Workers Press no. 988

170) workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1973 • No. 988 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Civil

HEATH AND

SHARES

servants

SLIP

to strike against

AND

pay law

NIXON IN

DOLLAR

BY AN INDUSTRIAL

CORRESPONDENT

LEADERS of 200,000 civil

WOBBLES

servants yesterday decided to a one-day call strike this month against the Tories' state pay law. Civil As the and Public

CRISIS TALKS

Services" Association was strikes reaching its decision, the law continued against the gas industry and spread in the hospital service. Gas strikers stayed out in the north-east, Merseyside and south Lancashire nospital strikes hit Pontefract General Georges Hospitashin London.

Yorkshire, St George's The CPSA will next week ask other civil service unions to join

BY OUR

THE THREAT of dollar devaluation again threw the world's money one-day

SUNKC.

WIll be the first national action of its

FOREIGN EDITOR

kind. markets into turmoil yesterday. The Japanese Stock Exchange

JOHN SPENCER

It is to be followed bv selec registered a record fall, with 10 percent wiped off share prices.

tive strikes in some sections of

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The Bank of England intervened to support

ME MILLAN

the dollar, though sterling is officially float- ing. Other European central banks, notably the Bundesbank, did the same. In Frankfurt,

• ELECTRICIAN5 -

the West German bank was reported to have $400m-$600m taken in by lunchtime yesterday.

SMASH THE TORIES

The dollar is now in an extremely weak posi- tion. The American government appears blandly unconcerned that its currency is creating chaos

CARRIERS ELECTRICI

and panic overseas. Washington has taken no

LONDON - WEEKENI.

action to strengthen the dollar.

TV SITE

"CHAPPLE OUT"I

US administration officials have hinted broadly Europe American monetary blow against that a new and Japan is being planned.

UnIS could wel be a further dollar devaluation, giving the US an advan- tage in overseas markets and wiping out a slice of its foreign debts. With relations deteriorating rapidly between the three main trading blocs, neither the European nor the Japanese capitalists up- want uner currencies valationaryn. The and lead to lesle Pican that They fear this would finally prick the colaoses. It is to prevent just this development that the British and other European central banks have been buying in dollars to gold down nei own currenc rates over the past few days.

The Bank of England spent hundreds of millions of pounds on Wednesday to support the sterling Striking electricians demonstrated 30-percent London yesterday demanding Lack of confidence in ›aDe action of payment deal blocked by currency was also reflected 245 4,820 yesterday. for our part, have very real griev-

DONTES

300 from Day more lan men- celecations The fall is an all time record.

rising price Ene so ances about uo trade barmers -marched from Hyde Park to Electrical LiverDoo ano Caroli called 'free' market, the price There are many American worsening currency situa- Contractors' Association Victoria. Increases under reached $67.50 sures that effectively discriminate yester- tion has erupted as Tory premier the deal were due to be paid from January Wednes- day's closing price. 70 cents Heath President against overseas suppliers.

Edward meets Heath's Nixon tor crisis taiks in une us StOCK grievances about US There was frantic selling of trading practices will Speaking to the Press club in

BRIANT

Colour print workers the Tokyo Stock Ex- not have been diminished by the that the trade union shares on movemen on Thursday, Heath Washington will not tolerate unemployment.' Bank nave

TOT

picke detailed

EEC

change artel or avan cov- grievances over alrines decision cance and demonstration outside their The 100 men women who ernor Tadashi Sasaki warned par- orders for the Concorde, making American trade practices.

Old Kent Road factory have ment infatsible new measures the future of this aircraft ex- Deen Unt He accused the US of protect- High factory for seven months decided rcoruary -une tremely tenuous. dery legal mempts to to e Court writ against them expires.

to IntE oWn Inaustry olner This was taken to mean a rise fate indicates that Concorde's countries expense and said: statement the labour them official bank discount rate.

in une une United olates Holes and *The fact is or leave that protectionism movement to surrender Cocuments which it was believed would lead trump cards in the conflict over the work-in the plant. Enrousnout britain pressus raise the sed nees os is a trade. •SIn have alread publicly country is free, even if each of thus demonstrated 'at chances Nixon has airs Heath to you to come in burned the High tends believe he appeal more another yen revaluation. stroke' that whatever calling on YOUr inousands to demon. them to get out of the sinned against than sinning.

So precarious is the strate that you allow works and surrender all the com- Habanese *You economy that even the threat of He added: have your ism remains subordinate, depen- hed worsen of prie pany's books, and records in bank enough about of dent and supplicant before the a rise rate was complaints some working men might of US imperialism. women or then Ine naudator

NIT

PaTrICk We bring the share index down European right defend jobs and Granville White. LIduc DraCuCes. TODAY on pages 4 to 9 we carry Socialist Labour League Central Committee's

PERSPECTIVES

Draft Programme for transforming the League into a revolutionary party in 1973. Publication resolution into effect the 2,200 delegates at the October 22, 1972 All Trades Unions unliance conference unanimous vote

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1973 • No. 988 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Civil

HEATH AND

SHARES

servants

SLIP

to strike against

AND

pay law

NIXON IN

DOLLAR

BY AN INDUSTRIAL

CORRESPONDENT

LEADERS of 200,000 civil

WOBBLES

servants yesterday decided to call a one-day strike this month against the Tories' state pay law. Civil As the and Public

CRISIS TALKS

Services' Association was strikes reaching its decision the law continued against the gas industry and spread in the hospital service. Gas strikers stayed out in the north-east, Merseyside and south Lancasulle recions. nos oilal hit Pontefract General strikes Georges Hospill in London.

Yorkshire, St George's The CPSA will next week ask other civil service unions to join

BY OUR

THE THREAT of dollar devaluation again threw the world's money one-day

SIIIKC.

WHICH

will the first national action of its

FOREIGN EDITOR

kind. markets into turmoil yesterday. The Japanese Stock Exchange

JOHN SPENCER

It is to be followed by selec tive strikes in some sections of registered a record fall, with 10 per cent wiped off share prices.

TURN TO BACK PAGE

The Bank of England intervened to support

M' MILLAN

the dollar, though sterling is officially float- Other European central banks, notably ing. the Bundesbank, did the same. In Frankfurt,

• ELECTRICIANS •

National Westmi the West German bank was reported to have $400m-$600m taken in by lunchtime yesterday.

SMASH THE TARIFA

The dollar is now in an extremely weak posi- tion. The American government appears blandly unconcerned that its currency is creating chaos

CARRIERS ELECTRICH

and panic overseas. Washington has taken no

LONDON - WEEKENI

action to strengthen the dollar.

TV SITE

"CHAPPLE OUT"I

US administration officials have hinted broadly Europe that a new American monetary blow against and Japan 1s being planned. Colic. wet be a further dollar devaluation, giving the US an advan- tage in overseas markets and wiping out a slice of its foreign debts. With relations deteriorating rapidly between the main trading blocs, neither the European nor three japanese capitalsts Want currencies valued again. They fear this would finally prick the bubble and lead to wholesale financial inflationary condoses. It is to prevent just this development that the British and other European central banks have been buying In aolars to nold down nell own currency rates over the past few days.

The Bank of England spent hundreds of millions of pounds on Wednesday to support une sterling rate. Striking electricians demonstrated in London demanding yesterday currency was anso refected.

Lack confidence paper action to force payment of 30-per-cent unior deal blocked in the by 245 4,820 yesterday. part, have very real griev- Ior our

DONIES

Tory More than 300 men—includina from laW The fall is an all time record.

rising price une •SO- ances about ace vanders Cardiff-marched from Hyde Park to the Electrical called 'free' market, the price Shree are mectively discam nate There are American mea- worsening currency situa- Contractors' Association headquarters in Victoria. Increases under reached $67.50 an ounce yester- tion has erupted as Tory premier the deal were due to be paid from January 1.

70 Wednes- Heath President against overseas suppliers.

udy- -U• cells Edward meets day's closing price. Heath's Nixon for crisis talks in the US

SLOCK OI

enevances US There frantic selling of about trading practices will Speaking to the Press club in was

BRIANT

Colour print workers Tokyo Stock Ex- not have been diminished by the that the trade union movement shares on the Washington on inursaay, heatn a picket will not tolerate unemployment.' Bank US Have

TOT

mass of lapan gov- detailed

EEC

grievances over Chance alter alrines Gecision _cancel and demonstration outside their The 100 men and women who ernor Tadashi Sasaki warned par- orders for the Concorde, making American trade practices.

Old Kent Road factory have liament of possible new measures the future this aircraft ex- OCCl He accused the US of protect- February High 13-the dav the curb inflation lactory for seven months decided tremely tenuous Court writ against them expires.

at a mass meeting last week to oWI ouner This was taken to mean a rise Concorde's fate indicates that countries' expense and said: In a statement to the labour defy legal attempts to force them the oincial bank discount rate.

orates and trade 'The fact that protectionism « sumere documents or exe which it was believed would lead trump cards in the conflict over the Britain work-in the plant. Larousnout for increased exports is a trade. pressure • S1I committee say: They have publicly already country is free, even if each of and of thus demonstrated 'at a 'We appeal to you to come in laise Lic chances Nixon has burned the High Court tends believe he is more WIlL another yen revaluation. stroke' that whatever Heath thousands. alls your • •enor- calling on tem to get out or the sinned against than sinning.

will So precarious is the strate lew and to that not allow works and surrender all the com You economy that even the threat of He added: have your ism remains subordinate, depen- the courts to deprive pany's books, papers and records in bank rate enough complaints about of dent and supplicant before the working men and might of US imperialism. women or lac Lat nauloator

VIT

bring trade the Share index down right to defend their jobs and Granville White. orallicco. TODAY on pages 4 to 9 we carry Socialist Labour League Central Committee's

PERSPECTIVES

Draft Programme for transforming the League into a revolutionary party 1973. Publication of this resolution into effect the unanimous vote by 2,200 delegates at the October 22, 1972 All Trades Unions alliance conference

Tet offensive organizer back PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday February 3, 1973 IF REFORMIST claptrap could resolve the Ulster problem then Mr Merlyn Rees, Shadow spokesman on Northern Ireland, deserves a Nobel Prize for the art of dispen- sing verbal panaceas. While the reactionary UDA, aided no doubt by the British campaign of army, carries on savage assassination and intimidation against Catholic workers preparation for the coming border plebiscite, this in Labourite called on the Tories on Thursday to 'act quickly and publish their White Paper on the future constitutional arrangements for Northern Ireland'!

