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THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE The fight against Tory anti-union laws again shows What we think There is the way no middle road

BY DAVID MAUDE

A BIG ANTI-TORY demonstration has been called for next Tuesday by the Liverpool Trades Council. thes When Minister The council's call he will do named with a contrasts sharpiv with After the Devey affair the retreat from the of British the

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BY GERRY HEALY

ambitions in THE DEVEY AFFAIR has once again revealed liquidatio not the last rem ck by th the Communist Party leadership as a shameful and would gang of political cowards, worthy representatives me male The in the past for ed o of the Stalin school of falsification.

ofte of me pasies, he salada During the lifetime of 'concensus Urgency Stalin they not only sup Bank staff bears ported every brutal deed which he organized, ther brunt of decimal went out of their way to falsify the Class must teachines Trotskyism by the foulest change-over lies and slander. This time I detect a of urgency returned one in months of Tory a

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vomit WITH LESS than six weeks to go to Decimal- For de nons Day, Britain's bank employees are calling for ". a petition to par strong action to back their claim for adequate 'changeover' pay. ricy to ustity this li • Barks: But what are the facts? vas ma seBritis commenung s humbly oug MPs from soon see to a one of Ministersi, Apology Monia Baike Sham chairman of the Costs party. Would the living on sander de proding ficult to quantify, at lem and wealth o eric one was E1,250 January Fund a protest. ap Needles: starts at E55 to pre the eritist *Fats come evoluton, 41,000 wever, a National Unio Workers Februatecisive Palace 33 те. sunsets of thousand ta

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THE HEATHROW meeting of BOAC pilots has rejected the Corporation's latest pay offer * been operating in the dispute which has kept the airline's me he payee in yet seeking endorsed th

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pilots lying all aircraft, the giant boelng than offer the pilots Robens' pilots resignation official THE RESIGNATION of Lord National Coal Board officially announced yesterday.

Lord Room had been vited to continue in office fo a further five years the did hot wish to secretary on in on n Sa. Chapham High t Pietal order for e more detalls/a teke. I enclose cheque Name leering Address towards policy

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THE RECENT STRIKES, demonstrations and bureaucratic repressions in Poland carry enormous political significance for the British working class.

To see why, it is necessary

BY ROBERT BLACK

go the great to oack changes that took Dace in Poland at the end of the last war. had been agd ts (an an the agent thesri).

fascist b Pozkin recit on a natioiski scale.

With the collanse ni Nazi ruli in n aurope milions or worker and Door Deasants lookea to tne Its leaders, exiled in Moscow, the : Parts advancing Red Army for political vomulka s nonl 1 leadership ran were also paralli shot. rascist- ana • lo economic as as military the ferment Trotskyite agents' degree, merged mone, aneaneed workers. in their struggle for a better leaders i cudine Pomysk a utim- Several of future But standing behind the heroic y, they battled their especially, self, began elec owed their survival to way mate rial incredible and their workers fact shin the pent Fao too from Volga to the the Stalinist bureau- Beriin. was stain's giststs in Moscow not as ureaucracy which ige of cracy, had factories. destroved vestige ever The 1939 Sái D Poland had existed under Conin and between at the Party. so a bitter Stalin had no intention of con- the Hun- cering Polish nounee dh at Kheash che pard de- Gomulka revealed the desporate a cent or garian the rights he had worKer the economt the stoler sovier workind perialism, to nation made bureaucratically, move the the over working heads class From the bhe miokio. felt alienated from regime. ruggi property socialise which creation democracv ode iwo. has wicca sions wild, controllable fury. In June 10SK th wnarere Poznan a î W Poland, staged a strike, taking the against streets vages and the lack o starvat political rights. Unexpected Gomulka addressing a 240,000-strong crowd in explosion Warsaw's Plac Defilad on October 24, 1956.

in many sections had a crimes, productivity pre-war Poland! real figure thought to He but the shih metoren ot the z‹ be much higher. oint i What widespread For te ee time oe eo on wor in class Rut iisrunting working ween the "g Buy e and years fore-on Jur bureaucracy the ussoughout revolted theit Stalinist Temaned them). impact the reformist strategy trapped in the refo conacm which became the Polish version of 'socialism in one country' for political, and not The session Centra of Polist economie changes Committee Poznan, events moved to which cow Gomulko rectored ti released from a five- its leadership (the famous 'Eighth Sine Satniss and the tiberas:?.

