Workers Press no. 310

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government Fresh C.P. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24, 1970 • NUMBER 310 PRICE 6d. THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Students back TV technicians' council vote proves

BAVARIAN ELECTION

Scots bakery Dec. 8 vans: 1,000 out Strauss makes Tudents orate Onion e BAKERY VAN drivers in the section agains the anti right-wing gains

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

betrayals letter Partracks" FRANZ Joseph Strauss, head of the Christian Social Union, emerges as the main contender seated the non W German far right for the leadership of the after the Bavarian state election.

eedom is posed by His red-baiting Call paign, vesterady s results handed actior £1,250 November showed, i Belina di votes iron une neu-llaz. Fund needs National Democratic Party (NDP) to win an absolute ahead £498 13s 7d ›oo per cent majorit Pits return cent up on his o. pe vote in 1966. in seven days to work cent to 2.9

BRITAIN'S

were

WOULD

We have • cent. received 6751 s Social stronghold of Teft to complete ver ical - Shed per Campin to lot to e advice e*Big busin

BY THE EDITOR

'EXPERIENCE teaches, wrote Lenin in 1913

VEHICLE

Tacks out their vicious at- German monopolists want about the growth of the political strike in Russia.

head defend See How the CP sold the Our struggle. This is absolutely true today as well.

en this Experience teaches us that as December 8 approaches, nor's shak unid this Tory the liberal the Stalinists are becoming extremely nervous that it Strike-aid plea denied, but pushed will cease to be a protest gesture and become instead tne first step towards a political strike against the Tory anti- action Production drop Mediatel o citectie government. ma. Don't speeds MDW drive diyay. donations today ise tidy trial relatins legis Workers Press Appeal his deraks ements in sand smar his leader- 186a CLaphan, teh Street, own

BY JOHN SPENCER

tot the saled by "Association and Almed , the orkin Cowley, Oxford, where man- BRITISH car plants turned into seeping way, sewards out 14,500 fewer cars in Laos battle i development dan hapen? supp passive September than in cent tne

LAO

and month sesten Royal Laotian according to figures issued Weed for at rate, casting first Stalinists, mig push por some months.

alterative today by the society defeat t Motor Manufacturers and will thanks to operating norm - sile raving

FIRM POLICY

Traders. KEN SeT and Cabe done to int on.

MERSEY CONSTRUCTION WORKER

While his Logic the Soviet o rodenon decle, says pot Fois leads him falsely to ches kat take nd mone, Poland a

GIVES VIEWS ON THE

guarantee is proposed y to the agreement rebore the opened over 11,000 cars ent Stant o invite georant of Charter of Basic the B forced to retreat 1a 9gl ported smaker Io yes hall pate who to clear someone. Rights Dinning in the core not value, WIDE DISCUSSION throughout the trade union and The committee then demanded a soMeene inmate rity toman councileting with labour movement is urgently needed on the All Trades and that broad the t Unions Alliance's six-point draft Charter of Basic Rights.

Leadership on phe CDU. Dockers may Leading CPers Workers Press is going ou ignor-

'SCANDAL'

All Trades back glass men

STEA

works ans like the healt snatched by Unions Alliance das in this an

BY A WORKERS PRESS

COHKEOPUNDENI

nstruction: uncomfortable Franco police DOCKS LEADERS from Engineering Union Second Annual to Anguish all British ports are

FRANK

consider blacking Conference ten CEU from the Pilkington com- FOURTEEN leading members of the Spanish Com- alread munist Party have been arrested in Madrid.

hine because of its victim Discuss ization of labour stried antinunith laos • be member he Pas

ITS

the inningers force.

THE CHARTER OF

Heast hone er. that onl utive committee A national mania are thought likely trike campaig nep on Stard em bassle

BASIC RIGHTS

defeat of the government not en copying machin Yugoslavia evil ate if former (I think that the Charter is The right to a job, to strike and The expected relations narrowly, and seguested edi open organize, to retain gains made, nentary Stalin- Trading between the *Pi in them a nice infor wan marks to fair prices, to welfare benefits • does and to decent housing. state cali. enough committee told Workers Pres the framework for

PIN HOPES

Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to yesterday. what a socialist society Wearia dictatorsnip force the Tories to resign.

