Workers Press no. 40

workers press PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 40 • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1969

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Big actions throughout Britain What we think

10,000 TEACHERS

The press

OUT IN 'MORE

and the Italian

PAY' RALLY

strike

THE

20-MILLION-strong strike of the Italian work- is onlass Wednesday in Europe since 1945.

BY DAVID MAUDE

Bourgeois minister • devasping in 10,000 TEACHERS marched through London stalation was yesterday, determined to force the Burnham Committee's derisory £50 offer back down the throats of the management panel and win their the £135-a-year demand. out on affects Delegations went to the Department of Education and science. otreeT anothe Greater London Council's County Hall headquarters to warn— killed and as stated in a resolution carried unan mouse by a mass Inner London Teachers' Association rally at the Albert sure theivingtrem Hall— that today's action would be followed by furthe building up hit back at and more sustamned acuon to acmieve a must secuement of our claim'. marinal London's of Teachers, achiosal Association of Schoolmasters and non-unionists-were on sulke to back up Cals warning.

standing ovation to Nur bres dad Mr Ben Metown, who said!

e translated into deeds The countr can anora to pay teacners better it canno ford not to do i action must follow to produce results national and sustained the hos eterred i o. area Widespread action "The fight isn't shuts schools Burnhan over yet'-dockers Committee used to increase its offer after serioulds, Tikes in the teaches By our Industrial reporter te Thers is waat sion MANY LONDON dockers were jubilant yesterday about now?'. 25,000 ke to 2,442—of proposals their rejection-by 3,090 votes including 10,000 in for the second phase of Lord Devlin's docks on strike London and 9,000 on Mersey- modernia non. the • her to it. Thy can and All Trades Preseshire 70 of the ,203l Unions not back the son, St 414 Pres, Broup Told the Worker Talkiland Big danger as an Alliance somehowin - The TH there is a big danger talist pres S00 boney 1, East London, a member enera meetings channelled purely full backing to Nantos Union is believ or protest the demon with the

OLLERTON (NOTTS)

breast the rame state exemakes result of the ballot. as prepared ve Miners' strongly 'Lessons The temonstration Rushed meeting extensive

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ourike While they Meanwhile, Saturday, November 22 luring the lust respond 1 Boilermakers' union pares of wed will not least traffic thro , the Plough Inn called Two Yoreskir ere Miners emphasize agrees to return roductivity

CANTERBURY

demonstrations.

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Trade unions and the

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solidarity action with the 500 boilermakers sacked five Labour government weeks ago from the British Petroleum rennery site at

JUST A WEEK AWAY

and down the Monday. November 24. Grangemouth over a productivity deal.

8 p.m. '"the ner decision the Boiler deal. impress printed Young Socialists Norere Pe

COULD

GRAND XMAS

work could

KA MAN

the 'The next stage in the it was Boilermakers miners' struggle' work el

BAZAAR

if the WOULD Phase Iwo spell BP' site. Tuesday, November 25

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8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29 strikers sculled. U.S. Vietnam casualties ewington Esta Canning Town Public Hall heaviest for 2 months

BIRMINGHAM

open doors noon Teachers' meeting Can you knit? paint? sew . make something for our Bazaar?

•Fight the attacks on whose TWixoins desi ion he trul education' give something towards our bazaar it wish the Vieto mest Pus made fainto bese bazaar ever held !

Thursday, November 27 Help us 8 p.m. made fatalities Help us raise the money for our daily paper-

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JAN 3A 1070

ITALY

BY ROBERT BLACK

TENSION continues to mount in Italy after Wednesday's general strike of 20 million workers. Meetings held were yesterday in factories and SCENE at the Albert Hall, offices throughout Italy to London, yesterday-full to the with striking London brim against protest the teachers. brutality of Milan police (see photograph page four).

Eye - witness accounts confirm that fighting was police, provoked by the who drove their vehicles into a rally of strikers.

When the workers fought back, the police used tear gas bombs as well as truncheons.

RELEASE 19

Angry workers also de- manded the release of the 19 demonstrators still held by the police after the clashes in Milan. The general strike, called in cheaper and more of support plentiful housing for workers and peasants, was Italy's fourth since the end of the war. It was certainly the largest and most rowerful. embracing only the entire industrial not working decisive class, but of the middle class sections and professional workers.

The strike also received big from support university students, who in many northern have been towns attacked by fascist gangs for backing the workers' fight for higher wages and better living conditions. The scale of the Italian strike wave is unparalleled

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at four public meetings See the film of the first issue being prepared and printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969'

OXFORD

Friday, November 21, 8 p.m.

Northgate Hall, St. Michael's Street

GLASGOW

Sunday, November 23, 7.30 p.m.

Partick Burgh Hall (nr. Merkland Street underground)

NEWCASTLE

Sunday, November 30, 7.30 p.m.

County Hotel, Neville Street

LIVERPOOL

Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m.

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PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 40

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1969

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

What think

THE

20-MILLION-Strong strike of the Italian work- ing class vy eanesady is one or une most lapor- Class actions seer Europe since 1945.

BY DAVID MAUDE

10,000 TEACHERS marched through London Italy. yesterday, determined to force the Burnham After months ich herce Committee's derisory £50 offer back down the throats of the management panel and win their Talia. £l35-a-year demand. nesday question Delegations went to the Department of Education Downing Street and the Greater question. огкет- 10 and science, The strike led to street an shes London Coume's County al hercuarters to wa- policeman wa as stated in a resolution carried unanimously by a mass iner London reachers Associaton raly it the Alberi Hall— that today's action would be followed by further and more sustained action to achieve a just settiement o1 our claim'. majority The vast of London's 15,000 teachers- memhers of thi of. Teachers, Association of Schoolmasters and non-unionists—were o strike to back up this warning.

standing other out respeck Mr Ben Yoin who said.

over We sears o be treated onto lease are oned enti the conomic milentum securi oses rubbed into the dier ford not to do it can anora to pay teachers better-it cannot II woras tall to produce results national ano sustainer action must follow. Johnson- —who reterred bee possibled to area The roud ma halsaid

