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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JANUARY 5, 1971 • NUMBER 344 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What Make the Tory government resign we Mass rally: think The sack for m'Lud Alexandra Alf? HAVING Post DIe Wall Tories ore 'hat Palace Feb 14 ories and that issively A MASS RALLY against the Tories is revolutionary schemes.

THERE ARE SOME RELATIONS I COULD

planned in London on February 14.

As Madanto Keen The

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Increased as he is d not for One of London's largest halls, Alexandra Palace, is to be the scene of the biggest- ever revolutionary poli- ime trying tor tical gathering, bring- ing together thousands Evity and Keep in win tee of young workers and January 4, soyn future. trade unionists In united hostility to the Tidie asse assessment Robens' Tory government. US. Michae Michael major indust- Lord. ull-time in "isen the iven tos nee ton twice e National re already organizec When Heard or pier trying to confine it. Teected in tha tremendous s There Chrysler Correct dustry's low wages. record at the the mack end decisivisi of Nhile Foot condoned the pas stewards warn Cowley technician's union (ACTT) to Das, all Its members out on strik about MDW By an Industrial correspondent ferers in the coal industry.

Hatred Pains eared. Day Wigh rule mee the mose unpopula A WARNING against Measured-Day Work has unpopular in 375 branch mataine W outrage been issued to British-Leyland carworkers by leading Chrysler UK shop stewards in Coventry.

and chers and s It is barely usedible Forkers 9/55 and Menea decimation atonali nterviewed 1

BY DAVID MAUDE

start 1971 all Oxford I&GWU assembly can is 1) Chrysler's Ryton-on-Dunsmore weeks ago a national MD has strike was a margi dog-eat-dog and is Miniser Mis nots me back at The Tories sals. there policies working class. Through MDW plant Consistent cleve that the dismantl internationally. zine a monthiy circulated a nterprises is thei

'MDW;

• in body an ir st the anti-Tory thing a start th Peking extends as centing that cha Confirming estimates hand to S. America *These the one profitable accepted, the more stress that

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

MDW tha under piece-work. tie movement as are int Old-age pensi CHILE is likely to announce its recognition of the Peking Tempo ill rally a Phase sen in were strean yea regime early this week. stewards ere to Kyodo news agency reported united figh yesterday from Tokyo. indire 10TC government If Chile establishes fice is oe rined a According to the compans Punting Japanese govern Hail Servestor verage tem inrougnoul C The central objective of Tory yton lactoi celina have been going omin

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turbine blade polishers from Rolls-Royce's Derby factories yesterday lobbied union officials meeting to discuss labour relations in the firm's aero-engine division.

After three " hours dis- cussion the chairman- ship of Trades Union Congress seneld secrelal the reatner Con unti further date to consider what had been said. The epilishers are t- Measured - Day new Ddl which them SiruCEud closing £25 cheque lower status and means magnificent the fund, eventual wage cut of between midst of the Christmas of record Tne The men are also campaign- £175 raised almost workers Press: committee target say over tor Decem. must

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unions her's £1.250 Fund and also achievement is magnificent. completed the You have underlined properl represented Special Fund. Larkin the have Shop steware ack told This Special fund will be have Workers Press that the used for purpose of ine • to ich with enth was capitalist in attacking cope Lie Dower workers was thousands workers Will SuDSCHiDerS LO Ene yv orkers SUDDOrT anti strike draft the Press. tion. The work to Charter of Basic Rights and it was a tremendous vear.

A letter from a reader en- mpetical slatte to political to government demand Jack Larkin

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revol. tionary leaderstio The Labour con present works committee paper an a decent and Derby had no polisher mem- charge when you bers and was allowing strikers deserves work certainly suD in this work angers Polishers Was also being done inside the erot we promise vou that ir plants, he alleged. 971 we will face up tasks and gasmen These treat

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Tory government men the there's thousands of pounds noved hy the country's big. Dougned Into gas spoke hoard 0nt us start immediately, contracting non-unio angrily yesterday over a new therefore. the firms. This mostly affects or anuary s rund Most sumers will have to pay on al Welders at the Derby Rol vour donations to• fittings and repairs Royce are involved Fitters at the North Thames similar dispute and may tak Gas London, SW4 Board WhiCh sunnies strike action next week 1,000 square miles North the river from Southend to Maidenhead, were told f before that work for any of the board's 1,900,000 customers unev walk out of agreement from them to par minimum charge of f2 10s charge Board agreed be North Thames Gas Cons ta tive Council in November and LEADERS of 42,000 men working to rule at it came into erect vesterdav.

