Workers Press no. 322

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Power men forced to lead? call a General

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leaders TUC policy and snub govt show) by

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ELECTRICITY - SUPPLY

workers thumbed WESTMINSTER 5 p.m. their noses at the Tories yesterday with a work to rule which hit power supplies all over Britain.

Speakers: Cards Workers ready to G. HEALY (National Sec- G. CAUGHEY (Chairman By an Industrial correspondent retary of Socialist Labour Pilkington's were not intended to be pro- THORNETT (Deputy had just Senior Steward Morris London Councilworkers' Motors, Oxford) Liaison Committee) attempted sala Chairman: A. WILKiNS (AlUA bec-retary That Chance lor Aitoly на жив 2а поті Admission 2s Barber's wCeend troop threats of, the workers' action starting.

fight Tory law The Powerful workers called off their work pending a settlement in Britain.

rail body several cities set by see sive power suts.

Were may demand

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re-call TUC WHICH way forward after December 8? How By DEMANDS that union leaders mobilize 7.50i. can the full strength of the ten-million-strong all-out action against the Tory anti-union John the trade union movement be mobilized to defeat leaders involver plans and for more pay will be voiced n the day the Tories and their anti-union law?

Spencer by London railwaymen tonight.

The workers are intercil will be red What they've said about ready to fight, eager to do battle with Tories, and confident that vic- the anti-union laws will be tory can and Eno od Olsen who wants to l the stricken yard. 'If I may say so, talk of a General Strike in $64,000

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best • are Bi no this atmosphere is completely irresponsible.

will not not from Barbara Catter i Victor Feather, October 9, 1970.

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GIANT XMAS BAZAAR

SINN FEIN, political wing of the Irish Repub These eat some come lican Army, has issued a statement denouncing 5 Degat! fight has TUC chiefornia Star arache September 4.

Prime Minister Lynch for collaborating with the Liaison Committee Tory government over the introduction of his The rise meg be dong The TUC 0 Is why th emergency measures. dustrial action on December 8 Saturday December 12

BY A MERPEN BRESS

he rish Morning Star editorial, September 9.

Behind the Morning star, November 14 of the internment camps Corn Exchange his cone ence to go on read to which si LynchM and the reported arrests come emand harman November i4 con- 4p Mancheter SEt * critical militants, claim Sinn eith to ир УМат chairman Leeds im trionme has Fein, is a new compromise ference. Workers December voted Press create a scare situa- settlement between Lynch DOORS OPEN AT 11 a.m. decision to organize a c main a chest the so l to mean can compat tag a T0C did cance or saint, and the Tories, based on eNtirety not, opposed to TUC policy in its the treaty which Creature hat the once aured in separated the Six counties The Lynch regime, like all December 9s, Liaison Committee chief, Hal from the South. imperialism emergen empty simply That daten gainst me revere 5255 Defends whom? A new ATUA pamphlet 6d The eh the general £1,250 Dec. stoppage, 'Sunday tne thee Tories Appeal Fund Just Cond soil , a see a After December 8th? Defence stands at Visit Aladdin not off the E124 15S 60 and his

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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Strike is tale eara Be imping or tee to the Power men forced to ler 8? THE magnificent response

TODAY

struggle Genera T December 8 is only the ° is the most workers on today telling possible exposure Soon to gast indictment

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

the leaders to fight! snub govt

MEETING

past • Demand the TUC call a stres to ment dare Party. Bee Tories to reSore defeat its plans and Force it to rega at the areas of labor is The postmen have Make the trade union alternative shown way leaders the provocation stration defeat the anti-union Tories! Force the gov- laws! ernment to resign! eadership • Return a union socialist gov- ½ has to t ernment in 1971 of the working class in its Lecture Hall, Central Halls

ELECTRICITY - SUPPLY

workers thumbed WESTMINSTER 5 p.m. their noses at the Tories yesterday with a work to rule which hit power supplies all over Britain.

Speakers: Card: to the chest in whitenal Workers ready to G. CAUGHEY (Chairman By an Industrial correspondent G. HEALY National sec. sur Wein hours or the tall government contem- retar or socialist Labour Pukington s Hank and were not intended to be pro Leaquel rile committee NoBarber had just been show- THORNETT (Deputy T. SWEENEY (Chairman bans power-station Councilworkers' nto operation.

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rail body trains street • Menting: lac hit by selective power cuts.

may demand

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re-call TUC WHICH way forward after December 8? How By DEMANDS that union leaders mobilize from about can the full strength of the ten-million-strong all-out action against the Tory anti-union John trade union movement be mobilized to defeat went to the plans and for more pay will be voiced 1. 0. 8 yment the Tories and their anti-union law?

