Workers Press no. 258

A call to action against the Tory

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NI

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Socialist Labour League issues AT ITS MEETING on September 19 and 20, the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League issued the following statement: The working class must

THE RIGHT TO

STRIKE

AND

give a decisive answer to

INDEPENDENT

Tory the government's

TRADE UNIONS

threats launched by their

THE

DETERMINED

and lune 1969 Employment Minister, workers the Robert Carr. forced government Labour He condemned the wage ahead demands of the Hills. the local government Ter The the man to strike by and all other employees undermine and income tacking the workers, and threatened the ax rebates of striker whole trade union move- 1 ney will be stopped only by mass ment with the immediate of laws.

THE RIGHT TO

decision

HEALTH AND

Home Secretary to This threat, situation

SOCIAL SERVICES

where unemployment it pidly, I will ben tered working class. the trade to leader. of workers relation to the social services. gov pilkington's with The docks -Sankey strokes Following head with their attacks on social and Mocation 5- services, asic rights of the working class older ren suffer t stretion these men tary destruction elementary henly ar tend ahd aorkine working nd the beat back fare services resistance he working clas cry plans to bring bac che 1930s. leddersanD The every aspect of Tory foreght

THE RIGHT TO

polins, ever

WORK

policy, rests of the • Fast nervention in the Middle We be movement to t • Withdrawal of all troops from ationalizaopolies, 1 ne • Nicionalize the arms indus- sore that prote rates and redic Bushke and tur emote, the number of workers in

DEFEAT UNEMPLOY-

demand that all restrictions

MENT BY ACTION

immediately i acuvilles De compatible win the co longer rull

IN THE FACTORIES

• Hands off Rudi Dutschke!

lies. Every • Doing and Pression witch• to produciny deal ad ment september 19, 19/0 make this a national strike actin to the fight or the the ages fig to full demands must be: Sept £1000 Poits the call or hot. • Spee dupured-Day Work! No Appeal Fund The and he labor the man no hand rises to • Wee it of ses in line with £356 1s 11d lets La the trade in Later • Equal pay for women! union bureau have shown their treacherous Dost brought collaboabour

THE WEEKEND I

They the sum of £206 Od giving a total of workers! the job fighting stes mi and coed to build up ne he ment tor the independence c fedence out he sting class for the state re- ne wade umons mrom to existiraitors is Press of collabora leadership struggle to bring down the Tory against socials leaderie de • to is, very important • • No sacepiasee of redundancy!

• Surs anthe Pil intoner or October conference! • Redutipay 9 of hours without orker to a right of every • Defend September 30. Send your • No factory closures! lonations orkers Press • Defend the right to strike an frothing nhe edening dass demand dependent trade unions! working clas 186a Clapham High Street, new forms London, SW4. backings ana closures must now Crash deaths be answered by the sit-in strike and occupation of the tactories.

siled and may or peed the the road lo exprophalon • cate union traderescherous and three seriously - wner empty passenger struck Wall wagontion • No anti-union laws! stationary goo at in ailway • Force ployment must begin in the factories Tory government and trade unions.

• TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1970

NUMBER

258 Support the one-day strike against unemployment! Defeat the anti-union laws!

Force the Tory government to resign! Pickets outside Magnet Joinery, Essex, yesterday: confident of success. FIVE HUNDRED Essex build- duction-to be calculated on the basis of working hours and ing-components are determined putting up standard minutes. struggle against speed-up on 'We're just not interested in that, Woodcutting Machinists' the Cuedo. shop Steward Brian Mitchell "Thev have answered man- for told the agement proposals yorkers rress yes- incentive-bonus vicious new terday morning. scheme at Thurrock's 'We want a straight increase Magnet Joinery factory with on the basic rate. four weeks of virtually solid Present hourly rates at the strike action for a 2s-an-hour factory 5d are Iol increase in basic rates without machinists, 9s Old for carpen- 'strings', pay parity throughout and 8s for labourers;

LOIS

weeks' holi- the plant. three average take-nome Day for a day a year and 100-per-cent flat week without bonus is a trade union organization as a mere £l5 a week. *And we're supposed to be condition of employment. of Pickets were confident skilled men,' commented one success yesterday as the strike picket. entered its fifth week. Of the three unions in- Magnet's reply volved, only the Transport pay and General Workers' has so demands submitted in January given the this year consisted of far strikers official OT scheme under which workers backing pickets were yester- would receive a derisory 5s-a- day waiting for word from the Machinists' and Woodworkers' week pay rise for each 2t-per- cent increase in overall pro- unions. LONDON'S 4,000-strong fire brigade ating since July on all but emergency- may begin 'emergency calls only' action call duties by insisting that appliances today in support of a three-month-old be manned to Home Office specifica- struggle by men based at stations Essex. Whole shifts have been suspended without stations for pay trom some refusing to lift the bans.

county's officer yesterday in a bid to obtain a £63-a- London In tomorrow's Workers Press, we Outer "weighting' allow- ance for all firemen in the area.

Essex fire-station delegate talk to At present it is paid only about the background to this struggle, working on the fringes of London. article the 21-1 Firemen throughout Essex last week Holroyd the fire recent report stepped up a ban they have been oper- service. The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. move on

BY ROBERT BLACK

BACKED

BY full Wal THE Central Committee of the Socialist Labour machine, American oil League is pleased to announce the six-days-a- Wall St and week publication of the Workers Press as from Inancers are at as vert moment preparing to un- Monday, October 12, 1970.

leash of savage war This step is possible because of the sustained, loyal, and against the reDressIon Arabs in the Middle-East.

