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Stalinists hand weapon Workers' confidence in their strength force the Torles to resign- nowhere better expressed In 1970 than in the council SHEFFIELD branches of the workers strike. i caled Ene Amaicamated UnIon suboort or many oner workers gineering and roundrvworkers are being irouenour me country. ke circulater with offer the €3,000 These swindon vouth on a solidarity march through the pay-off town. ceins Batchelors beds plane.

reinstatement The offer comes from bers the ot led the seven-week strike 101 reinstatement aismissed convenor Terry Devey. Shop stewards at Batche- JOr'S have sent a resolution to the AEF district committee condemning the paid linti dispute by paid leading Communist Party member. Our own investigations that responsibility for prove is now notorious dllair rests squarely witn ine so-called Comminist ottreat Britain. neen ne atedlu seized on by Tory spokesmen and mass the they that CP's Batchelor's has provided them BRITISH-LEYLAND has had to beat a partial with a useful weapon in their from for retreat its attempt force through to campaign legislation against me wade insa Measured-Day Work at one fell swoop through.

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY JANUARY 1, 1971 • NUMBER 341 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Forward to Alexandra Palace anti-Tory rally Feb 14! Return a Labour government with socialist policies! Prospects for 1971 What we think Relief 1970 WILL BE remembered as a year of great class conflict and shameful retreat by scaleshipe of the working chas and celintai tempered

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of a five-and-a-half month long strike in the Basque pro- vinces gives ample evid. ence that Spanish working class is joining in a very forceful way in the revolutionary struggle 'NUESTRA HUELGA-Los trabajadores de of the European working Laminacion de bandas Echevarri' class against imperialism.

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The revisionists and Stalin- Reviewed by Peter Bush ists in Spain, as elsewhere, have been into ariven enormous crisis

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struggle, trying to cling to illusions neo-capitalism and peaceful co-existence when Bilbao Spanish restrain e warned strike, must that the goverm. meni take orastic measures stop any possible which other member ciones Frente, who was in the shows that the Spanish worKIng class is able to entanizatione fascist vertical unions. ndependent The deepening of the crisis nternationa and Idealization with Stalinıst movement porters forward of the masses has thrown Civil War. Spanish Stalinists and erly timited by the a completely agri- culturalt the he Workers nited ed The low tige and rad condil one the questior class prepared of state power that are the lot of all workers in and the construc fascist Spain. ton of a markint party bospala on the agenda The ht foe independent trade he tactory of acnevarni torm unions can Wine bottle honus workers ny with were monto Despite this. in France shows the complete strikes of that year. Ine of the workers hankruntey of centrism found a halt "he greatest danger tacing the had fores, and all • country 15 US capital bottle resi holding in imported from the us having Taclory Wo what would be the equivalent ot a tea break in Britain collaboration with Stalinism is 6, co company helonged possible and Gondra necessary; conia whose President 30 million lies in union elections for local "it is evident that it galvanizes thi Lazurtegul. nac mace aspirations of broad sections of Deseras a vear since the civil vyar posts. the working-class. tor that reason 'US ROUND-UP' pointed out their faces organization so recently that the refusal of help fight the American CP to sponsor For the first few after the luan Farinas Defence versive list. before a board news of Kutcher's case broke the Stalinist press was silent.

Committee is very much in the Then and dismissed without any legal fire opened in the tradition of that Stalinist United Torkers procedures magazine Auto which e odess the onl ty column organization. programme ine scallnist the wrote: i violence .. believes onus WaS Con cetendant Farinas, a young supporter of No ve he was not Ills the Trotskvist Worker: League state a possible five years faces ¡ail socialist he is bomb-throwing' The first lie next was precisely the sentenced month after • refused a hearing lynch pin of the trame-un tria charges adminictuation'c violating the military conscription charges against Kutcher while the and even know second went hevond charges against them or on what prosecutors evidence they were based.

SA month later this Telebrated fight Stalinist paper against government vietnation mounted poisonous Blacklist during McCarthy hunts. A further mile made mamher.

Kutcher ship of five undred support ions, literally hundreds

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These were intended to give a legal cover to the illegal fight for better conditions. shop floor In September leaders were elected. In October the management went onto the offensive with a reduction of bonuses and the beginning of intensive time-and-motion study in the plant. threatened When sections strike action, government inspec- tors threatened to sack militant workers. After various short actions it was decided to strike and stop the whole factory on November 30. In the first two days workers went to the factory, but refused to work. On December 1 the afternoon shift was given the sack; the decision was taken to occupy the factory. Women bringing bread and food were attacked by the police on the following day and in the evening jeep-loads of the Civil Guard forced the workers to leave the factory at bayonet point. In response to police brutality 200 women occupied the offices of the union in the town.

During the first month of the strike, regular strikers' meetings were held and a news bulletin was distributed daily during the whole of the strike.

KUTCHER

in the fight against McCarthyism as two episodes illustrate vividly.

Kutcher was speaking to a 10 of the CIO meeting of Local International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union which had previously endorsed his case.

Stalinist Since then the 'People's World' had laid down the line. Kutcher declared his opposi- tion to the persecution of anyone for his beliefs including CP mem- bers and fellow-traveller Harry Bridges, president of their inter- national who faced union repeated deportation attempts.

Kutcher speaking at was Bridges' local and Bridges own was sitting on the platform.

After Kutcher's speech a well- known staunch Stalinist attacked him and his party, calling them agents of the stool pigeons, bosses, etc. But the meeting shouted the speaker down before he had finished and he sat down to a chorus of boos. Not. satisfied, the Stalinists in- sisted on a vote on a resolution to make a donation to Kutcher's fighting fund. Proceedings Out of 2,800 union members present about 12 stood up to vote against the motion. Bridges remained silent throughout the incident which lost his Party much support.

