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HE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 65

DECEMBER'S TUC General Council meeting is now known to have aimed a double-pronged The four most dangerous

BY DAVID MAUDE

points from the TUC 'guide.

attack against the working class.

lines' circular to be sent out on Thursday. Besides carrying an anti- communist resolution on Vietnam, it recommended changes in rules and pro- cedures which mark a new phase of its undertaking to do wison's and the em- ployers dirty work in the comment unions logic of last June's VLA trade unionists wno nave seen ne Downing Street agreement TUC's proposals have opened the campaign against Lo slop strikes can De seei the guidelines with the following comments to the more clearly inan ever as Workers Press. tnat or open betraval. "'M ns for the curtailment that ve ne tiell full manager and right. wing tionn official. shop floor steward Coventry Transpo Coventry seas and

'WORKERS

decide e e actio action hey tie their Eddie McLuskey Acting chairman of shop who the steward is responsible.

Sootes Motors' Stoke (Coventry) plant. The oduc take on

SINCE

the leaders have bet, n On strikes productivity of igationson sections will be used b despite sie dear one arted Which the union is party.

ep edict dificulty Platest sire Prove, or tennie all the cards are on he table On shop- Croydon agreement into It is claiming lines. d leslate on thes floor conduct of strike ballots.

Seb F: Ticwu shop meetings should held sters Motors. Oxford. once boks, hald state, the being must to that nee no a pre ented to make decion to which the union is party.

On shop tions. stewards siden ts

AEF

guest on will ever and le hiscanton Hugh on the delines now that Gions a Cold tity ho gh laguar's shop steward, shae that their stewards rule-books, or Let intered leaders aul handbooks, ord Decader 18 Morning wishes State clearly the method You must also speak out these ng at the Treaspry has been.

cecisions on the respective claims senior miners meeti From our own reporte re. through the back ao0 • TUC Genera and 32 percent Council. income olice There can be no trade union of the nons and nurses. Reaches Bernhan Comate teachers unions from or the press for dimost d lne Ministers know that mandarian requirements

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the press are next week expected to give

HOOVER

MAN 17 1971

INSTITUTIO

B.S.C.

wants speed-up before wage rise

BY PETER READ

CURRENT

official strike British Steel Corpora Pontypool orks, ended Sunday, been Have marked • the manage mc ceraton resist any claims. The Corporation is stick- prepared to discus increases speed-up has been co prosses is or the planes Broak and a better holiday pay scheme.

MEETING

The works is expected t sinkers are to had a mast Last the production level. coke ational pier the paid oper monie they are sc morninockout. how i Labor Relation

LESSON

glehilly codame Ted. "Sunday 1 elegran policy succeed used no dadarike, is seldom.

management's is to be let-up i ther tre drive ate Porr whic management's has been on Be peed-us to Pant war in chain blasturnace men are on the that one sobing nearly a management is l sures deals The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Stop Wilson's visit to Nixon Enact ICI's NEW

VIYELLA

BID:

ICI

revealed a fl yesterday million share deal with Viyella, the textile company, which it bought over two million shares. ICI last week made a £50 million bid take-over for Viyella and disclosed plans to merge the company with Car- SUPPORT for our campaign and Dewhurst, rington an- other textile giant. to stop. Wilson's visit to Washington continues to These moves follow the pour in daily from trade boardroom shake-up recent Viyella and the forced union branches, individual resignation of chairman Joe trade union members, Hyman. tenants, young people at school and university and many Communist Party members.

CHOCOLATE

PRICES UP:

Some CP members in the The major chocolate manu- Engineers Amalgamated and facturers are expected shortly Foundryworkers, however, to announce price increases, have claimed that the most already approved by the paign is out of line with the Ministry of Agriculture. policy of their union. This is a lie. Cadbury-Schweppes yester- The AEF National Com- day increased nearly all its mittee is for the ending of and chocolate products cocoa Wilson's support for US by 2d or 3d. imperialism Vietnam, and in leading several members of Other companies-believed the union's executive have to include John Mackintosh, Workers signed the Press Nestle's and Rowntree-will petition on that basis. within increase prices the We are campaigning for next two months. putting that policy into practice through action by the labour movement to stop Wilson's visit. These CP members must GENERAL ARRESTED: One state either that they are for of Indonesia's leading gene Wilson's visit to the mass- rals has been arrested, follow- Nixon — like murderer the ing the earlier of Party's Stalinist King Street of senior army officers group leadership they ... or are accused of plotting to re- against it. the deposed president store There can be no sliding out Sukarno. of this by some middle route.

THE

AEF's Mitcham branch Mrs Suzanna Suadi said demands that Wilson cancels vesterday that her husband, this proposed visit to Nixon Major-General Suadi, 'because he will offer his of National nor Indonesia's moral support for American Defence had Institute, been policy in Vietnam. arrested on Saturday. 'In offering this support, "Wilson Among the officers arrested the branch stresses, behalf of two weeks ago was Major- does not speak on the British labour movement, General Mursid, former am- bassador to the Philippines.

who oppose deliberate policy of murder of the Viet- namese workers and peas- ants.' Copies of the resolution are to be sent to the union's

KUZNETSOV FOR PEKING:

district executive, the local Soviet Foreign First Deputy and the Mitcham Minister Mr Kuznetsov is Trades Council. Peking return to 'within the

SIMILAR

resolutions have next few days' to resume the been carried Sheffield's by border negotiations with the Hillsborough and No. 12 AEF Chinese delegation which be- branches. gan on October 20. LIVERPOOL's No. 21 and Mr Kuznetsov, who leads Swindon's Walcott No. eight-man Russian the dele- AEF branches have also de- returned Moscow gation, to

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T.U.C. 'guidelines' open the door for new anti-union laws

- UNDER ATTACK

DECEMBER'S TUC General Council meeting now known to have aimed a double-pronged attack against the working class.

lines' circular to be sent out Besides carrying an anti- Midlands resolution on communist Vietnam, it recommended changes in rules and pro- cedures which mark a new trade unionists to are the hire preter dog fall ed a ten phase of its undertaking to do Wilson's and the em- ployers' dirty work in the comment unions, June's logic ot last MIDLANDS trade unionists who have seen The Downing Street be seen lUGs proposals have opened the campaign against the 'guidelines' with the following comments to the that of open betrayal. Workers Press tate clearly the boathod bin thet anton a poon the meterines would it wim the conflict follow basic radi hot the views the macaler and right-wing union shop floor must Thursday, the council rom McLatchiat Cour- Will Send Trades Union Contes From auld's (Engineering), Loventry. in the ni es which

