Workers Press no. 313

Postmen showing What we think Political strike gains support vill announce in the Load aire told reporters he first been he Post r one si the sochise Labour Toy so tamen today ca with line Pol eir cam- The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

NUMBER 313

GAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Miners accept offer, but From our Industrial correspondent THREE MAIN planks of the Tory government's Coal Industry Bill will be vigorously opposed by Britain's 292,000 miners.

Pay survey

BOUT

en pay coal Board's 42 93 6d.

ublished Nationa reacuons neworkers hostile yesterday. were However, the mood in the no lest pays, claim. 50 kea ments will ma end certainly pressed for House east three counts. £8 16s. Hived off By the Editor £1,250 Nov sectors of of thatina. Hied of te Appeal Fund: privale cuterprise. WHAT GROUNDS have the Stalinist-inspired rises to Liaison Committee now got for opposing a aegis. CHATAWAY OUT Ministry yeste these postmen outside the £952 14s 11d political strike against the Tories after yester- a wits the union s day's inspiring demonstration of postmen?

False the tal 551. 10 At the November 14 hole social cos raise ction, and not confureree and pher it the dust a part oract He ret the nce again go right over Stalinists have repeatedly

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Mounted for the inclusion refused discuss the subside not per

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Tor. Whilst an horns get proposal for a General Strike called by the TUC ARE growing fears among liberal

THERE

excluded from the Tory draft. Tories to Senators and Congressmen in Washington that Pre IN A MOOD of anti-Tory anger, postal workers yesterday staged resign. Nixon is considering an airborne invasion of wein 158239 Mi ballot leadership and demanded the guerrilla strikes in London noor of acceptanciners N Vietnam. resignation of Minister of Posts Christopher Chataway for his dis- 82,079 opposed the missal of Lord Hall. This follow despite witch tent sul as people vin La immediately to: Younding it. in contase lo wese remarkable political stop-

BI A WORKERO PHEDS

Let 23, Morning Star, Novem- war watere - Scotland, London, Sigh Street, pages by their members, same period ned in post office union leaders after an hour-long meeting North vas t40r majorities against. Chataway. mandine issued a back to work' added that eers call as the strike grew ah. Sane was BACK Hall in reached with Hanoi beyond a protest. Something for everyone at the YOUNG SOCIALISTS Such

GIANT XMAS BAZAAR

miners, their :15 Lord Hali within two Saturday November 28 Told the House Commons, so anagenreatened a national

DISCUSS

по Беста и Plashet School Committed ing out on strike. Ration Bied industra who tabled 1 Commons Plashet Grove could part • MP going strikes were held uld tole East Ham. • dict: bodi Vernam, las and Cam.

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Political The world lat secretary, ater they refused to re with Mints

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talks. force it can muster. 'UPW eastern ay when harold pon Moscow Radio distorts He said "Inis is a political December 8 mate of a policy changero- sacking.. postmen the in politi cal acts engaged Visit Aladdin

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Mr Taylor all thered to and his morkers do mistake, ly reas Tory between Surel outside industries, and the neticalize

DOORS OPEN

the swichboard to demon: costs to avoid

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said 'Hall is

Postmen showing What we think Political strike gains support THE SACKING of Lord Hall i reareacted! swiftly act political real If Lord Hall can • or his moment. oposed anti-unior * the workers in dismantle the Charter interview, page 4. The daily paper that leads the Tory government

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27, 1970

NUMBER 313

GAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

From our Industrial correspondent THREE MAIN planks of the Tory government's Coal Industry Bill will be vigorously opposed by Britain's 292,000 miners.

the is new Pay survey

ABOUT

300,000 han els a €3 pay offer. ordings pubtment to sue be patiend does hostile yesterday. disher certain to run much Norkers are were 2 125 the union 637T more than 617 14 carings or on If the Bill became law, Reat lie on pole on ai E8 los and 10 per cent under Hived off the way or mast of all pave By the Editor £1,250 Nov Appeal Fund: otto WHAT GROUNDS have the Stalinist-inspired rises to The union tavours extension Liaison Committee now got for opposing a regise nationalized industry s political strike against the Tories after yester- CHATAWAY OUT Ministry Jeste days the call of these postmen outside th £952 14s 11d Legislation based the day's inspiring demonstration of postmen?

present would that November (ne whole complete the confurence ani, azi it the Stalinists have repeatedly striker refused discuss the to ize both

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

for a General proposal station earned ira cos Strike called by the TUC

THERE

ARE

growing fears among liberal excluded Tories to Senators and Congressmen in Washington that _torce the IN A MOOD of anti-Tory anger, postal workers yesterday staged resign. Nixon is considering an airborne invasion of showing is 299 miss lot guerrilla strikes in London and the provinces and demanded the day by day favour of acceptance. Sponsors of such a proposal N Vietnam. resignation of Minister of Posts Christopher Chatawav tor his dis- missal of Lord Hall. PROFITS of ICI, Britain's integrated contrast to unese

PRESS

rounding it. (Sing Star, Nois

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CORNERS

186a Clapper High Street, remarkable polluical stop-

CORRESPONDENT

Walesce Solandwed pages by their members, ber 23, 1970)* same period last majorities against. Yet thousands post omce union leader. issued a 'back to work' cheers call as the strike grew • Hanoi in Edward beyond a protest. Something for everyone at the YOUNG SOCIALISTS that

THE TORIES!

