Workers Press no. 35

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 35 • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1969

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

PRICE 6d. London, Midlands, Yorkshire and What

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IDe think Workers' North-East teachers to strike

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MAR 17 1971

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dissolved Fleet St,

BY ROBERT BLACK

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repressive more measures were but not announced on Wednesday by the Czechoslovak

NATIONAL ACTION

government.

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for us Skoda motol al lne glan Works in rusen has beer because, accord- disso ver permanent part ing to the Prague News Ceteka, perman that country." 'objectively so-) Sure and a this see tape Originally leading role of the Com- TEACHERS in at least five areas have taken firm munist Party. Congrat BY Standard men Democratically elected decisions for strike action in the next two weeks

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A.T.U.A.

The entire Tory press ing class betw fal together with against the Burnham committee's £50-a-year pay

REPORTERS

meetings don't like including New Stateme invasion of August 1968m

OLLERTON (NOTTS)

offer. Tain Be an was truck. 'Lessons of the miners by leading Stalinists fol offer The Inner London Strike Moined that this es in Saturday, November 15 Teachers' Association all courses 1 p.m. calling out 13,000 By a Workers Press Hop Pole Hotel pended members for 24 hours Two Yorkshire miners November 20. This could close most schools in the FINALLY on the DISSATISFACTION is grow- sane da

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stone believed to have been ofe is that oppositionich has tivity strings Pres has to say he worke an extended nature. 230 Sheffield • due wal Mier. The first of the proposals. colar hars that they I condemn the scheduled for today. striking for 11 weeks. A pupils' 'guard of h onour' for striking Bedworth, Warwickshire, teachera will st Bent Wan reaches coil st50 schools.

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PRODUCTIVITY

47 BSR pickets at three public meetings •Shape of Leeds, more one Party AEr See the film of the first issue being prepared and things to

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charged at printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969'

LONDON

come at East Kilbride

DISPUTE

Reject offer Vauxhall? Wednesday, November 19, 7 p.m.

Tuesday's Gateshead Botany Theatre, University Colleg offer of the Burnban

BY DAVID MAUDE

walked HUNDR Malet Street, W.C.1 By our industrial correspondent THE 47 PICKETS arrested outside the Better Sound

MRS BAKBAKA CADILES

even alled

OXFORD

Department of Employment keproductions lactory in bast kubride on wednesda.

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GRIPS JAPAN

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 35 • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1969 London, Midlands, Yorkshire and

BIG SUPPORT FOR

NATIONAL ACTION

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDA What We think TEACHERS in at least five areas have taken firm decisions for strike action in the next two weeks against the Burnham committee's 450-a-year pay offer. The London Inner Teachers' Association 13,000 Calle daily members for 24 hours om November 20. This could close most schools in the the arca. Half-day Tootes an dementary ung. strikes Deen called in birmingnam element ary prine Leeas. shemerd and National "Union of Tournal Leicester principle that National branch Teachers Ists-une datededad on Tuenderi wa political there us that th Press has to say? an extended nature. Wilson and Party is A pupils' 'guard of honour' for striking Bed Bent shed. resday, closing 450 schools Corph Dist Party AFF sa and Reject offer Port ing vested Gates used Ing tor Maria printies

BY DAVID MAUDE

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BY

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REPORTERS

for striking Bedworth, Warwickshire, t 'Shape of things to come at THREE HUNDRED aloners sis or shop in as suspen- Management suspended * Tuesday's dis shrwards e okers must? undrea struck mel 100 stacker-truc struck heir st 15P Thursday another He as ensent home Contacted Stewards at the company's lite councillor Powell Mitchehi tories relations journalist and live

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17 1971 Standard men don't like offer By a Workers Press correspondent DISSATISFACTION is grow- ing in Standard-Triumph's Merseyside plant with the management's proposed 9d. an hour pay offer. 1,150 workers returned to their jobs this week on the understanding that they would receive substantial: atter from British-Leyland within an hour of their resumption.

They had been on strike for 11 weeks. The company's first offer is believed to have been 4d. an hour tied to certain produc- tivity 'strings'. When this was rejected the offer was increased to 9d. This is understood to be uncon- nected with any productivity proposals. Workers comment that they could have won 30s. without striking for 1l weeks. By our Industrial correspondent THE 47 PICKETS arrested outside the Better Sound Reproductions factory in East Kilbride on Wednesday face up to four charges: breach of the peace, obstruc- tion of a public highway, interference with police and refusal to give names to police.

The arrested pickets, 1l being dragged in the mud or men and 36 women, were thrown into police vans. charged after being detained At the same time as the police at East Kilbride demonstration, in nearby station for five hours. hotel, Mr Leslie Blakeman was presenting his Commission Their 13-week-old strike for on Industrial Relations inquiry recognition has union grown dispute to with report the increasingly bitter re- Boyd, Scottish clashes between police John peated Amalgamated member of the and pickets. Union of Engineering and Scab labour is brought in Foundryworkers, and Mr. John and out the factory in ot Ferguson,

BSR

chairman. buses driven at high speed while police force the pickets The BSR strikers know that they can receive nothing from back. Wilson's report from government. Brutality complaints The management's front-line defence of police is, course, Pickets have complained of controlled by the Labour police brutality on Wednesday.

government. that one They said girl's and arm was badly injured 'Amicable' talks others several were hurt by That Blakeman described his talks Boyd with as 'amicable' and "constructive' is a warning that there may soon be an attempt to impose a settlement. nal Front The talks were continuing yesterday. This makes very urgent the solidarity action being con- in Putney. sidered by many workers in Mrs O'Connell is married to push the strike the area to African-born doctor. a South through to success. They. both the support National Front

GRECHKO

policies on banning immigration, bringing back the gallows and opposing

IN CUBA

entry to the Common Market.

