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Bhutto faced with unrest

BY A FOREGN

CORRESPONDENT

PAKISTAN'S new ruler Lulngar All bhutto is run- with ning into trouble national minorities in the West now that his forces have been deteated in BanglaDesh. Baluchi e along han have of Bangla. have encouraged. a, poke killed pra Bhutto Moronse for eas of provincial governor. 'Wild scenes' Ghaus hutto's Peopl es to the National Awai Party, pind. for tapes with Presiden old to desperate let of ins los are got reali eferendum elationshi Backing trips recity a said bes. gestures Phoney lather Mosted selt into a aer the bombing of North wont the e schumaal Both Hate and Wenty mount but they will not INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY DECEMBER 30, 1971 • NUMBER 649

GAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Revolt over Ulster news clamp

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

BY ALEX MITCHELL

CENSURSHIP

MEASURED DAY WORK and into a major political row rationalization have led to yestetudy massive increase in unemployment ana him producers alune during 1971. bol revoltea. circularized the right The latest figures on output at. Upper Clyde Shipbuilders prove dramatically that productivity bargaining is a direct cause of this demand the the year's record jobless totals.

They show that while output has rocketed by 30 per cent in the upper Clyde yards during the last five years employment has more than halved to and 7,200 men. me hold back or e affairs Apart trom 1966-1967, and Cutten the biggest recorded crease in output was this

LAUNCH QUIPU

NUMBERS EMPLOYED

over 7,000 tons, despite a the labour force drop. of 4,000 Lwo years. → soovan, scotstoun, Clydebar - -_. Rest of Clyde. 'now President Day Man Si drawing concluded re dinedanes have nath to mas suckings cy of tecized the short the the union leaders reed-up with the man. agement. 097. Mobility censorship.' Backed down

BYDAVID MAUDE

the which they BRITISH-LEYLAND is pre- did so opene hey have ent Measured-Dar Mistsur at tits Austin- Moras Action team. eit the sea with are a Early threatened * unemployment at Longbridge, Marina rate de productivit sent was acided almos the and paid an interim of 84p an hour Enginatin This too ever To cut at year ves: accept year poot with a big cut in earnings.

MDW

union forced as stance on all these opposition turn the stewards. Admission commit that 3o deen Investment slump in shipping complete a vehicle yers 24 and Fords 121

BY PHILIP WADE

Set milion tone are of 12 Solution sident John Kirby is pre In tremest enor step vented will • or PEll cooperation with the new ipping vest he is not steppe en the naton of industries workers contro Phaner a Soning meant be forced to The daily paper that leads the Tory government Bombing raids in 4th day, but

BY JOHN SPENCER

ROUND-THE-CLOCK bombing raids on North

ROLLS' MEN

Vietnam went into their fourth straight day yesterday as the United States tried to stem

KEPT IN

the highly successful National Liberation Front

THE DARK'

offensives in Laos and Cambodia.

Two hundred air force and navy jets are flying con- tinuous sorties to what the Pentagon describes targets, though details of the bombing are kept under Strictiv wraps. expect Americans can just as much success with thıs blast the N Viet- sub- had before -called 'bombing pause' three years ago. Their attack is primarily serition to the is the suffered America's neighbouring Cambodi current ary-season offensive of the Indo-Chinese peration forced more extensive t an d more than in any previous rapidly In Americans chipt tear- openly admitted nu military spokesmen Saigon-is that Laos and Cambodia NIr alt thes eh s run-down of American ground molerica senocide. But even electronic sensors combuters are inadequate to maintain ram- snackie mutary ceratorsalo.

government trooDs driven were vesterdaV forced to Boloven vacate the Plateau, from which l has dominate the trai Like Lon Nol's army neighbouring Cambodia the Laotian forces have apparently AUEW executive member Bill John didn't injure his arm in talks will to in with Rolls-Royce management at the Tothill St headquarters face determined Enaineerina Emplovers' Federation in London vesterdav.

m The strategie Tact ine negotiators quicky tounea Tormula To recommene to of Pak- the Bristol strikers, who are in the eignin week outside the gates.

evacuated

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

SHOP

STEWARDS at Rolls-Royce's Bristol The liberation next aero-engine plant said yesterday they had been chective his theaters of Long kept completely in the dark about union leaders' negacuarters pro-American Meo talks with the company about a return-to-work led by Gen Vang triDesmen Pao Central Intelligence Agency..

trained formula. The talks, which began last Thursday were ad but holiday, over Curistiids ended in London vesterddy with acreement on torna wach wi!! De put lo a mass meetine this atternoon. Neither Bill John, engineers' union amber, not transport officer Tom

MACKERS APPRENTICES- STAMITS

drawn union Teeinemon that they Forward to a weekly 'Keep Left' in 1972!

appears have a nara ume acnevine d return on basis of the formula.

