Wilson, Jenkins and company are determined strength and unity.

conference here down the middle yesterday.

three-to-two majority against an executive-backed resolution emphasizing the need for an policy staved off an open rift.

But Shadow Chancellor Roy Jenkins issued a low-key but unmistakable warning firmly Party leaders remain committed to some form of restraint despite conference decision.

No notice And it is unlikely that they will take much more notice of their second defeat yesterday morning; on the key issue of mergers and takeovers.

It was incomprehensible that the National Executive should be pressing the incomes-policy motion after last year's "blood letting', said Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers president Hugh Scanlon-revealing that heavy union pressure behind the scenes had failed to budge the party leaders.

Anticipate

If it went through, he warned, "Edward Heath will be able say when his party's conference in this town next week that we are just anticipating what he to immediately parliament re-opens'.

one man is free to obtain the best possible return on his invested capital, said Transport and General Workers' assistant secretary Harry Urwin 'working men must be free to obtain the best possible return on their invested labour.' He predicted divisions in the movement which could lose it the next general election if the motion was carried.

Come back

'But,' protested Jenkins in reply, 'whether this year or next, we shall have to come back to this because, you know, there is no real future for this movement in a complete free for all ...

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Speak national soreary, ISLL Sunday October 4 The right wing can demonstrate this support for the Tories in such an . unashamed fashion because the preparations of the Tories and the deathless retreat of the trade union leaders encourages them to do so.

They are also assisted in these reactionary manoeuvres by the 'opposition' of centrists like Stan Orme and Eric Hefter, who now fulfill the role abdicated by Foot and Castle in their quest for respectability and portfolios.

Blackpool is the logical outcome of the Brighton Trades Union Congress.

The failure and refusal of the trade union leaders to prepare a co-ordinated campaign on unemployment, wages and mergers which would topple the Tories, as well as their pathetic attempts to continue the dialogue of the deaf with Tory Ministers, inevitably strengthened the Labour Party right wing.

This is an unalterable fact —however paradoxical it may seem to the parliamentary cretins of Labour's 'left' and the reformist Communist Party leaders.

Obvious

The right-wing's sinister aims became quite obvious when the executive refused to concede Hugh Scanlon's request — made behind the scenes — either to withdraw the Battersea North resolution Formand with un frisit T no tskiyist daly-newspaper 1 NORKERSIPRESS On economic policy or, at least, not to press it.

That Mr Scanlon should find this 'incomprehensible... after all the blood-letting and confrontations' is not very surprising.

The actions of Wilson and Jenkins constitute the ungrateful pay-off for the rescue operation launched by the 'left' trade union leaders to get Wilson off the anti-union law hook after the July 1969 compromise between the TUC and Wilson.

At a time when Wilson's policies stank in the nostrils of every self-respecting worker and housewife, Scanlon and Jones obligingly helped rehabilitate them in the eyes of the working class and consciously helped the right wing to retain their hold over the Labour Party apparatus.

In this sense there is little or no difference between the Brighton Labour Party conference of 1969 and Blackpool 1970.

Withheld

Then, too, the same Mr Scanlon tried, unavailingly, to get the National Executive Committee to withhold the infamous IMF-inspired policy document 'Agenda For Generation' until it had been revised.

The EC, however, presented their policy and forced the conference to divide. Then they got a majority.

This provocative action, let us not torget, came atter the unforgettable Thursday afternoon session when Scanlon and the AEF pledged full and uncritical support to the Labour government and its Saturday's Gerry Caughey, a leader of the Pilkington glass. workers, replies to points on the St Helens settlement made in our exclusive interview with Victor Feather, the TUC general secretary, last Saturday. went to president Nasser's funeral. a £20 minimum wage. depots.

The actual bourgéoisification of this landed feudal class began in the 19th century, after the Napoleonic invasion Egypt, under Muhammad Ali, but gained momentum properly only after the financial invasion of the country by French and British capital during the murderous construction of the Suez Canal in the 1860s.

Before the end of the century the country had been mortgaged by the monarchic dynasty to French and British capital and, under Lord Cromer, Britain established a facto 'Protectorate' Egypt.

The fellahin became serfs working for Manchester cotton fields, while their feudal masters became junior partners in superexploitation British and French capitalists. the historical of the bourgeoisification of the upper layer of the feudal class.

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As a result of this process, when the Misr Bank was formed after the First World War, the feudal-bourgeoisie had already became subservient to British and French imperialism.

They controlled the Wafdist Party and this control moved over to the Arab Socialist Union party which arose out of the Free Officers' Group that overthrew King Farouk in 1952.

The nationalization of the big landowners and banks simply gave the old feudalcapitalists more direct access to the apparently anti-feudal state machine run by the militarized bureaucracy, by Nasser.

The transfer of Misr political influence to the Republican state involved greater ties with imperialism, despite nationalizations after the British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956.

By paying massive compensation to the nationalized Banis, and the Sign, Canal banks, and the Suez Company itself, Egypt once more became increasingly pledged financially to imFUTURE Labour Party conferences would degenerate into Albert Hall promenade concerts if the parliamentary party continued to ignore delegates decisions.

This was the message from délegates who pushed through Wednesday's resolution demanding that conference policy should be