Workers Press no. 63

A smokescreen for class compromise

CLOSER TO WASHINGTON

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

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 63

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1969

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

SEASON'S

Xmas Arrangements

GREETINGS

MOSCOW DRAWS

INSTITUTION

THE SOVIET Communist Party's end-of-the-year More statement on world policy only thinly disguises its

Y.S. LOOKS TOWARDS 1970

BY ROBERT BLACK

strategy of collaboration with imperialism.

Cant-

WITH CONFIDENCE

No-one should be taken (erbury) What in by the militant-sounding ent Imperialis. phrases of this document, tales Kremlin scribes can muster.

obligatory in a statement allegedly celebrating 1970 phase a ted en think as the Lenin centenary.

BY JOHN SPENCER

together he Kreman bureaucracy

CHRISTMAS - TIME

*re work nary Just has a ways concealed here again-bringing the working- moves towards compromise or a deal with imperialism

LEON TROTSK

usual outpouring of Flee behind behind per did espasa da Street bilge. And who another better to open the flood dr the st comaton of ta ra in gates than the News of "mator statemen the World', protest? year round * Russian specialists in the crudest hypocrisy. Following the success of the • Yurther exposes pae ro tow bureaucratic se great legs v. breasts de Date in the columns of inter- etional Stalinis the new sun. its Sundar The Vietnam estab- sister calls in an burne cracy. practitioner fisher- Thomas Carlyle what and West called the art whereby more openly the countert their bapesso re-he 2 the But this is not an automatic Deliberate icehe summit of four million readers. their Somerithin with the left ( alliance elements was or deals a resent i April, 19als in Vienna working class off from

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Young Socialists seenast ties end's ralli prog More docks 1s adi the West

JOINT GAS

German government of Willy the 1970 WILL be the 'Year of Lenin and Trotsky' redundancies

AND POWER

any for the Young Socialists-a year in which item Fraud number one on the agenda is the building of a

ACTION?

Tement is theretore at othe on the way mass revolutionary youth movement.

once negotiations Wit re Continued By a Workers Press industry may take further n The Young Socialists have pledged themselves to poli correspondent the same day a the expect 3 power- DOCK employers are expected to ask the tically commemorate goverr birth sid c0 years since the the government next month for another big loan to Salinic is deep and finance the voluntary severance scheme in the ery struggle of the inte y. November 21, oral co oran Unable-for fear of pro- By an Industrial correspondent voking an and with recruitment open conront" embarked upon by this with press cover better new are ou alon une dockers with highes picate dargets ang • handlin acon leaders to repe to use the alrect metnods theye offer of OI sackines to cut down the 10 600 labour torce in preparation for the implementation manut Rallies mean ast Sunda made pantary London t° large severance answer rom the *51,700 My PAGE FOUR the his treacherous policy. "Locare to induce 1700 lian internationa to leave their jobs. Petition grows and grows to Sane and Sociate ratic parties stop Wilson's Washington ations of ready se ments is to a m AND STILL they visit Below are listed the lates To the right to une workers Press petition against W1- son's nanned visit to Nixon next year, which can onl our remark racy set the best posed oring i

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A smokescreen for class compromise

CLOSER TO WASHINGTON.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 63

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1969

SEASON'S

GREETINGS

• Workers Press editorial all ou contributors.

MAR 17

THE SOVIET Communist Party's end-of-the-year statement on world policy only thinly disguises its

BY ROBERT BLACK

strategy of collaboration with imperialism.

No-one should be taken in by the militant-sounding What fbider at imperist bravado i than all th phrases of this document, obligatory in a statement поши велись в musuc allegedly celebrating 1970 think as the Lenin centenary. The Kremlin bureaucracy has the working always conccaicu

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Young Socialists seen sting end's hal programme at one of

JOINT GAS

1970 WILL be the 'Year of Lenin and Trotsky' for the Young Socialists-a year in which item Fraud number one on the agenda is the building of a

ACTION?

mass revolutionary youth movement.

'The The Young Socialists have By a Workers Press pledged themselves to poli- correspond eul DOCK employers 100 are expected to ask the ucally сошшешогасс : off to a government next month for another big loan to years stace the Stalinism in deep and and 30 vears since the arranches 000 venın growing finance the voluntary severance scheme in the death of lrotsky with national response industry. programme of expansion for double- more than Unable- -for fear of pro- By an Industrial correspondent heir youth paper Keep Left I sarcus are and the e voking fore embarked upon by this •with higher 20 mid direct methods streets utput targets sackings to cut down the p 60,000 torce preparaton the implementauon Rallies Devin rnase iwo ine em - mpaign no make part ary We fiction same see page four advertisement) plovers nave nad to hand "Their tear enin's revo- out large severance

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CHRISTMAS - TIME

is here again-bringing the usual outpouring of Fleet Street bilge. And who better to open the flood- gates than the 'News of

TRANSPORT

STRIKE

the World', year-round WARNING: London Trans- specialists in the crudest Sir Maurice ort chairman Holmes yesterday told bus hypocrisy. and underground workers that New Year's their threatened Following the success of the Day strike could only achieve great 'legs v. breasts' de- the opposite of what was in- bate in the columns of tended. blame the new "Sun', its Sunday In an attempt to transport workers for fare in- sister calls in an estab- he said a strike "will creases, lishes practitioner cause a further Tedaction in what Thomas Carlyle passengers using the services, called the art 'whereby a eading to further cuts in ser- vices and a worsening of the man speaks openly what financial position the he does not mean' to London Transport executive, bring Christmas cheer to which will tend to bring the next increase in fares nearer'.

the 'News of the World's' four million readers. This paper really believes in getting its copy straight F-I11'S GROUNDED: The US from the horse's mouth. air force yesterday grounded Only a few it F-lil's, the controver- weeks ago, all its shocked the Fleet Street sial swing-wing jet bomber, establishment it following when let the crash of an Christine Keeler loose on F-111 Nevada - the 16th 1n the Tory skeletons in the F-111 crash January since high society cupboard. 1967. Now it's the turn of Britain's The US government had home-grown high priest, the hoped that the F-11l's, which Archbishop of Cant(erbury) are equipped to fly bombing himself. missions low at very level, Not that the Archbishop is of the 'wonder would be one rattling any Tory skeletons.

weapons' bringing a US vic- The he has to tell is story tory in the Vietnam war. a good deal older and even In yesterday's crash an Miss more flyblown than F-111 nosedived the into Keeler's. ground while on a low-level But it's familiar old tale testing flight. and doesn't do the circula- tion figures any harm. No doubt the Archbishop's message came as a welcome

MRS MEIR ATTACKS US:

break from routine for the Israeli Prime Minister Mrs boys down at the 'NoW's' Street offices. Golda Meir has said Washing- Bouverie ton's support of her There country is nothing like a re- has been eroded to the point freshing tainhead of idealist claptrap into the foun- of dangerous appeasement of the Arab states. for those who face the ar- In 'New Times' duous task of putting it interview she said, don't Sundav. across every is Washington's in- think it Sandwiched between the man tention, but each new proposal who 'killed to save his blue film business' encourages the Arabs to in- and the girl who was 'led to degrada- crease their military activity across the borders. tion' in golden Jaguar, 'Things are going good for the arch-shaman certainly picked a magnificent setting them. They just have to shoot for his message 'you're note Israeli leaders are becoming real heroes of our time'.

worried that He increasingly praises those *individual Washington may try to force Christians' who 'have al- them to give up territory ways risen above the squalor of their times'. conquered June 1967 in No for a settlement with doubt they have his return the Arab states. sympathy. It's not so easy to compete for readers with the pick of last week's squalor! But can't be denied that it

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the setting of the arch- lightning strike by Air France bishop's words gives them luggage handlers yesterday they would a piquancy forced the cancellation of at surely have lacked in his least 15 flights from Orly air- own parish magazine- quite port. from apart the wider called as The strike was readership. holiday air traffic built up to However the message is much a peak. the same as ever. The handlers are demanding 'Most of the great leaders of better working conditions,

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TOM KEMP LOOKS AT 40 YEARS OF COLLECTIVIZED AGRICULTUI

PAGE TWO

THE DECISION made by the Soviet Politburo in the autumn of 1929 to speed up the formation of collective farms proved to be a crucial turning point in Soviet history. The decision was made to deal with the growing prob- lem of food supplies which the launching of the First Five Year Plan could only make more acute. A principal advocate of the new turn was Stalin himself.

