Workers Press no. 31

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist. Labour League • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 31 • SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1969 PRICE 6d.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

S-TI men Standard-Triumph strikers win concession C.A.V. Acton speak out Inspectors

STOKES FORCED

on inquiry stage sit-in

MERSEYSIDE'S

standard- triumph creasing v suspicious that a doub e edged attempt is he.

ing made to prevent them

TO CLIMB DOWN

strike their strike an i hits elevente ONE HUNDRED and fifty in its inspectors and viewers at

CAV'S

Acton plant con- nave tinued their sit-in strike sance the yesterday in protest against By an industrial correspondent ircumstances' management proposals fol- lowing work - study survey. ney began their

BY DAVID MAUDE

action last Thursday.

LABOUR LEADERS CONTINUE ATTACKS

THREATENED with a 24-hour A correspondent writes:

MANAGEMEN I

shut-down of at least 14 of his claims that as a result the surves -believed to be factories on Monday in support of Trade unions are are surplus to requirements.

Merseyside's Standard-Triumph a seamate playing the fool!' Other workers. recorded strikers, Lord Stokes has stepped patiensey wage to refuse; in with a four-point plan to end

GEORGE BROWN

said one st that or ore was to tae the strike. nee ratin industry should *New shop-floor This was put to members of the British-Leyland • should combine shop stewards executive at the House of Lords bron be land on Wednesday and it is believed that this will form the being

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power may Standard's strike committee will basis on which Little opposition recommend a return to work on Monday.

become anarchy' Anti- ine lour points are understook to de: of the Smith • he callime of combine's token strike.

-BARBARA CASTLE

Heavy attack students • An immediate 8d an nour increase on pay. carnimidlands of with in court on puppet MANAGEMENT must plan, train people and MORE HAD been done for ordinary people

COLDIC S

By our industrial reporter spend money on reaching the man and woman lactures over wiree years.

govern- by the Labour government than anv forces atta particularis and Cord Pne Gillespy sausa tike is 200 per cent • No lay-offs without prior as directly as possible, Mrs ment had ever done before, claimed Mr. George on the shop-floor negotiation with the

T&GWU

Barbara Castle told the Institute of Directors Brown on Wednesday night.

stewards. By a foreign correspondent on Thursday. sympathther sec Offers of This actio ynical remark of slams " Marlboroug THE NLF continues to reply most "he real trade union today magistrates court speech lay said what Brown in the Lord Stokes put it this Minister, been ment of lower-paid workers vi tellon this week instigated a Com

ROWN

Industrial reor revealed. miner Big factor main decline over structure and badas and bestesman could trike big factor has been the 1 ct $200 by him. stand ' their Pounded and mustrial esapitals co win an and or bee • husband isn' im Lende Callasyan hate and tear the ay ircmake so Lards® Members of thi entered into our executive travell Yer- and his part LO out that workers that orky aple pointing Military experts now antici- to the strike committee Thind What • the ployer " Richard Saville, the Univer vetoy prepared to exerciseas- and that pate a media mi o suppl iving i sity pay it: surve wasas Colleg leaders carry out Widespread House demonstration, has still They tand he g.= acting read Sir productivity propos support negotiating responsible exercisin recovered Thursday's Copl convenors Te past econdary tole in night, 1 nursda

TODAY

bers in that one CAV ursday

DESTROY

combines token strike to At this year's che Iț must now be be called off. •PACE BE Girl of such working class is going major Had this all it stands ahead ad degenerate into anarchy. actories by no means play-

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

have struck: 'Cool. Bernadette ¡ractors and ir iMill his wages 4,800 workers

INTENTION

aguar-barmier 4,000 worker. leaders SU Carburettors 1,200 workers or citing ta gene Virs Castle has Devlin to tack on their standard @ PAGE 4 COL. 1 → managements. Cans Motors 3,50 workers workers Power station address Young Albion Motors 8.00€ workers precious day. Morris Engines 2,000 workers emp recus Fawkes nigh workers strike

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• a no. no Tories

MISS

BERNADETTE

DEVLIN,

Independent MP Blood The for 20p.c. rise of course, helpe ncreasing): Mid-Ulster, has agreed demanding that the Labol the Greater London Young a mining constituency. speak about uister al

FREE

sports- demanding

REPLY

Conservative's annual con- WORKERS at 13 power statio for 24 hours yesterday i Heffer ference Bournemouth Sconcentrated effort b han the beer nd Londo later this month.

MOTOR WORKERS'

nanagements support of their claim for a 20 per cent pay increase.

takes action working togethe government Three ester stations in the & were hiverpoors Sino-Soviet Young Socialists both Browns and Castles "stationial rom in his lame

CONFERENCE

MOP, Eric Hefter Miss l-publicized tor

GRAND XMAS

speeches. throwing stones border talks revealed very clearly yesterday.

Cora counterats in Yact. Conservatives

ATTACK

BAZAAR

ful in one parames make little for Private Member ms of the Tori Saturday, Nov. 29 progress All car. car denver and combonent workers are invited to a motor Begging illed that e con Canning Town Public Hall préhensive because workers conterence This doors open 12 noon he told The Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth make you sen or 0z "Soviedary sew Knite palati

BIRMINGHAM

ATE

Bill give something towards our bazaar ?

Saturday, November 8 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Have you a tin of grocery? jumble ven th egan that that Help us nake this the best bazaar ever held Write for credentials to R. Parsons, needed Help us raise the money for our daily paper- Mr Hefter's choice *peoples Bemay 0е Blackbird Leys, Oxford 21 Strawberry setter side a al LaLa ing legislation in ble stations country concrete 1oc2s desol will be out,'

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist. Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 31 • SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1969

PRICE Bd. S-1l men Standard-Triumph strikers win concession C.A.V. Acton speak out Inspectors

STOKES FORCED

on inquiry stage sit-in

TO CLIMB DOWN

strike

WILLS

higher ONE HUNDRED and fifty and pay, inspectors and viewers at plant con- 322 LAY'S Acton tinued their sit-in strike yesterday in protest against By an Industrial correspondent management proposals fol- lowing work - study They began their survey.

BY DAVID MAUDE

action last Thursday.

LABOUR LEADERS CONTINUE ATTACKS

A correspondent writes: THREATENED with a 24-hour

THE

MANAGEMENT

shut-down of at least 14 of his claims that believes to be a result une survey hazarding factories on Monday in support of Trade unions are brellminary _to a Dro- Fere scathing in thet ducity dear-ls workers Merseyside's Standard-Triumph are surplus to requirements.

recorded playing the fool!' strikers, Lord Stokes has stepped thought or cante in with a four-point plan to end Hearsey's right to refuse, A we intances to bac func

-GEORGE BROWN

the strike. *New shop-floor mented and a new grade wil This was put to members of the British-Leyland That one This is be and so pede combine shop stewards executive at the House of Lords peop on wednesday and it is believed that this will form the

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marked for this purpo power may basis on which Standard's strike committee will Little opposition recommend a return to work on Monday.

become anarchy' tional su Anti- The four points are understoo• to dea agement Smith • The calling off of the Chrough combine's token strike.

-BARBARA CASTLE

Heavy attack students lunacolate hour increase on pay. go the idea that kee • Parity earnings in court on puppet with Midlands MANAGEMENT must plan, train people and sellin MORE HAD been done for ordinary people By our Industrial reporter factories over three years.

describe rhea by the Labour government than any govern- spend money on reaching the man and woman forces • No lay-offs without prior as possible, on the shop-floor as directly Mrs particularly ment had ever done before, claimed Mr. George the satie silke is 100 per cent necoulation wItn

T&GWU

Barbara Castle told the Institute of Directors Brown on Wednesday night.