Memoria Sunday Mr William working class desered secret on Stare, Marxist and publication is to make

SUPPOLL

Ruelids Hussein against the was reactionary conces of the Tory government and the lies sponsiDe and morudent. ane contesion spread by the Labour traitors and British Stalinism and washineton announced press. vesterdav that che rentadon The betrayals of Stalinism in Britain has baced military unite at are Dant nel open home and aron r! ConDo alon WItn imperialism inrougnout the worid their evacuation their tor attemoted sell-out the Arab revolution of American citizens' reactionary dio omatic ano political collahoration with Jordan. in Soain. and Cambodia and their redimes Greece The Syrian tinued silence on the Moscow Trials and the Communist yesterd that anie Opposition in present-day Russia.

counter-revolution ry troops destruction fighting Jordan insinuation *pre- labour Was successtul struggle against British imperialism or the paratory to American inter- bureaucracy. We are absolutely confident that this vention in the area' be accomplished by the six-days publication Workers Damascus Radic Press. instead The fight against Stalinism and the trade calea ror une withorawal of Tories areas the US orkers, is day connives neet, for ins 'threat to Middle Hast an struggle the conniruction of a re bitionary Marxist party.

world security and peace.

leadership unions and Rogers' threats and alarm are understandable. The use of Swain danks The Central Committee appeals joining ore sotatis Workers and Palestinian he essential purpose of the daily paper.

at the workina race Only in daily conflict with the trade union leadership Jnder pressur built The plays central An Ba'athist Ture will six-days a lead give regime which leans on both be the struggle facing the working

MOST

Sorian overment is the workers and uncompromising spokesman and the best defender of their rea neeos in ine nant to comoar every davine retreats in e under great pressure from and sell-outs of the trade union bureaucracv and deception the masses to give military The Sansi 20 to the anarind their efforts to build up the circulation of the Workers Press Smile n effect in every tactor. everv trade union and everv workind-class Liberation There the down res as the most imnortant sten in the fiaht to hrin Front said that it sent he Tory government battlefield mmandos to 500 of itc of the Workers the We anpeal to all readers and suboorters Press to demonstrate their readiness for this struggle Iraq fighting for the decisions of the Central Committee • TO news quoted Become subscribers tube papes.

Win 1,000 new subscribers. We urge all readers to Raise the monthly fighting fund from €1,000 to €1,250 trom ruling in Iraq had • Raise an additional fund of £1,000 by October 18 tc responded to ar the Party's Inter. finance the launching of the six-days paper.

appeal or natlonal (Pan-Aran) ipader.

ship "to join the Palestinian revoltion' Arafat & Hussein to Detence invest- ments is the central concern ot both the US Midars East. meet at summit? deter s behind thei mination bolster up the Zionist machine against he mounting Arab revolu AL FATAH leader Yasser Arafat has been asked to wicu. once unleashed attend today's Arab summit meeting in Cairo, convened sweeD i eastwards wards the pro- at the request of Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba.

the aucine around The will be te Torche On e Persian fut Rocketeller's Standard Oil is one of the biggest Civil war Snittend Arafat does he holders in the Middle Council builders will Mureddis a comer not President Ur lengths- A tassi. who SuDD Ving toe detend third put in guerrillas with much needed lite. economic heavy armour and tanks, bu Hussein. King inesis is what lies who has also pay claim ased to attend the summit. behind US drive towards inter vention in Jordan-and this present Is wnal 1s Capitalizing • early tor tune Gov. Kocketeller and his Zionist stonges to come oul Rogers tee c ah a overtaror hussel hepanca Cairo dailv *A unions immediately submit recime Ahram' vesterdav claimed tha claim with the local authority line manual wor dowr had nrevented kers' demand. alleged broadcast appeal for a Pushed through resolution last Geing heard by as suerrila cease-fire Arafat from week by stewards representing plasterers, plumbers Denied Tee claim was immediately Palestinian guerrilla and revolutionaries, radio, but the seriously rages works to betrav the lancers Involved 10 Arab Revolution. compromisine leadershio manua workers In an official comment on The stewards want a meet- The fact that his nresenc the soviet ing with their union organizers ews ageney "lass save. at today's Cairo summit (boy to press the claim conusly requested was unani- was ... it is particularly sad cotted human) long - suffering that this country has actually become participants including Hus- hey also teel there chanr for all local one union

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authority workers.

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

CONFERENCE

Cairo or take part in its schemec The Pllkington Defeat the the betrav revolution Lordan struggle and the proposed Tory right to strike anti-union laws Lunar probe St George's Hall, Lime St signals stop

LIVERPOOL

radio-astro- Bank

TODOEIT

Saturday October 3 Cheshire, has 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. hat the signals from Credentials and visitors' cards 5s each from Conference peer witched off at about 10 an Secretary, W. Hunter, 58 Lelghton View, Liverpool 8.

yesterdav

A call to action against the lory Socialist Labour League issues AT ITS MEETING on September 19 and 20, the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League issued the following statement: The working class must

THE RIGHT TO

STRIKE AND

give a decisive answer to

INDEPENDENT

the Tory government's

TRADE UNIONS

threats launched by their

DETERMINED

Employment Minister, Robert Carr. withdraw The Tories the laws. He condemned the wage prens for legisiation to shackle the theil ancau of demands the minels, t o vernment local the The intends to

1 OTV

employees all other undermine ara kinate s ot beneds and income workers, and threatened the whole trade e or ipe cass to more They will be stopped UTO Nu _move- ment with the immediate action hem to resign. enactment of «uL-VI0 S T onden. t e decca ul laws.

