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EDITORIAL

THE UPSURGE of strike activity by the European working class and the growing international mone- By tary crisis form an appropriate backeloth for the The Editor Labour Party Conference which opens in Brighton next week. Only a pale reflection of these events will be on

THE

VAUXHALL MOTORS

appearance the Workers' show at the conference. but the question of wages policy Press has been analmos seems cerain to be high on the agenda.

phere of almost complete A back-door right-wing attempt to change last year's overwhelming vote against the incomes policy is nd the mouthings a alreday provoking a major tow in the partys leader- Liberal Party conference ship. Evchat such e unionist know A small section has been Policy introduced into the statement Agenda class, Generation' which states: reps peasy about our paper paigned to expe e rises of till workin paigned class that nee VAUXHALL workers moved into action this week crauc. against the company's threat to push through a penal Thursday The Guardia The tables are now turned.

report tha clause' wage deal in its Luton, Dunstable and mere Port plants. setting government emer their positer nanoeuvres A mass meeting of 4.00l paper, maned union enging. By Davis Malae 1115- Amalga Feeling Stronger More laws rule immediately and to im pose a complete overtime forearinaples and against Dall. Borne Prices and incomes fabricating ne But the The Workers' Press is dedi- Thus, labour Octan pay a day A major reason for this was votes to 1,124,000.

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and Incomes he he ber rene segmend that 'not satisfactory'. By Peter Read AS THE West German election of September 28 approached, the big wages offensive has brought the main political parties into quite open and united oppo- we are sition to the German working class.

No influence cy document oppose the Cine series or 23 ho its own policy. All the contempt of the negotiations wage claim by 1,200,000 Labour eadership for dem so dies. lords and summed op in this incident. Fleet Street, mai sense e it speaks louder tha THE International Mone- tion. out the These same people were the 'among othe tary Fund's annual report sell appointed published in Washington both seriousnese yelled. made an apanese yen are last week indicates that

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the world monetary system Britain United

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is once more on the edge Talks of crisis. deficios and infla- on the eve of the Labour Party Conference in Brighton even arter th For a Socialist alternative to Wilson!

THINGS ON THE UP AND

have Withdraw Troops from Ulster.

UP FOR PLESSEY CHIEFS

Catholic and Protestant Workers Unite!

Throw out Prices and Incomes Act!

Drawing No Measured-Day Work! No Anti-Union Laws!

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answered workers. out on September 27, 1969 22,699 Problem Sunday, September 28 hardly surprisin thro Assemble 2 p.m. at Palace Pier, Brighton much of ta problem win be the stabilt, Meeting 4 p.m. at West Theatre According to Plessey's an Whose hobbies Sis tying Tell enterprises British

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employers hold daily Inions are next wear desperate attempt to force London working Devlin Statement by the S.L.L schemes second phase. working party- A ten-man comprising five unior Central Committee and five employers' ativac encloses docks modernization Wednesdav's will be an historic year for (Septembe Monday and all the betrayals of social democracy session until and Stalinism, the working class of central points at issueesolve the Europe has within its grasp the and Western Mr lohn Hovey, ero emploverg chi Tran political and theoretical resources for the con- lead the emo overs cice struction of genuine mass revolutionary parties claimed on Wednesday night based on Marxism. that tle separated senarated noth cider can dant o The historic general strike in France in 1968, the full noreement with met and or two points left over for the continued offensive of the colonial masses against im- full committee to debate" perialism, events in Northern Ireland and lastly the Unacceptable anti-Stalinist resurgence in Czechoslovakia are all por- Union tents of even more profound revolutionary upheavals again re- lected the in the immediate future. which would mashe tan hacie These, other body blows struck against and mant Stalinism and imperialism, are certain guarantees that the shift-working. and hire andy fire mobility Hevikility working class is on the offensive and intends to win.

labour and a Socialist Labour League proposes to Rut tho make rule 1970 historic in another, if related sense. Next year The Transport and General mark Workers' Union favours Two anniversaries that encomnass a whole anorn in history international workers' movement: work but it is of 437 the 10sr rest The birth of Lenin and the death of Trotsky. mobility and against hire and national, the World Party of the Socialist Ravolution 2,000 Royal Group docker: 1938. founder of the Bolshevik struck for half a day on Mon Party and architect The Socialist Labour League ic todou the Reitich contine teir Ruscian Revolution stewards the pay demands, while affiliated to that Want Douty. was born on April 22, disputes over International Committee carpo insectiot 1870. awards on Merseyside - of the are the historical heirs volving almost 500 men-have LEON TROTSKY, co- Wee Bolshevik heen going on all weak founder with Lenin Russian i Revolution Canist tha monumental International and pioneer Marxist of the Fourth,

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was mur. dared bu a Stalinist goent

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A THE UPSURGE of strike activity by the European working class and the growing international mone- Silent By tary crisis form an appropriate backcloth for the The Editor Labour Party Conference which opens in Brighton press next week. Only a pale reflection of these events will be on VAUXHALL MOTORS THere pance the has been show at the conference, but the question of wages policy stence by the seems cerain to be high on the agenda.

