Workers Press no. 252

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-rent and to l take up the matter urgently' Jones and Palestine homoan, of the Pie one home. Tory press, already, the operations On Daily suerrilas, cri certain eatured a large cartoon on an industrial Guert to the present crisis. Dearer beer

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252 • SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970

SAY NO TO MDW

FACTORIES

'I HAVE never believed,' Mr Victor Feather, by a pointical Trades Union Congress secretary, told Brighton correspondent conference delegates on Thursday, 'that the gov ernment wanted a showdown with the unions What does he mean? will readers ask. The fight against Has he not heard of: GKN strike • Theon pass Tory anti- Tory anti-union still not official ices at the Departmen ctivity ment and Pro 5.000 GKN-sankey laws opens barkers are mo to ir untoiat • The unions. • Dacking sarcases ainst all wage Worker Ohion Leader Tack THE STRUGGLE of the Pilkington glassworkers- Workers' Union sacked and hackisted by Mersevside emplovers-s at Workerse ral ind and the centre of the fight against Tory plans to outlaw ree sing Bonsiver Municipal Workers strikes and crush militancy in british industry leader Lora cooper. in of thie TAll Trades Mor Seather and

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will d T on October 3 with Cowley men vote Mr Carr a roder Helens six gas plants to stay out what the ce of its kind. irst Helens mer hereaboed tellum Changed? i me toted Questions Pot on tse sacked! re-ins tate Pilkington no die farday: the defence of wonder wen on face here be a figh . Mr Carr and the Tories this ts an issue e mat merely volves st estien i the way they bente erikers union leader at waits in eit orno Pilkington espers go back to dock work accept gineering factoriess speed-up. Helens, the hesccessful Return no sist will be and no trade winey returned interest Pledges broken Th pade nie sides, their ' du have now, in tact

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The Pilkington struggle and the right to strike!

Defeat the proposed Tory anti-union laws!

St George's Hall, Lime St against MDW

LIVERPOOL

employment. Saturday October 3 Guards strike Beware to Manchester series are 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. e tooled by the torie Conference the mands their

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Guerrillas to to Amman HOSTAGES held by the guerrillas on Dawson's Field in Tordan are to be taken to the capital Amman, the Central Committee of Palestinian Liberation Organization nounced yesterday. This decision to Cals broadcast Baghdad Radio earlier yes- Lerday. Han in this mater : to give a haid portant been the seria, in mate med et s in Baghdad of am move.

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as a victor: the ng: mitteommando Central Com- port of tave tra nected with the clearly European governments T&GWU executive member Marie Patterson: No job-evaluation with equal pay

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THIS WEEKEND

Action for Swimming equal pay Gala rejected Saturday September 12 6 p.m. From Aur mate oregondent

YORK HALL

BATHS

BORED acquiescence appeared the prevailing Old Ford Rd, E.2 mood amongst delegates as the 102nd Trades Union Congress drew to a close yesterday.

Sports Day The debate Repression continued to reflect- though in pale and distorted fashion million save prankind nee of Spanish Sunday milllons rank-ana-me September 13 trade unionists moving into 2 p.m workers is their tourth month of ory

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government; nroblems which this week's delibera- condemned

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answer. made none National end of rested ual pay Organized by London Region Young Socialists

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THE FIRST OF TWO

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Council Jones soul the police back 'I HAVE never believed, Mr Victor Feather, by a poinical he politica Trades Union Congress secretary, told Brighton correspondent In heroie ine Iberation conference delegates on Thursday, 'that the gov- dedicated ernment wanted a showdown with the unions.

from Zionis What does he mean? Hostage will ask. our readers The fight against has neard or GKN strike • Theon posed Thich ate everishly Tory anti-union still not official e Tory press GKN-Sankey Enten stre Class laws opens tween This emerged after THE STRUGGLE of the Pilkington glassworkers • Thii dee sive are lead in t the Workers' It is obvious that, the union sacked and blacklisted by Merseyside employers-is at Jack leader leader Lord Cooper. ene nion mos us de the centre of the nght against Tory plans to outlaw not strikes and crush militancy in British industry.

country or it. mands? Because of this the national no in Brighter

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why Tories then ahead they see any dangers UcroDer • WILD Cowley men vote dossed resistanc fee Ted large cartoon on naturally, Mr Car Employment tivity, appreciates to stay out she sked first con- described Th the the unions and wild-Cat Strikesarchy pore ot Changed? its own 350 other abey elon yet the necess bichie. on the tole and ask a this Tory spera chanded tos stripes and dedi I There o entence So Questions today: the defence les and ess. wen the against neila Khaled one racks Let no worker imagine that solderely Transport boardrona in Jones has minering factorints speed-up. f it is the seen desires Return into nist wirl be sand no trai union 1o fight it the toa Pledges broken develope die • Tones, are the only answer parts

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Bennett, esterday Defeat the proposed Tory anti-union laws!

