Workers Press no. 334

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IUESDAY, DECEMBER 42, 1970• NUMBER 334

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Common Market emergency conference Poster With rightward swing in Communist Party leadership Labour mustprotest European line-up against over discuss anti- Polish workers cuts THE REMOVAL of Wladyslaw Gomulka from the leader- ship of the Polish Communist Party marks a sharp swing to the right by the Stalinist bureaucracy.

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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1970 • NUMBER 334 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Common Market emergency conference Poster With rightward swing in Communist Party leadership Labour mustprotest European line-up against discuss anti- over Polish workers cuts THE REMOVAL of Wladyslaw Gomulka from the leader- ship of the Polish Communist Party marks a sharp swing to the right by the Stalinist bureaucracy.

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are stepping up their activities now acrobats loping inside the working leaders, that the Tories seem to be 'con- strike par lamentart frenzind to be seph than a week has spread class. ducting negotiations to spread ert of the cold sul every industrial region in earnest', a former Labour MP THE STALINIST 'Morning revealed yesterday. they well Star' faithfully continues For lesh recommend mite die for pay dispute ane meeds European dockers and union chiefs time they will be defeateears currently up for the cover are to visit union branches in Britain Soviet bureaucracies early next year at the invitation of a

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workers in Poland. • BID to spread the nationwide paj reader shadowy organ. dispute ization known as the Trade Union flurry ction by firemen is to be made in London toda First it distorted the nature o for Union committee Brigade Unions of the Fie which

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ON MONDAY, Novem- ber 23, on BBC tele- 'Panorama', we vision's saw a moody Allende, the so-called 'Marxist' presi- dent of Chile, state quite clearly that his political programme was 'neither socialist nor communist. movements in Latin populist America in the past and present.

This amounts to saying that it is a capitalist pro- The main difference rests in the fact Chile it is a that in gramme. powerful coalition workers' of parties which has gained power Nevertheless, in his presidential on this reform programme. Allende also said clearly speech, that 'Chile has begun its march Apart from that very import- difference, towards socialism'. the programmes ant of bourgeois populism and Chile But workers in Allende's Popular Front are very and elsewhere must be asking similar. They amount to main- how *a march towards socialism' obviously disintegrat- an lamming be realized without a social- can ing capitalist order and trying to ist programme. put new life into it. Popular The recently elected This, of course, is justified in Chile Front government in bears theoretical terms with the thesis similarities to the Popular many of 'two-stage revolution' so dear Front governments set ere 1930s and "i9sos. Stalinists and so deadly to to Europe in many working-class revolutionar Indonesia, movement Chile's working class, unlike Iraq, Pakistan, to mention only classes other the working in the most tragic cases of defeat.

Latin American countries, has long of struggle had experience including struggle against a pre- Tasks vious Popular Front government.

This has led workers to achieve Contrary to the Stalinist thesis, of "European' level position revolutionary our tional and political freedom in Trotskyists is that there cannot respects, despite periods be and will not be such 'two many revolution', that those of witch-hunting and repression stage transitional tasks of the complete such as that which followed the 1938 Popular Front government, bourgeois revolution cannot be and also higher levels of social realized within the context of the Chilean bourgeois state. security, unemoleyment benefits, etc. There is only one way in such which transformations Living could take place, and that is the bourgeois overthrow of parlia- that the standard of living of the Chilean This is not to ment, and the abolition of the the establish- professional army, masses are in any way decent or of the ment power of workers' To the the contrary, as human. councils and workers' militia French Stalinist paper the and establishment of 'L'Humanité' pointed out: planned socialist economy.

'Over a population of ten mil- lion inhabitants, 400.000 only directly participate in produc- There are over 350,000 tion unemployed and 250,000 under- employed. ... "The of living has in- creased 1,000 per cent in ten the dollar is priced 150 times higher than 1940. The debt has increased from foreign 5442 million in 1958 to $2,000 million. .. The average rate of growth of the economy has been than two per cent a year less in the last 30 years.. under 15 'Half the population mal- of are suffers from years nutrition. Due to improper diet, than a million children more have become mentally retarded spite of having been normal in at birth. The housing deficit is over 500,000 lodgings 57 per cent of industrial capacity remains idle. ..? (November 6, 1970) Allengin nd his of and Communist chaotic supporters, this