CP tater that year: The clumsy attempt to present The tension at the Plenum was the n periatrt dy unorecedented. Leadershit i9-12h Tha Cauiot sumy woc at thai very moment closing in on War- naive. re pressive aspests of Their criticism Cand the worrers' conncis •Agents and nrovocateurs were damouring for arms. be and act anywhere, but never Many of the old guard — the id nowhere can the determine e attitude of the working class 'Natolin' groun- _ continued masterminde d the e oznd revote, If anyone churn nut the came did line agents' stirping un trouble in the Workers' ferment through Stalinist party in the world.

or Gom in th pared to the lets with more shaken than None Stalinist hardi ens in te leader- assault the Polish. Stalin wound their who refica adapto the radicalizarion in the Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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But the pro-Gomulka groep their strength from the drew workers' movement. Romana Granas, one of Gomulka's most radical sup- taunted the old guard. porters, She said they were afraid of the they moved workers once independently of the bureaucratic machine: terrify Why does Warsaw them? . • Warsaw which leads the whole country in the tem- pestuous movement-initiated in the factories-for workers' coun- cils. Warsaw, whose youth with devoted enthusiasm searches for new roads . • Warsaw, where of our intelligentsia the flower breaks through the darkness of the past ... Warsaw . . • always faithful to her progressive revo- lutionary traditions. 'Some comrades,' she went on, 'see the breeding Warsaw as ground of that terrible plague spreading that is now over "plague of Poland. Yes, this democracy" has spread. Not only Warsaw, but over Lodz, over Katowice, Wroclaw, and today, it has already embraced the whole country in spite of those who wanted their areas to guard against this plague.' Attack on old guard This speech helps to conver the scope of the workers' revolt against the bureaucracy, an up- surge which made its power felt inside the walls even of the Central Committee buildings in Warsaw. Others then joined the attack against guard. Artur Starewicz dealt with the Stalinist of planning which conception had choked the Polish economy since the war: Its greatest failure is not rote In the Polish elections of January 17,

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A section of the cheerir simply the result of certain dis- proportions and serious errors due to the excessively centralized system of planning and control, but first and foremost of the un- socialist attitude to the working class. "The working class was not master of its workshops, in its name control was exercised by the representative of the state- a bureaucracy often indifferent to the needs of the masses.'

He also dealt with the prob- lems of the countryside. Due to the bureaucratic • in which way collectivization had been carried out 'a situation resulted in which the main line of battle ran not between poor peasants and rich, but between the united peasantry on the one hand and the bureau- cracy on the other.' Roman Werfel also attacked slanders that the working class and youth were being duped by anti-communist agents: 'I think that it is a sign of the sound instincts of the class popular masses, of the unconquer- able strength of our socialist ideas, when the popular that masses take the initiative, their directed unambi- initiative is guously to the left, towards socialism ...' Another issue that constantly cropped up in the Central Com- mittee discussions was the Krem- of Poland's lin's exploitation mineral resources. As was the case with Hun- and garian uranium, more recently, Czech steel, the Soviet bureaucracy forced the Poles to sell their coal to the USSR at well below world market prices, while being compelled to buy Soviet, exports at an equally inflated cost. Stalin's milking of the E Euro- pean economies had been one of the main factors driving the Tito leadership into opposition in Yugoslavia. January 17, 1957. of the cheering crowd It was made a central issue in the Party, addressed:a mass meet- all the show trials staged by the ing in Warsaw's main square.

bureaucracy from 1949 to 1953.

