Workers Press no. 937

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THE HAND OF

BY A SPECIA

THE WAVE of bombings in Di provocations since the Reichsta outrages last Friday night the o government collapsed. FIGURES released today show that 23,215,000 working days dis- appeared through strikes from January to October - nearly double the figure for the similar period last year and more than any complete year since the General Strike in 1926. The Department of Employ- ment Gazette', which publishes the statistics, was itself held up because of an industrial dispute at the printers. In the first ten months of 1972 there were 2,132 stoppages in- volving 1,473,000 workers. Also 19.1 million working days were lost in the year to June 1971 through industrial injuries.

FEDERATION of Film Unions meeting yesterday endorsed over- whelmingly a decision by Shep- perton workers to occupy their Middlesex studio to oppose asset- stripping by John Bentley.

Bentley, the head of Barclay Securities, is proposing to sell off 45 acres of the Shepperton lot for property speculation and to reduce the studio capacity.

This would destroy Shepperton's viability as one of the country's few remaining studios and cause at least 200 redundancies.

EVANGELIST

James Goad, whose action in the National Industrial Relations Court has so far cost the engineers' union £6,000 in contempt of court fines and costs, is to see his lawyers again following his failure to get into the AUEW branch meeting at Sudbury, Suffolk, on Friday.

He has said he will return to the NIRC as soon as possible.

ASTMS, the technicians' union, has been accused by one of its members of an unfair industrial practice involving a ballot. Mr S. Heaton, of Halewood Road, Liverpool, has complained to the NIRC about the conduct of a ballot held by the Royal Insur- ance Company, Liverpool.

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claim against the Transport and Gene- ral Workers' Union has been lodged in the National Industrial Court by General Relations Aviation Services (UK) Ltd. The case in which the company is alleging an unfair industrial practice, arises out of a dispute at London's Heathrow Airport.

No date has yet been fixed for the hearing.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY DECEMBER 4, 1972

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gs in Dublin marks one of the biggest political Reichstag fire. Within 60 minutes of the bomb ht the opposition which threatened the Lynch Taking advantage of the hysteria created by the the anti-IRA Bill explosions, was rushed through both houses of parliament and the crisis facing British imperialism in Ireland was averted (see lan Yeats' on-the- spot report page 2.) The fall of the Lynch government would have been a decisive victory for the Irish and British working class. For Irish workers it would have afforded an enormous opportunity

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to their bitter opposition express to unemployment, soaring prices and legal attacks on the trade unions.

For British workers it would have posed the why can't -If Lynch can be kicked question- out, we do the same to Heath? There be doubt that those responsible for the bomb attacks which killed two bus workers and injured 126 people of British were agents Special Air Services

(SAS)

perialism. have been involved in the past in similar bombings in the north. Throughout last week it was possible to detect the hand of British Intelligence at work. It began with the of rocket launchers sudden appearance supposedly supplied to the

IRA

by Iron Curtain

ABOUT 750

Anti-internme countries'. 10 Downing Street yesterd But as a strike movement began to develop and protested against the the passage the Bill became uncertain, supporting the Provisional tingents came from provocation was necessary. chanted Victory to the IR/ The target of the bombing-Liberty Hall, the headquarters of the Irish Con- Bomb of Trade Unions-is outrages thus became gress evi- the dence lever by which the ruling enough that those respon- class of Britain and Ireland dealt sible hate the trade unions and deadly blow wanted the Bill to become law. to the mass Both of the opposition to the Bill. wings

IRA

have But the advantages they have categorically statements issued won will be short-lived. denying any responsibility for the bombing. The jailing of Sean Mac- The staging of this provocation Stiofain, the of the sacking shows the depth of the crisis in entire board of

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the the ranks the Green Tories. charging of journalist Kevin with the Tories O'Kelly, Along in the introduction of Britain, Lynch and company are anti-union legislation has desperate the Com- brought the Irish working class to get into They need laws to Market. the mon onto scene in concerted smash the working class, just as opposition to the Tories.

Heath needs his laws too.

Coupled with the soaring cost The use of a bombing provoc- of living and unemployment ation is a tragic irony. It reveals after EEC entry, this creates the the bankruptcy of the nation- conditions when a revolutionary alists' campaign. leadership can and will be built.

When the Lynch government In recent years the Irish work- was on the brink of collapse, the ing class has paid a bitter price arch-terrorists, the ruling class, for the failures of leadership. used its agents to frighten the Now a new and decisive chapter opposition with bomb attacks.

opens.

TENANTS

and trade unionists Arthur Wellon, leader of the from who face at least a dozen towns 1l Labour councillors possible surcharge and disquali- throughout Britain demonstrated fication from the council. told 3.000-strong in Clay Cross, Workers Press: *This is only the Derbyshire, yesterday in support beginning, just round-one of the of the councillors defying the battle. Tory 'fair rents' Act. We hope it will end in the The High Street was blocked downfall of this Tory government for 30 minutes by tenants who and a Labour government which Out!", *Tories will carry shouted "Heath out their promises and Out!', and *Rent Increases Out!' not uphold the establishment.' | 4, 1972 • No. 937 • 4p

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STARTING TODAY

ON PAGE 8

Jack Gale's series on 'Renegades from Trotskyism' Ireland IAN YEATS, staff reporter, is In Dublin reporting on the anti-IRA Bill (see page 2).

His 10-part serles 'A on Crisis of Leadership' con- tinues on page 4. Due to pressure of space STEPHEN JOHNS' Investiga- tion 'An IMG stunt that back- fired has been held over until tomorrow.

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-internment League demonstrators marched from Hyde Park to Number et yesterday in protest against the jalling of Sean MacStlofain. They also t the passing of the anti-IRA Bill. The march was headed by groups Provisional IRA and the vanguard wore milltary-style berets.

Other con- om the International Marxist Group and the International Socialists. They to the IRA' and Tories Out. North and South'.

• See SLL meeting p.12.

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THE HAND OF

BY A SPECIA

THE WAVE of bombings in Di provocations since the Reichsta outrages last Friday night the o government collapsed.

FIGURES

released today show that 23,215,000 working days dis- strikes from appeared through January to October - nearly double the figure for the similar period last year and more than since the any complete year General Strike in 1926. The Department of Employ- ment Gazette, which publishes the statistics, was itself held up because of an industrial dispute at the printers. In the first ten months of 1972 there were 2,132 stoppages in- volving 1,473,000 workers. Also 19.1 million working days were lost in the year to • June 1971 through industrial injuries.

FEDERATION of Film Unions meeting yesterday endorsed over- whelmingly a decision by Shep- perton workers to occupy their Middlesex studio to oppose asset- stripping by John Bentley.

Bentley, the head of Barclay Securities, is proposing to sell off 45 acres of the Shepperton lot for property speculation and reduce the studio capacity.

to This would destroy Shepperton's viability as one of the country's few remaining studios and cause at least 200 redundancies.

EVANGELIST

James Goad, whose in the National action Industrial Relations Court has so cost the engineers' far union £6,000 in contempt of court fines and costs, is to see his lawyers again following his failure to get into the AUEW branch meeting at Sudbury, Suffolk, on Friday.

He has said he will return to the NIRC as soon as possible.

ASTMS, the technicians' union, has been accused by one of its of an unfair industrial members practice involving a ballot. Mr S. Heaton, of Halewood Road, Liverpool, has complained to the NIRC about the conduct of a ballot held by the Royal Insur- ance Company, Liverpool.

COMPENSATION

claim against the Transport and Gene- ral Workers' Union has been lodged in the National Industrial Relations Court by General Aviation Services (UK) Ltd. The case in which the company is alleging unfair industrial an practice, arises out of a dispute at London's Heathrow Airport.

No date has yet been fixed for the hearing.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY DECEMBER 4, 1972 • N

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

SOCIALIST

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gs in Dublin marks one of the biggest political Reichstag fire. Within 60 minutes of the bomb ht the opposition which threatened the Lynch Taking advantage of the hysteria created by the anti-IRA Bill was the explosions, rushed through both houses of parliament and the crisis facing British imperialism in Ireland was averted (see lan Yeats' on-the- spot report page 2.) The fall of the Lynch government would have been a decisive victory for the Irish and British working class. For Irish workers it would have afforded an enormous opportunity opposition entry, unemployment, soaring prices and legal attacks on the trade unions. would have posed -If Lynch be kicked out, why can't we do the same to Heath? doubt that those responsible he no for the bomb attacks which killed two bus workers were agents of British im- Services (SAS) have perialism. involved in the past in similar bombings in the Throughout last week it was possible to detect the hand of British Intelligence at work. It began with the sudden of rocket launchers appearance supposedly supplied to the IRA by 'Iron Curtain ABOUT 750 Anti-Internment L countries'. 10 Downing Street yesterday But as a strike movement began to develop and protested against the Bill became the passage uncertain, the supporting the provocation was necessary.

tingents came from the Intern chanted 'Victory to the IRA' a The target of the bombing-Liberty Hall, the headquarters of the Irish Con- Bomb of Trade Unions—is outrages thus became gress evi- the dence enough that those respon- lever by which the ruling class of Britain and Ireland dealt sible hate the trade unions and wanted the Bill to become law.

deadly blow the mass Both wings of the IRA have But the advantages they have issued categorically CrATAMANTC denying responsibility for won will be short-lived. any the bombing. The jailing of Mac- Sean Stire bad of the shows she dep of of the crisis in crisis in entire the charging of iournalist the ranks of the Green Tories. Kevin Along with the Tories in O'Kelly, the introduction of Britain, Lynch and company are anti-union lexislation has desperate to get into the Com- brought the Irish working class mon Market. They need laws to onto the scene in concerted smash the opposition to the Tories.

working class, just as Heath needs his laws too.