complete Work to A back-door right-wing attempt to change last Meanwhile, press. thous- ands of have been words year's overwhelming vote against the incomes policy is written about the hippies already provoking a major row in the Party's leader- Liberal Party co rule over ship. introduced inton hepbee penalties Generation' which states: Dearers or aemocranc socia 'We believe in the vital im- paled to Spal Trotsk out paper. send the minate strengthening Priss is hostile because o VAUXHALL workers moved into action this, week against the company's threat to push through a 'penal of fairer distribution clause wage deal in its Luton, Dunstable and Elles- forced mere Port plants. the he o serinent chaos that ned mass meeting of 4,000 * responsibilities in con- By David Maude mated Union of Engineerin Foundryworkers trom Stronger Merseyside plant More laws Wednesday voted hand, has bec on stronger now ances the need for tur a complete sses mee heist the Prises send in mmed bureaucracy. workers Board. catede Workers Press is dedi- recommendation against bureaucrac trara whe da movement an have current pay agree- en major reason for this was and about the Prices and does Wage fight Board's role its latest report- The gre tele in he mu how dispel em. Cabic distribute sharpens have a cir- German poll not aristatory, the deal i Contrare, the Workers Press for creato eat and By Peter Read olicy, it also co Sino shee the working cers AS THE West German election of September avoroacued me or wares orensve has prouent the main political parties into quite open and united oppo- at of all the need to maintain our paper.

Sinon to the German working class.

No influence The government of the Christian coannon Worden o eatine bause

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capitalist Social be moratic I.M.F. report nervous of (SPD) agreed al all masso erse rdinar 23 to on Septen working class ter, ship for de the support. the wage claim by 1,200,000 so dies Meer street, up in dis non. service employees *hE speaks louder that until he electio

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International Mone- In over cat poisy and self-apse appeared standard Cabin tary Fund's annual report the CDU had been published in Washington to make

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week indicates that seriously over-values of it.

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Talks is once more on the edge of crisis. their infla- And had Bey demanding on the eve of the Labour Party Conference dencits and combat Brandt in Brighton For a Socialist alternative to Wilson!

THINGS ON THE UP AND

Withdraw Troops from Ulster!

UP FOR PLESSEY CHIEFS

Catholic and Protestant Workers Unite!

Throw out Prices and Incomes Act!

working-class ice tige s

WHILE

slash had his pay bumped No measure•- vay work. NO An UnIon Laws. copters'- Nationalize all basic industries without compensation under wokes Concor

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employers and unions daily are meetings next week desnerate force attempt to London working Devlin mournamon Statement by the S.L.L. scheme s second phase A ten-man comprising Central Committee and five depresent atives Wednesday's meeting the enclosed docks modernization an historic year for the committee Trotskyist movement. At last, after next (September 29) will meet Mondat all the betrayals of social democracy in daily session until it main the and Stalinism, the working class of central ahle points at issue' and Western Europe has within its grasp the chairman rou Ocean employers' • John Hovey, who political and theoretical resources for the con- Gill ed cmployers side struction of genuine mass revolutionary parties Wednesdav night little based on Marxism. separate• Dol side The historic general strike in France in 1968, the Tut agreement with ca ne or two points left over for the continued offensive of the colonial masses against im- full committee to debate' perialism, events in Northern Ireland and lastly the Unacceptable anti-Stalinist resurgence in Czechoslovakia are all por- Union officials tents of even more profound revolutionary upheavals iected 'final' in the immediate future. which would mean rate of These, and manv other hody blows against week in retur struct shift-working, Stalinism and imperialism, are certain guarantees that the Hexibility complete working class offensive and intends to on the a00l hire and fire la Dour Socialist Labour League proposes to make rule. 1970 historic in another, if related sense.

Next year will Ine lransport and Genera mark two anniversaries that encompass a whole enoch in Workers' Union favours shift- of the workers' movement: improved it is arter 833 nistory international improved The birth of Lenin and the restricted flexibility death of Trotsky. mobility and against hire and national the World Party fr2:000 Royal Group dockers

VLADIMIR

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Socialist Revolution the founder of the Bolshevik 1038 struck for half a day on Mon- Today tie Belish ser lion of Phe us Revolution, architect is today British

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SINCE its election in 1964 the Labour govern- ment has systematically encouraged the develop- ment of every method of exploitation known to the employers. Further, it has set out to transform these methods from measures used by in- dividual managements to raise output, into major weapons of the government and employers in their poli- tical struggle against the entire working class. The passing of the Prices and Incomes Act in 1966 instituted the wage freeze which held down workers' pay while the cost of living rapidly rose. At the same time, the Act put on a statu- tory basis the National Board for Prices and Incomes. This body consisting of em- ployers' representatives, trade union officials, and labour re- professors from the lations universities was to examine wage claims and to report as to whether or not they were justified.

REJECTED

DEMANDS

In each case the PIB re- jected the demands for basic increases on the basis: • That they did not con- form to the wage freeze. • They did not conform to the ruling of the Prices and Incomes Board that the workers must either accept more exacting work or major changes in working practice be- fore any form of increase could be paid. The PIB went on to publish reports recommending the in- troduction of all the most re- cent methods of exploitation under cover of 'productivity deals' for every industry.

Railmen were to be prepared jobs and do to overlap any work on railway stations; Jus- to drive faster, men were spend less time at stops and to agree to one-man operation of buses; all craftsmen were to accept an end to demarcation between jobs and the elimin- ation of mates. Lorry drivers must accept a tachograph meter in the cab: firemen were to be on call for periods; factory and longer power station workers must accept flexibility and mobility; to undergo journalists were analysis to increase their job efficiency. were to be paid on Nurses an hourly basis, work revised shifts and accept that numbers be made up with part-time teachers labour ; university were to accept a payment-by- results system. In effect, the Labour govern- ment has set out to change the work and increase the speed of the job of worker every In every without exception. of these reports on one 'workers' pay' and in every productivity deal that is put into operation a major empha- sis is placed on work-study.