His 'victory speech', cheered to the echo by more than a quarter so-called 'mixed The com- of a million workers, ended with panies' set up by the Kremlin in.

thunderous rendition of Internationale. the Poland, Hungary and elsewhere were little more than legal covers It seemed that could for the pillage of these countries' nothing dislodge Gomulka from his posi- badly needed natural resources. tion of leadership. Yet 14 In 1956, this naturally years came up Gdansk shipyard workers— for discussion. later, also singing the 'Internationale'- The three-day Plenum finished began the Baltic strike wave that 21, on October 1956. Two days swept his group of their Hungarian later, the Revolution, party and state offices. triggered off by basically the same From being the hero of the process that produced the fer- 1956 'Polish October' Gomulka ment in Poland, began. had become the workers' bitter enemy. Then on October 24, Gomulka, of now the General Secretary • Continued tomorrow

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News. H0. 01.59 Weathes Epilogue. Wednesday January 6, 1971 Smokers face report JUST UNDER one third of all aged 35 to 64 who died men in 1968 were cigarette smokers who died prematurely, according to the Royal College of Physi- smoking in cians' latest report on In that year 99,082 men that age group died, but if there no smoking, had been 31,000 would still have been alive.

At least half these excess deaths were caused directly by smoking and the figure is more likely to be 24,000. The report calls for action and end to contain what it describes as 'the present holo- caust'—a fitting word, it declares, for an annual death toll of some 27,500 men and women aged 35 to 64. The report - 'Smoking and Health Now'-follows the Col- lege's 1962 report 'Smoking and Health' and it is critical of con- tinued government inaction over this health hazard. The group of eminent doctors, by. headed Lord Blenheim, Président of the College, who produced the report, infer that have been pre- governments occupied with the loss of revenue that would follow a drop in smoking. The 1970 Finance Act even ensured that substances less harmful than tobacco would be taxed at the same rate if used for smoking, but there was consideration of health aspects. "The issue is, in essence, quite simple', they write. 'Government and parliament have to decide between an easy source of revenue and the pre- servation of the lives, health and productivity capacity of the people they serve.' Unsound economics In fact, says the report, the Treasury's economics may be un- sound. Surveys in America and Canada have shown that elim- ination of smoking would result greater savings than losses.

in Sickness benefit and loss of production and earnings due to lung cancer, bronchitis and cor- onary heart disease, attributable to cigarette. smoking, were est- mated at £270m a year. The 150-page report's pro- posals include: a m ban on cigarette coupons and adver- tising; cigarette vending no machines in public places, reducéd life insurance premiums non-smokers; for effec- more tive anti-smoking advertising co- ordinated through the govern- ment; and danger warnings on cigarette packets. The mass of statistics on the dangers of smoking are impres- sive. The heavy smoker has only half the chance of a non-smoker ot surviving to the age of 65.

Giving up smoking means that the increased risks are negligible after ten years' abstinence.

However, it is unlikely that the Tories and their friends in the tobacco business will act on the report's recommendations any more than they did in 1962.

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Frank admission on Czech invasion Wednesday January 6, 1971 "On Reflection'

LONDON WEEKEND

Saturday, January 2 Reviewed by

ROBERT BLACK

TO SPEND 15 minutes talking about the founder of the modern revolu- tionary movement with- out once mentioning the problems and struggles of the working class to- day is some feat. Jack 'Pearly docker' Dash managed it without any difficulty in London Week- end's Saturday night pro- gramme 'On Reflection, when the Communist Party veteran and former London docks' leader gave viewers his reflections on the life and work of Karl Marx. Like all Dash's public per- formances, one was THE FRANKEST admission yet on the Kremlin invasion of Czechoslovakia made was on December 30 by Bratislava home service. Of the mass movement against the old Stalinist leadership, it said: "To oppose this unity in 1968 was almost to become an outcast of society? The broadcast then described in some detail how these 'out- casts' went about saving their bureaucratic skins: Letters 'In the summer of 1968 ...

an increasingly powerful stream of letters and demands to save socialism [Stalinism] in Czecho- slovakia were sent in the direc- tion in which the hopes were directed-to the fraternal social- ist countries, mainly the Soviet Union.' The broadcast then went on: "These were demands for help, written in a most difficult mom- ent, a moment full of despond- ency, but also a moment of faith... The authors of these letters, of the ultra- supporters ousted by Dubcek's "liberals' uary 1968, were obviously utterly isolated from the working class in the summer of 1968. Own demands They were prepared to co- exist with Dubcek's leadership, even with his dangerous policy of seeking extensive economic aid from the World Bank and other imperialist sources, so long as the working class remained passive. But in the summer of 1968, the workers began to forward their own demands, through the trade unions and factory organ- izations, for workers' control of production and the right to political freedoms. It was at this point that the old guard turned to their allies in the Kremlin, the broadcast as makes very clear: ... these were appeals and requests addressed to the Soviet people and their party asking them not to hesitate, but to as there was mother ey once, (Emphasis added.) The broadcast then lists the organizations whose members had sent such requests for armed intervention against the Czech working class. There is not a single trade union body on this list. overwhelming In their interventionists majority, the were drawn from bodies 'electéd' under Novotny (the National Assembly, the Party Central