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would like speculation' many It is, on the contrary, Broadly speaking, the Popular to think. Front's programme speaks of quite a which we cannot conceal from of the mono- the nationalization polies, particular the nation- workers, just as we don't conceal in at home the dangers of reformist alization mineer the coal, iron and Stalinist leadership for the and nitrate mines, nation- alization of the banks, agrarian British working-class movement. a progressive redis- Let us illustrate our argument reform and tribution of income. a little more. It is, in fact, no different from In Chile, in the rest of the political Latin the whole eco- programmes America, forward by many nationalist- is strongly geared to the I would like information about

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imperialist US economy. Foreign investments are valued a billion dollars. Apart at over from the large mining. concerns Kennecott such Anaconda, as Corporation and Cerro Corpora- tion, there are large monopolies, mostly American, such as IT & T General Ford, Dow Checimals, Motors, Gèneral Tyre and Rubber Co., North American Rockwell, etc. But the importance of these monopolies is not measured by their number or size of the in- vestment. It is measured in the degrees of integration with other manufacturing or servicing plants in other countries, in particular in the US, by the control of markets where export goods are destined, by the control of sup- plies of intermediate goods, raw materials and machinery, by the private ownership over the tech- scientific cap- nological and abilities required for the normal functioning of many industries, their renewal and improve- ment. Last, but certainly not least, it is measured by the control that such firms have over finance capital, or the power that finance capital may have over them.

This network of advanced cap- italist ownership and control over backward capitalism is cer- tainly not an 'abstract theory', but a 'hard fact of life'.

Power In the case of copper, the really crucial industry Chile, in due both to the concentration of imperialist power and its econ- omic importance for Chile, it is well known today that im- perialists have to a certain extent succeeded in creating a surplus capacity for the next decade, heading-off some of the 'nation- alist steam' in countries such as Zambia, Peru and Chile. "The world copper market is dominated by a few major con- sumers ... the copper industry has become so integrated that that producers and consumers are often the same giant companies.

'Both Anaconda and Kenne- cott have made large efforts to achieve integration and diversifi- cation. . . • More importantly, both companies have done their best to develop their own mines within the US so as to be • less dependent on foreign supplies.

('Financial Times', August 21, 1970.) This has been reflected in the price of copper, which has declined since April this year from £749 per ton to less than £500 per ton. International capital is not in the economic position to make concessions; there is a mojor economic and financial crisis on the way in every single advanced capitalist country and this in- cludes first and foremost US capitalism. There is no reason to believe that imperialist capital is ready to make economic con- cessions to Chilean workers.

Referring to the nationaliza- tion with compensation of the copper mines (which are already 51 per cent owned by the Chilean government), the "Sunday Times' said: 'If the terms for the remaining 49 per cent are seen to be less than those already generous negotiated, Allende could well find in future that vital foreign investment essential for the further expansion of the Chilean mines will no longer be forth- coming. 'As Americans, Japanese, Can- currently total

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By a special correspondent the country, of $767 million in compensation' going take to there is pretty big applecart place? upset.' ('Sunday Sep- How is that industry going to Times', tember 13, 1970.) develop? "bourgeois-demo- How is the Would Stalinist bureau- the cratic revolution' going to be cracy in the USSR provide?

financed? Clearly it is a question of vast How is agriculture going to capital resources, technology, emerge from backwardness?

markets, etc., which could poten- Clearly if imperialism will not tially be absorbed by the huge tech- of the provide capital nanchanted economies deformed workers' states.

nology and markets without "fair and if the profit rates Russian This is true, but only poten- not provide it will bureaucract The tially. of either, the load must rest workers the USSR, at present under the working-class shoulders. chaotic rule of bureaucracy, Allende's first major speech as could and will not, convinced, fill Chilean president makes this in the gap. suggestion clear more than once: Quite the contrary, the Stalinist bureaucracy will try by all means "The only way we who love to convince Allende to play it as this country and believe in it can underdevelopment and cool possible, as as not to their present active deals build a new society is by putting upset with imperialism. all our shoulders No state in the world One cannot expect the ruling rich enough to satisfy all the bureaucracy in the USSR pre- if of all its aspirations citizens sently displaying such desperate these do not first wake up efforts attract imperialist the realization that rights gO capital and technology into the hand in with duties and hand workers' economy, to support any that success has more meaning attempt by Allende's government when from one's own

