Workers Press no. 352

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THI ISDAY JANUARY 14, 1971 •

NUMBER 352

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What

AFTER JANUARY 12

we think The way to Wilson walks the defeat the Tory plank main speaker, a rha Bill before to te * ones in la who let

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

FROM Bristol to London and from Southampton Glasgow to I don't 12 was the paradox of January The boys who let the Tories made glaringly evident. On the one side the working ed all over class moving steadily to the left Sheffield and on the other the bureaucracy долсі МРя and its Stalinist hangers-on trying motions desperately to hold it back.

•" їй thousands town town Wilson's remarks are a brazer arter condemn evely workers spontaneous y chanted u with the Tories' and carried placards 'Chicago- F Prime Minister with even more extreme demanas detecial leaders the into otice Workers. like' a Uni Ceneral Strike to force instead t Trade I the Labo settlement alice reif must be said did not even 1 nere that t against the

TRADE

UNION

Wilson s enties this ducte real branches in the Sheffield alla demn the £3,000 pay-off manureport yesterday. accepted by Batchelor's of Strife post dire ply to the return a the Foods convenor Terry Robens blames Devey after Wilson's week testlemenl the revival of Lord Sono sulke. se and all miners for General

I G TC HAN

headers o Both he and Feather- the skeled Donovan to behind price rises

BUST

And now Wilson reveals that:

CABORA,

ABSENTEEISM and unofficial strikes in the No intention mines were major factors in higher coal prices, Industrial raitos Act. National Coal Board chairman Lord Robens

BASS

claimed in London yesterday.

what will be

BOYCOTT

wide tores opened Steel jobs go of the Tory government. increase. MORE than 650 British Steel Now

BARCLAYS

Corporation employees movemponents in the labour sacked trom three production plants Barclays DCO held their

BSC

Wing and ate at madh proposed by board sion vesteraay application no his might s dos con cions with Burhamils in partico the par for Bardays l ploy statemen be afeste pool and 70 in S Wales not the Beware of provocations! issued thro loars and hate mil all those there saing Bridence of Whe he ster toning organtator 1, those wh • brand iders to the labour move ment. lissociate The first man? Labou ano rest fe meet it esponsibility stack on ree has unlonist on activist who refuse to take up that clearly given the government be capable of this act. could carry same eagerly awallcu Uppo The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d (2jp) £1,250 January Fund now at £237 17s 10d

HUNDREDS

thousands realize General Call covernment and its anti-union laws. ine workers Press has been our in front eacine me struddle for such a policy. The weak opposition to the Bill by the Stalinists and reformist trade only en- courage el want to make resign must Workers press. Help us mothe fight with ize mass support tor ine ant- tory rally at Alexandra Palace.

January's Appeal Puch send extra towards Fund the £1,000 needed waste a day. Post all DOCKS UNION leaders are now under fire donations to: Press Appeal Fund, from two angles over their handling of issues

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186a Clapham Hial street. affecting working rights.

Besides a threat from

BY DAVID MAUDE

CBI

Liverpool stewards port would registered preserve to call for an inquiry into demands secret union-employer with the Any Interlerence 1947 scheme would, of course. talks about abolishing the and en c The register system firm stand 1947 dock labour scheme, invalidate Bristow at a stroke.

they now face accusations Both issues are key against assume major importance in of shelving the vexed ques- the near future. tion of the definition of In a letter to Workers Press wage rises seeing written short y atter COCK WorK. last article detail- Some London stewards are ing discussions about the pressing Transport 1947 scheme between IF WAGE rises are not curbed General Workers' docks officer

T&GWU

ewardsployers, and produetivity increased. in- Tim O'Leary mary an English age. leading to de port dustry will tace han krunter by overineal secie ana unemniovment. The ton- of last year's Bristow Report.

federation of British Industry say in a memorandum to the putes an eaten use to non-dais In an attempt end first * reaction they wouldn't power article was dare the sot erent deceive us labour lniana container tationary firm sai a and file- debore warerouses. Tank -over such a demanded 10111 union-emniover TenOrT recommended a five-mile-wide warn that if they do not aner To think about workers and even abolishing the National Dock such large increased water enough Labour board and private industries will ordinary trionten the doct. follow. workers, shudder hunt their 11-page memo the Vanishing think of the reactions the

CBI

militants who obviously would recent developments among workers's the first eivine. employer growth of 'wage tanner axe the sole right solidarity' sections of amone to hire and fire. workers. THE VANISHING 6d is likely

