Workers Press no. 46

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

NUMBER 46

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1969

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4,500 teachers to strike Briefly £1,000 fund

VIETNAM WAR:

Criticisms

•TROUBLE-SHOOTERS' :

shooting We still need £364-9s-11d. of leaders Ands at 50357e8%.

WHAT NOW?

director, bosite for long tim police grow £135 - a - year in- we are to complete pay Mackie, Austin Lucase. How, of them are she donation at ne day problems. asking, did the executive of

BY DAVID MAUDE

Naulonal large or smal TEACHERS in several 300 1 cachers select Ene areas are becoming in- schools That Wish pet, London, SWe car plants. Australian dockers give the answer two weeks creasingly critical strike tor Monday? the way their union Why leaderships involving than 4,000 Lucas strike more ducting their fight for a Policies will cause a 'tonal the volocal naiday stains in support one dar Economi yesterday. that entitutes trend can icularly it the cre No one, we reply, can ever forgive the shameless ald are appled 0t sell-out of 'Tribune' and the left' MPs when the mean

BY MCHAEL BANDA

question was posed of concrete action against Wilson and solidarity with the Vietnamese Revolution.

DECISIVE

1970. With Arre meet and an face i decisived go, in Geneva the Triune pen to whip Pressure on dockers cp up the actor, ea is to step VC-10s CLEARED by BOAC: there is Neet of 28 sur Top bosses state of flabbily mumbling get eat to lift ban UNION leaders are continu- jet airliners inconerenc the union With the nay thin" back" pay in the Tilbury container ban.

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agree is cons are I without with food, drink ind tobacco com table under workers" control. Tribune' and the lefts have no answer for the atrocities in Vietnamor anywhere else beneat of Beerand usel cerned. U.S. intensifies 'Black' credit of £41.6 exclusively Builders face axo 1250 mended hunt for country in a mere half-hour.

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workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

NUMBER 46

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1969

PRICE Bd.

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

4,500 teachers to strike Briefly £1,000 fund VIETNAM WAR: Criticisms We still need Lord Stokes of leaders £364-9s.11d. yesterday

WHAT NOW?

Begineering dir a relations labour Sarisble long-term policies grow £135 - a - year in- Moris pay Mackie, Conce director, is to be advise on day-to- How, many of them are asking, did the did the executive of

BY DAVID MAUDE

clearly connected with British.

Union TEACHERS in several Teachers select the 300 tions in fas Milands that are areas are becoming in Australian dockers give the answer for two weeks critical of Monday? their union the way Why leaderships is it 4,000 involving

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Lucas strike ducting their fight for a

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Labour for t2 NO ONE will ever forgive or forget the terrible massacre at "Pinkville" 'says this week's editorial at on piese ten pa- in "Tribune'. response ese call the two-week totali es No one, we reply, can ever forgive the shameless 5,000 schools applied to be when and the left MPs sel out or bune called out. men

BY MICHAEL BANDA

question was posed of concrete action against Wilson and solidarity with the Vietnamese Revolution.

DECISIVE

mark by the end of rinditions! grades for wiety eye with one Geneva Agreement and an celingtior ons hame been pro- Pressure on dockers other on the Pamy whin. "Tribune' men now find the is to step up the action.

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"THE argument between serious Communists is over!' This was the ver- dict, after the recent British Communist Party's Congress, of a worker who had spent some 30 years in the Party, and has now de- cided for Trotskyism. He was not referring to the discussion at the Party Con- gress, but to the role of the Workers Press in politically preparing for the Congress, bringing out the historical issues behind it, and fighting for the right to send reporters into it. For many workers, includ- ing Communist Party mem- bers, the great attention paid by 'The Newsletter' and then the Workers Press to expos- ing Stalinism had previously seemed out of proportion. The main argument used by the Communist Party against Trotskyism has been 'you're always concentrating your attack on the Communist Party'. Yet now it becomes crystal- clear why the exposure of Stalinism is the most necessary political preparation for ViC- tory over the enemy class.

Advanced workers all over Britain and throughout Europe "suddenly' discover that they must break out of the Stalinist ideology if the working class is to answer the problems posed by the capitalist crisis.

In this situation the Workers Press plays a unique role. Only a Trotskyist party, based on the whole historical struggle for Marxism, can answer the questions which now come up for those workers who have followed the Stalinist parties.