BIGGEST

secretary Mr Terry Casey said houston England. our industrial reporter school ill atect schools i teachers bis what tie. for MANY LONDON dockers were jubilant yesterday about mated 25,000 to 2,442—of proposals their rejection-by 3,090 votes Their an aren™ which phase of Lord Devlin's docks for the second pres London and 9,000 on Mersey: 'modernization'. staff short

ABOUT

ballot shows most of chers to fight. They can and All Trades will. Royal group Told the workers Unions Big danger Alliance meetings hannelled purely into

OLLERTON (NOTTS)

Johnson's stremen 'Lessons the Miners' is all the Rushed meeting Strike'

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way. Saturday, November 22 While they must respond to in ina Ma gone events 12 noon ay muse to Acres will not lead. Plough Inn the Depar pages at the mphasize nion in fac Two Yorkshire Miners agrees to return Productivity ' after Trades Unions Alliance carry-

CANTERBURY

BOILERMAKERS SOCIETY leaders have called off all

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"Trade unions and the solidarity action with the 500 boilermakers sacked five Labour government officials weeks ago from the British Petroleum refinery site at November 24, doc down, Monday,

JUST A WEEK AWAY

Grangemouth over a productivity deal.

main questions ne The decision of the Boiler- hann t Radigunc Young Socialists ecretary

GRAND XMAS

RAMSGATE

Wednesday night. money "The next stage in the cargoes blackintmakers, miners' struggle'

BAZAAR

Two spell Tuesday, November 25

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8 p.m. Nevin Beate U.S. Vietnam casualties Canning Town Public Hall

BIRMINGHAM

heaviest for 2 months doors knit? paint? leachers meeting Can you 'Fight the attacks on make something for our Bazaar?

last week were me seavies of Nixons decision te fral give something towards our bazaar ?

ecucat on with the Vietnamese Have you a tin of grocery? jumble?

it ou Thursday, November 27 people Helo us make this the best bazaar ever held l mas lates amounte in Opposion to eve ° DI Help us raise the money for our daily paper— The Wellington both insine army th

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ITALY

Mo, intrepid, space successfully from moon blasted orbiting and Annuts Conrad Alan Bean Camer connoicteo wret seconc HolT wak on the moon. periments and reciened parts scientific nev Surveyor moon probe. JOBLESS : The total mber lo uns 370772, November 2.5 cent of the total labour force.

562 was this than in • Order. the TeWAr figures are distorted the

BY ROBERT BLACK

to ousand month of

TENSION

continues mount in Italy after veral car to

WOLKON

who million Wednesday's general strike of 20 October's total. Novembly o die number workers. employed on November Meetings held were 548,227 increase over October of 13,387. yesterday in factories and Hall, SCENE at the Albert offices throughout Italy to London, yesterday-full to the brim with striking London the protest against teachers.

DRUGS:

brutality of Milan police IC• released vesterdav. (see photograph page four).

warns that human health has by the Eye - witness accounts inseal feeding antibiotics into confirm that fighting was animal Used by farmers to promote provoked by the police, quick growth who drove their vehicles animals, they Tale into a rally of strikers.

bacteria deve obnent When the workers fought resistant to the drugs. Hospital patients' lives have back, the police used tear ga: been endangered because •onos as wen as ancieons.

life-saving have beer made ineffective against the

RELEASE 19

resistant bacteria Angry also workers manded the release of the 19 demonstrators still held by the VC 10: Nigeria after the clashes A lruave C-10 Milan. airliner crashed yester- approaching Lagos when The general strike, called in airport after scheduled support Doubing toi heaper and more fight from London plentiful workers First unofficial said reports and peasant that the had beer the wreckare Tourin since end

COT

found To contin no survivora war. passengers on The It was certainly the largest boart. and most powerful, embracing aircraft so and, industrial VC-10 to crash since four-engined of jets into middle class sections the

WOLL

service five years ago professional workers. The strike also received big support from university

DEBTS:

British Debt towns have Ser. attacked fascist vices. company, by collecton backing the fight has comnained ahont the dame workers of cloth-cap banking' brought higher waises and betelyn about because more and more concitons. lower-paid workers The scale Italian re- tha ceiving is monthly salaries strike wave unparalleled transferred directly Into

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Dank accounts com- standing orders. tha pany says, are no longer the guarantee of credit-worthiness they used to be.

GREET

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ROHAN TRIAL: The trial of Australian, Denis Rohan, accused of firing lerusalem's was

AOSA

mosane yesterday. When it resumes on Mon- defence at that leliver plea of insanity and there because insanity and theretore not dave to imensonment.

TYPHOID

now typhoid There are cases—including a worker accidently at four public meetings nfected ir a London clinic Health Denartment spokes See the film of the first issue being prepared and man rees in passe sess who printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969° a from arrived Australia on October have already been confirmed

OXFORD

as suffering from the disease.

WEATHER

Friday, November 21, 8 p.m.

Northgate Hall, St. Michael's Street Outlook wintry south rhaps some longer periods

GLASGOW

of rain. Somers EnSland, Southern Sunday, November 23, 7.30 p.m.

Frost ands: and late note al. •sunny. Moderate Partick Burgh Hall Near fresh winds. Maximum 9C (48F). (nr. Merkland Street underground) W. Midlands, central Nowh erre, saltered sowers wind late, scattered showers sunny Fresh Tainminde

NEWCASTLE

Nea normal. (46F). Edinburgh : early and late. Occasional sleet or snow Sunday, November 30, 7.30 p.m.

showers

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County Hotel, Neville Street resh or strong wind Rather old. Maximum 6C (43F Glasgow

LIVERPOOL

thunder. Maximum Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m.

Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant England: Showers with sleet rs strong N.W. winds. Fresh or stron Maximumi winds Speakers at all meetings will be: 7C Kather cold. 145H. MIKE BANDA (Editor of Workers' Press) Chande aslands S.W. SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the with sunny intervals. Fresh esh id. strong winds. Rather Young Socialists) Maximum 8C (46F).

PAGE TWO

An Introduction to a seri

MAJOR : GENERAL

Piotr Grigorenko is one of the most outspoken and principled leaders of the anti-Stalinist opposi- tion in the Soviet Union.

Now more than 60, Grigo- renko joined the Bolshevik Party at the age of 20 and was from the beginning an opponent of the bureaucracy.

