With Hussein on the run U.S. poised to intervene in

pro-Arab march IN TOULOUSE, SW France, police attacked a demonstration on Sunday in support of the Palestinian guerrillas.

Following a baion charge four young peopie were arrested and will appear in court. Several policemen were also injured.

Toulouse and the surrounding area has a large population of Algerian immig: "1 , forced work. Office girls on brewery picket The strikers came out for the second time last Friday Barber warns on wages CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer Mr Anthony Barber came down firmly yesterday against fluctuating exchange rates. These would, he told delegates at the International Monetary Fund employers, encourage wage demands by workers and weaken resistance.

In countries where domestic inflationary pressure would cause an unpegged rate to depreciate, the fall in the rate would, through its effect on domestic prices surely add fuel to the wage demands.

'At the same time the resistance of employers might well be weakened by their expectation that present and future movements in the exchange rate will protect their international competitiveness,' said Barber. 'OUR REVOLUTIONARIES are determined fight on until the great butcher's throne victory?

This was the defiant guerrilla reply in Amman yesterday to the Hussein terror and mounting threats of intervention against the Palestinian guerrillas. has halted all beer supplies.

For United States imperialism, the policeman and hangman of world capitalism, is at this very moment mobilizing its armed might for action against the Arab Revolution.

torn by defections demoralization, is on the run.

Both in the North, where commando tanks pulverized the vaunted Royalist 40th Armoured Brigade, and in yesterday selfied the regimes Amman itself, curfew to renew their attacks on Royalist positions, the revolution is on the offensive.

Only outside military aid, on a massive scale, can save Hussein. And it must come quickly.

Cover

Using the safety of the US citizens in Amman as a cover, Nixon has already mobilized his crack 82nd Airborne Division, based at Fort Bragg in N Carolina.

This 10,000-strong unit is held permanently in readiness for use anywhere in the world.

A fleet of C-141 jet transport planes is now standing by to parachute the division directly into Jordan for action against the guerrillas.

The 17,000-ton helicopter carrier | 'Guam' is at this moment approaching the E Mediterranean at the head of a naval and airborne task force 0,000-ton where it will join the carriers Sarato air add 'Independence'.

The aptly-named 'John F. Kennedy' — one of the most modern attack carriers in the US fleet - is also heading for the Middle East.

The W German-based 8th Infantry Division has also been alerted for the same mission.

Together with the US Sixth Fleet now patrolling along the Israeli and Syrian coastline, these forces constitute the spearhead of the armed counter-revolution against the Palestinian guerrillas and their supporters in the other Arab states.

Make no mistake. Nixon will use this force against the workers and peasants of the Middle East just as the American ruling class has, for the last ten years, turned all its fire power, men and material against the heroic fighters of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand.

Oil profits

Why is Nixon compelled to challenge and fight the Arab Revolution, and now move against the Palestinian guerrillas as its spearhead?

Sixty-seven per cent of all Middle-Eastern oil is extracted by US companies. Over the last few years, US profits from the exploitation of Arab oil have more than doubled -from $150,000m to $425,000m.

American capitalism, relies more and more on these fabulous profits, pumped out of countries where the population is half starving, diseased and oppressed in every way, Castro for US-still _silent on Mid-East CUBAN Premier Fidel Castro is to attend the 25th Anniversary session of the United Nations in New York next month.

Government leaders from all over the world will gather in honour of this imperialist agency to prepare new moves against the international working class and the semi-colonial peoples.

Castro, who has so far said absolutely nothing on the civil war in Jordan and the threat of US intervention there, is a supporter of the so-called Rogers 'peace plan.

No doubt similar deals will be concocted during Castro's two-day stay in New York.

HOLROYD

REPORT In place of his usual 'Crisis the Factories' series, Bernard Franks analyses the recent government report on firemen's pay and conditions. • See page 3, and page 4 for 'Firemen's pay fight'. Moscow echoes anti-guerrilla HUSSEIN'S appeal to the 'Big Four'-the Soviet Union, the United States, France and Britain-to intervene against the guerrillas in Jordan has so far met with no official response from the Kremlin.

remains firmly opposed to any guerrilla victory.

The 'Tass' news agency reported on Monday — without comment - that 'Syrian No difference This style vaded Jordan to 'attack Jordanian troops'.