They will meet local officials

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

and port and. outcome of yesterday's discussions. may the first real Saturday January 8, 2.30 p.m.

news leaders the ejont- week-old strike have heard the talks, which have kept under wraps. East India Hall, East India Dock Rd, London E14 Young Socialists National Speaking Contest No increase

PRESENTING THE NEW YOUNG SOCIALISTS 1972 FILM

No understood increase Is to have heen made 5 money company's Special Evening Attraction Rolle 7.30 p.m.-10.45 p.m. mand that national olseT acalnsi rise in eneineering. PETE BANKS SOUND and The stewards an estecials morning three factory sO ankers

'THIRD WORLD WAR'

that an would bly eturi work possible Tickets 40p (including Meeting and Dance) 4 hour picketing went right through the holidar Avallable from 186a Clapham High St, London SW4.

of the support for a cost-of-living rise.

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Bhutto faced with unrest

BY A FOREIGN

CORRESPONDENT

ruler PAKISIANS new Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is run- ning into trouble with national minorities in the West now that his forces defeated have been Bangla Desh. The Baluchi pons resened Prunat Chan Jong arese red Prona bi chavia.

ko press thein donand In thea, poiche kiled otal 'Wild scenes' Ghaus Pint dor talks ene edend Pokztane bauro is mat 1 ou hosp leche eferen dates in ashmir and Backing trips seine triden h ari baim, supported gestures any Phoney lather ostred itself into a nathet fight to force them to resign.

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY DECEMBER 30, 1971 • NUMBER 649 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMIȚTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Dramatic Clyde figures prove Speed-up behind jobless

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

MEASURED-DAY WORK and rationalization have led to a massive increase in unemployment during 1971. rise The latest figures on output at. Upper Clyde Shipbuilders prove dramatically that productivity bargaining is a direct cause of the year's record jobless totals.

They show that while output has rocketed by 30 per cent in the upper Clyde yards during the last five vears emplovment has more than halved to 7,200 men. Apart from 1966-1967, recorded the biggest crease in ourpul was cnis year wnen sniooing

LAUNCH OVIPUI

No 00 500

NUMBERS EMPLOYED

launched increased over .000 tons desnite a drop in the labour force 4,000 over the two years. _ u.ta. (gavan, scoistoun, clya6ol cut in the worl drastic -m. Rest of Ciude rium-bankw as - UCS Nos anglivod consortium Suciety President history of ucscd the shor 'CS Formod Mobility comples of this ame McGarvey MDW clash at Leyland's manasement Longbridge factory seven

BY DAVID MAUDE

the which sh agremene sgncdl to ge Cheic have beel Rox pase o keyn M BRIIISH-LEILAND 1s pre- naring to force througn toe Measured- Dav Work spila the mra ey here vas system at its Austin-Morris oo unemployment. lod raced ita at Longbridge, Conia nor accepte unless the systeth wa.

Ialla Iale increas UCS sonat trendl year, the changeover ietework to In seDi workers ts Copies plants in Ortord.

Coe the Britiso capitalism diferent. facts are t plant c throughout cide on leu he Cowley c a a chan omg because agreement mployed?® SYStO MD Co ager flat Ultimatum Tules Deceninee rin. agreement exists ultimatun stoned tare ess forced to cote inder movement-of-labout MDW tor SI sould hade breached inte work-study labour, ed practice that de Nortt the far That 1 same tory ensive union on the Longbright not ease

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officials force ek awainst nst biter opposition trom like UCS stewar ost vigilance oe all these thẹ ste birder Admission fronts. The mn hour ae l working Investment slump in shipping halted by

BY PHILIP WADE

shippintar So V tonc ăy shipbuilding world Solution will not be laid Over 3.3 Leyland a MDials cent to the Dine-speeds. Tr isrderprtain emen must te Toreed o sega nest tat this Tory Mame though the chiefs р tons And peyd bas 1 milion to • consciously lespite public attacks order

ECEMBER 30, 1971 • NUMBER 649

Revolt over Ulster news

BY ALEX MITCHELL

CENSORSHIP of news trom exploded into a maior nolitical row and film producers at the BBC revolted. staff news and Integrity «The variety of "The circular Ists severa he politica Programmers are simpl put out censorship the • Corrupting Backed down 1 вс The meteo comes Dosed debate on andavolvestminste- tuation nesterda bout the hold on Sunday Demon. regulations rallies and marches are illegal. in shipping The Total is une or from nent. however The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government Bombing raids in 4th day, but

BY JOHN SPENCER

ROUND-THE-CLOCK bombing raids on North

ROLLS' MEN

Vietnam went into their fourth straight day

KEPT IN

yesterday as the United States tried to stem the highly successful National Liberation Front

THE DARK'

offensives in Laos and Cambodia.

