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combine DUNLUF-FIRELLI yester- FIGHTING between Palestinian guerrillas and day laid oll more than Jordan government troops continued yesterday 10,000 workers as a new hit afternoon and evening despite the agreement wave of strike action throughout the signed by King Hussein and Yassir Arafat, head lactories giant tyre and , rubber of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

combine By our Middle East Engineers In the course of Tues- swered th day s hghting, a car carry- Fifty people are reported to ing Hussein was fired on in the streets of Amman. went on late thẻ night FLEET STREET was at a standstill yesterday Reports of the death uncle, Jordan Hussein's as the printworkers' strike for a 25-per-cent Army supreme interim increase on their basic rate entered its mander, were later denied Urgent request The in Amman. gram to mile than 9,00 Dun- second full day. Front alleges that the the fighting camusale Pickets- members of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades agreed would be held if 83 105 with stones. and the Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers and Engravers- 'with strings' were out in blazing sunshine outside the offices of all "The Street's' pay of This provided for joint national daily and London evening papers.

-which in- Outside "The Daily Telegraph' building, return to their bases.

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•Dubcek UNDER THE glare of television lights, an all-star line-up gathered in the infants department of a Balham te We get a lot of people expelled' assaultanion school for the nrst meeting of the Clapham Labour en red the ears, his getting campaign every in support of coloured report a basic of candidate or David Pitt. reasingly from the US, rathe than 100 were treated to sa were te created

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mented another activities of THE STRIKE of printing workers which has FEARS that the mounting anti-Tory feeling shut down Fleet St completely dominated in the working class is exposing the irrele- making the Party press conferences vesterday as the vance or the Communist Party's electoral fight for higher wages and living standards intervention dominated a Hornsey election thrust its way openly to the forefront of the can backed meeting addressed by the Party's local candi- election campaign. date Mrs Morris and 'Morning Star' editor George Matthews. dustral action against the indo-china var.

to their staft ance Matters said, i cal wages offensive, it was With politics artil print workers on three ranged against the strike 'Hypnotism' becomes essential. evening ... eaders The smiling Dr Pitt. The stock market eN opened liste Bosses' face told

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THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1970

Fleet St strike enters third day Jordan Dunlop combine Pay up' say ceasefire grinds broken to halt DUNLOP-PIRELLI yester- FIGHTING between Palestinian guerrillas and day than laid oft more Jordar government troops continued yesterday 10,000 workers as a new print pickets afternoon and evening despite the agreement action hit Wave or Stre factories throughout the signed by King Hussein and Yassir Arafat, head giant tyre and , rubber of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

combine. Middle By correspondent East Liverpool, In the course of Tues- day's fighting, a car carry- ing Hussein was fired on On, Scotland, n in the streets of Amman. which went FLEET STREET was at a standstill yesterday Popula Front night Keports of the death ol o for ere Hussein's uncle, Jordan strike re Peace, India as the printworkers' strike for a 25-per-cent Army com- mander, were later denied Urgent request interim increase on their basic rate entered its justice & in Amman. second full day. Pickets_members of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades Tuesday, s prosperity and the Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers and Engravers- Amman. Deer. agreed were out in blazing sunshine outside the offices of all 'The Street's' denied that hon Dave repeatedly L.P. style national daily and London evening papers.

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from the rest and was paid a THE METHODS used by special wage for working at top employers in modern produc- speed. Ait the same time, Taylor used tivity bargaining aim at com- a stopwatch to time the speed of operation and worked out bining high initial payments also new methods of actice to make and a friendly approach to worker more efficient. Other the firm who could workers in workers with an extremely also work at this pace were paid the special rate until a of gang fast rate of working, a sys- operatives very fast had been built up. of the tematic rundown The rest of the workforce was labour force and the assertion then told to work at the new of a hire and fire discipline.