Spencer by London railwaymen tonight.

ficials The report workers are What they've said about ready to fight, eager to do battle with Tories, hired that and confident that vic- the anti-union laws a normal work to will be can and won. December & mali obnt tree victory is from Here Trades Union Contes.

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the rights of the Communis the e trade unionists day Times', December Jack Jones, and Something for everyone at the YOUNG SOCIALISTS 29, 1970. Cather, 6, 1970. Record' November 1970

GIANT XMAS BAZAAR

SINN FEIN, political wing of the Irish Repub- lican Army, has issued a statement denouncing

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TUC chiMorning Star headline September 4 Prime Minister Lynch for collaborating with the core remand is toe cal Tory government over the introduction of his emergency measures. Saturday December 12

BY A WORKERO PRES

re-opening 'Morning Star' editorial, September 9.

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PAGE TWO

Pictures below from George Hutchinson's biography 'King-and-Country'

PRIME MINISTER

famous Oxford, was given at Edward Heath's back- Heath led the opposition in a ground is entirely one of Chatham debate at similar House and reversed the vote.

petty bourgeois. self-help It is no surprise that this Ballot College word to read 1935 he is the philsophy under-

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his lying concept Characteristically he had to the together. money government. scrape Some came from his parents and some from Kent Education His father was a carpenter Committee. quarter of who lived in staid, respect- century later 'The Times' was able Broadstairs when Ted to say of him: 'Mr Heath was was born in 1916. a self-made man, but he started early'. Ten years later he had be- At Oxford Heath's Toryism come a manager at the local took root. He was active in the University Conservative Asso- builders where he worked and ciation the debates and in 1930 when the owner society. died he bought the business Notable achievements in debates included opposing and set up for himself. of motion advocating equality Of the family Hutchinson education he argued this 'They never thought of would mean communism- -and says: themselves as poor and by the opposing another motion which standards of the time they the effect that the was to In fact in had forfeited were not'. 1926 British fascists earning the right to free speech.

Heath senior was about double the average wage In typically petty- argued for paid to workers. bourgeois he The baby Heath senior's fortunes were the excellence and retention of public schools—many of which rising at a time when hundreds bad and, of other men's were notoriously in of thousands which he had were plummeting. any case, to 1926 the year of the never been sent. was Like good Tory and General Strike; in the next four any patriot Heath volunteered for to years unemployment was Army in the Autumn of rise to two and a half million: the the lives of most men were far 1939 at the outbreak of war.

from 'ordinary' Drive, incisiveness, devotion Yet Hutchinson describes to duty and attention to detail Heath and his family leading resulted in 1945 in his reach- 'ordinary' lives with Ted going the rank of Lt Col com- ing for leisurely swims and bicycle manding the Second Regiment rides. of Honourable Artillery the At least one of Hutchinson's Company. He was awarded the comments rings true where he

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and was mentioned says: 'Up and down the coun- despatches. try innumerable boys of In 1946 Heath got a job in similar background were doing the Civil Service in the Minis- the things'. So much same try of Civil Aviation. He used much for the sufferings of the the time to build up contacts middle class. in the Tory Party. Within two In keeping with this back- years he had been adopted as 1926 at the age of ground, in the candidate for Bexley ten he won a scholarship to a Kent. School leading local Grammar Bexley could not have been - Chatham House, Ramsgate.

Heath's more appropriate to Heath's mother had been a 'ordinary' self-help back- ground. It largely lady's maid and also a strong was dormitory area of white-collar This churchwoman. almost certainly explains why Heath's workers and artisans many of interests outside school largely them owning semi-detached houses of their own. involved singing in the school For the next 20 months he choir and learning to play the was a journalist on the 'Church organ. Times'. Then, for about a year, But he took an early interest he worked with Brown, Shipley politics, doubting in never and Co, the London merchant from the start that these began ended. the Tory bankers. and with Heath and his When, in 1933, the close Party. sup- Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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LABOUR

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Name Address porters are middle-class busi- ness and professional people.

Of his wide contacts in in- dustry Hutchinson says: "They are nearly always what might be called the better end of management-really intelligent, hard-working. modern-minded people who feel that in Heath they have someone who under- stands the problems of large- scale industry in the modern world. As 'The Times' pointed out in 1969, Heath represents the businessman's take-over Whitehall. For Heath it began on Feb- rurary 25, 1950, when, at the age of 34, he was elected to the House of Commons as the Bexley member for with a majority of 133 over a Labour opponent. Twenty years later there is lo justincation for surprise al the content of Heath's Toryisn as it unfolds week by week.

