Workers Press no. 1076

workers press THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

RECESSION

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CE

BY JOHN SPENCER

& P.U AR ON THE DRIVE towards recession

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has started in the United States.

At the insistence of the power- ful commercial bankers the Federal Reserve Board has taken steps to tighten the supply of credit and push up interest rates. The measures already taken have led to an increase in bank-lending rates and an all-round rise in the prime interest rate is expected next week. These deflationary moves are being backed of with a series up cuts in spending in the forthcoming federal budget. The effect of the higher interest rates will be to slash industrial invest- and ment over the coming months give another push to the downward slide on Wall Street. The stock market index has declined steadily for over a month and is now at close to its lowest level for 15 months. Confidence in all forms of inflationary paper is non-existent as the behaviour of Wall Street share prices indicate.

Mean- while after a temporary ebb the price of again and a gold is going up wave of panic is expected new any day. Yesterday the was fixed price in London at $105.75. $2.50 above the closing The overnight price. JAMES McCORD, one of the dollar again fell heavily in rela- convicted Watergate burglars tion to sterling, reflecting the claims political pressure was put reluctance of traders to hold the President Nixon's on him- with US currency over the weekend knowledge-to stay silent and go for fear of a sudden devaluation off to prison quietly. $10,200m the of the in wake He read a personal statement balance quarterly of payments to the Senate committee of in- deficit. yesterday which he said quiry Despite their deflationary Con. he had prepared for the purposes Board's the Reserve sequences of He said political accuracy. are regarded by actions pressure had been put on him to US influential section of the accept executive clemency to and industrialists bankers as remain silent over the Watergate falling far short of what is re- case. quired. They see the credit re- the of This began in Jan- strictions as actions pressure 1973 following weak paralysed by his convic- uary government internal and scandal. tion for burgling the Democratic

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headquarters. Party campaign To try and placate these advo- Administration official John deflation, cates of savage told him Caulfield had re- announced credit Board its silent and go off quietly main

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SATURDAY MAY 19, 19

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I was told that while I was there I would receive financial aid and later rehabilitation and a job.' He was told by Mr Caulfield that the President of the United States was aware of the meeting.

He said that the results of the meeting would be conveyed Itc the President and that at future probably meetings there would be a message from the President himself. A former member of the CIA McCord said he had undertaken the break-ins for several reasons.

'One of the reasons,' he said, *and a very important reason to the the fact that me, was Attorney-General, Mr John Mitchell, had considered and ap- proved the operations, accord- ing to Mr Liddy [another Water- gate burglar].' Y 19, 1973 • No 1076 • 4p

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STARTING MONDAY STALINISM AND

TROTSKYISM'-Order now 01-622 7029 OVER 1,000 building workers from all parts of Britain demonstrated through London yesterday to end the lump' in the building industry. The march from Tower Hill to parliament coin- second reading of Eric Heffer's cided with the "lump', the private member's Bill to abolish the practice of labour only subcontracting.

But many building wor- kers on the demonstration had their doubts about the of the Bill, effectiveness which will almost cer- tainly be defeated. One group from the Head- way's site, Battersea, chanted: General Strike 'A will kill "lump" the A herd of Heffers won't. Fred Torkington,

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Parting- steward from the Bolton, of ton's site. part 400-strong north-west the said: Nationaliz- contingent, ation without compensation is the real way to end the "lump" If this Bill fails, the TUC and call out should step in There'll everybody. be national strike if we don't get satisfaction.

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because through parliament MPs have an in- too many terest in the industry. Commons Heffer In the he spoke told MPs that as thousands of building work- ers were either demonstrat- ing in the major cities or had sent delegates to lobby their MPs. subcontract- Labour-only said in moving his Bill's second reading, led to The widespread tax evasion. Labour Party would abolish it. • More builders' news p. 12.

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workers press THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

RECESSION

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CEI

BY JOHN SPENCER

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THE DRIVE towards recession has started in the United States.

At the insistence of the power- ful commercial bankers the Federal Reserve Board has taken steps to tighten the supply of credit and push up interest rates. The measures already taken have led to an increase in bank-lending rates and an all-round rise in the prime interest rate is expected next week. These deflationary moves are being backed with a series of cuts in spending in the forthcoming federal budget. The effect of the higher interest rates will be to slash industrial invest- ment over the months and coming downward give another push the slide on Wall Street. The stock market index has declined steadily for over a month and is now at close to its lowest level for 15 months. Confidence in all forms of inflationary is non-existent as the behaviour of paper Wall Street share prices indicate. Mean- while after a temporary ebb the price of gold is going int papic isi expected up again and new wave any day. Yesterday fixed the price in London at $105 75 82 50 above the The overnight closing price. TAMES McCORD. one of the dollar again fell heavily in rela- Watergate convicted burglars sterling, reflecting the tion to claims political pressure was put reluctance of traders to hold the President Nixon's on him-with US the weekend currency over knowledge-to stay silent and go for fear of a sudden devaluation off to prison quietly. the the $10,200m in wake of He read a personal balance of statement quarterly payments deficit. to the Senate committee of in- yesterday quiry which he said Despite their deflationarv con- he had prepared for the purposes Reserve Board's sequences the He of accuracy. said political actions are regarded very pressure had been put on him to influential of the

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section clemency accept executive bankers and industrialists as remain silent over the Watergate falling far short of what is re- They race quired. see the credit re- the of This began in Jan- strictions as actions nressure 1973 weak paralysed by following his government uary nonvin scandal. internal crisis and tion for burgling the Democratic Party campaign headquarters. To try and placate these advo.

official John Administration deflation, cates savage Caulfield had told him to re- Board announced credit its silent and go off quietly main

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'I was told that while I was there I would receive financial aid and later rehabilitation and a jub.' He was told by Mr Caulfield that the President of the United States was aware of the meeting.

He said that the results of the would be conveyed meeting to the President and that at future meetings there would probably • be a message from the President himself. A former member of the CIA McCord said he had undertaken the break-ins for several reasons.

'One of the reasons,' he said, 'and a very important reason to fact that the the me, was Attorney-General, Mr John Mitchell, had considered and ap- the operations, accord- proved ing to Mr Liddy [another Water- gate burglar]' IY 19, 1973 • No 1076 • 4p

F THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

DON'T FORGET OUR NEW SERIES

STARTING MONDAY 'STALINISM AND

TROTSKYISM'—Order now 01-622 7029 OVER 1,000 building workers from all parts of Britain demonstrated through London yesterday to end the lump' in the building industry. The march from Tower Hill to parliament coin- second reading of Eric Heffer's cided with the private member's Bill to abolish the 'lump', the practice of labour only subcontracting But many building wor- kers on the demonstration had their doubts about the Bill, effectiveness of the which will almost cer- tainly be defeated. One group from the Head- way's site, Battersea, chanted: General will kill 'A Strike "lump" A herd of the Heffers won't' Fred Torkington,

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contingent, said: 'Nationaliz- ation without compensation is the real way to end the "lump" 'If this Bill fails, the TUC should step in and call out There'll everybody. be national strike if we don't get satisfaction.' Charlie Finn,

AUEW

GLC,

'The steward said:

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BURY WAY

problem is the union leader- Bill won't ship. The get because through parliament MPs have an in- too many terest in the industry. Commons Heffer In the he spoke told MPs that as thousands of building work- ers were either demonstrat- ing in the major cities or had sent delegates to lobby their MPs. subcontract- Labour-only moving his ing, he said in Bill's second reading, led to The widespread tax evasion. Labour Party would abolish it. • More builders' news p. 12.

A GREAT post yesterday. Our total is now £23,931.99 distance speaking —just hall's Ellesmere Port Trim- from £24,000. Socialist shop T&GWU 6/70 No 4 25 Labour League branches in: T. Brindley (Hull) £10 B Holloway 820: sent E. £1.000. Keep it up com Acton £90; Southall £10; rades. We have still a long Edinburgh £15; East £5: way to go. Post all dona Coventry

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Grenade safety-catch had Hebrew markings Was Milan blast a fascist PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday May THE TORY government of suffered a major defeat at the h parties and the labour moveme On the eve of Friday's Genera workers, Tanaka decided to withdra the electoral system. The decision Cabinet meeting on Thursday night of workers prepared to demonstrate their hostility to the proposed gerrymander.

Under the new legislation intended increasing Tanaka the number of seats in the Diet and altering the system of proportional voting. This would have helped to perpetuate in government the Liberal Democratic Party now in its 20th year of continuous office.

Tanaka staked his fast-dwind- ling political prestige in forcing the legislation through parliament.

When he announced his intention of placing the new laws before this session of the Diet, he. was immediately met by a wave of parliamentary hostility. The four opposition parties- the Japanese Socialist_ Party, the Communist Party, the Japan Social Democratic Party and Komeito, the political party of Soka Gakkai, the Buddhist sect all proceedings in -boycotted the Diet. Tanaka Then Sohyo, the militant TUC of public and government cor- poration workers, announced a series of one-day General Strikes, starting yesterday. On Tuesday the first massive opposition began on the streets.

