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AMERICAN intervention in the Middle East cannot be ruled out.

President Nixon was now scrutin- izing National Security Council plans to safeguard US interests in the area, Herbert G. Klein, White House director of communications, said in London yesterday.

'One of the things the president does in any situation is mobilize the national security council to draw up contingency plans to safe- guard our interests, he is now studying these closely,' said Klein. 'On the question of intervention I would say what the president's press secretary has said. That is, that it has certainly not been ruled out, but it has certainly not been ruled in either. He said that he was not aware that pres- sure from the Russians had been put on the Syrians to invade and expressed the hope that both the US, Britain and the Soviet Union would urge a withdrawal of their troops from Jordan. *I think that there is no doubt that the situation in the Middle East is a dangerous one. There is the danger of a confrontation with the super-powers and we don't want to be sucked into this kind of confrontation.

The ceasefire negotiations had not broken down completely, so that when the immediate situation was past, he thought that longer- range talks could proceed.

The President would not necessarily be dis- cussing the Middle East with heads of state when he begins his European tour on Sunday.

Closer ties between the US and Europe and joint interests in the Mediterranean would be the main topics.

GUERRILLAS

REJECT KING'S

'PEACE' OFFER

THE GUERRILLA Central Com- mittee yesterday rejected Hussein's 'peace plan' announced earlier in the day by Amman Radio. Endorsed by the captured Al Fatah and Abu Ayad, the ro-Nasser guerrilla leader Hussein plan demands: That all guerrillas leave the cities for • the frontier with Israel. Only then will the Royalist army return to its bases.

No guerrilla bases to be permitted in Amman or any other town. All bases be on the front with Israel.

All the King's laws to be applied to the guerrillas, who must pledge themselves to respect his sovereignty.

The aim of this deal is very clear. The guerrillas are be trapped between the to Zionists and the Royalists, and then mas- sacred by both. The guerrilla Central Committee's repudia- tien of the plan made it clear that Palestine guerrilla leaders in prison do not speak for the revolution'. Zionist aid for Hussein THE AL FATAH office in Beirut has claimed the Zionists are now giving material aid to the Jordanian Royalists. As Israeli planes bombed guerrilla bases at Maadi and Sawalha in the Jordan Valley, Zionist helicopters were drop- ping food and other supplies to hard-pressed Royalist forces North of Amman. And in the Zionist-occupied Gaza Strip, two Arab civilians dead by were shot Israeli 'THE Transport and troops when they opened fire Workers' on a suspected guerrilla.

executive's decisi Hussein conically calls on recommend the breal the bus industries' his guerrilla enemies to turn their fire against the Zionists, negotiating settle all claims on while himself receiving mili- basis is tary backing from Israel.

opposed by many bu: The which are to forthcoming

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workers press Halt the US

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

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NIXON

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AMERICAN intervention in the Middle East cannot be ruled out.

President Nixon was now scrutin- izing National Security Council plans to safeguard US. interests in the area, Herbert G. Klein, White House director of communications, said in London yesterday.

'One of the things the president does in any situation is mobilize the national security council to draw up contingency plans to safe- guard our interests, he is now studying these closely, said Klein. 'On the question of intervention I would say what the president's press secretary has said. That is, that it has certainly not been ruled out, but it has certainly not been ruled in either. He said that he was not aware that pres- sure from the Russians had been put on the expressed Syrians to invade and the hope that both the US, Britain and the Soviet Union would urge a withdrawal of their troops from Jordan. is no doubt that the 'I think that there situation in the Middle East is a dangerous There is the danger of a confrontation one. with the super-powers and we don't want to be sucked into this kind of confrontation The ceasefire negotiations had not broken down completely, so that when the immediate situation was past, he thought that longer- range talks could proceed.

The President would not necessarily be dis- cussing the Middle East with heads of state when he begins his European tour on Sunday.

Closer ties between the US and Europe and joint interests in the Mediterranean would be the main topics.

GUERRILLAS

REJECT KING'S

'PEACE OFFER

THE GUERRILLA Central Com- mittee yesterday rejected Hussein's 'peace plan' announced earlier in the day by Amman Radio. Endorsed by the captured Al Fatah and ro-Nasser guerrilla leader Abu Ayad, the Hussein plan demands: That all guerrillas leave the cities for the frontier with Israel. Only then will the Royalist army return to its bases.

