Workers Press no. 330

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1970 • NUMBER 330 PRICE 6d. THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE £1,250 Dec. Arafat As housewives march against price rises Appeal Fund

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BY ROBERT BLACK

i Ladshar Moused Sinter trade Mer Babi SINGING the 'Internationale', the anthem of revolutionary communism, thousands of Polish • Bo handed o govrafatent. handed are to be pande shipyard workers streamed off their jobs in the life was save. paradoxically, by troop Baltic port of Gdansk to swell the strike wave that now promises to engulf the whole country.

loyal collaboration. Be spearse mice -may soon

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outside the Consulate in Gdansk. Ted by police rall waist brutally anti-union carson. Reassured that • luesday towns, villages opposition Dece populated unless Gomulk: law debate permits Cocal sure

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amount of parliamentary protest will make the SIMILAR drastic moves hav slightest difference to the Tory determination miliamen to shackle the unions. oration dharman Lord Ca intered od cified Railmen have lodged a 25 per cent wage claim.

civilians killed NoIsy benches did i was swelled by abstentions It blamed the la shaimin Boyer menate capital plans the No disruption Sacked glassmen for and May "due maintained heir stand sterday

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the Re with Curfew ings on LEADERS of the 250 Pilkington workers who can't rotest anaist ts were sacked in St Helens in August say that aanuary, red tor Protest ogtie Brean's appeals were to resume issue next the General and Municipal Workers' Union is sal at - rade obstructing their chances of being re-employed Snowdonia National Pack chiet families. from Wilhelm Raetz of transpor Mid-East th by the company. miner ee Mination vessel meetings of forces which exis of duringkinch breaks read to won get jobs er it has confined itse insteac -was defeated worke Council. the ques- leave,' harold wilson com-

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since 1967. they can he he the tories wil for are and rate Pried spirit of tsprochemen" booster 1 yes real All Trades accepted. 5224 ra to the adviser Unions Alliance Christmas and Ne on the working Second Annual sevives and students as cide so trade French workers e irrat and which n defeat this Bill and for dundancy at the refused Conference Split join trial Ms Cats he Electricine eatin protest in toelen advertise vacanc Somulka March Discuss and Coral wone a poo workerse studens it off dir station.

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plight of the St Helens tions where Done nothing working

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NO RECOGNITION

Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to force the Tories to resign.

OF FRANCO REGIME!

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favours Productivity Demonstrate selvess were fold a Fort Benning, Coral off over the last year Secretary

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Cos commandi Sat. December 19 Sunday Dec 20 said that he attempt to ten til any big and every in Digbeth Civic Hall, Behan 'shot at' claim mble 2.30 p.m. Trat milage before inder superior orders. re. March to the Sp 'the Digbeth 10.30. am Union a i Private William Gonzale In brian benan, woose letter to ine imes ou monda the late General delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s praised the Bonapartist dictatorship of ror the did no hang to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, de Gaulle, complained yesterday that ne nad been shot al or mom, on march t, 1568. Styvechale, Coventry the dav after the publication of his letter. The police he said, 'are working very hard to try and sort it all out

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1970 @ NUMBER 330 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE E1,250 Dec. As housewives march against price rises Arafat Appeal Fund

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Higher Arab Somn i Cementin SINGING the 'Internationale', the anthem of hat the sate tim manes be ree fornia. revolutionary communism, thousands of Polish Nigerian shipyard workers streamed oft their jobs in the Baltic port of Gdansk to swell the strike wave Arafat's loyal collaborationon that now promises to engulf the whole country.

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outside the Swedish Consulate in Gdansk. It was the Labour govern ment-sponsored anti-union on i come from reas Then marched the is seekend the lores are mov law debate ing swiftl sume vas cha and pot by tea AFTER Tuesday's debate on the Industrial

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clashes on nauty vate capital into to the No disruption Sacked glassmen Gunter and Mayhew.

