Workers Press no. 340

Decimal price rise will slash

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LA

THE OPENING of the £1,250,000 propaganda whitewash campaign for decimal currency is little more than a Tory confidence trick.

There can be no doubt Petrol rise that D-Day - Monday, February 15, 1971—will be the signal for general price rises, coupled with all-out effort by 'round employers SHELL and BP petrol costs 2d LO The trend is clear for all to today- down' hourly wage rates. a gallon more from the third rise this year!

company spokesman satu i she prudent to expect expected, the Tories, company yesterday an- ane mie wison government nounced a but before them, have done and move round this up to a 2d rise.

covers arades petrol. derv, gas oil, burning oils and An increase in the in the prices of nature their real petrol, a plans. Spokesmen for Esso anu indication inflation The employers have Total usually quickly SuiC fosaid a he sittiton wole cauls mato tue value or wares received continuous Last summer most garages situation be stream ot material trom the Decimal Currency Board to gallon considered and repeated this only last month.

StarcHell prepare them maue tale. changeover to take courage them vantage these measures Lationalizalon ana productivity schemes.

'Soft soap' For millions workers who are already facing the increasing onslaught living standards their there is to be weeks of propa- six gạnda soft soap CUl them that all is well THE TORY government is wasting no time in

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from Turther the truth. oiling up the state machine for continual sur- veillance and repressive measures i nere an ominous against all militants and the working class as a whole.

ing mention in the DCB's lavish campaign material The appeal tribunal hearing of the orites and wages. vital issues of into Rudi Dutschke's request

BY PETER READ

remain in Britain have Yesterday's this Tuesday's DCB anxiety Home Office could justify this reports on acuon in view orune The tribunal's decision will Birkett report.' probably due nowa

LOIS

made clear Loat next week.

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more security cases telephone tap- and more questions have been ping would be carried out asked about its procedure.

warrant signed by the Home secretary. features denial Dutschke's right to know Justification central case against him allu Ine CrOss exainine But the main justification witnesses making accusatory was that major subversive or evidence. With just a few changes in Ut peast suostantial the law, such rights could grounds must always denie of the gone menes denied present. Economist' is there the 'The em- security services. phatic: 'In this case, were clearly no such grounds'.

Denied right telephone tapping After all, authorized oreanizations auth the Special Branch seale *subversive' and declared

DCB

chairman Lord Fiske hounded during the McCarthy hand to pry Iree washes hands witch-hunts the United where i wishes. States denied right the were The Socialist Labour League to know the evidence against press conference maintain is no stranger to not-so-secret them or even the right to a this silence. state tampering with mail, 'The Guardian' even Only nearing. telephones and telegrams. 'there that are "The Economist' savs that migh to horse the labo fears that the move will be machinery im- the new tor to force campaign migration appeal was exploited to mark up prices admit that that oreigr unThe Tory plan is clear.

sovereil had could not gain Deen Issued

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power Know- The government is throw- edge the opening ot Its mail atten security had strongly sug- te ekee the thinnest information aside oy genDerately involving ten- façade gested that this keeping a watch immigration se ves practice. appeal and then cross examin price

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chairman ing security men. Bur the Labo cites are lied Lord Fiske would contrary wasnes hIs 'But journal no-one. cae established AaHas ol une whole afair comments give sug- placuice the lories are closing down gested information of that kind.

Dutschke both the Prices and Incomes the agent of a foreign power.'

Board and the Consumer Implication question Council. seconal major Eco almise: raised by "The aiso words. olner The implications of the monopolists are *One of the nastiest under- Dutschke Case given their head and currents at hearing Was mistakaoy cear that the nant class is suspicion that the WOrKLIS the defend him inseparable aurnor. subjected to an atack had attempted from the struggle Iles to bule packets, Ineir wage the basic Their the use work- way of steep price rises.

ing against Tory Yet there has been indeed would increasing teresting know how to the

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state repression. workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

•HURSDAY DECEMBER 31, 1970 • NUMBER 340

PRICE 6d

FINAL TOTAL

Stalinists £1,423 19s 7d whitewash sever before there out, campaign. Sur the Devey Ramelson of the Communis Parters resed to slander the redeter affair re continu litically orkers for the SHEFFIELD Stalinists are now attempting to ahing to comple our special whitewash the men responsible for the now notorious affair of Terry Devey-the ex-convenor Ton thu can wrapping who ended a key reinstatement strike when he accepted a €3,000 cash pay-off.

