Workers Press no. 780

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TORY PLAN TO

INCORPORATING THE NE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

THE TORIES are desperately striving to split the railwaymen from the dockers.

The government's plan is temporarily to stave off the The Tories want to set up the national docks strike due to railmen the they in same way did the postmen early in 1971.

start tomorrow. Tories' It is because of the And having isolated the rail- plans that today's docks vicious delegates the Tories to Transport waymen, want meeting at deliver them a savage blow.

House such assumes of Because the extreme and their The delegates will not simply economic CrISIS come back at the be deciding the fate of their own necessity to working class following the members, but also the fate of the Tories strike, miners' are the railway workers too. compelled to bash the country's Tory A successful attack on 230,000 railwaymen. the railmen will be felt through- trade out the union movement; it will be a body blow to all trade unionists. stake in the rail fight is At whether the Tories not are be allowed to push going around smash unions and up traditional bar- their rights to gain for better and con- wages ditions. This is the question, therefore, that hangs over the docks dele- gates when they meet. There must be no retreat now in the face of this Tory offensive.

It would be criminal dereliction You

MANY,

thanks. many solidarity if the ot trade

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We really magnificent. are Transport and General Workers' £500 asked for to an Union pulled back. bring our target up to €1,750 It would be a repeat of the and you raised- -£2,000.46! scandalous decision January In Never. before has such warm Union by the Amalgamated of support flowed in for Workers Engineering Workers to drop the Press. In this tense political -thus leaving national pay claim- situation, the feeling against the miners to fight alone.

the Tory has If the trade union movement

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reached breaking point. and its hard-won rights are to We are determined therefore be preserved, must be a there expand the of to sales our fight to the end with this govern- For paper into districts. new ment. this we need all your support.

of the National The decrees Help us by taking extra copies Industrial Relations Court-fines yourself to sell. Where pos- attacks shop unions, on on sible ask your library to take Tories stewards- -show that the out a subscription. / want to destroy the unions.

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Stoke Newington causing explosions aimed at the property of those whom Eight yesterday were they considered to be their accused of seeking to dis- political or social opponents. Four and four rupt and attack democratic men women have pleaded not guilty to society of this country with total of 11 counts of conspiracy whose structure and poli- to carrying out explosions and possession of firearms and tics they apparently dis- explosives. agree'. Mathew outlined a series of Opening the bomb including prosecution. attacks two on the home of Tory ministers Iohn Mathew said thev carried out a wave of violent attacks John Davies and Robert Carr.

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All readers of the Workers Press are cordially invited to join him. 'can be shown to emanate from a common source, he added.

Describing the premises occupied by several of the defendants, he said: "The flat was an arsenal of guns and explosives and was clearly a factory for the manufacture of bombs. 'Found there were sticks of explosives and detonators of the type used in bombings and the Beretta sub-machine gun which had been used to fire at the US and Spanish embassies.'

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workers press

TORY PLAN TO

INCORPORATING THE NE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

THE TORIES are desperately striving to split the railwaymen from the dockers.

The government's plan is temporarily to stave off the The Tories want to set up the national docks strike due to railmen in the same they way did the postmen early in 1971.

start tomorrow. Tories' It is because of the And having isolated the rail- that today's docks Vicious plans waymen, Tories delegates the want to meeting Transport at deliver them a savage blow.

House such of the Because extreme and their The delegates will not simply economic crisis to come back at the be deciding the fate of their own necessity following the working class members, but also the fate of strike she coes are the Tories miners' the railway workers too. compelled to A successful Tory attack on 230.000 railwaymen. the railmen will be felt through- out the trade union movement; it will be a body blow to all trade unionists. At stake in the rail fight is whether not the Tories are push going be allowed to •to around and smash unions up their traditional rights gain for better wages and con- ditions. This is the question, therefore, docks dele- that hangs over the gates when they meet. There must be no retreat now in the face of this Tory offensive.

It would be criminal dereliction

MANY,

You many thanks. of trade if the union solidarity We really are magnificent. Transport and General Workers' for £500 to asked an extra Union pulled back. to €1,750 bring our target up of the It would be a repeat and you raised—£2,000.46!

decision January scandalous in Never. before has such warm by Union the Amalgamated of support flowed in for Workers Engineering Workers to drop the political In Press. this tense national pay claim thus leaving the feeling the miners to fight alone.

situation, against the has trade union movement itthe reached breaking point. and its hard-won rights are to We are determined therefore be there be preserved, must expand the sales of to our fight to the end with this govern- districts. For paper into new ment. this we need all your support.

The decrees of the National Help us by taking extra copies Industrial Relations Court- -fines yourself Where sell. pos- shop •to on unions, attacks on sible ask library to take -show that the Tories your stewards- out a subscription. want to destroy the unions. effort, After such great To exterminate this court and let's start our June Fund early.

the Act which stands behind it, Post all your donations to: the working class has to put the Tories out of office. Workers Press Railwaymen and dockers who June Appeal Fund, today in the front of the 186a Clapham High Street, the government struggle against London SW4 7UG. must stand together. No splits, no surrender! INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY JUNE 1, 1972 • No. 780 DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Poll workers start the vital rail conn Bomb plot alleged

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Newington Stoke aimed causing explosions the property of those whom Eight were yesterday thes considered be their accused of seeking 'to dis- political social ••ponents rupt and attack democratic women *our men and lour haval of el ed nts of cin have pleaded not society of this country with conspiracy structure and poli- whose explosions dad possession _firearms and tics they apparently dis- explosives agree'. Mathew outlined a series of Opening the prosecution, bomb allacks includ jonn Malnew sala tney carried on the nome or lory ministers out 'a wave of violent attacks John Davies and Robert Carr. The responsibility for them over quite a lengthy period by

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New Ltd is Park Publications pleased to announce the opening of the Paperbacks Centre 28 Charlotte Street, W.l. today, June 1, at at 10 a.m. DAVID MERCER, the well-known playwright, has kindly agreed to open the shop.

All readers of the Workers Press are cordially invited to join him. 'can be shown to emanate from a common source,' he added.

premises Describing the occupied by several of the defendants, he said: "The flat was an arsenal of guns and explosives and was clearly a factory for the manufacture of bombs. 'Found there were sticks of explosives and detonators of the type used in bombings and sub-machine gun Beretta which had been used to fire at the US and Spanish embassies'

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday June FROM the right-wing 'Times' to 'Morning Star' the Stalinist there is a chorus of unanimous approval for the Official IRA 'truce'. Whatever initial scepticism The may have had about Times' the earnestness of the Officials' overtures to Whitelaw has in been dispelled • the now aftermath of the army's all-out operation on Monday to cap- leader ture the Provisional Martin Meehan in the Ardoyne.

In , this operation, the largest of its kind for some time, four Catholics were shot dead and one soldier seriously wounded.

Significantly, the Officials' state- ment of an indefinite and uni- lateral truce-unprecedented in the history of war-came just at the time when the British army was trying to exterminate the Provisionals' supporters.

Just as significantly, the army declined to give reasons for the Ardoyne operation. Hence 'The Times' lost little time editorial in presenting an" accolade to the Official leaders, whose political cynicism is truly boundless. 'Whatever comes of it, the cease- fire announced from the head- quarters of the Official IRA in Dublin... is another tidemark in the flow of opinion in favour of a cessation of violence...

'It comes not a moment too soon for Mr Whitelaw and the success of his mission. He was banking on it, and he has been able to do more than anyone else to foster it' "The Times' follows this with a gratuitous insult to the Catho- lic workers by alleging that the 'popular disgust' at the

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violence has been caused by 'sheer war-weariness'. This is a typical capitalist argu- which attributes the ment betrayals of leadership to the so-called apathy and weariness of the masses and, at the same time, gives credence to the lie forces of that the repressive invulnerable imperialism are to working-class resistance.

"The Times' the only is not advocate of this thesis. The same idea is used by the revisionist spokesman for the International Marxist Group, Bob Purdie, 'in his pamphlet 'Ireland Unfree', to justify the abandonment of the previous

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campaign between 1956- 1962. The Vietnamese people have already given, in the course of three decades of heroic struggle, the answer to this banal and reactionary thesis.

What has brought about the con- fusion in Republican circles— and there undoubtedly are many courageous Officials who seriously worried by the are sudden turn in Official policy —is not war-weariness but the reformist-terrorist and anti- Marxist policies of both wings of the IRA. To these sincere and devoted The fighters who. in a confused way and misled by an atrocious leadership, try to transcend the armed self-defence of the ghetto with a campaign to drive the British army out of Ulster, we quote the impeccable advice of Trotsky: Isolated terroristic explosions whenever poli- are oppression transgresses certain boundaries. Such acts almost always have a sympto- matic character. 'But politics that sanctify terror, raising it into a system-that is a different thing. • "Terrorist " I wrote in work, "in its 1909, very essence demands such a concentration of energy upon 'the supreme moment', such an over-estima- tion of personal heroism and, such a hermetically- lastly, concealed conspiracy as... excludes completely any agita- and organizational tional activity among the masses...

