Workers Press no. 329

FASCIST FRANCO

workers press INCOAPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1970 • NUMBER 329 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What USSR and E Europe must we think

BREAK FROM

Fabian fear 2% Lound tor thy. oh pool Don 400 AMID MOUNTING opposition to the Burgos court-martial of 16 Basque nationalists - six of Narrow vote ends The truth whom face death sentences - General Franco's fascist cabinet has given police unlimited powers dustmen's work-to of arrest and detention throughout Spain.

300 and painters intellectuals, including savage on-

RELEASE THE

rule DESPITE opposition from a large and militant reformist agents o

BY JOHN SPENCER

BURGOS SIXTEEN!

Jean Miro, have ended minority, Kensington and Chelsea dustmen cap right win

NO RECOGNITION

sit-in at Montserrat came on ten work torule al a mass mechlg

OF FRANCO REGIME!

abbey after police yesterday. hold sack indeperate This was after union that there dis- Demonstrate would be no names They want to direct it into that the Tory-controlled Sunday Dec 20 counci woue sack them if they did not accept recent edito held under t Assemble 2.30 p.m. Tratalgal

DONUS

arch-Fabian Square. March 1o the Spanish Opposes political or clearing the backlog Emoas8y or ruDDISg lell by une Eugen Beihl, German natora colne workers cad a struggle against ther or dates, Cardias, CalCias, stor the 16 Burgos Saia ds, Salami strike. call ass and an in of their eas for his renade repeated Dieas accept a work-study scheme The men kill and her throughout Shipowners eith our being and -the National Un or bic maye and the submission the plan new „Peal Elec раві апрі Wokers Union. docks and sit-ins all over

CLEAR THREAT

attack told the 'Liberalize' the coun- heory that fascisme is talides tha s unde made hac going libera dear they woul sacte not ended vork-to-rule was past three or four aer. *We conad tere and cases work- Far from liberalizing the these enemy of spain the sack Lon one ser Dustmen's shop steward Tony Sweeney speaking to yesterday's meeting.

Rumania first Shipping been there have ina result i Hungary rollowed su Jenkins joins chak strike settlement and E1,250 Dec. Troduction of Deviin Pas hospital picket Appeal Fund needs Interest

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

1902 9s 20 The letter continues: It is UNION CHIEF Mr Clive Jenkins yesterday nationa joined hospital technicians picketing their pay talks in London and said his union would not PUR COLo Spain, a see young people 'socially blackmailed'.

national discussione

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ather oppositi nake any rad Railmen Backing for stand

BACKLOG

Working normall e did before the lodge ve will against cartoon mean the backbe wil be Bill and strident announce claim

"EVENING

STANDARD'

, while they printworkers told Ke, Workers Press. EADERS Of Britain's 28000 consolace in noreases wis the Brish increases Board the Managerial rette to then ran been whi lenkenis saneral secretary 7 arcent cost *These began to bite. Neatonat Union of alway ther and come formany i ommitted by conterenc

'EARN LITTLE'

definite figure on its demands.

Powermen "blacklist' Salaried en Stan attackers €1,206 for qualified technicians NUnd Aster are cathe the Labou cardiological te knife the anti-union position to the

BRB

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The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d. Hull docks at standstill over 'blacking' suspensions HULL docks came to a operating a 'black' on the standstill when yesterday glass monopoly's products. dockers walked out in pro- If the disciplined men's test against disciplinary appeal against suspension is upheld, tion taken against men who the dockers plan to strike for the sus- refused to handle Pilkington pension period. glass. The "black' was imposed Three thousand dockers by port stewards in support walked off their jobs in of the glassworkers sacked defence of the 14 men, who by Pilkington's at St Helens have been suspended for five and Pontypool. days. • delegation from Hul St Helens mass meeting decided will visit on to stay out for the rest of Saturday to discuss further the day and to continue supporting action. LATEST MOVES in the sacked Pilkington glassworkers' reinstatement fight were outlined yesterday by the St Helens rank-and-file com- mittee's legal adviser. The committee has