Send Tuesday, the

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

resed one and whitewash was not a Party member the Sheffield Comelinist Party is that thei said public and the com whic member coolallls lictment of all the weve. no time in ods, Sheffield, ding a * She fact that in domin the ndicates tha who shocki retreats in the city's industria At Tuesday's meeting, only Free Burgos 16! Airport ban on Black Spanish Spanish goods? trade! - YS

YOUNG

Socialists Basque, were joined by Catalan, Galician and Spanish exiles on Tuesday Cousins might call action night when they braved snow, sleet and slush in London mara on te spanish empasse demanding the release of the 16 Basque revolu- AS DICTATOR Franco prepared a nationwide tionaries held in Burgos jail.

television statement marie one *banner tences yesterday, a T&GWU official threatened cond that Spanish goods might be blacked at airports recommended against accept- none ale Spain had become have had real con Is would he the hirst ye have to

BY JOHN SPENCER

action apart from protest natonal by British trade unionists

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since the Burgos trial be- Honary means to die Fanci Bone the herationate o gan. But there appear to Tsider Pokes Tor seemed no no plans to place a Repression black on Spanish goods in sarts had tes- and out of British docks.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

e attended a me shinken it send and, tences Launched one mate Celebrote i Cousins told Wor- protest now. ikely in the seen are mite 20 years of the tainly my hit if there is recommend socialisi youth poper chath seite these Spanish ambassador more than appalling Determination

KEEP LEFTI

Shea has anything to do

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NO ACTION

G&MWU sets up any acre cene said,not taking Saturday January 2, 1971 at 2.30 p.m.

East India Hall when these people the BA 'watchdog' body Bapen to be i East India Dock Rd, London E14 want to see Helens IS SO Has greeted ing at the Bit National Special establi French n's right-vies speaking Photo their tin hats No oner Gas lan es here i can tell you anat actio Contest Competition plant, askec Lewere beforeard thi report to be given by Aileen Jennings, Editor of Keep Left 3ss blacking Spanis Edward Heart, bloke called

G&MWU'S

thic thin The Dance to the Uptights' in the evening TICKETS 7s 6d Apply to: 186a, Clapham High Street, London SW4.

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said.

Decimal price rise will slash THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LAI THE OPENING of the £1,250,000 propaganda whitewash campaign for decimal is currency little more than a Tory confidence trick.

There can be no doubt that D-Day - Monday, Petrol rise February 15, 1971—will be the signal for general price rises, coupled with all-out effort by employers to 'round The trend is clear for all to the third mise this yeari see. down' hourly wage rates. lOre A comnany shokesman said the "it would be prudent to expect and the person Theon and insterday The an- government but more risest them, have move "hai and

TRID

Gone al realers were exnected their power covers all of round this up to a 2d rise.

to keeD the fuel oils oil, burning oils working class ignorant ahout An increase in the price of their The real nature Spokesmen netroi. a hesic matewial. Esso and plans sure inflation The employers have inchantion Total who usually quickly eating into the value of wages.

received continuous Tollow a competitor's nrice rise stream of material the Last summer most —caid the cituation. would he

TOIL

Decimal Currency Board and statement gallon and considerer repeated this only last month.

made later. them orepare and changeover Coltage them to tate 20. vantage ot theca marcused accelerate rationalization and productivity schemes.

'Soft soap' For millions of who are already facing the onslaught living standards there is to be six weeks of prona.

ganda "Soft con THE TORY government is wasting no time in vince them that all ic well further from Nothing is the truth. oiling up the state machine for continual sur- Aminanc veillance and repressive all measures against absence of all but a militants and the working class as a whole.

ing mention in the DCB's material lavish of the prices and wites. Vita Issues o

BY PETER READ

Britain Yesterday's deepened newspaper anxiety Home Office could justify this score innew of the tribunal's decision will Birkett report? nrohany not he made known Thid mada pse that in until ney+ hirt more security cases telephone tap- and more questions have been ping would be carried out asked about its procedure.

warrant signed by the Home are was me deny bite secreary features denial Dutschke's right know Tustification against him central case the nower croce examine But the justification witnesses making accusatory was that major subversive or evidence. involved. saving actiny was With inst a fow chandad in law, such rights could the grounds must always be denied to anyone present. of the government's Coonomict ic security services. 'Tho am phatic: "In this case, there were clearly no such grounds'.