More than 300,000 trade union- ists, labourers and students jammed the main streets in down- voice their Tokyo town to opposition to Tanaka's 'violation of the constitution and the demo- cratic process'. Because of the abject capitula- tion, Tanaka's position as leader the LDP is now helplessly Press in weakened. The Tory Japan is openly campaigning for a new leader, a strong man who will not give way to pressures inside the country or either outside. Tanaka was savagely criticized big business followers by his earlier this year for his handling of the yen crisis. He gave a public undertaking that the yen would not again be revalued —it had already been revalued some 18 per cent in the previous year. But after the Washington con- ference the yen was allowed to float and a further 18-per-cent revaluation occurred. The clique of financiers and industrialists at the top accused Tanaka of "giving in' to the Americans. Because of skyrocket- ing inflation, price increases and the worsening housing problem, Tanaka's popularity is at an all- time low. In November last year when he called the General Election his personal following was about 62 per cent, according to a reliable poll. Today it is 27 per cent, the lowest ever for a serving premier.

re-elected in Tanaka was December as 'the man of action'; he was given the nickname of 'the bulldozer'. It is clear, how- ever, the bulldozer has run out of steam. irday May 19, 1973 ent of Kakuei Tanaka has at the hands of the opposition novement. s General Strike by public service withdraw his legislation to change decision was taken at a special lay night as hundreds of thousands

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GRAVE DOUBTS are being c tics of the 'anarchist' who thr Italian Ministers in Milan on Bertoli had only just arrived in He had travelled there on a b The remains of the hand grena in Hebrew letters. Most parties on the left, including anarchist groups, have condemned provocation. The Communist Party stated: 'Reactionary Italian and foreign groups were using fascist adventurists groups, and agents provocateur.' The grenade was thrown as Minister Mariano Interior Rumor and government officials were leaving a ceremony com- memorating the death of a police commissioner. A woman was killed and 39 people injured by the explosion.

Bertoli was seen by many people throwing hand grenade the according to across the street Corriere della Milan newspaper Sera'. Bertoli, who had previously atttmpted to push way through the • police cordon, shouted: 'This for one Pinelli, and 'Pinelli is dead—all must die.'

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Pinelli was an anarchist who 'fell' to his death from the win- dow of a Milan police head- quarters in December 1969.

Pinelli had been arrested and charged with causing a bank ex- plosion in Milan. Last month the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) was deeply implicated in an- pa other Milan bombing where a policeman was killed by a hand grenade. For some time fascist agents have been infiltrating Maoist and anarchist and causing groups acts of terror throughout Italy.

But the MSI has denied being involved in this latest bombing.

The party announced it would to discuss law and be ready order on three conditions: Terrorist centres should be death dismantled; the penalty should be restored for terrorists; and the forces of law and order should be given the weapons they require. MAO'S ambassador to Greece, attended Chou Po-ping, Israeli reception given by the Embassy in Athens on the 25th anniversary of the founding of state of Israel. He warmly , the with the Israeli shook hands ambassador and apologized for his late arrival. When journalists asked him • if his attendance sig- China's recognition of nified Israel, he said that he had made a mistake and thought he was at Kuwait Embassy. Kuwait the does have an Athens not embassy! THE Central Committee of the Labour League has written to t vian ambassador to London prot the strongest possible terms ag anti-Trotskyist repression in Peru The letter vehemently conde banning of the Liga Comunista, section of the International Comi the Fourth International, the ar torture of its leaders and the si its Press by the Peruvian military It adds: These repressive act

OWN CORRESPONDENT

being cast about the real poli- who threw a hand grenade at lilan on Tuesday. Gianfranco rived in Italy from Marseilles.

on a boat from Haifa, Israel.

id grenade he threw were marked including the Communist Party and demned the attack as a right-wing grenade Victims of the Above: blast are treated by police and The passers-by. Below: gren- ade's safety catch with Instruc- tions in Hebrew. of the Socialist designed to intimid ten to the Peru- and integrate the i apparatus of the F don protesting in interests of imperial erms against the ary capitalist in Peru. Peru. • condemns the "The Central Com unista, Peruvian Labour League ple al Committee of the Peruvian Trotsky , the arrest and unconditional and i d the seizure of gether with other military junta. prisoners as well as Press.' sive actions are ALL THE members of the Italian socialist group 'Lotta Continua' who were jailed on January 27 this year have been released.

For more than three months, the police have been trying to rake up evidence to clinch conviction. They attempted to extort a false confession from a 17-year-old member of the group through a late night interroga- tion. More than 50,000 signatures demanding the release of leader Guido Viale and the other mem- ANY ATTEMPT to extradite Mrs Roisin McLaughlin-wanted connection for questioning with the murder of three soldiers in a Belfast flat-from the Irish Republic to Northern Ireland would be resisted, the Republi- can Clubs warned yesterday.

A spokesman in Belfast com- mented: 'It has been obvious for some time that the Royal Ulster Constabulary, with the willing help of the government and the Special Branch in the south, have been intent on finding a deaths of the scapegoat three plainclothes British • army personnel in Belfast earlier this year PRESIDENT THIEU of South Vietnam has ordered the police round up and imprison all to opponents ... in the political guise of 'pacification'. • intimidate the working class te the trade unions into the of the Peruvian state in the imperialism and the reaction- ist and landlord classes of tral Committee of the Socialist gue pledge their support for 1 Trotskyists and demand their al and immediate release to- h other left-wing political well as the restitution of their bers were an expression of the great solidarity of workers, stu- dents and anti-fascists. Viale, Natale, Perino, Miceiche and Maione have been released on the grounds that there was absolutely no evidence against them. Another five have been provi- sionally released. Out of 15 war- rants for the arrest of several members who escaped the police, four have been revoked. 'Lotta Continua' is demanding the revocation of the remaining nine warrants. FRENCH Communist Party deputies may soon join their Italian counterparts in the European parliament. a radio interview In • on Wed- nesday, secretary Georges Party Marchais said: 'It seems at last that we shall have the right to be represented.' In this case, he 'we envisage the for- went on of a group with mation our Italian friends and other demo- cratic forces'. According to its representation in the National Assembly the Party would be entitled to four seats. With the Italian CP-ers this would enable a full group to Final decision be constituted. rests with a National Assembly vote on May 30. Marchais also spoke of broad- ening the Communist Party's political alliances to include 'not only all the socialist parties,

IN AN

interview with Jean Marin, director of Agence France- Presse, the Chinese Prime Minis ter, Chou En-lai, spoke approv- ingly of the European Common Market and of the possibility of sending a Chinese representative to Brussels. He praised General de Gaulle and approved French withdrawal from : NATO as 'a manifestation of national independence'.

Chou said that China's support for Europe directed was not against the Soviet Union and pointed out that the Soviet at- titude had also changed towards greater contact with the Euro- pean Community. without any discrimination. This also be widened to union can include other democratic forces and Catholics'. that there was 'a He claimed in Europe' and situation new promised 'initiatives of great im- portance at the European level' by the French and Italian Com- munist Parties. Marchais' recent visit to his Italian opposite number, Enrico accelerated the Berlinguer, has rightward shift in the Party's now includes attitude, which acceptance of 'European insti- tutions, including the Common Market. It cannot be long before the British Stalinists out come openly in support of the big brother parties on the conti- nent.

Workers Press, Saturday May 19, 1973

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Who's kidding who? Nothing

BY ROYSTON BULL

I THINK Vic will agree we had a use. has ful two-hour discus- sion? With changed these words, Tory Chancellor An- thony Barber started off the Press conference fol- in the lowing the latest round between the Tories and the TUC. Tories The friendly spirit of bonhomie between the representatives of the vicious working class and the spokesmen for the rapacious ruling class in world history plans the shoulders uneasily on of Victor Feather, with so Pressmen watching, many but Barber burbled on. the talks government, Will Chancellor I think you'd he restore free And Barber himself said ing to enormous proportions Vic, misunderstanding were amee to at this Press conference that negotiations for wages, right driving sides,

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noth that Anthony democratic the pay laws the different remain on put government at one in was that a greater sacrifice al c a bold front that abolished by the statute book and the action their for was demanded by the Tories pay laws. Barber (I) and support sustained But Barber eventually continues. Britain and growth.' the against innation working class than TUG secretary So who is kidding who? there is nothing that civilized 'Vic' spokr admitted under pressure that Eventually, up the … tet able to deliver Downing negotiations for himself: This time round, the trade The lUC's own statements Victor Feather salu orCvIouSly I've leaders, Feather government ministers about on the economy correctly Street not add. union Cannot sort out Lo une a lot to Three the insist that wages are not mutual advantage of every- enter Downing Scanlon's oft-reported was ana body. control of wages, due in the responsible for the current claimed Feather that by statements clearly Street for blunt and speaking, it be possible uncontrolled intation. Nothing could be further to Minister Employment If they believe that, then from the truth and nothing he and his such a deal making of Thursday's Culcazuco 111- Maurice Macmillan what the trade could this cluding lack lones and Hugh said some better Illustrate Cass snare talks. leaders talking to the Tories Scanlon, had endeavoured to burdens of capitalism's in- weeks ago that Phase Three the secret talks there flation through would have stricter for anyway? TUC have been having with make sure was wage even Phase The fact the Tories before the formal controls than is that the

