Workers Press no. 58

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

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 58

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1969

JAN S: 1070

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Union Pay _curbs—Labour M.P. says: Double book-keeping agrees to in Comment' steward's

GOVERNMENT OFF

sacking Stalinist covers up

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THEORY AND HISTORY

ince rents MPs in today's pay debate in the House of correspondent

DECISIVE-MEETING TOLD

BYDAVID HAUDE

Commons. 'SO FAR from being divided', claims an article in the Communist Party's 'Comment' this week, They can : Then, king Either vote against the re-activation of Part Two 'the workers of Standard-Triumph on their 2200-3 introduction of the 1966 Prices and Incomes Act, join the solid wall return are strengthened.'

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

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 58

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1969

JAN S 1 1070

PRAS N

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

Union Double book-keeping Pay curbs—Labour M.P. says: agrees to in "Comment' steward's

GOVERNMENT OFF

¡Stalinist sacking

VICTIMIZED

AEC, Southall, factory decided yes- covers up

ITS ROCKER!

Standard's set-back NOTHING could be more clear-cut than the choice lino ion facing Labour's trade union - sponsored and 'left' By our political

THEORY AND HISTORY

in the factor MPs in today's pay debate in the House of since July correspondent

BY DAVID MAUDE

DECISIVE-MEETING TOLD

Commons. 'SO FAR from being divided', claims an article in the Communist Party's 'Comment' this week, They can: The sa kho is Sn. Richard- S0%, Either vote against the re-activation of Part Iwo 'the workers of Standard-Triumph on their of the 1966 Prices and Incomes Act, join the solid wall return are strengthened'

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many documents available proving collusion be- tween Nazi and Soviet leaders, but they ex- clusively involved mem. bers of the Stalinist government! With the collapse of the Third Reich, all the files and archives that escaped the final holocaust were captured either by the Western Allies or the Soviet forces. Many of these documents have, of course, since been published. We refer, in the context of Gollan's accusations, particu- larly to those relating to two periods: that of the early years of Hitler's rule, during which Trotsky's plot with Hess was alleged to have taken shape, and the period of the Stalin- Hitler Pact, from August 23, 1939 to June 22, 1941. What did Radek say of this first period in his evidence to the court in the second Mos- cow Trial? I received three letters from Trotsky: In April 1934, in December 1935 and January 1936. In the letter of 1934 Trotsky put the question in this way: the accession of fasc- ism to power in Germany had fundamentally changed the whole situation. It implied war in the near inevitable war, future, the that the situation more SO was simultaneously becoming acute in the Far East. Trotsky had no doubt that this war would result in the defeat of the Soviet Union. This defeat, he wrote, will create favour- able conditions for the acces- sion • to power of the bloc' (Collard, p.156). So, according to the care- fully-scripted evidence of Radek, Trotsky had joined forces with the Third Reich no later than 1934. At the time of the second Trial (Jan- uary 1937) Stalin was angling, the through counter-revolu- tionary tactic of the 'People's Front' , for alliance with an and British imperial- French ism against a possible threat from Nazi Germany (though this did not prevent Stalin from keeping the other option open of an alliance with the Nazis against 'western the democracies'). Diplomacy The trials had therefore to be subordinated to, and in fact based on, the diplomacy of the Kremlin, all the more so when the defendants were charged with acting in unison with foreign powers to bring down the Soviet government. Radek's job at the second Trial was to give a pro-West- ern, anti-Nazi face to Soviet foreign policy. This he did by counterpos- ing Trotsky, who allegedly sought an alliance with the Nazis, to the Stalinist govern- ment, which was allegedly resolutely opposed to such a policy. Only this factor can possibly explain the following statement by Radek: 'In the autumn of 1934, at a diplomatic reception, a diplo- matic representative of a cen- tral European country who was known to me, sat down beside me and started a conversation .. He said "Our leaders ...

know that Mr Trotsky is striv- ing for a rapprochment with Germany. Our leader [i.e. Hilter] wants to know, what does this idea of Mr Trotsky's signify? Perhaps it is the idea of an emigré who sleeps badly?

Who is behind these ideas?"

was being 'It was clear I asked about the attitude of

RADEK

VYSHINSKY

In exile in Coyoacan, Mexico, contemptuous attitude toward the bloc. ... If this represen- tative .. was consequently a representative who had been commissioned to ask me ..

