Workers Press no. 187

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NUMBER 187 • MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1970

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Mersey Powell and Paisley hoist their pennants

MIDDLE EAST

What Big line- we docks to think The Tory stop next up against Why we Monday are voting guerrillas

WHICHEVER

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BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

THE TORIES will mask is off THE 82nd AIRBORNE division are believed to be still standing by in readiness for an American thenerNation Thursdayarginal seats, this intervention in Jordan. Under the pretext of protecting American lives and • 8- property Nixon is ready to deal a direct blow at the Arab revolution and and the nationalization of all restore oraer reactionary rule of King Hussein and his feudal satraps.

•per-cent workers' con alerted thee Ameri

BY MICHAEL BANDA

MR POWELL'S

speech at Birmingham will Negro uprising. not win the Tories any new votes in the general virtually ning guerrilla With the election, but it will certainly arouse millions of million sinister con A Tory goy to serap even working class voters - immigrant and native ° Labour League this Socialist alike - to give a decisive rebuff to the Tories at

ERSTWHILE

use greatest Tory victory the polls on June 18. determi with greatest While fore rat This, of course, was not Mr Powell's intention. He ground leaders This it as 9 portant Bexley to stand their was not merely soncule votes.

Ations otine cap capons then. His political intuition, which is probably the sharpest preity or pokers alter prepare in the Tory Party, has already convinced him that the the election Tories parucipa- Tory Party, under Heath, is a goner. Mr Powell's main Now every apitalist o of dockers have Lot enemies ousession Is l save tne kory farty irom the coming employees w astage, leaving economic crisis. panic.. In or 26s, most. Al untile intention the sand ning i.

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BY PETER READ

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workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 187

MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1970

• Mersey Powell and Paisley hoist their pennants

MIDDLE EAST

What Big line- docks to thinks The Tory stop next up against Why we Monday are voting guerrillas Labour

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

mask is off THE TORIES will work might THE 82nd AIRBORNE division are believed to and main in every be still standing by in readiness for an American in usday. intervention in Jordan. • Merine port A ce de But Non the Under the pretext of protecting American lives and committee s property Nixon is ready to deal a direct blow at the that could bring • Full nationalization of all Hiau revolution anu restore oraer and reactionary rule of King Hussein and his feudal satraps.

voters. per-cent workers' con- • Maintenance of the present Sucha thin is not insible.

15 105 this

BY MICHAEL BANDA

The Dabduck:

MR POWELL'S

speech at Birmingham will poll intervier not win the Tories any new votes in the election, but it will cy ainty ates ise me general endable betterness der working-class voters - immigrant and native cargo for has been forced into the open committed to scrap alike - to give a decisive rebuff to the Tories at

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ictory n the the polls on June 18. While letermination. pressing Bexley against Lio This, of course, was not Mr Powells intention. He Thisan even in 1e mportant • Tenders troi. was not merely soliciting votes.

ris bonucal inculuon. walen is probabiv une snardes; in the Tory Party, has already convinced him that the perey for workers participa Tories tory rarty, under reath, is a goner. Mr powells main fallen nationally obsession is to save the Tory Party from the coming attempts economic crisis Arafat (leade panic.. to jas. working Powell A STRAINED Edward Heath s ot bene sirovoca Traw Sempr spells out Bexley erore times essence of Still East, mati varey andresse de Tory crisis lige Toryism as he vorted-looking Part leader position"-A Heath supporter battling

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BY PETER READ

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'There is something moving on the farm and it isn't only cattle... June 18