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Wast marred the last round Feather said that the talks Two. economic crisis, now swell-

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holiday camps The Reyrolle Parsons' factory grinds group, disclosed yesterday thạt pre-tax profits during the six

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to standstill TRIUMPH Motors laid shot ahead by more than off 3,000 £800,000 to a record £4,290,497 of its approximatelv 7.000 manual Shareholders workers Stike ry , yesterday have already •Te- because of paint ceived a strike an interim

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the High The detonators courts city centre explosives and Lord Cameron TOlO building, in were found by Parliament nolice Renehan in the High Court in Teresa's Roman Catholic Church Square. Edinburgh that she had been searched the chapel house cars parking and and members 'closely intimately Glas- outside saracen _street rossilpark, dull nected' 'very grave' gow, the court heard. and orress were frisked they passed through Renehan's fellow-accused. lames Cha acto the single entrance. The action had been Sweeney (29), Donegal, was 'could have Father Bartholomew Burns (38), meditated and sentenced chapel house, is charge. a curate the prisonment on the same Canare has NOW OPEN Monday to Thursdav ga.m.-6 had succeeded case against p.m. 1ne brolder Ireland ana wallalll a.m.-7.30 p.m. Lord Renehan (23), a John also Donegal, Fridays (late night opening) y postal worker, been issued for nis arrest.

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Extract from the policy resolution adopted unanimously by 2,200 delegates and visitors at the All Trades Unions Fellow trade unionists, comrades and friends we address you with this urgent call to action: PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday May 19, 1973 Extract from the policy resolution adopted unani Alliance conference, Birmingham, on October Fellow trade unionists, comrades and friends we In its place must be elec- THE TORY governme ted a Labour government frontation with the which is pledged by the mass workers are forced to action of the working class to defend their standard implement socialist policies.

We say 'pledged! to cost of living. socialist policies' knowing that the pre- sent leaders of the Labour move- Large sections of thes ment have no intention of intro- ducing such policies. Indeed, in answer to their fight tr the last analysis some them will be General Strike. That is prepared to join a coali- tion government with the Tories conditions which will fo to head off the working class.

But if the working class is the Tories strong enough to force 3) The democratic right to out, it is strong enough to deal strike and to organize in trade with the its in own unions. Only the organized midst. This can only be achieved working class can lead man- by exposing them in the fight for kind of the historical an alternative socialist policy. out crisis. Every right and every The Central Committee of the gain won by the working class, Socialist Labour League calls democratic right in Bri- every upon the working class to sup- policies has been because following port the to tain, won the class unite working against of the organized strength of the Tories and the present the and the strike unions Wilson-Feather leadership of the weapon. labour movement: Here is the policy which the A Labour government must next Labour government must immediately repeal the Indus- be forced to carry out. trial Relations Act. This fight must begin now by forcing the 1) A Labour government must TUC to break off all relations immediately repeal the Indus with the and trial Relations Housing government Act. Finance Act, Immigration Acts, mobilize the working class to destroy state control of wages.

Fair Trading Act and all wage control. After the repeal of all 4) The right to defend rights Tory anti-working class mea- won in the past and change sures, there must be legislation the system. All the changes in to implement the Charter of legal procedures made by the Basic Rights, along the follow- Tory government must be re- ing lines. pealed. All secret police and 2) The right to work! Capital- MI5 organizations must be dis- ism demands mass unemploy- banded and fully exposed. The ment. The right to a job must secrets of the Tory adminis- be guaranteed. This can only tration in this sphere must be be done by breaking the grip published. All rights to assem- of capitalist ownership on the bly, free speech and the Press Employed and un- economy. must be guaranteed. employed must unite to insist The begin Labour government na- struggle must on a tionalizing the main industries now. No. closures, no sackings, and banks, under workers' must be the policy of the trade and without compen- control unions. Occupation of fac- tories threatened with closure, sation. fighting themselves. among To express That can only help the capi- talist class. It gives them the freedom to rampage all over country-all the the over world in fact. Danny (21) is a labourer in a It will lead to lower living mill in Loughborough, Leics: standards and eventually pos- ( The working class need a sible civil war. new party to express their All this will happen if the ideas. way it is now, workers can't find other getting nowhere. We any we're way to express themselves. If what we think. can't express nobody listens to them, it just Somewhere along the line bottles up inside them, what the working class really until it finally has to explode some- wants is distorted by people where. who want to suppress us. This bleases the capitalists.

The Labour Party leaders because they can then say: are not even listening to the We will have to put further workers. Either that or thev're restrictions on these people if listening and noi doing any- this is the way they act.'

Then thing about it. We need it will lead further into dic- party that won't go just pussy- tatorship. footing around. It must he party that will tell the truth It might be like Spain or Greece, or even Hitler's Ger- and fight for workers. It can't be a party that goes where one class rules many. the country and destroys any- to Heath and makes deals be- hind our backs. It will have to thing that gets in its way.

If you want this to happen get rid of trade union traitors don't bother building who tell us thing -just one one the minute and the next minute party. Do nothing about The only person around and stab it. turn us in you can The the back. blame is vourself. only If the revolutionary party is way out of it is to build a party for the workers y not built, the working class will get demoralized and start —not against them. unanimously by 2,200 delegates and visitors at th ober 22, 1972. Is we address you with this urgent call to action: • the working class. Each day new sections of Iced to become criminals — under Tory law— to ındard of living against government inspired soaring of these workers openly acknowledge that the only fight to maintain a decent standard of living is a That is, the creation of the industrial and political h will force the government to resign.

as part of the fight to bring ernment cut in welfare bene- down the Tories. fits, in the health service and in all public spending must 5) The right to a higher stan- be revoked. On the of basis dard of living. It is not the nationalization, crash pro- living of trade standards gramme of expansion of ser- but the profit sys- unionists, vices to the unemployed, the which causes the crisis. tem, low-paid, the sick and the aged The first step must be to ex- be undertaken must as an propriate all the great fortunes absolute priority. The working of the rich, close down the class and the Labour govern Stock Exchange, place a state ment must take immediate and control over all movements of absolute responsibility for capital in and out of the 'these victims of the capitalist country. system. Nationalization of the basic 7) The right to decent housing.

industries and of all large com- Decent housing is not a luxury; building and in- panies, banks, it is a necessity. People have societies will provide surance the basic right to decent the resources for unified accommodation at rents they plan to improve the living can afford. Nationalization of standards of the whole people.

the handful of building mono- Workers' control of these, as polies and building the present national- societies well as will provide the basis for ized industries, will run them a of in the interests of the workers massive programme new house building. The disgraceful and consumers. of the problem homeless in Again, the fight must begin the cities must be immediately State control of now. wages solved by census and taking- must be answered by the most over of all unoccupied pro- widespread fight for in- wage perty. to meet price rises creases and improve standards. 8) The international respon- This fight to remove the sibilities of the working class. means a The Tory government and change working class is interna- the union leadership. tional. We fight for the un- restricted right of any worker 6) The right to health and wel- of nationality to move any fare benefits. Every Tory gov- freely through the world.

chlets at last year's annual conference. Danny Labour Party. says, listening to the workers.

We need a party that won't go just pussyfor that will tell the truth and fight for workers.

, at the All Trades Unions Withdraw the troops from Ireland. Unite the Irish and British working class to throw out the Lynch and Heath gov- ernments. Unite in the struggle for the Socialist United States of Europe, the only alternative to the Common Market plans for dictatorship. Withdraw all British troops from abroad and disband the present standing army. Sign treaties with all ex- colonial countries for pro- grammes of equal trade and mutual assistance. Break from NATO and all imperialist alliances. For the carrying out of such policies the SLL fights for the of Councils of setting up ing Action to lead the struggle against the Tory government and in every area. These Councils for unite trade unionists, tenants, list unemployed, all political par- ties and tendencies of the working class (Labour Party, Communist Party, SLL, IS, IMG, etc.) to fight against the main enemy, the Tory govern- ment. The SLL calls upon every socialist and class-conscious worker to consider this pro- manifesto very gramme and carefully, and to decide now to take up their inescapable re- eful sponsibilities. The building of the revolutionary party is the burning question now, not in some remote future. The SLL is determined to carry through its transformation into a re- volutionary party. JOIN the Socialist Labour League and help transform it into a revolutionary party.

Central Committee Socialist Labour League 8, 'The Labour Party leaders are not even t pussyfooting around. It must be a party

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ons 'The Tories want to keep the working class in its place Tony Byrne left his union during the builders' strike be- disgusted he with was Cause the policy of selective strikes.

