Workers Press no. 47

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

NUMBER 47 • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1969

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Ban Lombard Bank to acquie ALMOST 5,000 teachers— Y 8.15 a.m. on Monda National Association i our Novel of Schoolmasters-stopped er monty aboeal ful nad reached 51000

BY JOHN SPENCER

work in schools and Wales over England Joseph Lucas (Industries) Ltd sterday in the braisem yesterday at the start of

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BY ROBERT BLACK

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BY PETER READ

Washington toes colan propose • Nisat Wilson's illusions about Nixon's de- does Nikon's war policy. animdrugs than laboratory develop peopies bringing a Scotland Scottish bus strike spreads of genocide seth see Vietna with nis poncy Boys by inviting the Spring US agalnst viewames. Edinburgh people. Rail shopmen an end to the war now want 150

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Four rewarkers, • There 4 DoL uestion of a 1,400 Build-up at otties the are sorr snopmen IrOn depots througnout scotland fessor on nen leis o Yen the op precises cor came out for z4 hours last protesting about the dis parity. Wednesday.

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Srime Minister now. He called Their resolution Unpublished carried 130 votes to 22 at a They buses has ne-man • receive an a a on Satur- DeNy

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workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

NUMBER 47 • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1969

PRICE 6d.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

PUBLAHED ROM UASDAY U SAURDAY

£1,000 fund Briefly Teachers

C.P. SUPPORTS

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WILSON'S VISIT

ahead to acquir mood ALMOST 5,000 teachers including 500 members of BY 8.15 a.m. on Monday National Association 1 the sp of Schoolmasters-stopped in 330 schools all work

BY JOHN SPENCER

subsidi merge England (Industries) Ltd. and wales 400 ay in the yesterday at the start of when one into

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account the really real a two-week selected strike efforts by our readers for their interim £135 pay

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SCHEME: The British successfully Spender sed i nas at Lai

BY ROBERT BLACK

calm Press. Wales. the North West strikers' wearines have Birmingham We t sual Manchester Ethe phase good news and London were among the 21,000 rumoured offers of f8 education authorities are affected by donations in THE FIGHT to stop Wilson's visit to Washington is

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American of the visit to Nixon was John Gollan, British Com- speaker minant 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4. munist Party secretary. aircraft was travelling halo-hearted present less that

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Mr Michael Mull Wastingion No one should have any

BY PETER READ

said Having, illusions about Nixon's de- Football drugs than laboratory Scotland Scottish bus strike spreads in in dise ace agan his policy of genocide US government boks'. Edinburgh Rail shopmen it knows exponent of genocidet On the poopic. uve movement wno 150 contials.

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Foundryworkers, super • PAGE 4 COL. Testion of a 1,400 abies throughout the country- shopmen from what os thes Build up Scotland labour and pro- depots throughout fessor B. nent biolo came out for 24 hours last mari protesting about the dis- Wednesday. BUSMEN from Edinburgh's New Street SMT depot

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WE SAW in the first of these articles that neither the Dutt nor the Gollan faction in British Com- munist Party could point a way out of the crisis of Stalinism. Both of them are victims of its history and hope to cheat this history. When Dutt criticises Gol- lan on the Czech interven- tion, he gets the support of some Party workers who want to oppose Gollan's 'peaceful road to socialism' line. But what neither side in the argument can explain is this: what is the connection between the Soviet Union's and Stalin's international line and the 'peaceful, parliamen- tary road to socialism'? As we have shown many times, the British CP leaders very well that Stalin know himself was the architect of their 'British' road to socialism, first adopted in 1951. The intervention in Hungary and in Czechoslovakia (1956) (1968) were perfectly in har- mony with the class-comprom- ise politics of the Communist Parties of Western Europe and the whole capitalist world.

If the followers of Dutt want to explain the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 as a necessary action against 'counter-revolution', let them explain the conduct of the French CP in May-June of the same year! The French Stalinists drove the workers back to work. In- stead of a struggle for power against a capitalist state on the verge of collapse, they settled Dutt: Criticises Gollan on Czechoslovakia, b question of the Party's 'parliamentary road'.

IN 1965 the first pictures of earth were sent back from space by the orbiting photo- graphic and weather satellite.

Looking at the pictures, one scientist commented: "There are no signs of intelligent life'. Watching 'Miss World 1969' (BBC-1 November 27) one could see what he meant. that In the same week television brought pictures of the Apollo 12 crew approach- 1ng and leaving the moon, and then film of them actually on it, we were also treated to . there what one middle-class feminist organization described as trivial cattle market degrading to all women everywhere'.

Degrading certainly, but for the bourgeoisie not trivial.

