Workers Press no. 982

workers press

REVOLT MOUNTS AGAINST TORIES' PHASE TWO

HOSPITAL WORKERS

LEAD PAY FIGHT

BY WORKERS PRESS INI

HOSPITAL workers vesterda fight against the Tories stat organized by the National Uni which organizes most of Br workers, showed a clear majo strike action. for more than

ALAN FISHER,

leader of employees' union, public NUPE, said yesterday that if no settlement was forthcoming in the hospital workers' pay claim he expected his union to decide on 'something more than a token stoppage'. What form of action the hos- pital workers will take will be decided by the next executive committee of NUPE on Satur- day, February 3. Fisher was speaking to re- porters before going to meet officials of the Department of Health and Social Security in London. Also represented at yesterday's meeting were officials of the other big hos- pital workers' union-the Con- federation of Health Service Employees (COHSE). The ballot showed great support for militant action', Fisher said. There was very strong support in the ballot we've taken for strike action.

Full strike action would be possible,' he added. Terry Mallinson, a national official of COHSE, told Workers Press that he didn't think there would be any settlement at all from the talks. 'So far as we can see, the maximum we can obtain under the White Paper is £1.98. This is totally unacceptable. It is far lower than the government workers have been offered and our pay traditionally has been linked with theirs.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSL

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTI

PRESS INDUSTRIAL STAFF

yesterday took the lead in the es' state pay control. A ballot nal Union of Public Employees, t of Britain's 250,000 hospital ar majority in favour of all-out The ballot result was an- nounced just two hours be- fore the start of vital pay talks with the hospital em- ployers at which union lead- ers pressed a f4 pay claim despite the pay control law.

Under both the Phase One and Phase Two legislation in- dustrial action is outlawed. If the hospital unions do proceed with their strike threat, they face unlimited fines and even jail. The Tories showed yesterday they will apply the state pay controls ruthlessly. The Depart- ment of Employment made an order against the London Co- operative Society banning it from a El-a-week rise to payıng lower-paid Co-op workers.

Meantime Ford managers met with convenors Essex at an motel yesterday in the first round of pay talks since the £10 claim was lodged. No cash offer was made and both sides agreed to meet again on Feb- ruary 9. 'It was a tense meeting,' an observer said. 'Everyone's wait- ing to see who will make the first move.' The hospital workers' claim— along with the claims of about.

2 million other workers—would already have been settled were it not for the pay law. Already militant unofficial action has hit hospitals in several Yesterday's ballot result areas. showed that there is now wide- spread support for a fight to a finish with the Tory government.

Of 401 special branch meetings on the stopping of the claim, 207 came down in favour of an all- out strike. Besides those wanting an all- out strike there were 145 other branches prepared to support other forms of industrial action.

And these two groups together constituted a crushing majority of those voting21,074 out of 23,041. There were 49 branches who said they would not support any form of industrial action, but these represented only a tiny handful of 1,967 members.

As the NUPE leaders threw down this challenge to the hos- pital employers and the govern- ment, Ford union chiefs were locked in discussion with the company on their big pay-and- hours claim for a big pay in- crease and shorter hours from

IE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JANUARY 27,

E CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

DEP

A delegation from the Confederation of officials on the ancillary hospital workers March 1. And Vauxhall workers' leaders were lodging their claim for a 'substantial', April 1 pay- and-hours deal. In the so-called public sector.

all are on the hospital eyes workers. If anger against the Tories has built up to strike pitch in the hospitals, it is not lagging far behind among much more powerful groups of workers such as the miners, Post Office workers, gasworkers and even civil servants. Lawrence Daly, the miners' secretary, says that if there is no improvement of the Coal Board's provocative, government-inspired €2.28 offer in two weeks' time, there is likely to be a ballot on industrial action in his union. His 280,000 members want £5-E7. A special conference of Post Office workers next month is expected to demand action on their claim for a t5 rise, which should have been settled by January 1. Renewed negotiations in the gas industry next week will take a background of place against growing unofficial action across the country. Some 3,000 manual workers in the Northern Gas Board- covering Durham. Northumber- land, Cumberland and part of Yorkshire—are to stage a one- day strike to coincide with the talks Wednesday. next With of others they are thousands already working to rule against JARY 27, 1973 • No 982 • 4p

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

SOCIA

SECURITY

leration of Health Service Employees enters yesterday's talks with Ministry al workers' pay. the Gas Corporation's £2 offer.

mons on Monday, Labour leader In the private sector of indus- Harold Wilson is expected to try the flashpoint is likely to be his call for workers to at Ford. obey the law. meeting of Ford A national In other words, at a point shop stewards has been called in when workers are moving into Coventry in mid-February, the sharpest possible conflict with and if, Ford the Tories the union and Labour as expected, toes the Tory line with an offer leaders lie down before the of only £2.60. body-plant workers at enemy. Dagenham have already tabled a Every worker in struggle motion calling for strike action must therefore demand the from March 1. immediate recall of the TUC Wednesday's Yet after meet- to plan the campaign to force ing of the TUC General Council, the Tories to resign. Victor Feather dismissed sug- Those leaders who refuse to gestions that the union leaders fight be from must removed dragging their feet in the were their posts. Councils of Action in fight back against the pay law. become the every area must He refused to say if the TUC focus of the struggle to remove would back workers who took the Tories, and return a Labour action in defiance of the Tory government pledged socialist to House of Com- law. And in the policies. Socialist Labour League Yorkshire Rally SUNDAY JANUARY 28,7.30 p.m.

Great Northern Hotel, Wellington Street (near Leeds station).

LEEDS

FILM: THREE YEARS

OF WORKERS PRESS

Speakers :

G. HEALY

(SLL National Secretary) PAUL WHETSTONE (Young Socialists) In personal capacity:

GEORGE LUBY

(U.P.W.)

ROBBIE ROBERTS (N.U.M.)

workers press

REVOLT MOUNTS AGAINST TORIES' PHASE TWO

HOSPITAL WORKERS

LEAD PAY FIGHT

BY WORKERS PRESS INI

HOSPITAL workers yesterda fight against the Tories' stat organized by the National Uni which organizes most of Br workers, showed a clear majo strike action. for more than leader

ALAN

FISHER,

of public employees' union, NUPE, said yesterday that if no settlement was forthcoming In the hospital workers' pay claim he expected his union to decide on 'something more than a token stoppage'. What iorm of action the hos- pital workers will take will be decided by the next executive committee of NUPE on Satur- day, February 3. Fisher was speaking to re- porters before going to meet officials of the Department of Health and Social Security In London. Also represented at yesterday's meeting were officials of the other big hos- pital workers' union-the Con- federation of Health Service Employees (COHSE). 'The ballot showed great support for militant action', Fisher said. 'There was very strong support in the ballot we've taken for strike action.

Full strike action would be possible,' he added. Terry Mallinson, a natlonal official of COHSE, told Workers Press that he didn't think there would be any settlement at all from the talks. 'So far as we can see, the maximum we can obtain under the White Paper is £1.98. This Is totally unacceptable. It is far lower than the government workers have been offered and our pay traditionally has been linked with theirs.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSL

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTI

PRESS INDUSTRIAL STAFF

yesterday took the lead in the es' state pay control. A ballot nal Union of Public Employees, t of Britain's 250,000 hospital ar majority in favour of all-out The ballot result was an- nounced just two hours be- fore the start of vital pay talks with the hospital em- ployers at which union lead- ers pressed a £4 pay claim despite the pay control law.

Under both the Phase One and Phase Two legislation in- dustrial action is outlawed. If the hospital unions do proceed with their strike threat, they face unlimited fines and even jail. The Tories showed yesterday they will apply the state pay controls ruthlessly. The Depart- ment ot Employment made an order against the London Co- operative Society banning it from paying £l-a-week rise to a lower-paid Co-op workers.

Meantime Ford managers met with Essex convenors at an motel yesterday in the first round of pay talks since the £10 claim was lodged. No cash offer was made and both sides agreed to meet again on Feb- ruary 9. tense meeting,' 'It was a an 'Everyone's wait- observer said. ing to see who will make the first move.' The hospital workers' claim— along with the claims of about 2 million other workers-would already have been settled were it not for the pay law. Already militant unofficial action has hit hospitals in several Yesterday's ballot result areas. showed that there is now wide- spread support for a fight to a finish with the Tory government.

Of 401 special branch meetings on the stopping of the claim, 207 came down in favour of an all- out strike. Besides those wanting an all- out strike there were 145 other branches prepared to support other forms of industrial action.

And these two groups together constituted a crushing majority of those voting—21,074 out of 23,041. There were 49 branches who said they would not support any form of industrial action, but these tiny represented only a handful of 1,967 members.

