Workers Press no. 264

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • As Arab rulers mourn Nasser What Moscow attacks think How not to fight the anti-Arafat anti-union laws

THE

dustmen's

SLAMBETH

to take part eir dee strike t rebels port is regrettable and wrong.

It is all the more regrettable men who by then on in January

BY MARTIN CARHOP

the London dustmen's strike.

ONE THING remains certain following the death of Egypt's President Nasser - the deter- both the US imperialists and the mination of Soviet bureaucracy to impose a brutal and bloody peace in the Middle East on the bones of the Arab Revolution. In this sense the The sudden demise can in the taco Doubts over of Nasser has removed prop of Hul lall and rapidly-changing the bourgeoisie in its 'selected' political situation against the MPSst told South London Palestinian commandos acceler- and can only a bad mitate a. ation and i, council strikes preparations ate for further blows aimed at left-wing

LAMBETH

the the OI movement. the ers wrong governmen - Thad the ne intended a the right-wing every Tory in Lambeth: Theedge elation Yor which. 1970 Press, Sep- Imperialism and theil oralisin jose on tould True enousu, ano огокет he significance of the press

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If the tois hot nee rt him it cause they are

OFFICIAL

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is backed timing of the strike.

STRIKE

Radio

OFFICIAL

sceptica

STRIKE

Ourside ear bathis bake per det and aid Nuda (1 to 1) The lim for eera money, kers

BY JOHN SPENCER

SELECTIVE strikes of council manual workers hi 16 of London's 32 boroughs yesterday, the first day of unionist in Britain. the unions' rolling programme of strikes in support What is 'wrong', Mr of their £2 15s pay claim.

Were on strike Mores Press The union leaders still hope pressurize more that the it means of sad the shop sear sured into tanne micals What is wo relied mentary remation полете ретроути

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

1733 HE ATTEMPT by left clearly determined to turn thi 222- wage con into ta hast i man th a socialist union strike calls an call see in l WeeK AGE FOUR COL. 1 verthrow this pages Tore task. 8th ARREST Thirades Unions All te cAll Alliance con Here on to staber all trade unionists who are seriously concerne Djakarta yesterday. He ra trade unio verpot walton, and foo ive this conterence un Il backing

WEDNESDAY, SEPTE

264 Morris workers stand firm

CORRESPONDENT

assembly workers at the Motors plant Oxford, Cowley ingly decided strike their five-week over the type of payment to De introduced new Alu zo model. There veterination interns or British-Ley wet it aro Tory govern- Benefit ends Unemployment • Those so prede on secunty paymens. ried out * rely Brita Called for as three momet a order to sup- port he es in ord dealt with wee mass received Amplifiers allowed by in patice This was Morris At the strikers Fe ent undred arters around no place to Finen ser терок, ві convenor Headinhton, Oxford. vote: elecily the by dan Mikard represented elected. I must admit its

APR 05 1973

INSTITUTICN

DAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1970

Wilson at Blackpool: A 'warning' to the Tories on legis DAVID MAUDE in Blackpool PLATFORM promises of pitched House of Commons battles against Tory attacks on the social and services, housing, and health nationalized industries failed to convince many left-wing delegates to the 69th Labour Party Conference yesterday. Party leader Harold Wil- son. - in his parliamentary seem mild by comparison'.

report—warned the govern- Technology And shadow ment that 'if they lay their Minister Wedge- Anthony hands on all that has been wood Benn, warning against British built up by the 'go-it-alone' tendency In the fight people we speeches by trade union shall put up by day and by sensed the leaders, clearly their legis- night against rank-and-file frus- growing lation will make the even making the union tration battles fight they hacta leaders run. to get the Rent Act through In a bid to convince that Labour's discredited parlia- mentary arm is not entirely pledged impotent, he line-

MOVE TO

by-line opposition at West- minster to every Bill brought

DEPORT

forward to attack the public sector of industry.

DUTSCHKE

There are very powerful influences which are pre-

CONDEMNED

pared to pay for Tory vic- tory time and time again if, in return, the Tory Party • AN EMERGENCY resolu- will transfer major sectors tion condemning the threat- of profitable public enter- ened deportation of Rudi prise back to them to exploit Dutschke was accepted by their own benefit, for but conference yesterday, said. the National Executive It was a capacity audience Committee refused to allow standing which gave a debate. ovation to Wilson's 10,000- of Wythen- Gillian Sheldon -although some word report shaw Labour Party Young delegates remained defiantly prevented Socialists was seated: protesting against discussing this ques- trom it turned the fact that tion by conference chairman its head and socialism on Ian Mikardo. skated completely over the She told the Workers Press: government's Labour own *I think it is very important record. this to have a debate on Here question. we have a Gaps who is person in Britain had But for his yawning gaps being persecuted hall by opened up the political beliefs. This is a in Conference the time came very important principle to to declare its opposition to fight on, as important as plans both for de-national- better bad housing and ization and for a 'second- schools. force' private airline. that there is appreciate Although the motion- lack of time in this moved by the post office ference to discuss all issues, workers and supported by but I hope we will be able the transport salaried staffs, to have some debate on this clerical workers, later on in the week? and technicians and several constituency parties carried unanimously, several trade union delegates later that the confided belief fight is still in the factories'.

