Workers Press no. 924

workers press Statement by the SLL Political Committee

HOW TO FICHT

RETAIL prices are now rising at an annual rate of 8.7 per cent, the government admitted yester- day. And the trend is up, up, up.

On October 17 the retail price index stood at 168.7 as compared with. 166.4 on September 19 January, 16, 1962 = 100). In July prices were rising at an annual rate of 6.3 per cent, now the rate is 2.5 per cent higher.

And this is despite a seasonal fall in the price of fruit and vegetables-left free to soar by Heath. Here are a few more facts about Heath's pledge to cut prices 'at a stroke' • Prices of commodities bought by the working class increased at the rate of 12 per cent per year. • Food prices have registered an astronomical 20-per-cent rise.

• Items like butter, meat and cheese all basic parts of the diet - have clocked up even greater increases.

SOME FACTS ON THE FREEZE

• There was a flood of profiteer- ing the two weeks before the anti-inflation Bill. No less than 5,000 items were increased — a record figure. • Wholesale prices rocketed just before the freeze. They went up by over 9 per cent in the three months before the freezealmost double the rate last year.

• This 9 per cent does not take account of the sharp rise the week before the freeze. It is no secret wholesalers jacked up their rates to beat the 'standstill.

• The costs of basic materials last month rose 2.5 percent.

That is an annual rate of over 25 per cent. These increases will go on because MOST of the raw materials are imports, therefore exempt from controls. • ALL fresh foods are exempt from control-meat, fish, veget.

ables-the lot. • If firms can show their costs are up their prices can go up too. A privilege not extended to the housewife.

WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE?

• The Common Market will mean an immediate 10-per-cent cost of living rise because of Value-Added Tax. • Then, because of the Market's agricultural policy, food prices will rise faster than ever before —meat is expected to increase 15 per cent. • The aim of the Market is to consolidate the control of the monopolies. Eventually they will be the complete dictators over workers' cost of living.

THIS IS THE MEANING OF

HEATH'S TALK OF PRICE

CONTROL. IT IS A COMPLETE

LIE. AND EVERY HOUSEWIFE

STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS

MEET KNOWS IT.

A message on pa from Wilmslow (Mar

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

The Tory government is permitting these in- creases, fully accepting the fact that they will create impoverishment and hardship for the working and middle classes. At the same time the Tories pass a new law to prevent workers from increasing their wages. It is a crude piece of Tory wages are held arithmetic-prices down. It equals a go up, massive attack on the standard of living of workers and many of the middle sections class. by the Tory 'Inflation' Bill which It cannot be over-emphasized exempts from control all fresh that this is no temporary *90-day food- -fruit, vegetables, meat and freeze'. The Tories have taken The fish-and imported goods. the first step towards permanent budget, un- working-class tamily state-control over wages. like that of the rich, is largely This together with measure, dependent on these items.

the Industrial Relations Act, Unemployment is about 900,000 makes strike action by the official Census figures just We have unionists released indicate the true figure the point of reached rule by will nearer 1.3 million- and decree. rise still higher on Market entry The Tories are driven to in- of the flight of capital because corporatist-style legislation voke Europe. food into Already big by the incurable crisis which is funds companies are investing afflicting British and international western Europe to guarantee capitalism. their future profits. out, they have way In the interest of safeguarding AS the chosen the following 'remedies': the of the parasitic vast profits capitalist minority-owners of the • Entry into the Common Market food manufacturing and distribut- for an alliance with the most of the banks and ing industries, reactionary European big business of the land- -millions of pen- against the working class. and lower-paid workers sioners and their children • Slashing of living standards.

will actually their lives shortened this have • Lowering of real wages.

by inability to buy the food they need. • Increasing the rate of profit the The basic right of a decent using all means at their - Industrial Relations standard of living was won in disposal fear of decades of bitter struggles.

The Act, unemployment, Tories aim to abolish this right.

steeper productivity demands.

By operating these reactionary, This has been made clear by anti-working-class policies the the of the anti-union passage Tories hope to be able to com- Act, Industrial Relations the pete in the growing world trade Housing Finance Act, which will war. anticipation higher OL eventually double council rents, prices after EEC entry beef pro- and the deliberate creation of ducers other food suppliers and mass unemployment coupled with are holding back stocks, creating speed-up the encouragement of scarcities and pushing prices up in the factories. even further.

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This profiteering is sanctioned on page 3 to all housewives Connie Fahey

BER 18, 1972

No. 924 4p

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1s00-600 1.0 11S

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National Union of Public Employees members college, Oxford, yesterday during talks over the sacked steward Frank Keen • See story p. 12.

Socialist Labour League Greater London Rally

3RD ANNIVERSARY

OF WORKERS

PRESS

BUILD THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

SUNDAY

NOVEMBER 19

7 p.m. Porchester Hall Queensway, W2 Speakers: G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) CONNIE FAHEY (Wilmslow tenants' leader) CORIN REDGRAVE (Equity)

ROY BATTERSBY (ACT)

ALAN THORNETT (Deputy senior steward Morr Cowley, Oxford)** GARY GURMEET (Editor Keep Left) Chairman: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Committee) (Union and tenant speakers appear in a persona Details of provincial meetings see p. 11.

WE DEMANDe

UNION

RECOCNITION

NOW

picketing St Anne's

- PREMIERE

SHOWING OF A

NEW FILM

THREE

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• WORKERS

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workers press Statement by the SLL Political Committee

HOW TO FIGHT

RETAIL prices are now rising at an annual rate of 8.7 per cent, the government admitted yester- day. And the trend is up, up, up.

On October 17 the retail price index stood at 168.7 as compared with 166.4 on September 19 (January 16, 1962 = 100). In were rising at an July prices annual rate of 6.3 per cent, now the rate is 2.5 per cent higher.

this is despite a seasonal And fall in the price fruit and vegetables-left free to soar by Heath. Here are a few more facts about Heath's pledge to cut prices 'at a stroke'. • Prices of commodities bought by the working class increased at the rate of 12 per cent per year. • Food prices have registered an astronomical 20-per-cent rise.

• Items like butter, meat and cheese-all basic parts of the diet - have clocked up even greater increases.

SOME FACTS ON THE FREEZE

• There was a flood of profiteer- ing the two weeks before the anti-inflation Bill. No less than 5,000 items were increased - a record figure. • Wholesale prices rocketed just before the freeze. They went up by over 9 per cent in the three months before the freezealmost double the rate last year.

• This 9 per cent does not take account of the sharp rise the week before the freeze. It is no secret wholesalers jacked up their rates to beat the 'standstill'.

• The costs of basic materials last month rose 2.5 per cent. That is an annual rate of over 25 per cent. These increases will go on because MOST of the raw materials are imports, therefore exempt from controls. • ALL fresh foods are exempt from control—meat, fish, veget- ables-the lot. • If firms can show their costs are up their prices can go up too. A privilege not extended to the housewife.

WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE?

• The Common Market will mean an immediate 10-per-cent cost of living rise because of Value-Added Tax. • Then, because of the Market's agricultural policy, food prices will rise faster than ever before —meat is expected to increase 15 per cent. • The aim of the Market is to consolidate the control of the monopolies. Eventually they will be the complete dictators over workers' cost of living.

THIS IS THE MEANING OF

HEATH'S TALK OF PRICE

CONTROL. IT IS A COMPLETE

LIE. AND EVERY HOUSEWIFE

STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS

MEET KNOWS IT.

A message on pa from Wilmslow (Mar

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

The Tory government is permitting these in- creases, tully accepting the fact that they will create impoverishment and hardship for the working and middle classes. At the same time the Tories pass a new law to prevent workers from increasing their wages. It is a crude piece of Tory wages are held arithmetic-prices go up, down. It equals a the standard of living of workers and many massive attack on of the middle class. sections by the Tory 'Inflation' Bill which It cannot be over-emphasized from control all fresh exempts that this is no temporary '90-day food- -fruit, vegetables, meat and freeze'. The Tories have taken The hsh—and imported goods. the first step towards permanent family budget, un- working-class state-control over wages. like that of the rich, largely 1S This together with dustriare, Relations dependent on these items.

the Industrial Act, Unemployment is about 900,000 makes strike action by trade -the official Census figures just We unionists have Chic. released indicate the true figure the point of reached rule by will is nearer 1.3 million- -and decree. ( rise still higher on Market entry The Tories are driven of the flight of to in- because Capilal voke corporatist-style legislation Europe. into Already big food the incurable crisis which is by companies are investing funds afflicting British and international Europe to guarantee western In capitalism. their future profits. they have way out, In the interest of safeguarding As the chosen the following 'remedies': vast profits of the the parasitic capitalist minority-owners of the • Entry into the Common Market food manufacturing and distribut- for alliance with the most the banks and ing industries, of reactionary European big business of the land- -millions of pen- against the working class. and lower-paid workers sioners will actually • Slashing of living standards.

and their children their lives shortened this have by inability to buy the food they need. • Increasing the rate of profit the The basic right of a decent using all means their Relations standard of living was won in disposal - Industrial The fear decades of bitter struggles.

Act, unemployment, Tories aim to abolish this right.

steeper productivity demands.

By operating these reactionary, This has been made clear by the anti-working-class policies the of the anti-union passage Tories hope to be able to Houstni linance Act, which whil Industrial Relations pete in the growing world trade anticipation of higher eventually double council rents, prices after EEC entry beef pro- the deliberate creation of and ducers other food suppliers and mass unemployment coupled with are holding back stocks, creating speed-up the encouragement of pushing scarcities and prices up in the factories. even further.

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This profiteering is sanctioned Connie Fahey BER 18, 1972 • No. 924 • 4p

E SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

VAN NUPE

NOW

National Union of Public Employees members college, Oxford, yesterday during taiks over the sacked sleward Frank Keen • See story p. 12.

Socialist Labour League Greater London Rally

3RD ANNIVERSARY

OF WORKERS

PRESS

BUILD THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

SUNDAY

NOVEMBER 19

7 p.m. Porchester Hall Speakers : G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) CONNIE FAHEY (Wilmslow tenants' leader) .

CORIN REDGRAVE (Equity)

ROY BATTERSBY (ACTT)

ALAN THORNETT (Deputy senior steward Mor Cowley, Oxford)" GARY GURMEET (Editor Keep Left) Chairman: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Committee) (Union and tenant speakers appear in a person Details of provincial meetings see p. 11.

