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PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 158

BY ROBERT BLACK

US REPRESSION AT HOME 1937 AND 1970: Above a Kent University student WHEN OHIO National Guardsmen shot dead four Kent University students last National the Monday, Nixon brought his Indo-Chinese war home to millions of American workers stormento disagrees deeply and youth. For while all the press and television publicity, is trained on the reactions of macle cass America. une only force that can end the war in Indo-China is carefully obscured from view.

The scenes at universities and colleges across the USA must indeed be familiar to the thousands of trade unionists who THE INVASION of Cambodia stretches to the utmost fought out the great class battles of the 1930s with Republican Steel, General the forces of American imperialism in a sub-continent Motors and Ford. wnich is aname with revolutonary struggle Irom the Chinese border to the straits of Malaya.

nothing treeto the seeing streets are Nixon's desperate moves ir are which the pe hạd right a sit alberation

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damn sadents Buildinge

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Share and rosence Souvanna prices

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fall Last week oined the tho MORE THAN 8U colleges the S Vietnam border. a mcially the fight and tolerable working condi- COn- inued to grow lons. e Madron a Guardsmen tured. and Kentuck Stirred LEADERS of the National Graphical Association said and nine students Important Workers i on. yesterday that the union will accept the findings o heroin of the sit a sil have al the joint committee set up under Trades Union Congress linoi general secretary Victor Feather to find a settlement in the As beation of Anters of the 'Daily Mirror' pay dispute.

Which fell steades,

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though in northern Tha workin ve Industrial shares it is this scale of went to the wall in the process. were an make in the circumstances.

nons leadership States. he way to Mileage strike at the Mirror: 48s dilterentia Anxiety 150 able rexist y ready consider train drivers at Gaston near cased bonus and here te military sources. and Sepes mard to the wait massis were affected by into an acceptable recognition trains

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agreement Chatham Yesterd on the thand strike Sundown in the radion ment for the conduct of in union la weat ain of 678,00 Speaking in the Common as and much is mic Wednesday, nee 20300 1002 SHOP STEWARDS from ent industries and con 134,000; in ter rora s wazennam complex claim that supplies of glass solution one i to The paint, trim and dispute over seats. assembly shop are being -set binet the be canal situaton. maintained from Holland, 2000 Marine engineering, Wedge Belgium, W Germany, Eire stoppage is obtained as eating in fet Bree and S Africa. continued stripes ester daeir coployer claims sing then Been Hon in hon water incide the a Municipal wor being Allied Trades, stirred up by outsiders. grate amicable relations i the NGA Les alon Allegations that clashes be- -even if a number of papers creation of a new environ- the Commons between European sources. The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

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MASSEY FERGUSON'S presi- dent recentv visited the ban factory ner Lane. coventiv in- background ot distinal unrest caliser in a recently.

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Strings concluded deal. Ma Bine Tuesday night's Evening incham delivered a scathing attack wildcat strikes strikes had 10,000 and tract os alone company situation much longer attack this agains who die celerined maintain their wages and Contes are loots on tal Acco the coots and share prices economic crisis Irish government split a de conne Lay offs 1,200 assemon workers laid off were acam this pro- week woen crammer. withdrew labour. ror many months they have demanded inoroved office tur.

niture and better working con ations and this is the second strike on this. isna Paint shop sprayers have al antovertin claiming pare semaiv sre an average 20 per cent higher THE IRISH government crisis, which has already bonus Garage hands are seen the dramatic dismissal of two Ministers, the discotie with the recently hed resignation of a third, and an outbreak of unparlia- £2 under tinted terms of the 1970-1971 agree- mentary violence, brings out into the open the acute class tensions in the South and emphasizes the grow- Garage • craftsmen, who ing revolutionary possibilities in Ireland.

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regime under Prime Minis- Sequence ter Lynch, the creature of have taken partition, visibly de- SOUr wales miners vester despite recent company s strike action threatened composine. if a cam tor an extra s The form this crisis takes met sequence weAr the stynch a sharp split National Coal Board. reso- acceptance are worth recall- lution was their annual conference Porth- Fianna cawl demandins weekly wage ofs and CuOs app-level interventier in the annual review surface workers.

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rom British premier Harold WnO apparently in Tormed Thatta nis ministers were involver plot in a Qun-running covered by Kritish gence. Nigel Blaney, Minister for Agriculture, and Charles Two lectures Haughey, 'are alieget to have Minister to mark the been connected with a plot. hundredth Sympathy * Kevin Boland tened. anniversary in- lesieneu in sympathy with the sacked of Lenin's Insters. three ex-Ministers i ne birth known were TavOuT military intervention Nreland last. Angust. an a rumoured they have been ving and nintr gun-running derry. It catt the running was cloaked under

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Monday, May 11, 7.30 p.m • Theory-practice and the revolutionary party' Tories and the Labourites, Monday, May 18, 7.30 p.m.

however. conceal a crowing " Lenin and the coming Matterin the working Tories evervthing the English Revolution' represent. treachery, Throngh thair the Labour have landara weakened the Both lectures will be given by at yers and time are G. HEALY, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League numbers need to more

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 158 • FRIDAY, MAY 8, 197

US REPRESSION

BY ROBERT BLACK

WHEN OHIO National Guardsmen shot students. Republic Se tol i rudents killed b dead four Kent University students last Stude TV interview: Monday, Nixon brought his Indo-Chinese because she war home to millions of American workers because with and youth. For while all the press and television publicity, is trained on the reactions of only force mocle-class america. une that can end the war in indo chinaıs carefully obscured from view.

