization, with the exception of the Cr and the

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experiencea a growth in its forces, siderable necessary

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Vietnam Solidarity Campaign' • was organized in such a way as to turn young militants away from the labour movement, and above all to turn them away from the building of Trotskyist parties, the only to the working class road being able to carry out solidarity actions. Indeed the first prerequisite for being able to fight for such actions is to oppose the Stalinists who stand in their way-and this is what the revisionists in VSC refused to do. It is exactly this point which is avoided by the first part of Whelan's "balance sheet'.

When he talks about 'the organizations' various left turning away from the defence of the Vietnam revolution, he thereby obscures the fact that Stalinism, and it is precisely the revisionists' adaptation to it, which prepared this turn.

Was it not Tariq Ali who platform with shared his 'Comrade' Barney Davis of the Young Communist League and delivered to 10, Downing St his message; 'Dear Harold...'?

And now we come to the pièce de résistance of Whelan's conclusions from the VSC i which he tells campaign, in us: what next? 'The third lesson is that the (who marched 75,000 on October 27, 1968) must still be around somewhere, probably with much the same senti- ments, and that it ought to be possible, perhaps on a local rather than a national level, to find a road to them. The fourth is-and it must be admitted- that the number of young people of middle and lower proletarian origin involved in the movement has been strictly limited, and a road to them must be found in the future; those who have been mobilized are, all too often, hostile to or suspicious of the workers' movement. •Most probably, in our Friday, September 11, 1970 The strange case of Mr Webster Now it must be added that Vietnam is singularly 710 - Whelan fortunate choice personally. In an article of this sort, we do not want to des- the details of Whelan's cribe dangerous political positively instability in earlier years.

However, Vietnam is a ques- which he expressed tion himself DuDliciy some years and the record must be ago, since Whelan himself, quoted, characteristically, makes no account for his attempt right-about turn on

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question. We turn to 'The Newsletter' (forerunner of Workers Press) of April 3, 1965, in which the following lines appear: 'Dear Comrade Editor, Robert James' Comrade otherwise excellent articles on "lefts" the fake fight of the over Vietnam ... omitted to mention one group whose pre- "Marxism" and "Trotskyism" make their out- pourings even more despicable.

opinion, one important way in I refer, of course, to the noci- "Unified Secretariat of which road pro- The

DATOUS:

will (TW's the Fourth International'.

youth eraman emphasis) be opened will be by "Their journal new English contracting them as they are 'World Politics" included, in involved in the growing num- of 8/3/65, a state- its edition ment by the United Secretariat ber of industrial struggles and which "Hands off movements under the heading fidently expect. Let us also not Republic the Democratic Vietnam!" in which it is diff- forget the need to link up with cult to find a trace of Marxism' working-class particularly through the move- af this letter, The ment for women's equal rights.'

himself 'E. Web- who signed CS.) ster'. the (My emphasis. concluded that article gave us: "The Pabloite It is only human to be old Pabloite theory! tempted to dismiss this rubbish same forces" "irresistible" prevent with contemptuous laugh, the bureaucracies from betray- but that would certainly be a ing the revolution. mistake. Further, said 'Webster': What Whelan is showing us "Were there space enough to here is the middle- precisely waste on this gibberish in "The outlook flippant class, which Newsletter" and had we lies behind his whole attack on strong enough digestive sustem the revolutionary party. Having for this mushy diet, we could never built anything himself, deal detail several with he is of course unable to make more points . ine whole a 'balance sheet' of any politi- method is clearly wrong. cal He does not ernerience. 'The petty-bourgeois "revolu- from and cannot start the tionary" philistine, buffeted by of how to orientate problem powerful forces does not he himself and the cadres of the Innerciano and theretore can.

the changed situa- party into, not isolated from and tion, having checked his per- unable to build a movement of because he spectives, has no the working class, seeks fixed party, he is responsible to no points of support in a rapidly one. changing world. Unable to base And this, and this alone, is himself on the working class the entire of his for socialism, content and its struggle attack on the Socialist Labour he adapts himself to certain League. It is this content which powerful social has determined that he end up groupings.' (for The same 'Webster', the time being) in the follow- camp of the Pabloite liquida- with another letter on ing up tionists. 20 of 24, refers to the 'utter whose years April revisionism have been bankruptcy' of the Unified Con- attack centrated on the Secretariat. revealed by its policy on Vietnam. He fulmin- independent revolutionary party. ates: TV

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(West) channel 6.01.635 scene West to 30-1. 0o Mad movies: he engi 120 LoT Friday, September 11, 1970 What hypocritical liars these "What people are!' and treacherous drivel this is!'

He then makes a long quota- tion from one of their docu- ments, which, he says ' complete demonstrates the of the Unified capitulation Secretariat to imperialism'.