If we look at the proceed- ings of the Communist Party Congress it becomes clear that Stalinism has entered just as deep a crisis as imperialism itself. This is of course because Stalinism represents the poli- tics of a bureaucracy in the USSR which leans on imperial- ism to deal with the working class. In order to be able to do that, Stalinism had to physi- cally wipe out the Bolshevik leadership, including Trotsky, and also to wipe out the real history of Bolshevism. Crisis point Those Communist Party workers who now find them- selves at a crisis point will find only by the road forward restoring the connection with with those forces that past, which Stalin tried to destroy.

That is why the Workers organ of the Central Press. Committee of the Trotskyist Socialist Labour League, had such an impact on the Com- munist Party Congress. The biggest and most pub- licized division at the Congress was over the Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia.

Over one quarter of the dele- gates voted against the Execu- tive Committee's resolution. The had opposed Executive the intervention. As the 1 Workers Press has' pointed out, much of the sup- port for the Soviet interven- tion arises from opposition to ultra-reformist line the Gollan and Ramelson and the EC majority. militants, frustrated Party by the right-wing policies of this leadership, and as yet not understanding Stalinist the source of these policies, turn to what they see as the 'hard line' of Stalin and the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union. workers cannot long These remain in such a position. In the first place, Palme Dutt, Party chairman, who came out in favour of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, went out of his way to make clear that he supported Gollan and the leadership on their reformist • Britain. policies in He is in favour of their •Parliamentary Road to Social- ism' . Of their crawling sub- servience to "left' trade the Daly, union leaders like Scanlon and Jones, he says: ... I believe that our EC and the Editorial Board of the "Morning Star" are doing an outstanding job over so many issues, especially in promoting left unity'. ('Comment', Oct- ober 11, 1969.) This is certainly not the opinion of many of the Party members who voted with Dutt as a way of opposing Gollan.

More important is that Dutt in or is even more adamant than Gollan and Ramelson in opposing any historical settling of accounts. In effect he has always con- sidered. that Khrushchev showed unpardonable weak- ness in making his revelations' about Stalin, and that it would Woddis (seen right, with Gollan): Avoided WHY the invasion of Czechoslovakia took p been better to leave have everything as it was. It is precisely this history, the history of Stalinism, which Communists need to under- stand before they can grasp the reason for the reformist degeneration of the British Communist Party and every other Stalinist Party. It is because Dutt cannot provide this analysis that he will not retain the allegiance of the left elements among CP workers who voted for him at the Congress. It is for this reason that the Workers Press articles on Stalinism before and during the Congress made such an impact. But if we look at it from the other side, the historical aspect even sharper out in comes outline. Let us take the speech of Jack Woddis, who repre- sented the views of Gollan and the EC on Czechoslovakia.

He says: 'What is the essence of the question which Congress is called on to debate and vote on? It is whether five Warsaw Pact countries were justified in intervening in Czechoslovakia.'

He then devotes his speech to arguing that there was no justification for the invasion.

But surely in that case 'the essence of the question' is- why did the invasion take place ? ! Woddis says, quite rightly, that the changes coming up in Czechoslovakia in 1968, before the intervention, arose out of a situation where previously, "There had under Novotny, been gross violations of social- ist legality, and false accusa- repressions against tions and Communist Party members and others, involving thousands of had victims, some of whom been wrongfully executed'.

Now, Messrs Gollan, Ramel- son and Woddis ! If 600,000 troops were sent in to prevent the Czech work- ing class from making the consider thee intered in tou justified', how can you avoid the conclusion that the Soviet leadership rejected any change Novotny regime of from the 'wrongful' 'repression' and executions'? How else do you explain the intervention? That is more important than denouncing it.

It is only a sign of bank- ruptcy, to say, as Woddis does, "That is why interference from outside, even if dictated by the best of intentions, is harm- ful to the building of social- ism. Where do 'good intentions' come into it? Stalinist bureaucracy The repeated in Czechoslovakia in 1968 its line against the Polish and Hungarian workers 1956. The task of Marxists is to analyse this line and its and political basis, not social moral judgement on to pass the "justification' of actions and the 'intentions' behind them. This theoretical bankruptcy is, in fact, identical with that of Dutt. It is the history and analysis of Stalinism which is necessary in order to explain the be- haviour of the Kremlin bureau- cracy and to point the way forward for the working class: political revolution to over- throw the bureaucracy in the USSR and Eastern Europe, and social revolution against im- perialism. The supporters of Dutt ollan): Avoided the main question of oslovakia took place. found themselves meeting to- intervals and gether in the sitting together during sessions, to such an extent that the Congress chairman had to re- mind them that such behaviour constituted a breach of the Party rules against 'factions'.

