Workers Press no. 51

As engineers resist bosses demands

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PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 51 • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1969

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EMPLOYERS and union leaders are stepping up What we their pressure for implementation of the Measured.

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EDUCATION

BY DAVID MAUDE

SCIENCE

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TWENTY-TWO workers, in- government in their brutal cluding stewards and shop vicious war against the signed the following resolution Vietnamese Deople.? at Lucas Gas Turbine, Broad FIFTY delegates to the Glas- Green, Liverpool : Trades Council signed a 'WE the undersigned trade petition drawn by the Young Socialists condemning express our anger

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and disgust the in condemnation atrocities committed by of the atrocities committed by the American forces in Viet- American troops in Vietnam. and demanding that nam *We demand the withdrawal Wilson's visit to Washington of all American troops now. in January be stopped. We will fight in our trade The petition was signed by union and Hugh Wyper, labour organiza- secretary to the Com- Trades Council and tions to compel the govern- ment to break with American munist Party member. policy in Vietnam, and Many delegates, however, to cancel the visit of Wilson to were angry that no resolution Washington. had been put down for the 'We demand the removal Vietnam whilst agenda on from the leadership of dis- the lot of time was spent in labour movement of Wilson cussing the acoustics of the and Brown leaders hall for a forthcoming visit of who support the American Crossman. Wilson's friends are our enemies IF one lesson emerges from the refusal of the left MPs to to throw Brown out of deputy leadership of the Labour Party after his remarks on the 'Pinkville' massacre it is surely this:

BY MICHAEL BANDA

Those who refuse to fight Wilson and actively support the Vietnamese are also those shameful way must be ques- who will fight actively against the working class. tioned by the British workers when they If, today, he is willing to take the road to in defend and even embellish the power this country.

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The 'left' MPs, like Heffer in particular, must be treated L.B.J's son-in- with the greatest suspicion and distrust. law denies Immediately after the June 1967 East war, Heffer, Middle together with other Labour involvement rushed off to Israel on MPs, fact-finding tour, the sole purpose of which was to cover in atrocities hideous reality up Israeli treatment of Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza Strip and the left bank of the Jordan. MARINE corps Major Charles Vegas yes- Robb said in Las terday that he had no personal Glowing terms knowledge of atrocities any committed by members of his He returned and wrote in against South Viet- company the 'Tribune' in glowing terms nam civilians. of the Zionist policies in the Robb's statement arose out and occupied territories of charge made by the the of praised insouciance Washington journalist Jack people like General Allon.

Anderson that, according the testimony of four marines, When Hodgkin recently re- members of Robb's company vealed in "The Times" and he had committed atrocities has been backed by Amnesty against civilians. International and dozens of Major Robb said he thought other sources-the brutal tor- the news media would appre- of tures and harrassment would that he be ciate Palestinians carried out by the 'especially sensitive to any- Zionist oppressors in Gaza and thing like this happening in Mr Heffer was elsewhere, one his unit'. of the first-together with the Robb has good reason to Tories-to protest that all this ask for sympathetic treatment was untrue. from the press. MP who is ready His father-in-law was also An to defend the crimes of Zionist involved in US atrocities.

His imperialism in this servile and name? L. B. Johnson!

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PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 51 • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1969

HOOVER

IMPLOYERS and union leaders are stepping u heir pressure for implementation of the Measured Day Work and job-evaluation 'strings' attached to

DEPARTMENT

last year's engineering package deal.

EDUCATION

BY DAVID MAUDE

SCIENCE

- Speaking in London on His three Thursday night, Engineer-

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Lucas CAV ing Employers' Federation Martin director - general

BERKELEY SOL%

workers Jukes launched a bitter Hugh Mr win allack Scanlon, Mr Jack Jones and Mrs Barbara Castle. crossings Mrs Castle and passed to policy talks Frightening' Ber men of the cated te the Transport 'to entioned Jones by name- of this with least Dude done ore anything W Part Commissior would have achieved. Manpower. Job-evaluation IN A witch-hunting attack on Merseyside At one of the main centre dockers, Robert Edwards, director general of the Mersey divisi Docks and Harbour Board, accused 'militants' of wanting to wreck British ports : THE international bankers, and primarily those in the US, will be well pleased with the Labour They are certainly at work By a Workers Press not! really militant for bee government's plans public expenditure correspondent published this week. to chemilk of the mon I believe the docker is now By a polltical correspondent rortne average increase in government expenciture the future. threats that over the next three years 1s to be 3 per cent-hall the recent campairy rate of the last four years.

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was untrue. from the press. North Ferranti Meters, His father-in-law was also MP is ready Bangor, Wales came defend of Zionis narmeyed. B. S ansonit US atrocities. His strike yesterday morn- name? out imperialism in this servile and and put pickets on the factory gates.

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letter to leaders of art, science and culture in the Soviet Union by Piotr Yakir, Yuli Kim and I. Gabai

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WE, the signatories of this letter, turn to you with words of deep alarm over the destiny and honour of our country. In the last few years the menacing symptoms of a return of Stalinism have mul- tiplied. This is particularly evident in the proliferation of trials of men who have dared defend their dignity and their liberty, who have dared to protest. These are the most terrible fruits of our epoch.

