Workers Press no. 707

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ENGINEERS' CHIEF

IN OUTBURST

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

'WE MUST all identify and condemn the grabbers, the in- timidators and the destroyers whenever and wherever they show their ugly, evil and mind- less faces.' THIS hysterical outburst — directed yesterday against trade unionists fighting for wage increases-came from Ernest Barrett, president of the Engineering Industries Association, speaking in Leeds. With 3,500 member firms, the AEI is the largest engineering organization in Britain. Only ten days earlier D. C. Bamford, president of the Engineering Employers' Federation, had thrown down the gauntlet for a strike. Bamford told the EEF general council's annual meeting: "If the unions are out to test the fibre of our unity, we should leave them in no doubt as to our durability.* And these are the men with whom Jack Jones, Transport and General Workers' Union general secretary, wants a 'dialogue.

Jones responded with pathetic eagerness to Premier Heath's pro- posals to hold talks with the TUC this week and then with the CBI next week. These talks, according to Heath, were part of the govern- to 'look after all ment's intention sections of the community'.

A question of growth could If the government 'encourage negotiations on the ques- tion of growth', said Jones, wist- fully, then this might be achieved on a voluntary basis by the TUC and the CBI. But while Jones shares a plat- with Tory Employment form Secretary Robert Carr to tell the Industrial Society that a dialogue [between unions and employers] is necessary to save, not just our way but Britain itself', Barrett of life, lashes the government for failing to inflation' in the nation- 'contain alized industries. Key sections of the employers consider that Heath and Carr are lagging behind what is required.

And Barrett spelt it out -a prices and wages policy backed by independent body a permanent, of adjudicators and supported by use of the Industrial rigorous Relations Act.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL CC

OR- Barrett linked wage claims with These greed, violence and anarchy.

were 'dirty words' which were 'quite unacceptable'. So, as Tones reaches out his hand bosses, the hard men' to the are sharpening their among them axes to chop it off. 'Let's talk' pleads Jones.

'utterly The trade unions are inflexible, in thought, word and deed' snarls Barrett in reply.

The other 'left' trade union leader, Hugh Scanlon, also ran away from a confrontation with Barrett, Bamford and company at the height of the miners' strike by referring the engineers' pay claim back to plant level. Barrett's outbursts are not the inconsequential ravings of some squire. He frustrated old Tory of employers represents a group impatient at Heath's hesitations.

are seeking an early, direct They showdown with the working class.

The timid, obsequious trade union leaders lie down at the employers' feet to be kicked. So the building of a revolutionary leadership in the unions becomes more urgent every day. INSIDE: Foreign News 2; Musso- lini: Who let him in 6 & 7; Mr Tariq Ali's radical mumbo jumbo 8 & 9; Right-to-Work diary 10 & 11.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY MARCH 7, 1972• No. 707 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Young Socialists from the Right- toe stage ches join actors of Northampton stage for the finale or a rally there on Sunday.

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workers press

ENGINEERS' CHIEF

IN OUTBURST

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

'WE MUST all identify and condemn the grabbers, the in- timidators and the destroyers whenever and wherever they show their ugly, evil and mind- less faces.' THIS hysterical outburst — directed yesterday against trade unionists fighting for wage increases—came from Ernest Barrett, president of the Engineering Industries Association, speaking in Leeds. With 3,500 member firms, the AEI is the largest engineering organization in Britain. Only ten days earlier D. C. Bamford, president of the Engineering Federation, had Employers' thrown down the gauntlet for a strike. Bamford told the EEF general If the council's annual meeting: are out to test the fibre of our unity, we should leave them in no doubt as to our durability!

And these are the men with whom Jack Jones, Transport and General Workers' Union general secretary, wants a 'dialogue'.

Jones responded with pathetic Premier Heath's pro- eagerness to posals to hold talks with the TUC this week and then with the CBI next week. These talks, according to were part of the govern- Heath, ment's intention to 'look after all sections of the community.

A question could government If the 'encourage negotiations on the ques- tion of growth', said Jones, wist-" fully, then this might be achieved on a voluntary basis by the TUC and the CBI. But while Jones shares a plat- Employment form with Tory Secretary Robert Carr to tell the Industrial Society that 'a dialogue [between unions and employers] is necessary to save, not just our way of life, but Britain itself, barrett lashes the government for failing to inflation' in the nation- 'contain alized industries. Key sections of the employers consider that Heath and Carr are lagging behind what is required.

And Barrett spelt it out—a prices and wages policy backed by a permanent, 'independent' body of adjudicators and supported by the Industrial rigorous use of Relations Act. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY MARCH 7, 1972 No. 707 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

WORKERS 'UGLY EVIL AND MINDLESS'

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'Let's talk' pleads Jones.

The trade unions are 'utterly word , and inflexible. deed' snarls Barrett in reply.

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SUNDAY MARCH 12

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday March '

AROUND THE WORLD

IRELAND and the US were among five countries in which the rate of unemployment exceeded 5 per cent in 1971, according to a report issued by the International Labour Organization. And the report added that unemployment increased in two out of every • three of the 50 countries for which statistics were available. shared The countries which the 5 per cent rate with Ireland and the US were Canada, Chile and Yugoslavia. But bigger increases in un- employment occurred during the year in Guatemala, New Zealand and Sweden where the rate roughly doubled. In practically all industrialized jobless figures countries, the rose, says the report issued from it Switzerland. In many cases reached the highest level for several years and in some the highest since the Second level World War. In Britain, Denmark, Finland, Mauritius, the Netherlands and W Germany, unemployment rose by more than 40 per cent.

were substantial in- There in Australia, creases France, Ghana, India, Poland and Spain and smaller increases in Australia, Belgium, Ceylon, Japan and the US. Reductions in the total num- ber of people working occurred in Italy and Sweden, but the sharpest drop was in Britain— 1.8 per cent-the biggest in 20 years. The rise in unemployment was particularly noticeable in the second half of 1971 in almost all industrialized countries.

At the same time, consumer prices rose more rapidly in 1971 than in the preceding two years in two countries out of three.

Chile, In Brazil, S Korea, Uruguay and s Vietnam, in- creases of more than 10 per cent were registered for the eighth consecutive year. The biggest rise occurred in Cambodia where prices almost doubled. In the US, consumer prices rose by more than 3 per cent. THE SOVIET ambassador in Paris, Piotr Abrassimov, has called for new and energetic efforts to increase the degree of co-operation between the French and Soviet governments. In a two-part survey Franco-Soviet 'peaceful co-exist- ence, published in the leading bourgeois newspaper 'Le Monde' Abrassimov stressed the import- ance of Leonid Brezhnev's visit to France last October. hesaid, Both countries, attached great importance to the calling of a European security conference for the gradual transformation of relations between European states'.

This would overcome the divi- sion of the continent into mili- tary and political groupings, Abrassimov said. His articles appeared just one week after the death of Pierre Overney, a Maoist militant shot an armed security guard dead by outside the Renault motor fac- tory near Paris. • Yet the ambassador singled out Renault for special praise as an as ay March 7, 1972

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

ANTI-COMMUNIST repressi a new peak with l6 execution bloodbath began on March 1, shot by a firing squad. On Mar the Shah's bullets and at the young left-wingers were execut The Shah has ordered the military tribunals to step up the repression by handing out death sentences wholesale.

Ten of the executed prisoners were originally sentenced to life imprisonment by military a tribunal on January 31, but their deaths were ordered by an appeal tribunal at the end of February.

A savage national campaign demanding the death penalty for so-called 'terrorists' has been set in motion by the regime. The press is full of 'readers' letters' condemning the leniency of the lower courts and demanding the full rigour of the law for com- munists and left-wingers.

Demonstration Last Tuesday, the Shah organ- ized a "patriotic and popular' demonstration through Tehran which called for 'firmness' agents' "subversive and traitors to the Fatherland' On Wednesday, similar marches took place in the other main many of cities. The marchers, them recruited by SAVAK, the Shah's sinister secret police, pro- claimed their loyalty to the and the 'White monarchy Revolution'. The venomous character of the campaign can be seen from statement of the the reported organization 'Free pro-regime Women of Iran'. They pledged to "tear out the eyes of the country's enemy's with our own nails.