THE RIGHT TO

condemns

HEALTH AND

the Tory Home Secretary to This threat, situation

SOCIAL SERVICES

Britan Defore Septe mer m.

Rudi from Dutscake here enenst not be growing tolerated. and will be answered by must must the working class. The ataks on the figis of workers and their families in relation to the there social services rollowing the lory tradition * Tister sion to government ntend: Irishmen in allalk n all the health services, corporatist aneaa altacks soners and chil sutocaton ren suffer the most. unions by ¡eris- ation aim of Thyy a the same and me mines elementary a determinea *drive the and he i torat labour movement down wages through defeat the eat back these attacks on the destruction ortanizec lalc selviles iction, with socia "'butschke's ris Th he Tory plans foll ring bac.

never in Bitan is a te da policies, сер 1930s. reacersnlD. deh ethe working fight of all the rights which The c'asc Wı!! l

THE RIGHT TO

poliny, everch ise an o in forumfore or has working-class movement policy, which

WORK

Insurument ruling class. war ot the agailsl microso howt the workers in other countries.

defence UNEMPLOYMENT is t Fasinervention in the Middle preservation izd stres th of the e utse olay: Wiabuit, sections • Withdrawal of all troops from overseas! e London s Colenel in demnd- • Nicionalize the arms indus- ing the revocation of tivity are attemouno to Home Office order on Rudi unel pront rales ana reauce number" and, furtbermore,

DEFEAT UNEMPLOY-

WULCIS

сусту plant. bolitical activities be

MENT BY

ACTION

immediately lifted. Full e bi hese captalst

IN THE FACTORIES

• Hands off Rudi Dutschke!

polies. Every wage •. THE TUC must support the call for huntig and represion! Down wild increase linked wIlca® gainst unemploy io a productivity aeal adas to the one-aay strike make ihs a natonal Stak tactind, Tader the South growin or unempioyment. menl sicid September 19, 1970 We must "to he fight for the righe trom vages fight *o full demlyd mist be: Trade unionists up and down the Sept £1000 cois strike she pher the TUS POrt • SpeeMusured-Day Work! No ports the call or not. Appeal Fund Tons andine aso bur de mene.

• Across-the-boar vithout productivil unions movement. labour strings! he leadership is now in une nanas rises to ol rablan larors ana agents O1ln • We e in or aes in tine with pistlo ciass £356 1s 11d • Equal pay for women! ma th ein treacheru batire in th, • and suppea for tbeemnens government sum r £356 Is colaboration government Tories They wIld musu caders are on the job fightin workers • cleared out ! for their paper. ine nent on wases must de usec iht hrade u onsheon ehe seatee build strength and con- di cola boracas and mals Press politıcal socialist léadership. • • No saceptance of redundaney!

step e ormend to all ory • Surs a the hek inctener or and ine UCLODer conference ! • Foss of pay of hours without sile. We need 8643 188 14 • Porke th a 10ght of every • No factory closures ! sentem ber Su. sena vou donations • Defend te teh do saibe in.

186a claphan Figh Street, Organize lependent trade unions! of the worker to a job stands higher London, SW4. • Smash the Tory-TUC collab- than the right of the employers to orasion against the working d pioll. must now sackines and Crash deaths be ansene d he factories this ne ce pozdn SEVEN African workers were • Cele usten teadereacherous many others injured by the seriously employedif, the employed and un- • No anti-union laws Unitv fight 11 une unem. • Fo resithe Tory government yes• doyment must begın ı une laclonics terday. and trade unions.

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258 • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1970

Support the one-day strike against unemployment! Defeat the anti-union laws!

Force the Tory government to resign!

GRAYS

Pickets outside Magnet Joinery, Essex, yesterday: confident of success. FIVE HUNDRED Essex build- duction-to be calculated on ing-components workers are the basis of working hours and determined standard minutes. putting struggle against speed-up on 'We're just not interested in that, Woodcutting Machinists' the cheap. They have answered man- Steward Brian Mitchell old the Workers Press yes- broDosals acement vicious new incentive tones terday morning. Thurrock's 'We want a straight increase scheme Magnet Joinery factory with on the basic rate.' Present hourly rates at the four weeks or virtually solla strike action for a 2s-an-hour factory 9s 5d are machinists, 9s Old for carpen- increase in basic rates without for labourers; 'strings', pay parity throughout ters and the plant, holi- take-home pay for a three weeks avelake day a year and 100-per-cent flat week without bonus is a trade union organization as a mere £15 a week. condition of employment. 'And we're supposed to be Pickets were confident skilled men,' commented one success yesterday as the strike picket. entered its fifth week. Of the three unions in- Magnet's the Transport reply to pay volved, only and General Workers' has demands submitted in January so of this consisted far given the strikers official wear scheme under which workers backing-pickets were yester- day waiting for word from the would receive a derisory 5s-a- week pay rise for each 2t-per- Machinists' and Woodworkers' cent increase in overall pro- unions. LONDON'S 4,000-strong fire brigade ating since July on all but emergency- call duties by insisting may begin 'emergency calls only' action that appliances today in support of a three-month-old be manned Home Office specifica- struggle by men based at stations tions. pay Essex. in Whole shifts have suspended heen Officials of the Fire Brigades Union from stations for met the county's chief fire officer refusing to lift the bans.