WORK-STUDY

MUSHROOM

Over the last five-year period this official government back- ing for these systems has given immense impetus to the mush- room development of work- study consultancy firms. National conferences and seminars are held constantly to devise new methods of regulating the worker at work.

This is nothing more than the spreading of intensive methods of working into every aspect of work and into every second of the working day. Whatever claims are made about the new schemes, about their ability to increase wages and to pay 33} per cent bonuses, under capitalism their real aims are : I To lay down the amount of work a worker must do in each minute of the working day.

Times for jobs are worked out of a • hundredth minute. to a Some methods go so far as to include time for eye movement and eye focusing. 2 To fix manning levels-on the basis of the speed-up.

The same work to be done with fewer workers and the labour force can be cut. 3 To prove ('scientifically) the need to install any methods which will help to increase profits —elimination of tea breaks, in- troduction of shifts or revised shifts, and so on. 4 To bring about closures-it is often on the basis of work- study consultants' reports that managements decide that it is feasible to close entire factories and to rationalize work through- out a firm.

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MAKING CAPITALISM WORK

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Labour government encourages wage freeze, speed-up, Measured- Day Work and productivity deals By Bernard Franks 5 Work is * seema rentered er to be emphasi a conjuring trick, a torture or sible Labour could government is absolutely dedi- logists and industrial relatino Large numoers enforcement of severe measures cher pees back the eary, this crisis of payments used to expense against through protes ors have bet to deleted capitalism get the schem une working Class al a later dare Miners who accepted On the recommendations of for higher productivity, thor ones drive the Donovan heir key weapon to raise the co ernment set up measured-va. who tought ricatalls ques san of com in len was, in fact. to lay thy output again and agaln. wno Keep no the time and main wnich The sovernment often uses meep's standards. Dasis lor tne coming anu-strike these espie to us of come legislaton worker is then The on questions work precisely the the basis of or labour

BASIS

Permount of standar Inty dist

FOR CIR

the new productivity level.

stewards into credits' On the with niza As well setting out thi for proposals acked Devlin sent on soella. ay be in the car the White Paper No matter courses under business of published Strife', scheme, the 1909. set out the basis is outs are or tne tin. of money of be earned. "The CIR ments, for or tomp

JOB

direct the car workers' wage packet.

pretable s

REWARD

effective the level of mod procedures, how to bring shor agreed rules in break organized who simply looks at •enberate poncy or no-recruit strength working read and ba the ment nas been introduced.

simate the sil bie for 0» It is true that in many cases (Page 13.) productivity sta he wider aspent wistooks But anyone who look operation and some It is also made cear thai increases in output nave dee wnal was almed al was alrec situation much more clearly.

brought about by speeding-up.

state intervendon On the recommendations of the Donovan Report the Commission on Industrial Relations was set up. It was to lay the basis for the anti-strike legislation. Included on the Commission were ex-Communist Party member and mineworkers leader Will Paynter (extreme right) and ex-TUC secretary George Woodcock (second from right).

meant to aspect of bargaining and work sheet severe set-back inas The need for state interven tion threatening many much as working-class strength has definitely not been broken.

and authorized movements'. another pressure, have under some cases, lmost everyone. The also ries to divide worriedy falling employers really over been strong enough concessions conte seats and have pro produc nemselves to pur more mone methodrease Britain within recent roweve manora worker against day-workers and preparations mobilization weeks the aircratt and motor so on. cvcle industries nave been pro-

DONOVAN

nounced dire flected in the demonstration seldo on Permie trouble

CONFIDENCE

CONCLUSIONS

on Febru DuIKes Il ary 23.

TRICK

deeper seper or steel and the May 1 surike steel. and the formidable problem in trades Unions oppo- piouaction snoweu these schemes intro- here is also talk or a down (A general strike in Australia auced, not witn enrorcement.

turn in car sales. rull orde. Sion. Co Trusions books in some sections of ship- found and orders wrom man- over the the Donovan Report were that building nothing exactiv ine same type or legis ivert the crisis from that also over-full employment gave im dustry. lauon al tnal time snower erement coupo expect from GLenin. examined mense backing already of the Prices expect time-ana-moton 1 ne basis Board with the early days of their develop.

Incomes pal" Now the Trades Union Con- gress (TUC) is straining itself whic to prove that it can do the job disciplining the workers through their own organiza- tions, i.e. the trade unions, and that anti-strike legislation not really necessary. The union leaders, all along the line, had given full backing to productivity deals and the of introduction work-study systems. Without their support none of these schemes would have got a foot in the door any- where. At the same time union officials were given a 'left' cover for their activities by the Communist Party. As employers and govern- ment agencies combined to spread new methods of work- ing, major re-organization and modernization throughout in- dustry, CP militants told their followers that these were purely local action by employ- ers, "bread and butter issues' and should be looked at on this basis. Members and supporters of the Socialist Labour League, who set out to explain the political nature and the uni- versal application of produc- tivity schemes, were directly opposed, in some cases by force by Communist Party members. The CP policy of peaceful co-existence with capitalism leads directly to the betrayal of the workers' struggles.

DUE TO

BETRAYALS

The savage curtailment of the number of working miners and the foothold that employ- ers in the building industry have gained with speed-up methods do not in any way result from the 'weakness' or lack of fight of the workers concerned, but have been en- tirely due to these betrayals of leadership by fake left-wingers in the face of a major political attack by the capitalist class.

