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THE one-day srike against spoke out Ford's Less than a week after their formation was Round-the-clock Oxford, brought the entire result was a victory when trumpeted in the capital- LiVERPOOLS victory plant to a nail. 'heavy The press, the Newsletter' told Despite the asrupung ac lancart« rumbo strikers • the sa struggle again squads - special nanas tiVities o certan elements meet on nursday to near picket possible of club-wielding soldiers all the Last rriday's meeting result ol yesterday's (seen below) it was a major increase in talks between shop stew- trained to pick out dem- success. workers Press reportel onstration 'ringleaders'- The canteer ards and unior womer oucials. MaDE Engines London Friday, Federatineerin mated u They have been on strike picketed the lactory were in action or une at E. Kilbride with Brighton arranged at men, thus ensuring that first time. talks lor seven weeks ended scabs who udy, kers Uni Management-union talks will deprived of More than 4u arrests tume From the Engineeri tollowed their interven By Mickle Shaw tion on Saturday night in crowd of people in the Woodstock 5 Coventry, . BirT com pay s Welle bose prate it picket by members of the Union Amalgamated the e have seen during our worhorthern Engineering and Foundry- from the crowd. struggle. intro- workers may largely Protes duced at the better Soun r the good Reproductions (BR) fac- wish you every succe street

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it me day shite sama working Less than a week after short.time British - Leylard, their formation Round-the-clock Oxford, brought the trumpeted in the capital- plant to a halt.

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1,150 victory 'heavy Standard-Triumph strikers squads' - special bands tivities Now meet on hursday to hea wist picket possible last the result of yesterday's oi club-wielding soldiers rapid increase (seen below) it was a major best trained to pick out dem- talks between snob stew- workers Press reportel ales. ards and union officials. onstration ring eaders — 1 ne Cantee. Arranged were in action for the lactory in London Hasi at E. Kilbride picketed Une aney nave been on strike arranged at Brighton first time. tne men, tnus ensuring Chal for seven weeks. the scabs wno arlited late More than 40 arrests Management-union talks work will hall Motors, be deprived Ellesmere followed their interven By Mickle Shaw fishing for she worker a crowa or people in wat

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goods still conterence and from Market gave a stiff warning at the end of last week that stage food prices will rocket if Britain enters.

Bir- ne lactor Motor workers' conference Reporting on membership This All car, car mainly at neart by non-on By John Spencer abolicallons Dillaill components and • By Frank Cartwright drivers estimated that reached Norway. Denmark and come underthe workers delivery Ireland. the Market's Com firm is continu ing to maintain workers All tre rates cars al about 65 per cent production.

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IRELAND, after hund- reds of years of imperial- ist oppression, was par- titioned following the workers' uprising of Easter 1916 in Dublin and the 1918 Civil War. The present state of Nor- thern Ireland consists of six counties in the north-east of Ireland, the remaining 26 constituting Eire, the Re- public. From 1912 onwards, the landlords and capitalists of what is now Northern Ire- land, particularly in Belfast, organized open military re- sistance against the proposed 'Home Rule', in which the Liberal government of the day at Westminster proposed to grant limited independence to Ireland. Led by Sir Edward Carson, this reactionary group, sup- ported by the Tories and by elements of the military Gen- eral Staff in Britain, forced a situation where 'Ulster', or the six counties of the North-East, remained attached directly to the Westminster government.

These 'Unionists' have had their politics to base ever since on the supposed advan- tages of this union to the Protestant majority in North- ern Ireland. Whereas the Catholic re- ligion predominates in Ireland whole, the six counties as a contain majority of those a professing Protestantism.

This arises from historical beginning in the processes 16th and 17th centuries, in which the English ruling class settled Protestant farmers, mostly Scots, in these coun- ties, giving them the best land, in order to consolidate their rule.

WAGE WORKERS

Now, of course, the vast majority of their descendants who remain in Ireland are wage-workers in propertyless Belfast and the smaller towns.

In order to keep the work- ing class of the North dis- united, to keep the Protestant workers in the political grip of Unionist (Conservative) Party, it has been necessary above all to convince them connection with the that Britain and the continuance of • ligiou Unionist rule is an advantage to them as workers. Thus the Catholic worker is discriminated against by the capitalists and the state: his worthless through votes are 'gerrymandering' or the arrangement of constituencies; he has less chance of a house; excluded from he is many jobs; his children will be worse educated in inferior schools.