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Guerrillas to 10 Amman ALL HOSTAGES held by the guerrillas on Dawson's Field in Jordan are to be taken to the capital Amman, the Central Committee of Palestinian Liberation Organization nounced yesterday. This decision follows an raon government • call stor their release, broadcast by Baghdad Radio earlier yes.

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THIS WEEKEND

Action for Swimming equal pay Gala rejected Saturday September 12 6 p.m.

YORK HALL

BATHS

BORED acquiescence appeared the prevailing Old Ford Rd, E.2 mood amongst delegates as the 102nd Trades Union Congress drew to a close yesterday.

Sports Day The morning's debate Repression continued to reflect- _thongr in pad and dirted aion e problems facin of Spanish Sunday September 13 2 p.m. workers is

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THERE WAS applause as Social overm nt to dis sociate Monday September 21 T&GWU's action of the US government forces "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) takes place.

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we turn to Whelan's main attack, which is directed at the statement of the SLL Political Committee of 'A October 25, 1969, Political Challenge', it is important to note how of the spokesmen "United the Pabloite Secretariat' which he pre- viously told us had 'capi- tulated to imperialism'. The following long quota- tion from Whelan illustrates (a) the way in which Whelan has come to defend the most opportunist programmatic re- visions of Trotskyism by the Pabloite Mandel, and, (b) the utterly unprincipled way in which Whelan distorts quota- tions from his opponents, in order to cover up his tracks.

Whelan refers to a series of articles in which Cliff Slaughter replied to Mandel's booklet 'Marxism vs. Ultra- leftism': "In the second of these Newsletter" articles ("The February 11, 1969) Slaughter quotes from an article by Ernest Mandel in the Belgian paper "La Gauche" of Decem- ber 24, 1960 [i.e. during the Belgian General Strike, CS]: "In 'La Gauche' we have pro- posed a clear formula: a gov-

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'He then quotes terms on which Mandel said the Belgian Socialist Party might form a coalition, and cites the verdict co-thinker of the French Gerard Bloch: Mandel "sub- stituted an alternative both of the terms of which amounted to vulgar reformism, vulgar parliamentarism". 'Now we don't know all the details of the Belgian General Strike; it was a bit before our though judging by, in time, particular, Tom Kemp's pamph- let, Mandel's line was generally correct. But we do know that Slaughter's "critique", sympto- matic of a certain infantile dis- order, can only disorient those — presumably his followers — whom he is trying to educate.

'For Slaughter attacks Man- del's "advocacy in Belgium of a coalition government under pressure of the masses", an attack which seems to reveal more Slaughter's than Man- del's mistakes. May we remind him: since the collapse of the Third International, there have not been mass revolutionary parties in the advanced capi- talist countries. What there have been are revolutionary organizations, the nuclei of future revolutionary parties. As he is discovering, the tactical problems of building these parties, in a workers' move- ment dominated by reformism and Stalinism, are considerable.

And yet, arguing on the level on which he operates, one could denounce the Bolshevik Party for putting forward, in 1917, the slogan "Down with the Ten Capitalist Ministers"!

(р. 52.)

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ROBERT BLACK

PRICE 22s Ed One suspects that the Russian Revolution of 1917 was also 'a bit before Whelan's time', , but we certainly cannot excuse him for his ignorance of it, any more than we can excuse him for his distortion, not ignorance, of the essential difference the Belgian over General Strike. Patience in unravelling this long quotation from Whelan will prove worthwhile. A workers' government The question of workers' parties participating in coali- tion governments with bour- geois parties, however much one talks about 'mass pressure', is not at all a tactical question, but one of basic principle, and has been recognized as such by Marxists ever since the French joined a Socialist Millerand bourgeois Ministry at the turn of the century. Now Whelan says that Man- del's line in 1960-1961 seems to him correct. But if we take the whole quotation from "The Newsletter's' reply to Mandel, just and not sentence selected by Whelan, it becomes crystal-clear, Mandel from himself, that he was talking about the Socialist Party join- ing a bourgeois coalition.

