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Here, towns results on inborlall Issuei ot bath Social Democracy, prostituting Marxism, and Stalinism— the antithesis elsewhere, are which sakes the of Bolshevism-are both mortal interested in concrete re Their leading the enemies of the proletarian revolution -Leon Trotsky. tormber Saturday situation'. but does MR HEATH'S and Sir Alec Douglas-Home's mobilize Secreta ine or savement i support for the Stalinist-inspired fraud of government turopean security, coming in the middle of the resign. ali League of the Socialist miner's strike and following the visit of Gromyko is to fight ment to mate te to Britain, must serve as a grave warning to the European security conference.

organize working class. must achieve Abbes Fae meetings. de Gaulle's General As we explained in

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enterence wit Workers yesterday's Seriancracy. Press, the ruling group Party within the Tory on have not there have rejected deflation today aaron to dead in ta provisionally, but have s itseSwitzerland and in not in any way altered their basic strategic Stalinists, this

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ence to petrems aim. That Moranze the trade ine lalks were, in lack, al bureaucracy, which see Campaign split and demoralize the British Soviet Stalinists and the Pree conrade ment burlying on capitalist world, an influence Israeli balance be somet wandered s- and demands inipera- The whole Stalinist programme ne betray atte acco Communist Party. vial political erasp of Soviet Leaders of the limb are not 1. are to Cre Fago Ye chole Tom Whoe and Jack Bis: Warsaw Pa

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poe esolution 63 pits B-Leyland men 'consultations', Avneri Torres ment is possiblery govern- fishment of mutual alliances.

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With 13 days or the Novembe raise th defeat dered one ist:

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yesterday's Workers conference bureaucracy. Press, the ruling group leadership of the britisn Con either side of unist Party and the 'Morning an frontier en They put their petty alliances within the Tory Party about this and i closed mind higher than the need ou n for Europe of earlier meetings be have rejected deflation rorkin to defeat the class Gromyko's for provisionally, but have have learne e in roos said for not in any way altered in good their basic strategic will in Berlin:

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EVERY report and speech on the economic situation by a politician or a banker refers to the threat of un- controlled inflation hanging over the capitalist world.

International bodies issue dire warnings.

Editorial writers pontificate. In the face of all the Canutes who try to turn back the tide, prices continue to rise, and at an accelerating pace.

The kind of 'suppressed' inflation which has carried prices upwards at a steady rate since the war now threatens to get out of control. The general rise in prices is now faster than at the time of the Korean War and there seems no way of stopping it.

No country is immune, although the rise is uneven as between countries.

which What is staring capitalism … tace the pointl millions of people lose confidence in their money as a store of value.

Once that happens the road to chaos is open.

A flight into goods take place. Money is spent as soon as it is received and deposits are withdrawn from banks, savings institutions, building societies. If today's pound is only going to be worth 15s tomorrow the safe thing is to spend it now.

people believe that, tomorrow it will be worth not 15s If enough but us. and so on until all con- fidence in the money evaporates.

have The situation may not reached this point in any of the capitalist countries, but it Illa Ol distinct possibility. small is a A shock could dislodgę the pebbles which bring down the avalanche.

The 20th century is already rich in examples of runaway infla- German inflation of tion. 1920s the the printing presses worked overtime turn Economic Co-operation and

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for rapidly became notes which Development wrote: No country worth no more than the paper likely be today prepared they were printed on. Notes for deliberately to provoke a severe millions of marks were sold in of as the London streets as curiosities bating inflation.' for pennies - - and at a lew The trouble is, that when the profit! whole monetary set-up is as pre- Even the steady inflation which cariously balanced as it is today, has been going on without serious shock literally severe may interruption for 30 years causes destroy confidence in the money It serious problems. these and bring on a depression with.

cumulative effects, together with out being "prepared the tendency for prices to rise deliberately. faster than before, which presents Since that report was written, immediate threat the press has released details of stability of the major currencies.

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another report which speaks still more urgently of the Depreciated dangers of inflation, pointing, particular, to the situation in The extent of the inflation in Britain. reported in the 'Financial As some of the main industrial 9), Times' (November says illustrated 11 by Coutes 'countries should be accompanying table. This shows prepared to accept a larger margin of how money has depreciated or unused terms of the goods and services employment capacity than they the past to which a given unit can buy in nave 1n inflation from acceler- the country concerned. ating'. the of Taking value each 1959 Recession 100 the Currency table shows what it was worth in 1964| and 1969 and the annual The paper adds, 'OECD experts of depreciation 1959- the inflationary rate from clearly feel that 1969, 1968-1969 from and from problem is now so severe that no 1969-1970. possible be weapon can neg- the rate temporary As will be seen, has lected'. It points and tended to rise. It is expected that depreciation will be higher than possible check. ever in the resent some last In other words, the experts and in who a few months some cases ago said no over 10 per cent. government would be prepared Depreciation of money: 1959 = 100 annual rate of depreciation 1964 1969 1959-69 1968-69 1969-70 pound, UK 87 71 3.4 5.1 5.3 dollar, US 94 79 2.2 5.1 5.7 franc, France 82 3.7 69 5.7 5.4 mark, W. Germany 89 78 2.4 2.6 3.6 lira, Italy 80 70 3.6 2.5 3.7 kroner, Sweden 84 69 3.7 2.6 5.8 (Based on data in Monthly Economic Letter. First National City żank, New York, September 1970) While economists and commen- provoke recession to combat that inflation inflation weapon agree now say any pernicious and, indeed, if it gets used including and out of hand, threaten the especially the creation of a pool whole capitalist order with col- of unemployed. lapse, there little What they mean is: 1S make the about its sources and even less working class pay for the capi- about how to stop it. talists' inability to manage their It is, however, widely own monetary system. recog- The alternative is hinted at in nized that any application of the gloomy tones, but seldom spelled brakes is likely to precipitate a ' out. that crisis, to say, The Belgian F. slump with unemployment on the economist, Baudhuin, expressed his fears as scale of the 1930s. follows: 'Experts' are governesents proto sen tate not contemplate 'We believe that the crisis measures which would could begin with an avalanche of cause a widespread depression. Thus dollars, sold by Europeans, who recent report of the Organization confidence had lost in the Help the Young Socialists make their