By a forelgn corresp stewards. on Thursday. This the on you betion Lord Stokes is said to have perhaps was slams remark of a The trade to Nixo a series i ate. within told most cynical Bolders, this week. Mrs fost strike hos- speech in wnich the

DO WEI

Industr Local weca Lord Stokes put this ab Brown or by to hay tilty of the labour leaders ay in Unt worksioD, sald reported to be he ne towards the growing move- been of a survey hich has been mentioned is Minister, earner husband rend ment of lower-paid workers "Trade unions this week instirated a com must

BROWN'S

three revealed. mission and and eech eve Iker and businessman coul Relations inauiry into the their Us and Saigon for in the role of shop stewards. enGrose. Longed industrial and nine i ret owns sain whether honours and for the i we like accept, hotered into (nur emphasis) allaghan ha a firemen again or we e not, ral Workers also decide Thind what the employers leaders carry out. na development BEY OF UPi of his details Widespread an could as productivity aldounsel Other speakes included Sir pact straditional cept waybing's going up ex support itself. 'rights'. Mr. Brown. Tony Shador Changelo: res poroductivit 1e in Thursda: night, for its

TODAY

accord November

DESTROY

in it at years TROWU the called in s now Serin and all se of California: des ring the destroy follow this ordecapitali union degenerate into anarcho have st toly no means play-

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

Tractors and Ta,sm proven Bernadette ugh to maki

INTENTION

Jaguar-Daimler 4,000 workers intary or municipal 'has course, leaders Devlin to SU Carburettor

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1,200 workers Power station Albion Motors 8,000 workers address Young is day. Houst Morris engines 4.vuu worker.

workers strike

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MISS

BERNADETTE

Tories

DEVLIN.

Independent Blood for 20p.c. rise for Mid-Ulster, agreed Ulster Conservatives speak ber of lets who are beum sports Young • urcater annual con- Heffer WORKERS at 13 power stations in the Midlands, the Bournemouth into struggle against it.

could han the better North. West and london struck for 14 nours vesterday lo later uns mont

MOTOR WORKERS'

sent to Bro Workers Press by and support of their claim for a 20 per cent pay increase.

takes action orking togeth soys necessary Sino-Soviet Young Socialists this Browns hands bastin

CONFERENCE

hot ' so

GRAND XMAS

revealed very clearly yester ay.

border talks IrOm

ATTACK

BAZAAR

ful in hou make little While to rom the rear with to ce work. her back, as it out as tee Private Memb for Saturday, Nov. 29 to make All car, car delivery and components all blood sports progress sed inquir Begging workers are invited to a motor Canning Town Public Hall in yesterday's Workers workers' conference

ACCORDING

chion there doors open 12 noon sipled class Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth • indis eutenana aparent Can you sew? knit? paint?

simllar c begging make something for Bazaar?

BIRMINGHAM

My BIll give something towards our bazaar? it be ra trocedinic smoth oursing, capitalist classiselt. Saturday, November 8 anc 2 p.m. to7 p.m. bunter-digging he said. How is a man with ave vou a u Help us make this the best bazaar ever held!

Write for credentials to R. Parsons Help us raise the money for our daily paper— Buy the sa 30 ded o Blackbird Leys, Oxford 21 Strawberry Patha through Conference foe 5s. a person coming.

THE WORKERS' PRESS

move- • said anotcountry res legislation

Rape dent o les tes allo the go tered up for a get lo rom 8 a fU Cachet agemenon tipie to us, made one clay ahrough valuable

PAGE TWO

IN AUGUST 1969, the British Communist Party published a 60-page booklet by Betty Reid entitled 'Ultra-Leftism in Britain'.

Though she touches on the activities of anarchist and 'Maoist' groups, Reid's main concern is to discredit Trotskyism in general and the Socialist Labour League in particular.

The Workers Press publishes the last of five extracts from & with all the main principled differences larger work dealing between Trotskyism and Stalinism.

five specific issues raised by The extracts have dealt with Reid's attack on the Fourth International: 1. The Popular Front and the Transitional Pro.

gramme of the Fourth International.

2. The Second World War: The Stalin-Hitler Pact.

3. The Second World War: 'The Big Three'.

4. British Trotskyism today: Stalinism and the Re visionists. The fight for alternative leadership: The Stalin- 5. ist record—and ours. this wording was proposed by WHILE REID and the Stalin' (Our emphasis British Communist Party Soviet News', Friday, January leaders are able and 1963, No. 4797, p. 41.) And enough, if willing to build alliances sure we back to the first draft check with the revisionist published of the programme, groups she describes in we find the identical in 1951, Fabian formulation: her booklet, unity with Communists Labour British the Socialist of declare that the people League is excluded on Britain transform capi- Call principle: And why? talist democracy into a real People's Democracy, •.. there is no reason for • forming parliament, the putting demands which are product of Britain's historic struggle for the basis for genuine united democracy, into the democratic instrument of effort and struggle, since the the will of the vast majority possibility of any positive re- people' (January 1951 of her ed, p. 14.) sult is ruled already out. The Socialist Labour League What in Trotskyist language denounces this programme and are called "transitional de- theory a reformist fraud. It is mands" [and also, as we saw because we uphold the of Leninist theory the state, in part one, the language of including parliament, an as the Third Congress of the instrument of class rule, that Communist International] are we also uphold the Leninist theory of the vanguard party, always demands which they which fights for leadership deliberately on the make the class, throwing within assumption that they cannot down challenge all its to other tendencies and parties be realized within the capi- within the workers' movement.

talist system. These demands Stalinism, here in the person have the purpose of educat- of Reid, both rejects these Leninist principles. ing and mobilizing the more Reid seeks to transform the advanced cadres, and will ul- 'left capitalist state through timately "weld together the unity' with all those that reformist outlook; share her working class into a force Lenin fought smash the to capable of smashing the state capitalist state machine, machine". (Transitional Pro- including its parliaments, through gramme.)' (p. 19 of Reid's the independent action of the working class, pamphlet.) led by the Bolshevik Party (Reid quotes from the "Transitional Programme of the Fourth International, available from New Park Publications, price Is.) Reid and all British Stalinists fight the Socialist Labour League be- precisely they do cause not want to weld such a force capable of smashing the capitalist state machine. The British Com- Party programme, munist the 'British Road to Socialism', explicitly rejects such Leninist, ( revolutionary per- spective: 'In this way, by political action, using democratic rights to transform traditional [i.e. capitalist] institutions, parliament can be made Many rank-and-file party militants pressed 1 into line after the war, but the Party leaders, fol the effective instrument of the people's will, able in his alliance with Attlee and Truman (the to carry seen above at Potsdam) insisted on continu through major legislation to collaboration with the state.

challenge capitalist power, and replace [!] capitalism by socialism.' (1968 ed., p. 49.) and in conflict with all the Theoreticai gulf tendencies that Stalinism now seeks to bring together. Here we have the core of Lenin defended and de- gulf of the theoretical between veloped Marx's theory Leninism. Stalinism and As violent revolution and the we shall show in a moment, destruction of the capitalist this reformist perspective of state against all opportunists; transforming, and not smash- his writings that subject on ing, the existing state machine retain all their validity today: the entire political 'The governs petty-bourgeois demo- of the British Com- those activity crats, sham socialists Party and has led to replaced the munist who class the political cor- mistraining, struggle by dreams of class ruption and eventual total harmony, even pictured the of degeneration several socialist transformation in generations of Party members dreamy fashion-not the as in the trade unions and the overthrow of the rule of the universities. exploiting class, but the as But first let us trace of the peaceful submission the origin of this reformist minority to the majority which concept of the peaceful, has become of aware Its life, Marx parliamentary transition to All his alms socialism. fought this against petty- Like all other revisions of bourgeois socialism ..: (Vol.