The scenes at universities and colleges across the USA must indeed be tamillar to the thousands of trade unionists who THE INVASION of Cambodia stretches to the utmost fought out the great class battles of the 1930s with Republican Steel, General the forces ot American imperialısmın a sub-continent Motors and Ford. which is aflame with revolutionary struggle trom the Chinese border to the straits of Malaya.

›oay-strewn ana blood-stained streets al othing new to the US working clas & situaton in whech the pop Tie Bans the same for + not shoots on in which the popu

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rol large sections LAnd Stude from undixon's colleges joined the thousands Soravane, main announcing Stirred LEADERS of the National Graphical Association said Bombing Дому всі The THAI and MALAYAN yesterday that the union will accept the findings of governments an the joint committee set up under Trades Union Congress acked respec anti-war stu- general secretarv Victor Feather to find a settlement in The board of directors of the 'Daily Mirror' pay dispute.

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ge areas in northern Tha Association Lord le alienation between for despite the wave of re the working and bordering on ulsion sweeping through even the the test Coined State wall in the union мить вт en massacres are will at they werely, ag secretary ica with Patest 11th-hour settlement is prob out-diagnos we could Cricket nets While ene • best circumstances'. Mileage strike way for a Allxiely 'Use force' There is already consider- sar main priested ta able ination 'My weapaset t force as l and Neves • Parrett to an acceptable recognitio

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y Crosland Ford's fly in glass liqui- dation of 678,000 jobs supplies claim stewards SHOP STEWARDS from There are no mploy pes ot Ford's Dagenham complex he NGA tha Feathecen To some cer claim that supplies of glass metal and Strike to the paint, trim and inland 21,000 solution assembly shop are being situation. marine engineering, maintained from Holland, 20,000. Belgium, W Germany, Eire several cousinue the sha ana • airica. despite Labou Robert Minister point dealing with Cers hand Municipal Wor- Include the Allegations that clashes be- creation of 'a new environ-

MAY 8, 1970

AND 1970: Above a Kent University ational Guardsmen on the campus is le massacre of ten workers by police npany plant in 1937. Arthur Krause, by National Guardsmen, being called a "bum" e else's opinion. She felt the war in t a crime? Is this a reason for killing te that a young girl has to be shot of her government?' Share prices fall

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UNCERTAIN. inter- national situation, the war in Cambodia and the growing anti-war in the movement United States caused further falls in share prices on the London Stock Exchange. The market continues to reflect the major crisis of con- fidence in future now the afflicting the ruling class all over the world. Yesterday, there were few buyers for shares, many of which fell steadily in price, though government securities - considered a 'gilt-edged' in- vestment-rose slightly. Industrial shares fell sharply leading however. Among shares which fell in price were EMI, Rank Organization, Glaxo, ICI and Unilever. British-American Tobacco, Hawkers and Bowaters also fell, though less sharply.

Tube Investments, Guest Keen and Metal Box were engineering shares among which fell in price. ment for the conduct of in- dustrial relations' (i.e. anti- union laws), cutting public expenditure 'smaller to a proportion of the national income' (further cuts in education, transport, mining, etc.) and 'much less inter- vention to prop up in- efficient industries and com- panies' (more closures of bankrupt shipyards). Under the parliamentary facade of mutual 'regrets' about unemployment, neither party has the slightest in- tention of abolishing it.

Crosland, in effect, re- assured Carr that the gov- ernment was doing every- thing in its power to carry through the Tory pro- gramme. The amicable relations in the Commons between the The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

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MASSEY FERGUSO Se DESi- dent recently visited Lane, Coventry factory background unrest caused by VIciouS in a recent v. surines concluded deal •Birm- tuesday nights avening on deliveran a coathing attact strikes had 10,000 tract orse compan would this tolerate situation much longe" bening this attack workers. who are determined and maintain their wages conditions, are reports of fall- ing company profits and share Prise a contine. the crisis Irish government split Lav offs 1,200 assembly shop laid off agalr week the when their withdrew hor many months that hor demanded improved office fur- niture and better working ditions and this second this Pain shon aners have al claiming who receive THE IRISH government crisis, which has already bonus. hands are discatic. seen the dramatic dismissal of two Ministers, the fed with nego- the recentiv resignation of a third, and an outbreak of unparlia- tiated rise the 1nday i terms of the 1970-1971 agree- mentary violence, brings out into the open the acute ment. class tensions in the South and emphasizes the grow- Who re. ceived ing revolutionary possibilities in Ireland.

their labe in support. toleturn The The partition of Ire- voted mer the land, imposed the after by

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that had ther convenors working dase for nearl that hope officials winning. and 50 years, is once again in

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the have done thet question. The 'green Tory' nest tor them. regime under Prime Minis-

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surace workers from British premier Harold Wilson. formed Lynch his were involved gun-running plot un- Lenin Centenary British covered pence Nigel Blaney, Minister for Agriculture. an a Charles Two lectures Haughey, for Minictor Finance, , are alleged to have to mark the been connected with a plot.

hundredth Sympathy Government Minis- Local anniversary Roland racionad in sympathy with the sacked of Lenin's ministers. The three ex-Ministers birth were favour ireland last engist August, and rumoured they have gununning into Tandon. Gerry said that running was cloaked under

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Monday, May 11, 7.30 p.m.

