Workers Press no. 3

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

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L.P. 'LEFTS'..

Was the As D-mark floats

JAN 31 1970

film Uncertainty grips for the

RETREAT..

money markets police? By Potor Saltrtor THE DECISION of the Bonn government to allow the mark to 'float' •y our own correspondeni —to find its own value in world money markets—must deepen the in-

THERE

some mystery

AS USUAL

about a crew of TV camera ternational monetary crisis Uncertainty Who covered the and ner- all Yousnes. alegedy I0 financial centres as dealers guessed whether this was " as not, accordin one the prelude to an imme- diate revaluation gradual raising the TODAY'S debate on the economic strategy section mark's price. Comment Speculation on a of the Labour Party's 'Agenda for a Generation', By Social government by on the Herr David takes place against a background where major con- Democrat revaluing the Maude conference cessions have already been made to the right-wing Cling door he ca manughout on demonstrations cognized traitors by conference's so-called left'.

and mot SHEFFIELD AFF del Cate Monday markets the Taberg Parachi Monday ference George Mersey workers Party union leaders and commenting proceed Seer Mi Paul Rose, who ings Told tne worker: went anead with Press: attempt of unity senging present to lobby L.P. British believe it was rigt s intentir facade Stop on the worn thread of the to enter ham last it! right for lim Callaghan Trades Union congress's conference

PREVENT

Downing Street roLlen nuclear compromise. Praised deal

GEC-

lobby the ation spite to stain

MERSE SIDE

Labour Party orave vers shop test plea alectric conterence during the de- stewards decided at bate morning, on engineering mer- to be a major or ri yesterday gers today. action committee meeling By our science correspondent 1O Things the mee major row over night Monday They Cannati national also

WASHINGTON MONDAY

lobby parked of Mrs Consultative 1 memonis ot Monday vauxhal Castle's and members afternoon's trade union de- banned for Thursdaear tes Date. candienins for • This lenge of are ith hough Wilson Alaskan island could touc shese lobbies froes Motors *entia she the early major earthquakes and over the combine. endangering thio ma laal mornin Will yesterud countries the *stening came under main antil 1973- 1,800,000 Pacific ocean. against militancy statement. moved the Monday whic and other peon Just translated from the MIKE BANDA: Editor of Workers' Press rising pretty chaotic French thought, to provide sary, I am Ashamed of You pans to e Former Nazi

GUARDED

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To all readers Comrades' fact, bothere and in

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Industrlal Roporter security chief atmosphere of Vaux 1 rec anti-s this in cute the neme gener ment to main arrested actory A message + a copes toreign relationd relata people dareder Saturday's Workers' Press recy thrown onto from the editor are Make sure of your copy So the dear and Urder now the 5222 Telephone 720 2001 foreign policy. briefly: Agitate! Agitate!' " thank! contusion one woThe m ragement is getting dersions amongst the laps succinse neitation mad A.E.F. black asked as up to President Nion. em role of he sabe, department respo their oss working expense laying on some ser citizens Douglass replied simply and Pt will be, Lytham factory in the words o

ALL TRADES

C.l.A: shows its Lest, anita colet or propa Work-study in Laid off the party

UNIONS

In Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry- Ve lace of men who do workers is to "black' all products of the Lytham, Lan- road transport

ALLIANCE

hand in 'green asked worksuse aery casnire. Dudley hill engineering lactory, a subsıdiar tigher levels of Initial Services, the roller-towel company.

Castle: Glad leaders political o They refuse to won berets' trial memDer got together with bosses.

Unemployment and th strike at the these rousing lessons of GEC-English Miners' struggle agains ay partnership 'greater 1 Workers Electric' dans laid counterparts the ring to a all the strike

ASB

Distinction

LIVERPOOL

for to Sunday, October 19 which have trial 7.30 p.m. lemocrarom com murder vietnamese Monday by the Of arecy. On CiVillal. Witam Secured the actor led a dale Alan Law, the Midlands trade allusion to the CiA beng Moi Soakral Committer 'Like beavers' helpful near at ben very The six are Thryburgh Hall, Socialist Labour League than one inter repent. strain the More U.S. aid and Barn- worked tide univers to shay Yause smashing the penal

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NUMBER THREE • WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1

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L.P. 'LEFTS'-

Was the As D-mark floats

JAN 311970

film Uncertainty grips

INSTRUTO 1

for the

RETREAT..

money markets police? Dy Polar Santos THE DECISION of the Bonn government to allow the mark to 'float' by our own correspondeni —to find its own value in world money markets—must deepen the in-

THERE

AS USUAL

ternational monetary crisis.

Uncertainty and here brenton demonstratio gripped all Vousness sunday alleredy to financial centres as dealers guessed whether this was the prelude diate revaluation or to a march, film Many feet gradual TODAY'S debate on the economic strategy section mark's price. Comment news ¡of the Labour Party's 'Agenda for a Generation', By Whats on the David takes place against a background where major con- Maude had already conference cessions have already been made to the right-wing of dollars into Branch in unofficial trading traitors by conference's so-called 'left'.