Me 209,50-sr, ng Sinion i to and that Th Vietnam a indurat 5.

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I Minister rais • 20 га- Dar Del S mini-buggel, Saturday November 28 weeks. reeks of is prisoners or var.

TORY leader Edward Heath

DISCUSS

Plashet School Committed Rations Bined indull 21 Labor Are of their talks Plashet Grove great difices Commons MP would tolerate its armed forcera i victim, Laos and am East Ham on that by the dys sting one government did, he sation met Cata Mount, • Behind the cover of concern London heady postmed in political are a the entire duty s upost oded but preparing inse ian ok.

with the Tory government.

jeering post the streets around the build- tation the head the the dou Political secretary, in Later they refused to re- Christopher Chataway talks. yesterdays his Ministry orce in ataster. Tressed timent was Countis

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FIGHT

central edinesday when he told Pos Moscow Radio distorts Office workers: Hall's dismissal political sa This is a the December 8 matic of a policy change.

to Moscow If this heralds a new and scheduled for Visit Aladdin different future

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

the stop- for Defence and his insuppetrade una sod ot the business s agal pre al, said acon. tooth the conseratie ov Magic Lamp carms of the "The education and the nationalized

DOORS OPEN

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inaustries. all the ricks of ine attack Marshall, said, Mrs Eileen Toys — Bingo - Books - Raffles — Plants — Can-Can

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of

PAGE TWO

Construction workers arrive at San Francisco City Hall on top of a truck to demand more lobs and to protest againsi the growing unemployment in the construction trades.

SAN FRANCISCO DEMONSTRATION AGAINST UNEM

WHEN A SECTION of New York's construction FBI CHIEF J. Edgar Hoover's workers-the 'hardhats'—marched behind banners mania for 'security' has, it declaring support for Nixon's Indo-Chinese war and out of seems, got a litte beat up students demonstrating against the US inva- nana. Marviand Governor Marvil sion of Cambodia, the world's capitalist press glee- Mandel who can hardly 'subversive' fully hailed such backwardness as the true spirit of Hoover elastic the American worker. thinks his private hot line rrestaent Soon there began In San Francisco, these bar- though nes nor sure tappea, smashed down develop a regular cult of the by whom. Nixon united Governor Russell Paterson 'hardhat', the symbol of the Administration's Delaware patriotic, white, US worker, covered electronic device sust pics loyal to his flag and the wars Nixon, Buckley allached Aenew. and company finding fought beneath it. instrument enrective inal out, there are hardhats and hard- it even pıcks up conversation: in the Governor's office when hats. 'Hardhats' were presented to is to the hook. President NIxOn According red-baiting campaign TOr Ine the Washington Post', ot mid-term Congressional elec- SUll 30 other gover and similar mascots an estimated on other lead- nors nave similar phones that have been rigged for eaves- ers of US reaction. the British Ana Natul ally press ana television boosted is responsible who these demonstrations of affec- either, but adds: tion to the skies. 'Some think it must be the So the casual observer of ro. Others sav the ClAIs the most likely culprit.' The scene Could military coup is excused to thinking that in the offing in Maryland American building workers were all a very corrupt bunch But how ma have heard. seen anything 'hardhat' another demonstra- in suoport or Nixons wars. bul against unemployment? SUrrORI lor the detence On November more Farinas is now growing guan than 4,000 Mes beered to e considerably• beseiged struction workers Hall francisco City

LAST

MONTH'S sharp protest against the threat unexpected drop industrtal new. restric- 100S posed imprisonment sible like a cold tions on building in the area.

acted and a $10,000 of shower on those 'experts' who five charges alleging violation of wart and saadbed in te mid into the Selective Service Acts under nacopereudy been awalene which news that the recession was are conscripted slowing down dle of a Board of Supervisors' meeting, which nad previously taken a decision to limit the Inclue Al Evanor, Vice-Prest Farinas Committee heights of buildings along the natural beauty to its preserve lent of District 65 of the Blac ponucal circies. On November 18. the Fed- Panther Party; John Anderson, But when faced with this of eral Reserve Board announced former United residen Fleetwood October decline in output massive snow or sureneun, wey Automobile workers suspended any Detroit: Dell- decision Dave Chicago building heights for 90 days!

month-and only ture of ghe de minorestive impressive fea- figure is accounted for by the was Genera motors suike. ranks Now, the participation in incustrial output per cent below by many Negro and Mexican America's all-time high construcuon workers meeln or over Ju DeoDIE the advocates of The leadership ot the vew held at Columbia University was York 'hardhats' is notorious "protection' for the monopolies upport of for its racialism. ressed the point that this is no are lorcins une pace. sonally, but is aimed at all mit- aimed "these attacks are dividing the working class through and usin rep repression those fight the war and against the capitalist system, he said.