Those who would not or could sacked not were or given other found all to be New •workers talken These work. are on made of the rooted in the use either had to work at this speed earliest form of work study or lose the job. System of Scientific the Taylor Taylor was not concerned with Management. establishing 'average' work levels for 'average' workers; his aim Since capitalism's earliest days, continuous of worked was turnover employers have workers until an 'élite' of high- last of every ounce speed operators was established.

by energy out of the worker threats of sacking, by speeding- machines and by giving up machines to First-class workers more operate. man However, it was not until the 1880s that attempts were made Furthermore, he advised any work systematically to measure employer who adopted his system and and put its examination 'to difficult make tasks that operation on a scientific basis.

they be accomplished can only by a first-class man'. Frederick Winslow Taylor was Philadelphia,

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in born in 'A certain percentage of 1856. Of middle-class back- them,' he wrote in his book ground, he first studied law, but *Shop Management', published due to bad sight gave it up and, in 1903, 'with the best inten- instead, at the age of 18, became will fail in this and find tion an apprentice patternmaker.

that they have no place in the while still new organization, he Four years later, in 1878, others, and among them some was made up to journeyman and of the best workers, who are, work the Midvale went to however, stupid stubborn Steel Company, Pennsylvania.

can never be made to see that the new is as good as system had Within eight years he the old; drop odi and these, too, must degree mechanical taken in engineering and had also become chief engineer of the com- Taylor considered it the essential in times of full employment to pany. win the workers' full agreement to working at top speed by giving The Bethlehem him a new philosophy, that of Steel Company class collaboration and 00- operation with the management: It was during his time at Mid- "The of hearty substitution vale. and following this, the at brotherly co-operation for oon- Bethlehem Steel Company, that strife; of both tention and he conducted several experiments pulling hard in the same direc- in timing workers with a stop- tion instead of pulling apart; that he developed watch and of replacing suspicious watch- his concept of 'scientific manage- fulness with mutual confidence ment'. of becoming friends instead of from having His conclusions, held positions at all levels and 'It is along these lines, I say, been boss from having gang scientific: management that himself time. that for must be developed.' were employers never knew just how fast a worker was able to work. Sacking and He found that in order to pro- disciplining tect slower, weaker members of and in ander to main- group, tain piece-rates and prevent a job Taylor found to contradiction finishing up too quickly, workers between this view and the fact 'soldiered' slower worked that he supported the ruthless than was technically possible.

sacking and disciplining systems operated by the steel companies.

at all times a bosses' Taylor, ( decided that it 'his man, was 'It is only through enforced duty' to break down this tective system and to arrive at a standardization of methods, enforced adoption of the best position where each worker was implements and working working continuously the ditions, and enforced 0o- fastest possible pace. operation that this faster work His method was to pick out an can be assured. looked able to operative who 'And the duty of enforcing work at an above average rate.

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Name ... Address Thureday, June 11, 1970 die ber sine and transp onatin setiml lay instead transportation system: en pork and inerlase vage.

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Hot pla ned hey send mot nected with the art of manage- nen to do a tul da not wish does to the them to do it. nas hoc alowed lower prices and receiving greater prose. Duruy bere Ruthless exploitation * en gineif, ant hot Torly wi ver, was ch oranure ons t chavels but ato tai or ever,es ek ortanize ethemsployers nely in men ancal terer cit illa he macet istse by th ha102 ontained the following : Level of horsepower collective bar- Aments to the cond und ex fensure topt no siacking vas nd has with management card with day's 75 pig-iron handlers had to сод- as it was anywhere else at the rests alone. The management must na mason:s 22 tos into nail.

upsurge for the USÁ. Taylor goes an to state: example ine best known Pis excelec forman Wi%o bim!

• pulliesing his sels ellene lehem steains how at the Beth rivals The 'collaboration aspect in proper teachi 'All those C her mil mia th new m methods a must be chargegh by spe d alli management. Nette mutual bo nene on Chairman: MAN of the Committee idden in a notebook: Chairman: hen r bin lima the cases It is not a question of a workman Then, how does scien- work and can na omy result man who tific won't work; it is a ques.

