Workers Press no. 670

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY JANUARY 24, 1972 • No 670 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

ULSTER AND COMMON TORY ENEMY

Bravery ag

MINERS

BRITAIN

AND THE

MASS

PROTESTS

N Ire

TORY

land defied Prime

GOVT

Faulkne r Dilal announcement that provinces Dan on parades See page 4 would continue another year. Wheldale and cussion resolution

THIRD

sents of t Bench ine comes barded.

WEEK:

inquity into the • Concret on

BOTH

Rick sad head during the clash.

SIDES

and 2,000

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

HARDEN

HANDS OFF

fan Paisley by the EVERY SERIOUS trade unionist and opponent

STUDENT

of the hated Tory government must be filled

BY ALEX HITCHELL

AS INn national miners with pride by the courageous struggle in Ulster

FUNDS—

strike enters its third week.

the Tory government's stra- against internment.

MARCHERS

emerging ever more Braving possible death continued serious injury,

WESTE

ales and starve them back Ludents and housewives arr 5U give a decisive lead to Lue class now to nont back, no macter what the odds. mid week he Tories determined to drive Uster now takes. famine cornered Ip them towards a defenceless victim has internment.

THE

anguishing Behind Bas go ither TEei I have so starva- the burden which ust section of the beas hated capitalist For there is a direct con- dare on directe

SOME OF THE 20,000 STUDENTS OUT YESTERDAY

STATION STRIKERS

DEREK CLRA

STUDENTS from all over Britain marched 20,000-strong through London yesterday against

WANT BACKING

Tory proposals to control student union funds.

The giant protest demon- into a strike joined by other stration • the

• WORKERS PRES

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move off from Hyde Park. Dance and not and dear in the smt lo. unions-Thatcher out!'

STAGED SIT-IN

Marchers tent Victory ly toe mine miners strike Hundred ine suden shodd eis a blas sit-in at the Londone nent attitude of complet against internment. packed Tradia end. They were 1 ine Totes and trong ens the to hat su mines in the 131, e consultative document. "

WEEK

for overtime. Sident Dubo

VIOLENCE

station oil through pickets don and venge net, one TRANSPORT union leaders in Yorkshire nave Hawker strike pleaded with miners oil through picket A STRIKE Of 1,50 MUENS lines so that power plies can be maintained.

G& MWU,

Inst the working classy near Hil instructise the existence of over workers across-to-oard up int

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miner Bat this we we wil havi pickets be warned execu- stewards commented: str think Broil a longs retreat has been

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BY SARAH HANNIGAN

SATURDAY'S MEETING ON THE CREGGAN

with every held a meering on the citys Derry, Republicans sized the link in the strug- at their Britain and Treland. sir aims therefore must

WOLKCIS

wreckan estate dedicatea to DeoDiE Derry Republ and Creggan sale keep tor their deter the british Club member Terry mined stand keeping the out (reagan and British army Bogside and to maintain the Sinn Fein President ine struggle that Thomas MacGiolla internees. crossed are henting is the came congratulate struggle that une Dorder ot out Miss Devlin added that it bear ble comrades miners' the ot the area everyone's duty to help the Republican and the the movement the people decent liv- keep campaig ties. fighting - TY ing wage in Britain. rest assure! Britain, we win the end' sald. nad Call imposed internment. torture She concluded of the ye have to get terror because she and and

PREMIERS

Heath knew new political and 5 of the border tlement would have Lynch met Independent MP for Mid- made with Ireland. Brussels yesterday and dis Ulster Devlin cussed the situation. bernadette rish Britain's Ihe hrst step in meeting. Warn- Chief topic of conversation opened the new ing thạt the army was the Brussels where which Irish signing 4ccession to the EEC.! emple of said wat sor almot per- Other empha- made after the talks. speakers Justined in Jan. Fund: Eight days to raise £324.40 WE ARE now last lap onine With £324.40 to or the tont. raise, and with a mighty effort, It could be our best month yet.

As the Its third all the working class must be fully behind The only them. way me maicts can will is to lorce mis for covernment ou or once workers remains the foretront of this struggle.

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Workers Prese January Appeal Fund, FOREIGN Secretary Sir Alec Douglas Home wood donam not el London. SW4 7UG. is almost certain to tell the House of Commons today that his inquiry commission will stay in Rhodesia despite the police terror launched EGYPT and ihe Soviet Union agreed against its opponents there.