ABERDEENSHIRE

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every polia Name Arress s of trem He returned to the crisis of cattle. Monday, June 15, 1970 I WOULD like to traditional and despised language comment on the article on Plaid Cymru in the of the common people. June 1 Workers Press, in which To speak of Welsh nationalism that Plaid Cymru you argue 'state-building the party of the Welsh 'national as by a minority ruling class bourgeoisie' whose policies mean on the basis of regional cultures and languages' that the lives of every man and is therefore incorrect. woman in Wales 'are to be har- nessed to the cause of maintain- ing the Welsh ruling class in the luxury to which they would like to become accustomed and which they at present see slipping away The quotations designed to from them'. show its reactionary nature are tendentiously interpreted; the There is no indigenous Welsh only quated statement to imply ruling class' with any pretence approval of capitalism amy to controlling the economy Gwynfor Evans' advocacy of Wales deriving the luxury or smadl property which was in- therefrom. tended apply to peasant who farmers (or were) an The Welsh economy, for what important group. in Wales and it is worth, is almost totally con- hopefully will be spared the trolled from outside; in so far as of Stalinist-style rigours collec- there are a few businessmen in or British capitalist tivization Wales Welsh origin, none ranches. could be further from supporting Welsh national movement Welsh it nationalism as than they. developing in the industrial area of Wales is increasingly a protest Welsh workinthe class against capitalism on one hand and- —why not admit it- the and complacent ignorant A Welsh middle class of pro- chauvinism with regard to Wales fessional and people education- of the British labour movement alists does exist, but the bulk of on the other. it has for long been, and still is, attached to the Labour Party, Welsh warkers do not need tos which, since in most parts of be told that their enemy Wales it faces no opposition from capitalism, but they cannot fol- the right, has for the most part low your argument that this 'has ceased of to think in nothing to terms do with the English', political™ principles all, let because they cannot conceive of at alone socialism, but is concerned capitalism without capitalists and defend furiously the solely to they know that British govern- of provincial power it is scrap ments are guided in their deci- allotted by its masters. sions towards Wales by an ignorance of and contempt for Within the Labour-dominated the social, economic and political bourgeoisie, a minority group of aspirations of the Welsh people.

woolly-minded idealists hang who still manage to believe that the will Labour Party try to apply socialist principles in Wales. But under Wilson's gov- Your article, behind a smoke- ernment it has been harshly shut screen last paragraph plati- down and all favour bestowed on tudes attacking imperialism, sug- the party hatchet-men. gests the erman mistaken attitude of the old Social Demo- Nationalist intellectuals do not, the Slavs rather cratic Party to therefore, exercise sinister than the principled and clear-cut monopoly over the Welsh middle advocacy of the right to national class. self-determination advanced by Lenin. Moreover, the Welsh language is not a secret weapon they have By calling on workers to vote invented to delude the Labour you workers. can only succeed in It spoken by 656,000 people Wales in dividing the Welsh is in Wales (and at least a quarter national movement and frus- the million outside), not by trating achievement of 26,000 as stated by your corres- elementary national rights for the Welsh pondent. people, which are em essential preliminary to any Welsh speakers are almost in- meaningful Welsh participation in variably working class, or at most the international socialist move- lower middle class; only very ment. recently has progressive Robin Okey of the middle class minority Lecturer in History begun to interest itself on the

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Leon Trotsky

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Monday, June 15, 1970 QUESTION: Was the ILP correct in refusing critical support to the Labour Party candidates who advocated military sanctions ? ANSWER: No. Economic sanc- tions, if real, lead to military sanctions, to war. The

ILP

itself has been saying this. It should have given critical sup- port to all Labour Party can- didates, i.e. where the ILP itself was not contesting. In the 'New Leader' I read that your London Division agreed to support only anti-sanction- ist Labour Party candidates.

This too is incorrect. The Labour Party should have been critically supported not be- cause it was for or against sanction but because it repre- working - class sented the masses. The basic error which was made by some IlPers who withdrew critical support was to assume that the war danger necessitated a change in our appreciation of reformism. But as Clausewitz said, and Lenin often repeated, war is the con- tinuation of politics by other means. If this is true, it ap- plies only • to capitalist not parties but to social-demo- cratic parties. The war crisis does not alter the fact that the Labour Party is a workers' party, which the governmental party is not.

Nor does it alter the fact that the Labour Party leadership cannot fulfil their promises, that they will betray the con- fidence which the masses place in them. In peace-time the workers will, if they trust in social democracy, die of hunger; in war, for the same reason, they will die from bullets.

