KREMLIN IN FRIENDLY TALKS WITH GREEK REGIME THE SOVIET Ambassador to Greece had a long Lucas-CAV want traffic
By Robert Black
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A THOUSAND Lucas-CAV workers at Fazakerly, Liverpool, held up traffic for an hour on Wednesday when they occupied the road outside their factories.
Last week, workers in these factories held a similar demonstration demanding traffic control at the beginning and end of shifts. An operator at the Lucas factory was killed in an accident while crossing the road a fortnight ago. A woman worker from CAV was knocked down last Friday. 'If we go on strike we quickly get policemen along to watch the pickets but they won't put a policeman to control the traffic, Lucas convenor Ray Reynolds told meeting held by the into ers roar. they marched Thered meeting unanimously every until authorities took satisfactory and the Warsaw Pact a single 'collective secul These talks between Soviet bureaucracy and representatives of the a working class military tatorship supplement trade negotiations alre in progress in Atl between Soviet and GI rity' antidiceady hens reek talist COmILLICE have cooled over the last few months everse has taken place in it dealings with Kremlir Diplomatic has tar customary diplomatic protocol.
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Stalinist timely view junta faces a attack at the next Council of Furone meeting on December 12, when pressurize, will made regime into adopting at leas few trappings Swine, dine and negotiate with the ands ds of rest alice t fighters, ortured and falled for lite Ane mais is ov no means to‹ limit of Stalinist treachery and day that regime, events leadine up to thi a report Athens couphe April 1967 This is real face counter-revolutionary Stalinpursuing the peaceful, parliaGreece, role do the working nentary class right into the trap set by the military.
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secret diplomacy steps in to bolster up anti-communist regime and lends it the support tha even Hany capitalist govern the e Balish always Communist are silent on these disgusting supAthens regime as accepted Soviet particialion ll the European game: though though Greenis Star featured 'eports protests arallisl britisl participation borne aldens cames.
This is Stalinism.
Unless is completely smashed in the international workers movemenl. will repare even worse betrayals in the future men fear isolation DRAUGHTSMEN at Davic Brown's Sunderland reductior ninto week factorof their lock-out, cals 110W the fear isolation from other workers the policie carried out by official: of the unions represented in the factory.
the real problem at David Sired in Burbater ent Stop Wilson If British-Leyland, faced with a further big drop in its return On capital this year, is to give its competitivity a desperately-needed 'shot in the arm', it must attempt to break from this agreement.
Leaving the EEF, a move which will certainly be strengthened by the new council, would enable it to do this.
Carworkers warn that this may now be on the cards.
None of these issues are considered important enough by the Communist Party to merit coverage in the 'Morning Star'.
Or perhaps they are too important.
Is the Communist Party, in its craven desire to cover up at all costs for the trade union 'lefts', Scanion chair a body which can only be directed against carworkers without comment?
on the Stalinists on both sides of the Atlantic who separate Vietnam from the social and political issues facing the working class.
SILENT
It is not surprising therefore that the 'Morning Star' remains silent on Wilson's trip to the US.
As we pointed out after the 3Ist Congress, Gollan's cuddling up to social democracy effectively prevents the CP from opposing Wilson in any meaningful way.
Only the Socialist Labour League and the Young Socialists can do that today.
We call on members of the Communist Party and the Labour Party to break with the reactionary policies of their leaders and support our campaign to stop Wilson's visit.
By our foregn correspondent GOVERNMENTS of the Soviet Union and five other Warsaw Pact powers (Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary) issued a statement in Moscow yesterday pledging support to the Arab people.
The statement comes after renewed Arab nationalist pressure on the Kremlin to take a more militant line against Israeli Zionism.
It called for 'effective support to the Arab peoples in their just struggle for the withdrawal of Israeli JET DRAMA Falling parts from a crippled BOAC VC-10 airliner narrowly missed houses and a factory near Reading yesterday. and the company directors. Union of Engineering and trained.
class compromise. its striking employees.
struggle is the right to or- police.
wages and conditions.
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and the trade union leaders in conflict with its 1.250 employees at the East Kilbride factory.
This is entirely in line with the aims of the Wilson government.
When he was lobbied in the Gorbals by BSR strikers Wilson said to them 'leave it to us'.
Through Blakeman the government then intervened to carry the struggle back into the factory, having accepted that it could not break the strike.
The agreement signed for the ending of the strike therefore prepares for further CIR action.
'Both the company and the union agree to review the aforementioned in the light of any recommendations received from the Commission on Industrial Relations in due course.' Paid jointly Amongst the measures referred to here is the appointment of an adviser nominated by the trade union to act as a specialist on trade union ards are to be elected and that no steward will be allowed under the age of leadership during the strike Socialists consistently pointed to the political nature of the conflict.
BSR was no different in its DOE DEN strike IOB ing in East Kilbride was based on government loans. The new town itself conveniently provides a dormitory for the 'directed industry'.
United force But the capitalist chickens came home to roost.
The 'cheap' labour of womer and youth, many of whom worked half shifts, were the wives and daughters of trade unionists.
Amongst the men in the strike were a sprinkling of ex-miners thrown out of the pits through closures.
Together they formed a force which had learned one lesson well, they would at all costs fight as a united It was this unity which disconcerted time and time again the trade union leadership.
On Friday, November 14 a mass meeting decided on a Blakeman: His CIR still to play a role.
resumption of work and accepted the agreement signed by Boyd.
But it soon became clear that the management had dug itself in to prepare for the return of the strikers and aimed to demoralize and divide them by using the scab labour recruited during the previous weeks.
There was an immediate further walk-out.
On Friday, November 21 the strike committee fought for an hour and a half with Boyd in its demand for no victimization and for all to return to their original jobs.