Of course, the repression hasn't reached the level of earlier years. But we have ample reason to fear that among the leadership of the state and the Party there is a nostalgic group who want to reverse the course of our development. If we allow this to continue, we will have guarantee that the year 1937 will not return . • It will be a long time before we see Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuri Daniel again; they are condemned to long years of suffering because they dared write what they thought to be true. Young people like Viktor Khusatov and Vladimir Bukov- sky were torn away from their normal lives for three years. Their only 'crime' was having publicly expressed their dis- agreement with the Draconian laws and repressive measures which once again ravage our country. Illegality The kangaroo court which tried them is a model of cynical illegality and falsifica- tion. The recent trial of Ginsburg and his comrades surpassed all limits in its scorn for human rights. Vyshinsky! himself would have envied the organization of this trial. He, at least, extorted con- fessions from the accused and from statements witnesses. Terekhov and Judge Procuror Mironov did not even feel the need to go through the empty formality of presenting proof.

Yuri Galanskov, physically a very sick man, was sentenced to seven years of hard labour.

The sole and very fragile proof of his guilt was the deposition of an ignoble coward named Dobrovolsky. Alexander Ginsburg was sen- tenced to five years hard labour in spite of the statements of witnesses and the most obvious facts. Even the life of Alexis Dobrovolsky, who played the sinister role of a Kostomarov?

at this trial, was ruined. If he Bukharin: Accused at the third Moscow Trial of espionage and putting broken glass in workers' butter. has the shadow of a even conscience, his 30 pieces of silver will be far from sufficient for the contempt recompense and rejection that await this slanderer. Our organs of repression bear the heaviest responsibility for the moral mutilation of Dobrovolsky, now marked as a scoundrel who has destroyed and slandered his comrades out of vile self-interest. Vera Lashkova was guilty of having typed texts which the court considered criminal.

Similar crimes And under the prevailing conditions in our country, as exemplified by the cases for similar others sentenced crimes (L. Rendel, A. March- enko and others), she will pay dearly for this offence. Her conviction will be marked in her passport and she will lose the right to live and study in Moscow. The atmosphere surrounding the court was another link in the chain of illegality. The official services shame- fully lied to the Western Com- munist press. On the first day of the trial it was announced that its date had not yet been fixed. Asked about it a few days 1 Ex-White Guard and Men- shevik; prosecutor under Stalin.

2 A militant in the time of Alexander II who betrayed his comrades when arrested by the police. 3 Lashkova typed the 'White Sinyavsky-Daniel Book the on Case' written by Ginsburg.

Yuri Daniel: Imprisoned for saying what he thought to be true.

A letter to leaders of ar before the trial, the Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Municipal Court, Mironov, said that the court had not yet been informed of the case.

People who tried to enter the courtroom were subjected to brutal blackmail and con- they temptuous treatment: photographed, contin- were uously spied on, their papers were checked, their conversa- tion was recorded ... and this is far from a complete list of honourable the deeds that marked the memorable days of the Ginsburg trial. Without a doubt the most frightening thing about it was the number of young people the (boys and: girls) among police spies; they spied instead of studying, they denounced instead of trying to grasp and understand, and, from KGB's point of view, their work as informers was the epitome of youthful morality in contrast to Ginsburg's 'immor- ality'-Ginsburg who dared to intervene in favour of men convicted although innocent.

You are, of course, familiar with Larissa Bogoraz-Daniel's and Pavel Litvinov's letter.

With full responsibility we declare that not only is every line of that letter true, but it is only a small part of the truth about the outrages and mockery of which the accused were victims. Savage cries The organization of the trial and the conduct of the judge, whose job it is to be absolutely impartial, in fact deprived the accused of the right to defend themselves and the savage cries of the 'public' created an un- bearable climate of hostility for them. In the public gallery people read the newspaper or slept, only waking up to demand a severer sentence. The authorities once again I 'public organized a so-called trial by exploiting the vilest characteristics specially chosen yes-men endowed with a solid indifference to the fate of others and too blind to worry about informing them- selves or analysing the facts.

While in the public gallery the hysterical goodwives and Black Hundreds slept or in- Theodorakis: Greek composer imprisoned by the military junta.

Andrei Sinyavsky: Condemned to long years of suffering.

sulted the accused, in the corridor, and later outside in the cold, the real public milled around; friends and relatives of the accused were there, but the majority were people who didn't know them, but wanted to discover the truth-writers, students, teachers. Falsifications Our newspapers concocted a series of falsifications either based purely and simply on lies or they presented carefully selected facts designed to mis- lead uninformed people. 'We still hear the long list of wrecking act man who was People's Commissar for Arm of the Revolutionary Military Council, L. 1 Those who pretend to the role of ideological mentors have forgotten something very important: 'It is essential to take not single facts, but the whole complex of facts bearing upon the question under examina- tion, without a single exception, since otherwise the suspicion- and a wholly justified suspicion -inevitably arises that instead of an objective nexus and inter- relationship ... a subjective is concoction perhaps being offered for the justification of a dirty business. That, after all, occurs . • . more often than it would seem.' These are the words of V. I.