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Name Address The ruling classes' anxiety * about inflation conceals fears about the strength of the working class-highlighted by the partlal victory of the council workers (Right: a recent demonstration in Bristol), and the determination of the miners.

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TOM KEMP

A section of the massive crowd which gat!

February 5, 1933, to protest against mount immediate future of the United States. It would result in an un- controlled depreciation of the dollar, 'bringing with it that of other currencies. The European markets are not capable of sup- fall porting a speculative in American (stock market) prices.'

Of course, this is not the only way in which the blow up could come. In the meantime continued inflation builds up tremendous tensions. The OECD report quoted above, published a few months ago, continued by saying: 'The danger of a resumption of inflation on the present scale as, or soon after, normal growth rates are resumed is an equally unacceptable Apart prospect. from the social iniquities it creates, there is an endemic risk that, in practice, renewed infla- would be tion out to turn inflation, which accelerating threat to would be a serious economic and political stability.' Day by day The symptoms of inflation are clear enough. Everybody knows that the value of money is declining and that the price tags in the shops are being altered upwards week by week or even day by day. The number of price increases in the past few months must run into thousands. Since the election of the Tories who claimed they were going to do something about inflation- the prices of some products have but several gone up not once times. Wage increases gained in 1969 this year are already being swallowed up. But it is not the wage increases which are the cause of inflation.

The causes are to be found in and the system's crisis during after the Second World War.

A high level of government spending became indispensable to prevent a relapse into the 1930s situation. Under the influence of Keynesian thinking, budget deficits were accepted as normal and inescapable. cial a riidely as meatha the social risks of relapse depression were too high. What was really meant was that fear of the working class-of revolu- tion-—had become a determining factor in economic policy.

To overcome one set of con- tradictions, capitalism embarked upon an inflationary expansion which created another set - equally insoluble. In present-day capitalism the government controls the money supply. Budget deficits, some- times cunningly concealed, be- were nonandand general. They borrowing were central banks through the methods which discreetly veiled the fact that a steady stream of

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newly-printed money was being pumped into circulation. There is no need to look further to dis- cover the source of the inflation.

Inflation meant, therefore, • a rising volume of government borrowing. The debt economy became rampant. Business bor-. rowed on an increasing scale. Consumer credit was expanded enormously to make it possible to find a market for the growing volume of commodities being produced. A whole pyramiding of credit came into existence on the basis of continuously rising prices.

As prices went up did SO profits, often only paper profits which were a result of specula- tion and the discounting of future returns which might never materialize. To overcome one contradiction - overproduction and slump - world capitalism plunged into an- other - inflationary price rises international and permanent monetary instability. The only way to correct infla- tion was to hold prices down.

That meant cutting back the money supply, raising interest rates and curtailing credit.

But, although mild efforts have been made most countries along these lines, the cure has turned out to be worse than the disease. On the one side it tips the economy into a recession and opens up the fear of a return to the 1930s. On the other it brings the state into conflict with the working class which has to bear the brunt of deflation in the shape of wage freeze, unemploy- ment and cuts in social services.

Confrontation Working-class strength has therefore made continued high government expenditure and in- ¡lation seem the lesser evil. To deal with inflation requires a serious confrontation with the working class. But, at the same time, both and its opposite 01121101 aggra- vate conflict between the ruling class and the working class and have serious repercussions for different sectiohs of the the middle class. If inflation represents one form in which the contradictions of

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55/ inflation capitalism express themselves, the may not only fail, they attempts to suppress it only bring may also precipitate a of crisis others into play. overproduction. There is no way of escape for Such carried out measures, capitalism which makes it pos- within a certain relationship of sible stable forces, cannot be relied combine prices on. Wages policy of the old type has with expansion. broken down in most countries There is no way of harmonizing especially in Britain. the divergent national interests of Workers longer so are no ready the rival capitalist classes which to accept productivity deals now themselves in Conflicts that they the strings see between currencies as well attached. as in trade wars. Moreover, in the face of infla- Continuous rising prices have difficult to find tion it depreciation of the money, ments against wage increases, as different different effects on the Scamp award to the council of classes and sections classes. men showed. On the whole the big monopolies stand to gain. They The strength of the i working are able and costs to the class remains unbroken Dass on mucicases 1l consumer and are able to pay off stands in the way of a return to long-term loans in a depreciated 'controlled inflation'. Capitalist propaganda con- tinues blame wage demands to Worst hit for rising prices when patently clear that the inflationary Worst hit are those fixed

