Workers Press no. 342

HOOVER

MAY 2 0 1072

What we think What lies ahead

THE PROSPECTS

West betwee because the con in 156 none become in. now become failed.ate In so far as they did succeed more convulsive In thnerady measll is failed.

dingn bat quantitativ i de ver this clearly of accumulated anges within and then Those is e Geerinst fellow Athe state the Workers Press socialism, the must star This is a completely reformist which i workin Those " situation are con essentially fals id to tail-end it cisive Struggl They king the cord ad working clari pitcaly. Thie erings letter confirmed again i

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JANUARY 2, 1971 • NUMBER 342 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Tory government prepares Political conspiracy against working class SPECULATION by union leaders that the Tory government is the guiding hand behind the BEA

TG.WU. 51674 BRANCH

and BOAC managements' tough stand against their employees airports work-to-rule is cer- tainly well-founded.

KILL

This action comes at will result in aisrupaons ol

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a time when the Heath

BY SUEPHEN JOHNS

wouldnbe no alternative® there cabinet hopes to inflict deb in three ran state

NOT BEAS

a defeat on the power workers through a court activities be - cr the t out. them lost their as on of inquiry. And, as union icaders Dui the claim, the government's mance being decid i pane move into the airports of redun viewed A section of the 5,000-strong Birmingham demonstration.

'political window dress- Disruption ies, after fail- the ing' to reintorce Massive show power workers' capitul- dock rice guiry into the ation. With the As in tne power workers of New Year press, complacency Hostility to the been ti win: Strength "HOUSANDS or workers Devey pay-oti day began 19/1 massive demonstration of HosT Which chaed 100 mars the strike ta

BY MARIIN LARKOP

hostility to the employers seven-week Batche- 450 and their Tory govern- bour force turned t investigation into the affair." is man uni anion side of th ment. of Sheffield shop Birmingham's • Try While Heat ти обкато miners, starters and dynamos. already ex Branches billty for the Walked out pressed their opposition to who

BIRMINGHAM

demongration Trades Union union position. Is it will become, An open letter to Sheffield CP created ormost estimate vehicles worth about 300,000.

THE SHEFFIELD

the Socialist branch of Labour League has issued the following 'Open No day shift Letter' to the Sheffield Communist Party on the Devey affair. claim for a 2 base vag.. Workers at BLMC's Castl actor: were on Decembert, said he advise s behind this aey. ed said that CP members do Devey had be What is the trish? shitn at Rover's Solifull fac allegedl So moded and 200 and a seven-week sea ke followed.

3500 amounted Inciate end moral suppor Here limith a fortunately Cabora had sacred in implicatierstor their dispute, e factory pro done Barchelors " withdrew.

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geal Firemen to discuss next Tonists ade rightly incense treacherous Tole played in t FIRE - STATION dele- step by the CP. gates Will meet "The January 12 to discuss une aurnoriues relusal

BY PETER READ

to raise neir o*-per-cent hap me him te the CP pay outer. Militant firemen at press- for said to the are * the present tina, Ban and probably be forced to shut oNe delegate conference shorter working week. Mol consee recommenda If this move is successful,

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BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

WORKERS in the W Midlands yesterday marched 5,000-strong through Birmingham, demonstrating their opposition to the Tory anti-union Bill. Traffic jams built up in the as motorworkers, and thousands of other trade unionists made to the Town Hal Then wav tor a mave anatory Taly An estimated 35,000 work- Trades action and work. stayed away trom This waste the Time hall the war that the 1 own has neen necked ov a trade union meeting. A large over- flow meeting was held outside.

But the spirit of the demon- was not matched by

5674 BRANCH

speaker une plauora Council Cent or Toe a rades began condemning TUC's wait-and-see policy and some unions who were already acting if the Bill was lav nada unions in ond an appeal the halt he r spe union is. expial to be done ahout the Kill. But this annea was largely ignored by both Urwin T&GWU assis-

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etic verousness or bour cu ¡ores ane me laws. They both agreed that the Tory government was different from anything seen 00-strong Birmingham demonstration.

before the war and that laws could only be compare those operating in fascis Ford men want countries. Hefter's solution was con. fined to vague appeastra combined ight inside and out parliament while Urwin side on February collection of millions signature: on the union official Deucons the Sharp contrast betweer the oskety to me Tories the the hoctility. expressed in the demonstra- A LEADING Transport and General Workers' tion was very clear. official may face criticism from his union on the eve of a major pay battle as a result of moves by workers at Ford's Dagenham plant.

