Workers Press no. 972

workers press Defend democratic rights!

Out with the Tory government!

E SIL CALLS A

MASS RALLY

Empire Pool, March 11

DAILY OR

THE CENTRAL Committee of the Socialist Labour League at its meeting on January 13 and 14 launched a nationwide campaign in defence of the basic demo- cratic rights of the working class.

The centre piece of this cam- paign will be a massive anti-Tory rally at the Empire Pool, Wemb- ley, on Sunday, March 11.

At this rally a pageant of working- class history - the first of its kind ever presented in Britain — will be staged. Details of the campaign were worked out at the SLL Central Com- mittee meeting. The campaign, which will be fought throughout the length and breadth of the Labour and trade union movement, is launched at a time when the basic demo- cratic rights of the working class are being stripped away in a series of legal conspiracies by the Tory government.

These conspiracies are self-evident. Every trade unionist now knows that the Industrial Relations Act has the single objective of tying the trade unions to the capitalist state. in this process all the rights won in 200 years of struggle the right to strike, to black, to picket, organize in shops-are virtually to abolished. Premier Edward Heath Tomorrow proposes to tighten this legal stranglehold by introducing legislation which will out- law the right to negotiate wages. He proposes, in eftect, the corporate state in which the government and the em- ployers fix wages. Unions or sections of workers who don't accept the state con- trol of wages face severe fines or im- prisonment. Was Heath elected to carry out this wholesale onslaught the working on class? Has he any mandate for attacking the standard of living of millions of working-class families? Of course not. This is a government with no mandate for what it's done; it has lied and cons- pired at every turn.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY

ILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTE

The working people of Britain fought from the latter part of the 18th century to win the vote to express themselves through parliament. But the Tory gov- ernment entered the Common Market possibility of without allowing the approximately 30 million voters to have their voice heard in a General Election.

Then we come to the runaway cost of living. The Tories are directly res- ponsible for creating this attack on the standard of living of millions of people.

They began their conspiracy following the miners' strike and the railwaymen's pay claim by 'floating' the pound—thus devaluing it by up to 10 percent.

As a result all imported goods-which includes most foodstuffs-have gone up.

The increases have been passed directly to the working man in an attack on his wage packet. Heath, who promised to 'at a stroke', has introduced cut prices policies tq let prices skyrocket, while 'at a stroke' he has brought forward legis- lation to hold down wages.

The basic democratic rights of the working class were struggle won in and they can only be maintained in struggle. It was as a result of the long, drawn-out legal battles from 1890 to VisH

AGAINST TH

1, R, C. TUESDAY JANUARY 16, 1973• No. 972 • 4p

MMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

1906 that democratic rights and against the Tory the trade unions went forward to found the Labour Party.

government. Today the trade the Empire Pool unions are facing an- At pageant workers historic legal Tories and their families will be able to see the other ons aliant. ne have been assisted by the treachery of founding history of their unions. Material the TUC leaders and the reformist Labour the straight for will be drawn Dareal! Party leaders who have deserted in this from this heroic history.

hour of imminent battle. The fight from 1800 to 1824 against Only revolutionary action and revolu- the Combination Laws. tionary leadership can now defend and • The struggle of the Chartist Move- restore basic rights. This means the pre- ment. paration oi poncies wnich unite the work• Karl Marx's work in London in the ing class e surge acanse e comor enemy-the Tory 180US. verament railway Inions in dement against the The Taff Vale of means the immediate Tack building the revolutionary leadership. That SLL has called on The is why the preparatory for recreating work members, its trade union and youth this history will be done in the areas supporters and readers of Workers Press where the historv was made - Lancashire transform north-east, in London and South work -TO the the

SLL

into a revolutionary in the Wales. party months. this history it is hoped Come re-enactino that workers will be able to draw strength We will continue to stresc and to fight and for the widest possible unity in action to

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une showdown with the defend basic Tories which is in front.

democratic rights. these vital weeks, the most crucial since those We call upon trade unionists and mem- preceding the General Strike, the bers the young workino-ciass. ano

SLL

and paper, Workers people everywhere come forward e2lv the Press, will do everything in its power their thousands and give us their utmost to rally the working-class in defence of basic support.

DOCKS ROUND-UP

BY DAVID MAUDE

Pickets were out early at PRESTON dockers fighting a bid to undermine the Vauxhall car plant in working conditions through Luton to stop white-collar the of . recruitment 'casual' workers entering yesterday.

dockers. They joined a massive Some 80 men have left the strike which rebuffed -270-strong at the DorE reaisTer- right-wing to move co- time of the docks national operate with the Industrial strike-under the special sever- Relations Act. • See story recommended by ance Termo the Jones-Aldington report.

page 2. the management

NOW

say they cannot handle the current levels of work with the CIVIL SERVANTS at the central depleted number of dockers Health and Social Security office, available. Benton, Newcastle Long upon registration hoard has heen vne. pegan overtime oan formed to sign casuals onto yesterday - partly as a supplementary register, the pay, freeze and against also, through cations nave been invited they caim hemaice inca manade the local Press. So far 144 men thent taite do stopst all 9,000 of have applied. attending Monday's them

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protest meeting.

workers press Defend democratic rights!

Out with the Tory government!

BESLL CALLS A

MASS RALLY

Empire Pool, March I1

DAILY OR

THE CENTRAL Committee of the Socialist Labour League at its meeting on January 13 and 14 launched a nationwide campaign in defence of the basic demo- cratic rights of the working class.

The centre piece of this cam- paign will be a massive anti-Tory rally at the Empire Pool, Wemb- ley, on Sunday, March I1.

At this rally a pageant of working.

class history - the first of its kind ever presented in Britain — will be staged. Details of the campaign were worked out at the SLL Central Com- inittee meeting. The campaign, which will be fought throughout the length and breadth of the trade union movement, is Labour and launched at a time when the basic demo- cratic rights of the working class are being stripped away in a series of legal conspiracies by the Tory government.

These conspiracies self-evident. are Every trade unionist now knows that the Industrial Relations Act has the single objective of tying the trade unions to In this the capitalist state. process all the rights won in 200 years of struggle.

the right to strike, to black, to picket, organize in shops-are virtually to abolished. Edward Heath Tomorrow Premier proposes to tighten this legal stranglehold by introducing legislation which will out- law the right to negotiate wages. proposes, in effect, the corporate state in which the government and the em- ployers fix wages. Unions or sections of workers who don't accept the state con- trol of wages face severe fines or im- prisonment. Was Heath elected to carry out this wholesale onslaught on the working class? Has he any mandate for attacking the standard of living of millions of working-class families? Of course not. This is a government with no mandate for what it's done; it has lied and cons- pired at every turn.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY

ILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTE!

The working people of Britain fought from the latter part of the 18th century to win the vote to express themselves through parliament. But the Tory gov- ernment entered the Common Market without allowing the possibility of approximately 30 million voters to have their voice heard in a General Election. Then we come to the runaway cost of living. The Tories are directly res- ponsible for creating this attack on the standard of living of millions of people.

They began their conspiracy following the miners' strike and the railwaymen's pay claim by 'floating' the pound-thus devaluing it by up to 10 per cent.

As a result all imported goods-which includes most foodstuffs-have gone up.

The increases have been passed directly to the working man in an attack on his Heath, wage packet. who promised to prices 'at a stroke', has introduced cut policies to let prices skyrocket, while stroke' he has brought forward legis- a lation to hold down wages.

•. The basic democratic rights of the working class were won in struggle and they can only be maintained in struggle. It was as a result of the long, drawn-out legal battles from 1890 to TUESDAY JANUARY 16, 1973 • No. 972 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

MMITTEE OF THE

1906 that the democratic rights and against the Tory trade unions went forward found the Labour Party. government. Today the Empire Pool the trade unions are facing an- At pageant workers historic legal The Tories and their families wil be able to see the OTher oncalent. have the treachery of founding history of their unions. Material been the TUC leaders and the reformist straight will be drawn Party leaders who have deserted in this from this heroic history.

hour of battle. imminent The fight from 1800 to 1824 against Only revolutionary action and revolu- the Combination Laws. tionary leadership can defend and noW • The struggle of the Chartist Move- restore basic rights. This means the pre- ment. paration or poncies wnich unite the work- Karl Marx's work in London in the ing class -the Tory 1o0vs. The Taff Vale the immediate task means railway unions in building the revolutionary leadership. That

SLL

called on The is whv the has preparatory work recreating

THES

members, its trade union and youth this history will be done in the areas supporters and readers of Workers Press where the histort was made - Lancashire north-east, in London and South wOrK Insanev transtorm tha

SLL

into revolutionary in the Wales. party coming months. this history it is hoped re-enacting that workers will be able to draw strength We will continue to stresc and to fiaht and for the widest possible unity in action to the Colace showdown with ine defend basic Tories which is in front.

democratic rights. In these vital weeks, möst crucial since those We call upon trade unionists and mem- the the General Strike, preceding the bers the and young working-class.

SLI

paper, Workers people everywhere to come forward in anne 4alV The Press, will do everything in its to their thousands and give us their utmost power rally the working-class in defence of basic support.

DOCKS ROUND-UP

BY DAVID MAUDE

Pickets were out early

PRESTON

dockers at fighting a bid to undermine the Vauxhall car plant in through working conditions Luton to stop white-collar the of recruitment 'casual' workers entering yesterday.

dockers. They joined a massive Some 80 men have left the strike which rebuffed port register--270-strong at the right-wing move to cO- time of the docks national operate with the Industrial strike--under the special sever- Relations Act. • See story ance terma recommended ov the Jones-Aldington report.

page 2. Now the management current levels of work cannot handle the CIVIL SERVANTS at the central with the depleted number of dockers Health and Social Security office, available. Benton, Newcastle Long upon registration hoard has heen har i vne. overtime formed to sign casuals and applia. onto yesterday - partly as supplementary register, pay, freeze and against the also, cations have been invited through They cam the local Press. So far 144 men ment tried to stop all 9.000 of have applied. attending last Monday's them

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protest meeting.

film workers hostile to Bentley's carve-up PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday Januar MUCH OF THE south Mid- lands was an industrial grave- yard yesterday as 50,000 workers staged a one-day strike against the £61,000 costs imposed on fines and the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. It was a powerful reply to the attempt by the right-wing in the local divisional com- mittee to sabotage the fight against the Industrial Relations Act. Last Friday, the No. 20 Com- mittee--which claims to repre- sent 75,000 workers in Bedford- Hertfordshire, shire, North- and Oxfordshire, amptonshire passed a resolution calling for attendance at the National In- dustrial Relations Court.

