Workers Press no. 1036

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MARCH 31, 1973• No 1036 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

STALINISTS

SUPPORT

THE COMMUNIST PARTY

is supporting Hugh Scanlon, leader of the engineers, who offered the Tories a deal over Common Mar- Two and the

SCANLON

In a key editorial statement the Party's daily paper 'Morning Star' yesterday defended Scanlon

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his outburst which has been wel- comed in Tory circles, including the Cabinet. In his speech, which has rocked the trade union movement, Scan- lon accepted the three main planks of Tory policy. • HE OFFERED to accept Relations Act in exchange for Tory amendments. • HE AGREED with the principle for wage control providing government con cessions were made. • HE

ADMITTED

that the trade unions would the accept principle Common Market entry. their the In editorial Stalinists who the

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'Morning Star' launched a They cover-up. those condemn Cusca

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Scanlon for abandoning the fight against Tory policy of spreading illusions They Scanlon's volte face 1s not a real change of Broken agreements ming and tnal nis views are the views of one man. Stripped of its double-talk, the less than acceptance 5 the Government. Tne ocanion unne and deal he wants with the Tories. They do not point out Civil Service Unions...0 that the Scanlon statement of his is a flagrant violation own union's policy decided democratically at conference.

They do not out that the views Scanion will be interpreted by mil- particularly hons ol workers, those who fight the pay laws- the policy of

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neering union. On these issues, the Sta- Some London civil servants at a Caxton Hall meeting yesterday linists are silent. Workers their Клои WO DaSt treachery right to Civil service strike hampered Will ne judge this acqui- with the Scanion manoeuvre. movement can shift the gov- MEMBERS of the Civil In the two years and ten

BY ROYSTON BULL

of Tory government months Public Services ernment Starun! and dividual industries Party Communist intertrade union moment Association and the General the Morning Star' have done generally Society for Civil Servants Tories all in their Strike to force pre- to fight readers reruse civil to resign. political plus some other the Tory government. vent contronta- Anything less than this tion between the Tories and service unions held meet- The civil servants' own the working-class. will only wear out and de- during office hours ings leaders are nelping tnis con- moralize workers and will by their own a Cynical proposal for a deal Now they are walked out for and then deter the decisiveness. day throughout the the one bi with the Tories. Because the one day Some of the absence of country yesterday. stoppages to This is how Stalinist pickets yesterday was due to In London, about 500 fluence the Tory government 'peaceful co-existence' be- police interference. any class cIvil servants neid a meeting way. workers ilke They had told comes collaboraton. union Caxton Hall attacking civil and hospital British Stalinismo has bern to Tory government for workers are beginning organizers thal larse COn- British Stalinism been gregations could not be per- lose their enthusiasm GOWn standard mitted because of the bomb- notorious

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living of the working A a ten meation day political treachery and that class. precautions. protest meetings of is why tens thousands This kind of harassment, who called for speaker walk-ours MOnta ago, young and managements' workers uttery relect a General Strike to get the there were pickets out at the Communist Party. civil servants- office civil depart- government VICumIZE The next stage of the be- and only in London who walked out can was wen received ments trayal will take place at the finally answered the But the strike movement

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"Morning Star,

YESTERDAY'S

daily paper of the Communist Party, claimed that Hugh Scanion's statements on amendments to the Industrial Relations Act did not mean he was proposing a deal. There was no misunderstanding at all about Scanlon what said nor about the significance of his remarks. The capitalist Press was unani- mous in its approval and in its recognition that the 'left' union leader was in full retreat before the Tories. Here is what they said: Robert Carvel, in Thursday's London 'Evening Standard': Prospects for reopening a dialogue between Ministers and the TUC about industrial relations and the counter-inflation laws were reviewed by the Cabinet today. This follows the hint from Mr Hugh Scanion that amendment of the In- dustrial Relations Act might be acceptable in- stead of its total repeal.

'Returning to the theme in a BBC Radio inter- view today, he said that the unions still want this law to be scrapped. But he added signi- ficantly: "We have got to face up to the realities of the situation" This shift of attitude has encouraged Mr Heath to think he may have the whole TUC on visiting terms at No 10 again within a few months.' H. B. Boyne, political correspondent of the ultra-Tory 'Daily Telegraph': *The Prime Minister reacted favourably yester- day to the much-publicised hint by Mr Scanlon that certain amendments to the Industrial Rela- tions Act might be acceptable as a basis for voluntary co-operation between the trade union movement and the government. 'At a Cabinet meeting which preceded Mr Heath's answers in the Commons, it was clear that Ministers welcomed the possibility Mr Scanlon had raised of constructive talks with the unions. Keith Harper and lan Aitken in 'The Guardian': Mr Heath made the offer (of renewed talks with the TUC on the Industrial Relations Act) Commons In the 24 hours after Mr Hugh Scanion had surprised Ministers and union leaders by putting forward two specific proposals for amendments to the Industrial Relations Act.'

David Wood in 'The Times': There is no question but that the govern- ment has found cause for hope in Mr Scanlon's pronouncements, both in the willingness to live with an amended Industrial Relations Act and of the change of mind he predicts in the trade union attitude towards United Kingdom member- ship of the EEC John Elliott, Labour Editor of the 'Financial Times, on Thursday: 'The prospect of wide-ranging talks between the government and the TUC, involving the Industrial Relations Act, as well as incomes policy, increased when Mr Hugh Scanion pub- licly accepted the possibility of amending rather than totally repealing the Act.

'Indicating a major swing in left-wing opinion on key issues, Mr Scanion also predicted that both the Labour Party and the TUC would re- cognize the reality of Britain's entry into Europe by dropping their boycotts of EEC institutions later this year. The 'Financial Times' yesterday was equally ex- plicit: 'The comments made earlier this week by Mr Hugh Scanlon offer several grounds for hope. Since the Industrial Relations Act was passed Mr Scanlon has never deviated from his insistance on total repeal, but this week he changed his tune and called for two essential amendments to make the Act more acceptable to the unions. 'On the prices and incomes policy (his) re- marks, which welcomed by Prime were the Minister, point the way towards a resumption

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MARCH 31, 1973 • No 1036 • 4p

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

STALINISTS

SUPPORT

THE COMMUNIST PARTY

is supporting Hugh Scanlon, leader of the engineers, who offered the Tories a deal over Two and the Common Mar-

SCANLON

In a key editorial statement the Party's daily paper 'Morning Star' yesterday defended Scanlon over his outburst which has been Tory circles, including comed in the Cabinet. In his speech, which has rocked the trade union movement, lon accepted the three main planks of Tory policy. • HE OFFERED to accept Industrial Relations Tory Act in exchange for amendments. • HE AGREED with the principle for wage control providing government con cessions were made. • HE

ADMITTED

that the trade unions would the of accept principle Common Market entry. their editorial the In Stalinists who control •Morning Star' launched They ac- massive cover-up. those wild Scanion for abandoning the Tory policy of against They say Scanlon's volte face not a real change of Broken agreements mind and that his views are the views of one man. Stripped of its double-talk.

the 'Star' article than less acceptance Government..% 5 ure Sune Tre deal he wants with the Tories. They do not point out Civil Service Unions ...0 that the Scanlon statement is a flagrant violation of his own union's policy decided democratically at conference.

They do not out that the views Scanlon will be mil- interpreted by particularly nons or workers, those who fight the pay laws, the policy the neering union. On these issues, the Sta- Some London c/Vll servants at a Caxton Hall meeting yesterday.

linists silent. Workers their know

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DabL treachery will right to Civil service strike hampered judge this silence acqui- as with the Scanion

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manoeuvre. MEMBERS of the Civil In the two years and ten

BY ROYSTON BULL

of Tory government months Public Services and Party generalyade union moment and communist Association and the the 'Morning Star' have done generally Society for Civil Servants all to pre- to fight readers reruse civil plus some other the Tory government. vell tion between the Tories and service unions held meet- The civil servants' own the working-class. ings during office hours leaders are helping this con- fusion by their own in- Now they are parties walked out for and then a cynical proposal for a dea decisiveness. day throughout the the with the Tories. Because the one - day country yesterday. stoppages unable to in- are This how Stalinist In London, about 500 co-existence' fuence the lory government 'peaceful be- any way, cIvil servants neid a meeung workers comes crasc colaboraton at Caxton Hall attacking civil servants and hospital Tritish Stalinism has bern beginning the Tory government workers are British Stalinism been Une stanualu notorious A parent means day living of the working political treachery and that class. protest meetings of thousands 1s wny tens OI who called for speaker ago, walk -out. young workers wreny reeci a General Strike to get the there were pickets the Communist Party. of office civil depart- government The of the be- next stare London over Was well reccivca trayal will take place at the But the movement

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national committee, sunke Hall rally. clearly being Only all-out strike

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movement can shift the gov- starting in in- ernment, dividual industries and General spreading to Strike to force the Tories to resign. Anything less than this will only wear out and de- moralize workers and will not deter the government one bit. Some of the absence of pickets yesterday was due to police interference. They had told union organizers that large con- gregations could not be per- mitted because of the bomb- threat security precautions.

