German apprentices strike against sackings

THYRSPAYES!

The Frankfurt apprentices at the Apprentices Training Workshop came out on strike for eight days from November 25 against sackings carried out in their school.

Youth had been thrown out of their training course, allegedly for 'lack of aptitude' after three months' probation period.

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

As one of the apprentices said:

'How can you tell if someone has an aptitude for his trade when he has learned nothing for three months apart from bending and polishing?' The strike was successful in 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 organized by the youth. In Essen recently apprentices demonstrated against SPD deputy Freidrich Marquadt over the question of violation of their indentures.

In Bavaria pupils recently struck in five towns against education cuts introduced by the right-wing Christian Social Union.

Such militancy, particularly on the part of the youth, is in response to increasing activity of the extreme right, of whom CSU leader Strauss has become the vociferous spokesman.

A planned rally in Essen by the neo-fascist NPD was stopped POLITICAL FLIRTATION between the 'state capi. talist' International Socialism group and the Communist Party came a step nearer consummation at the debate last weekend between representatives of the two organizations.

Both parties to the flirtation want to get closer together, the Communist Party because they badly need the 'left' credentials IS can provide and IS because it aims at the construction of a centrist regroupment of elements from the Communist Party, the Labour 'left' and various shades of revisionism.

That is why they can conduct an entire debate with Monty. Johnstone, the former Trotskyist who has now become Stalinism's chief theoretical apologist in Britain, without once mentioning the Stalinist history and character of the Party.

No longer In fact, Duncan Hallas, main speaker for the 'state capitalists' specifically ruled that the Communist Party is no longer a Stalinist party:

*It [the CP] is no longer, l repeat, a Stalinist party in any meaningful sense of that word •. the party programme and the party practice alike reflect today a left reformist position.' IMPORTANT READING NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS STALINISM IN BRITAIN A TROTSKYIST ANALYSIS 186A Clapham High S... SWa.

Price 24s post intel. recently pressure by the mass protest and from the town's Students STUDENTS in Louvain, Belgium, have charged Justice Minister Vranck with racialism over the country's vicious new alien laws which were to have been brought of Marxism This kind of 'opposition' -opposition which consciously rejects the conclusions of Marxism about the Communist Party —is grist to Johnstone's mill.

By putting a 'left' gloss on the party's class-collaborationist programme, "The British Road to Socialism' he is able to pose as a The 'state capitalists' clearly took to heart Johnstone's opening request that 'At a debate like this we will put this kind of childish abuse [i.e. references to the Communist Party's counterrevolutionary character] behind us.' Mock-battle A debate for these people is simply a means to get politically into operation on December 1.

n protest against the laws several dozen Louvain students began a hunger strike which ended last Friday.

The laws stipulate that foreigners must obtain a provisional residence permit before arriving in Belgium and that they must have a valid passport (except for the nationals of EEC countries), How to get rid JOHN nearer under mock-battle.

And there was plenty of battling.

Not only did the IS speakers not challenge Johnstone's phoney 'left' pose, they built him up as being in opposition to the proclaimed political line Communist Party.

'Whatever comrade [sic] Johnstone's personal position may be,' said Hallas, clearly implying it was several degrees to the 'left' of the official Stalinist line, 'that is most certainly not the position of the British Communist Party today.' Johnstone, who has for years posed an entirely phoney opposition' to the Communist Party leadership, was delighted with this evaluation, using it against the Socialist Labour League: "The right-winger, but it appears I am now a left-winger', he said.

HALLAS sufficient financial resources and a work permit.

As a so-called concession the cabinet has now agreed that the laws should not be enforced until January 1.

Following a meeting with university rectors the Minister has proposed to draw up a 'foreigners code' and announced the setting up of an appeals procedure Johnstone's formulation of the 'British Road' certainly appeared very 'left', with talk of 'breaking he state', "bringing about a showdown with monopoly capitalism' and 'establishing democratic working-class control'.

UNANIMOUS vote to continue for deportation expulsion cases.

The students have emphatically declared their opposition to these he optice Minister retains his discretionary powers in relation to the laws.

They have declared they will continue their campaign another form.

the building trade, than to hear intellectuals shouting trom the sidelines telling the working class how to organize'.

It was not clear whether this was a reference to Johnstone or Hallás—in either case it was misplaced.

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however, which also went challenged by the IS speakers, ran as follows: 'We hear a lot about 1920, but this is 1970(1) of these outgrown in masset rid Well, the Communist Party long ago 'got rid of' the 'outworn dogma' known as Marxism.

It physically annihilated the core of Lenin's Bolshevik party in order to do so.

The 'state capitalists, too, have gone a long way down the same theoretical road.

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