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dither as general first regional elections, have THREE WEEKS after Italy's centre-left politicians have reached no agreement on government coalitions at the local level.

The Unionist Party is torn between the wish not to disturb the centre-left amd the blandishments of the Communist Party.

In Umbria and Tuscany the Socialists hold the balance of power. Lombardi, leader of the left wing, is urging a coalition with the Communists there and an offer to join with the Christian Democrats, excluding the Social Democrats and the Republicans, in the regions where the political arithmetic makes it possible.

In effect, this is a formula to end the centre-left.

The decisive factor is not the relatively small gains and losses at the June 7 elections, but the force of the working class building up in support If the general ser trade ed on demands for reforms.

With falls in production being reported from many sectors of industry, the strike has been denounced by every employers' politician in the country.

La Malfa, leading figure in the right-wing Liberal Party, has reminded Prime Minister Rumor of the need to 'make the trade unions understand that the level of production will not allow even a normal expansion, never mind any possibilities of reform'.

Massive reforms

Yet the unions are demanding massive reforms in health, housing and transport, together with tax cuts and curbs on the prices of basic commodities.

The rank-and-file are eager to fight for the full demands and they have forced the Catholic and Social-Democratic trade union leaders — who before the regional elecclass THE ANSWER to the Tory government is to organize the working class to force it to resign, Gerry Healy, Socialist Labour League national secretary, told an audience of 550 in London's Caxton Hall on Monda "The Tory government must come into head-on collision with the working class. This is unavoidable.

It must seek to resolve the problems posed by the economic crisis at the expense of the standards of living of the workers,' he added.

Comradé Healy warned that military attacks now launched against the Irish people were a foretaste of what workers could expect 'The government is showing its hand now in NIreland. When the Tories bring Saracens and tanks into the Bogside against the barricades that the persecuted Catholic workers have had to erect, they are also servSocialists strike looms trans were manoeuvring to give the government time to demonstrate 'good faith'-into backing the strike.

It is this, far more than the opportunistic cajoling of the Stalinists, which is pressing the Socialist Party to the left and imperils the coalition.

In their search for 'respeotable' garb the Stalinists have now condemned Dubcek's expulsion from the Czechoslovak Far from taking up any position in support of the E European working class and against Stalinism, this change represents liberalism. a concession to and even anti-communism in Italian 'public opinion' This is the obverse of their attempt to hold the struggle of the Italian working class within 'responsible' and parliamentary channels even while employers are putting their foot down and preparing for class war.

MEETINGS ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE MEETINGS MANCHESTER "The working class can defeat the Tory government' Wednesdearshalt. Hip St RAMSGATE: Thursday, July Flowing Bowl NOTTINGHAM: Thursday, July 7.30 p.m.

People's Hall, Heathcote St night.

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER ing notice that if the British working class comes out in protest for true rights, they will do the same thing in Socialist Labour League national secretary G. Healy speaking Liverpool and London as well.' 'We are not afraid of this had met in conference reBasis Tory government. The old cently, he added. gang are back in Downing "They are the first eleSt and we are getting ready ment in the building of the The basis for Tory rule, comrade Healy said, was to deal with them politi- revolutionary party - the cally.' Fourth International-in E clear:

'The Tories are keeping Comrade Pierre Lambert Europe. of the Trotskyist Organiza- 'The hour has struck for one foot in Powell's camp tion, the French section of the Fourth International.' and one foot in the camp of the Fourth International, Newly - elected assistant the cowardly right- and leftwing trade union leaders.' stressed the favourable in- national sécretary oi the ternational situation for Socialist Labour League, The trade union leaders, building the Trotskyist Sheila Torrance, appealed he added, were 'talking movement. for a collection at the meetleft', but they always proIn May-June 1968, the ing, which raised £304 12s vided themselves with a way out. French workers had shaken 9d.

Faced with a political RESOLUTION PASSED attack they would say— 'You can't fight the government, you must wait for an opportunity to change it at the General Election'.

The Communist Party was now making a bee-line for THIS MEETING, organized by the Socialist Labour League the "Tribune'-ites in an and the Young Socialists, calls upon the whole labour moveattempt to muster a fakement to act in solidarity, as a vitally urgent duty, with the working class of N Ireland against the occupying British left movement with Powell as its likely central target. troops, the Chichester-Clark Tory Unionist government, and This would be formed the Tories at Westminster. only to draw the fire from Six deaths and hundreds of serious casualties have already the trade union leaders. resulted from the actions of 11,000 British troops, who have 'Enoch Powell and this been given orders to shoot on sight. Maudling has sent 3,500 reinforcements. These troops are Tory government can be there to impose 'law and order' in the same way the Tories defeated, but only if the working class is clear on intend to impose it on the British working class.

They are using the religious divisions in N Ireland in the what to do.

'The men who open the same way that they hope to use racialism in Britain. The fight for solidarity the workers of N Ireland and for the door to let Powell in will be right-wing trade union of British troops essential part of the struggle to defeat the Tories. We demand: leaders, and in the vanguard • Release Bernadette Devlin now! She is in jail only because of their propaganda machine she rightly fought against the Unionist regime. Her imprisonwill be the "Tribune"-ites ment is a brutal attack by the ruling class of N Ireland and and the Stalinists.' Britain against all those who want to fight the Tory enemy. • Release all political prisoners in N Ireland and repeal the Emergency Laws. • Release Frank Keane from Brixton prison immediately, and reject any extradition order from the Dublin police. Demand the release of all political prisoners in Eire. • Stop immediately the army, police and Ulster Defence Regiment attacks on workers of N Ireland. Immediate withdrawal of all British troops.

capitalism to tions, Comrade Lambert said.

It was not the fault of the French workers that they did not achieve victory. The movement of the working class was dislocated bv the traditional leaderships and by the centrist and revisionist groups which played on the illusions of the youth.' The present Chaban-Delstable overnment appeared mas Pierre Lambert of the French reality the movement of the Trotskyist Organization working class threatened more and more openly the Stalinist and Social-Democratic bureaucracies which propped up the regime.

In E Europe, comrade Lambert pointed out, working-class forces were organPUBLIC MEETINGS izing for revolution. "The working class can de- 'They are organizing to fight the Stalinist bureaufeat the Tory government' cracy, which has once more ABERDEEN welcomed the rise to power of Toryism in Britain,' he Wednesday, July 1, 8 p.m. said.

Trades Hall, In the USSR itself a new Adelphi Lane communist opposition was (nr ABC cinema, Union St) developing.

It is finding links with HULL Lenin and Trotsky: it has refused to capitulate deThursday, July 2, 8 p.m.

spité persecution, comrade ASW Hall Lambert said. 53 Beverley Rd Communist and TrotskySpeaker: Tom Kemp ist militants from E Europe