This kind of harassment, managements' threats and to victimize civil servants- who walked out can only be finally answered by the General Strike. • See interviews page 12.

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ABOUR LEAGUE

YESTERDAY'S

'Morning Star', daily paper of the Communist Party, claimed that Hugh Scanlon's statements on amendments to the Industrial Relations Act did not mean he was proposing a deal. There was no misunderstanding at all about about the significance what Scanlon said nor of his remarks. The capitalist Press was unani- mous in its approval and in its recognition that the 'left' union leader was in full retreat before the Tories. Here is what they said: Robert Carvel, in Thursday's London 'Evening Standard': •Prospects for reopening a dialogue between Ministers and the TUC about industrial relations and the counter-inflation laws were reviewed by the Cabinet today. This follows the hint from Mr Hugh Scanlon that amendment of the In- dustrial Relations Act might be acceptable in- stead of its total repeal.

'Returning to the theme in a BBC Radio inter- view today, he said that the unions still want this law to be scrapped. But he added signi- "We have got to face up to the realities ficantly: of the situation". This shift of attitude has encouraged Mr Heath to think he may have the whole TUC on visiting terms at No 10 again within a few months.' H. B. Boyne, political correspondent of the ultra-Tory 'Daily Telegraph': *The Prime Minister reacted favourably yester- day to the much-publicised hint by Mr Scanion that certain amendments to the Industrial Rela- tions Act might be acceptable as a basis for voluntary co-operation between the trade union movement and the government. 'At a Cabinet meeting which preceded Mr Heath's answers in the Commons, it was clear that Ministers welcomed the possibility Mr Scanlon had raised of constructive talks with the unions.' Keith Harper and lan Aitken in 'The Guardian': 'Mr Heath made the offer (of renewed talks with the TUC on the Industrial Relations Act) in the Commons 24 hours after Mr Hugh Scanion had surprised Ministers and union leaders by putting forward two specific proposals for amendments to the Industrial Relations Act.'

David Wood in "The Times': There is no question but that the govern- ment has found cause for hope in Mr Scanlon's pronouncements, both in the willingness to live with an amended Industrial Relations Act and of the change of mind he predicts in the trade union attitude towards United Kingdom member- ship of the EEC' Jomes: in Thursday Editor of the Financial 'The prospect of wide-ranging talks between the government and the TUC, involving the Industrial Relations Act, as well as incomes policy, increased when Mr Hugh Scanlon pub- licly accepted the possibility of amending rather than totally repealing the Act.

'Indicating a major swing in left-wing opinion on key issues, Mr Scanlon also predicted that both the Labour Party and the TUC would re- cognize the reality of Britain's entry into Europe by dropping their boycotts of EEC institutions later this year.' The 'Financial Times' yesterday was equally ex.

plicit: The comments made earlier this week by Mr Hugh Scanlon offer several grounds for hope. Since the Industrial Relations Act was passed Mr Scanlon has never deviated from his insistance on total repeal, but this week he changed his tune and called for two essential amendments to make the Act more acceptable to the unions. 'On the prices and incomes policy (his) re- marks, which welcomed by were the Prime. Minister, point the way towards a resumption

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Kremlin wooing PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday March 31, 1973 THE Institute for Workers' Control, which is meeting for its ninth national conference in Nottingham this weekend, is a reformist fraud which can only serve to deceive the work- ing class. The leaflet for the meeting announces 'numerous particular seminars on in special problems order to examine the lessons of trade union the labour movement and to actions for attempt to work out practical proposals for extending industrial democracy and workers' control, which can form part of an effective response to Mr Heath's onslaught'.

'effective response' What can there be to 'Mr' (!) Heath's onslaught other than to oppose the Tories' political power by mobil- izing power of the working class?

The only answer to the penal legislative powers of the pay laws and the Industrial Relations Act is to create such industrial and political conditions by a General Strike that Heath's government cannot continue in office.

What can 'extending industrial democracy, do the Pay Board rigorously applying to stop and invoking the Phase Two pay norm , group of criminal proceedings against any workers who strike in defiance of the state wage controls? What are the worker-directors in the British doing about the Corporation Steel pay standstill being operated against the hospital workers and the civil servants?

when their own steel- will they do What workers are ordered by government decree to give up bargaining for wages and to accept what the Tories have decided workers shall have? internationally trade competition Sharpening will probably lead to, tariff barriers, the of speculative projects like the collapse • supersonic Concorde and uncontrollable price rises. Will 'participation' be able to prevent this? The currency crisis is likely to result in a partial collapse of credit and a fall in foreign trade. How will 'extending industrial demo- cracy' deal with this problem?

The truth is that the capitalist system is even beyond the control of the ruling class which owns the capital, the banks, and the stock exchange and whose governments rule in all the major capitalist countries.

The system is anarchic right to the core, based as it is on privately-owned production tor the pursuit of profit. Market forces 'regulate' this competition only in a most convulsive way, as analysed in Marx's "Capital'.

The convulsions have by been no means They ironed out by the Keynesian boom.

have only been postponed and made worse.

A US Treasury prediction of 'another 1929' could be the understatement of the year.

So the real question is one of political and economic power. let the capitalist Do we work itself out yet again through crisis trade war, bankruptcies, depression, and a shooting war, or should the working class take the power and end the capitalist system of production? This is the question which. the Institute re- fuses to deal with. The politics of the star surprising. participants makes this hardly JAMES REID handed back control of UCS to a new set of capitalists after the old crowd had gone bankrupt causing the loss of over 2,000 jobs. At one yard the capitalists would only take it back if a 'no-strike' clause Reid dutifully complied concluded. was workers" control or control . of Is this workers? BILL FREEMAN has led the occupation of Briant Colour Printing. Negotiations have been going on for month's with a new capitalist owner who insists that jobs are speeded up, and mobility of work cut, labour introduced. Is the aim of 'industrial democracy' to achieve worsened conditions?

ANTHONY

WEDGWOOD BENN wrote this week that the Tories are creating an inter- ventionist structure in the economy which will be ideal later on for building socialism.

Confusion of this kind could quickly lead corporate state becoming a the Tory to reality and Britain could be on the road to "workers' control' fascism. Is this where mentality is heading? The IWC reeks of this kind of reformist muddle-headedness which talks of 'new forms of trade union action' and making 'socialist policies into a practical choice for people' instead of analysing actual class develop- ments and preparing a mass movement to take the power. Either the bourgeoisie has the power and capi- talism continues, or the working class takes the power and the anarchy of production for private profit is ended. There can be no half-way .house...: KREMLIN leaders are ofi with the Tory government and international problems.

improved relations came i newspaper 'Sovietskaya R of the Tass news agency, and obviously has full Kre On the same day the article appeared, Hugh Scanion, President of the engineering union, came out in favour of co- operation with the Tory government's Industrial Relations Act. British Stalinists are fully behind Scanlon in this move and will no doubt also welcome the Kremlin overtures on foreign policy. Zamyatin said that 'a con- British position, structive corresponding to the spirit the times ... would strengthen, not weaken, her the role on international stage. NATIONWIDE movement A students against of Iranian the Shah's regime has brought the country's uni- versities to an almost com- plete standstill. Some details of the move- ment revealed on were Thursday evening at a Press House of Commons organized by conference the Iranian Students So- ciety in Great Britain. The Tory government has refused a Said visa for the president of Merhadi, the Confederation of Iranian Students' Union, National who was to have addressed the Press conference. a resident of Merhadi, West Germany, was told he could not enter Britain be- cause his visa to stay in Germany had less than three months to run. Coventry South Labour MP William Wilson, who chaired the Press conference, .des- cribed the government's re- fusal as 'a pure technicallty'.

Student unrest began January with demonstrations at Tehran University agalnst Shah's 'white revolu- the tion' which were suppres- | by special commando sed and paratroop squads.

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German central bank has no plans to bring down the short- term interest rates which have reached a 20 per cent level this week. The rate has risen in res- extremely strin- ponse to gent restrictions on credit imposed during the financial crisis at the beginning of March. The central bank coun- cil of the Bundesbank, meeting on Thursday, was under pressure from com- mercial banks to ease the restrictions on credit. But Dr Karl Klasen, the Bundesbank president, an- in nounced change no If banks got into policy. difficulties they could bor- row money from the Bundes- bank against securities at the Lombard rate, he said.

High interest rates mean a sharp decline in invest- ment, as industrialists hop- ing for cheaper money post- pone making the necessary loans. are offering to co-operate rnment in solving bilateral oblems. The Soviet call for came in an article in the kaya Rossiya' by the head agency, Leonid Zamyatin, full Kremlin backing.

BY OUR OWN CORRI

'Such an approach would undoubtedly broaden field of co-operation between Britain and the Soviet Union in international affairs, and in the solution of problems of a bilateral character'.