There was bitter a significant irony here. and the Left Trotsky Opposition, and later the have Fourth International, always fought for the right of organized political opposition on principled platforms within a Communist Party. Until the emergency ban on factions of 1921, this right was operative inside the Bolshevik Party. The ban was retained as a weapon of the Stalinist bureaucracy. Faction rights When the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslo- troops one of their purposes vakia, prevent the was to Czech Communist Party Congress due one month later. Most of all, as the official Soviet Communist Party state- ment made clear, the Congress had to be stopped because it was intended that it would give freedom to factions and opposition platforms. In other words, within the Communist Party there would appear a political reflection of in the the changes going on Czech working class and intel- ligentsia; the possibility was imminent of an organized and public expression of the move- ment towards political revolu- tion against the bureaucracy.

This would have been a terrific blow to the Stalinist bureaucracy internationally.

Hence the irony: at the 31st Congress of the British Com- munist Party, a minority were warned that their activity was "factional', and factionalizing in suther tre military action. • to stop the right of factions in the Party! The contradiction is not just a logical trick or some- thing that can be ironed out, but a real and insoluble con- tradiction exemplifying the crisis of Stalinism. In Woddis's speech no con- clusions were drawn about the political and historical mean- ing of the intervention, and in so far as Woddis attempts any, they blow up in his face.

For example, he points out the absurdity of the Soviet claim that the intervention was

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Wainwright: Gave delet choices, for or against th Czech position. By Cliff Slaughter to put down 'counter-revolu- tion': "They [the troops] did not the premises of the occupy K231 Club and KAN organiza- tion [said to be the seats of a counter - revolutionary plot] Mattbews: Pretends to 1 but they occupied premises of the Party's Stalinist past.

the government, the Central Committee, and "Rude Pravo".

They produce did not or arrest a single counter-revolu- tionary or

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agent-but they arrested the leaders of the Communist Party and the Socialist State, including the First Secretary of the Com- munist Party, Prime the Minister, the Chairman of the National Assembly, the Chair- man of the National Front, and the of Secretary the Prague City Committee! Why cannot Woddis con- clude, therefore, that the Soviet bureaucracy intervened in its own interests, which are opposed those being de- to manded by the working class in Czechoslovakia? Instead he returns to his generalizations: 'We can never accept the right of any Party or Socialist State to intervene in the affairs Tohnstone: Kino Street of another in this way.' pre-arranged 'opposities?

To be sure. But does Woddis mean 'never'? What about Hungary, 1956? Brutal repression Armed intervention and brutal repression smashed the revolution of workers' coun- cils, murdered Imre Nagy, Pal Maletar and many others.

The British Communist Party supported this counter-revolu- tionary intervention. just the Stalinism is not record of Stalin's crimes.

At this Congress there could be no easy talk about the 'cult of the individual' the as 'explanation' of Stalinist history. This time the historical questions are decisive for any move forward from the crisis reached by Communist Party members. Ignored by the Party leaders, because politically those questions mean their political death, nonetheless these questions dominated the Con- gress. They did not dominate it Gollan: Needs Johnston only symbolically, as could be Trotskyism. said at previous Congresses, but they were brought before the eyes of every delegate in Workers the pages Press, with devastating a of the Stalinist exposure record of the leadership.

What did the Workers Press represent at that Congress?

It represented not simply the fact that the past history exists and must be reckoned with; but it brought right into force, the Congress the the that has movement, been built on this history, built on the struggle against Stalinism, and that now the poses question of alternative revolu- tionary leadership for every communist. appear in Part two will Tuesday's Workers Press. Raid: "Sibyl of anti-Tro The bisgest division at the Congress took place over the W Executive Committee. ght: Gave delegates two for or against the EC's Dear Comrade, Communist Party As a member I feel I must write to congratulate you on succeeding in obtaining your press creden- Congress tials for the Party and on your reports of it.