But the treachery at divisional committee level was effectively by the shop-floor answered yesterday. At the Vauxhall plant in

LUTON,

hourly-paid 12,000 workers responded to the call for the strike from the local district committee. At the giant car plant pickets out trying to persuade were white-collar staff to support the stoppage. There were also shutdowns at Chryslers, DUNSTABLE, the big Electrolux factory, Kent Meters, Skefco and many other smaller plants. 'Luton and Dunstable is not operating today,' said an AUEW spokesman. To all intents and purposes it has been a very good turn out. 'The response is very hearten- ing,' he added. 'We don't know of one blackspot. The stoppage has been supported by workers at many smaller firms as well.'

On the Vauxhall picket line, many workers were bitter at the divisional committee resolution and called for a campaign to rid the area of the right wing.

Glyn Morgan, AUEW con- venor, told Workers Press: "The voting was unfair in any case. It was a 10 to 10 vote and Les Randall, president of the district committee, used his casting vote.' He said the make-up of the divisional committee was com- unrepresentative. In an pletely like Luton, with 20,000 area workers, we only have two dele- gates. But a one-branch district— Wolverton-also has two like delegates. AUEW shop steward Patrick Deveney criticized the union's executive council for abandoning the fight at a crucial point.

'At the moment they're pass- ing the buck up the line to the workers instead of taking the initiative themselves. 'A one-day stoppage is not strong enough. We're right in our policy not to attend the NIRC but now we should have an all- out strike. 'We're left with no alternative The Tories are really. tying everyone up and we can't move The way it's going . any more. we'll be like slaves not workers.'

ALTHOUGH heavily boosted by the Fleet Street Press, millionaire John Bentley's plan to carve up Shepperton film studios seems certain to get short shrift from workers h there this afternoon. The plan is designed to allow the lucrative redevelopment by Barclay Bentley's company, Securities Ltd, of three-quarters 60-acre site. of the present It involves more than 100 im- mediate redundancies, the dis- mantling of Shepperton's famous 'silent stas the knockooms awa cutting rooms and the elimination of its indepen- dent power house. A new com- pany, Shepperton Studios (1973) ay January 16, 1973 Above: The platform ing. Below: Tonants leede EVERY SINGLE right of the working class was won in struggle and these rights can only be kept in struggle, Gerry Healy, national secretary of the Socia- list Labour League, told a meting in Liverpool on Sunday night. to attack the rights of the working class.

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

He said the Tory Connie Fahey, tenants from Manchester, had passed of the Union of Post Office sovernment were demanding the right Icautl Workers told the meeting: speaking the legislation strip to mave nors. LU capacity Allance at 'What, we must stress is DT enaO Dersonlal sald These rights could not the 22, working class. of its October 1972, which 1973 would be the most that time very, very be defended by • şimply which important the short. Tories, Ire- For the basic democratic rights. o vuco lils vuc udy ot the ana is une ares. rencarsal. SUNIKeS. Having the a revolutionary party. They're coming to get passed In- Ing Class. 'Anyone who and the trade union leader- you dustrial Kelations Act. the bayo The urgent and burning liar. Worse, he's Opening the meeting the can doing absolutelv an Act to Tories had IS now chairman, engineering wor- question and The fight for

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The abolish legally the right to coward. nothing to stop it working class to ker John said the torde, negotiate. basic democrauc rignts, lor 'We've got to léarr build an alternative revolu- to the right to decent exisund Meacersilb Tute Tories: fight the 'We've 'They got standard of living, labour and trade union mave TaK eni involves iedaersnip walch be will. fight. bargaining rights and tied movement expressed the ¡eare unallaa a icat o Dıne wı the trade hand Looking at these members unions and Tory government.' crisis by culuillll Brian Socialists houn They to the

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olalt collaboraling with the He said the order of the steward from gives me hope. won't Tories. Is Labour Party leaders ana the

TUC

who per- think about it, you mitted the government the essential task is build. inciease Ils leral surande- ing the alternative leader- hold on the working class.'

That this Silo. Wiat Healy was adressing meting will revolve audience 400 ot more than around. aver man e neatre which the 40-minute Christine Smith, a Young film Young Socialist colour on the member February-March oclalists Liverpool on Conuncent mar- the Right-to-Work march, KICN-TO- yorK ches was shown. said: He reminded the packed 'There is no future that theatre Smith Brian Geaney ... Important lil cals W Villal Christine Brian Stanley ... workers the dole It's ust a scrav the 1800s ane comenen s• year. I've been future on dole. heap. I know, had fought, against pain of forced to live on the dole imprisonment, Ellesmere Port - also fight for day in Britain was creeping ioin anv armv to for months. youth, and execution, dictatorship, personal the capitalists. the cvcL prelude Sacakine we, anorenuce st cent buld the trade unions. capacity - emphasized the older ones, support Healy should think seriously about Lo lascisu calite on economic. crisis and its them.' whr at the housewife their they should reterioo,

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every world implications. miles from where the and youth oin the YS which is build After a lively questions- being held, forward and help meeting was come He said there ne me enersmo to •етед Was 4•• nswers. session, a col police the Tories and the rest of lection conducted by John Lilc anle arily Dulle revoluuonar connlaence, no stability and turned™ movement. They could take their class.' no growth This was the Simmance, cetenceless national sec- demonstration workers decisive step by signing economic situation which YS, raised the Iclary and their families who the resolution Brian Geaney, a member yasscu arve Ine torles In Drilaln Itd, would be set up, based on

BY OUR OWN

perhaps the most crippling blow they would be surrounded small 14-acre lot the middle din

CORRESPONDENT

will be dismantling of the constant untee ov lne building site. of a bulding site and would have Darday s Sulent stade This only one means facilițies has unrivalled These oI access. proposals-already ex- the right to appoint two rep for flooding axing tensively 'leaked' tue consurucuon Meanwalle the to the Press- esentatives to the board cutting rooms would deprive oI sets ana has been vital to the put Wikl TO onepperton making of many recent films. producers of the But the controlling 51 ability edit workers today. Union leaders per Cent Bentley talks his have indicated would still be their hims opposition. smare nela by ine Bolan une sooi ane re. Toeir studios' present directors. adapting two smaller stages for move a valuable source of work sugar-coating round his flooding and of enlarging "their from the studios. of this Acceptance set-up- plan, Bentley has with come up shoot-through facilities The 275 of 381 described workers cinema technicians"

OUT

which London something would be left with jobs UnC Caler Tor nemascove . Who union ¡edaer alan waooer This proposal has been greeted would have firm guarantees of evening DaveT desch ved TaST -would depend on the OC taC- week 'an amazing workers' with derision by experienced film- for only a unions pledging 'no objection or ycal. participation deal. The feeling Shepperton interference resistance' makers at tne studlos, wno polnt out that Cinemascope depends yesterday was the Bentley's redevelopment plans pian In tact thıs is notning or the size of lens rather than size bid kind. Bentley desperate to place Yet these would emrecuve v of studio. (1973) Ltd call venr si erace Tor spell the end of serious film- Coll Another part of the Bentley development plan. And workers' making at shares in trust for all Sheoperton Shepperton. would determination plan make smaller is growing not to workers with more than a year's of 45 Besides the cutting-up stages vırtually unusable, because service. dilow which have acres DarKiana. would administered provided the backdrop for in- nese by the unions, who would have films over the years,

THE DANGEROUS ROLE played by the middle-of- the road centrist International Socialism group has rarely been displayed more clearly than in Mr Tony Cliff's article '1972: Tremendous Year for the Work- ers' in the 'Socialist Worker' of January 6.

Cliff's assessment is based entirely on an arithmetical count of the number of days lost in strikes during the year. This, of course, reveals the willingness of the working class to fight.

More working days were lost in strikes than at any time since 1926. It is also true, as Cliff says, that the Tory government was forced to retreat on miners' pay and on the imprisonment of the five dockers in Pentonville jail.

But all this is only one side of the picture. IT IS not Marxism but unprin- cipled eclecticism to pick 'good' bits historical out of an record and ignore the 'bad' bits in order to present an optimistic picture. Revolutionaries all must at times tell the truth to the work- ing class. Yes, 1972 was a year of rising But militancy. it also the year in which the main provi- sions of the Industrial Relations into force, when the Act came Finance Housing Act imposed the swingeing increases in name of 'fair' rents, when the Counter Provisions) Inflation (Temporary Act imposed state control over the wages, when entry into Common Market legislated was in the interests of the European capitalists against working the class. It also the when was arrest and imprisonment without Northern trial was imposed in Ireland and 13 peaceful demon- strators were shot dead in Derry by the same British army which Harold Wilson had sent to Ulster 1969 with the full support of in Cliff's International Socialism group. By simple arithmetic, counting the numb • Only a complete fool would group considers last year to have been : fail to recognize that these mea- sures were serious blows against the working class. And only that the dockers were "In_ political charlatan like Cliff could worthy' of their stewards- -most review the class struggle in 1972 were influenced by the of whom and not even mention them. Communist Party. Corporate state No accident

FROM BLAMING

the workers leaders' their treachery, for Socialist Worker' now swings

THE

TORY government, with them that they round to telling the acquiescence of the leaders have had a 'tremendous' year.

of the Labour Opposition and the This is These not accidental.

TUC,

has definite strides taken To two 'opposites' are connected.

towards the establishment of pose the nature of the Jones-Sta- corporate state in which all basic sell-out last August, as rights would be taken away from Workers Press did, raised the the working class and their trade question of building an alterna- transformed union organizatons tive leadership. into instruments of control over them on behalf of capitalism.

