Workers Press no. 21

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

• NUMBER 21

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

THE MASSIVE wave of strikes now engulfing British industry is

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the beginning of a major change

HAIRY DREAMS SOFT DRINKS

in the class struggle in Britain.

At the same time it is necessary to stress that these strike struggles are only the first skirmishes in a conflict which can be resolved only by the taking of power from the capitalist class. All the Labour. trade union and Communist farty leaders conceal trom the workers that this is what is at stake. The Socialist Labour League, with its daily paper, the Workers' Press, devotes all its and training of the forces to achieve this revolutionary Minen, steelwork workers ins tro have l Balanced all orneste within days of each right-wing B labour leader be- caning the severest erest clashes. and bankeer and after devali lists to weaken the work- ing class. tion Miners ourside Wednesda's Porthcal delin at the mence are at the centre of the class strugsle fight for living secuous

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UMBER 21 • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1969

PRICE 6d. FRANK WILLIS, Young Socialist candi- date in the swindon by-election, answers three questions put to him by the Work- ers Press. Polling in the by-election is next Thursday (October 30).

Why do you oppose the Common Market?

Why do other parties support it?

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 21 • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1969

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

NUMBER 21

THE MASSIVE wave of strikes now engulfing British industry is the beginning of a major change in the class struggle in Britain.

At the same time it is necessary to stress that these strike struggles are only the first skirmishes in a conflict which can be resolved only by the taking of power from the canitalist class. trade union and Communist Party leaders conceal from the workers that this is what is at stant. The Socialist Labour League, with its daily paper, the Workers press aevoles all lls enorts to te recruitment and training of the forces to achieve this revolutionary Miners, motor destroy worse arack will follow. gains The Torie: right-wing caring the severest ola see the service of these ds at Which they are standards ing class. being k no longer a a ques- Miners outside Wednesday's Porthcaw diain at che fence are at the centre of the class strugsle tion ringing workers and their

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Frank Willis answers questions Why do you oppose the Common Market?

Dangerous Why do other parties support it?

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the European Common Market very dear in the can- ther T.U.C. move mention should b by miners Party's position on this ques Tr policy of to be opin By our industrial reporter

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in common market, is ma YORKSHIRE area council miners were meeting TUC general secretary victor reather in London yesterday after the council had decided to call in the TUC and the government to seek an end to the coal strike.

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distillatistestin The third of a series of articles on the motor industry by our industrial correspondent

DAVID MAUDE

at piece-work we're working

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at- pace anyway. tempts to engineer ac- 'If you worked like they ceptance of Vauxhall's want you to, it'd be slavery!

new pay and product- 'The dompany's always ivity troposals by work- completely detirmined to get company's at the ers the time it wants a job to be Ellesmere Port plant done in. If dispute it, you they'll get it anyway by sim- settle nothing. and putting ply moving you another man on the job. If the company and the union leaders hope to contain 'Unfortunately, union here's sixes growing hostility of organization at the sevens. You know the and workers at both the com- definitely wants membership pany's major car plants not to fight, but the leadership be- haves as if it's controlled by only towards the deal, but the management—it just dis- towards Vauxhall's whole 13- everything' sipates year-old Measured-Day Work At Ellesmere Port, another system, it is a vain hope.

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steward explained of the background some to As Alan Baker, Ellesmere the agreement drafted at York Port's AEF convenor, told me just a fortnight ago. over Said Frank Gardner: recently: "The standard time system 'The whole situation's in has got to a stage now when the melting-pot. you're not machine, even for 'Men laid off were wound-up you're nervous the company's working to wreck. We couldn't go any own standard times. In other faster. doing what words, for just they were supposed to do un- I suppose always we say der the old surprised agreement. that, then we're work when they something 'So this question has to be out to prove us wrong! sorted out before we even new agreement operating think about any "The system just doesn't al- -it's a low for ageing- a man fortnight, During the last stretch, hold, grasp job. only the efforts of union offi- If you think about what cials, backed by their up you're doing, you're working national executives, have pre- too slow. vented workers at both Luton and Ellesmere Port decisively 'We sold out to this the company's new rejecting system as the Elles- die-shop proposals. One Luton Port plant opened. It mere worker spoke for many when was already in. he told me at the end of last week: 'Rootes had to pay 17s. 5d. Coventrý, for it in we've got 'We've get rid of got to it for of 10s. a top rate this dead hand of our present If we're going to reach parity leadership' on the basis suggested in the deal- -further product- new ivity—we'll have to sell our souls. 'And we mightn't get it even then! 'Sometime we get an extra man put on the line if there's The Luton a change the model, but in this only means we have to the make up working harder Situation next day or the day after. The management's final word is al- "Each ways man has to pay for himself". N NUVB trim A shop 'You've got time-and- motion at all levels. Even the steward explained his manager has to make up view of the present situation his debits and credits, but at Luton, reputedly far less he's working men! in militant than the Merseyside If they the review of get factory: standard times they're asking for. conditions will be just likes to 'Everyone •get about intolerable. week—-if standard wage each they're getting a decent rate, Acceptance of the York draft would give the company, that is. We're not! return increase of 'If there was a vote to go 8d.-10d. an hour: mere piece-work here at back