•"Struggling against terrorism, intelligentsia the Marxist defended their right or their duty not to withdraw from the working-class districts for the sake of tunnelling mines under- neath • the Grand Ducal and Tsarist palaces." It is impossible to fool or outwit history. In the long run, his- tory puts everybody in his day Juno 1, 1972 place. The basic property of terror as a system is to destroy that organization which by means of chemical compounds seeks to compensate for its own lack of political strength.

of course, historical There are, conditions where terror can introduce confusion among the governing ranks. 'But in that case who is it that the fruits? . At all can reap events, not the terrorist organ- ization itself, and the not masses behind whose backs the duel takes place. Thus, the liberal Russian bour- geois, in their day, invariably terrorism. sympathized with The reason is plain. 'In 190l I wrote: "In so far as terror introduces disorganiza- tion and demoralization into the ranks of the government (at the price of disorganizing and demoralizing the ranks of that the revolutionaries), to extent it plays into the hands of none other than the liberals themselves."' switch from terrorism to • The undisguised liberalism by the Officials is a timely confirma- tion of Trotsky's warning.

ad- Official IRA militants would be well advised to take a search- ing look at Sinn Fein and IRA doctrine and leadership — particularly at Mr Tomas MacGiolla, president of Sinn Fein. This opportunist and reformist long ago laid down the basis for the present surrender when he explained to the US revi- Sionist Gerry Foley in July 1970 the basic outlook of the Official leadership. After denouncing 'Soviet im- perialism' and boasting about the reformist campaigns 'fish-ins' Sinn Fein as the MacGiolla told Foley: "The manner in which the people through a revolutionary move- ment take power could be either through popular unrest; it demonstration and could be through the ballot box, by the people electing a revolu- revolutionaries for tionary purpose; or it could be by armed revolt. - 'And as I say, we have a com- pletely flexible outlook on this.'

Recently, in the Common Market referendum, the same person said that the Common Market took precedence over Ulster.

the This is outlook of reformist charlatan posing as a Republican revolutionary.

It is impossible to be 'flexible' on the vital question: reform revolution in Ireland. or Heath's 'direct rule'-and 700 of repression — have years irrevocably eliminated any pros- pect of a peaceful unification and independence for Ireland.

Now Sinn Fein reformism, not surprisingly, finds powerful support from the Stalinists as well as the Catholic Church and Whitelaw. The 'Morning Star' editorial un- ashamedly proclaims that the 'initiative' Official

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'expresses increased under- standing that the main battle must be a political one, in- volving masses of people in action, and aimed at breaking down the sectarian barriers...

"The danger of a sectarian zivil war has now been recognized by the Official IRA in its decision to suspend military operations.' (May 31.) What an alliance this is! The who 'Soviet men and the rascals consistently who opposed armed struggle in Ireland have in a now united common struggle to disarm Irish Repub- lican militants politically and militarily. and, For IRA militants the lesson is clear: you can no more reform Sinn Fein than you can rejuvenate Stalinism politically.

They are politically bankrupt and impotent. The only way forward now is to build the alternative to Stalinist reform- ism and Republican terrorism through an uncompromising struggle for. Marxism against the idealist confusion spread by the Church, the nationalists and the reformists. The assembly of a cadre steeled in such struggle is the most vital political task in Ireland.

BY JOHN SPENCER

NATO Foreign Ministers mer agreed to enter into multilat the East European Stalinists European Security conference Preparatory talks will take place between senior diplomats in Helsinki, at invitation of the Finnish government. The Soviet government has been campaigning vigorously for such talks since 1967. Its campaign was stepped up after May-June events in France and the invasion of Czechoslovakia. The proposal for a Euro- pean security conference has the firm of support British government-together with the Spanish fascists, the Greek colonels and Gaullist regime in France.

Sir Alec: Douglas-Home, Tory Foreign Secretary, is *have told reported the ministerial meeting that world seeking detente cried out for such a conference.

It would, 'he said, provide a chance to separate western and eastern ideologies and to find common ground for co- operation. The British Communist Party has for months been Home

• FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

NORTH Vietnamese govern- ment spokesmen have cited seven cases of severe attacks on irrigation dikes and sea walls by the US Air Force.

The Hanoi Ministry of Water Conservation, in statement issued at the weekend, says the have Americans bombed the dikes on 42 separate occasions, dropping a total of 580 demoli- tion bombs. In addition, the sea walls along the low-lying coasts have repea- tedly been shelled by US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, the sta- tement said. On April 30, at a barbecue on • John Con- Treasury Secretary Texas ranch, Nixon told nally's reporters he had avoided bomb- ing the dikes because it would cause 'very serious casualties to civilians'. 'We want to avoid this. More- over it is unnecessary, he said.

The North Vietnamese state- ment nails this lie. It cites several cases. In Nge An, from April 10 to April 20, US planes dropped 126 demoli- and anti-personnel bombs tion on dikes around the Lam River, seriously damaging them and kill- ing or wounding many workers at work. Dikes on the La River at Ha Tinh were bombed on May 4 ters meeting in Bonn yesterday multilateral conversations with talinists in preparation for a nference. campaigning against Home on the grounds that he is out to 'sabotage' a detente in Europe.

The of this cam- purpose paign is to put pressure on the Tories and persuade them to become more amenable to Soviet plans for joint policing of the continent. The stepping-up of this campaign one of the was points raised by • a high-level delegation Soviet which recently visited Britain to examine the situation of the Communist Party. The delegation, according to the 'Daily Telegraph', was headed by Soviet central com- V. mittee 1. secretary Kapitonov and came with the knowledge the British government. Earlier this year, Soviet party chief Leonid Brezhnev proclaimed the Kremlin's will- ingness recognize to Common Market as a step towards detente with Euro- pean capitalism. Now that NATO has agreed to begin the preparations for the European Security Con- ference, the British Stalinists' chauvinistic pose of opposition to the Common Market may well turn into acceptance of the this conspiracy against European working class. and 5; along the Ma and Len Rivers in Thanh Hoa, 158 large bombs were dropped on dikes and irrigation works at various dates from April 19 to May 18; in Ninh Vinh, from May 2 to May 23, dikes and irrigation works were attacked, one parti- cular dike with 28 demolition bombs which destroyed 150 yards of the river wal between May o In Nam Ha, and May 17, US planes attacked dikes on the Red River tributa- ries, causing heavy damage, while in the same period, US warships shelled in Hai Hau sea dikes district, damaging sluices and portions of the sea wall.

On May 21, US planes drop- ped 180 demolition bombs on a CHINA has refused to allow Soviet merchant ships un- restricted use of her ports to discharge war supplies for North Vietnam, according to reports from Hong Kong. Negotiations on access to Chinese ports following the blockade of North Vietnam's apparently stalled coast are because the Soviet negotiators have refused to specify the number of ships or say how long the operation is likely to last. DESPITE a big wage offer from the management of the Barreras shipyard in Vigo, North West 2,500 Spain, strikers there are staying out to demand the release of 15 of their comrades arrested last week. Earlier this week the company agreed to a 34 per cent wage rise spread over two years.

This offer is above the , way fascist government's 'norm' of 7 per cent. It was accepted by. the workers on condition that the arrested strikers are freed.

The strike is now a direct confrontation with the Civil Governor of the province, who alone has the power to free the arrested men. Amnesty call SEVENTY - SEVEN political prisoners detained for up to 10 years by the Rhodesian authori- not had their cases ties . have reviewed since the announcement of the Anglo-Rhodesian settle- ment proposals last November.

The international organization 'Amnesty' that in any says consideration of future the Rhodesian problem, the practice of depriving African nationalists of legitimate political rights should be given priority con- sideration. THE MOTHER of a man jailed for trying to assassinate the Greek Prime Minister said yester- day she plans a hunger strike to save her son from extermination.

Mrs Athina Panagoulis, 60, said in a letter to news agencies she planned to start the indefinite strike outside the American embassy in Athens next Monday.

Her son, Alexandros Pana- goulis, 33, sentenced was to death, later commuted, in Nov- ember 1968 after admitting he planted a bomb which exploded on a coastal road seconds after the Prime Minister George Papadopoulos had passed. portion of the sea wall at Thai Loc in Thai Binh province.

The purpose of the dikes is to control water supplies and pre- vent flooding during the monsoon season. The Vietnamese point out that the US action is a clear breach of international law.