I am sure it would have done the hearts good of your comrades who selflessly SO produce and sell your news- paper to have seen how each copy bought inside the Con- gress hall was passed along the rows to be read by the many delegates who themselves felt embarrassment at being seen buying it. This interest was greatly helped by the way your appli- admission Preterade to reprudlor cation was No Stalindet paot. handled. I did not speak to a single delegate who did not feel that the whole thing was dealt with an absolutely in hamhanded and incompetent manner. What has however still to be grasped by most is that this 'boob' was not politically for- tuitous. It showed that you do not have to scratch very deep below the surface of even such a King Street New-Look Tech- nological-Age White-Hope as Dr Tony Chater to find an Old-Style Unreformed Stalinist consumed with hatred of instinctively Trotskyism and resorting to any lie, however laughable, first- to prevent coverage of hand Trotskyist the Congress. and What is however new significant is that extremely with the growth of Trotskyist influence reflected in your pro- duction of the daily Workers Press the CP leaders were forced to beat a humiliating retreat and for the first time in the Party's history to admit accredited repre- an officially sentative of a Trotskyist paper.

This same new situation was reflected in George Matthew's discussion in the reply to Czechoslovak debate the to salient points of which you gave prominence. Here a division of labour had been carefully worked out by the King Street hierarchy. Realizing the dangers for them reflected in the resolu- many tions demanding a fundamental analysis of the causes of the invasion and the distortions in 'socialist' the states that it revealed, they were determined to prevent these being put to the Congress, which, they in- sisted, should only be allowed for against their to vote or resolutions of August 1968.

It was agreed that Monty Johnstone should jump up the beginning of the Congress Needs Johnstone to fight ahead of anyone else to oppose this. As prearranged, Bill Wain- the Resolu- wright, heading tions Committee, would then 'reasonable' counterpose a of adoption, proposal, sure should be that decision deferred till the next day when delegates concerned had had a chance to discuss the matter with his committee. Johnstone then led a group into the delegates com- mittee and, after a sham fight, persuaded most of them to Wainwright's to pro- agree in the of posals interests 'unity' against the faction sup- porting the invasion. Things nearly went wrong however when Jack Dunman Sibyl of anti-Trotakylers.

lace over the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia-over one quarter (the Party's agricultural expert for two decades who had fallen foul of the Party leader- ship when, for entirely non- political reasons, he was sacked from his full-time job at King Street a few years ago) the next day insisted on pressing the issue to a division. Wainwright assured the Congress that delegates wish- ng to go farther than the EC hould be able to do so in thi debates, a useful safety valve which could commit them to nothing. When it became clear from the applause of delegates at attacks on the Husak regime policies in the and Soviet speech of Essex secretary Peter Sampson, followed by Johnstone's kite-flying dema- gogic speech, that many dele- gates wanted a stand on these lines, Matthews made his pretending to clever reply repudiate the Party's past kow- towing to Stalinist repressions.

This led the unwary to think that the leadership was accept- ing their points. The extent of Matthew's sincerity can be judged, however, by the fact that he prevented those pass- ages from his speech appearing the next day in the 'Morning Star', which he edits. Another example of King Street's double game, and the collusion of the 'liberals', is shown by the decision that Monty Johnstone should not go on the new EC. This plausible - sounding is far more useful demagogue to King Street if he continues to be able to fly his liberal kites and syphon off discontent without committing the EC as he would do if he were on it.

However, finding that many branches and districts who have illusions in him nomin- ated him to the EC, he could not withdraw without giving the game away. So he reached an agreement with his old friend Reuben Falber, Gollan's assistant gen- secretary and in charge eral of the Election Preparations Committee, on the reply to be gıven to those who could not be prevented from seeing that to support his committee nomination. They were told that, al- though Johnstone was 'a good comrade', he did not qualify for the EC because he had not in recent years played any part in his branch or district leader- ships-a fact which, if used as a criterion generally, would of course exclude also Gollan, Falber, and almost everyone at King Street. ver one quarter voting against the Saturday, November 29, 1969 What Falber did not reveal was that Johnstone was carry- ing out a King Street decision to devote himself to bolstering up and giving a new look to the Party's crumbling 'ideo- logical' work, and utilizing his friends like Miliband and Anderson on the 'New Left', who offer him valuable space in their journals, and his "Tribune' and Labour 'left' friends like Michael Foot.

