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wo CHANGES which lace in the Kremlin talin's death posed It problems for the Communist Party It had for ship. Stalin ez had moulded f in Stalin's image. the Cominform meet- July 1953, at least its vré vàd være bdc viet leadership would iged to "reveal' an( te many of Stalin's ez and Duclos must ve been aware of th ing taking place in the in a public apologia Stalin's con- Ine raru were 'secret would not come back Party the ng in a new anding with the Social. which was coming create a discus- (such birth control) and responsibility for it ! Ferment ersonality were By lune chev's speec risis cold no longer be montns roland control changes For pur- the latter delecatlon the whic shortly afterwards was rict v in hand. uhe con les in the internauona ent were rererrec faced befor: simple and merel) ation of thai use( Kather inan expres naiviala. circumstances saw nownere eist for the serialis d almay which d by and by 1950s. and a large proportio: case Party Practically all workers i generals attempted to ol in the centre of Paris. echoed 'Pravda' and loudly applauded the suppression of the workers' uprising. As in similar crises, the appeal was for the Party to close its ranks against the enemy. Critics and opposition- ists could thus be designated as agents of the bourgeoisie or at least as victims of its propa- ganda. The opposition currents which openly expressed them- selves in 1956 and the im- mediately succeeding years were almost exclusively con- fined to intellectuals. That is not to say that workers were unaffected by the crisis, but many workers had drifted away from the Party since 1947, mainly as a result of its betrayals. Intellectuals, whose separation from worker- members was virtually com- plete, had been little affected by the aspects of Party policy which represented class-collab- oration: they may even have applauded them. MAURICE THOREZ, 1900-1964: Perfect in the Comintern. which The issues now affected intellectuals were re- garded by many workers who remained in the Party or had joined it in the previous years as being a result of anti-Soviet propaganda. If the critics succumbed to it they were only displaying their weak- nesses. The opposition journals and groups which were formed in 1956-1958 thus found it dith- cult to obtain much audience from workers in the Party, nor did they make this their main object - which would require the putting forward of an alternative programme for the building of revolutionary party. Although a number of pro- minent intellectuals broke with the Party after 1956 or were expelled because of their part in the opposition groups, no break took place in the leader- ship nor were inroads made into the bulk of the rank and file. By adaptations and manoeuvres the Thorez leader- ship was able to weather the storm and isolate and discredit the dissidents. The more serious problem which confronted it was the leadership's relationship with the Soviet bureaucracy and the attitude to adopt towards the new situation in the inter- national movement.

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the Cr and the Communist Party ap- lefts to the was cautious v opposed 1ne overtaken funeral march Fourth "oglatti and sought to win and Dears to nave been retain Moscow's approval by Republic crisis nad been on against the Italian leader.

He blowing up for some montns in The Party had failed to use • behind the atmosphere of plot and the dual threat of army rebel- Dower an opportunity Trom ce _in order the Chinese theoretical to draw closer to Socialist gain access coalition directed Party the and the left bourgeois eves 190U was lo against am as a proxy tor une partes. new many Soviet leadershio PoDulat Pront conaluons shared Meanwhile, in French poll- uite cafferen trom those pallaniculal tics the Party the critical days sought to win it contributed insuluuons and back respectability following the Party the polluca aparny walch when support to time set in. ment of the Algerian war was the referendum whic Com- Reporting followed. 80 per cent voted for voted Gaulle's constitution munist acpules In other words the governments many Com- May

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had gone with carried the banner head- Ine ma orily. Icelsid line: of live eleccons une ena 'Mighty anu-rascist November the ramy lost over throughout the country-Vigi 1f million votes, giving it only Unity Action, lance, some 19 per cent of the votes of Gen- Break the Gaulle, eral de vaulle ana ns accom- de plices.' Party the refusal In fact the majority of the real struggle in May Ical ally deputies, raced wiin ine inreat ana is electoral aereals in me military take-over, were reterencum ano tor tne new Assembly sharpened the All the Commun- internal crisis. st Party could do was vote There number even when expulsions. Critical statements with this majority circulated and the opposition in support of 1l basseu yules une army ana comust allu caucatics lease of life. worKing Class These manifestations of dis- cultivated the illusion that the Socialist Party was prepared content had no more success to resist de Gaulle. than those effective opposition Party leadership Illusions Party The extended these leadership meanwhile illusions President Coty, way pursued lis almost ; to was p. though nothing had nappened.