BEST PROOF

men would working

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The

BIRMINGHAM

face Sat. December 19 Dutschke appeal fixed FEE European salines, this feet in amara- the discussion on the lating among top manage Digbeth Civic Hall, for mid-December on December 19. ere would be i HEARING or Home oc deport ton order a big Digbeth 10.30. am after strike the best preof of all Francing, is an i, immigation Appeal Tribunal on December Matthews stand or familiar Measured-Day Worl For delegates' or visitors credentials send 5: he said, which vest on the is people say that the stree to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron 1 Maudling's 'eviden stones fit for our Styvechale, Coventry. dockers needier consulates Morris plant

• PAGE FOUR COL. 4

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24, 1970 • NUMBER 310 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Students back BAVARIAN ELECTION TV technicians' council vote proves Scots bakery Dec. 8 vans: 1,000 out Fresh C.P.R Strauss makes THE NATIONAL Union right-wing gains so a solu sivirade those paracipalm: the conference passed ar betrayals

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

FRANZ-Joseph Strauss, head of the Christian * participa- and Social Union, the main contender disciplinary against as ipe reced threat on for the leadership of the German far right after the Bavarian state election.

demic freedom is posed by red-baiting

HIS

call- Hahange conde de yesterday's results paign, £1,250 November showed. collected enough Hone votes from the neo-Nazi Fund needs National Democratic Part (NDP) to win an absolute ahead £498 13s 7d 56.6 per cent majorit 8.5 per cent up on his Pits return vote in 1966. in seven days to work The

NDP

Slumped IT WOULD be dangerous miners in Sinatest received elsi Democrats social that 10 sece left to complete the five pits a executive returned their 1 to defea the roe

BY THE EDITOR

trade unionesders they Kireby col 'EXPERIENCE teaches, wrote Lenin in 1913

VEHICLE

the German amburghe S ital Democrat about the growth of the political strike in Russia.

Christian • See How the CP sold the main 1 opposition This is absolutely true today as well.

miners', page four. ing class, Chancellor Experience teaches us that as December 8 approaches, the Stalinists are becoming extremely nervous that it Strike-aid plea denied, but will cease to be a protest gesture and become instead the attracted first step towards a political strike against the Tory Production drop * Hito Strauss government. effectiv ist wing it the set out to a ders of the Trades donations today u hold speeds MDW drive esse industrial initiating a Workers ands Appeal reformist his own leader Зба Clapham High Stre ments in aportant section deepl

BY JOHN SPENCER

itancy or the wom • warren BRITISH car plants turned t the chone Laos battle out 14,500 fewer cars stewards onism ha than September The guerrillas

• LAO

PATHET

1969, Proposals for possibility of a development can month overran same Casey personal according to figures issued Stalinist, ven Roya mal sele onr which would otherwise that e government to that can the society o December today Dy etone con seen on Motor Manufacturers and norm- ally thanks to Stalinism.

stalinists. he guarantee earnings,

FIRM POLICY

Traders. KENSINGTON and Chelsea dustmen

MERSEY CONSTRUCTION WORKER

Forylm intact While Logic morning th Sorietstrikes of conditions weekly tractors are

GIVES VIEWS ON THE

found i that the tati Charter of Basic Wit the come lese fride contractors were sur ignorant ras down by 0.00 nonsense ported smaker noses, bal 2246 Dinould smaller one has hot been avert. total car Rights So the co political ment This ay chat he had I no authority to call off the onchis ith a deman move knows very well that the WIDE DISCUSSION throughout the trade union and soMeone on mite the normand councieting with labour movement is urgently needed on the All Trades scheme through force behi riving beer was and contion. Unions Alliance's six-point draft Charter of Basic Rights.

leadership of the preen Whitelati and Mos- Leading CPers Dockers may worker 155 s i going All Trades he see inde it is a

'SCANDAL'

criticisms Sake dron an austria back glass men tri between Sup- serie a gains like the healt snatched by Unions Alliance ism ane

BY A WORKERS PRESS

annhich per

CORRESPONDENT

excruciatingly ncomfortabl wage Franco police DOCKS LEADERS from Second Annual Engineering Union. cars in the subl all British ports are to branch secretar consider blacking glass Conference and drastic reduction in the from the Pilkington com- FOURTEEN leading members of the Spanish Com- it to the Dece or * at mat bine because of its victim- munist Party have been arrested in Madrid.

