Workers Press no. 44

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1969

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WHY DOESN'T George Brown join the Tory Party? This must surely be the question millions of workers are asking themselves after the Tory because d in the Us economy, if a recession spokesman, Anthony Barber, Conservative Party chairman, finally belched out his Party's attitude Wall yesterday defied the TWO THOUSAND dockers to the Vietnam massacre. threats of port employers, flouted the predictions "They make me sick', down by s6 oints in in dane said Barber. of Fleet Street and dashed the hopes of some union andy sven Brewery The massacres? No. Mr officials by voting to continue their ban on working Barber was Berlin Wall! those who protest at the the new f5 million containership berths at Tilbury, atrociues. dierably n statement was pre- Essex. Гего On a show of hands, it *s of eshe us criminal- deaicator in was decided to retam the war , пося, ві ban. massacres is Second 10 none.

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BY DAVID MAUDE

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BY MICHAEL BANDA

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PAGE TWO

THE REPORT in the Workers by (November 13) Press Charles Parkins of 'Brutal Zionist Repression' in Pales- tine contained a great deal of horrifying and important in- formation about the colonialist regime that exists there.

We know only too well that such are the methods of colonialist and imperialist re- gimes from Ireland to Aden to Vietnam. However, it is important to say something of the other side of the story: of the developing struggle which is responsible for such repression. The Arab Revolution, which is of crucial importance for the struggle against imperialism throughout the world, is at this time particularly centred round the fight of the Pales- tinian people against Zionist colonialism. Al Fatah the other and guerrilla organizations were explicitly established because of the failure of the Arab regimes, both reactionary and 'progressive', to wage a success- ful struggle against Zionism. They have served to make people the Palestinian rely more on their own efforts, and have also heightened the class contradictions throughout the Middle East, including Israel itself. The growing success of the guerrilla movement since the 1967 war and its ability to launch ever larger and more frequent attacks is the back- ground of repression described in the Workers Press article.

At the same time the existence of disciplined and dedicated groups of armed fighters provides an alternative source of political power in the Arab countries. This is why the reactionary Arab regimes, especially • in Jordan, have constantly tried to suppress the guerrilla groups. On November 4, 1968, at the Wahdad refugee camp in the Amman, efforts were made to provoke a fight in order to do this. The guerrillas were protec- ted by the poor refugees themselves, and many of those killed successfully defending the guerrillas from King Hussein's forces were from the refugee camp, including un- armed teenagers. Recent in the events Lebanon represented a further effort to suppress the libera- tion fighters by the corrupt oligarchy that rules there, completely to committed imperialism and utterly incap- able of doing anything to aid the Palestinian people. The setbacks suffered by Fatah during these events and the unsatisfactory agreement patched up by Arafat and the Lebanese authorities in Cairo were very important events for the Palestinian Revolution.

The political line of Al Fatah of complete neutrality towards the Arab regimes, was put to the test and found wanting. During the demonstrations to support the freedom of movement of the guerrillas, refugees, students and the Lebanese urban masses fought the government and even occupied whole towns. The iine of political neutral- ity held back this struggle and in the end left the position of the guerrillas little more secure than it was before. This has shown clearly that is the Lebanese not only bourgeoisie hostile to the liberation movement, but also that it will be necessary to defeat that class in order to wage a successful struggle against Zionism. Already the forces of re- action have been strengthened by this setback for the guer- rilla movement. The report in the Workers Press of November 15 that Hussein intends to execute members of one of the guer- rilla groups, the small one led by Deblan, is significant in this respect. It is important to note, however, that this group was responsible for the provocation of last November and may well have been set up by Hussein himself. The reactionary forces are not strong enough to persecute the genuine guerrilla groups, but Hussein obviously hopes that this will be a step in that direction. The lessons of these events are clear. The struggle against Zionism cannot be separated from that against imperialism as a whole, and particularly against its friends and agents in the Arab world Nor can the class contradic- tions of the Arab world be insulated from the struggle against Zionism. Though sections of the Arab bourgeoisie are prepared to support the liberation struggle at this stage, the policies they are currently providing through their dominance of Fatah shows that this class is not capable of leading the struggle successfully. This is why it is misleading as the widers Pree issue t as it did in the issue November 14, that Nasser's envoy 'will doubtless insist in Moscow that no •deal will be made with US imperialism at the expense of the Arab people'. Nasser is behaving with all the classic indecisiveness of the petty bourgeoisie in the present situation. He oscillates between sup- port for the November 1967 resolution, which is a UN complete sell-out for the Pales- tinian people, and a militant anti-Zionist stance. Nasserism is not a reliable ally of the Palestinian Revolu- tion and is no more capable than any of the other petty- bourgeois regimes or move- ments of bringing the revolu- tion to success. the opinions of Whatever most Arabs on this question, it is important for Marxists to point it out now. Recent developments indi- cate that the mobilization of the Arab masses in the areas contiguous to Palestine is an inevitable producti* of • the struggle against Zionism, as well as a necessary condition for its success. Democratic Popular The Front for the Liberation of Palestine, established last February, is already engaged in political work with this fact in mind. The liberation movement will have to retain a clear idea of who are its enemies and who are its friends in the problems it will have to many face in the coming months.

• Long live the Palestinian Revolution! • Nationalize the oil mono- polies! • For a Socialist United States of the Middle East!

THE CLASS struggle in Africa is as much a part of the world class struggle as Africa is a part of the world capital- ist system. Africa is not one whole, but is divided up into classes of workers and capitalists who are constantly at war with each other. This class war means that, one way or the other, people all over the world 'take sides' over Africa. They are either on the side of the 99 per cent who toil for sub-wages or on the side of these who own and rule Africa for the sake of super-profits. Britain is very deeply and very widely involved in the conflict between the vast super - exploited and their super-exploiters in Africa.