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maintained i against Curfew O holdin drive restore -time 12. nes on anuar LEADERS of the 250 Pilkington workers who he Trades the whole region can't A curen ance 6 p.m. Pony an uni were sacked in St Helens in August say that leaders an are in hates out ima as teals and Municipal Workers' Union is hogtie tain's ten the General resume work intentior yesterday's obstructing their chances of being re-employed National Park-for Wilhelm capta Ger Hovaldn Majority get jobs demonstrating So leg as the Tones enron completely not to could con Haro d Wison cooperate bites and t

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

sayıng with mitary and

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employers agreed! to be taken back and lose all iously consi * mion in Torms wit coland is ac sue movemel All Trades ine Squar accepted. Bors on this sue. reed to hold Marh 18, i ring us Unions Alliance est le more than three month's timel i has already it he ma ment Second Annual nestives and sordens French workers Conference join trial Split told Workers Board for no specific reason. Press protest shoe not to poet in Com a tin IS Helens Approach Yet the Board continues t told Discuss willing MILLIONS of workers all and Genes Workers i dera butt split of demonstrating students

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nationalists at the pright of the Spain Done nothing

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has done no ehg and dunior fused to load so spanish The right to a job, to strike and Spanish shippint appear added Mr Ca any dise he opened con ar 'Kill anything and Alidritt, countries will inmease gains made, he said, had hande organize, to retain membership per to fair prices, to welfare benefits -join the unior Lean ission

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everything that grows and to decent housing. Victers Wolishe ring

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yesterday. Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to

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core and la per en r - Calley court martial force the Tories to resign.

OF FRANCO REGIME!

work with nothing gained.

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Sunday Dec 20 before the raid. All sses so Digbeth Civic Hall, Behan 'shot at' claim Sauerb arch to the Spaniar Assemble 2.30 Trafalgar under superior orders. Digbeth 10.30. am Mali responsibly toes to Mir brian behan. wrose etter to lne limes on Monda praised the Bonapartist dictatorship of the late General For delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s Bill • 1255 de Gaulle, complained yesterday that he had been shot at of -m cos in the tiger to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, repealed next man, on Marci murder macthe imperial. Styvechale, Coventry. te day aner tae pubncalon * The TUC leaders share every said. "are working verv hard to try and sort it all out.

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at first IT contradictory to glance speak of the 'accidental' the 'chance or occur- rence' being subject to law. each throw will yield numeric- ally-that very sensitive to the way it is released—a pattern Last week, we indicated the emerges. way in which the chance con- After 600 throws, we will find tingency is a part of the way that each of the numbers from to 6 appears approximately things are—a necessary aspect 100 times, providing the dice is of material processes.. a cube of uniform material.

Of course. each number won't But what by we mean 100 appear exactly times. We chance or a term which is often 103. the obtain sequence -'prob- used 101, 96, 98; 103, 99, which totals ability'? 600. If we assess 'error' by Here we have to discriminate paring each deviation to 100, we between different two types of get errors of a tew per cent. statement which can be made.

If we increase the number of The It will prob- accer on throws to, say, six million, then ably rain tomorrow' is an exam- the errors will be smaller. subjective probability. IS perhaps more a guess than any We therefore, speak can, kind of scientific judgement. objectively of a probability of that the of result We may note a certain damp- one-sixTh single throw will be six (or in the air or particular ness three, four or five for one, two. cloud formation which leads us that matter!). to make with Con Dansor similar conditions previously pre- Our orginal statement was an vailing. objective statement. From such considerations Ignorance emerge laws of probability, which are quite separate from the laws of mechanics which govern the However, position to control and repeat all motion of a dice. conditions which rise Of course, given all the infor- to rain on the previous occasion.

the position and manion motion hand of the throwers' In this case our statement that and the constitution of dice and will 'probably' indicates rain table, we could say exactly what incomplete knowledge or ignor- the result would be, however of material certain

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this is not necessary, particularly cesses. when we are dealing with large different kind Of is the numbers of chance events. 'If I throw this dice, statement: it will probably not come up six.