British airports walked out of a 90-second meet- First item ing with BOAC and BEA officials in London Consumers will have to pay f2 10s the first item yesterday after abortive 'informal soundings'.

item. ex This will apply to all work •Though there was no fixed

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

agenda for the talks I under- from a minor repair on a gas stand that representatives of operation for three-and-a- gas cooker not central heat- meter Installation pay half weeks now and we felt were for an ing system. would Tha1 some But improvement consumer: will, this stage. But he nicetil cent pav rise onered. the talks will be very tentative there was none them and above Immediately + ho meeting national

BOAC

charge. unions not feel quarters Victoria, bitter the BOAC and North Thames Gas is the threats about organizer redundancy by only board so far to operate the minimum charge and it BEA if normal work was not iransport an Union said that he comes on top of 3d-per-therm resumed, but they were 'very increase foolish and a very • had thi Would not le to teven at this charge that for the industry, said this stgoa enarge would satisfy the unions.

CHe believed that the govern- and had no knowledge about we were tod we he decician ta hegin talre ment behind had been a 'collective one would have the touch line taken nor the two airlines, Mr Cousins said the Is no "The work-to-rule has been chainmen of he pitment ve been at the Department Employment recently Told tem doubt he Minister the Pilots vote when saW he attitudes expressed by Toem the chairmen are only an ex- A MASS meeting of BOAC unes of aircratt. including nilate at Heathrow dirnor the imhoe Roeine 147cl. last night was expected already *tha has make a final decision on the been accepted in principle seriously as I take everything the dispnes bich let hept by the British Airline Pilots' clubiovers say serious vhe jumbo-jet Association. grounded for eight months.

were demand- Unions so far have named fly work toe that would end the A final vote was to be aircraft and though the huge the vork-to_rule 'taken on the Cornoration's has inderstood that dasnute cost increase lost they want for ofer of CUll a vear for all more than tom member senior captains to fly all revenue. is around per cent.

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NER 344

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What Make the Tory government resign we Mass rally: think The sack for m'Lud Alexandra All? HAVING SACKED Lord Hal "the Tories of ths Palace Feb 14 he hindurders. run dearer A MASS RALLY against the Tories is recolutionary s

THERE ARE SOME RELATIONS I COULD

planned in London on February 14.

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commented: London's One of the first largest halls, Alexandra several tigni Palace, is did to be the scene of the biggest- ever revolutionary poli- bring ime tryins for tical gathering, ing together thousands of young workers and trade unionists in united hostility to the Tory government. Campaign teams of Young WT It is instructive to note that and entertiment at it rat are ancaay nearing compic- "The rally is the biggest and same Mr Foot was strangely for working-class When Labour was in power burst the limits rippling burden of interes Ly o to Collie de The working-class movement Chrysler Correct the tremendous march and strike "on New dustry's low wages. record at of the middle cars it sumed of may stewards warn demonstrated Cowley January ters out on strike 'Actors Equity. unions like about MDW By an industrial correspi Hatred 43r000 in eum coat industry.

Toryovern rule A WARNING against Measured-Day Work has outrage most unpopular postered of Tving cost, the 15/55 branch magazine. British-Leyland carworkers bi been Issued to knows no bounds leading Chrysler UK shop stewards in Coventry.

with the are Ford's sin ri crislivineat orcedhey and the Interviewed in this service f ansport and

BY DAVID MAUDE

decimation make way for leaders whe senior when only a fen lustry. all Oxford T&GWU weeks ago a national threat Palace at MD has Created a sarrow est of margins. as been considered one intensity of labou Mr Foot's concerback whagreementsidely Ministers distiner uspare in the one not to fight standard tory is so yecades of st in many cin thin that but. working class. nese argument re ene he head bi Throuet Sir 'o the Press Consistent MDW plant City correspon- ou school oners dent made ay srin-shop steward im Bowen.

clear that the of state bastate He said: ses Is tner. Been the Been Peking extends will almos start thi basic Tory Bill. the Confirming estimates hand to S. America tapped from 60 to 30 "These will not necessarily one party bee elements.'

