After the Cambodian invasion U.S. aggression against China near?

OVER THE CORPSES of Ohio sti we Cambodian peasants, the US High C now marching towards Nixon's 'New Peter China and the Third World War.

nam adventure, US military leaders Frver and never disguised that their main enemy was not the National Liberation Front, nor even the government of N Vietnam. the S.LL. march to the Yalu River at the height of the Korean war, the goal of the US military today remains the overthrow dissociating from the SLL of the Chinese People's Republic and Peter Fryer concludes the opening up of the country to imnation and no Mr. perialist domination and exploitation. Gerry Healy's enterprises'. bodia cannot be judged Arch against Camistic the Workers Press anded on the might for iss is always generated the imperialist rather, the patrimony of comrade Healy and an expression of dictatorial power by an in home challenged by rival imperialism in dividual.

This Shich enemies of and ede ades from the Trotskyi mom he dustens of te movement have capitalist class many occasions. declare war on the working class at home, while to hold and win markets in Europe, it must clash harshly with the interests of the major monopolies in the Common Market, Japan and Britain. they are, do not answer the problems of the US ruling class. It is not only ultrain cal treation rightist and fascist groups in the USA that have been calling for nuclear war on China.

BErRie Tor emancipation, brilliant but evil day.

0 millic LET serve as quality of leadership is de- and termined and conditioned— as any honest worker knows -not by the privileges of a corrupt, self - perpetuating buréaucracy, but by the historical interests of the velopment.

working class in the worldwide struggle for the dictatorship of the working class.

Mr Fryer's insinuation against the League is nothing more than an invertéd repetition of the "leader cult' which he acquired in the Stalinist movement.

Although the Hungarian Revolution shattered his illusions in Stalin, neither the Révolution nor the League were able to cure him his idealism and his hostility to democratic centralism.

That his hostility should turn to reactionary hatred is a measure of his own political degéneration as well as the rapid change in the political The SLL situationleaders are elected, as even Mr Fryer knows, after democratic debate and discussion at the annual Congréss of the League.

They are elected to leadership not on the basis of charisma, but because of the quality of their contri- militant phrases. From the very beginning of the VietAs in the days of General MacArthur's Luesy on the milisituation Indo-China, desperate though it is for the US imperialists. The main driving force for imperialist war themselves. Never was that more true than in the United States today.

with a falling rate of profit at markets ruing has been into an economic To drive up its profits, US capital must and )mmal d is Front er' ANNELL TAMMELL LAIRDI A CO A deputation of wives of Cammell Laird workers met Mr Wilson and other MPs at the House of Commons esterday in an enort to ave their husbands' jobs.

This follows Monday's announcement that the TUC leaders meet as print strike nears THE TUC's General Purposes committee-the so-called 'inner cabinet'—is to meet the national executive of the National Graphical Association today in a last-ditch attempt to stave off the lock-out threatened from Friday by the newspaper employers.

The Newspaper Publishers' will strike planned by machine managers at the 'Daily Mirror' goes ahead.

This would not, of course, affect the Workers Press, which is not part of the employers' association.

1s in the f Birkenhead shipyard (seen above would run out of time unless Verament alad was forthcoming.

8,000 workers face redundancy if the yard closes. • BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT The machine managers want wage rises to maintain the differential between their pay and that of other machine room workers.

NGA secretary John Bonfield is flying back from France in order to attend today's meeting. Leaders of the other PREPARATIONS for today's meeting were made on Monday night as the TUC leaders sat down to dinner with the directors of the Bank of England. This was the first time the Bank's directors had been formally wined and dined at Congress House, making a significant new secretaryship.

printing unions will be standing by in case they are called into the talks.

If today's meeting cannot reach a settlement it is now certain that Mrs Barbara Castle's Department of Employment and Productivity will intervene.

Legal steps

Meanwhile, the other major printing union, the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, has warned that it will take legal steps against the various national newsRuhr workers face union law A STALEMATE has been reached in the struggle of the IG chemical workers' union in Hessen to win an improved labour contract and increased control by the union over speed of work and demarcation.

Employers in the chemical irms, including Faberwerke Hegerhate with refusenionen to A joint commission of three Lenin Centenary trade union and three emrepresentatives was formed; it has four weeks to come to an agréement. But it is clear that both sides are intransigent and that no way is open for the unions but to call for a strike in mid-May.

The metalworkers' union IG-Metall, tried to win a similar contract a few years ago in Ford's Cologne factory.

Participation

The unions demanded that a works' committee should take part in all decisions concerning workers in the factory, such as division of labour and the speed of the assembly lines.

But at that time the negotiations failed because the employers raised legal objections, and the union leaders refused to organize workers against them.

But the battle served attract many workers into the union at Ford's for the first time.

Legal action

The Ruhr employers have threatened to pay only the basic rate and have begun to demand legal action against A strike call by the union would be a reflection of the strength of the German workers, who know that the full employment existing today in Germany places the bosses at a disadvantage.

A 'hot May' in the chemical industry will be a signal for workers throughout the Ruhr industrial region, in mines and power stations, leading up to the wage claim of the fourmillion - strong engineéring workers' union in September. Twolectures to mark the hundredth annıversary of Lenin's birth worked.