The second episode concerns a proposed national organization to defend the Stalinists, the Con- ference to Defend the Bill of Rights, which took place in New York in July 1949. A considerable number of liberals and other non-Stalinists sponsored the Conference on the basis that free speech, press and assembly 'have meaning only where they apply also to minority and dissident groups with whom the majority are in disagreement'.

The Stalinist majority rammed through their line, voting down a resolution calling for support for the SWP's rights as well as those of the CP. Kutcher succinctly sums up the result: "These proceedings dis- gusted so many of the non- Stalinist elements that they with- drew, and the Conference to Defend the Bill of Rights, instead of becoming permanent organization, died an immediate death. 'The Stalinists had known that this would happen, but with them it was rule or ruin when it came to the rights of their revolu- tionary socialist opponents. In this case it proved to be rule and ruin of the organization they help originally expected to defend their own rights.'

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On December 9 the firm issued the sack all workers and to advertised for new labour. The sack also meant loss of their homes, since most of the workers lived in houses belonging to the company. To put this off, the workers got their lawyers to intervene in the law-courts. These lawyers were not union lawyers who would have been openly on the side of the em- ployers, but liberal and Christian Democrat whom the lawyers strikers paid from a fund set up in the factory a year before the strike. One of the lawyers was Ruiz Jimenez, a Christian Democrat ex-member of Franco's and cabinet. The arrogance shown by the fascist courts to the strikers was clear on January 14, 1967, the day of the trial. The court-room could only demonstration of hold 20! A workers, and students, priests lawyers outside the court-room forced the authorities to put up loudspeakers. Unfortunately the Franco courts were not to be pressur- ized, the judge and inevitably came down on the side of the employers. remained The workers firm: 19, 360 voted to January on LAST SATURDAY President Nixon ordered an 'orderly but rapid phase-out' of all defoliants used in Vietnam.

Presumably this year's plans for million dropping over a gallons of defoliants are to go ahead. In opposing the $8m allocation for this, Senator Nelson said: "The US has sprayed enough chemicals to amount to six pounds for every man, woman and child in Vietnam.' This, he commented, 'may well have set an ecological time fuse in Vietnam that will rever- berate down the life chain causing widespread destruction by wiping out forms of plant, animal and aquatic life that can never be replaced'. Chemical warfare has irremedi- ably stripped the Vietnamese countryside. S Vietnam exported a quarter of a million tons of rice in 1959.

Ten years later three times this quantity had to be imported, of it coming from the US.

most It is conservatively estimated that since 1962 an eighth of the country has been doused with chemicals at more than ten times the rate allowed by the US gov- ernment for agriculture at home.

Arsenic tists paper presented to a scien- conference in Paris last month described the plight of 179 S Vietnamese refugees from areas which had been sprayed for from two months to five years.

Short-term effects a few hours after spraying included sickness, vomiting and headache. VETERAN COMEDIAN and veteran right-winger Bob Hope opened his annual Christmas tour of Vietnam last week but had evidently changed his act in line with the mood of his servicemen audiences. Last year his patriotic remarks drew boos from troops. This time Hope's welcome at Camp Eagle, 400 miles NE of was mixed with thous- Saigon, ands of hands raised in the peace sign. Loudest laugh of the show went to a reference to marijuana: continue and on the 31st, 494 in favour of continuing voted the strike. In February, the management and the government stepped up their attacks. The Home Affairs Ministry passed an order against the holding of meetings, and Gondra began the drive to re- cruit new labour in Galicia and León. This new labour entered the escorted factory in buses ine's of armed police and lived blocks of flats in two Echevarri. They were not allowed to use the local bars for fear of solid- arity action and attacks on scabs.

Very soon, many of the new workers decided to return home.

During April 40,000 workers were involved in solidarity action which led to the declaration of emergency in the a state of Basque provinces. Sack 150 Immediately; militant imprisoned and workers were 15 were deported to other parts May 5 a further of Spain; on deported This action 40 were broke the back of the strike, work and a return to soon followed. Gondra proceeded to sack 32 and reduce bonuses by up to 70 per cent. 'Nuestra Huelga' shows that the new generation of Spanish workers will certainly surpass struggles of the class in past combativity and organization.

The danger is that this com- bativity will be betrayed by its political leadership. The centrist and Stalinist leadership did everything to limit the strike which was, as the capitalist class realized, revolu- tionary in content. the limitation of this And book is : its lack of analysis of the politics of the strike.

The author concludes at one point: In Bandas, there was unity of all clandestine groups in action against concrete capitalism, although some groups did not realize the possibility of generalizing the strike, and put solidarity pressure on so that beyond symbolic did not pass acts'. Yet if capitalism was 'develop- ing', all that was possible was a symbolic act, or pressure on the through liberals. fascist state The real lessons of this strike are that the Spanish working class does not need to be told that the state machinery is re- pressive, but needs a revolu- party that can fight to tionary build a body of Marxist theory through intervention in clandestine trade union organ- izations and • all wage movements of the class. Long-term effects were pro- • illness and the birth of longed deformed children. The US has used three main herbicides in S Vietnam—called white and blue. orange, Blue is used mainly to destroy rice crops and it is planned to drop 700,000 gallons this year.

