Workers Press no. 355

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE C

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

IT HAS taken only seven months for the Tory government of Heath to arouse greater hatred and opposition to its Ministers and policies than any government in the experience of the vast majority of the people. Every working-class family is now seriously affected by the runaway price increases in every type of product and in all services. Soon the cuts in the National Health Service, together with the ending of supplies of school milk and meals, will redouble the hardship for the millions of lower-paid workers. Decimalization will be made the excuse for new price increases in every single field. Next will come the Common Market, with steep food price increases.

And like a great black cloud in the background looms the threat of unemployment.

The Tories are pursuing ruth- lessly their policy of letting unprofitable firms go to the wall.

One factory after another is closing down, thousands more workers go on the dole every month and soon the government will no doubt announce cuts in redundancy payments.

Young married couples are faced with a more and more reted / Joi impossible situation. Fewer houses are being built, and rates are increasing and hire purchase credit is restricted by government policy. through the Treasury evidence submitted to Meanwhile. government an uni the the power workers' court of inquiry, nounces its intention of imposing severe wage restraint, with ensuring higher profits. Now everybody the main aim of knows what the Tories mean by the 'national interest'.

The anti-trade-union laws are the chosen instrument for disarming the working-class movement for these and even more severe attacks in the immediate future.

Now the Post Office workers are going into battle against the Tories for a wage increase which, even i won infull would provide 106,000 postmen with less than £18 a week.

At stake in the Post Office strike is not just the wage of the postal worker, but the future of the anti-union laws and the future of every working-class family in Britain. With Office support from the working-class movement, the Post workers can defeat the government and this would give the signal for a great leap forward in the fight to bring them down. The Labour Party leaders, the trade union leaders of the right and the left, and the Communist Party, all ignore They will not raise the issue of bring- this pressing question. ing down the Tory government and replacing it with a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. Why? Why is it only the Socialist Labour League which has always insisted that the essential fight is to force the Tories to resign?

According to Wilson, we should wait four-and-a-half years and then vote. According to Feather, we must persuade Heath and Carr to withdraw their Bill and co-operate with the TUC. According to the Stalinists, we can force the Tories by pressure to change their minds about bringing in the Bill.

All this is dangerous nonsense and it helps the Tories to hammer through their plans.

They will ignore all appeals The and mere protests. They will have to be brought down.

only only solution to the problems of British capitalism is to break the working class as an independent trade union and political force. It is either that, or a workers' government which intro- duces socialism. The Labourites and Stalinists do not raise the question of bringing down the Tory government, because they cannot face these choices. They are parties of reform, of collabora- The last Labour government tried to tion between classes. through anti-union laws, and impose capitalist solution failed in June 1969. Not a single worker, not a single working-class house- Tories in to last wife, can entertain the idea of leaving the their full term, till 1975! This also the growing opinion among lower-middle-class and professional people, as they experience Tory reaction on all fronts. The mass movement will have to force the Tories out and a Labour government in Only Labour government, and not just trade union struggle, will be able to do what is necessary, ie., to restore of the made by the Tory government, to every one cuts ensure to every worker the right to a job, to stop all factory closures, and to repeal the anti-union laws immediately.

By nationalizing the banks. insurance companies and building societies, abolishing the sfock exchange and estab- lishing state control of all exports and imports, a programme of stabilizing prices would begin immediately.

A mass movement strong enough to bring down the Tories will insist on the carrying out of these policies.

out and The Labour Ministers would elther carry them break from the capitalists they have always served, or make way for a new leadesrhip. That Is the way it will be posed.

A Labour government imposed by a mass movement of the working class, with definite class objectives, is a totally different proposition from past Labour governments which have served capitalism. The mass movement strong enough to remove the Tories will itself prevent factory closures and impose nationalization and without compensation.

As the under workers' control Tory upper and middle classes try to organize against these the and factory necessary measures, trade COn- mittees, housewives and tenants' organizations, will have to The youth will be ready in work out methods of seif-defence hundreds of thousands to fight the employers, just as they were in France 1968. Will such a movement tolerate a treacherous government of the type led by Wilson from 1964 to 1968?

The state power cannot be left in the hands of the Tories and the employing class. They use it only to impose historic They defeats on the working class. are rich upper-class businessmen completely remote from the mass of the people.

They use their power to treat ordinary people as pawns in their game of increasing the millions of pounds profit made every day by their class.

They are attacking every basic right won by the British working class for the sake of these profits.

The British working class needs a Labour government as an instrument to defend itself against this enemy, and to turn on to the attack. Through the experience of such government, brought into power by the strength of the work- ing class itself, the workers will build the new, revolutionary leadership necessary to put an end to the capitalist system.

Marxists in Britain have always advocated the election of a Labour government, in order to hasten the final rejection by the working class of their rotten reformist leadership.

It is in the fire of struggle that such lessons are learned by the masses. We are now in that struggle. A decisive stage in it will be the bringing down of the Tories and the bringing in of a Labour government, with the mass movement insisting that it carry out the socialist programme contained in the Charter of Basic Rights adopted by the All Trades Unions Alliance second annual conference on December 19 and an spur to make the February 14 Alexandra Palace inspiring anti-Tory rally an enormous success The daily paper that leads the Tory government

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

MONDAY JANUARY 18, 1971

• NUMBER 355

OMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

ULSTER'S premier, Major_ James Chichester- Home Reginald Clark is Secretarv. meet Maudling to week's rioting in Ireland. Buildings were set alight Powell's and a burning car pushed through a shop window in "island race' A third are below Lonaonaerry yesterudy rioting spread to the city opposition TUC 'minimum' wage from Belfast, where there has been a week of vio- to EEC

THE 230,000

post are WOrkers into Belfast weed cars certainly not overpaid and cannot

WORKERS PRESS

be blamed for rising postal costs- bombs for an hour-and-a-half. of them earn below third the Nineteenile were TUC's £l6 10s 'minimum' pay on Satur- scale. that in Market is irrev Post Office chiefs have estimated that THOUSANDS of Post Office workers eager to revenue in the hive-year period 1968- join battle with Tory wage-cutting pledged full 19/3 is to tall Short of expectation by