Bookmakers were giving odds on the winner of the contest as they do for horses and parliamentary candidates; the Fleet Street rags were covered with grotesque pic- tures of the girls happily acting out their tawdry roles as sentient the merchandise; lucky handful of faithful soldiers for imperialism who survived into retirement as Chelsea Pensioners were shaking hands all snapped round. Queen's Stalin One big story, for a few hours anyway, concerned horse of the Queen's stable called Stalin. He too got his picture taken, if only with beauty queens. Feminists of the Women's Liberation Workshop protested outside the Albert Hall where the contest was held but, of course, that only added a little more excitement to the cover- age of this glittering occasion.

It's difficult to do justice to the crudity, corruption and contradictions which glared out from the small screen.

But above all what remains is the decadence in which the show orginated and the cynic- ism with which it is continued.

Under the guise of 'giving for wage increases and a par- liamentary election. This meant the retention of power by the capitalist class.

It meant a counter-revolu- tionary consolidation tempor- arily in western Europe. bureaucracy The Kremlin was interested, in August as well as in June, in a 'stabilized' That is why they Europe. guaranteed de Gaulle's 'come- back' in June; and it is why the President of the United States knew of the Warsaw invasion Pact of Czechoslo- vakia before it took place, and before a single Czech knew of it, in August. zechoslovakia, but avoids the lamentary road'. people what they want' (over 25 million viewers are claimed for the programme) the BBC, using licence payers' money, has happily helped the Mecca Organization stage this annual meat market. The meat, of course, is all on the hoof; the judges don't squeeze it or prod it. They have the girls parade in front of them with only the most discreet guidance from the handlers. Ugly sideshow £250 £100 to that one; ed to . there; she's the champ - £2,500 for her plus a few trim- mings to imply luxury and tasteless glamour. The inspiration-Hollywood.

And the drive —profit. The constant repetition that all the proceeds go to child- ren's charities only deepens the ugliness of the whole side- show. The money, of course, is taken from the labour of the workers in the first place and is now sparingly handed out in magnanimous donations to the carefully selected and de- serving poor. The contestants cannot be ignored either. Many of them are obviously deluded and un- conscious of any values beyond those foisted on them by the cultural agencies of the system.

They are caught acting out their dreams; the dreams second-hand themselves are reproductions of agency models photographed in six-cylindered, air-cooled, high performance, sterile cola bottles on wheels; nights of bliss, days of joy, grace and calm. They wear their hair as they should, do their lips as pre- scribed, choose their evening gowns and swimming costumes as the instructions on the packet dictate. At these marks on the floor they smile (Camera One gets the equally allocated close-ups there); by that edge there or at a command they turn. The winner's ambition was reported to be getting a wax- work reproduction of herself into Madame Tussaud's.

WORKERS' PRESS

By Cliff Slaughter

PART TWO

Any Party workers who still peaceful, are think that the liamentary' emphasis from the stand oint or provid.

unose workers woo want a British Road to Socialism' wile revolutionary road from for every consumpt that ie best but who remain in the Commu- ing groundwork for the Party diplomacy. must raw. must ask unererore.

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armed struggle the only power Without by supporting the soviet inter- GOuDL. smashing of the capitalist ine vention Czechoslovakia, guarantee _ot the security state will be necessary. should what social and political force state- the Soviet workers finally learn their lesson from the struggle which we defend despite this Congress. the in western Europe? of the Party were workers' power Marxist analysis under- amended, on the EC's revolutions. stands that class mendation, to incorporate defi- But the Soviet bureaucracy played by a party or state can- muvery une laea unar une cao- substitutes tor this a nolley of not cnance. our is consistent talist state can be taken over bargaining and pressure and as intercaly not 'emached'. tics to keep the imperialists at The Stalinist bureaucracv Engels and Lenin expressed it, be replaced with organs of counter-revolutionary-in All sorts of alliances western Europe and in eastern made workers' power. with particular Europe. Hallullal these Communist will barucular Parliamentary Party militants observe DarTes, The Douces or national are subor- their communist Parties Rule 1(b) DolIcies ol wollan and of the Party now dinated i to thic leaders inc uding Dutt) includes the analysed this state In uncuon to.. Wards the treacherous trade of affairs 313 bee achieve the unitu of Work to union bureaucracy their and late the working class and a broad tend to think anti-monopolist alliance around Collan no do obt parch ot Com- that, now warnea une she same liberal doubtspart of murast rartes Treed ol so expressed erecove varxist cucance n a parliamentary majority of communist internationa. their and leaders would tend to fall prey Communists Parasitic to the particular reformist, pleased lo a cenune socialist trends inside orogramme such But this superficial and labour movements malonty. based on the strength their dangerous of the working people, and on we under. countries. own continuing struggles inside and stand that The policies When British and other une Stalinism. ever since 1925- Communist Parties announced 1926, have been those of a poli- political Their to the inter. faction representing vention CY in thi arasiti they were showing signs