I told him that realistic poli- ticians in the USSR under- stand the significance of a German-Soviet rapprochement and are prepared to make the concessions necessary to achieve this rapprochement. This representative understood that since I was speaking about realist politicians it meant that there were realist politicians and unrealist politicians in the USSR: the unrealist politicians were the Soviet government realist politicians while the were the Trotskyite-Zinoviev- ite bloc' (emphasis added- Collard, pp.161-162). Radek, still acting in his capacity as Stalin's spokesman on foreign affairs (prior to his arrest he had headed the foreign department of 'Isves- tia'), presented Trotsky as the advocate of a pro-Nazi course, and Stalin as the opponent of such a turn. But the Nazi archives tell a different story. First let us examine 'Docu- German Foreign ments On Policy 1918-1945, Series Volume II' (H.M.S.O. 1959), which cover the period Octo- ber 15, 1933 to June 13, 1934, by which time the alleged alli- ance between Trotsky and the Nażis was supposed to be well under according way, Radek's testimony: at the second Moscow Trial: Radek: 'The question of defeat practical issue was a for us at that time.' Vyshinsky: "This was in April 1934? Radek: 'Yes' (Collard, p.166). Who really was for an alli- ance with Hitler? The documents in question cover a period when the Soviet government officially was hostile to Hitler and his regime, yet behind the scenes, vastly different state of affairs obtained; that one Gollan and company hope to obscure by their slanderous Mosc yoacan, Mexico, Trotsky dictated his biography of Sta attitude towards ideas. diversions aimed at Trotsky's Nazi ( 'celebr collusion with the leaders of Revolt the Third Reich. An example of the real rela- The tions existing between leading Tward Stalinists Moscow and telegra Nazis is given in a note from incider the Nazi Ambassador in Mos- recept to his State Secretary cow 'At Bulow, dated November casion 1933: the F "The leave-taking from me Nazis took place decidedly in a other friendly and cordial manner. I I was was given a gift by Chief of Russia Protocol Florinsky at the direction of Kalinin and Yenukidze ... in the form of a valuable jade bowl; for my wife I was given a Viennese snuffbox ... I was informed at the same time that except for Brockdorff-Rantzau no been ambassador had ever honoured with present' ('Documents', p.76). Tortured But this was not the end of is the prize-giving. It not known if these Stalinist leaders gave Dirksen a gift, or even a message, to take back to the thousands of communists headed into the Third Reich's concentration camps, con- stantly humiliated and tortured by the German Ambassador's Nazi sadists, but Dirksen does record the following detail, which has a topical interest in view of the recent funeral accorded in Moscow to a 'great Communist leader': 'I was also surprised by a present that Voroshilov, who is in Turkey at the moment, had given to me: a desk set in black lacquer decorated with "palech" painting in the old style' Russian traditional ('Documents', p.77). November 1933 was also the time of the Leipzig 'Reichstag Fire Trial', a frame-up organ- ized by the Nazis in February 1933 to provide the pretext for an anti-communist terror. The trial of communists in Leipzig was the result. This did not prevent the Moscow Stalinists inviting We refute official Russian 'anti-Nazi' propaganda d'Affaires that took place at the nas the heart the • Mosco the Ambassador following telegram Berlin Yesterday I long conversation with BY

PART

TWO

Commissar Voroshilov, whom I had asked for appointment.

The conversation was con- ducted in a very frank, de- • We cidely friendly tone... were far from having hostile intentions toward the Soviet Union. [!] Voroshilov wel- comed this attitude, which was quite in accord with his views.. 'General impression of the conversation: Voroshilov, who belongs to the circles closest to Stalin, and is one of the most influential personages in the Soviet Union, is basically for the best German-Russian relations. I also gained the unmistakable impression that with him personally there is the will and the desire to be effectual in this direction. ..?

(pp. 338-339). A further communication, of January 23, 1934, makes the same point again: 'Our friends-I am thinking particularly of the Red Army and its _ chief, the powerful Voroshilov, but also of many others—are entirely willing in spite of every dissatisfaction the German regime to with work for good German-Russian relations... / (p. 409. Em- phasis added). Evening dinner Nazi diplomats numbered Voroshilov their among friends. And like all good friends, they must be invited home to dinner: 'Yesterday evening ata dinner at my home Krestinsky and Voroshilov spoke about Litvinov's proposal. • (Tele- gram, March 29, 1934, p. 686).

in 1934, was not Trotsky, but Voroshilov, who was the leading advocate of an alliance between the Nazi regime in Germany and the Soviet government. as everyone knows, And, Voroshilov did not speak for himself, but for his mentor, Stalin. Gollan's charge of collusion between Trotsky and Hitler re- bounds directly back into the Stalinist when court even applied to the years which preceded the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939. This most cynical of all phases of Stalinist diplomacy has been well documented from the Nazi side by the publication in 1948 of the main materials from the Nazi Foreign Office Archives by the US Department of State. Nothing has yet been forth- coming from the Soviet side, and the reasons are all too obvious. If the documents selected for publication by the US government present a distorted view, the aim of dis- with crediting the Soviet govern- ment, then the remedy is in the hands of the Kremlin to restore the balance by publish- ing their documents. In the meantime, we can use only such material as is he Nazi available, of whose none authenticity cow sent has been chal- lenged by the Kremlin. ram to Apart from the Pact itself, an hour- which is an open and direct example of what Gollan would ith War The Nazis set fire to the Reichstag (left) and blamed the Communist Party in order to provide the pretext for anti-communist terror. call collusion between Nazi and Soviet leaders, there are many other instances which can be cited of Stalinist-Nazi collaboration on every plane- economic, political, cultural, diplomatic and personal. Stalin's Take the text of reply to Hitler's letter asking to send the Nazi permission Foreign Minister to Moscow to conclude the Pact: 'August 21, 1939: To the Chancellor of the German Reich, A. Hitler. I thank you for the letter. I hope that the German-Soviet non-agression pact will mark a decided turr for the better in the political relations between our coun tries. The people of our coun- peaceful relations tries need with each other. The assent of the German government to the conclusion of a non-aggression

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ute yist wrote, 'was a (p.96). 'anti-Nazi' propaganda was a front All the time the Kremlin worked tor a dea wi der with leaaine •tallnists. such ar Voroshilov, right at the of the negotiations. the Nazi Obassador in Moscow sent following telegram ber in: 'Yesterday had with hour Convisalul BY

ROBERT

PART

TWO

Commissar Voroshilov, whom I had asked for appointment.

