Workers Press no. 4

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER FOUR • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1969 PRICE 6d.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

New attacks West

JAN 311970

Vauxhall

QUOTE OF

THE DAY

TEST FOR

launched Germany: 'Morning Star', dispute September 30, 1969 'WE stresse trade on car men but Coalition

HELLIC OL

aspects of the system. After

PARITY CLAIM

Lenin Sald Industrial Reporter that the aim of the workers' Press is to educate aritate MORE days were lost' through strikes in the British and organize? is set as we a a pate a m talks begin J. Schultz in any previous full year, the 'Financial Times' claims Leyland Branch of the in a detailed analysıs of the car crisis published on the communist rarly eve of the Vauxhall lock-out.

total to By our own reporter By John Spencer July WaS and since WALTER SCHEEL, lead- paper says, Then the The TALKS on the Vauxhall pay dispute open in German

LABOUR PARTY ANNUAL COMFERENCE

total has soared with a dis- er ot west pute at almost every majo Free Party Democratic Brighton today. The talks arise from an invitation plant. made Tormal Financial Timee the Social by leaders of the unions involved-who are now at approaches Top Rank carr

BOWLING

Democrats the Labour Party conference-to the management.

with a view to forming a coali-. All Vauxhall and Bed- a every from erat ar LIOn government under

DANCING

Willy Brandt. ford assemov in britain

EDITORIAL

Fight still

SKATING

ground to halt on Scheel's party draws most Tuesday. Al me Lulon ahead for and Dunstable, Bedford- IS SUPDOlL Irom Publish and smaller businessmen and sne. actores produc protessiona workers. and 1s

GEC-AEI

tion stopped at the end

STRIKES

known to be divided on th day-shift. be damned Tuesday's question of support for the 'In ere laid off 3,500 men workers were laid Scheel with the it Danstabst. head a lust over 1.0 foliow." 11,500 teen Tories secess likely force are now 1u decision, lates pert decision Rupert decide after Mersey Vauxhall workers Tuesday's cide ton action. from Bonn today to holdsrene pubilsil from trade House with 30 seats. Big test Christine Keeler story ha: raised a veroal storm PD list, Shee amongst protest t for the I hinted the event Vauxhall Lord Thoor in Part of the crowd seen continually outside this week's con- ference on the Nighion ses front waiting for delegates to 'The Hamilton Dustmen's

ULSTER

condemned There montmake one strike Delicate Why Wilson Workers Lookers for groWS dealing with ired Day Perk, And the pres barons. aright bee played it down spread or duesday ike hostile spread in boroughs and Woe that all bet net mark's future value. and ex-Ford No repeat mandarins at ndit tis e 12g created Where the Crem and scandal? an Political Correspondent break com to troops pathe chanese poke, vast ere lothing of the ex auxhall at, WILSON, with a deviousness worthy of a Houdini, once struck for the trade unions and again extricated himself from the tight corner which Th, Tower Hamlets Mrs. Castle's statement on the activation of Part Two Sa sore on under Bandr. If the the deal te By our Belfast corresponden o stion ey of the Prices and Incomes Act placed him in.

DESPITE the Reverend lan Paisley's call for a demon

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compromises Castle accepted. stration of 100,000, only 1,000 right-wing Protestants Wher Mrs turned up to lobby Stormont, the Northern Ireland Monday

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

the four-month halt on parliament, on Tuesday. retained Rupert Те немог i Collusion The uncompromising and The di Immellale Bank right-wing Unionist (lor angry reacuor Irom william Craig was enthus trade union delegations. doctrinated astically applauded by the

GREET DAILY

customs charge Labour Party Conference ind proceduretan Paislevites wen ne appeared props on a balcony to acknowledge mportant of thres cheers. close to a General Electio by Chou with the one can THE Young Socialists are called to mions up hed arito the politi ident, castrate be daily for a Na seekersebrating the racists world, pape Leno anniversary Agreed People's Republic, Chinese als and years pelled from ve En-lai sine By our own correspondent amongst the and Soviet Second time United states governments or stepping u!

