Workers Press no. 403

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

MONDAY MARCH 15, 1971 • NUMBER 403

2jp (6d) THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE 'Surprise'™ Fight to nationalize motors £1,250 March Fund jailings Answer Ford-Heath reaches in Ulster £373.93 Charman or the union neco tlating team Moss Evans (Ir

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and coat) glasses rounded by Ford strikers and BRITISH troops over mott, pressmen after yesterday's mounted their biggest- mass meeting at Dagenham.

yet security clamp- fidence • cainin from down yesterday, anti-union searching more than 2,000 vehicles at road-

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blocks on the outskirts face , opens of Belfast. class. We musi

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under LouseY growing Protestant assist a rearmed police force.

the alliance * decided on, None to Fund. temented IT dead sel campaign

BY POLITICAL CORRESPONDENE

SPEECHES by car baron Henry Ford II and Election speratism ence to Brish likely assurances by Prime Minister Edward gunfire at their luncheon meeting today reveal Heath

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their unanimity-in fighting the working class.

« Terror directed gainst FASCIST gunmen Ford Il threatened to Michel Mele withdraw from further We're not bluffing What Food prices bill-poster capital investment Calls for consequences. the derer will rise Britain in order to get we is Rest at no sane of tel teachers' I in

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and i at theps rora strikers to go back intend to Sports either'-Ford men thin strike clean and Initially da culture james Priors See LATE NEWS NO 10w certai 'WE'RE NOT bluffing either, Henry—we want parity. Ford workers fever

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

This will at Dagenham yesterday had this message for boss of the bosses Henry brought under contro

PUBLIC MEETINGS

Teachers. Sur Prior wants to ston Ford commented. surrender plat Ford Il, chiet of the worldwide motor company.

militant teachers With Lessons of the post Tys been exporting Ford

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

days this out, one worker workers' strike sitices. instead to 345,000-strong called Earlier, the crowd, estimate matter what down section industry it Tuesday March 16, 8 p.m. nce and for all the Trade ente considerable by the Enfield me. was at near Harrow Rd Ine via Floud Lane. W.1u to deske as diet contrace.

of the prices near 1 nave worked too fong 10 Ana ne went on. " that tot 17.62* take-home pai when vasaid tons eithe Wednesday March 17, 8 p.m.

The resolution says that al This worker summed up the

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sxecutive the ne used to diacst ast year meeting Britain and the company nitarian Church Hall, Effra Rd, SW nationam icer opposite Lambeth Town Hall - 6304 odd try wise 6,250 2,20 basta ith to bated exports by bee G. HEALY (national secre boy, foctin Labour League) scale. Sneaker at both vith labour problems. £100m in seven years. 'Parity now' Ford II has revealed t Judgement

ALL TRADES UNIONS

Now i unal is nol lor le National Union of

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negotiating team good of th fat stressed ae co said Evans.on't know what is, chanting Operatives March 18 FIRSTLY he has reveale Miland. wi inglo-American imperialist

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his commercial ridgementar

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Unanimity what Force the TUC to call a ave to sat puring there® sand undermine General Strike to make the Tory Government Resign! he unions. bany and to the conom count to said che motion Lobby the TUC meeting-Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 9 a.m. cide whether hot, be oreg Word missing Demonstration-Assemble 2 p.m. outside Fairfield at's mat Halls, Croydon. March-2.30 p.m. through Croydon.

were no Meeting-3 p.m. Top Rank Suite, London Rd, Croydon. the Tory Boredient and Laos rout: The SUL needs your help Speakers from the All Trades Unions Alliance.

people, he saiditish working New threat

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en would never share he LIVERPOOL TRADES COUNCIL campai to launch a nation ide Tory Covernment an 1,000 copies. •I workers rress bi nd its anti to North

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e con deie weeks, dais writ out on are on Mares 18. will be reeded in mission. governn the of Special Trades Union Congress

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Laos that me is in, business i months. Take over force yesterday at Croydon was i chato Cong * here is straight: the lac Produce nas ti headlong absolut reucal tories, chen to ta the S Vietnamese frontier.

See to nee Special train: Tickets £2 return nake thei He sad a the ford do up MASS PROCESSION Motor Company had grown compieted that this had been challenged cost of expenses

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absolutes deve * We need in

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strategie "dominated all the assist yo confiden Thursday March 18 ASSEMBLE: Islington Square 10.30 a.m.

rally becomes ore admitted Tory moved At ricos at Join the demonstration The fight to make thestra!