•WORKERS

decide IHE KGdI-WING union cide ake are stew ene essary and it will bee they have remained chop stead and a d they chinken of shop the steward is re Iresponsible. wind of nese proposals - on the more left. The duties and responsibili Stoke vant to tie workers stewar good reason! ustry counci On strikes ris quit: the by every right these Croydon is process Berks of unio the tabill the cards are on On shop- Ramening vie probably floor this connect prose boss. Senio Tacwu shop meetings so ca wheellots need erd Motors, I and asis, ed, or dur Encibooks should state, the strengthen an Hasse wagship: y-Ferguson shop appropriate Coventry. ance, the neat into complain et doc, than out of the conduct of ballots.

i of establishment, compan that Which the idea is party. draw their labour On shop hese "guldelines rank and inte attack stewards aulon on whatever questio uestion the sure that etary 5/55 (cars) left-wing union leaders would ave preferred a nore storming should mentalisseds- until procedure Star, December 18) State clearly the method You must also speak out Most of this is completely Whitehall scurry over now light which teachers' and nurses' pay and the st decisions on the respective etrayal by the trade called for tomorr claims Clalms. with From our own reporter uctivity, Mrs Barbara docu wage increases. I nurses and J4 per c detend cre the * has flo Mr tancy police d Thrace without ade com bout dub Jenkins call plete and utter поток і сте so farias sa T Council nurses Whitle alteen in the hand. The Ministers know that a clinical in- or in prese cent hands

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SITUCLOTS,

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in 17 1971

INSTITUTIOA

B.S.C. "

wants . speed-up before wage rise

BY PETER READ

THE

CURRENT

official SUIKe une steer corpora rontyDool work. and tne Margam stee. works. rort lalbot. dis pute, which ended or have both been Sundav. manted determi man fe ment's determination resist any claims. pay scheme.

MEETING

a production level. urmly to strike to ational over the holiday.

When the men _ arrived back Saturda for work on were faced hi lock-out. now ESCs Labour Relation

LESSON

sterily this the lesbos is to units to de Hock our of the used nowadays Tal-up e •Greer speed-up o een morial ske action. bat turnace mentary of hi Percins, chemed hin

BSC

Christmas about the dama had o made nearly ago s latest dispute at Por 'Green Boo productivity ty t of binding. The daily organ of the " Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Stop Wilson's visit to Nixon Enact ICT revealed yesterday

BID:

revealed yesterday a fl million with Viyella, the textile company, in which it bought over two million shares. ICI last week made a £50 million take-over bid for Viyella and disclosed plans to merge the company with Car- SUPPORT for our campaign rington and Dewhurst, an- other textile giant. to Washington to These moves follow the pour in recent boardroom shake-up Viyella at and the forced resignation of chairman oe trade union members, Hyman. and many Party members.

CHOCOLATE

PRICES UP:

in the The chocolate major manu- Amalgamated Engineers and facturers are expected shortly however, to announce price increases, that the most already approved by the Ministry of Agriculture. a lie. Cadbury-Schweppes yester- Com- day increased nearly all its mittee the ending of cocoa and chocolate products Wilson's US for by 2d or 3d. imperialism Vietnam, and several of Other -believed the union's have executive signed the Press Rowntree-will We are for next two months. policy putting into labour to stop Wilson's visit. These CP members must GENERAL ARRESTED: One state of Indonesia's leading gene- to the mass- rals has been arrested, follow- murderer the ing the earlier arrest of Party's King Street of senior army officers group leadership they or are accused of plotting to re- against it. the deposed president store Sukarno. of this by branch Suadi Mrs Suzanna said Wilson cancels vesterday that her husband, Suasi, Nationa Major-General gover- 'because he will offer his nor of Indonesia's moral for American Defence had Institute, been arrested on Saturday. "In this support, Among the officers arrested the branch Wilson Major- does not behalf of two weeks ago was General Mursid, former am- who deliberate bassador to the Philippines. oppose the policy of Viet- and peas- ants.' of Copies resolution are to

KUZNETSOV FOR PEKING:

executive, district local Soviet First Deputy Foreign the Mitcham committee Minister Mr Kuznetsov is to Peking return to 'within the

SIMILAR

have next few days' to resume the carried Sheffield's been by border negotiations with the Hillsborough and No. 12 AEF Chinese delegation which be- branches. gan on October 20. LIVERPOOL's No. and Mr Kuznetsov. who leads Walcott Swindon's No. the Russian eight-man dele-

AEF

branches have also de- returned Moscow gation,

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PAGE TWO

'WITHOUT revolution- ary theory, no revolution.

ary party, wrote Lenin. Parties of the Bolshevik type start from the revolu- tionary role of the working class as the only class which can carry forward the produc- tive forces of mankind, by smashing the capitalist state and constructing socialism.

These parties are based on the scientific theories of Marx and Engels, developed by Lenin and Trotsky; these theories do not arise directly out of the experience of the working class, but are brought into the class struggle 'from without. The theory then develops in intimate connection with the class struggle and the building of the revolutionary party.

Marxists characterize the imperialist stage of capitalism, i.e. the period since the 1890s, as the highest and final stage of capitalism, in which wars and revolutions, reflecting the barriers created by capitalist private property to the further development of mankind's pro- ductive forces, predominate.

For parties of the Bolshevik type, i.e. the Socialist Labour League and the affiliated sec- tions of the International Com- of the Fourth Inter- mittee national, all strategical and changes are placed tactical within a study of the relation- ship of class forces inter- nationally considered from the standpoint of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, which we have outlined. When our opponents, such as the reformists, Stalinists and revisionists, call us 'dog- matists' and complain of our 'rigidity' and 'failure to face up to changing reality, they are in fact objecting to our adher- ence to these basic principles.

They advocate instead a of opportunist adapt- series ations to the surface reality of capitalism, a surface which is determined by the superstruc- ture of capitalist politics and ideology. task of Marxism is, The starting from the continuity of the conquests of Marxist theory in the past, to penetrate the through the surface to reality of class conflict under- neath, and from there break up the surface. Marxism The crucial point of this process is to bring socialist consciousness, Marxism, to a victory over 'trade union con- , which is, as Lenin sciousness', stressed, bourgeois conscious- ness and not the embryo of political or socialist conscious- ness. A recent issue of the maga- zine International Socialism' (organ of the group led by Mr T. Cliff, which declares the USSR, China and the East European deformed workers' states to be 'state capitalist' in nature), devotes a long article by Duncan Hallas, entitled 'Building the Revolutionary Party' to an attack on the Socialist Labour League.!

