Workers Press no. 326

What we think Replacing the Tories Ir ine lory government is forced to resign by the united mass action of the trade happen what trent. What will we put in u. place? WHAT HAPPENS after the parlament The esin and drive replans the factor in what replaces But it La alre leaders ear this relate the fories work arry miss leaders elected in are forcea to l ight, eve work he clas brade unit and democrats Basic Rights restore Butes, and the buicine ond classranteed The i0 is govern- it is met be • 20 th 'left be satisfied in demands Buteor revothing estion i guestion not of simply a few parlia testers mobile the whole 124, 0 aroman the cabait Consequentine Toret e the Socialis • And the Cha tabout of Basic Rieht The Therefore of the most de

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1970 • NUMBER 326

RGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Power workers intering, da mes dane, less than £5 16s- ALTHOUGH no power-industry settlement was reached in yesterday's lengthy joint talks there power can be no doubt that union chiefs are swiftly

BY DISPREN VUNNS

retreating from their members' £5 l6s pay claim.

men It is similar to the kind of retreat made by the Transport and General demand with -together other unions- the Tories at GKN-Sankeys after Iranian students came to power.

BY PETER READ

The union chiefs' first aim will LONDON power work be to persuade their members to ers yesterday lett follow the Electrical Power room for doubt on their Engineers' Association's example determination yesterday calling off their allow union leaders threatened work-to-rule. settle for less than their full f5 16s claim. Effects of the manual workers' five-day-old

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feature in early stages frantic activity not the TUC Heneral secretary unpaid Make Jan 12 union leader General Strike --Ford men

BY JOHN SPENCER

RESOLUTION passed Cambodia and said it was latien of she wa, not an esca- the frontation official stoppage would order january if the air Fal were attacke eThe Torin as concerned about tacked by the Con dr tom TUc reneral So military aid

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It is more important than ever before to develop support for the Workers Press. "ne retreats union leaders in the face the Tories for the working cios. serious dangers ship ward of workers. une lory government must Torceo to resue. al out in a big LeT us campaign Chis weekends raise you can towards mitch Post all donations to: Workers Press Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4. James rome, Torn Ehamplon and Harold Prichard! to right: Thomas ed yesterday outside Fulham power

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BY DAVID MAUDE

We assure our readers

BRITISH - LEYLAND'S

attempt to force That we wil not et them down and that the paper will Measured-Day Work on its Cowley carworkers tinue Tory government notwith has received press backing from two quarters.

standing. attack has The more open already nrovoked a determined rebuff from Lone workers involved. First the was Sir ne o Max Aitken's "Daily Express'. ading •The Daily Unions Alliance at two Leyland plants in the area. Second Annual the Vanatement bine's BMC Service short-sighted disregard of the Conference and crude nnuendo employed both enlarged displayed papers Thursday's repruuucuols Discuss The arucie named wreckers. Walca

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BASIC RIGHTS

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PROTEST

The right to a job, to strike and On descending the fac the day for organize, to retain gains made, tory floor later in Intormal •ISCUSSIOns to tair prices, to welfare benefits bonus dispute, company repre- sentatives came ciose to beins and to decent housing. several hundred against their witch-hunting action.

Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to A more subtle attack on the force the Tories to resign.

fight bagainst comes today's 1ssue TinG ression-

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ist 'Socialist Worker The headline in this paper's Morris say yes, but Sat. December 19 stick out' This is a lie. And it is a lie designed to elp the managemen Digbeth Civic Hall, dorris workers have ccepted Measured-DSo Wlisk Digbeth 10.30. am negat Olyose MDW group's line is:

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workers press The daily paper that leads the tight against the Tory government

INCORPORATING. THE NEWSLETTER

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THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What 'Marginal' offer change-unions E1,250 Dec. Appeal Fund we think reaches Power men £272 12s 10d Replacing E9T 5 la by beater si WE ARE confident the union retrea the late d Tories dangers for the working class.

face crucial IF THE Tory government is forced to resion bu thei united mass action of the trade „movement, What will happen then? campaign the December to car towards What will we pur in is place? Post all donations to: weekend lower workers Interviewed yesterday outsk king, James Rome, Tom Champion and Harold Prichart to right): Thoma Nothing Revisionists

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less than lie on MDW the La ale da do tear tha ories Prent later than their Woi £5 16s- at Cowley ALTHOUGH no power-industry settlement was demand reached in yesterday's lengthy joint talks there

BY DAVID MAUDE

struggle against power

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

BRITISH • LEYLAND'S

attempt to force can be no doubt that union chiefs are swiftly Measured-Day Work on its Cowley carworkers retreating from their members' f5 16s pay claim.

has received press backing from two quarters.

men The more It is similar to the kind of retreat + from made by the Transport and General workers involved. All Trades Trial protest by demand Workers' Union on the docks and n's Daily ExpreS -together with other unions— t GKN-Sankeys after the Torie Unions Alliance Iranian students using at came to power.