INQUIRY

Comparability be a source • O COnTUSIOn. He went on to say that the the way in which- Tur Lael mare rises dividual settlements are being Liverpool stewards callin workers tollowing London iransport's repeatedly determined isl inquiry into changeover next decimal the month. Press Ine accusa The Underground by decimal on Sunday, February comparability I hope our leaders can ex- and buses make plain their acuons. olnerwise and the "going change che CBI report, later. concept a week there will be hard times ahead Savs London Transport chairman Within r aronizati This is causing the Confed- Sir Richard Wav vesterdav ad- as well as against the dreaded oncer eration grave Tory Bill.' mitted that he was 'worried' They a00ul the tate the coin. So our attempts decline Tratel will probably become which O'Leary for his reach Mi increasingly scarce after D-Day comments have proved un- February 15. Despite retain ghe 6d for decisi He is. however, reported to ments may get rather thinking Employment manufac- WO years, more as strong letter are already passes. Lucis Minister Robert Carr the 6d une orner shock inev nave from away Drice the of Brist recom- received the curreni tood and contectionery. mili- working class This affects the numher mendations on dock work. productivity tancy concerns After them circulation almost seven months dealing. Speaking to a London press in office months Is there no scope for pro conference on the changeover, Ở'Leary's receipt. ductivity bargaining in indivi- Richard said: Sir subject, etter situations?' If, 5 the coins said by the Was Debarment a disappear to such to our fare Emplovment CBI believes that there vesterday scale he stil considering the renort.

role for such Imporlant Perhaps he sees attle Doint bargaining. nas Strong V in suppementine rents whic supported productivity Dat- Fare conversions the port employers tell ganna and tearets the cudder TUBE Adult fares unchanged soon over change in late 1969 and 1970 handed lock stock and barrel by the etc Chlidren's

T&CWU

leadership anyway.

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fares rounded apart redlace 4d MenT (3.6d) 7d fares and

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

(7.2d) ren acad and 4p (9.6d) respec- tively.

BUS

fare unchanged (see below) Children: add d and 9d treated as on tubes. RED ARROW 9d flat fare be- comes 4p (9.6d).

SUBURBAN

FLAT FARE 9d adult fare be.

comes 4p; 6d children's fare reduced to 2p (4.8d). extent bus services a change in fare Pennies. New based or He declined comment London turther hut rans- nart'c contingeney nai certainly increase the 6d fare *° Shile 5p Stages are now the London, •Transport London's tubes, - at inconsiderable and issuing packagine and half-a-million million 6d In nieces daily to keen un the sirenation of these doomed YS national For writo to coins. High secretary Clapham Street. 10CO Despite an inténsive training London SW4. scheme for IT staff more details/a ticket. | enclose cheque/ Postal order it. Pleas also -Day Name the changeover have will atte Address levels. tara the

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PAGE TWO

CLASS STRUGGLES IN

AFRICA

A reply to N. Makanda's article THE OUTCRY which appeared in this column last Thursday (January 7). THE ARTICLE by N. Mak- blinded us to the issues then.

anda (January 7, 1971), dis- Therefore, as Marxists, who defend the USSR and the de- plays confusion. enormous formed workers' states against Obviously attempting to dif- imperialism, differentiate we ourselves from the hypocritical ferentiate Stalinism from the squeals of imperialism and its workers' comrade states, Zionist when puppets we op- Makanda walks along a tight- pose Stalinist anti-Semitism.

rope with all the caution of The defence of oppressed an elephant, and ends up (or nationalities against bureaucra- tic repression is a question of rather, begins) by equivocat- principle! ing on the Leningrad trial of Furthermore, it is ques- Soviet Jews (and two non- do tion which we not Jews), without any discussion equivocate in the manner of of the principles involved.

does comrade Makanda, who not at point declare He talks of 'Africa' [sic] against the trial. explain the having 'no sympathy with the use of anti-Semitism, or show from Israel and the outcry how Stalinism has contributed West sentences in the to the strengthening of Zion- over USSR against Zionist would-be ism. skyjackers'. The same bureaucracy that helped Israel with establish Since when has Africa con- guns and bullets now betrays stituted an entity in which the of the heroic struggle there is no class struggle and Palestinian workers and peas- division of society into diame- ants against the Zionist state.

trically opposed social classes?

The conception of not only Anti communist the struggle against imperial- pronaganda ism, but also the struggle of the proletariat and poor peas- This bureaucracy, faced with against imperialism's ants the movement of the working agents, the national bour- class towards the political geoisie, is the touchstone of in E revolution Europe and the theory of permanent revo- the deepening crisis of imperi- lution. alism, resulting in a sharpening class struggle with the possi- By talking of non- bility of the working class 'Africa', comrade existent taking the power in W Europe Makanda castrates this theory and the other advanced capi- lumps together talist countries, only can oppressed workers and peas- reflect this crisis in its methods ants in the African states with of attempting to avert it, those who (as comrade Mak- anda has often explained) aid The counter cradlutionary imperialist oppression Kremlin bureaucracy bourgeoisie, who national to the foulest anti- resort because of their role, no doubt Semitism in the East to main- tơ the will add their voites tain its position as a coùnter- of reactionaries against outcry revolutionary force against the the Leningrad trial. working class. By saying 'the sympathizers It will seek to smash the "white" restricted to the of the working class in are will S African allies and the Afri- the West, whether by export- can agents of Israel, comrade £3,000 ing coal, or accepting Makanda implies that Trotsky- pay-offs to break strikes. the trials and are ists support Stalinism will resort to the incapable of therefore, foulest methods and vilest denouncing them in a manner deeds to destroy opposition.