Monday recognize throughout wher on demonstrations

SHEFFIELD AEF

delegate i cananca * Mach to Lne LaDour On Monday afternoon, George Mersey workers ICrCACC Party ano union eaders told the Workers ahead with their Press: went to present to lobby L.P. facade of unity-hanging British troops must hold of the sierrands it lear that he cannot alter the mai to send in Stop On ure wow leo the the Pricemand Incomes Act to reinforce them last night.

parity. Trades Union Congress's conference

PREVENT

Downing anded, th

CHAOS

nuclear aboard There compromise. Praised deal despite the tanding Labour Party G- lobby the attack ovation ven English Electric conference during the de- test plea action commide meting bate on engineering mer- implica de union guns will come morning, action executives Agenda o for By our sclence correspondent Monday

WASHINGTON MONDAY

Generation' a sparked bicy scient group of Monda Vauxhall at the Maytals on th, Lon bazoon's trade union de is accept er guestion arme Thursday on an The Although Wilson held talks Motors campaignin could touch diaskan Island earthquakes and over the combin thou rs untries ordering rene Steel Ton's against the Pacific ocean votes militancy Labour assistan o in etary Harry Seitaned of an overtime san.

and other problem, Bolice Just translated from the MIKE BANDA: Editor of Workers' Press rising rrenco I am Ashamed of You troops being voiced. Energy Com.

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Former Nazi To all readers In fact, both 'left'

SUPPORT

comrades Inausinal Hopor security chief

THE

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commany their own working classes.

Lytham factory and not others.

1L TRADE

C.l.A: shows its Work-study in Laid off

UNIONS

THE Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry.

laid opa meis alleged road transport workers is to 'black' all products of the Lytham, Lan-

ALLIANCE

hand in green aise ther cashire, Dudley Hill engineering factory, a subsidiary of Initial Services, the roller-towel company.

Glad union leaders WORK-STUDY is to be use Castle :

AEF

ha see ty-four got together with bosses. berets' trial Unemployment and the productivity deal negoti under treet since September fahe ma sine She remuses fo Miners' rie capiralise systen. 2s lessons or uck-English ay Partner ka Services Electric The orkers in Road negotiate with the union. comer is their tree ding bo a halt. trial, strike all the Distinction

LIVERPOOL

Smen he factory were hall "'green berets') Army secretary Sunday, October 19 Rad withheld id stood nat the C. SIX collieries in the Barns socialist nautell Workers must 7.30 p.m. interest of national secur committing saved caused To s villam brown stre their ton in Speaker: C. Slaughter Pentagon alusion 'Like beavers' helptul in the negotiation very Socienst Cour eage ommittee exponents of pillage an han one interpretation. to more More U.S. aid restrain the worked like beavers do shas

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ten years, entry into the izations. Common Market, or European Economic Common Market be- Community, has a major issue in come problems British politics. The gatherings of the Com- Both the Tory and Labour Market mon countries. lar leaderships are declared sup- from taking place in an atmos- of o-operation and porters of entry but there goodwill, have witnessed some divisions within each are of the hardest bargaining for party• short-term naulonal interesis ever seen in the annais The British government used With so much at stake for European diplomacy. his against the French to the future of British capi- At the end of last year the and support with the Germans talism, it is not surprising Josef Herr rranz others streneuden aDel Strauss, West German Finance future bid for entry. that there should be deep Minister, who should divisions within the ruling But if the former French expressed himself frankly had class and that they should be president nO scruDIes Ine subject about going behind the backs reflected in the labour and *Were it not for my natural of his 'allies', and the British disclosures wrote, would were made as trade union bureaucracv. optimism' about Europe talking diplomatic manoeuvre, This led to some strange alli- his colleagues have at all any longer. for all we ourauss and 1961-1962 and ances can see in wurone today is a emn oved the same metnoas melancholy demonstration Strauss came position can helplessness, of our with proposals for political also CeY- ected the decision military hopeless political impotence.

Enoch Powell to ride in on the had which would have Common Mar- widespread concern at He added later, speaking of French his Common Market partners: entry into the infuence in aurone and ore- paring the return of Germany •ket would mean Tor TOod European policies 'Their prices and the cost of living.

o a greater political role.

sometimes look like an endless succession of diplomatic The lengthy editorial in "The London would Again not mutual blocking manoeuvres, Times' play ball, for its own reasons.

sentember deceit and haggling strongly supporting an applica- lacucs. Each government- -at least tion is an index of the percentages anicultural contributions.' ness of those or britain. rrance ano which i not Germant -considers the dues. going to be made. There is a tendency to blame tion of European unity purely the of view It represents the policy of from national Dresent strained relauions sections of British the smaller major capi- withın the six and the lack and tries to line up progress towards economic tal which hope thereby to find countries on its side laid down in the a solution to otnerwise insur- of Rome upon The old struggle for hege- mountane tinancial and eco- thus new nationalist intransigence of mony goes nomic problems. within the and General de Gaulle. TOrM No relation to Britain's role Capitalism and The implication is that now one country is in a position he has gone everything will be dominate without support the national three in Europe. other big saline. ana Ine tormer ohstacies Kritain's entry will disappear. state Under de Gaulle, France was that de Gaulle It is able to play a political true nunderstandi reasons exceeded made his contribution _to the which greatly her for the formation of the Com- general mistrust, but he did so or European and nomic integran relauve economic power. representative specific European economic integra- Since the spring of 1968 this tion now going on, it is neces has changed and stood by dominant sections of sarv to reler to the historical Gaulle only of de wrenco capital. aeparture which capi- conditions under gives torma expression to te talism developed in Europe.