Earlier this Tory year,

SOVIET

Minister Defence Powellite councillors in nearby Marshal Grechko Andrei Lambeth joined hired scabs dustbins Wednesday for an and in arrived on humped official visit to Cuba, expected to break the dust- attempts to last about a week. men's strike. of the The daily organ Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE Bd.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

BY ROBERT BLACK

THREE more repressive measures were announced on Wednesday by the Czechoslovak government. THE WORKERS' council committees of both houses of at the giant Skoda motor the Czechoslovak parliament works in Pilsen has been suggested today that the dissolved because, accord- postist 19te law become the ing to the Prague News Agency, part of the valid Ceteka, its permanent laws in this country.' existence "objectively weakened the so-necessary Originally the emergency leading role of the Com- laws were intended to lapse at the end of this year. munist Party'. Democratically elected workers' councils were one of

A.T.U.A.

the biggest gains won by the working class between the fall meetings Novotny at the end 1967 and the Kremlin invasion of August 1968.

OLLERTON (NOTTS)

Lessons of the miners' THE NEXT blow was struck against the students. strike' University authorities have Saturday, November 15 announced that all courses in philosophy, 1 p.m. pure sociology and history are to be sus- Hop Pole Hotel pended throughout Czecho- Speakers : slovakia. Two Yorkshire miners FINALLY on the same day

NOTTINGHAM

it was confirmed that the laws abolishing civil 'What Next for the liberties introduced last Miners?' August on the first anniver- Sunday, November 16 sary of the Soviet invasion 7.30 p.m. are to stay. Co-operatire Hall The announcement stated: Westdale Lane East constitutional "law Ltaling

GREET

WORKERS PRESS

at three public meetings See the film of the first issue being prepared and printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969'

LONDON

Wednesday, November 19, 7 p.m.

Botany Theatre, University College Malet Street, W.C.1

OXFORD

Friday, November 21, 8 p.m.

Northgate Hall St. Michael's Street

GLASGOW

Sunday, November 23, 7.30 p.m.

Partick Burgh Hall (nr. Merkland Street underground) Speakers at all meetings will be: MIKE BANDA (Editor of Workers' Press) SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the Young Socialists)

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(For 24 hours from Thursday N.W., fresh to strong. Cold. noon) Maximum 7 C (45F). East West Midlands : and Outlook: Continuing cold in Sunny periods and showers, most districts with showers times. Frost at night. heavy at and sunny periods. Frost Wind W., moderate. Rather at Lond in many places. cold. Maximum 8C (46F). Central London, and Central Northern England: England: Sunny periods and Sunny periods and showers, ( mainly isolated. Windes, showers, heavy heavy at times. Snow showers times, but light over high ground. Frost moderate. to Rather cold. night. Wind W. Moderate. Maximum 9C (48F). Rather cold. Maximum 8C Channel Islands: Sunny (46F). Edinburgh: periods and showers, heavy at Sunny periods Wind W., times. moderate. with isolated showers, heavy 10C Snow Rather cold. Maximum at times. showers over (50F). high Frost at ground. night. S.W. England: Sunny periods Wind W. N.W., to moderate fresh. Cold. Maximum 6C and showers, heavy at times to with hail and thunder. Wind (43F). Maximum facE. Rather cold. Glasgow Area: Frequent moderate. showers and sunny periods. Ireland : N.W. England, N. Showers of rain, sleet and hail showers, Snow Sunny periods and with some thunder. frequent and heavy at times showers over high ground. with hail and thunder. Snow Frost at night. Wind N.W., ground. fresh strong. Cold. Maxi- showers high or over 5C (41F). Wind W. to Frost at night. mum

BOOK REVIEWS

PAGE TWO

'UNREPENTANT AG(

An Examination of West G By D. N. PRI Lawrence and Wishart Review by Peter EVERYWHERE, the capitalist class is prepar- ing for a life-and-death struggle against the con- quests made by the working class over the last 100 years, and par- th e ticularly since Second World War. The German capitalists face even bigger problems THE AUTHOR has pro- duced an extremely well- written and detailed account of the birth of the atomic era, covering the period from the mid- Igzós to the mid-I950s. The two scientists to which the title of the book refers were the leading figures in the Manhattan Project-the crash programme which led in 1945 to the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the United States. Ernest Orlando Lawrence won the Nobel Prize in 1939 for inventing the cyclotron, the basic instrument in modern nuclear physics for probing the structure of the atom.

An outstanding experimental physicist, he' was ambitious and pragmatic-'an operator, promoter, a salesman.' (p. 270.) Julius Robert Oppenheimer, brilliant experimental a physicist, became the best- known American scientist of his generation for directing the bomb Los laboratory at Alamos, New Mexico.

GEARED UP

Lawrence, pragmatic and uncultured, and Oppenheimer, sensitive pacifist-in centring his book around the lives of these men Davies reveals how a whole generation of brilliant scientists were geared up to the needs of American im- perialism, independently of their private intentions.

Most of them shelved their ideals for the period of the war in the interests of 'national defence' and the fight against fascism' It was argued that the bomb would not be used except as a threat to force the surrender of the fascist powers and in this way lives would be saved.

reality The was entirely different-as of them some realized and accepted. The military were in full charge of the project under • Oppe General Leslie Groves. "There was never, from about two weeks from the time I took charge of the Pro- ject, any illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy,' he said, 'and the Project was conducted on that basis.' (p. 151.)

DESTRUCTION

The aim was therefore the destruction of the gains made by the international proletariat embodied Soviet the workers' state. Oppenheimer (left) with General Leslie Grov first atomic explosion.

TANT AGGRESSORS

n of West German Policies'

D. N. PRITT

nd Wishart 7s. 6d. ~ by Peter Anton than their rivals because they have lost control over a large part of their former territory.

are preparing to So they fight not only against the West German workers, organized in strong trade unions, but also against the East German work- ing class. The East German workers, though they are deprived of all political rights and oppressed Stalinist bureaucracy, by the

'LAWRENCE AND OPP

By Nuel Pharr C Jonathan Cape 42s. Review by Martin Many of the scientists work- ing on the bomb were sym- pathetic to the Soviet Union.

They were among thousands of intellectuals who, in the period of depression and the rise of fascism, saw socialism as the alternative to capitalism in its death agony. In Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley itself of the there was a • branch Communist Party and Oppenheimer later admitted: I am not a Communist, but I have probably belonged to every Communist front organ- ization on the West Coast.'

