Workers Press no. 19

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NUMBER 19 • THURSDAY, OC

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

By a foreign correspondent piling up for United States

THE

PROBLEMS

capitalism create exceptionally favourable condi- tions for building the revolutionary party at the centre of world imperialism.

Nixon is being forced to consider a humiliating with- drawal from Vietnam, from the war which broke his Despite predecessor Johnson just a year ago.

border talks But much more is involved than Nixon's political future. As the 'Sunday Times' put it last weekend: 'The greatest military power in the world has failed to win a war against a small, poor, Aslan country.

can be saidally the least that Another 'dons devoted London battle fares rise Yorker 41,500,000* AS THE China-Soviet bor- began in Peking Lobbying miners with a plain message Monday, Nanking Radio approve deepening economic crisis.

PARIS

9d. vand so andy Struggles Soviet

RENAULT

recent peace fares went up weeks only SIx All Over The cont class is that the executive Sir strike

STRIKES

vas not taken in by negotia- all's fork lift tri France, mond Plume demanded a attitude

TODAY

border . BRITAINS I20.0U0 striking miners are more determined miners ever to win their fight for the shortening of surface.

the line Not folle confident aid is unco serous: men's hours. FRANCE'S three i ch na do we a challenge have agreed Bv David Maude fighting from of the Chinese allo motor ism demand or Wither wareh Revolution. co cape. enough peat bisc South i and man deep e moto area to National no dece void strike Preparations creased fares. I backing. the struggle to King Kient-wing Five to fight amited strike andon. An one boncaste Wilsor heavily on the Stalinist Her dod the Work aste leadership Swindon sudden big Renault in Barnsley pressure for them increase vas at the centre of the gene that lisis and sis. Month trike executive cial dele + Dave Stad for a return • next Thursday Nex ca dad reined * Gracien donned thudder very rapery Port collated inference • wage

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a priced balot with would While Gunter slams unions Include miners who ha ke two or three week to complete hours. PRUSIKATIUN of mood in the stalinists betore the don headquarters snapped.

right-wing Labour bureau- crats is certainly nothing 'Sell-out!' new. Gunter, ex-Minister of Labour but a recent attempt provide cover Tor Kar ine that those was da Gunter, former Minister from the tr uld be further acred, free collective bargain asset capitalian sor turn Labour reward ork have their dogmatio Capital tony and to stomach every class- is the essence o you send Change of heart concy the sat postpat, Under - Union president Sir Sidney carried the toil. trade unior and the crocodile tear mors to go back to work. city to 2, help spetch as toll reported the in The pethe policies ofte or chine or learner has Sir Ra unionists must drat had a change the Sect's Hoet touse head Guard for an meeting ent mie chis police and Vauxhall men mon leaders on e ization sis comes more clearly defined.

Denise said Kringley ate must reject deal a vote by many a siny fraction Stalinists 50 Lefts kicked Influence' barring, matial and chestie members ming called or NUVI same his tre said us me EF district committee Elles assume tremendous Il as an attempt to force ac dor earning ome bas not the state workers, miners and dust- 1 they the rules s a foste inside the stay ses areas are angry at kick indie on, cutor the tets ene to demand is hell con of Capt very The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

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firms. management | Forthcoming by an strikers claim, and staff were baking bread.

Ine Beal the supplies rapidly correspondent But features on dwindled and most of the Soviet Union Tuesday had turned dy dy. Workers at the four largest and North are also on strike.

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Stalinism Sulks aimed at settled tor dispute were arranged meetings Tuesday between Which and the Bakers' Over the next few days, Worker: las refused to support or inportant tele aries publishing a number the strike. But behind toyers caime waw develooments in hiding govern- world oldinism Me incomes Ine Henabllitation of stalln', in Speaker: Frank Willis the me uney could not sellie today s issue, details the history demands of the strikers for a of Stalinist distortion about the Young Socialists candidate events which led up to the tasic wase in the parliamentary feature "I. E. YAKIR' Is by-election

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in of the military purges account the Soviet Union during the Octobee 7 my t the indus Thursday, October 23

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General makir. tocerer idustry's 8 p.m. national joint committee many other outstanding milltary claim, would pro leaders, was murdered on Stalin's employers Pinehurst Common Room vide additional earnings orders. His son Coul one of the leaders mated ass. to jus. a weel Wednesday, October 29 tor male shit workers. these had 8 p.m. But not beer Departmen Saturday's Workers Press will approved by tne Swindon Town Hall

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whose delegates have rebuffed

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which the fight against low official calls deals with current economlc union leade wages, productivity deals developments In the USSR.

would mated a rise only an offer and redundancy Stalinism moves to the As ron. so co is revisionist Thursday, October 23, 13s. 4d. a week. nancers-on Besides £20 basic wage A case in point is the so-called 8 p.m. they demanding sette International Marxist Group al t Peoples Hall Pay tor 18 yearolds and tall One of this group's leaders Heathcote Street Purdie, writes overume ana rul in the October Pabloite monthly International attacking the All

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By a forelgn correspondent THE PROBLEMS piling up for United States capitalism create exceptionally favourable condi- tions for building the revolutionary party at the centre of world imperialism.

Nixon is being forced to consider a humiliating with- drawal from Vietnam, from the war which broke his Despite predecessor Johnson just a year ago.

border talks But much more is involved than Nixon's political future. As the 'Sunday Times' put it last weekend: "The greatest military power in the world has failed to China win a war against a small, poor, Asian country.'