Now I used to get the Workers Press when I worked in Battersea. Then I didn't get it for a the year, paper. It doesn't try to hide things. I believe in building the re- volutionary party take the to place of what we've got at the nonment. When the Labour Party office in before they Were didn't big make any real changes. It was a let down. They were threatening to bring in what the Tories have brought in. live council house In a and got two kids. The 1' ve rent went up in April and the water rates. rates and That's month. I think it's The going up again next year. whole cost of living has gone up. Your money doesn't go far.

You've got the same monev as last year, but on rent alone even there have been two increases.

party I've always been brought up

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and the Labour seem to be going. Tory policies are bad. Wage control, restraints the on unions. It affects every worker.

They've cut down the on school and programline milk from the kids. They've made big changes in the wel- fare with programme pres- cription and dental charges.

think if the Tories had their way they'd like do away with the health service.

They want to keep the working class in Its place. The leaders of the TUC and the Labour Party should stand up for the working class but they. doing are not it. They are helping the Tories repress the working class.

to Take the hospital workers' strike. It was a farce. There was no real support from the

TUC.

There was plenty said but no action. They say they will do this and that and then they go cap in hand to the Tories. If the Tories get out, we'll get Labour in, but I don't will be think Labour much different. Who else have we got? Liberals. Now is the time and the opportunity to build a revo- lutionary dread party. to The 1926 General Strike. Barry Loftus explains it was a fight 'primarily think what will happen to the or te rou working class if Above: Building workers on a march through London during their strike we don't do it. last year. Workers Press, Saturday May 19, 1973

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Barry Loftus is a Liverpool bus driver: building a revolutionary party but I would like to know what the policy would be after the There revolution. no- thing in the pamphlets about

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this. When we the re- come to volution there is nothing spe- cific in the programme to say what will happen. The other query I have is on the crisis. I think what is written about the money crisis all over the world is correct and every working man should be made to realize this. But how would we solve the if crisis we came to power? We could not cure it it is international. because Would this mean that things would go from bad to worse in Britain despite the revolu- tion? I think this needs explain- ing in the programme as well.

Otherwise the programme and my connection with the League has been a complete The fact is that eye-opener. before I first came into con- tact with the movement I was not political at all. I didn't really care about the Tory government or things like rising prices. prices went up, I just dismissed it as nothing to do with politics.

But the League into perspective. began to think 'Suppose we get Phase One and then Phase Two just how many phases are we go- ing to get-perhaps they will never end!' All the time beneath this policy the Tories have been snatching basic rights away. Reading the sud- programme denly makes you realize this. There is the right to nego- tiate-this is the most impor- tant one I think. Once this has gone there might as well be because there no negotiators, is nothing to negotiate over, government is telling you.

the It happened at work. The officials came back to us with a rise of £2.41. They thought this was great. I said: 'What about the £7 we asked for?'

They said they couldn't get of government that because policy. What they were really saying that under the was Tory government they might as well pack up and go home.

Another right that is men- tioned is the right to a proper standard of living. This is historic thing, not something.

that has been given away by the employer. My uncle agreed with me He was in the 1926 General Strike. He said he was fighting primarily for the right to live But this right is be- decently. ing taken away now. I think should spread we the word about this document.

Most blokes are like me, they just went on from day to day thinking. But now not really I can see the dangers. Every- Loftus explains it was a fight 'primarily body else should be made to But this right is being taken away now.'

narch through London during their strike see it before it's too late.

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BY ROYSTON BULL

The question of revolu- tionary socialists' atti- tude to the Labour Party is being much discussed in the debate on the Socialist Labour League's draft political perspec- tives and elsewhere. Ernie Roberts, noted trade union left' and assistant sec- retary of the engineers' union, also deals with this important issue in his new book 'Wor- kers' Control'. Roberts the oppor- uses tunity for yet another attack on Leninism and the revolu- tionary movement. He writes: 'Breakaway forming groups of militants, themselves into "revolutionary parties" gained have only minimal support. The bulk of the workers look to the La- bour Party for leadership, if only by turning out to vote at general or local elections.

It is a mistake to talk about "alternative leadership" as an if it were merely a case of installing revolutionary leaders in positions of power. 'Between 12 and 14 million "vote choose to people Labour" however misguided their selection of candidates Saturday May 19, 1973 may be, and these votes can- not be overridden by a revo- lutionary however minority, noble their motives.' The fight for an alternative workers' leadership in the movement is certainly not 'merely a case of installing re- volutionary leaders', nor of 12-14 there any question workers' votes being million 'overridden by a revolutionary minority, however noble their motives. The SLL's draft perspectives quite specifically reject 'the ultra-left and adventurist argu- ment that the Labour Party is already sufficiently discredited in the working class, thus sub- stituting themselves for the class. Unlike those revisionist- centrist groups which oppose the fight to elect a Labour gov- ernment on socialist policies, the SLL calls on the working class 'to unite behind a social- ist programme to throw out the Tory government and re- place it with a Labour govern- ment; to lead the struggle to expose and replace the Labour leaders who serve capitalism; to take the mass anti-Tory movement through the strug- gle for socialist policies under a Labour government. In this struggle, thousands of workers will be won to Marxism and the basis will be prepared for throwing the re- formist leaders out of the trade union and labour movement.

It is not a question of the 'evolutionaries' 'noble motives causing the working class to turn to them for leadership, but of the workers' experience in practice of what the Labour leaders are doing in the middle of the crisis. The draft perspectives des- cribe a Labour government being thrust into office at 'the top of a movement demanding immediate repeal of the Indus- trial relations Act and all anti- working class legislation' Such circumstances will pro- vide the real conditions in which millions of workers can see the Labour leaders and break from them in struggle' The perspectives conclude: 'This demand for the election of a Labour government on socialist policies is the indis- pensable step in preparing the working class for state power, because it means above all the break from reformism.' this Marxist Contrast ap- proach to winning the fight for principles within the labour movement through struggle to Robert's confused propagandist approach. He writes: "The task of militants is not to desert the workers, but to help in the political education of both active and passive Labour Party supporters; this must be done before an elec- tion, to make sure that revo- lutionary candidates are chosen and elected, and after an elec- tion to ensure that the elected the carries out government wishes of its electors. 'The degree of militancy shown by the electors reflects upon the government to such ad- an extent that the real vances made by a government are always the result of rank- and-file pressure.' Roberts condemns the work- ing class permanently to a By totally subordinate role. ignoring the question of the working taking the class power, he reveals the actual contempt in which he holds the mass of workers. They are consigned to a life-long exercise in futility, of putting pressure on the gov- ernment. Their function is to imbibe political education from wise teachers like Ernie Rob- erts and elect him their as 'revolutionary candidate' To prove the need for work- ers to exercise this 'control by pressure, Roberts quotes, of all things, Lenin, and manages Ernie Roberts: 'It is a mistake to "alternative talk leader- about ship."" Above left: Lenin, who need for stressed the in- an dependent revolutionary party at costs. Above right: all The All Union Alliance confer- Trades ence last year where delegates voted unanimously to build the revolutionary party. to get the sense entirely wrong: 'Control without power is an empty phrase. How can I con- trol England? In order to con- trol her, I must capture her navy. know that uneducated masses of workers and soldiers may naïvely and unintelligently it is believe in control, but sufficient to ponder over the fundamental element of con- order to realize that trol in this belief is a retreat from the fundamental principles of the class struggle. 'What is control? If I write an order or a resolution, they will write one countermanding it. In order to be able to exer- cise control must have one power. If this is not intelligible to the broad mass of the petty- bourgeois bloc, one must have the patience to explain this to them, but under no circum- stances must we tell them lies.

'And if I obscure this fun- damental condition of control, then I tell a lie and play into of the capitalists the hands "Please con- and imperialists. trol me, but I will have the You be satisfied with guns. control," they say. This is exactly the kind of control that Roberts wants the workers to be fobbed off with while the guns remain else- where. Roberts' final task is to clear the fair name of the Labour Party and to blame all of its faults on the working class, the revolutionaries out- side the Labour Party ... and Lenin. 'The weaknesses, the reac- tionary tendencies, the bour- geois leadership of the Labour Party, as well as its successes, are the responsibility of the working class, Roberts writes.

'But they are to even an responsi- the greater extent bility of those who consider themselves to be revolution- aries, who consider the Labour Party to be beyond redemp- tion, and who choose to direct their energies into building tiny revolutionary parties"— which have all the ingredients of revolution except the back- ing of the working class.'

