Workers Press no. 297

workers press

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE

All Trades What we think Rudi Dutschke; THE CASE of Rudi Dutschke is vitally important for the British trade unionists who are already engaged in a struggle life-or-death to defend their basic rights from the Tory onslaught. Dutschke is the victim of a malicious Tory conspiracy to set a precendent for 'undesirable' deporting for their political aliens • beliefs. Since most Commonwealth immigrants will soon come category under the 'aliens' under the proposed Tory Immigration Bill (see this page), this will enorm- ously the scope increase of Maudling's precedent. By treating Dutschke as a 'national security' threat to invoked Maudling has Articte 8 of the reactionary Order Aliens (Appeals) of 1970—a brainchild of the Labour government. Dutschke's This entrusts appeal to a tribunal whose decisions will be based on a trial in which the funda- right of an mental legal appellant to hear the evi- dence against him will be totally violated. The that fact some very eminent legal brains — and the President of the Sher- lock Holmes Society (sic) will be sitting on Tribunal will do nothing to reassure Dutschke that the Tribunal is not a star chamber inquiry. Why does Maudling want a secret inquiry (it is not really a trial)? This is cer- tainly the most vital ques- tion in the Rudi Dutschke affair. In answer we can only quote the comments of Peter Gladstone-Smith - certainly no friend of Rudi and a well-known enemy of Trot- skyism. In yesterday's 'Sunday Tele- graph' he writes: *I can disclose that the visi- tors from every part of the "Red Continent which Rudi" has received during his two years of convales- cence are the key to the affair. 'Mr Maudling has received an intelligence report concern- ing these visits, the nature of which he is not prepared reveal for security reasons. "The new procedure gives the Home Secretary the right to 'certify' that certain security

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

GAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THIS DRAFT Charter of Basic Rights will be submitted to the annual conference of the All Trades Unions Alliance at the Digbeth on December 19. It is the policy around Institute, Birmingham, Tory govern- which the working class can be rallied to defeat the ment's attacks. We call on all ATUA members and supporters to take this charter into every factory and trade union branch, so that thousands of workers and their organizations can discuss, amend or add to it if necessary and register their support.

3. The right of the A HANDFUL of bankers, finan- and big businessmen ciers, working class to property millionaires directly retain the gains they represented by the Tory govern- have made ment has launched an onslaught THE TORIES are hell bent on taking away basic rights which the on the standaaid or living pat the working class nes gains of the improved British working class has estab- won in struggle. lished after centuries of struggle.

The working class has an absolute right to maintain these gains. They are rushing to save them- working and from the world economic he powel tha selves modern industry have the COrO crisis into which their system of viding continuously rising standards of living.

society is plunging. They intend to We cannot accent that living standards car be driven down simply because the system of solve this crisis at the expense of -capitalism—is breaking up deep crisis and cannot harness the forces the working class. benefit of mankind production To do this they must destroy all the basic the crisis. Only a socialist society can solve the people, which allow them rights conditions defend and improve their 4. The right to fair working class to defenc these rights: prices for our 1. The right of every necessities worker to a job

WE CANNOT

stand aside while prices, rents rder to are rocket

FULL EMPLOYMENT

is not a privilege, but and fares allowed of life, elementary right. maintain luxurv living for a selected few basic necessity deliberately being The trade unions, in collaboration with Unemployment to divide the working class and weaken them.

sliding scales of housewives must begonate the fight for higher wages to keep up with all price increases In wages nont tor Pensions must also increase with the cost the hase right to anyle wake Only of living. standards. consistent struggle actan ishes 110 t the worker to the fruits of his labour. 5. The right to welfare Every wage settlement linked to a produc tivity deal means loss jobs. benefits demand: • No Measured-Day no intensifica- ion of working conditions.

government has taken the milk

THE TORY

• Engaged in wages struges.

away from our children; they are threatenins group of workers right to a hospital bed when you are il and the medicine you may nee • No sackings; any firm which cannot give action children will be As a result of their cecurity to ite workers must be nationa less healthy and the working class without compensation and linder to put up with ill health bad teeth and eye- workers' control. sight, unless they can pay the price.

• Women must have equal pay as a right.

Any government which attacks these rights • We oppose the Tories doing. We oppo to race disre in the cor has racialism. worker endangering tha health life children and bring death must be destroyed. of his choice. to old people, The Tory Workers of theirt hac CAt 2. The democratic right deprive of their right to unemploy- and say paid for, and fts, which they Their income to strike and organize order weaken rebates, i These rights must not be surrendered.

THE STANDARD of living based on the right to The attacks of the Tories on school spend- the working class ing, comprehensive strike and cranize intended to student grants No employer ever gave anything away, maximum pr, he of the working class of the right chilaten sets out one ritto force mat of him what out only to free higher education, and must be resisted to the end. they are entitled to the working class have nothing. 6. The right to decent The Tory anti-union Bill to destroy he cries. unions and leave He the warrino It threatens the independent housing political activity of the trade union and ing class which is basic in their struggle.