The Hanoi newspaper 'Nhan Dan' adds that the Nuremberg.

war-crimes tribunal hanged the Austrian Nazi Seyss-Inquart for —among other crimes-destroy- ing the sea walls in Holland and flooding nearly 400,000 hectares of farm-land as a reprisal against the resistance. The bombing of the dikes in North Vietnam shows Nixon's hypocrisy is equalled only by his barbarism. Soviet vessels barred by the US blockade entering North the Chinese would bar free entry. Sources in Peking said yesterday said that East European—but not Soviet- ships would be allowed to use Chinese ports to unload car- zoes for Hanoi,

LIFT 'BLACK'

PLEA FAILS

ON MERSEY

LIVERPOOL dockers yesterday unanimously and noisily decided to maintain their blacking of con- tainer firms in defiance of their own union leadership and the orders of the National Industrial Relations Court. You're not 'No, you're not on,' roared the dockers when Lew Lloyd, on', roar district secretary of the docks section of the Transport and dockers General Workers' Union, asked them to lift the black- ing. Court's deadline for lifting the Lloyd put a series of pathetic packed meeting at pleas back endures, Sir John the city's Boxing Stadium.

Court president Donaldson has already indicated 'We have no defence will "They're, that he deal very severely the Court, he said. taking all our money' and its members with mee mon if they ignore his instructions.

He also said: 'Blacking is not Hull dockers yesterday lifted effective. Heaton's golng the blacking on the ship cargo will get their money back damages .!. We've got Citv of london', which had beer get idle in the dock since last Friday.

dispute with

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employers . . • Half of the ship's cargo had discharged the been when "The law of the land has got by the cobblers... Let's get dockers stopped work. They said us the ship had been sent to Hull back situation Where because of an ban overtime work inside the law I rely on you to lift the blacking the London docks. The 'misunderstanding' 'No the chance,' shouted Was settled yesterday when the Unanimous y aurence

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that the 10,000-strong meeting decided to owners maintained continue the black. 'City of London Was trader with Liverpool The dockers are cargo was to be discharged there.

-Heaton's Transport (St Helens) Ltd, Crad blacking hrms- Suspects' rights dock and Bishop's Whart, Warrington.

Wolverhampton, Defiance of the court's instruc- tion to lift the black has already the

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£55,000 in fines. trampled by Dockers at the Port of Lon- don, Tilbury, H11l. Preston ana Mast Weste to continue the blacke Manchester have voted ing.

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deliberately showdown will occur in the.

NIRC

Friday when the ignoring the right of sus.

pects to see a solictor while under interrogation, accord.

ing to an article in the 'Criminal Law Review'. A survey of 137 people who had appealed after conviction assize quarter session war carried out by Michael Zander, Reader the Londor Law at School of Economics. It reveal- ThaT per who had asked to see a soli- citor had been refused. Une respondent said: 'I did ask Luc once "They're taking our 'They citor said said: i havent 80- said: soli- money? •We're not trapeze artists' say construction men C. A. PARSONS and Co Ltd increase tor nearly two vears and has suspended 117 men on a we don't think the money we are getting now worth risking station site at Drax, powEL near Selby, Yorkshire. recently Sune men put in the The dispute will delay claim for an extra €5 a week and completion the first turbine were offered only £1.50 reply the tl30m power stallon 1ney men muroquced a work l Men who work for Parsons on the site have been easures. Shop When from the an ultimatum safety vicascu micasules steward Brian Bottomlev said ing expirea on luesday, the li/ prepared as 'If the men were men suspended. have been for they in past spokesman Parsons "This dispute atects swinearound ike circus tapeze commented artists, the firm was bound to get not only ourselves but other con- more done. tractors and we are following the But not had a pay we nave same ine as lace Dockers pour out of the Stadium after one." They said: "Well, you can't contact one, can you?" ' Another claimed the police said he was at liberty to contact his own solicitor if he wished.

'But I was not allowed to leave the room I was in, which had no telephone.' In a third case, the suspect said: "They refused me. I persisted.

I did not get to see a solicitor days after I was until four arrested.' The disclosures coincide the mounting Tory chorus for stiffer penalties against offer- ders and for the reform of police procedure including the abolition of the caution.

POET W. H. Auden denied in a letter to "The Times' yesterday that he is interested in succeed- ing Cecil Day-Lewis as poet laureate. 'I was amazed and distressed', he wrote, 'to read ... that my New York agent is reputed to have conjectured that I would not mind becoming a British citizen again if, thereby, I could become Poet Laureate'. The British bort poet, who is now an American citizen, went on to say: 'Even if I coveted the post, which I don't, to do such a thing for such a motive I should 'regard as contemptible'.

Workers Press, T lium after their meeting.

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Co-op Hall, High Road. 'Fight the Tories' rent Bill' NORTH KENT: Tuesday June 6, 8 р.m. SOGAT House, 25 Essex Rd, Dartford. 'Engineers' pay claim' DAGENHAM: Tuesday June 6, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Barking. "Industrial Rela- Ave, tions Act. LONDON: Tuesday

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June 6, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor Street, SW4. WEST LONDON: Tuesday June 6, "Prince Albert', 8 p.m. Wharfedale Road, Kings Cross.

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BY PETER JEFFERIES PART FO

Let us look more closely at Marx's analysis of the commodity. In his 'Marginal Notes on A. Wagner' (recently made available in English for the first time) he tells us: 'I analyse this the commodity and indeed, first in the form in which it appears. Here I find on the one hand it is in its natural form a thing of use, alias a use-value, on the other bearer of exchange hand value, and in this respect itself "exchange value". Further ana- lysis of the latter shows me that exchange value is only a "phenomenal form", an inde- pendent mode of representation of the value contained in the commodity' Hence, Marx says he was wrong (I, p. 60) 'when at the beginning if this chapter, we said, in common parlance, that a commodity is both a use- value and an exchange value (for)... a commodity is a use- value or object of utility and a value. It manifests itself as this two-fold thing, that it is, as soon as its value asserts an form-viz the independent value. It form of exchange never assumes this form when isolated but only when placed in a value relation with another commodity of a different kind.

When once we know this, such a mode of expression does no harm; it simply serves as abbre- viation' The most generalized value form was, of course, the money (one coat=f2). Marx form seeks, in his analysis of the value form, to trace the genesis of this money form from the internal structure of the com- modity and to demonstrate its further development in the form of capital. 'Here, however, a task is set us, the performance of which been attempted by has never bourgeois economy, the task of the genesis of this tracing money form, of developing the expression of value implied in the value-relations of commodi- ties, from its simplest, almost imperceptible outline, to the dazzling money-form.' (1, Pp.

47-48.) In general, Marx was once again showing the origin of all the 'appearances' within the capitalist system were expli- in terms of the cable only social relations of production.

Thus he shows that the con- tradictions within a single com- modity (as a value and a use value) are necessarily overcome only through the relations established between two com- modities in what Marx calls the accidental or 'elementary' form (one coat equals 20 yards of linen). Hence the elementary form of value in which the contrast contained in that commodity, between a use value and value, becomes apparent.' Here are two crucial points.

First the category value can only appear as its opposite, exchange value; it is its 'neces- sary appearance' in the sense discussed above. . and following from Second, this point, Marx insists that the category exchange value day done 1, 1872

PART FOUR

arises from the category 'value' and not vice versa: 'Our analy- sis has shown that the form and expression of the value of a commodity originates in the nature of value, and not that value and its magnitude origi- nates in the mode of their expression as exchange-value.'

(I, p. 60.) Marx now subjects this ele- mentary form of value to a detailed investigation. He dis- cusses the three 'peculiarities' of the form 20 yards of linen (the relative form) equal one coat (the equivalent form) when he examines the role of this equivalent. The first peculiarity that strikes us... is this... use value bears the form of manifesta- tion, the phenomenal form of its opposite, value... the second peculiarity ...is that concrete labour becomes of the form under which its opposite, abstract human labour, mani- fests itself ...a third peculia- rity... namely that the labour of private individuals takes the form of its opposite, labour directly social in form.' (I, pp.

56-57-58.) Next we find how this acci- dental form leads to the 'ex- panded' form along , with the development of capitalism. This is given by 20 yards of linen equals one coat, or ten pounds of tea, or 40 pounds of coffee This form heightens the etc. contradictions only implicit in the accidental form: 'It becomes plain that it is not the exchange of commodi- ties which regulates the mag- nitude of their value but, on the contrary, that it is the mag- their value which nitude their exchange pro- controls portions.' (I, p. 63.) But this expanded form suff- ers from grave 'defects' in that 'incomplete' form- it is an the creation of every new com- modity the chain lengthens and thereby furnishes the material for a fresh expression of value. Hence out of these contra- dictions arises a general value form (one coat, 10 lbs of tea, 40 Ibs of coffee, etc. equal 20 yards of linen). This points the way for the emergence of the money form, which is in fact identical with this general form except that gold now replaces the linen of our example.

