Workers Press no. 333

The daily paper workers press that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1970 • NUMBER 333 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Second annual conference of ATUA As Polish strikes spread Charter of Threat of YS join Soviet Free invasion Basic Rights Burgos 16' WITH SOVIET tanks and troops massing along the Polish frontier, all the country's main in march in dustrial centres are now under military and police occupation.

BY ROBERT BLACK

Frantic attempts to con- Le repression and murder fine the movement to the i waters in to and London Baltic have failed dismally.

higher Neither brutal mil could con adopted On Saturday Stalinist this i excelled itself cynicoosing Dangers from agents- atmos Reins of serenes land provocateur ann fact, the Star an es a in Dutschke Party

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'Sinister' intan tribunal had e tonal security t ruled senator the Home James workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1970 O NUMBER 333 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Second annual conference of ATUA As Polish strikes spread Charter of Threat of YS join Soviet Free invasion Burgos 16' WITH SOVIET tanks and troops massing along the Polish frontier, all the country's main in- dustrial centres are now under military and march in police occupation.

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appeared In the Workers Press on November 10 and 11, 1970 A letter criticizing the article appeared on November 20.

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YOUR CORRESPONDENT sign- ing himself London Teacher (a nonym elsewhere for a pomp us fool in wishing to 'debunk the theory of intelligence (and his letter does so for himself quite well which was put forth columns, someone in your 'since writes animals have not and cannot develop speech, they are incapable of thought'.

The inference being that the same reasoning is true for IN HIS LETTER (Some Points on 'Intelligence and Class', Nov- ember 20, 1970) 'London Teacher' makes a number of observations which are formally correct.

the important He stresses separated him- point that man self from the animals by collec- he emphasizes tive labour and the importance of language. But apart from this, his letter reveals which is extremely a method harmful. development of Marxist The theory demands the serious ex- amination and evaluation of all aspects of scientific thought. It is totally inadequate for Marxists- or those who claim to be Marx- ists - to dismiss without con- sideration attempts to advance simply be- scientific knowledge cause those who undertake these attempts are not Marxists.

this what Yet is precisely London Teacher does. He states that it is our job to expose in- idealist abstrac- telligence as an tion' and to debunk the "fraudu- lent theory' of intelligence.

However, he makes no analysis of the extensive research which has given rise to the concept of intelligence and makes no attempt that to substantiate his claim *fraudulent intelligence is theory'. It is therefore necessary to de- scribe briefly the way in which the poncept of intelligence has arisen. It is also necessary to examine London Teacher's views on language and thought. In the course of this examination the unscientific of his nature ap- proach will become apparent.

The rise of the concept of in- telligence was mainly due to the writings of Herbert Spencer and Francis Galton in the late 19th century. They believed in the importance of a general human ability super-ordinate to and distinct from special abilities.

Their views found support THE RECENT articles on 'Intel- ligence and Class' in Workers Press highlight the way in which the capitalist education system seeks to justify the definite bias which it contains against working- class children. In the 1930s socialists argued straightforward that a case working-class children were un- able to get fair share of a secondary (grammar) education since the overwhelming majority of such school places were re- served for children whose parents could pay the fees. Studies such as that carried out by Gray and Moshinsky in 1938 ("Ability and Opportunity in English Education' showed very clearly that highly-intelligent children of working-class parents were severely under-represented in secondary schools and higher education. Eleven plus The 1944 Education Act, with its introduction of selective examinations for grammar school places (11 +), was supposed to put this right. But it gradually became apparent that this was not so. For a start, different areas had numbers of varying grammar school places. Poorer industrial

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CONTROVERSY about 'intelligence and class' has so fight, it sated to me heat than light, In his original articles (Novem- ber 10, 11) Special Correspondent (SC) interesting gave some material about experiments on the learning abilities of animals and humans. He explained how brain dam- age or physiological defects like deafness create a limit on learn- ing which may, however, in some cases be overcome by careful treatment. Intelligence tests were exposed as class-biased. We also learned emotional stability affects that learning capacity. From all this evidence SC drew the correct conclusion that a socialist society education in would medical and combine educations skills to the maximum to deal with the special problems of development of each individ- ual child; something which is impossible in a capitalist educa- tional system. This conclusion was contrasted Sir Cyril with the opinions of Paper and at mit-wing 'Black educationists, who con- siders that hereditary differences "intelligence', proved in by intelligence testing, necessitate of large exclusion numbers of working-class children from higher education.

