Workers Press no. 668

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THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE GLASGOW Jobless pass million mark Feather paves way for Jan Fund Briefly...

LONDON

Treacherous needs £402.90

'RIGHT-TO-

PICKETS

sterday outside

WORK' MARCH

1,023,583: in 1i days talks

ON FEB 5

striker I decided local with Carr the ne The 1930s against

BY ALEX MITCHELI

TORY Employment Secretary Robert Carr today intervenes in the 13-day-old national miners' strike when he meets union and National Coal the Board officials. the TUC's Arranged heavy work load. sended bes He said Victor Feather, to look the deen 3a the meeting nded fraught with dangers for said are here. Chapple accepted Town council the miners. explanation. These to put up secided thanimously 'Right-to-Work' Feather da c in a cho ampaig Seing hen ponse to marchers Sales toid a CardiN On few the talks with Carr reck coal stock to last nine rivin& speed-up viewe Socials on to War

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PROVOKE

resuhat's why letters

CHEMICALS

shop dispute distin of talks reced Council in

PIT HQ

BY DAVID MAUDE

cent at joining heather refused code un and

PUNCH-UP

summon th transport unions nearday the sio a el a support greed t UNEMPLOYMENT passed the million mark are not prepared to Asset end Porks Nee Molice he Town I tomach this government any with Cared jay is meetin yesterday for the first time in 25 years.

quarters in Doncaster crossed ange Official figures from the Department of Em- a rep in the direction ofe What ployment reveal that the number of registered Resto terate to stere electri becan decided to jobless is 1,023,583. Britain's unemployment has we now reached 4.3 per cent, while in Ulster the Bp stewards cos ommitter think figure is twice as high at 8.9 per cent.

op among Workers abership ine recora unempioymen created DV Ine 1 ones Pearce What now? makes the success Tae meeting in Young Socialists' "kient-to- causing Work' our most • Stupiding and Enginee urgent task Engineer onwidContingents will L ave First mational pay claim clashes 1950s and 1960s, Нетату 19. swansed -claim The campaign will Wembles continually talkin donment national Pool ma March

BY JOHN SPENCCH

above retar campaign. ARMAD riot nolice and Right-to-Work patrolled Salis Ezra ... and Gormiey. figures aro explode turned the is "heading for a boom".

BY PHILIP WADE

uscu leat gas au tuncar Power supply workers avidly last October enea to snool looters un.

Sial. monetaryBretton For the second : Tom Tore int appointedays peard 1944.* he comorker. Managemen say: back miners mission was forced to drop onto the ote. thousands more Manson Monred Day Work clemen be Sm Tory government must be strings andia halt a boom creation pointed warned the

THE

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

1945 stimulant to continued it Right to work

MINERS

Bor fixed parties could te security chits were holesia Meanwhi onciled instabilynts deficits, campaign begins Taling posit rates ade employment. o make an A top British London on-the spot asessment. to make

GLASGOW FEBRUARY

80,00 Most of Harari's expediency by demonetizing peak yestarday away EMPIRE POOL, WEMBLEY on MARCH 12 miles 5 of Salisburia, miners appealed

WANTED URGENTLY

POWER AND MINEWORKERS CONFRONT AUEW OFFICIAL BOB WRIGHT (RT)

of a side lo, mang or them by 4992 petween Decembe drafted Police, electricity the talks ntrance

BY PETER READ

• and ac Kraft strike and January. Accommodation...........

YESTERDAY'S

talks stronger action much artheid ay will to back up the miners. bE Dower Day official cooking equipmen resumed next Thursday. But or himst six other or e, been sho so a mans lot 1000 increased pay oner OFFICIAL union backing fo likely. I'm ut Tinned food.. The unions luring the fighting threatening only an ineffec.

180 Kraft engineers at K 3o per mate in 1506 from he antine been on afte Liver are t. ban for them, a stad in the settled Tack Ree weekske against Finance African nationalist factory say Brass/jazz bands ….. actor won't cal rove the poe Hull dockers join strike Please tick box where applicable.

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Alson had to poe HI. dockers have voted mhe Electricity Counci to inin the national one da After the hite me, docks strike next Wednes real 30 to 60e

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day. to At the stop-work meet- Liver they heard a from Forkers tom other Nanional swelled by Shop Stewards' meeting factories in the area in today.

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_ FRIDAY JANUARY 21, 1972• NUMBER 668

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

'RIGHT-TO-

WORK' MARCH

ON FEB 5

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NEAND REVENT

to deal with nOW accept see the SWANSEA dockers yesterday tee me Heathe until the over, wr Lanched

NCB*

the pre workin into

POLICE

forcing speed-up as a

PROVOKE

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CHEMICALS

PIT HQ

BY DAVID MAUDE

branches,

PUNCH-UP

support UNEMPLOYMENT passed the million mark got preened no A set old tay by pace yesterday for the first time in 25 years.

butalde artere in Doncaster Official figures from the Department of Em- What ployment reveal that the number of registered jobless is 1,023,583. Britain's unemployment has we now reached 4.3 per cent, while in Ulster the think figure is twice as high at 8.9 per cent.

