Workers Press no. 30

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 30 • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1969 Heavy defeats for U.S. puppet forces in workers press Vietnam. At Paris talks:

CABOT LODGE

MAY RESIGN

BY OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Firemen slam

TROOPS

of the South Vietnamese puppet regime suffered heavy casualties when National Liberation Front forces launched a four-hour witch-hunt claim allack on a joint Navy ana marine wase in une Mekong Delta yesterday. Saigon sources said 27 were killed and 98 wounded.

Earlier this week, NLF troops routed puppet forces near me cambodian border. Desore superior wresower and air support, the South Vietnamese suffered very acavy casualues. Speculation is vas rife: vesterdav that leadin Cabot Lodge, is to elation at he art ore the all the Ca.

question abided vino. direct answer to reporters I will stand what I have said about that before LUDGE: Evasive on rumours that was made at the White stalement Nursing

A.T.U.A:

that meetings College born disc comed! up before and

LEYLAND

The 'Crisis in Motors' to raise ates, com- Friday, November 7 8 p.m thes roadfield Arn the roof' ground for negotiation eylana Lal

MANCHIESIINK

Nixon's speech, in which "The fight against withdraw on pay productivity deals by milions of Americatili Monday, November 10 'BATTLE ORDERS' have • D.In. over Viet- the sus Wheatsheaf oF of Make Street been issued to nurses by ham reache Royal College portions. The i Nursing as the first stage

RAMSGATE

of a 'raise the roof' cam- "The Common Market' Fear paign for better pay. Tuesday, November 11 The College has arranged workers a number of public meet- Flowing Bowl In and 1 asking 1s vewington esta tram, ming the be 0 FIREMEN at many prances to sel up acuol groups to gain local sup- Party promotion that th Brig nees Com th Londor Theody of the Kremlin. ee (seen above at a recen College delegate call off mergence of their for hard-line in work 'Guy Fawkes apologized in salaries. Brigades Czechs for are Terr stre vies to the Hacker regime and its Soviet Them litancy perting ceived on Tuesday. By a political correspondent T desoted. these gOL До . more lal they said desation which MORE pro-Kremlin ists were promoted onto the Soviet writers' union rrasue wily the czecn communist rart on luesday. denies Solzhenitsyn expulsion Young Socialists

GRAND XMAS

officially denied eated to despised

BAZAAR

e older genera opposition Saturday, Nov. 29 Agent Breek leadershied The this nepi Sortinist typic Canning Town Public Hall Sors of well Has sep Kremlin agent self-style doors open 12 noon with the wor one sing for our alazar? make rhen they became servants them) ive something towards our rationader Gottwal The fact is that the literary West in this way. Lave you a ul Help us make this the best bazaar ever held !

Ses hist Louis ha encouraged help us raise te money tor our dally paper- cech work world or conta ins hostility he

HOOVER

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Sone conde has solan. Ireman executiv the river. right dowi fact, Workers the lads is mouth, he d secretary a mmittee had agreed th would try to find out ho was responsible for the

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recognised in the West. the enrict are as a nd of pere intellec The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

, NOVEMBER 7, 1969

PRICE BO.

INCENSED by Nixon's pro-war speech on the previous evening, hundreds of students occupied the main administration building of Massachusetts of Technology the Institute (MIT) on Tuesday. By Robert They demanded an end to the war, and insisted the Institute's military re- search be halted. tour Many the students of waved National Liberation opposition Front flags and chanted pro- communist slogans. MIT is the premier science United States college in the with tradition That its students are bells radicalized way input charter wine sport THE GREEK military regime mposed more brutal sentenc stences THE EVENTS surrounding Wednesday wher hertial the tour of the Springboks, Athens African the South four oppositionists for

NOVEMBER 15

LUXU

reveal very clearly Leall,

MORATORIUM

One of the

LWO

men aven between

TENE

life establishment and Beips, c • November storiumises ed next Moratorium, fixed Charten with member. the apartheid regime of ship outlawed Greek Communist Party. Vorster ana lar more Despite all its claims to th militant than the first. Mon- ultra-right 1 ory contrary, the military Many are now shedding day Club congratulated the encountering stubborn their illusions the Rugby Union committee oppositio going with

DIRELY

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impose these ILLe an anti-war poucy, and drawn SCuLCuLc. vall WIl

DOW

attempt intimidate into struggle raniciv the against US imperialism.

JOHN

TAYLOR,

the • wis resistance to us rue.

hritich Lion's wing forward, , announ- that he against apartheid in action with of the

HUSL

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COLLE

contented citizenship. second-Crab. burv my head Come d in Ine seno Mr Taylor had been a strong

DOSSIDITY

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- Wales and teams -

LOTTON

Counties-against the Spring- boks. his THE NEW West German Foreign said that Minister Walter decision matter personal

WAS

Scheel has issued a detailed series of instructions to politics. foreign ambassadors on the application of the Brandt government's policy towards East Germany.

match of the tour at Twicken- Summarized, the points ham their home ground. By a foreign correspondent are: The match cause ot celled at Oxford because Easing tween the relations be- cold. war 'Hallstein Doctrine'.

Donce aLi-

LWO

waves ol ways tale apartnera demonsuation should precede exposed and mUSL certaly The Tories are diplomatic recogni- Icassurilg one of the weakest of the Easi Vorster of their firm intention Ulbricht Tie regimes, european stainist regime. to roster unks detween Drital government

UIONCOTS

and wartever acknowledge The West German hesitated Wilson gestures Ila Brandt's peace overtures.

crimient alves such eas. make a3insl other top apartheid regime in Rhodesia.

Teatons Tears a remin dea with overall the west at its expense, sımi The ATrican govern foreign policy. lar to the one mooted it ment is recent to un thought Beria shortly receives from East Germany Stalin's death in March

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encouraged adont attitude more towards West Germany's allies.

THIS SATURDAY

The West German *overnment winot un. predecessors, like its gard the states as a hobile West against Germany. Important This last point is perhaps the most important, as volves the ot the swappus asked to probe car pay By Davld Maude

MRS BARBARA CASTLE,

who earlier this week asked the Commission on Industrial Relations to in- vestigate the role of shop stewards in industry, has been asked to set up an All car, car delivery and components inquiry into carworkers' workers are invited to a motor workers' conference pay. Gwilym Roberts, Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth Labour MP for South Bed- fordsire, explained

BIRMINGHAM

Wednesday that he and two Saturday, November 8 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

other MPs had decided to make the call after meeting Write for credentials to R. Parsons, of shop stewards 21 Strawberry Path, Blackbird Leys, Oxford from Vauxhall's Conference fee 5s. a person

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Nixon speech Heavy defeats for U.S. puppet forces in sparks student Vietnam. At Paris talks: occupation

CABOT LODGE

HOOVER

INCENSED by Nixon's pro-war speech on the evening, hundreds occupied the main administration building of ,371 the Massachusetts

INSTITUTION

(MIT) on Tuesday. Robert They demanded an end Black to the war, and insisted Springboks' — the Institute's military re- search be halted.