During the war, he wit- nessed the terrible blunders of the Soviet High Command as it blindly followed Stalin's suicidal military strategy.

After the war, he lectured Soviet military at the top school, the Frunze Academy, specializing in the application cybernetics military to strategy and techniques. But under Stalin, the de- velopment of cybernetics was banned, while the 'agronomist' Lysenko, now long-exposed as crank, wrecked Soviet a biology and agronomy for a full decade. Soviet military strength was gravely undermined by Stalin's nation's of the persecution most gifted scientists, and it was only after his death in 1953 that cybernetics, essential to the development of space flight, became a legimitate subject in Soviet academies.

These bitter first-hand ex- periences of the bureaucracy at work were an essential part of Grigorenko's education in the counter-revolutionary role and nature of Stalinism, which, through its purging of the most scientific gifted military and in- personnel, proved itself capable of organizing the de- fence of the Soviet Union.

Hounded Stalin wanted only yes-men, careerists and political slaves.

Grigorenko saw that all those with least independence of thought and devotion to Leninist principles, were doomed to be hounded out of their posts as potential oppon- ents of Stalinism, and eventu- ally to be physically destroyed.

After Stalin's death Grikor- shared with countless enko millions of other Soviet citizens the illusion that the bureaucracy would now reform itself. Indeed under the first years of Khrushchev's rule there were indications that the worst and oppressive most features of Stalin's era were being eradicated. But Grigorenko was one of the first to break from these reformist illusions. While Isaac Deutscher and revisionist co-thinkers his Inter- within the Fourth national speculating were on the possibility of a gradual 'self-reform' of the Stalinist bureaucracy under Khrushchev, Grigorenko was engaged in a bitter struggle against it.

In 1961, he was sacked from his post at the Frunze Academy for charging Khrushchev with following in the political foot- steps of Stalin. In 1964, Grigorenko's op- positional activities were in- terrupted by a six-month terma 'mental of detention a institution', but he returned to Destel: Soriet wither daleaded by Galeas By Robert Black the battle with renewed deter- mination. When the persecution of Soviet intellectuals began in 1965, followed the next year by the trial of the writers Daniel and Sinyavsky, Grigor- enko was in the thick of the fight to rally support for them.

At each 'trial' he was to be found outside the court house admission for the demanding relatives of the accused, fear- lessly and publicly denouncing the Stalinist legal system as a travesty of Soviet justice.

In the last few years Grigor- Major-General Motr Grigorenko talkine Litvinov, Larisa Bogoraz-Daniel and three for demonstrating against the Soviet bure began collecting signatures on a petition / enko became an outspoken champion of the rights of all the oppressed Soviet national particularly the minorities, Crimean Tartars, who were deported en masse during the war because Stalin feared that his brutal persecution of the national minorities would drive them into the arms of the Nazi invaders. Remnants of the Crimean and other deported Tartars minorities are now scattered all over the eastern regions of the Soviet Union. Many will die without ever seeing their homeland again. Yet one of the main demands in the programme of the Bol- . the 1917 shevik Party in Revolution was self-determin- ation for all the peoples of the old Russian empire. By taking up the public el by Grigoroa defence of the Crimean Tartars and the other oppressed peoples of the Soviet Union, Grigorenko has proved himself a thoroughgoing international- More than that; by insisting that the Tartar leaders fight for a Soviet Crimean Tartar Republic, he takes a firm class position on the self-determin- ation question, separating him- self politically from liberal elements who seek the middle- class Utopia of a 'neutral' Crimea and Ukraine mid-way betwen the Soviet Union and imperialism. Precisely because of his Leninist stand on self-deter- mination, the Stalinist bureau- cracy acted against Grigorenko.

It tolerates movements of religious dissent inasmuch as they do not become a vehicle against for protest national oppression: it fosters the anti- with the Marxist dialogue all Vatican and undertakes renko talking to sevemen outside the corthorse li aniel and three other Soviet citizens went on trial or the Soviet bureaucracy's invasion of Czechoslovakia. 1 on a petition protesting the barring of the public fre manner of secret diplomatic exchanges with imperialism.

But one thing it cannot tolerate is the emergence of an opposition struggling to return and principles pro- to gramme of 1917. agent Victor The Kremlin Louis can hob-nob with that life-long enemy of the Chinese and Soviet people, Chiang Kai- and Svetlana Stalin is shek, permitted to defect to United States imperialism (for which she now writes books equating Stalinism with Leninism).

But when a group of de- ported Tartars celebrates the birthday of Lenin: 'Suddenly, the park becomes • by and surrounded troops police... • Streams of some sort of poisonous liquid are aimed at the merrymakers from pressure hoses which brought by the have been police. ... People are also directly assaulted by police who twist their arms, beat brutally shove them up and them into police vans which somewhere' drive them off (From the speech For Alexis Kosterin's 72nd Birthday').

That is how the Stalinist bureaucracy, and its servants all over the world, treats those who honour the memory of fighting for his Lenin by principles. Interned is why Grigorenko, That after his arrest on May 7 of again been in- this year, has a Moscow 'mental terned in institution'. In the Soviet Union today, the Leninists are declared in- sane, while the chauvinists, the Jew-baiters, the informers the police thugs are praised for their 'Soviet patriotism'. Grigorenko does not fight alone. His courage and confidence come from a nation-wide move- ment of whole layers of Soviet highest society, from the sections of the intelligentsia, through the students and the working class to the youth.

The older generation has broken not been compietely and corrupted by Stalinism—

WORKERS' PRES

Grigorenko's refusal to com- promise with the bureaucracy is proof of that. Today they gain new politi- and inspiration cal strength from the struggle of the inter- national working class against both imperialism and Stalin- and above all by the ism, continued resistance of the Czech working class, students and intellectuals to the Krem- occupation of their lin's country. of The struggle Piotr Grigorenko is living proof that Stalinism has not been able to destroy the political heritage of Lenin, despite the purge of nearly all the Bolsheviks who led the October Revolution.

We salute him and all his comrades and demand that the workers' international move- ment raises it voice against the persecution of all those in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe struggling to return to the road of Lenin. the courthome in Moscow where Parel went on trial on October 9, 1968, Czechoslovakia. Afterwards Grigorenko of the public from the trial.

