Workers Press no. 162

rescuing himself? workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 162

• THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1970

King out to help Cornfeld Rescue chief REPORIS from the Geneva headquarters of Overseas Investors Services indicate that its new head, the Denver multi-millionaire, Mr John King, is about to reveal the members of the May £1,000 Appeal Fund is £119 19s 10a financial consortium prepared to provide suffi- cient cash to rescue the tottering financial giant Next week formerly controlled by Mr Bernard Cornfeld.

we make the But it is doubtful whether the release of big change this information can do

BY PETER JEFFRIES

anyulleto restore con- Lo TO SENTE unles i past pill sar fidence in IOS and pre- vent a further slide its share prices which nas conluca unrouch- U.S. labour must act out the week. Serious doubts also paper pay Augusta Negroes attention tortist alise about une daecuady of the $40 million which theory. King has already raised. Contact it man company, ing, appeal with slip 19% tod in Links end in your donation. car from inde Fidelity -am has ae so aurther shaken the act Tories anxious the met a and to et age. for June poll THE TORY press is rooting for a June general election Negro polieman searchardsman looks oaker while a National on the basis of yesterday's Gallup Poll result.

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BY JOHN SPENCER

Socialst Labou out all over Heavy Israeli losses "Tabe mes League and surfing on indian noti a strong Tory Young socialists Al Fatah claims Conned.

LENIN

Labour an overal lead of 75 2252 markable

CENTENARY

from All organi hon, A Camed Assault

MEETING

mone Toris rees casual invaded lebane Israeli move of thi Selsdon Man a lead of 45 per cent ist the Zionist Birmingham the indepen Marginals indepen- hold of the weakens Sunday, May 17 most si devored war of the liberation movement. 7.00 p.m. cate in the ne their

DIGBETH CIVIC

without Whipess®

HALL

government to en the poli so hal deepen Admission 2s le Thes conce atones

KEEP LEFT

Young Socialists government troops and planes,

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official paper

MAY

ISSUE

Provocation gives police a Security Council was incont

BLES

Council • in om pretext to intervene

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STRIKE ENDS

it not to provide one by hussford Tory sili These us overtil docu Bromley-Davenpor on an noticial 200 paign directed agains trade and a pre- general election. apparent that not to go back to work yesterday.

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CAMBODIA

NIXON'S Cambódian war spread yesterday • ТО the Gulf of Thailand, where US naval patrols have just FOUR THOUSAND striking St Helens glass- begun. workers yesterday gave their answer to the four- mingy sore lone not pronged attack launched against them since the weekend. naval operations off the Cam- By an industrial correspondent With an overwhelming bodian coast are only a logi. cal extension of the invasion continue their vote to that began on May stewards loyal the five-week-old strike until Municipal of Ph the the Union reported Pilkington's improve their leadership Cambodian capital of Penh—at present under rejected £3 pay offer they: rulé- search for evidence to back However, hard evidence is Mekonham. DEFIED the company's threat ferry town of redundancies and lay-ofts.

apparentiv such SCOTCHED the witch-hunt close that newshaner Penh scare stomes retailed ny the ports sparked by their origina.

national-press. allegations are now being used areas to the North and South

THREW

OUT

their this circular process Pulled out offpr of f12 a striker if they final returned to work and • the third Brin Tories tifficultie was SPIKED THE GUNS of Mrs Saigon t building up a witch-hunt that = Ninth Castle's court of inquiry.

Far more serious is Pilking.

Infantry had Division already been Onlv about 30 men voted ton's attempt to amve tarouer with the out Cambodia in favour of a return to work.

a sout in te scrike had threat operating Strike chairman ot closure and warn. beet committee that 'Parrot's Beak ings Cauchev erru asked those sacked they contract out since Mav 1 attending the meeting to hold of the MU Its alleged mission- -to dis- up any Mast badged the books they might be carrying, cover

SUPPORT

called head office but were forthcoming. of the NI -nas met with almost tota failure

'RED HERRING'

No. trade the Merseyside and this kind Nobody he put of must this report of area • their guard br He described a claim that employer to a partial withdrawa such articles were circulating Maximum moral and finan. •The hire ride no Hear In the town as a red herming.

cial support for the Pilkingt out simply because muller he there nt this clam peasants stressed st there are • no more to terrorize and kill and lecisions more left the in every factory aте2 and destroy' immediately

•ACT

moves are made to catty ou Arnouncement either threat. Nixon's invasion of Cambo.

New TU dia heralded aldad 150.000 Us by nouncement 'reform' threat leave Vietnam the next year. his hat all Us. Edward Heath

TORY

leader troops claim that : wil by yesterday reaffirmed his pledge Cambodia 30 Tune with thescent, imme dare hes introduce industrial relations as a mat- the been US- the utmost with The had backed anvernment naya cater recolite u sat their Merong Kaver and now the deal blockade the around port with the problem of wild-cat the strikes, he said. Sihanoukville.