Coupled with the soaring cost The use of a bombing provoc- living and unemployment ation is a tragic irony. It reveals after EEC entry, this creates the the bankruptcy the nation- conditions when revolutionary of alists' terror campaign. leadership can and will be built. When government the Lynch In recent years the Irish work- was on the brink of collapse.

the ing class has paid a bitter price arch-terrorists. the ruling class, for of the failures leadership. uced ite to frighten the Now a new and decisive chapter opposition with bomb attacks.

TENANTS and trade unionists Arthur Wellon, leader of the 11 Labour councillors from dozen who face at least a possible surcharge and disquali- throughout Britain demonstrated fication from council. told 3.000-strong in Clay Cross. Workers Press: "This is only the Derbyshire, yesterday in support beginning. just round-one of the of the the councillors defying battle. Tory "fair rents' Act. hope it will end in the We downfall of this Tory government The High Street was blocked and a Labour government which for d0 mințoc by tenants whr shouted 'Heath Out!' 'Tories will carry their promises and out 'Rent Increases Out!' not uphold the establishment.

Out!', and 1972 • No. 937 • 4p

IALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

•STARTING TODAY

ON PAGE 8

Jack Gale's serles on 'Renegades from Trotskylsm' Ireland IAN YEATS, staff reporter, is in Dublin reporting on the anti-IRA Bill (see page 2).

His 10-part serles on 'A Crisis of Leadership' con- tinues on page 4. Due to pressure of space STEPHEN JOHNS' investiga- tion 'An IMG stunt that back- fired' has been held over until tomorrow. Hyde Park to Number strators marched from nst the jailing of Sean MacStlofain. They also IRA Bill. The march was headed by groups nguard wore military-style berets. Other con- I Group and the International Socialists. They • North and South'. • See SLL meeting p.12.

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'Timely' explosions force through Lynch's anti-IRA Bill 'Political opinion suggests Fianna Fail knows PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday Decemb THE IRISH government rushe amending the already d Offences Against the State Act at the weekend while a rash scares in Dublin kept public te fever pitch. The continuous disruption and the city certainly encouraged senato their 11-hour debate on the Bill on with a 30 to eight vote in favour of The Bill could not be made law yesterday, but President de Valera was expected to give his signature a few minutes after midnight today. Army and police chiefs are rumoured to have prepared massive security crackdown the moment the Bill becomes law and both wings of the IRA told me they were taking special precau- tions to safeguard leading mem- bers from possible arrest.

mysterious twin bomb The blasts in Dublin on Friday night which killed two CIE busmen injured 126 people have and effectively silenced all opposition to the Bill and saved Fianna Fail from certain defeat. No objections Within an hour of the first 100 lb bomb exploding at the 15- storey headquarters of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, Fine Gael leader Mr Liam Cosgrove told the Dail his 50- strong party did not intend to their objections to the pursue new law in the division lobbies.

Sixty nine deputies voted for the Bill and 24 against. I Fine Gael had carried out its pledge the government to oppose Fail would have been Fianna defeated by three votes and Prime Minister Jack Lynch would have been forced to fight a law- and-order election. After talks with British Tory leader Edward Heath, Lynch returned to Ireland and made it clear that the government in- tended no let up on the terrorists and was prepared to make no concessions on its proposed amendments to the Offences Against the State Act. Socialist Labour League

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LP leader Conor Cruise O'Brien: Bound 1 None of the Opposition parties in the a general Dail wanted smaller election. The parties feared they would be wiped out in the tide of public support for policies Fianna Fail's anti-IRA and Fine Gael and Labour both expected to be badly mauled in a contest in which they would be branded supporters of terror- ism. Safeguards On Thursday Cosgrove risked his position as leader of Fine Gael by flying in the face of the apparently unanimous view of the rest of his party and insisting that he supported the Bill but hoped merely that the govern- ment could be persuaded to add certain safeguards particularly as to the length of time it would be in operation.

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Showing the developments and gains since the of first issue Workers Press September 26 1969 Committee) I committee) rades Council secretary. In a

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Assembly Hall Digbeth Civic Hall Speakers: G. HEALY (SLL National Secre- tary) WILLIE AITKIN (YS national committee PETER SMITH (Rover shop steward. In personal capacity.)

CORIN REDGRAVE (Equity. In a personal capacity.)

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n: Bound to oppose The Labour Party was split with the right-wing led by Conor Cruise O'Brien towards tending Cosgrove's position and the left, led by David Thornley John O'Connell, pressing for an all-or-nothing showdown with the government. With Lynch in no mood for in concessions, the end, even Labour was forced to pit all its 17 votes against the Bill.

But within Fine Gael the im- mediate consequence of the ex- plosion was to allow the party, which has consistently called for tougher measures against the IRA, to wriggle out of the tight political corner it had recklessly got into. The Friday night terror per- mitted Party members to bow to needs' 'security the moment and abstain. The 'terror bombers' could not RUMOURS in Madrid that the 'Authi' car company— partly-owned by British-Ley- land—was going to abandon the Spanish market have been scotched by the an- nouncement of strengthened investment in Spain. Lord Stokes has plans to take over the complete running and financing of 'Authi' and to carry through important extensions in near Pamplona, the plant in Navarre province. And the establishment of fac- tories in Spain by Ford and General Motors means that the Franco regime is to play host to all the main car monopolies which locked in bitter are struggle for the European market.

On Saturday, Spanish Industry Minister Lopez de Letona held round-table discussion a On Spanish television with many directors of the present car giants already represented in Spain. It was a high-point of a week of discussions in which he has been assuring them that they need have no fears about the appearance of their American rivals in Spain. The massive flight of capital into Spain is accelerating rapidly as the international trade war sharpens. And Franco is a past- master in the diplomatic-game of pleasing all those who will fill the coffers of the Bank of Spain.

The coastal provinces of Bar- celona and Valencia (Levante) are to become centres for this invest- ment. Apart from the Seat plant in Barcelona and the proposed Levante, Ford factory in the capital is behind Pittsburg new steel plant to be constructed in the region. Last week, Prince Juan Carios opened the hrst section of a new container port in Barcelona.

have struck at a more opportune moment. As Conor Cruise O'Brien explained to me, the legislation was phrased in such a way that respecting opposition 'any self was bound to oppose it', even though they had persistently called for something similar.

An earlier unexplained bomb blast Film. Centre, at the O'Connell Bridge, last Saturday week in which 30 people were injured had done little either to stampede public opinion behind Fianna Fail or give the opposition the chance to say that the nation was so imperiled by terrorists that virtually any measure to deal with them was justified.

Then at 8 p.m. on Friday two exploded bombs within minutes of each other at Liberty Hall and outside the CIE hall in Marlborough Street, terrorizing Dublin crowds and changing the political from top to scene bottom. The fear and panic generated by these explosions lasted throughout the weekend, fanned by lurid Press headlines and bomb scares at one time esti- mated at one every four minutes.

Slipped quietly Meanwhile the legislation con- terring virtual powers of dictator- Ship on the Lynch government slipped more or less quietly through the Dail and the Senate and into the hands of President de Valera in the early hours of this morning. Despite the hoaxes guardi and army were reacting with notable calm. There a marked was absence of large numbers of This first unit, which has the capacity to move 60,000 con- tainers a year, makes it one of the largest container ports in Europe. Container traffic has trebled through Barcelona from 9,000 units in 1969 to 28,000 in 1971. The appeal which has just been lodged in the Madrid courts by Lucio Lobato, Spanish Com- munist Party central committee member, gives an indication of why there is so much eagerness to get into Spain. Already Lobato has served long prison sentences on charges of rebellion since the Civil War.

He was arrested again towards

GOUGH WHITLAM,

Australia's new Labour Prime Minister, has no programme to meet: deepening economic crisis which the country is entering. Throughout his campaign Whit- lam talked imaginatively about recognizing China, withdrawing troops from Vietnam and oppos- ing French nuclear tests in the Pacific-but there has been little or no substance to any of his speeches on the Australian economy. Yet there is growing unem- ployment, poverty, slum housing, bad housing and schooling; these problems have been aggravated by the international crisis of capitalism. British capitalism has been bleeding Australia on a more ruthless basis in recent years while the Japanese have turned police or troops in the blast areas at the time of the explosions and even fewer were in evidence on Saturday and Sunday. Although in his address to the nation over Radio Telefis Eireann on Friday night Lynch spoke of the grave threat from evil men, there is little evidence that the government expects this to con- tinue to come from bombers.

Cowardly agents Indeed in view of the denial of responsibility for Friday's blasts issued by both wings of the IRA and by the Ulster Defence Associ- ation, there is a broad current of political opinion suggesting Fianna Fail knows more about the identity of the terrorists than it is prepared to let on.

The Provisional IRA said in a 'The statement: Republican movement respectfully suggest that those responsible were obviously cowardly agents provo- cateur trying to destroy law and order in the south and thereby contributing at a vital moment to the acceptance of the O'Malley repressive Bill.' • IRA Chief-of-Staff Sean Mac- Stiofain, imprisoned at the Curragh camp, was yesterday taking tea, orange juice, water and glucose and an army spokes- man said he was expected to go on to soup and food this week.

There has been no official state- ment from the IRA suggesting MacStiofain may end his 13-day hunger strike. the end of 1970 for organizing the illegal Communist Party.

The secret police gave evi- dence of the holding of classes in a flat which he had rented to discuss statements and theoreti- cal articles. The flat was raided by police who discovered an electric duplicator and leaflets issued by the Workers' Commissions, the illegal trade unions. is Lobato appealing now against the 21-year sentence for these 'crimes' of illegal com- bination and propaganda. • Tomorrow a special feature on the car monopolies in Spain in our centre pages. the country into a gigantic in the quest for raw quarry materials like iron ore, bauxite, coal and copper. When the economic questions have been raised, Whitlam has rested on a crude nationalism ('Australia for the Australian') which is both unrealistic and chauvinistic. As one commentator said at the weekend: greatest do a Wilson. working class knows what that means. The election of Labour after 23 years is in line with a swing to Social Democratic parties in several countries. In recent weeks victories they have won| General Elections in Holland, West Germany and New Zealand.