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the moment, I'm sure there'd • Streamlining and consoli- a big favour. be majority in dation of the present wage Although we get a flat rate, structure. • Establishment of work- and job-evaluation study as the basis for all future negotiations. • Tightening of the disciplin- ary procedure in respect of lateness and absence from work. • Review of standard times to take into account changes performance, in machine methods, layouts and techni- niques. • Local arrangements to en- sure the fullest possible ac- ceptance of the obligation to constitutional act through procedure. To understand why Vaux- hall's need such an agreement and why the has company prepared been to lose £850,000 a day over the last four weeks in order to wear down the to it resistance among its workers, it is neces- sary to take a brief look at how the general crisis of the motor industry is affecting it.

The state N JULY this year, Vaux- hall-now Britain's third largest car manufacturer- raised its share of the home car market by one whole point to give it 12.92 per cent.

But the company has been coming under increasing pres- sure from Ford's and British- Leyland and the present con- ditions of slackening home de- mand and sharpening compe- tition internationally make it

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production which, in September, forced it to raise the prices of three of its car between £17 and models by £76. The attack here main must obviously be on wages. This is the purpose of the proposed new deal. the deal ASKED Dave Thompson, an AEF shop steward in Ellesmere Port's spares de- what he thought partment, the deal would mean. 'Their talk of "A fair day's work for a fair day's pay" is farcical', he said. In weaker-organized the areas of the factory, the com- is already imposing ex- pany what job-times it likes. actly "They want the new deal so they can do the same in the areas--in other words, strong break down they can shop-floor action. 'You've virtually no protec- tion even now against the management's increasing the number of machines. 'Being asked to work two machines IS commonplace. Often you've got them back to back—a man's like a bal- lerina, twisting and turning all day to get round. 'No one is ever able really of work get the amount they set for a job out consis- tently. 'Yet it took 12 months on my section to get job officially from knocked down 36.6 to 30 an hour, although it's never been done consis- 22 tently at more than an "agree- hour. The procedure ment" is just a big joke.

It works like this: If the foreman thinks he's going to have trouble he may consult you about a time, but for there's no provision a unlikely that it will be able to steward's the signature on time-sheets and once the fore- maintain this increase or in- man's signed for crease it. particular time, you've a hell of a job to trading While it made get any satisfaction. £30,588,000 profit of last year, this is only half that of If the deal through goes they'll impose the sort of con- competitors. its two major ditions you've got on the At Ford's where Measured- track now on rest of the the Day Work has reached factory. much more intense stage than even Vauxhall's has been able 'We'd be working under to manage so far, the profits conditions over which we'd have absolutely no control for each worker breakdown was £1,233 as compared with Commented Alan Baker: Vauxhall's £837. Each vehicle made £105 10s for Ford com- 'The company's taking pared with Vauxhall's £94 6s.

hard line, but the struggle's beginning. I think only just On the other hand, of for whole 12 were in British-Leyland's in- months of crunches!' ability to break the resistance there is a Measured- At Luton also, of its workers to Day Work growing determination to fight gave it a break- down of only their way out of the situation £461 a worker and £82 14s. per car. which the local trade in leadership has placed union The standard-time system them. Vauxhall's thus gave almost As one assembly line stew- twice as much profit a worker ard said: as Leyland's piece-work domi- nated wage structure. 'We've got to get all the Leyland, however, together. Unlike unions in this Vauxhall is almost out of the Heath says he's going to fetch the law into the unions, Wil- running in Europe and its cars have never sold in the United son wants the law in and States—the province of its 99 Vauxhall's tighten want to General up their discipline. cent Motors. owner 'We've got to start a revo- In order to break back it lution in the unions so membership can fight them!'