This eally the least that can be said. Another The heroism and devoted sacrifice the Vietnamese workers and peasants has ad- London battle United States imperialism.

fares rise America s rulers learn. WHEN GLC Tories take over But had the London "ransnort HOArd France's adventures January,

TATAC

willi enst AS THE China-Soviet bor- Indo-China, US workers more. 41. 500.000 tne waI der talks began in Peking Minister reachine culmax at a ume later this will approve these when the whole on Monday, Nanking Radio la to thin suburban word overshadowed hit out at what it thought deepening economic crisis.

was the insincerity behind Is. 3d. fares will go up by Struggles the recent Soviet 'peace inner London tuDe and DuS moves'. ares went uo ony six weeks asthe new Aner the continent ot The broadcast

LTB

executive Europe the working class that Chinese government chairman will be sisi huge strike Sir richard not taken in by negotia- Way. in Italy, France henril

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tions. nall's fork lift truck company.

towards the Its big struggles Des- dist with with Soviet border "ory leader Mr talk. Union would mond Plummer demanded be lie sales workers. government assurance that the followed in nego. une line The working class is strong, LTB would not be in the red tiations with the US in Korea connaent and Is unconscious• Colane Kal-shek DeTore bill iv torowing down a chalence Chinese the ViCtOry ITne paid by to canitalism. Revolution. The efficiency through 'greater Hironear emn overs the working class through in ke their American. counter. Preparations parts, are consen of heig creasea lares. class to take While talking to the Rus- on 'the Chinese people sians Five to fight make a prepartions They lean military are torced a insing heavily the Swindon clearly remains reformist bureaucracies its guard sudden azainst any and betray this great

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Tuesday switch of Kremlin policy: movement. one ane we are Tor swindon wits But the Stalinism and the towering crimer exposing tIOn were • Hrank Willie formism also committed hv the soviet revi.

"Young Socialist) David Stor.

are CrISIS Siorists on the Chinese-Soviet dart (Lab), Christopher Ward They can no longer keep toe the other, tie (Con Miss Christopher class reined have our Gradwell (Comm)

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While Gunter slams unions THE PROSTRATION of the Stalinists before the right-wing Labour bureau- crats is certainly nothing Workers' Press correspondent new. Minister Labour, But a recent attempt to former of Perhaps the Stalinist policy provide for Ray of 'pressure' on the right-wing said vesterdav that the unions a cover has done the trick? were oniv now grasping the Gunter, former Minister of noint that thace who dir tha Nothing cond he further dirty work must their LaDour will TUrN The from the truth. of reward. every class- ctomach tact. the report con. conscious worker. Change of heart cnny amite the eccencA Under the heading 'Dust- Gunter's statement which Gunter' was extremely at- case: tack trade union- Mesdays Star edition Married the for sts and 'left' + 2 helplessness, youth pendustrial

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Manchester, tending "The Times' reported the 1,000 speech as follows: where near v dustmen conterence Could it be that Gunter has have heen on strike for almost Ray Gunter, former "Mr a fortnight, Mr Ray Gunter, had a cane ot heartl of Labour. Minister said here today that society Vauxhall men how ask i on the came leaders union must reject deal only of their members. vote d any wracuon 'Influence' national • senarate meeting tor Nyk As dist Cheshire being called and 'If and see Gunter is had said: committee as an attempt to force ac- ence about national econ- recommend ceptanci

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and press the Port mere workers acce bu treatment omy nOT state Ene after right to examine the rules bi and shop the company's new Day workers returned productivity der today. • senarat‹ Tour week disnute which ther come mower ! point of fact Many stewards are angry at on nester this

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Lobbying miners with a plain message

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Miners stick out

RENAULT

for less hours

STRIKES

TODAY

BRITAIN'S 120,000 striking miners are more determined than ever to win their fight for the shortening of surface- men's hours. HAN Three main vece By David Maude unions have agreed to call a fighting from soren sa, today the Renault

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support of a Tuesday South Wales unofficial leaders executive's demand for higher wages. the National unc will cared aled Coal Board against There the sulke come our are demanaca oll- cial backing. how the nas introduced ana

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bitter note into the struggle.

though militant lasl, executive men- alread not just Wilso vers cursed strike backed Robens fighting, as they et ruesoats meetna al c occupation of all the Renault in London. As one Doncaster leadership LuCH unloll d plants. miner told the Workers Press: as well. The Renault complex Meeting Barnsley can only increase • the was at the centre of the pressure for them to resign.'

Wednesday occupations of morals, May-June I orksure area counci was ex- execut ve strike decision pected relect Ine ехеси- call a special delegate call for has been tive's returni conterence next hirscav and on the trade work. of the ¡caters. Lne Board's wage Anaco late intere in France cass Struce li could develop very rapidly. Porthcawl later in the this went uld be left final would fi pit dead ballot whi de Would: decision stayed at work • Take two or three weeks to complete • Leave entire force bet entirely out account uno une suike® surlacemets nours. the decision was AS the mood nounced. of the union's

LON-

don headquarters snapped.