• Theory-practice and the revolutionary party' Tories and the Labourites, Monday, May 18, 7.30 p.m.

however, conceal a growing • Lenin and the coming hatred in the working dace tor avaruthina tha English Revolution' represent. Through their treachery, have the Labour leaders at a nine en g class Both lectures will be given by em- G. HEALY, national secretary of the nan right Socialist Labour League to strile and vaci indroacad tho of unam. ployed. makes more

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PRESIDENT NIXON'S

statement of last week that 'if I had any money I'd be buying stocks right now' will certainly have Street little done Wall good. It recalls only too vividly John D. Rockefeller's com- ment immediately prior to the 1929 crash that 'Believing conditions the fundamental of the country are sound...

my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. The President's announce- ment, presumably designed and investors to reassure speculation, dampen i down only indicates the near-panic which is beginning to infect sections of the American capitalist class as they attempt to understand the present crisis and hammer out a strategy to deal with it.

considerable And their cause. anxiety is not without of Lying behind the tumble Wall Street shares stands which crisis facing the banks threatens the entire and stability of American world capitalism. It is banks and other the financial institutions which the who are the bankers control major forces operating on the Stock Exchange; latest figures that these 'institutional show buyers' account for around 70 per cent of all business transacted on Wall Street.

50 Lenin Over years ago explained the changed role of under imperialism. the banks financial From being mere intermediaries in the process of exchange, by the 20th Cen- tury they had assumed domin- ance over the whole of metro- capitalist politan directly or indirectly owning large of industrial SeCLOTs capital, their activities closely allied with the state. Collapse It is thus no accident that the 1929 crisis took the form not merely collapse of of" a share values on Wall Street.

This crash was only part of a more general crisis which hit the entire monetary and bank- of America and system It crisis Europe. 'resolved' only through a series of devaluations, currency shrinking of world trade, the creation of a pool of unem- of ployed running into tens finally through millions, and the resort to war in 1939.

As in all crises, but parti- cularly so with capitalist crisis in the present century, such perious destruction of capi periods marked tal values. only through the It wiping out of value on such - which involved the a scale Wall Street crash, banking failures throughout the capit- alist world and bankruptcy for large sections of industry-that capitalism provided the basis of ex- for a renewed period pansion after 1945 This is what Marx means in 'Das Kapital' when he explains Nixon: ... I'd be buying stoc that the law of value operates not in a smooth manner, but Americans continued to hold explai in manner not subject to a considerable gold reserve and with control and human conscious while general confidence in the 'blind' in its opera- therefore dollar prevailed. contra tion, a mechanism which must alist s bring periodic crises and dis- Neither condition exists any long i ruptions in the way that 'the longer. has continuaily explos law of gravity. asserts itself Inflation Cre the real purchasing when a house falls about our eroded of the dollar since its izatio ears'. power speed the last gold value was first fixed by Under imperialism, of such Washington in 1934 and mono stage capitalism, makir crises are inevitably general in worsening balance of payments polist their character and cannot be since the early 1960s position confined, as the reformists and.

capita has drained away much of the would wish, to any gold which the system proce Stalinists on emplo rested. one country. The of the else overall expansion Marx's comments on role of the credit system might plus capitalism the post-war in Ma reading for period has, of course, rested make instructive result upon the American economy any of our financial 'pundits' th seeking an explanation for the and particularly upon the great that credit which the growing crisis: growth of collar dollar provided after the war.

'Hence the credit system bankı It was only by means of the accelerates the material devel- alrea of the productive vast quantity of dollars circu- opment forces and the establishment integr Europe (now estim- lating in "T of the world market. ated at around $30 billion), At credit accele- repro great deal of it unbacked by the same time, rates the aristo violent eruptions of this contradiction- -and paras -crises- the disintegration of motel thereby he end of the wa the old mode of production.'

nomil uch an expansion of cre As Rosa Luxemburg, s possible only while t prom and priva contr Th domi sectic work much reces enou A Journal of International Marxism 186a Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4 Editors: Tom Kemp, Cliff Slaughter Ame mear wors the

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THE Arrogance of ollar holdings outside and thereby further Power, written in 1966 onfidence in its stabil- and just published in adly shaken in March paperback by Penguin, is is at stake is the worth reading only be- perstructure of finan- cause it exposes the crisis ngements built up at Noods by Keynes and of American liberalism so clearly. hatever course the to take, is may care J. William Fulbright, him- and cannot not gold crisis. self a conscious represent- nother oney can only substi- ative of capitalism, is looked chain of gold in the upon by middle-class liberals ayments within strict and radicals as one of the there is general fear great hopes for America. bility in paper cur- collapse of credit is He was first elected to • which restores the Congress in 1942 and be- relationship between universal commodity, came a member of the House ther commodities. Foreign Affairs Committee a crisis (a monetary ccurs only when the where he introduced the thening chain of pay- Fulbright Resolution' which nd an artificial means for United States called g them, has been fully participation in an inter- d. Whenever there is l and dis- extensive national 'peace-keeping' body.

of this mechanism, what its ter cause, In 1946 he sponsored the lere Marx means gold] international educational ex- suddenly and imme- change programme which gives transformed, from its grants to foreign students to leal shape of money of come to the United States to into hard cash. Pro- study and American to ommodities can no students to study abroad.