And further, according to Webster, the Unified Secre- 'stabs the Vietnamese tariat people in the back'. "There can, in the fight to build the Fourth International throughout the world, be no accommodation with these traitors' We must break the news to our readers that the signature 'E. Webster' on these letters was a pen-name for ... Tony Whelan! Pabloites Now we can do nothing about Whelan's changing his mind. Such things have been known before. do But we demand the credentials of a man who launches an 80-page book against Trotskyism that he explains his political rela- tionship with those who pub- lish his work, and whom he denounced as having 'capitu- lated imperialism' and to *stabbed the Vietnamese people in the back' In view of Whelan's per- plexity over the subsequent fate of those who were got together for the Grosvenor Square demonstration, we will of contrast, a quote, by way International leaflet of the Marxist Group, published in 1968, before the demonstra- and entitled The Inter- tion, national Marxist Group replies to "The Newsletter's" Slanders'.

In this leaflet they maintain the SLL had a 'basically mis- taken attitude ... towards the massive radicalization of youth over the Vietnam question' The leaflet objects particu- "The Newsletter's' larly to statement: Solidarity The Vietnam Campaign and its hangers-on are enemies of Marxist prin- ciples. Their October campaign will be directed not towards aiding US the defeat of imperialism, but towards con- fusing and misleading those who are seeking a road to revolutionary principles and revolutionary leadership' Now we are convinced-and Whelan's bankruptcy in face of the facts today bears it out -that this assessment was absolutely correct. But see how the IMG answered our charge: after deluding themselves that the Young Socialists and 'Keep Left' were on their last legs, they say: 'But to. their horror the struggle in solidarity with the HTV (Cymru/Wales): black except 6 and dodd. service as above 6.30-6.35 Report Wales. ANGLIA: 9.30-12.45 London. 2.15-3.45 London 55 Lost in space, 4.25 Newsroom 4.35 Romper 5.50 London. room. 6.35 6.00 A tokes a niet. 8.00 Glamour About Anglia. Crossroads. 70. 8.25 London. 10.30 Film: 'Sex and the Single Girl'. With Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood and Henry Fonda. reporter life the private of the probes into authoress of a sex novel. 12.35 Reflec- tion.

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4.15 Dan. Crossroads. London. bottom of the sea 4.55 Voyage to the 6.00 News. 6.05 Mad 5.50 London. Makem country style. movies. 6.35 London 7.05 Name of the game. 8.25 Songs re- 10.30 Festival now. 11.00 membered. 11.30 Late call.

GRAMPIAN: 11.15-12.45 London. 2.15- 3.45 London 4.30 4.55 Land of the giants. 6.00 News. weather. 6.35 Flintstones. professor. the Sky's the limit. 8.25 London. 10.3( Garrison's gorillas. Never say die. 11.00 Outer limits Revolution has Vietnamese drawn into activity, particularly around VSC, thousands of and youth, both students young workers, who despite many elements of mistaken ideas, adventurist tendencies, etc., are eager for a showdown with capitalism. And not only can the SLL not reach them, but they are by-passing the SLL on the left. It is from these youth that the core of the new • revolutionary party will be built; therefore for Trotskyists to be unable to influence them is a very serious matter . . . we are eager to prove the superiority of our theories in action.' They add: *The lesson of the last two years is, that once the factional wrangling between the various Marxist and left tendencies is broken through, and joint action carried out on vital issues, real progress can be made, and the differences can be fruitfully discussed in the light of experience.' It is now common know- ledge that after the 'October mobilization' the 'Marxist and left tendencies' in

VSC

exploded in all immediately directions, producing the situa- tion of decline described by Whelan himself, and beginning interminable inquest: 'Where did they all go?...

the revolutionary As for party that was being built by young people by-passing the SLL, where is it? If it did exist, would not its destiny now be, to quote a speaker at the IMG's so-called Trotsky Memorial Meeting on August 21: 'to liquidate itself into mass revolutionary movement?! This is only a crude expres- sion of the same liquidationism which we pointed out was being practised by the Pabloite revisionists of the IMG already in their October VSC campaign of 1968. If Whelan will not explain his present position in terms of the real history of the ten- dencies involved, we are obliged to do it for him.

The divisions between these tendencies is fundamental. Whelan has found his place the remnants of those with revisionists who, ever since the Second World War, capitulated theoretically and politically to the apparent stability achieved by capitalist society through the inflationary boom. The Socialist Labour League and the Trotskyists whose work preceded it and laid the for always based basis it, themselves, in the fight against revisionism, funda- the on within mental contradictions capitalism in its final imperial- ist stage. The inflationary measures of the capitalist powers amounted in reality to a series of con- cessions to the strength of the working class, and they could be implemented only through the counter - revolutionary agency of the Stalinist bureau- cracy and the Social Demo- cracy. From Haston, through Clift, Pablo and Lawrence, the revisionists in the Trotskyist movement capitulated one by either directly to the one, reformist agents of national and US capital, or to the Stalinist bureaucracy. Pabloites' The search for non-proletarian 'revolutionary' elements like the student pro- testers, supposedly born out of 'new industrial capitalism's the logical revolution', was outcome of this theoretical dis- orientation and political capitulation. Whelan, running from the emergence of the working class on to the political scene and from the demands placed on Marxists by the development of the Socialist Labour League, met them at this point, on the question of Vietnam. So urgent the con- was summation of this new-found affinity that, as we have seen, it required that Whelan's past on the question of Vietnam revisionism and be quietly turned inside out. Our struggle to build the independent revolutionary of the party on the basis maturing economic crisis and the revolutionary role of the not only working class been thoroughly vindicated by the development of the capi- talist crisis, and particularly by workers' the great wave of struggles since May-June 1968, but it has enabled us to build a movement prepared to inter- vene in that situation on a scale never before envisaged since the foundation of the Fourth International, by con- trast with the disintegration of the forces of the revisionists.