In addition, welfare services through of the type won struggle in Britain apply to the

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Many Catholic workers saw the civil rights North, and contrast with the Republic. It is now a desperate matter the capitalists of Ireland for and Britain that this division be preserved. The international crisis of capitalism has reached the stage where a conflict with the working class in every capitalist country cannot be avoided. This is the lesson of France, Italy and Germany, as well as Northern Ireland, Eire and Britain.

FATAL

It will be fatal for the capi- talists once the workers who are crowded into Belfast slums are drawn, united, into this struggle against their real the employer, the enemies, landlord, and the government, of being led, instead the as agents of the capitalist class are deliberately leading them, into clashes on a religious basis. There have been no barri- cades in the upper-class and middle-class areas of Belfast, no clashes between rich Catho- lics fighting for civil rights and rich Protestants fighting as 'Loyalists'! The attention of the ruling class is turned instead to per- petuating these divisions in the working class. But the game is up! Because can provide no capitalism Street barricades in I future for either the Protestant or the Catholic worker; and because these workers sense offensive the strength and power of their class through- out the world, their need to fight will not and cannot be contained within the old re- ice of • ligious 'sectarian' framework.

Within only a week or two of the clashes between the forces of the state and groups of Catholic workers in August this year, a remarkable change took place in the situation.

Protestant workers, for half a century used as a pillar of support for the 'British con- nection', found themselves in street battles against the occu- pying British Army! For a few extreme right. the civil rights movement as a way of expressing th arainst capitalism in ever wing Unionists to raise the idea of breaking from West- minster was one thing: it was only a warning of the tensions which were coming to the sur- face as the old equilibrium became uneasy. But for the poor Protestant workers of Belfast, deluded for generations into voting Union- ist (i.e. for all that went with union with Britain) to fight British troops was quite an- other thing! Simon-pure reformers and so-called socialists of course will object that those Protest- ant workers clashed with the troops only because the troops prevented them from fighting the Catholic workers. That is, of course, what happened But the objective logic of events is here of decisive im- portance. These workers have led to express their been bitterness and frustration as victims of exploitation, un- employment and bad housing by taking it out on their class brothers, the Catholics.

CLASH

The clash with the troops signifies precisely that the maintenance of capitalist rule in Northern Ireland can no longer depend on this device, together with the Special Powers Act that goes with it.

These same workers will : barricades in Dublin during the Irish Civil War of find the troops, forces of the state, supported by the Pro- testant' Constabulary and B- Specials (now policing the 'Protestant' slums), attempting to batter them down in strike struggles.

WAGE-CUTS

Also they have Wilson attempting to introduce anti- union legislation and face in- creased unemployment, wage- cuts and 'productivity' speed- up. The Catholic worker is coming into the same overall struggle against capitalism and the Wilson government. Because of the reformist and reactionary of his control unions and political parties, of expressing that willingnese to struzzle which has apitalism in every country.

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from the Republicans and the Stalinists, he has been led by the middle-class "civil rights' advocates to beliere that pressure on Wilson wil bring positive reforms on jobs, housing, education, votes and protection against arbitrary arrest.

STRÜGGLE

Many Catholic workers say the Civil Rights movement as a way of expressing that wil- ingness to struggle which has been steadily building w capitalism in against every country. They thought that by giving their support to "civil rights' could bring pressure t bear on the Unionists for sub- stantial reforms. Their middle-class leaders peddled the argument that sup- ort for this could be got rom the Labour governmen in Britain. The whole perspective of the leadership of the civil rights movement - a middle- class leadership supported by middle-class 'socialists' of the sh Civil War of 1918. 'state capitalist' and Stalinist varieties — was that British capitalism had within it the possibility of granting demo- cratic reforms and allowing a further peaceful development of capitalism in Northern Ireland. But for the Catholic worker who marched behind their banners in Beltast or Derry, it was a step towards something quite different: it was the only way he could see, at that stage, of using his growing strength to challenge the employers and the government. Above all it is necessary to understand, not only that the middle-class leaders inevitably betray this movement from be- low, but something else. The political crisis which razle which has been steadily building up

WOIKERS' PRESS

The first of two articles by Cliff Slaughter opened up with O'Neill's re- signation and the split in the Unionist Party brought in its a series of objective train struggles in which the class issues will inevitably come to the fore, and in which great opportunities arise for the de- velopment of united working- class actions and the develop- ment of a Marxist leadership in Britain as well as in Ireland.

