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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY DECEMBER 29, 1970 • NUMBER 338 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE As Tories prepare to abolish Health Service New plans for treachery Hunger Bleak strike in prospect Canada for gas men's pay on the way the Try deal rotestes cainst claim THE SILENT counter-revolution of Heath con- tinues to take its toll. The latest victim is the National Health Service, which is one of the Indian biggest post-war reforms won by the working elections in class. Not satisfied with February

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gouging ulances under the Barber mını end of Febo out by a top-level Whitehall Budget, Tories une comorittee: denment fare this will no a have now returned to mutilate beyond hospital t expiry i v. V. Giri to ndian Presiden House and dis elections. Burgos 16: ruled Gandhi et no-Moscow, Six to die British unist Party. noting to chance: ning ack the man in Sote erieto of Tory polity ome cases preciated tha sure deat wil be file rene.

Tod, Honey we of the Fe. presse said action. he lores nave hoped be completed . т. ал ie European crit licking ory , budget at the tod or are.

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Canada arrests Tory mouths shut Welcomed 28, Reuter- Montreal, Dec. The lates h workers. over 'unofficial' Labor Maicie but Hawker Site 74 ar. holiday officially. eff

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otherwise verganizations wou pened! biggest number of ab. bries brut ell to keep their mouth Celebrole Helveen 25 per cent the Labour leaders protest few telephone te and boss the home ver out of all 20 years of the loresal mast be bac absentee dockersey 37,0005 Wiles sians. socialist youin paper Not ages Net suppliers wer NCB closed

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wants Heath about 400 bus drives and con East India Hall Electricity meeting on East India Dock Rd, London E14 anthe Confederation off the road in Liverpoo for the ish surcharges yete men rate for operating Speciall National CEYLON has asked for an demanding ustend the hondas Sunday teach to de a Suining sestricts had one of Photo Speaking clas ncrease Parsing the Competition Britain of 21 Contest Civilians massacred in ories to resign Different Angola Report to be given by Aileen Jennings, Editor of Keep Left i he His Come ion imprisoned • Satervent, that it t

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over vide or the destinatior Portuguese cons indifferent to the evidence leads Minister Colvin R. de Silva.

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BY JOHN SPENCER

December 16, of the city's Batchelor's Foods plant. Batchelor's forms Devey, too, Com- of the massive munist Party member part Unilever - Bird's regular spokesman locally for Eye The Bill's terms the LIalson committee TOr provide a combine. the Defence of Trade Unions maxim dismissat on 24,060 of the pay-off He has now recioned trom the which ende ended seven-week Can he came is truno The AEF district committee to make him a whipping boy strike at the plant, has sparked just for Caborn's mistakes. both crisis district committee and in the settlement Our inquiries show that this general terms, with three abstentions. the is oy no means the urst suce The Party dominates All these pious resolutions settiement concluded in

ART

district committee and however, basic ques- Shethe d area. district secretary George tions unanswered Caborn leading member.

CHARITY

As we Carlisle's engineering plant earlier this year, nir erson and a al strike aimed at main- taining a closed shop was con.

political milty tor the conduct of Party cluded with an agreement that shariy fater coan union The is Bert Ramelson. industrial organizer of the He has not, so far, o itself, And Katchetor' s opened. the settlement contains a no his mouth in public a clause, victimization which though malac tha position the CP places proceed with nic him the centre ciplinary action against some these events. Worksop branch who returned enough for th not Communist Pits brandie She to still in progress. vague statements settlement. The Worksop AEF branch political ponsibility for the Batch loes- haare tha had called for their expulsion.

Members of the Batchelor's Tories in Sheffield settlement,

SCAPEGOAT

*only clalms. implying the Is it the case, as Devev': responsibility his resignatior strikers' statement on TOt Communist accentine it from + ha appears to indicate It is understood that the Caborn's actions scapegoat being made the does the Communist If so. Party intend discipline district com- Caborn ? mittee. 4c it trying to huch the

CORRECT

order to protect settlement in is Position the Sheffield The Party's Yorkshire dis- has trict committee con- Will the chalanca treatern demned the settiement. Cor down by the Batchelor's strike rect v. as betore committee be taken up? Kame son tried Decemher 9 to rumour Workers Avina that th Drace bod 'scabbed' on print-workers' stoppage yet to answer these for new pogrom from key guestine. arisin The CP's Yorkshire district of Soviet Jews leadership maintains a simila * Thes people, prepared politically the THE BRITISH Communist Party statement on settlement must torced nOW. the Leningrad trial is nothing more than a snivelling apology for judicial murder.