WORKERS PRESS

hopes of enlisting wide sup-

CORRESPONDENT

port throughout the trade union movement for their employers' and the Tory casé. government's anti-union Although it at one stage strategy. formed the breakaway Glass Is the G&WU now going and General Workers' Union, take the challenge it to up it is now prepared to has left lying on the floor for mend a return into the Gen- four months, and fight for the eral, and Municipal Workers' jobs victimized for ot men majority production-wor- defending the right to strike?

kers' union at Pilkington's. News of yesterday's action in their support on Hull docks Approaches was warmly welcomed at the rank-and-file committee's Manchester solicitor Anthony Helens office. Casson, who is acting on be- Port stewards from Liver- half the committee, has pool were among the Mersey- approached the Trades Union side and S Lancashire trade Congress, the company and the unionists invited to last night's with a view to get- press conference. ting the men's jobs back.

A spokesman for the com- mittee told Workers Press that The response has not been uniformlv favourable. once they had heard the facts hoped they would was He is of the opinion that 'bring all the they pressure the G&MWU is not demon- bear' behalf of can to on *the strating spirit of the victimized glassworkers. lap- prochement' sought by the

TUC.

SCOTTISH bakery van drivers' The rank-and-file commit- tee's move will, however, be five-week strike remains solid welcomed by many trade despite attacks and press unionists. employers' use of scab labour.

It

G&MWU

places the Strike committee member Pat leadership on trial in front of the whole labour movement.

Queen, City Bakeries shop steward, told Workers Press Challenge that the 500 Glasgow strikers The sacked Pilkington were 100 per cent behind the workers have played a major strike and determined to win role in the rousing move- ment to the dangers of the the £4. 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.

FASCIST FRANCO

What we think Fabian fear 124, that in Great Britain. letariat and Troys ric i amply bone our by the n the which the tabian creed. s are pe trade precaric umstances

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1970 • NUMBER 329

RGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

AMID MOUNTING opposition to the Burgos court-martial of 16 Basque nationalists - six of whom face death sentences - General Franco's fascist cabinet has given police unlimited powers of arrest and detention throughout Spain.

300 painters and including interecuas.

RELEASE THE

world - renowned artist DESPITE opposition from a large and militant

BY JOHN SPENCER

BURGOS SIXTEEN!

minority, Kensington and Chelsea dustmen Jean Ivillo, nave enaca

NO RECOGNITION

sit-in at Montserrat called off their work-to-rule at a mass meeting

OF FRANCO REGIME!

yesterday. dILe police that there guarantees This was atter unior officials had told them Demonstrate would taken. that the Tory-controlled Sunday Dec 20 council would sack them it they did not accept of E10 Assemblo 2.30 p.m. Trafalgar bonus payments undel Square. March to the Spanish there ency at present in force for Clearing the backlog of rubbish left by the nationa counci workers bid hostage for the sill bring strike ds, 125 Shes was not the dustin enshion pleas for his relase repeated ace work study home. mer Shipowners held indefinitel i taken wish out being charged. nationali!! This move is designed plan new the terrorize of Public Empl 1 Municipal 1 mos docks and sit-ins all over stra cons

CLEAR THREAT

country. attack London 'Liberalize' officer told the for aRd War ory that faism is taidis attempt the Stalinis come from shipowners yester- st Cal diplomate York to rule was not ended Ets other than ransfers Spa cases British liberalizing rule, vity prob. nade it an of Spain's apacious enemy said M the Dustmen's shop steward Tony Sweeney speaking to yesterday's meeting.

with f massive me of go. Poland £1,250 Dec. pre priate coor employ followede • Bulgarie Appeal Fund Ip charges wale soon be joined by Czechoslovakia.

i in th the zhenovak cab.

needs Interest

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

£902 9s 20 letter Union workers UNION CHIEF Mr Clive Jenkins yesterday Grauring the Asturian miners me joined hospital technicians picketing their pay Strike ahe minority o talks in London and said his union would not

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rule onl see young people 'socially blackmailed'.

