Italy gripped by mass strikes

THE STRIKE wave now sweeping Italy is reaching massive propor. tions. The whole country continues to be ronvulsed by the mass action of workers fighting for higher wages. By Robert Black Many big engineer ring companies by a continuing series of staggered workers all over the co untry.

The political and e cocrisis, however, is affecting layers Monday state education officials a nnounced a two-day stoppar ze from Friday against ul1fulfilled administrative promises of reill A statement by the officials i year's stoppage.

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talks revealed THE Chinese government is willing to talk with the Soviet Union to try to reach a settlement of the border disnute. Radio Peking reported on Tuesday. we are attacked. If we are attacked, we will certainly counter-attack. We propose to settle the crisis through talks.' The statement follows the visit to Peking of Soviet premier Kosygin, who talked with Chinese prime minister Chou En-lai.

Details of the five-point plan put forward by Kosygin at the meeting were released this week in Moscow. Kosygin proposed:

The two countries agree to re-open border talks.

Russian Chinese troops on each side of the border should instructed to avoid opening fire on each other. • agree to withdraw their troops a certain distance from the border on either side.

Both countries should stop attacks on each other in the press and on the radio.

The two sides should agree to work towards restoration of trade and other economic ties.

Since Kosygin returned fron Peking after the funeral of Ho Chi Minh, the Soviet press and radio has muted its attacks Mao and the Chinese government.

The role of intermediary between Mao and the Kremlin is no new one for Chou.

He has always been among the most moderate of those Chinese party leaders sided with the Cultural Revolution, it one stage coming under sharp attack from section the Red Guard movement.

The IMoscow report states that Chiou promised to forword Kosygin's plan to Mao.

Thought the ageing leader's health may well be in question, Mao retains all his justified suspicions of the intenthe Soviet bureaucracy.

Young Socialists remain paralysed strikes by metalprices up FROM Wednesday London housewives have to pay 7s. 6d. NationalR Coal Board an- ton more for coal, the nounced. The purge continues THE CONVULSIONS within the Czech Communist Party continue unabated.

Following the resignation of the Federal government on Saturday and the removal of Dubcek from the Presidium it was announced on Monday that this had been followed by the resig. nation of the Czech state government. New attacks U.S. imperialism's crocodile tears over colonial poverty THE hypocrisy of the spokesmen of imperialism today certainly knows no bounds.

In Washington on Monday Robert McNamara, President of the World Bank, stated that it was unfair to call the people of the under-developed world 'lazy and unambitious'.

The world bank, together with the International Monetary Fund, were set up after the Second World War to regulate international capitalism and in no way to assist the masses C.P. leaders justify troops in Ireland From Bob Shaw THE ROLE of British troops in Northern Ireland was much preferable to that of the 'B' specials said James Reid answering a question on Communist Party policy at a Glasgow meeting recently on the left and the ultra left.

From our own correspondent The former premier, Stanislav Razl, and six ministers have been removed and a new government under the premiership of the pro-Moscow Stalinist, Josef Kempny has been formed.

Kempny now holds a key position in the Czech party. in addition to his new post he is head of its ideological commission, deputy premier of the new Federal government and has succeeded Dubcek in the Presidium.

Ruthless

The purge of the liberals is now proceeding • ruthlessly following the Central Committe meeting which ended in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday.

Hard-line Stalinists are now being installed in every key post throughout party machine.

In this way the Soviet bureaucracy hopes to maintain its stranglehold over the working class in Czechoslovakia and throughout the workers' states.

They will not succeed. Cabinet deal for the TUC to 'police' the unions.

But they are still thinking along the same lines.

'There is a growing feeling,' the article concludes, 'that some government initiative is needed as well.' Here we have the line-up the employers are working towards—the promise of Tory action to legalize contracts after an early General Election and to hit the working class through Measured-Day Work in the factories.

Car workers must be on their guard for an employers' counter-attack.

either in the metropolitan or colonial countries. holds In fact, the continued millions of colonial people domination of imperialism on an unprecedented scale. over these areas either Yet they can do nothing to directly, •or through the stem the rising tide of revonational bourgeoisie has resulted, as McNamara freely admits, in 20 per cent of the entire male labour force being unemployed.

Two-thirds of the world's children suffer from proteindeficient malnutrition. The position, he says gliby, will get worse.