eplace it. . .. On the he crisis the bourge- In 1954 he was the only th the self-sufficiency member of the Senate to vote prings from intoxicat- for additional funds against perity, declares money Senator Joe McCarthy's witch- vain imagination. Special Investigating hunting nodities alone are Sub-committee. But now the cry is He is now chairman of the ere: Money alone is a Senate Foreign Relations Com- ity! the hart AS fter fresh water, mittee and has been respon- several for launching is soul sible investigations into revealing American foreign policy. It is characteristic of the ebentures US contradictions of the system of government that his harp decline in share domestic record is not nearly hich is now afflicting so liberal. d stock markets is a ate pant of this gen- growth iSiS. The of and debentures (fixed stock) since the war He is a Democratic senator n part of the general of the from Arkansas, credit which most backward of the pre- d the boom. rural dominantly southern luch of the real value and he has been re- states is paper represents has elected mainly on the strength ice disappeared: arma- of his ability to make deals produced the agricultural and by capital and get have financial his by governments programmes stroyed, just as much pushed favour electorate plant and equipment through Congress. y loans floated on the • There is no doubt that in long exchanges have the field of foreign affairs he ased to operate. has been a very annoying thorn mass of paper claims, side of successive with the high degree in the administrations in the White • capitalization which House. n many of the mono- device used during "rebel' justifies position by repeating again and m to raise extra capital onger represents any- patriot that the true again t is what Marx called owes allegiance to the ideals as capital'. It appears as his country stands for-in social tion of total 'freedom', 'demo- this case and demands its appro- cracy, etc.—more than to any ortion of total surplus t is precisely now, with be- of the crisis, that Party set value is not extracted ate sufficient to main- porters: for e rate of profit-the force behind capitalism not source of all payments was because it e capital. - through a mass arose tion of fictitious responsibility. into the were sent marines is, of developing share the in Senate this italist and the inter- vention. finally, to ing it he copy capitalist ility of the to in publicly. he quotes of credit through es of recent Dominican in events though it Republic, S- past benefit in repetition future and in er of policy in purposes Latin prices th rising equally rapidly.

remarks.' p. 66.) of the Keynesians are • understand this new nenon. dilemma faced by the Making good use of the still- indica- sians is a sure professed and right respon- sibility of one section of the the deep seated organic now facing the capital- government to criticize an- tem. other-the so-called system of fact that none of the 'checks and balances'-and ques which guided the disingenuously accepting the nic policies of all lead- supposed aims of the American italist governments after government in Latin America ır now contain any solu- 'peace', 'freedom' -the same ndicates that a new and and 'democracy'-he no doubt i stage in the decline of set Johnson gnashing his teeth.

alism is being prepared. His committee has made it difficult for the standard of bit more blood-thirsty military and the and organizations of the Central 1g class will the capital- counter-revolutionary (CIA) to have any hope of Intelligence Agency stem manoeuvre because of the pub- even temporary ng a within its crisis- licity they have been given in orium years; evidence recent given ystem. tremblings on the stock to Fulbright's committee on ges are an indication and different aspects of foreign policy has sometimes been we have now that televised. d such a period.

'THE ARROGANCE OF POWER'

By J. William Fulbright Pelican, 1970, 6s. liberal of markets, resources, territory But he and his or principles—these are mere friends, while evidence of excuses or attempts to explain real split in the American unfathomable drives bourgeoisie, have never deter- 'certain of human nature'. (p. 17.)

of the giant the agents and banks from corporations The arrogance of power of single-mindedly pursuing their the title is the alleged assump- filthy work around the world.

tion by bigger nations that Only a few of the facts have are better just they because they are bigger and that they been exposed. spread their better' must bemoans the Fulbright civilization and its institutions tendency by recent Presidents around the globe. to usurp more power than the American Constitution actually Missionary grants the Executive branch of government without first con- This missionary zeal, con- sulting Congress. Fulbright, is what has tends time and landed Congressmen, he are time again says, America in trouble and led the more and more told what is 'mistakes'. going to happen and not asked country to make what should happen. He describes Americans as like Boy Scouts drag- being Blockaded ging reluctant old ladies across don't streets they want to 1962 Cuban During the cross. for instance, missile crisis, important Senators were called Fulbright a suggests as Ken- remedy to this situation more to the White House by psychologists in government to nedy and told that Cuba was Americans understand going to be blockaded. help they continue to commit why asked for They were then the same neurotic 'mistakes'.

which would their comments effect Fulbright knows this is non- obviously have no on sense. He is caught in the lib- taken. Ful- decisions already Richard eral trap and he wants to wrig- bright and Senator of it. He Russell of Georgia, a notorious gle sees that American capitalism is racialist, advocated an invasion doomed if it continues as the of Cuba by American forces!