Speaking to the Leeds University Economic Society, Rees made of concealing the reactionary bi- no pretence partisan policy of Tories and Labour on Ireland.

le proudly said: ... the nirement, rate ass en any [sic] govern- sectarian killings, ment, has a heavy responsibility. We in the opposition have played our part in seeking an acceptable solution "Irish problem" The impetus which came to the .•. from direct rule must not be allowed to run into political sands.' He need hardly worry. By sending troops to Ulster and conditions for direct. rule, the Labour creating the leaders have made a unique and mighty contribution to the 678 deaths and 10,000 injuries in Ulster since August 1969. There is little doubt that if the Labour leaders had refused to support direct rule and the presence of British troops. in Ulster, the whole rickety structure of the Orange establishment and the Tory government would have collapsed. But this is the last thing the Labour leaders want. In the same way as they have no alternative policy for the economic and monetary crisis and support the Tories' Phase Two policies-with suitable reservations Ulster their policy on becomes less and less —SO distinguishable from Whitelaw's as the crisis in Ulster reaches its flashpoint. This is the meaning of Rees' pathetic plea to the Tories to publish the White Paper before the border poll and to hold elections to a 'meaningful assembly'. This assembly would be a revamped Stormont without any effective power to decide anything.

As Rees said unashamedly: 'Given the situation in Northern Ireland. there is no case for a full con- stitutional assembly that would debate and decide upon the whole contents of the White Paper' Instead the Labourites want guarantees on the border, security to be controlled by Westminster. Bill Rights (a special sop to the Stalinists) the ending.of the Special Powers Act and an all-Ireland institution' (1).

None of these provisions will bring peace and communal Ulster. harmony to They only perpetuate the colonial status of the province and, since British troops and Long Kesh are presumably to remain, will intensify the oppression of the Catholic workers.

Most important, the central questions of unemployment and bad housing are ignored and certainly will not be resolved by any Tory government.

Rees' reactionary proposals however are not the only buttress for Whitelaw's Bonapartist rule. Supplementing the Labour traitors' reliance on the Ulster supremo are the wretched knee-crooking appeals of the Social Democratic and Labour Party MPs who have asked Whitelaw-of all people-to call in all licensed guns in Ulster. Predictably Mr Whitelaw has refused to do this and the Vanguard have threatened violent resistance to Ulster any attempt at disarming Protestants. At the same time the IRA Provisionals while courageously defending the Catholic ghettos against the army and the sectarian failed to advance any alternative thugs have signally the policy to direct rule in north and reliance on reactionary politicians like Boland in the south.

This policy alienates Protestant workers precisely at the when the UDA breaking up into time is warring factions. Rees' statement and the crisis of leadership in Ulster is a salutary warning to the working class to remove this parasitic, treacherous leadership and to force the Tories out-before Frankenstein Wilson's monster in Ulster transfers its rule to Westminster.

TRAN VAN TRA is back in Saigon, flown in by the Americans to represent the National Liberation Front on the Joint Military Commis- sion set up to supervise the ceasefire. colonialism and then a His last mission to South Americans. Vietnam's capital had a some- General Tra's arriva In different purpose. what aides makes it possibl 1968, attired like an ordinary IMC to begin its work he reconnoitred the peasant, elements of the city to put the Tet offensive, Commission of which he had planned, into Supervision have made operation. It consists the Vietnamese After joining Hungary and will 1940 Communist Party around of maintaining a truce he worked in the underground.

tually impossible condi Later he was sent to Russia and China for military studies, re- In principle, teams turning to fight against French four-power commission AS THE Gaullist regime faces ment expense by having it declared the test of a General Election onistone iterest

BY A WORKERS PRESS RÉPORTER

Madame Dega implied that her another ugly scandal is brewing.

husband being made scape- W els At a Press conference in Paris on The Inspector of Taxes for the Koalouue the who Thursday, Dega's wife revealed Chaillot district of Paris, Edouard =. pressure on lax omcials iaure

GAL ISI.

WESE

Dega, has been in prison without She affairs she said should be investi- defraud the OrCI LU

ICVCLUC

gated. She the accused the Finance Minister, Valéry trial since December 1971 on a d'Estaing, of holding up charge of tax fraud and corrup- Mistel Arcuiture proceedings danger and a former Minister had because ot the Chirac, tion of officials. It is alleged that with office nie coverne. ron ure revea he assisted prominent tions which would out many enable the due from their

CULC

court. including leading Gaul- ngures. SaO ole reosceır She declared that ominous y lists, to evade taxes. Chirac close associate purge would have to begin very high The government is anxious that the President, Georges up, presumably meaning in the gov- should be brought to trial Dega not who last year hac to jettison ernment itsell. Her husband's cast Minister, Srdlrie Sne said, was closely connectea witt fears that the revelations it will Delmas, after a tax evasion scandal. that of Chaban-Delmas and she bring to light about fraud and At the time it hinted had was alleged that he been framed to by that Chirac had been able to restore Cvoaul damage its chances at the polls.

a chateau he had bought at govern- Minister. Around the world POLISH representatives offered Spanish fascists THE BOMB-SQUADS of the Italian fascists have struck once again diplomatic relations at in Reggio Calabria, southern Italy. There were six explosions in nine banquet a treacherous minutes in different parts of the city on Wednesday, including a in Helsinki this week. post office and the regional office of a journalists' union.

The guest list at the dinner, by The given attacks are re-

LIC

Spanish delegation to the prisals. European Security Con-

AGAINST

speech ol cerety Krasko, «nc mced the socialist President of centy leader of ITALY took a further Council step Italy while the "inancial the the Polish contingent and, Keelonal towards full-scale de fascists for Carlos Iniesta blaming the Jale chao more ul ut Cano, the devaluation Tine Axenl turning Italy into director of the murderous Wednesday following the of the lira Spanish civil guard bloodbath. introduction 12 days ago of Travellers' exchanged at the cheques Cano still bi just arrived

AGAINST

court case a w er orau cacaue e „hac the back system. from his visit brought against seven tas. Tourists The amount Warsaw) money member cists accused of blowing up couraged Italian tourists can take 1o out Niacio parlamentar) a train-load oi trade union- delegation Hores oner lid Gouula ists in Uctoder. cheques them cut by While his enadling •l oer conl was away exchanged Behind these une Trace unOsts thugs micasure continuec were coming from the 'financial rate' the need 10 stem in- is workers and pression north demonstrate outilow of speculative students Sede CommeTCC rate'. amounted in 1972 to over And acaost udem oovneol dd Thursday even- poverty in the south. The latter is kept within Lne multarv Enoua £1,400m. fixed limits by the Bank of gave life sen- in Zaragoza Stalinist-led engi- to students furin neenne

UNION

charges brought workers out DulIn.

GOWI

French short three hour strikes on consulate. Toe The Maoist students the 1 uulsuay aralllol arrested by Fiat • the civil guard growing repression in THE FRENCH Communist 'Capitalist returns, that £8,000 and Lancia'. pay dis- nave Party yesterday gave immediately ItS to say compensation. This dissipa- full backing to Con posable profits conscious The strike in both Mad- militancy It 'Returns tion of workers' corde project. can must not be and rid universiue. .conulue must inned elvereno comenue «ecared calcuate• LeneIs against increased meal and tention from the Piguet in I Mumanite. member René immediate benefits, but in oculayd. travel prices being terms technical and prepared the On Wednesday, Garcia scientin knowledge nezoualons OveI Valdecasas, oe ve o oe newal of wage-contracts in turns, but what kind wnat it brings to tne wnole Faculty Law and the industry. returns are they?' he said. economy.' engineenig founder . 'of Falange, organized the military occu- pation of the campus. (Garcia Valdecasas was the Onc Cortes mittee which accepted the protocol for the trade dea Spain the betweer alil Soviet Union.) Police with helicopter by a newv-elected governmeni armoured jeeps cars and in South Vietnam Speaking North Vietnam machine-guns to occupica tne University City Duc Tho in negotiator Le ocaC In Madrid, the art critics his Peking Moreno Galvan said Chinese help - dl v vry Trenor, held in Vietnamese had been very are Demne North prison for attempting

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

lttie. we should thank you. the worl give a lecture on is you who have helped us You Pablo US been ricasso border crossing points and moni- have nd then against the arallsu Thes te Ce both more than ten imnoenauso

(TOT

They

LOI

movenenl

LOODS

physic- years'. arms. They will also supervise the ally attacked by Chinese police and a's arrival with 29 have nothing to return of prisoners of war.

both face charges the boast about now in possible ior recaune Lot 'violence and the organiza- work. Advance mpieted, ten pays withdrawal is modest scale their aid to tion of non-peaceful meet- North Vietnam-especially completed, International the

LCL

aLiCI ings they took coming into and effect of the cease- of the sacri- ConTrOl . auvanlare The prosecutor is de ave made little pro- fire, the JMC will consist only of fices of the North Vietnamese to manding sentences make deal with the United troops Saigon and the irom Provisional Ke. States. Icaol LW calS volutionary Government repre- Tolane The Pamplona civil guard will have the job sentatives. * the Viet VaO S unoutes are is still holding eight Effective support for Viet- a truce under vir- ible conditions. kers involved in organizing The International Commission from namese revolution the basis of un- can only une sunke n „une C OttaS: Soviet Unior China anle factory of the industrialist e, teams from the US have defeated imperialism Huarte who has just been mmission will watch until it is asked to end its work long ago. released by the Dasu ut nationalists.