The state capitalists blamed the workers then precisely in In order to defeat this danger, order to avoid the of question first of all to necessary It for leadership. is the same recognize it. now that they bleat that By keeping silent on this most everything the in garden is important of Cliff questions, lovely, precisely when the work- seeks to disarm the working class ing class needs to be on its guard and leave it to face the Tory never before. onslaught unprepared. The leadership of the working Of course, Cliff cannot class is in full collaboration with avoid mentioning that the Labour Tory government. the Feather trade union and leaders sabo- and his colleagues are taged the struggles of the work- yanked into Downing Street ing class is 1972. But his dis- every time Heath pulls the string.

honesty is breath-taking for They seek to give the Tories familiar with his anyone not exactly what they want-time to organization. disarm the working class and For instance, he places respon- prepare even more vicious sibility for the Jones-Aldington attacks on its standard of living betrayal of the dockers on the and basic rights. of Transport leader the and General Workers' Union. Unless the working class is warned and prepared it faces a Jones responsible for that was bigger betraval than that of 1926.

along with his allies in the Com- munist Party. Timists the pess. Now the 'optimistic' arithmetic. But Cliff mentions the never of rank and filism. real meaning Communist Party. And for a very of spontaneity -the worship -is good reason. To do so would be made clear. undermine disrupt the International to the essential development neces- Socialism 'group's uncritical tail- defeat of capitalism sary for the the Stalinists ending of in the the struggle for revolutionary Liaison Committee for the De- consciousness in the working fence of Trade Unions. class. For the Cliff reason, Cassio makes no mention of the ending Cliff distorts of Stalinist-led 'work-in' the at Shipbuilders Upper Clyde which 2,500 jobs and the loss of Lenin

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the right to strike in the new companies. CLIFF even has the audacity to Some sort of comment was quote Lenin in defence of self- surely called for here, since Worker' hailed the be- 'Socialist sufficient spontaneitya concept of the work-in with a founder of the Bol- ginning which the banner headline: •Militancy Can shevik Party fought against all Win at UCS!' his life. But what Cliff does not man- In 'What is be Done?', 'Socia- tion either is that when Lenin's basic handbook on party list Worker' assessed the signi- building, he refers to the Party's ficance of the 1972 dock strike newspaper as its 'organizer'.

blamed, not Jones, hut the dockers Cliff bowdlerizes this: 'When themselves. 'Socialist Worker' declared on August 18 • Lenin said the paper is an or- = the number of days lost in strikes, the Is ave been a 'tremendous' one for workers.

ganizer, he meant not only, say, the carworkers' paper, but also factory bulletins separate different car factories, written by militants in the factory itself, read by the whole workforce in the factory, not only the minority of militant socialists.' This is a deliberate, conscious, cynical distortion of Lenin. Cliff has been in politics over 30 years.

knows perfectly well that Lenin talking about was not 'workers' bulletins' (although, obviously, these have a place in certain circumstances, but about a centralized, all-Russian, Party newspaper. • Indeed, Lenin specifically says that 'local newspapers, prepara- tion for demonstrations, work among the unemployed' as single issues cannot gather and organize . the working class. ('What is to be Done?' p. 161.) Lenin spells his meaning out clearly: I continue to insist that we can start establishing real con- tacts only with the aid of a common newspaper as the only regular All-Russian enterprise, which will summarize one the results of the most diverse forms of activity and thereby stimulate people to march for- ward untiringly along all the innumerable paths leading to revolution, in the same way as all roads lead to Rome' ('What is to be Done?' p. 163. Cliff replaces this insistence on an organized, centralized party fighting for revolutionary con- in the working class sciousness with the tail-ending of "local initiatives. He says: 'Members of the International Socialists and other militant workers in Lucas Birmingham factories started a monthly bulle- tin called "Lucas Worker" about a month ago. 'Had they started, say, a year earlier • it . . . if different initiative from the local Lucas leadership could have brought a totally different out- come.' Cliff is here referring to the strike at Sudbury CAV over the Goad fine and the decision of Birmingham stewards not to join it. Militancy THE ATTACKS on the unions via the Goads and the Langstons Workers Press, Tue IS leaden Tony Cliff whose article appeared in the January 6 'Socialist Worker'. mark a decisive in the stage class struggle. The Tories, unit- ing with the European mono- polists to resist the onslaught of American capital, must smash the working class if their system is to survive. This cannot be answered by 'groups of militants' bringing out if bulletins-even they had broughi them out a year earlier.

The working class is required now to make a qualitative leap in its development. Such a leap was made at the beginning of this century after trade union mili- tancy alone had failed to beat back repeated attacks on the unions by the bourgeois state.

To. defend the unions, the working class had to advance to the formation of a separate party from the Conservatives and Liberals--a party based on the unions. Seventy years later, the work- ing class must make an even more decisive advance-to the Socialist Labour League Yorkshire Ra

FORCE THE TORY

GOVERNMENT TO RES

BUILD THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY!

SUNDAY JANUARY 28, 7.30 p Great Northern Hotel, Wellington Street (near Leeds s

LEEDS

FILM: THREE

OF WORKERS

Speakers : G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) PAUL WHETSTONE (Young Socialists In personal capacity:

GEORGE LUBY (U.P.W.)

ROBBIE ROBERTS (N.U.M.)

Press, Tuesday January 16, 1973 PAGE 3 formation of a revolutionary party. This is the significance of the the Socialist Labour League's decision to launch . the revolu- tionary party in 1973. By build- ing Councils of Action in every area, linking all those who fight against the Tory attacks on the workers, we intend to create the conditions for forcing the trade union leaders to call a General Strike to make the Tories resign.

A Labour government pledged to socialist policies and returned by the mass of the working class would be split wide open.

In such a situation a revolu- tionary alternative leadership could emerge at the head of the working class. This is the revolutionary per- spective of the Socialist Labour League. Contempt for working class THE INTERNATIONAL So- cialists group's enthusiasm for 'militancy, 'local initiatives', and rank-and-file bulletins really conceals a deep contempt for the working class. These revisionists have absolutely no confidence in the revolutionary potential of the class. They think workers can do no more than strike on immediate issues and distribute little papers of educated suidance, of course, -under the people. Today they strive might and main to hold back the working class from the historic task that it faces now-the building of the revolutionary party. the 'intellectual" just s Fabians considered the working class unfit to have a Labour Party separate from the Liberals, so Cliff and his friends consider the working class incapable of build- ing a revolutionary party in- dependent of the reformists and Stalinists. The Socialist Labour League is dedicated to the building of the revolutionary party. For that it will be necessary to expose and destroy politically the Inter- national Socialists group every step of the way. shire Rally

O RESIGN!

,7.30 p.m. Leeds station),

HREE YEARS

RKERS PRESS

Socialists)

THE TORY PENSIONS

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday January The new Social Security Bill now going through the House of Commons, is introduced by former head of Bovis building giant, Sir Keith Joseph, as a 'landmark'. The Bill actually worsens the con- ditions of millions of workers. Millions of people now • in their early fifties will actually have worse pensions when they retire than if the present scheme had continued. As for existing pensioners, the Bill does next to nothing for them. And at the same time the Tory measure con- demns millions of people to dependence on the means test for the next 40 years at least.

On top of all these 'benefits' nearly every worker will have to pay more! In a special examination of the Bill, the Labour Research Department showed that only big insurance companies the would benefit from the Tory government's plans. Many of them-seeing the prospects ahead—are rushing to get new business through extension of occupational pen- sion schemes. In the past couple of years the number of people contri- buting to such private pension slumped from schemes has 12.2 million in 1967 to 11.1 million in 1971. It has always been Tory philosophy to get everyone into a private pension scheme.

Not only would this accord with the bracing "self-help' ideology, but also-more im- portantly-provide a lot money for their friends in the City who would get all the business. The new Bill gives this idea some real flesh, winding up as it does the present state grad- uated pension scheme. In its place will come a so- called Reserve Scheme which is so unattractive that its ex- istence will act as an incentive to both employers and work- ers to introduce an alternative occupational scheme. The skyrocketing rates which are being forecast have created deep indignation-even in the City of London. The square mile of the City, the wealthiest part of Britain, has been stunned out of its vaults by the rates rises.

A group of City officials in- tend seeing Geoffrey Rippon, new Environment Secretary, to ask for some 'leniency'. The protest comes not only from big companies, but also the rich idlers who have expen- sive flats in the City area.

The new rateable value of a three-room flat in the Barbican will be about £450—just over double the present level.

Top of the valuation list comes the Bank of England in building Threadneedle Street. Its rateable value will increase 49 times to £3,229,972. Other high-rated City build- ings are Britannic House, the BP headquarters, whose new rateable value is £3,224,972 (up 5.16 times), the Bank of Change at England, New. ay January 16, 1973 C Pensioners on a TUC lobby for higher | The Hat-rate pension is now a pitiful £6.75, or £10.90 in the case of a married couple.

Millions of workers are at pre- sent earning the right to some to this pension when addition they retire through graduated contributions. Included are those who are not in an occupational scheme contribute to the state but graduated scheme, now to be wound up; those who contri- bute to the state scheme and an occupational scheme; those who have 'contracted out' out of the state scheme and rely entirely on their occupational scheme to supplement their pension flat-rate retirement when the time comes. Geoffrey Rippon £2,652,472 (up 4.9 times), Bar- Bank new building at clays Lombard Street 42-58 at £2,116,638 and the National Westminster Bank building at Drapers Gardens, at £2,108,305 (up 5.06 times).