De Gaulle made no secret of charn deterioration her the fact that had financial and economic posi- Historically, the national the tion which has taken place.

visionary nonsense state was the nolitical exnres.

which accompanied european sion of the dominance of the Common Market propaganda bourgeois class. which politicians The struggle for vell as ideologists paid lip- Fach state thus had its own set of laws, its tariffs and trade service. hegemony regulations, currencu In the famous Soames con- and banking system. France now plays the tole six fact versation which blew the sick diplomatic last February, om These states jostled for posi- supported by aling tion in the world market, Italy and scarcely healthy carved allaces. colonial pronosals which amounted to Belgium, with only Federal formed and went to the replacement of EEC by Germany apparently vigorous.

looser and larger organization war with each other. which Britain could join. Some accounts of the Com- ne cimay was reached murderou These expressed the Tradiction Between she great

ICELAND

destructive) productive land forcec released modern

COMMON MARKET

science and technology and the

FREE TRADE

ASSOCATION LI

which frontiers within

OTHER QE EC MEMPERS TIT

bourgeois rule had been estab.

lished formed a part. Marxists pointed out that

STRUT

development of the the further the nroductive forces required breaking down of the national

RELAN

frontiers well the expropriation of the owners ( the means of production. The historical delay in the establishment off socialism, the crisis consequence

PORTUGAL

the working-cass headershin. imposed none the Huronean bourgeoisie the task of dealing outmoded nationa the frontiers inherited from nast. The wars of the 20th cen- the revolutions in Russia the chal. and eastern Europe. lenge of the working class and the economic decline of Europe convinced important sections of the bourgeoisie that it could closer without no1 survive By Charles Parkins Huronean union This trend was backed by the United States in the period out broke

ROW

reconstruction tne Labour European capitalism after 1945 among some MPs recently over lobby- The the establishment Middle-East Commun- ing for Furopean Economic governments. Germanv tu hu hrance ta v. and tha Ranpluy countries the 1950s was the most signifi- If this row must he com. Margaret McKay, MP for Clap- measures of cant mented on, it is not because the ham about Jewish MPs. towards closer of anything that might be McKay • united four-week tegration which followed of States, learned from it about the war. the tour Middle East, but for the way during which she addressed a ad- Britain danider not mastina hold in New of it shows up, for members of the Treaty Commi tee body called the indee here 'eton Coith the labour the for East which brought thic mauement tion into existence, Peace was Preported to: not henna very "broadmindedness' of the prepared surrender any reported have was body with Labour Party. sovereignty that coid at thie meetina. "with doubtful future controlond > lowich Inhany MDa in th It is a 'broadmindedness' Commons it was impossible for cure Instead, that allows virtually anyone the government be anything tha initiative wac taken forming but pro-Israel in its policy.

tha lancar Trotskvists -anyone except European Free Trade Associa- -from airing their views. Protests tion The governments which went Such views, of course, make Mrs McKay is a member of and the into thee runna. no difference to policies- Doria. economic unlitical inter. still alleged will mentary Alliance. Her dias so for reasons of material which supported the government thom emarks brought protests from pursue a programme simad ewish MP rganization interect against workers at home, and

37 MPS

out pointed Despite much idealistic talk were lewich against Arab and Tewish indulged in by politicians. bub- On September 18, Mrs Contamha. workers and peasants over- licists and intellectuals about and and told reporters that she was seas. 'united Europe hear nation-state, tacunarcere the The recent row began she been the long-standing national terests of the bourgeoisie ha.

WORKERS' PRESS

October 1, 1968

BRITISH CAPITALISM

All it has been able to do i: to set

AND THE

By Tom Kemp

(EEC)

union with tariffs against the outside work and one club tne mutual lowering arif (ErrA) which ine themselves in rivalry witt ach other

COMMON MARKET

This is the net result auarter of a centur tegration' in western Europ It is thus quite plain tha the bourgeoisie unable remove the barriers to the de- Yeroes which to further tacal, sack as rea constituted Ly the national state. alue win a united Europe to match up to lira oving to the e from America or the challen substiate itself for he eark the Soviet Union ing class has proved a failure are quite roposals ing Italv makes its aevaluation sk userse as the t only a matter of time superseding state frontiers devolves.

