Workers Press no. 965

workers press Socialist Labour League secretary says:

TORIES ARE OUT TO

SMASH BASIC RIGHTS

ALEX MITCHELL

THE DEFENCE of basic democratic rights is now on the table in every working class household in the country, Gerry Healy, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League, said at the weekend. "The defence of democratic rights is no longer an academic question.

There is no such thing as "abstract" rights. It is now a bread-and- butter question concerning the standard of living of the working class.'

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national Healy speaking SAGM. Seated is the papers editor, the 'Keep Left' AGM. Gary Gurmeet. 'Proud' 23 years 'KEEP LEFT' editor Gary Gurmeet said the Young Socialists could be "justifiably proud' of the 23rd year of continuous publication of the only revolutionary youth paper in Britain.

He told the paper's annual meeting: one "No chollid be under anv illusions about the intentons of this Tory government in 1973. They have joined in order to join with the reactionarv capitalists that rule western Europe In doing so they have consciously laid the basis Britain, a in unemployment in for a huge increase steeD mcrease in tie cost or uvue ane more Te- pressive actions against trade union and political rights. The Tories have already drafted Phase Two of their plan for state control over wages.

describe the Twould be completely wrong to "freeze" We anti-inflation measures as have here the structure permanent legal form of wage control. Any union or section ot workers who oppose

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the magnificent total of £178.74. A full report on the annual general meet- ine ana ceras or tae nanonal speaking contest will appear in this week's 'Keep Left', out on Friday.

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rights is now on the table in country, Gerry Healy, national gue, said at the weekend. "The longer an academic question.

rights. It is now a bread-and- dard of living of the working Gerry Healy was bringing fraternal greetings from the SLL Central Committee to the annual general meeting of Keep Left, the weekly news- paper of the Young Socialists.

He spoke to an audience of 1,200 young workers and students from all over Britain who packed the East India Hall in London's East End on Saturday. Healy said that in 1972 the one section working class, in after its another, had shown determination to fight the Tory government. 'But,' he went on, it would be impermissible to conclude that 1972 was a year on the side of the working class.'

made 'enormous Tories The legal inroads' into the basic democratic rights of the working class. The Industrial Relations Act had stripped away every major right of the trade union move- ment. negotiate has "The right to banned. The right to now been for a rise, ask your boss right to defend your trade union —all this has been taken away.

How can anyone interpret 1972 as a year of victory?' Driven by the economic crisis, the British ruling class and its international counterparts were reacting in the same way: demo- cratic rights had either been taken away or were in the pro- cess of being taken away.

*The full brunt of the capitalist crisis is being placed directly on the backs of the working class, he said. *The indignation will be bitter in the coming weeks when wor- kers see that the Tories have away their rights. Wor- fleeced kers will have no other choice but to fight back,' he added.

The fight for the defence of basic democratic rights meant a struggle to force the Tories out of office and the return of a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. This was inseparable from the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into revolu- a tionary party during 1973.

He said that the trade unions could not defend themselves by calling one-day strikes or strikes lasting only a few days. unions In 1906 the trade founded the Labour Party be.

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CAMDEN LABOUR Council's refusal to implement the Tory rent Act was yesterday backed by a 2,000-strong demonstration through the streets of the north London borough. Tenants from all over Britain included a 150-strong contingent from Dudley, Worcestershire. Labour councillors from Bedwas and Machen, South Wales, and Clay Cross, Derbyshire, who are also refusing to implement the Act, also joined in the march.

Among the political delegations 150- Was from strong contingent the Young Socialists. Ernie Roberts, assistant the secretary

THE TORIES

are hoping Boot and Shoe Operatives' desperately to damp down union. *An injury to one is an the anger growing over the Prices have high been injury to all. We must come all year, but levels rocketed soarina price of beef with the these of detence their phoney committee of immediately after entry into councillors who are only inquiry. the Common Market. carrying out Labour Party Within a week meat has The three-man committee aimac reachers-e. lavoic has built-in Tory The threat- Tories have -a process that the Tories claimed majority. stop £8m in sub- would Take Tive due paid to The only woman, Dame Steles years. Camden. council Elizabeth Similar increases SACKrOVO! meets again long-standing Party mem- other foods are on the way.

ber and friend of discuss the next close moves Since the freeze started in its campaign. Mar. on November 6, wholesale education Min cler garet Thatcher. prices for a wide range James Gulliver is the ex- gone up be- marie have

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head of Britain's second tween 37 and 50 per cent Elizabeth Ackroyd Dame higgect 400G supermarket

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chain Fine Fare. He has admitted over the weekend just bought his food that the inquiry would not own control prices but find out empire, manutacturing

LEON TROTSKY ON:

Oriel Foods. why, they were rising. For the Butchers, have

FOR A UNITED

sake of appear- already pointed to the main source

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ances Heath nas appointed Sidney Robinson, right- vast exports to the OF EUROPE—p. 8 EEC where meat prices are wing Labourite and former high. general president or the

workers press Socialist Labour League secretary says:

TORIES ARE OUT TO

SMASH BASIC RIGHTS

ALEX MITCHELL

THE DEFENCE of basic democratic rights is now on the table in every working class household in the country, Gerry Healy, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League, said at the weekend. 'The defence of democratic rights is no longer an academic question.

There is no such thing as "abstract" rights. It is now a bread-and- butter question concerning the standard of living of the working class.'

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national Gary Gurmeet. 'Proud' 23 years 'KEEP LEFT' editor Gary Gurmeet said the Young Socialists could be justifiably proud' of the 23rd year of continuous publication of the only revolutionary youth paper in Britain.

He told the 'No paper s annual mecunt. OlIC should be under any illusions about the intentions of this Tory government in 1973. They have joined with in order to join hands the Common Market he reachomany caolausts mat rue wester curooe 'In doing so they have consciously laid the basis unemployment in Britain, for a huge increase in steep increase In tne cost or living and more pressive actions against trade union and political The Tories have already drafted Phase Two rights. cucu all lul slale curliur ovci wasco Tree describe, the compielely wrong to anti-inflation measures have here the for permanent legal form of structure union or section of workers who Ware Control Hy oppose decree can sentenced unIs rue ov unlimited fines or prison.

collection raised the magnificent total of t178.74. A full report on the annual general meet- speaking ing ana detals or tne nanoral contest will appear in this week's 'Keep Left', out on Friday.

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rights is now on the table in country, Gerry Healy, national sue, said at the weekend. 'The longer an academic question.

rights. It is now a bread-and- lard of living of the working Gerry Healy was bringing fraternal greetings from the SLL Central Committee to the annual general ineeting of 'Keep Left', the weekly news- paper of the Young Socialists.

He spoke to an audience of 1,200 young workers and students from all over Britain who packed the East India Hall in London's East End on Saturday. Healy said that in 1972 the working class, in one section after another, had shown its determination to fight the Tory government. 'But,' he went on, be impermissible to 'it would conclude that 1972 was a year on the side of the working class.'

Tories made 'enormous The inroads' into legal the basic democratic rights of the working class. The Industrial Relations Act had stripped away every major right of the trade union move- ment. "The right to • negotiate has now been banned. The right to ask your boss for a rise, the right to defend your trade union —all this has been taken away.

How can anyone interpret 1972 as a year of victory?' Driven by the economic crisis, the British ruling class and its international counterparts were reacting. in the same way: demo- cratic rights either been taken away or were in the pro- cess of being taken away.

'The full brunt of the capitalist crisis is being placed directly on the backs of the working class,' he said. 'The indignation will be bitter in the coming weeks when wor- kers see that the Tories have • away their rights. Wor- fleeced kers will have no other choice but to fight back,' ; he added. The fight for the defence of basic democratic rights meant a struggle to force the Tories out of office and the return of a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. This was inseparable from the transformation of the Socialist into Labour League revolu- tionary paety during 1973.