door Hi order Verbal opposition to de Gaulle the Duclos and claims that the Gaullist alilly, accial cu expressed the interests In une obey monopoly une covernment. snoura capita up every army Couns not the that barracks: Man uniaca should stop "rrench usuce exist inside its bosom Bona- condoning the behaviour Keterning to the new Thorez rebellious generals and partist constitution sedg deputies, and the radio himself said: 0-1964: Perfectly suited to Stalin's needs should naking propa- ganda for de Gaulle: 'We shall take into accoun the tact that it exists. we will up the not ourselves turned Who hang be shaking the foundations of the stale anu preparine une wav lor never made clear. a revoumonary situation. 80. had parliament- ever Lne the crisis blew when possibility peaceful arv cretinism of French Stalin- following the settlers' socialism, or been ISm more toward which began on May shown. more Nothing was role that true parnamenu the as can day. a true expression of and dismay in the work- popular sovereignty, based on was clearly exposed. the masses.' ing class. For some years before 1958 To make matters worse the the main struggles in industrv.

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campaigns Tine alert to delena ten premise. had He all and kept keved uD appealed to repub- taken place outside paratroop sistent rumours ot licans to recognize socialism munist Party control. landings and other army move- Party had been stag- a eclimate amoluon" ments numerically and nating was realze in toe om ano custant he keynote futurere means of of material immersed politics the parliament regime. There material centre on mens anu bell- Nothing was done to mobilize the writings uons and une parlamentary apt une workind Class. becaust game. and Kautsky the institutions When against regime with the which it had been living, those and retormists. which the Party had closely of uninese were take LUll dentified itself ever since the liscreditec advantage of this a year and While giving the impression it lined up with the established fight, and of beins reaay lo orael saving Part French thus race witn outcome The Algerian revolt of Mav.

militants. Talied to rouse either 1958, precipitated a deep crisis incy the working class for action which the bourgeois poli- strong government Will What was the Party's game?

ticians were faced with a mili- pro-Americar join take-over orientation struggle ary parties Gaullist power which bring "republican LIVe defence of workers' crisis The showed onto prepared insututons . Frenchmen were the 'Without stand- ASKi tner lives save ing behind Communist have his ambitions hourth kebubic. cevune: U WIl and its parliament. Party', declared Duclos to his a so to De seeking more inue showed the CP standing four- 'you pendent policy parnamentary colleagues. contormit square in defence of 'republi- cannot effectively resist the with French interests. The retain often tive s organ It pa new class, peasa from colon areas In declir which accele arrest Acc cards declir began ship. of th mid-l hand the e repor Revo about mitte as re and s Th remai Party class, class. of th the n centr De expul e: Bus crews on strik tuals still lowin oureaucracy could do a dea these with the General or use hin 'unrel as a bridge to the USA. ship's During the 1960s, therefore, De the French Communist Party more or less openly approved said still de Gaulle's foreign policy and, built by continuing to hold back Party the working class, became one mass of the pillars upon which the class. Bonapartist regime was built.

fied Party policy, in other par- histor ticulars, underwent no funda- it ha mental change. It adapted to ular the situation, contributing to Front saving de Gaulle during the to th barricades affair in Algeria and road the attempted military coup in alism 1961. perio At the same time, as the intell regime began to show its face, Arag‹ many of the Party's electors WI supporters began to of return to it. The working class choic had suffered a setback, but not Stalir a defeat, and it soon began to the regain its combativity. This which process was completed by the miners' In time of the 1963 strike. his The Hungarian Revolution (above) and its 1 aggravated the crisis in the Party which hac death of Stalin and Khrushcher's speech t