His 50th birthday, which fell in December, 1929, marked the real opening of the cult of adulation which was to sur- round him until the end of his life. It is no accident that the cult and the panic drive to 'catch up and outstrip' capital- ism began at the same time.

In a real sense the character collectivization took, which especially the de- and more cision to liquidate the kulaks as a class', was Stalin's handi- work. The story which is to be briefly told here, however, is an indictment of the whole bureaucratic regime and the one " 'socialism in theory of country' which it professed.

In the 1920s agriculture in the Soviet Union was still almost entirely carried on by peasants who farmed individual plots, still often using wooden ploughs and primitive tools.

As capitalism penetrated the villages in the latter part of the 19th century so a section of the peasants turned to farm- ing for the market, accumu- capital and employed lated hired labour. Peasants of this sort, often notorious also as usurpers and exploiters, generally were known as kulaks. At the other end of the social scale there were wage labourers and peasants with tiny plots of land which were insufficient to support them- selves and their families.

In between stood the most of middle numerous group peasants who employed mainly the labour of their own fami- lies and produced a modest surplus over their own needs.

After the peasantry as whole had given its support to the overthrow of landlordism in 1917, the divisions within it once again manifested them- selves in the 1920s. at this The bureaucracy stage, during the period of the New Economic Policy, encour- kulaks and the aged the who were stronger peasants source of grain pro- the main curement. The line of the right wing, of whom Bukharin was the main spokesman, was at this time endorsed by Stalin. However, the difficulties in maintaining food supplies led to increasing attention being paid in the late 1920s to the formation of collective farms on a voluntary basis. The Left Opposition strongly of the opposed concessions to the kulaks and advocated a programme designed to en- formation of the courage collective farms by the peasan- try and the provision for these farms of the technical means to improve the productivity of agriculture. When the massive onslaught private farming was on launched at the end of the 1920s, it represented a purely empirical turn which had not been thought out or prepared in advance. True its Bonapartist to character the Stalinist bureau- cracy, forced by the difficulties of the economy to launch into industrialization, now shifted from support for the kulak to seek a basis in the towns and the poorer layers of the in peasantry. This turn was made easier by the defeat of the Opposition against whom the support of the kulaks and other conserva- tive elements was necessary as the Stalin-Bukharin part of alliance. When Stalin decided to collectivization launch the drive no preparations had been made. Some 25,000 Party members hastily mobilized and were drafted into the villages, en- peasants to join couraging collectives, forcing them where necessary and singling out and expelling the kulaks and their families. At a conference of agrarian on December 27, specialists Stalin announced the 1929, "liquidate the to decision kulaks as a class'. Certainly kulaks had been resisting the social pressure for collectivization in the late 1920s and even perpetrated acts of terrorism against govern- ment officials. But their power to resist was steadily diminishing and class antagonism in the villages was certainly on the increase.

After Stalin's speech, how- ever, 'de-kulakization' began in earnest in a most chaotic and brutal manner. When kulaks got wind of impending collectivization they frequently slaughtered their livestock and were joined in reckless feasting and destruc- tion by other peasants. Indis- followed criminate reprisals and hundreds of thousands of

WORKERS' PRESS

deported to perish people areas, otten the same kulaks meted out other peasants. maai resulted inti gigantic campaign and stirred and hatred conditions of civil s,ar virtuare, inererore prevailed "de-kulakization" Siten of the collective farms. sections Anthouch some the peasantry took part in the the kulaks, main arving ame JoIce brigades •lle llc the oa officials and others joined pinder of kulak indiscriminate possessions tor their personal use the cam Ine way in walch gave the peasantry as i whole the impression that it thus collectives were the pos- onditions in Ti tafe in toze na boro ton ord onec ar to the hulks and resentment or hostility Mass suicides, crowding of masses of people into unheated aul uss those who had to carry it out people bureaucracy, and by Stali countryside rad a most died in as it was to the peasantry as a in a desperate vill probably never the agrarian had baer made vorse to solve Mecen! soviel accounts or orse suggest that some four wnicn It is now clear that collec- practised all through th tivization not, Stali mass movement tion onhe peased ry and macc.

antagonized a large con ihe support of the Ukraine; hundreds. based It was carried through with necessary substantial • sere tt peasantry. deported from the anos were out oroner political preparation Incroci imposed by and was as much a surprise to preter plots to the collective owner reDudics was 19Burino the first some ploughing stocks and kill off their ll imais before entering the collective laris. justification The rea collectivization was its ability to increase the surplus avail able to feed the towns as austanzauon g ncway Russia- this time, and for a afterwards, was unable to sup Pertilizers the ando rother machinery, o brum wa te lorcca in roduchon or colectvzaton that manv nensonis in tie Ukrime greeten ti Nazi invaders as liberators. This hope was soon shatteres force in agriculture.

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40 YEARS OF C

Collectivization event decided to 'liquidate ! The isolation of the Revo- lution in Russia and the policy of the bureaucracy have to be taken into account here. Had the Revolution been carried into the more advanced European countries, it would have been possible to mobilize an advanced industry to assist the development of Russian agriculture. Had the bureaucracy not been tied to the kulaks and the Nepmen at least some re- could have been sources accumulated and preparations made so that economically and politically the transition to collective farming could have been carried out more smoothly. industry As it was, was simply not able to provide the means for the rapid equipment of the collective farms. A recent work published in Moscow, in English translation, by A. Podkolzin, short economic history of the USSR', makes this clear. On the same page (p. 160) a table shows 2ł1,050 collective farms in 1932 and lower down 120,000 is given as the num- ber of tractors produced in the whole first Five Year Plan.

In other words, there was scarcely more than one tractor for every two collective farms available 1932, in even assuming that none of those built had worn out, broken down or were being used on the state farms or for other purposes. Through lack of tractors and machinery the result was often simply to collectivize the exist- ing backwardness, but now with dispirited peasants who had no interest in increasing output. The slaughter of livestock, not only by kulaks, but also by peasants who entered the collective farms, was a disaster from which the Soviet economy was to suffer for decades.

The number of cows alone fell by over one-third between 1932, from 1928 and 66.8 million. The million to 40.7 effect on other types of live- stock was similarly dramatic.

The best that could be done by Stalin's methods was to squeeze out a greater propor- tion from a smaller total product. Penury for the peasantry as well as for the urban popula- tion was the price which the masses paid for his blunders.

Indeed, within a few months to recognize the Stalin had dangers to himself and to the regime of the hornet's nest 1 Podkolzin, op. cit. p. 160.