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

under under piece-work. CHILE is likely to announce be made today et Paris certain: this movement as well. its recognition of the Peking the earliest. up for sale, the advice Tempo will raly an polace sectand early week immediate on on be Kyodo news agency reported indirect waries as i does to united overnment te fight sand fair yesterday from Tokyo. resign. Chile According o thre price is obtained'. Quoting *front Reran tap task important of The central objective of Tory the very day class government

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turbine-blade polishers from Rolls-Royce's Derby factories yesterday lobbied union officials meeting to discuss labour relations in the firm's aero-engine division.

Anter unree hours Cussion under the Chairman. ship of Trades Union Congress Victor adjourneunions until on. further date to consider what been said. 170 polishers are fight- 1 ne ing the entects new Work pay Measured - Dav structure which gives them and WE FINISHED 1970 in £25 cheque closing eventual 1 7 8e between the fund, magnincent The start January states the record the midst or the Christmas The campaign- son we Workers Press: men are also raised almost 4?5 achievement ay ing over the target for Decem- I must daily WOrKS committee VOUr which ber's £1,250 Fund and also agnificent. unions are So mal Lenda the €2,000 properly underlined represented tost osters Press steward Depravels the miners have Jack Larkin This Special fund will I that the wrappin

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nave new DurDOse machine which was urgently cabilalist ress anackanu cope deeded WIlL The power workers was so thousands that hackward workers will support anti-strike legisla- SubsCribers workers The work to draft the tion. Charter of Basic Rights it was a tremendous vear.

Hake to A letter from a reader en- make it a towards political demand Yor a re and Jack Larkin for a revole tionary leadersniD will LaDOUr con. tribute to make 1971 a year present WOrKS committee charge polisher mem- Herny bag no will expand the when vou bers and was allowing strikers' paper work go out sub- will you certainly essential contractors ported angers was also being inside the Derby done that you 1971 will Diants. aleged. face UD gasmen tasks and responsibilities

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will lead its "Kolls-Royce got t43m from biggesi yet the government' he said, 'and Camnaicn Payed by the government there's thousands pounds make the Tory big- ployed being ploughed sub resign. Let us start immediately, Best cas Doard SDOKe This mostly affects of the ca. Post vesterdav over a new minimum charge noare Con- al sumers will have to pay on all Welders at the Derby Rol: fittings and repairs. Nor craphem Ali ret, Rovce plants are involved Fitters at the North Thames a similar dispute and may tal 1,000 Board, London, SW4. strike action next week. Nort suudle river from Maidenhead, were told yester- Gav that betore toev started work for any …ot the board's customers, 3000 ther walk out of would have to get a signed a minimum char them on t2 pas charge charge bee seed Board Thames Gas Consulta- North tive Council in November and LEADERS of 42,000 men working to rule at it came into elect yesterday.

British airports walked out of a 90-second meet- First item ing with BOAC and

BEA

officials in London yesterday after abortive 'informal soundings'.

paired furthat work ex This will apply to Though there was no nxe.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

agenda for the talks I under from a minor repair stand that representatives on a cas halt pratis now three-and-a- the pay instatin dispute gas …cooker central neat. Weeks now ano we ret that ing 47 svstem. some discussion would mprovement Ber consumer: will, The offered. usetul this stage But pay course, pay for any have to the talks will be very tentative inere was none labour and material costs over before nead- and we want to take them Immediately and the the quietly, added minimum he

BOAC

chorin meeting unions did feel Victoria. Tohn the Thames Gas is the reat Cousins. national organizer edundancy by only board so far and to operate and General BEA if normal work ine minimum charge and was nOt Workers' said that resumed. but they were ever comes on ton ot sa-ner-therm not to reveal yesterday. thing Increase Intac that object charge would satisfy the unioes.