BY DAVID MAUDE

some £50m—exactly equal to the UPW end speech support for strike action at rallies called by their sonical ake his tan claim! - because of heavier capital union throughout Britain at the weekend.

borrowing and higher interest rates.

deceiving electorale No such enthusiasm for the fight was shown ades the by their union leaders. evee aays to Harb the dissolve

YOUNG

VIOLENT SWING

peratelv playing

TORY

LIBERAI

repugnant'

NATIONAL

the backward

TORY

SECURITY

bers in Birmingham yes- om Heath and his pate Lan He would go anywhere and neredible 30 per cont. so Powell hopes 10 anybody of livio one seat thạt

PAGE FOUR COL. 9

heard escribed as derisory No Bahamas 20 per cent claim 15 t N. London and we ignore i Post Ofice engineers be retiring to Pattern back rally Monists White City ounter clerks on ONDON engineers are 62 to ever, shose leaders carefully rally hang 15" an Palace statement fight Some of the 3.000 demonstrators In Londo Yet she tory vern Bench owels strident appeal n ane. Fleet wheaten use the st Fund now agains. workers chauvinism, the strike. needs until

PAGE FOUR COL. 1

union leaders E883 12s 20 cas need. iptoeing around he claim Commit

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

SEVERAL thousand students from a dozen marched through universities and colleges London yesterday afternoon protesting against the lory decision to expel tormer w German than student leader Rudi Dutschke from Britain.

sections or p Chanting the di in, Maud-

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Paisley would get in Dublin.

te all betore rallying their hands diy at fratabar Square. telecommunica- The meeting was addresséd tions section. Michael Foot BANK of England governor 'Private satiri er the tom nd the Rev. Pat Sir leslie O'bren expressed support for Tory wages policy 4400 return of whom travelled ts,

BBC

tal investment nearl interview Radio's World This Week secte pace end. There were signs that the government was working said, against innanon, cott or al normal lectures adding: "And certainly there are great hopes that they will su ported by loss of £25m in Instead work even more effectively.

many POEU members fear for jobs Postal oren tore more detalis/a ticket. I enclose cheque/ denationalization affecting morale of that Name Smith. the stall. Address Christ letter to Post Minister rocketing postal says the dismissal of Lord

• PAGE FOUR COL. 1

Tales.

PAGE TWO

IN SIX PARTS

PART O

IN AN 'open letter' pub- lished in Workers Press, April 18 and 21, 1970, we addressed the following ques- tions to Joseph Hansen of the Socialist Workers Party (US). What is Castroism? Who will build the revolutionary served for leadership to defeat imperial- cover an un- principled re-unification between ism and Stalinism? What is the future of Trotskyism?

Pablo. The supporters SWP had been one of the parties Hansen — a leading apologist which broke with Pablo in 1953.

for Castroism 1960 since refused to answer these Considerable documentary tions, or any of the points raised material relating to your position in our open letter'. This over the last decade was oTew attention to his record on Cuba, shalled to prove that you had and also to the recent attacks renounced vital questions Marxist theory and made on Castro ov Hugo Blanco principle in the leader to break from peasant imprisoned your anxiety the by the Peruvian military junta.

International Committee and link Fidel Castro Castro has several with Pabloite International on occa- sions praised this military regime, Secretariat. despite its of repressions But in your journal "Inter- dents, workers and peasants.

continental Press', May 11, 1970, This second open letter deals you once more evade the issues with Hansen's and raised and the her t evastons the further answers his recently repeated ranks, slanders that the Socialist Labour the right of the Castro leadership faithfully League has been the (which, as you know, Kremlin opponent of a principled unifica- policy of endorses the tion on a world scale of genuinely the mili- supporting reactionary Trotskyist forces. tary junta in Peru). Since 1963 the SWP has sup- the revisionist Unified ported Slanders Fourth Inter- Secretariat of the national. Before that it had main- tained fraternal relations with In this 'A article note on

SLL

Healy's Slanders' and the International Current

THA

you Committee of the Fourth Inter- publication of

CHIT

Voorhis national. (The repressive material relating to the congress Act in the prevents party 'Unified Secretariat' last ot the US having international affilia- be found These are to tions.) 'Fourth International' (Vol. No. 2, Winter 1969-1970).

(The record of the SWP and of you in particular, on the Our publication of these docu- Revolution Cuban nopen letter to was the ments obviously causes you some political discomfort, for you make ject of our hirst the cynical remark: you. That showed how the 'Shocking as it letter may seem to of the Castro leader- good many emergence ship and that such a free discussion could the discussion the class nature of the Cuban state be held, others may begin to I would like information about and send to NATIONAL Fill in the form below

SECRETARY,

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUE,

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

Name Address

RT ONE

wonder about the monolithism in their own organization.

By attempting to turn the dis- cussion away from politics, perspectives and history to innuendo about the internal 'regime of the SLL you emulate the spokesman of the petty bour- geois opposition to Trotsky and Cannon in your own party in 1939-1940. Following in the tradition established by Trotsky and his supporters in the fight against Burnham and Shachtman, we refuse to be diverted by such petty-bourgeois tactics. Your political case rests with the reproduction of the SWP resolution of March 1, 1963: 'For the Early Reunification of the World Trotskyist Movement'.

But even this resolution is intro- duced in a sick style, a style that betrays a whole political method: In his list of further docu- "exposed", ments to be should like to suggest that Healy gives top priority to the one reprinted below (i.e. For Early Reunification). It should be of special interest to members of the SLL since it can be safely asserted that 99.9 per cent have never heard of it and the remain- ing 0.1 percent probably had to turn their numbered copies back in to Healy personally. 'What did Healy object to in He has never this document? stated his objections but they are hardly any secret. In my con- sidered opinion, Healy was motivated primarily by dead-end factionalism.' What does this explain? Are political tendencies and splits to be explained on the basis of guessing at psychological motives? What has this to do with Marxism? Abandon You continue, In the years since the Reunification Congress Healy has covered up his differ- ences on these points with an immense of verbiage amount about the importance of theory?