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BY ROBERT BLACK

dhl charac the Kremlin nt E, SE and central southern anti_Semitism. England and the Midlands will We generally cloud repudiate those Ramalcon •m A who apparently have no objection Elsewhere Britain elsewhere be wir was inspired 'the verdict itself this trial showers do share the districts will have some hy anti-semitism. on that so d unidentified Of the death Soviet or very cold in all districte sentences with two Soviet have time-serving Thursday: with sleet or snow at times.

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crimes she statement says since In concert "Friends' non y fri be crate Socint Union con- crave v cerned at the death

TWO SPECIAL

trial of Racane socialists in sentenced nerformances nosed and e that the rollict Mcticar Rostrono Rurans. hichari gatharitiec vich. nianist Svvatoslav Richter muta thaco dont. contangod for either of the changes of unexpectedly plan. without delav.' Monday, were yesterday the Conservatory How much lawar con thr tored programme caller that concerts Stalinict landare of the Reitick Moscow Conservatory. •ancelled because Communist Partv sink? and Who exactly are these many Rostropovich ored because they were now Taci month friende of the Soviet inion wento on anon lottar in dafener better Do they incude thoco Cathol Among the works be to approved oppositionist and writer Alex- bandone played Beethoven's triple wretched 'statement'? ander Solzhenitsyn, saying: concerto for niano. violin and We think not Fine the ‹Please explain why 'cello. to me anton torture and art moodle shedlutely incommatont No objection thic fold have tha Planes kill 500 •While dissociating ourselves of plan also from the Tho switchad anti-Sariet romagion tha hool * BOMBERS of Emperor Haile hanna conductad hu anamice nt tha Soviet Union and in Selassie's Air have Tewa the Leningrad Farce «7.: *andanino type of which the defendants killed 500 peonle near Keren village in N. Ethiopia. accord- were accused. A loudo sensation of Cavia!

court proceedings should have musicians are of Jewish origin.

ing to a statement in Damas- public. Color this month Distralh emphasis.) cus by an Eritrean Liberation cancelled a planned tour Spain in protest against Gollan. Matthawa the

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY DECEMBER 29, 1970 • NUMBER 338 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE As Tories prepare to abolish Health Service New plans for treachery Hunger Bleak strike in prospect Canada for gas on the way men s pay claim the savade introduced on October 16.

Most those THE SILENT counter-revolution of Heath con- Liberation tinues to take its toll. The latest victim is the National Health Service, which is one of the Indian biggest post-war reforms won by the working elections in class. Not satisfied with the return of a Tory governe February

ORRESPONDEN

gouging nances under the Barber mini- the pols ate the end of For se topileve Whinean polls at Budget, Tories Tower house of never seena now returned to start this have dentist (lower house beyond 1974 recognition. of the present parliament.

Indira Sunday Prime Miested new decion House since gres the year-old split in Burgos 16: mistakenly magine that Six to die Unica Provident Association nothing to chance dor Communist Party. kurgos. Snain. bec. yo. keuter hope of win. Spanish military re of people en ng back a proclaims: * dises ree ted ings wait. for us B Toes Javier in sood time for phoney war of the TUC Joaquin Gorostidi, 26. be European capitalists.

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end of March FULHAM gas snow Canada arrests Tory mouths shut Welcomed 28, Reuter - Montreal, Dec

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Celebrote most Ministres and boses

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about 400 bus dri wants Heath East India Hall the head he Menese passenge and the Gas meeting on East India Dock Rd, London E14 surcharges to goran: Special National CEYLON hate iked for an British Suning sesricts had one of Minister Speaking Photo were officially off. class aces betwee Competition Civilians massacred in Contest or shim end Different Angola Report to be given by Alleen Jennings, Editor of Keep Left Such 3 So-Called believe,' the majority or

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city's December 16, of the Batchelor's Foods plant. Batchelor's forms Devey Party member Com- same are too, was the torces which the munist of massive and behind the Industrial Relations part regular spokesman locally for Bill'. Unilever - Bird's Eye Committee for The Bill's terms provide a combine. Defence : of Trade Unions compensation

TOT

Acceptance of the Dav-oft. trying which ended seven-week The AEF district committer strike at the plant, , has sparked for Caborn's mistakes. —meeune Just berore

CONST

major crisis, both the TRas condemned district committee and in Our inquiries show that this setuement general terms, i consided in uce with three abstentions. the Committe George concluded the All these pious resolutions, and district Sheffield area. however. leave the basic aues secretary leading mons unanswered

CHARITY

Sheffede the have mem Der salu.