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dian Mid-West tions. Women are 'twofold and 10.00 He and She. threefold enslaved'. (Trotsky Struggle For 10.25 Points of View. Speech'.) 10.30 24 Hours. isolater 11.05 The Sky At Night. child-raisers, and cooks 11.20 Weatherman. wage_worker hinds 11.22 Postscript. future rosey with the whole working class. organizations formed to defend ous line of 'left unity'. Marx- their interests in opposition to ists for working-class are legislation unity. But the 'left unity' of parliamentary strikes, factory Gollan handing the against clo- means decreases and workers over the sures, wage to class enemy through the betrayals of other attacks on working class the so-called 'left'. living standards and present legal organizations.' The slogan of the Congress In other words, the British was not preparation for power, Communist Party must be but 'Turn Britain to the left'.

Party Gollan's main speech at the thoroughgoing of the British and this Congress Constitution, told the delegates: er the sedges tick- 'In general, there has been must be pation the struggles now significant shift to the left in beginning, when all 'constitu- the labour movement, and this tional' powers are about to be is of the utmost importance'.

used against the working class, In point of fact, the working and the working class is going class has begun to take up to need a Party to lead it to battle positions, along with the the taking of power and the workers of all Europe. The smashing of the bourgeois 'left' in the labour movement has not provided single It is the same in the trade ocialist policy for the workin field. Militant workers class, and seeks above all to in the factories, often organ- contine the class within capi- ized in their work and their talist limits. unions around the Communist Gollan says, 'What is emerg- Party and the 'Morning Star', ing is a new militant British facing entirely new are now trade unionism which is start- problems. The issues are clear ing to feel its muscles. as daylight. The purpose of that is to paint Jones, Scanlon, Daly and Militancy their like as tough and militant union leaders, to be supported During the boom, it was a at all costs. question of militant organiza- Not a single word of criti- tion piece-work to improve cism is offered of their con- and district and earnings duct in any dispute, not, national rates. At district and single word said against their this militancy national level, support of productivity deals, was crowned by efforts to re- Jones' of recent signature on turn 'left' full-time officers and TUC-CBI declaration the national members committee industrial relations, or of Scan- at union elections. Ion's action in the 1968 engin- Left unity' appealed to many eering strike or the 1969 Ford as the best way of continuing penalty clauses. this state of affairs. The advent to office of Scan- lon, Jones and Daly in the last years appeared to two many of these workers as a big gain, opening up a new stage in the fight for concessions. But the harsh reality is very different. Instead of concessions, the future holds the promise of massive mergers, unemploy- ment, and Measured-Day Work and job evaluation to replace piece-work. The employers are backed in their strategy by Labour gov- ernment support through the millions given for mergers by the Industrial Reorganization Corporation, through the threat of anti-union laws and the Prices and Incomes Act, and through the wholesale be- of trayals the

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General Council and trade union lead- Dick Etheridge: Praises disputes procedure and Feather's intervention to stop ers on strikes. productivity deals. Daly in the miners' strike, Scanlon and Jones on all pro- Gollan and the Stalinists ductivity deals and in relations hope to prepare a gigantic sell- with the government, the TUC out of the struggles now com- and the motor employers, have ing through the illusions up, shown their true colours.

they implant about Scanlon, The time has it is come, Jones and company. clear to more and more Com- Theis hatred of the Workers munist Party and other mili- Press and Trotskyism is pre- tants, for political policies of cisely because we are not go- struggle the against govern- ing to allow this to happen.

sackings and We expose ment, against every twist and deals and for productivity turn of the trade union bureau- new, revolutionary union lead- cracy and their Stalinist de- ership. with the fenders, and we fight, Yet now is the time when All Trades Union Alliance, for the Communist Party lays yet revolutionary policies and leadership in the unions.

more emphasis on its treacher- By Frank Cartwright But it is only within the struggle for the socialist revo- lution that such contradictions can be heightened sufficiently to change. Otherwise the inequality of becomes an issue by women' itself, an issue which can never be resolved without the over- throw of the system which depends on such backwardness and brutality for its survival. for Marxists is to get at least Played out against a back- a clear intellectual understand- of a tinsel ground globe, the ing of the issue. Miss World competition fell in Such an understanding will the same week as man's second involve a real appreciation of journey to the moon. the depth and complexity of Both are corruptions of the the question. Consciousness real beauty and achievement develops unevenly and often possible to human beings.

reluctantly. Solidarity, unity and equality The same person can hold between workers of both sexes well-matured political ideas is important as inter- and still be less than a full nationalism. Marxist in his attitudes and No revolution can grow feelings towards domestic life which "does not build upon and the equality of women.

both principles. And neither None of us can be sanguine be achieved can outside of about such contradictions.