figure industry', said Mr "WA to thic

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the and had no knowledge Cousins. until we He believed that the govern- The decision to begin talks would have had was behind the collective' ment ough one line taken by the airlines. two Ar Cousins said that chairmien of the att 'The work-to-rule has been alines nave Department Jumbo dispute: Employment recentv and no doubt the Minister told tham life when he Pilots vote the tacts caw i them *The attitudes expressed by the chairmen a only an ex- the such (Bat, 74 ). including to nobble all the publis bilots at Heathrow Airport i hal decision expected Cond to offer •take them make seriously as I take everything the British Airline Pilots emplovers | seriously,' fleet Association. jumbo-jet said. grounded for eight months.

were demand- Unions pilots I ne so far have named ing 913.500 no ristore that would end is vent A final was to he though vote The huge aircratt and the work-to-rule. Cornoration's understood that taken on the disnute hasi Cosi increase f6m lost they for their offer of £9,000 a year for more than members senior captains to fly all revenue. around 7 per cent.

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EARLY YEARS

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Zetkin (Germany). Right: Neurath (Czechoslovakia), Marchlewski (Poland). Extreme eft: Humbert-Droz (Switzerland).

THE

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aocuments pudisned In this and the three others which are to follow it will be great value stu- bert-Droz's work in the 1-192 lents of the early history ma report on the read arte the Third Inter- Com- and the 5. Under ar national munist Parties of the so- was Iesponsivi called 'Latin countries. y until and torn by bitter factional for purposes fighting, Much vital historical ev1- any dispute which in retumed to a reformit position.

Humbert-Droz later There appears to have dence is locked away in other not cases of the Soci actually small Swiss village MoscoW. preca some of arlise destroyed. toe deteriorate. an ice documents 1215 than close to anarchisn tend to De once dead reservent has now The bulk resented by res and harmed mists shed and rein Sented hi. Dros pore, and anontinced in August justify his position. 'useless' was end fate kept Steal mouthe * Humbert Droz's fate was ex-

'ORIGINES ET DEBUTS DES PARTIS

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COMMUNISTES DES PAYS LATINS'

Vol. 1 of the Archives of Jules Humbert-Droz.

Edited and annotated by Siegfried Bahne. Published by the Institute for Social History, Amsterdam by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland, 1970.

the timtainly not his position at would continue Se no man scar at the that he secretary a is are disgusted rt-Dr

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can ao. the increasing group entre (i.e. te archives pithe pessir othere kept tom them. Humbert-Droz mentions and he son. on the of leadership and decisio • been a Vexations bad old habits and Protestan mate on had most • Conch church in was the best representative raditions of the SFIO. easy which could call functions and Baks were ciener anspectale hope end the party die played a action In 1916 he Church and from which journal e oficial number or tos International Switzerland. ve corresponded with them in revolin. cutive Committee secretaries 'Latin national. "y in France, Haly and Documents adition prent Spared with mister be powers Spain

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schoolteacher and an army cap- Both with tain. regarded suspicion worker-members by and trade unionists like Rosmer.

Party seemed The French Livorno, yet headed towards its Livorno by means was desirable in he French situation. It would have meant that a large part, perhaps the majority, of the by Tom Kem Party would have left the Third International. the Paris Congress in At October, split indeed the was the averted, only by but improved by the determination its strength, despite re-asserting. Comintern, which the largely the moral support which inspired by To the French had shown Humbert-Droz, and the other dealing with the 1n crisis. Comintern representative, He gives many interesting details Manouilsky, had given to the left.

about the internal situation.

The crisis in the French Party Humanite hoa Cachin stay to at thus continued: it became still had accepted the more openly opposed to the decisions, International's which finally International Was into collision with Frossard. The obliged to intervene. left itself was divided. The right The French question was one all but eliminated in of the items series of expulsions. before Fourth Congress of the made Changes were in the editorial staff of 'L'Humanité' accord with the International's The resistance decisions. of the centre these changes was partly broken. Frossard they brought to ГОГ a head a to resistance the demands of the International.