Colour oppression in South Africa aims to p position where they cannot defend themselv exploitation. Above: All-white police deal African freedom-fighters.

Arafat accompanied by Lebanese army. Despite its great show of support, includi bureaucracy, as part of its accommodatio and other Arab leaders to back down.

It is one of the aims of this column to follow this struggle in a topical way in the interest of a greater under- standing and fuller participa- tion of the British working class in the basic struggles in Africa. Many of the comments in the big about daily papers apartheid and other 'African' phenomena show, in many the close connection ways, between, for example, Britain and Africa. Thus the famous heart- transplant man, Dr Barnard, of Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, twice criticised certain limited aspects of apartheid in early November. And on November 9, speak- ing in New Zealand, the inter- national dollar - millionaire golfer, Gary Player, winner of the British 'Open', called for the right of Papwa Sewgolum, the South African 'Indian' Africa aims to place workers in : defend themselves against super hite police deal brutally with South

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MICHAEL NOLAN,

quite rightly, stresses the im- portance of the development libera- of the Palestinian tion movement and its signi- ficance for the Arab Revolu- tion. Since he has followed Workers Press its for "The Newsletter, he know some unne frequently devoted nave attention in our Dress Tne and have Palestinian quermilas «treccer their sionincance people's both the Palestinian struggle and the Arab Revolution in general. Our record on the Palechnian struggle and the Arab Revolu- tion principled and consistent, which is more other publications some can claim We are not with the trendy- lefties dedicated followers political fashion, who ha because Palestine question the latest thing universines We took sides with the Aran masses Trom The starte and we were drawing attention to the develonment ot nonu ar guerrilla struggle hafare the war of June 1967. That is important, because advisors in Erypt, the Soviet military the Palestine problem did not accommodation to imperialism, has been bringing pressure to bear on Nasser begin in 1967, but a long time

IS THE FIRST OF A

WEEKLY COLUMN

DEALING WITH THE IMPORTANT

THIS

ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION DEVELOPING IN AFRICA TODAY.

For one of the things that European' miners who were player, to take part in Sout.

African golf Opens daily Africa filled were published Britair South African tells us is press, Africans South African from apartheid could result not last one night named. One of the most important Nor the accident work was sports questions accident, any than that non racial committee. when anti-apartheid demonstrations steam-roller have taken place right in of apartheid gets its apparently African miners England. at were trapped and died in the momentum and Leicester and Swansea, Coalbrook Colliery, ¡te immence nowar from? North tour Springbok rugby Does this weight and power tha Oranda Area (tota Africa, or any more than the the econom. the fact that African ically •Raara' (itorallu British Rugby Union, backed b although South the police, keeps he Machin but the while Toll ning and! Africans work their farms)? vitation to tha Couth Atrican 'all-white' cricket team in 1970 the Does come still stands. • led by the Even on the level of sport. ment of the new it is clear that criticism "does Reconstructed annaction not stop the steam-roller Notionalict Dorty of Hartyno?

Rritoin the Initod Or hara is apart from the States and western Europe that rugby boycott, something do with the colossus which crushes all examnie is imnotent as thera cuhsennent hauentt of tha Rritich unione was mere For and teams which play with the mining accident but a mon- Springboks. strous this illustrates a more exploitation truth: that general Africans to death at one of the South Africa is as impotent that orde richest drld mines..

of Southern Rhodesia. Buffelstontein, near none Klara. Tonin called dorp, in the South a 'deception of the people'. as November 7. Africa, on lonone it ic not ot tha como time, a boycott or other form Cecil Rhodes: Used apartheid to create a Nor woe it on aspident that of struggle against Britain. the names the two force. before-we could say 50 years before, when the Balfour Declaration was issued. The guerrillas are not just fighting to push back the latest Zionist conquests. They want to overthrow the whole Zionist structure and set up a democratic Palestinian state. Of course, as Michael Nolan to sell masses. In "The Newsletter' and Workers Press we have always against reliance on warned Bonapartist regimes in the struggle against imperialism.

That is why we attacked the leaders of the Egyptian Com- munist Party for liquidating into support for their party Nasser. Last May, we dealt in "The Newsletter' with the restrictive measures being taken by vari- ous Arab regimes against the guerrilla movements and we pointed out that not only feudal Saudi Arabia, but also the bourgeois nationalist regime in Iraq, were imposing these measures. We have seen how the Iraqi government sided with the Lebanese government in the recent crisis, making it easier for Nasser to fix a deal. (See Workers Press, November 20.)

However, we should not forget that there is an under- lying conflict between the struggle of peoples such as Egypt, even led by Nasser, and domination, imperialist with its ally Israel. Because there is this conflict, and because, as a Bonapartist, Nasser must attempt to main- tain some prestige among the masses, he has to take some kind of stand on the Palestine struggle. The Soviet bureaucracy on the other hand, as part of its accommodation imperial- to ism, has been bringing pres- sure to bear on Nasser and other Arab leaders to back down. The Zionists themselves acknowledge (except perhaps when raising funds in the USA) that the Kremlin has been a 'moderating' influence. The main issue to which the Workers Press item of Novem- ber 14 was drawing attention was this counter-revolutionary role of Soviet secret diplomacy.

