Communist Party Congress PROTESTS AGAINST OUR EXCLUSION GROW

THROUGHOUT yesterday protests mounted Congress. These cover a wide field from the arts to the fac tories including Communist demanding that Workers Press be granted the same facilities as the capitalist think press should be sent to: Tony Chater, THE Communist Party CP Congress, Congress is absolutely Camden Town Hall, able solve a single problem, London N.W. 1, large or small, facing the working class.

David Merel Morgan a Sultable Case for This by no means reflection on the serinusness Treatment' and many other of many of *he playe who genuinely desires Com- trotskyist Wörkers Pres for munist solutions. the Party Congress. At a time The trouble arises from the when similar freedoms of press Stalinist past of the Party. and criticism are being denied The cringing subservience of the present Party leadership Soviet Union, it is important Stalinist falsification of that a stance be made here history has been reflected against similar practices.

at each stage in the reformist and opportunist policies pursued by the Party in policies of the Workers Press, Britain. but we insist on that paper's As result their slogan of right to the same access to 'left unity' only applies to the Congress as has been outright revisionists of allowed to the rest of the Marxism - in cases press. openly anti-Soviet - left' MPs and trade union is one essential to the working leaders. of the free press i im They exclude the Socialist a democratic society. 4 Labour League because we Dennis Potter, Clive Goodwin, insist on them facing up to and correcting their Jimmy Allen, playwright. Cleo Sylvestre, ere Roy Batteney, Wrote "The Lump and "The Stalinist past. Roger Smith, Kenneth Loach. In this issue (pages two and three we have reproduced some detail ample • It would appear from th evidence of what they said and did. Party to allow press coverage by the Workers Press of their Were they right or wrong?

conference that they are That is the key issue before afraid that their Stalinist the Congress. policies will be exposed and Was Dr Goebbels right when the bankruptcy of their he said 'all history was leadership will become clear bunk' ?

CP members must think to the working class.

carefully about this vital ban on the Workers Press. If issue. you are going to ban socialist A Marxist party cannot bi built without strict papers, why haven't they banaccounting of its history. ned the capitalist press? The This proves that the CP real reason why your leadership is only basically a leaders still refusing credentials to the Workers bunch of liberals rather than revolutionary fighters. Press to report the Congress Jim Cunningham, because they refuse to account for their past and Aircraft industry explain how it affects shop steward, present day policies — policies which have dragged the & I condemn this ban by the CP to the verge of ruin.

They much prefer capitalist press to be respondents from the Work.

ers Press coming to their conference. The only reason I can set for this is that they don't as to the tehrashe leaders You have gor to drad bhe ference by the expos completely, would Peter Birch Aircraft industry cause it insists on a stric Actress Cleo Sylvestre, accounting of history - shop steward, recently in "The National invites the Health' at the National of the capitalist press many Theatre @ PAGE 4ICOL. 5→ practice Dr Goebbets the dictum of November Keep Left' out Morris 'KEEP LEFT', official paper of for the Young Socialists with Socialists, has a variety of articles and published in its November reviews. issue the draft resolution for —A correction the YS 10th annual conference in Scarborough, April 11 and 12, 1970. ' Keep Left' invites readers to begin the discussion Stop oxford Car Plant (p. 4), Five on the draft by sending letters to the paper which will be published in the January 1970 crisis in Europe. edition. dISDU Still costing only 4d. the 'Keep Left' combines publication of important material Swindon by-election. We note with concern the decision by the British CP refuse credential to the Czechoslovakia and the Youth, women and other trade unionists seen during the picket.

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We do not necessarily hold brief for the views and union or council housing we stay out - B.S.R.

The principle involved here strikers SERIOUS problems face the housing industry as the effects of the Labour government's economic policies EAST KILBRIDE'S BSR continue to bite deeper. strikers met yesterday afternoon to consider proposals for the Tories and the emrefusal f the Communis hammered out in two days ployers to launch offensives of talks for a settlement of against both building worktheir 14-week-old recogni- ers and tenants. tion dispute.

Many strikers now feel that chairman attempts are being made to rob them of victory.

One of the 54 points discussed by union officials, management representatives ownership schemes. and the CIR's Mr. Leslie Blakeman on Thursday is believed to be big redundancy amongst women workers on the "twilight' part-time shift.

The strikers reject this idea. owned. 'If there's going to be any redundancy, it should among cil tenants to buy their own the strike, said one woman those who worked throughout homes through associations. n with the current prol 'After 14 weeks we're not itive interest wore fore going to go back to redun- house-buying, dancy; we'd rather stay out mut of the housing market all for another 14:

The strikers also incensed by their treatment obviously at the hands of police over the last few days. much further present 70 per cent rent rise Arm dislocated * i come Boug cult I was told that to one girl striker had her arm dislocated in struggles with the police.

I was also told that those arrested had been crammed ing and they create commun42 in a cell by the police. ities which woi movement. free The strikers, like those at choice the BP refinery site cil te chets are comes coder Grangemouth, are demanding an inquiry into police con- attack, government's duct towards their pickets. credit restrictions have hit the coni dinne industry hard, o see lowest totals or e time. intransigence 'Keep Left's' editor Aileen jennings thanks the people of over the building workers' ing Trade Employers (NFBTE)

Swindon and the members of In a special report from the the YS, who worked to make Pay he claim. employers feel that Young Socialists' sister the campaign the best one organization in France, ever organized. conditions are ripe for push Alliance des leanes Poue le December's issue will be a Socialisme, Berg special 16-page one for the cludes an interchangeability describes recent developments Year of Lenin and Trotsky tion by weakenin handing over bonus in the French working class 1970 and in preparation for and its effect on capitalism's 'Keep Left's' annual general meeting on January 10 and 11. bargaining to national off.

Featured on the front page cials.

'Keep Left' can be ordered is a picture round-up of the Young Socialists in action in from 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4. We will slash -G.L.C. leader The way has been opened who have been strengthened by the increases won by dustmen, miners and other low-paid workers.

This pressure forced • the an of the Greater Tory union leaders this week to formally reject the employers' 'final' offer of an average 4$ per cent rise.

orations sing would be councilCutler. wants to force counTHE TEACHERS' camch proposals, in conju paign in support of their £135 - a -year pay claim gathered further strength yesterday with the news that half-day strikes are planned in the following areas next week: Sheffield, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Leeds, Cornwall, Cheshire, Merseyside, Salford, and Stockport.

London teachers are planning a one-day strike on November 20.

PARIS POLICE Paris, Friday—Police today Tencing number of were reported to have rounded up about 50 people in a dawn sweep through Paris and its suburbs.

Police sources said those taken for questioning were believed to be members of left-wing groups banned after riots in spring 1968.

Among them was the wife of Alain Krivine, who was a ing through a deal which in- left candidate in last June's presidential election.

labour clause and the There was no immediate site organiza. explanation for the round-up, but observers pointed out that it came a day before planned street demonstrations against However the militan come US policy in Vietnam, which have been banned by the rank-and-file building workers government.

holding a time-consuming referendum of the whole membership on two-week strikes in selected areas.

The Labour bueaucracy's hostility to the teachers' struggle was brought into the open on Thursday when Labour MP and NUT member Mr Kenneth Marks lined up with the Tories in attacking teachers.

Marks said that many MPs 'strongly disapproved' of union encouragement of strikes because they were harmful to the teachers' case.

To his attack, Mrs Thatcher, Tory shadow education secretary, could only add a condemnation of the teachers' action as jeopardizing the children's safety.