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"The full development of the The Kremlin rulers will try to people's awareness will result in convince Allende to do just the voluntary work, spontarcous oppositeto deal, co-exist, com. which has already been pro- people' promise. posed the young November Havana, 15, 1970.) Clearly, revolutionary even of overthrow bourgeois power Chile would have to make it clear that backwardness quite would not disappear overnight- particular any delay occurred in the internationaliza- tion of the revolution. 'Solidarity' to speak However, in those 'solidarity' to the work- terms ing class, and same time at the make all political decisions dependent on a bourgeois parlia- ment and on the approval of the armed forces, which guarantee of bourgeois 'order', is, to say the least, to deceive the working class. Only the fortress of proletarian dictatorship cond mae all the sabotage of the bourgeoisie and its professional politicians less.

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Only the abolition of the pro- Some declarations attributed fessional and armed forces, its to Fidel Castro seem to point ren acement by workers' militia, could eliminate the capitalist in this direction. blackmail of the and imperialist 'Time' magazine, in its October, 'coup d'etat' of rightist reaction.

19 1970 issue, quotes series of 'advices' Fidel Castro to by Only in the context of a pro- Allende by means of Allende's letarian dictatorship would Beatriz. daughter, work have 'voluntary' any sense We remain doubtful on the at all for the working class!

authenticity of such quotes. But Bed massivery for ass, woon- considering the clear tendency voted Com- massively of Castro's government to trans- Party and Socialist Party munist form itself into a mouthpiece of candidate, particularly in the is not Kremlin bureaucracy, such the mood for 'sacrifice. declarations plausible are quite and probably authentic. The strength of Popular the The advice consisted of five based Front vote is on the poInts. aggressive mood of the working masses that have suffered decades 1. Keep your copper exports of poverty and exploitation.

within the dollar area. The electoral victory has cer- 2. Don't let your Chilean cop- their tainly raised militancy per industry technicians get out the 70 per cent wage increase of the country. demanded eniente 12 copperiners of mines 3. Don't talk too much revo.

shows. utionary rhetoric. You know you but dont shout it tom o nd I kno i Tation rate of 255ide 30 per 30 per rooftops. cent per year, is not by itself as large as it sounds. with the break off relations relations with the 5. Try good maintain days of strike action and brought Chilean military. losses to the American firms of (Times", October 19, 1970.)

to $16 million indicates clearly the exports, workers So how is 'nationalization with mood. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1971. 11 a.m.

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The such electoral victory is likely either directly or indirectly, to unleash not only a series of as the ones engineered in Brazil large claims, but the Dominican Republic and wage an increase in the degree of mention power Greece, to only the and control that workers have in cases. their workplaces. The fact that the US does not Also, the revolutionary intervene in Chile is not due to "impatience' of the 'strength democracy' being exemplified by the massive Stalinists like Chile, as the to occupations of land and buildings but because economically as say, in urban and semi-urban areas.

well as politically imperialism is much weaker today than just a Chilean workers do not seem few years ago. at the moment ready to accept call Allende's Not only has the to 'overcome' strength of division working class increased in progressively, the exist- the ing between Chilean exploiters Latin America, but within the and Chileans who are exploited' imperialist monopoly itself the ('Granma, November 15, 1970), working class is delivering heavy but instead taking matters blows to the rule of capital.

are into their own hands. But the fact that imperialism is in doeslitical and Contradictions economic crisis not mean that the capitalist exploitation of like Chile will neces- Of developments course are sarily suffer an irreversible blow, still at a very embryonic stage, and, confirming the Stalinist and information concerning the thesis, the path open to actual moves of the working class socialism. is too scarce to be able to see more clearly. Within the constrains of imperialist blackmail and pres- But what is clear is that the sures, considering the little help Popular Front government can- that can be expected from the not manipulate the masses with- and degenerated workers states, out serious contradictions.

due to the pressures of the toil- government such ing masses of Chile, the Popular Allende's a few Front government is bound to only years ago be would have meant cal and economic constant politi- military intervention by the US and economic crisis.