No guerrilla bases to be permitted in Amman or any other town. All bases to be on the front with Israel.

• All the King's laws to be applied to the guerrillas, who must pledge themselves to respect his sovereignty.

The aim of this deal is very clear. The be trapped between the guerrillas are to Zionists and the Royalists, and then mas- sacred by both. The guerrilla Central Committee's repudia- tien of the plan made it clear 'that Palestine guerrilla leaders in prison do not speak for the revolution. Zionist aid for Hussein THE AL FATAH office in Beirut has claimed the Zionists are now giving material aid to the Jordanian Royalists. As Israeli planes bombed bases at Maadi and guerrilla Sawalha in the Jordan Valley, Zionist helicopters were drop- ping food and other supplies to hard-pressed Royalist forces North of Amman. And in the Zionist-occupied Gaza Strip, two Arab civilians were shot dead by Israeli •THE Transport and troops when they opened fire Workers' on a suspected guerrilla.

executive's decisi recommend the brea Hussein cynically calls on the bus industries' i his guerrilla enemies to turn negotiating machine their fire against the Zionists, settle all claims on while himself receiving mili- basis is tary backing from Israel.

opposed by many bu The which are to be put

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of the Nationa of tween the 64,000 m Union Teachers, Britain's and 98,000 company largest teaching union, yester- day again attacked the rival fight for to claim. all-male National Association The T&GWU's pl of Schoolmasters for its their encourage the illusi counter proposals to for local authorities wil £225 million claim an across-the-board pay increase.

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PERU has evoked considerable interest in the working-class movement because of the emergence of a so-called 'pro- gressive' miary, as wellas Fidel Casing uncritical and enthusiastic support from world Stalinism, including the British Communist Party regime, which continues to suppress ruthlessly the struggles of peas ants and workers alid, is a clear indic milit support a Peruvian Trotskyist democrarc reatures or me cana ano le Peru as well as the favourable prospects for a Trotskyist party in Peru today.

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Top left: Students occupy Lima university in 1969. Left: One o rst demonstrations by students an

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the capital. income for internal political mea- Pontics. ists, foreign or national.

the agra sures such as Blindness rian reform, or the indus recently decreed trial law. Do you think and and sheep tom that these reflect a pro- gressive' orientation? hip of bank, is to say the that wouldn say east, ship dot banks is to sae.

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workers. Only the determined opposition of the workers pre- vented them in carrying out their objective. Not everything is a 'farce' as you can see. There is quite a bit of tragedy lurking in the future of the Peruvian working class if › there is not a clear awareness of the real implications of this new military government. The tragi-comedy is, particu- larly in the case of the sugar plantations, particularly morbid.

It was in the sugar plantations that the most militant sections of the working class rose in open rebellion against the capitalist state and captured several im- portant towns, such as Trujillo, which they placed under their control. The revolution, betrayed by its leaders, was finally defeated after a fierce and heroic struggle. Over 6,000 workers, the majority sugar plantation workers were executed in a few days. This was time ago', 'a long 1932, the Stalinists may say, 'it's all forgotten. Hatred This is not the case, particu- larly not for the military, who have been consistently educated in hatred against the 'mob' who, in the heat of civil war, executed a few imprisoned army officers and government supporters.

Every year, without fail, the officialdom whole army pays tribute to its officers who are all buried in one cemetery. It is no coincidence that it was in the sugar plantations that the military began the agrarian re- form, nor is it a coincidence that applying expropriation they also tried to disband the union organization, as if haunted by the possibility of being recog- denounced, nized, bitterly remembered in the eyes of the organized working class. THERE HAS been quite a bit of coverage in the international press about this new industrial law or industrial code decreed by the Peruvian military junta. What can you tell us about this? This is where I think that farce, tragi-comedy, ceases to be SO. It becomes an obscure threat.

other It presented, like 'modernization' a measures, as move, a 'progressive' and 'radical" policy. Let's be clear, there is no doubt in my mind that what the Peruvian government is doing is bringing the Peruvian economy and legislation nearer to the 'advanced' of Latin countries America, such as Brazil, Argen- tina and Mexico. There is nothing very original in certain social legislation being introduced such as the protec- tion of domestic labourers.