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THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Fight to nationalize motors anti-union

FORD

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alliance

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

SPEECHES by car baron Henry Ford II and likely assurances by Prime Minister Edward Heath at their luncheon meeting today reveal their unanimity—in fighting the working class.

Ford II threatened to withdraw from further Food prices capital investment in Calls for Britain in order to get will rise teachers' Ford strikers to go back.

PRA Sad meat Will as are unday strike Telegraph' commented. give farm surrender Ford conmen entede weekend With militant work ingly dificunning no halt a * this

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Specula Es, mater Union Congress And he went on blite ers ments anti-unich Would back last pett watered down or ca-invest diets. premier Edward 41,250-82,200 basic scale with lab co problems egged Tost in kes revealed to National Union of Bill at mian Furn Both ms! ade it distort. Operatives arsenates revealed onfidence imperialist Unanimity dan or the Tory goon No what matter it maning he unions. 1 Vinis imperialist soil mperialis darity remain unbroken. . US and British capitalism, i пано separately. of Henry Ford sols vurpose To fight Laos He is crowing too soon, hour.

oral blow to the fores. rout: New threat Theer. Confirms every ti Tories' nore the em ploying-class THE CAMPAIGN against the to North Millions of barch 18. be * The entre dominated by guer- aby that have adio, wace .. othere word a mased tiny sorts to detent with pur up the aim! China Topia centenn leaders alo on N

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The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government

MONDAY MARCH 15, 1971 • NUMBER 403

2jp (6d) 'Surprise'" £1,250 March jailings Fund reaches in Ulster £373.93 Charman of the union nego Moss

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tlating team Evans (Ir glasses

WHATEVER

Henry Ford, altimatu and dark coat sur. rounded by Ford strikers and BRITISH troops pressmel mounted their biggest- mass meetino at Dacennam.

security clamp- yet he romare going co down yesterday, forced to searching more than footsteps 2,000 vehicles at road- Pon the ace of thre blocks on the outskirts to the of Belfast. working class. We working class can and reat Pressure assist a rearmed police torce tre make the Orea claps Party, which Street strongly condemned the deaths.

o to theme the fairies Election subservi nto Britist gunfire

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Paris We're not bluffing there as dave eir military - the entire respon shot sisters of British oops rom Wastel the centre either'-Ford men colony. bothold ess • See LATE NEWS trated middle class. 'WE'RE NOT bluffing either, Henry—we want parity. Ford workers

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

at Dagenham yesterday had this message for boss of the bosses Henry

PUBLIC MEETINGS

Ford il, chief of the worldwide motor company.

Lessons of the post that I say ansWer

TO COTO I

THREE HUNDRED

BY STEPHEN JOHN.

workers' strike • out. one from the Dagenham knock- Tuesday March 16, 8 p.m. be about v chairman of Lane, vv.i sit ta takerhome a long for negotiating Wednesday March 17, 8 p.m.

This worker summed up the cutive. Britain and ahe company. 1, which oted or Untain checambath Town al

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of to continue They bed, for example, G. HEALY (ralfonal seatbart, socell Labour League) Speaker ad Audrey Wise exports by over saidom in seven ports. 'Parity now Judgement

ALL TRADES UNIONS

Before the meeting oficia the trade if that is not for th

ALLIANCE

i thousands want parity!' March 18 Bum the motion on te the neetins Evan Ford

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his commercial judgement.

more than Dagenam The rest did possibl

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the saids consideration Force the TUC to call a General Strike to make the start he alain ed capital invesiment Tory Government Resign! the country, said the motion Lobby the TUC meeting-Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 9 a.m. decide whether em Word missing Demonstration-Assemble 2 p.m. outside Fairfield s reasonable or not,' Halls, Croydon. March-2.30 p.m. through Croydon.

steward after the vote. Bluting in their chaim Meeting-3 p.m. Top Rank Suite, London Rd, Croydon. Fake away plant We haye The SLL needs your help Speakers from the All Trades Unions Alliance.

people, he said.

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birch Workers Press by intend to launch a nati rate the several

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were starved ed in the coming mission. of Special Trades Union Congress Take over at Croydon Special train : Tickets £2 return

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Ford his had been chatinge d action if it supports strikes.

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This is a critical time. Let

DEMONSTRATION

Press nile out your help unity now, let us go on to win our Socialist This is not demagogic talk,; Thursday March 18 will give us all the assistance o a santa do on no ASSEMBLE: Islington Square 10.30 a.m.