A number of trade union leaders rose in the debate to take the line-the words.

are those of this case,

UPW

assistant secretary Norman 'this Stagg that will government discrimin- ate against our industries not a very encouraging start in a way which will impair to our campaign. their efficiency'. *You see, only two-thirds of the constituency parties Robbery have bothered to send dele- ASTMS - sponsored MP gates. I think there is a good Russell Kerr described the deal of cynicism in the con- ference. Many people know Tories' airline plans as that resolutions will be 'robberv grand scale . could and should put passed and discussed and the then simply ignored by the ministers responsible leadership.' behind bars'. But it was left to Wal- Norman Atkinson, speak- after lasey delegate ing immediately his constituency Tom Ward to strike virtually defeat, said that he was obviously disappointed with the only principled note in the debate. the results. "I cannot say much about *Public industry must be it at the moment. We must run in the interests of the first analyse why it people as a whole by the But I think it's a start people who work in them, red. and yed we will try again next le said, 'and not for a hand.

ful of private capitalists.' The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. ONE MORE DAY-E269 9s 10d Still to raise for Sept Appeal Fund YESTERDAY'S post brought £119 17s 10d, giving a total of £730 9s l0d for the fund There's one day left and still f269 10s 2d to raise, We need to make the biggest effort ever yet to clear the fund. It's been hard struggle. With a massive last-minute fight we can Don't delay-Post immediately complete the target on time.

every penny you can to : Workers Press Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4. ШИННИН ries on legislation few THE RELEASE of some hundreds of political prisoners in Greece recently might have im- pressed naive people in some Britain that the Greek dictatorship was liberalizing itself or at least relaxing, somewhat, its Draconic grip on political life in Ramotse the country. In fact, political oppression, sentence and of torture terrorizing innocent workers and students AFRICAN guerrilla Benjamin the police in secret Ramotse, said to have trained collaboration with their

CIA

in Russia, will be sentenced patrons continues at a ghastly today in Pretoria on SiX Dace charges under the S African If Stalinist and liberal poli- Terrorism Act. tical prisoners are being re- leased, it is only because the regime wants to make room Notts in its prisons and deportation centres tor the uncompromis- ing and revolutionary delegates opponents of the regime such as the Trotskyists. Workers Press is proud for ATUA publish from the extracts testimony of these intransigent opponents of the Greek dic- conference tatorship, who are sympathetic to the International Com-

SUBSTANTIAL

support for mittee of the Fourth Inter- national. the All Trades Unions Alliance Their refusal to capitulate Pilkington's conference has to the junta come in from the Nottingham an eloquent indictment of all those Stalin- area where the Raleigh shop the stewards committee has voted Ist regimes who support dictatorship to send a five-man delegation.

all those - and The

T&GWU

Stalinists who, by their silence, Plessey branch in Beeston, Notts, is also continue to aid and encourage sending a delegate. the brutal capitalist dictator- ship.

CORRECTION

TESTIMONY

SATURDAY'S Workers Press The first extract comes from stated that support for the All the Trades Unions Alliance testimony of Theologos Pilkington's conference Psaradelles, had Courageous come from the Deptford young Trotskyist worker who Scientific Workers' Branch. was arrested by the junta's This should have read the police, imprisoned, escaped to Deptford Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers branch.

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ALL. TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE"

CONFERENCE

The Pilkington Defeat the struggle and the proposed Tory right to strike anti-union laws St George's Hall, Lime St

LIVERPOOL

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Secretary, W.

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUE

Trotsky Memorial Meeting

GLASGOW

Partick Burgh Hall (nr Merkland St underground) 7.30 p.m. Admission 2s. Trotsky English Remind and the Forward with the Speaker: G. Healy

(SLL

first Trotskyist national secretary) daily newspaper- Sunday

WORKERS PRESS

October 4

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER 0 PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 264 • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1970 What we think HoW not to fight the anti-union laws not the local authority manual workers' wage claim is regrettable and wrong.

I in alt han one see table their tenacious men the Lambeth coun- The London dismen Stre the non-political Because of nature ucof and conditions. insank political situation Mr Sully toid a soutn London Press' reporter • now bad * reputation and out make some anoras think ong time and * Thiad the inte which every Tally in caring declaration drives *Twedge rember 29, 197 Press, Sep- South and we would Task riful to of the prese the reaction support ning of the see. of the baste wage vital issu The lim for era money, ekers unionist in Britain. i rinks that the 8 ors of tan manoeuvres. Wa time when the gover ime halt movement by para designed to ncrease unemployment. leadership able task is an unpostpone- All This is the atons Alliancee determined to solve. We or are seriouade • Trade unton movement ive this conference me