25, p. Leninism the British 403.) within Party, it was inspired by the .. all previous revolutions Soviet bureaucracy it perfected as the state machine, adjust the sought to to whereas it must be broken, ..: (Vol 25, p. pressure of world imperialism.

smashed 406.) The 'peaceful road' Today was an it is the Stalinists declaration outright to 'perfect' by who seek the Stalinism that it renounced state machine. the goal power in the Lenin was quite explicit that OT capitalist countries. his theory applied all to Khrushchev's speech to the capitalist states, not just Sixth Congress of the East Russia: German Socialist Unity Party "Today, Britain and in in Berlin on January 16, 1963, America, too, "the precondition confirmed what had been tor every real people's revolu- known for tion" is the generally years- smashing, the destruction Stalin had drafted the 'British of the ready- Road': made state machinery" 'We must say this for the (p. 416.) these admirers Now edification we can see how the of the cult of Stalin that it clash of these two utterly op- was none other than Stalin posed perspectives out

WOIKS

who, in an interview with the fight for alternative British Communists after the leadership in the British Second World War, spoke of labour movement. the peaceful, parlia- Since the Stalinist using Wall to bring about practice in the trade unions mentary way socialism and this is recorded has been to work within the of the existing bureaucracy for programme 'broad Communist Party of Great unity' series of on d Britain. minimum demands that con- "The leaders of the British sciously exclude the possibility Communist Party know that of principled differences being

NATIONALISE

HE BANKS

NOW!

DEPORT

SUPPOR

DISEM:

NOT

TO THE

VIETCONC!

brought out within the work- that is ing class, a process essential for the training of leadership and the raising of working-class consciousness. Tied to the parliamentary road, and therefore sharing the same political conceptions as the Labour Party right wing as well as the trade unions, Communist Party militants in the factories are deliberately held back from striking out communist road on a leadership. Everything is subordinated winning 'allies' to machine, and in the last through the labour analysis, bureaucracy and its ruling- class masters, to Kremlin diplomacy. ilitants pressed for a change in the CP Party leaders, following Stalin's lead nd Truman (the post-war 'Big Three' isted on continuing the wartime We can see how this line worked out in the class struggle. After the war, leading CP members found them- selves aligned with the right- wing bureaucracy in several key trade unions. This alliance had been based on joint support for Churchill's production drive and anti-strike campaign.

When the war ended, many rank-and-file Party militants pressed for a change of line, but the Party leadership, following Stalin's lead in his with Attlee and alliance Truman (the post-war 'Big Three') insisted on continuing the war-time line of class collaboration. For example, the CP miners' leader, Arthur Horner, used the machinery and the finances of the

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to step up production, not wages: 'For the first time in the history of the trade union movement in this country, the miners' trade union assumed the responsibility of actively Reid decries the SLI's position on makin experience of these 'lefts' actions, the CP

WORKERS' PRESS

boostin and Trotskyist- ›aiting became a wav of nt but when Ine allance the Three' DIOKe assunder b: between inside trade unions placed tremendous strain vy nue me premin and un

HIT BACK AI

broke militants throth into a state of more were more conrusion

YEARS SINCE

loyal 30 they remained

THE FOUNDING DI 3IL

Louiss

4TH INTURNATIONAL

TROTSKYISM

'cold war',

MARXISH

TODAY

by the Korean war • > torce ine stalinist trade union leaders witn identical with against ment, towards ticularly and the Soviet could office right wing Anti-communist feeling was whipped in the rank-ana- by delve the position now training decisive. eadership particularly ts industria department, hac *as Marxists in the trade assisting in the enorts to in- government unions throush the attacks been Act nse Marxist 'clauses use principles wing and raising the the right Who are the wing and • political workers under A nationa production cam- was launcnea, Two who must take pride Leslie Cannon justify crimes ne zig-zag Soviet bureaucracy Soverma racommiss salary Instead 20,000s spent his £6,500 a + checked t20.000 Who initially in Third Period which gives it cave dona * the ine alstinction these Wilste spotsme trainine spokesmer being only laut the later the Stalin- Hite union in. country ever which cruelly funds Pact) adva exposed once their 'allies' the trade unions stood out for more bluntly, union the bureaucraci terests not hard to see how ever to have used its members' they neignten 1t was precisely because unt and with CP militants him other miners was later to play a vital part Illally been years are learned unseating the under attack from Strike-breaking British Communist Party. Party was From 1941 till 1947, leading the rignt wing Communist members the Stalinist Party of the ¿ne excuse given to rare such Horner and Paynte

ETU

many members Inal ballot-rigging, branch deserting the Party to go the i it join harness and speed-up helped the Soviet qualification and bureaucratic repression of union democracy.

bureauce of whole a The NUM Was British imperialism found thei ot the only Kremlin already decades of be weakened in the politica degeneration, wacampbel, Stalinists. the 1945 september number Labour Monthly', singled out another This is the basic programmauc document of the world The death agony of movement founded by Leon Trotskv and his comrades.

Cratess ion chis Electrical 1938 the revolutionarv Marxists had found it necessary to capitalism on lay ine foundations of the rourth international in order to the Joint restore working-class leadership after the defeats prepared by continuation and the Committees the Stalinist bureaucracy in control of the Third (Communist) rroaucuon The defeat of the German Revolutior the International. tasks of the 1923 of the Rritish General Strike ir 4th intervational the German working "or iranstoring the communis finally From New Park Publications, 186a Clapham High Street, SW4 in the struggle for the streng- of the new govern- short-term Shiet buriang prayed e crisis and crimes of the alliance the trade unions unions, then, coming out particularly the NUM and the the war under Stalinist-right- ETU, prospered. their positions on a programme Stalinists Chapple, and company, backe for ders compromise tie wing settine the 1 ne o1 class struggle at. al tremendous the the up by the capitalist law courts when forced Value name of strengthening the these years, the dramatic change and the mass media even internationa familiar for crudest anti- working that class hose still lavat Anti-communist Party factions and replace them with a such Action These six years saw pro Catholic war oppose, despite cold completely subser- degeneratio] capitalizing on the placed and the crimes • of Stalinism, in thell Communist rarty. y the Party leadership, production to build a group that

DIAC DICI

becal Icaacts.

FROM

Notor elton the co bed up or le agent to lee aike one unto dipted akin made in in castrous valuable Saturday, November 8, 1969 The ETU was effectively broken as a fighting force in the class struggle. The door had been opened for the right wing by the Stalinists. The Socialist Labour League was in the forefront of the campaign against the

ETU

witch-hunt. Our defence of the union was a principled one. We never condoned corrupt practices, we insisted that such activities were reactionary and in played into the hands of any looking for right-wing group opportunities to begin a witch- hunt again militants within the union. We insisted from the begin- ning that whatever the mis- takes or even crimes of the ETU leadership, and whatever the profound political differ- existed between ences that ourselves and the Stalinists, in the face of this attack by the right wing and the capitalist state (the same state which Reid and her friends seek to 'transform'), we would stand with united those under attack, all the time making it clear where we stood on the role of the Stalinist leadership in the ETU. But the Communist Party leaders did not want unity in defence of the ETU. Joint work Despite (or rather because of) the fact that many rank- in the and-file CP militants ETU had worked closely with our comrades in the campaign against the witch-hunt, the CP leadership banned such joint work and denounced the SLL for mobilizing such a cam- paign. And why? Because the Stalinists wanted to wash their hands of the havoc they had created in the

ETU.

They feared that a joint campaign between SLL and CP trade unionists would expose the political roots of the poli- cies that had reduced the ETU shambles under the to leadership of the Communist Party's Industrial Department, headed at that time by Peter Kerrigan. We charge the leadership of the Communist Party with preparing the opportunist poli- tical line and revisionist theory that made this degeneration not only possible but inevi- table. Foulkes, Haxell and the rest were drummed out of ETU, but the political archi- tects of the whole affair went unpunished.