While the 'militants' con- tinue to deny the nature of the political struggle, the employ- ers, the consultants, and the government continue to com- bine in of the development extensions to their new schemes. Recent months have seen The extensive introduc- tion of pre-determined motion-time systems and synthetics. This means, instead of timing workers on the job with a stopwatch, the consultant simply lists every movement the worker make then looks up times for these movements in a standard list of 'synthetic' times and works out a final time for the job. The manual of synthetics gives a time for every twist, September 27, 1969 The direct spying meth- ods on the shop floor. example of this is the An introduction by CAV into their factories of tele-control meth- ods, a system by which micro- switches on the machines work in combination with a tele- phone system and a computer to continuously report on the operators level of production. This ensures that the worker never stops or slows down for an instant and aims to tie the worker completely to the system of production. The further extension of work-study into new sections of workers. Judging by the latest sound- ing off by the PIB a big drive against clerical workers is be- ing prepared. No doubt all their work will be designated as 'unproductive' and a short-term aim of speed- and cuts in staffing will up lead to later attempts to re- place large section of office workers with computers. Also, the specialist magazine Work Study' recently reported on a train blind to work-study officers. This has been run by Indus- trial Advisers to the Blind 'in order to improve the efficiency of the blind work-shops'. The magazine sees this especially helpful in the work- shops which changing to are light engineering from previous basket-making, etc. A drive to change all in- centive bonus schemes and allied pay systems. The main plan is to make Measured-Day Work a uni- versal pay system. The attempted introduc- tion of disciplinary and anti - strike clauses into agreements. This was high-lighted by the struggle at Ford over attempts to negotiate no-strike clauses.

The employers are now pre- Paring to take a much tougher demanding They are the right to hire and fire workers without question and to insert no - strike disciplining and clauses into all agreements.

They demanding are also that all agreements be made legally binding, i.e. that once union officials have signed deal the productivity worker becomes bound in law to ac- cept every method blink and of every turn, twitch and change in work every which a human being is management-dictated time for capable. a job. Delegates who attend the The further development Labour Party conference face of the theory of produc- a government leadership which tive work. 'allowing' these 1S not only measures to be introduced, but The consultants claim that one which is actively leading only work directly concerned with actual production is real the assault by the employers against every section of the work and that all other actions working class. are non-productive' and there- fore equivalent to not working All talk without action from at all. Some systems only pay the Labour Party members is a bonus or levels above basic on fraud. productive work. Many more Only the immediate sack for sections of work are now be- the Wilson leadership and the ing declared unproductive.

fight for socialist policies of nationalization of the basic in- dustries under workers' The emphasis by the con- for the of the trol, repeal Prices and Incomes Prices and Incomes Act, for Board on the fact that pro- and proper housing, rents ductivity deals are a con- wages and for a real offensive tinuous process. against the capitalist class in- That once signed, they stead of the labour Pera against mit introduction movement will convince wor- the kers that the Labour Party is never-ending stream of new methods, cuts in manning and really concerned with fighting revision of work-study times against the of the and methods. Tories.

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Septemoer zi. 1909 N. I. Bukharin A. Shlyapnikor Kar Rade. STALINISM was built in the USSR by completely liqui- dating the Bolshevik Party, by massacring its mili- including the supporters tants from top to bottom, of Stalin. From 1935 to 1938, for example, one million 600,000 were Russian militants arrested. Ward executed and 400,000 were deported.

Stalin and the bureaucracy had to liquidate almost the whole of the Bolshevik Party, from the Party branches to the Politburo, in order to consolidate its domina- tion and exclude the proletariat from power.

the USSR requires, in parti- The political revolution in cular, the renewal of this link with the past of Bol- shevism that Stalinism tried to erase forever. That is why this document written in 1967 and published 'Samizadat I' ('The Voice of the Communist Op- In position in the USSR'), which evaded the salinis political police, is so important.

The signatories to this letter, all sons and daughters of the Bolshevik cadres assassinated by Stalin and the represent by their names and by the bureaucracy, Committee central contents of the letter a direct link with Bolshevism.

of the Communist Partu Reflected in their names is the diversity and richness the USSR (CPSU) on behalf of the surviving children of of the past. the innocent communist vic- Bukharin, member of the Politburo, leader of the Right tims of Stalin. Opposition; Antonov-Ovseyenko, responsible for the political leadership of the Red Army, member of the TODAY, in speeches, in Left Opposition from 1923 to 1927; Radek, member Central Committee, advisor to the German the press, on television, of the member of the Left Opposition Communist Party, the 'merits' of Stalin are from 1923 to 1929; Petrovsky, People's Commissar praised. This represents for home affairs, member of the Central Committee, a political revision of the half-hearted supporter of Stalin at first; Shiyapnikov, 22nd Con- Central Committee, leader of the 20th and member of the workers' opposition; Muralov, one of the leaders of gresses of the CPSU. the Moscow Soviet in October 1917; member of the This troubles us deeply. Left Opposition from 1923 to 1931; Sapronov, leader And not only because our of the so-called Democratic Centralism group, mem- parents and ourselves were, ber of the Left Opposition in 1923; Piatnitsky, presi- like millions of others, vic- member of the tailwaymen's union. cant nt tha tims of the criminal machine Central Committee, supporter of Stalin; Serebriakov, of Stalin. It saddens us to one of the three secretaries of the Central Committee think that the betrayed in 1919, member of the Left Opposition from 1923 to masses were forced to con- 1928: Yenukidze, secretary of the executive commit- sent to this arbitrary despot- tee of the Soviets, half-hearted supporter of Stalin; ism. Berzin, colonel, commander of the Latvian regiment in 1917; Kalinin, member of the Politburo, president This must not be repeated.

of the executive committee of Soviets, etc.

