Feather meets Heath today TUC looks for Tory compromise 'Peace' talks GKN strikers

state case ohnstone, after joining thi oung Communis League n 1940 at the age of 12 ecame a member of the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist Party in 1945, and left it in 1946 to rejoin the Stalinists.

We asked Johnstone, • in ber 12, 1969, to explain his record publicly. Was he vorking in the RCP as ¿ Stalinist agent? We are still waiting for an answer. And naturally, the Sunda!

Times' keeps well clear o this delicate question. lis obituary to Stalin, writte or the YCL journal 'Cha lenge' in 1953, and his justification of the Slansky trial which sent 11 innocent Czech Communist Parts leaders to their death in 1952 are not touched on.

The role of 'liberals' like Johnstone is quite clear and conscious. In his own words he says:

I believe it is only the Communist Party that can provide the kind of Marxist leadership that ind eess of but it has to find ways convincing young people that it is a live, thinking, Marxist party The 'Sunday Times' feature i designed to do just that. Johnstone his allegiance to however, still Stalinism intact. He upholds the Kremlin crushing of the Hungarian workers' uprising of 1956 as justified 'by geopolitical considerations', and naturally defends the Stalinist, anti-Marxist theory of 'socialism in one country'.

Lord Thomson, the millionaire Sunday leaves no stone unturned in his attempt to discredit revolutionary Marxism.

In a section devoted to exCommunist Party members, Peter Fryer is given prom.

Talks inence as a former editoria worker for the "Daily Worker', who left the Com.

munist Party after his dis. patches from Budapest during the 1956 revolution go on were suppressed. • then became editor of the newly-founded Newsletter', the forerunner of the THE Motor Industry body struggle to turn the paper whose proposed settlement of towards the working class the GKN-Sankey strike was and the fight against the shouted and voted down by Fryer deserted the Socialist Labour Party right wing, angry strikers at a mass meetWing in Wéllington on Friday Labour League and, after (seen above)—is expected to visiting Portugal to write a make another attempt to find book on that country, de- a formula for ending the threevote himself to the study week-old dispute. of pornography.

• The Council is likely to This anti-communist is now meet today in London for used by the capitalist press talks on the men's claim for arainst Marxism: a 4s 3d-an-hour increase in 'Where does this ex-Communist go from King basic pay.

Officials of the General and Street Trotskyiss er did wo Municipal Workers' Union, to which the majority of the years but found them aricature of the Commun 5,000 strikers belong, are to meet shop stewards in Wellst Partu" ington tomorrow. The union Stalinism and Trotskyism are has also arranged a mass the same, says this rene- meeting of its members to rade. take place before the factory The 15-year struggle of Trot- mass meeting on Friday. sky against Stalinism, with Union officials are desperits purges, show trials, be- ately trying to ré-establish trayed revolutions and control over the strike. Many collaboration with the im- perialists during the last Sankey workers are now extremely wary of the official's efforts to reach a compromise settlement.

Last Friday's strike meeting SEE PAGE FOUR Having 'accepted' the Tory government, welcomed its economic approach and assured it of ensure the survival of their his willing co-operation, Foremost amongst these is there is no reason to iquidity, which assume that Mr Feather being will, at this late stage, dismay his friends in the Tory working class securing bigger cabinet. response to this wave of miliWhatever Mr Feather world, the employers have, up and the Stalinists) may to now, continued with think about his pet panacea This in turn has further of 'expansion' and high exacerbated the monetary wages', the Tories are in crisis, leading to depreciation too deep a crisis to give falls in profit rates with a his 'plan' more than a consequent depression of cursory glance.

The Tory government faces lack of confidence amongst major decisions-and very far- financiers and industrialists, reaching ones — in order to and considerable scaling BY THE EDITOR and bigger wage increases. In tancy sweeping the capitalist policy of inflation.

currencies and dramatic equity prices.

All this has added up to a down of investment.

So when sections of the Tory press moan about wages causing stagnation they lie. The only reason for stagnation in Britain is not wages going up - but profit rates coming down.

The employers are losing onndenc because of the determination of the working class to fight back.