Denied right telephone tapping now After all, organizations authorize Special Branch being scale Hariarar chairmar Lord

SACR

haundod during the Mororthr hand given tree washes hands witch-hunts the United where it wishes? States denied the The Socialist Labour League evidence know against confarpare maintaine ic no ctranger to not_co-certa them or even the right to a thic cilanno tampering mail. with "The Guardian' even Only hearing. telephones and telegrams.

that 'there Economist' says that "The exploited to mao a pill e that the will be the new machinery for im. migration annal was ant been issued admit unduly Tory plan is clear.

so that agents of a foreign warrant could not gain know. of its mail after security techniques the onening he anuarnment ic thanta. information had strongly sug. ino ocide aran the thinnoct regular façade of keeping a watch aactor thor thic wac immigration on phile practice.

DCB

scha mis ing security men. Put tho Iehanpitoo manlind Fiske washes Lord would contrary "Rut hands of the whole nrnno' tho give affair, established practice sug- namponte the Tories information of that kind. are cocino down gested that Mr Dutschke both the pricac and Incomac the agent of a foreign power. Consumer Ragna second question Implication Council. mator *The also Pacer words, the Economist': The implications of the are monopolists Ditche it •na of tha martinet undon given their head and the currents at the hearing was that the fight Wantino gi clear the suspicion that the to defend him subjected to an attack ities had case more th their trom _the strngale hafana by tele thone case by the use of their packets, case ware nrice rices against Tory ino Vot there increasing haen not government how the state repression. taracting to lunar

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5. The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY DECEMBER 31, 1970 • NUMBER 340

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FINAL TOTAL

Stalinists £1,423 19S 70 whitewash the Devey affair headers for SHEFFIELD Stalinists are now attempting to whitewash Licl responsidie lor the now notorious affair of Terry Devey—the ex-convenor who ended a key reinstatement strike when he accepted a £3,000 cash pay-off.

day, the ther emera district of. Engie

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

man voted against and he restates were made and that a airding role in the Daved ember Geome nistor part in ne Cabing forces invoicement of al tic pa Because a teadr, Alliance the at Batchelor's was fired for oficial seven-ne tended for suppli deadlock retreats in the citys industria Free Burgos 16! Airport ban on lor's, Black Spanish Devey Spanish goods? trade! - YS mother over sere e YOUNG Socialists were joined by Basque, Catalan, Galician and Spanish exiles on Tuesday Cousins might call action night when they braved snow, sleet and slush an am men to All to march on the Spanish embassy in London demanding the release of the 16 Basque revolu- AS DICTATOR Franco prepared a nationwide tionaries held in Burgos jail.

television statement on the Burgos death sen- Headed tences yesterday, a T&GWU official threatened тgо31,6 mmended against accept- that Spanish goods might be blacked at airports.

and no ee grition Spain had become This would be the first could

BY JOHN SPENGER

apart from protest nave by British trade unionists

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set to the Chi me no since the Burgos trial be- Basc square, unarcher But there appear to gan. tionary means to fight Franco consider poke Tory mean- no plans to place a mough protest would be gerte mas ained a continuous vai Repression black on Spanish goods in and out of British docks.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

held a is ever since these evil sent people attended a this Celebrote John Cousins told Wor tences hed the marct mai then protest now.' likely it the ser nuted tonight. That's 20 years of the nationa editor Mike Banda an oficials rt. I shal edin nor take part th socialist youln paper death sentences. sufficient. trial Determination onder docks it

KEEP LEFT!

Beho regi saidbout this placency to outrage, trial, • heats coid the Spanion with itned has anything to do plans

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NO ACTION

G&MWU sets up anY action, he say not taking Saturday January 2, 1971 at 2.30 p.m.

East India Hall 'watchdog' body East India Dock Rd, London E14

BROADSIDE

greeted Special National Speaking Photo Bere i can tal you that ein Contest • Compelon Team ler heaterments on the sma somewhere beforeeard this par vil provide neeting las report to be given by Alleen Jennings, Edltor of Keep Left athi keis called blacking: Spanish ' in goods. Dance to the Uptights' in the evening.

difficultiesn actly forth. and in s been call for it, TICKETS 78 6d Apply to: 186a, Clapham High Streat, London SW4.

office

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which a defendant has the right ON DECEMBER 18, the expect verdict within biggest trial ever to take reasonable length of time!