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

NUMBER

HE NEWSLETTER

BY MARTIN ZARROP

following the ONE THING remains certain death of Egypt's President Nasser - the deter- mination of both the US imperialists and the to impose a brutal and Soviet bureaucracy bloody peace in the Middle East on the bones of the Arab Revolution. The sudden demise of Nasser has removed of an important prop the bourgeoisie in its struggle against the Palestinian commandos -and .can only acceler- preparations for ate further blows aimed at the left-wing of the guerrilla movement. The Stalinists are hurriedlv pressing torward the vacuum as quickly as possible with a military junta that will continue operate in the Rogers Gromyko plan and the Cairo greement hastily pledged continuing support for a poli- tical settlement of the Middle

HAST

2 one The ine President

TOT

which Nasser has fought' Imperialism and Stalinism lose their Middle East best broker

• SEE PAGE FOUR

NUPE

This promise of support for further massacres. even more

OFFICIAL

hoody than tose carmed out

NUPE

hussein and his butchers.

STRIKE

backed Moscow Radio by continual attacks

OFFICIAL

against the révolutionary guerrillas.

STRIKE

Extremism Said one Moscow 'observer': Outside lter Baylis, Joke eare ust and Charle Nodds.

such depot: NUrt drivers (I lO T elements forces which are alien to Ara

BY JOHN SPENCER

forces, which, with interests: of the ald these strikes of council manual workers hit Palestine

SELECTIVE

size the word ncla 16 of London's 32 boroughs yesterday, the first day of cause in general these groups not determine the nature the unions' 'rolling programme' of strikes in support of the Palestine movement- a pretext for direct Ameri- of their f2 15s pay claim.

and for inter- can interference Public Employees' union The union leaders still hope the Workers Pres vention in Jordan. reperers spoke pressurize the l emn over. Kosygin is now to picketi rremier into giving a little more thar reDorters preparing to attend Nasser's Nudds and the fl l6s they have offered (narle means of settling the Raviss and their sooD stewart

• PAGE FOUR COL. 6

Iohn Luckhurst. was divided about Opinion the 'selective' system hall hearted threat let striking. 'If it had been left to me?

method Peter Bayliss said, perfected sinkes - pulled the lot out. This is a hu the Stalinists in France.

the Tories This as many council wor- of Harold TAre WArA MICk to DoInt oUt but I'd Wilson's p

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

vesterday. is not the way this struggle than rather

THE

nunch. ATTEMPT by 'Heath will have general strike oh his hands it he goes Labour parliamentary "left' a test case. socialism re party for already an like this got • bad You've got miners, the buses, the fire yesterday's encouragement given Start and now us. National Executive tions which do not want to What with rising costs and ence elections. nent. Committed our to b realman. Lambeth dustmen rent. man who's "left' MPs were elected in formery regarded as millants craftsman the key Worth a stora sur seed _unter on Tuesday to ignore Norman section Our DArL week working as usual. (See col 1

PAGE FOUR COL. 1

for this page.) Totten. defeated ham.

WAS

plus Disciplined 8th ARREST danisive Cone milton marain in his contest with But was disciplined and the strike Tames for Callaghan yesterday CHIEF-OF-STAFF of an élite party treasurership. the seven sPIT com. stituency CAction Karhaw: cases operated a strict Castle and Anthony Wedge many wood Benn once again work-to-rule finished ton of the poll Lambeth Council's AT Eric Heffer, 'left' MP for general to Shakesneare Road denot. Brix- Liverpool-Walton, and John be held on similar charges ton, where driver members ol Morris workers stand firm

CORRESPONDENT

A MASS MEETING

of assenor workers aluc Morris MOTOrS cowlev. wester day morning overwnelm- ¡now darded to continu their five-week old strike be new ADO 28 model There was no weakenin to stand fir sev methods or pamen payment full Benefit ends Unemployment Eat an hare Payme called " More Britain and cale tol Port hee in order to sup.

They dealt with firmls orkers s area before they leave befor aneed anal taken. Amplifiers Morris meras meeting police rikes cot meer Ste preeting senspeakers.

ere left hundred worker Cowley meet. andmongst evene have launched an donations of support. Financial ivanor, 1 Headington, Oxford. 'Lefts' disappointed with for Peni Mene, ago, Called to com опе,

DAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1970

Wilson at Blackpool: A 'warning' to the Tories on legis fight. DAVID MAUDE in Blackpool PLATFORM promises of pitched House of Commons battles against Tory attacks on the services, bousing, and social and health nationalized industries failed to convince many left-wing delegates to the 69th Labour Party Conference yesterday. Party leader Harold Wil- his son. - in Darlamentary mild by comparison. seem report-warned the govern- And shadow Technology ment that if they lay their Minister Anthony Wedge- hands on all that has been wood Benn, warning against British built by the up a 'go-it-alone' in tendency the fight people we trade speeches by union shall put up by day and by leaders, clearly sensed the night against their legis- growing rank-and-file frus- lation will make even the tration making the union battles they had fight leaders run. to get the Rent Act through In a bid to convince that Labour's discredited parlia- mentary arm is not entirely impotent, he pledged line-

MOVE TO

by-line opposition at West- minster to every Bill brought

DEPORT

forward to attack the public sector of industry.