£250m The volume Officials of the racialist nent to Mansield feas MPs gradually Ian Smith regime who Was unci a cue protocol since yesterday quietly gloating sent to Rhodesia last week fol- Cairo at the weekend by that their murderous lo wing une arrest or lorme. deputy premiel Monamed Dremier amed code ane nis tacks had quelled African potential Minister cauenter rade dangers to security. demonsators against commission. Members of the commission

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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY JANUARY 24, 1972 • No 670 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

COMMON TORY ENEMY

ULSTER AND

Bravery against British troops

MINERS

BRITAIN

AND THE

MASS PROTESTS

and praised demonstrations in N Ire

PRISON

TORY

Jand at the weekend Prime Minister dened Brian Faulkner's

GOVT

the on on parades See page 4 continue another year. Ulster Wholdale miner and Soclal.

Labour League

CAMPS

estates "some are as young as are over 20

SATURDAY'S MEETING ON THE CREGGAN

BY SARAH HANNIGAN

THIRD

struin savery means at their ones barbed.

THE PITS

WEEK:

keeping the British stany at bay. Fein the same Presiaent MacGiolla

BOTH

Meepenis daed that i arred reade an 2000

SIDES

deo were on the alerto said, had win the

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

ment, torture demonstrators

HARDEN

are oice led by the protest outside

HANDS OFF

EVERY SERIOUS trade unionist and opponent

STUDENT

of the hated Tory government must be filled

BY ALEX MITCHELL

AS

THE

national miners' with pride by the courageous struggle in Ulster

FUNDS—

strike enters its third week, the Tory government's stra• against internment. ade after the talks. t

MARCHERS

Lory is cutting ever moIc sharply. Braving possible and serious injury, Thoms. workers, other trade ands

WESTE

students and housewives Jan. Fund: 5 Home to Eight days back, no matter what the odds. to raise With miners' strike

CARE

third £324.40 leave va mighty did families Pearce in the an orce this Tory government out Rhodesia ster, Ezra hardened con- ed. or later ear

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

the t. cos FOREIGN Secretary Sir Alec Douglas Home is almost certain to tell the House of Commons enemy, the Tory government.

today that his inquiry commission will stay in Rhodesia despite the terror launched

SOME OF THE 20,000 STUDENTS OUT YESTERDAY

police ihe Soviet Union Police

STATION STRIKERS

against its opponents there.

DEREK EZRA

STUDENTS

from all over Britain marched Officials or une raciallst Philt to 20,000-strong through London yesterday against regime were

WANT BACKING

Tory proposals to control student union funds.

yesterday quietly gloating to Rhodesia last week fol that murderous emier Garfield Todd and his their the giant protest demon- quelled tacks had RAIL strikers at led Wales ton- Stration •con- demonstrators at oticial tingents from The tronge unt in aren commission. their over an hour to move off fight Education and *onion one. COr action Hyde Park Menders of horosi and the

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

the college authorities' 'Right to Work' e rest of ther and clear

STAGED SIT-IN

statement at theater EVERY BLOW struck by of tens the Torte campaign begins Hundreds of students bel against oh. Thay the week- The demonstration Most against d quiet at the week similar to uggested in yone trying to strengthens ALASGOW FEBRUARY DE marCAVE FOOL FEBRUARY 18 me consultanve document miners

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Be propele lock

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Y On MARCH 12 the perspecients protei dete

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Another cover-up job exploded Workers Press, Monday January 24, 1972

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HAVING tried and failed The operation gains Me us was called off one arter first lieutenant had been killed to cover up the My Lai wounded by and men seven the United booby traps and mines. The men massacre, 4, My Khe then Canne States is keeping quiet inhabited by perhaps 100 women, children and old men. equally about another Hersh said that, according to bloody mass murder first lieutenant witnesses, ordered two machinegunners which took place on the his platoon set up their weapons outside the hamlet.

same day just a mile and 'And then inexplicably, one of a half from My Lai. the gun crews began to spray bullets into My Khe 4, shooting The cover-up job has been at the people in their homes.