PROPER HOUSING is not a luxury it is a these he coad or liter and usin working necessity. People have a right to proper housing at a reasonable rent.

people have fought for this and force the trade union leaders and Ve mus times over. Who builds the Council to mobilize the To Gener creates all the wealth the noses any he workiner class movement to defeat

TUC

Laws. An Emergency Conference of the General Scale to defeat the lates.

called to groanize a

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The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY NOVEMBER 9, 1970 • NUMBER 297 Arafat Miners' November fears E1,250 Fund Jordan stands at arms E135 9s 7d strike build-up of the Central 6135 9s 7a NATAL. leac the Committi fontsteps onin to milest all es Resistance Palestin begins units commanao after grouped all-out sup- no no gong ety indu and for the defeat inter treast. Make this y aid this today AS MINERS from more areas declared for strike action over the weekend the government began and the to review ways of breaking what promises to be London, SW4. the biggest coalfield stoppage since the 1926 thin benic General Strike.

DURHAM

perialism i one care and nice By an industrial reporter Mixed return strike-bounc Westoe a strike ROYDON dustmen return t miners unere some alc seei tad on the butam large work weeks back par

DERBYSHIRE,

neve is tide ster that decided ands are receiving refuse co cleared to sie at love in e- The used for hu meant a bone of contention in several fighting Easingtopts area will recuse to work toda i private contractors are used

IMPORTS

Meanwhile ... initial victory in Lambeth real stocks che rare step of imporing coa suppues 5toos. ordinars members to traci all coal their supplies. Tangorand on ral standing Palestinian révolution. Well-founded Suerrillanother of Mine National until the éradicated. in г&GW Cairo of Railway- Amma Lambeth NUPE men listen to a Trades Council speaker.

cut off Crisis talks today Nixon over Mersey docks appoints NAL Nana comoromise co docks unon caucr as joint talks resume in Liverpool today on proposals for Goldwater imnlementing Devlin-scheme 'modernization' Phase Twc on Merseyside's nine miles of docks.

backer stoppere :

BY DAVID MAUDE

Harbour board Dan to the port economically NIXON yeste Marine meet or Natal Massive amongst engine co a

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Tories plan 'apartheid'-type National Committee i Immigration Act figure prepare or at where there be there on social easine preparation Marke mployer say department aneral Sen i. Maran Promotist complete which tewards &gWU omcials Party memirer Thers with administerir the Federal c the chether they reach fortemen their permits one demand or the emp Dependents atic prosecution I to general let Meanwhile in ferd John. Pey Rigours cenainst let Transport countries to stripped from them at will.

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workers press

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE

All Trades What we Rudi Dutschke; THE CASE of Rudi Dutschke is vitally important for the British trade unionists who are already engaged in a life-or-death struggle to defend their basic rights from the Tory onslaught. Dutschke is the victim of a malicious Tory conspiracy precendent for to set a deporting 'undesirable' for their political aliens • beliefs. most Commonwealth Since immigrants will soon come category of under the 'aliens' under the proposed Tory Immigration Bill (see this page), this will enorm- ously increase the scope of Maudling's precedent. Dutschke as a By treating threat to 'national security' invoked has Maudling Article 8 of the reactionary Aliens (Appeals) Order of 1970—a brainchild of the Labour government. Dutschke's This entrusts appeal to a tribunal whose decisions will be based on a trial in which the funda- legal of mental right an appellant to hear the evi- dence against him will be totally violated. The fact that some very eminent legal brains - and the President of the Sher- lock Holmes Society (sic) sitting will be the On Tribunal will do nothing to reassure Dutschke that the Tribunal is not a star chamber inquiry. Why does Maudling want a secret inquiry (it not really a trial)? This is cer- tainly the most vital ques- tion in the Rudi Dutschke affair. In answer we can only quote of Peter the comments Gladstone-Smith — certainly no friend of Rudi and a well-known enemy of Trot- skyism. In yesterday's 'Sunday Tele- graph' he writes: *I disclose that the visi- can tors from every part of the «Red Continent which Rudi" has received during his two years of convales- cence are the key to the affair. *Mr Maudling has received an intelligence report concern- ing these visits, the nature of which he is not prepared security to reveal reasons. "The new procedure gives the Home Secretary the right to 'certify' that certain security

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

GAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR IEAGUE

THIS DRAFT Charter of Basic Rights will be submitted to the annual conference of the All Trades Unions Alliance at the Digbeth around Institute, Birmingham, on December 19. It is the policy which the working class can be rallied to defeat the Tory govern- ment's attacks. We call on all ATUA members and supporters to take this charter branch, so that thousands of into every factory and trade union workers and their organizations can discuss, amend or add to it if necessary and register their support.

The right of the A HANDFUL of bankers, finan.