He is clearly of far more use to onese rolan concentrating "research', writing speaking around the country against Trotskyism and for New-Look Stalinism than he would be working in his branch, which he can always get to support him and elect him to Congresses. Nonetheless, Johnstone asked his supporters to accept the 'validity' of Falber's points and dissuaded them from raising the matter from the floor at the closed session before the vote. Despite this, and the fact that he was not on the recom- mended list, his vote topped the 100 mark. Although there is friendly co-operation between Gollan and extremely dangerous fake anti-Stalinists like Johnstone, King Street's relations with Sid French and his supporters are extremely strained When the 'affable' Monty walks into No. 16 there are smiles all round, but on the occasions that the 'dis- rare loyal' Sid l is there for district secretaries' meetings, faces are grim and tense. Obliquely and through a dis- torted Stalinist prism French and company reflect a deep- seated and genuine dissatisfac- tion with the opportunist and electoralist cretinism of the Gollan leadership felt by many of the Party's industrial mili- tants. French, who is supported by four districts (Surrey, South Midlands, Hants and Dorset and, to a lesser extent, North- East) and received nearly 90 votes for the EC, has no in- tention of dissolving his anti- leadership faction. Of particular interest will be to see if the ageing and sick Palme Dutt consents to use his 'Labour Monthly' directly or indirectly as their factional organ. All these factions and leaders represent blind alleys for the many sincere Com- munists in the CP who are for revolutionary looking answers to their problems.

It is probable that in the future period Matthews within the leadership and particularly outside, Johnstone but in cahoots with it, will make increasingly loud and frequent 'anti-Stalinist' noises 'analyses' in order to canalize the growing gritical spirit among particulaly Communist youth and studehts. French in his turn will try to win support for his faction by exploiting the revulsion felt by increasing numbers of Com- workers munist with their Party's class collaborationist policies. Though formally still pro- fessing allegiarce to the re- 'British formist Road Socialism', he is liable to be forced or later to sooner conveniently forgetting, course, that it was initiated by his mentor, Joseph Stalin.

British Stalinism is weak and splitting. In this situation the Workers Press can play an inestimable role in helping to develop a genuine revolutionary con- sciousness in the Party's ranks.

Its daily publication is in- deed a supert achievement and those of us carrying on this fight inside the CP look to you. We thank you for your help, above all in the form of your theoretical articles and your exposure the dishonest manoeuvres of King Street and its collaborators. The recentarticles by Robert Black were particularly excel- lent in the exposure of that Sibyl of anti-Trotskyism, Mrs We look Betty Reid-Lewis. orward to others of simila heoretical denth and polemi cal intransigence. With fraternal greetings, A Marxist in the CP

Saturday, November 29, 1969 Workers construct Japan's first nuclear-po THE RISING SUN is certainly shining bril liantly for the moment- but can it all last, and if so for how long? No-one knows the answer to these questions, least of all Japanese businessmen and economists. The former, at least, are out to make hay while they can and are ready to take enormous risks as long as the present wave of optimism continues. But, as one of the economists wrote, 'the stronger the sunshine, the more danger from sunstroke.

Japanese capitalism's con- tinuous expansion depends above all upon the continued growth in the demand for Japanese exports, in other words the expansion of the world market. During the 1960s Japan has benefited from the uneven development of the capitalist world system and has taken advantage of the lack of flexi- bility in economie: like those of Britain and Fraice. Since the mark? revaluation increasingly particular an bitter struggle with Germany for the world market can be expected. If world trade grows more slowly than it has been doing, and still more if it contracts, or if Japanese indu stry should in world trade see its share reduced, there would certainly be difficulty in mair taining the expansion rate. Like any other! capitalist boom, that in Japar) feeds on itself. Growth of markerts encour- Working-class militancy, particularly in the threatens Japanese capita lism's boom. Abo first nuclear-powered ship in Tokyo.