As blue is largely arsenic, it is particularly dangerous to human beings as arsenic poisoning can take place through gradual build- ing up of small doses in the body until fatal concentrations are reached. Orange thinking of oran probably Senator Nelson when made his 'ecological time fuse' remark. Mangrove forests sprayed with it nine years ago have shown no recovery. Orange contains defoliants 2, 4, 5-T and 2, 4-D, which are known to have been responsible for the births of thousands of deformed babies throughout the countryside. The US government was aware of the terrible effects of these chemicals for months many before it banned 2, 4, 5-T last spring. S Vietnamese papers carried reports of such births while, the Saigon Health Ministry kept all statistics about them secret.

But orange was still being used late into the summer and the US army is dropping charges against officers for ignoring the cancella- tion order. Last Saturday's move will probably take just as long to implement. After all, stocks have to be used up. I believe a lot of you are interested in gardening-security officers said a lot of you were growing your own grass, Hope told the soldiers. If Hope had been on a slightly later schedule, his forecast that it would be the last visit of his Christmas tour to Vietnam could immediately and have been irrevocably confirmed. Five days after the show National Liberation Forces fired about eight into the rockets camp in the first attack on it for more than two months. Friday, January 1, 1971

'CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE PALE'

By Ezra Mendelsohn Cambridge University Press, 1970. 50s.

Reviewed by Tom Kemp ALTHOUGH BRINGING to- The Bund was founded in 1897 as the result of a union of gether much useful material local social democratic organiza- on the Tewish workers' move- tions. At the base of the move- ment were underground organiza- ment in the Russian Empire, tions of a trade union type.

this study suffers fifom a nar- The leaders hoped to convert rowly academic conception.

the economic struggle against the employers into a political struggle While dealing with the immedi- to overturn the regime. Dr Men- background the General delsohn describes in some detail ate to Union', the forms and problems of Jewish Jewish Workers' or whose policy of national 'Bund', labour organizations at this stage, cultural autonomy brought it into but without relating them to the Russian conflict with Lenin and the Bol- wider problems the OI it stops short at a con- sheviks, revoltorary moverent sideration of its ideology and The very primitiveness of the role and does not include the conditions under which most 1905- revolutionary events of workers Jewish in Russia 1906. the labour move- employed gave What remains, therefore, is a ment its special character.

factual study of the conditions of The main demands of agitation life and work of the Jewish com- Mendelsohn and strikes were, as of thể western parts 'aimed at puts the Russian Empire ('the Pale'), 'modern" relations between em- in which it made up about half and employed, relations of the urban population, and the contract, not on habit based on early history the mass labour and whim'. He describes some of movement. the struggles in detail. The bulk of the Jewish popula- While in some cases there was tion eked out a miserable exist- solidarity between Jewish and ence as artisan workers in small Christian workers. was more and un- shops: wages were Iow frequent for the latter to be used With the employment common. black-legs the better- spread of factory industry asallst organized and more militant ditions tended to deteriorate.

Jews. For various discussed Trade under police by Dr Mendelsohn in detail, few supervision, were among set up employers, even Jewish ones, took Jewish workers in the Pale under on Jews as factory • hands. Apart the inspiration of Zubatov, head from a few fields, such as bristle- of the secret police. Mendelsohn making and cigarette and match deals with these unions, well factories, at the end of the 19th as with the influence of anarchism there not yet was and terrorism. Jewish factory proletariat.

The Jewish artisans had a long.

The Bund tradition organization friendly Basing society type. themselves this tradition, The self-imposed limitations revolutionary socialist intellec- and academic nature of this study establish propa- tuals began to from dealing ade- it prevents ganda circles from of groups quately with the main questions students and workers. relating to the role of the Jewish labour in Russia and movement By the 1890s, under the leader- the policy of the Bund. ship of certain of these intellec- tuals, an organized labour move- By emphasizing Tewish dis- agitation mass tinctiveness the Bund turned began to appear but not without from revolutionary tasks bitter conflicts with those who inevitably a reformist and took still adhered old circle to the path. conceptions. The fact that the Jewish pro- Revolutionary socialist work and letariat was remained pre- confronted with the

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dominantly artisan only liarities of the position partly explain the ideology of the Tewish workers this time. Bund. Being mainly artisans, many problem of sought individual advancement by The the Jewish becoming small labour movement in Russia can- employers or petty traders. Others emigrated not be adequately dealt with by to the United States, while their the method adopted by Mendel- sons acquired education sohn which isolates it from the and passed into the professions.

history of the Russian revolu- tionary movement and from the economic political and Primitive changes going on in the Russian Empire with the development of conditions capitalism. In sum, his book is mainly a Meanwhile, the spread of fac- collection of interesting facts tory industry was. worsening the with few partial explanations. lot of the workers in the small The field needs to be completely workshops, while the spread of re-worked from a different point anti-Semitism and Tsarist oppres- view carrying the story for- formed sion an ominous •back- ward through the 1905 Revolu- ground. tion and down to 1917. IN

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Friday, January 1, 1971 COMPULSORY cultiva- tion in the Congo was extended in 1935. It enabled Belgian business men to buy cheaply, so that at a time when world markets were depressed they could continue to make their profits. Forced labour practices were further intensified dur- ing the war, when under the Anglo-Belgian Agreement of* 1940, the Congo became. (particularly after the loss of S E Asia) an important source of raw materials to the Allies. After the war, reporting on the situation at the end of 1946, the Belgian authority Father J. Van Wing, speaking from experience in Leopold- ville and Equateur provinces, wrote that 'in general compul- sory labour continues as in the past'. writer, Another Belgian Malengreau, quotes a magis- trate telling him in 1947: 'What makes the life of the natives in the bush unhappy is above all the corvées, the multiple and diverse burdens which are imposed upon them and which leave them no respite; the innumerable pre- scribed obligations and pro- hibitions, with a severe penalty always attached, which wear SANTIAGO CARRILLO tra- vels around Europe peddling his charlatan Communism and now he presents himself to the public advocating a close allia- ance with fascist Spanish cap- italism. We don't think that this language, whose basic mission is to serve the Spanish work- ing class on a silver plate to Moscow, will succeed in con-