DUTSCHKE

"There are powerful very influences which are pre-

CONDEMNED

pared to pay for Tory vic- tory time and time again if, in return, the Tory Party AN EMERGENCY resolu- will transfer major sectors tion condemning the threat- of profitable public enter- ened deportation of Rudi prise back to them to exploit Dutschke was accepted by for their own benefit, he but conference yesterday, said. National the Executive It was a capacity audience Committee refused to allow which standing gave a debate. ovation to Wilson's 10,000- Gillian Sheldon of Wythen- word report-although some Young shaw Labour Party delegates remained defiantly prevented Socialists was seated; protesting against discussing this ques- from the fact that it turned tion by conference chairman on its head and socialism Ian Mikardo. skated completely over the She told the Workers Press: government's Labour own •I think it is very important record. to have a debate on this Here we question. have a Gaps person in Britain who is for his But yawning gaps had being persecuted hall by beliefs. This is a opened up in the political the time Conference came very important principle to declare its opposition to to fight on, as important as plans both for de-national- housing bad and better 'second- ization and for a schools. airline. force' private that there is appreciate Although the motion- of time in this lack con- the office moved by post ference to discuss all issues, and supported by workers but I hope we will be able the transport salaried staffs, to have some debate on this workers, scientists later on in the week? clerical and technicians and several constituency parties carried unanimously, several trade delegates later confided a belief that 'the fight is still in the factories'.

A number of trade union leaders debate rose in the to take the line-the words, this case, are those of in

UPW

assistant secretary Stagg Norman - that 'this government will discrimin- ate against industries not a very encouraging start which will impair in a way to our campaign. their efficiency. 'You see, only two-thirds of vehe coereit le send deles the constituency Robbery dele- gates. I think there is a good ASTMS - sponsored MP Russell Kerr described the deal of cynicism in the con- Tories' airline ference. Many people know plans as will be 'robbery grand scale that resolutions on . could and and should passed and discussed put the responsible then simply ignored by the ministers behind bars'. leadership. Wal- Norman Atkinson, speak- But it was left to his immediately after lasey constituency delegate ing Tom Ward to strike virtually defeat, said that he was the only principled note in obviously disappointed with the results. the debate. "I cannot say much about 'Public industry must be We must the interests of the it at the moment. run in first it occur- people as a whole by the analyse why But I think it's a start who work in them,' red. people and we will try again next he said, 'and not for a hand- capitalists.' year' ful of private The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. ONE MORE DAY-£269 9s 10d still to raise for Sept Appeal Fund YESTERDAY'S post brought £119 17s 10d, giving a total of £730 9s 10d for the fund There's one day left and still £269 10s 2d to raise. We need to make the biggest effort ever yet to clear the fund. It's been With a a hard struggle. massive last-minute fight we can target on time. Don't delay-Post immediately complete the every penny you can to: Workers Press Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High Street, London, sW4. ries on legislation RELEASE of some few

THE

hundreds of political prisoners in Greece recently might have im- pressed people some naive Britain that the Greek dictatorship was liberalizing itself or at least relaxing, somewhat, its Draconic grip on political life in the country. Ramotse In fact, political oppression, sentence of and terrorizing torture innocent workers and students

AFRICAN

guerrilla Benjamin by the secret police in Ramotse, said to have trained

CIA

collaboration with their in Russia, will be sentenced patrons continues at a ghastly today in Pretoria on

SIX

pace. S African under the charges If Stalinist and liberal poli- "Terrorism Act. tical being prisoners are re- leased, it is only because the regime wants to make Notts in its prisons and deportation centres for the uncompromis- and ing revolutionary delegates opponents of the regime such as the Trotskyists. Workers Press is proud ta for ATUA publish extracts from testimony of these intransigent opponents of the Greek dic- conference tatorship, who are sympathetic to the International Com- mittee of the Fourth Inter-

SUBSTANTIAL

for support the All Trades Unions Alliance national. Their refusal to capitulate Pilkington's conference has come in from the Nottingham to the junta is an eloquent indictment of all those Stalin- area where the Raleigh shop stewards committee has voted ist regimes who support the dictatorship and all those to send a five-man delegation.

The Plessey

T&GWU

Stalinists who, by their silence, branch in Notts, is also continue to aid and encourage Beeston, the brutal capitalist dictator- sending a delegate ship.

CORRECTION

TESTIMONY

SATURDAY'S Workers Press stated that support foliathe The first extract comes from Trades Alliance Theologos the testimony Pilkington's conference had Psaradelles, courageous Deptford young Trotskyist worker who come from the Scientific Workers' Branch. arrested was by the junta's This should have read the police, imprisoned, escaped to Deptford Amalgamated Society

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of Woodworkers branch.