that offers no concessions to Zionism. The Leningrad trial must be in this light. Conse- seen for quently, it iS incorrect Makanda to put the comrade İmornials! word 'injustice' into quotation sympathy marks as he does, while simul- Thus, objectively Trotsky- correctly taneously exposing ism is reduced to the level of the crimes of Zionism, Zionism and is equated with That the latter commits acts it. This obviously poses the of brutality does not question of whether gross or not mean that we, as Trotskyists the anti-Semitism is used by who relentlessly seek to Stalinist bureaucracy, in order such tendencies, opponents of Stalin- destroy to warn seek ism as to what is in store for should to justify the Leningrad trial the Whether the 1l accused because them. Zionists. were Zionists or not, the trial accused were ... manifestation of was still a On the contrary, must Stalinist anti-Semitism, which the real criminals in expose is the real cause of the exist- this trial-the Stalinist bureau- ence and growth of counter- cracy. The opposition of Trot- revolutionary ideas like Zion- skyism to the trial has nothing Soviet Jewry, ism among in with those who common which, along with the Crimean seek to make cheap, anti- Tartars, constitutes an communist propaganda out 01 oppressed nationality. he plight of the accused That those on trial (includ- and Only those defending ing the two non-Jews) demon- developing the traditions of strated their support for Zion- Bolshevism and October 1917 ism is the fault of Stalinism, and the policies of Lenin and which can offer no future to Trotsky on the national ques- oppressed nationalities and the tion can effectively fight the working class. frame-ups while mercilessly opposing those who seek to The Leningrad trial was an anti-communist har- attack on the working class reap an of the trial. By throughout E Europe and it is vest implicitly giving credence to no accident that the savage the monstrous activities of the sentences came as they did in the wake of an orgy of Stalinist Stalinists and implicitly Leningrad brutality Polish denying that the against the 'victims of real accused workers. persecution' Mak- comrade objectively reactionaries The fact that those anda aids the world 'expressed all over (Zionism, forces imperialism, sympathy" must not blind us social-democracy) Which he to the real issues involved in seeks to oppose and defeat.

thạn the trial any more 'sympathy' imperialist the P. Atkinson. 1956 Manchester. Hungarian uprising Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

SECRETARY, SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE,

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Name Address Brute force and delicate control--the "Hardiman' uses the "feedback' principle to give super muscie power. MANY OF the complex tools developed this cen- tury appear to have little in common with those developed in the preced- ing 100 years. The development of radio, electronics and the tapping of of new power sources have been coupled with the of lighter and creation stronger materials to yield powerful new muscles with which man is able to bend nature to his social will.

refined His electronic have enhanced the resources human senses and continually thwarted erect attempts to philosophical boundaries to nature's domain. While electronic computers enhance his intellectual capa- whole fac- and control tories, powerful machines can shift mountains and construct dams with comparative ease.

Familiarity with the new has also energy resources refinement and flexi- brought bility. Scientists photo- can graph single atoms-one hun- dred millionth of a centimeter in diameter- or a laser pulse moving at 186,000 miles a sec- ond. Implications Micro-miniaturization of has electronic components possible the small but made powerful computing systems without which space explora- tion would be impossible. On the impact of earth, these developments on produc- tion has revolutionary impli- the true sci-fi robot would be cations. purely of academic interest.

The machine is no longer The human body with its simply the 'senseless' extension particular arrangement of the human hand. Automa. developed has sense organs tion under capitalism — in so over millions of years while a far be as it can «robot. is built highty-. reduction thể means specialized tasks within the inadequate and worker to an production process. redundant cog in complex integrated production unit.

However, occasion it is on follow human to necessary fiction, While science at form and movement closely.

least, has given us the perfect robot-the intelligent machine excellence made in the par Remote-control capital of image man the worker demands that The simplest case in point becomes part of the machine.

is the handling of dangerous the performance Indeed, the construction of materials or The four-fi chine mimicr operator's I Il. It can cimb

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of experiments in a vacuum use of remote- where 'the controlled hands are employed.