If we approach the question from another angle, this be- comes clear. What is the real *one content of the slogan • one house'? What is the content of the demand for ending discrimination in edu- cation ?

JOBS SCARCE

For the working class, the "jobs' question is a matter of more jobs. But capitalism has entered a phase internationally -and certainly even more within declining British capi- talism-where jobs must get scarcer and not more plentiful.

Thus, if the Northern Ireland and British government 'prom- ise' to implement the reforms demanded by the civil rights movement, what this can mean? Unemployment in Northern Ireland is at this time seven and a half per cent, or three times the rate in Britain.

The ruling class is patently incapable of controlling the social contradictions and establishing 'law and order'.

Hence the 'normal' problems of reducing the labour force in capitalism as a whole are much Ireland. worse Northern These promises, like all the promises of Tories and all the promises of Wilson and the reformists, are a lie and a fraud. Northern Ireland's problems, obviously than even more those of Britain, require social- ist solutions.

LESSON

Bitter struggles, in which the workers of Belfast and Derry are unable to resolve even the smallest day-to-day questions without armed clashes with the forces of the state, will force this lesson upon these workers in a very short time. To fight for these policies against is the all diversions task of Marxists in this situa- tion. It was because of the middle-class orientation of the initial leadership of the civil that rights movement Catholic workers found them- selves apparently facing the prospect of wholesale death and destruction by August of this year. The Royal Ulster Constabu- lary and the B-Specials (con- sisting largely of extremist right-wing elements, some of them followers of the Protest- ant Reverend Ian Paisley) used their government status and their arms to carry out brutal attacks on the Catholic wor- kers' quarters. • Whole streets were burned down and several deaths occurred.

NOT ORGANIZED

Against these odds the un- workers fought prepared bravely, but the independent fighung capacity of the work- ing cass had never been organ- ized, of course, by the civil rights leaders, even of the so- called 'left wing'. The 'state capitalists' of the 'International Socialism' group, and others like McCann, who constitute this 'left wing', then found themselves unable to oppose the intervention of British troops. Their supporters say: 'With- out the troops there would have been a pogrom (i.e. a violent attack and killing of Catholics)'. They forget, first, that this 'pogrom' is now about to be organized by the troops and the Royal Ulster Constabulary and B-Specials who are part of the same state machine; and, second, that their own politics of liquidation into civil rights, instead of independent of the mobilization strength of the working class, created Wilson's the conditions for troops to intervene. Now the Cameron Report on the events between October 1968 and April 1969, together the witch-hunt of the with capitalist press, led by the 'Daily Mail, is turned on McCann, Toman, Devlin and Farrell, of the student 'People's Democracy' section of the Civil Rights movement.

No effort must be spared in the labour movement of Britain and Ireland to defend them and all the Irish militants against whom the attack is directed. The Labour government must be told to keep its hands off any of the workers and civil rights members whom the Unionists want to make scape- goats for their own historical bankruptcy. But the lessons must be learned. These 'left wingers', among them revisionist supporters of 6078 TZ The Union Jacks were out in this Protesta illusions about 'protection' from the army

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Instead, the revolutionary nature of the problems facing the Irish Catholic workers, and Protestant, was the essence of the question, and required a socialist, revolution- ary, not a reformist programme and preparation; a working- class organization, not a liqui- dation into the middle-class organization (civil rights) with a reformist programme. The situation was and is To in this Protestant area when the troops moved in i from the army are being dispelled as state forces are and Protestant workers. All regions as BBC 1 except at the following times: Midlands and East Anglia: 6.0- 6.45 p.m., Midlands News and Weather. 11.42, News Summary and Weather. North of Engiand: 6.0-6.45 p.m., Look North. 11.42, Northern News Headlines and Weather. Scotland: 3.45-4.20 p.m., Sunday Set. 6.0-6.45, Reporting Scotland.

