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"Tribune' After I.M.F. talks China-Soviet crisis

INSTRUT CA

lefts Government-union hold a

A NEW

clash imminent meeting by our Industrial reporte THE ROW over incomes legislation which has simmered beneath the surface of the Labour By but still reform- Party conference since Monday burst to the ism.

WAR DANGER

David surface on Wednesday afternoon in a stormy After con alternoo Maude debate on the economic policy section of the which executive's 'Agenda for a generation'.

britain's bigges! government S incomes policy

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and *Tribune KOSYGIN'S five-point plan for settling the Sino- tramsport th allenatu workers. WIlD com- Tall Y al breaton By N. German Soviet border dispute must not be taken at its face strength voting nesaay nient. Dined Street was teet From Robert 1.800.000- value. The Chinese leaders are highly suspicious of nere began moved the reference end in the Black such offers, coming as they do after a long period of of the Agenda' coalition Dack rub section reaffirming sup- Soviet troop movements along the Chinese frontier.

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workers press PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER FIVE • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1969

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

China-Soviet crisis

A NEW

WAR DANGER

KOSYGIN'S five-point plan for settling the Sino- W. German Soviet border dispute must not be taken at its face By Robert value. The Chinese leaders are highly suspicious of Black such offers, coming as they do after a long period of coalition Soviet troop movements along the Chinese frontier.

Chou En-lai's speech in Peking on Tuesday made it agreement clear that while the Chinese government accepts the oner to open talks It remaius on is guard The need for vigilance is near anderlined leaked by from ton studed the Soviet Moscow Victor Soviet journalist known to be very new situation. By a foreian correspondeni guard in this

WEST

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Monthly Review Press, New York and London, 1969 UK price, hard covers, 54s.

Review by Tom Kemp JUDGED as factual of private capital 1n How earned Profits than of higher search hat settited States ind statistical be at home could US have greatly reduced gold reserves and put the is an imperialist coun- dollar at risk. try this book is a first Magdoff only touches on causes and consequences the class professional job. international liquidity of the Magdoff, who crisis. He is so busy explain- Harry the post-war ing expansion once earned his living as of US capitalism that its con- a top statistician for the left tradictory character 1S out. US government and has lately become joint editor

NOT ENOUGH

radical journal of the Review, has It is not enough to prove 'Monthly that US imperialism exploits scoured all the available and Latin America other material to argue his case.

parts of the dollar empire.

To show the dependence of After a cursory glance advanced technologically the at the theoretical issues in industries imported raw UDon the reader the introduction the imperative materials to find outlets for is rapidly assailed by a bar- necessity surplus capital is very of facts and essen- rage no less tial. than 44 statistical tables.

But this task could be car- All to the good, and very ried from reformist impressive in its way- perspective or simply studies of this kind are as al cer- objective' presentation of needed. The book tainly suffers data. nevertheless from some basic flaws in method.

Magdoff's purpose seems sceptical be Magdoff reveals the major to to convince middle-class radicals and flaw on page 22. liberals imperialism that does exist.

PURPOSE

He is not writing for workers. The purpose of the book is, he says, 'to show the co- hesion

LOST

and interdependence of the United States economy The working class does and the world capitalist sys- not in his analysis; The contradictions and appear tem. has somehow been lost within the system it tensions tally referred to only inciden- sight of while he and duously collecting facts figures for this book. well this In fact, however US The tendency the is task carried out, it radical movement which of mains an examination Magdoff while forms without refernce to represents, able criticise capitalism, if the their content 'contra- confidence the has no in dictions and tensions' of im- the working ability of class perialism are left out. in the advanced countries to But this is not all. We are overthrow it. complete pic- given a very This leads him to write of the articulations of ture imperialism book about in American business expansion which the and foreign working class policy. left out completely. Now Magdoff may believe

EMPHASIS

that the American working The could class politically back- reader very ward aristocracy of labour.

easily come away with the that Magdoff had impression proved his case all right: no

APATHETIC

could reading it one after United maintain that the He may believe that the States is not an imperialist advanced workers in the countries of Europe have be- country. apathetic and But the emphasis come is SO US world vative. heavily placed on the He follow Herbert power, control may cises over the less developed Marcuse in thinking this.

and the countries growing We be be- cannot sure penetration US of capital cause he does not bring the the advanced into countries matter up. with the backing of But if capitalism has vived into the second half o- military machine hat he might also conclude nothing can be done to 20th someone that century, using Mar- who claims to be overthrow it. perialism, quotes and Lenin's 'Im- ism It is true that one of Mag- with approval doff's main points is to show owes his readers an explana- the dependence of the US on tion. obtained the raw materials In fact the flaws in from foreign countries. Mag- doff's method are very funda- mental.

ANTIDOTE

Claiming to deal with the In that respect his analysis, historical de- most recent the trade velopments capitalist based on statistics, in useful antidote those mode of production he that leaves out the basic social re- revisionists who claim of relationship be- lations which distinguishes this kind metropolitan the it from other systems. tween the (especially countries and the rest of the

USA)

NO ANALYSIS

world is a thing of the past.