vesterday in a bid to obtain £63-a- year Outer London 'weighting' allow- • In tomorrow's Workers Press, we ance for all firemen in the area.

fire-station delegate talk to Fssey At is paid only about the background to this struggle, to men present working on the fringes of london.

and-in a special article-examine last week Holroyd report Firemen throughout Essex the fire recent on stepped up a ban they have been oper- service. The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. moveon

BY ROBERT BLACK

BACKED

BY full of the THE Central Committee of the Socialist Labour Wal machine, American Oll League is pleased to announce the six-days-a- tycoons and Wall St financiers are at this verv week publication of the Workers Press as from moment preparing to un- Monday, October 12, 1970.

leash savage of war the This sten is nossible because of the cuctainad loyal, and Tepression support of and supporters of the magniticent our readers Sunday William The great response to the Trotsky Memoria working class of State, public lectures Meeting and the same rapidly growing demand for Marxist of six-days-a-weet support publicatior Hussein reactionary was "Itre sponsible and imprudent. washingtor announced the Pentagon press. vesterdav that of Stalinism in Britain are part units at The of their has naced military open home and ahraadon aert Cola oraton With imberialism throudhoult the world for evacuation Iner anemoted the Aran revoltition thei of American citizens' reactionary colomate ano political collanoration with Jordan. and their recimes Greece and Cambodia The Syrian • Trials and Communis tinued silence on the Mocanw government yesterday denied Rogers Opposition in present-day Russia.

claim that Without troops counter-revolutionary the destruction thA • fighting were in Jordan. can be no policiec Stalinism in the working cacc there insinuation 'pre- or the labou was successful struggle against British imperialism paratory to American inter- We are absolutely confident that this aim bureallerary vention in the area'. six-days publication accomplished Workers Radio Press. instead Damas called tor the withdrawal of Torons areas the US threat to Middle sta which openly sixth heat. agains struggle 10 Ine training world security and peace'.

alternative leadership in the trade unions and Rogers' threats and alarm the construction of a revolutionarv Marxist part are understandable. The Central Co urgenty consider sug one socialis The use of Syrian Workers Press and Labour Building League League into the revolutionary he essential purpose of the daily paper.

leadership of the working class i Under pressure evolutionary newspaper central role. An unstable Baathist six-days paper regime which leans an hath struggle facing the workind class. to most every army. the workers and uncomoromisino sookesman ano ine best detencer now SVrian onvernmant rea neeos in the tiaht to combat everv dav the retreats the great pressure Inder and sell-outs of the trade union bureaucracy and deception military the masses to give the staliniste aid to the guerrillas Similar have had their raq. in every factory, everv trade union and everv working-class There the Aral Liberation area as the most important step in the fight to bring Front said that had the Tory government. seni 500 battlefield To protect We annaan ardere and cinnarere st the Worker protect The outcial Proce to romanctrate their readinace for this struggle by fighting for the decisions of the Central Committee to: Irag news agency quoted Win 1,000 new Front subscribers. We urge all readers to spokesman become subscribers to the paper.

saying that from nunoreds vouthe Raise the monthly fighting fund from £1,000 to £1,250.

ruling une baath Party Raise an additional fund of £1,000 by October 18 to anneal ny the Portra Tata.

finance the launchino ot the siy-davs baner national (Pan-Arab) leader ship 'to join the Palestinian revolution' Arafat & Hussein to Defence oil invest- of both the Us and Tory of both governments in the Middle Fast meet at summit? is behind their deter- nination to bolster un the war machine z08 AL FATAH leader Yasser Arafat has been asked to the mounting Aran tion which. once unleashed. attend today's Arab summit meeting in Cairo, convened will eastwards

SWAAN

wards the main at the request of Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba.

areas around ducing The one sue the fordan Rockefeller's Standard Oil meeting will be is one of the bigges share. riv war attend, he he Middle Bas If Arafat dnes Council builders will most not onlu Cuma s President. will go to an Dr Atassi, who is supplying the including the risk put in guerrillas with much needed WOr G Wat-TO Kins armour and tanks but defend its economic lite. also lines. agreed to attend the This is what lies behind e summit pay claim speculation and the US drive towarde intor.

Much Arafat's vention in lardon and thic rumOur Surrounds now obviously what ic nrecent role Gov failure Rockefeller an his naitatina

BUILDING

workers' stewards and his Zionist stooges to come put darly for the on Lambeth (London) Council Rogers Hussein Aranthent tha that are demanding theit threaten Syria because regime. tho Coing doily nine i immediate v cuhmit the Soviet bureaucracy's Ahram' yesterday claimed that anim lin a with th c only a last-minute radio break- position authority manual wor- alleged broad ast prevented kers' demand. Pushed through week resolution passed was the Kremlin that being heard by stewards by his guerrilla helped to representing mush through the plasterers, plumbers, painters. trooDs. original Rogers 'neace nro- carnenters. hricklavere an a nosal s'l Denied under the labourers noints out that in. Now. pretert lAcc thair nationa terention The claim was immediately mentality hetween the lordanian raul.

