Workers Press no. 930

workers press

DICTATORSHIP!

INCORPORATING

DAILY ORGAN OF TH

headquarters London THE ATTEMPT to seize in morning of the £5,000 fine imposed on after con- Union of sultation between the Mid- the Amalgamated land Bank and its solicitor.

Engineering Workers will The fine is for contempt reach its climax on Tues- day in the National Indust- of a court order arising rial Relations Court. out of a case brought by

AUEW

evangelist and The court will meet to member James Goad. hear orders against the complained that Goad union's bank, the Midland, officers Sudbury branch and the merchant bankers, were refusing his admission Hill Samuel, for the £5,000.

because he to meetings Yesterday Clifford-Turner work during a went to solicitors on behalf acting strike. of commissioners Price The union says it cannot City Waterhouse, the alter the decision of the accountants, served notice Sudbury officers because orders of motion of the this is against rules. on the two banks and the refused to It has also

AUEW-

-which is third co-operate to appear or party to the action. before the line court in The notice was served at the AUEW national with committee policy. the union's Peckham Road PALE-FACED and walking unsteadily, Provisional IRA leader Sean MacStiofain told a Dublin Special Court yesterday: 1 have been without liquid and food since Saturday night. If these proceedings MacStiofain was appear- Meanwhile at Leinster ing the second day for House, government minis- before Mr Justice Griffin ters were deciding whether being detained after at disciplinary action is to be Mountjoy prison since last against

RTE

for taken Sunday. conducting the interview. Since his arrest the IRA The nine-member

RTE

leader has been on thirst authority has sent a re- and hunger strike. He has port to Irish Posts and treated for kidney been Telegraphs Minister Gerry pains and his solicitor, Mr Collins which being was Myles Shevlin, said he was studied yesterday. worried about extremely Collins has told the the deterioration in Mac- network that the Mac- Stiofain's health. interview Stiofain con- At times inaudible, Mac- travened a government Stiofain the told court directive yesterday that he wanted • IN LONDON Eire pre- proceedings over as soon mier Jack Lynch met Tory possible adding: as leader Edward Heath *My experience is that a to discuss the latest round of very little Republican has being made chance of getting justice in peace moves governments. a Free State court. the two by MacStiofain's arrest and Proceedings ad. were of after- the imminence new journed vesterday laws to harass the IRA in while tapes alleged noon the Republic will demon- contain interview to an Green MacStiofain and that the between strate Fireann Telefis Tories prepared to Radio are iournalist Mr Kevin match Heath's no-non- sense ultimatum to Ulster O'Kelly transcribed were of Mac- efforts Protestants in his in the presence Stiofain's solicitor. to eliminate extremism.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

• SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25, 1972 • No. 930 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE The lone rent rebels of

CLAY CROSS

See centre pages CONISBURGH council, Yorkshire, which has refused to implement epaTment of the Envi hment. I been served with a derault order Department of the gives the council 16 days to set in motion measures to implement the Act Tory şecret plan is ready

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Opposition to EDWARD HEATH and his closest advisers have drawn up a cease-fire secret plan to reorganize the power structure in Whitehall.

It

THE

NATIONAL

Liberation gives Heath sweeping, presidential-style powers. The plan in Front has quelled an uprising by volves the integration of the Cabinet, the civil service and the opponents old ceasc ure will! highest echelons of the Tory Party into an 'executive' to run its newspaper ranKS. -The ears Le Monde" reported yesterday the country. reliable quoting and informed Saigon sources. The idea is that No 10 Downing Street should become a Correspondent Jean Claude sort of White House from which Heath, the president, controls Pomonti said that on November 10 at dawn some 1,000 dissident the levers of power. North Vietnamese troops led General Le Vinh Under the plan the House of Commons becomes no more than a talk- attacked a camp housing the main leaders ing shop to which the 'president' pays an occasional visit while Cabinet of the

NLF

provisional becomes an executive not only of ministers, but also of trusted political révolutionary wyeranicul

DUE

and big-business advisers.

they escaped. A tribunal sentenced the leaders Heath's plan for presidential rule comes at the same time he is of the revolt to various penalties.

launching his corporatist state wages plan. This Bill and the Industrial See p. 2. Relations Act seek to smash the trade unions and to deprive workers of their basic rights to strike, picket and black.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

Sean knows mat as atacks on me wade unions and the standard of living of the will provoke massive class

XMAS BAZAAR

WOLALIS

in une lavour and udge uoR movencut is taking steps towards establishing a right- wing dictatorship desperate attempt to defeat this coming tide of revolt.

Heath's two closest advisers in his pre- sidential moves are: Lucky number programme • Lord Victor Rothschild, a member of the powertul and wealtny banking tammy was engaged in military intelligence throughout the war and then Research Limited where another Shell director, John Davies.

Immediately Heath came to power in 1970 he Rothschild head Central Policy Review Staff in the Cabinet better known as Heath's "Think Office. It Is multi-millionaire ank ane Kouschild. the scientist, is known as "Dr Strangelove'.

• David Howell, Tory MP for Guildford, and new junior minister at the Ulster Office.

He was educated at Eton and Cambridge and then joined the Coldstream Guards. After

SATURDAY NOW, VIBER 2E

he joined the oner stay Treasury Editorial writer. W Tel Telegreath took overs East india Hal editorial over the leadership of the Party, Howell went to Tory East India Dock Rd. E14 headquarters as director of the Conservative Political Centre. Doors open 12 noon Price 5p

TURN TO BACK PAGE

workers press

DICTATORSHIP!

INCORPORATING 1

DAILY ORGAN OF TH

THE ATTEMPT to headquarters in London seize the £5,000 fine imposed on after morning of COn- sultation between the Mid- the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers will land Bank and its solicitor.

reach its climax Tues- The fine is for contempt on day in the National Indust- of a court order arising out of a case brought by rial Relations Court. and

AUEW

evangelist The court will meet to member James Goad. hear orders the against Goad complained that union's bank, the Midland, officers Sudbury branch and the merchant bankers, were refusing his admission Hill Samuel, for the £5,000.

he because to meetings Yesterday Clifford-Turner, work during a went to on behalf solicitors acting strike. of Price commissioners The union says it cannot Waterhouse, the City alter the of the decision accountants, served notice Sudbury officers because of motion the orders this is against rules. on the two banks and the It has also refused to AUEW-which is a third to co-operate or appear party to the action. before the court in line The notice was served at with the AUEW national the union's Peckham Road committee policy. PALE-FACED and walking unsteadily, Provisional IRA leader Sean MacStiofain told a Dublin Special Court yesterday: I have been without liquid and food since Saturday night. If these proceedings go on any longer, then you won't have a defendant.'

MacStiofain was appear- Meanwhile at Leinster ing for the second day House, government minis- Mr Justice Griffin before ters were deciding whether after being detained at disciplinary action is to be Mountjoy prison since last

RTE

for taken against Sunday. conducting the interview.

Since his arrest the IRA The nine-member

RTE

has been on thirst leader sent a re- authority has and hunger strike. He has Irish Posts and port to treated for kidney been Telegraphs Minister Gerry pains and his solicitor, Mr Collins which being was Shevlin, said he was Myles studied yesterday. worried about extremely Collins has told the deterioration in Mac- the the Mac- network that Stiofain's health. interview Stiofain con- At times inaudible, Mac- travened a government the Stiofain told court directive yesterday that he wanted • IN LONDON Eire pre- proceedings over as soon mier Jack Lynch met Tory possible adding: as Edward Heath to 'My experience is that a leader discuss the latest round of Republican has very little made moves being chance of getting justice in peace a Free State court.' by the two governments. ad- MacStiofain's arrest and Proceedings were the imminence of new journed yesterday after- noon while tapes alleged laws to harass the IRA in Republic will demon- contain interview the to an Green that the between MacStiofain and strate Telefis Eireann Tories are prepared to Radio Kevin Heath's journalist Mr match no-non- sense ultimatum to Ulster O'Kelly transcribed were in the Protestants in his efforts presence of Mac- to eliminate extremism. Stiofain's solicitor. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25, 1972 • No. 930 • 4p

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

The lone rent rebels of

CLAY CROSS

See centre pages CONISBURGH council, Yorkshire, which has refused to implement he hair meet it gies the council lorders to tee the lory rent been served with a delault order by Department of the in motion measures to implement the Act.

Tory şecret plan is ready

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Opposition to EDWARD HEATH and his closest advisers have drawn up a cease-fire secret plan to reorganize the power structure in Whitehall.

It Eponents or le case al

NATIONAL

Liberation gives Heath sweeping, presidential-style powers. The plan in volves the integration of the Cabinet, the civil service and the cease-hire within highest echelons of the Tory Party into an 'executive' to run newspaper ranks, 'Le Monde' reported yesterday the country. reliable quoting and well intormed Saigon sources'.

The idea is that No 10 Downing Street should become a Correspondent Claude call sort of White House from which Heath, the president, controls Pomonti said that on November 10 at dawn some 1,000 dissident the levers of power. North Vietnamese led Genera Le Vinh Khoa Under the plan the House of Commons becomes no more than a talk- attacked a camp housing the main leaders ing shop to which the 'president' pays an occasional visit while Cabinet of

NLF

provisional becomes an executive not only of ministers, but also of trusted political revolutionary and big-business advisers.

they escaped. A tribunal sentenced the leaders the same time he is Heath's plan for presidential rule comes at of the revolt to various penalties.

launching his corporatist state wages plan. This Bill and the Industrial See p. 2 Relations Act seek to smash the trade unions and to deprive workers of their basic rights to strike, picket and black.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

Heath knows that his attacks on the trade living of the unions and the standard of will working class provoke massive unrest

XMAS BAZAAR

in the labour and trade union movement is taking steps towards right- establishing a defeat dicta coship tide of sperate dictatorship desperate attempt to Heath's two closest advisers in his pre- scenua moves are. Lucky number programme • Lord Victor Rothschild, , a member of the powerful and wealthy banking family.

military intelligence He was engaged in throughout the war and then Joined shell Limited Research where met another senior Shell director, John Davies.

Immediately Heath came to power in 1970 appointed as 'head Rothschild Central Policy Review Staff in the Cabinet better known as Heath's "Think Oice'. It 1s scientist, is known as 'Dr Strangelove'.

MP for Guldford. and new junior minister at the Ulster Office.