While this foul anti-working- class regime howls for the blood workers' communists and of leaders, the social-democratic chancellor of W Germany, Willy Brandt, is visiting Iran to drum up outlets for German investment in the Middle East. example of commercial co-opera- tion. 'Our co-operation with the Renault firm ... is taking on a wide scope,' the article says, citing the joint project to build a motor factory on the Kama river in Siberia. The most enthusiastic advo- cates of peaceful co-existence between France and the USSR are the French Communist Party.

They have spent the last week condemning the "provocations' of so-called 'leftists' and announcing their determination that there will be no return to May-June 1968. In particular, they lined up last week with the Renault man- agement to sack seven Maoist militants from the Paris factory because they had tried tu organ- • ize strike action against murder of : Pierre Overney. Overney was shot by an armed plain-clothes security guard who for murder. In now faces trial the pursuit of its counter- revolutionary aim of "peaceful co.

. existence', '; the French CP lead- ership has condemned Overney an as a government agent: repression in Iran has reached ecutions in the last week. The arch 1, when six militants were On March 2, another four fell to at the weekend a further six e executed. MANIPUR and Rajasthan, voted yesterday in the second day of the current round of elections for 16 Indian state assemblies.

Two people were killed in two in Bihar and Andhra Pradesh on Sunday-polling day for both states and four others.

But the worst clashes were in W Bengal, which does not vote until next Sunday. Here troops imposed a nine- hour curfew after six people were five of them in a con- killed, frontation Calcutta outside between Congress and left-wing groups. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) the largest party in the W Bengal state legislature, has claimed it cannot enter many constituencies because of Con- gress terror against its candidates.

other states Mrs Indira Gandhi's Congress Party is fight- ing not only against the right- fanatics of the Jan wing Hindu Sangh party, but against many of its own members, who have for various reasons rebelled against the Congress leadership.

EGYPTIAN

President Anwar Sadat this week embarks on a new tour of his Arab allies for talks on the Middle East situa- tion. No details of his itinerary but it is have been released, visit Saudi thought he will Arabia and Kuwait before return- ing to Egypt for further talks with Libyan and Syrian repre- sentatives. with Egypt, Libya Together and Syria form the Federation of closely allied Arab Republics, with the Soviet Union. Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat • is also expected in Cairo to take part in the talks later this week.

The authoritative newspaper said Sadat's decision 'Al Ahram' to Arab to pay flying visits 'the capitals was motivated • by recent attacks in the Arab area'.

These included Israeli attacks on guerrilla bases in Syria and Lebanon. Egypt's leading political com- mentator Mohamed Heykal wrote in 'Al Ahram' last week that Egyptians could forget about all- out war with Israel and should seek a political settlement.

Sudanese Information Minister Omar Moussa said in Khartoum at the weekend that Sadat would President Numeiryo nonis recent Sudan to congratulate deal with the Anya Nya rebels in the South. 'Al Ahram' said the Sadat- Numeiry talks would be, highly important, but did not elaborate.

GREEK composer Mikis Theodorakis has left the Communist Party and called for the formation of a new left-wing movement in Greece.

He said in Melbourne that he had left in dis- satisfaction after 30 years' membership of the Party.

consider myself revolutionist, ally the working class,' he said.

Theodorakis, whose music is banned in Greece, a parliamentary deputy for the United was once Democratic Left Party in which the illegal Communist Party worked before the colonels' coup in 1967. The composer was imprisoned by the junta after the coup.

and released in 1970 when he went into exile...

Explaining his reasons for leaving the CP, he said: I believe in basic Marxism-Leninism but there have been very many developments. We have many new problems, a serious one being the problem of democ- racy and freedom which exists in the countries of the East. We cannot separate communism from what happened in the Soviet Union, the E European coun tries and the Republic of China.

This is profoundly wrong.

'What happened' in the Soviet Union, E Europe and China was the result of Stalinism not communism. Stalinism was erected on the tortured bones of the leaders of the Russian Revolution. The real com- munists—the Trotskyists-were the major victims of the Stalin purges. Throughout the world, Trotskyists supported the E German rising of 1953, the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and the Czech struggle of 1968.

We also support those fighting Stalinism today in those countries and in the Soviet Union. One aspect of their fight has been a demand for a return to Leninism, and a re-examination of history, particularly of the role played by Trotsky.

Right from the start, Trotsky and his supporters fought the growing bureaucracy which represented a stratum in the economically backward privileged Soviet Union. To link Communism with Stalinism is to help both the imperialists and the Stalinists. It lends credence to the old lie that Stalinism inevitably follows revolu- tion. On the contrary, Stalinism was produced by the defeats of the world revolution which, by isolating the Soviet Union, strengthened the bureaucratic con- servative elements within it. From 1933, Stalinism con- sciously sought the defeat of revolution in order to preserve its own position within the Soviet Union.

But Theodorakis also assists the Stalinists who from the historic gains represented by the property relations in Russia, China and E Europe, and that the oppressions perpetrated by them are neces- sary to defend the workers' states.

This is a lie. The revolutionary gains of the workers' states can only be defended by a political revolution the bureaucracy. It is precisely the to overthrow 'separation'-the conflict-between communism and Stalinism which is now reaching its most acute stage That this occurs at the same time as the crisis of world capitalism is the cause for great revolutionary optimism. bishops under his

RENEWED

demands from The were protection. Grivas said. the Greek for government Makarios, with the uncritical Cyprus to fall in line with support of the Cypriot Stalinists, Athens' requirements have has been wavering in his attitude to the Greek ultimatum. republic brought the island Last week, there were reports closer to civil war. that he was trying to reach compromise over the arms The two main points of the question. Greek demand that Arch- are A 100,000-strong demonstration bishop Makarios surrender to marched through Nicosia Nations a recently- the United ( Friday shouting with the 'down consienment of Czecho- arrived and slogans in support of junta' and reshuffle his slovak arms Makarios. Greek to suit the government Meanwhile, the United States colonels. hac made clear government its for Greek General Grivas the right-wing support 10 the regime Eoka leader, who Cyprus question. farmar

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allied Athens, has aid to Greece is to be closely with Military supported three resumed because of the "imper- publicly American Orthodox bishops in opposition requirements of 10 Makarios. security' in the area.

The non-unionist the here for A NATIONAL dock strike may be called if 53 men em- ployed by T. Wallis Smith Coggins of London, are sent back to the unattached re- gister today. There are already 580 London dockers on the register, receiving : £20-a-week fall-back pay.

The shop stewards' national for liaison committee dock workers organized a one-day national stoppage in January over • growing redundancies in the in- dustry. That involved men in - London, Liverpool, Manchester, :Hull, Southampton and Preston.

It seems likely the strike will coincide with the date the men are put on the register. For some this could be next week, but for the bulk of them it-would be in a month's time. Meanwhile docks employers, in general, must seek to lay off even more men. With trade dropping off in all the employers ports, with saddled certain are amount of investment in new techniques for which they must attempt to make the docks labour force pay. They want a drastically-reduced labour force, and Measured-Day Work deals which guarantee un- limited speed-up.

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDEN

THE SPLINTER group Tel Association is seeking to use t Act to obtain union facilities Although it refuses to issue any figures, the TSA is thought to have about 10,000 members.

This is less than a quarter of the total number of telephon- ists, most of whom belong to the Union of Post Office Workers. The TSA has registered under Relations Act, the Industrial although it is not recognized by •the Post Office. The recognized union is the : Union of Post Office Workers, which has not. registered under the Act. In demanding the same facili- ties as the UPW, the non-militant TSA is hoping to utilize the Industrial Relations Act to com- pete with the established trade union. According to a TSA spokes- man, individual members--with legal advice from the Association considering taking the —are Post Office before Industrial Tribunals under the Act. This would clearly be a test case which would determine rivals to established whether trade unions. could co-operate with the government through the Industrial Relations Act to weaken the trade union move- ment. . A Union of Post Office Workers' spokesman told Workers Press: We cannot say TSA issued any whether the official directive to their mem- during year's postal bers last strike. But in their literature they carried statements from one two important members of or their organization, in the form of "letters to the Editor" 'These made comments dis- approying of the strike and say- ing their members ought to go to work.'