'Sell-out!' all Gunter, ex-Minister of Labour Lobbying miners from over the country broke as one from into shouts bal. as a token of thanks for their sacred. tree collective bargaın- lot!' ing, is so dogmatically abject capitulation Wilso which at the Labour Party and TUC defended, has just meant that ballot I you send round the lower-paid papers Scottish are, conferences. with burn exactly the same position.

The Stalinists british i nOW their role of "left' cover Union president Sir Sidney for the Labour bell-hops Ford, evidence during ter sheds a few crocodile tears which buld as- lobby, Jatet Cared for the dustmen. the most acrobatic boa miners to go back to work.

This Constitute Earlier, the lobbyers had speeco completel Trade unionists must draw in line with the policies of the voted overwneinincly nOt right-wing leadersh thei in the the necessary conclusions. send •elecanon Tene NCB's Hobart Labour Party and trade House here. liding the Tories' quarters 's airman for meeting with 3s the boltica ana econ- of omic crisis worsens, the polar- Board Lord Robens the ring ization of a class forces be- against 'We're sick of running after comes more clearly defined. recent Tory spelt said Killingley miner Party conterence Jock Miller. The orrensive his Lordship really ing cass is the signal for the Stalinists to rally whatever Lefts kicked forces they can assist branch This has been clear Yorkshire Pit told prop ruling class. by the reaction up the. could the telephone in five minutes.

the The fight for alternative car workers, Leadership solid ever well be mains ther tomorrow' said sica destruction addition Gunter aims : a force inside the no back until kick in the teeth for the 'lefts'

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At some firms, the By an Forthcoming and staff were baking bread.

Industrial But supplies rapidly correspondent features on dwindled and most of the queues waich rommed outsiae ShODS Enrouenout moe area Soviet Union luescav had turned away. Workers at the four and North bakeries oratorasaire are aso on sake Stalinism

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Talks aimed at settling the dispute were arrangec meetings Tuesday between manlage ments and the Bakers' Union. Over the next few days, Workers wilch mas remuse• to suoDor ress will de ouoisnino 8 numeei the strike. or imomant feature anicas But dealing with developments In empiovers were hiding world Stalinism. benin d the govern 'The Rehabllitation of Stalin', In ment'c Incomac Insist Speaker: Frank Willis ing they detalls the history conia not • cette the demands of the strikers for a distortlon about the Young Socialists candidate wage. vents wuch lea u• to tre in the parliamentary Friday's feature ". E. YAKIR' Is by-election

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an account of the military purges in the Soviet Union curina tho settle my t reached 1930s. General Yakir, together Thursday, October 23 October the with Marshal Tuchachev inoustry s 8 p.m. outstanding on Stalin e nanaint committee the employers wolle nro Pinehurst Common Room murdered vide additional earnings acti. , Pyotr Yakir, is mated at 25s. to a week one of the leaders of the anti- Wednesday, October 29 for male shift workers. Stalinist oonosition In the USSR had 8 p.m. R11t †hace mot hppn ooav Department Saturday's Workers Press will Swindon Town Hall and be imple- mented until December.

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THE CONTINUAL re- writing of Soviet Party history has always been a feature of the crisis of the Stalinist bureau- cracy. Each new faction fight, in- ternal convulsion, purge or policy zig-zag has to be pre- sented as if the Party had always followed the policies advocated by the current occupants of the Kremlin.

The most recent edition of the official history of the Soviet Communist Party is subject, like all its ill-fated predecessors, to this iron law of bureaucratic distortion.

Readers of Workers Press will be familar with develop- ment of the struggle against Stalinism within the Soviet Union today. There is no doubt whatsoever that oppo- sition to the bureaucracy is developing, if in a contradic- tory and uneven way, towards Leninist positions. It now embraces not only large groups of intellectuals, writers, historians and scien- tists, but sections of the work- ing class. Linked with the movement to the left of the working class on an international scale from the United States and Britain to France, West Germany and Italy, the resistance to Stalin- ism in Czechoslovakia poses further enormous problems for the Soviet bureaucracy. It must always be remem- bered that the Stalinist bureau- cracy was only able to climb into the saddle and begin its of Lenin's destruction Bol- shevik Party because of the defeats inflicted on these de- cisive sections of the inter- national working class. Their entry now into politics as an independent force can- not but threaten the continued stability of the Soviet Stalin- ists. As the working class revolutionary towards moves politics, the bureaucracy must more and more openly embrace the arch-counter-revolutionary of them all-J. V. Stalin.

THIS SWING to the right by the Kremlin is now given official confirmation in the latest version of the official Party history, just published in Moscow. From beginning to end, the theme is 'back to Stalin'.

The previous version, writ- ten in 1962 at the height of the Khrushchev 'thaw' , made several sharp criticisms of Stalin, while never challenging the basic political line "socialism in one country'— the essence of Stalinism - led directly to the which counter - revolutionary purges which • hit the party and the working class in the 1930s.