To clarify this point, let us leave what is a relatively simple In this case, ignorance doesn't dynamics problem and consider into the probability enter con- another chance occurrence-a throw If we continue to cept. car accident. the dice we find that, although cannot say in advance what the collision we Between

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THE FRENCH conquest of Africa ran parallel to its conquests in Asia. Seneral were Individual conquests backed by vast •con- quests and the individual oppres- sion was backed by a massive colonial empire. French slavery in Senegal and Gambia was followed by the seizure of Senegal in 1840, Dakar's present site in 1857, colonial against wars Algeria (1830-1847), Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt, Morocco plus annex- ations of Gabon (1888), Dahomey (1893), Madagascar (1885), Abangi Shari (later the Central African Republic) in 1888 and other areas of Africa. At the time France same invaded China (1844, 1857 and 1885), Cochin-China (1862, 1867), Tonkin (1882), Annam (1883) and Siam (1893). When Chad was overrun in 1913, Mauretania in 1903 as well as Niger, Mali (former French Soudan), the Ivory Coast, Came- roons, French Congo and the old slave-hunting base, Guinea, France had already built up an armoury of military, social and ideological weapons which it used to mow down the resistance of the people of W and Equa- torial Africa. France grabbed some 1.6 mil- lion square miles of land and subjected some 15 million people before the First World War saw the approximate end of the main process.of conquest. 'Pacification' A period of 'pacification' followed and in this process divide and rule became a major French strategy everywhere.

France used Fullas, In Guinea, Malinke and Soussou tribal and proto-feudal chiefs as agencies of divide and rule and of indirect rule and, at the same time, con- crusade against ducted a the Islamic faith. All the experience of Faie- herbe, De Brazza and later Dela- foent into this murderous policy, Lyautey and Deschamps carried out by French military groups through indirect rule agents. These divisions and forms of rule were carried over into the independent states of ex-French W Africa, including Guinea.

The resisting chiefs were executed or deposed, whole tribes were dispossessed, broken up and dispersed. Customary law was used to introduce a system of judicial apartheid-French workers and settlers introduced a colour bar into the towns they occupied; missionaries took charge of edu- cation (indoctrination). The dispossessed were forced into conscription, forced labour.

cars, there is clearly an enorm- ous number of factors involved in deciding where and when such an event takes place and a small change in any of them could greatly alter the character of the collision or even avoid it completely. If one driver had slowed down a little on that bend or the other had accelerated away from the traffic lights a little faster. ...

If we consider a series of such accidents we. will find an irregu- lar and unpredictable variation in certain details (location, damage, etc). Accidents However, as we consider larger and larger series of acci- dents, we find that new properties begin to appear and the fluctua- tions tend to cancel out.

For example, the total num- ber of accidents in the London area will show a trend which is connected with traffic density. We may test out the suggestion that the 70 mph speed limit or the introduction of safety belts reduces the number of deaths on the motorway. In a similar way, it is indi- cated that smoking increases your chances of contracting lung cancer. dealing Here we with are statistical laws and every insur- will vouch for ance company their objectivity. Despite the immense varia-

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French 'free' peasant labour for the such COnDoles. Companie Francaise de l'Afrique, which bought their product at cut-throat, but rock-bottom prices. Mining also became a primary industry pivot. Among the min. the iron and bauxite erals were formed the producers, prole- of Guinea. tariat. Industrial starvation 1o France pisterol a British Africa. inevitable as in class, France and Monoculture mining dom- colonial petty bourgeoisie into inated the and, on the 'Marxist' power, of independence 1958, eve in (French-trained) Touré. Guinea exported 66 cent per French rule meant that the of materials to France alone and Guinea died average person in imported the same percentage the of 35. before It meant age from France Primary products that, by 1939, only per cent comprised 74 all per cent of of the children of *chool age exports. were at school, and then only Just before independence, only school (about the in primary 5.5 per cent of Guinea's then 2.9 same as in British W Africa).

million people were wage earners before independ- Three vears (with families), the vast ence there were only 150 teachers yet majority of Guineans were super- in French African secondary exploited Of these as peasant producers. schools. only 20 were Imperialism has never allowed Africans. The of percentage the so-called classical proletariat school attendance in Guinea was to develop in Africa; low France the semi- to record

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ES THE UNITED NATIONS Com- The mittee sent to Guinea after the alleged has recent In VaSTON found evidence to support Presi- dent Sekou Touré's accusation second that Portuguese troops were used in the attack. At least three landings were made. The main target was the of PAIGC headquarters. PAIGC is engaged in a war of liberation in Guinea Bassaul, Portuguese colony. PAIGC train- ing camps were also attacked as two other were targets in Conakry. PAIGC is the most successful of the African nanonalst guer- articles rilla organizations. It claims to control two-thirds of Guinea Bassau. The war is often referred to as the company's war because Companhia Unjao Sabril con- policies and make a profit.

microscopic law while yielding well-known macroscopic effects.