Two hundred air force and navv jets are fiving con- tinuous sorties to what the Pentagon describes targets', though "limited of the bombing are detais being kept strictly Widus The Americans can expect lust as much success with tak attemnt to niast the N viet people sub- inte they had netore so-called 'bombing pause three years ago. 1s primarily a reaction to the unprecedented defeats suffered neighbouring and current ary-seasor ottensive at the indo. ninece liberation forces is advancing extensively and. in any previous military spokesmen in that -IS Cambodia are at the prehis advances and Vietnam nuze allacks The run-down of American ground Troons forced large-scale opposi- Nixon hi tion within to the war noth the army and among the US people on leads to are Cupuleis inadequate maintain I alll shackle military dictatorship.

government TrooD driven Pain Ten. were vesteroa orced to vacate the kolover the 7T Pateau. trom which Ho Chiried to d "dominate has tried the He Lon Nol's army Raighan Torces have Cambodia AUEW executive member Bill John didn't injure his arm in talks will late reined Rolls-Rovce manadement at the Tothlll St headquarters of com- Enalneering The amo overs' rederation in ondon vesterdav.

fact the negotlators quickly found a formula to recommend to strategic town of Pak- the Bristol strikers, who are in the eighth week outside the gates.

one was evacualed wilmour c nent Decause -as a spokesman

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

put it-the defenders want to suiter neavy casuate.

SHOP

STEWARDS at Rolls-Royce's Bristol truing to hold the town next The hineration torced aero-engine plant said yesterday they had been objective is the town of Long Cheng headquarters of the kept completely in the dark about union leaders' pro-American Meo talks with the company about a return-to-work Ted bed Vang Central intelligence Agency.

formula. The talls which negan last Thursday but were adjourned the Christmas holiday. ended yesterday which formula to a mass meeting this afternoon. Neither Bill John, engineers' union

MATES YOUNG MAKHIS- NPRETICES-STIMITS-ONERPLAYA AND BARCARAM

appears to be they Forward to a weekly 'Keep Left' in 1972!

have a hard time achieving a return on basis of the formula and shop ilt eward s

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

the outcome of vesterdav's discussions first real real It may une Saturday January 8, 2.30 p.m.

leaders of the heard hich the strictly under kept been wraDs East India Hall, East India Dock Rd, London E14 Young Socialists National Speaking Contest No increase

PRESENTING THE NEW YOUNG SOCIALISTS 1972 FILM

No understood increase is to have heen made the company's t1.50 money otter. Special Evening Attraction and it is not known whether Rolls withdrawn its 7.30 р. т.-10.45 р. т. that 50р this national any rise in engineering. PETE BANKS SOUND and stewards vecterdav morning refused officials' an let three oil- into the factory

'THIRD WORLD WAR'

rderls would possible work necessary. Tickets 40p (Including Meeting and Dance) 24-hour picketing went went on right through Avallable from 186a Clapham High St, London SW4.

support claim for a cost-of-living rise.

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Workers Press, Thursday December 30, 197"

PAGE IWO

David Mercer speaks to Workers Press 'At every point of confrontation- Workers Press has been there' A THEME of playwright David Mercer's work is the impact of Stalinism on artists and Con at home. ere oglish ge Englis intellectuals and here he discusses with Stephen Johns what kind of situation the intel• mermods in l relande sty which ligentsia in E Europe face after the suppression of the 1968 Czechoslovakian uprising fict her cope with critical con and the December 1970 workers' revolt in Poland. He also gives his views of the situa- -which he has consistently supported tion in Ulster and the future of the Workers Press will hera the comation of since i was launched over two years doo.

the awful private property. i don't think you can separate the wister crisis from the general economic crisis. y here had ko the Sroops in fretand as a thread uation in Ulster developir Bitan nion movement DM : ar the goveriment to poet economic. r in N reland becaus by the troops and what amount to ntrainst am nized Bein Bangla Desh: There may have to be further struggle 11:12 in which socialists fight against those who govern. y British prepared rest see hink it could * Wa nhan es ondia taking thise war into E mmediate civil wa amounts to ould be a war arisi of the people of No Arena ment iminatedime ther martine day Sad thick hain Tartar so rem the irate weing involve Cinde side, to e eis Provisionad the tRi and tor DM : • her ears in tangi Dri carry the can for i of a socialist say that it without (Testing out methods in N Ireland by which the English government could cope with critical conflict here. y

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slovakia and which we know was back ward nations always very hrmly put down. being caught between as pawns Events in Poland indicate the powers, which, whatever their conflict alleged ideology, have in fact got overwhelming once more between the industrial traditional realpolitik interests forces and the ruling forces of and mutual fears and aggressions.

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which is an imperialist power and Russia and China, which experienced successful revolutions. DM : t wud seem to me to in require a socialist revoluton of the advanced one or more industrial countries, placed firmly in an analysis of the international before the contradic- situation. tions of Chinese and Soviet his- torical development can lead to- wards a further revolution within their own countries against their different types of bureaucracies. The kind of terminology Russia and China use is very confusing.