The basis of this attack is that the SLL has consistently adhered to the founding pro- gramme of the Fourth Inter- national, "The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International (Tran- sitional Programme), which Hallas declares to be irrele- vant or false'. Hallas presents a tissue of selected quotations and inci- dents out of context over the period since 1938, and we shall have to deal with his distor- tions in detail in order to show the essence of his political method and to explain the actual processes from which 1 'International Socialism', No.

40, October-November 1969.

The revisionist groupings without exception daily publication of the Workers Press.

the first issue in Brighton on September 27.

A SERIES OF FOUR A

CLIFF SLAUG

he has extracted his material; but first it is necessary • to understand the principled differences between Marxism and opportunism to which we have referred. The International Socialism' group's rejection of the gains of the October Revolution is entirely characteristic of the opportunist's rejection of the continuity of Marxism and of the experience and historical gains of the working class.

The petty-bourgeois oppor- tunist begins instead from the surface of events. The attacks on the Socialist Labour League in which they indulge are an essential part of the same method. They attack us as the continuators of Bol- shevism. The political strength of the Socialist Labour League, mani- fested above all in the publica- tion of the daily Workers Press, our intervention in the Communist Party Congress and Wilson's the campaign to stop visit to Washington, is above all a of Marxist vindication principle against all opportun- ism in matters of theory, pro- gramme and organization. When the opportunist enemies of Trotskyism attack these principles, they serve directly the bureaucratic agents of capitalism in the labour starting movement, always from the temporary and rela- tive stabilizations of capitalism bureau- combined with the cratic domination of the labour movement which makes such stabilizations possible. Defeats The revisionists who have abandoned the Fourth Inter- national and its programme- 'state capitalists' and the Pabloite revisionists—are pre- cisely the product of this past period of defeats of the work- ing class, defeats which have been the essential basis of the retention of control by the bureaucracy and the conse- quent survival of the capitalist system. The basic theoretical out- ithout exception are at a loss to explain the developn Above: Young Socialists and trade ur corresponding look oooortunism ıs summec one wora: empiricisn mpiricism is the c tic philosonhv ot th : hrst c lass established in po Its empiricism is th sophical summary sion of its historical r outlook a ps eris ess into the 'posse dense piricism and utilitaria indivicl ot exten which Fall back This distilled materialism of Hobbes development, notwiths Donucal comp pseudo- roupings opposed to m in cae Dausa labo back Chif en teve ali the , harxisp view of toe Marxıst vien unio berweer revolutionary tinking aidce n Kos os an th ai fo llow a coas se ofe eir Inavo Anmanlon ts and trade unionists march to gi

WORKERS' PRES

politics, it consists of a series ! tactical improvisations, twists and turns, in response to the immediate appearance of strength of the class enemy or weakness of the working class, and the fluctuations of middle-class public opinion, with all the scope granted to the 'radical' manifestations of the latter in English parlia- mentary, journalistic and aca- demic life. Not surprisingly, these groupings, from the Stalinists to the 'state capitalists', are at a loss to explain the develop- ment of the SLL. According to them, our in- sistence on the unity of theory and practice, on Marxist prin- ciple, and our their (i.e. their ability to bend to the pressure of the class enemy and its agents, which is not at all the same as the flexibility of tac- tics necessary to Marxists on the basis of the historical struggle for programme) ought long ago to have consigned us to political oblivion; indeed they themselves have with regularity pre- monotonous dicted for us just such a fate.

And now, when the develop- ment of our work stares them in the face in one sphere after another, they begin to refer to •... the tragic failure of the

SLL

to fulfil its early prom- ise. ..!3 A leading member of the gives us an excel- same group lent definition of the 'state capitalist' view of the relation between theory and practice: 'A too rigid revolutionary theory can be more disastrous than a reformist practice, with the latter it can at least be changed in the future, with the former every struggle has to be seen in cataclysmic terms."

Just as we have seen that a this revolutionary party can train up in its cadres only in a thorough understanding of the neces- acter- sarily revolutionary nature of nglish the whole epoch in which we italist live, so it is also true that a I. constant struggle for the method of dialectical material- philo- ism is necessary for the build- xpres- ing of the party. e and Yet here we have Higgins, ess of like Tony Cliff, painstakingly і capi- advocating an empiricist re- f the formism against Marxist er to theory. It is not here a ques- wage- tion of 'too rigid revolutionary con- theory', but of Marxism. ve in- The message is that the state • em- capitalists will conform to the n: the 'English' method of adaptation h the to the 'facts', and the com- as a plaint against the Trotskyists facts, is that they will not behave in apted; this English bourgeois manner.

facts The use of the word 'revo- ward, lutionary' by the state capitalist modi- spokesman is here as always nothing but phrasemongering, because it is accompanied by the opposite of revolutionary capitulation to preparation: odless bourgeois ideology on theoreti- finally cal questions, and abandon- ilitant ment of the struggle against opportunism which must mean nd its inding acceptance of the politics of mises, opportunism. The first great experience of larxist the proletarian movement in the imperialist era in this re- otsky- that opportunism move- spect was would use 'theoretical' phrases s em- sense'. of a Marxist kind to obscure and thus facilitate its service y of a to the needs of the ruling class.

theory Great lesson y from f the lation That was the great lesson of and the betrayal of social democ- hus: racy in the First World War.

e of a In Higgins' statement we have ion is precisely this phrasemongering, action, packaged in the condemnations on—of 'rigidity' and 'orthodoxy' 1 of its which sound so 'reasonable' to e his- ive of the petty-bourgeois intellec- tual. ricists The Fourth International wn in had to fight its first great theoretical and political battle ctives', No. 36, against exactly such a petty- bourgeois tendency in the shape of James Burnham and Max Schachtman in the Social- ! " : ist Workers' Party (USA) in 1939-1940. Trotsky's book 'In Defence of Marxism' contains the re- cord of this battle. This petty-bourgeois opposi- tion wanted to confine the dis- :: • : cussion to 'concrete' questions, and particularly to the Nazi- Soviet Pact. Trotsky exposed the pragmatic, subjective and impressionistic method behind this, the abandonment of dia- lectical materialism and of the continuity of the Marxist movement. was smoked out Burnham conscious pragmatist; as a Shachtman played an especially treacherous role, declaring that a difference between dialectical materialism and empiricism- pragmatism need not involve political consequences. These methodological ques- tions must predominate in our answer to Hallas' latest attack on the SLL and Trotskyism.