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were ay a broke domen tane Railmen

BACKLOG

e octed • The May inadequate "Working normally we lodge Year. e stoppages wicking i mean tee baco neil backlog claim reedy will that bal atrom old the Workers Press. LEADERS of britain's 260.00 the hands of a few halways Board the B joined of Scientific, ciation very sia rulunis from heathro ourselves seriou delaved Although there • has been hi chenkins saneral secretary, Bean to bie. by airport staff stand decis on ter stand over te al teared absolute of Railway scandalously Akesian said that ere ma

'EARN LITTLE'

cargo-loading definite figure on its demands.

levels: Powermen 'blacklist' dard" chapel the shis reas Whitey Council wa ming attackers E1,206 for qua fred technicians €650 Rank-and-filers in both the

NUR

and ASLEF diological technicial

MORE

are call every incidenrd edom satisfactory BRB response emery ofy duty at Il gefuse our neer ers last week.

refuse to vicious treatment The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d. Hull docks at standstill over 'blacking' suspensions HULL docks operating a 'black' on the came to standstill yesterday when glass monopoly's products. dockers walked out in pro- If the disciplined men's test against disciplinary ac- appeal against suspension is tion taken against men who upheld, the dockers refused to handle Pilkington plan to strike for the sus- glass. pension period. The 'black' was imposed Three thousand dockers y port stewards in suppor their jobs walked off in f the glassworkers sacked by Pilkington's at St Helens defence of the 14 men, who have been suspended for five and Pontypool. days. A delegation from Hull will A mass meeting decided visit Helens on Saturday to discuss further to stay out for the rest of the day and to continue supporting action. LATEST MOVES in the sacked Pilkington glassworkers' reinstatement fight were outlined yesterday by the St Helens rank-and-file com- mittee's legal adviser. committee The now has

WORKERS PRESS

hopes of enlisting wide sup-

CORRESPONDENT

port throughout the trade union movement for their employers' and the Tory casé. government's anti-union Although it at one stage strategy. formed the breakaway Glass Is the G&MWU now going and General Workers' Union, to take up the challenge it it is now prepared to has left lying on the floor for mend a return into the Gen- four months, and fight for the Workers' eral and, Mupicipal. jobs of men victimized for production-wor- matority defending the right to strike?

kers' union at Pilkington's. News of yesterday's action in their support on Hull docks Approaches warmly welcomed at the was rank-and-file committee's St Manchester solicitor Anthony Helens office. Casson, who is acting on be- Port stewards from Liver- half of the has committee, pool were among the Mersey- approached the Trades Union side and Lancashire trade Congress, the company and the unionists invited to last night's with a view to get- press conference. ting the men's jobs back.

A spokesman for the com- The response has not been mittee told Workers Press that uniformly favourable. once they had heard the facts it hoped they would was He is of the opinion that 'bring all the they pressure the

G&MWU

is not demon- can to bear' on behalf of strating 'the spirit of rap- the victimized glassworkers. prochement' sought by the

TUC.

SCOTTISH bakery van drivers' The rank-and-file commit- five-week strike remains solid tee's move will, however, be welcomed by many trade despite press attacks and unionists. employers' use of scab labour.

It places the

G&MWU

leadership Strike committee member Pat on trial in front of the whole labour movement.

Queen, City Bakeries shop steward, told Workers Press Challenge that the 500 Glasgow strikers Pilkington The sacked were 100 per cent behind the workers have played a major in strike and determined to win rousing the move- ment to the dangers of the the £4. 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.

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overtarov ALL SOCIALISTS must wel- a phis is the question the Stalin come the news that the Boli- He denies reports that he had at as in Brit ain, the n Erolion: hs the vian regime is expected to theati this, release Regis Debray, sen- a Stalin's les with te : place tenced to 30 years' imprison- borbe leader-ne CP Jea ment in November 1967 after workie orld the taking part in Che Guevara's ill-fated guerrilla expedition.

