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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

• FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 1970 • NUMBER 283

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE £1,250 Fund Unions agree to wages inquiry As Mersey Lucas What reaches workers give lead £620 11s 2d we Dangers ahead

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BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

• 5 100 IS 113150 strike NO LET-UP in the steadily rising trend of is taken

IF YOU SENDIN

unemployment can be seen in yesterday's pro-

WE SHAL

THE NATIONAL

visional figures for mid-October.

The nin Mine Si Ne

THE TROOPS

For all the Douglas-Home, is a tuat of Minister

STOCKPILING

PAY THEM OUR

AVERACE?

UNDER WAY

facing the British employing

WACES

CBI survey + fig 931 • 30 year

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

a warning september ployed than on BY ACCEPTING an inquiry into the council workers' claim, union leaders step farther down workinpen to trade admitted to be with- out a job unionists the road of retreat and vividly illustrate the to maka show of mitan. October's figure was to make 2.5 st total bankruptey of collaboration with the Tory came de her on government.

BY DAVID MAUDE

Wholly monem peop than at the same time Massive NE countries year. action against the Bus what has now happened By engaging in a Suggestions • read Heath favoural incen series of futile negotia- shows a 29,784 drop frol walk-out and the Tories. tions with employers, British 26,946 dr -eralage in bipe dicated their mood for Ine American they have already in- temporarily stopped 2,000 march in Newcastle Temporary ment trade settlement. Bv agree well-filled No less than 48,000 were A MASSIVE one-day walk-out by 40,000 council ing to the inquiry they ernments proposed Registrar •they workers brought town hall services to a stand-still in hope to prepare the petition forced by the world the NORTH-EAST yesterday.

retreat. Tory

ONE

of Tne Heath hat ree-ma pose of Tory toreign policy.

clear the Swindon Nixon-Gromyko counch workers demonstrd™ investigations eariy - cane. And each successive month's tions took place, in New- neasure to deal simultaneo cheered Labour castle upon Tyne yesterday He lined Sport ton sit-in dealing over 2,000 wiel Lo Lal ernmented Heath sae Stockton he answe marched through the city.

backs They cheered a Labour MP Middle East government for a •Chairman who said the strike was a give Genered unemployment. capitalist pontical one workers in strikers Har toal stone was in favord beane me hones, The men were representa- the working eits at home

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

workers are now registered as workers who walked out in engineering Andrei Gromyko

SOVIET

Foreign Minister

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the North-Last and brought went to the White House in Washington yester- services to a standstill.

strikes. big stick. with Richard anses must be natte production do it do, and they in Ten es dav atternoon for private talks CP policy halts Nixon-the first meeting the US President has ss bovernment

MINERS' VOTE

had with a top Soviet official since taking office.

prey threates a in this way But ents shoes 15 t tar

RESULT

co-operate The talks centred action on Tory law 'Unite against and de-East war. trike ballot wil Tory policy' he National crisis system. lineworkers THE Communist Party has clearly embarked Cana be withdrawn irds committe on a national policy of attempting to prevent unite emphasize@ o - thirds taken on arms for s the mobilization of the working class against Soviet Stalinists, Nixon hope Inquiries General Strike since the 1926 nervous- the Tory government and its anti-union laws.

Bundid obes recognize thy the armperatiaving"

CORRESPONDENT

The Treaternment is not worker a mere do an out justice portworkers' Bre the welfare services al with at workers o i represent dealer in hi - Following day ine (kers Pre in. Has to ever do Tories • the undoubtedly he es for demon 830 those the workers in full? resis leader a ne on to treat lee at National Power the unions 20. with the Soviet Stalinists avourable the a ronald sankey wok aternational relations. •not mediati social measures. Loading Agréement. controland workers to the te massi attack tree worke hon-basting, but we know Insistence anti-union laws fashion, but it also ne

YOUNG SUCALIS

the wardictions it in cance cootie the sta were offered in the firs act in g

WEEKEND SCHOOL

given militant-soundere

OCTOBER 24 & 25

staked so ta Tones have drawn befor employment Pressure compy the ss demand. anti eopen its work lion laded by demandir