• send• tra Electrical Join the demonstration ocialist Labour Leag The fight to make this gov- Kill the Bill I by the meeting wit • street, part campaign.

PAGE TWO

A review by Robert Black

PART FOUR

On an inspection tour in the 1930s.

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Kalinin, Kaganovlch, Ordzhonlkidze, Stalin, and Voroshilov.

THE STALINIST purges Aghast at the havoc wrought by Stalin's policy, which of the 1930s were not the drove millions of poor and mid- of defects in dle result as well as rich peasants to rebel against the bility regime, many Stalin's 'personality. former oppositionists such as Zinoviev and Kamenev again This official Soviet version began to discuss the removal of Stalin from the Party leadership.

of the purges, was in fact, Khrushchev. But not Com- first propounded by Khrush- Stalin's famous "Dizzy chev in his 1956 "Secret speech with Success', laid blame which for the the Speech'.

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sufferings caused by his policy from 'Khrushchev Remembers' gives, bureaucrats, he minor the admits: by at least, a glimpse of eco- nomic and political crisis behind I remember being bothered by trom the Moscow the thought: everything has 'Dizzy Trials. been going as well on the collec- Khrushchev saw with his own tive farms as Stalin has been of the terrible suf- eyes some telling us up until the Diney then Soviet ferings visited Stalints under what's the reason for the by sudden peasantry with Success" speech all of switch of policy in 1929.

sudden?' With his former allies, the was dumbfounded by And he rich peasants (Kulaks) in revolt while the news that the famine had and pressing hard for the com- reached the Ukraine, the 'bread- of capitalism in piete restoration basket of Europe': farming and trade, Stalin swung couldn't believe it. I'd left to the extreme left and launched ing the Ukraine in his campaign for the collectiviza- 1929, only three ever years before, when the Ukraine tion of privately run farms.

had pulled itself up to pre-war The Kulaks were to be liqui- living standards. dated as class'- line that Stalin's 'Food had been plentiful and contrasted starkly with cheap. Yet now. told earlier insistence that Trotsky we were had been people were starving. exaggerating the dan- skyists incredible. of Kulak on the gers pressure Soviet regime. Corpses Naturally, Khrushchev does political back- into the according to Kiev ground to the 1930 grain And crisis, party chief Demchenko, says Khrush- what he acorintion how saw is frank enough: chev: 'A train pulled into with Kiev loaded of 'We spent only a few days at Cornead people who had starved to death.

the collective farm and were İt had picked up corpses all the at the appalled conditions way from Poltava to Kiev ..? found there. Khrushchev swallowed what- 'The farmers were starving to They literally begged criticisms he may have had death. ever Stalin's us to give them food. I'd no line, and joined In idea that things were this bad.

the attacks on those who came Stalin out for a change of leadership 'At Academy the Industrial and policy. we'd been living under the illu- at sion promoted by "Pravda" that But what he has to say on this period is nevertheless very inter- proceeding collectivigation WaC smoothly and everything was fine esting, because it points directly 'trial'], of the in the countryside.' one motived TV

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behind Stalin's frame-up trials a few years later. One of the hallmarks of Bonapartist regime is the infalli- "Therefore, if we were look bility of its leader. ing for someone to hold respon we could lay the blame His underlings, even his closest Stalin's own shoulders Khrushchev demolishes even be treason here when the situation calls for the the frame-up technique employed sacrifice of by Stalin and his Moscow Trills 136- allies 'leader' ethe extent of bot- must infamous less, even 1937-1938. blunders all his past out history books. from the Terrorism This clearly understood Khrushchev, can be seen In fact the main charges at his Stalin's comments on the first (the Zinoviey-Kamenev with Success' speech, as "trial') had been well as the following passage: those of wreck. sabotage and terrorism. ing, "The conditions that existed using the closest comrades collectivization have been of Lenin the bureaucracy's deirgin Soil Upturnedok described Sholokhov in Stalin killed scapegoats, two birds with one *Sholokhov his book wrote Not the half-stary- Stalin still only were was alive, SO underclad over-worked and had no choice but to describe ing, poorly-housed Soviet masses collectivization according the Stalinist official explanation for interpretation lindicat- given an Bonapartism all the ills of the Soviet economy how Stalinist set-back had been (every determined the style and Tine 'wreckers') work of Trotskyist of literary works.]