In honour of Piotr Grigor- enko we are reproducing in the Workers Press of Saturday and Tuesday a selection of his writings and speeches, together with a declaration signed by his wife to Leonid Brehznev, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union. The selection is presented in chronological order : In Saturday's Workers Press: 1. Why I will not vote for Kosygin. June 3, 1966. Letter to 'Historical Ques- tions of the CPSU', June, 1967. 3. Zinaida Grigorenko's De- claration, January 23, 1968.

In Tuesday's Workers Press: 4. For Alexis Kosterin's 72nd Birthday. March 17, 1968.

Letter to Comrade A. R. Rudenko, Procurator Gen- eral the

USSR.

December 4, 1968. 6. Long. Live the Heroic Czechoslovak People! Appeal to the Citizens of the Soviet Union. February 28, 1969.

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VORKERS' PRESS

GERASSI, a liberal American journalist, pre- sents to the ruling class of the United States a book in which he shows the degradation and poverty in Latin America.

Held in the grip of United States big business, he asks that some real help be given to the poor workers and peasants, who in the future could take over American assets, valued at thousands of millions of dollars and throw the American capital- ists out. Like Robert Owen present- ing his schemes to help the working Queen class to Victoria, he will receive very little sympathy or help trom the bankers of the USA. For well over 100 years, American capitalists have en- joyed a virtual monopoly in many of these countries, only allowing the British and French into the hemisphere on suffer- ance. Under the Monroe Doctrine the United States permits no interference by other powers in Latin America. She has used her marines to bolster regimes up corrupt who would have been driven out by their own people. Vast tracts of South America have been divided up between United States companies. They have used fabulous profits to buy off many of the local state officials and to ex- ort their pronts back to the States, paying very United little taxes to local govern- with the result that ments, if the governments wish even to help their people with wel- fare schemes, they could not.

America, a man In South can expect to live only two- thirds as long as a man in the United States or Canada; 44 and 66 years respectively.

For the poor life is much shorter. In north-west Brazil a labourer can expect to live to the ripe old age of 28 before he dies of old age and hard work. This is no isolated instance.

of deaths The number per 1,000 one-year-olds is 20 times as high in Latin America as the United States. of length The average schooling for Latin Americans who attend any school at all, is 1.9 years, as compared with nine years in the USA.

DISEASES INCREASE

This leaves them with too few teachers, technicians or doctors to staff their hospitals.

Disease is left unchecked, even uncounted The incidence of diseases such as typhoid in Brazil has risen seven times. Leprosy is on the increase in Brazil and i the Dominican Republic, and in Paraguay one in every 2,000 is infected with the disease. Plague is rising in the black lands of Peru. The greatest cause of this is that 128 million people can drink only infected water. Recognition of the back- wardness and problems has made the United States gov- ernment institute a scheme for development in Latin America.

The Alliance For Progress, although a great propaganda success, has had little effect on developing the economies it was aimed at or putting food into the stomachs of the ordi- nary people. Like many other areas of the world, its primary exports like coffee, and wheat, bananas oil, tin and meat have even been dropping in price. manufactured Meanwhile goods from the USA have been increasing in price, leaving the people of Latin America worse off. United States companies like the United Fruit Company, with 90 percent of the import market for bananas into the USA, are only too ready to manipulate local taxes and ship home their profits leaving the local governments without dollars to buy essential imports to develop their economies.

Gerassi gives a short synopsis of the history and development Scotland: 10.25.10.45 a.m. Around Scotland. 11.35-11.55 Modern Studies.

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• for pacte to Ladl Living conditione like those in Peru, where millions dies of plague from drinking infected water, are typical of Latin America.

'THE GREAT FEAR IN LATIN AMERIC.

by John Gerassi reviewed by Jim Duffy of the most important countries It is ruled by Pres in Latin details Duvalier and his secret 1 America and -known locally as boges of some of the smaller coun- United they torture and kill at emphasize tries i to The average life expec States' policy in the area.

29 years, if they m One example is that of a is only conference to avoid the bogeymen. transcontinental when the United States was In Argentina in blackmailed into giving more bourgeois nationalist aid to Haiti so that they would Peron was elected to p He relied on elements vote to impose sanctions on working class for suppor Cuba. Haiti is supported by gave them concessions, su better housing and pensio American aid, with her soldiers threat trained by the USA. He also made Weather. Channel News 8.00 Wheelbase. 6.35 Crossroads. 8.25 The First Churchills. Channel Report. Date With Danton. 7.05 The French Cinema: "Trois 9.10 and Hopkirk (Deceased). 8.00 Chambres a Manhattan'. Untouchables. Cury an and 9.30 Parkin's Patch. 10.55 Westminster At Work. In Frei 11.35 Weather 11.15 News Summary and Newe Weather. Weather 11.20 Line Up.

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Half of the 70 million popu- lation are underfed, barefoot and sickly. In six of Brazil's states, one out of six children dies before reaching one year of age. 50 per cent of the land is owned by 2 per cent of the population. The rest of the land is arid and inaccessible, and difficult to work. Mexico with her peasant revolution of 1911 is an inter- esting place. Her revolution gave her some very democratic laws, such as the abolition of the death penalty and the limiting of land holdings to a hundred hectares, which is neatly cir- the rich by cumvented by riving a hundred hectares to even the most distant relatives.

SUPPRESSED

land - hungry The poor, peasants' outbursts are brutally suppressed. The Communist Party is honoured as a stabilizing force which doesn't want revolution in Latin America. Panama, originally a stat...

Colomba--was carved out for the United States which uses it to protect the canal con- Atlantic and necting the Pacific. The canal is guarded by and American soldiers is leased to the United States forever. Discrimination against Pan- amanians takes the form of signs at counters in shops which read Gold or Silver in- stead of Black and White as in South Africa. South America labours under grinding toil. Those who that the say working people revolt spon-

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taneously under these condi- tions should read Gerassi's book to see that without party and a Marxist leader- ship their spontaneous revolt is doomed to fail. President The masses of peasants live ret police under a system called peonage ogeymen; -a cross between slavery and at whim. serfdom with a few modern re- xpectancy finements thrown in. ey manage Children over five contribute six hours work at the hacienda, 1945 a the farm of the master. t leader This is imperialism with its fangs bared. o power. ts in the Exploiting the workers and pport and peasants, bribing the powerful, s, such as cheating the countries of their ensions. natural resources, supporting areatening fascist police states. 6.05 Hopkirk (Deceased). 8.30 Marcus 7,00 MD. Curry Welby 9.30 and Chips. Randall 10.00 News. 10.30 Yorksport. 11:00 The Frost On Friday. 11.45 Late Weather.