BY ROBERT BLACK

AUGUSTA

(Georgia) continued strength and showed police opened fire again on month undermine last the continues Tuesday night, injuring a emnlovers' secona in nine Montes. 16-year-old Negro youth. Eynorts. accordina The economy Roard of Trade. workers exnense Guardsmen Tational million are now patrolling this battle- lion, hut mnarto race Initial antion on tha lon.

city Negro don million too nato not f ch Stoch Hushands shot durins million. The April deficit con- appointing', according to re- March's mil- ports. death 'Negro mysterious Sterling youth increase three aronner in an augusta prison Pollar an cell. flects in Mayor Beckum's appeal share price! since Lovernmen WaTS continued slide pressed Negro leaders for conneration forced to abandon its incomes in rectorine "aw an arder in policy They demanded thot Negroes the began should re- and granted am- nose he s Governor Mad- racialist handles Tributed his sunporters to use against militant Negroes hac mointed 1970 Augusta.

THE YEAR

Convoy Chard stack Tlie Notional force',—1,850 strong — roarec into Augusta in a convoy carriers equipped with Augusta under policemen trooners driving wround the city are with shotguns pointing out thair aar windows instructions tranne. *Blow whatever they're [the dais uni pen off testorat in Augusta.' The second of two London lectures to mark "Conspiracy' the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth told his National Guard He that the Negro lemonstrations Monday, May 18, 7.30 p.m.

part conspiracy and • Lenin and the coming that had planned hear help bring English Revolution' this Nixon Wootmareland Madder explained intended to G. HEALY, national secretary of the Augusta Socialist Labour League knees ve got the ess, men.

BEAVER HALL

We've ant Garlick Hill, London. E.C.4 what- anti

MITA

(Near Mansion House tube station) we restore peace in that area.

Already the Negro quarter Admission two shillings

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rescuing himself? INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 162 • THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1970 REPORTS from the Geneva headquarters of Overseas Investors Services indicate that its new head, the Denver multi-millionaire, Mr John King, is about to reveal the members of the May €1,000 Appeal financial consortium prepared to provide suffi- Fund is £119 19s 10d cient cash to rescue the tottering financial giant Next week formerly controlled by Mr Bernard Cornfeld.

we make the doubtful it is whether the big change release Cornfeld (lef Inis information can do elped make Ki

BY PETER JEFFRIES

anything to restore con- OUR inside pages will feature ndence in ios and pre- Refore a Overseas Services vent a further slide in was at had o snare Drices wnica colonial contes there be continued through- sank of New York colonel ace es U.S. labour must act Fidelity Insurance Com- our une week. also pant is lack a not did dise areas serious aoubts that arise about the adequacy often demanded that or me › moo waler re he country of origin King has already raised. significant refusalt Bates. Contact have Links ned torotel with both King boardin membeke, director of London Mahon Fairy is far from independent. with 1os through a b Continentals d October plained inderwitte age n round andrious managed 1. But TO has gotten also THE TORY press is rooting for a June general election breaker while a National on the basis of yesterday's Gallup Poll result.

Negro policeman searcnes a curlew

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BY JOHN SPENCER

Socialist Labour already IOs There had Label all, the League and * Not o Young Socialists on a one hat tide. Sulls Al Fatah claims his empire urces voting solidly along class lines

LENIN

Cornfeld. campaign is the trade union

CENTENARY

that appears Irom built

MEETING

kind o Israeli • Which invaded Lebanon dolla • Tuesday. 4.5 per cent. concern Birmingham Ted track that can re. Marginals hold of the Arab rulers over Sunday, May 17 him the liberation movement. a in key might on

DIGBETA CIVIC

Fleet use the United sane, earlier in schede led elis, done Prese with 8. percent in I the dificult Cretary Le its in than a lave taking advant- Admission 2s craven capiterat and The was from the Arat

KEEP LEFT

sointy carried their campaign want a load tree arcare cause carried a Counci Young Socialists' This posed a problem for government troops and planes,

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MAY

OUT NOW!

DOCUMENTS circulated a Publications Counci ecurity, situation. rade Union trade union Cambodia The

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i on Val 1 continumg Fleet Street news- demands tor

REPORTER

STRIKE ENDS

ofe basis for t These MORE THAN 200 strike en stron addition wal-oiled un-up to the ama cane will epared election police port the revolu unanimously revolutionary appare arous mobilizing the middle-lass.

copies to go back to work yesterday.

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NIXON'S Cambódian war spread yesterday to the Gulf of Thailand, where US naval patrols have just FOUR THOUSAND striking St Helens glass- begun. workers yesterday gave their answer to the four- De in fatt at thiockade, os pronged attack launched against them since the blockade, weekend. sources that claimec naval operations off By an industrial correspondent With an overwhelming odian Coast all their chat began on May 1. vote to continue exitsnl ine mmvasion shop stewards loyal five-week-old strike until General Municipal ( reported the an d portal of Pl Pilkington's improve their Cambodian Phnom vy okers i UnIon leadersmo. present under pro- rejected f3 pay offer they : vesterdar continued their rule- Liberation search for evidence to hack -Ullal forces are still in action at the DEFIED the company's threat However, hard evidence sulaleric mekone Terry town of redundancies and lay-offs. in such short o1 Kompong cham.