Trotskyist- boosting and baiting became a way of life But when. alllance the i 1947, Three' finally broke torn assunder by up contradictions between one property relations or lae two blocs, this unholy com- bination inside the placed under unions Was tremencous stain While the Kremlin and the Attlee government remained Stalinists good terms, the ana rignt wingers in tne unions were able to collaborate. When the that alliance broke the •roducea CP up, The militants were thrown into a state of more

YEARS SINCE

If they remained loyal, to Lanel many

FOUNDING DI THE

course, did not- -it had been

INTIRNATIONAL

stone to soft stepping job) the anti-communist

ITSKYISM

union 'cold war witch-nunt. une

TODAY

• the Korean war 1950, forced the Stalinist leaders clash rade With the pro-Allee rignt willg Millions of workers were now confronted by Communist who for Party trade unionists six vears or more nao seemed identical with the right wing, positions Labour govern- •aruculdly Soviet policy towards the They could no longer •evena on retainine through support from the right wing. Anti-communist feeling was whipped use rank-and- file the press, radio ana right-wing groups active in the unions. be safely entrenched Une leadership, their position now became desperate Stalinist became The decisive. leadership, and particularly department, had its industrial the Labour government began never members lu unions tacough the Prices attacks fight as Marxists in the trade unions. and They have see Marxist been incomes

TACL

and now withdrawn penal clauses encouraged to ust against strikers. theory and principles weapons for fighting the right Who are the spearheads of raising the political wing and this government policy today?

the workers under level today! their leadership. Two who must take pride 'Marxism' had been used, but only to justify the ol place are Lesle Cannon ol the secretary of the Nerd crimes and zig-zag oculayals. of the

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ex-secretary the policies OI soviel of the Labour burnstead, the CP leadership now a member government's Commission Industrial Relations on a salary of adapta- encouraged a series of £6,500 a year. bureaucracy Tons Ine Who initially gave political (begun in 1926, but checked the "Third Period' and trainine these spokesmes for the Wilson government?

by the Stalin-Hitler later In both cases, without which became Tacti cruely shadow of doubt, the Stalinist exposed once their ales the trade union stood out or endercan Communist Party. special interests It is not hard to see how British and Cabilalisin they developed the positions Labour servants. They sole to-cale It was preciselv because the and with CP militants could not under- him other many was later to play a vital part stand the historical process leaders and officials, learned Tine unsea tund that had led to this new crisis his class-collaborationist.

Stalinist ETU leadership.

DrO• That many were now oriven duction-boosting outlook from Then, in 1956, the Kremlin corrupt activities certain training inside hand again took the unions where the Communist of the industrial of the ElU Stalinists was under attack from rally Its brutal repression of the Drusn Communist rarty tne right wing. From 1941 till 1947, leading Hungarian workers' revolution

ETU,

Stalinist Communist Party the disintegrated the ranks of the Paynter held onto office Horner and leadership such eTUr many ballot-rigging, branch 'dis- deserting the Party to go the worked In oll narness Witn qualification' and bureaucratic right-wing trade union right wing. the bureaucracy. This repression or umon democracy was the logical out- While the Kremlin and As we have already noted, COmE wirole decades British imperialism found their had set political degeneration, The Bi leadership This is the basic document of the world The death agony of movement founded by Leon Trotsky and his comrades.

By 1938 the revolutionary Marxists had found it necessary capitalism lay the toundations of the rourth International in orde restore working-class leadership after the defeats prepared by and the the Stalinist bureaucracy in control of the Third (Communist) German Revolution ¡remational Ine deleat of the tasks of the 1923, of the British General Strike 1926, and of the Chinese Revolution in 1927, followed by Hitler's victory over 4th Intervational the German working class in 1933, finally ruled out the of transforming the International Communist by internal opposition. 60 pages. Is. From New Park Publications, 186a Clapham High Street, SW4 the for the short-term interests which the crisis and crimes of post-war meroine. Dace the right - wing - Stalinist production drive under the Soviet bureaucracy played alliance in the trade unions, Attlee government central part. particularly the NUM and the The Stalinists did not win As thousands of trade union.

ETU, prospered. their positions on a programme now

ISTS

The Stalinists were of class struggle at all.

Ch by le, a napiampa and company, backed tremendous value to the Now, when forced the right these left the wing in years, by dramatic change and the media of the lass left, ruling class, took advantage of in the international situation.

orovidine even 'Marxist' cover, the previous this deep political degeneration TOr their crudest anti- working class union was rapidly undermined.

to isolate and factions, policies. Anti-communist loyal the those

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Catholic six years saw 1 nest sulT Acuon. rartv. ano replace unem will a degeneration capitalizing war leadership completely subser-i found noliticall the cold inside the Communist Party and the crimes of Stalinism, vient to the right-wing Labour Strike-breaking, began to build a group that production leaders. ng from 1966 to the TUC. Cachet agreement to discipine be unions, made in line clis yet.

Instead working class through valuable Saturday, November 8, 1969 Harry The ETU was effectively broken as a fighting force in the class struggle. The door had been opened for the right wing by the Stalinists. The Socialist Labour League was in the forefront of the campaign against the ETU witch-hunt. Our defence of the union was a principled one. We never condoned corrupt practices, we insisted that such activities were reactionary and played into the hands of any right-wing group looking for opportunities to begin a witch- hunt again militants within the union. We insisted from the begin- ning that whatever the mis- takes or even crimes of the ETU leadership, and whatever the profound political differ- ences existed that between ourselves and the Stalinists, in the face of this attack by the right wing and the capitalist state (the state which same Reid and her friends seek to 'transform'), we would stand with under united those attack, all the time making it clear where we stood on the role of the Stalinist leadership in the ETU. But the Communist Party leaders did not want unity in defence of the ETU. Joint work Despite (or rather because of the fact that many rank- and-file CP militants in the ETU had worked closely with our comrades in the campaign against the witch-hunt, the CP leadership banned such joint work and denounced the SLL for mobilizing such a cam- paign. And why? Because the Stalinists wanted to wash their hands of the havoc they had created in the

ETU.

They feared that a joint campaign between SLL and CP trade unionists would expose ches polit had reduced the told shambles under to a leadership of the Communist arty's Industrial Departmen aded at that time by Pet Kerrigan. We charge the leadership o the Communist Party with reparing the opportunist pol cal line and revisionist theor that made this degeneration not only possible but inevi- table. Foulkes, Haxell and the rest ETU, but the political archi- tects of the whole affair went unpunished. Saturday, November 8, 1969 Backdrop to - Brifish Stalinisma. From the tot (Stalin and Franco-Soviet Pact nf May 1934 • 111 r: August 1939 (Stali: Laval; Nazi Sonn v.m. Conference of Februar: and Richestropi *.!):. General Secretar: Pollill.,

CPGB.

: future successo with John Gollan Paynter's political degenera- tion, though masked for many by right-wing- years a dominated executive, has been just as profound as that of the Stalinist faction in the ETU.

In that union, every single its 20-04d full-time one of union organizers left the CP when Cannon secured a ruling that Communist Party mem- not hold office in bers could the ETU. Every single one.

Reid talk of 'the can casualty rate' being high in the

SLL.

In the ETU, nearly all the CP's faction opted for the bureaucracy rather than fight it out with Cannon from the ranks. And, like Paynter, they were only applying Party policy.

Paynter entered the state apparatus to 'transform it' into will, stile the of hip gpless applied the same principle when they merged with the union bureaucracy. In each case, the course was charted by 'The British Road to Socialism'. the 'Road' leads In truth, but, socialism at all not to through Cannon, to the Indus- trial Re-organization Corpora- tion, on which body Cannon as a representative of the sits trade unions. Stalinism trained them both.

background of With this Stalinist degeneration and ram- pant opportunism in mind, we must now finally answer the The Newslet

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SATURDAY, JULY € 194

ETU: CLOSE THE

Defend the Union Against the Right Wing •. G. Hoak

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15255 Lapto te KUWAIT. Coterball Da The SLL was in the forefront of the campai of the ETU leaders, defending them against but not condoning their ballot-rigging activi Frank Foulkes could only find a voice for hi NEWSLETTER', forerunner of the WORKE Above : A front-page article in THE NEW opposing the right-wing attack.

attacks made by Reid on the record of the SLL in its fight against, the Labour govern- ment. We can best do this by con- centrating on the most im - portant single issue that has faced the working class since Wilson came to power in 1964: the defence of its trade unions.