will have to cut back rising

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SOME FOUR

years after it was introduced, the so-called 'economic reform' has now been ex- tended to most enter- prises in the Soviet Union. Discussion and criticism of its effects continue to figure pro- minently in the official press. The basis of the reform, intended to clear up the mess which followed Khrushchey's 'hare-brained schemes', which had only contributed to the slowing down in the rate of economic growth, was the placing of more powers in the hands of the management of the plant or enterprise. There was a move away from the fixing of targets in quantitative terms, which led to the production of items which could not be sold or otherwise disposed of. Instead, within certain limits, the enterprise could make its own arrangements for procuring raw materials and finding outlets for the finished products. This established the cri- terion of profitability in run- ning the enterprise. Where successful management was in keeping down costs and making good bargains with other enterprises or distribu- tors, a surplus remained in its hands. Part of this was at the dis- posal of the enterprise for use for investment or for so- cial purposes from which the workers were supposed to benefit. By providing incen- new tives and breaking from the crude emphasis on quantity, it was hoped to eliminate some of the wastes of the existing system of planning, improve the efficiency of new investment and step up the overall growth rate whose fall in the early 1960s had given serious grounds for concern.

The last few years during which the reforms have been brought into operation have improve- certainly seen an ment in the overall growth rate. This is now claimed to be about 8 per cent a year, about the same as in 1956- 1960, against the 5 per cent to which it fell in the or so closing stages of Khrushchev's reign. Harvest Assuming that the stated rate is growth accurate- which is never, of course, cer- Soviet statistics-- tain with is it really explained by the economic reform? One factor which looms large in Soviet growth rates is the state of the harvest. Iso- the world lation from econ- omy, continued backward- ness, tie excessive resources agriculture is still which to inefficient by world standards.

In particular, it lacks ade- of fertilizers, quate supplies pesticides and other aids owing to the lagging develop- ment of the chemical indus- try. It suffers from the inade- investment quacies of past mismanagement of and the the collective farms. However, apart from 1963, harvests have been reasonably have favoured good and economic growth. Perhaps more important is the fact that the Soviet econ- omy in the past few years has been undergoing a kind of inflationary boom. Increases have been granted in wages and salaries and prices have also tended to rise. The overall tendency for predominate shortages to has been fostered by the rise in money incomes and the continued weaknesses of the consumer goods industries.

However, since there is about, more money enter- prises have not found it diffi- cult to operate the economic reform and actually to make money profits. In fact, it is probable that the pressure of demand, gene- rated by higher money in- of t By a foreign correspondent comes, has been the main reason why the economic re- form has been carried out re- latively smoothly. But, as with any process of this kind, the big question is what happens when money flow dries up, or, at least, ceases to grow. This will expose the extent to which, behind the econo- mic reforms, things have been going on as before with the of making profits dis- ease guising the same old defects.

Temporary therefore, it In a sense, would be correct to describe the economic reform as just one more 'production can- paign'. This time it is one which, by offering important material advantages to plant and enter- prise management -- or at least placing large sums of money at the disposal of the middle layers of the bureau- cracy--has acheived a tem- porary success. But this merely whets the appetite of these members of the bureaucracy, who feel themselves to be more import- ant and are bound to seek greater powers. The plant manager thus seeks to get more independ- ence from the central Ministry concerned with his industry for 'his' factory. These tendencies have not gone without note in the Soviet press and have giver some writers the opportunity to knock the reforms. On the other hand, what might be called spokesmen for the middle layers of the argue that the bureaucracy too heavy- Ministries are handed, that still more initia- tive should lie with plant management. Significantly, the question of the plant being able to retain part of the proceeds of exports and to be able to make con- tracts with foreign firms is in of some of the background these discussions. In other words, the growing powers of the plant manage- ment against the press monopoly of foreign, trade which insulates the planned economy from further pres- sures from the capitalist world market. Because lower labour pro- ductivity means Soviet goods cost more to produce they are not able to enter the circuit of international exchange on equal terms with the products of the advanced capitalist countries. The international implica- tions of the reform have cer- tainly to be watched, but they more in the will show up coming years than they have fai. done so Buying time It seems, therefore, that the leadership has been buying time in the hope that the re- forms would, over a few years, bring some relief to the goods shortage. In the meantime they have proceeded, of course, to make with big contracts enormous foreign capitalist firms to carry through extensive moderniza- tion of lagging sectors or to establish in the Soviet Union wholly new industries. spectacular of The most these contracts relate to cars, trucks and buses (Renault, Fiat, British-Leyland), to chemicals and to synthetic fibres. The reform, whatever it may achieve in the short term, does nothing to solve the basic problems of the Soviet econ- omy. In fact, both through en- couraging the local bureaucrats to go their own way and through pressure on the mono- poly of foreign trade, it may aggravate these problems.