SCOTCHED

the Fighting close Phnom tories retailed by the Penh also Was reDorteo national-press. areas to me vorm and south

THREW

OUT

their it toe's proof. Perhaps this circular process of £12 striker they Pulled out coula De ine Inal solution returned to work ang The omes cincuities was announcec Trom

SPIKED

THE GUNS

of Mrs Saigon bulcing un a witch-hunt trat une NTG BrIO Castle's court of inquiry. Infantry Har more serinus is Pilking.

ace the Ninth in cavour bt a reum to word about ton's attempt to driv drive through already been 30 men DIvISIon split in the with the out Cambodia. nullied and where it Pardo bse Beak operating Styike ughey chairman commutee could the 'Parrot's area Jerry asked since May 1. contract out meeting to hold

G&MWU.

Doks they misht bo its neged mission-to dis. destroy the carrying, cover and

SUPPORT

of the NLF but called head office were forthcoming. Mone has met almost total No trade the failure.

'RED HERRING'

cHon is Merseyside Lancashire Nobody must put their this area can report He descrihed a claim that * pae ah ird brigade has beer such articles were circulating mploye in the town as 'a red herring' VaxImun moral ana Idal® simply The authors claim, nal subort lor tae rukiao peasants " are no d Kill anda nts suskers

MUST

nOW decisions te villages left strenetiened WITh the area in every lo searcn factory Careg and destroy. act immediately moves are made to carry out .Announcement Nixon s. invasion of Cambo- New TU dia was heralded as 150,000 nouncement unal "reform' threat Vietnam

LOODS

were to leave over une next vear new Jh1s TORY leader dward Heath claim that all Us troops will yes introduce e teis pledge Tune 30 leave introduce the reform with the scepticismé dese ves.

relations as a mat- anything, the US- The Labour the utmost been with backed sorties up the Mekong River now the dea blockade the Capodian em of 'wild-cat the port strikes, hé said. Sihanoukville. Trade deficit

BY ROBERT BLACK

AUGUSTA

(Georgia) BRITISH trade with the The continued strength and the world showed an till police opened fire again on miltenev oi the workme cass mion denelt last month - continues Incermine The Tuesday night, injuring a employers the cecono in nina months nans TOr STaD- Exports, the economy 16-year-old Negro youth. the lizing at the Board of Trade. record st uP, went workers' expense. 1,000 National Guardsmen million mil- patrolling this £20 Initial reaction on the Lon- are now don Stock Exchange was 'dis- city

LUTIL

appointing', according to re- shot during workers were trasted demonstratons aramst

PUILO

death of a Negro nevstemous sur olus. The increase Sterling dropped three vouth in an Abus brison

IDOLIS

dollar cell. flects the in and TISe ware rates Dolnts aralnst tne Mayor Beckum's appeal since the government WaS Share Tricer -amerd «em Negro leaders for co-operation forced to abandon its incomes nessed hv the continuer side in restoring "law and order' policy. on Wall St-fell further. Augusta turned down. that Negroes began re- Lenin Centenary an leasea ana grantea am- nesty Georgia's Governor i Mad- the

GOX.

racia ist

WINO

01S- handles tributed nickaxe his supporters for use against militant Negroes, has mounted A Custa. Cambodian-style invasion 1970

THE YEAR

Convoy

LENN G TROIS S

His National Guard 'task force strong - roared Augusta into carriers armoured quipped with machine-guns placed been Augusta nas 400 unger curtew. stale 130 policemen trooners • ang are driving around the city with shotguns nointing out of their car windows. Governor Maddox gave clear instrom nh his whatever they're Ithe city's Negroes] its foun lations until peace is restored ho queusla. The second of two London lectures to mark "Conspiracy' the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth He told his National Guard that the Negro demonstrations Monday, May 18, 7.30 p.m.

'part ot tne conspiracv • Lenin and the coming hac heen nanned anel it e inginge t ane, English Revolution' knees. language Nixon Westmoreland, Maddox explained Lecture given by intended the Negro G. HEALY, national secretary of the woekers of Augusta to their Soclallst Labour Leaque knees': the equipment We've got

BEAVER HALL

We've We've We've int the nersonne. Garlick Hill, London, E.C.4 he toor

WA VA

what. ever is necessary he cure (Near Mansion House tube station) restore pea enth t area Admission two shillings Already

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PAGE TWO

DURING

THE

period French 1944-1947 the bourgeols state and gency were They them- selves They able peal. were had been they cause ren and struggles fought union found hold Dack and other challenge 'ine Stallisi thrown Renault always advanced Daston: the an towards the wage aemand The ot the c Unable s faced working the class minister Ramadier them from these. tactic he workin selves at a move- broken ment wnich under turn was tical necessity working class hits which to keep chechus superhear a leading strikes. policy ing class, ship only •dur- 1947 and dic not at intenaon tactics at this enurely time On the notes which thể vorking le first of cla the acti 1947 inese urable place under and ate them to it • purposes. came to an end in 1954, when the French forces were defeated at the oops ather the battl roops afte bove was still in the next The brake decade to work the most tavourable conditions imposed, new out and stable and con ve intacted Party's serious defeat on the hour. geoisie and the government. Gaulle in June (Communist of de Instead of calling for gen- Tormation bureau and For few years the era strike