Here indeed is the heart of the question. The SLL did not simply talk about the importance of theory, but demonstrated in minute detail that yours and the SWP line consisted of the aban- of Marxist theory, donment capitulation to the so-called "facts', a substitution of em- piricism for Marxist theory.

As you once proudly an- nounced: I start with the em- pirical fact of the Cuban Revolution'. And, another on

WORKERS PRESS

BY ROBERT

"Dialectical materialism majority resolution on reunifica- occasion, is empiricism consistently carried tion. out" It was accepted by You say, In order to cover up your an overwhelming. majority on thoroughly opportunis record the each side and this hecame on Cuba over the last ten years of principles on which statement you have to resort to a total dis- the two sides carried out a fusion of For tortion position. the subsequent Reunification example, you write: Congress in 1963. Healy still holds that "While substantial differences Cuba's economy is state capitalist still remain, especially the and that Castro is another ›causes of the 1953 split, the area "Batista"! of disagreement af appears importance in view. of We hope your readers will the hasic programme carefully note the use you make common common analysis of major and of quotation marks in this sen- current events in world develop- tencè. Putting the name of thr ment [i.e. Cuba] which unites the dictator in former Cuban quot two sides.' tion marks suggests we said that "astro and Batista were identical The SLL and our French You know this is a downright lie.

rades on the International Com- Yet you develop this lie further, differences the mittee saw saying: growing greater as between our- it is sad that a person selves and the revisionists. But this line of yours was who shouts much about the not new. So 6. As early February 1961. importance of theory should have Political Committee your wrote found little time attempt for rapid arguing re- make a small to at least con- unification with Pablo: tribution to the economic theory of state capitalism and the poli- we have no reason to tical theory of Castroism as stroism as a deny our differences on political for synonym and organizational questions with (Again, the unexplained quota- leading the IS members (the, tion marks.) Pabloite, 'International Secre- tariat") and we have not con- In our first 'open letter' to cealed them. But we cannot agree you, we were scrupulously careful with that quoting from your writings on your opinion Our political differences with the IS Cuba. to the of have increased point The bulk of tested irreconcilability.' the differ- our case what have said in "irreconcilable" on you the were ences nOH past about the 'unconscious Trot- in 1953, why your "open letter" skyists', Castro) who and the ensuing split? (e.g. dorse the most reactionary of Stalinism and defend aspects 'On the have contrary, we the military junta in Peru which noted nothing since the question held Hugo Blanco and his com- was last discussed with you that rades captive. would indicate we should revise the view that the political differ- ences on some key questions have Accepted diminished to the point where unification is possible and justifi- But before checking over able and that we must make it our Cuba, responsibility will deal follow position on to

INA

A1l1 with the raised by policies that will facilitate this issues your reproduction of the

SWP

objective.'

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

L. TROTSKY:

GERMANY 1931/32 paperback 00 cloth

WHERE IS BRITAIN GOING?

HISTORY OF RUSSIAN

REVOLUTION 3 vols

AGE OF PERMANENT REVOLUTION

REVOLUTION BETRAYED

paperback cloth

PROBLEMS OF CHINESE

REVOLUTION paperback cloth

PERMANENT REVOLUTION,

RESULTS & PROSPECTS'

R. BLACK:

STALINISM IN BRITAIN paperback cloth

PAMPHLETS

L. TROTSKY:

DEATH AGONY OF CAPITALISM

(The Transitional Programme)

CLASS NATURE OF THE SOVIET

STATE

4s Od O)

CLASS AND ART

25Od O]

MARXISM AND TRADE UNIONS

38 6d 0 PlAgRA tick those honks reauired

NAME........

ADDRESS.

Amount enclosed each pamphlet 1s 6d postage for each book.

postage for Complete form and send with money to New Park Publications, 186a Clapham Hiah St. London. SW4.

We concluded our reply by calling for the careful prepara- tion of dis- "first within the ranks of cussion, the International Committee and then, if it is possible, within the Pabloites along the lines we have (Emphasis already suggested. added.) "They will find it most difficult to resist such an approach. Even if the they. do. important question first to clarify our own ranks.' By refusing to begin such discussion, you protected the Pabloites from this pressure. You put spurious with forces the liquidationist of the IS before clarification within the of the International ranks Committee, which since the split of 1953 had been the rally- ing for all point

ACTIC

Trotskyists. Then a full year passed with- out our being able to encourage

SWP

the leadership to begin such discussion. The record speaks for itself. On January 2, 1961, we wrote National a letter to the Com-

SWP

mittee of the raising the question of Pabloism and our political of it. You evaluation replied on February 6—the open letter from which we have quoted. We then wrote back, request- ing that the discussion proceed To this as promptly as possible. letter, we received no reply.

We wrote again on February 24, reiterating the points we made previously. Again, no reply.

On May 4 and 8 we sent two more letters to the SWP National

ERT BLACK

We did not oppose a principled unification then, and do not we do so now. But the type of fusion were advocating was one you the theoretical his- where and torical questions would be ob- scured- hence the emphasis that the

SWP

leadership placed on the of organizational nature Pabloism, and the neglect of its idealist, middle-class roots.

Revises We took up this point in our 'reply 'We to you: believe that the reasons for the split in 1953 not of a tactical nature

WCIC

Pabloism effect the In revises Hugo whole concept of Marxist the Blanco party .

BBC 1

9.38 a.m.-12.25 p.m. Schools. 12.55 In defence of the stork. 1.30 with mother. Watch 1.45-1.53 News and weather. 2.05-3.40 Schools. 4.10-4.35 Computer education in schools.

4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Blue Peter. 5.20 Barrier reef. 5.44 Magic roundabout. 5.50 News and weather. LONDON THIS WEEK. Weather.

6.00

ENTERTAINING WITH KERR.

6.20

A QUESTION OF SPORT.

6.45 7.05 Z CARS. "Nobody Wins, Nobody Loses'. Part one.

7.30 NOT IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN. 'Domestic Help'.

8.00

PANORAMA.

'Other People's Bables'. Report on unmarried mothers. 9.00 NINE O'CLOCK NEWS and weather.