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October 7, 1969 ts it is necessary ing class in Ireland divided, connection with Britain and the continua- is an advantage to them as workers.

pital- building up to a revolutionary one. Therefore, as soon as the workers show even a small example of their strength and combativity, counter-revolu- tionary_reprisals are prepared by the Unionists. Unable to prepare for revo- lution, the 'lefts', because of their revolutionary words, and because thev are useful as a scapegoat, fall victim in the witch-hunt to these reprisals.

The working-class move- defend them, be- ment will cause the attack on them is essentially the ruling class's first preparatory blow in tightening the grip of repres- sion in Ireland. To be continued tomorrow.

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October . 196s FEARS of a possible By Tom Kemp world economic crisis of the type begun by the 1929 Wall Street crash upon government spending and once again being paper monev based upon short- the nnancing or credit ou term noating debt. expressed. only been central hanks. have One or like Lwo countries able operate through con- Capitalism's tn t supporters, Germanv swilzer and mav have for the moment 3 solid- who or many vers assumed they Har vears now anvernments looking currency hunt that governments now had especially that of the US, have too are caught up in the same struggled to bring inflation at neir disposa astruments control but have to forestall and prevent such they he build-un ot credit. the completely tailed international finan- involved disaster are longer Thison a feinistrati is that speaking of Euro With Such Conti- find itself obliged dollars, dence. and lack gold or ess In the face of continued failed foreign SpOKe about exchange apply. uncontrollable inflation in all Aready Interest rates serves. ours une waole system have risen to an absurd level at tne mercv or some sudden capitalist coun the man but still the inflation goes on.

breakdown in one bank or hig tries they are saying: firm, with the exposure of one In other words, Ameri- The financial scandal. must end sometime and what from can economy. which As 'le Monde' savs: then? stems the world rise in prices.

could become, in 1929. the Who can be sure that there of new eco- Marxists will not one dav be in London.

co t_ctuler nomic blizzard. have in the past also permitted in prankturt in leneva or in themselves Discussing these paradise as unt the that the turo. world possibilities in 'Le Monde' (Sep- dollar, Nassau, a bank failure crisis the 30), a financial journal dimension of that of the 1930s chance the hirst is no longer possioie. pulls vul break very well come out- To do this, of course, is to side the USA. at this not is are if cole so, assume that that the have arned,

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with help of Lord can predicted What it is possible ntynes. lo con lalnly. trol the anarchy of the market for the is ne says. Ine sier with confidence is that the say Wall Stree crash 01 nan be and on con 1070 | conditions for it are being pre- actually given by the failure of no longer operate as they once nared that government action 010] a bank Austria. of the Keynesian type will be In other words it represents different parts of the helpless to prevent it and that relection revision word economv are so cosev Marxism. Monetary linked together thal shock in any part then, ot 1t make they not may be transmitted. and Can it deal with the basic evitabe! he nredicted aDie to the with certainty! At one time or problems. It is the another cince the and of reaction, when all Second World War such claims

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overproduction have been made in the name CIes of Marxism predominate. Capitalism has certainly begin wnien changed in the past decade or can set the stage for a world However, no such slump has depression occurred. Is it, In some ways it has changed of a premature written in an urgent tone, calls faster than many people real ion or of some other mistake?

ectress of the heavy indebt- big capitalist These changes have been

BREAKDOWN

like Italy, narticular v important on the Belgium and Germany. hnangal cde the imnications What Marxist political econ- Strong to deal measures of the uro.dollar market for omy shows is that the example, are only slowly being working with intain in any one Instead of making OuT these countries collid easily re stable, motion nushes the system to. sult in a chainst wards a breakdown. failures running from they move subject to control, country There direction. then. dennite in ine opposite beat would nor be anarch- ot such tendency towards a ericic nev underiine ItS istic character. They show how over-production. ac. tually to occur on the scale more ment. une nevnesian: the reckless search tor that that all the assume would. profit leads to a network comp should transactions which poises the course randiv follow . precari- come together in in mainla tor governments to forestall this before and increases a particular way. of financial seize-up be- its risks of collapse. Marxism cannot pri dict with not the why the supporters certainty slump vill occur canitalism themse ves. at a particular time to they nause think. even that one will actuall balance of payments stricken with anxiety about the problems It does say how. take niace future. they mav inadvertentiv ever that there are powerful That is why the strength of the screw too much and start operating in this tendencies the the crash ! direction. and fested throughout The European banking financial situation is now in hese tendencies onerate do.