Such techniques can be used for dealing with radio- active substances. The experi- may be proceeding ment some distance away from the operator who, supervises it by means of closed-circuit. tele- vision. The hand movements of the operator are followed faith- fully by metal hands which manipulate canisters, beakers and other scientific equipment under heavy radiation. Such methods will certainly be extended to space explora- tion. The continued operation of the Soviet Lunokhod moon- control craft under the close 'drivers' of eight Russian points the way to the not-far- when distant time complex experiments will take place on the surface of Venus or Jupi- ter, controlled from earth in a similar way. Indeed, we can say that the robot will be in its element these environments, in SO hostile to man. Flexibility There are already in exist- ance machines which multiply man's strength as well as retaining human flexibility.

The concept of machines to augment muscular strength and endurance is less than 15 years old. The prototypes of muscle- amplifying devices are already in existence in the United States. The General Electric and feet and his every move- ment is followed closely.

He now lift 1,500-pound can a crate or perform a great num- ber of other heavy load-hand- ling tasks. Attached to a suitable supply, he can walk

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Productivity The productivity boost implicit in device is such a plain and this will not have escaped the employers' notice.

" In the development of suct machines the force-feedback principle is central. This means that the opera- feels that he is actually tor walking, lifting, etc. He experi forces his limbs ences on which proportional are to huge forces the machine on itself. One advance on the 'Hardi- 11-foot-high man' is an 'mechanical horse' which mim- ics the foot and hand move- and its operator, moves about on four alumin- jum legs. It can lift 500 pounds with *ease and traverse rough ter- rain where other vehicles cannot go. Because of the unique of feel provided by sense the fors-federa tor nol be "the horse's operator: can blindfolded and still operate Further- the unit successfully. he can balance the more, machine on two diagonal legs, make it climb over four- 'Hardiman', for example, pro- foot obstacle or walk it along vides a framework of mechani- a narrow pathway! cal muscles that enable a man Costs •to lift heavy loads while exert- ing only a small amount of Research of these force. costs the machines are large-the proto- The worker attaches frame to his forearms,- rtype.cost almost Slm - but waist

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Ноговсоре 11.58 Faith for life. 12.03 Weather Thureday January 14, 1971 the extensive use of 'muscle- amplification' equipment, par- ticularly where automation not be immediately fea- may sible, can be a cheap way of reducing the labour force.

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11.55 Epilogue.

Thursday January 14, 1971 THE following is the text of greetings to the US Workers League National Conference by Dany Sylveire early in January from the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League.

I AM delegated by the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League to bring the warmest fraternal greetings to the Workers League on the of its fourth occasion National Conference. There never was a time in history when the revolu- tionary co-thinkers of Leon Trotsky needed to work and fight together in the struggle develop revolutionary to Marxism as today. This we all understand can be carried out in the only con- fight class tinuous against our whose revisionist, reform- enemy and Stalinist ist agencies con- destroy the stantly threaten to revolutionary vanguard. Principles For ten years the leadership of the Workers League and Socialist Labour League have continuously upheld the principles of the Fourth International. Since the of my last occasion the United States there visit to have been considerable changes on the international scene. The of the coming power Tory government in Britain last June tended, just as the election of Nixon in November 1968, to forces of inter- strengthen the national capitalism. But this has been more than offset by the revolutionary deter- mination of the working class Britain and the United both in States to resist the encroachment of capital their and on wakes working conditions. To state a few the in New York postmen's strike in New victorious Council wor- and the kers' strike in Britain recently.

Although the capitalist class have able to push workers been slightly backwards in a number of cases this has been mainly due to the treachery of the reformist trade union leaders. But neither in Britain nor the United States have the capitalists been able to inflict santons the working class. defeat on more deeply into the historical. *This is a source of great en- background of this movement, in couragement for, the Trotskyist order to understand philosophic- movement. ally the particular characteristics arising from the movement of the Marxism working class. Our two movements have been We are turned entirely towards engaged over the past vear in the working class. study of dialectical materialism. We consider that the develop- of Marxism be ment can only Mainspring carried through such an orientation. But this does not mean that we This is no accident. The move- ment of the working class impels tail-end the working class and dialectical materialism pay pious tributes to its militancy.

us to use as a method of thinking- -what This is what the revisionists do comrade Trotsky described as the but it is not our job. As Marxists the building of the mainspring in understand the movement of revolutionary party. the working something class as For the first time since his last which requires us to plunge ever

THREE

FILMS about the Tory anti-union Bill are cur- trade rently available to union branches, shop stew- ards' committees and other workers' organizations. They form hard-hitting, the of her disappointment at tightly argued condemnation o1 failure of the Tories keep the laws and stress the neces- prices down and living standards Strike General to sity force the Tories to resign as the *'She said unions were the only sole of smashing the protection workers had, and that Bill. Tories allowed the must not be Shot in a matter of days, the them. She called for about to destroy low-budget films cost a General Strike against the Bill.