WINTER GARDENS, MARGATE

ht now to defend the rig

• PAGE FOUR COL. 3

Sunday saturday guest speaker

CLIFF SLAUGHTER

industan monsi. Nough almost unhindered sounds with os Pay talks promise

JOHN MCGRATH

in which (Central Committee member became fries and ti the ere to tet the til of the Socialist Labour League) after 'occupation' obvious unabl aboupic How to defeat the Tories and all that comes later moment" against the their attacks •lities and 1 ommercial Ciner also. Driving-test fee working class corridors 2.30 p.m. 9.30 a.m. torment one ace fight the lads. amanen on up next year Aware Saturday evening at o p.m to the slander of accus

DISCOTHEQUE

i point to ste naina Cliftonville Hall, St Pauls Rd Poon at it on grance cada copies a 3e, on, S.

search panies with capital inventi aLocal government employ pressed mend thes ohn Simmanc elIss to is is 58.8o up from perse and call om to dis

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carried overwhelmingly. in S Africa!

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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government

• FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 1970 • NUMBER 283

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

PRICE ba THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE £1,250 Fund Unions agree to wages inquiry As Mersey Lucas What reaches workers give lead £620 11s 2d we Dangers ahead ve now readed at st hal think Jobless total boat workch. Each ay Torvism hits 30-year has feet for council struggle peak of clay Worke caress At Fe

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

IS ABIE

strike NO LET-UP in the steadily rising trend of

IF YOU SEND IN

unemployment can be seen in yesterday's pro- Д 78 н),

THE NATKNAL

visional figures for mid-October.

THE TROOPS

Borgis Homer ror all tu

STOCKPILING

PAY THEM OUR

AVERACE ?

name the British employing

UNDER WAY

WACES

estered 12° CBI survey

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

6. 79, for a warning September 14. BY ACCEPTING an inquiry into the council 2.6 per cent of the total to trade workers' claim, union leaders step farther down out a to benited to Be with leaders them- the road of retreat and vividly illustrate the unionists are forced Last October's figure wa total bankruptey of collaboration with the Tory 2.5 per cent st Vorstey Some 31,000 more people

BY DAVID MAUDE

the mass government. unemplo their own / PRESSURE for tough, deter- Massive NE mined serres or tutie negotia. engaging created by of the 25- Бо 5 320 walk-out tions with employers, Industry. i MoW 20 number they have already in- a one dicated their mood for 2,000 march in Newcastle advantage in- Temporary settlement. By agree- know the seriousnes id 48,000 wer 40,000 council ing to the inquiry they workers brought town hall services to a stand-still in hope to prepare the Put son beca car industry whic petition to ced by the the NUkIn-bAst yesterday• About 2,000 Iculcal. Doney loyment Tory

ONE

Слет. marched biggest-ver Consider in what kind of ino Swindon council workers' demonstra- Nixon-Gromyko nauthree-win nade clear eign policy place, in New. investigations early

HORS

LOUS

next week. caste unon vne vesterda. sit-in dealing over when total of 2,000 marched through the city. backs Iney cheered a Labour Mt Middle East who said the strike was a which capi pitalist class ro Nor 3030 strikers bed he mess іДе шев were represella

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

tives 40.000 council Consequently, Heath has tried TODAY in SWINDON 7,000 workers who walked out in a Heath Andrei Gromyko hold s t So hour sit-in

SOVIET

Foreign Minister

• • PAGE FOUR COL. 4

the North-East and brought went to the White House in Washington yester- stall ocalllle services to a standsull. th do leaders day afternoon for private talks with Richard t of the council workers or o apparently CP policy halts Nixon-the first meeting the US President has ust do, and they intend to

MINERS' VOTE

do it. Others lobby had with a top Soviet official since taking office.

RESULT

wich a court of continuound talks action on Tory law 'Unite against London moday so strength, the crisis of hon Tory policy Nixor retente ha cs after wednesday o

LEEDS

THE Communist Party has clearly embarked

ELLESMERE

Vauxhall national executive Reprisis atre that it. shop stewards cor on a national policy of attempting to prevent which Municipal Workerst definite the mobilization of the working class against ворон 2 1926 Inquiries the Tory government and its anti-union laws.

toni they to win further fficial sto camement supplying three which But did the Pearson inquiry i leaving a Wednesday's pree boor nour stand. have now emerged.