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whole objec pose to take care of men of who Danagement of timing: ('Shop tion man 'first-class' doesn't meet your defini- aHe OL one particular line, Chairman: Chairman: hangers in any particular 'first-class' work- lagement aleve. men ton ol according to vour own line of work? What place have reme ntoncept definition. Illi. in this about birds at asspeaking I am We not you for such men? Taylor: particular investigation Taylor: Taylor: Seperate .with horses dealing nor supervision singing birds . . . What 1 I give it up. Taylor: I believe the only man I do not know of any to get Wallcu n place of the system such line of work. For whether or not your does come vot, ne в e hee scientific under "first-class' as manage- separat Chairman: No man who can work each man some line can be found in which he is ment had any place defined lt, the have sue yisiat and won't work has any whatever for a man work and operations man who can scientific first class. There is work place under Scientific management for each type of man, just not able meet won't work. I have tried management. was preparing has no place for such definition of to make it clear that for as for instance, work for Youl OWIl ak to be men? the dray horse and work what constitutes a 'first- each type workman Chairman: of work can class' workman. some type for the trotting Taylor: and each of these types is be Tolno at which ne Is Taylor: 'first-class', with the 'first-class' in his particu- It is not a question of nepect hát các h lar kind of work. There Scientific excepuon o1 inose men a man who can work and cach anken is no who perfectly well onled s is no one kind of work, Exactly, there are has no place for bird won't work; it is a ques- do the job, that suits all place for a man who can but however, abe o tion of a man who is not that can sing and won t won't do it. work and won't work. a 'first-class' man in any types of men. sing. • Dlanning aepamment wow ach worker would be handed a

Thursday, June 11, 1970 mental revolution alled work: Its development in Europe was continued in the 1930s against Charles Bedaux and duced known as the Bedaux System.

It would be totally wrong to consider Taylor's methods as a complete fraud. In fact he had come upon the fringe of a genuine science of work which could make all work operations safer and easier while output and achieving higher which could simplify manage- ment, costing and control of an which a degree enterprise to would open its operation to everyone. However, under capitalism this aspect of his systems could only be distorted for the exploit- ation and subjugation worker in the name of profit.

The scientific findings which were supposedly 'impartial' and always above class distinctions turned out to give huge benefits to management and to act to the great detriment of the workers.

The major use to which the systems were put, as even Taylor's earliest examples show, were for the systematic reduction of the labour force. In modern times, with Taylor's dismissal policy immediate now, in general, no longer avail- able, more emphasis is even placed on 'mutual understanding' in the 'philo- and promoting sophy' of collaboration in order to achieve résults. What is referred to as Taylor's 'blind spot'-his hostility to the unions—is now 'corrected' and union leaders play a key role in the implementing of work-study systems. Time-and-motion systems Over the past five years in Britain the modern developments of time-and-motion systems have been lifted from the context of attempts at increasing exploita- tion by individual employers and have been turned instead into a fundamental aspect of govern- ment policy. Complete political backing is now given to planning and pro- moting productivity systems for industry and large amounts money from state funds are being in an attempt to ensure used that these methods eventually operate in every industry and every occupation. Taylor's concept of planning departments, of providing speci- fications for all operations and of timing work actions are all used today by work-study consultants.

His system of setting a high level of working tied to a fixed rate with the sacking of anyone who cannot attain this is basic- ally what Measured-Day Work systems aim at achieving.

insistence that the new His methods begin gradually must and that 'such improvements as directly affect the workmen least should be started first' are now built into most productivity schemes. One thing is certain from examination of modern exploita- tion systems, particularly • those promoted by government agen- cies-PIB, DEP, etc., though the methods refined and are, more surnounded by far more double talk than Taylor ever used—the end products, the increased intensification of labour and a savage cut-back on the number of workers employed, are exactly those originally arrived at among the pig-iron handlers and ore shovellers of the Bethlehem Steel Company, USA.

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Through these sequences of reactions energy is produced which is utilized for limb move- ment and synthetic chemical reactions (e.g. building proteins).

Problems The phenomenon of reproduc- tion also raises many problems.

A recent symposium at Lake Como in Italy attended by lead- ing scientists from many coun tries attempted to tackle central questions raised by the latest research into the nature of life. The main problem is to explain why living things are organized and how they maintain that organization in the face of al- verse environmental conditions For example, human beings do out when it is nat dry warm or take in water through their skins when it rains because the body maintains a constant shape, chemical composition, etc.