The record unemploynent Pearce What now? the makes 'Right-to- I oung socialists

THE

TROTSKYISTS,

causing Work march informed b urgent task. clashes leave 1 19605, ате neurosis. -claim *They ut coset mally

BY JOHN SPENCER

ARMED riot and ponce patrolled Salis. so alers stallists round lod the burv's strike-boun a Hot povert economy. Atrican suburo or nararl ent that Britai yesterday after a night of optimisia unreflective street fighting. Police had gas and threat- relationar so- chich ened to shoot looters' on last Octobe sight. caused by inflatio seconde rked noneta Bretton i woods Tory. arnestly 1944. or mesands no rake seed in drop onto the dote. most of the boom! ну стет 52 bited stray then u the dialectic The with seven African iave saer. mangal e ment into its opposite. commitations continued

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AUEW OFFICIAL BOB WRIGHT (RT)

POWER AND MINEWORKERS CONFRONT

electricins seals

BY PETER READ

Kraft strike production over

YESTERDAY'S

lalks to back up the miner action eriously threatened will men's official calculated resumed next reported to have been the district sho offer increased pay auring bunde Krat union backie bo means ikely. 1 ne Per day. ineffec- toreatening llly all massive shedding tive overtime Dan a stab in the back weeks on strike against Lab percenter on 19a0 February 1. workers call Hull dockers join strike thro Work into oul hands? power Pearce HULL dockers have voted tocat of redundancy on the Not at bot to loin the national one day Electricity After The change docks strike next wednes €1.60 day. the dustrial action At the gettingtak the • disgust- s that' the majority committee swelled by workers from othe against discussed But this was nothing new.

physical support: factories in the area. growing The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government Feather paves way for Jan Fund needs £402.90 in 11 days AS UNEMPLOYMENT rises to government to resign. time step fight for days left The 11 days have

BY ALEX MITCHELL

month and to the and of the our total stands £847.10. TORY Employment Secretary Robert Carr today Keep up thir this great effort and send amount intervenes in the 13-day-old national miners' Immediately to : Post strike when he meets union and National Coal Workers Press Appeal Fund Board officials. 1868 cm o London, SW4 7UG. Arranged by the TUC's should Victor Feather, the meeting hand'; tended is fraught with dangers for Town council the power The miners. DostDone dis- Wages

(G&MWİ

These closed -door and Lord Cooper to put up cussions are being staged has remained steadlasuly determination une silent. 'Right-to-Work' strike spreads pathy The Todays tfis is achar through the working class.

marchers behind today's talks responsible the On how the miners can weather talks with Carr setting them up. view only anxiety. MARCH on the ou with take the Right to Work Miners was eathe note Throughout who front that starting union leaders, Office trade from rebruary retreated stepped unto une anolder. nave from wish the suggestion of talks.

have received support almosu loining toe dent. refused CumnoCk HIrST Ayrsnire desperate meet- summon the transport unions From these Two-day's march from into Scanlon tha then ings

(AUEW)

Gascow. the vouth "handoned accommodated overnient national pay ones the Town Hall on February

(T&GWU)

gave. Embodied the meeting terse y- orded statement that with Carr today is the same "abnormal From Scotland comes deliveries danger. news of more support from branches the talks, agreeing „to trades councils cam- the NIIM leadershin has taken a stout which the right wing step in the direction. • Glasgow N branch or electricians' is so desperate to achieve.

backi decided combine march head- british-Levanes the union's chon stewards' committee thIs Write the charters aSK 1O1

DEI-

indignation which maitoble for funds mISSIOn make the among workers ahont official leaderships' Killbowie AWAW. In SUD the retreats. notting has called the Bir- At their meetine in Trades counel and the Co- operative Society mingham. the committee •give oa Ship building Cod Ederation- financial and moral support.

called Contederation Unions reinstate the egewood national pay claim. Technical voted unans have discussion, Speakers ir suppor Rightto-Work Who come Trom britain's car making rally Tae criticized herce y a han. March 12. FOOl donment national They are raising funds to claim. One marcher of When the 'neace' talks will send deputation hegin inlondon today miners chudents all over Britain will be watch- marchers Their parties in London. Ezra... and Gormley. the

SUPPORT

•Raoht. to-Work' march also Nottingham. and

BY PHILIP WADE

e2 branch Union WOMEN strikers at the Aus- Morris tin

POLICE

factory, arrestedl

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miners Car bridge, usmen has Doncaster Birmingham. vesterdaV voled overwhelmingly had been icketing the NCB's supporting vesteredy

LION

Yorkshire headquarters. week-old strike continue their ana donallls branch also so tar the strike has caused A 125-strong line of the banne comnant to av 01 ah011 WIth then moved the front 3.000 workers Management greet Tine marchers. allowed over wants the women to accept a Nottingham No. i branch enter the workers to offer super- which nt the technical and Measured-Day Work section of the AUEW Many those strings. has also voted support. defied the clerical union which has given specific instructons

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picket lines. smaller number were

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

members management of Collibry Managers. the British Association second day massive running that had nterventio ponce Wednesday, abled the picket On breached. TOnE miners were arrested lu scuffles with the pollce inAt 9 stat 9 a.m. vesterdav morn. gathered outside Doncaster police station which We will be marching from s next to the NCB HO

GLASGOW FEBRUARY

LIVERPOOL FEBRUARY 19

hour miners

SWANSEA FEBRUARY 19

confronted each park. o a mass rally a

WANTED URGENTLY

SNOW

peacetul miners tor staft to do nome. Loan of vehicles—road-worthy vans, cars Suddenly at 10.10, 90 more considered) T hire will be of a side ¡reasonabe policemen came out entrance to the police station The • police, many of them Accommodation ... drafted" from other areas rrested sir standing • • one young Cooking equipment with at least six policemen on Tinned food .. of him.

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The tried miners Finance.. Cries of state' and Brass/jazz bands . 'Nazis' were hurled Please tick box where applicable.

force

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niners into the

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stone En- man shouted to loud applause.

"This was a peaceful demice stration. police

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arrived. They got the scabs in by using the boot.' 'scab' workers One 186a Clapham High stridi, London, swa police marvellous job getting us in today.'

PAGE TWO

Workers Press, Friday January 21, 1972 IF YOU stroll into any

HMSO

booklet to students at art colleges and asked them for We also asked what of Her Majesty's Station- comments. were their chances of getting ery Office's you can pick field year's training for a Diploma in jobs their up a copy of the latest Art and Design. 'Choice of Careers' book- In the canteen of Hornsey College of Art at Crouch End, N let. London, we spoke to a number of first-year students doing the It will cost you 22łp. Which foundation Although course. the students thought number of is pretty damned cheap when they would be able make you consider its 90-odd pages and countless illustrations.