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Friday, Noramber 21, 1000 THIS eye-witness account of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia should not be judged by its foreword. In this Henry Schwartz, New York Times' specialist on Communist Affairs, claims: 'The Czechoslovak Spring of 1968 was above all the work of the country's intellectuals'. But this is wishful thinking on the part of Mr Schwartz.

It is certainly not the impres- sion gained from reading the book. Its author, Ladislav Mnacko, journalist who, is a Czech though he is confused on many issues, remains committed to communism. He sees the moving force behind the Dubcek reforms of 1968 as : "The discontented working class that forced the revolu- tionary changes in the system of the management of industry and also in the staffing of high positions in the state and in the Party... the intellectuals only formulated and docu- mented these facts.' Mnacko's account of the in- vasion of Czechoslovakia| in August 1968, and the history of that country since 1938, has its strong points and its limitations. As a one-time leading jour- nalist of 'Rude Pravo' and defender of the purges of the 1950s, he has much inside in- formation to reveal about the degeneration of the Czech Communist Party. But he cannot explain the growth of bureaucracy in social terms. for The hopes he expresses a communist system purged of Stalinism must be typical of many Czech intellectuals and workers. But he has no poli- tical programme for the defeat of Stalinism.

SERVICE

RENDERED

One important service rendered by the book is to nail the lie spread by capitalism and Stalinism alike that Czecho- slovakia was in danger of re- turning to capitalism. Mnacko points out that Czechoslovakia of all the workers' eastern European most ready for states was socialism in 1945. He emphasises that if the Communist Party had made a call for action in 1938 after the Munich Agreement the Czech people would have taken up arms against Hitler. The Nazis had never been able to foster a native Czech fascist movement. The Red Army had been welcomed with open arms in 1945. The book stresses that since reforms the Dubcek young people were joining the Czech Communist Party in greater numbers than in any other Soviet country. In fact, the 'fascist arms dumps' allegedly discovered by the Red Army were either weapons handed in by the workers' militia or American automatics left over from the Second World War. Mnacko sheds much light on the personal degeneration and fate of leading members of the Czech Communist Party.

CONTINUALLY

ABUSED

He correctly points out that the Soviet Union has continu- • munis ally abused the idea of interna- tionalism and the loyalty of the world working class to the first Soviet state. He cites the connection be- tween the refusal of the Czech Communist Party to make a stand against Hitler in 1938 and the signing of the Hitler- Stalin Pact. The subject of Munich is in fact taboo to Czech writers.

He also connects the reluc- tance of the Communist Party to assume full in power Czechoslovakia in 1945 with Stalin's agreement at Yalta that Czechoslovakia would remain neutral. Mnacko describes the regime of terror of the 1950s in some detail. He cites the confession

'THE SEVENTH NIGHT'

By Ladislay Mnacko Dent, 1969 36s. Reviewed by Karen Blick of Slansky to the murder of that the Russians will find no resistance fighter by giving quislings among the Czechs.

him boots two sizes too small After this book was written during his the the leaders of the reform retreat into Slovak movement themselves, Dubcek mountains. He describes how he saw, and Svoboda and the rest, were trembling before their the forces and the com- to accept judges, such re-establishment of the censor- munist men as Prime Minister Siroky of whom ship of the press. the Gestapo said : Mnacko's explanation would 'He cannot be expected to be what else could they do.

break down. When tries to he explain

POLITICAL

the of these degeneration

MOBILIZATION

'granite fighters' his only answer is that they were cor- rupted by they power which The answer the Czech to did not know how to use. problem lies in the political There 1S no understanding mobilization of that very force that the undoubted heroism of which he rightly claims brought these communists was not used about the reforms, the Czech in the service of the working working class. class, but of the bureaucracy The liberal wing of the of the Soviet Union. bureaucracy could not possibly afford do this without to destroying itself.

OPPORTUNIST

The author makes some in-

POLICIES

about teresting comments various international events.

Long before the Czech Com- of Speaking sympathetically munist Party leaders came to the Hungarian Revolution he they were trained and power, says: corrupted in the opportunist 'In Budapest the most pro- politics of the Stalinist Third gressive force in history, the International. fought working class, with in their hands arms against Rakosi and then against the Soviet Army.' He refers with disgust to the military poor equipment supplied by the Soviet govern- Vietnam ment to and to its collaboration with the United States. 'After what I saw in Viet- nam I could not get rid of the feeling that the Soviet Union straight was not playing affairs and game in foreign that there was something going on between her and the US, something that small nations Slansky: Forced to confess to would have to suffer for.'

the murder of & resistance Mnacko is correct in point- fighter. ing to the collaboration of the It was in defence of this Soviet Union and the United States on a world scale, but bureaucracy that Stalin insti- he does not clearly distinguish tuted the purges of the 1950s. between them in a class way.

He did this because he feared Tito's challenge to his He presents them both leadership of the world com- threatening the aggressors munist movement might infect rights of small nations. other parties. The United States' war in It to- the Vietnam is aimed at returning was of Preserve its markets in the East and if domination the Soviet bureaucracy personified in possible reclaiming China for Stalin that heads had to roll. imperialism. Behind the emergence of this The Red Army invaded bureaucracy. lay the deeper Czechoslovakia to maintain question of the isolation of the of the Soviet privileges socialism within the Soviet bureaucracy and to stave off Union and the doctrine of the political revolution in socialism in one country.