All the revisionist tendencies breaking from Trotskyism, something in the so- seeking called 'objective' development of capitalism to justify their running away, have sought to create some haven of rest for refugees from the class struggle. Whelan's own experience, his own theoretical limitations, his inability to break from a petty-bourgeois outlook, sent him in their direction. Just as they needed assist- ance in the way of his empiricist logic-chopping and doctoring of evidence, so he needed their sophisticated ability to twist Marxist phrases about "programme' to every opportunist turn. • Continued tomorrow THE INSTALLATION of a closed-circuit television system in the Fairfield shipyard was just one of the initial aims of management, according to the latest work on the Fairfield Experiment'. Basically, this book covers the same ground as earlier works.

It confirms that Fairfield's yard on the Clyde was saved from bankruptcy by government, busi- ness and trade union intervention in 1965 not in order to keep workers in jobs, but to act as a proving-ground for the use of work-study methods and Measured-Day Work in ship- building. The aim of job evaluation, put forward as a way to simplify the was, in fact, to pay structure, establish a method of breaking down crafts and skill- demarcations in preparation for flexibility of labour. This would, in turn, enable a torce. Finally, once these methods were established, they could be spread to the rest of the ship- building industry.

WORK-STUDY

Work-study techniques as a tool of shipyard management are described as • •.. a major break- through for the industry, demanding careful preparatory work with management, foremen and workers'. This preparatory work, as far as the workers were concerned, involved joint consultation, mass meetings held at a local cinema by lain Stewart, a director of 18 companies, who was the scheme's main architect. the section of Whatever workers who supported Stewart's policy may have believed at the time, the Labour government was about the aim of in no doubt this 'consultation'. As George Brown stated in the House of Commons in December 1965: 'In setting up this tremendous new format in British. business, all the partners, the government, private enterprise, and the head- quarters of the unions are relying on the man in the yard to un- The capitalism nal by the Founding Cor of the -and the Fourth Internacional with the Statutes Fourth Ihter tasks of the

A SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAQUE PAMI

BLACK PANTHER

THE

Party is not the only target of police repressions in the United States. During a police attack on the Moratorium National Chicano anti-war demonstration in Los Angeles two weeks ago, a well- known Mexican-American journa- killed list--Ruben Salazar-was by a gas projectile fired from a deputy sheriff's gun. Sixty other demonstrators were injured during the fighting, and 119 were arrested. Salazar was killed in a cafe when police, ordering its occu- pants to leave, fired into the bar.

The armour-plated tear-gas projectile which killed the journa- missed a woman list narrowly and a child also inside the cafe.

For the Uncle Toms of the Mexican-American movement, the self-styled 'National Mexican- American Anti-Defamation Com- mittee, this outrage was golden opportunity to prove how moderate and liberal they are.

In an official statement issued by its executive director in Washington, the Committee com- 'over-reaction' plained 'overkill' by the police.

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Friday, September 11, 1970 What hypocritical liars these people arel' and • 'What treacherous drivel this is!'

He then makes a long quota- tion from one of their docu- ments, which, he says • complete the demonstrates capitulation of the Unified Secretariat to imperialism'.

And further, according to Webster, the Unified Secre- tariat 'stabs the Vietnamese people in the back'. 'There can, in the fight to build the Fourth International throughout the world, be no accommodation with these traitors.' We must break the news to that the signature our readers 'E. Webster' on these letters was a pen-name for ... Tony Whelan! Pabloites Now we can do nothing about Whelan's changing his mind. Such things have been known before. But we do demand the credentials of a man who launches an 80-page book against Trotskyism that he explains his political rela- tionship with those who pub- he lish his work, and whom denounced as having 'capitu- imperialism' lated to 'stabbed the Vietnamese people in the back'. In view of Whelan's per- plexity over the subsequent fate of those who were got together for the Grosvenor Square demonstration, we will quote, by way of contrast, a leaflet of the International Marxist Group, published in the demonstra- 1968, before tion, and entitled 'The Inter- national Marxist Group replies to "The Newsletter's" Slanders'.

In this leaflet they maintain the SLL had a 'basically mis- taken attitude ... towards the massive radicalization of youth over the Vietnam question'.

The leaflet objects particu- larly to. 'The Newsletter's' statement: "The Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and its hangers-on are enemies of Marxist prin- ciples. Their October campaign will be directed not towards aiding the defeat of US imperialism, but towards con- fusing and misleading those who are seeking a road to revolutionary principles and revolutionary leadership.'