That was the main issue. It is the issue which Michael Nolan completely evades in his letter. The other main fault in this letter is one which is un- fortunately typical of much that for political passes analysis among , 'left-wing in- tellectuals' at present, and this is the idealism with which Nolan approaches the develop- ment of the guerrilla move- ment. He writes that: ' .. the existence of disciplined and dedicated groups of armed fighters provides an alternative source of political power ...

Of course the ruling , class generally insists on having a monopoly of the use of armed force and resents the existence of groups which it does not control. But to say that groups of armed fighters, by their exist- miners receive no compensa- tion, nor do the relatives of those killed in the coal, gold and other mines there. For all this and much more is the consequence of the special way in which the African workers in South Africa are exploited by a sys- tem which is not only one of super-exploitation but also of super-oppression. In South Africa, as in the rest of the continent, oppression and exploitation are as inseparable as emanci- pation and liberation. The-aim of oppression, such as colour bars, police persecu- tion, 'treason trials' (another is about to open in one Pretoria), is to put the workers in a position where they can- not defend themselves against super-exploitation. Colour oppression is thus a means, a method, of exploita- tion of the workers. Apartheid, (the Afrikaans- language word for colour discrimination), was long ago designed, mainly by British heid to create a cheap and docile labour Thursday, November 27, 1969 ence, constitute an alternative source of political power is nonsense. Michael Nolan both exag- gerates the present importance of the guerrilla movement and misses its real significance.

Political power does not come 'from the barrel of a gun', whatever it says in Mao's Little Red Book-it only ex.

presses itself through a gun.

Political power comes from the class, and a movement can only constitute an alternative source of power when it has mobilized behind it, with clear aims, the support of the class or classes it represents.

The real signficance of the Palestinian liberation move- ment is the extent to which the guerrillas have taken the initiative away from the ruling classes in the Arab states and . the way for a new opened popular liberation movement based on the workers and peasants. However, the main guerrilla movement, Al Fatah, itself led by middle-class nationalists with the same ideological mix- ture as Nasser, etc., is not even Nasser: Bonapartist. different enough from the existing Arab nationalist leaders to be a political alter- native. Nolan writes that : ... the of mobilization the Arab in the areas masses con- tiguous to Palestine is an inevitable product of the struggle against Zionism'.

is nothing in- No, there evitable about it. It is a neces- sary task, but that means it has to be consciously fought for. The guerrilla movements have turned to the Palestinian masses for support and aroused popular backing in the other Arab countries and they do mark a new departure in Arab politics; but to go further, to the revolutionary mobilization of the workers and peasants in the Arab countries, to create an alternative power, would mean going much further than the existing stage of leadership of the Palestinian movements.

It would mean creating revolu- tionary, Marxist parties in the Arab region. Whatever the present leader- ship of the Arab guerrillas, Marxists must give principled support to the Palestinian in their people liberation struggle; but to idealize the existing stage of the move- ment, to pretend that it is more than it actually is, does not serve the struggle in any way, and can only encourage illusions and confusion both in the Middle East and here.

imperialists who ruled over South Africa, like Cecil John Rhodes, in order to create a docile, force permanent policed, defenceless, rightless, cheap labour. This was not done out of any particular hate, but for the sake of the investments and profits of the big mining and companies in South other Africa. You would not know it, but if you happen to read the stocks and shares columns in the financial pages of the big papers of England, you are reading the balance sheets of apartheid. For a very large number of companies quoted the on London Exchange are super- exploiting African workers in Rhodesia South Africa (and and many parts of Africa) and the way they do it is by means of apartheid. Most of these companies are British. And this alone makes apartheid of direct concern to the British economy and hence to everyone in Britain.

Much will have to be said about the importance of South Africa to the British economy and also to the Anglo- American - West European North Atlantic Treaty Organ- ization. Much will have to be said about what toilers of the South Africa, and of Africa (of which South Africa is by far part most important economically, and, ultimately, politically) are doing about their exploitation and oppres- sion. The 'outside world' hears only indirectly and incident- ally, when a Dr Barnard or a Gary Player criticize, not the and reasons

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PART ON

CAPITALISM'S ability to survive as a world system into the second half of the 20th century has depended and still depends upon the pro- ductive power and mili- tary strength of the United States. After 1945, for the second time in history, the United States had to come to the rescue of European capital- ism, enabling it to survive the strains of post-war re- construction and bolstering the forces of counter-revolu- tion. The ruling classes of the European states paid a heavy but inescapable price for American assistance. Under the cloak of de- colonization the way was open for the penetration of Ameri- can capital into all the former of European preserves perialism. Through the monetary and trading policies which were imposed under American in- fluence to 'restore' the world economy, Europe itself was thrown open on much freer terms than ever before for the operation of the giant US corporations. The establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organ- ization formally established American political and mili- tary hegemony in Europe. American capital and mili- tary power made possible the restoration of the German Federal Republic as the main bastion of capitalism Europe. Germany thus became the frontier post of the imperialist world system, where it met the social relations antagonistic in the workers' states of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Rescue In the same way, the dis- credited ruling classes of France and Italy - to whose rescue the Communist Parties also came at the critical junc- ture in 1944-1946-were pro- vided with the means to secure a new lease of life. The case of Britain was different only • in form from that of continental western Europe. The so-called 'special relationship' the Anglo- American countries concealed a long-standing rivalry for world dominance. The Second World War struck a blow at British im- perialism from which it could never recover, at the same time as it completed the rise to world predominance of the United States. In the circumstances of the post-war world, with the after- effects of Nazism still upper- most and the threat from the East supposedly imminent, the German rulers accepted Client status almost with relief.

Satellization met with more resistance from British govern- ments under the spurious they assumption that were somehow 'partners' of Wash- ington. Growing economic difficul- ties and the relentless drive of the US corporations have made it difficult to conserve this illusion. In France a succession of weak governments meekly ac- cepted dependence on

USA.