The responsibility for the reformist leadership of the Labour Party lies with the middle-class and reactionary elements which comprise the leadership. Roberts's slanders on the working class, and his dema- gogic attacks those who on fight for principle in the move- ment, place him firmly in their camp. Roberts even quotes Lenin on this, but again fails to see the point. 'Of course, most of the Labour Party's members are working men. However, whe- or not a party is really a ther political party of the workers does not depend solely upon a membership of workers, also upon the men that lead it, the content of its actions and and its political tactics' , Lenin said at the Second Congress of the Communist Interna- tional August 6, 1920. 'Only this latter determines whether we really have before us a political party of the pro- letariat. Regarded from this, the only correct point of view, the Labour Party is a thor- oughly bourgeois party be- cause, although made up of workers, it is led by reaction- aries, and the worst kind of reactionaries at that, who act quite in the spirit of the bour- geoisie,' (Lenin's 'Collected Works'. Vol. 31 p. 257 Law-

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tlon.) political trade union movement" "he trade union movement.

representing the working class, the Labour Party- the sense that trade unions breatne into the " in the form of blook Party. party workers political expression the trade union movement" the Labour Party is no sin pis- That the pute. It was because of this that Maryists who called for the election of a Labour govern- Lenin s coasical party of the work.

dan er police angretion trade an tunlitical aunreccion' of the trade union movement Workers Press, Saturday were, Lenin explained to Mc- Lean erroneous. The predominating political tendency in the trade union movement then, as now, was reformism, which represents the strength of bourgeois ideas within the labour movement.

The political outlook of the working class is Marxism. The first requirement of workers is to build their own revolution- ary party. Therefore far from it being a mistake for revolutionaries to organize themselves into a party separate from the Labour Party, it is a fundamental re- quirement for the development of revolutionary theory, with- out which there can be no advance. The deliberate training of a revolutionary party through the development of revolu- tionary theory and practice is an undertaking which must of with necessity begin little backing from the working class. In this sense, beyond the Labour indeed Party re- demption', as Roberts puts it, because it never was, or could be, organizationally capable of developing revolutionary theory and practice. Lenin's tactic of entering the Labour Party was absolutely conditional on the young Com- munist Party retaining the freedom of organization and of criticism. On this question, Roberts again quotes Lenin, but once rers Press, Saturday May 19, 1973 PAGE 7 *. 4 ... again gets the point completely wrong. 'Comrade McLean has em- phasized that the conditions now prevailing in Britain are such that, should it so desire, a political party may remain a revolutionary workers' party even if it is connected with a special kind of labour organi- zation of 4 million members, which is half trade union and half political and is headed by bourgeois leaders. it 'In such circumstances would be highly erroneous for the best revolutionary ele- not to do everything ments possible to remain in such a party. Let the Thomases and other social-traitors, whom you have called by that name expel you. That will have an excel- lent effect upon the mass of the British workers.' The only point Roberts sees in these remarks, and he is that underlines it twice, Lenin was 'convinced' that 'the decision in the to remain ranks of the Labour Party is really a correct decision' But what Lenin was really need for an the saying was independent role for the revo- lutionary organization at all costs. 'If the British Communist by acting in Party starts a in the revolutionary manner Labour Party, and if the Hen- obliged to expel dersons are this Party, that will be a great victory for the communist and revolutionary working-class movement in Britain.' (ibid.)

THE STORY OF JACK TANNER

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday May

BY JACK GALE

The Bevanite row rocked the Labour Party from 1951 to 1957. Jack Tan- ner - then president of the Amalgamated Engineering Union - supported consistently the Gaitskell wing of the Labour Party. In 1954 Tanner was the president of the Trades Union This was the year Congress. the question of in which German rearmament, as part

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of the imperialist alliance, was a key issue in the labour movement. Although he was presiding at the Trades Union Congress Tanner neverthe- that year, less seconded the official reso- "collective security' lution on which included support for NATO and German re-arma- ment. It was in his presidential address to that Congress that Tanner spelled out the limita- tions of syndicalism and rank and filism. He was the first engineer to be president of since i925, which the TUC led him to compare his ideas of 1925 with his ideas of 1954. 'In 1925' he said, 'many of us thought our aims and ob- jectives as trade unionists could be readily achieved by action alone. We industrial were much under the influ- of ideas derived from ence syndicalist theories of direct action, and propaganda But Tanner explained that the General Strike of 1926 had showed 'that industrial action had its limitations. Looking back one might say that the 1925 Congress marked the end of that phase in our move- rday May 19, 1973 when syndicalist ideas ment were looked upon sympatheti- cally by many of us And the great ex-left con- in- cluded his public repudiation of his past by saying: 'Like all of you, in joining this great movement I held some idealistic views and also ac- ill-digested cepted some theories.' It is one of history's ironies that the man who had de- nounced Lenin and the Com- munist International as 'dog- matic' for insisting upon poli- tical parties, and who had totally rejected the United Front tactic because of the British workers' 'spontaneous consciousness, should have ended his trade union career as Jack Tanner did. Tanner's last public appear- ance as a trade union leader was as the 1954 fraternal de- legate from the TUC to the Labour Party conference. He used the occasion to push the right-wing line support of NATO and British and German re-armament. the ex-syndicalist Politics, told the Labour Party dele- 'was the art of com- gates, promise. And the man who claimed he knew more about the British workers than Lenin or Zinoviev defined • as 'our me- trade unionism thod of adjusting the mutual interests of those who look at their problems from oppos- ing standpoints. That is, the workers and the employers!

Nineteen . years betore Bri- tish entry into the Commor Market, Tanner told the Labour Party that the Coun- cil of Europe and the Organi- zation for European Econo- mic 'the Co-operation laid foundations of a future Euro- pean federation which was the dream of the great trade union statesmen like Ernie Bevin' 'International matters', he proclaimed, 'cannot be settled on the basis of rigid dogmat- ism.' And so Jack Tanner, syndi- calist, exponent of rank and' filism, opponent of Leninist 'dogmatism', 'left' union leader, hero of the Commun- ist Party in the 1930s and the war-years and immediate post- war years, bowed out of the labour movement. But he was not finished. After his retirement in • 1954 he became a director of In- dustrial Research and Infor- mation Services Ltd (IRIS) AUEW president, Hugh Scanlon. He Is will tie the trade unions firmly to the Gaitskell. Tanner supported the Gaitsh which opposed unilateral disarmament.

an organization which special- ized in 'exposing' communists in the trade unions. Needless to say, when he died in 1965 he received ful- obituaries from the some bourgeois Press. "The Times' had this to say: The most impressive and period of his leadership of the AEU was during World War II. "Then he strove hard to remove muddle in the war industries and to increase pro- duction. He was one of moving spirits in the estab- joint production lishment of committees.' The Communist Party also thought that this Tan- was ner's 'most impressive period'.

n. He Is now advocating policies which ly to the capitalist state. Above: Hugh the Gaitskell wing of the Labour Party All analogies historical have their limits. In this sense it would be an injustice to Tanner to compare • him directly with the present-day engineers' president Hugh Scanlon. While Tanner always firmly opposed the formation of a centralized revolutionary he did in party, his early period represent a layer which by thrust forward the was struggle of World War I and forced to take an interest in Marxism. That many of this layer failed to develop as revolu- tionary leaders can be attri- buted to the impact of Stalin- ism on the British Communist Party. Far from fighting the syndicalism which Tanner and others in the shop stewards' movement represented, Stalin- ism actually used it for its counter-revolutionary ow n ends. Scanlon joined the Com- munist Party when it had abandoned every vestige of Marxism and was a thoroughly and consciously counter-revo- lutionary force. And if Tanner ended up on the extreme right, as he did, we must also say that Scanlon and all those who support him are playing a far dangerous role than more ever Tanner did. For Scanlon and company are not merely advocating acceptance of pro- ductivity deals, reactionary though this certainly was.

They are now advocating poli- cies which will tie the trade unions firmly to the capitalist state and endanger all the rights which the movement has secured since the unions were first built. Tanner ended up a noto- rious right winger. Scanlon, on the basis of his recent utterances, is heading also to- wards the right wing. It is in this light that the career of Jack Tanner will be considered by every worker today.

COLD WIND ON EUROPE

Behind the talk in Pre- sident Nixon's recent re- port on foreign policy of the need for a new and between the United States and Europe; there is the fact of a growing antagonism. measures Auch "de-monetized' The August gold and imposed a 10 per cent surcharge on imports were a direct blow at the European economy taken without any pretence at consultation. Since then the ruling class of the different European countries have been responding in their • way to the challenge of own American imperialism. Nixon's independent ap- proaches to the Soviet and Chinese bureaucracy and the withdrawal from Vietnam means that Europe is now high on the agenda for US foreign Dicy-makers. This was shown Henry Kissinger's policy statement, which admitted wide differences on vital questions of trade and military strategy.

The time when the US held all the trump cards has long since passed. It is the dollar which is now a weak currency and thè US balance of pay- which has a yawning ments $10,227m deficit for the first quarter of this year. The Market European Common discriminates against US im- ports and is no longer depen- dent on GIs for its defence.

When Nixon designates 1973 'year of Europe, he as his means it is necessary to settle with 'troublesome accounts rivals. However, the State Department does differentiate.