Certain factors will be taken Your monthly pay- into account. The existence of molecular will depend undermining on your motion, far from present age and health. In addi- the reality of 'pressure', enriches tion, if a war occurs, the game our conception of it. This is usually called off! 'chance' DrocesS Is a necessary part of that phenomenon. What is recognized is that, although many interdependent Engels takes up some of these factors finally death, result mn points in his correspondence with certain of them have a dominant Schmidt (1895): influence on the outcome.

'[You] absorb yourself to such Without having to trace cause details, degree in without and effect in any detail, war is always, as it seems to me, pay- certainly an unhealthy state of ing attention to the connection affairs! that whole, degrade yOU the law of value to a fiction, a We may show the objective of necessary fiction nature statistical in another way. "The reproaches make you against the law When a ball falls through air of value apply to all concepts, regarded from under gravity, it expemences the increases standpoint of drag, which smoothly reality. and its Yet The concept of a thing with speed. know that we reality run side by side like air (or any gas) is made up of molecules moving about at high two asymptotes, always approach- ing each other yet never speed in every direction.

meeting . .. The ball is therefore struck Is it different with the millions of times second these minute bits of matter that, aliv rate of profit? At each moment it only exists approximately statistically or on the average as an average of many businesses five chal str seth both pressure and and a series of years. But if we were to demand that the rate of comes the the a speck of profit- 14.876934 -say similar in should be exactly will no and follow a month ure but it will every business every year down to the 100th decimal move erratically under the mole place, on pain of degradation to cular blows be fiction, we should surely grossly misunderstanding the the entere of moleste ished nature of the rate of profit and economic laws in general- out of course making 'pressure" none them has reality except as an approximation, tendency, and not as average, immediate reality.' SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 197l. 11 a.m.

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and missionaries controlled and Sekou Touré rose to powér.

tary the indirect native authorities, Senegal's Senghor and the French trade and Ivory Houphouet unionists Coast's 'socialists' were put in control of repressed the strike movement in the nascent trade union the of 'whites' who move- interests formed 2 per cent of the popula- ment by French imperialism.

These 'socialists' aided, tion, but consumed 33 per WeTe as the British 'socialists' of the national income in 1958.

were in S Africa, by the racilaistic 'white' Gabon 'whites' (In formed workers in the towns. of the population, per but By 1958 some 30,000 such took 55 per cent of the national workers controlled half a million income.) Africa workers Such was the against alone, system mainly Dakar (Senegal), which the Guinean in workers fought Abadjan (Ivory Coast) and Cona- for independence kry (Guinea). they have still not won. These Figures show what a difference French. 'workers'-only 16 cent did manual work independence has made the 20 times 3.9 million population. -earned tour to more than African workers. head national income was S83US in 1958, before inde- In the 1947 strikes, especially Mali, Guinea and Senegal, Now it is $93US, and in pendence. discrimination colour made this includes French investors' Was the major issue which Diallo by trols most interests in the coun- jects aimed at the further exploi- try. tation of the area. There has been much pressure Africa even has three bat- from the company on the Portu- talions of troops to help defend guese government to take action the Tete province of Mozambique PAIG's advance. Cabora Bassa dam to stop where the The destruction of the PAIGC being built. headquarters in Conakry is an The red 351 tops dead i- adventure taken from the books nowledged troops dead of American imperialism and the Mozambique. This is the highest attack on Cambodia. Portuguese admission of ever The Portuguese are also on the losses. Mozambique and offensive in In Angola too they have Angola. ( Since May they have encountered fierce resistance.

attempted deteriorating to Guinea Bassau defeat save 15 situations in these countries.