We therefore reproduce the lettle passee fring The Short underlining the short piece abstracted by Whelan.

'In 1953, when the French Trotskyists raised the slogan: "A government representing the workers, built from the national strike committee of the workers' parties and the , Mandel and trade unions!" Pablo had condemned them as "sectarian" and "adventurist".

'In 1960-1961, Mandel showed exactly what he had meant by this and what a be- trayal his revisionism had led to. 'Writing in "La Gauche" (December 24, 1960), Mandel says: • "The strike is directed against the government collective representative of the capitalist class rather than of this or that group of bosses.

Inescapably the movement leads to the defeat of the gov- ernment. But what to replace it with? That is the question.

•"In 'La Gauche', we have proposed a clear formula: A government of the workers supported by the trade unions".

'Had Mandel come over to the correct position of the French Trotskyists in 1953?

On the contrary, he soon showed that he meant the xact opposite "The workers fear." he con tinues, "that if the government falls in the present social situation in which the country would be without a govern- 'Says Mandel, this would only be acceptable if: govern-

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Workers overturn a bus during the Belglum General Strike In 1960- 1961. Strikers parade through the streets of Brusseis. the loi ment abandoned unique'; second, that the essen- the structural tial points in reforms be kept as Cabinet policy." 'And further: 666 ... it will be enough for the Christian-Democrat MPs to heed the voice of their own electors, that under the pressure of the strike they take a position in line with the aspirations of those they repre- sent, for a new parliamentary majority to take shape on at least these two questions."

'In place of the slogan, "a workers' government", Mandel, as Gerard Bloch summarized it ("La Verite", no. 522, p. 72): "substituted alternative an both of the terms of which amounted to vulgar reformism, vulgar parliamentarism"? From this there emerge a number of uncomfortable facts for Whelan and his revisionist promoters. First, Whelan's selective method of quotation hides the fact that what Mandel pro- posed was a coalition with a capitalist party, the Christian- Democrats, Whereas Whelan quotes only a sentence which gives the impression that he probably meant a government of workers' parties. ('... a government of the workers supported by the trade unions').

Second, that the proposed programme of such a govern- ment was, as Bloch rightly says, thoroughly reformist.

Third, the reference to the Bolshevik slogan of 1917 is.

used to suggest the exact opposite of what it actually meant. 'Down with the Ten Capi- talist Ministers' was a slogan directed against the coalition with capitalist parties, i.e.

against the very type of coali- tion proposed by Mandel! Whelan stands history on its head in order to be able to defend the revisionists from the Socialist Labour League.

Not content with that, when he finds that what Mandel says is indefensible, he deliberately creates the impression that he said the opposite. We criticised Whelan's method as that of an isolated individual unable to speak from the standpoint of building a party. We challenged him to state his relationship to the actual history of the political tendencies in the Trotskyist movement. We need not wait for his answer. His problem is not, as he tries to make out, inability to see our position as 'realistic', but his agreement with the most reactionary methods in order to justify them.

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especially important reason for taking in detail the above material on the Belgian General Strike is to establish Whelan's political position on the basic questions of reform and revolution, a workers' government, and the building of independent revolutionary parties. Whelan, though objecting to our use of the term 'Pabloite revisionism', ended up with the Pablo position that 'mass pressure' would non- revolutionary (and in this case even capitalist) parties to do work for the working class. It is really this viewpoint which impels him to attack the SLL position on the Labour government. Whelan tells us that we have an entirely exaggerated picture of the seriousness of the economic and political situa- tion. For example: ... we can say with reasonable confidence that in Britain unemployment is not going to become severe in the near future.' (I) (p. 38.)

With such confidence in the stability in capitalist the system (characteristic of revi- sionists) and such blindness to the actual trends, what sort of leadership working-class can be offered by Whelan and his friends? insisting, As we keep on they approach political ques- tions, life-and-death questions for the working class, not with the fighting responsibility of building the revolutionary alternative, but with the bland cynicism of the and rotten middle class. why Whelan One reason 'reasonably confident' was there would be no serious un- employment problem was: .. there is a General Election on the horizon, and if the best Tory prime minister of this century (i.e. Wilson) does not follow the example of all his recent predecessors and engineer a pre-election boom, we will be very surprised indeed.' Far from there being a pre- election boom, a crisis elec- tion was called, a year before the end of the government's term, (which Whelan, again,