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the trumped-up same charges 'When the failure of the collec-.

enabled Stalin to eliminate in tivization hecame widely known, batches all real or four potential were all taught blame alternative leadership to his own scheming Kulaks, Trot- rightists, clique. Zinovievites and for Into the highest of posts happening. There was party and state swaggered oppor- always the explanation of handy and drenched yes-men, counter-revolutionary sabotage.' blood of Lenin's cen- with the (Emphasis added.) and the General tral committee Perhaps we'll never know Staff of the Red Army. many people perished And here, too, Khrushchev (or directly as a result of collectiv- somebody using his name) is sur- ization, or indirectly as a result prisingly frank. of Stalin's eagerness to blame its 'The flower of the Party was failure on others. stamped in the out savage Vio- 'But certain: two things are lence. Many of the original first, the Stalin brand of collectiv- of Party leaders and our our brought nothing but were wiped out. misery and brutality; and second, "Where men like Molo- Stalin played the decisive role Kaganovich or Voroshilov tov or n the leadership of our country Mikoyan when or Zinoviev. at the time. Kamenev, Trotsky, Bukharin and Bukharin 'Rykov [shot. with Rykov were running the coun- in 1938 after the third Moscow try? (Emphasis added.) Zinoviev Kamenev and

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Foran halict Ir i bawb. Yr wythnos. Monday March 15, 1971

BY ROBERT BLACK

CLECHOSLOVAK press and radio are giving very little intormation about the trial in Prague of 19 young anti-Stalinists, all members of the Revolu- tionary Socialist Party. It is easy to see why. Unlike 'liberal' oppositionists linked in one way or another to former Party leader Alexander Dubcek, they have called for working-class action to remove the bureaucracy, and not for a series of 'reforms' reflecting mainly the interests of the middle class. The present ultra-Stalinist leadership of the Czech Party has been able 'to point obviously social-democratic out the nature "liberal' and inspiration many and has

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hesitated to quote extensively from their writings.

The Husak regime has even used quotations from Lenin's writings of the Dubcek- the opportunist content cause inspired liberal opposition: (Lenin's works on the right of nations to self-determination, crudely i violated by the Kremlin occupation, understandably have not been used in this context.)

But the Stalinists have not been able to use the same technique against the 19 on trial in Prague.

And that is because the group has been fighting for a Leninist policy against the bureaucracy. Naturally, their prosecutors charge them with "Trotskyism'! All that the Czech public officially know about the trial is the brief statement made on the Prague Home service on Tues- day morning, which said: The trial of the accused Peter Uhl and others, charged with criminal offence of subversion against the the Republic, cur- rently in progress before the bench of the Prague City Court.

The accused have been conducting subversive activity against the Republic between November 1968 and December 1969 (when 13 of the 19 arrested), viz. compiled, duplicated and distributed various written materials and leaflets of anti-state Dubcek tendency teepenic and aliempted ot attacked the socialist which order of the frustrate efforts at a consolidation of political and economic conditions.'

quotations from these dupli- We see that here, there are no cated materials, exposing the group's alleged 'anti-state tendency'.

Can it be that no copies have actually fallen into the hands of Husak's ever-vigilant secret police?

We know that is not the case, for one of the defendants at the trial, Pavel Lukacovic, has already exposed the role of a police provocateur within the group.

A certain Cechal leaked the text of a planned leaflet to the police, who promptly duplicated it themselves, and later used its circulation as evidence of the group's subversive activities.

The reason for the Husak regime's silence on the real views the political of is that their ideas alc Frolik, another defendant, has told the court: 'Never in our discussions did we consider the possibility of a restoration of capitalism.

'On the our only aim was to help socialism. Our criticism not against the socialist but system, Was against certain action and certain methods'.

So much for their 'anti-state tendency' and 'attacks on the socialist social order. Thrown into crisis The by millions of group's position is basically that taken Czech workers and youth during the crisis of 1968 They we equally determined that the gains of opposed to the Stalinist bureaucracy, but the early they were equally and the war period-the nationalization of industry and finance, the should not only be defended, but enhanced by land reforms democratic workers' control over the economy.

This is why the 19's views much referred cannot be to by. the Czech press and radio.

Instead, Prague Radio broad- lengthy diatribes anti-communist neures in the West, and then links them in a classic Stalinist 'amalgam' those fighting Stalinism in various ways from a socialist point to viewe One such broadcast included in anti-Czech' front such the varied figures as David Floyd of the 'Sunday Telegraph', Victor Zorza of "The the writer Kuznetsoy, Roger Guardian' emigré Garaudy (expelled from the French Communist Party), Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist critic of the Austen CP, and the Soviet oppos writer, Fischer, the expelled art tion writers Solzhenitsyn and Daniel.

