PALESTINIAN guerrilla leaders yesterday revolt against King Hussein's newly-installed

'Sainsbury jobs promise broken' SAINSEU USDAW leaflets for shoppers.

SAINSBURY'S strikers picketed shoppers in London's West End yesterday bense that used by chairman.

J. D. Sainsbury to entertain business friends.

A total of 2,000 Sainsbury workers are on strike in London claiming that the management has broken redundancy promises made in lieu of the closure of the Blackfriars factory in 12 months' time.

Originally the company agreed to absorb redundancies at Blackfriars in their London depots and at their new factory now under construction at Haverhill in Sainsbury's now claim that because the Transport and General Workers' Union has organizing rights at Haverhill the Blackfriars' Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers' members must lose their employment priorities.

Standing outside Sainsbury's, Kings Road, Chel'sèa, Donald Kurland, floor steward at Blackfriars, told the Workers Press:

'Sainsbury's have tried to back out of their promises. Men who drew out their superannuation when they heard Blackfriars was closing have been told now that they must pay it all backa considerable sum—if they want to be ré-employed. This comes from employers socialists, supposed to be Many of the workers at the tactory, where 50 per cent of the labour force are women, will find great difficulty in finding new jobs.

'Just imagine someone who is over 50, and we have Many of these, going outside and trying to find a Bristol support glassworkers' conference BRISTOL draughtsmen have passed the following resolution unanimously:

'Bristol No 3 branch of DATA supports the fight of the Pilkington glassworkers' rank-and-file committee for the unconditional reinstatement of those trade unionists dismissed for their part in the recent dispute, recognizing the victimization of these men as an attack on the right to withdraw their labour and to join the trade union of their choice. It further pledges its support for the All Trades Unions Alliance October 3, Conference on organized to finance a conference delegate. CONFERENCE struggle and the St George's Hall, Lime St LIVERPOOL Saturday October 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m.

redentials and visitors' cards 5s each from Con ecretary, W. Hunter, 58 Lelghton View, Liverp Earlier, within hours of Sandhursttrained Field Marshal Majali's allmilitary Cabinet declaring martial law, Palestinian guerrilla organizations and left-wing trade union leaders issued a strike call to bring down the Hussein regime.

In the North, guerrillas now control not only the city of Irbid, but also much of the surrounding countryside. The King's police and armed forces have been disarmed.

In Irbid itself, what the leaders of Al Fatah call 'the first Arab Soviet' has already been in session. Delegates representing 200,000 Arabs met at a 'Popular Congress' to plan the next steps in their fight against the Zionists and pro-imperialist Hussein regime.

Isolate

Everything. . is now being done to isolate and then smash the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, led by Georges Habbash. Egged on by the Kremlin, Nasser is trying to head off the revolution in Jordan by securing the admission of Al Fatah leader Yasser Arafat in a new, more 'left' government coalition.

But first Arafat has to secure his own left flank, fast being eroded by the PFLP's prestige.

Their reputation is based not only on the hi-jackings, but their courage in battle against the Zionist armies.

Yesterday Amman radio, collaborating with the Arafat leadership, issued a call for all guerrillas to hand over their arms to the central comando leadership, which has now been placed under Arafat as Commander-in-Chief of all Palestinian Liberation forces.

We are completely opposed to the so-called 'centralization' of the guerrilla movement under the Arafat leadership.

It will be used as a cover to crush the left wing, just as the 'unification' of the Algerian resistance forces under the right-wing leadership of the provisional revolutionary government of Algeria in 1959/1960 became the basis for the betrayal at Evian and the eventual coup of Boumedienne.

• Defying, Arafat's authority, guerrillas in Amman have already, and correctly, refused to comply with the order:

They have no intention of committing suicide.

Disarming the guerrilla left wing cannot be accomplished without a bitter fight.

On his appointment yestérday as commando leader, Arafat issued an appeal to all Arab heads of state to intervene 'to put an end to the bloodbath which is aimed at the Jordanian people and their national unity'.

On whose side is Arafat asking them to intervene?

Nasser and his allies have already accepted the Rogers 'peace plan', which denies the right of the Palestinians to self-determination. They have roundly denounced the PFLP for its hi-jackings-and now Arafat invites them to intervene in Jordan!

While Al Fatah leaders talk of "Arab Soviets' in Irbid, verUuI CULEI IEVUIULUHdLy PIULS dIC A collection will be being prepared in Amman, cunter-raunlutinnary note ara ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE The Pilkington Defeat the proposed Tory right to strike anti-union laws

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I would like to subscribe to Workers Press for job. It's just terrible,, said Jacqueline Fernihough, a filler hand at Blackfriars.

While sympathising with the strikers' demand that they should retain pension and other rights, T&GWU sources yesterday expressed fears that the dispute could be used to undermine closed-shop agreements.

The strike, which started last week, has been made official by USDAW. The Blackfriars workers will meet at the Friars Hall this Friday and may march in protest to Westminster. WEATHER London area, •E Midlands, SE. central southern and E England: Cloudy with light rain in places at first. Mostly dry later with a few sunny spells. Wind SW, fresh. Near normal. Max 19C (66F). West Midlands, NW and central northern England: Rather cloudy. Occasional slight rain but a few bright intervals. Wind SW. fresh. Near normal. Max 18C (64F). Channel Islands, SW England: Rather cloudy. Occasional rain or drizzle. Coastal fog. Wind SW. fresh or strong. Near normal. Max 18C (64F).

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The utter cynicism of the deal has a double edge.

Over the last nine months Spain has been swept by a series of bitter. and inspiring strike movements against the Franco regime.

For a month Asturian miners defied the fascist trike tion, several issues stand out clearly.

• FIRST, the Arab revolution is the decisive factor in the Middle East.

The Palestinians, after many years of Nasserism and then the Arafat leadership, have been deeply stirred by the audacity of the guerrilla hijack operations and their sustained military struggle against the Lionist occupation.

They have seen for the first time that the most powerful imperialist states in the world can be outwitted and defied by a supposedly backward people.

By helping to generate this awakening, the Habbash group have played a truly progréssive role in the Palestinian struggle. That is why they are now the target of a world-wide diplomatic and political conspiracy.

• SECONDLY, the guerrilla movement itself, including its leadership, is reflecting these profound changes at the base.

While the call for 'Arab Soviets' may well be an Al Fatah attempt to outbid the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, it also reflects the semi - conscious strivings of the Palestinian workers and peasants for power.

Substance

Nassser's Kremlin - backed move to form an Arafat-led •Provisional government' in Jordan is an attempt to create the form of a guerrilla-based government without its substance.

Hussein, however, has chosen another path. His military regime, leaning to the left on Arafat and to the right on the Zionists and the impérialists, is counter-revolutionary, Bonapartist regime.

The Arab revolution is most certainly faced by great dangers, both from without and within. But it is also gaining daily in strength and confidence.

It is this awakening of the Palestinians that now demands the most repressive measures by the imperialists, Zionists and the Arab bourgeoisie.

British Labour cannot allow the Palestinians to fight alone. Industrial action must taken in their defence if the Zionists, Hussein or the US imperialists unleash an attack on the guerrillas.

Out of the ferment in the guerrilla movement, with all its illusions and political immaturity, will come the cadres for the Trotskyist revolutionary party in the Middle East, the surest guarantee for the victory of the Arab revolution.