Workers Press no. 317

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1970 • NUMBER 317 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What Mersey docks affair shows Stalinists we Major clash due think provide left cover Stalinism is declare war on revolutionary Torvism's on jobs and TORY determination left ally rush through the Industrial Relations Bill is matched frenzied only Stalinist effort to minimize DO YOU not think that

BY MARTIN ZARROP

and distort the growing great since there enthusiasm for the one-day working-class support to all-out action to defeat it.

strike on December 8 that

PIER

it is misleading for the of the union law

DECEMBER

Workers Press to go on insisting on the political differences between itself

EIGHTH

and the Communist Party? Is there not a danger this

ALL TRADES

will not be understood by

UNIONS ALLIANCE

workers? Meeting

TORY

THE TORIES' decision to hasten the first read- government s ing of the Industrial Relations Bill by two days sene trade mens, postmen have is a grim portent of their determination to

BY CHAEL BANDA

shown way defeat the anti-union aroused much working laws! unleash a counter-revolutionary onslaught on trade unior Make the workers' basic rights.

TRANSFORM

the determined Vigorous pay systematicalis gov- • campaign to tansiol This is also reflected ernment to resign mobilization of therefo ecembe strike urgencye of their refusal to

TUESDAY

Mersey DECEMBER 8, 5 p.m. and Genera policy urgent the Weral Workers Unpoo Labor meetin and Docks Harbour have demanded that the trac only intmer The Lecture Hal Mr Cuckney's a substantial General Strike Central Mals fact that until March 1970 he emeng up Name du Ding the morass risis which will -says research body Speakers G. HEALY (National Sec- The Covernment austries, trid a sianet ha- etary of. Socialist Labour

BY PETER READ

eague SPANSH workers

THORNETT

ested in londo pro A VIGOROUS Tory incomes policy to deal with militants. MOrTI trial: to begi inflation is urged today in the economic review MOTOr: Bibby firs milton debt weed the Mersey board debt Europa

G. CAUGHEY

(chairmal of the influential National Institute for Economic of all stop them and Pilkington's Rank onel way. rue committee incur over the next three years Significantly and Social Research. combassy T. SWEENEY Chairma the *So all political opponents member which teering would be Councilworkers london detence is re due re organization Liaison Committee) ene oold he dae areas by i and voulde there be a cial structure of British Rail.

Chairman: Mr Peyton did mong nee the left Hank nave at parated Workers Press: principle state tate strom Petary. WILKINS (ATUA SeC continue at a high peed to Departr mobilizhe struggle to protest Basque trial end Mersey €1,420 Admission 2s Left would be to £4,226 a year.

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sup the coes Upward trend irst stage of protestors burn No subsidies diferences and the upward Something for everyone at the YOUNG SOCIALISTS Reshuffle buses and cars

GIANT XMAS BAZAAR

academic Ahe Board on tad be sonnel , Merseyside and no no Destite Heath's ree pion ner price increas with Ministers.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENI

the is p I believe this SOME 3,000 demonstrators burned buses and county na become

SICK O.

cars and battled with police in Barcelona early them time we got away from yesterday morning in protest against the trial of Saturday December 12 What in ture all cant 16 Basque nationalists which opens in Burgos future will

TOMORIOW

Corn Exchange As eh the Debe 8 said to be menbers out of gov Leeds workers After Pilkington demonstration те міс он 1000 DOORS OPEN AT 11 a.m. Building firm spent stormed the groups and will not take Heath: Financial polic mal 24 mi nd made severa bricks, llion to develor this let o ollaboratior Barce 6 стр. umol men back otted verasses le initia certai ernment beratels nevew weicomes unemployment Merseyside. revier and that by the coul I leonard ni bar elist it set

STOCKPORT-

policy monetary and fisca ther oard. ›lete th Lie coming peroners No doubt industria Tories acked Pilking Visit Aladdin Thush Merseyside Workers crush cent 5 offensive and his

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Magic Lamp ally. Ignored Chataway stonewalls Brezhnev at red, si He PO unions Pact conference Forlorn Can-Can Monday's 3,000-sst the de Toys — Bingo — Books - Raffles — Plants — Party out- nationalization threat Records - Portraits — Xmas Gifts - Candy Floss Berli the gates ficials than's have told union Food Bargains - Lucky control - Bottle Draw — of the Warsaw Pac pointed YS Boutique erenc Babies' back they are preparec an th White Elephant: Instant Photo