He was educated at Eton and Cambridge Guards. and then joined the Coldstream

SATURNS IN ABER 25

he joined the oriel slay al licasul y Editoria dier. When Telegraph' in Heath took over the Tory leadership of the Party, Howell went to tast india Dock Rd. E14 headquarters as director of the Conservative Political Centre. Doors open 12 noon се 5p

TURN TO BACK PAGE

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday November 25, 1972 Trade Moscow holds back anti-B52 weapons Vietnam a pawn war leads in global deal to NATO tensions China to

BY A FOREIGN

ECONOMIC and political conflicts be- means that the Russians are using

CORRESPONDENT

tween the United States and western President Nixon is preparing a -which they could have Europe of the held the centre force new strategy for the imperialist the closing sessions of the North US bombing raids. A second B52 bomber domination of south-east Asia.

has been down by a missile dur- brought Treaty ing a raid on North Vietnam.

in Its pursuit surface-to-air missiles to north, such But it also means that Nixon, with the regime in Saigon with huge quantities raids would become impossible. But the bombing, is able to on Hanoi of first-rate military equipment.

empnasis on vul cauliahy our une screws on une nussians bal withe us The South Vietnamese army has received To stoo me once a parl them to make the maximum of concessions bring about global deal with Laut Wal nore sunce Lte mperialism eded to conti let ore. une cease re now bene grance s • power cante asalisl

LULCCS

Symbolically, Com- revolution. anectea bya атет une cease e munst rally das lent a house 1L OWIs 101 With Hanoi negotiator le Duc Thr.

envoy Henry KInder Stars ther kind of war the ports Vietnam Contal new to be minee we While these talks the US are going administration Collutices alc Continues

ILS

WILL

Onlyverda. protests, although the Soviet Union could Salu up to continue me struggle.

nomo tre norm into suomission.

A ready Vietnam Saigon troops are trying to North been reduced rubble. has stop This I he European imperialists are country near the demilitarızed zone. These greatly increased Hanoi's dependence Dalli- the US administration probes have been accompanied by heavy arms and supplies from the Soviet Union feel con- cular v Trel fident that can go even further the Soviet Rhodesia tightens apartheid grip lar-reaching economic and terms other world. parts Kennedy, the and Since both Soviet senator opponent of the Nixon admini- Chinese fear referred to this senti- and have face or stration, the nationalist in face European amnone

NATO

members when said Us imperialism. unreat direct dealings by America with and had Russia China They caused her to neglect her ties end with Europe and the the of the Thieu

NATO,

Kennedy said, ought regime. o arranone they all come he stale approach to economic reureal the affairs. time in face US of politics ex- blackmail. une internanon The Vietnam re- monetary crisis cannot be per- 1n mitted to recur,' Arab ocals he sale revolution already in President Nix has been out. Arabs place President Nixon's cal- Soviet Union thought the He that culations. has already inti- was That Lne

TOD

Torelon Israel, policy job in his second-term should that the administration will go to former tainted B. i exas covernor were in nally, the chief practitioner cause anti-European tough economic of revolution diplomacv. The bicccaen The rifts within NATO are for that Nixon's efforts when Soviet causeu used to the

TOIST

economic sureen prevent back to this goes a dis on in one reDuoic Franco because could this could be done in a rebaraton against the USSR, including the revolutionaly of the Baltic to keep the mining Kissinger, hist spanish Soviet fleet out of the Atlantic. guided by of these tensions his The growth in Africans on their way to work. They are not allowed within Atlantic alliance with the ourcaucial by over Vietnam. concened a laçade

THE RHODESIAN

gov- legislation to tighten the and government the the es ovitt with eastern Europe and Wall St, as re Smith said that the extending the Court ягел the Union. valuable silht. Their in- tightening its racialist Smith said that where go pronent But while the preparations go restrictions black Identity Pass Bill would prohibit on has racialism. restora ahead for the European Security and moving Union Soviet the eastern basis rapidly towards full Once conlerence tion or otner laws is being laid for armed conflict South Africa-style apar- Africans could be easily from move prevent alla Europe. theid. identified, the introduc- tribal Well cu The Identity Pass BIll, the influx Africans well 'parament way now into clties Like

TOKYO

stock exchange ended refuse the unemployed through right South Eyskens the on would be easy. he said. Africans week new surge sionane. salisbury speculation which drove up share government Africa, are to Africans carry passes round. This artificial also tabled Aled ament areas driven from the at all times. palaco Affairs the reflect the profit The Canaan police speaking country by Doom does noL And during the debate Banana, split prospects the Catholic- Ther Arms Whose measures contine e Ilas designated are being bought, but on the Internal ment with the power the National coalition. Two the yen will not be Affairs Minister Lance refuse individual Afri- Council, the

ANC

weeks of a belief that areas country- cans the right to Smith hinted further to heal the revalued Honecker praises 'two Germanys' I would like information about GERMANY will never be re- (he been The camp might not have bureaucracy, represented by luckv it h had taken Honecker. united and this is the best

THE SOCIALIST

in the Soviet Union), is a faithful Germany in return for oft west for all Europe, Erich says exponent of the Kremlin's, undertaking by imperialism While making it Honecker, the party boss in through allow it to do Clear as it pleases ir

LABOUR LEAGUE

Honecker that it does not country. the German Democratic Re- WalT une easteni the Bonn government to inter- The working class will public. fere in the affairs it also this betrayal both diate in parts Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL makes it plain that it does oi Germany which in fact Tones orden, cts

SOCIALIST

SECRETARY,

want to see capitalism overthrown way for restoration of

LABOUR

LEAGUE,

, Sulz- in the Federal Republic. capitalism in the

GDR.

186a CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON SW4 7UG.

berger, added world duvallare Set two sovereign states on German STUDENT UNIONS in Turkey indulge in politics and matters Name... do not have of the do with have been dissolved by Act academic life'. Many : urban parliament and the military Honecker envisaged Wilch made in which the

GDR

will 'continue Address. rexine nas dooted aneasures to the Turkish People's Liberation develop outlaw all forms of student socialist basis' Army from the while the Federal Republic wen came Revolu- Student

DONT CA

activity. tionary Youth Union. which was its own way. ciations 'cannot be formed with active in the universities and was Honecker, who survived view furthering political banned last year by the military ten to in a Nazi aims of any sort and will never years concentration

Workers Pross, Salurday November 25, 1972 PAGE 3 Mosley's stepson to fight Lincoln for the Tories

THE

election, the chon oto than thin less, is the election, the Hon Jonathan step-son of Sir Oswald Mosley.

His mother, Diana Mitford, was the first wife of Lord

MONDAY

Moyne and later became Mosley's second wife. of the Guinness member prominent

CLUB

brewing family and a merchant banker, the 42-year-old Tory candidate is chairman of the right-wing Monday Club. In June this year he said the BBC had a 'leftist' bias that was 'against the whole of society'.

candidate for Thanet East will • The Tory be Mr Jonathan Aitken, an Old Etonian and a great-nephew of the late Lord Beaverbrook.

nday Club rally guarded by the National Front in September.

Strong union Clockwork picketing at CAV position won Workers concentrate on 3 plants at gas-

VEHICLE

* torry them tie idands lands biting components workers from the occu-

CAV

factory pied at fire plant or several days Liverpool, Fazakerley,

FROM DAVID MAUDE ON MERSEYSIDE

We'v been too soft have turned in Lucas now, CAV shop yesterday morn- director Robert Ramsey is FIVE HUNDRED workers at the earnest to force a rapid Towner a picker al steward ing. organizing understood to have told a stewaras works told Workers Press. the Robinson Willey gas-fire and successful summed it up, the rota collected lists of Transport and Genera! con- think thought if we factory at Old Swan, Liver- the turned Workers' realize will lorries away by Union clusion to their seven- Lucas

LUSI

• all sat quiet and made pool, have returned to work them grim company's week-old sit-in. more to close Wille ThaT The polite noises ahout keep open and main- satisfaction. Merseyside factory will be after winning their demand 60.000 on the stones on 1,000 tain jobs serious difficulties Attention has On At Broadgreen fac- for recognition of the Trans- now the Merseyside, they'd take Merseyside'. the shifted picketing decisively to their tory the early turn suc- because General Workers' Dack with neir by this weekend. new bickering divers eyes. Union. three Merseyside factories: involving the workers vital supplies black imposed by After seven weeks you Standard Triumph Three shop stewards who taking the sit-in transport drivers from learn ni anator nor to ente different; it all vall nOW four-week recognition Lucas' headovarters depends on how hard we uCas al a time-was works at Broadgreen. working with clockwork Ford labour relations of factories in the can hit them.' strike have been accepted as representatives of the workers ana alreadv hve other stewards have been elected. Anti-freeze action Acton maintains delegates Two sacked slewarus verore the strike re- oTTne nain suspended on full pay how-

SHOP

STEWARDS at the But the Acton ever, pending the result of inde Stewares saw CAV-Lucas Acton, the as managemther at absorb plant in in engineering Lucas management officials Stewards union London, ano west have thrown are in the course of negotiating a I1C( TOLl bid to management set up for collabora- procedure machinery Will

LIC

reduce the number of works' between man- COme United part embodied the Gas Industries delegates to the quarterly z15.0m and docks Consultative Com- group. combine meeting. rroducuvily mittee. Since the return to work, Management offered The to meetings involve workers'

JALO

nas vide a venue and give the dele grown and the stewards have suc- from Lucas pants rcorescuitalive. cessfully dęfended three Sudbury, Suffolk, Rochester workers gales wages and expenses ll tne curbed the numbers attending.

and Acton. against the threat

ACTION

against the Tory over an alleged breach oi clocking-off rules laws controlling is wages Writings woman worker who suppor- spreading among engineering was also orolecica Irom a move to transier ner to a workers in the London area.

different job which would have

WRITINGS

her earnings in half.

LEON TROTSKY

cut A dispute has already broken OF of Leon Shop Dave Parkinson out at one large engineering told Workers rress, 'I think they have been testing plant and maintenance us out, but have found that since Trotsky workers on the docks are une snike support lot tne union has increased. threatening to strike.

BRIEFLY

At the CAV-Lucas complex at 1933-1934 ...... £1.43 London, shop Acton, west 1934-1935 ... £1.43 resisting a bid bi

WRITTE

CAMDEN Trades Council this stewards are management to freeze piecework passed the following re- .. £1.25

TROTE

1935-1936 The servicing of several the prices. solution. suomitted been 1937-1938 .... £1.25

AUEW-TASS

machines has London central brace carder rade mons stopped and

TOONCLON

1938-1939 ... £1.25 expected to be affected soon.