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to appeal to the most isolated and threatened of the middle class and to the most ignorant layers of workers. The action of the SOGAT workers in refusing to print the Jak cartoon without at least a statement dissociating themselves from it was an action of great class solidarity with the power men and all workers. Television technicians will soon have to begin to consider their own class responsibilities in this field. For all their imagined in- dependence, the middle-class hatchet men who do the news reporting and editing on tele- vision come to heel when the master snaps his fingers.

And just like a well-trained dog they enjoy it and accept ber 30, when it told its readers that the approach roads on either side of the bridge will not be ready until 1973. Good job somebody noticed.

the election of Allende in Chile, Debray follows the usual Stalinist line: him 'Circumstances force (Allende) to advance fairly cautiously. But the popular vic- tory in Chile... is the first big victory since the heroic Cuban revolution. There will be others.

deserve total support, in The popular front Chile I think But the clearest illustration of Debray's position is the reference to the late General de Gaulle: 'He great historical was figure,' says Debray. "I think you can definitely dis- the social • sociate him from forces he represented. ... He refuted to let his country be- colony. come a N American found French capitalism this effort unrealistic and decided to get rid of him. General de • Gaulle's name has become well known in every country fighting for national independence against ... the empire of the USA.

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Wednesday, December 16, 1970 FOLLOWING the one-day strike on December 8, the great task now before the working-class move- ment is to force the trade union leaders to mobilize the full force of the unions' membership in a gen.

eral strike to force the Tory gov- ernment to resign. January 12 could be made the beginning of this mobilization.

To force the union leaders into this fight is a political struggle, against the politics of reformism and Stalinism.

The reformists and Stalinists are being helped at every turn by the revisionists 'state capitalist' International of the Socialism group. The witch-hunters of the capitalist ress find it convenient to call this group Trotskyist'. It is nothing of the sort: it is opposed to Trotskyism, and its policies are the opposite of the policies of Social- ist Labour League. The latest issue of its paper, 'Socialist Worker' 11), (December makes this crystal clear. the fight against Discussing editorially anti-union laws following December the 8, they systematically exclude all mention of bringing down the Tory government. After demagogically declaring that the laws can be fought now, they go on to demand of the trade union leaders only to refuse co-operation with the Bill after it is passed. The decisive question of forcing them They are let off to lead now is ducked. the hook. And this is done behind a smokescreen of 'left' talk, e.g. : 'The fight back has be to organized from below, by build-

BY CLIFF SLAUGH

Councils ing of Action organized with genuine basis among likelihood that a future Labour each locality.' trade unionists in once in power, government, This leaves the union leaders would not forget its pre-election promises and behave in the same No policy is put for- scot-free. way.' ward for of the the next stage fight, from (in story, apart news This is a political line contain- bigger stoppages on i2 and ing great dangers. Radical phrase- January after .. and middle-class mongering' by lay the basis for powerful propaganda becomes group now rank-and-file movement to trans- kind of irresponsible the worst form, unions into real fight- Hane adventurism. ing organizations'. The capitalists' do not 'state Sounds left start from the of the interests working class, the forging of its united action, in its mass organ- izations, ( to bring down the The same editorial goes out of its wav to equate the Labour and Tories. Tory governments. Instead, they start from the immediate possibility of making This sounds left, but its effect a few gains from militants thrown is to stop any campaign to bring down the Tories. The same state into isolated protest struggles and becoming. disillusioned. For apitalists denounced our strug le against the betrayals of Wil.

this purpose they cynically colla- with defended the Labour borate son and Liaison Com- Stalinists the when came to on government office. mittee. In this way the 'state capital Without any further explana- tion, they now say: "There is no sts' have ended up in a positios A new ATUA pamphlet 6d

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almost identical with that of the German Stalinists of the period before Hitler came to power.