Rateable value of the new Stock Exchange is £987,472 (rateable value of the old one £124,970 and Lloyd's is was £1,541,638 (up 4.78 times).

do But London newspapers not face such dramatic in- creases in rateable values. The new rateable value of Times' building is £500,000 (up the Daily 2.25 times) and Express' building is £360,000 (up 2.5 times). or higher pensions last November. The Tories' I Only half of all these 23 mil- lion workers are in an occupa- tional scheme. Those not in a 'recognized' occupational scheme will auto- matically go into the new Re- serve Scheme. New contributions to the Reserve Scheme will be on a graduated basis, instead of the flat-rate system at present, of 54 per cent of all earnings; if the employee is not in a recog- nized private scheme, he will have to contribute another 1f per cent. For men earning more than £25 in the Reserve Scheme-- factory workers-the most contributions will rise. Contributions will stay the The rate of job loss in the gas industry has been no less spectacular, since nationaliza- tion, in the rest of than Britain's state-run industries.

leaders When union meet today to decide whether to proceed with national indus- trial action, they will represent less than half the number of workers their counterparts did when the Gas Industry Bill took effect in 1949. A large part of the slashing in the labour 54-per-cent cut force is a result of the union chiefs' co-operation with pro- ductivity deals. 30 per cent of the total loss since nationaliza- tion has taken place in the last five years. Leaders of both the General

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K KL • Torles' latest scheme will mean workers pay " -same for the 6 million already contracted out of any state scheme. The really interesting point, however, what happens to iS those over 54 million workers paying for the state graduated scheme but not in a recog- nized' occupational scheme. In effect, these people are the the insurance companies ones could really do with. Well, the Bill makes provi- sions for a considerable reduc- tion in contributions if this group of workers enters 'recognized' scheme, becoming exempt from the Reserve Scheme. Probably about half the ex- isting workforce in Britain will and Municipal Workers' Union, which organizes 42,000 of the industry's 47,000-strong labour force, and the Transport and General Workers' Union have boasted of their co-operation.

statement from the A G&MWU last week for in- stance, spoke of the 'unpre- cedented scale of contract work' and the 'flexibility in the skill retraining require- many ments' that have been accepted in the industry. It was as a result of this that the gas industry was profitable, the statement pointed out. In 1971-1972 it had made a profit of £15m, compared with the losses in the electricity supply and coal industries. Yet for all this gas- cers pay more but get less dy be transferred to and remain in a Reserve Scheme. But all these people will be off when they retire worse than if the present state gradu- scheme continued. For ated example, a man earning £30 a week would in 1985 under the old scheme be entitled to £1.65 a week to supplement the flat-rate pension. Under • scheme this will be the new cut to £1.30. As for existing pensioners, workers, some 72 million nothing is done except to make the ritual promise of an review. Meanwhile, annual in the City, the cham- down pagne is about to be poured.

The toast: Sir Keith and the Tory government. workers' earnings were lower those in than the power stations and mines. The G&MWU does not, of course, draw the conclusion that its own policies may in any way be at fault. Yet the story told in the statement graphically reveals the disastrous effect of these policies. Since 1967 no less than 22,500 jobs have been lost.

12,000 of these have gone since the Prices and Incomes Board report on the industry, ordered by Labour's Barbara Castle in 1970. At the same time produc- tivity over the last five years has rocketed 200 per cent.

GHANA'S HAND-TO-MOUTH

The Copper Corporation of Chile (Codelco) has just published a report on the drastic effect that the world economic crisis is having on the Chilean economy. The report analyses the huge loss of income caused by drop in copper the rapid prices on the world market, out that the main pointing factor in this drop has been economic crisis which 'the affected western countries and currency problems' Codelco states that every time copper prices drop by one cent, Chile loses $15m a year in foreign earnings. In the four years previous to President Salvador Allende's election, •a decrease of there was 18 cents. During the two years of Popular Unity coalition Vice-President Prats has government, the price fallen from 64.2 to 48.5 cents a pound. This adds up to a $250m foreign earnings loss. The report reveals the com- plete bankruptcy of the 'demo- cratic road to socialism in one country' adopted by the arch- reformist Allende. The Popular Unity govern- ment has only opened the way for the coming to power of a right-wing dictatorship which will attempt to emulate Bolivian dictator Hugo Banzer by outlawing the independent working-class movement. General Carlos Prats, Chilean vice-President, issued a threat in his December in- auguration the ceremony; same day Allende left for Moscow: 'Workers must refrain from struggling for higher wages and must not go on strike...

If the strikes were to become widespread, the government would be transformed into a completely repressive dictator- ship.' concluded that a crisis in Chile would be much worse than in Uruguay because those repressed would not be a small group like the Tupa- maros, but the whole people'.

ii; .....: Une year ago-on Jan- uary 13, 1972—a group of colonels and majors effec- ted a military coup in Ghana and took power in the name of the National Redemption Council under the leadership of Colonel Acheampong. The previous civilian govern- ment of Dr Kof Busia-now exiled in Britain - had been extremely unpopular because of a sharp rise in prices follow- ing a devaluation of the cedi by almost 50 per cent. Many prices rose by 50 or even 100 per cent in three weeks. Another serious cause of the unpopularity of the Busia gov- ernment was its approaches to South Africa. Busia was in- vested as Prime Minister by the military-police National Liberation Council (NLC) that had overthrown Kwame Nkrumah on February 24, 1966. Busia caused a national out- cry by advocating a 'dialogue' with South Africa, and moving away from the i Organization for African Unity. In its very first broadcast after taking power, the. NRC referred to this as one of its major objec- tions to Busia, and proclaimed its intention of forging strong links with the other African states. The Ghanaian economy was at crisis point. Overseas debts amounted to $886m. The NRC, however, has been able to do little about the central economic problem of Ghana-its over-dependence for foreign exchange and domestic revenue on cocoa.

continental balance-of- payments problem is created Ghana's dependence on it imports because of insufficient home production of food and raw materials. For instance, only 50 per cent of the coun- try's annual consumption of fish is produced at home.

One of the first actions of the NRC was to repudiate a number of foreign debts and to unilaterally change the terms of others. This resulted in all Ghana's major trading partners cutting off insurance February last by late cover year. A 'revolving credit' of some £12m has been arranged with overseas banks - in the UK with Standard, Barclays, National and Grindleys and the Midland—but on the basis of "payment on sight' for all imports. The NRC also took a con- trolling share in the two major mining and three timber com- panies (all British) - in fact Ghana was one of the last African states to take such step. This, of course, has made foreign aid more difficult to obtain. (When Tanzania carried similar measure early out a last year, it led to the British Tory government holding up a world bank loan.) Today, cocoa still accounts for some 65 per cent of Ghana's total export earnings.

In the early years after , when reserves 'independence, and adequate were cocoa prices high, the economy fairly stable. But appeared cocoa prices fell disastrously in the mid-1960s. In the last years of the Nkrumah regime, import and were im- exchange controls posed. The succeeding National Liberation Council also im- posed and cut controls spending. The civilian government of it's tried. Workers Press, Tuesdi Dr Busia attempted to repay the country's over-scheduled negotiating the best debts, it could for a further terms moratorium from its western creditors. It was this that led to the devaluation. In the last year Ghana has developed from higher world prices for cocoa, timber and gold and has built up a trade surplus of £45m, plus £100m in foreign reserves. Nevertheless, this is still a existence and hand-to-mouth is the national economy hardly developing. And there is little likelihood of Ghana's external creditors agreeing to year grace on the lowed at only 0.75 per cent interest. foreign aid is largely But dependent on an agreement being reached on the debts, although the World Bank has agreed to a loan of $15m to rejuvenate the sugar industry.

And the NRC's policy of shutting out all but essential imports in order to help the balance of payments only exacerbates another problem— shortage of home produced raw materials for the manu- facturing industries. The development of Ghana's own industrial raw materials involves high capital expendi- ture, which the country cannot afford. year utilization of Last Ghana's industrial capacity fell to 15-20 per cent, with some down for factories closing three or four months. Even now productive capacity is only utilized up to 30-35 per cent. The state-owned footwear division of the Ghana Indus- trial Holdings Division (GHIOC) is working at only 21-per-cent capacity. Out of a8, Tuesday January 16, 1973 PAGE 5 Above: Timber production in Ghana-one of the main indus- tries. Inset: Dr Kofi Busia, head of the last civilian government.

17 divisions of GHIOC, nine are operating at a loss and some have never made a profit in their entire existence.

The two main sugar refining plants—at Komenda and Asut- suare—are operating at 50-per- cent capacity. 'Operation Feed Yourself', launched by the NRC in an effort to boost agriculture, has recorded some successes. But it is largely dependent on the efforts of small farmers.

The State Food Production Corporation has rarely achieved more than 20 per cent of its production target in any sector. Hampered by transport and storage problems, it achieved only 0.6 per cent of its target last year, selling 172,500 tons of food during the main crop period There is little likelihood of foreign investors being enthu- siastic about Ghana, despite present 'pay-on-the-nail' the policy on imports, until they have some assurances on divi- dend repatriation and until foreign governments reinstate credit insurance. Stagnation of such invest- ment could have incalculable consequences for Ghanaian industry. Meanwhile, the entire eco- nomy is extremely precarious and could be hit by any one or more of a number of factors.

These include: a bad harvest, • in cocoa prices, the a drop effect of import controls on industrial production, and a drain foreign exchange On from foreign firms resulting participating in Ghanaian in- (like the baixite- dustry aluminia project). .. •

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday January 16, 1973

TAKES OVER

By ALEX MITCHELL Each day of the week White House correspon- dents file into the Press briefing room to ask ques- tions about what the Pre- sident is up to. Since the election, these affairs have been less enlighten- ing than ever. Every guesuon SLOne- walled by smiling public re- lations men from the Nixon personal staff. Even the capitalist have started rail papers the of the against secrecy daministrauon and ils leader.

The of *open advocate the society' has become a recluse whose ideas and movements are fed through a battalion of lay January 16, 1973 cyphers. One White House confer- ence last week serves to show the conspiratorial-style of gov- ernment Nixon is pursuing.

It was conducted by Gerald L. Warren, who is authorized to say nothing. Of this parti- White cular briefing, House Carroll Kilpatrick reporter said: 'Yesterday Mr Warren de- clined to answer almost all questions asked him, even as to the President's plans for the 60th birthday today.? When a reporter asked about celebrations for Nixon's birth- day, Warren replied: "Tomor- row is his 60th birthday and I just don't know exactly where he will have dinner with his family on that occasion.'

'Are you confident that to- morrow is his 60th birthday?'

one reporter asked. 'Supremely,' Warren replied. For more than a week re- porters had been asking for a breakdown of Nixon's mail, for and the bombing of against, Each time the North vemam. Press aides had promised the information "tomorrow'.

'BERLIN WALL'

Asked on this particular day if the mail had been counted, Warren said: 'No, we haven't' disgusted newsman walked out saying: 'We are getting no information and haven't for the last week on any subject.'