IN a report tabled in the had se Rosay he Comine one collusion in a bia to launca right-wins shi ongst the response hat aggressive wars against ou country. Public Accounts claimed Workers clearly one ray a hot shave have long t struggles are the Smith government • dare war ears have given the e tension calle any at the help e state Noired. mad mishty connection th to thy once more restored. will no east attack unless we ar British commandos ust to authoriz ned on Monday e Gromyko meets Rogers for it cricket if she answers of sterling from th are par Stain era toe Smith the regime establishing- -with Middle East talks i made on Beat of -a trust de labour Wherefor Chida is certainly paying ding Pilots 24-hour recognize the what must inevisi colom Treatment And pethe war against the By Robert Black paper which

CRET

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the foments are work to of Pestated strike threat 40 years ago, American te cons of th Rached a package deal 7 p.c. pocket sweetener which will operatist powers radion Mar one good mores Ene younge sailed of being the Middle Bac Crack rand car Workers B executive no pilots Strategy Golda Meir's visit to Washim oppres prepare yero sweeten Aid

E SALES

and the estabishmen se by the wilson gov. victimiza- serve the

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workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER FOUR • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1969 PRICE 6d.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

New attacks West

JAN 3 1 1370

Vauxhall

QUOTE OF

THE DAY

TEST FOR

launched Cermany: 'Morning Star', dispute September 30, 1969 great we appear on Stress the trade umol on car men but side of afairs. Coalition little on the direct political aspects of the system. After

PARITY CLAIM

all it was Lenin who said that the aim of the workers' Induatrial Reporter • is to educate, agitate MORE days were lost' through strikes in the British and organize? talks begin car industry between January and July this year than in any previous tull year, the rinancial times claims Leyland Branch of the in a detailed analysis of the car crisis published on the Communist Party The total to By John Spencer by our own record 1,150,000 days, since and total has soared will a dh lead. says, раро TALKS on the Vauxhall pay dispute open in er of the West German

LABOUR PARTY ANNUAL CONFEREEE

Democratic Party pule al almost ever ШНО Brighton today. The talks arise from an invitation plant.

(FDP),

has made formal by leaders of the unions involved-who are now at Social approacnes the Top Rank: carrs: Democrats (SPD) with a

BOWLING

the Labour Party conterence-to the management.

view to forming a coali-.

All Vauxhall and Bed- tion government under

DANCING

ford assembly in Britain

EDITORIAL

Fight still vibranet.

SKATING

halt Tuesday. At the Luton Scheel's party draws most ahead for on with the situation over of its and Dunstable, Bedford- Publish and seas. factories produc- Dabba snire professional and

GEC-AEI

stopped at the end

STRIKES

known to be divided of Tuesday's day-shift. be damned question of support for the 3,500 At men laid off the workers Tues and Scheel with the More Lay. TriCE english the s SPD ha wer e1,s0p expected the against follow. workers million chalked Tories 15 sage it secus likely total —ouT OI labour force of 27,000—are now Mr womankie gues laid off. union decision KuDert Ya bally to des vers mee the Murdoch. the latest oress cide on action. baron to arrive in Fleet in the new on last weeks talk rom placed Street, the House with 30 seats. Christine Keeler story has Big test raised resist- thus protest He union leaders for the lesal co arriv trade en the union leaders 'penal continually outside this week's con. and Part of thi Lord scen and employers. Hamilton ference on the Mishton so frout waitine for dolerater ta proposed Democrats rises Dustmen's

ULSTER

CLEAR

The real meat of Mr Ensor's strike Delicate Why Wilson at stake clear to every Workers vest poniang is very delic- Devlin, groWS West heartily s deaons or de en ately balanced. hit the prese entire cam played it down spread durindustress rike he goe in tense: Ty inensie carition dinos hostile It in be ie boroughs the What is it all about? Can nine in on mark's tune raine. over No repeat nandarins 19500* first been pas time sinci scandal? be Political Correspondent albumicult to troops The to the Pe changes spoken of here WILSON, with a deviousness worthy of a Houdini, once not again extricated himself from the tight corner which Measured auction ork Mrs. Castle's statement on the activation of Part Two This main of the DESPITE the Reverend fan Paisley's call for a demon- na rancement under rand opposi of the Prices and Incomes Act blaced him in

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(Essex) compromises stration of 100,000, only 1,000 right-wing Protestants When Mrs Castle therto unknown people turned up to lobby stormont, the Northern Irelana nounced on

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

parliament, on Tuesday. the four-month halt on pay not Rupert claims would retained Collusion The there immediate and Bank stely spaded by from the anade rean delegations

GREET DAILY

Paisleyites when he appeared 68th charge on a balcony to acknowledge Party props by Chou night. THE Young Socialists have up especially proud the daily Trotskyist abour the hirst IN a speech celebrating the racists paper world, the anniversary Labor 2th the and against Workers' Press. Agreed Chinese People's Republic, move. Chou En-lai the Paisley an sections it Unionist endent Soviet By our own corresp advocated report tabled in the had set chen to lize aim Tuesday, the Committee of greate: Parlamicul aggressive wars against our made the Workers Much struggles are counuy. PubliC Clalmed tne smitn covernmen all before have had oven favoured ment to barcavs _bank mad mighty with were connectior cuce Asocial get to tad Teep of one Youn 'nuclear the into this ender volved con.

