Workers Press no. 61

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 61 • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1969 PRICE 6d. Motor industry council Tube strike ends Briefly 'No sell'

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in talks on more than 2 ships to lie idi by productivity thippompany involved, Beagle

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Beagle's impute By our industrial reporter

MAR 17 1971

THE STRIKE at London Transport's Acton.

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maintenance depot is to end on Monday follow- ing talks at the Department of Employment and nasrance the pas Productivity. The had cut

PREVENTION,

the saying goes, is better

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Northern Lin by ser drastica ly than cure. The engineering employers, whose pro- quarter reduced number

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posals for a new procedural agreement in the in- dustry were rejected by the unions on Tuesday, Big response Teach at6 Prices will clearly be bearing this in mind as they rack ratismen. their brains for acceptable modifications.

This for on terrainy of Union leaders have threatened to withdraw from the hexia still from cause C.I.R. threat the 47-year-old York Memorandum unless the Engin- at I.-H. ( eering Employers' Federation comes up with some New deal bright ideas by the end of the year. The employers But although the settlement the mediate issu Will have one trump card in their favour.

union and c which the LiB broke 1s The joint chairmen of the motor industry's half month anto the national council, the Amalgamated Engineers' and Paynter sharpest-ever rises Foundryworkers' Mr Hugh Scanlon and British- C.P. ranks Strike Leyland's Lord Stokes, are apparently ardent advocates heads of the old nostrum. Strikes. of course. are dicested several seniosi a inquiry to Be she try seems likely the 'disease' they want to COMMUNIST PARTY members in Sidcup have swung shi care on sha 19 01 1e in behind the campaign to stop Wilson's January visit orevent. Thursday's meeting of th Day Work fighten to Washington with a letter demanding its cancellation.

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Motor industry council

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CALL THE TUNE

BY DAVID MAUDE

PREVENTION,

the saying goes, is better than cure. The engineering employers, whose pro- posals for a new procedural agreement in the in dustry were rejected by the unions on Tuesday, will clearly be bearing this in mind as they rack their brains for acceptable modifications.

Union leaders have threatened to withdraw from C.I.R. threat the 47-year-old York Memorandum unless the Engin- at I.-H. eering Employers' Federation comes up with some bright ideas by the end of the year. The employers Will have one trump card in their favour.

The joint chairmen of the motor industry's national council, the Amalgamated Engineers' and Paynter Foundryworkers' Mr Hugh Scanlon and British- Leyland's Lord Stokes, are apparently ardent advocates heads of the old nostrum Strikes, of course, are inquiry the 'disease' they want to prevent. 4 paris Menu Tad- CRAFTSMEN at Interna- ing gren tional-Harvesters' Doncas- factories, face the Plans were agreed for in- Despite the threat of intervention by ện tọn tr Commission for the dustrial Relations (CIR) as highly dangerous move. ponents plants their strike-lor a is zd an hour wage increase— 'Representing' enters its fifth week. For the whole of elet enem ra present William the best Trades Union eering industry. Stalinist, ex-National Unior use Mr Wineworkers general Socialist- secretary, is neadin‹ a cin team visiting both plant and the Doncaster (General and Municipall and Communist company's Bradford works.

serious strike nge talks in France freed cater this Unions obert Many views Mr AFTER SEVERAL weeks of 'secret' negotia- rules out other pay increases.

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NUMBER 61 • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1969

PRICE Gd. Tube strike ends Briefly No sell'

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strike in talks on ants efforts to end one productivity e Company involved, Beagle

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By our Industrial reporter cer seid propelled abages.

MAR 17 1971

THE STRIKE at London Transport's Acton.

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maintenance depot is to end on Monday follow- ing talks at the Department of Employment and Productivity. The three-month dispute had cut une under ronna s

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Northern Line service ny a quarter and drastically of reduced the number

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victorious. to Be sher ivery seems likely COMMUNIST PARTY members in Sidcup have swung da-bokind the campaige:to stop-Wilson's January.visht i dent sukamo. Railway Man (N te make to Washington with a letter demanding its cancellation.

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Milan bomb explosion which killed 14 on December 12 is part of a frame-up.

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PAGE TWO

To the editor of 'Kom- munist (Theoretical review of the Central Committee of the CPSU) IN NUMBERS 2 and 3 of your review for 1969 two documents were pub- lished: an article by Master of Sciences (his- tory) Boltin, entitled 'Moving pages in the noble book of the Great Patriotic War' and an article entitled, 'For a Leninist party spirit in the study of the history of the CPSU signed Golikov, Murachov, Techkhikvichvili, Chata- guine and S. Chaoumian. An attentive reader of these two texts would have no doubt as to their basic aim: to rehabilitate and exalt Stalin. In spite of their authors' many vain efforts to effect an objective tone, it is not difficult to follow. their main thread. On the whole they make a highly positive judge- ment of Stalin. In this way the authority of the main organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU (which in fact approaches the complex problems of social life in an authoritarian manner) is utilized to exalt the pro-Stalin- ist campaign which has been growing in recent years. Moreover, in various news- papers and journals, and re- cently, in your journal, the secondary problem of Stalin's personal qualities as head of state are emphasized in judging him. Leaving aside the social thought of reflective our citizens over the last tew years, the diplomatic, military and economic successes of an Ivan the Terrible or a Nicholas I, do not change or negate, by contemporary moral standards, the fact that the first was a sadist, responsible for and executor of massive repres- sions, and that the conscience of the latter was always un- easy because of the hanging of five Decembrists.' To make Stalin an exception to this general rule is all the more astonishing as not very long ago your review published examples of Stalin's negligence, and flagrant voluntarism in the fields of tyranny economics, politics and art.