exploded by Seymour Hersh, Reports a journalist who won Pulitzer Prize for his exposure 'A few GIs later told the Peers of the My Lai butchery. Commission that a hand grenade had been thrown at them; others newly-revealed atrocity, said that shots had The hamlet called been fired. carried out at My Khe, involved Bravo company *But shot, and one Barker attached Task Force of none of the GIs said they had to the Americal Division's 11th ever actually seen the grenade Brigade. Dropped William Colleye My the only Lt convicted for Lai man Charlie killings, belonged to company of the same task force.

first lieutenant of Bravo charged with was company involvement in the murder of 20 The were civilians. charges dropped before the case came to trial. damning still is Hersh's More revelation that though the Army publicly claims no figure is avail- killed the exact number able for Army Criminal My Lai, an Investigation Division

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twice as many as had been 347 publicly acknowledged. Hersh bases his information on the unpublished tran- complete. of testimony to a given Lt-Gen headed by commission Peers which investigated William He also ob- the My Lai murders. tained documents from other interviewed and scores of military and civilian officials. *Precisely how many residents were slain will never of My Khe but cites Lt Calley: the only man be known.' he writes. estimates ranging anywhere from convicted. 60 to 156. "Some survivors told military 1970 that investigators early in from 90 to 100 women, children and old men were slain. One ex- GI who kept said he count knew of 155 mates ranged from 60 ther esti- deaths; other Connections goes on: "The incident at He My Khe would perhaps be just another Vietnam atrocity story if it were not for four facts: its vital connection with the My Lai public's tragedy; the American ignorance of it; the total, detailed knowledge of it among the Peers investigators, the Department of and higher Pentagon the Army and the officials; failure of any of these agencies to see that the prosecuted.' men involved were In his account of the massacre at My Khe, on the morning of March 16, 1968, Hersh said Bravo company had been assigned to attack of hamlets forming the My Lai one of complex village of Son My. Lt Gen Peers: investigator.

This was about the same time that Charlie company was attack- ing My Lai 4, the original My Lai massacre.

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Name Address explosion; they had only "heard" about it.' Hersh continued: 'When the stopped, the platoon, gun crew led by four point men, or ad- vance scouts, walked into the hamlet and began firing directly at Vietnamese civilians and into Vietnamese homes. The gunfire was intense.' According to Hersh, a former private, Terry Reid of Milwaukee, told him in an interview last May that he knew civilians were being shot. Reid was quoted as saying: 'As soon as they started opening up, it hit me that it was insanity. 1 walked to the rear. Pandemonium broke loose. It sounded insane— machine guns, grenades. One of the walked and I guys remember him saying 60 women, kids and some old men"! Deliberate Referring to the civilian death toll in the original My Lai massacre, Hersh that a wrote careful of examination the testimony accumulated by the Peers Commission showed that military officials have deliberately withheld from the public im- portant but embarrassing factual information about My Lai 4.

For example, the army has steadfastly refused to reveal how civilians were killed by many Charlie company on March 16— longer has a decision that no anything to do with pre-trial publicity since the last court- martial... has been concluded.

'Army spokesmen have in- sisted that the information is not available. 'Yet in February 1970, the Criminal Investigation Division, at the request of the Peers Com- mission, secretly undertook of civilian casualties at census Lai 4 and concluded My that Charlie company had slain 347 Vietnamese men, women, and children in My Lai on March 16, 1968—a total twice as large as had been publicly acknowledged!

Hersh added that despite the 'vast amount of evidence indicating that the murders at My Lai were widespread through- the Lt out only William Calley was of any crime in connection with the attack. *Eleven other men and officers eventually charged with were murder, maiming, or assault with intent to commit murder, but the charges were dropped before trial in seven cases and four men acquitted after military were court martial.' Appeals Lt Calley was last year given a life term for his part in the My Lai massacre. The sentence was later cut to 20 years and is subject to further possible still reduction as a result of addi- tional appeals. Pentagon spokesman said: stated in the past, it would be inappropriate to release the report of the Peers-MacCrate inquiry while the Calley appeal is continuing. "To that end the army cannot comment on any information allegedly in that report.'

(Robert MacCrate is a New York lawyer who sat with Gen Peers on the investigative panel.)

THE LAST US ambassador to Cuba, Phillip Bonsal, reveals how, before the diplo- matic break in the spring of 1960, the US government pulled out American and Cuban personnel who held positions in industry in order to undermine the economy.