Workers Press, Saturday February 3, 1973 PAGE 3 Steel closure Talks on lorry bonus hits 2,800 north-east jobs

BY IAN YEATS

THE BRITISH Steel Corporation has said that its obsolete Hartlepool open-hearth steelworks in the north-east is to close.

The plate mill at the works is to continue after the closure in 1975, but at least 2,850 jobs will be axed. The shutdown is part of the government's plan steel- Conccullalt Teesside at a making on giant new oxygen (BOS) plant at Lackenby. WT•en zli ane olS- Fleet, trict, such as Cargo Skinningrove and the open- Healt SIOds al nicacal ae British Road Services drivers in the Midlands going are Lackenby. have already dis- paid AS INFORMAL talks took place on the day. by appeared result » of • :•0) Dolng company. But they are having to stand around because the rationalization. BRS drivers' dispute in the Midlands yester-

BRS

refuses to a bonus already naded d o other drivers pay Melchett A TInOUCO _LOrO The men have their goods heavy said the plate mill would arca BSC chairman ngwall says weil keep this up 'can't work with. added •naon continue, he omin- Lord Melchett brought the total number of carworkers laid out them. Below: Dave Dingwall says ous v unal ll ment nave lo until the end of the freeze' off in the area to well over 14,000.

close toward the end Sutc decided nernments the decade if the

BSC

government's decided to include a new White Paper on the indus.

assembly plant in Coventry and at its try's future was published.

Jarce •ate gear manufacturers Burman and Sons, Lackenby complex. This is nearlý certain. The With, the BRS dispute, they stopped all Triumph that the onlv rea hoDe production. The company sent 2,000 men home.

whole basis the Tory axe ring redundancies is larre-scale sae f-om siedl At Triumph, 250 trim-shop workers were fighting large-scale steel-making next Labour covermcnt. to begın with and, as the while at Burman's. new BOS plants come into

THERE

bad umekeeo ns. was more full rati flanin ]arge-scale north for the east Hicws rolling factories because the company is refusing to implement vesteroav Wireo Une agreement relating announcement by the dianu mecndnzeo ano serd- automated mills. National Coal Board that By the end of the decade Solwav pit at Working. at the latest, none of the ton is to close. So in an area from Ross- integrated which employs depots throughout the The pit, existing plants heavy-

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

on-Wy Wellington, 530 will Midlands region, shut may be lett. men, Shropshire, and from vehicles which Saturday, May POOdS Swindon,

.0 SCOT AS

SCOTLAND

where

NCB

says the mine's vital supplies

W UI LI1

transport are exhausted and oi tne purpose-bullt bas to the car factories, were of the to go. depot, typical the 5/38 dic vehicles which serve the 70 a meelng or more than osses yeat LoLared still lying idle. They can- men's contidence that thev branch. orivers exo anecr motor industry is moving.

shop stewards with the £738,000. because can win: the background to the moved not be present dispute: it the Ironically, was the company refuses 'We've been asked how Tory pay a f2.50 bonus which long we're prepared to 'This zoranenl s owI Warrington freezes rent rise cann went m lone subdivision BRS into told OT already standard at before the freeze was even keeo U•. sein han dede e dees last November Workers Press the thought of,' he said. private hauliers. "Well.

WARRINGTON

Labour Cooper, Labour leader of long as

BRS

as The drivers have handed 'Our rates in

BRS

cripple the counci has decided to deft the government likes •ower Lae Colci ss une new heavy-goods £4.60 below those the carmakers' heartland. the Tory 'fair rents' Act sion has been taken in the their Certainly unz toe ene by deferring a rents light of the Tory govern- vehicle

(HGV)

firms, who tor the ao rens 10,0. licences any freeze care you •rivale alc

BRS

Midlands region Road ment's state compulsory members laws mention.' wiieh become The Spas drivers from all brings in to the Trans- Haulage Association. council houses. his week, CIT•I A vena 'I don't know much the the Workers' chatmie focha chairman, adds ort and General OVeI alca under Failure publish the 'But the about politics,' said Albert same management um- that the ask monckl cannot next Friday, Union. by so urey canol assessment they have now sent out on the road with •COMe reSISU illalo is almost cer. their muscles for rebruary any vehicle over three tons pushing up their

UCACU

Wille tain to lead to the Depart- the first time. reEvery council tenant in Environment unauen weizl. ment But in- the 1.000 men Effect servlle a uciallt OTuCI 50p-a- the lown races volved are reporting for Lancashire council. the week rent increase in work inside the depots Alderman George October. The effect has been day. and since cacu LucIC devastating. nothing TheiT Unions seeking tracts of employment about Austin-Morris holding

HGV

licence making cars at BRS is having to pay them.

Birmingham, .ongbridg laid and have

OHE

nearty new terms for Report 5,000 men. with 1,200 stewards went orkes idle Shop Harry Shorter... the rate for the ! lot workers Coventry

T&GWU

headquarters CAV occupiers XI Birmingham yesterday oroGuc edy Caldicott, shop steward at we're not even asking our saloons. MG sports car out- atternoon to hear a report Birmingham's employer dut, Ber ce has çeased at Abing- bromsgrove cose LodL trom alan zaw. the union's kaow that eot, 'But I do we want is this and commercial trade group

SULIC

Cal UNION OFFICIALS in Liverpool have opened Tory which is being paid know that gov- Midlands, production secretary in the aneciea at 171 Austin-Morris, Cowley. talks with the Lucas combine about the possibi- ernnnenl «One •iN valle ulus on tie ourcome orinorma HGV licences, good at all. They don't give me exactly the same enoes, with talks with the company. Thousands more workers lity of alternative work and improved redundancy chance to breathe yuu BRS iș believed still to Sale

„DOONV

terms for the sit-in strikers at CAV Fazakerley.

evere be insisting that the £2.50 iwat we ese saying is plants in Birmingham, He said the drivers were Swindon and Oxford. of leading this: doesn't matter And, on the recommendation shop cae Tories state pay e Cannol De determined to continue state pay law. emblem is on the terday's shut. stewards, the strikers have agreed to allow Lucas wort Toe Ilumon their action until BRS pays But from side of the cab, we want down Coventry could onto the Fazakerley site without management up. were going to get itb. the and affect production at Liver- rate Dave Dingwall, a driver passes issued by the occupation committee.

Harry Shorter, secretary pool. Birmingham's Cheapside This will probably mean that full can be Droqucuon restartea CBI warns about asset-rigging _the lucas Industrial quip ment factory, which shares

BRIEFLY • BRIEFLY

Fazakerley with

CAV. LIE

Silt workers nave been WOrKO el since Monday after 13-week at a

BUILDING

should employers

CONFEDERATION

of pound might

THE

Waly casco Ic- lay-off. themselves with a much is concerned veal less bright financial picture.

culD British Industry prevent bigger at CAV skuled OTCe A mass meeting has about inflated values in many And this indication the shoddy standards. National Fede- stroke company accounts. The leaders real position could mean that aiso agreed to hand ove: Lulas s of Building Tha S esta Em- ration control canteen laciilties lor of big business feel that annual unions would not make excessive toplesident oed Dlovers the LIE workers. claims. cott the Federation's reports are not giving a brue southern region

AGM:

'We all picture of company finances. would also make it easier Early next week, the union for industry to tackle the gov- officials are to that in past years, stop-go report for the CBI on this asset expected report This is particularly true

AIUW

the question of too rigging. to a further DOnCes

TOI

DUCiNO rave

CNOT

ciucHl Dack mass meelllg propercy assers. helped our recruitment and much taxation of profits.

on the combine's reply. The CBI threw its influential He called For book purposes property training programmes. weight behind Thursday's sug- camitree Te tnnor. The executive of the Liverpool portfolios being revalued at are every type and size of hrm Institute tant that inflation accounting gestion from the Trades Council has agreed join the drive for new thus indicating should be done • staracnstc. on an inter- Chartered Accountants in England standards. the 'sound trading position' call a conference of shoo stewards that British and' wales that companies snould nauona: scale the firm. Tuesday, February 13, on give suplementary tables companies were "hot put in an position relation to recent one group their accounts showing Giscuss ne o-wee ę in a

RAILWAY

worker Jack Flynn casc. allillal the threat to closure at CAV, increased the competitors overseas vaue O ls anel tne rex value or tnen orons oi (59), Jap Road, wimbledon, holdings by £100m- -'at a stroke! losses after inflation. jobs at Shotton steelworks and Sir David accepted that killed yesterday by a train was the fight against unemployment Sir David said tables reflecting might be difficult to sell the idea while working the track Shell, David Barran, former head the real purchasing power of the to some British companies! generally. of has just completed a Waterloo station.

PERSPECTIVES FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF

THE SLL INTO A REVOLUTIONARY PARTY

.. ..t PAGE 1 Workers Prose, Saturday Fabruary 3, 1079 Two thousand two hundred delegates at the All Trades Unions Alliance Conference in Birmingham October 22 last year on voted unanimously to proceed with the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party.

Today Workers Press publishes the draft political perspectives and programme for the party, subinitted by the Central Committee of the SLL. In every area the Socialist Labour League will pro- ceed to organize meetings and conferences to discuss, amend and improve this resolution, and our columns are open for the same discussion. All amendments will be discussed and voted on at a special national conference to plan the founding of the party in May of this year. We urgently ask all our readers to study and distribute this resolution on the widest possible basis. Every day makes more pressing the task of building the alternative revolutionary leadership.

Resolution on Perspectives for dustrial Relations Act. The so-called 'Phase II' and Transformation of the the Socialist Labour League into a 'Phase III' are the inevitable Revolutionary Party. consequence of entry into the European Common Market. dictatorial These measures, with rough carried through contempt for the electorate or for parliamentary debate, prove doubt that the Com- beyond mon Market is an alliance of British and West European big 1973 is a year of historic deci- banks and monopolies • to for the British working sion oppress and exploit the work- class. Tory ing class. January has seen the from 'controlling infla- a three- Far government legislate tion' the Tories are out to use dictatorship over year state it as the big stick; to frighten Already they have wages. and stampede the middle class, paved the way with their In-

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and to weaken and divide the working class. Already Labour Party lead- ers have said that they will not hinder the implementation of the new measures, and have advised the working class to obey the new laws. They are willing assistants in the steps to the police state. Trade union leaders have collaborated at every step, and are even now looking for ways of resuming their collaboration with the Heath government.