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of In this case, one can only be champion counter-revolu- glad Fulbright's advice wasn't tion and advocates a change should in Americans taken! course: instead become the 'friend' of The 'liberal' is here exposed social revolution. of staunch supporter imperialism. He tries to cover He suggests this in a totally that his tracks by rationalizing that cynical way, adding doesn't expect it will happen.

had he been able to 'formulate' his views on the basis of pub- known facts rather than licly Reform having to guess the nature of 'might' have the situation, he This is the fundamental con- made a different recommenda- tradiction he cannot confront.

feeble tion; pragmatist S stronghold of The US as the attempt to explain history on capitalism is necessarily inex- the basis of a 'lack of informa- tricably involved in every poli- tion'. and tical economic crisis in There would undoubtedly world, To support the the have debate been some continuation of capitalism as Over the form counter-revolutionary Ful- social which Vietnam, the Domin- action in bright certainly but at Republic, Cuba and now call for ican the time same taken, Laos should have but to call reform of method, is not over its substance. for the impossible this period of and revolu- Fulbright's book shows that tions. he is feeling his impotence.

since this book Imperialism, around for Flailing some forced written, has been of the 'madness' was explanation to send its policemen to inter- of American foreign policy he and more in more an lights on that old bugaboo- vene its to maintain human nature. stranglehold world's on the productive forces. Wars are not fought because Friday, May 8, 1970 Nixon's State of the Union which was a • declaration war on revolution around the world, and the CIA-run war in Laos, which Fulbright has scares him to death', prove that imperialism cannot turn back. As the rate of profit con- tinues to fall and national capitalisms battle it out, the American capitalists must try to increase their rate of exploitation both in the United States and abroad. This will mean more and more brutality, misery, suffer- ing--all those things nasty Fulbright doesn't wish to hap- pen. As a pragmatist and a lib- eral he wishes it was enough to say 'it hasn't worked, there- fore let's do something differ- ent'. He longs for the good old days of Roosevelt, who, as he rightly points out, was able to save capitalism with reform.

But capitalism can less and less afford reform and the working class will not be The bought off. battle is joined whether individuals like it or not. Pragmatic In a pragmatic way Ful- bright understands the coun- ter-revolutionary role of the Soviet bureaucracy and sees that although there is a real between struggle going on capitalism and communism, it is not in the interests of Stalin- ism to upset the international apple cart either. Fulbright's class position is revealed absolutely in his analysis of revolution. Revolu- tion, he says, is brought about by 'social and political failure'.

He agrees with Eric Hoffer who suggested in The True Believer' that '.:. revolutions "men of prepared by are words"-intellectuals, that 1s, such as Rousseau, Mazzini, and Marx-carried to fulfilment by "fanatics" — such as Robes- pierre, Lenin and Trotsky- and finally brought back to "practical men of earth by action"-men like Cromwell, Bonaparte and Stalin'. Again starting from the crudely pragmatic position that America's opposition to national movements which are communist-led has ended in abyssmal failure, as in Viet- nam, Fulbright puts forward that America position should nationalist support movements rather than auto- matically opposing anything communist. Eventually, 'extremists' will 'mod- be replaced by more erate' men (like Stalin) who will bring the society back to normalcy. all, hasn't After history taught us that every revolution has its 'Thermidor'.

To call Stalin a 'moderate' man is to come hirmly, unequl- shrewdly-down vocally-and on the side of capitalism.

What is 'moderation' to imperialism is treachery, betrayal and brutal class colla- boration to the workers' move- ment. Once again Fulbright reveals his true position. All the crocodile tears he is so quick to shed cannot hide his objective support for the social forces that massacre and muti- late workers and peasants all over the world. Under the guise of toler- ance and humanitarianism Ful- bright is calling for collabora- tion with the Stalinist bureau- cracies to defeat the working class. They will do the work for us, he writes, we don't need to rush in with flags flying to defeat every budding revolu- tion. Descriptions What Fulbright leaves out of all his descriptions (they are is inter- not analyses) the national working class. Starting from surface politics, from the particular forms in existence at a given period, he skates along the history never surface of analysing the social forces at work beneath. The existence of social classes is not recognized— • Americans, there are only some richer and some poorer.

This is the last rabbit in the liberal's hat. Yes, he agrees with those who stand against American imperialism, terrible some things have been done by Americans, but now we struggle Americans must together to put them right by rising above the bad side of our all too frail human natures. By trying to make the American working class share responsibility for the crimes by American committed imperialism, he is using nationalism to tie the workers to the bourgeoisie. There is no question where Fulbright and others like him stand in the class struggle, however much they deny its existence.

Friday, May 8, 1970 IN 1914 George Coppard was just an ordinary boy of elementary education and slender prospects. The deadly economic rivalry between Germany and the older imperialist nations had just erupted into world war. Newspapers screamed for volunteers, military bands and marching troops filled the streets. As if drawn by a magnet, the boy hurried to enlist.

As he gave his age as 19 the recruiting sergeant winked.

The trap had shut: 'Like a log flung into a giant river, I had only just started to move. Later on I was to be pushed from be- hind, relentlessly, without any chance of escape. He was 16 years old. Now, over 50 years later, writing in a dry, casual style which tries to keep the remembered hor- ror at bay, but in fact makes it seem even more stark and overwhelming, George Cop- pard retraces the steps of his youthful journey into hell.