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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1970 • NUMBER 317 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What Mersey docks affair shows Stalinists we Major clash due think for the TUC but Stalinism is declare war on Toryism's revolutionary on jobs and TORY determination to left ally rush through the Industria Relations Bill is matched Only une Irenaed Stalinist effort to minimize DO YOU not think that

BY MARTIN ZARROP

and astort une crowing since mere Is a great working-class support for enthusiasm for the one-dau strike on December 8 that all-out action to defeat it union law Latest it is misleading for the

DECEMBER

Workers Press to go on the political differences between itself

EIGHTH

and the Communist Party? Is there not a danger this so loving sterne Bil, mad

ALL TRADES

222 will not be understood bu

UNIONS ALLIANCE

workers? re- Meeting THE TORIES' decision to hasten the first read- renter hand ing of the Industrial Relations Bill by two days The postmen Have

BY MICHAEL BANDA

way is a grim portent of their determination to unions une unleash a counter-revolutionary onslaught on Make • Ine 18oe • Valor

TRANSFORM

workers' basic rights. the le: • ers font Vigorous pay Tories! Force the gov- thee campaign to transform This is also reflected ernment to resign! therefore their

TUESDAY

rerusal urgency. and General of others Unpor the Mersey DECEMBER 8, 5 p.m. subsidize policy urgent every section of Harbour Docks and workers The Locture Hall Board. Takin our Mame ducke es of the whole resources -says research, body Brothers, speakers: a naging director of G. HEALY National Sec Minister retary of Socialist Labour dustries, told

BY PETER READ

stunned oppot League) Headers capig on neither the Senior

THORNETT

A VIGOROUS Tory incomes policy to deal with Steward inflation is urged today in the economic review director Very meet Europ to stop them of the influential National Institute for Economic Rank kington's and Social Research. T. SWEENEY (Chairman review set its con- So conside out struggl would be e no The New counciworkers ployers' concern principle a question of has Liaison Committee) the CP cops in the real peated Chairman the left flank of the Mr Peyton state's Educati A.WILKINSATIA Sec Linion retary) listort the nature of the sul ruggle to protest Basque trial from £1,420 Admission 28 south Left ond hie leve first sm 9, 0 Upward trend

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protestors burn No subsidies trend or then Trotskyises Reshuffle at, mu vell, the rospects Something for everyone at the YOUNG SOCIALISTS buses and cars • priceci

GIANT XMASBAZAAR

he board of ild be ones. next seite Heath's rejection of

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

SOME 3,000 demonstrators burned buses and cars and battled with police in Barcelona early yesterday morning in protest against the trial of Saturday December 12 the Tortes hope to Trap the 16 Basque nationalists which opens in Burgos But of O, working Corn Exchange the -rament subait our or Leeds After Pilkington demonstration With aring shut DOORS OPEN AT 11 a.m. Building firm Seaforen and Police stormed the s, and made several will not take Heath: Financial policy to deadlor 4 million collaboration men back strengthen aders, while having a certa unemployment tes rising unemployment Merseysis the brutal less Har Severe "and ecial tour eard measures, adelation colla No doubt so sey ises deemed! Visit Aladdin ton glass workers. the Si Helen council ah. ch estimate The composed dockers whe habour hou have do title n employers and union and his offensive 1967 wages ve that the men should say send hat

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re-employed

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unconalton Magic Lamp Chataway Ignored stonewalls Brezhnev at acked the PO unions sure orcis Pact conference Forlorn the and there protestonalization Toys — Bingo — Books — Raffles — Plants - Can-Can Leonid Brezit gainst the de remain out- Candy Floss _ Portraits — Xmas Gifts - Records He blu ntly told leaders of of the oarse Fact YS Boutique ficiwlinson's have told unic - Bottle Draw — Food Bargains - Lucky ost Ofice Unions that Instant Photo - Babies' race til t0, 002 o take back the Straws - t to revlew all state em savinite earlier periodoregone of its members are Clothes - Punch 'N' Judy - Home-made Food - Fruit Machines — Childrens' Clothes — Alligator's Head — Xmas workers thai Decorations - Father Christmas - All the best jumble move. ars of the fia. not for nothing s this to the European sms frory Teas & Refreshments < Scarves, Hats & Gloves — Hot chemes • he di by the settlemént Into engineers on Party funds. next year.