Eastern Europe. It is because Mnacko does Mnacko's tentative proposal not understand the social that small should countries reasons for the development band together to prevent the of the bureaucracy and the aggression of the great nations, of regime i terror associated will not do. with it that he cannot under- Only the unity of the world stand either Dubcek's role working class against both im- the more liberal representative perialism and the Stalinist responding to pressure from solve the bureaucracy Can the working class. problems of Vietnam and He declares optimistically Czechoslovakia. IT IS PERHAPS difficult to realize that Engels was only 24 years old when he wrote 'The Condition of the Working Class'. The book was actually completed in the summer of 1845, Engels having left his Rhineland home in the autumn of 1842 for Manchester. The book was first pub- lished in Leipzig in 1845. It was not until 1887 that it appeared in English (an American edition) and not until 1892 was it published in England. It was thus nearly 50 years after it was written that this brilliant analysis and descrip- tion of industrial England was to appear in the country which was its subject. Since this time it has estab- lished itself as a classical study of the Industrial Revolution and has become the subject of heated controversy amongst historians. For Marxists it remains a classic in a different sense.

It represents the first large- scale attempt to apply 1 method of historical material- ism to the study of a concrete situation. But as Engels was himself later to point out, it did not represent mature Marxism, but rather 'one of the phases of its embryonic development'. fully worked-out The analysis of the capitalist system is to be found in 'Das Kapital', published in 1867.

The book opens with an outline of the Industrial Revolution. no is tee the Bies was among very recognize the historical signifi- cance of the changes that were taking place in English society.

In a little over 100 years the face of English society transformed and a new class— proletariat - had been the brought into being. Engels highlights this as the main and decisive feature of the great technical changes taking place in industry.

CONCENTRATION

OF WEALTH

At one end of society there was a great concentration of wealth in the hands of a new industrial bourgeoisie, while at the other a majority of the population became completely divorced from the ownership of the means of production and reduced to the level of wage slaves. Meanwhile large layers of previously independent, small- scale producers were eliminated by the force of competition.

Engels shows that the result of this transformation was to produce a working class of growing consciousness of its position in society-a labour movement emerged He sees the working class, in other words, able to fight consciously revolu- as a tionary force against the oppression of capitalism.

As Lenin insisted, 'He was among the first to say that the proletariat is not only a class that suffers; that it is precisely its shameful economic inevitably which situation drives it forward and obliges struggle for its final it to emancipation'. It was this conception of the working class to that was separate Marx and Engels from all other liberals and petty- bourgeois socialists. The latter were able to see only the exploitation of the working class in the horrific conditions of the Industrial Revolution. The genius of Marx and Engels was that they logic of the class •the saw struggle as ending in the estab- lishment of the dictatorship of the working class over the rest of society. The core of the book is a description of the effect of the Industrial Revolution on the newly emerging working class.

He shows how a new prole- tariat, often composed immigrants, was thrown into the horrors of the new towns where they were underpaid, ground down and starved.

GROWING

AWARENESS

But the other side of the picture which Engels points to was the growing awareness amongst the most conscious sections of their real position in society. The development of the Chartism were unions and important steps along the road in the development of an organized labour movement to

WORKENS' PAGO

The industrial revolution, especially in Its early stages, meant an i women and children working long hours in filthy conditions for k

'THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING

CLASS IN ENGLAND'

By Frederick Engels with an introduction by Eric Hobsbawm Panther 8s.

'WOMEN WORKERS IN THE INDUSTRIAL

REVOLUTION, 1750-1850'

By Ivy Pinchbeck Frank Cass 75s. resist the power of capital.

allow for its bias and distortion.

Whatever its historical in- detailed accuracies - and meticulous these were vestigations which Engels con- inevitable given Engels' limited ducted for over a year. access to material- -his work remains not only an outstand- Much of his work is based ing contemporary account and first-hand observation upon of the Industrial Re- analysis and other available sources.

volution but stands as a land- mark in the development of It is clear that Engels knew scientific socialism. industrial Lancashire intimately and especially Manchester, where he was based.

FALSE

He also visited all the main

ARGUMENT

industrial areas-Leeds, Brad- ford, Sheffield London. and Throughout the book he There have been consistent demonstrates his intimate by bourgeois attempts his- knowledge of the working class torians to detract from Engels' and its various layers. work. Engels also relied on many Some, motivated by shallow other informants — he knew ideological prejudice, have and worked with many of the falsely argued that Engels was early communists and social- biased and deliberately dis- ists sifted through a -and torted what he saw. considerable mass of printed material, always taking care to For those who know the * was openly admitted by coal-owners that they employed women because a labour power was cheaper than men and they tended to be mose cockle. ages, meant an increased demand for conditions for low wages.

conditions such a view is not worthy of consideration. Others, more sophisticated, have tried to show that Engels, by painting too rosy a picture of pre-capitalist society, over- stressed the horrors of the Industrial Revolution. Such a position is found in •Women Ivy Pinchbeck's in the Industrial Revolution'.

This book, first published in 1930 and now reissued, is written along these lines.

Whilst never referring to her work as an attack upon Engels, undoubtedly she was aware that she was contributing to the efforts to refute his analysis. In his introduction Engels tend to idealize did perhaps conditions prior to the Indus- trial Revolution. Social historians have rightly argued, with more information at their disposal, that condi- tions were a good deal worse than he realized. But what they here go on to argue is that the Industrial Revolution in no way worsened the conditions. Many of the social evils of the early 19th century, they say, were lessons of the con- tinuation of earlier conditions rather than the effects of the industrial changes. Thus Pinchbeck goes on to say: 'In spite of much distress which accompanied the tran- sition - due in part to re- organization, in part to dis-

PAGE THREE

location by the French Wars- the Industrial Revolution has on the whole proved beneficial to women.

'GREATER

LEISURE'

It has resulted in greater leisure for women in the home and has relieved them from the drudgery and monotony that characterized much of the hard labour previously per- formed in connection with industrial work under the domestic system.' This is, in fact, in contra- diction to the facts which she herself presents. The revolution, especially in its early stages, meant an in- creased demand for women and children in the most arduous jobs. It was openly admitted by that they em- coal-owners Ployed women because their labour power was cheaper than that of men and they tended to be more docile. For the same reasons women and children were in demand in the cotton and wool trades.

Working long hours at work in filthy monotonous conditions for low wages, they were the source of vast profits for the rising industrialists.

The argument of Pinchbeck and others that working and living conditions were often more terrible and degrading in pre-Industrial Revolution society misses the essential point Engels was making. Engels' concern was to ex- amine how the vast changes in the development of industry had transformed the nature of the labour force, creating an industrial proletariat such as had not existed before. This working class was now subject to a more systematic and intensive exploitation than workers had known in the traditional domestic and agricultural labour.