They dismiss as impossible a fight of the mass reformist and organization and trade union look forward to 'their turn' after reaction, in the shape of the new laws, has triumphed. Sectarianism In this way opportunism turns easily into sectarianism. very The consequences of the 'state capitalists' policy would be to put the working class at grave risk of the continuation in office of the Tory government with the laws passed, for the temporary advantage they from expect ineffectual protests. The more we look at the policies of the 'state capitalists', the more criminal they obviously are. "Socialist Worker' reports its own 'industrial conference' with summaries of the speeches made by IS spokesmen Roger, Rose.

Rosewell well and Jim Higgins. repeats that 'rank-and-file work- ers will have to do the job, but goes further: 'He said that the Liaison Com- mittee for the Defence of Trade Unions had issued the call for the December 8 strike, but it was bureaucratic organization. It a had to be democratized and made into fighting organization. a Councils of Action, when they set up, should seek affilia- were tion to the Liaison Committee.'

Suggestions If there militant are any workers who accepted at face value the 'state capitalists' talk about rank-and-file workers as the Stalinist bureau- opposed to cracy, and if there are any work- ers who were influenced by the St Helens 'state capitalists' talk about 'viable alternative a to Stalinism', let them ponder these suggestions of Rosewell! He that the Liaison knows Committee is a Stalinist front He proposes organization. to reform it, to turn the instru- ment of a counter-revolutionary bureaucracy into ... a fighting organization! He advocates the very left- 'Councils Action' sounding of instead of a political fight within the unions, but he wants to hand over these bodies to the Stalin- ists! not the And this is worst According to 'Socialist Worker': 'He ended by warning that the government and bosses would not rush to use the new laws.

They would wait to choose their time and attack a weak section of workers' This misses the point entirely and creates dangerous illusions.

Once the basic law is through, the government will use it, together with all sorts of existing powers for emergency situations, to make illegal major strike actions and to intimidate milit- ants. Statement Higgins, moving a resolution trade on union democracy, made the following extraordinary statement: ... he stressed that it was not possible for the union lead.

sell - out the members ers to completely and openly go over to the side of the employers.

There was a direct link between the members and the officials that maintained some check on them.' And so, after all the talk about not asking them to fight, the union leaders are pictured as men who cannot betray com- pletely. time when the for their whole future on union leaders' treachery. Right at the point where a completely politi- cal sell-out by the union leaders is the main danger to removed by the working class, 'state capitalists' discover

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that these leaders 'cannot sell out the members completely. On another page of the same issue, 'Socialist Worker' head- lines a historical article by Mr Sabby Sagall, 1926: magnificent solidarity of the rank and file was betrayed by TUC'. Perhaps his friend Higgins will explain to him that they were not 'com- pletely' betrayed! Simplified However there is more than meets the eye to Sagall's article. His picture of a General Strike betrayed by a right-wing TUC General Council is the over- simplified rubbish to be found in Stalinist publication since any 1926. The role played by Stalinism itself in the 1926 strike is very deliberately completely excluded.

The first reason for this is the abject capitulation of 'Inter- national Socialism' to the Stalin- ists in the present struggle.

Its deeper roots lie in the middle-class and anti-theoretical character of this revisionist group. The Trotskyist movement is securely founded on the fight for Marxist principles and for the independence of the Marxist party, taken up by Trotsky from 1924 onwards against Stalin. Trotsky regarded the 1926 experi- Pace la the British Communist *as absolütely •crucial in this struggle. The Communist Party line in the General Strike 'All was power to the General Council'.

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• section of the Liverpool December 8 IN A significant step towards rebuilding the Chinese Com- munist Party apparatus, Peking Radio has announced the re-formation of the Hunan • Provincial Party Committee. The broadcast said that a re- cent Hunan party congress had summed up the experiences gained in the 'Cultural Revolution' and decided to elect a committee according to the new Party Con- stitution adopted at its 1969 congress. Discussing the December 8 demonstration against the anti- union laws (see section of Hyde • Worker' excludes bringing down the Tory govern.

ment. 11 i& GW6"

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Where did this opportunist From line come from? the Stalin-Zinoviev formulation that in Britain the socialist revolution might 'not through the come narrow gateway of the Commun- ist Party, but through the broad gateway of the trade unions!