denied the Palectinian increase,. build building radio, ananaille haret 4h a wages 'the seriously be. betray involved etill of other council hind thaco Arab Revolution. compromising manual workers. In an official comment on remain. civil Soviet fact that his presence The stewards want a meet- news at stain ani sotted by aral was ing with their union organizers sad to nrece the claim mously requested They also feel country has actually become there should including Hus- participants but cority workers. all • shows the sein Arah ruling

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classec see Aratat their main hope within the guerrilla

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

bandarchin "tho arramant break relations

CONFERENCE

mict with the Cairo meeting denounce those or take part in its schemes 5: The Pilkinaton betray the Defeat the revolution Tordan. proposed Tory struggle and the right to strike anti-union laws Lunar probe signals stop St George's Hall. Lime St

LIVERPOOL

JODRELL

Bank Saturday October 3 nomy station Cheching which picking Chac hapn 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. signals from the latest Russiar moved prob the sinal als from re- mann Turnam mooncraft been Credentlals and visitors' cards 58 each from Conference fire switched off at about 10 a.m.

58 Leighton Secretary, W. Hunter, Vlew, Liverpool yesterday.

PAGE TWO

CHARLESPARAINs lakesa choser look at the so-called Blach Pourer' bid totakeorer Britin's municipalitir. Special branch man seen here with a truncheon protruding from his inside pocket at a recent demonstration at Hyde Park.

DRAMATIC

headlines The canitalist press hegan an enormous in the press have told 'Red scare' campaign over the 'Zinoviev letter' recently of a 'Black

WAR PLOT BY SOCIALISTS

Power' bid to seize con-

-CIVIL

1924 Labour govern- trol of Britain's munici-

OUR REDE

ment at the dolls palities. Speculation as to the nature of this take- over has centred on a Manchester group which tried, unsuccessfully, to field more than 90 candi.

dates in one city ward. But what kind of people are behind this group which nnerates under two names the Committee for Action for the Relief of Need (CARN) and the British Community Welfare Association? They claim to have the interests of the immigrant at heart. community But couldn't they be used by right-wing elements to whip up a white backlash to split the infant British Communist there are the objective condi- the working class on racialist Party. tions tor • the working class to lines? The letter. from which happy their reformic phonev called for revolution in Britain, leadershin and dispense with the defeat bourgeois ideology. Infiltration Labour It is hardly surprising there- fore that Britain the Before we delve into the ment at the Dolls rash reflect This defeat was actively en- present time there let us northern events. couraged by the willing parti- on the wing infiltration and provoca cipation of the capitalist press right. tion by British intelligence and the enormous 'Dar conta Consider, for team ple the their allies on the right.

campaign built up around the activities The Perhaps the most celebrated muctoriane Militant Workard course, efforts by the of the group apparently pisodi issue eaters right and the police to weaken where certair letter, •movie with and confuse the work of those action Tories, help the hion who chruddle to and the cant.

revolution Britain Hore on mee deals talist system are not accidental.

professional forger. produced a conched in the false document purporting gar- They reach their most fran- Victorian melodrama. from the of the tic and calculated in ore- school nichod with International to revolutionary periods when homilies-'let's get the bloody swine off our backs', etc.

Their addresses

JUST OUT

contain no can be contacted and accord.

Special ing to the press, the Branch are ' investigating' their probe being apparently without success.

The left and all gentling "ninnicto trast thace publicists with extreme scep- ticism. Another development exposed in Workers Press and other left-wing publications the attemot itself Kranch innitrate damanctuatione mracumanly tr glean what : information names and addresses, etc.

Bomb scares Then there have been the attemnte hu the Tory nrace to scares in link tha goront hamh London cinemas with the Irish Army other organizations, despite Scotland that was forced to'admit they have

A TROTSKYIST ANALYSIS

rescan to curenest that the IRA is responsible.

BY ROBERT BLACK

(In N Ireland a number explosions, blamed the Ranublicane +~hi of protestant tho Available from extremists.) Now Park newspapers turned their attention from the

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Irish to the Black Power' a letter conveniently issue, from turned up, allegedly POQO (a guerrilla movement in S Africa) threatening to kill a policeman. Again the language was somewhat curious, with fre- quent allusions to 'you white cats'. The Special Branch are reported to take this seriously and are investigating. During the Second World War both British and German intelligence utilized the method known as 'black propaganda'.

This involved the creation of radio stations issuing leaflets and newspapers supposedly coming from the enemy - all kinds of rumours and fake news bulletins were broadcast in a bid to spread confusion.

Warfare one really There was 'German authentic-sounding station' broadcasting army staffed by British psychological warfare experts—a number of exercised their whom have skills in Fleet St. This type of technique is the sort of thing that appeals to the mentalities of many of the extreme right. Before I describe my investi- gations in CARN, let me say that I make no allegations that the organization is working in the traditions of the earlier groups. There may be quite genuine people in this group who do not realize there are certain peculiar features which should be explained by this organiza- tion if it stands for what it claims to stand for. I first heard of the group when I met its organizer, Mr Tony King, collecting for the British Community Welfare Association (BCWA) in a Man- chester public house. BCWA be the appears to sa m e organization as CARN; at least it has many of the. same per- sonnel. King carried a collecting box and yet had no literature to explain the aims of the Asso- ciation. He informed me that the Association wanted to help needy old people and that it was a militant group. I visited Mr King at his in home Moss-Side, Man- chester's immigrant quarter, and found there a tall West Indian, Mr Trevor Beach, …a co-organizer of CARN and the

BCWA.

some Black • There were Panther posters on the walls collecting and some tins around the flat, but again, no literature. Activities, as far as I could consisted mainly of discern, raising tunds. But Mr Beach told me that they were also encouraging Moss-Side people to stand for their rights, and that the BCWA had contacts with the Black Panthers in America and that they aimed to run candi- dates in the local elections.