Barbarous

T&GWU

branches representing By an Industrial correspondent Hora workers calling for an inquiry punishment into the conduct of a recent for parity of earnings with lispute involving 45 crane- nigher-paid carworkers singers. the Midlands In submitting this claim, a penalty Criticism Muns warned fe command Particular criticism recently that our members This barbases raditions not made hac already made of the union's national Adolt iVer, is acadatiy being itself felt this year (1970)...

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secretary, Moss Evans. Pronosed by the union's represented as a liberalizing Don't dodge at present 1/1107 branch and endorsed measure heroica by 1/667, the call will prob- crimes and the are capital.

stimac lira *But that nothing ably be considered by the Region

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used. if motive committee Out legal and psy you continue to dodge the the next week chiatric bodies consultedn Darity Issue. If this committee feels a government commission se Rises of un to £15 a weel UP to examine S Africa's 1916 there is a are el bager im ranches case to awer Mental Health Act, expected they complaint connected with his ans to oo torward to the union's tion of castration. meeting on tomotiye group ons highes S Africa has This would be exactly a worker s5 him tam over a 6d-an-hour grading people cemane. 0 cento ance eventer Twenty-year-old 'Keep Left' faces greatest task

KEEP

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the Young borough. hy Young Socialist memhers 16-nage The June issue of the paper Socialiste ofacial. readers and sunnorters from all youth monthly newspaper holds its all over the country. collars vote Cadia HaMin London Meeting for a Labour Tories out. of its campaign immediati 20th unani- of publication. year WaS aunched force tha 1971 20 on t marks mous vote tavour. the new Tory government to Teft but it Vaare tor "Keen paper increased its size from also means the greatest task 12 to 16 pages. special the history — - to Left's expansion is this issue was mobilize thousands based. all on davs after students, political struggle within workers,

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school movement Into the Drincipes alainst the treacher.

Dedoing itser to makiina «h working-class youth and immi noiiste to land the fight to Ous retormist and mene the tested Tand revere against all grant defeat the leadershing Tory government e paper will play a lead with a Labour one pledged The four-colour print- ocialist policies Febusy preparatin Vith a circulation of 21,000 articles Alexandra Palace vallv n by the editorial board, readers 14 which will be a exch month and selling onv ada conu it is the mach andy members rallying call for the working widely-read youth bring down contact te inerancar attraptivanace paper in the Annual General and political content played Tory government and fight for oh he no in hocals. the det a Labor Eave ment basic Meeting held through a begin- Annual Conference ning of every year-is attended Scar come to socialist policies.

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HOOVER

MAY 2 0 1972

What we think What lies ahead THng a sass Ts olutonar We say ehwe of canitat- im and the national 1. Fln ane captate couni evitable. sy did sucee the expense onlyy ando ne ote bat- woling das ma ts ral unions. his is Ollal vot only nas un he class struggle be Not cn, bit aar oer the . of de- the aid in France missorrying danea cor- resinde where Ken Attacking the Workers Pres le states : Yolas that we muse searng socialsm, ie it for Ihis is a completely rerormi on develormsnt conia oa eto Those tail-end it in every uttérly the the therefor class poit Thieehi nereed again in Miliase doa o g0

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workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

SATURDAY JANUARY 2, 1971 • NUMBER 342

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMIȚTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Tory government prepares Polifical conspiracy against working class SPECULATION by union leaders that the Tory government is the guiding hand behind the BEA TG. WU 5674 BRANCi and BOAC managements' tough stand against airports work-to-rule is cer- their employees' tainly well-founded. This action comes at a time when the Heath

BYSAPHEN COHNS

cabinet hopes to inflict des time he sare government— a defeat on the power this time stats workers through a court weakest sections of inquiry. them losing their jobs' And, ao uaisa icidero .. unioo eade ship iruc.

cest or en senes il y the main of pr claim, the government's now is not a astries dispu of redun into the airports bengested in lune HlUVC lancy and lock-out viewed June. Call A section of the 5,000-strong Birmingham demonstration.