(p. 148.) Corrupted by Stalinism, the US Communist Party was com- pletely unable to break the intellectuals from idealism and saw them taken in hand by the bourgeoisie for the counter- revolution. Manhattan was conducted as a military operation and the first bomb was successfully tested after two years work.

FREE HAND

By this time Germany had surrendered and Roosevelt was dead. Grooves and Stimson, the Secretary of War, had a free hand in the first months of the Truman administration to decide the next steps. As a warning to the USSR they decided to drop the bomb on Japan. "The Secretary agreed that the most desirable target would be a vital war plant employing a large number of workers and closely sur- rounded by workers' houses.'

(p. 247.) On August 6 Little Boy killed 70,000 at Hiroshima Boy and on August 9 Fat killed 35,000 at Nagasaki.

Yet both Lawrence and under • Oppenheimer remained loyal tools of capital until they died. Certainly, Lawrence never wavered, and in 1946 came up with the idea of radiological warfare, that is 'gathering up the [radioactivel waste pro- ducts to dump on somebody we didn't like.' (p. 267.)

Oppenheimer, however, felt uncomfortable about the mili- tary having full control and supported the setting up of the Atomic Energy Commis- sion (AEC) in an effort to prevent this. This did not prevent him neral Leslie Groves at the site of the are proud of the conquests of a planned economy and are ready to defend them tooth and nail. the How well aware capitalists are of the crisis and of the inevitability of the coming struggles can be seen most clearly in the West German laws, emergency demanded by big business and the government since 1958 and made law last year, with the support of Social Democrats. (In 1933, the Social-Demo- crats at least opposed in par- liament Hitler's request for emergency powers.) The scope of this legislation a preparation for all-out as class war is demonstrated in Pritt's book: "The "internal" pre- occupations are emphasised by revelations recently made

AND OPPENHEIMER'

uel Pharr Davies Cape 42s. pp. 384 by Martin Zarrop from becoming chairman of the General Advisory Commit- tee of the AEC in which capacity he supervised the streamlining atomic weapons production. Time was running out for Oppenheimer and indeed all those who expressed even the mildest liberal opposition to the plans of the ruling class.

Having used their counter- revolutionary Stalinist 'allies' the full in preserving to western Europe for capitalism, the 'cold war' was launched.

This was the period of the witch - hunt, McCarthyite raised to the point of hysteria by the explosion of the Soviet A-bomb in 1949 and the world's first thermonuclear device, the Russian H-bomb, in 1953. Oppenheimer was brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee and, in the light of his associations 1930s, was pro- during the claimed a 'security risk', al- though his loyalty capitalism) was not in doubt.

He remained a 'risk' up to his death in 1967.

BELIEVER

He also died a firm believer in capitalism: 'Our lives are fairly good, fairly peaceful. We seem to go on almost untouched except as the arms race gives em- ployment to many. ... No one should say there is no hope?

(p. 355.) The author has written a useful book that is well worth reading. scientific detail ' con- The cerning the development of the bomb abundant and ex- pounded with great clarity.

But what is revealed is not just the perversion of man's greatest scientific achievements under capitalism. The development of the Trotskyist today movement bring forward many must intellectuals in the struggle for revolutionary Marxism. The political evolution of Oppenheimer in- was not evitable.

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West German by the monthly "Pardon". At first denied by the government and then defended, when they were soon exposed as obviously false, by minis- ters' assertions the that operation is not unconstitu- tional, that factory manage- arming ments are training selected workers in squads to "maintain order, in the factories, including the use of weapons, to fight unofficial strikes or other might arise riots" which from wage disputes. . . .

Many of the factories are in close touch with the Ministry of the Interior; they supplied with are automatic weapons, and are expressly authorized to use them against strikers. There are already some 60,000 men in these squads.' These emergency laws are perfect and as certainly as systematic as the German state bureaucracy can make them.

For the German ruling class, rebuilt in 1945 with the aid of Stalinism and Social- Democracy, had the special experience in 1933 of smashing a mighty working class. The parallels between the emergency laws and the White Paper in Britain, the anti- strike laws in the USA and the moves towards a corporate state in France are obvious.

spring All these measures from the same source: world capitalism in crisis. This should be a warning to all reformists and Stalinists who believe in the transforma- tion of capitalism and the 'peaceful road to socialism'.

is, This latter of course, precisely the position of Pritt, life-long apologist Stalinism. The title of his book, 'Unrepentant Aggressors' sug- from the start that gests D. N. Pritt : Life-long apologist for Stalinism.

aggressiveness is not inherent to world capitalism, but is a moral problem peculiar to the German bourgeoisie. Against the wickedness of the German ruling class, Pritt is prepared to conclude chauvinistic alliance with his 'own' bourgeoisie: he asks his readers 'to exercise all possible pressure on our government and parliament, at present committed to the support of NATO and thus of West Ger- many in their costly and dangerous anti - socialist policies'. (Page 225.) For Pritt there is obviously no working class, neither in Britain nor in Germany, to this "costly overthrow and dangerous capitalist system and establish socialism. And apparently there has never been one. Summing up the history of modern Germany, he states that the First World War 'ended in the complete defeat North of England: 6.00-6.25 p.m. Look North, Weather. 12.50 a.m. Northern News Headlines, Weather. Scotland: 10.25-10.45 a.m. Around Scotland. 11.35-11.55 Modern Studies.

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of Germany, followed by the Treaty of Versailles'. He makes no mention of the workers' revolution, betrayed and smashed through an alliance between the Social- Democratic government, the big industrialists and the officers of the former imperial army. And when, in 1933, the ruling class resorted to fascism, for Pritt, of course, "this was really inevitable'.

However, in 1945 he saw 'at last a real possibility that the menace of the greedy militarist ruling class of Germany would be lifted from mankind'. Did this prospect lie in the overthrow capitalism by the proletarian revolution?

Not in the least. Pritt sees this possibility in the counter - revolutionary alliance which Stalin and the Kremlin bureaucracy Con - cluded at the end of the Second World War: he sees it in the Potsdam agreement.

This alliance aimed precisely at eliminating any prospect of a German revolution. It aimed to control the Ger- man working class, which was raising its head again after long years of fascist terror, through the division of the country and the establishment of the four-power military dictatorship. The absence of the working class from this book is no accident. Stalinism not only denies in theory the independent role of the working class, but it imperialism openly supports whenever the working class comes out in a fight for power.