BY AN INDUSTRIAL REPORTER

JAMES ROBERTSON, the W Mineworkers for taking anotl card back. But Alex Fergusor cleaners, is still working at t It is believed he is one of the only men to work in the coal industry since national- ization without union mem- bership. The fact that Whitrigg miners are working alongside non-unionist marks the a acceptance of a major prin- ciple of the anti-union Indus- trial Relations Act. Although Robertson has had his union card returned, the case is unlikely to rest there. Too many questions still surround Robertson's conduct during the strike. Robertson worked with a firm of industrial cleaners during the strike and his workmates at

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up Telecommunications Staff to use the Industrial Relations cilities from the Post Office.

THE TASS-technical and super- visory section of the AUEW— strike committee at Fenner's, the have Hull engineering firm, decided to send a delegation to the Young Socialists' Empire Pool rally and have agreed to try to find the money for those unable to pay for the fare.

The strike, by 102 members, is TWO THOUSAND production workers at thę Hawker-Siddeley plant at Brough, E Yorkshire, meet today to decide the future of their six-week-old strike.

The men are striking for a £4 across-the-board wage rise. The management tried to split the men with a sliding scale offer which would have given the low- est paid f4, but substantial num- bers of workers almost nothing at all. It has now paid out nearly £100,000 in wages to workers rendered idle by the strike.

Albert Akrill, AUEW steward, , the W Lothian miner expelled by g another job during the miners' st erguson, who worked with Robertso ng at the Whitrigg colliery without Polkemmet colliery say he did not join them in picketing.

Mr James Hillis, branch secre- tary at Polkemmet, accused Rob- ertson of being the cause of six being dismissed from men Lothian Industrial Cleaners dur- ing the strike. The story circulat- ing the pit is that the men re- work with Robertson fused to and were then fired. Robertson was expelled from the union on February 27 for taking a full-time job outside the industry. Intervened When work restarted a week ago, the Polkemmet men refused work with Robertson, a non- unionist, and stayed on strike.

Scottish miners' leaders, But Mick McGahey and Bill McLean, both Communist Party members, intervened to urge the men back to work. The men returned to work last Wednesday. At a Polkemmet branch meet- ing last weekend Robertson denied the charges against him saying they were a lot of lies'.

He produced a letter from a union official at Lothian Indus- trial Cleaners which proved he had no part in the strike there.

Robert- Alter a noisy meeting, son was reinstated by 57 votes to 19. The Whitrigg miner, Alex Ferguson, who worked with Robertson at the cleaning works, said later he hoped he would get his union card back from the members of his branch. "This has given me encourage- against 28 redundancies and the victimization of leading alleged trade union committee members.

Continuous picketing of the plant has turned away lorries and the strike committee is seeking support from dockers. Engineers at Fenners are refus- ing to handle any work normally done by the strikers, which is now being done by non-unionists.

told Workers Press: 'This proves to me they have the money to concede our claim.' All Hawker Siddeley factories have blacked work from Brough, which is the lowest-paid factory in the combine. And the King- ston-upon-Thames factory has raised substantial cash for the strike fund. The men want to extend the strike by mass picketing of all the combine's factories and the Hull AUEW district committee voted to call out all the engineers in the area in toker support of the Brough strikers.

Workers Press, Tuesday March 7, 1972 PAGE 3 PORTUGAL'S Foreign Mini- ster Dr Louis Patricio arrived in London yesterday for five days of talks with Edward Heath and other senior ministers. Main item on the agenda will be Portugal's colonial rule in Angola and Mozam- being Portuguese regime is challenged by armed liberation led by the National Union of movements. For many years Portugal has ners' strike, has got his union

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supplied Britain the obertson in a firm of industrial United against the guerrillas. without a union card. Portugal, which per cent of the national budget ment,' he said. "It was a good on defence, now finds that it is decision? unable to continue the fighting all three fronts without on unnamed union official The further aid from Britain and who wrote the letter for Robert- other capitalist countries.

about the cleaners' strike SOn Ferguson Also on the agenda will be also says that wasn't implicated. The Whitrigg branch talks with Geoffrey Rippon, no plans to hear from Fer- Britain's Common Market has ne- gotiator. guson. After Sunday's branch decision,

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YOUNG SOCIALISTS

NATIONAL

RIGHT-TO-WORK

CAMPAIGN

There are now well over one million people out of work in Britain, the highest joblessness for a quarter of a century. These huge levels of unemployment are as a direct result of Tory policies. The Young Socialists' Right-to-Work cam- challenge to paign these policies and, therefore, the continued rule of this government.

MARCHERS

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SATURDAY MARCH 11

The marchers will arrive at the outskirts of London and will be greeted at: EAST INDIA HALL, East India Dock Road, E14. 7 pm

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MONDAY MARCH 13

Assemble: 10 am, Speaker's Corner, Marble Arch March: I1 am through West End to the Temple.

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OF PARLIAMENT

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SUNDAY MARCH 12, 3 p.m. Speakers: G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) CLIVE NORRIS (National Secretary of Right-to- Work Campaign) JOHN BARRIE (YS leader of Glasgow march)

CHRISTINE

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(YS leader of Liverpool march) MIKE BANDA (Socialist Labour League Central Committee) The following in a personal capacity:

THORNETT

ALAN

(Deputy senior steward, Morris Motor) BRIAN LAVERY (National Union of Mineworkers, Wheldale colliery)

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Togliatti, Stalin's errand-boy ensure The Italian monarchist party has signed an electoral pact with the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) and will submit a joint slate of candidates at the fortheoming general election on May 7.

The pact was ratified at the monarchists' fifth congress last weekend at which Almirante, the leader,

MSI

laid down terms which caused a split in the quarter ot the party's national monarchists' committee refused to accept the fascists' terms. They objected because the new formation, known as the 'National Right', has dropped even token reference to the restoration of the monarchy. The 'National Right' will cam- paign under the fascist symbol of the tricclor, not the monar- castle. chist and crown symbolize the MST's dominant partnership, role menarchist anthem, the Royal March, was not played at the congress.

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The monarchists want the return of the Savoy dynasty which was "custed by plebiscite following the defeat of fascism.

Their disagreements with the fascists date back to the last two years of World War II, when a German-backed republic was formed in N Italy behind the king's back: • southern- monarchist •The Literary 'trash' is the target of a new tax recently introduced in the Yugoslay republic of Serbia. The law-which gives the Tito rather obvious bureaucracy means of enforcing control over books, magazines, brochures and newspapers, provides for a 31.5- per-cent levy on what are termed oy ensured the continued presence of fascist regime, headed by Marshal Badoglio who led the Italian arıny in Abyssinia, was estab- lished soon after Sicily fell to the allies in July 1943. At the time, the local Com- munist Party leaders opposed formation the of Badoglio's government, which was a blatant attempt to maintain in power the monarchy which had backed Mussolini. But Stalin had different ideas, Italian errand-boy, and his Palmiro Togliatti, was not slow in putting them into practice.

He had foreshadowed the form- ation of the Badoglio government in May of that year, writing in News and Views' that: 'World • • among officers in the army and navy, the Catholic bourgeoisie, monarchist circles, industrialists and intelligentsia and in the fascist party, there is a growing number of those who the necessity for Italy realize to break with Germany before it is too late... Togliatti's line was that of the Kremlin, and four months after the formation of Badoglio's government, the Soviet diplomat Vyshinsky (the prosecutor in the infamous Moscow Trials of the 1930s) began official negotiations with the Marshal. The talks pre- pared the way for the entry of the Communist Party into Royal government headed by this fascist butcher. entered coalition with the monarchists 'socially and culturally worthless publications'. According to Tanyug, the Yugoslav official news agency, 'many of the questions concern- ing the cultural significance and effect of "fiscal this cultural" move of the republican admin- istration still and wide open remain undefined The tax aroused a heated dis- cussion at a recent gathering of several dozen 'cultural and public workers' at the Serbian Cultural Educational Association. and Their meeting was called mainly to draw up and comment on the preliminary 'specially valuable' publications which are to be exempted from the tax.

All other publications come "trash' into the category and are taxed under the law. Some of the delegates at the meéting pointed out that there 'cultural' precious little was motive behind the tax, which was primarily aimed at raising of fascist laws on the statute book.

and Togliatti took a leading portfolio, the Ministry of Justice.