wold trimonete line raider control of the mark, national state which they have relude to the realizatio and the verman negemony over wes class that it will be possible, ern curope a precessare of cante arional The Common Market coon- capitalist hands. Ileanalla. Buences of which they estimate The evidence that eat meaten though pril from their own national stand economic integratior look like an endless successio point. Excluding hollana ties with British capital (Shell, revolution on European the bour- Market focus etc.) national and for phe United geolste nas been competen nanonal mramework 'Trade to advance even by a Socialist States of Europe.

and which the countries nave been lavourea in recen years support remaining opposition counter t is true that there has bee his has been particularly dis favour because aueting tor the british capita ists in view or tea intensinea ecchome propens capitalism by the large peasan- try in western curope remains but the worla background In anv case terms will of growing economic especially in rela had direct effects in Europe tion to sterling, , the balance of Despite mise tre taking off and Te fail forth de not within ace spite ending Common Market. ariffs between member cour ries on July 1, 1960, to mak integration promi with ante sixuation follo ding to de. integration sit 1968 sollgies. the Mav- une i integrate tan or tie is mean in. our tnere remain in existence them hrm v into state and impose an enecuve wages poncy. France, fear of industrial re- fact, There is obviously and agricultural over

PROBLENSOF

THE CHINESE

ments of the member coun- De Gaulle's departure makes Tries. basic It is obvious now that little

REYOLUIIUR

progress along west unes cal union. or will be made Many idealistic people see There is no sign that practi- as the Effective economic the Common Market A a bin the beine laken nrst step towaras ion can only take plac unify the asis of monetary unificatio naulonal international 354 nns. including glossary and chronology. Price: tary 22s. 6d. (soft cover); 37s. 6d. (hard cover) economic policies. ye this guite Utopian has even on the scale of the Six Available from New Park Publications, 186a Clapham High Street, S.W.4.

The franc French

ESCIOPERO PRELLI

there

PURELLI

There are certain restric. tions on currency movement: other administrative ob and stacles Governments snow no nurt

DISARMO DELLA POLIZIA

to remove these devices national producers. The Tre my chi Pry

NEI CONFLITTI DEL LAVORO

firmly surrender cination Bruses or any at orit. authority The wave of class struggles sweeping lalv Ich as the strike (above at une rirel works in milan Involving 40,000 workers ma longed an and not their origins MPs row over Labour | „have would single people out ast cording to Na cut feelish talk the Middle East Polish Star asserted by bureaucrats, not kirivate at reporters die ernment. I support its polic ment, in view of its policies fellow workers. not know only regarding Israel In this Welcome were not wav it tries to tie Which has been reso present. system MP for coventry entry orde She denied making interviewea by maependen In Adel and tne fetstan Gull the remark attributed to her Television News on the Into whether i herceable that judging fro reportedly declared at the 63rd the in the Middle East the Zion- Barnett Janner M lothe remars or seem to think is bie 'Poale sion of one mibion a lew point that she one million Palestinian made the tionable that she should equate To be a Zion- the govern- being Jewish with the Zona from had not attacked ineir nomes allegedly made ment. Zionist. do the Iveltne objectionable. only s objectional Socialis il was noticeable vor Pratic for MPs to sup wish obe Mes welcomed by may also be utilized by

PULL

revel Accurate correct the inter occupation and colonization.

im connection with However, United Press that their viewer di makine a alsuncuor reporter Zionism Support betweel are In the pages of "The News- Jewish workers such publi- and Jetter have consistent Criticism exposed the reactionary nature e Palesentan can socialists and lewish reaction.

story was ac fact, . Arabs. Mckay's ma seems car ape ane There concern she had and directed chised the go homer •Daily Labour MPs particular, have been extremely if Mrs all their statements Septem- how, careful in Might we which tels the lewish worke vot all these Mrs are en Mckay is a friend of the Arab they beTt that have common not n being lewisi the Inal Is our concer identity and interest with We have attacked the policies is utterly refrain Jew ing a Zionist. ridiculous lo peopies cal ish bosses and not with their say I attacked the British gov.

criticizing the British have advocated, o Licy

WORKERS' PRESS

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October 1, 1969 Must the show

WORLD TROTSKYISM GREETS

go on? By Brian Moore

THE WORKERS PRESS

TO open a new column for the first Trotskyist daily paper is an historic

THEATRE

occasion.