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specially tailored gently to dis- Marx's 'Capital' shows that of wine round off the whole of the thing in very good style.

vee preparede turh the consciences contact enses middle and ruling classes.

the not poverty The Atter the teast comes masses (this typical lecture morality and the Dash presented Marx on 'moralistic' distortion of Marx).

greed of the rich. humane liberal, opposed seid when the work- canitalism on moral erounds class, Meanderings union lavourable economic Pastimes deny Far better than being sent altons. able emnlovers a inaudible considerable slice sleen The i ains of previously of what har heen ot intormation aboul of come nlatitud. meanderings habits and going to the ruling class in the inous old vicar. form of profit (surplus value).

tossed pastimes were the No Dash's attempt bresent complete DiCture Mary the torerunner honest hourgeois colla Dossibiv present-day "protest' move take exception to such a man.

nents met with about as much Outcome Neither brief summary do they. Dash has clas as thes bret capitalist laid on just this act at business- A sharp fall in the employers' men's luncheons. Duble schoo profit successful wages the days, anen village fetes and According to Dash, capital- numerous thi of a other hiinc. ism outcome i Wages because DreaKs tions' of the British ruling class worker buy back oftensive ov the workme cass.

cannot soft, petty-bourgeois such as that he oroduces underbelly.

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have ver the last 25 In this theory that this process by A good natured 'ticking off' molished in the book offset years, to very unbacked by repa per money bash handled so vine only a six course meal and a glass one point in his programme.

value

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the recently begun Comey knew occupation has norter Soviet cracy's policy of convening an all- process that unless the carry even further relations with i Gene andialiation Duhcek noict security their notical careers would be at an end. man lopertalsun have abso- and his not anv concern Recognition lutely nothing to sav against the continued occupation of Czecho- their appeal It hac "len artended dinioma.

son ben recoonition the Hiven Sion obviously went further than Stalinict leader. Franco regime in ship installed under the Soviet

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aspect of problem in class solidarity, inévitably

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lende small Soviet leadershion wage increases for maioritv mariat ene expenor of those workers the criticisms arty facond seriesy Moscor Wages Party months to consider a pro from hould boost pr The chorn tana of th article work force the serious nature o underlines does the charges Comina after issue The the attac adoption of a new elements 'Surplus' Tula corkinw class at this works, where ed particular mes rail t fund is allocat times f Speed-up productivity increased. departments: adoption "Incentives' Adontion of the new sustem manage- system. using the treadin ments powers Thic dicmice worr tional Stalinist require- "material Ars to the nan would even more incentives' to break un working.

give ments. anditis possibly th postpones the crisis and ren- ders it even more devastating.

Marx All the processes analysed in his immortal works are now coming to fruition in the crisis of the British capital- ist system. Yet this truly historic 'turn finds Dash distorting, mis- representing and discrediting the theoretical foundations of Marxism. No surprise And that should be no sur- prise. 'For despite his contrived 'proletarian' style-which has an old 'Music Hall' ring about it — Dash epitomizes middle- class 'protest' politics at their most bankrupt. Stalinism has trained him to protest at the inhumanity of capitalism-and wine and dine with his declared class enemies while he is doing it. Gollan and company would have liked. In view of the Polish crisis, it is all the more necessary to raise this question once again inside the British labour move- ment, and insist that all violation rights in working-class Czéchoslovakia be the subject of a trade union inquiry. The fight for workers' rights does not at the English stop channel or the frontiers of E Europe. Draconic powers to plant man- than they already agements and so heighten • ten- possess, sions between the mass of the working class and the bureau- cracy. The Kremlin also has the growing problem of the intellec- tual opposition, which is reach- ing out to embrace layers, such as musicians, previously regarded as non-political. The anti-Jewish campaign must also been seen in this context.