While his ideas have been modified by circumstances, the underlying philsophy has 'not changed since he first stepped onto the national political stage. As early as 1937, in a debate at Oxford, he displayed uncompromising opposition to Labour plans to extend social services. The cost was too high he said. He is still saying SO. But now he is in a position to do something about it. Momentarily his voice was drowned by the 1950s boom.

A year later Heath emerged as a pro-Churchill Tory with no sympathy for the wish- wash liberalism of Chamber- lain and his followers. Britain first and Britain strong was from the beginning built firmly into Heath's policies. After the war, in 1947, when he went before the selection panel at Bexley, he won the nomination on the basis of his speech filled with condemna- tion of the Labour govern- ment. It government of was a crisis, bedevilled by the dogma of nationalization, a govern- ment under which controls multiplied like rabbits and which imposed a strait-jacket on industry. claimed the Tories Heath believed in a property-owning democracy with a minimum (not a maximum) standard of life for everyone. They wanted industrial relations, better more incentives increase to production and development of the Empire. All this rings very familiar even though it was said 23 years ago. In 1950 these policies were a reaction to the years of austerity under Labour. They were a prelude to the 1950s boom. There were to be incen-

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tives for hard work, not just work, to taxes were reduced, government spending cut and waste at all levels was to be ruthlessly eliminated.

Growth, full employment and welfare were the magic words. By 1963 with the post-war boom over and the capitalist crisis developing rapidly such policies needed to be applied far more vigorously. Un- fortunately the electorate were tired of the Tories and they were soon to give Labour a chance to show what they could do. It was necessary to go through six years during which Labour was forced closer and closer to Heath's own policies before Heath could assume his true role. The gunner In 1963 Heath had become Secretary for Industry, Trade and Regional Development. By November of that year he was emphasizing that 'firms that did nothing about productivity must be pricked into activity.

He stressed equally that public expenditure could only come from increased production.

Heath's determination to abolish Main- Resale Price tenance in 1964 was designed, said, to stimulate com- petition. In fact it paved the The party goer way for the giant retail mono- polies to drive out the small men. On February 11, 1964, Heath told overseas bankers at not the Guildhall: 'We are afraid of (monopoly) size' and as a reassurance he added that profits would be there for those with enterprise and effort.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14,

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tion, with inventiveness and with administrative ability. By helping themselves to go ahead they will be helping all of us.

By maintaining the economic foundations on which every- thing depends they will be helping the whole country' In 1965 Heath restated his policy list. At the top now were incentives for work fol- lowed by the need for more in industry and competition commerce and reforms of man- agement, the need to eliminate restrictive practices and 're- define' the role of the trade unions, the need to make social community services more 'efficient', and last, the need to join the Common Market. The EEC was now seen as a threat to British industry •if the country remained outside and a saviour if entry was granted. Only through access to wider markets could the growth of the monopolies be assured. 1965 was a year when an Industrial Relations Bill was mentioned in detail for the first time. In it there were to be ‹ provisions for enforcable agree- ments, register of trade a unions and employers' associa- tions and industrial courts.

Another first for Heath was his expressed intention to im- pose firm controls to limit immigration. Heath was talking By 1966 of an economic crisis so severe that it was the greatest any nation could face short of war itself. During the election cam- paign he said: 'Unless we take action to avert it we are faced with the threat of national bankruptcy'.

That year he had a chance to show what his attitude to strikes would be. During the seamen's strike he pressed Wilson to demand a secret ballot by the union so that those who wanted to go back to work could do so. New blood And later in the year he criticized Wilson for not taking a tough enough line with the railwaymen. A year later after the 1966 defeat the Selsdon Tories met to decide the policies which were to form the basis of the 1970 election campaign for which Heath was already preparing. There was to be greater pro- vision of community services by private enterprise, volun- effort and the tary price mechanism. Correspondingly state operations were to be reduced. New blood was to be pumped into the private housing sector at the expense of state projects, private pen- sion schemes were to be en- couraged, industrial research was to be concentrated in the private sector. chance to expose Another his attitude to the unions came in 1968 at the time of the Back Britain Campajgn. Heath said: It is difficult to think of anything - more discouraging than that those trade unionists who were prepared to do an extra half hour without pay to back Britain should have been condemned by their colleagues and be punished by them. With the economic crisis forcing Labour to take back many of their promises to the electorate, on January 15, 1968 Heath gave BRUARY 14, 1971. 11 a.m. Young Socialists and All Trades Unions Alliance

GREAT NATIONAL

RALLY AGAINST

TORYISM

THIS DATE NOW!

high-produc- wage, low-cost, get at prices through wages. In he said tivity economy, but future there were to be no that increased output should go more inflationary in- wage into the balance of payments Productivity would, creases. and into investment for in theory, be the sole criterion.

