Nationalized industries Tory 'smash

WORKERS in the nati prepare to meet a twoTories on wages condit Because of the centralized administration of these industries and their financial dependence on the Treasury the Tories have deliberately picked on them as an 'antiinflationary' bridgehead N.E. strikers 'sacked SEVENTY sheet metal workers on strike at the Team /alley plant of Thorn Elecrical's heating division in the North-East have been dismissed by the management. Indian land seizure stunt attacked THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) has attacked the 'land occupation' movement led by its pro-Moscow rivals as 'a farce'.

k to potential output and actual production has widened to $30,600m.

This has been the result of Nixon's drive to stop inflation by clamping a financial straitjacket on industry in an attempt to force down prices and stiffen the employers' resolve to resist wage increases.

As in Britain, unemployment is the big stick and the 'production gap' will probably rise to $50,000m in a year's time with unemployment rising well over the present five-per-cent level.

The task remains in the US and in Europe to defeat the working class which is on the wages offensive. The US government is now facing the possibility of a long strike by motor workers, which will aggravate the crisis.

War on While European governments may sympathize with Nixon's dilemma and are well aware of the international repercussions of a US economic crash for world capitalism, behind them stand their own working classes, struggling for higher wages.

Congressman Boggs' tour of the 'allies' will yield little. The trade war is on and 'the economic clock cannot be turned back. ca onalized industries must pronged attack from the ions and employment.

which would serve as a basis for a concerted assault on the workers in the private sector.

This was the objective of Mr Robert Carr's consultations with the Confederation of British Industry and the heads of the nationalized industries, in particular with Lord Robens.

His plan of attack is now supplemented with the findings of the Prices and Incomes Board report on the coal industry; a report which has found enthusiastic support in the government and clearly outlines official thinking on prices and wages in these Not surprisingly the opinions of the PIB tally with those of the private sector which Is to pare wage increases down to an irreducible minimum while allowing price increases to gallop ahead of wages.

Seriously concerned by declining productivity in the coal industry in 1969 and 1970 and the growing competition of other fuels Tories, through the PIB, are calling sweeping changes in the industry which inevitably increase speed-up, throw thousands more miners on the scrap-heap and siderably increase the price of coking coal.

is the answer of the NCB and the government to the miners' wage demand and any miners' leader who ignores the Tories' plans is courting disaster.

mouthpiece of big business, the 'Financial Times (August 18) was very explicit when it editorialized that 'the compromise, marked out by the PIB report on coal prices, satisfies the late Mr Macleod's requirements of "severe scrutiny" and ostentatious v rules out a "no-surrender sign in advance of the coming wage negotiations.

'But there is no question of bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

'The main issue will now be fought the wages front ... one problem is to make sure nationalized boards do not cave in themselves at an early stage' (Our emphasis.)

The Party's leader, A. K. Gopalan, said the movement was a publicity stunt on completely reformist lines:

"The whole movement is a civil disobedience gesture-the courting of mass arrest for a symbolic cause — utterly exposing the revisionist pretention to revolutionary The leaders of the movement, said Gopalan, warned the police when and where they were coming by giving full details of the operation to In most cases, the 'occupied land' — occupied not by poor peasants but by party officials — is reclaimed by the old owners as soon as the police make their arrests or the organizers depart.

Gopalan's attacks on the pro-Moscow Stalinists are also however a cover for his own refusal to defend the genuine, if adventurist, 'Naxalite' land seizure movement led by Maoists, which has now spread from Naxalbari in W Bengal to many other land-hungry regions of India.

This movement has been bitterly persecuted by the Gandhi government, and Gopalan's party has done little or nothing to defend it. drive ahead as

dire the destructen of eur directly or indirectly revolution. 'We are determined to turn this country into a graveyard for all plotters. This country will remain the Hanoi of the Palestine revolution' Warning that Hussein had stationed four army brigades outside Amman, he called upon the Arab people to carry on the fight against Zionism and its accomplices:

I am sure that cur Arab nation will not leave uS alone.' Arafat's warning should not be ignored. King Hussein plans visit Nasser this Thursday to seek his proval and support for crack-down the guerrillas. If Hussein can get the Israelis to pull out of the West Bank soon, then a joint Israeli-Jordan operation against the guerrillas is certain.

Arafat's appeal for solidarity with the betrayed and embattled Palestinians must be taken beyond the Middle East.

All along, the Stalinists of the British Communist Party— through first all their 'Daily Worker' and later its successor the 'Morning Star' - have covered up Zionism.

They hailed the brutal evicArabs Palestine and the carve-up of the remnants of Palestine between the Jordanian mon'further blow at imperialist archy Zionism domination in the Middle East'. (Labour Monthly', September 1949.)

The record of the Labour 'lefts'-and especially 'Tribune'-is just as despicable. Openly pro-Zionist views are expounded in this wretched reformist journal week after week by writers who pose as allies of the colonial peoples.

In the case of the Stalinists, their pro-Zionism has never prevented them from defending the anti-Semitic persecutions mounted by the Kremlin in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe after the war.

They are both pro-Zionists and anti-Semites - a combination which is by no means rare amongst opportunists within the labour movement.

Now the moment of truth has arrived.

Arafat's warning and declaration is a challenge to every socialist internationalist. We already know where Gollan, Fletcher and company