CPers vote for rent rise

THE RENTS fight at Clydebank has ended.

The town council, which includes Jimmy Reid and weakens two other Communist Party councillors, voted unanimously on Tuesday to implement the Tories' Housing Finance Act.

The councillors were fined £5,000 last month for refusing to implement the Act and they raised the money by appealing for donations from the labour movement. from it.' DECISION the threat of jail!

Announcing their decision to abandon the struggle, Bailie Mrs Betty Brown (Labour) said: "The 13 rebels part of the battle.' have held many meetings over the weekend and our decision is that from tonight (Tuesday] we start to implement the rent Act.' centrism and Stalinism.

Her statement came only Nixon aides will supporters from other areas. crack dollar whip repay surcharges.

THE UNITED STATES government has no intention of meal, isolated actions. making the slightest concession to the Common Market or the Japanese at tomorrow's it to resign. crucial meeting of Finance Ministers in Paris.

In the words of Treasury FAIR WACES under-Secretary for Monetary YES! FAIR RENTS Affairs, Paul Volcker, the ad: NAA- NO! ministration does not intend E.25 to 'throw good money after bad' by supporting the dollar ABOU on the international money REI HE markets.

BER EXTO: Numeiry threat to Arab PRESIDENT Nixon's call for 'firm international action' against so-called terrorism was quickly taken up by General Jataar Numeiry, the pro-imperialist dictator of the Sudan.

Nixon's aides have indicated they want the eight Black September guerrillas held in Khartoum put to death.

At a ceremony in WashClay Cross. 'No power on earth,' he said, 'can ington yesterday he called whole world commake these councillors party to rent increases munity' to take a firm stand under the Housing Finance Act.' against "international outBut these councillors have been abandoned by laws'. their Labour Party chiefs, given no assistance by Nureiry, who owes his the union leaders and left isolated as one Labour continued rule to the Cencouncil after another capitulated. tral Intelligence Agency, In these circumstances it is empty 'left' talk to say, was quick to kow-tow to the imperialist leader. as Foot does, that, if the Tories put a Commissioner into Clay Cross: "The battle will then He announced that the move from the council chamber to the estates.' eight commandos who killed two American diplomats The Tory government cannot be beaten by 1l and a Belgian diplomat in isolated councillors in Derbyshire and a spontaneous movement in the Clay Cross housing! estates. The Clay Cross councillors must be supported for: Election manoeuvres by Gaullists standing out against the Tory government and its.

state laws. But Marxists have a responsibility to show that—no matter how courageous individual LASI-MINUTE bargaining workers may be-victory cannot be won without has been going on as French forcing the union leaders to mobilize the workpolitical parties prepare for ing class against the Tories.

the final ballot in the General le central task is to link all the struggles of the Election which takes place working class on rents, prices, wages and basic on Sunday. rights to force the union leaders to call a General The Gaullist UDR, which Strike to make the Tory government resign and lost heavily in the first balreturn a Labour government pledged to repeal lot, wants the candidates of all anti-working class legislation and introduce Jean Lecanuet's Centre Party socialist policies.

to stand down. is precisely on this question that the This would provide remain treacherously silent.

solid front against what called the 'Marxists' of Ballie Mra Betty Brown (Labour) and Clir James Reid (CP) who both voted to Implement rents. hours before the town council was due to be brought back to the Court of Session by the Secretary of State for Scotland who had asked for a final decree in Europe ker. Treasurv Secretarv mitment to unlimited sup realignment. the Saudi Arabian embassy would be tried for murder.

He launched a direct attack on the Fatah guerrilla organization liberation largest Palestinian section, claiming that it had organized the armed takeover of the embassy.

Fatah has firmly denied any involvement in the kidnapping of the diplomats.

It has always maintained it has no connection with Black September.

In an outburst revealing his counter-revolutionary spleen against the Palestinians, Numeiry said of the eight prisoners:

'It will not only be a September that will be black. We are in a position to make all their days black throughout the year.' left coalition of the Communist Party, the Socialist Party and the left Radicals.

A contest is also going on for the support of those middle-of-the-road voters who will have to choose between the Gaullist and the left coalition.

So decisive are these votes that President Pompidou is likely to make a special, last-minute broadcast to swing them to the Gaullist against Clydebank.

Said Mrs Brown: 'We decided that the Act must be implemented because we could not have any heavier burdens put on the trade Volcker, Treasury Secretary mitment George Schultz and Dr Arthur sterling. Burns of the Federal Reserve Board constitute a most powerful top-level delegation to Paris. They are not interested in proposals for international co-operation and currency Those Common Market worthies who hope for an 'American contribution' to supporting the crippled monetary system are living in cloud-cuckoo land. They have no more chance of getting such a contribution than Tory Chancellor Barber has of an EEC comguerrillas This statement paralleled similar remarks by King of Jordan, an archenemy of the Palestinian cause.

Following the raid Hussein confirmed death sentences on Al Fatah leader Abu Daud and a number of his comrades.

They were arrested on their way to the Israelioccupied west bank.

One of the Black September demands was for the release of these prisoners.

Hussein has now offered to reconsider the death sentences if the commando organization will guarantee never to take any action against Jordan and provided this position is guaranteed by other Arab states.

side with a "red-scare'-style CP secretary Georges Marchais, who has done everything possible to establish an image of the utmost respectability, has been looking in the same direction.

He hopes, by still further emphasising the moderation of the common programme on which the left coalition is fighting, to win some centre votes.

union movement which has already helped us tremendously by their moral and financial support. 'But we realize that the axe is likely to come down in the Court of Session bringing a heavier fine and we felt if we had taken the defiant stand further it would have shown us to be Irresponsible' ABANDONED Another Labour-controlled Scottish local authority — Cumbernauld - has also abandoned its defiance of the Tory Act.

At Clay Cross, Derbyshire, the Il Labour coun cillors who face a £6,985 surcharge, have decided by a majority vote to call off the month-long rent and rates strike.

But they are to continue their resistance to the government and rents will be collected at the pre-rent Act level. support for The Americans are continuing the drive against Europe and Japan which they began in earnest on August 15, 1971. The Trade Bill now being hurried through Congress with the backing of the American trade union bureaucracy is the next stage of the trade war offensive.

This Bill gives Nixon powers to oppose sweeping tariffs on imports, enter into bilateral agreements with other countries and bludgeon America's competitors into accepting US agricultural produce and industrial goods.

The Bill's provisions put trade system based Post-war end to the principle of non-discrimination and governed by the rule of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. This system could not continue once the Bretton Woods currency agreement which underpinned it had been destroyed.

Economists in tOD Washington circles are talking quite openly about the introduction of a 15-percent surcharge on all imports once the Bill is passed.

On top of the revaluations imposed on European and Japanese currencies, such a levy would crush whole branches of industry 'at a stroke'.

The other side of this ruthless offensive from Washington is the courtship between Nixon and the Soviet leaders.

As soon as the Paris meeting • 1s over. Schultz will be flying to Moscow to hold preliminary discussions on trade expansion.

This is expected to include the possibility of granting the Soviet Union most-favoured nation status in trade.

Schultz, the White House said, will not be negotiating in Moscow.

This indicates that the two sides have already agreed the main lines of the new relationship under the treaty signed last year.

The Soviet bureaucracy is being drawn into tha global plans of American ba is captaist rins and rivals and to co-operate with it against the world revolution.

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