FRANCE

represents

AMERICA

years of struggle, sacrifice, determina- theatre come more airectly • ney can to duv over tal tion, but above all the living under the tentacular pressures leir own propagan potency of Marxism. ferabilly they are more a Somts or the so-called len Dear Comrades, Dear Comrades, the centre of contradictione a tom-cats home ats ped already for 1550r 1950 Each week columr to the first dailin the The greetings I am sending you in the name of the itself with Greetings concern tins of cat food. Will will be French Trotskyist Organization Tor the reconstucuot Expression a tremendous The nims and theatre, noping to clearer tohall brethren becomin of the Fourth International are today. followed closely Dride We have the The English of the aran International Committee When a new talent emerges greasepaint, connaent and the Socialist Labour League, vy orkers rres. readers o Marxist because of the of significant developments It Is In ratner la sure raised its and Throuse the consyan gon Yor this theory fat a devolutiory try of the dorking clay by sing the system, but the because our party and Wemen, bery ublish a daily paper every week, fron system itselt demands its dues gentlemer connounons mn unis nea. day under the name, Workers' Press.

will be built. in return these pages incorporated in the Workers' Press has been our we nope that writers, direc Newsletter', We hear a great deal of the "lhe now To he SLL demonstrates this le programme hot stimulated t June tecnnician. actors freedom of expression permit- to the to go withly it is the frecrom through many artering stori.

taithlulness Dime Des Sorosraml eater it s the hourth international Is the • oniv eround on walch reunification with the Pabloite United secretariat.

Bolshevik organization can be constructed.

issue of the 'Bulletin' is now scheduled for the first week of November cal and psychological processes that The daily Workers' Press orten year. will become. we are sure hind political developments permit the factor will

SLL

point in the development of the int con- daily the organizational Complexity Is unt the revolu- sional serials, crisis and ars its construction of derhans in neriods of rani the scious surelsuici Recause we believe that cul olitical develooment the time tionary party in England.

Ievolutional y are not propitious for art.

tural matters are of vital con faced to learn the lessons win a deepenis economic Crisis. cern inextricably In this wav. workers rress will soon become une and speculate such mothers thei nere to Icaly political ones; only workers newspaper in Great britain, amirming bouna up witr of revolutionary struggles in the space of a few sault years doing so, that a workers' newspaper can only be a Trot- vecause we veneve Wal The strike wave throughout Western Europe is a fitting welcome to this dail he challenge of a new newspaper, a revolutionary part mands of the cash lutionary paper. the accountants' balance sheet.

LONG LIVE THE

challenge i The daily Workers' Press opens against nature in his struggle in theit

LONG LIVE THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL!

for strengthening the activity there to be met. sections himself; we believe Resilience Fourth Conference the imaginations of capturing of the Fraternally yours,

WOIK

1101 that works of art remind us of "humanity light, place the International Committee for the reconstruction of show ersist is an indication of the Lucy St. John, Editor, OUl which will ng class of Europe the rourtn intemalonal, obel anu Bulletin of International Socialism.

ties of human relation mips, persist is an mailalon ropean, for the untries lutio pry curational.

countries barucularly cast resilience Organ of the Workers League, USA.

of im working class. perialism in its decay

CEYLON R

ed and that he riz an not only for the British, but for the international work- comprise part o here h and new spend the alternative? who, in the dark years ine class. fore Stalin success are especially The alternative is the end of We elated by the old Bolsheviks exterminaling connaent and Newsletter as it has functioned as the link between the everything. International Committee and the Revolutionary Com- Four the titan or che Dear Comrades, were, behin speared unionary abler role tom fromrue alienati struggle, build revolutionary leadership in Revolutionalutiong struggle to Communist Ceylon. League (Ceylon) The dally Workers Press comrade Cs ali res the send the Socialist authors were relatin hostile evo occasion or i publication of the hitherto been the rich preserve Labour League on As the indomitable fighter for the principles, strategy sometimes lus acmevement unal In if the bourgeoisi conrused force of the working Intelligentsia first Trotskyist daily. and tactics of the historical needs and tasks of the work- way, the continuity When we take on an unaer Marcist revolut Mary leurnals.

"The Newsletter' has set an to all after the long period great class standing and analysis of does on the eve of the coming of defeat battles, provoked by the cuminan CrISIS histore and international capitalism, which will see the mosi Workers' i or a car i ne Althougn une Revolutonary communist Learue l periode that period in hetraval ny the stalinıst and socia- only • a year period their Pahloite accomnlices.

the Socialism confirms the ability of sections of the fortnightly and increase the size of our Tamil monthly, International, rourld the Restrictions aternational Co Fourth International to reconstruction, con- needs and tasks of 'Ethirppu'. listoric keep pace but we also understand unal and -, ing the international working class.

capitalism severe From December this year make 'Virodhaya' offensive, this agitational and organizational and save al paine and 'Ethirppu a fortnightly

HORNSOL

a weckly Pierre Lambert. Communist League pledges its Virodhaya' and 'Ethirppu wennon in the struccle avainst capitalst oppression and The the treachery of the traditional leaderships Is a guaran

LOLOW

tee of the victory of the british working cass in the News letter Delore cevion working class in une vanguard of the international working class.

sunreme confidence we share with al sections of the Propaganda International Committee that the Fourth International is Socialism The would never hase possib now the greatest lever of history.

xceptior This is the new context for a daily vorse. It seeks to perve the future perhaps support of the British consistent struggle Yours fraternally, where culture to satisfy its own

WULACES

artists will writers and not paganda-ends either by bribery for building the revolutionary leadership carried on by the Keerthi Balasuriya, rect whe tune's or by the merely renect our surve 10r c Socialist Labour League in the foretront of the Trotskyist conscious understanding of anc By LEON TROTSKY On behalf of the Political Torces une leaderson active participation Committee of the Revolutionary mittee or the rourth International.

struggle talist the other side the da pi.