CORRESPONDENT

Then Tune tavernment is not the areperialist one the wetare see furthe surve Council Workers a mere bi are our Edinburgh to a 10b. to strike and UH day's Workers Pres the worker in tribung for one- seat lie astri. deter?- USDAW shop workers dele demons to deleft wide the Soviet stablesterms basic se a boat anka workers under workers to the Tory ante on ion. Insistence recedented

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

Meir hear mier *Retreat in had re thated for are st kea ance to see nee Tory offensive were offered in the firs

WEEKEND SCHOOL

militant-soundere chance Since those live. t sputbecome

OCTOBER 24 & 25

kand ainst strike she working died openo deleatin Pressure marely workers

WINTER GARDENS, MARGATE

PAGE FOUR COL. 3

1S Anal soluti Sunday and ehrough almost unhindered:

CLIFF SLAUGHTER

Serolemen guest spcaker industrial Relations Bill.

Pay talks promise to the eventu JOHN McGRATH of an Arab-Israeli peac (Central Committee member council after 'occupation' the Ams The Mockonin sed hicaly. of the Socialist Labour League, eight of this The Bofors Gun) nosin cam How to deleat the fores and their attacks the all that comes time ban imposed earlier.

Commersial d nema agalust Politic working class Driving-test fee Echoing • general nd a refusal to retreat 2.30 p.m. tave 9.30 a.m. fight the laws. up next year Aware Saturday evening at 8 p.m.

This Stalinist had to resort vork it to the sla

DSCO OUS

thao tories caugal In insignificant * make a printe mouncils Cliftonville Hal st Pauls Ra e ch for s strike Con Simance 18cr Capian Hier, London, Sa.

announced yesterday Local government employ- mantin teasesolution l hss to is 58.80 up from perse and edit om an dis pressed resolutior carried overwhelmingly.

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NEW YORK'S Mayor • Lindsay week announced last order oursel revenut losses brought on by economic he would impose on New York's 300,000 employees payless Ddy days', pay freeze cuts, a job and lay-offs. of contains a - usual not a complete busin situation. The Stringe that 14\4 Mavor entends city worker no should content rapidly Guardla actualy Im Dosed increases back pavless pavaav scheme whereb 1934. The eacn civ emplovee was deniec whole a month's pay in the course of tenure, economic crisis the countm that ya the Lindsay threat under- is torcing the emolovers includ Lindsay city Kut tact the ing the administrations, precisely Which Administration over the nast two the workers throats … more and now, and particular v more. ruthless conaucung une mos going to be som campaign big allack

JODS

nethods these n8 with the conditions tarow thousanas or city employees of their jobs. and dealing But leaders of the city's public concessions here and there won't work anymore. placency. Unless there's real fight nev evade preparation to non these into back oy dismis into the 197i e unrat a pest struggles strions really stand y SIng nis inreat as a manoeuvre caln an davantaze on une eve What hathe been the our pay alecuns nre, urans of city • sallilalon anu social service eaders? Mhe do ouis cons, claimed! at does your a sius pag Well it is very • clear that all the Unformed Michae the city labour leaders who have to do? this commented are com- about first pletely complacent terent the bry labor being being urged ad poeman for the Commi. drive nasav back men's Union attitude. and foe ey les ders New Yok- threat, aiming it at the demand and-file caucus union, tates that the city labour mov.

that there he a general striki So use tess SPOKe nent has heard this betore an city workers aftected it the Trotskyist newspaper payless payday threat was carried the city has come up with the moner petore out. York City workers will have to forgo wage increases. "he interview exnlains breft and sharniv the nroblems in tron1 of this section of us workers- in britain. particular the that weaken the day fight unempłoyment atte preac EVENTS in Canada have given offences would normally nee seadership against the bureaucracy. one more incication the Un- mean repressive capabilitie liberal the sentences reflex actions of the political O. Waber Statement. reaction to bourgeois states tic mask sne vicious At Wari his is clearv a declaration and lies the dirty unions. savage reality capitalist state- some 94.000 emplovees enter into Poet can bours it nest min tad public collective bargaining TOr new contracts in Januarv. The workers certain The United States government incomed both this statement completel stands second to none anti-bombing provisions comes to this tyPes, immediately enforced. of action President Nixon, in fact, explicitly prom- „October Nixon ised that, this would be the case sianed into a new bit. orgina v he united states onvernment designed 1o months ago as tedis and the giant mononolies shend Lindsay lation com bat organized ollions of dollars annuaiiv on crime, i.e., the Mafia. adminictation. is really counter-revo utionary activities.