Through the Potsdam agree- which confirmed ment, the division of Germany, and by its cruel oppression of the East : German workers, Stalinism provided the US im- perialists with the opportunity to rebuild capitalism in West Germany spearhead as a against the October Revolution and its extension to the East European countries. 'stinking The corpse' of Social-Democracy was revived and allowed to re-establish its control of the German workers. Yes, Mr Pritt, West German capitalism is a big threat to the October Revolution and the East European countries.

But you don't explain that the Stalinist bureaucracy was always prepared to sell out the East German workers—a process which will accelerate with the formation of "liberal' Social - Democratic government in Bonn. Pritt lists in detail the ex- Nazis and Gestapo men still active in West German govern- law and the armed ment, forces. But as the Potsdam agree- 'remark- ments showed such able wisdom', presumably all this is a mystery to him.

However many Nazis may be in 'wicked' working the German capitalist state - and Pritt's main is to concern detail them-the most impor- tant fact is that the German working class and youth are emerging in an open fight against it. What is decisive now is that the German Trotskyists meet the challenge and provide the working class with the revolutionary leadership it needs to overthrow this capitalist state. In this German process, workers will also take up the defence of the planned economy in East Germany and chase out Stalinism and its hangers-on. The First Churchills. 8.25 9.10 Roar Of The Crowd: Sport in Russia. 9.40 The French Cinema: 'Jules Et Jim' starring Oscar Werner and Jeanne Moreau. 11.20 Westminster At Work. 11.40 News Summary, Weather. 11.45 Line-Up.

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9.00 Hawaii Five-O. 10.00 • News At Ten. 10.30 Frost On Friday. 11.15 Hadleigh. 12.10 Impact On Africa. THIS NEW edition of Lenin's 'Selected Works' in one volume published by Lawrence & Wishart, the Communist Party press, has some signifi- cant omissions. It contains very little of Lenin's writings on the Bol- shevik Party (What is to be Done?', 'One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back') and very little of his philosophical writings. These omissions are not accidental. Stalinism cannot settle accounts with its own theoretical and organizational destruction of the Russian Bolshevik Party and the Comintern. Lenin's greatest theoretical , the develop- contribution to ment of Marxism was his leadership in the construction of the Bolshevik Party that led the Russian workers and peasants to power in October 1917. The conflict with Martov at the 1903 Congress over what was involved in party member- ship raised the fundamental questions of Marxism. For Martov, a party member could be a sympathizer who took directions from the party (Menshevism); for Lenin, a party member is 'one who accepts its programme and who supports the party both financially and by personal participation in one of the party organizations'. Conception of a party Lenin fought for a concep- tion of a party that could not be built on the basis of a merely formal acceptance by the membership of programme and slogans. The leadership given under this formal accept- ance can only be propagandist and reformist—a general dis- semination of the idea of the party without fighting through questions to their con- clusion. On the contrary, the train- ing of Marxist cadres requires the conscious application of dialectical materialism to all spheres of work, the conscious conflict within the revolution- ary party led by a democratic- ally elected Central Committee against all routinism and non- revolutionary forms of activity which in turn reflect non- revolutionary conceptions.

in The split with . Martov 1903 prepared the Bolsheviks to wage war on the wave of opportunism that flooded the social democrațic parties at outbreak the First World War. This was the conscious preparation for the Russian Revolution, and with- out this conflict and clarifica- tion there would have been no programme or organization through which the workers and peasants could take the power in 1917. The development of imperial- ism in the late 19th century exerted enormous ideological pressure upon the traditional working-class parties. Kautsky was the major theoretical spearhead of this revisionist trend, which was based on the labour aristocracy which enjoys a privileged position within imperialism. Party de- The Bolshevik veloped in conflict with this then, revisionism which as now, revised Lenin's charac- terization of imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism in order to justify its reformism: 'To determine its conduct to adapt from case to case, itself to the events of the day and and to the chopping changing of petty politics, to forget the primary interests of the proletariat and the basic features of the whole capitalist system, of all capitalist evolu- tion, to sacrifice these primary interests for the real OI assumed advantages of the ' ('Marxism and moment Revisionism'). Likewise the political core of Mandel's revisionism and of 'International Socialism's' conceptions is a belief that post-war capitalism has re- Yorkshire 11.00-11.55 a.m. Schools. 1.40-3.9° News Schools. Houseparty. Headlines. 4.17 Hatty Town. 4.30 I've Married A Bachelor. 4.55 Apollo 12. 5.30 Charlie Chaplin Festival. 5.50 News. 6.00 Calendar. 6.30 Wheel Of Fortune. 7.00 Parkin's Patch. 7.30 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). 8.30 Ours Is A Nice House. 9.00 Marcus Welby MD. 10.00 News. 10.30 York- sport. 11.00 Frost. 11.45 Weather.

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Hull, Valerie Hobson Lenin's greatest theoretical contribution y Bolshevik Party which led the Russiar

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By V. I. Leni Lawrence & Wishart Review by Dave S Martoy: Opposed to Lenin's conception of membership.

solved its contradictions. For Mandel, there is neo-capitalism and the International Socialists there is the state- capitalism of the Soviet Union.

'Left-Wing Communism-an Infantile Disorder' has long been distorted by Stalinism in order to claim Lenin on their side in the struggle against Trotskyism. 'left - wing The Communism' that Lenin attacks is the 'communism' of Sylvia Pankhurst an d William Gallacher who just prior to the formation of the British Com- munist Party in mid-1920 insisted on isolating the Com- munists from participating in parliamentary elections. As Pankhurst expressed it: "The Communist Party must not compromise ... The Communist Party must keep its doctrine pure, and its in- dependence of reformism in- violate; its mission is to lead the way, without stopping or turning, by the direct road to the communist revolution' Put simply-to hell with strategy and tactics! To hell with raising the consciousness of the working class to its historical task, the taking of power! Instead, Pankhurst, like the middle-class protesters of yesterday, defends the purity of her personal ideals. Grampian S0.0ol5:4i5 Sees cadine m Headlines. Schools. Hatty Town. 4.30 Castle Haven. Apollo 6.00 NeWs: 510 Why On Sarth 26.55 Arthur. Crossroads. 7.00 Nearest and Dearest.