NOT

EMOTIONAL

'Exploitation' is not a sub- jective, emotional term. Middle-class outbursts against 'exploitation' are simply the expressions of conscience- ridden the participants in capitalist system. For Marxists, the degree of exploitation is measured by the amount of surplus value extracted. This is a scientific approach to the question. The worker in a large modern factory is pos- sibly more exploited than the hand-loom weaver or small peasant-farmer. It was this that determined the changes in the conditions of the working class in the early 19th century. Such exploitation was de- manded by the growth of new methods of production, the introduction of steam power and the growth of large factories. In these conditions, meti and women were more thoroughly alienated from the products they produced. They were forced to submit to the tyranny of the working- time demanded by their em- ployers. Families were broken up as every member, young and old, had to go out to work. The Industrial Revolution thus changed the whole quality of the workers' lives. To miss this essential feature of the Industrial Revolution is to fail to understand the significance of the appearance of the modern industrial proletariat. Pinchbeck and other bour- geois academics substitute for this a series of impressions of poverty, 'bad conditions', etc., which omits what was quali- tatively new in the situation.

To admit that would require facing to the challenge up posed by the emergence of the industrial working class as a class, increasingly conscious of its power and its capacity to struggle against capitalism.

Better living and working conditions for women workers have not arisen as a result of automatic economic : changes, but as a result of their struggle as part of the organized labour movement against capitalism.

Modern 'labour historians' now more aware than Pinch- beck of the need to meet the challenge of Marxism, have to admit the revolutionary sig- nificance of the emergence of the modern working class. But they procede to contemplate its existence and examine its anatomy as matters of inter- est'. Marxists must grasp the meaning of the appearance of this new force as providing the lever which, given con- scious revolutionary leader- ship, will overthrow the system that produced it and develop the economic power unleashed in the Industrial Revolution for the benefit of everyone.

PAGE FOUR

David Brown's Engineers must back locked-out draughtsmen FACED WITH a national £3 demand for draughts- Newcastle men this week, the David Brown group is still refusing a parity claim by 37 men at its Sunderland Bus reduction gears plant. By a Workers Prose correspondent The men, Draughtsmen's attacks and Aired recalcians Association members, nave Basque workers weeks following a work- a cover tortured by No speclal components for have been produced since Franco regime une lock our veran and production is limited. speed-up Despite this, the manage- ment as refused tor accept men's terms By a Workers Press shop-floor line workers. correspondent vividly federation Unions) THE VICIOUS drive They dond want P described the barbaric methods used by the of British capitalism to- Franco regime to hold down the workers.

wards speed-up accom- The document 1s based on accounts of torture in- panied as it is with a flicted on legal trade union cynical contempt for Franco's regime. the health, safety and welfare of the working wot 140 d MAnus Fullahondo (draughts- class, is nowhere more David clearly demonstrated than in the drive to rationalize transport. question Was nos handcuffed The introduction of 'one- man' bus drivers collect Foundry workers neering rares, check money, count Docks ill in route reports, as well pieces of chairs y. 'Blacked' Joses Puertas (fitter): une glant ov and yu- blacked the enrangersm

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scatel Allantears here is maltreated crowded city has produced By out aro streets. it man metal or disciplind to inevitab v increased chairles danger to passengers and locked out buttock pedestrians, street upe Setons of i waters. an -attes were broken. , one level. The draughtsmen etter sube cad we do as were satisfied driver sen ere served that a What we think to eti the

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Mandyside The torion class is cer Board pale doo don di pot breakdowns nerous < the mov however, news to the bou drivers, is to tep up the pressure in once specializes Two-way radio Vizcaya movements Workers pretare Protect the strikes interna autonbich ay radio tina for use a ins Lane Basque it ake an im.

docks are hooliganism culture news. N.U.P.E. journal discusses frustration cuts the dustmen's settlement for seping abs on de. охреті ае 'DO WE THINK yau By, our induatrial correspondent all daft?' asks headline in December's Can man end win a fall Escalate pressure 'Public Employees' Through system the this Donanca package National Union On strike Public Employees' journal. ade theme eat. agreed Provoked by a letter pling up vord about i for reased productivis. from Swindon and High- worth member Mr T. D. * after the agreement was Waldron, reach Waldron makes several this question is posed—it is said editorially noductivierests a debate profitability. the settlement agreed by the union for its dustmen ade wiciavas the strike and not bird, ty members at Edinburgh. staire captanst system. nego- What kind of 'debate'? The Uns Alone d the Socialist Labour Leade The se Comment Cased emonstration east Come across the mind Biggest-ever aus orities e to or obe mouses the phar success by

WORKERS' PRESS

Police baton one thousands of strikers in Milan on Wednesday.

ITALY

FROM PAGE ONE

both in its breadth and dur- allus. Even at its peak, the French occu ballon HUacal 1968 MISERABLE conditions in the Göteborg docks, Invo ved OLlY ert une number workers Sweden, have been the cause recently oi a on strike Italy. The British ruling cass wildcat strike. already pressed by large-scale Two weeks ago, on and reiners, lears bee Monday, November 10, vn will co-ordinating com- that Italy's strike 1,000 dockworkers protect wayc have on the rising militancy of Göteborg harbour walked formed other Swedish workers mre onus• worne cass. out. exmans wiV about their demands strikesdown recent Italy nave The sparked been played by nearly strike was Conditions all the newspapers. off when two workers were conference the sacked for insubordination.

In a press IN

FRANCE

TOO.

Dolce This action was backed up sunke committee spelled oul Casier power workers toe concluons or mie docks occupying during by the union and the ship- the niants working a 24-hour strike in Paris. LOl* ping companies. 200 The strike is not and WItn over nours a sear confined Swedish dockworkers decent cannol overtime make a The cintan agreement the P of to be reitht workers un- argo A animan acednce. loaded or loaded. blazing the revolutionary trail hard-driving foremen. Sometimes dockworker 1or tue waoe ol aurose • Constant stress, DAlyS- makes ca sananancer Causer they make times by a lack of safety equipment.