He does the of tech- not analyse The development process of production and re- while it has reduced nology, which the production from the importance of some im- drive imperialism eman- has for ported raw materials, made others indispensable.

ates. corporations oper- The class struggle is kept The big ate on a global out of sight. scale to seize control of the sources of sup- The contradictions are re- ply of these materials. served for later inquiry. political the US No conclusions At the same time, are drawn. by far the most has become Apart from a few exporter of capital Theoretical assues. important affiliates of US in which and foreign ques- corporations have become a tions are dealt with in a cur- book merely of sory way the profit. major source provides useful compen- The fact that much of this dium of facts. investment is in other indus- Anyone who wants to by no trial countries means know what imperialism the Marxist contradicts about and how to fight theory of imperialism, but will still have to go back results from of the the role Lenin. and leader US organizer of the world imperialist sys- tem.

STAKE

politics US government and diplomacy are geared to and extending maintaining stake of the cor- the world be porations and cannot made intelligible on other basis. this It to maintain has the expense of position i at capitalists of other the countries. It has to keep the loss de- the within veloped countries orbit of the capitalist world market. with the deal threat constituted by the ex- of workers' states, istence degenerated or de- however formed they may be. and facts statistics Besides Magdoff has found some tell- defenders tale statements by of US policy to substantiate this view.

SEVERE

maintaining The strain of position in the its premier capitalist world market. the system in deed to keep being at all, has been very severe for US capitalism. re- The immense aid and quired for foreign military spending abroad re- quired to support the Ameri- Union Square, New York 1930—Thous can empire together with the the depressio

WORKERS' PRES

BOOK REVIEWS

'THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM'

By Harry Magdoff

'HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF

GREAT BRITAIN. VOL. 2: THE GENERAL

STRIKE 1925-1927'

By James Klugmann

'BABI YAR'

By Anatoly Kuznetsov Review by Peter Jeffries

ONE

INDICATION

Engels, always modest, of certainly underplayed his the growing interest in He role in the partnership. 'talented', Marxism is the increasing and others were whereas Marx he declared, availability of Marx's and had been a true genius. Engels' writing in paper- Selected Writings', 'Engels: backs. edited, with an introduction w. 0. Henderson by (PP Penguin, for example, in- three clude in their list selections of writings which every reader of our paper who wants to start a serious study of Marxism would be well advised to buy. Perhaps the most useful selection - particularly for those interested in political provided by economy *Marx edited Economics, by Robert Friedman, (pp 251, 6s.) Here is made easily avail- selection of able wide Marx's writings on the nature and functioning of capitalism, together with extracts from the more important writings the materialist concep- tion of history. Follow up It will be easy for a reader to follow up each extract 'Das Kapital' and given in Marx's other writings. The volume edited and in- troduced by Т. B. Bottomore Rubel: 'Karl and Marx, Selected Writings Socio- 1n Philosophy' logy and Social 272, 5s.), starts off with (pp extracts from the writings materialism, then historical a small selection provides from considerable the writ- ings on pre-capitalist econo- of mic formations (most which still unavailable are in English). 414, 7s. 6d) does a little to Next there are extracts restore Engel's right from 'Capital' and elsewhere to outstanding of place as an on the •he red be modern thinker in his own right and selections society from field the as an original contributor to the what the Marxist world outlook. choose call 'the editors to sociology of politics'. Henderson's has selection of Engel's writings some the English working class, in- Greatest cluding from his extracts 'The Condition of the famous Finally, some of Marx's Working Class in England in general and relatively limited 1844' as well as the later of the comments on "Labour from the writings future society are provided.

Standard' of the 1880s when Friedrich Engels was the he campaigning for Karl first and greatest of Party to express the indepen- Marx's followers. dent interests of the working Lenin was later to write of class. their long of friend- years Engels' deep interest in the ship and collaboration: problems of the German pro- history there 'In ancient letariat is reflected ex- of tracts from some of his many are many moving stories The European German work- friendship. the articles on proletariat may say that its ing-class movement. created by two was Also included are pieces and fighters whose scholars from his work in the fields of relations each surpassed to political philoso- economy, moving of the most stories phy, history and military human friendship among the small selection questions. ancients.' of his voluminous corres- Marx and pondence with others is also provided. Two of warning words need, I think, be issued all intending purchasers. First the very nature of a 'selection' from Marx and Engels is somewhat of a con- tradiction in terms. The danger is that an in- tegrated body of theory will be split up into its 'compo- nent parts', in the manner of bourgeois social science. None of the three volumes altogether avoids such a dan- ger. Second, the introductions to all the volumes should be treated with great care. Particularly this true of is Bottomore and Rubel's long Marx, which commentary on prefaces their selections. Here they seek, in the of the New Left, to reduce Marx to the level of a 'great sociologist' who has modern much to give to "sociological theory'. In so doing they attempt to destroy the revolutionary which infused all spirit Marx's and Engels' theoreti- cal writings. But these three volumes, available together for under £l, are certainly worth buy- 1930—Thousands rally against effects of guide to the litera- ture of Marxism. he depression.

'ORKERS' PRESS

DESPITE the inten- tions of its author, this book throws a great deal of light on the origins of British Stalinism. The book reproduces a great deal of material issued by the Communist Party in the General Strike period. Much of it only serves to underline all the criticisms made by Trotsky at the time of the General Strike, that the bloc between the leaders of the British and Soviet trade unions - the Anglo- Soviet Trade Union Com- mittee-prevented the de- velopment of a revolutionary leadership independent of the trade union bureaucracy.

Klugmann naturally rejects Trotsky's the criticisms policy followed by the Com- munist International: • The British Communist Party strongly opposed was o those leftist groups in the Communist Party of the so• viet Union and in the Com- International who munist wanted to bring to an end the Anglo - Soviet Trade Union Committee'. (p. 324.)