This particular booklet and devoted to 'Art careers in Number Design'. It booklet 1S 103. I don't know what's in the previous 102 booklets, but there's little doing in this num- ber! this Of course, at first expensively-produced brochure is With all an absorbing 'come-on'. the earnest photographs of young learning boys and girls to sketch, design and paint, it looks like the introduction to the ful- filment of one's cultural aspira- tions. Not It's the small print so. which tells the real story. And out-of-work dole appreciate the iner points of this photographer con'l docu- Success The is giveaway sentence booklet. buried deep inside the It says that success in the various will enjoyed artistic careers by only a tiny who are prepared to sell themselves to the taste of that small section of the commis- public which buys or sions works of art'. This is not a new situation in Art student bourgeois art. It was highlighted 'You might as well go however, when thére recently, of were number resignations navvying. from the Fine Art Panel of the National Council for Diplomas in Art and Design. living attired ation b their Among those who resigned them initiative, one chairman, Martin was HrOv The remarked: He wrote to "The Guardian' last October describing how the 'Our teachers tell us you have National Council, which had to starve to become an artist. the considerable influence on development of further educa- Myrel Morris, 27-year-old found work tion in art, its graphic designer, who is special- increasingly frustrated and cas- 'You have to izing in film, said: He put inde endstion the trated. specialize unless you want to join survival independent an agency and take pot luck.

schools. you can pull strings. The actions of the government 'Film and photography tend to resulted in a situation which to be élitist. It is very, very difficult him marked 'the end of make your own films. You experimental period in art educa- wealthy influ- need parents or tion'. ential friends. Ability doesn't get you anywhere. It's how sell The underlying tone of the you your work, not the quality of it booklet confirms Froy's new suspicions that the destruction that counts. of independent is art education was a nurse for six years, underway. Any school-leaver but I want a chance to do some- closely reading the pamphlet will thing that doesn't turn you into find it extremely demoralizing.

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Name Address The reality of Britain's art colleg 'trendy' colleges described in careers in art and design. R beside huge garbage can College of Art. Bel to drum originality out of you.

Nobody wants you unless you have a bit of paper. People don't see what a strait jacket they are in.' In the Hornsey Teacher Train- ing College, a ramshackle build- ing opposite Gestetner's factory, the atmosphere was much more bitter. Students there had been through the Dip AD course and doing of them were many teacher because they training were unable to get jobs. Twenty-three-year-old David Brown, who had been at Ravens- bourne College of Art in Brom- ley, left after getting a Dip AD in 1970. 'You're lucky if you get the first break. I spent eight months looking for work. I must have to hundreds of studios, written advertisers and large companies.

'About half of them answered.

And half of those gave me inter- views. Most of them said they'd file my application and let me know when there was an open- ing.' Farce Did he get a job? 'No. The whole situation is becoming a complete farce. If you talk to anyone who knows what a Dip AD is, you can hear them groan You inwardly. are like a demobbed soldier. You know there are thousands of you who can't get jobs.' How did he live during this time? I lived on the dole for £5 a week, and did various jobs?

When we asked Maggie Martin (22), what she thought of career opportunities, first remark 'nothing to do but was, go navvying' She wanted to do a post-graduate course in fine art in order to be able to do her 'you may own work, but well not bother'. Maggie went to Sheffield Art College, and experienced at first hand the attempts to destroy the art college through depriving it of funds. "There was very little for equipment. Money money wasn't spent on what we con- sidered the most important things. We were given no say in the decision to merge the art college with the polytechnic.

'The art college was not put on equal footing with the poly- technic. When they opened the new building for the art college, hundreds of pounds were spent on feed-ups and drinks for the education officers-on three or four dozen people. No students were invited, of course! They are taking on less peoplé. For- qualifications merly no were required, but now you need four "A" levels. "O" levels or two 'Something very drastic needs I agree with the to be done. policy of a General Strike. What the miners get is ridiculous...

I think it is below the govern- ment's poverty line. But they can't win on their own. Just look at the postmen - they couldn't do it on their own, and the miners get even less.'

Contacts 'What the HMSO booklet really says is that there is no place for art in society-that it is a useless activity. 'Museum charges are a dia- bolical idea. There are hundreds and hundreds of people, like old age pensioners who haven't got much money, and can't afford these charges. It is an attempt to squash art completely, to stop people seeing it.' She agreed with Myrel that getting a job was a question of having good contacts, not of skill. Theo Keuchel (22), said: 'Obvi- ously there are no jobs. The Royal College of Art and the Isoline i! »

IN DEFENCE OF THE

OCTOBER

REVOLUTION

in's art colleges today contrasts the described in the HMSO booklet on and design. Right: a student stands • garbage cans outside the Hornsey ge of Art. Below: HMSO view of the Royal College of Art. Uruguay Slade are closed art situations from divorced reality. are lucky to be an artist because you have freedom than other more that people. But don't think should be commodity that art bought and sold. was an apprentice painter and decorator, but I was lucky qualifications so that I have could break from kind routine The point of being an of work. people realize artist is to make how some sort of change can be brought about. *But instead, artists are URUGUAY'S new press law divided into catecones who have and those made it material bans al printed those who haven't. Students who dealing with 'armed violence, think with diplomas and leave they are going to be able to live rural and urban guerrillas, looking the sky. DIe In and and insurrectional tactics Artists should get together workers in their fight.' join strategy in Latin America and other continents, and, in Blacklisted which any theories on armed Paul Moran (23), admitted he subversion are set forth'.

his had been sceptical about future even before starting at art widely used against it is Deing college. He trained in fine art, all kinds left-wing literature. OT his but found that work from E Periodicals Europe and acceptable. He thought the not the Soviet Union are being stop- defeat systeriod a freining wing Uruguayan Post ped the defeatist, since after Office and sent for pulping.

trained at college most students begin in tralning Unconstitutional industry anyway. Cathy Hilton, a member of the The law has been condemned Young Socialists, had taken part by the University Rector who Colte occupi the occupation Hornsey described it as 'a complete break 1968 student the with our country's. liberal tradi- movement to student get con- tions' and said that it means 'the funds. trol over After the of with introduction of Hornsey failure the sit-in, clearly fascist roots'. students were blacklisted.