25,000 Party members were hastily drafted through collectivization. Young Communist Five-Year Plan. Wednesday, December 24, 1969

OF COLLECTIVIZED AGRICUI

ctivization eventually began in December 1929 when Stalin ed to 'liquidate the kulaks as a class'.

The peasants were encouraged, or forced where necessary, to join the collectives. and the kulaks were singled out and expelled.

which had been stirred up in of course, in question. Planned and industrialization the countryside. growth he required the development of a By a clever maneouvre of the large-scale modern agriculture turned the wrath from himself peasants away using technical means which Party cadres in and on to the would make possible a con- a famous article entitled 'Dizzy tinuous increase in production with success' which appeared and productivity. in 'Pravda' on March 1930. This would take place either For a period thereafter the as part of a return to capital- process of collectivization was or through collectivization.

What is at issue, reversed, therefore, he reculmed at steadier rate in the next few is the manner in which collec- tivization took place. years. The need for collectivization It has to be remembered, in the workers' states is too, that after the Second not. • hastilv drafted into the villazes where Stalin eventually decided to force ( pt t deliver choral declamations about the

TOM KEMP LOOKS AT 40 YEARS OF COLLECTIVIZED AGRICULTURE IN THE SOVIET UNION

WORKERS' PRES

position (abore) opposed concessions to the kulaks and 1925 the formation of collective farms.

bureaucracy, and by Stalin in people arrival particular, in a desperate bid nown. to solve the agrarian problem which had been made worse collec- by the conciliation of the Stalin kulak practised all through the ement 1920s. if the It was carried through with- out proper political preparation • the and was as much a surprise to any peasants in the Ukraine greeted the

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WORKERS' PRESS

• LOOKS AT 40 y those who had to carry it out as it was to the peasantry as a whole. Far from making a contribu- tion to the agragrian problem, it jeopardized the whole econ- omy, antagonized a large sec- tion of the peasantry and made necessary substantial retreats, including the concession of private plots to the collective members. During the first quarter of 1930 two-thirds of some peasant households had been formed hastily into collectives in preparation for the coming ploughing. Meanwhile the whole coun- try was gripped by a chronic food shortage made still worse by the determination of many peasants to consume all their stocks and kill off their animals before entering the collective farms. The real justification for collectivization was its ability to increase the surplus avail- able to feed the towns as in- dustrialization got under way.

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40 YEARS OF C

Collectivization event decided to 'liquidate ! The isolation of the Revo- lution in Russia and the policy of the bureaucracy have to be taken into account here. Had the Revolution been carried into the more advanced European countries, it would have been possible to mobilize an advanced industry to assist the development of Russian agriculture. Had the bureaucracy not been tied to the kulaks and the Nepmen at least some re- could have been sources accumulated and preparations made so that economically and politically the transition to collective farming could have been carried out more smoothly. industry As it was, was simply not able to provide the means for the rapid equipment of the collective farms. A recent work published in Moscow, in English translation, by A. 'A short Podkolzin, economic history of the USSR', makes this clear. On the same page (p. 160) a table shows 211,050 collective farms in 1932 and lower down 120,000 is given as the num- ber of tractors produced in the whole first Five Year Plan.

In other words, there was scarcely more than one tractor for every two collective farms available in 1932, even assuming that none of those built had worn out, broken down or were being used on the state farms or for other purposes. Through lack of tractors and machinery the result was often simply to collectivize the exist- ing backwardness, but now peasants who with dispirited had no interest in increasing output. The slaughter of livestock, not only by kulaks, but also by peasants who entered the collective farms, was a disaster from which the Soviet economy was to suffer for decades.

The number of cows alone fell by over one-third between 1928 and 1932, from 66.8 million. The million to 40.7 effect on other types of live- stock was similarly dramatic.

The best that could be done by Stalin's methods was to squeeze out a greater propor- tion from a smaller total product. Penury for the peasantry as well as for the urban popula- tion was the price which the masses paid for his blunders.

Indeed, within a few months Stalin had to recognize the dangers to himself and to the regime of the hornet's nest 1 Podkolzin, op. cit. p. 160.

25,000 Party members were hastily drafted through collectivization. Young Communists Five-Year Plan. Wednesday, December 24, 1969

OF COLLECTIVIZED AGRICULTUF

ectivization eventualls began in December 1929 when Stali ded to 'liquidate the kulaks as a class' The nante were anarumged or foered where nececom to inim the collectives, and the kulaks were singled out and expelled.

which had been stirred up in of course, in question. Planned the countryside. and industrialization orOwin By he required the development of a clever maneouvre turned the wrath of the large-scale modern agriculture himself from technical which peasants manne and on to the Party cadres in would make possible a con- a famous article entitled 'Dizzy tinuous increase in production with success' which appeared and productivity. in 'Pravda' on March 2" 1930.

This would take place either For a period thereafter the as part of a return to capital- process of collectivization was ism or through collectivization.

therefore, reversed, to be What is at iccue resumed at a steadier rate in the next few is the manner in which collec- years. place. tivization took The need for collectivization remembered, he in the workers' that after the Second too, 1s not. e hastily drafted into the villages where Stalin eventually decided to force Wednesday, December 24, 1969

JLTURE IN THE SOV

During the period of the Stalin-Bukha!

rested on the kulaks. World War collectivization was carried through in the countries of eastern Europe by the same bureaucratic means.

Engels and Lenin always in- sisted that it was necessary to lead the small peasant towards collectivization. Trotsky and the Left Oppo- sition advocated similar methods throughout the 1920s.

Stalin's abrupt turn, despite 'correction', left his later Soviet agriculture with a dis- astrous legacy which for a long time, indeed until after his death, concealed was systematic concealment of the true state of affairs and falsifi- cation of the statistics of out- put. The retreats which had to be made in the 1930s and sub- sequent concessions made to the peasantry by the bureau- cracy whenever it has been in difficulties are further evidence that it has been unable to solve the agrarian question. The retreats in eastern Europe have still been more substantial and the whole con- ception of collectivization has been discredited. The countryside thus be- comes a continuous breeding- ground for capitalist tenden- cies. In the Soviet Union itself the parallel market in which the produce of the peasants' private plots is sold continues to make an appreciable contri- bution to the food supply.

The agrarian sector con- tinues to lag behind by world standards and ties down an excessive share of manpower and resources. Soviet industry still remains incapable on its own of turn- and ing out the equipment chemicals which efficient agri- culture requires. None of Khrushchev's boasts and promises have come to and have been dis- anything forgotten. Agriculture creetly

SOVIET UNION

the Stalin-Bukharin alliance the bureaucracs remains harvest prone to failures which can shake the whole economy and the Soviet Union then appears in the market as a purchaser of Canadian, Australian or even American grain. Forty years of collectiviza- tion under the auspices of the bureaucracy enables the claims of the adherents of the theory of 'socialism in one country', or without Stalin, to be with decisively refuted. With the turn to collectiv- ization Stalin abandoned the alliance with the right wing, represented by Bukharin, which had been the basis of Comin- tern policies in the mid-1920s.

Bukharin's supporters had to be cleaned out of the Com- munist Parties and new leader- ship installed willing to carry ultra-left out faithfully the course which the bureaucracy now imposed. AS FAR AS the cinema is concerned I'm an addict; it's something deeply bound up with my fantasy life. Entering the portals of those odeon palaces that are more and more changing their styles and becoming architecturally like those hard-edged crystal-lit Golden 'swinging Eggs that the 'sixties' laid, is enough still to send a flush of excitement through me. And once in my seat, the lights out, a cigarette on, I sit there mesmerised by the fickering screen, poised to enter the dream world. In my life time the screens have changed their sizes, black and white gives way to colour; I've watched 3-D with and red cardboard green glasses on: I have heard Molly and Robinson Cleaver at the theatre organ; I've been bored, irritated, angry and enrapt.

