Opposition group revealed in

speed-up The Bill is going to summon very • big opposition from the shop floor: it will be a big clash.

I sometimes wish it had never happened, but now it has the workers haven't got any other option but to fight it.

The demonstration on December 8 should also be against the TUC and the top union leadership—to show them that workers are demonstrating for them to come out and lead us.

If the capitalist system is going to work as the Tories are trying to make it work —by keeping the workers down and taking them back 50 years-then I am completely opposed to it.

The only best way, 1 would say, to implement the Charter is to bring in a socialist government, not of the calibre of Wilson, but a real socialist one. That is the only way I know of. JOINT negotiating and pay proposals provisionally agreed between the General and Municipal Workers' Union and the Pilkington glass monopoly are to be circulated to union branch officials and stewards next week.

Rank - and - file committee leaders warned yesterday they will need careful study before changes are made.

The 200 sacked Pilkington workers are continuing their fight for reinstatement, almost six months after they were victimized by the company for going on strike.

Committee secretary John Potter tells me the victimized men are in good spirits, but need financial support to keep up their principled campaign.

In particular they want funds to provide a slap-up Christmas party for the sacked men's children.

Donations should be forwarded to:

Pilkington Rank and File Committee, 10 Greenfield Rd, St Helens, Lancashire. SO PROFOUND is the crisis of world Stalinism forced its way through the bureaucratic facad current Hungarian Party Congress.

While the report of Secretary Janos Kadar and the greetings of fraternal delegates emphasized the economic successes of the regime and stressed the great opportunities for all-European collaboration opened up by the recent treaties signed by Poland and the Soviet Union with West Germany, another speech slipped by almost unnoticed by the capitalist and Stalinist press.

On Monday, the Central Control Commission report, lealing with Party discipline vas read to the Congress b Janos Brutyo.

It admitted that within the Party, there exists an organized group working against the policies of its present leadership.

Naturally, we are told very little about the group's policies. But this much can be deduced from the report: it is opposed to the occupation of Czechoslovakia.

SHAKEN

'... During the last four years there were political events which put to the test the firmness of principle, Party loyalty and moral courage of Communists ... there were Party members whose loyalty was shaken and did not abide by Party decisions in a disciplined manner.

'What is more, there were also people who openly or covertly turned against our policy and attacked the Party's policy.

The clear-sightedness of certain Party members was blurred and disturbed by the difficulties and contradictions which appeared in the international communist and labour movement.' The most vehement oppon nts of the invasion were i fact expelled:

It is above all those Party members who weaken .the ideological, political and action. unity of the Party, who indulge in factions antiParty activity who are harming our cause.

'We condemn most sternly and inflict rigorous Party punishment on those who display this attitude. We have taken action lie, expulsion] in such cases against hardly more than 200 Party members.' mesing damage at membership So it seems that despite all its propaganda resources and weapons of intimidation, opponents of the regime find the courage to speak up inside Party meetings, and more than hold their own against apologists for the official line. These members too therefore have to be dealt with:

•... every Party member can expound his views at any Party forum even if these more or less deviate from the Party's policy line.

'Nevertheless, such views must immediately be challenged and rejected thi obviously has not been hap pening] • if someone repeatedly adopts an attitude contrary to Party policy and adheres to his views, then disciplinary action must be invoked.' EXPELLED In fact, as the report reveals, 20,000 members - 2.9 per cent of total Party membership-'had to be called to book', with more than 5,000 of these finally being expelled. • Of course, the crisis is much deeper and more extensive All Trades Unicond Alliapce Conference THE CHARTER OF BASIC RIGHTS The right to a job, to strike and organize, to retain gains made, to fair prices, to welfare benefits and to decent housing.

Defend and maintain these rights in a fight today, it has even presented at the than admitted in the report.

The simple fact that such things have to be revealed before Brezhnev, Gomulka and company, indicates the extent of opposition to the regime's policies.

In November 1956, the Hungarian workers' revolt against the bureaucracy was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks.

Nearly 12 years later, the Red Army swept into Czechoslovakia on another counterrevolutionary mission, only this time backed up by units of the Hungarian army..

COMMITTED

The Kremlin made sure its wretched Stalinist hirelings in Budapest were fully committed to the repressive policies of their masters.

But in the Party ranks, and amongst Hungarians generally, the role of the Kadar regime in the rape of Czechoslovakia stirred up a deep hatred for the bureaucracy.

They recalled only too clearly the crushing of their own movement against bureaucracy in 1956. And it is the spectre of the Hungarian Revolution which haunts the Budapest Party Congress this econa Annua force the Tories to resign.