AEF

district com- Carlisle's engineering mittee Is well known to De plant earlier cominated member aimed at mane strike weir svmpataizers. AnG as such. kamelson and collan alling a closed shop was coll must accept noltical resnons nuaca wiln an asreement Ind would bully tor the conduct of Part sharity rather non-unionists members controudons lo the CP is Bert Ramelsone industrial organizer of Inan union ques. Batchelor's And He has far, opened. the not, so his mouth in public about the which Sheffield, silualiol CP places nis posiuon in Ine union against some Ine centre ciplinary these events. company Norksop branch who returned not enough for the while the strike was Communist Party

WORK

Issue still in progress. vasur statements Dranaine toe setttement. The Worksop AEF branch ith politica It bear the res. had called for their expulsion.

ponsibility foi Batchelor's Members of the Batchelor's and the settlement retreat before the Tories in Shefheld strike committee have Dubicy chalenged caborn debate the sett ement which

SCAPEGOAT

'only claims s ne negotiated'. Is it the case, implying the that was strikers' responsibility for accepting it. appears to indicate, that he is understood that the Cerborn's actions scapegoat tor

SUIKE

committee s repeated Caborn's conduct Communist Goes the been Party 'noted' on Caborn ? mittee Or is it trying to hush the

CORRECT

order 4 ErDosition the Party's Yorkshire G1S- committee trich has con- Will the challenge throwi the settlement fore cor- demned down by the Batchelor's strike rectly, committee be taken up? Ramelson. who tried 8 to December circulate Worker answer these and man from the Dege care cuesuons arisini CP's Yorkshire district leadership maintains a similar cully sulence. have unest _DeoDle prepared the way Batchelor's for the settiament THE BRITISH Communist Party statement on forced answer mist now. the Leningrad trial is nothing more than snivelling apology for judicial murder.

WEATHER

purpose is to clea Its main

BY ROBERT BLACK

all charges of the Kremlin and nd he Midlandsh wil anti-Semitism: England Midlands will Rämelson 'We repudiate those generally Cloud with apparent a a objection Britain and who occasional snow Elsewhere e sewnere this will be wintrv showers Imniv trial was inspired Inere hey but W districts by anti-semitism. will have some sunny berings it will ne cold with death Friends of or very cold in all districts.

two first the that score excebuons. have fors sed by For time-serving Orsook C Wednesday and been political unese Soviet Thursday: court

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crimes Stalin's death it since wiin sleet or snow at umes.

1ys—the statement savs: 'Friends' 'Many friends of the Soviet Union will be gravely con. trial of Basque socialists in performances imposed and hope. com cerned at the death sentences that Burgos. the 'cellist Mstislav Rostropo- No official reason was given higher ich, pianist Svyatoslav Richte authoritiec mute death sentences and violinist David Oistrakh. either of the changes thaco staff member without delay' But a can much nuer tha concerts were British Stalinist leaders of the Ure! nai lie Conservatory. Communist Party sink? he Mascou drusts .. and re act month Rastronovich stored because they were now wrote an open letter in defence better. they include Soviet the

A MONS

leaders approved writer Alex- naved i beethoven's trinie wretched 'statement'? saying: concerto for piano, violin and For the We think nnt 'cello. ayniain to me why statement goes on: en tan in tarature and art people absolutely incompetent No objection this field have final Planes kill 500 word! 'While dissociating ourselves 4tha critohac of plan alan from the anti-Soviet ramnaion come on tha hans. • BOMBERS of Emperor Haile being conducted by enemies death sentences passed on two Union the Soviet Selassie's Air Tews 'hi- Horce have way condoning crimes of the jacking' trial. killed 500 people near Keren type of which the defendants were accused. we believe A large proportion of Soviet village in N. Ethiopia, accord- court proceedings should ha musicians are of Jewish origin.

public. ing to a statement in Damas- been farlier this month Distrakh emphasis.) cus by an Eritrean Liberation cancelled a miannod tour So Gollan, Matthews, Spain in against the Army spokesman.

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These changes THE CONTINUITY in signifi- were cant for the renewed campaign the fight for Marxism in the industry for a nine- within hour day. the British working class le ates pr pore internatioish consists of a continual International delegates fight for principles and came from the building trade, many of them close collaborators theory. of Marx. The creation of the Lon- don Trades Council, in 1860, was This fight has been waged of equal importance; its first Secretary, George Odger, was to by Socialist Labour the be the International's only Presi- League in the teeth of hatred dent. Although Marx knew the limi- by all the revisionists of tations of trade unionism he was significance Marxism. equally aware of its and involved himself in the This hostility centres, naturally work of the International even enough, Leninism, with its on though he was engaged in the concept of a centralized, discip- preparation of 'Capital'.