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the bullying, tween 1929 and 1933, in N them the oul, kind of 70 per pestering by every Katanga, there was a number of authority-European well cent drop in the as as traditional and their sub- wage earners. ordinatés, moniteurs or police- However, with the recovery before whom they in world trade, production be- men, are defenceless; the excessive pun- gan to expand and in again, 1937, ishments inflicted without dis- exports stood at the European £16,976,075-three times their cernment by agent, the juge de police, and value in 1932. also by the tribunal indigené.

The Second World War pro- vided a further impetus to 'These improper annoyances, production, and a new import- which in large measure na ve ance to the Congo as a source policy of their origin in our of materials. Uranium from inevitably result production, the Congo was used in the in the discouragement of the first atomic bomb. native, in making him live in In 1923, over 8 per cent of of an atmosphere insecurity African the population were and uneasiness; they bring living In mıning camps and him to hate his environment towns. In 1940, the percentage and to flee from it, breaking able-bodied adult males thereby the bonds, customary who were working for wages and social, which bind him to was 19.23 per 1956 cent. By it and which our civilization it had grown to 38.95 per cent.

has already rendered fragile. survey in 1956, carried out in Luluabourg showed that for of four, family income of between £7 17s and £8 Ils a month would be the mınımum desirable to maintain "To flee from it' . to the a reasonable standard of living.

towns and the mining areas, to The actual minimum wage, become an industrial working together with allowances at class. that time, amounted to only Production in the Congo ex- £4 14s a month. panded considerably between An inquiry showed that the wars. Katanga retained the 1950s, between 30 during the position, attained in 1923, of per cent and. 50 per cent (vary- the world's third largest sup- ing according to town), of plier of copper. wage earners received only the The Kilo-Mito mines in minimum wages. Orientale Between 1950 and 1957 there major eld sencee became a Diamond 60 source. was a cent increase per from 318,979 output grew in national production; but 1920 to 2,518,258 carats in African buying power, during the same period, declined by carats in 1930. In common with the rest of 13 per cent. the capitalist world, the Congo There could be little devel- indigenous was hit by the Depression in of opment an some 72,000 1932, African middle class in the Congo. workers were sacked, and be- Business was kept almost en- solidating his fraud, although The attitude of Spanish in order to achieve this workers must be one of firm he tries to sweeten the bitter pill and decided opposition to re- of of form in Spain. betrayal the Spanish workers word If it does not do so it would, with the

REFORM.

find itself with certainty, trapped in the stinking rotten Spanish capitalist environment.

It would be forced to collabor- ate in the capitalist develop- ment which has spread in such an insidious way amongst the Spanish people. Reform in Spain is aimed at the capitalist prolonging re- gime, to ensure its survival.

In order to save its real position, in order tostabilize and to consolidate its power the last which this is trump capitalism presents in the game and the slogan which it pro- pagates: Reform of the Spanish state. Through the reform, through some economic if not political concessions it intends to brain- wash the minds of the Spanish workers, to eliminate from his lungs all the breadth which animates the Social Revolution; to destroy, with the together revolutionary consciousness, all possibility of the materializa- tion of socialism. Francoism has been defeated; has fallen its system into and pieces its immediate accomplice-capitalism-is on its last legs. Those who represent the

TIAGO CARRILLO

Spanish liberal bourgeoisie are SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 197l. I1 a.m.

ALEXANDRA

Young Socialists and All Trades Unions Alliance

PALACE

GREAT NATONAL

Wood Green

RALLY AGAINST

London, N22

TORYISM

BOOK THIS DATE NOW!

WORKERS PRESS

tirely in European hands. The Tshombe family, which made its money in trade, was an exception. Generally speaking, insofar as an African political élite developed, its member- ship was drawn from among the salaried civil servants, the Army, the political and trade union organizations. Although educated Africans were supposed to be better treated than the masses under Belgian rule, they still experi- racial discrimination, enced oppression and humiliation.

An African technician would receive lower pay than a European who was doing the same, or even a less-skilled job. Until the last few years of Belgian rule, Africans in the civil service were confined to the lower grades, even if they qualified for higher positions.

According to Lumumba, in his book "Congo, my Country', flogging was still inflicted on educated Africans who got in trouble with the law, although legally they were supposed to be exempt from such forms of punishment. Africans were not allowed in a number of establishments frequented by Europeans. Both Mobutu and Lumumba had personal experience of racial insults from the whites. The evolution of the Congo- those who have decided for the reform. They feel responsible for the chaotic political and social situation of Spain. They are the same class who for more than 30 years have collabor- ated directly in the extermina- tion of the advanced human values of the Spanish pro- letariat. They actively participated ir the execution of more than a million murders. They now improvise and present themselves to us as liberators of the people through the reform. They seek for a reform in accordance with and directly linked to the funda- principles mental of the Francoist-capitalist - Falangist- clerical movement, a movement which dissected the democratic body of the Republic which had been established by the people as a strong ground for socialism. who know they are Those guilty do not ignore the immi- nent and necessary purifying action of the people for the nation and try to submerge this action by conditioning the workers and peasants to acquiesce to the word reform.