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ANDREI AMALRIK belongs to Union. He is an out-and-out i preservation of what he calls his encroachments of the bureaucrac life of the Soviet Union.

• The main essay in . this book makes a penetrating analysis cf the contradictions within the middle - class opposition to Stalinist rule.

On the one hand, it feels it.

has certain material privileges to other, defend, while on the intellectual, cultural and scientific activities are frustrated by what it sees as a stupid and short- sighted ruling caste. Hence its attempts to 'reform' the bureaucracy by gently applied pressure and strictly constitu- tional methods (which, as Amalrik himself knows, can still be converted by the whim of the secret police into 'anti-Soviet activity' punishable by law.

Impotence So, explains Amalrik, 'that of the "middle class" section which most clearly recognizes the need for democratic reforms is also the section that is most imbued with defensive the thought, "Well, there's nothing I can do anyway" or "You can't break down the wall by beating your head against it". In reaction to the power of the regime, it cult of practices its own impotence. (p. 17.) Yet although Amalrik castigates the 'middle class' for its refusal to come out firmly against the regime—-though it must be said that increasing number of an Soviet intellectuals are making a firm stand against its repres- sions—he, too, reflects their fears of any deep-going upheaval.

This became clear when he contrasts the attitude of the more privileged layers with that of the working class: 'Although at present workers represent conservative a more and passive group than scholars, I can easily imagine, some years from now, large-scale strikes in factories, but I cannot visualize a strike in any scientific research institute.' (p. 15.) But does Amalrik welcome the entry of the Soviet working class -the largest in the world--into the struggle against the bureau- cracy? After discussing the various economic factors that would stir the workers into action (low wages, high prices, bad housing, etc.) he goes on: '... discontent is now becom- ing louder, and some people are wonder beginning to who is actually to blame ... It is clear •. that a sharp slowdown, a halt or even a reversal in the improvement of the standard of living explosion of aaror mixed with would arouse never before violence, as were howhat Possibil is wring about ' (p. 31.)

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12.40 • belongs to no oppositional group in the Soviet ut-and-out individualist, concerned with the he calls his 'inner freedom' against the brutal e bureaucracy into the culture and intellectual - Amarik is the political revolution of the the Soviet Opposition. working class against the bureau- Here, the now-jailed writer is of the caste cracy, an overtorow arguing from a position of great that has for more than years strength, and he flays the anti- Stalin masqueraded, first under communist Kuznetsov and then his various proteges. as fully. of Lenin's the true inheritor his Cause. But this cannot political soure tremendous confusion, But we have already witnessed which finds him in another letter such explosion the Hun- an Creerin to be born from 'to be born in a small 1956, with garian revolution councils and pro- workers' with weapons in its hands, like gramme of socialist democracy to Biafra or Israel'. (p. 116.)

defend the nationalizations ear. bureaucratically ried through Hounded after the end of the war.

Nowhere does Amalrik declare Amalrik shudders such He writes fearfully of his political views clearly (unlike prospect. the destructive movement of the Daniel, Sin- the classes", will take and Solzhenitsyn for "inwar which yavsky the form of extremely damaging, instance) but the warmth of the irresponsible through violent and action man comes its members realize their page. OnCe immunity from punish- Te atIvA Here is a writer and historian, 39.) ment. hounded by the secret police because of his 'unorthodox' views, So alienated from both move- slandered in the West as a KGB ments, Amalrik has chosen the the agent (probably at instiga- path of passive resistance to the tion of the KGB itself who asks regime, a policy which he defends the Soviet only one thing most movingly in an 'Open Letter' regime-that it allow him the Stalinist hack-writer to right to express his thoughts on Anatoly Kuznetsov, who recently art and life without fear of arrest.

defected to the capitalist flesh- censorship and persecution.

'Sunday Telegraph'. of the pots He does not call for the re- Amalrik indicts Kuznetsov for in the of capitalism the KGB first collaborating with Soviet Union. (the Soviet secret police) in the In fact he demarcates himself of his books, and production West, hawking sharply from all Soviet defectors once safe in the himself around a leader of who have sold their often meagre as SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1971. Il a.m.

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Friday, November 27, 1970 wins site VIOLENT Prague Radio attack on a man accused of "Trotskyism' openly resurrects the methods political slander and racialist abuse employed in the Slansky trials.

After these trials in 1952, 11 Czechoslovak government officials charged with "rot.

A TWO-MONTH

struggle by skyism, Titoism and working were 5,000 building in attentivence workers hung and three others jailed.