The working class urgently needs a programme to defend all its basic democratic rights, to unite the whole working class into action to remove the Tory government. For this it is essential that a new leadership be built in the working-class movement. Just as the employing class and the Tories cannot any longer rule in the old way, with compromise, reform, and the 'swing of the electoral pen- dulum', so the working class go on with the old cannot leadership and the old be- trayals. The three-year state control of wages is no temporary mea- sure. If the Tories are permit- ted to go through with this, it is intended as permanent des- truction of all basic democratic rights. Every Labour and trade union leader who acts in any way to prevent the working class from using all its strength to defeat the government now is as historically guilty as were the leaders who betrayed the German workers to Hitler.

Every single basic right of the working class, won in cen- turies of struggle, is in imme- diate and extreme danger.

The British capitalist class, by insoluble world gripped economic crisis, and mortally afraid of the organized strength of the undefeated working class of today, has resolved to des- troy these rights. Already, after less than three years of this government, mil- lions of working men and women are realizing that their whole existence is threatened.

State control of wages, rocket- ing price and rent increases, loss of democratic rights and legislation to destroy the trade unions-all these attacks are designed to destroy the working class as a class which fights to defend itself and change the social system.

All Trades Unions Alfiance Con- terence in Birmingham, 1972. The vote was unanimous, to proceed with transformation of the SLL into a revolutionary party.

The Tory government aims to reduce every worker to the level of an isolated citizen obeying the authority of the state and the employer. It is not just a matter of changes over three years of one government, which can be reversed simply • by replacing that government at the end of its term. Nor is it even only a matter of the Tories destroying the gains in living standards made by the organized work- ing-class since movement World War II. What is hap- pening is that the whole pat- of social and political tern relations between the classes in Britain is now forced to change. Within the framework of Britain being the first and strongest capitalist country (since the 17th century), it has been possible for the British working class to force definite economic concessions and basic democratic rights and to make the ruling class extend to it

was first de tween the cracy and the capit Every one of t had struggle against claimed the class working that such rights could be wor tained without a fig Today British like world capitalis end of all tions to the class st ruling class cannot impose nev Having relied reformist ead working class to promises to organized strength for small re ooms- small reforms- now put an end to 1 take back what ha: by t. They working past. energetically working class in st The British facing the very rea everything losing gained through its t the mer the theory, the dis the fighting capacit this attack, this atte of compromise first developed be- old, landed aristo- the capitalists them- rights won bitter gainst people who le allegiance of the class but preached concessions and d be won and main hout a fight. capitalism, capitalism, is at the 'compromise' solu- e class struggle. The that solutions. Renew until now on sell com- restrict the of the class the role of 'pressure' reforms-they 1 end to reforms and what has been won class in the therefore prepare to defeat the ass in struggle. working class, of very real threat has ugh its trade unions must , the discipline and g capacity, to resist historv is that a new party I Teal party that can the bank- replace and Stalinist a programme to Torv attack of basic democratic y such a revol rty, will b turned attack on the Tory the working the period government, has cowardly retreats leaders, union workers employers 011T government, fron local council miners, car workers, col- talks with on "control of the eve of Com- Such that the leans that old nung nave come lo tion which must be de unions preserve the working the reformist, class- politics and le one of the wheels talist machine being destroy that past oI all re at stake, and new be not something Marxists, ented by escapable lesson of it works out, to this nt. Either a change onary policies, pro- orking class will be es for a new revolu- with task ThiS xist, as the struggles class have But these into action one alter ine olner, as a concerted body. cattered and divided the policies and the trade union the situation which ercome, a situation intolerable more Unless every, social- ss-conscious worker is responsibility for of a revolu- rxist party, then the an only deteriorate The crisis faced talism is worse than which led to fascis and World W many as Hitler set out to c class's working organizations, today set out to de lective bargaining' method for in relations struggle. This is wha by the end of refor the need for a re party What is vitally the unity of the wo to defeat the main common enemy, the ernment. Millions families are mcreases creases in food price of trade unionists ar and brutally justified their will be to break the Unemployed work duced Youth and of economi future unemployment, educ and cuts in of every rights sections to resist legislated away. programme to is the second native with a progra from conflicting with of the working-cla ment, is the only way that unity. The grea to unity is the prese ist leadership. The Tory taken Britain pean Common Mark the propaganda abor adventure' and morrow' lies the sta the Common Market cial, industrial alliance of big capitalist governmen the common people country in the Mark nature was statement by 'Europe: the missioners' appointe Heath government. C he dictators military force, we are by democratic means In the first place, that "democratic me used. The governmer ately broke its pledg sult the electorate be became definite. It a vuld the right to vote, a vot centuries of struggle larly and the extension of chise in 1870, women's vote in the of this century. But Thomson's d much is more dictators he reters to Mussolini. They and 'unite' Europe and e European working building war behalf of the big and monopolists. the Italian only way come conflict nodern the state and private property on the othe Today the more acute. even European the to build bloc, a front the America this bloc, they are w protect the power a business bankers and industri financed Hitler, uilding of the alter- volutionary party far programmit, ting with the unity orking-class move only way to assure The great obstacle the present reform- government has the Euro- on Market. Behind nda about a 'great better to- the stark feality: n Market is a finan- and political business and agallls of n people every he Market. Its true revealed the by European • Thomson, one of Com- appointed by the 'nment. On the day he said: "What achieve by ce, we are achieving tic means.' st place, it is a lie ratic means' were overnment deliber. its pledge to con- torate before entry workers throughout. They will not flinc same measures as Hi just as the US imper not shrink from death in Vietnam than were killed in the whole way War II. That is the r ing of the and the Tory governr the real trayal the right wing in support thomson himself 1 Labour Minister!) essence programme is to des unions we destroy the standard built up over generat troy the democratic individual citizens a trade unions - In destroy all basic righ They do this in th 'fair play, defenders rights against "monopoly' of the working class in mines and building The real driving for them is not their 'fairness' but which forces crisis take measures to ser privileged class intere ever the consequenc hey say they attack 1 poly' of the trade us labour supply and c monopoly of all their own monopoly ables them to condem to unemployment. When they Housing rents' the word 'fair" is use ceal its opposite: the the control building societies, bui building materials, and landlords 1sts. estate speculators housing and planning This monopoly th extort massive rent and interest ordinary tenants holders. hen they list un rial practices' as leg in the Industrial Rela they actually are for workers egal their basic rights and through strikes forms of industria Every trade union ana would completel of the exploi mercy talist class. In the ment is building up legal penalties practices' tive by restrictive practice by which the organized to restrict 1 the employer terms of

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The Act will be use troy these rights, years of struggle, the worker on to the status of a me ment of the capitalist What is benina to 'fairness'? It is government Tory itself up as the of the 'consumer' citizen' dual who play undisturbed organized groups of the -unions power stop curbea to example, and a stron ment must Sir Geoffrey the drafted tions Act, is brought "Minister Cabinet as Consumer'. Just as u lable inflation dictatorship in today it provides the 'British' variety the The Tory and Liber ganda idea . of the inc citizen-consumer, sta for fair play against n does not exist. 'rights' are based on ownership, which h The minority. oughout Europe. not flinch from the res as Hitler took, US imperialists did bombing to etnam more people killed in the same whole of World t is the real mean- common y government. It is of the be- Party Labour n supporting entry. himself is an ex- of the Tory is to destroy trade them, know standard of living i generations, des- of well as as short, to asic rights. his in the name of the DONe the people's the organized In the lactories, uilding sites riving force behind their of

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the economic forces them es to secure their ass interests wnal- When nsequences. y attack the mono- trade unions over and costs, they efending their own the wealth, which en- o condemn millions pass the 'fair Finance Act, ir' is used to con- site: the monopoly big banks, leties, building and industrial- indlords and real all overt planning. opoly they use to rent increases from payments nants and house- y list unfair indus s' as legal offenci trial Relations Act, it making to defend ghts and standards and other industrial action. unionist …knows these rights within le and his family the completely at le exploiting capi- Fair of he Tory govern laws and es against restric by workers in • They. mean by a ractice any means workers have restrict the power dictate to and to des- built up in to reduce the shop floor capitalist's will. behind the appeal It is this: the is setting the representative or 'indivi- wants 'fair strong, the must be inflation, for a strong govern- middle- • this. Howe, who Industrial Rela brought into the the uncontrol- as heralded Nazi Germany, vides the basis for and Liberal propa i the independent standing against monopoly Tory ideas ased on property which has always d to the privileged 19th century Workers Press, Satur myth is being used to stand in the way of the only forces that can challenge monopoly capi- talism: the organized: working class and the socialist revolu- tion. Britain of the 1960s and 1970s has been plundered by profiteers of every sort. Never massive have such business mergers taken place. Chem- electronic products, ing, electronics, cars-each of these is now controlled by a mere handful of big companies.

The millions paid as taxes workers and middle-class by people have been used by Tory to and Labour governments swell ever bigger the profits of these monopolies. With these funds they have rationalized and speeded up industry and cut down the labour force, all direct help of the with the in the trade union leaders, name of 'productivity'. The ordinary reward for the workers has been mass un- employment and unprecedented cost-of-living increases.

The state machine and gov- ernment are being made over into the kind of dictatorship which is suited to these mono- polies and their control over labour. The Cabinet is manned, more and more,, by men like Peter Walker and Anthony Barber, products of the great finance capital bonanza of the Maudling, 1960s. Reginald dropped because of the Poul- scandal, ranked as top son thinker and representative of business this political and élite, and rightly so. For the profits serve, state control of 'prices been and increases' has decreed, again in the name of fairness and equality of sacrifice. Once again this is a fraud.