9.20 DOOMWATCH. 'By the Pricking of my Thumbs..:

10.10 COME DANCING.

10.40 24 HOURS.

11.15 ROAD SENSE.

11.40 Weather.

REGIONAL BBC

allandons as bogie: 0 12.55-1.30S Cotiadad. 6.20-600 Scotland: 6.00-6.20 Mid- Pulse. Ripor Ner Scotland weather. tanas Today.

LOOK

tast, 11.42 News, weather. N Ireland: Scene around six 6.20 book Nornd North. 6.00-6.20 Look westmor and. 11.42 News, weather. Wales: 1.30-1.45 today 0-8.00 6.00- 6.20 Wales veather. 6.45. SWest. South, West: 6.00-6.20 Points 7.05 Heddiw Gymeri South sW. Locals

DOOLISHE

nghalon. I 11.42 Weather. weather. I1.42 News, weather.

BBC 2

11.00-11.20 a.m. PLAY SCHOOL.

6.35-7.00 p.m. OPEN UNIVERSITY. Soclal Sclences 2.

7.05 CRIME AND THE CRIMINAL. 'Types'.

7.30 NEWSROOM and weather.

8.00 THE HIGH CHAPARRAL. 'The Badge'.

8.50 CALL MY BLUFF.

9.50 HORIZON. 'Great Ormond Street'. Hospital for Sick Children.

10.10 THEATRE:

'FAITH. Robert Lang. A former high ranking minister in an E European country is now a political prisoner condemned as a revisionist.

10.40 NEWS ON 2 and weather.

10.45 LATE NIGHT LINE-UP.

ITV

3.45 p.m. Yoga for health. 4.10 Once upon a time. 4.25 Crossroads 4.50 Lost in space. 5.45 News. 5.55 Today.

6.40 DAVID NIXON'S MAGIC BOX.

7.30 CORONATION STREET.

8.00 WORLD IN ACTION.

8.30

MAN AT THE TOP.

'Join the Human Race'. 9.30

MR DIGBY, DARLING.

10.00 NEWS AT TEN.

10.30 FILM: 'ODONGO'. Rhonda Fleming, MacDonald Carey. African adventure story.

12.00 EDITORS.

Leonard Parkin talks to Larry Lamb, editor of 'The Sun'.

REGIONAL ITV

CHANNEL:

11.0-4.8s Pondes biress London. 11.00-2.58 Once upon a tit.is Moment Horoscope. Women 4.45 Forest greetings. of truth, 4.12

5.5 YEWS

5.10 Timeslip. Best 4.50 London. challenge. What's 6.15 detective. 11.05 Tales 10.30 siz hales, weather. 11.05 Weather. It's all yours.

HARLECH:

11.00-2.58 London. 4.09 4.34 Women only. of truth As Channel. S.55 Diary Momen 3.53 Magic 5.14 Time- 4.50 Doore all. 5.50 West. slip. Repor1 London. 2.20 Faith for life. 11.38 Weather.

Film: "On Town'. Gene Kelly, Monday January 18, 1971 Committee-with the same lack of response. The questions raised by us for discussion were finally tabled for examination by the SWP National Committee for its plenum in the middle of June, 1962, almost 18 months after we had opened up the discussion. In a letter dated March 12, 1962, we commented: 'We have waited almost eighteen months and the record of correspondence between us speaks for itself.

What does international col- laboration mean if it does not imply • discussion between sec- tions? What is the purpose of drafting an international resolu- tion as you have done and talking about the need for discussion upon it if you have not presented your membership our to con- tribution to that discussion.'

But despite your flagrant violations of comradely these norms, we still held out hopes that the discussion could begin in a way that would bring to- gether our two movements for a common fight for Trotskyist principles within the international movement: In conclusion we would like to emphasize something we have stressed on a number of occa- sions. We feel proud of the work which our comrades of the SWP have carried out under the most difficult circumstances. 'As internationalists, we feel that the close association between our two sections can continue under conditions where the present discussion may well draw us even closer together. We look forward to your political con- tribution to the discussion.

Continued tomorrow Frank Sinatra. Musical about the of adventures three sailors on a 24- hour in leave New York. 12.15 Weather. HTV (West) colour channel 61 as West. above except: 4.07-4.09 Report 6.20-6.45 This is the West this week.

HTV

(Wales) colour channel 41 as above except: 5.56-6.20 Y dydd.

HTV

(Cymru/Wales) black and white service above except: 5.56-6.20 Y serdd. 8. 00-8.30 Yer excepts.

ANGLIA: 11.00-21.58

London. 4.35 Granny gets the 4.00 News. point. 4.05 Women today. 4.30 Romper room. 4.50 Felix the cat. 5.10 Time- 6.40 London. 10.30 Probe. 10.00 NYPD.

5.45 London. 5.55 About Anglia. 11.30 Living and growing. 11.55 Farm- ing. 12.20 New voices. ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00-2.58 London.

3.10 Houseparty. 3.20 Horoscope. 3.25 Women today. 4.00 Peyton Place. 4.30 Peace on earth. 4.35 Once upon a time. London. Timeslip. 4.50 Showtime. 5.10 5.45 5.55 ATV today. 6.40 London. 10.30 University challenge. 11.02 Personally speaking. Weather.

ULSTER: 11.00-2.58 London.

4.25 Romper room. 4.45 News. 4.50 Phoenix 5.55 5.15 Time slip. 5.45 London

UTV"

eports. 6.15 Mon: McCluskey. London. The Devil's 6.45 Monday isciplet 10.30 10.35 Film: Laurence Olivier, Kirk Burt Lancaster, Douglas, Janette Scott. American Revolution. YORKSHIRE: 11.00-2.58 London. 4.00 Houseparty. 4.10 Once upon a time 5.15 Time- 1.25 Matinee. 4.50 Rovers.

London. 5.55 Calendar. slip. 5.45 veather. 6.15 University challenge. 6.45 London. 10.30 Name of the game. 11.55 Weather.