Lenin. The pogrom against intel- lectuals is only the logical outcome of the atmosphere that has prevailed for several years in our country.

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Pavil Litvinov: Wrote letter of protest about Ginsburg trial.

nd culture in the Soviet Union The naive hopes for a puri- public life fication of our that we nourished after the decisions of the 20th and 22nd Congresses have not borne fruit. Stalinism is being restored slowly. but.surely. This process is fundament- ally supported by our passivity, by our too short memory and by the basic truth that we are used to an absence of freedom.

Here are some signs of the rebirth of Stalinism in recent years. 1 The name of J. V. Stalin has been cited by the of wrecking activities organized by the mmissar for Armed Forces and chairman ary Council, L. D. Trotsky' highest authorities in a com- pletely positive way. The news- papers have drawn attention to the applause that has greeted his name. Justify conduct They have neglected to mention that this applause comes from people who ser- vilely wish to serve 'strong' men, from people who want to justify their own conduct in the not too distant past or from people rotten with rem- nants of perverted nationalist sentiments. For how long was it neces- sary to corrupt human nature to the extent that men could applaud the murderer of hundreds of thousands of people and the organizer of tortures and torments?

JORKERS' PRESS

Alexander Ginsburg: Sentenced to five years hard labour.

2 The reappearance of Stalin's name could be explained wish to treat history by objectively. An objective at- titude towards a hangman is a fact of moral pathology. of course, but still it could be understood. But objectivity doesn't yet allow the truth to be told about the political leaders of the first decade of Soviet power. It would after all be pos- sible, without transgressing the limits of internal Party dis- honestly say of cussion, to some individuals that they did not engage in any espionage and that they did not put broken glass in food. It would also be possible to explain what they did while they held important posts.

But we are still crushed under the great deeds of Stalin when he was People's Com- the b missar for National Minorities and under the long list of wrecking activities organized by the man who was then People's Commissar for the Armed Forces and Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council, L. D. Trotsky. As a result, the term 'cult of the individual' has been banned. Literary and historic works in which Stalin and the crimes of the Stalinist period are criticized, are refused or not printed, even if they're already set in type (the Vannikov, memoirs of B. Slavin's book on Mar- L. shall Yegorov, the front-line memoirs of C. Simokoy, the memoirs of Y. Ginsburg and many others). Recommended This has gone so far that the powerful ideological official Fedoseyev has recommended that we don't use the term "cult of the individual', except in reference to the Latin dictators and Mao American Tse-tung. 4 To this day no democratic principle has been put into practice. The literary or artistic tastes of the parasites is still the law for writers, artists, publishers, readers and viewers. Films that would be a credit us rot in the cinema to archives; marvellous paintings lie in studios and tiny attics.

In literature there is only room for the shabby works of the Kozhetovs and Smirnovs- above all those works which glorify Stalin-and only a privileged few have been able to read Solzhenitsyn's 'Cancer Ward'. The attempts to stop what is called Samizdat', or un- censored literature, is doomed to fail. If there had not been a prosp Yuri Galanskoy: Very sick man, sentenced to seven years.

'Samizdat' in Russian literature we would have lost Radischev's novel, Griboedov's play 'Woe From Wit', and numerous poems by Pushkin. today interest Even the shown by a series of readers MARK ZBOROWSKI (as he spells his name, in the Polish fashion), the original of 'Etienne', the Stalinist agent mentioned in your review of the book by Ignace Reiss's widow, is co-author of a book called 'Life Is With People'. The book is an 'anthropol- ogical' study of life, in 'Fiddler On • The Roof' period, in the small towns of the of the western provinces Russian Empire which had a largely or even mainly Jewish population. Zborowski from comes Uman, and the book is written out of his own experience.

The point is worth making because Zionist propaganda has had considerable success in presenting the image of Jews and always everywhere as victims of Stalinism. In reality, of course, not only were there Tews like Kaganovich and Mekhlis among Stalin's right-hand-men, and chief executives in his 'purges' (not to mention men like Berman and Minc in Poland, and Rakosi, Gero and Farkas in Hungary), but Jews were active at lower levels of the Stalinist terror apparatus.

Indeed, they still are. The letter from Zinaida Grigorenko you recently published gave the names of the two military judges who 'dealt with' her husband's case: one of them was called Kantorov. Whenever Jewish name appears among the victims of Russia, repression the Zionist-influenced press makes sure everybody notices it.

The same task is not per- formed in relation to Jewish members of the terror appara- tus. The reason of course is simple. For Zionism it is essential that 'world public opinion' should see 'the Jew' always and everywhere as the oppressed victim. Not only does this facilitate the myth of 'poor little Israel, it also fosters the idea that there can be no future for 'the Jews' in the Soviet Union, and only hopeful prospect before Russian Jews is emigra- tion—to Israel of course!