• Wages are actually cut by state decree, and even negotia- tions for future increases are banned. The government in- tends permanent state control of wages. This means the des- truction of basic rights to a decent standard of living and of the right of the working class to defend itself against the effects of capitalist profit- eering, exploitation and unem- ployment. The Tories, not content with the wide powers they already possess for states of emergency and rule by Privy Council, are attacking the whole system of democratic rights. More and more, changes are made in the mechanism of state control without any reference to parliament, let alone the electorate. Small teams of permanent civil ser- vants, Cabinet Ministers and lawyers, consulting busi- top (and

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nessmen even leaders in order to decide their tactics) decide and deter- mine major issues like the Industrial Relations Act and the new state control of wages.

The truth is that the Tory government has already legis- lated the people's basic demo- cratic rights out of existence.

la- At the first great clash between the government and the work- ing class the workers will realize with a shock that its treasured rights no longer exist! The right to strike and to organize in unions: The Indus- trial Relations Act is used to levy a £55,000 fine on the en- union, gineering because unions are deprived of their basic right to unite and to implement their own rules the right of the membership to exclude those who actively oppose trade union principles.

ess, Saturday February 3, 19 The House of Lords after the release dockers from in June 1972 is a ret 1901 Taff Vale which made trade such legally responsible al the actions by bers. The aim of thi destroy independe unions completely. The right to a decen of living: Above all capitalists want to the crisis created thr own profiteering anc reducing their i.e. reducing the his family to the po wiping out the sions won since Wor The end result reformists' 'incomes the present state wages backed by th to increase rents. Ir the Tories hope to resistance and fightir of the working class The attack benefits-school me milk, the health serv ing especially on supplementary benef return to the means part of the same att basic right to a der standard. The right to work: talist class has full the right to fought for class. They right to have of army unemplo intimidate walch to In ployed. fall temporary 750,000 in Decembe government took £4( the economy to stop getting too Tory government. work must be defe guaranteed! The right to decen In order to ensile billions ands of Interest and pront 1 banks and *on the one hand, an materials and the other, existing h impossibly comes and current building speculative jects which do nothi housing 'fair rents' Act is t ment for this. The housing high cost of could be resolved short time. and resource emergency house-bui gramme of a fer societies, insurance banks and building f A socialist would nationalize under workers without compensatic to small savers). The immediate thousands the must be tackled mor If a censu unoccupied houses the wealthy and vacant offic the homeless found somewhere rents they could affo This applies to of the working class tions •are existing privileges taken the obstacles which government They would have th of the working class these solutions. refusal of Labour go the has talists power intact to vote: The right into the 'consultation torate' pledged by H most vicious Industrial Relations through without parl page judgement, as financially courts for trade labour costs worker and ware the is control of welfare on and employmen reserve with to the jobless to Un- The right to defended and housing: pounds payable to societies expensive property The shortage and a very allthe for all government these all control and homeless homeless belonging live, at every need but the of the rich, so long, These are remove. Only attack these capi- Even this the entry without the the elec- the went

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday Febr PERSPECTIVES, continued from page 5. debate. Phase Two of Heath's 'freeze' was implemented by Order in Council with no opportunity for parliamentary debate or even question. Not only that. In the implementa- tion of the Housing Finance Act against Labour Councils, the Tory government appoints Commissioners and has the power to dismiss and dis- qualify the elected represen- tatives of the people. The right freedom of to expression: The Tories are pre- paring to attack this basic democratic right. The NIRC President, Sir John Donaldson, has already warned the Press against commenting on cases coming before his Court. The suppression of programmes on TV, and the campaigning of wing on 'moral the right purity' 'offences against and public taste' are attacks on these basic rights. All these attacks on basic rights and changes in the form of government reveal one thing. The Tory. government represents a decadent ruling class setting its face stubbornly against the necessary historical change to socialism. To do this it is prepared to roll back all the gains made by the workers in the past. It there- 'Bonapartist' fore resorts to dictatorial forms of rule. This is what Heath meant at the iday February 3, 1873 first Tory conference after coming into office. We will change the course of history of the nation. And how will they do it? Heath went on, at the United Nations the next month, to predict that the 1970s would be a period of 'civil wars'.

Anyone who doubts his words should look across the Irish Sea. There forces for 'civil war' in Britain are being drilled and turned out on bloody exer- cises. Britain, it was recently In revealed that a special Army Corps, 60,000 strong, is being security. built deal with to Preparations are well advanced to abolish trial by jury in many cases, and the rights of accused have already been slashed.

Such a Bonapartist regime can come about and survive, given two conditions: the rottenness and weakness of the existing ruling class; and the on unpreparedness of the working class. It is the job of every social- ist to immediately change this second condition, to disrupt the enemy's preparations, and initiate the process of unifying the working class for the struggle for its own power.

This means: transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party; take up the leadership of the fight to Tory throw the government out; replace it with a Labour pledged to a government socialist programme. Between the Tories' inten- tions and their achievement stands the greatest problem of all: the working class. Legisla- tion and a few speeches cannot destroy its strength. They pre- along with pare the ground, the betrayals of the trade union, Labour and Stalinist leadership. What the Tories need is to defeat a decisive section of the workers' movement in a head- on collision. The strength of the workers' resistance, as in the miners' strike, has several times compelled them to tack and turn in their preparation.

This has caused strife in the Tory ranks, because they still have no solution for the crisis.

De Gaulle had a mass base in the peasantry and small shop- keepers of France. The Tories desperately need such a base, but do not have one. The greatest crime now would be to allow the Tories all the time they need to com- plete EEC entry, prepare the necessary laws, cultivate middle-class opinion, scared by inflation, against the trade increase unemploy- unions, ment, and then isolate a sec- tion of strikers—-all with the intention of a scare election on 'law and order' and the return of a more right-wing govern- ment. Under such conditions, right-wing and fascist forces would mobilize for the next stage of the attack on the working class. This is what would happen if the existing trade union and Labour leaders were left in the leadership unchallenged. The most decisive question is to build the alternative to them in the present struggle now, against the Tory government.

Those who see these dangers, but do not act to prevent them, incalculable will share the responsibility for the conse- quences. This is what it means the transformation of to say the SLL into a revolutionary party in 1973 is a historical necessity. The working class has shown from the dustmen's and post- men's strikes, through the dockers', workers! miners' and building struggles, that they will not stand aside while the Tories proceed. Militancy by one section after another has checked the Tory offensive at each stage. But herein lies the greatest danger! Every militant struggle which checks the class enemy forces him to fresh if there the militant attacks. But struggle remains isolated from the political fight against the government, and fails to chal- lenge the reformist trade union leadership, then it leaves the working class divided against the next stage of Tory attack and preparation of dictator- ship. There must be formed, now, an organization of revolution- aries, trained Marxist theory, who know how to fight for leadership in every struggle against the government (wages, etc.) always with the rents, aim of uniting the whole class for the fight to make the gov- ernment resign and preparing for working-class power. The opportunity exists more than ever before. One essen- tial characteristic of the class struggle in the last two years has been that all sections of workers have been brought in- to struggle against government policies. Civil servants, teach- ers, college servants, canteen workers, hospital workers, and being many others only just unionized have followed the engineers, miners, dockers and railwaymen into • the fight. The mobilization of the whole strength of the working-

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has • al the ggle emy reso tant rom the hal- the nCK tor- OW, 1011® XISt ight ggle ges, the lass ring 10re sen- lass ears of in- lent ach- een and eing the and une ing. class movement to force the Tories to resign would leave the government completely isolated in a very short time.

Instead, the TUC leaders have constantly back and gone crawled on their bellies for talks with the Tory govern- ment. The entry on to the scene of all these sections of the working class means all the problems of the class come up for solution. It means also that the ruling class will utilize all the weapons at its disposal to suppress the movement. The use of 22,000 troops, thousands of armed para- military forces, and new laws for without imprisonment trial in Ireland, indicates what is in preparation. The old re- formism of the British labour movement is completely and hopelessly inadequate for such a situation. In defending the gains of the movement, its mass organizations, the trade unions, the working class will need a revolutionary party above all else. Taff Vale in 190l came at the beginning of modern im- perialism, the 'epoch of wars revolutions', before the formation of the Bolshevik Party, before World War I and before the first successful wor- king-class revolution. led It the trade union many of them leaders, very conservative, to form an inde.

pendent working-class, parlia- mentary party, the Labour Party. But now, 70 years after, with the October Revolution, fascism, two world wars and six Labour governments in be- tween, and capitalism back to a crisis more severe even than 1929, the attack on the unions cannot be repelled by reform- ism. Indeed, the Labour gov- ernment of Wilson prepared the anti-union laws, and the TUC collaborates with the government! This time the unions can be defended only by transforming them into organizations of re- against volutionary struggle capitalism, for there is no re- turn to the old 'free' trade unions. Such a transformation can be carried out by a re- only volutionary party based on the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky. The strength of the working class in economic struggles is not manifested only in the day- to-day success in resisting the employers' attacks or winning increases. This same wage strength, for example, pro- vokes division and crisis within the Tory ranks, and this leads to intensification of their re- actionary preparations. To understand and counter which such developments, of there are many in a period of crisis such as this, requires a which starts from party a scientific view of all the re- lations between classes and and not only from the states, immediate impressions of vic- or "setback'. This is why tory' the SLL has fought so bitterly against reformists, a nose Stalinists, and revisionists who have held the workers back from struggle to bring down the Tory government. Instead the revisionists ped- dle the idea that the economic will struggle "spontaneously bring the workers to the point of revolutionary struggle and leadership, and the reformists and Stalinists dismiss political, revolutionary struggles 'Utopian'. These ideas help the ruling class to keep the work- ing class divided and politically backward, ruling wille Lne the next class itself prepares The struggle of the SLL blow. and the All Trades Unions Al- liance against such ideas and practice has been the central theme of our political prepara- tion to transform the League into a revolutionary party. In the experience of the last two and a half years of struggle many workers have been able to learn this lesson in practice ad me fore bad the