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many interesting anne conSe i his not veral times ents that it is ! the brai logical factor does Hereditary? the tate matt too nental ability, it it means nera Corre empiricist Pearsen e ad to out on asions on in the melisence with lars diferent, y resundeed, as SC himself sug- Monday, December 21, 1970 than intelligence is to imply that a computer or book or machine is more important than a human being. Since l am a sailor who has been tenaciously beached for the last few weeks I might, I suppose, sign myself Resting World Voy- ager; but then, unlike London apparently, I have no Teacher reason to hide my name.. Niall Quinn. they always diverge again. This applies to both phylogeny (the development of species) and out- ogeny (the development of the individual). In animals, speech and thought spring from different roots and different lines. develop along This fact is confirmed by ...ex- periments (which have) proved that the appearance in animals of an embryonic intellect—i.e. of thinking in the proper sense —is in no way related to speech.

'The "inventions" of apes in making and using tools, or in finding detours for the solution problems, of although un- doubtedly rudimentary thinking, belong to a prelinguistic phase of thought development? (L. S. Vigotsky, "Thought and Lan- guage. MIl Press, 1962, page 33.) London Teacher's unscientific method is now clearly for all to see: 'No language, no thought.

If Marx says so, then it must be true. If research indicates that ideas need modification, Marx's then this research must not be analysed and evaluated, but must be ignored or perhaps flippantly dismissed as 'fraudulent theories" and "idealist' abstractions'.

One cannot but imagine how happy London Teacher would be the Maoist movement. Here life is delightfully simple.

The "Thoughts of Chairman Mao' are dogma and any other ideas are taboo. But the de- velopment of a genuine Marxist leadership demands something quite different. Think again, London Teacherl The development of Marxist theory demands a careful study of all aspects of contemporary scientific thought, including those of psychology dealing branches with intelligence, thought and language. Why not participate in this important work? Special Correspondent week sessions before their initial schooling. In Britain, the Newsom Report of 1963 recommended special research into children suffering from environmental and linguistic handicaps. To this end, funds made available to the were Sociological Research Unit.

The 1967 Plowden Report on Primary Education called for 'positive discrimination' towards schools in deprived areas in the form of higher payments for their teachers and priority in new buildings, extra books and equip- ment. But all of this has produced little. All these schemes have one factor in common - they throw all the blame onto the child and his family. In fact, as was shown earlier when discussing the British grammar schools, the education system is constructed deliberately to act against the interests of working-class children. They are required to produce a mass of factory fodder, with a few bright ones to staff the universities, laboratories, courts, newspapers etc. It is this class system, of which the schools are a part, which deliberately holds down the mass of working-class children.

Jack Gale name 'g', supposedly the ability to observe relationships.

However much anyone wants to say that Spearman's ideas were taken over and adapted to even less scientific views like those of Binet with his 'general intelli- gence, it does not alter the fact that Spearman himself was here isolating in his conclusions (not in reality something taking us back to the idealist philosophy which consistently was most in the ideas expressed. Emmanuel Kant. Unfavourable Kant wanted to recognize the existence of an objective world of things in themselves', existing independently of our conscious- ness of them, but to claim that they were unfavourable. For him the 'mind' was of operating with "reason', with of thinking. All knowledge would be structured by these categories, and not a reflection of the true nature of the objective world.

The Marxist theory of know- ledge is about how our thinking, the activity of a material organ, the brain, progresses from ignor- ance to knowledge, from impres- sions, through analysis of the essence of reality, to the 'notion', i.e., the comprehension of the

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Monday, December 21, 1970

REVIEW BY

BOB SEATON

of IF THERE is any truth cynical piece "Varieties Socialist Thought, which, 1n in the maxim that a man with an electicism reminiscent can be judged by the of the Heinz canned food com- he company he keeps, Law- pany, gives a completely rundown uncritical on the rence Daly's contribution ideas of any tendency which to a recent paperback, chooses to call itself socialist.