Camden Trades Council, 1939-1940 .. £1.05 The action coincides with a tion to the the newspaper give visit to Acton by a management sers press, norningo star and Wor- Lucas team kers Press. quarters in Birmingham. These extremely vital writings by Leon Trotsky between the socialist papers other TO print They are advising local man- normally during any political the implement such agement how to strike, we saw during years 1929 and 1940—his third and final exile from the Soviet policy of the Engineering of the five dockers. ployers'. Federation to halt the to counter biased reporting from piecework prices Union-are now available in Britain from the Paperbacks Centre elsewhere.! line with the standstill on wages.

LAND-ROVER parts were being (see advert below). supplied again yesterday at the at sece silvispute hangineered Warwickshire factory Silvertown engineering where 85 lorry drivers

UMP

Venessas VIle production on 1 hursday. Iney are hundred and forty workers have contract new an of t at the renewal gone on strike after man increase six-month hansporting parts be agreed before anti-inflation tween the Cardiff depot and measures of November 6.

PAPERBACKS CENTRE

Solihull. This will be reviewed February, a company spokes-

BUT MORE

serious trouble is man sala. brewing on the docks. Ine tort NORWICH firemen yesterday re- London Authority has told fused all duties except emergency Amalgamated Union of the 28 Charlotte St

NOW OPEN

cas duer a coreace was unca Workers that ther enommeenus Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs day's _pay for and lost cannot pay maintenance men an being away sick for day more 9 aim.-6 p.m. than the six a year allowed with.

agreed rise because of the wages London W1 Fri 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m. slanasull. Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. cernicate Many stewards are advocating protest roman areal is heard could until the by the strike action which could even-

BOOKS • PERIODIC

tually disrupt dock work in the nure Dricades Port of London. the middle of December.

PAGE & Workers Prees, Saturday Nove Michael Banda c Plekhanov Anticipating the Inter- national Socialists by 90 years almost, Plekhanoy in his remarkable work 'Socialism and the Politi- cal Struggle' ridiculed and condemned in the sharp- est manner all those who disparaged the revolu- tionary role of the work- ing class and doubted its ability to assimilate poli- tical ideas. Quoting the German economist Rod- bertus who said: 'We look upon the workers as children whereas they are already head and shoulders above us.', Plekhanov wrote: 'Can the working class under- - . "abstract" questions of stand social economics and socialism at least as well as, if not better than, people who have spent their and years years Onl education? •.. the working class has many chances of understanding correctly the "most abstract" laws of social economics and of mastering the most abstract principles of scientific social- Ism ••• 'Once fundamental the principles of social economics are mastered, the understand- ing of scientific socialism no longer presents any difficulty: here too the worker will only follow the directions of his practical experience.

This aspect of the question was explained by magnificently "By heralding Marx: the hitherto dissolution of the existing world order" we read in Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, "the proletariat merely proclaims the secret of its own existence, for it is the factual dissolution of that world order. By demanding the negation of private property, the proletariat merely raises to principle of the rank of a society what society has raised to the rank of its principle, what is already embodied in it the negative result of as society without its own participation. 'So we see that the prole- tariat needs no material wealth to attain an understanding of the conditions of its emanci- pation. Its pauperism, deter- mined not by the poverty or the barbarism of society, but by the defects in the social organization —this pauperism far from making the under- standing of these conditions difficult, makes more easier.' ('Philosophical Works' Vol. I. Lawrence and Wishart 1961. pp. 97-98. Emphasis in original.) In case anyone gets the im- pression that Plekhanov was arguing for a spontaneous development of socialism with- in the working class, it should rday November 25, 1072 da continues f the tactics and le International be pointed out that Plekhanov was careful to quality this statement with a quotation from the Communist Manifesto 'other social indicating the phenomena which also increase the probability of the Among these, he includes the important role of the bourgeois intellectuals who join the revolutionary struggle: • "Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the process of dissolution within going the ruling on class, in fact within the whole range of old society assumes such a violent, glaring character that section of the a small ruling class cuts itself adrift, joins the revolutionary and class, the class that holds the future in its hands... so pow of the bourgeoisie a portion over to the proletariat, goes and, in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole." ' ('Com- munist Manifesto.') One allegory, it is said, is worth a hundred arguments.

At the risk of oversimplify- ing the question, but for the benefit backward the intellectuals of IS we repro- duce the unique allegory of Plekhanov: "There is a very remarkable legend among the Negroes of Guinea. "One day," it North says, "God summoned the two of the first human sons couple. • "One of them was white, the other dark-skinned. Placing before them a heap of gold and a book, God ordered the dark- skinned brother, as being , the elder, to choose one of the two. He chose the gold, so the younger brother received the book. An unknown force im- mediately transported the younger one with the book to a cold, distant country. But thanks to his book he became learned, terrifying and strong.

As for the elder brother, he remained in his native country and lived long enough to see science is to how superior wealth." "The bourgeoisie once had both knowledge and wealth. Unlike the dark - skinned brother in the Negro legend, it obtained possession of both gold and book, because history, the god of human societies, does not recognize the right of classes which are under age, commits them to the and of their elder guardianship brothers. But the time came working class, the when slighted by history, grew out of childhood, and the bourgeoisie share with it. The had to bourgeoisie kept the gold, while the younger brother received the "book" , thanks to which, despite the darkness and cold of his cellars, he has now become "strong and terrifying" 'Little by little, scientific ousting the socialism is bourgeois theories from the Plokhanov: ridiculed and condemned th pages of this magic book, and soon the proletariat will read in the book how they can gain material sufficiency.

'Then they will throw off the shameful yoke of capital- show the bourgeoisie ism and "how superior science is to wealth"! [ibid., p.100] To throw off the yoke of capital is to conduct a merci- struggle against the less middle-class pedants and political parasites of the IS group who seek to deprive the working class of its 'magic book'. The Party and the daily paper From all that has been said it is manifestly evident that the most important weapon of the working class is the party based on the principles of democratic centralism armed and with Marxist theory tempered by an inflexible dis- cipline. Only such a party can inform, educate and inspire the working class and raise its and revolutionary energy initiative to overthrow capital- ism. Only by this persistent work of all round political agitation and propaganda based on an integrated perspective and the training of cadres : can the disunity of the class be over- come. Only through this struggle can the consciousness of the class be raised and the theory of the party enriched to meet the new problems constantly posed by the class struggle.

lemned those who disparag Next to the p separabie Irom 1l c important party: the Worker Trades and the Young Soci reinforce struggle against and enable it to c struggle front. like Lenin. Labour League paper as anor: ridiculed and condemned those who disparaged the revolutionary role of the working class the party and in- separable from it are the most Alliance the party's syndicalism conceives the collective agitator and of an since does not party of life and centred news- an organiz- viz., adapt itself im- most diverse "on the avoid an Opel an overwhelm- enemy on the form round this newspaper, the organization of its collaborators olutionary role of the working class (in the broad sense of the all those working word, i.e. for it), will be ready for every- from upholding the thing, prestige and the honour, the continuity of the Party in periods of acute revolutionary "depression" to preparing for, appointing the time for, and carrying out the nationwide armed uprising? ('What is to be Done?' p.172.) Together with the Workers Press, the Is and the ALVA, the SLL fights for the political independence of the working form of class from every bureaucratic domination and for the creation of the revolu- tionary party-without which victory of socialism is no possible. But this struggle demands, completely and uncondition- ally, the political and organiz- ational independence from all parties inside and out- other side the working class. This- as we have shown—was how Lenin fought to build the Bolshevik Party against the economists revisionist who wished to subordinate the head of the working class to ignorant and backward its rump. So it was in Russia; so it is today in Britain. Only those who assimilate the theory and practice of Leninism can claim to lead the working class to socialism. In this scheme of things there is no place for the Cliff of group, the successors English syndicalism and of the "economists'. It must be exposed, discredited and smashed politically into pulp.

CONCLUDED

THE UN MAKES PEACE

WITH APARTHEID

BY JOHN SPENCER

The United Nations is planning to sell out the national aspirations of the people of Namibia (South- West Africa) in return for worthless promises from the racialist South Afri- can government. Namibia is a former German colony awarded to South Africa League of Nations under a mandate in the terms of the Versailles treaty of 1919.

The mandate reverted to the United Nations after World War II and in 1966 the UN terminated the mandate in accordance with strong de- mands from the independent African states. The country is run under a rigid apartheid system and the blacks who form the vast majority have no political rights. They form a pool of labour forced to indentured work at a pittance under con- to white mineowners, tract fishermen and farmers.

PIOUS WORDS

The great strike of Ovambo workers at the beginning of this year exposed the reality of situation in South-West the Africa to world attention.

The strike showed up the impotence of the United Nations, which has contented itself since 1966 with pious apartheid denunciations of without taking a single posi- tive step to aid the Namibians legally under 'protection' Kurt Walheim of When Austria took over the post of secretary-general earlier first Security this year his Council assignment was to be- gin negotiations with South Africa for Namibian independ- The representatives of Som- alia, Yugoslavia and the Argen- were appointed by the tine Security Council to assist Waldheim and his personal representative former Swiss diplomat Dr Alfred Escher, in the negotiations with South Africa. Waldheim and Escher toured South-West Africa and held talks in Pretoria with South Africa's premier Balthazar Vorster. Their report was be- ing put before the Security Council this week. It appears that not only has firm agreement been reached with South Africa to postpone self-determination into real the indefinite future, but the report has the backing of Somalia, Argentine and Tito's Yugoslavia, as well as Britain, the US and France. It is predicted that the deal will win a majority on the Security Council, though op- position is expected from some of the member-states of Organization of African Unity.

Finer details of the deal are still secret, but enough has leaked out to show that what is proposed is a complete negation of the Namibian people's demands. The deal is very reminiscent of the abortive Rhodesia set- tlement worked out between Sir Alec Douglas Home and Ian Smith earlier this year.

It makes no provision for immediate independence of Namibia as a single state on the basis of one-man one-vote.

On the key question of self- determination, Vorster has said: "There is no time-table whatever. It is impossible to lay down a time-table for people at vari- Vorster, uth Alrica's premiar. Above: A ous stages of development Mr Escher himself has said that it could take years. He added that whites had as much right to self-determi- nation as any other peoples in the territory. Vorster is naturally delighted with Waldheim's recommenda- tions. They place the UN seal of approval on his scheme to break up Namibia into separate 'homelands' for the various tribes with the bulk. of the most fertile and valuable land in the hands of the whites.

None of projected unese homelands are viable economic -some, like vous on ther own- planned the 'Bushmanland', consist entirely of arid desert.