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Shortly it will be enlarged and improved. As a man with considerable experience in the field of communica- tions have you any sugges- tions? DM: I think on almost every the Workers occasion Press has consistently focused attention of national and international events.

It has taken a principled stand on the situation being analysed re still with the workers... with their recolle they had. y and drawn conclusion and pre- dictions which in very many cases have turned out to be quite correct. The paper has developed enormously in this It way. should continue to develop its openness to individuals still dis- covering Marxist ideology, people Workers Press has taken a p for the first time in the profes- sions who are beginning to think about the larger reasons why • they are in the predicament they are inhaving to realize that this be some kind of cannot accident. I think the paper is becoming increasingly open to such people who may not as yet have a very sophisticated ideological devel- opment, but whose energy and Fourth Intern

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Secondly the paper nearly always gives an analysis of why in this situation and you are what you can do about it.

I think at every point of con- frontation in society the paper has taken a principled stand.

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Workers Press, Thursday December 30, 1971 David Mercer speaks to Workers Press 'At every point of confrontation- Workers Press has been there' A THeme or playwright Davia mercers work Is the impact or stalinism on artists and intellectuals and here he discusses with Stephen Johns what kind of situation the intel- methods ligenisia in e europe lace arter the suppression of the 1968 Czechoslovaklan Uprising cope December 1970 workers' revolt in Poland. He also gives his views of the situa- Rict here. and the tion in Ulster and the future of the Workers Press-which he has consistently supported since it was launched over two years ago strut ole that victory must beere victory eneral seonomic crisis ter crisis from th those the le they wou can't help EL: • Protestant and Catholic status quo. Sita on in distole vel the Contrain would take is as Do working dis confrontation wo opse now? Brian gion movement and diater from the economic con Treland. it might look like a civil actions. Bocal and conomic far the government is pre Which has libera pared to go, isn't it? hat was called hasn t the mon apart they angland Land owning the end a che the capture Crisis from the geara nic crisis. The BanglaDesh: There may have to be further struggle Condomic Trement, the introduction in which socialists fight against those who govern.)

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forces and the ruling forces of the In the W I think that writers and intellectuals either become pessimistic, aloof or disengaged, Shina and America as Breat You describe Russia, or they to the struggle. Commit In the Soviet Union, E and cen- powers interested in real- Europe the tral writers and the politik. There is a difference intellectuals perhaps more in origin between America, kind powerless this of his- which is an imperialist power and Russia and China, which have experienced successful revolutions. .DM: It would seem me to to réquire a socialist revolution in one or more of the advanced industrial countries, placed firmly in an analysis of the international situation, before the contradic- tions of Chinese and Soviet his- torical development can lead to- wards a further revolution within their own countries against their different types of bureaucracies. The kind of terminology Russia and China use is very confusing. Trotskyists, Both call each other whereas neither has country Trotsky- principled party with a ist-oriented policy and theory and practice. do you think the SJ : How national deter- for struggle Bangla Desh mination proceed? What should the dangers involved for the workers and peasants? DM: Well I think the national liberation which movement, gain oriented. needs to control of the situation.

Indeed clearing if India just leaves after out the elements of the W Paki- regime, leaving flimsy stan social-democratic structure based on the Awami League, there may struggle in have be to which the socialists fight against Husak's problems are still with th those who govern. question of I think that it is a That dialectical forces. évery situation creates a new one the torical situation than the larger end of one struggle may create a their movement of society. situation in which a new struggle Czechoslovakia is still mist occur. in state of almost paralysis, but Husak's problems are still

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and not only with the workers, with the fact that they SJ : On number of occa- were pul down by the Soviet Union, but sions you have spoken about their recollection of the power Europe the situation had. that they countries like Poland. and Czechoslovakia and Hun- It is also a question of levels which you have visited. zary of development. Things go up at What is the position of in- one and down at another point tellectuals and writers in and then vou get a reversal and countries now? What these then go up somewhere else and do they face? down in the first place. There is a constant flux in the DM: I have the impression struggle between, either, the that they are for the time being capitalist ownership and the pro- holed certainly up. hecause ductive forces, or the bureau- Czechoslovakia and Poland and cratic control of the system and Hungary to lesser extent the productive forces. the contradictions of their sys- ideological and In the situation I think the tems, both in western writers and the western economic terms, are beginning to intellectual are in more of a posi- throw changes and develop- up tion and engage for which be to commit mento are transforming to them. the time being with a fairly re- mote degree of personal danger.