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ana Workers Press. What is actually involved is to answer the basic question, one way or the other: Do the conditions exist in Britain for the successful working-class struggle for power? order answer this question we must first of all Workers Press, Satur understand that the capitalists' attack on basic rights comes from their weakness, from their crisis. The crisis makes it impossible to rule any longer in the old ways. To dispense with these old ways means to make their rule extremely pre- carious, because they are forced to pull away the sup- that have always kept ports them in political power. They are trying to create a new and arbitrary body of law which does not rest solidly on pre- cedent and historically-estab- lished and accepted rights and procedures. They need to transform the large professional and middle 'believed' in class which has the favour English freedom and "compromise (which was in fact the product of colonial oppression on the one hand and bitter struggle of the wor- king class on the other) into authoritarian unquestioning state officials acting against the need, working They class. above all, to defeat the work- ing class in battle in order to render them subservient to a life without rights. To make all these changes, on the basis of an economic system which is not a develop- ing one but one in decline and decay, is a task which exposes them to great dangers. The dangers take a very concrete form. Through the struggle to defend basic rights, the working class can mobilize ress, Saturday February 3, 1973 PAGE 7 Left: The Right-to-Work marches rallied support in every industrial area. Right: "Bloody Sunday', dan- uary 30, 1972. Forces for 'civil war' in Britain are being drilled and turned out on bloody exercises.

to throw out the Tory govern- ment, which the capitalist needs in order to carry class out its aims. The conditions for exposing the bankrupt La- bour leadership, by fighting for socialist politics from a Labour government, would exist. Now that the fighting capacity of working class, in all its sections, has been demon- strated in the last two and a half years, we are in a situation where we must create the one remaining factor for victory, the building of the alternative, revolutionary party. Unity of the working-class movement on a programme to defend the democratic rights which are under attack can be

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Febri PERSPECTIVES, 'confinited from page 7. transformed into the mass movement which forces the Tory government to resign. But this means starting from the causes behind the attack on democratic rights. These basic rights are under attack because this is the only way the capitalist Class can hope to survive the acute world economic crisis, charac- terized by trade war and gal- loping inflation. Only a pro- gramme of socialist measures to put an end to the basic economic crisis can put an end to the attack on democratic rights. Those who say that sheer a limited protest militancy, or 'pressure' campaign, can or defeat measures like the Indus- trial Relations Act (the Com- munist Party, International Socialists, International Marx- ist Group) have been proved wrong in practice. But a fun- damental error is involved, not just a mistaken tactic. These tendencies cultivate the illusion that present-day capitalism and Toryism can continue to exist without the Industrial Relations Act and all the other attacks. In fact, they mislead the working class into the idea that the capitalist economy will still accept re- formist solutions. They have become the most efficient de- fenders of bankrupt reformism.

The struggle for Marxist theory and practice against all these tendencies has been and will remain central to the building of the revolutionary party. Stalinism, particularly, di- working class by verts the campaigning for what it calls unity of the democratic forces, whether working class or not, to defend democracy. The CPs of France and Italy are pre- paring to enter coalitions with capitalist governments on this programme, a repetition of the 'Popular Fronts' of the 1935- 1939 period. It is now part of the 'peaceful road to social- ism' theory. In Britain, just as every- where else, this treacherous policy is belied by the reality.

All the basic rights under Tory attack were won in struggle by the working class, and they can only be defended by the independent struggle of the working class. The popular struggle for democratic rights in the period of the bourgeois revolution met with repression from the new capitalist ruling class in England and in Ireland as soon as the monarchy was defeated, and the struggle was effectively taken up again only with the rise of the working class. Any democratic forces in the lower middle class had henceforth to turn in a social- ist, working-class direction.

Capitalist democracy no longer serves capitalism's pur- poses. It is no longer a ques- tion of 'preserving' democracy by means of alliances under the banner of bourgeois demo- cracy. Members of the middle class themselves suffer as badly as do the workers from inflation, war, destruction of rights, the power of the trusts and banks, and the decay of culture. They will respond not to calls to defend bourgeois parliamentary democracy, but to the strength and determina- tion of an independent work- struggle against the ing-class and the state. monopolies Nothing is more calculated to drive the middle class into the arms of reaction than the cowardice and treachery of the TUC and Labour leaders. • acc They put forward not a single consistent or anti-capitalist policy. They arouse anger and contempt by their hypocritical . against particular issues, which everybody knows rests on their fundamental sup- port of Tory policy, both domestic and foreign. The Labour leadership has never in fact opposed EEC entry. Only the desertion to the Tory lobby of Jenkins and the right wing ensured pas- rday February 3, 1973 0202

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OS sage of the necessary Bill. Wilson refused to discipline the traitors because he is go- ing exactly the same way. The Labour leadership refuses to mobilize any_ struggle against the Housing Finance Act and, with a few honourable excep- tions, the local parties have capitulated on rent increases.

In Ireland, Wilson has gone out of his way to support Heath and Whitelaw, and Cal- laghan actually performed the duties of emissary of the Tory government in Belfast. The trade union leaders follow suit.

Not one of them has fought for solidarity with the Irish workers against imperialism.

Having prevented the work- ing class from stopping the Industrial Relations Act, the TUC leaders entered talks with the Tory enemy on wage and price control, and return to the conference table even now, when permanent state control is being enacted. They are there for everybody to see as participants in the process of laying the founda- tions for dictatorship. These reformist leaders have always the sought to keep their own posi- in the of tion movement by accepting the 'special' position of British capitalism and its ability to find a compromise out of struggle because way of its heritage of monopoly and Empire. This parasitic structure is crumbling fast. The international crisis forces the classes to confront each other in direct conflict. The working class of Britain in this fight must break out of the reformist, nationalist strait- jacket and recognise the main enemy, the British capitalist 1303 class and its state, its Tory government. This is the historir signi- ficance of the need to focus every working-class struggle on Tory the fight to make the government resign, and in the course of this build the alter- native revolutionary leader- ship. Today, when the Socialist Labour League calls for sup- port to transform itself into a revolutionary party, it does so on the basis of its own record in defence of these basic rights and the struggle for alternative leadership. The daily Workers Press, the Young Socialists, and the ATUA are the resources and forces built up by the Socialist Labour League since its forma- tion in 1959. • In the years of Tory rule before Labour was elected in 1964, SLL members and sup- porters in the Young Socialists (then in the Labour Party) won the great majority of that orga- nization nationally to our policy. Above all, we fought against the heavy unemploy- ment of 1962-1963 and warned that the Labour government would betray the working policies was carried out. SucCesse and YS wing conference has campaign and most today. term of ment, that pave the of the attack. policies We Strife' was for fight against the Workers that the ment lessons of the policies. the very a struggle for socialist not successfully , in 1964, for the third policies year,

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for the Committee won Labour right the ex- But don YS majority then I itself by holding its independently. organize, and ever the effective political novement in Britain arned, throughout the Wilson govern. its reactionary and refusal to call ialist measures would way for the return This led in any way to pre. working class for the c crisis and the Tory present SLL grew out hole struggle on basic and defence of basic the right to work. Place ned that 'In of door opening the dictatorship, and first initiative in the Labour's policy -union legislation. after the Tory gov was elected in 1970 Press declared working class must be d to force the govern. resign. This would the political d fighting for socialist We campaigned from eginning for the call a General Strik The Soclallat banner leads the march in 1970. On the for the policies needed he main enemy, the To to defeat the tions Act and force government to resigr We fought with the Vietnamese tion, and for troops from Norther the ATUA, Through ducted the deals sured-Day which amount class collaboration, ar anti-union laws. fight for these po were trained all the time, as they the reformists, Stali revisionists The Charter of Bas passed by the conference of 1970, f dsic programme I all those 1 strugi cular, rallied support in ev in Britain trial area their Right-to-Work February-March of Teams of youth mar far as Liverpool the nating 1n 8,500 people in th Wembley, on Pool, 1972. Che Son, 85 and 0 the SLL struggled bring • to in propagand class, 30969 Labour class working es needed to defeal my, the Torles. le Industrial Rela- nd force the Tory for ietnamese Revolu- withdrawal of Northern Ireland. = ATUA, we con- struggle against Mea- and Work - schemes everyday to ration, and against on laws. It was in these policies that forces of the SLL e trained, clashing as they did, with sts, Stalinists and er of Basic Rights ATUA national f 1970, formed th imme for unity of struggle against vernment. In parti- Socialists ort in every indus- n Britain through -to-Work marches 1972. ary-March uth marched from as Glasgow. and London, culmi- he anti-Tory rally Empire ple in the ley, on March 12 single major issue the working class • and ATUA have bring before the ropaganda and in

action, the policies needed to defeat the main enemy, the Tories. In 1964 the decision was taken to found a daily paper, in the knowledge that the capitalist crisis was matur- ing and that we must prepare to take our responsibilities.

