War on workers- East and West

representatives entered the building to hand in a petition in support of the council workers to the town clerk. •We have already 2,000 signatures from Reading people and this was just over the weekend, Tom Hibbard, Reading district officer of the Transport and General Workers' Union, told Workers Press. 'We aim to go on collecting until a majority of people ten see have elised to Solidarity Delegations from most of Reading's engineering plants marched through the town with the council workers. "We think it is most important at this stage to show solidarity with these men' Don Calow, Reading district officer of the Amalgamated Head of the inquiry Union of Engineering and GEC director Sir Tack Scamp Foundryworkers' said.

with Hugh Clees ton alon Varwick Üniversity Industria 'We can see that the Tories Relations Professor (middle) are singling, the council and Confederation of British workers out for discipline. If Industry indust relations they get away with it they chief Sloan,, might come for engineers (bottom). next.' Internation al solidarity • ZEMUN town council it the borough town hall on Yugoslavia is present Monday night. the tow there and cous, It is a disgrace that at this time of crisis our repcilors from Tower Hamlet: resentatives saw fit to leave —men who called troops in the country like this imthe boronsh mediately after they • had rubbish on Saturday nisht. called in troops, said Kaye.

He proposed a resolution, The visit was condemned condemning the visit, which was carried by the meeting, Party member on Tower Presumably then, Tower Hamlets council, at a lobby Hamlets branch of the Comof council workers outside munist Party would be inTHE STALINIST call for a European security conference is one of the main topics to be discussed between Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko and Tory premier Edward Heath today.

What the Soviet leaders want is an agreement ratifying the division ot Europe, conhrming that Germany will remain divided, and opening the way to closer trading relations with Britain and the Common Market countries.

in other words, what the! re aiming at is an up-date version of the ›Yalta and Potsdam agreements under Churchill divided serope into • Roosevelt and spheres of influence after the The Bonn-Moscow agreement signed in August is a najor step along this road. But its, terms will not become operable until agreement is reached in the talks on Berlin which are still in progress.

Talks between W Germany -CP style forming Zemun council of the kind of people they were officially receiving?

'Oh no' said Kaye, 'contact between different countries in the world can only be a good thing. The Tower Hamlets' question is a national one not an international one. The Communist Party is proposing no comunication to Zemun.' No comment. and Poland are also under way.

These preparations are part of the bureaucracy's response to the threat of political revolution in the workers' states.

The invasion of Czechoslovakia two years ago underlined the lengths to which the Stalinist bureaucracy will go to stifle any independent movement of the working class.

The same year saw the treachery of the French Communist Party in May and June events.

The French Stalinists played a key part in heading off the revolutionary challenge of the working class to the capitalist state.

The lesson has not been lost on the leaders of world imperialism, or on the Kremlin bureaucrats:

Clear Heath, too, of course, very much concerned with counter-revolutionary preparations against the working class.

His 'civil war' speech in the United. Nations and his government's attacks on the working class in Britain make this abundantly clear.

The talks in London are a further link in the chain of counter-revolutionary alliances and contacts between Soviet Stalinism and world imperialism.

Help the Young Socialists PAGE TURRELL Mr HUGHES Mrs EWERS Mr KEN WELSHY Wednesday, October 28, 1970