WE DEMAND

UNION

RECOGNITION

NOW

picketing Anne's

• PREMIERE

SHOWING OF A

NEW FILM

THREE

YEARS

OF

• WORKERS

PRESS

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Narrow battle in German poll PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday November 18, 1972 A STATE of emergency was imposed yesterday around Lo Southern University, where two students were shot dead l who stormed a campus building. Local officials have promise killings unless the 7,000 students at the university show prope for 'constituted authority.

The killings were the The police were armed shotguns, rifles and with culmination of several pistols. week of demonstrations Edwards, Edwin gover- at the university where the THE MOST st nor of deep-south ordered the univer- the students are demand- state, West sity closed for a week and Election ing changes in the admin- empowered a police will end tomo istration. curfew. voting takes p Baton Rouge's mayor W. Most of the students at The Dumas, who presides over Southern University are one of the country's most black, but the administra- Social. Democr reactionary administra- tion is dominated by the Free Democrat tions, said after the racialist state administra- is being challer killings: 'Two have been tion. Christian and there be shot may by Rainer Bar The two black victims more if necessary. Bavarian killed when the were 'We've sent the dogs in Franz-Josef Str police moved against the the to get them out Although administration occupied building. We are going to has caused building. back the administra- take interest and un officials said tion building at any cost."

Hospital discussion, He This they died of buckshot added: is the leaders have tri wounds, the but state price you pay for appease- it into police deny they fired any If ment. you appease Brandt's shots. They claim that the people you can expect the example, students worst.' were personal trampled to death. politician and h The the shootings are Coroner Hypolite Landry worst campus massacre national said they could have been slogans like students since tour killed at Kent killed by fragments from State uni- proud of Germ exploding 1970. Then In the tear-gas versity in and ballistics police fired on a Vietnam the main featu canisters, demonstration in the the experts are continuing

GIOTHOUS

Social investigations. university grounds.

FROM PAGE 1

While these assaults have been mounted on the labour and trade the City of union movement, London bankers and the property have speculators been cashing in hand over fist. Top companies part of have increased their profits by Functioning the of 18 per cent over built average Councils of Action being the past year- -and many of these up in the areas, these Committees the food industry. are in will keep track of all price in- and will organize the of this The smooth passage greatest possible mass meetings legislation, including the Euro- demonstrations and against the pean Communities Bill, has heen Tory policy of price made possible by the cowardly retreats of the Labour and TUC These actions must be made leaders. with the direct collaboration of The Stalinists of the British the workers in the factories and Communist Party have assisted The aim trade unions. political these renegades by diverting the is to force the Tory government working class from the political to resign. struggle against the government. Simultaneously the wages fight This put into practice was at in industry, must go on every Clyde shipyards where the upper the widest scale. is on the Stalinist-led 'work-in' set the that inflation deliberate lie is pace for 'no-strike' pledges under It by caused wage increases. the threat of unemployment.

capitalists' from the own comes This at a time when Toryism international crisis. its was blatantly showing real face: profiteering th food while First they printed millions of and unemployment in- paper dollars year after year and poverty creases. Legislation for permanent- distributed them throughout the state control of wages. world with no real backing.

This is the reason for promot- 1971, the And since August Geoffrey Howe ing Sir • who collapse of the world monetary drafted the Industrial Relations instein raded the rese Cabinet Act - to rank in the inflation How Department Trade and of In- Tories control prices while world dustry. Having masterminded the of is completely out Howe will now

CUTICU

anti-union laws, control? mastermind the state pay plan by which is to be backed the most important lever for The and unlimited criminal courts price stabilization currency fines. stabilization. So long as the Now the pound floats, however, real wages working class must and living give its answer. standards con- sink while currency tinue to The to destroy employers try speculators and price profiteers the basic rights the huge fortunes. class and talk 'national the emergency' - yet No capitalist government will they have the greed and dare to stabilize currency because their making go cance. lo to do would reduce profits millions at the expense of the of the import and export monop- working class. olies and their controllers in the In every town, in every area, banks. Committees on Prices must be As the crisis worsens and the These will consist of set up. trade intensifies currency housewives and trade unionists, war and but must also include all those depreciation feeds inflation under the Tory attack, tenants, becomes a major weapon against To stop this unemployed, etc. working class. the

VIETNAM'S

with the United States

NORTH

negotiator Le Doc Tho position at the talks and along the lines arrived in Paris from Mos- side commercial and diplomatic now appears since cOW yesterday concluded

ICAI

ucals with Henry Kissinger agreement. Nixon two viSiTer The an Indo-China ceasefire. Prior capitals earlier this year.

to the election week, North Nixon's administration Earlier this Refore he left. the North Vietnamese leader held proclaiming 'peace' Vietnam announced Tna1 LIal talks with Kremlin leaders, only days avay Since would not accept any tae erection, US change in the terms agreed nave Decl Desola and hard for a settlement and Horce resumes urging the US to sign sive demanded that the US sIgn and there been hard these terms immediately deal drawn up widening gulf ground. There is a Jast monti Kissinger Nixon is relying heavily between Vietnam Moscow and the United States-at und Louisiana's demanding further con- his least as far their public * Peking North Viet. cessions dead by police including the with- terms statemens are stick drawal o1 of the • Vietnamese. both sides large part romised further Both Stalinist positions the bureau- the liberation army in the aracies see the seems little south wal d Lalko,

LICIC

w proper respect President Nixon's obstacle the develop- room for further has considerably ment of better relations cussions. election hatred. for Strauss. possibility of the small Soviet Union and the East MOST stiflly-fought Communist Party European countries. German General He is seen as a potentia.

German to dictator aiming Barzel the has accused since the working-class organiza- votes tending to Brandt 'dividing ot Ger- end tomorrow when and take away the polarize between the Social voters' many behind the

• LIONS

g takes place. gains which they have made Democrats and backs' and said that during the boom. Democrats, it could Democratic coalition govern- ever Christian gov- When there was a threat Willy Brandt's knock the neo-Nazi IOl Democrats the treaty in its present ane oranel s covernmenl Natonal Democrats (liberals) last May, workers swamped the Free Democrats, ane TOrM. ng challenged by the the streets in huge demon- Brandt's coalition allies.

Both he Strauss The ed Brandt will probably emocras surallons SuDDUll claim that better terms ainer Barzel and his party leaders have tried to need the the be

SUDDULL

Can allies under this class feeling. in eep Honecker's regime. hree emocrais nis 2o. check during the election - osef Strauss. ernment is to continue in The announcement the election campaign stressure talks between

NATO

Juri. enormous other issues, particularly No. election con- powers and the East Euro st and unprecedented East-West relations. troversy has been the pro- on violence pean sTater party Tine • aleats with the armed forces in 's have tried to direct leaders were German Democratic like Europe, the proposed polite channels. in last Republic initialled on with East Germany for treary campaign, November 8. will to Brandt's be has stressed his nave been on the alert. This would give recog- advantage. About 90 per cent capacities appealed as Sunday's election the East Germar victor Germany's million •an ale las state and enable both Ger- will win by narrow feeling with are electors expected enter the man The result 'Germans be take part in tomorrow's United Nations. depend, the pollsters claim, of Germany' vote. how the cent represents the last on per To secure representation, areas lain feature has been a party has to secure Brandt's Ciclois WIll al t will for per the 'Ostpolitik', establishing undecided cast support stil normal relations with the their votes tomorrow. This rules and the venocials

VULC.

ally Inflation the way for Daves taccism. Nazism in Germany has how the extreme-right, shown with the help of the monopoles. exploited not only the mass un employment of the 1930 but, the raging in- reactionary blind-alley which will fation of the 1920s. to mobilize vicious attack, the Treasury must backward, unorganized workers but DaNK nol save ous and disgruntled shopkeepers land put under workers' con- wil oniv exacerbate the foreign trade of Britain converting the trade trol, monopoly war into a military one. subiected to a slalt They able this were ana the banks nauonalzea. wiln- The task of British workers is only because the official labour compensation. to raise the banner inter- and trade leaders tried to union nationalism--to with the instead Another major source of in- obelatt Ca bilalisil overthrow workers flation wasteful gave overthrowing "It-and inus full scope to inflation. The commor varkel criminal eplace it with a United Socialis successive . Lory British labour must the armaments for lesson of defence Germany imperialism. uneon- Every wages fight is now a oppose every attempt altonally political fight against a govern- Entry into the Common Market control of and this burden. The ment pronounces Ene attempt to increase prices Will Increase cycy wage struggle illegal. It is the working class pay ane renes. fight, against the same same vastly-increased indirect which will drive up the housewives Neither Stalinism Social enelly. nor lazalivi and tenants. price Democracv will lead this struggle Oras e necessitics. Only a revolutionary party based All TUC approaches for talks The only answer is to force the with the government must end. on Trotskyist policy and theory Tories to resign return and Everything now depends can take the workers to power.

on Labour government which will be fullest the made to: modinzalen' The October 22 Conference

WOTK.

• Abolish the standing army.

rights and force the Tory gobasi- defend basic of Trades Unions Alliance that the • Shut down overseas bases and ment lo resen. research establishmentsb military torces lor such a party The struggle against the state The Tories must be replaced Down. by Labour sgovernment pay law and the ınnauon un- Withdraw all from socialist policies to defend and leashed by the Tories can only

LIOUUS

Ulster and other overseas "standard advance living conducted as part of the territories. fight to transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolu- • Withdraw from NATO. There must be nationalization tionary or mne ToocI Cano balLy. In the shock and confusion supply monopolies, without com. created by crisis and the and under pensation workers' This requires the help and Torv laws it is possible that some of all sections of the Control. decicaton secions in te working Class Will working class- -students, youth, the idea of protective There must be nationalization housewives, professional workers, as tariffs and import quotas an "the ano import-export the Common Mar- agencies. Without this there can alernalive lo ket and the decimation o tell be no control of food prices.

jobs and the hiking of prices. Committees on Prices must They will be •encouraged supervise special anci …control by the this confused thinking food distribution centres, in • Build the revolutionary party!

the Co- cass-condooraulon Laclics collaboration with Communist Party and •veralive bocienes sua saos are preparing keepers and small food pro- political ground for supporting ducers. Pensioners the Labour government Hena sande walt disabled must be supplied free pledged to socialist policies.

they supported participation in these

COST

ПОШ! the last war under Churchill.

centres. entry must be repealed. November 17, 1972 We say that protectionism is a

CONNIE FAHEY is a housewife and one of the leaders of the resistance in Manchester to the Tory rent in- creases. Here she makes a special plea to housewives to take the initiative and lead a campaign against the Tory measures to control wages.

A message to all housewives From Wilmslow (Manchester) tenants' leader Mrs Connie Fahey MANY HOUSEWIVES by now will have woken up to the Tory con-trick on prices. They do the shopping and they have seen prices going up and up while their husband's wage packet is kept down by law.