Under the agreement they are to be administered by regional authorities under the control of a new overall council.

FREEDOM

Waldheim and his fellow- officials have also agreed that 'investigations' should immedi- ately be begun 'with a view' to abolishing restrictive legislation • Above: A moman, surrounded by hor poss on freedom of speech, labour and movement as well as free- dom of expression in Namibia.

As Vorster indicated, there is no time-table for the deal, which also contains a clause that autonomy cannot be con- ferred on the territory without inhabitants having had the 'experience in self-government'.

No wonder Vorster finds so acceptable! It the deal ratifies his racialist dictatorship the Namibian blacks over (subject, of course, to 'inves- tigations . . . with a view') without committing him to doing anything. The right-wing weekly "To The Point' shares Vorster's enthusiasm. The deal, it says, 'would mean that South Africa has succeeded in selling its policy of differential develop- ment for the separate peoples of South-West Africa, leaving the whole question of indepen- dence as a unitary state up in the air? The imperialist powers which dominate the United Nations are extremely anxious to get Workers Press, Saturda • possessions, watches as her house is bulldoze Namibia off the agenda as fast as possible. South-West Africa is a major outlet for capital from Europe and the United States, ensuring big profits for the mining corporations of the City and Wall Street. Their ambassadors are lobbying for acceptance of the Waldheim report in the corri- dors of the United Nations.

The big unknown quantity is the Soviet Union and China, which have yet to make their position clear.

SELLING OUT

But the attitude of Yugo- slavia, which participated in drawing up the deal and is sponsoring the resulting report, that at least indicates one Stalinist bureaucracy has no objection to selling out the Namibian people's basic de- mands. If the deal does go through it will be a major blow to those liberals and clerics who have placed their faith in the UN 'thieves' kitchen' to resolve the problems facing Namibian , Saturday November 25, 1972 PAGE 5 = bulldozed to make way for the whites.

workers. These people have consistently boosted the UN's worthless 'opposition' to apar- theid in Namibia. Their support in the last analysis has only provided the with the credibility it needs in the eyes of the masses to foist this dirty formula on the world. United Nations has The never liberated a single colo- nial slave or bettered the lot of a single victim of imperial- ism. It is nothing more than the central organization of world imperialism, subordin- ated completely to the require- ments of the US and its allies.

The heroic struggle of the Namibian strikers earlier this year served a warning on the South African bosses that their days are numbered. The Nami- bian workers will win their independence and smash the grip of apartheid. But it will not be awarded to them by Vorster or the UN.

It will be won in struggle against all the agencies of imperialism.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday November 25, 1972

BY PHILIP WADE

Just 48 hours ago the all private property coming on to the market. Tory government began pits surrounded the When plans for an all-out town things were more pros- assault on ll Labour perous. Now they have nearly all gone. The dole queue is councillors in a small with an staggering, 18-per- Derbyshire town who cent unemployment rate. Mass unemployment, the defence of basic rights gained thing whatsoever of make struggle, over years with the Housing Finance Clay Cross Labour councillors Act. unanimously opposed the Tory attempts As the district auditor arri- government's municipal housing ved in Clay Cross Thurs- destroy on once and for all. day, tenants jeered in defiance.

Arthur Wellon, an engineer He had with instruc- come in the council's tions under his belt from the county bri- dges' department, is leader of Tories to make a special ex- the the Clay Cross He amination of council's council. told me that when the White housing account. Paper on 'fair rents' The council- -100 was first per cent published 18 months ago, Clay Labour-has not implemented would Cross said they Finance the Housing Act. oppose Ever Over £11,500 in rent revenue it. since, they have re- fused to implement the legi- to date as a result. is missing Labour slation. The entire council in Clay Cross could soon The majority of the work- be ing class want a solution to bankrupted by paying all the all their rent outstanding since October problems and we've got to take up this challenge Look, and give a lead. five It would mean their auto- matic removal from the coun- days after the first round of If million cil for at least five years. tripartite talks, tenants were paying fl a week any court orders to obey the extra in rents. Can law are ignored it could mean jail for contempt. such a government? Of course of the sad Either means that one way things that the National the Tories intend to disenfran- Executive Committee of the chise the workers of Clay Labour Cross, to deny them their de- Party sent out such a miserable locument 'fair mocratically-elected on represen- rents', telling councils they tatives. could do what they liked. So And there is yet another the Party blow being aimed Clay rank and file have at not had any lead from the Cross workers. The Tories top. have warned the council that The basic policy of this gov- failure to implement the Act ernment is to put the working could mean repayment of sub- sidies of about £25,000 given class back in its rightful place, trample them underfoot. earlier this year. You 'Who would have to can see the way they pay make people grovel that is anyone's guess,' said want to by this Family Sup- William Casterton, the Income chief financial officer. plement scheme. cil's Clay Now Cross have to put our is now right in We the firing line against all the first. There is principles Tory attacks on time when it's taken too far the working -when the working class class, on rents, jobs, have to dig in their heels. This prices and on basic democra- is one of those times. tic rights to elect who you Someone. somewhere want. says Every that's enough. It single council tenant stops here. is behind That task has fallen Clay the ten and to men Cross council even if one woman who sit in the we are chamber alone. We must at the municipal buildings. Many of the 1.387 give this lead. have stickers in their windows The only woman the on council is Mrs Eileen Wholey, to prove it. Miners will who works as a cook in have said they Her support the councillors if thei local school. husband Tories. works down Arkwright Col- are touched by the Any such move by liery. the gov- ernment could touch off We can't afford it and an explosion in the area. won't put up these rents.

Not that such struggles are The Tories can never frighten Cross. anything new to Clay us. we'll still go forward. For A few years ago the district 18 months we've stuck it out auditor had to while examine why many councillors got frightened the council was only charging of the conse- 50p rent for new houses and quences. subsidizing them of the We are out all socialists here general rate account. If with very deep principles. The council successfully they take more will us, denied Tory instructions to come just the same. We thrive end free school milk. on this sort of thing Clay house building On Clay Cross. But we haven't had the build- Cross has a fine record. leadership from the top of the the rate of 24 Labour Party. ing at i times the national average in the Now the trade union move- 1960s. behind sweeping away many ment must rally us. of the slums that scarred this The Tories have been putting ex-mining town. working class down. But For the council has years if the working class gets to- had a policy of municipalizing gether we could put the Tories

DUNT,

Support from Derbyshire miners (left) Is belt out of office. And it's brewing up for that, for another Ire- land here. One thing that will have to happen when Labour is re- turned is a clear out of the right wing in the movement, like what happened with Taverne. Mrs Susan Williams lives on the five-year-old Danemoor housing estate. I don't want to pay any more rent. If I did, it would mean scrimping and

DINT!.

DONT TAKE

CHANCE-

A CHA

KEEP VOX

SAT:

miners (left) Is being sought by the council soon here l to find another fl scraping for housekeeping money. Anyway, we've already had to cut down on food because of the prices going up. Bis- cuits are out, even though might consider some people them a luxury. We also have a smaller joint at weekends now. The council must be sup- ported. They've done such a lot for Clay • Cross. All the slums have been cleared and these new estates built with

DON'T

A CHA

council seen here (centre) leading a demonstration. Housewives cheap rents. This Tory government does not cater for us. It has told lies since it got in. Prices have absolutely shot up. We put these counciliors there and we are going to stick up for them. The Tories can't be allowed to get rid of them because we voted them in for us. Gordon Butler is branch of the National secretary Union of Mineworkers at the Arkwright colliery, not far

CROSS

stration. Housewives (right) say school meals are from Chesterfield and about ten miles from Clay Cross.

As yet nothing has been decided by the Derbyshire area council of the NUM on Clay Cross's call for support.

If the Tories intend to inflict wounds on our membership and the council- the unions lors, will react in a violent way, which is quite natural. If the Tories have the reins that long they -are taking us back to the 1930s and the are going up as well. Eight of the 11 defiant councillors ( working class and the labour movement will react sharply I don't quickly. And think that's long coming.

As far as strike action in support of the councillors is I would be in concerned, favour if it was on an area basis. Unilateral action would not work. Ever since the 1970 dispute which started in York- shire, which we sup- ported, the men will only act together and officially. Basically, the main way to deflant councillors (above) bring down the Tory govern- ment is through the power in- dustry. We nearly did it our- selves this year. Now that the supply question is electricity settled, it's up to us. Now the question is whe- ther our own leaders are going to fight for our claim in full as decided by conference or the whether they appease and situation order a ballot. The fight is now on, pro- voked by the Tory govern.

Workers Prass. Saturdav Nov ment. As Arthur Wellon says: 'Nothing can be solved while this Tory government remains in office. Unless the whole of the trade union and working movement takes up the Class lead from us then all we've done is prove a point. There's going to be a clash with this government in which someone wins and someone loses.' itself, Derbyshire In the miners' leadership has an enormous responsibility to see that Clay Cross does not re- main on its own, to be picked off by the Tories at will.

The working class must be rallied to the defence of the councillors who are leading the battle against this re- actionary and justly despised Tory government. defeat for Clay Cross would be a most serious blow against the entire labour and trade union movement. Hard- basic and democratic won rights would be trodden under foot by the Tory government of speculators and property men. As the government prepares the apparatus of the corporate state with its Industrial Rela- tions Act and now criminal action against those fighting for wage increases, they see Press. Saturdav November 25. 1972 PAGE 7 : the defeat of Clay Cross as part of this strategy of rule by decree. Only one thing can ensure victory at Clay Cross or any- where else where the struggle is on against the government: The mass mobilization of the working class to force : them to resign from office imme- diately. In their place a Labour gov- be put back ernment must compelled by the movement to carry out socialist policies of expropriation of the basic industries without compensa- tion and under workers' con- trol, and the repeal of all Tory legislation rents, the on unions and the health service.

And hotbed in that of rapidly - developing political consciousness among millions of workers, the revolutionary party will be built in Britain capitalism to sweep away finally and take the power to establish a workers' state.

TO RENT RISE

EVERYBODY LOVES HITLER'S GENERAL

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Nover

TELEVISION REVIEW BY ANNE I

With the full range of right-wing policies pre- vailing across Europe and the western world, pro- grammes like the new series 'The Commanders' appear ominously on the screen. They go along nicely with the current trend on television where there is some sort of rehabilitation taking place for some of the slighted 'heroes' in capitalist mythology. There is a nourishing of general nostalgia and reverence for the 'good old times' of the war when terms like 'duty to country', 'honour and were Bung in the • about face of holocausts of massacre, de- struction and exploitation un- precedented in history. Even in this context, hom- a full-blooded Nazi age to general is still uneasy ground.