'political window dress- Nce che Terth, ater fail Disruption in a leter, tot coxecutve office reinforce ing' the tock stron inquiry inset-ue Massive show ihe Pear power workers' capitul- BEA's" ation. the delp With of the continued As in the power workers' press, euphoria of New Year complaceucy Was Hostility to THOUSANDS of workers

UNION

represent- ny ogen isai wee a Strength Devey pay-off retused 000 acapl wor ady began 1971 with a work-to-rule yesterday massive demonstration of to the $3,000

HOSTILITY

BY MARTIN ZARROP

hostility to the employers resumed. and their the 450 Tory union side of ndustry's Deneve ual union:

BEA-BOAC

Co 1 eg Baid-ort the ectio inspecting dynam out ut increase. union inc reaseofected even meent Soa devi Yea reluäing to work negrating s esterday HA,idiand Strikyeste have Tolaved will by now anions Bill Veritish-Le yand Electrical Trades Union union position. Angrou fr win1 ized the citys a An open letter ductiof hursda stmatea silencec to Sheffield CP created •аБо 5000. vehicles

THE SHEFFIELD

branch of Socialist the willecause ep this an union Labour League has issued the following Open No day shift Letter' to the Sheffield Communist Party on the Devey afiair. Bromiers atr bodes from thei clam ete a ezo basic wage ir Nor one or the sus tor webir ore l e Dockers at oerogo nd Trom Pears on CP members and shilt at fov os soili000 da ins nerama tel foray "What is the truth? concit workers merce the cente 16 which Here instuck. race with esas worse than last po eurtalrrduction was seteeay Production was affected at determined component La teone a eing no nei 900 of the 3,200 worker several pits, coal-face amalgamated and bones actor storo dacing

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called and unionine ade of Sheffold trade Firemen to discuss next sule ar drm day-on official anuary 1 afilie played in it FIRE -SIATUN dele step will gates meet Lond the Tory ef January 12 to

G1SCUSS

• Hmeny The Cocor authorities' for n retusal

BY PETER READ

to raise their 5t-per-cent pay Militant firemen are press- calls onle action e stepped und over- fighting fires in factories and delegate conference shop shis move is successful, tion fomm the Fire Brigades

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WORKERS in the W Midlands yesterday marched 5,000-strong Birmingham, demonstrating their opposition to the Tory through anti-union Bill. Traffic jams built up in the city centre motorworkers thousands arIyels dlll ot otner trace muonusts mace their The Lown for a massive anti-Tory rally. estimated 35,000 work- An to the Trades Couneipon ed

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Ihis was the nrst time since war that the Town Hall been packed union meeting. A Dut mne sonit or me achon- stration was not matcnea by the platiorm speakers. t or the Tradesi counsi, presi- dent Trades Tuc's wait-anonsee poliey and condemning who were already slt lols if the Bill acune as was laW me mace a aDoea-ecmoeel by unionists in the the trade hall-for speakers explain what S Bii ul about appeal largely ignored both TrGwü assis- wy du natry UI WIn and tant general secretary Both speeches concentrated Tories and the la st both the Toriesy laws both agreed that the 1 ory government was differen1 trom anylnlne seel sunce 00-strong Birmingham demonstration.

before the war ano moar ure could only be compared aWs with those operating in fascist solution con- fined to vague appeals for a combined fight inside and out- side called for smpport for the Tuc Dannanen wole demonstration on February 21 and the collection of

TONG

of signatures the petitions. The sharp contrast between the re orme ornes speakers cne nosullte the in the demonstra- exoressed A LEADING Transport and General Workers' tion was very clear. official may face criticism from his union on the eve of a major pay battle as a result of moves by workers at Ford's Dagenham plant.

