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European sparked off What lies behind this attack is the Soviet bureau- bitter fighting. cracy's desire to compel the Vietnamese people to make peace with Nixon. Ine kremlin s intentions are made all the more clear by their continued recognition of the ultra-rightist, pro-US regime in Phnom Penh.

N Korea and China, withdre ths aver for the US imperial their puppets. 'Rotten' The Sat on resi mas which ttackecent mini the THE UNITED STATES has des- cribed capital, Moves to stop paper buff to the shutdown with pes etup bodation orbris same potion.

that -says miners' M.P. Contin their loes Were Sisterday to • axed thre Secret DICK KELLEY, MP in the last government for Don followed the The ris cin Valley (South Yorkshire), blamed the working class Ba Sora a Caste. files for Britain's economic difficulties and called for a go- employers i ne opposed slow on nationalization at a meeting in Brodsworth.

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I STICK to my formula', said Tory leader Edward Heath yesterday. He was answering questions at his London news on whether he thought Labour Health conference Minister Richard Crossman was lying about his reported, and then denied, statement to the doctors last week about 'a period of extreme economic peril".

'Mr Crossman', Heath's thing Tomua rane savs one private ane anotner public. Many journalists left yester- OaV S

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Kremlin-N. Vietnam rift Moscow attacks Hanoi De Gaulle meets Franco Made mer Genera nand de › palace here today. It was THE VIETNAMESE Revolution is in danger.

the irst encounter betwee the In the Moscow journal 'New Times', the Kremlin warns N Vietnam that making common cause with China in a struggle against imperialism eck holiday in Spai with his wite. would only bring Hanoi 'defeat and destruction'.

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U.S. pays for Thai 'Rotten' troops The Sat on resi mes bich attacked THeen paying the govern of Thailand t cribed by onelowerless and utterly 'Go slow' on Don obvimil This s. Thay & Soviet advocates nationalization 5 regime in Ca to with pes imperialise -says miners' M.P. Secret DICK KELLEY, MP in the last government for Don Valley (South Yorkshire), blamed the working class files for Britain's economic difficulties and called for a go- opposed sow on natonalzamon al a meeun• in broasworta.

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I STICK to my formula, said Tory leader Edward Heath yesterday. He was answering questions at his London news conference on whether he thought Labour Health Minister Richard Crossman was lying about his reported, and then denied, statement to the doctors last week about 'a period of extreme economic peril'.

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Tuesday, June 9, 1970 • We are aware that according to the newspapers, IT IS a commonplace to Chartism is extinct; that a Reform Ministry has say that Chartism was "put down the chimera of Chartism" in the most 'dead by 1850. And in felicitous and effectual manner.

So say the news- a sense this is correct. papers-and yet, alas, most readers of newspapers movement As Chartism reached its peak know withal that it is indeed the "chimera" of with the great demonstration Chartism, not the. reality, which has been put down.

Common, The distracted incoherent embodiment of Chartism, April 10, 1848. After that it declined steadily and by the whereby in the late months it took shape and be- end of the 1850s had virtually came visible, this has been put down; or rather has no organized following. fallen down and gone asunder by gravitation and The reasons for its decline law of nature: but the living essence of Chartism are not difficult to locate. As has not been put down. Chartism means the bitter Trotsky wrote in Where is discontent grown fierce and mad, the wrong con- Going?': "Chartism Britain dition therefore or the was unsuccessful not because wrong disposition, of the its methods were incorrect, Working Classes of England. It is a new name for but because came a thing which has had many names, which will yet early? have many. The matter of Chartism is weighty, deep The Charter, many have rooted, far extending; did not begin yesterday; things different noted meanl different will by no means end people fighting for The movement this day or tomorrow. Six Pine was mace angl Thomas Carlyle, 'Chartism' (1839) levels and strata from Some, like the society whom nanciool hope held the mure Charter Tor whom une deed Kinne anestion• others. suca as craftsman ane asan already, this early separate stage, economically themselves the rights Irom the rest of Which industrialization had destroyed. Industrial Although the Their opposition to the Poor Revolution cave enormous Law and their sunnort of the impetus limitation factory hours the •eve oonnent both therefore Utopian of capitalism, this process was, ecessity backward - looking uneven one. into character. the 19th cen- second there existed, Where okeds it there did the and should the 1842, which was a l TaCLOT an explosive combination siderable impact upon indust• of heavy rial life. cost o1 living. tne Im Dact the Poor Law. brutal ment for factory move- well widespread Concentrated reform. the Charter was able to pull to where domestic Andy ens peared, thes lements discontent Indusury industry small-scale despair. particular concentrated After 1842, with the excer areas, such as Birmingham tion of was trom such areas of economic depression with concentration and also the impact of the skilled raftsmen, that the force moral the european revolton. economic movement retained its greatest Torces were WOrK which hold. tended undermine and destroy the unity and cohesion It is also notable that towns commercial of the movement. like Leeds. than of indust- centre, rather irreguired another proou tie physical force capitalist development,