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Wharf rose 6p to close at 447p That still leaves clear each. capital profit of around £160m.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday December 4, 1972 How successful have the policies of Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Army been since the first civil unrest in Ulster in 1968? IAN YEATS reports in a series of articles based on interviews with leading Republicans, revisionists and reformists on both sides of the border.

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PART FIVE

ism and socialism. Goulding said you no longer but Mac-

MALACHY

needed gunmen, Stiofain said you needed all types in the movement.

MCGURRAN

Until Roy Johnson came on the scene there was no direc-

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so the edu- tion of education, cation officers did not know Goulding was what to (The question of re- mostly involved organiza- in tion, so the bulk of the poli- dis- organization was left programme was cussed at the 1963-1964 Roy Johnson ICP]. There was a stumbling and conference and the two fumbling approach. were main elements of the 1964 One decision Mac- and Gouldling Convention was to get Army with local Stiofain. more in contact issues and the trade unions.

thought the MacStiofain It was left very vague, but organization should stay as it would was and that the Republican the walt on social dispute and then move should Clubs was stay and that the Republican Clubs foreign- in-farms owned by disputes with employers, used screen should LO were OK land, rents and so on. and if they people The thing naturally evolved of view of the point from us having any active the get them into witnout security in it. We stood on the part movement. side lines and sometimes we proposed that it Goulding scrapped and that might be called in. should be Outside Dublin we had been should try create we very weak in the trade unions, revolutionary party. particularly in the north where decided appoint was had a large number you education officers to the units Catholics unemployed. give a deeper to attempt to Internment, the Special Powers Act and ing again.' Inset: the Army waiting on a It was a slow process that we began in 1964 and I feel it is still going on. I think Johnson was used as a whipping boy. Up till 1966- 1967 allegiance was pledged to the IRA Army Council, but.

• with then this was done away and the reds under the beds campaign became very, very strong. Accusations mostly came from intelligence staff and of course MacStiofain was head of intelligence. They said the whole headquarters staff was communist. But we were hung up on attitudes from the 1920s, 1940s and 1950s and the whole notion of handing over power to the army council and the structure of the organiza- tion had to go. It was getting people to realize that social and econo- s Act and the Army-we wanted to get rid of th ting on a street corner. Above : Long Kesh Inte as important mic issues were as the north which was the problem. Right up to 1968 the role of the movement in the south had been to raise funds for the north. A start had to be made rais- ing the economic issues. You had to investigate where the main enemy was in economic terms, but the Provo element was very dubious about this.

1969 produced a reaction where many people went north to help out, but we had no money. In the United States Clanna sending us Gael gave up money after articles appeared in the 'United Irishman' about Vietnam and the blacks. People would not steal to get money. It was all right to go to the gallows with a smile on your face, but wrong to

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Monday to Friday am pm 4 30-6:30 8 9 30 et rid of these so we could start organiz- Kesh Internment Camp. steal. In the end something tried and the two guys was got caught. We decided to organize a new organization in the US and our support came mainly the American-Irish not from the Irish. We tried to get weapons from the Moscow-orientated countries, but we got nothing.

• would have I think Moscow asked the CP here where the weapons were going and the CP said don't give them any- thing because they were afraid would be used the weapons against them. We were only left with the black market traders and the bigger ones always reported where they were selling arms.

After the acts of outright repression in August 1971 there was a feeling there was a need to retaliate to make it

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'Goulding (above) proposed that we party, says Derry Republican leader, Ma clear to the soldiers on the street that they could not kill and get away with it. As the situation got worse the Officials' organization was devoted almost entirely to military operations. Although no one admitted it, there was a campaign. A large-scale retaliation plan was drawn up for Bloody Sunday, including Aldershot. The Best thing finalized it and made many in the move- feel they were in a ment campaign. Things had been allowed to drift to that. We were vying with the Provos.

But Best clearly showed that you can't take an iso- military act without it lated implications. having political The Best episode shocked a lot of Officials out of their apathy. before Motorman' Long some of us thought the barri- cades were a hindrance. The debate was over how they should be removed. 'Motor- man' was one of the best things that happened in the town because it took the bar- ricades down. to start building politically.

Internment, the Special Powers Act and the army- we wanted to get rid of these so we could start organizing again. Our position on the Green Paper is that it ignores the main issues. It is not so much the national issue but the social and economic issues affecting a wider section of the population. The problems are unem- ployment and housing and these are issues where it does matter whether Heath, not Lynch or a condominium of working class Catholics and Protestants are in power, we are not going to be better ofi.

We have had tenants' and housing committees and the unemployed action committee, but the results were not com- ing in fast enough. The unemployed had a march and it lasted one or two hours and that was it.

Everybody went home. Our crowd drifted out of the un- employed action committee and the tenants' association.

If we reactivate them, what are they to be? Are they to be pressure groups or what are they to be? What demands do you raise that can be re- lated to practical action? Do we attempt to force White- law to keep open a factory or do we take it over? If we take it over should we try to produce something at the factory? One of our difficulties is that our organization lacks knowledge of the trade union movement in any kind of re- volutionary struggle. Some sections say the trade unions are part of the bourgeois system. eader, Malachy McGurran. think the of the Republican today is building tionary movement. the nation see how and the economic related. Whether social mic conditions are Catholics ants at this stage questonable think there w be political sectarian unity aro I don't think yo a revolutionary a class organizatior have people you purely nationalist 1 terms of repression The problem have emotional an to the idea of nati unfortunate republican moveme made up of Catholi In 1969 the two sides apar in whick ane dear under were had to defend yo best you could. Many thought they even though they 1 same conaltons felt the civil rights could have helped never a houses and jobs We just wi Lallls. for all of us. "the Protestant r fragmented at want defe and they asy for them to right as moment idea of National So have a good chanc away with it. It would be shor the damage it wo the repression und be ten times greate thing we have had. Eventually divorce the and north from what Ent and. would through the movement that th British and Irish v be brought about. We must and the | Feathers the trade must be revoluti politicized. The entry of Common the be the seen as capitalist class, no complementar ment of the work left. The Labour Par protest and it must this stage simply valve. For the time be it is only within the context of Ireland.

CONTINUED TON

vant defence. It is as hem to move to the left. At the could raise the tional Socialism and od chance of getting 1 be short-lived, but e it would do and sion under it would les greater than any- cannot he struggle in the of Ireland colla it is going in on d think it will be trade union that the unity d Irish workers will rid of the get ind the Joneses and union movement revolutionized and try of Britain int Market should of the unity but there is lementary develop- the workers on the bour Party lives off d it must be seen at simply as a release time being I think practical to work ontext

JED TOMORROW

BY JUAN GARCIA

The co-operation between the governments of Pom- pidou and Franco has just received the blessing of the 'liberal' 'Le Mon- de. It is worth noting some details of this alliance for 'European unity. Michel Debré, Minister of National Defence, signed an agreement in Madrid on June 22, 1970, which crowned months of exchange visits of French and Spanish generals.

military The accord guarantees close collaboration between the armaments industry of the two countries, including the divisions of missiles and munitions; for land, sea and air use; joint educational programmes and the concession of facilities for joint refuelling and manoeuvres.

SAME

POLITICAL VIEW

Debré, pouring contempt on the pleas and parliamentary questions from the French Stalinists, said: 'Spain and France have the same political point of view, the same principles concerning independence and national international co-operation. We here to make certain came technical but agreements, political the realizing fully will necessities which make our countries march side by side in the coming years.'

Banner headlines on the front-page of the Falangist daily, 'El Alcazar' ('The Castle') 'Madrid-Paris-a screamed: political axis'. The Burgos trials upset co- making operation only by progress a little more difficult in Paris; the trials cut through the warm picture of liberal,

THE REAL FACE

technocratic angry workers. the went on an I saw ing military Nothing and saw expect to deputy, schumann: this facto" Schumann Stalinist these were malucuvic. The have dance easily were The trapped by questions. anité' prints warm protest fascist CP tells Kremlin military and European ference froing. Well September Press projected of trench dis- SOOt tour, interest- installations. me • did not joint air-force Communist to Maurice "de assured the that 'only joint strictly having protest. and French Party odd luke- Visiting the Spanish working of the in this which Market Security Con- toing-and- Pompidou's conference ress, Monday December 4, 1972 PAGE 5 invitation to Spain to join the EEC, back in January 1971, he spoke of the need for a new 'centre of gravity' in Europe in reference to Spain and France. Maurice in Schumann Madrid in June in the same year refused to meet leaders of the 'democratic opposition' yet spoke of his meeting with Franco with real exuberance and spirit: 'General Franco made a real profession faith in of Europe. . . France will be the persistent advocate for Spain to get preferential agreements with the EEC!

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HARASSMENT

The touching expression of faith has been expressed in exchanges between Enrique Ramal, Franco's Mini- Garcia ster of Trade-Union Affairs the man responsible for the fascist vertical unions - and French minister Bettencourt.

aimed at The talks are organizing Spanish immigrants in France in the fascist union in order to keep them away from the 'subversive' CGT.

The police and legal now continuously measures harassing French workers are the other side of Pompidou's preparations of dictatorship and alliance with Franco.

If any worker in Europe has any illusions about the fight their Stalinist leaderships will lead against dictatorship, he should compare the quarter-of an-hour national strike engineering called against the trial of nine Berliet workers by the CGT with the military alliance which has been quietly 1970 proceeding since June between Pompidou and fascist Spain. Below: Franco with France's Minister of National Defence, Michel Debré after signing.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday December 4, 1972

BY ALEX MITCHELL

to take up self-imposed exile In 1952 the Committee in Europe. on Un-American A cti. and again the Every now vities was in its prime. committee turned up a coup who The capitalist Press witness, someone was was prepared to talk to the com- feeding off the daily inter- mittee and At name rogation and presecution February 10.47 6, a.m. on such a witness entered of trade union activists, 1952, Representative the chamber. civil servants, academics, John S. Wood, the committee's directors, and actors, chairman, brought the room to said: "The a hush when he musicians. committee will be in order.