The bait he held out for British support for a Euro- Pact pean Security was an improvement in trade. He that Britain pointed out had slipped back from her former position the as Soviet Union's leading capi- talist trade partner and said that this was due to faulty business practice. The Soviet bureaucracy is

BY JOHN SPENCER

The faculties of Law, En- gineering, Medicine and Art closed indefinitely in were protest against the brutal treatment meted out to the students by these speclal brigades. The unrest spread, first to the Melli University, where there were protests against the huge arms purchases made by the regime and In late February, then, to Jundi-Shahpoor University.

Jundl-Shahpoor in south- ern Iran province of Fars 700 students. Police has moved in against the demon.

strators and one girl student was shot dead. The shooting led to a strike and demonstration at Tabriz where university, there is a long history or resistance to the govern- ment. Commandos moved into the campus and opened fire indiscriminately, killing 16 students and wounding over 200. This massacre has led to a total shut-down of Iranian universities, affecting even

THURSDAY

night's bomb French Com- attack munist Party offices in the Paris suburb of Levallois is sign of growing tension which has led some papers to speak of . 1968 in embryo. The main stronghold of right-wing students in Paris, the Assas Centre (part of the law school), was closed by the authorities after it had been besieged by leftist students. Strong police forces have in the Latin been out following a brief Quarter occupation of the Sorbonne by 1,500 students. Agitation against the call- up law shows no sign of dying down and is spreading to high schools and univer- sities throughout the coun- try. Students drawn into the

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hoping to convince the Tory government that it seriously desires to make a deal with imperialism. Its Press constantly points out that, contrary to the belief of right-wing Tories and some British papers, it has no interest in seeing the spread of revolution. 'Pravda' took 'The Times' to task on March 26 for suggesting that the Soviet Union wanted to lull the west into a false sense of security and then under- its societies mine from within. It said that today's readers the privately-owned technical colleges. Hundreds of students have been arrested together with many members of the aca- demic staft, particularly at Tehran University. All the main campuses are under military occupation. Students at the London Press conference were bitter about the suppression of these facts by the British capitalist Press. No Fleet Street papers were represented at the meeting. The students pointed out that the Iranian regime has become the main watchdog of British imperialist policy in the Persian gulf since the withdrawal of British troops from the area. The Iranian armed forces, already the most among powerful in the Middle East, buying over $2,000m are worth of arms from the US, Britain and West Germany.

They are already moving Into the gulf states once occupied by the British. In where Arab resis- Dhotar, fighters are threaten- tance Ing the semi-feudal rule of Sheikh Qaboos, 600 Persian soldiers have been brought campaign are also raising other questions which strike at the heart of the educa- tional system. There is a general attack on the boredom, routine and the high cramming schools. Many remain closed either because of strikes by the pupils or on instructions the authorities. In some cases 'counter- courses' have been organized by the pupils themselves.

While the mass mobiliza- tion of the high school stu- worry is the effect on the working class of the strike now going on at the Renault plant. The determination of the 400 immigrant workers in the body-pressing plant to win their full demands the against the, adyice of the be taken would not easily in by fairy tales of this kind.

No doubt when Minister of Trade and Industry, Peter Walker visits the Soviet Union for the second session Soviet- of the Permanent British Commission for Co- operation in Applied Science, Trade and Technology, Economic Relations on April 16-18, more concrete Soviet proposals will be forthcom- ing. The bureaucracy believes that the success of the Euro- Security Conference pean will be assured if it can win British support. Hence its current bland- ishments, backed up by the Stalinists' support for Hugh Scanion.

DR ABBAS SHEIBANI

(above), noted Persian intellectual, is appealing sentence of against a death imposed by a secret military court. At a later trial he was sentenced to two years' jail. One of his Mohamed co-defendants, Mofidi, is believed to have died under torture. in to protect the Sheikh.

These troops are only the advanced guard. In Baluchestan, a large re- mote area of the country has been set aside for training air pilots, force many of them under Israell Instructors. As much as 50 per cent of the Iranian budget is spent on armaments, ге- quired by the Shah for Internal repression and to serve the interests of British and American imperialism.

Stalinist trade union lead- has been met with a ers lock-out by the firm of 7,000 other workers. It hopes to cause dissen- sion, splitting off the un- skilled foreign workers on strike from the more highly qualified and better-paid workers now laid off. Solidarity action has al- ready spread other to Renault plants in the pro- vinces and the CGT has been obliged to go back on its original attempt to per- suade the body plant work- ers to accept a compromise.

French who May fear another General Strike, back the Pompidou regime, which is one of the main advocates of the European Security the policy Conference and of detente which the Soviet bureaucracy desperately needs.

It's with us from Monday... hitting the working-class purse and pocket Largest cost of VAT: living rise ever -Tories can change rate when It's with us THE BIGGEST cost-of-livin Monday. The magic figure i telephone calls, cinema se kitchen utensils and a thor wage earners' budget. Everyone by now knows the reason for the price hike, VALUE

ADDED TAX.

VAT is the most sweep- ing tax on goods and ser- vices ever introduced and the most effective weapon devised in modern times for shifting the tax burden from the rich to the poor.

The Tories have launched propaganda war to per- a suade the hard-pressed public that VAT is good for them. After the fiasco over the ever-rising food prices the campaign is met with cyni- cism in the high street. People believe thai VAT will push up the cost of living to new heights and they are right. VAT was a Common Mar- ket invention. France intro- duced it when the middle class rebelled and refused to pay more income tax. The authorities bought peace with a tax that hit the poor man the hardest and satisfied the shopkeeper and small businessman. the cha Now we have imported tax to Britain. The main plank in the Tory argument is the claim that

VAT,

because it abolishes purchase tax and selective employment tax, will cause prices to fall and the cost of living to go down. This is completely false.

ESSENTIALS UP

Some goods will be cheaper and others dearer.

But when the whole range of changes are examined, only one conclusion can be drawn-from Monday every working-class family in the land will find living much more expensive. The kind of goods that will fall most in price are expensive consumer durables bought only once every two or three years. • Goods that are going up in price are bought much more frequently. A recent study found, for example, that of the 54 cate- gories of goods the govern- ment says will be dearer after VAT, 42 were bought cau at least once : a year and.. H VALUE ADDED TAX is more than just a penalty payment against the working class- It represents the first stage of a fundamental shift in our taxation system in favour of the rich. All indirect taxes, includ- ing VAT, hit the poor the hardest. Ten per cent on a football ticket means far less to the fan on £20,000 a year than it does to a £25-a-week factory worker or a man on the dole. the war direct lor Since taxation (income tax), under which the rich pay more, has and become a smaller smaller proportion of total public revenue collected by the government. Now the Tories are plan- cen ning to abolish surtax and cou death duties and move to- suc t-of-living increase since the war figure is 10 per cent-10 per ce ema seats, meals, car repairs, I a thousand other items that | Here the prices buck stops.

only 12 were in the category VA consumer durables pur- in chased infrequently. Similarly much less than half of the goods that should be cheaper after VAT appear the weekly regularly on shopping list, and more than half of these-crisper gim- nuts and confectionery are mick' items and not essen- tials in the family diet.

In short the spread of changes caused by VAT is weighted heavily against the working-class family. They will pay more in the high despite the Tory street assurances. Those who defend VAT make much of its effect on food. Under the regulation announced by Anthony Fooder in zero-aste bu and food is 'zero-rated' •escapes the general 10 per cent VAT levy.

FOOD WILL RISE

The Tories would like people to draw the further conclusion that food will not go up in price. But even the retailers admit that food will rise an average of 1.5 per cent be- cause of the new tax. . While food carries no lose wards a system where most public money is collected via indirect which taxes discriminate against the working class. VAT is the centre of this new scheme. • It gives the Tory Chancel- lor extraordinary powers.

Until the last budget, major tax changes needed in parlia- be new legislation ment. Now Barber can raise jack the VAT when he pleases. It could be at a 12.5-per- bro lan- cent level next year and abo could be increased by cert successive orders from the nday... hitting th the war gets underway on O per cent on detergents, repairs, parking charges, is that loom large in the VAT the packages it comes in do. So do the services transport used by like retailer. These extra costs will be reflected in higher prices. Administrative costs in- volved in VAT will also in- crease prices. VAT is a unique tax in that it throws the burden of collection on the trader.

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It is levied at 10 per cent on the value added at each stage of a commodity's journey from basic supplier to shop. Hence a manufacturer is charged 10 per cent on the value he adds by processing raw materials. But the manufacturer gets this back by charging the wholesaler an extra 10 per cent on the product. The process is repeated by the retailer who passes on the tax to the customer again in the form of a higher price.

But there the buck stops, the housewife has no means tax in- of passing on the crease and she foots the whole tax bill. To make sure he does not lose on the transaction, each Treasury to 15 per cent and 18 per cent without any new Act of Parliament. These powers also extend to food which could lose its "zero-rated' status at any time. This gives the state and the Tories immediate an weapon against the working class. Any wage rises can recouped rapidly by jacking up VAT. An increase in VAT and a scope to plic broadening of its abolish zero-rated items is a certainty because of tenden- the cies in the Common Market. wor 1g the working-cl

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toes trader estimate the must price he should charge on

VAT

every good to get back as well as satisfy the Inland Revenue that he is not cheating. The book-keeping involved is enormous. It has been estimated that • extra 6,000 civil servants will have to be recruited by the Customs and Excise to deal with the tax. In industry and commerce two to three times that num- ber will have to be employed to keep the books straight.