In- creasing capacity. He said: On inflation Heath said: "There will be little left over "This problem for consumer more ment spending, ** for govern- serious for Britain than for most other countries because By 1970 overproduction of our poor growth in produc- reflected in a mounting infla- tivity, our inadequate reserves tion was the dominant issue and substantial overseas debts in politics. But Heath made it and the chaotic state of indus- clear that he had no intention trial relations. of harming his big-business backers by tackling prices. In 'Great firms with househeld July he said: their profits names see *This is already governed by squeezed by taxation and their questions of competition.'

production dis- continually rupted by industrial disputes; Productivity their wage bills soaring in the struggle to keep up with wage inflation.' In other words prices were to find their own levels. This Heath came up with policies the was only way business expressly designed to relieve could survive. There could be the burden of taxation on the no attacks on prices and big companies; policies which through them on profits. meant attacking the welfare This could only further harm state and through it the living capitalists by robbing them of standards of the working But something had incentives. class; policies which meant Heath and to be done. his attacking the nationalized in- party decided, irrevocably, to dustries that only TV

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*The 58 News except: Hay. Robert London. 4.00 John DallAs. Tuesday, December 8, 1970 the most profitable sections survived. He also came up with poli- cies to deal with wage infla- tion. Wages were claimed to be industry's single biggest cost and in addition the 'rash of mainly unofficial strikes' were proving an unsupportable burden. Destruction Even before the election the importance of a bill to save the capitalist class from econo- mic ruin by destroying the of the unions had power emerged as the most vital plank of Tory policy. Heath accused Labour of 'abdicating their responsibili- ties in failing with . to deal industrial relations' and he warned: 'We are not prepared to delay our proposals' (for an Industrial Relations Bill).

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Tuesday, December 8, 1970 AMONG the current film fare offered in the West End, titles such as 'Swinging Swoppers', 'The Wife Swappers', 'Mondo Sex', to name but three, together with the second-time arounders, many of them good films, but filling merely the gaps left by the fall in film production as recession bites, Toseph Losey's 'Figures in a Landscape' stands out with all the authority and dignity of a genuine creative artist. His work has always borne that stamp, and whether you like it or not, and often I find it ponderous and irritatingly incomplete, you are always aware of a worrying or disturbing quality that serious art has, aware of a mind that is restless and inquiring. The very way he uses a camera compels you to look afresh, to go beyond merely the surface visual impression and experience the complexities and interrelationships of things.

In 'Figures in a Landscape' he has found a form and image obsessions into that all his earlier one central compresses allegory of struggle. The title itself has a directness and simplicity, a bareness that announces the hypothesis that men conflict with eạch other and the natural world in order to survive. a knife for their release.

We know almost nothing They come upon a herd of whose about the two men, goats and an old peasant who tied behind their hands are is their keeper. backs, running through I need you for this,' says bleached land- parched and the older man, but the young scape. horror struck. man refuses, They are clearly on the run, Alone the older man murders but from whom and where, we the herdsman, but in vain.

The young man do not know. He has nothing on him, no and it is exhausted 1S only knife cutting instrument ог from the brutal insistence of that they need so badly. It is the older man that he carries brutal a senseless act, com- on. and mitted without thought, From the way he harangues the young man accuses the the boy we learn of a man who older for his stupidity and physical, sensual, who is thoughtlessness. understands the natural world with the instinctive cunning of It is the first time that the animal. young man has asserted him- an He leads the way, directs self in any way, asserted him- the route. self as a thinker. herdsman, who had He knows there is fresh Thé now a corpse that about he nothing, is water because 'can The smell it'. He seems attuned to signposts their passing. escape and survival, practised, older man needed the younger different from professional. contrast the man in a way boy is merely a useless weight what he first supposed. The ropes round their wrists feel around his neck. Yet they need each other, tighter. They try to on the rocks but are indispensable to each other, them 211T held without success. these two opposites in unity by the simple fact that Swooping from the sky, directly their heads, both are bound and need the over a helicopter. It other to through the comes turns them, bonds. What they both need is and swoops down at

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pilots are faceless The two shapes in helmets and flying suits. It plays with them almost, diving at them, twisting, turn- ing: They try to run away but it pursues them like a giant horse fly with blood on its mind. The older man shouts abuse at it, trying to challenge it.