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toss all omen el struction of the Kyle Dam. for the The Bank of England's re- as tody are on Monday te newspaper we are Gromyko meets Rogers for fusal to authorize took a oMs ndrea dy of sterling arom in reinforce Barclays the rapid degeneration regime s of accepting Middle East talks die between in Bothere alport i0 Bayale nos billets millions of workers. hold be made. ovement before Feeling Senat is certainly paying dant Pilots 24-hour Treatment By Robert Black bigger onuale me war agalast t

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must inevitably follow. strike threat the Soviet and United State 40 yers taky, Antedi which acts as ment discussedom Al Fatal 7 p.c. pocket sweetener own subscribed to loans raise the forda Valet in London. ernments. one more to meeting At £2,070,000 it was hERE Is one heppolders and … or men angels, terin all Barclays Middle East. idend of 7 per indicates th carry with Strategy 2 to 2i per cent Rowntree-Mackintosh sweets oppres To sweeten the / and the establismen and Dulles ay Sitations are a med Vision of the Suer canal 2 ne Died all obelieve that

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financial and United Nations ernment.

Wilson government continues

WORKERS' PRES

PACE TO

the left Not only did Wilson pro people provide LIKE its home policy, assy so a humber of Wilson no vide vinity to suppress the African Smith with the peasants of висса the Wilson government's neer multarv aircrall lo prover Wilson's various masses in Kl foreign policy consists of boutn Amrican government, Dur througnoul the mon to handle sales of arms over- ne example was me rall subservient support for undertaken scas interests of the Davies, MP for Leek the the all manner of phoney capitulanon unofficial racialists fore- Wilson bankers and big busi- sourn Alricar shadowed the far envov tor Wilson to the Nort more seriou nessmen in the City of Vie namese captay of seeking of 1965 arres ut teen imperialism in backer Iol the sious from the London. Its allacks from Rhodesian working class and peasantry.

concessious It nowhere differs essen- Malicoo Backed by the LaDoul short shrift which tially from the policy of its In the week: Party's executive, North Vietnamese, wh tne Tory predecessor, despite the him treated rignuy pot his an errand-boy brave words in Labour's elec- more Wilson energhe US for Lyndon Johnson Pace. tion statements about 'aiding real way The 'left' confined itself of the the the underdeveloped coun- Rhodesian While racialists. tries'. 'one talkıng man, vote shorted up a much sortise tests In fact, Labour government lauding and sending DIllIsI policy has never been better troops. continued to illustrated than in its attacks treat Smith at pauses and threats to step his own valu- on the workers and peasants of the colonial and ex-colo- nial countries. Wilson's government took raided for the suppression anc office in a period raDialy i of the national liberation move peasants was completely bounc aeepening crisis for Drusa l with Britain against WilSOnS struggle ment ana ine Jalling and exue The Tory or nunareas or Alican wulk" british capitalism punics. withdrawal' Commonwealth o mak with sat to

COLONIAL

Salisbur invariably - almost

ADVENTURES

atter installing rellable regimes only persuaded the to maintain the substance, Only Socialist leader mar uvi was ine lorm, or imperialso gov- without senous ernment opposition. i. Col. the moan. British capitalism, proved US the way then while British went to Siment of advisors establisament villages (concentra- fortined tion tised in salaya the during Smith's emergency there Wilson's except plans nor as raw material for explolla• he british Labour leaders brutality and als regard for ambassadors Adeni workers.

PROLONGED

the dominatike int Ae statei

FARCE

strategic Gulf Fich British oil holdings.

witn As Wilson pointed essential part

OUT

rIcO parliamentary debate the American wal florident has strategy. government he ritalnee was call this, e lower British interests in area arliamentary Labour The policy they carried effect to them: inest was notning more tian a con African constitution) te ilegal regi to force to overthrow the Wilson's policy in Aden is noth- Wilson Harold Macmillan. battle- tnes "British' and consolidate of American capital investment but they made abund- Wilson in these territories, the Labour antly was thal throw government Tos bi common any ground g the world in making imperialism. governments inauizen

BROKEN

attitude to the Smit]

DLEDGE

ontinues to this common concern the imperialist powers to pre- serve their sources of colonial combined working Wilson's munisin • Rn de- Bevin), the American capi- came from to the role Stalinism talism has taken over internanonal but left out of acost or internanonal genualic.

out explicit continual statements Like the Communist Part Britain, which substituter liberal was thal this me hay ehich s policy in Vietnam. Blish deers weed to in all on t i proved United the Nations gave est bishment of formed vi Wilson's ternational cover immediately alter sen-our over anodesia

ORKERS' PRESS

Careful not to offend the influential Arab sheiks whose territory included Bri made clear the government's delight at Arab defeat. Shown abo tinuation of the policy of in its attacks on the Arab re- Sandys Duncan and Harold volution. Macmillan, whose brain-child, The same unprincipled sub- the South Arabian Federation, servience to imperialism dis- sub- was an attempt to tinguished the government's ordinate the advanced Adeni policy in relation to the war backward workers to the between Nigeria and Biafra.

feudal sheikhdoms of the Gulf.