The bosses of Chemie Gruenen- place in W Germany thal are now free about go having ended. their prontable £16 graciously placed some mil- lion at the disposal of the 2,600 After two-and-a-half years children W Thalidomide in Germany. of legal wrangling, involving an estimated 400,000 yards The publicity given to the case in the early 1960s and subsequent of tape-recorded material, revealed the

COUL

SECTOR

283 days of hearings and an reality of the workings of drug research and marketing for expenditure of more than private profit. £700,000, the trial of seven Chemie Gruenenthal began of the firm World War executives Second after the as firm small pharmaceutical Chemie Gruenenthal - W under the leadership of Hermann German manufacturers and Wirtz, member of an old, established family in the deter- distributors of the drug gent and cosmetic business.

Thalidomide-was called off.

The head of Gruenenthal's re- Despite overwhelming évidence search laboratory 1946 from was that the drug was responsible for Dr Heinrich Muckter, a qualified 6,000 de- the deaths over chemist and doctor, who had formed children, the charges have worked under the German been dropped. Army's control during the war at the Institute tor Typhus and The company accused of was Virus Research at Krakow in causing bodily harm through Poland. neglect and with and intent negligent killing and violation of Experiments carried out at the the drug laws. Institute led to the deaths of number of prisoners from the in- Now drug manufacturers every- famous Buchenwald concentration will of where breathe sigh camp. relief. However, the Polish authorities They can afford to smile be- commented: 'Muckter was loyal cause the proceedings ended to his German superiors, but thanks to the United Nations committed criminal agains the Polish population. cts Charter of Human Rights, under Important reading

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Thalidomide was discovered in 1954 as a by-product of research into drugs for reducing obesity and lessening the risk of heart disease. Money spinner Muckter quickly latched on to the new substance-labelled K17 —as a possible money-spinner in the expanding market for seda- The incentive was con- siderable. Muckter's ensured contract him 1 per cent of the .com- pany's turnover and at its peak subsequent success the drug's netted him a weekly income of €600. Muckter and two associates, Dr Herbert Keller and Dr Wilhelm Kunz, carried out a series of tests on • animals. The results seemed promising.

The drug apparently could be taken in large doses without death resulting-a striking ad- vantage over barbiturates, with their unpleasant side-effécts and dangers of suicide. In 1965, commenting on the tests, Swedish scientists said : animal experi- "The number of THE PRINCIPLE of imperi non - collaboration in Africa was an expression of the class struggle which Marx said was the basis of change in slave, feudal and capitalist societies. Its opposite is collab- oration and African nationalism fits into this category. It begins with the idea that all black people' should unite and ends with a call to all 'black' workers to unite with 'black' capitalists who are the subservient vassals of the 'white' imper- ialists. Nationalism African nationalism inevitably drags workers under the heels of the imperialists. Into their their mines, their plantations, Commonwealth, their apartheid, Nations Organiza- their United tion and their Organization of African Unity. African nationalism began as a European idea. It was particu- larly favoured by the British Liberals and social democrats of .

ne Fabian Labour Party and bi he trade union bureaucracy These groups were used by the

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the drug ments i small diat because tests was came in 1958, when far too small; that of claimed to be safe for use was This frequency side Was this; loW pregnant women. could noi detected, based' by effects be on tests carried out though these are important for Di Augustin Peter Blasiu at his a sedative like Thalidomide private Munich nursing home.

and very necessary if the substance is Blasiu, who retained by was to be declared unpoisonous. the company, later said that the used 'The conventional toxicological Mothers and on ration cases an only on nursing and pharmacological tests. are Kunz, Keller most unsatisfactory. never given pregnant women. tried He denied knowledge of the use Muckter open by creating and hoodwink the reader of his name for advertising pur- a false impression of the scope of poses. their tests. By 1959 sales were booming and increasing number of an However, Gruenenthal pressed complaints trickled into the com- ahead with clinical trials under pany's headquarters, linking the the supervision nine experts, use of the drug with a nervous findings who discussed their at the end of 1955. disorder called peripheral neur- The itis. had in all Four favour of the essentials been detected by Dr four and Jung in 1955. drug, uncertain one against - hardly an encouraging Gruenenthal's response to grow- outcome. In addition, the main ing criticism was either dismiss- supporter-Dr Hermann Jung- ive or hostile. had already detected serious side effects of dizziness, constipation, of temperature, shiver- lowering ing and buzzing in the ears.