In a wav it's a kind of mirror I think in the Stalinist coun- image of what is t if the interests in history of their suffer- tries, the the ninch the W of capitalism and the pro- ing and their loss and the out- come of their efforts is demoral- ductive forces and the relations between the two. This is what izing; it's not just a question of

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personal fear of imprisonment awareness are moving them along and torture, but their historical those lines. role. One thing that donit ines me anxiety-I don't some this is the kind of bourgeois or not-is the remnants in me attack personalities. tendency to SJ : Workers Press was would rather blistering launched in September 1969 attack on the position of a man and you have been con- woman or his organization sistent supporter the than them- the actual person paper over these two years. I'm discomforted always selves. Shortly it will be enlarged by personal attacks and I think and improved. As man the paper tends to do this.

with considerable experience in the field of communica- tions have you any sugges- tions? SJ: How do you feel the paper should broaden its appeal to the working class?

DM: I think on almost every Workers occasion the Press has DM: Well I think I cannot consistently focused attention of national and international events.

improve what the is paper Onl As far as I under- actually doing. It has taken a principled stand stand, the policy of the paper is the analysed being .. with their recollection of the power that re still with the workers they had. drawn and conclusion and pre- its readers infor- to present to dictions that the national dases have hired out to be quine which many mation big papers distort or don't present. the nearly correct. Secondly paper gives an analysis of why always developed The has paper are this situation and you in enormously in this It way. what you can do about it. should continue to develop its to individuals still dis- I think at every point of con- openness in society the paper covering Marxist ideology, people frontation (Workers Press has taken a principled stand. y there-as I think for the first time in the profes- should be in far. sions who are beginning to think the paper has neen so the about larger why Obviously it is important for they are in the predicament they the working class presence in the that are in- having to realize around the League of League this he some kind transmit the dicament concrete ore accident. This the worker has. then reflected outwards I think the paper is becoming can be increasingly open to such people of ide togi til framewor the kind who not as yet have a very ideological framework the may But this is already going devel- sophisticated ideological paper. opment, but whose energy and on. Fourth International

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Political Revolution raises its head Workers' Vanguard of Greece (disort thion afile) Bulgaria—the Kremlin's policeman in the Balkans

BULGARIA

still remains faithful the Soviet bureau- to She played a leading part in the Warsaw Pact suppression of the Czechoslovak people, and has constantly condemned her neighbours. "rebellious' in the current struggle between Moscow and Peking for the leadership of the Balkans, Bulgaria acts according to the wishes of her Kremlin masters. Nevertheless the last Congress of the Bulgarian CP showed that the bureaucracy does have its in- dependent interests. The basic demand of the Party the was of improvement relations with the Balkans, but the 'Brezhnev doctrine' "limited sovereignty' of denies Bulgaria the opportunity to raise relations above the platonic level 'friendship', 'peace', "co-operation', etc. The proposal of the CP lead- ership for trans-Balkan con- squashed ference by the Kremlin. This was the action of nation, great not DOW Cr The Kremlin does socialist state. everything it can to obstruct the of unity of the bureau- prospect Balkan states. cratic Bulgaria is always critical of the friendship of the 'rebels' with China, but is still able to applaud Greece. their stronger ties with By her participation in the War- saw Pact manoeuvres carried out 1947 Bled, Yugoslavia : Premie on her borders, she revealed her role the Kremlin's policeman as the Balkans. workers' states in the deformed Balkans, these are no more than The deformation of the affairs, temporary overshadowed slogan 'For a Socialist Moscow, i by interference from Balkan Federation' and the between the rivalry

USSR

and China. They have no of relevance the serving the

LONG

time has passed of the masses and their since the idyllic days of 1947- interests for when Tito aspirations socialist pact 1948 and Dimitrov and peace. the need for were agreed on Socialist Balkan Federation.

The The Rumanian proposals for Comintern slogan for such Balkan Pact, by accepted Federation was abandoned. Yugoslavia, are nothing more proved irreconcilable with the than agreement between an nationalist 'communism' of the second-rate bureaucracies for the Stalinists of the USSR and the defence of their privileges against Balkans alike. the piratical interventions of In this period of crisis for the Moscow and Peking, disguised bureaucracy, the new proposals under the slogan 'bureaucrats of for Balkan Pact are placed all lands, unite'. in different context-devoid of Tito's declaration that his any class, socialist meaning. will country remain 'uncom- Today it is a case of manoeuvr- mitted is tantamount on the ing one• between capitalism and bur- hand. confirmation of his eaucracy, in order to serve the of the idea of the unity Such rejection interests of both. man- and of socialist states, the oeuvres of course take place other -to an independent policy behind the backs of the masses of treacherous and against them. co-existence with imperialism. The correct concept The counter-revolutionary con- of a 'Socialist Balkan Federation' tent of the 'friendship pacts' now has degenerated into a 'Pact' of being cooked up has been ex- deformed workers' states, to fit posed by the well-publicized to- the reactionary theory fro-ings of Heath, ings "socialism in one country'.