After pogroms against the The Federation having Ibo people of Eastern Nigeria, broken in under the pieces which were immediately seized of the Arab national impact by rival imperialist oil on movement, British troops were the Ibos interests, were en- used in an attempt to impose couraged to secede from the Aden, based settlement on Nigerian Federation by Nations creat- on United interven- ing the state of Biafra. divisions in the tion and the Arab movement. While publicle ging hands the The Labour government gave over war, government neverthe- Labour its full support to the troops less undertook to keep it go- of Mitch'-the 'Mad colonel Argyll and Sutherland ing, supplying large quantities of the of arms to the Nigerian side, Highlanders who later played 'Save no doubt after guarantees that leading the part in Argylls' British oil interests would be the campaign and protected in the event of a stood as a Tory candidate.

Nigerian victory. Thus, the Labour govern- ment's policies in Aden, like Fourth those the French Republic in Algeria, prepared rod for the back the home, working class at en- couraging the right wing to organize and giving a key role conservative army officers.

to By its backing for the re- feudalists actionary in East, Labour's cabinet Middle gave training opportunities to the right wing at home.

CHEER ON

ISRAELIS

But the Aden events were overshad- be completely to the Arab-Israel owed by war which broke out in June 1967.

careful to Wilson was offend the influential Arab sheikhs whose territory British oil pipelines, cluded made but the Labour cabinet it clear that it would cheer on the Israelis even though, un- like the Tories in 1956, it was prepared to intervene not actively. Government spokesmen like publicly George Brown sup- ported Israel and made clear their delight at the Arab de- feat. The June war aptly illustra- ted the real character of the and Labour leadership the malignant and decrepit capi- Too talism they administer. weak to intervene openly, they Wilson placed no real obstacles in the nevertheless favoured the im- constitution was in fact a slave charter thro perialist client state of Israel Above police at ory included British oil pipelines, George Brown pu eat. Shown above is an Arab refugee camp outsid The Biafran government was quick to label the war as 'Wilson's war' and to point dis- out the calculated hypocrisy is a of the Labour government's position. There can be no doubt that a large share of the responsibility for the con- tinuation of this bloody con- flict rests in Whitehall.

BLOODSTAINED

TRADITION

The Wilson government's foreign policy is entirely in the bloodstained tradition of pre- vious Labour of governments. Attlee and Like those MacDonald, Wilson's govern- ment remains a loyal servant of its imperialist masters.

Labour's foreign policy is Tory policy tailored to the requirements of imperialism in decline. stacles in the way of Smith's declaration of U lave charter through which hundreds of African wo Above police attack Africans protesting over UDI October 2, 1989 Spencer eorge Brown publicly supported Israel and gee camp outside Damascus.

The best assistance which British workers can render to workers and peasants overseas is an implacable struggle against the Tories, and against Wilson and his "left' and are of Stalinist friends.

a principled Only such struggle, based on interna- tionalism, can prepare the way for the liberation of colonial peoples and for the socialist revolution in Britain.

It is on this basis that the Socialist Labour League and supporters have fought and will continue to fight.

The fight against imperial- ism in Britain and interna- tionally is the fight to build Committee the International of the Fourth International and its British section, the Socialist Labour League, to capitalism overthrow establish a socialist society.

eclaration of UDI. The much-praised 1961 Is of African workers were jailed and exiled.

esting over UDI.