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was confident they would last out) because there could not this time be any 'boom'. The strength of the working class was mounting too rapidly so long as Labour stayed in power. In calling the Election, Wilson carried out the policies of the capitalist class. All these things are now undeniable and contrast sharply with our statement in 'A Political Challenge' that "The govern- ment's policies and the em- ployers' plans are one and the same thing? We never at any time failed to make clear that these policies paved the way directly for the return of the Tories, in order for them to implement the next necessary phase of the employers' policy. The essence of our docu- ment A Political Challenge' was to warn that the mounting strength demonstrated by the workers in economic strike struggles was itself creating a situation, where the struggle for power was involved, and for which the essential prepara- tion must be political. other words, we were explaining the qualitative poli- tical preparation necessary in the period opened up by the strike wave of the low-paid workers. It is because he rejects any possibility of capitalist crisis, and considers that the reform- ists and the union bureaucracy can keep permanent control of the workers, that Whelan dis- misses this essential content.

Whelan descends again to the misuse of quotations. He starts with an extract from the beginning of 'A Political Challenge': •Whatever the form taken by the strike struggle ... the content of them goes very deep because whole sections of the class are acting independently of their leadership in response to the deepest crisis of the system' Laying on the sarcasm, Whelan comments: •"Form" of the strike struggle? "Content" of the strike struggle? Are these con- cepts — no doubt united opposites — exactly clear? Are they clearly explained, even?'

Saturday, September 12, 1970

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12.15 Skipov. 12.45 Lon- passage, but if it was not, we find only two sentences before in 'A Political Challenge': 'These effects of the world crisis - the threat of further unemployment, price rises, curtailment of Invesunent, the Common entry Market, speed-up and ration- alization by the big monopolies helped by state finance — now weld begin to together the class as a fighting working force' Whelan's sneers at dialectics are not accidental. He answers 'A Political our analysis in Challenge' by pointing out that the trade union leaders weré or able to reimpose their control, that we exaggerated in speak- of workers breaking free ing distortions of bureaucracy, that only one million out of 20 million workers were on strike, that scabbed. that teachers some This is the old trick of emulated dustmen's wage butchering quotations. We. now demands out of snobbery, etc. print the quote taken by This is just like his objec- Whelan with omitted the tions to the 'hard work' of the phrases restored, just as it first members of the revolutionary Workers appeared Press. party. The reader can make the com- Everything must be parison himself: moned up to prove that the "Whatever the form of the time is not ripe for revolution- struggle - against unemploy- work, that defeats, divi- ary ment in the car industry and sions and bureaucracy are the in GEC-EE, for parity with the Then it becomes neces- norm. best-paid motor industry areas, sary to paint the Marxists as day for the in eight-hour they gospellers, were hot for equal for mining, ( pay imagining revolutionary up- women, for substantial in- from the surge workers at creases for the dustmen - the every turn, only to find them- content of them very selves confounded by 'realists' gUes deep because whole sections of like Whelan. the class are acting indepen- But document our was dently of their leadership in precisreak political challenge.

response to the deepest crisis break the grip of the system.' bureaucracy requires a political It is quite evident that we struggle to build the revolu- detailed 'form' of the the tionary party. To ignore this struggles with series of task is to leave the reformists Whelan examples which just and bureaucrats in a position 'omitted, presumably to make to perpetrate disaster on the it easier for him say that working class. TO we did not "clearly explain' This, for example, was the ourselves! meaning of our warning against The 'content' of the struggles the illusions of strength which is also from the clear same could result from the strike I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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12 London. 12.15 noon Richard the Lionheart. 12.45 London. Sky's 6.15 the limit. 6.45 Movie: and "Ivanhoe'. With Robert Taylor Not That's me Elizabeth Taylor. 8.45 here. 10.10 9.15 Maggie's place. 10.00 over report. pled Match 10.25 London. call. Times'. With Late 10.30 Movie: Thousand Jack Palance, Winters, Lori Nelson and Lee Shelley Marvin. CRAMPIAN: 12 London. noon London. 12.15 Ivanhoe. 12.45 5.50 Laredo. «Topkapi'. 6.45 London. 7.15 Film: With Melina Mecouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov and Robert Morley. 9.15 Maggie's 10.00 D ace. London. 10.10 "Dial M for Murder'. and With Ray Milland, Grace Kelly Robert Cummings. struggles. We did not say, as Whelan suggests, that it was possible to win con- not cessions. On the contrary, we said: "The strength of the organized workers in these strikes can and will force concessions from the certain employers and the government which supports them. But the government and the employers will continue to press forward, in whatever find, with ways they can exactly the type of policy which has produced higher prices, cuts in public spending, of credit and reductions deflationary policies.' And later, we emphasized: "The Tories and the right- wing Labour leaders can only on by provoking the go severest clashes.' Again: 'The present wave of strikes is an essential preparation for the struggle against unemploy- because these strikes ment, accelerate the unification of the working class. Most essen- tial is a socialist policy and leadership to direct this strength.' Now, Mr Whelan. Were we right in posing this question in dialectical, contradictory way, from the standpoint of how to intervene to overcome the dangers inherent in the very strength of the workers industrially, or were you right anti - dialectical, in your 'common - sense' deduction 'experience' that from there would be a full term for the Labour government and a 'pre- boom' (which by election rights we ought to be in the middle of right now!)? Since Whelan's whole aim in his booklet is to prove that we have been wrong on per- spectives revolutionary and