As there is obviously no prospect of Israel getting the in unpublished works will pre- the truth serve about the thought and creative spirit of our contemporaries for better times. There is nothing the para- sites can do about it: the Zhdanovs pass into oblivion and the work of the Akhma- tovas conquers generation after generation'. this, Understanding the organs of repression will con- tinue to resort to outright forgeries, as in the case of the absurd attempt to associate Ginsburg, editor of the White Book on the Sinyavsky-Daniel Trial, with the NTS emigré organization. In the humanist sciences simplistic and pernicious dik- of political opportunism tats still reign. The seeker who strays from the truth condemns himself to death but our historians, our philosophers and our econom- ists are now obliged to do this every day. If, by some chance, a bit of the truth finds its way into print, the authors of it are persecuted. There are many famous examples of this.

5 The Crimean Tartars have just been rehabilitated. But the Soviet public knows little about this as it knows little about this people, victims of a monstrous crime, who still cannot return to its homeland.

The Crimean Tartars who try to do so are sent back or subjected to various repressive measures. 6 But most degrading is the constant surveillance in all its forms that has become an integral part of the daily life of many Soviet citizens. We have cited only a few examples of our public life here. Silent complicity Once more we remind you: silent complicity with the Stalinists and the bureaucrats who deceive our people and with the leadership that stifle every sign, complaint every and every protest, leads logic- ally to worst result — illegal reprisals against human beings. It is under these conditions that we appeal to you as creative labourers in whom our nation places unlimited con- fidence. Raise your voices 4 Akhmatova was condemned by a decree of the Central Com- mittee of the CPSU in 1946. This decree was drawn up by Zhdanov.

5 A. White-Russian, pro-Nazi organization which publishes numerous documents of the com- reasons it seeives pese citive reasons. ments from the KGB via the CIA.

'European-type' Jews, its rulers feel the need of, by way of emigration from Britain, France or America, Russia and Eastern Europe generally are the countries they concentrate on. The hope-Ha-Tikvah!- of the Zionists today appears to be that, as a result of their ceaseless propaganda agitation, a 'package deal' be- tween the United States and the Soviet Union in the not distant future may in- too clude the deportation of a million or two Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe to Israel. Then the next move can be a campaign to prepare world for further expansion opinion of Israel, in order to provide Dear Editor, THE SILENCE with which the Himsworth Report on the use of the control agent CS in Londonderry by the Royal Ulster Constabulary has been received is disturbing. The Himsworth Report, compiled by eminent members of the medical profession, in- cluding the Chairman of Chemical Defence Advisory Board, gives CS a clean bill of serious medical health. No effects of its use are dis- covered. Abandoning any pretext of scientific objectivity, the Com- mittee frames its judgements in a legalistic language which im- plies a presumption of the innocence of CS. First-hand reports from persons exposed to CS are sceptically as 'alleg- treated ations', whereas official state- ments are accepted as 'facts'.

In the absence of biochem- ical tests which would be the only means of establishing whether or not reported effects were caused by CS, the Com- mittee's presumption permits them to deny or dismiss the belief that CS was responsible for bronchitic and asthmatic Saturday, December 6, 1969 against the imminent danger Stalins and new Yezhovs.new of the appearance of The fate of the future Vavilovs and Mandelshtams' is on your conscience. You are the heirs of the great humanist traditions of the Russian intelligentsia.

You have before you the courageous example of the progressive intelligentsia of the West. We understand very well that you are in conditions that act of courage on require an your part every time you are called to fulfill your upon duties as citizens. But in the end there is no other choice: either courage or cowardly complicity with infamous actions; either the acceptance of risks or an alliance with the Vasilevs and Kedrins; either sacrifice Or Yezhov: Stalin's police chief responsible for the purges.

joining the ranks of the yellow hack journalists who dirty the 'Izvestia' of and columns 'Komsomolskaya Pravda' and who consider it morally justi- fable to publicly slander the men they help to condemn.

We only want one thing: people have the that our moral right to protest against the imprisonment of Theodo- rakis for six months. We remind you again: men who have dared to think lie in hard labour camps. The silence of each one of you will be one more step to- wards the trial of another Daniel or another Ginsburg.

Then slowly, with your silent consent, 1937 will a new adyance. 6 Yezhov: Stalin's police chief responsible for purges. Mandelshtam: Soviet poet deported in 1937 who went mad and then died in a Siberian camp.

composer, imprisoned Greek by the Colottels. 'living space' for these im- migrants. Having already reached the Nile, the Zionists now need to press on with their drive to the Euphrates, to complete their recreation I of the empire of Solomon. Yours fraternally, Brian Pearce

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COMRADE Pearce makes a telling point against the Zion- ists, but unfortunately his letter leaves unanswered the question: does the bureaucracy use anti-Semitism as an strument of policy inside the

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and Eastern even Europe? In our opinion it does. Editor. attacks, 60 to 100 cases of diarrhoea and several cases of loss of consciousness. The Home Office inquiry did not consider it within its terms of reference to consider the justification for the use of gas, the weather conditions in which it was used, or the degree to which it affected plainly innocent persons.