BY PETER READ

two Leyland plants in the The union chiefs' first aim will LONDON power work-

HUNGER

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wanted Doors open at 17 a.m strengthens Nixon's Make Jan 12 matter for attacks negotiations General Strike orst bombers is is able basic -Ford men tary targuild-ups

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BY JOHN SPENCER

e South 851/67 Tran Bion or the vit rent, no an esca. eral Workers branch union and no intention of rontation with govern- Malay dean on the remin cent connaissance Nixon also took a hard lir Visit Aladdin struction of the acepraroposals supporting facilities if 1 and his he Charter of Basic Rights.

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THE THEORETICAL justification for class collaboration with elements of the Tory Party was outlined by CP member Sam Aaronovich at Marx House, London, on November 27.

He claimed that today socialists should adopt Stalinism the policy followed by the Communist Inter- national after its Seventh Congress in 1935 - the policy of the "popular' or 'people's front. The Popular rront was a pro gramme of collaboration between the working class and sections of revives the runng cass ior the aerence of 'parliamentary democracy.

It tied the working class to programmes capitalist parties through the medium of Aaronovich said this was justi- 'Popular ind, 1923-1934, begin with ind Sixth Congre al ts parted period policy on front crats. 'Social fascists' ense called social is. thr suridal slogan After Hitler, Thra front governments can. That Having German ror both hot fascram, tht revolenem.

Drecisely is do ger and captate poet are on. murdering revolutionar workers in Spain. Wighters tran middle chas were under against ascism and war. the its corrupt leaders i success: aver disgust. over The Stalinists were descredite war... is impossible' Exploited changes in the Soviet Union.

this the mocrats of dealism imperialis To ntre date the seven toula- sai correst called or to he ctably in all dire be fort and are with e ive leaders of the ruling clares.

Saints bureaucrate: Dimitrov was the Georgi must accused chairman Clear in his report: conditionstorts class) to in ane with Radial Clear break aised 1935 repron vict Sear the unted from an and Penine s yano a limited, • in gramme, or merging of an erro Popular Front' demonstration in Paris, 1936 ately, stoke together. privileged lay host March sebar- behind a revolu This new fire to the Berlin Reich.

vorking class ensele ervative of the March 1933 elec contrast the Stalinis based on clas peasants beneatt red rev stabilary 6 men as a Tom Europeren tes against the soviet a stainist Main enemy The Perhas he great meet ocialism. sung the workme making no to the Sorre together with socialist. without mobilizing fascists ! iachen in 1934nin's class on a socialist for the overthrow of capitalism.

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British Road to Socialism', the official programme of the Com- munist Party, is based on the policies of the 1935 Congress.

was acknowledged by This Aaronovich, as it has been by many other CP leaders. The 'British Road' is a pro- gramme of class-collaboration like the people's front. It preaches the parliamentary road to social- through the of organs capitalist state power. Aaronovich attempts to give it a new theoretical gloss just when big business is preparing for extreme right-wing, Bonapartist forms of rule over the working class. In the trade unions, the Stalin- ists disarm the working class with reformist illusions about 'peaceful roads to socialism' in alliance with 'labour lefts'.

So the December 8 strike is presented by the Stalinists as a protest action which will force the Tories to 'change their minds' over their anti-union legislation.

True to Popular Front tradi- tions, everything is staked on divisions within the ruling class, leading to a Tory retreat over the anti-union Bill. This is completely in line with the strategy outlined by Aarono- vich, which is to isolate 'the most reactionary' section of the ruling class and form an alliance with the rest. Trade unionists must never forget that in the name of the 'people's front' Stalinists Britain broke strikes on behalf of Churchill just as in 1970 the Polish bureaucracy helped to break the miners' strike for Franco in Spain and the cement strike for Lynch in Ireland by the export of 'black' coal and cement.