When it finally leaves them alone and hovers watchfully in the air a hundred yards ahead, the older man • shouts If I hadn't been tied, I could have pulled it down out of the air.

He is outraged at the viola- tion.

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For him it becomes a per- blocks out their presence and the their intrusion. sonal vendetta; to get when the older pilot. It is only The younger man says: We bread from the man takes to wait till would do better corpse that she is aware of darkness and then travel them and lets out a piercing quickly. Find a village and a cry. knife'. Again they have to escape At night the helicopter and again young man accuses the older of stupidity.

wheels away and the two men find a village. There they enter But the older man has other a house where a corpse is laid things his mind. He is out for a funeral. They find a determined to go it alone, to and free themselves of take the and share the razor gun their ropes. food and make it to the moun- Then they help themselves tains. The young man wants to to clothes, tinned food and a come with him but the older gun with ammunition. It is at refuses. He sets off. this they the Yet when he is faced with point notice of the a can of food, he doesn't know gretstricken widow how to open it and only the in a trance that deceased HUEY NEWTON, Black Panther Party 'Minister of Defence', speaking at New York City Community College to 4,000 youth on November 19, surprised his audience by devoting the whole of his two hours to the need for dialectical materialism as the basis for the revolutionary movement.

i Want otto is your hor Newton's development indi- cates the speed at which experi- what is good for you want, you,' he began. He called ence of the class struggle in the upon advanced capitalist his supporters to reject 'nation-

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today opens up this possibility.

alism rhetoric,' and and empty the real issue is on, went consciousness'. Overthrow Newton insisted throughout on the Black nationalism appeared to importance of learning Vildl every revisionist and reformist to the Marxist method. replaced the have conscIous 'Our strategy armed strug- build the Marxist 1S struggle to gle,' he said; and added that this Party. But as Newton points out: and get your did not mean 'go "What seems to be is not so'.

guns, but meant grasp revo- to 'In 1966, he said, 'the Black lutionary theory as the basis of Panther Party called itself nation- the struggle. We wanted found alist. we wanted to run away Halion, Manifestation the and found enemy we wouldn't We run away. lel us theoretical This turn to basic must run towards him over- and have a different questions by Newton is of very him throw significance, great historical society. of Newton the as said individual, or the formal COr- "Then we we welc and of his nationalists international rectness or incorrectness but as socialists. ... The Black Panther particular statements, beyond manifestation of the way in Party has moved inter- We have developed depth of the imperi- nationalism. which the alist crisis disrupts old forms of a higher form of Marxism-Lenin- consciousness and provides the ism Marxism-Leninism- Pantherism. conditions for a turn to the most basic philosophical problems, Despite the of the contusion thus enabling the youth and the phrase, nothing will be able the last proletariat rapidly make which the great impetus required to stop decisive advances to Newton's stress on dialectics and prepare the conquest of power.

the philosophy will give to development of an interest in theory among the Negro and the white youth. Huey Newton speaking directed at the New York City Newton their atten- Community Centre. from idealist dema- tion away

MOORE

Figures in a Landscape directed by JOSEPH LOSEY showing at the Carlton in London The relationship the frontier the sinister figures between changes, the two men devel- of another army stand. now one dominates, then The man ops, approacuck nothing. He the their them. sahis® but it The hand. that struggle survive las a pull differences and the unity soldiers point their weapons at are revealed. him. He throws down nis gun Driven the they and advances. enemy make the relax. Part of bargain of entry to go where, the according disarmed. to me oraer man, tney will be the older cannot 1 CL Illall The route involves give them in

BO1S

oosession The ente plantation with must revenge. have trying to flush them must destroy the helicopter.

enemy out with nre. Alone he battles it out with and is hacked to pieces (Inis episode is a nimic tour which highlights the by blind, bloody con- film on or me usion of devastat me, of lost slow shot achial miniature figures in the senseless snow. ane cruel.) there is no inciton where are the making what is on the other side of the mountain. It's unclear what Losey by this. Does he mean means blind faith there no man has the tin opener