I want to appeal to Fight the housewives everywhere to take the lead and get rid of this government which is determined to impover- ish working-class and even middle-class families in this Tory prices What the are facts? The Tories put out all the propaganda prices and the fair deal we ale supposed to be getting. But this Cane cynical remark in the shop- ping centres and markets Britain. There are figures to prove thought the government is forced out of credate that in the weeks before the policy gave them a way to office. 'freeze' there was a big the higher rents. But rise escape the • wife d what can the house- But prices. All big food they were wrong Concers wholesaes nos- In all my experience cam- cipated the Tory plan. paigning I have ever haro • FIRST I would like to see mas gained out of ame ye we So we have all sumerea a gained out of the rebate the tenants' action groups- cut in our living standards with housewives before so-called anti- Most are paying more to the Tories. uncle laWs were passed. They should go out into the shopping of centres every But this will not stop. Political the Tory fraud expost Almost all fresh foods are ex- empt from control, are this should not be. fight point imports, and a manufacturer left to the

HOL

call away

WILL

Tanne consumer can show that his costs most housewives, organizations who have no in.

have risen. whether they live in a coun tention challenging the cil house ale 1 OlICS. This kind considera- get a big shock tion not, when they realize that prices course, tended to the housewife. It are going to keep on rising.

Link-up costs husband's up- -and they Here I would like to make will-her struggle still stays firmly pegged by quite that the attack on creat government decree. housewives, like the attack on • SECONDLY this fight has part with In the Lailalilo linked meantime the got to general strategy of this gov- ernment machine tries to struggle other sections ernment to make the ordinary impression that the the attacks of the pay for the crisis big ordinary Housewives Call Sucialil. business their complaining to press husbands somerming Should the shopkeeper. It is time people realized that the Tories have one aim I have two things to say in this country -to bring back Writings about this. 1930s the when were defeated by poverty and un- employment. 'Hot-line' of Leon Every day poverty creeps bureaucrats more homesat into first it the Itsel wnen I is in ssible for mee housewife has buy less luxuries for her family: Later keep track Trotsky all the The. even

YOU

Start some food and clothing. then she does complain, she will be fobbed-off realize the with some ex- are 1n rat 1933-1934.. .... £1.43 Cuse une co scratt race co re other end the 'hot meet. government The ends Ine 1934-1935 .. .. £1.43 Even the Tories admit has got you on the treadmill that it to poverty. almost

LOSS DIC

1935-1936 .. {1.25 to control retail prices.

Perhap the most serious 1937-1938. ... £1.25 Secondly, the all, hing o responsibility however • Is line 1938-1939 . £1.25 for the rise in prices does no attack the Tories make on with the husbands' hopkeeper, right to earn 1939-1940 .. £1.05 decent pecially the small shopkeeper.

wage and hight for They are much a victim his basic rights. as as the housewife. The government could con- Great trol prices tomorrow if it took big boys. concern I'm talking of firms like Uni- lever MacFisheries. They Workers can be fined now own plantations. fishing feets.

if they go on strike for more they control the Dig ranches; money The Industrial Rela- flow of commodities, the run big tions Act. on the other wholesaleing estaoisn- makes most actions taken by chains of aments trade unions to defend their supermarkets. they conditions and their organiza- don't control in retailing, they grip they commate une have over supplies. All this is of great con- cern to the housewife. She But the Tories keep these depends mainly on her hus. monopolists the back- Because this ground. Why? to fight for their standard of living. If the Tories take *overnet rules fie 28 Charlotte St interests of the monopolies this away. at ane and no one else! mercy of rising prices. I think people will wake up It is more and more London W1 appar- to this day that there Tory trick. It was the ent every Call same with the rent increases.

soliton innation. The tenants' leaders in Man- the increasing cost of living, chester met. many family unemployment or attacks who LaKel iney ware packel UnIS Workers Press, Saturd 'Housewives' costs going up wh pegged ... so get rid of the Tori to keep up the campaign for more wages and against the Industrial Relations Act.

We need Councils of Action in every area to unite all these fights and unite all sections workers. • THIRDLY it must be recognized that this united action is political. Anyone who deludes the working class or middle class-be they tenants, trade unionists or ordinary housewives—-that the fight for living standards and basic rights does not involve a battle against the govern- ment, are either charlatans or fools. On issue after issue the Tories take on isolated groups and try to defeat them. You can unite the whole working class on the basis of the political demand to get rid of them instead. This is the policy we

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ss, Saturday November 18, 1972 PAGE 3 g up while husbands' wages are the Tories'-Connie Fahey.

should go out into the shop- ping centres with. To control prices, the big food and commodity com- bines should be nationalized under workers' control. The retail chains should be taken out of the hands of the mono- polies and nationalized. Only answer For the tenants we should demand the nationalization of the land, the building socie- ties and the contracting firms.

Then the whole housing prob- lem could be solved by a crash programme and decent council houses built with cheap rents. But all housewives and ten- ants should unite with trade unionists and shop stewards to get rid of this Tory gov- ernment and get Labour back pledged to socialist policies.

It is the only answer to infla- tion and rising prices. (1939-40) Writings of Leon Trutsky (1838-5)

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MARXISM

OR RANK-

AND-FILE-ISMP

An analysis of the tactics and strategy of the Inter- national Socialism Group.

By Michael Banda The Tories' decision to enter the Common Mar- ket threatens British workers with the most far attacks SO savage made against their living standards and their basic rights. It is a significant and sinis- ter step in the direction of the the integra- slale. tion of the unions into the of the capitalist state. accident of the communiqué European Conference combines Summit the Bonapartist idea of ensur- 'the involve- increasing ing ment of labour the and ment in economic social decisions com- and 'consumer munity' protec- tion' with the plans for set- mammoth continental ting uD monopolies, transferring capi- tal, dividing up markets and centralizing research In pre- paration tol lue grealest trade war in history. The essential condition for the success of this strategy of the bankrupt rulers of Europe, of Hitler, Mussolini une nels Salazar, is the integration and of the Social Democratic and Stalinist bureaucracies in the Brusse's political and admin- istrative while, avalalus the same time, strengthening the repressive powers and its over slale

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and the exercise Wages workers' rights. This is the way which the European capitalists can even hope to raise Euro- pean productivity to US and Japanese levels, realize a large export surplus and set up a monetary union. If this plan fails-and there indication that it will is no succeed- -the European rulers will no ouse choice but to try and defeat the working class with mili- tary-police measures and im- pose the naked dictatorship of monopoly capital unadorned by the fig-leaf of parliamentary democracy. Police - - military dictatorship and fascism is the logical end of the grotectionist Utopia of the Common Market. The entry into the Market gives an entirely new dimen- sion and quality to the strug gles of the working class.

The most important feature of the coming period will be tre- acceleration of that mendous the already seen in Industrial Relations, Housing Finance, and Immigration Acts whereby more and more power the will be transterred trom legislature - parliament — LO the state executive; not merely to Whitehall but to the Brus- sels Secretariat. Parliament will be reduced to the status of the French National Assembly under the Fifth Republic--an impotent decision. The • for bureaucratic degrading decision. of parliament will expose further the blatant bankruptcy of the ay November 18, 1972 Social Democratic Opposi- tional safety valve. Another equally important feature of the creation of the Market is that every major struggle of any section of Euro- workers against their pean state implicitly poses the ques- tion of the destruction of the Market and the progressive unification of east and west Europe under the banner of the Socialist United States of Europe. There is no other road for Europe. Lastly, unquestionably-and most important-the plans of the European monopolies to undermine and destroy the working class movement can- not be halted or defeated by the economic struggles of the working class waged by the trade unions. By virtue of its entry into Market the British capi- the talist class has increased con- siderably its margin for man- oeuvre against the unions and its ablilty to attack them by the elimination of the fiscal and legal barriers to mergers, by the transfer of capital and the creation of unemployment.

In this sense the Common Market is aimed principally at the British trade unions.

These features of the Com- mon Market lead unalterably to the conclusion that the only way forward for British work- ers is the political struggle to create an alternative revolu- tionary leadership to Stalinism and reformism; to take the state power and construct a nationalized and planned eco- nomy with the help of the European working class. leadership is today This being built by the sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

The building of such a lead- ership means essentially the organization of the most poli- tically-conscious elements of the working class into a re- volutionary party which fights constantly against the prevail- ing non-revolutionary trade union consciousness of work- ers and for a clear Marxist understanding of the crisis, the role of the state and the re- volutionary nature of the poli- tical tasks facing the working class. This was the task set by the October 22 Conference of the All Trades Unions Alli- ance. The struggle for such a leadership, however, does not take place in a vacuum. As the economic crisis worsens the extent and intensity of trade union struggles, far from receding, will grow rapidly.

Trade union consciousness whose basis is the wages mili- tancy and individualism of the class will be continually re- inforced by the strike strug- gles. But at the same time the ruling class will defend itself and increasingly with open vicious, political measures.

The contradiction between the limited reformist aims and method of trade union mili- and the great tasks tancy posed by the death agony of the capitalist regime must The All Trades Unions Alliance task of bullding the revolutionan specialist police trained for war on the working class.

-and coming into come are Out of this conflict

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will grow the conditions for the recruitment, education and training of a cadre of Marxist leaders who lead the Will coming socialist revolution in Britain. Necessity for Theory Revisionist sceptics Will no doubt scoff at the idea that doctrinal training of the van- guard is more important than all the elemental struggles of the working class. ce conference at Birmingham which søt olutionary party. Above: French CRS r on the working class. But history—including the history of bourgeois revolu- tionary movements in Britain -shows with compelling force, that the correct theory and practice of a conscious leader- ship—no matter how 'abstract' and 'sectarian' it may seem— immeasurably can give an greater impulse to historical development than all the 'spontaneous' struggles of an oppressed class. Christopher Hill, in his bio- graphy of Cromwell, vindi- cates this argument when he reveals that the rise of the Puritan movement was inti- mately linked to doctrinal struggle and training. Com- menting on the defeats of the 1590s Hill states: .. the underground Pres- byterian movement was broken up, and in the last two parliaments of Elizabeth's reign (1597-1601) there was no vocal Puritan opposition, though there was plenty of opposition to government eco- nomic policies. was scotched, 'The snake not killed. For the fundamen- tal fact of the gentrys' wish to be free to control their par- ishes and their parsons with- out supervision from Bishops or High Commission was matched by the inner logic of Protestantism: its exaltation of preaching and the study of the Bible was continually training consciences which would stand out against any attempt to regiment them or dictate to them. After their defeat in the 1590s the Puritan clergy put more emphasis on preaching, character-forming, morale- building, less on forms of organization ances cipline. they In the long run forged a better weapon, which in 1640 was too strong to be broken as it had been in the 1590s' ('God's Englishman' p. 24. Penguin Books.) The British Marxists of to- day no less than their Puritan of Independent predecessors the 16th and 17th centuries, cannot advance the liberation of their class without the high- est possible development of its theoretical consciousness through the practice of politi- cal struggle. But every analogy has its limits. Whereas the Puritan bourgeoisie perfected their ideology-after borrow- own ing it from their Swiss, Ger- man and Dutch predecessors British Marxists base their work on the premise that the working class, i.e. the trade union movement, cannot, of its own accord, elaborate an independent ideology.