Nixon is now enclosed by a small circle of unelected aides with the who tront tor him Press and television. This group consists of Henry Kis- singer, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Ronald Zeigler. To the Washington Press corps they are known as the 'Berlin Wall'. This foursome showed their undoubted strength last week when Herb Klein, Nixon's dir- of communications, 're- ector signed. The more accurate reading of the situation is that Klein was forced out because soft' he 'too with the Press. Klein is an old-time newshand and he shared with of the the many reporters frustrations of no news from the President. Nixon's chief of Haldeman, staff, and Zeigler, the White House spokesman, are not journalists but come from the advertising industry. Since the election Nixon has given only one Press conference and moves unobtrusively from his remote residence Camp David to his summer retreat in Florida accompanied only by a group of security men.

There has scarcely been Cabinet meeting and through- out the bombing campaign the only persons he consulted were Kissinger and other members of the 'Berlin Wall'. Nixon has been stealthily elbowing out the Cabinet as the source of policies and programmes and installing his handpicked men as a supra-executive account- able to nobody but himself.

This is most noticeable in the pack of nonentities he has elevated to his reshuffled Cabi- net. These include such people Weinberger Caspar at as human resources, Earl Butz for natural and resources James Lynn for community development. When a reporter recently asked about Lynn's qualifications to launch the "Great Society' in the ghettoes, a Nixon aide said cynically: 'Jim Lynn is there to stop programmes, not start them.'

A similar role is envisaged for Weinberger. His predeces- sor, 'liberal' Republican Elliot Richardson antagonized the disagreeing White House by with policy decisions reached at the top. An aide said the new Cabi- net members had the decided advantage of being 'depend- able' and all had 'low profiles.

"Thus.' the New York Timer; 'working noted, in stealth while Congress recessed, Mr Nixon has rebuilt the govern- ment to make sure domestic policy and operations will now be tightly controlled for the Whi beer opel min side time 197 men aide incl

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday January 16, 1973

urce of les and ed men ccount- self. able in he has d Cabi- people at 1 Butz s and munity eporter Lynn's ch the hettoes, cally: to stop them. visaged edeces- 1 Elliot the greeing reached v Cabi- decided lepend- rofiles'. Times' Mr govern- omestic ill now for the White House'. On the face of it there has been little 'stealth' about the Nixon has deter- operation. minedly been creating his pre- sidential bureaucracy for some time. Since he took office in November 1968 the cost of operating the Executive Office of the President has risen from $31m to $71m. Meanwhile the size of the office has more than doubled from 250 to 510 persons. Within the vast Executive Office-which includes 18 sep- arate groups ranging from the National Security Council to the Office of Economic Oppor- tunity-the vital core of White House staff has grown steadily.

Casper Weinberger testified before the House appropria- tions subcommittee in May 1972 to give 'candid and accu- rate' figures of staff require- ments of the White House.

The administration reques- ted appropriations for a White House staff of 540 in the fin- ancial year 1972 and a staff of 510 in 1973. Unfortunately the aide who submitted the memo to the subcommittee was not included on the list of White House staff detailees. He was one of the many aides who have been hired by the admin- budgetary

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permission. When newspaper re- one conducted a spot-check cently White House offices found that there were more than 80 employees not shown on the payroll records of either the National Security Council of the Domestic Council staff.

Who are they and who pays their salaries? Many Congressmen have been quick to criticize the of the growth White House staff. A report by the House Post Office and Civil Service Com- prepared under the direction" of Representative Morris K. Udall, a Democrat Arizona, from contrasted Nixon's reorganization pledge duplication, reduce monitor and to prelormance efficiency greater throughout the executive branch' with the staff growth and with what Udall called 'new layers of bureaucracy' in the Executive Office. "The personal staff of Rich- ard Nixon, with its overwhelm- ing functions size, shadowy and obvious influence has Kissinger, unelected alde, closest advisc the traditional undermined decision-making rules and inter-relationship of the other branches of our government.'

Udall charged. 'Not only has this affected the powers of Congress, but it has unquestionably eroded the responsibilities of the cabinet and the stabilizing controls of the civil service.' The staff figures, with or without details, do not include any of the 1,280 Secret Service agents, the 805 members of the Executive Protective Service, numbers the uncounted military personnel detailed to the White House mess and to the medical care of the Presi- dent and his staff, a score of army sergeants who chauffeur Nixon's principal assistants, 15 archivists who are preparing files for the Nixon library and various gardeners detailed by the National Park Service for the White House grounds. A recent Associated Press compilation estimated the true cost of operating the Executive Office at $110m a year and added that this figure 'actually magazine says in its Workers Press, Tuesda sest advisor to Nixon. Left: In Moscow. Above : cover story this week: 'The US is facing a consti- tutional crisis. That branch of government that most closely represents the people is not yet broken, but it is bent and in danger of snapping. A Con- gress intended by the framers of the Constitution to be the nation's supreme policy setter, lawmaker and reflector of the collective will have been for- feiting its power for years.

President, in the 'Now a aftermath of a landslide, seems intent upon further subordi- nating it and establishing the White House ever more firmly as the centre of federal power.

In an age of growing com- plexity a strong presidency is necessary. But not a presi- dency made strong with the usurped powers of another branch.' "Time' magazine's arguments flow from the most reaction- ary concepts. The Congress has never been anything but a bourgeois institution. But it is a sign of the grow- ing panic in the American rue. ruling class that although the right-wing publishers who run 'Time' want a 'strong presi- dency, they are fearful of the consequences. As the economic crisis of Workers Press, Tuesday January 16, 1973 PAGE 7 US worsens and imperialism becomes working class the more combative, all the pre- tences of bourgeois democracy must be stripped away. Just as Nixon the and increases strength of his bureaucracy to con- meet une coming social flicts, Edward Heath has so begun taking tentative mea- sures in the same direction.

He has brought paid Conser- Party omicials valve Whitehall to work alongside his ministers; he has placed lead- ers of big business in charge departmental committees and is in the process of creat- ing an 'inner-executive' wield presidential-style powers.

The long-term implications of the Heath scheme are being drafted Lord Rothschild, by of the Cabinet "Think neaa Tank'. In Britain and the US the plans to introduce dic- tatorship and repression be halted only by a massive cam- nous as paign to force the Tories and Nixon out of office. In Britain a Labour govern- ment pledged to socialist poli- cies must be elected. In Am erica a Labour Party must be built in opposition Nixon and the two dominant capital- ist parties.

WHY THE PERUVIAN STALINISTS

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday Januar Special correspondent JUAN Communist Party on the Lig Part three. Collaboration with Juan Velasco's Peruvian dic- tatorship is nothing new in the history of the country's Communist Party leadership, which has always been loyal to the edicts from Moscow. Mares' lies cover up for a history of Stalinist zigzag which has been responsible for expulsion, split and many a and for the movement of many leading Party members out of the Central Committee of the party and into the pay of ruthless dictators. In reply to the series of articles published in the Liga Comunista's weekly • paper 'Comunismo' analysing the CP's history, Mares notably falsifies the facts and attributes in examples of corruption • leadership to individual Party mistakes and unscrupulousness.

This is than no more typical Stalinist cover-up for the real cause of this corrup- tion—-the training given by the leadership of the late Third Communist International con- trolled by Joseph Stalin.

The Peruvian CP was founded during the ultra-left phase of Comintern policy of 'third-period' Stalinism, It was this policy which led CPs throughout the world to de- scribe social-democratic parties as 'social-fascist'. In particular, this divided the German working class and ensured the victory of Hitler. The main problem for the Comintern in relation to Peru ay January 16, 1873 JUAN GARCIA examines Stalini: the Liga Comunista, which works was how to deal with Haya de la Torre's petty-bourgeois nationalist party, APRA, which considerable support had among trade unionists and the wanted

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peasantry. reform and national agrarian independence. Julio Portacarrero, Peruvian Congress delegate to the Red Labour Unions (RILU), raised in 1927 the question of forming a Communist Party.

In a memorandum to Porta- carrero, the Comintern Sec- retariat described Peru as a semi-colony which was domin- ated by rural landlords and imperialism. The American danger was that APRA isolated working Peruvian class the from the world revolutionary movement. A CP should be formed, a class organization, which could 'pressurize' APRA into the Comintern in- spired Anti-imperialist League of America. However, the Comintern still made every effort to court Haya de la Torre who, after attending the 5th Congress of the Comintern in Moscow, had declared that communism was applicable in Latin not América. In 1928, Haya and the Ravines, attended Peruvian, the Anti-imperialist Congress organized by the Comintern in Ravines Brussels. was later leader of the Peruvian CP and promotor of the Popular Front throughout the continent.

Lozovsky, in his report to the 4th RILU Congress in Moscow held out a friendly hand to Haya behind a barrage of phrases about working-class Stalinism and Trotskyism in Per works in soiidarity with the Inte independence, Haya was accused of 'want- ing to withdraw all forces into the struggle against imperial- ism', and of being 'a comrade who thinks it possible to make Senator a united front with Borah'. (Borah was previously liberal- described as a imperialist.) Lozovsky concluded, after calling Haya 'a good element, and a very honest man', with the following recommendation to the representatives of the Peruvian working class: 'Our tactics ought to consist in this for the defeat of -to work all imperialism, for the defeat of our own bourgeoisie.' The line seemed to harden with a Comintern letter at the end of 1929 to those groups considering the formation of a CP in Peru which was then the dictatorship of under Leguia. It must be a class- concentrating on the party, perspective of 'drawing the towards the sole proletariat objective of its class action— the seizure of power by the working class'. Haya came under attack for class collaboration, and using 'all the arsenal of counter- Trotskyism revolutionary to : CP' combat the The Comintern combined an of the abstract conception class struggle against imperial- ism with an ambiguous attitude to APRA. The Stalinist leader- ship did not want to abandon APRA, for it might be useful at a later stage in the game of manoeuvring with imperialism.