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on spending. incomes, or incomes which rise Workers attacked sluggishly in the face of for Only au c Pensioners are the defend their standard rising prices. trying But behind main sufferers. But all those of living. this attack members of the middle class who is a determined attempt to shift have bank deposits or fixed the relationship of forces 1n This interest savings see part of their favour of the capitalists. savings amputated prices go means dealing with the working the spending power of class as a class by destroying the and money falls. organizations which enable it to inflationary 1n Inflation tends to shift income to the big monopolies and those staineares. who benefit from them. Big for- tunes are to be made in specula- Hypocritical tion in land and share prices. A general concentration of property The capitalist struggle against lakes place. inflation, which is hypocritical in Inflation is favourable for directed against those who are buying and selling the working class. on a large scale. The argument about wage in- Inflation subsidizes the rich inflation creases causing Wages and hits the poor. hollow. have historically followed, not led, the inflationary kept As long as it be can under control, therefore, capitalist spiral. governments have come to accept If firms which are obliged to inflation What they as necessary. grant wage increases put up fear is that it should get out of this is to maintain their prices, hand and swallow them up.

If a percentage mark profit rate. up is used the employers' gain is All the signs are that the greater than that of the workers.

inflation is reaching present There is an element of mo But this can only where danger point. In any case, for monopoly. some vears now. as experience in Britain shows most clearly, it is The monopolies always are quick to possible to have inflation to- pass on any increase in The gether with stagnation in produc- big problem arises

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tion and unemployment. when goods have to be sold on the world market in competition The US recession has not with foreign producers. stopped inflation. The prospect of slump plus inflation now becomes Here inflation at home is a big disadvantage, it means rising a possibility; measures to tackle SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1971. I1 a.m.

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Wednesday, November 18, 1970 dangers of inflation tion to the getting out of hand. "The striking coun He wrote:

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cil workers would be well advised to put in their next claim immediately.' He recalls the Ger- hyper-inflation of the 1920s man and says bluntly: It may need million one or of work before it is ШОТО possible to kill the disease.'

A few days later 'The Times' called for 'an intelligible and of firm account what the gov- bring infla- ernment propose tion under control'. being used The OECD is now that to make the point drastic measures are needed in Britain to of the curb inflation because international dangers involved in a failure of confidence in sterling.

The general refrain in state- ments of this and other bodies and spokesmen for international capital is that the Tory govern-

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working class and quickly.

A housewife The inflation anxiety about stages a solltary conceals fears about the strength protest. Her of the working class which the month's wages partial victory of the council men stuck to her and the determination of the The clothes was barely have highlighted. miners enough to buy ruling class in Britain, with the backing of international capital, half a loaf of needs to change the relationship bread. of forces to its advantage.

In fact it does not want to stop inflation, but to stop wage Spokesmen for the ruling class are always careful to about the control of infla- speak Some inflation is tion. as neces- sary to capitalism as a fix is to a drug addict: too much could be a killing dose. For a generation the capitalist ruling class have accepted that some of inflation needed to maintain profitability, avert slump and class promote harmony. It is when inflation gets out of hand and threatens to undermine confidence in money and provoke a social crisis that the capitalists get seriously worried. Bourgeois economists are not only confused about the cause of the long-term inflationary process, but they have come with no sure-fire remedy to bring it under control. Empirically Governments faced with such a problem have operated empiric- the light forces. So the workers' strength has reinforced the tendency to accept inflation. But the point has been such a policy reached where cannot be relied on. The policy of the past few years has been based upon wage freeze, 'guide- restraint, wage lines', etc. Coupled with this, employers binding have sought make TO contracts for a period of years based on productivity deals.

These bargains enable more be sweated out surplus value to for a labour force 1 a smallel given wage bill and make it pos to purchase labour sible power at a lower price in real terms a he end of the contract period because of inflation in the mean- time. Bringing inflation under control is a present-day euphemism for opposing wage claims and having show-down with the working class. It cannot be done by tech- unless prices can be nical means, by adjusting taxa- costs and, influencing banking put up, a fall in profit margins.

policy. But if prices For the working class the con- much customers turn depreciation stant of money cheaper suppliers and orders will' living means rising costs which be lost. If this happens on any senly the be met by wage in- can scale exports will fall. creases. Tories want to At the same time raising money block wage increases while allow- incomes will make imported ing prices to rise, increasing rents Britain goods appear cheaper in and social putting up security will rise. that The SO imports charges. of inflation consequence an At the same time they promise which gets out of line with that reductions in direct taxes which in other countries is a balance of benefit the rich and are as payments crisis. inflationary as you like.

What by they mean com- Devaluation bating inflation war on the workers' rights and living stan- This means a run on sterling, dards behalf big on devaluation, a severe monopolies and landlords another who shock to the international have made fortunes out of infla- monetary system, tion for the past 30 years.

speculaton dollar and against the the The workers' the struggle for avalanche feared by the Belgian talist inflation is the struggle economist quoted earlier.

the Charter of Rights, issued by All sorts of fears are in the the All Trades Unions Alliance of those who write in the and discussed minds be at their to capitalist about inflation December 19 the press congress, bringing down although they may not always of the Tory gov- Bam- them. Anthony ernment and the taking of over bridge in 'The Observer', Novem- the basic industries banks and ber 8, is typical in calling atten- without compensation.

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Wednesday, November 18, 1970 Wing-collared pageantry, & NO ONE should be fooled by televised impressions of stuffed-shirt protocol at the Lord Mayor's banquet at London's Guildhall on Monday night.