Desperation As the diary on which the book is based jumps along, from shock to shock, we feel the boy's jauntiness-his sense of glamour in being a soldier - collapse, and give way to misery, desperation, and ter- rible haunting fear. The first training camp — endless drilling, parades for visiting royalty, bad food, bad pay, miserable sleeping quart- The men muttering in ers. their ill-fitting uniforms, the officers immaculate, like beings from another world. The excitement of the train journey through France 'almost like a Sunday school treat'. Then they march loaded like pack-animals in the broil- ing while officers ride sun, comfortably on well-groomed horses. As they near the front line the colonel warns his men that they are now under military law and Private Coppard lis- tens 'stupefied' as the adjutant Irish guards tend to wounded German priso drones out the names of those executed for 'derelictions of bodie: duty' And so into the trenches of for ic the front line. All quiet, for except the morning of fire and exchanges the snipers' victims crashing to the ground. Then on through the Belgian mining country to the battle of Loos and sudden vision of hundreds of dead Scots soldiers, their darkened faces contrasting weirdly with the fantastic colours of kilts and bonnets and gaping wounds.

machine, gunPosting to Next section at the notorious Hohenzollern Redoubt. Here specially- trained teams of miners bur- frantically beneath row the competing ground, to blow great holes through the earth above. The dislodged mass falls indiscriminately on either side, burying many alive, as storm troops rush under fire to grab the smoking crater from the enemy. Choking with the stench of the dead churned up in bits and pieces all around, Private Coppard fights to keep his reason and stay alive. Givenchy-days and nights spent in liquid mud up to the knees. The Somme-and Pri- vate Coppard looks out in the

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beautiful summer dawn to see hundreds of dead hanging on the German wire like fish caught in a net. For days he hears the cries of the wounded, left to fry in shell-holes under the sniper's eye. Bullied Arras, Cambrai-and at last badly wounded, back to hos- the time and being recovers bullied back into service the war in France is coming to an end. For Haig, Beatty, and other high-ranking officers, golden handshakes of £100,000 apiece, earldoms and For estates. Coppard and fellow survivors ed German prisoners during the First World War.

of the trenches, maimed bodies, fast-dwindling pen- and the endless queues sions, for jobs. ... George Coppard is no revo- lutionary. His mind is still clouded by the mass of patri- otic lies hammered into him during the war and since. But 'With a machine gun to Cam- brai' is well worth reading.

Firstly, because it shows the nightmare reality of the First World War as it has rarely been shown - through the experiences, thoughts and feel- ings the working-class soldiers who, betrayed by their leaders, were forced to fight and die in their millions so that their masters might carve up the world. Secondly, because it gives the lie once more to all those middle-class opportunists who, in order to dismiss the need to build revolutionary parties, trade in arguments about the spontaneously revolutionary nature of the working class.

Consciousness Coppard's book cries out in support of Lenin's insistence that revolutionary socialist consciousness has to be brought to the masses from outside through the policies, programme and • organizations

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The real terror and warning of his narrative lie in the of dreadful disconnection events as they loom up in his consciousness, in the para- lysing confusion of men forced to throw away their lives bat- tling for villages of rubble and corpses whilst being repeatedly old that this insane proces: Is somehow necessary for the preservation of 'freedom'.

Every day he spent in the trenches Coppard faced the most glaring contradictions in his own experience -contradic- tions which stemmed from the class, imperialist nature of the but which he war, as an individual, with nothing but his own impressions to go on, was quite unable to trace to their source. The contradiction between the life of officers in war— cared for by batmen, supplied with blankets, shelter, hot food, cigarettes and duty-free whisky-and the physical and psychological misery of those who, soaked and frozen, eaten by lice, faint with hunger and waited every minute fatigue, to be blotted out by a bullet or torn apart by a shell.

The contradiction between conditions at the front where were killed like cattle, men and the free drinks, treats and outings, the invitations from rich and titled families which awaited the heroic Tommy on leave. Between the threat of a £7 fine when he, Coppard, loses his revolver, and the fact that 'the whole battle area was material worth littered with millions of quid and there was no apparent urgency to recover it'. Questions start up in his mind as the list of executions is read out: 'Would I be able to shoot straight at another Tommy?' The older Coppard decides he probably would because of 'the code of slavish obedience to orders given, no matter what and 'an inborn pride in being a volunteer'.

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Pride in his skill in handling the Vickers gun, pride in his training to kill-the only train- ing the capitalist system ever gave him. Lovingly the young- sters cherish the instruments of death-the machine gun- ners must become machines themselves. On Christmas Eve, 1915, orders come round forbidding fraternization with the enemy: 'The whole world knew that on Christmas Day, 1914, there was some fraternizing at one point on the line, and even an attempt at a game of football.

Troops in the front line a year later were naturally speculating on whether a repeat perform- ance would develop and if so where.' But for Coppard and his companions; after hours bent double under fire on a small strip of earth surrounded by water, the only relief seemed to lie in machine gunning the first Germans who came within reach. Left to themselves, men in this situation tried to make a comfort out of ignorance: 'In a sense it was an advant- age being a private for nobody told you anything. You just waited in a day-to-day kind of existence until things hap- pened.' Religion, patriotism, had burned out long ago, but superstition remained - the phantoms swarming across no- man's land, the bullet some- where with his 'number on it' -and also, the last desperate psychological reflex of their own misery clothed with the fantasies of official propaganda, 'an implacable hatred of the Huns', , a feeling that 'it would have been un-British not to want to settle the score with them'. Nightmare The question: 'Why the war?' is never asked. The sight of torn bodies, the screams of the dying, constantly beat on their senses, but there seems no way out of the nightmare.