In fact, Syrian armour, nanned by Palestinian guel illas. is fehting against Hus sein's counter - revolutionary army.

At all costs the Stalinists have to hide the popular ROLLS LOBB' United fight on speed-up urgent LOCKED-OUT draughtsmen from Rolls-Royce's Bristol engines division plant at Coventry-seen picketing the factory, above-plan to lobby talks on the company's national £2 5s-£2 15s pay offer in London today.

The Coventry strike committee, which has been fightfor a f5-a-week, no 'strings' pay increase since July, has urged Draughtsmens' and Alton TRis-Rose fafrom • Rolls-Royce BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT nature of the revolt against the Royalists, and present the fighting as 'an internal conflict between Arabs'. (Moscow Radio, September 19.)

This strategy runs like a thread through all the Stalinist propaganda being churned out by Soviet press and broadcasting agencies.

Slavishly echoed

And with tactical variations, it is slavishly echoed by the British Stalinist daily, the 'Morning Star'. tively assists the interventic. In this plans of the imperialists and undermines the very necessary campaign to win the working class for action in solidarity with Palestinian freedom fighters.

BicE THE DECISION to publish the Workers Press six days a week Instead of five, has received the immediate and enthusiastic approval of our subscribers and readers.

This was certainly evident by the storm of applause that echoed through Beaver Hall on Monday night and the substantial collection made after SLL national secretary Comrade G. Healy explained the plans of the Central Committer to fight Tories and their agents in the labour movement.

It was the most inspiring event since the publication of the daily Workers Press, whose first anniversary we shall be celebrating in a few days time.

Of course, as Mr Lincoln might have said, it is not possible to please all the people all the time.

TROLS-ROYC •RAYED OUT tories all over the country to support the lobby.

Company fortunes have drastically changed since last year's three-week strike by Scottish draughtsmen •wor a £3 increase for all the union's members working in the If there is no settlement at today's central-conference meeting between company representatives and union officials at national level, the company-which clearly quires a big all-round productivity speed-up to bolster confidence that it can restore profit-levels — may lock out DATA members from all its plants.

These have so far resisted pressure to handle work transferred from Coventry.

A united struggle by all sections of Rolls-Royce workagainst the company's speed-up plans is becoming more and more urgent.

ALL TRAbES UNIONS ALLIANCE CONFERENCE The Pilkington Defeat the struggle and the right to strike anti-union laws St George's Hall, Lime St LIVERPOOL Saturday October 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. redentials and visitors' cards 5s each from Con acretary, W. Hunter, 58 Leighton Vlow, Liverp One man's inspiration is another man's despair, and the Workers Press certainly cannot claim exception to such a rule.

Every forward step of our movement is the product of a conflict against all forces who try to hold back the development of and revisionist enemies.

Marxist consciousness in the struggle to create a revolutionary leadership in the working class. middle-class opponents Without revolutionary leadership, in which the hope against them daily paper plays a decisive role, there can be no talk of socialism in Britain.

would "break its neck' That is why the emerg- lieved what they ence of the daily paper has caused consternation, fear, envy and general despondency amongst our social-democratic, Stalinist -an: A00I tical materialism.

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informed its readers trade union local tribunals next week Lecture workers men, British-Leyland's Morris Motors plant, were laid brings off when 1,500 struck in support of a demand for 'shopaverage' 28 Day while the new lively ADO producuon line the new line with a controlled NiereworT system similar Minor bid ine, storin he LIVELY discussion followed be closed the second of the Socialist existing Minor 1,000 labour Labour League's Trotsky force as the nucleus for the memorial lectures held at the Beaver Hall, London, on new line, breaking established practice in the factory.

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The topic of this last Bénefit session, Trotsky's fight against T 2,00 men laid off revisionism, clearly stimulatec great inquiry in the minds ol Morris Motors stand to benethe packed audience.

In his lecture, Gerry Healy, she peddle factoryment pay for hr tromi _The strike SLL national secretary, traced the development of Marxism as a science that discovered the strike against the material conflicts in nature oft cused and prat breach and society, from this developing a body of theory and prin- deciding the rates for the new CUSTOM ciples as part of the struggle line. of the working class to overthrow capitalism. the covernment departments Trotsky's main contribution over unemployment and social was his own principled fight security benefits follows Lord to defend the gains of the Stokes' heavily publicised outOctober revolution in Russia by his insistence that the to Strikers, government, Stokes Soviet Union remained a workers' state — though one claimed last week, was finandeformed by the rise of cing strikes by paying benefit Stalinism. strikers.