SUDDONC

obliged to toughen its language France • depen miners i which uncoubterv to meet the needs of the new dent

USA

to build would have been followed with international line defined by the CP and Zhdanov. economy allowed

CGT

the miners armed forces and the dependence fight on at the price and of the other colonial wars heavy sacrifices. parties American The anti-Communist cam- and solidarity support reached its height ana tne openne the the Cold War and the adio. made Tnel eviction did the of the strike broken up. trom The government despite in 1947 as vital as the in pree legal but, The newly-formed

CRS

were remain sence in it had isolation into ponuca previous years. For some time. establish a reign terror. wnien ariven. still tained a place in nauonal lie.

govern- By allowing the miners The reason for this was that win fight on anne and theast ment could be question went back after eight back there Ils way CP giving lestroying the faot of good behaviour. that the guarantee witch-hunt 01 a French bourgeoisie adopted an can sort. setting It was indicating that it was American orientation and lined counts with the workine class.

viet Union gov- nrenated „re-enter the skirmishes ernment. The militancy of the possibility which the class was one thing, remote increasingly ventured the Thorez quite the course of 1947 ernment anothe 1947-1948, showed The payments position and Dress aneda would recule opel hidder I alice civi war from waich not ener industry. coupled which but either the working cass or clasnes with a serves! nadl the emerge vic- between would place Torces brought the economy Tne torious. order' workers and point of collapse. Communist were The loan contracted In any case the communisi great as any Party's The Blum the previous year Party did evervthing possibi exhausted, from avoid a struggle for powel Bank Reconstruction these Nevertheless, Party the fered effects of th Trom Ine the crisis. which setbacks the class nac were ready to fight to a turning the gents, were now sCreWs experienced in these years.

ITS

ever monter. role had become apparent to advanced workers who were discouraged and demor- alized by the defeats and re- pression. anti-Communist The cam- paign WaS reconbled split in the trade union move- Ouvriêre weakened the class front in industry. Influence when Party orrer innuence government and in toe nation- alized industries had come Life an end. hecame harder. too hard for many of thace who had jumped the band- wagon. The that in the result was next tew vears party member ship declined, the circulation of he press fell and for finan- al reasons many paper ha had smaler anot less well-attended demonstra- The bourgeoisie and the gor- "he detailed history of thi tions would ernment clutched at the Mar- strikes 1947-1948 nf shall Plan as their. last hope. the confined the move. first time In fact, the prime minister, since Ramadier, been for an excuse to get rid of the In a number of industries cent against 286 percent in 1946. Communist ministers in orcem to make a deal with the United the government States , without whose help the the sharpest struggles, struggles position of the economy would political

LOOK

to reduce CP deliberately niace the Party's the representaulon mited the coale nt such move.

the recovering narliament. AS result ments while confusing its own number of ite cente tel tron militants and watching them the 169 of 1946 to 99. use their forces to no avail.

grouping. While in the 1944 The CP Superficially, the Communist membership with the Partv seemed to have made space required. lett turn atter it was torced inability swing presence to leave the government. into and the government, masses action ministers In fact, it could not prevent tendency of workers to move far from being necessarv as it great of the class har heen now became an em- demonstrated on a number which its presence in the barrassment. gov- check ernment hackent in The ejection of the Com- since 1944 it thus canaht At the same time, electoral control the mayamant in nada.

the Party urning point in history well lativalr manned the Fourth Republic. It brought pressure with government workers did not obey it com- to an end ine tripartite coal- mands or agree with its slogans tion of the Socialist Partv. the hang

MRP

party) Catholio cantre osom it was prepared to re- election ond the CD ond threw the lat.

stronghold: unwillingly, into opposi- the Party had built tion. which the 1930s and consolidated the In fact it proved impossible 1948, which was begun under 1944. atter defeated at the battle of Dien Bien Phu.

Further, the Party still con- served the considerable sup- port-at any rate in elections -which it had won amongst the peasantry in some areas.

And, although some intel- lectuals fell away, it success- fully held the allegiance ot others, imposing on many them the hard-line of "Zhdan- ovism' through its own little Zhdanovs. During these years and into the 1950s the Party put on its hardest face. "The Party of Maurice Thorez', it was also proud to own allegiance to Josef Stalin nowhere adulated who was The Communist deputies in 1956 vot in Algeria. Above: French army tro more outside the Soviet Union than in the French Party.

Thorez was proclaimed 'the • Stalinist' and leading French became the subject of a per- sonality cult of his own. The subject of adulatory articles, materially well-provided for he source of patronage and advancement in the Party, he was also ruthless in clearing out of the leadership of the Party his rivals and critics.