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Hamilton Lyce Grigorenko Griaorev tch Grigorenko. 'I AM a Communist and, as such, I detest with all my soul organs of illegal force and tyranny based on caste. In our these organs include the organization created bu Stalin and today called the KGB THESE ARE the words of Grigorenko, Pyotr whose heroic ten - year struggle the Soviet Stalinist arallist bureaucracy was movingly dramatized by Granada Tele- vision last Thursday. Grigorenko, : a •retired. •Red Army officer, now in solitary con- Inemen in a soviel mental home' undergoing a 'cure' ообь his outspoken attack on the bur- THE REPORT of the Central eaucracy, cannot be forced inte an anti-communist mould. Contro Commission the tenth Congress of the Hungar- Not that this was the inten tion of "The Man Who Wouldn't lan stalinist rarty was an experi job of covering up the political Keep Quiet. crisis in the farty. During the press treen some abuse neir positions and One of the tricks used by ead an immoral life. Janos Brutyo in presenting the Report was to mix up discip- account for bruro ala not speciy Just be called what these bureaucratic gentle reason and had to be punished mini had been up to, but their jinary action against oppost- Party. These offences not seem tionists with difficulties experi- punishment with lapses an private ate ared nave been neavy-unilke encea with tnose gullty high living, greed hose 'selfishness, grabbing and and moral laxity. Party fortnightly mentioned Tavouriusm. Removed position and keport kevolutionarv Damage" nether be based on what sort ot Organizations in the United Some omcials nad never be Dasta on wildl worry about them 'One of the most frequent is and ic big. his Kincoom. circuate to the he is using Cabinet during and after the Offs redm now it 1s offences which we must exam- First World War. ine from the point of view of cared documents hise o dupli- Workers appreciate body, after Partv discipline is the damage his post, got another job better hose officials who are loyal to care national econ- inter sin than caused to their class rarty. Dul the one ne nac with omvne sald snadow is cast upon Delore. observe on political left ine The big dustria movement Com- progress and the larly League witere ranged intormation items in une lelt-wing press t excerpts minutes of comt de While 'La Nation' thief Constables

THE

paper contributed

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says would far Nation' last not week rebuked of recent con- occasional lists accuse contempor Carnonc dally Communists tnel localnes for t of Georges Marchals correspondent' quoted, of the class greater These struggle. I would like information about placed fairis been highly in some of the organiza- We would certainly defend The financial posiuon ol in sacred against this Communist Party IS especiall Chaks and ruses the staliniste When well monitored church, match Mother which has been at the Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL game for many centuries. Matest's Mrees ters

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surprising. * pare sorld example, - 20, 1923, devote ideol the operators who have Name everything to gain. Address Fear that Marchais may highlights the bid spearheading a take over for the Jesuit Order is entirely at Bsvin meeting. Gosling untounaed. DeVIn ana was Based almost exclusively on the General's own speeches and let- ters, the only opinion the pro- gramme wrongly attributed to him was in a speech attacking the Soviet 'ruling class' at the 1961 Communist Party Congress.

The programme began and ended with Grigorenko-superbly by Hamilton Dyce-be- played fore a • panel of 'experts' about to pronounce judgement on his santiy. Viewers "flashed were then backed' from 1969 to earlier episodes in Grigorenko's struggle.

Despite his burning hatred of the bureaucracy, Grigorenko has never awarded it the status of a new ruling class. He remains utterly loyal to the Soviet system, directing his fire against the privileged caste, or layer, that dominates every facet of Soviet life. Thorn in the flesh Sacked in 1961 from his job as lecturer at the Frunze military school in Moscow, Grigorenko became such a thorn in the flesh of the bureaucracy that by 1964 to certify him insane they had locking him away for eight months with lunatics and child.

murderers. Unbroken by this terrible experience - administered custice in the name of socialist -Grigorenko réturns the attack, only this time with a new strategy. greeted with loud and pro- longed booing,' says the report, and goes on to describe a walk-out from the meeting, led by CP dockers. Report No. 236, of Decem- ber 26, 1923, notes that 'there is some dissension at Com- arising munist headquarters from friction between Bell and MacManus, who is said to be drinking heavily'. the YCL, the report On says: 'Response to the appeal for support for "The Young Worker' has not been as great as the executive had hoped and the price will not be re- duced to a ld until January 24 at the earliest. which are 'Branches not taking their quotas of the paper include Battersea, Bir- mingham,_Clapham, Croydon, Deptford, East Ham, Greenock, Town, Kir- Islington, Kentish caldy and Sheffield. 'The YCL has had to vacate the rooms hitherto occupied ,36 Lamb's Conduit Street at and is moving today to 38 Great Ormond Street . . Such detail is clearly aimed at contributing to an overall picture of the development of the movement. The series of reports sud- lenly stops in January; 1924.