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Tory leader Edward Heath's speech to that almost incredibly

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formal gathering revealed it no less a theatre of class war than Put more bluntly, this means: une oner castronomic bow-wows attacks the social services, at which government spokesmen plus a challenge to all other basic have found it necessary of late working-class right; and massive to encourage the employing-class speed-up, policed by threat troops. of unemployment (particularly in *British are determ- policies the former development areas)- ined by British interests', he freeze anent of statuter we told the wing-collared and gor- freeze Hanging geous diners. ground. And he was not just speaking 'This is the course from which about foreign policy: the Com- Her Majesty's Ministers will not Market, Middle East, mon be deflected', said Heath.

continued British Ocean and 'It is also the course to which Indian collaboration with S Africa- -about all of which our historic traditions call us.

he had something say. The lesser, but more significant of his speech comprised portion Hussein w a fully-fledged statement of the anti-working Classi State v Heath wing of British capitalism would like to pursue. Israeli inter Pressing ahead Heath made clear to the Lord Mayor and his guests that the ahead government was pressing with laws against the unions, tax incentives to the rich and finan- cial which ald those firms

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Hijack «News at Ten' producer David Phillips, 'We are changing the system of said that Hussein, who must taxation and of aid to industry 'in have been his desperate SO as to provide incentives to state', had let efficiency and new opportunities reelings about Israel be known to the for the exercise responsi- West through diplomatic chan- bility….. following the "This not less an incomes of 200 Syrian tanks because different policy it Jordan on September 20. the policies which have from .. • Said Snow: 'He [Hussein] been so described up to now.'

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7.20 STAR TREK. 'The Gamesters of Triskelion'.

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SOFTLY,

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THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS and weather.

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10.50 THE 1970 PROFESSIONAL LATIN DANCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

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6.02 TODAY.

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12.10 a.m. ONLY CONNECT. Leonard Parkin talks to the Very Rever- end Martin Sullivan, Dean of St Paul's.

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weather. 6.00 willowe News. weather. African patrol. News. 400 Gus worther 7.00 News. RESULTS so far in the Brazilian elections indicate that the call of the left-wing guerrilla groups to cast blank ballot papers in protest against the police rule of the Medici regime has had a sizeable impact.

First results from the major victory for urban areas show a the opposition Brazilian Demo- from First polling reports cratic Movement (MDB) Rio In centres indicated the expected de Janeiro and a lead for the large turn-out of voters.

National Alliance for Renewal (ARENA) in Sao Paulo Voting is compulsory and the those abstaining without justifica- country's most populated area.

tion are liable to fines and in the Both results expected, government employees Were of CanC but the 387,000 blank votes and may lose their jobs. the 339,000 null votes which were The 26 million citizens cast indicate the impact of the entitled to vote can choose guerrillas' campaign. between only parties

TWO

ARENA and

MDB.

Guerrillas took over a suburban Saturday radio station night, All the candidates on both lists a few hours before polling began, have bound themselves to accept and climaxed their election cam- in advance the policies of Presi- paign with a 20-minute broadcast.dent Garrastazu Medici of the ruling ARENA party. This bitter electroal farce has brought protests, particularly in wanted NE the by drought and famine, where police have killed five demonstrators.

It will do nothing intervention from the President, who powel by decree since the 'Constitutional Act' of 1968.

It is with his full approval- t guerrillas thinly disguised by a fraududent 'inquiry' police terror the political police under Sergio Fleury hands with the extreme right wing to carry must have virtually been murders of left-wing opponents who will rid me ing: "My God, of regime and submit poli- this turbulent priest, the including tical prisoners, Palestinians?" women Syrians, these and children, to barbarous forms The whole house looked as if it of torture. were falling about him.

MONTH'S SIEGE

had 'He do something fast and obviously the Israelis, In Guatemala the military had intervened, would I they Arana Osorio regime of Colonel have completely changed the declared 30-day has 'state of entire situation for him.'

siege'. Following Monday's revela- By suspending all civil rights tion of the secret negotiations and virtually unlimited giving Hussein and Israeli the forces of between order' Golda Meir they premier to deal hope to cripple guerrilla with the guerrillas, this opposition in the Country latest exposure emphasizes the the past week the Rebel dangers that increasingly face Armed Forces (FAR)-the main the guerrilla and guerrilla organization has car- no yellenl throws further light the ried out numerous actions against on of Al action the police and has kidnapped Fatah leader Yassir Arafat in Zaror, notorious for businessman, signing the 'truce' with Hus- his links with extreme right-wing organizations.

EIGHTEENTH CEN-

It was the period of "reason' and 'progress'. Intellectuals and TURY Europe is often artists looked for 'new spoken of as a high point and men', they were critical sceptical of religion, of the divine in cultural and intellec- right to doubtful of given institutions and customs.

tual development; to Science flourished and philo- some it is even hankered sophy took huge leaps forward.

after as a period of un- But social and political condi- paralleled and tions in Europe, for the mass of grace men. in no wav sauared with all social charm. The intellectual and artistic this. ferment was on the top of a vast It is the period of Mozart, and it was the warning the huge explosions Haydn, Kant, Rousseau, Vol- to come. taire, the Encyclopedists; it Absolute and divinely is often referred to as the tioned monarchs ruled the con- tinent in the empires of Austria, Age of Enlightenment. Turkey, Russia; in the kingdoms Den- of France, Spain, Portugal, mark, Sweden; in the principali- ties (areas ruled by princes) Germany and Italy. The word of the sovereign' was law. Deather: 55 Faith for life. 12 midnight