Thus in this way, in a few crucial pages which have almost always been ignored by commentators on 'Capital, Marx traces the series of logi- cal-historical transitions from the simple commodity form to the money form. Hence he is able to end this section (the third) of the opening chapter of 'Capital' thus: "The simple commodity form is therefore the germ [empha- sis added] of the money torm.

The riddle of money is thus Money "solved". is a crystal formed of necessity, in the course of exchange, whereby different products of labour are practically equated with one another and thus by prac- tice converted into commodi- lue ties. The historical and prog-

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ressive extension of exchange develops the contract latent in commodities, between use- value and value. The necessity of giving an external expres- sion to this contrast for the purpose of commercial inter- course, urges on the establish- ment of an independent form of value and finds no rest until it is once and for all satisfied by the differentiation of com- modities into commodities and money.' (Marx I, p. 87.) Marx is now able to expiain the real mystery of the com- modity form which he treats in the final and famous last section of the opening chap- ter. He explains, after his elementary of analysis form of value and its further development, that under capi- talism (a) the equality human labour is expressed not as this equality but in the form of distinctly different commo- dities, such as linen and over- '(b) the quantity of coats social labour time congealed commodity is not ex- in each pressed in a direct comparison of time but in the indirect equal phenomenal form of quantities of value (c) relations of people take the necessary ween things and (d) the social character of labour, that its relation to total human out- put, appears as something else, as the value relation of a mul- titude of commodities to one universal equivalent, money.

Having now established the genesis of the money forin Marx goes on to show how this can under definite circum- stances lead to the emergence of capital. Value... suddenly presents itself as an independent sub- stance endowed with a motion of its own... money in process as such, capital' This transaction from money to capital is reflected in the formula which circulation Marx discusses; under simple commodity production we have C - M - C (money- commodi- ties- money). In the former we see that money acts as a medium of circulation as a means of pur- chasing what one needs; in the latter it is transformed into its opposite-now the owner of the means of production uses money to buy what he dues not need in order to augment

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his capital, that independent 'stream of gold and silver' which now dominates produc- tion. As we have said several times, the transitions involved in the movement from commo- dity to money to capital were historical as well as logical (dialectical). As Marx says (I, - p. 61): It therefore follows that the elementary value-form is also the primitive form under which a product of labour appears historically as a com- modity, and that the gradual transformation of such pro- ducts into commodities pro- ceeds pari passu with the dev- elopment of the value-form.'

Not that this was a mecha- nical process; while one can that 'capital' is latent' say. within 'commodity' it required the existence of materiai con- ditions, the outcome of a long process of class struggies for this potential development to be realized. The circulation of commodi- ties and the existence of money in one of its various forms pre-existed capitalism by many hundreds of years. But speak- ing of capital Marx says (I, p.

170): "The historical conditions of its existence are by no means given with the mere circulation of money and commodities. It can spring to life only when the owner of the means of production and subsistence meets in the market with the free labourer selling his labour- power. And this one histori- comprișes cal condition a world's history. Capital, there- fore, announces from its first appearance a new eroch in the process of sucial produc- tion.' Why did Marx spend such a long time on the problem of the form of value? We can see that this receives much fuller treatment in 'Capital' (1867) than it does in 'Criti- que' (1859) and was revised no less than four times with the help of Engels, Kugelmann and others between this latter date and 1872. He did so precisely because he wished to show the links between the contradictions within the commodity and

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their heightened expression within capital. Here was most decisive break with clas- sical political economy which had completely ignored any treatment of the form of value, a result of its acceptance of the capitalist system as natu- ral and etern 1. This was why Ricardo and company completely failed to understand either the nature of money or the nature of capital. The former they look- ed upon merely as a conve- nient device for overthrowing the problems of barter; the in its latter they saw only concrete form as the "advance on wages' made by the capi- talist. And the Utopian Socialists, whom Marx criticizes in the final part of 'Theories of Sur- plus Value' had similar illu- sions, revealed in the proposal of one of this group (Gray) to abolish money while retain- ing commodity production, equivalent, said "Marx, to attempts to retain Catholicism without the Pope. Again this is of considerable importance in the light of the present financial crisis. For capitalism, basic disturbances in its money system are not 'technical' problems, as the more short-sighted bourgeois commentators may think, but an indication of the profound nature of a crisis which engulfs the very basis of the systen.

But equally importani, these articles have tried to show that the method of empiressm, which is the method of ruform- ism and revisionism, must lead to the destruction of the real revolutionary method of capi- tal which alone enables to see the genesis and • development of all the contradictions of the capitalist system. This is why Lenin com- mented: 'Marx may not have left us a logic, but he did leave us the logic of "Capital"?

In this sense, the present articles are only a preliminary sketch • of the problems; they must be taken further through a study of 'Capital' alongside Hegel's dialectical method.

Only in this way can Marx's masterpiece be preserved from the Stalinists and revisionists and its real content be placed at the disposal of the working class in this period of crisis.

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1072 Workers Press, Th 'Love thy neighbour, ...so long as he's white' seems to be the Christian gospel spread by the Rev Robert Miles of Howell Michi- gan. For this man of God is also an official of the Ku Klux Klan. The racialist reverend was over in Canada recently, to say banquet held in grace at a Toronto. He told the assembled guests that he regarded Canada as 'the last stronghold of the white, Christian supremacist culture and a place for white Americans to come to if the against the Jewish- struggle mongrelization of conspired white and black is allowed to continue'. This garbage probably went with the guests down well at the 130 the banquet. Among present were 'fraternal delega- and associates former George Lincoln Rockwell (the founder of the American Nazi Party, who was assassinated in 1967). There were two local neo-Nazi supporters present, Martin Weiche and Jack Prins.

It looks though, with as anti-union laws in Britain, neo- fascist electoral successes in Italy, French employers openly raising funds for fascist organi- and trade unionists zations being arrested in Canada itself, that the lowest forms of ex. treme right-wing political life have decided it's time to crawl out of the woodwork of decay- ing capitalism. The banquet was organized by a right-wing outfit styling itself the Western Guard Among speakers was one of the founders of the Western Guard, Paul Fromm. In a speech typical of Nazi dema- gogy against "Jewish finance, Fromm told the guests: "The real power behind the scenes is the man who signs your dollar bills'-a reference to Louis Rasminski, the gov- of Canada, of the Bank ernor who is a Jew. As capitalism is thrown into crisis, and the middle class finds its position threatened, the fascists once again resort to this sort of phoney attack finance- -Hitler of on was course, a master at it—but of course, only 'Jewish finance' so that the anger of a frightened petty bourgeoisie is diverted away from becoming any • real threat to capitalism and instead turned intó an instrument of it. Top: neo-Nazis in America, followers of Lincoln Rockwell. Left: a Ku Klux Klan wizard.

Press, Thursday June 1, 1972 PAGE 5 The significant thing about Fromm's speech and about the at this banquet ot presence neo-Nazis and other racialists is that Fromm himself is not just the leader of yet another little crackpot group of Nazi fanatics. In fact, he was able to boast at the banquet that his Western Guard had one of the provincial political parties in its grasp. He was referring to the Social Credit Party in Ontario. Fromm is the president of the Social Credit Association in this Canadian province.

Social Credit was founded as a party before World War II, based on the "funny money' theories of Major Douglas, whose notions of financial schemes to save the middle class and small farmers from the crisis of capitalism became a fad for a while among wor- ried supporters in various coun- tries, including Britain.

(Among those attracted to Social Credit in this country Scots writer Hugh the was McDiarnid, otherwise known as an admirer of Stalin and a Scottish Nationalist.) In Canada, the Social Credit Party gained some support, mainly middle-class reaction which soon showed clear fas- cist tendencies. It has remain- ed a reactionary party, with fascist leanings. In Ontario, one of the local branch presidents recently resigned because, he said that the Social Credit Association there had become the political arm of a 'Jew-hating, red-bait- ing, racialist and fascist organi- zation'. The increasingly open align- ment of reactionary politicians with outright fascist groups, like the fund-raising being con- ducted for the fascists in France, indicates that the reactionary forces are also aware that capitalism is in crisis. It should be taken as a warn- ing working for the class against any reliance on 'peace- ful roads'. However, one last word for the Rev Robert Miles, Klans- man from Michigan. If as he seems to be think- ing, that American reactiona- ries like him are hoping that, if the worse comes to the worst, they can emulate the American Tories of 1776 by fleeing to Canada to escape the coming American Revolu- tion, then it looks as though they had better think again. The recent actions of Cana- dian workers in defence of their union leaders suggest that reactionaries running to Canada will be in for a far from urd. friendly reception!