On January 1, 1923, he sent his resignation to the leading Party committee. Humbert-Droz that suggests Frossard, who had gone to Moscow, had been influenced in his decision by reading Trotsky's speech the Fourth Congress which he had taken as an ulti- matum for his removal. The immediate background was pro- vided, however, by the disputes over the control and policy of 'L'Humanité' (and by Cachin's

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time-serving decision to remain "loyal' to the International).

the Communist International in Frossard's could resignation November, 1922, at which Trot- the Party's not solve problems sky delivered the principal report and intensified them in the short- he Febates in Moscow had run. Together with the decisions Fourth Congress, it did a debates of the revealed that a number of deal to clear.. the air. The great leaders laid prominent Party were basis was being for real Freemasons members of the section of the Communist Inter- Ligue des Droits l'Homme, national in France. including Cachin, Sellier, Ker and first months of 1923, In the Frossard. Amongst the decisions after Humbert-Droz's return, the old factions tended to break up, taken by the Fourth Congress to the resolve crisis in the French but their place was taken by per- Party was the complete incom- sonal cliques which engaged in patibility between Party member- acrimonious disputes. ship and freemasonry The Party declined in numeri- In December, 1922, Humbert- cal strength and in some federa- Droz re-entered France illegally, tions the supporters of Frossard to find the situation somewhat (who formed a short-lived Com-

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5.55 progress. Tuesday January 5, 1971 Tom Kemp munist Unity Party) had the majority. Party organization was weak and Humbert-Droz reported to the Comintern Executive Com- mittee that it displayed 'a com- plete lack of political perspective.

The time of the Political Bureau was taken up with administrative details and it seldom discussed the political situation in France or internationally. Little was done in the way of propaganda and recruitment. The political line of 'L'Humanité' was fixed by its editors without reference to the Party and they became, in effect, a second Party leadership. Despite these continuing nega- tive features there were some Party signs that members, especially the Young Communists' leaders, had grasped the lessons of the crisis and were prepared to make the changes demanded by the International. Thrust Before they could be put in hand and a decisive alteration made in the Party's style of work the whole International move- ment was thrust into the crisis which followed Lenin's death and opened the way for the Stalinist degeneration. Humbert-Droz's archives make it possible to follow the history of the French and other parties, as well as the International as a whole, from the inside. Making allowance for the short-comings in his own posi- tion, they provide an invaluable insight into the problems building revolutionary parties in the advanced European countries at this time and therefore have considerable relevance today.

It remains to be seen what light Humbert-Droz's documents will throw on Stalin's rise to power and on the degeneration of the Communist International which took place in the 1920s.

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Tuesday January 5, 1971 IF ANYONE ever asks you What was happen- ing in Toronto in August and September 1968?' and you're stuck for an answer, you can always say, "Well, they were he laughs It's what I suppose could be described as an experi- mental piece of film making, or, to use the words of the director, 'an actuality drama'.

It works on the assump- tion that if you take a camera, lights and sound recording equipment into someone's home for two months and shoot the action you end up with a film. The result is now showing at the Paris-Pullman, Drayton Gardens. According to the press handout, the director, Alan King, and his crew spent ten weeks in the home of Billy Edwards, a 42-year-old Cana- dian advertising executive and his 30-year-old Antoinette, wife, their three-year-old son Bogart and their dog Merton.

The couple had been married for six years and the structure - of the film is the disintegra- tion of their marriage. This is presumably what is meant by actuality. 'Discreet' In the process of making the film we are told the crew never mixed with the family, but merely recorded their rela- tionship discreetly as it were from the side lines. One thing to know about a film crew and their equipment is that their presence is rarely discreet. A cameraman with shoulder, an Arriflex on his moving about the room, changing lenses, reloading film, is not easily assimilated into the everyday life of a normal drawing room, any more than the lights, microphones and recording equipment. However small the crew, they constitute a minor invasion. To say, therefore, that they do not mix with the family is to deny the family's conscious- ness of their presence, for the relationship camera and subject is a two-way pro- cess. If a camera is concealed and the subject is totally unaware I its presence you get a ver ion of actuality Once the consciousness of a camera enters you get a ver- sion of that consciousness.