work of £100 and the were Workers at the Morris factory Association members the of ot at Oxford said their employers Cinematograph and Television were thing since the Tories von power refusing negotiate Technicians. 12, they On January that being shown in work time to mem- attempts were 'bulldoze' them 4,000-strong Maga- made to bers of the pay-and-productivity accept zine and Book branch of the National Union of Journalists agreements. as of its the protest Judge industrial Relations Bill The

ACCT

members who films are to the made the ask of A detona cartes her NHS Trades Union Congress to dis- charges way members. tribute them to its treatment and school meals They can also be obtained direct affects on would have crippling from the ACCT, 2 Soho Square, workers children and their WI. London, would affects which the Bill render them powerless to redress Dustman striking for more pay. Linking the interviews, a law- what the of the yer spelt out exactly Two films are docu- anti-union laws would mean and mentary type and the third was concluded they would decisively in the form of a satirical sketch.

'tilt the balance in favour of the The first film based on of interviews with trade employers'. series In the second film, the role of unionists in London, Lancashire and-behind them- the courts Midlands and Liverpool, and the punched one worker. after another spon- the state is home in involving judge, a- scenes taneously linked the fight against worker and Bill with the need to defeat an employer. the as the No could doubt, as the Tory government and all its one concluded, sketch that sole anti-working-class policies.

defence against this vicious Bill, A dustman instanced the vic- traditional tory of the workers under which every municipal right and practice of trade as proof of the strength and pos- 'unfair" would sibilities of working-class action. unions become and which will send many union- Building who workers to defeat the Helens works told how they had men Pilkington's 1S • TO Tories. For who did doubt the locked taking any been out effect the threat, let alone the action even before ympathetic reality, of the Bill was having on They became law. were film docu- workers the third convinced things would be mented the December 8 demon- much worse afterwards. stration in London. A woman office cleaner spoke wall ont

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for their evasions cant only hictarinal hahi fully appreciate the ne work publish and such matters which that days gave The year of 1971 promises Trotsky- most vent olshévism sin hickomy of Greetings The raised ins Not nly ha have we r Enormous class mous class forces are a forces raise their own thenretical under.

are penetrating deeper standing. and repner into the worring cack world The more the working cass into imnortant sections of the middle class. moves We tren from these master in the direction of revoll.

tion. the more we must out Into The Waneer Presc and the ex.

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gress unionists mich archinge †ha camera quoted in Monday's 'L si the marchi march and Lond middle Monde. pointedly caught a Rolls sweep.

The Secretare of that Croni attempts Soviet heir anger : identified Secres dinner for alout 4o it rom them won heir agents in he shape s nuer centuries Stalinist Crech Partv leaders last Historical November Poison could the concern of men who been visually clearer. importance of these film hich the s which (at Show rkers have Trade his Lat it nishe were reminded that it was Heaths slave- Toryism speech' all-out attack on child- ren workeden, women and tende mninnicti which oniv a nolitical hant wil Workers® drive back these key tims to must show+ Communist POTENTIAL productivity of Britain's soils is being undermined by the danger- ously low levels of humus "There been an alarm. rate The present of amant. brought about by unplan- aided spread grass weeds, Ellm Ато нам ned farming methods. the most serious £14m with another the mainténance now says farming systems (Modern farming amorini drainage report ploughing up of gr the soil'). The brought a drop in c Drainage says Adv isory Council report The u soil has also created a of under-drainage Dud ished vesterdav. created would ANAr could be come imorovements timpana hove hoon none "ico heen nancing anviato drainage THE RECENT strikes in Poland have, if any. thing, speeded-up the Kremlin's timetable of 'detente' with the major capitalist states in W Europe. An article in the Soviet economic journal 'Sotsialisti- cheskaya Industriya' blat- antly emphasizes the advant- ages for W German imperi- alists in dealing with the bureaucracy: 'As a result of W Germany's dependence on the foreign mar- ket, as a result of the aggrava- tion of competition in the capi- talist market, as a result of the geographical proximity of to the most socialist countries German Federal Republic, com- with them merical co-operation is becoming The article, taking issue with ultra-rightist opponents Brandt's foreign policy, added 'cold warriors' should that remember economic links with East help not only the Soviet Union, but W Germany itself.

RECESSION

coincides with Thé article growing fears in Bonn that W Germany faces a period of defia- tion and possibly even recession.

a record year for 1970 was business bankruptcies, and the forecast for this year is even moré gloomy. So government leaders in Bonn are watching their opposite numbers in Moscow very closely for signs of a split over Brezh- nev's declared policy of seeking W Ger- better relations with many. A section of the Soviet bureau- close to cracy, say sources Brandt, is anxious not to fall out with E German leader Walter Ulbricht. on E His stubborn stand Germany's right to handle all affairs relating to the status of W. Berlin is proving a stumbling block in the convening of -ll Enropean security conference, an as well as final ratification Bonn's treaties with the Soviet Union and Poland. On the other hand, the new Gierek regime in Poland has the most pressing economic and for improving political reasons its links with the West.