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But the outcome of the struggle the is very uncertain due to apparently total absence of a revolutionary party. There will be no 'spontaneous generation of a revolution without the con- scious action of a Marxist leader- ship. If alternative no such is created, the danger of retreat by reformist and Stalinist leader- ships can lead to a formidable defeat for the Chilean and Tatin American working class. The serious economic diffi- culties that are bound to appear with the Popular Front's reform- ist programme and the intense pressure from the working class for the solution of their urgent create the proper demands will climate for either a 'peaceful" electoral retreat, or a military takeover. Danger This defeat of the working class would be a serious blow.

We are not anticipating a defeat, but clearly pointing at the danger and at the only alternative solution. Just as in the case of the anti- union laws being proposed by the Tories, inadequacy of leader- ship may lead to partial defeat of the working class in this country. In Chile a much more danger- ous issue is at stake, and, as in this country, the responsibility would lie in the hands of the Stalinists. The revolutionary alternative would certainly not come from those who believe in a progres- sive abolition of 'exploitation', but in the revolutionary parties that inspire their policies with the transitional programme of the Fourth International.

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THEATRE Wedekind's 'Lulu': Tuesday, December 22, 1970 EARLY IN June 1956, a 27-man 'As a result of the elimination of progressive piecework rates delegation from the ZISPO (loco- in the second half of 1955 earn- motives and heavy machinery) began diminish. About ings to factory in the Polish city of 75 per cent of the workers were affected. Poznan travelled to Warsaw to 'Contrary binding regula- negotiate with various to covern- tions, the income tax of shock- ment departments. was assessed ex- cessively high levels.' The delegation's aim was to for economic. Antoin By this time (July 19) his refer- grievances—-particularly the crip- «he callousness and pling work norms. bureaucratism of the authorities, The then First Secretary of the both central and local' were a Workers' Polish United Party little late. Edward Ochab had this to say bureaucratic handling of session of the Cen- The at a plenary Committee the following the

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workers' tral grievances month: had lit a spark that exploded on Tune 28. Earnings down On that day, workers from the

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factory and other plants 'As a result of ill-considered staged demonstration which during turned into a pitched battle with measures taken the past detachments of police. months thẻ of armed Colane of

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workers de- groups Fighting went on until the fol- clined a rise in labour pro- ductivity of nearly 24.6 lowing day and the final (official) was achieved in the ZISPO works.

casualty figures 53 workers were killed This, however, and police and over 300 was not properly wounded. reflected in wages.

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Rapid changes In conflict with this new German capitalism was a very strong and •growing working class.

JULIA

These rapid changes and de-

FOSTER

velopments had the effect of

(LULU)

producing a strain of theatre that equipped itself with

AND

LEW

forms of theatrical production;

JOHN

involving fresh

JUSTIN

theatrical tal- order to understand ents in

(PRINCE

and express the new realities

ESCERNY)

thrown up by the changing

IN 'LULU'

situation. In this process, writers evolved an utter contempt for bourgeois society and identified themselves the prole- with tariat. This was expressed in the activities of the Independ- ent People's Theatre Society of Berlin and the Workman's Theatre of Vienna in the 1890s. It was in the heat of all these developments that the passionate writer Wede- very kind emerged. In the two plays that go to make he concerns up himself with those dark pas- sions that lay beneath the sur- ances and street disorders in the face of the socially-accepted city. Several public moral codes of the middle buildings attacked, were casual- class. ties' ('Pravda', July 1, His concern is not just to the Today, 'imperialist agents' do comment on repressed fit in well with quite SO sexual urges thinly disguised

HOE

peaceful co-existence, so we have beneath the pious and hypo- hostile forces', 'adventurers' and critical veil of puritanism, but 'hooligans'. 'force of to provoke this nature' to the surface where it In 1956, the Polish bureaucrats brought forward Wladyslaw can be seen and, if possible, Gomulka, who was expelled from understood. the Party in 1949, to the position of First Secretary, in an effort Knowledge to alleviate the worst grievances and stem the tide. To do this he took his ac- Gomulka had this to say quired knowledge as a circus (October 20, 1956): critic and performer variety and used it to construct an "The Poznan workers did within which he builds arena, against People's Poland,

VIOLENC

sexual fantasies and desires against socialism when they went performed by a of out into the streets of the city.