What predominates in the Union, Soviet as throughout both the imperialist world and the rest of the Stalinist states, is a mortal and growing fear of the power of the working class.

The bureaucracy despérately wants to boost lagging produc- tion, not just to satisfy its own indulgent tastes, but to buy off rising discontent in the working class against inadequate housing and living standards. Poland was a warning the bureaucracy simply cannot afford to ignore. But the very methods it adopts to solve the crisis create even deeper problems!

This is the reality of 'social- ism in one country. WHEN I was a child, they took me to see Peter Pan as a Christmas treat. I recall being terribly embarrassed when somebody asked us: 'Do you believe in fairies?

If you do, clap your hands.'

Apparently, it was all to do with fairies dropping down dead if we expressed our disbelief.

Guiltily, we clapped. We are reminded of this by the annual review of the world's press issued by Mr Ernest Meyer, of the Zurich Inter- director national Press Institute.

Press freedom is in danger, says Mr Meyer. Not, as you might have thought, because a handful of millionaires control all the main papers, but because of the NO DOUBT Franco was duly touched by the tone of the message sent by Sir Alec Home about the Douglas death sentences on the Basque nationalists. It said that the Tories were 'confident the Spanish head of state will take humanitarian con- siderations into account'.

Perhaps the Spanish dictator that the Foreign remembered Secretary's father was one of the many Tories associated with pro- Franco organizations. The old Earl of Home was on United the Committee of the Christian Front, whose chairman, Captain A. H. M. Ramsay, MP, once declared: "The United Christian Front has fought to prove that General Franco was fighting the cause of Christianity against anti-Christ.?

(This was in 1939, shortly be: Tories fore Ramsay'S fellow were obliged to intern him as too open a supporter of Hitler.)

Sir Alec Douglas Home was in those days called Lord Dunglass and was a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chamberlain's gov- ernment. He must have been intimately acquainted with all the many Tories whose sympathies with Franco were openly dis- played. The most famous phrase on this theme was delivéred by Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft, MP for Bournemouth. He told a meeting of the Friends of National Spain in 1938 : I recognize General Franco to be a gallant Christian gentleman.'

At the same meeting, Captain Victor Cazelet, MP, described IT WAS a good week for Shea, London Mr Peter docks secretary of the Trans- port and General Workers' Thursday's Union. Last Workers Press, you may re- member, quoted him on the possibilty of action in sup- port of the Burgos prisoners.

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when these people (the murdered that police chief, he to be a declared. 'I happen don't want to Christian and I see anyone killed.' 'Financial Times Monday's carried another statement .from this chap, this time on the suc- cess of Devlin Phase Two in the Port of London. "Things are get- ting better,' said Mr. Shea.

It is no longer us versus them, it is and we are all in this just us together.' There is something. worrying him in this new paradise, how- ever. 'If we are not careful,' he said, port em- 'there will be more ployers at the labour exchange than dockers.' So, if the employers carry out "modernization' plans for their toich De thousands thor separad dockers should not feel too bad about it. There is a close connection between these two excerpts from the thoughts of secretary Shea.

The theory of Franco's Falange precisely to 'unite' party was workers and employers. But, before the Spanish wor- kers could get a taste of the implementation of these 'theor- les, they had to be defeated in a civil war. However pleased Shea might be with the working out of the Devlin scheme, the dockers are still fighting fit.

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боббобаббо Workers Press notebook 'credibility gap' between the mass in Britain' is worrying Mr Meyer media and the public. sick. Worst of all was the 'extra- ordinary action' of the print- Fellows like Spiro Agnew (are workers on the London 'Evening there any?) have engendered dis- Standard', interfering with the of the press trust of the press. barons to lie right about strikers. disenchantment If this con- tinues-and it is not within the So, unless you want to under- power of the press itself to halt mine the foundations of the free rather e he democ world, from Formosa to Portugal, public leadership in • democ- you must not only let Fleet St erosion of the racies-then the churn out any old stuff the news- foundations the free world paper owners want. You also have will begin.' believe everything they print.

