Doom-watch report on 'agitators' A newwarning from THE

DO YOU KNOW why Concorde is a failure? Do you know why the GKN strikers are proving so intractable? Do you know why the car industry is being paralvsed? Do vou know why 'our' balance of trade is going to pot?

Do you know why 'our' skills, culture, power, traditions, etc. are held in contempt by Arab guerrillas and • Shropshire bumpkins alike? Do you? You don't!

Well, don't bother to turn to the back page for the answers. Just turn to the editorial column yesterday's 'Times' and read, with trepidation, the awful 'truth' from site oracle of Printing House Square.

The cause, if you haven't guessed it, you wretched Philistine, is the curse of Trotskyism.

Yes indeed, like the Acanthaster Planci which is quietly, yet sedulously, devouring the coral on Great Barrier reef and the atolls in the Pacific, the Trotskyites, without pity and without haste, are deyouring the barrier reefs of class conciliation and leaving behind the chewed-up remnants of productivity deals, bureaucrats, non-conforming convenors, etc. etc.

Doom-watch Reports, it seems, are food Peace and to cal animation, yerdict.

"The Trotskyite circus agitators has make a schlement more dito cult.' (In GKN that is.)

He hasn't come round t the de, balance of trade, (co.)

enose miliation Has been saved.

seat nation should be bie sed with the sight might Wing its stop prot Real cause undermine the credibility of class wages i: government which ad.

If the GN strike has not been settled. it is entirely beNS BUILD less than three. AN AUDIENCE of 600 braved Protest attend the first of two lectures Brigades Union have been national secretary Gerry refusing 'spit-and-polish' Healy to commemorate the local fire authority's exten- assassination in Mexico. sion of the £63-a-year Outer This first one dealt with London 'weighting' allow- Trotsky's struggle against 'We think this should be how, after the successful revoan across-the-board pay- lution in 1917, the Soviet ment to everyone in Essex' Union and its Bolshevik The hiremen have also the hostile forces of imwhere full-time firemen This, coupled with treachery working 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. of the social - democratic make themselves available leadership in W Europe, led to for overtime duties at night the strengthening of conPAGE FOUR COL. 6 sections in Soviet revolution-CONFERENCE Saturday October 3 .... "". Inerpool 8.

ESS 600 hear of Trotsky's fight Mary party, represented at the a torrential downpour in •top Soviet society by London on Monday night to This conservatism maniat the Beaver Hall given by fested itself on an international plane in the Anglo-Russian Trades Union Committee of 1925. 30th anniversary of Trotsky's "The British Communist Party subordinated itself to the trade union "lefts" on this committee and was deprived of its 'independence when the Comrade Healy described 1926 General Strike came along. "They were unable to criticize the trade union leadership leadership found themselves or raise the question of power isolated and surrounded by during the strike. They were therefore unable to prevent the defeat of the British working class, their hands were tied behind their backs by Moscow. "There are great parallels in servative and bureaucratic the situation in Britain today.

Workers will be unable to see the political question behind their wages offensive if the revolutionary party does not make a qualitative political intervention that will expose our present day "lefts" in the trade unions and arm workers for the fight against Defeat the the Tories. proposed Tory "This is the relevance of understanding the lessons of the 1926 defeat, said Comrade Healy.

Liquidated In its desperate drive to retain its power this bureaucracy was forced to liquidate all the Bolsheviks in Lenin's Party during the Moscow rials of the 1930s.

Now, said Comrade Healy, many liberals and Communist

are out as far as the employers are concerned.

So, in order to confuse the workers and make them accept productivity deals, the employers and their press must *Trotskyism (never Stalinism) introduce spectre and blame Trotskyism for the hardship caused by their own bloodymindedness.

We saw this at Girling's