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over the machine, that it will and the knowledge to use there. always will! And once high up, there Ine young man bargains tech- that past revenges nave nique protection. They a feeling as it th is longer present signifi- leave together SnOw cance? relationship pure, untouched by man, virgin that struggle and sites is the ot doomed, •ксУ territory. we have Thev are polarized as ine nim ine voung man runs youth and age, as new and old, makes snowballs, washes his I don't think is cer- stu Porce force as What I do think is that are Lall but impose ne nas tried an idealist resolution a very ney are usedaldul Lne enemy 1s sull aller unem. materialist lies film, worsh care which nat inter-relamonsnio is un but the Ironuer is a lew yaras have key their survival, their ahead. interdependence their weapon here Is a continuous process. enemy who creeps into the film, a despair The against uncertainty that _he film has been totally absent and throughout from Icuicals the infernal machine and later trom the characters' Illaleilal olner wild ce massed roops ol an surusale. Aireday me unknown OL lne mountal me a gener army. by the known. At form. 1s canniec openly against the Black Pan- thers. ustification for. th of the aor marxism demonation eththe Panthers com together away from nationalism socialism. Salysiand towards materialist revolu- tion of the drama moralist point Derrick of since the Reality is independent method: Panthers large "The Party Black rantner obse struggle for black control.

Soviet hap- Union And as a consequence, thei facts ened. Society was defence efforts have because ry. nine must arrange the •annied practice broad-scale necessary organiza- and theory. ('The Milit- Power is i power? on ana caucanor knowledge this must and reality and see if it works.'

the and make Capitulating act the way we want.... Here 1s the beginning of a Poli- truly revolutionary process.

As the statement of the a nunderstanding Ne Work- vou can tical committee OI Ine must Marxist pedants work the Pariy League points ers' out correctly, sionist the SWP is criticizing out variety will no doubt point thers points, LuCI the many formal errors in New- the ton's speech. this What the Basic theory the that break reformists and revision- But the important point is that ists who support them his level. Mate male bots dialectical method at Racialism fought according to ago of the dialectical method.

from the also character- this on the livers, the

SWP,

hang "black after programmes' Newton on the coat-tails of bour- youth make a conscious hid the vent or black nationalism tor grasp dialectical materialism for should importance of the historical les- come out [nemselves!

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yesterday. Jordanian army units launched an attack on W Bengal Canners' claim 2s per poster Jerash 30s for 20 loun and jute strike E3 5s for 50 PERTH'S three Metropolitan ne vora. wale shoot which began ing, on Meat "total' Saturday, continued in „ Man Bunai London, SW4. Amman.

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sage best passage workers by their unions yes rilla battalions yesterday over- teCraftsmen's makebo clear for industrial rel from ST 25 1o 219 %: 9a00° frontier with N Vietnam norin Army decibed nd serious with the iniciative stil Anth, Y Barber, Decem- 1806 Clapham w. Street, London in guerrilla hands.

WORKERS PRESS

COMMENT on the All Trades Unions Alliance's draft Charter of Basic Rights comes today from two members of the Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers, who play a leading role in their respective areas. Rene Hazel is one of the few female shop-floor leaders in the engineering industry. Communist Party member, she is convenor of her factory Swindon-one of the six owned by the Garrard- at Kembrey St, Plessey combine in the town.

Management are now in the process of introducing a form of Measured-Day Work—similar systems already operate in Garrard's plants in Swindon and the pace of work is already unbearable.

Recently one woman broke down on the job unable to cope with the relentless speed of the line. Rene says organizing women has its difficulties. Many, for example, work only to supplement their husbands' poor wages. Nevertheless the Charter has already stimulated discussion at be bringing it up in her branch.

Kembrey St and Rene will have put up no fight what- on the TUC to organize and the working class ett plain I think without any leadership special conterence Willa soever. fight the Tory bosses TUC don't want to give LEe Strike against the Bill and this anv power une suoD 11001 couth bring his government class Ano Cols sense Inlk they don't want to It is at the moment only the B Bill. the so-caled COWn have to be toese right tre ighto fotoe one

OUI

these rights trying guard motivate. with The elected int of a socialist society, but all workers for what into struggling to the demand make theirs right.

TUC

the organize olicial aerena the such situation we General Strike. In inis o reanicalos une thing we should be demand- workers. Can make Deoble LIe December In our branch ing on we have shoD

BOOT

realize wode further already a resolution action power they nave and now to use it for y forthcoming, my opinion, lemanding tive council of the AEF call socialism. the unions wil be destroved ROY WILKINSON is a leading member of the AEF in Sheffield.