The French Party leader- ship distinguished by its com- the ' plete subservience to Soviet bureaucracy. On Stalin's demand it heaped abuse on Tito as it had done and con- tinued to do on Trotsky and the Trotskyists. Built around its permanent apparatus, the Party demanded unflinching obedience from its members. The line had to be assimilated and applied. 'I have no personal opinions' one intellectual is quoted as saying, 'my opinions are those which printed in are "L'Humanité" '. Caricature Tito, a partisan hero of yes- terday, is depicted as a grotesque caricature of Goer- 1ng the day atter and a new and discreditable political past is found for him. For a few years after 1944 the Party was able to mobilize large masses of workers on demand. If fascists broke a window in the Party's offices a mass demonstration could be called and thousands of work- ers would stream out of the factories at the end of the day to show their solidarity.

After 1947 the Party's com- mands were met with growing scepticism. The first example is provided by the attempt to mobilize a big demonstration on the arrival in Paris of General Ridgway to take command of NATO forces. Ridgway was held responsible for germ war- • Korea fare in (hence • the slogan, 'Ridgway-la peste', i.e.

the plague, which appeared on walls all over France). However, instead of mass demonstrations, all that hap- pened was a running fight be- tween Party militants and the thousands of armed police that the government had mobilized for the occasion. To add a touch of farce, Duclos was arrested in a near- by street and put in jail on a conspiracy charge based on the allegation that his bodyguard was armed, that his car had a radio (in fact an ordinary he was receiver) and that carrying 'still warm' carrier pigeons (intended for his supper). Nationalism In its opposition to the Atlantic pact and to German • Party put rearmament the nationalism to the front and showed itself willing to co- operate with bourgeois politi- cians, even those of the ex- treme right. Such opposition was, in any case, confined to meetings and posters and the inevitable petitions-such as the famous Stockholm appeal against atomic armaments and a later one for a five-power peace pact. As put forward at succes- sive conferences by Thorez himself, the Party's policy was 'collective security within the framework the United Nations, assuring independence to all nations, great and small'.

According to another Party leader, 'It alone speaks French and points the road towards the reconquest of national in- dependence and peace'. Meanwhile the membership of the CGT, which reached a peak of six million after the war, had fallen to about a quarter of that figure. Many workers had either joined rival ities in 1956 voted for special powers for the army rench army troops murdering Algerian nationalists i organizations or no longer be- longed to a trade union at all.

A general strike call issued to protest the arrest of Duclos found little response from the working class. This marked the existence of widespread scepti- cism about the Party's inten- tions after its attitude in 1948 and failure to offer any its leadership in the subsequent years on the questions which concerned workers. In- most stead, the main activity of the Party through this period was 'the fight-for peace' ', to which was to be added the nationalist campaign against German re- armament. A further sign that the Party losing its grip on the was working class came with the great strike of August 1953.

The strike began as a spon- taneous reaction of postal workers to the economy de- crees of the Laniel government which threatened the pension and other rights of workers in the public sector. It spread rapidly to encom- pass the railways, gas, elec- the mines and tricity, state industries and began to have its effects in private industry.

Many of the workers in- volved in these strikes, which represented a direct challenge to the government, belonged to the Force Ouvrière or Christian (CFTC) unions. While backing the strikes, bureaucracies, notably the wily old Touhaux (now boss of Force Ouvrière), sought by every means to open conver- sations with the government so that they could play the role of mediators. The CGT, which was less acceptable to went along the government, with this game by declaring its willingness to enter into negotiations. In short, the CGT permitted the other unions to carry out a betrayal (only of the some strikers' claims were met) while trying to make capital out of the fact since it did not enter directly into the settlement. However, it called its members back work to after the agreement was signed, its policy all along being the re-call of Parliament to dis- cuss the decrees which had sparked off the strike in the first place. The obvious conclusion is that the CP did not want to see the strike develop into a political challenge to the gov- ernment and that it was able to prevent it doing so. The calculations of the Party leadership did not allow for great movements of mass workers, especially movements which it could not guarantee to control. What it was look- ing for was some new govern- ment coalition which would carry through a policy more in line with the needs of the Soviet bureaucracy and which it could support. It was therefore necessary to avoid giving offence to the potential members of such a combination. Critical By this time a number of other factors had come onto Within the Party the scene. certain critical tendencies had the top appeared, even in leadership, which Thorez felt it necessary to deal with.

In the course of 1952 serious charges had been levelled against André Marty, one of the leaders of the mutiny in Black Sea fleet, the French which resulted in his expulsion in December of that year. This was the first of a number of attacks on prominent indivi- duals or groups in the Party leadership which led to their expulsion or disgrace. These episodes, the origins and bases of which still re- main obscure, were connected witch-hunts and with the , for the army to quell the rebellion an nationalists in 1956. purges in the E European par- ties and reflected a growing crisis in the Stalinist move- ment which was heightened after the death of Stalin in March, 1953. Three months later it was further shaken by the uprising in E Berlin.

In June 1954 Mendès-France was invested as prime minis- ter with the task of bringing to an end the costly and hope- less war in Vretnam. The Communist Party had led a struggle against never 'dirty what they called the war', , which had begun while its ministers were in the gov- ernment, but only called for by negotiation. They a peace therefore voted for Mendès- France and, of course, sup- ported the Geneva Agreement when it came before the National Assembly for ratifi- cation. Algeria factor By this time a new had come on the scene whose vital role in the development of the crisis in France could hardly have been foreseen— the beginning of the national liberation struggle in Algeria.