3. and ciers, big businessmen working class to property millionaires directly retain the gains they represented by the Tory govern- have made ment has launched an onslaught THE TOROS are pell and on ta improved on the basic rights which the or in that ta and improved gains working class has British working class has estab- standard won in struggle. lished after centuries of struggle.

The working class has an absolute right to maintain these gains. They are rushing to save them- The the working class power from the world economic selves ming condusously rie standards of pig- capacity crisis into which their system of society is plunging. They intend to We cannot accept that living standards can driven because the system be solve this crisis at the expense of private ownership- the working class. deen crisis and cannot harness mankind. production the bener To do this they must destroy •ll the hasi Only a socialist society can solve the rights won nu the neope Wic• alow ule to defend and improve their concitions 4. The right to fair We call on the working class to defend these rights: prices for our 1. The right of every necessities worker to a job WE CANNOT stand aside while prices, rents but FULL EMPLOYMENT is not a privilege, and farac rA allowed. to rocker in right. maintain luxury living for a selected few.

life, an elementary hacie necessity of Unemployment is created with heing deliheratelv tande collaboration to divide the working class and weaken them.

housewives. must negotiate sliding coolas wages to keep with all price increases.

In the fight for higher wages we fight for the hasic right to a living wage, for the right Pensions must also increase with the cost our living standards. improve of living. Anit †hic consistent struggle establishes the right 5. The right to welfare wage settlement linked to: we mus Every loss jobs. must tivity deal means benefits demand no intensifica- • No Measured-Day tion of working conditions.

away Tom our children they are threatening children; they are threatening • Pentaged in wages arusoup of workers when you are and the medicine vou mav need • No sackings; any firm which cannot give As a result of their action children will be its workers must he nations.

healthy working class will have and under ill health teeth and eye- put up workers' control. sight, unless they can pay the price Women must have equal pay as a right.

sorrent hide and de sea Ane doing endangering worker has • We oppose racialism. Every workoutr health bring of his choice. to old neoble must be destroved has set out dear Toker government of right to unemploy- 2. The democratic right deprive the benefits, suDD ementar to strike and organize paid already tor and income struggle. menotec wenter theil These rights must not be surrendered.

THE STANDARD of based and

THE STANDARD

of living everything The attacks of the on school spend- the riaht to ing. education and comprehensive strike and organize. the ati/lant aronto nu intendan to anything away, he amninter aver anue children of the working clas: no the one ne sets out one rio mok out free higher education, and must onlv to make the maximum pront.

he resisted force out to the end. not a. entitled to the working class have The right to decent 6. Tory anti-union Bill aims to destroy the the working clace unions the independent housing defenceless. threatens of the work- activity tande nice one voca! ing class which is basic in their struggle.

PROPER HOUSING is not a luxury-it is a class must never The ve up "the working have a right to proper basic necessity. not allow Tories to se eight roady of Her allow she To.

wahte tha hausing at a reasonable rent.

aid for it people have fought for this and We the trade union leaders and WHo® Who builds the TUC Genera the Council to mohliza the the creates all whole movement Infant of society? The working class laws. Emergency Conference of the called organize a must laws.

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• MONDAY NOVEMBER 9, 1970 • NUMBER 297

Arafat Miners' November fears £1,250 Fund Jordan stands at arms £135 9s 70 strike build-up

YASSIR

ARAFAT,

leadel voltallet lead the begins mode sive en alarm war, has appealed fo help from allies and friendly strive to nations nelp stem Liut received b Make is our is by at month. donations today to: AS MINERS from more areas declared for strike Press action over the weekend the government begar n High Street, to review ways of breaking what promises to be the biggest coalfield stoppage since the 1926 General Strike. By an Industrial reportor Mixed return strike miners there CROYDON dustmen return t coulay. Work toes back peo a promise c Miners have unsettled aronus- say clearing refuse continued to stiPlease may added. Bashan to Collie example. the 1,600 Evidence

IMPORTS

Meanwhile the mobilization ... initial victory in Lambeth reviewing ocks and considering coal directed The suspension of the Clear This makes it essential that He back al coal supie. dockers Thes

BOSE

accused norn behind insich Palestinian re olution. Well-founded the stoppage Arafat's on the guerrillas rom is well nderdanian army

CONTACT

in will not feel secur Area Nationa workers are contact with éradicated. in National Railway • Union men S WALES, for example I understand s's Matess Dai on the miners sir, which allowed Hissan Lambeth NUPE men listen to a Trades Council speaker.

massive ded in o Gaining Crisis talks today Piers det Yorkshire set or pld our dirting the Nixon over Mersey docks appoints INACTION and compromise grip docks union leaders Goldwater as joint talks resume in Liverpool today on proposals for implementing Devlin-scheme "modernization' Phase Two backer

BY DAVID MAUDE

i orkshire le stocked by acte no pay toe money be Plank Maritive mentin or Raional Massive men mediately.