It was from this vantage point in the capitalist state machine that Togliatti not only ensured the continued presence on the statute book of the fascist laws which today. are used against militants, working-class signed a new Concordat with the Vatican.

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This Concordat, which besides giving the Church extraordinary powers to meddle in civil affairs actually outlaws divorce, has contributed mightily to the present Italian crisis. The recent fall of the centre- left coalition was brought about in large part by the reactions of the right-wing members of the coalition who wanted to maintain divorce at all costs. Communist When the Italian Party today restrains the working class under the slogan of 'struc- reforms' tural and organizes futile protest strikes on economic questions-rather than challenge the employers for power-it is following the same political line pioneered by Togliatti 28 years ago. If the fascists are now able once more to beat up militants in the streets and pose as strong- men rising from the ruins of dis- credited parliamentary demo- they owe much to cracy, the Stalinists who have made all this possible. revenue. The law had been passed without consulting the publishing industry, speakers said. Other speakers asked how the bulk of publication would be able to survive, particularly as their prices have already been frozen by government decree.

valuableactual, list of 'specially.

publications also aroused critical comment. Writer Berislav Kosijer asked how the over and coral value Mire government to the point, he added that among the publishing houses exempt from tax were some which had published nationalist and pornographic material.

Official spokesman Aleksandr Ackovic had an answer to all these objections. The introduc- tion of the tax, he said, would give 'full freedom to trash, be- cause now, being taxed, trash is legalized and can lead a normal life'. Workers Press,

BY JOHN SPENCER

Landless peasants in the Mag- dalena and Cauca valleys of Colombia in Latin America have launched a big movement to occupy the huge landed estates. Land occupation has long been a feature of the class struggle in Colombia, where more than 1 million families out of a total population of 20 some million, have no land of their own and are forced to sell their labour to the owners of the big estates. have The occupations fre- quently been symbolic because the peasants, armed only with sticks, are easily driven off the land by the landlord's men or by the police. But symbolic or not, the move- ment is now taking on a mass character. Recently, the peasants took over 4,500 acres of coffee estate belonging to an absentee landlord. The landlord turned out to be none other than the Minister of Agriculture, Hernan Jamillo Ocampo. The government's grandiose plans to ameliorate the misery of the landless poor in the country- side and the unemployed in the towns is nothing more than window-dressing for the con- tinued dictatorship of the big fruit and coffee companies.

The so-called Alliance for Progress, formed by the US government under John F. Kennedy, involved a 'reform' of Colombian land-holding system. In the ten years since this law was passed, the situation of the peasants has worsened considerably. Agricultural prices are falling rapidly, and there is a world surplus of coffee, one of Colom- bia's main crops. Many of the dispossessed peasants are forced to migrate illegally across the border into Venezuela, where industry is more developed.

Others have moved to the . towns where they join the vast pool unemployed living in appalling conditions the On. Howard Hughes, the mystery man at the centre of the Clifford Irving fake auto- biography saga, is on the verge of becoming dictator Anastasio Somoza's favoured partner in exploiting Nica- ragua's resources. The Somoza family, which has been running Nicaragua since the United States invasion of 1927, at present possesses a fortune estimated at $300m. Somoza himself announced earlier this month that Hughes was interested in making size- able investments, in different spheres of Nicaraguan economy, including his own air- line 'Lanica'. Hughes' own fortune owes a good deal to his aircraft manu- facturing interests. According in to sources Managua, Nicaragua's capital, Somoza plans to turn the town +4.4.*%* ers Press, Tuesday March 7, 1972 PAGE 5 margins of the local industries.

The failure of the agrarian reform is illustrated by government's own figures. These show that from 1961 to 1971, 40,000 families benefited from the division of 900,000 acres of land. Most of this consisted of what the 'coloniza- • The peasants have re- baptized the process under the derisory name confinacion (im- prisonment). Others have been established on fallow land bought at inflated prices from the former proprie- tors. Much of this process has been organized by the semi-official National Peasants' Association, established as a safety valve for the peasants' discontent. Since June 1970, when President Pastrano Borrera took office, the pace of the so-called reform has slowed down considerably.

It was he who installed Ocampo, a member of the ruling financial oligarchy, as Minister of Agriculture. Not unnaturally, Ocampo is a vicious opponent of the peasant, movement. The government's latest effort is the 'reform of the agrarian reform', rejected out of hand by landless peasants and treated with equal hostility by the latifundistas (big landlords) who dominate Colombian agri- culture. The latifundistas, entrenched on their estates, have no intention of abandoning even the most minor of their privileges. The same goes for the urban landlords who consider Position their is threatened by the mild rent re- form which the government has advanced. They point to the growth of land occupations as an indication that the , peasants' demands will keep on increasing so long as the government offers the even. mildest reforms. They want a total clamp-down on the 'pre- tensions' of the urhan and rural oppressed. into a gambling and fun-in-the- which sun spot, could well explain the Hughes-Somoza part- nership. Hughes arrived secretly in Nicaragua in the middle of February aboard a two-motor jet which landed at an airforce base not far from Managua. So far no one can actually claim to have seen the elusive magnate, who is at great pains to remain in hiding. He is re- ported to have been living in the Bahamas in a kind of 'golden underground' for the past 15 months. He reached the Bahamas from Las Vegas after unleashing a battle for control of the Nevada gambling business. In Nicaragua, his affairs are being carried on with the cus- tomary Hughes secrecy. Somoza's only proof of the joint enterprise is from Hughes brief note a written on poor quality paper.

Although oil is at the bottom of the Hughes fortune, he has also piled up a rich harvest from sales of helicopters for use in precision instru- Vietnam and ments for the space race.

Irving's phoney autobiography, which drew on published material about the millionaire, claims that Hughes provided the family of Richard Nixon with a consider- able sum of money a few years ago. Columnist Drew. Pearson dis- closed that Nixon paid back the debt with special favours during his stint as Eisenhower's vice- President. Gossip has it in Managua that Hughes' bodyguards are former CIA and FBI agents who are now out of circulation. No one knows where he is staying, though at first he was rumoured to have reserved three floors of the town's only luxury hotel. How- ever, one of Somoza's 33 states, called 'El Murcielago' (The Bat) is also considered a likely hide-

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BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

The Coming British Revolution, by Taria Ali. Revolutionary perspectives? Predictably, Tariq Ali's book is being well received in liberal and reformist quarters.

These gentlemen, of whom • Statesman' the Fabian 'New is representative, sniff him out with a sure instinct. long Now that capitalism's post-war boom is so obviously dead that even they are begin- ning to realize it, they sense also that something might be needed to help reformism keep its hold.

Perhaps, they think, someone with more revolutionary- sounding phraseology will prove useful. 'It won't exactly shake Wall sars the Street 'New Statesman', reviewer, and •. there will be more books this one'. He waxes en- like thusiastic only over Tariq Ali's • attack on the Socialist Labour League. book is The purpose of this for Tariq Ali's Inter- to claim national Marxist Group, entirely spuriously, the role of organizing party in revolutionary Britain. To this end, it is designed above all else to dismiss and discredit the Socialist Labour the British section of League, the Fourth International, and its paper the Workers Press. Before we discuss the dis- tortions of Marxism in Ali's book, let us say just what is the reality coming socialist behind the revolution in England. There is nothing abstract or demagogic about this reality. Mass unemployment and open in Ireland and class warfare Britain result from the most long- Because incurable de- accumulated and cline of British imperialism, now thrown into the melting-pot of and day March 7, 1972 slump, and no longer sheltered by world boom, the employing class has been compelled embark on a policy of destroy- ing the basic rights of the working class. This attack means discarding the compromise reliance on mediated through the trade union bureaucracy. Such a change in the method of rule adds to the economic crisis a profound political crisis. Because the Socialist Labour in apposition Leaguc, all to revisionists such as the IMG, has always worked on this perspec- live, we have been able to pose concretely the path to working- class power in Britain: demand that the unions mobilize the working class to make the Tories resign and replace them with i Labour government to legislate the Charter of Basic Rights.

Tariq. Ali and the IMG have consistently opposed the pers- pective of capitalist crisis and struggle for power, but now All rushes into print under the title •The coming British revolution'.