Marxist, Here the as opposed to the Stalinist theory of the state becomes all-im- portant. If the capitalist state decides to take on the unions, working- class strategy must be guided above all by a clear conception of the nature of the state and its role in the class struggle.

If workers proceed, as does the Communist Party, from the reformist premise that the be 'transformed', state can then they are due for certain defeat. In our fight to defend the trade unions, we began from the Leninist position on the working state; if the class fought to defend its organiza- tions from attacks by the state, then the issue could not be resolved by 'pressure' the The conflict between trade unions and the capitalist state is the reflection of the conflict between the two hostile classes these organi- zation are based on and in the last analysis represent. Therefore the fight to de- fend the unions raises for revolutionaries the question of power, of which class is to rule. Fundamental Just as the struggle between the classes is fundamental, so is their projection onto the political plane in the conflict between the workers' organi- zations and the capitalist state, including parliament.

It is this Marxist perspective that we took into the fight to defend the trade unions. It is also the target for Reid's attacks on the SLL in her booklet : 'At the end of 1966 a large and representative conference of trade unionists agreed upon a number of demands against wage - freeze, unemployment and in defence of the trade unions. ... Present at the con- ference was a tiny group of SLL "the calling for members mobilization of the working class" by demanding that the left MPs should put down a resolution in the Parliamentary Labour Party for the removal of Wilson and his cabinet, and their replacement by "people who would repeal the Prices and Incomes Act, end the wage freeze, and introduce a policy of nationalization of the major industries under workers' con- trol"' (p. 20.) Let us look at Reid's re- actions to these demands.

We did not call for 'social- ism now', but for action against Wilson on the part of all those who claimed to be opposed to his policies. In other words, we angered the Stalinists threatening to expose the 'left' MPs as left talkers and nothing else.

The job of the Reids is to supply the excuses for the lefts when they fail to act on their left talk: 'We could all, of course, warmly endorse the objective of obtaining the resignation of Wilson and his cabinet if it came as a result of an irresist- ible surging movement insist- ing on a turn to the left in policies. The SLL however sees no obstacle in the fact that has not been such level reached.' (p. 20.) The inactivity (to put things in their most favourable light) of the left MPs is explained as the fault of the working class, which has yet to insist in its millions on a change of policy.

have an utterly Here we hostile attitude to Leninist principles of leadership.

Reid presents the role of leadership as waiting for the masses to advance their own demands and then to jump on the bandwagon. And from bitter experience, we know that the Stalinists and the social democrats are highly accomplished in the art the most of destroying even powerful of 'irresistible surging movements'. This was the lesson of the General Strike of 1926, of Newsletter Vol & Ma 17

SE THE RANKS!

were member of the Communia for wan r. Cattaball Danto Tu at of the campaign against the witch-hunt ing them against right-wing attack, Ilot-rigging activities. ETU leader nd a voice for his defence in 'THE r of the WORKERS PRESS. le in 'THE NEWSLETTER' of 1961 Germany, of Spain and France both in 1936 and 1968. Unless the working class and its vanguard passes through and bitter struggles long form of oppor- against every tunism within the workers' movement, then the greatest of revolutionary opportunities will pass by. We began that preparation with the demand for Labour to take the power on the basis of a socialist programme. The next stage in the fight to educate the working class in the dangers of opportunism was to raise the demand 'make the "left" MPs fight'. That demand not only put the 'lefts' on the spot, but the Stalinists, as their form of adaptation to the Labour government was precisely through these people and their co-thinkers in the trade unions -the and the Scanions Joneses. We must also point out that the meeting referred to by Reid did not take a single vote on action. How could it ? principles held The same true for the 'left' trade union bureaucrats as for the left MPs -they only talk because the working class will not act.

Reid's sneer at a 'tiny group' (46 delegates) does not con- cern us at all, except insofar as it reflects the same oppor- tunist concern for numbers before principles that always lays at the bottom of every attack on Bolshevism. *we could When Reid says all, endorse the of course, objective of obtaining the of Wilson' (our resignation emphasis), she means just that.

She could, but she will not.

And when the time does come, she will not initiate such a campaign, but endorse it.

Lenin wrote a whole book attacking this theory of tail- ending the working class, the founded Bolshev- book that ism, 'What is to be Done?'.

When Reid attacks the Socialist Labour League, all her blows have to be directed Lenin, against proving that Stalinism and Leninism stand at opposite poles. what happened when And the chance came to lead a real movement of the working class against Wilson -- a movement that developed this year into a May Day strike by around 250,000 workers against the government's proposed penal clauses ? Far from this now bringing the left MPs and their allies in the trade unions out of hiding, as Reid promises in her booklet, it drove them over further to the right. And what was the role of the Stalinists in this shameful retreat? They provided them with all the cover and excuses for doing so! Where did the left MPs stand on the May Day strike ?

Not one of them supported it. Where did Scanlon and Jones stand on the May Day it as strike? They opposed well!

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Les Carson (ETU precident) : wO l have joined respectively the Industrial R (far right) sits as a fully paid member.

Yet all this went uncriti- cized in the columns of the le Stalinist press. pr record for 'sup- Though on cla porting' the strike, the Stalin- ists provided a cover for those tra 19 who feared and worked against it. gre As the working class moved tra towards a bitter clash with wa Wilson and the capitalist state, ser the lefts began a campaign to ke fix a deal between the govern- ment and the TUC. th The Feather plan was sold to the AEF and the T&WGU lea by Scanlon and Jones, having Pa first been opposed by their to leaderships. Th Meanwhile the Stalinists quietly dropped the call for a lin stoppage on June 5, the day of be the TUC meeting at Croydon, and instead swung their mem- ge th bers behind Scanlon and Jones, who in turn proceeded to vote OV for the Feather plan to dis- cipline strikers. The clash with Wilson was tra an averted, the lefts were tem- porarily pulled out of the firing wi worst of all, the line, and, working class was given the illusion that a big victory had fo been won. fo The Stalinists played a key role in providing the link be- the workers tween brought into the campaign by the threat to their unions, and the Wilson leadership in the Labour Party. * They were the essential link in the chain that stretched from Wilson, under pressure from big business and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to act against the unions, through Feather, Scan- lon and the 'lefts' , on to the Stalinists, and through their roots in the factories, directly into the working class. That was the chain of com- carried out their mission to and the Stalinists the letter. Our intervention was de- signed to break up this unholy alliance and to expose the role of each of its component parts to workers coming into struggle on basic political questions. That is why the Stalinists lashed out at us so violently outside the Croydon meeting, attempting, unsuccessfully, to overturn the loudspeaker van TI Unions of the All Trades fre Alliance. re 7.30 Please Sir! 8.05 No Time For Sergeants starring Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick and Nick Adams. 1.050 News From ITN. 10.00 1.05 10.10 Saturday Night Theatre.

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Saturday, November 8, 1969 attacks made by Reid on the SLL in its fight record of the against, the Labour govern- ment. We can best do this by con- centrating on the most im- issue that has portant single aced the working class since Wilson came to power in 1964: the defence of its trade unions.

Here Marxist, the the state becomes all-im- portant. If the capitalist state decides to take on the unions, working- class strategy must be guided above all by a clear conception of the nature of the state and its role in the class struggle.