so important position because coite the concene affate f shows that the future will the draining be decided struggle trol the of capital Jovern Classes and not as the working Keynesian upward meeting their needs economic ments are 011 inevitanle processes. oy a continuous increase

WORKERS' PRESS

THE USE to which the of india by som Passed According cone report some, he opened magnificent human de- imes. October i the to proposals discussed, Goor continued broad velopments of radio and without any firm television put de-

MPS

The reformist social-demo- lobbied to take pends entirely on the cracv which sprang natural v and that Inde- in which trom his nolitics a cO hed social system back the growth of the Indian Televisior Authority they are employed. should be asked exercise pro- preater control over 'Technique and science de- But, gramme companies and pro- course are meant …take nim velop not in a vacuum, but and forlorn evening all round hearto tolinw in human societv. which con.

similarly idealist sists of classes. The ruling programmes and Communications UlUU approach. possessing class, a rerormist group witn madie class. the controls and recanione through it controls nature...

In a society which the in ruling class militaristic, technique is in the service of militarism. Trotsky's speech in March to 1926 the inaugural meeting of the First All-Union con- gress of the Societv of Friends as strongly от касІо stands now as it did then in the in fancy of wireless communica- Today pictures can be sent round the world vi satellites with only few seconds delay. Live pictures come from the moon and trom the manned dark chine n rockete in inter-planetary space. oceans which have travelled and then back space acain weather 1s studied trom orbiting photographic labora• tories.The advance tech- in nique in a few short years is statut all this, and more Mahatma Gandhi sides, is in the service of th ruling class: all this is in the service their a nha net. LAST WEEK too Associated class nolities which was behind works of missiles carrying the meeting, is well matched Television (ATV) continued enough explosive force with sympathizers in the out all life er ath his in its new series, 'The Dustbin- wipe Party. many times world capital men'. Ine service Condescending and ism in its desperate and des- ON

THE

day the same tructive attempts to prolong class are noth Director-General of the BBC.

ite senility but this series looks In recent years, perhaps the ing new, Mr. Charles Curran, let it be most act of tele- ike setune new recoros known that despite the in- censorship was In the same week that dust.

crease in all licence fees to not to allow men in sinaton and e sewhere decision Peter Wat- Ware hanting cerinue hattled be levied from April 1971.

pudlic to see wages and against for decent War Game' kins the Corporation will still be productivity deals. Atter much outerv it wac in serious financial trouble.

finally released into selected wil best entertain and Contuse cinemas where responsible' Radio alone will have an middle-class people could see a7 millated defien and around All over the world fellow milion ay then and there of solvency seems no chance film-makers awarded it prizes after that unless viewers make TELEVISION coverage of the and the BRO even • made a a massive and unlikely turn to large sum from gate very Labour Party conference also did little to reveal the real But it was never shown of hairman of the British television forces at work there was, after all, an attempt announced thai One evening a group of dele- educational broadcastino will to give a picture of the effects gates in Krighton me a co he severely afterter in tha at a very coal sm m workere from commercial tele near future unless the govern.

on human life. vision to discuss the crisis in mont realistically and the industry. unromantically. case it 'upset' people. and pro- Many other films grammed have heen manned Some still languish locked vaults; others were de- stroyed. film alleging discrimi- natory treatment of • Immigrant workers hu the Metronolitan Police wac mutilated after pressure from the authorities.