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upport for the stretching until the last quarter of Chartism century, produce London similar working class case had little the homogeneous and indepen- here the Harney's Chartists attack and of a factory 1m DaCI cent character was connned largely proletariat. weavers poverty-striken silk End. of the East this layer of After Collapsed point to Ernest Jones; a late we shall see subsequent articles, was But if Chartism did collapse arrival from class Tine moder markedly to me red with cause of Chartism. it not only sorted bal to the Call working began during sense the dincult the majority capitalism vears after 1848 to search fol class because affective and durable basi 'Golden Age'. entered its out of the Chartist movement t, a search which the emerged groups Cunite ditterent was there Who search led movement, situation industrial realized that the Chartism could socialism a close only be understood as a class concentrated The northern towns. Movement representing and was colaboraton amongst th star 1a bri that the with class, Hnae s its interests ranged against the On the other hand Fergus Northern the pascal considerable of society. O'Connor's Land Scheme, whole division in the is 1847 (it collapsed the 10ea this troduced in wing had their largest of the force' leadershin movement. aimed at purchasing following. land through between those who hedan cn.nnerative these see the role of the working even scheme which would resettle amonast class st those ino to of as peasants on the in Closinh land. -Chartists' had and other directions, Teacmonary Evolution to towns of Lancashire t the sianinicance or Chartsm The evolution of Jones' Yorkshire they

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rather than the division late 1840s tween 'physical' and of a pre-industrial society the ideas it the ane early 1850s. which 'moral' force wings before his b the rights of ordinary hic hren? people had been guaranteed, on the one hand we can from Marx and are therefore of considerable inderstanding gains of Chartism for I would like information the real the Britie timek of entry his At the time about Ernest no arca Tonec wac a radical. His elec. tion address to the people Halifax • Pins, apart from demands series State abolition the

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Deen altrnetions (ferman • drawn un mn tie fiertar of horiety hax 1848. bintazens intery of the battlea between the anguage. Charles Marr and Freemen amd slavre, in London , in the fier olilcw and seris, mumediatels printer and published o fier na ur nan langungo, met,—in a word ten oe inda-trial Mi-illo-lass, at the Rcrolution mutbreak o tore tho u britle between the tne sostnatimas hotsroon the sitterent Corn Zabruary. Tht made it impresible to carry tien oe, ee tatia het ha inear and theane great vork• nntima vent buat wre cone fae direst or lataur ger t that time, the intention of tran lating abir ended, either in a molutionars siteration ® inta all the langunges of civilizod turop horat urenet versione ( - hem ia hen ae o netea o.

in the earlter faelorsl taras ut ather of cabil 1786 she Toglinls mador will In ancient Komene tod The scorery uf America • terman Rerolutionists. must not be forntten, that the whole of whoh ror: wapreny aa Tunrzeois régime has not atrodsled thie antagunesm bis Manifesto was written and printed before be Rerolution of February.

forene and modes of carryge on the struggle, hare ' of th Muhtini hohoniin atalke torouehout juroDe.

Yo are hausted by & ghost, the ghost of Comnao.

enersrung jacile-riges Ali tup Powers of the rast nave jouert 1u s Hd tecas, o by ih aut u ct enci ae na tap zar mettetnich ano tuwoc agents. are themselves thopresult o ¡Ltamant af a RaMieR ortel aly f'ommuncs apraog i Prolaction and Exchange the Serfe of the Middle Agre, and from thisi indnatrial erolutiorir j Mante ca ere icipen the ard fm die unteil eoluta Julian Harney's Chartist paper 'Red Republican' published the first English translati and Engel's Communist Manifesto.

Some pages from the history of the British working class

BY. PETER JEFFRIES

Chartists attack soldiers who were escorting Chartist prisoners after the plug riots in 1842.