• signing Crktal i's entry Into If such a thing were pos- sible, then the British labour movement would long ago have evolved the doctrine of scientific socialism and, argu- ably, put an end to the capi- talist system before the 'back- ward' Russians. Instead the British labour its movement, despite im- mense and varied experience in political and industrial struggle, has never been able to formulate a scientifically correct theory of socialism. In so far as the trade union movement produced a theory ot its own, it has been nothing more than the reformist eclec- tic parody of socialism, Fabi- anism, which disorients and paralyses the power of the workers. Fabianism is the synthesis reformist imperialist of the outlook of the aristocracy of labour which dominated the unions, with the empricist and gradualist philosophy of the English middle class intelli- gentsia. Today it is correct to say that this reactionary ideology dominates not only the Inde- pendent Labour and Labour Parties, but the Stalinist move- as well. Trotsky was ment absolutely correct when he wrote in 1925: 'On that day when the Bri- tish proletariat is cleansed of the mental abomination of Fabianism, humanity, and in the first place Europe, will be immediately increased in sta- ture by a whole head.' ('Where is Britain Going?' p. 59, New Park Publications.) To say this is not to dis- parage the revolutionary quali- ties of the British working class or to decry the great contribution made by the Chartists and pioneer trade unionists to the formation of an independent labour move- without which ment, no communist theory could be developed. But this does not change in any sense the basic truth that the spontaneous labour move- ment-despite the courageous attempts of isolated individ- uals-cannot but evolve an opportunist and reformist con- sciousness. Lenin's contribution Lenin's unique contribution to revolutionary theory was that he developed this basic idea-which he adopted from German Social Democracy- and gave it organizational ex- pression in the Bolshevik Party. Since the contemporary liquidators of Marxism, like the leaders of the French OCI, have tried to distort the essence of Lenin's struggle by misrepresenting Lenin's atti- tude to the spontaneous move- ment, it is necessary to repeat what Lenin quotes from the programme of the Austrian Democratic party, in Social 'What is to be Done?': socialism, as a 'Of course its roots in mod.

doctrine, has ern economic relationships non Market. just as the class struggle of the proletariat has, and, like the latter, emerges from the struggle against the capitalist- created poverty and misery of the masses. But socialism and the class struggle arise side by side and not one out of the other; each arises under differ- conditions. Modern erent socialist consciousness can arise only on the basis of pro- found scientific knowledge. modern economic Indeed, is as much a condi- science tion for socialist production say, modern technology, and the proletariat can create neither the one nor the other, no matter how much it may desire to do so; both arise out of the modern social process. 'The vehicle of science is not the proletariat, but the bourgeois intelligentsia: it was in the minds of individual members of this stratum that modern socialism originated, and it was they who communi- cated it to the more intellec- tually-developed proletarians who, in their turn, introduce it into the proletarian class struggle where conditions allow that to be done. Thus, socialist consciousness something introduced into the proletarian class struggle from not something without and that arose within it sponta- neously? So, for Lenin, the party is not a complement to the spon- taneous labour movement, but is the opposite, which pre- supposes and is conditioned by the spontaneous movement.

The party is in conflict with the spontaneous movement and its growth is determined primarily by and through this conflict. The limits of this conflict can be gauged only by a thorough grasp of the dia- lectical method which Lenin outlined succinctly in Left- Wing Communism' If pushed too far, it could result in sectarian adventures and the isolation of the party.

If too little, or not at all, it could lead to an adaptation to the reformist labour movement and the liquidation of every vestige of Marxism. summarized this Trotsky viewpoint in his writings on Germany and, incidentally, re- futed the insinuation now peddled by the revisionists that he was at variance with on this issue. Trotsky Lenin wrote: "The identity, in principle, of the interests of the prole- tariat and of the aims of the Communist Party does not mean either that the prole- tariat as a whole is, even to- day, conscious of its class in- terests, or that the party under all conditions formulates them correctly. The very need of the in the very party originates fact that the proletariat is not born with the innate under- standing of its historical inter- The task of the party ests. consists in learning, from ex- perience derived from the struggle, how to demonstrate to the proletariat its right to leadership. ('Germany What Next?' Our emphasis.)

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Fred Hampton, killed by police when Pa One of the big surprises of the US election campaign was the defeat of Edward V. Hanrahan in the poll for Cook County state attorney. The man who got the job, Republican Bernard Carey, is likely to turn a very penetrating eye on the past machina- tions of Chicago's mayor Richard Daley, Hanrahan, sometimes known as fast Eddie', was widely. Daley's heir regarded as apparent. When his defeat was Daley appeared announced, ashen-faced to say that "Today was a very unique and extra- ordinary day' One case Carey will prob- how- ably • not be reoponing, ever, is the saga of Hanrahan's attack on the Black Panthers.

It is almost three years since 14 policemen assigned to his office raided a Chicago Black Panther headquarters killing Fred Hampton and wounding Mark Clark and four others. Claims by the Black Pan- thers that all the shots had been fired from the outside by the police led to three separ- ate grand jury investigations.

The police claimed that the Panthers had fired first, but the second inquiry found that more than 80 shots had been hred by the police against only one by the Panthers. Following the third inquiry co-defen- Hanrahan and 13 dants were charged with con- spiring to present false evi- dence, attempting to rig an internal police department probe and obstructing justice for the seven surviving Pan- thers. The case was tried-with- out a jury-by Cook County Circuit Judge Philip Roniti. It lasted 15 weeks. During the proceedings Judge Romiti commented on the prosecution's case, saying it was necessary to 'strip away the layers of rhetoric, of ora- tory, the emotional appeals, the speculation and conjecture in search of some hard evi- dence.' The conspiracy the ference ence. There the His evidence dant. Romiti Andrew secretary Advancement raise "serious The Hanrahan's the elections, take'. And Adlai nonunated assessment. As with 'There's aid VOlT over.' Mayor Daley and Jessie Jackson said charge, was, he con- the police had Romiti dis- The declared: applauded executive the Chicago for the of Coloured undoubtedly friends. but after the

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Stevenson been re- justification: like a tair- fight 88, Saturday November 18, 1972 PAGE 5 Colombia's dictatorial re- gime continues to arrest Communist Party mem- bers, despite this Party's enthusiastic support for a peacetul road to socialism in the country. At the beginning of October, councillor, CP town a Heriberto Parra, and two pea- arrested by the were sants police. Nothing has been heard of them since. lecturer at the The CP National University, who is Committee also a Central member and on the Executive Committee of the Young Com- munists, Jaime Caycedo, was arrested last week in a police raid on universities. At Medellin, the police broke up a meeting of student leaders and shot two students. The CP's response was to organize a referendum among students to decide whether the university rector, who wants troops on the campus, should be removed or not. Ninety-nine per cent of the 8,000 students who voted were predictably in favour of his removal: The authorities were not at all impressed by the vote. After the results were announced, police arrested several students and went on to arrest 200 more who participated in a protest demonstration against repression in the universities.

Stalinist 'consensus' politics in Colombia is the best weapon the government has to fill its prisons with students. The re-election of President Nixon has brought in its wake a number of what can only be termed 'jobs for the boys'.

One of the most obvious seems to be the naming of one Clark MacGregor as vice- president of the United States Aircraft Corporation. Nothing strange in that you might say. You are wrong. It was Clark MacGregor himself who managed Nixon's election campaign. The United States Aircraft Corporation is, interestingly America's enough, eighth largest GOVERNMENT con- tractor. MacGregor will act as the liaison between the firm and the government headed by his old pal Nixon. To make things easier, MacGregor will be based in the company's Wash- ington office. United Aircraft, 19 other manufacturers and their trade association, Manufacturers' Aircraft Association, were named in anti-trust suit filed by the Justice Department in March. The government alleged that the defendants had restricted or eliminated competition by agreeing to pool and cross- license patentable inventions for the production of aircraft and parts.

PAGE b workers Press, Sawady Novel frotsky dying after being struck down by an agent of Stalin's GPU. Right: Joseph Hansen (right) shield: Trotsky's wife, Natalya from photographers. Hansen today leads the revisionist Socialist Workers' Party.

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

Joseph Losey's film The Lequenne's piece is entitled, insisted that his work be "The work of a great film- judged by literary or artistic Assassination of Trot- maker' and runs: standards. sky' is a distortion of the of "The criticism Sabathe But what are these stan- life and and Nicello is terrorist.

It is work of Leon dards? A, creative work must criticism made by disillu- illuminate the truth about the Trotsky. The distortion objective world. sioned militants. But The writer or all arises because Losey him- not enough. The film-maker may select and work 1S self, like so many artists only 'aspect' Marxist criticism of this nm which honours Losey remains world, con- and intellectuals a sup- be done at every level in sists of the wav LO walcoge porter of Stalinism in the the work of this great film- compelling of creates images 1930s and long after, re- maker, in the epoch of the his-

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of Trotskyism torical movement of which it renaissance fused and still refuses to which we are experiencing, IS DarL make any real evaluation its relation to a general public What Losey does in this film of the political meaning which, in its vast majority, is the opposite. He presumably claims to ignores the historical facts in portraying of Stalinism and Trot- question. meaning of death, of the ten- sky's struggle against it.