He said that the trade unions could not defend themselves by calling one-day strikes or strikes lasting only a few days. In 1906 the trade unions founded the Labour Party be-

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CAMDEN LABOUR Council's refusal to implement the Tory rent Act was yesterday backed by a 2,000-strong demonstration through the streets of the north London borough. Tenants from all over Britain included a 150-strong contingent from Dudley, Worcestershire. Labour councillors from Bedwas and Machen, South Wales, and Clay Cross, Derbyshire, who are also refusing to implement the Act, also joined in the march.

the political Among delegations 150-

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from strong contingent the Young Socialists. Ernie Roberts, assistant general secretary

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are hoping Boot and Shoe Operatives' ALEW. told the marchers, desperately to damp down union. 'An injury to one is an the Prices high the anger growing over have been injury to all. We must all vear. but levels rocketed soaring the detence Enest their phoney committee of immediately after entry into councillors who only the Common Market. inquiry. Labour Party carrying out Within a week meat has The three-man committee policy. almost reached EEC levels has built-in Tory The Tories have threat- -a process that the Tories ened to stop f8m sub- majority. claimed TIVe The only woman, Dame alle nAiG years. Camden. council Similar increases meets again long-standing Party mem- other foods are on the way discuss the next moves close of friend Since the freeze started in its campaign. Mar- Education Minister November wholesale on garet Thatcher. prices for a wide ranne James Gulliver is the ex- meats have up be •one

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Britain's second tween 37 and 50 per cent. head biggest Dame Elizabeth supermarkel

TODAY

chain Fine Fare. He has admitted over the weekend bought his food that the inquiry would not just own empire, manutacturing

LEON TROTSKY ON:

Oriel Foods. why, they were rising. For the Butchers, have

FOR A UNITED

sake of appear- already pointed to the main source

SOCIALIST STATES

ances Heath has appointed Sidney Robinson, right- vast exports to the -the OF EUROPE-p. 8 EEC where meat prices are Labourite and former wing high. general president of the

EEC counterbalance to 'super-powers' says Peking Maoists welcome Market PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday Jo у 8, 1973

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Stalinists Short of giving Chinas ement have hailed the enlargement the EEC, our observers said of the European Common Peking there was по that the Chinese question Market as an important step regarded moves eater towards checking the poli- strengthen the

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as healthy development. tical and economic ambitions This puts the Chinese of the Soviet Union and the firmly on the side of leaders United States. the British and European The 'People's Daily' and They kers Europe. are other newspapers lournout supporting is nothing carried commentaries than conspiracy on British entry into the

EEC,

West deprive. under the heading working class of basic rights.

colnunes sureneuren their alignment counter- e Peoples similar laudatory tones balance the two super powers.

however reactionary, against the described

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October The article stopped just the results

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unofficial demonstrations, originally called from hostels they had occupied.

sources report that Sheikh pro-Moscow National Tone The NAP's pro-Moscow faction Awami Party in protest against Rahman bloodily Mujibur sender. Froressor Mikiar Ammed.

the US bombing of Hanoi, quickly immediately condemned the suppressed nationwide riots asked Rahman OuL Hallu violence and by students and workers, cul- general opposition to the govern- of conduct for minating in a Dacca massacre Election current General The on New Year's Day. National Awami Party campaign. has sition Rahman Since by riots, odes e user The plight of Bengali wor- notoriousv lacking and the anti- defiance are can all ce tal of all US demonstration may have been kers has worsened considerably conduct lus taken staged to provide independence and • S1g- as advice to Rahman to tighten students with a diversionary nificantly the four days' rioting up internal security. was in Dacca, Chittagong and let or tneir mounting mrustraton Ahmed also referred to an and unrest. Khulna cities. ago party's

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hencelatter Rahman Sileene on fire by members loyal government Bangladesh pro-Rahman student's League put down the disturbances.

'Democracy in Bangladesh General In where in danger' pro-Moscow Party Strike was declared, police fired Rahman's supporters and police leader said. He warned that with- demonstrators, killing two on comped the streets orme goroe.

coce uncle and wounding six otners. torn cities rooting out rioters and would be more violence leading dislodging 'left-wing' students up to the March General Election.

that the There signs

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between the micet Union end between Soviet Union BOMBS exploded in from Portuguese head of state, Fidel Castro

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hailed CuDd Admiral Americo Thomaz. form truly Lisbon over the weekend in pro- Thomaz praised the civilian economic relations between an test against the colonial wars industrialized and armievemen

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country imperialism Africa, claiming fought by Caetano's regime in in country under-developed that 500 Africa years like ours'. Africa. right to what really The Soviet Union will buy the belongs to it. The protest was organized by and bulk of • Cuba's sugar crop neither His enthusiasm above those nIcKel an ances who also distributed leaflets.

shared by the Portuguese youth ruling on the world market.

fight in Caetano's protests conscripted to Sanere

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silulal and loans will Soviet credits expressing solidarity with 13 anti- nor the of sugar colonialists in Lisbon jails on the fighters in Angola and Mozam- harvesting equipment, the textile of the New Year message bique. eve WEST GERMAN Foreign Minister water scheel Socialist Labour League North West Rally arrived Malaga Spain, in yesterday in a military air-

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crane s or o way co the Canor wily Islands where number of European coun Chancellor Brandt is

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tries prepared holiday a winter similar moves. sun. In tne

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Israel's main ports, Uganda established Eilat full diplomatic relations at Ashdod and

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ambassadorial level. The day official East seriously disrupting German news in particular citrus export SUNDAY JANUARY 14, 7 p.m.

one of Israel's main source had been reached Kampala last week The Everyman, Hope Street, Dr Klaus a visit by

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cent increase wages Ger- man Minister. have turned down a 4u De • • .... ..... Military dictator General cent government offer. Idi Amin he says

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URGENT talks are takin his 'best friend'. Wellington, place

'RIGHT TO WORK' FILM

Zealand, to avert a JORDAN will spend more by airport workers. Minist than £49m its armed charge of State Servic on In forces in this year's £185.7m Robert Tizard The decision state budget. • • Commission . . . • • • stren men molay 1e- vices sources was announced by negotiating with the 40,00 Prime Minister Ahmed Public strong G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary), Cabinet Association. The dispute Allawzi meeting on Saturday. over airport firemen's pa CHRISTINE SMITH (Young Socialists) In a personal capacity: THE US is prepared to dis- ITALY'S giant Fiat factot CONNIE FAHEY (Manchester Tenants) diplomatic Turin cucc announce ALAN STANLEY (Vauxhall Shop Stewards) with East Germany. This flexible working hours fo follows the conclu- 25,000 workers. move

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of the good neigh WALLY FOUCHS (CAV Occupation Committee) bour' treaty between East permittea to starl and West Germany. time between 8 a.m. an Common Market summit, attended by Heath, Pompidou, Andreotti, Lynch and other heads of state as 'a concen- trated expression' of the notable progress made in strengthening economic and political relations among member countries'. It was at this summit that the concerted so-called anti- inflation measures directed at.

holding down wages and cut- ting the standard of living were discussed and agreed.

The Maoists used to adver- tise their devotion to pro- •letarian internationalism. Now they are vulgar defenders of the. national interests of the Chinese bureaucracy. PEKING, Reuter-Italian Foreign Minister Giuseppe Medici had P more than three hours of talks at the weekend with his Chinese counterpart, Chi Peng-fei, rang- ing over questions of European unification and security.

Medici, the first Italian Foreign Minister to visit China since the 1949 revolution, began his talks ON THE eve of a new roun between Henry Kissinger a spokesman Le Duc Tho, Saigor attack on international supp revolution. claimed that Saigon radio the action of 'pro-communist Australian workers and the pro-communist dockers at a few harbours in southern Italy' industry, the railway system and oil-refining facilities. Cuba will have until 1986 be- fore it begins paying its $3,000m to the Soviet Union. The debt agreement follows Castro's re- cent visit to Moscow. The 1 benefits of these huge investments are doubtful. Support for Castro is a stumbling block to the improvement of relations with Nixon's administration the Soviet bureaucracy's main goal.

Castro may have to reach compromise with the US as the price of Soviet aid. 9 a.m. and to take a daily of from one to two break and a half hours. The com- pany said the scheme was aimed at improving labour relations and cutting down on absenteeism. pean coun- pared for NASA, the National Aero- nautical and Space Admin- istration's £80m planned dockers at budget pruning will mean a orts, Haifa, delay in the launching of at, entered America's space - shuttle yesterday, winged ting trade, programme, a spaceship to commute be 'us exports, tween Cape Kennedy and ain sources an orbiting skylab. NASA ncy. Dock- also announced at the ag a 50 per was closing weekend it wages and Brook re rn a 40 per down its Plum search station, Ohio, laying off 700 workers. are taking THE REFORMIST New gton, New Democratic Party will add rt a strike its votes in the Canadian rs. Minister parliament to those of the ite Services Liberal Party to safeguard and the Pierre Trudeau's new gov- State Ser- ernment. are The Liberal Party's losses the 40,000- in the December general Services election that means • dispute is • otherwise Trudeau would men's pay. command only a minority of votes. NDP leader David Fiat factory Lewis said that the decision announced had the unanimous support hours for of the party's parliamentary caucus following Trudeau's cers. From cers will be promise of reforms in the Speech' which "Throne art at any 3 a.m. and opened the new parliament.