Discuss and its reflectio ization of its labour the Tories' pro- working-class se a member to be I force. of the Party's

THE CHARTER OF

of the ur employers probler says, however, that executive committee. • be snoop of Accos Nora Beloff at, In a round-up monday ral strike

BASIC RIGHTS

defeat onene sterement. seized filesal "Pravda' British-Leyland copying machine. Not 1, not th 1913.) at Tonge 2071 a former erm credit if ubstantial The right to a job, to strike and thent open expected organize, to retain gains made, down nentary proof the stallr to fair prices, to welfare benetits the Pilkington • rank-and-file ward do we to and to decent housing. The claim ittee told Workers Press Party

PIN HOPES

Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to pand demon yesterday. dictatorship Don arter December o Bontaparist Leyland's that bic. force the Tories to resign.

BEST PROOF

and hou socialist a general strike] may prov

PAGE FOUR COL. B

Rems that workers now

BIRMINGHAM

tion being used against employerikingtone Sat. December 19 Dutschke appeal fixed com amend- see in prepare 1 WIll Di this she European statist. circulating among top manag conterence on December 19.

Digbeth Civic Hall, for mid-December Leaders Communist forced ty must against this system Digbeth 10.30. am we must place mor atic treachery. Rudi Dutschke the worke Gollan socialism offers Immigration Appeals. Tribunal on December rse presof of all, •Satis lat For delegates' or visitors credentials send 5s Work nmunists in fishine for Four T is bound sp with the stree to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, One of the chief, Styvechale, Coventry. is thargets o stones a thoris Lowry plai dockers need?

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'Shukov looked up at the sky and gasped: it was clear Solzhenitsyn tells us with climbed that, had the almost kinematic detail, 'how it almost to the dinner-hour was. That was something he'd often noticed. The days rolled by in the camp - they Evidence were over before you could say "knife". But the years, they never But there is much rolled by: they never moved only too the by a second.' evidence that methods of Stalinism did not die with Stalin.

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8.30 11.10 5.20 6.00 Day by 0.4U Bah wilderness. 6.50 Tuesday, November 24, 1970 'The works of Solzhenitsyn,' said Surkov* 'are more danger- ous to us [i.e. the Stalinists] 'than those Pasternak. Pasternak was a man divorced from life, while Solzhenitsyn, with his animated, militant, ideological temperament, is a man of principle.' The slender, bare fragment which represents 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch' tells us graphically 'how it was' ... and the continued struggle of its author and his supporters against Stalinism tells us that freedom • from a Khrush- was not won chevite 'rehabilitation'.

The much-vaunted 'thaw' did not reach the freezing Steppes.

It will only be when the Oppositionists re-establish their historic links with the fight against bureaucracy begun by Lenin and taken up by Trotsky, that the road will be opened to the complete material and spiritual liberation of the Soviet people. On that day, the figure burst- ing on the stage of history will carry a proud banner: "This comrades, is how it was, and how it is', he can say of Solz- henitsyn's book. 'But this, is how it will be' *Quoted in Abraham Brumberg's In Quest of Justice-Protest and Dissent in the Soviet Union' (Pall Mall). Bay'. With and James Alan Ladd Mason. A medical student is wrongly convicted of highway robbery and sentenced to deportation to Australia.

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Tuesday, November 24, 1970

THE RISE AND RISE OF MICHAEL RIMMER

DIRECTED BY KEVIN BILLINGTON

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID FROST

SHOWING AT THE WARNER-RENDEZVOUS

MEDIA MANIPULATION has been the source of a nagging among liberal circles for some time.

The power of the image, the distortion, the sales dream merchants, the opinion polls, the hidden persuasion, are important and powerful weapons in the arsenal of the bourgeoisie. But for the liberal they remain to his a trouble conscience, as he stands the the on sidelines, guilty lap dog of the ruling class.

The post-war boom rise to the grow of a media in dise Try the manded of ad menri expanded, consumption endless seemed and confirmed the of the mani- pulators. Impressionistic The liberals warned of the values, while the cheapening supposed bourgeoisie were to have bought off the working with cars, refrigerators and class TV sets. Czecheslovakia. Events in May- The politics of the boom were June, 1968 France exposed workers' also reflected in the international Stalinism as a major declared movement; revisionists counter-revolutionary force.

that the proletariat could not be considered a revolutionary The chickens come home to class. Instead impressionistic roost in uncertain way, and theories of the revolutionary role „ nO of liberals, and social course of the students had a vogue.

democrats, Stalinists and revi- prostrated by the Equally it was pointed out that Sionists are in Soviet Union similar change. the manipulative techniques predom- inated. The wise shook ones heads and said their that all Blind Soviet workers wanted was the their same as counterparts in West; the cars, comfort and What unites these groups with being, the implication carpets, media men is a shared idealist how dare they? vision of the world which views set of fixed strings society as a History has a way, however, of on which the unscrupulous can such turning assumptions on play. their heads, into their opposites.