Both APRA and the CP , operate legally were able to in Peru following the attack by he International Committee of the Top: Haya de la Torre, leader of petty-bourgeois nationalist the party APRA, harangues a meeting of peasants in 1957. It was the ambiguous attitude of Stalin to APRA that enabled It to bulld a movement amongst Peruvian and workers. Above: peasants Manuel Prado Ugarteche, elected President of Peru in 1939 with the support of the Peruvian Communist Party. after the removal of the dictator, Leguia. But they were outlawed again by Manuel Benavides after the failure of a General Strike called at the .

end of 1934. In the spring of 1935, many Party members were surprised by the appearance of an 'Open Letter to Haya de la Torre' Popular Front calling for a between APRA and the CP. What now of the Comintern call for the 'defeat of our own CP bourgeoisie'? la Torre rejected C ally....Haya de ck by Pompeyo Mares of the of the Fourth International.

unity • with the CP and was able to make the most of the CP's Popular Front support for American imperialism. The policies of the Comin- completely tern had been reversed by the decision of Stalin to join up with the 'pro- gressive capitalist democracies' as the best ploy to defend the in the Soviet bureaucracy Union against Nazism. The success of Nazism was, it will be remembered, determined by the previous policy of ultra- leftism emanating from the Kremlin. It is this line which Mares endorses enthusiastically in his Trotskyism: the attack on policy which led the Peruvian CP to subordinate the working class to President Manuel Prado, who was chosen as Benavides' successor. The Popular Front in Latin America brought open support for American imperialism: 'In Peru, the Prado govern- ment, despite its oligarchic and had conservative character, lined up our country in the world anti-fascist front of the United Nations . 'Leninism teaches that, con- fronted with such an emer- [the aggression of gency Nazism] the struggle to defend national independence takes first place in the strategy and tactics of communist parties...

•Prado, being a well-known representative of the oligarchy, adopted circumstantially an international anti-fascist posi- tion similar to that of Roose- velt and . the north American government.' (Mares pamphlet.)

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CHINA CLUB

Having joined the United Nations and established cordial relauons witn tne rulng class Britain, Italy, in America, France, Australia and Japan, the Peking Stalinists are now tarting up the place for expected visitors. Last week a new and lavish- ly-appointed International Club was opened. The which occupies

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facing large capital's Site Chang An (eternal tranquillity) Boulevard, includes a 420-seat 50 yard indoor cinema. swimming pool, outdoor tennis and

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even Lw ane bowling alley. There are also well-equipped hairdressing salons and women, a large banqueting hall, billiards, table tennis and cards rooms, and facilities for variety other sports in- cluding basketball, volleyball and badminton. The new complex replaces the rather dowdy, 70-year-old International Club in Peking's legation quarter, which was becoming inadequate for the rapid influx of foreigners resulting from Peking's vig- ordus torelg pacy lallauyes in the past two years. The new club is bulit in a functional Chinese modern softened by pale brown style. tile facings on exterior walls and the lavish use of marble inside.

GLOOM PRICES

Housewives are being told that the Tories have tough plans to hold down prices. Do you believe it? Lend an ear to Sir Richard Trehane, chairman of the Milk Marketing Board of England and Wales. He has just made a speech in He Canada •tais subiect. says that retail butter prices in brıtann e n ne nexı five years. For other products the prices would also be sharply in- creased. What of the future trade Common- with our previous wealth suppliers? 'For certain of our tradition- al, particularly Commonwealth suppliers, the outlook for con- UK, tinued trade with the even this year, looks distinctly gloomy:'

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186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG. Satyajit Ray's 'The Ad- versary' (Paris Pullman, from January 4, with 'Behind the Lines' re- viewed last Friday pro- vides a fascinating glimpse of petty-bourgeois life in Calcutta contemporary for those new to such experiences. It is a simple well-observed tale of a medical student- Siddhartha—-who has to quit studies to look for a job after his father's death. Massive unemployment turns this search into a major test of his whole attitude to life. in Interwoven this re- appraisal are the lives of his brother, Tunu, younger a student revolutionary, and his sister, Sutapa is the who pretty wants to get on and family breadwinner. in the back- Everything ground points to revolution as being the likely way forward in India. Tunu and many friends are totally given over to revolu- agitation. Siddhartha tionary himself is finally driven to the violent wrecking of a company interview room after a humili- ating cattle-market scene with 74 applicants for just four vacancies. But still Siddhartha resists the revolutionary call. Workers Press, Tuese It is the other pressures on eventually his life which triumph. The doubts and fears that beset the petty bourgeoisie finally get Siddhartha to con- form, but when the film ends, we remain far from certain if that is how things will remain in view of the great turbulence going social on around him. What dejects Siddhartha is that he cannot outgrow the moral fastidiousness of his Although upbringing. sur- • by the monumental rounded degradation of semi-colonial India, his first real anger in the film is his outburst against a medical student friend who is rifling a Red Cross collection tin to replace textbooks that have been stolen from him.

With his friends, Siddhartha looks at 'Playboy', watches a Swedish skin-flick and ogles the girls at a nightclub. But he is introduced to a when friendly amateur prostitute, he runs a mile. Certain memories of child- hood pinpoint Siddhartha's make up. He fondly recalls, with his sister, hearing a sweet bird sing in • the countryside. But his memories of his revolutionary brother are con- nected with an incident when Tunu, he, with horror; - and fascination, watched with chicken being beheaded. Apart from the interview room rucus at the end of the film, the nearest Siddhartha 388, Tuesday January 16, 1973 PAGE 9 gets to decisive action is over another piece of petty-bour- geois moral outrage. He, and his mother, suspect that the pretty sister is getting on well at work because she does not discourage the boss's atten- tions. This follows an hysterical outburst from the boss's wife, which 'shames' them. He resolves on a man-to- confrontation about his man sister's honour, but is quickly and easily outfaced. In his humiliation and frustration as he walks home, he helps beat up the driver of an expensive foreign car which has knocked down an Indian girl in an accident. Siddhartha is teetering on the brink, wondering if the whole country is falling apart and he will be left in a void.

But eventually, he turns down the chance of doing revolu- tionary agitation work and, after making friends with a pretty but rather naïve bour- geois girl, comes down on the side of settled respectability and takes a job as a medical salesman in a boring regional from where he writes town love letters to his girl.

In portraying this picture of the surface triumph of con- formity, Ray puts the whole focus on the unresolved con- tradictions and the conflicts of situation. His style is the unfussy if occasionally gauche.

An interesting film, brilliantly acted.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Tuesday January 16, 1973

TODAY'S TV

BBC 1

9.38 Schools. 12.30 Ar y trywydd.

12.55 News. 1.00 Pebble Mill at one.

1.30 Andy Pandy. 1.45 Cartoon. 2.05 Schools. 2.50 Going for a song.

3.20 Rolf Harris. 3.45 Behaviour and belief.

4.10 Play school. 4.35 Jackanory. 4.50 Josie and the pussycats. 5.10 John Craven's news- round. 5.15 Vision on. 5.40 Magic roundabout. 5.45 News. Weather.

6.00

NATIONWIDE. 6.50 TOM AND JERRY

FILM: 'A FRENCH MISTRESS'. Cecil Parker, James Robertson 6.55 Justice, lan Bannen, Agnes Laurent. A new French teacher shatters the calm of Melbury Public School for Boys.

8.30 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LIKELY LADS? Home is the Hero. 9.00 NINE O'CLOCK NEWS. Weather.

DOCUMENTARY: IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO GO'. Air travel.

9.25

FILM 73.

10.45 MIDWEEK. 11.30 LATE NEWS.

10.15 REFLECTION. 11.40 Weather.

11.35

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9.30 Schools. 10.30 This week. 12.05 Inigo Pipkin. 12.25 Pinky and 12.40 First report. 1.00 Lunchtime with Wogan. 1.30 Emmerdale Perky. farm. 2.00 Harriet's back in town. 2.30 Good afternoon. 3.00 The splendour falls. 3.25 A family at war. 4.25 Junior showtime. 4.50 Mag- pie. 5.20 | dream of Jeannie.

5.50 News. 6.00

TODAY. 6.30 CROSSROADS.

6.55

FATHER,

DEAR FATHER.

It's in the Book.

"TO TRAP A SPY.

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UNCLE.

9.00 LOVE STORY. Conversations in the Dark. 10.00 NEWS.

10.30 DOCUMENTARY: 'WARHOL'. Andy Warhol, American artist and film-maker. 11.30

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING. 12.15 DEAR LORD.

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1.15 2.30 Women News. 1.30 London. 5.20 Partridge today. 3.00 London. family. 5.50 London. 6.00 News. 6.10 Lookaround. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 dear father. 7.30 Film: "The News, weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 12:05 London. 12.25 Gus Honeybun. 12.40 London. 12.57 News. 1.00 London. 6.00 Diary. 12.12 News. 12.15 Faith for life. SOUTHERN: 9.30 London. 12.00 News.

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News. 12.05 London. 2.30 About women. 3.00 London. 4.20 News. 4.25 London. 5.20 Smith family. 5.50 London. 6.00 About Fight Rising Prices Force the Tories to Resign Support the Engineers CLAPHAM: Tuesday January 16, Clapham Manor Baths, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Street. SW4.

BRISTOL: Tuesday January 16, 7.30 p.m. Building Design Centre, Colston Avenue (opposite SWEB building). THE Plymouth Fine Tubes strikers have just completed two years and seven months on strike. These men have waged a bitter struggle for the most basic right worker can possess—-the right to belong to a trade union. Strike committee members have travelled 100,000 over miles to sustain their fight.

These latest months have been the hardest of all for the men, their wives and 53 • is 'The Gangster Show'-George Tabori's ad › Ui', with Nicol Williamson as Ui.

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6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Father, Anglia. 9.00 dear father. 7.30 Longstreet. London. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London. 2.30 3.00 London. 5.20 Women ".50 London. 6.00 Today. Osmonds. Father, 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 dear Banacek. 9.00 London. father. 7.30 12.15 Peter Plant reports. Weather.

ULSTER: 11.00 London. 1.32 News.

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9.30 London. 2.30 Houseparty. 3.00 London. 5.20 Sur- 5.50 London. 6.00 Calendar. vival. Weather the Crossroads. 7000. Father Cartoon. father. Banacek. 9.00 London. 12.15 Scotland Yard mysteries. 12.45 Weather.

GRANADA: 9.30 London. 2.30 Look- ing at. 3.00 London. 5.15 Primus. 5.50 WANDSWORTH: Tuesday January 16, 8 p.m. Selkirk Hotel, Tooting SW17. 'The fight for Broadway, a living wage'. HOLLOWAY: Thursday January Rd (near Finsbury Park TOTTENHAM: Thursday, January 'Bricklayers' Tottenham High Road, N17 (near White Hart Lane). children. Common Market entry, with rapidly rising prices, has imposed a severe financial burden. The 37 strikers face the challenging months ahead with a depleted strike fund- this is in a period when meat has now become a luxury for the highest paid. all but January is always a difficult month to raise money to fur- ther their fight. Yet they are determined to fight on. This is a struggle the working class cannot afford to abori's adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Processing. IT AT ANY PRICE? Granny's Attic.