The Chinese leaders consider he two super powers military threat. So they sup- move, however reactionary and counter- revolutionary, which tends to undermine the position of the USSR or the US. The fate of the European workers - and that of the workers in Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the world who are being enslaved by the EEC imperialists-is of no account. We await with interest the reactions of the British Maoists under their official chairman, engineering union councilman Reg Birch, to Peking's stand.

in Peking's Great Hall of the People soon after arriving for a six-day official visit. The sources said Chi welcomed . the enlargement of the European Common Market and reafirmed the Chinese view supporting the West European process towards integration, both in the political and defence fields. w round of 'peace' negotiations was of no advantage to the North Vietnamese. This statement followed praise for Nixon's policy of 'bringing back to the communists negotiating table through a hail of bombs .... Bob Hawke, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, showed once again the reactionary nature of the 'left' illusions in the peace talks when he called on the seamen's union to call off its work ban on American ships. Hawke told seamen that they could re-impose their ban if the Paris talks failed to reach a solution. The seamen's executive meets tomorrow to discuss the ban. Its decision will be put to mass of members in meetings Australian ports on Tuesday and Wednesday. THE MILD winter weather may plunge the Soviet Union into a still more desperate agricultural crisis this year.

Snow is badly needed to pro- vide frost cover for planted areas.

If the frost comes first, millions of tons of grain may be lost. Last year about a third of the crop was destroyed in this way.

The prospect looks equally bad for potatoes and cabbages, essen- tial items in the Russian diet. A "Pravda' front-page article in says: It is not just a question of fulfilling set plans, but of making up for last year's poor harvest. gather 197.4 The to task is million tons of grain? Newspapers are calling on con- sumers to conserve food. Bread is being sliced more thinly and bakeries have been told to make smaller loaves. • DAIRY produce prices have been increased by up to 50 per cent. Milk now costs 7.5p a litre compared to 5p. Prices for cheese and butter have gone up by 13 per cent and 20 per cent respec- tively. When the new economic re- forms were announced last Nov- ember and blessed by Soviet leader Leonid Brehzney during his December visit to Budapest, government economists estimated that consumer prices would in- crease by 2 per cent.

DEBUT OF MOSLEY'S STEPSON

BY PHILIP WADE

The Lincoln by-election —scheduled at the mo- ment for March-will be an important event in the life of Oswald Mosley's stepson, Jona- than Guinness. Edward Heath was reported to be a little shocked when the local Tories adopted Guinness as their candidate in the election, caused by pro- Marketeer Dick Taverne's en- forced resignation as sitting Labour MP. For Guinness, as chairman of the Monday Club, the right- wing group in the Conservative Party, has made things a little too uncomfortable at times for Heath. Born into one of the three or four richest and most influ- ential Tory familiesGuinness the brewers-Jonathan at 42 is moving into a position of some sway. He was the candidate for the 'right' in last year's elections for the Monday Club chair- manship. He romped home by 676 votes to 228. The Club was elated. They had won a man who was a director of several Guinness firms, chairman of Park Royal Development Com- • Ltd, which deals with pany the firm's property, and also a director of his brother's car- racing firm, March Engineer- ing. On election he gave us a hint of his glorious philosophy.

He said he hoped the Club would become the 'spiritual industrial home for the classes, adding: I do not mean the working classes. We all work, at least I do. In another interview Guin- ness condemned the 'treason educated, which of the sounded something like a plea for book-burning, and also called for a return to 'the prin- ciples of honour and decency' which, he said, the intellec- tuals had been trying hard to destroy. Pro-European, Guinness illustrious comes from an The most fulsome tribute to the Tory government by a prominent Com- munist Party member since Clydebank shop steward James Reid paid homage to John Davies at the height of the UCS struggle was delivered in Aberdeen recently. Following a visit to London by a delegation from the North Sea Oil Action Committee, Jim McArtney, CP member and shop leading steward in Hall, Russell's shipyard, reported to the committee that he was convinced the yard had a 'great future'. He based this optimistic forecast on his discussion in London with Tory parliament- ary under-Secretary to the Department of Trade and Industry, Anthony Grant. McArtney and Action Com- mittee chairman, John McCon- nochie, both paid tribute to the reception Grant had given them and to his awareness of the north-east situation.

McArtney effused over Grant's knowledge of Hall, Russell's production figures and : 'industrial relations'.

excellent convinced He said he was that shipbuilding right down the east coast would beneit His mother, Diana family. Mitford, was the first wife of Lord Moyne and she later be- came Oswald Mosley's second wife. Now a merchant banker, Guinness's first job was with Reuter's, the news agency, from 1953 to 1956. He worked on their Central Desk and in the Caribbean and Germany.

After this he first entered banking with Leopold Joseph and Sons. The Monday Club is, of course, full of a whole host of luminaries among its 8,000 members. An interesting fellow is George Young CB CMG MBE, once described as the single most powerful political figure in the Monday Club' Young, who works for mer- ite from the 'oil boom', as would the engineering industry in the area. Tory or not, climaxed McArtney, the government was going to do everything in its power to get the best out of the North Sea for the British people. All that was required to ensure success was continued pressure from the trade-union movement. The North Sea Oil Action Committee was set up some weeks ago by the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineer- ing Unions with the backing of shipyard shop stewards in Aberdeen. It has been en- dorsed by the Stalinist Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions in Dundee. Its sole perspective is to pressurize the • Tories to see that more orders for oil supply vessels, etc., come to scotland.

The Committee has an- nounced a competition with a £30 first prize, which is to be judged at the end of January.

Entrants are invited to invent a slogan for the Committee's campaign. Competitors with a sense of the obvious will be tempted to suggest - Make the Tory government resign! Return a Labour government pledged to nationalize North Sea oil, ship- building, and all basic indus- tries under workers' control and without compensation!

chant bankers Kleinwort Ben- son, has an interesting pedi- gree. With a first class hon- ours degree in modern langu- ages from Yale University, he joined the 'Glasgow Herald' in 1936. His career in journalism, then with British United Press, seemed to be interrupted by the 1939-1945 war. serving with His While Majesty's Forces, Young was suddenly seconded to 'specially employed list' to work with the invading Allied forces in western Europe and Italy between 1943 and 1945.

His work must have en- deared Young to someone be- brief period cause-after with BUP again, this time in Berlin in 1946—he joined the Foreign Office. And, then from 1953 to 1961, it was the 1933-1934 £1.43 1934-1935 £1.43 1935-1936 £1.25 1937-1938 £1.25 1938-1939 {1.25 1939-1940 £1.05 These extremely vital years 1929 and 1940—t Union-are now availab 28 Charlotte St

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BY JACK GALE

The 'Truman Doctrine' enunciated in March 1947 that 'it must be the policy of the United States of America to sup- port free peoples who are resisting attempted sub- jugation by armed minor- ities, or by outside pres- sure, originally meant pouring in aid to the ruling classes of Greece and Turkey. That same month Congress authorized the appropriation of $400m for aid to Greece and Turkey up to June 1948.

But capitalism was in dan- ger of collapse throughout Europe. To preserve it re- quired both economic aid (in the form of the Marshall Plan, discussed in last week's article) and military aid. The idea of a western mili- tary alliance had been mooted in 1946 by Winston Churchill and the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs, Louis St Laurent. In January 1948, a similar proposal was put forward by the Foreign Secretary in the British Labour government, Ernest Bevin. On March 4, 1948 a military alliance of Britain, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands was formed by the 'Brussels Treaty'. From July on the meetings of this alliance were attended by United States and Canadian representatives-for the very good reason that the member countries could not finance the military outlay involved.

January 8, 1973 of single St Laurent. It was welcomed in The the North Organization, 4, 1949. were the Coununes pius States, tugal. Those other loving Turkey, joined 1951. West cruited in war east as possible. Immediately tion Iran., ican forces. and the things were way in Europe, The biggest 28, 1948, the idea military alliance stern Europe, Can- United States was Canaalan Commons by Louis nmediately warmly British par- Ernest Bevin. me of all this was Atlantic Treaty up original members 'Brussels Treaty' the aunted da, Denmark, Ice- Norway and Por- freedom- Greece and Germany was re- May 1955, when ded on a 'forward -i.e. that any be fought as far the forma- the Truman on authorized it to a billion dollars on military equipment. was also given to shipment of Amer- reached Europe in Britain and France o rearm and Gen- wer was appointed mmander of NATO ugh, thanks to the n of the Stalinists democrats, going ruman's ope, life was much It in Asia blow was the of Chiang Kai-shek in China in 1948. all the more bitt ever since the Po 0I 194) Cult Chinese dictator suade the Mao T. accent his rul Prior to the the United States ately reduced 1934. 1 in 1948. This pill was swallow nore bitter to alin had done his best. ce the Potsdam confer- 1945 to pror the up and . to pel le Mao Tse-tung forces This THe the loss of China, ted States had deliber- the Japanese / to the level of 1930- was now le saying that this would be no better and no worse than a victory for the United States.