Nevertheless, his opinion, K17 a substance have in 'we which at the correct dose level has no undesirable side effects'. Further tests were carried out and side effects again serious Muckter and his were detectea. employers were, therefore, well of at least some of the aware drug's harmful powers. 1, 1957, On Tuesday, October amid a blaze amn ched on to the drug was the market under the brand Advertisements Contergan. ap- peared 50 medical journals In and letters were sent out 200,000 doctors. At the centre of the sales cam- paign was the claim, repeated time and again, that the drug was completely and non-poisonous safe. Tremendous success This was the basis of its tremendous success. It was ex- 50 countriés ported nearly throughout the world and manu- under licence under 51 factured brand names. In W Germany, the drug could be bought freely the Britain a pre- counter, while in scription was needed. It was estimated that a million German alone took people Contergan and world sales reached 20 million pills a month.

Sales of the drug finally ac- counted for half of Gruenenthal's turnover ! The second and fateful step in the company's sales campaign

CLASS STRUGGLES IN

BY N.

MAKANDA

imperialist bastions in their own struggle for liberation. The defence of the USSR and China is inseparable from their anti-imperialist own struggles. As long they under foreign imperialist economic doeseation military or political the toilers eatin America rend semi- oppressed Africa, have, of necessity colonial Asia, called to organize what imperialists to train and corrupt "liberation movement'. the petty-bourgeois leaders in The semi-colonial bourgeoisie, the colonies which later became quasi-tribalists and semi-feudalists 'independent'. constantly divert, betray and Through the 'home' Labour crushi the anti-imperialist aristocracy and the semi-colonial the imperialist-capi- bourgeoisie talist class Solidarity maintains rule throughout the world. The social-chauvinism under- This reinforces the necessity lying this twin corruption spread for the formation of workers' and the from imperialist camp into Workers' States peasants' parties politically inde- the producing pendent 'national the agency of imperialism knöwn of the hour. Stalinism. geoisie, even when combined Stalinism is not the product of military action against imperial- socialism, but of capitalism. ism (e.g. Israel is regurea. The possible independent political OF- by the isola- and inherited ganization of the toilers of Africa tion backwardness of the Workers' States

(USSR,

means a non- China, Europe) collaborationist anti- imperialist which are capital- movement. themselves products This, means solidarity ism. in turn, with the

USSR

and China Semi-colonial creations of social revolution, a but enly in mens struggle against the collaborationist _Doll- African nationalism operates cies of Stalinism, including the semi-colonial state machinery Maoism, in itself. Africa| for imperialism, especially for the There will be many struggles British and the French. It is the between the oppressed of Africa enemy of the oppressed and British governments, whether African and the workers. they are Labour or Tory. Stalinism, by its recognition of There is no difference between the right of Israel to exist as the Tories and the social-demo- UN, state, its support for the cratic Labour group. They are including the intervention in the both imperialist. They both share, Congo and future UN action however unequally, the vested against the Namibia sWArissed people of interests of British imperialism in Africa), its backing Africa. OAU and for the the African African workers have nothing Ethiopia, quisling regimes of in with social demo- Comon Kenya and elsewhere, has helped crats. imperialism to stay in its African But they have everything in saddle. the common workers Britain. But at the the came time toilers of Africa regard the Capitalism is their common

USSR

and China, together with British labour cannot be enemy. Workers' the other States, free as so long as African labour revolutionary examples and anti- is in chains. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1971. 11 a.m.

ALEXANDRA

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At this stage, the worst fate But time running out. In was February, 1961, the medical pro- that was envisaged the fession piani in of thril 10, the sales learned that the nerve that followed prolonged tion. damage use of Contergan was permanent.

department reported: By the summer of that . year, *From our side everything must the drug was put on prescription be done to avoid putting it on by health authorities in a num- prescription, since already a sub- ber of German provinces, and stantial amount of our turnover sales began to drop. from over-the-counter comes sales.' But the worst was still to This was after medical evi- dence that Contergan had caused Severe nerve damage of the most severe kind'. malformations Faced with a serious threat to profits, the company pulled out By November 1961, it was the stops in an effort to stem clear from independent sources thé tide. in Australia and Germany Influence was used to delay the that there was a link between the publication of Contergan in pregnancy unfavourable re- ports while strenuous efforts were and the sudden rash of babies "successful' publicize made being born with mal- treatment. formations.

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2.41 London. 2.30 Honeybun *Sinbad the Sailor'. With Douglas Fair uus Diary. 12.40 O'Hara. show Sin bad banks re Maureel Faith for life. wants to nna tne Alexance. Thursday, December 31, 19701 The previously rare sight of babies born with flipper-like limbs iwas becoming a common occurrence. The frequency of such a tragic event was estimated at less than one in every 100,000 births. In 1960, between one and two of every 1,000 infants born in Hamburg were deformed. In W Germany, the main at- tack on the drug came from Dr Widukind. Lenz (now professor of Human Genetics at Muenster University) who subsequently be-.

came the prosecution's main wit- ness at the trial. The Company tried desperately to discredit Lenz and his evi- dence, but to no avail. Muckter was the last of the management to yield. The drug was withdrawn and a circular sent out to customers announc- ing that 'publicity has removed the basis for scientific discussion'.