IS. The Commercial Union Masters • 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui' by ol Williamson and Sam Wanamaker.

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6.35 Adam Smith. 7.00 Father, dear father. 7.30 McMillan and wife. 8.55 Cartoon. 9.00 London. 12.15 Late call.

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10.58 London. 1.32 Schools. 2.35 Cartoon. 2.50 News. 3.00 London. 5.20 Emmerdale farm.

5.50 London. 6.00 News. 6.05 Country 6.35 Crossroads Cartoon M 7.00 Father, focus. 7.30 7.35 dear father. Banacek. 9.00 London. 12.10 Medita- tion. uary CONISBOROUGH: Sunday Jan- uary 21, 7.30 p.m. "The • Castle Inn'. 'How can workers fight the Tory offensive?' LEICESTER: Wednesday January 24, 8 p.m. Queen's Hotel, Rut- land Street. WILLESDEN: Thursday January 25, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour Hall, High Road, NW10. MIDDLESBROUGH: Sunday Janu- ary 28, 7.30 p.m. Settlement Com- munity Centre, Newport Road.

lose. That is why the Socialist Labour League and the Workers Press wishes to make a special appeal to all trade unionists to take collections in their factories and branches for the Fine Tubes men in order that their heroic and determined action can be car- ried forward. All money should be sent to : Fine Tubes Treasurer •c/o 65 Bretonside Plymouth, Devon.

Maintain fight against second partition of Vietnam

ZHORES

MEDVEDEV,

the Soviet geneticist, friends th who was detained in a to return psychiatric hospital in Union ane May 1970 for his critic- engage In Ism of Kremlin policy, tific reseal has left Moscow in or- der to do medical involved i research in London. tivities th PRESIDENT POMPIDOU has taken every precaution on his present visit to the French colony of Afars and Issas to avoid an outbreak of demon- strations and riots in favour of independence that greeted de Gaulle in 1966. Three companies of riot police -240 men-have been flown in from France reinforce the to 3,000-strong Foreign Legion and regular army troops. The capital of Atars and Issas, Djibouti, 1s surrounded by barbed wire guarded by French units to prevent entry_by people from into the Somalia and Ethiopia capital of former French Somali- land. The change of name, which followed the 1966 riots and a rigged majority 'vote' for con- tinued dependence on France, has not deterred the claims of Somalia to the territory.

Pompidou's visit is aimed at 'confirming the French presence' in this outpost • of "French im- perialism at the entrance of the Red Sea. It is confirmed in customary imperialist style with army units and riot police by the President who has just had such friendly talks with: Moscow:

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Westlaithgate 7.30 p.m. Medveder told his Medveder's twin bro- used as a pretext for friends that he wanted taking his ther. Roy is the author of away pass- the Soviet making him the important book 'Let port, Ori- and Intended to permanent exile. History Judge: the and Consequences engage in purely scien- Last summer, he was gins of Stalinism' (published tific research in London.

barred from attending He did not want to be an internationat geneti- by Macmillan, {5.75), involved in political ac- the first Soviet attempt cists' conference in that could be Klev. to assess Stalin.

BY JOHN SPENCER

UNITED STATES and

THE

North Vietnam yesterday pushed ahead with high-level technical talks as President Nixon conferred in Florida with his chief negotiator Henry Kissinger. Nixon has despatched Kissinger's deputy, General Alexander Haig, to Indo-China to report to the US puppet regimes there on the latest developments in the Paris talks. He will visit South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.

These moves come at a particularly ominous stage in the Paris negotiations, where there are indications that Hanoi has made certain important concessions to the Americans' demands.

Nixon (right) with his Vietn According to reports from Nixon's head- He has sent Haig to south- quarters at Key Biscayne, North Vietnam has 'yielded slightly' of contention with South Viet- on some of the issues in dispute, nam which objected to the terms among them the terms relating October which reached in the international commission tained no such assurance.

There to supervise any agreed ceasefire.

was no indication how such Hanoi originally condition insisted that might be phrased, this commission should have only bearing in mind that Hanoi has 250 men and be largely tied down acknowledged, having any in Saigon. The negotiations forces in the south.' are said to have reached Such agreement • would o7 2,500, com- an amount to de promise on a figure facto recognition from Indonesian, drawn the of the puppet regime of Nguyen Canadian, Polish and Hungarian Van Thieu Vietnam. in South forces. This is of the one main The vital question at the heart cessions being demanded by the of the secret negotiations is the Nixon under threat of Vietnam, division of which was renewing bombing-this time by partitioned along the 17th parallel guided missiles. 1954, in under the treacherous If such deal actually were Geneva to come into operation it would accords approved by Moscow and Peking. detract heavily from the legality On this question, Reuter's and of the Provisional correspondent reported yesterday Revolutionary Government in 'Hanoi might that have the south. agreed to some sort of formula that According to one high Wash- would be official, quoted written into the agree- ington in the Kissinger ment-which provided for 'Daily Express', and Duc ing its troops from South Vietnam Le Tho had reached the over a period of outline time, although of an agreement which would yield to Hanoi's demands not necessarily before settle- that in the long term there should ment is signed. 'This been a major point Vietnam. be a united THE HONG KONG govern- floated their own subsidiaries to fill the gap. ment has taken emergency One Tear-old sit sole action to stem the speculative 16-year-old ship. asset boom on the colony's four shares of these firms shot up in stock exchanges. the from price, pushing index just over 300 at the beginning of Civil servants have been barred last 1,000 year to nearly from visiting the exchanges or week. brokers' offices during working The rise bore relation to hours and banned from using the current earnings of the com- their office telephones to phone panies involved—or to any earn- through share deals. ings they are likely to get in the After a meeting with the finan- Some of the firms future. in- cial the governor, secretary to volved had price/earnings ratios the heads of the exchanges issued of over 100. a joint statement urging investors But this is not the most im- to show restraint. portant aspect of the share boom the that The government has also colony. appears ap- of much the buying 'on parently prevailed on some of the margin' the method which colony's banks to call in loans which have been used by inves- tors to buy shares on credit.

The banks are reported to have advanced £230m (a sum almost equivalent to the colony's budget) last September for new share dealings and general mar- ket operations. Hong THE SPANISH Ministry of For- Kong is a tax haven and is readily accessible announced to specula- eign Affairs at the tive capital from Britain, weekend that which Spain and East has been flowing in to the stock Germany had decided to estab- markets there at considerable lish diplomatic relations and rate. would exchange ambassadors in The lack of companies to in- May. vest in was not an obstacle for Slater Firms like Walker, The agreement was reached in 101g. Ralli International. and others' Warsaw January ›after Workers Press, Tue Zhores Medvedev his Vietnam team (i. to r.) Henry Kissinger, N to south-east Asia to explain the latest Paris Such an agreement is assured of the enthusiastic support of the Stalinists and Liberals who have become the advocates of peace at any price in Indo-China.

The main demand in the Stalinist is for the campaign any signing of the October nine-point draft agreement, which ratifies the continued presence of US troops in Thailand, the Tonkin Gulf and other parts of Asia.

It is important to note that leave US Air the deal would Force planes positioned ready at any time to resume the terror bombing of the north. This campaign is master- minded by the Soviet and Chinese which have re- bureaucracies, peatedly made clear they want to their relations with Nixon.

Olivier Todd French magazine reporting from Hanoi for the 'Nouvel Observateur' witnessed Soviet officials in the beleaguered Hanoi during last month's bomb- raids openly chiding the ing North Vietnamese for their lack of 'realism' and for standing in never-never to brought the downfall of Wall Street in 1929. This involves a virtual hire pur- chase system, in which as little as 10 per cent of the share price need actually be paid by the buyer. this way credit is trans- In formed into fictitious value with a call on part of the total sur- plus value produced. The gov- ernment's intervention indicates that the credit relations are close to the point of breakdown.

Indeed the intervention itself could be the final straw to ini- tiate the credit collapse. Even a small fall in the share index could be enough to set in motion selling by margin buyers, which could then snowball into a crash.

negotiations between the East German ambassador and the leader of the Spanish consular delegation in Poland. East Germany has become the first Stalinist regime in eastern commercial Europe to extend relations with Franco's regime into the field of diplomatic ter: recognition....* •••/ ress, Tuesday January 16, 1973 PAGE 11 01-622 7029 01-720 2000 ssinger, Melvin Laird and General Haig.

test Paris moves. red the way of overall peaceful co-existence! These leaders are undoubtedly intriguing behind the scenes to undermine the intransigence of the North Vietnamese fighters and undermine their morale as the B52 bombers were unable to do. There is undoubtedly great hostility among the Vietnamese fighters to the Moscow-Peking line-up. According to the French newspaper 'Valeurs Actuelles' the US bombing raids provoked a split in the North Vietnamese politburo, with one wing, headed by Truong Chinh, the president of the National Assembly, giving priority to the 'construction of socialism' which, it claims, is endangered by the war. The other wing, led by Le Duan, the Vietnamese party's first secretary, reportedly maintains that the consolidation of socialism in North Vietnam can only be brought about by its victory in the south. This position is echoed in a speech by the veteran recent strategist General Vo Nguyen Speaking at a ceremony Giap. last Friday to mark the award of medals to anti-aircraft units, Giap warned: 'We have won glorious vic- tories, but we should never be complacent because our task remains very heavy. As long as the enemy continues to invade our country, our armed forces and people will have to continue to step up our resistance .. • to defend our entire territory and our beloved fatherland's terri- torial space and waters.'

Nowhere in his speech did Giap refer to the 'peace' pros- pects which are noted with such approval by the advocates of pressure to force Nixon to sign.

This campaign is nothing more than a political extension of the treachery of the Soviet and Chinese leaders. There must be no second partition of Vietnam. The secret diplomatic manoeuvres of Kis- singer and Nixon, Brezhnev and Mao, are the gravest danger to the Vietnamese struggle, which is the highpoint of the world revolution against capitalism.