Given this back- real prospect. In the building of the Cunene ground, their attack on Conakry Angola and the Cabora Dam in must be seen as an attempt to Bassa Dam in Mozambique they broaden the hostilities area of have massive fresh investments to salvage the war. in which American, British, While Portugal Ger. turns to com- French and Italian capital mando raids, Africa pursues its man, have joined S African and Portu- three-year-old Verligte policy divide the black guese pro- African states. WV

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11.00 News. 11.10 11.55 Action 70. except: us a card 4.40 News Women today. Report West. s. 6.l8 Report wales: 6:03 Diary. Faith Weather. Report Thursday, December 17, 1970 Life expectancy remains at 30 to 35. Primary school atendance is 18 per cent (very much higher than under France, but very low after 12 years) and secondary school enrolment is 9 per cent. The explanation for this state of affairs is that Guinea remains a French semi-colony, albeit outside the 'French Union'.

Touré's usefulness to Sekou France is played Nkrumah's was for Britain as in Ghana in 1966. The French, not to mention neighbouring Portuguese inter- ests, have their own reasons for trying to install a less disobedient servant in Conakry. Once more French troops may the colony return to which bloody-hunting formed the ground for the French slavers.

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4.10 News. 4.15 Lone 4.40 Sara and Hoppity. 4.55 ranger. Flipper. 5.20 London. 6.00 Today. 6.30 Police call. 6.35 Film: The Lion With Steve Cochran. and the Horse'. Ben Kirby and his love for a man- 8.00 I spy. 9.00 hating black stallion. Nearest and dearest. 9.30 London. 11.00 University challenge. 11.30 News. 11.45 How many times.

BORDER: 4.10 News. 4.12 The pur suers. 4.40 Wind in the willows. 4.55 Forest 5.20 London. 6.00 News. Mr rangers. 6.35 Crossroads. Lookaround. 7.45 Film: 7.00 and Mrs "The Spider and the Fly'. With Eric Port- Nadia and Guy Rolfe. man, Gray French police are trying to catch a gentleman safecracker. 9.30 London. Bracken's world. 11.55 News, 11.00 weather. 4.15 Horo-

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Dateline. 3.50 today: 5.15 Lon- 3.52 Women Lon- scope. don. 4.55 Forest rangers. don. 6.00 Dateline. 6.30 High living.

7.00 Film: "The Five Pennies'. With Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes and and Louis Armstrong. 9.00 Nearest dearest. 9.30 London. 11.00 Play better golf. 11.30 Late call. GRAMPIAN: 3.49 News. 3.52 Women Cartoon. 4.20 Telephone today. 4.10 am. 6.00 east eat her. 6.10 Win Blair. Lesley 6.35 Cross- 7.00 On the buses. 7.30 Comedy: roads. 'The Love Lottery'. With Bernon and Cummins Famous Peggy Anne Vernon Herbert Lom. film Star offered as a prize in a 9.00 lottery. and 9.30 Nearest dearest. London. 11.00 Ev.

Thursday, December 17, 1970

THURSDAY'S

INTERNAHIONAI

FRANKFURT apprentices hit back against the growing offensive from the German ruling class against youth conditions.

Over recent months there has been a prolonged struggle between different sections of apprentices and their employers and Willy Brandt's government.

The Frankfurt apprentices at the Apprentices Training Work- for shop came out November 25 eight days from sackings carried against their school. Youth had been thrown out of allegedly their training course, for 'lack of aptitude' after three months' probation period.

One apprentice at Bosch elec- trical components company claimed he was sacked after talking back to his employer.

As one of the apprentices said: 'How can you tell if someone his trade has an aptitude for when he learned nothing hac for three months from apart bending and polishing?' The strike was successfun the end--the three sacked youth were reinstated and full wages were paid for the period of the strike. Demonstrated This strike is one of many such militant demonstrations the organized by youth. In recently apprentices Essen demonstrated against SPD deputy Freidrich Marquadt over the of of their question violation indentures. Bavaria In pupils recently struck in five towns against edu- recently by the mass protest and cuts introduced by the the town's from right-wing Christian Social pressure WOrKerS. Union. Such militancy, particularly on Students the part of the youth, is in response to increasing activity of extreme right, of whom CSU the STUDENTS in Louvain, Belgium, Strauss has become the leader have charged Justice Minister vociferous spokesman. Vranck racialism the with over country's vicious new alien laws A planned rally in Essen by the neo-fascist NPD was stopped which were to have been brought POLITICAL FLIRTATION between the 'state capi- talist' International Socialism group and the Com- munist Party came a step nearer consummation at the debate last weekend between representatives of the two organizations. Both parties to the flirtation closer together, the want to get Communist they Party b because badly need the credentials IS can provide and IS because it at the construction aims centrist regroupment of elements from the Communist Party, the 'left' and various shades Labour This kind of 'opposition' of revisionism. opposition which consciously the conclusions of Marx- That is why they can rejects can- debate Communist Party duct an entire with ism about the Monty Johnstone, the former is grist to Johnstone's mill.