Another about women treated have been delayed for vears racin nrogrammes ahout noice nri tality completely stopped. The the list is lone and coming period must get lon- ger Meanwhile, the of filled and screens are Tour radio channes never tail to shread the anchell LAST WEEK both television set-ups did a job on Gandhi.

of his birth BBC and Granada THE National Bureau of the Alliance des Jeunes pour le put out programmes on Socialisme greets the launching of the Trotskyist daily paper same night. Workers' Press published London Socialist Both idealized and roman. Tohour lagone the Ritich Tentalvict ordanigation ticised The role vlaved by the Young Socialists in the struggle any serious analysis to publish the daily Workers' Press provides the AJS with nolitice anu a wealth of exnerience Hotad Marcapital and Day after day, the AIS followed this struggle, because prisoned during many there is no such thing as two parallel, distinct struggles but the struggle for the building of the tool one and same served British imperialism indispensable for the victory of the proletariat-the revolu- well tionary party. His crepd non_vinlence The appearance of the daily Workers' Press is a tre- Wac and cynically difficult way mendous sten forward other dismissed in the revolutionarv partv and the International.

in a situation With his hand-spinning and where working class has again initiative notions primitive mics (he always anti in the clace struggle and engages itset in hide strno a against the bourgeoisie on a world scale.

also Marxist) 1ved a nart of his life In this situation, the launching of the daily Workers' the hua hous in every of ana of India's biggest in- Press constitutes a conquest for revolutionaries Auctriolicto country. His narrow nationalism was Santy and the appearance daily tant icon. class Workers' Press a delegation of the National Bureau of the romantic asceticism all arist to canitalism.

PAGE THREE

By Frank Cartwright need to extend communications in the Soviet Union, Trotsky's vords have immense powe today: 'It is necessary that on that day when workers of Eu- rope take possession of the the stations, when pro- letariat of France take over the Eiffel Tower and announce from its summit in all the lan- guages of Europe that they are the masters of France, that that day and hour not only the The crisis in the industry is workers of our cities and indus- very deep indeed and no tries, the peasants of Dul also amount of reformist tinkering our remotest villages, be may able to reply to the call of the is going to put it right.

European as Yorkere "Do you "We hear hear you brothers, and we will help you!" THIS WEEK too has seen Siberia will help with fats, grain another move in the desper- and materials, the Kuban TaW and the Don with grain and ate attempt to use all means meat, Uzbekistan and Turkmen- in the effort to con the work- will istan contribute their cot- This will ing class. ton. that our chow radio - communications have brought transforma- On Sunday at 12.30 p.m., a Europe tion of into single new series was begun on BBC The de- economic organization. Television. velopment of radio-tele- Called 'Representing graphic the among so IS. Union' it's billed as many other things, 'a trade prepara- for the when the unionist's guide moment to produc- people of Europe and Asia tivity bargaining and manage- shall be in Soviet ment techniques' Union of Socialist Peoples."

The producer insists that it's That day is The intended to help shop stewards heroic part played by workers negotiate a productivity bar- in Czech television and radio to help gain, them know last testifies whether or not they are getting year to the strength of the resurgence of a tair deal for their members' revolutionary socialism The very notion of 'fair' through out Europe. productivity deals is difficult to Similarly in Paris, in May- imagine in this system and it's June, accident 1968, many broadcasters no that Vic Feather was quoted as saying and technicians took a princi- pled stand against the Gaullist that the series of 'great was and importance'. ('Financial Times' government on the side September 23.) of the working class. Many of Produced in close consulta- these people in tion with the TUC it deals with both countries have lost their *problems of livelihoods as a result. effective com- The recent resignations munications, costing tech- at London Television niques, job evaluation, Weekend work- measurement and payment by involved big sacrifices too.

results. It's only the beginning Mr Feather also said that though; these are the first there have been many inquiries flood rumblings of a mighty about the series, not only from tide. Television some shop stewards, but and radio also from manufacturing workers are important in the industry, 'mainly bigger companies'.

coming struggles. Other No one will be exempt. inquiries had also from Post Office, The fight is come the the railways and hospitals. their industry as in any other; One more to sell we must take on the obliga- attempt productivity deals, this time in that history tions thrusts disguise the of fair-minded upon us. educational television. Programmes to OUR mentors will go on try- note ing to decide what we should know, what we shall see, Oct.

7 - BBC 1,

9.10 p.m., what we may hear. We Go 'Where Do From 'Public 'corporations like the Here?'; a film about gypsies in Britain. BBC and statutory bodies like Oct. 8 BBCI, 11.15 p.m., Con- the Independent Television Party Conference. Authority, either ervative through ac- tion or 9.45 a.m. mid-day, Con- inaction, will attempt servative Party conference.

to hold back consciousness.