International Committee of the Fourth International

WORKERS' PRESS

October 2. 1969 greets the Workers Press and satellite bureaucracies. the To the Political Committee of the Kremlin bureaucracy vorkima erss ocecnos orakin eamo mie was Socialist Labour League construct that revolution- The hour has struck tor the reconstruction ol the To the Boaro of the leadership which Fourth International and for the construction of its Workers' Press Comrades, Fourth International revolution and of socialism International Committee and all its sections Tune over imperialism and Stalinist reaction revolutionary bureaucracies, and plat l are aren ard a ie resitin Beren ine Workers' Press The appearance of the daily orino out the daly orkers working. conquests alitical hatte concerning the whoe orine movemen founded by Leon Trotsky tion and its and in the woro cass struesle leadership. This 40 years of struggle, first of all by working class and the construction of the its tra tona socia-democranc and revoluuolal osition against the degenera Stalinist organizations, as International Committee Tro soy ahe Iner readon. le unt and Ils seclions the Communist bureaucratic aparatus in a postuon to accomoisn une task or reconsurucunu Stalinist bureau- ee t all tin Eceland in dereler dnale int tais revomonar erersilo. parties, against e devey France economically Up to the present - aton arsen atm a pic o re ficite.

acy and the degeneration of t those imperialist Revolution, under countries, TOr The by the UclobeL working class is unleashing I has tradi io lond Mar true fon dints Fourtl encesno o lrolsky- -IU1 imperialist It has been he Fousab Internat in ay to pa intemarona and une forward the shaking the making gains, „naly acansT Tre aDote S rolei ree mist, apply in the kourh intemanona ene cossa secaon

01 LAI

of the Fourth Fourth International Is łoday in a position to pudllsn International. le first Trotskyist daily paper to appear in the work proletarlal or basteru Soviet Union has entered into open conflict with the In bringing out the first daily Trotskyist paper in his is undeniably a moment of the greatest in Ceylon youth welcome

HENRY

SCHULTZ,

pioneer American Trot- and skyist fonding the daily member of both the Socialist Workers Party and the Workers' League, died at the age of 67 in Madison, W 1S- consin, on Wednesday, aper is due to a firm political fondation based o Dear Comrades, September 24, of compli- larxist principle following cations THE publication of the Workers' Press is "here is no couht that the achievement is que to occasion for teoicing for the members of the Socialit the relentless struggle carried on for socialist principles surgery. class against the Stalinists and the Labomr earue ano the loung soclansts, Dul diso lot memorai meeune was Pabloite i Trotskyists all over the world.

held for him by his family Today It is a memorable occasion in the name of Trotsky visionists into their ow and Stalinist: intale Inends and the Trotskyists who suffered under the treacherous anad tace co theuous berayal) tribute was paid by a long- the treacherous revisionists. It is an detravars or me onmists and une Stalinist Minnesota Cillt comrade mistoric occasion in ine buroln• or une alternauve work• trade the alternatıve from the old SWP and co- ing class leadership in keeping with rolsky's expec- leadership is even more necessary. The daily paper is a with him founder tations. of the great step towaras unis ena.

The publication of the daily paper is clear evidence Warkers' League. Sune twice-weekl newslewter encouracec and that Trotskyism is a living force, a fighting force and askiled elece ein- y traye, opened the eyes ol the kevolutionary Communist Youtt growing for batted trucadrivers of came ' in the word wi omrec jate •We a po eyul idea most 1930s correct anc es. He numerical forces and material means, sel VICes in the long run always conquer and make available been Broşür Troikym to Mine- temselves neccssaly malclal meals g Ilas Proved and st ole cared on othe pilis tabe or Yours fraternally, Central Committee of the sota, his revolutionary teacher.

the dally paper. Revolutionary Communist Youth.

st few mot ms, his tite was de- (Ceylon) here is no doubt that the achievement or the dally yaty capabi of lesdin st revolution in America

THIS SCIENTIFIC AGE

Dispatcher 1934° truc and helped guide the seke to visnty. BY Thermonuclear aderhio of he s pesside che(

MARTIN

the paray afda member be ios sany 19 Conc u td

ZARROP

fusion dogged onpt ele For ana was A CONFERENCE was considere pointless conv recently held in Britain hes (TB5W), in thee at the Culham labora- by limited first was to organ- world's torv-the conference of its kind— to discuss the possibility of bulding in the not too future research programme distant r cabaturd Mexico producing energy. by thermonuciear tusion. . This is the process under- Ciled Leon r lying the production of energy in the sun. end or este 1950's. Pano many une A a. ucrai the spase At the maJor . Will es c bin Trorays ho by the Stalin Since the Second World grammes many times. programme was given to a mucn buoncily War enise sher reconstr immense wealtn nas purono to haver Leta, which overnmen the DIIlSA early в Го 1901 Unt •een powreo nto benecune the weapons of mass destruction oblems underlying the shaped container Possi pro by means of pase• on ne telase or un- thermonuclear magnetic forces. fusion reactor are the same as dove ere turale de veco controllea energy. they ago and taded even remain unresolved- how of howa th cnto ot ine tulen actor as a carbon