Wales this week finally won the Taron day and Tuesdaackst of an official safety setting-up on Monday and Tuesday committee including representa- week, was the journalist thIs Stanislav Budin, who until tives of the men. 1969 was editor of the Union weekly of Journalists' The men - working on a 'Reporter'. petrochemi- British Petroleum Repeatedly the commentator cals plant construction site at laid stress on Budin's Jewish origins-Born Ben Sion Bath', Talbot— Baglan Bay, near Port the fact that he "left week after struck work last number with his parents Shloem and three of their were Rachel, and his fiancée injured on the same day. They Shannah, daughter of if a threatened further action Rumanian businessman'. not set by committee was up 'US work' Wednesday. Within hours of the deadline, He was accused of working the site management gave in -on Zionist orgasizations nanced

USA

"purely its previous refusal. "largest by American three see injured lim week bad stewards claim that Jewish capitalists, led by the notorious Bernard Baruch'.

to wait 40 minutes for an ambu- But the political essence of lance before they could be taken this diatribe was the repeated to hospital for treatment.

assertion that Budin is of "Lev Davidovich admirer Long wait Bronstein, known throughout world as and of "Trotskyist idols' Other injuries have also other such occurred on the site in the last as Isaac Deutscher. two montos. (Bronstein Trotsky's was original, Jewish, name used by Within one week in October, Stalin whip feeling two men were killed as a result against him in the most back- of falling their heads while ward Soviet scaffolding society; of writings while the other was being buried.

Deutscher, Isaac including Both were married with child-

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ren. Protest politics at an end

"THE ENEMY

Notes on Imperialism and Revolution' By Felix Greene Published by Jonathan Cape, London. 48s.

FELIX GREENE'S 'Notes on Imperialism and Revolution' is both a damning indictment of world capitalism and its effects on the colonial and semi- colonial countries and a personal record of one man's attempt to get to grips with the problem of fighting it.

BY JOHN SPENCER

Strongest when he is detailing - with often start- lingly graphic examples of 'A Wall has Two Sides' and 'Vietnam! Vietnam!' the ravages imperialism has Now he tries to work out on methods of wreaked, its his attitude to own babel operation and pursuit of pro- what imperialism and sents. He brings together a wide fit at the expense of human- of information about ity, Greene's book neverthe- • particularly modern capitalism in the United States—to less does not answer many dossier of imperialism's pile of the questions he set out inhuman rape of the world. to confront. He shows how US imperialism established its dominant posi- Indeed, the book reflects with decline of the old tion after the candour Greene's empires and how a tiny group of ence: a talented writer and film- will Us dered the free world in alle monopolists maker who was deeply shaken in world in the his political thinking by visiting interests of their own profit.

China in 1957 and who has since written enthusiastically about the He underscores the economic struggles strus ineSE A sia and in Cuba.

workers and peas- roots of the Indo-China war and shows how imperialism exploits the backward countries and the working class at home. Familiar But because Greene has no Greene will already be familiar worked-out of the concensor readers working class as the force which to many as are With articular knowledge of SE Asia and Cuba (above), Greer shows how such countries have en plandred in the intereste United States profits Powell symptomatic Greene: Hig book is place amongst Intell stablish s itr isesits own ımperlalls power, his boo is gravely flawec st There can -derte cascd by a5 ara yals of Salimism and Soiat At centre against bureau- oti entari shery of thie fight saline chind matter • hose ved to + . mes

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PRESS

Speaking during the com-

CORRESPONDENT

mittee stage of the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, deal- Commonwealth citizens,' he con- tinued. ing, among other things, with 'But obligations to our reco nice lour must recognize immigration and aliens legis- lation, Maudling emphasized These obligations 'must be that the Bill would only have safeguarded and protected from the social tensions which are a limited life. sadly (1) such feature of modern life in many parts of the 'It is really holding the world!' position until our new com-

POWELL

DOMINATED

prehensive Bill comes for- ward which will be based Dominating the debate, right- on our proposals in our elec- wing Tory Enoch Powell embroidered his usual demagogy tion manifesto' he said. further 'statistics' on the Witn immigrant "flood'. Maudling stated that such Bill would deal with penalties Working with figures previ- in for Birmingham, the field of illegal immigration ously given arrived and those making a profit out of had at the conclusion one-fifth illegal traffic in immigration.

that eventually of the population of the city would be 'We have also a fine tradition coloured. of liberality in the admission of Powell said he had to of con- aliens generally and not only fess that he was guilty of an error of judgment as whole of the most series grotesque been underestimates' had built into his calculation. 'When we talk about a Birm- ingham half-coloured in the early part of the next century we are not being entirely realistic because before that proportion is anywhere reached there will be an outflux of the indigenous pop- ulation which will push the pro- portion up even more still.

(Our emphasis.) "That is the future the people of Birmingham face. The pros- pect correspondig other towns and cities from inner Lon- don to the other and cities in the W Riding of York- snire.... "The truth must be told. The must tell the people government the truth. They have the right to know. They must know!

SHADOW-

BOXING

Neither before after this outburst a thinly reacuonary veiled plea for repatriation- -did 'opposition' the Labour go fur- ther than mere shadow-boxing.