The extra cost will fall entirely on the shopper in the form of higher prices.

VAT is In Eire, where already in operation, one retailer with a staff of 600 supermarkets has 15 found that overtime caused by VAT calculations is cost- ing him an extra £2,000 a

MUCH DEARER

This burden he says, is passed on to the shopper, who pays more for food. So through more expen- sive packaging and higher administrative costs food will be much dearer because of VAT. The standard rate of VAT in France is 23, Norway 20, Belgium 18, Netherlands 14, Denmark 12.5 and Germany 11, in all these countries food is subject to the tax.

VAT in Britain may take some years to reach Com- mon Market levels, but its coverage will be brought into line sooner. Under the proposed economic and monetary union of the Market, goods freely flow must across national borders. The European capitalists will press the Tories to widen the VAT coverage in Britain to avoid trade com- plications. s a The Tories will agree once len- the initial shock of VAT has ket. worn off. Workers Press, Saturday g-class purse and

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There are two other pos- ways in

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sible which will lead . to higher prices. People still have painful memories of decimalization.

Firms and retailers ben- elited by • using the change to decimals as an excuse for price rises. The same will undoubted- ly happen with VAT. We will have the stories of 'rounding up' to take care of the extra 10 per cent.

CYNICAL LIE

Finally VAT payments by retailers Inland to the Revenue come well after the goods on which the tax is levied have been sold. Shopkeepers therefore will have to calculate in advance how much extra they will charge to compensate for future tax payments. The tendency will be to err on the side of caution and over-charge rather than to cut margins and be caught out of pocket. Again the housewife will suffer. The government boasts that VAT will increase the cost of living by 1 or 2 per cent. This is a cynical lie. onl All evidence from the Common Market shows that to : after VAT is introduced the cost of living rises steeply and goes on rising.

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and pocket In Denmark VAT was in- troduced in 1967. Before prices were rising 1.67 per cent per quarter. Immediate- ly after they were rising 6.56 per cent. The figures for France were 0.89 before, 1.77 after; Germany 0.0 before; 0.9 Netherlands 1.6 per cent before, 4.72 after; Luxemburg 0.54 be- 2.35 after. Britain will not be an exception to this rule. The Tory adverts we read see on the television, therefore, are just the start a cynical campaign British public, especially the working class.

Which has been depriyed of the right to fight for higher standard of living under Phase Two. But the Tories are trick- ing fewer and fewer And they will fail

STING THE POOR

More and more people realize this tax means more poverty. It means stinging the poor to help the rich and it means wiping out the social legislation that gave our tax system its first progres- sive bias in favour of the working class. VAT will hit us all on Monday, but the impact will only increase the desire of everywhere wage earners to get rid of the government that rules in the name higher prices, speculation and profit.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday Marc A group of powerful BSA shareholders is • to ask the Department of Trade and Industry for an inquiry into whether they and others with in the firm were money given all the information to which they were entitled.

The information they are worried about concerns the period from last September, when the company started negotiations on a merger to guarantee its future, until the dramatic share collapse of earlier this month. After a 'leak' of news from the negotiations, BSA shares crashed from 20p to 5p each before trading was suspended at the request of chairman Lord Shawcross. The question is being asked of Shawcross-why the silence since last September? As the London 'Evening Standard' put it on Tuesday: 'If BSA shares are worthless now, they were worthless be- fore the debacle. Was this not a case of a false market being maintained during the months.

of negotiations?' This is a particularly embar- rassing question for Shaweross, the former Labour Attorney- General who is chairman of the City Take-over Panel.

In the latter capacity his lordship was once responsible for 'asking the DTI for an in- quiry to determine whether the shareholders of Pergamon MP Press, under Labour Robert Maxwell, had received all the information to which they were entitled. Now the same form of words is being used by BSA shareholders.

Shawcross's attitude to these aspersions was described by the 'Evening Standard' as 'un- repentant, indeed belligerent'.

He declared, in a letter to "The Economist' last week, that he could not have given shareholders any • clue about the merger negotiations. 'Remarkable . • says 'Standard' city editor David Malbert, 'particularly from one who heads the takeover panel which insists that share- holders shall be kept informed on these matters'. Shawcross himself has said that 'insider trading', of the kind which apparently hit BSA two-and-a-half weeks ago, should be made a criminal offence punishable by the courts. Well, what about BSA itself? On the whole, even the Fleet Street Press has not been exactly sympathetic to the problems of the once-mighty BSA group (which were care- fully explained in Andrew Lawrence's just - concluded series in Workers Press, Thurs- day and Friday of this week).

Take this passage from the 'Sunday Telegraph', of March 18 this year: 'What do you make of the Japanese competition in the motor-cycle field?' a Midlands business friend asked Eric Turner, former chairman of 'Not BSA, a few years ago. very much', Turner is said to have replied. His friend sold all his BSA shares the follow- ing day. "The story is typical of the chain of events, poor decisions, complacency, industrial prob- lems, problems and design financial control which bad brought the struggling com- pany to its knees last week.

"The company reacted to Japanese competition far too late and even then it reacted in the wrong way.' Which is all very well. But the people these same news- will expect to pay papermen for the crisis of the company, with their jobs if necessary, are not the Shawcross's of world, but the BSA this workers. As Andrew Lawrence com- mented this must not be allowed to happen. Irday March 31, 1973 Cord who? Cord. Meyer. Hardly a household name in Britain. But he might well be in the future. Meyer is shortly to take up his appointment as head of the station in London. The

CIA

London outpost, just a few doors from the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, is a major listening post for US imperial- ism's most powerful and sinister police department.

And Cord Meyer is one of the agency's most controversial 'dirty tricksters'. A graduate of Yale, Meyer went into the services in the early 1940s. In a marine landing in the Pacific war he lost an eye and wrote a short story about his experi- ences called 'Waves of Dark- ness'. After the war he became. 'a passionate advocate' of world government and wrote a book extolling the virtues of such a regime. Prophesying peace and order he was a devout support- the United World of er Federalist movement. By sheer historical irony, Meyer's however, belief in world government landed him in the Un-American Activities Committee hearings for alleged communist sympathies. After a grilling by Senator Joe McCarthy and others, he was completely exonerated. From the theory of world government, Meyer swung to the cold. war-the view, that communism had to be fought obliterated wherever it and raised its head. In 1953 'this brilliant young man' was recruited to the CIA on the advice of CIA director Alan Dulles. At the time the agency was feverishly recruiting liberal intellectuals.

His promotion through the ranks has been steady but un- spectacular. He is at present assistant deputy director of This Planning Depart- plans. ment is responsible for espion- age and clandestine operations.

More commonly it is known 'department of dirty as the tricks'. Writings of

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Last year his notoriety soared when letters were pub- lished about his attempts to stifle a book on the CIA's con- nection with the opium trade in south-east Asia. The book was written by an academic, also from Yale, who expert on south-east is an Asian affairs. In a series of field studies he found irrefut- able evidence that the CIA was using profits from opium sales to finance the puppet army of Laos and the Thailand govern- ment. It also linked the opium traffic with the Mafia operat- ing an international traffic via Marseilles to New York-the so-called 'French Connection'.

These sensational revelations seriously embarrassed the administration and Nixon Meyer was the man who wrote a series of letters to McCoy Harper and the publishers, ana Row, In an attempt to delay publication and vet sec- tions of the transcript. In the event, the book, 'The Politics of Heroin in South- East Asia', was published and Meyer made a statement say- ing that it was never his inten- tion to suppress the book.

An amiable spokesman for the US Embassy told Workers Press this week that he could 'no comment' make about Meyer's appointment. He said it was not the practice to appointments comment on below ambassador or deputy ambassador. From another source Work- was told that Press ers Meyer's work here would not be 'operative' but 'analytical'.

History of Russian Revolution -special gift pack of three volumes £1.70 including postage ou require. Amount enclosed f post to: tions, 186a Clapham High Street, Lor Publications Booklist is a vailable, fre Nixon: His administration is keepin By this he meant that Meyer would no longer be up to 'dirty tricks. His function would be to make political assessments for the Nixon administration on the rapidly-unfolding econ- omic crisis in western Europe.

spoke Everyone we agreed that Meyer's appoint- ment was a considerable event.