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Also, living organisms repro These which duce, take part in the process of phenomena are really basic processes of life can- heredity and evolve. be understood from the Recent experimental evidence doubt the idea of standpoint the two main Outs 10 schools of biological thought genetic code existing in all cells vitalism and mechanical material- which responsible for the of each ism. Both are revealed as bank- development organ, rupt theoretical positions the tissue and cell in the body.

face of these and other develop- It was thought that the genetic code in a tadpole liver cell, for Distinctive example, caused the production of two liver the cells when The vitalists say that the pro- original one divided, yet if a liver of life are so cesses distinctive cell is transplanted to the gills in that there must be some factor a tadpole, it will grow as part of at work in living systems which that organ. is not found in the non-living i he orgao the riger is Also, world. removed, organ will regener- This vital force, it is said, ate itself to the original size. exists in all living beings; it is This shows there is something the "soul' of life. Vitalism is about the whole organ which has openly theoretical and the vast hand in determining growth, majority of biologists reject such T

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"There is even little agreement as to what topics it [theoretical biology] should deal with or in what manner it should proceed; and it is seldom indeed that philosophers feel themselves called upon to notice the rele- vance of such biological topics evolution or perception as to their traditional problems.'

Just as vitalism openly iS idealist in method (vital force is for Plato's anly another name 'psyche', the entelechy of Aris- totle, the immortal soul or divine spark of religious various thinkers, the Kantian 'inner prin- ciple of action' and Hegels' 'uni- reason') the mechanical versal materialists open the door for the God-seekers such as Koestler (see the review by John Craw- ford of 'Beyond Reductionism').

Only on the basis of a dialec- tical materialist method is one able to conceive of the processes of life. Development The quantitative addition of chemical molecules at a certain stage gives rise to a qualitative development in the nature of the chemical system where different laws of development apply.

A unit of

• DNA

called a nucleotide does not have the ability to replicate, yet at a cer- tain level of 'addition' of nucleo- tides replication becomes. pos- sible. It is at this stage that the considered. system should be From the standpoint of biological laws Engels stresses this in his 'Dialectics of Nature' (page 255).

"If I term physics mechanics of molecules, chem- istry the physics of atoms, and furthermore biology, the chem- istry of proteins, I wish thereby to express the passing of each of these sciences into another, hence both the tinuity and the distinctions, con- connection, the • In later articles we will dis- cuss the origins of life, evolu- and the tion, the genetic code, problems of biology under capi- talism, from this standpoint.

Culture and Socialism Towards an Independent Revolutionary Art Culture and Socialism and a Manifesto Art and Revolution An article compiled by the author from a talk he gave to a Moscow club on February 3, 1926, her addressesber of Price: Two shillings and sixpence Available from 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4

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LIVING in a British colony tion for their children (a major issue for a long time in Rhodesia or semi-colony means prema- and Nyasaland, in which British ture death for the workers forces murdered great numbers of parents and children)?

and peasants super-exploited What price the inferior, by British companies and the segre- starved gated, "education' given British state, through invest- and in return for this slaughter ments and 'aid'. much more by the missionaries and state of Britain? Even today, ten children killed In S Rhodesia, for éxample, al c super-exploitation for évery one the the majority of population in school for a tew years.

die before they are 40 years old.

Furthermore, a half to a third Medical 'aid' af the babies die before they are ¿ one year old. Since the average life-span of an African in S Rhodesia under Such is 'life' in a British semi- Britain or Smith is half a whether this be an in- colony, mally expected span in the 20th dependent African state, or 'White century, it is not an exaggeration like Smith's Republic' British to say that imperialism British-made Rhodesia, OI regularly and systematically mur- Africa. ders half the Rhodesian popu- The short life of the Africans lation. Rhodesia is due his to 1n The press and pulpit, other- super-exploitation by British im- wise vocal about "genocide', and his oppression OCCas Tul say nothing of this. political of British by the arm whether this imperialism, arm be It is against this mass killing Crown Colony of semi-colonial by the people the dictatorship of lan Smith imperialist of system super- exploitaion that medical and 'aid' has to be other measured Average income from the apart enormous profits made by British investors The average income of all and the British state through this African worker or peasant 'aid'. Rhodesia of the one tenth averagé wage in Britain. for the hospital As services provided by Britain, these hardly As a result the conditions exist for the African population. living become conditions of dying. They bear comparison Moreover the general state of only with the most terrible crisis health the dispossessed * years of the industrial revolution is British rule tar lower under in England and the Irish famine.