Crudely lumped together here are professional anti-communists from Fleet St and heroic fighters against the Kremlin bureaucracy critics of Stalinism like Garaudy and avowed enemies of socialism like Kuznetsov. The Prague trial is obviously for creating serious difficulties the Czech bureaucracy, and it is fast becoming a focal point of opposition to the Husak regime.

The sons of two old Party leaders murdered after the 1952 Prague frame-up trial, Slansky and Sling, have joined supporters of the 19 on vigil outside the court.

5 Cze hustled, and that those e is stan require early 1950s that those the were justified, condemned were indeed enemies of socialism.

After a period of surface calm, the Czech bureaucracy has again cathpaign in defence of Huss ambigu us role duress thrown crisis, being a press and radio the Kremlin invasion of August 1968, when, after a period of opposition, he went over to the hard-line Stalinists.

rivals Bis cleato gan and ed drainst him by his die-hard Stalinist Strougal and Indra. big factor deepening. this split has been the revolt of the Polish the Gomulka which against regime, at once provoked hard-liners to speak "liberal' ( dangers in out against Czechoslovakia. These tensions reflect the pressure of the working class and youth on the entire regime.

strike hammernblows at thorid Stalinism.

for the of the Prague 19, we also campaigning

Monday March 15, 1971 he sheir editorial leaders," the Me riba slee do byy library AW between st she to read fif they wan Hele the left seeing red last week. For the Libraries com mittee are to buy display Said Alderman Jim Hand: over a pospel porn orie Father than sience i! interest so reAlmad with The condeci A cutting from a St Helens paper "Morning Star" so ST HELENS workers have you might as well say St Helens council been demanding copies of the is contributing to the Communist Workers Press at their town Party. I do not agree with the views library and from now on it of the Workers Press, but will be displayed in the read- think people have a right to read it if they want to.' ing room. Coun. Potter received backing The Libraries Committee deci- from an unusual quarter. prove dust Tokyo test Said Canon Harry Bradshaw, protest of Prescot: I think Rural Dean rom Tory councillors we should buy it and put it on Ald. Jim Hand said: 'It's not display rather than silence it.

Its political newspaper. I look forward with interest broadsheet pushing an extremist to reading it.' point of view. It is, of course, sig significant that If the organization concerned the Morning not does want to give us a free copy I've appear to be regarded as 'extre- no objection to it being put on either by the Tories show. the Labourites. totally disagree with buy- Clearly the the policies of ing it. Socialist Labour League, particu- Independent Labour councillor larly relation the sacked In •to John Potter retorted: 'All papers Pilkington men, are having are putting over a political point big impact in the town. of view in their editorial leaders.

We hope the Canon does find 'The Library already the paper interesting' reading.

buys the THE NATIONAL Union of They were clearly designed to frighten seamen about the state Seamen may be taken over of the industry. by the Transport and General He told the Royal Society of Arts: Workers' Union. "The NUS is neither a large or rich i union nor does it carry The seamen are about to great political weight. ask for a pay rise it and 'But its affairs are in the hands may well be that the pro- of who, although rightly unea first foremost concerned and posed link-up reflects a new with the well being of their determination avoid members, also familiar to with the financial and commer- defeat. problems the shipping industry lancee, eed. and they as a Certainly implications the can read a balance have not been lost the "They know, for instance, that deputy of the Cunard chairman Line, who has warned: the seamen's strike cost Cunard £37m that another and serious such strike could do irreparable Marren ile Marine Whole the British маттет harm to the whole industry and put thousands of their members Not his that comments were of work. out intended to be taken as *I doubt whether the T&GWU ing to other employers will think along the same lines.'

alone. TRYGVE BRATTELI, Nor- served in this with a break untip ly 1955- 1960, when he way's new Labour Prime took over the Ministry of at Communications. Minister, was once an inmate In 1965, he was elected chair- of a Nazi concentration of the Labour Party, suc- man camp. ceeding Gerhardsen, who had just led the Party to first Arrested in 1942 for organ- defeat for 30 elecson. over izing the Nazi resistance years. Norway, Bratteli occupation He, too, was defeated in the was sent to a camp in Germany, 1969 General Election, but by where last three only two seats. years

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a heads minority On his release, he weighed Labour pledged government to Norway only seven stone six pounds.