Broad sections of the left- Turning to the committee's lived in fear wing movement Mr full-time staff member, of receiving a subpoena com- Frank Tavenner, he inquired: pelling them to appear before 'Who do you have this the committee and its battery morning?' radio and Press oi television, Mr Harvey Tavenner: M. representatives. Many prin- Matusow. cipled refused to people Wood: Will you stand and be tify. Others left the country sworn? Do you solemnly swear that the evidence you shall give to this sub-committee, shall be the truth, the whole nothing but the truth and truth, so help you God? Matusow: I do. Matusow, Tavenner: Mr would you please state your full name and present address?

Matusow: Harvey M. Matu- 1308 Grand Avenue, sOW, Dayton, Ohio. Tavenner: When and where were you born, Mr Matusow?

Matusow: October 3, 1926, in the Bronx, NY. .Tavenner: What has been your educational training? Matusow: I attended public and high school in the Bronx, NY. I attended Biarritz Ameri- can University in France, while I was in the Army, and City College of New York for about a year and a half after the war.

Tavenner: Will you please out- line for the committee, briefly, what your employment back- ground has been, including any periods of active duty in the armed services of the United States? Matusow: Well, in 1944, I was inducted into the infantry, United States Army. I served in the Army until 1946. I then held a job at Grey Agency in Advertising New York City. I did some radio and television work for Noel Wesley Productions, in New York. I worked for People's Songs, ey M. Inc., in New York City; the Jefferson School, Communist Jefferson and be Book Shop, the Party of New York City; the Wholesale Book Corporation; Camp Unity in Wingdale, NY, and the Workers Book Shop in New York City. I then worked for Bon Air Conditioning Co in New York City, then entered the and States Air Force United 1951, the Reserve; was called to active duty. I was in the Air Force until December 11, 1951. In January of this year !

employee of the became an Ohio Un-American Activities Commission for the State of Ohio. Tavenner: Mr Worker Matusow, the of May 31, 'Daily 1949, at page 6, lists you as a member of the Communist Party in New York City. Were you a member of the Com- munist Party at the time re- the Daily ferred to 1n Worker? Matusow: I was. Tavenner: When did you join the party, the Communist Party? Matusow: I joined the Com- munist Party in October 1947, in New York City. Tavenner: How long did you remain a member of the Com- munist Party, and under what circumstances was your mem- bership in the Communist Party terminated? Matusow: I was a member of the Communist Party until January 19, 1951. I was expelled from the Communist Party for, as the party termed it, being an enemy agent. I was suspected as being an OSS agent in the Communist Party.

working Tavenner: Were you in an undercover capacity for any government agency at that time? Matusow: I was. About Jan- uary or February of 1950, I made contact with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York and offered to give information that I them any might get pertaining to com- and from munist activities, that time until January 1951, I did furnish the FBI with in- formation about communist activities in New York and New Mexico. By this point the Press benches were straining to hear word from the young every man in the witness box. This was good copy. Matusow gave evidence for the next day and a half. It was sensational stuff.

He described in exhaustive detail the mechanism of youth recruitment of the American Communist Party. He named the leading members of the youth groups, gave their ad- dresses, the names of their organizations and their modus operandi. At the same time he im- a number of well plicated known artists. • 'There was Paul Robeson Junior. I might say all the people I will list here attended caucuses and classes party with me at the camp that were only open to Communist Party members. He told me that he was educated in the Soviet Union and had come back to the United States and went to University. He Cornell was very active in the Communist Party in Harlem. Paul Robe- son Junior is now very active in the Labour Youth League and one of their leaders in Harlem, nationally. They used his name quite a bit ... he was very much in favour of of the Soviet the system Union and did say he would like to see more of that over here.' • 'I joined People's Songs in September of 1947 and imme- diately became active in orga- nizing a Bronx chapter of the organization. There was Communist Party cell within People's Pete Seeger. Songs. He is a member of the sing- ing group, The Weavers. Irvin Wally Hallie, Jean Fox, Silber, Sanders, Neal Pelidorie, Betty Leonard Jacobson. The officers whose names I have just read were all members of the Com- munist Party cell operating in People's Songs .. • 'Well, People's Songs took the question of American folk music and square dancing and brought it, you might say, to the big Many people, city. such as Pete Seeger and name I didn't mention before, Woody Guthrie, who wrote "So Long, It's Been the song, Good To Know You". and a member of the who was group, had done such field and research on the trips question of folk music, and they had quite an extensive library folk and music, on they attracted the young Matusow named dozens of artists wwy mittee. Left: Woody Guthrie. Top: Pete Sees Below: McCarthy (right) who headed the w wing movement, with Roy Cohn, an aide.

what they called people to hoot-nannies, or a wing-ding, which was a small scale hoot- nannie.' • 'Pearl Bernstein and Elmer Bernstein. Mr Bernstein has since been to Hollywood and I believe he had done the music for one motion picture that I saw. I don't recall the title right now, but it is a pic- ture that has been released within the last six weeks. He did the musical score for that picture. I also met Mr Bern- stein at a similar place to Camp Unity in New Mexico' Testifying about the New Mexico camp, he said: 'Some of the guests there were Elmer and Pearl Bern- stein, who were mentioned before having worked at Camp Unity, and as members of the Communist Party of New York. They were guests at the ranch on their way to Cali- fornia where he did the music for one or more pictures; one that I know of. was on my way to Cali- fornia at the time ... I was out there and I spent a week there, and after spending a week there, I just stayed on, and during all that period fur- nished reports to the FBI on the activities at the ranch.'

• 'Earl Robinson. Mr Robin- the of son was composer Ballad for Americans and a number of Hollywood scena- rios, the music for some pic- tures out there. He had at one time been employed at Camp Unity, which we mentioned. I also met Mr Robinson in New dozens of artists and folksingers to the com- rie. Top: Pete Seeger. Above : The Weavers.

who headed the witch-hunt against the left- York on one of his singing tours, and at that time he was identified to me as a member of the Communist Party.' During the rest of the first day's hearing Matusow rattled off dozens of names for the committee and provided brief sketches of their party work and their place in the hier- archy. Here are just some of the people he named: Craig Vin- cent, Ernie Lieberman, Lee Hays, Horace Grennel, Cisco Huston, Ben Bordofsky, Ben Sidney Finkelstein, Pascoff, Morris Schappes, Jack Foner, Herbert Kruckman, Clara Ostrowsky, Dolly Mason, Net- tie Rubenstein, Samuel Sillen, William Vila, George Squier, John W. Darr, Richard Mor- ford, James • Durkin, Alpheus Ferdinand C. Smith, Hunton, Milton Wolff, William L. Pat- terson, Norma Aaronson, Carl Abrams, Sidney Ballinger, Rose Baron, Ethel Beach. Harold Bernz, Joe Bucholt, Sue Buckingham, Diez Callen, Mario Casatta, Adrian Clai- borne, James Coleman, Jesus Colon, Roger Daniels, Bernice Lou Diskin. Louis Engler, Sey- Sam Drucker. mour Finkel, Enid Fogel, Jean Fox, Freeman, Mort Lillian Gates, Harry Gay, Vicki Gott- Green, lied, Adolph Jack Greenspan, Michael •Quill, Liz Halpern, Betty Haufricht, James Hutchinson, Richard Ireland, Leonard Jacobson, Joe Jaffe, Oscar James, Jerry Jaro- Clint Jenks, Harry Kel- Workers Press, Monday D dauer etc. etc. And throughout the day Matusow kept up a steady flow of details which delighted the reactionary jackals on the committee and in the capi- talist Press. The following day Matusow again took the stand. The newspapers were going wild with excitement. Overnight he had become an immense cele- brity. Representative Clyde Doyle opened the hearing by saying: 'Mr Matusow, I have not had the pleasure or benefit of discussing the subject matter of your experiences with you to these several ques- prior tions I am asking you. I did enjoy your testimony yester- day... But I am perhaps es- pecially interested in the angle of your experiences and con- clusions because have you been intimately a part of the communistic programme as regards the youth of America' Doyle asked Matusow if he ideas for 'remedial had any legislation' to deal with the "communist menace'. Matusow: I have found in the past and from the work of this committee, when I was in the most elective j0b in immobi- Communist that the lizing communist activities is by a means of exposing, and take by that quarantining members of the Communist Party. Their effectiveness and use- fulness no longer is important to the party. They cannot go anywhere where they are not known as members of the Communist Party. People know them as such and, as 1 say, they cannot subtly indoc- trinate young people or other people in industry. They cannot, in many cases, use political call- issues to wildcat strikes. When these people are im- mobilized, as I say, they are quarantined. The question of outlawing the Communist Party will not do anything but push them down, little deeper say underground. I believe very firmly that the party does not have a place in the American way of life, and I come to that conclusion because it does not stand for what we adhere to in this country. The actual question of out- lawing the party, I don't think, is of importance. Passing legis- lation to forbid Communists to hold certain positions in Government is good and very effective. The question of communists in certain basic industry has not been taken up in too much detail. There are still many communists in industry and key industry. Doyle: Do you mean that we ought to consider passing a law that a member of the Communist Party could not occupy certain strategic posi- tions in American industry be- cause he is a Communist? Matusow: That is correct, sir.