The conversation was con- ducted in a very frank, de- cidely friendly tone... • We were far from having hostile intentions toward the Soviet Union. [!] Voroshilov wel- comed this attitude, which was quite in accord with his views.. 'General impression of the conversation: Voroshilov, who belongs to the circles closest to Stalin, and is one of the most influential personages in the Soviet Union, is basically for the best German-Russian relations. I also gained the unmistakable impression that with him personally there is the will and the desire to be effectual in this direction...?

(pp. 338-339). communication, further of January 23, 1934, makes the same point again: 'Our friends-I am thinking particularly of the Red Army and its chief, the powerful Voroshilov, but also of many others—are entirely willing in spite of every dissatisfaction with the German regime to work for good German-Russian : (p. 409. Em- relations. phasis added). Evening dinner Nazi diplomats numbered Voroshilov their among friends. And like all good friends, they must be invited home to dinner: 'Yesterday evening at a dinner at my home Krestinsky and Voroshilov spoke about Litvinov's proposal. ..? (Tele- gram, March 29, 1934, p. 686).

So in 1934, it was not Trotsky, but Voroshilov, who was the leading advocate of an alliance between the Nazi regime in Germany and the Soviet government. everyone knows, And, as Voroshilov did not speak for himself, but for his mentor, Stalin. Gollan's charge of collusion between Trotsky and Hitler re- bounds directly back into the Stalinist court even when applied to the years which preceded the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939. This most cynical of all phases of Stalinist diplomacy well documented has been from the Nazi side by the publication in 1948 of the main materials from the Nazi Foreign Office Archives by the US Department of State. Nothing has yet been forth- coming from the Soviet side, and the reasons are all too obvious. If the documents selected for publication by the US government present a distorted view, the aim of dis- with crediting the Soviet govern- ment, then the remedy is in the hands of the Kremlin to restore the balance by publish- ing their documents. In the meantime, we can use only such material as is none of available, whose authenticity has been chal- lenged by the Kremlin. Apart from the Pact itself, which is an open and direct example of what Gollan would The Nazis set fire to the Reichsta! (left) and blamed the Communist Party in order to provide the pretext for anti-communist terror. call collusion between Nazi and Soviet leaders, there are many other instances which be cited of Stalinist-Nazi can collaboration on every plane- economic, political, cultural, diplomatic and personal. Take the text of Stalin's reply to Hitler's letter asking permission to send the Nazi Foreign Minister to Moscow to conclude the Pact: 'August 21, 1939: To the Chancellor of the German Reich, A. Hitler. I thank you for the letter. I hope that the non-agression German-Soviet pact will mark a decided turn for the better in the political relations between our coun- tries. The people of our coun- peaceful relations tries need with each other. The assent of the German government to the conclusion of a non-aggression

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Newsroom and 7.30 p.m. Weather. 8.00 Man Alive: The Shop- lifters. 8.50 Know Your Onions. 9.10 Show Of The Week. 9.55 The Battle Of The Bulge: 11.15 Wednesday, December 17, 1969 pact provides the foundation the political for eliminating tension and for the establish- ment of peace and collabor- between our countries' ation ('Nazi-Soviet Relations': p. 69, emphasis added). Precisely what collaboration Stalin had in mind with Hitler was to emerge more clearly in a few weeks. During the banquet that followed the signing of the 1939, the pact of August 23, diplomat Hencke Nazi re- corded the following touching scene: 'Toasts: In the course of the conversation, Herr Stalin spon- taneously proposed a toast to "I Fuhrer, follows: the as know how much the German nation loves its Fuhrer; I should like to drink to his health"' (p. 75). 7.00 This Is Your Life. 7.30 Coronation Street. 8.00 The Champions. 9.00 Special Branch. 10.00 News At Ten. 10.30 Lonnie. 11.00 Professional Wrestling.

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On September 8, 1939, Molo- tov sent the following tele- the Nazi phone message to Embassy in Moscow: I have received your com- munication regarding the entry troops into War- of German saw. Please convey my con- gratulations and greetings to the German Reich government.

Molotov' (p. 89). Finally, as a last example of Stalinist-Nazi collaboration, we quote from the Secret Supple- mentary Protocol to the Pact of August 23, concluded in Moscow on September 28 after the defeat of Poland. The text speaks for itself: undersigned plentipo- 'The concluding tentiaries, on the German-Russian Boundary and Treaty, have de- Friendship clared their agreement upon following: Both parties the will tolerate in their territories Polish agitation which affects the territories of the other party. "They will suppress in their territories all beginnings of such agitation and inform each other concerning suitable measures for this purpose.