than it was under the old tribal system. British 'democracy' has meant that of the people the majority In S Rhodesia there was one 'British been of Africa' have doctor for every 3,600 inhabitants systematically murdered by Brit- 'better' iN modesid and -a ratio, monopoly and capital the the 8,000 and in which British state- genocide 35,000 in Nyasaland. $ is measured by the British This ratio was entirely due to statistics themselves. S Rhodesia the majority of the die In population before they A half to a third of are 40 years old. babies die before they are one year old.

Health statistics are but superior, services for separate, reflection of the extent to which the 'white' settlers, the number British rule has produced back- of doctors being almost directly 'under-de- the ward countries proportional in three terri- veloped states' in Africa.

tories to the number of Euro- 'civilization' Britain Such as brought either confined Doctors 'reserved' Britishers and Euro- the other who settled like social Dcalls on the lands stolen from In the United States the num- the African tribes in dévastating ber ot inhabitants per doctor is wars of conquest, or else has to about 750. be measured relative to the total In British of life and of the tropical Africa' destruction there are about 25,000 Africans means of life by the British con- disposséssion and enslave- doctor and per latter is guest, his ment of the conquered and dis- usually reserved, firstly, for European patients. possessed. There is one hospital bed for 'Civilization's' price every 1,300 people (100 in the USA) and this firstly, for bed is, For every non-European treated Europeans only in well-equipped in a (segregated) missionary mission and hospitals, state 13 died of state hospital, super- health British services in exploitation and lack of hospital Rhodesia having been entirely facilities. segregated along racial lines.

In addition medical facilities for arration starvation hospitals. every non-Euro- of pean admitted to a mission hos- and hospital hos- segregation, thousands killed pite British were by of 10s to pital fees 18s a day conquest rule. and (for minor treatment) effectively life of itself The destruction excluded the population from wrought by Britain was almost me a treatment, for this wass infinite with the *saved by ton average weekly wage of the imperialist lives Rhodesian wage-slave 'enjoying' 'civilizing missions'. British as they do rule, under Smith today. The price of civilization can hardly be measured other This is how British rule in spheres as well. S Rhodesia denied and deprived the African How many Africans were not workers and peasants of by British troops and even the most elementary killed police in the struggle for educa- benefits of world civilization.

WORKERS PRESS

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DAVID BARNES REPORTS ON ITALIAN SCENE

Nottm hosiery Elections and strikes IN ITALY'S first engineers' regional elections - for which voters went to the polls at the begin- show workers ning of this week-the strike decision greeted the Press small shifts in the total proportions of votes cast strength orsche partyor taken today the endorsement centre-left government. sailor have t as against 55.1 500 WORKERS — members of the AEF and puts Rumor in a better centre t partie metat mechanics — are meeting todav to decide Unionist whether to continue their three-week-old strike gro at the Bentley engineering group's two Notting- CP governed represent the ham factories. * of PSIUP co tol 100,00 which e employers Party The strike followed the

BY COMPEND RES

1,271,234, dismissa of AEF convenor two-day facet clas Tuesday cracking Monday after the war. vick vy vier lor using Daa so the shartly before the social crisis rail strike start. language to a rate fixer In the two neighbouring The presse Provinces natement under Ine dispute Is additions st sha to thi trikes, eintre- re produc ories to 800,08 cut from * The Paisley up with plai entre-left Hooking, cheat to, ith pity into the factorie te for the parties with 'Moderation' Clone Sees Holdpar strain actor ted ast Midlands hosiery indus part of Not only does tie vor • in the are neere strengthen centre- e argues the Italian press, but the Grindar Knitting

BY JOHN SPENCER

A MAJOR

SPLIT

Brian Behan developing inside the Wages up Ulster Unionist Party over its attitude to the Rev Ian Paisley and his extreme right-wing Protestant Unionist Party. FOR THE MARXIST movement, since 3 beet the evolution of those who desert when the managemen came goes it is of great educational interest.

oficial Unionist missed a It can often throw consigerable sen askin issued their behalf. light on the social forces which pulled them from the away of a struggle for revolutionary leader- to and ship, and clarify the theoretical elected, issues posed by the desertion.