Mayerhold: Theatrical director.

Disappeared after criticizing Stalin's art diktats. The old generation and people around 40 years old remember the heritage left behind by Stalin on March 5, 1953: a catastrophic situation in agriculture, contracted out the Lysenko - Olchansky to group; queues at the bakeries in the surrounding regions; an.

acute housing crisis; a lack of harmony in the system of salaries and prices; a savage foreign policy which brought us to the brink of war; an unimaginable reign of the diktat in art (going as far as 'heretics'); of liquidation of people deported; dozens hundreds of thousands of men ages—from infants to of all the very old who had managed in to survive - made to rot camps; and there were many other things. Do we need to remember the last months of Stalin's life: the medieval anti-Semitic cam- paign unleashed with the so- 'Doctors' Case'; the called show-case of lies at the 19th Congress; the tyrant's 'basic' ideas about socialist economics and linguistics — 'basic' ideas that life forces swept away as soon as the tyrant's strangle- hold weakened. also Stalin's There was spiritual heritage: the sinister and atmosphere of suspicion informing, the effects of which, have still not been it seems, overcome. your review And now solemnly recommends work full of servile tenderness for the memory of the 'master'.

(Remember the vulgar luxury of the Komsomolkaya under- ground station or the Lenin- gradskaya Hotel; the story 1 The Decembrists were nobles and military revolutionaries who tried to overthrow the Tsarist in December 1825. monarchy They were hung and their wives were deported for life to Siberia.

Bela Kun: Shot by Stalin when he fled to the Soviet Union to escape the Nazis. behind them was only divulged several months after Stalin's death, at the Central Com- Plenum of September mittee 1953.) This 'master' was so atten- tive to the specialists' advice.

(As a dazzling example re- member the unique discussion led by this semi-literate chief with followers of the excellent linguist . Marr; the liquidation of genetics; the mistrust spread "anti-scientific about cyber- netics and the theory of rela- tivity; the discoveries made about feudal Russian history, etc.) Apparently continuing the work of these years, your re- view writes: 'Historians have at their dis- posal work of eminent leaders of the CPSU and the Soviet government ... Stalin' (num- ber 3, p. 71). • specific tendency lies be- hind all this: "To establish the limits of the cult of the in- dividual', to separate Stalin from his deeds. Responsibility for the mas- sive repressions then rests on those who carried them out : Yezhov, Beria, Abakumov. It is a seductive but notori- ously deceitful way to pose the problem. Our history has never known the Yezhov cult, but it known the Stalin cult. Yezhov's departure did • not the end of repression. mark Stalin bears the responsibility as instigator and organizer, for all the government crimes per- petrated during the quarter of a century he ruled the country.

In passing, your authors denigrate the historians who 'concentrate all (?) their atten- tion on mistakes and deficien- cies' (number 3, p. 70), and who 'instead of making a real the mistakes and critique of deficiencies linked to the cult of the individual with a Party spirit, blacken the heroic his- of our country' (ibid, p.

tory 73). It's not difficult to figure out what hides behind this call for a 'real critique'. The authors themselves define the limits of this 'critique'. "The Party's point of view is set out in the famous June 30, 1956 resolution of the of the Central: Committee CPSU: "On the liquidation of the cult of the individual and its consequences"' (ibid, p. 73). Of course, there is nothing said about the fact that after the 20th Congress there was a 22nd and a whole series of conferences and plenums which their documents and de- in cisions completed the resolu- tion of June 30, 1956. I remember that the voices of people who today are titular members or suppliants of the Politburo were raised at the Tribune and Congress at numerous plenums. All, with- out exception, judged Stalin and his creatures - Molotov, Kaganovitch, Malenkov-deva- statingly. I will give several examples that prove my point. N. V. Podgorny: 'Partici- pants in the meetings and assemblies consider it inadmis- sible that the body of Stalin, whose name is linked to all the enormous harm done to and our Party, our country Soviet citizens, should rest by the side of guide and our great master, Lenin, the sym- bol of all socialist victories' (CPSU 22nd Congress; steno- graphic account, t.3 p. 116).

A. N. Shelepin: 'A whole series of cynical notes on letters and statements written by Stalin, Kaganovitch, Molo- tov, Malenkov and Voroshilov are evidence of a cruel attitude towards these people, towards leading comrades under in- vestigation' (Idem, t.2 p. 403).

P. N. Demishev : 'With broken hearts the Muscovites helped in the annihilation of the Leningrad militants ordered and Malenkov. A by Stalin number of leading cadres in the Party, in the economy and in the Soviets belonging to the organizations also Moscow innocent' perished, however (Idem, t.3, p. 116). M. A. Suslov: 'Molotov and Stalin even gave their approval to the severest punishments of the militants' wives who ap- peared on "List Number 4 of Wives of Enemies of The People". This list included V. A. Dybenko-Sidiakina, E. S Kossior, A. I. Tchoubar, E. E.