EAST

THE TORY press often reveals MiI its character more clearly in right the stories that disappear from in th its columns than in what can Fascis be read in them. Rom And no story was more hastily dropped than that of the millionaire Italian aristo- crat Casati, who shot his wife green and her student lover, and contai then himself, on the night of partic Sunday, August 31. own f wife's On first reports it seemed the answer to every tabloid with (in br editor's prayer - hot Latin blood, a 'crime of honour and colour three corpses in one of Rome's Co most luxurious apartments — appea and the result banner was cipal headlines in Monday's evening years. papers. Suf compi Reminiscent the P parago But as the squalid details purity came in, the 'gentlemen of the press' found themselves with One Casati something far too reminiscent manly of past revelations of Toryism at play to be suitable for ing to public consumption, and the persor larly curtain was hurriedly drawn.

wife's The Marquis Casati, one of Italy's premier noblemen, with a palace and vast estates in Fa Lombardy and a fortune of The over £250 million (giving him a daily income of over £1,500) match affair. called his 41-year-old wife, the ex-model Anna Fallarino and Mir her lover, 25-year-old econo- the fa mics student Massimo Mino- and tr renti, to the family house in which Parioli, Rome's most affluent Paolo district, and murdered them two y both with a shotgun, saving a An cartridge for himself. been on a Photographs less ti incom Precisely why he did so remains obscure, but it was An certainly not straightforward gladdi jealousy. Tory, Police took possession of a mater

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preparations, one must ask the It or IMG whether they are still the 'very pleased' to have pub- which lished tives | Comrade TW's analy- incon Sis ... On this question, one note Whel collab needs to be added. Whelan makes great play of the defeat ists i of the anti-union laws in June matur 1969 as being in some way a We refutation of the line of the not SLI, and says that 'pressure' prede changed the government's tellin policy. regim He takes it as contradicting that our statement "The govern- terize ment's policies and the em- ment. ployers' plans are one and the An same thing'. The first question line is: Did the strikes in June 1969 defen the government's change bourg policy? Doesn't such a claim come hide the essence of the ques- cism tion that the government were Leagu prevented from implementing Th their policy, precisely by fight- canno ing capitalist against their poli policy? Britai Secondly -and we are back our to the dialectic so hated by leftisi Whelan - did not this defeat the I for the government make all to hi inevitable the more betwe resignation of the government publi in face of the forces which it occur unleashed, and not at all a change in the government's policy in favour of the working electi Marx arms the Revolution Socia the n and part social its or reformism not vote. Proce The Socialist Labour League wins did not, as Whelan suggests, will I abstract content itself with Ho statements about what the gov- ernment could or could not do.

splen

THE

cow-Bonn Pact is inten bureaucracy pressing settlem ces in various pa is blatantly Gem and unat sti. stationine es its militar f the tribution to NATO. dent

'BRAIN DRAI

dered berna dranto the US: sion 1 technological mos rea erman the American car leadership! The issue, didn Labor pointir vote importance. Red Mole of Ar Blackourse spre IMG's meeting platfo entitled August Labour an Bleed General Election' included I parity be an campaign lalana both of Britain's credit parties were talln- leading spokesmen 'pre- t was it the were This line dominated t /ilson election sated only onty1 ana larac ment criti- for a Labour vote about 01 man ultra- finds Blackburn Labour Parts ona WorK arty anc the reformist. Whelan's te, Solidarity and then throws out t lowing, liately oever orkers ntific