What we are saying is that certain policies, such as the agrarian reform law and. the nationalization of oil industries, concern relatively old and, in the of the agrarian reform, case partially solved problems.

It would have been impossible for any government in Peru to go on for long without legalizing in some way the de facto occupation vast areas of land without of extending the agrarian reform to agriculture, and the whole of without dealing in some way with the decades-old illicit exploitation of Peruvian oil by the International Petroleum Com- pany. Other policies of the present government, such as the partial 'Peruvianization' of banks and strengthening of the State the Bank, the creation of a state monopoly of fish meal, commer- cialization, the promulgation of the recent industrial code, are relevant and more more dangerous. Behind them is being shaped the 'new' reorganized Peruvian capitalist state; they point to the 'new path between capitalism and communism', being followed now in Argentina, Brazil, Greece etc.

Stalinists affirm that this 'new path' has opened an 'irreversible towards socialism' process that 'oligarchic and imperialist only plots' can stop. You know perfectly well that there is nothing 'new' about the creation of a powerful State. Bank, or the creation of state monopolies over the commer- cialization of certain products, or the 'profit-sharing' schemes industrial or the concerns, growth of nationalized services such as telephone, transportation, energy, etc. In many semi-developed coun- and in advanced tries, most capitalist countries these policies carried without forward are the slightest 'irreversi- creating bility towards socialism.

Distributed The new industrial code, we are told, rules that 10 per cent of net profits to be dis- are tributed to the workers, 15 per cent at least put aside for re- investment or as shares to be divided among the employees and 2 per cent for industrial research and development. We are also informed that each industrial firm must have at least one representative of the 'indus- trial community' on its board of directors. This is the Peruvian version of de Gaulle's 'participation'.

The French Stalinists were to reject it; compelled we are waiting to hear the reaction of our local Stalinists. For the last two years, in par- since the military take- ticular over, wages have been kept down systematically, and there has even been wage-cutting. Only in the few cases, such as the miners in central Peru, when the working class went further than the Stalinist and right-wing union leaders thought 'wise', did wages actually rise. Depression bourgeoisie, The Peruvian before and after the coup d'etat, have been submerging the Peru- vian economy into a serious lepression, resulting in unheard of unemployment levels and a decline of real wages. The military government has done nothing this to change trend, and has shown no inten- tion of doing so. Wages continued to stagnate and decline in real terms, and I should remind you that this is taking place in a country where 40 per cent of the working popu- lation earns less than £50 a year, and 90 per cent less than £300 per year! The total unemployment and Peru esti- under-employment in mated by the International Labour Organization (ILO) is over 2,000,000 workers. The total working population is about 3,000,000. This means a rate of un- employment and underemploy- ment of about 40 per cent; and each year over 200,000 workers enter hopelessly the labour market'. A miner from Mala In South Peru shows a wound inflicted by pollce when they ambushed 400 miners on a march to the capital. This is the economic reality, this is the economic crime that the generals are asking us to 'participate' in, to share respon- sibility for! class has The working no responsibility whatsoever for the chaos that capitalism has brought to us. Wages have been kept down or lowered in the last years. Now this profit 'share' in the short term will probably mean an in- crease in the amount of money workers will take home, that which will certainly be a miser- able increase. cent This increase will be used to dis- sweeten the pill'. But soon it will be obvious that profits being very low or even non-existent due to the crisis and due to the fiddling of well-paid and faithful account- ants, any increase in profits to 'shared' will clearly mean: redundancies, productivity deals, speed-up and all the traditional methods of increasing exploita- tion. By making their wages depen- dent on profits, workers will be around putting a rope their necks. The nomination of a 'com- munity (we are not clear what this means) delegate' to the board of directors will not change matters. He will be loaded with figures that show how badly the firm is doing and will be used as an intermediary to tell the workers to work harder, to work longer hours, to reduce their numbers, etc. He will inevitably become an agent of the employers in the ranks of the working class.