It meant that the listening post was being 'upgraded, that the CIA clearly felt that

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was going to be Britain a flashpoint in political terms in the coming period. They also that Meyer said had a considerable range of high-up contacts in the mili- in intelligence circles, tary, academics and both among political parties, Tory and Labour. Nobody knew the last CIA to chief in London. His name Bronson Tweedy. But was Cord Meyer will be a name that you're bound to hear more of. There has been some argu- ment about our categorical statement that British police are now armed. This is despite the fact that we've produced statements from senior offices at Scot- land Yard and in West London who have given details of the which arming has extent to taken place. Now, from Leeds, we have another item of evidence.

local newspaper reports that 150 local officers are specially- trained. armed and Their instructor is ex- Coldstream Guardsman, Sergeant Roy Foster. Superintendent M. Wilson, Leeds City Police information officer, said: 'Men have, on occasions, been issued with arms a precaution, but as fortunately they have never used. been 'Above all, the task of the police is to protect the pub- as in lic, and in this issue this is our everything else, first consideration.' The question to be asked is simple: If they've never had recourse to use them in the past, why have 150 of them armed now? For the answer ask Premier Heath.

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SAY NO TO BRANDT'S

'BRAKE ON WAGES'

Iranian students in Britain are planning a protest demonstra- tion tomorrow to the embassy in Kensington. The march is a protest against the military occupation of Iranian univer- sities to suppress student pro- tests against the Shah. The occupation has led to the machine-gunning of at least four students at Tabriz University and the shooting of a girl student at Jon di Shapoor University. Iranian Students' The Society in Great Britain, which is organizing the demonstra- tion, is also protesting against the $3,000m arms purchased by the regime for use particularly in the Persian Gulf. The march is leaving on Sunday at 2.30 from Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park. About 60,000 cases of tuber- culosis among South Africans are notified each year, accounting for 86 per cent of all cases of communicable disease. But details now available show that a case-finding cam- paign last year in one area of the East Rand pushed up the known number of sufferers eight-fold. Before the case-finding cam- paign an average of ten cases were notified each month and about 300 people a month received out-patient treatment.

However, the Medical Officer of Health for Benoni, Dr. D. J.

Gordon-Smith, disclosed that during the six months of the campaign, the figures rocketed to an average of 80 notifications a month and nearly 2,000 out- patients.* 4'.. Dr Gordon-Smith stressed that the increase in numbers did not reflect a sudden in- crease in the disease, but that more cases were in existence than had previously been dis- covered. He also said that TB among whites was extremely rare.

Another medical officer, Dr Wilfred Wright, said that of 25,000 African schoolchildren tested by the campaign team, 4,000 were found to be 'tuber- culosis-prone' This meant they had within them the TB bacillus which would erupt at any period should the children come un- der severe mental or physical strain. South African farmers in the Cape, Free State and Trans- vaal have formed associations to erect 'prison outposts' to which African convicts are sent to work on the farms.

Each farmer is entitled to a pro rata number of prisoners as farm labourers. report on prison labour A on private farms by the Cape office of the South African Institute of Race Relations states that each 'outpost' houses about 250 prisoners, selected by the Prisons Department, most of them serving more than two years.

The tariff charged by the state for the use of prison labour is 15c (7łp) per worker on weekdays, and 10c (5p) on Saturdays. The farmers have to provide guards for the prisoners, transport to and from work and the erection and maintenance of the build- ing. Working hours are 7 am to 5 pm. total cost of The each worker to the farmer is about 40c (20p) a day per worker.

The effect of convict labour is therefore to depress the wages offered to free labour on the open market.

BY OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONI

Chancellor Willy Brandt faces his second term of office with a comfortable majority in the Bundes. tag-but growing pro- blems at home and abroad. The revaluation of the Mark, imposed by Deutsch the United States, poses a serious threat to the exports upon which the German eco- nomy depends. The employers are determined to pass the burden onto the working class and Brandt has already called a brake on wages and and social expenditure to pre- vent German capital seeking higher profits abroad. The economic crisis is thus forcing Brandt to veer still further to the right while the workers, having re-elected the social democrats, are in no mood to accept compromises.

This has been shown in the engineering industry where a ballot of members of the powerful I. G. Metall union gave a 62-per-cent vote against the 8.5-per-cent wage increase accepted by the union leaders.

The union was not obliged to call a strike because the 75-per-cent vote in favour re- quired by the rules was not of the big plants

ESPONDENT

Germany strikes have already taken place for the full 11.5- per-cent claim and others are likely. Last month 20,000 workers employed by Hoechst of Dort- mund came out. The bosses were obliged to reinstate eight shop stewards who had led the strike and agreed to negotiate on the full claim. There is a demand in chemical industry the for a national strike to win the 11.5 per cent. The right-wing trade union bureaucrats are finding it increasingly difficult to the policies of carry through class collaboration which have held the working class back since the war. Their role, and that of the ministers social-Democratic who have thrown all their weight behind the employers in resisting wage increases, is now being exposed. Opposition is growing, not only in the trade unions but also from within the Social Democratic Party. The voice of the left wing, confused as it is, will be raised in criticism • of the Brandt leadership at the Hanover conference of the party next month. Those 'lefts' already domi- • 'Jusos', or Young nate the Socialists, who, at their recent at Bad Godesburg, congress called for a policy of 'struc- Workers Press, Sat tural reforms'. It is these re- forms that Brandt says Ger- man capitalism, facing heavy competition on the world mar- ket, can no longer afford Young Socialists of the German

SPD

vote at their congress. Above: Brandt—veering further to the right. The 'lefts' are expected to muster 40 per cent of the votes at the Hanover con- not enough to shake gress, Brandt but sufficient to indi- cate that his command of the party is more insecure than it has ever been. growth in While economic slowing down, Germany is are rising faster than prices ever. Last year they went up by Press, Saturday March 31, 1973 PAGE 5 7 per cent and there is no sign of a slackening in the inflation. In those conditions the Brandt government is just not able to carry out any re- forms which would add to government expenditure. In fact the emphasis is on cut- backs and economies. As the money crisis worsens German exports will feel the pinch, and as the economy is geared to exports the results will be serious in slump and unemployment. The employers and the government are tool- ing up for a period of inten- sified class struggle. Large, well-armed police forces are prepared to go into working action against the class as they did against the students in 1967 and 1968.

In fact agitation in the uni- versities, which has been at a low ebb since then, is now beginning to revive-focused so far this year against the limitation of the number of places available in the faculties of science and medicine. It is clear that great oppor- tunities are opening up for the building of a revolu- new tionary leadership in the Ger- working class. The man workers, the youth and the students have shown a readi- ness to fight which must now be matched by the building of such a leadership.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday March 31, 1973 A court case at the Old has just opened in Shrewsbury six months after the event.

Bailey, where the defen- The aim of all this is to dant is now awaiting build up a climate of hysteria around the whole question of after being sentence strikes and pickets. New police found guilty on charges powers over pickets are about of attempting to incite to be announced by the gov- make bombs people to There have already been and commit arson, has shows of police power huge ominous implications for against hospital ancillary staffs and electricians at St Thomas's the fight to defend basic Hospital, London. Nearly 1,000 democratic rights. police turned the out at Shrewsbury builders' trial as Tony Soares (30), a sup- of force show against of porter black community workers demonstrating outside politics, was arrested following the court. an article in the Black Libera- The same intimidatory tac- tion Front magazine 'Grass tics were used against workers Roots' giving recipes for a self- who joined the national picket igniting Molotov cocktail and Fine Plymouth, on Tubes, a 'people's hand grenade'.

March 19. The reprinted from nesatiac, of these The combination Panther the Black maga- new trends in law and order, zine, urged readers to prepare plus the arming of the police for acts of armed violence as and the special training of the self-defence against 400 years military civil in war tactics of police and military repres- the guidance of hard- under of black sion people every- General line military men like where. Carver and Brigadier Kitson, are all part of the preparation Two things stand out about the month-long trial. for the showdown with the First, there working class and trade union was no evidence Tory that movement which the at all i to show either Soares or the BLF had made government's policies are in- evitably leading to. active preparations for any economic crisis in- acts of terrorism. As the tensifies, so the government's Secondly, Soares consistently squeeze on the working class's denied that he had any connec- standard of living grows tighter.

with that particular issue tion There of avoiding is no way of the paper and the prosecu- The Tories know an explosion. produced tion little evidence this perfectly well. That is why to prove otherwise. they are preparing SO as- It leads to the conclusion siduously. that the police and the courts are deliberately trying to make

POLICE

example of Soares as an SO to intimidate black political and left-wing groups groups generally. In an atmosphere of bomb At the same time, real ter- scares, police shoot-outs, crush- rorism against black shops in and hysteria ing sentences south London has gone un- and law and about the rope punished by the courts. will order, they eventually A heavy sentence on Soares move decisively to try to smash follow on would the pattern the trade union movement and set for punishing being now outlaw all strikes and every 'political' offenders. The ten- of other sign working-class the year sentences on young allegedly formed people who The Old Bailey trial is just the Angry Brigade is the most a part of this build-up. And The 20 notorious example. the Judge Alan King- way years for the 16-year-old Birm- Hamilton conducted the case youth ingham mugging, shows exactly the kind of clim- while not a political trial, was ate the legal machine wishes of also part of the pattern to create. stiffer sentences. Tony Soares and his friends and in and around the Black Lib.

hese heavy sentences, he growing clamour for more Front eration are unhappy of law and order, restoration about many of the aspects of the death penalty, deportation the police investigation and the of coloured offenders. and trial. other reactionary outbursts, They object to the way the in the ruling a reflection sought to under- prosecution class and the middle class of given by wit- mine evidence struggle, the sharpening class nesses for the defence by rak- the intensification of which is ing up innuendoes about their the direct result of the deepen- behaviour, which, they claim, ing economic crisis. could only have come from The other side of this is the extensive police dossiers being clamour for more legal restric- kept on private citizens who and strikers. tions on strikes have no criminal record but The law is already on the move do who left-wing espouse in this direction. ago politics. For example, they complain Last summer saw the arrested. that one witness was accused London jailing of the five of having lived in a commune dockers and the massive fines in the 1960s when the address dockers' pickets Hull. named was merely the house on at Later builders' he was living in at that time.

on, pickets were arrested and a show trial But who gave the prosecution the information about the "commune'? Another witness was chal- lenged about a letter she had written to the 'Morning Star' over a year ago about an in- cident outside a youth club which had led to allegations of police brutality. Who was keeping track of letters to the 'Star', and for what purpose?