Strikers point out that an increase negotiated _by the company's Joint Industrial Council last year, the second Monday, May 11, 7.30 p.m.

"Theory-practice and the revolutionary party' Monday, May 18, 7.30 p.m. • Lenin and the coming English Revolution' Both lectures will be given by HEALY, national secretary of the • BEAVER HALL Garlick Hill, London, E.C.4 ar Mansion House tube stat

bution to the building of the revolutionary party and the development of its theory.

Mr Fryer hates all this. He tries to hide his love of the status quo, his sceptic.

ism towards the working class and his hatred of Marxist théory and democratic centralism by a sneering and untruthful reference to 'Gerry Healy's enterprises'.

as tion against the war and by linking this struggle to the building of Trotskyist parties in every country of the We applaud the action of the Liverpool dockers and Girling stewards for their actions on May I.

This meeting further condemns the counter-revolutionary policy, of world Stalinism aimed at reconvening , the Geneva conferof all colonial or semi-colonial peoples in their struggles against imperialism and capitalist dictatorship and demand the immediate release of Hugo Blanco and all other political prisoners held by the military dictatorships in Peru, Brazil, Argentina and elsewhere.

This meeting condemns the support extended to the Peruvian junta by the Cuban government as a betrayal of the Peruvian worcognizes the grave economic situation of world imperialism and the prospect of a major world depression now facing the capitalist class. This crisis cannot be solved by Keynesian 'réforms' Fabian palliatives. It is a fundamental crisis and can be solved only by anti-capitalist measures such as the nationalization of the banks, the shutting down of the Stock Exchange, the confiscation of all monopolies Alliance des Jeunes pour le Socialisme and the Frênch section of the International Committee of the Fourth International and express complete support for their struggle against illegalization by the Pompidou government and for their fight for the united front of the workers' parties and the creation of a Socialist PartyCommunist Party government in the next elections.

In Britain, the capitalist alternative to Wilson: the SLL and the YS.

This meeting, in conclusion, salutes the Workers Press and its invaluable service in exposing the betrayals of the right wing and Stalinists and in fighting the Tories and pledges full support to the International Youth Conference and the Young Socialists' anti-Tory rally in the autumn Pilkington solidarity with the peoples of Indo-China have already mapped out the road t*= entire international worl ing class must follow if a chird world war is to be verted.

The US working class has a special responsibility in this respect. Nixon, now fighting a war on tw, fronts-against the Indo-C'unese and against the ant war movement at home.

T'e savage massacre on the campus of Kent State University, Ohio, is just a foretaste of what is to come unless the working class is brought ints the fight against Nixon's drive stage of which fell due May 2, had the effect of ducing bonus earnings.

RANKLES

The experience rankles.

Pickets at Ravenhead Works were equally determined. living wage in" St Helens, said one young striker.

What do they earn at Ford's or Vauxhall's or any decent factory-and my basic's £13!.

"They're trying to starve us back', said another, but they're not on.' UNION CHANGE The attempts of G&MWU officials to obtain a return to work on the company's terms are a major source of bitterness and it seems likely that many glass workers - one strike leader put the figure as high as 30,000—will leave on the pattern of the 1969 Ford strike and join the T&GWU. towards a third world war.

Nixon's decision to by:

pass the Congress and Senate, and rely purely on the military arm of the executive state machinery, represents a sharp lurch to the right in the USA, towards a form of Bonapartist rule.

Splits

The splits in the ruling class over Indo-China are now so deep, a single line of action can only be pursued by overriding long established parliamentary institutions and traditions.

Johnson at least went through the motions of a debate and vote on the 'Gulf of Tonkin incident', staged to provide him with the pretext for intervention in S Vietnam.

Today Nixon dare not risk such a confrontation • even with his supporters in the Republican Party.

In Britain, we have to redouble our efforts to secure wider and more concerted strike actions against the war.

The witch-hunting reaction of the ruling class and its press to the first serious solidarity action of the British working class on Vietnam proves that the imperialists are being hit where it hurts them most. papers in detence of its members' interests, which will be affected if the national newspapers stop publication.

The NPA has clearly made up its mind to stand and fight the print workers, whose militancy and organization in the past have wrung big increases in wages from the newspaper employers.

Any retreat by the printing unions at this stage can only strengthen the newspaper employers' drive to rationalize the industry at the expense of the workers.

Student

shut down demanded THE US National Students' Association, representing about 500 campuses, has demanded a complete shut down of educational establishments, following the killing of four students on Monday by National Guardsmen.

60 campuses have so far answered the call. At the University of Maryland, a state of emergency has been declared by the governor and the National Guard are now enforcing an 8.30 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew.

PLANE

WANT £5 ABOUT 600 workers at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford, began a work-torule yesterday in support of a £5 a week pay claim.

They also gave their unions and the Ministry of Technology two-weeks to reach agreement or face possible strike action.

Beer Strike BEER delivery men at the Courage (Eastern) Ltd. bottling plant in Park Street, Southwark, London, held a one-day strike yesterday over a pay dispute.