If the Spanish people allow their aspirations to be caught up in the trap laid out by cap- italism, if the people in their desire for liberty unconsciously participate in this fraudulent manoeuvre, then we can be certain that the struggle for the road which leads to vic- tory against the capitalist class has been abandoned. This is a struggle without which the victory of socialism, we affirm, will never be pos- sible. The rotten capitalist system intends through the reform to place its representatives in the and highest administrative commanding posts of the Fran- coite dictatorship. lese people's struggle against Belgian colonialism at first the form of popular took religious movements of a pro- phetic and Messianic character, which had their appeal to the most oppressed workers and poor peasants. In the post-war years, the Belgian trade unions extended their activity to the Congo, initially to the privileged European workers, but later coming to influence some of the African working class.

As reformist organizations, to imperialism, tied these unions could not meet the needs of the oppressed Con- golese masses; and the Congo- lese trade union movement to which they gave rise remained comparatively small. But it was the training ground of a number of Con- golese political leaders, such as Cyrille Adoula. In the late 1950s, after be- with the coming disillusioned parties with which Belgian they had been associated, a number of educated Con- golese began organizing their own political parties. The Belgian authorities al- ways tried to retard the devel- opment of the Congolese people, and brought in repres- sive measures to keep them down.: In 1937, a law was intro- This will be achieved if there is any sign of weakness in the Spanish people. On the other hand if the working class understand that the decisive moment has now arrived for intensifying the struggle to be- head the regime, to sweep out all its rubbish, then the over- throw of Francoite capitalism will have been accelerated.

Santiago Carrillo, Moscow, Francoism, the dictatorship of Nixon and together with them the whole capitalist world must be made to realize that, today, in Spain everything depends on the working class which has nothing to gain by means of talks and meetings. To rely on these methods would be to lose all. It is no longer possible to vait, because the people hav he right and the obligation + Solve he patie even compelled to resort to. Long live socialism! D M Cantos. Strategy and Tactics in the Impertalist Epoch by

LEON TROISTY

Available from New Park Publications 186A Clapham High St.. SW4 duced restricting the right of association, and measures taken discourage were Africans from visiting Europe studying there, from travelling within the Congo.

In Januuary 1958, during demonstrations in Leopoldville, the security forces opened fire on crowds, and, according to the authorities' own figures, 49 Africans were killed and over 240 injured. Faced with the development of a national movement, how- Gizenga, Pierre Antoine and the probability that ever, Mulele, and C Kamitatu also neighbouring French Congo nationalist, and prepared to shortly was to become inde- form alliance with pendent, thus an encouraging it, with a Lumumba. and recession in the throwing MNC and PSA were economy many Both Africans out-of-work, onto the for maintaining the unity of streets where they were show- the Congo as a state; whereas ing increasing readiness to be the election also showed the

MOISE TSHOMBE

mobilized in a popular move- strength of regionalist and ment, the Belgian government tribalist tendencies. Lumumba began to discuss independence was pressed by the Belgians to for the Congo. make a compromise with the

ABAKO

a federalist party Elections were held in May party which originated from 1960, resulting in the success of the an ethnic association of Patrice Lumumba's Move- Bakongos under which its Nationale Congolaise, ment leader, Kasavubu, became Head nationalist, anti-tribalist, anti- of State, while Lumumba him- colonialist, and a reasonable self became premier. showing also for the Parti Solidaire Africaine, led by On June 30, 1960, the Congo 11.00 a.m. Film: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'. Tommy Kelly, May Robson and Walter Brennan. Mark Twain's classic. 12.15 p.m. Debbie Reynolds. 12.40 'Engines Must Not Enter the Potato Siding'.

Documentary. 1.30 Watch with mother. News. 1.50 Winners at 1.40 the wheel. Review of motor 2.35 'Royal Family'. 4.20 Play racing. school. 4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Double deckers.

Seven London children their headquarters in an old bus. 5.20 Abbott and Costello. 5.25 Ask Aspel. 5.44 The magic roundabout. 5.50 News and weather.

6.00

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6.20 THE VIRGINIAN. 'Bitter Autumn'.

CAPTAIN'S

7.35

'THE

PARADISE'.

Alec Guinness, Yvonne de Carol and Celia Johnson. Steamer captain has a wife in each port. 9.00 THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS and weather.

9.20 GALA PERFORMANCE. Michael Flanders introduces Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, Sherrill Milnes. Itzhak Perlman, Margaret Gale, Catherine Wilson, Dorothy Nash, Shirley Chap- man, Emile Belcourt, Eric Shilling, Geoffrey Chard.

10.20 HOLIDAY 71. 'Algarve Villas'.

10.45

'ANNIE,

THE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF A MAN. Anne Ban- croft sings and dances. Guests Lee J Cobb, Robert Merrill, Dick Smothers and John McGiver.

11.30 JOHN WAYNE AND HIS FILMS.

12.05 a.m. Weather.

REGIONAL BBC

All regions as above except: Scotland: 12.40-1.30 Jackanory. 4.2-4.35 Midlands. Anglia: 6.00-6.20 Mid- day 6.00-6.20 12.07 News, today. 52007 reel.

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East. weatner. 10.20-10.45 Sportsreel. Weather. North, Cumberland and 1777• Ireland: Scene Westmorland: 6.00-6.20 Look North, 12.07 Newer wearer. around Road weather. 12.07 Ne Sin weatner. works report. Wales: mam. Heddiw. 9.10-7.391 dem silents. South, today: 6.00-potliphint west, yv ales Tocay. Golden i lein. South Spotlight 0.43 12.07 Weather 12.07 News, weather. ВВС 2 11.00-11.20 a.m. PLAY SCHOOL.