But the battle had just begun.

Gruenenthal was not admitting publicly that the Company was to blame for the deformed births.

Not until January 1968Mover ten years after the launching of Thalidomide - did the Chief Criminal Court in Aacher, decide that there was sufficient eyidence for a trial. The Company threw all its massive resources into the fight spending £2,000 a day on public relations and hiring 18 of the best. lawyers in W Germany.

Dr Scriber, a lawyer represent- ing some of the plaintiffs, re- marked bitterly: "The defence is manipulating the Press and is admitting it proudly. Chemie Gruenenthal is also paying considerable incomes to medical experts and is creat- ing the climate for the pious be- lief - but not the knowledge- that the defendants are innocent.

'W Germany's pharmaceutical industry, or its lobby, has taken as well. They are over this task increasing their pressure on so- and called free independent science and on the free and in- dependent Press.' The drug giants finally won.

In each country where manu- facturers were brought to trial, there have been no convictions.

The settlements have been expen- sive (sometimes), but the work- ings of capitalist medicine are once again securely hidden be- hind a respectable façade.

The Thalidomide case will be dismissed as an 'exception'.

Certainly, a catastrophe of that magnitude is exceptional. What is important is the drive for profit that culminated in disaster.

The proposals of the Tory the dismanțle government to National Health Service and to 'encourage' private medicine can when ' we be. seen in context examine the history of the drug Thalidomide. the Great. 5.50 London. 6.01 Report Report Wales. 6.35 • Cross- West. 6.18 roads. 7.00 London. 12.50 Weather.

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BY CHARLES PA

THE CONGO is Africa's second largest country, and potentially its rich- est. It is a country where all the contradictions of imperialism have been thrown together in sharp and violent contrasts. Poverty and malnutrition co-exist with vast mineral wealth; subsistence farming and food-gathering economies exist alongside profitable mines and plantations; pri- mitive tribal communities exist within the same society as modern industrial cities, and an organized African of civilization', population. take their profits. L' I V' - U. They have seen their coun try's future being discussed by organizations international dedicated to world "peace', • as the prelude to its being plunged into bloody war. The United Nations inter- vention in the Congo in 1960 was the second time that the country's fate was decided in the councils of nations by a gathering of the great powers.

The first occasion on which of in the Congo was disposed an imperialist "Thieves' Kit- chen' was at the Berlin Con- ference when the of 1884, assembled imperialists of Europe agreed to recognize, as the government of the Congo, the International African Association', which had been Leopold II, King founded by of the Belgians. • This Association proclaimed itself to exist 'for the purpose ot promoting the civilizatior and commerce of Africa and for other human and benevo- lent purposes'. What noble and philan- thropic aims! And with a crowned head of Europe in charge of the endeavour! In actual fact, as the 'Congo Free State', the Association founded by King Leopold was responsible for subjecting the African people of the Congo to the most bloody and rapaci- ous colonialism. Early visitors to the Congo had been impressed by the thriving native commerce and of the evident vigour people and their culture.

'Flanders' They remarked on the 'en- terprise' shown by the river their highly- and peoples, developed trading connections with the interior. They de- scribed thriving native villages, with busy forges and tanneries.

On land won from the forests, the people were farm- ing sugar-cane, ground-nuts, sweet potatoes, millet, maize, and bananas. They had veget- able patches which, according to a Belgian traveller, were as finely kept as any in Flanders'.

The Congo before its con- quest by Belgian imperialism was no African Utopia; but nor was it just the wild jungle which we in imperialist of the United Nations

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countries like Britain have been brought up to imagine.

Savagery and violence, the 'law of the jungle', were brought into the Congo by European 'civilization'-or, to be precise, by the most savage and bloodthirsty beast of all, capital, 'red in tooth and claw', bringing the laws of its own jungle. European travellers who ex- plored the Congo basin in the latter part of the 19th century estimated its population to be something over 20 million. By !!Il, when the Belgian admin- istration took an official cen- sus, it had been reduced to eight-and-a-half million people.

Profit What King Leopold and his capitalist associates wanted in the Congo was rubber, ivory, and and, above all — profit; profits there were to be had.