A careful reading of the book shows that he still opposes the revelutionary perspective. Far frem being an of the analysis developing situation. it is a charter for continuing the old of middle-class radical game protest. In order to sound more plausible, Tariq Ali covers up the past of his own movement.

Even at this late stage, Tariq All shows some sort of split mentality on the economic crisis.

In the intreduction, he talks about he and his friends 'laying bets' as to which company will be the next to go bankrupt. But All hedges his bets on the big question of the capitalist system.

'Many people Still to seem doubt that Britain is in a crisis and feel that the situation will be stabilized once again as it was after World War II. Certainly this is a short-term possibility [particularly if Britain enters the Common Market], but the struc- tural problems of British capital- ism could only be sorted out if the working-class organizations were viciously smashed.' (p. 21.)

This is mumbo-jumbo. The 'structural problems' have been there for scores of vears. The question is precisely whether the present acute crisis can be solved through 'stabilization' like that of 1944-1945. And Ali's answer is that of the ruling class itself: that entry into Europe makes it a possibility! Actually Taria Ali - the 're- volutionary -is more optimistic than the serious bourgeois economists. He says: "Thére arc even certain indications that in the short term there might be tendencies which operation are favourable to this country's economy.' •Tariq, All's determinatio Tariq All: more optimistic for the future look on the bright side for . 'u British capitalism is not sur- prising in view of the predic- tions made in the past by his co-thinkers. He recommends to his readers the IMG pamphlet "The Credibility Gap' by Tony Whelan for its criticisms of the SLL, but he prefers to forget the economic and political pers- pectives upon which Whelan- and the IMG-based themselves in that pamphlet. Is it possible to take seriously a political tendency which based itself on the following perspec- tive, for example? Ernest Mandel, international 'thecretician' of the IMG tendency, wrote as late as 1971 that armament expenditures, • .. make it possible to put a damper on cyclical fluctuations by stabilizing an important part of investment volume. In this way, the American economy is protected against a crisis like that of 1929' (Reprinted in the Canadian Labour Challenge' October 25, 1971.) Even after the Nixon measures if August 15. Mandel saw only a stage of slower growth', and paid no attention to the role of the working class in a situation where international crisis forces the bourgeoisie to attack every basic right. of this completely Because wrong economic perspective, the IMG and its international col- laborators worked on a political which pregramme opposes revolutionary role of the working class. Marxism and idealism In 1970, in a pamphlet published by the IMG, Tony Whelan pre- dicted that Wilson would create 'pre-election boom'! Politics weuld go on in the same old way: •... the British working class is not, yet, moving in a revolu- tinary direction or even, in its masses, accessible to revolution- socialist propaganda: the situation is neither pre-revolu- ticnar! nor rapidly developing into a pre-revclutionary situation.

(T. Whelan: 'The Credibility Gap'.)

It is this perspective, writing off the working class as a revolu- tinary force, which led the IMG that it was to conclude from students. frem and the protest merement on Vietnam, that any gains cculd be made. The! con- demned the Socialist Labour League's crientation towards the working class and the building of the daily Workers Press. They denounced the of the refusal ' §LL to participate in their bogus. " cor the future capitalism than the serious bourgeois for . 'united front' in the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, which, according to Whelan, would provide the basis of a new revolutionary leadership. He wrote: •.. the struggle in solidarity with the Vietnamese Revolution has drawn into activity, particu- larly around VSC, thousands of youth, both students and young workers, who, despite many elements of ideas, mistaken adventurist tendencies, etc., are for a showdown eager with capitalism. And not only can SLL not reach them, they are by-passing the SLL on the left. It is from these youth that the core of the new revolu- tronary party will be built: therefore for Trotskyists to be unable to influence them is a very serious matter ... we are eager to prove the superiority of our theories in action.' No one can deny that the years since 1968 have provided ample opportunity for this 'proof' of the positions of the IMG and the Sucialist Labour League. The IMG, working on the perspective that capitalist crisis was far away and any development of working-class revolutionary con- sciousness indefinitely postponed, relied upon its optimistic impres- sion that the protest movement, devoted at that time to Vietnam, they something would provide called a 'revolutionary party'.

Everyone knows the actual cut- come of the Vietnamese Solidarity Campaign. It disintegrated com- pletely, in as different many directions as those from which its supporters had come. They were in any case brought IMG itself, together, like the completely idealist basis, a sharing impression the from immediate events that sufficient 'revolutionary' feeling could be "showdown aroused for their with capitalism'. This is what lay behind the whole policy of 'confrontation' by the pursued political protesters, especially in the universities. Tariq Ali's pretentions to be- ing a Marxist have only survived this experience because of the diligence of the capitalist press and TV in building him up as the 'extreme left' in Britain. The one virtue of his new book is that he bursts this bubble him- self. If anvene dcubted that the

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philesophical • basis of the and Tariq Ali was sheer idealism.

paragraph this bock cne in suffices to settle the issue.

Chapter II begins: •Marxism maintains that con- cirusness determines history. In that respect it dees not differ frem cther theories cf history.

What Marxism demands is that consciousness itself must be • tior bourgeois economists. explained; that not only must it be examined as it exists at the moment, but the factors which determine its future de- velopment must also be con- stantly subjected. to analysis. In late capitalist society the sole agency of social, change is the working class atrin therefore essential to put into perspective the historical features which have shaped the present level of con- sciousness of the working class and attempt to analyse how this conscicusness could develop and change in the future? Here are the germs of the whole IMG position. Tariq Ali tries to make Marx an idealist!

Marx and Engels wrote over and over again that the basic question • .

of philosophy was that of the relation between being and thought, being and consciousness.

Marxism is founded upon materialism. The world of nature, and the social relations of pro- duction entered into by men to struggle with nature, are objec- tive, they exist independently of whether we are : conscious of their laws _cr not. The class struggle growing cut of these social relations of production is objective: it exists independently of our consciousness. Our con- scicusness is the reflection of i. these objective realities in our brains. What sort of a 'Marxist' ten- dency is it that permits Tariq Ali to write down and publish such a monstrosity as: 'Marxism maintains that consciousness determines history'? The only effect of such a book is to confuse and mislead any reader who is interested in Marxism. Marx's struggle against idealism was in order to show that not the will of man but the necessities of production and the social relations produced by it determined history, Freedom could be achieved only in the recognition of this necessity.

The idealists are those who are misled by the apparent indepen- dence of their ideas, which seem to come cut cf their own heads.

Contrast Tariq Ali's 'conscious- ness determines history' with Lenin: 'In actual fact, man's ends are engendered by the abjective world and presuppose it-they find it scmething • given, as present. But it seems to man as if his ends are taken from out- side the world, and are indepen- dent cf the world ("freedom").'

(Tenin. 'Collected Works.' Vol. 38 (Philescphical Nctebooks) p.

189), and further: 'life gives rise to the brain. Nature is reflected in the human brain. By checking and applying the correctness cf these reflec- be tions 'in his practice and tech-•:

truth: (p. 20aves at objective truth. Finally, paraphrasing Hegel with Lenin stamps approval, firmly on Tariq Tli's 'conscious- ness determines history': 'The "objective world" "pur- sues its own course, and man's practice, confronted by this objective world, encounters "obstacles in the realization" of "impossibility"" the end, even (p. 214.) Tariq Ali tells us later in his book that Marxist theory has been fought for in Britain in the present generation by the group round the "New Leaf Review' He no doubt accepts the view often propounded by that group that Lenin was some crude materialist, whereas the true cannot really be called a Marx materialist. Let us see, therefore if Tarią Ali fares any better with Marx than with Lenin in the sphere of philosophy. The best known of Marx's writings on historical materialism 'Preface' to his 'Introduc- is the tion to the Critique of Political Economy' (1859). What does it say about consciousness and history? "The mode of production of material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of lite. It is not the con- sciousness of men that deter- mines their being, but, on the being their contrary, social determines their consciousness.'

Is there last resort for Tariq Ali? Was there perhaps young Marx who could be found 'consciousness that to agree determines history'? Here is an "The from German extract Ideology' (1845-1846), when Marx was 27 years of age: • . . we do not set out from what men say, imagine or con- ceive, nor from what has been said, thought, imagined, or con- ceived of men, order to arrive at men in the flesh. We begin with real, active men, and from their real life-process show the development of the ideologi- cal reflexes and echoes of this life-process • . . Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.' The fruits of idealism It is because Tariq Ali and his IMG advisers in writing this book, such as Pat Jordan and C.