If workers proceed, as does the Party, from Communist the reformist premise that the 'transformed', be state can then they are due for certain defeat. In our fight to defend the trade unions, we began from Leninist position the the on if state; the working class fought to defend its organiza- tions from attacks by the state, then the issue could not be resolved by 'pressure'. The conflict the between trade unions and the capitalist state is the reflection of the conflict between the two hostile classes these organi- zation are based on and in the last analysis represent. Therefore the fight to de- fend the unions for revolutionaries the question of of which power, class to 1S rule. Fundamental Just as the struggle between the classes is fundamental, SO is their the projection onto political plane in the conflict between the workers' organi- and zations the capitalist state, including parliament.

It is this Marxist perspective that we took into the fight to defend the trade unions. It is Reid's also the target for attacks on the i

SLL

in her booklet : 'At the end of 1966 a large and representative conference of trade unionists agreed upon a number of demands against wage - freeze, unemployment and in defence of the trade unions. ... Present at the con- ference was a tiny group of SLL "the members calling for working mobilization of the class" by demanding that the left MPs should put down a resolution in the Parliamentary Labour Party for the removal of Wilson and his cabinet, and their replacement by "people repeal the Prices who would and Incomes Act, end the wage rcp to Brifish Stalinism. From the top freeze, and introduce a policy ).Soviet of May $934 (Stalin Pact of nationalization of the Nizi.So... ".. :: Aügust 1939 (Stalir major industries under workers' con- Februar: ictriirop: trol": (p. (hur. hit!):. General Secretar: 20.) (Stain art polill,»

(PGB.

with " tuture successo Let us look at Reid's re- actions to these demands.

We did not call for 'social- ism now' for Paynter's political degenera- but action against Wilson on the part of tion, though masked for many all those who claimed be years by right-wing- dominated opposed to his policies. executive, has been just as profound as that of the In other words, we angered to expose the left Mps asiet Stalinist faction in the ETU.

Stalinists threatening In that union, everyull-time single talkers and nothing else.

of 20-odd one its Reids is to The job of the CP organizers left the union supply the excuses for the lefts when Cannon secured a ruling when they fail to act on their Communist Party that mem- left talk: bers could not hold office in 'We could all, of course, the ETU. Every single one.

warmly endorse the objective Reid talk 'the of obtaining the resignation of casualty rate being high in the cabinet Wilson and his if it

SLL.

came as a result of an irresist- In the ETU, nearly all the ible surging movement insist- opted for CP's faction the to the left in ing turn on ar fight bureaucracy rather than policies. The SLL however sees it out with Cannon from the the fact that no obstacle in has not ranks. level been such And, like Paynter, they were reached.' (p. 20.) only applying Party policy.

• (to put things Theiinmost tavourable light) Paynter entered the state in their most apparatus to 'transform it' into of the left MPs is explained as instrument of people's the fault of the working class, the will', while the CP ETU group which has yet to insist in its applied the same principle millions on a change of policy.

when they merged with the Here we have an utterly union bureaucracy. Leninist hostile attitude to In each case, the course was principles of leadership.

British Road charted by "The of Reid the role presents to Socialism'. leadership as waiting for the the 'Road' leads In truth. advance their masses to not socialism at all but, demands and then to jump on through Cannon, to the Indus- the bandwagon. Re-organization Corpora- trial And from bitter experience, which body Cannon tion, on we know that the Stalinists sits as a representative of the and the social democrats are trade unions. highly accomplished in the art of destroying even the Stalinism trained them both.

most powerful of irresistible surging With background of this movements'. Stalinist degeneration and ram- of the pant opportunism in mind, we This was the lesson General Strike of 1926, of must now finally answer the

MEEKLY SOURNAL OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUT LELOU

SATURDAY, JULY & 1A4

ETU: CLOSE THE RANKS!

Defend the Union Against the Right Wing The SLI was in the forefront of the campaign against the witch-hunt of the ETU leaders, defending them against right-wing attack, but not condoning their ballot-rigging activities.

ETU leader Frank Foulkes could only find a voice for his defence in 'THE NEWSLETTER', forerunner of the WORKERS PRESS Above : A front-page article in 'THE NEWSLETTER' of 1961 opposing the right-wing attack.

Germany, of Spain and France both in 1936 and 1968. Unless the working class and its vanguard passes through long and bitter struggles against every form of oppor- workers' within the tunism movement, then the greatest of revolutionary opportunities will pass by. We began that preparation with the demand for Labour to take the power on the basis of a socialist programme. The next stage in the fight to educate the working class in the dangers of opportunism was to raise the demand 'make the "left" MPs fight'. That demand not only put the 'lefts' on the spot, but the Stalinists, as their form of adaptation to the Labour government was precisely through these people and their co-thinkers in the trade unions -the Scanlons and the Joneses. We must also point out that the meeting referred to by Reid did not take a single vote on action. How could it? principles held The same true for the 'left' trade union bureaucrats as for the left MPs —they only talk because the working class will not act.

Reid's sneer at a 'tiny group' (46 delegates) does not con- cern us at all, except insofar as it reflects the same oppor- for tunist numbers concern before principles that always lays at the bottom of every attack on Bolshevism. When Reid says 'we could all, of course, endorse the objective of the obtaining resignation of Wilson' (our emphasis, she means just that.

She could, but she will not.

And when the time does come, she will not initiate such a campaign, but endorse it.

Lenin wrote a whole book attacking this theory of tail- ending the working class, the Bolshev- book that founded ism, 'What is to be Done?'.

When Reid attacks the Socialist Labour League, all her blows have to be directed proving that Stalinism and at opposite poles. And what happened when the chance came to lead a real movement of the working class against Wilson - a movement that developed this year into a May Day strike by around 250,000 workers against the government's proposed penal clauses ? Far from this now bringing the left MPs and their allies in the trade unions out of hiding, as Reid promises in her booklet, it drove them over further to the right. And what was the role of the Stalinists in this shameful retreat? They provided them with all the cover and excuses for doing so! Where did the left MPs stand on the May Day strike ?

Not one of them supported it. Where did Scanlon and Tones stand on the May • Day They opposed it as strike? well!

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Les Carson (ETU president) and have joined respectively the Industrial Reor (far right) sits as a fully paid member.

Yet all this went uncriti- cized in the columns of the Stalinist press. Though on record for 'sup- porting' the strike, the Stalin- ists provided a cover for those who feared and worked against it. As the working class moved towards a bitter clash with Wilson and the capitalist state, the lefts began a campaign to fix a deal between the govern- ment and the TUC. The Feather plan was sold to the AEF and the T&WGU by Scanlon and Jones, having first been opposed by their leaderships. Meanwhile the Stalinists quietly dropped the call for a stoppage on June 5, the day of the TUC meeting at Croydon, and instead swung their mem- bers behind Scanlon and Jones, who in turn proceeded to vote for the Feather plan to dis- cipline strikers. The clash with Wilson was averted, the lefts were tem- porarily pulled out of the firing line, and, worst of all, the given the working class was illusion that a big victory had been won. The Stalinists played a key role in providing the link be- the workers brought tween into the campaign by the threat to their unions, and the Wilson leadership in the Labour Party. They were the essential link in the chain that stretched from Wilson, under pressure business and from big the International Monetary Fund

(IMF)

to act against the unions, through Feather, Scan- lon and the 'lefts', on to the Stalinists, and through their roots in the factories, directly into the working class. That was the chain of com- mand, and the Stalinists carried out their mission to the letter. intervention Our de- was signed to break up this unholy alliance and to expose the role of each of its component parts to workers coming into struggle on basic political questions. That is why the Stalinists lashed out at us so violently outside the Croydon meeting, attempting, unsuccessfully, 'to overturn the loudspeaker van of the All Trades Unions Alliance. 7.30 Please Sir! Time For Sergeants 8.05 No starring Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick and Nick Adams. 10.00 News From ITN. 10.10 Saturday Night Theatre.