MAY RESIGN

Stubborn tour the Many of student. waved National Liberatior opposition Front flags and chanted pro strengthens communist slogans to Greek Tory sciena colonels racialists radical e e or the prea THE EVENTS surrounding

BY OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Firemen slam rugby

NOVEMBER

15 reveal clearly team, very

MORATORIUM

Vietnamese relation between the regime suffered heavy casualties when Nationat British waked Greet establisatient Communist Pal apar cuela regime Liberation Front forces launched a four-hour witch-hunt claim far more milton than tha entirst. v orster attack on a joint Navy and Marine base in the regim The encountering their illusions now the eddisi mekong Dera yesterday. saigon sources sala Clu 27 were killed and 98 wounded.

Nixon *he is forced to impose thes and Earlier this week. NLF troons routed nunnet forces near the Cambodian border. Despite superior firepower imperialism. and all support, the south Vietnamese sumered very heavy casualties. Brandt scraps Sat he Paris peace tests, dent heat ods is to nator at the raris peace talks esian nis post berore the end or tic vear Hallstein questions out the vinour giving a direct answer to reparters' I will stand on what I have said about that before Doctrine' the statement that was LoDGE • evasive on rumows and also House, he said. unties-against the Lodge had previously denied Nursing said in that ois THE NEW West German Foreign Minister

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politics. Scheel has issued a detailed series of instructions to ha buck and meetings College foreign ambassadors on the application of the Brandt government's policy towards East Germany.

match of it come at Ticken-

SLAYLA NID

0550 the points Summarized, 'Crisis in Motors' are: By a foreign correspondent to raise at Oxfordch was can Friday, November 7 Easing anti 8 p.m. apartheid demonstration. Brogand Lanes the roof' t of the Bas orster of thei tion regime.

MANCHESTER

*The fight against gestures Brandt's peace overtures on pay make ed insim in i other productivity deals It fears a Kremlin deal wit The South African Monday, November 10 8 p.m. sube 'BATTLE ORDERS' have Stalin's death in shard

PULL

The Wheatsheat 1953. been issued to nurses br

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oft of Market Stree the Royal College of portions. Nursing as the first stage

THIS SATURDAY

of a 'raise the roof' cam-

KAWOTANY

Fear 'The Common Market' paign for better pay. Tuesday, November 11 German hostle wet The College has arranged 8 p.m. workers

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

of 1 Stated asking its 200 ewington Esta against FIREMEN at many London South Branch to to set local sion incensed The stations executive na 800 U Party promotion right yesterday by news that the down the river. Important fact, the Workers the good offices ‚ondon brigades Commit delegate above at a recent Press a, at this the most it part in station, lene i this the lads Important, scrapping of th sains the war e fear for hard-line all cas he'd have mouth, Castle general secretary, struggles etnam ese Czechs Husak regime and its Soviet Parry, ports that the Lond asked to workels ana agreed that peasants. ship sell be borden rada members mauce 1 the was responsible for a rise due next cevca on luesday.

WONG TO IRO

March. a pay and it intr US ruling By a polltical correspondent such probe car yested, sore than A nurses' delegation which

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they one MORE pro-Kremlin Stalin- industry promoted onto the Soviet writers' union

MOTOR WORKERS'

pay on luesday. ere described of denies Solzhenitsyn expulsion By David Maude Young Socialists

CONFERENCE

MRS BARBARA CASTLE,

earlier this week

GRAND XMAS

of framir o Wednesday that rositionists late some asked the Commission on fected to discrimination.

buresucracy e celebrated novelist Union. Industrial Relations to in-

BAZAAR

ene Soviet Wri vestigate the role of shop recognised i he West. stewards in industry, has entatives Saturday, Nov. 29 the town of Ryazan. All car, car delivery and components Agent been asked to set up an or to repo got on the carworkers' workers are invited to a motor Been learnected by inquiry into nost intract workers conference Canning Town Public Hall pay. y we have bee provocation on Soviet Stairs doors onen 12 noon RoberTS Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth 22- or ng dad Labour MP for South Bed. standard Can you sew! Knit! paint!

charge Tinks fordsire, explained

BIRMINGHAM

make something for our Bazaar?

Wednesday that he and twe give you hits of arde ery bazable?

writers in MPs had decided to Saturday, November 8 2p.m.to7p.m. Vest in this way. call after Help us ever held ! d Novotn Parsons ing shop group Help us raise the money for our daily paper— 21 Strawberry Path, These inteyn Vauxhall's. Luton ' them to network of contacts Conference fee 5s. a person

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PAGE TWO

IN AUGUST 1969, the British Communist Party published a 60-page booklet by Betty Reid entitled 'Ultra-Leftism in Britain'.

the activities of anarchist and 'Maoist' Though she touches on groups, Reid's main concern is to discredit Trotskyism in general and the Socialist Labour League in particular.

Starting today, the Workers Press will publish five extracts from a larger work dealing with all the main principled differences between Trotskyism and Stalinism.

The extracts we are publishing here will deal with five specific issues raised by Reid's attack on the Fourth International: 1. The Popular Front and the Transitional Pro- gramme of the Fourth International.

2. The Second World War: The Stalin-Hitler Pact.

3. The Second World War: 'The Big Three'.

4. British Trotskyism today: Stalinism and the Re- visionists. 5. The fight for alternative leadership: The Stalin- ist record-and ours.

BETTY REID'S

and tactical organizational question: approach to the various 'This division was primarily based upon methods of entrism groups she describes as organization, and and was "Trotskyist' varies the central poli- sharpened by tical theme that a third world greatly. war was inevitable and would be between the forces of im- The basis of the split be- Soviet perialism and the tween the Socialist Labour Union.' (p. 18.) League and the tendency now calling itself the International Distorted Marxist Group' explains these variations in her atti- Reid then gives a distorted tude. outline of the development of the organization that We separated from the Socialist Labour League, the tendency headed by Pablo with the contrasting because of absolutely funda- visionists, who 'were anxious to develop a new image, more mental differences over the subtle and flexible, and less nature and role of Stalinism.

.. (p. 18.) sectarian. But just a little further on, The 1953 split in the Fourth Reid is forced to admit that International hinged on the despite our lack of 'new Pabloites' insistence that under image', despite our less 'subtle' mass pressure the western and more 'sectarian' approach; Stalinist parties could be 'Healy supporters were able forced to take power and that successfully to work inside the Europe in eastern and the Labour Party youth organiza- Soviet Union, similar pressure tion, the Young Socialists, and from below force to take a majority into a new, would the Stalinist bureaucracies to 'de- Trotskyist specifically organ- Stalinize' themselves by ization called Young Socialists series of internal reforms.