Since the report was published, CS has been used against strikers in Nigeria and anti-war demonstrators in Washington with very little public reaction. It is not difficult to foresee that this Home Office-Porton report will be used to legiti- mise all future action with CS in Britain against demonstra- tions and is a threat to the right of free demonstration in every sphere. The purpose of anti-per- sonnel weapons is to get politics off the streets and back into the corridors of power where they can be contained safely by bureaucracy. Can the left unite to cam- paign for the prevention of such weapons? Yours fraternally, Chris Farley, Ken Coates, Russell Stetler.

Palestine and the Arab revolution Saturday, December 6, 1969 THE ISRAELI Defence Minister, Moshe Dayan, has once again added a new phrase to the Hebrew political vocabu- lary. His previous contribution, made shortly after the June 1967 war, was in reference to his expansionist policy, when he used the phrase 'Merhav lehya'-living space, or as Hitler used to say 'lebensraum'. Dayan's latest contribution to Zionist political jargon is svivavit' - neigh- 'haanasha bourhood punishment, the phrase he used recently when declaring the official policy of the Israeli occupation forces from collective noW on; 'punishment' of Arab villages or districts for resistance activities. Pretext Previously, when Arab houses were destroyed the pre- text was that the occupants had assisted the guerrillas. From it will now be enough that they have not collaborated actively with the occupation forces, by giving information, etc. General Barlev has said that if there are incidents in Bedouin areas, the whole tribe Will be punished. In Hebron at the beginning of November, 'neighbourhood punishment' was implemented: following a grenade attack on a military vehicle, Israeli troops seized 26 shops on the main street.

Some Israeli government members said are to be annoyed about Dayan's policy statement; Abba Eban, the Foreign Minister, among them.

Eban is shortly to visit the United States. Presumably his objection is that Dayan's belli- cosity does not help Zionist diplomacy. It can hardly be on humanitarian grounds, since the policy that Dayan declared official has already been ap-

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plied. It was only the declara- tion that was new. On October 25, Israeli forces destroyed some 20 houses in the village of Halhul, for alleged assistance given by the villagers to saboteurs. There have been a number of house demolitions carried out in Gaza recently as a 'punish- ment' for grenade incidents.

'Curfew' tactics have also been widely used as a collec- tive punishment technique.

The village of Beit Sahhur was placed under curfew fol- lowing rocket attacks from nearby hills on Jerusalem. The curfew was for 22 hours a day, and was enforced for nearly four weeks. 'Neighbourhood punishment' was the phrase used by Dayan (above) to describe the official policy of the Israeli occupation forces. During this time people were not even allowed to open their windows. During a curfew at Rajah, Israeli troops shot two curfew 'breakers' on November 17. Curfews are now in force in Ramallah, and in Gaza, where an unsuccessful attempt was made on November 16 to assassinate the military gov- Brigadier-General Ben- ernor, Meytiv. Gaza's largest boys' second- ary school has been contiscated for military purposes because of demonstrations by pupils.

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The sraeli newspaper. 'Haaretz', on Vovember 14 carried an editorial criticizing Dayan's declaration. It stated: 'Neighbourhood punishment, in fact, amounts to collective punishment.... 'The method of "neighbour- hood punishment'' will strengthen feelings of animos- ity to Israeli rule. And if as a result of this the saboteurs enjoy increased co-operation in the territories, what shall we do then ?' question. Perhaps A good the answer, so far as Dayan's are concerned, can supporters be inferred from the letter which Mrs Meir sent to Nixon, congratulating him on his November speech which pledged continuation of the Vietnam war. Same course The Zionists are embarking on the same course as led to the US imperialist murder of Tu Cung village. The Israeli government is in the same trap as any other occupying, colonial power, oppressing another people. The harsher their repression and the bigger their reprisals, the more the bitterness and deter- mination of their victims grows, and the stronger becomes the resistance. In the past, Zionist propa- ganda pretended that the Palestinians did not exist. More recently, it has claimed that there is no popular back- ing for the Arab guerrilla movements. According to a Zionist pamphlet distributed this sum- mer entitled "The Aim of Arab Terrorist Organizations', the Arab guerrillas received 'no aid or comfort from the Arabs in the areas which Israel pre- sently administers. ..? It claimed : "The attempt to equate the aims of Arab terrorists with those of a genuine resistance movement is. clearly inyalid They have failed to get any serious support from the Arab ness' : Fact or fiction? 12.05 .m. Thunderbirds. 12.55 News From ITN. 1.00 World of Sport.

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population of the Israeli-ad- ministered areas.' Mists the seed incon- gandists can vincing themselves. They obviously haven't con- vinced their own military, who would rather rely on policies like 'neighbourhood punish- ment'. Maybe the Zionist politicians 'ad- feel better if they say ministered areas instead of occupied areas. The officers, however, being closer to real- ity, know that they are an army of occupation with the of crushing the Arab population. Moshe Dayan is a realist.

There has been a division of labour within the Zionist move- ment between 'realists' like Dayan, carrying out their dirty work of aggression, and 'ideal- ists' like Eshkol and Meir who pretended that reality, the Palestinian Arabs, did not exist. When Eshkol was asked by the American magazine 'News- week' about the Palestinians he answered : 'What are the Palestinians?