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Under the Fifth Republic Jeans Communist Party ried the was able to resume its old forms critic of work. It retained its appa- and although, dema ratus Thorez's closing years, a num- was ber of leading figures were thou cleared out of the Party or mear silenced, there were no splits Th in the leadership. came He was able to steer the in tl Party clear of the dangers they represented by the Sino- and Soviet dispute and the changes Desp in the Soviet bureaucracy itself exerc with the same skill as in the to 1 late 1950s. impo It might have been expected time that the Party would be so dis- 'mon credited as a result of its posi- Since tion in 1958, its conciliation TH with de Gaulle and its atti- 'de-s tude towards the Algerian war Part that it would go into decline for 1 and tend to lose its influence the with the working class. In fact pers these tendencies were counter- chev acted by others such as the was in p absence of any alternative pole of attraction revival of class and the struggle in the 1960s. TI The Party held on by virtue Thoi of an extensive bureaucracy abou the roots which it had put his down in the institutions of been bourgeois society and its con- Sovi tinued capacityderiving from the the Russian Revolution - to bein attract workers, youth and TI students coming into politics July afresh. tie v It had to retain its grip in crisi the factories and in the work- Fren ing-class areas. unre It needed to fight against, his try to discredit and if neces- sary use physical force against TI had those other left tendencies which challenged its hold. All long old Stalinist methods not remained fully in force. Mar Party able what were such as 1ne Maurice the working less essentially and was detween the the pros their bound 1958, was declined untu leadersnin contro over power carrying base the form per- Party press principa working road anterna the identi- stage Will downwards Maurice and the krench was, longel mentioned) demagogi- period, even man Stalin's 'de- reluclant had giver party years 1968 became land his Tule day. tactic this Isolalt ine Communist Party had passed sinc side of tinitive Gaullist the monsnID regime still 'evolutionary ported nal edita service a Second inte parties was achieved means. this could be never clear came forwaro but decline "The the imposed the accord with the brem ben with possible despite make sions. Too cIos sical statement aspect alwanhe Tha price bald Lenin ton In fact, the which remains part of unresolvea. was had did What demoted is a OnIV yedi dally s history.

Friday, May 15, 1970 IN 1956 the Hungarian Revolution had thrown out the Stalinist bureau- cracy, and Imre Nagy, as the new Prime Minister, appointed as his Minister of Culture a survivor of Hungarian the first Soviet government (1919). This man, although exiled in the Soviet Union during the 1930s had escaped the purges to become Professor at the University of Buda- pest. Unlike Nagy, who was executed by the Russians after they had retaken Hungary for the bureaucracy, Lukács was merely deprived of his Communist Party membership and exiled to Rumania for a year. Now he lives quietly in Budapest at work on a Marxist aesthetic, a living monument to the 'liberality' of the Hun- garian bureaucracy. Lukács was born in Hungary in 1885. Precociously gifted, he had written his first book, a study of tragedy, at the age of 23. His career falls into three distinct periods, his work in each being closely related to the specific historical char- acter of the time. Between 1908 and 1919, philosophical Lukács was a idealist, and in his early writ- ings, "The Soul and the Forms', Modern "The Sociology of Drama', and the 'Theory of the Novel', literary genres (tragedy, drama, novel) are seen largely as timeless, historical essences and only in his study of drama does he directly link litera- ture with class struature.

These writings show Lukács to be anti-bourgeois, but also to see man in tragic terms, as alienated from himself and his community, striving to invest his life with value and mean- ing. Vision This bleak, idealist vision ends with the Russian Revolu- tion: the Bolshevik victory moved Lukács away from despair to Marxism. In 1918 Lukács had joined Hungarian Communist the in March 1919 he Party; became Commissar of Educa- tion in Bela Kun's short-lived government and in August, with the Revolution defeated, he left Hungary for Vienna.

Although the working class had suffered defeat in Hun- the revolutionary poten- gary, tial of the European working class was still undiminished. In 'History and Class Conscious- ness' (1923) Lukács reflects this revolutionary optimism.

'History and Class Con- sciousness' was Lukács' first specific Marxist work. Like Gramsci and Karl Korsch, he attacked the mechanical Marx- ism which had characterized the theory of the Second Inter- national (Kautsky, Plekhanov, La Fargue), arguing for the Hegelian roots of strong Marxism. Mechanical 'Marxism' Lukács argued, was scientism, the belief that progressive change was inevitable since capitalism was governed by inexorable external laws; the Available from New Park Publications .

