'Outraged' Stalinists call for TORY BREAK FROM NIXON OVER BOMBS
By Robert Black
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A CALL for the Tories "to break with US policy' is British Stalinism's reply to Nixon's new raids on N Vietnam. L Thin dis tint conires do the do undays. Cortina threat A strike by 20, torch solderers at Ford's Dagenham plant is now threatening the production of the new Cortina model.
A COMPLEX low pressure area lies over W Scotland and NIreland.
England, Wales and central and E Scotland will be rather cloudy with rain or drizzle at times, but also one or two bright intervals.
W Scotland and N Ireland will start cloudy with rain or drizzle, but should brighten later with showers developing.
N Scotland and the Northern Isles will bè dull with periods of rain.
It will be mild in the Nand W of Scotland and very mild elsewhere. Winds will be mostly fresh or strong, southerly, but SW and N' Ireland. moderate in W Scotland Outlook for Wednesday and Thursday: Becoming less mild, rather cloudy with rain or showers at Public Meeting THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 7.30 p.m1. fight for workers The Town Hall St Helens, Lancs.
Speaker: G. HEALY
(National Secretary of SLL)
ALL TRADES MEETINGS Discuss the proposed draft of the Charter of Basic Rights SOUTHALL: Tuesday, November Up.m. Community Centre, Bridge Rd.
NORTH LONDON: Wednesday, Nobey pu? Finsbury Park, Park, one NORTH LONDON: Wednesday, York, York Rd, Kings Cross. November Duke WILLESDEN: Thursday, November High Rd. N.w.is and Labour Hall, SE LONDON: Thursday, November berwell Derwell Church St. Camberwell Artichoke pub, CamGreen.
CROYDON: Thursday, November 26, 8 p.m. Prince of Wales, Thornton Heath Clock Tower.
LUTON: Friday, November 21, 8 o.m. AEU House, 396/8 Dunstable Rd.
SW LONDON: Tuesday, December 8 p.m. Princes Head, Falcon Rd, Clapham Junction.
ACTON: Rocket pub, Birbeck Ra. Sv.3.m.
LATE 'STRONG' UNIONS PLEA A plea for trade unions to drop political objectives and to take on the role of the state in promoting industrial efficiency was made yesterday director of manpower and productivity at the Department of Employment.
Speaking to businessmen at an Industrial Society conference on Involvement at Work', he said that social justice was no longer the preoccupation of trade unions.
'What we need now are strong, politically independent, technical and protessionally competent trade unions,' he said.
'In short, they, should adopt the role which the state has had to take upon itself of acting as a pressure group and a catalyst for reform and modernization.' BY ROBERT BLACK Tories 'should Britain from the outrage'.
'his is, of course, the sam talinist policy that thousan of militant trade unionists are coming up against in the facand the mines 'pressure' on the Tories represent vague and undefined 'British interests'.
Consistent
The British Stalinists certainly consistent in counter-revolutionary policies. foreign policy, the Tory Party home torced mass pressure of the working class.
has note ts with the porking class A massive display of heavily-armed special riot police faced workers from the Alfa-Romeo motor plants in the Milan area last week. They had called a strike against Minister of State Participation a strat sa to destries hem. stake in Alfa-Romeo, and is certainly backing the refusal of management to carry out the overseas policy.
The history of Toryism is perialism. also There con bot thos the of British imITALIAN workers are aiming giant blows at the wobbling centre-left government. Milan metalworkers continue their campaign for satislutely no question this rains tressurined into taking factory plant contracts today with a mass demonstration in the on behalf of the city centre. peoples of Indo-China.
sector railwaymen will be on a national strike Stalinists tens hoterents the for 48 hours from sperkers. to just such a per- December 1. have fact thar progra Stale fos a further three-day stoppage before December 10. perialism and its imhitary Friday and Saturday, and machine. there are also to be national Cut the arms bill by hal stoppages OI nospital wors the stale slogan churned ou kers tomorrow and state by every Stalinist operator in agencies (on December 2). their so-called peace moveAkers are determined not According to this logic, be made sacrificial lambs Vixon only erred in bombin for the regime's attempts to N Vietnam for 24 hours in. solve Tole employers' ecostead of 12. Or perhaps the nomic crisis by cut-backs in size of bombs dropped should public spending. have been halved! not ot merican imperian and workers demonstrating asallist Minister 'eformed any more than can Piccoli were faced with its British counterpart. large and provocative force of armed riot police. (See • Chess game photo.)
DISINTEGRATE The Stalinist call for the Tories 'dissociate' from without, the centre-left co.
lition of Christian DemoItalian coalition on the rocks who was visiting the city's industrial fair. The state holding company, IRI, has a large terms of the national labour contract won over a year ago. In the nationalized the parliamentary debate on the government's 'décree'.
They will follow this with DEMAND Only the MPs of the 'Manifesto' group, recently Firemen al c to strike on expelled from the CP, will insist on their amendments being debated fully.
Whatever moves are afoot in the Socialist Party and among the Christian DemoIn all thése sections wor- crats to come to a full-scale 'understanding' with the Stalinists in the Rome parliament, the long-term policy of the employers was most clearly expressed at the national congress of Italy's largest fascist organization Last week Alfa-Romeo (the Italian Social Movement', MSI) held in Rome at the end of last week.
DEMOCRACY mentary democracy Parlia- 'We oppose leading MSI Senator De Marsanich, 'the corporatist Assailed by blows from