lined, party to lead the working He wrote to Engels (Novem- class to power. These ber 4, 1864): are wrong to think they can attack Leninism I knew that this time real with impunity and remain 'true "powers" were involved both on followers' of Marx and Engels.

the London and Paris sides and For all Lenin's theoretical con- therefore decided to waive along wishevik with his struggle to cepts standing rule decline usual to and the Party build any such invitations.' the later Communist Inter- Marx saw that in England and national, direct develop- were France something new was ments of the teachings of Marx the defeats of emerging and Engels. 1848: the working class, if only This is above all true of Marx's a limited in was entering concept of the vanguard party, politics as an independent force.

its relationship to the working The inaugural address of the and the critical importance class International, drafted by Marx, of the fight for theory within it.

was directed, principally, to the Historically, although there new developments taking place was a tradition of international among English trade unions.

in the British labour activity But he knew that many trade movement from the French leaders the Inter- Revolution on, it was only when national merely as an extension Workingmen's the International of trade unionism Euro- Association (First International) pean plane to prevent the use of was formed in 1864 that there foreign blacklegs times of stable was and permanent strike action. organization to represent the Marx exercised great patience interests of labour throughout with leaders such as Odger who Europe. tended look at all to things through the narrow eyes of trade Centred unionism: but such patience was vital if the International was to The possibilities of this launched and new be successfully development was closely Marx was to get nearer to the Con- changes nected with in the developing movement. British trade union *It was difficult, he wrote very After the defeat of Chartism in to Engels on November 4, 1864, 1848 trade unionism tended to be 'to frame things so that our view confined to a layer of should appear in a form accept- privileged workers, 'labour able from the present standpoint the aristocracy' centred the of the workers' movement. gineering trades. few weeks the same people will But be holding meetings for the fran- even in this stratum changes occurred by 1860. The chise with Bright and Cobden. building trade It was the centre of will take time before the re- these developments. awakened allows the movemenT After a boom in the 1850s, by old boldness of speech. It will be the end of the decade the indus- to be fortiter in necessary re, try was in the midst of a reces- saunter in mode sion in which unemployment was Marx and, later Engels growing employers realized that the newly emerging and were attempting to reduce conditions wages. gave an opportunity OF IN Available from NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186A Clapham High St. London SW4.

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As Marx wrote later to one of his supporters, Bolte, (Novem- appeara ber 23, 1871): 'The International was founded in order to replace the socialist had, t or semi-socialist sects by a real organization of the working class for struggle. The original Statutes and Inaugural Address show this at a glance. On the other hand, the International could not have and th maintained itself if the course history already of had not smashed sectarianism. The devel- opment of socialist sectarianism and that of the real labour move- in inverse 'main ment always stand ratio to each other. And again in the same letter: 'Sects are justified (historically) so long as the working class is not yet ripe for an independent throw historical movement. As soon as it has attained this maturity all sects are essentially reactionary.

Nevertheless, what history estab- lishes everywhere was repeated history of in the the Inter- antiquated national. What is itself and tries re-establish to maintain its position newly acquired form, Within the While Marx, his polemic 1n against the old Owenite Social- Weston, demonstrated that ist trade unions were capable of improvements in the effecting workers' standards (see living "Value Price and Profit' for Marx's refutation ' of Weston's sectarian position) he also made clear the weakness of the trade unions. "They fail generally by accept- present relations ing the of capital and labour as permanent instead of working for their abolition'. Emancipation In his discussion on the future said they. of the unions Marx would have to break out of their if they were to narrowness develop: 'Apart from their original pur- they must now learn to poses, deliberately organizing act as centres of the working class in the broad interests of its com- plete emancipation. They must aid social and political every move tending in that direction.'

This attitude contrasted with that of the Anarchists who were develop either indifferent or hostile to unions. Proudhon, for example, opposed the 1864 Act which had came legalized the French unions: Italy 'I especially object to the new peasant law: association for the purpose of increasing or lowering wages priviles is entirely the same as associa- tion for the purpose of increas- of ing the prices of food and other commodities.' Proudhon and his followers bitter also voted against the adoption of the demand for the eight-hour • day as aim of the Inter- an national, on the ground that this on]r further encourage would 'state intervention'. this slogan anticipated Yet the campaigns of the late 1880s when thousands of unskilled workers took up the demand as part of their struggle to unionize.