No role In a feature film, the director interposes himself, directs his actors, draws a performance out of them, stresses what he wants to stress and uses the self-conscious skills of the per- but in a • 'Married tormer, Couple' he can play no such role for he is the slave to actuality. If he is engineering situations, then of course there is no 'actuality'. So what you end up with is a family colluding with the film-maker in demonstrating their self-conscious idea of their own relationship, which is, of necessity, false. Rather than play out the actuality of their relationships, they transform themselves into actors playing themselves, and bad ones at that. They ham about, provoke each other, move from row to row. That may. well be the content of their marriage, but the film form falsifies it. Para- doxically they are more con- cerned with being 'actors'.

Borne out In fact the story of the way this film was made bares this out. The director found a couple who had just broken up. They came back together to make the film and in the making of it more or less returned to other, each only with one significant change. They now saw themselves as movie stars.

In watching the film you feel you know less about them at the end than when it started, furthermore and you don't care. It's one dull repetitive note and level that their per- formance set. There are no insights offered into their relationship, or any psychological understanding of why they act in the way that they do. Only at one point in the film does something emerge with a spontaneous edge that hints at the real nature of their conflict in marriage. Car row That is when they are having a row about the car. He wants it to drive to work and she wants it for the rest of the day. She therefore has to drive him to work and this she considers an inconvenience, especially since he won't get up in the morning and makes her late for her own appoint- ment. From this the argument spirals out into all kinds of resentments that do expose the Billy and Antoinette Edwards

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raw nerve ends of their relationship. He asserts his role of breadwinner and provider and therefore his needs must have priority; she screams back that he treats her as a slave.

It is the only moment when the film has a life of its own and raises itself above the limitations of their self- conscious performances. But it is a small compensation for the tediousness of the whole production. Sperch my Trolsey dutha discussion.

May.9. 1924 at a meeting called by the Press, Department of the Central Cont miller of the RCP (Bj on Party: Policy in the, Field of Imaginative Liferature.

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It amounts to merely a ran- selection of theatrical impressions. It takes the sur- face at face value and leaves it at that. Where a real work of the imagination offers insights into reality, it tries to discover the essence of experience and to understanding deepen the either emotionally, or socially, or psychologically or all of these. Catalogue It heightens our comprehen- sion of life. Merely reproducing experi- ence is not an understanding of it. A catalogue of events is merely a catalogue of events, unless the interconnections and interrelations of these events are fought for and understood in a conscious way. That's what determines equally a work of art. For a 'Married Couple' to masquerade as actuality is the worst kind of fraudulence.

It says these are real people, therefore it must be real. For a marriage to be breaking up bringing with it all the ten- sions, guilts, pain and anxiety, the least you could have expected was for one of the partners to turn to the screen and say, 'Get that goddam camera out of here'.

WORKERS PRESS

DESPITE their attacks on Nothing is said about Khru- shchev's brutal suppression of the the Gierek leadership, Alba- 1956 Hungarian Revolution, for nia Radio's broadcasts to on this occasion the 'modern re- visionists' had the full backing Poland are not likely to of the Chinese bureaucracy, with arouse much enthusiasm which Albania is closely allied!

amongst the working class Agreement there. The central theme of the In fact on one issue, Khru- Alber Stalin was misct happier: regime that shche's Soviet successors and the Alement hatred or to plete agreement-hatred for anti- 'During Stalin's lifetime, this Stalinist opposition in the Soviet great Marxist-Leninist, there was Union : not violated the sovereignty and there was not attacked with tanks.

'Khrushchey and his friends zy socialist country the police accused Stalin of having been id not shoo workers in But towards whom ? any merciless. the Khrushchevians, ... He had been merciless to- ountry as clique and others, he Gomulka wards the enemies of the people, did and are doing!' traitors and renegades, spies and "rehabilitated" : But agents of imperialism all thése [after Stalin's death] such as Gomulka in Poland, Husak and Smrkovsky Czechoslovakia, Solzhenitsyn in the Soviet Union, etC., rene showing themselves now as zied enemies of communism and revolution.' Lumped together here, in a typical Stalinist 'amalgam', are victims of Stalinist justice who later capitulated to serve the bureaucracy, and one of its most and outspoken op- courageous ponents. The Albanian brand of Stalin- ist fundamentalism defies analysis.