He took this stand in siderable nressure from big business to tighten the law on Pilkington commitee seeks cash PILKINGTON rank-and-file committee is appealing for inproposed Tory meet legal expenses inappeals i presentation were arrested in the sevenweek Pilkington strike.

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norwa ver 'rotskyist agents of imporialism" is nel paper has confounded every por these • continue, but on five and prognosis these lays a week instead of Two! (Our emphasis.)

Marxism and turned every The crimes and betrayals * Stalinism will now be The state capitalists, • we analyzed, criticized, derecall, Anarne Socialist Liabour League yated and denounced not Two, not five, but six days a week. trying to produce a daily are absolutely conpaper and they really be- rinced that it is necessary, possible and Indispensable These professional, petty. • conduct a savage and bourgeois confusionists incompromising struggle against the reformist leadworkers' revolu- ership in the trade unions potential and capa- n order to overthrow capitalism.

We are equally convinced rejected that this is the only way n which the Workers Press ine stalinists were even is going to develop into a less charitable than the viable weapon of the workWing class, as a consumFirst they said we nate agitator, propagandist 8 month then after the last more than and organizer of the, revoLutionary party. month had passed, they said wollent be able to drine six times a week EXPOSE The struggles and sufferbecause we couldn't afford Ings of the Vietnamese and Palestinian people is a constant if grim reminder MALICE of the fact that imperialism malice, Riceti the Morning Scal ioday relles increasingly on the labour bureaucracy to carry out countersentemoer 29, that revolutionary aims. the SLL 'policy of denounc- The task of the Workers all Communists, all Press is • to expose the Party leaders, and all other

to offset the declining rate of profit in US-based industries.

Nixon's Zionist watchdogs also have every reason to fear the defeat of Hussein.

Inside Israel, opposition to the Dayan-Meir regime grows daily amongst Jewish workers, youth and intellectuals.

A new strike for higher wages has just broken out in the workshops of the prestige state airline 'El-Al'.

The Zionist wage freeze continues as the regime spends £4m daily on fighting Arab workers and peasants. machinations of imperialism and Stalinism, no matter how difficult it might be, and fight to convince thousands of new readers of the correctness of the strategy of Trotskyism contained in the charter of demands.

The struggle to implement this strategy in the struggle against the Tories is the most decisive struggle begun by the daily paper.

No one understood this task better than Trotsky and his words, spoken in 1921, have an immensely important significance today for all readers of the 'Europe and the whole world are passing through a period which is, on the one side, an epoch of the disintegration of the productive forces of bourgeois society, and, on the other side, an epoch of the highest flowering of the counter-revolutionary strategy of the bourgeoisie. We must understand this clearly and precisely...

STRATEGY

'The task of the working class — in Europe and throughout the world-consists in counterposing to the thoroughly thought-out counter-revolutionary strategy of the bourgeoisie its own revolutionary strategy, likewise thought out to the end.' The struggle for this strategy inseparably linked to the struggle to increase the fighting fund and subscriptions and, through this, to recruit large numbers of new members to the SLL.

Only in this way can the defeat of the Tories and WITH many of its key figures missing, the Cairo 'Arab summit' began yesterday with informal talks between Egyptian nd other government leaders.

It has been boycotted by both guerrilla • leader Yassir Arafat and King Hussein, Prices to rise after crop failure PRICES of bread, beef, eggs, poultry and bacon are expected to rise sharply in the near future following the upsurge of world grain priceswith a US maize crop failure —over the last few weeks. while Syrian President Atassi flew back to Damascus after private talks with Nasser on Monday night.

Neither are Morocco nor Algéria represented.

Attempting to cover up this serious setback for his regime's diplomacy, Nasser's Information Minister Heykal commented :

"Their actual physical presence is not necessary' In fact, the summit had been postponed by eight hours suggestion of the Libyan delegate, so as to give time for more pressure to be put on Hussein and the other absent leaders.

'Co-operation'

Heykal went on to push the Kremlin bureaucracy's line that the Arab leaders 'must find a way for co-operation between the Jordanian authorities [Hussein's military regime] and the Palestinian Liberation Movement.