Hampered

As the engineering emloyers prosaically stated Black or sumcient re tained earnings li.e., after paying dividends and inte rest charges of course] to finance investment, together with the general restraint on credit, severely hampers the efforts of industry to increase productive potential.' ('Current Economic Problems in the Engineéring Industry', August 1970.)

The Tories are extremely concerned that the seasonal factors now unfavourable to sterling should coincide with a declining rate of balance of payments surplus.

A continuation of this trend could lead to a repeat performance of November 1967, but this time in an extremely disadvantageous situation for British capitalism.

Devaluation, without a definitive settlement with trade unions, fills all sections of the Tories with apprehension.

The Tory Party rightwing has decided that there is no way out of the present impasse except to increase unemployment by intensifying the credit squeeze and to push through the anti-union laws as quickly as possible.

Their main aim is to 'discipline' the trade unions and, as GKN and Linwood show, to use the bureaucracy against the workers.

Competitive

The Tories' aim is to use unemployment to 'freeze' and then cut wages in order to make British exports more competitive.

They are being driven to THE ISLE of Wight pop festival broke up-in more than one sense-yesterday. Groups of anarchists demanding 'free music' tore down corrugated iron fencing round the field and gatecrashed the festival.

Others sat on the downs overlooking the arena and got free music anyway.

The organizers, Fiery Creations, claim to have lost a lot of money on the event.

They planned the festival as what the trade calls a 'rip off' operation: taking £3 a head off the 'gentle people' for a three-day orgy of idealism.

Not so gentle The gentle people turned out in force-and turned out not to be so gentle after all.

Contingents of 'Hell's Angels', complete with swastikas, and a large team of private security men patrolled the grounds.

It took ultra-right reactionary Tiny Tim leading the audience in • "There'll always be an England' and 'Land of Hope of Glory' to dissipate some of the bad vibrations.

Creations organizer kon Foulk is quoted as saying:

"This free music scene makes me sick, but in a way I suppose it's inevitable. It may be that the spirit which • created the festival —a defiance of convention —is now about to destroy the festival' But, as the 'Sunday Times' comments:

Bad vibrations 'When the economics of the affair dictate Alsatian guaavies in tie-dye shirts teams and frantic calls to the police, the bad vibrations tend to drive out the good.' Defiance of convention, the stock-in-trade of the idealist, is now a highly marketable commodity.

Escapists who hope to 'drop out' of the class struggle and join the 'gentle people' find themselves caught in the same not-sotender trap.

Merchant banks and hard-headed City capitalists, with their fingers well into the pop festival pie, are not inBy our Middle East correspondent THE ISRAELI cabinet postponed until tr a decision on the return of its representi Tekoah to the New York 'peace' talks.

An extraordinary session of the cabinet is taking place, at which the apparent division between Prime Minister Mrs Golda Meir and Defence Minister Moshe Dayan on the talks is to be discussed.

It is reported that Dayan threatened to resign if the alks went on without allegec egyptian violations of the cease-fire being taken up by Washington.

While it is possible tha sraeli internal differences de exist, the most likely explanation of the delay in resuming the talks is that it is aimed at squeezing further concessions from the Egyptians in any final settlement.

who only returned from Washington on Sunday, stressed in a TV interview at ne weekend the basic friend hip between Israel and th US, 'no matter how serious the problems over which we Nixon is meeting top-level Us oficials to discuss the Middle East today.

They are expected to review the proposals for a joint USSoviet force to police the Despite statements that such plans were only 'under consideration', Moscow has not denied earlier reports that details had already been worked out. SOCIALIST in

agement don't seem to have got ine message yer tnat we re and dha out for a really substantial rise, and we intend to get it.' 'One thing that intrigues me, Noel Byrne said, "is why the General and Municipal BORDEAUX I THE Bordeaux by-election, where first-round polling cutioner, the theory of revolution with that of counterrevolution.