It also became one of the slogans of the Second International on its foundation in 1889. Proudhon opposed was to political action and emphasized the 'free exchange' of products between independent producers as the means of emancipating the independent artisan. After Proudhon's death in 1865 went further with his Bakunin opposition to all forms of author- ity and centralism in the inter- national. It was in this struggle against : theory ns of hee eal hetre Bakunin ia the saa social relations of productior over economi Proudhon Promantrou Marx greates develop ment a dandma Markis velopme oe țee

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The second part of a series by The first part of which appea ber 15, 1974 which was an indispensable the- oretical prerequisite for Lenin's successful struggle against Kaut- The struggle against Bakunin in the years after 1864 were a great theoretical anticipation of the events of 1871, just as the fight against revisionism inside the Trotskyist movement since the Second World War has been an indispensable theoretical pre- paration for the revolutionary now developing situation throughout Europe. In other words, the Commune made and broke the Inter- national in its old form. Engels explained this in an important letter to Sorge (September 12-17, 1874): 'Actually in 1864 the theore- tical character of the movement was still very unclear everywhere in Europe, that is, among the masses. German communism did not yet exist as a workers' party, Proudhonism was too weak to be able to trot out its particular hobby horses, Bakunin's new balderdash had not so much as come into being in his own head, and even the leaders of the English trade unions thought the laid down in programme the preamble to the Rules gave them a basis for entering the move- ment. The first great success was bound to explode this naive con- junction of all factions. This the Commune, success was which was, without any doubt, of the International, the child intellectually, although the Inter- finger national did not lift a to produce it, and for which the International to a certain extent was quite properly held respon- When, sible. thanks to the Commune, the International had become a moral force in Europe, the row at once began.... Dis- integration, which was inevitable, set in.' Witch-hunt Matters came to a head at the Hague Congress of 1872. By this time many of Marx's erstwhile trade union collaborators had deserted the International in the face of the savage witch-hunt that followed in the wake of the Commune's defeat. It was at the Hague, after a bitter struggle, that Bakunin's followers were thrown out of the International, the powers of the Council were increased General and its headquarters removed to America from London. This marked the end of the International's effective life: Marx and Engels insisted that its centre of operations move across Anarchists would be unable te Atlantic regain control. Four years later BRUARY 14, 1971. 11 a.m. Young Socialists and All Trades Unions Alliance

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which appeared or: Decem- was formally the International wound But the deliberations at the Hague show very clearly that theoretical battles which the Marx and Engels had waged had This was recog- not been in valle nized by the Bakuninists at the Guillaume: Congress, notably by two great ideas run side by side in the movement, that of centralization powel hands of a few, and that of the whom free federation those the homogeneity of the economic conditions each has in country united behind the idea of com- mon interests in all countries.

"The cannot repre- movement of a single sent the conception brain. For the leadership of the there required no 1S movement General Council with authority. If it is asked "does the IWA head?" require no we answer On the other hand one of Marx's attacked the supporters anti-authoritarian trend in the Bakunin following terms: 'After the Commune, how can development? Have these people one Germa gains at least, surpassed barrica- not even German WOrKelS, hold that the Commune was dology?' So although organizationally overthrown mainly for want of Fur- the International ceased effec- authority in its usage. 1872 and tively to function after thermore, the nonsense of the not revived until 1889 with was shows up Second glaringly against the formation of the 1n the charge theoretical the the General Council of not International. continuity of Marxism had been having made a revolution.

'Are these good people *30 preserved. These formed the unscientific believe that lessons make řévolútions? Do foundation for the creation of a one can Second International on a much they still not know that revolu- wider basis at the end of 1887, tions arse nina nata which English and of historical a creation in are stages toe

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FROM THE MAIN street in Rio Lobo a girl rushes to tell a young man and his girl who are in her house: "They're the place. You'd coming to search better hide' The young man and the girl crawl under the bed, but first the man pours water over the first girl's hair. When two thug deputies break in they find her wash- ing her hair. They look round and the room, satisfied that there is no one else there, leave. The couple crawl out from under the bed and the girl begins to laugh. She says: Do you know what he said to me "One there? He under said, last kiss before dying"' And she bursts into un- controllable laughter, while the young man looks at her puzzled. It's that's scene very characteristic of the picture as whole, conventional Western situation, which is given a wry turn. 'Rio Lobo' is Howard Hawk's latest film. He is now aged 74 and this is his film. 45th feature He made his first in 1926. It's an impressive span of film-making. There are certain things to note about him. For instance he has never once made a film outside the confines of a commercial genre form. By this I mean that he has concentrated Westerns, on gangster movies, musicals, domestic comedy, all tried and trusted Hollywood products. In no sense is he an innovator of style or form. The stories that he has made are conventional enough, yet there is no evidence of a tension in his films to suggest that he is hampered or limited by the form. In fact he derives an obvious strength from the convention; he is at home in it, a master of it. And at the same time he is able to mark all of his films with a very personal and dis- Reviewed by BRIAN tinctive stamp. In this respect he cuts right across contemporary notions of creative expression, where brought to justice •and innovation and originality are punished: The contradiction considered to be of paramount emerges in every kind of this importance. film. He is much more in the Now Hawks has worked tradition craftsman, of exclusively through these grasping the technical require- genres. ments of his trade, and work- ing within this confine. He has concentrated on men of fighters, don't think is action, an gun it too hunters, fanciful to compare him gangsters, pilots, with, racing drivers. It is a world of say, a pre-Renaissance painter, who could paint Madonna after men-or rather a bourgeois of a Madonna puritan notion world of the within conven- men-who battle with difficult tional style and express him- situations, who have, above all, self through it. code morality which This seems to me to be an of Hollywood professionalism dictates.