The index at the Pubhc Rela- tions Office explains this by saying that they had been dis- continued by the Labour gov- ernment. But since MacDonald did not take office until June, this must be wrong. It must rather be due to doubts whether Labour men would be fit recipients of such information. Remember, this was the first Labour govern- ment. Later experience taught the ruling class that they had nothing to fear from this docile political animal. The efforts of the Special to keep tabs on the Branch workers' movement must ap- primitive in com- pear very parison with today's computer- ized methods.

REVIEWED BY ROBERT BLACK

The Stalinist bureaucracy, He explained to the examining that panel that he had discarded his parasitic growth the Soviet state and the international conspiratorial methods. previous workers' movement, continues to These he described as a mechan- of the exist. ical application tactics used by Lenin during the period But it would be a big mistake illegality under the Tsar. Grigorenko's struggle to to see we saw him defeat it as a lone and hopeless Instead, working battle against impossible odds. strictly within the Soviet CUlL" stitution, which on paper Locked near the Polish away citizens the right to antees all frontier, isolated from all his free speech, assembly, friends, his wife his fellow and street processions and to produce deprived prisoners, even of pencil with which to or down his thought, Gri- Nothing could have been cal- refuses the gorenko to capitulate, to culated to infuriate KGB (secret confess his 'guilt'. As CLaCy 1101. police) official told an opposition group planning to demonstrate in 'Insanity' of persecuted support writers •However legal may shall still declare you all be, we What se sim, this strengthy and insane'. others like him, We Saw the whole apparatus It would be SO much easier mind-bending and of Stalinist with his to agree inquisitors in Trotsky once thuggery work. white that his al coats opposition pointed that Stalin revised

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to the regime, to the occupation Marx, not with the theoretician's of Czechoslovakia, illegal to the but the heel of the secret pen, censoring of books and journals, police. to the of letters and officially its methods tapping Today, are more tolerated Jew-baiting, was all a The electrode has sophisticated. manifestation of his insanity. superseded the (the conveyor 24-hour inquisition system used But he will not. Despite all force to faked confessions the numerous arrests carried out of Stalin's victims).

KGB

by the since the Daniel- Sinyavsky affair, the bureaucracy has failed to stage a single 'show Parasitic trial' 1936-1938 on the model, where the leading deféndants growth cover themselves with the most preposterous slanders and self- accusations. And the stomach pump has replaced- for the time being The old relationship between the for dealing with Mauser the bureaucracy and the mass of hunger strikes | against the out- the Soviet people has changed rages of the regime. since those grim years.

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9.15 THE MAIN NEWS and weather.

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10.15 24 HOURS.

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Not even the most sophisticated techniques repression can the Stalinist regime once save the Soviet working class throws its immense force into the fight Grigorenko has so nobly begun..

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Wednesday, December 2, 1970 Unsmiling Africa: No matter what age you are there is nothing to smlle about you're black. 'MAN ALIVE' last week showed a film on apartheid made in S Africa by members and sympathizers of the Pan Af Congress. Called 'Phela Ndaba',

BY FRANK CART

the title in Zulu means "The End of the Dia- logue. Certainly the film But it wasn't just the counter- point the oblivious tennis made a powerful and with the gang of blacks Daven on the big grass roller heaving case for moving why nearby, ( nor in paraphrase of Verwoerd's Dr black there can be no words, The more children gazing the where they will dialogue. never graze. It was made under the threat Often the most revealing pass- of the Sabotage and Terrorism of the film ages were simple: Act and it showed the stark con- sequences like the. damp trasts between conditions of in. the filthy. townships, the evening the 50 million blacks and find those with people struggling to million of the whites in something human in the desola- unusually clear way. tian and poverty.. Everywhere the film made A group its dancing in the far point with stern economy and a background of shot haunted one powerful use of music. the me through succeeding all images in town and country ano Faces of black men and women the gold mines; images of men and children looked out at us, and women crippled and mostly unsmiling. There is exploited; pictures of children nothing to smile about. carrying the distended bellies of hunger and malnourishment.