'CHARTISM in 1850 is a ent I must put him right as different thing from Chartism the principles of the T0 leaders of Charter. They involve social- in 1840. The have ism no more than despotism- English Proletarians they propound liberty and proved that they are true equality. Democrats, and no shams, by rapidly in the *Liberty! but not licencé: going ahead so equality! of political and last few years. They have pno- of sim- religious rights-but not of gressed from the idea ple political reform to the idea property! of a Social Revolution.' "Let by his in- ever man dustry earn as much as he can -but the lazy man shall not live upon the industrious one. Forceful That is what your system does, not ours, sir!' the And in the same year, 1850s, same author, Howard Morton, In the particularly the after his release from jail, could write along same Jones was to move away from lines, but in even more force- ful language: this position. Most important, he began to realize the social "Chartism under thẻ red Chartist implication the flag vindication of the is movement. of labour; it is the claims It was in his 'Notes to the enunciation of the "Gospel of People', a paper to which Marx Work"; the assertion, that the contributed that regularly, the fustian jacket and paper developed. ideas these were more hon- are infinitely caps Thus in September 1851: than the ourable emblems "Therefore the capitalists of ermine robe and the coro- will be our foes as Yes, all kinds net. cause, our "Chantism" in 1850''—is long as they exist, and carry the Veritable People on against us a war to the very cause of the Therefore they must BE knife. of England; it is the cause of

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we the this MUST have class against class of enslaved class oolae that is all the oppressed on the battle we fight, but it must be fought under the Red flag, one side, and all the oppressors the on the other. An amalgamation for that is the symbol of "the banner of the of classes is impossible where new Epoch, Future". The task given us at amalgamation of interests

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other en masse round means of a Demo- proceedings are mere moon- this flag, by shine' cratic and Social Propaganda; for the Charter an agitation And in the first of issue and something more.' Harnev's 'Red Republican' (June 1850) the paper in which Alongside this realization of first English the implications of a fight for translation Manifesto' of the "Communist Charter the went growing was to be published, a similar understanding on Jones' part idea was expressed: that only a powerful organiz-

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Fergus O'Connor idea were: interstin in Organize", and now, after two The and mare, of incarcera- elementary class strug tion, I come forward azain that watch. from o'Connor's nostalgic and raise wansuade word ot salvation and day again I "Organizel Utopian vson or come colden age which had been super- Harney described the ment had of as a fole recess embrace 21101 One a 00 separate spiracy' against the masses in the struggles workIng which priests, kings and aris- class: e all been ers: should body he cranes stand forward as the pro- of the with but rare suffering many it the redresser its been the slaves of the few.'

Wrongll he lecson was Ceate The connecting ink. that draws to working class would only andl gether on one common ground, the now isolated bodies of the middle capitalists. vorking class able to bind Direct armed mass-action eing the tie Was best

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aco- them to each other. English translation of Marx ater hu warney amonast th depressed silk weavers in the Fast wad Collaboration this development of was and understand- Jones' ideas had natured a result of his con ever was cone largelv nned to a tiny handiu of in-

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dividuals, most of whom were Marx and Engels. course they were advocating thoth the movement was the one which Jones those Jones and walch Was une real gain had understood leaders Characm. The stanicance ane for the Chanter in the were towands. Circles The small circles of workers Char- From all I see. *he who kept the ideas of Chart. and completely tists next 1Sm alive over The organized period which. same time "at the the working DeODIa. Crat uney mus either fall completely to piece: vele lo blay, alone Wil and degenerate anto clicues Engels, a significant part in the must be reconsti- 1880s The revival tuted on entirely an new which occurred at hi by a fellaw who knows that time. on the A real ousters. comes is oute living continuity was for this, righ lines amid Chartism, between may well say that he would original national tradition got on to the righ of the Labour Move, reaching, ines struggles ment' and the later for he would never have for Marxism which took place only basis at the end of the century.

covered now iche Chartist which the This why every worker can name v mitt study Chartism. the instinctive hatred of the far orener interes for the industrial and importance than as a mere Doeservoid but can not episode which came historical enlarged, devel- years ago. preserved based pointed oped out bightene or ero pagan whilst brief note in Where is Going?': contained in Chartism till be progressive in opposing was the eactionary whole amut of nro desires from judices amongst the workers."

tions to parliament to armed Marx the Harney, with auswers all and Engels were to collaborate problems which such a Deriods in the 184US movement doses were and 1850s, had anticipated th theoretic- answered not on u dee a decadet Jones thought but also in practice. over andy decade will be remembered ation, based on the working settle accounts as tne leadine and most vocl class could reach its of bureaucracy which ferous has "Daysical his release the soon tone hit he too nico saw th commered movement tor 1850 writes in the implications of the str be stor so long, will revive al that is 'Northern Star': Charter. This can best in the tradition of Chart- study ism he retical anon this time far "Two years and more, 230, practi- for speaking higher •went to Dison Democrat. _one three Those words cal basis. words. many papers. first two parts are of particular value for the subjects discussed in these articles.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Trade Unlonism': S&B Webb 'A History of classica study or ine emerdence ana develop ment of trade unionism. A thouch open v radian in its approach, still the basic work from which all other studies must still start.