Barbarous Two

T&GWU

branches represenune rore workers by an industriai corresponden are • calna tor an Inoulty punishment into the conduct of a recent ss th dispute involving 45 crane- Ior parity oi earnllss hie Mripiadds carworkers slingers. SastaRion is con speniley for In submitting this claim, castration Criticism a penalty Evans the warned colDaly sex crimes. Particular criticism recentv moat our members This barbarous raditionse ntt unrest already made hac Adot Hiter, is actuatiy made or tne union s nauonal itself felt this year (1970)...

secretary, Moss Evans.

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T&GWU

used. and will be, within legal and Uut psy ommce you continue to dodge the chiatric bodies by lue ucal weck consulted Darily Issue. If this committee feels a government commission set Rises of un to £5 a week Mental Heane S Atti cas said there is a are cel Da for am thrandies Case als wer callec tor in this caim. Mental Health Toe conD ant expected they thon of cad atvou favour introduc- to go forward to the union's complaint national automotive 23 roup nnected meeting on Ie Attica has the highest This would rate exactly threatened with executions the Ford's week world, and in 1968-1969 there petore missal during strike allion scheduled reply their condemned a oa-an-nour DeoD e Over oracine 100 workers' £35 million claim to death and 84 executed.

cenano faces greatest task

LEFT'

Young borough. the nv young sociaiit memerg Socialists' official, ( 16-page, readers and supporters from The June issue of the paper montbly newspaper holds all over the country called all youth ball overn ment te vote at his fe op Annual General paper took a the East India Hall in London forward beginning at the keep the Tories out. 1970 Locav a lue Degunnas o Ils wien. oi lie DasIs Or AvIl Immeriate calllDal launched force vear o Duocon Lne mee ng's noad• Was 1971 not only marks mous vote in favour, the new government to years for s ee Brea s Left', but Pape ep ee expat rom sign as on as it was elected also task means special second euLot the the expansion history this issue was Daper s Cover 1OT thousands based, above all else, days after the mobilke printea luree containing the VOle workers, students. vonluca sumurae eecuon immigrant youth and National Committee statement labour movement for schoo! MatxISt leavers into the Young principles against the treacher- pledging itself to 'mobilize the Socialists to lead the fight working-class youth and immi- leaderships force the hated Tory against the

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THE GREATEST single unions while never compromising their attitude to the union threat facing the British leaders. class in 1971 This can be Marx's working . seen in attitude to the British trade will be Tory plans to of the union eaders at the time First International. shackle the unions and While most of the established tie them to the state. of the 1850s and 1860s unions of skilled Defeating these plans will composed were workers, led by men of highly require the greatest struggle conservative views, Marx none- theless in all sections of the labour his turned arenton TO- them and was able to

WATOS

movement in particular it will forge an alliance with their best demand a relentless struggle elements against the anarchists in the International. against Stalinism whose role This was true of Engels when, is to provide cover for those in the 1880s, there was a deci- 'lefts' sive inside the movement trade particularly among the semi- and who will not fight the Tories un-skilled workers. Engels recog- significance or their anti-union Bill.

nized the great of these changes and insisted that Without this fight for a new all his supporters turn to these the basis for the revolutionary leadership there new layers as Arch speaking to the rural labourers in 1872 Joseph be effective struggle. creation of a new independent can no against the Tories. labour party. There are many vital theoreti- This point is vital. The sec- be derived from cal lessons to tarians and the opportunists will this period of New Unionism of tend to unite the now against 1880s and 1890s the which have Marxists to prevent this new a bearing on the present struggle leadership from being built.