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Tories plan 'apartheid'-type Antonal Come Immigration Act ana reas Senator ultra most amar dia Market preparatol sheil sure the tel Workers from these coun Complete t0 100 stevards in veral le be pete here security mone one ano intend to employers on and Commonwealth Stager to vote or sit I permit system, and E the Federal courts nor wipe nait system *aler permits on demanduce Smolson tered Dependents au Behind the scene Meanie in Kondon, Tol action against left- a sportine mit all for in lines bring with top-secret Mersey

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THOUGH Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike 75 won seats at the 1960 Cey- lonese General Election under a no contest pact signed with the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and Communist Party (CP), her ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party could not solve any of the major problems fac- ing the country. With growing unemploy- ment, massive inflation and falling wage levels, this period of rule hit the working class as well as all the oppressed sections of the population.

Though the ISSP and the CP did lead the not in tasses the capitalist struggle against system, they could not prevent the class struggle maturing.

Workers in the most decisive of the sections economy were NE strike. Peasants in the against province demonstrated the demanding government higher price for their produce and were baton charged. University students went on strike for several weeks. The of this climax movement was reached when the working class formed a united front of the trade unions to fight for the 21 demands. All these developments showed that the crisis in Ceylonese capi- talism sharpening was very rapidly. Mrs Bandaranaike in statement in 1964 summed up her dilemma by pointing out that she had only two choices: one was to form a military dicta- torship, and the other was to coalition torm government with the left parties. She chose the latter. This was capitalist law clearly to maintain and order in the country and to the without any run system hindrance from go-slows, strikes, demonstrations, factory occupa- nons, etc. Six months But the coalition only lasted for six months. Reactionary ele- the ments in country got together to bring down the question of the coalition on the nationalization of the capitalist Lake House newspaper group.

The working class was demor- alized and the built movement up around the 21 demands was Most of disrupted. the major trade unions were split. In the 1965 elections the old United Nationalist Party came back into power. the Ceylon is As economy directly linked to British imperi- these strikes raised the alism, the of the crisis victory, ( pressure developing in the whole imperi- workers' self-confidence.

alist world was felt very strongly.

plantation workers' union The leadership, as well as the private It compounded the greatly problems of a backward, capitulated to the under- sector unions. developed, mono-cultural government who used emergency powers against the strikes.

omy. The Ceylon Mercantile Union, The UNP, as the direct agents led by the well-known revisionist of imperialism, tried to solve the P. Tampoe, burden of did not join crisis by utting the B. the 1967 strike on the grounds that it on to the working class.

the strike leadership was inade- The UNP thought that because and indicating quate that the there was confusion and dis- strikes would be defeated.

unity in the working class, they could go ahead and repress the Maoists led by Shanmugadasan joined legitimate demands of workers the strike and continued it for day after the other and peasants by police measures.

leaders had called it off. But they They began by baton-charging did not work to broaden the base university students in December of the struggle expose the 1965. treacherous leadership the in Next, they introduced the unions. Special Provisions Act for the The strike in the public sec- This Tamil-speaking people. was tor, which took place in Novem- intended racial feel- ber 1968, reached a higher level. arouse and weaken the ings About 300,000 struck class before the could workers work. Though the leaders did not more repressive social resort to do anything to the work- and economic measures. ing additional class, sectors of The leaders of the LSSP and the trade union movement, such the CP reacted to these measures as the workers in the petroleum by joining Mrs Bandaranaike in corporation and in the hospitals, her racialistic agitation.

were prepared to the strike join with their own demands. the This only played into of the government hands which Reformist meted out severe punishments on workers, like those who struck 1966—thousands of in January, These unions were under the workers were sacked from their reformist LSSP and CP leader- work places when they answered ship. They conducted their sepa- and the the call of the

LSSP

rate discussions and came to CP to strike. settlement without the basic demands being met. As a result, These which went activities and clerical service workers unanswered by the working-class the public sector were encouraged the UNP to many in parties, ( left to fight on their own.

Peed with on as And is Ceylon apee The clerical ( ser- government devalued by 20 per cent in line biggest vants' union, the union with the devaluation of sterling.

of the white-collar workers, was under LSSP leadership. Part of the rice subsidy was The of living withdrawn. cost They the took initiative to considerably. (It 100 was federate with the other unions in in 1953, 106 in 1956, 112 in 1964, the same clerical service.

But the 125 in 1967, 138 in 1969.)

GCSU

gave no lead in the strike and allowed the opportunist The worsening economic situ- discussions leaders to arrange pushed the working class ation with the ruling class. once again into massive actions.

In the meantime the govern- In 1966 there the plan- ment was preparing bill to workers' in 1967 tation strike, strait-jacket the trade unions the strike of the workers in the the according to recommenda- private sector industries.

tions of the infamous Ramama- Though they did not end in than report. I would like information about

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Name Address There was enormous opposi- tion to this amongst the workers.