BALDWIN

Revolutionists never give critical support to reformism on the assumption that re- formism, in power could satisfy the fundamental needs of the workers. It is possible, of course, that Labour government could introduce a few mild tempor- ary reforms. It is also possible that the League of Nations could postpone a military con- flict about secondary issues— just as a cartel can eliminate secondary economic crises only to reproduce them on a larger scale. So the League can elimin- small episodic conflicts ate only to generalize them into world war. Thus, both economic and military crises will only return with an added explosive force so long as capitalism remains.

And we know that social de- mocracy cannot abolish capi- talism. No, in war as in peace, the ILP must say to the workers: "The Labour Party will deceive you and betray you, but you do not believe us. Very well, will go through your ex- we periences with you but in no case do we identify ourselves with the Labour Party pro- gramme Morrison, Clynes, etc., rep- resent certain prejudices of the workers. When the ILP seeks to boycott Clynes it helps not only Baldwin, but Clynes him- self. If successful in its tactic, the ILP prevents the election of Clynes, of the Labour gov-

INTRODUCTION

THIS INTERVIEW by an Independent Labour Party mem- ber with Leon Trotsky dates from November 1935, at a time when the Stalinists 'had from the "Third emerged Period' they called reformist socialists "social (when fascists) and were pursuing the new line of 'People's Front'. In Britain, this involved a turn towards the Independent Labour Party, which at that time wielded considerable influence amongst workers repelled by both social demo- of Stalinism. ILP broke and the treachery (The cracy organizationally from the Labour Party in 1931.)

In discussions with leaders of the left wing in the ILP, Trotsky insisted that orientation of thę party must be to- wards the Labour Party as the mass party of the British working class. In this excerpt from the pamphlet 'Once Again: The ILP', Trotsky is dealing with the objectors to a vote for Labour, who argued that only those candidates who stood for a consistent internationalist policy against the Italian invasion of Abyssinia should win the support of workers at the ballot box. The vote for Labour, Trotsky explains (as Lenin explained in his 'Left-Wing Communism' 15 years before) is not a vote leaders, 'any more than it of confidence in the Labour denotes moral approval of the individual candidate's personal qualities. Whether individual Labour candidates were for revolu- tionary action against the invasion of Abyssinia, or sup- ported the imperialist League of Nations 'economic sanctions' made not a scrap of difference to the class nature and roots of the British Labour Party.

At the height of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, middle-class pacifists argued that Labour candidates who refused to oppose British possession of the H-bomb should be boycotted at elections.

One group even ran independent candidates on the issue of the bomb alone where the Labour candidate was a right- winger. Like supporters of 'anti-sanction' candidates in the ILP 35 years ago, this tactic betrayed a middle-class, subjective approach to the Labour Party, and ignored the struggle of the working class to break free from the grip of reformism.

Trotsky's polemic against the ILP abstentionists applies with equal force today. Blackburn, Jordan and the rest of the blind 'Red Moles' of the International Marxist Group now advance the same argument — only now in a far more degenerate form.

They are for total abstention on June 18—with the wreck- ing of Labour Party election meetings thrown in for good measure. Trotsky's analysis of the Labour Party, despite its being written nearly 35 years ago, is an excellent counterblast to these revisionists. As Trotsky once said of the ultra left: 'A sectarian is a frightened opportunist? That sums up the political evolution of Blackburn and Jordan perfectly. masses, the eight millions who Labour. It is voted great danger for revolutionists to attach too much importance ta..

conference decisions. We evidence as such our propa- ganda-but it cannot be pre- sented beyond the power in One own press. cannot

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shout louder than the strength of his own throat. Let us suppose that the ILP had been successful in a boy- cott tactic, had won a million workers to follow it, and that it was the absence of this million votes which lost the Harry POLLITT election for the Labour Party.