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10.30 Frost. 11.15 Your Friday. 11.45 World On Late News Extra. 12 midnight The Name of the Game. Scottish Schools. Scotland Early. Chapad 50 Apollo 2.53 coland Chaplin. Scotland Wheel Of Fortune. Parkin's 7.30 Mission: Impos- Patch. sible. 8.30 Ours Is A Nice House. 9.00 Hadleigh. 10.00 News. 10.30 Frost.

11.15 In Camera. 11.45 Sez. Les. 12.15 am Late Call. Friday, November 14, 1969 I contribution was the construction of the h led the Russian workers to power in 1917.

CTED WORKS'

y V. I. Lenin pp. 798 3OS. ' by Dave Spooner" 'Left-Wing Communism' sums up the necessary preparations in western Europe — with a long section on England-both within and outside parliament.

It is nothing to do with the constitutional struggle that the Stalinists claim it to be; the winning of a majority within parliament. The decisive points that Lenin makes are on the build- ing of the mass revolutionary parties in western Europe.

Today these lessons are vital.

There is a decisive political polarization in the British working class. Many workers are forcing their way forward to leadership in opposition to the union bureaucracies and the more conservative ele- ments. miners' The strike, the strikes at Vauxhall's and the Morris Motors, Cowley and the dustmen's strike—all were characterized by sharp political conflicts. We have now moved out of the period of propa- ganda activity and into a period where the living struggle for leadership is decisive.

Lenin made these central points on this turn in 1920: 'As long as it was (and in- asmuch as it still is) a question of winning the proletariat's vanguard over to the side of communism, priority went and still goes to propaganda work; even propaganda circles, with all their parochial limitations, are useful under these con- ditions, and produce good results. But when it is a ques- tion of practical action by the masses, of the disposition, if one may so put it, of vast armies, of the alignment of all the class forces in a given society for the final and decisive battle, then propa- gandist methods alone, the mere repetition of the "truths" Kautsky : Spearhead for revisionist trend.

of pure communism, are of 'avail' (Left-Wing Com- no munism'). Historic turn The Communist Party was never able to make this turn.

Developments within the Soviet Union prevented that and reinforced all the weakest points of the English com- munists. The day-to-day inter- vention of the daily Trotskyist paper, 'Workers Press', in all the struggles of the working class is the means by which Socialist Labour League the and the Young Socialists can make that historic turn. It is only from this stand- point-the building of the revolutionary party in Britain —that Lenin's 'Selected Works' can be truly understood.

Friday, November 14, 1969 THE ECONOMIC pres- sure of world imperial- ism on the Soviet Union and the East European countries has measur- ably increased in recent years. The whole policy of 'peaceful co-existence' is be- ing exposed as a threat to the conquests of the 1917 October Revolution and its extension into eastern Europe after 1945. A series of agreements have been made by which leading capitalist firms con- struct entire plants under contract to the governments of these countries in lagging industries, namely those which depend upon the most advanced technology. Less is heard now of the extravagant claims made by Khrushchev about overtaking and outstripping capitalism.

Instead there is a deep crisis in the planning system and an anxious search for a way round it which goes under the name of 'economic reforms'. In short, having decided to co-exist peacefully with capi- talism, the bureaucracy of the Soviet Union and the eastern countries has to European adopt the economies of these countries to the needs of the capitalist world market. Barrier As Michael Varga has shown recent number of La Verité' (June, 1969), this can only mean permitting the law value governed by the capitalist world market to in- fluence the course of economic planning and to undermine the monopoly of foreign trade established precisely as barrier against such an eventuality. Economic development in the Soviet Union been has basically determined by the fact that it began from a level which was far behind that of the advanced capitalist coun- tries. Isolation from the world market and the policy of 'socialism in country' one imposed in the Stalin era inter- acted with the initial back- wardness of Russia. The waste and mismanage- ment engendered by an uncon- trollable bureaucracy limited gains achieved by the establishment of a planned and nationalized economy. Stalinist methods of The planning, the insistence on the building up of a heavy industry as a matter of priority and the rapid collectivization of agri- imposed culture were as necessary aspects of policy in European countries after 1945. WHEN dealing with pre- 2oth century history this book provides a compe- and thorough tent account of the develop- ment of Russia. In the section describing the rise of Bolshevism and the Soviet State, histori- cal inaccuracies and a trivial method of analysis predominate. The author, Michael Florinsky, was both a White Guard opponent of the Bol- sheviks and a one-time student at the London School of Economics. It is not surprising, there- fore, that he can describe the early history Russia competently, but seems com- pletely unable to grasp the of political importance principles in the development of Bolshevism or the real meaning of the struggle between Stalin and Trotsky.

The growth of the Russian autocratic monarchy and a vast bureaucracy began in the century and Florinsky 15th explains it in social terms.

This was the only form of government through which the kings of Muscovy could unity the vast backward country of Russia under their rule. Tsars such as Ivan the Terrible deprived even the

SERFS

For instance it was about this time that the hitherto retarded the These countries depended much more than pre-revolu- tionary Russia upon contact • the world market: they with were more industrialized, they had been fiefs of foreign capital and they were too small to possess a varied assortment of raw materials. they became As a result dependent upon the highly Soviet Union for the latter and switched their markets for manufactures to that country.

Since 1956 more has been international said about the division of labour and the countries have Soviet bloc been brought together in the known organization as COMECON (The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance).

However, there has been no attempt to co-ordinate real measures and this planning body has been mainly a clear- ing house to facilitate accept- ance of a common policy on economic relations external suited to Soviet needs. While planned industrializa- made headway in tion increasingly serious 1950s, problems arose, especially in the more advanced sectors of the area-those which suffered most from insufficient contact with the world market. This was particularly so in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and some extent in East to Germany. For example, although these areas had a standard of living higher than that in the bloc as a whole, it increasingly fell behind the advanced areas of capitalist western Europe.

Conspicuous in this process was a lag in the newer indus- inadequate invest- tries and ment in the older type of consumer goods industries.