This was one of the GCSU's main demands-to reject the bill.

But in the course of the struggle they left this demand out on the pretext that the UNP-controlled unions in clerical service would not join the strike if it were included. The main demand of the strike was for a 40-rupee-a-month increase. This demand was actually formulated in 1962. Because of the inflation and the rupee devaluation it was now meaningless. But the leadership, which still entertained illusions about the government's generosity, stuck to the 40 rupee demand in the hope that they would get it without much struggle. The government showed its determination not to grant even one rupee by alerting the armed forces. The Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake left Ceylon on a pil- grimage to India and delegated all power to the so-called tough man in the government and the gray eminence in the cabinet, Mr J. R. Jayawardena. The CP-controlled paper 'Aththa' ('The Truth') stated that the workers were going to win their demands in a matter of three days. On the second day of the strike however, the government invoked emergency powers and made the strike illegal. The CP then argued that the emergency powers were invalid and they even called in an ex-chief justice to give his opinion on this ques- tion. In the meantime, the govern- ment used military and police forces to intimidate pickets and meetings were made illegal.

The LSSP and CP leadership kept out of the strike on the opportunist pretext that if they did intervene the government would consider it a political strike. Tampoe and Shanmugadasan and the plantation workers' unions did not join the strike.

The revisionists and the Maoists did nothing to criticize or in any way embarrass the reformist leadership. Instead they called for a joint discussion of the trade union leaders and made militant speeches which enabled the treacherous leadership to get away with this infamy. of the pro-Moscow CP Keune- man, tried to settle with the head of the government. Finance minister Dr N. M. Perera prays for success to Lord Buddha during the second coalition in 1964. Prayers did not help him—now only IMF can, but at a high price. This was done after the postal workers-the most militant sec- tor in the strike-had been per- suaded by Mr Jayawardena to return to work. The CP and LSSP leaders, who had all along argued against a political intervention, now did not hesitate to make precisely such intervention, not to con- solidate the strike, but rather to sell it out. • The government promised that there would be no victimization and promptly reneged. The 'Samasamaja' (paper of the LSSP) wrote an editorial com- plimenting the minister's promise placing the blame rictimization on the officials ir the administration. The failure of this strike, how- ever, did not prevent the work- ers of the government corpora- on once again coming out o trike in 1969 The most militant sector was the petroleum corporation work- ers where the Ceylon Mercantile Union-led by Tampoe-was in The ISSP and CP leaders were

WORKER PRESS

Velon textile workers striking during the second coalition. Both coalition governments have not hesitated to use police and thugs to break union organization. Armed police guard ships in Colombo Harbour-in 1963 Dock Strike- when SLFP government was in power. Use of police and fire- arms against strikers has been intensified since the Coalition government came to power. forced to support the strike by the pressure of their members.

A decision was taken to call •a general strike, but these same leaders did everything to avoid it and called off the strike with- out securing any of the demands.

This was done two days before the scheduled general strike action. The CMU followed in the retreat. In March 1970 there was the harbour strike which came two months before the general elec- tion and in the middle of the Colombo municipal elections.

This demonstrated once again the capacity • of the workers to struggle. But here too the LSSP union in the harbour worked openly against the strike and per- suaded their workers to black- leg under the pretext that it was a CMU stunt to disrupt the municipal elections. But some militants in the LSSP unions joined the strike.

The CP unions too joined the strike. And many workers refused to vote for some LSSP candidates in the election. The general election of 1970 took place against this back- ground of growing militancy in the working class and the rural poor. The government was unable to They pass the anti-union bill.

were also unable to bring in the wages council bill. And they were unable to proceed with the drastic cuts in the social services which had been envisaged.

Split This situation led some sec- tions of the capitalist class to split off from the UNP and join forces with Mrs Bandaranaike's

SLFP.

The forces pro-imperialist calculated that they were not yet in a position to take on the working class / and they would need time-and another coali- tion--before they could do so.

The left leaders were still an indispensable factor in these plans. The masses deprived of any alternative, voted for the coali- tion of the SLFP, CP, LSSP and against the UNP resoundingly.

The coalition programme was even more reactionary than that forward the late S. W. RV. Bandaranaike, who led the first coalition govern- ment of the SLFP and the MEP (the People's United Front Party) in 1956. The coalition stated it would not nationalize the plantations and major industries, but would encourage private enterprise. The only : reference to nationaliza- tion was in relation to the banks.

Even Mrs Gandhi had proposed to do this in India-with the consent of International the Monetary Fund, of course.

The tea estates which are the most important sector of Ceylon's economy, were not going to be touched while the agency houses which of these manage many estates would be brought under control. The coalitionists were probably more surprised than anyone at the magnitude of their victory.

This was because the masses did not take the coalition programme seriously into account when they voted. voted to They show their hatred and opposition to the UNP. So the SLFP got 90 seats, the LSSP 21 and the CP 6. Despite the demagogic refer- to making ences Ceylon a republic, the throne speech gave a real suarantee about security of capitalist investments.