But writer Correlli Barnett and producer Harry Hastings did a lovely PR job in a generous (and useful-on the eve of entry into the Common Market) spirit of reinstatement, simple, much showing a maligned man ('wrapped up in family and profession and not a politician' says son Manfred), devoted to wife and children ('a tolerant father'), misled by Hitler (' . . believed that Hitler was a well-meaning patriot and that it was his colleagues who were guilty of evil deeds') and loved even by his opponents ('a clean adversary in a dirty war').

from Wertenberger by Jerussian took to philosophies He water. well during Caporetto Italians and prisoners of Deeply defeat he of members Power In 1935 he soon. hit it after „lne tactics which Hitler as Were devoted late at night' eloquent in perhaps not were intended, written each murucerous wife. tar: form, Rommel, rigidly was trained run and and its duck spectacularly at the took 9,000 Germany's Nazi party, officer corps Hitler met Daru Cularly 1937 by USeU cutes equally as revelations, they way from the his to splendid cut out articles 5, June moves 'the birthday was St Valerie: 51st Rommel: moments. the eventually with Russia estimation a new oil fields to It Auchinleck began to did he 'schoolboyish the ala ne Nazi ordered him twice 'nothing but churned any dubious newspaper out me as I have read them now... 1940: Germany cut off the advance your a thoroughly Capture of the Division by wonderful as in Africa and in that he triumphed, to driving across le are attacking with and only and his under- the African Rommel saw it- etching before him, ire and the Persiar when at last Montgomery drive him back in ages of El Alamein lose that to enthusiasm' for then Only his ain to question as Hitler gramme did its best his anti-Nazi phase, over the s funeral that it was lie cynical the German I machine'. But there difficulty in showing part that Rommel : taken, even in the resistance for start assassination And even family and

TUSC

shortly ano WhO 'with a desire for questions in ments that his of sitionists ten 'realized overthrowing tered was context 1n and from Rommel found the Ges- the end, taste as be- lived and all the way, •Prisoners Russia by presented sharp state- Stalinism and General Ionyr was one

UJOU

shot by Was castrated regime was ensure people Stalinist he been by Oppoaitionist Pyotir Yakir, whose trial will shortly take place in Russia. Left: Rommel In Africa, rendering his services to Nazi Germany. He now receives re- Instatement as a 'much maligned man' on BBC TV. Stalinism. But to associate him with the tenuous and bloodless apolitical liberalism of Amnesty is a ludicrous distortion of the Yakir himself and facts as like him in Russia, others would see them. Finally liberalism runs riot and to farce in true turns British fashion as Germaine Greer and William Buckley Ir faced each other across that arena of so many spirited and sterile, glittering and gut- 'battles - the Cambridge less Union. is a university which This is the bastion of all that is most reactionary as even Greer was moved to imply) in our society and a debating chamber which harnesses to its training ground the cream of the runners in the race for the banks, power-in Stock Exchange, industries and pro- perties of the capitalist state.

These young things will be tried before very long and, judging from the empty efforts at wit they engaged in, they should prove worthy candidates for all positions. Most of the glitter is pretty rusty by now, especially when they dredge up the golden oldies of liberal campaigning such as 'the Women's Libera- tion Movement'. Greer, holding herself up as the 'White Negro' of Women's Liberation, lavished a muddle of half-baked notions on the assembly about 'women with- out tradition' and 'opting for a new and exploding world in the future' and proved once and for all that Women's Liberation has taken its poli- tical stand-that of the liberal reformists with no concern with revolution or revolution- ary principles. Buckley, flannelling about in a welter of comely courtesies, anxiously looking at his watch, obviously had his thoughts elsewhere, being, after all, a man with little time on his hands: in the US he covers a number of important news- paper columns and has his own television programme in which he can display all the poisonous arrogance of the wealthy right- wing Republican and friend of Nixon that he is. To see these two smirking and sparring feebly with each other and flirting with their young audience on issues which always managed (quite a feat) to remain peripheral, brought home the real conclusions that such a confrontation (if it can be dignified by the term) implies: camera fodder these two may be and farce their episode was, but nonetheless dangerous for it. Liberals and reactionaries have made cosy alliances before and they are courting each other now in the most unlikely places.

Thames: Saturday, November 18 11.30

'PRISONERS

p.m. OF CONSCIENCE: Pyotr Yakir'.

BBC-1: Tuesday, November 21 9.25 p.m.

'THE COMMAN-

DERS:

1. Erwin Rommel, Field Marshal, German Army' Written by Correlli Barnett, produced by Harry Hastings.

ATV:

10.30 D.m. BUCKLEY AGAINST Tuesday, November GREER'. Director Mike Dormer.

FRANCO AND THE

'MORNING STAR'

NEW MINISTER

As this year's annual Com- Heath's Minister of new munist Pane British Statess congress Agriculture, Fisheries and Food approaches, the Godber, MP for iS Joseph ists taking desperate are Grantham, Lincolnshire. measures to boost the flagging Godber found himself sales of the 'Morning Star particularly suited to his first So desperate that the Star Minister: refusing the job as farmworkers their just-agreed is on public exhibition in Spanish building. government increase in the name of the The self-stvled 'only daily paper of the left' sits side-by- For Godber Esq was side with the full-colour of horticultural proprietor pornographic firm, Manor Nurseries. And he Illasaulled. Randy' and 'Rosie' as Candy', was once managing director of part of the British Press stand Isaac Godber, a family farm- media exhibition at in ing firm run by his brother.

Madrid. Foreign Press

PROMISING

The Corps which is organizing this media- If you've got a grand or two to Franco's happening capital spare, why not do yourself a made a precondition for hold- favour and invest in nice ing the exhibition that there plot of land. Or not land so should be no censorship, and land itself much an the Generalissimo agreed.

as as Agricultural Bond (paying The Spanish up police are 8 per cent a year tax-free), usually in pursuit of the slight- which a City investment firm est whifi of porn or even liberal will be only too happy to thought, but the British Press supply you with. has touched that soft spot of That's the message known as opening out to recent advertisement placed by Europe. The 'Star' is there to of 77 Towry Law and Co Ltd, lead the way for Britain!

London Wall, in 'The Sunday However, the Stalinist daily Times' newspaper. is getting poor recompense 'With our approaching entry for efforts-visitors its are Common Market, into the more interested in the delights farming land in Britain has 'Randy' and 'Rosie' of 'Candy', of the become most which rapidly disappear from one the stand. there promising investments is, the ad started brightly. should Perhaps the Star' 'Already it has doubled take the hint and enliven its in value over the last six months.

pages with a nude or two- believe there buxom And experts although, in truth, should be continuing growth.

beauties did not save the YCL's 'Apart from the rising value 'Challenge' circulation figures. of agricultural produce, there are increasing demands on land for homes, roads and industry.

And land the one thing is One answer to beating the Gif Tory pay-control law you lies, it seems, afford it), can in the soil

GOD AND THE EEC

Talk about unifying church and state. A recent item from the Times' introduced us to Irish a gentleman who had it off to T. a Said the Most Rev. Dr Pike, Bishop of Neath: 'We can only succeed if our works are of God; and all the evidence the European suggests that Economic Community is of God'. (October 28.) hope Dr Pike We can only peddle this line continues to to his flock as Market entry Should sends prices soaring. do wonders for his attendance figures.

LEON TROTSKY:

Germany 1931/1932 Paperback £1.25—cloth £1.87% Where Is Britain Going? Paperback 37kp Revolution Betrayed Paperback 62kp- -cloth £1.05 Problems of the Chinese Revolution Paperback £1.121—cloth £1.87% Permanent Revolution : Results and Prospects Paperback 75p In Defence of Marxism Paperback 75p Lessons of October Paperback 60p Postage 10p per book, 3p per pamphlet. Order from :

NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS

186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG.

FILM REVIEW BY BRIAN MOOF

"Triple Echo' is a low key, unglamorous film which • is rare in the current state of the industry. It's the first film of a television director Michael Apted and is of some interest. from the Adapted short novel by H. E. Bates it tells the story of a woman during the last war left to look after the small farm she owns. Her husband is a prisoner of war in Japan. She is very much on her own, her only company is a large ageing and ailing dog.

is no mean She works hard, hand at a shotgun. A capable woman, unemotional, deter- mined. But for the absence of her husband, the war seems a remote event. Only the occa- sional Spitfire flying overhead and the wreck of a German fighter plane, brought down the year before in the Battle of Britain, rusting in a nearby wood, reminders are that hardly disrupt the hard routine of the land. With eggs to barter the black market of the on a ration village shop, local book is not a token of shortage.

By accident into her life comes a young soldier, Barton, who trespasses on her land, Like her he comes from a farm.

And he hates the army. The two are drawn. un- demonstrably together. Barton with jobs helps her on the farm, repairs the tractor. He whenever he can comes get away from camp. She looks forward more and more to seeing him. When the time comes for him to go on a week's leave, he stays with her on the farm. Glenda Jackson and an actor the Brian new to screen, Deacon, play this beautifully, with strength and understate- ment. The closer they become to each other, the more he hates the army. At the end of his leave he decides not to go back, to go on the run. Yet the decision makes him a fugitive and her an accom- plice. He must hide in dis- guise. The war intrudes in this quiet backwater. In these con- ditions a normal relationship is impossible. It is her suggestion that he disguises himself as a woman.

He resists, but she. insists.

There is no other way. Then begins what he dis- covers to be his imprisonment.

Their relationship changes with the new stresses. It is here that the weak- nesses of the film take over, Workers Prose, Saturd

\ MOORE

Glenda Jackson as Alice. Above: Oliv Brian Deacon as the young soldier, Bart for the director seems un- certain and indecisive about his material. The new tensions, the fear of discovery, the reversal of traditional roles, skated are Their relationship is over. dealt with ambiguously. There is little sense of the trap that they are both in, or what both feel about it. There are sharp exchanges, the woman's grow- ing resentment and also sense of power, the perverseness with which Barton begins to paint his nails and grow his hair.

But the real complexities of the situation are glossed over.

And the film loses its centre.

The sudden arrival on the farm of an army sergeant adds a new twist. He is a bull- womanizer. necked, coarse Rebuffed by the woman the farm he turns his attentions to the 'sister'. He wants to take her to the mess dance.