ALI. TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

CONFERENCE

The Pilkington Defeat the proposed Tory struggle and the right to strike anti-union laws St George's Hall, Lime St

LIVERPOOL

Saturday October 3 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Credentals and vieltors' cards 5s each from Conference W. Hunter, 58 Loighton View, Liverpool 8. Secretary,

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUE

Trotsky Memorial Meeting

GLASGOW

Partick Burgh Hall (nr Merkland St underground) 7.30 p.m. Admission 2s. Trots glish Revolutionoming and Forward with the

(SLL

Speaker: national seCretary Healy first Trotskyist daily newspaper- Sunday

WORKERS PRESS

October 4

PAGE TWO

LAST WEDNESDAY'S BBC

2 programme In man's labour is his dignity and pride' brought the corporatist philosophy which underlies the so-called Institute for Workers' Control right out into the open. The entire programme served as an advertisement for this organization--or more exactly as a self-advertisement for its head, the ex-Pabloite revision- ist Ken Coates. Coates' sententious phrases were rarely off the screen for any length of time, and the programme got off to a flying the introductions start once had been made with a shot of Coates watching "The Spokes- man' being printed. Coates' appearance on the screen was preceded by shots of Edward Heath, Wilson, Anthony Wedgewood Benn and Transport and General Workers' Union leader Jack Jones. 'What is a man here for?' Coates asked rhetorically.

'He doesn't get very long' Abstracted One thing Coates abviously doesn't think man is here for socialism. fight for is to 'Workers' control', abstracted Transitional Pro- from the gramme, the struggle to build a party and the fight against Stalinism and reformism in the has replaced the fight unions, for socialism in Coates' circle.

The techniques of sociology, the search for 'job satisfaction' and the rest of the stock-in- trade of management consul- tants and productivity-dealing is here being given a 'left', even a "Trotskyist', appearance.

That is undoubtedly why the " gover BBC could find 50 minutes to show this film. This is a neces- sity in the present crisis of the capitalist system, where everywhere employers are seeking new and more subtle ways to hoodwink workers into selling their conditions and accepting speed-up. Coates' Institute serves as a transmitting belt between the university researches on sociology, productivity and the like and the trade union bureaucracy-particularly the 'left' union bureaucrats who figure prominently on the In- stitute's notepaper. Corporatism tries to recon- cile the working class to capitalism by 'overcoming' the struggle within capital- class ism. In Spain and in Musso- Italy, lini's the Corporate State takes the form of replac- ing the independent organiz- ations of the working class by Syndicates of workers and their employers together— A Rolls Royce drawing office in Coventry

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dominated, naturally, by the employers. In Weimar Germany, before Hitler took power, successive hy the " governments tried to consolid- ate their bonapartist rule with laws designed to maintain the "balance' between the reformist and the big union leaders monopoly trusts. Their efforts, aided by the union leaders, open the way for helped Hitler. Derived Many of the basic concepts of modern corporatism were derived from the work of writers like George Sorel, a French nineteenth - century anarcho-syndicalist many of whose ideas of workers' con- trol and participation are echoed today by the Institute for Workers' Control. The essence of corporatism, 'left' or right, is an attempt to demagogically do away with the class struggle and integrate workers into capitalism under the guise of giving them a say in industry.

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GUEST REVIEWER-JOHN SPENCER

or ss ie the expro perspective explicitly rejected After recounting the speed.

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utes conditions Bever. IN Man's Labour Is his Dignity BBC the

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colliery "model Coates er 23 she following terms: about nauonanzauon ir strategy Corporatism developments in

HIGGS

Outside the perspective the ero kir tack of class taking the incustria democracy' can ont means of moving British organize explain. tion' had been raised by allow pass is forced wnen Thus the nim awelt at lengui no them to make complete la Lne

SCOTT

Dauer heaters rather than work on a the workers and aised their Ine and slales I to relorm seats on Guard. talism must end in tailoring it employers profitscreased Coates averred that 'increas style roviding obstaction an Ing 100 Siste would i in stry Institute n on. he is talking within th are heir hoosted i framework of the continuation : to head off revo- The whole battery i of industriai developments or cabitalst sociely. insiae and the working sychologica class. pro- hould be put at the dispos Cover gramme should about real worker. in orael this, he said. significance of their politics.

However they moves to draw brave a trade working to the beverco es mine in Nown namsure class unions organizations closer Ine

KEN COATES

This is what capitalist state. orporatism mean le independent struggle o All developments it is not surprising tnat tne ooposite this forgon of pre most Open statemen pee incrive wack • of ca type independence fights for from sociologists l18gS, the Rolls-Ru che almot building a tee is used cover Dolltica explicitly rejected it. ' take adaptation to imperialism Only the these from In the Institute for Workers' described as all duver usemen turned out to be a 'workers' Control this means apologizing ployers. whose high- eve manager. deals evel unt mesen to add balances to the remote socialist perspec providing most which contained , class. programme. ersed with onsiders that what thri Scanlon Daly institute intersperates and others class is not ready fo fight for does denigrating the or even for workers' as to the rees e Marxism ano the revolunionar - ended withore spemicratic requirements i party. the youth, future ready more programme to be degree oi parucipanon• society' worked lowarus of de agitating mudgement wortn workers in me ranes saccol.

by

WINCIS CON

Gaulle himself! ulasgow, wnose 1ob satisfac trol and participation бобоообтттоббобтббо. Workers Press notebook Some of their best friends

HERZEN

LAST WEEK'S South East London and Kentish Mercury'

AND

purposeful splashed in bold type a letter from the local National Front.