There were further delica- cies for the committee. Matu- sow testified that Party mem- bers were told to use the first and fifth amendments of the US Constitution if called to give evidence. He said: Well, that is definitely the line, anybody who is sub- is instructed, defi- poenaed nitely, to use the statement, l believe, "I refuse to answer on the grounds that it might incriminate me"... Doyle: Then, do I understand that that answer, as given by those who are still commu- nists, when they come before the committee, or who per- haps have been known to us communists, generally as speaking, the reason they give is because they that answer have been instructed to do so by the American Communist Party leaders? Matusow: That to my know- ledge is correct. sweeping This statement had the diabolical effect of Communist implying Party membership for all those re- ers Press, Monday December 4, 1972 PAGE 7 luctant witnesses who had claimed immunity under the Constitution and refused to answer the red-baiters' ques- tions. Before he completed his evi- dence Matusow had some other gems. Talking about activities of the Greenwich Village branch, he said: 'Questions of sexual im- morality were quite common- place and still are. I know of two young women who were still in their teens, one who has had, I believe, two abor- tions, and one ... who was pregnant for the first time, just in high school and not married and a member of the Communist Party.' Mr Velde: Generally, would you say that the sexual im- morality or sex instinct played a great part in the recruiting of members into the Commu- nist Party? Matusow: I will phrase it this way: That if they felt the end would justify the means, in that case, it was used. In their recruiting attempts, the com- munists will pick out your weakness, be it sex, then sex will be used to recruit you.

In closing Matusow's testi- Wood mony Representative didn't hide his gratitude to the star witness. 'Permit me, sir,' Wood said, 'to also convey the to you very deep appreciation that the committee feels for your coming here and giving us this testimony.' Mr Velde said: You cer- tainly have given us some very crystal-clear testimony ... I want to congratulate you for a fine showing here before this committee. I wish you the best of luck in your new job as counsel or investigator for the Ohio Un-American Activ- ¡ties Commission.' Matusow: Thank you, sır..

PS Matusow, the man Harvey credited with naming 180 alleged Communist Party mem- bers during the McCarthy lives in a hearings, now cottage in Essex. He has a big following among media trendies and the 'underground'. His crowning in August this success was when he year staged an on 'environmental exhibition art' at the Roundhouse on the fringes of Hampstead. He writes regularly for the arts pages of 'The Guardian' and is a contributor to a number of 'radical' publica- tions. The former McCarthy aide pleaded guilty to six charges of perjury in 1955 when he stated that his evidence to the Un-American Activities Sub- committee was false. sentenced to six was years' jail, but this was later reduced. Explaining why he false testimony to the gave committee, letter was produced from Matusow to stated: 1 McCarthy which would do anything for a buck?

In his diary he wrote: 'At first it was a strange feeling to see my picture in the news- but then, like a dope papers, addict, I began to crave for • • publicity and more publicity, a never-ending chain that only brings more and more dishonesty.' Since arriving to settle in Britain Matusow has again become the centre of wide publicity. In 1966 he became of the London chairman Film-makers' Co-operative; 1968 he was a founder mem- ber of the International Society for the Abolition of Data Pro- cessing Machines; 1969 he formed a pop group called the Jews Harp Band; 1970 he staged an exhibition at the New Arts Lab called Drak Touch, a 'feelie' show. His Roundhouse production this year-ICES (International Carnival Experimental Sound)-received impressive coverage in the capitalist Press and was attended by London's 'swinging set'. Matusow is still making a buck!

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday Decemb A new series of articles by Jack with the situation in Ceylon.

On October 29 the revi- sionist 'Unified Secre- tariat of the Fourth International' issued a statement headed 'Hea- lyites Smear Bala Tam- poe® Intended as a reply to the articles on Ceylon published in Workers Press on October 18, 19, 20 and 21, the statement was published in Interconti- nental Press' a journal edited by Mr Joseph Hansen, a lead- ing member of the American Socialist Workers Party. of this series In the course we are reproducing this state- ment because it reveals a great deal of the political techniques of those revisionists who com- prise the 'Unified Secreteriat'.

We are also publishing the documents of the Ceylon Com- mission set up by the 'Unified Secretariat' in 1969. These are reproduced from the Ameri- can journal 'Spartacist' of autumn this year. Although we have definite and clearly-defined political differences with the 'Spartacist' group, there can be no doubt that these documents are genuine. As such they are of interest to all who are concerned with the development of Trotskyism and the struggle against revi- in the Fourth inter- sionism national. They reveal a political scan- dal of enormous proportions— a besmirching of the name of Trotskyism almost without parallel. the worst culprits are But not Bala Tampoe and his asso- ciates in Ceylon. The most de- generate political renegades are the leaders of the Unified Secretariat-Ernest Mandel, Livio Maitan and Pierre Frank.

By their dishonesty and politi- these people play into the Stalinists who have always lyingly accused Trotskyists of such crimes as these. is Joseph Equally guilty Hansen of the SWP which, for cannot be a legal reasons, member of the Unified Secre- tariat but shares political res- ponsibility for these events.

These people-while lyingly and slanderously accusing the Socialist Labour League of degeneration'-h a ve 'deep , covered up for a member of their International Executive who, without a Committee of doubt, has asso- shadow ciated with the Central Intelli- gence Agency (CIA) and com- mitted other crimes against the oppressed workers and pea- sants in Ceylon. We make it clear that the rank-and-file members of the sections of the United Secre- tariat do not share the guilt their leaders. There are of many sincere people in the ranks of these sections who wish to build a revolutionary international. But now this matter has been dragged into the open, they must examine it carefully -and, above all, demand to know why their leaders sought to hush it up and even now protect Tampoe to continue and retain him in their inter- national leadership. The ranks of the Unified Secretariat have a political res- ponsibility. If they do not now challenge their leaders on these questions and demand a full inquiry into this political scan- y December 4, 1972 by Jack Gale dealing especially dal, then they are just as guilty of a political crime as Mandel and company. In May of this year-tollow- ing a visit to Ceylon by a member or supporter_of the group-Edmund Spartacist Samarakkody, a former mem- ber of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary) LSSP(R) and of the Unified Secretariat's International Executive Com- mittee, wrote to "Spartacist' and forwarded the documents of the "Ceylon Commission', together with a minority re- port submitted by its Indian member. Together with the Unified Secretariat statement, we re- print Samarakkody's here letter and the two Commission reports. May 26, 1972 Dear Comrade Gordon, received your letter of May 12, 1972. Regarding your inquiry on the authenticity of the two typewritten documents entitled 'Report of the Commission on Ceylon of the Ninth World Congress of the Fourth Inter- national' and [Indian dele- gate's] Report-Ceylon Ques- tion' both of which I handed to Comrade Bill L. when he was recently in Ceylon, I may inform you as follows: I attended the Ninth World Congress of the Fourth Inter- 1 Secretariat) national (United held in Europe from April 11 to 19 1969 as a member of the International Executive Com- mittee elected at the Eighth Congress in 1965. At this Con- gress (Ninth Congress) a Com- mission was appointed to in- quire into the circumstances leading to, and the politics of the split in the LSSP(R) in 1968 and the request of the RSP that it be recognized as of the International. The Fourth Commission consisted of the North America, from Switzerland, a senior delegate China and India, each from and a delegate from Japan designated who, however, was not present]. [The Indian delegate] left the Congress on the 17th. leaving [the Indian Before delegate] handed me a copy of his report which he stated was a minority report and . which he left with the Commission. I returned his report to. Ithe Indian delegate] after taking a true copy of it. I informed [the Indian delegate] that I had taken a copy of it. On April 19, two days after, the Ceylon question came up for consideration before the Congress. The report of the Commission was read out in open Congress by a member of the Commission and translated Simultaneously to other lan- guages. Copies of the report were handed to Tampoe and me. I raised with the Com- mission the question of the minority report of [the Indian delegate] a copy of which I said was with me. I displayed this copy of the [Indian delegate's] report and re- the Commission to quested table this report. The spokes- man for the Commission there- upon admitted that [the Indian delegate] had submitted a report but that it was not a minority report. When my turn Bala Tampoe, leader of the revisionist 1 (CIA) and whose friends in the Unified S for intervention in the Ceylon question came I quoted exten- from sively the indian delegate's] report without being challenged in regard to the accuracy of it. At the end of the deliber- ations on the Ceylon question Praesidium collected the copies of the report of the Commission that were in the hands of the translators and also ihe copies that had • been handed over to me and Tam- poe. I however had with me my copies of the Commission report and [the Indian dele- gate's] report made by me from the originals in that regard when these were handed over to me by [a North American Commission member] and [the Indian delegate] respectively. I am in a position therefore to state that the copies of these two reports that I handed over to Comrade L. are true copies of the Ceylon Commission report and of the [Indian dele- visionist LSSP(R) who has associated with th • Unified Secretarlat, Mandel, Maitan, Frank and gate's] report. You are free to give publicity to these reports. I agree with 'the that you scandalous revelations will be a service to the struggle to rebuild the Fourth International. Yours fraternally, [signed] Edmund Samarakkody Secretary Revolutionary Samasamaja Party Report of the Com- mission on Ceylon The Commission had to deal with the following matters:- (a) A request by the RSP led by Comrade Edmund not to allow Comrade Bala to sit in the Congress because as an 'agent of the class enemy' he world would endanger the movement. This request was in the Commission. reiterated and in front of the Congress ed with the Central Intelligence Agency Frank and Hansen, now cover up for him.

charging Bala explicitly with being a 'CIA agent' (b) A written request of the RSP to disaffiliate the LSSP(R) led by Comrade Bala, as the section of the 4th International and to recognize the RSP as the Ceylon section of the 4th International. A written (C) request by Comrade Karalasingham his tendency that neither the

LSSP(R)

nor the RSP be recognized the Ceylon as section of the 4th International by this Congress. Concerning the charges that Comrade Bala is an agent of the enemy class, on the basis of documents submitted by Comrade Edmund and Bala and after hearing extensively from the two comrades the Commission [found] that the accusation that Comrade Bala is 'an agent of the class enemy'.

or an 'agent of the CIA' was totally unsubstantiated by Comrade Edmund. To make such a grave charge was totally irresponsible on the part of Comrade Edmund and should be condemned by the World Congress. All members of the Com- mission were able to agree on one point; while the leadership of a large militant union by a comrade of the 4th Inter- national might be an important achievement, the close Inter- relationship between the Cey- lon Mercantile Union (CMU) —a union of 30,000 white collar workers with its own political needs-and a small party of some 50 members a large percentage of whom either belong to the union or hold leadership positions in that union inevitably results in a tendency to subordinate the party line and actions of the party to the needs of the trade union policy. Such a situation is dangerous even if the com- rades involved start with the best revolutionary intentions.