As the NUPE leaders threw down this challenge to the hos- pital employers and the govern- ment, Ford union chiefs were locked in discussion with the company on their big pay-and- hours claim for a big pay in- crease and shorter hours from

IE NEWSLETTER • :

SATURDAY JANUARY 27,

E CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

DEPARTMI

A delegation from the Confederation of officials on the ancillary hospital workers March 1. And Vauxhall workers' leaders were lodging their claim for a 'substantial', April 1 pay- and-hours deal. In the so-called public sector.

all the hospital eyes are on workers. If anger against the Tories has built up to strike pitch in the hospitals, it is not lagging far behind among much more powerful groups of workers such as the miners, Post Office workers, gasworkers and even civil servants. Lawrence Daly, the miners' secretary, says that if there is no improvement of the Coal Board's government-inspired provocative, in two weeks time, £2.28 offer there is likely to be a ballot on action in his union. industrial His 280,000 members want £5-£7. A special conference of Post Office workers next month is expected to demand action on their claim for a f5 rise, which should have been settled by January I. Renewed negotiations in the gas industry next week will take background of place against a growing unofficial action across the country. Some 3,000 manual workers in Northern the Gas Board- covering Durham. Northumber- land, Cumberland and part of Yorkshire-are to stage a one- day strike to coincide with the Wednesday. With talks next thousands others they are already working to rule against JARY 27, 1973 • No 982 • 4p

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE

TMENT OF

HEALTH

30CU leration of Health Service Employees enters yesterday's talks with Ministry al workers' pay. the Gas Corporation's £2 offer.

Winda is Labour leader mons on In the private sector of indus- Harold expected Wilson to try the flashpoint is likely to his call for workers renew to Ford. at obey the law. Ford A national meeting of In other words, at a point shop stewards has been called in when workers moving into are Coventry in mid-February, and the sharpest possible conflict with if, Ford the Tories the union and Labour as expected, toes the Tory line with an offer of only leaders lie down before the £2.60, body-plant workers at enemy. Dagenham have already tabled a Every worker in struggle motion calling for strike action therefore demand must the from March I. recall of the TUC immediate Yet after Wednesday's to plan the campaign to force meet- ing of the TUC General Council, the Tories to resign. Victor Feather dismissed Those leaders who refuse to

SUS-

gestions that the union leaders fight must be removed from dragging their feet in the were their posts. Councils of Action in fight back against the pay law. become every area must the He refused to say if the TUC focus of the struggle to remove would back workers who took the Tories, and return a Labour action in defiance of the Tory government pledged to socialist House of Com- law. And in the policies. Socialist Labour League Yorkshire Rally SUNDAY JANUARY 28, 7.30 p.m.

Great Northern Hotel, Wellington Street (near Leeds station),

LEEDS

FILM: THREE YEARS

OF WORKERS PRESS

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

GEORGE LUBY (U.P.W.)

ROBBIE ROBERTS (N.U.M.)

Treaty a prelude to PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday January 27, 1973

FRENCH

Communist

BY OUR OWN

THE

Party's Central Committee

CORRESPONDENT

meeting in Paris on issued the watchword for CP candidates at dignity first of the election serony •on March 4. March for the elections to the National Assembly. the results of this round will decide whether or length res report from Socialist or left Georges Libera candidate will repre general Party's secretary sent the Common Front CP's devotion stressed the the second poll week later. opposition to all attacks on The Party's chief trade national independence EUROPE cannot afford to allow itself to get of France. Séguy, told a meeting the involved in a trade war with the United day

CGT

had same throwing States, according to the West German Finance Confidence Socine Minister Helmut Schmidt. left government was elected. Marchals In an interview with 'The Times' yesterday expressed con- he He attacked what fldence outcome of he warned that 'careless speeches' by Euro- the termed distortions' the elections. Party's questions pean leaders on trade and money Present opinion polls its opponents, notably the could endanger the Atlantic Alliance.

give the CP and its socialist idea that left and the are 'It must be clearly pointed out that Europe, due

CGT

CHeS to its preference systems other trade lead over the or The appealed reassuring and spend their allow itself MARCHAIS ... Devotion to attora Carlol

SCL

time down the to electorate to vote playing democracy. involvea in a trade war with tne Unitea slates ...

What necessary is regular contacts between the people who Here is an admission oi the inability of European capitalism stand up to the United States stit the value of 'contacts' betrays a basic social-democratic illusion.

The economic crisis is long stage

DAST

Call patched up talk. And is the value : of alliance which jeopardy by 'care- can be put 1n less speeches? But even Schmidt is forced to the deep-going mone- tary crisis: world 'To talk of monetary a really healthy without reTones dollar simply academic non-

BY JOHN SPI

If the dollar were healthy, sense. then half the international mone- THE INDO-CHINA ceas tary would probiens disappear. If the dollar, however, remains sick, then it idiotic to signed today in Paris by talk about creating a new world Provisional Revolutionar monetary system.' in the South Vietnam, the Thi inis view is backed up 'Financial Times' by C. Gordon attacks the recent Tether, who United States. gold Dritisnorobusal with special drawing rights Elaborate arrangements hav (SDRs) as prime international that none of the parties loses assel. At present SDRs are linked ceremony. But it is already b Economics student Roberto Franceschi, who was shot the neck by police on Wednesday, seen on a previous demonstration in Milan.

with cold bar toe druso schemie agreement will not bring peac envisages cutting the defining instead statement that 'the MILAN trade unionists and stu- Saigon is getting ready basis of leading currencies. rights citizens are the terms of the dents demonstrated on Thursday fur last-ditch stand but as forces Given the extent and rate of against police shooting in Bocconi cemocratc rule. as the diplomatic law and order cannot be the object

DUUM

On Wednesday the innation, _i ether says, unis university. of of their formalities are over. The a systematic questioning authorities had called in the police of the signing to have any pretence would cease Tole to break up a meeting attended by Republican Party member will be simply the prelude to being a store or value.

'alien elements'. lamented that Italy far from round of civil the And since average fall in Roberto Fran- 'civilized Economics student CulllaLc the value Wal. the

CUT.

ceschi (21) was shot in the back of democratic tolerance' rencies is probably similar Hoang Duc Nha, the neck. Roberto Piacentini (22), an After oco reading from that the that of the dollar, the SDR would having leading spokesman for the Maoist, was police should refrain encineeruns

WOLKCI

anu and purposes to all intents Saigon, puppet US shot in the back by a bullet recourse to exteme measures borea- indistinguishable from the penetrated a lung. ing on civil war, warned against said on Thursday that the currency. Maspes, "simplistic solution' disarming Paolo surgeon treating the only legal government These observations only con- franceschi. the that

DONCE

south firm ot over- The Italian Communist Party did Lne HOSS Duty President Thieu. not support the students and warned coming the monetary hope left at the lines being discussed among The fact that President Interior Mariano "irresponsible agitators' and the International Monetary Fund's had recognized the Nixon Rumor told the Italian parliament that ao venturisac tendencies Group of 20. the police were only peacefully trying The liberal daily 'Corriera della I hieu government spoke for Sera' that their warned the activities Irsen. me sale. duties they a scar Lo Cally

VULI

creasingly remote from reality in This interpretation were a bushed me extene-e corre over WaV _MSI with trade war and com barout of Bocconi armed with for the fascist their agreement hotly con- a situation where aggressive approach. by Mme Nguyen Thi ested ucyaluallulls aLc He concluded his tirade with the • See centre pages.. already under way. Binh, Paris representative o of bomb blast jailed for being

POLISH

Stalinists mounted a military-style suspec- led several students who Basque

ETA

led the members. warmly welcomed one overallon ISRAELI terrorists claimed another province the increased meal

TOLONIO

Dollee nave Franco's Thursday of victim on their secret kidnapping million- cordoned off the court- and transport charges. police chiefs- -Director Huarte by the military The Rector of Barce- cowardly bomb campaign aire Felipe room Civil Guard Palestine guerrillas. of the ELA nationalists. lona University has oUS Roadblocks have also pended academic Carlos niesta Cano-. One of a series of bomb explosions neigh-

SPANISH

police have activities pending an in- been set who arrived in War- jailed the visit by Nicosia killed Hussein Bashir six workers in- into Huesca boullig saw earlier this week Abul-Khair Abu Sami), and (code name vince and houses sociologist volved l une suikes li willer delegation to Valcarlos and Oyarzun factory Alfonso Carlos Comin the Cyprus representative of Al-ratah.

searched. the Huarte family. This without the Dean's per- movement. have been Ines alesman nineradon the Interparliamentary follows a lengthy Widow Garcia inter- mission. The bomb had been placed under Union. (41) students Lopez was taken I lortinasa his bed in Nicosia hotel. Fatah

TOLD ON

DOCOON

hospital with serious workers to discover the 'sack' hac denced to issued statement describing the The group of strike professor Berini wounds after fascist has expressed special stomach new Gimenez and organize roadblock guards open- sacrifice offered to the revolution' and interest discussing ed fire on a out- courses declared that 'his blood will not WIll problem of security side Ochandiano. The accused kidnapping invited speakers. the Mediterraneani arrested and industrialist Lorenzo This dangerous exer- driver was with the Polish bureau- Palestinian leaders have been the power' cise 'student January 19. 1r Soul na. Dald target of a series of bomb attacks Pamplona, a young Comin's arrest a recent months and the Palestinian Civil teacher, student, and Madrid university finished his lecture In Spain, the and Paris have both have been on Spanish agriculture. envoys in Komi Guard and police technician authorities have expel- Have been murdered by Zionists.

likely effects of the common programme'. Apart from the big capi- and their talist groups political representatives, to- gether with the country's quota of reactionaries, no- body had any reason to fear the common pro- application, gramme Séguy said. Do nothing Séguy has previously at- tacked the leaders of other trade union formations for stating that they will put demands on a left govern- ment. He has made it plain as far as the CGT is con- cerned, It wlll do nothing to mobilize any Indepen- dent movement of the leir working class If a left government is Installed.