I.T.V.

9.05 a.m. Diane's Magic Theatre.

9.15 New Adventures of Batman.

'Dodge City' with Errol 9.35 Olivia de Havilland. Flynn and 11.20 Holiday Western. Switzerland: The story of a goat- herd who becomes the manager Swiss hotel. 12.05 of a 12.30 Peyton Place. Crossroads. 1.00 Professional Wrestling. 2.00 Big Band Sound: British musi- cians get together and recreate the of Dorsey, Count music Basie, Glen Miller, Duke Elling- ton and Woody Herman. Voyage To The Botton Of The Sea. 4.45 Laurel and Hardy. 5.00 Hev! Cinderella: American- Canadian Laugh-In type pan- i tomime 5.55 News and Sport From

ITN.

6.10 Nearest and Dearest Special. Tommy Cooper. 7.00 7.30 The Ken Dodd Show. The Engelbert Humper- 8.30 dinck Show. With José Feliciano, Tom Jones, Dionne Warwick. 9.30 Curry and Chips. 10.00 News At Ten. 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' 10.15 With Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patrica Neal and Mickey Rooney. Glossy New York romance. 12.20 a.m. What Was He Like? union and thin the p This shift took and capitalis war being discussed The right-wing and social whom Cominte nirted in the days or were now denounced : turned in their directi There no aoud line of the C the most highly-organ theoretically-conscious class in curope. triumph wat soviet Union inevitab turn, of whic But the magic na it's inextricably wra my childhood with fairy tales and me p princess swineck on despair and of gett we nave one playing in th thal and witches godmo 9d. (children h at the local Ritz. myth s to sona henle skale. Abbott Costel Kelly: Maureer Humphrey Bogart; C

REGIONAI

Res: 9 han now. 2:15 a.m. Faith • 2.45

Wednesday, December 24, 1969

JRE IN THE SOV

During the period of the Stalin-Bukha rested on the hulahs. World War collectivization was carried through in the countries of eastern Europe by the same bureaucratic means.

Engels and Lenin always in- sisted that it was necessary to lead the small peasant towards collectivization. Trotsky and the Left Oppo- similar sition advocated methods throughout the 1920s.

Stalin's abrupt turn, despite his later 'correction', left Soviet agriculture with a dis- astrous legacy which for a long time, indeed until after his death, was concealed by systematic concealment of the true state of affairs and falsifi- cation of the statistics of out- put. The retreats which had to be made in the 1930s and sub- sequent concessions made to the peasantry by the bureau- cracy whenever it has been in difficulties are further evidence that it has been unable to solve the agrarian question. in The retreats eastern Europe have been still more substantial and the whole con- ception of collectivization has been discredited. The countryside thus be- comes a continuous breeding- for capitalist tenden- ground cIes. In the Soviet Union itself the parallel market in which the produce of the peasants' private plots is sold continues to make an appreciable contri- bution to the food supply.

The agrarian sector con- tinues to lag behind by world standards and ties down an excessive share of manpower and resources. Soviet industry still remains incapable on its own of turn- equipment and out the chemicals which efficient agri- culture requires. None of Khrushchev's boasts and promises have come to anything and have been dis- creetly forgotten. Agriculture

SOVIET UNION

he Stalin-Bukharin alliance the bureaucrass This shift took remains prone to harvest place in a failures which can shake the tense atmosphere in the Soviet whole economy and the Soviet Union and with the possibility Union then appears in the of war with capitalist powers of market as purchaser being discussed. Canadian, Australian or even The right-wing Labourites American grain. democrats and social with Forty of • collectiviza- years Comintern had whom the tion under the auspices of the flirted in the days of Bukharin bureaucracy enables the claims were now denounced as 'social- fascists' of the adherents of the theory and the main fight of of 'socialism in one country Communist Parties the was with or without Stalin, to be turned in their direction.

decisively refuted. There is no doubt that the With the turn to collectiv- ultra-left line of the Comintern ization Stalin | abandoned the opened the way for the Nazi alliance with the right wing, takeover in Germany and thus represented by Bukharin, which for the most colossal defeat of basis of Comin- had been the the most highly-organized and tern policies in the mid-1920s.

theoretically-conscious working had Bukharin's supporters class in Europe. to be cleaned out of the Com- As Trotsky pointed out, the munist Parties and new leader- triumph of the Nazis made the willing to carry ship installed for drive war against the faithfully ultra-left out the Soviet Union inevitable. the bureaucracy course which The turn, of which collec- now imposed. AS FAR AS the cinema But the magic has never gone. is concerned I'm an Of it's hopelessly course and inextricably wrapped up something addict; it's childhood, when the with my deeply bound up with my fairy tales and the pantomines and and the the princess fantasy life. swineherd (and for that class I've paid in full: fantasy portals of Entering the those clear skinned, blue-eyed, those odeon palaces that are with their upper-class girls long fair hair and their sense more and changing more of despair and some day my their styles and becoming prince will come; what chance architecturally like those of getting did we have over that one playing in the street!)

hard-edged crystal-lit Golden and the witches and the giants Eggs that the 'swinging and the fairy godmothers, so 'sixties' laid, is enough still many heroes, so many heroines were all left on to send a flush of excitement my mother's knee and took on a new form through me. 9d. (children half price) tors. at the local Ritz. And once in my seat, the I lights out, a cigarrette And what a catalogue of on, sit there mesmerised by the mvths to recover from! flickering poised to screen, Sonja Henie cutting across enter the dream world. the her skates hissing, ice. In my life time the screens whirling and twisting, incredi- changed their ble and all with that smile; have sizes, Esther Williams, tanned, black and white gives way to colour; I've watched 3-D with healthy gliding through the cardboard water and all with that smile; and red green Three glasses on: I have heard Molly Disney; the Stooges; Cleaver at the Abbott and Costello; Gene and Robinson Maureen theatre organ; I've been bored, Kelly; O'Hara: Humphrey Bogart; Cary Grant irritated, angry and enrapt.

I.T.V.

REGIONAL I.T.V.

Crossroads. 12.20 9.05 a.m. Diane's Magic Theatre.

nOON 1.00 London. .m. Peyton Place. 9.15 New Adventures of Batman.

Film: Rio City' with Errol 9.35 •Dodge Channel News Headlines. London Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. 6.09 Channel Weather The condon 10.15 Feature Film: Cardinal' Holiday Western. 11.20 In with Tom Tryon. 1.10 a.m. Weather. Switzerland: The story of a goat- herd who becomes the manager of Swiss hotel. 12.05 Kind Hearts p.m. Channe 12.30 Peyton Place Crossroads. And Coronets' with Alec Guiness, 1.00 Professional Wrestling. 2.00 Valerie Hobson. Denois Pric switzer 11:15 Big Band Sound: British musi- Greenwood. Holiday Switzer. land. p.m. The Gus Honeybun cians get together and recreate Show 1.15 Faith For Life. 1.21 a.m. of Dorsey, Count the music Weather. Basie, Glen Miller Perman! Pra 2045 Woody ton and Voyage To The Of The

HARLECH.

9.10 Botton Batman 5.00 Sea. 4.45 Laurel and Hardy. Cinderella: Hey! American- Canadian Laugh-In type pan- tomime. News and Sport From 5.55

ITN.