'For the Government of the German Reich: J. Ribbentrop.

of By authority the govern- ment of the USSR, W. Molo- tov' (p. 107). original of this agree- The ment exists and can still be inspected in the collection of captured Nazi archives. It has been denied by the never Soviet government. We think these documents provide ample evidence for supporting the view that lead- ing Stalinists in the Soviet acted in direct government with leading Nazis collusion in the German government, against the interests of the working class and the Soviet Union. Slanders Gollan's slanders have been torn to shreds many years ago, but the crisis which drives him and his fellow Stalinists to re- peat them is unpre- now cedented. The Socialist Labour League and the Young Socialists. have and both the great privilege historical responsibility of de- nouncing these new attempts on the part of the Stalinists to slander and politically dis- credit Trotsky and Trotskyism.

other so-called "Trot- skyist' tendency will answer this challenge. Inter- Groups like the Marxist Group' are national too busy proving the British Party to be in transition away from Stalinism to notice Gollan's attacks on the founder of the movement to which hypocritically claim they so allegiance. When we carry on the fine tradition of the founders of • by answering the Trotskyism slanders of the Gollans, we do so not because we have any illusions that old-guard Stalin- ists are going to change, but in order to educate and arm politically against the youth the Stalinists. Young workers must know that it was not Trotsky and the Fourth International that plotted the defeat of the work- ing class and the Soviet Union with Hitler. Stalin, helped by It was those such as Gollan within the British labour movement.

Gollan charges our move ment with being in the pay of Hitler. the Nazis their with It is fitting now to recall the fate of three of our German omrades Veinder Scholem Central Committee member Communist of the German Party and Berlin Editor of its Daily Paper, 'Red Flag', also a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International under Lenin and Trotsky, and one of the first to rally to the International Left Opposition. He was arrested by the Gestapo, and, after imprison- ment in the Sichtenburg, Esterwegen, Dachau and Buch- enwald concentration camps, was shot by the SS in 1940, the year of Stalin's great friendship with Hitler. Edward Kolischer: A delegate to the Soldiers' Council in the German Revolu- tion of 1918, later to serve on the Red Army staff under Trotsky. He represented the Austrian Communist Party on Executive Committee of the Communist International and soon joined the Left Opposi- tion. After the rise of Austrian clerical fascism, Kolischer car- ried on work in the under- finally ground, and was arrested by the Nazis in 1938.

First an inmate of Buchen- wald, he was taken to the death at Auschwitz, camp where he was beaten to death in 1942. Finally there was Fritz Reuter: An old German Left Opposi- tionist, who with his comrades heeded Trotsky's warnings on the dangers of the Stalin line in Germany, which declared the Social Democrats, and not Hitler, to be the main enemy.

Walled off from the rank- and-file workers by a barrage of slander (of the type Gollan of the now Stalinist sewers) Reuter's warnings went un- headed, and the German work- ing class plunged to its doom.

GOLLAN

VOROSHILOV

Together with the militants of all the workers' parties, Fritz Reuter was rounded up in a Gestapo raid and dragged through Buchenwald to Dachau, where he died of tuberculosis. These and many more Trotskyists, murdered by the Nazis together with thousands of Communist Party workers, fought Hitler to the end.

Gollan, in charging the Trotskyist movement with being a creature of the Third slanders their Reich, vilely memory. Stalinism not only ensured that Hitler came to power (for reasons that are all too obvious after a study of the material we have reproduced on Stalin- Hitler relations),, but Gollan, by implication, slanders those who gave their lives in a struggle against him. Gollan's outburst in Leeds was no chance remark. It reflects his long training in the utterly corrupt counter- revolutionary politics Stalinism. The British Stalinists try vainly to recreate the myth of Stalin and slander Trotsky, as do their friends in the Soviet Union. Try as they might they are doomed. As Trotsky, in his moving valediction to the speech in 1937 on the Moscow Trials, said: In time of reaction it is more convenient to lean on the bureaucracy than on the truth. But all those for whom the word socialism is not a hollow sound, but the content of their moral lifeforward!

Neither threats, nor persecu- tions, nor violations can stop us! Be it even over our bleach- ing bones, the truth will triumph. We will blaze the trail for it. It will conquer!'

WORKERS' P

George Marchais and Waldeck Rochet (right): Accept bourgeois social THE FRENCH Com- munist Party is now going

BY TOM

ahead with preparations tl for its 49th Congress in

KEMP

1970, the year of the 50th anniversary of the Party.