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6.03 Today. 6.35 Branded. 7.05 The Tuesday Film: "Gun- 4.00 News fight At Dodge City with 402 Souseparty. m Headlinho, 4ase 4.15 Harry Lau- YOur Joel McCrea, Magic Star Diane's ter, Don Haggerty. Theatre, 000S AT Teda Movie: 635 Cross- Tuesday, December 2, 1969 Gollan: Proposes to sell out by creating illusions in Scanlon and company. In the same week that the British-Leyland employers an- they intend nounced to go ahead for Measured-Day Work in the immediate future, thus anticipating a gigantic struggle with the workers in their Mr Dick Etheridge, plants, Stalinist convenor at British- Leyland, Longbridge, Birming- ham, gives praise to Victor Feather and his role of step- ping into strikes. This is true Stalinist prepa- ration for the coming strug- gles. It is naturally accompanied by Scanlon's insistence in the same week that the TUC pro- cedure for settling disputes must now be made to work.

We can best complete this article by pointing out a major contradiction Gollan's speech. It indicates the reality be- hind the phrasemongering.

Gollan praises the 'Morning Star' for its role in the 'left- ward' movement, saying: It has increasingly become the voice of the whole left.

There is widespread and public recognition of its role in the broad labour movement' And yet, he says '... despite this we have to register a 6 per cent decrease in membership, and an overall decline in the circulation of the "Morning Star"'. 'Morning Star' At the end of his speech Gollan insists that the new EC must give priority to the ques- tion of 'Morning Star' circula- tion, singling out this problem.

Certainly here is very big question. A big radicalization in the working class, fighting with unprecedented militancy, is part of an international trend. According to Gollan, there are big victories for the 'left unity' line of the Party.

But membership and circu- lation go down! The fact is, of course, that far from 'coming in with the tide, the Stalinists meet their gravest crisis just as the work- ing class comes on the scene.

This is true in both East and West Europe, because the working requirements class's are revolutionary ones, and threaten the bureaucracy.

Most important, this upsurge of the working class, and the preparation of struggles for power, have been anticipated, theoretically, politically and organizationally by the Trot- skyist movement, particularly through the achievement of a daily paper, the Workers Press.

It is the struggle for this paper and its policies, and for the revolutionary leadership built around it, that now will put an end to Stalinism and its counter-revolutionary role.

The path for Communist Party members who are faith- ful to the gains of the October Revolution and the teachings of Marx and Lenin is to join in this struggle. fornia Conquest' with Cornel Wilde.

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MANDEL REVISES MARX

Tuesday, December 2, 1969 OVER THE last few years, the Pabloite chief Ernest Mandel has ac. quired something of a reputation in middle-class circles "Marxist as a economist'. His two-volume Marxist Economic Theory' has been translated several into languages and the 'New Left Review and others have taken up his writings on the nature of contemporary capi- talism. In fact there is nothing 'talented' or 'original' in his thought, as his friends claim.

His writings not only suffer from fundamental theoretical weaknesses; they serve to show that there can be no 'scientific' political economy from one who rejects the revolutionary role of the work- ing class and the struggle to construct a leadership of that class. Mandel's pamphlet 'An Introduction Marxist to Economic Theory' has recently Merit been reissued by Publishers, publishing house of American Socialist the Workers Party (SWP) who are in political solidarity with Mandel. Objective A recent issue of 'Militant', organ of the SWP, recom- mended the pamphlet as the best available introduction to principles of Marxist the political economy. Before dealing with Mandel, we may perhaps recall Marx's writing "Capital'. purpose in Marx aimed, in his great work, to demonstrate the objective nature and revolu- tionary consequences of the Marx showed that the logic of the class stru was the taking of power by the working cla between the contradiction developing productive forces capitalism—of which under the working class was the most revolutionary-and the social relations of production. It was this objective conflict which made the working class —the sellers of labour power -the only consistently revo- lutionary force in modern society. Marx showed that the logic capitalism seas true taking er of the class struggle power by the working class.