against the Tories. While the opportunist will all periods of Like great demand leave the fight to the change, the of the un- entry bureaucracy' union the skilled the 'the unions are finished, will cry and into the last 20 politics is the time for rank-and- now years of the 19th century was file activities'. Both, course, of with profound connected econo- allow the Scanlons and Joneses to changes taking place in get completely off the hook. British capitalism. Marx Engels deter- This was the period in which and never mined their attitude to the unions Britain indus- began to lose her by the of their leaders. world decline trial monopoly, poilties They by always saw in them which was accompanied in- which had been creasing technical changes which bronzens established by the working class tended the privi- to undermine in struggle to-defend themselves leged position of of sections from the employers. skilled workers, particularly in sought They always to turn Alongside these technical the Marxists, matter how small their numbers, closer to the changes went a tendency towards would like information about send to NATIONAL Fill in the form below and

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Name Address monopolization and greater centralization of capital asso- ciated with imperialism's develop- ment. The slogan which brought thousands of dockers, gas- workers and transport workers into the ranks of the unions was the demand for the legal eight- hour day. This had direct political im- plications for although this was not a period of generally in- creasing poverty it was one characterized by a tendency for unemployment to rise. The Marxists were at the centre of this campaign for the eight-hour day. The demand for the legal eight-hour day was one of the slogans adopted by the (Second) Inter- reconstituted national at its 1889 meeting.

One of the great issues in the fight with the anarchists in the First International was the adop- tion, as part of the International's programme, of the slogan of the legal eight-hour day. The anarchists, always con- temptuous of the unions, bitterly opposed this plank in the pro gramme on the grounds that it only encouraged political activity amongst the working class to which Bakunin and his sup- porters were completely opposed.

Marx was able to win the support and confidence of the British tradc union elements on the General Council for this demand although they saw it as a purely trade union question, as indeed they tended to see the International itself as merely an extension of trade union prin- ciples international onto an scale. These same trade union leaders took no part in the theoretical struggles involved in the adop- of this slogan about the tion relationship of economic and political struggles, the tasks of the working class in relation to the state etc. Yet this theoretical fight inside the First International was an indispensable political and theo-

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the creat pat occurred in the 1880s THE SIRSTAND SECOND PARIS Or WACH APPeARe

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On was ne no briber the conces tion Gavationt a programme of nation thousands with the work ers eip the demand ics • the tead reat importance ayers of unskilled workers.

This true, above amore de of the Trade Union Card of the Cordwainers Craft Trade Unionists marching through Manchester in 1874 sueas of Lancastil became propagan distand 0 190 out sentatio and basis the Labour Part Raves of ace alwaters corrupt SDF thrived. 'Blere he had explained the re- crisis.

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Saturday, January 2, 1971 tarianism remained an acute one among British Marxists until the formation of the Communist Party in 1920-1921. Engel's death in 1895, followed three years later by the tragic suicide of Marx's daughter Eleanor, were grievous blows to the young Marxist forces which allowed Hyndman to tighten his grip on the movement. But whatever its problems, the period after 1880 was vital for the development of Marxism in Britain. It was then that the Marxists were able to intervene in the struggle in a way which class was to strengthen them politically and theoretically. The period was crucial in lay- ing the basis for the formation of the CP from a fusion of Marx- st groups established in the las 0 years of the century 5.10 Robin Hood. fence. 45 Tarbuck, Tarbuck,15 5mn Rain Con Taylor: 10.00 London. 10.10 tree Elizabeth N2.05 Weather. the game. 11.35 Adam 12. Name ANGLIA: 12.15 All our yesterdays 6.15 Golddiggers Carlo, 12.45 London. 6.45 "Sea devils'. Film: Yvonne de Rock Hudson and Bryan Forbes. 8.30 Tarbuck. 9.00 Welby. Marcus 10.00 London. 10.10 Boswell and Tohnson 11.10 Name of the game. 12.35 Epi- logue. ATV MIDLANDS: 11.50 Granny gets the point. 12.15 Joe 90. 12.45 London.