Yet what function did the British side of this Commit- tee play before and during the General Strike? After the return to work, the Communist Party de- nounced the

TUC

leaders in the following manner: 'The General Council's de- cision to call off the General Strike is the greatest crime that has ever been permitted, not only against the miners, but against the working class the of Great Britain and THE Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1900 was ac- companied by an in- tensified disciplining of Soviet intellectuals. This is because the bureaucracy fears the bold protests of Sinyavsky, Ginsberg, Daniel and others will link with the generations in the new working class, determined as these intellectuals are to defend the October Re- volution from imperial- ism and the bureaucracy. Anatoly Kuznetsov re- cently fled from the Soviet Union to England. His books, including 'Babi Yar' had strongly been attacked, but not as strongly as those of Yevtushenko who had adapted sufficiently to the regime to support the victim- ization of Sinyavsky and Daniel. While Yevtushenko had been dismissed from the board of the 'Yunost' magazıne ('Youth'), despite his com- promises, Kuznetsov was ap- pointed to take the place of a liberal on the board. As one western commenta- the tor put it at the time, bureaucracy wanted neither a diehard nor a liberal, but a safe bet.

SECOND RATE

After the Czechoslovak in- vasion the bureaucracy was, however, unable to clear out all dissenting intellectuals. It took them two months to pro- duce an 'open letter' in sup- port of the Czech invasion and even then it was only signed by second-rate writers.

Under these conditions good his Kuznetov made The capitalist press escape. suitably applauded this and gained to- an opportunity, gether with Gerald Brooke's release, for a spot of anti- communist propaganda. Kuznetsov has been frank defection. In an about his interview last month he said: "The Soviet Union is noth- Liverpool 1926—Police attack strikers Lawrence and Wishart pp. 373 70s.

Review by Robert Black whole world. has . The Gene- leadership, ariving it into ar alliance with the bureaucratic ral Council miserably TUC leaders. thrown itself and the miners the tender mercies of the on The old syndicalist tradi- workers' worst enemies-the tions again became dominant government'. Tory 210- (P as the Party worked as a left 211.) for the General apologist Council's actions. denunciation If this of the General Council cli- On January 1926, the had period called for maxed whole of Party to the Commu- the General (p.95) preparation by nist Party for such an his- and developed this slogan Klug- then throughout the next five toric betrayal, mann's defence of the Party's months. would line carry some The National Minority weight. under Communist Movement, Party leadership, echoed this The author describes in all the some detail new policy: ore bad. made by the ruling tions 'The real central body He class for the strike. also through which we must func- brings out many of the vacil- General Council tion is the 'lefts' of lations of the the Union of the Trades Con- General Council, well as gress.' (p. 102.) the downright treachery of All the demands put for- right such open wingers Minority Move- ward by the Jimmy Thomas. entirely ment were trade how does Klugmann union in character-as in- find it possible to justify the be if the deed they had to the support by Com- was one of aaven main perspective Party to these same munist handing all and power over during the General Strikeand leaders right leadership the General to Council. The Party had British At all costs, Stalin's block special responsibility for with the TUC had to be pre- fighting against all the syndi- The served. ( Communist calist traditions of the pre- Party's policy, consciously or decades the vious two in not, revolved around that working class. single axis. This fight in the began Klugmann himself early years of the Communist inside-out attempting to re- International. Council's concile the General before Lenin's 'Left-Wing Com- treachery the strike munism' played a large part with the Communist Party's for down the the in laying theoreti- uncritical support cal guidelines in the struggle same body: for communist leadership Just before taking the vote in Britain. the General Council's on The bureaucratic degenera- scheme for action, the chair- tion of the Bolshevik Party man, Arthur Pugh, made the and the Communist Interna- tional brought to an end the that the scheme requires Miners' Federation hand over of Marxist process training General Council the begun by Lenin, Trotsky and to the this dispute"! other Comintern foun- conduct of the (p. 112.) ders. Why ominous? Surely After 1924, the formation this the Com- Union Committee served as Anglo-Soviet Trade was just the policy munist Party had been calling for the means throughout previous British Communist Party five months: 'All power to the Sphere Books pp. 268 6s. Review by Dave Spooner Dozens of left ing but hypocrisy. The bodies were lying on the ground. principle upon which the very Soviet Union is based is pro- mistaken.'

THE AUTHOR

foundly the hand 'you ather The novel is related by couldn't ask for anything bet- Kuznetsov he was at the anything nicer'. appar- ter or 12-year-old than the British ruling time— boy- but ently, of tells us, course, about class. Kuznetsov as he is today.

ex-Stalinists of the Like the 1930s Arthur Koestler and Despite all the political de- he comes to rest in "tran- all- scription and the insistence quil' (his description) Britain that this is documentary of where, on the eve mann account. the book is about the class battles, he hopes to find author. The refuge ! small boy feels both small gnat') helpless (a very

DOUBTS

and aloof from the struggle of what he calls 'the mob' novel, 'Babi Yar' His *the herd'. AY. other times unconsciously an book is The effect of the presses. Aesopian form, all the doubts contradictory. and hesitations about the On the one hand Kuznetsov 1917 October Revolution describes the atrocious brutal- which finally hardened into and yet ity of the Nazis, he this outright hostility. has underlying an Contenhe It recounts the Nazi occu- the whom for victims of Kiev and the mass pation blames, with characteristic Babi Yar in executions at arrogance, for petty-bourgeois 1941 34,000 September not helping themselves. executed in two davs. people His peasant grandfather is Out of context we are given, most richly of the described descrip- episodic form, in the characters, insisting as he of tens of tion of the fate does that everything was won- thousands of workers and derful in the 'old days' under peasants who paid with their the Tsar. lives for the Stalinists' mis- Symbolically. when the leadership of the German Kuznetsov hiding young working class. from the fascists under Here is one of the factual house he discovers news- Babi Yar DaDer which is over 50 years incidents the camp : old. The guards brought baskets was madening to think •It out of the booth and yelled that there been time Bread!" - and then "Bread! had lived when people they that anvone announced serenely, buying watches and who touched the bread before phonographs and pearls. the order was given would be killed.