One of the companies to which the King farmed out the territory, concessions in the Abir Concessionaire Com- pany, made a net profit in six years of £720,000 on a paid-up capital of £9,280. Its shares were at one time being specu- lated in at £900 to f1,000 per share. Shares in concessionaire companies rose so rapidly they became negotiable in tenths of a share. Many a Belgian politician or other influential figure held shares, and hence a Congo vested interest in defending the system of exploitation of the Congolese people. It was a very bloody system.

Nowhere in history have the people submitted voluntarily becoming exploited to an proletariat. Some force is necessary. Here in Britain we had forcible Enclosure of Common lands; the crushing of peasant revolts; institution of the slavery in the Scottish coal- fields; the 18th-century penal code; and the Highland clear- ances-all part of the process by which the mass of people were deprived of any share of 'their and trans- formed forcibly tyless class workers, available for exploitation.

Capitalism is bloody and violent. In establishing its rule in the Congo murdered millions of people. Atrocities The methods of Belgian colonialism led to atrocities with which only the Nazi rule in Europe can be compared.

First the colonialists estab- lished an army in the Congo.

Then, in 1891 and 1892, they passed edicts under which all the soil of the Congo which was not already cultivated was to belong to King Leopold II; and the people were forbidden to sell rubber or ivory, but were to pay it as a 'tax' to the Belgian officials. To make sure this tribute was extracted was the job of the army. • In 1899, a Congo Free State official told a British consular official about the methods he used: 'His method of procedure was to arrive in canoes at a the inhabitants of which their arrival; the soldiers were then landed, and commenced looting, taking all the chickens, grain, etc., out of the houses; after this they attacked the natives until able to seize their women; these women were then kept as hostages until the Chief of the district brought in the required number of kilo- grammes of rubber. rubber having been "The

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brought, the women were sold back to their owners for a couple of goats a-piece, and so he continued from village to village until the requisite amount of rubber had been collected.' Naturally this sort of treat- ment met with resistance from the people, and it took 20 years of fighting to establish white rule, during which the methods used by the colonizers became more and more bar- barous. It became customary for the troops to kill and mutiliate recalcitrant villagers. 'Each time the corporal goes

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out to get rubber, cartridges are given to him. He must bring back all not used; and for every one used he must bring back a right hand!.

As to the extent to which this is carried on, he informed me that in six months they, the State, on the Momboyo River had used 6,000 cartridges, which means tht 6,000 people are killed or mutilated. It means more than 6,000, for the people have told me repeatedly that soldiers kill children with the butts of their guns.' (Evidence given by Mr Clark, an American mission- ary, for the Casement report.)

Besides the actual massacres, there was the effect on the native people of destroying their means of living. Accord- to the British ing consul, Thesiger, reporting on the 1908 Kasai region, which in produced 50 per cent of the Congo's rubber : "The rubber tax was SO heavy that the villagers had no time to attend even to the necessities of life • the capitas (armed soldiers) told me they had orders not to allow the natives to clear the ground for cultivation, to hunt or to fish as it took up time which should be spent in making rubber. Death 'Even so, in many cases the natives can only comply with the demands made on them for rubber by utilizing the labour of the women and children. In consequence, their huts are falling to ruin, their fields are uncultivated, and the people are short of food .. and dying off ... This district was formerly rich in corn, millet and other food- stuffs . A saying grew up in the Upper Congo region, Botofi bo le iwa-'Rubber is death': Profits for the European

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"This rubber traffic is steeped in blood, and if the natives were to rise and sweep. every Upper white person on TENe Congo into eternity, there would still be left fearful balance to their credit.'

In 1908, the 'Congo Free State' the 'Belgian became Congo', as Belgian parlia- the capitalists, death for the Con- ment voted to annex the terri- If violence has golese people. tory. been harvested in the Congo, we should recognize who Criticism of King Leopold's sowed the seeds. system and its atrocities had helped this bring To quote again the Ameri- step, but there were two more can missionary Mr Clark: fundamental why was taken. 'It is blood-curdling to see them (the soldiers) returning 'Rane-offs' with hands of the slain, and find hands of the young bigger children amongst the In his search for more 'rake- ones evidencing their bravery offs' for himself Leopold had The rubber from this started granting. new district has of cost hundreds