Then, with the accession to power of de Gaulle, an attempt was made to strike out on an independent course. It required intolerable bur- dens : on the economy, was M18: 3

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never really practicable and was opposed by important sec- tions of the French bourgeoisie.

of May-June The events 1968 showed its futility.

Nevertheless, European capi- tal has its own interests to defend and necessarily, where it can, it fights back against American economic pene- tration. It does so, however, on increasingly difficult terms.

Modern technology and the ever-growing scale of produc- tion require immense resources for research and development, for launching products new and for opening new plants incorporating the latest tech- niques. The big US corporations, operating on a world scale, have been steadily invading the preserves of European capital- absorbing many old- ism, established firms as they do so and increasingly able to tap European sources of finance as well. 'On rations' American imperialism has thus, since the anitalis o European capitalism rations' in a particularly tanta- lizing way. Firstly, from a position of strength it declares military that without its nuclear striking force western Europe to invasion would be open from the East. Secondly, it stands as a world defence against revolu- tion, both in Europe and in dependencies of world the capitalism threatened by national revolutionary move- ments. Thirdly, it holds the purse strings to bale out those coun- tries which run into economic difficulties, exacting, as it does so, its own pound of flesh.

For European capital this thoroughly creates a un- desirable situation, but one from which there can be no escape. It cannot make an independ- ent deal with the Soviet Union: de Gaulle tried and failed because the Kremlin bureau- cracy itself wants to do business with the American principals and not with a branch offce. It is as much interested as Washington and Wall Street in opposing revolution whether in Vietnam or in Latin America so it can have no alternative however but to support, 'critically', US action against national liberation movements.

It no longer has any in- dependent basis from which can hope to solve its

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monetary and financial crisis fight back successfully or against the invasion of its pre- serves by the big American monopolies. This is just as true from the standpoint of such organiza- tions as the European Economic Community or the European Free Trade Associa- tion as it is from that of single countries. American imperialism has become the arbiter of the fate of European capitalism which, behind a facade of prosperity, descends ever deeper into parasitism and decay and is brought nearer to social revo- lution. American involvement with Europe now extends back over four decades. At its outset it was brilliantly analysed by Trotsky: 'Europe will be permitted to rise again, but within only well-defined limits, that re- stricted sectors of the world market will be reserved for her. American capital now dominates; it commands the diplomats. It is likewise pre- paring to give orders to the European banks and trusts, to the entire European bour- geoisie, he wrote soon after the First World War.

TOM

KEMP

The process has now far advanced; the last sentence into the past tense, must go the first must be underlined.

variations in detail With and forms, allowing for numer- ous special circumstances and unforeseeable contingencies, Trotsky's expectations have been remarkably confirmed.

The stabilization and expan- sion of European capitalism which was made possible on the basis of an outflow of dollars from the United States after 1945 also required, ot course, the co-operation of the democracy and Stalin- social ism. before placed its hopes for racy' in the support of the US imperialists. The ideologists of right-wing 'socialism' have everywhere be- Nationwide. 6.45-7.T5 HeddiWeat.es: 6.00-6.45 Wales Today, 10.45 Llety Noson. Scotland: 2.30-2.50 p.m. Around Scot- land. 6.00-6.45 Réporting Scotland.

First 10.15-10.45 Person Singular. 12.02 a.m. Epilogue, News Headlines.

Northern Schools. 6.00-6.45 Scene Around Six.

Ireland: 2.30-2.50 10.15-10.45 Westhat 69. Nationwide. 12.02 a.m. Northern Headlines, Weather, Ireland News Road Works Report. South and West: 6.00-6.45 p.m. Points West, South Today, Spotlight South- Nationwide. West, Weather. 12.02 and West News Head- a.m. South lines, Weather.

B.B.C.-2

11.00-11.20 a.m. Play School.

7.00 p.m. Teaching Adults.

7.30 Newsroom and Weather.

8.00 Call My Bluff. East, 8.30 The Money Programme.

a.m. the 9.10 The Canterbury Tales.

10.00 The Price Of Fame. 12.02 10.30 News Summary a n d Weather. 10.35 Line-Up.

WORKERS' PRES

- U come apologists for the State Department. But Stalin had also con- cluded that American capital- ism could stabilize itself for a long time to come. His suc- cessors, who preach 'peaceful co-existence', whatever saving phrases they may find to cover up their retreat from Marxist- Leninism, are of the same opinion. The political history of European Stalinism, apparently anti-American, has been that of smoothing over the contra- dictions of European capital- ism and thus easing the way for American imperialism to re-organize its part of the globe. Needless to say, European capitalism is caught up in a web of contradictions which are aggravated by growing competition with, and depend- ence on, the United States.

At the same time, all the processes at work in the world economy since the rise to world power of American im- perialism have thrust the United States into ever-deeper . - out....

involvement with the capitalist world market. If American imperialism operates politically and mili- tarily in a way which recog- nizes no frontiers except those of the so-called 'free world', if it arrogates to itself a general right of intervention to sup- press popular movement and even to remove governments it dislikes, if it literally has to the whole decrepit support capitalist world system on its shoulders, this is not a matter of choice but of objective necessity. Super-power The United States performs im- the role which British perialism assumed in the 19th century in the era of its world preponderance. But it does so more completely, in a much magnified form, as a world super-power commanding un- and precedented economic military resources. It does so, not in the era of small capitalist firms and the steam engine, not with the diplomacy of the gunboat, but on the basis of the extreme development of monopoly capitalism become ripe and over-ripe and armed from head to foot with means of destruc- are terrifying in tion which their proportions. The involvement of US capitalism with the world can be established with incontro- vertible statistics.