TCOPY

: which was for usere present proses tor maly the immense useful amounts of energy breakthrough comes at a time ener explorio or haydrg t profound economic to be generated. Cisis hydrogen has can be pro- Many immense techni Lila i nd drawn off. funds, the ande cds minatio b en magnetic ave y meagre have for both damentally different from th tried out, like hallengin Nuclear of spac, the USSR, tical experimental scien- fission process. The latter United conquest Was in a runaway form in but li the roses was made 1945 A tusion reactor could oro Al me comerence vide Immense enerd of mry trom their sourcE acuterum

SILE

Cansi and in the generation of elec- Sepe Sien 2) Cm tricity atomic DO WeI fields they proble ceeded in obtaining a high de- reaction could the water would be a negligi- stability, pIce ble containment undrok o ei explosion Ea is prod bomb the ero Iracuon. Uhdet heal the and 1et une total eater thai value world is at conditions theoretical con- helium fuses, siderations. colla boratio use No doubt into The condi- with producing large amounts sienan cance unesc States and essk energy. of me simeri Obviously this cannot be car- yet the i Ted racon both the remtion: Ehe giant gramme, pronlaDillly theProdu research pre Tokamak in team whit the tu corpores. and how (shades of Sputnik!). Ars ho sempt tor malal the resulting high temperature remains the reality. More massive machines will

PAGE THREE

the world, after a long political battle to assemble the necessary n leans, the Socialist Labour League affirms its determinati on to drive forward in a decisive way the building of the revolutionary party in England, and the reconstruction of the Fourth International through- out the w orld. In this way it arms itself to defeat re- formism, Stalinism, centrism, and the renegades from the Fourth International of the United Secretariat in all spheres. The appearance of the daily Workers' Press will be an im portant gain for the whole International Com- mittee ar id each of its sections at a time when the con- ditions a ind possibilities becoming clearer for the are 'final vic tory of the Fourth International' of which Trot- sky spoke with assurance on his death bed.

We assure you of the fraternal support of the In- ternatio nal Committee and of its sections in view of the success of the first daily Trotskyist paper, Workers' Press. For the International Committee of the Fourth International,

S. JUST

ing, they were completely taken by surprise. When the SWP declared in 1960 that Cuba was a workers' Henry and his comrades immediately recognized this as revisionist threat to the Fourth International and to the very foundations of Marxism. Again he tried to argue with all the SWP members he could reach, but he found him- soon self even more isolated from the party ranks. then could bring himself to write own his even position and try to turn the party around. He was not, he said, a writer. 'Nor,' as he put it, 'am I a knight on a white horse who can ride out to save the party' the aftermath of the fight that found him, for the first time his political life, outside of the active ranks of the

SWP,

Henry Schultz and his family moved to Madison, Wis- consin. Concerned Still in touch with the party, he followed it wit and deeply was i Concerned developments within it. He read closely the Wolforth of the work group, developing within the party.

• More and more he found he with their position, agreed and with the of the SLL position especially on the class analysis of Cuba. The first mimeographed draft of the 'Struggle for Marxism in the United States' made a deep impression him. provided answer to his questions as to what went wrong with the United States. He tried to overcome his iso- lation and at every opportunity would his see Minnesota co- thinkers and together they would struggle through the latest docu- bute by two ments he had received. Accident sota comrades His struggle to find a way to resume revolutionary activity was interrupted five years ago by a nearly fatal industrial accident.

He remained only semi-cons- cious for months and never fully With Pablo's revisionist pro- his physical recovered strength. clamation of the centuries of de- Forced into an early retirement, and the formed workers' states he found now himself isolated theoretical confusion of the en- not only from his comrades, discussion, with but suing Henry, from contact with the work- other s, became critical of the ing class he was so much a part lack of theoretical clarity on the of. part of the national leadership.

Henry recognized the Wor- This criticism grew with the kers' League the as legitimate continuing failure of the party to heirs of the Fourth International adopt clear position on the the US. in Chinese question. In of his illness, spite he But at no time did he see him- attended its founding convention and became self capable of providing the member of the as first National Committee, leadership required to from tne part y around. He was a worker which he later resigned because he felt he and the responsibility for pro- could not contribute enough. viding political leadership to the In the summer of 1968 he rested with the full-time party to England at the New York, he went functionaries in encour- agement of his Workers' League felt. comrades and his family because At the time of the Cochran they felt that in a large active fight in the SWP, Henry lined up movement he might again find a with Dobbs, opposed to the re- role to play. exemplified by Clarke, vis ionism He was eagerly welcomed, but believing that a healthy sec- especially by the young workers tion of the Cochran group could of the Young Socialists and be won over by a correct politi- Socialist Labour League and he call battle, and anxious, above all, spoke warmly them his of to avoid a split in the party.