around "Keep the journal Left"! (p. 18) Basing itself on this revision Trotskyism, What Reid condemns of which as has sectarianism is in fact firm ad- always held that Stalinism, both within the workers' states herence to Marxist principles. Our break from Pablo's capitu- and in the capitalist countries, lation to bureaucracy 1953, is an anti-working-class, in coun- and the theoretical fight we ter-revolutionary force, Pablo's waged against those who drifted faction in the Fourth Inter- back to his policies the national called for liqui- its next ten years, were the basis dation into the ranks of the Stalinist parties. for this historic defeat that Trotskyists were able to inflict British social democracy in Impressionistic 1964. Reid cannot hide her hatred for this intransigence of the The first impulse for this Socialist Labour League. In Trotskyist attack on theory attacking us, she repeats all and programme was Pabio's the abuse hurled at the Bol- impressionistic analysis of the shevik Party by its opportunist relationship between the Soviet enemies in the Russian workers' Union and imperialism. before the Revolu- Seeing only the drive tion of 1917: to- 'In examining the policies of wards the third world war, and pessimistically writing off the SLL, remember we must that their efforts are directed the ability of the working class to overthrow imperialism and entirely to one objective, the establishment of a clear, nuclear sep- SO avert catastrophe, arate identity and organization Pablo argued that an imperial- win ad- ist attack on the Soviet Union which will set out to herents who ultimately will be would drive the Stalinist par- the big led into battle ties to the left in the capitalist when day comes. (p. 19.) states. Apart from the Later the theory of the third routine references revolu- cynical to world war was dropped, but tion as 'the big day', this is a the core of Pabloism, that the reasonable, if hostile, descrip- bureaucracy had changed since of the main tion some Trotsky the "Transi- wrote features of Leninism, a politi- tional Programme of the cal tendency which Reid Fourth International' in 1938, clearly loathes. remained. Where social democracy was Opportunist the tendency in the main class, of working supporters Pablo were expected to dis- Reid her cannot conceal their forces its colve feelings for the SLL. She hates ranks, there to await the up- it : that force the surge 'It faithfully the maintains Stalinist and reformist bureau- of atmosphere conspiracy, cracies towards power. public attacks feuding, upon Reid, as is to be expected, and blow-by-blow individuals, does not present the split in accounts of controversies with the Fourth International in rival groupings' (p. 22.)

this way. Here Reid echoes the slan- She ders Lenin obscures its principled hurled against in nature by his fight for Bolshevism in the reducing it to a VSC inaugural meeting at the Mahatma Gandhi Hall, August 13, 1966. Soon after this photograph was taken, bearded chairman Ralph Schoenman snatched the microphone from an

SLL

speaker after Gerry Healy had spoken. Schoenman wanted to secretary national prevent further criticism of Stalinism.

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• LANCEY

Russian working class. The Mensheviks, like Reid, con- stantly charged revolutionaries with 'in- concentrating on dividual' with "hair attacks, splitting' and obsession with theoretical differences. Reid's in a pamphlet here follows long opportunist tradition.

3,000 Young Socialists rallied in Trafalgar : with socialist policies. The demonstration fo Labour Party and inaugurated the Young ANYONE expecting a Marxist analysis of the May-June events in France from this book will be sadly disillu- sioned after reading two or three chapters. True is refers to Marx and it is a condemnation of Lefebvre's style and manner to say that the quotations from Marx are the clearest passages in the book. Lefebvre is capable of acute observation and is ob- viously very, very clever.

But he is writing for a par- ticular sort of reader belong- ing to intellectual circle an for whom the plain truths of Marxism would be too vulgar.

To put it bluntly, Lefebvre snob who is an intellectual swings with fashions in the small world of the French in- telligentsia. For over 20 years Lerebvre philisopher' 'leading was a of the French Communist In this guise he wrote well and prolifically on dialectical materialism and did a useful book on the thought of Lenin.

After 1956 he broke with the Party and later wrote over 770 pages to try to explain what had been happening to him in that time. The effect was a failure. He never understood Stal- inism or settled accounts with it. On the other hand, and this stands to his credit, he did not break with Marxism either, at least in a formal sense. ( But he wandered in a poli- tical no-man's land, a fashion- able writer for the left, a professor who 're- successful interpreted' Marxism by a re- turn to Hegelian idealism.

Lefebvre thus rejected emotionally political organ- ization, discipline and parti- sanship. This was equated with 'dogmatism,' with Stalin- ism.

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been at work inside the camp of the revisionists, and which today come to the surtace with a vengeance. Reid does tell her not readers that one of the found- members of the British ing Pabloites was John Lawrence, who broke from Trotskyism in 1953 to join the ranks of the Stalinists, the basis of on Pablo's theory that mass pres- ant would force the sure bureau- cracies to take power. Remaining a member of the British Pabloite organization,

ANTI-UNION LAWS

Lawrence worked inside the Communist Party as an im- portant industrial member, and Com- was prominent in the munist Party's in the group Ford factory at Dagenham.

This is known to Reid, who mentions Lawrence in her 1964 Today' 'Marxism article on Trotskyism. This time she is silent on the subject of Lawrence. Why?

She knows that despite the IMG's adherence verbal to Trotskyism political It 1S breeding ground for more John Lawrences, that is, for ele- ments who can pass over to Stalinism. Careful Reid, as have already we pointed out, is careful to make a distinction between the SLL and the IMG. Indeed, so great the 1S the between Contras two that Reid, for her

OWI

very good reasons, has to insist that despite all appearances to the contrary, the IMG are still "Trotskyists' : 'Because of the or work, contrast in methods work, and approach be- arguments

TIMG]

this group and the SLL there are those who bert Black have the illusion that the former is not really Trotskyist, something quite new but Is 24.) and different.' (p. this When we come to the Inter- Those labouring under illusion' national Marxist Group, are, of course, right we find Reid using a different tone the IMG are not inasmuch as Trotskyists, but they would be and political approach. Firstly, of the group itself wrong to see them as anything the origins are carefully obscured. new. They are as old as oppor- have already tunism itself. As we seen, Reid ignores the pro-Stalinist B nature of tae IMG revision- ist nature of the tendencies that have always poses 1964 for a Labour government ed in Trafalgar Square on September 27, demonstration followed mass expulsions of Trotskyist youth from the ted the Young Socialists' independence from Transport House.

'THE EXPLOSION: MARXISM AND THE

FRENCH REVOLUTION'

By Henri Lefebvre Translated from the French by Alfred Ehrenfeld Monthly Review Press New York and London 1969 Review by Tom Kemp Lefebvre does not pay much

BOURGEOIS

of attention to events

JARGON

it is the impres- May-June: At the same time he took sion they made on his sophis- with the ideas fashionable up choked ticated mind, with in intellectual circles and In- and philosophical concepts corporated the of jargon of the idiom contemporary bourgeois sociology his into bourgeois sociology which style. comes over in his bok. Even more prolific than be- fore, his books became in-

WORKING CLASS

'difficult, with creasingly flashes of genuine insight con-

ABSENT

cealed in masses of obscurity.