I.T.V.

11.00 a.m. - 12 Schools. noon 1.40-2.58 p.m. Schools. 3.55 Face Of The Earth. 4.15 News Head- lines. 4.17 Diane's Magic Theatre Crossroads. Bugs 4.30 4.55 Bunny. 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 News.

6.03 Today. 6.25 Peyton Place. 6.55 The Thursday Film: 'The Sundowners' starring Kerr, Deborah Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Johns, Dina Glynis Merrill. 9.00 The Dave King Show. 9.30 This Week. 10.00 News At Ten. 10.30 Cinema. 11.00 I Spy. 11.55 Father D'Arcy's Friends and Contemporaries. All Independent channels as London Flaxton Boys. Greetings. 6.00 Channel News and Weather. 6.10 Police File. 6.15 Channel Sports Round- Up. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 The Thursday Film: 'East Of The Rising Sun' starring Spencer James Stewart. Iracy anc 8.30 This Is Life. 11.00 Peyton Your Place. 11.50 News and Weather in French, Weather.

SOUTHERN: 4.00

Houseparty. p.m. 6.35 4.55 Skippy. 6.00 Day By Day. Castle Haven. 7.00 The, Thursday Film:

YORKERS' PRESS

The high levels of produc- tivity attained by US industry the standard of living enjoyed by the population at supplies of large rests upon indispensable materials raw and sources of energy obtained on favourable terms from the entire world. The means employed to acquire and ensure supplies of these materials add chapters to the history of imperialism which lurid and • dis- are as graceful as any. It is, however, as an ex- porter of capital and through the world-wide operations of corporations that the giant American imperialism ensures stranglehold, its economic penetrating increasingly into the home domain of the old- established capitalist countries and ensuring the dependence and continued underdevelop- ment of Latin America, Asia and Africa. American imperialism possesses few colonies or de- pendent territories in the strict sense, yet it operates on a world scale, as an empire with- leeper . - out frontiers• drawn together by golden threads which find their centre in Wall Street, its military headquarters in the Pentagon and its political front men in the administration.

Complex No one can seriously doubt where, in this complex of in- stitutions, real power lies and who have the last word: the banks and giant businesses which dominate American economic life, shape its poli- tical programme and determine its outward thrust which has established American hege- mony over the whole capitalist world system. This gigantic world process has, it must be again insisted, been a matter of necessity, not of choice for the rulers of America. Contrary to what some liberals maintain, there was no alternative path of peaceful, non - imperialist development possible for American capital- Ism. Isolationism was never a practical possibility and never, in fact, determined American at any time in this policy century. 'anti-monopoly' co- The alition, to include the peace- loving sections of American capitalism, patented by the US Communist Party, was at all times a fraud where it was not a delusion. Continued tomorrow 'Seventh Dawn' starring William Capucine, Holden, Susannah York. Place. Southern 10.30 Peyton 11.25 11.35 The Papers. News Extra. 11.50 Churches Weather Forecast, The Television Centre. 1. 10P.m. 4.08

WESTWARD:

Westward News Headlines. Peyton Place. 4.38 The Gus Honeybun Show. 4.50 6.00 Westward The Flaxton Boys. Diary. 6.20 Pett Subject. 6.35 Cross- roads. 7.00 As Channel. 8.30 As Seaway. 11.50 Faith Channel. 11.00 For Life. 11.56 Weather. HARLECH: 4.26 p.m. Castle Haven. 4.55 Tinker and 6.01 Report. laylor. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 6.20 Batman. Midweek Movie: 'Hell Bent For Glory' Tab Hunter and Etchika starring Choureau. 8.30 Curry and Chips. 10.30 Place. 11.05 Hadleigh. 12 A Quiet midnight Weather. Harlech (Wales) as above except: Interlude. 4.26 4.29-4.55 Crossroads. 5.20-5.50 Tins A Lei. 6.01 Dydd. 6.24 The Ghost and Mrs Muir. 6.51- 7.00 Report. 4.05 p.m. Castle Haven.

ANGLIA:

4.30 Anglia Newsroom. 4.35 Sean the Boys. Leprechaun. 4.50 The Flaxton 6.20 Arena. 6.35 6.00 About Anglia. 7.00 Star Action. Movie: Crossroads. "Battleground' starring Van Jonnson Hodiak. 11.00 Survival. and John 11.30 Reflection.

ATV MIDLANDS:

4.00 P.m. News 15 Peytor Headlines. 4.02 Survival. ronger, Do Sat Action Move e 4.55 The Forest Place. roads. Seventh Dawn starring William Holden, Susannah York, Capucine ON SALE in Britain next year will be a new kind of battery, storing nearly twice the amount of energy of the best primary cell on the mar- ket today, and ten times as an ordinary as much torch battery, yet costing no more than three times as much. In its wake, it is hoped that there will follow a wide variety of 'cordless' electronic apparatus-from TV sets and tape recorders to military radios - whose power de- mands are too heavy to be conveniently met by present- day batteries. This important technological development is only one of many that have emerged re- cently in the quest for more efficient - and profitable — energy sources. Efficiency means more watt- age per cubic foot and per pound weight, negligible pollu- big, lucrative tion and a market for the successful.