Though it contained vague about workers' generalizations rights and about fighting infla- tion and solving the unemploy- ment problem, it did not oulline a programme to do any of these things. The native capitalists and land- lords were reassured and imme- diately went into action against the working class. The best example of their new- found militancy was seen at the Velona Textile factory where the workers struck and have been baton-charged at least twice by the police. When workers in a newspaper corporation formed trade a union the management sacked all the militants and when the workers resorted to strike action the management locked them out. The SLFP is becoming notori- ous for the organization of black- legging. At the Velona factory an SLFP union was formed and used its influence to organize workers to scab in the

LSSP-

led strike. Similarly, at the Munchie bis- cuit factory SLFP scabs were used against an LSSP union and the strike was broken. On the tea plantations strike struggles have reached a new level and on one estate two workers were killed in a police firing. More and more workers are becoming disillusioned with the coalition government because of these anti-working-class and anti- democratic actions. Youth The youth especially the unem- ployed and unorganized sec- tions of young workers, have begun to organize themselves in extra-parliamentary activities.

The disillusionment in parlia- ment and reformism has induced moods of cynicism and adventu- rism amongst the petty bour- geoisie. Some organizations, like the JVP (People's Liberation Front), led by ex-Moscow Stalinists, has sought to organize backward sec- tions of the working class and the peasantry along adventurist Guevarist lines. They oppose trade union struggles arguing that trade unionism is a blind alley for the working class. They arouse the racial issue against the Tamil plantation workers, whom they unjustiy characterize as agents of Indian imperialism. Sections of the middle class, increasingly dissatisfied with the government's attitude towards the role of imperialist monopoly capital, now turn to the JVP.

Having refused to attack the crisis at its source, the coali- tion is being forced to turn more and more to traditional enemies of the working class for help. The visit of the renegade Trotskyist Finance Minister Dr N. M. Perera, to western Europe for financial help, like his pre- vious visit six years ago, has been a virtual failure. This, despite the assurance of Mrs Bandaran- aike to the Pompidou govern- ment, about the solicitous atti- tude the coalition towards imperialist capital. The IMF has now instructed Dr Perera to devalue the rupee again as a pre-condition for aid.

Dr Perera, however, argues that he can solve the problem by Keynesian measures. Consequently the budget which he has proposed gives nothing to the working class and it is Monday, November 9, 1970 becoming more and more evident sive against the working class that limited currency and its traditional leadership.

reform cannot indefinitely post- The plans of the ruling class pone another devaluation.

can frustrated only by Some of the radical energetic campaign to break up movement like the Shakti group, the coalition by demanding that who in the past have spread illu- the left leaders break from it.

sions about using pressure to

LSSP

push the Such a campaign must go hand into revolu- in hand tionary position, have now been with implacable completely exposed. struggle for the construction of a revolutionary party which has The leader this of group thoroughly assimilated the revealed the real content of his experiences of the working class politics by accepting a director- over the last 20 and years is ship in the state mortgage bank informed by an internationalist the under coalition government. perspective. There is not and never will be A pernicious role is played by the pro-Moscow CP, which an isolated socialist revolution in Ceylon. now criticizing the coalition from that it the left sO can more The struggles of the Ceylonese effectively the contain against British imperi- simmering amongst the masses.

alism and the native bourgeoisie is inseparably connected to the great historical drama No difference that is unfolding the Indian sub- on continent. There is little or no difference The Revolutionary Communist between this coalition and the League, Ceylon the section of previous coalition of 1964. If the International Committee of the choice before Mrs Bandaranaike Fourth International, is the only 1964 was coalition or military fights dictatorship, the choice now con- organization which for such a perspective and policy in fronting the coalition's leaders, is Ceylon today. what kind dictatorship As the military or police? objective conditions mature, there is no doubt that Behind the facade of the coali-

RCL

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Monday, November 9, 1970 DETAILED analysis of the effects of Anthony mini- Barber's so-called budget leaves not the slightest doubt that it means maximum depriva- tion for those sections of the working class who can least afford to be hit.

When he clipped his £329 million cuts package — the bulk of it from social services — Barber simultaneously handed over a £405 million reward to his friends at the top of big business. The next round of cuts is only just round the corner— with another big hand-out scheduled for the Tories' capitalist croneys. The Tories hypocritically on the sick. And it is only the claim to be helping the poor— first step in Tory plans to cut before they made great play Heath's the Health Service down to the with election size. They have waited more raise family allow- pledge to than 20 years for the chance to ances. Yet the pledge has sunk attack the NHS and with the without trace and in its place prescription charges they are the biggest battery of is just getting into their stride.