6.00 p.m. NEW YEAR'S DAY CONCERT FROM VIENNA. Vienna Phil- harmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Folk Opera Ballet.

7.00 TEST CRICKET FROM AUSTRALIA. Third Test.

7.30 NEWSROOM and weather. 8.00 EUROPA. 'Britain and Europe'.

9.00

GEORGE THE FOURTH.

George Hamilton IV and The Hill- siders with guests Ethna Campbell and Country Fever.

9.20 MARTY ABROAD. Marty Feldman.

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THIRTY-MINUTE THEATRE.

Waugh On Crime. 'In Which In- spector Waugh Plays Cops and Robbers'.

10.30 REVIEW. Peter Brook. 11.20 NEWS ON 2 and weather.

11.25

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10.30 a.m. Pinky and Perky. 10.45 Jungle boy.

11.10 Skippy. 11.35 Laurel and Hardy. 11.40 Fastest man on earth.

12.35 p.m. Wrestling. 1.30 Racing from Sandown. 3.30 Film: "The Black Sheep of Whitehall: With Will Hay and John Mills. A bumbling professor thwarts a Nazi plot. 4.55 'The Ugly Duckling'. From the Hans Christian Andersen story. 5.20 Timeslip. 5.50 News.

6.02 TIME TO REMEMBER. '1930-1932—A New Era'.

6.30 PEYTON PLACE.

7.00

WHEEL OF FORTUNE.

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8.30 ON THE BUSES. 'The L Bus'.

9.00 MANNIX. 'Coffin For a Clown'.

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NEWS AT TEN.

10.30

POLICE FIVE.

THE FRIDAY

10.40

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Brown'. Gary Cooper and "Casanova Teresa Wright. A small-town teacher is about to get married when he receives a letter from a Chicago maternity home.

12.05 a.m. STATE OF THE NATION. Archbishop of Canterbury.

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dor Chaney Sir Cedric 12.45 a.m. Bela Weather. 12.05 Action 70. Channel 11.05 15. 5 sky and Perky.

HARLECHO

bone Diary. Supermar 12.10 First 12.35 3.35 Island'. Wallace Beery Weather. 12.50 Han Holden S05 London. 255 Poy and auly.

7.00 Report William

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of the United Nations BY

_ES PARKINS

became an independent African state. During the preliminary nego- tiations, when the Belgian gov- ernment had first declared its willingness to grant indepen- dence, Congolese leaders had been suspicious as to just what the Belgians' real intentions were. It all seemed just too easy- what was the snag? What did the colonialists have 'up their sleeve'? Observers abroad were sur- prised at the rapidity with which the Belgian government had moved-two years after the Leopoldville clashes, the country was to be independent.

Belgian colonialism appeared to be giving without a up struggle at all, let alone the prolonged one that might have been expected. In fact, the real struggle was to come after 'independence', after the African nationalists had found themselves in office.

Only then would Belgian colonialism show its hand, and the struggle that was to develop would make the Congo a battlefield, in which not only Belgian imperialism would be engaged.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

The Leopold Il period: 'Imper- ialism and World Politics'.- Moon. 'The Black Man's Burden'.- E. D. Morel. Belgian rule: 'King Leopold's Legacy'. — Roger Anstey. 'Neo-Colonialism'.--Nkrumah.

Ford. Two adventurers are accused of a holdup. 8.30 London. 9.00 HawailMorgan. 10.30 John Wallace. 12.15 Weather. HTV (West) colour channel 61 as above except: 6.01-6.35 Report West, Aquarius. HTV (Wales) colour channel 41 as 5.20-5.50 above except: Am gorau. 6.01-6.18 Y dydd. ANGLIA: 10.45 Arthur Tommy Steele, Film: Tommy the Toreador'. Janet Munro and Sidney James. young British seaman rescues a famous bullfighter. 12.35 London.

3.35 Cowboy in Africa. 4:25 News. 4.35 Romper room. 4.55 Lost in space. 5.50 London.

Crossroads. 6.00 6.35 7.00 Music match. 8.25 London. 9.00 Hawaii five-o. 10.00 Lon- don. 10.30 Film: "Look Back in Anger'.

Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure. Jimmy Porter forms a dis- astrous relationship with his wife's friend. 12.20 Epilogue. ATY MIDLANDS: 10.35 Long Fi Wrestling3,49 Horoscope. 1.30 London. Fishing bear. Women today. 4.10 Peyton| Place. 4.40 Pinky and Perky. 4.55 Land of giants.

5.50 London.

6.00 ATV

Today View: 7.00 Film: "From Bird's Eye Millicent Martin. 7.30 Department S.

9.00 Marcus Welby. 8.30 London. 10.00 London. 10.30 Baron. 11.30 Midland member 11.45 Object in view.

ULSTER: 2.05 London. 4.15 Enchan- ted house. 4.30 Romper room. 4.50 News. 4.55 Lost in space. 5.50 London.

6.00

UTV

reports. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Ev. 7.30 Laredo. 8.30 London. 9.00 Department S. 10.00 London. 10.30 Deadline. 11.00 Film: The Secret Four'. Thriller.

YORKSHIRE:

fancily. 10.25 Royal 12.15 Vienna concert. 1.25 London. 2.25 Pinky and Perky. 2.40 London. Film: «Zebra 4.15 in the Kitchen'. 5.50 London. 6.00 Calendar, weather. 6.30 Wendy and me. 7.00 London.