In particular, out of the total US government spending of £65 million on fuel cells last year, £55 million went to Pratt and Whitney, who pro- duced the fuel cell for the Apollo spacecraft. Big difference However, there is, of course, a big difference between the development of the Apollo foremplant or similar units military development of fuel cells for motor vehicles. was spared to No expense make sure that an American was the first man on the moon and therefore there was no need for the various private contractors to keep down costs. On the other hand, 130 years after the principle of the fuel cell was first established, the decisive breakthrough to a commercially viable unit has not yet been made. The batteries with which we are most familiar are of two types. torch battery is an ex- A ample of a primary cell, that is one in which the voltage is produced by the battery con- suming itself in a chemical reaction, once the circuit is closed. Rechargeable units-second- ary cells-are of the type used in cars to power the electrical system. These batteries have only found limited main use as

VITAL

information has come into our hands con- cerning the latest American moon landing. It is rumoured that the three astronauts will be placed under strict quarantine on their return, as it is thought that they have been taken over by alien beings. The symptoms were becom- ing clear Intrepid as our explorers approached to with- in 12,000 feet of the lunar surface. Alien A: Hey! There it is! Son of a gun! Right down the middle of the road! I can't believe it! Amazing! Fan- tastic! ... That's so fantas- 11.05 Hadleigh. 11.59 Pulse, Weather Forecast.

YORKSHIRE: 4.00

Ranguss. 6.Y0 p.m. 4.30 Arthur. 4.55 Forest Rangers. Calendar, Weather. 6.30 Castle Haven.

6.55 Sleep Karl Malden,, Till Dawn' 'No starring Natalie Wood, Marsha Zimbalist Hunt and Efrem 11.00 The Contenders. 12 midnight Late Weather. The Short Story. 4.55 Spiderman. 6.00 The Beverly Newsview Hillbillies. followed by On Site. 7.00 The Thurs- Film: "Call Me day Bwana' starring 8.50 Cartoon. 11.00 Never A Cross Word.

TYNE TEES:

41413 p.m. North East 4.25 Mr Piper. 4.53 North East News- At Six. 6.30 Peyton 11.47 God In Good Season/The Last Day.

SCOTTISH: 4.20 p.m. Scotland Early. 4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 The New Adven- tures Of Superman. 6.00 Scotland Now.

Living Town' starring Greer 6.35 High 7.05 Feature Film: 'Strange Lady In Garson, Dana Cameron Andrews. Mitchell. 11.00 Late Call. 11.05 Toker's Wild.

GRAMPIAN:

4.30 The New p.m. Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. 4.55 Ivanhoe. 6.00 Grampiar News. 6.10 The Double Life Of Henry Phyfe. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Popeye. 7.10 Adven- Music. ture! 9.00 McCue's 11.00 Parkin's Patch.

BY MARTIN

ZARROP

our science correspondent power units in motor vehicles, such as milk floats, as they are bulky, heavy, give relatively speeds and mileages and low require long periods for re- charging. A fuel cell is a battery that instead of consuming itself or requiring recharging, Con- tinuously consumes a feed of fuel. In 1839, W. R. Grove carried out experiments in which electricity was generated by supplying hydrogen and oxygen to two separate elec- trodes immersed in sulphuric acid. This early device incor- porated the essential features of the Apollo hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells. Series link As fuel cells are essentially low voltage devices giving out- puts of about one volt or less, thev are usually connected in series to form a fuel battery.

As early as 1897 a 1.5 kilo- watt system had been designed and constructed. The immediate attraction of the fuel cell is its potentially The 2 kW fuel cell power plant designed to supply electrical power and drinking water for the Apollo Command and Service Module. tic I can't believe it! Isn't that great? Right where it's supposed to be! Alien B: Watch for the dust!

Forty feet, coming down at two. Looking good. A: Got plenty of gas, Pete.

Looking good. B: Contact light! Drop probe!

The spacecraft lands. A: Okay, we're in hot shape, Houston! Real good shape!

Man, oh, man, Houston! think we're in a place a lot dustier than Neil's. B: Holy crow, it's beautiful out here! An analysis of this astound- ing interchange indicates that the creatures are equipped with a kind of proboscis, find light troublesome and and dust maintain a high body temper- ature through some sort of gas process. Their archaic method of addressing men and the refer- crow' the 'holy ence to obviously indicates a primitive religious influence. Alien A speaks again: 'Well I was on gauges and that was the onlu wau I could see where I was going. I saw that blue contact light and I shut that baby down and we didn't hit for six feet?

Obviously the creatures move about on six legs and were disturbed by light while form of carrying out some fiendish breeding experiment.

Earthlings beware! We are about to be taken over! SERIOUSLY, though, ten days banalities, of chuckles, jokes, superlatives and general lingu- istic slaughter can leave the scientific palate sharpest a trifle jaded. Perhaps in future an inter- preter would be in order or am I being "square'? By the way, they actually said it, so I'm keeping the in- secticide handy ... just in case.

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high efficiency. Car engines are rarely more than 30 per cent efficient while theoretically the fuel cell should attain 60-70 per cent.

In practice a fuel cell turns out to be a complex machine —at least as complex as the motor car enginewith three- quarters of its cost tied up in electronic controls ancillary and much less efficient than 60 per cent at present. The field attracted many re- search workers who attempted various combinations materials, other than hydrogen and oxygen, in their quest for the best system. The work of Bacon at Cambridge, begun in 1932, culminated in 1959 with the demonstration of a five kilowatt hydrogen-oxygen fuel battery and gave a new im- petus to fuel cell research.

Bacon saw that when sub- statial power outputs were re- quired over prolonged periods, the hydrogen-oxygen fuel bat- tery coupled with high pressure gas storage cylinders would be extremely light and compact compared conventional to batteries. These factors were decisive in their use for the Apollo spacecraft which incorporate a two kilowatt fuel battery in the command modules and a one. kilowatt battery in the lunar modules. These operate at a tempera- ture of 200 degrees Centigrade water produced in the process can be used for drink- ing purposes by the astronauts.