Socialism was not a Utopia • -a vision of a new society- objective necessity but an which arose out of the material struggles within capitalism. Marx in 'Capital' demonstrates the scientific and objective of the struggle for content socialism. Lenin and later Marxists in the study of the imperialist stage of capitalist development went on to show that by the end of the last century cap- italism had completed its historical mission, that it was no longer a progressive force and that the epoch of pro- letarian revolution had now arrived. We start with these basic points because we shall find that Mandel has rejected both of these fundamental princi- ples. We shall deal in this article with Mandel's rejection of Lenin and Trotsky's analysis imperialism. 'In the current period of expansion,' he says, 'we are witnessing accelerated an technical progress, a genuine technological revolution, for which the expression "second industrial revolution" or "third industrial revolution" hardly seems adequate. We find ourselves, in fact, before an almost uninterrupted trans- formation of the techniques of production.' Mandel's use of the term "industrial revolution' to describe post-war capitalist changes is no accident. Leadership One of the basic principles of Trotskyism and Leninism) is that capitalism in • its im- perialist stage is moribund and decadent. In this phase of capitalist development there can be no systematic development of the productive forces. The Transitional Programme International of the Fourth makes this point concrete.

'Mankind's productive forces stagnate.' Capitalism survived after 1917 not because of its in- herent but only strength, because the working class has been unable to resolve its historical crisis of leadership.

This Mandel denies. By revolution' after 1945 he is speaking 'industrial indicating not merely that a series important technical changes took place more rapidly. The industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries was one which completed the : of the class struggle under capitalism the working class. establishment of the power of capitalism the whole over period and political structure of Britain. A new class, the working class, emerged as a result of these changes and the rem- nants of the old feudal order were finally destroyed. Mandel is likening the Ernest Mandel: Rejects fundamental principles of Marxism. changes after the war to these qualitative changes. But if changes of this nature have taken place, wasn't Lenin wrong to designate imperialism as the highest stage of cap- italism? Surely 'neo-capitlism' (his term for these post-war changes) is a new stage, according to Mandel. Consist entest pamphlet State Inconsistencies State Capitalism' (a reply to the State Capitalist attack on his book) Mandel is forced to face these issues. 'Does this view of a new industrial revolution' he asks, classical 'overthrow the Marxist-Leninist conception of imperialism as the final stage of capitalism? It does not, no more than the appearance of monopoly capitalism overthrew the classical Marxist conception of competition being the driving force of capitalism. "The third phase [NB] in the capitalism repro- history of most of the basic duces features of imperialism on a higher scale, just as monopoly capitalism reproduces cap- italism on a higher scale.'

This is sheer trickery with talking words-Lenin was about imperialism as the last stage of capitalism. Opposes Trotsky It was not that imperialism merely reproduces the features of earlier capitalism on a higher level. It was a stage which had had grown organically out of capitalism in which many of the characteristics of 19th century capitalism were by this turned into their century opposite, e.g., the relationship between finance and industrial development of capital, the monopoly out of competition and, crucially, the transforma- tion of capitalism as a pro- gressive force into one which was now a complete fetter on the further development of the productive forces. Mandel openly admits his opposition to Trotsky and the Transitional Programme. 'In any case, the key aspect development of this understand the oversimplifica- of the assumption (of tion which even Lenin and Trotsky at moments victim) were that the structural crisis of world capitalist system, the which undoubtedly began with the First World War. and the Russian Revolution, somehow is identical with an absolute in the development of the pro- ductive forces. 'And each time, when a period of revolutionary up- surge of the working class in industrial imperialist the countries ends in defeat, this creates a situation in which the economic recovery is not only possible but inevitable for bourgeoisie.' imperialist (My 'emphasis. P.J.) For Mandel, the defeats of the 1930s—defeats inflicted on the European working class by counter - revolutionary politics of the Stalinism, which Mandel and his followers are courting-were now merely 'events' which created a situa- tion in which capitalism was given a new lease of life.

For the Fourth International these defeats, and the crisis of leadership which they exposed, have been the only means by which capitalism has survived.

This is the meaning of the Transitional Programme, a Programme which Mandel re- jects. Mandel also abandons Lenin when he writes: 'It seems obvious to me that the period 1913 to 1940 was one of these long-term cycles of stagnation in capitalist pro- duction, during which all the successive cycles from the crisis of 1920 to 1929 were marked by particularly severe depressions because of the fact that the long-term I trend • was one of stagnation.' Boom For Mandel, the inter-war period was not a manifestation of a crisis of imperialism, but merely a period of long-term capitalist stagnation which has been replaced by a similarly long-term period of expansion.