Characteristically, he does not discuss the history of the SLL and its predecessors with any accounting of the role of his own tendency in relation to it. His standpoint is exactly 3 Hallas, ap. cit. 4 J. Higgins, 'The Origins of the Communist Party' in 'Inter- national Socialism', No. 40.

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Cliff and others like them were directly involved in many of the events to which he refers.

His presentation appears to concentrate on concrete ques- tions, above all on the relation of Trotskyist policies to the changing economic situation of capitalism and the strength of Stalinist and reformist the bureaucracies, which, accord- ing to Hallas, have rendered the Transitional Programme out-of-date. Trotsky shows conclusively in 'In Defence of Marxism' that this apparent 'concrete- ness', because it separates out questions from the overall historical nature of the pro- cesses within which they occur, and because it excludes a his- torical reckoning with the role of the Marxist party which is makıng the analysis and inter- vention, is in of fact a way dissolving the concrete into the abstract. Middle-class Hallas's method is in direct continuity with that of Burn- ham and Shachtman, just as is his political position on nature of the USSR. His attack is another stage in the perennial middle-class attack on Marxism, concen- trated directly ever more against the revolutionary party and dialectical materialism.

Hallas and Cliff know very well that the theoretical and political groundwork which they lay creates a situation where many of the members of their tendency openly dis- dialectical materialism; avow capitalist the state group actually provides a breeding- ground for relatively sophisti- cated methods of destroying the theoretical roots of Marx- ism while appearing to be 'Marxists' special some "modern', actually very 'British' not 'inter- (and certainly national socialist'), type.

Cliff is open about this. He will explain, like Shachtman, that he himself 'accepts' dia- lectical materialism, but that both among his members, leaders and rank and file, there are some who do not; they all consider that the question of adherence to the dialectic is not an important one in rela- tion to membership or even leadership of their organiza- tion. In the universities, where their members are concen- trated, the International Social- ism group are represented by young and not-so-young men are busy reconciling who Marxism with the varieties of empiricism and theoretical im- provisation fashionable in sociology and the philosophy science, not to mention tired refurbishings of bour- geois economics. Among them are some who openly proclaim themselves 'Mensheviks'. Verdict The 'hypothesis-testing' and 'model-building' of these em- piricist and pragmatist bour- geois schools of thought is related directly to Higgins' defence of 'reformist practice' on the grounds that 'it can at least be changed in the future'; i.e. it is a hypothesis or model to be modified according to every change in the facts'.

Exactly the same method is involved in Hallas' verdict that the SLL bases itself on a programme which is irrelevant or false'. In his own way Hallas realizes that to take on a criticism of the SLL is to challenge the whole basis of the Fourth International. He writes: 'A serious criticism of the politics of the SLL involves not merely a criticism of the views of the theorists of that organ- ization, but a re-examination of the original Fourth Inter- nationalist tradition of which, in essentials, they are the most constrent defenders in this The actual meaning of this passage and all that follows it is that Hallas consciously 5 Hallas, op. cit., p. 25.

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hat of empiricism, 1.e. that o the observe aroma rine out see tne process Tony many of of Trotskyist the oralinist TelormIst ureaucracies role the abstract. e incoreticat and well that groundered situation of the members many tendency openly. dis- dialectical malchalsil, the theoretical roots of apPearine walle 'Marxists' some nac is open vill explain hat he himsel accepts dia- recucal mang leaders not an important tion even organiza Icaaersme wuere young up aner-so-esente by and empirsation nd the philosophy not mention tired refurbishings of Dour- geols economics. are Among them Mensheviks Verdict model buildings of shee piricist hought elated defend of retor mist Higgins it can at on the grounds that call a east be chanze I lac lucul that the Sil verdict bases itself on a Stake She Forn themational: t basis of the in senia they are the most ne actua meaning or t passage and all that

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Hallas consuously 5 Hallas, op. cit., p. 25.

counterposes to the dialectical- materialist outlook that of the vacillating petty bourgeois and his empiricism. This vacillation and its theoretical rationalization in 'experimentation' 'non- and dogmatism' is the direct re- flection of the desperate posi- tion of the middle class and its intelligentsia between the two principal classes in an epoch of wars and revolutions. But the petty bourgeoisie is independent not an de- Or cisive historical class. It has not the resources to develop and establish an independent ideology. What we have described is only the characteristic habit of thought and feeling of the petty bourgeois, elaborated in political - theoretical terms. Only in countries and in his- torical periods when the de- velopment of the ruling class provides favourable conditions can this characteristic habit of thought develop into anything resembling a philosophy. Thus, in the United States, the particular historical con- ditions under which capitalism developed on a 'virgin' sub- continent and encouraged shaped the conscious fashion- ing of the 'pragmatist' philo- sophy of Peirce and James and the 'instrumentalism' of Dewey.

It was from these thinkers that Burnham took his method attacking in dialectical materialism in 1939-1940.

'Dogmatism' he Like them, attacked Marxism for its 'dogmatism'.

The American petty-bourgeois perfectly intellectuals were free to develop such a philo- sophy of compromise and end- less adaptation because con- ditions persisted for a long time which permitted the softening of social conflicts.

Trotsky wrote the following illuminating lines on the sub- ject : "The US Secretary for Agri- culture, Henry A. Wallace, has reproached the author of these 10s. 6d. (paperback) In Defence of Marxism' contains the petty-bourgeois opposition of Burnhar New Park Publications Ltd Tuesday, December 30, 1969 lines for "a dogmatic narrow- The 'socialist' petty-bour- which geois intellectual who inhabits American". and he opposes ti the revisionist groups cannot this Russian the grasp that his contempt for the spirit of leferson. continuity of Marxism, his who knew how to compromise 'experiments', with theoretical enemies.