JOHN SPENCER

A ceasefire treaty will be ris by North Vietnam, the utionary Government of he Thieu regime and the ents have been made to ensure es loses face during the signing Iready becoming clear that the ing peace in Vietnam. the NLF of South Vietnam.

She accused Nixon of breaking the agreement, which had as one of its basic points the recognition of Vietnam's unity and of two administrations in the south. In fact the terms of the agreement are so vague about these crucial ques- tions that they give virtually guidance about no country's political future.

This is clearly going to be fought out on the ground, arms in hand. Hoang Duc Nha also made it clear that the Thieu re- gime will not allow elections in the south unless the North Vietnamese withdraw.

Withdrawal He claimed that with- drawal of North Vietnamese troops was essential if the 'self-determination' of the south was to be assured. Nha also poured scorn on Control the International Commission, saying that with only 1,160 men it would be unable to detect violations ceasefire by the of the communists. Equally, of course, it would be unable to prevent Thieu government the breaching the ceasefire. The Saigon government obviously intends to carry out only those sections of the agreement which can be interpreted to its advantage.

Thieu is extremely upset by the signing of the agree- ment which virtually seals the fate of his regime in the long term.

get the soft-soap THE ANNIVERSARY of Bloody Sunday-the massacre of 13 people in the streets of Bogside, Derry-is commemorated this weekend with an orgy of protest, vigils and civil rights demonstrations. The wheel of resistance to British imperialism would seem to have turned full circle. We are back to the days of 1968 when the civil rights movement took to the streets to demand their rights from a capi- talist system intent only on bloody

BLOODY SUNDAY

repression of the Irish working class. In the north of Ireland the reformists, the Stalinists, aided are conspiring with the Torv covernment lish an imperialist 'peace' over lister The White Paper, with details

ONE YEAR AFTER

Ulster's phoney 1 mona The 1s expected pudlisned soon. so-canec 'opposition', represented by the Social Democratic and Labour Party is a will- charade In partner in us cynical In the south. the Lunch government. the client administration Westminster, OI proceeding with its against pogrom the Republican The the Despite the courage and resistance of headers are amested. Suoleci Derry occupation working class this campaign nad judgement of tribunals bereft of the considerable When the horror carried out minimal civil . rights, then handed most towards subsided, moves co-operation over to the army the north to face 1ll with the Tories began. the brutality of the internment camps.

campaign a series of take manoeuvres. the Atter The Bloody Sunday was the start of this pro- SDLP leaders sat down and signed away Chere i overasming evidence massacre deliberate. last Thei summer the principle of a. united Ireland. the to sug- take their places the created Berry on paters wem the Tory cabinet

IOWA

Ireland Council'-a talking-shop WIld way of all yi whatsoever, sup- powers which to carry out their specific task of intim- working class. posed to placate the unquenchable desire idating the Catholic population, destroy. of the Irish working class and peasantr ing resistance to army rule and Irigaten- for national independence.

Social ing the miserable reformists Waiter White who had ridden

SDLP

into the arms of Meanwhile 'the army has extentee

TRIS

of repression into all the on the back law, the Tory Secretary tor Ulster.

kingaom The day that Shotton came to London town

COMMENT BY IAN YEATS

Steelworkers AFTER FIGHTING their way—literally-to the mother of parliaments to exercise their democratic rights on Thursday the 3,000 Shotton steel workers were let down with a bang. Special trains and a fleet of cars had brought them to London to urge their Labour leaders to carry their flag of defiance to steel floor of the House of plant closures onto the Commons. But the fire of their anger, which had catapulted them across two police barriers and into the committee rooms of the House, was abruptly dissipated in the honeyed words of a group of mild-mannered men surrounded by millions of pounds worth of oil paintings and chandeliers.

They listened politely—if silence is in all cases polite- -while Flint's Labour MP Mr Barry Jones, pointing like some awful spectre out of Macbeth, told them he was 'with them'. To those at the head of the march who had seen him duck out of the when the fighting began, the assertion might have had a way hollow ring. Mr Jones, who, like everyone else, seemed anxious to claim as many relatives in the doomed works as possible. stretchue as ar back Tories-if he was called time as possible, said ne would tell the the debate-that Shotton must not close.

He did he not say how prevent it, but added that ne wolle

SAVE

wanted the stee workers

SAVE

know he understood what their

SHOTION

suffering would be.

SHOTION

STELLMURKS

In the event, he warned

STEELWORKS

British Steel Corporation chair- Melchett Lord not man and said it over reach himself' Was Conceale will mcal dangerous to put 'all his making under the aegis of the eggs the basket of large government, Hughes scale'. LaDoll said one in the 1970 Cledwyn Hughes, who also cabinet would have counten- seemer bent on clalming per- the scale anced closures sonal acquaintance with as proposed by the Tories. relatives in the works as He did they would not say possed be Sartel in 1975, that 10L nOW. • ОГ would different under were not They prepared Labour government. If these accept closures on any scale. terrible He recognized that the steel.

things happen industry, he said, in The steel workers and their families had at least let 'our people' do it. come to London to ask their Labour had, after all, the one Labour MPs for help and so Lse TOne incy would 'heart'. 'left' MP Mr Lancashire s Steinin with every expres- Stanley Orme claimed they innocence, the would fight sion over to the bitter, but MICHAEL FOOT ... Follow BSC to fact that BSC began the intro- erol prevent lines. duction of basic oxygen steel- the closures. turned round and joined the vicious Tory campaign to isolate and destroy the IRA. Now Provisionals have also the back to drink from the stagnant pool of middle-class Their protest. answer to the vicious Lynch oppression to form their own Civil Rights movement.

Bloody Sunday will always be remembered by revolutionary movement in Britain. Some day the guilty men who organized and perpetrated this slaughter will be brought to trial to answer for their deeds. Workers Press hails the memory of the people who fell that day and all the thousands of martyrs who have given for their lives the cause of a free Ireland. reas. After Bloody Sunday the 'no-go' areas was But the anniversary of the Derry massacre It with little or no resistance.

is also an occasion for serious thought.

Imperialism still rules Ireland. It will companied by the blind terror- as long as imperialism do SO rules of the Provisional

IRA.

Britain. of bombing criminate wave The task remains the construction of a served further to isolate and revolutionary leadership in Britain Catholic support and Ireland of all this enormous obstacle in the Scourse Workers Press and the mem- with mankind. ny unity the Protestant bers of the Socialist Labour League and the Young Socialists will their pay i reformist treachery. All the tribute to the dead of Derry by carrying and priests forward their efforts to build a Marxist mocratic traitors leadership ridden to political prominence within the working class of heroism of Republican Britain and Ireland.

SAVE

Barry Jones Wekomes p0010 Above: MP Barry Jones (stand. ing below his own banner) spoke to Shotton workers when they arrived at Euston station for their London demonstration (left).

By 3.40 p.m. there had been whole of oceans commisera- tion, but not a single promise of action beyond Hughes' an- that in Michael Foot the steel workers could not have a better champion.

Mr Foot's exact words in the steel debate were: 'We want to see a major modernization of the industry. We believe that major modernization must the lines laid eventually follow down by the BSC. However did he seek an undertaking from Tories the that the dates for the proposed closures should be extended.

livelihood 'Our as com- munity is at stake. If we were to neglect any this would matter, criminal on the part of those who represent the people of Ebbw Vale.' Tames Callaghan joined the

SAVE

"If fight with the words: we have face the fact [of closurel in the end. then we demand that the period of redundancies should be much longer.' Eric Heffer contented him- self with outlining the full horror of the closures which he said rouse best on tiel Labour's spokesman on and power him- plainly saw self as doing little more than

SHOTTON

through the going motions Stec/works when he moved that the

DEMAND

closures be halted.

RIGHT

THE

WORK

In the breath he same reprimanded the Tories for being 'lackadaisical' in not say- ing at once just how many jobs would go. Tory Industry Minister Mr. he said: But, 'We will be Christopher Chataway had the defeated What can we de steel the debate. last terse word: 'It has to be faced that any The he only real answer, conceivable strategy [for steel] told the steelmen, was a new a large reduction mean Labour But, he BSC's employment. government. in There said, could deny way. no one is NO other (His the change was necessary in emphasis.) steel industry and even under Tory amendment reiect- Labour government some ing Labour's motion that there sackings might be inevitable.

should be no closures of steel- More still, Barry plant until new sinister making Jones, his familiar spectorial manner an ployment is found was carried and waving by 280 votes to 250. menacingly like a This dismal an arm performance windmill, said that once the throws into high relief the wheel of change had turned in of building urgency new the steel industry it might be Marxist revolutionary party to impossible for Labour gov- lead the working class to ernment to roll it back. power.