The House up a situation where it will have ot kepresentatives An army of tederal. state and however, tacked on local agents stand ready to strike the higgest strike on its to it a pro bombing vision making that that it has ever seen in the his.

any movemen inalviqual offence by death phane can be sen as e a tory ot this city. power The the can chias, even if her par Haber statement Is mOST VICIous statement evel coming out of the city administ- been witch-hunt extending rom no coast to the

JUST OUT

Communist Partv member provided having provi guns attempt than three California, court- Marin Countr house ended bloodbath when police opened fire attempt to whip A concerted racıa me and hatred aging!

behind this militants nationwide hat was 1U.00U later retused altogether American CP has launched Ine Miss a legal fund TO] Davis. li announced last week replaced I el vy anter Fugitives list by anorner ponluca

STALINISM

IN

A TROTSKVIGT ANALYSIS

BY ROBENT BLACK

Annela Davic Bernadine Dohrn, indergrudents fo Weatherman the ground faction of Park Publicalions cratic old national the united SDS, has been placed the list charged with conspiring transport explosives with I would like information about intent injure persons buildings, possesion destrov firearms and destructive : devices, mob action

THE SOCIALIST

including dunamite and inter state flight wanted ine now has 1h named —at least halt

LABOUR LEAGUE

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WORKERS PRESS

UNEMPI

'City POLITICS-A study of Leopoldville, 1962-1963' by J. S.

Fontaine, Cambridge University Press, 1970. £4.25 THIS. 247-page work' is another in the series of micropolitical studies Leopoldvllie 1960: conducted into the The Belgian regime 'newly-independent' Afri- administered vicious repressions on can states. Congolese workers. As such, like its predecessors, it suffers from relative isolation from its overall context, while, Lumumba of and of tion later at the same time either purpose- the led guerrillas by Gizenga, fully or willy-nilly, giving an en- Gbenye and Mulele (whom larged view of this of a segment murdered in 1969, after Mobutu context. book the was prepared.) Part the his- one deals with The Leopoldville workers were torical and economic background concentrated under Belgian rule of Leopoldville and includes with seven companies some material, unfortunately in- monopolizing the city's economy of adequately covered, the in- before independence in 1960, famous time in the 19th century continuing this dicta- economic through torship vią the African nationalist King Leopold ravaged the bourgeoisie after independence.

Congo. The great majority of inhabi- devastation of Such was the with tanto wage-earners, Were this conquest and pillage that, 'staggering unemployment' after 40 years of Leopold's com- permanent feature of this class. rule, Power than it had been in been 1881, These workers supported, with when Stanley and Leopold under- their under-subsistence wages, a took 'civilizing' the the parasitic horde of Belgian and Congo, using Leopoldville other imperialist racialistic as their hase 'white' workers and the new 'African educational The segregation and starvation of the Congo The Belgians toilers by Belgium, mainly through dictatorship the Catholic Protestant mis- of based upon the and of cheap super-exploitation wage sionaries (who themselves ran and peasant labour. In this pro- rigidly segregated schools and cess the system of tribalism and hospitals, resulted in the total proto-feudalism exist- of any locally educated absence ing was destroyed physically as graduates. the people were dispossessed.

In its place Belgium placed a local police regimes, custem The University of Lovanium 'white' supervised

TACIST

was opened only in 1956, oligarchy in situ and in Brussels.

and then only as a subsidiary of the This racialist dictatorship was University Catholic of Louvain onerated with equal ruthlessnesd in Belgium itself. by all governments of Belgium, 'conserva- whether 'socialist' or On the of independence tive'. eve 89 per cent of the self-employed, 77 of employed per the The city of Leopoldville workers and 80 per cent of the expressed this racialism by being topographically divided into unemployed workers were either totally by Belgium 'black' districts. uneducated 'white' and The 'African districts of the city or had not completed more than a year or two at primary school.