Gradually the angry muttering, the wry jokes cease and they fall back helplessly into weary irony, numb resignation: 'We're here, because we're here' The older Coppard still does not know why he had to go through that torture to which, paradoxically, he looks back half-longingly as a time of intensity and heroism in his life. Anger still burns as he remembers the men hanging on the barbed wire, but these disturbing images float discon- nected from any wider under- standing of the war. This inability to draw con- clusions from bitter personal experience and the suffering and death of millions is not surprising when we consider that the European working class had been literally aban- doned at the outset of the war by their former leaders, the socialists of the Second Inter- national. Instead of mobilizing work- ers to overthrow the capitalists about to unleash such barbar- ism, these leaders, terrified for their own privileges, national bourgeosie. In the vacuum created by this desertion men more used to expressing themselves than Coppard felt overwhelmed by the fog of lies generated by the capitalist war machine.

As a junior officer, the poet Wilfred Owen was exposed to sights and experiences which blasted away his former roman- tic ideas about the world and drove him into solidarity with the working-class soldiers he had been trained to despise.

In the short time before he too was killed, Owen took a conscious decision to make known through his poetry the sufferings of those who could not speak for themselves.

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Made raw and sensitive by I knew you in this dark: for the naked barbarism of the war so you frowned Yesterday the poet's mind strained to through as between you jabbed and killed. grasp the link the nightmare at the front and the parried; but hands my society he observed at home, were loath and cold. between the frozen, twisted Let us sleep now... corpses sitting outside his dug- Yet out of this nightmare, out and the stinking Leeds and this vast obliteration of human Bradford war-profiteers now life and consciousness, came reading "John Bull" on Scar- Russian Revolution the of borough sands'. October 1917, demonstrating Owen's shines poetry to millions of workers in the fragmented, flashing light on trenches and millions more in the link in exploitation the and that mines factories between trapped miners writh- there was indeed way ing for the soldiers and of the pit into which capital- who die working 'dark pits of had ism flung mankind: war, between those pulled by 'You will either go on fight- the bugle and those by the factory siren. ing for ten years or agree to difficult make a and severe It goes beyond moral out- revolution. There is no other rage, beyond the remnants way out. We say: the war Christian pacifism evident in which was started by the his letters, to expose unforget- capitalist government can be tably the criminal waste, brought to an end only by destruction and stunting of workers' revolution.' (Lenin. human beings which is essen- May 1917.) tial to capitalist 'freedom' in Throughout the war only war and 'peacetime'. the voice of Lenin and the Bolsheviks spoke clearly Experience through the patriotic din, the babble of the pacifists and the But Owen must have felt double-talk of the Labour that he speaking into was opportunists. Like Coppard, though void. Only the Bolsheviks and a coming from a different class few socialists in other coun- background, he remained trap- carried out consistent tries revolutionary ped within | the contradictions propa- of his own experience. ganda, exposing. the war aims of the capitalists, making His feeling of solidarity with known the truth about the the oppressed could go no fur- fraternization between armies ther than a passive solidarity which took place despite the of suffering because leadership betrayals the social- still meant leading his men as democratic leaders, and call- an officer to death. soldiers the of the ing upon In Owen's poem 'Strange warring countries to turn their Meeting' the poet is welcomed arms against their own ruling in hell by the German soldier classes. he killed the day before.

Together they the mourn Searchlight loss of all the and promise richness of life and stand help- Lenin turned a searchlight less the of before vision of on the rottenness the world retreating into barbar- capitalist system as reflected in ism. the carnage of the war. The slows and dies poem He placed the bewildering despairingly to slide away experience of soldiers like into unconsciousness seems the Coppard within the context of only of the mutual way out the war seen as a whole and slaughter: the previous history of capital- 'I am the enemy you killed, ism leading inevitably up to my friend. it-the decades of struggle for

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die and teach others to die for the cause of the working class'. October sent shock • waves through the labour movement country inspiring of every massive strike struggles, army and navy revolts and growing 'Hands off Russia' campaigns.

Through inexperience, lack of real theoretical understand- ing of the Bolshevik achieve- ment and the failure of Marx- ists to seize the initiative as these struggles built to a peak, there was no British and no German revolution. Capitalism, ably assisted by the Stalinist bureaucracy, now tightening its grip on the world working class, was given an extra lease of life to produce slumps, fascism, and a further succession of imperialist wars.

Extermination To the 10 million dead of 1914-1918 were added the 50 million of the Second World War, the 9 million of Korea, the untold millions of Vietnam and the ever-present threat of total nuclear extermination.

Today the shattered bodies of Vietnamese men, women and children point to the future that capitalism has in store for western workers.

As Wilson, Brandt and the Stalinist exponents of class prepare to hand the peace working class over to the sabre-rattling Tories and the American capitalist warlords, the protesters with no roots in the working class have once more come to a dead end. Protest politics is incapable of cutting through the whole imperialist heritage of racialist and anti-communist poison.

That can only be done by directing the heroism and self- sacrifice of workers and peasants throughout the world towards the real war-the war for working-class power. The whole course of 20th century history and the present rapidly deepening crisis of capitalism, with all its murder- ous implications, show that there is no other way out.

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roted for rejectiewards p.m. wove arsen as he inpa e ot the impact BOLD AND determined action to prevent union officials, shipyard managements and the gov- ernment hanging the industry's deepening crisis around the necks of its workers is now urgent.