The Secretary of the Christian Party has declared Travelling as far Leeds in Democratic séarch of job, she found the that completely unconsti- The left-wing press has operation; the inter- blacklist in said they didn't want attacked the law Hitlerian' viewers as the 'troublemakers'. At other colleges and even about her daily 'Accion' said that the law she 'the activities during the protest. means that citizen's right Unable to information may be seriously to get 100. she unskilled work curtailed'. forced take at low wages, such washing The again government struck freedom of expression when up. at Now, back Hornsey she is police Boent Fair raided the the Young National Book fighting to build up in Monte- Socialists and to Wore campaign video. The Fair, which has been going for ten years, is a popular the 'Right to campaign from the art students. event which many left-wing in

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government of ' President Police entered the fair and Jorge Pachedo passed the press arrested three people after alle- law shortly after returning to on a minority gations that articles made by ower vote in a imprisoned Tupamaros guerrillas contested election. His bitterly were on sale. The organizer, the opponents claim that there poetess Nancy Bacelo, closed the increasing evidence of irregulari- Fair to avoid further trouble.

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Tupamaros chief, Raul Sendic. Votes cast in some constitu- encies exceeded the number of voters. State funds were used to finance candidates of the ruling Colorado Party and opposition- ists were illegally arrested and their presses closed down.

The Electoral Board, on which Party the Colorado a majority, has not, surprisingly, thrown out all these charges.

There has been a resumption activity by the Tupamaros guerrillas in the last two weeks.

Most spectacular was the occupa- tion of the municipal offices in Montevideo, where the plans of the city's sewage system were seized. 1 Huge packets of plans and documents were removed.

In one gunbattle police cap- tured five guerrillas who were trying to steal weapons from a private house. In another raid a Tupamaro commando seized 20 FM radios intended for the police. Fearful of popular reaction sympathetic to the Tupamaros, Pachedo's government tries to impose a news black-out on suc- cessful guerrilla activities.

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KUBRICK'S ODYSSEY:

By guest reviewer ? IN THE 1960s, many directors came into the cinema from TV. Be- cause of the production routines of the TV series —the pre-ordained script formula and characteriza- tion, the low budget and the short shooting- scheduletheir creativity as story-tellers had been limited. Makers of documentaries still enjoyed a comparative freedom in TV (which has now been eroded away) but storytellers moved these towards the cinema, expect- ing to find there an outlet for their hitherto untapped talents. They thus came out of a medium which thrived in the post-war capitalist boom the . to cinema which, as declining industry, was an integral part of the capitalist crisis. This crisis, caused only secondarily by the . TV, naturally hit the rise of first of lower-paid technicians all, with unemployment and the non-union exploitative use labour. Distinction strata, raised The creative also threatened by the crisis, it' by going themselves above over to the continental concep- tion of the director as artist (the European industry had always been in the grip of one crisis or already another),. and so the distinction between tech- present nical and creative talent in film became increased. The bosses approved of all this and encouraged it. After all, they were competing with TV, so why not adopt some of its techniques and grab some of its talent? In addition they were bidding for a audience to replace that new consumed by the box, namely the middle-class intellectuals. They started to talk about 'art', and to put directors names in in their prominent positions we had Mike advertising. Thus Nichol's 'Catch 22', Sam Peckin- Bunch', Ken pah's "The Wild Russell's 'The Devils' and Stanley Kubrick's '2001'. Of course, film always was an art form, and has been treated by serious students and as such analysts. The point here is that the crisis forced the bosses into using this as a selling point, and ever-dwindling the giving to groups of 'creators' a precari- wage coupled ously high with the threat of unemployment, buy- ing them off with delusions of grandeur. They were, therefore, ideologically prone to the worst excesses of petty-bourgeois intel- lectualism--from anarchic adven- turism to near fascism. • example of the A European 'left' infantile disorder was Jean- Luc Godard's 'Weekend'. This was a key film for Marxists, not because it was in any way revo- lutionary or politically scientific, but because it was such a com- self-portrait of petty- plete bourgeois radicalism. Fallacy Taken in the light of Lenin's work on left-wing communism, this farrago of fallacy and con- fusion could be, in the last analy- sis, a source of clarification about the varieties of opportunism and idealism which are rife amongst intellectuals. 'Weekend' had the additional advantages an adventurous and expressive nar- rative style, a verbal straightfor- wardness, and at least the begin- an attempt at self- nings of criticism. Godard has to gone over Maoism, but others who have learnt from him have escaped joined the this idealism and struggle of the Fourth Interna- tional under Trotsky's original programme. Examples of the 'right' infan- tile disorder are provided in great progress in technology, had made no fundamental advances in 'consciousness' since the ape.

ing the unknown, the mysterious, the metaphysical-in fact what people used to call God), take a mind-blowing-. trip, and emerge riewer Tim Horrocks Kubrick: moved from dismissing humanity to hating it in fundamentally which for all its and some way sex vio- altered. lence is unlikely to anger the Fes- tival of Lighters or Mr Maudling, It talks of 'mankind' but never depicts working-class youth as of the class struggle. talks skinhead extremists, talking alter- of trips and new levels of con- nately in thick jargon and bad sciousness, of dialectical poetry. It the means of progress as outide man and Wallowing nature, never as the struggle of man against nature It represents an attempt at an art which rises The central character 1S above the material world, in true schoolboy who likes 'ultra- petty-bourgeois fashion, and ends and Beethoven'. violence, raDe He and his up mouthing platitudes on mates go through a cosmic scale. It hides behind its number escapades demon- self-created monolith. knocking strating this interest, of people about to the strains 'Singing in the Rain' (a perfectly Hating acceptable and enjoyable film), all (to the raping and sundry Even so, it Kub- strains of Rossini), wallowing moves on. rick dismissing masturbatory harmed m fantasy (to humanity in of Ninth), general to actively strains Beethoven's hating it, and the working class cutting each other and thumping He has each other around and so on.

particular. commemo- rated the occasion by making A In between sessions they tank Clockwork Orange'. up on milk laced with something- This wholly contemptible film, BBC-1 7.40: Comedy Playhouse. 'And Whose Side Are You On.