They are blind to contradic- The boom has become trans- tion, to the struggle of opposites formed into the biggest crisis which is the source of all move- that international capitalism has and change. They substi- faced. The 'liberalized' Soviet tute appearance for bureaucracy rolled the historic tanks into primacy of the class struggle.

The period we are now in is the negation of the boom. All the

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It's about the power of the media and is made by prominent media men. It's producer is none other than David Frost. The owner of Paradine Productions who financed the piece. Frost's other business interests also feature in the film in the shape of London Weekend Tele- vision of which he is a major shareholder. The main star is Peter Cook, a well-known satirist, who also wrote the script, and the direc- tor, Kevin Billington. I CANNOT tell you how strange I feel sometimes in my attempt to lead a more civilized life than my con- temporaries', wrote James Joyce in a letter to his brother Stanislaus in 1905.

'Why should I have brought Nora'-his common-law wife 'to a priest or a lawyer to make her swear away her life for me?

'And why should I super- impose on my child the very troublesome burden of belief which father and mother my superimposed upon me?' Harold Pinter's direction of Joyce's only stage play 'EXILES, London's Mermaid Theatre, at captures some of this strange- ness; this unquiet effort.

Completed ten years after his letter to Stanislaus (Joyce was in the process of finishing it in Trieste when Italy entered the war in May 1915), the play centres around the return of a writer-Richard Rowan-and his family to Dublin after a period of voluntary exile. Prism The only attraction of Richard's common-law wife Bertha for his friend Robert Hand, a journalist, is revived - and what ensues forms the substance of the plot.

While this refracts through a dramatic prism certain incidents in Joyce's own experience, the play takes very critical Jook at the problems of breaking-in a purely rationalistic manner - from the rigid — Irish Catholi‹ morality of the period. Richard attempts to complete

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ve and below: RONALD FRASER as Tom Hutchinson.

: GEORGE A. COOPER as the Bishop of Cowley.

The story concerns one Michael Rimmer decrepit offices who appears one day in the a failing advertising agency. Within a short time he has into a power- transformed it house of success. conducted by A sex survey the agency puts them on the front page of every major news- paper and television screen. By rigging the samples of a rival opinion poll, he discredits the other firm. (This is actually sequence They send a squad very funny. of people to be interviewed on their religious habits and the survey reveals from the sampling this break - his 'exile', though returned home-through a tor- tuous struggle for Bertha's free- dom either to accept and return Robert's attentions or not.

Robert proposes la battle of both our souls, different as they are, against all that is false in them and in the world. The spectre outsil against the fidelity, spectre mine against the spectre of friendship.

"All life', he says, is a con- quest, the victory of human pas- sion over the commandments of cowardice.' Contest But this, Richard replies, 'is the language of my youth'.

What Robert proposes is a con- 'Shall test. we? Freely? To- gether?' he urges. no, Richard Together

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"The ad-man's dream-world beco nightmare .. ?-A BRIAN MOOI their opinion on every matter of policy. In time SO evervone is bored with filling in forms that the first dictator they vote him the land of in order to stop being bothered. What characterizes the film is of cynicism and contempt its the working class. However much it might pro- satire is a warning test that this against a possible future (the film was in fact made before the election and was intended to be prediction for the future, God hePp us) it only. reaffirms the cynical assumptions that it supposedly criticizing. It is the product, of élitist way thinking. It considers workers as morons and imbeciles, dupes of any who manipulate them and care to pander to their backwardness.

also assumes that all workers are racialist. Vulgar' forces This, of course, is the under- lying class position the liberal, feeling the pressure, CyCl inside the walls of his Hampstead salon. Their orderly good taste and ironic wit is being challenged by 'vulgar' that the of one small forces but can majority their we do without contemptuous town are Buddhists.) laments. Rimmer then turns his atten- remain fixed. At Nothing, can tion to politics and conducts a time of big revolutionary strug- Tory campaign for the leader, gle the liberal remain Minister, by persuading him Labour Prime the sidelines nor vanish Minister, to through hole in history. He expose himself on tele-

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either identify with his masters or turn to the working class. Rimmer finally enters politics "The Rise and Rise of Michael himself, becomes the Tory Rimmer' clearly Chancellor the shows only too of Exchequer the from transmission idealism and eliminates the Prime Min- to extreme reaction, for they are him ister, by pushing oil an oil of the opposites same coin. rig. Was Week That the That He is the first Was' was the satire of the now minister of the land and institutes a sys- In the boom. revolutionary 1970s it's the cry of middle-class tem of ballot government where the entire asked crisis and reaction. are responds. 'Fight your part alone.