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element of consciousness, the subjective factor, man intervening in the historical process through knowledge of the real relations of capitalism was minimized and virtually eliminated. Critical 'Orthodox' Marxism, Lukács argued, was a method, not a set of dogmatic truths; it was consciousness of the critical the revolutionary proletariat, with the Communist Party in a living, organic relation with this class. k Publications Ltd, 186a Clapham High reet, London, S.W.4.

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The book was greeted with hostility by sedtions of the Congres or decommunist. "ternational (1924) Bukhar enounced Lukács for relaps into while Zinoviev urged the Con- gress to repudiate 'this extreme left tendency' and to prevent it from 'spreading and becom- phenom- ing an international enon'. These onslaughts were 1924 clearly political: by Stalin had • formed his bloc with Zinoviev and the policy of building socialism in one country was in the process of replacing internationalism and permanent revolution.

In this situation mechanical 'Marxism' reasserted itself.

Reflection Stalinist 'theory' had no place for consciousness as an active force, but saw it as a mere reflection of the social situation. And since, accord- ing to Stalin, western capital- ism was now 'stable', revolu- consciousness tionary was stable too: there would be no developing con- of question sciousness within the prole- tariat or of conscious inter- replaced vention. Mechanism the dialectical conception of which Lukács consciousness had stressed. In 1933 Lukács publicly denounced his own work as idealist, theoretically false and practically dangerous. He linked himself abjectly with 'comrade Stalin' to strug- gle for iron ideological implac- ability and . refusal to com- Promise with all deviations In practical terms Lukács was now prepared to compro- mise with Stalinism and to concentrate almost exclusively on literature and philosophy and more or less ignore to political and historical analysis.

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y G. H. R. Parkinson Id and Nicolson 63s art and literature. Exiled in Russia in the 1930s Lukács wrote "The Historical Novel', 'Studies in European Realism' 'Goethe and His Age', and his study of Hegel, "The Young Hegel'. In his memoirs, Victor Serge relates how one day he met Lukács in Moscow. As a known oppositionist, Serge was not surprised that Lukács, who was working at the Marx- Engels Institute, had no desire to shake his hand. Serge had met Lukács for the first time in the 1920s in Vienna and he tells of Lukács' hostility to opposing the Stalin- ist bureaucracy: 'The times are bad,' he said, 'and we are at a dark cross- road. Let reserve our US strength: history will summon us in its time.' A clear contradiction of his earlier emphasis on the sub- jective element in Marxism, Lukács' remark points to the way in which he developed the other strand of Hegel's thought to accommodate him- to the bureaucracy: his- self tory on these terms possesses a logic all of its own, Hegel's 'cunning of reason' that works out its contradictions inde- pendently of those individuals who carry out the historically specific activities. Like Deutscher, Lukács pre-Marxist, returns to a idealist Hegelian conception to show that Stalinism was a necessary historical stage of the proletarian revolution.

Unswerving Lukács survived in Russia in the 1930s because he gave unswerving support to the bureaucracy, and although he now writes of Stalin's 'errors' and 'excesses' arguing that 'unfortunate and they were inexcusable', the fact remains of his support in the 1930s and today the policy for 'socialism in one country'.

This has been Lukács' jus- tification for his silence on the 'excesses' of the Stalinist bureaucracy. To build social- in Russia, proletarian democracy and international- ism were 'unfortunately' dam- aged; but this was a necessary price to pay and Stalin's policy was the correct one.

The contributors to Parkin- son's book tend accept to uncritically Lukács' position as he has stated it and there is no mention of Trotsky and the

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Left Opposition. Presumably they were mere sectarians and 'Utopians'. Lukács, not Trot- sky, was the 'realist'. Originally given as lectures at Reading University, the essays evince both a strong desire for peaceful co-existence and a certain lack of critical acumen. There is no attempt to situate Lukács' work histori- cally and concretely. Vague remarks are made from time to time on 'pressures' from above but these are assumed to be mere incidentals to the real task of critical evaluation.