WORKERS PRESS

THERE CAN be no more dis- gusting sight than that of capitalist politicians mounting a platform in celebration of their own history. And in Paris last weekend was to be seen one of the most nauseating events of such spec- tacles when the chiefs of Gaullism "commemorated' the centenary of the French Republic. Prime Minister Chaban Delmas - escorted to the Town Hall of Paris by President of the Repub- lic Pompidou and the head gendarme of the French bour- geoisie, Interior Minister Mar- cellin - delivered a eulogy to 'democracy. Of necessity, he spoke only in the most general terms, among other things he said: can gain far higher profits from Mos- the exploitation of the W Ger- ed by man workers ... Labour in the new GFR is much cheaper than in the a far-

USA...

their But the W German monopolies its of especially those involved in the contract to build the mammoth • in a £460 million truck plant in the y by Soviet Union, are no longer cast er 1. in their traditional role as Common Market ogres. aimed ' and

POLITICAL AIM

Is are This blatant attempt to build Euro- up W German capitalism and its comes armed forces against the US has a political aim: time In the USA they realize that idates even preparations for ty of troops European co-operation may en- tail all kinds of guarantees of ederal independence and security for W : bear and European States so that they can liberate themselves more or less / con- from the heavy US tutelage. Hence the US presence in the 1e US German Federal Republic is ederal this.' intended prevent to erting (Emphasis added.) • • •

OCCUPATION

On other occasions, address- sym- ing. other audiences, Moscow of W Radio has called for the honour- y the of the Potsdam Treaty of ing 1945, which provided the diplo- entific matic pretext for the occupation in the of Germany by the allies.

Here the intention is to direct bjects • against US German nationalism on of occupation — a highly-dangerous

ISS:

game that could easily rebound in the wrong direction. talists Labour Party's campaign n the against the Tories' invasion of tions', " and Suez, he did not renounce the man next to him ... g out no He would have had great difficulty in so doing ..

ril 15 because no such 'famous ad by occasion' ever happened. later It is a pure invention of Mr otsky Whelan! 'm on et it It would take a booklet to • the equal length to Whelan's to expose all his distortions, but in this example he has gone to owing the limit of actually inventing rticle: a complete lie. This is his politics. nclude course The only difficulty is to cialists know whether to warn Whelan on will of the awful political prospect of association with Blackburn, o dis- who combines this dangerous largest • for adventurism with the friend- with the and liest of relations Stalinists, or to point out to • cam- Blackburn and Jordan what a y pull We gem they have acquired in • paigns Whelan! (Tory All Whelan's conclusions their about the SLL turn out to be all the based on worthless impressions ethods and downright distortions. His have own political past and the nature of the political tendency he has now joined (IMG) he e pre- tries to avoid, but it is easily

IMG

exposed. e Red The IMG itself adds its mite • fort- to the lies. In its introduction ial we welcoming Whelan, it accuses d Pat the SLL of having broken with rticle, the Fourth International. They o put know this is a pack of lies.

burn, bring It was their own predeces- paign sors and mentors, Pablo and Mandel, who abandoned the Transitional Programme, the an to L for method of Marxism, and the building of independent revolu- nment nment tionary parties. ubber The fact that they usurped nd to the name of the Fourth Inter- of the national is on a par with the imself fact that the Stalinists call who themselves Communists. is a The Socialist Labour League is the British section of the estion Fourth International. Its revo- n the lutionary programme and its lonary what daily paper represent abour Trotsky fought for all his life.

1 even e of Its members are fighters in ins us the class struggle, basing them- linism selves on the method of f the Marxism. They will reject with paign, contempt the lying distortions le fol- of the renegade Whelan, and show conclude that in lining up, united temporarily at least, with the revisionists of the Pabloite IMG, he takes the logical step are of petty - bourgeois from his n that empiricism, while at the same Gerry time marking a further step in afalgar the theoretical and political atform degeneration of the IMG itself.

ng the 'The Third Republic implanted But at the same time a whole in us once and for all - and not tribe of capitalist politicians, that Bonaparte's only laws, but also in our seeing jingoism In spirits and our customs-political headed for inevitable catas- was democracy.' trophe, gave only lukewarm sup- port to the war and prepared to replace imperial bringandage with

VIOLENCE

republican exploitation. Republic, This inspirer of On September the main Chaban Delmas and his ilk, was French Army was routed three quarters of century of Sedan, and Bonaparte taken capitalist violence, deceit, prisoner. exploitation and hypocritical Paliako, War Minister, and self-congratulation. appropriately head of the gov- It was baptised, May 1871, ernment, dared not announce the in the blood of the Paris Com- defeat immediately; but munards massacred by the and ended its Septeinber 3. it could be con- ernment of Thiers, no longer, cealed and the first days providing legal unction for proclamation astons co fascist Vichy the regime which the defence of Paris-was issued helped Hitler enslave the working by the Council of Ministers, people France during putting an end to the Empire.