In a book entitled 'Cuba, the United States', Castro and Bonsal explains how the Kennedy Bonsa Administration continued to Ican Tanta's

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Bay preparations for the Pigs The US then struck another invasion attempt in April 1961.

Cuban economy by blow at the the State Department While ending the Bonsal American i this quota. had agreed that, the that demicion 02ima companies operating in Cuba taken by President Eisenhower.

should that time Continue refine Russian oil, the Secretary These add little admissions of the Treasury instructed one the Cuban story. that is new to company not to do so. do but they the cynical manner in which US imperialism proceeds in Latin America.

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RUBBER STAMPS, pieces of paper and the occasional strike — as long as the employer has been notified well in advance-are recommended for use under the Industrial Relations Act in a TUC hand book published today.

bearing the The stamps, 2 Employees', contracts of em- legend 'Not Legally Enforce- implied visions able', would be used on each of sources clause, page or minute even u a collecuve agreement from which a every no envover not itself legaliv ing and joint negotiating betweer emplover body. union. inat provision can still De Into nent as one of its legally binding bearing Pieces babel various mode causes wilt une terms . same message would pushed into pay every deal. Act disement conceder procedure and em- being And strikes! paragrabs from une book on the Industrial Relations ployment contracts. Act Any industrial action which something Havour The handbook published by having Victor pother Strikes called trade cry from Hugh Scanlon's dismis.

under unions Industrial industrial dispute The to the and

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existino arrangéments unset. with "ill-effects two ment conditions are the consequential satisfied. the any group of employees who may Industrial re atons factory, workshop or office'.

invo ve in such a arry seat. given on l ts so urged in the hand. in such a way of his book that point such action intention to take nart in Unions should Under the Act 'in" out to widely emplovers Inal as y required to give relatively the Act ruture possible. will he reneed Claiming to show h TUC's efforts and all the are continue can their working-clas Lactor in breach is Therefore last be Shabby cover really a series for accommodatis for operating the Act in practice.

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Workers Press, Monday Janu THEY CALL John M. King, the Denver oilman, a 'bull elephant'. It's appropriate enough: King stands six foot four, weighs 230 pounds and wears big boots and a ten-gallon hat with the initials 'K' on the side.

His luxurious office which areas of frozen dominates the Denver sky- line has pictures and statues replied: of rampaging elephants. The only He is reputed to own 3,000 pairs of cuffinks. The wasteland is caribou turd.'

joke now is that King may not have a shirt to wear with Scramble them. He has lost his job as chair- When IOS faltered in 1970, Resources man a Revenuer Service has $5.3m i taxes. perikion con tained a list ot 451 and the creators creditors, including a drugstore other bill for beer ana candy lo. outside he is tacing $1,000. litigation and his former inves With like these tors are claiming ror everyting on King ende and anyuning Lney Can their hands on. Fortune fortune family trusts and registered in estimated 50 b fortune, onc Mis Bahamas before the crash. This money, which appar ent v amounts to many mll cracked them cannot be touched bi une credos stock, once worth $34 a share, is now fetching only S1. To a reporter wno Visited King said: It is probable said one everything American columnist, tnal no man, including Henry Ford or King. wao ls a committed right-wing Republican and close friend Presideni did Nixon, comment oi whether thousands nIs shareholders were enjoying the Joke too gamble was in ine Arcuc ol personal st thes install of them lost all their which King venture. But for like King the stalkin ground. hundreds of square aeclarea. I get into John King's company promoted this Arctic land as 'a spectacular tory in the Arctic. always come Investment' in oll exploration. Most of the holding was simply frozer manage smelling like a rose? The majority of their hold Ice pack NEGUTIAlIONS have

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opened between Senders how much the tives of the S African gor- The strikers' _church the Ovam ernment and the stooge tribal They rulers Ovamboland, the of SW 'Bantustan' Africa beer or Vorstee regoulanons Balthaza Strike t which has lasted more

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PAGE THREE

Here for the beer TWO NOTED Aussie politicians have just been in town-Gough Whitlam, leader of the Labour Party, and Bob Hawke, head of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australia's TUC. Both told local newsmen they were confident of a Labour vic- tory this year. Hawke left a message with the Australian that press was dashing off to the airport if any- one wanted to see him there.