CHURCHES

State churches too were clear adjuncts of political govern-

SOUTHERN:

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Sweden the don News. Weather. Action 70. They monopolized public edu- cation and were supported by

HARLECH:

11.00-3.00 London. compulsory teach. taxation. The nobility formed the third pillar of this old order. Noble 'gentle' birth opened all privilege, all wealth, all culture.

except: Preferment was his every- where, the church or the and, his inherited posses- army, (Wales)

HIV

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HTV

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Rupert Police 4:33

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Ulster reports. 63s Cross roads. 7.00 London. Haydn: 4.15 455 London .30 Matinee played by Charles Leno heroes: 7.00 London. it s5 we Her 6.30 Hogan's In France, 25 of a populatire millions, 150,000 roughly there 439 approximately Were six-o-one. London. 130,000 nobles, clergymen and fewer still of royal standing. Actual serfdom prevailed in most European countries except 4.10

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France and even there nominal freedom lifted the but peasant little. believe. Techniques then extant meant a day's work to scratch the sur- face- of an acre strip; cattle were 4.40 Loncon 112 Chost and Mrs killed off in the autumn for London good hay: of fertilizers 635 Crossroads. were hardly used and only News, weather. London. 11.55 crudely if at all; an ox slaught- ered at 400 pounds was regarded proudly.

SCOTTISH:

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WORKERS PRESS

Passchendaele and Petrograd ANOTHER Poppy Day has The Passch the passed. Once again, But annual 'remembrance' ritual did n merely has mocked the massacre of the se millions in two imperialist struggl He wa world wars. knowle Briti An Aberdeen reader writes to crumbl recall that donations for poppies In A the Haig and to Fund, go overth reminds us that Haig 'was the Desp man they gave £100,000 and an began •. for organizing the Earldom . ruling deaths of hundreds of thousands leaders of men. • His name is firmly linked with his own pet "big push" at Passchendaele, a bloody Muti fiasco'. integra Haig, the youngest son of the decima whisky family, became Com- than tr mander-in-Chief of the British Army in France in 1915. Guided a milli killed. by a belief that his Presbyterian brigade God had entrusted him with a mission to win the war for a supp on Par Britain, he sent men into the Petai slaughter by the million.

only ti 'The unreturning army that cluding was youth; Haig The legions who have suffered dust, dragger and are wrote Siegfried Sassoon. would tionary * heard strikes After careful planning, Haig worker launched the attack from the In h Ypres salient on July 31, 1917.

a conv He aimed to break through to Morgen the coast of Belgium. dent W Soon, the weather broke and, as a War Office report had 'He warned, the British troops were determ fighting in a sea of Flanders mud.

remove Wave after wave of men were urged t sent into withering machine-gun to leav fire and mustard gas. of revi Many writers and poets des- disorde cribed the agony and despair of would Flanders. Sassoon says: Englanc 'And hope, with furtive eyes •My and grappling fists, October 'Flounder in mud. O Jesus, might c make it stop! the Al •..1 died in hell accept, (They called it Passchendaele)...

we oug Passchendaele was a On village Canadia whose shattered remains were finally taken the Mil on November 6. British casualties had mittee by then amounted to 240,000. announ weeks later, Haig the han Just two launched his 'surprise attack' at With Cambrai. By December 4, an- working other 43,000 casualties had been war har recorded - for a net. territorial tionary gain of exactly nothing. was on the poll tax, the income tax, the salt tax, Roadmaking etc. was also the peasant's duty and might take up a several weeks in a year. Four-fifths of his product •: might be absorbed in this way.

But this order was rotting. It had already undergone profound change in Britain, but less explo- sively because the lessons of 1640 and the Restoration had been well learned. It collapsed first in America in 1776. In 1789 it hap- pened in France. In one month the ancient and decayed of the system aristo- cratic order had been over- thrown by the exploited masses.

The monarchy was made con- stitutional. The new National Assembly struggled for two years to modernize government, to reform the penal code, to abolish torture, arbitrary imprisonment and persecution for heresy.

The ancient provinces of the French nobility (Normandy, Bur- gundy the like), were replaced with 80 departments.

Judges were elected, the army was opened to all classes and the vast property of the Beeth church was seized by the state.

player In 1791 the attempted counter- revolution by the king and queen The in concert with the European draw aristocracy and monarchies was warmth defeated. A passionate pro- unders clamation of Republic was made is in France and open ev war was know. started with Austria and Prussia.

If of The new order was to be spread est and around Europe, around the with ci world. By the end of 1792 the French In it armies were in Brussels, in Savoy, vative in Holland. They were to go artists much farther. his for In that year too Ludwig van the loa aged Beethoven, 22 and and da a great admirer of the new ideas, trying left his home in Bonn and set express off to the heart of the Holy In Roman Empire, to the aristo- which and musical capital of cratic scorn central Europe: Vienna. the old deepen music. Last week in the 'Biography' of writ on BBC-2 (November 11, 'for a series 9.20, 'Beethoven') there was an His some flavour difficul attempt to give of his experience of the years multip that followed, the years 1792- race a 1805, the years in which ness i Napoleon over- battle Thermidor and took the French Revolution and His pr in which he was crippled by utterly disaste deafness. As a programme it got better as a co middle, towards the but the altoget height subject was powerful enough to carry through the early inade- quacies of performance and style.