Now we are convinced-and Whelan's bankruptcy in face of the facts today bears it out -that this assessment was absolutely correct. But see how the IMG answered our charge: after deluding themselves that the and Keep Young Socialists Left' were on their last legs, they say: *But to their horror the struggle in solidarity with the HTV (Cymru/Wales): black and white as above except: 6.01 Y dydd service 6.30-6.35 Report Wales. ANGLIA: 9.30-12.45 London. 2.15-3.45 . London. 4.25 Newsroom. 4.35 Romper room. 4.55 Lost in space. 5.50 London.

6.35 6.00 About Anglia. Crossroads. 7.00 It takes a thief. 8.00 Glamour 70.

8.25 London. 10.30 Film: 'Sex and the Single Girl'. With Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood and Henry Fonda. reporter into the private life of the probes authoress of a sex novel. 12.35 Reflec- tion. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30-12.45 London.

2.15-3.45 London. 4.02 Women today.

4.55 4.10 Peyton Place. 4.40 London. Thunderbirds. 5.50 London.

6.00 ATV

today. 6.35 Crossroads hampions.

7.00 Legend of 8.25 James. Jesse 10.30 Baron. Midland London. 11.30 Montgomery, MP for member. Fergus Brierly Hill. 11.45 Pulse, weather. ULSTER: 10.30-12.45 London. 2.15-3.45 4.30 London. Enchanted house 4.15 Romper room. 4.50 News. 4.55 Lost in 5.50 London. Crossroads. 6.00 News. 6.05 space. Viewfinder Beyond 6.35 7.00 Mombasa'. With Cinema Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn and Christopher Lee. A white hunter Africa to help his brother arrives in work a mine but finds his brother has 10.30 murdered. 8.30 London. been Randall and Two-shot golf. 11.00 Hopkirk (deceased). YORKSHIRE: 9.30-12.45 London.

2.15- 4.30 3.45 4.15 Zingalong London. 5.20 Lon- 4.55 Phoenix five. Matinee. 6.35 Calendar, weather. don. 6.00 of 7.00 "The Battle Beverly hillbillies. Plate'. With John Gregson, River the Anthony Quayle and Peter Finch.

War 10.30 Yorksport. 9.00 London. movie. 12 midnight Edgar Wallace. 11.00 Weather. GRANADA: 9.30-12.45 London. 2.15- 3.45 London. 4.10 News. Short st9:0 4.55 Thunderbirds. 4.40 London. London. 6.00 Newsview. 6.05 Put it in 6.10 Doing their thing. 6.40 writing: bese Hills'. With Thousand Film: Lee Richard Egan and Don Murray, gunman finds professional Remick. 8.25 London. a hunted man. himself 10.30 Name of the game. TYNE TEES: 9.30-12.45 London. 2.15- 4.40 London. Thunderbirds. 4.35 Newsroom. 3.50 5.50 Lon- London. 4.55 6.00 Today at six. 6.30 Voyage to don. the bottom of the sea. 7.30 If it moves 9.00 London 8.00 I Spy. -file it. "City Jungle'. With Paul 10.30 Movie: 12.55 Rush. and Barbara Newman News, epilogue. BORDER: 9.30-12.45 London. 2.15-3.45 4.13 4.15 Room 222. News. London. London. 4.55 Forest rangers. 5.15 4.40 6.05 Roundabout. 6.00 News. London. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.30 No! That's me over here.

8.00 It 10.30 "The takes a thief. 9.00 London. Twice. With Always Rings Postman and John Garfield. A Turner young man takes a job at a roadside Lana attracted restaurant because he is to wife of the owner. 12.10 News, the weather. London. 2.45 9.30-12.45

SCOTTISH:

4.30 Crossroads. 4.15 Dan. London. 4.55 Voyage to the bottom of the sea.

6.05 Mad 6.00 News. 5.50 London. style. 6.35 Makem country movies. 8.25 London. 7.05 Name of the game. Songs re- 11.00 10.30 Festival now. membered. 11.30 Late call.

GRAMPIAN: 11.15-12.45 London. 2.15- .30 Rumblie jumblie 3.45 London. 5.50 London 4.55 Land of the giants. and 6.10 Nanny 6.00 News, weather. Flintstones. 7.00 professor. 6.35 the 7.35 7.25 Preview. Sky's the limit. 8.25 London. 10.30 Never say der 11.00 Outer limits: Revolution has Vietnamese drawn into activity, particularly

VSC,

thousands of around both students and youth, who despite young workers, elements of mistaken many adventurist tendencies, ideas, etc., are eager for a showdown with capitalism. And not only the SLL not reach them, the but they are by-passing left. It is from SLL on the these youth that core of ine

THE

INSTALLATION

of a the new revolutionary party built; therefore for will be closed-circuit television system the Fairfield be unable in shipyard was Trotskyists to to just one of the initial aims of influence them is a very serious management, according to the matter are eager to 'Fairfield the superiority of our work on the prove latest theories in action.' Experiment' Basically, this book covers the They add: same ground as earlier works.