REFUGE

«The mob stoood motion. After talking and He less. seeks refuge in some smoking smokin uld turn around and while. legendary political period - the more remote the better— where the petty bourgeoisie is go awav. i 'At that the believed to have occupied prisoners rushed for the bread. but the stable position. more guards and turned around And he squares accounts fired their submachine guns.

with his meagre conscience October 3, 1969 General Council'. And this was the same opportunist line that came Party stadk in the mmunist International. Klugmann completely dis- torts Trotsky's position when he attributes to him 'a com- pletely negative view of the role of British workers in the General Strike. ..: (p. 321.)

This was never Trotsky's position on the General Strike.

The Left Opposition attacked the cover given by Stalin and the Soviet trade unions to the sell-out policies of the TUC General Council.

This involved the sacrifice of the political independence of the British Communist Party to the tactical alliance concluded between the British and Soviet trade union leader- ships well over a year before the General Strike began.

The 'Platform of the Left Opposition' is quite explicit on this point: 'The tactic of the united front should under no condi- tions be interpreted as a bloc with the traitorso f the Gen- eral Council ofthe TUC...

Such a policy weakens and confuses the working class, increases the prestige of the indubitable traitors, and pre- vents the maximum consoli- dation of our own forces. ..

It is necessary... once and for all to put an end to the policy of a "hearty accord" with the traitors of the Gen- the TUC.... eral Council of ..: (pp. 91-95.) It is obvious that Trotsky's *negative views' were aimed exclusively at the traitors of the General Council and those who continued to work with them in the Soviet Commun- ist Party leadership. After its first flush of anger against the TUC sell-out, the Communist Party again drifted back to its original position of support for the General Council. Fully committed to Stalin in the fight against Trotsky, the CP leadership was com- elled to defend the continuec existence of the Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Committee: • the Anglo-Russian Committee justified itself in action . . . the general situa- tion in which workers find themselves makes international solidarity in action more necessary than ever.' (p. 226.)

Smoothing over earlier attacks on the TUC leader- the Communist Party ship, resumed its pre-General Strike policy: The campaign for "more power to the General Coun- cil" must be intensified.' (p.

227.) The British Communist Party's role in the General Strike is undoubtedly a vital question for trade unionists today. But for a Marxist analysis, as opposed to a Stalinist justi- fication, of this first phase in the bureaucratic degeneration of the Communist Inter- national and its relationship with developments in Soviet Union, the following works by Trotsky should be given top prority : 'Where is Britain going?'

"The The Communist Inter- national after Lenin.' "The Stalin School of Falsi- fication' while looking on the horrific political spectacle. Seeing everything in terms of individuals and seeing him- self as outside of the conflicts in society, he cannot make head or tail of those major clashes that give rise to revo- lutions and counter-revolu- tions. No. He expects the world to obey the laws of reason in whose platonic the name bourgeois revolution is made.

I cannot, for the life of me, understand how such a de- lightful joyous [a novel, re- member, about a concentration camp] world-with such a sky and such a sun-with people endowed with minds and the faculty of thought—not ani- mals guided by instinct, but thinking, understanding people -could harbour such bound- and fascism. as aggression, war less idiocies

ARTIFICIAL

All he can envisage is a world that progresses accord- ing to artificially imposed pat- terns of the mind and in this of course, he reflects the great theoretical degeneration that characterizes Stalinism. He is unable to grasp the relationships in world society as a relationship of classes, but looks at them only as a gigantic and overpowering re- lationship of individuals.

So he dutifully records the Soviet victory over the invad- ing armies as a nationalist victory, that is, the victory of one agglomeration of individ- uals over another. Yet the energy and heroism working class, of the Soviet derived from its iron deter- mination to defend the pro- perty relations established by the October Revolution, lives on despite the crippling of the Red Army and the enormous political nervousness created by •Stalin's trials in the late 1930s. Kuznetsov's defection to the is a bourgeoisie conscious blow against the October Revolution. It is those intellectuals within the Soviet Union like Sinyavsky and Daniel, whose art and political defiance re- flect and draw strength from the struggle of the Soviet and east European working class, who carry forward the defence of the October Revolution.

October 3, 1969 THE establishment of 'law and order' by the army of British im- perialism in Northern Ireland has proved a touchstone of revolution- ary principle. As always, the Irish ques- tion has forced home the class issues in the British labour movement. In issues of 'The Newslet- ter' forerunner of Workers' Press, we have explained at length the stand of the Socialist Labour League- 'Withdraw Troops Now!'- and contrasted it with the acceptance and even welcom- ing of these troops by the Communist Party, the Labour 'lefts' and the revisionists of the state capitalist group 'International Socialism'.