In opening the debate, Labour Home Office spokesman Merlyn Rees made 1t clear that some 'control was necessary. 'What matters more and more the but is not the new arrivals, from, say, the W Mid- movement lands Slough or vice versa. There is, for example, the search for marginally higher pay and what matters is the internal movement of those already here' In other words-not so much control immigration control as of immigrants! the Tories' Having accepted basic arguments, the remainder of debate became the yet of Important changes taking another public relations exercise ce amongst Intellectuals for Powellism. Said Shadow Home Secretary Callaghan: 'Mr national will only become a revo- Jim Powell is an there honourable I do not wish lutionary when Ginate myriad of such small to be personally offensive to him.

exists for and dedicated which have every respect his

LOUDS

intellect and capacity to see these individually insig- may appear nificant'. things.'

HEART

Honest

AND GUTS

Greene's book does • not Dro• It clear that this vide a programme for overturn- the of many of the opinion ing the highly centralized rule of Tories. imperialism he describes in it.

Ilford N MP Tom Ironmonger But it honest represents Powell said that 'is speaking in attempt to grapple with the poli- this house for the feeling, heart tical problems posed by the and guts of the people in this break-up of protest politics country- -right or wrong—in the impact under of imperial- way others are afraid to speak...

'I would like to legisla- see 'The Enemy' is symptomatic of tion would such absolutely in important changes not only stop immigration permanently Greene's but thinking, owin among a number of intellectuals The course of the debate made who have tried various forms of crystal that there will be clear Tory gov- protest politics, but have no opposition to the radical. begun to recognize their inade- ernment's immigration attacks from the opposition benches.

quacies. Only a few weeks ago, from Regis his Bolivian cell, Hara-kiri Debray reacted strongly when he Palestinian guerrillas were heard his books as revolutionary manuals. He now recognizes, he told a visiting journalist, that pre- vious writings were inadequate.

Greene, too, is clearly dis-

ULTRA-RIGHT

wing author illusioned the conceptions with Yukio Mishima ritually disem- of New Left radicalism. himself bowelled in 'hara-kiri' inside Toyko fashion Imperialism itself, as it enters and headquarters on Wednesday. economic inTO is social crisis, opening many His suicide was intended as a the protest against of military weakening influence There are abundant grounds in Japanese life and against poli- for confidence that the principles tical corruption. of Marxist philosophy can answer the questions which 'The Enemy' The 45-year-old writer had leaves in the air, and which are led an attack on the previously the key in the fight headquarters sword- questions by his against imperialism. waving followers, taking its com- CITY MAGNATES eagerly wetting their lips at the pros- pect of juicy pickings when the Tories start breaking up the nationalized industries will have their appetites raised even higher by an article in this month's 'Steel News'. For Liverpool University eco- nomist Richard Pryke shows how productivity and performance in the coal, air, electricity and rail industries has risen dramatically since nationalization, compating favourably with other European countries.

BEA-BOAC,

for example, increased passenger-miles per man-year by an annual 9.8 per cent average-putting it fourth in the table of major world air- lines, and comparing favourably with Pan Am (8.8 per cent), Air France (7.6) and Sabena (4.2).

Rises Coal and electricity supply are also near the top of the inter ational ductive le predi producti- vity rises each year in electri- city and 5.9 per cent annual rises in coal tonnage per man- hour. Only mines German coal chieved a higher sustained pr ductivity rise over the perio from 1958-1969. Student boycott closes Madrid colleges CLASSES at nearly all Madrid University Technical Schools are now closed, following a student boycott during the past fortnight to back demands for education reforms. Some 20,000 students in eight schools are affected and it is not known when classes will | be resumed. Students strongly oppose a plan increase the present five- to year engineering course to six years and are demanding a greater say in running : the schools, which are under the control of the Polytechnic Institute. Police arrested several, students on Wednesday they when broke up groups of technical students who tried to stage marches in the city. Police charge In Barcelona, a group of law and economics students trying to stop traffic were dispersed by a police charge. At Madrid University, a week- long boycott of classes in the law faculty by students demanding the dean's resigna- tion entered its fifth day and students physics are attending classes. We want the right to assemble without the police using clubs o prevent us, said a physics student. Students also boycotted classes in many other of the university's faculties. Civil rights march to go ahead CIVIL rights supporters in N Ireland have said that a march through Enniskillen planned for tomorrow will go ahead despite pleas of the military and former premier Lord Brookeborough. : Local Paisleyites have threat- ened to attack the march.

The Social-Democratic and Labour Party, headed by Gerard Fitt, said yesterday it would boy- cott the march, called to protest and lack against corruption of democracy in local government.

anese author mander hostage and addressing more than 2,000 soldiers on the evils of left-wing student activi- ties in Japan. Then with a cry of Long live the Emperor, he slashed his stomach open with his sword.

Another of his group (the "Association of Shields') followed suit before police could inter- vene and arrest the three remain- inua members of his 'kamikaze'

PAGE THREE

BY A WORKERS PRESS

No the Tories and wonder

REPORTER

big-business friends their are getting excited the at prospect of up such a carefully- sucing British arenual productivity rise Compared average prepared cake. of 4 per cent-well down at the the international bottom Island table--these nationalized indus- tries compare very favourably in capitalist terms with their over- seas counterparts. sank Pryke is at a loss to explain these productivity figures, though he tries a number of alternative explanations. The rise, favourable not due says, condi- to especially industries tions, were the nor especially backward compared with their overseas equivalents.