This kind of writing has an Of course, he makes many points about the causes of the audience: people who do not outbreak amongst students like to have a spade called a spade, or pride themselves on and intellectuals which are correct. being able to understand pages of obscure text which, put into plain language, would readily fit into a couple of sentences. As a professor at Nanterre, scene of the first skirmishes which escalated into the May- June revolution, Lebvre might have produced Sis of prot eduregood analy- French pub- Evidently his lishers though that this book fit the bill, and their view shared by was obviously 'Monthly Review Press' who, of all the scores of books on the subject have which ap- in France, this peared chose for one translation into English. Nanterre The events, and then in Sorbonne, the were distinctly very Lefebvre's liking. 'dogmatism' here-and No amends he is able to make for his Stalinist past by gro- 'spon- velling before the taneity' of the students. By dealing sympathetically with the students' revolt he Lefebvre is hostile to the formation of a fails to rise above it. the black Anarchist flag.

problems for the Stalinists, for the usefulness of such a group is precisely its claim to being Trotskyist. The IMG must therefore be presented as a genuine Trot- skyist group, and 'attacked' as such, but at the same time, built up as a more reasonable', less 'sectarian' alternative to the SLL : 'Certainly history would not excuse those who allowed past controversies, however bitter, to impede united efforts to deal with the terribly urgent life-and-death problems that confront us. Our attention must be turned, however, not to generalizations but to poli- cies. 'Here, isofar as this group

[IMG]

has developed anti- and capitalist propaganda attacked right-wing policies in the Labour Party, it is per- fectly true that it has con- tributed to the development of the Left in the Labour Party.

Thus when "International " says in its first issue, May "We have always stood 1968, for the united front , it is making a claim which is in part justified.' (pp. 24-25.)

'Left unity' Thus far, Reid is saying, the IMG is doing well. It very "left unity', which the wants Pabloites prefer to dress up with the more Leninist-sound- ing term 'united front' (Reid will not quibble over what are to her small differ- ences.) The IMG is also prepared to put aside 'past controversies, however bitter' , meaning the Moscow Trials, the purges and order to achieve this unity'. But lest the Stalinist em- brace smothers Purdie, Ali and Jordan and strips them bare 'anti-Stalinism', of all their Reid reminds her readers that 'in spite of many differences, more unites than divides those Trotskyist groups whose alleg- iance is to the 1938 founding of the Fourth programme International.' (p. 25.) At all costs, the "Trotskyist' credentials of the revisionists must be preserved. Herein lies precisely their usefulness to the Stalinists.

Reid's treatment of the ac- tivities of the Vietnam Solid- arity Campaign proves that she is only too well aware of the principled differences between the SLL and the various re- visionist groups. This is what she says of the inaugural meet- ing of the VSC, held in August 1966: 'The Socialist Labour League departed in disgust at not be- ing allowed to attack "Stalin- ism" •.. This left an amalgam of Fourth International [IMG] and International Socialism, and these organizations те- mained the dominant forces.'

(pp. 50-51.) Firstly it is highly significant that Reid chooses to call the IMG the 'Fourth International', a decision completely consist- ent with her aim of presenting revisionist this group as genuine Trotskyists. But the working class hardly appears. An analysis of the role of the labour bureaucracy and especially the Communist Par- ty was not worth making: one suspects that Lefebvre would congenitally incapable of making it. There are passages in which he follows a Marxist or Lenin- ist analysis, but we are soon back in the morass of idealist abstraction and jargon. Lefebvre, after all, is hos- tile to the formation of a re- volutionary party to take power. He can criticise capi- talism, or as he sometimes calls it 'neo-capitalism', and apparently wants to see it re- placed. By whom? How? To answer these questions would, presumably, be to tall back into the old 'dogmatism' Better to stand back in un- critical admiration at students formation of a revolutionary party; he prefers to stal Secondly, her statement that the revisionists were left in control of the VSC after the departure of the SLL is only half the story. Having compromised with Stalinism at its founding con- ference by refusing to allow any criticism of the role of the Soviet bureaucracy in the Viet- parading behind the Black (i.e. anarchist) flag. Lefebvre is in favour of do- it-yourself revolution through 'self-manage- what he calls ment'. Or he makes general state- ments, at a high level of ab- straction, which do not com- mit him to do anything in particular.

'SELF

CRITIQUE'

The following passage, which it is fair to quote as one of the more lucid at- tempts to present his alter- native, is good example: 'A rationality new emerging within the frame- work higher unity characterized essentially by increasing political aware- understanding. ness This requires and implies a critique-and at best a self- critique-of absolute poli- le prefers to stand back in uncritical admiration at stuc Friday, November7, 1969 namese war (it was for this reason that we walked out) the way was now clear for the entry of the Stalinists into the alliance. It is now clear that the barring of criticism of the Stalinist bureaucracy was based on the revisionists' intention to turn towards the Commun- tics and all the ideologies that support and justify absolute politics. Political awareness and understand- ing alone can unify the dimensions and levels of reality and knowledge. These become reintegrated or integrated by a ration- ality which condenses everything man has learned about history, including the history of philosophy, knowledge, ideologies, and the state. Such a task can be undertaken, only by a collective theoretical and practical effort.' (p. 141.)

This book casts some light on the limitations and weak- nesses of the kind of people whose hopes and enthusiasms inspired the 'happenings' in Nanterre and the Sorbonne in May, 1968. For the most part, however, anyone wishing to understand what really happened in France at this time may be excused from reading it. dmiration at students parading behind

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been at work inside the camp of the revisionists, and which today come to the surface with a vengeance. Reid does not tell her readers that one of the found- ing members of the British Pabloites was John Lawrence, who broke from Trotskyism in 1953 to join the ranks of the Stalinists, on the basis of Pablo's theory that mass pres- sure would force the bureau- cracies to take power. Remaining a member of the British Pabloite organization, Lawrence worked inside the im- Communist Party as an portant industrial member, and prominent in the Com- was munist Party's group in the Ford factory at Dagenham.

This is known to Reid, who mentions Lawrence in her 1964 'Marxism Today' article on Trotskyism. This time she is silent on the subject of Lawrence. Why?

She knows that despite the IMG's verbal adherence to political Trotskyism it is a breeding ground for more John Lawrences, that is, for ele- ments who can pass over to Stalinism. Careful Reid, as we have already pointed out, is careful to make a distinction between the SLL and the IMG. Indeed, so great is the contrast between the two that Reid, for her own very good reasons, has to insist that despite all appearances to the contrary, the IMG are still "Trotskyists' : 'Because of the profound contrast in methods of work, and approach be- arguments tween this group [IMG] and the SLL there are those who have the illusion [!] that the former is not really Trotskyist, but is something quite new and different.' (p. 24.) Those labouring under this r- 'illusion' are, of course, right ve inasmuch as the IMG are not le Trotskyists, but they would be y, elf wrong to see them as anything new. They are as old as oppor- tunism itself. But this flagrantly revision- st ist nature of the IMG poses 1964 for a Labour government f Trotskyist youth from the from Transport House.

MARXISM AND THE

REVOLUTION'

enri Lefebvre French by Alfred Ehrenfeld New York and London 1969 by Tom Kemp Lefebvre does not pay much attention to the events of May-June: it is the impres- sion they made on his sophis- le ticated mind, choked with concepts and n- philosophical of the idiom of contemporary nis which bourgeois sociology comes over in his bok. e- In-

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th n-

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ty. Of course, he makes many an points about the causes of the lot outbreak amongst students a which and intellectuals are on nd correct. ch, ge, ble re, les y- ht y- b- k ew by 10, on lis to nd re e's nd ds 0- n- lly he Lefebvre is hostile to the formation of a 1 the black Anarchist flag.

problems for the Stalinists, for the usefulness of such a group is precisely its claim to being Trotskyist. The IMG must therefore be presented as a genuine Trot- skyist group, and 'attacked' as such, but at the same time, built up as a more reasonable', less 'sectarian' alternative to the SLL : 'Certainly history would not excuse those who allowed past controversies, however bitter, to impede united efforts to deal with the terribly urgent life-and-death problems that confront us. Our attention must be turned, however, not poli- to generalizations but to cies. 'Here, isofar as this group

[IMG]

has developed anti- capitalist and propaganda attacked right-wing policies in the Labour Party, it is per- ectly true that it has con- tributed to the development of the Left in the Labour Party.