When I first came, there were some 250,000 non-Jews here: mainly Arabs and Bedouins. It was a desert; more than under- developed. Nothing.' New state Dayan, speaking inside Israel, is more honest: 'We came to this country, which was already populated by Arabs, and we are estab- Hebrew, that is, a lishing Tewish State here. In consider- able areas of the country we bought the from land the Jewish villages were Arabs. built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I don't blame you, because these geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either.

Nahalal [Dayan's own village] arose in the place of Mahlul, Gvat [a kibbutz] in the place of Jibta, Sarid [another kib- butz] in the place of Naneifs, and. Kfar Yehoshua in the place of Tel Shaman. There is not one single place built in Pennies' with Danny Kaye, Louis Armstrong, Barbara Bel Geddes, Bobby Crosby. Troup and Bob 11.15 Frost On Saturday. 11.50 Weather.

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Nightclub entertainer decides to leave this kind of life. 10.10 News.

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The Zionists' creation of more refugees, t against them a bigger wall of bitterness an this country that did not have a former Arab population. ...

(Dayan's speech to students at Haifa Technion, March 1969.)

On another occasion, in 1956, Dayan spoke at Nahal Oz, near Gaza, at the funeral of a kibbutz guard killed by infiltrators. 'Let us not today fling accu- sations at the murderers. Who are we that we should argue against their hatred ? 'For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before : their very we turn into our home- eyes, steads the land and the villages in which they and their fore- fathers have lived. ...We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and the cannon we cannot plant a tree and build a house. "This is the fate of our generation, the choice of our 1 Speech quoted in 'Israca In- formation Bulletin', No. 2, June- July, 1969, Published by. Israeli Revolutionaries Action Commit- tee Abroad'. Satany, Feature FAudre akepbun, Audrey Hepburn, Pe Bards Frost on Saturday.

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Football. 3,50 The Baron.

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3.10 Sherlock Holmes Film Library. 4.15 The Flaxton Boys. 5.30 The Double Life No Towards Christ 6.35 of Oh Haps Marcus, Day! 7.00 Welby MD. 8.25 mas. Thin Whate or Happened 9.25 The Big Film: To Baby Jane?' with Joan Crawford and Bette News, Davis. 10.10 Weather. 10.20 The Big Film (part two). 12 midnight Sunday Talks. more refugees, their repression and deportations, only s of bitterness and hatred.

life — to be prepared and armed, strong and tough. ..: Dayan has also acknow- ledged: • the fact is that since 1936 all that we achieved was secured through the force of arms." In contrast with the myths of Zionist propaganda ideal- ism, that 'we only wish to live in peace', etc., Dayan speaks plainly as a brute-force mili- tarist. The future offered by Zion- ism is war, oppression, and more war. Zionist colonization created the Palestine conflict. The Zionists bought land from absentee landowners or terror- ized Arab farmers into quit- ting. The Zionist movement opposed the employment of Arab workers. Everywhere that the Zionists acquired land, the Palestinian Arabs were driven out. 'We want Palestine to be Jewish as England is English,' declared Weizmann. There had to be Arab resist- ance to Zionist conquest, and there was resistance. In 1936 came the Arab general strike, and between 1936 and 1939 there was peasant rebellion throughout the countryside, against Zion- ist colonization and British rule. However, the Palestinian masses lacked the leadership they needed for their struggle.

Dominated The Palestine Arab com- munity remained dominated by the landowners, who might incite anti-Jewish feeling, but were ready to profit from the sale of land to the Zionists.

The landowning class could develop the popular not struggle, and did not want to break with imperialism. From 1947 to 1948, Zionist following the policy, United Nations (UN) partition de- cision, was carried out by mili- tary means. There was the massacre of Deir Yassin on April 9, 1948. Menahem Begin wrote : •... Arabs began to flee in terror. ...Hagana was carry- •Israel millan. Dayan: "There is not one single place built ortations, only succeed in building up ing out successful attacks on other fronts, while all the Jew- ish forces proceeded to ad- vance through Haifa like a knife through butter. The Arabs began to flee in panic shouting "Deir Yassin". One million Arabs were driven from their homes to become refugees. Ben Gurion declared: "Thanks to Haganah, we have a state that is bigger, and more Jewish"! From 1948 to 1967 the Palestine problem became obscured as the "Arab-Israeli problem'. Zionist propaganda presented it to the world as being purely a conflict between states, with 'poor litle Israel' surrounded by all sides aggressive on neighbour states bent on her annihilation. Eskol: Tried to pretend Palestine Arabs did not exist.

Inside Israel, the government seized thousands of acres of Arab land, while denying the refugees the right to return. The Palestinian people were scattered, and lacked political identity or leadership. In the late 1950s, however, a new generation emerged of young Palestinians seeking to lead the masses of their people in a popular struggle, to liber- ate their homeland and create a Palestinian state. They did not believe in relying on the existing Arab governments.

By 1965, groups of Pales- tinian commandos were making raids across the Israeli border.