The defence claims that the judge wanted to have it both ways as far as the existence of Abdullah Tamal was con- cerned, the man the BLF say 'Grass Roots' editor of was No. 4 and responsible for re- the explosives recipe printing article. King-Hamilton first of all criticized the defence witnesses for differing of in some the details of their descriptions of Jamal. But later he asked the how could it be that so jury many people remembered SO the description of exactly had met some of them man only once and over 18 months The implication was that ago. Jamal was fictitious and the witnesses were reciting learned lines. 5 Police show of force at the triat of Shrewsbury building workers Above: awalting sentence after being acquitted on two charges and found The defence alleges that an- other witness, a schoolteacher, was asked leading questions by the judge in order to imply she was a hypocrite for that both believing that revolution- ary political violence could not be considered unjustified in all cases and also believing that she was a fit person to have responsibility over her moral schoolchildren. In his the summing up to the judge disparaged an- jury, for other witness having in- sisted that he be called Kimathi Wong which rather than was his slave name. King-Hamilton told the jury that Britain had abolished the slave trade in 1806 and sug- gested that Wong-Kimathi was either over-sensitive or was using the witness box a as platform propaganda because he kept asking not to be called by his slave name. witness who had Of another sworn the oath when asked to -although transpired later was a member of the that she Communist Party and did not ing workers Above: Tony Soares. believe in God- -the judge sug- charges and found guilty on two. gested they to the jury that might think she being was downright dishonest in offer- ing as an explanation that she had not realized she had the option to affirm.

'DANGEROUS

AGITATOR'

Despite all this, the jury still found Soares not guilty on two of the charges against him of inciting to commit murder and to possess firearms with intent to endanger life. But the two charges on which he was found • led the judge to char- gulity acterize Soares as 'a dangerous agitator'. Before sentencing him, King-Hamilton asked for medical reports. Derek Humphry, writing in the 'Sunday Times', said that the recipes article only went into 'Grass Roots' No. 4 at the very last minute when the September 1971 issue was due at the printers but still had a blank page 5. Abdullah Jamal, an American then editing the paper, cut out the Black Pan- ther article and pasted it onto the layout. 'Black Humphry went on: community newspapers invari- ably follow the tradition of "Abeng", a famous Jamaican newspaper of the mid-1960s, it which published everything was sent, no matter what it how badly it was said or written. 'Under this the system, editor is merely the linkman in the production team. He does not forbid putlication or The justification cut articles. for the policy is that every- body's point of view is valid.'

That issue of 'Grass Roots' was published just two weeks after George Jackson, the black Marxist leader, was murdered by guards in San Quentin prison, California. be the even- Whatever may tual political destination of the Front and Black Liberation Workers however much the Press may disagree with black power politics, it is undeniable that black workers are victims of the most extreme social and economic oppression and their right political struggle to must be defended uncondition- ally. Workers Press, Saturday Whatever the jury's verdict, The Soares is being victimized for claimec his part in the political struggle was in of all the oppressed. What active happens to him is of concern But to all workers who are fighting proved to defend their rights and end that th exploitation. zine ir Soares' luck could not have discuss been worse. In the middle of 'Heads! the bombs exploded for bi the trial, in central London, one of them childre outside the Old Bailey, causing rorism the court to be cleared. At the prosecu end of the trial, another bomb In an Press, scare caused the building to BLF's i be cleared again just as the jury was in the middle of its munity seven-hour deliberations.

mentar 'Grass Roots' was not the legal first or by any means the only centres paper to publish these recipes, things. or even the 'inciting' language first bo Gate. that went with it. The Black itself was The Panther magazine Roots' already on sale here. Penguin Times' 'The Sunday BLF a Books, magazine, and other publica- that te tions have printed similar Britain. all But recipes. found 'Spearhead', the newspaper right-wing of the rorism extreme National Front, has had similar ог ассі without any fear of articles sentenc police prosecution. agitatol

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Mar By G. Economou. Member of 1 National Youth Committee Worke International The installation of the capitalist military dicta- torship • in Greece on April 21, 1967, was closely bound to interna- tional developments, par- ticularly the economic, political and social de- velopments in the United States. Over Silt billion were con- tributed through the Marshall Plan to 16 European states to smash the rising tide of re- volution after the fall of the war fronts. Greece received the largest share—$2 billion between 1944 and 1952. Marshall Plan The was continued by Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon.

the dictatorship is Today the open servant of the United Mediterranean. States in the Further aid for the dictator- ship has been proposed this year: $20m in military grants, $55m worth of military credit sales, $38m of excess weapons.

Since 1953, US investors have supplied about 40 per cent of the country's foreign capital. The US dollar also cent of comprises 60 per Greece's foreign tourist earn- ings, an increase of 76 per in the last two year. cent Official estimates from Athens show that the US contributed $150m out of $450m worth of NATO projects in Greece -including the Greek share of NATO's elaborate air de- fence system. The influence of the United States also extends to Cyprus, through her NATO partners Greece and Turkey. It is US policy to try to keep all par- ties to the dispute happy. They exerted pressure on President Makarios to agree to the new series of discussions which in- clude Greece, Turkey and the United Nations. 'Greece is the most faithful ally of the United States in the Mediterranean', South-East proclaimed the US Pentagon through its spokesman Pushin- Athens, sky ('The Acropolis' August 13, 1971). This is true. During very the first six months of 1971, the US Sixth Fleet paid a total of 1,030 visits to ports in the Mediterranean-52 per cent of which were to Greece (223 to mainland ports and 310 to Crete). Even this is not enough for the US. A new agreement has been signed giving the Sixth Fleet the right to use Piraeus and other ports as they like.

:.The dictatorship represents the interests of the US bour- geoisie, and its military stra- as well as the Greek tegy, bourgeoisie-shipowners, ban- kers, etc-as a whole. One of

HAPPENING

IN GREECE

hirst formulate laws (i.e. 147, 248 148, special privileges emptions panies. panies had tions in colonial work their workers. LeTS come took Using the guns The right free elections unions. are now dictatorship. entire The 1947, penalty tor Prisons and camps were tants, the warrants was tion level. Step by the partism by power in Class conflict and classes essence it interests of scandalous displeased bourgeoisie Common the Britain. Of 25 mining, facturing, warehousing ended the in deficit. December 13, these which were City the These are the bourgeois (and Stalinists) the factions pose, selt, the as peacefully The Front' (PAM) found trom the

DONE

although the linist and When power, the 1n Was monsulatons. measures was laws (i.e. A.N. 89, 248 etc) to grant and tax ex- foreign 971, 477 such com- 1 established opera- Greece, imposing conditions ers. In order to get foreign monopolies the sections which are tied Market and businesses, , and banking firms, 216 in manu- 7 in building, 34 in 65 and others year the with their budgets 1967, reflected aunterest the reasons why ex-politicians ists) are opposed to Disaffected and Stalinists of all as an end in it usting of the junt ly as possible. (Patriotic with the bour- no response Their terror received no sup- working class, few cases were erated by Sta- European bourgeois e dictatorship took labour movement The greal uly 1965—mass de- the venera onged to the past These upheavals down and cooled ceeded by a engineered by leadership. There had been continuous street fi demonstrations and days lost in strike streets were workers and conservative tional Progressive U fronted the Arrests, trials ments took the counter-revoluti

I TOTSK VIST

Stalinists. The social cal 1965 was The ruling class had siderably alarmed, ways sought security. situation about a clash betwe of the wings geoisie-pro-London Washington. The both worked for sul inside the taking of powel, a veloped between for the sharing leges, should stage place on December King Constantine counter-coup. The

PAM

Dictatorial Front) five leaders after days took power. One the composer dorakis, general se the Lambrakis When Theodoraki leased and attended London, he criticized by 'leaders five Theodorakis PAM was that the of touch with was of paper This tures. Was Communist Party the elections of second largest party ment-with behind papers, many large propaganda ma dominating 115 The membership furiated when a of information the documents papers, pership lists Disillusionment For this spread others, there was from the working PAM's call to cept cept in the case in the Papadopoulos, South-East gradually were suc- period of calm the Stalinist ad been 90 days of street fighting and ions and 1.6 million in strikes, but the of peasants. orial government of

ERE

(Na- ressive Union) con- movement. and imprison- thanks place, struggle the it economic, politi- crisis July time. and now to improve its brought sh between the two dictatorial bour- o-London and two 'wings' •d for support from After ower, a conflict de- tween the two sides out of privi- and sinecures nether the new form be led by generals struggle took 13, 1967- feeble nstantine's (Patriotic Anti- the Lam- h movement a few dictatorship • One of them was Mikis Theo. secretary of youth. neodorakis was re- attended a meeting was publicly another of these Votsis. had to agree totally out the It masses. , more than sheet five signa- the great which, after was the est party parlia- vast party daily it, periodicals, ganda machine, and trade unions. was in- vast amount revealed was police wher and mem- was wide- reason and was no response orking class to the the street, ex. of a very acting alone, 'Greece is the Mediterranean.' through bombings etc. From the very first days, there was a rush to sign the police submission to declarations of the dictatorship and renun- ciation of communist ideas.