RISE OF THE ROLL-ON PORTS

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday Januai The last few years have seen a massive invest- ment in-and develop- ment of-British ports which handle roll-on, roll-off and container traffic. At the last count by the National Ports Council a total of 106 berths specially designed or adapted for container and roll-on operations had been constructed by port authorities in Britain. These figures do not take account of 1972 developments.

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In 1971 movements of goods vehicles and trailers by roll-on, roll-off ferry services totalled 386,306. In 1967 the figure was 151,337—less than half. The pattern was the same with freight container traffic which in 1971 was at a level three times that of 1967. In 1967 a total of 362,459 general freight containers were moved.

1971 the figure was 1,001,984. All round. Britain the em- phasis in the ports is switching to roll-on, roll-off, especially now that British. capitalism has joined the Common Market.

TROTSK

Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage eet, London SW4 7UG able, free, on request. The Port of Tyne Authority own and operate three berths at Albert Edward Dock, North Shields. In Liverpool, the facilities are very extensive, with eight berths in addition to the new Seaforth Terminal.

Hull. has five terminals, offering 28 sailings a week whilst at Swansea there is the £600,000 terminal on the east bank of the River Tawe adjacent to King's Dock Lock.

The Port of Ipswich is going through a development pro- gramme aimed at doubling its trade within a decade. second berth is almost com- pleted and a third is planned.

In Scotland, Swedish Lloyd is to open its hirst roll-on, roll- off service from Grangemouth to Gothenburg. Two new vessels capable of carrying 160 20ft units have been bought.

Grimsby's first berths were opened in 1967 with a twice- weekly ferry service between the port and Esbjerg, in Den- mark. Two special ferry vessels 110 refrigerated can carry trailer-containers of bacon on their journey from in Denmark the fac- tories to the wholesalers in this country.

The containers have their own refrigerating machinery which is connected to the ship's power supply during the voyage. When trade expanded a new vessel was brought into ser- vice, capable of carrying 200 containers. Southampton Docks have attracted the most roll-on, roll- off business. At the height of the season there are over 80 such sailings a week. Roll-on, roll-off is now a major business in Britain, with about 50 services operating from UK ports. The biggest company in- volved is the Atlantic Con- tainer Line who provide facili- ties between seven European ports. They have ten purpose- built container ships which Lord Devlin. Above: Southampton docks where roll-on, roll-off terminals are being built.

have more than one mile of interior road. About another dozen companies tie up the rest of the business. Shipping owners, hauliers and • the port authorities are clearly envisaging a rapid ex- pansion of roll-on, roll-off. With this method and the full use of containerization, the labour force, dock already savaged by Devlin, is in for a further hammering bordering on virtual elimination. Only one thing can provide the dockers with the full benefit of modern techniques like those now being developed —nationalization of the entire docks and transport industries under workers' control and without compensation. Without such a political solution, the future for the docker is grim. The road to realizing such a demand is through forcing the Tories to resign and returning a Labour government pledged to carry out socialist policies.

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Hong Kong's financial secretary, Mr Philip Had- don-Cave, is speeding- up proposals to bring forward 'a comprehensive securities Bill' to regulate the colony's stock ex- changes. This follows a wave of un- precedented speculation which sent the Hang Seng index up 100 points in the first 11 days of this year, reaching a record 970.88 points. Alarm reached its highest point when the daily turnover soared to $500m. All of this was going into just 200 shares on the local exchanges. The chairmen of the ex- changes were forced to issue a joint statement 'urging caution'.

In the next one and a half points days 129.07 were knocked off the index. Threat of legislation, how- ever tame, seems to have had a salutary effect on some of the who have been wilder men : in Hong Kong-listed punting shares. One of Haddon-Cave's pro- posals is for the appointment of a commissioner for securities and a supervisory panel. The council will be respon- sible for setting up a feder- ation of stock exchanges, supervising the registration of dealers, ensuring there are no irregularities in outside trading, preventing false markets, and making sure that proper accounts are kept and audited.

The extent of this purely voluntary arrangement gives an indication of the way things been organized in the have past. It was a free-for-all. In 1971 the 33-share Hang Seng index stood at only 341.36 and the total turnover for the year considerable, but not was a astonishing, £1,100m. But 1972 saw a sudden influx of speculation. The Hang Seng index finished the year 147 per cent up at 843.40 while the rival Far East Stock Exchange improved 143 per cent. Ninety companies were floated, new nearly doubling the number of all quoted companies. Turnover on the island's four exchanges reached a staggering £3,080m. The worst excesses of the speculation came on the scene in August and September. Makeshift companies, many of them in the property world, thrown together and were floated off for the purposes of capital gain.

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They had no earnings; their managements were unknown.

These companies received a frantic reception on the stock exchange by carefully organiz- ing the float. Generous stock hand-outs made to were privileged individuals in the Press and the banking world and the number of shares floated was deliberately kept low. The speculators' romp in Hong Kong has important con- nections with the City of the Tories London. When decided to float, many institu- tions flocked to Hong Kong to gamble with their overseas holdings and try to make up the difference in their devalued sterling. It's no wonder that the telex and telephone lines to Hong Kong have been • running hot recently. A collapse in that distant colony could create embarrassing some scenes right here at home.

BY JOHN SPENCER

The racialist lan Smith government in Rhodesia has closed its border with Zambia and enacted stringent emergency legislation which makes collective punishment the rule. Smith's ally, Balthazar Vor- ster of South Africa, has struck his own vicious blow against the Zambian economy, barring the export of the food- stuffs, mining equipment and explosives on which Zambia relies. The measures indicate the mounting panic among the white supremacists of south- Africa as the African ern nationalist guerrillas win sup- the oppressed port among black populations they rule.

Smith and Vorster together with the Portuguese colonial- ists of Angola and Mozam- bique want to seal off Africa south of the Zambesi from the "subversive' influence of nation- alist ideas. They have left it too late.

their armies All and police forces and all their draconian laws are not enough to hold back the masses of southern Africa who have been robbed of their rights by imperialism.

The proof can be seen not only in north-east Rhodesia, where Smith's government claims tribesmen are support- ing the guerrillas, but in south- west Africa where the Ovambo workers struck heroically for several months against the con- tract labour system. It can be seen in Angola and Mozambique where armed resistance to the Portuguese fascist colonizers is being orga- nized and is winning support from the local people. It can be seen in the heart- land of apartheid, in South Africa itself, in the recent strikes of black dockers and shipyard workers in Durban, the country's biggest port.

It is this that has made necessary the introduction in Rhodesia of measures which allow collective punishment to be meted out on an arbitrary basis to whole communities of black workers and farmers.

The state of emergency laws introduced by the Smith gov- ernment empower the provin- cial commissioners (white ad- ministrators responsible only to Salisbury) to impose such punishments on people in their provinces. Smith claimed that tribal authorities-the government- appointed chiefs--had asked for powers 'in line with the African tradition for collective punishment' in areas where guerrillas had obtained active co-operation from local people.

No court hearings need be involved in these punishments which depend entirely on the whim of the commissioner con- cerned. He does not have to listen to representations from communities he punishes. own discretion any At his commissioner provincial can impose a fine of any magnitude he chooses on a community . where he is. satisfied that any individual is guilty of subver- sion or of aiding "terrorists' People who are fined under the regulations will be able to appeal--but only within seven days of the day they pay the fine. There is no formal legal machinery for appeal-they simply have the doubtful right to 'make representations'.

These powers appear sweep- ing enough but they are accom- panied by others giving any member of the Defence Forces the power to impound pro- perty for three days 'if he con- siders the circumstances would warrant a fine'. This amounts to a virtual legalization of looting by any soldier in the field. What is more the arbitrary character of Workers Press, Satur the powers gives the govern- ment almost unlimited scope to organize acts of provocation against any opposition. Smith claimed in a speech the 'simple, last week that gullible people' of north-east Rhodesia had been misled by witch-doctors some of whom had doubtful qualifications.

But his admission that the winning guerrilla fighters are support in Rhodesia's border regions will come as a bitter blow to those white suprem- acists who felt secure in their Rhodesian enclave. Even in South Africa there is growing psychosis among the white rulers about the pros- pects of warfare spreading south from Rhodesia. Lt-Gen P. J. Venter, the head of South Africa's security police, warned earlier this week that guerrilla fighting- what he termed 'terrorist acti- vity'-could soon spread to South Africa. Interviewed by the Johan- 'Sunday Times' nesburg the general said it would be foolish for South Africans to believe that increased terrorist inci- dents in Rhodesia, Angola and Mozambique could necessarily be confined beyond South Africa's borders. Venter naturally has a vested interest in creating as big a fear of terrorism as he can among the white population.

He said: 'Just as the police are throwing everything into this fight so must the public be prepared for this danger-both physically and mentally'.

He added: I wish only too sincerely that I could say that the citizens of this country should forget about terrorism and relax, but only a fool would say such a thing' Ter- rorists could already have arrived in South Africa and be in hiding awaiting a chance to strike, he said. The general called on South Africans to be prepared to ress, Saturday January 27, 1973 PAGE 5 Above: Mozambique Liberation fighters— spreading throughout South Africa. 'sacrifice their sons and daugh- ters in the defence of the re- public'. It remains to be seen how many white South Afri- cans would actually stay to make a last ditch stand in de- fence of the apartheid system and how many would take to their heels once the republic was really threatened. Venter, of course, speaks for the ultra-right racialist wing of the ruling group. At a re- cent conference on combating 'terrorism', he described a 'sort of terrorism of the brain' deve- loped in Moscow which re- duces 'race inhibitions' already South Africa has participated in the defence of white supremacy in Rhodesia and Mozambique and some of the border patrols which have clashed with nationalist guer- rillas have been South African.