Eikhe-Rubtsova and others ...

During the period of the cult of Stalin's personality the usual method of dealing with mili- tants whom Stalin suspected of sharing not his ideas, was physical liquidation .. "The Chinese leaders spoke and wrote about the massive the epoch repressions during of the cult of the individual as if they were merely unimport- ant exaggerations... They de- Stalin's fended errors and the CC deviations' (Report to Plenum, February 14, 1964. In 'Pravda', April 31, 1964).

All that remains to be said is that sadly enough the Chinese leaders have found fellow travellers in the columns of 'Kommunist'. Even the questions on Boltin's article touches on Boltin who writes that 'Taking into consideration the com- plexity and all the contradic- tions of his character, Stalin was an eminent commander'— even on these questions this whisper can hardly be heard.

'One of the reasons that the Red Army had to fight under unbelievably difficult condi- tions Stalin's under- was estimation of the real threat of war' ('The Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War', Moscow 1961, p. 46). The armies on the South- West front were placed in a particularly perilous position and were finally encircled in September, 1941 in the Kiev region. ensuing situation The re- quired the immediate shifting of troops from the front to- wards the East in order to save the men and the equip- same troops could ment. These then have launched the coun- ter-offensive. But despite numerous pro- posals personally addressed to Stalin by the command of the South-West axis and the front, he categorically forbade the withdrawal of the front-line troops. With that order Stalin signed the death warrant of the soldiers South-West of the front (see J. K. Bagramian, 'A Year of Struggle On The Dnieper', Political Literature Moscow, 1965, Publications, pp. 143-151). From May 17 to May 23, 1942, Stalin rejected proposals from the South-West front to stop the offensive on Kharkov three times. This refusal res- sulted in the complete encircle- ment of the South-West front and the offensive ended in a total retreat by our troops who suffered heavy losses of men and equipment (see "The Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War', abridged, p. 162). It is not a question of dis- cussing whether Stalin worked out military operations on a world globe or on a map. Any government official can of course make mistakes. We have criticized Stalin, not for his inability to govern, but for his pathological in- humanity and criminal violation of social rules and the coun- try's laws. Tens of thousands of pages could be written about Stalin's crimes. But our aim is a more modest one. Using the RSFSR Penal Code published in Mos- cow in 1966 (the most moder- ate one in our whole history), we will try to show that your review defended criminal who deserved to be condemned The 'military chiefs who had led the Interna Spain (above) were shot without trial when t to the Soviet Union in 1941.

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Left to right Tupolev, aircraft engineer, impr leader, shot; Goryanov, Red Army leader, st Force, shot. death four times and to to serve 68 years in prison under very strict conditions for his crimes if he had only com- mitted them each one time.

But as Stalin was always repeating his crimes, the pun- ishment should be multiplied led the International Brigades in out trial when they returned

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it engineer, imprisoned; Gromov, Red Army leader, s Army leader, shot; Khalatov, Red Army leader, shot several hundred or thousand times. The resolution of the 20th Congress of the CPSU declared: '7. It is considered inopportune the tomb containing that Stalin's shroud remains in the mausoleum Stalin was as guilty of serious violations of Lenin's precepts. His abuse of power, the massive repressions against the honest Soviet citi- zens and other acts committed during the period of the cult of the individual [my emphasis] make it impossible to leave the shroud containing his body in V. I. Lenin's mausoleum' (22nd Congress of the CPSU, steno- graphic account, Moscow, t.3, p. 122). This resolution was voted on unanimously by the Con- gress. It was proposed by the Moscow and Leningrad dele- delegations from gation and the Ukrainian and Georgian communist parties who them- selves represented the experi- the workers in their ence of cities and republics. No one has repealed this decision. The Soviet Penal Code con- tains articles that punish the actions mentioned in the reso- lution of the 22nd Congress of the CPSU. 1 Abuse of power: in a broad sense (article 170, im- prisonment for up eight to years), as well as in the sense exceeding authority or power (article 171, imprison- ment for up to ten years). 2 During the mass purges people were illegally de- prived of their liberty, which is punishable, according to articles 126 and 17, by im- prisonment for up to three years (article 17 of the RSFSR Penal Code, 'Collaboration').

In • this article it says: Rem I Army leader, shot; Unschlicht, Red Army leader, sho rmy leader, shot; Uritsky, Head of Intelligence, shot; 'Collaborators in crime are treated as perpetrators, organ- izers, instigators and those who promote the offence'.

As in this case it is not known, as in a number of other cases, which crimes were carried cut by Stalin himself, we refer to article 17 of the Penal Code of the RSFSR be- cause Stalin's role as organizer is obvious. In the documents of the 22nd Congress of the CPSU it states: "The post-war repres- (1949-1950), sions like the repressions of the years 1935- 1937, were carried out either under Stalin's direct order, or with his knowledge and proval' (stenographic account, Moscow 1962, t.3, p. 114).

3 It is known that it was on Stalin's suggestion that the decision was taken in 1937 to use physical methods to in- fluence legal investigations.