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sions to outside interests, such I have lives, and the scenes Com- as the American Congo witnessed, while unable to help pany - and this aroused the the oppressed, have been al- share-buying public in Belgium most enough to make me wish to take a fresh interest in the I were dead... Congo. The second reason was that the Congo of as rubber was now declining in importance relative the Congo as a source of mineral wealth. In 1906, Belgian and British interests had come together in Union Minière • a monopoly concern to exploit the copper and other of Katanga. In the same year, a railway company, BCK was founded to develop a railway system link- ing Katanga with the ports. third company founded in that Forminière, which year was granted exclusive mining rights in Kasai and other parts of the Congo. All three of the companies group minière, were dominated hu one giant Belgian the Société trust, ticipating Générale, but other British interests were also involved the Ryan-Guggenheim American

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has been government LEFT-WING student clamouring all year for harsher Nail Karakan of Ankara imnlemented by measures government the particularly against the students. university in Turkey was Following of sharp series murdered last Friday clashes students and workers with the police and the troops when right-wing extrem- this vear the early covermen drafted series of repressive ists attacked him and the measures relation to universities. some of his friends. These would allow police student organization head.

The brutal of manner facilitate the call-up of quarters, militant students to force them to Karakan's death is a measure and heir net a special satad of of the increasingly sharp squad and enable special university police olice to enter cam- conflict between the students to puses amongst and the working class on one students. Even these measures, however, side and the government, some were enone n

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backed by right-wing arch- tions of the right who demanded immediate declaration of reactionaries, on the other.

martial law. ments And although apparently reluc- laws, Left-wing students have recently been demonstrating tant at that time to move in and Turkish declare such law, Premier In against the talks over the future of Cyprus.

Demire was to do so later in They demanding that the the year in June. and are for settlement should killed conditions For a whole period the national be the evacuation of all foreign newspapers talked openly of the hases the icland and a non- dangers of military to An coup national Cyprus regime (that is oust the Demirel government.

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Their fear was of both the Turkish). right wing's growing impatience In the course of these most for more repressive measures and Kocaeli recent demonstrations Ankara the militancy of increasing not was occupied by university stu- but bombs on u The students ThA and Gents petrol were organized working class as well.

thrown at the increasingly commander un- Premier Sulieman Events finally came to a head DODUaT were Demirel of the Justice Party.

Tune when the government The extreme right in Turkey's amend- attempted to introduce

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with fren shares For- bank Pare , a Bones cos Lad Tanganyika able holding in Union Minere: with trood one people union leaders

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The new Belgian Congo ad- ministration confirmed the con- cessions granted to these big monopolies — and granted an- other one, to the Lever Bros subsidiary HCB, for palm oils.

It also legislated to intro- duce free wage-labour. So, in place of the brutal pillaging carried out by King Leopold's regime there was to be modern monopoly capital-

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tion taking place even in some sections of the army the com- mander of the Turkish air force warned of the danger in his report to the National Security Council and as an antidote called for widespread economic and social reforms. what the gowernment capnot so.

however, is precisely With steadily-deteriorating a economic situation staring him in the face Premier Demirel finds himself assailed from the extreme right on one side and from the students and workers on the other. At the beginning of the year he lost a vote of confidence from the parliament's Lower House

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ism and an African proletariat.

It was still exploitation, still colonialism. In fact, forced labour con- feature of tinued to be a Belgian rule. Corvées were en- forced for road-building, and there was obligatory cultivation and provision of crops. A chief in Orientale province described his people's experience: 'We were forced to move back to where the white men were building the big road that from Kisanganyi noW runs (Stanleyville). It took many to build, and they years demanded that we supply men -so many from each village as well as food for all their soldiers, who stood with their guns in case we tried to escape.

The white men did not always carry guns themselves, often they carried whips and they beat us like animals. I remembered my father, and I said I would not let my people work for them. Because of the guns that had brought my people back to the road- side I said that we would supply whatever food we could spare, and for a time the white accepted that. But they men were not pleased. "Told us ..? 'Then they came around and told us we had to plant cotton.

and other things we did not want to plant. They said they would pay us but I explained that if we planted cotton we would have to grow less food.

"They said we could buy food with the money we got for the cotton and I told them this was like the play of child- ren, because we could easily grow our own food without money, and have enough left over to give them. It was then that they told me that I was not a man, that I was evil, that I did not want to help my people, that I only wanted make to trouble. Therefore, they said, I was no longer chief.' Continued tomorrow

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when the extreme-right "Bilgic' faction voted against him.

Demirel's position however is by no means ambiguous. He is no friend of the workers and students of Turkey. He has for pro- had long-held plans hibiting communism which he is only waiting the right the phy- sical attacks from the right wing and Karakan's murder are not thest come to fai fore oppression.

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