'Neither Marx nor Lenin sion involved in final decisions, Whether Losey likes has until now met a poet of of the of personal or 1t Hialule That is not just their stature. violence. But he abstracts these not, the product is politically film which directly chance, but the result things from the real historical assists forces of the historic relation of the which Stalinism, by obscuring its real them, produce culture. The shape them and determine role and by reducing Trotsky proletariat to film, like the to the level of a played-out Losey their results. recent Weiss, work by Peter is an He therefore cannot see in- eccentric who met his death dividuals which shows that the through a chance crossing of event as representative of basis of the world is changing.

historic forces, internally torn ways with an assassin. A film which so thoroughly Such works some cases by the conflict nave a place the problematic of uniting the of these forces. On the the historical reality, distorts which ignores the real forces revolutionary proletariat trary, his 'psychological' pre- With the intellegentsia. It is useless the specific driving the characters, sentation obscures cannot but be a failure, even as 'enter- to point out that a criticism historic forces which form the like that of our comrades is real drive and tension to the tainment. It has no chance of the first contribution to this. events he portrays. qualifying as art, ('Rouge' 156.) of which is truth. If this needs saying in reply criterion However Losey's First of all, why the epithet to those who celebrate the work has "terrorist? fashionable produced reaction among supposed artistic dramatic among certain middle-class in- merit of Losey's film, it needs revisionists which brand revealing. Leading tellectuals in trance to a million times more emphasis vely bers of the 'Unified Secretariat' "terrorist' anyone who de- because Losey did after all as mands that their opinions and Paris, which sets itself up choose definite historical Stalinist are criticized from the subject, the Trotskyist work bureau- movement to the International standpoint and cracy's murder of Trotsky! principle the standpoint of particularly Committee of the Fourth Inter- national, have leapt to Losey's the proletarian revolution.

Só Lequenne is really fight- the name of derence 'Rouge' The revisionists telling the freedom of the artist!

ing to make sure that faithfully prostitutes "Trotsky- us that the truth about this- (i.e. Trotskyist phrases) the most burning issue of our leading spokesman time!- must be the of these placed second Pabloite revisionists in France, (in Com- and to the 'art' of the film-maker.

writes the centrists, on account The details of the assassination anything that muniste's weekly offend them by 'Losey did not intend to make even looks like paying attention are therefore just assort- an which political film and has not the working class and ment of elements trom made an anti-Trotsky film.'

Marxism. the film-maker can select and Next Lequenne demands an This apparently excuses make what he wants of them!

of the film, 'as This is exactly what the petty- indeed Frank appreciation everytning, ends that film- film', 'art', 'honouring' bourgeois centrists want to do •S like insisting great fim-maker. with the traditions and theory ourselves makers every right to make mistakes!

This needs disentangling; of the workers' movement!

Lequenne goes is deliberately designed to con- further. His Frank's collaborator, Michel 'Rouge's' 'expert on fuse the issue. Marx, Engels, reference to 'the general public Lequenne, Lenin questions culture, ol art and ana certany yaou always fought against ignores the historical facts in their position even any explainis more openly. (He is replying to vulgar conception that a writer question. The ignorance of the a correspondent of 'Rouge' who be by his is invoked to justify artist judged masses attacked the film.) explicit political opinions and the capitulation to bourgeois ideology. Film is a medium which can reach many millions of people all over the world. It does not bear the same relationship to the masses as the traditional forms drama, art (poetry, music, the novel). Even • with- out considering the effects of massive capital investment on films and film-making, it is necessary to understand that every film, particularly on a political subject like this one, has an immediate effect on consciousness, as well as being itself a reflection in conscious- ness of society's conflicts.

Ted working as today to forced by crisis struggles which demand, above all, that the question of alter- native revolutionary leadership is raised and resolved. To build such a leadership, against Stalinism, means bring- ing forward the whole theory and history of Trotsky and Trotskyism, which now have a changed meaning for the actual lives of millions. A film now which distorts this plays a very reactionary role. The powerlessness of the politica ex-Stalinist petty-bourgeois to really overcome their past and subordinate themselves to the proletarian revolution results in frustration and speculation, and among these results is Losey's film.

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Revisionism prostitutes Marx- ism to crawl to this disinte- gration of bourgeois ideology and its bureaucratic assistants.

This is exactly the source in past historical stages of 'left' intellectual circles producing the elements of extreme right- wing ideologies. Joseph Hansen was one of Trotsky's bodyguards at the time of the assassination. He is today a leader of the Socialist Workers' which itself Party capitulated in 1963 the to revisionist Unified Secretariat of Pierre Frank. But Hansen writes an entirely different review from that of Lequenne and Frank.

He exposes the historical in- accuracies of the film, he easily shows Losey's abysmal up • political ignorance (Losey says 'surprised to find he was Trotsky was for defence of the Soviet Union, and that the theory of permanent revolution consisted only of 'a few lines!), and he rightly says that Losey's of the assassination version corresponded the 1930s to Stalinist versions of Trotsky and his role. Now the Organisation Com- muniste Internationaliste (OCI) of France, ex-section of the International Committee, has written in its Informations Ouvrières, drawing attention these conflicting inter- to pretations. "Joseph Hansen engages in demolition of systematic Loseysse mam which only can polemic appear as a severe against Frank and his expert the ineffable on literature, Lequenne. "The interest of this polemic is, of course, that Joseph Hansen was one of Trotsky's bodyguards in Mexico, but also that Hansen is one of the main leaders of the SWP, an organ- ization which in principle is "in political solidarity" with Unified Secretariat.' the The OÇl leaders, in their haste to ingratiate themselves with the politics of Mr Hansen, conveniently leave out the most section of Hansen's Philistine far from 'systematic' criticism: "The producers, naturally [sic] not interested in were spending $2.5m film on devoted to the artistic pre- sentation of a partially recon- structed Stalinist concept of Trotsky .. What the pro- ducers had in mind was a profit on their investment ... This brings to the us moment of truth. "The Assas- sination of "Trotsky" stands or falls on its merits l as com- On this level- mercial art. the profoundest one in the film -Losey may well have scored [sic]. The pro- a success . . duction is a bid to the market for films reeking with violence.'

Hansen tries to draw some invidious distinction between the demands of the box office and the political requirements of the producer. Does such a contradiction exist? There is no contradiction at all. In fact there is a definite correspondence between the projected by image the Losey Stalinist-turned-Liberal and the criteria of those who finance the film. The violence and sense of menace only sub- serve the real purpose of the film which discredit to Trotsky's politics and distort his struggle to resolve the leadership crisis of • in the working class. Contrary to Hansen there is a real con- nection between what is com- mercially profitable and what is politically necessary for the ruling class. The financiers of the film no doubt believed, together with Hansen, that the film would be a box office draw. But, like Hansen, they seriously over- estimated the credibility their audience and under- estimated the growing aware- of politically literate ness and professional workers people of the fact that Trotsky vas a revolutionary leader, not i pompous old bore, (In Lon- don the film lasted only three weeks.) Workers Pross, Saturday No If the OCI today find them- selves lavishing praise on Hansen and the SWP, it is precisely because they share the same political scepticism towards the working class which is expressed in Hansen's review. In practice this means opposition to the building of a revolutionary party as an alternative to Stalinism and adaptation constant to the ideas and needs of the ruling class. The difference between Losey and the OCI and Han- sen is this: whereas Losey distorts Trotsky's life-struggle suit the prejudices to middle-class Philistines, Han- sen and the OCI preserve a formally-accurate picture of Trotsky, the man, only in order to revise more effectively and subtly the ideas of Trotsky— the Marxist. It is not difficult to say which of these is more dangerous to the working class.

The OCI leadership knows very well that Hansen and the SWP effected their agreement of 1963 by choosing to sup- press all discussion of past differences and splits. This • Proce, Saturday November 18, 1972 PAGE 7 could only result in later splits and differences, as we have seen, particularly in Sri Lanka. Instead of prosecuting the struggle deepen Marxist to theory by taking all these developments to their roots, the OCI leaders adopt the very pragmatic method which Han- sen has always used, and which has produced the present de- generation in revisionist forces.

As we have seen, what is really at stake is that the reactions of the Pabloites to the Losey film take them a step in the direction of further reaction. Through the struggle against them, we must deepen our own consciousness of the tasks and the dangers con- fronting the movement. Hansen sees nothing of all this.

Ignoring these basic weak- nesses of Hansen's review, the OCI rushes to compound once again all the errors and the confusion which revisionism has developed in its attempts to destroy the Trotskyist move- ment. They will have no more success than the revisionists of the past.

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A review by Tom Kemp. The years 1937-1938 continued PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday November 18, 1972 The volumes of Trotsky's writings so far published for the period after 1935 differ in several respects from the two already reviewed. They are printed on a large format page and consist mainly of facsimile reproductions of articles which appeared in the Trotskyist Press and other journals in the United States, together with a few items translated into English for the first time. The selections are grouped under headings according to country or subject rather than being in chrono- This makes it possible to follow through logical order. Trotsky's thought on a particular topic, such as the Moscon Trials. On the other hand, the notes do little more than indi cate the source of the articles, thus leaving the reader to find out for himself about the many persons, organizations and events which are referred to. In addition, there is no index. Apart from the faults of editorship, these volumes are Still to be highly recommended because they bring together writings which are otherwise virtually inaccessible or, in certain cases, have never been available in English before.

To this day the Soviet gether with other many members of his the party, bureaucracy has to con-

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ceal the full truth about Trotsky demanded that friends the Moscow Trials and Brockway and his institute an inquiry into the purges of the middle crimes of the GPU in Spain.

1930s. It cannot permit a And, in reply to Brockway's hypocrisy, 'amoral' full investigation or dis- the Bol- sheviks, said Trotsky, while cussion of the subject be."

of not hiding their criticism cause its own origins, the Nin's policies, would give such source of its own power inquiry every support to an 'rehabilitate his and name and privileges, are in. brand his execu- mercilessly volved. tioners'. A number of other shame- The were, in fact, purges of Stalin's carefully prepared and spread faced defenders crimes also felt the scourge of over a long period. Their pur- Trotsky's pen at this pose, as Trotsky said, was 'to time. kill They included André Malraux, the Fourth International then a fellow-traveller of the and exterminate in passing the CP, be de Gaulle's generation of Bolsheviks, later to of Culture, and the and from the subsequent gener- Minister editors of the US journals the ations all those who 'Nation' 'New Re- morally connected with the and the public'. The latter, Trotsky tradition of the Bolshevik 'have Party'. alleges, systematically bureaucracy still approved or at least kept silent The re- about the work of falsification, serves its greatest hatred and of lies, corruption, which the the worst punishment in prison Stalinist has or psychiatric ward for those bureaucracy accomplished throughout the oppositionists who claim their attachment to the traditions of world'. Bolshevism. As Trotsky pointed out time and there truth again, In the section on the Fourth at all in the claim that Stalin- International appears Trotsky's is the continuation of ism call the of the of his A to congress Bolshevism. study Youth Revolutionary Socialist writings on the Moscow Trials of France, well as as two in this and the other volumes the important articles on shows this conclusively. In the of the class nature trials and purges Stalin tried question of the Soviet state. to destroy every living trace In the first, of these he of the party to which he once of a belonged counters the arguments in order to ensure the rule of the parasitic caste member of the French section, Yvan Craipeau, who had argued which he represented and con- that the bureaucracy was ceal its counter-revolutionary class. In the second he takes role. two American supporters, While the Moscow Trials up Burnham and Carter, who, and the campaign against them, while not going as far, claimed together with the other crimes that Soviet Union had of Stalin, take up a good deal the ceased to be a workers' state of this volume, it also contains sense'. 'in the traditional sections political on other Burnham's 1937 position in questions. foreshadowed his break with A number of items continue Trotskyism Trotsky's attack two years later. on the trists of the Trotsky took these London Bureau, up objectors with great care and their position on particularly patience and the articles the trials. are well worth study in conjunc- Fenner (now Lord) Brock- of tion with his other writings on then secretary the way, the Russian Independent question. Labour Party, attacked the Dewey Commis- As he pointed out, phiio- sophical method was involved. sion and proposed an "inquiry •Idealistic, ultimatistic, into the role of Trotskvism in "purely" normative thinking the working-class movement'. wishes to construct the world He held, Trotsky's scorn, to in its own image, and simply that international inquiry an the turns away from phenomena into trials might arouse prejudice in which are not to its liking.