The origin of the war is im- however, from the portant, point of view of understanding the interests of imperialism in such a war. There can be no doubt that it was extremely convenient for the American leaders. Certainly, the story put out at the time that the south had been the victim of a totally unprovoked and unexpected just attack from the north does not stand up to investi- gation. A United Nations Commis- sion report issued on Septem- ber 14 revealed that the possi- bility of war had been dis- cussed between the Commis- sion and the South Korean government in January 1950 and then again in February and May. Syngman Rhee had appealed for more combat planes in and Brigadier-General •May William L. Roberts, head. of the American Military Mission to South Korea, had also urged that more American airpower be supplied. Rhee had a right to be hope- ful that his wishes would be met. At the Seoul ceremony which established his regime in August 1948, General Doug- las MacArthur had pro- claimed: 'An artificial barrier has divided your land. This barrier must and will be torn down' (My emphasis.) Rhee was also aware in May 1950 that top level Bri- tish, American and Australian military authorities were hold- ing conferences in the Pacific area. Left: US Marines under shell- in Korea. fire Inset: General MacArthur, head of the American occupation forces in Japan and later Commander-in-Chief United Natlons forces in Korea.

involved General These MacArthur, head of the Am- erican occupation forces in Japan, General Omar Bradley, head of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, and US Secretary of Defence Louis Johnson. Statements made by John Foster Dulles, chief Republi- can can advisor to the US Sec- retary of State, a matter of days before fighting broke out, are also highly significant.

This virulent anti-communist witch-hunter-who in 1939 had declared that talk of fas- cism launching a world war was 'hysteria' and who re- peatedly called during the war for a settlement with the Axis appointed year powers-was after year by President Tru- man to membership of the various American delegations to the United Nations General Assembly. It was he who perfected the manoeuvre which enabled the Americans to avoid the Soviet veto in the security Council in order to get a fiction of 'legality' for their aggression in Korea. On June 21-four days be- fore war broke out-Dulles told reporters that he expected 'positive' results from his Tokyo meeting with Mac- Arthur. At that meeting he declared: 'Our material might was exem- plified by the atomic bomb, our moral might is exemplified by General MacArthur.' Next day, according to Asso- ciated Press, he predicted 'positive action' by the United States in south-east Asia.

Three days later, the war was on. The United States needed the lie about an un- expected attack to give some legality to the war and also to railroad the other western powers into involvement in it.

Perhaps it was just conve- nient that ships were ready waiting to evacuate the and families of the 500 American officers and 700 civilian tech- nicians already in South Korea before the war began. The conflict was, without a doubt, not a day too soon for the imperialists. In May 90 per cent of the electorate had voted in the South Korean elections. The main issue was the brutality of Syngman Rhee's police and, despite the latter's goon squads, his party secured only 45 out of the 210 seats. The north was mounting an intensified and increasingly effective campaign urging the people of the south to throw out Rhee and unify with the north. In Japan anti-American de- monstrations and rallies were so popular they had to be banned by MacArthur and in the June 4 elections the right- wing, pro-American Liberal. Party saw its share of the vote drop from 45 to 36 per cent.

The Socialist Party, which was opposed to the American base in Japan, emerged as the sec- ond largest party. So, the outbreak of war: 1. Gave Chiang Kai-shek's supporters the opportunity to carry through an American pledge to defend Formosa from attack any from the Chinese mainland. 2. Shelved the question of a general peace treaty with Japan and put off the with- drawal of occupation troops and the abandonment of Am- erican bases there. 3. Gave Syngman Rhee a sud- den 'respectability' and the support of the United States and the United Nations at the very moment when his hold on South Korea seemed to be ending. The war also lifted US arms production from $13 billion a year in 1950 to $60 billion a year by 1953.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

WHAT'S AT STAKE IN THE

FRENCH GENERAL ELECTION

BY TOM KEMP

The French working class is approaching the most crucial election campaign since the formation of the Fifth Republic after General de Gaulle took power in 1958. A victory for the workers' parties in March will open the way for the overthrow of the Pompidou regime and create the conditions for the eruption of the working class onto the scene as in May 1936 and May-June 1968. The common electoral pro- gramme of the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and section of the Radicals is in- tended to preserve the institu- tions of bourgeois democracy in the Common Market and to hold back the working class.

revolutionary The correct policy in this situation is to call for maximum support for the communist candidate in the first ballot and the best- placed CP or SP candidate in the second ballot. On no account, however, should workers support the candidates of the 'left' Radi- cals who represent the most bankrupt wing of the French bourgeoisie. As Trotsky put it in 1936: 'The Radicals are the democratic party of Frenc imperialism—any other defini- tion is a lie.' The purpose of supporting is to the SP-CP candidates force the workers' parties to their form a government of own, to break their alliance with the bourgeoisie and to enact socialist policies. Such a demand is a necessary educa- tion for the working class to enable these treacherous lead- ers, and their real role, to be exposed. Any action which cuts across this objective can only sow confusion and plays into the hands of the bourgeoisie.

therefore, are we to What, make of the fact that two revi- sionist organizations, claiming to be Trotskyist-the Ligue Communiste and Lutte Ouv- rière—have come to an agree- ment to put up over 300 can- didates? What are these organiza- tions and what principles, if lie behind this electoral any, combination? The Ligue Communiste is the French section of the revi- sionist Unified Secretariat (Pabloite) whose best-known figure is Ernest Mandel. It grew out of a mainly student organization, Jeunesses the Communistes Revolutionnaires which sprang to prominence during the May-June, 1968, events. Operating within the hot- house atmosphere of the Latin Quarter, it believed that it was actually leading a revolution- ary movement. With these illu- sions of grandeur it presented its leader, Alain Krivine, as a presidential candidate. He has recently been confirmed as a TV personality in a popular programme. The Lutte Ouvrière group, tormerly. Voie Ouvrière, has existed since 1939 as a separ- ate group in France not affi- liated to any international body. It claims to stand for 'the reconstruction of the Fourth International'. It has many affinities-especially in Soviet position on the Union and the workers' states the state capitalist, -with International Socialists in this country. Invited to attend the Con- ference of the International Committee of the Fourth In- Alain Krivine of the revisionist group, Ligue Communiste which standing candidates against the SP-CP in • the forthcoming election. Above: A demonstration of workers in the Stalinist-led union, the CGT. ternational in London in 1966, it refused recognize the to historical continuity of the . International from its Fourth foundation in 1938 and was expelled. Although always pretending bitter opposition to Pabloism, after the events of 1968 it moved closer to the JCR and then to the Ligue Communiste.

It put forward a policy of the unity of all left groups.

In 1971, after two years' discussion, it reached an agree- the Ligue which ment with envisaged closer working and eventual fusion. In fact, the Ligue did not show much en- thusiasm for such an arrange- ment, which appeared to have stalemated until the question of joint participation in the election was raised last Sep- the initiative of tember on Lutte Ouvrière. Then, while leaving in sus- pense all the principled ques- upon which the two tions organizations have profound differences, an electoral pact was reached. The latest issue of 'Class Struggle' ', the bi-lingual theo- retical magazine of Lutte Our- profound rière, shows how these differences are. It con- tains a vigorous attack on the Ligue Communiste for its posi- tion of terrorism which it claims is 'undoubtedly closer to those of Bakunin than to Marx and Lenin'. It gives as an example the support of the Ligue for the Argentine section of the Uni- fied Secretariat, which carries out kidnapping and other ter- rorist acts, and to the Black September movement. It accuses the Ligue of aban- doning the terrain of the class struggle and refusing to stand on the programme of the in- ternational proletariat. It is no accident, 'Class Struggle' says, that the Ligue 'comes to grovel at the feet of characters like Tillon, the Stalinist Charles leader of the FTP [the organi- zation of the Resistance], who personifies this policy of the › ie the alliance Holy Alliance', of the Radical bourgeoisie and the Stalinist bureaucrats.

It says that the Ligue Com- muniste is not at all uneasy supporting about the ERP- ERT 'which proclaims its will "to win or die for Argentina"' Such examples, it goes on, 'all illustrate the abandonment of Marxism, ie the abandonment of the interests of the prole- tariat' And the Lutte Ouvrière theorists spell out in well- chosen words a class charac- terization of those "comrades' whose electoral campaign they will soon be supporting! 'In spite of their ambiguous features [?], the actions of the leftists have a clear class meaning. They reflect the im- patience of the radicalized petty-bourgeoisie, just as Pou- jadism and fascism [!] expres- sed this impatience in other periods or in other surround- ings. They are but the left- wing variant of a phenomenon which assumes many forms.

History provides us with numerous examples.' Still more specific are the criticisms which the Lutte Ouvrière group makes of the trade union work of the Ligue.

It claims that 'most of the union activities of the Ligue is de- Communiste militants Workers Prezs, Mo voted to the CFDT* and these comrades are championing a "class struggle CFDT" which means that the CFDT Is not yet quite a "class struggle" union but may be- come one' The CPDT union, led by in fact, Edmund Maire, is, dominated by Jesuits and other Catholics and may be seen as the arm of the Vatican in the working-class move- But 'Rouge', organ of ment. the Ligue, characterized it as 'a new centrism with a labour base and a revolutionary syn- dicalist ideology. It sees the CFDT leadership as good example of neo-centrism' Lutte Ouvrière is happy to point out these crass adapta- tions to which Krivine's orga- nization resorts in an attempt to build up its mass influence.