Now the so-called Inter- national Marxist Group' has added its voice to the chorus of opportunism. This is the group which was prominent in the Vietnam Solidarity Cam- paign, and includes Pat Jordan, Ernest Tate, and Tariq All. It is affiliated to the Pabloite so- called 'Unified Secretariat'.

The monthly journal of this group, 'International' for Sep- tember 1969 contains Jordan's Ireland: the struggle article, goes on.' sorts of declara- After all 'principle', Jordan tions of discovers a formula to avoid fighting for the withdrawal of troops, and does a thorough- going whitewash job for the state capitalists. He writes: 'Withdraw British Troops flows Now: this slogan directly from the position of self-determination [of the Irish nation] but there are people who are willing to support the line of self-determination, but not the slogan of the immedi- withdrawal of British ate have to troops. Again we it clear to whom the make slogan is directed and in what context it is being used.

"The civil rights movement of Ireland is opposed to this slogan and is anxious that the British solidarity movement does not advance it. It argues of British that the arrival a pogrom troops prevented and for it to demand their recall would be suicidal.

cannot be 'This dilemma dodged by shouting about "revisionism" and "sell-outs".

These are real problems in- volving-as has been demon- strated people's lives. 'The slogan demanding the withdrawal of British troops is an educational "one" designed to clarify the actual political relationship of forces "The demand for the with- drawal of British troops is one which the British movement must adopt if it is to correctly implement a policy of fighting self-determination. The for emphasis given at a particular time to this slogan is a tactical question' (our emphasis, Editors) You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink! You can assert that a ques- tion is a principled question reality a different (though in principle is involved from what Jordan thinks) and then say that whether you fight for it is a 'tactical question', i.e., in you fight on it some cases and in others not. The British capitalist govern- ment, a Labour Government, has sent troops to defend the rule of the Northern Ireland Tory (Unionist) government, because that Tory government is the caretaker for British and capitalist property in other Ireland. The capitalist state consists, say, of bodies of Marxists armed men for the defence of however capitalist property, this state may be dressed up civil i with democratic rights, repre- sentative government, and so on. This principled question can- not be altered in any way by irmy berricades set up at the bottom etween the Catholic and Pr

WORKERS' PRES

Cliff Slaughter 'tactical' considerations. There situations die troops and police are not used une state lor unis purpose Much less can varxists con- fuse the question with talk about the saving of lives, does. This is only rubbish middle-class usudl Derry youth attack armoured police vehicle during early stages o obiecting to the Marxist theory ot the state. don t une Donce help old ladies across the road take of logic, but the direct resall dese minchare happe?

of these under protection troops the forces of capitalism result of the boluca contor themselves tions of Jordan's group: police and follows directly from their allect Ine towards forces, closer Marxist theorv or une state ana security middle - class protest move- the principled politics Com Which wilk une Druse nikl civil rights: flow from it. ther mand and westminster cabinet.

ments nke eng up as •warxist attornes for the middle class. This is why they present the involved principle that of toe set-determinauon nations, detencing Britain the right of a colonial country to independence.

TO THE EDITOR OF WORKERS' PRESS

In this wav thev avoid the history September 9, 1969 ot the working-casc Dear Sir, nationalists ourgeois in 1916-1922, confronted with THE role of the British troops in N. Ireland Is cleariy one that has always been played, namely that of protecting the socialist lasks as une only way the maintenance of law and order, imperialist possessions, _completine nauonal the 'return to normalcy. struggle, and more and more now brought into relationship That their presence in any country brings by-products with the as an increased profit for the indigenous bourgeoisie such leadership tronary incidenta fo Thiste. Likewise ine lact Lne Catholic from British Labour movement. Protestant way imoles protectionist role-except in the sense that by effectively The issue presents itse t riots they protect capitalist property- -shops, the British and tories. etc. Which allnest no tactical Labour movement To imply that somehow the way behind will enable the Lalnone waterine down. barricades raises the question or what kine • demands given that a o carry throuen Ine nor what against oust Stormont. required impediment the Irish build a revolu •ories. ana lo Party Is a tionary senious tionary leadersnio

TOI

une Therefore a slogan emphasizing this must be made struggle for workers power Slogans in my opinion should include: all British troops now! Disarm and dis- 1.) Withdraw band the RUC and 'B' Specials!

question requiring Build the Revolutionary Party of Irish Workers and socialist solulons 2.) Small Farmers! Those who are the For a United Socialist Republic!

fight 3). be British troops now The persistent failure to analyze the Irish issue in class utterly incapable. as they -the adoption of the flabby policies terms le Marxist terms or carrving inrouen the now. of Pennie's Democracv with their accent on sublective instead nght against the British ruling of objective factors has led to IS falling in line with the class and its agents. see the role of the troops as that of 'peace makers'.

who also opportunist pro-Cathoic The anti-communist and The activity and political commented by of been never ¡ine the Kernadette Devin have Internatona Socialism' Corals Worker and this her ole and ate alone group on the Irish Church becomes blurred in the attempt to smother criticism anti-working lest tenuous links are snapped.

most craven this and yet The almost total silence on what developments are taking which proletariat in Ireland has led place among coverin assessment posed in to a one-sided view which tor wher savs There Danuers lo al "tactica mits to the demand sectarian terms ratner man • a Marxist class ethnic. analysis for the withdrawal of troops.