Expensive However, hydrogen is an expensive fuel and its use out- side such highly specialized applications as Apollo entails coupling the fuel cell system with a hydrogen generator.

This reduces the efficiency of the overall unit to such an extent that it is unlikely to be a commercial competitor of the diesel electric generator for some time, unless economics are not the sole consideration.

For small submarines this type of system offers very much greater performance and than can be obtained range storage batteries. with Con- tracts have been placed both in the US and Sweden to study the possibilities. batteries are Hydrogen-air the most suitable candidates for replacing small generators.

The advantages which such units offer in comparison with existing, petrol- and diesel- powered generators are: rela- tive silence, greater reliability, possibly lower weight and lower fuel consumption. The overall cost of such systems is likely to be such that they will be used only for military applications. Undoubtedly, a marked re- duction in fuel cell costs will have to be achieved before fuel cells are widely manufac- tured. Several major US corpor- ations, including General Electric, Monsanto and Union Carbide dropped work in this field because of the difficulties -chiefly because their govern- nent grants were cut oft.

In Britain, development has proceeded over the past eight years, financed by the National Research Development Cor- poration (NRDC), British Petroleum, Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds and British Ropes.

This collaboration has taken place through Energy Con- version, a wholly-owned sub- sidiary of NRDC. Research teams Its main asset was the patents to the Bacon cell and today it runs a research team of 150, spends nearly £500,000 a year and enjoys the collab- oration of the 800-strong re- search team of Pratt and Whitney to whom it licensed the Bacon patents for the Apollo fuel cell. Energy Conversion has just completed a run of 1,200 hours on a three-kilowatt unit fuelled by hydrogen and air and con- densed into a volume of only two cubic feet. At £2,000 per kilowatt, this begins to compare favourably with the best diesel-electric generator sets. However, the motor corpor- ations can rest easy for the present. Until the price per kilowatt drops to tens rather than thousands of pounds, the com- mercial challenge of the fuel cell to them remains non- existent and polluting the will remain atmosphere highly-profitable activity.

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Standard-Triumph report A blow at the

THE

outstanding of the recentl miners' strike over sur- face hours is that, with- leadership, vol tonary revolutionary

VUL

stewards Tories of militancy can bring complete victory in struggle which involves the back and the state. which claimit that all that is Doluca tendency THE REPORT of the government court of inquiry Wilson required is more militancy, into the Standard-Triumph dispute may open the better organization, a littl By our industrial reporter

• FROM PAGE ONE

more democracy and a way for a witch-hunt against the Standard workers economic demands and against the stewards who led the Il-week strike.

America Leadershipes to sound, how 1,150 workers at the Jenkins: Dockers Frotest againsi standard-friumph wood- Futur

ABERDEEN

end factory in Liverpool

• FROM PAGE ONE

he derre to cease to be deputy struck on August 27. $5.00 indual active in the strike. pontaication are of vital im- Shipyard They demanded to receive • Semand serace, and widen should be when laid off due to disputes outside Heni Tie union's ree. - their own тастогу ао that mphesisp to they should workers However, it is necessary t be frank. ferociated thie ints oficials i the Partisan Press in Not and throw chen oright cale atrocities and i scienti defend is Mr Men Coatese or 10g revisionist Washington at the associated anti-Trotskyist groups. That is why Tu Cong is not What more tops have ale use prica it steward B.R.S. 'strings' Hits out 1a7i1bu5 in he' represent- idea of a bing towards the rejected hack

NO REFERENCE

rages, stewards ofeiween than Tu Cong. By a Workers Press correspondent noticia stee setting th re, that the pamphlet makes decision Big trouble SHIPYARD WORKERS at Aberdeen yesterday British Road Services precipitate,

EXTERMINATE

discused a continued their strike against the sacking of a yesterday wher Such a decision would ree.

un thingsition have Unable um the unions No. shop steward and an apprentice into its second maned is productivity bo res is line determined exter The dispute-which in plans Prefere cond it to cook shei titute best measure Robin of a stomar volves 4VV men-started + workerions of a national tue the management of Rover mens of fing London S when eden in der as are imperialism it per i moid the union fight ano claimed two ine draught strike If it did shit were surplus

ITALIAN CP

ful side, def th the shame alect for. rea ulrements.

EXPULSIONS

in hated most nust increase thei Shipyard workers calm out ot dinere roted Labour halted vigilance John Connediat that the steward. "It is not only McConnachie

(AEF),

production decidedist statement. but the ries party of full em pleymen.

sacked because Solihull, Warwickshire, yester- Houghton, hi Correct of their the leadership? Ase he threatened ted, challengir interests. native tear tha COMBE and is erently serped George Bree likes and action against nhe Devin schemerts shivard are now on tre won strike notes encasion, work ran member corred An durined byterpaulin i tho uhstanti Intervention without 'strings! There have been moves to pots ble • No redundancies/ would be in intervention ejected near the holes were new me collaboration ay the bankers British Titan really S.A.L.T. talks theon to the old overspens- anion are! unhindered workers fight

GREET

by Vietnam muse be removed.

WORKERS PRESS

atrocities new deal

COVERED

FILE

THE FOURTH

une soviet-us arms talks 1n Helsinkı began vesteraay.