He himself clearly favours claims nationalization and the figures show 'there is no inherent

WHILE

CASUALTY

figures in reies should not make rapid pro- nationalized indus- the E Pakistan cyclone disaster continue to mount, it has been gress'. that all 125 of the reported inhabitants of the tiny Katakian This is certainly true: central- Grande island, 80 miles from ized planning and the elimina- Manila, capital of the Philippines, tion ownership have Cot private were drowned last week when clearly played a major part in the the island was submerged at the advances these industries have height of Typhoon Patsy. made. The islet, a few miles off the eastern coast of the Philippines Success story capital island of Luzon, is reported to be still under water.

The typhoon, with 125 But there is little doubt that mph winds at there far down-to- its centre, swung ROTe earth reasons for this capitalist through Manila outlying and provinces causing extensive dam- which the Tories hand back to pri- now want to the death Reports state that vate enterprise. toll in Manila and the surround- The first reason for the drama- ing district has reached 173, but tic productivity rise is that, cer- no report has yet been received tainly the on railways, in the from Quezon province, which was mines and in the power industry, also severely hit. the number of workers has been Satellites slashed to the bone in a series of pit closures and redundancies Huge death tolls from storms unparalleled almost in other nature remain of this the 'way industries. of life' of the in many areas The second reason is the net- world, despite the fact that work of class-collaboration estab- weather satellites have been in lished with union leaders' conni- orbit for some years. Pakistan disaster, it vance these industries In the E after nationalization. has been revealed that American satellite pictures showed the This has allowed the nation- growth and course of the cyclone alized industry boards a smooth some days before it struck the run for many years in industries coast. like mining. i where wages fell Nevertheless, no action was back from near the top to near taken to warn the population the bottom of the wages league, and to emergency operate an while manning levels were syste- rescue system that had been set matically slashed. up previously.

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attack on Trotsky

• FROM PAGE THREE

ro insit trossin. writings b of Trotsk! Revolution Betrayed stamp into tor the histo Ism and Slander. London rents up by 30s over three years eo cop by 2e 197xt year. an altonal 6. After the thousands or en te pay

WEATHER

in the afternoon to give some sunny periods. mainly patches of hi and cal inland and NOreland at che sunny plinds Temperatuith Public Meeting

THURSDAY,

DECEMBER 3

7.30 p.m. The fight for workers' rights Helen ar (National Secretary of suL

ALL TRADES

UNIONS ALLIANCE

MEETINGS

Dices the or basic draft of sable RAFU House 988 Dan I Am. Sen Min, Bro: Mon Co-op Hall. Actor And Tuesday, Tecerber 15. 8 b.m!

Music Hall.

LATE NEWS

UC MOVES IN O

Glasgow verk-old pay stoppage yester- meters the hope of

APPEAL KEFUSED

LSE

For Hoch lecturer Paul appea decoratie, to ard chief cademie world! nave id that spirit the Torie beichen 1 80 to this or that: this hi what The working class now have Postmen

FROM PAGE ONE

whole strategy nonsense of the сто ів алу 'от! industrial Com mittee ay tale they were wain avern were nd against political action.

The a rese dies reformist feelingostmen's outhed protest. instead i line der to are the contined ton of •Star cou that this anti-Tory the miners strike they restrin amber 8 will s into

CORRECTION

in Tune 1968 and posed last May and Hi Th W Germany inflation Mir Be neat, • PO had mplied that thot w Germany which had not been implied.

WORKERS PRESS

of militant council workers lead a bitter THE DETERMINED and tenacious unceasing struggle against the Tory strike of the council workers set an authority who employed fleets of scab example to the whole of the working drivers to clear refuse and break the class. strike. They fought for and won a substantial Weeks after the council workers have returned nationally the Kensington men pay increase, opened a breach in the Tory wages policy and endangered the are still in dispute - working to rule because the council refuses to make the Heath government. necessary bonus payments for clearing The guiding hand behind their strike in the London areà was the rank-and- the back-log of rubbish. file council workers' liaison committee We talked to Tony about the Draft Charter of Basic Rights to be presented chaired by Kensington and Chelsea to the December 19 All Trades Unions dustman Tony Sweeney. In his own borough Tony and a group Alliance conference. what ser where he to move into battle and fight it should be what the whole settle his colour, struggle is about. every- government witn all the There no Thing ther nave means unions Lalic the means one counci thing the stake must baner rogerner one weapon— or to be more precise fighting workers and l'll why. torce soilts. ten you think you could get a tremen- he coloured laos were OlI rest onse from on the picket ines ever dat Strike When car general worker forward during the strike and not once I don't mean a oné-day protest policy with this did I see a coloured scab. I mean coming out for as long though there plenty workers showed as possible we win. council the and Wdl mcal you right 1 agree with blokes Finally, boastful when l say that don't just make the Tories sit sliding scale wages we won a but force them very im- especially pensions 1s the tace outricot would resign. opposition. portant. I have nevel