broken into were up Thirther "tribal" communes' as part of Moreover, the schools were the divide and rule policy.

segregated. racially This section of the book is one of the useful A system of migrant labour statistical covered, albeit of workers areas caused the majority to be men, great numbers of for only a short period. whom became unemployed as The book's material brings out of the army DaTT

VAST

recerve number of the contradictions of cheap labour of the Belgian of Belgian policy, including: finance, mining, farming and com- mercial comnanies (1) the anti-tribal policy, while yet using artificial retribalization This aspect is documented in for 'divide-and-rule' ends.

considerable detail in the book, which carries the analysis into (2) the policy of preventing the the post-independence period, when Leopoldville's Kinshassa and yet using what there was of and other components expanded this class to maintain Belgian matter tenfold in of few through the artifice of vears as hundreds of thousands 'independence'. of hopeful workers and peasants (3) the failure of racial segre- streamed to the city in search of of work and the fruits the gation to prevent the formation 'independence' that never came.

of an urban (and mining) work- ing class. The book also of ves an out- of the rise line the political The details of these contradic- parties including those of tions are useful, providing the Tshombe and micropolitical Joseph Mobutu, limitations of the both of whom,

UNO

of borne under form survey are in auspices carried out the execu- mind. Friday, October 23, 1970 THIS SceNe mcalfornia recenty orovont

EMPLOYMENT

ine dole queues of the 19308 rignt Into the oresen. over zuo workers Ined uo in answer to anyanicanent ToUSI four jobs at Calltornla Gas unemployment pared to the

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BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

SOVIET Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko came close to accepting the Israeli proposal for a negotiated "peace' treaty in the Middle East when he spoke at the United Nations on Wednesday. His speech reflected the There be nó compromise intense secret diplomatic dealing with this gendarme proposal, con- which has been going on at the unveiled ceived in сестет and over the graves of thousands of UN between the Soviet Union Palestinian martyrs. and the United States. The Arab Revolution can now the It is now clear go forward only the most in Soviet Stalinists are prepared to ruthless struggle against all Stalinist those nationalist and a Middle-East see settlement forces who want to strange the which would effectively ratify the Palestinian movement. existence of the Zionist state of Arab have always rejected Are ideates now, Israel and rob the Palestinian a formal peace treaty with Israel, people of their birthright.

will though there no doubt be In he speechrom the Angersed Soviet pressure considerable on Gromyko endorsed the Egyptian cabinet new the conclusion of 'an appropriate headed by right - winger would be valid Mohammed Fawzi-to document which move to. international law wards such an agreement. terms of within the context of which the Gromyko's proposal to reacti- territorial integrity soverest. vate the Jarring mission in order and political independence of all Middle East, press through such plan within the to states of

TUN

dangers as well as their right live in Contals would be respected and peace, recognized'.

CONCEDES

of the Sécurity Members (US, Soviet Council ( Union, Britain), France and as well as both other states represented at the assembly, must take part in drawing document, up such a he said. This formula which already conceded nine-tenths of the Israeli demands. No doubt the basis for such THE JEWISH Board of Deputies an agreement would be some sort of international supervision, stration against Soviet Foreigr per- haps UN auspices, of its Gromyko when he visits Londor observance. Israel would withdraw to its whether It yet is not clear 1967 frontiers, Hussein's rule or the demonstration will be con- the rule of his puppets would be with the treat- cerned primarily established on the West Bank of of in the Soviet ment Jews the Jordan and the Arab revolu- Soviet Union, or with foreign would under the tion he policy in the Middle East.

ner. petual surveillance of an imperi- alist 'police force'. It is likely that the two issues will be deliberately confused by Gromyko's proposal is even those leading the demonstra- worse than the infamous Rogers- tIon. Gromyko plan was which forcibly i halted by the civil war The Board of Deputies is sup- in Jordan. institution Tews Britain.