I will not free you. Leave me to IF BRITAIN'S 115,000 electricity fight mine.' supply workers decide to strike, the capitalist press, the Tory gov- Joyce's approach to the prob- ernment and Central Elec- lem is entirely individualistic.

Generating tricity Board will almost certainly hurl at them all Richard's in his attempt to hold Bertha "by the usual abuse about waste of no bonds, even of love, to be united resources and losses. with you body and in Only those who see through soul nakedness' is inflict these intimidating will to tactics raise their upon himself "restless' living eyebrows at the sight doubt about her phy- the CEGB bemoaning wounding of sical fidelity. and losses. They that last will remember Yet it is Robert, and not he, the Board's profits year were who leaves. £64.5 million, achieved the on basis of slashing hours, sacking 'Exiles' is a subtle and inter- workers—20,000 in the last two and the Mermaid esting Day Wood forcing up produc- years—-and cast- -John Vivien Mer- tivity by 40 percent. West chant, Timothy and Lynn True the strike will Farleigh - be - are to congratu- suffering. lated on bringing it refreshingly antra despite thatsometimes dre intractable nature material. The private who contractors do so well out of the industry's profits will face a lean time, the Tories may of keep cash to the family businesses going and the state firm chiefs may have to wait a little before they can have another £50-a-week pay increase.

None will these consider OI the Board's 35s offer in the least derisory compared to being demanded by union and the £10 being sought by the men. Without doubt Aims of Indus- try-financed by private enter- prise big business will be among those with pity for the 'sufferers' and for the ungrateful strikers. Last week the! were eager to prove that the CEGB wastes two thirds of the produced energy in power stations through dis- sipating it in river and sea water enough to provide heat for 50 million people a year. The

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RICHARD PEARSON is Steven Hench. rid becomes his

NMOORE REVIEW

PETER COOK plays Michael Rimmer. BI supply workers comes, the CEGB should ask who is itself respon- It should sible for also waste CEGB does not disagree. ask what can be done about it.

But neither do they point out But they will dare not to that the cost of saving this heat come up with an answer. through complicated and expen- Aims Industry and the sive engineering works would CEGB know that such waste will make- it worth their while. Mot eliminated in not except What this means is that if profit socialist economy where industry were not the sole criterion for has been brought under workers' 50 million people action, would control and where profit no benefit. longer decides how resources are When the witch-hunt of the used.

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'Outraged' Stalinists call for Sackings How the CP spark Tyne bus strike broke the

TORY BREAK

A BUS strike hit a Durham and Co. Dall some lyneside towns agalr yesterday. men entriked by i the N Torti miners' mployer Analysis by group

FROM NIXON

Cliff Slaughter o at eac at the

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which ended dismissec strike, for refusing to work normally weekend, was betrayed and broken Dy ine strike Communist Party Long years of collaboration by the Stalinists • yesteady a verne in

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with the National Union of Mineworkers' right normal be so deal abba wing came to a head with the most disgraceful treacherous act of strike-breaking which the British Communist Party has yet perpetrated.

1 Supporteen foe strikes ea as of butting an liter a so to brail.

anti lea of callan on spee che the pithead ballot on ados A CALL for the Tories 'to break with US policy' the Tories are expecting to 5L22 Italian coalition is British Stalinism's reply to Nixon's new raids on the rocks This was the policy adopted at Sunday's rriday London district congress of the Communist Stale and ke three dest And the Midled district mated to the rae unlo in mom by they in ine Thursdaytive meeting on December 9 in Birmingham.

E Scoriada Walls beacher clad Stalinist betrayals alone at mon 1968 Ta, France look $ so e in him more ITALIAN workers are aiming giant blows at the wobbling centre-left government. Milan metalworkers continue their campaign for satis.

plant contracts today with a mass demonstration in the cury centre.

BY DAVID BARNES

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