Thus in their discussion of the 'Historical Novel', Pascal, Craig and Lehmann concen- trate on Lukács' interpretation of Walter Scott, but fail to connect this with his later dis- cussion of mediocre historical novelists such Romain as Rolland and Heinrich Mann whom he regarded as continu- ing the Scott tradition (the of "democratic human- novel ism'). Popular-Front ideology demanded the elevation these 'optimistic' writers over the more "pessimistic' Proust, Joyce, Kafka.

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The essays are silent, too, on Lukács' continuing 'critical' acceptance of Stalinism. In his essay on Solzhenitsyn ('Social- Register', 1965) Lukács ist wrote of the urgent need for appraisal of the 'critical a Stalin era' arguing that 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denis- ovich' constituted the begin- nings of an overall and total view of contemporary Soviet society, Eve to , April quite whose tion development'.

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South Spotlight South-West, today: 33 News, reatheri weather. Veekend road works report History, he goes on, has 'refuted' Trotsky, long ago and on the 'decisive strategic problems of the time Stalin was absolutely right.' 'Socialism in one country' is Leninism, and Stalin is Lenin's legitimate heir. Lukács char- acterizes the struggle between in wholly Trotsky and Lenin personal terms and fails to grasp the underlying social currents in Russia during the 1920s which led to Stalinism.

As for the purges, Lukács is significantly silent. He is far happier writing of the late 18th and early 19th century, on bourgeois society literature: and bourgeois Goethe, Hegel, Schiller, Balzac, Stendhal. The result is that although his analysis this classic period of bourgeois culture has undoubtedly deepened our understanding of it (especially his reading of Hegel in terms of 18th century political econ- omy), Lukács' Marxism tends to be academic. He finds great difficulty in analysing modern literature.

Trotsky, for example, could praise a novel like Celine's 'Journey to the End of the Night' (1934) for its vigorous portrayal of the emptiness of life in France between the wars even though the book was pessimistic. Decadence Lukács would probably see in Celine's failure to create 'lasting human types' a mere reflection amoral, an bourgeois decadence. Engels had written that realistic literature should aim typical characters to create under typical circumstances: Lukács, in defining this general statement as the dominant criteria of literary merit turns a remark (in a letter) relating to a specific historical period, the 19th century, and a certain type of presentation, realism, into a dogma. The Parkinson symposium singularly fails to discuss this aspect of Lukács' literary doc- trine. For the Stalinist Lukács, Marxism is mere scholasticism.

It is not the practice of a revolutionary class which aims to change the world, but simply a device which allows us to understand and appre- ciate great bourgeois litera- ture. The dialectical relationship

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between consciousness, Lukács has long abandoned prac- and world, which tice the his belief in the revolutionary Lukács had emphasized in proletariat as the only possible 1923, turns into its opposite agent of change, and is thus in the later writings. forced to postulate his moral injunctions. Thus in the chapter on the dialectic, Mészáros shows how As a whole the book is dis- Lukács is forced to postulate appointing. moral solutions to practical It does contain some useful political problems. information on Lukács' work and life, but there is too much 'Problems' repetition, a failure to grasp his ideas and development his- For Lukács, the 'problems torically, and to ignore or min- of Soviet society can be solved imize his Stalinist background.

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ALL TRADES

C.A.V. (Acton) men

UNIONS ALLIANCE

MEETINGS

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'Against shipyard fear a sackingsi Keep the Tories out!'

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

Saturday, May 16 JU.30 a.m. MANY WORKERS at CAV's tele-control Acton, London, factory fear that the shop stewards'

SWINDON

committee •Productivity Deals and the meeting due to be held next Tories' sell-out Tuesday will accept tele-control Sunday, May 17, 8 p.m. onto the site for what one steward Speaker: Bernard Franks Comth ot Oxford Heil Road described as 'the proverbial 30 pieces of silver'. As we reported earlier this stewards voted year, •Fight the Tories in the dency here iment, fory admit at the beginning of March unions! Build a socalist Ottery St Marvs to accept the "big brother' alternative!' on producton montorny Sunday, May 17, 3 p.m. into two depart- system These The Kerie d Tavern ments on a trial basis, pro- all the fami Camberwell Green, S.E.5 vided suitable terms mill workers money and labour guaran- were forthcoming tees production unese new