GRANADA: 11.00-3.00

London. 4.05 Place. 4.40 Once upon News. Peyton Timeslip. 5.45 London. 5.55 Newsday. Put it in time. Skippy. writing. 6.20 Beverly hillbillies. 6.40 University London. 10.30 challenge. 11.00 Human jungle. TYNE TEES: 11.00-2.58 London. 4.00 News. 4.05 Women today. 4.35 Paulus.

4.50 Stingray. 5.15 Timeslip. don. 6.00 Today at six. 6.25 Sports- time. 6.45 London. Policeman and the cook. 12.00 News. 12.15 Epilogue.

BORDER: 1.38-3.00

London. 3.50 4.03 News. 4.05 High Houseparty. living. 4.35 Once upon 4.50 time. Joe 90. 5.10 Timeslip. 5.45 London. 6.05 5.56 News. Lookaround. Horo- scope. 6.15 University challenge.

6.40 10.30 Edgar Wallace. 11.35 London. Danny Doyle. 12.05 News, weather.

SCOTTISH: 10.35

No easy answer. 11.00-2.58 London. 4.00 Dateline. 4.10 a time. 4.25 Castlehaven.

Once upon 5.45 London. 5.55 Dateline. onceptions Captain Scarlet. 5.10 Timeslip. 6.40 Lon- don. 10.30 Debate. 11.20 of murder. 11.50 Late call.

GRAMPIAN: 10.58-2.58 London. 4.05 News. 4.10 Once a time. 4.25 upon 4.55 High living. Rumblie jumblie. 5.15 Timeslip. 5.45 London. 5.55 News.

weather. 6.15 Junkin. chal- lenge. 11.00 growing. 1.35 Evening prayers.

monday January 18. 1971

PART ONE

A NEW SERIES BY PETER JEFFRIES

AS EACH DAY passes the real nature of this Tory government is millions of becoming clearer workers. Backed by all the great mono- polists, it is dedicated to the task of taking all the rights and gains

THE HISTORICAL

achieved by the workers In struggle against capitalism since its emergence in the period of the Industrial Revolution.

BACKGROUND TO

All is dans: to snacke ine unions to the state and take away rights of free collectve bargaining; to destroy the Health Service established by the post-

THE

war Attlee government; and to increase through deliberately unemployment createa bankruptcies and closures, thus denying millions the right to work, are all designed to reduce the working class to a class stripped of all rights and

CHARTER

enormously inten- detenceless against sified exploitation. it is now vital. in tois period or erowing crisis, inal class-conscious workers turn t Heath governments plans OF one than How can all the rights which the work- ing class have won over this long period This is the question which vill race mili so ones as the chich

RIGHTS

deepens, a question which will drive them to slut palit politica answers movement must consciously prepare. materia Mi: Hearn they accident. are the product of a deep international capitalist crisis walen arives me system to take back all the concessions yield t working class in he past. British cess of economic and financial decline. Rivals Facing entry imp turope, it noW completely either ght successfully ir broad, to vals, particularly US but the crisis racine britisn in pie need to settle accounts with itse strengtking For this class it. is the strength ine powerfu which stand ing Tories -cantalion plans. The e British any of the rights which yielded Golden Age Drillsn imperialsun but it ine snarpening con- capitalisin me Drusu runs Class CrISIS, ethe orking cla: salin in ears em ane the gains achieved Dast inaustrial ana pontical strengul The Peasants ol ine labour movement. They openly line up with the defeat the and prevent it successtul counter-onensive agalnst unis Revolt 1381 (1) government n the past. resting on im- relormists were labour movement the able lo use lue surengul Or ult concession But movement's lead destruction. Only leadershin Althougs movement had th real which is now being built and the odest working class in the aoes nave a continuit. that leadin, Th historical de lois It is no accident strengtnened in struggie against word. rofoundest impact upon Chartists such as social demo- ment slainisun ana break-up of feudalism and the class of the thant DeCI development of capitalism 11s, can now detend of these rights. and cred the listen and ang and which they held forthe mome and For class-conscious crisis Peasants of the working class. and how they alected the ment in toe 1ycn centur. Revolt of 1381, caS be bute volt on the pray.

1 yiel, Was of the hich had beenomic een at work fo fade. This study spectives or ecleo e work.

many decades. ing class to take power revolutionarv task. millions ot workers wno wil nust become an inleeral Dar enter politics Response in ine miast of or ine conscious preparalion u.

thin these a the International historical revolutonal. some of the lessons mobilize great The great leap in british crisis bringing forward. workers consciousness, reached their height in being prepared by capitalism's land in June 1381, myneed that Deace when Continuity changriods of ways against the great feudal have and Marxists *arousnes of the Brish wok.

anistake owners, church stressed that revo- leaders. Iocal established enerate defended have they never jusuces ana orner government sciousness lational in scope. oncers neans ing class has been shaped only revolutionary experiences

SOME READING MATERIAL

apitalisr question revolutionary party. English! hundreds for demands the Land, Peace and were through the manses Civil war to the period of the emergence in the years modern basic the British 1G. Homes, The later Made Age..

class working the Industrial Revolution.

class in a period rapidly mounting CrISIS can A. R. Myers 'England In the Late Middle Ages' (Penguln).

This long chain of struggles now una a deep response rom

PAGE THREE

Jobs eliminated by low-cost automation EXAMPLES of how work- and 40H40 are HeadleRE outout while cutting back on jobs are the out lined

BY BERNARD FRANKS

issue of "Target, bulletin of the British Producti- expained that there has been Light vity Council. resistance becaus would be n suresseu tnere Some of the industries engineering examined are: INTRODUCTION of low-cost Engineering Food Harsh Pronge manufacturing makers and con- large enabling increases puber of workers. sallit ComrUlER - controlle ast cente increased its sizt main the condog collar leads at its and employ: plant at nitt breen. Lanca- A semi. sillie. nanales arming operations of 15, Engineering as enaoica proaucur 3331 Don viously carried out by thre avoided nour to be introducing modern techniques including low-cost automation combs from mario operation cost t30el At one time wicks were cut måterials and notched to ensure correct raised productivity by 30 per 5. With Kee Another machine for fixin of the firm owde -of pulse "th of have been i перега sorted for comas vis as a handle sugar, barley, Instead, instedded which notes and has beer per cent done batch, to one 1o: 80 chat automatically length • Stamping completec leeang mixing vessels every two min- wicks everv ten seconds utes. carried out by a It is operated by on spastic employee mach ingrecent is measured of the tim an accuracy ol Component and other jobs cent. most are willill percent which paid for itselt in Cost manufacture Plant €1,000 troubles compute than eight months.