The rebirth of the past brings communist ideas into ques- If the number of signatures isn't greater, it is because tion, discredits our system entire families, like that of Trotsky were assassinated.

and legalizes the assasination By this protest against the rehabilitation of Stalin, carried out today in the official organ of the Central of millons of innocent people.

Committee of the CPSU, the descendents of the All the attempts whiten refusal of the black deeds of Stalin raise assassinated Bolsheviks express tho danger ot a renetition millions of workers and intellectuals to yield before the hideous tragedy that struck the escalation of the rule of force, an escalation our Party, our people and the whole communist movement.

which follows naturally from the rehabilitation of the father of concentration camps and counter-revolu- The tragedy tha Chinace events obliges all of us to out- tionary terror who the bold thinker, Roger Garaudy, safeguards necessary in 1952 still called, 'Papa Stalin'.

prevent a repetition of similar Only Jean Jacques Marie. eatastronhec reveaiing and his supporters can gener- PIOTR YAKIR, son of E. A. Yakir.

L. PETROVSKY, son of P. G. Petrovsky and grandson of G. I. Petrovsky. N. N A. BOKI, daughter of G. I. Boki.

A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO, son of V. A. Antonov-Ovseyenko.

G. TROITSKAYA, daughter of Livchitz.

G. AKOULOV, son of I. A. Akoulov.

s. V. STANKOVA (Ossinskaya-Obolevskaya), daughter of communists.

G. POLECHTCHOUK, daughter of N. I. Muralov.

YU JIVLIOUK, son of communists.

V. TERLIN, daughter of M. S. Gorb.

Z. SEREBRIAKOVA, daughter of G. Serebriakova.

The serious crimes of Stalin make all positive judgement of his activity immoral. I am signing precisely this point: YU AIKHENWALD, son of a communist.

S. FEDOROVA, daughter of G. F. Fedorova.

J. KRIAPIVIANSKY, son of N. G. Kriapiviansky.

V. SCHMIDT, son of V. V. Schmidt.

YU LARIN (Bukharin), son of N. I. Bukharin and grandson of Yuri Larin. A. ar S. K. RADEK, daughter of Karl Radek.

A. VSESVIATSKAYA, daughter of communists.

A. GASTEV, son of A. Gastev.

LARISSA BOGORAZ, daughter of a communist.

1. YAKIR, grand-daughter of I. E. Yakir and daughter of P. I. Yakir.

WORKERS' PRESS

Yenukidze N. I. Muralov A. Gaster G. I. Boki ate movement, consciousness is still an unjustified stigma. and indignation in all of Others are doomed to oblivion.

society needed to destroy all will History bring them the results of the Stalin cult back into the heart of the and make the return of new Party, into the heart of the despotisms im- cults and new people. possible. Stalin How can one praise Stalin's despotism tims after all that our people and the 22nd Con- promised by the international communist gress of the Party must be have suffered be- movement erected to mark the existence cause of him? of the Soviet 50 state This adulatory praise years. shackles our movement, weak- In these days of celebration, our ranks, destroys our those who fought for a world power and makes the triumph October will be with us. of communism impossible. be Their number cannot We must celebrate the 50th counted: from the eminent anniversary of the Oct- great leaders of the Party to the ober revolution under the flags of soldiers in the ranks the bearing like of the Party, revolution. torch the immortal name There is for the Lenin, the greatest democracy, nO place the flags control of name of a despot on collective society, of society by of the Party. control society itself. We ask you to take notice unfurl these flags is the To of all that is written here and best homage we can pay to the to see our letter as part of the men crushed by the diabolical for We struggle communism. cult of the individual. this letter will allow an hope irreparable error to be avoided.

On some of us today there N. NETCHINCHTOHIKOV, son of a communist.

N. N. POPOV, son of N. Popov.

N. N. DEMTCHENKO, son of N. Demtchenko.

It is impossible to forget and to justify the crimes o of any of his 'services'.

V. SCHVARTZSTEIN, son of a communist.

I. PIATNITSKY, son of O. A. Piatnitsky.

T. BAEVA, daughter of a communist.

R. IANSON, daughter of a communist.

YU SAPRONOV, son of T. V. Sapronov.

K. ZONBERG, son of a communist.

YU N. VAVILOV, son of the academician Nicolas Vavil Vaskhnil. V. BLUMFELD (Svitchis), son of a communist.

M. IVANOV (Kalinin), grandson of M. I. Kalinin.

I. A. SHLYAPNIKOVA, daughter of the friend of Lenin V. YENUKIDZE, in the name of eight people of the fan A. and T. YENUKIDZE, crushed by Stalin.

ARIA REINGOLDOVNA DIMZE-BERZIN, daughter T. SMILGA-POLOUIAN, daughter of communists.

L. ZAVADSKI, son of a communist.

YU KIM, son of a communist.