No vote even, no parliamen- tary representation at all.

Slave labour Fifty per cent of black children die before they're five years old.

The life expectancy for Many of the faces which average blacks is 34 years. looked at us appeared Be one hope. per Ninety-two per cent of blacks cent of the land is for the whites, who attend school leave before the rest is too barren, bleak and 15 per cent don't go at 15 and dusty than to support more all. The average annual expendi- malformed population with rachi- education £73 for ture on tic and trachomatous children.

white child and £7 for a black There is free education and The laws prevent free one. pass free school meals for everyone- and the movement main except blacks. means of the control of labour.

harassment Curfews, constant and arrest. slave labour Finely cut picks in a city street, gang on striking in time to a song, were The commentary was bare indistinguishable from the crim- and unadorned. The film spoke inal slave gangs of American his- loudly and sometimes screamed tory. out. A moving film, it ended with a roller caption and a recitation It was finely cut to make the most of the material and a lot of some of the names of those of risks had been taken to shoot who have been sentenced to in places normally totally inac- death for political activities. It cessible to camera teams.

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It didn't try to explain what policies lay behind their fury.

Members of a more militant breakaway from the reformist African National Congress, the film-makers clearly could not explain or offer any way out to the millions they so compas sionately portrayed which But the discussion followed the film-fair play after all and equal air time to the exploiter-was interesting in one main respect. The S African embassy refused to take despite voicing part, noisy and racialist attacks on the film in the press; instead, two Tory MPs stood in and defended their absent friends. And what a warning for the British working class-white or black-they were! Harold Soref fired a softening salvo by accusing the BBC of a consistent psychological war aimed at all the noble countries such as S Africa, Portugal, Spain and Rhodesia fighting commun- ism. From there he never looked back. A small S African boy wander- ing in a township. Patrick Wall joined Soref in defending S Africa and that por- tion of British wealth and the world bourgeoisie reside there. Next to them a QC, chairman of the Anglo-S African Friend- ship Society fumed and puffed in support. They made their intentions and the needs of their class quite clear. They were pitched against the producer of the film, Nana Mahomo and a representative of the Anti-Apartheid movement.

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WORKERS PRESS

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STRIKE OVER

BASQUE TRIAL

THE ILLEGAL workers' commis- sions in Spain have called for a general strike to begin as the military of 16 Basque trial nationalists opens in Burgos tomorrow. The Basque city of Bilbao was flooded with leaflets on Monday urging the strike, as 500 econo- mics students clashed police. The students had been at a meeting to pledge support for six of the nationalists for whom the prosecution is expected to ask the death sentence. Nine years On the same day, a Madrid court sentenced another Basque nationalist-Sabino Arana Bilbao —to nine years' imprisonment.

He was convicted on charges of illegal association, distributing illegal propaganda, possessing firearms without a licence and shooting at a policeman. Four other Basque workers convicted were similar on charges and sentenced to periods of up to seven years in prison.

One convicted was in his absence. THE RESPONSE of right-wing to the growing working-class resis ment's attacks has been to delive ary speech to date. S Kensington Speaking to Young Conservatives on Monday evening, Powell made it clear that the dismantling of all neration of tree enterprise in nationalized industries and secondary education and social must be the services main task of the Tory government. "The Conservative Party, being a capitalist party and a party of free enterprise, he said, 'accepts the market as the arbiter of measurable material benefit and rejects the state. 'Hence the necessity of elim- inating state decisions or inter- vention wherever economic bene- fit is accepted as the touchstone. Whole-hoggers 'There is no choice here but be whole-hoggers - from to exchange rates production to subsidies, from little neddys to nationalized industries we are obliged to put the state in all its guises under notice to quit.'

Here is a clear call for the Tories to close down unprofit- able industry, dismantle state- owned enterprises and hand over the succulent morsels to private employers. These are all measures that the government is planning to carry but, in the case of the out, Post Office, has resulted in mas- sive political opposition from workers. Turning to education and social services, Powell went on to qualify the Tory's slogan of "less government'. It does not mean dismantling the National Health Service or the state education system or withdrawing the state's ultimate guarantee of security against want'-all of which have in fact been undermined by the 'mini- • Budget' proposals. Not choked 'What it does mean is that where economic forces will pro- vide services within this area, we shall see that they are not choked or driven out by the THE DECISION of the Ministry committee to manage the affairs Harbour Board means a virtual ‹ port worker. The committee's imme- diate problem will be to stave-off the impending collapse of the Board, which has already announced that it will be unable to pay off bonds maturing in the New Year. But its long-term and Tory- inspired objective is to preside over the closure of the South end of Liverpool docks and old the whole of the port. In its place Seaforth-a con- tainerized dock at the North- end will be developed and staffed by a much reduced dock labour force. To understand this one must appreciate the full depth of the crisis the port of Liverpool and its labour force now face.