INTRODUCTION

° work Wipment mas once side ot the same irm the use or automa- checks stock levels in storage cut paper the numbel batches produced, each shift • exost quadrupled work load exișting Operations are • report from a cehtral panel which United-Carr which has also linked to all tem. The management measure the work of selected scheme Fewer workers scheme meroduced. According to the report: 'The department, been but farm performance i2e, - cent of standard, i the lab te force tell (from 47) and earnings rose by 60 per cent. It adds that all changes have deaths are up Productivite Council, a organization vhic employers collaborate trade with leaders A RISING TOLL of death and injury on the land is recorded in the latest Ministry of Agriculture report every the Tortes on farm safety, health and welfare.

by did 01 260.0 cat reduce with figures Dealing Nowhere in the Report is 1969, the report any serious comment made on for the 'Financial in Neither is any migh rumbet Accorang lo shows that I15 agricul- Times', this could lead to the replacement BPC's head tural - including t of the workers- of children injured and killed office staff 17 children under 15 Dy a Silal. people by middle 1973. secretarla were killed in farm acci- No indication is given that higures is to be taken. these dents during the year. concerned " or wood traTe burning kille killers were All there is is a series o encouragemen well-spaced paragraphs spread 1969 death over pages over hose for the prevent four-and-a-nall always the Sociat dorces mich he need for all direct encing with d deeper Torces tion sures trae English Civil War of th State the work to 'keep farm ears the as 4 0m involved farming safe. of the tions Bill. less than that for 19nd. 43,000 place in econome and politi

SUBSCRIBE NOW

13p.c. rise the Continent. Fatal 353, dents amricultura.

13 for 12 monton (312 issue agricultural tain's Powers 3 5s for three months 178 issue thus risen roughly ha per workers cent in In the same way, Chartism, If you want to take workers Press twice a week the rates are: ycals. the first revolutionary move E for 12 moms 9021889) of the the try n ment working Song ish class reached its peak (1848) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: part reed all are machines see Circulation Dept., Workbondon, swa.

186a Clapham High St. which hi date, old 197 wili not CrisIs alecica ma l cupcal powers. - - I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press e European peasantry whir intensified struggles be affected until Days required Yet the Ministry has ha

MONDAY

"HURSDAY

(Please tick)

TUESDAY

reported to it no ess inan 1

SRIDAY

which the

WEDNESDAY

SATURDAY

acclaents saved the stage an eden. crisis for cabs anaoubteal drivers' lives' Full subscription (six days) for This crisis was only finally No comment Name. of bourgeois revolutions which he resolved _ in te serie started england AGGress .. completed unter the 19th Cere were 10408 ons for failure Lul y with regulations ext Mond dents to children ree orions.

Amount enclosed f he Peasan Revolt of 1381.

PAGE FOUR

Powell's

• FROM PAGE ONE

"sovereignty paaractert Market. refusal of COol to raise into Powells han plays straigh poet a same. ommon bosed earners on an antipathy members guesties the itself, Does adde sibdressed to the and wilt in others thật That is the question.'

REAL ISSUE

das European with er destroy socialist

ALL TRADES

UNIONS ALLIANCE

MEETINGS

Come to Alexandra Palace! Force the Tories to resign! p.m. Ruskin House, Bombe R

ROYDOI

ments enT

POSTMEN

• FROM PAGE ONF

the Tuesdasi oneds had been ei said set Post Afice spokesman was, but of the simo ys truduse ibe arricle Statute Book Proes are equary Haint Edwardr inquiry an 18-per nion leaders were intimidate

BRIEFLY

i the demonstrators of had their passports con- axed' Jameshite Paper All set for a head-on collision with the Tories

WORKERS PRESS REPORTERS

LONDON postmen gave ample evidence of the militant feeling which is driving them into head- on collision with the Tory government when they rallied 10,000 strong at the White City last Friday. Again and again, the workers we spoke to there stressed that they will no longer tolerate the low pay that has put them close to the bottom of the wages table over the past ten years.

Add to this the burning issue of incremental scales - which can keep young workers waiting up to ten years before they receive full adult rate for their job —and the growing threat of being handed over to private industry by the Tories, and there are all the materials for an explosion. That is why, Wednes- on day, 230,000 postmen, clerks telephonists and cleaners will walk bringing. mail and out, telephone services to a virtu- ally complete halt apart from emergency calls, and closing down post offices all over the Counter clerk Desmond Taylor, country. Postmen Is have other from Jamaica. 'Our claim seen just,' he says. groups of low-paid workers struggle for and win big wage rises. Their own pay has remained close bottom to the of the table for years now, thanks to leadership which union into a court of inquiry, which prides itself 'modera- on its the government is arrogantly tion' and has consistently certain--because the terms of accepted pennies from the will it reference guarantee management after putting in than 10 grant no more per demands for pounds. Indeed, at Friday's rally, the cent. But of inquiry UPW's assistant secretary Dick courts are uncertain and clumsy, however Lawler boasted that between 1949 well trained. and 1969 the tavera oe Now Tories rely the on had lost a total

UPW

forcing by €5,000 because of wage claims retreat leaders so as to push the bid- which pressed were ding in wage claims down to to a finish through by the figure which per cent, leadership. only barely year's covers last Post Office work is a grind- 7.9 cent increase in the per ing round-the-clock machine cost of living. which takes little account of At the same time, the Tories workers' social lives and fre- hope, Bill — the anti-union quently burdens them with a House of Commons serious heavy load of responsibility.

discussion of which begins to- Even the traditional job day—can be pushed through security which attracted many against a background of Fleet men into the Post Office after middle-class hys- St-inspired the war is threatened by Tory teria against the unions.