No one bothered. This isn't surprising. In his frantic efforts to groom himself

HAWKE

Holds beer record as the greatest thing since dyna- mic Harold Wilson, Hawke has been engaged in some very eccentric plans. European visit, During this Hawke has apparently been try- ing to drum up money for-wait for it-an all-Australian ship- building industry. This bizarre scheme has about much chance of success as as Dan McGarvey has of saving Clydebank yard at UCS. at 42, is something Hawke, of a trade union whizz-kid. A lawyer by training he arrived at the top union job in Australian unions when still in his 30s.

the conservative, Among crusty elements in the trade union bureaucracy he was first of all considered with great suspicion. one day someone But dis- covered he was entered in 'The Guinness Book Records'. of Hawke, they learned, held the world record for beer drinking.

He could down two pints in 12.4 seconds. After this revelation Hawke was welcomed into their hearts.

I. The mandate passed to the United Nations after World War II, but was terminated in 1966.

Pretoria has hinted that it may be prepared to make concessions on the infamous contract labour system, but in practice it is giv- ing little away. The seven-man Ovamboland legislative council which is negotiating with Vors- ter's Is hand- representatives picked and thoroughly devoted to the apartheid cause. The contract system is the nearest think to slave labour.

Each worker must register with (the SW African Native Association) which employers' the control. SWANLA is the only agency recruiting Ovambo labour.

To force the Ovambos to work, the government levies money taxes which cannot be paid in kind. Failure to pay the in imprisonment- taxes results and prisoners are forced to work without any rights at all.

SWANLA assigns each worker to employer stated an period, usually 18 months. Once he has signed he cannot change his job until the period is over.

He lives with other workers in a prison-like barracks under the discipline of white overseers. He cannot move about freely and must seperate from his family for the labour period. In return there a small cash usually paid when wage, the contract is terminated. The government wants to change the form rather than the substance of this system, if it is forced to change anything at all.

There has been no mention from government spokesmen of families accompanying workers, nor of the rate for the job, both which figure high on the strikers' list of demands. Vors- ter and his advisers are clearly panic-stricken by the strike. The contract system operates on most of the major industrial pro- jects in S Africa itself.

So if the government is forced to make concessions, there could be an explosion of strikes and revolts inside S Africa. The Ovambo strikers are in the forefront the struggle against Vorster's government. But millions of other oppressed black workers in S Africa are standing right behind them.

PAGE FOUR

Factory cash for 'Right- to-Work' campaign NW and NE comes news of broad support for the Young socialists Kight-lo.

Work' campaign.

WIGAN

Council I rade. responsible for acco mrothes the town. ed Society the Wood- central the Sire a sasE1.

MERSDALEY

pledged finance. usly to support the cam- stewards representin ine following recition: aried *This pleased to socialist poles.

'As part of from "to all sections the factory youty of 10p to sponsor th ion trom the and. SIO dona and donated ess. vehicle Nationers lace co it wiper and branch have also backed th Club i MDW plans stitched SHOP STEWARDS at British- turned • But double their

LATENEWS

NEWS DESK

01-720 2000

CIRCULATION

01-822 7028 1,900 enemy troops more t the Pathet Las news agency reported yester- The iberatio 8 operation • liberation es20d down or planes, • Press, Monday January 24, 1972

FOR DISCUSSION AMONG MINERS

ask the

ASLEF

and NUR to black all movement of coal, inside or outside dower stations. wiin ine exceonon or suoones one wiris schoos no dens oners, ine unlo mobilize their members otne! UnIon. in a united struggle Labour control of the all compensation paymens .

previous

EVERY

BITTER clash on the picket lines. even parlamental Tory speech by a Minister draws divisions THE CASTLEFORD MEETING WHERE THE IMPORTANT WHELDALE MOTION WAS PASSED miners' strike. nent to think again', these Stalinis amn of he mies This has gone far beyond a Moreover, national wny do Jack ones ana huge eaders join the trade union bureal From workers ware the start it was a political strike and the they detend the right to wor aralast une employers Tory government. THE TORIES stubbornness comes swer losures and sackings in the private mean THE ted in deen due

ONLY

JODS IS

coate public workers. Trol ois minst come ender and ane Coal will consis international capital. other trade unionists working in the bring the because afraid are decen Brian since organize i or servants The are wald capitalism Recondiot ion nan why industries, Council men • Replace to legislate n with Labor unem National Coal Board. government rights and ContrOl mass unemploy why does the trade unior and threaten ordinate solidarity action?