These books and articles were found useful in preparing this seriac of artin ac It is by Briggs (ed) 'Chartist Studies'. A series of means exhaustive. but should provide cood articles dealing with the regional background to some upher stor a bony wishin point for anybody wishing to Chartism Useful material on the relationship of raised in the Chartism to the Anti-Corn Law League.

series M. Hovell, 'The Chartist Movement': Despite its Marx and Engels 'On Britain'.

distortions, useful book for the basic Lenin, 'On Britaln'. Chartist movement, especially in its facts of the indispensable. They DOIn These tems are earlier period nrovide selection the more imnortant study Sch cent Chan Hanay, one Alive speeches by the founders. articles and lettere Harney, of Marxism on the problems of the British Georoe working class the and early prominent 'nhysical force' Chartists Fabial. centuries. G. Wallace 'The Life of Francis Place' : work written orominent early a good Provides insiaht into the role radicalism in the early working-class movement.

Trotsky, 'Where Is Britaln Going?':* A classical 'Before the Socialists': A series • 1. Harrison of the British stUeV tractions the specialist studies in working-class politics 1860-1880. Useful work which tries to overcome movement written on the Ave of the Genera: but retaining freshness and some of the distortions of Stalinist historians.

Strike relevance. "Ernest Jones': A brief account life and its relationshio to Marx. Also Brian Pearco 'Come Past Rank-and-File Move. ncludes a selection of Jones's articles, letters ments': * A very useful study of the lessons of past rank and file movements.

and seeeenes. 'The Strange Death of Liberal Woodhouse 'Marxism and Stalinism Dangerfield, Britain 1920-1926': * A series of articles England'. e of thal organ Fourth books and pamphlets available from These International with this crucial period New Park Publications Limited 186a Gannam history of the British High Street, London, SW4.

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CHER

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SARATIO

the manager words, sensible ism, that revolution will proposals and resents come. Dead likes meditation and Rolandl hates himself. Manfred loves people till he discovers race Crispin sculpture, York- shire dialect and making love to old ladies. despair only Stripped the aders follow moralizing, It is no accident that Manfred breast. the apart TAls "Good life' thesker out has delivered play- from He propounded a view lif humane, filled. never more than own head in the head in world intervenes w ontradictions flicts. the weieht of history.

ARNOLD

uneven living process

WESKER

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WORKERS PRESS

PAGE FOUR

Chains

AUSTRALIAN LETTER

combine

SYONEY

faces

IN SW. 2000

national and is ch pay rease tor ay in or the walk-out

BY A WORKERS PRESS

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

award oerter shi local THE REACTIONARY refer- WITH THE Dow Jones index showing a loss endum organized amer Schwarzenbach, callins has adopted rad that e of 19 points at the end of last week and other the deportation of immigrant workers from Switzerland, indicators pointing to continued inflation along deleated nearl with declining production, there is little con- 100,000 votes over the week- fidence on Wall St that the dramatic rally of end. Vorster's European tour Zurich the previous week can be sustained.

During that week. 1o- slogan Keep Switzerland President Nixon's lowing

BY PETER JEFFRIES

Quality top talk with business leaders, the share index control leapt by nearly 80 points 1i from its seven year low speeded up 0I 030. • set by the Now the market is down at Ford below ov. lor lone con• bulk of the votes fo sidered its absolute 'floor' the selling of stocks the ren are, in fact, PRIME MINISTER of the racialist S African regime, John Vorster, ov many investors left Lisbon yesterday for Spain, where he is due to have top-leve

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Latest figures show a de- fewer immigrants. i the market must b

CORRESPONDENT

talks with General Franco.

where

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

A communiqué issued se ck at the end of his meet- A MACHINE installed in the ront year perfect of inflated paper palues armosonere group section After his will ing with Portuguese and understanaine Only bs gramme contribute to tightening that dictator Caetano military aid from the Pom reces out the stated: tne menaiy unks exisl- inflation unabated conversations connes ing between the two working it cano the Wage control be took place countries... dalt man.omas added his voidea it- demanding some an inspec-

IRC CHIEF

WARNS OF

winning diplo that

EXPLOSION

measurements to 0.o02 in.

hole gains the Comati of the droustria steep decline in share prices.