In May this year the two organizers made CARN a little better known by fielding 19 candidates in the municipal elections. One candidate Mr was Anthony William John King, who stood in St Marks ward and gained 20 votes. Agent for Mr King and other candidates was Mr Enos Trevor Beach.

Though they won few votes and had apparently engaged in little canvassing, CARN had contested an impressive num- ber of seats. Strange An article in 'The Guardian' of June 24 by Simon Hoggart and Alec Greenheugh headed 'Curious behaviour of new group in politics' revealed that wanted to build

CARN

movement among black people in Manchester, but that it was going about it in strange way. Not only did it carry out no canvassing, but its candidates seemed to be completely in the dark as to what the movement was all about. A Mr Binkell Campbell, a 37-year-old West Indian, can- didate for Crumpsall, never visited the ward during the election and had no intention of representing it. He told The Guardian' how he came to be on the ballot papers: I was at the petrol filling filling my car when station Tony King came up to me. I have seen him around, but I don't know him too well. He said he was standing in the elections and asked me to sign a form. 'He said I would be a can- didate, but that there was no chance of my winning and any votes I got would be trans- ferred to him. I didn't understand what it was all about at the time, but it sounded like a favour I could do him so I signed the paper. I forgot all about it until forms began arriving from the Town Hall about me being a candidate. I realized then how serious it was and wrote back saying I wanted nothing to do with it. They told me it was too late to withdraw. I did nothing during the 'Both men equally refused to election campaign. didn't entertain thoughts any that and seek any votes have they might be manipulated by heard nothing from CARN.'

fascist elements in Man- chester. Mr King said: "Of The reporters found it diffi- I know many fascists course, i cult to trace other candidates.

in this city; you can learn a had moved Some and those lot from them. They are great who had proposed candidates fixers. I have used them, but were completely in the dark.

they have not used me"! A Moss-Side woman said she remembered signing a form for Candidates Beach under the impression it was a petition for a children's nursery. The next episode in the CARN saga came this month An even more peculiar fac- when Messrs King and Beach tor attached to CARN's activi- declared that the 'Black Power ties. As 'The Guardian' article movement' would offer remarked: more than 100 candidates in a ward 'Even more puzzling to the by-election next month. was the couple's open people So far 98 nominations have associations with Manchester been handed 95 from supporters of the British Union 1n CARN and the others in the Movement.' name of the National Freedom It went on: Movement!

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Mr King says he is also an organizer for NFM. The Sunday Times' of September 6 reported some further interesting details or King and his organizations.

Apparently last year CARN was collecting money around the big stores in the West End of London. Assisting Mr King was a Mr Walter Hesketh. has Mr Hesketh presided over the Young British Move- ment, a body set up by Fellow- ship • and Services Ltd, whose directors numbered supporters of Sir Oswald Mosley. Mr Hesketh was a one-time Mosleyite candidate. At the time of the West End collections shared

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King and Hesketh returned to Manchester last year where King set up the BCWA. According to the 'Sunday Times' it gave £100 to a mili- tant black organization strugg!- ing with the moderate West Indian Co-ordinating Com- mittee. Suspicious This brings the story up to date, but no doubt more will be heard of its participants' future-and past-activities.

Such groups as CARN and BCWA are bound to appear at the present time in Britain when there is a growth of radicalism and militancy.

Where 'instant militancy' replaces theory, they can sur- vive and thrive for a time.

It is with the development of the revolutionary party that they will be understood by both black and white workers.

It is this understanding that will bring about the downfall of such groups. The Transitional Programme adopted by the Founding Conference:: of thie Fourth International with the Statutes. of the Fourth International

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Tuesday, September 22, 1970 AT FIRST sight David Caute's play The Demon- Scenes from 'The Demonstration' by David Caute, playing at now showing stration', Unity Theatre, London, at the Unity Theatre in at weekends. London after a first per- Workers Press Photographs formance in the autumn of last year at Notting- University, might ham seem 'dated'.. It is about the 'student revolt' in Europe and the United States, and the 'student movement' is now completely overshadowed by the class struggles building up in all the major capitalist countries. The much play very resembles its subject. It moves starts, flaring up by fits and and as rapidly dying down.

It seems frightened that if the slows, everything will tempo collapse. It is held together only by its own momentum. Ideas are caught up, tossed about and played and with, then as casually discarded and replaced by others. Obsessed The characters are obsessed with the present moment- now? 'What doing are we How shall we act?'- -and the them, with stage reflects rapid changes of the scene, same making new, props opposed situations. In this sense, not as any 'documentary', it is a realistic play. English university In an students are producing a play Bright, "radical' by John Professor. He is Caute's main character, and Bright's play is political parable, 'exploring the dilemmas' of revolutionary retaliate with actual an action. demonstration, the occupy and imprison the university, administration. The students want a play that immediately reflects their wish to revolt and they compel This is the subeth the Bright to produce their own and also the 'play play play—'The Demonstration'.

within the play'. The two The University become one, or at least they authorities inextricably tied punish of the students become up for breaking the rules and thev with one another. I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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Name Address Almost every is scene ambiguous, showing what they and/or what they are doing hoping, fearing and are imagining. In Paris 'The bankers panic, the Bourse is in flames, workers' councils spring up, spontaneous and democratic.