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Saturday, January 2, 1971 ONE OF the sourest fruits of Stalinism in the Soviet Union has been the growth of an entirely new profession of 'liter- ary' experts, whose main job is to prevent others from writing the plays, novels, poems and essays that they would wish. Ignorance Armed with a blue pencil, a 'knuckle-duster' vocabulary, infinite ignorance of the arts and ample space in the columns of 'Pravda' to dis- play it, these men (most of whom wisely choose to re- main anonymous) are now having to work overtime in the battle against 'anti-Soviet' art. Traditionally, the 'perform- Even under Stalin, one could opposed ing' as to the play a Mozart piano concerto or dance a Tchaikovsky ballet and, 'creative' arts have been con- bad the performance however sidered safe. technically, be certain that the 'critics' would not challenge the political credentials of the artists concerned. For instance, the leading Soviet composer Dimitri Shostakovich task his pre- taken to „TOr 'Lady war Macbeth of opera Minsk' on account of 'modern- ism', which was designated as d 'leftist' musical deviation. But performers were largely ignored.

Protest All this has now changed how- Last month, the world tamone Soviet violinist David Oistrakh appears have acted his own initiative in Cal" projected celling his of Spain as protest against the

SHOSTAKOVICH

trial of the Burgos 16. NEWS that the Soviet govern- one thing at least-his ment is to issue a ten Kopeck for every crime carried support stamp commemorating the former out by the Kremlin clique against British Stalinist Harry leader the international working class. Pollitt will be welcomed by all It was Pollitt, the general stamp collectors. of the British Com- secretar Party, who put Reactions | venture are munist his name The certain to be mixed inside to innumerable resolutions the Soviet Union, however. applauding the of executor We are thinking particularly Party, state and military leaders of all those who suffered during in the Soviet Union, on trumped- Stalin's purges of the 1930s.

up charges of collaboration with For Pollitt was consistent in fascism.

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And in the last war, it was also Pollitt who sent letters to Churchill, advising him on how to deal with unrest in India, and promising that the British CP would not contest seats held by the Tories should they fall vacant while the war lasted. Now Pollitt's face will leer mockingly out at all those, to- gether with their children, whom he slandered so foully for more than 30 years. The stamp will be worth ten Kopecks, says the Soviet News Agency 'Tass'. Perhaps it should be changed to 30 pieces of silver.

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This But the bureaucrats and their was followed the ('due to de- cancellation lap-dogs having virtually navsterous illness') and rapid restoration lored 'the cult of personality' (a 'cult to which tens ('due to recovery') of two con- of thousands of communists and millions David Oistrakh, Rostro- of certs by and the Richter Soviet citizens were made human povitch pianist sacrifices, would decades sest atory, a few days alter death.

week Moscow con- prerer of history to be swept under the were declared in the carpet, along with all those sentences present-day intellectuals Leningrad trial of Jews. who unable seem strangely to grasp which side their bread is on Writers who are free to choose buttered. their words have been always suspect. Impervious Solzhenitsyn's novels are about the victims of the bureaucracy- in jail, labour camps or 'lunatic But if only such blinkered asylums'. writers are permitted to publish small of (and there is army If they have 'heroes' they are functionaries the impervious to of Soviet men. who resist the jailers and wishes people, super- struggle to maintain a communist the right to print, publish outlook on the hell which and distribute there will evi- them. From the rounds worst dently be scarcity of visible depth Accordingly literary they hit back at their talent. the oppressors with humour which is gendarmes from time to must bitter and deep. time give positive advice.

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last economic survey'. week carried a statement by The statement then refers to anther Soviet-backed project in the Governor of the Greek 'the Piraeus, where installation Public Power Corporation of 200,000 KW an additional construction unit of Soviet is (GPPC) which reveals the St nearing completion at the extent to which the Soviet Georges' steam-electric bureaucracy is giving econo- mic and technical assistance Statement to the anti-communist colonels' regime. The Kremlin's aid programme benefits US, The mainly statement notes that 'as big business investors Greece, a first step towards developing an extensive than does the junta, peat-bed approach- which is, anyway, a CIA puppet.

ing 4,000 million cubic metres which has been discovered re- This is recognized quite openly

PPC

cently has in the statement: sioned Energomachexport, Soviet organization, to carry out • in order to reinforce the complete technical trend and towards the industrial- THE SOVIET government, The move follows discussion Soviet leadership inside the together with its partners in on the shortage of funds for invest- Comecon (the Soviet-bloc ment in industry, grossly over- economic organization) burdened by huge arms is programme. launching a new scheme to raise capital from imperialist.