"International " Thus when says in its first issue, May "We have always stood 1968, i." for the united front . , it is making a claim which is in part justified' (pp. 24-25.)

Thus far, Reid is saying, the IMG is well. It doing very . 'left unity', which the wants Pabloites prefer to dress up with the more Leninist-sound- ing term 'united front'. (Reid will not quibble over what are to her small differ- ences.) The IMG is also prepared to 'past controversies, put aside however bitter', meaning the Moscow Trials, the purges and the betra shie Salinis t order achieve this unity. But lest the Stalinist em- brace smothers Purdie, Ali and Jordan and strips them bare of all their "anti-Stalinism', Reid reminds her readers that in spite of many differences, more unites than divides those Trotskyist groups whose alleg- iance is to the 1938 founding of the Fourth programme International. (p. 25.) At all costs, the "Trotskyist' credentials of the revisionists must be preserved. Herein lies precisely their usefulness to the Stalinists.

Reid's treatment of the ac- tivities of the Vietnam Solid- arity Campaign proves that she is only too well aware of the principled differences between the SLL and the various re- visionist groups. This is what she says of the inaugural meet- ing of the VSC, held in August 1966: 'The Socialist Labour League departed in disgust at not be- ing allowed to attack "Stalin- ism" ... This left an amalgam of Fourth International [IMG] Socialism, and International organizations and these re- mained the dominant forces.'

(pp. 50-51.) Firstly it is highly significant that Reid chooses to call the IMG the 'Fourth International', a decision completely consist- ent with her aim of presenting this revisionist group as genuine Trotskyists. But the working class hardly appears. An analysis of the role of the labour bureaucracy and especially the Communist Par- ty was not worth making: one suspects that Lefebvre would be congenitally incapable of making it. There are passages in which he follows a Marxist or Lenin- ist analysis, but we are soon back in the morass of idealist abstraction and jargon. Lefebvre, after all, is hos- tile to the formation of a re- volutionary party to take power. He can criticise capi- or as he sometimes talism, calls it 'neo-capitalism', and apparently wants to see it re- placed. By whom? How? To answer these questions would, presumably, be to fall back into the old 'dogmatism'.

Better to stand back in un- critical admiration at students formation of a revolutionary party; he prefers to stan Secondly, her statement that the revisionists were left in control of the VSC after the departure of the SLL is only half the story. Having compromised with Stalinism at its founding con- ference by refusing to allow any criticism of the role of the Soviet bureaucracy in the Viet- parading behind the Black (i.e. anarchist) flag. Lefebvre is in favour of do- it-yourself revolution through what he calls 'self-manage- ment. Or he makes general state- ments, at a high level of ab- straction, which do not com- mit him to do anything in particular.

'SELF

CRITIQUE'

The following passage, which it is fair to quote as one of the more lucid at- tempts to present his alter- native, is good example: 'A rationality is new emerging within the frame- higher work of unity a characterized essentially by increasing political aware- and understanding. ness This requires and implies a critique-and at best a self- critique-of absolute poli- • prefers to stand back in uncritical admiration at stuc Friday, November7, 1969 17: Harry war (it was for this namese reason that we walked out) the way was now clear for the entry of the Stalinists into the alliance. It is now clear that the barring of criticism of the Stalinist bureaucracy was based revisionists' intention on the to turn towards the Commun- tics and all the ideologies support justify Political ing alone can unify dimensions i ali integrated by andenses condenses everything man has learned about history, including the This book casts some light whose hopes and enthusiasms inspired the happenings' in Nanterre and the Sorbonne in May, 1968. For the most part, however, anyone wishing to understand what happened in really France at this time may be excused from reading it. dmiration at students parading behind Friday, November7, 1969 Backdrop 10 British Stalinism. From the tiR Franco Soviet Pact of May 7934 (Stalin and Laval): Nazi-Sovin' i'"f :! August 1939, (Stali 9. Februar and Ribbentrop) • interence. "Shin ain •:;. Genera Secrr!: Pollitt. • fliture John Gollan.: ist Party once the campaign had acquired a 'left' enough image. This is just what happened.

Reid describes the last stages of the Stalinist 'kill' on page 56: 'In March 1968 an Ad Hoc Committee initiated by the VSC held a demonstration in which Communists and mem- bers of the Young Communist League took part as a con- scious and organized action. 'Other activities initiated by the Ad Hoc Committee cul- minated in the very big and successful October 27 demon- stration in 1968, in which an estimated 100,000 filled the streets' (p. 56.) This last 'successful' demon- stration, as is well known, ended with a letter passed into 10 Downing Street to 'Dear Harold', asking Wilson to sup- port the NLF. The revisionists mobilized most of the forces, the Stalinists provided the policy - a division of labour suited each side admir- that ably. Reid describes how colla- the Communist boration with Party gradually 'tamed' the wild men of the 'Black Dwarf': 'The character of the lead- ership and material produced, and the co-operation of the non-socialist forces, ( was a very great advance on the pre- vious demonstrations they had organized 'In spite of a few initial "Black frivolities in the Dwarf" • • • promising a pos- sible insurrection, the tone and handling of the unprecedented campaign of vilification was positive, and resulted in a of unity of all high degree excluding forces the small lunatic fringe' (p. 56.) The IMG are really coming along, Reid is saying here.

They are even learning to work fruitfully with 'non-so- (i.e., Liberals cialist forces' and Christians)-a precondi- tion for any prolonged colla- boration with the Stalinists.

Singled out Mr E. Tate is singled out special praise in this respect: 'Even Ernie Tate of the In- Marxist Group ternational wrote an article on the les- of this demonstration sons which was a far cry from the lays when he launched into lomilar article is "World Out the first record!' positive results (p. 56.) The Stalinist take-over and winding-up of the VSC was only made possible by the policies of the IMG. They, from the first meeting in 1966, made it very clear that the campaign was at all costs to be liquidated into the Communist Party, and from there into social democracy. That was the of essence Pabloism in 1953, and it re- vealed itself for all to see on October 27, 1968, when Ali and company marched with the Stalinist youth leader Barney Davis to 10 Downing Street, where they delivered their appeal to Wilson to sup- port the NLF. This 'left cover' must have been greatly appreciated by the leadership of the Commun- ist Party, because Reid cannot resist praising the IMG for sticking to this line even after it had become unpopular in other revisionist circles : 'Whatever our disagreements with the International Marx- ist Group they have at least not accepted this line of In- ternational Socialism on Viet- nam! (p. 57.) 'This line' turns out to be also 'the line of the SLL ...