It was at the Congress of b the Socialist Party (SFIO) 'left this the opportunists', held at Tours in 1920 that CP-controlled trade union a majority voted to form the body confined the movement to wage demands. Communist Party as the The emphasis in the main f French section of the Third resolution is upon the willing- International. Party ness of the Communist 'loyal to enter into co-opera- The leadership of the Party ti tion with all democratic parties r in the main resolution for the and organizations' to establish Congress to be held in it what calls 'an advanced democracy'. February spells out in the The Socialist Party has plainest form its acceptance suffered severe losses in the of the bourgeois social order.

shown past two years, as was by the poor showing of Gaston In dealing the May- with Deferre Presidential the June events of 1968 it ignores elections, and its base in the of the significance the great few working class, outside a class actions of workers, the areas, has disappeared. the occupation of the factories The 'democratic parties and and the paralysis of the bour- with which the geois state. organizations' Communist Party desires It stresses the role of the united action are the old rump Confédération Générale de parties and splinter groups of Travail (CGT) and makes the bourgeoisie not yet under virtue of the fact that, against Pompidou's umbrella. It is clear that 'advanced democracy' is not the dictator- ship of the proletariat, nor even a workers' and peasants' government. Nor, given the decline of the Socialist Party, could it corres- the pond Popular even to Front of the 1930s. In fact its centre of gravity would be further to the right the of Mitterand. in camp Mendès-France and company. While the Communist Party declares that the government of democratic union which it 'will create the best proposes conditions for the passage to prac- socialism in France' tice it corresponds to no viable political grouping, least of all the one which prepares way for socialism. It is simply electoral verbi- while keeping designed, age control as far as possible over Available from New Park the working class, to establish Publications, 186a Clapham to renewed revolu- a barrier on the lines of High Street, SW4. tionary action May-June, 1968. Price 5s It is not part of a strategic

CHRISTMAS

might herald the arrival of pan- tomimes and ice spec- but as far as taculars, films are concerned it's definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel. West End cinemas are held down by long-running spec- taculars like 'The Battle of Britain' or 'Gone with the Wind, and when free will be replaced by equally long run- ning spectaculars and when His more philistine escapades free ... etc. paying Laurence include break out into Harvey to It's a tough time for re- 'To be striptease during the .: soliloquy in viewers. or not to be Hamlet, and buying a portrait There's 'John and Mary' to Rembrandt school of of the look forward to and the latest for £30,000, cutting out then Tames Bond, but the only new of the with a pair nose 6lm released this week was scissors. Christian', 'Magic starring Ringo petty-bourgeois This vul- Peter Sellers and Starr garity is the real level of the and directed by Joe McGrath.

film. Guy Grand in the book is a malicious, old-style pioneer capitalist whose motivation is In spite of the host of stars ›ower, a contempt for people make brief perfunctory who "to make 'em jump' as walk-ons and appearances but at no point is he removed film is distin- bit parts, the from his class. guished by its sheer brutality.

He is fixed firmly in that and What was a rather icy, the satire derives from it.

cynical. but extremely funny into a book is transformed cynical and unfunny film.

premise is that Its Peter Sellers is milk and everybody and in comparison; water an amiable lovable eccentric, the hero of the piece.

affably played by Peter Sellers, tilting expensively at some of sets out to prove it. obvious and least the more windmills of A man with unlimited finan- pressing our cial society. resources, he lays out thousands of pounds to ham- cost met of grandes The mer home the point. which character in the novel has been His exploits include, among others, making a parking meter shifted away from him in the the ticket, and flm and becomes part of the attendant eat petty-bourgeois ideology of the bribing the Oxford crew to ram makers. the Cambridge boat.

Wednesday, December 17, 1969 Stalin writing to Hitler in 1939: ... A. Hitler. I thank you for your letter. I hope the German-Soviet non-aggression pact left i. to r. Rib- bentrop, Stalin, Molotov] will mark a decided turn for the better in poli- tical relations between our countries .. • for the estab- lishment of peace and Collaboration! ..? (Our emphasis.) That Pact, sealed with Stalin's toast to Hitler, 'loved nation', by the German launched the war on Poland On September 8, 1939, Molo- tov sent the following tele- phone message to the Nazi Embassy in Moscow: I have received your com- munication regarding the entry of German troops into War- saw. Please convey my con- gratulations and greetings to the German Reich government.

Molotov' (p. 89). Finally, as a last example of Stalinist-Nazi collaboration, we quote from the Secret Supple- mentary Protocol to the Pact of August 23, concluded in Moscow on September 28 after the defeat of Poland. The text • speaks for itself: "The undersigned plentipo- tentiaries, on concluding the German-Russian Boundary and Treaty, have de- Friendship their agreement upon clared following: Both parties the will tolerate in their territories agitation which Polish affects the territories of the other party. *They will suppress in their all beginnings of territories such agitation and inform each concerning suitable other measures for this purpose.

'For the Government of the German Reich: J. Ribbentrop.

By authority of the govern- ment of the USSR. W. Molo- tov' (p. 107). The original of this agree- ment exists and can still be inspected in the collection of captured Nazi archives. It has denied by the been never Soviet government. We think these documents provide evidence for ample supporting the view that lead- in the Soviet ing Stalinists acted in direct government collusion with leading Nazis the German government, in against the interests of the working class and the Soviet Union. Slanders Gollan's slanders have been torn to shreds many years ago, but the crisis which drives him and his fellow Stalinists to re- peat them now is unpre- cedented. The Socialist Labour League and the Young Socialists. have both the great privilege and historical responsibility of de- nouncing , these new attempts on the part of the Stalinists to slander and politically dis- credit Trotsky and Trotskyism.

so-called "Trot- No other skyist' tendency will answer this challenge. like the Inter- Groups national Marxist Group' are too busy proving the British Party to be in transition away from Stalinism notice to Gollan's attacks on the founder of the movement to which they so hypocritically claim allegiance. When we carry on the fine tradition of the founders of Trotskyism by answering the slanders of the Gollans, we do so not because we have any illusions that old-guard Stalin- ists are going to change, but in order to educate and . arm the youth politically against the Stalinists. Young workers must know that it was not Trotsky and the Fourth International that plotted the defeat of the work- ing class and the Soviet Union with Hitler. It was Stalin, helped by those such as Gollan within the British labour movement.