But there greater are Every time you refuse to be- dangers. lieve a Tory Fleet St Dautied "The virus of industrial unrest editor has a coronary. You brutel Tory minister Home Franco 'the leader of and it is very difficult to get them as cause'. His friend Sir Arnold back want Spain under Franco' Wilson, MP, is quoted a year earlier as saying: In view Douglas Home's 'confidence' in Franco's humani- I hope to God Franco wins in Spain, and the sooner the better.'

tarianism, another quotation is of interest. 1939, the (He was already famous for his In February Stalinism had treachery of 1936 have met statement: delivered the workers of Barce- Hitler repeatedly. I believe him lona into Franco's hands. When to be a great instrument for his marched into the city, army peace in the world.') workers' leaders massacre ot Oswald Mos- Lord Redesdale, began. declared ley's father-in-law, to The Chamberlain government, another meeting of the i Friends having done all it could to help of National Spain : him win, decided to send Franco 'General Franco is leading a a message asking him to 'abstain crusade for all that we in from acts of vengeance'. England hold dear.' Why should drag these 'Confidence' memories of Sir Alec's old friends Because and relations? their ad- miration for Franco's battle to which Homes fainer moved, this In the circles which the Spanish workers tells crush us what their successors of 1971 the murder of mili- restraint British would like to do to the tant workers was unacceptablé. workers. The Earl of Glasgow down put a motion in the House of Lords Two further Tory speeches stating that the message was 'un- about Spain may serve to under- the necessary and not inter- line the of thése class savagery Empire'. ests of the British gentlemen. The parallel with Enoch Basque devils Home's Powell's criticism of intervention' in the basque sen• tences last week should be noted.

Spanish Children's A special Repatriation Committee was set So what price Stalinist stories Friends of National of a 'peaceful road to socialism'?

by the Has British Spain in 1937. Its task was to the ruling class campaign for the children lessened its ferocious hatred for brought to Britain as refugeés the workers' movement in the past 40 years? from the civil to be war back. No! Their 'confidence' iD As Sir Nairne Stewart Sande- Franco is just as strong today. If MP for Middleton and will man, they can, they carry out in Prestwich put it: Britain as bloody class actions a Franco still does in Spain.

'I don't mind telling you I am the Repatriation Committee Our job is to see they neve about these little Basque devils get the chance.

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Pie in the Basque protest strikes sky from against arrests Nixon WORKERS in the industrial dis- trict around Bilbao, centre of the Basque country, downed tools for varying periods on Monday, in solidarity with 50 Basques still in police custody after protest strikes against the Burgos UNITED STATES President Nixon pre- death sentences. dicted improved relations with the Soviet About 2,000 workers in the town's naval shipyards Union and increased prosperity at home in a television interview yesterday.

and at the General Electric oranch lactory. in neard The interview is generally regarded Sestao, 800 workers staged Fears for PO- bid his as opening tne a lour nour sunke aramsi presidency in the 1972 elections. 1971'.

the detention of colleagues.

he said, will be a good year and 1972 but no policy Will be a very good year, adding that with a deficit budget and an activist cconomicoond be reduced and inflation controlled.

on nationalization. of olice have released 15-20 the Post duriers All this is just Die-in-the-sky.

Triast Burgos io rise raging, while in enform ens continies efforts, inflation possibility But unfain competion was n The improvemen mprovement of relations be ween Us with ana ureaucrac treed. Gierek shes, serited are the Rome's traffic countiy police strike tails *rankness and will strategy ation will lead to a settle- ROME'S traffic police staff and their vieW. Ray in the pest sea. World relies for higher overtim • too darien at outlined "further assur rate the service more recruitmen close! Arms Chat- in Moscow mettle by sacking Hall or he spot. holiday working during petit leaders, Party POLAND'S new Stalinist in Cement

ALL TRADES

result of the was prac scals at sand. general secretary Edward Gierek and Premier Soviet co-operation.