"The lesson of the last two It confirms that Fairfield's yard years is, that once the factional the Clyde from on was saved wrangling between the various bankruptcy by government, busi- Marxist and left tendencies is and trade union intervention and broken through, joint keep 1965 order to not carried vital but to act as a action out on workers in jobs, be proving-ground of issues, real progress for the use made, and the differences can work-study methods and Measured-Day Work in ship- be fruitfully discussed in the building. light of experience.' The aim of job evaluation, put It know- is noW common forward as a way to simplify the ledge that after the 'October fact, pay structure, was, in 'Marxist and mobilization' the establish method of breaking

VSC

left tendencies' in all crafts and skill- down all immediately exploded in demarcations for in preparalon flexibility of labour. directions, producing the situa- This would, in turn, described enable a tion of decline by large forge. Finally, thee these methods 3,000 labour Whelan himself, and beginning interminable the inquest: established, they could be WATe 'Where did they all go? spread to the rest of the ship- revolutionary for the As building industry. party that was being built by people

WORK-STUDY

young by-passing the

SLL.

where is it? Work-study techniques If it did exist, would not its tool of shipyard management are destiny a major break- now be, to quote described as speaker at the IMG's so-called through for the industry, demanding Trotsky Memorial Meeting on preparatory careful August 21: "to liquidate itself work with management, foremen and workers'. into mass revolutionary This preparatory work, as far movement'?! concerned as ine This is only a crude expres- involved joint consultation, mass sion of the same liquidationism held at a local cinema meeungs which a director of 18 we pointed out by lain Stewart. companies, who was the scheme's being practised by the Pabloite revisionists of the IMG already main architect. of Whatever the section in their October VSC campaign workers who supported Stewart's of 1968. may have believed at the policy If Whelan will not explain time, the Labour government was his position in terms no doubt about prescil in the aim of the real history of the ten- this "consultation' dencies involved, we are As George Brown stated in the obliged to do it for him.

House of Commons in December The divisions between these 1965: setting up this tremendous 'In tendencies fundamental. British business, found his place new format in Whelan has all the partners, the government, of those with the and the head- private enterprise, revisionists who, ever since the quarters of the unions are relying Second World War, capitulated on the man in the yard to un- theoretically and politically to the apparent stability achieved by capitalist society through the inflationary boom. The Socialist Labour League and the Trotskyists whose work preceded it and laid the capitalism basis for it, always based themselves, in the fight against on the funda- revisionism, mental contradictions within and the capitalism in its final imperial- ist stage. The inflationary measures of the capitalist powers amounted tasks of the in reality to of series con- cessions to the strength of the class, and they could working 4th International be implemented only through counter - revolutionary the agency of the Stalinist bureau- and the Social Demo-

A SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAQUE PAMPHLET

Cracy cracy. From Haston, through Cliff, and Lawrence, the Pablo the Trotskyist revisionists in movement capitulated by one directly one, either the reformist of national agents and US or the capital, Stalinist bureaucracy. search for The Pabloites' non-proletarian 'revolutionary' elements like the student pro- testers, supposedly born out of capitalism's 'new industrial the revolution', was logical outcome of this theoretical dis- political orientation and capitulation. Whelan, running from the emergence of the working class the and to political scene from the demands placed on Marxists by the development of the Socialist Labóur League, met them at this point, on the question of Vietnam. So urgent was the con- of this new-found summation affinity that, as we have seen, that Whelan's past it required the question of Vietnam on and revisionism be quietly turned inside out. Our to build the struggle revolutionary independent party the basis of the maturing economic crisis and the revolutionary role of the working class has not only

BLACK

PANTHER

THE

been thoroughly vindicated by development of the the capi- Party is not the only target talist crisis, and particularly by police repressions in the of the of great wave workers' United States. struggles since May-June 1968, but it has enabled us to build During a police attack on the a movement prepared to inter- Chicano Moratorium National vene in that situation envisaged on demonstration Los anti-war 1n scale before never ago, a well- Angeles two weeks foundation since the of the known Mexican-American journa- Fourth International, by killed -Ruben Salazar- -was list- by a gas projectile fired from a trast with the disintegration of deputy sheriff's gun. the forces of the revisionists. All the revisionist tendencies Sixty other demonstrators were Trotskyism, breaking from and injured during the fighting, seeking the so- something in 119 were arrested. 'objective' called development Salazar was killed in a cafe of capitalism to justify their ordering its when police, occu- running away, have sought to pants to leave, fired into the bar.

create some haven of rest for refugees from the class The armour-plated tear-gas iro ectile which killed the journa- struggle. missed Whelan's own narrowly experience, and a child also inside the cafe.

his own theoretical limitations, his inability to break from Uncle Toms of the For the outlook, sent petty-bourgeois Mexican-American movement, the him in their direction. self-styled 'National Mexican- needed assisis Just as they American Anti-Defamation Com. in the way ance this outrage was logic-chopping and empiricist golden opportunity to prove how evidence, noderate and liberal they are doctoring of SO he sophisticated needed their In an official statement issued ability to twist Marxist phrases Washingten, cut Committee com executive director 'programme' about to every opportunist turn. of 'over-reaction' and plained • Continued tomorrow 'overkill' by the police.