Only one aspect of this is the mess the Board is in.

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Basically the Board is near 'bankrupt' because of over- workers capitalizațion. Its charge it with deliberately keep- ing dock and plant hire charges low in the interests of the ship- ping concerns that dominate its membership. Rates-per-ton in Liverpool are, for example, half those charged in London. This has meant that income fromathe Board's. operations. has i right-wing Tory Enoch Powell ng-class resistance to the govern- een to deliver his most reaction-.

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ever-growing appetite of the state, but rather the state with- draws as the action of individ- uals, expressing through itself market forces, advances.'

Elaborating on this theme, he stated that there was 'no reason why the provision and the pat- tern of university education and of technical training at maturer ages ought not to be determined by a variety of forces, among which the economic motivation would predominate ... "The principle holds good throughout the social services.'

words, In other whatever resistance, the party of capitalism must ensure that the dictates of are enforced in every capital sphere. To complete the picture, Powell the 'non- spoke of economic role of the state in the administration of 'justice.

Mockery "Today both the administration of justice and the means detection and punishment have been starved of resources, he said. 'What is certain is that penal reform is a mockery when the resources are not provided even the existing range of penal- ties, let alone improve upon them.' In the face of mounting oppo- sition to the Tories' attacks, Powell is now stepping up his campaign inside the Tory Party for the strongest measures to place the entire burden of the crisis on the backs of the work- ing class, with no holds barred.

Letter THAKIN SOE, whose capture you report in your issue last Thursday (and whom I met in 1945), played an important part, as a leader of guerrilla activity, in the undermining of Japanese military power in Burma. the closure tr the Ministry of Transport to sponsor a fiv e the affairs of the stricken Mersey Dock ns a virtual declaration of war on the Liv

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not been sufficient to maintain the port and loans from the private market have been raised to breach the gap. the Interest payments on capital debt, resulting massive at £83 million, now have con- verted small operating profits into losses in the past. Throughout 1969 this situa- tion deteriorated and eventually, when it was clear that the port was not going to be bailed out by nationalization, the Board was forced to go to government for assistance. The Tories refused to inject public money into the port and continues to do so. The oblique statement by John Cuckney, banker whiz-kid in charge of the five-man team, that 'there will be a re-capitalization on a new lower and different gear,' can only mean, in the context of Tory policy, that a the substantial proportion Board's assets are to be sold or run down. Cuts announced already involve the closure of the South end of the port employing 2,000 dockers, big redundancies in the Board's maintenance labour own force and stringent economies in all sectors of dockland. But the Tories envisage more than a traditional rationaliza- tion. They must also deal with the other side of the port's crisis— the Liverpool docker.

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Though dock charges are rela- tively cheap, Merseyside is still an expensive place to load and unload a cargo. Liverpool dockers_ have still not accepted Phase Two of the Devlin scheme and work under a multiplicity of piece and bonus rates. These, with the ports's strike record and prehistoric cargo- handling methods employed by make docking at nanagement Liverpool a 'dear do' The current modernization , and talks between the unions the Port Employers' Association have reached near deadlock. The dockers want £60 for 20 hours, the employers have offered £35 for 32} hours. This move into the port by the Tories clearly indicates that they have called a halt to the haggling and are lunging straight for the dockers throat. If the financial carrot will not lure the Liverpool port worker into the Devlin web, the big stick of closures, promoted by the committee, might. Rationalization on the scale envisaged would apparently of dockers throw thousands into the unemployed 'pool' where they would exist on lower rates than those who are working.

CONTEXT

It is in this context of a large unemployed 'pool' that the cur- rent pressure by the employers for the abolition of the 1947 Dock Labour scheme must be seen. If this legislation was' dis- mantled, then employers could safely rationalize and push port the dock straight workers onto the dole. It would mean rationalization and Devlin on the cheap. The final aim of these moves would be the concentration of all shipping at the new Seaforth container dock due for comple- tion in the mid-1970s. But to do this all militancy Merseyside on must first smashed by the threat of the 'pool' and eventual redundancy.