aspect film- making which is too often dis- Being good enough' is a regarded. Critics of commercial constant theme and require- film-making ignore this particu- ment. lar process and denounce the From this flows a deter- product as soap opera rubbish.

cool- mination, courage, but it is one of the few cultural ness and resourcefulness.

forms of this epoch which has Cary Grant, John Wayne, created traditional certain Humphrey Hawk's Bogart, forms. classic heroes and stars, all em- The genre film is an expres- body this. sion American bourgeois mythology. It is the dramatic His with women can vye entering form which tries to resolve men only by their the contradiction between the world they morality, are in production capitalist mode of every sense supporting roles, and the ideology of the Ameri- either domineering and asser- dream, can in which every tive to prove themselves an man is equal, independent and equal, or resourceful props.

a pioneer, where every Cin- His best work is the most derella is the potential first complete expression of this. lady of the land and every His camera work is simple and newsboy the president. direct; he uses the from cut The Western, therefore, is one shot to the next to further the fight to make order out of fresh piere of information.

story emphasize a chaos through the Yet gun. that order itself threatens the There is a great sense of 'liberty' that created it.

movement and drive forward In the metropolis the gang- in his work. embodies ster the thrusting He works with his actors in dynamism of individuality and such a way as to discover the self help. Yet he must be nuances as he goes along. The Programme adopted by the Founding Conference of the Fourth International with the Statutes Fourth International

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more intimate they become with the character they por- tray, the richer and more inventive the performances become. That of discovery sense through the actor is a charac- teristic of his work, which generates surprise and elevates his work above the run of the mill and the predictable.

Although he chooses con- forms, ventional the creative surprise is in the reaction of the characters to their situa- tions. It is this more than any- thing that personal gIves a quality to his work. But what is the social and economic soil of the genre film? Its growth accelerated in the 1930s during the depres- sion, continued through the and war into the post-war period. The Hollywood system of production, of big studios and and stars contract directors and writers broke up at a point mid-1950s in the where an economic boom was beginning and television entered the mass media arena. The genre film then is the form of these earlier working- class defeats. It is the creation of whole mythology and mythical figures out of these defeats. Today we have a changed situation, a developing crisis of capitalism, particularly in America, a whole new political development and the emer- gence with completely different cultural demands. One would expect to see, therefore, this change reflected in the work of Hawks, whose very creative axis is in the genre film. And this is pre- cisely what we see in his last two films 'Eldorado' and now 'Rio Lobo'. The confidence of the experi- enced craftsman is, of course, still there. Both these films bear his

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ard Hawks • special stamp. What is own important though is that he is no longer able to accept at face value the values that have previously been the generating power of his work. In 'Eldorado' and 'Rio Lobo' the heroes are merely ageing and wry shadows of his former archetypes. John Wayne is ageing, fat, squeezed into his uniform. He still fights the same good. fight, still banishes the powers of evil and darkness. But what dominates in the films is the humour and irony.

And central to it is that in many ways Wayne is past it.

When Wayne wakes up one morning on the trail to find the young girl sleeping next to him, he says: 'Why didn't you sleep with him?', pointing to the younger man. She says: 'Well he's young able you're sort of comfort- He laughs and he accepts it wryly, but later it is his last remark in the film, as he stumbles away, wounded in the leg, leaning for support on a scar-faced girl. The old is giving way to the new. Wayne himself expresses a whole past mythology, but in a sense he's like the Dino- and Hawks is very saurus, conscious of this. There are no regrets in this film, no bitterness, merely a calm a man still wryness, involved in life but question- ing his values, his age in the light of new experience. It would be too easy to hold merely Hawks' own old age responsible for this, though this is, of course, an important factor. What has changed is the very social and economic basis of his work. This is what 'Rio Lobo' reflects. And is of more significance to my mind than most other critics allow, who merely see in this film evidence of a craftsman's waning powers.