How was it justified to the powerful Minority Movement? By painting as of some sort revolutionaries the fake lefts (Swales Purcell, Hicks) on the General Council, because they were enthusiasts for the 'Anglo- Russian Trade Union Commit- tee' Stalinism Between August 1925 and May 1, 1926, the Communist Party was converted into instru- an ment of this Stalinist policy, so that independent revolu- no tionary struggle was taken up General Council against the traitors. This, the question of building the independent revolu- tionary party, was and still is fundamental question. The the revision of Marxism this on question was what ensured the defeat of the 1926 strike.

The fact that Sagall and the editors of 'Socialist Worker' pub- lished his article in such a way as to completely obscure Stalin- ism's role is the surest indica- tion that they are determined enemies of Marxism, determined to cut off the working class. from its Marxist theoretical and poli- tical beritage.... One of the many positive aspects of the present situation is that it forces the position of these revisionists completely into the open.

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l December 8 demonstration against anti- union laws. Consolidation Hunan, the province where Mao Tse-tung led the early Chinese Communist Party struggles is now the first to be- gin the process of consolidation after the 'Cultural Revolution's' the four-year upheaval, led by now defunct Red Guards. This turn is reflected on an international scale by Mao's im- proved relations with both the imperialist world and the Soviet Union, which is no longer de- scribed as a fascist state in Chinese propaganda.

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As Italian centre-left US welfare crumbles down y a Workers Pres the PROSPHLIS tor through conoress Bill are Assistance last racine The provides for kill.which income 21,000 a year minimun tamiv AS ITALIAN railwaymen launched a three-hour

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has intationary US standaras) national strike yesterday to back their claims for opposition Into stone-wall improved wages and pensions, the centre-left govern- from hards, conservauve lation to le legis- ment faces a fresh political crisis.

dangerously radical. The Bill is Nixon's only The centre-left (Christian

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malon comestic Democrats, Republicans, already under attack from hoeral Social Democrats and Social- schism carries the national gov- with nalors 1or lallne to cope millions ernment further in the direction ist Party) coalition in the American homes. ot a formal political 'understand- Milan city council split last between Constan President Bill a detended Democrats the malr employers week when the Social Demo- White House con party and the Stalinists.

azalnst cratic and Republican repre- More and more capitalist poli sentatives resigned in protest andking ° ticians are now such its consequences outcome most for children, The voting _on The strident Lok it can tarv odecuves in …ract come city, budget for the coming said to from Im DOrT- ressional piece legislation in unists our nation's Social Democratic history. didsal s It was arty. nassed hy a combined Endorsed House the vote of Christian Representatives last April, Democrats and he collahoration. CP Socialist leaders is increasingly needed to bogged down reDresentatives. hopelessly with the Senate. abstention keen the movement of the worr of the Communist Party. 'responsible' cass Within gloom Growing about channels of the

SCHISM

Us economy and city As the of Roma and tha adds a great • dollar no douot area paralysed Following breakdown surrounding was werent [ne Sici ce centre-left the atest series id for A increased state arrangements Sardinia® regional retorms. ana [nIs that clear even on and decepuive by with the stat

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of ne Ular which have, cases, cipated -testify to the fact that labour movement fascism threat at home Milan Sunday night thousands of voung workers and demonstrating students. clashed police Burgos trial, THE POLISH Communist Party Central Committee fascists

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NO MATTER what they say to the contrary, the leaders are helping the Tories destroy working-class This is the opinion of from the trade unionists London, Yorkshire and the NE who comment today on gress chairman, with the draft Charter of Basic

TUC

secretary today sign Rights—to be discussed Feather, the top three days' time at the All copy of a nationwide peti.

Trades Unions tion Alliance's against the govern- ment's Industrial Relations second national conference.