Upper Clyde Shipbuilders was working normally yesterday despite a previous decision by finishing trade workers lo van overume mn proles aralnst plans lo reduce their numbers by more than 2,000—from 4,500 to .suu_ over mne next nve monus A call for strike action

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ARTICLES published in workers' the Spanish movement recently show that the Spanish Com- munist Party offers no way forward for the working class and in particular the Asturian miners. The Spanish Stalinists con- tinue the Popular Front poli- which murdered the cies Spanish Revolution by cover- ing up for their allies in E Europe and the Soviet Union and aiming their appeals at liberal wing the Spanish bourgeoisie. Their criticism of the Stalinist bureaucracies' rela- tions with Franco are not made to prepare the Spanish for the fight working class the fascists, but to against show their 'national indepen- dence' to the liberals. That the Spanish Commun- ist Party trained in the theory of socialism in one country is completely counter revolution- ary cannot be questioned.

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The open letter to the British Communist Party from Socialist Labour / League the published in the Workers Saturday, February Press on 21 stated: 'In the "Morning Star" of February 5, 1970, it was re- ported without comment that Spanish Communist the its "Mundo Party in paper Obrero" (which has to be published clandestinely) had called upon the Polish United Workers' Party (CP) to deny the reports Polish coal supplies.' It has certainly been only the Workers Press, and not the 'Morning Star' or its which Spanish counterpart has exposed the constantly Polish strike breakers. 'Mundo Obrero' on Febru- ary 6 carried a lead article form of armed inter- any vention in the North. Both sides of the split are well aware that the Irish bourgeoisie is unable to unify the country. But the split is not merely a reflection of a simple power struggle. Above all, Lynch, in the interests of imperialism, had oust to the pro-interventionist fac- tion of his party - which has a strong petty-boureois base in the country - in order to introduce more right-wing legislation against the working class. Proposed anti-union legis- lation already makes pro- vision for limiting negotiat- ing licenses and prohibiting unofficial strikes, while the Criminal Justice Bill pro- vides for the transfer prisoners from civil to military custody without a court order if the relevant Minister considers the jails are too full. The workers in the South have shown complete con- tempt for his 7 per cent wages ceiling and have shaken the government in a series of militant strike struggles. Fear Ireland cannot be unified by peaceful means-a fact which Haughey and Blaney are demagogically using. Lynch fears that the re- opening of the whole ques- tion of partition, even in this distorted way, will blow apart his carefully-nurtured of collaboration structure with British imperialism.

The Tories in Ulster express exactly the same fear. Lynch has the support of the extreme right-wing Fine Gael party and the Labour Party leader, Brendan Corish, apparently supports the idea of a national gov- ernment. The crisis of working class leadership in Ireland is and more openly more emerging to the surface. The fight against anti- union laws, partition and for the overthrow of British imperialism and the victory of the working class now means the building of the Irish section of the Fourth International. Asturian miners Asturian minershelp A lI tine

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ints memorandumid Friday, May 15, 1970 THE FRENCH ruling class is taking back the concessions made after the May June general strike of 1968 through a continuous round of price increases. According to the Finance Ministry, the cost of living rose by 5.9 per cent last year, compared with 5.3 in 1968 and 3.4 in 1967. Wage increases of up to 14 per cent were won br the workers two years ago.

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The bP had sons war siters this aeree WiTH semi- of fighters recognition of Franco. and we ranks from called for an amnesty for told them so sincerely. At that BURTON'S, the tailor- time were assured and drop ing hrm, cuttered socialist countries both sides. £700,000 profits of almost sould be that established atiost the first half of the current The interviewer then asked financial year. Carrillo an arucie. by rran co was probabl written tne Poland, Hun- suddenlv. Mr

NOW.

laconson Shanica Inder-secretary TOr gary turn back on this agree- coat the shond six minted oreign affairs, which appeare ment. that months ABC', a fascist dail will also show a fall.

'MISTAKES'

his article caimed that the CP's Spanish opposition the Soviet invasion of Czecho- We are Feather consequent And we would have preferred expulsion the Central Come- especially Franco end, that steps in members mittee had led to: permanent socialist countries European Soviet attitude between maintained their imposed with at Doxford's leaders and the Spanish CP.

wards a regime aid of Hitler and Mus. This continued, the it TensIon solini.

VICTOR

FEATHER,

TUC

had allowed Franco to oper For this Stalinist, strike- in commercia nates in War.

general secretary. is attemnt- breaking and trading raith the strike of 45 ing eight-week aw and would certainly allow fascist states are unfortunate open up diplomatic the mistakes, made by id economic centres in other European countries. good comrades Spanish CP will be The The strike, which "The countries of the Fast unable for very long to deceive arost that they must over proposed producti have the enropen bureauc cass only deal agreement with the volved Jegitimate authoritv of Spain.

for the Spanish working class on the Spanishois is programme

GENERAL

CLAIM

Stalinist tear On the question of diplo- Carrillo Weroint cass and on

REPORT

manc re anons. revolutonary onered mild Criticism of real Com and colone relentin

DUNLOP

will workers bureaucracies in general terms munist internationalism. to meeting today hear a re- port from officials on their Є6-a-week claim, 1,500 over other workers have been off, finto twill have been y 1975.

increase bringing tae tvre tactorv to a into ten groupings by halt. British-Leyland yesterday re- the Commission ready approved the recent started production of Austin the Consultative Committee merger between the Morris 1100 and 1300 model et Community, European Coal German steel giants August Rirmingham and Steel Com Thyssen-Hutte (itself after fortnight's shutdown product previous because of a haulage strike at Mannesevious. mussion nas merger) and Swindon. Common Market's 100 steel