UNIONS ALLIANCE

said

SALT

talks would eventually Piotr Jaroszewicz, left Warsaw by air for

MEETINGS

anat voids would Moscow yesterday morning.

dence a strategic capons or They are to have top- sob erness House prices the Charter of Basic level talks with their Bank for Israel andledge support for double in soviet ooposite numbers the -their first meeting with necessa balance ten years

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the Kremlin bureaucracy Fast a Gierek team archelp ynion Have duced one se since une banks will be dised to the Washington it the ousted Gomulka during Miners and the Soviet sup- the Baltic strikes against plying arms to the Arabs.

Wednesday Charter of Basic the pre-Christmas price Be home dem Nixon Rights increases. next say Which sierek will give a detaile - the + inter of housed Linchcite Classhoughin coley) account ecem akes t ver had thiem in Pothere and ot house en takes very along every Polish bo seriously. Vague

OLLERTON:

Barker loon Corker: Ecki is the beer really ne manoloning the Come to Alexandra Palace! No assistance throughout Februars Force the so presidential hum weekend rate of 56s Tories to resign! an This claim was also rejected.

crisis. eistene and hale Soviet technical AGENHAM. Marsh deen Senio aid for indication rents Indonesian load petitors. murderers The Thomps intensic mon itselt in ARRIVAL ol a soviet technical mission in Djakarta has again been postponed for a technical reason, accord- stards German capital. ing to Indonesian foreign minister Adam Mallk.

somment is Hard facts survey the cost of a birepared facings are his dre These were acuve Suse to send ten man ea Church "There will be very little supports security conference *pom as stand at mond reekly "Tyodnik" Pow relation underandable, can be Kremlin proposa › leaders in German Tears if he countrys new Prite mission will Treans of Heath. i Tele rom i decent or milesee est of Diakart capitalist arm of the the Polish wining defeat Tilatep in central lava. brought into the act. Wednesday January 6, 1971 MAYOR of Gaza since 1965, Najib al-Alami, has had his appointment terminated by the Israeli occupation authorities with immediate effect. The Israelis claimed

BY A WORKERS PRESS

SAT Fatah Mas 'retrenchment',

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announced the Alami had shown hos- the Lebanon except for its ot all its oinces tility, a lack of willing- orland beto entrese and ness to co-operate with Derrut once lea by lassil weekend, for the occupying authority AL Ine Aratat, is the largest of the Palestine guérrilla organiza- examole.

TWO

Taminer and inefficiency tions. iSrae 1s Were administering the town's grenade lonned into ther car in the northern séction

TRIP

affairs. of Gaza. The resistance to Israeli But Alami's almost certainly related but the Palestine number allacks decision. Israeli forcés orcanizalons dIt Fatah officials claim the tine 6272 атед where •rawing Dack In what is officiallv de.

thousanos of Palestinians are move is almeo at restomne semi-candestine chamar. ter of their organization One official claimed it was an attempt to end 'bourgeois it looks like a retreat under way Every device, every trick, Lebanese book cove ment ores. which sure. Will restrict expected ТГОМ ThE Fatah's opera-

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even turther to ta inicts divert the tions against Israel. increasing Trade numbers workers of Unions have been middle-class noticeably dragging their feet even even on the call for a further force the Tories out. protest strike on anuary l the Just about the only public nev want olve Heath covernment time which •

FROM PAGE ONE

statement The cuestion can literally no longer WA trom the liaıcon (ommittes afford. since December 8 appears anti-union laws and Ramelsor small article by inmane sileys, just ive ye s as he did next Kevin the Stalin. cays carried the latest issue

DLICES

conunue His henchman Howard Hill the the equally small TISe present rate. Shetield SP, stadenly became secretary circulaton district accorolne to the institute o periodical Mirectors. wise after Monthly. denounced Devey for taking And even this Breadline sans anso- money. lutely nothing of any note.

Where was Howard Hill Unless the Tories are Response before the event and what did govern- nacerno a Labour have to

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ment committed firmly part of both silence Con the socialist long before This despite the big Ramelson and Hill their four-year workineares will be on term out, response of Birmingham trade e theonates otp her ward fu the advocates 'peacefu the breadline. and road socialism chonsored coll to cha res be the demonstrate on January drafting The Liverpool Trades Coun- scale Although widely for call is a significant con. what a vic. as gulaellnes a signi

ADELON

The umized Steward or convenoi feature 5,000- transtorm anuary i maro " worth whana reactionars Tory employer kicks him out?

trong lever to force demonstanon. an irresistihle calling official Perhaps the Communist Mornine star chose not tha General Strike and go forward Party will now advocate oraw attention The con. anti-Tory industry. certed chant taken up by lexandra Palace on Haath nuti' parl majority of the 5,000 marchers.