STRIKE-BREAKING

The recently released state- ment on the Polish government's foreign policy marks right- a ward turn even from the pro- imperialist position of the Gom- regime, the Spanish miners' which last ulka year helped break strike on behalf of Franco and cement workers' strike for the.

Lynch regime in Ireland. J move to in • Hungary and Poland, in as Czechoslovakia. And it he was, said, Khrushchev who led the way with his attack on Stalin.

He added: 'Khrushchevism is a poison in the veins of the inter- national Communist movement.

This poison must be eliminated if the movement is to regain its health. "The last 14 years have shown the truth of Stalin's thesis on the sharpening of the class under conditions of struggle socialism and on the penetra- tion of the class enemy within the Party. 'In rejecting this thesis, the 20th Congress prepared the way for the class enemy to penetrate Parties. The 24th' It is clear that Starikov speaks for an important, if not the dominant, section of the Soviet bureaucracy. Idealism military leaders begun Stalin's rehabilitation in speeches and films glorifying his role during the Sęcond World The Stalinist thesis he men- tions, of course, is the purest idealism. According to this Marxist, class antagonisms grow sharper to the extent that the social basis for them dis- appears. socialism he sunle substitute for of the for "class bureaucracy, and those who lead the enemy' struggle for the political revo- lution against the bureaucracy, the meaning of the theory becomes clear.

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BY ROBERT BLACK

The Gierek-Moczar leadership Provided trade does not under- first makes plain that Poland mine in any way the sonacal continue her the workers' wishes not only to support state to the struggle of the work- known and generally appreciated [sic!) efforts for a detente and ing class in the capitalist country then basic prin- security in Europe, but, what is concerned, no take further ciple of socialist internationalism more, intends steps leading to the quick hold- is compromised. ing of the European conference!

But when trade is used to The new regime, the statement break strikes, both as Was la 'calls for Ireland, Spain and and where brosecurity, the ived the activation of it becomes the basis of political broadly dialogue and military collaboration even Poland between People's between the and bureaucracy strong [?] link in the community imperialism, then it is the duty of socialist and the states of speak every communist to West.' European out against such a policy.

It then lists the regime's allies The Soviet and E European 'Européan in this West': the bureaucracies, caught in inescapable of than ever before that we should 'We see clearly contradictions building "socialism' the his- in of torically backward areas maintain excellent relations with Europe, increasingly driven Paris, historical, are not only for deals the sentimental towards with major traditional Tea- monopolies and capitalist of sons, but also for realistic considerations.' Europe and the US. political (Our The plight of the Gierek emphasis.) regime, faced by a working class

UNDERSTANDING

determination to win both higher living standards and basic And to drive the point home, exemplifies the political rights, the statement adds: crisis of the entire Stalinist sys- tem. by the ruled succes- Gaulle, may To placate the masses, better assured that rest precisely now living standards are needed. But she will find in Poland greater requires secure them cut- understanding than ever before.'

back in arms spending, which in threatens the turn to weaken Gaulle's rule The fact that de Soviet Union defences of the was succeeded by that of Pom- and its allies. and not the working class, solely due the revolutionary role of French and world Stalinism during the great

ARMS STRAIN

the So in return for policing working class of W Europe, with its Stalinist parties France and Italy, and its smaller, equally, treacherous but oppor- followers tunist in Britain, the hopes that imperi- bureaucracy will come to an agreement alism disarmament, thus easing the on colossal strain arms produc- planned the tion imposes on economies of E Europe and the Soviet Union. Poland, termany ar his and as the post-war history of Czechoslovakia shown, yield of bureaucracy will none working class its privileges to the without a bitter fight. Ulbricht: Stumbling block imperialism It to for secure the economic strike of May- heading off mounting, unrest sit-in general in June 1968. the on the masses, while relying tanks of the Kremlin for open And now the Polish Stalinists repression. pledge even greater 'understand- ing' for the future! The only way out of this crisis in the economics of the workers For the statement goes on: states is along the road of work- revolution-the politi- of • the ing-class 'France is not, course, which Poland cal revolution in the East, with wants to with the democracy and control over wants good relations. ers' democracy control over Well-known reasons [1] called the foundations for of a Treaty production, on the conclusion. Poland the of the existing nationalized pro- by and Federal the social Republic of Germany. No perty relations, and West, the one understands better than we revolution in the the expropriation of capitalist Poles the importance of the new re-unification Treaty class and the of the entire continent on socialist left out of the pice-re strike-racked Italy lines. The crisis Polish anxious not only we are between bureaucracy, to expand our trade with that imperialism work- country, but also to bring confirms in the most ing class, closer together beneft of the political our concrete way the analysis of to the operation Stalinism made by Trotsky in cause of security his 'The Revolu- classic work, tion Betrayed'

TRADE RELATIONS

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rates ruptcies in 1971. Firms he forst hair or 1970 cent. the. go on, says ment is altay inadequate it claims, of payment cas using a balance dee govern. govern. its attack context only of the anti In because this agreement recommends as there mast Be a part of Bray succeeds says policy can only Vital settlement The power workers' settle- * The Car as on age dove Bie he deared, stand firm against wage increases. entime Wilberforce the and one on in the dea others.