RECORD

This is the record of hundreds of years of capitalist domination and even throughout the last 20 years of boom.

The developing world crisis today, as McNamara If Reid's class position was not clear enough then Arthur Milligan, 'Morning Star' reporter, recently re turned from Northern Ireland, was even clearer.

The policy of support for the presence of British troops, he said, was the only_one which we can follow, since the people of Northern Ireland wanted them there.

Why did the Communist Party not support the call made on August 16 by the Irish Workers' Party for the setting up of workers' defence guards and why was this policy statement subsequently withdrawn after a meeting held in London with the leadership of the British CP?

Reid refused to answer this question.

'Categories'

One had to start with categories, he said.

These turned out to be the usual phrases used by Stalinists to cover up their counter-revolutionary role.

We must work for the 'victory of the left', which, said Reid, brings 'inevitable victory of the working class; we must 'modify our policies to the needs of the working class'.

But when the needs of the working class in struggle against capitalism leads to mass action, as in Ireland, then Reid goes into action, against the working class.

'Raving'

It was Trotsvist ravin to talk about civil war Northern Ireland, he said.

It was irresponsible to call for a general strike against the anti-union laws at the mass demonstration in Croydon on June 5.

The Communist Party bad called a conference of trade unionists • to unite the left against the anti-union laws, he said.

This received the support of Scanlon and Jones, who between them mobilise three million votes?

One waits for the analysis of the events which followed the CP-sponsored conference of the 'left', but Reid neatly switches his argument to rant against ultra leftism.

In fact three days after the CP conference Scanlon announced that he would vote for the TUC 'plan' which was From our own correspondent lution in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

WISHFUL

There is no democratic capitalist solution for the suffering the colonial masses, only the struggle for socialism alongside workers in the advanced capitalist countries.

McNamara can, therefore, only indulge in a little wishful thinking.

He says that 'rich nations' should help the poor by directing their own industrial growth • towards goods Business men offer aid to Powell MR ENOCH POWELL has been offered £10,000 by a group of 15 Midlands businessmen so that he can make a 'determined challenge' to become. leader of the Tory Party.

The offer certainly reflects the Tories' turn to the right.

But more than rich backers are needed by right-wing politicians such as Powell to solve the present problems of capitalism.

The crushing defeat inflicted by workers and students on the well-financed Von Thadden, leader of the extreme right-wing German Nationalist Party, should be a warning to those would-be backers of Powell. D.E.P. will vet school leavers HE Youth Development Service, at present under the Introl of local education authorities, may soon become art of the Ministry of Employment and Productivity. Wilson and services requiring sophisticated technology, while leaving the simpler manufacturing to developing na-tions that can efficiently do the job.

He denounced the attempts of developing nations to protect and promote local industries at the indirect expense of agriculture.

In other words, he advises millions of colonial people to accept their lot and willingly condemn themselves to backwardness, starvation and military dictatorship.

No, gentlemen! This is not acceptable nor can you impose it by military force as the Vietnamese people have demonstrated.

The crisis of your system will enable the international proletariat to have done with you for good and make the fruits of the most advanced techniques available for all.

The AEF has 3,500 This proposal emerged from Mrs Castle's speech to Youth Employment officers at Reading university on September 20. Mrs Castle is preparing legislation along these lines.

'The Times Educational Supplement' (September 26)

based'.

In other words the needs , guidance' is to Ominous In an ominous pointer to he future the "Supplement' It is obvious that careers advice could be separated emphasis.)

Birmingham Youth Employment Service may be the 'pilot' of the new scheme.

It will be discussed on October 7 at the next meeting of the City General Purdespite Advocates of the change over say it would save the City Council £35,000; the jobs of Youth Employment Officers would appear to be in the balance.

Fight still

ahead for ready entitled to more than 25s. through productivity increases under a two-year-old agreement.

Workers are determined that the increase due under the last national engineering agreement should be added to any wage rise gained through increased productivity. The strike is very much a test case—-similar productivity struggles are in almost every factory in the area.

Pressure

This is what is behind the pressure for action from rank-and-file AEF members in the area.

Some are asking why the one-day strike was not called earlier than October 14 when the strike will be ten weeks old.

Strikers have already begun picketing the factories and docks for support for October 14.

manage tent has not meet the unions.

Sharp fight

All along it has been a sharp