that what is needed is to get immersed in the economic and domestic struggles, and that this is the way to help Viet- nam.' (p. 57.) Reid rejects here the prin- ciple that concrete, as op- to platonic internation- posed alism, is expressed by stepping up the struggle against one's own ruling class. But it is strange that she should charge the SLL with immersion in the economic and domestic struggle' when on page 20 she accuses the same movement of being 'con- tent to remain on the touch line shouting abuse at those who do not want to move so far ahead of the mass move- ment as to become isolated and impotent. It seems that when it suits Reid, the Socialist Labour League can be either 'ultra- or bogged down in par- left' ochial, run-of-the-mill routine issues. Either way, she prefers the IMG. Other half So much for Reid on the merits of the IMG. How does the other half of the equation, the IMG, react to the over- tures of Reid?: 'Costing 5s and with an at- the pamphlet tractive cover appears to be a serious and objective attempt to come to terms with other [!] left ten- dencies. . . In fact in stating her case she is forced to pay us some compliments in a back-handed manner. This will no doubt be used by the SLL to "prove" that there is an alliance be- tween the CP and the IMG to divert people away from the "true believers"' ('Inter- national', September, 1969, p. 7.) This rather self-conscious admission helps to explain why Reid's 'compliments' have to be 'back-handed'.

Open praise for the

: IMG

by the Stalinists would com- promise it all too easily, and prevent it rendering the type of service Reid describes in her section on the VSC. 'International' quotes with obvious pride all those sec- tions of Reid's pamphlet that contain these "backhanded compliments. Reid's repetition of the old against Trotskyism, slanders her support for the Stalinist Tilbury's new modernization, with the ner developments taking place all the time, wil out-dated. *'/" E D safet Revisionist Pat Jordan of the International The demonstration was joined by a large Ali delivered a letter to Wilson beginning 'l line on the war and her de- fence of the Popular Front' and the Nazi-Soviet Pact— none is so much as mentioned in the review. The 'International Socialism' group are in i They emerged in Britain in 1950 during the when they refused to support the North Kor imperialism. Jordan and Purdie are too busy frantically scanning Reid's booklet for favourable references to themselves to notice that the vast bulk of the pamphlet contains all the old slanders against Trotsky- ism and takes back virtually nothing that was said in the days of Stalin. This indicates the depth to which revisionism has sunk.

'International', rather than denounce Reid as an unre- pentant apologist for Stalin- ism, prefers to boost her, like as an 'objective' Johnstone, and 'serious' student of Trot- skyism. Acknowledge The IMG review of Reid's work concludes with an ac- knowledgement from the re- visionists have that they sensed the way the wind is blowing from King Street : 'Near the end of the pamphlet, she says that the CP imposes no bans and pro- scriptions and it will "work with anyone who will co- basis operate agreed an for specific aims". 'This is an important state- ment and will be of use in trying to develop unity of ac- on, with the new and cheaper all the time, will before long be completely

WORKERS PF

For PARIS TALKS to TEll JOHNSON to STOP BU polices and other queston.

tion on Vietnam government's Panon eVersterer the vicwm nis leaders

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DR VAN DEN BURG'S

book, by making thorough technical study ot the container methoc transportation, ex- poses some of the basic contradictions that face the and port shippers employers of the world. On the one hand, large cuts on trend i rates basec and reduced modernization manning can ensure a sharp rise in profits for those 'first mn wiw doe new mernoos. and mhe more simlar facilities capacity rapidy occurs mation British, European hil ne European cornel that can carry naur to benetdone. 1oweve the nounced on „October inev were orderine ave modert container roll-on/roll-off ships

Friday, November7, 1969 Brifish Statinism. From the op 10 TiR 7934 Soviet Pact of May (Stalin and Nazi-Sovie' i'"t ;! August 1939, (Stalı• bhantrop) interence h.:u..:r:i Stain aini Secrnta; Pollitt • tuture sucC+ clian" • campaign ist Party once the had acquired a 'left' enough image. This is just what happened.

Reid describes the last stages of the Stalinist 'kill' on page 56 : 'In March 1968 an Ad Hoc Committee initiated by the VSC held a demonstration in which Communists and mem- bers of the Young Communist League took part as a con- scious and organized action.

'Other activities initiated by the Ad Hoc Committee cul- minated in the very big and successful October 27 demon- stration in 1968, in which an estimated 100,000 filled the streets? (p. 56.) This last 'successful' demon- as is well known, stration, ended with a letter passed into 10 Downing Street to 'Dear Harold', asking Wilson to sup- port the NLF. The revisionists mobilized most of the forces, Stalinists provided the the policy - a division of labour that suited each side admir- ably. Reid describes how colla- boration with the Communist 'tamed' the Party gradually wild men of the 'Black Dwarf': 'The character of the lead- ership and material produced, co-operation of the and non-socialist forces, was a very great advance on the pre- vious demonstrations they had organized. 'In spite of a few initial in "Black frivolities the .. . promising a pos- Dwarf" sible insurrection, the tone and handling of the unprecedented campaign of vilification . .. was positive, and resulted in a high degree of unity of all forces excluding the small lunatic fringe? (p. 56.) The IMG are really coming along, Reid is saying here.

They are even learning to work fruitfully with 'non-so- cialist forces' (i.e., Liberals and Christians)-a precondi- tion for any prolonged colla- boration with the Stalinists.

Singled out Mr E. Tate is singled out special praise in this respect: 'Even Ernie Tate of the In- ternational Marxist Group wrote an article on the les- sons of this demonstration which was a far cry from the days when he launched into a similar article in "World Out- look" • .. describing a pre- vious demonstration and glee- fully retailing the number of police casualties as the first positive record!' results to (p. 56.) The Stalinist take-over and winding-up of the VSC was only made possible by the policies of the IMG. They, trom the tirst meeting in 1966, made it very clear that the campaign was at all costs to be liquidated into the Communist Party, and from there into social democracy.

That was of the essence Pabloism in 1953, and it re- vealed itself for all to see on October 27, 1968, when Ali and company marched with leader the Stalinist youth Barney Davis to 10 Downing Street, where they delivered their appeal to Wilson to sup- port the NLF. This 'left cover' must have been greatly appreciated by the leadership of the Commun- ist Party, because Reid cannot resist praising the IMG for sticking to this line even after it had become unpopular in other revisionist circles : 'Whatever our disagreements with the International Marx- ist Group they have at least not accepted this line of In- ternational Socialism on Viet- nam.' (p. 57.) 'This line' turns out to be also 'the line of the SLL ...

that what is needed is to get immersed in the economic and domestic struggles, and that this is the way to help Viet- nam.' (p. 57.) Reid rejects here the prin- ciple that concrete, as op- posed to platonic internation- alism, is expressed by stepping up the struggle against one's own ruling class. But it is strange that she should charge the SLL with 'immersion in the economic and domestic struggle' when on page 20 she accuses the same movement of being 'con- tent to remain on the touch line shouting abuse at those who do not want to move so far ahead of the mass move- ment as to become isolated and impotent. It seems that when it suits Reid, the Socialist Labour League can be either 'ultra- left' or bogged down in par- ochial, run-of-the-mill routine issues. Either way, she prefers the IMG. Other half So much for Reid on the merits of the IMG. How does the other half of the equation, the IMG, react to the over- tures of Reid?: 'Costing 5s and with an at- tractive cover the pamphlet appears to be a serious and objective attempt to come to terms with other [!] left ten- dencies. ... 'In fact in stating her case she is forced to pay us some compliments in a back-handed This doubt manner. willno be used by the SLL to "prove" that there is an alliance be- tween the CP and the IMG to divert people away from the "true believers"' (Inter- national', September, 1969, p. 7.) This rather self-conscious admission helps to explain 'compliments' why Reid's have to be 'back-handed'.