WORKERS PRESS

•FAIRFIELDS-A STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL

CHANGE

By K. J. W. Alexander and C. L. Jenkins Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1970. 50s.

co-operate in working was certainly never achieved, as reservedly apprentices and other the yard as efficiently as possible, action by in particular workers showed. and achieving the Also, the scheme to put in flexible manning arrangements closed-circuit television had to be and interchangeability of workers scrapped absolute con- which are essential. and the trol of the work torce essential 'If this co-operation were

SHOU

wages and speed- to hold down the whole scheme forthcoming, up working, never achieved. he support of govern- involving and the trade unions, The book contains none of the would fall to information private enterprise 'behind-the-scenes' the ground and the yard would on the links between Tory busi- leaders have to close' Labour and

NICOSHICH

union officials to raise the money

'NON-PRODUCTIVE'

and get the scheme going, which 'Whatever Happened employed to is found in The consultants develop the scheme started from at Fairfields?' by Sidney Paulden and Bill Hawkins. the basis that 60 per cent of the technical More detail is in- work being done was 'non- productive' and 10 to 20 per cent than the Paulden/ cluded in 'abortive' that it Hawkins book, including a com- was (meaning prehensive survey of the attitudes modification involved and/or of foremen and shop stewards to rectification). Sums were fixed between em- the scheme. ployers and unions on the authors of this book are price The who did research of introduction of each method.

C. L. Jenkins, and K. Work-study Fairfield's, W. introduction was at professor of Econo to be paid for by a 4d-an-hour Alexander, nics at the University of Strath pay rise. Sums were also clyde, who was a member of the negotiated for flexibility and interchangeability. Fairfield's Board of Directors At the same time, the Ministry during the experiment, represent- of Labour made it clear that they ing the 'academic interests.

approved such agreements

'PROVING GROUND'

provided they were: related to the run-down of the labour force, they Not look and the in- surprisingly, establishment favourably on the productivity this crease in grounds' that of 'proving like Fair- intended to give rise to, so field and conclude as possible, there is no tar 'academics could play useful increase in labour costs. such both of in experiments, 1968 the implementation the Geddes Report, which in this in the design of them and in monitoring results' • a needless the case meant merger as universities have Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, put an

COUSIC BIL

end to the Fairfield's experiment.

played a leading role in develop- end labour- many ing all manner of convenient in and ways for the employers it intensification methods in the labour covered up the many failures.

concocting relations The strikes, systems that surround their intro- elimination of which was one of the basic aims, duction and operation. Sherlff's deputies disperse Mexican-American rally. priating $110 million to help pay

WHITE

middle-class families the salaries of the staff in these in the South are already taking steps to counter the desegreg- schools. As far as the law is concerned, ated schools legislation which however, they remain 'private', operation this into came while they continue to dip deeply month. the public's pocket to pay into the For the last two years, for their racialist privileges.

more wealthy white parents have The white supremacists •have beyond set up private schools barriers inside even erected the the jurisdiction of schools officially desegregated.

segregationist laws. the 'integrated' schools of Wash- County (Alabama) white For example, the S Carolina ington 'Independent School Association' and Negro pupils are being taught separate classrooms. state's private reports that the In school, white teachers (all-white) schools will double one a 'whites-only" number this year. are teaching while Negro staff ground floor, In Mississippi, the number of have been assigned to the such schools has also doubled- other Negro floors to teach only 50 have been set over UD the last 12 months. children. As far as the letter of the law In another 'Deep South' bastion is concerned, the requirements of Louisiana- -150,000 children at- 'desegregation' have met. 'whites-only' been tended schools last year, while the state Negro children White are and being taught in the same school.

legislature passed bill appro- THE TWENTY-FIVE years history of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics has been rich in political crisis, plots and scandals. While considering the more important of them in some detail, books suggest that they these arose from national peculiarities or political imperfections which be removed or corrected can within the framework of bour- geois institutions. The French bourgeoisie has always been • characterized his- torically by its deep inner divi- sions and conflicts and by its avidity for gain. It has carried this over into a political life notorious for its corruption, or for the readiness with which politicians use office to advance the particular interest with which they are associated.

The rise of a militant working class which threatened to destroy bourgeois dominance altogether only exacerbated these divisions and created a permanent crisis opened dramatically with which the organized by the riots extreme right in February, 1934.

By that time the international French capitalism pressures on had become acute.

1940 COLLAPSE

Threatened by revolution at home and the rise of Nazi Ger- many and Fascist Italy abroad, different ruling-class sections scurried hither and thither seek- ing a solution. Some put their trust in White- hall, others turned to the Wilhelmstrasse to save them from revolution. There followed the ignominious of collapse Tune, and 1940, the Vichy regime further divisions: the out-and- out fascist collaborators on the one hand, General de Gaulle and the Free French on the other.