It was with this question that the Commission was cen- trally concerned. The Commis- sion did not feel it was in a position to fully examine the policies of Comrade Bala in his Union. We were concerned only with the possible subordi- nation of party policies to the needs of the union, and the serious problems posed by the dual position of Comrade Bala as secretary of the LSSP(R).

The Commission felt that some of the actions and poli- cies of Comrade Bala and the LSSP(R) brought to our atten- tion by Comrade Edmund and not denied by Comrade Bala could have seriously damaged the reputation of Comrade Bala as a revolutionary leader, compromised the 4th Inter- national in Ceylon and [could] have been exploited by all the enemies of our movement. In this context, we refer especially to the following examples:— (a) A series of incidents which together constitute com- promisingly close relations be- tween Comrade Bala and the embassies or mis- Ceylonese sions of the imperialist coun- tries. (1) A trip to the US in the summer of 1967, financed by the Asia Foundation. (2) His acceptance of a small private luncheon invita- tion at the residence of the British High Commissioner, during the 1966 plantation workers strike-a luncheon was also attended by that Thondaman, a trade union was playing an leader who strikebreaking role open against the plantation workers.

(3) His attendance at a small dinner party at the West German Embassy for visiting Chancellor Kiesinger. (b) A letter to the sent Ceylonese Prime Minister on January 22 1966 by Comrade Bala in his capacity as union General Secretary, concerning emergency in state of the which he implied support for the imposition of a curfew in response to the 'violence' that occurred in Colombo. (This letter is included in bulletin March 17 1969.) (c) Comrade Bala's policy in regard to the struggle against devaluation of the rupee in 1967. November - December The CMU did not support the strike that took place at that private time in the sector. Serious questions are raised concerning why the LSSP(R) did not take the lead in fight- ing for united action by all the trade unions and working- parties against devalua- class tion. Again on these charges and in other similar ones we did not attempt to pass judgement on the policies of the CMU, subordination of but on the the policies of the LSSP(R) to the union, as in none of these instances is there any evidence that the party took what the Commission considered policy consistent with revolu- tionary Marxism. The Commission unanimous in these actions. While they or coul were tremely compromis felt they comrades explained in Ceylonese political life; union were totally unjustif With of the rade Edmund, nized as the Internati The Commission lished the following (1) that this grou the LSSP(R) before operated faction within the i (2) that its claim pulation of the April 1968 LS. ference 1S since at this confe tendencies recerved number of votes as ference of June 196' (3) that while Co mund's tendency granted any sentation at this 19 either ence. Committee or as the controlling Press, and th fusal of representat to Trotskyis al y Comrade split one week afte without co even Secretariat in advan vious letters had clearly retariat opposed to an was the

LSSP(R).

(4) that upon forming issued a dec quickly the public not only nouncing its break, ing Comrade the Cevon section. of the an enemy and in a thinly dis of an agent Ceylon tured full statement Bala Comrade had just ended a l (5) Finally in its letterhead of the 4th Internat On the basis of tain of evidence th of report the begins with-the ne Tampoe! LcuL political crisis the Unified tion in Ceylon is pi the problems change from the to small explanation the Unified to lose its mass pa All this report is to patch everytt the hope that tional change (Tan render of his post of the CMU) woul everything righ put Tampoe, of most reluctant to comfortable and Illally recommendatior nental Press' ring proudly to Tan secretary of his uni We publish here mendations report of the revisic Commission On the basis • disputed facts had this mission after and lengthy consideration, the ( unanimously recom following conclusio (1) It is the dut Bala against rade

RSP

to withdraw aerous ana dallag tions publicly and propriate manner. (2) The split LSSP(R) in only the last of mission was not evaluating all as. While all agreed or could be, ex- impromising, some might be the context of political and trade others felt they / unjustifiable. headed by Com- to be recog- the clearly this group while in R) before the split undeclared an hin the part! its claim of man attendance of 1968 LSSP(R) con- extremely dubious is conference both received the same votes as in the con- June 1967. while Comrade Ed- was not minority repre- It this 1968 confer- Central the or on bodies such trolling body of the , and that this re- presentation is con- practice, 1 rotskyist Edmund's group veek after this con- thout consulting or the Inter in advance. In pre- United Sec- stated clearly it ed to any splits in splitting or

RSP,

group InIs ued a declaration to not only simply an- s break, but attack Bala, leader of section, openly as of the working class hinly disguised way the

CIA.

The Press fea- ot this gravely accusing whose union nded a large strike. its Press and

RSP

the has proclaimed itself section y International. basis of this moun- idence the materia Commission -the need to pro- The Choris 'isis that has beset Secretariat's lon is put down to of adjusting to from mass No is given of how mass party. everything up, organiza- an nge (Tampoe's sur U) would somehow course, was tant to give up his trade union post weeks after this 'Interconti- was still refer- to Tampoe as the ish here the recom- the majority basis of the un- Com- facts the established, lengthy and serious the Commission ly recommends the conclusions to the he dut of the 4th al to defend Com these slan- damaging icly and in an ap- from the April was of last of a series crises and breakaways that have beset the LSSP(R) since its founding in the necessary break from the LSSP. One of the reasons for these periodic crises is that the leadership of the LSSP(R), or at least a part of it, could not adapt itself to the new reality of a reduced size of the party and tried to operate as they did during the days of the mass LSSP. The Unified Secretariat was stating completely correct in that there was no principled political basis for the split of the Edmund group from the LSSP(R). The 4th Interna- tional hopes that eventually all Trotskyist forces in Ceylon will be able to unite their efforts in one organization.

at this time, However the latest split and the wounds it has caused being too recent to allow the two groups to func- tion seriously as one. (3) The evidence placed be- fore the Commission tends to the conclusion that support the policies followed by Com- Bala-especially in his rade dual role as CMU secretary and as LSSP(R) secretary— were gravely compromising to the 4th International. The Commission was not in a position to get a clear enough picture of the policies of Comrade Bala in the con- crete circumstances of Ceylon and the LSSP(R) to propose that this section be dissaffili- ated by the World Congress.

But we strongly feel the need for further investigation of this matter. We therefore recommend the establishment of small Commission com- posed of experienced com- rades, preferably including at least one comrade able to speak the languages of Ceylon who could investigate the case by going to that country. At the same time, of course, the FI should not only investigate, but should try to help the LSSP(R) concretely in its work. Specifically the we urge World Congress the following: (1) That the leading bodies of the International be in- structed to appoint a small in- vestigating committee along mentioned above. the lines This committee will submit a report of its findings and its recommendations for action to the next meeting of the IEC.

(2) That the EC act with all possible speed on the recom- mendations of this committee to disaffiliate he LSSP(R) as the Ceylon section of the 4th International if it feels this is the proper action. (3) That until the EC otherwise, decides the LSSP(R) remains the Ceylon section of the FI and thus given all possible should be assistance in its work by all bodies of the International.

(4) That the double function of Comrade Bala as the secre- tary of both the CMU and the terminated section be as rapidly as possible. (5) The RSP would not be recognized as the Ceylon sec- tion were there not even already a recognized section in Ceylon. The unacceptable methods by which this ten- dency carried through its fac- tional fight before and after the split dictate a very reserved attitude on this question. We appeal to the RSP to prove its loyalty to the FI in renouncing at once the pretension of being the recognized section, by retracting the above men- tioned attacks of a factional [nature] upon the LSSP(R) and its leadership, and by this means prepare the eventual re- grouping of the Trotskyist forces of Ceylon in a united section. • Tomorrow we will publish the report of the Indian Chair- man of the Commission-who called for the disaffiliation of the LSSP(R) from the United Secretariat. We will also pub- lish the minutes of the Third World Congress of the United Secretariat since the 1964 re- unification dealing with Ceylon.

Workers Press, Mo Care for a magazine and news- paper rack which falls over at a touch? The Elektron supply association of Lwow in Ukraine can provide it, to- gether with an assortment of unwanted other consumer goods. The Elektron group consists of factories in heavy industry which were encouraged to pro- consumer goods as duce a sideline. But the project hasn't worked out too well. Besides the newspaper racks, it turns out old-fashioned cuff- links which can't be sold of inferior flasks thermos quality and large quantities of badges (depicting what is not clear), which nobody wants.

Perhaps the badges show. Khrushchev—or even Stalin!

case, nobody In any wants them. Of the 80 enterprises in the Lwow region permitted to produce consumer goods as a sideline, only 31 sent exhibits to a recent exhibition. Even these are accused of trying to produce items which will bring in a large amount of money regardless of quality or utility.

It is one more instance of mismanagement which the bureaucracy itself is unablé to conceal and which evokes the anger of Soviet consumers.

A man aged 75 recently ap- peared at Old Street magis- strates court, London, charged with stealing 16p worth of sweets in Hackney. He elected jury. The to go for trial by police told the magistrate that the initial decision to prose- was taken by British cute Home Stores. British Home Stores, own- 95 stores, increased its ing trading profit between 1970- 1971 and 1971-1972 from £8.21m to £11.34m and in- creased its dividend payments from £2.88 to £3.86m. In 1970-1971 the top paid direc- tor of British Home Stores received £25,000. That same year the company £1,050 to British donated United Industrialists-a fund- raising agency for the Conser- vative Party. Information: Inbour Research Department Press, Monday December 4, 1972 PAGE 9 in Bir- Embarrassing scenes mingham the other night when City takeover wizard Jim Slater was hosting a mighty banquet new merchant to launch banking branch. The guest of honour was His Worship the Labour Mayor of Birmingham.