Again the Tories have stripped the illusions aside. They want to end time-wasting negotiations, speed-up the devel- opment towards containerization and dispose of those sections of dock labour who, by their mili- tancy, continually foul the dock Unlike some other Burmese Marxists, he never fell for the line that, in order to get rid of British imperialists, it was ood policy to collaborate wit he Tapanese imperialists Brian Pearce.

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French soldiers killed in Chad GUERRILLAS in N Chad killed two soldiers of the French Foreign Legion and wounded 15 others in clashes last weekend.

Sources said that the fighting eached its peak on the night o November 28 after French and puppet troops had fought day- ong skirmishes against guerrillas of the Chad National Liberation Front (FROLINA). The French claim 40 guerrilla casualties soldiers atter swept the area around Fada in the NE corner of the country. 2,370 French soldiers About sponsor a five-man engaged in Chad, propping up the government of President Mersey Docks and Tombalbaye. Early last month they lost 11 killed in an ambush r on the Liverpool -their worst casualties yet in the fighting.

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workers al tw THE SACKED Pilkington's glassworkers of St Helens have been fighting to defend the right to strike and the right to work for over Charter Particularly relevant nov four months. It was in the late summer that they began which demands ceasing struggle to guard these rights when they were fired by the glass company after they struck in defence of a victimized fellow their workers with the sack. worker. Now Merseyside we To them the draft Charter of Basic Rights is more therefore the Post of than words and slogans. mittee We talked to Derek Greenough, a young member of the rank- and-file committee who are fighting for the reinstatement of over 200 glassworkers. olensive arainst the work he Totes to the be cented defeat out never 4 stendecide to against othe • themselves trike. Our mind is ridiculous these should with that ts way they sake i stell to ble this For example actory in ist or dorking no a national sale so vani have e Chatter as one olgen as one workers, money if they do. This the Tors Pin a big cam- Londonderry Kent 20-day tour of US and Europe

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KING HUSSEIN of Jordan left Amman for STUDENTS at the new University of Ulster Saudi Arabia yesterday on the first stage of a in Coleraine, County Derry, plan to strike for 20-day tour. After a oné-day one day tomorrow against soaring increases con Hussein in their cost of living. ference with the oil mon planned This was decided by a arch King Feisal, he will flv onto Egvpt, Britain, the meeune or ine students AMS I ERDAM postmen began Union. Plans also include United States, France and two-week

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KILLING of four lobby talks MPs Germany Kent State University Stormont and a picket within the framework of a month. National students at the University. consolidate alleliols May Buch aric and vuarasmen last Arab efforts and bring out Ulster Opened ones ay claims premedilaltu, Arab the justice of the Joseph Rhodes, a member case. of President Nixon's com-

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The Students' Union pub Rhodes, a umor ledow al Harvard, apart from some showers iN scol regation in Massachusets on group dung the dad!! mose places ere out for tion. said that a rurated Enemies big-power "They went there with pre and 10 a dr ang whale of their lavera dis.

backing in the praise enemies of the Art brought before the grand jury.

If thi allowed * he Discrepancies ust leader on the mach tinued. Builders

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glass, and elieved mardere Discuss the the Charter of Basic Rights che Tori firing reopened " learby cars. appeal to the National Couns te. decision.

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students. Thyoday Allende takes rovide ll glassworkers 'Days off' mark, and more is still coming fight looms at Acton CHILE'S new left-wing President, Salvador Allende, is expected to present a Bill ten era in secetac to congress Inis weet nationalizing the country's mainly US-owned copper mines. morn- with manato cong in est that the Bli

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sipons demand pay-and-con- nine the shenge due the compensation to

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strength When Christian Democratic management allowed ise 30 on • bing breed or maority interest in US firms yearsprise at Alved may Chile thin Morocco police kill (Kinshasa) Congo peasants and six asants are wekend the wor sc peper sent. when police fired Tandoccupying agricul lescreir oficial communiqu aused by Nore of Robat one most in force since 18, with seet, Loo expiring. cabinet. Wednesday, December 2, 1970 Clash

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About this there can be no doubt What is in serous nowever The La Dour MPS Merset. side and their friends in parlia- zation of t within and without Merseyside area m cerence Pey- Ine Jobs threatenea by ton's measures. This struggle rally workers in defence of their right to must be com- bined right the strike and to belong to ar Decen ber provides mer with an sevside dockers excellent opportunity to com-

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bine these But Pe Mr That what ADOPTING new military tactics, liberation He er is Trying to evade.