WEATHER

in the pay NE I Scotlar all districts. Temper ¡tures near normal Outlook for Friday and Satur- Meccano lock-out discussed after port of their 1s-an-hour pay Meccan cras 1,300-strong walked I enz for for 40 hour: We tel rs ol Meccano were taught

BRIEFLY

Sheriff that preside aid of tre is shire " He said that govern- be nestiny onE: considering spores grounds generally.

ents at Metal і 200,00 геріа

WORKERS PRESS

A LOT has changed since the December 8 protest against the Tory government's Indus- trial Relations Bill. The following resolution received a five-to-one majority at a meeting of 5,000 Reyrolle workers at Hebburn during the NE engineering plant's anti-Tory action on Tuesday: LARGE-SCALE sackings may hit nationalized

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Call by NE factory

(RUGGLE

standmaintal road haulage following calls for an urgent shake- up in the industry from the Prices and Incomes struggle defend the rights for orking class as ou i over so gears Published yesterday, the

BY GARY GURMEET

dying Board's report sug.

and gests that 'manpower will Seeking asylum neea to constaerably reduced' in the National Well Freight Corporation estab.

A YOUNG Spanish student 1s i the right lished in January 1969' in Scotland seeking political because he may face Ine dearn penalty in spain Mar Grada de reset iving sions. 10 per cont carier this yeat Past Saturday. passpor He is a member of a social.

resign. ory working in the i Chem Shake-up Indisties abour government pled The réport. "Costs, to restor National Freight Corporation appealine for pital asylum mitted gramme urgent Tuary National Cores poet, As content ies whe losses are due bo iy to fair barcel stan Nationay Cartels. Unofficial vereitish Roed Service dricia action last year over a pas were offered small Another mor which they have had to fight ONE OF THE MOST positive features of the alver as the saying cal resurgence of working-class activity is the continuous exposure of the Stalinists.

Part of the 6,000 audience at the TUC's Albert Hal Before the 20th Con-

ALL TRADES

of Khru gress speech

UNIONS ALLIANCE

shchev 1956 the

MEETINGS

London area was doubtedly their Miners and the mall stronghold. Nowadays it Charter of Basic

• FROM PAGE ONE

Sortes tesignation is extremely difficult for bring about th Rights and Wilson inside cannot sub- ns on the tnem lo cel a sizeadit demonstration. stitute for class polics OLLERTON: Saturday peaker: Eck Patoons is have delined d arker (Ollerton Colliery clashe ists cannot achieve up for the retreat of growing older and tired Come to shattered many of these and Alexandra Palace! When idealist-empiricist feeling of Force the existensee cind the - e riced to for around i Tories to resign! transition to social- January erefore, is not the fema, Mary 4, 8 P.m. Te daDa. son union. Derby Ra. therefore, is not

SLANDER

the ree of stalinist t Rid/Seven Sisters Rorn DA GENIA Math Green Tensor. the paper • ср m. STe Truchday paper. deliberate lie, Ramelso politica Changed line Stalinist 14 conference. mad ate Deceiser and as unis introduced the store Nut sarasine actions i Generate s Behind radical bresald the samer, rotten political t the Bored Devey to accept cally Vanishing tomala, a sing conchi tanner

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elimination vould raise a numbe ole teles cone of Salinist polices.

necessitate That is why neuses lit Committee and . Politic Coace more onus on Without farene battle for the od is likely to be ree Pubished by Workers • of the Tory Party near liverpoor let ad deS steps but stages anti-union laws. Absolute Cory attack unions. Sh Street London: We ypical on many marches match hatred for the Heath government the tubes Thursday January 14, 1971 FIGHTING between Jordanian troops and Palestinian commandos continued in and around the capital, Amman, yesterday, although a ceasefire is supposed to have been concluded between the two sides.

A Palestinian commando

FOREIGN COYRESPONDENT

Troops spokesman in Beirut claimed government troops where the leading to Cairo, out in Democratic contender shooting had carried on Presidential nomina- I alLy several hours after Tues- had with informal taiks Uttar Pradesh con day's cease-fire call. Pres cert on luesday. Several Attempting

MRS

INDIRA

GANDHI'S

were under areasy machine gan Amman nance be Soviet bureaucracy, Stalinist-backed Congress gov.