PETERHEAD

from the malacemenl omanahas This followed submis- (near Aberdeen) either the e not the m che sion of a factory claim of stay out "The Crosse and Blackwell £6 for men and £8 for that it the ro strike — right the lories which pro- their factory women, Monday, May 18, 8 p.m. posed by senior stewards Rescue Hall as a culle separale issue weeks. from the introduction of

BY A WORKERS PRESS

senior

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at the Utter Mills electrical tactory, claims Ottery St Mary, Devon, voted unanimously at a mass Mitant Enchant souther Untrue meeting on Wednesday to continue their two-week- UNEF, the French sedates union a luded by the CP old strike for substantial pay rises and union recog- sloudy thunder. nition. Code 1: 14(7), Dunlop strike Centerated their continues at Dunlop's • FROM PAGE ONE engineers nine their roo ism win more hah a pitie member trike ok this suer cism with England, Sis in y imaginationd 'N Ireland: * the bitter end we will back headquarters Sunny the Acron tabary edin of been actual end offer of 23 to £3 Semand on the managements voluntary at in dact dit exiled ative her cool and cloud Mostly rathe tewards anc ader toe to war de and he issues it in the est * or Shere or theke with hundery showers, isolated trom and prob The ser east at first. the laying morike the headquarters itself Europe's largest tyre plant.

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FRANCE

THE law proposed by Pompidou's government to establish collective criminal and civil lability for all who participate in or organize "illicit' demonstrations goes to the Senate next week, having already been passed by the National Assembly.

It represents a legal de-

BY DAVID BARNES

the claration of war on whole labour movement, that is a frontal attack on happen? And How did this the right to strike and the how lau Stul Sai Bangal resa. MiY the

-VIVE LE FRONT NERA

right of free assembly. So serious a step is it law has got French that on the eve of the de- Communist Party leaders bate in the National As- sembly the Gaullist de- ney stalleu muea Calpdi, against it with a public meet- puties themselves Paris called with onl were Ine ln divided. Iwo cays nouce. worted alt the hiberal charac- were Spokesmen Naturalv Present platform ter of the law, nor wade spokesmen for the main that were might diminish the 'rights of the Communist, man' Unified Socialist What led tare alle Parties, assorted Khat well-founded thot the Frech acmoclauc orkanizauons working class the LeLLISLS Incluals IcCOrnze Id W French Trotskvists. were ex. clearly Ior wnat ana campaign cuced trom the mo iize decisive aransa 1c the insistence of the Stalinists.

deputies "he honoutable who amplified their campaign overcame their fears and slander and the law (with unim- that ested by the Eo promea- provoca- by was excluded by the CP campaign against the laws.

large majority. new • laws justy On April 23, day of the the the debate meeune nauonal Assembly was post- poned to ADmi ly Ihe right was unsure of it- self, retreated, and the way for a campaign which however, readers told day by a military spokesman.

could stopped the were laws at that point. were still search- for these installations vas nothing indicate ing' supply depot Confidence hirsi Not confident sighted American Air In the course of that week Lavalry

LOODS

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reralneo user connoence was anvthin more than Why? conndent as. the supply depot.' "The bluntly told (nserver the day, ěe nann nn n cc statement not only of April 23 was its readers : meeting dashed the claims the Troops fail to find enemy of action' on April 29, berthe eura. lobbying HO': while the 'Sundav Times with demonstrations, ion of the and factory meetings Cih con saste ot beginning of Nixon's up and cown the conim invasion had only ETti;ne • ПOL ments 'communists') it ncrucauy. ouT cléar proposal from "Vietcong vanish oumosant broeress