Dearest 6.10 Nearest and Special. 7.00 Tommy Cooper. 7.30 The Ken Dodd Show. 8.30 The Engelbert Humper- dinck Show. With José Feliciano, Tom Tones, Dionne Warwick. Weather. Harlech (Wales) except: 9.30 Curry and Chips. 9.00-9.25 a.m. Bore Trannoeth. News At Ten. 10.00 10.15 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' 11.55 9.20 a.m. Arthur. Hepburn,

ANILLA:

With Audrey Tarzan's Peril' with Lex Barker. Cross- George Peppard, Patrica 12 noon Holidav In Switzerland. m025. 2.45 Room. Neal and Mickey Rooney. The Romper roads 1a anda witn Glossy New York romance. Wonderland. Wayne. 5.00 12.20 What Was He Like? a.m. 5.55 Reflection. London. 1220 am.

WORKERS' PRES

tivization was a decisive part, thus ushered in a new round of defeats for the working class and exposed the Soviet Union itself to the blows of predatory world imperialism in the van of which stood Nazi Germany.

Stalin for a time sought to reach an accommodation with Hitler, before the adoption of the Popular Front policy in the nid-1930s, and returned to thi: tactic in August, 1939. After these of de- years moralization and defeats during which, allegedly, social- in the ism being built was Soviet Union, the Second World War broke out, bring- ing many new sufferings for the working class. The attack on the Soviet Union begun on June 21, 1941, and the events which followed it, showed the real depth of the bureaucracy's crisis.

In many areas of the coun- try, notably in the Ukraine, many peasants greeted the German invaders as liberators, hoping to get their revenge for the imposition of collectiviza- tion a decade or so before German industry, which might have supplied the trac- tors to modernize Soviet agri- culture if the Comintern had pursued a different policy, sup- plied instead the equipment for the Panzer divisions which deep into the penetrated workers' state. The catastrophic defeat of class, the German working attributable directly to policy imposed on the Com- munist Party by stalin and the Soviet bureaucracy, thus brought down whirlwind a about their heads. The courage and sacrifice of the Soviet working class, with its 20 million dead, and not the genius of Stalin or the bureaucracy, made it possible to throw back and defeat Ger- man imperialism. The 40th anniversary of the collectivization drive provides an opportunity to insist upon the disastrous character of Stalin's policy. The legacy of forced collec- tivization still lays heavy on the Soviet economy. The agrarian problem has not been solved and the bureaucracy is incapable of solving it. The whole 40 years' history of collectivized agriculture re- futes the claims of the ad- herents of of the theory "socialism in one country'.

—and endless parade of illu-• sion and romance and escape.

You sat in the dark and dis- solved with the celluloid.

through he back dok, seeing the picture through twice and reeling out into the evening a blinding headache; with accosting strangers for the A's in, -Will you take me please?'--the battleground of Saturday morning at the Granada ('We are the Grana- deers'); the screams, the boos, the punch-ups, the beleagured ice-cream girl innocently pro- the viding ammunition with

ATV MIDLANDS: 9.00

a.m. The New Adventures Of Pinocchio. 9.15 Sting- Diane's Magic Theatre. 9.50 ray. 9.40 "Tarzan's Peril' 11.15 Holiday In Switzerland. 12 noon Crossroads. 12.25 p.m. 12.54 Popeye. 1.00 Peyton Place. 2.45 'A Night To Remember' ondon. 5.00 Thunderbirds. with Kenneth More. Bravo' 5.55 London. 10.15 'Rio with Martin Western. Wayne, Dean Angie John at Dickinson and Rick Nelson. Followed by Weather Forecast. ULSTER: 11.40 a.m. Romper Room. 12 noon Crossroads. 12.25 p.m. Cartoon.

12.30 Golf's Golden Years. 1.00 London.

2.45 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea'. Help From and Sports Results. News Headlines ).55 London, 10.15 Friday Night with "The Rev. Gerard McConville. 10.20 Grip Of Fear' with Glenn Ford, Lee Remick and Stefanie Powers. YORKSHIRE: 9.10 a.m. Survival. 9.40 Diane's Magic Theatre. 9.50 "Tarzan's Virginia Peril' Lex Barker, with Huston, George Macready and Dorothy Pandridge r 1i.15 Holiday In Switzer- land. noon Wheel Of Fortune. 12.30 p.m. I've Married A Bachelor. Getting Sentimental Walter Pidgeon. Admiral battles to prevent the harlie world incinerated. from being 4.45 Hey! Cinderella. Chaplin Festival. 5.55 London. 12.30 a.m. Late Weather.

GRANADA: 9.15 a.m. Captain Scarlet.

9.40 Diane's Magic Theatre. 9.50 Peril' with Lex Barker and "Tarzan's Virginia 11.15 Holiday In Huston.

VORKERS' PRESS

B.B.C. 1

9.00 a.m. On Christmas Day In 6.45 Christmas Night With The The Morning : Carols. 9.30 Stars: Light Spoonful Sugar Stoke Stars from

BBC

of from Hospital. 10.00 News Entertainment in 1969. Mandeville and Weather. 10.05 Tom and 8.15 The Morecambe and Wise The Doctors. 10.35 Christmas Show. Jerry. 10.15 Christmas Morning Service 'McLintock': from 9.15 George's Chapel, Windsor Western with John Wayne. 11.45 Harris and 11.15 Bennett and The Castle. Rolf Tony Queen Mary's Count Basie Orchestra. children from Hospital for Children, Carshal- 12.05 a.m. And Was Made Black: Surrey. 12.30 Royal 'incar- ton, p.m. A look at modern Family: documentary. Top nation'. 2.15 Of The Pops 69 part one. 3.00 Smart's Circus Spectacular.

as BBC-1 except Billy it the follo mm 4.10 Disney Time: Julie Andrews introduces scenes and characters 9.30-10.00 a.m. "Antonio vioria in u films. 5.00 from her favourite 10.05-10.35 Hvio Cinderella: pantomine. 11.45-12.25 p.m. The Selfish 12.25-12.30 Cartoon p.m. 6.30 The Main News and Scotland: 6.30-6.35 behalf of The Save The Weather. UL. 6.40 Save The Children: Appeal hildres Fund.

B.B.C. 2

10.35 7.20 10.15 Play School. The of his life Christmas Morning Service from story St. George's Chapel, Windsor through the eyes of the Film Castle. 11.45 'Kyoto': in- the indestructible ele- 8.05 News and Weather. volving culture 8.15 Bird's Eye View: ments of Japanese 12.30 Beside the Seaside by Sir which Kyoto is the spirit. Betjeman, aerial Royal Family : documen- John an p.m. 2.15 Chronicle : The Fate tour of the English sea- tary. The Armada. 3.00 The Royal side. Of Colourful Year Ballet: "The Sleeping Beauty', 9.05 This Of Sport : 5.25 News Acts Summary. 5.30 Call My Bluff.

Henry Longhurst looks 6.00 The Price Of Fame: or back on the highspots and in 1969. Fame at any Price. lowspots of sport Barbra Streisand Georgie Fame and Alan 10.25 enter- Price. tains and causes Hap- pening in Central Park. 'The Paladins of Palermo'.