7.30 On the 8.00 'Ferry to buses. Hong Kong'. Curt Jurgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms. An exile wanders in the Far East. 10.00 London. 10.30 Yorksport. 11.00 Boswell and Johnson.

12 midnight Weather. GRANADA: 10.15 Film: "Words and Music'. Mickey Rooney. 12.35 Lon- don. 3.40 Shenandoah. 4.10 Peyton Perky. News- Place. 4.40 Pinky and 4.55 Time tunnel. 5.50 London. 6.01 day. 6.25 Put it in writing. 6.35 Film: *Mysterious Island'. Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood and Herbert Lom. Escape story. 8.30 London, 9,00 Strange report. 10.00 London. 10.30 Film: "The Facts of Life'. Bob Hope, Lucille Ball.

TYNE

TEES: 10.25 Royal Family.

12.15 Vienna 1.25 London. concert. 2.25 Pinky and Perky. 2.40 London.

Kitchen'. 4.15 Film: *Zebra in the 5.50 London 6.00 Get Smart. 6.30 Avengers. 7.30 On the buses. 8.00 Hawaii five-o. 9.00 Tom Jones. 10.00 London. 10.30 "The Film: Roman Stone'. Vivienne Leigh. Spring of Mrs 12.20 Year ahead. BORDER: 10.00 Cartoon. 10.30 Nanny and the professor. 11.00 • Film: "Hue 12.15 Concert Jack Warner. 12.15 Wrestling. 2.25 Pinky and Perky. 2.40 Sandown Park racing. 4.10 News. 4.15 Film: "Zebra the kitchen'. in 5.50 London. 6.00 Lookaround. News. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 London. 7.30 On the buses. 8.00 Man in a suitcase. 9.00 Human jungle. 10.00 London. "Children 10.30 Film: of damned'. 12 midnight News, the weather. 12.03 Epilogue. SCOTTISH: 11.15 Joe 90. 11.45 Charlie London. 2.25 Pinky and Perky Horo- Brown. Vienna concert. 1.25 3.35 Cartoons. 3.49 4t05 Skippy. today. 4.40 Cartoon. London. 6.00 6.30 Film: *Mr Moses'. Robert Mitchum, Carroli 8.25 London. 9.00 Baker. Brass are Cow Year. 11.15 nate cal. 11.20 rid comin'. 10.00 London. 10.30 Man Who Watched Trains Go By'. Claude Rains, Marius Goring.

Family

GRAMPIAN:

10.25 Royal 12.15 Concert. 1.25 London. 2.25 Pinky and Perky. 2.40 London 4.15 4.35 Cartoon. Rumblie jumblie. 5.00 Cowboy in Africa. 5.50 London. 6.00 George Kidd. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 7.30 On London. the buses. 7.55 Film: To Eternity'. 10.00 "From Here Scotsport. London. 10.30 11.00 Lon- don. 11.55 Epilogue.

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should This class bide The surprise no the British do to blan what trade unions rance was able to do 10 Dama destroy them. l ang te the working class completely to front *labour What is in Spain is therefore of vital importance every DrIUSA UnIonISt It is impossible to bring down the wrenco redime which in turn is the only way to free the Burning bows thout without question Nhetne Ceremo Meas and union laws, restoring cuts or defeat- the 'wetare state' ing fascism roads diren of this tory govern bringing direction: Michl. The Tories have more mancate to rule Britain tean MASS meeting A of the 170 hranco has to rule snain And just we constantly polishers at the Rolls-Royce Derby mobilize members such group factories will today hear a polly refuse to acceDi so must we their inactivitv on Spain.

from their officials the case they The fight to black all Spanish exports into Britain, and intend to put to next Monday's British trade convince unionists that Spain place for TUC inquiry into their seven- holidaymakers, intensified. week-old strike over a new essential part of our It is an struggle TOr Measured-Day Work pay struc- Britain. ture. Ba'ath The men say that the would new opposition structure POST union leaders said yes- give them lower status terdav that they would not and between f5 and £7 gas water- follow tha and arrested supply unions in waiting for less a week of the Strike inquiry committee meeting Tuesday SYRIA'S new government has bers into une elecuricity-suppr Da y good deal alec severa prominent mem. dispute met

TOT

the hrst timi Ba'ath Partv fac. bers ottne yesterday, the UPW submitter Lat Ine ulry. Post Jarge delegation tion auster in the right-wing another demand to the ano a coup on November 13. Office for an early reply to beine oreanized its 15-20 per cent claim. Monday's meeting Prime 'Ihe new Minister Chairman com- the and party leader CAr W. mittee Mr Lamb was Hafez Al-Assad ordered elected because of his stand that

CORRECTIONS

over polishers' skilled IT HAS been drawn to our had urged their supporters slalus as our and attention Darty government once who has lived oMwu sets un 'watchdog' Mr LamD the policies of the to oppose all could life. hort story vAsterday new regime misinterpreted. Rolls Rovce for worked at ousted President "he 34 years. His only previous beginning Nureddin ALA tACCI cont C&MWU's experience Syrian tanks on the side of the Towers headquarters com from the recent civil one-day the Hussein not forthcoming stoppages against was exacuy war Called. He has served as a engineering move made vesteroar was le no war regime. the Kremlin intended to imov anv attemot ODDOSITIOn withhold Information Shon steward and as a nic and imperialism the part of the union spokes. branch amciall "he most nrominent arrest man quoted the following in the week since Christmas is Long talks that former utmost Mohammed Rabah He Tawil who, together with other frankness. exoned not shor stewards have been in nego- former ministers Darly tiations over the members. is being held at and pay for nrison the 011f- "Crantino months. skirts of Damascus World' replace "Hanthe' have leant They third paragraph with "birth'.