This led to beatings, depri- vation of sleep for up to seven days and other torments which author of these lines the (arrested in 1937 at the age of 14 as a member of the family of an enemy of the people personally witnessed. These actions are punishable under articles 113 and 17 by im- prisonment for up to three years. 4 Many leaders ended their days by suicide, some out of revulsion at participation in the crimes being committed, as proven by letters written before their death: S. Ordz- honikidze; I. Kossier; F. Furer; of Pogrebinsky, head the NKVD of the Gorky district, founder of our correctional communes; Litvin, head of the Leningrad NKVD; Korezelski, head of one of the NKVD bureaux in the Ukraine; Norin, head of the NKVD special service in Georgia; and many others. A number of persecuted people took their own lives out of protest or fear of torture: Y. Gamarnik; Mr Tomsky; P Liubchenko and his wife; V Lominadze; Cherviakov; A. Rabichev; Adamovich; Lakoba; Firin; and many others. Some who could not bear the tortures committed suicide Gololed; I. in prison: N. Garkavy; Nosalevsky; Lapin; and many others. All this falls under article 107 (instigation suicide and entails im- to prisonment for up to five years. 5 The mass repressions were accompanied by slanders and insults in the press, on radio and at meetings and con- ferences directed at the victims, their friends and relatives. Actions of this kind fall under article 130 ('slander', imprison- ment for up to five years), and 131 ('insults', hard article labour lasting up to one year).

For not having denounced 6 and for protecting his accomplices (Yezhov, Yagoda, Beria, Ulrich, Vyshinksy and tens of thousands of others) Stalin for that must answer infraction of the law described in articles 88-1 and 88-2 and be imprisoned for from three to five years. 7 Many people, victims of the purges, were shot or just killed, or died of wounds received during the investiga- tions. Among them were Party members as eminent as Chubar, Kossior, Rudzutak, Postyschey, Eikhe, Voznensky, Kuznetsov and 110 of the 139 members of the CPSU Central Com- mittee elected at the 17th Party Congress, as well as hundreds of other honest men.

7a On Stalin's orders rep- resentatives of all the oppositions were arrested and in most cases liquidated. Many have not yet been rehabilitated although the accusations made against entirely them were fabricated. (None of the con- demned Zinoviev's and at Piatakov's trials have been re- habilitated; 17 of the 22 con- at Bukharin's trial demned have not been rehabilitated; and a whole group of people condmned without trial in the early 1930s have not been re- habilitated.) 7b Stalin did not shrink from annihilating foreign communists who had taken refuge in our country to escape the persecution of fascist, semi-fascist and monarchical dictatorships: the Germans H.

says: Remmele, Schubert, Heinz Army leader, shot; Eideman, Red Army elligence, shot; Alksnis, Head of Air Neumann, Werner Hirsch; the Hungarians Bela Kun, Mesan, Gidas, Gabor Farkas, and others; the Bulgarians Stamon- iakov, Tanev and others; the Poles Dombal, Lesczynsk1, Prochniak, and others; the Estonians K. Pegelman and others; the Iranians Sultan- Zade and others; the Yugo- slavs V. Copic, D. Serdic and others; the Swiss • F. Platten (who had covered V. I. Lenin with his own body during the first attempt against Lenin's life) and others. 7c With Stalin's knowledge many leaders of our Intelligence Service were killed: Berzin, Trelisser, Artuzov, Boky, Uritsky, Borovich, Spiegelglass, Xeno fonto v.

Latsis, Kedrov, and Peters, others. This seriously weak- our intelligence in the ened pre-war period. Since we have no documen- tary material concerning the crimes personally carried out by Stalin, we are forced to him indirectly under accuse article 17 and more specifically under article 102-17 ('pre- meditated murder with aggra- vating, circumstances', punish- able by up to 15 years in prison or death and article 66-17 ('terrorist act', 'murder individual, member of of an the government or other pub- lic official • with the aim of

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.Weatherman 12.00 noon 12.05 Zokkol 12.45 Grandstand: foot- 12.25 ball preview, racing, table tennis, • results service. 5.15 rugby union Star Trek.. 6.05 News and Weatherman.

6.15 Simon Dee. "The 6.45 High Adventure: Adventures Of Robin Hood' with Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Alan Hale, Eugene Pallette, and Olivia de Havilland. 8.25 Dixon of Dock Green. The Morecambe and Wise 9.10 Show.

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3.00-4.30 p.m. Road To , Bali' with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Comedy. 7.00 News, Sport and Weather.

7.15 Gardeners' World. 7.30 Rugby Special: England v.

South Africa. 8.20 Chronicle: The treasures from the Sacred Well at Chichén Itzá. 9.10 The Ice Show.

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10.40 a.m. RAC Road Report. 10.45 Saturday Session: Families Talking. 11.35 The English Sick- ness-Fact or fiction? 12.25 p.m.

Captain Scarlet. 12.55 News. 1.00 World Of Sport 1.05 On The Ball. 1.20 Racing. 3.10 Inter- national Sports Special: Winter from Croft. Rallycross sports. 4.00 Wrestling. 5.00 Results Service. 5.15 Bonanza. 6.00 News. 6.15 Parkin's Patch. 6.45 The Saturday Crowd. 7.30 Never A Cross Word. 8.05 'Captain Horatio Horn-

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London. 5.15 CHANNEL: 12.55 p.m. Tarzan. 6.10 News. 6.15 Wheel Of Fortune. 6.45 London. 8.05 The Satur- day "Words And Music'. 10.00 Film: London. 11.10 Omri's Burning. 12.05 a.m. Weather.