The Israeli government con- tinued to pretend that it was confronting belligerent only neighbouring states; but the November-1966 raid by Israeli forces on the village of Es Samu was clearly aimed at in- timidating the Palestinian masses. ingle place built in this country that did not have a fi

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It failed in its object, There were mass demonstrations in Amman, demanding that the people should be armed to fight Israel. The Israeli expansion in 1967 again solved nothing for the Zionists. It brought under Israeli occupation, among their other subjects, the masses of Pales- tinians whom they had driven out in 1948, and these came into contact with the genera- tion that had grown up under Israeli rule. The 'Palestine problem' re- emerged clearly, as a national liberation struggle, and the conditions were created for a real popular resistance move- ment. Bigger wall The Zionists' creation of more refugees, their repression and deportations, only suc- ceed in building up against them a bigger wall of bitter- ness and hatred. Not only have they failed to their impose acceptance of rule upon inhabitants of the newly-occupied territories, they are also kept busy now with surveillance and detention of young Arabs in Galilee, Haifa and elsewhere. They have also had to take repressive measures, including arrests, against those Jewish youth who have had the courage to stand up against chauvinism and Zionist aggres- sion. Although Zionist propaganda tries to play down the effec- tiveness of the Arab guerrillas, the fact remains that more Israeli troops have been killed in the occupied areas than were killed in the actual June war. The Palestinian people, after 20 of neglect, have years gained world recognition for their problems - thanks to struggle, their own to the fighting spirit of their youth.

Not only the Palestinians, but all the Arab masses, ac- cord a respect to the guerrillas which they do not give to the Arab governments. - They have seen the debacle of these governments in June 1967 and contrasted it with the heroism and determination of the guerrillas one year later at the battle of Karameh.

Wide appeal When the Palestinian liber- ation denounce movements great power diplomacy and Arab reactionaries, when they say that they do not put their faith in the Arab governments but in the masses, they have a wide appeal for the very workers and peasants through- out the Middle East. The Arab governments, whether feudal reactionaries or nationalist bourgeois army officers, do not like this, any more than they like to lose the initiative in the Palestine issue.

The line-up of forces was shown in the Lebanon crisis.

It is not only a question of whether the guerrilla move- ments can defeat the Zionists, but also whether they can prevent a stab in the back from Arab reaction. The Arab masses must be mobilized, with revolutionary leadership. After many years of corrup- tion, intrigue and betrayal, the Palestinian have guerrillas opened the door to a new kind of politics in the Middle East.

Are they prepared for the next step ? lid not have a former Arab population...

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so Locally and natiou draw closer cockayne wnc leadership, locally claims she was exposed to Terms nerve gas at the govern. MORE THAN 1,800 men ment's Porton Down bio. at Hoover's Merthyr Tydfil issued chemical sr tile under these years 16 THE TWO military 'summit' meetings of lactory ignored Died Cockay has NATO and the Warsaw Pact have both issued from an Amalgamated En- returning on the statements favouring an all-European 'security zincer workers' leader on Wed- conference. all the bureaucrats now in criek ad iorton stem from his posing ne By the foreign editor The Pact nesudy lo relurn lo work.

Warsaw meeting, which ended in At a mass meeting in the a displays Plessey Miners' was Moscow Thursday Hall, voted reating tension in relation underlined the almost unanimously night, this will be we comed bes eusEven it there is a pee do Inue the two-week-ola strike cause of a fault onse eyepiece.

Kremin's policy of work- socialist countries and bs urged them ing through the West Union peace-loving peoples.' re dow worker German government Changed line

SECRET

Willy social Democrat •peut the men паде

TALKS

tonn the Diane towaros an end of tene Warsaw da difficulty with all the show derstanding fin the coming weers.

REQUEST

wang to to deman menace an sacked major NAl powers: workers are

DENIED

'If the da min a ser ios ,thea vable British elf of the

THROUGHOUT

British industry, penny water 1 17. payments. the em. ployers, together with their friends in the labour vith France Closure movement, are desperately attempting to force Incensed Britain through productivity deals. In spite of this situation

UNDER

unionist who any trade Events Plessey the thougen Some opposes their plans. factory in Liverpool reveal Market summit in

PRES-

November 24, The Hague. show i to your torme. ved to recenar the said ter

SURE

the story L.T.B. engineers worthe men oo

• FROM PAGE ONE

these nave Spending men on 'strings",

SLEE

determined sures in study cut to continue

FROM PAGE ONE

'No strings' ment a meeting, meionist spoke for a wate ACTON, London, railway workshop engineers productivity have turned down a London Transport Board stewards (LTB) proposal for working a new grading system and now enter their 2th week on strike.