Brandt, Nixon, which give etc., Rumanian the leaders of the bureaucracy The proposals for much pleasure. 'neutralization' 'nuclear- in the Balkans The antagonism between the free zone are as great powerina Sovie BOn, false they great as are deceptive. in China and the EEC- the well-worn of 'disarm- vein attempting t ament' to solve their with which the crises masses nullifies chances can deme gically deceived. How of a real Balkan accord. can there understanding As for the deals between the tween capitalist and socialist Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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states? How can there be solid- brought about Yu seala. revolutionary The hetween the eastern. states when one section of the bureau- of Tito political regime was Even cracy sits the fence between shaken foundations. to its E and This is nothing less Tito's reforms, the federa- W? with than conscious opportunism and tion was in danger of disintegra- Thousands betrayal. and decay. of strikes swept the country.

This The. Ceausescu-Tito plan for was an the deer and disarm- Balkan accord displeasure of the workers and to include in the first ament, students at their inequality and Rumania, stage Yugoslavia Bul- oppression, and the undermining and Albania, garia and in the wages by inflation. second stage Greece and Turkey build political The crisis smashed the them weaker TO bridges these states. and to enterprises increased employment. Emigration reached Their dilemma in this" great cloud-cuckoo land, of unprecedented. level. One course. "s million workers, who had not yet who going disarm whom! 1S to realized any Until, of US means of removing that the tanks the reactionary bureaucracy, left imperialism or: Soviet bureau- for the capitalist states the cracy roll in to crush the working

EEC.

The people of these, countries. joined in the тест struggle. likely more, ,thạt this: counter- reyolutionary co existence will be There …had been precedent totally by'! the for' this strike wave-the strikes approaching anti • bureaucratic in the mines of Slovenia in 1958, polițical revolution and the anti- the shipyard of Riieka, and the capitalist revplution. mines of Bosnia-Hercegovina. The bureaucracy banned what traile demide they 'wild and uncon- strikes, but was forced to The Political Revolution "legal' However, it permit ones. raises its head in the did stop trying to throttle •not the strikes degenerated Workers' with violence. The masses took part in several States in the Balkans riots, but without leadership the workers weak and the were Stalinists were able to isolate the

THE

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Part three of a the The same applies to struggles of the students, who, reflecting the the misery working class, fought until they had gained control of their unt- Workers and versities. students were fighting for freedom against the The political bureaucracy revolution had erupted the streets in the Balkans. result, Stalinist As stepped oppression was up Rumania. Bulgaria and Albania. The seething discontent of the is boposition ot masses nearing and it the presupposition IS the Trotskyist that the Dally political revolution will triumph of and overthrew the gangsters Stalinism. The United Socialist States of the Balkans

THE

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for the United Socialist States of the from Balkans the his- springs torical necessity of our epoch. Enver Hoxha : from the be understood can Albanian leade for a United wider demand Socialist States of Europe, which National and dis- dom 1 the today assumes an even greater crimination as/ practised ning bureaucratic bour- the importance. states Is a S Only nationalized and geois tendency. It is essential that the all these nations should have the nation planned economy, under the freedom to determine their system and workers' own The Cover United the present crisis destiny. as part of trol, can solve lant l Socialist States Balkans, way for of the and prepare the econo- tion c It is in order to rid themselves of the mic development. pre- This relics of the requisite for the democratization bourgeois histori Only a United Socialist States of workers' and the the princi raising of the cultural level and can carry through the struggle opmen the against the capitalist class in the the economic conditions of Balkan countries where they still Onl masses. Balkan hold Only demand dialect The of the power. this unity can guarantee the unity required workit workers' is necessity states be realized by to overthrow the counter-revolu- which only tionary the these means. There must be com- bureaucracy through the plete equality between all states political revolution, with the ward demand for and national equal rights, greater letaria minorities. of parity wages, the freedom to of the The Yugoslav federation, even reforms strike, freedom for the trade with the constitutional and the self-government of its workers' control, free- fraudulent 'cover' nations, is for equality- -to conceal the ex- of the ploitation and oppression Tito's dramatic call in Brioni for a decentralized Yugo slav federation merely

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the bureaucracy's inability to solve their own problems. of the workers, The demands and students for a real peasants has democratic soviet equality bankruptcy of demonstrated the Yugoslav the 'road to socialism'. Tito's conception of federal unity really belongs to the last century, when the bourgeoisie was en- struggle gaged against feudalism. epoch of Lenin and Trotsky, 'self-determination' become a reality, not vague, insincere, abstraction.

The theses cheese d Lenin be re- federation in with which self-determination is in- complete, or in which one strong dominates the others, does Serbia in Yugoslavia. only The Croat problem can be understood context of in the this demand for self-determina- In their struggle tion. bureaucracy the the workers must raise the same Tito with Nixol demands once put that Trotsky forward for the Ukraine. Magpie

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Mcou hursday December 30, 1971

PAGE THREE

CP property... on the move IT JUST had to happen — a takeover-bid for the Communist Party of Great Britain by City estate speculators, I mean.

real Already the capitalist class owns part of the Party in the form of the CP's adaptation to the master's ideology. After all, peaceful co-existence never. hurt any employer. But the lust for money and profit knows no bounds, despite the CP's belief to the opposite.