For example, the 1962 ver- ment referhich, sion 'Lenin's Testa- which, after drawing attention to Stalin's defects, called for his removal from the post of Secretary-General of the Bolshevik Party. This version takes Stalin to task for not heeding Lenin's criticisms : 'But subsequent develop- ments showed that Stalin had not drawn the necessary con- clusions from Lenin's critic- ism. He did not justify the confidence of the Congress and broke his promise and his pledges. As a result, the Party and the Soviet country had later to pass through the The Presidium of the 22nd Congress incl difficulties born of the per- sonality cult.' Even here, all the blame is heaped on Stalin; the rest of the Stalinist faction escape un- scathed. This was Khrush- chev's theory of the 'cult of the personality' in reverse: in- stead of everything good being attributed to Stalin, as in his lifetime, under Khrushchev, all the bureaucracy's crimes against the Party and the wor- king class were blamed only on the dead tyrant. In the new edition, this sec- tion is missing. Instead, the following interpretation Testament' is given : 'Lenin's 'It was full of concern for the unity of the Party and the authority of the Central Com- mittee of the party.' Yes, and it was for that very reason that Lenin insisted on the removal of Stalin, who was the biggest single obstacle to unity within the Party, and who repeatedly set his own apparatus over and against the authority of the collective elected party bodies. THE REHABILITATION of Stalin in this new version goes hand in hand with a vindication of the purges and the Moscow Trials. In fact, one would not be possible without the other.

As is now well known, the frame-ups of the monstrous three trials were only able to point to one single concrete act allegedly carried out by the defendants: S. M. Kirov whose assassination was used heinous crimes against the old leaders of the Red Army generals. The murder of the Leningrad party leader, S. M. Kirov.

Each of the Trials took as their point of departure the assassination of Kirov of De- cember 1, 1934, and the part alleged to have been played in various oppositionist it by groups. The manner of Kirov's death remains to this day a central of Party history question writing. If the bureaucracy has in the past been forced to raise concerning Kirov's doubts death, it has done so only under tremendous pressure from the Soviet masses. d Congress included (left to right, front): L. Brezhn Kirov's death and the purges that flowed from it are academic questions; they struck brutally and tragically into the heart of the Soviet Party, state and armed forces, and left a scar that still festers within the working class, the youth and the intellectuals.

How has Kirov's death been variously recorded in Soviet 'Histories' and publica- Party tions ? 'Speeches were also made at the 17th Congress by the Zinoviev and Trotskyists, Kamenev, who lashed them- selves extravagantly for their mistakes. • . . However, the Party did not yet know or suspect that while these gentry were making their cloying speeches at the Con- gress they were hatching a villainous plot against the life of S. M. Kirov. On December 1, 1934, S. M. Kirov was murdered in the foully Smolny, in Leningrad, by a shot from a revolver.... "The investigation estab- lished that in 1933 and 1934 underground counter- an revolutionary terrorist group had been formed in Leningrad consisting of former members of the Zinoviev opposition and so-called • headed bv a "Leningrad Centre" '. The pur- pose of this group was to murder leaders of the Com- munist Party. S. M. Kirov was chosen as the first vic- tim. ... A year later it be- came known that the actual, real and direct organizers of the murder of Kirov were Trot- sky, Zinoviev and Kamenev.

as the pretext for the old leaders of the Bolshevik Party and The main lesson which • the Party organizations had to draw from the trials of the persons implicated in the foul murder of S. M. Kirov was that they must put an end to their own political blindness and political heedlessness and must increase the vigilance of all Party members.' This is the version of the Kirov murder according to the History written by Party Stalin: 'History of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet (Bolsheviks) Short Union Course, 1938'. The section quoted is from ont) : L. Brezhnev, N. Khrushchev, F. Kozlov and M.

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the 1948 edition, pages 401- 402. This fully Stalinist version remained the official explana- tion of the Kirov affair until the Khrushchev 'Secret Speech' of March 1956, made at the end of the 20th Congress of the

CPSU.

Here Khruschev throws an entirely different light on the assassination, light whole which pointed directly to the real instigator of Kirov's mur- der, as well as to the motives which lay behind the killing: 'After the criminal murder of Sergei M. Kirov, mass re- pressions and brutal acts of violation of socialist legality evening of began. On the December 1, 1934, on Stalin's initiative (without the ap- proval of the political bureau —which was passed two days later, casually) the Secretary of the Presidium of the Cen- tral Executive Committee, Yenukidze, signed the follow- ing directive: • "1. Investigative agencies are directed to speed up the of those accused cases the preparation or execution of acts of terror. • '2. Judicial organs are directed not to hold up the execution of death sentences pertaining to crimes of this Kozloy and M. Suslov.

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category in order to con- sider the possibility of par- don, because the Presidium Central Executive Committee of the USSR does not consider as pos- sible the receiving of peti- tions of this sort. '"3. The organs of the Commissariat of Internal Affairs are directed to exe- death cute the sentences against criminals of the above - mentioned • category immediately after the pas- sage of the sentences." 'This directive became the basis for mass acts of abuse against socialist legality.