This was achieved, after tre- mendous sacrifice and struggle by members and supporters, in September 1969. The paper has since gone from strength to strength. Here was one of the first and decisive require- ments for the formation of a just revolutionary party; not to have a daily paper, which is indispensable, but to de-rev monstrate the ability to decide that definite things are neces- sary and then to tenaciously win in the workers' movement the means to achieve these things. The SLL is the British sec- tion of the International Com- mittee of the Fourth Inter- founded by Leon national, Trotsky in 1938. From its origins the Trotskyist move- ment has led the struggle on Marxist foundations against Stalinist bureaucracy. When Stalin and the bureaucracy in imposed the pro- 1923-1924, gramme of 'socialism in one country, they began the pro- cess of breaking up the Third (Communist) International of Lenin and Trotsky. Henceforth the Communist Parties of the world were subordinated to Soviet the privileges of the bureaucracy. From this fol- lowed the role of the British Communist Party in covering up for the betrayal by the TUC General Council of the 1926 and the sur- General Strike to Chiang Kai-shek render resulting in defeat of the Chinese Revolution. It was the same Stalinist which led the bureaucracy German working class into the defeat by Hitler in 1933, and the Spanish workers to defeat by Franco. Trotsky and the Left Op- position fought to defend the - gains of the October Revolu- tion and the future of the international working class against the counter-revolu- tionary bureaucracy. It was on these principles, those of the early years of the Com- munist International, that the was foun- Fourth International ded in 1938. The SLL fights for these same principles. We reject the revisionist ideas of the Inter- Socialism national group, which denounces the USSR as another 'state capitalist' coun- try and refuses to defend the gains of the Russian and Chinese revolutions against imperialism. We reject also the betrayal of Marxism by the IMG, part of the international tendency (Pabloism), which has aban- doned Trotsky's struggle for revolutionary parties indepen- dent of Stalinism l and reform- ism. Both groups, like the Stalinists, have rejected Lenin's Trotsky's analysis and modern capitalism as a period whose contradictions necessi- tate the revolutionary struggle for working-class power. • The politics of these visionist groups is centrism: they seek a position in be- tween revolutionary Marxism and bankrupt reformism. they use Marxist phraseology it is only to remain in this position and divert the work- ing class from its real tasks.

They follow in the line of the Independent Labour Party.

Like the ILP, they oppose the independent struggle of the against Fourth International bureaucracy, and always end up tied to the coat-tails of the Stalinists. The working class i nouga a proces n moving from refor sions revolutiona ism. For the ruling c essential that is stopped class role of the centrists sionists. At the reformists

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discredited to hold working class, do their dirty work. For this reason a struggle against the the practice essential to the buildi revolutionary party. ( is to gle unite in and to train in Mal most determined youth and revolution lectuals; in order must fight is to find ever! role placing a question the revolutionary party. As the working cl leftward constitute groups obstacle in the of revolutionary obstacle which removed onl Call basis of the theoreti Trotskyist the For the Marxist theory, for t tionary party bureaucracy, has conducted by means to the main fronting struggle. For the Bri cacc historical question But class. about simply ganda. The SLL and its predecessors ought, as did Lenin sky, on the programn Labour ting with a struggle movement for sociali and alternative order expose leaders and break class from them.. the Tory election ment with socialist this same essence of this fight for an alternat ship. What faces working class of the electoral pend series of reforms, power must be built support of the worki struggle. The SLL has fous all the treacherous the labour movemer the organi built daily the newspaper programme kno class. 1959, and its first m early 196 gle in the the Young win in the Labour Party and ist policy Strengthened successful struggle, turned unions at the ginning the fight its daily paper, Press. The have movement which all the built to have been from the League to This is because of the League and th Press has gone by step with the gro capitalism tance of the In this historic transformation into the revolutiona • necessity dent ior the worl such bone all on the M party ng class itself goes of conflict om reformist illu- Marx- volutionary ; class it is working or diverted ad; and this is the and revi- critical points, eformists are hold back the these centrists constant inst the ideas and centrism the building of the party. Our strug- party one in Marxism workers, intel- order to this ceaselessly revisionists, whose ind every way of mark ove role of the is and the Marxist orking class moves these struggle, a dangerous the development consciousness, must and the oved only on theoretical capital movement struggle for the revolu and against has always been i means of turning question con- working class r the British work- from break aditions is the great facing this cannot come through propa- and its Trotskyist nave id Lenin and Trot. programme of elec- government, in the mass socialist policies leadership, in reformist break the working today to turn every the bringing down y government and a Labour govern socialist policies fight. B is the _poncy alternative leader- the is not a swing oral pendulum or a forms, but working- socialist ex- revolutionary party 11 t Which wins ine the working class in has fought against leaders of movement and has le organization and lewspaper make to ame known in the was formed in ts first major strug 1960s Socialists, then our Party, to Marx- and principles . youth the trade same time be- establish Workers the made in brought our stage. Ir basic resources built to go forward eague to the Party. _The Dullalns ue and the Workers forward step h the growing crisis and the situation the League of the volutionary party first require- he working class is concentrating a the Marxist train go other stage, form remains It must be with hundreds bers, the class can leadership questions. higher level struggle, periences, the quest and more are 1 nese based struggle for most ism will be ist outlook. principled the traditional great Marxism.

WHY A

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transformed party, tionary specific out the Tory replace it with Tory struggle tor this fight, sands to out the the trade movement. Such wherever socialist forces. Members of fighters wages, on the social struggles they political out the volutionary No one else tasks. these the reformist the working-class state power capitalist united Labour ist policies. decisive vanguard and youth. On this tion we shall even- orward to yet an- the mass party. eague in its present ins inadequate to sks confronting it. expanded in size of new mem- it must be trans a real party, which real as a required on unite of e revolutionary ex- he theoretical con eterna le past. These gains ted in the tenacity, ness and the insis- inciple which more see in the League. the qualities, lamentally the on Marxist Theory. the to king class. broken only by a d in dialectical ma- id the whole Marx- for theory and for conducted opportunism and theoretical back- f the British labour under the pre- conditions, lead development for

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will undertake political task: vorking class behind programme to throw ry government and with a Labour gov- lead the struggle and replace the La- 's who serve capital- ake the mass anti- through the socialist policies bour government; in to win many thou. Marxism and throw of eformist leaders labour and revolutionary party in the factories, the as, youth movement, ovement, among the d, among students— is struggle Tory government the present real Iternative to these s of the party will st active and leading every struggle on on rents, on and on de- But these build the oremost to novement ories, at the centre • the assembling and the forces of the re- party itself will carry out The more the lass fights, the more and Stalinist 1 to the Tory enemy. ne the crisis matures solution for ng class except the conquest of and immediate ownership e working class can such pro- : measurès to defend s and to go forward out of the of elecuon class o reject the IG and IS, who oppose th elect a Labour gove socialist policies. the ultra-left and argument that already Party is discredited in thus substitu selves for the same time, they ref mobilize to working class again: government, that the conscious workers is confined of economic The SLL calls fo of the ing out election of a Labo ment in order to real conditions in lions of workers Labour leaders and government brough result enough to the such conditions. ministration having fail 1970 in Place in 'In he thrust to the tor demanding ment repeal of the tions Act and all a class legislation! This demand for of a Labour socialist policies, pensable step in pr working class for s because it means a break from reformi 1) A Labour gover immediately Relations Finance Act, Immi Fair Trading Act control. After the anti-working Tory sures. there must b implement Basic Rights, along ing lines. 2) The right to wo ism demands mas ment. The right to guaranteed. be done by break of capitalist owner economy. employed must un Labour gov on a tionalizing the ma banks, and control and witho sation. The struggle now. No closures, must be the policy Occupatio 1111O1S tories threatened part of the as down the Tories. democrat 3) The strike and to orga Only unions. working kind out Every gain won by the w every democratic has tain, been of the organized unions and the weapon. A Labour gover immediately repea trial Relations Ac TUC to break off the with mobilize the work destroy state conti 4) The right to d won in the Systems legal procedures r Tory All secret MI5 organizations banded and fully secrets published. All righ bly, free speech a must be guarante government on olicies, is the indis- tep in preparing the lass for state power, means above all the n reformism. ur government must repeal the Indus- Act, Housing ct, Immigration Acts, ing Act and all wage fter the repeal of all class mea- re must be legislation the Charter of ats, along the follow- ht to work! Capital- nds mass unemploy- • right to a job must This can only breaking the grip ist ownership on the and Employed un- government na- main industries workers' under without compen- begin must no sackings. 88, Saturday February 3, 1973 ) The right to a hi dard of iving living standards unionists, but the causes li which The first step close the rich, Stock Exchange control over all. move capital in and: country. Nationalization panies, banks, buildin surance societies the for resources plan to improve standards of the who Workers' control of well as the presen ized industries, the interests of th and consumers. Again, the fight m State control nOW. must be answered by widespread fight for creases to and improve means a fight to Tory government union leadership. the 6) The right to health benefits. Every fare ernment in in the health se nIs, all public be revoked. nationalization, gramme of expansio vices to the low-paid, the sick an must undertake absolute priority. class and the ment must take imm absolute responsib these victims of the system. 7) The right to decen Decent housing is no it is a necessity. the basic right accommodation afford. COlO the handful of build and building polies will provide the be massive programme house building. problem of the the cities must be in solved by

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of a unoce over perty. 8) The internation sibilities of the working class The We fight fo tional. restricted right of a nationality ot any freely through the Withdraw the Ireland. Unite the out the Lynch and ernments. Unite in the strug Socialist United Europe, the only alt the Common Marke from abroad and d colonial imperialist alliances. For the carrying o policies the SIL fig of setting up Action to lead against the Tory in unite trade ar every unemployed, all pol ties tendencie and working class ment. socialist consider gramme carefully, and to dec ake ur their ines sponsibilities the volutionary pi irning question n some remote future is determined to car its transformation volutionary party. Socialist Labou February 1, 1973 rу 3, 1973 PAGE 8 to a higher stan not the It is of trade profit sys- the crisis. to ex- must be the great fortunes close down the place a state of all movements and: out of the of the basic dior all lare com- s, building and in- will provide for unified the living the whole people. ntrol of these, present national- will run them sts of the workers • fight must begin of wered by the most wage in. price rises sandares ment and change to health and wel- Every • ory gov- welfare bene- service ano spendins must On the basis o on, a crash pro- expansion of ser- unemployed, the e sick and the aged an incertaken The working Labour govern ake immediate and responsibility for is of the capitalist to decent housing. ing is not a luxury; essity. People have decent at rents of building mono. building societies basis for a of The disgraceful the homeless in ust be immediately unoccupied pro. ternational respon- the working class. class is interna- for the un- ight of any worker to move the world. troops from the Irish and king class to inrow ich and Heath gov- • all British troop d and disband th with f equal trade and NATO and all arrying out of such : SIL fights for the Councils of lead the struggle Tory government These Councils I, all political par- of the tendencies (Labour Party,

SLL,

to fight against the y, the Tory govern- class-conscious consider this pro- manifesto The building ionary party is the not te future. ( ed to carry through mation into a re- mmittee of the bour League

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The stench of the witch-hunter

COMMENT BY JACK GALE

MR GERALD CROASDELL,

general secretary of Actors' Equity, has written to 'The Times' denying that he told a Press conference on January 28 that the vote that day on a successful resolution for strike action 'had been politically motivated by members of the Trotskyist Socialist Labour League'. In his letter yesterday he states: 'I was invited to adhere to a statement on these lines and I refused to do so? But who created the conditions for such an invitation?