Gelderan, have, substituted van idealism and empiricism for this materialist outlook that they are politically only a protest move- ment and theoretically a purely revisionist tendency on every basic question of policy and programme. It is for the same reason that Ali, in writing in one chapter on The British Labour Movement' does not deal with Chartism, the first mass proletarian movement history, nor with in the bourgeois revolution of 1640.

Not only Trotsky but Lenin, Marx and Engels all laid a solid foundation of theoretical in- vestigation of these class struggles as the starting point for understanding the workers' movement in Britain today.

Tariq Ali thinks he can analyse Social-Democracy and Stalinism in Britain purely on the basis of his impressions, and not from the necessary study of bourgeois class structure and bourgeois ideology in Britain. For the same reason the IMG can never understand itself and its own history. Anything in Tariq Ali's book Trotskyist the movement on itself is purely for the purpose of attacking the Socialist Labour League. The IMG itself is a scraping together of anti-Bolshe- viks who find the SLL an obstacle to their good relations with the reformist and Stalinist bureau- and the middle class. cracies They have clutched the tattered banner of the Pabloite clique (Mandel, Frank, Hansen, Maitan) who falsely claim to be the Fourth International (the 'United Secretariat). This split first came into the open in 1953 and has never been healed. This split, and the open participation of the Pabloite sections in Ceylon and Algeria in bourgeois governments merits one page in Tariq Ali's book!

shred of He provides not a analysis or explanation of the IMG's own origins and theoretical with the settlement theoretical questions of the split. Similarly, he ignores com- the early years of the pletely Fourth International, when Trotsky fought a bitter struggle for dialectical materialism as its theoretical, foundation, against 1868: With Cohn Bendhi, All a the pragmatism and idealism dominant in the Socialist Workers' Party (1939-1940).

Instead of presenting his case for the IMG in such a historical and theoretical way, • Tarig Ali im- serves up once again the pressionism and gossip peddled by his group for years, always a servile assistant to the right-wing reformists and Stalinists. In the face of all the achievements of the members of the SLL-the daily Workers Press, the Young Socialists' movement, the unre- campaigns on all the lenting major working-class issues, the building of a new leadership which has begun in the factories and unions-Tariq Ali repeats the tired old allegations that the SLL's members are driven too hard, are non-political activists, only stay a short time in and politics. This rubbish was never given a serious hearing outside the coffee-bars and common-rooms, the workers' movement and in today it is pushed aside con- temptuously, as the policies and campaigns of the SLL win more and more support and as the SLL fights consistently, and success- fully, for the broadest possible interest in Marxist theory.

It is worth dealing with just one of Tariq Ali's distortions, since it exposes at the same time IMG's complete own • departure from any Marxist perspective. Tariq Ali says (pp 122-123) that the SLL ceased to work Party, and inside the Labour created the SLL (1959) as an revolutionary organization, open because of the 'pressure' from ex- Communist Party members who had joined the Trotskyists only since 1956. Says Tariq Ali, this withdrawal was carried out of behind smokescreen * a exaggerated claims of a witch- hunt by Transport House. The record speaks differently.

the SLL was formed it When applied immediately for affiliation to the Labour Party, requesting the same rights to speak and publish independently as, say, the Fabian Society. This was refused, and the League proscribed. We had reached a stage where it was necessary and principled to assert our right to work within the Labour Party, but without sacrificing the open struggle for our party and platform. The forces we sent into the Labour Party after that date, lom in the Young Socialists 1960 onwards, understood first and foremost this struggle for independent revolutionary politics and party, and it was for this reason that they won the youth movement from Transport House, despite • the assistance an ra for the TV camer gıven to 1ransport touse Dy we immediate predecessors, and some of the present members, of the IMG. The Young Socialists came out of the Labour Party in 1964-1965 on the same basic principles. The alternative allow the was to reformists to smash the youth built up since 1961 movement by trampling on the decisions of the majority, who had supported the League's policies and elected a National Committee with 'Keep Left' supporters in the majority.

The same people, now in the IMG, who opposed the SLL's struggle for independent revolu- politics in the tionary early 1960s now team up with Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn in an ultra-left attitude to the Labour Party, and condemn the SLL policy of fighting for the return of a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. They devoted themselves in the 1970 General Election to 'revolutionary propa- ganda, rather than canvassing for the return of a Labour govern- ment.' (p. 144.) This has now led Tariq Ali to a totally reactionary conclusion: 'The Labour Party is totally and the only bureaucratized orientation which revolutionaries can have to it is to devise a strategy of destroying it, which means in effect destroying trade union links.' The idealists of the IMG work therefore to turn the best ele- ments in the working class away from the most essential crisis of revolutionary all: the crisis of leadership. In Britain this new revolutionary leadership will be forged only in the actual struggle to overcome and go beyond the dominance of reformism, of trade union consciousness, of bourgeois consciousness. And at this very point, Tariq Ali advocates breaking the trade unionists' links with the question of a Labour government. Every- thing written by Lenin and struggle, Trotsky on the class strategy and tactics, is thrown into the rubbish bin, and this is inevitable once the IMG has dispensed with the philosophical foundations laid by Marx and Engels. To answer all the falsehoods in Tariq "Ali's and absurdities book would require another book Serious of greater length. workers—all those who start from the necessity of building a revolutionary leadership based on Marxist theory-will be unerr- ingly guided by the fundamental questions of philosophy and programme on which Tariq All and the IMG have exposed them- selves as anti-Marxist through and through: Workers Pross, Tueaday March 7, 1972 PAGE 9 religious but they thought, consider it to be 'inadmissible' that 'odious and lying accusa- tions against the Renault CGT organization should be made Mrs Jill Foot, wife of Labour in a spiritual place'. Michael Foot, front-bencher claims that the family's mon- intend making it hot for the grel dog called Vanessa-can They demand see into the future. parish priest! that he displays their letter in Some Michael years ago his church and-just to show Foot wrote a fulsome, not to nauseating, biography of say his hero, Harold Wilson. It's all in the mind. Unemploy- Scotland, that is. Mr ment in Allan Campbell Fraser, manag- ing director of the giant Lyon Group, has just been lecturing everybody on the myth of job- lessness. 'We have talked ourselves into recession, Fraser told a plush luncheon the other day.

'Recession starts as a it gathers whisper somewhere, momentum and size and rolls All about what a principled, across the face of the industrial reliable and generally marvel- world like a vast choking lous fellow old Harold was.

The evil cloud. result is a But that was before Wilson stifling of enterprise, initiative became i Minister and Prime investment and a and multi- 600,000 merrily ran up a tude of good men and women unemployed figure and pre- out of work. pared- -together with another 'The more men talk about it, old 'left' Barbara Castle a It spreads the worse it gets. juicy of legislation piece like a disease and nowhere is against the unions. it more virulent than in our Poor Michael hadn't fore- Scotland. own country seen all that. Maybe he should Here we seem to have a death have consulted the dog. wish, We have talked ourselves into believing that our ills are terminal So. to all the Right-to-Work from Scotland, take marchers Father Pierre Forgeot d'Arc, a hint from Fraser. Don't talk of the Church of the Immacu- about the fact you can't find late Conception at Billancourt, a job, and unemployment will near Paris, has received a letter just fade away. It's as simple at his 'vehemently protesting' as that. Or is it? action in allowing the Renault Struggle Committee (a Maoist group) to hold a meeting in the church hall. The letter deplored that in sacred place, where you Queensland's Marketing liberty of others, preach the you should allow agitators to million eggs in the sea. advocate violence, contrary to government has claimed the teachings of your own this act as genius. church'. A statement said that by The protest comes, not from dumping the eggs it will save the Ladies Guild or some such outraged organization present cost of processing the virtue, but from the secretary of the local federation of the A statement said: Australia Communist CGT union. today pulps surplus eggs for CGT members, the letter export," but even' at give-away explains, belong to 'different prices. the currents of philosophical and Simple capitalist economics!