Open praise for the

IMG

by the Stalinists would com- promise it all too easily, and prevent it rendering the type of service Reid describes in her section on the VSC. 'International' quotes with obvious pride all those sec- tions of Reid's pamphlet that contain these "backhanded compliments'. Reid's repetition of the old against Trotskyism, slanders her support for the Stalinist Tilbury's new modernization, developments taking place all the time, will out-dated. **1" Revisionist Pat Jordan of the International The demonstration was joined by a large Ali delivered a letter to Wilson beginning t line on the war and her de- fence of the 'Popular Front' and the Nazi-Soviet Pact— none is so much as mentioned in the review. The 'International Socialism' group are in me They emerged in Britain in 1950 during the | when they refused to support the North Kor imperialism. Jordan and Purdie are too busy frantically scanning Reid's booklet for favourable references to themselves to notice that the vast bulk of the pamphlet contains all the old slanders against Trotsky- ism and takes back virtually nothing that was said in the days of Stalin. This indicates the depth to which revisionism has sunk.

'International', rather than denounce Reid as an unre- pentant apologist for Stalin- ism, prefers to boost her, like 'objective' Johnstone, as an and 'serious' student of Trot- skyism. Acknowledge The IMG review of Reid's work concludes with an ac- knowledgement from the re- visionists that they have sensed the way the wind is blowing from King Street: 'Near the end of the pamphlet, she says that the CP imposes no bans and pro- scriptions and it will "work with who will anyone со- agreed basis operate on an for specific aims" 'This is an important state- ment and will be of use in trying to develop unity of ac- on, with the new and cheaper all the time, will before long be completely

WORKERS' PRESS

the Party they realize they can Reid says the following: con on viewam. anu-trade union longer ignore omer tendencies alone or all rotskvist policies and other questions.

organizations, except tiny or action However. the mean that the fundamentalist Socialist Part Will also 'Whatever the of the exchange ideas and debate of Great Britain, leaders will facilitated. wishes em- extraordinary phasis.) frivolity aside October Reid's anti-Trotskyist dia- conquests Lilt • for the IMG tribe voludon ana cnaracterizes system of society in the social- pportunity 'exchange "state capital- the Stalinists! with (p. 32.)

IMG

Yet the perrecuy serious. oucn an exenange Neither of those two groups airelysis takinheade, 1s Red's Reid can remotely named Dy analysis developments described as Trotskvist. within the VSC shows. The SPGB was formed be- fore the rist wyar. Leninism and for good measure shares phrases new with the British Communist whole hotch-potch Party its belief in the peaceful, then turnt a weapon lo parliamentary road Marxist ooscure principled poltics and the role ot the 'International Socialism' or- fighting for working class period international solidarity with small Vietnamese workers and orean led Cliff, peasants. class the broke from British

1TOLSKYISI

movement the Brush aside pressure anti and anti - Chinese Soviet 1950 during the Kor the period, of rt the North Koreans against American Of the that both these group anu soviet 'International Socialism', countries were

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DR VAN DEN BURG'S

'CONTAINERIZATION

by book, making

A MODERN TRANSPORT SYSTEM'

thorough technical study By G. van den Burg of the container method Hutchinson 635. of transportation, ex- poses some of the basic Review by Bernard Franks contradictions that face the shippers and port which will also go a long way cashed nave later to being able to corner the and cheaper deveionments.

employers of the world. entire European - Australian The Scandinavian lines men- tioned for On the one hand, large cuts will In three days, the container claim that their new ships in freight rates based or revolution becomes a container superior to those of the new modernization and reduced consortium. the same day Also, manning can ensure a sharp this order for the 'latest' ships

CONTAINER

rise in profits for those 'first announced, Vickers Ship-

WAR?

in with the new methods. lor wara new destens nuclear- How do they solve this one?

On the other hand, as more powered one nerd habich, Does a vicious container war and more firms struggle claimed, would have break similar between substantial economic edge over Scandi- on and shoot "simes" traditional port consorld, Business ship - carrying navians per a cur or une 14 News, October 29.)

SODS .

capacity rapidly occurs. At this rate, some arms For example, 1124 could be left controlling only

NEW

ment on October If one firm con of Consortium while

SIZES

dominates bridge, european ana Aus Shipping tallan sailing dates or van den Dure aves an the European- call corner and could well Australian shipping trade 1.00 content realm calamitous flects the level of technical and I ne tremenaous speed scientific development by 1966, built to its own speci scienunc develooment ana lines nvolved technique also creates DrOD- neaton sor x oll xoll ols together to control JuS lems for capitalist 'enterprise'.

inese are now outaated by ships that can carry this Firms rushing to invest in the quantity of ships on order and under construction 20 ft. and handle exclusively However, not to be outdone, the within a 40 ft containers' lines Scandinavian an- which 29 invested ounce On 300 million which have come later on the uney were oraerine ave mouern container ron-on roll-on snips scene ana Consecuence, alsu ttee platform, Tariq Ali.

perialist as Britain and the

USA.

In declaring itself to be 'neutral' struggle between the workers' states and imperialism, the Cliff group atonce placed itself outside the ranks of Trot- skyism, which has always stood for the anconditional defence of the Soviet Union and the other workers' states against from im- attacks perialism. Cliff's and group was remains anti-Trotskyist and anti-Leninist. It believes that Stalin only continued the work done by Lenin, that in fact Bolshevism was the precursor of Stalin- ism. This view is also upheld, ironically by enough, orthodox Stalinists. Silent Reid is as silent on the beginnings of the Cliff group as she is on the origins of the

IMG.

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developments, On further the book discusses in detail the growth of airborne car- goes. It coinments: 'In the early 1970s a com- mercial version of US army's Lockheed C-5A - - the freight train in the sky--could be available .. • this plane will carry up to 240 linear feet of , inter-modal containers, which is about a quarter of a freight- liner train with its 15 wagons • theoretically, a Lockheed C-SA is capable of realizing 157.5 million tons per year- assuming a speed of 750 mph and an annual use of 3,500 hours. This means that only 1l Lockheeds could carry the whole volume of the North Atlantic (airborne) trade.'

What is lost in bulk is made up for in speed of delivery and van den Berg examines the possibilities of both the 4,000- hover freighter of the ton British Hovercraft Corporation Ltd. and the 150 mph con- tainer-carrying hover track-car.