As sonin once saide cues must be hased on a sober and strictly obiective appraisal all the class forces ot the In its editorial of september particular Page 45, 'Left Wing Communism, An the state capitalist paper Infantile Disorder'.) *Socialist line: Because ot this issue and others i have resiened member National Com hip of IS and of course my position on its 'The breathing pro- space vided the mittee. Fraternally, British TrOODS Tom Hillier Vilal. immediate before troo Sarricade Derom whiche pod hardest at socialists.

In this specific case, pro the 'Inter- clear. 1ssuec are ceecines TO] A wee. earle. middle-class leaders the the coming attacks on noth casts. har held Catholic civil rights movement are and their national conference, and Protestant British troops because they workers. their fen under sidered line. But Jordan says the slogan capitalist rule, fear "educational', i.e. for that the socialists It seems of the of Northern Ireland are incevencert acuon working class. the In reality it is a slogan which crateru 1O1 presence brings together british troops as toe quarantol Morning asses born reland necessary ot their anility to arm them parallon selves and fight back against the which and britain. doubtedly coming Not to fight this slogan on within days now ritan stove the this editorial being printed, th advanced workers the were domination of those who want barricades while Ireland paralyse Northern once their ground takes the road ot class contict.

emplovers prepare some of it in religious guise; Labour TOr the en• or lne government. contributing his The "International Socialists offer jordan own special talento • talents for twisting Marxist phrases to opportunist - to this of the bourgeois domination working class His talk about 'tactical his gift to the emnhasis state capitalists to excuse their capitulation. 'everybody', ot course cluding the Stalinists. favour of 'withdrawal troops now' But the emphasis to the slogan at par- given to will vary time Withdraw denu tha •singan the troops now'! Tordan is for this slogan.

but only for educational 'With. For the slogan the Troops now!' but not now! Street, Derry, Waterloo This absurdity is not a mis-

ORKERS' PRESS

ONE of the most striking features of present-day capitalism is the sheer size attained by the big concerns. Many of these firms international operate on an scale. Of these about 80 per are US cent based and owned. However, other capital- ist countries do have their and the business giants magazine 'Fortune' makes an annual review of the 200 largest non-American indus- trial firms. From the latest results it appears that of these 47 were British, Japanese, 45 were 25 German and 20 French. Royal Dutch Shell, the mammoth petroleum com- leads the way with as- pany, sets of 14,000 million dollars and a turnover of 9,000 mil- lion dollars.

EMPLOYMENT

Shell is not, however, the biggest in of terms employ- Britain it is exceeded ment. In the National Coal Board by with 364,841 employees and ig early stages of the fighting.

the Unilever combine with 312,000. The British Steel Corporation and British-Ley- with difference — 7,000 this high land the are amongst British troops. other British giants. The International Socialists' fact, In by employment (state capitalists) have no British - Leyland standards, political strategy for the with 188,347 workers is larger workers of Ireland. Instead than Fiat with 158,445, they say things like this: Volkswagen over with Renault 145,000 and with "The lessons of the past for the be- 122,000. week's rioting Catholics leagured of Belfast In terms of assets and out- are plain. The barricades must Volkswagen is put now the stay. More must be built, more must be reinforced and largest motor firm outside the

USA.

The European giants many months of After have outstripped the now disastrous reliance the on US Chrysler firm, weakest of middle-class civil rights leader- the big three on the American ship, the Catholic workers find scene. themselves isolated from their With British Petroleum and the Protestant brothers in Imperial Chemical Industries barricaded slum areas. the world leaders in among Whatever the problems of terms of size, and almost one 'law and order' for the capital- of non-American quarter the British ists, this situation is politically giants under control, a good one for them. it is clear that capitalism in Britain is more highly con- All those who work to per- centrated than that of other petuate the divisions and the Western Europe. isolation of the Catholic The rapid rise of giant capita- workers of Derry and Belfast, list Japan has enterprise instead of the also to be noted. Labour for the movement urgent, job of mobilizing the

EXTEND

workers as a class, Catholics and Protestants, are playing a Bitter competition is now reactionary role which is sub- taking place between these servient to the Catholic hier- giants who must extend their archy and the Unionists. share of the world market if profitability is be main- The 'International Socialism' group is playing such tained. a role. While in relation to tech- Having advocated maintain- nique and organization the in- ing the isolation of the Catholic dustrial giants bring the econ- workers in the North, they go threshhold to the of omy on : socialization, the contradic- tions of the capitalist mode of 'They (the Catholic workers) production become more in- should call on their supporters in the South to open a second tense. the Green Tory The tendency for business front on them arms from the Southern Dublin: send operations to become world- wide indicates how the de- enable them even- mands of modern production tually demand the with- limitations conflict with the drawal of the troops imposed by the national state.

the confidence that they In At the same time there 1s off themselves can stave cut-throat drive for the sup- pogrom.' i plies of raw materials and of Of course the workers struggle markets and the for the South started a long time the world market continues. ago a real 'second front', in a The anarchic, unplanned con- series of strike struggles which capitalist ditions of pro- insoluble problems 1S posing revealed. duction are thus for the Lynch regime. The businesses giant are forced to the What is required in Northern drive against Ireland is class orientation working class by pushing trade unions and the ahead with automation and in the Labour movement which will speed-up. powerful link up with this development in the South and

NO ACCIDENT

the struggles here in Britain.