During his official speech the mayor kept turning to his host and thanking him. Unfortunately, he kept call- ing him 'Mr Walker', instead of Mr Slater. Which sort of under- is Peter Walker. Above: His partner and businessman in his own right, Jim Slater. The other half of standable. Slater-Walker Securities the empire is Peter Walker, the new Tory Secretary for Trade and Industry. When he joined the Heath Cabinet in 1970 he law to give was required by up his interests with the family firm. But I suppose he does visit his old mate Jim once in a while - which in turn must make it difficult for some people to distinguish between the two of them.

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JAPANESE

AUTOS ON

THEIR WAY

Watch out for a big in- and would be the biggest car- handling port in the country.

crease in the importation is Japan's second big- Nissan of Japanese-made cars in gest motor company and the coming weeks. The manufactures cars year for the European market.

main port of entry will be Since February this year the Tees Docks. than more 20,000 cars have been brought through the Tees, Mr S. Wright, manager of the Tees and Hartlepool Port at first only by feeder vessels loaded Rotterdam. But Authority, for Oslo leaves the dock strike deep- the next week to dis- during. since sea vessels have arrived direct Datsun the handling of cuss from Japan bringing up to car imports with various ship- 2,000 cars at a time. ping lines. If the authority pulls off the If the talks are successful deal, cars destined for the the Tees will become a centre Continent would be taken off for transhipping to the Cals deep-sea from coming

VESSES

well Continent as Japan and transhipped to the base for the British porting Continent on feeder vessels.

market. for In preparation this big Mr Wright said the Tees expansion a new £700,000 roll- could be receiving more than on, roll-off terminal will come 100,000 Datsun cars a year into service in January.

A TORY

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Name.. Address.. Birmingham Small Arms, the world famous motor- cycle making group, is appealing to the Tory government for a £6m hand-out. Only a year it was ago Barclays Bank which bailed out the company with a £10m loan.

profits BSA's have been sliding since 1968. In that year the company boasted a profit of £3.3m, while in the year ended July 1972 losses and write-ofis amounted to the same amount. The previous year was the worst on record when losses totalled £8.2m. At one stage the whole of the Birmingham operation looked like closing down with hundreds workers being thrown on the dole. In the financial and man- agerial reorganization Lord Shawcross, chairman of the City Takeover Panel, became chairman and chief executive.

In his first report to share- holders he gave a bleak view of future prospects. He said the losses would not be reduced in the next financial year. 'We shall continue to work towards a break-even result, was his uncomforting news. The weekly journal, "In- vestors Chronicle', is also less enthusiastic about BSA. than 'Certainly trading prospects, in view of intense Japanese com- fashion petition and the element of the business, are not bright. And with a financial crisis blowing up a bidder is unlikely to emerge.' The company is currently pinning its hopes on aid worth £6m from the government. There will be strong resistance with such a sum to parting even if it is going to such a Tory worthy as Lord Shaw- cross. (As Sir Hartley Shaw- he Labour crosS was a Attorney-General. But he has since become the most long fearless defender of all Tory institutions and policies.)

BSA already has consider- able overdrafts amounting to £6.3m, of which Export Credit Guarantee Department loans total £5m. 'Investors Chronicle' tells its readers: 'Whether or not BSA gets the £6m government aid it is looking for, there is no investment attraction at the current level.' Its advice to shareholders—Sell, SELL! Plans are now being drawn up for an all-out trade war over the lucra- tive European computer market. They will pose question marks over the continued existence in its present form of the only British-owned firm, ICL For not only will ICL run into American giants IBM and Honeywell, but a new Euro- pean-owned consortium which is now taking nnal shape.

At the beginning of January Philips of Holland, Siemens of Germany and the French- owned CIl are expected to a blueprint for announce future collaboration.

INTEGRATION

Their aim will be to break the stranglehold exerted by IBM and Honeywell in Europe.

The three computer firms plan more than a loose co-operative effort. Strategy is being designed with the perspective of achiev- ing a full-scale integration of their marketing and manu- facturing operations. What is essentially driving the Europeans together is the phenomenal costs involved in developing and marketing IBM- compatible equipment to win the customers away, from the Lord Shawcross, the most fearless deten Americans. As it stands, the pooled research and development expenditures of all three European companies amounts to no more than the spending of the second-rank American companies like Univac.

BENEFITS

Philips, for example, who entered the computer market in 1962, only spend 1 per cent of the group's turnover, or about £20m on research and development. With this sort of money they could never hope to bring forward System 4 ranges like those made by IBM.

Now, with a possible merger offing, in the Philips would reap the benefits of govern- ment subsidies paid to their German and French collabor- ators. ICL has consciously decided not to participate in the European counter-attack on the Americans. Most of the reasons given stem directly from the nature of ICL and their operations. In any case they are in deep financial difficulties, to say the least. In July, the half-yearly profits return showed a slump from £4.5m to £1.5m. The Tory government had to step in with aid worth f14m to cover the cost of research and development until 1973.

ICL had asked for £107m over less defender of all Tory pollcles.

the next five years. Aid to date from the Tories already amounts to £40m, still far below the amount needed if ICL is to stand any chance whatsoever of surviving in Europe or anywhere else for that matter. In the past three years ICL has sacked 9,000 workers, 3,000 in the last year alone.

The labour force is now down to 28,000. All this has taken place while the computer industry's output is running at its lowest level for two years.

HANDICAPPED

ICL are handicaped from the start when faced with Common Market competition. Even if they developed machines sufficient cash-along given IBM lines, what would happen to their customers who have invested money in the training of staff and software for the 1900 series? The most ICL could be able to manage in Europe would be the development of specialist terminals finance and But the the three-company European consortium, ICL could find lucky to even themselves manage that. The Philips- Siemens-CII link-up could sound the death-knell for the British firm.

Slave trade in West Germany

BY A FOREIGN CORRE

A NEW version of the slave flourishing trade the in Most German industrial cities have the same slave labour mar- Federal German Republic in- ket. volving several hundred Most of the victims are Turks thousand illegal immigrant and Yugoslavs unable to. find workers. work in their own countries who enter Germany as tourists. Agents Stuttgart police are investi- pick them up at railway stations, a racket involving gating in cafes or on construction sites.

3,000 foreign workers in that They promise to find jobs, often Immigrants unable to get city. asking for the worker's passport, work permits are being found and then demand half the pay to jobs by unscrupulous agents who be received. then take half their wages as a for money Desperate the im- fee. unable migrants, often to speak

BY A FOREIGN CORR

THE GIEREK

in regime

THE

BEOGRADSKA

Bank of Poland launched has Belgrade has $20m an arranged a loan from a consortium of 14 US, attack on the youth which Canadian, Italian, Japanese and calls for compulsory work Bahamian (!) banks to finance the for idlers and the combating expansion of the metallurgical of what it calls 'demoraliz- and engineering industries of Yugoslavia. ation and depravity'. A call The loan, which was arranged has been issued for tighter First through the Chicago Ltd ideological training and disci- of London, shows the increasing pline. Yugoslav industry ties between and international finance. capital special Plenum of the by which Tito's regime is paving Central Committee of the ruling the for the restoration of United Workers' (Communist) way capitalism. Party has been held discuss All Trades

WATFORD:

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MEETINGS

Station). WIGAN: Lancs. Monday, Decem- Market Fight Rising Prices 7.30 The beri 1 wages p.m. Force the Tories to Resign Hotel. and laws against the trade unions'. Speaker: Mike BRACKNELL: Monday December Farley (Building trade worker).

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German and unfamiliar with the country,_are only too happy to accept. The agents make arrange- ments with employers who need cheap labour and can also avoid paying security contributions for the immigrants. Many are taken on in the building trade or in the metal industry as casual labour doing the hardest jobs.

If the foreign workers protest against their bad treatment they know they will be expelled from Germany. They are prepared to put up with great hardships, some

GN CORRESPONDENT

the problem of youth and to draw up a programme for dealing with it. First Secretary Edward Gierek wound up the session with a lengthy speech. Although the present gener- ation of Polish youth has grown in self-styled People's up Democracy' it finds that it has to submit to the dictates of the bureaucracy and the dead hand of Stalinist orthodoxy. Its revolt against the regime takes many forms from political indifference and adoption of the habits of the pop culture of western capitalism to a politically- conscious opposition to the rule of the bureaucracy. The parents of young people recall the hopes raised . by the coming to power of Gomulka the Poznan uprising after of 1956. Memories still are more fresh of the mass demonstrations of workers in the Baltic ports , and which caused his downfall brought Edward Gierek onto the scene with promises of reform.

But the bureaucracy cannot satisfy the aspirations of the young people and fears that it will spearhead the next round .. of discontent. So there has been an investigation of the youth question by the Party and a pro- gramme has been drawn up to try to win the outs Speaking this programme Gierek said that it was the 'result of long studies and broad con- in the sultations Party, among non-Party people, in work estab- among teachers lishments, educational workers in higher schools and among young people'.

He called for the raising of standards of education and the training of more specialists with higher education. He laid

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SLL LECTURES

LEEDS

even sleeping in the open, because Monday December 4 they afford to pay for cannot The struggle for power other accommodation of out their depleted pay packets.

There million 'guest workers in west Germany larxist Par whose positions are by no means

WHIP HOTEL

when they have secure, even Leeds labour permits. When unemploy- they will find them- 8 p.m. ment rises selves forced to return home.

(Note change) German capitalism depends super-exploitation of upon the these millions of foreign workers whom it refuses full citizen rights. Wednesday December 6 Trotskyism and the founding of the Fourth International

COMMON HALL

HACKINS HEY

Lectures given by Tom Kemp (SLL Centra Committee)

LONDON

emphasis on the need for disci- Sunday December 10 pline and complained that 'dis- Opponents of Marxism honesty and neglect at work are

BEAVER HALL

particular damage'. causing at Mansion House tube 'The basic and universal tasks 7.30 p.m. of national education', he said, 'should include training to think Lectures given by of respect in terms of the state, G. Healy for the problems of the state and SLL national secretary a correct concept of civic duties.'