Fryer's cynical attack on Marxism rounds off the 'Sunday Times' as it began, with Fleet Street publicists, Stalinists and anti-communists all collaborating to protect Stalinism from its mortal enemy, Trotskyism. The leaders of the British Communist Party - Gollan, Dutt, Arnot, Kerrigan, Johnstone and the rest-all willingly collaborated in this undertaking with the millionaire press and • professional anti-communists of the Conquest-Fryer variety. Gollan and Johnstone practise class collaboration 'in its most treacherous form, for it is consciously used by the ruling class to discredit Marxism and create political confusion in the minds of student and young workers trying to fight their way towards revolutionary theory. This is how the ruling class has always used opportunism and revisionism within the workers movement. The Stalinists are playing Fleet St's anti-communist game, and every Communist Party member serious about the defence of principles must denounce them. hibited by considerations of anything so other-wordly as universal love.

Roman emperors used to lay on gladiatorial contests to keep their subjects amused-and keep them in subjection.

Selling dreams Today the sale of dreams is more streamlined, but there are still what one paper called 'gamblers on the beautiful weather and the animation of the beautiful people forthcoming to 'make a killing'.

In the circles of the beautiful people, capitalist economics reigns supreme, and at £3 a head their dreams can be protected by Alsatian dogs, policemen, security guards and Hell's Angels.

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LATE NEWS AMBOINESE WANT SUHARTO MEETING GUARANTEED (See page one)

The Hague, Monday-Fifteen young Amboinese who earlier today_seized the residence of the Indonesian Ambassador here, threatened to shoot one of their hostages if they receive no reply to their demands, a spokesman for them warned.

Unconfirmed reports said the Amboinese, who come from Indonesia, were demandLa guarantee that their leader, Dr Manumusa, 'president' of the self-styled 'South Moluccan Republic' - which seeks independence from Indonesia—would be able to meet Indonesian President Suharto on a visit to Holland.

The President was scheduled to have left Djakarta today and was due here tomorrow, but he has now inin Amman in June, and their organizer, Hussein's uncle Sharif Nasser, dismissed.

However, when Hussein agreed to the US proposals for talks with Israel, Sharif Nasser was re-called.

WEATHER London area, SE, SW central northern and central northern England, E and W Midlands, Channel Islands: Below normal. Max. 19C (66F).

NW England, Glasgow area, N Ireland: Sunny periods, scattered showers. Below normal. Max. 16C (61 F).

Edinburgh: Cloudshowers. mostly dry, perhaps few periods. Below normal. Max. 15C (59F).

Outlook for Wednesday and Thursday: Dry at first, but cloud and rain spreading from the west to all districts later. Temperatures near normal. definitely postponed the visit.

A statement said: "The Dutch government must comPel Suharto to commence political discussions with our president within 48 hours, under the supervision of Holland and a mediator of the United Nations. If these talks do not come about, then there will be a second victim.' this 'solution' by the incréasing ferocity of US competition even in such fields as the small-car market which, until now, was considered a privileged sanctuary for European and British exporters.

There is, thérefore. no room, nor can there be any, in the Tory plans for the sublime capitalist Utopia of Mr Feather and the General Council.

We say confidently that Mr Feather, and néxt week's TUC, will not solve any of the problems facing the British working class and in particular the 600,000 unemployed who look with increasing anger and despair for the Labour bureaucrats' plans to materialize.

Ten years ago the TUC and the Communist Party might have convinced some workers 'L'Humanité' evaded the issue by saying :

"The measure of which A. London is the subject has been taken by the Czechoslovak Minister of the Interior. We have already said that we do not consider it our duty to give an opinion on each and every measure taken by the authorities of this or that socialist country, under their own responsibility Not only does this statement represent shameful and hypocritical approval of the attack on London, but it proves the formula under which the Stalinist leaders will tacitly approve the frame-ups now being prepared of those prominent in the movement for reforms before the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. resulted in a resounding defeat for the Motor Council's £2-with-strings offer. Union officials trying to sell the plan to the meeting were prevented from speaking by continuous chants of 'you're selling us down the river'.

The need for a new leadership in Sankey's, which will carry through the strike to a successful conclusion, is obvious The fight for the Sankej claim involves struggle against the compromise cles the union locally and nationally the ss to break the unity ot against press Tory strike.