FULLY

AUTOMATED

The last part of the book looks at fully-automated dock handling, with gantry cranes dropping containers on to con- belts which carry them veyor off to be stacked, again auto- 'multi-roto matically, store' to await road or rail despatch. Under this system there is no place for the docker on the docks. Naturally, Dr van den Burg, who has been a director of both an Italian and a Dutch firm and who is now an

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these two revisionist tenden- cies is obscured The Stalinists have always tried to present the Trotskyist movement as plagued with internal feuds and splits of a purely personal or organiza- tional nature. The revisionist opponents of Bolshevism used the same opportunist tactics to attack Lenin before the Russian Revolution. Like our opposition to Stalinism, our hostility to the various groups that Reid valiantly tries to present as 'Trotskyist', is based purely on grounds of Marxist princi- ples. Personalities and in- dividuals do not enter into it.

Members and supporters of the Communist Party break- ing from the counter. revolutionary policies Stalinism are not going to be taken in by Reid's boost for the IMG. When the time comes break with Stalinism, tile break will be clean and fur- ever. The line of the IMG leads right back into the camp of Stalinism, as their response to Reid's booklet proves. Neither will Communist Party workers fall for the cheap anti-Soviet propaganda of the 'International Socialism' group. Cliff and his friends were very vocal in their opposition what to they called 'Soviet imperialism' at the time of the Kremlin invasion of Czechoslovakia, but when the time came to denounce a genuine imperialist invasion of Ulster by British troops they supported it! Cliff's is a middle-class group that will repel class- workers who want conscious to defend the gains of the Russian Revolution. As the last section of this article will show, the Socialist Labour League stands on its record of struggle for Marxist leadership principles and inside the workers' move- ment, and against the Labour government and all those who protect it or seek to minimize its treacherous role.

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economic consultant on an international basis', does not want to believe in the develop- ment of a major crisis in ports and shipping, though he ad- mits on his last page : 'As the shipping capacity needed to carry a given volume of dry cargo will dras- tically diminish by the higher productivity of container ships, some experts predict a growing over-capacity. Severe competi- tion will result, the Conference System will break down. FAK (freight-all-kinds) rates will huge capital in- flourish and They vestments will be lost. believe that not only the ship- ping industry, but most of the links in the transport chain will suffer. This prophecy, al- though based on calculated forecasts, seems unjustified for a more distant future.' In the face of the 'calculated forecasts' Dr van den Burg puts his faith in increase of world trade. Little mention is made in the book of the workers in- volved, except to explain how numbers can be reduced if the right agreements are signed.

In its ruthless drive for profits at all costs, capitalism brings crisis, stagnation, dis- organization and collapse to the very methods of produc- tion which it claims to de- velop, at the same time tram- pling over the working class to extract every last ounce of surplus value. Only by an equally ruthless overthrow of the entire capi- talist class and the replacement of the destructive capitalist mode of production with a socialist society can the full benefits of science and tech- nology be utilized to the full.

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P.I.B. wants free? THE DAILY MAIL'S round-up - For God, Queen of top people's opinions on the need for the Queen concentrated heavily on the Labour and trade union leaders. productivity No doubt the paper considered their and opinions might help stem the tide of in- not mention outright ditterence, revealed in hostility to the monarchy, recent public opinion polls.

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from pilots spoke from country starchy as people thin any By Peter Road Dy sohn 8 THE BRITISH Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) "they re cheaper than Divide has angrily rejected the findings of the Prices and sults it the c most heads or stake. Incomes Board's report on BOAC pilots' pay and

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and rule conditions. Think or suits at a trade union though highly ULSTER ary, what informality! tem, he boomed. pliots, paid, are working under a behind A.W.O.L. case which was done starchy as nigh rate or exploitation.

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more army difficulties the high-point of thes spender enable rise ground pay staff at the British Airport A 24-YEAR-OLD British soldier, Corporal creases for roductivity

ORIGINALITY

stea, Frestwick ana neatn' Roger Phillips, told an Ulster court martial Perish the thought! row airports. this week that he went absent without leave His youth ad for four days because he did not wish to open ncomes report thought established af fire on unarmed people. monarchy should be abolished BAÀ Refuse training Corporal Phillips, of yorkers one DEP'S the Queen's Regiment, Indian Congress for flying the pleaded Guilty to being absent trom his barracks criticizes the at Holywood near Belfast pae trike by BOAC Party split grows IrOm october October 7. Scotland's let be is for chine strikes o demanding parity In a statement read to Foot McGarvey What is THE RIFT within the ruling Indian Congress number of pilots

BRAZIL

This time Prime luesday When paid with pai Minister Mrs Gandhi removed one of her lead- needed instead. pilots wil By Robert Black Ambassador's there ment already ductivity ing right-wing opponents, ham subhag - Sound sat induces, Singh, from her cabinet. Sour comments sia to be bicolved in: Recent peasant and New Czech-Soviet kidnapper that the workers' struggles have Second case current sill to think arcally alarmed me mode prices These it wee se of young and Mrs that divide-and-rule cavilalist class, trade agreement betrayed by priest Gandhi's differences with deal Deins in red are of the are u the right wing of the Con- story. gress Party, led by Morarji It highlights the difficulty Desai, the former Deputy New award DETAILS were released on army in main Prime Minister, By a foreign correspondent held are ver luesday of a trade agree.

CARLOS MARIGHELA, the Brazilian Communist who tactical measures ment between the Soviet Sovie party without and Czech governments. organized the kidnapping of the US Ambassador two needed to overcome the another Lucas present crisis. Annual months ago, was machine-gunned to death with a com- tee ange countries Prague industria yo per ceet rade in Sao Paulo on Tuesday night.

Mrs Gandhi has ose tine neate year no2 increase won the I theiterminene supervisors Reports from Brazil state programmerines me congress secure the Marighela Firemen are Outlined farty for ner leit maneouvre was in the PIB's reposes win interim WIlD DrO - MOSCOW ayea to the police by a by stalinists, but a hard core

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Roman Catholic priest, who favour right wingers award arrage against Parry wer rebi Brad. Wigan Plessey state government coalitions had arranged to meet the Yorkshire Metals treated with derisio with the right-wing parties.

two communist leaders in a thin there's men back EIGHT hundred Lucas ella alc Sao Paulo suburb. Witchelat think Seal of doom again Wee Fies. out for £15 area after out of the union er- increase e995 of Subha week. By our industrial reporter sire steps nores stecided to i Brazil an CAV, Girling and Rotax of its y five weeks. 302E its political prisoners the 1 airpoot groups. of noise Further Brilliant about of the thre mandourtes Pres They also ask E11 &GWU-tO ng for a new wage structure which and executed on + mobility of labour executed to start next hands eddy oremery due to be celvea March. 1 job steps. at 45. 4h. a step it the momen signed ent. citicsiza Ors the sanary or the tional Castle asked to probe theory trade Licese ty cared in about.

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Big problems unrelated to either productivity he kind of hefp meeting of shop stewards. a or efficiency Direch dice Address... Yor in people ed per or the sake of piratedl Від робіт ar bosses have proc • discussion as stone trade union ore a. s Workers the Middle East. (see ole groups of people for the Published he ease: Clapham Higher, Cogn, Sid All Fades Unton Anne st missided more greement 1806 Claphan S.W.3 Street, Londor motion tea on armed the d think par Friday, November 7, 1969 people's lives must surely be in Palace 5g Some of them may even b dreaming of a peerage

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