There is, in any case, the problem of what happens when incomes and prices money cease to rise. Big problems of misdirected resources, unsale- able stocks and lack of balance between industries are likely to be revealed. Meanwhile the conflict with- in the bureaucracy rages.

Writing in 'Pravda' on Aug- ust 27 last, V. Babushkin, head of the Department of Planning Saturday, October 25, 1969 pril tal Financial and Agencies, de- nounced whole series of a wrongful uses of funds re- tained by the plant manage- ment under the new system.

These included the con- struction of swimming pools, canals for rowing, sports grounds and payment of foot- ballers. Evidently the local bureaucracy has a taste for outdoor games. Babushkin did not forget to mention that monies were also spent lavishly on banquets and entertainments. Funds were also handed over to local authorities to finance construction not allowed for in the plan. Deception He concluded his article by saying : 'Decisions on the illegal ex- penditure of assets sometimes impel the personnel of enter- to deceive the state; prises they are forced to conceal and camouflage expenditures that are made for purposes other than those for which the money has been earmarked.

"They resort to sleight of hand in reporting to the statis- tical, financial and control agencies and they conceal illegal expenditures through illegal documentation. 'All this, needless to say, has a very negative effect on the upbringing of cadres' That a high official has to to the columns of resort •Pravda' to denounce such practices means that they are not isolated occurrences, but are going on all over the coun- try. The local industrial bureau- crats are evidently out to make hay in the warm sun of the 'economic reforms', gratifying Khrushchey has made continued attempts to collectivize the virgin lands (above) to yield maize, wheat, etc. and failed. their desire to patronize sport, to entertain their friends and to do favours for their oppo- site numbers in local govern- ment. They have received a warn- ing; whether they heed it or not is another matter. The reforms not only give powers but also them more place millions of additional roubles at their disposal.

The central authority sees resources eluding its control or being misused. At the same time, because the bureaucracy remains all- powerful, there is no question of the workers in the enter- prises exercising real control the plant is man- over how aged. In fact the management has acquired greater noW powers regarding the hiring and firing of workers too.

While early to it is too draw a full balance sheet of the reform, it is already pos- sible to conclude that it has solved none of the problems which arise from the back- wardness and isolation of the Soviet Union and the irrespon- privileged, sibility of the bureaucratic caste. It would not take very much, in fact, to precipitate a crisis in production of the sort which preceded the fall of Khrushchev. As in the past, it may be expected that the continued shortcomings of agriculture will be at the root of the trouble. This gives point to the re- cent reports of disappointing yields from the 1969 crop harvest.

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SPLIT in the American ruling class over the US economy and Vietnam iS war creating very favour- able conditions for breaking the working class from the two capi- talist parties. The 'Vietnam Moratorium' hit Nixon really hard and forced those sections of the ruling class opposed to a con- tinuation of the war to speak out more loudly than they have ever done before. The same open conflict, again provoked by pressure from the working class and the world crisis of imperial- ism, is developing over the problems of the US economy.

While Paul McCracken (chairman of Nixon's Council of Economic advisers) advo- cates the continuation of the government's present defla- tionary measures, the chair- of the Federal Reserve man Board, McChesney Martin, recently stated that 'there are indications that we be may getting to the end'. This optimistic tone was countered within days by McCracken's remark that 'evidence obviously does not up to an end of our add inflationary problems.