Perversely 'she' agrees. At the dance Barton's true identity is discovered. Enraged at being made a fool of, the sergeant pursues him. He dis- covers he is a wanted man and Barton is arrested by a squad 2, Saturday Noember 26, 1972 PAGE 9 ove: Oliver Road as the sergeant with Idler, Barton. of MPs and brutally beaten up.

Rather than see her lover Barton treated in this way, dragged off back to military detention, the woman shoots him dead. What is interesting in the film is the way outside cir- cumstances penetrate and transform the most simple situations. For the husband the war means a prison camp, for the wife and Barton the entry into this bizarre and tragic situation. For the German fighter pilot death in an un- known wood. The film is unsensational and serious, but its understatement actually reveals the indecision of the director. The crucial turn in the relationship is not explored fully enough to give credibility to the characters' motives. Why do they behave in the way that they do? The absence of an under- standing of the way the characters develop and change gives the film the uncertain outlines that it has. It is in- complete in this way, but it does show a definite talent emerging in Michael Apted.

It's well worth seeing.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday Novem

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 11.10 Merrie melo- dies. 11.35 Puffin. 11.40 Bon- anza. 12.30 London. 5.10 On the buses. 5.40. London. 7.00 Film: 'The Wild and The Innocent'.

8.30 Julie Andrews. 9.30 Upstairs, downstairs. 10.30 London. 11.30 Dr Simon Locke. 11.55 Weather.

WESTWARD. As Channel except: 10.45 Woobinda. 11.35 Gus ULS Honeybun. 11.55 Faith for life.

12.00 Weather. SOUTHERN: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting. 10.10 Wild- life. 10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 Cow- boy in Africa. 12.00 Merrie melo- dies. 12.27 Weather. 12.30 Lon- 5.10 Persuaders. 6.10 Lon- don. don. 7.00 Film: "Young Guns of Texas'. 8.30 London. 10.40 News.

Tables'. 10.50 Film: 'Separate 12.35 Weather. Guideline.

HARLECH: 9.30 London. 10.30 All 11.00 London. our yesterdays. 12.30 the country. A place in 1.00 University challenge.. 1.25 Love American style. 2.15 Lon- don. 3.15 Film: 'Prince of Pirates'. GR 5.35 Black 4.45 Golden shot. Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Little Red Monkey'. 9.30 Mr and Mrs. 10.00 London. 11.15 Murder in the first. 12.15 Weather.

HTV Cymru/Wales 7 and 41 as above except: 6.40-7.00 Llusern.

ANGLIA:

9.00 London. 10.00 Sean the leprechaun. 10.15 Rovers. 10.40 Film: "Ivanhoe'. 12.30 London. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 'Seat of Anger'. 8.30 London. 10.40 Aqua- 11.30 Film: 'Return of Mr rius. Moto. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoestring. 10.10 Lord Mount- batten. 11.00 MGM cartoon. 11.05 Tomfoolery show. 11.30 Osmonds.

12.00 Elephant boy. 12.30 Lon- don. 5.15 It takes a thief. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 'Hunted'. 8.30 Aqu

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 11.00-12.25 London.

2.13 Weather. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'Hot Blood'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Any Wednes- day'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Spy- force. 12.05 Epilogue. Weather.

WESTWARD. As channel except: 9.30 London. 10.30 Let them live.

11.00 London. 12.25 Angling to- day. 12.55 Collecting on a shoe- string. 1.20 Smith family. 1.45 Gus Honeybun. 1.55 Farm and country news. 12.05 Faith for life.

12.10 Weather. SOUTHERN: 9.15 Talking hands.

9.30 London. 10.30 Farm pro- gress. 10.57 Weather. 11.00 Lon- don. 12.30 Bush boy. 1.00 Super- 1.50 Hogan's man. 1.20 Primus. heroes. 2.15 London. 3.15 Fenn Street gang. 3.45 Golden shot.

4.40 Aquarius. 5.30 News. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.25 On the buses 7.55 Film: 'The Naked Runner'. 9.50 Cartoon. 10.00 London. 11.05 Jason King.

12.10 Frighteners. 12.35 Weather.

Guideline. ANGLIA. 9.30 London. 10.30 Sur- vival. 11.00 London. 12.30 Simon Locke. 12.55 Randall and Hop- kirk. 1.50 Weather. 1.55 Farming.

2.30 Name of the game. 3.55 Match of the day. 4.45 Golden shot. 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Any Wednes- day'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Depart- ment S. YORKSHIRE: 9.20 Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 You and your golf. 11.00 London.

12.30 On the buses. 1.00 Farm- ing outlook. 1.25 Calendar Sun- day. 1.55 Soccer. 2.50 Film: 'Bye Bye Birdie': 4.45 Golden shot.

shot. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film. 'Our Mother's 9.50 Cartoon. 10.00 Lon- House'. don. 11.15 It takes a thief. 12.10 Weather. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London.

10.30 All our yesterdays. 11.00 Citizens' London. 12.30 rights. 1.00 Champions. 2.00 Soccer. Gol 3.00 Film: "The Miniver Story'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black Cra Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: Lon ay November 25, 1972 Julie Andrews. 9.30 Upstairs, downstairs. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Film: 'A Rage to Live'. Weather.

ULSTER: 11.00

Thunderbirds. 12.00 Woobinda. 12.30 London. tinia 5.15 Flintstones. 5.40 Sportscast.

6.10 London. 7.00 Cartoon. 7.10 McMillan and Wife. 8.30 Julie down- Andrews. 9.30 Upstairs, stairs. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aqua- rius. 11.30 Journey to the un- known. YORKSHIRE: 9.15 Let them live.

9.40 Collecting on a shoestring.

10.10 Osmonds. 10.35 Follyfoot.

11.05 UFO. 12.00 Skilful rugby.

12.30 London. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 'Young Guns of Texas'. 8.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Mannix. 12.30 Weather. es'. GRANADA: 9.15 You and your ack golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.05 Craftsmen. 10.40 Sesame street. 11.40 Arthur. 12.05 Clapperboard. 12.30 London. 5.10 Sky's the limit. 5.40 Doctor at Mr large. 6.10 7.00 Cook's Magoo. 7.05 Film: Garden'. 8.25 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Seaway. SCOTTISH: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe: 10.10 Tomfoolery. 10.35 string. Follyfoot. 11.05 Dave Cash. 11.30 Osmonds. 12.00 Cavalcade. 12.30 London. 10.40 Plain Mr Knox.

10.50 Aquarius. 11.40 O' Hara.

GRAMPIAN: 11.15 Beagan gaidh- lig. 11.30 Tomfoolery. 12.00 Rum- blie jumblie. 12.30 London. 5.10 Batman. 5.40 Protectors. on- London. 7.00 Film: "The Wild and 5.10 the Innocent'. 8.30 London. 10.40 3.30 Aquarius. 11.30 Jason King.

"The Billion Dollar Brain'. 10.00 3.15 London. 11.15 Spyforce. 12.10 Stories worth telling. ULSTER: 11.00 London. 12.30 You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- ing on shoestring. 1.30 HR a Pufnstuf. 1.55 Women only. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'Follow That Horse'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.53 'Act One'. Sports. 7.55 Film: 10.00 London. 11.15 Department S. Sur- GRANADA: 9.30-10.30 London. non 10.35 Time to remember. 11.00 lop- London. 12.25 Merrie melodies. Saint. 1.50 Survival. 2.20 12.55 Football. 3.20 Film: 'Back Room Boy'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Fate is the Hunter'. 9.50 10.00 London. Cartoon. 11.15 • Scotland Yard casebook.

ster- SCOTTISH: 10.15 Master chefs.

You 10.30 World War II. 11.00 Lon- lon. don. 12.30 A place in the coun- arm- try. 1.00 Randall and Hopkirk. Sun- 2.00 Sport. 3.25 Film: 'Rats of Bye Tobruck. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 hot. Elephant boy. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Passionate Summer'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Late call. 11.20 Rolf Harris. GRAMPIAN: 11.00 London. 12.30 You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- ing on a shoestring. 1.30 Farm progress. 2.00 Sport. 3.25 Film: 'On the Night of the Fire'. 4.40 Golden shoot. 5.35 Black Beauty.

London. 7.55 Film: 'Hilda 6.05 lack Crane'. • 9.25 Adam Smith. 10.00 ilm: London. 11.15 Untouchables.

BBC 2

3.00 Film: Way of a Gaucho.

Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney. A young gaucho fights the Argen- tinian authorities to retain his freedom. 4.25 Play away. 4.50 Snow! 5.00 Heritage. 5.25 The Burke special. 5.55 Man alive.

6.45 TELEVISION DOCTOR.

7.00 WESTMINSTER.

7.20 NEWS, SPORT. Weather. 7.35 RUGBY SPECIAL. Rest of Scottish Districts v The All Blacks. 8.20 WAR AND PEACE. Leave of Absence. 9.05 FULL HOUSE. Introduced by Joe Melia. London's longest picture. The Lon- Saxophone Quartet, don What Shall We Do Next? Music, 10.00 Roxy. the Mona Lisa is 3-D. 10.45 Dan Jacobson. 11.10 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

FILM: THE

11.25

STAR'.

Bette Sterling Hayden. A Davis, once-famous film star can- not accept that she is a has-been.

BBC 2

3.55 Man at work. 4.20 Money at work. 5.20 Horizon. 6.15

NEWS REVIEW.

NEWS

SUMMARY

6.50 Weather. 6.55

DOUBTS AND CERTAIN-

TIES. Chuck Stone, chair- man of the US National Black Conference on Power. 7.25 From

AMERICA.

Home Home. Alistair Cooke looks 7th nin nicte fri 8.15 9.05 Orchard, William 9.35 story. 10.25 William Wells. 10.50 ab out ain co b- esta With ts. ru, - Ward Bond. S. 12.10 Z -

BBC 1

10.00 Repondez s'il vous plait. 10.30-10.55 11.25 Avventura. Weather. 11.30 Mr. Benn. 11.45 Harlem globetrotters. 12.05 Bar- rier reef. 12.30 Grandstand. 12.35 Football preview. 12.55, 1.20, 1.55, 2.25 Racing from Newbury.

1.10, 1.40 International boxing.

Richard Dunn v Ray Patterson. Rugby league. Leeds 2.45 V Leigh. 3.50 Lancer. 4.40 Final score. 5.05 Pluto. 5.15 Mary Tyler Moore show. 5.40 News. Weather.