That '15 per cent to be dis- tributed to the employees in the form of shares' if reinvestment is not thought convenient, is no less of a trick. distribution has long Share been known by the employers as of enforcing savings a means their employees for the upon benefit of the firm. Thursday, September 24, 1970 Traditional, narrow-minded doubt feel employers willno quite uncomfortable at the beginning. But when they be- come aware of the advantages their attitudes will be quite different. We do not see anything 'pro- gressive' about the new indus- trial code. We see only a menace, a serious menace. The Peruvian working class has not yet reached the level of organization and class identity reached in other countries. Only a fraction of the working class is actually organized in the union structures. The Stalinists will, at the very best, offer weak and unwilling resistance. I would not be at all surprised if they welcome the scheme. The Peruvian working class could be forced to accept a de facto situation. Revolutionary Marxists should oppose the industrial code with all their strength. lass is contemployment king class is unemployment starvation wages, not a share in capitalist failure, not another step towards the strengthening of a corporate state. WHAT HAS been the policy of the junta con- cerning the issue of wages and unemploy. ment? It has been the same as in any capitalist state: sanctioning mass lay-offs, wage freezing and even wage reductions. Stalinist trade unionists feel embarrassed quite about this sometimes. It was quite ironic to see in a demonstration in support of the five-week old strike of the workers of 'Bata-Rima' (a shoe manufacturer), where wages were actually reduced by 25 per cent, trade unionists that Stalinist were carrying placards saying 'the employers are creating problems between us and the Revolu- tionary government'! The military junta's record on wage claims and unemployment quite impressive. The is most seriously affected are workers in the fishing, construction, textiles and shoe manufacturing indus- tries. The story of the strikes and redundancies at del 'Ceramica Cola, Patamo, Calzado Durace, Pacifico', 'Lolas', 'Coca- Eternit, Calzado el Aguila Ameri- Pilas National, Техого, cana, Leonard, Banco Continental, Tejidos Union, Inca Cotton, Inca Extension, Victoria, Progreso, La Tabacalera Oroya Cobriga, Nacional, Fundicion Callao, etc., to mention only few, can tell the truth. When working-class militancy has led to actions that mass *law and order, the threatened 'progressive' military in Peru have answered in the language they know best-bullets to sup- press the workers' demands.

It has violently suppressed the workers of Mala (a mining town in the south of Peru) and the workers of Atas factory in Lima.

It has suppressed violently the demonstration of workers of the of Chimbote fishing industries and murdered dozens of peasants, and the students workers of Mala, Colquimarca, towns Ayacucho and Huanta. In the two latter cases it was a vast popular mobilization of workers, students and peasants decreed opposing recently abolition of free education.

After the massacre the Revo- lutionary' government was forced to withdraw the decree. It was also forced to retreat by the 14,000 miners of central Peru employed by Cerro de Pasco Corporation. over wages and The strike working conditions, which was not backed by the corrupt union bureaucrats, led, two weeks after its commencement, to a march to Lima, 150 miles away, by workers and their families. Seven hundred 'special forces' violently suppressed the march, wounded workers and many arrested several hundred.

But in the face of defiant workers, the government and the employers were forced to retreat.

Violence against workers' demands has continued and will continue. The militant revolutionary trade unionists are constantly imprisoned, harrassed and terror- ized by the employers and their agents and the police. In two years of power, the military junta has killed over 20 workers, a rate of about one a month In two parts — PART TWO tomorrow's will appear in Workers Press.

Thursday, September 24, 1970

PARA

THE POSSIBILITY of the appearance of life on a planet and the level which it can attain de- pends crucially on a num- ber of factors, such as and temperature gravity. Although it is possible to of life conceive existing at above the boiling temperatures point of water or in the absence of the development of oxygen, intelligent beings presupposes reached that when stage is there is a certain independence

MARS

from the 'energy conversion' which is necessary for any form of life. It is argued that higher forms evolved of life could have only analysis from earth or recently in which made unmanned probes, fall into by it possible for the most efficient four classes. body chemistries to develop.