The regime totters ... falls ... totters. Max Brown is the supreme leader of a move- ment without leaders. He is interviewed by Jean-Paul Sartre. In your presence, says the great philosopher, I must learn everything afresh.'

The embattled university president speaks openly for his 'rights' as the representative of the 'bankers, businessmen, politicians and other disinter- ested parties who sit on our Council'. There is nothing slipshod about this 'confusion', nor is it just a theatrical, device for the sake of greater effect.

Illusions Caute expresses the illu- sionistic, 'Utopian' nature of the students' revolt. They have no lasting power, only a hatred of the powers assembled against them. 'Realism' comes only when they are forced to recognize that they must surrender.

Some cannot accept the end: 'No, no, take your dreams for realities!' Others hypnotize themselves from the beginning: 'Time is a bourgeois freak- out. Be your own clock' Bright, as his name implies, is a 'realist'-he has come to terms with his own impotence.

In the end he betrays the students to the police, so that they can share his "realism'. He has leisure and education and can handle 'art' with the tricks of the trade. Machine Real life serves for him as a generating machine for ideas and ironies to be enjoyed on the stage. But if it should threaten the final irony and blow up its own theatrical image, it would step outside his control and lose the only meaning he can find in it.

His 'realism' is the practical viciousness with which he pro- tects his freedom of own fantasy. When that comes into play, his 'sympathies' evapo- rate with scarcely a trace.

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Like all sketches, abstracts - and it abstracts from what is most important and difficult to grasp: the relationships betwen ideas and wishes and the independent world from which they come.

Understand To take hold of that, a dramatist today must under- stand and struggle against the forces which have formed him.

Bright-whom Caute implies Is a partly autobiographical character-is fixed where he is because he cannot or will not do that. That is the core of The Demonstration's' realism, and also of its promise.

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and 'biological backlash' are terms that are becoming all too familiar. Articles and books are now being turned out in an ever- increasing flood which deal with this or that aspect of man's unplanned and often catastrophic interference with an environment which refuses to be parcelled up into neat, separate compartments. By far the most interesting piece to appear in a colour supplement for some time was Gordon Rattray Taylor's "Plague of the Crown Thorns' which appeared in the 'Observer' magazine of Septem- 13 and comprised an absorbing snippet from his latest publica- tion, 'Doomsday Book'. Taylor reports on the popu- lation explosion that has beset the large starfish known as the 'crown of thorns' (and zoo- logically as Acanthaster planci) and which is now threatening to consume all the coral in the Pacific Ocean. Eaten At present, it is reported that about a quarter of the 1,000-mile-long Great Barrier Reef has been eaten. What is the cause of this sudden upsurge? Nobody is quite sure. However, Guam University's Richard Chesher suggests that "man is probably responsible', through destroying possibly some natural check on the starfish population by pollu- tion. Of course, having dropped conceivable sub- nearly every stance (including the recent into nerve gas loads) the the last oceans over two decades without a thought about abstract questions like ecological balance, the the chain of cause and effect is now impossible to trace and the solutions proposed are both temporary and primitive.

In the case of the starfish, an ineffective campaign was waged by teams of divers who descended the voracious on munchers with giant syringes and hot water bottles of formalin to inject the creatures with a lethal dose. If this conjures up a some- what amusing picture, it also is an expression of the tremen- dous gap between theory-as to scientific know- opposed ledge in a number of separate academic disciplines — and man's social practice which un- consciously encompasses an entire planet. 'Backlash' We do not have to go as far as the Pacific to come upon other examples of 'backlash'.

Remember myxamatosis? It killed a lot of rabbits and, for while, upset the feeding habits of numerous bunny- eaters, particularly the fox.

However, in the end the rabbits that survived became resistant to the disease and spawned others who were like- wise immune. This undoubtedly peeved the farmer, but probably didn't give the rest of us many sleep- less nights. Rats, however, are a little different. Much research time and finance has gone into find- ing the quickest and most effective ways of eradicating the disease-carrying rodents with disturbing consequences.

Up till about 20 years ago, killing rats meant using highly toxic, dangerous and painful iat poisons which could also mean the painful death of farm animals, pets or humans unless kept well out of the way.

These poisons were aban- doned in favour of humane killers such as Warfarin which kills by interfering chemically with the rats' blood. Now the development of immunity in rats to these chemicals is threatening Wolverhampton and other urban areas of the Midlands with a rodent invasion. The super-rats have broken the Ministry of Agriculture's three-mile deep cordon around Welshpool pressing and are onwards. A Wolverhampton spokes- man said: "The cordon operation is : over. The rats got through it.

Now the farmers will be res- ponsible once again for their own rodent control. 'Where there are Warfarin- resistant rats, we are back to the pre-1950 days when the anti-coagulant poisons rat started. 'What has occurred is a small genetic change in their cells. The rats look the same ordinary Their as rats. to Warfarin can immunity only be told by testing how long it takes their blood to clot.' As one Farmers' Union official remarked: 'These rats will be extremely dangerous if they spread to the urban areas of the Mid- lands, to the housing estates, tactories and rubbish dumps.'