DIRECT BLOW

since 1943, it has But ever the Palestinian been under effective Zionist con- Once mandos had been whipped into trol and political direction.

of Soviet line by a combination •non.intervention nationalist Policy treachery from Arafat and bar- Hussein's baric butchery Trom for Army, the way was Zionist policy regarding Jew- this latest blueprint for treach- ish organizations which they con- ery. them. generally trol to

FICA

the of commandos speaking, under Those Palestinian guise disrupted who the Rogers- speaking for all Jews, not defend the interests of the Jewish Gromyko plan last month struck minorities so much as to further blow the at a direct very net- policy. spective Gromyko outlined in the Israeli foreign UN. In 1962, a Board of Deputies Tewish condemned The full treachery of Stalinism spokesman youth who used their fists against supported -which the fascists, and went to considerable of Israel an imperialist tinn them to trust client-state is now being efforts to nersuade Tory Home to petitions, trust the brought to hear once again on Secretary, and trust the police.

the Arab masses. and education- POST-GRADUATE students lose ther education college students in the region of over 618 a week by continuing their studies, compared 1 with what conservative estimate Yet surveys show that their they would be earning in a job, actual from vacation Darnings l according to an education plan- work and part-time teaching ning paper published today.

during terms only amount to be- tween fl Is and fl 3s a session.

*Student Numbers The paper, in Higher Education in England and Wales', reveals that gradu- than 614 10s if ates lose mano they decide to try for higher qualifications. education Advanced further students lose over £13. Postgraduates could earn about working, the £21 8s a week if what he must nonor dlaimauin rezarded as a rock-bottom figure.

about sis i3s graduate could earn a week and fur-

ORKERS PRESS

SIGNIFICANT APP(

THE appointment of Mah- Fawzy, moud 70-year-old career diplomat-and the only living link with the displaced monarchy-as Prime Minister of Egypt is the most significant appointment to be made since Nasser's death. * Fawzy, a loyal servitor of Nasser, is noted for his mod- eration and his dedication to preserving Egypt's links with of Deputies is calling a demon- viet Foreign Minister Andrei isits London next week.

BY CHARLES PARKINS

But the Board is noticeably silent now about Zionist gang violence against Palestinian Arab (including supporters some Jews) in London. In 1967 the Board of Deputies sent a delegation to Whitehall to complain because Foreign Secre- tary George Brown was not sup- porting Israel's occupation of Arab areas seized in the June war. Auxiliary Claiming to speak for all people in Jewish Britain, the Board was in fact functioning as an auxiliary arm of Israeli gov- ernment policy. Although the Zionists have always extracted as much poli- tical capital as they could from the Stalinist treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union and E Europe, they have usually left such demonstra- activities tions on this issue to Jewish student groups. However, since the June 1967 war in particular, Zionist propa- ganda has gone to great lengths to portray the Soviet Union as enemy number one of the Jews, and to make connection a between anti-Semitism in the Soviet bloc and Soviet support Arab against for the states Israel. This is somewhat ahistorical to say the least. Diplomatic In 1948, when Stalin's secret police were launching a murder- writers and intellectuals in she Sovers Union, Soviet foreign policy was united National, suprees Nations and with arms

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AN INTERESTING side light on Wednesday's Immigrant Appeals Tribunal decision to refuse a 20-year-old Kenya Asian girl a passport is that it appears that there is no case, law or statute which defines to whom and under what condition a UK passport should be issued.

Mr On Wednesday, Gordon Slynn QC, for the Home Office. led a success- the controls imposed by the 1968 ful appeal against an immi- Kenyan Asians Act. grant appeals officer's deci- here was. he said, nothing in the Nationalities Act which sion to allow Miss Shaheen lne leral cualncatons nold- Lakdawalla hold DrusiPassport urce Irom exempted UK passport. matter within USh pess issued with and Was Kenya entry Miss Shaheen Indian refused Lakeawa Nationality outs de Ine Tory club inibunal. Nothing But despite this. Mr Slvnn told membership the tribunal. sne was subectea lo

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Mr Amarit shar had been a peace. party worker for about Inree w natever Ine recime meal ycars. 'non-alignment' it is He is a tormer ambassador Minister eld the the Pione bound Britain ano deputy and Prime Minister TOr _rorelsn prospective Middle " Allairs In 1904. his candidature because i the resigned candidate since the acceptance orl The of Prime Minister Rogers peace plan. was held by i ne clubs decision. for three Ivasse years before his death. from Prime betokens Mini far tum on still assisted and complaine eath, •Hav. bai ned to indicates that ten betrayed masses it settlement and regime of Anwar unlawful dis- that attacks against the work- a high peasantry crimination. The club did somewhat strained relations Egypt must follow. give Enis. being board which ings should be brough proceed.

was ho d passport cane current. pracules authorities ssuing them. ribunal his cosed ec its decision the Tribunal has coonhole more inan LoU Asians mar nave usea for entry into britain.