The nearest planet to the Sun In atmosphere particular, an -Mercury probably the - and usable containing in distant--Pluto-have little form makes possible a far more or no atmosphere. efficient energy conversion than if hydrogen predominant. In the of Mercury, the case weakness of its gravitational pull We derive our energy primarily would long been in- ago have from the combination of glucose sufficient to hold any gas mole- sugar oxygen, in cules, particularly as they would hydrogen-dominated environ- be highly because energetic of ment the glucose would have to the Sun's proximity. be fermented to ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide, that produces less than one-tenth as many calories.

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In such an environment, by MARTIN creature would have to eat ten times as much to get the same amount of energy. Berkeley's Professor Huang small and Pluto is also has commented: any that did not escape during gas 'It doubtful that a mind the • is planet's formation, would such as man's would appear.

lie frozen certainly on its sur- would face now. because living creatures Fe too preoccupied with seeking The planets seven remaining 1 fall into two groups. The giant However, the presence of free planets Saturn, Jupiter, ( outer oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere Uranus and Neptune have atmo- not accidental, although spheres rich in hydrogen and unique in our own solar system.

related so-called compounds 'reducing atmospheres'. The planetary atmospheres that we have been able to in- Of the three inner planets, vestigate. either by spectral Earth alone has atmosphere an

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3.52 Women 4.15 1.38 London. today. Cartoon. 4.20 Telephone game. 4.50 Floris. London. 5.15 6.00 News, weather. 6.10 Win Crossroads With word with Lesley Blair. 6.35 7.00 Comedy: •A Touch of Larceny'. James Mason, Vera Miles and George 8.30 Bothy Nichts.. 9.00 On Sanders 9.30 London. 11.00 the house. Kenny Everett explosion. tion of the inner planets gave gravitational attractions, them sufficient-except for Mercury- hold the that were to gases emitted from their interiors.

Venus, Earth and Mars all "secondary" reducing developed atmospheres at this stage, to- gether with oceans, and it was under these conditions that life began and the first basic mole- cules were built up. Indeed, had the atmosphere contained substantial amounts of oxygen, the necessary ultra-violet would been radiation have blocked and its energy un- available. In addition to providing an essential source of energy, this radiation also broke up water molecules into free hydrogen and 'photodissociation Process called free oxygen - a While gravity was sufficient to hold the oxygen, lighter hydrogen molecules leaked into space and the atmospheres of the inner planets slowly became neutral, consuming large amounts of water in the process. Why didn't the oxygen build- up continue and give Venus, Earth and Mars an abundance of oxygen—an oxidizing atmo- sphere? Uniqueness We have already touched on the this. reason accumulation of oxygen built up barrier to the ultra-violet radiation and hence progressively the rate of oxygen- cut down production. In other words, photodissocia- tion is a self-limiting process. It can convert a reducing atmo- sphere into a neutral atmosphere, but cannot go any further.

The uniqueness of Earth's development — probably arising from the relative abundance of the terrestrial oceans - springs from the formation of the chlorophyll molecule, which gains energy, from ultra-violet not radiation, but from visible light (photosynthesis). The 'ceiling' could now be surpassed! The accumulation of oxygen barred ultra-violet but allowed visible light to pass through and continue its work.

Secondly, photosynthesis does not waste the hydrogen which is released, but forces it to undergo series of chemical reactions which end in its com- bination with carbon dioxide to form starch and other compon- ents of plant cells. Thus photosynthesis pours oxygen into the atmosphere and reduces the carbon dioxide level, finally leaving the Earth with a covering composed almost en- tirely of nitrogen and oxygen.

However, Mars and Venus did not surmount these obstacles.

Mars now has a thin atmo- sphere at car completily com- dioxide whose water supply has decreased to the point where it is barely sufficient to form thin icecaps at the poles. 'Greenhouse' On Venus, the atmosphere is probably made up of nitrogen and carbon dioxide and quantities of water vapour. This has given rise to the 'greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide is transparent to visible light but absorbs heat radiation. The thickness of the Venus atmosphere and the near- ness of the planet to the Sun has meant that the temperature near its surface has risen to the point where all water has boiled.