ORDER YOUR

backwards this orevent said. dispute stewaros

ALL TRADES

POSTERS

have diven In chare time and holidays to avoid this

UNIONS ALLIANCE

state of affairs.

TODAY!

'The negotiations showed then on redis ver Me stewards

MEETINGS

against brick Miners and the Q 10 ande Out we 12th and 13t) haran the Charter of Basic during the York conference?

member Rights Gorman explained 'We were entitled ASTLEFORD: Saturday, January 9 back TO. hearing 2 noclife (Glasshoughton Colliery) cedure, so we wen: work so as not to harm the ENTLEY: Sunday, Janua 10, negotiations. the Vort Aftar confer. ence. the management regis- baker oiler da paker de tered failure to agree

DEFEAT THE

Barker on! *Work n Fridy Novem ber 13 Black Fridayl a TORY ANTI-A

WEATHER

ner offered "Management tit_hits but hacie for noontiationd

UNION LAWS!

' AlI fall damonad framework within the Met, but the swor Work 2s per poster evaluation means 30c for z0 that one has vet seer the noints awarded to each £3 5s for 50 job. Send your orders to: d aroun of worrore wh Socialist Labour League have been evaluated cannot 186, Clanham Hich Street argue about Tandon ne Hope 'We

TUC

inquiry

BRIEFLY

day afternoon. skers of Walkedside's 10.a0d All we want is fair play' and dockers

BRITISH

European Airways polishers' sack. Meanwhile the yesterday used mass brought | work to a standstill aruddle hoe brought anthis attempt threat in an on / ching ings siastic support from all over who and The only mer staved weaken the overtime Collections head. amninueAs combine

BEA

chief executive Mr The dockers are engineering take an unofficial holiday to- other Honey Morking who becomes and not chairman today, sent a letter exonday the strike Manpu for each worker Saturday is a normal dav of.

cuctoin members involved in

ACC

beins. the dispute.

WEST

GERMANY will con- continually have no alternative but Please send all contribu- tinie in copl shall Soviet tions to: naroomont tha to tare ctene which mat Te- bureaucracy. sult in certain of BEA's activi.

Strike Committee Chairman.

address - Will Br tina haina dicpontinued Chancellor Brandt the staff on them losing their Metal Mechanics, will be done while 5 Chawd Street i Top of the possible closure that this

DERBY DEI 2G1

maintaina firm relationching centre with hic ponitaliet allied in the Derby Rolls-Royce Metal Work 13 Sheet Meta Warmar

LIVERPOOL

dockers began dispute their over new under tha gory aracina nATA ... by stopping work yester- sargement Friday, January 1, 1971

WORKERS PRES

Seven-week strike over £7 pay loss

NLF

Discussion after Stalin supplied Hitler led to Sores are kinder Rolls polishers Kille government Anglo-French review the • at By Hand to le plan to bomb Soviet oiltield to present case deter DETAILED plans for an attack on the Soviet Union were drawn up by British and French governments in the early months of 1940.

Reckless 'Should bY JOHN SPaNGEr Premier Reyned. Chamberlain-Reynaud qua be stated do are. Dields is ack more sore be the Papers Chamberlain h 1940 that the end o that , raids o war council, on which mucineeded oil his yesterudy evening Hitler Devey military outside her

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made mane Scotland in she Caucasus.

SOIL SPAKED

E2 4ed to 42 95 6d. on shamed at vee soil in to the strikers tor ocolsa commercial Motor 1 a fire extending 48 Been agas o carry nesday Some of the Rolls-Royce polishers' strike committee at their Derby headquarters the ecianded able reaction. offord so many planes. Dec 8 sacking firm Prospects hersonally

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a Shoned to have apies are meets creditors se and sale content te Start orcheste

THREATS

explains *Socialist This ery thred Dever can and retra ther Darda-

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

THE BIRMINGHAM firm of Silas Hyde, which sacked its entire patrol n fleet was Breed and workforce for participating in the December 8 strike action, meets ed and parra. to his hen soviet forinn Ippose i disttict committee to its creditors in London today to discuss possible closure.

the , manage- Despite ment's efforts to place the Evidence B'ham motor plants shut down capital blame tor such action or that besides lend ee tor • confiden the December 8 shut- Big response to propaganda cam down. it is clear that the ions Bill the De company, manu- which Tactures Sheer metal has She feld area, and lander financial in dire been well have similar effects else- union law march Stralts since eary 19/0. ED Sheat acres a It is now • needed s shot ported. ek a Hyde • da Tory i2 against TENS OF thousands of West Midlands e decision to workers wil strike todav against the orv the spectacle of lading mem sen one e Industrial Relations Bill in their biggest rs of the su action since the 1926 General Strike.

at the momen a maste al Beatenelors Bird Se losses Loss co we no have carried on seato the end Intenton to ngut lus govern he National Unions, senous Redundancy pay fosina redundants payment break from the cowardly this he added, li be enough poutice our memoers on cosmake it a magnificent suc- taken into the streets as in Elements of Lucas ments pian ere the was for the wore hen Marxism Tory government invoived in plant Lecture by G. Healy, national secretary of the the liveled Socialist Labour League "The Tories already proppin such as Africa and Spain here' BEXLEYHEATH: Roberts Hall, Christchurch, Broad- way. Tuesday, January 5, 8 p.m beer thousandeyland Ted sane see rendice. hooters alre combine jected subject to a black.

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