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different views are Two clearly being expressed here- and both by leading members of the US ruling class. Nixon has the problem of attempting to resolve these conflicts and devise a strategy for action. This is what faces him in Vietnam, and it now confronts him with growing force at home. His radio broadcast on Sun- day gave a few pointers to the direction in which his government is moving when he warned that 'we [meaning the working class, and not the residents of the White House] are going to experience some "slowing pains"› He none the less saw this By Peter Jeffries as a 'healthy development' in which 'unfortunately some in- dustries and some individuals will feel this necessary adjust- ment more than others'. These 'adjustments' are in- flation, wage control, the sack, threat of speed up and the large-scale recession if the working class does not toe the line.

SPOKE BLUNTLY

Nixon is fully aware of the • smouldering discontent in the US working class. Nevertheless, he spoke bluntly on the question of admitting that sackings, although we must keep a of close watch on the level unemployment', the number of those with jobs could not be increased: 'We cannot effectively and fairly make it more by ignor- ing the widespread hardship that a run-away cost of living imposes on so many Ameri- cans.' Nixon is saying here that either way, attacks on the working class are coming up.

Either more unemployment, or more inflation--and with it, a reduction in the purchasing employed power workers' wages. The conflict still rages, both within the government the ruling class as a whole, Vietnam and the over economy. That these differences have become public reflects the basic instability of the US economy and the unease in the ruling class of its future both in the US and overseas.

BIG OPPORTUNITY

With the bankers, politi- cians, employers and Generals all at loggerheads, an unpre- cedented opportunity now opens up for building the revolutionary party, the Workers' League of America, and establishing US the labour party based on the trade unions.

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Husak went through the now familiar official account of the causes of the 1968 crisis following the fall of the Novotny leadership. He blamed it for 'covering up its shortcomings by bureau- cratic methods of Party and state leadership and by naked administrative interference'.

was unable to explain He what happened from January 1968 or why, after 20 years, 'anti-socialist and right-wing forces' were able to come to the fore. In fact, Husak seeks to 8.05 'A Walk On The Wild Side': starring Lawrence Harvey, Capucine, Barbara Stan- wyck, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, Richard Rust. 10.00 News From ITN. 10.10 Saturday Night Theatre.

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7.25 Bird's Eye View. All vestiges of Dubcek's 'liberalization' dis to right are seen Kosygin, the Soviet Prime Party leader; and Husak, the Czechoslovak avoid the admission that the Czech working class was on the move, that it was its pres- sure on Dubcek, and not forces seeking to return the country capitalism, that brought to about the situation which led to the military intervention by the Warsaw Pact countries on August 21, 1968. It was not a question of re- storing capitalism, but the first steps of the political revolution against the bureaucracy, begın- ning with its most objection- able representatives, led by Husak Novotny, whom even does not try to defend.

FAIRY

STORY

The fairy • that the story Party and the state were 'led astray' by "right-wing and anti-socialist forces' does not bear examination. There followed a series of against Dubcek, accusations him with especially charging concealing from the Party com- munications from the leader- ship of the Soviet Communist Party and refusing to attend the June conference of the Warsaw Pact countries. Dubcek probably feared that the Czechs at this meeting would be brow-beaten into accepting conformity with the demands of Moscow. At its meeting on July 19, 1968, Dubcek justified his

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As Husak put it, 'if our Party policy had been conducted in a more responsible way, it would have been possible to avoid the entry of troops into our territory'. In other words, if the Dubcek leadership had capitu- lated right away, the invasion of August 21, 1968, may not have been necessary! But Dubcek had very little choice. Not because he was a prisoner of 'anti-socialist and , but because right-wing forces' the Czech working class, in- cluding the majority of Com- munist Party members, were on the move against the sub- servience of the bureaucracy to Moscow.