He is a former Communist Party militant, who was abandoned by its leadership after being victimized from Ambrose Shardlow's engineering plant. valuable It is in this context that Roy makes a particularly contribution to the discussion leading up to the December 19 ATUA conference. 61 ACCEPT the before. points innemed the situatior mutant has deteriorated a great deal 100 of the Charter over the last five years. cent. What is involved here is basic human rights. At British-Leyland, work- district

AHH

principled fight against Measured-Day mittee has not been and The right to work pared fight live is a basic numan neces Work. and several which capitalism will Now management is hop- eaos multanes nave seer sacked class. Ine tO cerear tre mutants CP officials the AEF them into immigrant and make wage Our brothers slaves with no rights. he have snent their time Sheffield being stuck demand at corotis trying get strikers back to into ghettoes. So when short control leadership under workers built round ume comes steeL has answer to will Une Only indista the fight for the Charter.

atracks. the main part of the Tory attack. Steel tha Kritich Tories are AIR is no longer filled Corporation the mud, but there still with are going hive scratching a lot of people still Federal their penas over enterouse ano rur CoWI Senate Hection results. or at the rest. least the reason for them.

'The Half of the 60-seat upper Charter can unify house was contested. Unless all workers. we can basic the noht to detenc the rights of workers there ruling no future. Liberal holds the same position in the different Charter 1s - House of representauves. mas any alco that dropped about 5 per cent ot the votes it had last time.

has produced. I was part the committee Country Party has also lost Ine

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when it was set un in 1966

BY AIR MAIL

OUt. form Liason Com. But to the surprise and dis- mittee Defence for the may of the Australan Labour Trade Unions in Sheffield. Party (ALP) they did not pick The Communist Party kept

PAR AVION

votes dropped by the this com- Jusu really mittee anol never Although the movement can best be measured by per- the ,30 working class. than seats centares ramne] the uncou otec benefactor has nt the swino

INCAPABLE

been the reactionary (this tis hard to drace as decide We have to be wary the most reactionary party in 'left' the leaders. unton Australan Doudes al orescal) Democratic anour partv. Shardlow's Angineerino The DLP has gained about firm. these people took my ase ork. right through procedure per cont more of the vote. and a total of five seats in the Houch the In 1969 General Elec- the The result was I was out inha the repete to

ALP

tion the close of work for 13 months tion blacklisted. These people 26 seats covernment. he level negoing with thev have done a number oi incanable of defending are thıc The times in the past. Kut to win our rights. considerahle infrence in the House. overall majority- block Workers must see the Percentage-wise the move. minority party, an un- hetween the diference of voters has otherwise likely event. and the AllA. lhe ce will not defend workers. Coalitions of lesser ranging from We had a CP branch of Government the orererenal volte vetence sustem have ettective v kent Cyril Morson Shardlow's , with group, Schools TDe

AUS-

Labour out of Federal office as convenor, tralia Party. for 20 years. of the executive Virtually 'high- the oniv Not that their election light' of the pre-election cam- Parliament House, Canberra the mud-slinging My case involved would make much difference between Liberal Prime basic work. But and The ALP is as dedicated to Australian worker. Minister John he tried to get me to acceDt LP leader Gough Whitlam an unprincipled compromise.

the reservation of cantana This is the difference. Mr Whitlam could have as any of its competitors.

of the The CP refuses to take up made muca electorally recent 50 cent: government's a principled fight. They just Antal Workers' pension increase, ditched" me. Union has blacked a number the most this so-called social- stations party could offer as The CP is not putting up the vague any fight against the anti- southern South Wales t by this could inion laws At the factory zesuor part of their battle for a 40- increased another dollar working nour, nve-day week Firth Brown's, the 19S 40. con The AWU had their claim several On the Indo-China war and called venor DaS tor a reduction in the nessent the unions' faht for a 35-hour meetinas in citerent sec- 44-hour, 5t-day week rejected tions. week, the coalition parties and by the Commonwealth Arbi- wer Deapen pared.

DLP

shared the same The stewards are savios tration Commission almost six "If you want Tuesday months Commission ago. have it, but come Both are mixing with you for that Conel - n if you like" Nixon, defending TOr many aorıcu tiral their stopping them and workers were 'somewhat So there is no principled feudal' it would be a bit tough own grouna. fight on the political hem in fayour of the workers.

property The

ALP

on the other ation as hand, is all for 'bringing the been a real fight for clarity have home and with sightlv with In common most rural offensive ahout the Torv veiled