S. GUENKIN, son of a communist.

PAGE THREE

THE following article was written by Ivan mock them. For the Party, such a line is A. Yakhimovitch, former chairman of a equivalent to self-strangulation. Too bad called for us if we are not capable of reaching 'the COPCTIVe Young Guard' and a member understanding …of the win inese young people. They will create inevitably a new Communist Party. In 1964 he became well known through the publication of party. Ideas cannot be murdered with excerpts from his in the youth bullets, prisons or exile. He who does diary paper 'Komsomolskaya Pravda'.

not understand this is no politician, no Marxist.' Early in 1968 he addressed a letter In June 1968 Yakhimovitch was dis- of protest to the Central Committee of missed from his post and condemned to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union unemployment. He took a stand against following the of Sinyavsky and trial the intervention in Czechoslovakia and, Daniel which drew attention to discon- in February 1969, he drew up and dis- tent among the youth. tributed with Grigorenko a leaflet con- 'It is stupid to see in them [the rebels cerning the suicide of the Czech student protesters] the Jan Palach. of the enemies Soviet power', he wrote, 'and more than In March 1969 he was arrested and stupid to let them rot in prisons and has not yet been brought to trial.

SINCE THE END of the Great Patriotic War people has not our known such an uncom- fortable situation as that into which it was plunged by the events of August 21, 1968. To occupy an allied social- ist country solely because of supposed tion. to occupv a countrv in which the leading role is played by the Communist Party, without its consent, with contempt lor its wishes, something which ruins counter to all the moral con- ceptions of the Soviet people.

They desire and peace know how to appreciate the friendship and confidence of other peoples. ¿v a yakhimovitch Antines araly stuar similar souls millions Whether the Stalinists are I do not base this upon a like of men rebirth of the it or ther but upon conscious nOl. fear my personal experience. servile ana cerraoins unelr OWi neon e more than they fear the imperialists.

The dow night or sanit Sentember hive in It is this fear dividuals carried out a search All that of Stalinists gang „alone Which who explain the continuous my home because have not and had can never brain-washing of large having stolen an tale to co with Marksm. methods or linomi roubles the State Leninism. but who on the con.

Irom of trary, tended towards fascist, Bank of the town of Yourmal'.

mundalon and blackmal. rude They went through my flat, Constitution, fascism, these The the they found some treme bureaucratization of Stalinists Khrushchev who state, network of Czechoslovakia took relecated the storehouses of informing, of prisons spying, con- and coradore of hictory sidered that the time had come and concentration camps. because comments to take their revenge. Is all this socialism ? had been written in the margin How much they Where statements. did they get this some ot the thirsty for policy from? There is no need for the those revenge West doubt that 'they' will now have also Germany. did Marxist-Leninism not material for behind interven- camouflage ineme ves sonial it does nor include type of the KGB [i.e. the secret us wall They nnonev also lope to take revenge ! ponce ano tor my arrest.- uch nincines * now nołh this is what Can such brutal acts of in• terference in the has to be admitted when all socialist state strengthen their screen verbiage has movement? No! The communist een swept aside and the facts any thad magistrate asked me why I brought into the light of day.

Can strengthen the without

WORKIN

authority of the Soviet Union?

No! a thousand times no! April 1 this vear). I was sacker Stalinism has become while on holiday (for the letter 0th can. principal danger which Suslov and unreal. written gress of the CPSU affirmed th ens the unitv and solidaritu of dressed to the Central Com- ned principles of Lennism.

necessity to norms countries, principal mittee). the danger which threatens peace Besides, have not been and progress. This is wh Thallobed whole given registration munist Dermil undoubted that with allow me to ioin mv familv2 suce close attention and none Everybody knows that without their the process of democratization in Czechoslovakia. USSR one cannot UnIS Loe this 1sm. destroy ontain work even as a montai deviation, this revisionism, this And this is why the Stalin.

or be admitted to hospital.

non-socialism before the ists attacked the Czechoslovak leads to catastrophe. represents Communist because they sawhin it a with such What sort of hypocrisy is it ask someone uns: lovey under these conditions: mortal cancer ror themse ver are you not working?' when it personallv thev make a mock.

ery of socialism and commun- is obvious on whose orders the ism and of all their things just mentioned have skins. been decided! order their save OWIl Isn't it significant that those When a torrent of calumnies fraternall Communist papers, vhen the Czechoslovakia, its people fraternal Party government were arrestea and the socialist republic of Czech.

beaten up ? the crimes of Stalin in the name also os ovaria clandered This took place in the Year slander What doec a further what is more, in led Squard, of the Rights against the former chairm and. a collective farm matter ?

Those Communist Parties nev must nave reacneo u which support the CPSU nit of tear and nanie in org crude mistakes render to turn on their own citizens, Soviet people. These demon- woeuer thev want to or not. to servecess he strators, Pa vel Litvinov, Larissa the worst contribute deceiving Bogoraz - Daniel and olners. Soviet people, they weaken our they not were supporting a country practice, socialist state? because strengthen the adventur- Lney ist elements within the leader.

icolas Vavilov, president of the ship of the party and weaken the healthy progressive No, the Stalinists feel that elements. repeat: Come to your senses! hour /e repeat: Hands off Czecho for them is nd of Lenin, A. Shlyapnikov.

choser ambros. ovakia ing. Their nanic is that of can.

demned men, it is the panic of We repeat: Free the political e of the family of Bolsheviks.

living corpses. prisoners But necesse in their We

STALINISM NONISM

vigilant! have

YES!

V, daughter of R. I. Berzin.

hands they Yakhimovitch indepd weaDoR. arrested hands the levers of but nower. their hands are frail. They are the hands of criminals. oviet town world, stop them before it is too late.

Communists bossess worker cannot hope to

WORKERS' PRESS

PAGE FOUR

G.E.C.-English Electric New

M.D.W.