What when would happen ernment, and so prevents their the came? The masses before the exposure masses. would in their disillusionment workers will say: If only The turn to the Labour Party, we had Clynes and not Morrison in power, things would have been better.' If formed Soviets were during the war the soldiers It is true, ontent orse clynes that would elect Labour Party mental content of the them, people to not us. and Baldwin is much the same Workers would still say that except, perhaps, that Baldwin we handicapped Labour. But if little more is a 'progressive' and we gave critical support and courageous. But the class by that helped the means of for content the support Labour Party to power, at the Clynes is very different.

same time telling the workers It is urged that the Labour that the Labour Party would Party already stands exposed function as a capitalist govern- by its past deeds in power and ment, and would direct a capi- its present reactionary plat- talist war-then, when war form. For example, by its de- came, workers would see that cision at Brighton. we predicted rightly, at the For us-yes! But not for the same time that we marched Stafford CRIPPS in 1947 with Harold WILSON

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such as the sought to At this Soviets would not betray.

operate, it was unreal. of stage British politics it As general principle, would be interpreted by the revolutionary has the party working class as a certain con- right to boycott parliament tempt for them; this is only when it has the par- capacity • ticularly true in Britain where to overthrow it, that is, when parliamentary traditions are it can replace parliamentary still so strong. action by general strike and insurrection, Moreover, the London Div- by direct struggle for power. ision's policy of giving critical In Britain the masses have support only to anti-sanction- confidence in the ILP. ists would imply a fundamental yet no The ILP is therefore too weak distinction between the social- like to break the parliamentary patriots Morrison and machine and must continue to Ponsonby or-with your per- use it. mission- Cripps. T

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tionary workers by denouncing League of Nations (a the de- nunciation that is an apology) by asking for 'workers sanc- tions' and then nevertheless 'We the sayıng: must use League when it is for sanc- tions'. They seek to hitch the revo- lutionary workers to the shafts that they can draw the cart SO of the League. Just as the General Council in 1926 accepted the General Strike but behind the curtains concluded deal the with clergy and pacifist radicals and this used in way bourgeois and influence to 'dis- opinion cipline' the workers and sabo- tage their strike, so the Stalin- ists seek to discipline the workers by confining the boy- within the limits of the cott League of Nations. The that if the truth is workers begin their own sanc- tions against Italy, their action inevitably strikes at their own and capitalists, the League compelled to drop would be all sanctions. It proposes them now just because the workers' are muted in every voices country. Workers' action can begin only by absolute opposition to national bourgeoisie and its international combinations.

Support of the League and support of workers' actions are fire and water; they cannot be united. Because of this, the ILP should have melt from sharply differentiated itself the CP at the elections than it did.

It should have critically sup- Labour Party ported *the Gallacher. against Pollitt and Norman Angell, who demands more sanctions now, they will easily turn into social patriots war develops. Then they could say to the workers: You know anti- were sanctionists. Even the ILP sup- ported our struggle. Therefore you can have confidence in us when that this say war is a just war'. No, the ILP should have applied the same of policy critical support to the whole of the Labour Party, only vary- George LANSBURY ing our arguments to meet the slightly varied propaganda of pacifist and social - patriot. It should have been declared Otherwise, illusions are pro- openly that the CP has all the voked that pacifism has more deficiencies of the Labour than power to resist social Party of its without any patriotism. vantages. It should have, above This is not true; their differ- all, shown in practice what fundamental. ences are not true critical support means.

Even among the Tories there By accompanying support differences sanctions are on with the sharpest and widest The distinc- and war policies. criticism, by patiently explain- tion between Amery and Lans- ing that such support is only bury is simply that Amery is for the purpose of exposing the more of Both a realist. are treachery of the Labour Party anti-sanctionist; for but the leadership, the ILP would have Lansbury working class, with completely exposed, also, the his illusions and sincerity is "critical' spurious support of more dangerous. the Stalinists themselves, Most dangerous of all, how- support which was actually ever, is the Stalinist policy. wholehearted and uncritical The parties of the Communist and based on an agreement in International try to appeal principle with the Labour Partv especially to the more revolu- leadership. By Cliff Slaughter

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Monday, June 15, 1970 Devon Repression S. Africa, Combine behind moves Brazil Rhodesia against kidnap case von Holleben

PAKONTRIED

Brazil since important was returning Dunlop speed only in exchange ter allies' for polit A MASSIVE movement - capitals nove against low wages s catherine momentur among workers in SW une ano.