Protest and Discontent' According to him there are (Pelican Original, 6s), number of 'socialisms, any and you pays your money. edited by Bernard Crick Everyone, it appears, has and William A. Robson, from something to contribute- is of considerable in- the Labour ministers in last government to the anarchists.

terest. This provides Sedgwick with Crick and Robson are 'framework' convenient in the editors of the eminently which he can paint the Work- ers Press respectable journal Political as simply a minor curiosity. Quarterly', which originally 'Any real innovation on the published this collection of British Left today, he claims, articles. Their credo, says Crick, is a belief "both and in reason it being reasonable; but is never reasonable... to com- to forces of promise irrationality, whether of Left and Right' The book as a whole, and Crick's contribution in parti- lar, is a testament to the total of confusion those state who today seek a 'middle way' in the rapidly sharpening class war. 'Reason', according to Crick, is an ideology above and inde- pendent of any class. But no such ideology exists. wrote in What Is As Lenin To Be Done?: In a society torn by class antagonisms there can never be non-class or an above- class ideology.' If Crick and his colleagues could grasp the significance of this, they might be able to resolve some of the confusions about 'contemporary protest' that they air so self-indulgently in these pages. In particular, Peter Sedg- wick, leading member of the International Socialism group, might have spared

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no more than evidence of the 'energy' of the SLL! No wonder bourgeois pro- fessordom has found a role for the 'contributions' of the IS.

In their confusion, the pro- fessors must find Sedgwick soothing, if hardly illuminat- ing. That Lawrence Daly should find a place among this collec- tion of middle-of-the-road pro- fessors and right-wing Labour- ites may surprise the miners who elected him Secretary of the NUM to lead militant action against the pit-closures declared to be 'necessary' by the rationalists. It is unfortunate for Daly that this article should be lying around the bookstalls when he is still caught between the pressure of the National Coal Board and the militancy of his own members. In the roundabout style of saying things favoured in the academic world, Daly makes it clear that he has no concep- tion of leading the miners to a major victory. He must have written • this article during the last few months of the Labour govern- ment, and he is much taken up with the difficulties of trade union leaders when the Labour Party is in office. The trade union movement, writes Daly, is founded on 'the aspirations of workers who security and freedom want and who do not care, and have not cared, a fig about the .."immutable laws" of laissez- faire, of diminishing returns, of marginal product or the bal- ance of payments.' All is well, suggests Daly with a complacency that he must be regretting today, when the Tories are in power: 'With a government of indis- putable anti-socialists, the union movement trade can unashamedly adopt an ideal- istic stance. . . . The barri- cades to be stormed are clear.

What to do when they have been won does not seem of prime importance.' But with the Labour Party in power, 'what a difference! The obstacles to change are sud- denly discovered, the views of those who want radical change are felt to be rash and, though to be sympathized • with, impracticable.' What should the trade unions do? It is a question, according to Daly, of whether to squeeze the government 'dry of "concessions", or to "sacrifice the short- to • the long-term advantage'. Hence the 'bitter debate' in the trade union movement since 1964.

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The alternative strategies before the trade unions, insists Daly, the method of are Walter Citrine (TUC general secretary 1926-1946)—that the trade unions' first responsibility is to the (capitalist) state; and that of developing the trade unions as a rival to the Labour Party as a vehicle of 'social organization theory' [sic].

The aim of this latter method it appears is to make 'more and more impact on the Labour Party's programme,' so that 'the trade union move- when a Lab- ment, especially our government is in power, will seem to be almost an organ of government'. To the unsophisticated who are not in regular contact with Mr Daly's academic friends, this may well seem to be two of saying the ways same thing: either way the trade unions are to be turned into organs of the capitalist state.

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Pelican Original 6s in the movement who accept the 'immutable laws' of capi- talism: i.e. the present bureau- cratic leadership. long All Daly's words amount to this: he has no con- ception of the power of the working class to overthrow capitalism, and cannot there- fore conceive of his own mem- bers defeating those who seek to attempt to carry out capital- ism's present programme for survival. Hence he lends his services to those who would like trade unions to be simply organs of 'protest' which will go the way of all these protesters in the present period of developing class war. But the trade unions, far from being simply organiza- tions of 'protest' against the injustices of capitalism, have been built by the working class in the course of its struggle against capitalism, which can only be resolved by the taking of power. Workers cannot afford to allow independent trade union- ism to be destroyed, however.

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Defence lawyers for the historical but This include Polish uprising 16 say they have received no notifcation when the Tentative decision will be sailt is designed to to durage categorically announced. po such trous and tre CAUGHT BETWEEN their dependence on • He ha deals on the international Stalinist bureaucracy and the asques for feat its raisth eruption of the political revolution in Poland the was desi see introduce NY cab strikes, the leaders of the Italian Communist Party are in desperate search of formulae to cover Willing and fuel their political bankruptcy.

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