FIGHT AGAINST

threat at

UNEMPLOYMENT

British-

MUST GO ON

Leyland Newsletter Industrial Reporter

BRITISH ENDURE DO-

WEDGWOOD BENN'S visit to Merseyside a week push Southall ago has, as expected, solved none of the problems vehicle subsidiary,

BY DAVID MAUDE

workers from the merseys facing the area's GEC-English Electric workers.

year agarcht the else t Nine months ago, AEC's an- workers had their the Those fought who claim the com- plan to occupy pany's three Liverpool helped After grantinge tacitly Halls prepare September 17's set- po side-track big back still face one question : What to do about the Fixed wage closure of Napier's and the 3,000 other redundancies scheduled Weinstock by and Nelson? the fact stopped through disputes.

Weinstock told thi Liverpool Dall POSt'S Ian Har- business editor, raves, in an interview put nea on september a Thowever, mow oar the res "This plan is vital if C.P. hinders busines has become is ose 22 per cent last solely throat tol work-study 2543 teward, opposition Attacks I have been This rends of co her odo come are business, would laced before no powers. THE INTERVENTION of Stalinist leadership threatens EC's 3.0 Job-evaluation campaign bring the defeat of 70 electricians who are on also had woe ene nationally strike at the three Scottish factories of Rolls-Royce wants, Kers in the thee plant ter also little opposition same introductio world capitalise. There is no Ltd. selves. At AEl Woolwich, • thor The Electrica. Trades By Bob Shaw Warning after Inion oat of nino weaks, electrca 1 races combination electren this happens of left' talk s his Labour stage. Listen to Weinstockvery • a total of two weeks aller machines. covered by the men So through procedure. i defeat from the to allow was re for wall. agreement' Communist Party. as Union of En but did not Their struggle is against a nd or forces hostile, vase-introducestemogic I Productiv Failed trades havor ar ten months be influenced according Response Stoolwich™ struggle into ments into his factoriesree- thelectrile resented between English about and l between the affected by the with one pro The Southall Ahter AEC." hirst-rate Midland fight that the walked out. Factory Commur rested sucho has a50 Filington which the what ted alore by Labour League the obvict West Germany which have Sheuid attack them action e this simply as da heroes wai the back warnes 9 simply as Nether

S.L.L.

Ford claim in nglish Electric

•FROM PAGE ONE

scribed a on september 16.

Militanter or pede Strike

•FROM PAGE ONE

the tace of the big Workers-called dancies and lymen management on September o that tie working class is role is very limited, the comice decion to call À conference oil told o on attempted evictions.

the political ilitancy has also ex heading W this movemens. ressed itself in the determine October 19 at Coventry. aratior the neo-Nazi Natonal Demo.

Divert announce Stunt the thousands our toile Bute hast triad mistake wn by try In toas tied y clashed g ohe NeD Talie confidens for workers he National ate spire millions of revolution tendinGovernme Von Thadden, NPD leader and in this away and itsel in of the sid

SPD

mixei up. : Trotsky lay st 20 1940 peaking at public character of the middle-class 73 tailure local aura rem a blow struck by last usie to his tollo weis J. R. Campbell By Robert Black so how ding. Improvemen

THE AM CONE ON TOE

THE

John Campbell, who died (aged

OURTH

74) a week ago, is a case hist Onternational he 292- ene Moscow study in the history and British Stalinism. nd fought a rearguard Rubished by e political satie By Mickle Shav Gollan conscianders Victor

THE

STRIKE

naret First involvement Better Sound Reproductions Kilbride, workers prin- hast Lanarkshire, i Trend of it founder continued has he sell endorse t now for six weeks Case, which helped to bring ana Ine down Marxist Trocky to Tito intrary to Capelling Star man's From General Councillower to He he sinke win sousa

TO THE

ivered he main

END

political re- •This was devoted exclusively right-wing line to he ed his Campbell also y the cable being of led the with the victor put an ed co capitali

POLICY

ivan full reortunism could organi of 1956 esther with of Len Cam most reset-ted Stalind the Prices Incomes yeal sirulently anti-Trotskyist form.

AGAINST

Wordy statement build the circula sus withdrew not a word (

FOURTH

price U leaders could when detender the hast Party par

INTERNATIONAL

organizer of the revolutionary e cost of win Congress of the CPU in 1961.

Morning ague and the Count Sobol

JOIN

Campbell polite elly justified hard courie Cam pled die- spelt BR to leadership ored brish • fade the as ren his fellow Storists and theit sumessor and all that he stod September 26, 1969 Policy' spelled reaurea to win the just September 27, 1969 their • Steps to support the cam-

THE

industry,

MOLO

nOw WOrKerS. resvecuive ol occunving a maior nosition in

OSCUSS

Surese baron sware and the western prodiems in a conterence.

Tween oro being hard hit by the They workers and Tre Milane. cannot be resolved by growing economic crisis. A One • The national tins workers Deflationary and ad. policies because The crisie is one car high interest rates are creating the whole capitalist system.

affiliated visory theretore Doltica There the All Irades Unions poses question which the short-time Alliance. real danger necessity for international ac- working and redundancy. tion through the building Delegates and visitors must revolutionary Meanwhile, the industry has workers in the car, car de leadership. been Speed-up detes it hes Bretors.

subject Car workers the austry Michelin, Renault and Citroel Measured-Day Work, job- The conference will be held factories will be attending the evaluation productivity and conference. at • bargaining have intensified ex Digbeth Civic Hall, The provisional agenda is: Dioltalion and m lne one rul Digbeth, lowered wakes tae, have been accepted. • keports on the position ol Birmingham, car workers in Britain and Europe face these same pter.