-DONNELLY

OPERATIONS in the Dunlop-Pirelli combine's sador in Guatemala, 21 British factories may be back to normal to- Desmond outely told a Democratic Party They eti a blind eve to t morrow following Saturday's acceptance of the i be a catastrophe Labour daily systematic company's pay offer to engineers.

witims of police to des Faced with a total shut- perate measures

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

company Supportec quickly made a f4 offer in butchers, de- The Brazilia Saigon students men's sional the reDIy fully surd demand. This followed talks in battle with Lonaon between lne com- future exploitation. pany and Mr Mark Young Electrical Ine anu Plumbing Trades Union on riot police

FINAL PLANS

DUNLOP"

nationwide Friday, when lessons building up Was

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for the 1,500 Fort Dunlop, where WE STUDENTS demonstrating outside the US Birmingham, and 270

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embassy in Saigon on Saturday were attacked dio De janeiro, sunday-tr brazilia Inchinnan, Scotland, men

LAWS

Tory mask by 'riot police armed with teargas grenades.

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developed, with the stu-

DUNLOP

rodate me. dents using paving stones ampleted ementy it ld

VETERANS

with many and Molotov cocktails. men's five-week-old action.

The come read a the had carier occupied the Sai ES manded that 40 political Cate ebral Do Brail anti-us student leadentio Pare a dear owl sui Unanimous the impero reported occupation of their country 32 lency Been set naming the

SERIES

prisoners present. of opening the book and for daim or payork 5 paymen for the vocreas and or the up At president Phil lapp Nor is he another Hitleastist

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he Saigon regin noon and Dideath sentences Sinister ring capital, ese anti-imperiatist allowed to nan delarorship.

anti-imper 1 again meet the

IRISH REPUBLIC

agreement

I.O.S.

The rain po lein from Cement workers Bob

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entered Paris Rothschilds, held a meet- Paris transport swipe at strike today mat there since May laid down me mit ha Bano estabist Ture, of this new we es abie- lowed. wage ceiling yeSirazilian ayeice Strike pay Playing with fire st the i VIGILANTE and solidaritv actions have now swung in that they are government playing behind the five-month-old Irish cement workers' strike ital that an * the babyrinthine pat Would abovedu for a t/-a-week rise. labyrinthine pay torture on political structure.

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page contree Gener and

CORRESPONDENT

Brazilian authorities share Middle one back is at the same 'Interrogate' East

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Saturday i been provoked and pre future of the Berking t ider Asylum He must be the only one. South-West engineers since bec workt shis will remain at the nching must reject productivity canninst Hussein and Victory Eu the Tatio pe ar tunist leadership in the unions WORKERS at the two deals Recognition Clevedon, Somerset, plants

MEETINGS

of the Cam Gears motor

CES ONESE

Minister Prime have group compulells From i can cats acrone. interim

BRISTOL UNIVERSITY

received a cougackage daar eve award in response to their Political

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

reorgnit Germany demand for a £6 increas significance of

STUDENT SOCIETY

with no strings.

NLF'S

20,0000 e General Marxist Week water cannon and helicopters made heavy roads be awai Election Dominion sta usars of fortist policy ance.. and the ABE: for the E6 daim a U.S.

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operation by June 11-17 as us With rationed In commemoration of the pa the Midlands motor plans centenary of Lenin's birth.

Powell

FRENCH

national Monday Aurism and history.

armens becau forces Stewards' policy ATUA and Young Tuesday Feism and allenation.

bed sit the

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Socialists meeting tiens since March 20 * Cam Gears workers should

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politer a the foremine basing spokesman on devil- erately fomented for ien to wor Eve of election meeting Speaker Mike Banda, editor of

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the homie instrument shall don't think | Lenin and the author ined move to tered Meeting snowing now workers fress i ' "Race" is billed to plas

ALL TRADES

pease by a productivity deal proauced he went onbatie of Brian!

UNIONS ALLIANCE

token ALL MEETINGS 8.15 p.m. Resisted claim

MEETINGS

When Powell speaks of the Theated

STUDENTS UNION

Tan Cakes Fight the Tories' to April of the sto kiled the evening restora's

QUEEN'S ROAD

OLLERTON. Saturday, Jano 20, teal colla right-wing stewards schemes work. essence of the Tories

BRISTOL

(see picture page one). Already two or the ner