Trotskyist who has now become theoretical Stalinism's chief By putting a 'left' gloss on the apologist in Britain, without once party's class-collaborationist pro- Road' mentioning the Stalinist history "The British gramme, Socialism' he is able to pose as a and character of the Party.

revolutionary. No longer The 'state capitalists' clearly took to heart Tohnstone's open- ing request that 'At a debate like In fact, Duncan Hallas, main this kind of this will put speaker for the 'state capitalists', childish abuse [i.e. references to specifically ruled that the Com- the Communist Party's counter- Party is munist longer character] behind Stalinist party: revolutionary us.' "It Ithe CP] is no longer, repeat, a Stalinis Stalinist repeat, party in any Mock-battle of that word .. the party programme and simply a means to get politically the practice alike reflect party today a left reformist nosition.'

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the Com- munist Party's Stalinist historv the debaters con- and delberate v built up his sciousIV creaenual left-winger, and fostered Johnstone-s deception. But Johnstone remains com- tied to the parliamentary socialism, an example Britisan need Soviets

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British Come pois. with 15 mos tunisticaly to manoeuvre them. Party today. Ne chion le ders onto he sphe party god an en why phoney 'left' union leaders sition 10 leaders Party challenge the tn' The capitalists trade unions to fight the Tories.

with long way down the leadership. delighted same theoretical road. this it against In tact Roger Protz. the othe the Socialist " he workers Press claims Tormalon right-winger, but it appears commit- won't revolu- dovetails neatly thich is This lin. for and opportunitie maneuvres. cover Communist T oT Bell. newly-elected secretary the Young Communist League Amusing Bell set the right tone for hi contribution ›hilistini with remark that Nothing amuses me

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chairman Frank Chapple. This new pitch on the right, however in no wav means snop has been closed on the lett.

Chapple's acceptance of the lory tormula consideration of the national economic interest in the terms of reference of the government's The importance of Marxist philosophy in the Inquiry was of course endorsed building of the revolutionary party.

otners engineering union executive councilman Bob Wright, to whom the 'Star' nor- mally prefers to be friendly.

Lectures by C. Slaughter (Central Committee member of the Socialist Labour League) Problem NEWCASTLE: Hotspur Hotel, Haymarket, 7.30 p.m. Sunday.

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Bernard Franks analyses the three-vear productivity drive against

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ELECTRICITY-supply workers have over the past six years been the target of a systematic government-employer campaign to rationalize the industry. The aim has been to eliminate thousands of jobs and to get much more work from those employees remaining—to get one man to do two men's work.

At the same time introduction of new systems which are a product of the latest developments in electrical technology are to be used to displace even more workers.

If the Tories are able to push ahead with this policy it Poland is because they can build on the foundations laid by the Labour government. Prior to 1963 no form of

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modern productivity system was being operated in the in- reactionary Lynch government 1964-1965 dustry. In the in Ireland, with Polish cement notorious 'status' agreements arriving just in time to weaken were introduced -with the full the strike of cement workers.

backing of the union con- Gomulka's with treaty cerned. Germany this continues In theory these deals were strategy of collaborating with of to raise the status all while imperialism cracking workers that of power to down on all working class and salaried staff. In practice student opposition at home.

they attack the were an on of indus- existing status the This is the real meaning of trial grades by breaking down 'European Security' all defined jobs and trades 'flexible and the of Now the full force of this name of manpower. efficient use counter - revolutionary regime directed striking against Transfers workers, not of Spain and Ireland, but Gdansk, Gydnia and Sopot. This included a stepping-up The power and scope of the of inter-plant transfers devel- is reflected 'inter-craft movement in opment of flex- frantic radio threats against ibility' and a pooling system the strikers: for craftsmen's mates. The status 'For all this. sort of bar- agreements also set out to cut back the barism, power and strong, wage bill by eliminating over- efficient blows are needed.'