So now the speculators are after the Party mammoth King St headquarters, no less. One s, plan- syndicate is apparently willing to ests of bid £lm four-storey for the tion of building. 1 inter- What is the reason for the etc. siege now being laid by several estate and impor- agents property developers? There surely cannot onstruc- be anything political about it if ties. the CP is involved? on the One man in the City tells us Marxist the scramble is because the site • devel- is exempt from Greater London Council development plans for that part of Covent Garden.

theory, ito the While all around it is demol- ished, King ship oy will stand splendid isolation. As a result ay for- the market value of the site will soar. he pro- The tycoons are now ferreting bjective around for the identity of the nal. CPs' landlord, without luck so er 1971 Rumour has it, though, that the Party is its own landlord. In any case they have a long lease if nothing else, according to Reuben Falber, the assistant general secretary. Their reluctance to part with the property is difficult to under- stand. the main If you are one of of capitalism in Britain props there should be no qualms in making a few bob out of it. And the way things are going there's not much time left. LP property... on the move THE LABOUR PARTY is on the move, physically this time.

The reason: Their landlords, the Transport and General Workers' Union, want to increase the rent of their Smith Square premises by 400 per cent when the lease expires in 1976. Last week the national execu- tive ordered work to start on finding a . permanent London headquarters for the Labour to discover how the Party and room. 5.20 money could best be raised.

About In any event, officials have for Cross- some years been operating 'in a.

7.30 series of cubby holes' ndon. , according nema. to Party chairman Ian Mikardo.

That would go only a little way to explaining some of the mean, Tory policies expounded by leading Labourites over the 40 years they've occupied Trans- • 4.30 port House. But when your landlord puts bear. r6.00 the rent . up from £23,000 to £100,000 it only goes to show there are no friends like reform- ist friends. Sudden omper loyalty LAST WEEK'S papers showed gruesome pictures of collabora- tors with Pakistan being clubbed and bayoneted to death in Dacca Film: by BanglaDesh freedom fighters.

5.50 it in 7.00 4. F. Kabir has remained the Economic Minister of the Pakis- tan High Commission in London throughout the whole time Yahya Khan was butchering his people in E Bengal. Now that the die is cast in opper. favour of Bangla Desh he has oking decided to change sides. room. British And he is not the only one.

aptain 5.20 Bengali diplomats around the loday. world are suddenly discovering Film: that their loyalty lies with Bangla : Lon- Desh. ports- ive-in. But where was • this loyalty during the nine bitter months of war with Pakistan? Awami League leaders are always saying they are building 3.45 a democracy. It will be interest- 4.55 News. ing to see if, when it comes to of her collaborators, there is one law Man'. for the rich and another for the 11.05 poor.

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Workers Press, Thursday December 30, 1971 Monsanto Environment Ministry reveals sack 20 p.c. Pollution of labour in Wrexham AMERICAN-owned Chemical Com. of rivers from its Cefn Mawr works, near Wrexham -arried France W Germany Holland japan er cent a in 1200-strong rce at Cefn Mawr. Report on worsens My Lai

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BRITAIN'S RIVERS are being more heavily polluted than ever in capitalism's frenzied quest suppressed for profit. mileage Cinemas too costly conditions around industrial DETAILS of the My Lai massacre may never have be made public. The US army which previously deteriorated, accoramg lu d say immigrants promised to publish all the findings is now pate mounting to 33m report our today mom cue beginning to hedge. Department of the Environ- The full scale inquiry conducted 'Protest' to 1970 Abo 400. witnesses were inter- against the company headed by LT Gen Willan of the Pee-s repet more appeared Stanley Resor, said: tati Big me to 12 mile to y atum bling block to ViE DEMAND tal of Col Hendersomount-

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prealt wen. Right to Work Committee China at home workers

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Were in Balizer banzer

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may lose their jobs Monday 30 puary 17 Trial demand (Nr Merkland St Tube Stn.)

for Iranians supported the paties which between Stephen Joins Singes. Pressing interests

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BOOmAR HEATH'S 10 €40,000s, the prime minister's 01-622 7029 $ 138,000 gif and his 1 country Published by ceived a hanmier Street, a in Loud or mates President Nixon. donated Purchasing power of wages (percentage increase) 19691970L 1970-1971 Noland canada Belgrum germany Italy Figures for the third quarter of one yof the year befoed with those for the third quarter UNEMPLOYMENT in every

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crease in purchasing power countrv-by-country for has risen during 1971, giving wages years 1969-1970 and 1970- Poser han here were i cent people out an unmistakable indication 1971 indicates a fall in the of the growth of recession rate of increase of real wages in the capitalist world. majority of capitalist in the