• Mandel rejects Because Lenin's conception of the epoch and the tasks for Marxists which flow from that conception, he is unable to analyse the nature of the post- war boom. •.. the 1940-1965 cycle, or 1940-1970 cycle has, on

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contrary, been charac- But much more important the and than even this reformist con- terized by expansion this expansion the clusion (which is identical to because in margin for negotiation and dis- that adopted by the most between the right-wing element within cussion bour- Stalinism, geoisie and the working class notably the Italian Communist Party) is Mandel's has been enlarged, the pos- rejection of the basic Marxist sibility has been created for theory of the historical mater- strengthening system the basis of granting conces- ialism, which is implicit in sions to the workers, a policy this position. which is being practiced on an If the contradictions of cap- international scale in western Europe and North America, italism are such that the work- and may even extend to several ing class is no longer driven , countries in southern Europe to revolution to solve its in the near future' (My em- basic problems then what is phasis. P.J.) material basis socialism? struggle for Like all petty bourgeois, Mandel does not start from This is the choice for the contradictions of cap- Marxists, as presented by itialsm during the boom. Mandel. 'Either one stands squarely inside the of the tramework capitalist on com- system pletely logical and consistent basis, and consequently accepts the fact that the only way to guarantee a constant Peter increase in investment and industrial upsurge based such increases in private in- vestments is through increas- ing the rate of profit; or refuses, takes the socialist position, rejecting the road of rate of increasing the profit, and advocates the only alter- native road which is the devel- Operating from purely sur- of a powerful face impressions he has sought opment public to make Marxism respectable sector in industry, alongside the private sector. This is the in the eyes of the trade union road of and labour bureaucracy whose out the capitalist framework and its logic and position was temporarily to the arena of strengthened during the period passes over call what we structural anti- of expansion. reforms.' capitalist (My em- But if capitalism was not phasis. P.J.) only strengthened but entered Mandel's reformist position a new phase ('neo-capitalism') the logical is perfectly after the war then all prospect out- come of his long opposition to of social revolution has the principles vanished. This is the logic of Trotskvism. his attempt to turn it into an Mandel's position. And he says and adjunct of the Stalinists as much: reformists. 'The working class is there- According to Mandel cap- fore confronted with a fund- italism can now devise policies amental choice between which guarantee a stable rate policy of reform in the neo- of therefore capitalist profit and structure, which an integration of the stable rate of expansion.

implies trade unions in the capitalist Whether one rejects such a system so that they are trans- 'solution' for him is merely formed into gendarmes for the moral, individual question. of antenance social peace during the amortization phase Socialism has, at the hands of fixed capital, and a basically of this revisionist, been trans- anti-capitalist policy [not formed into a Utopian dream socialist policy

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with to be dangled before the work- programme of short-term anti- ing class to keep them happy.

capitalist reforms.' As we have stressed, for In other words. the choice Marx and all those who have before the working class is followed him, the taking of reformism or 'structural power by the working class reformism'! arose out of the material con- THE RECENT approval by the United States government of British Petroleum's plans to merge with the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, under- lines the urgency with which the US imperialists are now seeking out new oil sources outside the Middle East. The development of the Arab guerrilla movement and the crisis of the national bour- geois and feudal regimes now faces the giant oil companies with the spectre of expropria- tion in the not-too-distant future. The BP-Standard Oil com- bine will account 53 for per cent of the total oil production of Saudi Iran. Iraq, Arabia and Kuwait together! The discoverv of a rich oil field in northern Alaska and the successful voyage of the tanker S.S. Manhattan through the icy North West Passage now point the way to new supplies and the possibility of cheap distribution by opening up the Arctic waters as com- mercial sea routes.

EXPLORATION

The discovery of the oil on has Alaska's 'North Slope' spurred increased oil explora- tion activity in neighbouring Towing the forward section of the S.S. Ma northern Canada and geologi- for her voyage through the North-West Pa cal structures similar to the oil-bearing strata of Alaska are elsewhere around the present of other raw materials as well.

rim of the Arctic Ocean. Northern Canada is known Walter Levy, a prominent contain valuable mineral US oil consultant, has stated: to deposits. «The of: centre of gravity Until now, however. little exploration for oil is shifting attempt has been made to from the Middle East to the develop them commercially be- Arctic' cause of formidable transpor- No one, at the moment any- tation problems. that the wav. is predicting Arctic will match the Middle Getting the oil out of Alas- ka's 'North Slope' raises big East oil either in volume of but problems, the pros- total supplies or in cheapness too, pective profits look attractive of production costs. enough to make the petroleum It could, however, become companies willing to pour mil- of decisive importance if the lions of dollars into the effort stranglehold of the oil mono- to solve them. polies is broken in the Middle In particular, the develop- East. ment of an economically feas- As an indirect result of the Alaskan oil discovery, the ible route through the water- Arctic might become a supplier and-ice passages around the The defeats of the 1930s inflicted on the counter-revolutionary politics of Stalinism, which capitalism was given a new lease o tradictions of capitalist society.