OUT-

those who really wanted milled. ing the nrst diavs US tanks close in' moulize bie orces aramst the campaign. May the 4. Mav Mondav. law-to curn Nevertheless, the 'Telegraph' "Daily leegranhi trance a pubie holday) performed invaluable serious difficulties. Its headline thiting esti workers orga liza law, behalf of imperialism i clunfor 'US Hit Vietcong Bases' the biggest his Cambodian strations possible, was turned prelext for invasion Long cou• without entrev under- cours a formal justifi- cation for this was American forces sweeping the minnere paner's creciolty The alven. amongst its readers debate started on the 29th and ares the "Telegraph' says the What the Vitind High Com- CGT (the Communist-led Cambo a openly, all of Fleet Street trade already e usive UnIon ) lesires. called a demonstration on its claims for May Day. So even the most experi- Full square enced guerrilla hunters Fleet Street visive were now finding No intention With all their reservations about Nixon's crude methods.

In the end, however, it be The Guard- came clear the entire canta 1ct nrecc that the Stalinists been with TIc and reformists never alliul stands tull square had any sceptical the and British-imperialism as TnOSU intention mooiilze TnE fights for its existence wiereoours oeven existence the move atalast took up SE Asia and at ot the neadquarters' éffect the Mav Dav de. chase inst as the The witch-hunt the iele the monstration In Paris, police flag. On graph' hagan unions and the apologetics for Tuesday, May 5, its front page Nixon's invasion are all pam to keep the students and re volutionar b ody proclaimed: the vouth oh ahe d cron same ruino-cass he main strategv Cautious The record of the capitalis!

stration, sanctioned HO sighted: big ultra-right Talready been 'Vietcong nracs. from acuon axalnst l Telegranh' "liberal' push taken. imminent. and 'Guardian', the "Telegraph', that remained Meanwhile. were pro she iny pance having neen clant co manv which LeSLS was much more And April 20. of cource times before. Dabel fights for internationalism and had been given no perspective cautious. Instead it headlined Kent Univer- in defence of the trade unions organizers the Columin and devoted barely tinuing the fight against The agas! che ruline cacs the law. 11s muiss sighting the NLF That Guardian's' … the toch nt the Workers Press. New heart Wednesdav. 'headauarters' had heen This

TOT.

dissipation of forcer Telegraph' Tugmen ontten. wac put new heart into the rentó. use reverting to the of the sentatives of 'law and order The law now moves to the stay out Senate The Staliniste and reform- readers something that ists annonced this week Mersevside's tugmen vester.

millions had guessed from the Malon-vide lobbying a day overwhelmingly voted to nae nawide he verv beginning The against continue their month - old "Cambodian Kase announcement strike which has restricted the not HO of Vietcong' served movement of ships in and to orovice a Crestfallen, the report went of Liverpool. retreat. On!White House claims that The men are demanding an fact the Stalinists have already begun to lonk for the American troops have increase of f7 to b bring the law DOSITve side' Communist central office and have resected a EB oer the CP raton. member during May

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men and shore workers. making cléar to them thee coás nature of ethe re gime?

Painful Abandoning the defence of what the has threaten theatre Worke class gained and holds they ook for nainful 'stimuli to hont working casuine actione the this argument

CZECHOSLOVAK

Czech plays recent mAY Colonels' regimé Greece internreted Mimictau of tnture hac eastl has the 'advantage' established its central con- criticism the sovie in- class character inating the the productions vacion in vax! the he wae! in all Crech theatres Recictanee to the Husal to stop the law, 1968 regime remains ahenlntaz putting the employers back on determined, though forced express itself in indirect earlier me cerensive is made cear 1 Prace Paper Tine stralenttorward. winnara Prasue of the French also cites have Trotskyists: à num Workers' found first For a United ber of recent official suare- •Manifesto the signatory of the Aront (goninet ments to the effect that the of 2,000 Words' -issued be- theatre chould not allowed to go against state tore the invasion concern- policy. ing the recoro o DOST-W8l is ie st will ibe five n ts The censorship has been Stalinism in Czechos ovar!? that the trotserist reimposed because the ac- given —nrenarec nuhlicv to with.

slander have refused to make draw his the CianatITe TRaT favour is fascism in disguise' firi Raska. a ski-jumping ang Tin e champion, has done so, say- nonting unity will he Soviet have es in ng that he did not read it em- play which car detent before ployers for good. boycotted and passages signing