During many of the fabri- cated court cases, ac- cused were charged with "the preparation" of terroristic acts; this deprived them of possibility that their any cases might be examined...• 'It must be asserted that to this day the circumstances surrounding Kikov's murder hide many things which are inexplicable and mysterious and demand a most careful examination. There are reasons for the suspicion that the killer of Kirov, Niko- layev, was assisted by some- one from among the people whose job it was to protect the person of Kirov. 'A month and a half before the killing Nikolayev was arrested on the grounds of suspicious behaviour, but he released and not even was searched. It is an unusually suspicious circumstance that whèn the Chekist assigned to protect Kirov being was brought for an interrogation, 1934, he was killed in a car which no other occupants of the car were harmed. After the murder of Kirov, top functionaries of the Lenin- grad NKVD were given very light sentences, but in 1937 they were shot. We can assume that they were shot in order to cover the traces organizers of Kirov's of the killing' With this speech, Khrush- chev focused, without saying it in so many words, the motive and the blame on Stalin for the murder of Kirov. But this speech remained unofficial, and when in 1960 a new Party History was written and translated into English, of Kirov's the old version death was upheld : 'On December 1, 1934, S. M. Kirov, an outstanding leader of the Communist Party and the Soviet State, was foully murdered in the Smolny, Leningrad, by a re- The assassin, shot. volver who was caught red-handed, be an em- turned out to bittered renegade. 'He was full of hatred for the Communist Party leaders, who were firmly implement- ing the Party's general line at the victory of socialism in the USSR. He had been con- nected with some of the for- mer members of the Zinoviey anti-party group. He was a Party member, held a Party card and used it as a cover for his heinous crime. ' The assassination of Kirov showed that the Party card could be for in- used as a screen famous anti-Soviet acts. It was indispensable to safe- guard the Party against the alien ele- penetration ments. ..: This extract, which reverts to the line, style and tone of the 'Short Course' of 1938, is taken from the English lan- : version of the official guage 'History of the Communist Party of the • Soviet Union', edited by Moscow, 1960, Andrew Rothstein, and is to be found on page 492. The first public and official recognition of the real circum- stances leading up to and fol- lowing the murder of Kirov was made, again by Khrush- chev, at the 22nd Congress of the CPSU in 1961 : 'Mass repressions began after the assassination of Considerable effort Kirov. will still be required to estab- •lish who was guilty of Kirov's death [up to this moment, this had been officially estab- lished by the three Moscow Trials]. "The deeper we look into the records concerning Kirov's death, the greater the number of questions that up. There is the out- crop standing , fact that Kirov's assassin had on two previous occasions been detained by security people in the vicinity of Smolny • and had been found to be carrying a weapon. But someone ordered his release on both occasions.

"Then this armed man turned up in Smolny, in the very corridor along which Kirov usually passed. And it somehow happened that at the moment of the assassina- tion the chief of Kirov's bodyguard was far behind his instructions, although, according to he had no right to lag so far behind the man he was guarding. "There is anther strange the chief of fact. When Kirov's bodyguard was being taken for interrogation — he was to have been interrogated by Stalin, Molotoy and Voro- shilov-an accident was de- liberately staged on the way, as the driver of the car after- wards said, by those who should have taken the guard chief for interrogation. They then reported that the chief of the bodyguard had been accident, killed in the al- though he was actually killed by those escorting him. And that is how the man who guarded Kirov was killed.

'Afterwards the people who had killed him were shot.

This was obviously not an accident but a deliberate crime. Who could have com- mitted it? A thorough study of this complicated case is now being made. [this was in Rober

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1961] ... There is still very, very, much that has not been cleared up concerning the of this and circumstances other cases. ..: This speech is taken from 'The Road to Communism', a book which contains all the major speeches and decisions taken at the 22nd Congress.

The section quoted is from pages 343-344. WHAT has been the fruit of this "thorough study' which Khrushchev claims was al- ready under way in 1961? The best guide to the suc- cess of the bureaucracy's labours is its most recent Party History. It has this to say of the Kirov murder : It once again reminded them [the Party and the

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NKVD FROM 1938 to 1953. Thursday, Ookolor 23, 1960 Robert people] of the necessity to strengthen vigilance. It was necessary to safeguard against alien elements and to make activities hostile to socialism and the interests of the Soviet State impossible under what- ever cover they were done.'

It would seem that Khrush- chev's injunction to re-open the Kirov case, made in 1956 and apparently implemented at the latest by 1961, has led to the confirmation of the version Moscow established at the Trials, and recorded in Stalin's History of the CPSU. THE BUREAUCRACY has come full circle. All the fail- ings and mistakes of the Party and its Stalinist fac- tion are now attributed to Beria (purged some time in 1953 as an alleged agent of British imperialism). Since they were discussed openly in the Khrushchev era, it is impossible now to claim that there were no crimes committed under the rule of Stalin. But as the authority of Stalin has now to be restored to something approaching its pre-1953 least 1956 at level, these crimes have to be pinned on a scapegoat. That is where Beria comes in : 'Beria did not allow any interference by the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers in the affairs of the MVD. [the secret police] And by placing into positions per- sons holding personal loyalty to him, Beria was trying to put the MVD above the Party and the Government ..: And all this, of course, took place under Stalin's nose, with-

Thuraday, October 23, 1969 il Stalin at Kirou's lying-in-state Stalin beside Kirov's graveside.

out either his knowledge or consent. When more extensive trans- lations of this Party new History become available it will be possible to make a more detailed analysis of the treat- ment it gives the great struggle and the Left between Stalin Opposition, led by Trotsky.

with the few But even ex- cerpts so far at hand, the main trend is clear. The road to power travelled by the present rulers of the Soviet Union, the Suslovs, the Kosygins, the Brezhnevs and the Podgornys, is littered with the corpses of murdered Bol- sheviks, Red Army leaders and workers, and of the countless thousands led to their deaths the world by the all over counter-revolutionary policies of the Communist Inter- national after the death of Lenin and during its domina- tion by Stalin. THE LATE Isaac Deutscher was a leading advocate of the theory that the Kremlin bureaucracy would reform itself, by easy stages, out of existence. This revision of the Trotsky- ist theory of the political revolution, of the violent over- throw of the Stalinist bureau- cracy, was taken up within the Fourth International by group which has since moved much closer to Stalinism after the split of 1953 between the forces of the International Committee and the 'United Secretariat' of the Pabloite re- visionists. The British adherents of this position are the 'International Marxist Group' of Messrs Jordan, Tariq Ali and Purdie.