The publication of the Workers' Press is a triumph League (Ceylon). n particular, the more put Gorantst A review written for nierre Lambert ic creauve lorns uke lllls al the St. Petersburg re Salute the Chinese Revolution!

view 'Sovremenny Mir' in 1910, of Der Sozi- alismus und die Intel- lektuellen, by Max published on its 20th Anniversary Adler

ON THE

2oth anniver- Vienna in the same sary OI the

VICTORON

year. Third Chinese Revolu- tion we salute the con- Mao Europe and the Soviet ana nIs ine extension Ine revolu Price: one shilling of the Chinese intendedprecedented quests launched advanced the Union coul Make win the bring a workers and peasants. tries secured

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The with the leadersan rotos sought a At a time when these con- carrying tl reconciliation with Khrush- quests are threatened both chet and nIs successors and by the treachery of the Soviet prescred a similar policy for bureaucracy and United While the Maoists were for- aims of actressive mally correct in denun. States imperialism we call ciation of the opportunism of defence of for the the the and other readership • Parties The period anone on die wore ted on are see bore Cease lapese grusale, Chinese Revolution. out to their historica The overthrow d the colon Colonia libera Russia in i jackward than ot the cor. worid Asia. It provided the basis for the heroic resistance of North ruot regime The couraged tion movement, particularly in Vietnam tang struck a great blow the Front three it une us their dec Invaders. Revolution Chinese 194) assumed dramatic der into a morass Maoists further the of defeats, ot political contusion and op countries alice of which Stalin was the archi portunism. tect, eechinese working bass a serious setback ree desire tor positior adership and the wrong ureaucracy to reach an agree British i apace regio and Soviet divi- Americans based or Union nas returnea lo capi- world decided at OI Ine alliance talismn with the Yalta and Potsdam. able to of a wa bet tor counsels aline had thee heritage enoud bad followed Chine to staliniside an alter- imperia bardination Chiang Kal-shek remained in power in Chine Turning in awane from advanced i lls beginning cereror principlete with 5. The situation ance the Korean bourgeoisie problems became more acute nauiona leadership nan donesia nd disaster ana arove 1 into snaro col- Soviet bureau- failed offer working a perspective to ther faster the w intended of Stalinects the Chinese Re- social revolution. the com- Strains volution and pledging our- It was obliged. attempt to build Chinese ing years, to bureaucracy pro- selves delence, duct of these conditions, came advanced industry and a theretore draw atention to to a head in the 'cultural re and colecuivized agriculture cancers wach confont county

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Yorks. pay battle mounts Vauxhall stops after Cadeby men men reject can win penalties

PRODUCTION

the Port, at Ellesmere ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED miners at Cade- Cheshire and Luton plants of Vauxhall Motors would cease at the end of yesterday's day shift, by Main colliery have voted to continue their strike- the management announced on Monday after.

now entering its third week-over market mens' noon. Production of Bedtord trucks at the com- pany's Dunstable (Beds.) factory would also wages. About 100 more men were laid off at stop. shiske Luton today. - man here in per Market men are skilled men without regular jobs from as to increasing The decision, which involves about 3,500 men at who can be assigned to fill each plant follows a meeting of Cheshire assembly-line caused by ab- vacancies Uniform workers which rejected the company's 'penal clause' senteeism or luess. deal by an overwhelming majority.

Cadeby workers claim that Board steadfastly refused on 3,000 members

WOIKCH

Vehicle Batters, the they strove thform coun- Natona nor sent to low-paid jobs when were laid call only pave the thre National Colonear nearly way for a sell-out. face work is available a dispute in tace-worr proposals company s preserve Dasonian discapinary completel DOnUs and another. Woken return the highest of strikebreaker on 1od. an hous result

'INTERVENE'

rather than negotia- No Monday re tancy Productivity "The Closures prore

LAY-OFFS

need for a united tie so hi. rate thrusher productivity rated or teton concen- Agreement faces, more Rover prices to the neme with new container вегдь ma opposition in The dispute is clearly so going up Squatting all Teased Per Lovers fron anagemenos proposals. next to Land-Rovers police more being will 13 co 287 10 1 lans fan dars and

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station smaller theo were bade overed

MEETING

upport-power General

WILLESDEN

she East London Squater and the Thursday, October 2 earing machine cutting the taCadeby Campaign moved into strike in the tal sate and seemon the The NicB is anxie disputes Londone War ° p.m above Willesden Trades and Labour Argentina children Five families with High Road, N.W.10 Harder ing to Tower - to a and tiday be

ARGENTINA

coal on three "mort tor Ford men squatters movemen Boration eat harder capitalist he a ist prais with mountains nader fate stable men. and deby bard on two shifts sceptical of stable are ution at 144 Piccadney parity claim Agreement It happens that House bacommitranet u local police station! to Take THE PROBLEM of leadership for the Ford the workers in their fight for the current £8 to fIO-a-week claim is now the big question being within a week. there tal Soviet Un discussed in the factories.