We hope the many admirers refer at all It did not Te especial thene the Labour but immigration race, ert. especially talked about 'a total solution will be proud of theil cles, problem'. to the "skinhead' new alle.

'THE TIMES'

The answer, It must be remembered, how ever, ntroduction that friendshin betwee Nati nal Server Monism and toe extreme rignu is nothing new. interesting part of of the communication "revisionist' so-callea final are mean. mean wale _ll read. Beigin's 'we can only look with admir- Herut "creedom"). had in its ranks many open aamirers or mussollni. AN IRONIC picture appeared this assemhiv ot bureaucrats onelso nadenny wracts and These were the Coational and bourgeoisie. street Into the given away Milary ganization, the ter in last Thursday's "Times'.

Although he took no Dart corners during had 'Barthelemy was bored by It showed the paper's in english boltics we for exploits

PLHEVE

were he many years in Londol. the exhortations of the sherit responsible driving nun• editor-in-chief, Denis Hamil- a keen eye for British hypo he anoste in the gold chain •reas or inousanas or Arab.

the Zionists were Unknown aeals wIt ton, Smirkovsky the Soviet noticed this and. assumine a into exue In 1y4o "Only solemn air. sala to nun. the connection is older DUl Ambassador and Lady Dart- awakening Russian that in a than that. 1854, reported 'Iskra' mouth (with hat), representing he says, 'with at hat time the

FOUNDER

strikes malicious spite'

UNDER

THE

heading Tory Greater London "And what do you think, , Menzle, founderst demonstration: tne the God "FUTUROLUGY, the Morn- barthelemy against

EXECUTION

the ing Star' has been advertising speak rrencn. 11 ne aoesn t .

actions of Herz's triend. re shan't be a lecture by James Klugmann permit a assuring the Jews of the town were encasea in un It concerned the execution, Pad- Palestine Pre- Jewish settlement in with the words: of the Paris worker-revolution- entitled 'Marxism and a lite ist, we are Russians negotiated with all kinds of we nave nelnel Karthelemv. tor the mur- diction'. der of a London policeman.

Ogarev Perhaps the rutho These included the Tsarist equally r ot wron has the s Trot: 8ol to 18o sighs and smiles of all sheriffs.

"National Front Times' leade with "Ine Church Willich and nayors and aldermen, the hug servant of imperialis in strum that the realms the pointed had Out, shocked ›ages or ine limes remaining Who knows, he may be at- Russia away from youth and enemy working ot the we payuc pur up atheist to the very last. Herzen

FORGOT

tempting to contact the spiri! revolution- only class. Tine mistake ther think

UNVEILING

recalls: his master, Joset ary late socialism. wile the s make Unal would get youth of Israel is with them.

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Wednesday, September 30, 1970 HAVING looked at some of the workings of mod- ern systems of exploit- ation found incorporated in productivity agree- ments, it is necessary to examine how a fight should be taken up against these methods. This is impossible without, at the same time, taking a close look at the organizations which profess to oppose these systems, but which in reality paved the way for their intro- duction. The Communist Party now occasionally professes to op- pose productivity deals. How- ever, during the period when these agreements were being government and em- throughout taste industry the daily not a single compre- hensive analysis of these deals, Measured. Day Perk and work how how These, it was claimed, could be settled by localized strikes study systems are used. in the same way as claims in On the other hand, many of 'boom' period for 2d-an- the the CP's leading militants have hour condition money or played a consistent role in lay- better toilet facilities had been ing the basis for these agree- achieved; with a show of mili- ments throughout industry.

tancy in the individual factory or site. Political Even when they did resort During this period they have productivity to action over agniti fo hat ainse the re- deals, what was being "settled' cognition these agree- was not total opposition to ments were now being used as but simply these agreements, a political instrument. 'bad negotiation over the points "and how much the While union leaders, con- 'down payment on selling the faculties sultants, university rule book should be. departments and government laid plans to rationalize in- Leading Stalinists, Jack Dash on the docks and 'Lew' Lewis dustry after industry from top to bottom, the Stalinists main- on the building sites, actively tained that the disputes were opposed the Young Socialists purely economic issues (the CP and Socialist Labour League members who set out to take militants consistently referred local bread-and- up a political fight against the to them as butter issues'). government's plans.

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Under way The modernization of the mining and dock industries is already well under way. Productivity deals, linked modern methods on with building sites, is the beginning of a trend towards making this a capital-intensive as opposed to a labour-intensive industry.

The same process is now under way in shipping. Along with the development of bigger automated ships, special 'general-purpose agree- ments' are being operated in which all demarcation between jobs — engine room, catering, deck work, etc. — are being

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broken down, so that all ratings must do any work as directed. There is no doubt that the shipping employers are build- ing on the setbacks to the seamen of the 1966 strike.