take into the Common First Market, elected to parliament in the decision that he became Finance Minis- Agrarian 1950, his predecessor, Party ter under Labour Premier Einar leader Per would Borten, not Gerhardsen the next year, and make. Crossman will not seek re-election

MR RICHARD

CROSS-

took his up seat and also accepted editorship of the 'New

MAN, 63,

former Labour Statesman'. cabinet minister and until He always liked be has to 1968 leader of the House of sort of political as some maverick in the reformist ranks, Commons under Wilson's but he can be relied on to keep premiership, has announced the 'New Statesman' in its tradi- tional Fabian role. that he will not be standing The fact that he he will says at the next General Election.

be nearly 70 by the time of the Crossman was Minister for General Election next is per- Social Services until the Tories fect indication of his real per- last He was returned June. spectives. He expects the Tories Were elected with 12,265 last their full five majority, years.

WORKERS PRESS

AS RECESSION DEEPENS

FASCIST AND neo- bosses' inescapable and ruthless to destroy and need fascist strong-arm gangs restore falling rates of profit.

are increasingly taking But smash the trade to to the streets in Italy, unions, the of the workinies and working France and Germany. the press the class will require far more than nSCe parliamentary methods. As post-war parliamentary Neo-fascist mobs the crumbles and democracy of this The movement.

LONE

Gaullists demonstrates its inability to

EEC

and any will governments maintain tne cope with the worsening that they determ- ClOT al c ined to preserve law and order, recession, such extra parlia- but strong-arm abso- gangs are mentary groups will become lutely indispensable to the devel- opment of fascism. more common. Both the Pompidou and Col- They reflect the polarization ombo regimes have declared of class forces. They mark the their determination break-up of the old political *law in the and just as in the day of Hitler's rise power, In Italy mobs sacked offices turning blind eye to the fascists' violent of left-wing W Ger- parties, breaking up provocations. many neo-Nazis are Social Democratic Party meet- Gangs ings and France last week in demonstra- right and left-wing These gangs will try to break tors fought in the streets of the capital. up working-class organizations as similar mobs succeeded in doing Despite the miracles the Com- in pre-war Italy and Germany. Market supposed mon was to Only then will the be road which fascism. perform- -and the Tories clear for No amount still it mistakenly think of legislation could perform this depression is biting hard among task. the Six. The fact that they are begin.

Raymond Barre, vice-president ning to appear of of the Brussels EEC Commission, the distress which the bour- said last week that 1971 would geoisie and petty bourgeoisie are average' 'very year for suffering. business with industrial growth The decline of British indus- slipping from 6.5 cent pel 1970 to barely 4 per cent.

try is creating a whole army of unemployed executives, man- "Co-operation' small agers, ruined shop keepers in 'one industry towns, small craft firms and the He criticized employers for like. buying their way out of indus- trouble These layers have for trial by conceding big genera- tions automatically identified wage demands and called for their 'co-operation' between interests with those of British and management. capitalism. But now their supposed ally rounds Inflation threatens to get out them viciously, and threateno of hand and on wages them with ruin. Which way will and d therefore living standards they turn? jobs are an urgent necessity for the capitalist class.

Either the fascists will capture these frustrated masses, and Wales in Cemete e196 direct them against the work- 37.2 per cent between class ing to smash the trade and 1970, Italy by 35.7 per unions-or they will be drawn cent and in France 30.4 percent.

into a struggle for socialism.

The European working class •White collar redundancy'. is now a serious obstacle to the it is now called, is recognized as The picket line at Dagenham answer to FORD WORKERS at onus because we are all mili- Dagenham are under no illusion about what lies about behind the attempted "What Ford is saying is that witch-hunt of Tory MP he doesn't like the British situa- tion is not case abole worer here because labour here Timothy Fortescue. not live under the neo-fascist regimes that they live under in Workers Press reporters the Far East. talked to Body group shop 'The answer to these crude hreats is to demand nationaliz tion the ments. " endorse atation auric strike. about nationalization', Allen, another shop steward and 'Hammer' Ford worker, with six-and-a-half years' experience, told us.

kind of witch sunt has not come orde t. earlier. Victimized said. 'Of course we can see what the government is trying to do us The now. Tories have defeated back when they victi- the postal workers and they now mized and sacked all the milit- believe it's time to hammer us.

ants at Dagenham but the situa- tion has If my machine broke down I changed now and we won't let the Tories or the couldn't leave the floor.