The synchronization of big All the talk about arms is strike movements throughout this adventurist rubbish Europe accident. thus no stage. It is not the reflection of some The first and essential re- international imaginary quirement in Ireland is political spiracy. and theoretical preparation, important and The most all work for the hard fought above to strikes in the independent political action of major capitalist countries are the the working class, only belonging precisely in plants force which bring the can to the firms which figure on necessary socialist solutions to 'Fortune's' list, together with Ireland the problems left in of those their American- by imperialism. owned rivals. These big concentrations of Basically, the struggle for capital are engaged Marxism against idealism 1n time in a desperate struggle to all its forms, from Catholicism cut unit costs, raise sales and and Protestantism to the yield profits in order to make middle-class adventurers who further investment possible call themselves International Socialists' and attract bank and other is the key to the outside capital. building of the revolutionary This competitive anarchy of section of the Fourth party, the market is heightened by International, which is needed the repercussions of the con- in Ireland. inflation and the tinuous world In- monetary crisis. its offer no policies to workers in Ireland.

throughout the terest rates des should stay. This can now only isolate m their brothers in the Catholic areas.

By Tom Ke capitalist world have soared to heights which would once been considered fantas- have tic.

DEPENDENT

Only big profits can stand such payments to banks and financiers. There is also in- finance creasing pressure to the constant re-equipment and expansion made necessary by world competition from in- ternal sources. In a way, because of their the big monopolies can size, weather the high interest rates better than the smaller firms which are more directly dependent upon bank capital.

In fact, the process of merger and take-over which is con- taking place is tinuously speeded-up by the inflation and the penal interest rates which smaller firms cannot stand. That only means, however, onging that the giants have to sweat it out of the working class all the more. Thus Measured Day-Work, productivity deals and similar attempts to break down col- lective bargaining and get more work for less pay stem directly from the international crisis of capitalism. The international monetary struggle for crisis, the a markets, the inflation world and high interest rates have a direct meaning on the factory floor. It is a case of the needs of capital coming more sharply than before into collision with standards built up by the workers during the boom.

OUT OF HAND

At the same time, in all capitalist countries the cost- of-living has been rising at a rate of between three and five per cent each year on average. There is no sign of gains made in wage bargaining being stopped. In fact, all the tancy the in- indications are that flation is getting out of hand.

A general lack of confi- dence in the future purchasing national power moneys contributes to this process.

Nobody hold wants to interest money even with rates at their present level.

The weakest currencies are and prey to every rumour speculative move. Devalua- the o

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Tom Kemp tion all along the line and in- ternational monetary collapse have become an actual possi- bility. questions which The are posed to the working class, therefore, arise directly from international crisis of capitalism. The working class also fights back as an inter- though national class, even not yet consciously It should be obvious, then, that there is no solution to these questions on national lines. Of course, each national of group employers tries to scare its 'own' working class stories of the harder with work, lower wages and trade union docility in other coun- tries. We have heard stories about the German, and to extent the Japanese and some Scandinavian workers, many times in recent years. Events are now showing that the con- ditions which these workers face are no different from those of workers in British factories.

TEMPORARY

As the crisis deepens, it also becomes clearer that the employers are unable, because international competition conditions, to make the con- cessions which were possible in the past. Even wage gains can have only a temporary significance in a period of inflation.

Still more important, there is no guarantee that wages will be forthcoming. Closures and redundancies everyday are occurences. Capital must destroy jobs in order to survive. An understanding of these dominating economic trends capitalism is very in world essential. Without seeing how the general issues are posed, in the context of international crisis, only the old-style mili- tancy is possible. development of capi- The talism itself has outdated this form of struggle just as much as it has outdated reformism.

It is only by raising the political questions, that is to indicating say, to the working class a path forward to power, that leadership can be offered which measures up to the needs of the class and evalua- the opportunities of the time.

October 3, 1969

PAGE FOUR

WORKERS PRESI

S. Wales nickel men

SUPPORT THE

UP GO

CADEBY STRIKE

THE

ablight penal clauses THE FOLLOWING appeal SuDDOrt Irom ornel collieries Ine I orksare

PROFITS

coameld has been issueo b branch of the adehy Main Union National Mineworkers. conscience OFFICIALS of the Transport and General Workers' Think Already, pits have followed Cadeby's lead 1,600 strike Union are likely to ask for government interven- higher SUrKE 1969 looks like being another bonanza year for wages tion if the 12-day-old strike at Clydach, South shareholders, according to figures published strikeirad on Mersey this week. Wales, refinery of International Nickel is not settled Bovis dividends for Averart the first half of this year soon. prolits up docks that itthex were 5 per cent up on last clause 800 workers walked out of the factory two weeks By our industrial reporter record e to su pore ago when the management began to operate the mann- yeal s fall below i perform- ABOUT 1,600 Merseyside

BIG

government's against des ule unt probability. What har ing clauses of a proposed productivity deal Delore much-vaunted 34 per cent dockers employed a we money up to 825 to £27 agreement on the deal had been reached.

out, basic ceiling for dividend rises.

santal deins, in as Ocean Port Services are or 4333 year's first-hall prout

1 MIS

The fight on the docks over This Dan acepted b strike in support of a deck half-yeas were g p hands claim to get 50 per By our industrial reporter se age Saturday 18 to cus What Li dulls plats es the pro- or hire the rather men ready accepted Profitanies cueluvery uves away cent of all awards given to tradin What etime appay 1970 as s most wıw une rigal lo surike. including hold men. 21.2 to our cen our additio basic were million (Dirty. cargoes are 5397 pavin dividend €3,878 million) final die ntie Henry worked hy the shins hold Mr Coates and the dend of exp pes cent men in the worst conditions 57 per shi rise. but ast the deck hands are War is ner agree Paide pree sange to sat Ford sicwalusi factories. mathe meeting voted