TACA UHANC

TAVOIIT

workers in advanced countries Firth Brown could | •have of the 35-hour-week campaign those in Australia work many been out solid on December -or so they say. hours hevand their 44-and in the It would be nice to be able case aborigine the The CP dominated dis- station hands in the remote committee coo! thits the trict was North, for even less than the votes AFF is trving to lack of socialist policies— union minimum wage. tre- down. inev teer Tne but the this optimistic Australian agriculture upsurge mandouc at this stage. going through a hard spell working class. The change in Upper in the the moment The golden davs People are CAping House heing will no notice. ot fortunec mace trom Charter in the political con- able affect the on the anuarnina wool clip are long over. text and this the CP doesn't Many of the Lower House coalition small farmers have But it will cause a bit of soul- to the wall during the want. The Post Office workers year. the next General prepared struggle parties before Most were Election in 1972. uneconomic units and thev've never beer Tuesday, December 8, 1970 Burgos 16 case halted TORTURE allegations by two defendants are thought to be responsible for the surprise post- ponement of the Burgos trial yesterday morning.

On Sunday evening, Victor Arana, of 16 Basque one Lon Nol charged with nationalists claimed that his terorism, statements to the police had under big been 'obtained under torture'.

Earlier the same day, Jesus Abrisqueta told the court's he had military judges that undergone 'systematic tortures' pressure during police interrogation.

Arana told the court how two companions had he and THE MILITARY position of walked into a police ambush the pro-US Lon Nol regime in Bilbao in April 1969. continued to worsen yesterday As he entered a flat, police as Liberation forces overran a opened Peam from an inner government outpost at room and he was wounded in Chikang, 40 miles NE of the abdomen. Phnom Penh on the bank of the Mekong River.

QUESTIONED

Other guerrilla attacks hit forces puppet at Puok, 150 Police then began to ques- miles NW of the capital, and on the spot, tion him even the along strategic 'Highway though he was in acute pain Seven', where Lon Nol's troops and cried 'I am dying'. were 'experiencing great prob- lems', Phnom Franco considering as Penh is now spokesman put it tactfully.

holding the trial in secret to avoid further publicity about the sadism of his fascist police.

CIVILIAN

employees the This is thought to be the Italian Defence Ministry staged reason for the sudden decision 24-hour nationwide strike to postpone yesterday morn- yesterday to demand bonus ing's session. staff increases and incentives, improved labour insurance.

TUC

WEATHER

CENTRAL

and N Scotland will be

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cloudy Witn sonne Tatn drizzle. On wages, Covent Garden Scotland, Ireland and far England will start bright with branch i wants the council to frost some inland but *call upon our national execu- areds will hecome generaly COHey from the during the tive committee to instruct the Gav. Wales and the remainder of general secretary to press for England will be wir ith sunny early reply an to our pay there claim'. manı naneteas aTOTSC Temperatures generally near or Failing a settlement of the full 25 per cent, the branch Wednesday and Thurs- Outlook demands the executive 'declare Dry

MOSU

olales rather cloudy Local times national strike not later frost otherwise temperatures near than February 14, 1971'. normal. The lack of any alternative work, tied and the cottage, other aspects peculiar to rural not, it employment were would appear, taken into con- sideration by this gentleman.

taken This cynicism was 'Sydney further by the step Herald' Morning w hich claimed: would be a pity if the It

AWU

and dogma spreads been merged into more viable destroys the generally happy properties - - with government "give and take' atmosphere of encouragement. rural work. stations, owned by The big This is perhaps supposed to of landed remnants the aris- of the conjure up pictures which developed fol- tocracy but happy stockman poor, lowing the days of the early tending his, or rather the setlers, and more recently by bosses, sheep. American and international A $4-a-week (£1 17s) in- bulding companies, have been feeling awarded crease the pinch too. tradesmen this week is hardly But vast multi-million dollar likely to this militant keep government subsidies have of the working class section ensured that the capitalist on with their heads down the land has not suffered too bulding sites throughout the much. state of New South Wales.

That there is a backward- with Eight building unions ness among many rural a total membership of 30,000 workers and a dependence on had lodged a claim for a $10 their employers, forced (£4 13s), full pay on increase them their isolated posi- by when off work because of tion, is inevitable. acidents, andl long service leave. This was backed up in But according to one grazier October with a 24 hour strike.

it was the workers' country loyalty and sense of fair play The unions involved had which prevented of been ordered to a compulsory many from them heading strike conference before the State call at the end of October to Industrial Committee which back up their 40-hour week the gave findings in their claim. claim. Second Annual Conference Discuss

THE CHARTER OF

BASIC RIGHTS

The right to a job, to strike and organize, to retain gains made, to fair prices, to welfare benefits and to decent housing. Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to force the Tories to resign.

BIRMINGHAM

Sat. December 19 Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth 10.30. am For delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, Styvechale, Coventry.