THE MOST decisive danger confronting the working class is the to absolute refusal of the Labour and trade union leadership to fight the Tory goverhment. If these leaders have their way, the enormous potential strength of the organized working class will be pre- vented from stopping the anti-union laws and forcing the Tories to resign. This would only be the first step taken by the Tories towards whole series of dictatorial decrees and legal devices, with the aim of putting the working class in a totalitarian strait-jacket.

The Labour leaders, blinded by their subservient faith the capitalist class, ahead can see only a continuation of the capi- talist system they have always known and in which they fondly suppose themselves to be indis- pensable as bureaucratic negotia- and the 'alternative tors as government'. In the fight agains the anti- ing union laws, therefore, it is ab- solutely essential that the work- ing class comes face to face with the question of leadership, with the question of how the great strength of the labour movement is to be mobilized to defeat the Tory government. For this reason, Workers Press and the Socialist Labour League have, from the very day the anti- union laws were proposed, cam- paigned force the to union leaders and the Labour leaders to fight, insisting that they mobilize their followers by all methods, Strike, including a General to defeat the laws and force the Tories to resign. Alongside this campaign, we have developed, in the All Trades Unions Alliance, the Chartér of Basic Rights. This Charter takes up all the attacks made by the Tories, and Starring Johr Showing to force the To They are full of 1 cratizing the uni councils of actior conditions, mass even forcing the General forcing the Torie sumably all these be achieved ernment still in 1 vene in truggle always fi view for working-class shows that defence of basic rights winning leadersh attacks requires against these in the course of new methods of struggle leading the taking of working-class tunists. They cal power. Strike purely to The demands of the Charter-- protest that all the rights under attack, Industrial Relatio and all the cuts imposed, be re- stored - form the socialist pro- Class retains gramme for the only way out of the government, the present crisis, the programme mist Labour for a government to replace the leaders Tories. challenge. But the next government will be a Labour government, brought to suppose that i into power not by its parliament- could have a T ary experience and electioneering without anti-unic but by mass struggle. government und is It imperative therefore the unions are that we raise now the question An which is strong the responsibility of the Labour and trade union leaders the TUC to lead: in the fight against the Tories.

strong enough to All those who restrict the fight drawal of the law on the anti-union laws to the ing class then go level of protest-particularly the Tories in office? Stalinists, with their 'Liaison Committee for Defence of Trade the opportunist. Unions', and the 'International miners' Socialism' group-refuse to used the great mi raise these political questions. They let Tory 'protest' backing the trade and Labour union leaders off the hook. manoeuvres, The Stalinists welcome their to the National verbal bleatings as some sort of the right-wing le: 'contribution', , while the IS group dismall she stress on evae ray.

to take advantag ing all the stress on the of militants for and file'. into use path o and use The IS group goes further in taking the heat off the Labour leaving leaders by repeating that intact. Labour government would be no different from the Tories.

Worker' : In the December issue of Strike nor a comi •Socialist Worker' (organ of co-operation International Socialism'), without pressure there an attempt to deceive the and file. readers that these revisionists rank-and-file mo have moved over to campaign for built and develo General the unions to calla action capable o Strike anti-union against the lory proposals w laws. the way capitalists' But these 'state their line have not changed General Council.' to a revolutionary one. They remain within the limits of radical pro- no plan for a test, and they are adapting unions, in branch even the slogan of a General Strike to cils and factory these politics of protest.

force the trade ul Why does not 'Socialist Worker' to fight. It puts call on the TUC to call a General the trade union Strike against the, laws, but NOT that they do not ing John Wayne howing at the RIALTO, Lo o force the Tories to resign?

They are full of talk about demo- We ratizing the unions and forming councils of action, better pay and onditions, mass action, and now ven forcing the TUC to call a sounding for Strike, but not Strike. orcing the Tories to resign. Pre- umably all these fine things can e achieved with the Tory gov- ernment still in power. affiliated inter- Trotskyists, working-class leadership is every struggle always from the point of riew of preparing for the battle or working-class power, through vinning leadership of the masses n the course of their experience.