6.45 Teatro Sicilian 11.15 News Headlines. from the Robbed Pupi. Puppet Theatre. 11.16 "The Day They dei The Bank Of England' 7.10 Children Talking: That Christmas Feeling. (film). By Brian Moore whizzed These sentimen- that memories, empty

COLON

tal, nostalgic, but irreversibly through the air, arced in the and thudded life, haunt every cinema projection beam my I go into. against the screen; the furtive drags at the early Woodbine in It came as shock to me the front row when the match when I was in Cuba a few like seemed explode a to years ago. attracting cartridge for sure A number of young artists the of adult attention every had assembled an exhibition eye in the place; and then in of underdevelopment. the period of Marilyn Monroe, You walked through some- Hudson and all-Ameri- Rock thing like a maze, a construc- can Doris Day (I never liked of corridors and passages tion her) in the back row nervously displayed and in every corner sliding what inevitably became in their true light were all the a cramped left arm round the images I have described above stiff shoulders of the latest and others too, juke boxes, date. Cadillacs, hamburgers, clips of

B.B.C. 1

9.03 Watch With Mother. a.m. 9.45 News and Weatherman. 9.50 Tom and The Con- erry. 10.00 The story quest Of Everest of successful climb of the the first world's 11.15 highest mountain. Television Brain Of Britain. 11.35 The Virginian. 12.50 p.m. Boxing Day Grandstand: 12.50 1.25, From Kempton 1.50, 2.20 Racing. Park. 1.00 Holly Handicap Chase. 1.30 Day Handicap Boxing King Hurdle. 2.00 George VI Chase. 2.30 Christmas Hurdle. 1.10, 1.40, 2.10 Motor Racing featuring the Grandstand trophy Cars race for Saloon 1300 W.D. and H.O. cc and the Wills Trophi 1. 20 Fe fball Preview. 2.40 Race for Formula cars. Rugby League. 3.05 *Singing In Rain with Gene Kelly, The Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Con- Cyd Charisse and Jean 410i• 4.45 Pinocchio. Hagan. 6.00 National News and Weather. 6.10 Today's Sport including Results.

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11.00-11.20 Play School. Red 250 The Balloon': An 12 Switzerland. 12.25 award-winning fantasy about P.m. Skin roads. And little boy who make friends with reter 2.45 London oyage 5.00 London red balloon. 1.25 'Bell, Book and Of The Sea' 4.45 ¡ dulus. Candle' with James Stewart and Call. Late Kim Novak Witch-craft in 3.05 modern America. News Summary. 3.10 Gardeners' World.

Verdi's Opera. Acts 3.40 Aida: 1, 2, 3 and 4. Captain P.00 London. Getting "The Distractéd Preacher': 6.10 4.25 a Vale Dramatisation of a Hardy 5.00 12.20 a.m Popeye. London. Road and Ski story.

I.T.V.

8.15 Carols from Central a.m. Hall, Westminster. 9.05 Super- 9.30 man Cinema Special: at "U' Michael Parkinson looks films. 10.15 Church Service. 11.00 A Merry Morning: Leslie Crowther at a party for children in Seacroft Hospital, Leeds. 11.30 'Moonfleet' with Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Green- wood and Jon Whiteley. Smuggl- ing and treachery on an ancestral 1.00 p.m. Hall estate. Kelvin Circus. 2.00 This Is Tom Jones with Judy Collins, David Frye,, Millicent Martin, the Treorchy Male Choir and The Mike Sammes Singers. 3.00 'Petticoat Pirates' with Anne Heywood and Charlie Drake. Wrens steal frigate. Bernie Navy Royal 4.35 'Aladdin': Mike and Jack Douglas, Winters, jimmy Logan, Josef Locke, Peter Vernon

REGIONAL I.T.V.

CHANNEL: 10.15

a.m. London. 11.30 Peyton Place. 11.55 Feature Film: "The Professionals' with William Lucas, Andrew Faulds. 1.00 p.m. London. 3.00 'With A Little Help From My Friends'. 3.55 Chez Oscar. 4.10 Cross- roads. 4.35 London. 9.30 Feature Film: 'Term Of Trial' with Laurence Olivier Simone and Signoret. 10.30 News. "Term Of 10.45 Trial' (continued). 12.05 Whicker In Europe. 12.35 a.m.

Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except at following times: 9.30 a.m. Cinema's Special. 4.00 Musical p.m. The Gus Honeybun Show. 12.30 a.m. Faith For Life. 12.36 Weather.

HARLECH: 8.15

Christmas In a.m. HMS Calliope. 9.00 Tinker and Taylor.

9.30 London. 11.30 'A Girl. A Boy And A Bike': John McCallum, Honor Black- man, Patrick Holt and Diana Dors in 3.3 cycling club. a comedy about 1.00 London. "With Little D.m. My Friends' with George Help From Martin. 4.00 Popeye. 4.10 Crossroads.

4.35 London. a.m. Weather. 12.15 Harlech (Wales) as above except: 9.30-10.15 a.m. Tins A Lei.

ANGLIA: 8.45 a.m. Christmas In HMS Calliope. 9.30 London. 11.30 'Carry On Constable' with Sidney James, Eric Barker and Kenneth Connor. 1.00 p.m.

London. 3.00 'With A Little Help From My Friends'. . 4.00 Popeye. 4.10 Cross- roads. 4.35 London. 12.15 a.m. Reflection. ATV MIDLANDS: 8.15 a.m. Carols For Everyone. 9.05 Mr Piper. 9.30 London.

11.30 Long Trailer' with Lucille Ball and Comedy. 1.00 p.m London. 3.00 A Little Help From My Friends'. 4.00 Popeye. 4.05 Crossroads. 4.35 London.

Term Of Trial 9.30 with Laurence Olivier Simone Signoret. and 10.30 News, Weather. 10.40 "Term Of Trial' (continued). 12.05 a.m. Whicker In Weather Forecast. Europe followed by ULSTER: 10.15 a.m. • London. 11.30 "Tarzan's Savage Fury' with Lex Barker. 12.50 p.m. Arthur. 1.00 Lon- don. 3.00 But Once A Year. 3.45 Tarzan movies and finally by si Vietnam, the cold destructive indifference of bullets. The connection was graph- ically and eloquently made.

There were all the myths of my childhood seen as images of oppression, of exploitation, of wars and suffering. And it was my culture, my dreams, my fantasies. This is, what we absorb, up on, feel cherish, grow nostalgic about. And we have a clear built-in response to it. I THOUGHT about all this when I was seeing John and Mary, starring Mia Farrow and Hoffman and Dustin directed by Peter Yates. For me there was something compulsive and irresistible about it. marvellous perform- Two ances going through the rig- marole and anxiety of estab- lishing a relationship together.

It had all the simplicity of the dream-problems of life, of violence, of degradation, ex- humiliation, ploitation, the genocide in Vietnam were all absent. Yet they were produced side 6.20 Tops Of The Pops 69 part two. 7.00 "Doctor At Large' With Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, Donald Sinden and Muriel Pavlow.

'Pickwick': 8.35 A musical based on The Pick wick by Papers Charles Dickens. If It Moves-It's Rude: 10.05 The story of the Windmill Theatre. 11.05 Bardot Special: Brigitte Bardot and her guests. All regional programmes as BBC-1 except at the following times: 11.05-11.350.m. News and Scotland: Weather Circus. 6.10-6.20 Monty Python's Flying 11.35 Epilogue fol- lowed by News Headlines, Weather.

Northern İreland: 6.10-6.25 p.m.

Scene Around Six, Weather. midnight Headlines, Weather. News Wales: 9.30-9.45 Ar Lin Mam. a.m. a.m.-12.15 11.35 Telewele. p.m. 12.15-12.25 Babushka. 12.25-12.50 Bob Yn Dri. 10.15-11.05 The Sixties.