BBC 1

9.38 For Schools. 12.55 Canu'r Bobol. 1.30 Mr Benn. 1.45 News, weather. 2.05 For Schools. 4.15 Play School. 4.40 Jackanory 1.55 Deputy Dawg. 5.05 Crackerjack 72. 5.44 Sir Prancelot. 5.50 News, weather.

6.00 LONDON THIS WEEK.

TOM AND JERRY.

6.20 6.25 THE VIRGINIAN. 'Flash of Darkness'.

7.40 COMEDY PLAYHOUSE. 'And Whose Side Are You On?'

8.10 A MAN CALLED IRONSIDE. 'The Target'.

9.00 NEWS, Weather. 9.20 THE ONEDIN LINE. 'Blockade'.

10.10 COME DANCING. West Scotland v N Ireland.

10.45 24 HOURS.

11.15 FILM: 'THE GLASS KEY'. Alan Ladd Veronica Lake. Political corruption. All Be 100251049-1 exP 10.45 1. 123045-2.5. schools Comhraidh. News. 25- Lin Mam. 600-6.50 Bonn weather 6.30-7.150 Hed t2. 6.20-6.50 N Ireland: 6.00-6.20 Scene around Whacko. 7.15-7.40 Dau six. 10.10-10.40 Behind the head- ironside: 3.30-9:00 A wai called 10.40-10.45 112.37 NeWs, Snortscene 8.30-9.00 weathe Look 6.00-6.20 North, srael. Scotland: 10.20-10.25 Schools inter- Look East, 10.25-10.45 For 6.00-6.20 Renortina Scotland 0.20.0.55 Current account. 0.55.

News. Eventually the 'hero' gets supports. The revolu- what he and imprisoned tionary violence of the working arrestco class is what he condemns.

murder. hut released

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years later after therapy se is His film is thus, within in aversion therapy. He even the narrow confines now sick everv time the things bourgeois ide ology, the negation former v come and opposite into his consciousness. This gives the pople a to telet back ed him opened nave opportunity class nass of violence, it only at atter prim primitive level. Kubrick through and hypnosis opportunity (and Kunrick the stultification of the for a liberal sermon on the de- humanized pacifist the mind close _the ideology "law order' hero become). дето Das Sine Meanwhile the skin- but the shock returns him to his become former self. End of film.

Toe militant young workers today. I hope they will be more Entwined in a simple-minded boredom than 1 was. monument with the second and final way the film

DATES

subplot corrupt politics about and 'law and order'. It repre- sents only a generalization which the analys sonrces vinience and sca. ferent functions in society and in man's struggle with nature.

Whining Above and riaht: the tedious what Malcolm McDowell as Alex.

the things he protesses to hate.

the things Below: Alex as a 'droog' professes to hate. Beginning with the in rape scene. working cass and hiret foremost, Kuhrick Kubrick puts over a rightist moves on to culture, policemen Ideology of law and order.

medicine, the family, non-conformist religion,

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workers, tramns • anc on. What, we may well ask, does Kubrick like? While the film's content vides no answers, short look might. film has at Its aestheti. redeeming teatures cally, but instead lurches inanely from distant 'objective' points view, and exercises stylistic 10 liness ehanc.ne d "involves' camerawork us whirh in the violence from time to time and supposedly presents the vic- All this is Tim's Dont of vew done withony tha clientect attempt create an organic devéloping relationship between the the audience and what is on one screen. here however interesting point. Violence Quite often, during the most the vinient crenac camera remains far away and editing avoided. way Kubrick that what Toes convince WA aTA CAPINO ing, rather than being made up of bits film. This older which even than Nanook ot the North. Shows us while stylizing and how Kuhaint cam out of all the people existence, is passion- concerned W11n realisma when it comes to depicting vio- lence. puts barriers hia between us and the characters. But places barriers between us and the violence. He naturally ends up support- ing what him the we can benefit of the douht) he was tru- ing to condemn. The arhitrary violence inherent the anarchy of capitalism

REGIONA

TODAY'S

MIDLANDS

PROGRAMMES

4.10 Houseparty: ввс 2 Crossroads Seene 11.00 Play School. 6.05 Open University. 6.35 Which Way? Bus is Beautiful. 7.05 Open University. NEWSROOM. Weather. 8.00 MONEY PROGRAMME. Jim Slater, of Slater Walker, gives advice on how investors can maximise profits.

ANGLIA: 2.30 Doncaster rac SOLO: 'Van Gogh'. Alec McCowen. 9.00 • wsroom 9.20 REVIEW: Playriaht E of Ashington 50 Neak Whitehead Minare talk about their work in the pits, their lives at home and gone. 12.50 Lira. their paintina

10.10 JOYCE GRENFELL.

10.45 LATE NIGHT LINE.UP.

JIV repops. 6.35 5:20 Carion ITy 1230 Racing from Doncaster. 100 Car Schools. For

GRANADA:

2.30 Racing from Doncaster. 3.00 Houseparty. 3.10 Tea Schools. Break. 3.40 British Museum. 4.10 Drive-In. 4.40 Pinky and Perky.

4.55 Arthur. 5.20 Boffins. 5.50 News, weather.

day.