Second World War. Huge crowds filled the streets, Coffins of the Parls Communards slaughtered In May 1871.

inspires nder, thrietor therefore, that celebrating the fall of the dic. it inspires the of the tatorship and determined to take of Republic Fifth Republic, who in June the detence the Bismark. The National against 1968 fell over each other in their re-organized, putting Guard was haste to make a quick profit by the working men of Paris, armed, their converting francs into under the lead of democratically- Deutsche marks. elected commanders. September 4, 1870, when the Third Republic was proclaimed, is enshrined in the only

WORKERS DEFEND

even Paris Metro station to be named With the after a date. enemy at the gates and Bismark the insisting on Alsace and annexation of

SUICIDAL

Lorraine and the payment of vast German reparations When Louis Bonaparte, hoping the working capitalism, class to divert the growing strikes and prade to defend the capital.

proved the part of society struggles of the workers declared Bismark's Germany war on in 1870, it was the of And, with murderous logic, July act as suicide for his Second Empire.

the working class took the initia- the capitalist spokesmen of tive, The Paris section of the First new Republic joined hands the International, before the even with German militarism to rescue official war declaration, called for their class position. the unity of all European workers against the common enemy.

After five months of siege and D

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starvation their 'Government of National Defence' formally sur- rendered Paris on January 8, 1871. But the National Guard stood firm and the German army could occupy only a small corner of the city. Jules Trochu, the lawyer who became Military Governor Paris, sworn to defend the city, on September_4, called in vain for surrender. From that point on French and German capital understood each other clearly they faced a social revolution.

CUNNING

And the organizer of the counter-revolution was Thiers, the most cunning of them all, who was a monarchist when it suited him, and a thief and para- site all the time. Thiers headed a government of 'Conservative Republicanism' in a legislature transported to Bor- deaux and renamed the National Assembly'. In March he sent troops to try to recapture the artillery of the National Guard in Paris — declaring "state property, though it had been paid for by the workers' subscriptions.

They failed, most of them fraternizing with the workers, and on March 26 the Commune was formed. Capitalist France, reinforced by • Bismark, who returned prisoners taken at Sedan, laid siege to revolutionary Paris..

Thiers spared no effort to prevent news of the Commune's programme reaching the rest of the country. All the scum of the Empire; stockbrokers and cour- tiers, with their whores and journalists, gathered at Versailles to enjoy the massacre.

BLOODLETTING

In the last week of May their troops retook the city, and set about the most terrible blood- letting. In ten days at least 20,000 men, women and children were killed to restore order'. Large areas of the city burned in ruins. Thousands of the com- munards died shouting 'Long live Commune!' at their executioners. And when all was quiet Thiers was officially elected first Presi- dent of the Republic. If his name was not mentioned in last week's 'celebrations', it was only from a sense of caution.

For Chaban-Delmas, Pompidou and Marcellin "democracy' precisely what it was for him — a vile façade backed by readiness to use whatever weapons come to hand against the working class.

HARLECH: 11.00-12.00rt. 2.45 Soccer Decimalization. 2.15 Sport. special. 3.45 Joe 90. 4.15 Survival. 4.45 London. 5.30 Tom Grattan's war.

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mobilize the working class.

St shown in This was pedes, her ten the the in the pledges, person of Victor Feather, has not lifted a finger to reinstate the sacked Pilkington men at Pontypool, end victimization in St Helens and destroy the the hands of blacklist in Merseyside employers. men lead How can such the struggle against mass un- employment and Tory legislation? Enter this campaign there- fore with no illusions. It will be only a leadership that can face all the political challenges it involves, a leadership that is not afraid to mobilize the strength of the enormous working class, that will be able to defend and advance the power of the trade union movement. Let us end this appeal for to attend all trade unionists the Liverpool conference as delegates or visitors with the words of John Potter, secre- tary of the Pilkington rank- and-file committee: Workers' right 'Our fight does" not just affect glassworkers. Pilking- have attacked, ton's and attempted to destroy, a right • of every that is the property worker: he has violated the property of the working class.