The Socialist Labour League is for the victory of the North Vietnamese Army and the National Liberation Front and unequivocally for the defeat of imperialism both in Indo-China and by the working class at home. the protesters and Against vigilantes we consider that the campaign to force the Tory government to resign is the high point of working-class solidarity ..." with the " Vietnamese: revolution.

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Let's therefore go all out and raiseR extra amounts for January's Fund. Post these immediately to: Workers Press January Appeal Fund 186 Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG THE Communist Party leaders TUC to say they with the break off talks Tories and organize a cam- paign against the state pay This fraudulent call by the Bri- tish Stalinists was repeated at the national executive meeting at the weekend. a review of 1972, Party In general secretary John Gollan made this claim: 'We gave mass leadership, doing everything we could to raise militancy while showing the need to go beyond immediate aims, and posing the need to challenge [not destroy!] capi- talism as such and win social change The campaign against the TUC- Tory collaboration over the state pay plan affords an ex- ample of Stalinist 'mass leadership'. This issue first emerged for full debate at the TUC Congress in Brighton last September.

A lengthy resolution about was passed economic policy unanimously. This did every- thing but mention the key question facing the working the abysmal co- class—was operation between the Tories and the TUC leaders to con- tinue? As such it was recognized as a brief for Victor Feather and his team to continue their grovelling act at 10 Downing Street. Not one Communist Party dele- gate (and there were several from trade unions) raised a hand against this resolution.

Not one Communist Party dele- gate came to the platform and demanded that all openly talks with the Tory govern- ment be broken off. Instead the Party faction at the Congress and the many Stalin- ist camp followers acted as the dishonest brokers between the right and so-called left- wing leaders. These Stalinist forces participated in a squalid manoeuvre to re- move from the agenda the one motion which would have meant an end to the talks. This called for a campaign to bring down the Tories and elect a Labour government day January 16, 1973 THE PRICE of about 200 branded foods went up yesterday between 8 and 12 per cent and more in- creases will take place later this week. The Ministry of Agriculture is still refusing to name the firms concerned. This is in sharp contrast to the publicity the Tory government encour- ages over workers fighting for wage rises. THE TORY government has abandoned all attempts to control meat prices. Farmers' leader Henry Plumb said after the Tory meeting with Agriculture Minister Joseph Godber that there would be no attempt to 'freeze' farmers' margins which have meat rocketed since entry into the Common Market. Farmers are now getting 50 per cent more for their beef than they were a year ago. Almost all the increases are in canned and sliced meat lines. The biggest company involved so far is Spiller Foods which is rais- ing the price of its Tyne Brand canned meats and pies. Other increases include: Scot Meat Products (hams, sausages and pork); Porky Boy Products bacon and sausages); (hams, Baron Meats (ham, pressed beef, continental sausages); S. Daniels pledged to socialist policies. This is how the Stalinists began their campaign to give 'mass leadership'. continued. At a The reaction decisive stage in the campaign to deprive the working class of the democratic right to a decent standard of living, the Tories were faced with a wave of industrial action in defence of the engineers. How did the Stalinists lead this struggle? Three of the national executive members participated in the fight-James Reid and James Airlie of UCS and Kevin Hal- pin, chairman of the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions. The one area where no mass action was taken against the AUEW fines was Clydeside- includes the 'kingdom' which of Reid and Airlie, both mem- bers of the engineering union.

Airlie failed to move any reso- lution for industrial action at stewards' quarterly shop meeting the day after the fine was imposed and the Stalinists on the Clyde failed to organize mass meetings to bring work- ers out. As a result the right wing was able to cancel all strikes. The Liaison Committee for its nothing to mobilize part did the working class. On the con- trary, Halpin voted against a call for a national stoppage throughout engineering at a shop stewards' meeting the day London struck one day. But above all the Stalinists never in of these campaigns any raised the political question of forcing the Tory government by mass industrial to resign and political action. Presum- ably this is not part of 'chal- lenging capitalism'. This is no longer news to many workers who are coming to regard the Communist Party with a degree of healthy cyni- cism. Such cynicisms and anger must be developed into a political campaign against Stalinism. It is a force bound entirely to the bureaucratic caste in the Soviet Urion which is now the main bulwark of imperialism throughout the world.

A DUBLIN

yesterday court Provisional Londonderry dearer. because or tne switca lo pork, the bacon producers are IRA leader Martin McGuinness

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they not getting the supplies and another man for trial on

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

need. gelignite rarmers are sene unem charges or possessing animals to pork producers.

and ammunition and being (pork shoulders, hams, hot dogs, The Common Market will also members ot an lllegal organ. have an elect. bacon is поТЯ DruceosCu continent, Primecut Foods (sausages pies, subsidies that McGuinness and Joseph Mc- pasties); and John Morrell hams.

Callion who face get on tne price or pig reea stuls will the These be favour animals that produce eight charges, refused macreases noth green light other smaller pork than bacon. the court and declined for Earlier When ask bail. the regulations apply unese here on February 1, there will be man aged 19 WIli not have aDoly lo luc Ministry permission to incentive was also sent for trial on similar TOr the price of meat products charges. crease pork instead of bacon the and it will be entirely up to tion. Also in Dublin, the extradition snopper to complain It pronteer 'Dutch Tony a villalivil suspected-a Dohertv Royal

ANOTHER

warning of big une task the Constabulary was adjourned for nanco lood price rises was issued yes brands increasing prices are kept a week. terday the Food Manufac- turers' Federation Doherty, said his counsel, had said pokesman for "The Grocer Federa- the been bookesman tortured

WIL

necaies price increases in tion said that margins had cigarettes wille in Jail in bellast down from the usual 16 from where he escaped sausages, wear ano de nues were gone inevitable this week. Big firms December 1971. 17 about 12 _ver CeLl considering taking this step are per cent. 'His shirt and trousers were Walls, Bowyers and 'Now profit have Lile margins removed. weedes were venerated manufacturers in this field.

declined to a point where we skin, half-an-inch into his then Many of the increases are a withdrawn and drawn his Canno across result of the 37-per-cent increase lower. We hope that the gov- had gone or body. The will ernment give permission meal onces over une Dasu tor lour nours year. government has noW An English MI5 agent and an 1 he ¡ol price marcases, ne Salu. launched determined campaign Irish Donceman involved

LAC

put beet beyond the range of Dublin spy ring In special market- case will lace addition, further today, the pro- The working cass nousenola and sharing between the other foods like pig UK and Denmark secution said yesterday. will disappear meat and chicken. Europe. This will boost Wyman, Chelsea, John •of Crinnion But big prices expected London, and Patrick ports to the continent and push dic The Dublin, here well. arrested up prices at nome TrOM were Mr L. W. as well as Wright, president of the Republic's Special Branch Manchester Ex- while the the slaughtering caused by the Provision investigating will send the price .. outside the Dai when swine cere Chance las •reducte• mar unese explosions of pork and ham rocketing factors will mean five years of Lynch's government was jeopardy. Bacon is also likely to be much rising bacon prices.

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Norie's sacked the stew- pay-roll ards and any men they Redpath Dorman Long ringleaders. Hendren as withdrew their labour that The arm warned yesterday in support would He added that in the The men have agreed of striking electricians further to drop their maximum last three years seven disruption Scunthorpe's An- safety had died and over a run down of the site. campaign in „re- chor steel works site, turn for a reinstatement 200 had been injured or Said Mr Stevenson: of the sacked workers, the site. "The lads will but Norrie's electricians have until 38 the Over 2,000 contrac- jected the offer. have been pressing the re instater because tors' workers on the this company gets away 4,000 man site have ted to carry out a secret take action against the with breaking the union and the ballot advertise company on a variety WIl mie same dispute began on Janu- every fight? strikers

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åry 9. local press. Finally the Resolutions from local men elec- Trouble first flared on Strike leader Mr ted shop stewards who branches have been sent Stewart Stevenson were immediately recog- electrical trades recenDer The son Norie Ltd sacked 38 imposed union headquarters call- including all the and British Steel for the be men, the maximum safety ing strike to

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•rewards one bewa Согрогапов, de- known militants, follow- ning of December after the union. manding the resignation ing electrician's had used As area secretary Mr. soon as the work- work-to-rule. "iron fist' tactics. lo rule Deral Iwo wecks

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terday, the mownerment inansped which Vestey organization itself had a powerful voice Transport The management's plans, how- which the Develoomen urowo. mcendeo to DrODOSaS immediate ever, have run into South American lines will reply the trouble on Friday are believed to involve WIll

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stewards' committee. and General sent to une liansbule considerable speed-up Norman the stewards' workers union ana, It the term:

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met told dockers convenor. riess but did not discuss yesterday, that the committee had instructed from the strike action heir shop stewards' recent state- not to casuals any with- end of this week will be ment unev

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drawn. South American meat ships un- Although men on the supple- But the company still has to less the _London men could guar- paid the problem of three men mentary register are

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would alilet lne trade same as permanent dockers, they who see ar elsewhere. enjoy guarantee ull pay after they took severanc similar Instead they voted support for the Dock Labour Scheme. rom the register last June the hospital workers' fact they be with nght against fired can least 500 THE FUTURE of at the Tory pay-control law.

oniv one week's notice bv either dockers at the Royal group their immediate employer or the MIDLAND Cold Storage yester= docks in east London is expected Dock Labour Board. day formally withdrew the legal decided this Friday. •e lllally proceedings that last summer led ver on mde bermanent easieı Shipping South nes fear that casuals could be used ive London dockers being American conference are due to break up their solidarity and jailed. from then proposals Port union oficials and the A LEADING haulage and ware- London Authority for keeping All Trades Unions Alliance the valuable trade in Lon- meat nousing company appears to nave Meeting don docks. The lines are threat.

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Tuesday Janu. labour ening to transfer to Southamp- registered p.m. Bay Tree south ton. ary 16 " nA Store. monase, A transfer could close Inn,' New Road. The Tory State • Thames London. Pay Plan' Stevedoring (1965) Ltd, Following a High Court ruling that the jobs at the Vestey-owned firm which em- last ycat, ploys more than 800 men in the were

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neccosallly dockers' work, it had been feared Rovals. Press, that the owners would Thames' work has already swi hugreet, by the transfer of much dismiss their six dockers. been cut

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But New Zealand meat trade at a wild officials and shop stewards yes- Sheerness-a decision