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"modifications', "bringing up to IT has never entered head that policy of date', and 'facing the changing promise is not function nothing MaCS are national sophisticated reflection of the some non material spirit, but is product of critical historical situation of material conditions. the petty bourgeoisie in a revo- whose wealth grows rapidly epoch all lutionary when sufficient reserves to соп- bureaucratic and ruling-class hostile tradi- parties. When, on the contrary, as well as its the contradictions tional ideologies, social prove for and more bankrupt. The hacie policy of compromise vanishes. This ideological crisis is the If not America has Known key indifference to the and "dogmatic narrowness" that sheer chaos philosophical because it at dis- its questions in the 'state capital- nosal a nethorn of virgin terri.

tory, inexhaustible natural ist' and other revisionist at least in riches, and, appear- possibilities Revolutionary leadership is enrichment. And yet even in built with a quite different and these the of conditions spirit opposed method. not prevent comnromica civil war when the struck. Adaptation any case, material the conditions which constituted "Americanism" the basis For Hallas, the development belong today more and more of theory is the adaptation in the Henceforth there past. his own (or Tony Cliffs) head will be profound crisis of his ideas to the changing traditional American ideology. 'Empirical thinking, limited immediate reality. For us, theory develops only The colition Immarlota tasks, seems in adequate through a party which, in fight- working-class well as bour- ing for a political geois circies, for as long as the of the conquest working- of discovered law class power, is able to study Mary fashions everyone's development the thought. today, this very every Runt effects. working class the core of produces opposite as Instead of imnelling the econ.

the analysis of the overall omy forward, it undermines its and ideo. economic, political foundations. Eclectic and con- logical crisis of society.

clintony thoniaht. with ita hoc tile and contemptuous itt code The Marxist carries party Marxism, "dogma" out such a study as itself part which and its of the class in struggle. The Ciderc as a philosophical internal conflicts in the nam sion. becomer be grasped consciously must inadequate, incon- the as reflection the reactionary, and ridic- struggles within the working class and, deeper level, at Pragmatism and empiricism between the classes. are more and more challenged As we have seen, Hallas in even within bourgeois ideology his case against the SLL makes today, from an openly idealist of the role of his and mystical standpoint, be- or of the own group outcome cause of the ineluctable politically of the stand which ing of US capitalism into the centre of the world it took. capitalist crisis. A leadership is built only in the conscious 011T C1111 struggle within the movement "The Living Introduction to Thoughts of Karl Marx.' which uncovers and fights to (hardcover). 21s. Od. sm' contains the frit theoretical battle of the Fourth International against the ition of Burnham and Shachtman in the Socialist Workers' Party.

ications Ltd., 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4.

Tuesday, December 30, 1969 defeat all the forms of bour- geois ideology, together with its reformist counterparts, which penetrates and seeks to destroy the political independence of the working class. Lenin showed, at every vital stage of the development of Bolshevism, that behind the ultra-leftism of the followers of Bogdanov in the years of the Stolypin reaction, or be- hind the opportunism of the 'Old Bolshevik' majority in March lay always failure Marxist to theory against bourgeois philo- sophy in its various idealist forms. Only this type of study and provide Lenin analysis could with the neressary understand- ing of the actual ideological and political division and struggle between the classes.

In understanding the history of our movement own (i.e. particularly of the Trotskyist movement and the early years of Communist Inter- the will national) we need to

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TodaM ovie: Dallas' 6.35 Cross- London. 7.00 Star Western 1 roads. Gary Cooper and Ruth Roman. with 9.00 8.30 Present For Dickie. understand the failure of the Trotskyist movement ear v (and previously the young Communist Parties) to grapple with these philosophical prob- lems. Instead there was a tendency to accept the writings of Trot- sky for earlier, of the Com- munist International and the Bolsheviks) and adapt them directly as a series of maxims the movemedi te proble oven the movement in • own countries. The history of the Socialist Labour League and the Inter- national Committee has been one of struggle to overcome this weakness and to learn the essence of revolutionary pre- paration. attacks When Hallas the history of the SLL, this is of course not his method. Every- thing is in 'common-sense' or 'empirical' terms of 'who was right' about the economic con- of 'orthodoxy' juncture, or versus "flexibility', etc. Natur- ally there can be no objective Bogdanov : His ultra-leftism lay in his failure to develop Marxism against bourgeois ideology. appraisal of his own tendency as part of the process. Taking reformist and syndi alist forms, the 300-year-ol 11.27 Postscript. All regions as BBC-1 except at thi ollowing times: Summary and Weather. North of England: 6.00-6.45 p.m. Lool North, Weather Word. Nationwide. 11.00- 11.25 Not 11.32 News Summary; 45-4.20 p.m. Sunday Set.

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FURTHER EVIDENCE

of the deepening crisis in the British Communist Party has come with the formation recently of what can only be de- scribed as a pro-Zionist faction in the Party's Manchester area. To the worsening sickness of Stalinism, complications are setting in. The pro-Zionist tendency expressed itself at the CP Congress last month with a resolution from the Prestwich branch which condemned the executive committee for failing to appreciate the dangers of 'pan-Arab chauvinism' as the threat to peace in the Middle East. Now this tendency has emerged more openly with the formation of a society calling itself 'Progressives for Peace in the Middle East' , which attacks Arab opposition to Israel and declares its aim to 'combat the intensive propa- ganda by the Arabs directed at the extreme left'. The secretary of this society is Mr Aubrey Lewis, who has been a Communist Party mem- ber for 36 years. Mr Dave Nesbitt and Mr Joe Garman, who are on the committee, are also CP members. Garman had a letter in the "Sanity' re- CND publication supporting Israel and cently denouncing the Arab guerrillas.

According to a report in the Manchester "Jewish Gazette', these CP members say they are opposed to Party policy be- cause it describes Israel as an aggressor. Welcomed This reactionary develop- ment from the Stalinist ranks must have been welcomed by the so-called Particularionist particularly by organizations such as Poale Zion and Mapam. Both these affiliated to movements are parties in the Israeli coalition.

Poale Zion in this country is also affiliated to the British Labour Party, where it serves as a mouthpiece for Zionism.

It mainly works through the 'Labour Friends of Israel', which has the support of a number of MPs ranging from Ray Gunter to Eric Heffer.

Mapam does not compete with Poale Zion on this pitch, but has participated in such bodies as the Movement for Colonial Freedom. At the time of the June war, the Zionists carried out a suc-

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in the Socialist Workers' conzi-soviet 1 the British movement and the de- trade union conscious repeat, bourgeois volutionary leadership orate e in tne struggle to bulla their with formism and That is the thread the which in fact history so distorted hy th ths Part two will appear in tomorrow's Workers Press From Stalin By Charles Parkins Society thir which been • Stalinist influence Mapam then specifically set out to wın over tormel members Now, Lionsin With the peace on. though they can chalk up their first gain. Friends of Israel, the This little gain for the Zion- legitimacy liberation struggle. Some sided with interlectual who Israel in the have been brough ing of the issues by the Israeli occupation policies in the Arab lanas they look Failure succeeded If they have winning some Sat ine seat on then tols indicates inat ine in econom such apen in firm., Stalinism SICknesS laying a crisis by the ine war Wa War: test any Party which claims to be communist; and the Communist Party of Grea Britain can hardly sar Marxist principlesona pred, revolutionary Middie-East it had never taken consistent stand Palestip ried stalli irtition of in 1950 'Britain's Crisis of Em book pire, referred to the progres nature Subsequently munist supported solutio Middle-East problems Madelers able still dees British Peace Council, appeared on a Joint platiorm Wesker and other Zionists Arnold

Tuesday, December 30, 1969 defeat all the forms of bour- geois ideology, together with its reformist counterparts, which penetrates and seeks to destroy the political independence of the working class. Lenin showed, at every vital stage of the development of Bolshevism, that behind the ultra-leftism of the followers of Bogdanov in the years of the Stolypin reaction, or be- hind the opportunism of the 'Old Bolshevik' majority in March 1917,, lay always a failure to Marxist develop theory against bourgeois philo- sophy in its various idealist forms. Only this type of study and analysis could provide Lenin with the necessary understand- ing of the actual ideological political division and struggle between the classes.