Despite the pretensions of Party propagandists to the contrary, the French Com- munist Party had abandoned any pretence at anti-colonial struggle when it adopted the Popular Front line in the 1930s. After the war it supported the French Union, which was to preserve the stake of French capital in the colonial empire while granting concessions to the national bourgeoisie. Its ministers sat in the govern- Thursday, May 1 Algeri troop vere Kille planes Iorward in N on "the policy dry equilbrium in th million 'Extreme t surprisi Its most nvestment demand in 1945 was. he punishment o who had Cullers lea une risine 195 colonialism in all its f cavour olicy de Gaulle was peace negotiated settlement existine resis hain national • Party Party's vote and still parliamentary represen Guy Feb leputies voter the main nroblem new government was in Algeria. Deer completely capitu settlers March vas firmly opposed t ndependenc vertheless the uties voted for powers and therefore s ened Mollet's parliament wing opposition Repressio maintal Alger with campaigns for Algeria, restrained th taneous evolutio plunged Partu unprecedented crisi followed the 20th the CPSU and the Khi revelalions 1 ne then It required all +h. Thorez and capable to adjus were rapidly chancing which followed The next part of thi will appear tomorr

Thursday, May 14, 1970 'But dialectical materialism in- sists on the approximate, rela- tive character of every scien- tific theory of the structure of matter and its properties; it insists on the absence of abso- lute boundaries in nature, on the transformation of moving matter from one state into another, which is to us appar- ently irreconcilable with it, and so forth? LENIN'S 'Materialism and Empirio-Criticism', in in 1908 written defence of dialectics, has probably had no greater vindication than in the development of 20th cen- tury chemical theory. The possibility of under- and controlling standing consciously the myriad trans- formations that occur when different types of matter are mixed, heated, boiled frozen, etc., and increasing insight into the paths by which quantity is transformed into quality has been the theo- retical basis for much of the technological advance that is taken for granted by workers in the advanced capitalist countries. From the paint and paper on the walls of a house to gas- filled light bulbs; drugs to with • disease, fertilizers deal for better crops, plastics, man- made fibres, metals and alloys, glass, fuels, petrol--all belong to the age of scientific chem- istry. Quantitative By its very nature, the transformation of matter from one form to another which is the hallmark of chemical pro- cesses defies a purely quanti- tative investigation. Although before the present century and the discovery of fundamental laws governing atomic structure, it was impos- sible to develop a chemical science which was worthy of man's name, even from the earliest days on earth it was necessary for him to try and develop rules governing the cooking of food and later the making of pottery. by Tom Kemp Arailable from New Park I Price 5s These rules passed down from generation generation as 'tradition' rather than science. Trotsky refers to the dia- of such pro- lectical nature cesses and their reflection in the minds of in In men • Defence of Marxism': 'Every individual is a dia- lectician to some extent or other, in most cases, uncon- sciously. A housewife knows that a certain amount of salt flavours soup agreeably, but that added salt makes the soup unpalatable. 'Consequently, an illiterate guides herself peasant woman in cooking soup by the Hege- lian law of the transformation of quantity into quality. Similar examples from daily life can be cited without end' (p. 106.) One can admire the chef who creates some new culinary marvel through his training in the use of such laws, while grasping that the artificial sub- stances that fertilize, colour and sweeten the food he uses are the result of a knowledge' of natural law at a more fun- damental level. Today, the chemical recipes' have been replaced by laws that allow scientists to pre- dict the chemical properties of substances to some extent even before they are manu- factured for the first time.

High-speed Using the laws of atomic physics, extremely lengthy calculations can be carried out high-speed computers, on which can answer questions like: 'If I mix chemical A with chemical B, will the result be a good electrical conductor?'

Various properties of the resulting chemical can shown graphically on a screen.

One such computer, named BISON, is already in opera- tion in the chemistry division of the Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois. Within the bounds of valid- ity of quantum theory-and, as yet, there is no theory to supercede it-chemists can be confident that the result of an 'experiment' carried out on the computer will be the same as if they had manipulated real chemicals in a laboratory.

The computer reveals the qualitative changes that occur and can even produce a mov- ing film of reactions taking place between atoms of differ- ent substances. rom New Park Publications

BY MARTIN ZARROP

PART ONE

with a lifetime of only about However, a niece stacien How is it possible to make tific news that was given very 1.6 seconds. these prade does not erist ante the What the physicists are aim- does reveals the where on the earth today? of predicted which chemists (and physicists) series Irst are able 'super elements'. antal 1010 Make sense pre- une Unknown' With Firstly, it is this be dicted goal in mina. element Physicists in fact owe much radioactive This of that work done over the allot lement by will nave Lond nuelme. physicists at Mendeleev secondv. that it will be a bro.