• Force the Tories to resign!

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SWA TUG

Ginsburg freed

BOTH SIDES HARDEN

• FROM PAGE ONE

called on the union's national Be alter a week dubing h arrested in 1967 a week during th for a three other writers expressed STUDENTS all over Spain have children on i pover station and on the support for the struggle in Madrid, which led of bitter clashes with week to tour davs aSt the Franco police. Register edents were suspended: 20 un solidarit stitched d the clock to expre Boycots cre us a protes rebels probed Student unrest, even though Stewards believe government is facing cam- worker action have failed tr the Industrial Relations Act The TUC "dealisteith beaten, weve all had or meet agair hospitals Leyland wor The Beetrical and because of the dispute Ý Wednesday. doctors slayca al taen posts

WEATHER

relations central and england nationalist Previously

THE BASQUE

Ban lifted organization

ETA

elicor over° fatherland and freedom)

ENGINEERS

WORKS

Acton, London, Zabala

LUI CHLO

WUL.

following a meeting firm the

MINERS' ATUA

demands tnal Pith AUEW convenor John. "cold ar In reply the ETA kidnapp manares re instates

MEETINGS

sacked workers uary 24, 7.30 p.m. The Gray Ermua plant. near Bilbao., eat penal wThe fro sad the save Zabala's life. He was the harsh e of the ETA demands Tuesday ommuted the man declared sere London Condions employed workers government BELGIUM'S 75-day crisis ended at the weekend when it found a government in time to sign the Treaty of bringing Britain

ACCESSION

into the Common Market. panic Artel reacone near proped ioy bringing back was PRESIDENT Salvador Allende's Chilean govern- CrISIs so ved nv former Prime ment is likely to make a shift to the right as a Eyskens result of a cabinet reshuffle. All 16 ministers Social Belgian have resigned, but have been asked to stay on Party deadlock fol- 1 llc pullicdl while a new government is formed this week.

lowed Kalils Inade nationallsi Darues Two the outgoing Novemder general hections ministers have been singled The French-speaking Demo- out for attack by the Con- cratic Brussels. which opposition have prevot se hand- majority. plea for Albend os ehe hristin ete Behind members of Christian Left pult is acvelobuns econo leCuISIs anne cecune government industry French-speaking Jo1n attempt i meet growing Wallonia. Walloon middle-class criticism nationalism was recent by-election defeats sa Ps and th ine f th A STRONG PLEA for the fected its N York ien central Soviet dissenter has re ease Sulic search of credits from private Vladimir Bukovsky has been class-consciousness

TOI

Instead f mee Dallks. made by atomic scientist Was Flemish on ravnent past bolrow. meelns Andrei Sakharov, regarded as ings are due Negotiations nauonallsn witn a class DrO with Chile's European credi the eramme ulte au workers Cne Tatner Soviet tors take place in Paris next against the trusts wiico con- H-bomb. trol the month belgian economy, the international social democrats and centrists noose letter the .Com- round Allende's neck in the nationalism hangs secretary • Leonid the right-wing Brezhnev clas sition eats away at his home he squashing 1960-191 81 scutcul oase. immediate release cabinet great strikes weak- Bukovsky, who faces 12 years amount ened the Belgian working class reshutlng Can save To1S 'experiment' Inu. ason camo ano exe 'parlia- after it was led into confusion the TOlOWine sentence

TOT

mentary road to socialism'.

anol Detraval Iedaers 'anti-Soviet activities'.

like venacooues late His main 'offence' was that A nore kenaro soouted naton.

and revisionists Rome clash he public 1k e urew alicauon Ernest Mandel raised the false ine detenuon or opposimonists 'march • Brussels'. 1 special cumia osvcnlatne illegal police hosnitals typical is a measures. representatiyes walki beciuuc. lent clashes police Sakharov, who is one of the French alll L'icisk demonstration ing. ¡caolls neUrC. the Un- WillES

LWU

Cudlliul against repression Greece. Rights Com- omeia e umao partes. 225 mittee, rOLCC salu S210 Toal evervone number minister and knows "the were aetained real reason

TOT

has been eut trom extremely strict sentence re ease• ana one man amrestea and they include a number of was Bukovsky's self-sacrificing old hands from arter toe 4.v-stroma cemon- stration. struggle for human rights'.