5.55 Bruce Forsyth and the gene- ration game.

6.45 DIXON OF DOCK GREEN.

Bust Up. 7.35

THE HARRY SECOMBE

SHOW. Guests Harve Pres- nell. Olivia Newton John, Rostal Kiri Te Kanawa, Schaefer. 8.20

FILM: 'SEVEN DAYS TO

NOON'. Barry Jones, Olive Sheila Sloane, Manahan. Minister The Prime re- ceives a letter from a scientist threat- nuclear ening to blow up Parlia- ment. 9.55 NEWS. Weather.

10.10 MATCH OF THE DAY.

11.10 PARKINSON. Michael Park- inson talks to Jack Lem- mon. 12.10 Weather.

BBC 1

9.00 Nai zindagi naya jeevan. 9.30 Repondez s'il vous plait. 10.00-10.25 Avventura. 11.00- 11.30 Seeing and believing. 11.35 RY A job worth doing? 12.00 Design by design. 12.25 The Edwardian affair. 12.50 Farming. 1.15 Made Jimmy Young in Britain. 1.30 asks. 1.55 News headlines. Weather. 2.00 Chigley. 2.15 Shari Lewis show. 2.25 Undersea world of Jacques Cousteau. 3.15 Anne Heywood. The beauty queen who made it. 3.45 Film: 'Palm Springs Weekend'. Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin, Stef- anie Powers, Robert Conrad. Wild weekend in Palm Springs. 5.20 Cranford. Dramatization in four parts of Mrs Gaskell's novel.

6.05 NEWS. Weather.

6.15 A CHANCE TO MEET.

Jimmy Reid, UCS con- venor. 6.50 MICHAEL ASPEL. Appeal for Children in Need of Help.

6.55 SONGS OF PRAISE.

7.25 THE ONEDIN LINE. An Inch of Candle.

8.15 FILM: 'ACE IN THE HOLE'.

Kirk Douglas. When a man is trapped in a cave a journalist keeps him there so that he can get the story. 10.05 NEWS. Weather. 10.20 OMNIBUS. Kelly Country.

A journey across Australia through the paintings of Sidney Nolan. 11.05 KIRK DOUGLAS. Talking with Michael Parkinson. 11.55 Weather.

ITV

9.00 Time off. 9.30 Collecting on a shoestring. 9.55 Return to Pey- ton Place. 10.20 Sesame street. 11.20 Merrie melodies. 11.30 The Osmonds. 11.50 Junior police five. 12.00 The Partridge family.

12.30 News. 12.35 World of sport 12.40 On the ball. 1.05 Inter- national sports special. 1.20 The ITV seven. 1.30, 2.00, 2.45, 3.00 Racing from Newcastle. 1.45, 2.15, 2.45 Racing from Wolver- hampton. 3.10 International sports special. Munhammad Ali v Bob Foster. 3.50 Results, 4.50 Re scores, news. 4.00 Wrestling. sults service. 5.10 Adventures of Black Beauty. 5.40 Sale of the century.

6.10 NEWS FROM ITN.

THE REG VARNEY RE-

6.15 VUE. Guest Beryl Reid. 7.00

FILM:

"FOXFIRE'.

Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler, Dan Duryea. A socialite marries a half breed mining en- gineer. 8.30

SCOTLAND YARD.

NEW

Papa Charlie. 9.30 THE JuLIE ANDREWS HOUR. With guests. Don Rickles, Alice Ghostley, Rich Little.

NEWS FROM ITN.

10.30

RUSSELL HARTY PLUS.

10.40

ONE POINT OF VIEW.

11.40 11.45 COLUMBO. Blueprint for Murder. Peter Falk. Top: Nora Swinburne and Sebag.

Shaw are In BBC2's 'Dead tian of Night' series, called 'Death Cancels all Debts', on Sunday night. Above: David Oluwale, Nigerian who was found dead being assaulted by two after Leeds policemen, later jailed, is the subject of Jeremy Sandford's new play for Radio 3 on Sunday night at 6.25, with Paul Schofield narrating and Ram John Holder background singing his own song.

ITV

9.30 Morning service. 10.30 Re- turn to Peyton Place. 11.00 Week- end world. 12.30 Turnbull's finest half hour. 1.00 Thunderbirds. 1.50 Beloved enemy. 2.15 Big match.

Persuaders. 4.20 Golden 3.15 shot. 5.15 Aquarius. 6.05

NEWS FROM ITN.

6.15

ADAM SMITH.

6.45

THE BIG QUESTION.

7.00 STARS ON SUNDAY.

7.25

THE FENN STREET GANG.

The Lady With the Lamp 7.55

FILM: 'BILLION DOLLAR

BRAIN'. Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Francoise Dorleac. Oscar Homolka, Ed Begley. Harry Palmer's former boss, Colonel Ross, is trying to get him to work for MI5 again. 9.55

POLICE FIVE SPECIAL.

NEWS FROM ITN.

10.00 10.15 PLAY: "TRIANGLES'. Anna Massey, Ray Brooks. 11.15

UFO.

The Cat with • Ten Lives.

12.15 ONE POINT OF VIEW.

12.20 HIS AND HERS. Libel.

Workers Press, Saturday November 25, 1972 PAGE 11 Students' conference opens in Margate

ALL

Jacks' protest politics

TRADES

UNIONS

won't win grants

ALLIANCE

MEETINGS

Fight Rising Prices Force the Tories to Resign

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

(Press and Entertainments STUDENTS have little chance of November 2 Rehearsal Royal olut Rooms, winning any increase in grants for at Floral Street. The Fight for Shepperton' Speakers: Yvonne least two years, according to Digby Richards (ACTT), Roy Battersby Smith Jacks, National Union Roder of Students Corin Redgrave (Equity), all lead ing of their president. unions speaking in He told the NUS annual conference capacily. READING: Monday November 27, at Margate last night that since October Trades and Labour Club • •• Minster Street. there had been 'a major determination

ACTON:

November Monday 27, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, High Road.

to resist hall fees and other institutional November LEICESTER: Tuesday costs which absorb excessive amounts 28, 8 p.m. Southfields Library.

Tuesday November of grants. 28, 7.30 p.m. Elastic Cox Street (opposite Theatre One).

Jacks, a Communist Party member, said

WEST

LONDON:

Tuesday Nov- students had to get away from 'pious resolu- ember 28, 8 p.m 'Prince Albert', tions' and 'actually do something for them'.

Wharfedale: Road, King's Cross. For jacks, however, that was as far as it went.

Wednesday November In the path actually to i ere too maign. None es 29, 8 p.m The Recreation Centre. in the path actually to win the campaign.

Tory this is going to be easy.

he told the first session Pay Law'. conference, which represents 500,000 The

PRESTON:

(Please note date students. 30, He then revealed what actually. Water oo Hotel. Friar. p.M. him: The Tory have a govern- gate. covernment. 'wve ment wage freeze and other policies that are SHEFFIELD: Thursday November opposed to our interests.'

What was needed was a Lane: The Sells Tipper well-organızed support CalliDalen wIth maxim Lane sell-out Arthur members, from trade unionists and trom our own Digby Jacks, NUS president and CP member, speaking at last year's conference.

Lee's and the fight against the from all those involved and concerned with pay laws. education'. by rising prices, hall tees tence. mained 'extremely scep- wanted one? Was the issue BACK P.M. SUnday December Jacks admitted, however, and rents in private lodg- On graduate unemploy- tical' about educa- of such importance that it Church street. 7.30 Hop Leaf' that this pathetic apology ings Digby Jacks rapidly plans ment, in seasing, Was Was usumable for fight against the only protest say: not surprising he hysterically abusive front- CalllDalzI Could 11621

BRACKNELL:

Monday Decembel Tories would win little. the growing hope this government will ended with an attack page headlines?' 8.00 p.m. Priestwood Com- anything. movement for bigger seduced by not be facile students Stirling the munity Centre. In a characteristic slan- mWe must try immediately be successful, grants which fighting a alrunicals unem- valversilv. now der he said. and inevitably ployable students' witch-hunt following the means school he concluded: fight. However, in the end, with the Tory Government.

Queen's visit last month. What then? 'The answer that

CIRCULATION

suggest was not policy all lal we may nave done which government While claiming he was Instead, as he elaborated ucccosal y ave is to lay the basis for will the in his speech, the pro- enemies the ammunition question SOLVe •esote an conclusion better the

NUS

blem unemployment.' statement saying with which to weaken us.' 01-622 7029 was to get the government 1974 non-event' Lenna sertemen was a at the change mind With Jacks and the Sta- Many

ITC

students the than would otherwise have polices- exactly the line linists in general fast be- time. acks asked been achieved

NEWS DESK

Comerence will

HOW

aSk of the Stalinists, driven as 'Why did a few students that with such 'friends' Comine auvisers So while students' economic perspec- Tories ques- Stirling offer gift and the CP Lne who hostage meagre grants are savaged tive of peaceful co-exis- although he re- those who actually needs 01-720 2000

DONS

enemies? Bus and Fourth International

SLL LECTURES

tube halt The Journal of International Marxism published by the International

OXFORD

Committee of the International.

LEEDS

JUST

OUT - WINTER 1972.1973 EDITION

in Glasgow Available from 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG Thursday November 30 Price 25p Marxism- -the science of Monday November 27 Capitalism and the crisis perspective Contents include: Nixon unleashes international class struggle - Imperialist inroads into

SOUTH OXFORD

Monday December 4 UNDERGROUND transport and and political revolution Woes staes — Georg Lukacs — Peru - Bolivia - PLUS The struggle for power bus services were halted in Glas-

COMMUNITY CENTRE

terday and today as more

THREE ARTICLES BY LEON TROTSKY

Lake Street, 8 p.m. Monday December 11 bus From Left Opposition to Fourth International.

Revolutionary theory and the two-day underground staff in a Lectures given by Marxist Party strike over shift allowances.