The latter, while going along with the Allies, had as his main aim the preservation of the his, torical continuity of the French state, which brought him into collision with them while the war was still being fought. The 1944 uprising against the Occupying forces was prevented from paving the way for working.

class revolution by the efforts of the Communist Party which con- best organized trolled the resistance units.

RESTORED

The Republic was restored.

But far from representing a clear-cut break with the past, the weaknesses remained and old French recovery was dependent upon American aid, which in 1947 put paid to the Stalinist hopes of continued participation in a governmental coalition.

then There began a new political chapter in chicanery which lasted until the collapse of the discredited Fourth Republic and the coming to power of de Gaulle in 1958. Williams deals with some of the election campaigns of the 1950s and, in both volumes, with the events leading up to the establishment of the Fifth Republic. The chapter entitled 'The murder Fourth Republic: or suicide' is, however, more a con- LAST WEEK senior officials of the United Auto Workers-— the largest industrial union in the US with 1.6 million mem- bers-rejected the first con- made by tract Motors, Ford and Chrysler. Union officials and manage- ment are negotiating for a new begin three-year contract to when the present one runs out on September 14. The companies offered wage increases of between 26 and 48 hour in the first year cents an and between 10 and 21 cents in the second and third years.

The union's demand for an end to the eight cents-an-hour limit on the annual cost-of-living raises —sold by Walter Reuther during the 1967 Ford strike-for the second and third years of the has been rejected. contract, effect that the This means in increases amount at maximum to paltry 18-29 cents an hour.

The companies' offers included an hour the union the 26 cents say is owed the men because of inflation since the limit was put on the escalator in 1967.

Mr Douglas Fraser, chief union called negotiator Chrysler, at Chrysler's offer 'farther removed from reality than any in memory' and Ken Bannon, negotiating with Ford's, called their proposals 'the package ever most meaningless presented to the UAW'. of these militant In spite UAW leadership noises, the decided to exempt Ford's from any strike action the union takes.

UAW president Leonard Wood- cock said the union was exempt- ing Ford's because it wanted one large firm producing a minicar to compete with the foreign cars imported into the US. Ford hopes to introduce a new minicar later this month.

cent of the

UAW

90 per locals who have so far voted have been in favour of authoriz- ing a strike. Even if the national leadership settle with manages to 29,000 there are employers, plant-level proposals and disputes in General Motors factories alone and there are bound to be local strikes. While UAW leaders squirm both under the pressure from management and workers, rank-

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RENAULT

outside the Renault factory and students demonstrate Workers during the May-June events 1988.

FRENCH POLITICIANS AND ELECTION

1951-1969' By Philip M. Williams with David Gooley and Martin Harrison Cambridge University Press. 70s cloth, 20s paper

WARS, PLOTS AND SCANDALS IN

POST-WAR FRANCE

By Philip M. Williams Cambridge University Press. 55s cloth, los paper At least as complicated was the centrated summary of the sources Ben Barka affair of 1965 the of information which the Moroccan left-wing must consult than a full- when torian was kidnapped leader scale analysis. opposition in Paris by an arm of the French and The bewildering plots police co-operating with gangsters 1958, of involving the political counterplots and members of police forces, and back different army underworld taken to and political con- Morocco to be murdered. factions of a suc- Williams deprecates spirators, were Although DaTu under the which began he concentrates on CESSIOn such acuons, continued Fourth Republic and relating what happened, as far as Fifth. evidence during the the often contradictory permits, on explana- rather than tion and analysis. there is any of the As far as segregated into latter separate chapters. In the main he accepts things their they including as are, side of and Intrigue scallly plotting. They provide him with the which he raW material out makes high-grade journalism or academic commentary.

SURFACE EVENTS

provide a good These books for and-file members have formed of useful information deal committee called the National 30 but they reference purposes, and Out Committee whose slogan, remain very much on the surtace out' refers their and of events. demand-pushed through the When dealing with current UAW convention in the spring- happenings, the treatment for voluntary retirement after 30 short-term. There essentially service with a maximum nothing in what Williams and his year's of $500 a month pension. collaborators wrote about Gaullism in the 1960s Two weeks ago the committee to suggest surprised union officials by buy- that the May-June, 1968 events ing a full-page anything but com- aaverusement I Detroit 'Free Press' pro- pletely unexpected surprise.

the their demand as the Confined surface of cląiming to the 'number-one issue' in this year's things, their method did not permit them to understand what negotiations. As we said in Workers Press happening deep down 21, the August French Frass and in layers of the youn working purchasing of American workers power car 7.4 cent in the first Pooley is helded ba May-June quarter of 1970. fell chapter David B. 'US News and According to but precarious World Report' figures, the aver- nothing definite in the other American age weekly pay chapters dealing with the earlier $171.74. worker 1S history of the Fifth Republic sug- auto to be a Although this appears gests that Williams or his friends gain of $5.30 a month from one thought it was precarious up to because in reality, that time. the constantly rising living chapter is also 1n fact a loss of $3.07 it represents mainly descriptive, giving its Motor America, student companies in main the force as in Britain, want to revolt and political reactions.

wages down and productivity up.