return. But as an active worker, he could not get used to being a Bothered guest. After the split he was bothered Reality even more by the increasing ten- dency to solve political questions Ideas were important to Henry, by organizational means. Ibut disembodied ideas had reality for him. In the Minnesota section of Their reality lay in the organ- the party, this was reflected in a ization which struggled to put fight which eventually involved them into fight practice the whole membership, a Isolated from which appeared to start around a revolutionary organization, living in a struggle for democratic central- eccen. tially middle-class college town, health and now de- the Khrushchev With revela- the fight became sharper tions Henry as and his co-thinker!s valiantly but vainly against the attempted to use the new oppor- demoralization that overcame rank-and-file tunities to win him. Communist Party workers for the The tragedy of Henry Schultz's party. death began five years ago. For those of us who Tim Wolforth's 'Struggle ! for were privileged Marxism the United Sta'res' to know him, to learn from him, to fight side by side with him, it describes the general confusion the SWP and demoralization of has been an increasingly bitter five years. during this period. Minne sota as we watched him was no exceptior. try to fight both ill health and The around Henry total isolation from the working.

comrades tried to pattern. their approac class movement. the Stalinists after thiat The heritage of Henry Schultz, their co-thinkers in the Socialist working-class revolutionist, Labour League (SWL), They longs to the Workers' League and saw this SWP's position the Fourth International. The nationally. vindication of his life is When the SWP National Com- the struggle for the building of t.hem and that that will lead mittee turned against party the ordered a cessation of the fight- world revolution.

WORKERS' PRESS

•ctober ‹. 1908

PAGE FOUR

ONE-DAY

Italy gripped Business men offer aid

STRIKE CALL

by mass strikes

TO BACK

By Robert Bllack C.P. leaders

ENGINEERS

THE STRIKE wave now sweeping Italy is reaching massive propor- tions. The whole country continues to be ronvulsed by the mass action to Powell of workers fighting for higher wages.

justify troops Many big engineering companies remain paralysed HULL Amalgamated Union of Engineering and MR ENOCH POWELL ha by a continuing series of staggerea strikes by Illelal- been offered

N.U.P.E.

has called a group of 15 Midlands busi- Foundryworkers district committee workers all over the country.

in Ireland and eco pontical Chat nessmen however, city-wide one-day strike for Uctober 14 in support

PRESSES

of the determined affecting Layers Coal Jense to become- leader o of the 400 strikers at Priestman Brothers, Mond ay crane population. the Tory Party. officials a n- state education From Bob Shaw

WAGE

and excavator manufacturers.

prices up nounced a two-day stoppa, ge thBut THE ROLE of British troops in Northern Ireland was Friday The

AEF

has 3,500 Dockers much preferable to that of the 'B specials said James fulfilled administrative

CLAIM

members in firms belong- By G. Myers Reid answering a question on Communist Party policy promises of telli ing to the local Engineer- at a Glasgow meeting recently on the left and the ultra support by shines and in Employers' Associa- Newsletter Industrial Reporter ing tion and 2,000 engineering deck hands If Reid's une rriestman's simke DISCUSSIONS took place workers seven ago was clear other unions began weeks early this week in when the management may also strike on October The purge Milligan between fused to improve a 25s. pay Claim

ADEQUATE

representa- star reporter authority

FACILITIES

turned nom Norte struck breaking ane was even cicare CoCKerS vent negoulauous police of British troop D.E.P. will vet down over une Day Clal Iu- Ocean 080.U0U local continues 1 to holdsm manua workers. and pened then there. school leavers stories t cope The claim is for an 18s. serious a-week incetor hit oaking.

From our own correspondent

BEL

THE

CONVULSIONS

the ner or lus-a-week i 5 overpone ready been rejecter within the Czech Com- Han ben rand and i By Mark Jenkins res Londo antone continue ic Employees spoken deter Party irgent measures to deal wit THE Youth Development Service, at present under the • said have the yees soon become unaDaleu. ~ Salist control of local education authorities, may bones for stee the resignation withasic osef Kempn part of the Ministry of Employment and Productivity.

mined 15,000 Rat year ha 90,000 leadership of the Britist government made suffi- Pressure om Mrs Castles speech ed emerged creased Progress and Kempny the towards moval from answer this qu shaky ence Presidium it was announcec Youth Employment officers Why tember 20. Mrs Castle i 'Categories' hind co the September legislation leadership can and must gories haste start with cate- these lines. " ratesy "° chan Scier a when be resolved. Dubcek strike wilt Wilson Ruthless Text of as move to diste Sounter-revolutionary role.