February 14. 'peaceful road'. Over recent vears there has heen a nrocaccion ni hatroualc on the part of CP members in the trade union movement.

The glarins Electrical Trades Union ballot-rigging scandal CP Ramelson leaders sav thev had no know.

ledge of this. but they have never explained politically how it arose. No more than they plained politically how long-time member THE SUDANESE military regime is planning aynter, •CP leadership and to follow the example of its Egyptian allies by miners' union v a returning nationalized property to its former Commission Industrial Relations under the Labour owners. government. commission is now studying the regime's Shameful Time-study nationalization programme he pothy of the The reason to decide what will remain policy because drive in *peaceful road socialism' in the public sector and which was endorsed hv Stalin.

which, enterprises can be is nothing more than the most US offices sham ful castellabover tor restored to private hands.

cover This move comes Paraza and hatys tor such after pres- paving by overseas regime

BY A

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Devey nvestors and peoplat si tracers. Wno ate

CORRESPONDENT

reluctant to channel funds into is happening to sin- cere CP members in the trade sudan without clear sians th: he regime intende to defan.

A DRIVE to establish clerical uniones that they are haino the 'rights' of private property.

time-study systems offices moitically dactanuar and dic The rightwards turn in the United States orienta ted be the, the c.

Sudan regime is not confined ETU case Paynter undertaken by lead- to economic policy. and affairs Management Consultants. accidents. Arrests They are the outcome of a 'Business A ccoroina retormıst mis-educatior Week' analysts are members of claiming several leading carried nut un car ronditiono the illegal 'high-volume Sudan Com- renetitive where the leadershin of the Party (which neverthe munist office work opportunistically used 1s cone at oniv f per cent these then cast them ress sunnorts the cent and efficiency. aside making them the were recentiv arrectad whipping theta WAre rannuto thot Dontr Their aim 'is to Increase to cover ur armed supporters inside • own mistares. were also being What evev has done is moted and sacked. least a further 20 per cent.

been These developments Two Ayamnled of ingrancad Soviet efficiency are given. "peaceful road The Aerospace Corporation socialism' cast Stalin, Year's Los repeat was the spent Radio, 15th Amanlac Soviet $614.000 over • eni past the five of anniversary vears on work dependence from Britain. said Pay-off measurement and has con- behaviour The subseguent been able Gollan, Tea es 1969s na to save Caborn, of the neu co its coup of May 25. loward Hill. Devey and cor confirmed the progressive Dayton, pany are engaged claims to have saved 5160,00k Ohio of the revolutionary regime.

Recent like the what from on wages in its first vear nf reDorts Sudan about the nationalizing using a work-study system.

of foreign hanks and incuranci Special emphasis retormism is haino epoch of capitalist decline.

comnanies laid on the use of comentars That indicatino that renorts why thory clerical conilnation kers are taking part personally serios trade trioni ofer Vicular for storment ta par- measurement, in preparing the new labour serious trade unionist in present laws, strikes can be parte of theticailyr hold aspects of working. 1 by dearthis politically the unished by Management also expect leadership of the British con- Com. country's resolve to munist resnonsible for selecting and independence what Dever - their anc training per. sonnel'. carry out deen social changes!

Silence notwithstanding. Boost Nothing the recent reports' of arrested commun- Elements of tere, ds-always, ine Kiem- policy Marxism ahout take renressive actione ganinci the masses on behalf of im.

marioliom Por Sue purpose or purpose Israeli Zonise and herrin Lecture by G. Healy, national secretary of the agreement perialist backers. Socialist Labour League This ic the the turn riohtwardl tho Sudan regime and the support ACTON: The Albion, Churchfield Rd, W3. (Opposite Acton it is receiving from Moscow.

Central Stn.) 8 p.m. Thursday, January 7.