Joseph Lockwood, Selling day that a wages explosion. recentlice en Madrid, while the Husak THE RECENTLY-PASSED laws in France, designed required the led hage on so seg excess * the o increases muld p to attack working-class organızations under the guise chance dr Abassa still perfectly lega of protecting 'law and order', have soon showed their Pre at seast he pratin ten-hour true meaning. i already

SE E

Grenoble examinations fily akto marie.

orders. immediately vietims of the recently passed moved into the campus m

NOW IT'S UP TO YOU

couple che socalled -baricades so-called The Vorster tour has it

TEAROFLENIN & TROTS

set up B.M.A. and known Seenes faced with the double nplications Io1 in his personal capacity ois ur ent ther Election

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haven't done too Doctors top consultant wited t As whole press blows up some al reply by deciding to strike.

3. blowery the maste an ians to main Atican posesion. + trade Commandos

TORY PLAN

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students clear interests against the illaw the pac Real Makinear cho that it Head the new lamp Please send workers Press from June i To June

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MEETINGS

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mittee last year • eyone must tak 1o deposed cance Belgrad Flights Patrolling Saturday, June 20,

OLLERTON.

yester Plough inn. responsibilities. returned BEA and BOAC walked ou reported. ing the borders

YOUNG SOCIALIST DEMONSTRATIONS

WALONDON AND

For Socialist policies! Vote Labour June 18! Expose Wilson! To keep the Tories out! • сот-

BIRMINGHAM

SHEFFIELD

NEWCASILE

yesterday. can- prevailedssing Saturday June 13 Saturday June 13 Saturdav. une 13 large proporare left the Assemble 2.30 p.m. Assemble 2.30 p.m. Assemble 3 p.m. * the p Waterloo St, Victoria Sq Young St, Moor Morden St Press 186a Papa MisSet wing verses an. The General Election in The demonstrations will be followed by public meetings.

Scattered thunder Friday were the counties sanded in their nominations Wall commodation. They find them- factors. maln Tuesday, June 9, 1970

INCIN

30г.

IN EV!

AUSTRALIA

New South Wales govern- ment transport workers are also having to fight for their demanded increase of $10 a week (about f5). Their offer from the government—$3.60 cents. Soviet Pact terms Brandt By a foregn correspondent AFTER PROLONGED de- bate within the W German coalition Cabinet under Social - Democratic Chan- cellor Willy Brandt, the terms of the proposed pact with the Soviet Union have been made public. Government spokesman Con- rad Ahlers announced that the Cabinet had agreed on two main guidelines: • THAT the relations : be- tween W. Germany and the Soviet Union should be based the mutual renunciation on of force or threats of force.

• THE renunciation of force should be valid for those differences of opinion which persist after the conclusion of the W Germany-Soviet Union pact. Brandt is now expected to press ahead with hegotiations on these terms. Reticent So far, the E German government has been very reticent on the projected Pact -a clear sign that Ulbricht looks upon it with great suspicion. Leaders tiptoe

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ported statement, Labour léader Harold Wilson claimed it was 'clear that the last throw of the Conservative leadership-and they've tried this one before-is to try and sur up talk of an economic crisis' He said that the economy had 'a strength such we have not known in this country for years past'. A compulsory wage freeze was not part of the govern- ment's thinking, he claimed in reply to questions. But he again refused to be drawn into any more définite statement than I believe we can get what is required by means having re- voluntary gard to what had already been done largely at the • • insisténce of Barbara Castle at the Department of Employ- ment and Productivity'.

FEAR

What is sticking both Party leaders firmly to their SO catch-all formulas is, at base, fear, both of the extremely unstable economic situation internationally of movement of the class in response to it. As Wilson commented in a aside yesterday revealing morning, 'we've got to take into account that industrial relations are becoming much morld militant all over the more

PUBLIC

MEETINGS

•Political significance of the General Election'

OXFORD

isses a the general section!

Speaker: G. Healy (SLL national secretary

LONDON

Sunday, June 14, 7.30 p.m.

St Pancras Town Hall, Euston Rd.

Speakers: Geeta (SLL national A. Thornet S secretary; Simmance

SWINDON

Friday, June 12, 7.30 p.m.

o-operative Hall, East Stree Speakers: G. retaryLL national Frank Willis (ATUA)

HULL

Washedani. 5 Beverley am.