At the Press conference following the January 28 meeting-at which Croasdell, even before the Equity Council had met, told reporters that the decisions of the meeting would be ignored-vice-President Hugh Manning declared officer for the union, informed Equity should be 'a non-politi- that many of those who of cal association'.

ICOULLCIS

Last May they attempted to spoke in favour of the the resolution was working on the Change the union rules to give resolution made much of Young Socialists and President power veto Socialist Labour League. their association with the any Special General Meeting Does Croasdell now wish to (two had called to dis- been Socialist Labour League'.

repudiate Manning and Neal?

Industrial Relations

CUSS

It was after this statement Act) and Aho proposed suke meters make members that Croasdell was asked if he witch-hunt has been tica would care launched in Equity under the to that the say movers of the resolution were Icaucisie SLL members. This, he now right-winger and his suppor- wing wants says, he refused to do. 'association' which recIs. These men campaigned under Tory Act, But he did take the tered eX- they Tory state laws, acuvery acalast Wear accepts step has a President with arbitrary Tenery called 'a Council group forminer he press where the which politically motivated seconder resolution powers over tne membership fought has its democratic procedure allu 1OI une

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Fight rising rents and prices

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L0, 7.50 p.m. Au douse, Mount February Victory to the 'Build Councils Stalinism and Down with Action'. imperialism. Pleasant. Workers Press, Saturday February 3, 1973 PAGE 11 Gerald Croasdell (right), Equity general secretary, with vice-President Hugh Man- ning at the Press conference following the January 28 strike-vote meeting.

of elements in the and rank members, he is forced to repu- file which used 'prery diate the democratic decisions proce- dural device to ensure that its of constituted properly particular philosophy be advo- meeting and create the union cated' conditions for a Press witch- And when the Equity Coun- hunt. cil accepted less than the then has to pull back because West End claim last October, from this witch-hunt Croasdell told an actors' meet- of the it opposition must ing that strikes only and because the were arouse ex- wanted by those who believed treme right wing could extend and strike that 'any every its activities in a way that furthers the cause of could revolu- seriously damage the tion'. union. But while this has been This is the act of a man to Tory fighting going on, opposition totally incapable laws such the Industrial the Tory attacks as against on Relations Act and state working including con- the class, trol over wages has been actors. growing within Equity, as in It only serves to underline every other trade union. what Workers Press said yes- This resulted in the January That fighting terday. in the 28 strike decision. Tory government and its laws, Croasdell caught in the fight is actors must to remove middle. Unable to fight the such leaders from the head of wage cuts imposed on his their union.

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday Februa

BY ALEX MIT

THE GRANADA ACTT unic stage a 24-hour strike on Mor cal ban on the World in Act and Influence of John L. Poul On Monday morning Granada's television shop at the Manchester headquarters will decide whether to black the screens between 8.00 and 8.30 p.m.—when the 'World in Action' series normally goes out. The industrial action by mem- technicians' bers of the film union, the ACTT, follows the arbitrary ban on the Poulson documentary by the Independent Broadcasting Authority. The pro- gramme was to have been trans- mitted last Monday, the day the Wakefield bankruptcy court re- opened its public examination of Poulson. Yesterday Workers Press was among a select group of jour- nalists invited to see the film at the Golden Square offices of Granada in London. As the producers readily admit, it does not contain an enormous amount of new material on the Poulson affair. But its success lies in the fact that it brings together in a com- prehensive way the whole of the Poulson network. The film traces his origins in Pontefract and his connections at a local level; it then reveals his web of contacts on the West Riding County Council and finally examines Poulson as the national and international construction entrepreneur. It is interesting to note that the IBA has changed its grounds for objection on two occasions.

Originally, the authority said its objections were 'legal' ones.

When these proved to have no substance, the authority said the I 'trial by tele- film represented vision' which did not give those named a chance to reply or de- fend themselves. At yesterday's Press conference screening following the private it was stated that all the parti- cipants, excluding Reginald Maud- ling, chairman of one of Poulson's companies, were invited to put their point of view. Those who agreed to take part Alderman Roy Hadwin, were Newcastle Labour leader on Council, and Albert Roberts, miners' MP for Normanton.

An ex-miner, Roberts is filmed in the most opulent surroundings; couched in the his replies are diplomatic and language most there is a strong sense he is • hide his desperately trying to broad Yorkshire accent. Roberts, who received £11,000 enjoys and from Poulson relations with the friendliest Spanish and Portuguese regimes, defends to the hilt his business activities on behalf of the Poul- son empire. Now that the 'trial-by-television' argument has been exploded, the IBA is banning the film under Section 42 of its charter.

This is an arbitrary clause which says that the IBA can ban any film if it wants to. And There is no appeal that's that. and no reason is required.

During the Press conference the executive producer, Mr Gus MacDonald, complained that the IBA ruling meant that the in- of World in vestigative style Action' journalism was threat- ened. 'We don't know where we he said. stand now, thought the I should have was crystal clear. The position IBA, a stooge body for the ruling class, is not going to continue to permit programmes which in any way expose the activities of the 'top people'. lay February 3, 1973

EX MITCHELL

TT union shop in London will on Monday against the politi- in Action film, 'The Friends L. Poulson'. politicians

WESTMINSTER

warned of pub have been gossip naming distinguished of various parties and men vocations in connection with the Poulson affair. Senior Labour MPs have said privately they have clear evi- dence that solicitors and soli- citors' clerks have been bandy- ing names to local journalists in a bar in Wakefield, Yorks- where the Poulson bankruptcy inquiry resumes on March 5.

MPs The do not think there is a deliberate leak, and no action is planned. But it is understood that are reliable and if sources necessary MPs have said they will present a dossier to the Law Society. There have been rumours of a 'parliamentary file' which could involve more MPs in the Poulson case, but many Labour MPs do not believe such a document exists. The Attorney-General Sir Peter Rawlinson is not ex- pected to announce govern- ment moves to change bank- ruptey hearings when he answers Commons questions on Monday. This must be sobering a moment for the 'grope squads' of current affairs television. This is the second time in a year that 'World in Action' has had one of its programmes banned from the screen by the IBA without any explanation. The ban is all the more sinister because the programme is not overtly a political one. The Liberals who made it are concerned about the 'integrity' of politicians and people in public life. They want a 'code of conduct' of nationalized for employees so that backhanders industries are not thrust around with such wild abandon. This is good moralist stuff which, in any other period, would have received the approval of Methodist everyone from the Church to the Confederation of British Industry. 1973. British But this is the capitalism is gripped with a brunt of this crisis foisted on the backs of the working class. demanding in his Heath is state pay laws that the working class should earn less-and thus "the eat less—in order that nation' (read capitalism) should gramme in this situation highly inflammatory. But the ban is not simply to the Tories who protect make ignominious appearances in this film; it is the Labourites who are caught with their pants also down. The working class knows about the hi-jinks of the Tory Party.

But when it is their trade union and Labour Party representatives who are unmasked, this becomes the most serious question.

Mr Denis Forman, joint manag- ing director of Granada, told the the Press conference he was deter- mined to press for the screening ling of the film. 'We have not lost our interest in the Poulson story and we will come again, IBA permitting,' he added.

A DEMONSTRATION

will be staged in Clyde- bank today against the Tory government's Hous- ing Finance Act. Thir- teen rent rebels on the local council are risking jail by failing to imple- ment the Act. Earlier this week the coun- cil voted 13 to eight to defy a Court of Sessions order de- manding that the Act and its rent increases be imposed im- mediately. The vote against implementa-

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Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), 180b Clapham High SiStet, London, brings the council into N tion direct legal confrontation with the government. Defiance of the court order means that councillors are auto- matically in contempt of court and this could lead to unlimited fines and imprisonment. Councillors who voted against implementation are: Baillie Mrs Betty Brown, Baillie Edward Mc- Cilrs Patrick Foley, Joseph liam Melville, Patrick Boyle and James Malcolm (all Labour); Cllrs John Smith and James Reid, Arnold Henderson (Communist Party); and Cllrs lain Smith and John Hamilton (Scottish National Party). Mrs Brown said: "This could be the culmination of the con- frontation the Conservative gov-

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(nr Mansion Hou ernment appears to be seeking with the working class. 'I will not give in, even to the threat of jail Her statement was markedly different from Cilr Reid's, the man who led the UCS work-in and member of the CP's National Executive: 'The law we are defying is not a divine law. It is a law devised by politicians. 'We may be beaten eventually, but we would rather face it as principled men and women than give in on an unprincipled basis.?

A special committee headed by has asked for the Mrs Brown trade unions, the local trades council, tenants' associations and 'the whole labour movement to back today's march.

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the service. A complete ban on overtime has been imposed and members are being asked to policy of non-co- follow operation. A Gas Corporation spokesman in Manchester said yesterday that 1,514 workers were still on strike, mainly in the Merseyside and south Lancashire areas. East Midlands Gas said wor- kers in the Rotherham area were strike. Overtime bans and on continued working-to-rule in many areas. About 220 kitchen and other ancillary workers at Pontefract started a three-day strike over the pay as staff on strike at five Bristol hospitals since Monday returned to work. In London, workers at St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, began a 24-hour un- official strike. specially-convened meeting of the National Union of Public Employees' executive will con- sider the situation today.

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