According to Zambian presi- dent Kenneth Kaunda at least 4,000 troops from South Africa have been drafted into Rhode- sia to aid the Smith regime since it closed the border to Zambian goods. Smith has denied that the extra troops have been sent.

He described the Zambian re- port as 'a complete figment of the imagination' . The story. was also denied by Admiral Hugo Biermann, the comman- are dant-general of the South African Defence Force. However, Vorster has said oth he is unconditionally opposed to terrorism 'and we shall in terms of our declared policy render assistance within our means to governments who seek it in their fight against terrorism'. This would appear to indi- cate a South African govern- ment commitment to 'defend' white supremacy where it is threatened by the development of the African nationalist struggle.

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Only once have the new fascists of Italy faced the united strength of the working class and that once they were soundly beaten. confrontation took The place at Genoa in 1960 where the fascist MSI was holding its annual Congress. The leadership Communist Party called together other parties of the left and a General Strike was launched The response from the work- ing class, which led the resis- tance fight against Mussolini, was immediate and massive.

The factories closed and hun- dreds of thousands of workers streamed into the city. On July 1 the prefect of police union called up the trade 'Call-off the headquarters. strike,' he said. "The Congress has been cancelled.' It a blow that the was fascists remember to this day with hatred and fear. Their punny social forces had been exposed, it had been proved that the human dust they re- presented could be defeated by class action. Over a decade has passed since the Genoa days and the situation now is far more grave. The fascists have been nourished by the deliberate and persistent refusal of the ultra-Stalinist leadership of the PCI (Italian Communist Party) to mobilize the working class against fascism. The contrast between Genoa and Rome last week, when the fascists held their 10th stark and Congress, was revealing. Until two weeks before the fascists met there was no mention of the Cong- any call for mobili- ress or zation in the two mass com- munist daily papers. Eventually, under great pressure from their own rank and file, the Stalinists did or- a protest and a two- ganize hour (!) General Strike in the city. Even this lethargic cam- paign called forth a huge of 100,000 demonstration workers, youth and large sec- the middle class- tions of this, in Rome, a city domi- nated by civil servants, not a noted CPI stronghold. The masses were marched from the Coliseum to Porta San Paola and the monument behind the for the resistance Italian national flag-the always pose as the Stalinists true guardians of the Italian nation'-the only other place such antics were observable was at Palazzo Dei Congressi where the MSI also met be- neath the shadow of the Italian tricolour. lay January 27, 1973 The Communist Party lead- ers refuse to rouse the work- ing class against fascism be- cause to do so would wreck their policy of collaboration with the capitalist and petty- bourgeois parties of Italy.

Once mobilized in political action, Italian workers would not confine their attack to the fascists-the campaign would broaden out to include the reactionaries in the Christian Democrat, Liberal and Repub- lican Parties. This is what the Stalinists fear most. It would jeopardize their policy of subordinating class interests to that of col- with capitalism. laboration would demand their Workers own socialist reforms in place Stalinists' of the cry for a change in the "structure' of Italian big business. So the Stalinists continue their insane campaign of call- ing on 'the state' to put down 'the fascism—insane because state' is now the main sanc- tuary of the extreme right. And if the fascists did pull off their coup d'état, the Stalin- ists, despite their craven class collaboration, would be among the first to feel the knife.

The words of Rome PCI leader Amendola, spoken to that 100,000-strong demonstra- tion, give some impression of the treachery of Italian Stalin- ism. He called, on the 'people of Rome' to defend the consti- tution. The constitution the working class are supposed to fight for has a clause specifi- cally guarding the right to free enterprise and in fact re- flects many fascist influences.

Italy's legal code, for example, is substantially the same as that drafted by Mussolini's Minister Alfredo Rocco in 1931. Amendola continued: 'To the fascists ... Rome reserves the kind of greeting you give to those suffering from the plague: moral isolation, the door closed in their face, de- mocratic vigilance to shatter at once any attempt at provo- cation and fights. We demand resolutely of the authorities that they do not offer any cover ... to these people.'

fact the fascists found In Rome's door wide open. Thanks mainly to the PCI they held a very successful undis- turbed conference. Elsewhere in his address the Stalinist leader went to truly amazing lengths to convince the capitalist state of his good faith. To the forces of repres- sion he said: •... to the Carabinieri and the police which are present in such large numbers, we ad- dress the generous appeal of Giuseppe Di Vittorio: brother, sons of the people, it is your duty to defend the Republic and the constitution and fight the enemies of liberty? Later the police, fully armed repaid and firing tear-gas by invading Amendola's trust Teveri, Rome's main working- class area. They could not have been listening to the Stalinist speeches that night! The kind of policy repre- sented by Amendola speaks for itself. It is no exaggeration to say that the single biggest in Italy to fascism prop notwithstanding the army, and Stalinism-be- the police-is cause it is this force that con- founds and diverts a working- class powerful enough and cap- able of driving every fascist into the Mediterranean. There is a long history of Stalinist treachery. It was the CPI which, after the defeat of fascism, helped to restore capitalism in Italy in 1944- 1945. The working class and CPI militants led the resistance. Between the beginning of the fascist collapse, in 1943, and 1946 party membership rose from a few thousand to 1.7 (membership million noW stands at 2.5 million). the partisans But were ordered by the party leader- ship to relinquish their de facto control of the country to the Allied command, then later to the capitalist coalition government. total lack of Despite this leadership an insurrectionary General Strike broke out across Italy in 1948 when there was an assassination attempt against the CPI leader Palmiro Togliatti. Factories were occu- pied, road blocks set up and the guns came out. The Stalin- took rapid ists control and within 48 hours the strike was over. This was a turning point.

The defeat of 1948 opened the way to long period in which the employers and their parties could re-establish their rule.

The CPI, for its part, began to openly avow a reformist line.

It dropped all demands for expropriation of the capital and abandoned the call for an end to capitalist exploitation (for example Di Vittorio, the leader of the CPI union, said in 1951: This formulation makes quite clear the position of the CGIL and the working class: absolute struggle against all forms of super-exploitation, but full support for the in- creasing development of the productivity of labour, accord- ing to the principles which in- spire the Labour Plan.') Under conditions where Ita- lian workers were the lowest paid in Europe, the so-called Italian 'economic miracle' got underway. Stalinists began The to mouth exactly the same for- mula as the so-called left of the Christian Democrats. Both wanted a reform of the 'struc- ture' demanding a greater role for the state trusts, which were in fact a fascist development to guard private profits.

But this criminal complicity was severely threatened by the economic crisis which broke in Italy in the late 1960s. This, on the one hand, led to a wave of industrial unrest and on the other to the growth of fascist influence in the state and industry. The Stalinist leadership is now caught between these two of forces-the stormtroopers capitalism and the working Top: demon class. camps Trotsky once compared to- the cr day's situation in Italy to a hierare pyramid with a steel ball rest- once I ing on the apex. The ball can Here ( power •ine demonstration in Rome last camps where millions Calcu alle fascism. to the more Here one talks with leader Almirante on the platform.

The workers' leaders politics it Mussolini and now the are vaucal eme right. Priests attende ader Almirante on the plat class seen here in the 100,000-strong anti-fascist posters-with the and Jews perished-are held aloft.

shrouded in secrecy, extreme right. Priests attended the fascist MSI Congress in Rome.

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fasc roll down one side and break the backs of the working class, he argued. Or it can roll down the other and smash capitalism and the ruling class. To imagine, however, it can remain balanced on the point of the pyramid is Utopia. The Stalinists would like the ball to balance -so they can continue their collaboration. But this is impossible. What then is the prospect for the Italian working class?

Beyond the Stalinists are various left groups. They are critical of CPI policy, but their often lacks depth. polemic Stalinist treachery is often put down to mistakes, incorrect tactical formulation—rarely is the CPI characterized as a counter-revolutionary force in Italian society. Many of the left-wing groups proclaim that "fascism is the state'. This perhaps betrays an overestimation of the fascists' strength and influence. This, as we have seen, is considerable.

But mere possession of certain ng anil-fascist state institutions does not concentration mean fascism. I aloft. Above : For fascism to be estab- it the Catholic lished, the working class must ers are looking be defeated in battle, its trade press in Rome. unions destroyed and its lead- ership imprisoned or murdered.

Italian fascists certainly The have this on the agenda, but achieving it is quite another matter. The forces of repression can also appear more powerful than they are in reality. The Carabinieri and the police look tough with their rifles slung across their backs, their tear- gas, riot shields and clubs. But this force is a poor body of men often recruited from the most desperate sub-proletariat of the south. Its morale and intelligence is low. Under a united attack of the working class, such a force would be in danger of disintegrating.