old. rather than education for then, The purge of the liberals is ment these schemes. Strike have fireded mate meeting which crash n We must for the pickes for support brings Since said Keid, In other needs luch that the predawn hours of Sad ir- Kosygin-Chou

FROM PAGE ONE

the victory Since he grike man the parad the dundaney and seduld cont tinue or relin insaled in every guidance' unions. to reject them completely.

be dropped. throughout But when the needs of the talks revealed Sharp fight party machine. working struggle Ominous Brewery in ireland T.V. threat strike ends 1HE Chinese government is willing to talk with the Soviet Union to try to reach a settlement of the border throughout advices obvious the pares workers states separa • to teachers' Municipal Workerneral niod and mechanic 'Raving' ion outine anti-union from They will not succeed. dispute, kadio reking reported on tuesudy• THE unoficial strike of 50 members remained working. canet mandoned Mr, Norten fredand, he said The radio quoted jobs? brew- ing's papers 'People's Daily', Northern New attacks Flag' and 'Liberation The End Raye - a real snie to call Army wil nor atack i ARE television sets going were sent submeo pain pac.

Not respect Hamletshornton, put road, tacked. tration in Croy- teachers our If we

• FROM PAGE ONE

Cabinet deal for the TUC to don on Tume 5. cat a i am one or st Octobell work the incr coming 1 ould System intreduced months. mitteer from On re is a onwine feeling pointed our that in anti-union ng oppositi lessons nonde overment initiative if hop ortunist politicia prepared forma mo master schools one sappear Education TWO All o election and the othe don closed circuit network Ees Scanten yed hones tomas the promise of to measured-day system nave Backing 1e th men were hear k, so far as the opiece. milton votes sar kid un 0 new not. LOndon general can use and in lina pa far as Trades Unions ater an Measured-Day weme tin Mosce rel waints which tales welcomed the st tr osed: зіп роро rates and times. a conference Fight still ment to ran Alliance switches his to re-ussian

BACKING

The Dad Prote Fry by: sarike must boy ern their against ultra leftism. The employers piece- work abolished, as has Prote also become involved. ahead for negotiations. A meeting the wake contract backey ap order he 100

G.E.C.-A.E.I.

Federation and the No intention Collusion ise see from the border being arranged. by law. costs a year. British-Leyland is no excep- workers Stalinism was to cover up for Welcome

• FROM PAGE ONE

this. The would probably like Whilst teachers natural "Steer'

FROM PAGE ONE

offer organization to Priestman eed f25 Police waken 1500 yea Reid thinks it is n thest Woolwi ex. begins endhe ILEA scheme imbein Merseyside joint the present Soviet regime.

Takeover Brighton this might seem ex impossible task," to a

ASTS

Ensors assimie one of Of course, said Reid ers tear of the sacking aut about class's growing strength.

with company no • which ise me pro fals Digbeth Civic Hall, - just weapon be organized Care oke els a the 121 Digbeth U.S. imperialism's crocodile CEC English Bette Birmingham Priestman's workers set ben revealed have Saturday November 8 thet betrayal of the

AEF

tears over colonial poverty dershiptiover 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. immune Car sales s the a wapriest Write for credentials to : drop From our own correspondent increases tra berry Path, THE hypocrisy of the im- spokesmen metropolitan and our prospect The one-day strike either in te holds today perialism Conference fee: 5s. a person knows tainly 110 scale. unprecedented bounds. , can did nothing to The she home make was a50 In Washington on Mon- Leon in Africa anc All Trades Unions Alliance Young Socialists day Robert Nationalize McNamara. Latin America

SCOTLAND

World President after

WISHFUL

Tune August period showed at All motor workers are invited Bank, stated

FROM PAGE UNC

that it was nancle, the natonaltz. urge Workers We readers unfair to call the people democratic to of the meters unde to attend a meeting in solution Kingston Hall, Glasgow, C.5. so porters the under-developed this Sunday October 5, 2.30 p.m.

Макс world lazy and unambi- is the challenge to the nem ocialism alongsid to discuss ployers. tious'. advanced market mor one nons in way, nt up ove

RECORD

This The world bank, together policy school suppor beer Controlucation alar record of capiven ongst priestial to hay were Monetary the Second World ful thinking oughout the last 20 yee re should he leit buildt. up aller rich nations 1 ho clipper Workers місту ваїя. VISOrS оссиру war regulate Intelle developin McNamara Forward •The directing monal capitalsun and it no techniques available Ministry queues of the 1970s revo Biotairy Trot- trial growth good way to assist tne masser crisis