West Germany, as Chancellor Willy Brandt's recent visit to Washington shows, is still regarded as a more reliable ally than France or Britain.

With evident American approval and in flagrant con- tradiction to the facts, Brandt stated after the talks with Nixon: 'Let me state here in all calmness, the "trade war" between Europe and America, forecast by some people, will not take place. Contrary to all deep-seated the rumours, Common Market has proved to be of benefit for the United States as well.' It has to be remembered that the West German economy was rebuilt after World War II American capital and with remains more closely geared The 'energy crisis in the United States is being care- fully co-ordinated by the major oil companies. They are wanting to maxi- mize pressure on the Nixon administration to get a strangle- on oil supplies in the hold Middle East; they want a free hand to start oil exploitation in Alaska and the Arctic; they want government backing to step up their operations in south-east Asia. So while the public is being panicked into cutting petrol they are only consumption, being pawns in a nuch broader power game. Henry Kissinger. His statement admitter to its needs than do other European countries. The German ruling class cannot play a fully indepen- dent role yet. Even so, Brandt has ex- pressed reservations about the 'new American idea of a Atlantic Charter' and evidently wants the support of his European partners before enter- ing into any commitments with the US. In fact it is the German bid for leadership in Europe in opposition to France which determines Brandt's attitude towards the US. The position with Britain is different. The "special relation- ship' with Washington has passed into history. Sterling no longer has to be supported in the interests of the dollar.

US corporations have pene- into trated effectively the traditional spheres of influence of British imperialism. Under General de Gaulle, France pursued a distinctively anti-American policy which has been continued, in lower key, under Georges Pompidou.

international monetary questions the French position the intransigently most opposed to US aims and stands for a return to fixed exchange rates and convertibility.

The forthcoming meetings between Nixon, if he survives the Watergate affair, and European leaders will see tough The 'energy crisis' has, it seems, been very fortunate tor the oil companies-they've all just announced big profit rises, for the first quarter of 1973.

Standard Oil Company of California had a 24-per-cent increase in profits; Standard Oil Company (Indiana) 21 per cent; Shell Oil Company 49 cent; Atlantic Richfield per Company 52 per cent. Standard of California said its first quarter net income reached a record $152.8m, up from $123m last year. Revenue rose 19 per cent to $1.86 billion from $1.57 billion a year earlier. O. N. Miller, chairman and chief executive, said the earn- ings gain was due primarily 'increased sales, continued to price stability in major US improved prices markets and in foreign markets' In Indiana Standard's annual meeting, chairman John E.

Swearingen, said that despite energy shortages, 'current pros- pects are that 1973 will be a year for the very good company' it admitted wide differences on vital questions bargaining and little agreement.

There is serious talk of a reduction of US military forces in Europe to save dollars and assist striking a bargain with the Soviet Union. On the other hand US military power has been seen in the past as a necessary defensive umbrella against a hypothetical Soviet attack and against revolution.

In order to secure the advan- tages of the American military presence, European countries have been prepared to be con- ciliatory on other questions. But Nixon is now trying to push a larger share of defence Europe, which costs onto already bears 80 per cent. In any case, conventional armies and play a smaller weapons role in US strategic thinking.

US global aims depend upon having superior nuclear strik- ing power and the ability to transport troops by air when required. A withdrawal of US ground forces from Europe is likely to begin within the next few years. In terms of the war threat this comes down to a greater nuclear strike danger of a without a preliminary period of more conventional warfare.

A reduction of US forces in Europe could now have the effect of making European capitalism dependent more American upon policy rather than less. It would have to face The Penn Central railway com- pany plans a showdown with labour unions on June 9. The that company has insisted unions introduce a freight train crew reduction rule by that date or the line faces closure.

Railwaymen staged an all- out strike in February when the productivity scheme was first mooted. Congress retaliated by swiftly which enacting legislation ordered the unions represent- ing 28,000 Penn Central workers to remain on the job until May 9. The crew-cutting proposal calls for the elimina- tion of up to 700 jobs. The unions are necessarily introduce the reluctant to man cuts, particularly in view of the scandalously ineficient management of the Penn com- pany. In a report to Congress, now-bankrupt group was the castigated for financial wastage dubious and other many i practices, and military strategy. US the choice of accepting policy or running the risk of dealing with the Soviet bureau- cracy from a position of weak- •Of course, in the event of some such danger, the Euro- pean governments might come running back to seek US pro- Gaulle himself tection as de did as a result of the threat of revolution posed by the May.

June events in 1968. What Nixon and Kissinger have in mind as a first step in their new foreign policy orien- tation is to restore the hege- mony of American imperialism over the capitalist world while it makes its own bargains with the Chinese and Soviet bureau.

Europe and Japan will cracy. have to bear the burden of restoring the US balance of payments and putting value back into the dollar. To these aims secure no holds will be barred and no risks will be too great. Ameri- can imperialism is in a corner and a cornered beast is at its most desperate. That it was ready its claws ust Was Vietnam, not Shown amply in B52 onslaught in the closing stages of the war. The Stalinist bureaucracy's policy of 'peaceful co-existence' an illu- is, in this connection, sion and a betraval. Peace can• not be ensured while capitalism survives as a world system.

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Key to 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.25 charge. 7.55 Film: "The Doctor in Hill'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Late call.

11.20 Mannix.

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'Casuals' on Mersey docks Brezhnev takes detente another step THE FIRST 'casual', supple- mentary dockers can be ex- pected on the quays at Liverpool towards the end of June. Port employers have now drawn up firm estimates of the number of men they will need crippling to make up the labour shortage which followed the Jones-Aldington special severance scheme. These estimates are expected to be put to the local branch of the National Dock Labour Board on June 12, and, if approved, to a meeting of the NDIB itself days later. Approval is two needed from both bodies before actual recruitment can begin.

In practice, the expected June 14 decision is a foregone con- clusion. Tory • Ministers are the most ardent backers of the supplemen- tary register, the employers are labour and, desperate for extra last Sunday, opposition from the unions caved in when the Liver- port stewards' pool committee declared dockers in favour of acceptance. UNPRECEDENTED security precautions were taken in yesterday for the Bonn arrival of Soviet Communist Party Secretary, Leonid Brezhnev, for talks with German Chancellor, West Willy Brandt. He was accompanied by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev.

On arrival in Bonn, Brezhnev inspected the German honour guard, paused and bowed his head before the German flag and stood to attention for the sing- ing of 'Deutschland Uber Alles' the Soviet anthem. Before and entering limousine his beckoned an aide to pass him a cigarette. The visit carries to a decisive stage the policy of detente bet- ween German capitalism and the bureaucracy which has been tak- ing shape in the past three years.

It follows closely on the ratifica- Bundestag of the tion by the treaty normalizing relations bet- ween West and East Germany.

The Brezhnev visit is clearly of great historic and symbolical importance. The question now is to talk business: to get down to arranging the big deals which both sides hope to get out of the bur detente in Soviet-German re- ACTON: Monday May 21, 8 p.m.

'Six Bells', High W3. Street, TUC to break off 'Force the talks with the Tories'. LEWISHAM: Monday May 21, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, New Cross Road. 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend demo- cratic rights' ABINGDON: Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. Above New Top Taxis, Ock Street. 'Stalinism and the strug- gle to defend democratic rights.' def BATTERSEA: Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. 'Nags Head', onr Wands- Street. The worth Road/North economic crisis and the rising cost of living'. May BRIXTON: Tuesday 8 p.m. Brixton Training Centre, Control Room. 'The Economic Crisis and what it means for the working class'. DAGENHAM: Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- The inflationary LU shawe Avenue. crisis and the rising cost of liv- ing'. TOTTENHAM: Tuesday May 22, off 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms', High Road, nr White Hart Lane.

READING: Tuesday, . May 22, Hil The T&GWU 8 offices, King's Phase Three' HACKNEY: Wednesday May 23, Parlour Room, Central 8 p.m. Hall, Mare Street. 'Build the Revolutionary Party'. HEMEL HEMPSTEAD: Wednes- 'Ba day May 23, 8 p.m. Adeyfield Pa Hall, Queen's Square, Adeyfield. str 'The fight against Stalinism'

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR LABOL

If the employers move quickly on the recruitment and training process, the first supplementaries could be working by 8 a.m. on Monday, June 25. As far as the Tories and the employers are concerned it will be an auspicious moment. Not only will it help fill the capacity gap in cargo-handling left on Merseyside by the depar- ture of almost 3,000 men under the Jones-Aldington terms, will provide a level for speed-up and attacks on dockers' hard-won job security. registered Unlike permanent dockers, supplementaries face the threat of the sack at a week's notice either by their immediate employer or the Dock Labour Board. One man who will be particu- larly pleased by developments in Liverpool is Lord Aldington, co- author of the special severance German Chancellor Willy West Brandt and Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhney sat down at horseshoe-shaped table overlooking the river Rhine and the Eiffel mountains for an eight-course lunch. Their menu printed in •Rus- sian and German and bearing a , 'Boy painting with fruitbasket' by the 16th century Italian artist Caravaggio was: Artichoke hearts in dill yoghourt with crabs, Goose liver parfait with pine- apple, soup with old armagnac Whale brandy, Turkey with truffle sauce, Spinach and mushrooms, celery and Leg of lamb with boulangere potatoes, Cheese board, Vanilla icecream and straw- berries, Fruit. German wines with the meal • 1971 Riesling, a 1969 were a Riesling and a 1971 Ahrweiler, wine from the wooded red a Ahr valley, near Bonn. lations. Brezhnev has cleared out of the Central Committee the main critics of his foreign policy orientation. He has now emer- ged as the dominant figure in the bureaucracy which is staking everything on an expansion of PAISLEY: Wednesday May 23, Bakers' Rooms, 7.30 p.m. The George Place. 'Build Councils of Action'.