plans to hive off its profitable and Harold Wilson the sections into hands, Labour leadership will bring possibility with the of large- pressure to bear on the union scale redundancies as quick leaders for a retreat, as they profits are pushed to the fore.

did the power workers' in And the Union Post work-to-rule. on the grounds Office Workers has no funds big fight' that 'the - that pay strike pay during the against the Bill - must come dispute. first. It is forced to rely This strategy must be de- pletely on its members' feated at all costs. willingness to stand out with- office workers will Post out pay for a decent wage and have to exercise the utmost an end to the hated system of vigilance against any retreat scales which ties young postal by their union leaders, and workers of super- they must receive every pos- exploitation before they get sible moral, financial and full rate. industrial support from the of the trade union

TOOT

• RICHARD CHAMBERS is movement in doing this. a typical victim of the incre- It is all very well transport mental system. Married, with workers' leader Jack Jones one small child, he has worked and others promising support. for five years as a postman, The miners received similar ever since he left school.

His promises. basic wage is still only £16 16s These men must be forced for a 43-hour week. to act now. After stoppages- -unless he works long hours of overtime -he takes home £12. I just have to work over- time to make ends meet,' he told Workers Press at Friday's rally. "In order to take home £20 in my pay-packet, I have to work an extra 20 hours-and often I can do it's that not very Up at 4 a.m. every day, he finds his job 'the most 117- sociable job vou can do. When you're constantly trying for more overtime, you can't call any of your time your own'.

Richard's fellow-workers at the N London District Office clustered round demon- to just how badly paid strate they are. They thrust pay-slips in front of my face to prove their point. for example, showed pay slip, example, showed take- home pay for a week's night eight hours' work with as at the newspaper Keristereo of £24 8d. He's Post Office. Published Workers time 4s High Street, Press, Clapham i with postman driver two London, S.W.4. school-age children has who Plough Press Street, London, worked in the post office for 23 years. S.W.4. Increase in the work lor for led the Post 1, he same time as he I'm the amily's only breac childre winner, ne says but were rike up. Ion on E are determit id the mentire de teen their We're not replied to other getting strike lina had com manage, this is an action- against the Tory one neithere tore a Old™ Clapham Town group Si on Saturday alterone" They eard banner and banie would have on young can the fories ete

WEATHER

remid-Tanuary ill beener horma he W it will be mil along near pral temperates

WORKERS PRESS

Some of the London postmen who attended the giant Friday night rally in the White City stadium. "The Hall thing was an in- dication of the mood of the men. Most people felt that if could the government sack Hall at what would they do to the bottom of the industry. I think people in the Post Office are very much opposed to the Tories' for thẻ plans nationalized industries and Office. the Post If they want fight to we are set to give them one' •

DAVE

PERCIVAL

is young Croydon postal worker.

To make enough money for his wife and two children to live on he has to put in 58 hours a week which brings in a take-home pay of £23. 'At Croydon,' he says, 'the work load is terrific. "This union has a long his- of There tory docility. was allng postman (left) and Dave Percival, this image in the past that you 'There has been a terrific civil At one were a servant. In the work load,' he says.

time many of the workers were ex-army pensioners and there- fore not militant. • HARRY CHAPMAN has been a W Ealing postman for 'They were attracted to the four-and-a-half years. He con- job because of the security siders himself lucky because and the pension it offered, but these things have declined in early shift means turning out of bed at 4.45 a.m. and not All relative importance. you the 4 a.m. rise for some post- have now is a job that is low who live far away from paid and a lot of workers who men the depot. quite rightly won't stand for this. In common with all other postmen 'It's great to see all the lads he has to grab every second of overtime not through so militant at last. choice, but because his basic 'We don't want to hurt the just isn't enough to live on.

public, that's why we will be 'We don't see this as working free for the pen- political strike, it would have sioners and to maintain other happened under Labour. All It's the busi- we want is a decent wage for nesses we would really like' to fair work. It will only be poli- get at. But you have to pay tical if the gövernment wants with some inconvenience when it to be and stands in the way workers striker their labour is of this. all they have got. hours Harry ats 419 175 43- the flat week It could happen that the Tories launch an attack on us.

fore stoppages, this compares with £18 17s paid to postmen 'But I'm not afraid of this.

in the provinces. There are elements, wavering 'The of course, but these boys will postmen never go strike like this. So when they soon be whipped into line do you can be sure they are when the strike gets under upset. They have more really way. been I for one am prepared less forced to take to out until Christmas this step because of the for the 15 per cent.' government.

MAIDS

OFF

CAN

TORIES

GET!

/ Oil monopolies stand against ‡d rise MAJOR international oil com- The oil began prices row have adopted last when the Libyan panies com- year, mon front against demands for government production cut a ‡d. a gallon increase oil and used the resulting short- payments from the Middle age to force up prices in in- Eastern countries which sup- dividual deals with oil com- per cent of Britain's panies. Now the Middle Eastern They are backed by Britain, Algeria, Venezuela and states. France and the US in refusing Indonesia want to follow suit.

to separately with negotiate the individual oil-producing and exporting countries. The oil monopolies want a

ANTI-UNION

laws will be fixed five-year 'overall and beneficial to English, Scottish durable price settlement'.

and Irish workers, it They are prepared to offer appears. Welsh nationalist Plaid 'Cymru Libya a price differential be- cause her nearness to Europe yesterday said that they intend to call on Welsh MPs to But the fight cuts transport costs. for the exemption of Wales differential would be cut if from of the shipping costs rise. provisions Tory Industrial Relations Bill, Once the is agreement 'overwhelming reached, the oil barons say, no because the further of the of tax rises. retroactive majority people Wales the Tories' payments or new compulsory rejected reinvestment of profit must be the General mandate in imposed. Election'. Monday January 18, 1971 Al Fatah charge Austria a cover for betrayal for all- European security 1 CALL for the projecter Security Conter vurobed ence to be held as soon as possible issued was after unree cavs or laks betwee Austrian Foreign Minister 'AL FATAH' leaders yesterday accused the Rudolf Kirschlaeger and his Stefan counterpal more radical 'Popular Front for the Liberation of Jedrychowski. Palestine' of working with King Hussein to which The talks. ended liquidate the resistance movement.