The official report of the published security authorities in 'Eleftheros Kosmos' ('Free World') revealed that 20,000 such declarations were signed, was never contradicted by either the Stalinists or the Pabloites. The support given to the dictatorship by the degene- rated workers' states, and the crisis generated by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, created a new crisis inside the CP. The CP reformist parlia- mentary ideas taken into the mass movement burst asunder irretrievably. The split inside the CP, EDA and PAM extended from top to bottom. The two main factions were the Kollyannis faction (pro-Moscow bureau- cracy) and the Theodorakis- Partsalidis faction (pro- Rumanian and Yugoslavian bureaucracy). The Greek workers and pea- sants were angered at seeing 300 trucks specially over ordered and made in "social- Rumania, ist' used by the police to transfer political pri- soners from jail to jail.

All the Stalinists still agree that the relations between the workers' states and the dic- tatorship must be fostered.

The other small factions be- lieve they are carrying on the true spirit of Stalinism.

Although these Stalinist fac- tions are small and hopelessly divided, they still represent a danger to the movement, especially that part of it out of Greece, as long they as continue to propound their re- formist counter-revolutionary theories. They bear the greatest res- ponsibility for the present ascendancy of the April 21 capitalist dictatorship. nature of the The illusion that the would riberalize it- tatorship self and restore democratic rights, has been exposed. The European imperialists and their Greek servants, bour- geois and Stalinist, have at- tempted to pressurize the junta to liberalize itself.

However the only course to the Bonapartist re- open gime is to strengthen the state to meet the requirements of 'death agony' stage the of capitalism, to which it is in- tied. They call this separably 'modernizing' the state. The so-called de-bureau- cratization of the state has Greek colonel's regime with US Vice.

e most faithful ally of the United States complete sham-the been a dictatorial broom merely swept out all its opponents.

Purges took place on a mass scale, and all posts have been hilled by persons faithful to NATO and the US Pentagon.

In fact, to bear the costs of bureaucracy, they have had to borrow enormous sums of money-from 1967 to 1971, 461 million drachmas inside and 1,358 million Greece, drachmas from outside. The total increase in the national debt has been from $1,100m in 1967 to $2,300m in 1971.

Official accounts show the following expenditure: From 1967 to 1971: The Prime Minister's Office (a specially created ministry in the hands of Papadopoulos)— an increase of 142 per cent.

Ministry of National Security —an increase of 130 per cent.

Ministry of Defence—an in- crease of 97 per cent. Ministry of National Economy —an increase of 92 per cent.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs- an increase of 50 per cent.

i in- Ministry of Education-an crease of 38 per cent. With the borrowed money and taxes levied on the people they pay 20,000 secret agents and have doubled the salaries of all officers in the security police and the armed forces.

In doing so, they have created a new caste of strong sup- porters who see the interests of the dictatorship as their own. Another deception on the people was the setting up of the 'Small Parliament', elected by 9,000 carefully chosen voters out of a population of nearly 9 million. The Stalinists, as always, characterize the state as fas- cist. The crimes of the dic- tatorship and their methods of oppression and torture are no less than those of fascism.

Their leaders, such as Papa- dopoulos, Pattakos, Ladas and Aggelis, co-operated openly with the German and Italian fascists who occupied Greece from 1940 to 1944. However, in spite of the similarity in method, this is not enough to characterize the state as fas- cist. The Bonapartist is state quite distinct from the fas- cist state, and appears at a different stage of the historical process. This is not just a question of semantics, but of analysing the social basis and the poli- tical support for the present dictatorship from which follow our tasks against it.

Fascism is an open agent of monopoly capitalism and has a wide popular basis of disaffected petty bourgeoisie, number of hungry, • large a low-paid workers, unemployed and the lumpen proletariat. A new state is born, with a rabid bureaucracy. This is very far from the situation in Greece. The fas- cist movement creates a large part of its mass support be- fore taking power with pseudo-populist chauvinist programme when there is no revolutionary party to lead the working class to power.

The strength of the dic- tatorship in Greece is more apparent than real. Because of working-class opposition it has never been able to hold an official public meeting in the centres. During its five years it has repeatedly changed its ministerial composition. One minister after another sacked and there have been six different Ministers of La- bour. These military leaders of the dictatorship were quite unknown to the people before they took power. They had all been secret agents of the CIA in Greece. They attempted to build a para-military youth movement Alkimi. After long and inten- sive the first preparation open-air meeting of the orga- nization in an Athens stadium was attended by only 1,000 youth, all of whom were from military families.

CONTINUED MONDAY

MR POWELL'S RICH

Who are the secret group of City millionaires and backing industrialists Enoch Powell? The man behind the cam- paign, Mr David Lazarus, is distinctly vague about it all.

This week he sent copies of Powell's speeches to the chair- 630 Conservative men Associations with a covering letter which says: "The enclosed pamphlets are sent to you as the out- come of a meeting of leading industrialists and others who have been active in the Con- servative for Party many years and are concerned about the way the government cause has been put. 'Mr Powell's logical and lucid arguments appeal to the . ordinary intelligent man in overalls. This is a man—the working man who wants to think for himself-whom we should be attracting to the Conservative Party' With the letter are pamp- lets of two speeches Powell made on the Housing Finance political correspondent of the , said that 'Sunday Times' 'three millionaires are paying for the printing bill' Some of the strands in this boost Powell campaign indi- cate close co-operation with the right-wing Monday Club and, in particular the Brent Conservative Associa- tion where Mr George K. the ex-deputy director Young, of. Ml6, Britain's counter- espionage service, is a leading figure. Since he left the spy game, Young has become a manager at the City merchant banking firm, Kleinwort Benson, where Reginald Maudling is a director. To discover who is behind this propaganda campaign for Powell, Workers Press has three vital pieced together pieces of information. First of all, Mr Lazarus is chairman of the Brent Con- servative Association. This association covers the parlia- constituencies of mentary Brent East and Brent South.

He is a Tory member of Brent council and works for a computer company. Secondly, the Tory candid- ate for Brent East at the next General Election is none other than Mr George K. Young. written Young has a - immigrant anti stridently pamphlet for the club called 'Who Goes Home?' With this sort of record on race relations it is curious that the Tory Central Office have chosen him as their candidate for the Brent East constituency. Brent has the highest pro- portion of immigrants in the United Kingdom and has been the scene of ugly police harass- immigrant of the ment population. recently completed Young the production of a film Whose Eng- called 'England, land?' This is a lurid picture of the Were the Law Lords to put in for a pay increase under Phase Two they could clear increases in excess of £10 a week. For the combined sala- ries of these 1l legal eagles tot up to a cool £127,000- and they clear at least £11,500 a year each. These are the men whose judgement last year released the five jailed London dock- ers, but opened the way for the massive fines which later hit the Transport and General Workers' Union and the Amal- gamated Union of Engineering Workers. They are the final court of appeal for every English court.

Left: Edward Heath. Right: George K.

policies. Above: Enoch Powell attending consequences of a multi-racial Britain. The film cost about £2,000 make, runs for to about 25 minutes, and can be screening purchased for about £100. It was given its premiere at the House of Commons before an audience of Tory MPs. Hailsham: £14,500 a year.

If you get the thumbs-down from them, you've had it.

outstanding qualifi- Most cation for the enormous power wielded by this tiny cabal, who were never elected by anybody, seems to be their great age. Youngest of the team is Lord Simon, who, at 61, can be considered still wet behind the ears compared with the rest. Longest in to bat is 82- year-old Lord Norris. George K. Young who attacks Heath's I attending a Monday Club function.

Next month Young is chal- lenging fellow merchant banker, Jonathan Guinness, tor chairmanship of the right- wing Monday Club. And thirdly, in our evidence- gathering, there is the enig- matic Enoch Powell himself.