Although one lengthy section February General Motors In deals with the Communist Party chairman James Roche said: attention has and some to 'We must restore the balance CP-controlled Con- paid to the Generale du that has been lost between wages Travail fédération We and productivity. must

(CGT),

there is that no sign which we pay the fair days age?

day's work ceive Gooley understood the role which the Stalinists played in betraying falling profits With the revolution. 21) and Workers Press, August severe competition from Europe

NEXT STEP

they must try to get and Japan, more out of the workers, whose They lose sight of the central leaders have sold just about all that ten million workers fact there to sell. were on strike and that the next Conditions the Detroit therefore a workers' in step car factories are as dirty giants' government. they during and noisy as were The chapter ends flippantly 30 years the big struggles ago. with a reference to the traffic The assembly lines move fast: when petrol once more Ford in some alils cars an hour became available on the Whitsun 100 cars an hour factories and weekend. Motor's General new auto- sort of instant history plant. This mated With 15 or 30-minute lunch leads not to understanding but to breaks and cafeterias confusion, despite its pretensions.

the physical half a mile away, It can learn nothing and anti- and mental strain is enormous. nothing from the events cipate As one Chrysler worker put it: with which it deals. No one wants to go inside the Basically it is static and sterile the and no plant morning, one is sad to leave in the after- because it leaves out the struggle of living forces, that You're as much a machine between the and the working as a punch press or a drill motor.

ruling class geared to class, which dominates the his- Your the as- life sembly line. I've lost my freedom.'

tory of bourgeois society.

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Renault- GKN-Sankey men must demand Soviet Full claim now truck deal with no strings RENAULT is to help build giant truck the Soviet Diall Union. deal worth £54 state-owned motor was company chuenca in rans ycoleludy will tit signalure ol DovICl 'WE DON'T want any more gold watches - we Deputy 1rade Minister Al want the money? This comment by a skilled Komorov. thought to be part of welder at the Wellington factory of GKN-Sankey Mr sole sommented with sums up the feeling of the 5,000 workers who are meeting today to hear the latest ni Produce ibade union - management formula to German end their five-week strike.

Despite the continuous press motor barrage Beer on. " a week lay-offs industry have cracy is providing a mounted, there is deter- WEnropean personals or the accept mination not skilled productivity strings at any sald Retreat their 4s 3d-an-hour across- the boaro demano 'If we're forced back on

• FROM PAGE ONE

this deal,' said one worker. ende torose needs we a go back on the dole rather than WOrK at can- key's. We'd be the laughing Opposition

IN THE

vity shape Bill stock of the Midlands if we debate, the lay-off particularly to eur dis at Sankeys More time Ra Gently acor in Molver he was loan' sum total of es enties are.

it ne never actual tad Although he travelled from Wellington each day, he claims and no genity conte feeling

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Theodorakis

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BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Dustmen strike LEADERS of the Greek and Yugoslay Com- munist Parties have just concluded a series of talks in Belgrade. Taking part in the dis- as a member

ITBREAD SIRLS BACK

the Greek delegation was the composer Mikis Theodorakis. reatne. then had this to say heredispates TEEN-AGE girl office workers - seen the by the (left picketing yesterday-made up the tions re ma is hapenin: in motor hard-core of strikers at Whitbread's Luton brewery, demanding a f6-a-week The ware increase hand the Discussions The strikers, about 60 office and Theodorakis decided to laboratory sain yesterday stayinere return to work today after hearing that undergoing medica manasement wowe osen neronanons ne had severa discusion. on Monday. evera oviet Communist Party the dust when here bitterly Tory plans suppres neeting in London for state industries Cordial Been conducted in a cordial opposed that there were see tradesma bureaucracy

OPPOSITION

attacks on a Anens pomatic ties be. already-nationalized industries came the key-note of this after- noon's TUC debate after warning

ALL TRADES

speeches from clerical, technical,

UNIONS ALLIANCE

Yacey do foot push to airline and Post Office workers'

MEETINGS

leaders. While de-nationalization either of the Labour leader Harold Wilso whole or of parts of the tele-com- speak-n invited service yet munications was nOt declared intention of the government,

ESSO

engineers' said Post Once secretary Bryan Stanley, it was in the minds of the

STRIKE

speak leading 1ories. And if the day came when

ENDS

osed to a Tory TANKER d's Puss end mena cal of der und yesterday to Devlin eght area mus publiciy: as Asso oraids. same rate • a betrayal of 1926 switch concern Grave char rese cested Chile right winger tion other had abad tedio take quay-work,' he said. our seriously undermined 1 to stand down Matter Devibilit wasted time on the ALLESSANDRI, right-wing candidate in the Chilean berths. presidental elections, has conceded his defeat.

red there as beek i postage to get earing or cornel said Finance Ministry values were halved during the Devlin arant will nationalize airlines. day's trac Rolls lobby

RETURNED

A second rollo lobb ality the Popular Atlan red that defeat for thei in their leaders, the Pi and employers United States must reare employers and the Allende oper notivity schemes nd more vicious pro

SOCIALIST

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LABOUR

LEAGUE

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SACKINGS

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STRIKE

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