It perhaps can be best likened to a sun-worshipper attacking a Jesuit for selling out to new- fangled monotheism. start of the second World War.

misers in Poland I has his ad- But they are only to be found in the bureau- cracy.

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Polish workers not fooled by Gierek THE POLISH working class, despite the savage repressions of the bureaucracy against its December strikes and demonstrations, has not been cowed by the new Gierek leadership.

Giere lenn on minto This is evident from weekend statements by the party press. Poli- Box girder tyka' no longer refers to 'hooligans' and 'anti- bridge inquiry se to ben departmen ol Velbanne hast october. Designers evidenceding Com Two other schemes

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President Cevder alks today the issue More OMO double-deckers student introduced eats sin re there have been hYendon Transport prance.

rman M- its 5,500 buses braito being prepared, change forms sitt borent and unatta bang the 20 rin would, he monstrations would be banned, The effect of these buses on on large numbers of staff.

Tuesday January 5, 1971 Jarring CP executive talks soon? must speak up

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UNITED NATIONS Sec- on Devey affair cretary General U Thant reports to the UN Security Council today on progress towards an agreement be- and Arab COMMUNIST PARTY industrial organizer Bert Ramelson

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Istacil must speak out on the £3,000 strike pay off at Sheffield's Batchelor's Foods His statement is empited to _Icauels. plant. Resolutions hostile to betweet the terms of the settlement Seattle 7 the have poured mbassad Swedens executive- of the Amal- Gunnar Jarring. gamated Union of Engin- spirited away eering and Foundryworkers Winees in advance of its meetins Minister hile moud riad are no while 1 for "contempt' to set B SIX young men and a girl from Seattle, Wash- Ington, are serving Jail sentences for contemot of court after a farcical frame-up trial was abruptly brought to a close.

The seven-members of the

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faction. weatner ao ratic Society- charged and con- present at the rior they a spiring to incite a riot.

Indictments in the dasy FB perso.. communist. was held in emned ths seling or even The trial itself Secome, to ensure a prejudiced jury. icence on the and the or servin one year.

dinistEr Star' witness George come cabo heir lare er ey ese as ene have where separate jails on the US West addict committee Is dominatea by C.

Parker. Stalinists consider Retrial • gener- and the they from background • trial this the - CP Yorkshite distiet com and fine shootine loo so theis very importal hit aerospace industry. None or the accusea, now Food and pay that agendamust deteriorate

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will us SOARING PRICES and the attack on living standards are main issues in two reports published today.

The annual report of All-round Tory attack the National Food Sur- before it is practed gistation vet come tee

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on living standards clearly the dangers to Powermen workers neal or con• from "Sooty eat large is rathet want abour ane organized from ohecase strike tan done In most percent to 235 per enr. deals conference of a bo This is a constan ard shoul wages up. Are Than a ten Pomakhe

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Most basic toastura Increase Win as peon on ed in 12000 London oNe • vegetables, true, powerworkers unions before and hich of the three medi health energy and nutritional claim reached™ eaten Readioning, reached, the are can t i the Department ready to re Security christmale in chaun Snacks pre pressure value, it indicates that mage Caldecote calls mandingenerate and for tough measures and stacked the government.

YET another call for tough measures to deal inject with militant workers was made yesterday.

Speaking to the Birminghan

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• one cept cil, told his audience: tronary ma her pro i Ted balance in power ha Further blow employees. *Above all they 1o The need sing lapor tr du tensity The socht of the Tories said. are in jeopardy the ladstial Relations Industrial Relations attitud Elements of make trouble for trouble the screws even tightering sake'. Marxism • he said there wage communist and thing to de up res. Lecture by G. Healy, national secretary of the The Tong it contained Socialist Labour League ACTrON The bian Churchie da Ray 3: Opposite Acto nelter and freedom t "inflation psychology" stems