Collaboration countries for investment pur- Collaboration with capitalist poses inside the Soviet Union bankers 'has been undertaken and E Europe. already in the recent joint financ- ing of a loan the Brazilian military dictatorship for the pur- Through the International In- chase of Soviet equipment. vestment Bank, which it set up per cent of the last July, Comecon plans to raise Seventy new world will of the bank's funds i consist on money with convertible roubles, with the market in competition up of freely capitalist governments and priv- remainder made convertible ate concerns. currencies. THE CHRISTMAS season is On December 16 a middle- aged worker, Germain Massonne, the time for sackings as far swore at a foreman who had been as the management of the persistently harassing him.

Ferodo (brake and clutch Background to the incident was a year of savage speed-up on the linings) factory at Condé-sur- lines, with increases up to 60 per Noiveau in the Calvados cent, and the resulting exhaustion of many workers- Ferodo's own of France are region con- contribution to 'harmony'.

cerned. Suspension resisted natives dre The foreman reported the under the union activity, matter, recommending threp. which reads in disciplinary code day suspension, but management part that it is forbidden 'to make, decided to sack him outright. allow to be The result made, encourage was a stoppage, on any act liable to disturb harmony December 18, by of hundreds among the personnel' (which in- angry workers who held four cludes management). managers captive in their offices.

An article last week exhorted uthors to paint portraits' [sic f the 'true heroes of our time'- and the scientists engineers responsible for technical progress in the Soviet economy. At one time the 'genius of Stalin elevated this standpoint to the status of a whole theory of culture. Love, human relation- ships, manners minds-together with all forms s abstraction in literature, music — were denounced as 'bourgeois decadence'. 'Beauty' The attics of Leningrad's Hermitage Art Museum were stuffed with paintings by Picasso and the impressionists, while pride of place on the gallery was reserved 'functional for beauty' of ... a tractor.

The new attacks on Soviet artists and intellectuals have far broader implications than is generally recognized. For instance, a recent session of the Soviet Composers' Union saw its top bureaucrat, Tikhon Khrennikov, denouncing SO- called' nationally indifferent music'. Defending a 'sort of musical Esperanto', he insisted that 'ours is quite a different position'.

Soviet music, said Tikhon had to reject "cosmopolitanism'.

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ization of the country and in particular to provide further in- centives to foreign undertakings and.. financial organizations to. make constructive investments in Greece, PPC has further reduced the price of electricity And the junta is able to do this largely because of Kremlin So the argument used by Stalinists that Soviet aid to the colonels helps to free Greece from US domination is proved to be rubbish. The junta milks the bureau- cracy of its most modern equip- ment, and US big business cashes in with cheap supplies of power.

Far from weakening the junta's links with US imperialism, the Stalinists' policy is making them even more profitable. Western support for the ven- ture will only be forthcoming if solid guarantees can be given to its would-be subscribers.

The big banks and monopolies sti remember the assets taken over and nationalized by the Bolsheviks after 1917 Revolution. French firms, such as Schneider-Creusot and the British and US oil firms which exploited the reserves around the Black Sea, were especially hard hit by the downfall of the Tsar and his short-lived successor Kerensky.

Despite military, and later, economic sanctions, against the Soviet Union, the Bolsheviks re- fused to give compensation for what was rightfully the workers' property. Is this policy now to be reversed? Without significant concessions to western capital, the Comecon Investment Bank has little pro- spect of attracting the funds it so badly needs. • Such an about turn would be with the entirely consistent Kremlin's class-collaboration line Europe ('collective security' in and its recent tacit support for the Common Market) and throughout the world. But on Monday, December 28, when the factory re-opened, ten others were stopped at the gate.

They included a shop steward, a representative the plant committee and four CGT (Com- munist-led Union) Youth Com- mittee members. There is little doubt that this provocation is intended to pave the way for redundancies, bring- ing the owners full benefit from the speed-up they have enforced.