range characters. "They protested against the evil These range from a painter, which widespread was in OUr social system and which was pain- a doctor, a financier, a bizarre fully felt also by them, against Russian prince and a secret the distortions of the fundamental policeman to a tramp (Lulu's principles of socialism father), a circus strong-man, Lesbian small *The clumsy attempt to present countess, two boys, a deaf-mute, a playwright the painful Poznan tragedy the work of imperialist agents and Jack the Ripper. We and provocateurs was very naive are introduced to the politically. Agents and festivities at the start of the teurs be and can act anywheré, play by a whip-wielding ring- master who invites us to come in'. PARIS'S 'Place de l'Etoile' was finally renamed 'Place Charles- de-Gaulle' of memory -- In use dead General-at a short cere- Tuesday morning. mony on In attendance were policemen, Prime Minister Chaban Gaullist Delmas, representatives of the Paris city council and a number of demonstrators from the 'Committee for the defence of of the Place de l'Etoile', some of whom clashed with the police and were arrested. Gomulka On the Monday the city coun- cil had voted- -by 44 votes to 41 —for the change of name to pro- but never and nowhere can they ceed. It determine confirmed (by the the attitude of the thus skin of its teeth the unanimous working class.' decision taken immediately atter the death of de Gaulle. Not taken in The whole affair has been Thus spoke the present First source of grave embarrassmenl Gomulka Secretary the "parties of the left' and * years ago. particularly the Communist Party, Today, neither the workers in has 24 representatives which E Europe, the Soviet Union nor the Council. the countries will capitalist be with all taken in by the Stalinist lies.

These originally voted the rest to change the name.

The Gdansk dockers who marched last week singing the They not best pleased were 'Internationale' are only the tip when centrist representative The proposed that the 'Etoile'-Paris's of the iceberg. proletarian battalions are moving into battle.

most imposing square and the

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By this it is understood that way in which they have been forms and gain a greater should not remain adapted by Peter Barnes we oursice understanaing oI wnal was co play deals with 1ng on German society al should carpet Lulu's succession upwards the turn of the century. through ausbands At that critics surprised with considered Wedekind several thể lurking new seen very much as the belle of Bull lanlasies playe our delore us society in ner sexual relanons.

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enos KInG superman une Tough girl scene that puts the Marx bro- Nietsche variety. thers to shame. these 'animal The second play is about her New theatre when she central character: decline, ending in her prosti- Wedekind worked for a new She is a tough sium girl with new kind lantasuc survive audience this must the perverse and hysterically ehat ase foyal come funny situations that her Ripper who kills her minder widi une once had pretensions Court forbidden and The play is by no means just towards. her 'Moll (even German Lallici However, Court, Flanders' or a more theatrical leven the can t. one polnt. exist in which kind of me now to CrUTCO acacuta. and swearing 'by all that's rather serious, tower, cannot escape from the holy'). limited, attempt to battle with reality around them. night, 'Lulu' was interruptea by tricity blackout. Written by Frank Wedekind Wedekind attempted throw adapted by Peter Barnes world which

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Nonsense Each day makes nonsense care una katy secondi sera 0 at member Etienné British acrobats people Thead sho tho the mementr mperial- Goilan ana recisely Leadership lead that has c th conference

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ber 20idins an editorial on the interei Poland. e working subiect "Polande to deny. stop al be lana sil ranks Authorities Like the Italian Stalinists, ber pantacans sive not a thought for the and demo THE SPANISH government crisis, sparked by de-

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seans e e and rur down by tanks: This then Line-up0 establishment. demonstrations and anarchist The army is believed to pare il non ute mode No thought be using the trial ot the callism and US to vorking classo 16 Basque nationalists as Stalinism ment t or criti erywhere will be about nor.

make a lever to press for changes imperialism. imperialist enemi here of the action with perly in the regime. They want withdraw W rester and his another The London limes yester- Aro or snow in teatr. • a more stringent military with clamp-down, crack planes from Pro-EEC union body commando regiments sent Crackdown Tribunal to N Spain. Japan hears Meriders to take jobs

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THE Rudi Dutschke appeals tribunal yesteraay neara evi- there dence in secret from former WITH strike battles too Labour Home Secretary James Union cartors raging just across its Callaghan, first where the side the Cosmon Markete who gave Poland, rece desso Europe's funds frontier with came from. Dutscnke permission con- the Czechoslovak valesce in Britain in 1968.

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