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FREE SCHOOL milk will be ended for all children over seven. This is perhaps the most blatant cut of all and must lead to deterioration in children's health. Recent reports indicate that one child in ten receives what is described as a 'poor diet'— that is, one well below the standards set by nutritionists.

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can least afford to lose them: the children from the poorest homes. The Tories' children, at their public schools, will not be affected.

FOOD PRICES

THE ABANDONMENT of farm subsidies—a preparation for Common Market entry- will mean a rise in food prices.

Average extra cost on the family budget is hard to calcu- late, but it could run at several shillings a week when the full effects are in operation.

SCHOOL MEALS

THE EFFECT of the school milk cut will be considerably worsened by the increase in school meal charges. The present charge of 1s 9d has already caused a significant drop in the number of children whose parents can afford this important subsidized service.

But by April, when the charges rise to 2s 5d a day, many more children will be affected, to say nothing of the effect on the family budget of finding the extra dinner money, especially where there are several children.

SPECTACLES

SPECTACLE charges are also to go up.

UNEMPLOYMENT

THE ENDING of the invest- ment grants system and the axing of the regional employ- grants scheduled ment 1974 will act as a deterrent to new industry entering areas of already high unemployment.

This will undoubtedly con- tribute to raising the total of unemployed in these parts of the country.

TRANSPORT

CUTS IN transport subsidies totalling some £31 million in the first year means fare rises on tubes, buses and railways.

In some cases, fares which have already risen steeply will double when the full impact takes hold.

MORE EDUCATION

CUTS

SCHOOL MILK and meals are only the thin end of the Tory wedge. Under discussion for future cuts are student grants and the rate support grant for local authorities. Teachers' pay, so the man- agement side of the Burnham committee says, must only increase within an overall £47 million, despite the teachers' far from ambitious pay claim totalling £225 million overall.; The expansion of higher education is also , threatened under plans now being con- sidered by arch-Tory the Philistine Mrs Margaret Thatcher. Total cost of the Barber package will vary from family to family, but it is unlikely to work out less than 15s a week on the cost of living-a very high price to pay for the trivial decrease in most workers' income tax. Add to these cuts the effect of the latest Barber package- the 'raise-the-rent' programme for public and private tenants - and it is clear that the Tories are already hitting out at the weakest: the children, the sick and the poor. The other side of Barber's package is the much-boosted income tax cut. Sixpence off income tax sounds yery fine, but in concrete terms it means something quite different.

The net effect of the cuts in social services has to be sub- tracted from the 'benefit' of income tax reductions in order to arrive at the net 'benefit' of the package. •

WORST HIT

Naturally, those who pay least income tax get least benefit from a cut. And these are exactly the people who are worst hit by the slashing of social service benefits. In fact, it is estimated that a family with two children would need a gross income close to £60 a week before the effects of the income tax cut outweigh the increased costs of school meals, health charges the rest of Barber's package. For workers with low wages, the effects are uniformly ad- verse. However, they can take comfort from fact that some people are benefiting a great deal from the social ser- vice cuts and the income tax reduction. Lord Stokes, head of the £400-million British-Leyland Corporation, is one. With a gross pay of f42,148 he will benefit to the tune of £1,000 a yeat. David Barran of Shell will do even better. His after-tax pay of £13,800 will be inflated by £1,700 a year-more than £30 a week. Plessey chairman John Clark will see his pay packet rise by £1,600. And ICI magnate Sir Peter Allen will get an extra £1,400.

These people will also benefit-if they hold shares—- from the cuts in corporation tax. For the big monopoly com- panies this tax will provide a bonanza of about £100 million a year. For the big mono- polists, the Barber package is a veritable licence to print money. To a man or woman earning say £1,000 a year, even with two children in the family, the tax cut benefit comes out at exactly £3 2s 5d a year-less than most people spend on matches.

'GENEROUS'

But of course, says Barber, the needy will be able to apply for 'generous' supplementary benefits. To start with, the benefit schemes are all accompanied by the hated means test. Hundreds of thousands of people, old age pensioners, un- employed workers, widows and poor families, are too proud to apply and rather than submit to an inquest into their circumstances. The estimated number of pensioners who are entitled to -and in many cases desper- ately need - assistance but refuse to apply is more than 600,000. The people under pension- able age entitled to supple- mentary benefits who refuse to apply number more than half a million—at least two in five.

Free school meals are avail- able for certain children if their parents will submit to a means test. Again few of those eligible are prepared to take up this doubtful offer. As far as prescription charges are concerned, the evidence is even more damning.

Less than 2 per cent of pre- scription charges are actually refunded. The actual percentage of people who could claim exemp- tion under the rules is prob- about ably per cent. Spectacle refunds are claimed by only about a fifth of the people entitled to them. Much has been made of the Family Incomes Supplement, which is bring supposed to families with low incomes up to a living wage. In practice it does nothing of the sort. The maximum benefit which can be obtained under this clause is £3. A man earning £10 a week would - if he passed the means test, which takes into account what is euphemistically termed 'capital' as well as income — get his wage made up by £2 10s (i.e., half the difference between his wage and f15 a week).