6.00 TODAY.

buses, 100 London 10030

6.30 'F' TROOP.

7.00

THE SKY'S THE LIMIT.

7.30 THE PERSUADERS. 'The Moring After'.

8.30 THE FENN STREET GANG.

9.00 SPYDER'S WEB. Spy thriller.

10.00 NEWS, Weather. 10.30 SHIRLEY'S WORLD. Shirley MacLaine.

report. 11.05 THE F.B.I. 'The Messenger' 12.00

COLLECTING ON A SHOESTRING.

S30 Rang

12.25 SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

Dateli space. Workers Press, Friday January

GIONAL ITV

12.35 Racing. Dateline: Friday. 6.20 Mr Magoo. Steward. 3.35 Stars. 3.45 Women 6.30 Timmy 7.00 London 4.40 Hatty 10.30 In 11.00 call. town. camera. Late 5.50 News. 11.05 Film: "Children of the 6.35 Crossroads. Damned'. 7.30 Per- gang. Steward. 9.00 12.35. Racing Crossroads. Film: •Dr Blood's Katie Stewart cooks. 4.15 4.40 Pinky and Perky. 4.55 Flintstones. 5.20 races. 2.30 Doncaster Tom Grattan. 5.50 News. 6.00 3.40 Tea break. Calendar; " 6.30 Parkin's Cartoon. 4.30 patch. London. 10.30 Film: Bottom of the "Curse of the Werewolf'. 12.10 Day by Weather. 6.00 day Out of Doctor 8.30 WESTWARD. As Channel except: 10.30 Week- 3.55 Gus Honeybun. 4.20 West- nEWS 6.00 'The Dark at the 5.20 ward headlines. Ask 12.35 South Westward. Westward diary. Westward 6.25 Sports desk. 10.30 10.58 News. report. 2.30 Doncaster races. 3.55 Schools Tinker 4,00 Romper room. 4.20

HARLECH.

10.20 2.30 of the sea. 3.50 Women. Racing. 6.35 4.55 3. 3-00 London 103 tainment. comboy in Africa 4.30 Crossroads. London. 10.30 By- 6.01 5.50 News. Strange West. Report Wales Report Bonanza, 11.00 10.30 630 7.30 London. look. Department S. Schools. Romper Second 12.30 12.00 Weather. Racing 4.30 R 1 30

HTV

West above except: 6.01- 4. 55 6.35 Report News.

HTV

above Theatre ales as except: 6.18 10.30-11.00 Outlook. Cartoon time, 8.30 8.30 Lon-

ATV

Cymru/Wales as HTV Wales. Film: CHANNEL: 10.20 For schools.

2.30 4.05 Pinky Racing from Doncaster. Schools 12.35. 4.20 Puffin. 4.25 Smith and Perky. Yoga. i 4.05 News 4,55 familv. Flintstones. 5.20 Ask 3,45 Magic ball. Westward. 5.50 National %, weather news Rainbow Channel 610 6.00 News- news report. 6.25 rossroad: Peyton 10.30 Neekend 8.30 On the 11.50 NeWS, 32 here Open 10.30 WESTWARD. es Chana.2o exent: Schools. 2.55 Honeybun, 4.20 News headlines. 3.40 Westward headlines. 6 0n dairy. Yoga. 4,10 4.40 6. 25 Sports desk. 10.30 Westward 4.55 Flintstones. 10.58 News. 12.20 Faith for report. 5.50 News. 6.00 life 12.25 Weather. weather. 6.05 Mr Crossroads.

TYNE

TEES.

10.20| Doncaster. ewart Schools. 12.35 Gillies. 9.00 2,30 Racing from 3.35 Points North. 11.00 Newsroom. 3.45 Katie S road and ski ste of Fear, road a 4.15 Crossroads. Pinky 4.55 Flintstones. 5.20 and 5.50 Tom Grattan. News. 6.00 McOueen. Schools. 12.35, Todav at six. 6.30 7.00 London. Spy. 10.30 12.30 Film: "The early. Headed 12.15 News. 5.50 News. 6.00 Christian comment. , Friday January 21, 1972

PAGE THREE

A case for Lord Porn ONE OF the themes of Nixon's presidential campaign is 'clean' government. Nixon, the Quaker, has the full backing of Billy Graham in his for crusade an incorruptible administration. Their should per- attention haps be directed to the door- step of the White House itself.

Six members of the Washing- ton vice squad-whose activities centre on a sin strip only quarter of a mile from the White House - have been suspended after a probe into alleged police corruption. police spokesman said the A six, including the former head of the squad, Lieutenant Harold Crook, after were suspended a Congressional investigation | of police corruption in dealing with prostitution and gambling.

Two other squad members during. the inquiry by resigned I investigators of a House • Representatives select committee on crime. The investigators said they had uncovered concrete evi- dence of police corruption in the capital. The Washington vice squad covered the riverside sector of the city, an area dotted with bars and notorious for muggings.

Washington centres on Vice in the 14th Street only 'strip', a quarter of a mile from the White f House. Part of the street is lined with strip clubs, girly bookshops where men watch 'peep' shows in cubicles, sex film cinemas and * topless-girl bars. Where have all the 'OZ' men gone? RECENTLY I had the 'OZ' men around asking for money for the 'Stoke Newington Ten'. The "Ten' are alleged members of the so-called Angry Brigade. Eight of them are currently before Lambeth magistrates' the other two having court, already been discharged. meeting called this was week at the university union at City University to discuss their defence. Only the underground press invited. ( Naturally enough, was Workers Press was excluded.

Those invited were 'OZ', 'Ink', 'Rolling Stone' and IT. Natu- rally enough, none of them bothered to turn up. This fiasco is presumably the solidarity of the underground.

Stoolpigeons in Commons ¡IT MAY have escaped some of our readers' attention that pigeon has native British wild excellent culinary qualities.