DI: Beethoven was excellently and properly presented by Michael By : Jayston not as a romantically portior moody, tempestuous, glowering the ci 'creative genius'. him a: Rather he was portrayed as a deeply gifted young musician unpred silence whose great ability as a per- conduc former brought him to Vienna stone and the company of teachers like As i Haydn, but whose attempts to 20s an write original scores were both shower accelerated and retarded by his in advancing deafness. sought Beethoven knew he was going society deaf for at least seven years teache before he finally lost all hearing great H sensation. lived 22 years his r afterwards and continued to Deym write some of his greatest work.

and he This so-called 'early period' though saw crucial developments He and magnificent typical compositions. Most of his piano concertos were racy w written then for example, the Unli their i hrst of his symphonies and the violin concerto at its end (1806).

looked Workers Press. ns soon recaptured and his colleagues nize this butchery h incompetence and prestige in the n the General Staff. driven on by the the allies of hat imperialism were the Tsar had been fear of revolution the hearts of the and its military * ad begun to dis- French e army, losses even heavier sh. Already in 1917, enchmen had been May, an infantry 000 men had raided and begun a march restored discipline brutal action, in- s of executions. that, British Army the war the o catch the revolu- on. From home he of widespread the formation of cils. ry, Haig describes In August with riend of US Presi- that Wilson was go all the way and Hohenzollerns. I would be a mistake

A FLANDERS ROAD NEAR YPRES

lany at the mercy ines, and that if ed in Germany, it Stalinist to France and fear, that in was ovember Germany remembrance ms of peace which might overnments not giving all that eceive. orning after the ARMISTICE DAY was also ok Passchendaele, evolutionary Com- commemorated in France. Petrograd Soviet, One French daily paper it the city was in he Soviets. carried the following report tory of the Russian on November 12: the end of Haig's 1, and the revolu- 'The celebration of the 52nd row of his class anniversary of the armistice un- torical agenda. folded itself this year with flags at half-mast, the death of General de Gaulle having given a special tone to this traditional day of remembrance: *But at Colombey, as in all other districts of France, Novem- ber 1l demonstrations were held with the usual ceremony, with the dead of tree 1914-1918 war, the victims of the Second World War and the resistance were particularly honoured.

It gives me great pleasure... READERS of Workers Press will be well aware of the relation be- tween the attacks of the Tories Michael Jayston on workers' living standards and their plans to join the Common millions Market. remains; comfort, and However, •Morning Star' passion and Joy, readers, on the other hand might from it. The range not receiverthe same picture.

the emotions Last Thursday's 'Star' carried a report of the news conference aks from the dark- called by the 'Keep Britain Out st point, but always Campaign'. and fortitude. t was utterly inno- m; like all major ven had to develop techniques, to carry the French Revolution and to guish and joy, light Napoleon who he believed would lad to bear and was carry them round all Europe erstand and express, with his victorious armies.

inderstand. Everywhere kings were being techniques, ping expelled and republics estab- were met with lished. attuned to se still But Beethoven's understandig and forms, he also was limited. He was appalled, for content of his example, that Napoleon had him- as always conscious crowned new kind of music, self been Emperor in orld. Paris in 1804-by the Pope.

e with the normal The programme tried to use artistic work were Beethoven's utter disillusionment imaginably by his with Napoleon of as a means deaf- the growing discrediting the ideas with which en by his hourly. composer had endowed his the once it was a fact. hero. as a performer was In fact, he did go through from him by this bleak disillusionment-the devel- ature; his practice opments in France and in the • had either to cease retreat of revolutionary ideas be immeasurably taking him by surprise. But he never was a politically- developed thinker and it is

JSIONMENT

absurd to force more from his deeply held humanism than it gle of immense pro- will yield. He always believed vas able to force at that it was in man to create a which made tions better world, but this was always g human sound of co-existent with a deism of sorts.

1 beauty out of He was not a revolutionary; able to was even he and deeply was open to music when own i affected by revolutionary ideas.

He was a revolutionary musician.

ger man, in his late 30s the programme Beethoven precisely straddled o be already lonely the period that was the collapse despite being ays, of the old order and then its in aristocratic apparent restoration after performer and a Napoleon's defeat. vas also capable of But the Congress of Vienna and tenderness and that parcelled out Europe in with Josephine 1815, as Yalta did in 1945, did 1 by Judy Parfitt) not put things back as they were.

ren were well done. ok up a quite un- Many intellectuals were dis- on with the aristoc- illusioned by this counter- ported him. revolution but restorations and aydn, he rejected papering over the cracks only and delayed the of parasitism. conflagrations d to the values of 1848.

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5006.5566óa0.dãó • Press notebook

VEAR YPRES, 1917.

'In Paris at 11 a.m. a wreath was laid on the tomb of the un- known soldier who has lain there for 50 years beneath the Arc de Triomphe. It was on November 10, 1920, that in the Citadel of Verdun à soldier of the 132nd Regiment named Thain picked out a coffin from eight others containing the remains of un- known soldiers and it was this which was later moved to Etoile.

•At Saint-Adresse, where the Belgian government took refuge ships'. sirens were silenced.

'Only at Mulhouse was the nilitary parade cancelled.'

By the way, the source of this account of the the paper It quotes the chairman of the Campaign, Mr Christopher Frere- as saying that "opposition to Britain joining the Common Market had now reached a stage where Conservative MPs were delighted to appear on the same platform as members of the Com- munist Party in the Campaign'.