Bood name members A report in Tuesday's 'Daily Mail' 3533 12s an hour for war, sai is headed: 'A Behan goes to university at 42. It quotes a student magazine university by Brian Behan, arucie Appeasement announcine mal ne is co hoster clare tomone co study history at ing to sussex university endan, bathe 1958190 Brenda No card the JOHN CRAWFORD looks at his past snake Clark's oficial fist of hester moving real a creation of are. * in the needs and osection stati while, i at noti Mande a leadership spectras implied a y political of so on i action within the Enoch Powell stopped moving. wore abute one 1 . Powerful ronist Paritish aritine hichester the Communist alarie Socialists Toryism Print strike fere, ever nie this won.

• FROM PAGE ONE

eveloping in Britains oldes volitica sae innessary sto halt Socialist Pacitate resent strike counties and through the t usty who knows and be avoided or long Yet Chancellor Roy Jenkin any nor and continue to gorous!s had

CLAPHAM

impos he mine i is preparation

CORRECTION

Indignation

• FROM PAGE ONE

Yorestire bismen plan stor united action Obeyed 1 ever taere was a case 1 men another our panies for e country to ha Guin a wave of momi mait coasonable oral i on

LATE NEWS

who hin that United heath at als were ecured olitical interested Ferenceasions and press ind ene revisionist groups, - saw him Union SOIn 1958, he • of Powerin deeply shel mike intention a special trip to see him • the standard Supreme

WEATHER

and the Kremlin • had worked Lond, central orders Mig- of years to with at least at state level table. Very trot. Max. 300

LUCAS

pread in southern areas A Pretand Coaste

STRIKE ENDS

Congratulations ight president sake and 1,00 til i inist-ki th та с 24257.C (858 Frei, 186a Claphan His Str Wandow sery, light. Very bos i not the following Thursday, June 11, 1970

AN SCENE

Socialists, communists. Social democrate androll combined took 48.5 of the poll. fraliar forward class lies THE DESERTION of young workers from the struggle to make the leaders ul tue barues usal ior suca Stalinist Czech Communist Party is now being d coveramenl. openly admitted by Prague Radio.

Rump In a recent broadcast an Involved HuSsne

BY ROBERT BLACK

excerpt from an article 1°01 „agaisttner anti-com. Momiratie le lderhi, in the social by Jaroslay Rous entitled Democratic who today they the theats 'Youth-the most precious broke Again either succumb to Socialist the asset of the Party', the ar bribes of bureaucracy: schemes against all the of the Socialists and Stalin- pos- WOUe couanly crisis of Czech Stalinism is sible prove that small Ists lur parllamenlary COllaD• spelt out quite brutally: that chere is a relaave v number oue people Оralol

WILD

Ine Cnrisual 'The Party, above all, needs the Party is one the venocrats. The The is succumb- Social Democrate wolncis with 7 per cent of the votes, of ing such large LICHi Sucirdi

CHOCL

chad extent are the keystone in the the Party's ranks various alien ideological influ- ore most urgen. cucco with 'politics of the centre'.

requirements the present "The small number of Com- stage. In this respect we have from TUnISIS

4 MOUS

nere miertels Dreak workers force right- among the young OraTASES! future genera- Christian sests Aor was certainly one the rea- tions . anti-socialist [i.e. towards fascists Spearhead and raise the une maronly The broadcast by ded, r irespo in of before admitted question of wee irresponsible the labour that voung workers were ine parties ane ucilid gogy, such a large number of movement way that SDerrneac ot the anm-crannic would allow very rapid de- movement in the period lead.

theng people and in driving velopment suppor for op to ghet frem find the Kremlin inva their of unem. Tanamaisn. revolutionary policies anto resorting to dangerous that ian his onen hochlity nf *r youth leaves even hardened completely non- plussed: Shrug shoulders Officials of primary ornenr atre no nht IZaROT onten polders ne ecsi at seem to be able tr anyane among 10 u ng tha situation is so desperate dussion of hostile youth into the Party Is connived au tne option but to attempt recruit- ment from layers that penl in he any te ter. sosition of ship; the seu going to wait for subalule admitted e wh aebe possible larol [again, Stalinism LL Trafalgar Square platform against apartheid in the early 1960s.

shall not see ueccosak changes in

OUI

neume. and trade position to tae rigot ot ne (Emphasis added). Tory Party. And he has not unions, and in tavour ot the Admitted and John stopped travelling.'