Deutscher posed the question thus: "The view that de-Stalin- ization is only a "temporary expedient" slick or manoeuvre . . . had perhaps a semblance of plausibility in the year 1953 or 1954....

In 1956 this view is patently anachronistic and untenable.

The break with Stalinism is felt in every aspect of now Soviet activity and thought.

... The autocratic system of government, bequeathed by Stalin, is shattered. The back- bone of the MVD, the politi- cal police, is broken. (Ironies of History', p. i8.)* These words are cold com- fort today for the thousands of inmates of the Kremlin's ter- rible 'labour' camps in the far North and the East.

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u's lying-in-state, December 19.34 They are cold comfort to the writers, intellectuals and wor- kers hounded by the "political police' whose backbone, ac- to Deutscher, cording was broken at least 13 years ago.

There is no doubt that the bureaucracy was forced to re- treat under pressure from the working class and the youth.

But it was only a tactical turn, it did not represent any change in the nature of the bureau- cracy. And that is where we parted company with all the revision- Trotsky falsely implicated by Stalin i ists in the international move- ment. AS THE struggle sharpens here in the west against capi- talism, so it gathers pace in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. The world crisis of imperial- ism and Stalinism now pro- duces reaction all along the line: the rise of Powellism in the Tory Party, the NPD in West Germany, the attempt to tie the trade unions to the state in practically every major

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capitalist country. And in the Soviet Union, the forces of counter-revolution now mar- shall themselves behind the • banner they know— only Stalin. When Khrushchey revealed part of the truth about Stalin, that demanded those we Com- leaders of the British who justified munist Party crimes should make a these clear and public declaration on where they now stood on the Moscow Trials, the military and Party purges and all the ated by Stalin in Kirov's assassination.

other crimes of the bureau- cracy. They remained silent, claim- ing that it was up to their 'Soviet comrades' to look into these matters, as they had all the relevant materials at hand.

This was a strange reply, coming as it did from Stalin- ists who had endorsed and applauded every murder in the Soviet Union without the least to any documentary access evidence of any kind. Pollitt, Gollan and the rest only regained their critical faculties when the issue was

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one of rehabilitation and not execution. Today these wretched apolo- gists for Stalin have : their answer. The 'Soviet comrades' have done their homework, begun in 1961, and come up with the answer that Kirov was killed by a genuine oppositionist, and that the murder served the Party as warning that vigi- lance had to be greatly height- ened. As this version upholds the old legend of the Kirov assassination, it must also up- hold the Moscow Trials, all of whose victims were charged and convicted of the murder of Kirov. Khrushchev's doubts have proved groundless. Although greatly spurred on by the great struggles breaking western Europe, out all over the crisis within the Soviet Union has its internal own logic and laws of development.

The bureaucracy has tried every method, from open terror to demagogy (together with every possible combina- tion of the two, in its struggle to hold back the working class trom re-conquering the politi- cal power it lost under Stalin.

Khrushchev played the des- 'de-Staliniza- perate card of tion' and unleashed th very forces which he was attempt- ing to head off. The bureaucracy removed rusher, and by degrees began to swing back towards the old line that pre-dated the 1956 secret speech. Internationally, the Kremlin drew closer still to imperial- with it ism, collaborating against the Chinese Revolution and seeking by underhand pressure to force the Vietnam- ese people to compromise with US imperialism. Both at home and abroad, this strategy met with resist- ance from the working class.

There are two vital factors which distinguish our era from that of Stalin and the Moscow Trials. The first is the combativity of the international working class, unprecedented in the • THE history of capitalism. The second, closely allied with the first, is the rapid de- velopment of Trotskyism into a real material force able to defeat Stalinism in open com- bat within the workers' move- ment. The coming together of these two forces will prove de- cisive not only here in Britain, but in the Soviet Union, where the opposition will be forced to fight for its very life now that the bureaucracy has made this open turn towards Stalin.

We have the duty to alert the working class to the dangers as well as the oppor- tunities of this new develop- ment in the Soviet Union.

It is not a question that con- Soviet oppositionists cerns alone. Stalinism remains an inter- counter-revolutionary national force and it will fight to the very end, rallying all its sections however national weak and demoralized they may appear to be. main enemy is the Their Trotskyist movement. In Britain, that means the Socialist Labour League. The publication of the Workers Press heightened the conflict between ourselves and the Stalinists. This new version of Soviet Party History must serve not only as proof of the deepening Stalinist crisis, but of Stalin- ism's determination to fight to the end. We must now equip ourselves for that fight.

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launchings register another space first for the Soviet Union. The sending into orbit of cosmonauts in seven three separate space- craft is undoubtedly a further step towards the construction of a per- manently-orbiting space station. The three ships involved were: SOYUZ 6, with Air Force lieutenant-Colonel Georgy Shonin and civilian engineer Dr Valery Kubasov on board.