It would company do this again. be repaired within half an hour.

of sabotage, is no chance "They trying back to work by pushing around even if we wanted to do this, with the numbers of supervisory erroneous rumours that men are staff on the lines. ready to give in elsewhere. But how did Halewood If a man sabotaged a machine vote last week? he would be only hitting his own pocket. These accusations "They voted by 3,000 to four are nonsense', said Terry.

to stay out That is on strike the "If they want to sort out the answer I give to Fortescue and if he wants the answer from militants as these three Hale- Dagenham, let him come down wood suggested. then they mon here to our mass meetings.'

will have to sort out all 50,000 growing problem by trade Membership the Clerical unions. and Administrative Workers' Union increased by 17 per cent The jobless rate in DATA now

ASTMS,

last year, and in the runs at 5 per cent—nearly twice managers' union, by 22 per cent.

the The edu- national average. cated unemployment rate is Not enough Italy, soaring in France and although the now having serious effects inn recession But this hough it is, will not be aroun trend, Germany. In Britain there are signs that Stalinist and reformist leader- the middle class turning ship exposed was remorselessly towards the trade union move- during the defeated postmen's to detend itself. strike.

EAST & WEST -

REVIEW

Parts: A gang of fascists of the 'New Order Party' charge left-wing demonstrators who had attempted to break up their meeting.

CEYLON

THE STATE of emergency declared in Ceylon a few days ago indicates the treacherous objectives of the counter-revolutionary coalition government.

It brings out, too, the bankruptcy of the Maoist-oriented Peoples Liberation Front, which has no faith in organizing and leading the working class to defeat capitalism and to establish socialism. The Peoples Liberation Front (PLF) is organized under petty- bourgeois leaders who had their initial political training first in pro-Moscow and then in pro-Peking Stalinist parties.

Therefore they inherit the anti-working-class political tendencies prevailing in the Stalinist communist parties throughout the world.

With their talk about the armed struggle and ruotations fron 'Mao's thoughts, PLF leaders try to divert he unemplover youth away from the working-class struggle.

Their theories about a peasant uprising and an armed struggle independent of the working class naturally helps the bourgeois sections to prepare to attack the workers.

They were preaching against the trade union struggles from the very beginning of their movement. They were really hostile to the Tamil workers employed in the plantations.

While the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist League opposed the middle-class politics of the PLF and waged theoretical them, Pabloite against the revisionists them struggle ran after -and compromised with all their weaknesses and betrayals.

There is a growing determination today, among whole lavers of the Singhalese masses to break away from the imperialist system. The local bourgeoisie, led by Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike tries to exploit this hatred against imperialism by strengthening the state apparatus in order to repress the masses in the guise of a Buddhist Singhalese 'socialist' system.

PLF, on the other hand, tries to exploit this anti-imperialist sentiment among the youth to drive them away from the work- ing class and to lead them to some isolated terrorist activities.

PLF does not have a clear understanding of the real class nature of the coalition. They still hope they can push Bandaranaike to take up socialist measures.

saged he a see ace deader trade minists in e engaged in a strike plantation estate, PLF leaders invited Mrs Bandaranaike to bring forward regulations to defend workers from the plantation owners and the police. Pabloite Bala Tampoe also supported this same resolution. Again when the government issued a verbal protest agains!

he American invasion in Laos they thought they could the gomeriment are nowards the her by alad the toe American embassy. ut, Mrs Bandaranaike took immediate measures to defend n Ceylon by suppressing all revolutionary activities in the country.

to Force he yo Ren-lass pay Cs in the coation to break away from it. The coalition can play only one role-counter-revolution. We lave seen how Sukarno in Indonesia, with all his verbal criticisn of imperialism, opened the door for a CIA-sponsored govern- ment. PLF always tried to by-pass the working class and its organiza- tions and trade unions and to find adventurist revolution.

PAGE THREE

It also showed that trade with the groups union militancy is not enough to New Order'. defeat the capitalists. They are demanding that the Middle-class act to clean the bankruptcy and government up ruin lay behind the 'leftist mess' by which they meteoric Hitler's Nazi party of strikes, rise from and all the barely 800,000 votes in the working 1928 organizations class to its struggle more than 6 million in 1930 and has built up nearly 14 million against capitalism. two years later. Every capitalist government in W Europe is accident that the now no thugs towards showdown with the fascist who clashed with left-wing working class. demonstrators in France and Italy both belong to In Germany trial of lawyer Horst Mahler, an anarch- ist, is being used to smear the entire left movement by associ- ating socialism with terrorism.