Workers western western Europe. Saturday November 8 lems. • The 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. campain acainst Un- Alliance All The Trades that Unions emplo ment ano shoretime believes car working. Conference fee: 5s a person Wages demand stepped up By Jack Gale West Yorkshire it Primrose BENTLEY and Scawthorpe (Yorkshire) ened strikeR Woodlesford strike against the proposed rent in- miners near Leeos is closed amos creases in National Coal Board houses has been oits in south yorkshire mav wage strike in support of a deferred. The original call for a strike on dispute Cadeby Main September 22 and a demonstration through closed in th Doncaster was passed at a mass meeting on the 12 Sunday, September 14 (see "The Newsletter', miners am- are determill open. keep September 20). have been or This call caused alarm men

VAUXHALL

september StrIKe since at NCB headquarters. at cadeDi Main over wages naid to 130 market man.

MOTORS

Lord Robens, NCB chair- On Tuesday, September 23, mass meeting rejected man, appeared on televi-

•FROM PAGE ONE

Yorkshire Col- sion on Friday, September 3,000 absence and financial secretary, of the prominent 19, appealing to miners not National Unior Party Communist Vehicle Builders' to strike and promising to return to laid off

WOTK

managemen tiations could take Dace. ago result of meet their 'representatives' dispute ther unese with ores. men nut on perator: in Yorkshire. Inwer-naid inhs when there Many workers felt that the are vacancies the coal- vehicle As reported in 'The News- oulders face. letter', com. Delegates from 19 other Party the Communist should Danesnrooosed deal. area have agreed was split on the issue. brought into the nave been meeting on nite e of the Don- meeting. ALa satisfactor eached by the end of th Tenants A As Commit caster the start attack was launched on th week. linked issues Scawthorpe men. Tune I'm not despondent,' Elles wares closures and rents mere One of the leaders of this (cee renort on miners' rent Baker told the Workers' Press disputes) long-standing mean that York. attack Wednesday shire could face its biggest 11ght Communist the start of th since and former struggle. , Communist coalfield candidate. situation fluid-there very Coallace co tram month over members Can developments in the next two wingers denouncing earnings. Ists the dimepters. men weeks 'anarch After returning to work. one section of workers--from

WEAKENED

— roomed Wednesday after the ment toured the the mast be said frankly that Tenants : £5 ›cawinone committee 1t self weakened. ork-to-rul was nol workers would be sent After the strike decision ho Unfortunately: and FORD'S 1/667 Transport taken not a single leafle General said Alan calling for support was issued.

branch has donated £5 Baker, inherited the 'we Yet L tenants nent against renu when the decision to Measure-way work sustem- defer the operation increases and bromised active strike was taken i was ready in support aflet was out in matter when the Ellesmere Port plant in tne event of ant attempted evictions. was built. But all this is now hours don't think I understand that at and meet thorpe pe Tenants Bentley sin the comp. who's in No strike action Defence Com- new posals. What we need is unite mittee a proposal was put to action call off the strike altogether.

Luton-and that NAted was for 10 mete debt means educating the member.

A member of the All Trades was Der cent suld unroughout the combine Unions Alliance fought for the Ultimata to and t a week minimum pay.

return to nor trike to go on and insisted "Ine necotiators had accented mali working have now gone he only 3t per cent in July. wav TO Win out trom the management to stav on the offensive. the main mAm herc hoth Despite the growing rovinami. unions at Ellesmere Port.

After this, Tancy a reconne members Britain's defer the strike was passed.

tor artest by five votes to press white collar union. The su understand two with one mangged to hrowheat confer.

company's per- ence into rejecting strike Communist members nicious proposals for a 'penal voted for deferment. Clause deal. mands of these men and This strike planned for without Over Wednesday, October 1. ?, but apart from compensation and placed women. also heino under workers' control. covernment accom makes In this no ourer excent made ye …the Strikers to the involving welcome the initiative of the Glasgow

ARF

entirely district shop wOr. wonter quarterly meeting the A Fard is clearly Scottish Nationa let conner. Stewards special for support. held by lore obtaining the council meeting on the issue. At It has a tremendously pow mass meeting The Department of Employ- Strikes facial week full-time In rs mamkan. ment Productivity reported shipbuilding industries est engineering and tried three solidarity action was expected on the a meeting other the and workers, the Scotland aren manacement. witnour success.

vrangemourn oll rennery, and The mand must en olovers are damanu workers • on treiant. that thev will not meet power be liner trains. sneak to trade union repre- workers support sentativer at anu level. BSR strikers Solidarity Since the DEP is one of the force the management departments the set It is understood that BSR HMV and Ferguson. ne unIon representative for SU OCONTraCES Donations to the strike fund management arrange guestion • corru sailore cent to • action ny these workers mict meeuns 28 Houston Terrace, way to break the dead- he raised lock 1 at Another factor is that firms discussed the was East Kilbride,

AEF

begins nike production quarter v meeting new Lanarkshire. Kilbride East Chon stewaras in lanarkshite

TOWIS

ceive special government aid who represent 20,000 workers.

Registered They passed If they are not prepared to calling the of the mia- concede DrInCIDie district Lanark of workers committee

MOOC

to loin and token strike in represented trade support of BSR. union they should be taken