There had to be, he went on •disciplined of implementation the policies of the socialist state by unflinching respect for its laws, by strengthening its prestige and by developing its ideological Sunday December 10 and political might, its economic The strugate for power and defence strength'. Sunday December 17 He claimed that Poland had Revolutionary theory and the begun to change from capitalism Marxist Party to socialism 28 years ago, but he

RED LION HOTEL

made no reference the events of 1956 or 1970 when the (Worsbcrough) 8 p.m. working class and students had Lectures given moved into struggle against the by Cliff Slaughter bureaucracy which he represents.

(SLL Central Committee) Greatly concerned by current trends among the youth the Polish bureaucracy is to make an all-round effort to win it That the was the purpose

SHEFFIELD

Committee Central Plenum and the national campaign for which Monday December 11 it has called. Stalinism and Trotskyism But Gierek is likely to be no more successful than his prede- Monday January 8 cessors in stemming the tide of Marxism and the the Polish youth revolt among revolutionary party which foreshadows the overthrow

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9.30 London. 11.55 6.45 10.30 toon. London. Late Paint 12.05 London. 10.35 Name of the book. 2.30 call. game. Film: 'Brushfire'. 4.00 Crossroads.

GRAMPIAN:

10.58 London. 1.38 6.00 6.25 2.45 4.20 London. News. Schools. Enchanted house 6.45 London. 3.00 3.05 Film: 'How This is your right. News. to 10.30 Film: The Curse of the Murder a Rich Uncle'. 4.25 Lon- Mummy's Tomb'. 5.20 Emmerdale farm. 5.50 don.

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TEES: 9.30 London. 2.30 6.00 News. 6.05 Country London. News. Galloping focus. 6.35 Cartoon. 6.45 2.31 gourmet. Lon- 3.00 Film: 'The Saint'. don. 10.30 Name of the game. Leather 4.25 London. 6.00 Today. 6.25 11.55 Meditation.

SOCIALIŚT LABOUR LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETINGS

SWINDON

Wednesday, December 13 8 pm

AEU HOUSE, FLEMING WAY, SWINDON

SPECIAL SHOWING OF THE 'RIGHT TO WORK' FILM.

A film made by ACTT showing the five Right-to-Work marches from Glasaow. Swansea. Deal Liverpool. and Southampton to London, ending with a huge rally at Empire Pool, Wembley, on March 12. 1972. Speaker: G. Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League.

Chairman: Willis, Engineering Workshop, Swindon (in a personal capacity).

• We demand the right to work!

• Make the Tory aovernment resian • Build the revolutionarv partv BRACKNELL (Berks) Thursday December 14 7.45 p.m.

MEADOW

VALE

SCHOOL,

MOREDALE AVENUE,

PRIESTWOOD ESTATE

DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AND

WAGES,

THE TORY

GOVERNMENT

Speaker : G. Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League

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£125.32 A GREAT collection of £104.72 taken at our public meeting to MacStlofain', 'Free Sean last gave a great Friday evening, boost to our Fund this weekend.

Our paper alone speaks out loud and clear against the legal MacStlofain. We sentence of were the first daily paper to oppose British troops in Ulster.

Only Workers Press fights on be- halt of the working class, both here and In Ireland, against the onslaught of British Imperialism.

We know that it is this prin- cipled stand that wins your sup- port. Help us, therefore, raise as much as possible for our Decem- ber Fund. Push ahead Immedl- ately. Post all donations to : Workers Press December Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SWA 7UG. Over 400 people attended a public me hear Gerry Healy, SLL national secre IRA leader Sean MacStlofain. The other secretary of the London region of th Banda (SLL Central Committee) chaire THE CAV sit in strikers at Faza their fight against closure-if they from other sections of the working- of This was the message Dave Martin, engineers union convenor of the occupied factory, to a weekend rally at the Pier Head. Four hundred Merseyside trade unionists demonstrated through • centre-packed Liverpool city with shoppers before the meet- ing. Shouts of We demand the right to work. Kick the Tories out' enthusiastic re- won an sponse. The march was organized by Liverpool Trades Council in sup- port of the CAV workers. Contingents taking part repre- sented Lucas Industrial Equip- ment workers laid off because of • stewards from the sit-in; shop the Vauxhall and Triumph car Merseyside dockers; factories; strikers from the Inland Revenue construction site, Bootle, and workers from the Clohurst radi- ator factory, formerly Fisher- Bendix. Also on the march were deleg- ations from the Socialist Labour League, the Young. Socialists, Garston and. Ormskirk Labour Party, the Labour Party YS, the Once red listed my order Press Published Press, Street, London. Clapham

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4, 1012 .. .: Journallat I. F. Stone demands MacStiofain' public meeting in London on Friday to nal secretary, demand the release of The other speaker was Sarah Hannigan, gion of the Young Soclalists. Michael e) chaired the meeting. at Fazakerley, Liverpool, will win -if they get the backing they need working-class movement. Communist Southdene Party, and the Tenants' Association 'Big Flame'. At the Pier Head meeting CAV occupation leaders were joined on the platform by a delegation Machine from the Extrusion Company sit-in just started at Runcorn. Dave Martin told the meeting could stand that no worker aside from the problems faced by entering the CAV strikers now their ninth week of sit-in.

'We want to say to all workers on Merseyside: we can't win this We must struggle on our own. have the support of every trade .. union organization, every political party. Without that solidarity we will be defeated.' The sit-in strikers were present not getting the kind of support they needed, he said. It was essential that they received more finance and more support Lucas the blacking of for products. He emphasized: 'We expect the whole of the working class on Merseyside to respond to this appeal. We will win if we get this support.'

Trades Council president Eddie Loyden announced that an all- Merseyside conference of shop stewards on the CAV issue had been called for December 13, and asked all those present to mobil- ize support. New 'running dogs of imperialism' Moscow and Peking Stalinists slammed THE RUSSIAN and Chinese leaderships were described as the new 'running dogs of imperialism' by the outspoken American journalist I. F. Stone at a Viet- nam solidarity symposium held in London at the weekend. Mr Stone, who has won an international reputation for his persistent exposure of the US war against Vietnamese people, warned that recent events demanded a 'sober re-evalua she has done in Latin America

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

He said that the Viet- -backed the trinity _The had paid namese people and the Drest Marxist Group and Stalinists dearly for the aid given by landlord.' of the British her chief allies, Russia and Party. academic American China. It appears as said it was thanks to Us foreien policy, chief running

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though Peking that Moscow and Noam Chomsky. dogs of US imperialism are America was saddled with fou He said that it was likely in Peking and Moscow? me years of Nixon and that would that the Americans Mr Stone's remarks caused puppet l hieu regime sul kind eventually sign sonne peace treaty, but that it would In a reference to the Nixoi from that minority visits to China and Russia, he of audience made of sup- would signal the end Lols said: When the Luftwaffe sent the imperialist war in south- bombing raid over east Asia. out Ils mass Britain, Hitler was never wel One major reason was that comedi for talks in London. the American leaders believed fact that strange that their 'second line stands at the When Amen ca like Indo- defence apex of its power it is wooed Thailand the Philippines, by China and Russia. and Japan - were

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He warn that went able to withstand the threat of would continue for the war communism. there

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A decisive had been would be point massive sunering. that the Nixon agm hatratier 'There no sign whatsover reached when the US imper- had witnessed the ialists huge Indo- the getting ot SouLl cabl Asia,' he said. nesian Communist rarly wit any intervention or pro- In Cambodia the American tests from China. puppet Lon Nol regime had the and the But the war would continue. Russia Chinese had hacked Us im. The millary perialism Pakistan over would simply 'put on civilian dress' and continue with clan- Bangladesh. He said the Vietnamese had destine activities on massive shown were capable scale to undermine any defeating the US war machine opment towards social revolu- Vietnam. tion in the south of Britain he called for she defeat In his first public he struggle lor revolguon- imperialism ary national liberation and re- plundered the great resources volutionary social change is not south-east of Asia, East only Far stop in the going to and it will be met by imperia.

but Amence itsell. restoration in the name 'What America is doing in four freedoms, the the name of liberty in south- east Asia is a repeat of what said Chomsky. Labourites warn rent rebels the arrears, only f7 at this stage, campaign against the summonses RIGHT-WING Labourites on paid. into all trade union branches Kiveton near aLC the area, calling for full support received them dated Sheffield, in the case of any eviction order achon day one tenants council meeting. When con- Deing maut who have the with them, Scot- increases due under the Tories'

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Labour councils in councillors denied any knowledge been declared in land have Housing Finance Act. of the summonses. Tary government Not content with implementing Mr. Hepworth, leading default by the They following a public iin, Kirkcaldy Housing of associ- the are apparently deter- Finance

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Glasgow, Falkirk, Union of councillors ation and National al c and Lanark county council.

spirit Mineworkers' branch secretary at mined to enter into the Shireoaks colliery, told Workers given two the Tory attack on the they nave all been weeks to reverse their policy and class the Scottish equiva- implement warning letters were sent •As far concerned it 1 m Act. could be blank sheet of paper lent of the "fair rents arrears, in auditor their acces intimidate And Failure to won't me come mical mated ning legal solicitors a1d a special

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letters threatening there delegatt ever possible surcharge the sum- the council behind despatohed ana enormous. bil could be about in goose wimo ca Glasgow Corporation increases received county almost Elm has lost in Council example, court summonses.

KOIHEKHAM

trades rent revenue for not carrying out and tenants' associations have The summonses threaten judge- resolved take the Tory policy. ment against the tenants

CUSTON

WORKERS PRESS MEETING

CLAY CROSS

LIONE

EPEL

Fight Tory rent increases!

Force the government to resign!

TUESDAY DECEMBER 5, New Inn, Market Street, 7.30 p.m.