Russia and in thinking', wrote "Dialectical communist circles'. Trotsky, 'takes phenomena in While Brockway run- development harness the their obiective ning in with Stalinists, backed and at the same time finds in by his of friends in the London Bureau, the internal contradictions Spain, this development a basis for their co-thinker in the realization of its "norms".

Andres Nin, had been mur- It is, of course, necessary not dered by Stalin's agents, to- Andres Nin, leader of the cen- trist POUM, murdered by Stalin.

Above: André Malraux. defender of Stalin's crimes whom Trotsky exposes in this volume. to forget that we expect the to be programmatic norms realized only if they are : the generalized expression of the progressive tendencies of the historical process objective itself'. As Trotsky goes on to insist: 'The recognition of the USSR as a workers' state-not a type but a mutilation of a type- signify a does not at all theoretical and political am- nesty for the Soviet bureauc- racy. On the contrary, its fully reactionary character is revealed only in the light of the contradiction between its anti-proletarian policies and the needs of the workers' state.

Only by posing the question in this manner does our exposure of the crimes of the Stalinist motive force. clique gain full The defence of the USSR means not only the supreme struggle against imperialism, but a preparation for the over- the Bonapartist throw of bureaucracy.' The formal thinking of the capitalist' International Socialist variety has nothing in common with Marxism but a few phrases, and it leads them conciliation to with the Stalinists. In these articles Trotsky destroyed their method and answered their sophistries in advance. Trotsky also wrote at this time about the question of China which had been forced to the forefront by the Japan- invasion. He called for ese for working-class support China and attacked the Chinese Communist Party for policy with its of alliance Chiang Kai-shek, the butcher of the Second Chinese Revolu- tion of 1926-1927. includes This volume also the important article called 'Hue and Cry Over Kronsstadt' in which he replies to some critics and explains what was at stake in the uprising of the sailors in the naval base. He also explains why the question was being raised-as it still is —in a polemical way. All the groupings which did out, 'are in- he pointed terested in compromising the only genuinely revolutionary which has current never repudiated its banner, has not compromised with its enemies, and which alone represents the future'. another piece on the In same subject Trotsky also put the historical record straight! 'I personally did not partici- pate in the least in the sup- pression of Kronstadt the rebellion, nor in the repressions which followed the sup- pression ... I was a member of the government, I con- sidered the quelling of the rebellion necessary and there- fore bear responsibility for the suppression.' Trotsky never shirked this responsibility.

Like the other volumes in this series this one is essential reading. Its main emphasis is the struggle against Stalinism, no less essential today than it was 35 years ago. A better understanding of Trotsky's principled fight and the real meaning of his life work is to be obtained from these volumes than from the partisan accounts of the Isaac Deutschers. The reader gets closer to the struggle of living forces and shares Trotsky's passion for the cause of the working class and hatred for its enemies, especially those who pretended to be its friends. Reading these volumes can be a rich and rewarding experience for those concerned in the building of the revolu- tionary party today. Their lessons ring out across the years in an unmistakable man- ner. It was in the struggle here recorded in his own words that Trotsky preserved the contin- uity of the international move- ment - the * Inter- Fourth national. CONCLUDED. The final vol- ume in this series covering the last two years of Trotsky's life -1939-1940—will appear next Wednesday in Workers Press.

The widow of an astronaut who died in the 1967 space- craft fire has filed an action for damages in Houston, Texas.

Mrs Patricia White Davis, Lt-Col widow of Edward White, named the North American Rockwell Corpora- and tion three subsidiary firms as defendants, alleging that negligence in construc- tion of the Apollo spacecraft caused the Cape Kennedy fire.

Mrs White is seeking damages behalf of herself and on two Edward (19) children, and Bonnie (16). Lt-Col White (36) died with Major Roger Chafee (31) and Lt-Col Grissom Virgil (40) during pre-flight tests. In mediaeval times, there was many a threat cut as a result of bitter polemics about the sex of angels. And even more lives were lost in the defence of the Holy Trinity. Velascoe: Above: Fldel Castro.

Women's Lib has succeeded scholastic contro- in arousing The Cuban news agency and clerical passions versy in Prensa Latina transmitted France on the subject of the noteworthy item last week. foetus and whether it has con- We were told that Peruvian sciousness or not. had ended a week of youth' At trial in Bobigny, a of imperialist repudiation learned academics have aggression against the coun- brought forward three lines of try's territorial waters. argument so far! 'Down with the pirate law!'

(a) the embryo has no con- Peru- was the slogan the sciousness, but it would have vians, of the columns of teen- one of it was allowed to deve- workers, agers, peasants, lop. teachers. (b) the central sys- Fidel's news service kept a is the from the tem on complete silence on the activ- second month of conception.

of the Peruvian police ities (c) the foetus has no con- who were upset by the excess- sciousnes. anti-imperialism of some ive While these knotty prob- of the youth on the nationalist lems are unravelled in the jamboree. Pompi- President President Velasco's police courtroom, dou and Interior Minister launched tear-gas and trun- Raymond Marcellin cheon attacks on these unfor- prepare police-state. "Truth' Women's Lib and youth tunate of squabbling Commandante Fidel has often their coterie academics find that less than "is revolu- repeated. always worthy of attention. tionary:

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FILM REVIEW BY BRIAN MOORE

Religions have it that history is the endless re- run of the struggle be- tween good and evil. Out- side the orbit of the material universe, God Almighty battles it out with the devil in division one of the struggle. Mere mortals reflect this al- mighty and eternal con- flict on earth. Essentially nothing changes.

The eternal blight is the pre- sence of the bad that disrupts the hoped-for serenity of the good. Experience is therefore a perpetual falling short of the ideal and the believer must either wait for the immortal delights of death, gird himself with faith, or succumb to a world-weary cynicism that says, 'that's life'. After two world wars and the devolpment of technology God, in the organized sense, has lost some his earlier allure.

But the thinking that created him in the first place is very much with us. Innocence, back to nature, getting it 'right' in the head, are updated versions of the old mythology. But the world is no invention of the mind.

It and changes develops through the conflict of material and social forces. Movement, richness, contradiction. Enough to drive the idealist out of his mind, or into fraud- ulent optimism or despairing defeat. Chabrol's new film at the Paris Pulman, 'La Rupture' is parable of innocence-and- virtue triumphing over vice- and-corruption. Like all parables that reduce life to the battle of the forces of good against evil it can have only the crudity of melodrama.

And unconvincing melodrama, at that. Chabrol himself re- mains the least convinced of all. Skilled though he is as a him-maker, in the ena he can only contrive his material in this case to ludicrous pro- portions. True it is a vigorous attack on the corruption and utter inhumanity of a wealthy in- dustrialist who will go to any lengths to destroy his son's marriage and take over the custody of the child. He has no legal right, but he has money and with money he can buy the services of a deadbeat playboy to do his best to compromise the wife, to dig up some dirt which will convince the courts she is an unfit mother. True the Philistinism and insidious arrogance of the Workers Press, Saturd Scenes from Chabrol's 'La Rupture' bourgeois life is crisply por- desperate barren- trayed, the ness of the industrialist's wife, the mock gentility and cor- rectness which conceals the blunt bludgeon of steel. On this, Chabrol is clear. Yet in the lists of radical- ism there has always been agreement on this. The bour- geoisie were the baddies from first day the top-hatted the squire seduced the innocent maid on the village green. This is not exactly a point of con- tention in those circles. The question remains —how do you F deal with them? Of course no film-maker is obliged to confront this ques- tion. But Chabrol proposes a solution. For the wife by her deter- mination, her honesty, her inner goodness if you will, triumphs. industrialist The does not defeat her, the play- boy cannot corrupt her or im- plicate her in corruption.

She takes her son and leaves for a new life in Paris. The film is overladen with the creaking machinery of alle- gorical symbolism. A crumbling old boarding house due for demolition which lodges an assortment of ageing spinsters, a failed actor, a drunken hen- pecked owner with an imbecilic daughter. The husband, a failed writer, collapsing between the pressures of his parents and his failure, who takes to drugs and one morning proceeds to strangle his wife and wound his child: the hired playboy who, for the promise of money and a directorship of the firm, $8, Saturday November 18, 1972 PAGE 9 tries to trap the unsuspecting wife in the most bizarrely cor- rupt schemes which involves seduction of the half- the witted girl by a woman posing as the innocent wife. If by now you are confused you have something of the contrived indulgence of the film. It's as if Chabrol grew bored with his material and went off into some random flight of fancy to jazz up his theme. And that has the oversim- plification of allegory itself.

For the wife who glows throughout the picture, who tugs at the heartstrings is the key. She is an angel on earth.

And with more creaking sym- bolism invests the old balloon seller in the park with the her • qualities of God, and his bal- loons, captive angels. Drugged by the playboy in a last—wait for it-desperate attempt to compromise her, she _under LSD only sees beauty and mystery. She releases the balloons and they fly, as released balloons will-to the sky. LSD turned her husband into a brute and her into an angel. The rupture or break is merely the path of honesty and goodness. And the old liberal crapology chimes like a hollow bell. All the technique and ex- pertise in the world cannot conceal the bankruptcy of thought. Liberalism today can only echo the tiredness of a defunct religious morality, to try and keep the bourgeoisie firmly in the saddle of power.