been no trouble! massive Industrial Roporter The claim, which is for i the mitary regime Dock dispute parity with the Rootes, factory, Strike nyloll, Has ceived an enthusiastic re- Lesson ends easier in the year. pression of theim aspirations The med for a Tea

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coming strike. prepared orker

ALLIANCE

he was off thre re shers had walked One said stay que Motor workers conterence kids Nothings Struggle with was Baine no All car. car overtime, and the was brokenout More and more workers are components and week was Impossiole le let this happen To thest not denvery Toxteth dock. anagement on Frida workers and extend ther stin government as well. are invited National io return on Negotiating to a Committee (NINC). dis. A united fight come on wage motor workers' s the NCB ents ca mel lutionary perspective. feat orking on four ships conference No confidence confidenced worke have no Digbeth Civic Hall,

STEEL CLERKS RESUME WORK

or in the unions. shopresen Digbeth Birmingham Saturday November 8 promised to intervene in th

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hundred clerks last March brake factory 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. omised to intervene Clayton Dewandre and custe penal in the

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from the British acie cakeal and an behind Write for credentials to: swung its Workers say, if poration (BSC) agreed to re 21 Sira Perry Path, se what sume normal working fron Blackbird Leys, accept for 510? Oxford. This was the condition laid As one worker pointed out: Conference fee: 5s. a person This matry al use str §penalty leaders sections of the moration motor indus- Message All Trades Unions Alliance Cancelled

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SCOTLAND

All motor workers are invited tunge or the den to attend a meetins in Conspiracy question of trad Kingston Hall, Glasgow, C.s.

must be taken in 1 We start uphold Sunday October 5, 2.30 the train® comporte ali do i to bor the need 1o ascus. 'The economic crisi an eld nor have The union hic was The derision with whied the that working class resea should BSC and als employers. and ould come gity would Unions weapon we want it ole in t nts all compén Street, Loos -fight to do the ditty won ten he "green for it! Is your puper- AN ESSENTIAL part of the port employers' plans to rationalize the docks and to cut down on the number of port workers is the drive for 'competition between ports. Dockers are expected to win trade from other ports by out-doing their fellow io sers ie tored and el shifts worked and in acceptance of lower man- ning levels, cuts in rest breaks and so on.

DYING

Naturally, the employers are well pleased when union rep- resentatives sing same From 'Now leader union says it' is the comment of a recent issue of the *independ- Jack Gale ent' dock paper 'The Port, statement by Tom over a a Transport and Gen- Roffey, Workers' Union official. eral rths like the one at Tilbury above, the only 'collaboration' the employers are intı equipment to the maximum with the minimum of men.

THE Communist Party has found strange new friends with its 'left unity' policy.

The Orange Lodge, com- plete with Union Jacks ing in Northern Irland' can and portraits of the Queen, only have been confused at this display of political and were allowed to head the class compromise. march to Liverpool Pier

HOSTILE

Head called by the Irish By refuting the principled civil rights campaign on Marxist of the Socialist Labour League for Saturday. the immediate withdrawal of troops and for a workers' and farmers' government based on The old faithfuls from Socialism ' nationalized industries, the ' International Stalinists attempt to divert the were also present, of course.

Irish workers' struggle behind the reformism of the Any workers who read leaf- civil rights campaign. lets inviting them to 'come and see what is really happen- Stalinism is hostile to the bulding of revolutionary par- ties for the expropriation of the employers. Strikes hit Their slogans for British of parlamentary standards democracy with were at one beer deliveries the Orange Lodge chants of 'Ulster is British, Ulster British'. It is no acident that the STRIKES at two breweries red banners of the Communist hit beer deliveries to London Party and 'International Social- Monday. public houses on should be disgraced in this way. Three hundred transport employees at the Charrington It is merely the logic of depot in Mile End Road re- popular front politics-follow- fused to work because they ing directly in the paths of oppose the introduction of Stalinist betrayal in Spain and new delivery sheets. France in the late 1930s. At the Watney Mann bot-

READINESS

50 depot Stepney, tling in 'van boys' came out over a One leading Merseyside wage dispute. Young League Communist member explained : 'They they decided just Later at work turned up and joined in, what merting to return to cold we do?' talks between union while officials and management In fact the Union/ Jacks continued. the head the were at march. This attitude contrasts vividly with the Communist Party's readiness to use the Young police against the Socialists on previous demon- Merseyside workers rightly lustrial Roporter gave no support to the whole affair. The struggle to resolve the Less than 25 people took economic crisis at the expense part. of the employers will pice plasent te Tod Nevertheless much can/ be take learned about the depths to and all its 'settlements'.

which Stalinism will sink.