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commander-in-chief, General leftisi 50,000 Rene Schneider, as he drove ner hicked en away their to work. desks. shepublic opinion poll pub- Cuba. amounced yesterday so ashed the windows i regional secretary: the borough council there.

THOUSANDS of police, some armed with grenade launchers, were on duty yesterday in a mas- sive demonstration force designed to quell any resistance to the three-day trial of Alain Geismar, leader of the Maoist- Proletarian Left Movement.

Geismar, a 31-year-old GEISMAR was sentenced to doctor of physics, is on 18 months in prison for pro- trial for incidents aris- voking violence against police.

Geismar, who faced a maxi- ing out of demonstra- three years in jail, has mum tions held earlier this four months already served while awaiting trial. year to protest at the banning of his movement by the reactionary While the trial was going Pompidou regime. hundreds of students on, Pompidou being harassed or The govern- were arrested in the Latin Quarter ment has legalized a num- ber of by the police. left-wing groups 80 youth were which were banned during In Lyons May-June 1968, taken in tor questarin 370 but has re- 370 fused Wednesday. Paris the ban on arrested. were the Maoists and the Pabloite group led by Krivine and No witness Frank. Instead it has chosen to Jean Paul Sartre, existen- intensify the repression tialist philosopher, play- the Maoists against with of wright and editor the the tacit approval - and 'Cause du Maoist journal occasional protest — of the refused Peuple', has to French Stalinists. appear as a witness in the Geismar told the court frame-up of Geismar. that he is proud to have But instead of appealing made the statements on to the working class to fight which the charge of pro- their bureaucratic leader- vocation is based. of them ship and demand with solidarity action 'Bogeyman' he made Geismar be taken, His lawyer Maurice Cour- of anarchist invocation charged the violence which received rege govern- no Geismar with response from the using Parisian menT as a 'bogeyman' to frighten workers. the electors. Standing on an empty oil Since the Maoists are outside the Renault drum small group based largely Motor car factory at Billan- on students and with little court, he said: following in the working 'There has been so much class, the French bour- violence you that against geoisie's interest in smash- the only way to react is ing it is solely to intimidate violence. dissidence in any potential Such tactics are guaran- the working class and pre- the legal pare necessary precedents for jailing trade unionists at a later date.

This has a sinister parallel in Britain with the jailing of the Cambridge students under the 'riotous assembly' section of Common Law. Not surprisingly, the pro- DURING a drugs case being secutor' has asked for one heard at Durham Magis- to three jail for years trates Court on Wednesday Geismar. this week police took photo- graphs of people arriving.

This admitted by was Strike rally of deputy Chief Constable Durham, William Hogg, who said: banned "The police took photo- people entering graphs of court. An explanation was

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govern- the chairman. given to ment yesterday banned a rally There was nothing insidious planned by the General Labour about what was done. Confederation during

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These photographs were today's ten-hour general a camera placed taken by strike. out of sight in an upstairs The government claimed room on the court premises, that the taking was and they concerned indivi- from orders exiled president duals who were not in- Peron. volved in the cases being Today's strike was called tried. month last to wage and demands protest against President the government's economic policies. Mr Richard Ayre, presi- It follows a 24-hour stay- dent of the Durham Stu- at-home October strike on dents' Union, is reported as which virtually brought the saying: country to a standstill. police condemn the We are taking legal action. advice about the provisions i's rents to go up of the Criminal Justice Act.