Warsaw on Saturdav. are the

TEST

• contact made Dj Kamal Adwan told

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

regime with the Polish Beirut capitalist capitail of Gom ka sia during the conterence Dress commando Central that PFLP leaders were tinian not last December's authorized trying to give the Jor- It was also the first visit bs Committee Paten an Poland ministe danian Mustilal Organization Liberation government Inan tel excuse to break recentiv- ca This is deans di cas. years. Hussein, signed agreements with the WIld which Communiqué canne guerrilla Central Com- vesteroav The desire of the Gierek- drawal of all guerrilla units to mittee. main cities, Mocrat haces nutside the …encershın But after making these towns and even villages. strenothen its inks. with the West was evident in the com- charges, Adwar unsubstantiated Guerrilla on Pales Andans to support le himself collected muniqué issued at the emphasized eight days, and Austrian-Polish relations Musse seen vomitler Call said, "fighting authorize their re-distribution.

'developing successfully' were ne the The salle war. {WO masters arreel

RETECT

that Al Fatah is the ob. using cultural. scienuine and

VIOUS

weaknesses of the more andou Sultan, de palestinian com- recanical co-operation guerrilla groups таліса! mander be expanded between the two divert attention away from its together an militia in the Wahadat refugee countries own betrayal of the liberation increased volume of trade.

canno salo last week. • Ripted struggle. Jedrychowski "The restinian. multiamen relect this agreement. since

NEGOTIATING

visit Austria in the one of its points is that their near future. arms should be collected.' Far fighting from He said that the rank-and- Hussein is at this verv moment Go-betweens Stunte aditstake up armed leaders negotiana with its struggle Nations envoy Jordan V12 linited The so-called 'neutral' status and Gunnar Jarring for a Middle- regime, reaculonary of Austria enables its leaders East enemy revo uton behind to act as go-betweens for the the Zionist state intact without waltne orcers powers and the guaranteed from the leadershin. bureaucracies. Four "he resistance leaders have POWers The visit to Warsaw signed this agreement without The Al Fatah leadership is gests that the Kremlin is •press consulting the playing its part in to ss ahead ge this con- know Arab colleane SDITaCV the once Kevolution security' force attempting disarm Pales- to Hallilall laW alla orae trousnout curope munaues 'We expect a period of calm 'Manifesto' for two or three weeks. then there will be a comnlete revo.

rank-and-file Ulster group to _the against the leaders who signed to than the te publish daily against

• FROM PAGE ONE

'MANIFESTO'

The five tom roist group will follow. worse Deseroin redders arliamentarians expelled by 'petty-bourgeois bureaucrats'. Tories acnecia v ac the the Italian Westminster have instructed over a year ago

A DOU

sultan went on to sav -is to publish a daily paper.

army their Stormont ss to cry. 1031 HISsen's Up ten- back aid Toe Dresent the attacked Wanadat camn CP's commanders would give orders With aency. critica the theo it to cele- clival parliamentary fire retormism and brate the anniversary ol instructions from manoeuvres. harre wister onva round a monthly journal. mont away many back-bench paper, carrying statement reflects Unionis; are steT tremendous will fight Clamouring for greater rentes the rank-and-file sive measures by the army and allist But withoguerrilla the police, who cannot yet go members Querrilla safely into Catholic leadership which 'Unless the government assimilates all the lessons the stops seeing situation Thereafter starting in March. the recent betrayals, through rose-tinted lasses be self- defeats the Palestinian Toe DaDer must were in or d neu or a vear financing. liberation fighters.

PAR AVION

SYDNEY.

level of Members of maritime unions Bean reine are i a bad have the recent v hlackedi passenger liner 'Patris' WOrKInS class (reek reached protest against with the arrest or a charged with military Union remaining on a building site could this 'ridiculously pRiv The arrest took petty action' affect the Greek a Builders' asked Sudner the tion official

BLLIVERY

report that Was by-nishi investigating VIolate Herald'. Caiming toe

SUD

peonie inconveniencer labourers good-humoured contractors were Were being used tollowing strikes of union labour in the Sydney were returning area embarking for crements of Greece, The action appears to have the Gulf of Aden. of Rhod taken that hapn anodesta con The paper reflects the view or thes ceale oniv ov me thinnest of of Australian government pa bameht. New vels. ruling Wales Class DoLO ine "Herald' felt that thi trade Greek 'deplorable case warning of unions and the action was a it is an ovus reactionary of a strike being and things to come for the working throughout the political rather governments than an indus- Cass. avervthing mist Australian gov- trial weapon. world. organize and done now resistance muster behind such acts. union Elements of said that members ПОТ accept interference from police or pr Cook said he is ustry.

Cook said he Marxism support seer The unions he taking other Council of Trade Unions. The S sees further action by state Lecture by G. Healy (national secretary of the unions restrict and move further in the Socialist Labour League) direction •i a nace state trade duty of all MANCHESTER: Milton Hall, Deansgate. Wednesday, workers in their January 20, February 3. 7.30 p.m.

Tickets 2s, from Workers Press sellers or at the door.

union legislation. The fact the builders' that labourers has neen the

PUBLIC LECTURES

urst to tee a under the how new Act is hardly likely to be coincidence. Marxism and the struggle against the Tory The labourers have recently shown themselves workers government NSW and other states In have Sydney ther Monday January 18, 8 p.m.

complete v destroved work or scab labour on a number and sites MAlhourne Co-op Hall, Whitney Chambers, strikers attempted drive FanBARKiNGnue, scab workers from buria site ip- a site wrecking and mehe Thursday, January 21, 8 p.m.

capitalist press likes Balham Baths, Elmfield Rd nothing than attacking better (nr. Balham tube station) strike workers

TOT

more moner and better conditions secret lectures ge Socialist bour Taeigue except nothing that secretary Labour League) of thi attacking those engaged in a political strike.