ACTON London Transport railwav works fitters voted Monday to continue on their strike against manage- to erode workers-claim that the man- ment attempts agament has done this many their skilled status. times before and has deliber- The strike started when the refrained from hiring ately management refused to allow new fitters in order to keep the deputy apprentice instruc- the skilled men in this posi-

AEF

take tor- -an fitter- -to tion. the chief apprentice on in- structor's job whilst the latter All-round support was on holiday. The LTB claimed there was The management's real aim, too much work for the fitters one striker commented, was to do and he could not be to establish full mobility of spared from his job. labour between skilled and members of unstilled jobs, in order The men--250 Union of weaken union organization in the Amalgamated Engineering and Foundry- the works. October 1, 1969 By Bernard Franks and being headed Act Docks jobs are The article, killed off Regain systematically by Together to Lost the employers. Trade', begins : to which we owe 'Our river, Roffey continues : so much, is dying. How tragic 'While we can accept that it would be to feel that those of us who have been so closely Rome was not built in a day, connected with it should be we can also accept that it was one way or another built. Should we not therefore guilty in to estab- of contributing to this.' our attention turn 'Dying' is the word for it.

lishing a system of employ- ment containing agreements on pay and conditions instead of paying lip-service to it?

'Such a system has been referred "Phase Two, LO as Devlin". The latest factor in this 'building' is the pro- Surrey posal close the to Docks, London.

EMPHASIS

Roffey also thinks that 'too much is being emphasis' The placed on severance. hardship, he says, is mainly due to loss of trade from 'our port', and this is where his point on collaboration comes in. 'My view is that both sides of the industry should be con- cerned in regaining lost work and making endeavour every obtain new work in order that will continue to be employed. He adds further: 'Away go bans on this, that and the other. None purpose what- are serving any. soever, other than to destroy livelihood or lose the that once obtained for the workers of the Port of London.. nployers are interested in is working all But with the new container berths, the 'collaboration' the 15 ships employers are interested in is working all equipment to In hit by strike the maximum, with any labour available. A SEVEN-DAY-OLD strike of

CLOSING

140 tugmen held up 15 ships on the Manchester Ship Canal In the old docks it is just a of closing down on Monday. question as The whose unofficial quickly possible, men, as without strike is dispute, trouble. Tuesday at It is these proposals for ex- Runcorn. exploitation and sack- that the dockers have ings helped to stave off with bans Hackney and protective practices. The constant worry One employers have that port is dustmens' that dockers may forge vital links between docks and ports to act as a united body. strike Roffey puts his position : 'Any of committee shop should be organized spreads stewards the within firm where the elections took place, not out- side it. The consequences of ABOUT 150 dustmen from any other organization of shop London the borough of stewards cannot do anything Islington struck work on but harm and can only result Monday in support of the in the usurping of the author- ity of branches officially elec- 200 Hackney dustmen who ted committees and union have been strike since On officials.' Tuesday. last The Islington strike fol-

LONG-TERM

lowed a decision unanimous In fact, the harder the at a meeting last Thursday to "to regain dockers work strike if the council refused to trade' and the that reply to their demand for a between 10s. pay rise. links dock workers £4 broken, basic rate is are then the sooner The present £20. will the £15 95.- employers arrive at -the men want their long-term aim of getting One striker, married with 90 per cent of the workers off children said: two the docks. "It's impossible almost to We Devlin Phase Two prepares make ends do the meet. the way for shift work, powers work the Lambeth same as and £25 of hire-and-fire for the dustmen they get em- We are ployers, cuts in manning and basic. determined the introduction of work- stay on strike until we get the study and Measured-Day Work money' Rackey si bee these ke systems, as well as closures.

Hackney since strike If the dockers are to defeat began, particularly in the area the plans of the employers around the Ridley Road mar- united fight of all port WOr- ket. kers is needed for a policy of The Ridley Road heap is nationalization the docks than ten feet high. under workers' control, and Attempts by the council to for alternative leadership rubbish heaps lor- In in the trade unions which will ries in the interest of health lead a struggle against the em- and welfare' failed when ployers and which will fight pickets induced the drivers to for a socialist policy on the drive away. docks.

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TUC's Portsmouth majority for repeal of the Prices and Incomes out their undertaking to the Act against the Prime Minister. government's insistence maintaining the anti-union None of the trade union Act. leaders who dominated the debate prepared And were to no of one, course, swing the full force of the TUC's visions of the gramme for Action' itself.

Summing up for the execu- tive, Mrs. Barbara Castle was able to ort workers

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that the govern- ment had heard nothing to change its mind about the necessity for reactivating part All the unions at the works, two except the National Union of

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support composite 26 the AEF fitters and agree that echoing 'the pledge "Pro- gramme for Action" that every semi-skilled workers in the effort should railway works. because of the be made to of the repetitive character the reduce number of stop- get insufficient pages of work' work, experi- ence to be made up to skilled She was particularly glad fitters after five years' work- that trade union leaders were with the tools. ing with get together The men are continuing employers to sort out what their strike win the prin- she described as 'the present ciple that skilled men should chaos' in the motor industry. be taken on to fill skilled vacancies. Car workers look out!