But this does not prevent it continuing its efforts to fuse with the Ligue as well as to co-operate in the course of the coming election. While Lutte Ouvrière cor- rectly portrays the Ligue as an expression of the petty bour- geoisie rather than of the wor- king class, it is no less an emanation of the same social It shows its contempt layer. for the working class in not fighting through these issues and in helping to sustain the fiction that the Ligue is a Trotskyist organization. This clearly demon- was strated when it first proposed an electoral coalition with the Ligue last September. At that time it wrote (referring to the Organization Communiste In- ternationaliste as well as the Ligue and itself): 'That revolutionaries should present candidates is certainly an excellent thing, but it would, on the other hand, be ridiculous to have three Trot- skyist candidates in some constituencies carrying on a merciless struggle among themselves differences over which, while correctly consi- Press, Monday January 8, 1873 PAGE 5 dered to be extremely impor- tant by their militants, are incomprehensible in usually the eyes of workers.' (Empha- sis added.) This is no more than a typi- cally petty bourgeois con- tempt for workers, considered to be incapable of understand- ing important political ques- for the mili- tions reserved tants. The whole policy of Lutte Ouvrière is to avoid fighting through differences on own principles principle; its being extremely vague and flexible on important questions as its relationship with the Ligue Communiste alone shows. The electoral agreement of the two organizations not only sows confusion, while pretend- ing to avoid it, but acts as a diversion from the main issue: which is the return of a gor- ernment based on the wor- kers' parties and a campaign in the working class to force them to carry out socialist policies and to break uncon- ditionally from its Radical bourgeois partners. time, these At the same squabbling revisionist twins fraudulently present them- selves as Trotskyists. This can only confuse workers and pro- vide grist to the mill of the bourgeoisie and the Stalinists.

The Press and TV will make the most of the intervention of Krivine in particular. Far from weakening Stalinism's hold on the working class, the antics of these groups only tend to strengthen it. This manoeuvre must be ex- posed and condemned, but it cannot be done by the tactics currently pursued by the OCI, which split from the Interna- tional Committee of the Fourth International in 1971.

We shall examine the elec- toral position of this group in a future article. * Democratic Federation of French Labour.

GASWORKERS REVIVE MILITANT TRADITIONS

PAGE 6 Workors Press, Monday Januar

BY DAVID MAUDE PHOTOGRAPI

Minister Edward Prime Heath's 15 December directive stopping talks on the gasworkers' pay claim has rightly been seen throughout the trade union movement as parti- cularly vicious. Britain's 48,000 gasworkers among the most highly are exploited in the nationalized industries. Ruthless rationalization and has slashed their speed-up numbers by over 31 per cent in the last four years. Over an even longer period a combin- ation of government duplicity and treacherous union leader- ship has held their wages con- sistently low. But today is decision day for gasworkers, the and the decision most of them want ну лапу 8, 1873

OGRAPHS BY MARTIN MAYER

from their majority union's delegate conference national this afternoon is: action now against the arrogant Tories.

ironic that the Tory It is premier's blocking message negotiations on the 'substantial' claim should be gas pay addressed to Lord Cooper, general secretary of the General and Municipal Workers' Union.

The right-wing Cooper, who office in just retires from a few weeks' time, has arguably tried harder than anyone to obliterate the revolutionary traditions in which the union was founded. It was Cooper whobefore he was halted from doing so by the indignation of his rank-and- file members-proposed on the eve of the September 1971

TUC

to register the union under the Tories' Industrial Relations Act. And it was the same 64- year-old baron who, in August that he last year, declared shoot Trotskyists*. wanted to This is a far cry from the language of 1889, when the union which forms the main stem of the modern G&MWU was set up by a Beckton gas- worker, Will Thorne, with the assistance of Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor. A preamble to the rules of Gasworkers' Thorne's and General Labourers' Union sets the tone of 80 years ago.

'All members should under- stand', the preamble runs, 'that the interests of all workers are one, and that a wrong done kind of labour is a to any wrong done to the whole of the working class, and that a victory or defeat of any por- tion of the army of labour is a gain or loss to the whole of army, which by its that organization and the union is marching ... to its ultimate goal-the emancipation of the working class ... • Workers Unite!' These words are, of course, reflected more in the actions of the Croydon and East Green- wich gasworkers, who have been banning overtime for over a week against Heath's x's directive, than in the contem- porary attitudes of Cooper and of his heir-apparent, David Bas- nett. But Heath made no con- cession to the union leaders' er- politics. There was not a word of conciliation in his directive.

'Until such time as the government is able to announce guidelines for phase two of the Tory pay-control law', he wrote, 'negotiations, whether in the public or private sectors, should not be carried to the of point of offers of improved remuneration.' Behind this warlike tone lies the conviction that the days of polite class-collaboration are over; that nothing less than total capitulation will do.

Heath's message-penned on the eve of ganging up with the European capitalists to prose- cute the class struggle-was directed at the whole of the working class. And it is in this knowledge, and the spirit of the 1889 declaration, that it must be answered today. For too long the gasworkers have been victims of gross mis- leadership. Over the past four years alone, the number of manual workers in the industry has been decimated three times.

Croydon Arthur Hetherington, now nationa: | chairman of the British Gas down Cr Corporation, became deputy ometers

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lies s of dic - on Toe ose- was the this t it cers nis- ears nual has Croydon adready working to rue against the Tory ban on negotiations soon be invotved in now national ndustrial action The guerrilia Transport and General Workers' Union could shut Gas down Croydon's new •iant (above lett). The unoficial work-o-rule ha already half-emptied gas uty ometers at East Greenwich (above right).

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WAKES TO LONG

of Chairman the then Gas time, are expected to show a Council in 1967. At that time level of gas sales. new record there were over 70,000 gas- On the strength of last year's workers. 22,000 jobs 8,000 million therm record, the have been lost since then. showed industry the second

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highest profit its entire history at despite crippling £124.8m interest burden. Just over 12,000 jobs have The 1971-1972 profit— £15.1m- -represented a 7.2 per gone in lne inaustry sınce the Prices Incomes Board and cent return on the industry's 1970—ordered report of by assels. Castle Labour's Barbara But the gospel according to investigate 14-per-cent pay Heath Edward offers gas- claim by the gasworkers. workers no reward for their This stepped up the produc- efforts. tivity-dealing process on which * 'These people, the union leaders had already Trots, are Hetherington told embarked with complete menace, and his colleagues. 'Glasgow Herald' reporter The work-study man became Colm Brogan. are being arbiter of about them here. the how quickly very naive job should be done. They are totally against the every as the pace of conversion And system and only its to North Sea has quick- destruction... gas 'There ened, gasworks after gasworks was one fellow there has closed. [in St Helens during the Pilk- No than 22 ington strike of 1970], we were less gasworks closed in the financial watching him all the time. One year 1971-1972 leaving 96 just in day he was stirring up trouble the whole of the in St Helens. The next day he country compared with 1,050 at the was up at York doing the same thing. time the industry was national.

ized in 1949. I would shoot a fellow like Figures for the last financial that. It's no use trying to win year, ending in just 12 weeks' them over'

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday Januar by Attempts the capitalist class to 'unify' Europe are not new. The German ruling class tried twice, the time first under the • Kaiser and the second time under fascism.

Between the wars a section of the French bourgeoisie also made a series of diplomatic manoeuvres in 1929 under the direction of Premier Briand.

This almost-forgotten epi- sode was analysed by Trotsky in an important article of which we print extracts below (the original Russian text appeared Russian 'Bulletin of the Opposition'_ No 6, October 1929; an English translation was published in 'The Militant', paper of the Socialist Workers' Party of America in the same year. Later it was published in "The Fourth International', Trotsky the development of European 'unity' under the threat of US domination. At one stage he talks of a disruption of the world economic equilibrium in America's favour which will become the main source of crisis-there is no better des- cription of Nixon's decision to take the gold backing from the dollar on August 15, 1971.