HOHSE

LOrdS Rarel bankruptcy if ever-has the Bloom-the washing machine This certain v connrmed manufacturer. the Utter He benan s latest nhase Stalinist bureaucracy been so Amid much clowning, Behan moves into university the openly admitted. for "local vhen the fight against Marxis dAC ared himset total the res oen Crechts consumer-producer alliances heory there is very strong.

vorkers that develop mutual aid unions, the the trade is the surest as the motor force of society'.

al aln- fight against the type of blind that the fight a aluk This idea will be recognized Tian in thể r 9SDs begins e Husak the teame a.Dic resémbling the corpora on, soviet protectors will go advocated by ground mil anth to thee mi- ane boai lini's Fascist Party. battle for Marxist lions theory and political clarity, so gramme of the Biography boost lution Vildl inlue UnIOns today, wOr- just autracuns tnousands very This was followed in June kers towards Workers Press. fight pruncelen Dail be he sp pa a ce it against imperialism from Viet- for' Warning lal desa. ois in bography, which came The evolution Behan from the the

BEA FLICHTS

ne 2e 19 The Newsletter' (June

DELAYED

rights of Powellism in 'Behan Nevers colleges, is really oroKt those so belitile the role LLic Warshils politically Stalinism. flights were de-

SUME BEA

layed cancelled again criticisms were or neory. asamsl Heathrow yesterday emotional work ways Cotac stopped hisas the is tsth dak. Behan e lentainlto the vuouisis u ans c acla. now in its 80This explains he has The pilots are demanding a right. He will 13 per and movea so rapialy to tne nga Icapocal ln even Conl will contine point has to the where ne more reactionary movements say they continue WOrke gone from being a member ing a satisactory they are The Cris1s devel ons. We until Communist Party right warn all workers and students offered deal. through Socialist Labour tearn trom his watch him closely They have rejected a 10 per League and now fate. occupies

MEETINGS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

BRISTOL UNIVERSITY

ALL TRADES

Political

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

UNIONS ALLIANCE

STUDENT SOCIETY

significance of Marxist

MEETINGS

General Week June 11-17 Election 'Fight the Tories' In commemoration of the centenary of Lenin's birth.

OXFORD

Marxism and thé economic crisis.

Speaket . Ha e n romal ABERDEEN. Thursday, June II, Fierse Orwell- Speaker: 8 р.m. secretary)| Music Hall (West Front Room) Montar ec on oren sten

SWINDON

OLLERTON. Saturday, June 20, Tuesda arkien and alienary.

Friday, Jane 12, 7.30 p.m.

Co-operative Hall, East Street 1 p.m. Wedneid and une Speakers: G. secretary SLL national thoictioing English Plough Inn. Speaker Mike Banda, editor of Frank Willis (ATUA) Workers Press. MIDDLESBROUGH. Friday June 12, Meeting will a film anicluce ATUA and Young showing how Workers Press is 7.30 p.m. Labour Club, Linthorpe Road.

produced. Socialists meeting ALL MEETINGS 8.15 p.m. Eve of election meeting

STUDENTS' UNION

WIGAN: Sunday, June 14, 8 p.m

QUEEN'S ROAD

GLASGOW , Su poay June 1s, Market Hotel, Mesnes St Speaker: (CAV-Lucas

BRISTOL

Wondes spr St. Otorge s rest

YOUNG SOCIALIST DEMONSTRATIONS

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

NEWCASTLE

SHEFFIELD

BIRMINGHAM

Saturday June 13 Saturday, June 13 Saturday June 13 Assemble 2.30 p.m. Assemble 3 p.m. Assemble 2.30 p.m. Morden St Waterloo St, Victoria Sq Young St, Moor The demonstrations will be followed by public meetings.