This brings us to the Stalin- ists' one statement on produc- tivity deals—the pamphlet by Ramelson. to have read Claiming "several hundred deals' Ramel- son manages to squeeze an DASH: Con- gratulations from 'The Evening Standard' 'anatomy' of them into 21 pages. The complete superficiality of his approach can be seen in the fact that job evaluation is not mentioned once through- out. Work study, gets a single reterence, as does Measured- Day Work, with no explanation of how these systems work or how they are used. Yet these methods are included in every single productivity deal, affect- ing the work of millions of workers. It seems clear that the CP

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produced this pamphlet in order to give its rank-and-file members the impression that it is opposed to these systems, while in fact, it has not moved an inch from its avowed policy of peaceful co-existence with capitalism. In practice, this means giv- support to all ing full union 'lefts' who sign these agreements on the basis of put- ting forward a policy to save capitalism in its crisis.

That re-activation of capital- ism is the Stalinist policy as is made clear in Ramelson's pam- phlet where he calls for a shorter working week (a cor- rect enough demand) on the following basis: 'The whole of our industrial history has shown that a re- duction in the working day and working week, far from increasing the costs of produc- tion, has had the opposite effect. It has acted as a spur to capital investment and more efficient management. It has raised productivity through a reduction in indus- trial accidents by reducing the strain on the workers. It has led to improved industrial re- lations and a smoother rhythm of the process of production?

Breaking Internationally, the Stalinists support attacks on actually the working class by aiding in the breaking of miners' strikes in Spain, by shipping Polish coal to the Spanish regime, by sending Polish cement to the Irish republic to help break a strike of Irish cement workers, and by recognizing and deal- ing with the regime of the Greek colonels. The activities of the British Stalinist leaders in supporting productivity agreements in the name of 'a spur to capital in- vestment' and 'more efficient management' are wholly in with these acts of keeping betrayal. Another organization which professes to oppose product- ivity deals is the 'left'-sounding 'Institute for Workers' Con- trol' (IWC).

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Presided over run-down o! 400,000 jobs and 250 pits lon played a key role in getting the Measured-Day Work at Rootes, Linwood schemes accepted). Another of its protégés is Lawrence Daly, a 'left' and a 'genuine internationalist' ac- cording to the IWC. Daly, now general secretary of the NUM, had his resigna- tion demanded last year by hundreds of miners over his handling of the surfacemen's strike, because of his continual insistence work to and use of 'procedure'. Fits in The Institute's policy, far from opposing the employers' fits in well with plans, very the attempts by managements to incorporate 'workers' repre- sentatives' into the running of companies. Even Tory Party members talk in terms of greater involve- ment of workers in the man- agement of enterprises. This does not mean that these people have in any way diverted from their plans to BY.

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defeat and discipline the work- Presumably, the government class. ing and employers gracefully bow The Tory Party's proposals themselves out in the face of for laws against strikers shows extension of "industrial this this clearly enough. democracy. Rather, 'participation' is seen as a strategy which can weaken Enthused and tie up the working class for future in preparation at- This organization has spent tacks. much of its time boosting 'left' trade unionists like Jack Jones All the IWC policy boils Hugh Scanlon, both of down is a of joint and to series whom have promoted product- councils in which equal num- ivity deals in industry (Jones, bers of workers representatives for example, enthused consist- and members of management ently over Devlin, while Scan- mutually agree to the intro- TV

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duction of the latest systems of exploitation. In effect, the workers actively co-operate in their own exploit- ation; the question of socialism and the overthrow of capital- A typical example of the IWC attitude is found in their pamphlet 'Job Evaluation and Workers' Control' by Ray After giving an examination of some examples of job evaluation Collins explains that 'a number of strategies are possible in the field of job evaluation'. There are : (a) "Outright rejection'.

(b) 'Playing it cool-noting managements desire to use job evaluation, but neither trying to block this nor getting involved in it' (c) 'Collaboration in all or parts of the process.' (d) 'Demanding job evalua- tion attacking as an strategy! For Marxists the fight for workers' control is an essential part of the strategy for the taking of power by the work- ing class, led by the revolution- ary party. This is a concept which Collins and company, with their policy of 'Workers Con- trol' by mutual agreement with the employers and of demanding increased exploita- tion and sacking 'as an attack- ing strategy can only view with horror and dismay. • Continued next Wednesday.

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otherwise the firm's Bristol plant Thursday an ted the coned t of the strug te. production anys. was important Can afford 1 the nas of ended orders Ministers and the American shade tal aside for development But he did not tereriding question that the com industry Ter me then next year it The likely succe mented one speaker Lockheed L-10ll airliner while t93 future f Report Educat Thatcher or Concorde matic prospect Israeli failure to agree was registered.

from the oops opened fire troops opene • demor speaker whe completely nade quat Stormed out of redundancies repeated bato tween ers thared in jerusatem tart and slogans against Husseir * rate rente insecurity troops Hu pinic part-time ing alternative the pay claim. THE DEATH of Egypt- Gamal president Abdel Nasser in Cairo night Monday caused widespread grief in imperialist, Stalinist ana nationalst circies throughout the world. Excha The London Stock •We are struggling against organized on the workers