Marxists identify themselves with this material and objec- tive struggle and dedicate their lives to the building of a party for the taking of power by this class, not as an abstract moral choice which flows from their 'sympathy' with the lot of the working class, but be- cause the further development of the productive forces and n of the S.S. Manhattan in preparation e North-West Passage. north of the North American continent might make it pos- sible to open copper, zinc or Canada's iron mines on northern islands. The oil field is estimated to contain up to ten billion anspor- barrels of oil. A barrel holds 42 gallons.

If oil is present in nearby areas-which experienced oil men think is highly likely- the total oil reserve in north- ern Alaska may run as high as 40 billion barrels. Preparation is already well under way for the building of evelop- a pipeline to carry the oil all y feas- the way across Alaska-from water- the Prudhoe Bay area in the id the north to Valdez, a year-round

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inflicted on the working class by the years of unemployment and the tics of Stalinism, are for Mandel just 'events' which created a situation in n a new lease of life. Above: Soup queues in New York.

hence. man's control complete break from the whole over only take conception of scientific nature can place through this revolution. socialism and historical materialism. In other words, our struggle It is from this fundamental with Pabloism and with revision of the very theoretical Mandel was not and is not a foundations of the revolution- conflict 'immediate' over movement that ary issues alone we must understand all Mandel's weak- Involved in the break with mistakes and distortions ness, Marxism which Mandel and the field of political in company made in 1953 was a economy. ice-free port on Alaska's adapted for the job and fitted with a new ice-breaking bow, south coast. It is thought that this will did manage to reach Port Bar- be a bigger row, Alaska, construction pro- from the east, on the building of the September 21 this year, becom- ject than Panama Canal ing the first commercial vehicle - perhaps the biggest ever to make the trip. single construction job ever undertaken. Considerably more testing The mainline will be 48 and evaluation is still needed, and 800 inches in diameter however, before it be will miles long and initially determined if the tanker route of be capable carrying would be economically feasible.

500,000 barrels of oil a day.

If the favour- be designed. ice- Later, capacity could able, specially stepped up million breaking tankers much larger to barrels a day. and more powerful than the The consortium of oil com- Manhattan would be built building this solely for the North West panies that 1S build 400 Passage route. line also to miles smaller-diameter lateral lines.

DEFICIT

Inevitably in such an area Before the voyage, oil com- there will be major construc- pany officials estimated that tion snags. shipping by ice-breaking tank- The soil in northern Alas- ers in this way might be 60 ka's tundra region containing, cents a barrel cheaper than by of as it does, a large quantity the pipeline across Alaska and ice crystals; has a disconcert- US East Coast then to the ing tendency to acquire through the Panama Canal in soupy consistency whenever tankers. warmed it would be by as Other possible of means oil flowing through a pipe- transporting the oil have been line. including discussed, transcon- A pipeline laid down in the tinental pipelines. conventional might manner The United States west of just keep sinking. To get the Rocky Mountains the round this problem, part of 1S first logical market for Alaskan the northern end of the line will probably be elevated on oil. held up by piles cross bars The region now consumes driven into the earth. more petrol than it produces.

Construction is scheduled to Not counting 'North Slope' begin next spring and oil is oil, the deficit is expected to expected to be flowing through between 800,000 and grow to the pipeline-and to US on 1.200.000 barrels a day by West Coast ports in tankers— 1,500,000 1975, and to to some time in 1972. 2,000,000 barrels a day by 1980.

GAMBLE

By that time, Alaska may be producing enough oil to cover North Slope oil, The that some this deficit. oil might go to US East has For the United States as a Coast markets led the Standard Oil Company whole, it is estimated that by 1980 there will be a need for of New Jersey and its domestic subsidiary, the Humble 8,700,000 barrels a day Oil more Company, than it will produce in the 49 into expensive an if States other than Alaska.

gamble to determine oil tankers can be specially de- This reveals the magnitude signed to plough through the of the problem. The States will floating blocks and ridges have to find nearly 7,000,000 ice that have so tar frustrated barrels from day outside the development of a commer- sources by 1980 and the rapid cial trade around the route development of the struggle of north of North America. the Arab masses threatens to cut off the cheap oil on which The S.S. Manhattan, 150,000-ton tanker they have relied for so long.