Trotsky, like Lenin, also makes it crystal clear that European • unity as attempted by the capitalist class is com- pletely reactionary. Socialists can have nothing whatsoever to do with such plans. On the struggle contrary they must for a Socialist United States of Europe as the only means of saving mankind from col- lapse, crisis and war. Only the working class is capable of uniting Europe on this basis. Hence the slogan for a Socialist United States of Europe becomes central to the revolutionary task. Briand the need of senses improving the historical lot of 350 million Europeans who are the bearers of highest civiliza- tion but who find it impossible to live through a single century wars and without a dozen revolutions. For the sake of pacifying our planet, MacDonald has crossed the Atlantic. On the agenda are the United States of Europe, disarmament, freedom of trade, Capitalist diplomacy peace. everywhere is cooking up a pacifist stew. Peoples Europe, peoples of the world get out big spoons to swallow it with. Why all this bother? After all, aren't the socialists in power in the most important in Europe, or else countries preparing to assume power? Yes, that is just why! It is already apparent that Briand's plan and MacDonald's plan pursue the 'pacification' of mankind from diametrically- opposite directions. Briand wants to unify Europe as a against defensive measure America. MacDonald wants to lay January 8, 1873 earn the gratitude of America by helping her oppress Europe.

Two trains are rushing to meet one another in order to save the passengers from - train- wreck. How to arrange matters so that the unification of Europe is not directed against America, changing without the relationship of forces to America's disadvantage? 'Daily The Herald', Mac- Donald's semi-official organ, September 10, 1929, charac- terized the idea of the United States of Europe as 'grotesque' even as a provocation. and Should, however, this tantasy be realized, then the United States of Europe would erect a monstrous tariff wall against the USA, so argued Mac- Donald's semi-official organ, and as a result Great Britain would be caught between two continents as in a vice. And the 'Daily Herald' then went on to add: How could one expect aid from America by steering a course toward the unification of Europe? "To act in this way • would be in- sanity or worse.' One could not speak more plainly. No one knows just what the United States of Europe is supposed to signify in practice.

Streseman reduced the whole question to a common mone- tary unit and-postage stamps.

That's a bit thin. Briand pro- poses to 'study' the problem whose content nobody knows.

The basic task of unification must be economic in character, not only in the commercial productive sense. It but also is necessary to have a regime that would eliminate the artificial barriers between European coal and European iron. It is necessary to enable the system of electrification to expand in consonance with natural and economic con- ditions, and not in accordance with the frontiers of Versailles.

It is to unite necessary Europe's railways into a single system, and so on and so forth ad infinitum. All this, in its turn, is inconceivable without the destruction of the ancient Chinese system of custom borders within Europe. This would, in its turn, mean a single, All-European customs union-against America. There can be no doubt what- ever that if the internal tariff barriers were swept away, capitalist Europe, after a cer- tain period of crises of re- and readjustment, groupment would attain a high level on the basis of the new distribu- tion of productive forces. This is just as incontestable as the fact that, given the necessary conditions, economic large- scale enterprises are decisively superior to small ones. But we have yet to hear of small entrepreneurs voluntarily re- Coal briquettes on their way to France a once again posed acutely the fundamen!

nouncing their businesses for this reason. To conquer the outlets the big capitalist must first ruin the small one. The situation with states is similar. Tariff barriers are erected precisely because they are profitable and indispensable to one national bourgeoisie to the detriment of another, regardless of the fact to retard the that they act development of economy as a whole. Since 1923 we have had to conduct a struggle to have the leadership of the Communist International deign, hinally, to take notice of the United States, and to understand that the Anglo-American antagon- ism constitutes the fundamental line along which world group- ings and world conflicts occur.

This was considered a heresy as far back as the era of the Fifth World Congress (middle of 1924). were accused of 'over- We estimating' the role of America.

A special legend was invented to the effect that we had pro- claimed an epoch of the dis- appearance of European capi- talist contradictions in the face of the American peril. Ossinsky, Larin and others spoiled not a paper in order to 'de- little throne' the might of America.

Radek, in the wake of bour- geois journalists, demonstrated that ahead lies an epoch of Anglo-American collaboration. Temporary, conjunctural, epi- do on their way to France after occupation of the Ruhr In 1923.

once again posed acutely the fundamental problems of European economy (primarily coal and iron ore)...

the sodic forms assumed by reciprocal relations have been confused with the essence of the world process. Gradually, however, America came to be recognized' bv the official leadership of the Comin- tern which began to repeat our formulas of yesterday, without add forgetting, naturally to each time that the Left Oppo sition overestimates the role of America. The present stage has once form of again assumed military-naval 'collaboration' between America and England.

newspapers and some French fears have even expressed an Anglo-Saxon world dictator- ship. The United states will course can and probably utilize the 'collaboration' with England to tighten the reins France. But all Japan and this will represent phases not Anglo - Saxon but toward American domination of the world, including Great Britain. In connection with this pers- leaders of the the Comintern once again may to repeat that we are unab e see anything ahead except the capital- In much the same way, ism. petty-bourgeois theoreti- The of 'Narodnikism' (Rus- cians sian Populism) used to accuse Marxists pioneer Russian of failing to see anything ahead except the victory of capitalism.

These two accusations are on a par When we say that America moving toward world domination, it does not at all • In 1923. Trotsky writes: "The occupation conomy (primarily coal and iron ore)...

mean that this domination will be completely realized, nor, all the less so, that after it is realized to one degree or an- it will endure other, centuries or even decades.

We are discussing a historical tendency which, in actuality, will be criss-crossed and modi- fied by other historical ten- dencies. If the capitalist world were able to endure several more decades without revolu- tionary paroxysms, then these decades would unquestionably witness the uninterrupted world growth of American dictatorship. But the whole point is that this process will develop its inevitably own contradictions which will be- come coupled with all the other contradictions of the capitalist system. America will force Europe to strive for an ever-increasing rationalization and at the same time will leave ever-decreasing Europe an share of the world market.

This will entail a steady aggravation of the difficulties in Europe. The competition among European states for a share of the world market will inevitably become aggravated.

At the same time under the pressure of America, the European states will endeavour to co-ordinate their forces. This is the main source of Briand's programme of the United States of Europe. But whatever the various • stages of the development may be, one thing is clear: The constant disruption of the world equilibrium in America's

Trotsky in exile in Prinkipo with his w 'Bulletin of the Russian Opposition' firs favour will become the main source of crises and revolu- tionary convulsions in Europe throughout the entire coming period. Those who hold that Euro- pean stabilization is assured for decades understand nothing situation at all of the world will inevitably sink head and first in the swamp of reformism.

If this process is approached from across the Atlantic Ocean, i.e. from the standpoint of the fate of USA, then here too the perspectives opened up re- semble least of all a blissful capitalist idyll. The pre-war power of the United States grew on the basis of its internal market, i.e. the dynamic equilibrium between industry and agricul- ture. In this development the has produced a sharp war break. The United States ex- ports capital and manufactured goods in ever great volume.

The growth of America's world power means that the entire system of American industry and banking — that towering capitalist skyscraper—is rest- ing to ever-increasing an measure on the foundations of world economy. But this foundation is mined, and the United States itself continues to add more mines to it day by day. By exporting commodities and capital, by building up its navy, by elbow- ing England aside, by buying key enterprises the in Europe, by forcing its way into China, etc., American finance capital is digging with its own hands powder and dynamite cellars beneath its own foun- dation. Where will the fuse be lit? Whether it will be in Asia, Europe or Latin America-or what is most likely in various places at one and the same time — that is a second-rate question. The whole misfortune is that the incumbent leadership of totally in- the Comintern following all the capable of stages of this gigantic process.

It shies away from facts by means of platitudes. Even the pacifist agitation in favour of the United States of Europe has taken it by surprise.

The question of the United States of Europe regarded from the proletarian standpoint was raised in September by me 1914, i.e. at the very beginning of the (last) imperialist war. the his wife Natalya and sition nirsi publishea irotsky In the pamphlet, 'TI the International', of these lines sought that of Europe advanced to the fo Europe's entire velopment, but that of Europe States ceivable only as form of the dictator European proletaria In 1923 when the of the Ruhr acutev the fundame European lems of (primarily coal and coincident the problems of the succeeded we slogan of the Uniter Europe officially the leadership of tern. But the attitude t slogan remained being in a position Comintern The garded it as an abanc of "Trotskyism'. of lapse the Europe life of stabilization. revolutionary appeared from the a slogan of the Unite Europe was forgotte It was not incluc programme of the zag fundity: Since countries will accom revolutions, is impossible to predi United States the will be necessary. other words, that before it. As a matt it is not at all a q the order in which will be accomplishe can only score one But this does European workers, International as a the necessity to the ques answer Euronean Call snatched from its pr of dispersion and hc popular masses of saved from decay an ment? The trouble, the economic that of Europe overthro the basic ideas of t ilization. The basic forgotten. included in the of the Comintern. ained this Hew 2g- remarkable pro- we cannot ten which the various ill accomplish their it follows that it e to predict whether States of Europe words, this means to make fter the event than Is a matter of fact, t all a question n which revolutions this ompilshea. Un can only speculate. oes not relieve the the al as a whole from the question: How economy om its present state n and how can the sses of Europe be decay and enslave- is nowever ground for of the United States overthrows one of leas of the present Is-Senin in 1929 at the time when the • on Europe. Comintern programme, namely: the idea of building socialism in one country. have definitely forces out- grown the framework of the national state and have assumed primarily in America and Europe partly continental, partly world proportions. The imperialist war grew out of the contradiction between the productive forces and national boundaries. And the Versailles peace which terminated the war has aggravated this con- tradiction still further. In other words: thanks to the develop- ment of the productive forces capitalism has long ago been unable to exist in a single country. Meanwhile, socialism can and will base itself on far more developed productive forces, otherwise socialism would rep- resent not progress but re- gression with respect to capi- talism. In 1914 I wrote: 'If the problem of socialism were compatible with the framework of a national state, it would thereby become compatible with national defence? The formula Soviet United States of Europe is precisely the political expression of the idea that socialism is impossible in one country. Socialism cannot of course attain its full de- velopment even in the limits of a single continent. The Socialist United States of Europe represents the historical slogan which is a stage on the road to the world socialist federation. But the communist parties have their hands tied. The living slogan, with a profound historical content, has been expunged from the programme of the Comintern solely in the interests of the struggle against the Opposition. All the more decisively must the Opposition raise this slogan. In the person of the Oppo- sition the vanguard of European proletariat tells its present rulers: In order to unify Europe it is first of all necessary to wrest power out of your hands. We will do it.