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BY JOHN SPENCER

Numeiry which appeared in the •Marxism Today', the British Stalinist press prior to British Communist the bloody repression in which Party's monthly of the Sudan CP maga- the leaders were murdered. has published zine, The statement described the lengthy extracts from a Numeiry regime in the follow- issued last 'The period ing terms: recent statement been marked by active has November by the Central efforts to liquidate the revolu- Committee of the Sudan tionary movement and at the same time to legitimize fascist CP. methods in government and in The British Stalinists' action political activity: in publishing this document is tortures, life Executions, an attempt to cover their own sentences. sham tribunals, un- tracks and conceal their com- limited detentions. dismissals plicity in the Sudan betrayal.

and expulsions. the The statement analyses plebiscite The sham led and which up to events which the misrepresents followed the bloody massacre people's will. militants by the of Sudanese of the The imposition Numeiry military right-wing system and per- presidential dictatorship. sonal rule. It describes the ruthless anti- '• The president's decisions carried repression communist Republican and and laws out against the Sudanese Com- Orders. munist. Party by Numery after • Anti-communism as left-wing the failure policy and method. coup attempt on July 19. 1971 • The oden door to all neo- published extracts But the. colonialist bodies and Today' nowhere by "Marxism tions, in particular the World the treacherous role mention Bank and the monopolies to and Chinese Stalin- of Soviet which it opens the way. which have continued ism The closing down of all with their close relations democratic organizations, the Numeiry despite the massacres.

imposition of the single politi- does it Nor, for that matter, cal party, the liquidation of the of the eulogies mention trade union movement and the suppression of the working- class movement to remove the obstacle to capitalist develop- ment and to the return foreign capital ... As far as it goes, this is an accurate enough description of dictatorship, the Numeiry which answers directly to the requirements of imperialism in period of acute economic crisis. Yet the Numeiry regime has consistently enjoyed-and still support of the enjoys-the Soviet leaders. And until the attempt of 1971 July coup there were three Communist representatives in Party Numeiry's government — who irined at the insistence of the Kremlin! On May 25, in a message to of mark the third anniversary which the military coup brought Numeiry to power, Moscow Radio broadcast a cynical statement wishing the 'Sudanese people' further suc- cesses in 'the stubborn struggle against imperialism and reac- tion and in achieving the hopes and aims reflected in the docu- ments of the programme "May 25 1969"? Numeiry The programme provided, among other things, the death penalty for strikers and the abolition of all poli- parties — including, tical the Communist especially, Party. Numeiry took at least five CP members into his original Cabinet and there was soon between these mini- friction sters and the Muslim right- By October, Numeiry wing. had denounced Prime Minister Abu Bakr Awadallah for advo- cating communist participation in the government adding that the Stalinists must give up 'the rule of parties' and accept 'the philosophy of the revolution'.

At the time, Workers Press stated: 'Stalinism, through its policy of uncritical and un- principled support for the nationalist regime in the Sudan, prepares another blood workers bath of communists. and peasants on the lines of of Indonesian massacre the 1965. (October 15, 1969.)

on October 31, 1969, And we again warned: 'The mili- are sharpening leaders tary their knives for a boodbath of workers and communists.' A fortnight later, Moscow announced that Leonid Brezh- nev and Nikolai Podgorny had accepted an invitation to visit the Sudan. Soviet policy in the Sudan subordinated the working class to the national bourgeoisie-a members in presence Numeiry's cabinet. The July 19 coup attempt to overthrow Numeiry and install a mainly CP-dominated govern- essential 'revealed ment an and important truth', the state- ment says. This is 'that there is an alternative (potential and live revolu- objective with tionary cadres) to the dictator- ship of the petty bourgeoisie or one of its sections. •It thus dealt a strong blow at the theories which consider this dictatorship a historical with the working necessity class and the revolutionary movement living or co-existing in its shadow, in submission and humility? of description An exact Soviet policy! the regimes of the petty. bour- gecisie--and more precisely of n-tionalists-follow the Arab a path which leads to the liqui- dation of the revolution.? Yet Sudan bloodbath, since the the Kremlin has encouraged Parties the Communist Iraq and Syria to join exactly this type of regime. To agree to such a path, the Sudan CP says 'only leads to of the petty that section bourgeoisie which has monopo- becoming itself lized power counter-revolutionary, either revolution by oppressing the or by its and liquidating it, political and economic policies and its submissiveness to the counter-revolu- influence of tion' The Sudan CP should know —its leaders are dead and its best militants rotting in jail as a result of this Stalinist policy.

And Moscow and Peking con- with relations tinue their had Numeiry as if nothing happened. While belatedly asserting its right to organize independently of the regime (it now has no choice) the Sudan CP, how- ever, remains firmly tied to the Stalinist perspective for the colonial revolution. Its objective is not socialism • as the follow- but democracy ing extract makes clear: "The experience of the Sudan has demonstrated—at least for us (and anti-colonialism -that especially anti-neo- more colonialism) and social advance cannot possibly proceed with- linked inside the out being country with the democratic revolution, on the basis of the rule of a democratic alliance and the application of demo- cracy in all aspects of life This is nothing more than a formula for another popular front under the signpost of the "democratic alliance'. the where situation bourgeoisie, under pressure from imperialism, can rule only workers' repressing by movement, there is no basis for bourgeois democracy. In fact in a speech delivered to a secret session of Czech Central Communist Party Committee on October 21 last year, Stalinist hard-liner Vasil attacked the murdered Bilak Sudanese leader Abdel Mah- goub for 'moving towards sec- tarian positions'. accused of He Mahgoub attacking 'Numeiry's demo- cratic revolutionary regime of officers' progressive pointed out that Numeiry had 'overthrown government a representing the feudalists and the big bourgeoisie' So according to Bilak, who was installed in office by the Kremlin and is a servile mouthpiece of its policy, the 'demo- Numeiry regime was cratic and 'revolutionary' any- way! On this basis Bilak claimed it was right to resume rela- tions with Numeiry despite the murder of Mahgoub and his comrades. Revulsion against the killings 'noble was a reaction' but based on a mis- understanding, he said. 'It would not have been wise for us to abandon our hard- won positions in the sudan or elsewhere: We would only have been playing the game of im- perialism, which would be de- lighted to see us lose the pos- sibility of influencing events by breaking our contacts with the. just struggle of progressive forces' Kremlin's support for The reaction in the Middle East- blatantly expressed by here Bilak—is not confined to the Sudan. One of Moscow's chief pre- occupations in the Middle East the has been support for Egypt, Libya, federation and the Sudan. Only Syria . . three weeks before the July 19 coup of 1971, Moscow Radio extolled 'the formation of a state' united Arab strong which would have 'a positive influence on the current situa- ime of . tion in the Middle East'.

The unification of the efforts resources of the three and Arab republics would have a and positive effect profound upon the consolidation of their struggle in the positions against imperialism, the broad- cast added. Yet the Sudan CP states categorically that there was within the country any not force capable of changing this early course (i.e. overthrowing the July 19 coup) had it not outside been manoeuvres and instigation on Tripartite the part of the States, and in particular on the part of Libya and Egypt and the co-operation of British in- telligence with them.' So much for the 'positive effect' of the Arab Federation!

The Sudan CP statement adds Egyptian leaders that "The [Numeiry] knew that the regime was relying on the com- the democratic munists and When they movement . . . that the forces of realized becoming change were stronger, and they wanted to the Tripartite Union. with opening the door to the right- 25. 169. continue un freezin revolution. abolition democracy, wards the single-party dictator- ship in order to open the way to the right wing anc counter- regime. our emisa the remel themselves wards the party's existence in followed the weeks Which the wreckers party's general secre- statement adds: "The regime was its own iming from av the Com destruction Party. munist emphasis). In other regime rkers Press, Thuraday Juno 1, 1972 PAGE I Above left: President Numeiry.

Above: Sudanese CP leader, Mahgoub being led to his execu- tion by soldiers of Numeiry.

which was all along preparing their destruction! CP lavished The British praise on the Numeiry regime right up to November 1970. Three weeks before the events which revealed 'the enmity of the regime towards the party's existence' British leading Stalinist Idris Cox wrote a series of three articles the in 'Morning Star' describing his tour of Sudan. The last article appeared "This under the heading: government backs the trade unions' (!) and the series con- tained the assertion that 'the present trend (in Sudan) is overwhelmingly in favour of a strong and independent CP'.