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1) aad WIl Payator (ex-NUM secretary) bach wel sr • Industrial Reorganization Corporation and the Comn It is to this sell-out of the 'lefts' at Croydon that Reid is presumably referring when she Claims : •From small beginnings the trade unionists first at that 1966 conference have seen the great movement of defence of trade union rights surge for- ward, and embrace vast new sections of the organized wot- ? (p. 21.) kers Reid describes here her mass movement that makes possible the demand for a change of leadership. Yet does the Communist Party call on the 'left' MPs to remove Wilson even now?

The answer is, of course, no.

'lefts' busy The are too lining up the entire movement behind Wilson for the next general election to concern themselves with a struggle over principles. So Wilson has to stay. The degeneration within the trade unions has now reached an even more acute stage where some Communist Party members are concerned. The recent miners' strike found the same line-up of forces: The 'left', in the person

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will deal with the BBC's plan for the 1970s, and the reaction to these plans amongst BBC staff of Daly, opposed the strike strike and carry it to other and told the strikers to return pits. to work. The Communist These were truly the fruits Party claimed to support the of Stalinism. The miners have found them strike-yet it failed to Daly's draw attention to very bitter. The 'Morning Star' is able position. Instead it referred darkly to to report all these events as if ordinary the comforting fact that 'many nothing out of the of its [the NUM executive'sl happening. Some was com- members rades are striking, others call porting the men on this issue.

are privately for scabbing-yet the contra- "Morning Star', 17) October diction is even acknow- not That good enough for ledged, let alone a position Stalinists, but the for adopted. not miners, who promptly de- In big struggles like these, manded Stalinism the removal of not out in the Comes the only ford, but Daly from open as an anti-working-class, leadership of the miners' union.

counter-revolutionary force.

Further facts came to light In the first section of this in this strike. series we quoted from pre-war The new of the militancy Stalinist publications which miners, aroused by the lead of proudly related how the YCL the other groups of lower-paid had built 'people's front' workers, harshly exposed from the Boy Scouts to Bible- Stalinist the rottenness of study groups. leadership in the miners' union In that sense, Stalinism has over the last 20 or more years.

forgotten nothing in the inter- In South Wales, one CP vening 30 years. member, Dai Francis, secretary Reid concludes her booklet of the 'genuine South Wales miners' with a call for forum of the left in which union, called for a return to all trends find expression' work. Other Party members in the CP 'Comment' (the worked weekly) for pits to develop the November 16,

RADE

UNIONS

brought 250,000 workers out azainst the sover ent's penal clauses. Far and their allies in th e unions, the Communist Party covered up their

B.B.C.-1

I.T.V.

9.00 Nai a.m. Zindagi--Naya 9.30 Repondez Sil Vous 10.40 a.m. Church Service. 12.15 Jeevan. Sunday Session. 12.40-1.05 Plait. 10.00-10.30 Wie Bitte? 10.35 p.m. 1914-1918 Your Living Body. 1.25 "The Remembrance Day: 1939-1945. 11.30 Buying A House.

English Sickness' -fact or fiction? Out 215 1.55 Of Town. Sports Know How. 12.30- 245g Match. Challenge 1.00 The Arena.. p.m. Karesenne The Union. 1.25-1.50 Match. 4.15 arming. Flaxton Boys. 4.45 The Golden Weather For Farmers. 2.00 Ten News Head- Shot. 5.30 Hark Barker. Classic Dishes. At lines. 2.30 Day Time. 3.5 Film 'Nurse Edith Cavell'. 6.00 News From ITN. Marine r 4.40 Hobbyhorse. 5.05 Going For 6.15 All Creatures Great and Song. 5.40 Dombey and Son. Small. 5.55 Dodd and The Diddy- Ken 6.35 Tomorrow's Child. 7.00 Stars On Sunday. 6.05 News, Weather. 7.25 Randall and Hopkirk (De- 6.15 Muggeridge Malcolm asks ceased). The Question Why. 6.50 Songs Of Praise. 8.20 Underworld USA 7.25 Detective. Cliff Robertson, Beatrice Film 8.15 British Night : "The Kay, Gates and Larry Password Is Courage'. Richard Rust. News, Weather. 10.05 10.10 News From ITN. 10.15

HRH

The Duke of Edin- burgh meets the American 10.20 Music Hall. Press. 11.20 Tonight With David Nixon.

Richter, a film 10.40 Omnibus: 12.05 a.m. Miscellany. 1.25 Weatherman. BBC-1 except at the oll region mes egion: Yorkshire and Manda 1.2 Bast North of England: Weather. Northern Wales: ser co to the he ear Addola Union C.00-3.50 Mench Chi. 3.50- 4.40 Be Carech in Fynd. 6.50-7.25 Dechray Canmol 6.50-7.25 beenrau Scotland: Of Sophia Loren. Saras 10.40-11.20 10.20 Hall. Weather. Muste 11.20 ep. Ireland Tonight With David Nixon. 12.05 SOne iste weather. Weather News Headlines West News Headlines, Wea Ser, hoad South and West: 11.27 p.m. Worke Renort. Westward

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Service 0.40 a.m. 2.15 p.m. Sunday 1.05-1.25 Body Farm 3.iS 7.00 p.m. News Review Star Soccer. Weather 'Rogue Cop' Robert shot. 7.25 The World About Us. Leigh, Gee Golden Raft 8.15 Music Now. 9.15 Year In The Life for Creatures mall Great an Rebel Rocker-June Tomorrow's A Sowhead Stars Tony, 6.35 7.25 Feature 1968 to June 1969 Martin's Sunday. Palance ctarrino charitor 10.05 Rowan and 9.10 Report. and Katy urado News. Laugh-In. Music Hall i ational. 11.20 Thirty Minute Theatre. David 10.55 loniaht With Faith 11.25 News Summary. midniant iTe. Weather Line-Up. 11.30

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1968, we can read about the type of person we can expect to meet at such gatherings : • for some time now we have had a steady stream of invitations and these are still going on. The variety and range is considerable: church youth groups, Young Socialists [Labour Party, of course), Young Liberals, 18 Plus Group, Round Table Societies, Humanist Society and topping the list in number, Young Conservatives . • . our speaker Young Tories meeting at a dealt with a series of questions on USSR freedom, democracy, etc., and from this discussion developed over a wide range • of issues and on our Party and policy in Britain. 'After this visit the Pro- gramme Secretary sent letter to speaker (sic) and I quote: "On behalf of Dene Young Conservatives I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for coming to our branch last night. We all enjoyed your talk very much." One letter Young trom Conservatives ended: "I look forward to hearing from you, and hope you will that co-operate as regards sending a speaker for I realize that it is a strange request for a Communist [!] to address a bunch of YCers.'

We accepted of course, and for our District it is not a strange request for they are one of several Young Conservative groups asking for speakers...

(Horace Green, 'Invitations to Communists', 'Comment', Nov- ember 16, 1968.) Workers do not join the Communist Party to 'trans- form' Tories into socialists and supporters of the Soviet Union.

They join, many of them, to follow the road taken by the Russian working class 52 years under the leadership of ago Lenin, Trotsky and the Bol- shevik Party. Reid, Mathews, Gollan, Klugmann and the rest will all those admirable betray aspirations, as they and their predecessors have done in the past. To fight for the British October, as the continuation of the world revolution begun in 1917, we have to build a party based on the principles of which revolutionary Marxism, today can only be Trotskyism.

With the launching of the Workers Press, we threw down our challenge, not only to the Stalinists, but to all the re- visionist grouplets who hang on to the Stalinists' coat-tails, hoping to draw some strength from what is in fact a deeply- rotted party. Given the type of leadership we intend to build through our press, the working class will brush revisionist aside these and Stalinist enemies of Trot- skyism, and with us, take the road of revolutionary Marxism.