Having thrown in the towel against the rats, the men from the Ministry are probably get- ting ready with the hot water bottles and outsize syringes.

It remains to be seen how near the mark that is! The Immunity of rabbits to myxamatosis methods of controlling them. In Australla a divldes the rabbit-infested land

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Says Proxmire: 'Whole villages may be wiped out by seeding areas air-dropped with devices designed to kill anyone who ventures near them. 'Once seeded we could lose control of these devices and they would represent a per- manent menace to the civilian population.' The automated battlefield system, employing computers, sensors and laser beams is an effort to develop a totally new method of waging ground warfare,' Proxmire said. Sensors The sensors, according to the Pentagon, are of different types. Some are 'spies', either col- lecting information about the landscape into which they are dropped by air or camouflaged to look like trees. Others dig themselves deeply into the ground while others explode when approached. All of this is quite credible (and profitable, no doubt).

Not that there aren't a few problems in bringing the bless-

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ings of automation into the realms of destruction. One report in July, noting that over £1,000m had been spent on electronic listening devices which had been drop- ped into the jungles of Indo- China, remarked: "The trouble is they don't work'. No distinction One aspect of 'Project Master' that particularly seems to disturb Senator Proxmire is that automated systems make no distinction between • civil- ians and enemy soliders. It would indeed be sur- prising if the US military ever gave such questions a mom- ent's thought. The nearest they have come to making a dis- tinction of any sort, was that between human beings and property. That is why chemical and biological warfare still remains dear to the heart of many a Pentagon/ resident. don't destroy factories.

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executive committee for allowing this breach in the of civil war; scene blood is being shed and the the decision to ban over- towns are shrouded In smoke.' time taken at a mass Many middle-class paci- factory meeting last fists, liberals and Christians Wednesday. Russian wrote about the civil war in exactly these The cut-backs in work, "Tass' which management say And in the are necessary because of a drop ment, oppressed and op- pressor are also placed on diesel sales, affect in over three an equal footing: 120 depart- men "The cessation of fratricidal fighting the and establish- This weakness Acton ment of peace and security at is largely the responsibility is an absolute necessity ...

the stewards who for The existing differences can years have concentrated on be solved only by peaceful the skilled of means, since the experience sections workers and tended of history is that it is best to paid ignore the lower to solve disputes and con- workers who must work through flicts negotiation.' 50-hour week to make up (Emphasis added.) a decent wage. Conspiracy These the were same This is nothing less than stewards who accepted tele- 12-month a demand for the guerrillas control, wage freeze and to lay down their arms and piecework- a despicable defence of the committee recently,

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Hashemite dyn- part of a productivity reactionary asty which is conspiracy deal. against Arab freedom and independence. at all surprising not It is Encouraged that this demand made is when Palestinians, the through their refusal to have any truck with Stalin- Management will be en- ist-inspired 'peaceful means' couraged to push their and 'negotiations', now stand ahead economies in the the threshhold of de- light of these splits amongst on cisive victories. the Acton workers. One The 'experience of history' steward told the Workers has taught the Palestinians Press that the demand 'five day's work that imperialism can only should be, five day's pay'. be defeated by revolution- ary means. This determination to fight, no what the matter odds, finds "Tass'

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now administering the age-old ruling class poison to the Palestinians: 'Violence breeds violence, and obstructs the way to and sperity: progress peace, pro- Break silence Now that the Kremlin has Stalinist spoken, the British 'Morning Star' can break its TriDentia editorial silence. week-long take Also refusing to with guerrillas, sides the attempted yesterday's 'Star' Hussein by to putting all the blame on his military leaders, who sup- posedly frustrated the King's cease-fire bid. The 'Star's' refusal to call for the and overthrow defeat Hussein military leads directly onto its de- efforts mand that 'urgent Britain's should be made by labour movement to get the government (!) to oppose Jordan any intervention in late'. before it is too The same government which is intervening in the brutal in most manner Ulster! We challenge the Stalinists 'Tribune'-ites' and the to Two editions declare publicly -where do you select they stand on the civil war Jordan? (For any two days in £1 for three months Are they for the military £4 a year victo the Royalists guerrillas victory Condon, SWel: 7-720-2000) Press, Workers 186a Are they for class action the Tory govern- asalnst forcing it to resign, ment, and when Heath and his se to Workers Press for US allies Intervene Jordan? Decisive question These are decisive ques- tions. They demand un- equivocal answers. Stalinism and In spite of against it, the Palestinians Hussein will win and will of Nuri Said, way King Abdallah and all the other oppressers of the Arab people. British labour can and must shorten the death these imperialist puppets by intensifying the struggle to bring down their Tory managers.

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SLL Central Committee says: Hands off the Arab Revolution! THE Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League urges the the mobilization of the British imme ate araliol threats of United States imperialist intervention in Jordan, with une danger or anolner vieldam.

It is the internationalist greater is the blow duty of the working class the SDP slips and labour movenent give full and unconditional back in support to the Palestiniar all Arab indissolubiya! workers Swedish imperialisn alle its instrument, the Zionist elections stale olidarity discriminatior Democratic Party list Steal struck in Sunday e chamber Suedit In this struggle against of 350, Communist Guerrillas on alert in Amman.

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