SOYUZ 7, crewed by lieuten- ant-colonels Anatoly Filip- chenko and Viktor Gorbatko and civilian engineer Dr.

Vladislav Volkov. SOYUZ 8, carrying Colonel Vladimir Shatalov, Com- mander-in-Chief for the whole mission, and Dr Alexei Yeli- seyev, another civilian scien- tist. occupants of Both the Soyuz 8 have had previous ex- perience of space flight.

Both flew in the Soyuz 4 and 5 mission last January when two cosmonauts landed in a different vehicle from the one that sent them into space after completing docking man- 9.38 a.m.-12 noon Schools. 12.30 p.m. Farm Management. 1.0 Cadw Cwmni. 1.30 Watch With Mother.

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10.00 British By Cholce. 10.30 24 Hours. 11.17 Car-Wise. Regional programmes as BBC-1 except at the following times: Midlands and East Anglia: 6.00- 6.45 p.m. Midlands Today, Look Weather, Nationwide. East, 11.47 News Summary, Weather.

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For Schools. 6.00-6.45 Scene Six, Weather, Nation- Around ( wide. 11.47 Northern Ireland News Headlines, Weather, Road Works Report South and West: 6.00-6.45 p.m.

South Today, Points West, Spotlight South-West, Weather, Nationwide. 11.47 South and West News Headlines, Weather.

oeuvres. Yeliseyev has walked in space-a necessary part of any operation in space con- struction. Diagrams published re- cently in the Soviet magazine 'Week', although not specifi- cally referring to last week's mission, showed orbiting spacecraft joined by big tubes to allow movement from one to the other and to form the nucleus of a laboratory.

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During this latest flight welding techniques which will be used in the future for con- necting sections of such a laboratory were tested out.

Kubasov and Shonin car- ried out the welding experi- ment by remote control, using called "Vulcan' equipment which was situated in a com- partment sealed off from their own re-entry capsule and liv- ing quarters. Kubasov brought the sam- ples of welded metal back to the re-entry capsule before the return flight and it is re- ported that arc welding, elec- welding and elec- tron beam trode welding were all tested in the experiment. The Americans are now ex- tremely worried about the Soviet Many programme. American scientists believe that orbiting laboratories should have been given a higher priority in the US space programme than the sending of men to the moon.

They believe that the re- covery of lunar material by 11.00-11.20 a.m. Play School.

7.00 p.m. Teaching Adults.

7.30 Newsroom, Weather. 8.00 Call My Bluff. 8.30 The Money Programme.

9.10 The Canterbury Tales.

10.00 The Spanish Riding School of Vienna. 10.40 News Summary, Weather.

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12 mldnight, Medicine In Question.

the Apollo 11 crew was out of all proportion in terms of cost and a number of leading scientists have already signed over this issue since July.

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It is estimated that the USSR now has a four-year lead over the United States in techniques for assembling space equipment in orbit using recoverable space shut- tles and that they will be as- observatories sembling and craft for planetary explora- tion on the moon by 1975.

This is the price that the US is paying for throwing everything into the Apollo project. President Kennedy's de- mand for a US 'space spect- acular by the end of the 1960s to overshadow the USSR's early successes has now rebounded with a ven- geance. The single-shot trips to the moon which have been char- acteristic of the American programme work out at about a billion dollars a piece and are completely uneconomical for any future programme of planned exploration involving large numbers of men and tons of equipment. While the USSR will now proceed to the almost im- mediate construction of a space station capable of hous- ing large numbers of scientists (each Soyuz craft can house six in comfort) the US pro- gramme will now have to go 11.00 a.m.-2.58 Schools. p.m. 4.00 House Party. 4.15 News Headlines. 4.17 Diane's Magic Theatre. 4.30 Arthur. 4.55 The Forest Rangers. 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 News. 6.00 Calendar, Weather. ( 6.30 Castle Haven. 6.55 "The Key' starring William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard. 9.00 Nearest and Dearest. 9.30 This Week. 10.00 News At Ten, Weather. 10.30 Cinema. 11.00 A Man Of Our Times. 12 midnight Weather. 11.00 a.m.-12 noon Schools. 1.40 p.m.-2.58 Schools. 4.08 Westward News Headlines. 4.10 Peyton Place. 4.40 The Gus Honeybun Show. 4.50 The Flaxton Boys. 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 National News.

6.00 Westward Diary. 6.20 Pett Subject. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 'Slattery's The Thursday Film: Hurricane' starring Richard Wid- mark, Linda Darnell and Veronica Lake. 8.30 Miss Westward / '69. 9.00 Nearest and Dearest. 9.30 This Week. 10.00 News At Ten.

10.30 Cinema. 11.00 Seaway. 11.56 11.50 Faith For Life. Weather.

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through a major reorienta- tion.

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TO 1972 gramme still dominates. The Apollo flights will continue at three a year up to Apollo 20 While the Apollo 11 astro- nauts continue their whistle- stop world tour, the Soyuz flight, coupled with the crisis of the American programme, threaten to cloud over the im- mense technological feat ac- complished in the moon flight. The tour has coincided with the launching in Britain of the film Footprints on the Moon —Apollo 1l' This emerges as an open propaganda film for the United States. It adds little in mat- erial to that which was pre- sented on TV at the time of the flight. In the background Dr Wernher von Braun drones on, occasionally interrupted by someone with an incredible accent impersonating French Jules Verne. And that's about it. No scientific detail of interest and no documentary material even on the US programme. Everything : was reduced to some frantic flag-waving and 'the greatest show on earth'.