Powell does not belong to Headed by the Lord Chan- cellor, Lord Hailsham (64), who draws top whack of £14,500 a year, their combined ages is 753. Riches Last year the standard of liv- ing of the working class was hit by the Tory-inspired in- flation. But while families were earning less in real terms, prices were going up, council rents went up — Britain pro- duced a record number of millionaires. Labour front bench spokes- man, Robert Sheldon, said increase mous property values and speculation. He said: "To see this level of riches obtained by individ- uals at no obvious benefit to the community when we have our prices and incomes policy is an affront to the people of this country. the Monday Club though his anti-immigrant views (I see rivers of blood') and econo- mic theories are followed enthusiastically by Monday There is a Club members. furious feeling in the club th that Premier Heath has 'be- trayed' and 'surrendered' Tory philosophy. 'State In a • policy booklet, and Economy: Need for a Tory rethink', Young attacks Heath's policy of state intervention in saving 'lame ducks' and calls for a timetable to denationalize all existing state-owned enter- prises. His cries for the elevation of 'free market forces' are not dissimilar to those views held by Powell. Only last weekend Powell said that Heath had gone over to 'state capitalism'.

There is considerable weight, therefore, for the theory that at least ideologically-on im- migration and the economy— Monday Club and Powell the

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All deny this-Lazarus, Young and Powell. But that doesn't surprise anybody. These right-wing Tories are working the assumption on that Heath's Phase Iwo cor- poratism will be smashed by working class. They are the starting to promote Powell at this point because they want him to replace Heath with a hard-line Tory cabal drawn from the Monday Club. Such a shift would have enormous implications for the working class. Powell is the man who once said: I am the virus that kills socialism. He is passionately opposed to the closed shop, and recently made a speech calling for tougher police action against picketing.

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Management regretting Press celebrations over 'victory'

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT

TEN thousand British-Leyland carworkers were on strike or laid off at Oxford yesterday despite the end- ing on Wednesday of an eight-day stoppage against speed-up. Production was halted for most of the day in the Austin Morris complex's body plant and Marina assembly circuit. Some 2,500 production-line workers in the body plant are on strike until Monday because of management's breach of lay-off agreements during the eight-day stoppage.

All body production for Oxford's two main models—the Marin ind the Maxi-is shut down as a result.

Meanwhile in the assembly plant the Marina circuit is shut lown because of two related disputes.

About 1,000 assembly-line workers are laid off because of walk-out by who claim men they have been victimized for taking part in the eight-day stop- did not page, since men who half strike received a hour's extra pay. And a further 1,000 have been home because despatch sent drivers on strike are over an half lay off their attempt to following the Marina num beri walk-out. Leyland was yesterday bitterly regretting Thursday morning's Fleet Street headlines celebrat- ing the previous day's return to work as a 'victory' over the shop stewards' movement in the hour wage increase under the Oxford factories. annual review of the Measured- For the mood of the Oxford Day Work pay system operating workers clearly gives the lie to in the Oxford complex. the claims of the capitalist press For their part the workers that resistance to speed-up has have thrown out a 6p an hour been decisively defeated.

counter-offer, which sticks firmly to Phase Two and is conditional Principled on acceptance, by the unions, of work-study operations on the shop floor. The day after this offer was In fact the eight-day strike rejected--by '10,000-strong lighty principled was a struggle mass meeting on March 15- -all which cost the carworkers' more direct workers at the factory re- than a full week's wages each. ceived a letter informing them And they have returned to of the intention company's to work only the understanding on introduce industrial engineers that there will be no reduction onto the production lines.

of labour as a result of the acti- This in breach of was an vities of work-study men, dubbed agreement reached in September industrial engineers by manage- last year, in which it was argued on the floor. ment, shop that all manning arrangements Though meeting a mass on would be regulated between fore- Wednesday morning defeated the and men stewards without the stewards' recommendation to of introduction industrial engi- continue strike action against the neers. industrial engineers, sizeable On Monday afternoon, March of 1,500-2,000 minority about 19, 25 industrial engineers moved voted to strike on. into the assembly, paint, trim This in the fact strengthens and rectification shops of the fight not only against speed-up, Oxford assembly plant. In line but with the policy decided also against company by the Phase Two shop attempts to impose joint stewards' committee, Tory pay laws of the the work stopped immediately.

on factory. The following morning, a mass The company has rejected the meeting of 4,000 day-shift work- workers' demand for a l4p-an- endorsed this policy after

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walking out when the industrial engineers reappeared. And workers continued to walk out for the next five work- ing days, on both day and night shifts, when further attempts to introduce the industrial engi- neers were made. Last Wednesday morning, management moved the indus- trial engineers in half an hour during a shop stewards' early, committee meeting, when most stewards were away from their sections. But despite their stewards' workers immediately absence, walked out in line with agreed policy and began going home.

When this news was relayed to the stewards' meeting a mass meeting arranged for that morn- ing was postponed. Splitting Policy was also followed by the Wednesday night shift, but the postponed mass meeting the following morning, involving both shifts, voted to return to nor- mal working. That evening the 'Oxford Mail' —a longstanding enemy of the carworkers-was beside itself.

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Basic reading: Perspectives for transforming the SLL into a revolutionary parxist Analysis of the Crisis.

Problems of the British Revo- lution (Trotsky). Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth Inter- national, Communist Manifesto.

Workers Press, Satur stewards had been 'soundly de- feated', not to mention 'brushed aside' by a majority 'estimated to be at least four to one'.

Neither Sturges, nor the 'Daily Express, ' 'The Times' and 'Fin- ancial Times', who claimed the same voting figures, said who had done their estimating for them, but stewards are agreed that the majority was in fact between two to one and three to two. The stewards also describe as a complete fabrication claims in the "Express' and 'The Times that senior steward was 'howled' or 'shouted' down by the meeting when he warned that the consequence of accept- ing industrial engineers would be more work for extra pay. The so-called 'decisive defeat' for stewards, which The Guardian' claimed was 'bound to encourage British-Leyland man- agement in its other area of diffi- culty at the plant, over pay, was put to the test within hours of the return to work, in the dis- putes which shut down produc- tion yesterday. On Thursday afternoon, the 'Oxford Mail' returned to the attack with an editorial designed to split the assembly-plant work- ers against their stewards.

The stewards had only them- selves to blame' for being 'deci- All Trades Unions All BASILDON: Sunday April 1, 5.30 Barnstaple Community p.m. Centre. 'Build Councils of Action.

Make Tory the government resign'. ACTON: Monday Aprl! 2, 8 p.m.

Co-op Hall, High Road, W3. 'TUC must call a General Strike' DAGENHAM: Tuesday April 3, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall. Fan- shawe Avenue, Barking. 'Victory to the Hospital Workers. Make the Tories Resign' PADDINGTON: Tuesday April 3, 'Prince of Wales', enr. 8 p.m. Harrow Road/Gt Western Road, Victory to the Hospital W9. Workers. Make the Tories Resign'. TOTTENHAM: Tuesday April 3, 8 p.m. Bricklayers Arms, Totten- ham High Road, nr. White Hart Lane. "TUC must call a General Strike to make the Tories resign'.

WEMBLEY: Wednesday April 4, 8 p.m. Copland School, High Street. 'Tory "Law and Order"_ Preparation for dictatorship'.

LEEDS: Thursday. April 5, 8 p.m.

Peel Hotel, Boar Lane. 'The Fight Against the Pay Laws' Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office.

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Workers Press, Saturday March 31, 1973 plant, have become Mine avae one roleo the Press. repudiated' sively after 'going battle too soon', the paper Into said. What the stewards should have done, it suggested, was wait until duced their findings take a stand findings unacceptable. Such •roved policy would, course, Leyland allowed Resistance This editorial was blatant attempt to whip up feeling the against men s elected repre arguments de- scullalives. WIll signed to directly serve the terests of the inside wally Having consistently supported Measured-Day Work under con and undermine trade-union orga- a time when it is lacing con siderable resistance to its opportunity to go by when it can allack ine carworkers and every is the most consistent enemy working class in Oxtord Carworkers are right to ignore and the Fleet Street Press and will do well to go on doing All Trades Unions Alliance meetings

DAVENTRY:

April 7.30 p.m. Daventry Club New Street. MIDDLETON: FridayArms April 6, p.m. 'Assheton near Middleton Gardens. LEWISHAM: Monday April 9, Deptford Engineers Club p.m. New Cross Road Cross Tube). 'Build Councils of Force Tories Resign' WANDSWORTH: Monday April 9 'Kings Arms', High Street, SW18.

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must call a Genera Strike' WATFORD: Monday April 9, p.m. Trade Union Watford Hall, Road, Wattord Station 'The fight against Stalinism'.

Tuesday CAMDeNe April 10, 'Prince Albert, p.m. Wharfedale 'The TUC must Road, Kings X call a General Strike' CLAPHAM: Tuesday April 10, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor SW4. 'The must call General Strike to make the Tories resign. Tuesday April 10 %

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Harrow Wealdstone. The TUC must call a General Strike' Published by Press Era. Prius,

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