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put the Israeli Soviet bureaucracy to enforce by the news, a settlement with Israel along an alert! the lines of the Rogers plan. Even Tory Foreign Secretary His opposition to the guer- Sir Douglas Home Alec rillas before his death was that 'the moved to write the opposition of a bourgeois world will sadly miss his in- politician to revolution.

fluence at this time when the search for peace in the Middle Nasser's government was East is so vital'. always closely tied the to financial group powerful Misr Nasser's 18-year career at in Egypt. the head of the Egyptian bour- But internationally, the pos- geois nationalist one ofovernment made him sibility of support the fore- getting spokesmen of the from both the imperialist most 'non-aligned' powers and the Soviet bureau- called countries. cracy gave him for a period a who Like similar rulers certain independence from of ex- emerged in a number imperialism. the colonial countries during. Indeed for a long period 1950s, Nasser maintained him- Nasser headed the fight self by playing off imperialism the Zionist state of internationally, against and Stalinism in 1948 Israel, established suppressing while ruthlessly collaboration of through the independent working- any Stalin and the western powers.

class movement at home. Like the regimes of Sukarno Thẻ Palestine question, fact, became a central issue in in Indonesia, Nkrumah in Egyptian politics, it is Ghana and Ben Bella in today. Algeria, Nasser's form of rule was essentially Bonapartist.

• Under Nasser, Egypt fought wars with Israel, both in two This form of government in of which reality epi- were in the former colonial countries sodes in a continuing battle.

the 1950s could emerge in Nasser's of only on the basis of the pro- betrayal the Palestinians before his death, longed inflationary boom in his with the based on the collaboration world capitalism, Arab export of US dollars. ultra-reactionary mon- archs a settlement impose against the wishes of the

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Palestinians, and his growing The deepening of the world with desire reach 'peace' capitalist crisis now requires Israel were aimed at maintain- far more reactionary forms of the ing capitalist rule in rule with the subordination of Middle East. the nationalism to inter- requirements of the

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national employers. Nasser's death must acceler- Nasser was almost the last ate the break-up of the one- of the generation of bourgeois- party state in Egypt, a process nationalist leaders who came which was already well under prominence in the period way. after the war with the break.

French and It is undoubtedly a blow for up of the British, the imperialists and the Stalin- Dutch empires. ists, for it removes one of Any attempt to revive their best hopes of selling any Nasserism with another figure- Arab - Israeli deal to the short-lived. head can only be and masses Egypt elsé- Born Alexandria where. Tanuary 15, 1918, the son on of Nasser's death brings to an official, minor government end whole in the epoch Nasser became a professional Arab Revolution. soldier in 1938. His entire provides career He was an ardent nationalist abundant proof of the venal- and headed a group of young ity, vacillation, weakness and officers Officers in the Free instability of the Arab bour- Committee which overthrew geoisie. King the British puppet It demonstrates the also Farouk in July 1952. need build independent two weeks after this Just working - class Tevoltona d'etat the coup regime parties fight to the end to executed a number of strikers against imperialism and native and made it abundantly clear bourgeois rule, whether it be that the working class was to a presidential republic, as in subjugated to the Egypt, remain or a monarchy as in nationalist capitalists in whose Jordan. interests the regime had been established. Castro

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PREMIER Fidel This military intervention Castro has offered to conclude was politically nullified largely a two-way agreement with the by the efforts of the United United States for the return which quickly recog- of all hi-jackers to the country nized Nasser as a potential where the 'offence' took place.

friend of imperialism in the In fact the offer - made Middle East. Cuban the radio by The British bourgeoisie, Castro's Foreign Minister Raul which for time painted Rao- -has already been under- Nasser a red as bogey-man, lined by action. gradually came to share this Last week the Cuban regime Above all. Nasser was returned to the United States groomed for the role of grave- Robert Labadie, who hi-jacked digger in the Arab Revolution Cuba an American plane to by Stalinism, international last month. which mortally fears the independent movement of the First case Arab masses. This was the first case of a Nasser's popularity rested hi-jacker's return being nego- above all on his position as tiated directly between the the leading Arab nationalist. He and was able for long two governments. points closer future links period pen the basis of his up sustion mass support to even between Castro and the Nixon Israel, though Administration. to this never Castro will be visiting New went beyond the bounds im- York for the 25th posed by shortly position as leaders of the Egyptian capi- the anniversary session United Nations, where most talist class. fact the growth of the of the world's government In for Palestine guerrilla leaders will be gathered movement secret exchanges on the many the Arab defeat in the since problems facing them. June 1967 war represented a major threat to Nasser's posi- New betrayals because it tion, threatened to take the Arab Revolution be- Castro's proposed 'hi-jack' the bounds of national- yond deal is a naked case of col- ism to undertake socialist laboration between his regime tasks. and imperialism. It confirms that the anti-

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Cuban working-class leader- be- That is the explanation of ship is preparing new Nasser's trayals of the revolution treacherous collabor- in Latin America. ation with imperialism and the