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4.40 Aquarius. 5.30 News. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.25 On the buses. 7.55 Film: "Trouble With Angels'. 9.50 Cartoon. 10.00 London. 11.15 Jason King. 12.10 Frighteners. 12.35 Weather. Guideline. HARLECH: 9.30 London. 10.30 All our yesterdays. 11.00 London.

12.30 Art for all: 1.00 University challenge. 1.25 Love, American 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: style. 'Frankie and Johnny'. 4.45 Golden shot. 5.35 Black Beauty.

6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Carry On. Don't Lose Your Head'. 9.30 Mr and Mrs. 10.00 London. 11.15 Nightmare. 12.15 Weather.

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1.00 Champions. 2.00 Soccer. 3.00 Film: " Could Go On Sing- ing'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Nevada Smith'. 10.00 Lon- 11.15 Spyforce. don. 12.40 Stories. Weather. y November 18, 1972

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10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Journey to the unknown. YORKSHIRE: 9.15 You and your golf 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 Tomfoolery show. 10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 UFO. 12.00 Skilful rugby. 12.30 London. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 'Hondo and the Apaches'. 8.30 11.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. Mannix. 12.30 Weather. GRANADA: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.05 Craftsmen. 10.40 11.40 Arthur. Sesame street. 12.05 Clapperboard. 12.30 Lon- don. 5.10 Sky's the limit. 5.40 at large. 6.10 London. Doctor wn- 7.00 Film: 'Heat of Anger'. 8.25 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 me. Seaway. TYNE TEES: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 Tomfoolery. 10.35 11.05 Film: 'Tarzan's Follyfoot. Peril'. 12.30 London. 5.10 Rip- tide. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: the Apaches. 8.30 'Hondo and London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Edgar Wallace. 12.30 Epilogue. ilm: SCOTLAND: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 Tomfoolery. 10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 Dave Cash. 11.30 Osmonds. 12.00 Saturday caval- cade. 12.30 London. 5.10 Bon- anza. 6.10 London. 10.40 Aqua- 11.30 Late call. 11.35 rus. Spyforce. GRAMPIAN: 11.15 Beagan gai- dhlig. 11.30 Tomfoolery show.

12.00 Rumblie jumblie. 12.30 London. 5.10 Batman. 5.40 Pro- .30 tectors. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 1.30 'The Tin Star'. 8.30 London. ut'. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Jason King. ULSTER: 11.00 London. 12.30 Golf. 1.00 Collecting. 1.30 HR on. Pufnstuf. 1.55 Women only. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'Landfall'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black Beauty.

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7.55 Film: 'The Agony and the Ecstasy'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Department S. YORKSHIRE: 9.20 Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 Let them live. 11.00 London. 12.30 On the buses. 1.00 Farming out- look. 1.25 Calendar. 1.55 Soccer.

2.50 Film; 'Diane'. 4.45 Golden Beauty. 6.05 shot. 5.35 Black London. 7.55 Film: 'Ghengis Khan'. 9.50 Cartoon. 10.00 Lon- don. 11.15 It takes a thief. 12.10 Weather. GRANADA: 9.30 London. 10.35 11.00 Lon- Time to remember. don. 12.25 Merrie melodies. 1.00 Saint. 1.50 Survival. 2.20 Foot- ball. 3.20 Film: 'It's That Man Again'. 4.40 Golden shot.

5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Return of the Seven'. 9.50 Mr Whitney had a notion. 10.00 London. 11.15 Scotland Yard.

TYNE TEES: 9.20 Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 Let • live. 11.00 London. 12.30 them On the buses. 1.00 Farming out- look. 1.25 World War I. 1.50 Where the jobs are. 1.55 Shoot.

2.50 Film: 'Diane'. 4.45 Golden 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 shot. 'Genghis London. 7.55 Film: Khan'. . 10.00 London. 11.15 Chal- lenge. 12.05 Epilogue. SCOTTISH: 10.15 Master Chefs.

1.55 10.30 World War I. 11.00 London.

me. 12.30 On the buses. 1.00 Randall hot. and Hopkirk. 2.00 Scotsport. 3.25 Will Be Boys'. 4.40 Film: "Boys Golden shot. 5.35 Elephant boy.

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ВВС 2 3.00 Film: 'The Brass Bottle'.

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BY SARAH HANNIGAN

JIMMY JEWELL has spent 21 years as a hospital ancillary worker. He is now chief shop steward for the 500 and more porters and ancillary staff at the Whittington Hospital, Archway, north London. He is also a delegate to the national shop stewards' com- mittee of the Health Service Unions, which represents hos- pital workers throughout the country in the general and and public em- municipal ployees' unions. He spoke to Workers Press before yesterday's talks between the Department of Health and Social Security and the union representatives on the workers' claim for a £4-a-week increase.

"The mood at present is mili- tant, said Mr Jewell. 'This is that the particularly SO now have accepted the dustmen £2.40 offer and our members feel that our negotiations will be killed stone dead. 'However, we have told them that we want our f4 or nothing.

'I think they'll freeze the increase. 'At the national shop stewards' meeting involving all the Health Unions on December 3 Service most of the shop stewards will oppose any settlement that does not come up to the £4 claim.

'I think the union leaders national strike. should call a They keep telling us that it will mean a fine of £400, but I say what's union - the £400. Our Municipal Workers' General and of the best-financed one unions in the country. 'So far wę haven't taken any industrial action, but that will soon be changed in my opinion.

'I feel the TUC shouldn't have gone in for talks with the gov- ernment and the employers in the first place. By accepting the principle of a freeze I think they have knuckled down to the government itself. 'Of course they've placed themselves in a very awkward position because they can't call a strike. And if workers come strike, then ont: unofficial out they're in trouble. I'm 100 per cent behind the policy of Workers Press for forcing the Tory government to resign. One of your articles I CELEBRATE 3rd ANNIVE

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Assembly Hall Digbeth Civic Hall liked was the policy for getting taking anything under that you haven't got a hope. a Labour government in with proper socialist policies. I think 'I think that this idea of that's a very good idea.'

control of wages state on the basic rights At present, r newell tollus, attack the trade unions and, more im- basic pay male ancillar portant, on the ordinary working vorkers is £20.70 a week for 40 people themselves.' hours. By working Saturdays and Sundays they can earn about Whittington hospital at present £27. For women the basic weekly a split site on both stands days' over- pay is £16.32; two sides of Highgate Hill. A new time at the weekend brings it up hospital is due to be built in to about £21. of the grounds of one section the old hospital. 'We're saying that the officials should for five-day week 'Because of the new building,' and that anybody who comes in said Mr 'workers Jewell, are Saturday Sunday should get being shoved all the over place paid double-time. conditions that aren't fit for in pigs. We're saying that there should 'We are understaffed. We have be standard basic week on been working under 10-per- which we can make a good living cent staff cut since 1967. without having to work Saturday Sunday. We think that or it 'Originally we worked to £28 a should be of a minimum That establishment number. week for both men and women. that meant certain size of 'As far concerned establishment had as we are certain that reasonable by today's number of ancillary workers. Now they say that we can have if standards, because you're

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today must be in the region of 1.5 million and not the 800,000- than was officially admitted. Now 900,000 admitted by the this has been proved beyond any government. In fact little credi- shadow of doubt. bility remains for official De- In Greater London, for ex- of Employment and 196.200 partment told the ample, people Productivity figures after the census they out of a job. were Yet publication of the Advance the official figure showed only 72,265. Analysis of the 1971 census.

The analysis reveals that In Wales official unemployment 1,365,775 of people were out stood at 44,800. The work the revealed that 81,915 week before census people were • 10 day (April 25, 1971)—when the actually without work. Scotland government was claiming In the official figure figure of 773,800. 123,100. The real In some regions there was a 183,105. 300 per cent discrepancy between The discrepancy largest was the official figures and the census among women, many of whom do figures. not register as unemployed when The official figures based they lose their jobs. According to are exchange 120,500 the government, employmenl were ünemployed in April, 1971.

registers, while the census records come from the people themselves.

The census showed the real figure Workers Press has been to be 515.840. say- of ing for years that thousands The census also underlined the do trend for hit people unemployed not unemployment •to and that therefore real teenagers hardest. register unemployment was much higher 5.3 per cent of men were out NNIVERSARY OF WORKERS PRESS (See p. 1) Speakers : MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Committee) ER 3, 7 p.m. JOHN HOWE (Deputy AUEW convenor, CAV) CONNIE FAHEY (Wilmslow tenants' leader) ALAN PEERS (Young Socialists' national committee) (Union and tenant speakers in a personal capacity.)

Sneakers: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central committee) ER 10, 7 p.m. DAVID JONES (YS national committee) BOB MAINS (Unemployed) VINCENT FOY (secretary Jarrow Trades Council.

In personal capacity.) Speakens : MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Committee) ER 17, 2 p.m. JOHN BARRIE (YS national committee)

WILLIE DOCHERTY

Tenants' (chairman Paisley Action Committee. In personal capacity.)

Speakers : G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) ER 17, 7 p.m. WILLIE AITKIN (YS national committee) PETER SMITH (Rover shop steward. In personal capacity.) Workers Press, Saturda a certain amount of money and if that doesn't agree with the establishment_number, we have to go short. If you haven't got enough money you can't employ the people. 'We are so short at the moment that people are having to come in on their rest days just to keep the place clean.

'And now they're talking about introducing a new scheme which they have called the Ancillary Workers Efficiency Scheme.

'This would mean very big redundancies among staff. They offered us a 40 to 45-per-cent efficiency increase, a bonus in- •crease of 15 per cent-15 per cent was the highest bonus we would get. "This scheme is already operating at four hospitals — Epsom, Cardiff and Castleford. said no. We weren't going to accept those sort of cutbacks.'

of work in April, 1971. But among school-leavers unemploy- ment stood at 8.2 per cent.

The worst places for unem- ployment were Clydeside (11 per cent), Tyneside (9.5 per cent) and Merseyside (9.4 per cent).

Youth unemployment in these blackspots was 15.5 per cent on Merseyside, 14.2 per cent on Clydeside and 12.6 per cent on Tyneside. The provisional figures also highlight the problem of im- migrant unemployment. Irish men without jobs (8.9 per cent) and West Indians (7.7 per cent) were the worst. Nearly one in six West Indian teenagers (16.2 per cent) were without work. Yet in these circumstances Jack Jones, general secretary of General Transport and Workers' Union calls for detailed investigation and better recording arrangements'! What is wanted is not polite requests to the Tories to keep accurate records of the more number of people they throw out of work, but a campaign to get rid of the Tories altogether.