Union officials took immediate action. They 'deplored' the im- prisonment of the managers and urged workers to 'await a decisive call' from the authorized bodies.

Meanwhile 11 men are outside the gates.

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SOLZHENITSYN

Untold numbers of Jewish Now this is very significant, if intellectuals vanished in this because Soviet only writers, period, a pogrom climaxed by the musicians and artists (and also so-called 'Jewish doctors' plot' historians) were bitterly attacked after the last war for the sin of /and the framed-up Slansky trial 'cosmopolitanism', in Prague. The anti-Semitic cam- which more paign only came to end when and more came to mean anything Stalin died in March 1953.

connected with Jews. Is it just a coincidence that we find the being used Vanished same terms today to attack those Soviet com- who posers, artists and sufficient 'national' Stalin's 'cultural' specialist ack con- Zhadanov (until he died in 1949) sciousness? prime exponent of the was the Blundering so-called 'socialist realist' offen- sive against 'cosmopolites without kith or kin'. For barely a month after the composers' meeting, the trial Leningrad of the ll began in Soviet 'hi-jackers', no fewer than nine of whom were Jewish.

And after the trial, the arrest of more Jews was reported from Riga and Moldavia. Are we seeing the beginnings of a new outburst of anti-Semitic, anti-intellectual frenzy, carefully orchestrated by the bureaucracy diversion from its own blunderings and repressions?

Anti-Semitism, everywhere and always a weapon of reaction, only when those who employ appears it are in deep crisis politically and economically. Poland may have tipped the scale. We must be on our guard.

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In an obvious reference to the controversy aroused culminated in wide- by the recently approved Bill limiting wage island. The t is across due to increases (the trade union leaders have all con- leave until 1972. demned it) Tito said: Protests and they n temporarily in mid-Pacific.

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work' was Party leader Edward Gierek's New Left and Year message to the Polish working class.

untons (even adough all loyal Yugoslav tra right clash Toice The feelings of their be and orced to Gierek for called extra by in Calcutta The l workers to surpass the targets set for 1971. as probe on in to es will ertainly adopted Marxist-Communist arty and the

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ver £128 піо- Jadaypur ne ouredur cated THE HIGH Tory 'Daily Telegraph' yesterday es should admiths radio high-rank in boosted the British Communist Party's hypo- the ven from critical protests over the Leningrad 'hi-jack' violence incomes below £34 sparked he Madis death sentences. words, unfore Thi working class, students and intellets No cash than Kremlin to o eating to sed for SST sentenced to death ere ate elections and are the are.

hearing and No sess im August. SUPPORTERS of the United of leaders s of the the end at its But this liberal regimes is now coming to of its Political Big struggles are clearly on the way in It clear Yugoslavia. conspiracy

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Journalist Catholic anti-Semiti Polish on the 'Daily Mirror' an fair, but also Did exiled 'La Pasionaria' probe "The Sun' ignored union calls

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excluded and no with to return to work yesterday Response the Seamal ware anande and attempted to extend their evidence produced'. strike. intervention Stretch As Sun ere mounted encouraged a group "The offices bouverle street (adove) the s eschmi the polis, Asso- Newspaper Publishers' ciation labour executive met Heath did not make ke ahe

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ganda, he scurrilous propa- d'anound and the state phoney ture of ine the chelor's shetheld Pourshes Associa Non paper resistance the union leaders Lacements rested is a atal newspapers or soups.

'La Pasionaria' THE DEPARTURE from Rumania of the exiled On Spanish Communist Party veteran Dolores med in puble and Ibarruri on December 29 raises very important questions of principle. major muted.

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and factory won coressed by the poiso capitalist inquiries not touched rica dese there wedeckers Harbbur arbour Merard, Dock London does via basal stayed Morti onsible away. ntroductior working dias a the Communit working pro- Workear wie started attributed this isputed self-destructive its tradi becau The Mersey operation as part of the Devin leadership. have re- can peed-up measures not terer to this any bee workin suffering a major defeat.

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the northern ports was in Only 110 men arrived for capitalist masters Furthermore neither does