Water vapour also absorbs heat radiation and this serves to enhance the effect and also to provide the planet's present cloud cover. The conditions for intelligent life on Earth have therefore been prescribed along extremely nar- row limits. A little less water, a little more gravity or a slightly lower and the outcome temperature would have been qualitatively different. • To be continued. THE WORKERS' and peasants' struggle against imperialism in Egypt, against the Nasser regime as an agency of imperial- ism and against Israel is a major part of the class battle in the whole Afri- can continent. The struggle by oppressed Arab-speaking peoples is not against the usual major only imperialists-Britain, France and the USA-but also against a particular bastion of imperialism, Israel, which has many African Its artificial, subsidized econ- omy is supported heavily by the 200,000 - strong pro-apartheid 'white' Jewish community in S volk' state, discriminating racially Its 'socialist' kibbutzim are manned to a certain extent by S

WORKERS PRESS

'IF YOU don't work in the pit there's nothing else for you to do round here.' This is David Evans and his friend David Morgan speaking. Both work as miners in S Wales: David Evans in Oakdale colliery and David Morgan in Markham colliery. Their predicament is very typical of thousands of young people in the S Wales valleys whose parents and relatives have worked down the mines for generations. Today they either take their chance of finding a job in the rapidly-closing pits or migrate to the larger towns-Port Talbot or Cardiff-to work in the textile factories or in the steel works.

It is the finality of such a choice, thrust on them by the requirements of monopoly capital- ism, that has produced amongst the working-class youth of Wales a bitter hatred of the Tories and the system they represent.

Parallel Such feeling has its parallel in history in the fight of the Tony- pandy miners who challenged the Liberal government of 1911 and fought the troops sent by Home Secretary Winston Churchill.

Wales has its tragedies too- the 1966 Aberfan disaster with its death toll of 150 (116 of them small children) will not be for- gotten. These events, which are part of the history and experience of working class, serve to sharpen the awareness particularly of the young. The Young Socialists recruit- ing team which spent week a in S Wales as part of its Build the YS' campaign found the youth ready to discuss and will- ing to build the YS in a campaign to force the Tories to resign.

With Cardiff as its base the team moved out to the Ebbw

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• By N. Makanda African "Zionist Socialists' of various political shades.

SECURING

INVESTMENTS

Israel's official disapproval of apartheid is only a means of securing investments in the 'newly-independent African states'. In African eyes Israel is an by apartheid state, created British imperialism by the 1948 partition of Palestine through the medium of the United Nations and on the basis of the dispossession of a million Arabs.

These same Arabs have been re-enslaved by the occupation following the 1956 invasion of • Britain, Egypt by France and Israel and the 1967 six-day war.

Arabs in occupied Jordan and Sinai are treated little differ- ently than the Africans are in the 'Bantustans' of Anglo-Boer S Africa. The fact that many Jews who Vale area with its sprawling steelworks-stretched along the floor of the whole valley.

From there they went to the pits -- Coedely and Cwm col- lieries-where they met the few young miners who can still find work on the coalface. In Merthyr Tydfil the team met and recruited young girls working in textile and light engineering_factories. 'Keep Left, the Young Socialists' monthly newspaper, got a keen response in Port Talbot where the majority of workers are employed in the British Steel Corporation works, the biggest in Europe. Everywhere they went-the towns or the valleys-discussion centred around the need to fight against the Tories. No one needed to be told who the Tories are. Young people in Wales know that. They wanted a programme and a perspective which would offer them a solution to the drudgery of work in the steelworks, the textile factories or the mines.

Keen response Such was the response that the first meetings of the new Ebbw Vale and Merthyr Tydfil branches had large attendances.

At the Merthyr meeting National Secretary John Sim- mance explained Young Socialist policies and the campaign for the Alexandra Palace rally on Feb- ruary 14 next year. With a big influx of new members, the recruitment team was able to lay the basis for a Wales regional YS organization around the key industrial areas of S Wales. Such a development is a big step forward for the Young Socialists in its work to build a mass Young Socialists' move- ment as part of the campaign both for the Alexandra Palace rally next year and the Inter- national Conference of revolu- tionary youth later this year.