scientist who first California's me universil Radiation per metal and it alloyed with Lawrence La Dora- veran to make sense our ol u conventional substances could tory. oroneration or elements produce which their diverse properties, some The basic elements are t existence 40 years before the chemical building blocks from resistant tem- of the atom was confirmed. which over a million chemical extremes. These peralute ale compounds have been high- The second this part essental properaes structed date and article will appear next Thurs- speed acra space properties compiled modules Up to 1934 only 92 of these elements were known, as they These occurred nature ranged from element 1-the gas hydrogen- -with electron the centra nucleus the atom, through the ead-the last suao e nor Tamoacuve elements wit electrons-in to branılm with 92 electrons. ONE OF the systematic tions Africa were in S not except in the Nazi elecuons. Neptunium propaganda myths per- sense. petuated by the British 1934 Fermi produced ruling class through its element Mentinım Rhodesia, was basically an atomic press, radio, TV and pul- by Britain, as part of the whole then. through which are particle accelerators apartnera structure pits, has been the lie that speed number created. Daste sense. atomi missiles, the Boers or settlers were the Ith and earv luth cen the turies. olutonium. amen - responsible for apartheid clum. berkelim. cal- Britain created the I see toe fermium, Torium. einsteinium. in S Africa and S Rhode- 'native reserves mendelevium, nobelium, law- Nationalist rencium, rutherfordium and. that they sia, or were named Bantustans. now hahnium (after 'worse' than the Liberals Hahn, who first split uranium atom). and the British. The old alchemisto dream The same falsehood was of transmuting substances into gold has now been superceded. repeated during the recent S African elections. The first transmutation element into one 1910 her was Sufficient has been carried when out about Rhodesia in variety of oxygen was tormed to show that there column oy the impact on nitrogen never have been electons nigh-energv particles emitter under British rule which did by radioactive radium (element not denv the tranchise to the vast majority of the inhabi- Today, completely tants. new ele- ments are demo created. Elections to a 'Europeans- only' parliament are not elec- Element 105 in itself is not mons. nor is such a pariament interesting. narticular v a barlament. physicists at the LRL- -Albert Ghiorso -bom- The same is true of S Africa californium with There never elec- nitrogen and ions in there under British or DrO only rule, of atoms Irom 1000 UntI hahnium hour, every each toaay. 1 ne elec.

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Britain created the system of 'native authorities' which the Nationalists renamed "Bantu self-rule'. Britain created the system of mining, urban and rural compounds and locations which the Nationalists could not even so stark were these rename, creations in themselves. Britain created the industrial colour bar, backed by the white workers. Britain set up the elaborate system of educational segre- gation and starvation, through the British missionary societies.

Britain set up the system of judicial segregation (apartheid) using 'native law' as an excuse.

Britain was the major thief of the land of the African tribal owners during a century of wars of conquest and dis- possession, and on this basis the vast system of territorial segregation and apartheid land- ownership and occupation was London. Romper room. 4.50 News. 4.55 Arthur.

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4.25 Freud on food. 4.55 Mad movies.

5.20 bilies. 66350 Nossroads. 7.00 Movie: billies. 6.35 Crossroads. report: 11000 oders Wild 'The Jazz Singer'. Conference 11.40 Epilogue. set up in S Africa, as in the Rhodesias. And it was Britain which made the basic political apart- heid law of S Africa, the 1910 Act of Union, which was made and passed, without dissent, in the British Houses of Parlia- ment, at Westminster, London.

It was this Act which legal- ized the political dispossession of the non-Europeans and con- centrated political power ex- clusively in the hands of the Europeans in S Africa, a pat- tern later followed in Rhodesia.

Servants It was Britain who first de- feated the Boers in the Anglo- Boer War at the turn of the century and then rehabilitated them financially, rurally and politically, in order to make them political managers of the enormous British mining, agri- cultural, financial and indus- trial estate in S Africa. They did the same in S Rhodesia, through the British • settlers there. By this device Britain was able both to use the Boers and settlers as powerful, socially based, agencies of imperialist rule over the non-European workers and peasants, and, at the same time, to avoid direct blame and responsibility for the laws, made in Britain, but carried . out by the Boers and settlers. It was one of the. most in- genious and diabolical deceits in history. And it continues to this day, as the British press, radio and TV treatment of the 'elections' recent S African showed once again-when it was claimed that a shift to- wards the more openly pro- British United Party was a 'leaning to the left'. It is hard to imagine any- thing less 'left' than the pro- apartheid, anti-non-European United Party whose industrial, financial and mining sup- porters base themselves upon apartheid. Apartheid at all levels is the cement of imperialist super- exploitation of cheap non- European labour in S Africa, which, like Smith's Rhodesia, is a mainly British semi-colony kept together by apartheid.

No system of 'indirect rule', such as has worked for im- perialism in W Africa and E Africa, is possible or has beer risked by imperialism in south- ern Africa. Concessions For them it has long been clearly understood that the only alternative to apartheid is not 'liberalism' but com- unism. This is the basis c leir politics and strategy i southern Africa.