In understanding the history of our own movement (i.e. particularly of the Trotskyist novement and the early years of Communist the inter- national) we will need to

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7.00 Star Western Movie. "Dallas' roads. with Gary Cooper and Ruth Roman. 8.30 A Present For Dickie. ( 9.00 understand the failure of the Carly Trotskyist movement previously the young Communist Parties) to grapple with these philosophical prob- lems. Instead there was a tendency to accept the writings of Trot- sky (or_ earlier, of the Com- munist International and the Bolsheviks) and adapt them directly as a series of maxims to the immediate problems of the movement in their own countries. The history of the Socialist Labour League and the Inter- national Committee has been struggle to overcome one of this weakness and to learn the of revolutionary pre- essence paration. When Hallas attacks the history of the SLL, this is of course not his method. Every- thing is in 'common-sense' or 'empirical' terms of 'who was right about the economic con- of 'orthodoxy' juncture, or versus "flexibility', etc. Natur- ally there can be no objective Bogdanov : His ultra-leftism lay in his failure to develop Marxism against bourgeois appraisal of his own tendency as part of the process. Taking reformist and syndi- calist forms, the 300-year-old 11.27 Postscript. All wins i es: BBC.1 except at the Ay Look 1645. Midlands Midlands ).m Neather, Nationwide. 11.32 News Summary and Weather. North of England: 6.00-604W Pm 11000- North; Weather, Nationwidel 11.25 Not Word. 11.32 News Summary, Weather. Scotland: 3.45-4.20 Sunday Set. p.m. 6.00-6.45 Reporting Scotland, Nation- wide. 11.27 Epilogue, News Head- lines. Northern Ireland: 6.00-6.45 p.m. Scene Nationwide. Around Six, Weather, 11.00-11.30 Replay '96. 11.32 News Weather. Telewele. Headlines, 5.20-5.50 p.m. Wales: 6.00- Weather 7.05-7.30 Today Heddiw. 6.45 Wales Nation- wide. 6.45-7.05 Ask The Family. 8.00-8.05 New Or Newydd. 8.05-8.25 Z Cars. 8.25: 8.50 Ryan A Ronnie. South and West: 6.00-6.45 p.m.

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I1.02 a.m.-12.03 p.m. Headlines. Castle London. 4.15 News 4.17 Sean The Leprechaun. 4.30 Haven. 4.55 6.00 London. Grampian News and Farming News. 6.15 Out Of Town. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 The Film Stars: 'Undercover Man' Glenn with Ford. 8.30 A Present For Dickie. 9.00- 11.30 London. The petty-bourgeois opposition in the S wanted to confine (Hallas's true mentors) 'concrete' questions—-particularly the Nazi-s questions of philosophy. Above: Stalin ¿ foreign minister. empiricist and individualist philosophy of the English bourgeoisie has been and „re- mains the basic form of bour- geois idealism against which Marxism has to struggle. Despite the appearance of 'concreteness' of the problems dealt with by Hallas, it is this battle on philosophical ques- tions which is the key to the history of the Marxist move- ment and which draws such a fundamental dividing line be- tween the SLL and the re- visionists. The decisive struggle is for the victory of socialist con- By Charles P FURTHER EVIDENCE cesst of the deepening crisis in the British Communist Party has come with the formation recently of what can only be de- scribed as a pro-Zionist faction in the Party's Manchester area. To the worsening sickness of Stalinism, complications are setting in. The pro-Zionist tendency expressed itself at the CP Congress last month with a resolution from the Prestwich branch which condemned the executive committee for failing to appreciate the dangers of 'pan-Arab chauvinism' as the threat to peace in the Middle East. Now this tendency has emerged more openly with the formation of a society calling itself 'Progressives for Peace in the Middle East', which attacks Arab opposition to Israel and declares its aim to 'combat the intensive propa- ganda by the Arabs directed at the extreme left'. The secretary of this society is Mr Aubrey Lewis, who has been a Communist Party mem- ber for 36 years. Mr Dave Nesbitt and Mr Joe Garman, who are on the committee, are also CP members. Garman had a letter in the CND publication 'Sanity' re- cently supporting Israel and denouncing the Arab guerrillas.

According to a report in the Manchester 'Jewish Gazette', these CP members say they are opposed to Party policy be- cause it describes Israel as an aggressor. Welcomed This reactionary develop- ment from the Stalinist ranks must have been welcomed by the Zionists, particularly by the so-called 'Labour Zionist' organizations such as Poale Zion and Mapam. Both these movements are affiliated to parties in the Israeli coalition.

Poale Zion in this country is also affiliated to the British Labour Party, where it serves as a mouthpiece for Zionism.

It mainly works through the 'Labour Friends of Israel', which has the support of a number of MPs ranging from Ray Gunter to Eric Heffer.

Mapam does not compete with Poale Zion on this pitch, but has participated in such bodies as the Movement for Colonial Freedom. At the time of the June war, the Zionists carried out a suc- sition in the Socialist Workers' Party anted to confine the discussion to the ularly the Nazi-Soviet Pact-and avoid the Above : Stalin greets Ribbentrop, Nazi sciousness in the British labour movement and the de- feat of trade union conscious- ness, which, we repeat, is bourgeois consciousness. In the struggle to build re- volutionary leadership on this basis, the Socialist Labour League has been on one side, and the 'state capitalists', with their with compromises re- formism and empiricism, on the other. That is the thread which in fact runs through the history so distorted by Hallas.

Part two will appear in tomorrow's Workers Press arles Parkins cessful take-over operation the 'Workers' Circle', a Jewish society which had previously been under Stalinist influence.