By the early 1960s, there- fore, much industrial equip- ment in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union was obsolete and certainly uncompetitive by world standards. Even the rapid growth rates achieved earlier began to fall off. Deprivation of outlets in the world markets had serious consequences for some indus- tries. It exposed weaknesses in the quantitative planning methods inherited from Stalin and set going considerable debate about such questions in "liberal' the more climate of the post-1956 years. The methods used to deal with the new economic prob- lems were essentially empirical and pragmatic. This was especially so in agriculture and in a number loads of countries there was a com- plete retreat from collectiviza- tion or concessions were made to peasant pressure. The emphasis was laid on higher returns to labour and investment by increasing material incentives, granting wider powers plant to and establishing managers profitability on a plant basis as a criterion of production.

There was greater readiness make workers redundant to

'RUSSIA: A SHORT

By M. Florins Review by Karen capitalist class or intelligentsia.

From the 17th century, industry was fostered by the but was much state very restricted by monopolies of trade. low cultural level The obliged the sons of the nobility to be educated abroad.

There was no opposition to based the monarchy on political principles. In fact the only political upheavals in the 17th and 18th centuries were revolts peasant and palace revolutions. Florinsky adequately describes the development of the revolutionary movement in the 19th century. The bureaucracy's policy of 'peaceful co-ex political revolution. Both Berlin in 1953 an and to impose higher work umber loads... As some counterpart money wages rose and larger supplies of consumer goods found their into the shops and way markets. But still the situation of chronic shortage persisted and quality and variety of product continued to suffer. The economic crisis which bears down to varying extents on the east European countries reflects the thus one-sided development imposed by the

A SHORT HISTORY'

y M. Florinsky w by Karen Blick Stimulated by the demo- cratic ideas of the French Revolution, unrest began in the very highest level of society. The first challenge to the from the autocracy came nobles involved in the Decem- brist plot of 1825. By the last quarter of the century the Land and Freedom group formed by the politically frustrated intelligentsia was very active. They combined crusading amongst the peasantry with heroic, futile terrorism.

In 1881 they succeeded in assassinating Alexander II.

It was amongst disillusioned The Decembrists. From left to right, Pavel Pestel (executed 1826), S. Maravyer- Apostol, whose regiment, the Chernigov, supported the abortive revolution, A. Bestuzhov, P. Kakhovsky and K. Ryleyev.

WORKERS' PRESS

f 'peaceful co-existence' with capitalism creates, throu erlin in 1953 and Hungary in 1956 were manifestation Country of socialism in one Not integrated with each other, one-sidedly related to the needs of the Soviet Union and cut off from the world market, they have all suffered, in one degree or another, from a crisis of under-production and disproportion intensified by the bureaucratic methods of planning and management to which they have been subject. various policies The of 'economic reform' have participators in this movement that Marxist ideas first took root in Russian soil. When describing the development of the Marxist movement Florinsky descends and facile to inaccuracy explanations. He claims from 1903 that Lenin and the Bolsheviks held the theory that the overthrow of the monarchy would immediately be followed by the establishment of a workers' government. It was in fact only Trotsky at this period who understood the capitalist revolutions must be carried through to the full attainment of a socialist state.

He expounded this idea in the theory of the permanent revolution. Florinsky com- pletely ignores this. The book's analysis degen- erates even further when examines the struggle between Stalin and Trotsky. The author can explain the development of the absolute monarchy before 1917 The conflict social terms. between Stalin and Trotsky however is dismissed as a power struggle. "The struggle for power was a clash of personalities rather , than doctrines. 'Many of the policies he advocated, rapid [Trotsky] and industrialization cen- tralized planning, were even- tually enforced by Stalin....

It was not Trotsky's views,

WHITEWASH

vast conservative forces that were pushing Stalin to the fore, or of the exhaustion and isolation of the Russian work- ng class through civil war or the containment of the revolution within Russia.

The book • continues to m creates, through the maturing economic crisis, the ol ere manifestations of this.

attempted to deal with the goods symptoms. By their nature, and because they do not tackle causes, they can have no more than a temporary or partial success.

An answer to certain of its problems, unnaturally, not occurs to the bureaucracy in the shape of closer ties with the capitalist world market.

This promises a quick remedy to the more pressing problems. A market can be found for raw materials or manufactured whitewash Stalin when it explains the Moscow Trials by quoting Khrushchev with approval. was seriously sick, 'Stalin suffering from suspiciousness and persecution mania in his last years. This is the only of the rational explanation purges of the 1930s? Perhaps it is not surprising that a White Guard supporter Stalin for should exonerate the murder of so many old Bolsheviks. Finally Florinsky tries to uphold the myth beloved of bourgeois and Stalinist his- torians alike that the Soviet Union was genuinely support- ing the Spanish working class against Franco. 'The true purpose of Soviet intervention in Spain is not known and can only be surmised. It is understandable that the Kremlin should wish to prevent the establishment of fascism in Spain, but it is also likely that the enticing pos- sibility of a communist regime from the turmoil emerging of the civil war was not over- looked.'

NOT ENTICING

This possibility was indeed overlooked, but the not prospect was not enticing to the Stalinists. They opposed Franco in the the democratic name capitalist republic, but not in order to establish a socialist state. Florinsky's book should only be read for its account of the early history of Russia.

For a real analysis of the questions he evades or distorts following books the are recommended: "The Permanent Revolution' by Leon Trotsky; i of the Left "The Platform Opposition' by Leon Trotsky; 'The Russian Revolution' by Leon Trotsky. mic crisis, the objective conditions for goods which are in surplus supply. Similar deficiencies can be remedied through trade. By deals with the big capitalist enterprises, lagging sectors of industry can be brought up to date wholly new or ones created. 'solutions' are Such satur- ated • with politics - with the politics of 'peaceful co-exist- ence. Friendly relations with the capitalist powers have become a necessity, not a matter of the bureaucracy is choice, if to preserve the basis for its rule. It is not, of course, in this *peaceful way that co- existence' is presented in the propaganda. It is said, for example, that _ Will be able 'socialism' prove its superiority to capital- ism through peacetul economic competition. In this way the bureaucracy and its supporters in the Com- munist Parties quietly drop the class struggle and seek for allies in the bourgeoisie.