The state capitalists are oppor- mand to unists. They call for a General Strike purely to add weight to a a single issue, the on ndustrial Relations Bill.

called, After the protest, the ruling lass retains its direct hold on he government, and the refor- nist Labour and trade union are left free of any It is, in reality, a fatal illusion o suppose that in this period we a Tory government vithout anti-union laws, a Tory overnment under whose eyes he unions are 'democratized' i working An organized class vhich is strong enough to force he TUC to lead a General Strike, trong enough to force the with- Marxism. Irawal of the laws--is this work- It is ng class then going to leave the ories in office? Of course not!

always the line of any one he opportunist. In the recent strike, the Stalinists sed the great militancy and anti- ory determination purely as protest' backing for, their own nanoeuvres, and handed victory o the National Coal Board and he right-wing leadership.

révisionist Now the 'state capitalists' want o take advantage of the feeling f militants for a General Strike, nd use it to drive them back nto the path of protest, again the reformist leaders According to 'Socialist 'Neither a General trike nor a commitment to non- demonstration o-operation will be decided vithout pressure from the rank nd file. Unless an independent ank-and-file movement can be uilt and developed, no official ction capable of defeating the word Cory proposals will be taken and reluctant Will be cleared for a surrender by the ¡eneral Council.' 'Socialist Worker' puts forward plan for a campaign in the inions, in branches, trades coun- and factory • committees to orce the trade unions themselves • fight. It puts no demands on leaders except as hat they do not co-operate after union laws.

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home ore attacked ON MONDAY, February 15, 1971, Britain officially 'goes decimal'.

future From that date onwards, 13,400 tons of newly-minted bronze coins will join the now familiar 5p, 10p and 50p pieces and quickly replace acutely the old pennies, threepenny pieces and sixpences in our pockets.

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intest is for fight project force answer to the Tuesday, December 29, 1970 CARDINAL WYSZYNSKI, Archbishop of Warsaw, has wasted no time in replying to the offer of collaboration with the Catholic Church made by Poland's new Stalinist rulers.

He ended a War- saw Christmas Mass

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following the with advice to his flock: statement televised nd orsing Communist Party leaders is Be Gierek's not accuse. Dele 'DO speech. vengeance in polana. understanding. Forgive. stalinist hristian with ar. 'dialogue' advocate friend dinals - bullets and Feel compassion.' by tanks for the working class.

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party osmissee charges Special antı-semitism, despite the tac of the 14 defer that out apologists of Stalinism are in dants Slansky 'trial' role truth trends of toe bureau- The 'Daily Worker' cracy. The Polish hierarchy has Their plea is not for these Jews stood een allotted a special role victims Stalinist lustice dock together accused or holding down the work but for their own opportunist the nostle acts arainsu ing class and youth in this relations with 'left' (and often people s democracy or czecno traditionally Catholic Labourites slovakia. liberals and country. bureaucrats, Jews in- number "he ousted Party leader gentlemen of the clergy. volved' the 'Worker' went on Gomulka, though "Shoot but decided by the ready misdecent, plav off the Church against state conspirated and the anti the most advanced workers, way' sums up the posi- not by British slalt consol always kept a certain dis- tion of the CP leadership the authorities at all. tance between himself and Gollan must know from Only the "conspiracy' never the leaders Polish long experience that following the minds Catholicism existed- except in fighting those ultra-Stalinist The strikes DOnCe oureaucrat those polane anew stalinist crack- WInO concocted the script 1o1 cessors, especially • with he way through. the trial alnea Ine • chauvinist out E Europe and the Soviet Parusan 1ac Union. Rampant security Ton chie General Moczar, will be far Last purge In 1956, a British CP delega- less inhibited. tion the 'Dialogue' He Congress deBate toviet established that anti-Semitism had man more mader Communist Stalin, and though in practice Moscow was still con- Stalin's last nived at by the government purge. Already the pro-Stalinist by the so-called 'Jewish doc were Catholic World News', January 1 group rax. Tors

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ana Ine antl 1957. Slansky notonous tor us connecuions semitic trial col- with war-time Prague laborators, has published a Then, now, Gollan's as ANCHHR nine lews are be tried in Leningrad and an- and Kishinev, the capital of This is nothing less than a deliberately pogrom, gated terror campaign against Jews and any intellectual who can be Tarred wire une same cosmoboltan brusa British Communist Party many or whom are members. deenlv disturbed | leadershin's evasion the question, must force Palich Gollan out into the open on ISRAELI, Prime Minister Mrs Golda Meir is this issue as well. expected to announce today in the Tel Aviv duty _†ha every socialist and Knesset (parliament) that Israel will re-enter the and denounce Middle-East talks under UN envoy that foulest weapon 'peace' emitism wherever and Gunnar Jarring. reacuon whenever it is found The full cabinet dis- cussed the question Three Persian trials yesterday following the dropping of objec- within the Iranian 20 tions from of pro-Chinese composed in Telal prisoners has stand trial soo National Religious Tehran. charges of 'anti- Party, second largest state activity: The regime alleges Shah' c accusations that the were linked party in Israel's ruling this the banned Tudeh

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