Saturoav A thens the British CP's military tribunal sentenced

A TROUSN

eight young Greeks to one pro- "Morning star notea the Istanbul test, was not. careti bombings in the cịty. quote this phrase. combed

THOUSANDS

of Turkish troops yesterday sealed off the cr or stanou are beran a strineent nouse-to-mouse searcr for left-wing guerrillas.

A 15-hour curfew halted all land, and transport the city and surrounding areain target the yesterday search Liberation huinis reobIC S

AILY

SERIOUS economic problems continue to plague recenuy invoivca mn a numoc spectacular kidnadpines both Bangla Desh and Pakistan as leaders of the One of the army's leaders, Deniz Gezmis, and four other two countries attempt to hold back movements members are in prison under death imposed among their workers and peasants.

by martial courts Shelkh Mujibur Kanman, workers press of the new Prime Minister Bangla Desh, faces a trans-

READERS MEETINGS

port crisis as hundreds oi thousands of tons of raw jute jute products dw all

S LONDON

export. Meet speakers from the Wednesday January 28 Editorial Board. DIscuss 8 p.m sedino prot trittac ong your ideas for the expanded Lower Hall to port traffic closed che Brixton Town Hal recent ravages of the Pakistan paper Brixton SW2 ammy ame ones ae dy Danxl Desh guerrillas.

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE MEETINGS

Attempts diso helped the forces who cucillla Make the Terta forernment N

LONDON:

(Please Mujib have led

LOLE

install Sheikh Thursda) Crante armee casnes WitE 27, January p. Support Return Labour

LOWT

wing groups. Hall, Edmonton. ment pledged to restore tui the miners'. In one encounter, 500 Mukti all employment and repea Bahini allegiance OW Ше unons SE

LONDON:

Thoom ay, 'General' Khader Siddiqui, Ianuary 27. 8 p.m. Room

WOO

has acreed cusarm. Club, Engineers fought 80 guerrillas verone Sald Neu Cross sin Maoists in the Tangail Right-to-Work campaign.' 'Rents and region. housing'. SLOUGH: Thursday Januar) Weekend from reports LIVERPOOL: Monday Jan- 27, 'The p.m Neur' Lecture Hail, Wilham Brown Dacca calmed toat laroe Museum Right-to. makers• canoev. quantities of weapons have Work campaign' already been surrendered street. rugat-to-work cam-

LANCASTER

Monday Tanuary 31, 7.30 M.0. Rahman House. SAlre are still operating in (nr bus stn). 'Right-to-Worl campaign'. seyclal arcad.

LONDON:

SW Wednesda! Bhutto February p.m. Trades Hall. Cm anora nor, Sthe anuary • p.m community 24 Adelph The Tall, Clapham Manor make appeal 'Right-to-Work' campaign General Strike' home veniedta February Tuesday assels

LONDON

Ianuary 26, 8 p.m. Room 11 'Prince abroad. Hast Ham lowT Hall, Last Wharfedale Rd off 'Right-to-Work again told Ham. cam- KAuTto nas York King's Cross diplomats he wants talks with campaign'. Rahman settling LUTON Toareda Traior their differences. CROYDON: Thursday Feb. oid Bedford ruary Rd. Stalinism And Ruskin Hse Coombe 'Right-to-Work cam- LulUil. Trotskyism'. Dal lL • Socialist Labour League Speclal course of lectures In line with the decision of the ATUA November 6 conference

ETA

vived last acuiycly to bulld the revolutionary party.

su merin country, Lecture Room 1 SAste on Lalavus Digbeth Hall, Digbeth las aica, la retistanst ries, she BIRMINGHAM, 8 p.m. Dealll s centre resistance Franco

TUESDAY JANUARY 25

has set off Ine depression Economics and Politics a new round of hitter stru- eles e clad coal strike

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1

Historical Materialism today However hbe c o viduals Mid-Hall organization: Woodside Hall, St George's Cross nationalism terrorism QLASGOW, 3 p.m the prob Dave nu alo wel the Spanish work- of Lems

SUNDAY JANUARY 30

ins bat building if a trotskyist reto- Economics and Politics lutionary party Wolch unite thall Spanish working given by class of provinces the G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) topple the Franco regime and establish workers' power.