We will unite Europe. We will unite it against the hostile capitalist world. We will turn it into a mighty drillground of militant socialism. We will make it the cornerstone of the World Socialist Federation.

October 4, 1929 Workers Press, M Gough Cooper, the housing estate developers, who came to the market last April, exceeded their profits forecast by £700,000. Their pre-tax profits for the year to September were £1.85m and turnover| was up to £9.9m as against £2.99m for the six months to September 1971. The directors say they did better than the forecast because of 'significantly higher profits than anticipated on sales of undeveloped land' and because of satisfactory also trading in the summer months by their house-building and plant hire divisions. Shareholders are expected to receive a final dividend of 14 per cent, making a total of 21 per cent for the year.

Laws dating from the time of the British occupation are be- ing used in Israel to restrict the movements of opponents of Golda Meir's government.

Leading members of the Communist Party of Israel and other militants, both Jews and Arabs, are prevented by the military authorities from leav- ing the town or village in which they live. In some cases they are not permitted to leave their homes between sunset and sunrise. Journalists, lawyers, teachers and trade union leaders are included in the ban. Some, such as Mun'em Jarjura of Nazareth, Ranzi Khoury of Acre and Shafiq Khoureya of Shafa A'mer, are members of the municipal councils of the towns in which they live.

Below: Golda Meir Press, Monday January 8, 1973 PAGE 9 Loans to farmers hit by natural disasters are to be axed by the Nixon administration to cut spending. The loans were available in disaster areas where crops or livestock had suffered severe damage as a result of abnormal weather conditions. They helped farmers to avoid bank- ruptcy. Bitter protests have come farmers' from organizations. Ohio soy bean and other crops have been especially hard hit by weather wet and many farmers face ruin. General Lon Nol Corrupt generals in Cam- bodia placed about 100,000 phantom soldiers on the pay roll in order to collect their wages. Virtually all the $2m a month required to 'pay' these non-existent soldiers came from American aid. The extent of the racket, which has become scandal, has now a national been admitted by Minister of Information Keam Reth. A check-up now being made shows only about 180,000 real soldiers against a paper army of 300,000. The government of Lon Nol, a US puppet, is now under pressure to stamp out this form of corruption. helping in US officials are the pay check. Other forms of corruption, such as the passage of US military and other aid to the black market-or to the enemy-await investigation.

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Millions of tenants and the rise coming from the in- creased rates share borne by owner-occupiers face en- aomesuc premises. ormous rates increases In London and the south this spring-even if local it is reported generally, office values have risen faster councils do not increase than homes and the increases expenditure by will not be so steep for the one ordinary householder penny. as Conscucuce. For council tenants the in- For council housingmost with the creases will coincide lories tend to 'torget munici- second phase of the rent hikes pal tenants as well pay rates Tories' Housing Ine as rents-the rise in valuation Finance Act. has been proportionately The rates rises follow the higher than for private revaluation of property carried property, with the biggest rise the first time in ten out for in the newest flats. years. Labour postponed the At the Churchill Gardens quinquennial review which council estate in Westminster, should have taken place in for examole rateable values tor 1967. medium-sized flats go up from Using true capitalist valu- £150 to £347. the assessors ation methods, Private houses face steeper have produced new rateable Because increases than flats. directly values which reflect few houses are let, and rate- which the incredible intation able value is based on letting has taken Britain place in price, valuers had no yardstick, since 1962. but the law was changed two Worst affected will be areas years ago. like the West Midlands, south- The rise in rateable values east Essex, (especially Harlow in many towns will cul New Town, Thurrock and councils off from government Liver- Manchester, Newham), grants wnich are pala to en- South Shields sure there is no unfair loss of pool, and Sheffield. revenue for local services In the West Midlands, for low because ot unusually valuation example, officials values. have decided that the value of will Now increased houses and flats have risen mean a cut-back or the entire faster since the last valuation elimination of central govern- than that of ten years ago ment grants. offices and factories. Many councils will be under So in Birmingham, rates are great pressure to drastically cut by expected to go up. 25 per expenditure on vital services in cent and more, with over half the coming financial year.

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Profits may have to be sacrificed altogether by many British companies if they are to beat off Common Market compe- tition, warns the Tory Party's biggest backer. The warning-from Sir Ray- mond Brookes, head of Guest, Keen and Nettlefoldcomes in a review of industry published by the 'Birmingham Post'.

Sir Raymond Brookes Brookes says that GKN was one of the considerable num- ber of companies that, during the past decade, came to see the opportunity and advantage I firmly of joining Europe. believe ultimately, the national decision to foin the Community will be seen by all to have been the right one for Britain,' he adds. But the company chairman goes on to point out that one of the immediate consequences of Market entry will be 'com- petition in our home markets of a strength few of us have ever experienced'. This would come as a shock, he says. Some indus- trialists had become used to thinking of Europe only in terms of the advantages. But the price of entry also included opening up the British home market - and what had hap- factory sitting-in during the engineering worke es, has declared the need for a now offensive pened in the past was not a reliable guide to the course of defensive tariff events as barriers fell. Brookes' article reveals the real, dog-eat-dog, anti-working class face of the market.

whose The GKN chief, £393m made the company largest known single donation to the Tories 1970 election campaign, attacks the 'com- placencies' which he says are still encountered all too fre- quently at all levels in industry.

Companies had forgotten their tariff walls existed, he claims. 'Behind these protective walls we have not only for- gotten what it is like to com- pete against all-comers, even for our home markets; we have retained and reinforced so many historic inefficiencies —in our industrial structures, in our company organizations, in our product ranges, in our working methods and in our marketing approaches — that our ability to compete in free trade conditions is seriously impaired.' Inefficiency is widespread, Brookes goes on, and 'the dis- crepancy between fact and complacent belief is so great that our awakening must be painful' All this, of course, is a far cry from the bland public- relations ballyhoo being churned out incessantly over the past week by every con- ceivable agency of the capi- talist mass media. relatively restricted To a audience, one of Britain's biggest monopolists (GKN ranks 16th in 'The Times' list of top companies) is prepared to admit that Market entry means war. And he is not shy, either, about the fact that it is a war in which many com- panies can go to the wall.

done,' 'What we have now Brookes says, "is to join a large, powerful industrial free- trade group, and entry to such a group is supposed to "impact" have both and "dynamic" effects. Ing workers pay claim last year.

Now • offensive on the unions.

'Behind the jargon, and in plain terms, an "impact effect" means invasion of our home markets by aggressive, efficient and knowledgeable exporters, attracted by our high domes- tic prices, already able to price competitively and very well aware that the profit- ability of selling here can only be enhanced as our tariffs against them fall to zero?

Many companies were directly or indirectly going to lose a big slice of the home- market share on which they previously depended had almost completely for turnover and profit. To repel the in- vasion successfully may mean sacrificing profit.' Having thus disposed of the "impact' effects, the GKN chairman goes on to talk about the so-called 'dynamics of entry. These are by no means automatic either, Brookes terms they stresses. In plain can only be achieved by taking a profitable slice out of a competitor's home market share. And this is no easy task. Brookes' unspoken remedies appear to be twofold. 1 A further slashing attack on the nationalized industries.

He complains that _engineering suffers from 'inescapable struc- tural inflation', reflecting its 'dependence upon, if indeed not captivity to, the public sector of the economy'. 2 A determined new offensive on union organization at factory level. He says that 'much inefficiency arises on the factory floor and bad indus- trial relations and the negative attitudes of some trade unions account for some part of it'.

This is Toryism red in tooth and claw. Brookes and his board, who are believed to refer privately to militants in their factories as 'the Luddites', , are warning British capitalism that unless it seizes the initiative it will go under. The working class, too, has been warned.