OPPOSED

INVASION

Responding to this pressure, the presidium of the Czech Communist Party, which had been in session since the pre- vious day, passed a resolution opposing the military interven- tion of the Warsaw Pact coun- tries on August 21. Husak called for the rescind- ing of this and all other reso- lutions passed in Czechoslo- vakia critical of the entry of Warsaw Pact troops. Yorkshire 12.55 p.m. News. 1.00 World Of Sport. 5.00 Results Round-Up. 5.15 Cowboy In Africa. 6.10 News. 6.15 The Saturday Crwod. 7.00 Please Sir! 7.30 Edgar Wallace. 8.30 Miami Expose. 10.00 News, Weather. 10.10 Saturday Night Theatre. 11.10 Frost On Saturday. 12 midnight Late Weather. Tyne Tees 1.058 The sall: sall: Racing RacongS3.10 1.20 Racing. Sports Special. 4.00 Professional Wrest- 5.00 ling. Results Round-Up. 5.15 Tarzan. 6.10 News. 6.15 Batman. 6.45 The Saturday Crowd. 7.30 Please Sir!

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Elizabeth Mont- 10.10 News. gomery. 11.20 Tonight With David Nixon. 12.05 a.m. The Burning of the Leaves by Lawrence Binyon read by Jennifer Clare. Stalinists visit Moscow to approve the August 196| e Czechoslovak Prime Minister; President Svoboda o of the Soviet Union. This resolution is declared to be 'in its main part non- class and non-Marxist in char- fundamentally acter, wrong injurious in its political and Party, for our consequences our people and our state'.

In obedience to Moscow's demands, Husak tries to pass off the events of 1968 as part of a conspiracy in which the mass media were in the hands of people favouring the restor- ation of capitalism and 'the entire Party and people' were disoriented. How does he explain this situation 21 years after establishment of 'Peoples' De- mocracy' ? There is, of course, no ex- planation of how the right- wing and anti-socialist forces' could have remained strong through this time and be in a position so to disorganize the Party and the state that only military intervention could save the situation. There is explanation no either of how it is that only 'a healthy nucleus' of the Com- Party munist supports the present policy imposed by Moscow and believes that the account which Husak gives of the events of 1968 is correct.

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GREGORY ZINOVIEY

LEBRATIA LEA

# RECOVER

MADN

WOUNDS

RECEIVED

LA T

the August 1968 invasion by the Warsaw Pact coun dent Svoboda of Czechoslovakia; Brezhnev, the Sovi in secret under the protection of factory workers will fail.

'right-wing' Husak equates with any criticism of Moscow or of bureaucratic methods, any striving for national self- determination or freedom of any return to the expression, canons of Leninism.

NOVOTNY

NOSTALGIA

This double-talk, demanded by Moscow, will be acceptable to the members of the Czech bureaucracy who look back with aversion to the troubled times of the past two years and are nostalgic for the Novotny regime. The return to stability re- quired a break with Dubcek's wavering position and the snatching back of all the gains made by the workers, intellec- tuals and youth in 1968. Husak's speech indicates a willingness to carry through a relentless purge in the party and all spheres of Czecho- slovak life. The expulsions from the Central Committee are only part of the drive to restore Stalinism in its full panoply.

The threat to rid the Commun- ist Party and other organiza- tions of 'opportunist influences' can only mean a tightening up of repressive all measures along the line. Although Husak speaks

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LENIN: Speech to the Petrograd Soviet, 1918 3s. 0d. By G. Zinoviev Illustrated with many photo- graphs, this was a speech de- livered by. one :af. Lenin's closest associates on the occasion of his recovery from wounds received in an attempt on his life. It gives a picture of remarkably clear Lenin and what is required to be a revolutionary. rsaw Pact countries. From left zhney, the Soviet Party leader; tough, with the weight of Soviet military power behind him, his tones are not those of a confident man. The very fact that he admits that the policy he represents is only supported by a minority of Communists, and that the 'leading role' of the Party still has to be restored, shows the extent of the resistance on the of the working class part which remains to be overcome.

Czechoslovakia faces serious economic problems and Husak is forced to admit that 'the main negative tendencies and imbalance in the cases national economy have not yet been overcome'. By their.. passive resistance and go-slow tactics Czech workers are making their weight felt here too. Foreign Communist Parties which condemned the inter- vention of August 21, 1968, are put on the spot by the final disgrace of Dubcek and the rescinding of the August state- ments of the Czech Communist Party. If they maintain that they were right, then they should come out and say openly that they disagree with Husak's explanations. If they want to change their minds they should also indicate what opportunist influences' led them astray into support- ing 'anti-socialist and right- wing forces'.

Saturday, October 25, 1969

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LEBANON

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POLICE ATTACK

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B.S.R. STRIKERS

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