France, as the attacks on In socialists well as demonstra- as tions mounted by student adven- gather speed, the Gaul- list Party is being forced to the right and the moderates are being driven out. Break-up Italian The government crisis which seems almost perpetual is of the break-up symptom of old the mass parties—a break- up which has created a power vacuum into which the military Fascist si dire inacasingly step- backed ping. Fascist gangs have attacked socialists in L'Aquilla and Reggio Calabria areas where workers said to have fought battles with military and para-military forces in the last few weeks.

Side by side with these devel- and reformist Stalinist opments, leaders of the European labour movement are doing nothing.to the prepare working class to resist. Italy and France have the two largest Communist in Parties Yet Europe. in France May- In June 1968 they did everything to the defeat of ensure the students' workers' and move. ment. In Italy massive strikes and workers' demonstrations, have been diverted, muted and turned into mere protests. In this situation the need for, and the role of, the mass revolu- g demonstrators tionary party becomes all- important. Their counterparts, the Maoists, in Britain, also try to do the same things. That is why they are opposed to a Labour govern- ment returned to power through a General Strike. They are opening the door for the Tories to attack the British working class. Revolutionary Trotskyists in Ceylon today fight among the vorkers to build up a movement to force the Sama Samajist and Stalinist leaders in the coalition government to break away from lead the masses ascine omiss and visions and to do successful socialist revolution.

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Sombre Stalinists slander SLL policy as results A SOMBRE note was • struc by Indian Congress President General Strike demand Jagjivan Ram yesterday. Commenting on Mrs Indira Gandhi's sweeping General Election victory, t saidi evolution brought about by the masses will not permit The people gains wider support Latest returns from W Ben- gal yesterady snowea congres trailing the United Lent ron Party By John Spencer knew he and hal co lette ON THE 18th anniver- Mala Hards Once agall Large numbers or workers neckled victor reatner in iratalgar square di a general Strike. emerging as the main force in theBut sary of Stalin's death, the Front with 80 seats. this agnose stile political one felor a comfortable t Bert Ramelson, the ars devoted to licking Stalin's boots Communist Party's so- protest strikes Ford industrial 1 hat called industrial genera ened in Glas- strike proportions. organizer, decided to sounded to til the an: Liaison Committeer Since mittee has held ni when launch a fresh round of spread - this de-

• FROM PAGE ONE

olicy has Lamelson's attacks slander against Trot- s Race son code parity reich cold t to fight The 242 trade union relat their alig He told students at the ruptintunist case within the the first such organizat im London School of Econo- the St in trial as never before.

Socialist Ramelson also presided over mics mat une nass emanded inse made the Tories t* Tvenor the Stalinist Lavour League nas never 105t

CONTENT

industrial action mash the been able to get a response accepted ne wai tot and that th with a well-par the him bas the prett 10 260 Tories must be forced out of the putting Its demanas in cae failed in $29 mite his become bon" Commission on Indus- Ramelson and his Party. on their cal working class. side the trade unea cheat trial Relations. Devey tortions. The; For March 18, it content -due to con-

CONFIRMED

inflation' supportin tselt w11 ineering union's strike call Socialist Labour It offers 11888 Salaal,

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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• FROM PAGE ONE

Stalinism and Trotskyism defeat the government. industry see posing 1ne communist rarty aocs All starting at 8 p.m. urvelutionary alternative.

Hence mamelson error of judgement Carr's praise • yesterday US interest cuts ateneral Councils

E LONDON

fight strike to take n Tuesday March 16 political Tuesday March 23 white n TUC's allacking hambe 'anshan Avenue (near barking Station signally misleadins are on the ste boo Given by Tony Richardson even bes District bring THE ROLE of the United States dollar, kingpin of the world financial system, is now causing sunday March Z1 pol wore dear or the Sunday March 28 acute anxiety in capitalist circles in Europe.

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ACTON

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BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

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CROYDON

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The Plough eat Honor threaten anan dia bee nstability source risking an Co Thadics on solution to these Given by P. O'Regan the confine the natien cane alie ness las movement od te uncontrollable world crisis The saying noal it 5802 working class Tards sce the fascism ser chan- would be pur back on groan.

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PIPE-DREAM

owara lascismn and bankers to make a profit the Tory gostrom ent. lutionar make inevitable and in reced a the esc Europe from the us. lecisive questior standard and they The Marxist movement must be prepared to

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MEETINGS

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