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OWN REPORTERS

STEPHEN JOHNS,

IAN YEATS,

DAVID MAUDE,

PHILIP WADE

AND GARY GÚRMEET

AMONG the most dramatic and spirited scenes I have witnessed, four of the five Right-to-Work marches met for the first time on Sunday night in Northampton Guildhall. The climax the came as 600-strong audience erupted when the weather-battered Glasgow banner was marched through the ranks-a moving tribute to the hardy Scottish contingent who have walked over 400 miles. 'It's like Rangers and Celtic,' said miner Avrshire Hampson after the meet- John ing. makes me torget "'m tired. If this was Northampton Wembiey what will like with its many thousands?'

Earlier another memorable scene took place on borders. The Glasgow contingent was marcy road. Ast thed realded the full order along marching junction the Daventry with the Liverpool comrades highway: There sichted. wv ao 100 immediate roar over clenched fists raised were joined together and Ihen moroneo to ure ciy cenure.

At the Guildhall, Gerry Healy, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League greeted contasenes. that these 'it is true to say day-to- marenes are now avt day leadership the working class Tory enemy. against intention but (his is only a beginning.

YOLANIO

have displayed such determina- movement will build a mass Tories cea! une 101 ever, he said. had The situation dramatically since the Feb- left Glasgow on martu ruary ›. Arter the mıners sırıke, workers everywhere now clearly overment their fight would have to be political. 'The working class is now seeking to give expression to this th e understan cine aranse cowardly trade union and Labour still want the leadership and abysmal MOSt acsoeralt compromise. Kut narenerg build leadership i"deal get the and with out sovcudicall inside the labour toe trantors is the message avycaicl. The Glasgow-London and Liverpool-London marchers maat up every town and they take into This in the country Village why have separated the • IneV the capitalist press. We have our friends off from the enemies in own daily newspaper, workers the labour movement. Press. The working class is our most powerful ally. 'Every ordinary worker, the the trade 'Just the heart cannot Labour good unionist, will come forward and the tuncuon without ine „ oood march. Without marches could not take one step support could not keep on tne forward without the spirit lilclll roze zor one dvvz w KInk Class. enoressed leaders at Transport House hate way they help the youth,' said are Comrade Healy. much, we separating friends from enemies.

•They do this not out of sym- Comrade Healy said the move- pathy. Know belause unev would continue to reject the fight of the boys and girls on ment wanted to the road is their own great fight those revisionists who join the march so that they coulc for emancipation separate the issue right ot ine 'They will be with us at the work from the struggle to Empire Pool, next Sunday, March build a revolutionary leadership 12. and make the lory government Also speaking at the meeting resign. Young were John Barrie, Social- The silence of the Fleet ist leader of the Glasgow-London press over the march was in itself marchers Smith, YS of the best pubnciy or all, Decaust leader Liverpool-London it emphasized the class issues in marchers and Gerry Mulnerne, a the marches. shop steward at the Triumph- 'We do not need publicity from Meriden factory.

KENT

marchers Tories? travelled over 90 miles to the only four hours' sleep ATTer first big of their campaign the marchers were on the road to rally Nd han tarman: 1 was Dartford early yesterday

ILLULI

Said ing snurred on bv the tremendous HOh surprised to see so many people spirit of the rally and singins we were walking he Right-to-Worl there and when song they hac night before. Guildhall InTO ¡camneu lt Everyone really good reception. Commenting on The side. Dennis Dawson said: 'It showec was .on our of the thought the play was lot things about but momweif of all it fantastic. took you back sovermuncnr history and showed you how showed that won because his would not parlament came to power. army fighting the As don't 'Cromwel was long

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and members Labour Party in Witney laid on a great recep- tion for the Right-to-Work marchers from s Wales and the W. On hand to march with us the last stretch of the road from Swindon were a group of Labour rank-and-filers who condemned a last minute pull-back by the local party leadership. The marchers welcomed were at Witney Technical College by the students' union and leading area's members of the trade union and labour movement.

First they marched through the roughly town, population 12,000, to meeting its at central, 17th Butter- century There Alan. Thornett, cross. deputy senior shop steward at Morris Oxford, Motors, wel- comed the youth contingent, now swelled by two comrades from Swindon. Then it was on to the techni- college, Small, cal where Cliff Amalgamated Union • of Engin- eering Workers district secretary, warmly greeted us in his capacity as a college governor. Unemployment Witney leaders worried. Besides the woollen blanket factories, for which the town is famous, the is main employer Smith's Industries, whose labour force has already been cut from 2,000 to 1,400. It is estimated that two-thirds of the labour force commutes out of the area for work. It is in this context that the Right-to-Work campaign support from the Witney Trades Union Council, the Witney No 2 branch of the

AUEW,

the Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union branch at Smith's and the technical college students' union. Ted Cooper, secretary of the Trades Union Council: told me that the policy of his organization backing was 'complete the Right-to-Work campaign'. pointed that the out opponents of the campaign locally had fought tooth and nail against the giving marchers accommodation and support, but had lost. Carole Douse, one of Witney's three Labour councillors. she was extremely angry' with the local party leadership's atti- tude that only individual support should be given to the marchers.

After marching with us for the last four miles into the town, she 'We've got to support said: this campaign, there's no alterna- Malcolm Saunders, a party committee member who marched with us, agreed. Taylor, John rank-and-file party member and AUEW mem- ber at Smith's, criticized the failure of the 'left' union leaders to fight unemployment.

"This Campaign "The Tory golutel. absolutely right, he said. ment has got to take us on and drive us back to the 1920s.' Our thanks to Cliff Small, the students, maintenance and teach- Witney ing staff at Tech., who waited until the small hours Monday morning to serve us tea after the tyre burst on the trip magnificent back from the Northampton rally. English Revolution' In Northampion on They were up. again early to help us with, breakfast.

SUCH IS the strength of the Right-to-Work campaign that workers, Daventry few of whom had previously heard of the Young Socialists, organized the best overall reception we have received since Liverpool.

council, the The Labour trades council, shop stewards and convenors and Communist Party nembers combined to virtually overwhelm us with their hos pitality. be It began on Saturday: night after a four-hour march through driving blizzard from our - a. midday stop at Southam. There had been talk of a band meeting üs, together with some workers.

And. swung towards town we heard the sound of bag- pipes! Yes the trades council were there with four pipers to escort us into Daventry. To help us dry out, the Red Cross brought blankets and towels. And many workers came in with gifts of spare clothing for those marchers who hadn't a second change. Next stop was a restaurant for an excellent three-course meal be- fore reached the modern we hall where we stayed the night.

In the morning it was break-.

fast at the new Daventry Com- munity Centre cooked by Labour Party members and their wives.

Leading the servers was Jim Humphries,_ AUEW convenor at the local Ford plant. Yet it was only seven days ago that the trades council had received a request to help the they marchers reached when Daventry. In a week factory col- lections were organized to pay accommodation and food and all the machinery prepared for action. From the moment we stepped inside a hall to dry out, we saw that local organizers couldn't do enough to help the marchers.

The first to welcome us was Don_Tooby, chairman of Daven- try Labour Council, who praised the determination and courage of the marchers. His thoughts were echoed by another councillor, Stanley Harrison. 'I'm a socialist and tears came to my eyes as the pipes struck up. It brought back memories of Jarrow and indicated one thing ' he told —the Tories are back, us. *Heath got into Downing St by a trick, with false promises on prices, unemployment and the social services. It is now our un- alterable resolve to get the Tories out. 'What greater indignity is there than to see a man without a job and the means to keep his family sustained?' Roy Sharp, trades council sec- retary and an AUEW steward, told me: 'We supported the march purely on the principle of the right to work. It hardly needs to be said this right is coupled with the re- moval of the Tory government. It needs a concerted effort of all the unions to force the Tories out.?

Jim Humphries, who is also a Labour councillor, is like many Daventry workers in that he hails from other parts. In fact he at Ford's Dagenham worked plant for many years before mov- ing north. 'This campaign, as I see it, is another nail in Heath's coffin. It 'I agree, you certainly can't wait three years. for another elec- tion and I'd like to see the gov- ernment out, there's no doubt about that. 'But we missed a great chance in the miners': strike. There should have been.' a General Strike. The struggle at the Salt- ley depot showed how serious the strike was. 'On the other hand there are too many bureaucrats the doesn't reflect the TUC, which aspirations of the rank and file,' said Jim. "The engineers will certainly have an opportunity of beating the Tories, but the turn to plant bargaining weakened We'll have to keep a position. union wary eye on our own OUR FIRST full day of walk- ing was on Sunday-and there were no signs of blistered feet or tiredness. We trudged 13 miles from Southampton to land in the middle of strong Tory territory in Winchester.