Gollan charges our move- ment with being in the pay of Hitler. We answer that under the rule of the Nazis German Trotskyists went to their deaths together with the militants of the Third Inter- national, from whom they were separated only by the criminal and counter-revolutionary poli- cies of Stalin. It is fitting now to recall the fate of three of our German comrades: Weinder Scholem: Central Committee member of the German Communist Party and Berlin Editor of its Daily Paper, 'Red Flag', also a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International under Lenin and Trotsky, and one of the first to rally to the International Left Opposition. He was arrested by the Gestapo, and, after imprison- ment in the Sichtenburg, Esterwegen, Dachau and Buch- enwald concentration camps, was shot by the SS in 1940, the year of Stalin's great friendship with Hitler. Edward Kolischer: A delegate to the Soldiers' Council in the German Revolu- tion of 1918, later to serve on the Red Army staff under Trotsky. He represented the Austrian Communist Party the on Executive Committee of the Communist International and soon joined the Left Opposi- tion. After the rise of Austrian clerical fascism, Kolischer car- in the under- ried on work finally ground, and was arrested by the Nazis in 1938.

First an inmate of Buchen- wald, he was taken to the death at Auschwitz, camp where he was beaten to death in 1942. Finally there was Fritz Reuter: An old German Left Opposi- tionist, who with his comrades heeded Trotsky's warnings on the dangers of the Stalin line in Germany, which declared the Social Democrats, and not Hitler, to be the main enemy.

Walled off from the rank- and-file workers by a barrage of slander (of the type Gollan of dredges the now Stalinist sewers) Reuter's warnings went un- headed, and the German work- ing class plunged to its doom.

GOLLAN

VOROSHILOV

Together with the militants of all the workers parties, Fritz Reuter was rounded up in a Gestapo raid and dragged Buchenwald through to Dachau, where he died of tuberculosis. These and many more Trotskyists, murdered by the Nazis together with thousands of Communist Party workers, fought Hitler to the end.

Gollan, in charging the Trotskyist with movement being a creature of the Third Reich, vilely slanders their memory. Stalinism not only ensured that Hitler came to power (for reasons that are all too obvious after a study of the material we have reproduced on Stalin- Hitler relations),, but Gollan, by implication, slanders those who gave their lives in a struggle against him. Gollan's outburst in Leeds was no chance remark. It reflects his long training in the utterly corrupt counter- revolutionary politics Stalinism. The British Stalinists try vainly to recreate the myth of Stalin and slander Trotsky, as do their friends in the Soviet Union. Try as they might they are doomed. As Trotsky, in his valediction to the moving speech in 1937 on the Moscow Trials, said: In time of reaction it is more convenient to lean on the bureaucracy than on the truth. But all those for whom the word socialism is not a hollow sound, but the content of their moral life-forward!

Neither threats, nor persecu- tions, nor violations can stop us! Be it even over our bleach- ing bones, the truth will triumph. We will blaze the trail for it. It will conquer!'

WORKERS' PRESS

George Marchais and Waldeck Rochet (right): Accept bourgeois social oraler

FRENCH

THE

Com- plan to secure power, but part munist Party is now going preparations ahead with the opposition tendencies the for its 49th Congress in

KEMP

revolutionary 1970, the year of the 50th outside it. which are anniversary of the Party.

• now muca stronger than in 1908. There is, of course, nothing It was at the Congress of the basically new the Party

(SFIO)

Waldeck - Rochet — Marchais the 'left opportunists', this held at Tours in 1920 that CP-controlled trade union a majority voted to form the confined the movement hodu stuff which. Communist to wage demands. Party the as classic The French section of the Third main emonasıs in the recoilition 1s unon the willing. International. ness ot the Communict Party summed up enter into loyal co-opera- The leadership of the Party the policy of the parliamentary tion with all dema in the main resolution for the roaders o savinene allI and organizations our no nical struggle remains Congress 'an held advanced be as hitherto. the concuest democracy'. February spells out in the state power by winning The Socialist majority in parliament and plainest form its acceptance suffered losses of the bourgeois social order.

the poor ars, wing of Gaston two years, past dealing with the May- by June events of 1968 it ignores Deterre the Presidenna elechions. and its base in The workers working class. outside a tew acuolls areas, has disappeared. occupation of the lactoses The democratic parties and ano une paravsis othe bour. geois state. organizations' with whichune stresses the role of the Communist Party desires united action are the old rump Confédération Générale parties and splinter groups and makes bourgeoisie not yet under vırtue of the tact that, against Pompidou's umbrella It is clear that democracy is not the dictator- ship and peasants' even a government. given the decline of the Party, could it corres Popular Front of the 1930s. ould be further centre of gravity would the right Mitterand, the of Mendes-France camp and company. While the + the gover ent declares that government union which ot democratic nronoses will create the best conditions for the passage socialism in France. in prac- tice it corresponds to no viable least of all the prepares It is simply electoral verbi- while control as possible over establish New Availalic from Park working class, l revolu 186a Clanham Puhlications a barrier renewee the lines tionary action Mav une vo Price se It is not part of a strategic