Lord Cooper, Bill. who is this Union Con- It is unlikely that this year's Trades

FRANK PATTINSON

is acting chairman of the 6,000-strong Leeds No 1 branch of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers. Also chairman of shop stewards at the city's Sumries clothing plant, he told us: The Charter of Basic Rights is the most im- portant document to be pre- sented to the working class the Tory as an answer to répressions and preparations for a corporate state. It is a programme to de- feat the Tories and their the ranks collaborators in of the Labour Party and the TUC.

FROM PAGE ONE

To fight for the eight the Charter points in laws by refusing to repeal Is a the Tory laws. with must; a victory any bring down the one can Far from weakening the Tory Tories. They are already on stranglehold on the unions the brink of defeat - as these tactics are guaranteed shown by the fact that to strengthen the Tories and fortnight ago the Stock Ex- hasten the transition to change took its biggest belt- Bonapartist dietatorship in ing for six months and by Britain. the fact that they have to The same applied by appeal to people like Victor tactics Fabians in the 1930s Feather to get them out of the had the most disastrous fight with the power consequences for the labour workers. movement. In the end, these tactics Then it led to the return of will get them precisely no- 'National' government in where: the working class is 1931, a Tory government in mobilizing to take them on.

and the 1935 virtual ex- We are going to retain and tinction of the Labour Party advance all our gains parliamentary earned over the past decade.

Party force. We are already demand- The Fabians and their trade the ing jobs, hence fight parliamentary union and against sackings. allies must not be allowed The workers will demand to 'implement their cynical decent standards for the schemes again. old by striking in support They must be fought and ex- of fair pensions and benefits.

posed relentlessly. The workers have already "To them as they reveal are demonstrated their rights to will mean their hopeless dis- To discredit thém organize and strike as crediting. December illustrated on 8 the performance will mean will go forward -and they of a great service for the to January 12. historical process. 'On that day when the British To TUC General thẻ proletariat is cleansed of Council we say: the mental abomination of 'Stop double-talk this and Fabianism, humanity. "national about putting the first place Europe. the in interest" first, come back will be immediately 1n- on the side of the working creased in stature by class and show us some whole head.' (Trotsky, 1924.)

leadership in the struggles We all militant trade urge that are now upon us! unionists and Labour Party Outlaw Measured - Day members to support us in Work and the productivity struggle to the purge Stand firm of deals! against labour movement the sackings and rédundancies !

Fabian poison by supporting All Trades Unions Call a General Strike to the force by the Tories to resign Alliance conference and

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Come to ATUA conference sure eat on goes a step Tobago emergency owners and carriers to prepare alternative ends is thererore o hould be sier вет, роти на ві THE SEVEN-MONTH-old state of emergency in the Caribbean Islands of Trinidad and Tobago has ended with nothing resolved between the FROM the NE coast, ERNEST RYLES — a shop contrary, the trade union

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area's workers and the government of Dr Eric steward at Gateshead's Elder Walker plant-sends working-class rights. Williams. usal to subsidize the Merse n thus be seen as part of a une lonowing commente almost brought the I've read Charter duction would see taken strate and ent 100 рс with it. Ionist any in the creating 1930s unemploy. tions s fought ment trial the right to have a job Screws letting these It would be Ball students took as swiftly the 1930- as the foca point o back in ditic 18uts all of the trade union Policy paracularly the sugar maustry inagreement with i with int Fuel creased confidence. workers is to deman of 15 workers fuel provide Chan dar strations that this. sent gaine AMAS concerned the 80 Defend Cesar Chavez Brithe watchful eye LONG - STANDING print Life jail for "sent by the Wilson union member

ERNIE

COLLINGS (above) joined against the Communist Party he 1959, but says has Shot lettuce boycott become completely • who also illusioned with its policies after failure demonstration back him in several up big tenants' - movement