As we walked into the town, represented in the Commons by Admiral Morgan Rear Giles, toffee-nosed occupants of big, expensive cars looked amazed.

Some even dared to wind down their windows and mumble a few hostile words. The marchers, on the other hand, were thinking about their next meal, which was paid for by collections made in the town.

We did not need to worry about accommodation. That was arranged by students at the local art college. During the day the march passed through more favourable areas. At the half-way stop in Eastleigh, for instance, our meal was paid for by a railway worker.

Mr Edward Moody, a wood- worker at the town's huge rail said he supported the works, campaign because there was no backing likely to come from the

TUC...

It had to come from ordinary

TOP: JIM HUMPHRIES, AUEW

CONVENOR AT FORD, DAVEN-

TRY. BOTTOM: ROY

SHARP,

TRADES COUNCIL SECRETARY

Finally, our thanks to Roger Peach and his wife Valerie, both Communist Party members. They helped make coffee for the marchers for all of Saturday evening. Roger was impressed with the long, theoretical discussion which between place later on several committee members.

"That is my main criticism of the Communist Party. They don't place such an emphasis on theore- tical preparation, he told me.

people who are affected by un- employment, he added. Eastleigh is the main rail- on Southern repair workshop Region railways and will soon be hit by British Rail's plans for a national cut-back in its work force. From Eastleigh onwards we gradually began to enter Tory country. One local Tory even felt com- pelled to stop his car and argue that there was no shortage of prove it he offered work. To anyone a job-as a gardener in his housel But such hostility far from deterred the marchers. The Winchester experience in fact inflamed 18-year-old Jack Week's hatred of Toryism.

Jack has been on the South- ampton dole for 14 queue months. In all that time the labour exchange only sent him for one job interview. "They stopped bothering about me. Now the experience gets me down. What else could you do with an income of £4.80 a week?

'It's about time such a march was organized. I think it is going to achieve a lot. 'It's going to open up the eyes of the working class. And that really worried about. Tories are • something these Workers Pross, Tuesday March 7, 1972 PAGE 11

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Tuesday March 7, 1972 IT'S STILL coming in! Support from workers all over the coun growing with every new try is and not day of the campaign, just from workers in the towns the youth pass through. Jack Bruce, a member of the original "Cream' has pop group donated £200, but regrets that he is unable to appear at the Empire Pool, Wembley, because he has a prior engagement with his own group in the US. at Mechanical contractors Oil Refinery, Ellesmere Stanlow Port, near Liverpool, have sent £100. Didsbury Ward Labour Party, outside Manchester, has collected £2.45 for the campaign. The Liverpool Amalgamated Workers' Engineering Union of district committee Union has donated ELO, the Luton as has Labour Club. The T&GWU 1/49 branch has also given £10.

Reading West AUEW gave £5;

T&GWU

district committee at Bracknell, near Reading, also gave £5. Islington, E London joiners' branch has donated £2. Walling- sent fl0. ford Labour Party Wood-cutting machinists at Reading have given £5. Transport and General Workers' Union members at Ibrox bus garage, Glasgow have sent $25, have engineering as union members at ICI Hudders.

field. London Overseas Telegraphists collected £17.70 have the campaign. Railway workers — members of the W Brompton ASLEF branch - have donated £10. Coventry Divisional Council of the AUEW (Technical and Super- visory section) has donated £5.

Slough, Buckinghamshire AUEW branch gave fl. Also in Southall, the AEC shop stewards' committee has given £S. Coventry No. 25 AUEW collected £1.55. Messrs D. Stewart and C. Milton have donated £2 each. Students at Southbank Poly- technic, SE London have voted their for the Young support Socialists' campaign. WATFORD Trades Council are drawing up impressive arrangements to look after the Young Socialists Right-to- Work marchers when they arrive in the town on Thursday. The local paper 'The Evening Echo' reported that the marchers will be escorted to a public meet- ing in The Precinct, after which they will march to the Trades Union Hall where they will be given a meal and a bed for the night. Trades Council chairman Mr Chris Norwood, in a statement to

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We believe in the unity of the movement', working-class he said. treasurer, Mr Ron Council Herne, said that they have a separate account set aside to pay any bills incurred in supporting the march. Rail workshops short reprieve

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:: 'Marxist theory a guide to action'. erry only once before but to identify marche operation and prosecute later. on nuary 30 in which 13 He added • that it cople were killed. 'quite untrue' that He told the one-man plan was to draw ti ibunal that Maj-Gen • gunmen into a confron ord, Commander, Land ation with the arm in Ulster, had "The purpose was the parachute and stop contain him as the march in Bogside ar rrest force', the Creggan'. Asked about the army with the And it an to deal was march that intention to 'reduce tl y, McLellan said the risk lice had recommended of wisest course was being hurt by rifle fir t to stop the march, The role of the arn Instead the delegates voted to refer the issue to the national executive on Thursday. But they urged that their leaders should hand the National Coal Board a two-week ultimatum threatening an overtime ban unless the coal is delivered. The miners tlaim the Coal • Board owes them each 24 cwt of home coal they lost during the strike. the NCB claims they • But should not get the concession for the seven-week period because they broke the terms of their employment agreement. Job-finder? who

WILLIAM PALFREY,

retired last week as Chief Con- stable of Lancashire, is consider- ing a job with the county council to create greater job opportunities, especially for young people. A council policy committee said Palfrey was: 'pre-eminently suited' for the task. Palfrey was co-sponsor of the marches for god' held last year These weré the forerunner of the Festival of Light. A spokesman for the commit- tee said that if unemployment in the area remained unchecked, the situation would cut at the roots of family to the point where the fabric of society was threatened.

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five marches draw closer into Lon- don, enormous support is com- ing In. Trade unionists through- out the country are becoming more determined than ever to fight back and defeat this Tory government. We know that you, our read.

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paper to rollow and en hort aly the marches day by day. Help us, therefore, with an extra big month. Our March effort this Fund Is already underway. Do your best to boost It up as much as possible. Post all donations Immediately to : Workers Press March Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. fy marchers anti-snipers, he said, the was to protect troops at the barricades that it was from IRA snipers. e' that the draw the On the arrest oper- ation, a confront- it normal was for men to go the army. practice in on foot followed by was to armoured vehicles. stop the ogside and McLellan said he was 'not in the least bit sur- prised' that. the his 'reduce the armoured vehicles got absolute behind the rioters. The people role of the vehicles was y rifle fire. 'purely as transport' he added. the army MISS Bernadette Devlin and Mr Frank McManus, both MPs, appeared in court yesterday on charges arising out of the Ennis- killen • demonstration against internment. They both pleaded not guilty. A total of 70 people were charged with unlawful assembly under the Special Powers Act.

Troops and police patrolled the area around the court and heli- copters hovered above the town.

A crowd of 100 sang and chanted outside the court, but were later dispersed by police reinforcements. The hearing is expected to last about three days. ABOUT 1,500 copies of a special Young edition of the Irish Socialists youth paper have been seized by the Ulster Special Branch. The special eight-page issue contained details of the 'Bloody Sunday' massacre in which 13 civilians were shot dead.

The papers arrived in Belfast from Dublin at the weekend, but when members of the Young Socialists went to collect them the copies had they were told been 'impounded'. When they returned to the station yesterday a railway offi- cial said plainclothes men had seized the whole consignment.

Lightermen's chief supports RON HAMLIN, President of the pledged Union, Lightermen's support for the Right-to-Work campaign at the weekend. Speaking at a Right-to-Work rally on Sunday, he said that the fight for the right to work was inseparable from the fight to bring this Tory govern- down . In his view the miners ment. could have : brought down • the week on Tories with another strike. But, as usual, when the powerful, working-class seemed the leaders backed down. Ever since he first voted in 1945, he had lived under Tory governments or Labour govern- ments with Tory policies. There was a need now for new leaders in the labour movement, he said.

Guards cash MRS Mercy Gilbey of Middle Langley, Buckingham- Green, shire, has left more than £75,000 to the Grenadier Guards.