In the recent miners' strike, as Workers Press has proved, the Stalinists played an equally treacherous role, adapting to the militancy of the miners, only to knife them in the back when the strike reached a strategic turning point. When the issue of a direct challenge to the NUM bureau- cracy and the Tories was posed, the Stalinists knuckled under.

In turn, this Stalinist line in the trade unions of protecting the Tories serves the interests of the Soviet bureaucracy. The Kremlin welcomed the Tory victory on June 18, express- ing the hope that Heath would follow 'independent' more anti-US foreign policy than had Wilson. Porcin policy of the bitesaucray Popular shapes the counter-revolutionary line of the Stalinists in the western labour movement. To talk, as the Stalinists do, of government this Tory being forced to 'change its course' is to spread the illusion that there can be a 'reformed' or 'progressive' Tory government that will not be riven to attack the historical stablished rights of the workir class. up some vital questions of theory nist Party meeting addressed by : Marx House on November 27 What the Tories are seeking to do to the working class is the inevitable result of a profound crisis within British and world imperialism. There is no other way ahead for the ruling class other than to attack the working class through the destruction of its trade union rights, working and living conditions. therefore atons d Britain taie reached an historic turning point. And because of this, the middle class, caught in between the sharpening conflict of the working class the mono- and polies, is thrown into political crisis. They will be attracted not by a 'democratic' protest, but only by a powerful working-class united behind movement a socialist alternative programme, which in defending all existing rights and conditions wrung from the ruling class, takes the offensive against bankers and the monopolies. This is the political purpose of the All Trades Unions Alliance Charter of Basic Rights. Aaronovich, in his speech, warned against the danger of socialist demands splitting the

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A front-page editorial in last Sunday's of Italian edition the CP daily 'Unita' set the pace.

and Joint general secretary former 'left' Enrico Berlinguer reassured readers voting for the recent Divorce Bill the Communists parliament were not supporting 'anarchist individualism', but saw the prelude measure as to an Party members. Accordingly Ber- overall reform of family law. warning linguer delivers a stern 'anachronistic both clerical groups [as opposed to the Proposals majority of progressive, up-to- divines] less than the date distortions, the sectarian Useful proposals for this had the exasperation and irrespon- already come 'not only from us, sible provocations of equally but from the socialist comrades anachronistic anti-clerical groups.'

Christian Ded deputies the Republican (Our emphasis.) Democratic Parties, all of which offer, at the least, the basis for a constructive Evil-minded confrontation'. Only the very short-sighted can In other words 'Put the thumb- doubt that, like the recent parlia- screw and the rack out of sight, mentary agreement with Christian Comrade Pope, and we'll under- Democratic Prime Minister misguided take muzzle any to Colombo on his inflationary evil-minded souls the or the economic 'decree', reform of file who still see the rank and family law is seen by the Stalin- Church as the fount of idealism to the ists as a stepping-stone and reaction'. Cabinet. Already, the Vatican is offered The main obstacle to such a more than reform of family law.

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He was allowed to sail from New York and the ship put in at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Trotsky, his wife and sons and followers bu a senior naval oficer acting on the were put asnore British government. Soon, just as it instructions of the nappens today, protests were going up in many parts of the world demanding Trotsky's release.

Maclean had forwarded his secret Us information to the Chief of Intelligence in Ottawa and was urging the Cabinet that Trotsky should be detained. But after nearly a month on Canadian soil Trotsky and his party of seven were allowed y to sail for Russia. (Our emphasis.)

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"The door is open, but all depends on the seriousness with which the United States intends to face the problem.' en on picket duty this week The main problem remains the island of Formosa (Taiwan), he explained. The Chiang Kai-shek regime would have to be expelled from the UN before China' could take for place there. its Chou En-lai's comments reflect the continued softening draughtsmen China's policy towards the сарі- talist world, which first became evident after the winding-up of the 'Red Guards' and Mao's PAY TALKS open on Monday at "Cultural Revolution'. furniture pant in She London for Harvey's, Charlton, office Moscow-Peking relations are also showing definite 36 workers who say they are 'the signs of improvement' according lowest-paid draughtsmen in Lon- a Soviet broadcast China don and NW Kent'. earlier this week. Although the national mini- This conclusion is based mum rate is £28 10s at 30 years, on the re-opening of diplo. recent Harvey's draughtsmen receive £29 after 20 matic relations between the two maximum of ever countries, new trade agreements years' service, while their average and the continued of wage is about £28 15s. progress Peking on the disputed talks in The company only agreed to borders along the River Amur.

open talks after the men struck for a week ending with a return 'Naturally, these improvements to work yesterday. good the broadcast 'the Soviet people wel- Harvey's Draughtsmen's and mented; Allied Technicians' Association come them'. committee member Frank Chinese propaganda against Thompson told Workers Soviet government has Press the been that a claim for 'substantial markedly toned down over increase' had been submitted weeks. The old slogans since April. directed against Russian 'social But at the end of last month imperialism' and 'fascism' have works conference- been replaced vague refer- by -manage- would offer only pay ences to 'revisionists'. review on an individual basis.