NEWS EVE

went to Israel were persecuted cannot excuse the persecution of the Arabs, any more than the fact that the Huguenots who went to the Cape in S Africa after the Catholic persecution following the Edict of Nantes could justify their persecution of non-Europeans. This line does not wash with the oppressed colonial people in the light of their historical experience. Many Jews in Israel came, in fact from indepeNden Ar independent Arab fled from, for states. They example, the Algerian bourgeois Toughut on Frances side. they had where

'EXPERTS'

BUSY

Beside S Africa, Israel has had long and important invest- ene African smales of 'independ- In Ethiopia Israeli 'experts'

EVEF

have been busy in the universi- ties, shipping and commerce and have been a factor behind the Haile Selassie regime's anti- Egyptian stand. There are other interests in Nigeria and Ghana and Israel was one of the imperialist coun- tries to back 'Biafra'. Israel also had a major influ- ence on the pro-American bureaucrats of the Kenya Fed- eration of Labour, and has been conomically active in Tanzania isal and other plantation fields As a result of these and other interests, Israel helped divide the Organization for African nationalist Unity--the piece of imperialism with head- quarters in Ethiopia's capital African lines and the OAU has Addis Ababa along Arab- ever taken a definite stand ol he question of Israel British and French social- democratic and Stalinist influ- ties in Arca has meant par taken or the no stand being

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Top: Port ... Talbot steel works. Left: First meeting of the EBBW VALE Young Socialist branch. Above: Two miners talk to a member of the YS recruiting team in

MERTHYR

TYDFIL.

adoption of the Kremlin bureau- cracy's line-that Israel has 'a right to exist'. Israel has no more right to 'white' S exist as a state than Africa or the Smith regime in Rhodesia. No racially exclusive state has a right to exist. Israel cannot be reformed into a democratic, non-racial country; it must be destroyed as a state. It is not just a question of overthrowing it, but abolishing its machine, boundaries, its 'Jew- ish' nature, its existence as a 'country'.

BUREAUCRACY

BETRAYED

The Soviet bureaucracy has Palestinians, betrayed Egyptians, Jordanians and Arab masses in the Middle East and Africa on this question. And Nasser has always fol- lowed the same line on his own and in with the conjunction Kremlin. Revolutionaries in s Africa, for example, can never demand the admission of non-Europeans on a basis of equality into a 'white' state. For the same reason, and more, Israel as a state has to of Palestine. There can be no more minority become a rights viten than there orate tog for Jews in such 'whites' democratic Africa. Everyone will have equal, no citizenship in Palestin special, and S Africa.

Picket doubled ast

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Productivity danger in Ferodo strike West Midlands gas strike in third week Shave

BIKMINUHAM

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join mounting peaceful co-e oisten listen dole queues mum: description o including the Tily increase by Hussein's royal- OVER 230 men at Turner's Asbestos Cement Co Ltd

FRIDGEMEN

which closed in Clydebank recently after a 12-week

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strike, nave now joined the towns lengtny dole queue -many with little hope of a job.

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Aberdeen fish men (see page one) have • mer Britains in recognition strike Aeen traste danion headin FISH. WORKERS in Aberdeen m TUC seisetary Bitter fruit right to organize he Tory government to set u!

The massacres in the refugee he de wanded be see TW nquire ento the fire service.

Wor- caps in to sanga Tras Union. General They followed this move by firemen head memi or ane facian tne crusnin liberation moven. but for the heroism and revolutionary was stand- May the soon serious danger of and the tar correspondingly more concili- mounced salt. Was fatet pro last week oa proved protective clothing.

1b Clapa led, London, Faced with this threat man- inspiration to anti- Thursday, September 24, 1970

SPANISH

SCANDAL

GOES TO

TRIAL

THE SPANISH Cortes the parlamentary im- Navarro munıty Rubio, ex-head of the central bank Spanish and previously Finance

BY MARTIN ZARROP

Minister in the fascist regime. 'SELECTIVITY' and 'financial stringency' were will now face charges, terms that cropped up frequently at the Scientific with other ex-Ministers along conference yesterday Conncils Espinosa and Monco, Research press nection with the to introduce the Council's annual report for mishandling Involylls 1969-1970. of pounds of tens or mulhons covemment suos ales. 'economics' was His While ikev to ne tre ast Says the report : sacrificial head to roll.

not on the agenda, the 'The have covered Not charged problems facing British stringency Other edung capitalism were present in ministers weré Lall 11l