CHRISTMAS

might herald the arrival of pan- tomimes and ice spec- but far taculars, as By Brian N films are concerned it's the definitely scraping bottom of the barrel. West End cinemas are held down by long-running spec- 'The Battle of taculars like Britain' or 'Gone with the Wind', and when free will be replaced by equally long run- ning spectaculars and when His more philistine escapades Grand'e conricionanese is the free... etc. continuity include paying of the fim and tha moral repeated over out into be Harvey to It's a tough time for re- break over again, rather the ctrinterce during The viewers. arnat to hel Hamlet. and buving a portrait There's 'John and Mary' school of Dambrond and the latest £30,000, then cutting out no forward with pair Tamar Rand hut the only naw the nose flm week released this Scissors. "Magic Christian' petty-bourgeois Sellers and Ringo Starr This 77111 and directed by Toe McGrath.

arity is the real level of the Guy Grand the book is a malicious. All atula ninneer capitalist whose motivation In spite of the host of stars his ain for who brief perfunctory appearances walk-ons no point removed but at bit pads, the sheer brutaly.

film his from class. He is fixed firmly in that and What was rather icy, the satire derives from it. cynical, but extremely funny into a cynical and unfunny film premise is Its basic that Peter Sellers is milk and everybody and comparison; amiable squire, money, and Sir Guy affably played by Peter Sellers, tilting aynensivey at some cete nut to prove it more tha and least A man with unlimited fran.

pressing windmille

NITT

he lays out pounds to ham- The contempt for mer home the noint. which of Grand's was nart His exploits include among phorontor in the novel hac heer others, making a parking meter and film and becomes part of bribing the petty-bourgeois ideology of the Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers, right) and artillery for their grouse shoot' Cambridge hoat. converting parliament into the master of the government', Lenin commented: "This is nothing but the purest and most vulgar oppor- tunism: a repudiation of revo- lution in deeds while accepting it in words' Gollan and Marchais, all the Communist Party leaders who put forward their own national roads to socialism by parliamentary means have, in- deed, retreated from the posi- tion of Kautsky. Instead of a majority in par- liament for the workers' party, they conceive of the Commun- ist Party as a loyal partner in a government which includes bourgeois representatives.

The coming Congress of the French Communist Party offers the French Trotskyist Organ- intersatio sal. Malice Tore, later see are i International. Maurice Thorez, later Brian Moore middle-class dream, that the world is there to , be bought and sold. Undoubtedly the intention right) and his adopted son (Ringo Starr, left) shoot' in the film 'The Magic Christian'.

PAGE THREE

The ization a great opportunity to exact complement to make inroads into the ranks of the guarantees of good political Communist Party behaviour which the Commun- members Party offers and supporters in the same ist through its of 'ad- way as has taken place here on reformist programme basis of the campaign led is the will- the vanced democracy. by the Workers Press. ingness of the CGT, in return In fact, such a campaign in for formal some concessions, France is still to discipline the working class.

more urgent because of the hold which the weakness The very of the Communist Party exercises on Pompidou coalition, compared the working-class electorate the Bonapartist regime of with and on the main trade unions de Gaulle, makes necessary in large-scale industry. some sort of compromise with One feature of the the labour bureaucracy with rising of the French the Stalinists at its head.

combativity workers since May-June is an The opportunities offered by influx of new layers into the the preparations for the Con- gress and by the Congress it- unions and particularly into therefore

CGT.

self be taken must advantage of to win sections The union bureaucrats must thus be relentlessly pursued of advanced workers 1n and all their compromises and around the Party to Trotsky- betrayals. ism. -gese of the Sociali (SFIO) held at Tours when a majority voted Party • secretary, is seen facing the came of the film is to 'explode' all is granted the divine the stuffy, pompous, right of wealth by the makers reaction- and is echo of the illu- ary elements in society. an sions that seem to fall out of But without a revolutionary the mouths of many self-made is content to its satire, it men and stars: just want the trapped by precisely re- to buy my freedom'. actionary system it attempts to It is the freedom to mani- lampoon. pulate others. film For allure in the the Grand has had that is glorified is the power of Even when enough at the end of the film money. and decides to take a sleeping bag into the park-and this is no more motivated than any- Grand is the hero, a sort of thing else he does- -presum- will-o-the-wisp, who wealthy ably to find the simple life, he can flit capriciously here and still has to bribe the park there, destroying pretension keeper. of fivers. with the rustle The 'Magic Christian' abso- There is no criticism, im- lutely illuminates not only the or otherwise, of Grand plicit dead end of idealism, but its as a character. really reactionary content.

It only conclude Cau cynicism about a world that fundamentally changeable, where the future is decided by the ruling class, whatever its anarchistic or ec- centric face. Marxists have a totally dif- ferent conception about human 'greed' and the future.