Arguments also are put forward about a socialist world market to try • to defend the policy; as has been suggested above, this is a tallacy.

In fact, the very behaviour of the bureaucracy in seeking closer relations with capitalist countries demonstrates this.

What happens in practice is that the economic situation in eastern Europe and the USSR comes increasingly • to reflect the influence of the capitalist world market as the bureau- cracy adapts to it. Their crisis thus becomes that of inter- linked with national capitalism. This becomes clear in the search for increased trade with capitalist countries. In this trade, world prices established as a result of the operation of the law of value become the standard to which goods from the Soviet Union To answer its economic problems the bun form of trade agreements and even in the such as these were made between Kosygi or eastern Europe have to adhere. But as productivity is gener- ally lower in these countries their commodities are either not competitive or have to be sold below cost of production.

Back in these countries the crisis is thus sharpened up; so is dissatisfaction with the old forms of planning and organ- ization. One aspect of this is the demand for greater decentral- ization and more power for the enterprise. Another individual is a threat to the monopoly of foreign trade itself. 'Peaceful co-existence' thus begins to call into question the fundamental conquests of the workers' states. This policy accepts the world status-quo the bureau- cracy implicitly renounces the possibility of a defeat of capitalism by revolutionary means. Instead it becomes a support for the continuation of capital- ist world predominance. Meanwhile the capitalist countries also have a problem: that of realizing surplus value and turning part of it into additional capital. Businesses which trade with the USSR and eastern Europe do so for this purpose. Unconsciously their activities take the form of an offensive against the planned economy.

At the same time, at the political level, the bureaucracy seeks an accommodation with the bourgeoisie and its govern- ments and in doing so it mis- leads and betrays the working creates incalculable class and damage to its interests. 'Peaceful co-existence' is thus designed to preserve the rule of the bureaucracy by enabling it to deal with press- ing economic problems arising from the inferiority in terms of aggregate production and productivity of that part of the world which it controls. Compromise Such a policy works against the interests of the working class not only in the capitalist countries, but also in the countries ruled by the bureau- cracy. Because the bureaucracy is concerned with its own self- preservation, it is prepared to compromise with and strengthen imperialism. It leans on world capitalism to maintain its own political stranglehold. As consequence it is a driven into collision with its own working class. The political revolution in the workers' states thus be- comes an objective necessity and not simply a programmatic demand. This means that the over- throw of the bureaucracy is actually being prepared by a maturing economic crisis which sharpens the conflict between the bureaucracy and the work- ing class in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. The main components of this crisis have already been discussed. Its political manifestations are east Berlin, 1953, Hungary and Poland, 1956, Czecho- slovakia, 196 ind the Soviet ing opposition Union itself which calls for a return to Leninism. The way in which the crisis arises from the world market is shown also in the rivalries between different national sec- tions of the bureaucracy which develops from a need for in- creased independent links with world capitalism. This has shown itself most forcefully in the case of Rumania. It was also demonstrated in Czechoslovakia. over economic Controversy policy is also a central issue in disputes within national sec- tions of the bureaucracy of the sort which came to a head in Czechoslovakia after the fall of the Novotny regime in February, 1968. question of relations The with the USSR appears to be at the centre of all these rifts.

If a section of a national bureaucracy wants greater 'independence' it is clearly in order to make its own deals with capitalism. It is precisely this that the Kremlin bureaucracy is not able to tolerate. It wants to remain the deciding voice. roblems the bureaucracy turns to closer ties with the c and even in the construction of new plants within the between Kosygin and de Gaulle in 1967.

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When the east European countries , were brought into the Soviet sphere of policy, the local CP leaders were expected to gear national policies to Moscow's needs. Only Tito refused and was able to go on to make his own deal with capitalism and the Yugoslavs sought their OWn 'solution' to the problems which were to beset the whole of eastern Europe. After the death of Stalin in 1953, and still more after 1956, which time the bureau- cracies of eastern Europe had established their own national basis, tensions with Moscow began to become general throughout the area. The revolutionary move- ments in Hungary and in Poland brought matters to a head. The basic issue was whether the east European bureau- cracies were prepared to accept the continued paramountcy of the Kremlin and not 'liberal- ization' or anything of that sort. Golmulka was a 'liberal' who gave the right guarantees: he prepared to keep was Poland as a dutiful satellite.

Nagy of Hungary was not. The east German leaders were hard-line Stalinists who must have had bitter mis- givings about many post-1956 policies of the Soviet bureau- cracies-but they were able to give the right guarantees of unswerving obedience. The Rumanians have tried to go their own way and the Dubcek tendency in Czecho- slovakia had similar leanings.

The task of the Soviet bureaucracy is to use COMECON and the economic influence of the USSR to keep east European the bureau- cracies in a position of con- tinued subordination. If they will do what is re- quired by the policy of 'peace- ful co-existence', as interpreted by the Kremlin in the sphere economic policy, of external some discretion is left to vary home policy according to special conditions. In fact, it is even accepted that they can, if they wish, make contracts with foreign firms for the construction of new plants as well as for the supply of goods. The attempt to establish relations with closer the capitalist world market in order to overcome internal economic problems runs into serious difficulties. Few products of the USSR and eastern Europe are really able to compete on the world market in the face of tariffs and trade discrimination and of the restrictions and de- flationary policies made neces- sary in those countries having balance of payments difficulties.

Only the continued growth in world trade as a whole has made possible the increase in trade between eastern Europe and the capitalist world.

A standstill or contraction in world trade would certainly affect these countries severely.

Significant as these economic factors are, it is their political consequences which expose the fuil of the betrayal extent concealed behind the phrase 'peaceful co-existence' In seeking an accommodation with capitalism, the Soviet jeopardizes bureaucracy the conquests of the 1917 October Revolution. Meanwhile, in the name of socialism, the working class in the countries which it rules are called upon to increase work norms and to consume less than the workers in the capitalist countries of western Europe. In these countries the Com- munist Parties pursue a policy class peace and seek alliances with so-called the progressive or "peace-loving' sections of the bourgcoisie.