The fascists therefore could be smashed by the working class which would rapidly rally the poor peasantry and the petty bourgeois to their ban- ner. One thing prevents them -Stalinism. The key question-how to win the 8.5 million workers who vote for the CPI-is often ignored. Instead many seem to prefer hopeless confrontation with the riot police. This may G be courageous, but it is also futile. Only the power of the work- ing class can smash fascism, the police and the army in Italy. But the working class can only be won from Stalin- ism with a consistent political campaign. This must be directed against the fascists. By calling for class action against fascism the Stalinist leadership will be exposed. But an essential part of such a programme would be a revolutionary policy demand- ing expropriation of Italy's de- crepit capitalist system under workers' control. A policy of concrete action against the fascists, the estab- lishment of factory defence workers' committees, anti- fascist brigades, details and plans of fascist concentrations etc, must go in hand with a bitter political battle against Stalinist politics and a cam- paign for a revolutionary pro- gramme. is now desperately Time short. Italy really does face workers' two prospects-a state, or a coup d'état by forces of the extreme right. A coup, of course, would not be the end of the matter-it l00 Workers Press, Satur

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would lead to a civil war, since especially in workers, north, will have no truck with Mussolini's heirs. But to fight after •a coup would be to fight having already sustained a serious wound. To anticipate events is far better. Revolutionary socialists in Italy face a great opportunity.

Revolutionary politics and bitter against Stalinist war policies can rally the working class—many of whom are dis- affected, angry or confused over the laggardly policy of the CPI leadership. Italy, of course, is not Bri- tain. The social predominance of the British working class, its enormous power and organiza- tion, do not aid the develop- ment of fascism. But much the same economic conditions that crisis in Italy, cause cause crisis in the UK. The British ruling class too must inevitably look in the fascist direction.

There is another factor that British workers must consider.

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Greece and Spain the where class suffer super- working exploitation and where trade under unions are organized of imprisonment. The pall fascists offer prospect of the bringing both these countries into the EEC and adding Italy for good measure. A civil war in Italy that ruling went in tavour of the class would therefore be blow for the British working class, because it would greatly strengthen the monopolies all over Europe. The best way the British workers can help their Italian brothers is by preparing politi- cally for their own revolution- -by transforming ary upheaval- Socialist the Labour League into a revolutionary party and constructing a Marxist leader- ship in the trade unions.

This situation in Italy, there- fore, is of central importance to the working class of Britain and Europe. The same econo- mic conditions that plague the Italian class. also capitalist British bosses. plague the They too will have to turn to fascism. The war clouds gather over Europe--the now first field of a giant class battle may be Italy.

The perlod of working class upsurge in the years after the first World War saw the formation of the Communist Party. Above: Workers march through Poplar in 1921.

MR MURPHY 'PREPARES' FOR POWER

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The period of working class upsurge in 'Preparing for Power: A Critical Study of the History of the British Movement'. Working-Class By J. T. Murphy. With a new intro- duction by James Hinton. Pluto Press. Price £1.00 paperback, £3.00 hardback.

BY PETER JEFFRIES

There is no clearer indi- cation of the politics of the state capitalist Inter- national Socialism' (the anti-Trotskyist group which falsely declares that the Soviet Union is a capitalist régime) than the fact that they feel obliged to re-issue this work by J. T. Murphy. For far from being 'a superb history' Hinton's as James introduction describes it, it is the work of a centrist who was moving rapidly to the right and away from any connection with Marxism. First published shortly after Murphy's break from the British Communist Party in 1932, it contains a whole series of distortions about the real historical experiences of the British working class. But above all, it is a work mis-represents which utterly the impact of Stalinism on the British working class. Presented as a plea against 'sectarianism' Murphy's work is, in fact, an open attack upon the concep- tion of the revolutionary party • wi ay January 21, 1973 18022*

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psurge in the years after the first World War sa as an instrument necessary • to lead the working class to power. Cliff anti-Marxism group. For the politics of state capitalism have always been characterized by a worship of spontaneity and a hatred of Bolshevism. John Thomas Murphy was born in 1888, the son of a blacksmith's striker. At the age of 13 he went to work at Brightside works in Vickers' Sheffield, where he remained until 1918. It was here that he became a leading shop steward, first in Sheffield and later nationally.

He thus represents that im- portant layer in the working class, concentrated in Sheffield, Clydeside and South the Wales, whose experiences in World War 1, combined with the impact of the Russian Revolution, took them in the direction of communism. It was as a representative of the Shop Stewards' Movement that Murphy attended the deliberations of the Communist International in 1920. A foundation member of the Party Comunist of Great he remained in its Britain, leadership until 1932, when he was expelled, formally on the grounds that he supported the granting of credits for Anglo- Soviet trade, a policy which at that time the Stalinists opposed. 'Preparing for Power' is an attempt to reassess these experiences in the light of the history of the British working- class movement, a re-assess- ment which led him to join the become Labour Party and closely associated with Sir Stafford Cripps in the Socialist League. Murphy's move to the right continued; after the war he adviser to the acted as Foreign Office, during the years of the Labour government, on Balkan affairs. He died in 1966, an aged 77. Murphy's decision to break rty • with the Communist Party

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The syndicalists stood aside from politics. The shop stewards refused to stand for official positions in the unions.

The communists formed a separate party as an alternative to the Labour Party when the masses were moving towards the Labour Party and not away from it. Instead, therefore, of increasing the revolutionary in- have been per- fluence, they sistently working against the tide of the working class itself and thereby strengthened the influence of the right, who have turned the criticism of policy into an attack upon the labour movement itself.' (p. 283.)

Contained here is the essence of Murphy's deception and political dishonesty. For the 'sectarianism' "isolation' and which characterized the Communist position of the Party by 1931-1932, was not in any sense merely a hangover or legacy of previous mistakes on the part of the earlier Marxist movement in Britain.

It was the direct product of Stalinism, and in particular the product of the so-called "Third 229000 53.200: mmunist Party. Above: Workers march through Period' line which was imposed the International by upon Stalinism in the years after 1928. This was the line which preached the imminent collapse of capitalism and denounced the Labour and trade union 'social fascists' leaders as enemies more dangerous to working class than the the fascists themselves. It was this line which was responsible not only for the total isolation of the British Communist Party from the mass of workers who continued to support the Labour Party; much more serious, it was the line which split so tragically the German working class and paved the way for the seizure of power by Hitler and the Nazis. Nothing of this is even hinted at in Murphy's account.

And yet he was fully cognizant with all the facts. He was fully aware of all these questions because as a leader of the EC of the Com- munist International for much of the 1920s he had fought shoulder to shoulder with Stalin for this policy against Trotsky and the Left Oppo- sition. Murphy spent considerable periods of time in Moscow in the crucial decade after 1920 was fully aware and of the enormous struggle which was taking place inside both the Russian Party and the Inter- national. Indeed we should remind every member of the state capitalist group, which now chooses to publish Murphy's work, that this man enjoys the dubious distinction of being among the very first inside the British Communist Party leadership to take up the fight the 'menace' against of Trotskyism. For it was Murphy who of wrote the introduction to the book "The Errors of Trotsky- ird ism' that collection of lies, h through Poplar in 1921.

sed half-truths and slanders written by Stalin, Kuusinen and others and published in May 1925.

It was here that Murphy 'rebutted' the by charge Trotsky's supporters that 'the present leaders were and are opposed to party democracy when such was and is not the case' And when he returned to permanent residence in England in 1928 he became one of the vociferous exponents of most the 'New Line' before finally becoming disillusioned with it.

It is clear that Murphy's objection was to never Stalinism, but only to its 'left phase' from 1928-1934. When Stalin's line once more swung violently to the right after the catastrophe in Germany and the British Party became the leaders of the Popular Front and craven supporters of bour- geois democracy, Murphy was only too willing to join them in these counter-revolutionary activities, activities which enabled the capitalists to pre- pare for and unleash World War II in 1939. This is clear from his account of the 1926 General Strike. He endorses fully the right-wing line which the Party took during the strike, excus- ing their lack of impact on the smallness of the forces controlled by the Party and the Minority Movement. He ends his treatment of the strike by observing: "The left forces among the trade union leaders had capitulated completely to the right. again Murphy knew Here full well that the entire policy of Party the Communist immediately prior to and dur- ing the strike was dominated by support for these lefts (Purcell, Swales, Hicks etc.), TUC General Council. on the And Murphy once more knew that this policy was one imposed by Stalin and Tomsky on the British Party leadership.

Support for the Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Committee was considered by Stalin as much more important than the estab-

lishment of an independent political line by the CPGB.

Because Murphy remains silent on these crucial matters, he is throughout guilty of slandering Bolshevism by identifying it with Stalinism.

Here again his work suits perfectly the politics of the Cliff group which has always curried favour with the anti- communist petty bourgeois by doing precisely this. Murphy, for example, blames the failures of the Communist on the decision which Party Lenin 'forced' upon the com- munists after 1920 to estab- lish a Party separate from the Labour Party. The founding Congress of the Communist In- ternational, was, says Murphy, guilty of 'an over-estimation of the rapidity of the develop- ment of the world revolution and under- a consequent estimation of the strength of Second the leaders of the International, in many coun- tries. • Had the congress examined the situation in each country and decided upon the formation of communist parties in those countries where the internal position of the work- movement was ripe ing-class for such a decision . . . it would not have thrust upon small, immature groups communists the tasks of in- dependent parties and made it easy for the reactionaries to ..

thrust them into isolation'.