LIC

Kwtu tale ol une time rumoured to their effects on the work one buazel ana, barlıy owins involved, including Foreign zo devauanan. an in crease in of the Council - now the Minister Lopez Bravo, leading une broooruon ot te budget neure neconanoo CloseT devoted main source of research tivities re ations setween the rranco university for eninen d te funds "The steady development of Stalinist gov- ernments Europe. will le cardina te core concentration science. probably not now e charged. cil PaC Chairman Profesor Sir

YUGOSLAVIA

Brian Flowers expressea rears

SUCD

restnicuions colla 'severe handicaps' in Tead five to ten years. Impossible However, admitted the of a straight growth sualallce the SRO lale Il ouacel. reasonaDit macauluce -say, per cent-tor ten years 'Governments come and go faster than ten and faster at, he added. than that, aner past unee over past years have been about 4 pe cent Cut-backs nave nit at toe 'big science protects ano mant have been phased back -par- ticularly radio astronomy and rangles sihi ces continue over ON THE HEELS of Yugoslav President Tito's Wra feasibility announcement that his office is to be super- bulding a new and powerful ceded by a 'Presidency"; including equal alon-sllaslitt numbers of representatives of each of the six Starvation federated states of Yugoslavia, comes the In Council's Britain. the political trial in Belgrade of Vadimir Mijano- *selectivity means ihat Tun ds are to be concentrated on de- vitch for 'hostile propaganda'.

the main scientific dozen The 50 persecution of -many Mijanovitch gives the lie which maximum set which up jail, to suggestions that the years' few over Ine ast yedIs" al t the that he Tact government changes condemnec to minancial star. aneced oreaaze• a nungel vation and stagnation. mean any concessions to strike among belgrade collab- UnMerv nusir niversity student in sun oration', however, political freedom. coal-miners if Serhi encouraged and the number of who struck for an The charge against him, awards for Durpose against 20 er cent up or inefficient lalsporl the previous coal in June this year. ression Despite the smooth phrases He "accused', alsc of Flowers and his colleagues though tese ате the overall picture is decidedly cimina acta heak of having had contacts witl After all said Sir brian imnerialist fighters and mili- Milovan Djilas there's no point in asking to1 Trevisan, tant workers the wor d over cimate is such that yonanial must not be left to fight alone.

correspondent Is the British labour move- Times'. you haven't got a hope' ment to stand aside and allow the Middle Nixon to

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Mijanovitch President and lahour jette_ acnacialv those who commute their association ha, tween London and Hanoi NEWSPAPER chiefs yesterday students "So silons 1968 considered an emergency 11 MUzUS on the new Viet buldings the tribution svstem to ofiset uca tacu lacull threatened in the ban nam Miadle E: of In protest against the soviet entects Ine overume East ? vasion of ezecnos ovakı? operated sınce last triaay Day's strike Mav lawyer 1,700 workers employed Last ne orosecuting Livernool wholesalers. Gockers against has demanded that the rest Nixon's i Camhodia of the trial should be con- The ban is in support of a inasin proved the working class will ducted in secret. pay claim, believed around 45 against After a meting with or tee firm stand is taken on principles.

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internationalist salers, a spokesman for The salne orinciDics " NewsDaver tuousoers

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reda Mine e Clasgowt sesa, worried WALES miners' delegates mayt ing Porthcawl

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of a union ballot for SUDDOrL He added that his "come. strike action. Pithead meetings gesture' what dramatic wac are to be organized througn- attempt to do something mostly above normai. about out the are neeting the had the Liberals General

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narler. une oDenine the Mrs conterence Kobson. nesident-el ert. tolc delegates that ctrikes were a cemsı and costly weapon which TrotskyR should outmoded in in- dustrial relations' Memorial Fire Meeting

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GLASGOW

possible national action from Monday. next Partick Burgh Hall And several delegates (nr Merkland St underground) yesterday's atvne

TOT

Con- disquiet terence exnressed 7.30 p.m. ahnut the imnicatione ot the executive's surprise pay move.

Admission 2s. 'If they're proposing just a Trotskyng ish Revolution week's "emergency comini Forward with the ilere: we'll Speaker: Healy

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drooped for settlement that would be very October 4 use to any of us' See Late News