LARGEST

'Morning Star' the rancia p The prices up Me other sect desot had o their cisim. other assistance cabe resisted by e cent. strike, stop or. hold Be can a 9a per 34.8 to this trend. Cargo 'blacked' and 32.7 per cent announcer 'TRIBUNE' September 26 none other Bretton Pollical Correspondent Momentum sub-committee claim, are Opposition the Labour Party National Woods money paid out in awards in Executive Committee has a t21 basic for the decided unanimously that the workers' control Ken Coates should be re- campaign for week in awards see co Gi

• FROM PAGE ONE

the Labour Link Face with the employer Party. government to impose border

ITALY

and the governmene employers agriculture mons present 19 per Labour recommendalion Market will wipe out many of that the Te is to come be- The T&GWU is work it cosin Turbulent full NEC meeting the situation

ALLIANCE

these galns. pensIoners TWO All Brighton this Friday. - tea, mat immediate xisting befose the strike.

Whatever believe it pore of the come on go through outcome it is + the • bet bees in decision to protest allow year ahead can at the he hick a Trades Unions is another Parkers"s at throl cher deal termino do the end.

from i Congress revelations within the Labour Party ranks hammered out at the ende in schools Alliance cannot reason to this the last war. 1 Cons At the 1944 Bretton Woods conterences ass on which the srike cad everyone has received a By a foreign correspondent THE NEW school year in Italy promises to be

BACK

Motor workers conterenc at least as turbulent as the last. Figures just to fight Fluctuations Mr Coates is back

LABOUR

issued reveal a chronic scarcity of the most Party components and reporting of the cared Fluctuations around these delivery elementary educational facilities.

role played

EDUCATION CUTS

Educational authorities worker state that the new term Are trel

DEATHS IN

Brick workers To a begins with a Shortage of motor workers'

SWEPT UNDER

150,000 classrooms. join strikes conterer ce valuatior Most of Italy's 8,300,000

INDUSTRY

ated Digbeth Civic Hall, in Italy

CARPET

rounding Digbeth By Mark Jenkin a Sinite will

SOAR

a sends broke out Birmingham calso winn policies of Wednesday only make this worse education Saturday November 8 ary system. Local comprehensive hells School administratin. government DEATHS from industrial accidents rose to 625 last of comprehensive Ree corder to be get- place at 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. In Wednesday's Failed the 1967 total. eptember 30 under ing Party vear-o more lan Expandid trad LaDour annu:l report of the Chief Inspector of Factories a total education t has tailed period bour contract. write ior credentials to: Ol 4so tatal accidents in the construction industry-half government's •or the tier wing authorities Tasty hoto of the baldin R. Parsons shwith the reded resulting from falls—is cited as the main reason for the tability Patha bied Yoys, building progra time. ing today, in the endles.

Arnison : Increase necessary UxIord Bit has a here ar Altogether in 96& there Acute Conterence fee: 55. a were 312,430 reported acci- C.A. W.U. strikers dents, an increase of 2.8 per In power Held up The cran in nome itself. pino eatin crisis severe All Trades Unions Alliance Bretton Woods The Chief Inspector,

SCOTLAND

meet today a Feem that Strial in sapport All motor workers are invited to attend a meeting in I reachers conter. ing class tha Le lobo preserve, Thed esult s Sunday October 5, 2.30 p.m THE 400 members of the Clerical and Administrative being made to sulted rust many a Workers' Union (CAWU) on official strike at the British poices or diction cut. chools in Covering up Motor con ion hea Steel Corporation's (BSC) Scunthorpe steelworks are be presented by more an parts of Rome. inde trions pamphlet elson attack Bent measured. to meet again today Ferment The men re triking t Businessmen f the union: bul which tur per. anor the Labour recognition •Unemployment #tE. and the ale and so on in o Scunthorpe Tubemen ing cla See mend fa speed-up 165S can raise lessons of GEC-English

WOIKS

overthrowhich Electric' interventio Pocal £1 million

TUC

call one- inshe tory Black Papee

LIVERPOOL

for Powell Sunday, October 19 L.T.A. chiefs posed education bill to make day strike 7.30 p.m. Museum Becture Hall

THE

tandson sousinessmen meet Sheffield engineers vote Speaker: C. Slaughter policieral not mit walk-out Industria ReDONdI Socialist Labour League Condition for nationalization vided Powel secepts theo was the A one-day unofficial strike executives has been called for today by conditioeeting Hippies' mystic isle "betweet The original of businessm By an industrial correspondent coved in Society of cory of Davy hend United Locomotive En THE latest episode in the elands the island is to be TOP executives of London toneering By sean wernigan Federation men. •gineers and Firemen squatter saga is the plan by Weekend Television, Herbere Meet eeting to ombine of £12,000,000 on a group of hippies to buy a sition and busing coll esigned after taking

HELE

single 1100,000 by desert isand oi the misi oast on which to establish motormeamden Michael Peacock, met heir ideal stati He of chairman nyicolone, Spread • included. Authority, in sonn weanesady. ago Lord Ayleston no treats water and ver could ser depotsr chairma tle grows the leadershipe in the deputy. new chief executive. rgerison, with the n Transport talk from London takeover. only staff authorized he Today that there 5: 43 tra motormene ael Hend the created though guards hovel guard in an gua rWard government.