SCCI

• resignation of this If we can do it, so can all this in ant other • procramme mate aim of the tight ment should the workers. I was proud to and I support it to the nilt.

agaınsi sonion along de the men in There are men and womer fought fought, who fought their lives through ine ann-union laws- only the pat class be the rst and roremost all fought until they had money of various like bit only of you Charter I sayıng ine upright Ever about workers control. are all run worker has the ablty never cave In Now these people have his tactory or work-place You might laugh, but in my live on pensions because uner depot there is sweeper never earned anything. They should never he tor hour and reads gotten by us and I will never an And there is Only the most ignorant people the demand for a General them Strike think workers have no capa to force the Tories fight now for tremendous popularity. acquire The right of a worker to go inese macnts. why they sunntess any mention of the postmen's demands and attack Trot- skyists as i Follow The Workers Press cate- gorically links with West fraud against the working class.

urge workers We follow example of the

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

making their leaders fight union CHINA announced yesterday that it will provide ment the demand: called Strike Rumania with a long-term interest-free loan.

force une lores to resen The agreement, signed in Peking yesterday bJ vice prime ministers Li Hsien-Nien and Gheorghe Radulescu was designed to 'further strengthen the triendshin between

FROM PAGE ONE

some DOStal workers peonle of China and Rumania the early stonned work in and develop relations of turn until two men wore. hours of the morning. in the building came out on Birmingham's head

DOSL

mutual economic help and strike. A mass meeting of West very m doubt if we co-operation'. East post have seen the last of this Since 1964, the Rumanian passed a resolu- Stalinist the

WALK-OUT

bureaucrac Has demanding Hai. declined take sides instatement Lora 400 telephonist the China over resignation conflict. walked out for and Van drivers WhO Carri an nour mail trom London stations stopped all cas to ine city s ne regime has maintained also joined in the stoppage.

excellent economic and diplo- main exchange Post Off three matic links with Peking.

NEWCASTLE UPON

said that the especially since Kremlin

TYNE

tereonone entineers old Ken. Czechoslovakia in Staged two-pour token August 1968. and stoppage and in •kancashite Belgrove- -were all affected. 100 PRESTON telephonists

HOST

Strikes begar walked out for minutes Mondav night continued in and 2,000

MANCHESTER

centres manu provincial was also yesterday. stopped European state to play host postal

BIRMINGHAM

work to hold a meeting. received American President. only one mail delivery after

GLASGOW

there in the summer workers new were dealing with a backlog by mail walk- Rumania well to the

PIB

Caused Was Stalinist out

CARDIFF

Monday establishing nient and Tore 150 about diniomatic inks with the Franco regime in Spain. nostmen. sorters and ce men one- avery Staged there- go-ahead agreement and-a-half-hour strike during fore consolidates still further the morning. the Chinese bureaucracy's link

ABERDEEN

about with extreme right-wing 600 stopped for for fares Stalipist hours and the city's second regime Sus

IN LINE

pended. increase …oncest stompare reis in lice with Peking's occurred in the Midlands current improved dipl developing counter diplomatic, struck hours

BY A WORKERS PRESS

«tot for with and closed the economic ties

DOST

REPORTER

The on world-a turn thai Impenansi five gone name in pane meet the Minis- the haudation of the cuitura

THE

Prices and Incomes culcu is lo Revolution' and rectoration on wecember c Board launches an attack on party bureaucrats Ministry several I esterdar removed 1966 by the the tube and bus workers' statement claimed that there Red Guard movement. fight for higher wages, and harneen major policy disagreement between Chat- Despite its verbal attacks recommends further cuts in away and Lord Hall. on Soviet policies of collabora staffing It added that his decision with

ITS

reDOrT to fire Hall Ho poicy gulsions Chinese bureaucracy also seek 'London Transport Fares' pub- the make relationship Ished yesterday. telecommunica- : maior capitalist power!

the UPW pay The report recommends that Rumanian nas the 'in future when fare increases to nar Claim or superannua- part this strategy. ton schemes are inevitable decause ware WhiCh ex- ceed increases in nroductivity the two should be announced "n the nast tne connection hetween. staft costs and fares has alwavs been obvious public, the Board says. is it also states that there Tory MP

POLITICAL

'every reason for having ser- Enoch Powell's demagogic vices operated by fewer

COMMENTARY

attack Wednesday immigrant better pianial not By John Spencer debate provides persisten statt shortages!

Hicals the reactionary foil for Home decreat DrO. The Board scis escape The third leg is sunnlied 'no nosals introduce wOrk for the unpalatable alterna- major step to- voucherc_g hy shoni shadow minister tives successive direction of immi- Tames Callaghan — himself warric fare general labour to be an advocate Claims to be increases the nounced over the next few selective, ( down 'standing up elimination ol rights une less Powell's throws into relief the Bonat wild foreigners in this or ar munerative services coun for crease nnancial • sunDort Callaghan's the l.in trom rates or taxes. DarLIS Character covert. Front.