It is not a question of human nature that holds man back.

The fate of capitalism will not be decided by the whims of millionaires, but by the re- volutionary mobilization of the working class. This has nothing to do with magic or with Christ. It is fought out and won through the battle of class struggle. Those who don't take up that struggle must find them- selves in the reactionary camp, for there is no other direction for them to go. Fascism's path is paved with 'liberal' good intentions and this film illustrates that road ingo Starr, left) arm themselves with heavy clearly.

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'Tribune' -'Militant' debate Everyone received BILLED by Tribune' as 'a good a prize clean piece of inter-party strife the 'Tribune'- Militant' debate on Friday night mustered all of 50 people to Holborn Town Hall. There was a prize for everybody in the mutual back-slapping session which followed

BY JOHN SPENCER

between "Tribune' speakers Stanley Newens, MP. and Tohn Jennings and 'Militant' represen- tatives Peter Taffe and Edward Grant.

After five years of the Wilson govern- Be restant the laboul ment. the Labour 'eft' and its revision- catenedl)

MEETING

ist 'critics' inside the Labour Party are ever before-and coser _roseuner lnan

• FROM PAGE ONE

more united in their hostility to the Lakr. in such workLe Class "Tribune's speakers were at pains to point out that attack Stalinism he Laboul fat even stand for their right they were speaking only in But attemets Full-time personal rade Healy in hiat aileon f Jennings, had job for Little he history the many and it would be childish save at cact difference docks

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Withy so that he can act as full-time endovers New new left presentative. According to 'The Port, Having rejected Dutt's 1929

FEARS WORKERS

Salis 1989 r0%. ine Iour major Issues will be dealing with are: There was, he said, a nee ike the hic ill hasimilar primates only • Ispute Tilbury container • Thek wlh on definition of The • Nationalization Colombo, ( in spesed late for the . effect eed of The Militant" gre of the best tent the of rkers dozens *ont rempans to be seen what Stalinist ovA number 0& port wer oyal number would be covers up đea von the done:

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this men out again if *The mente once win if they Spare no effort

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conner the loyers ationalization don't we're getting.

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neck port Delittiin. frome meanin: of them named-them- selves What is Moore's answer to

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demands deliberatels E the Workers Press repre- at a public meeting

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See the film of the first issue being prepared and arena of perotia printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' compterey post, et

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promise whi ses 1 expe the Workers Islands : Cloudy witt Sunday December 21, 7.30 p.m.

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hich sell Carver Street (behind City Hall) Speakers MIKE BANDA (Editor of Workers" Press) ch for il SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the Young Socialists) admits pathetically,

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SLL national secretary G. Healy spea

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20-30 Labour MPs that note tonights nment đi Many This is dangerous. Prisoner this ight. ring Sot felt obliged to damaged incomes It would, in other intands policies defeated.

Gly try re places. Wedneaday, December 17, 1988 U.S. greets Dubcek named as Panama ambassador to Turkey By a Workers Prose military held power FORMER Crech Commun. inder Novotn rar' secretan Alexan- The latter dictators Das scel der Dubcek was nameo or forcing new Prague Monday as the Phe Party, Turkey. ambassacor to By a forelgn correspondent return to US Washington

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from In Terre government U.S. denies salistaction witn une new millary which Panama regime seized power on training Sunday night. The Colonels who ousted General Omar Torrijos are Israelis class consacreu more noir was and pro-US than the ACCORDING to the Ameri- can ambassador in Libya acacial.

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forces have une leaders or me Dro- Ur the Colonels

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heelus airbase near second-in-cr Stop Wilson's Panama Ivaloid. Guard, and Amado Sanjur Guard Chief of Staff. visit to Washington already power Colonel Gaddafi, their rake over ened by a left wine

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Wednesday, December 17 sabulas

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8 D.m The Globe The state of Panama is of © United Saates Silver Street Milan anarchist

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dies in 'jump' Wednesday, December 17 8 p.m. hastigaled, by wel omeralie.

Trom police office The Lord Howick Mila ANARCHIST died in a

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sion ins Thursday, December 18 of thelice claim 8 D.m People's Hall eposed les ter arted day broken Heathcote Street

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Black Panthers Thursday, December 18 8 p.m. Protest Willesden Trades and Labour rall SLL national secretary G. Healy speaking to Monday's meeting.

High Road, N.W.10 sto tonion forces high-

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Thursday, December 18 visit to Nixon 8 p.m.

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Kersfeld Tavern • the level inquiry Camberwell Green comprehensive Grove Lane

COVENTRY

THE STORM of protest over the murder of two Thursday, December 18. Black Panther leaders in their Chicago iat on 7.30 p.m. December 4 has forced the US government to Holbrooks Community Centre Masser Road ouer the killings. The police raid in which the two were shot dead brought the number of Panther leaders killed this alone and to charges from the Black Panthers' followers that 'the US government and its state agencies are out to commit systematic geno- cide. The concertea campaigl against the Panthers-all its leaders except one are nor eltner ceac or in dmson- nas begun to spark of a reaction in the US working class. mammoth Auto Wor- kers Union

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