US British ernment vesterady alerted troops torouchoul Fighting is even more severe has Egyptian Littar Pradesh state atter nant.

in the North, where Royalist in Benares, where 11 have tion of hghting for the Pales Torces tren orensive against first flared on strongholds Aqraba, acceptance last summere tel Monday Rafid and Saham. 'peace plan', shot About whose rea police. counter-revolutionary far acmonsulalors Have Confirmed is brutally clea and the entire Deen arrested, city is under military curfew.

Israeli observers across the ies and refugee cam frontier can macc USSR's Lunokhod moon vehi- rilla claims tanks ogged artillery used are belle in its miles months No arms reduce commando dositions of lunar exploration, Tass re- The 'ceasefire' agreement ported yesterudy. news agency added that serves as a cover tor uneasn' for ing even more save reDres solt-lanaca sions against Palestinian the on the moon last Novemberl • have and is now in Its Thire unar workers day howo would park for the next frontier into because the than too high for good TV pictures.

occupied territory reDICSSIOL -Torres tne nanas Ine novals Army. Yet guerrilla leader Yassir BOLIVIA'S President Aratat armver in Amman on Tuesday to parley once again Torres has turned down King Hussein's butchers. calls to arm the working Pressure class against any repetition Arafat is under pressure to his disarm of Monday's abortive ultra- Jordan's cities, that would be the logical outcome rightist coup. retreats anel since Dromises with Hussein To cade to leader Tres, Sepeat disaray in tine guer- Calle

DOW CI

Total disarray WOrKIne-CLaSS

SUDDOLL

rilla Uctober last year, made dema pledges 'victory rally' in La Paz on Tuesday to speed his United to Ivanons programme whatever muss on. extent you demand'. ran, the tiMiddle-East raged UN He also Jordan, the 'people's assembly' met Israeli and Tor- would check over the progress danian leaders in New York of the junta's programme Negotiations But all arms were to remain anaer army control This is the advanced most stage three-way

CONSTANT DANGER

negotiations between Arab C's Albert Hall rally. leaders and the Zionists.

While state remains POWer More pressure for a settle- in the hands of the bourgeois The most inspiring proo will with ment Israel nanonalst multary wunta. toere massive en- of this is the remains a constant danger done nigh the Charte •rouent to bear durine talks which began yesterday blows be- new prepared Rights tween Egyptian leaders yorking-class, General demand President studeat is rural Strike to force the the r. : resigna- Union, the Aswan Cairo the by tion Lories швис opening of given type 5,000 Revrolles High WOrKerS in Peru regime and

COAST

huesday, has beer now Bolivia the Castroites aise (See report this page.) so ocusca on une current

VISIT

ane stalinists Edmund Muskie treacherous. Uo senator Determined It 1s the determination and militancy these workers

PUBLIC LECTURE

thousands more St Helens Marxism and the struggle against the Tory government sociallsi revoluuon bankrupt. out it is by no means dead Its destruction an indis- Monday January 18, 8 p.m.

pensable condition for socialist development only through Co-op Hall, Whitney Chambers, Marxist theory Fanshawe Avenue, applicauon ine concrele practice of building the revo-

BARKING

lutionary leadership in Britain.

That is the most vital lesson of January 12. Speaker : G. Healy (national secretary of the Socialist Labour League) Nixon fear of

SWINDON

steel price

PUBLIC MEETING

rebound Make the Tories resign! Friday January 15, 8 p.m.

THE NIXON Administra- tion issued a warning

OXFORD HOTEL

yesterday against price

DROVE ROAD

increases in the US steel industry. Speaker : G. Healy (national secretary of the Socialist Labour League) This came only 24 hours after Bethlehem steel, Adm. Is Anencas second largest steel producer. announced cent rises for shipbuilding and construction steel Nixon's fears new rises in steel prices will Elements of selves right economy is thoroughly justi- nea It is a measure of his con- Marxism cern that Nixon is brenarer to risk a clash with some the Republican Party's oldest Presidential spokesman Liegler was pressurIzine the industrv. he admitted that Lecture by Cliff Slaughter reviewing the government 1s what action we may (SLL Central Committee member) steel the of foreign, this to coun- BRISTOL: Central Hall, Old Market. Thursday Since 1968 January 14, 7.30 p.m. both Japan and Market Common countes annual steel nave multed uner Lecture by G. Healy (national secretary of the exports to the US to 5,750,000 short tons. Socialist Labour League) 3 arrangement wishiy benet this arrangement , highly ficial to mono- MANCHESTER: Milton February 3. 7.30 D.m. Deansgate. Wednesday, poled dou be reviewea, January 20, discourage a new Tickets 2s, from Workers Press sellers or at the door.

round of price increases.