Labour forces in Cambodia are now hemming in pro.

vaneumonlousy asked for. three-hour and got US troops around the capital at Phnom Penh.

debate in nariament This debate will not save a By 'leapfrogging' single job Merseyside. the demonstrate past regime's shallow opportunism of those positions, the guer- who are not prepared i take rillas made have lary connes their biggest When challenged on BBCI's since the Monday night about why governmen vasion of Cambodia subsidize last May. docks, when dockers hreatening nev have cut of sai December 8, Mr Heffer replied troops miles North of 50 Wal ne woula breler cocken Phnom Penh, and detry, 20 miles t the North.

The guidelines laid Dam on the Ine Industrial Relations Bill.

If the dockers di would be

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to him, would yesterady unaer attack alone Highways the this strikers responsibility ancl sever one Sothe capital, erine to the South, His refusal to stand up were to the Tory mortar raid Surericall Wal inside Phnom Penh And Clearly expressed

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allempts to make tie wer which has been uncer sect docks into a 'national" sev now tor more than hats and not a class issue. supporters the vear. guerrillas tepped uf their According to the 'Liverpool gainst the regim _(Tuesday, November 24) Heffer wish Us pre collaborate rocked the elDassy Mersey docks. savet a ristoric dinner at the nOOT Pollce ater arrested. House of people, including construc- commons last m10nl who had been Liverpool MPs declared then working on the building. sondarily with the City Coun put the future port first and party allegiance second John Tilney, Conserva- tive dinner with Mr Hetter, Labour Vr tol sala that some issues than Party.' were creater What are Liverpool dockers expected to think lead at he Tories in est- minster and . extends his right lana to the lories In aver pool? The only save lal jobs of Mersey dockers and the Only to saver trade unions todav from the onslaught

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Meanizing dinners for Tory MPs organizing

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militant unionists ight to make the TUC cal AMERICA'S most costly scientific satellite, a Tory government goes. Scucial

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$100 million (£40 million) orbiting observatory, In its place we must put a Willed will

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has broken up in the atmosphere shortly after the Hesitate 1atlona17e control blast off from Cape Kennedy.

dOCKs undet workers' and without compensation.

the Secrats Fragments of the to probe designed secret with distant hurtled back to inen telescope earin ana lay scatterea across Africa or in the Indian Ocean.

The space agency said that une astronomical ou Servator! coonnec when a protective shield failed STUDENTS at Mexico City' of the 1968 Olympic

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o separate about four minute Autonomous University Games. nto the flight. suike yesterday An amnesty appeal launched during the official inauguration University rector Pablo too ins made •une sateinte Gonzales Casanova has ceremonies Tor The new Mexi. heavy, causing the Atas can President, Luis Echeverria support in the last Centaur carrier rocket to burr Alvarez. eight seconds than all ema ding believe that the planned in a fruitless attempt amnesty for country's new President Willur to push the vehicle into orbit.

prisoners, Hally olacare hom have been in jail sinci by Start ol nis six-year term Swerved to the student massacres on the granting such an amnesty. destruction The swerved bace tore doval cull to earth path arcing destruction and central Africa Over nolan cean. Bruce Lundin, director space agency's Lewis Re- Centre, searco Tole a press conference: Second Annual 'I am sure some pieces came down, but we do not know Conference where exactly. team experts were named yesterday sift Discuss masses of information ground by the DAO and its carrier. radioed

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of the latest US The cost tailure space Budialices

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Into Is Caust. expensive programme been

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nas under sharp criticism since The right to a job, to strike and when the

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because of a power flopped fault. organıze, to retain gains made second observatory successfuly, to fair prices, to welfare benefits been out some scienusts claim that and to decent housing. better results conle be acmeved by more but cheaper satellites.

Defenu and maintain these rights in a fight to Morale is torce the Tories to resign.

flagging

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wil also he atesti do little to boost the nagging Sat. December 19 of the space agency, morale seen force Digbeth Civic Hall, and again over the last three years. One more

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due Digbeth 10.30. am launched .In a years unc but there must now be some trepidation over the outcome For delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s the next major US shot- manned to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, flight, 31 Styvechale, Coventry. on january next ycal