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12.25 All Our p.m. 5.15 Tarzan. Yesterdays. 12.55 London.

6.10 News. 6.15 Wheel Of Fortune. 6.45 London. 8.05 The Saturday Film: 'Words And Music' with Tune Allyson 10.00 London. 11.10 and Perry Como. Omri's Burning. 12.10 a.m. Faith For Life 12.16 Weather.

ANGLIA:

12.55 London. 5.15 p.m. followed Tarzan by Weather. 6.10 News. 6.15 Wheel Of Fortune. 6.45 London. 8.05 'Sunset Boulevard' with William Holden and Gloria Swanson.

10.00 London. 11.10 Man In A Suit- 121am. Reflection. case.. HARLECH: 12 noon Survival.

12.30 P:S Halt-Time Round-Up. 4.00 London.

Tinker and Taylor. 12.55 London. 5.15 Tarzan. 6.10 News. 6.15 Wheel Of Fortune. 6.45 London. ° 05 Saturday "The Bad And The Beautiful Cinema: with Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner. The son of a film magnate is deter- mined to rebuild the family fortune. 10.00 London. 11.10 The Human Jungle.

12.10 a.m. Weather. Harlech (Wales): 6.45-7.30 p.m. Hyd A Lled.

ATV MIDLANDS: 11.35 a.m. London.

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"The 8.05 The Saturday Feature Film: Beauty Jungle' with Tan Hendry and Scott. Ronald Fraser Janette Edmund Powder Forecast. 10.00 London. 11.10 5.05 ULSTER: 12.55 D.m. London.

Ulster Sports 5.15 Land Of Results. The Giants. 6.10 News. 6.15 Wheel Of Fortune. 6.45 London. 8.00 'Carrie' Saturday, December 20, 1969 undermining weakening or Soviet power', punishable by imprisonment for up to l5 years or death. Stalin was head of state when, during and after the Great Patriotic War, various peoples our country (Crimean Tartars, Kalmucks, Chechens, _Ingush, Balkars, Koreans, Greeks, Turks, Ger- mans and others) were victims of forced and illegal deport- ations from their homelands.

These crimes fall under article 74 ('violations of the equality of nations and races', punishable by up to five years' imprisonment). 9 In connection with the mass purges, most of the leading scientists and tech- nicians in all branches of our industry and agriculture were killed or imprisoned. This had a considerable effect on our country's economy. In 1938, for example, 10 per cent less iron was extracted than in 1937, although the plan had anticipated increased ex- traction. The rapid turnover of personnel impeded production.

In 1940, for example, out of 153 foremen in the metal in- dustry, 75 had held this posi- tion for less than one year.

('Historical Questions of the CPSU', 1964, number 2, pp.

73-74.) The greatest engineers and inventors in the field of mili- science were physically tary liquidated. These included: G. Langi- mak, inventor the gun known as' Katyusha'; Kurchev- sky, inventor of the recoilless gun; V. Bekauri, originator of the system of remote-controlled explosions; V. Zaslavsky, tank engineer; Smirnov, head radar research; I. Kleimenov, head of the Scientific Institute for Research on Jet Engines; M. Leitenzon, founder of the interplanetary travel associa- tion under the auspices of the Zhukovsky Academy, etc.

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Brewster. 11.10 Gideon's Way. 12.05 a.m. Late Call. GRAMPIAN: 12.12 p.m. Arthur. 12.35 Vintage Comics: 'The Policeman'. 12.55 London. 3.55 Half-Time Round-Up. 4.00 London. 5.15 Cowboy In Africa. 6.15 Wheel Of Fortune. Highland League Results. 6.45 London. Feature: "The Pumpkin 8.00 Main Eater' with Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch. 10.00 London. 11.10 Adam 12.

Saturday, December 20, 1969 imprisoned Among those Tupolev, S. were: A. Korolev, A. Berg, V. Cluchko, B. Vanni- kov (People's Commissar for Weapons), to mention only a few. Brilliant No navil. were annihilated: Vavilov, Dogadkin, Tulai- Krichevsky, kov, Gerasimovich, Folag.

These actions defined are under article 69 (sabotage', 'action or inaction tending to undermine industry, transport, agriculture...') and are pun- ishable by up to 15 years' im- prisonment. 10 Tombs were desecrated Tukhachevsky: Red Army leader (punisnable under article liquidated by Stalin. His wife three years' im- 229 by up to was then persecuted. prisonment). The urn contain- ing S. S. Kamenev's ashes was taken out of the Kremlin wall; formations were dismembered; Y. Gamar- the urn containing kinds of automatic certain M. nik's ashes was stolen; indispensible to the weapons Tomsky's tomb was destroyed; army were never put into pro- Yakir's the monument on duction; and there were many tomb was knocked over, etc.