Three later, Abdel weeks Khalek Mahgoub was behind charged bars, with treason, and 13 army officers suspected of CP connections were sacked and three CP members in the Command Revolutionary Council were thrown out. repressions following The the abrupt right-turn on November 16, 1970, prepared the way for the coup attempt of July 19, 1971. The Sudan "carelessness and blames negligence' for the failure of this attempt to seize power.

Far more crucial than any 'carelessness' in ensuring the crushing of the Sudanese Com- munist Party was the policy imposed from the Kremlin- and enthusiastically supported by the British Stalinists.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday June 'My Generation.' By WIll Paynter.

George Allen and Unwin Ltd. £1.50, 172 pages.

BY JACK GALE PART 2

Joseph Stalin was the political spokesman of a privileged, conservative strata of Russian society which developed under the conditions of iso- lation imposed upon an economically - backward country by the defeats of the revolutionary move- ments-especially in Ger- many-at the end of World War I. Under him, the Communist International ceased to be a revolutionary organization and inter- abandoned Lenin's national strategy of indepen- dent communist activity. Leon Trotsky fought in vain to drive home the lessons of the defeat of the German Revolution in 1923 to prevent the total reliance on the TUC in bureaucrats the British General Strike and the subord- ination of the Chinese Com- munist Party to Chinag Kal- shek in 1927. Trotsky was proved right on all these questions. But great class defeats are more powerful than correct analyses and the defeats strengthened the con- inside servative forces the Soviet Union. By 1933, the Communist International was no longer making 'mistakes' but had gone over to the side of counter-revolution, bearing the main responsibility for the victory of Hitler over the German working class. Central to this degeneration of the Communist International was the abandonment of the Leninist train struggle to theoretically communist leaders throughout the world. Thus, a serious worker like Will Parter received. no training whatever, theoretical his despite willingness to devote his life to the com- munist cause. It is significant, indeed, that Paynter regarded the Communist International not as a directing centre of world revolutionary activity— what Trotsky called a 'School of Revolutionary Strategy'— but as some sort of co-ordin- ating committee of various day June 1, 1972 national activities: 'The Communist Inter- national, or Comintern as it was called, operated as a central co-ordinating organization for the national Communist Parties.' ('My Generation' p. 55.) Lack of political training meant that, with one significant exception, Paynter uncritically accepted the Moscow line on all things during these form- ative years. ror instance, he can blandly achieved assert: 'rascism power when the working-class organizations of resistance weisi framento interne were (p. 50.) But he nowhere mentions the 'Third Period' politics of the Com- munist International which deelared that the real enemy in Germany was not the fascists but the so-called 'social fascist' Social Democracy! Paynter must know now, if he did not know then, that the Communist International declared in April, 1933, that a Hitler victory in Germany would actually help, the Ger- working class towards man revolution!' He must also know now, if he did not know then, that it was only the Trotskyists who called for unity of the German working class against Hitler that Trotsky was and denounced for this by the Kremlin.? Paynter worked to the best of his ability for the defeat of Franco's fascist forces in Spain.

He describes the willingness of -even the un- British workers employed-to give what they to aid could the Spanish workers: 'We could go to the door of any unempleyed family in the Rhondda and need only say were collecting for Spain we without question or ex- and ception we would be handed a tin of milk or a pound of sugar or whatever they had to give, and this week after week from the same homes.' (p. 63) He rightly condemns the 'non-intervention' policies of the British and French govern- ments, but omits to mention the Soviet Union also that the non-intervention signed pact and that Stalin did not Joseph Stalin Will Paynter begin to send arms to Repub- lican Spain until November, 1936. Even then it was only in sufficient quantity to enable the Spanish Stalinists to defeat rivals, their political never enough to match • the arms being poured into Franco's side by Hitler and Mussolini. Paynter must know now, if he did not know then, that Stalin had publicly declared against sending arms to Spain unless Britain and France did This policy too. SO was defended by a leading 'theor- etician' of the British Commun- ist Party, Emile Burns, in a long article in the November, 1936, issue of the Party's bulletin 'Discussion', in reply to the growing opposition to Stalin's Spanish policy inside the British Party." Paynter goes into none of this. But he repeats the Stalin- ist line that workers who took factories and over peasants who seized the land were 'splitters' who would drive away the liberals and thus aid Franco! (pp. 76-77.) In a letter to Arthur Horner, pub- lished here (p. 68) he refers 'who would pro- to a section mote disloyalty and disunity' but who would be 'dealt with' They were-by Stalin's murder machine. And the Spanish in Revolution was drowned blood. Again, Paynter denounces the western powers for their 'accommodation' policy of towards fascism (pp. 52-53), particularly when Mussolini invaded Abyssinia and Hitler attacked Austria and Czecho- slovakia. Yet he does not mention that Stalin sent oil to Mussolini which was in used the attack on Abyssinia! Of the Stalin-Hitler pact there is not a word! And the vacillations of the British Communist Party on World War Il get one para- graph: 'The initial months of the war, the Communist Party was seriously divided whether on was a "just" or an the war "unjust" one. ... The support of the Communist Party depended on whether the Party considered it was just another imperialist war or a war against fascism. At first the Party supported the war, reversed to opposition then following discussions with later when Russia Moscow; attacked, the policy was reverted to one of support. It seems obvious now that the Party gave too much weight the assessment of the to Russian Party leaders, a dis- position that unfortunately end with did not that experience.' (pp. 120-121.)

This enigmatic phrase a dis- position that unfortunately did not end with that experience' is like the parson's frock—it covers a multitude of sins.

Does Paynter mean the mass slaughter of almost the entire leadership of the Bolshevik Party and the Communist International, plus hundreds of innocent people thousands of in the Stalin terror? Because he makes no mention of it.

Or does he perhaps mean the support of every Com- munist Party in the world for dropping the of the atom on Hiroshima and bombs Nagasaki in 1945? For that gets no mention either. Does he mean the slavish of the Czech acceptance Slansky trials of 1953 (again, no mention)? Or perhaps the Hungarian invasion of 1956— this does get a mention, but only from the point of view of the 'inconvenience' it caused Paynter's family! By the end of the 1930s Will Paynter was already a slavish Stalinist. But the one issue on which he did react against, the Party leadership, was just as significant as all those on which he meekly toed the line. The line from the Fifth Congress of the Red Inter- national of Labour Unions, to which the Minority Movement affiliated, heralded the was sectarian 'Third Period' policies in the unions. At the tenth congress of the British Communist Party in 1929 Willie Gallacher urged that the party should campaign to get trade unions to disaffili- ate from the TUC and affiliate to the Minority Movement instead. Tom Bell called for a policy of splitting the reform-

ist trade unions and setting up revolutionary ones. In fact, the party did set up a 'revolutionary' miners' union in Scotland, a 'revolutionary' clothing workers' union in England and a 'revolutionary' London Industrial Council in cpposition to the London Trades Council. Each of these organizations quickly became isolated and died The one prominent party leader who opposed this policy who, Arthur was Horner, throughout this period, urged that communists should work within the established trade unions, despite their reformist leaderships, because that was where the organized workers were. He was violently denounced Paynter records that he felt Horner was being 'pilloried', that the experience left him 'a little sour for a time' and that he dropped out of activity for a few months. There is no doubt that Horner's position was more 'correct' than that of the Party leadership. But essentially he was opposing the others not from the standpoint of real revolutionary work in the unions, but simply as a trade unionist. Paynter's for sympathy Horner appears to have been based partly on their close personal friendship a n d political collaboration, but was also fundamentally a question 'trade unionism'. It is of significant that though Paynter and Horner both opposed the 'left' excesses of 'Third Period' trade unionism, neither at any time opposed the Communist Party's policy for the unem- 1930s— ployed during the which was to organize the un- employed completely separately from the employed workers in the unions, and thus to free leaders from the union any obligation towards the jobless.

The basic theoretical task of a revolutionary organization is to raise the level of conscious- ness of the working class beyond a 'trade union' level.

This was laid down clearly in one of Lenin's most important works 'What is to be Done?'

Here, Lenin declared: •Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolu- tionary movement. This idea cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of oppor- tunism goes hand in hand with an infatuation for the narrow- est forms of practical activity.

"It will be the duty of leaders to gain an ever-clearer insight into all theoretical questions, to free themselves more and more from the influence of traditional phrases inherited from the old world outlook and constantly to keep in mind that socialism, since it has become a science, demands that it be pursued as a science, i.e. that it be studied.' This was necessary in order to raise the working class to revolutionary consciousness. Growing militancy and strike activity only provided the pre- requisite for this to be done: . 'The spontaneous element, in represents nothing essence, more nor less than conscious- ness in an embryonic form ...