WYTHENSHAWE

(Manchester): Wednesday May 23, 8 p.m. 'Cock o tr Portway. 'Stalinism and the detend democratic rights.'

FULHAM:

Thursday May 24, 8 p.m. 'The Swan', Fulham • TUC to Broadway. 'Force the break off talks with the Tories'.

HOLLOWAY: Thursday May 24, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters Road. 'Marxism and the trade unions' LEEDS: Thursday, May 24, 8 p.m.

'Peel Hotel' Boar Lane. 'The Stalinism in the role of trade unions.' LUTON: Thursday May 24, 8 p.m.

Recreation Centre, Old Bedford 'Force the TUC to break Road. off talks with the Tories'.

TONBRIDGE: Thursday May 24, 8 p.m. 'The Foresters', Quarry Hill, Tonbridge. WILLESDEN: Thursday May 24, 8 p.m. Brent Labour and Trades ¡tall, Willesden High Road, N.W.10. 'Forward to the ATUA Conference' BERMONDSEY: Tuesday May 'Havelock Arms' 29, p.m. Street, off Southwark 'Balaclava Park Road. 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend democratic rights'.

UR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT

scheme which cut the docks labour force nationally by 9,000 men in six months. Aldington is putting up a determined defence of the sever- ance scheme. Introducing the annual report of the Port of London Authority, of which he is chairman, the ex-deputy chairman of the Tory Party admitted that a shortage had developed in some ports.

But this was not so in Lon- don, he said. And he claimed it • everyone's interest to was avoid a repetition of the large surplus which hit the industry in mid-1972. 'The cost of this special sever- ance scheme, which was meigh government, Aldington went on. 'But the cost in money, as well as morale of continuing the temporarily un- attached register, and the large trade and economic relations with the capitalist countries.

It is propelled in this direction by the colossal economic prob- lems of which the most serious so far was the agricultural break- down last year. Brezhnev's visits to Brandt Nixon and and the top-level contacts with other capitalist leaders are intended to assure them that there is no intention of spreading revolution and to bureaucracy show that the accepts the existing division of the world. On this basis, Brezhnev hopes for wide-reaching to prepare economic co-operation with the offering capitalist countries, foreign capitalists openings for trade and for the exploitation of natural resources of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. A durable detente will make it possible to reduce the huge burden of armaments on the Soviet economy and increase the supply of consumer goods in an effort to placate the increasingly restless working class which de- mands that promises of better living should be fulfilled fast.

Brandt's 'Ostpolitik' represents urgent need the German capitalism to expand its markets in eastern Europe to avert a crisis over - production. German business hopes to carve CAMDEN: Tuesday May 29, 8 p.m. 'Prince Albert', Wharfe- dale Road, Kings Cross. 'Be- trayal UCS-the struggle at against Stalinism'. PADDINGTON: Tuesday May 29, 8 p.m. 'Prince of Wales', Harrow Road, onr Gt Western Road. 'The er): economic crisis and the trade unions'. TOOTING: Tuesday May 29, 8 p.m. Tooting Baths, Tooting Broadway, SW17. 'Stalinism and struggle to defend demo- cratic rights'. SLOUGH: Wednesday May 30, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Farn- ham Road. 'The economic crisis and the rising cost of living'.

SOUTHALL: Wednesday May 30, 8 p.m. Southall Library, Osterley 'Marxism Park Road. and the trade unions'

WALTHAMSTOW:

Wednesday May 30, 8 p.m. 'Crooked Billet', North Circular Road, Waltham- stow. 'Labour to power pledged to socialist policies'. WEMBLEY: Wednesday May 30, Road. conference'. FELTHAM: Thursday. May 31, 8 p.m. 'Three Horseshoes' , High Street. 'The economic crisis and the rising cost of living' WATFORD: Monday 8 p.m. Trade Union Hall, Wood- ford Road, nr Watford Junction Station. 'The crisis of leadership'.

Workers Press, Satu surplus of men on the register would in time have been higher.'

Aldington, a banker and close personal friend of premier Heath, won the collaboration on the scheme of Transport and General Workers' Union chief, Jack Jones. Last Sunday's Liverpool_ docks mass meeting was said by Jones's Liverpool docks secretary, Lew Lloyd, to have approved recruit- ment of 500 supplementaries.

The expected breakdown is expected to be: West Coast Stevedoring, 120-180; Liverpool Maritime Terminals, 140; Harri- son Line, five; and Unilever, three. Some or all of the balance of the 500 could be taken up by the Mersey Docks and Harbour official Company, but the MD&HC line yesterday was that there is no firm commitment for it to do so. • London docks stewards plan to meet next Wednesday to dis- cuss the supplementary register.

Already, stewards at Tilbury have declared their opposition to any attempt to introduce supple- mentaries into the port. markets, only but out not spheres of influence. The pres- sures which led to two world wars are once again becoming operative. West Soviet Union's trading partner in the capitalist world.

Close ties have been established between big German trusts and Soviet industry. A number of have reached an big contracts advanced They include the construction of a pipeline to bring Soviet natural gas from Siberia and the Urals into West Germany. The Soviet people, taught for years to regard Germany as the main enemy and danger to peace is now being told of Brandt's friendly intentions. The West German government is being identified with the German people to prepare the way for closer ties between Moscow and Bonn. While the Soviet Press does not mention the Watergate scan- dal, it is full of reports and interviews relating to the Brezhnev visit. The veteran West German Stalinist leader Max Reimann dutifully praised it as an 'his- toric event'. Press and TV have carried interviews with leading German politicians and business- men as well as citizens'.

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE

Public Meeting

GLASGOW

Reformism on the Clyde - The Story of UCS.

WEDNESDAY MAY 30

7.30 p.m. McLellan Galleries Sauchiehall Street Glasgow. Speaker: Stephen Johns (Workers Press) All Trades Unions Alliance Meeting After Jones-Aldington What next for dockers?

SOUTHAMPTON

Wednesday May 30, 7.30 p.m.

Conference Room Civic Centre Speaker: M. Banda (SLL Central Committee) 01-720 2000 ress, Saturday May 19, 1973 PAGE 11

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Given by Gerry Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Wednesday May 23 Theory and Practice of Marxism Wednesday May 30 Role of the revolutionary party at St David's Church Hall, Church Street, Merthyr 7.30 p.m. Jarrow Given by Cliff Slaughter SLL Central Committee member Civic Hall, Jarrow 7.30 p.m. Monday May 21 The Socialist Revolution In Britain : 3. The state and revolution.

Reformism and revolution Britain. The fight for democratic rights today means preparing for working-class power. Basic reading : Perspectives for transforming the SLL into a revolutionary party.

Marxist Analysis of the Crisis.

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

Council of Action North London TUC must break off talks with Tories No negotiations on Phase Three No capitulation to corporatism Make the Tory government resign TUESDAY MAY 22, 8 p.m. Lord Morrison Hall, Chestnut Grove, Tottenham, N.17 All Trades Unions Alliance meetings

TEACHERS' MEETING

The way forward after the NUT conference Thursday, May 24, 7.30 p.m.

Conway Small Hall. Red Lion Square, Holborn (admission 10p)

HOSPITAL WORKERS'

MEETING

Hospital workers and the fight against the Tory government Tuesday May 29, 7.30 p.m.

Norfolk Room Caxton Hall, Caxton Street, London SW1 (admission 10p)

BUILDING WORKERS'

MEETING

TUC must break off talks with Tories! Build revolutionary party!

Wednesday, May 30, 7.30 p.m. Tudor Room Caxton Hall. Caxton Street, London SW1 (admission 10p)

POSTAL WORKERS'

MEETING

Break off secret talks with the Tories! Force the Tories to resign!

Sunday, June 3, 10.30 a.m.

Conway Small Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn (admission 10p) Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, SW4 7UG Printed by Plough Newsdesk: 01-720 2000. Circulation: 01-622 7029.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday May

MAY FUND NO

ONLY 13 DA'

WE ARE still not yet at our half- way mark. One more boost this weekend and we know you will do it. We need £151.54 by Mon- day be half and we will then way to raising our £1,750 target.