which If he wins here, group of workers will be next for the dole ... who will be next? "Therefore I ask you to take our struggle into your fac- your unions and tories and back us. The fight to defend the workers from attacks by the Tories and employers is a fight tor glassworkers of St Helens, the solidarity with

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(See page one) Amman, Friday-The Cen- tral Committee of the Palestine resistance movement has de- all the cided release passengers of the three hi- jacked planes, except Israelis with a military capacity, the Committee announced. hi-iacked airlines and their crews. Saturday, September 12, 1970

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Chile: Anti-left Hunger Gas strikers strike slam GamWU B-Leyland alliance

RIGHT - WINGER

Ales Jorge official Maoists sandri was reported yesterday to be going ahead with his origina By Industrial reporter plan to defeat the left-wing victor WEST MIDLANDS Gas Board planned in last week's Chilean Presidential on trial manual workers voted for the election, Allende. second time in a week This ended several days of confusion Birmingham yesterday to con- 'economies' in Chile, where reports had circulated tinue their strike for a 'decen strike, • Bing living wage'. that Alessandri would not

BY A MORPENDENT S

tried contest the result. also yesterday for reconstituting The men WД0 demanding the right to nego- Using the Chilean constitu- duces the tered politica under parliamen tiate their wage ande dates it no socallever. passed a volc Oldi candidate Christian strengthen these forces, sion that could ta confidence General and Workers district hit Bathgate Municipal Alessandri if constitution to reverse see Allende for Natoes so and mil

INVESTMENTS

secretary. On Tuesday, they poll. advice oi a Tull-ume

FEAR

September 1 in prer would Portin

G&MWU

area oficia Democrat candidate return to work and take their BRITISH-LEYLAND workers in Scotland are caim througn procedure. Epon Alliance a Detence But although 2,500 of the now aware of the significance of Lord Stokes' she when nationals. inge incre of bit. Board's 4,000 manual workers are now involved in the dis- 'routine' visit to Glasgow a fortnight ago.

i electio supplies are oute, ga It has been followed by the announce.

maintained ment that 600 of the 5,000 workers at the and his dangerogrammes to meet thi combine's Bathgate factory are sacked. One hundred are clerical and super- visory staff, the rest are production main- Stalinist youth This follows proposals for closing two Sterne factories, subsidiaries of Leyland at refrigerator group wound up Woodside. Gasgow, emploving 430.

Redundancies at Bathgate were discussed in Mas his year and were followed Stokes' warning of in Prague imminent 'Endless spiral

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

THE PRAGUE branch of the 'Leninist Youth League' has dissolved itself at its last meeting on September 9.

In her final them So the grass or all goe Stalinist vet and crumps model cres an ultd not the 00 ch arre fried of 196oaths of this year come fred cit You per cent oraces couch the samee Boom American car imports rose from 95,950 to 108,954 in silenced august. Black cloud over promotion agreements. neral orades resolu Careerists Bones anded the par Hostages Clyde I gOos the Transo Withdrawal of US forces trom SE Asia. See page one report.

calling for jobs paign against him today care

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Sky • At stake way the sa tale, Acton CAV marshals they in mong than GLASGOW workers But within 24 hours of thi more - a olerne warning, the in the Bott technicians for US British - Leyland subsidiary -are proposing to launch lightning strikes and de- planes reject strings monstrations against the proposed closure of two

ROAD BLOCKS

Czech factories and the resulting in Washington yes it was Armed guerrillas and in 430 redundancies. •Protective STAFF EMPLOYEES at CAV's Acton, London, Party factory are continuing to push for substantial been gives none on industria measures' increases and the three unions involved- expiring on Septem- oad blocks are still in place CAWU, DATA and ASTMS- -are having vary- teachers • the tocus of the ing degrees of success in their negotiations with threaten expelled nanagement trade have DA A technician recently rejected an offer of Beneral engine con around £3 a week and are Czechorner Vehicles chief demand without strings. Equal pay building of revolu the grounds of hi telected on This had

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the victory of the to be tal more going, + Blackoriars factory Sunday group regards Fourth International profits, hi sa on Seven l Go forward'! October 4 ended a Paton so 900 will be about clap-trap. Beware as the at rean DICWErS Prin Clapi new Haver Hill, Suffolk, factory.

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