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Wilson's Behind the Tilbury visit he onto one Sohe visit Persone, Loeit container The first of two articles on most ot thei ot worke containerization in London for such a and Liverpool linuation *That iss hy Miner ary and a renie ban elected archont or serene ch the which Wilso guing to

BY DAVID MAUDE

the Britsh la sour CONTAINERIZATION-on which and London's port employers 'Relations' union leaders meet tomorrow-last Buot Golian maup ort the al week again became a front-line Washin to cancel his Pahit ot ne answer at least H or page issue for dockers in both London 'Opt and Liverpool. JS-so Hack writers and cartoonists for most of "Pra Follonin the national newspapers, some of whom clearly US-Sovet had only the very faintest of ideas what was at stake, did their bèst to whip up an anti-working into a to ac class hysteria against the 22-month-old ban on most new container berth agreements in London docks. ihe Sovier Bureaul. Claims have been made, or Simpl, among others, that the ban greater co-ordination, I have madism ( They" Tilbury good is going to turn u planli. into a fishing village, los of ihe venaes Tilbury dockers their jobs, Leone tor thoe a ied a tt kill Tilbury, kill London workers stalin-tained. re inf the gron is acutely entire ama ruin The British economy (!). perna cord struggle filterency e the Crech orse.

desniet All this has been con- trasted with the new-found s, he wa class virtue Liverpool om eretitec policy to the dockers, who have allegedly Somalier es lo dire minte edf jobs agreed to handle ships for greater instability Plessey workers capitalism, a third transatlantic con- employe tainerization threatens massive tainer service even betore a pay-and-productivity deal reuundaucies. donk edundancy or demand meeting

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workers, vast kers trom tne biggest lactories organized in the Party is only the pale will did in tav. Communist Party. The delegation from Fiat of reflection of a deep in- that nOW Turin follow the ran IntO centra within ternal crisis structural reforms' meeune pace carving Viet. Cantausn Italian Stalinism. flags to the ecstatic roar Cone based on a coaltion with toe OI 100,000 workers In many of the unristian Democrats spells recent These are the forces now at Dolltica suicide for the talan strikes, particularly in the working cass WOrk IsidE The talan wort. massive Fiat works They have not forgotten the terrible experience of fascism Turin, workers have clashed the came Those which wil under Mussolini. smash Stalinism wherever physically with Stalinist exerted has

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union at- revolutionary grip Trade labour tempting to impose That is why CP oppo- moderate policy the But The Thongh i tendencies such on Manifesto' reflect this strikers.

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nased the Bologna, 60,000 workers won crisis, they cannot resolve it. journal Manitesto wide- such an immediate anal working class re demonstrated spread support inside quires a thoroughgoing settle- Partited by accounts with the cil for the three discip- lined Central Committee me entire history Stalinism. which Italy rich in its record of betrayals.

Natoli™ styled Those workers now moving towards Rossana Rossanda in a ter Traine of munist Party mus students, have attracted the appearing in 'Why interest, if not active support 'Il has Manifesto' vouncer workers the Fourth International found such a ready reader- radicalizaton mild lions shit 1 ol workers, driven into This is the only way ahead rejects the parliamentary to the Italian revolution.

struggler that pose the power, was question road. and calls tor a retum to within create ctraine the revolutionary ine or Mary the two-million strong Stalin- and anges ist party. opposes a SO resolute v Like Stalinist the Soviet invasion and occu the advanced pation of Czechoslovakia begin at Unlike the reformist leader- tries, Party sip of the Italian it does revolutionary and the Hague liberal grounds nost ot cha Paaly fine, ime presents ing hrough Coallion LEADERS of the six Com- wing Ine sense retro of the Market main capitalist party. ine countries mon Christian Democrats. arrived in The Hague yester- xisunz oracl. •

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the the of new members the tascist activity and brutality to- creased nolice wards strikers. At the funeral of the police- to com- men plete stage to d attack on Milan the en • con omis by policy fascist but yea France the Christian which in ass sture, Prime corpse of of see serie bitter "Liberal', the dead policemen. revolts smal tarmer. government Dolley tremendous remains problem. Moscow meeting Pressure on 'European The National Federation of Farmers Unions coming under incrazsing pressure security' trom Hrench formarg take a more militant line against government

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agency newe Tass announced yesterday that Soviet East European leaders to the next few dathe Rossanda: One Rossann pots of the enly acted three susnended C members ban. more than 30.000 farmers took mari recently-elected policy all over krance. West ment in the war and branet government in experienced one already he. Extinction Germany. trayal of the Italian Revolu- After several weeks of ten- tion. Thausande of cmall formom tative exchanges. the Soviet Many workers will rallv to peasants are threatened an o hureaucracy has decided this tendency... near with extinction in th approaches make formal 100,000- future as the French govern- Bonn. strong workers' rally in Rome sides openly with This meeting. 'summit' Tract nes dominatedPre West Germany intention tuestions leading any campaign to save •European securtiy' ConLact revolution' and even more to then.

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strengthens S. African ties

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British Steel Cor- poration has concluded an agreement with a group of South African steel firms reorganization of the its holdings in that country.

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