There is not another moment to lose. We know It is a tough strug- gle trying to raise two funds at each day, as the once. economic crisis emerges more serious than ever, the importance of Workers Press can clearly be seen. Our paper. alone explained that the decision of August 1971, that gold would no longer back

FROM PAGE 1

package with a flourish of un- dramatic publicity. usually But as one commentator put it: 'Some . bankers believe the Fed. could have gone further than it did to cool off the over- heating in the economy.' men are speaking for These the most powerful and deeply- sections of US big embedded in business. They are revolt inflation against uncontrolled that is eating into their wealth and threatening even the biggest and most secure interests.

attitude is reflected Their around the world—in West Ger- many, where the big banks are urging the government to under- take a savage package of defia- tionary measures, and in Japan where the government- encouraged inflation and specu- lation a reaction is provoking from the big industrialists.

Despite Tory talk of boom and premier Edward Heath's assurances that the economy is of sustained on the verge ex- pansion, the bankers and finan- ciers of the City of London are increasingly coming round to the same view. The 'Financial Times', organ of City opinion, refers to the need for a smooth of change ... from an excessively gear rapid rate of growth down to the maximum pace that can be sustained, without 'shortages, _ payments de- distortions, large ficits, inflation and all the other MAIN building sites in Birming- ham were stopped yesterday and about 800 marched in a demon- against the employment stration of the 'lump'. At a Digbeth Hall meeting the only advice from Ken Barlow, regional organizer of UCATT, was that all workers down to site level should work to in- fluence the employers and the country to get rid of the 'lump'.

He said: "Two years ago the fight against the "lump" started Birmingham, but since last year's building strike there been a calculated policy by the employers to smash the union and in fact there has been an increase in lump employment, especially on all new sites.'

Carter, leading Commu- Pete nist Party member in the Mid- lands industry and prominent in the 'Builders' Charter' movement, claimed that the government had 'failed on the Industrial Relations Act' meeting issued The call to a the labour movement in Birm- ingham to demonstrate on June shop building l1 in support of stewards who will be before the charged with conspiracy courts after it was alleged they broke into a Social Security building to get information about the 'lump'. Gerry Moore, a UCATT shop steward on the Gilbert Ash site, told Workers Press: I'm here to kill the "lump", but I want more solidarity in the building workers' movement.

'We should be getting proper wages, but to get that I know got to get rid of this we've government. 'And we have to get rid of unions who the leaders in the won't fight. This industry and every industry ought to be nationalized urday May 19, 1973

NOW £723.46

3 DAYS LEFT

up the dollar, was of major im- portance. This has been more than proved today. Only Workers Press is pre- pared for this inflationary crisis.

Our paper must be used to warn workers everywhere of the next round of deflationary measures.

So-help us in every way you can. Don't waste any time in the May campaign raise our Fund. This weekend, take the to collect extra opportunity amounts. Rush these immedia- tely to: Workers Press May Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG adverse consequences of over- heating. But it adds: 'Unfortunately it is difficult to see how it is going to be managed.' This is the height of under- statement. The controls which once made possible a crude form of econo- mic management based on stop- the boom during go policies nave been swept away. There is now no stable rela- tionship between gold and paper money and there are at least in circula- $100,000m footloose tion outside the United States with no fixed value not only in relation to gold but even in rela- tion to other currencies.

These are conditions of un- controllable inflation which once the bubble is pricked can lead only to equally uncontrollable deflation. Once deflation and slump is set in motion it cannot be con- trolled. is doubly so at a time This of the when the government most powerful imperialist power has lost its authority and can no longer speak for anything more discredited faction of than a the ruling class. the Watergate The effect of scandal and the break-up of class relations in the United States will be to strengthen the grow- ing big business lobby for slump at any price and create a panic flight from paper money which will mark the downfall of the inflationary boom. FOUR HUNDRED workers pic- keted the magistrates court in Shrewsbury yesterday when building workers were seven committed for trial on charges arising from picketing activities winter's building during last They were released on strike. £50 bail. The seven accused are William Hooson, Bryn York, Wrexham; George Murray Flint; Kenneth Old London Road, Bigillt, O'Shea, Maef-y-Fel, Heullan, Denbigh; William Pearce, Maes- Y-Dre, Denbigh; Edward Wil- liam, Myddleton Avenue, Den. Lloyds bigh; Derrick Hughes, Denbigh; and Ichn Avenue, Kenneth Seaburg, Blaen-Y-Coed, Brynseion, Denbigh. and Murray's alleged Hooson offences relate to a site at Pades- wood, Denbigh, on August 7 and those against the remaining THE TERMS of settlement spelt out by the Ford unions yester- day in no way alter the prin- ciple of their acceptance of the Tory pay laws or the dan- gerous workers which this has opened up. It has taken this group of bureau- Wor crats five months. But finally, with the aid of some expert political footwork from the Communist Party, they feel they have bound, gagged and beaten the Ford workers into submission. They now hope that the £2.20 pay deal offered by the com- pany yesterday will be meekly accepted in the factories.

At that point, it is already being in union head- . whispered quarters, it will be time to start blaming the rank • and file. It is important to nail this lie in advance. union side As Moss Evans, chairman of the Ford national joint committee, negotiating was forced to admit last Tues- day, responsibility for the col- lapse of the pay fight must rest with the union leadership. What he will not say openly, of course, is that this was a delib- erate and conscious retreat be- fore the Tory pay laws. Last December Evans told shop A n stewards at Ford's Dagenham pay claim factory that the would be regardless of these laws. But every action since then of "left, nion leaders, and these and Stalinist convenors who support them and bolster them up, has been in contra- diction of this pledge. the context of Heath's Nov- In announcement of a ember 6 total standstill on all wage in- creases, a serious struggle for five to alleged offences at Bren- reservoir, Denbigh, on neg September 11. Altogether 24 building workers face a total of 210 charges, in- cluding conspiracy. The other 17 will appear for committal in June. Contingents on the picket in- workers from St cluded Thomas's Hospital site, London, Morris Motors, the South Wales Coalfield, and builders from Rotherham, Oxford, North Colchester. Wales and The picket was followed by a march through the town. A SURVEY made shortly after the introduction of Value Added Tax showed that 22 per cent of the prices checked were higher guide to the than the official new tax suggested they should be, the Consumers Association ng. has reported. Ford workers' the £10 pay demand clearly meant an all- out struggle around which the rest of the trade union move- ment would have to be mobilized, to create the indus- political conditions trial and to force the Tories to resign.

insisted on this Workers Press position constantly. But when Evans and his fellow negotia- tors presented the claim, their whole emphasis for the struggle was that Ford's could afford to, and therefore should, pay up. While many sections of workers were confused and disillusioned by this reformist garbage, the negotiators dragged their feet on the claim. They allowed Ford's almost unlimited time give their formal reply, to allowing talks to continue so as to encourage the idea compromise might be possible.

the "lefts' Meanwhile and Stalinists moved in to knife the growing conviction in the Ford workers' ranks that the fight must urgently be waged against the Tories. At a national conference of shop stewards in February, they re- fused to accept a motion de- the

TUC

call manding a General Strike to force the Tories out. op A motion calling for an all-out official strike was passed. But meeting. within days of the Sid Harraway, Stalinist secre- tary of the national conven- ors' committee, was allowing quoted in the himself to be capitalist Press implying work- struggle ers were afraid of a against the pay laws. By March 5, the day the TUC leaders refused to call General Strike, the convenors had consigned the decision of February conference the the waste-bin and opted for a R

PUBLIC MEETINGS

Transfoning thi Labour League ir Central London Sunday May 20, 7 p.m. The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street (corner Langley Street) London WC2 Speaker: Roger Smith Showing the Pageant Film: 'The Road to Workers' Power' policy of selective strikes and bans on overtime. Even this watered-down, ineffec- tive form of action was strongly supported through- out the combine, but the clear reluctance of the union lead- ers to fight and the equally mealy-mouthed position of the encouraged convenors company to launch a disci- plinary crackdown throughout the combine. The aim of this crackdown was clearly to break the last shred of resistance on pay. Yet even in this situation union leaders called retaliatory no action and continued scrabbl- around for a few more concessions on 'fringe' bene- fits from the company. In this they again had the slavish sup- port of the Communist Party and the 'Morning Star'. Evans admits responsibility for the collapse only in answer to stewards' criticism that the have given 'a unions should positive lead' in February.

But what we have seen at Ford's is the ruthless strangling, by the reformists and the Stalin- ists, of a pay struggle which could have shaken the Tory to its founda- government tions and, with the support of other sections, brought it crashing. This has placed Ford and other workers in great danger. has paved the way for talks in which the TUC are now gaged with the Tories, which the Tories intend to undermine all workers' living standards and all democratic rights. JC The lesson of Ford's is that re- formism and Stalinism are dangers the working class can- not afford. They must smashed and the alternative, revolutionary leadership built.

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