7.00

BBC

2's Of Company Comedy: A choice of comedy scenes from BBC 2 shows during 1969. 7.35 The Coward Revue: A musical tribute to Noel Coward. 8.30 Cold Comfort Farm (serial). 9.20 Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club. 'An Affair To Remember' 10.15 (film). 12.05 a.m. News Summary.

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From pantomime. 5.50 News tional 6.00 All Star Comedy Carnival: Specially items f written 13 of ITA's most f successful comedy shows. 8.30 The Benny Hill Show. 'Robin Seven 9.30 and the Hoods': With Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Chicago gangsters in jr. the 1920s. 10.30 News. 10.40 Robin' continued. 11.45 Whicker In Europe: Alan Whicker meets Count Robert-Jean de Vogue, a French tycoon- aristocrat once condemned to death. 12.15 a.m. What Was He Like?

Down To Earth. 4.10 Crossroads.

4.35 London. 6.00 Christmas Box. 8.30 London.

YORKSHIRE:

8.15 a.m. Carols For Everyone. Huckleberry Minding 9.05 The New Adventures 9.30 London. Of Finn. 11.30 'Who's The Store?' Young man falls with Jerry Lewis. 1n love with the boss's daughter. 1.00 3.00 It's Great To Be London. Young with John Mills, Cecil Parker.

Jeremy Spenser and Dorothy Bromley.

Comedy musical. 4.35 London. 9.30 Whicker In Europe: Whicker meets de Vogue.Wayne, Count Robert-Jean 10.00 'Donovan's Reef' with John Lee Marvin and Dorothy Lamour. Comedy adventure. 10.30 News and Weather. 10.40 'Donovan's Reef' (part 12 midnight Leonardo: story two). of Leonardo da Vinci.

GRANADA:

8.15 a.m. Christmas Carols The Long Desi 9.05 Joe 90. 9.30 London. Long Trailer' with 11.30 Lucille Ball and Arnaz. Honey- moon couple and a gigantic trailer.

London. 1.00 p.m. 3.00 'Sands Of The Desert' with Charlie Drake. Meek agent goes to the desert. 4.35 travel London. TYNE TEES: 8.45 a.m. Christmas In HMS Calliope. 9.30 London. 11.30 Fea- ture Film: Call Me Bwana'. 1.00 p.m London. 3.00 Feature Film: 'Treasure 12.15 a.m. Island'. 4.35 London. A Message For Christmas.

SCOTTISH:

8.25 Moderator's a.m. 8.35 Carols From Message. Christmas Kirkgate. 9.05 Joe 90. 9.30 London. New Adventures of Super- 11.30 The Skippy. 12.30 man. 12 noon p.m. 'With Crossroads. 1.00 London. 3.00 Friends'. Little Helb From My 4.00 And The Time Machine. 4.05 Peter High Living. 4.35 London. 12.15 a.m. Late Call. The

GRAMPIAN:

9.05 a.m. New 9.30 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 11.30 Feature Film: •Treasure London. 1.00 p.m. Island'. ( London. 3.00 'With A Little Help From My Friends' George Martin 4.00 The presents. Moderator's Christmas Message. 4.10 Crossroads. 4.35 London. by side by the same culture of American imperialism. In the dark we follow the long dream, cherish it, even for it, for this world that has simple priorities, simple pro- blems, and in way in this yearning all sorts of yearnings in ourselves are invoked.

In spite of the pap, the pop culture, the naive romanticism, there is a reminder of some- thing else, of our own desires which even the bleak indiffer- ence of the the streets, or shrill barbarities of the head- lines in the newspapers cannot really dispel. For it is part of that striving for man to achieve something else, greater humanity, some some closer understanding be- tween himself and others, how- primitive or crude the ever form. Hollywood has churned out its paying opiate for decades now. My generation was weaned on it, grew up on it was deeply affected by it. Yet a part of its naked propaganda for the capitalist system eludes the grasp of it manipulators and makers. In spite of its spinning of dreams commercial of un- reality, with get-rich a opulence of Cinderella, from rags to riches, at the same time it presents a world so patently in contradiction to the real one. And one day the dreamers wake up. The dreams now are finished, dead, bankrupt, but their allure still remains and the fight for that is on the agenda.

The 1960s grind to a halt with their protests, their velvet trousers and satin shirts of the pop groups and the middle class in confusion, the pot and the pop, the style and the fashion. These were just bubbles on the surface of the great burn- ing cauldron. The 1970s start with the whiff of big class struggles in the air. Capitalism is shaking. A generation of new workers throughout the world is be- ginning to speak and to struggle. The decks are clearing, the real nature of the world, of its class structure and its ex- ploitation, is being revealed.

We are at the dawn of a era of big fights and new struggles. Will the 1970s proclaim the end once and for all of this barbarous capitalist system?

That is the question, that is the challenge and that is the only possible future. The defeats are behind. The future is the working class. So that we can say to the next generation to come 'We did them once and for all in the 1970s'. The dreams of Hollywood might turn out to be their makers' nightmare.

WORKERS' PRESS

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Moscow

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sas states hav ineration the beginne AS THE CRISIS worsens in the US, Nixon and his big-business friends wisdom today By our forelgn corresponden in the pe are determined that the working class must bear the burden of the crisis, worab sitution mus not only in higher taxes and prices and an intensification of the Vietnam war—but also through the creation of a massive army of unemployed.

As a foretaste of what is to come, General Motors Wilton omic journal o has decided to close down 1970.S is the prospect for of 23 assembly prepared

I.C.I.

plants for four additional tekession, days during the Xmas to

JOINT ACTION?

sparks New year holiday and nine the others throughout

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Ge, will co Mune to use the strike for holiday period. de- 60.000 workers will be condition affected by these temporary programme closures. 10,0000 jobs in the past programme pay By a Workers Press reporter Frederick Hayday Preparation manifest reaction SEVENIY electricians and instrument mechanics em- This east made a no wor- ployed Im- Wilton's perial Chemical Industries' power station walked out

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men befused to thien university é December yesterday morning in sup- models edition: ta tae Communist rarty port or their claim tor the Ivis in Detroit. ave signed in Manchest retrospective payment of Edin- Tolerable' condition money. supported the campaign The men had been oper mild Student a 'black' on am's Joint Guild all general slum forwarded to the National plant moled zari 280,00di dilan siployees in I on a one-day strike so ta movement to atter the firm stopped pay Will AT a meeting of the Liverpool refused to enter a blacked budget worst tear of a cravated re leading. National Ami Retrospection Purpose trome mules imperia refusals At coin he men havelipe back are not maud their Hull University economist • 8roup• against the company's CARDIFF Young Socialists, in fer of six months do collected 2 se harged from the army in the but on the Workers Press petition what By the November I Suite, mad noly prior to the Christ-

KEEP LEFT WEEKEND

RALLY

Saturday and Sunday, January 10 and I * circulation of BOILERMAKER'S SOCIETY president Mr Dan By our Industrial reporter the lahour movement today.

McGarvey can hardly claim that the rotten

KEEP LEFT INVITES ALL ITS READERS TO THE

"on had noblackmail". settlement which ended the nine-week strike at

ANNUAL GENERAL

the BP refinery site in Grangemouth was a victory.