Mapam then specifically set out to win over former CP to Zionism. Now, members with the formation of the *Progressives for Peace in the Middle East' group, it looks as though they can chalk up their first gain. As a counterpart to the 'Labour Friends of Israel', we now have the 'Stalinist Friends of Israel'! This little gain for the Zion- ists is in complete contrast with the general trend on the left which has been away from illusions in Zionism and to- wards a recognition of the legitimacy of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Some of the intellectuals who sided with Israel in the created by the atmosphere Zionists at the time of the June war have been brought towards a clearer understand- ing of the issues by the Israeli occupation policies in the Arab lands they took. Failure Professional Zionist propa- gandists have acknowledged their failure to win 'left-wing opinion' If they have succeeded in winning some Stalinists, then this indicates that the seat of sickness is in Stalinism the itself, laying it open to fresh infections, such as nationalism, or Zionism. Jewish members of the Com- munist Party were thrown into a crisis by the June war. Wars put to the test any Party which claims to be communist; and the Communist Party of Great Britain can hardly be regarded as a school for international- ism or Marxist principles !

How could the Party give lead to its members, when a it had never taken a princi- pled, revolutionary, consistent stand on the Middle-East issue? In 1947, Stalin supported the partition of Palestine, and in 1950 Palme Dutt, in his book 'Britain's Crisis of Em- pire', referred to the 'progres- sive' nature of the State of Israel. Subsequently, the Com- Party supported a minist of 'diplomatic solution' Middle-East problems by the great powers, as it still does.

On the eve of the June war, Colin Sweet, of the British Peace Council, appeared on a joint platform in Trafalgar Square with Arnold Wesker and other Zionists.

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A GREEN tree, bright lights, a good feast, gifts —all to celebrate the material pleasure we take in the continuance of life during the darkest days of winter. The winter solstice can be defied by our power to be warm and well-fed despite the ravages of nature. Some early peoples took the birth of a human child in the worst months as a great and abiding symbol of man's con- tinuous struggle with, and occasional victories over, nature. And at another period, that potent expression of man's hopes—a new born babe- became an idealized dream, the saviour who would bring equality and plenty, love and joy, tenderness and compas- sion to the brutally-enslaved peoples of the earth. This transformation was no accident then, and its con- tinued use now is none either.

The proclamation that the The Stalinist line of 'All together for peace' was just the sort of smoke-screen the Zionists could operate behind.

In fact the name of this new group, 'Progressives for Peace in the Middle East' properly honours its political ancestry.

..Who. else - but. the • Stalinists could devise such a title?

During leaders of Mapam in used to point to Duclos and the French CP as examples for their own class collabora- tion. The French Stalinists, they said, entered had the 'broad stream' of patriotism, and Mapam in Israel was doing the same thing as Stalin- ists elsewhere. Fronts In attempting to achieve the same relationship with the the Stalinists bourgeoisie, during this period set up a whole series of 'front organ- izations' with titles referring "peace' to and "progressives', attempting to win middle-class allies on the most opportunist and reactionary basis possible.

For the British Stalinists, it was obligatory to carry the Union Jack on every demon- stration. This is the political school in which the Prestwich CP members were trained. In pursuance of the oppor- tunist policies of King Street and Moscow, the Stalinists in the North Manchester area never challenged the Zionists -they. peacefully co-existed with them in the North Man- chester CND and other fields.

Now, Lewis and others have adapted to the reactionary chauvinism which is prevalent in the middle-class, nationalist milieu where they have been 'Progressives working. for Peace in the Middle East'— Stalinists capitulating to Zionism. Incidentally, might we observe in passing that in the revisionist publication Inter- national', Mr Pat Jordan, com- menting on the CP Congress, emphasizied the existence of nationalist tendencies in the Party's Scottish and Welsh district, and seemed quite en- thusiastic about it. So perhaps he can add a footnote now about 'Progres- sives for Peace in the Middle East'-another middle-class nationalist tendency for re- visionists to enthuse about?

This reactionary develop- ment in the Manchester area is a reminder that the Com- munist Party crisis may have its reactionary offshoots, as as opening the way for well revolutionary intervention.

If Communist Party mem- bers are seeking a revolution- ary alternative to the policies of their leadership, they must make a full, Marxist examin- ation of their Party's history, in which are the roots of the reactionary policies they must fight. kingdom of heaven at was hand lies at the heart of the oldest preaching. It was pre- cisely this that aroused hope in the suffering and oppressed masses and then rendered them impotent. At last everything was about to change-but not by social or political revolution. Merely a blessed promise of a future not too far away when hatred and class material sufferings would be expiated and expunged forever. 'How blest are you who are poor; the kingdom of God 1s yours. How blest are you who now go hungry; your hunger shall be satisfied.. But alas for you who are rich; you have had your time of happiness. Alas for you who are well- fed now; ye shall go hungry. And how was all this to be brought about? Of course, by doing loving your enemies, good to those who hate you, blessing those who curse you, offering the other cheek when hit, giving your shirt to the who takes your man coat, passing no judgements, not condemning and so on through the whole miserable penitent's catalogue. By the fourth century the hatred felt by the masses to- wards the oppressing class had even been partly transformed into self-loathing and masoch- istic tortures and denials.

What a magnificent weapon for the ruling class. And how continuously it has been turned to use. So that even in 1969, when very few workers are left in much doubt about the his- torical mission of the Christian church, the same cant, hypo- crisy, and sentimental claptrap are still poured out over television and radio for days and days during December. Capitalist Christmas is a disgusting and ceremony broadcasting is used in full to further its obscenities. Every last attempt is made to re-establish the old stultify- ing traditions; every effort exerted to exploit the genuine wishes of workers to relax and celebrate as best they may.

The unpleasant realities of ignorance, disease, poverty, loneliness, bitterness and ex- haustion are ignored or made the subjects of sentimental appeals to our 'better natures'.

On Christmas Day, the Royal Family film was, of course, run yet again. We could all share in the • privilege seeing of the real people at the real palaces; they certainly didn't look too badly off, but appearances can be deceptive, I suppose, especially for whom Christmas to those is a financial nightmare.

A John Wayne movie per- petrating all the romantic reactionary dangerous cliches of the right was put out by the

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and commercial television countered with Martin, Frank Sinatra, Dean Sammy Davis and Bing Crosby in 'an affectionate and at times highly amusing parody of gang- ridden Chicago of the 1920s'.