The delight of the Tories, their Stalinist fellow- campaigners. The bourgeoisie was emergent; it could not be delayed for long.

Beethoven lived in this great period of transition and was a product of it. For much of his life, for example, he depended less on patronage and more on cash pay- ments. His art was bought and sold. His ideas were also mixture of old and new.

STRUGGLE

A contemporary of Hegel (they were both born in 1770 and died only four years apart), he always clung to his faith in man and the future. His music continued to express this right to the end, to the great Choral Symphony of 1825 and its Ode to Joy. Even in the last quartets his and determination passion to form and mould and express his grief and loneliness never waned.

The music is a continuous record of his struggle to make tangible and to share with all what he experienced men SO intensely of suffering and joy. His fortitude and faith in the possibility of man's future never left him. That the opening chords of one of his great symphonies were used as a rallying cry by the bourgeoisie during the Second World War is just one more bitter abuse for destruction of all that is most beautiful and most full of human possibilities.

On his death in 1827, 20,000 people, including many workers, turned out in Vienna to mourn him. We treasure his music still and work so that all men may share it.

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BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

FORMAL ESTABLISHMENT óf diplomatic relations between fascist Spain and Czecho- slovakia was announced in Madrid yesterday following exchange of notes between ambas- sadors in Paris. Left cover The Franco regime has already established similar consular relations

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and accepting the ballot the unofficial with the Stalinist bureau- of the e and popular frontism wnich the Yorkshire, S Wales and enabled come cracies in Poland, Hun- Hitler scotusn miners. power and to plan his attack Rumania and In Scotland and S Wales, gary, the the British the Stalinist-led area execu• Bulgaria. regarding. policies tives theo to Lne men They Wher Diplomatic sources but continuation back WOrk are failed, Madrid regimes Poland that policy what the Stalinism's rrench French Stalinists did: jump these and adapted to British conditions the bandwagon in order Rumania pre- unev racutate derail it. full ambassadorial narations British 110- praised the militancy perialism not only to destroy They i clations sycal, movement of the miners and made some consular relatiols ale aut attack muted criticism of the NUM the conguests. to oe concludea in me nedi of the October executive DUt made Tuture with toe to regime attempt spread the strike, in Yugoslavia. Revolution abroad. co-ordinate the unofficial Also from Spain comes The continuity of this corn- and picketing or to has that he pond me . 8т ter-revoluuonar y tallion give it any political hal of 16 bassep postponed personined nOL Only socialists hencers Goulan i ana

WVC

Instead, the movement was originally planned to Matthews, is lesser rights like signifi- begin more demand this week cantly, by its less betore a Burgos alvertea to

DOSL

Mercia, Who. Lew ponement oi Dalo ana millary mounal. have never led a the holding of a national dele- Lewis, gate conference. struggle Death single succes: proposal sub- against the employers. executive mitted to aces penalty s rose death

OFFENSIVE

most Ine i reluct manding miners' promising six of the As the crisis worsens 1926 101 since ConsCIouSLy The the Tory offensive intensifies, case will not now sabotaged and turned into an these people adapt heard before the end of this ineffectual protest. employing month. themselves Once executive voted Repeated the fraud postponement through demand for Class down come under the pressure of same delegati national struggle against French Stalinists • syste- as une the stage.was set for the regime's enemserve. the strike Brought over 0,000 already which terror, Gaulle through the Iraud or a Stalinist lea Ine arce general electior leaders. illegal strike The French Oul Oll November 3 for an amnesty

PERSUADED

on all pontcal prisoners There have In many collary in N York. areas DeeD Gall demonstrations Kellingley Madrid University's campus despite British Stalinists consciously persuaded snire -miners were police patrols along armed to return to work on the false consistenev oDoose une corridors faculty the demand for a general strike to assurance of Stalinists that S force the Tories to resign- and bulldings Walec scotiang were and substitute protest strikes returning. similar line was Occupied hewed in Kent nstead Scotland n this of course, they have

NUM

presiden Madrid, Bilbao the wholehearted support Scottish (capital of the Basque coun al ca Stalinist and leading Mick the Moscow and E BuroDedli and the industrial McGahey his ordered try)_ bureaucracy wno Irom Ine stee Tore comer meet. Santurce churches wecomed the return ol back to work on me crounds 01 the that the strike was oreaking been occupiea by other-and even more The "Piny" in other areas ot people in protest agains sinister measu forist their was the strike break- the trial. conviction ith Tor up? Because the Stalinists In the midst these struggles comes the Stalinis the right-wing leaders in This defeat will strengthen unlons This has led the CP and tory resolve Ine snackle the Morning star not the UnIons anoi attack une apologize assist in and rents of workers ana une for the retreats in the docks The betrayal of the miners' Kremlin oureducialy and cerea strike by Stalinism is not an its spanish agents miners' solated episode This real role of retreat the internat mat wage bureauber C4 rigging stanisma must the November he siamerul despicabit ready to deal with it here. manner. terence ana lne astorie counter- _une most reporune orcin une wornine the Star' revolutionary act Sackings counter-revolutionary All these things Stalinism underline completely principled struggle deadline Workers Press for and • theoretical not ight the right wing or the Stalinism 1 ory covernment extended strike -'the svphilis of the labour miners Was political not only because movemen ane took place in a nationalized revistonist a000SE but Without a theoretical know-

VAUXHALL

droughtsmer winning of ledge deciding claim tendency to extend tionary Manazellell s Feb mous blow against the policies tenacious to TrON Decemiuci 325 of the lory government, which promising struggle against any ruary to the cedalne 1or Dedestaane and Ellesmere comine alter Ine austmens and every • Tamicslalon recincancies LulUll been victorV. nave stainism in une workine class.