This parallels Mao's turn The draughtsmen relations saw this as towards closer with cutting across agreed procedure capitalist may Canada, countries, not- and began a work-to-rule. ably Italy and France. But Maoist after week, this was Britain groups in may escalated to a strike because of well find their mentors making the similar approaches management ultimatum to to the end sanctions or not to clock on.

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reactionary Sorbs in Brain. most and we are going to do it.

When Stalin signed the 'peace pact' Press printed in the Monday, December 7. wednesday 1b2rn i that date tween our movements, both noon the Young Socialists se mally cordles to t to the the sat orkers Press as being 'SC sellinga scab paper. Mr Ramelson was, of course members or ta communist demonstration Disember answer pole c in Party's policy in. the positin three toe splai by our or Communs Party members ne of wednesday. consider Ramelson acted in December 9, ver of Ramesons proto that slandered the platform braken the na Hyde vorkin Camelson actions. undertaking will G. Heappen again. National Secretary Kremlin

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A FORMER leading member of the Communist Party vere negotiating and not con- *The Soviet Union's concilia in the shemeld area, sam holmes today makes a particularly valuable contribution to the discussion to the - or ing on the All Trades Unions Alliance's draft Charter of Basic Rights. He comments on the relation between the fight home. for the charter todav and the die cass struggles 1n which he was involved on first joining the political sainse leadershipe and movement. , or most of Sam's 33 years in the CP he was a member of its Sheffield area committee.

His questioning of the CP's parliamentary road this to socialism led him to re-examine its whole political past, and after reading Trotsky's 'Revolution Betrayed' he left it in 1969. Test re capitalism in Europe Holmes is at present convenor of the samn Society Woodworkers' painters' of a mangamated section in shemeld's public works department.

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John here are 4.9 pe A COMPROMISE under ting Ness working and Coul Cissy of Graphical and due and Nixon e Aftere leer maturing in January. Creditor secre represente attackies in ordek Branch Insuranc . tne atti expelled from the union Mr Lawrence C betrayals with the directions worken. sent anticable Build up Division at changing) machine 1 of SOGAT (or as the defen- history. Saturday, December 12, 1970 Power Demonstrations throughout Europe

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Industryin has Anti-Franco upsurge _e- over Burgos trial original is set ow the the sell-our. But will it DEFYING baton-swinging police, 400 students marched through central Madrid chanting 'Franco assassin' in one of yesterday's count-

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electricity-supply less demonstrations throughout Spain in solidarity with the 16 Basque POKEIGN CORKCOPUNDENa nationalists on trial in Burgos.

They were among 15,000 Madrid and for a f5-a.weel in University Kra led tore a ver students boycotting lectures for the duration of the Since the electricity die hate trial. In BARCELONA at least 17 people cure 50, 000 have arrested following been three making tia demonstrations in separate parts of the imated idlet the parach rich the - with ronce moved in wnen sov demonstrato arrying placards labelled 'Franco executione wes leaflets denouncing the trial to a Barcelona cinema queue. is thee shillings and 'Amnesty chant the union • SARAGOSSA, police detained a gro of sudents dey chanting Amnesty, amnesty.

emonstration had marche this is hearings power-workers court, they are to win their clai ended its e presidingy miltary oa the fiv expected to give nent in the Wage prosecutore s deat terms totaling 724 years for id rest.

The ner dei alias eist sirer freeze in trated where hold a hunge. versity Holland against Hagat this recen the Dutc the nuis trial province of Gulpt wa, a l Hague ernment declared its inte Solidarity accolate with 45 students fought tie over outside the 192 in the ied te late place

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ugh in Spain from their holes deredears of civil ade and dustmen can come out on Were Dower of working stay tones. ROLAND TABBERT, leader of the 'German only if we act now back at the working class Liberation Movement' declared in a newspaper hursdav that his group would Interview on the reason Revisionists march on Bonn today to protest against West behind their action: Germany's treaty with Poland.

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