other things. Millions of people died in As is known from the 11 Great the first period of the confidential letter the to Patriotic War as a result of of the Central Committee a whole series of crimes com- CPSU at the 20th Congress, as mitted by Stalin. Tchakovsky's re- well as from cently-published Stalin novel, war was declared. hid the day 13 In addition to the above, For several hours none of the medieval atrocities were government leaders could find committed in our country- -not The commander-in-chief. the unknown to Stalin but on his defined episode in cuesuon is orders - which don't fall by article 247 ('desertion') and directly under the Penal Code is punishable by death in war- of the RSFSR, but are crimes time. against humanity. During the investigations the beatings and other methods drove the lose arrested to their reason and sane people were locked up in psychiatric 1939 a long line of 12 In hospitals. heavy and well equipped was built (called fortifications the 'Ury'). 14 Wives of slain militants After incorporation of were arrested and often the Baltic Republics, shot: (the wives of Tukhachey- Western the Western sky, Uborevich, Postyshev, Belorussia, the Kossior, ( Gamarnik, Bessarabia and Eikhe, Ukraine, Kork, Chelekhes, Northern Bukovina, the Soviet Chubar, Dybenko, Vareikis, Agranov, border was moved some 100 to and others). Going to the point 600 kilometers. of madness Stalin arrested the It was decided to fortify this of wives his companions new frontier. Molotov, Kalinin, Poskreby- But without waiting for the shev. construction of the new 'Ury, and in spite of the protest by of the general staff, the chief General B. Chapochnikov, the 'Ury' fortifications were old dismantled. Thus the fascist invaders were allowed to move unhin- dered on to our territory.

This be criminal seems to us to bordering negligence on treason. As for the annihilation of 80 per cent of the high-ranking officers commanding and officers which decapitated the that is open treason army Tomsky: Committed suicide (article 64, death). during the purges. Stalin then Moreover the spring of imprisoned his children in the in camps. 1941 the military chiefs who Spain led the war in were arrested and then in October Smuchke- shot without trial: 15 Young children of the times Hero of the vich, two victims were Soviet Union, to whom arrested and kept in camps and erected in his monument was including those prisons of February of 26 Lyub- of the this year; the Heroes chenko, Union Soviet P. Richagov, Garkavy, Bauman, Kadatsky, Stern, Chernykh, Ptukhin, Tomsky, Sosnovsky, and Pumpur, Gussev, Proskurov, Popov. Postyschev's eldest son Arzhenukin and others. Valentin, as well as the sons of Lakoba, partisan bases Evdokimov and The on our was territory were liquidated; tank shot. Heinz Neumann, Stalin's representative in China, was handed over to the Nazis during the Stalin-Hitler Pact.

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and 10.20 Rowan Martin's 7.00 D.Weather. News Review and Laugh-In. 7.25 The World About Us: The 11.10 A Year In The Life. Fo Last of the Lapps. he Making of Mrs. Mark Christmas 8.15 Bach's Ora- ham. The progress of parts 1, 2. 3. torio: farce from start to finish.

Night: previews and 9.50 Film 11.55 News. reviews. 16 In some camps hundreds of prisoners were shot without trial or (the Garaninchtchina camp on Kolyma). Almost all the Men- 17 sheviks, anarchists, bun- dists, Borotbists, SR members and Left SR members who, for the most part, had left political life, were physically annihilated in the 1930s and early 1940s.

18 The author of these lines, having spent part of his time in the North Ural camp of the MGB (1941-1942), is a witness to the fact that most of the political prisoners voluntered for the front and in answer to their request the authorities condemned them to die of hunger, which, aside from the other questions in- volved, weakened our front.

19 On Stalin's orders our government refused to participate in the International Red Cross organization's aid for prisoners of war. Under our military statutes captivity is equivalent to treason.

Prisoners were deprived of material help and control over their conditions which con- tributed to the loss of many good men (most of them were wounded, unconscious and un- armed when taken prisoner).

OUR AIM is not to formulate all the accusations against Stalin which he deserves. But the small fraction of his crimes set out in this declaration already constitutes a substan- tial body of crime under articles 64, 68-17, 69, 74, 88-1, 88-2, 102-17, 107, 113-17, 126- 17, 230, 247 of the Penal Code of the RSFSR. If we examine article 38 of the penal code ('extenuating circumstances') we find no reason to lighten the sentence in Stalin's case. On the basis of article 39 of the Penal Code ('circumstances aggravating responsibility'): '1. Crimes committed by a person who has already com- mitted another crime... '4. Crime with serious con- sequences '5. Crime committed against a minor, an old person or a defenceless person '7. Crime committed with particular cruelty and humilia- tion to the victim', we do not doubt the necessity of using article 39 of the Penal Code against the accused J. V.

Stalin. It is equally necessary to use article 36 Stalin against ('deprivation of military and other ranks, as well as decora- tions, medals and honorary titles'), because this measure provides for punishment serious crimes. On what basis are the authors previously mentioned and the editorial board of 'Kommunist' rehabilitating the greatest criminal our country has known in its recent history? I challenge the authors of the articles in question to refute the facts I have set out above; to refute them in the admissible way in only a society of good men—to pub- lish my statement and answer it. If this is not done, I can only conclude that the authors agree with the facts exposed here and with the conclusions that follow from these facts.

This means that, without waiting for an answer to this statement, I consider it my invite my colleagues right to participating in this discussion to request collectively that the Procuracy of the USSR begin criminal investigation of a Stalin (Dzhugashvili), J. V., who stands accused of the aforementioned crimes. I am convinced that a post- humous conviction is possible and legal, just as posthumous rehabilitations are possible and legal.