Indeed, capitalism in decay reduces even the most inspir- ing of man's achievements to the level of the gutter. 10.58 a.m.-12 noon Schools. 1.38 p.m.-2.58 Schools. 4.05 Castle Haven. 4.30 Newsroom. 4.35 Sean the Leprechaun. 4.50 The Flaxton Boys. 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 News.

6.00 About Anglia. 6.20 Arena. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Star Action Movie: 'The Buccaneer' starring Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom and Charles Boyer.

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11.00 a.m.-12 noon Schools. 1.40 p.m.-2.58 Schools. 4.13 North East Newsroom. 4.55 Ivanhoe. 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 News. 6.00 Today At Six. 6.30 Peyton Place. 7.00 Marcus Welby, MD. 8.00 Man In A Suitcase. 9.00 Nearest and Dearest. 9.30 This Week. 10.00 News At Ten. 10.30 Face The Press: Osbert Lancaster. 11.00 University Challenge. 11.30 Late News Extra. 11.47 The Case Of The Talking Books. 1.40-2.58 Schools. p.m. 4.00 Border News Headlines. 4.02 Junkin. 4.15 Katie Stewart Cooks.

4.40 Once Upon A Time. 4.55 The Adventures of Robin Hood. 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 National News.

6.00 Border News and Look- around. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 The Wild, Wild West. 8.00 Peyton Place. 8.30 Ours Is A Nice House.

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for government in the morer. AKMI ana state of Soma- east African lia on Tuesday morning. Bone com Predest Abi intervention ashid All Shes • the police of and that change in new regime. CLYDESIDE employers are getting worried by the leader stubborn struggle which is being waged by the 800 women and young girls on strike at the East Kilbride From Bob Shaw factory of Better Sound Reproductions Ltd., now All previous e in its Ith week. East German fascist empire in On most days of the 1941. deep wall to force the strikers week the strikers have 1 and massed some 500 workers been sho sashed as they raced trade delegation when special buses leave the factory with scab Oil prospects labour. investment speed pra in London Last week the strikers were joined by 60 students Glasgon editorial last sa Strathclyde universities.

THE EAST GERMAN bureaucracy took another step reinforcolice have been heavily the he first me were take poo towards closer relations with the west with the visit tomation in • 10. ded by the Donaldson re- to London or a lob-llne ~ trade aeleraton nom catherine to a.m. German Democratic Republic.

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caThe strike is clearly politi- No sackings' pole the Factory Unable Chancellor Thursday, October 23, unwilling lo • D.M Thamesmead Park Square

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contractors gers press elected West German Chancellor by the Bundes mar fince nence back down tag on Tuesday morning. conditions. whole of the trade and our late votes mobilized to ereat must WORKERs at "thamesmead

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demonstrate Birmingham on two daya of their interim For any ted dally) ron is to hours earle chea Tnel OR for three ›asic scal Ei for three months colourful the assed not the the never majority • would like to subscribe to Workers' Press for ho paid support such 5 07 40 9 This is not true. meeting of young national enormo Backing cation by the cade if capi- Name Before November time Ke has to intere Address Significant the he Alliance Praham Circare, London, Swa. (el: 01-720-2000) • no , young teachers, how eo tight and deliberately mis- Thursday, October 23, 1969 Czech leaders bootlicking in Moscow TALKS began on Tuesday between the Czech delegation in Moscow and top Soviet Party By a foregn Heading the group or ten correspondent Ariars. Secretary Gustav Husak, supported by Presi- dent Svohoda and Prime Minister • Gernik At the top of the agenda 500,000 demonstrate in the nine-day series of talks will be the political crisis in Czechoslovakia.

against Japanese It is thought in Moscow Inal une visil will end wick the czeen leaders signing e approving and U.S. governments Kremlin Invancel country last year.

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smaller Land immediatens was available from Soners here said Gio- 25,000 police were alerted in Tokyo alone as workers, youth and students took to Agnelli, the streets in thousands all over Japan as part of a national campaign against US president announce th imperialism and the support given to it by the right-wing japanese government.

ably on the eve About half a million were thought to be involved in demonstrations in 750 centres which throughout Japan. carts on Hauliers press for Speed-up proposed heavier lorries for clerical workers v101 0k manuracturers are pressing the minister or 1rar ort to allow even heavier lorries onto the roads. desni the dangers of these juggernauts.

limit is WHITE-COLLAR workers are to be attacked by the employers' productivity drive along with the rest of the working class. Workers' Press reporter Mr John Hendry, chair- these man of his ork-study ediatel a realistic rate i sure the so base in e road haulage workers could nearly dou Clerical workers, look out!

the prospect even more o ore sant Die tnel work lale in increasing demand for ever 'Time-wasting' against drivers and pedestrians as the all to see stands revealed for

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dis- ime-waster ine Strike blows being about Woman rest are turnin period ot mployed and over-paid most ionary politic The movement of the wor emlass against Management The emate empires wit Pone a vet " Liberation week's Moratorium the sires sist the war 7o the National Libera. work in the miners sike. ° Daly's protesting days are Mime needed bande en produce ward Strikes hit fascist Portugal Unemployment

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