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The reasons for this are deep and seemingly complex and will be dealt with periodically in this column. But briefly they amount, in essence, to this: that imperialism has always based itself on a 'white' social base in S Africa, has deliber- ately shut out non- Europeans from all civil and political rights, has blocked the non-European of formation a petty bourgeoisie and bour- geoisie, especially among the Africans. Imperialism has frustrated the fas ario tine in vain, tried to frustrate the development of a proletariat (i.e. a non- European proletariat) and this, its sole failure, has sealed its doom in advance and pre- cluded even practical thought of a major concession. Even formal equality in S Africa would signify the col- lapse of imperialism. Aspirant Those African Nationalists who hope to get for their aspirant class in S Africa what British and French imperialism granted in the rest of Africa are barking up the wrong historical tree. Neither imperialism nor the proletariat can or will listen to them. The only 'concession' pos- sible is the abolition of apart- heid. And this at once and in- evitably means the end of im- perialism in S Africa. It is not that the Boers do not want to make concessions.

They can't even if they wanted to. Nor can the United Party, which acted in no wise differ- ent from Verwoerd and Vorster when it was in office. All parties in S Africa, as in S Rhodesia, have been Smith- like or Vorster-like. All intensified apartheid.

Diluted Nor could they do other- wise. A United Party victory in S Africa would mean not 'diluted apartheid' the as British press claims, but more apartheid. There is no other way for imperialism's agents to rule S Africa, where the vast mass of its investments in Africa lie.

And, as before, any victor- ious party 'elections' there exist only on the basis of im- than apartheid of defending these interests against the vancing under the banner of

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workers in the Republic of Ireland are pro- testing against attempts by union officials to weaken their 16-week-old strike for a f7- a-week pay increase. Main offices of both the Irish Transport and General Workers and the Amal- gamated Transport and General Workers have been picketed for two successive days this week. Pickets say that the prin- cipal reason for their action was the officials' refusal to accept last Friday's unanimous rejection by the 750 workers involved of a labour court plan for settling the strike. It is thought likely that the officials will continue to press for a secret ballot on the plan. The pickets also say that they will continue their pro- tests at union offices until the unions instruct all their members not to handle "blacked' cement. Cement also workers are engaging in protest actions at the Dublin headquarters of their employers, Cement Ltd.

On Tuesday, they took over the entrance to the building early in the day and blockaded the front doors. Said one striker: 'We are doing this really just to show these people that we have minds of our own.

It must be a great shock for them to have their common workers take over their buildings ... we're obviously succeeding in upsetting them.'

determination, The men's taken together with the general contempt in the for working class Prime Minister Lynch's 7 per cent ceiling, is clearly now wage a major obstacle to the Fianna Fail government's plans for. speed-up, unemployment and anti-union laws. Negro mayor?

THE

widely-publicised mayoral elections the United States city of Newark, New Jersey gave Negro candi- date Kenneth Gibson a clear the other five can- lead over didates, including the sitting mayor Hugh Addonizio and the semi - fascist 'law-and-order' candidate Tony Imperiale.

The run-off election, which must now be held between and Addonizio, Gibson may well make Gibson the first Negro mayor of the city.

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Unofficial strike which has held up work on a £4 million liner at a Clyde shipyard was called off yesterday. Five hundred joiners and painters voted overwhelmingly to go back after hearing the management would listen to their productivity bonus griev- ances. The men, who downed tools on Monday, were working on the pasenger liner 'Blenheim', building for Fred Olsen Lines at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders.

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Thursday, May 14, 1970

APOLLO-14

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expenditure sack the social service the government's and

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BY A WORKERS PRESS

THE APOLLO-14 mission is to be postponed to another from October 1 until December 3. Pressure from

CORRESPONDENT

hospital 996 of last year scientists and senior government oficials for this due red porson will bie tre in has been considerable following the abortive Mr University fact it statement fies in the Gish, of the Sussex Apollo-13 mission last month.

science throner lack of attice Hospitals Now there is to be a two month delay while modifications are made to Apollo-14's oxygen tanks to Raint. reached eliminate the possibility of a repeat of the near-fatal Battersea tion here it last month.

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

expIOsIOn 'No jobs' t so mance and The US space agency (NASA) has also confirmed through lack FIRST REDUNDANCY notices Many that Alan Shepard, who made the first American sub- overworking of hospital will bring extra pressure on orbital flight in Mercury-Redstone 3 in May 1961, will at Palmers ship-repair yard are be leading the Apollo-14 crew in the attempt to reach due to be sent out tomorrow.

Fra Mauro, Apollo-13's target.

Technology Minister Anthony Wedgwood Augusta Negroes Benn, who next is due to it on fred the

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visit the yard the same told a deputation day, and Cambodians s and does no billior workar students of local councillors and search that • We. MPs on Tuesday the words of Governor armed policemen and it there was no hope of ar for the carly reprieve American in effect yard-due to be closed Aupies city. by its parent company, Vickers, + take up the at the end of defen July with the loss of use of the immediate Augusta Negroes cause 1,000 jobs. the real poi Deputations alone are B.S.C. jobless of the unrest change inauguration of gales dy • British Steel E Wy MargaTalbot. or the near be Modifying theres pres 5,200 he 5, 000 wore years. Italian strikes Rescue chief Perpetuate Peterhead overshadow 1e weath denment bet

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ALL TRADES

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