The

LTB

that posed By a Workers Press reporter men and that the status re-established. 'mechanical craftsmen' and work system. Those DEr or recen would it ay ease recruing any. cora to work persuaded to te.

as preparamon to des dete Alternative vacanmes med Tied Rejected outright lisrupt late 600 girl " would then weck South, ocedure would This i hád cat and hail here i th 1 going * what is their alterna- Major struggle "the risting agreements prodistivitya

ITE

factory. crisis warnings from ened despit semi-stilleants that sho real all he hon sti oft at th cication information ards who said that they would Nuncipally the 400 craftsmen ad been a studene, that the claim, said Mr John the Gaording one-fifth urs aye Bakerloo i mediately

LETTER

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

NOIRCIS

must act of 100 victimization—imme

PUBLIC MEETING

this trade usat ent its as 30 escalators and toas nember Czechoslovakia, persecution • For my men to Fo of Soviet intellectuals and the "lefts in the Bacobined working s latest province 100 Conservative to this Communist Party Congress needs of British capitalism crisis. Monday Dec. 15, 8p.m. caled in a Wilson's friends

HOLBORN ASSEMBLY HALL

John's Mews off Northington Street

FROM PAGE ONE

heir function ve home which (nearest tube Chancery Lane) crassed Speaker: G. Healy (national secretary, Socialist Labour League) Chairman: M. Banda (Editor, Workers Press) more in- Sinister tionary role of these people.

STOP WILSON'S WASHINGTON

e al 'he role of theca 'lefto'_

VISIT!

busi- is no exception- More and more workers be Their Sriends end wors with our own class enemies

FOR THE DEFEAT OF US

ternative leadership. i Strength not caes and

IMPERIALISM IN VIETNAM!

U.S. and Chinese

DEMONSTRATION

namelen officials meet By a foreign correspondent all not the

SUNDAY JAN. 11

drivesure should unite

UNITED

STATES and venue of Walter Stoessel. chatted in.

* скої ала ASSEMBLE: Speakers' Corner (Marble Arch), Chinese officials met for formally at The chargé with the Chinese 2 P.M. une urst ume mn.wo years.

Lei d'affaires in Warsaw, it was revealed in Washing- Oxford Street, Regent Street, Yang.

MARCH:

via ton yesterday Trafalgar Square past Downing Street.

The contact was made at

MEETING :

Lyceum Ballroom, near Aldwych, beinese as tue arch-traitor ho 4 P.M. Auspices Young Socialiets ambassador Poland, resumed with China, either in Saturday, December 6, 1969 THE CONTINUOUS fall of share prices on the New York stock exchange over the last three weeks is an unmistakable sign that once again the underlying problems of the US economy are breaking through to the surface.

The Dow Jones Indus- By our foreign correspondent trial Average - an index Professor Milton Friedman, linked to the prices of the chief spokesman of the about 50 leading shares- foresees ists, on Wednesday reached its unemployment rising as high as 8 or 9 per lowest level since January cent if the present monetary policy continues any longer.

1967. The shares of major 6 p.c. JOBLESS companies reached their Even the normally cautious Federal Banks are predicting lowest values for many 6 per cent unemployment in years-US Steel a 15-year a year's time. Nixon's monetary policies low, Du Pont a ten-year forcing are also up interest low, Union Carbide a ten- rates to record levels not only in the US but throughout the year low and General capitalist world. Electric a six-year low. The tighter international competition which results - The immediate causes and the sharpening of class making for this lack ot con- tension in Europe emphasize fidence the are consistent that the attempts of the US warnings from the Nixon to extricate herself from her administration that the tight economic difficulties involve policy money will continue whole deepening of the and the growing realization world economic crisis. that Nixon intends the Viet- nam war to continue. Sections of US capitalism

DETECTIVES

were looking the end of to temporary one arance o temporarily, balance

SUSPENDED

problem, payments allowing unhindered expansion at home and the removal of restrictions on the outflow of capital into

BY YARD

Europe.

CONSTANT

FOUR London detectives have been suspended from duty in Nixon is determined to con- connection with allegations tinue made seven days ago by "The his anti-inflationary Times' policy through keeping the money supply constant as Scotland Yard named the 5 to against the per cent officers as Detective Inspector annual rise expected in 'nor- Bernard Robson, of the Yard's mal' times. provincial liaison department; In the second quarter of Detective Sergeant Gordon 1968, the Harris, of the Regional Crime economy was grow- ing at a 7t per cent rate each Squad Office; Detective Ser- year. At present, there is no John Symonds and geant growth at all. Detective Constable Harold Hughes, both of 'M' division.

forecasts The of vamous next year's Inquiries 'Times' unemployment into the level are of allegations said to be warnine are the attacks which the working being pursued 'with the class will have to face. utmost vigour'. leaders that would not lead machines to prevent girls any sort of fight. from talking to another One and engaging in 'unpro- 'leaders' These are now ductive' activities. working with the bosses to get Some of us are beginning to rid of piece-work and understand where the blame establish 'time - and - motion' lies and the rottenness of the once and for all in their new leadership. 'yield level' deal productivity they plan to bring in. Our has already campaign begun to build the All Trades We have had a team of Unions Alliance

(ATUA)

in 'time-and-motion' men in our the factory and stop the re- factory for the past year.

treat before it is too late.

They spend their time try- May we use this opportunity ing to get you to increase Workers Press to greet the your work output and cutting and wish it every success in piece prices. the future. Wages have dropped Yours fraternally, they intensify work and eliminate Two garment workers. jobs, moving 7 1l

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