This fact important was brought to light in the House of Commons last Tuesday after- noon as miners and their wives were kept waiting outside for hour-and-a-half before they were allowed through in groups to lobby MPs. The discussion inside went something like this: Miss Quennell (Tory, Joan Petersfield) to Mr Anthony ¡Stodart, (Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture): 'Does it not occur to you that one of the most efficient methods securing their [the pigeons, of population control, of course! would be if you put on your : popularized the excellent quall- ties of these pests.' Mr Stodart in reply to Miss Quennell (amid laughter): I am a most enthusiastic con- sumer of pigeons. I am fond of all birds? All those readers whose focused on attention has been trivial matters of loss of jobs, living standards, falling wage attacks, strike action and price and rises, who inadvertently missed this vital information, will be forgiven.

Workers Press, Friday January 21, 1972

PAS TUH

Plessey's Yorkshire pickets Europe plans allege THE ESSENCE of the TUC move and trade union leadership's ahead deliherate ¡so aton odę deliberate miners' strike can be seen c repred a be) outside any power station

COMMON

MARKET

parations are in britaln. Bulio alicau between the Plessey isolation tronics glanl ana buropean companes. electricity is stilar. 0- Grans may holding

MINERS' STRIKE

coal com ge math stocks Telefunken moveu and Sescoseheir

DAY 13

From PHILIP WADE interests on an all- theThow Europe basis. is Tong esenting his Morale e Sir lohn Clark centin antici- pacion of arkee itry. such a length high at Times' has TS cre- he whon t from Dover andies Motorola- trade union leadership. joining Lnion interestea THE MORALE of pickets mbers. et th y hay high Dovel

GOCKS

Wd. les isey tinues she ruthi again vesteraay In spile ol the massive pollce presence.

che 19w Eric Bettes a Dumbart- told Worket Alexandria plant ir Prese trade union leadership The hundred jobs i ara dar are General Worker Poin i Nationat Union Supp Seamer members on the Workers Press are providing us with retraining. strengt] Dustmen e ong, discuss join bonus anegotiationn promising" Coal Bard. In lach, thars the

INUM

Consident Hit thee p this strike sary, ty in stake tt

PICKETS OUTSIDE THE SKELTON GRANGE POWER STATION, LEEDS

Vrad e boio tea sils n to adership ight i in their places. Lo nave Boned men tomy the sritnions are s utron trans- Another picket, 64-year-old eade ship duit *Shange wuncham anocwvesterns oneos tne valley. IAN YcAl• spent a da strikesterday pickets i Cat ai si ie cane thil Wales' most modern and prosperous alking to people directly involved i s were again of soated mountain villages . The 1,250 miners live in a cluster he miners' fight. Today we carry th E Ha around second of his interviews.

nd Salmen St, W Ham. 1926 General Strike, men in the Were in ail ind battes or A GENERAL STRIKE in Miners won't support of the miners would yet the TUC hasn i done much. be against the Tories' entire have been n e and just policy of low wages, high ngrinde ioined et the said Fed Woods (0, stand for think ? Ie's prices anaunempivymenl, 30-odd serker sad pact inc this miners' power loader at wyndham 'It's fine for Scanlon to talk another 1926 and Western edo t do - have mad the strike official. Wery did with the postmen Thebut Por ona mm se ad Fewer are having a and they want of thei toers til be teachers tether helping stand did when resh ut ali the pits. 1926 again. training ent wil cok re y bil. ie As ast ime. 1 troop akes home £18 a week, things are going on we'll have told miner 1 i ngin ton nothing soon.

THE NUMBER

Shis ehe finist leavers entering as t the Tod Wentcalloe ive a50 Bey wie d T will niker › wile tor the re going to bring to going down by Tine leste sone not rel!

but t'm haor talked to Work m vne water sticking up for chaiman, ad om the an ani ea. tast ied about • T C6 the hip watched key with ksen interest. beons Ruhr coal giant tumbling bisne eitheatomy furner Train Ruhrkose, W Cer threatens cratic educor five des that oi has taken no rome ise problem ot col Prodeion by indisriat coal Pad-

AILMOSTI

dington contranul. sh u yesterday office Th nivei o co . a stock of over s now than nn 1928.

SOCIAL CLUB CHAIRMAN FRED WOODS

PeRoHe coke, Young Kent miners liquidity. most the t un énsieank oft • Lalio station's staff on Battersea picket

LATE NEWS

y periad

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MEETINGS

EIGHTEEN-year-old after 3 confidently Ese pat her Tom Howe *'pas limp

CIRCULATION

CAS LE, 730 PrdaSaan was mp an 59 pe) picketing the giant ballci- 01-822 7029 become Dower stauon assisicu onv baa terow member a

AYLESHAM

uary 24, 7.30 p.mo The Gray 22522

UNEMPLOYMENT

year older. Yoseradia o oe p: Tho Yo To Mili mpl toes, are toter sackea.

s, Tac men "hans rry. Bare oil and ed eical ,The Lir Tumed onad they hav Neem tery pe tenr to patien ration's Bristol plant Dowis, hara colecta 1 rtment moved to Weybridg ered to seay oon Ashington N l an doder ele et e vorker picncls. 18ib Caphai toll e pits Toays takeny m dorght-to-Work° students impatient for war

STORMY MEETINGS

Cairo university calling for a people's war on israel to recover the occupied terri- tories have forced the new coverlincut lo acccor slu- dents as volunteers for the armed forces. MISS MARIA MAGUIRE has blown the gaff President Sadat has ordered the placed including cuts on a number of vital aspects about the policies war in the allowances of the IRA's Provisional wing.

ment oncidis. a Dan trave and tne orontolnon Workers Press readers luxury imports. RB211 Azziz Sedki's new govern- will recall that Miss, met ment has been with Maguire accompanied David storm criticism from the which O'Connell on the bizarre President Sadat costs up to / for his not honouring arms-buying