MEETING

union's Kut victory one rod he biggest se - 'Monthly Report' (December 8 p.m.-11 p.m. East India Hall does his best to London, E.14 justify it. Saturday, January 10 2.30 p.m. Young Socialist National Speaking Contest

DANCE IN THE EVENING

₫o The Crescendos The Element of Truth clause 4ally Locked out Special appearance which was rotectis points pared the for the

LONG JOHN BALDRY

sef the forres East India Hall 8 p.m.-1l p.m. used th McGarvey gate. closeted

FILM MAKING AND THE

and representative Word be desal has on the Grangemouth men Real character

YOUNG SUCIALISIS

so The same boome deal: the ser boiler- Mucommittee Sunday, January 11 9.30 a.m. Tim our Scottish openin the strike executive

CLASSIC CINEMA, POND STREET

HAMPSTEAD, LONDON, N.W.3

directs at the stion McGarvey agreen

STOP WILSON'S WASHINGTON

VISIT!

of Silet which will and taken,

FOR THE DEFEAT OF US

the EC won back on pain.

IMPERIALISM IN VIETNAM!

sanctions on sam. ter MEGally eyhat about them, Mr •Id aint Put here

DEMONSTRATION

sanctions Egypt denies Israeli

SUNDAY JAN. 11

ASSEMBLE: Speakers' Corner (Marble Arch), commando raid 2 P.M.

MARCH:

via Oxford Street, Regent Street, will do bole cere ISRAEL claimed stand base or any better lod the Trafalgar Square past Downing Street.

• state Est Lyceum Ballroom, near Aldwych, the Gulf of Suez.

MEETING:

Deal forced Egyptian naval base at

BREAT

4 P.M. Details from 186a Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4 Cairo, but armposed ismthe only spokesman categorically Tickets for the whole weekend 12s 6d AI A civIC ao in te lown nall in November Sheffield occasion of the completion ULasivI 10.000th house since 194) Menister Housing ficial wood Today, 24 years total b numbe of house: 1: 30, thc private bun an erelie sea in tho Menate tary or 47 a programme was cut by $2,00 ment ne housin. demise "Total tor romse s on che hunle 1 sisers like Ron Pol. Cant- tales

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che aortd have er revale tionaries this 'revolutionary's Part be moyat. andle worshipping "Christianity', s the y aper- acknowledged that the earth was flat! congh™ , to hón ộh From his Olempian perch, th compliments The herses leaders "th* ra pps about, d-sive misery: Th en thy l their system ın busıness Wednesday, December 24, 1969 demand for a reduction in the local authorities 2 per cent Lately me tenants associa- themselves are

CONS

•emane-

LETTERS

Ireezing ol the bank rate at its present level.

The tenants' associa- tions' demand appears malid that it must borne mind demands capitalist made to. economies houses— In the situation that fol- where situation lowed trend in the bank rate is for.

Hany local autoontes 'shared' existine unwards frantic ever It was this perie 1945 chequer subsidies with houses pound. The Labous сетепсє „the response to the that annie and subsidy. demands are are ted in any houses demand for chan all the the years the that building were over proble transe. and unions bail as wokes and agreed diminished eventually polnt wnere it Decame fact that per totally ineffective as a device a z cally out tas programme. cent bank Subsequentiv. only 7 per cent for keeping rents down lale can come ds ever found employment in the i the, is ever-increas- result

TOT

Socialism ing bank rate, not socialist will More profitable than build behind merely from a demand struggles come for a 2 per cent interest rate.

esting back one housing. ing houses, port st hospitals, reason 101 export building therefore that

TOT

TolloWS any demand short the Tenants associations that demand change have sprung in the demand present struggles Tne into lte short the larger or Lenant: last decade a change in the will follow from of their homes- n defenc workine class 1970, January are all part their standard of life attacked would and begin icad of rent increases, at the level of rents (since a degenerative process. of our be ramen hat Interest rates at 2 per cent ‹ent mcrease ls a wage cut, There alone ocal automter vernment exal actor acainst them and the 1951 Pore 8 prospect of mass eviction.

101 Cre investment The most persistent demand covernment higher Housing for consequence 'freezing subsidies and interest rates who level the trend municipal housing from claim eadership of the work- upward) would also cause in- class- lids Deen yesucat co emerate on tre 1ocal autority to the areas of higher interest rates as they appeared elsewhere. policies as the indeed such 'cutting' 'freezing' 1a Powelle terest rates to local would be device 101 culting DaCk nousine ana all oller services carried out by local authorities loans and •evencent confused. It was at this steward from one of capital investment. point Northern freight that 200 London stewards housing and rents roblem the I attended the meeting related ana he depots. drivers walked vul in protest. at the Friends Meeting House the the vote sanne class- Road on December 8. was taken. has had

ICDOLL

Was To my knowledge, has the problem. on one to your Induccuate to exo an vote taken. other Bevan's promise to the lads took place reduels what amendment was words. Toe from that meeting. war remains unfulfiled. last

NOT DURI

Of the 600 in the hall, only 1), First of all there was no Seneca, 2,000 years check about 40 aro voted in favour and on te door as the Roman Senate. also de same were stewards and who were the returned against. There were no tellers nOL. has nowhere lay and no count. 2) his head'. Secondly, the miceune chairman heard the was due to start at 11 o'clock, say, From Lloyd seneca 'It looks as though sh die. vote Georg Shaka -'homes for heroe out was delayea til i.su. she of the meeting that ege hall From who 1 1C resolution was declared carried meeting that the lalus kraals ot the Church- was and oly booked till 1 and the meeune closed demo- property-owning meeting Ken Tobin pror is still vile us (like closed T&GWU steward one-and-a-half BRS freight, Leeds depot.

The time long. overdue You for realize that this all will those housed by that meant the Our industrial correspondent local discussion was dulloriues. completely inadequate on such writes: own desperate seeking a vital question. homes, all those inade- Bro. Tobin's letter graph- Their quately housed ically 3 We were told before we describes Tene of this wealthy state to make travelled to London that we ground to the ending of the a stand now. strike and illustrates Oscuss the dangerous The most decisive weapon basil lates ane nolane ese. played by the union leaders.

the hands • of the tenants When the meeting began we with criticisms rent-strike; were Dresented HEc of Decem-

MOST

of £3 completely tied up with ber 9's revolutionary act. productivity Will entire sure, entirely Under the revolutionary and welcome schemes throughout all leadership Stulke emercus companies. Britain these things are within Wild workers reach and can be achieved: A similar offer made by the musties. uur renori Board had been discussed admittedly truncated WaS Nationalize the land! reasons in see de lo taa At that TOr Lilie. 1 Om could adequately take buildings Nationalize the up the issues involved. building materials indus- this and oncer. nad salel LoaT nothing regards meant Keep it up, Bro. Tobin! earnings. Get us immediately next time Nationalize the banks and ween we cot down to •you building societies! London more or less the same

ACPULLS

Let to- Stop repayments full-time officials gether to build the Workers recom- International Monetary The mended for acceptance. Fund ! that under which such Sam Holmes, far manoeuvres majority Sheffield PWD Stewards' stewards were concerned. deal carried Chairman, ASPD Stewards'

OUL

are left unturned. An moved Committee. that we accept the basic, £2 reject the ana a full national official strike on january 31. Then from the someone back of the hall called for the taken and the vote chairman closed the There objections WElC this from all over hall. The situation was completely

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American of a dozen sol- peace demon- Saigon may seem stration in. a But, line with the lancu recent moratorum marenes the US reflects nrotound changes the American working class's attitude the war. Wilsoshameful their and the Union Congress's treacherous call for a com Stalinism promIse between nd imperialism in Vietnan to the stalinists have

NOW

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