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LESSONS OF UCS

By John Spencer

Workers Press no. 1059, 28 April 1973 · scan pages 6, 7

Topics: Shipbuilding and UCS, Eastern Europe, Italy and Germany

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NEFORMESAA ON THE CLYDE TREFORMISMOM THE CLYDE he The StoryofUcs •Reformism on the Clyde' the first exposure of Communist Party tactics at the UCS work-in. It shows how a powerful challenge to the Tories degenerated into a reformist protest. It examines the records of the men who led the struggle, James Reid, James Airlie and Sammy Barr.

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New Park Publications 186a, Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG or the Paperbacks Centre 28 Charlotte Street London, W1 (Enclose 10p for postage) leading trading partner, with double the trade of five years ago. Yugoslavia has a big trade deficit with Germany which amounted in 1972 to almost £140m but this is more than outweighed by the expenditure of German tourists and remittances from Yugoslay workers in Germany. Germans make up about 40 per cent of the foreign tourists visiting the country.

It is, however, a lamentable reflection the Tito regime that it depends upon the remittances made out of the wages of Yugoslav workers exploited in foreign capitalist countries such as Germany. These economic one questions were the main ones which were discussed between Brandt and Tito, together with Yugoslav Prime Minister Dzemal Bijedic and government officials from both sides The agreement reached on reparations envisages long term economic co-operation vhich will open u the Yugoslav economy still wide to German nonopoly capital, th ature of which remains to l worked adition Brandalks. has undertaken to influence German open branch advantage Yugoslava. abundant plants in to take supply of cheap labour rather than Yugoslav workers having to go to Germany to find work For their part, the Yugoslavs have promised to give more privileges to foreign capitalists encourage them to invest in the country.

In other words, the Tito Pacefuly system y by German regime has become a party peaceful penetration of the big in and Yugoslavia is big business. The narticanc rapidly on the way to becoming economic colony of

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