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The Plymouth Fine Tubes Strikers, their wives and 53 children have just spent their third Christmas on strike with very little money. These men have waged a bitter struggle for the most basic right a worker. can possess—the right to belong to a trade union. Strike committee members have travelled over 100,000 miles to sustain their fight.

BELFAST Republican leader Mrs elected acting president of the P Drumm, formerly vice-president, tak who is at present detained in Dubl trial on charges of being a membe new Offences Against the State Ac The meeting which elected Mrs Drumm to the Sinn Fein presidency last Saturday was a street meeting outside the group's former Kevin Street headquarters in Dublin. These have been closed down by the Lynch government in its campaign against the IRA. The closure order on the headquarters was renewed by the Irish Special Branch last Friday. A statement from the Pro- visional IRA on Saturday wel- comed the condemnation by the loyalist Ulster Defence Associa- tion of sectarian 'killing in the province and repeated former offers to meet the UDA. The statement read: 'Much can be accomplished by leaders of the two communities getting to- gether and devising ways and means to stamp out sectarianism for all time.' It added: 'Failure to do so can only benefit the British regime and prolong its rule to the detri- ment of all the people of Ireland.'

• Between 20 and 30 prisoners demanding better conditions staged a sit-down protest at PLANS for the next Labour government to nationalize banks and insurance are going ahead, according to Party general sec- retary Ron Hayward. He told a weekend Fabian school that a study group was working 'on how these sectors should be national- ized, whether they should not be nationalized'. He said 49 study bodies and committees were working out every aspect of policy. HULL: Wednosday January. Gelder Street near Drypool Bridge). SHEFFIELD: Wednesday January "The Grape Inn, 10, 7.30 p.m. Trippett Lane, Sheffield 1.

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This Christmas has been the hardest of all. It has imposed a great financial burden. Now the 37 strikers face the rest of the winter with a depleted strike fund. January is always a difficult month to raise money to further their fight. Yet they are determined to fight on. This is a struggle the working class cannot afford to lose. That is why the Socialist Labour League and the Work- der Mrs Maire Drumm has been of the Provisional Sinn Fein. Mrs ident, takes over from Rory O'Brady I in Dublin's Mountjoy jail awaiting a member of the IRA under Eire's State Act. Mountjoy prison yesterday. Police were drafted in, but the protest passed off without incident. It is understood that no political prisoners were involved.

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cause they were unable to stop the Tories making judicial in- roads into unions' rights. Unions took the political road because they found that indus- trial militancy couldn't halt the legal attacks on the unions which culminated in the Taff Vale judgement. If pure militancy proved inadequate then and led to the formation of the Labour Party in 1906, a revolutionary party must now be formed to defend the unions government, from the Heath He said no trade unionist could place faith in today's Labour Party leaders. Reformism and class-collaboration paved the way for dictatorship. The Labour leaders had be- trayed the confidence of the working class; behind the scenes they had sold out on every struggle since the Tories came to power. In the course of the fight to remove the Tories from office there would be a complete ex- posure of all those traitors in the labour movement. be in the The SLL would forefront of the fight to defend basic democratic rights. Workers Press had already re- ported 'sinister developments' in the use of the secret police against groups on the left.

'The Tories are preparing to create a series of anti-communist provocations on the left to stam- pede the middle class into voting Tory in a snap election, he said.

Healy concluded by saying that the movement had entered 'the year of decision'. "This is a year like no other year in our lifetime. This is the crunch. There must be no mark- ing time, no evasion of respon- sibility. Join with us in the building of the revolutionary party ASIAN workers at the Mansfield Hosiery mill, Loughborough, are convinced a tiny organized group in the factory is consciously try- ing to prevent unity being estab- lished with white workers.

Last week, as the Asian wor- kers returned after a ten-week strike, both the extreme right- wing ; National Front and the so- called Enoch Powell Support Group from Leicester were active both outside and inside the mill.

A small handful of white wor- kers wearing pro-Powell badges, has refused to train Asians for knitting jobs. Management has had to call in a professional trainer. By last Friday, management threatened to close the whole mill unless the situation settled down.

Over 120 Asians and nearly 40 white workers have applied for knitters' jobs, the selection for which takes place this week.

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NEW CLASHES between the engineers' union and the National Industrial Re lations Court loomed at the weekend, while more than 50,000 workers prepared for strikes today against the £61,000 already imposed on the union in fines and costs. In Coventry Joseph Langs- ton, who is trying to break the closed shop at Chrysler UK's Ryton car factory, said INDUSTRY throughout Machinists have voted proposal, should be le he was giving the union a 30- the north east will shut to strike along with the intact.' down they will Mr Donkin said mar an engineers day ultimatum. workers backed 47,000 workers picket pected bid taker by she sol,000 in tes and close stand wants the union to declare the plant. engineers laterat in what its costs taken from the the Bushing Co Thorn Radio who en- Ryton membership at the next door the strike will demanding sacking Haus respond. Goad case. LWO a Lau carefully-staged Press conference All the major engin- tions of workers back- Sunder anal in the back garden of his home, the eering plants seem cex- ing engineers will go to the court This Middle Dock attitude. action

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Langston said he wants to be Tyne and Wear ship. ship-repair yard, allowed to return to his normal yards will be badly Shields, have We Should be job his normal place of and back them all the boilermakers passe added: Tyneside's employment, but am abouters strike to defeat the In- newspapers stances to become a member of dustrial Relations Act closed for the day. Amalgamated a trade union.' Boilermakers, Engineering Ryton pledged support. He has written the Canal Bill Donkin en- sukkers cene en di asking Collillec told call to bring out return work. allowed apprentices Workers Pres that pro- former car body welder who has

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contitue. 1s quite impossibie nave The Barney Mc- them back unions, let Also on strike will be 30,000 Ge the horst tum to take on the said: chicals 'We consider that this tactory sulpyaras, severa

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is a 100 per closed shop and the local Tory Press will be cent them The 1,700-strong workforce so we cannot allow to be factory the members in Glamorgan The are cemanened employed nere any mole. Union sacking of Terence Canavan and The two men- Langston -1TP South Wales, The wil be out. they are both suspended on full Young, left the Joseph who big industrial estate at Bridgend likely to be severely affected Next week engineers on Mer- seyside are to stop for expected Thent second protes TODAY'S 24 hour-strike of Hull lorry drivers has been called off after against the fines. intervention of union ofcials About postpone WRITING IN the AUEW journal, "i drivers took the decision to • acton yesterday when Transport and General Workers' Union and United Road Trans- is published today, union which 'officials told them that talks with employers would begin port Union today. one disasters and that This is a puzzling decision since the strike—the second in a series of one-day protests- The Industrial Relations Act, increase agreed the city. ov empiovers in beer he caus Shas nothing about the government order.

its tracks by the concerted effort drivers have received support from docks shop stewards lorry. of working people. But he warns any : lorries at the port They have instructed dockers not to that it has not been completely which would block any attempts to break the strike with a measure destroyed. blackleg vehicles. Conwar Ine ACI Meadows, are using non- firms. reactionary employers, disaffected registered dock labour to break down loads.

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DAVID MAUDE

Florence, uld be left Jim en- gineers' shop steward at I said many the plant, said he had the been round and asked by the every apprentice if they ngineers at would respond to the • who are strike. Some were not of union members, but all le unionists. to join the decided erland bro union. think this lad is ng the right 'I action will under a lot of pressure. If he does not respond to a head. e ready to to the strike he will not I the way? be victimized. It is not his fault? ultra-Tory be Other workers in- e day. They volved in the protest are questioning its limita- onducting a the tions. Bill Connolly, an ered on the engineer at the Bushing Co, said he was ready to g out the stand by his union 1, a General leadership. al Workers' 'But we must go be- er at Brig- yond this. The

TUC

Cowan, has should be recalled and d widely in stop talking with the complaining Tory government. They ision which should prepare a General The TUC will son - an Strike. engineer at not stand up and fight this issue. individuals and cranks'. What the

AUEW

secretary it appears, is for would like, industrial relations to be dealt 'away from the emotional with atmosphere of legal coercion and politically motivated courts' But he comes close to admit- ting that this search for a bolt- hole is futile and dangerous.

He forecasts that during 1973 the government will continue upon working class its attack people and their unions' Says Conway: 'Members should be aware that measures are being planned to make strikes almost impossible by inflicting hardships on strikers' families. 'In a similar fashion the law picketing is likely to be on way which will changed in make picketing virtually useless.'

JAMES GOAD, of Sudbury, Suffolk, whose claim to be a member of the AUEW has been upheld by the industrial court, is keeping quiet about his next move. He would not say if he would try to gain entry to the Sudbury branch meeting of the union on Friday. If he goes and is excluded, he could take the AUEW to court again for further contempt.