Big threat

Now the return of the Tories poses the biggest threat and challenge to the working class and raises in an extremely sharp way the question of the crisis of leadership in the working class.

Nowhere is this more forcefully revealed than in the series of shameful retreats made by the trade union leaders in one wage dispute after another and the manifest refusal of the TUC to take up the counter-revolutionary anti-union challenge of Heath.

From GKN-Sankey to the Devey settlement in Sheffield, the Stalinist and reformist trade union leaders are in full retreat before the governmentemployer offensive. No wonder the Tories are crowing.

The retreat of the bureaucracy is assisted by the revisionists and state capitalists who, by their support of productivity dealing and the fraud of 'workers' control', as well as their opposition to a campaign to force the Tories to resign and return a Labour government in : 1971, are trying to smuggle in the politics of petty-bourgeois 'protest' into the trade unions.

The Tories' counterrevolutionary attack has completely cut the ground from under their feet.

But for the same reason it has driven them closer still— if such a thing is possible--to the Communist Party Unable to lead the kind o protest demonstrations of 1968 THE FEDERAL Russian Supreme Court yesterday commuted to 15 years' imprisonment the death sentences passed by e Leningrad court last week on two Soviet Jews for allegedly planning to hijack an airliner. to Sweden.

Three labour camp sentences were also reduced.

COURAGEOUS

Inside the Soviet Union the case of the Leningrad Il (nine of them Jewish) was courageously taken up by leading scientist Andrei Sakharov, the founder of the recently formed Soviet 'human rights' committee, He made a personal plea on Wednesday night to President Podgorny to spare the two men.

Yesterday he was present TAILS WE WIN BUY OUR LATEST NUMBER ! THEREIL BE PENNIES FROM. HEAVEN -FROM YOU, AND, FOR US."

THIS HISTORY of a , 1971

the revisionists and state capitalists are now content to play second-fiddle in the Stalinist orchestra.

That is what explains "Socialist Worker's' attempts to cover up for the CP in the Devey scan lal—and to refrain from criticizing King Street's attitude on Poland or the Leningrad trial.

What unites all these anti-Marxist political groupings, despite episodic differences, is their reformist middle-class impotence and vacillation before the power of monopoly They have no confidence in the working class whatsoever.

Their hatred for Trotskyism and their frenzied efforts slander and provoke Trotskyists is the obverse the revisionist-reformist fear and hatred of the mass movement.

this growing mass movement coming into irreconcilable conflict interests of monopoly capitalism and its state that is will decisive feature of British politics in 1971.

It is also the chief source of our confidence and optimism-and the despondency of the petty-bourgeoisie.

Learning the lessons of 1970 we will turn 1971 into the year of the greatest advance of Trotskyism in Europe by building a mass movement of trade unionists and Young Socialists dedicated to the defeat of Toryism and the return of a Labour government pledged socialist policies.

Confident

Armed with the daily paper and our understanding of Marxist theory we are confidently determined to exploit the radicalization of the working class to build the new revolutionary leadership and sweep into the dustbin of history every reformist traitor and revisionist apologist.

The Tory government has no mandate to rule. It is a government of counter-revoluTo allow it to carry out its policy is to condemn the working class to servitude and defeat-and to perpetrate the most base treachery.

All those who desire the victory of the working class in 1971 should fight for it by subscribing to the Workers Press and by supporting the anti-Tory Alexandra Palace Rally of the Young Socialists on February 14.

Make the reformist leaders