The systematic strik is here speaking of t industrial strikes in the class struggle in em only in embryo. themselves, these st trade simply yet Social Demo not Communist) marked In e antagonism between and employers, but ti and coul not, were conscious of the irr antagonism of their i the whole of political and social : "There could not Social Democratic (C consciousness would h workers. brought to them The history of shows that the worl exclusively by its ow able develop union consciousness conviction that it is to combine in union: employers, the governmen pel necessary labour The theory etc. grew however, philosophic, theories economic by educated represe the propertied intellectuals.' Lenin warns this, the working matter how dominated by the i capitalism: 'All belittling of t "the conscious the role of Social (Communism), independently of who belittles that r it or not, a streng the influence ideology upon the After the experie betrayals perpetrate reformist trade during and after Wo this task of training conscious Marxi extended to include revolutionary leaders unions and constitution of the ( International when up in 1919. Section 2 of the for Affiliation munist International 'Every organizati wishes to join the ( International must, and planned reformists and all responsible positi working-class movel organizations, editor trade unions, fractions, co-operat: government bodies) them tried particularl even opportunists ordinary placed by file workers. Now contrast this his Paynter sees "communist at the h National Union workers: 'It has often been that I was a miner unionist first and a second. Judging thi spect, I have to ad has a great deal of which became morr as my duties and t ities within the union was who have lived and mining valleys Wales. 'Politics take to the trade union union first. This in my opi only way union official can fu arn the respect of u bers and be porters and of person principle. think the purely and acting munist, to thinking atic strikes [Lenin king of the wave of trikes in Russia in represented the le in embryo, but Taken by these strikes were union struggles, ial Democratic They struggles. awakening between workers ers, but the workers and could not be, f the irreconcilable of their interests to the modern d social system. uld not have been cratic (Communist) the among would have to be them from without. all countries the working class, by its own effort, onlie. trade ciousness, the that it is necessars in unions, fight the ana strive to com• vernment to pass legislation, heory of socialism out of the historical and elaborated of classes, by arns that without class, no militant, remains by the ideology of tling of the role of element", Social Democracy means, of es that role desires bourgeois on the workers." of the erpetrated the leaders union after World War I, training workers as Marxists was include fighting for written into the of the Communis al when it was set of the Conditions to the Com- ernational reads: which organization oin the Communist must, in orderly d fashion, centrists trom ble positions in the ss movement (Party as, editorial boards, parliamentary co-operatives, local : bodies) and replace Communists articularly at the "experienced" trast this with how his role, at the head of the of Mine- ten been said of me a miner and trade st and a communist Iging this in ve to admit that it deal of truth in it me more apparent ies and responsibil- the union increased. too, of Arthur most leaders ived and worked in valleys of South second place e union job, and if hey conflict, as they casions for Horner loyalty to the trade decisions n my opinion is the trade communist al can function and spect of union mem- accepted by sup- opponents as integrity process it is from thinking purely as a com thinking and acting communist who has as a accepted that his primary obligation is to the interests of the union and its members.

'There are occasions when these two positions do not coincide and where, rightly or wrongly, one has to make a judgement and stand by it and face criticism from one's friends, but the point is that the communist with these responsibilities will think and react to situations in a some- what different way from the communist without, which can taken in given situations.

(p. 109.) The communists in 'different situations' were, those fighting for wages and conditions in the ranks. As admits, he attacked Paynter the unofficial strike movement in the mines at his very first presidential address in 1952. He returned to the attack on 'irresponsible conduct' in 1956 and throughout his period of office, even though those reponsible were, as he says, 'both communist and labour militants'. (p. 131.) But it would be crude and wrong to ascribe this to a 'soft job at the top' The physical destruction of the Bolshevik cadres by Stalin was accompanied by a system- atic onslaught on the principles "nd methods of revolutionary Marxism. The battle to recruit and train workers as Marxists was abandoned. It was this which destroyed Will Paynter, which left him at the mercy of ideology, bourgeois which turned him into an opportunist 'left' labour bureaucrat.

The Stalinists could not train him as a communist, and, of course, they did not want to Horner and Paynter carried out the policies of Stalinism in the 1950s and 1960s—full speed ahead on productivity in the first post- war years when. the Western Alliance with Stalin was still before Churchill's 1949 on, Fulton speech. This was followed by years of collaboration with right- wing Labour and trade union leaders—the "peaceful road to socialism' in practice. In the end, of course, Payn- ter walked out on them. He attributes his resignation from the Communist Party in retire- ment from the NUM to a long- standing family arrangement due to the difficulties his Party membership posed for his rela- tives. This hardly holds water. Yet he retains some loyalty to the Party of which he was a mem- ber almost all his life — he does not pour calumny on it, as others who have moved to the right have done. Paynter's resignation seems like the act of a politically- demoralized man. It is the task of Trotskyism to ensure that young workers who seek the road to commun- ism are saved from the path that Will Paynter took. The struggle today is for revolutionary leadership in the unions, round the demands for a recall of the TUC Congress to reaffirm opposition to the Industrial Relations Act and the campaign to force the TUC call a General Strike to to bring down the Tory govern- ment, combined with the con- struction of a mass youth movement and revolutionary party. This will ensure that future generations will not go the same way as-with some hon- ourable exceptions—Will Payn- ter's did. ' See Robert Black 'Stalinism in Britain' New Park Publications 3. 98 'op cit page 83 3 See Robert Black p. 113 " Lenin 'What is to be Done?' in Collected Works Volume 5. Law- rence and Wishart. The sections quoted are between PP 372-383.

Workers Press, Thuraday June 1, 1972 PAGE 9 Coffin Funiture and Cerement Making Wages Council. Neal is intensely ambitious Len Neal, ex-big-time official and it is thought he does not in the Transport and General plan to spend the next few Workers' Union, is the head of years listening to problems of on Industrial the Commission hook and eye trade the pin, Relations, which was re- Keep your eye on Neal-known constitated under the Industrial affectionately as 'Dodger'.

Relations Act. Pensioners are getting a fl rise advantage in September. The will be eaten away by the rise then. But the in prices by Tories claimed it was all they could afford. A logic which they do not apparently apply to themselves.

just voted They have in increases which—in the words of one Tory junior minister- will allow MPs to retire 'com- fortably and honourably-but not luxuriously. Under the Ted scheme It falls to Neal to organize Heath's pension increase has the ballot compulsory of shattered all government pay Britain's 230,000 railway workers on the rail dispute.

norms. Nral just happened to be the It leaps by almost 100 per heau of British Rail's industrial €4,000 to £7,500, cent from relations department before which equals the combined joining the CIR. working wage of about three There have been recent working-class families. press boasts about how the After 40 years' service in revamped CIR has roared into House of Commons, the MPs action under Neal's great will all be able to retire on leadership. two-thirds of their income Just for the record; there- The Speaker gets a pension of fore, we put down the £6,500 and the Lord Chancel- references to the CIR which lor's will increase have been noted so far. rom £6,500 to £8,000 The Ready-made and Whole- There was scarcely a murmur Tailoring sale Bespoke Wages of from the Labour protest Council, The Dressmaking and benches. Labour deputy leader Women's Light Clothing Wages reassured Douglas Houghton Council (England and Wales), had any who might have The Dressmaking and Women's of The twinge conscience. Wages Council British MPs, he said, treated (Scotland), Wholesale themselves less generously Mantle and Costume Wages than members of any legisla- Shirtmaking ture in the world. Wages and Millinery One malcontent did rise to Wages Council, his feet, however. This The Corset Wages Council, was The Retail Bespoke Tailoring Labour member West He said Wages Council (England and "crumbs' Wales), The were being given to Retail Bespoke the MPs and luscious cream Tailoring Wages Council (Scot- cake' to The the others (believed Rubber land), Proofed to be a reference to the elderly Garment Making Industry workers of Great Britain whose Wages Council, The Stamped idle and lavish style of living or Pressed Metal-Wares Wages is now an open scandal). Council, The Hollow-ware Wages Council, The Pin, Hook Lewis's complaints were and Eve and Snap Fastener sensibly rejected. The Bill was Wages Council, The Keg and unopposed second given an Wages Council, Drum The reading.

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No mandate The other week she addressed of Hammersmith meeting Trades Council just after Labour councillors in the area had voted 46-11 to implement the Housing Finance Bill. 'My message those to coun- told cillors was clear, ' she me. "There can be no half measures.

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ON k Estate (above), as they will under the Housing —not really trying to take on the trade unions. 'He said he was trying to keep inflation down. Yet they create inflation with rent increases.

'On the one hand they say to me "Your husband can't have a decent increase" and , wage come through w then they with a rent rise. 'Wages are kept down and the most essential thing-the neces- sary right to decent housing— is attacked. 'As far as the "fair rents" Bill is concerned the Tories tell us "socially desirable" for it is people to own their own houses.