'After today let no stu- dent doubt the report of the Civil National Council for Liberties that the police are 0 tenants at Hemel Hempstead, Herts, watching us all.' week, begin next April, were to y the Commission for New Towns and In its way this own incident continues the pat- Friday, October 23, 1970

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OSWALDO CHATO PEREDO, Bolivian guer- rilla leader and follower of Che Guevara, has been captured by the Bolivian army, commander- in-chief General Luis Teran announced in La Paz yesterday. Teran said that Peredo - who is head Copper pay rise of the National Libera- tion Army (NLA)— in Chile and another guerrilla chief, former student WORKERS at the Chuqui- leader Mario Suarez camata copper mine in North Moreno, were captured Chile have ended their 21- in fighting around the day-strike. town of Teoponte, 190 Miners and clerks at the miles North of La Paz. pit have agreed to accept a per cent wage Incrcase, Four NLA fighters were together with fringe benefits.

killed in the clash, he added, Their original demand was them a Peruvian and among for a 5l per cent rise, but a Brazilian. only 45 the company offered per cent. The NLA founded in was spokesman government 1967 when Che Guevara began said that the strike had cost his unsuccessful attempt to 16 million dollars lost 1n organize guerrilla in exports. Bolivia.

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Chato Peredo's brothers Inti and Coco played' an im- portant part in the movement, • though both were killed by government troops in the big CIA-backed military drive organized by President Barrientos. Chato Peredo reformed the group later and organized the kidnapping earlier this year of German two goldmine tech- nicians, who were released on July 23 in exchange for guerrilla prisoners held in jail.

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The new Bolivian president teed to isolate the Maoists Juan Torres--billed originally and make their repression "left-winger' con- 1S easier for the jailors of tinuing the anti-guerrilla cam- Geismar. paign. addition, In he has made British trade unionists no announcement about the of of French must learn the lessons release journalist the Geismar trial-and the Regis Debray, who is serving Cambridge a 30-year sentence in. Bolivia trial-and cam- paign now for the immediate for his contacts with Guevara release of Geismar and the before his death. lifting of the government Torres himself played an ban Maoists, on the the important part in planning the Communist League and the 1967 campaign which led to 'Lutte Ouvrière' group. Guevara's death. Police deaths in India's most crisis ridden state

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were under presidential rule in by unknown March, has declared her inten- assassinated assailants in the Calcutta slum tion of the wiping out areas of Howrah and Ranaghat Naxalites, but this is proving earlier this week, bringing the easier said than done. total number of police deaths W Bengal is the most crisis- in the province of W Bengal ridden state in India. over the past few months to It is India's biggest indus- 22. centre, huge The deaths are said by the heavy industry complex of a cam- police to be part around Calcutta. paign of assassinations waged by the Maoist NaXalite move- Despite government repres- ment, which is now the prime sion, workers have there target of government repres- engaged in big strike struggles sion. the past few months, OVer Indian premier Mrs Indira closing down the steel com- Gandhi, who placed W Bengal plex of Durgapur in August, and bringing the whole state to a standstill in a 24-hour stoppage in July. The Naxalite movement is Maoist-oriented organiza- tion which began with land- in Naxalbari village, seizures in the North of the state.

Naxalite strongholds outside Bengal Kerala are in gallery India and Orrisa and Andhra Pradash in central India.

The land-seizure movement has widened scope since Naxalites the were formed, tern set by the appearance and only last month some of provocateurs on political 12,000 arrests were made as demonstrations and the the government clamped down sentences meted out the on landless peasants occupying Cambridge students who the landlords' estates. demonstrated at the Garden Many Naxalite leaders have House Hotel against the been shot or arrested in recent Greek military dictatorship.

police campaigns: but of of series individual acts Tension would be a terrorist reprisals The increasing tension of retreat from the essential task the class struggle is met by of mobilizing the strength of the the working class in this area greater emphasison repressive functions of the against the repressions. state and increasing pressure The Moscow-oriented Com- on democratic rights. munist Party and the pro- Peking The ruling class proceeds Communist Party utterly ruthlessly such (Marxist) have turned their matters. The proposed laws backs on the Naxalites and against the unions are of tacitly solidarized themselves course the main target of with the police measures.

Bengal, the changes they want. The crisis in. W From their point of view where land unemployment, it is the organized working- hunger and appalling poverty class movement which must and are driving the workers be broken. how- peasants into struggle, The answer to all these ever, will not be overcome by with interferences and attacks on police measures, even Stalinist assistance. democratic liberties must be a political one. The Indian employing class Every be attack must has yet to tackle the power- exposed in of fully-organized workers in the the building the united working- area, who have repeatedly willingness class movement to bring shown their to down the Tory government.

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