S.A.L.T. Talks ADSOlutel ne voIce Iol On the particular boat the workers in or'emanre where the two work force, the layout of the MICk resume Monday sacked the harbour, or even the placing W de 13s. 4d. of the workers' locker rooms. Inconsistency in the Overtime scales the new accord

AFTER

completing The workers' calcula Secsinki session yesterday che The dockworkers' union of limitation talks arlis asrecmnenl stales Unal on any were lowered by (SALT) between the USA and alven day a worker Is oonked loremen. Ine Sovet Union are que lo is used quipment

WONK

at east wo rouss resthne Monery. the dock Updated on overtime ana in an emeraenct yet Nether side as made only for the as much asne nouts' any comment on the progress which the time if it is deemed necessary Caled bays

MUSI

the the shipping com tany by job wakes laerelore tended to When work misier mn ess tme amo lo full conference imitatio of stretence nuclear workers make less money. overtime must oreman tell them before 2 p.m. in response lo mne workers the fore- wy ca vulls On this occasion company press conterence tried to discredit man annunce overuue dile snokesman the strike. • p.m. ana tne

TO ONE

ro reeD ois uss. 4o. boar ane for Göteborg's harbour go to hell ! They were sacked under a Skandiahamn ruling why he d loy bee the largest and most modern fought whigh Dort n noramm aurose. the union and now sabotaged by the workers management agree. strike. copen taren would de The notorious paragraph 32 selected as the site. that of the The company tried to break asreement stales the strike using scabs snipping combany Cal employ and One a group right- civiee sack with ountry workers as they see fit'.

wing students, who were o me across given ing tour come across more Telegrams harbour, told cash in the shape of produc.

WeLC could that tivity deals.

LOUI

Icauer Lucy When the two workers were working or the neiD sweden by anl ts Way alla £20-a-week sacked on LoIS uine. evan toe cocks taat bicar minimum earning Göteborg dockworker went Groups of workers orkecked ml

TOT

TOCal governuen out on strike. that night and all translated workers W11f Within telegrams of from slogan to reality. started next night the journal's Over Bernard Dix TrOM unload ships truckdrivers claims Dockworkers in Stockholm still have been made- -and . are DUl

WOLACIS

DICYCHIC

to -be and other cities agreed not to them by locking up the truck made through the uitivity deals", urging that WAlCE ue cond anvers in maer cas al miane panies mignt re-route to tnel Weikal mentoer- ports. Police ship stren etn be inrown oe- hundred construction hind this policy. workers building a new parlia- shipping company ihe mene ho aser in Stockholm sent nounced that the English ship, Bitter 'Atlantic Saga', would be un money loaded by No, Mr Dix! trade unionist can PSl lo palasapu stood accepted 'debate' these ulcuse. Lae union ship's cargo consisted Wille une employers Many dustmen have already of two large containers against the workers. Although begun a wedst „DeT- nowever WOrKerS success- learn manent dock workers must plocked The un oacine whal capacc bedongement the union, the productivity deals anc the A antc cààcc nicall. and unior nego- leave port with her cargo.

•Deed-us. cuts mn manm? e dockworkers that unorganize Monday, November 17, are onan to ano rectndances

HOT TO

used at the plan may exchanged

TOT

labUul 15s., back or evens sos. nere ase 20s, 40s., discretion. ning company s Göteborg company i ne

WULKCIS

vecaus agreed to reinstate the th se de vered by were less formed a ammelately Suike than suspended workers committee or ave lo proleei their interests. However, the dockworkers dustmen. Friday, November 21, 1969 MEMBERS of the US forces have now given letails of the March 1968 massacre in the South Vietnamese village of Son My.

Army Sergeant Michael Bernhardt, now stationed Wide- at Fort Dix, New Jersey, stated yesterday that he spread saw his army colleagues shoot down about 100 action Villagers : 'We just moved in and in

FROM PAGE ONE

short while the a men action of the LEA representa- started shooting' tives on the Burnham pane in the Accordin All the people shot Sergeant rejecting teachers' organizations. for an requests Bernhardt, €135 interim pay award'. down were women, men and children. don't recall Banners on the march read seeing any young men in the 'Get rich. Don't teach!' and village at all'. "Can you keep your family on £13?'. Bernhardt said that he and about five other soldiers те- AT A MEETING of 3,000 fused take part the to in Liverped techers chairman meeting M. A. McGarvey was interrupted during his concluding remarks

PUNISHED?

by a militant teacher insisting He declined to say whether Committee that the Burnham they had been punished after- should representatives present wards. give pledge to fight for the full £135. The commander company had told the men that all the "The £135 is a reasonable claim and should be met by a residents of Son My were Vietcong and therefore they reasonable offer', said Burn- all had to be killed. ham Committee representative A. J. Smyth. This is only one of count- After uproar, he declared: less massacres carried out by US imperialism in Vietnam.

hend station it. With opposition to the war would accept now taking an organized form penny less than £135.' inside the army, US soldiers Previously Mr Smyth had are finding the courage to stated that teachers should speak out against these learn from industrial experi- atrocities. ence and 'get some restrictive practices to sell in pro- ductivity deals'. SEVERAL thousand teachers attended al rally in Birming- ham Rag Market. A demonstration large of student teachers, on strike in sympathy, marched in from the College of Education.

An

ATUA

statement was handed for a poli- out calling tical fight against the Labour and government warning Tory against the for plans education, Black Papers seen in the By our own correspondent It demanded preparation for a national stoppage. will problems not be solved A resolution was passed until the port is placed under the collective of unanimously at the end ownership те- jecting the £50 the workers. offer. If the dockworkers do re- turn their jobs without

LONDON

their demands for better working conditions and more workers' control being it will show the lack

RALLY

granted, of an effective leadership with an overall perspective. More base work to develop

• FROM PAGE ONE

political awareness with long- ing banners demanding range goals must be achieved 'national strike action now' among the dockworkers to the march. sell-outs by combat union No such fight officials. was put up by any other tendency. Importing foreign scabs is Neither Communist just one of the tricks of the the Party nor the 'rank-and-file' capitalists who are organized teachers of the International internationally to divide and Socialism' group will do this.

crush labour. Workers must also organize But it is clear that only internationally their to win prolonged national action can struggle for workers' control.

now ensure success.

NOW

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