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENI

Soldiers to refused struggles. He was impressed-and workers, THE DECISION of Monterey County Court judge Gordon Campbell Trinida warships 'rejuvenated' - by the re- to jail US farmworkers' leader Cesar Chavez for life unless he calls hot that days mud th Armed police on alert after the state of emergency was declared.

cent London Con- oft a lettuce marks a sinister new stage in the rightward • DOYCOlL

ATUA.

ference of wing of the Nixon Administration ing 's amnesty tote The -Some. These are ms comments or almesty tase havez became a nationa ngure in the 0 abou the ATUA's draft Charter: Solid one-day movement after leading a four-year struggle to organize Simotours and amed Australia southern grapepickers against some of America's most or their There is nothing I dis. them t radio links while die-hard anti-union firms.

Charter. agree with criminal charges of treason.

strike in cople amare of His union combined boy

•Y A WORKER• PRE•

to be cut? sort to gr eat meth. what is going on. Stem The Tory doe Could CoSe don Achrains Wildcat oriks pares weep With imperialismne and the government-lk Italy chand Williams second time in which carried Wring backer ro nem the tide without antagon

THOUSAND

FIVE

students joined with protec to and the them- The Tories workers in a march through Rome yesterday anrovided publi ciers are unto o be an in projects jectedti-union sil should be as Italian industry was paralysed by a one-day midnight land, Injunction are the backbone Thousands of Hes in are talks anand. largest armed defence. perior tember police patrolled the streets,

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Britain's Tate there is Idition, the government ther answer to it Coman. on the Spanish Embassy, Working of ass aring Wage the We or she to for he right lettuce field in Salinas.

scene of huge anti-Franco rouna protes Ter, the coon hit back the demonstrations the freeze over kers' party, one we can trust fader. ins a lettuce boycott.

last week in solidarity with And what's our In this way, Cable and nerreess Leaders of the ruling Christiar the 16 Basques awaiting protest in PLO hands December Chavezwa Burgos Tied sent sentence In over police Holland this give i into the Piazza station raiders By tying the working clas deals is eition on productivity tied nation, remine HOLLAND'S three main programme THE Central Committee of tł imperialist through interests trade federations (PIO) handed i sold down In Milathrough unlon compensati

4U,UUU

marched called out their members expose Trinidad centre, with one nour DrOLCOL They've endangered all put at the strike the (yesterday been thrown of the pain i remains unfulfilled roduce be compete pole, sa government proposals for main- Anger a wage freeze next year bored a workers lites, clock care coalitior Sy long re death, orating programn concluded betwee Italy nearly all the imperialise propriation most interested her public cesar chavez meeting began on they Triest durin the was, the for the hour, clans he died are a meant re general strik action in Italy. throughout the Caribbean che strike, handiln neat or nie bit anion sas killed be a slow sis the head news!

OURTEEN

FRANCO

bullain: of Woodworkers hile it was" Modised the Chance Otherwise it can become ecedent for stranglin to discuss it with them. the

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right when Call made whead cm Boday The strike call was issue ally assisted the rascist but ot the The Stalinist have been two spes of mere coate-orn strategy had sued the railway wwhirs Soviet No accident mand to persuing in a de no second in jailing pound ecentin ara fraternal Agreement seats the Burger tal bike.

victory at he middle of stri Wim, Alfa-Romeo class Critical Yal land-like the whole Nixon mos despite the rapi captain British is not con COuntry Stock the ment trade to 0 ri factory European Stalinists. grows day by day. thing anyone so the Pledges made to the Spanish no as mil the i work- Co muropea Looks forward to ers closer Lot open relations with Frand Ominous visit Alfa Romeo- motor bates at a recent London been rudely broken, h to draw the line at Hua ara Czechoslovakia to Czechoslovakia More firebombs agreements since Bet been transe STUDENT Warned that en warned arranged the Czech Communist

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capital would be nothing to Because been called into

SOVIET

have Party® rared off by the fata arrived many sections this week. ine france port 3 for coalition Franco is about to fade • the working class. Burgos