1970, the year of Lenin and Trotsky, will also be the year when we begin to settle our account with Stalinism. It has been a long and often terrible wait, but it has been worth every minute. Anglia 10.40 a.m. Service of Remembrance. 12.15 p.m. Sunday Session. 12.40 Your Iving Body. 1.05-1.30 You and Your Child. 1.55 Weather 2.00 Trends. Farming Diary. 2.30 The Baron. 3.25 University Challenge. 3.55 Match Of The Week. 4.45 The Golden Shot. 5.30 The Forest Rangers. 6.00 News. 6.15 All Creatures Great and Small. 6.35 Tomorrow's Child. 7.00 Stars On Movie: Sunday. 7,25 Star *Fun Acapulco' starring Elvis Presley and Ursula Andress. 9.10 Strange Report. 10.10 News, Weather. 10.20 Music Hall.

11.20 Tonight With David Nixon. 12.05 a.m. Reflection. Grampian 10.40 a.m. Remembrance Service. 12.15 Body. I.05:1.S9 sion. 12.40 Your Living 1.05-1.29 You And Your Chilc 45 Farm Progress. 2.15 Sports Arena 2.45 All Our Yesterdays. 3.10 Sherlock Holmes Film Library. 4.15 The Flaxton Golden Shot. 5.30 The Boys. 4.45 The Ghost and Mrs Muir. 6.00 News. and Small 6.15 All Creatures Great 6.35 Tomorrow's Child. 7.00 Stars On Sunday. 7.25 Marcus Welby, Hall. 9.25 The Big one. 10.40 jervice 2.15-1.05 p.m. Session. 2.0 Shot" Zhobe' 2.30 3.20 Farming Victor Mature and Anne starring The 6.00 News. 6.15 Tomorrow's 7.00 Stars On Sunday. Film Premiere: starring Don 10.10 News. Music Hall. 11.20 12.20 Remem- Omri's a.m. brance Day. Scottish 10.40 a.m. Service of Remembrance.

12.15 Sunday Session. 1.30 All yesterdays. Sports p.m. Our 2.00 Diane's Magic Theatre. 2.15 Arena. 2.45 Feature University Challenge. 3.15 Thin Man' starring Film: 'Song Of The Howell and Myrna Loy axton 4.45 William 5.30 The Golden Shot. The Boys. 6.00 Weather and News. 6.15 All Creatures Great and Small. 6.35 Tomorrow's Child. 7.00 Stars On Tomorrow's 7.00 Stars On Sunday. 7.25 Hogan's Heroes. 7.55 The Bogart Festival: Sierra starring "High Humphr Kennedy: Ida Lupino and near 50 Nahanni. 10.10 Arthur News and Weather. 10.20 Music Hall. With David Nixon. 11.20 Tonight 12.05 a.m. Late Call.

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Four-vear Port Talbot sentence for Bobby A.E.F. opts out Seale of productivity negotiations

BOBBY

SEALE,

Panther and gagged in court stuttucu ul Por can- vcaucouay for tempt of ELEVEN HUNDRED Amalgamated Engineering nd he arinle and Foundryworkers' Union members at the Port

STOKES

e and deciared a me Talbot steelworks have informed the management

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that they will no longer co-operate with the other earing is set for April A neo d Morris Commerc1,500 wörkers fore the ter abas bee Even unions in productivity negotiations.

Morris Radiators, Wa workers G. H. Roe Ltd. The negotiations at the cav an inoustra corras ondeni once and Senle Seder Standard-Triumph, Coventry plant are over the manage- bMC service Uxiora ments areen DooK• une

CKD

Gondoliers plan speed-up,

IOI

Dig mobility and flexibility of join labour. The management Labou- Whatever may 5,000 Italian strikes relatec tinre and, 'closely to the savullg guchroducinducirty that the

AEF

ciniy deal is DESPITE the Pope's appeal kers over wage increases peace, more cassi strikes have broken oul 1 Ohe big resitaice to Italy. 0,000 arosevicen

A.T.U.A.

the mined mootings fou heer aot summer The agreed producti trom Even the

MANCHESTER

site imions Venice gondolier ro ved an mens ot esele lation The fight against portharonld me ciry. producuvity dedis Noose Monday, November 10 Third week 8 р.т. in au nitse puttiy. to ne's heal transport Local o urists ma Verice tobaceir third argaining joined were also savimp Banks

HAWAGA UD

wagesalbor er cost sud ale "The Common Market' Phe Green sok pro psains strate yy lightening Tuesday, November I1 All union: st any 8 p.m. fight s ack. NEvinin Bosate reject Green Botaly Yarger chemical sud by a torelen comesoondenu total antende AMERICA'S sixth largest I.-n. dayworkers of ine i tan she of enise C.I.R. for bank, the Chemical, opened was its first branch in Frank- 'blow a hole in hotel wages furt on Wednesday.

GREEK UNIONISTS

productivity t s the most recent of THE Commission on Indus- ceveral s hanks to move West Germany's lead- trial Relations has been asked

TORTURED BEFORE

commercial centre.

DAYWORKERS

MrS barbara Cast e Renchard Canik Bradyerters, report on wages and condi- sicasu

TRIAL

Ce nici hursay derda pay claim tions in the hotel and catering ants—all clerks of the Greek cero tried ander mausurles 22-year-old The strike

GREEK

unionist trade anti-sedition creasegement dishe orke growin number told offer alicla the workers had walced out. martial that Germany. Ucc. she ieuse oF Fatonal Lorturea dunne ponce Speculation inadio! terrogation. tences have asen borurse den He and three other defend- further del tas Paltry wage Stoke thi ertain o US financial ano ambulance award for trial Relation men go slow an investigation at farmworkers he two plants. Market

STOKE - ON - TRENT

alnl- bulance continued men itht ress ure. Brown heprtal e THE FARMWURKERS claim lor a zlb mınımum wage uner go-siow yesteraay he Shee and a 40-hour week has been turned down flat by the support of a demand for

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extra t a week. proved the stronger. Agricultural Wages Board.

seld aim odt bolton have been insented cla Instead, union bok alter the por p leaders people. veree pent have settled for paltry

C.A.V.

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LINDSAY,

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in Mechanization Shas has te d hre ute erer, London: solidarity of the poskers producevity, at Saturday, November 8, 1969

PRAGUE

INDIAN CONGRESS SPLIT

STUDENTS

Stalinists

HECKLE

aid Mrs

MINISTER

Gandhi HUNDREDS of Prague students heckled the AS EXPECTED, Indian Prime Minister Mrs Czech Minister for Education at a meeting Indira Gandhi has turned to the Stalinists for held in the students' hostel.

support in her fight against the Congress The Minister, Jaroslav Hrbek, had, Party right wing. Admit Britain Tatne sul prisingly, agreed to answer The Party split has led By Robert Black students and

13 NIFA

«ucsuon of about to E.E.C. throughout Wednesday's to the eright-wing meting had to face a com sanechi suppor pletely hostile audience.

SayS According reports She an eo o 200t enl. with the Stalinists students Mrs Gandbi is at the Bilell W. German macuns.

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studch majority in we tone nom me start D' too đha to thm if she draw 520-member house. asking: Minister Mover •Mirs • Gandhi tron be if yor BeTANI O S expel of turcaos e of brech of party Comm Muniser tre chatipe o Stalinists pro-Moscow by s tet:-Mast a eserted could 'Indian I his Market plata bet re phne Answering questions in to onseguences of blocking British entry: seda Metot anirer ine weh do Cont su cea. e thể Ehe Stalinisis, left s the Support for Mo in indin sayelist meroig at te aite sunmi Wages battle defiance crushed. the opposition ahead in as eker to the Fusak regime Holland French banks workers Press reporter attack NEGOTIATIONS began weanesaav between U.S. banks move workers Dutch trade untons and employers for a new two- year labour agreement.

THE

France ahe tinising w credit restric. demandsiage on 1 into W. Germany extended by • Three celt rede wil ten il tent level odt ack from followin. months. is darao 17 doldays from be arse ord te sane ei ar one

U.S. FIRMS WANT TO

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CHROME SANCTIONS

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