In defence of its own inter- ests, from its fear of its own working class at home and in opposition to revolution any- where in the world, the bureaucracy becomes bulwark of world capitalism.

The policy of 'peaceful co- existence' is thus a policy of betrayal, of counter-revolution and defeat. The Marxist answer to it receives support from the crisis in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union which prepares the objective conditions for the political revolution as well as from the growing crisis of the world capitalist system.

er ties with the capitalist class, both in the plants within the workers' states. Agreements

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B.B.C.

DISPUTE

COURT

OPENS

THE COURT of inquiry into the pay and conditions dispute between the BBC and the Association of Broadcasting Staffs (ABS) opened in London on Wednesday. ABS members last month rejected a 4 per cent pay increase offer as inadequate to meet the increased cost of living. The Association has carried lightning out a series of stoppages affecting some television programmes to press

FROM

for a better pay offer.

BOB SHAW

Mr G. Rhys,

ABS

general secretary, said that the 'the inquiry was last oppor- disaster.' tunity to avoid In he said, recent years,

ABS

had found that its the rank-and-file members wanted much bigger voice the in formulating of policy -some- thing the BBC did not seem to recognise. Little revenue The financial difficulties the pletely inadequate revenue for planned expansion services-is at the base of the dispute. The BBC has tried to solve its problems at the expense of its staff by pressing for more and more productivity. The inquiry can, of course, resolve nothing, but will bring home to broadcasting workers that there is no longer any room for liberal-reformist solutions at the

BBC.

'No blame' for torpedo firing THE INQUIRY into the firing of the torpedo which narrowly missed the River ane, will Clyde passenger Countess of Breadalbane, look into only the for the torpedo's behaviour. A Royal Navy spokesman stated that there was 'no of blame regarding tuestion he incident which the ferry's captain said might have sunk his ship. B.R.S. drivers in pay strike

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Road Services

• FROM PAGE ONE

parcels traffic in many areas posed particularly nauseating piece of the Midlands was halted on of hypo- Wednesday by a strike of 1,100 drivers and platform workers.

crisy. Democratic rights, it appears Ten BRS depots in Birming- well for all the are very ham, Wolverhampton, Notting- Communist Party, for the ham, Leicester and Derby Tory 'left' for the press, came out. Tribune, for the anti-Soviet capitalists' of 'Social- The strikers, members 'state of Transport ist Worker'. the and General Workers' Union, attended But for Trotskyists, for re- mass meeting in Birmingham volutionaries, no democratic to discuss a 10s.-a-week rights, facilities, no pay rise offer made as a result credentials, nothing but hatred and lies. management-union talks at Stalinism is here exposed with national level. the mask torn off. Listen to William Wainwright, Jumbo •Morning Star' assistant editor. We rang this man to ask him his journalist views as snags 'can be Nasser overcome' advisers THE BOEING 747 jumbo to visit jets are safe despite certain Pan American's snags, vice-president, Mr James Moscow told the Montgomery, British Association of PRESIDENT Nasser's three Travel Agents at Torquay top political advisers are due on Tuesday. to go to Moscow next revolu- week, it was announced in ruts Cairo on Wednesday. Ned jet after the This news comes val. militant line adopted at the Arab summit meeting, which amounts to ended Mondav. 0.001 it on of inch, only an per The in- at the moment consumption with secret discussions merish, French and Middle East , per cent ments deal' Nasser's package and delegation will doubtless insist in Moscow that no deal be said that made with US imperialism at of the of the Arab expense ault people. hey 'fairly may wait nich Libyan pledge ly. Military support for the fit Arab struggle against the the Israeli Zionists was pledged Pratt and Whitney 9D in Cairo the Libyan by engine to the Defence Minister in pre- wing. recorded interview on Egyptian television. the Al-Hawaz Registered newspaper Colonel Adan Published Workers Office.

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Street, said that his government was Press, London. s.W.4. rebuilding its armed forces to i sure, London: . (TU). play its full part in the struggle against Israel.

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Grangemouth refinery

AS CZECH PURGE CONTINUES

Husak

ELECTRICIANS

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STRENGTHEN

friends

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ACCORDING to from Tuesday, about 25 Prague on the Czech government's ambassadors are to be recalled.

This move is thought to be purge of the Husak regime's diplomatic corps.

THE 500 BOILERMAKERS on strike at the BP It was also announced West German construction site at Grangemouth have been joined the that on day President Ludvik Svoboda by 350 electricians who struck work on Monday in wife will pay a and his Minister confirms support of six men sacked by one of the contractors.

state visit November 24 to 29 at the They were immediately invitation of the Shah. talks with Poland approached by the boiler- Another rep that Stom makers' stewards and ar stated Paris agreement was reached to and U.S.S.R. French and Czechoslovak organize a joint picket line covernments Have agreed as from yesterday. lo an exchange or ministers with concerned economic Police squads have been anairs. rusnea to tne site on several Picasso ion of his gover bek leaders nment's pla with the strikers pickets to Soviet Union and Poland get the husec refuses ' the workers from other unions with capitalist world. on to the site. fascist

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growing awareness Further sed by a little warnings have amongst scientists of been voiced by the implications of the 110- entists aparnation dail of the Jabul unplanned use more setrible Imperial College of Science The three 'quality" innova- technological OR There are tion in the service of she-day 'Mediocre' capital. Life Cement ang me wily in the Too! I would like to subscribe to Workers' Press for In rapid succession over that the ally mediocre' price rise Das! lew montas. dift now becomes increasingly cyclamates have been scientists to catastrophes' almost universally Dannea.

0-continue DDT and other insecticides esearch of its un- rased by ot dement Population vc cure unluct suspicioll A001888 rike sotion have thousands ot wild birds The stopped onto the col comments on the coisis touch died have through suspected chemical poison- othed in he future Claphan High Strod, London, si. (el: 720 2088) ing, pollution is now known coinpro be raise house costs by ai: feeding this number of but not without sacrifices or contaminating the to £20. partial stoppages. Friday, November 14, 1969 garment workers march in Rome By a loralon correspondone AFTER the brief lull which accompanied last week's Italy spalad sten es Workers at Eight factions New German holding for U.S. General

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