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Its precise role in the eco- Question One: nomic is debatable, structure but there is no doubt that to OVER THE past few months, unhook the productive forces the Vietnam war has mili- in America from the manufac- tarily intensified. The Paris ture of weapons and ammuni- talks have virtually broken tions of war being consumed down and and more more Vietnam in the to Struggle, revelations of the appalling unhook huge segments of the atrocities committed by the economy, is a rather complex American forces armed are What is the economic problem. coming to light. significance of these develop- ments ? Its complexities are, perhaps, less important than the pres- Answer: sures of the people who have a sort of moral self-righteous- ness about the American role

I THINK

that as far the as in the world, which is really a revelation of atrocities is con- rationalization of their per- cerned, this is probably sonal profit interests and the traumatic and bewildering by now discredited 'American to the American public. But what of is interesting is that a lot These pressures on the White the people appalled by them be strong have not House and must the war compelling weak Presi- on monstrous atrocity, which it is.

which I think Nixon is. dent, Individual instances of "Pinkville", atrocities like If one can talk about the of this would say, have as much to do significance develop- of with inability the that the ment, one can only say the Nixon government and the Americans to communicate with the Vietnamese whole and as any- state apparatus thing else and also the military complex is gradually com- plicity of the middle command face face with Coming forces with situation in which not only the world opinion, but internal US brutalization of their own men.

opinion. is increasingly acti- They know that their men vated against the continuation brutalized and they are are of the war. trying to protect them. They going to have to This is a very difficult prob- find a way out and this is what lem. What the atrocities have Nixon's dilemma is when he done is confront Nixon with the most unwelcome drama- taiks about American troops being fully withdrawn within tization before the entire world of the fact that not only is the two years. war an atrocity, but that it has It might be reassuring effect of ran- the predictable some people, but to others it domized brutality with the means a protraction of what's complicity of the commanding been happening, all the horrors, strikes officers, which at the for another two years. Americans' very heart of the of their rather deluded sense I notice that the whole ques- liberalism and humanity. own tion of the domino theory, which was prevalent in Ameri- The Americans are taking a can military and political long, painful trip on the pro- argument in the early part of of discovering they are war, seems to have virtu- the not what they think they are ally disappeared. and what they do is not what they seem to do. You don't hear the Ameri- talking I think that the more centred cans any more about the South-East Asian countries the or reactionary people in going down one after another.

ruling groups in America confronted by and vast They confine themselves to affluent middle class which is and the ideas of freedom now appalled and bewildered viability of South Vietnam as at a purely humanitarian level.

American-aligned country, an which is what they really want, To have their boys out there ignoring this contradiction in fighting a war was one thing, terms, because there is no such but for them to be seen to country as South Vietnam.

be committing indiscriminate murder of men, women and But I think the realities of children is another thing.

will force the the situation The Paris talks have, in fact, the American ruling circles, virtually broken down and the government, into eventually intensified. This is war has evacuating, but how and how because North Vietnam must long they will take to get go on reiterating in Paris and I can't there is something Vietnam proving in that the answer. Americans simply cannot win.

And the Americans have to Question Two: find a way of conceding their failure and losing as little face IN BRITAIN many workers as possible in the process.

of the middle and sections which the The extent to class are feeling the brunt of American military economy is the increase cost in the Vietnam living as a result of the anti- related the war, to as everybody knows, is billions policies of the inflationary of dollars. Labour government.

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Pursuers. 2.55 London. Screen On Sunday theect accomplice of Nixon 9 Answer: THE SECTION that says "The part of the truth. The anti-inflationary policies are dictated from the outside, rom the central banks and from the United States. But it would be wrong to say that anti-inflationary the policies are only to pay back loans to the United States. They exist as part of the ram- shackle economic theory ad- hered to by the central banks and Wilson that you have to balance internal your own accounts in each country and yet maintain as much employ- ment as possible. People should realize that this is a contradiction in terms; that to balance internal accounts and apply policies leading to anti-inflation, is not just related to paying back interest payments, but also to being dominated by an eco- nomic theory based on capital- ist assum tians and pseudo- Keynesian concepts - dubious ones, to say the least. These payments do assist the military budget for Viet- nam. I am sure that any in- flow of hard money into the United States obviously con- tributes to the military budget to Vietnam, since it is financed out of the Federal Treasury.

At the same time whilst that is bad enough, that's a con- crete instance of the labour of our working people, the profit our working of the labour of people being used by an im- perialist country against the workers and peasants of an- other country. But as far as I can see, the Wilson government, as opposed to the Labour Party, is, in any indirectly directly or case, collaborating with American action in Vietnam. The fact that they will not officially dissociate this coun- try from the war should be in the context of a seen general kind of delicacy and sensitivity to the US govern- its roots in ment, having economics and in the rather confused tradition arising years ago out of the 'special relation- ship', which is, of course, a joke by now. It is special only in the sense that it is a relationship of ser- vant to master, I would say, in many respects. It is not special in terms of being consultative. 5.30 The Owl Service. 6.00 London.