The TUC leaders must be forced to end their cosy chats with the Tory government and employers. Heath and Company brought down and must replaced by a Labour government pledged to socialist policies, which is the only way to end unemployment. I would like it abou Fill in the form below and

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Sunday November 26 Basic Essentials of Marxism Sunday December 3 A theory of knowledge Sunday December 10 Opponents of Marxism

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MEETINGS

BIRKENHEAD: Sunday Novem- ber 19, 7.30 p.m. Pier Hotel, Woodside. November 19, CORBY: Sunday 7.30 p.m. Nag's Head, Old Vil- lage. BASINGSTOKE: Sunday, Novem- ber 19, 7 p.m. The Hop Leaf, Church Street. BRACKNELL: Monday November 20, 8 p.m. Priestwood Community Centre. WEALDSTONE: Tuesday, Novem- ber 21, 8 p.m. Labour Hall.

Station Road. Fight Rising Prices Force the Tories to Resign CROYDON: Monday November 20, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Road, South" Croydon. WANDSWORTH: Tuesday Nov- ember 21, 8 p.m. Balham Baths, Elmfield Road. BARKING: Tuesday November 21, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, corner of Fan- shawe Avenue/Longbridge Road.

SOUTH SHIELDS: Wednesday November 22, 7.30 p.m. Labour 'Support • Club, Westoe Bridges. the Barbours' strikers' Speakers: Joyce Patterson (Barbours' strike committee), Jack Grassby (secre- tary Trades Council), Hughie Nichol (ATUA). DEPTFORD: Thursday November 23, 8 p.m. Engineers' Club, New Cross Road. ACTON: Monday November 27, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, High Road.

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Lorries won't break picket PAGE 12 Workers Press. Saturday Novem TWO MONTHS ago, when Fleet Street was screaming that the union chiefs had answered 'No!

no! no!' to the Tory premier's proposal for a £2 limit on all wage increases, we maintained the

TUC

had entered into Heath's plans for state control over wages. The General Council's decision to with Heath, talk was shameful and historic retreat' (Workers Press, september Lo, 1972). Like the decision to before the National appear Industrial Relations Court, it would help to 'smash the in- dependence of trade unions and bring them under state control. Fat political sophisti-cats who think they are close to the corridors of power told us we were 'exaggerating'. Last week there were more sneers when the TUC Economic Committee stated: It is impossible for discussions to be held in circumstances where the results of collective bargaining to remain are frozen by such ill-judged and objectionable provisions'.

But on Thursday TUC general secretary, Victor Feather, got together with Britain's top employer, CBI director-general W. O. Campbell Adamson, and the Tories' top civil servant, Sir William Armstrong, work out follow-up legislation to the present 90-day law.

The talks were kept a closely- guarded secret. They were the news of the day for main "The Workers but Press, Times' buried the story in four paragraphs and front-page including most of the Press, 'Morning Star', , failed the to mention them at all. It was not that the talks were news-one TUC official not admitted this is the first time such • discussions have taken place since the breakdown of the Downing Street talks just over a fortnight ago. They were secret to keep the in the working class dark about the process of making the state wage control per- manent. An April 1969 entry in Cecil King's recently-published diary, 'Lunch yesterday comments: for Victor Feather. I have known him well for years as the "Mirror" paid him a £500- a-year retainer, and he was a of trade union useful source opinion. He seemed to think a national wages board was not an impossible idea.' Two months earlier, King had an opinion Heath recorded formed after dining with TUC This was leaders. that the engineers' president, Hugh 'ready to accept Scanion, was the enforceability of labour contracts'-one of the main planks of the later Industrial Relations Act. On Thames-TV's 'This Week' Thursday, programme on which went out a few hours after Feather's secret talks, Scanlon • would not say if his intended to break the union Tories' pay law. The engineer- ing section had not yet dis- cussed this, he claimed. But he hoped earnestly that there could still be an agreement between the government and the unions on the issue of prices. So Scanlon, pay and too, accepts the principle of state pay control. From right to left, therefore, the present leadership of the trade unions is united against the working class. Are these men fit to lead? The answer from millions of workers, we are confident, will be a resounding The building and training of a revolutionary leadership in the trade unions is there fore a vital necessity. lay November 18, 1972 LONDON lorry drivers' leaders yesterday decided they would not cross dockers' picket lines out- side a number of cold stores, as they had previously threatened to do on Monday. Instead they have called on the Transport and General Workers' Union to organize a joint meeting of road-transport shop stewards and stewards from throughout the whole London dock group. INCREASES in house government not to try and land prices reflect prices, but great credit on the market do Tory government, claimed Enoch Powell, permitted bring MP for Wolverhamp- with the co ton south-west, speak- Powell ing to the South Port- Tory gover land Conservative leasing developmen Club last night. claimed, P The rises reflected creasing c demand, and the fact houses to l that people were seek- price. ing the best hedge inflation. against The EBBW VALE urban council is to hold a special meeting tomorrow to discuss the shock announcement by British Steel Corporation chairman, Lord Melchett, that half the 9,000 jobs in the local steelworks will go in the next few years.

Melchett agreed last Thursday that he had originally said that 8,000 men would continue to be employed at the works, but added: 'We have changed our minds about this.' He explained: 'Ebbw Vale is caught up in the trend of change.

It is just not sensible to continue here. 'he old type of production The reduction of jobs at Ebbw Vale will invlove 1,900 by 1975 and a further 1,400 the following year, making a total of 3,300 by 1976. By 1980, 4,500 jobs will works fone. Melchett told the council that BSC now anticipated that the blast furn- during would be closed aces 1975, the open-hearth furnaces in 1976 and the hot strip-mill closed before the end decade. A works' council spokesman said: "The trade union movement at Ebbw Vale rejected as totally unacceptable the statement made by Lord Melchett in respect of the closure of steel-making and his reference to the hot mill.

Under no circumstances are we prepared to see in this area any form of unemployment.' intended He added that they to hold BSC to the 8,000 jobs promised by Lord Melchett in 1971. The Ebbw Vale steelworks was opened in 1933 and provides work for 70 • per cent of the area's working population. Local MP Michael Foot was exnected in the constituency last night to assess the situation'.

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The aim would be to plan a united campaign around cold stores. Meat-lorry stewards have been instructed to refuse any orders TALKS to settle a dispute which has rocked Oxford University were still going on late yesterday afternoon. Representatives of the National Union of Public Employees were meeting with the governing body of St Anne's College over the demand by college workers to reinstate Frank Keen, a college handyman who was sacked three weeks ago. A NUPE spokesman said that the fact the two sides were now was right overnment doubt pleased his IC ot to try to control audience. rices, but to let the It means that the who land arket do its work. Rents should also be houses can be sure getting richer and the to rise to ring them into line who have to buy ith the cost of houses. rent themthe praised the majority of ory government for re- class and more land for people-will have to p evelopment which, he higher rents and mo aimed, permitted in- gage repayments. demand for Enoch Powell - hi self a City man and ouses to be met—at a owneris property the winning side in t This appeal to the mechanism inflationary battle. no CLAY CROSS Labour coun ignored the default order mad to implement the Tories' Housi A council meeting on Thurs- day night reaffirmed non- implementation. It was the last chance to put up the rents.

On Wednesday the Tory gov- ernment issued a default order demanding that the council had to prepare within 16 days to implement the Act from January.

Council leader Arthur Wellon •We said after the meeting: totally reject the Act and shall maintain stand whatever our happens.' The next move is for the Tories to order a special audit of the council's accounts and move in a Housing possibly Commissioner. When the special audit 1s completed the rebel councillors could be made to pay back all missing the rent revenue, to many thousands amounting of pounds. Meanwhile the collapse at Eccles, near Manchester, one of five Labour councils in England and Wales served with default orders, has been con- firmed. A council meeting voted 20 to seven on Thursday night to implement the "fair rents' Act in line with Labour group decision the previous night.

The retreat was inspired by council leader Ken Edwards, p.eviously on the side of non- implementation. He told the meeting that a freeze had been obtained until January 1 and it was now up to the tenants to carry on the fight themselves.

FOOD

PRICES in the Irish Republic have now risen by more than 4fp in the pound in the last three months. Reports of 200-per-cent profit margins food and vegetables on are being investigated in Dublin.

from employers to go through the picket lines while these joint talks are arranged. Rechnitz, Eric the drivers' leader, said yesterday they had talking was 'a good sign'. But he would not say whether the college authorities had offered Keen, to reinstate shop a steward for the union before his sacking. Workers at the college claim the sacking was due to Keen's efforts to recruit them into

NUPE.

They have received support from carworkers Cowley. at Dustmen in the locality have also backed them: ed his Tory It is no wonder that he, and the whole Tory that those Party of landlords and and financiers, like to see be sure of land values and rents er and those going up. It is more money into to buy or -the great their pockets to enable them to keep ahead of working- inflation middle-class while wages have to pay and salaries fall behind.

touch last upon s and mort- profit,' he said. It is no good being mealy- well — him- man and a mouthed about wner—is on The such side in this profits is the condition, and the sign, of success.'

ir council in Derbyshire has ler made against it for refusing ? Housing Finance Act. RIGHT WING terrorists branded the wife of former Stormont Opposition MP Austin Currie when they raided his home on Thursday night. There is little would doubt that Mr Currie have been murdered if he had As it was, the been at home. the initials raiders scratched

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East India East India Doc Doors open 12 noan been looking for a 'gem of light' with the to prevent a clash dockers. 'On Thursday night stewards from the Riverside No 5 division of the docks called me and said they were angered and surprised at some of the suggestions made by some stewards at the Royal group' They told him that a decision had been taken in isolation from other dock stewards. 'We want a joint campaign with the dockers. A battle could only benefit the capitalist class as a whole and Hay's Wharf and Vestey's in particular, while the Tory Press makes hay, Rechnitz added. 'We must prevent a waterside war between two sections of workers.

DECISIVE

WEEKEND

WITH 13 days more to go, we have £621.43—still a long way from completing our £1,750 tar- get. This is the decisive weekend.

We urge you all, dear readers do everything you can and turn the situation around. Every day now we face new price Increases biting more and more deeply Into our pockets.

Trade unionists everywhere are being drawn into battles for wages and forced into struggle . against the Tories' state pay plan.

Workers Press leads the fight against the Tories. We know that because of this, all your support is behind us. All your help is needed for a very special effort weekend for November's this Fund. Go all out and raise as Post every much as you can. donation immediately to : Workers Press November Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG.. LECTURERS in 98 London col- leges and polytechnics were yesterday asked by their union to join a half-day strike next Thursday by 37,000 London teachers in protest at govern- ment intervention to stop their agreed London weighting allow- ance. Lucky numb programme

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