time and to introduce 'stagger While tanks patrolled the patterns' among day workers. of Gdansk, streets militia These involve. working men were sent into the five-day week spread over Cegielski Marine Diesel works seven days. of in the industrial During the 1965-1968 period centre Poznan, more than 100 miles Labour the government to the SW. directly intervened the in affairs of the industry through There had been reports series of reports by the protests against the price in- and Prices Incomes Board. creases there also. Board The continually laid heavy emphasis on the need to Poznan the of scene work-study through- introduce strikes and bloody fighting in out electricity supply. the 1956 movement against All to be ultra - Stalinist payments were the regime schemes tied to which made way for Gomulka bonus regu- lated by calculations based on so - called in the *Polish October. stopwatch time studies. The

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that the claimed Now its workers general level of working in on the move again— -only this the industry was low. Per- formance was said to be be- time against the leader who betrayed all low 65 on the 0-100 perform- their aspirations. ance scale (where 100 equals Six people were killed and standard performance). of many injured in two days clashes, the Speed-up official Polish agency PAP reported yesterday. This meant that workers must speed-up a considerable before they could obtain the smallest even bonus which was to be paid at ent at 65 on the above

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Eire Prime Minister Tack Lynch told the Dail yesterday hat the government had no whether taken lecisior on to introduce internment with- warned that trial, but flinch from they would not interning anyone if they had to. Registered as a newst Post Office. Press, High Street, of jobs the employas e- setting oductist deals i included all in le These schemes size of the work force heapon or mis sentence of mer made to noduce produce Times bank las meant fewer men needed.

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parliamentarism from the Labour leaders.

delaying Unter Cor oday's trade unionists ments, 'a PRINTWORKER FREDERICK FOLLEY is deputy father of his union chapel at a London blockmakers. Married with one daughter, he here discusses the impact of the Tory offensive and his attitude to the Charter: • FIRST LET me say that WOrkIng the you!! works is to tees Bent, sweet drinking water owing

FIRST OF TWO ARTICLES

Union officials hotly

CONTINUED TOM

Inefficiency All supply employees will March exis year Corports to enthuse relaxation orts to "set in i neal conditions told orkers. made throuan Bid communications Th electrical union leader- ship eye

BRINSLEY

BROWN (above), of the OVER the three-year period up to the present the a member Furniture Trade Operatives' Hammersmith branch, power supply industry labour force has been reduced in the was one of the London limb-makers recently witch- 25,000. The total number of employees hunted viciously by the Fleet St press during their industry in England and Wales on March 31, 1970 was 196,962. This is 11,205 or 5.4 per cent fewer than nine-week strike. Here he uses the Workers Press to one pend you a 195 p give his views: March 31, 1969. the are this will be a form of slave dustrial Relations Bill hits labour. of ot the en when they, case anothe avid in their enthusiasm for and atmospheric con- tior even I rk-study. Supply-shop stew.

ditions. s do it a college are sher You We cant allowances are personal of these and Gave ex Toilet for amendments as it be restricted in washing Hallus,

WHY IS THIS?

affected Yorkers are already unspeakable manner possible. Glassmen

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or number of mên. natural aline and edendancy. sales rose byes i "Causher. e coman told the workers Prommittee, blant etc. ten the Bl becomes an same OF 1969-1970 Campaign More workers balancer de dieting interest is miilion • general, lne maustry n en doubling its size eve len ycals. Len turned down by rese to rule simply meant Power workers demanding ziu outside Day talks.

destroys from te in conse ed

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PAR AVION

aders must he fored on leaders sone no consider this (in forced nake f a General 1 sees to est boring) in isolation from to resign. class nation the tries com: fighting for socialist principles of capitalist stability. driven Although there is growing Air offer 'silly' Many are mere 'left talkers that with teel beyond economic demands. says Cousins arters demande. Australia with its vast supply what is important i Allang amounted that the pict oa anc Crawford, ' tive Brapitalism can still afford before weorge were concessions ye devious would buildin Federal cargo 12 hour hane ons also Is in a levolu- Office has in the at part you a ov Comm new leadership ons recommended that th in the unions.