Oct. 9-BBC I, 11.05 p.m., Con- They will peddle the accept- Party Conference. servative able values and the present

ITV,

9.30 and mid-day, news as they see fit. Conservative Party But whilst the confer- great possi- bilities for freeing enco men in- herent in broadcasting Oct. 10

- BBCI,

remain 11.20 p.m., hidden, whilst the Conservative Party Conference.

news ques

BBC

2, 9.10 p.m., *La Guerre on putting the American im- perialist case in Vietnam, the est Fini' (The War is Over'); federal Nigerian government's a feature film directed by line on Biafra and the Alain Resnais with Yves Mon- em- ployers' interests in all class tand, Ingrid Thulin and struggles, we should never for- Genevieve Bujold.

ITV, 9.30

and midday, get the revolutionary future for p.m. Conservative Party which we are all building.

confer- Speaking in 1926 about the ence. Charles Berg of the AJS. AJS came to London on September 26 and 27 to bring our English comrades the fighting greetings of the French Revolutionary Youth. The struggle of the Young Socialists and the struggle of the AJS are linked indissolubly for the destruction of the bourgeois state and capitalism, for the victory of the working class and its youth, and the establishment of socialism. Together, the Young Socialists and the AS will fight for the of organization of an International Conference Revolutionary Youth, for the proclamation of a Revolu- tionary Youth International, as heir of the heroic tradition of fight of the Socialist Youth International of Karl Liebknecht and the Communist Youth International of Lenin and Trotsky. In this year which marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lenin and the 30th anniversary of the assassina- tion of Leon Trotsky we will win together this new victory.

Charles Berg, National Secretary For the National Bureau of the AJS.

october 7. 196

WORKERS CROSS

PAGE FOUR

TENSIONS

Big lobby for £20 claim Glasgow

MOUNT IN

bus Dustmen are

COMMON

fares up determined THeN 965

MARKET

workers' Press reporter 800 ON 888 BUS HARES in Glasgow are to he increased on October THE DECISION of the Bonn government to 12 from 5d. to 6d.: 10d. to Is.: and 3d. to 6d. contest the European Common Market's rejec tion of its decision to levy a 5.5 per cent tax to win strike brings agricultural imports the tensions within the EEC to a sharper point.

is doubled from se 6d. to c5s.

upheavals last Increase of the last months, together By Peter Jentries with the throughout LONDON dustmen are determined to win their Class olensive mated to be over flt: Durope and l wuespical Common Market strike for a f5-a-week increase despite the em- protests Sullall larmers Necessary By against present agricultura. ployers' rejection of the claim at Friday's joint nego- pricine arrangements, nOW that the rises ere necesary Peter Read enge its cheemar threaten The break up o tiating committee meeting.

the Common Market. because of workers' wage in ng Kiesinge strike nas Bonne spread to 20 boroughs and LAViNG four than anects more maapinge late farm tax. 360,000. million people. sector creased rom militant Jobov or more hridav's caxton mall nego.

tiations, about 600 strikers are to be introdies. showed determina- tion to he mire not going bited y worker i 6027,000 a teese warrionmans Evant, therman of the Peter cultural p D.A.T.A. men that if tine matte men quite clearly on their placards not te last few months days

ISOLATED

Exhibition in 16-week official Workers" devaluation and General men threaten Follow e same for west Germany. national strike wage strike All the Officers of the other unions

EXHIBITION

in orred of Britair day umotical srike on woul follo Dustmen voted to move this rubbish from Ridley Road moot c, Neen!

By Jack Gale Capitalist cannot the nation state NINETY-NINE members of the Draughtsmen's and a T&GWU re. bet fodustme like the ment Labour governments wages Allied Technicians' Association (DATA) at David Brown Arrests begin in earier cou sear. the employers Tractors, Meltham, Huddersfield, are in a long drawn- asked the do understand the situation stone mile ill • am lovers to obtain a return to out fight for a substantial wage increase.

have offered Ils. st be decisively re- Czechoslovakia Tity with draugh demanding must

CARDOWAN

parity tractor their are cause wants

ARMY HITS

son whích the much as £10 a week less.