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workers evert ShOWS nunared are unemo oved countries. tease i the nim the host The us a hu four out of Compied Dy the Organiza- every hundred in Britain, most and seven tion for Economic Co-opera- advanced capitalist states over more and Development the last two years. hundred in France. The Enese poures almost certainly where the and the cutting decline workers purchasing

POW CE

ue last two yeals unvertaken an over Дідет prices taere are now or memboyment. Ovambo S AFRICAN authorities are

BY A DUNDEE CORRESPONDENT

rival tribe in a bid to smash DURING 1971 the Timex dispute at Dundee Ovambo The diamond stands as one of the bitterest. It was waged workers' strike. The against a tough management in conditions in which is threat- ning Africa's which the men had one hand tied behind their labour-contraci laws. nas backs-by their own union officials.

Datalysed DrOGUCHOn vy alvis bav and Bert Donaldson is one of diamond mines. stewards ine three shop All of the Ovambos are Dundee they, among 21 men still out of open against work following the strike labour laws and have lett the Commenting on the dispute mines for their northern by the factory's auto- Bruce homelands. Maybe Timex are sacrificing setters. Now recruiting teams have The striking entered Okavango -bordering were une auto ShOD producine against with posals Ovamboland on the E- the

HOW

carried® the ap out" strike in order to

SOTT

heid regime over its immediate cuts in wates the neon manization. In the timing here CrISIS interview unemployment situa- easily be due to a thin order Whether this drive has been book because the world but estsar is not radiot zamo that this Posal speed-up usaka Zambia, t would be interestine called on see now manv workers con- wakers cr support the slogan Wicle Backing Kritain' Uvambos. slogan coined by three or four The Commissioner - general 'As I see it, there's no solu- office few years back, for the Indigenous Peoples tion automatiol SW Wet, has Alrica. Cullinz cue workus yeck. dill •rought forward talks berween concessions such Yea-breaks, overtime prech as puppet the leaders the present system, Ovambo and Kavango wor- -and, readon to . Ine role oi and the employers. kers cases. СУСи the unions he went on to say: or two hours a The discussion will sheet-metal workers' week for nothing. I he

COLIC

union in Canada gave a local be imagined on ine labour-contract system.

Call well fficial the basic for Under Tne 3aDoUI aws that these sacrifices have now and did selected been clever v chiets tor work in the mines he employers as part. of the if ter. of are shan graded men. normal' working week, and and carted off for exploitation. right to nature or stave по , would be dictators and it if they could The Ovambo walk- sona reminder Hasslye De but oack or tae

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would short notice. on wiien ne super-pronts or be a good reminder to them.'

the big companies depend.

Socialist Labour League Special Course of lectures following ATUA Natlonal Conference decision to prepare for the bullding of the Party

SUNDAY JANUARY 2

Historical Materialism today ber vonalason

BEAVER HALL, GARLICK HILL

(Nr Mansion House tube) 7 p.m. that the co-operative workers are

HOW

poweriess given by ine status quo. In are G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) wien wares reduced systemaucally Deng Measured-Dator means

IOD

evaluanon. Work,

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

deployment money,

MEETINGS

laco clauses and produc general, it is to Make the Tory government Hall, Clapham Manor BSW4.

again will resign! Clapham Manor Tory government conspiracy.

And in vie suct a slogan.

LONDON:

Labour present Retitt tuesday zoverd January ment pledged to restore figures, obil employacul be more appropriate to aws against the unions. Wharfedale

SKO.

would the Tories resign. Make - yy no is backing Datall: ask Thursday Bruce Crystal. anowner January 8pm. Ruskin

LUTON:

Decem- the sackea auto-setters, Is lat House Coombe Rd. 30, 8 old Bedford from demoralized and tuly Right-to-Work determined to carry the on fight.

WILLESDEN:

Monday a number years in the trade unions. 8pm. Trades the 1960s. Bruce and his wife January Thursday

LONDON:

and Labour Hall, High Rd. December 30, 8pm. jobs Town Support the various miners. Tuesday Edmonton.

BRACKNELL :

to-Work campaign January said: "Red READING: Monday January Lion', High St. right behind the ATUA Manifesto think they were going 8 p.m. the Lidues all

BEXLEYHEATH:

Tuesday all. Minster St.

MENT

allel

LWO

riall DISCuSS ATUA Manifesto. p.m. shifts is bad enough without nuary Crook Trade three.

BIRKENHEAD :

Tuesday *With all this unemployment rights. Hall Hotel. Right-to-Worke anuary

IVLUSIC

DAGENHAM:

Wednesday the shoulen't be alowed 12, am Town Hall. push ROOm campaign. machinery. East Ham this is not SW happening in one wee place, Tuesday The struggle for socialism

LUNDUN:

but all over. This is the same January p.m. Small Bangla Desh.

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