MISSION

attack launch the Israe Amsterdam end of last year. Delore une 300 p.c. ne Claimed une We described this mission Pakistan War intervened. nasco trom start hints about renewer necona. inish. And the press pubiicity tions has also been met with cost Ceve oDine sureratin directly by entatisy certainly clamour of hostility. Most unpopular engine about intelligence. £195m only eight months ago. big landowner who must be newspaper Ink, Miss Mague underground original estimate wen the wealthiest men given views in 1968, the figure one ol une was made Ireland. She con- betwees ter was £65.5m little students have The firmed Tease or sent pest centing Sedki and conndence either Provisionals increase per cent in comes from a family who extremist the Rev Ian Paisley.

and regarded lour yeals articles Pro well to the (In previous A government White Paper Thee quoted have issued yesterday says the most : Cahill army, visionals, including Joe the regard recent Increase is aue to possibility of relations the US new coverall SUSPICIOn concernica with rasey.. revised estimate or costs.

about tne increasine Us SuD• These Miss Maguire "There esumales port tor israel likely common ground TurtheT [the Lockheed's chances of sellin Pro Lne

IWO

Paisleyites] their Alreach the visionals and two US companies have with.

Greek torture made A boroaches nave been drawn their orders and BEA in cecret to paigev and there been some signs have success. Paisley moves with AN OPPONENT of the Greek worth the times and has proved colonels' regime standing almost £100m with spares.

the most able politician in Athens claimed that he was reland. bargain is not out tortured ourne interrorauon.

of the question.

LAST NIGHT

saw the start Jonannis k vriazis. nouse ot a sleep-in' •attne Londor Nhat does she have to sa time bombs and planting them Schan Heonomics And about the Official IRA? in the city. yesterday morning students *They Marxists He said toprime trial with are pseudo-intellec- served " Director. injunction Walter School's others be tual They do grounds nothing. that Papandreou. What about socialism? was sentences of life union 'We lurch towards socialism student -we want to nationalize Irish last Monday. imprisonment. Marism isnt our am at al!

ARMY CHIEFS are certain an Bridge to peace Miss about wevill, early-morning swoop MP? than on the Long Kesh internment 'She is irrelevant now. The e yesterday foiled a mass US DOCKERS' leader Harry Berna- situation cas bassed: The Bridges has offered dette raid, Brit Over Plaed regotiation have taken over the active Oliver role.' coast strike to an "Ink' it current had found said they ena. newsmaner 'undoubtedly The strike was interrupted ment Inat anarchists isn t surprising implements

TOT

for 80-dav to fnd Mice Maguire lauded breakout'. 'one of Ireland's period under the latt.-artev AC the continuar noted IRA heroes'. anti-union Neantiations after more er ested eight hours, to end the strike broke down brigadier dacaahac Char the on Monday over bonus 'trendy' and she concluded by imitation "Tommy' guns, ments for saying: revolutionary and in racked weare s. wire cutters and potential is fantastic week or pay demand. Many of Bridge's members workers press to work on multary conunue Cargoes desuined tor vietnam.

READERS' MEETINGS

What now?

• FROM PAGE ONE

S LONDON

Moot Editorlal Board Wednesday January 26 late as January 10 he airily speakera. Discuss your informed 'intercontinental the Ideas lor _exoano ed Lower Hall Press, readers that the situa- Brixton paper tion may be hopelsss but

BOWI

Brixton SW not serious. 'In absence of an overall most the

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

Per is a grades can hope

MEETINGS

is a gradual extensio or the system oI specia Make the Tory government N LONDON: (Please note Drawing Rights .. More resign! change of date.) Thursday over the imperialist coun- n: ™ Toon Towi tries of the Common Market Return Labour Hall, will seek create the miners' repeal i bo the LONDON: Thursda! SE Tanuary 2 Engineers cur- WILLESDEN: Monday Jan- intemnalond. reserve Club. Denitordi rencv. aimed at supplanting uary 24, 8 p.m. Trades and opp "The His ends and

NAW

Labour hall. Wil the collar.' Right-to-Work campaign.' can luxuriate in his lesden, NW10. Mandel revisionist now fantasies, housing. hynt STOUCP.Trsde Merry. Marxists that LIVERPOOL: Monday Jan- p.m. makers', Langley. 'Right-to Lecture Hail, Willam Brown 18rv Museum Marx conctusion that: Work campaign'. Street. 'Right-to-Work cam- LANGry ST, 7.30 p.m. York Mondaj paign'. paralyses the production Stagnation anuary function E LONDON: Tuesday Jan shire House, St Parliament "The Aber- meney as a medium of paya uary 25,8 p.m. (nr bus stn). Right-to-Work Poplar precipitates ment campaign. of the credit Blackwali 'Right-to-Work campaign" SW

LONDON:

DAGENHAM:

wernesca Che General Strike Right-to-Work cam- Britain are back to the LONDON: Tuesday did Before liners Coton: Right toor ad Albert' Luton. Risk to-ay, King's Cro King's Dalkil • Socialist Labour League Special courses of lectures In line with decision but the general opinion Lecture Room 1 the was that the TUC igbeth Hall, Digbet had done enough to help the IRMINGHAM. 8 p.m miners. Feather and compan! *But done iners. next to nothing

TUESDAY JANUARY 25

have to the Economics and Politics could have led and ele wa-

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1

engineers to come out one behind Historical Materialism today

SUDDIY

all NUM PreSi Tom Mid-Hall recalled ent ine tormey saving : Woodside Hall, St George's Cross increase wond ne accental GLASGOW, 3 p.m. and commented: I think Gormley's 'st gard

SUNDAY JANUARY 23

he's government Essential Marxism great pressur centre setting Tom

SUNDAY JANUARY 30

Economics and Politics added. reou given jail just for in Toree vears showing a union card there.

given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) "r's time we made a move We've been good boys for far too long!