Here Murphy openly slanders Lenin and the leadership of the International. For anyone with the acquainted early CPGB history knows that all Lenin's early, struggies were directed precisely against the of sectarianism Gallagher, Pankhurst and others. It was for this reason that he urged them to apply for affiliation to the Labour Party, tactic necessary at that as a period in the struggle to break the working class from the influence of the social demo- Acutely aware of the crats. sectarian, propagandist weak- nesses of the early communists, Lenin and Trotsky also urged young Party to the turn seriously to the trade unions.

It was through the guidance of the Comintern that the CPGB began, from the autumn of 1921, to correct its previous 'left' mistakes. In the demoral- ization following 'Black Friday' the communists made consider- able progress with their slogans 'Halt the Retreat' and 'Back to the Unions' • was only This process arrested with the emergence of Stalinism and its theory of Socialism in one Country which was ultimately to destroy the Sylvia Pankhurst (right), a founding me pictured in prison with her mother. It of Pankhurst, Gallagher and Tom Bell early 1920s. ent International and with it the CPGB as a revolutionary force.

James Hinton in his intro- duction to the book lends his full support to Murphy's de- liberate confusion of Leninism and Stalinism. 'Was the Party's • isolation after 1929 sectarian the inevitable consequence of its formation in a period of declining working-class com- bativity? Or was it the result of avoidable tactical errors?'

he asks. First, the Party was formed in a period of great upsurge in the British working class as many of the best elements in the working-class movement, with all their undoubted weak- came into its nesses, ranks, attracted by the events of 1917 and disgusted by the betrayals of the Second International.

Secondly, as Hinton knows, the Party's history after 1924 did not consist of a series of 'mistakes', but can be explained only in terms of the Stalinist degeneration Third of the International against which Trotsky fought at every stage.

Hinton also comes out quite unashamedly in support of spontaneity against Marxism: 'The theory of the revolutionary party, instead of emerging on a rising tide of mass activity, started out in Britain, as to some degree, a substitute for It proved that spontaneity. impossible to build a party based-- as Bolshevik theory insisted it be-on the inde- pendent rank-and-file organ- ization of the workers in the factories.' Once more we see revealed the anti-Marxism of the state capitalists. For Bolshevism was founded deliberately and con- sciously on a struggle against spontaneity and 'rank and er, fileism'. This is the central point of Lenin's 'What is to be Done?'

which insisted, against Men- shevism brands and all revisionism, that Marxism could only develop in the with the sharpest conflict spontaneous, trade union con- sciousness of the working class.

It is this same conception which is at the core of 'Left- Communism' which Wing Lenin wrote specially for every delegate attending the Com- munist International. In it he had to explain to a new generation of workers, finding their to com- way munism for the first time, the real significance of Bolshevism the long theoretical and and political struggle -against re- visionism which had character- ized the Bolshevik Party over its entire life. And nowhere Lenin was more conscious of the danger of spontaneity in a period of rapid upsurge in the class inding member of the Communist Party, mother. It was against the ultra-leftism Tom Bell that Lenin struggled in the struggle than in Britain. It was for this reason, as we have indicated, that he insisted that the immature Communist Party turn to the unions and apply for affiliation to the Labour Party. Murphy, however, wishes to present the question of the relations between the Com- munist Party and the Labour Party not as a tactical matter, which it always was for Lenin, an issue of principle. but as In advising the CPGB to seek affiliation, Lenin never for one moment implied that this the expense of should be at the independent politics of the Party. Quite the contrary. This is clear from - his correspon- dence with Sylvia Pankhurst, Tom Bell and others: 'I personally am in favour of participation in parliament and of adhesion to the Labour Party on the condition of free and independent communist activity' (emphasis added). Lenin wrote to the Communist Unity Convention which led to the formation of the new party in 1920. For Lenin the tactic of Labour Party affiliation was not a device to enable the communists to merge with the centrists in the Labour Party, the policy which Murphy advocates at the end of his book. It was, for Lenin, a tactic which would allow the Marx- ists mercilessly to expose such traitors. The principle which Lenin and Trotsky fought for throughout the first four Con- of the International gresses was to establish the indepen- dence of revolutionary parties in every country. The relations which these parties would have with other working-class parties was always a subordinate matter. In distorting Lenin's position, Murphy had also to distort Marx. He makes great play of the quote from the Communist Manifesto which states: 'Com- munists do not form a separate party conflicting with other working-class parties. They have no interests apart from those of the working class as a whole.' Now this was written in 1848 as the Programme of the Communist League at a time when the working class was in the process of emerging as an nd independent historical force.

To take this statement out of its historical context and make it true for all time is completely to ignore the whole subsequent of development capitalism and, in particular, the emergence of reformism and social democracy as a reflection of imperialism in- side the working-class move- ment. Hinton, by failing to comment on Murphy's distor- the Manifesto, once tion of more lends his weight to Murphy's anti-Marxism. It is clear from this book and from Murphy's other writ- ings that whatever political twists and turns he went through after 1917, throughout the rest of his life he was and always remained bitterly opposed to Trotskyism. And that made him, even after his break from the Communist Party, a servant of the Stalinist bureaucracy. is entirely appropriate, therefore, that the leaders of capitalist group the state should now decide to resurrect J. T. Murphy in a desperate attempt to provide some thin theoretical for their cover consistent tail-ending of Stalin- ism which has characterized in relation to all their work the fight against the Tory government, their activities at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders or their support for the Stalinists in last year's dock strike.

For the revolutionary move- ment, a study of Murphy's writings, those of a convinced centrist, can be of considerable value in the fight against to- day's centrists, including the state capitalists. Workers Press, Sati 'The Plain Truth', a magazine 'understanding', distribu- ted free by the Worldwide Church of God, carries an article telling everyone who is unemployed how to succeed in life. First, 'you should get up early and either arrange inter- views or pound the pavement during day working every hours'. You have to keep cheerful while you're doing this for a recommended eight- or nine-hour day. urge the The God people unemployed to 'eat in restau- rants' while doing this, as well as making '15 or 20 telephone calls' for every visit to an in- dividual establishment. Providing you get an inter- view before you actually finish in the workhouse after up in restaurants and eating spending pounds on the tele- phone, you should tell the prospective employer: I am ready to do my utmost to pro- duce as much as possible for you and the company! The next job is to keep the job once you ve got it, or as this Christiar magazine puts it with typical Christian charity, you have to make that you are 'the last sure man to be sacked'. The formula for this is: 'Be and zealous on co-operative the job. Strive to please your foreman or the boss by doing things his way. Work extra hours if necessary to complete a certain job your employer wants done.' There however, two are, snags to this free advice on how to be a happy crawler (sorry, worker). One is that the final key to security is God's 'law of tithes' • Worldwide Church The of God is very keen on that. It paying one-tenth means of your income to 'the spiritual priesthood of Jesus Christ'. You are left to guess who that is. The other snag is that when you start doing things the bosses' way and volunteering to stop-over to finish the job and such charitable other things, you just might find that your workmates belong to unions and not to the Worldwide Church of God. Press, Saturday January 27, 1973 PAGE 9 Harold Wilson's fawning sup- port for the Zionists has be- come more conspicuous than ever in recent weeks. Following his visit to Israel-to see his son, Giles, who is on a kib- butz-Wilson has been wel- comed more heartily into the fraternity. He and the Chief. Rabbi, Dr Immanuel Jakobovitz, will be the main guests at a dinner in Manchester in May to mark the 25th anniversary of Israel.

Benjamin Gil, general secre- tary of the Zionist Central Council, said: 'We decided to invite Mr Wilson because, apart from being a distin- guished person, he has also shown himself to be sym- pathetic to the Zionist cause.'

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the 60.8F minimum, laid down logists from the National Insti- in the Offices, Shops and Rail- for Medical Research and tute way Premises Act. Centre for Environmental the Ten below per cent were Studies took the temperatures 53.6F 'exceedingly and were of homes of 1,000 old people cold', according to the re- a three-month period last over searchers. These old people are at risk of their About 75 of death from hypothermia (low homes than were colder body temperature). People with recommended minimum temperature below the minimum for council hous- ing. (The Department of Health people that 70F stated recently should three another be the minimum survey in the people.) of Camden had deep-body tem- Some 54 per cent were below peratures below 95F in the morn- LEADERS of the Liverpool Trades Council will be asked next Tuesday to call together shop stewards throughout the area in support of the sit-in strikers at CAV Fazakerley. They are fight- ing the Lucas combine's plans to close their factory in April, and have voted decisively to continue their action.