Subscribe! Mean

PEEL HOTEL

SLL national secretary walk to wook and mutes hail The dally to walk Boar Lane, Leeds 4 paper that suburban 8 p.m. revorlea trans ads the

LONDON

were 'packed solid', while traffic workers press against crowded roads into the city.

the Torles. Sunday November Mr Philip 26 Jenkins, Glasgow

BARNSLEY

district of Basic Essentials of Marxism officer Dabscurer Lne 220.28 for 12 months (312 lssues) Sunday December 3 Transoor ane reneral workers £10.14 for 6 months December 3 Sunday Union, estimated uses per ent (156 lssue8) A theory of knowledge {5.07 for 3 months (78 lasuas) Capitalism and the crisis buses city's Sunday December 10 Sunday December 10 Opponents of Marxism If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: The struggle for power The - stride non at mid midnight

BEAVER HALL

21.56 for 3 months f24 Issues) Sunday tonight and union will December 17 {6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) at Mansion House tube Monday. meeting the corporation on Revolutionary theory and the 7.30 p.m. Fill in the form below NOW and send to: Marxist Party The result of the talks will be Lectures given by

RED LION HOTEL

186a Clapham High St., reported to garage meetings on _ondon, SW4 7UG G. Healy (Worsborough) 8 p.m. Tuesday. SLL national secretary Lectures given I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

(SLL Stral Committee) Slaughter

LIVERPOOL

• MONDAY

THURSDAY

Who'd have Days required (Please tick)

TUESDAY

FRIDAY

Wednesday November 29

WEDNESDAY

SATURDAY

SHEFFIELD

Stain sm 1932-1938 guessed? Or Wednesday December 6 Monday November 27 Trotskylsm and the founding of Full subscription (six days) for months. Capitalist crisis the Fourth International

PRINCESS

ANNE will not be Monday December 11 Name

COMMON HALL

prosecuted for allegedly speeding Stalinism and Trotskyism

HACKINS HEY

the mi. Instead Address Monday January 8 she has received a revealed lies warn- off Dale Street, 7.30 p.m.

Marxism and the ine was stopped on do yester 1i yesterday. revolutionary party Tom Komp (SLi' Contral

FORRESTERS HALL

by a patrol car when driving her om Kemp Trippett Lane, 7.30 p.m. sports car. month that she the Amount enclosed f commie) time in had been stopped.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday November 25, 1972 THIS IS our most decisive week- end. It must be all out for a huge last-minute effort to complete ou • We are sure you total of £1.750. will do to everything you can raise this final amount. However much the leaders trade union ry and reach agreement with the orles, nothing they can do will

BY IAN YEATS

THE NATIONAL Union of Teachers' executive has moved to spike the guns of militant young teachers as their pay claim runs into heavy weather. The teachers are expecting a rise from April 1, but so far the panel of the Burn- management Committee has refused even ham to make an offer in deference to the government's pay policy.

And Tory Education Secretary Mrs Margaret Thatcher said yes- terday in an implicit reply to the 10.000 teachers who had lobbied Wednesday that even the her on £15 the offer of extra on London allowance had now been withdrawn. Thousands of teachers who Wednesday turned out. are 'saying price rises are so serious they drastic that face cuts in their living standards in the next few months unless wages improved. the NUT executive has Now Young Teachers' scrapped the annual conference and the Young Teachers' Advisory Committee. 60 Young teachers represent cent of the NUT's member- per ship and in the past two years have acted powerful they asa behind the ginger group bureaucracy. retain the An amendment to Advisory Committee was lost by 19 votes to 13 on the executive. Larry Green told the executive that removing the committee would reduce the young teachers tea and buns affair'. to a The NUT says the cost of the longer be conference can no justified. The concerns of young the teaching old alike and in the they profession are same. be dealt with within the should a whole. union as

ABOUT 30

from Ford's men BENTLEY'S purchase Dagenham, Essex, blastfurnace

JOHN

of British Lion had resulted in the lobbied talks of the national of the major assets joint negotiating council yester- stripping out of the result' day morning demand action make a killing Mr Maurice Edelman. Labour MF over the threatened closure of the plant. for Coventry, said in the Com- mons yesterday: 'Asset stripping The 600 men involved had the form been told they will be in we have seen offered Shepperton is a pernicious deadly alternative employment, but they wrong not only to the individuals Plant engineering are sceptical. immediately involved, but to the stewardl Cliff Jerman commen- social and economic health of ted: 'What alternative is there? the nation.' After the last scare about Ford's

FROM PAGE 1

and a party activist. Two months ago John Davies, He then Secretary Trade and won a seat in parliament for in 1966 and Heath's first Industry, took full-time in "political secretary' with an office ministry he was made parliamen- tary secretary at the Civil Service next to his own. The appointee, John Cope (35).

Department at the age of 34.

worked Heath has already taken cau- formerly head- at party tious steps to implement quarters and was personal assist- some of Rothschild's and Howell's ant to chairman Anthony Barber from 1967 to 1970.

plans. will be more obvious Heath strategy Carrington, has taken signs the following the depature next year party chairman and another close Cabinet secretary, and trusted minister, James Prio of the Burke Trend. Iso doubles as a Cabinet Ministe

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUI

PUBLIC MEETINC

SWINDON

Wednesday, December 13 8 pm

AẸU HOUSE, FLEMING WAY, SWINDON

SPECIAL SHOWING OF THE 'RIGHT TO WORK' FILM.

A film made by ACT showing the five Right-to-Work marches Glasgow, Deal and to London, ending wronge rally a empire, them.

Liverpool, on March 12, 1972. at British Workshop, Swindon (in a personal capacity).

• We demand the right to work!

• Make the Tory government resign!

• Build the revolutionary party!

IX DAYS! WE NEED £5

hold back this enormous move- pay increases. This Tory govern- ment must now be made to re- sign. Our paper will remain in the forefront of this struggle. We A

35-YEAR-OLD

Taiwanese who fled the United States after being convicted of an assassina- tion attempt on Chiang Kai- shek's son acted from purely motives, it was said political yesterday. architect, Cheng Tzu-tsai, an was secretary of a political com- mittee which considered the assassination plans, Bow Street court heard. Cheng, who was convicted of the attempted murder of Taiwan prime minister, Chiang Ching-

DONCASTER

THUNKOCK

*.

AVE LEY

JE PORGE

THE

pulling out of Britain, the com- pany made a statement that there was far too much finan- cial commitment in this country for them to leave. But since then they have partially closed seven plants throughout Britain?

• Ford management and unions representing the company's 50,000 hourly-paid workers yes- terday arranged a December 14 meeting to start talks on a £10 a week claim. In his place Heath is hoping to install a Whitehall supremo, perhaps Sir William Armstrong, the present head of the civil the men in service and one of the background of the recent tripartite talks. Heath and his monied, military- clique trained have railroaded legislation through parliament since they took over-the Indust- rial Relations Act, the European Communițies Act, the Housing Finance and Act now. the Counter-Inflation Bill. If need be they will dispense entirely with parliament and rule by decree through their reaction- ary legislation backed by the judiciary and the police.

By entering into talks at No 10 Downing Street the trade union leaders only strengthen the de- velopment of Heath's plan to presidential assume powers. There must be no further talks with the Tories. Heath's corporatist moves must be halted. This can only be done by forcing his government out of office. The political and in- dustrial strength of the working class is the only force which can carry out this task. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Workers Published by Press, Street, 186a High London,

SW4 7UG.

Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), 180b Clapham High Street, London,

SW4 7UG.

D £502.66 need all your support to complete our Fund in time. Let's make it a grand finish. Raise all you can.

Rush every donation immediately to: Workers Press November Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG. kuo outside a New York hotel in April 1970, is fighting an application for extradition by the US government. Cheng is fighting the new extradition order under a British law which says that a fugitive offender should not be sur- rendered if his crime was of a political character. For Cheng, Mr Brian Capstick said the evidence showed that the murder attempt was from to completion conception a Evidence wholly political act. had shown that Cheng belonged to a cohesive and organized political party, he claimed.

NEARLY every police officer in the 'Angry Brigade' trial had been accused of improper conduct, said Mr Justice James on the second day of his summing up yesterday. "This sort of thing, unfortun- ately, can happen. The question is, and the vital thing in Eight defendants, four men and four women, have been on trial six months facing between them nine charges including the unlawful possession of arms and explosives. Mr Justice James directed the jury that the trial was not a political one. The defendants were not being tried for 'their political beliefs which happen to be contrary to those in govern- ment. It was not an offence in Britain to hold views contrary to estab- lished government. Socialist Labour League

3RD ANNIVERSAR

OF WORKERS

PRESS

BUILD THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

SUNDAY

DECEMBER 3

7 p.m. Everyman Theatre

LIVERPOOL

Speakers:

MIKE BANDA

(SLL Central Committee

CONNIE FAHEY

(Wilmslow tenants' leader)

ALAN PEERS

(Young Socialists' national committe (Union and tenant speakers in a pe Details of other provincial meetings

NEWCASTLE

SUNDAY DECEMBER 10, 7 p.m.

County Hotel Speakers:

MIKE BANDA

(SLL Central committee)

DAVID JONES

(YS national committee) BOB MAINS (Unemployed) VINCENT FOY (secretary Jar- row Trades Council. In personal capacity.)

BIRMINGHAM

SUNDAY DECEMBER 17, 7 p.m.

Assembly Hall Digbeth Civic Hall Speakers:

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE GIANT Transport and General Workers' Union is facing a massive bill for com- pensation in the National Industrial Relations Court.

After a private hearing yester- day, three haulage firms are to work out the losses they suffered because dockers blacked their lorries. They are Panalpina Services of Hull; Heatons Transport of St Helens; and Craddock Brothers of Wolverhampton. Court president Sir John Donaldson said that until now the claims for compensation had been adjourned. At yesterday's hearing technical directions were given to get the claims resolved.

Further technical direction would be given at a hearing on December 5. Sir John said the black had been taken off Palanpina on October 24 and therefore the injunction against the union had been lifted. But Charles Craddock said after the hearing that his firm was still totally banned. He would not • whether say more action against the T&GWU in the court would be taken, though I understand this is under active consideration. The dockers have blacked Craddock's 'for life' after the firm accused two shop stewards and a union official of demand- ing money with menaces. The three were cleared of the charge at Liverpool Crown Court.

Heatons is partially blacked— containers stuffed or stripped by the firm are banned on the docks.

Any compensation awarded to Panalpina will be final, but in the of Craddock's and case Heatons, it would be an interim order pending the lifting of the blacking.

'SARY

THREE

YEARS

OF

WORKERS

PRESS

Showing the developments and gains since the first issue of Workers Press Sentember 26. 1969 I committee) rs in a personal capacity.)

meetings see p. 12.

GLASGOW

SUNDAY DECEMBER 17, 2 p.m.

Woodside Hails St George's Cross Speakers : BANDA (SLL Central

MIKE

committee)

JOHN

BARRIE (YS national committee) WILLIE DÓCHERTY (chairman Paisley Tenants' Action Com- mittee. in personal capacity.)

G. HEALY (SLL National Secre- tary) WILLIE AITKIN (YS national committee) PETER SMITH (Rover shop steward. In personal capacity.) |