LOTT

government ment betore the eection unpopular "the bench are ane The legislative rises: fare present Is basic tube nan their attacke Conte worr Pawelc in attacks with its Immigration working class using «Powel Arrow were justi- as a front-runner for antl- Acts and its refusal to admlt fied, the Board concludes. Asian holders Tony Sweeney Enemies trying to smash us -Tito

PRESIDENT

TITO

warned party workers that certain un Hamica sillasi Yugoslavia "internal quarrels. said pee haves many, : added, devil from t side trying to harm us not only against imperialism.

DEVALUATION

Tito also confirmed recen situation'. p, class has forced som has Ase mobers E irising lanning bodies have called Ret tons on eyes

NATIONALISTS

Yugoslavia's six provinces.

Two weeks tion lists, 1 sentenced for distributine the last warhe Nazis problems ing to a head, anc Area of it r tether hinter Jets bomb Malaysian guerrillas rained 8,000 b of bombs ants yesterday. Sar wak guerrilla hideouts. Deputyph malaysian used in indonesian island of Bornen accus every Powell ocreating like along the road to dictator- • See debate report page 3.

Friday, November 27, 1970 50,000 paralyse Milan

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

PRESIDENT NIXON removed from office his Secretary of the Interior, Walter Hickel, last A MASS march of 50,000 Wednesday night. strikers from 120 factories in Hickel, former Governor of anel arroune villan paralysea tela taken into the originte the city yesterday. Invaders Lealll lakcI Nixon strikers mainly nouse in anuary metalworkers demanding the linked level of Oniv hours belore his tactory dismissal, Hickel appeared on Nallonal la boul contact and announced that sined a year axo. in face face with They Nixon joined bj tyre him work national lae der codinaca to acay' Hickel who earlier the Guinea this year • a selle. Meanwhile major Pres cen Sald to son vas general that poncy and Vietnam, and the ignor- strike called demand protest, was group problems of con- leading breach SolulIOn Causet October 8. fidence between Dy nooas new economic tration and the youth of the FOR the first time since the tor policy. seaborne invasion attempt Hallull Sunday, Guinea's This letter was 'leaked' In Rome the secretaries of Radio yesterday the natona remen's unions The mme causine consacrabit ort any fighting in confirmed November 27 strike call for discomiort on tne part or tne and 28. President. or aroune une cavital, But did advise broadcasts population the reman vigilant, warning the that was work not only Guinea, also very heart of the revolu.

tion'. mission so thr This ad- by the Touré regime that Portuguese.

backea invaders are nukee to a group inside the country.

Casualty figures tor alseignave also gave casualty figures dere kiled and another cire fighting injured

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Lisbon officials' Despile predictable denials. PREPARING the ground for the forthcoming Towares involvement in the invasion 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the The Touré regime has giver considerable Soviet Union, Monday's edition of 'Pravda' de- fighters in neigh bouring livered a well-weighed warning against 'bourgeois ideology' and its 'left and right revisionism'.

would bec secous set-back for the guerrillas.

The Congress is intended to platform be who any wallille gIve Lempleu lu sympathy to the oppositioness ano persecutea Dy sune Stalinist bureaucracy. from a central com- mittee resolution the Pravda' writer specifically referred Second Annual world-famous 'Lebedev' Institute of Physics. Conference One the reacing scien tists there is Andrei Sacharov, who earlier this month estab- •Committe for the Discuss Defence of Human Rights'.

THE CHARTER OF

With him 1s nis ciose asso winner of a prize widely ely sovis-

BASIC RIGHTS

the "father' atomic physics. 'Intransigence' The right to a job, to strike and In 'Pravda's' warning there organize, to retain gains made, that all y ont to fair prices, to welfare benefits denveratel promotes laeds opposea to the stalinists, but 'greater intransi- calis

TOT

and to decent housing. towards the ideological communism and revisionism'.

Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to There should 'not "the force the Tories to resign.

shadow clarity ideological positions

BIRMINGHAM

Is al slanc. Reassuringly it adds: Sat. December 19 'Certainly, developed ocialist society there diffusion of ase tor the Digbeth Civic Hall, lucas. our on une ouner sand.

"The dangers be Cannol taken lightly' Digbeth 10.30. am And for those who Illay reverenus wonderne wny not. the writer continues For delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s ideological Decause the to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, vants of to the refined Styvechale, Coventry. poison minds workers, helped this by the left and revisionists • • aerorm

A WORKERS PRESS PAMPHLET

Marxism-Leninism'. For 'Pravda's' resident 'Marxists' theretore. than their own other explained fiendishly nations or mone seidants 'the servants by BERNARD FRANKS of capitalism', Mystical But such mystical logic con- Ceais a redi unreal "Pravda' takes scientists and cautiously intellectuas task now, not because it has for them attack becaus forth Mensure opposition in the Soviet Union spoil ana relatons wild sorts or moeran ane acadenic But ior those who persist in opposing the Stalinist regime the threat of being locked and has lunatic as already happened to dozens of measure The resistan class and the intethe growing. resistance world-famous and intellectuals, whose alents comfortable life, works and how to fld derence of choose take DOSILIOnS

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