POVERTY LINE

The scheme is not quite as simple as that, however. For example, a married couple with three children of school age and a rent of £4 10s, would be assessed as needing £20 to bring their money up to a living sum. Yet if the husband's pay were £15 10s (a total income of f17 8s with family allow- ances) they would receive nothing at all. Yet they would still be £2 12s below the poverty line. Even if they do get help, this will not, in most cases, bring them up even to the meagre poverty line defined by Supplementary Benefits Commission. Even if this same family were earning only £15—a total of £16 18s with family allow- ances-they could claim only 6s under the scheme, leaving them £2 16s below the poverty line. The Family Incomes Supple- ments, in other words, are a gigantic swindle. Despite all the Tory dema- hundreds of thousands families will be left below the official poverty line, while the Tory magnates at the top of industry enjoy the sweets of Tory victory. This is Toryism in action→ the poor get poorer, while the rich get richer. That is the real significance of Barber's budgetary package.

It is a direct blow at the gains won by the working class over the years since the 1930s. And it is a prescription for concentrated misery in hun- dreds of thousands of working- class homes.

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ormation cannot be wi even to miners and secret, tace their robable that not IMAGINE A BULL chained in a field. For years vithin it is tormented by its keeper, it strains, but cannot ner or les and

MINERS!

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furv the bull snaps the independent and sank and fie chain. Dutschke's ardly believent it cases- the struggle fought or bie cogied hac elieving i Council in Britain. enemies. the Timpe There must e ween ged tober efeat any wage claim abov

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lat ngur The miners treat of closures 1969-1970. ift in stie ceili face end for good this asion, Porthcawi, after the of servility so clearly revealed in these statistics.

redundants an humiliations. DAI DAVIES, who works underground at Cwm pit, near Llantrisant, in Glamorgan, knows that the threat of further closures will be used Dockers by the government and the Coal Board during the strike.

Hated foe reinstated tened to black ma Since he began • pies have réputed to be a pull they break freone great mended on sturday that com cated in wat resumi and nice at unio Transpo deman id which the chain is Norter they wil close it anyway.

led to their miners ata beart to tight. eaten en this way du che With lengthy Jobless up Wales coalfield is more than ton at the weekend. Washing-

WEATHER

Want fight Jai Davie Tardened t having had seven times CLIFF TRUE, from Fernhill in the Rhondda, was the chairman of the rank-and-file committee which led last year's unofficial strike on the S Wales coalfield.

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every the he strike, * he Support Pikinitor to assworkere and their Defeat the proposed Tory anti-unlon laws

. SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15

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Speakers will be from the Pilkington Rank and File Committee eating a grea our leadership le. Those are Charter of rights Chi Thee

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leadershier may the ret have the audacity ganize to a55 * leaving thr du the sae their ful term, merely record.

'The mood of the such • I take strogether enough to protest against this Monday, November 9, 1970

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

BYA FOREGN CORRESPONDENT

AS 3,800,000 W German voters went to the polls yesterday in the regional elections in Hesse, two important sections of workers in the Federal Wales miners leaving their Porthcawi conference Republic prepared to fight their major wage Transport noreases of up Mersey in 1,200,000 do cam

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A German se demana, cent increase. Trusalle the of the plan Despite right wing Nor MD&HB told Workers Press yesterday. resolutioe i despite om barrage bargain and manoeuve have so ands itself squeezed betwow lifted a finger in their defence. the see ming cama Miners t and is tell decion Brandt

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called for DESPERATE ATTEMPTS were made over the ational „ гу weekend to stop this morning's meeting of the tions to the right NUM's Iorksnire area counch lonowing une strike lead of the coalfield's four unofficial panels of pits. government. " making their exerenter the weel gogue Franz Joseph Strauss.

Czech a Yorkshire's vote for a strike economy miners headin the Coal Boards e7e 75 in trouble offer, give equally Edlington

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area secretary Sid of hands then then by a card government has announced that many of the proposals

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1971-1975 year plan

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that be have had to be relectea miner and back to now the use violence reterred industry. W Germany. shaking the C2 urging the men to go to work.

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national they were telling us that there area This i dele- ndda, was the chairman of miners Monktonhall it year's unofficial strike on Mick McGahey Scotland, no estate Belore proving and a leadersh The Torin The rentended to stared determined tho take ones never sepes of the plan for 1971 eac question or to keep it on the social needs and Vicious Ts like school milk back men are determined to win.'

Not enough nationally "We should never nave gon‹ We should have fought to brisde sherane even should

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UNIONS ALLIANCE

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again No anti-union laws' miners are Force the Tories to resign' The time trys govern meat "Bil thi wil be an on- there an en- Slap tirely new • unity or purpose working the two I London among Class coming to Monktonball, des- tnan we nave seen in years.