FOrU tantamount to its defeat.

there can be factories no revoutonari leadership built anywhere.

The Stalinists the by Ferr wi will be further talks National Union of Mine- This the only way • 26 if management 1S workers know this: prevent is not satisfied with to restrice star these out Tune 1968 they set From redundan- Der voltal y Cies Dy unen said spokesman union yesterday that there would be no return normal WOrK until Ellesmere Port

LATE NEWS

accepted the firm's term workers involved 'cam-

SOGAT CASE

have been yes day for nearl Dalen of arsrupulon a fortnignt in protest al une esociety of Grapercal and redundancies. moon Big queues for Irish Concender bank opening Mr Lawrence was rene expeline.

BIG QUEUES formed outside banks the Irish Republic yesterday when opened f of the clerke settlement million and £3 Between £ milon-world cheques to 'bounced' thought have during the closure. Opening is restricted to two Preet Loo and half hours a day S.W. 4. further nouce

WORKERS PRESS

Wednesday. November 18. 1971 Talks Big French Stalinists drain

• FROM PAGE ONE

on US slander 'leftists' iles from the ceaset in zone reserves 'More than 'L'HUMANITE', the French Communist Party daily paper, yesterday drain on US gold reserves.

set the tone for the sort of slanders and insinuations which must be ford stocks rose my expected by those who fight for a revolutionary leadership in the in the working-class movement. lei to prepare the way to Der e months ending Septem.

The first in a series by prepare

BY DAVID BARNCO

Guerin 'Some with reessent, secret

WEATHER

Alain on the particular aspects of Left- to 518,500 million. the ism, its sole purpose is to eitner a crimina Arat at hirst. or the extreme right wing smear as "criminal' and represents Banks during 'police agents' those in disguise who fight Stalinism with letter emselves In sunglasses e the rate of Class policies (alleged) surnames. ome snow tale

FETE

PAPER REPORTS

stand at rather below es mill be near or organization lett-wing

FALSEHOODS

NONE

In their haste to bolster the frequent allegations by lea Stalinists their successful provocations.

INSINUATION

vuern s arucies provide warning for note which Statini and villner WE

NOT MOING

OUT

coming on boational site ther , with the growing ind the first-ever MoscoW paper will tind gating mor pit ones any The will bes zine's it out in dividends ploo easing the great strike German Willy Brand-

PUBLIC LECTURES

Tenants say: Elements of 'Rehouse us'

LIMB

year.

MAKERS

Marxism sincere with and a Be dear London Co

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The importance of Marxist philosophy in the families who hat is a very skilful jot anuary 14 this relations building of the revolutionary party.

"We think it is the manage- Or what the Lectures by Lon at redo hale fee

M. BANDA

other. (Editor of Workers Press) our approaches. We have been quieter te

BARKING

independent foreign policyore B-Leyland Co-op Hall, Whitney Chambers Mondav November 23 Monday November 30 heath nas not been slow t rausuawe Ave. o Dom. zet the messag Lectures by G. Healy and M. Banda

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Plain

NEWCASTLE

Hotspur Hotel workers hard sed to scopt British messer is plain for involves Measured-Day Work Sunday, November 29 Haymarket 7.30 p.m. anything like Latest offer Lectures by

C. SLAUGHTER

Press distortion and official tner (Central Committee of Socialist Labour League) National Union whed will hay

SHEFFIELD

Voluti their struggle ionary Sunday November 22 Ford-stares and to took per cent

LIVERPOOL

Unless these plans VArUKL Wednesday November 25 Thursday November 19 Italian coalition Hand in glove Thursday November 26 near Bold Son, Cos bit. security, Northrate Hall. o D.m. Unionies hand-in-glo against the rising tide of reso in crisis again Just off the press All Trades Unione Alliance pemohi.

highest level in the THE fate of the Italian centre-left coalition of Christian My BERNARD FRI Socialist Party, Social Democrats, Democrats ana

VITAL READING

debate of the amended Republicans hangs on une economic 'decree' now under way in parliament.

FOR ALL TRADE

The real issue is

UNIONISTS

measure ro also the sant to Communist simila goes Christia How to fight productivity deals is jay Wort Prime one of the leading political ques- arsed number 9 ope tions facing trade unionists.

collaboration from product- tions on its right wing. Des too evere ivity-dealing and leaders, union the Preti em- organizing the Apathy Tones are ployers to push up profits by inten- cialist deputies siying expioitation... or go to the loose DealSwindle looking towaras wall. 'The Measured-Day Work and pro- Orchards cut back to ductivity deal swindle' details the How it works red how to satell packerouna. technicues ana mistory meet EEC demands of this process. And it exposes ine bogus nature of the oppositior ut by 25,000, whic to it by the British Com- put up Would e Packed with munis ray a cevisionisi crouds such as 'International Socialism'.

information on all analysis, first Bernard Franks serialized in Workers Press be- bulldozed into huge pits types of deals tween May 20 and October 21 this andnable rot. year, is more than just vital reading ralse 160 pages Illus. 3s 6d Saure had hi Mosed that —llo a wcason. griculture i cut by about 60,000 Available from Workers Press, 186a, Clapham High St, London, SW4.

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