Issues which could decide Opposed THE 500 STRIKERS at British Titan chemical here works, Billingham, are determined to win their the strike the Com seven-week strike management's silen Kremlin totally arallol productivity deal. strike which respondent at public meetings backed by reason for the Com- General which had been introduced when Pricess on a month's trial. See the film of the first issue being prepared and strike lion d has exposed the posi workers Lurned printed and the film Young Socialists, 1969' lacentive

DOLLE

scient

NEWCASTLE

Teachers' leaders begin Sunday, November 30, 7.30 p.m.

County Hotel, Nevllle Street arbitration soft-pedal

LEEDS

FRONT - PAGE

After worn the To thoes article Wednesday, December 3, 8 p.m.

November edaas already 21's *The Teacher', authority anc The 'Old Bar i easily be he Teacher" Student's Union, Leeds University Still workin&GwU beer Union of Teachers, re- Though 50,000 (Central Committee member, general behind them. very have have already teachers decided that In February this the JOHN NOLAN (Young Socialists) 'the been a volved u executive recom are still great series of half-day which amounted the

CANTERBURY

AUSTRALIAN

and incom taken place that have Be geran t defeated. certain to

SEAMEN

all over the Monday, December 8, 8 p.m.

tion'. Thousands schools The Cornwallis Bullding Proved untrue

STRIKE

have lined up to take part University of Canterbury said he gove loaded in in the fortnight's strike at

LIVERPOOL

the beginning of December.

ens strike hit Australian untrue. breye raised actions the "hese arbitration precedented in the history vi sals Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m.

the teachers for tach ecisi of the union ton e waited British ines as The ar Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant pointed sur on Sakeday, ess side, st invu Inerable once as some Speakers at Newcastle, Liverpool and Canterbury will nown, it is embodied in the Martine of to emoter here san MIKE BANDA (Editor of Workers' Press) SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the time has t and and and before Young socialists) breakdown the port. Thursday, November 27, 1969 But the reason, according

FROM JACK GALE

to the authors of this pam- phlet, 'lies in the incompetence and lack of militancy wages will first of all have to of the be held down national executive'. reduced. This is dangerously and Our answer is that consciously misleading. the balance of payments of British Since nationalization and capitalism is not our concern.

up until last year, the general We do not demand the use secretary of the NUM was a of coal rather than other fuels Communist Party member. in order to help the British The Communist Party held capitalists out of their mess.

leading positions in the NUM in Scotland, Yorkshire, Derby- shire, South Wales and Kent.

NATIONALIZE

At no time did this Party We demand the national- mobilize its members for a ization of the oil companies fight on wages and closures. and the big steel and This was not simply lack of aluminium monopolies and a militancy, nor was it because socialist fuel policy under they were particularly workers' control. in- but competent, because the The word 'nationalization' political line of the Commun- is nowhere mentioned in this 1st Party-a parliamentary pamphlet nor is there any peacetul road to socialism and reference to the massive inter- peaceful co-existence between est payments which cripple the the workers' states and capi- mines every year. talism — prevented any the Labour Yet there is no future for struggle against miners as long as the mining and the government trade industry is dominated by union bureaucracy. the profit requirements of the big monopolists.

STRIKE-BREAK

dency of Mr Coates has had a •the 'left' ten- The Communist Party hailed great deal to say about Vic Feather's workers' intervention in nationalization and the recent strike as a 'break- control. through' and acted as a strike- To fight for these things breaking force. today, however, involves Labour struggle against the It is impossible to write any against the

TUC

pamphlet the mines that government, on and the right is of the slightest wing which assistance tries to discipline the working to miners that does not ex- class on behalf of the govern- plain and analyse the counter- and the 'left' revolutionary role of the ment, against Communist Party. trade union leaders. (This last becomes par- But this might Contro also make ticularly embarrassing when Workers' Confer- the gentlemen concerned are ences difficult to organize ! workers willing to take part 1n So, the political revisionism Control' Confer- of Ken the Coates variety ences!) prevents those men who are Yet 'workers' without this, influenced by it from drawing control' is transformed from any of the political lessons of a revolutionary demand for the last 20 years in the mining administrative, power into an industry. bureaucratic manoeuvre. That is why they wind up in the camp of class collabor-

'FRAMEWORK'

ation and reformism. The solution for mining is This is how it is presented bound up with the building of in the pamphlet : alternative revolutionary lead- "There is no alternative for ership - which is what the it but together through the authors of the pamphlet are union we shall have de- opposed to. mand that we run the pits and elect the technical experts and other management to Power work for us. "This be done just cannot on a pit basis, at colliery level.

strike *It will need co-ordination through area and national level of the union. blacks out "The Coal Board cannot its responsibility give to up France parliament for the general operation of the industry, but should the the union have power of veto on the appoint- YESTERDAY'S strike of of higher ment management; French power workers and although we should con- blacked out most local of the trol management we should still have to work in- including large country, side the framework of national areas of Paris. policy' (My emphasis J.G.)

A spokesman for the elec- Real workers' control re- said tricity board the grid quires the smashing of capi- supply dropped 20 per cent talist state power and its overnight, while industrialists replacement by a new state expected it to fall by up to of based on the power the 65 percent. working class. In Paris, Wednesday morn- These transform reformists rush-hour ing traffic ground this revolutionary slogan into when traffic halt lights adjustment for the minor failed during a power cut.

more efficient working of in- Eleven of the city's under- dustry within 'the framework - decided of national policy' ground lines were not run- by the existing parliament !

ning, while services were re- duced on the remainder. In the same way, they avoid The 48-hour strike - the a struggle in the union. Everybody knows the NUM second in weeks - has two leadership has failed to lead been called in support of wage fight and demands by France's over closures elec- tricity and gas workers. wages.

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