'It might be desirable, but it's impossible. A young girl I know went after a house, and before she knew, it had gone up £2,000.

'I get furious when I hear them say people are better off.

'How can they be so blatant to get up and say these things?

Do they really believe them?'

Boarders Mrs McNicholas used to live in the depressed houses around where the Westway motor route now carves through West London.

She was rehoused when the motorway was built. Her rent stands at a now massive £7.56 following a 75p rent-and-rates increase last April.

of the She feels that many problems that accompanied over- crowded conditions in the old houses demolished by the coun- cil will return with the Housing Finance Bill. 'Although we've now got bet- ter homes we also have frustrat- ed, tired mothers who have to go out to work cleaning in the evening for a few hours to sub- sidise the husband's income to pay the rent. 'If rents double, as they will in the next three of four years with this Bill, tenants will have to start taking in boarders to be able to pay the rent. 'The estates will turn into slums quicker because people won't be able to afford to do and because the the decorating, local authorities evade their res- ponsibilities. 'What could come is a return to the old days of overcrowding —not because the housing isn't but because people can't there, afford it.

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"The only people who will gain from this Bill are the investors and the moneylenders. 'We all know that already that every 80p tenants pay in rents goes back to these people in interest charges. 'I didn't get much of a reply when I asked a local Tory MP if we could have tax relief on this interest just like those who get relief on mortgage repay- ments! 'What I'd like to see is free interest rates to councils and the nationalization of all land. This is the root problem of housing not building workers' wages or the cost of bricks. Mrs McNicholas warned: 'If it doesn't happen soon--and I'd never have said this two or three years ago-with all the frustration among young people I can see things getting so bad that it could lead to a revolution.

"The youngsters of today just won't stand for it. 'If they want to buy a house, fear they may have to take in boarders.

lf measures' they're forever putting down a deposit as the prices soar and soar. They'll be saving up forever more. 'Housing requires a political has to solution by workers generally.

'Trade unions and tenants asso- ciations have to come together and present a united front; the only way the working class will win is when they say "We are the working class and the country can't run without us". 'As a member of the Labour Party, I say persuasion will have to come from the grass-roots of the party to make sure the next Labour government pursues socialist policies. 'I want all Labour Party poli- cies on housing to be submitted to local constituencies before being adopted. 'The position I don't want to see any more is where Tories are able to stand up and say they're only carrying on Labour poli- cies. 'And the way things are going I can't see the Tories lasting. There will be such a demand for a general election I think one will be forced.'

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IF WE want lasting peace and a fair deal in dockland, my advice to Mr Heath is "NIRC out, Devlin in"' These are Labour leader, Harold Wilson, as he spoke to the boilermakers' annual conference at Worthing yesterday. Wilson's treacherous call for Lord Devlin to be brought in as a mediator comes on the eve of the national docks strike due to start tomorrow.

Devlin's committee of inquiry into dock labour and wages reported in 1965 and 1966.

The reports ushered the way in for huge productivity increases and consequent jobs. loss Since 1965 a iutal of 20,000 dock jobs have been lost. Speaking to delegates yester- day Wilson said: 'I do not say that a wise and learned judge, be he Sir John Donaldson or Lord Devlin, is necessarily pre- cluded from helping to secure peace, justice and the achieve- of industrial democracy in ment dockland. 'I do maintain that the wisest judge, a Daniel come to judge- Archangel Gabriel ment, the himself wigged and gowned, , could not solve the problems of dockland, indeed do anything Wilson

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ursday June 1, 1972 but exacerbate them, the on narrow restrictive and prejudicial references which are envisaged in the Industrial Relations Act.'

rambling Just compare this nonsense to the class-war langu- age Heath used in his Luton Hoo speech last weekend: 'But let no one ask this surrender. If government to there is anyone who still imagines that they can, for political pur- poses, pick an easy fight with us, I must warn them: You've come place. You're the to wrong wasting your time. Incredibly, Wilson's speech to the boilermakers was supposed to have been a reply to Heath!

But his 'reply' turned out to be a mixture of slapstick and advice for the Tory leader.

Referring to the docks crisis he advised Heath to bring back Devlin-a 'wise and trusted' man who is 'alive to, and skilled in dealing with, the human issues involved'. Wilson said he felt some sym- pathy for Employment any Secretary faced with the deep human problems of the docks dispute. •I would feel a great deal more if the Conservative govern- ment's provocative and ideologi- cal approach to the docks from the moment they took office had not made these deep-seated and intransigent problems a great deal worse.' Referring to the NIRC, he said: 'A court constituted as this is by the Tory industrial relations law is not only manifestly irrele- vant and inadequate to deal with the ferment of human relations by waterfront, it must, on the the actions required of it, make them worse? On the rail issue he said the government was forcing a con- frontation to save face for the Prime Minister. "The provocative way in which this dispute has been handled is due to a deliberate govern- save Mr confrontation to ment Heath's face his humili- after ation over the miners' disputea humiliation brought on • by his failure to begin to understand people like miners, and his inept miscalculation of industry's need for coal and electricity to keep going. 'Vanity had been affronted: virility had to be asserted.'

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A SMALL depression will move eastwards across southern districts of England. Eastern districts of England and Scotland will have bright spells and some showers. and Central South-West districts of. England, Northern Ireland, and Wales will be cloudy with occasional rain, although it will become brighter in the South-West later. North-West districts of Eng- land will start bright but it will become cloudy with some rain later. Western districts of Scotland will have sunny spells and iso- lated showers. Temperatures will be slightly below the seasonal average, but it will be rather cool in eastern districts. Outlook for Friday and Saturday: Sunny intervals and occasional first. showers. at but more general rain and strong winds spreading from the West followed by blustery showers. Temper- near normal at first, but atures bøcoming rather cool.

FROM PHILIP WADE

THESE MEN have only worked one full day in five months. They are some of London's ever-growing pool of unattached dockers. Yesterday they were picketing the Midland Cold Store inland clearance depot in container East London. 'We are not interested in a £3-a-week increase in fall back pay, one said. 'We want the right to work. The press moves in a THE NINE-DAY sit-in up a crane by Peter Kavanagh ended climbed yesterday when he down from his 120-foot high perch above the National Hos- pital site in Holborn. Making his way through an army of photographers and television cameras he joined a 500-strong demonstration of London building workers who had struck for half a day in his support. He began his sit-in in pro- test against losing his job as a steel-fixer. The rest of the Lovell site has been shut by an unofficial strike. Kavanagh was helped to the front of the demonstration which moved off to a meeting in Euston. The crane sit-ins are being supported by the Communist "Building Party-backed Workers' Charter movement.

Unattached dockers picket Midland Cold Store Dockers demand right to work 'Money's not the issue here at —jobs are what it's all about.'

For four weeks now pickets have been outside Midland Cold Store and three other London depots, including two as far out as varculal 'We laid a claim to this place was put down about betore four another picket years ago, said. Iribunals and inquiries have got us nowhere and we know it.

The press moves in as protest ends George Jackson's father fined $100 for contempt THE father of George and was yes- Jonathan Jackson terday cited for contempt by the presiding judge in the Angela Davis trial because he refused to testify for the pro- secution. He was fined $100.

Lester Pasadena, Jackson, California, postman was called as a rebuttal witness for the State.

Chief prosecutor Albert Harris asked him he drove his and his son Jonathan to the Los Angeles Internanonal Airport about 9 a.m. on August 1, 1970. Jackson responded: 'I had only Cold Store So we had to take this action to claim back our work. 'And it doesn't matter what the National Industrial Relations Court or anyone else say-they won't stop us, he added. Very few containers have got into the depot since the picketing began. Nearly all lorry drivers have turned around when told the place was blacked. The hundred or so workers inside are mainly members of shop workers' USDAW, the The pickets were unanimous that today's docks delegates' meeting had to go through with the planned strike. "The feeling on the docks is 100 per cent for the strike,' one 'All the promises we've said. had from employers in the past were con tricks.' Triumph clerks

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workers two at Triumph car factories at Speke, Liverpool, went on unofficial strike yesterday after rejecting a £3-a-week management pay offer.

The workers, all members of the Association of Professional, Executive and Computer Staffs (APEX), which advised against the strike, picketed gates at the two • factories yesterday. number of men were laid off after supplies required for production failed to get into the plants because drivers would not cross the picket lines. two sons, and I just don't want to take part in this proceeding for the preservation of my mental health.' His attorney, Jack Tenner of Los Angeles, told presiding judge Richard Arnason that forcing Jackson to testify would not only be 'legally impermissible but morally outrageous' The judge explained the penal- ties for contempt but Jackson still refused to testify and was fined $100. The Angela Davis trial is now in its closing stages, and the pro- secution was expected to present its closing argument to the San Jose jury today.