Thursday A mass meeting on

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rejected that they suggestions either call off the sit-in, go for improved redundancy terms from Widest possible support for the the company or relax their con-

CAV

strikers is now vital. The trol of the factory site gates.

sit-in a key position in If any redundancy-pay cheques the struggle against unemploy- de- Merseyside were sent out, the meeting ment throughout the cided, they should be immedi- area. ately handed to the senior shop Workers at Lucas Industrial stewards. Equipment, which shares strikers stand Fazakerley site with CAV, yester- The took this despite the refusal by last Tues- voted to accept the day passes day's Trades Council executive to issued by the occupation com- set a firm date for the area stew- mittee and report for work on ards' Monday. meeting. Fight rising rents and prices January Defend basic democratic rights Rochester Avenue. Force the Tories to resign BARKING: Tuesday January 30, MIDDLESBROUGH: Sunday Janu- corner Co-op Hall, of p.m. Settlement Com- ary 28, 7.30 p.m. Fanshawe Ave./Lagbridge Road.

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Fine Tubes children. Common Market entry, strikers have just completed with rapidly rising prices, has two years and months imposed severe financial seven on strike. burden. The 37 strikers face the challenging months ahead waged a These men have with a depleted strike fund- bitter struggle for the most this is in a period when meat basic right worker can has now become a luxury for possess-the right to belong to but paid. all the highest a trade union. January is difficult always Strike. committee members month to raise money to fur- travelled 100,000 have over ther their fight. miles to sustain their fight.

These latest months have Yet they are determined to been the hardest of all for the fight on. This is a struggle the their and 53 working class cannot afford to men, wIves alone, ings. Most living were had no heating in the bedroom and no hot water. Roughly 10 cent-the per equivalent of 500,000 to 700,000 old people over the whole con- try-had only small reserves of heat. If they fell and lay in the cold or took medicines to reduce the temperature, often used to treat some illnesses, they could drop below the official point of risk hypothermia. Yet only 3 per cent of those receiving suppiementary benefits had a fuel allowance. Estimates of the number of people who die from cold range from 100 or so a year, on the Registrar General's returns, to 20,000, says the survey published in the 'British Medical Journal.

MARTIAL LAW introduced in April 1971 has been renewed for a further two months in the nine main provinces of Turkey.

But the political crisis continues.

With less than seven weeks to go to the presidential election, no candidate has yet been put forward. Since the army forced the Minister resignation of Prime Suleyman Demirel in March 1971, there have been three shaky coalition governments-but real power has been in the hands of the army leaders. constitution The be may changed to allow the re-election of 73-year-old President Cevdet Sunay, a former Chief of General Staff. Bulent Ecevit, leader of the opposition Republican People's Party, was beaten up by 15 mem- bers of the conservative National Reliance and Democratic Parties Thursday night when he on Minister Ferit accused Prime Melen of lying in rejecting alle- gations of torture in Turkey.

uary CROYDON: Thursday February 1, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Road. SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thurs- day February 1, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, New Cross Road.

HOLLOWAY: Thursday, February p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters Road. KINGSTON: Thursday February 1, 8 p.m. Liverpool Arms' of Cambridge Road/ (corner London Road). CAMBRIDGE: Thursday February 1, 8 p.m. 'The Rose and Crown' corner of Newmarket Road and East Road. MANCHESTER: Thursday, Febru- ary 1, 8 p.m. Ross Place School, Fort Ardwich. Joe Potts, Winnie Price, Connie Fahey. 'Fight rising orices! Force the Tories out " LIVERPOOL: Tuesday February 6, 7.30 p.m. AEU House, Mount Pleasant. 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. Workers Press, Saturday January 27, 1973 PAGE 11 A CORK policeman and a civilian the instructions of the Attorney- General. were sent for trial in Dublin each face five They counts yesterday on ten charges under relating the of to possession the Republic's Official Secrets official documents, passing in- Act. Bernard F. McCaul, formation about the operation of police officer of Liscarroll, near the Irish Police Force and pass- Cork, and Padraig O'Cuanachain ing information prejudicial to Old of Youghal Road, Cork, the safety of the state. The trial arrested on Thursday on were was fixed for February 15.

Lecture 1 1919-1924—The Communist In- of ternational in the days Lenin and Trotsky

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Lecture 2 1924-1933—The Left Opposi- tion's struggle against Stalin Sunday January 28 Lecture 3 The Communist International in 1933-1938—From the German the Days of Lenin and Trotsky.

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relations within SPECIAL lodge Hosiery Mills, Ltd, the meetings Mansuet firm at the centre "racial affecting over 2,000 miners in discrimination' last South Shields have been studied by the al t called this weekend to decide There were further huge losses on the London Stock

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neods the Department Employment on further action to defend Exchange yesterday. When trading closed the index announced yesterday Employment Secretary Maurice their closed-shop had dropped to 451.5, marking a 36.6 point fall since arrange- Macmillan -Das orereo mne n. Monday. vestigation 'with a view to the

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of any The index is Simms, now lower said the whole market was 'in ames miner woc appears to be necessary 01 illal wants leave the has to desirab e' than it has been since Dec- alcal ICL Cdi written officials some l ne country s Digges telling ember 1971. On a rough cal- Loage Courtaulds, decis on Unilever, Dunlop and

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culation about £10,000m has will try to enter the col- HA Glaxo, suffered varving liery 4 a.m. Monday uboco on morn- been wiped off share values from bp to 12p

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textile workers struck ing and a The hlas. • Dickel ol miner. partial collapse of three mills Durban this week. in expectea lo de there to meel market is the result of a combin. yesterday for higher pav. but re.

him ot factors turned to work when they were The largest losses were aLul has already instructed in the told they would be given big ine enaing ol the vietnam wai the National Coal Board not

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banks Mic ang means that the At another mill National Westminster, Lloyds and contributions from talumcy acauct union perialists can now devote them- -which his pay. Barclays dropped company worker. Thursday struck on Previously

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which SCIVe to an cunous maceswa

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he took the 30p, Insulanct nouses. Europe. and work

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dropped 10p, and property com- to th National Industrial Rela This the message promises out again when panies. Court over fines imposed callic

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Nixon's inauguration speech increases in two weeks tim get him for excessive overtime wert A spokesman for the Exchange time. working. wucn sodrkeu on ree soare sude THE TORIES' new immigration con- associations it is undesir- Can the passenger trols are a major concession to the him to appeal? „permit remain; whether he repre- The extreme right wing of the party.

In the finest traditions of sents a danger to nationa newly-drafted regulations are tougher British appeal

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an secunt. procedure exists: than those which parliament rejected on November 22 last year in the first Who is to make such If he wishes make investigations and take defeat the government suffered in the he should represen anons. such decisions? Why the be advised that return House since its election in June 1970.

the Home to his own country it will DONCe alla Secretary! The be open to him to apply main assurance trol citizenship and aliens.

COMMENT

It order revocation of the was this same secret TO1 given by Home Secretary the British This brings machinery which threw out Robert Carr to his laws into line with those shortly uitschke The appeal channels are followers already existing inside the alliullaly Was after the Tories came to which citizens a fraud. that the government wil Common Market countries these states, at their time

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It would be nigh impos- "independence', the The effect of the EEC of Wider than powers hold- British citizenship laws be sıble to make a successful 10 EX relugees take can already exist are vested in ing British pasports. appeal (and to whom UK citizenship the hands of immigration ane pass- cicariy seche uney creale d would one make it?) from large group of second-class ports. Carr said that although othcers at ports of entry half way around the work citizens among immigrant the had the Heath government now This branch of the secret In such a case Mant accepted responsibility government which is intro-

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alc

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police now has the right to they are Unioniec Recent experience has the Ugandan Asian ducing exclude anybody Tor regulations WilCo con- paid extremely low wages.

that situation, take all the privileges

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away sidered 'not conducive

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bassies Commonwealth problem these If they show any mili- the public in would impose 'un- good'... what- willcu passuss most risk countries are reluc. and holders have. they ever that is. accentabe Stralns taney nelle stresses in our society. deported to their countries tant to give ally duvick dl In the event arouner The section says that an - Spain, Greece, to people who have of birth outburst of black nation- In other words the Tories been refused admission to Clou eaton ONCe t Colli Turkev, Portugal - where Kenya, for in- "from are going refuse entry where alisll. Brita'n they could face prosecution rights of British stance, would information available under the fascist and mili- Since the Tories came to of refuse provide refuge citizenship for groups officer it llll.laliol for those thousands of UK power they have intro- lary leames. colonred ettens Bonany seems right to reluse leave duced a series of Acts of African, Asian and Carib- citizens who would be lett Under the new Tory to enter on that ground- stateless. visitors, holi- bean states. regulations, if, for example, in the light a corcosive halulc their The voluminous new holders er rom To resolve Marxist movement

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vermall or mre Dassenger s chara• Ihe Common- compiled holders ter, conduct of associations economic crisis they are proposals are Internanon l wye Car e wealth will be undesirable hell bent on destroying the countries to give opposed in principle the most hideous civil ser- all vice jargon. the pasports and restric- alven mOSL sunnyent nuneave to enter. Dasc acmoclauc maals ol tests entry and resi- the working class. ot But the pompous lan-

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beove s neot ro ins means rhat secre dence. travel from policemen as petty one country hide the acting The defence of these does not rights involves the centra They will be judged on arbiters can throw out to anounel. Tories have TaCI in the light But it was a Tory gov- seized harsh new dis- 'whether, torcins "noodv trese cuesuol powers to con- his character, conduct or purpose grounds. government out of office.

cretionary enne s under