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So I think the British gov- ernment are direct accomplices of Nixon, through international conomic policies, and accom blices right across the spectrur of political and economic by the necessity, as seen Labour government. Question Three: IN OUR opinion Nixon and simultaneously Wilson are attacking workers in Britain, the US and Vietnam. • We have proposed a national campaign to stop Wilson go- ing to Washington at the end of January. The purpose of this campaign is to mobi- lize support in the factories by showing in practice the common front of struggle between workers in Britain and Vietnam. Previous campaigns have confined themselves to liberal protest about the horrors of the war. Our cam- paign is to mobilize the working class into action against the direct complicity of the Labour government in the war itself. Would you comment on this? Answer: I AGREE with the point about the simultaneous attack on . and US and. Vietnam British, workers. A national campaign to stop Wilson going to Washington at the end of January can only have a really useful meaning if it is seen to be seen that this kind of pressure is being exerted not only by horrified leftish and liberal intellectuals, but by working people in the factories and pits, or wherever, demonstrating by their oppo- to this visit that they sition recognize the connection be- England's relationship tween with America and the Ameri- can perpetration of the war in Vietnam. I think there is no doubt, as Senator Muskie said, that the views of the British govern- ment would be very helpful to those in America trying to have a 'balanced' view towards the war, to those who want to continue the war. Wilson going to America and not declaring our opposition towards the war can only ob- jectively be a kind of reinforce- to those in power in ment America who do not wish to end the war and have a vested interest in its continuation.

No-one will stop him going.

But I think that it must be shown this is not just another protest, however humane, how- ever publicised, however well organized, but that it is an actual manifestation of the awareness by the trade unions and men and women in the factories that what the visit symbolizes is complicity with and a denial of the interests of the workers in America, Viet- nam and England.

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Question Four: THE Workers Press has writ- ten to Members of Parlia- ment, trade union leaders and prominent public figures in the labour movement asking their support for this cam- paign. Our aim is to build up every possible opposition to the policies of the govern.

ment as crudely typified by Mr Brown MP. Are there ny other means which you hink we should use strengthen our campaign? Answer: I CAN add little more than I said in answer to question three. I presume the campaign also entails an approach to all forms of opposition, whether inside or outside parliament, inside or outside the Labour Party. In question four you have a policy for organizing a campaign which contains every Idea which one could think of.

Some specific attention has to be paid to Mr Brown. He has got to be pilloried un- remittingly for the kind of statement he made about the massacres. He sounded like an old-style Ald-stican general not even old-style, but American general at any period really. Question Five: IN NOVEMBER 1968, you spoke on the platform in the campaign for the daily paper.

What do you think of the Workers Press now? Answer: IN MY opinion, the Workers Press is clearly developing along the lines which were roughly set out during the big meeting which I spoke at.

Obviously there have been teething problems of a tech- nical and organizational kind.

But I don't think these have shown up in the actual quality and production of the paper.

I think that the paper so far has begun to do what it set out to do and do what the people who promoted the paper said it would do. I think that policy is being implemented expanded and and I hope this can continue.

I think • that perhaps also Workers Press should begin to include and report and analyse the contradictions beginning to appear now in the relation- ships between the various pro- fessions and their employers - and institutions, particularly the teachers, the medical pro- fession and the communications media. The struggle, of course, is basically an industrial struggle and workers' struggle, but I think also though that there is olenty of room for developing the inclusion of the struggles of professional people, as workers. I mean, when teachers are strike, when doctors and on nurses are calling into question the whole structure of their economic relationships to the National Health Service and the community, when people in television are beginning to display anxiety about the dom- ination of content from above and the dictation of the form of various aspects of the medium from above, when this is beginning to happen, then this is something the Workers Press has to take a serious in- terest in on the basis that we are all workers, and I think one need not have any clichés about that. But now is the time when several professions are being forced into action indis- tinguishable from the industrial proletariat. And now is the time for inviting the possibility of their as intellectuals, participation medical and communications workers into the arena of debate and discussion and certainly into relationship and analysis of relationship be- tween their problems and those of the industrial workers.

I hope the Workers Press will develop this side of its progress very seriously.

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lobby of MPs at the House A reactionary last behalynter's Mondav's be of Commons with a visit " CIR must Hugnes, Atkinson and Urme Panama's military dictator been in this light. Brigadier General to london's docks. night's incomes TWIN THREATS—union discipline and legal rrijos has anno unced that alliance At strikers intro- action—now face power station workers who palo way est fight for lower- government in plan to strike for seven days early next year.

vueen s Awara 1or Inausuy wise, duet vir dunlimited: how ycal KING FAISAL of Saudi Arabia and President Nasser baazes Theorie coope cold Mr les cannon. nrest By a Workere Press reporter to keep exploitea cheap iabour Dv -urrutia- dent of the Electrical resumed their talks in Cairo yesterday on the eve of and union leaders. strike committee chairman supported by *ulllermo Lol the Arab Summit' conference in Morocco.

Favour MDW Dave Ferguson-to demon- Pum bing Umor •He calms tne conse OK secretal and chairman of the elec- strate their disgust with quences of unoricia action There is a basic conflict of Minister, those wages and conditions at the would be tragic for supply be restived in whe st tricity Moscow Stalinists involved, the unions three plants. joint industrial council, has build ar the country. Pledges of support for their against Israeli aggressiompaign tionary leadership in the trade instructed as union's men what he Mr KODert bers Harvesters workers must re- To isnore man This meeting dealing Arab nationactionary we de sold pose * theitten describes as a Communist- Thursda Nasser ost re m) and Roy Hughes play the game backed attack on product- Soccer apparently ivity bargaining phe sis ke goes ahead. fans jailed available' CASERTA faida here today IN ITS BID to secure Moscow as the venue for the 1976 Olympic Games,

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