We had the 'Carry On' team doing an affectionate and highly-amusing parody of gang-ridden Christmas, the 'Merry Widow, and for the eighty-seventh year running, that sparkling British comedy "Genevieve" ' At 10.50 p.m. on BBC 2 there was 'Christmas Carols' with Michael Flanders; at 11.35 from Thames, Donald Swann's Christmas Candle'. (Note that Michael Flanders also spoke the commentary to Richard Cawston's royal family film. Cawston is head of docu- mentaries at the BBC and his vriter, Antony Jay, was a one- time big boss on "Tonight'.) There was an appeal for the 'Save The Children Fund', a lot of prayers and hymns and even more exploitation of the sick and crippled, both old and young. At 11.45 Alan Whicker met 'Count Robert-Jean de Vogue, French tycoon-aristocrat once condemned to death, now a jet-owning millionaire with more than 30 million bottles of champagne in his cellar- and farms where all the animals are white'. That was followed at 12.15 by 'What Was He Like?' where well-known people said what they think Jesus was like- using pictures to illustrate their opinions. I'm dreaming of a Red Christmas! And what is the situation in the broadcasting and film industries now? The prospects well are summed-up in the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians' journal for December. On the front cover is an excellent drawing of Father Christmas with a skeleton's face bearing a package marked '500 Unemployed'. That's over 10 per cent of the ACTT's total membership and high by any standards.

So far most of the un- are from employed workers the film section and the out- look for that industry next year is bleak indeed. Enormous cutbacks in American investment and de- spite all the publicity alleging a revival of British productions a big reduction all round In television, the financial crisis of the BBC and the different but equally desperate situation of most of the com- mercial companies, makes the future there no brighter in the slightly longer run. There are obviously redun- dancies and other economies in the offing, as well as new attempts at increasing produc- tivity without upping wages. The past year has seen a steadily worsening output of programmes on both channels and the amount of direct censorship and interference has grown considerably. Programmes have been de- layed and altered, stopped completely and even destroyed to suit the needs of the bourgeoisie or its agents in government and bureaucratic control. The regime of Hill and Curran at the Corporation has really settled in now and the will see great coming years struggles and growing repres- siveness. Laboratory workers, camera- men, sound engineers, elec- tricians, focus pullers, direc- tors, writers, editors, unit drivers, painters, designers-all workers in this industry face huge struggles. So the union what are leaderships preparing to meet all this? What is their analysis of the causes and remedy for the current and growing crisis?

What do they have ready for the decade of unpreceden- ted revolutionary upheavals unmitigated repressions and ahead? In one word, reformism. The general secretary of writes that despite 'unremitting' fights against film and television technician Association of Cinematograph, Television and Alled Technicians December 1969 | Price 1s. 6d

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unemployment and casualiza- tion 'we have failed to counter the massive unemployment which now exists among our film production workers'.

Why? Well it seems 'the problem is rooted in the shifts now taking structural place .. The 'patterns of control' altering and, amazing are 'the revelation, new con- glomerates with immense and diversified interests over the whole spectrum of economic activity' (monopolies and oligo- polies by any other name), are dedicated to the notions of growth and a high • return on their investment'!! But have no fears. Mr from the immediate 'Stepping Sapper aside problem of unemployment' (a rather unwise thing to do don't you think?) 'and looking ahead, we have grounds for optimism. 'Certain British interests have expressed their confid- ence in domestic production.

These 'interests' turn out to be the merchant banks Morgan Grenfell, Rothschild and Hambros! But Mr Sapper doesn't finish there. He expresses what he calls selves in the strawe find our- a paradox. '. of experiencing a long-hoped- for expansion in British film finance with an almost un- precedented level of unemploy- ment'. Precisely; unless that "para- dox' is explained, nothing will and ACTT be understood members will be led to defeat and humiliation in the real fights to come. That's bad enough, but Sapper goes on in an even more dangerous way. A 'request' to MGM to start immediate production on the films; a 'positive low-budget dialogue' between the "financial experts and the practical film- makers' and a final line asking financial interests in America and Britain to make • their decisions to invest now and delay no longer. All this as though pleas, requests or polite begging ever led anywhere except the bread line. No; the only fighting plat- form is the revolutionary demand for a nationalized film industry under worke#s' control. Workers in films and tele- vision must join the All Trades Unions Alliance in revolution- ary solidarity with all other workers everywhere. To fight alone, under illusions of reformism or of middle - class professionalism, can only be a prescription for a decade of disasters instead of the triumphs that can be ours. The working class is stronger than ever before; now is the time above all for preparations and correct programme. Pussyfooting through the jungle is for the meek and humble. But we are not meek or humble, neither hungry nor afraid; and we intend to take on those that hate us, starve us, beat us and exploit us— and we intend to win. The only 'other cheek' we shall be turning will not be on our faces. iation of Cinematograph, Television and

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THE WORLD'S PRESS operated an almost total black-out on the Christmas Eve demonstration by US servicemen in Saigon against the Vietnam war. report atrocity By a foreign correspo stories is one thing, but to record the movement of the US troops against the the protesting against war is clearly something action of the US military authorities and their else. Saigon puppets. out The brutal way in which the rally itself Five arrests was at- tacked and driven off the Saigon police arrested five 'John Kennedy Square' has Vietnamese who civillans led to US soldier Law- US loined with the rence Guthrie writing to soldiers in the rally. Though large, this Senator Edward Kennedy not way courageous demonstration of Gunboats head PREPARATIONS for the Apollo-13 moonflight al C The way. Saturn rocket is now on its launch Kennedy and pad at Cape technicians have begun the long check-out of the 36- storey vehicle. Take-off 21.38m55T on aren fix. 1970. The pra Mad andi ru Mauro, rugger crater Tormation Ilies easthis wil pel ot the apolo- elocaton the nrst mis. sion to penetrate the foothills THE MYSTERIOUS departure of the five the elt armins explored ond French-built gunboats has been described in previous as Paris as 'an administrative blunder'.

Com- mender of he Apollo Apollo-s mis- The sale of the gun- By our foreign correspondent saic Sion. ana Fred W. Haise mav boats Israel to was exniore the surtace tor lunar Norwegian as long as during blocked after the 1967 tve hours magnate Martin Sen state, one the planned for she chan any Starbeat Ont June war. for the company Starboat Thomas K. Mat- which bought the five gun- will be in the command boats. French government off- cials state that the vessels The he said, set terstered firm not Norwe. were sold through normal non or the moon alan. Walter Norwegian in Panama. Launch director channels to a Kapryan Sall that rules are company, though this has being for weather fiohtened Destination been challenged by conditions under which the since 16-ks place. the Norwegian government, launch Meanwhile gunboats the Apollo-12 struck an continue to head east through WhiCh vesteroat held lightning seconds after the Mediterranean. emergency cabinet meeting which caused aunch • to discuss the affair. Their destinatior momentary loss of power. Chrugest to be the herar ally port or mala

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