PIT TO CLOSE

AFTER the purge of party and government leaders in Czechoslovakia come the as Noso iations were oncluded same to less an estoppages arrests. Reliable reports from Prague speak of the arrest of General Vaclav Prehlik,

BOTH

strikers sine care first til mer who was nead or the central Committee's millary and security department under Bonus tost Dubcek. called out until eigent CARDOWAN COLLIERY, near Steppes, Lanarkshire,

FASCIST

SIDES

is to close in December. The pit produces 650,000 tons half-way no the doulden bed. Onted arrest, ine prelude By Robert Black general's parlia of coking coal a year, which up to the present time has

CLAMP

last during sickness nes mentary immunity was lifted class regime. Lock-out been consumed by Colvilles steel mills.

it holiday times. men alle tubseat on Wednesday The Kremlin has forced his

FROM PAGE ONC

an official

DOWN

thate the atemerdin Cardwan arrests are believed From Mickie Shaw is it becomes one ar h- Other in all. wole tne popular 11 begin this new purge ne of + bases read: asic wage £15 9s locked ent have "is pranned for anotne! closed because that the seen a honger seng failed.

ons for isn extra ins; had for refusing to do the strikers terention as the future.

• FROM PAGE ONE

aire in futur coal from Yorkshirt drag & on since ast luly.

required to off- i cruse to pay bac Deer. The week rge for more than We insist once again • Meanwhile the design team Lon micieast satist her sacredness of capi- can be odis £100,000 - a - month as Covies own dostep. whole alaborical oner of 105. made a propertish TrooPhom Czechosle Soviet applied they producuon loss. cil aller 30 years This is regime's new eme It would be a simple enouga Belfast Stalinist The he did not work hormally.

emergency Form workers councils of "cleaning with legislation suarantee Third LSE capitalist Czech deeply split in der Party The new repressiv in This done ek and so ta- immediate Blows all round a Stalin alized thre Oslo and the purges in Czech- thered anagement lecturer not ential of production costs.

othe Hun being meeting that restedee all those already ar.

The monteret has been huccoincis wanted more pro- blows bonus regime. Protestantst sacked Lent Bates heat dr the work.

and men since More signatures Strikes required to sue the mils.

of the arary class character But the DATA men wan Despite e nantesto money, not bonuses. Under socialist shore adred at certain tidies he 26-ye the entirely possibition supremacy paralyse agalnst all- Those opponents of Mar- co-existence' natures Increase No deal Historian lan tesar is not Customer conscion Fiat Dia Browne plants are also Internatio a the mov According to the NCb It 1s U.P.W. demands are sat menace aspear customer who closes the TO TraN als these just cut our throats. What they mean, of course

THE

GIANT Fiat to the preparation closed Other local authority wor miners, then the 1 was Te nion of Post mee agaiL. palaiyueu kers are Joining the strike Workers (UpWe has out its inctions ee member Inutsady un- behalf shop dilly iss and its decisions for DATA members at David post offices event three were villese to ocean cheapel accused of jearworks, o Strike. exchanges. Crisis deepens telephone netions, but belie when she fronted ork shire posest ex By Rex Henry of we Pos phace theot gates and halosed-shop similar made in ed indust • that in the pastry the 2 Office 222 productivity high what to get a low

TEW US

Corporation to Costill ultimatum is made general sometay said that Sonate the Man im • policy paves Joined wich the Donora The Czech crisis deepens ached ete either horthe it cuitra hourly. B-P boilermakers throw out he mien saike technicians General productivity deal By Bob Shaw scientists, Important reaction- strike is work important, other Powel mos Bolia! DATA min. Sell he e the ASB leader remains in effect which thys Writing see orning in Ceylon? last Tuesday, Chalmer ades rs offered a 35. to 35. 6 political position of the caused For siten- viet mized said: Sharios, See

CHEQUE

to propagane fused to w1968 the yent dea in trades sen crankshafts with Metham sickness, holidays Tie sea o issued withrades, to re or send work deal the art for a return to considering • to sit between are condition. noticest Tenored by the ens te alison tense situa Sus that those en it breaking 0e could building revolutionary leader.

Thursday hie the roseme that i thad 100 inti-strike Clause then or trade in Mussolini march or Prob Clapham H nee ts, signature el mitualves, movement.