ages business to invest more heavily in plant and new machinery. Japanese capitalists, in particular, have been daring in undertaking huge invest- ments without any certainty of profits. The boom has enabled these to pay off so far. A heavy investment rate is favourable all round: "it "fulls" the rest of the economy for- ward and enables real wages to rise, although profits rise much faster. It eases the way for govern- ment finance by bringing 1n more revenue without in- creased taxes. It encourages banks to make bigger loans and extends further credit to business savings and deposits continue to grow. It stimulates development of new technologies and—a field in which Japanese technicians have particularly shone - the turning of a brilliant discovery perhaps made elsewhere into the basis of a new mass- produced commodity to sell throughout the world. Moreover, as in any process of rapid investment, the pro- portion of new, up-to-date and technologically advanced plant remains high (and may even rise). This has been of particular importance to Japanese in- dustry in the past decade because older-established rivals such as Britain were using a higher proportion of old style, sometimes technologically ob- solete, plant and found diffi- culty in switching production to lines to meet world demand.

Everything depends upon whether the market at home and abroad continues to ex- pand, and whether the rate of articularly in the most technologically-advanced indus sm's boom. Above: Victory for railway strikers-Oc

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investment- -which represents demand for capital goods-can itself be maintained. nightmare of The great capitalists operating in a boom situation is that of surplus capacity. This could arise from a setback to the growth of demand-such as a slump in world trade or increased trade competition—or a misdirection of investment so that equip- ment was installed to build something for which demand had fallen off. Foreigners have often pre- dicted that Japanese industry was heading for trouble pre- cisely for such reasons and there has been anxiety in Japan itself. Because a general problem of over-capacity has not arisen so far does not mean that it never will. In fact, since it depends to a large extent upon world con- ditions outside of Japanese control, such a situation could arise in an important sector of the economy without much warning. Given the composition of Japanese exports, and the de- pendence upon imports - and thus sensitivity to balance of payments deficits-there is no possibility that the home market could expand the equal speed to take up the slack. Although excess capacity has not yet appeared as a general problem - though it has, of course, in the declining industries—it remains endemic as a possibility. Failure to grow continuously would inevitably expose the fragile financial basis of the boom: the heavy indebtedness of many industrial firms, rash investment by banks and financial houses and excessive investment in some fields.

Some economists place much

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faith in the home market's capacity to continue expand- ing. despite Japan's Certainly, phenomenal growth rates, con- sumption has taken a back housing has been seat, neglected, food intake is well below that in western coun tries, working-class living stan- dards remain frugal and house room is very limited. Certainly consumption has been growing-as as result of the high demand for labour power and, indeed, the appear- ance of actual shortages during the last few years. The unions' bargaining power has increased and wage have been won. increases wages have thus Japanese moved closer to those in the advanced capitalist countries.

Increasing working - class militancy - though most evi- dent so far in industries threatened by technological advance-threatens one of the bases of Japanese capitalism's success. • Contradiction It is all very well to speak about the expansion of the home market, but so far as it must be based upon higher wages and salaries, it can only mean higher labour costs for the export and capital goods industries. There is, therefore, a contra- industries diction between tuned to the home market such as food and consumer goods-and those which find their main or essential markets abroad. There is a contradiction, too, between the demands of the working class - super-ex- ploited, despite rising real wage levels--and the needs of big to keep down business costs in order to ward off the tendency for the rate of profit to tall. The argument that to pay workers and salary-earners more can keep the economy continuously moving on a ascending plane is a fallacy bred out of reformism and Keynesian economics. The home market cannot take over from the world

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market as the motive force in Japan's expansion. Intensified struggle to main- tain and increase the share of world trade will remain as it always has been, an imperative for Japanese capital. This means, as it does in every capitalist country, a struggle against its own work- ing class to hold down wages and take back concessions won. Through various forms of paternalism, Japanes capitalists have achieved a certain success in tying workers to their firms by life-long security of (e.g. employment, welfare schemes, etc.) and trade unions have accepted this position. Such characteristics of 'tradi- tional' Japan are bound to be increasingly undermined, if not actually to disppear, and the way will be open for a revo- lutionary Marxist party to take the lead in the class struggle.

Consciousness The boom itself has tended to exacerbate class relations in Japan, to strengthen the work- ing class numerically and pre- pare the way for more effective political intervention as well as wages struggles. So far the lag in working- class consciousness has en- abled Japanese capitalism to increase its competitive edge over rivals. Such advantages are, by their nature, imperma- nent. There are other problems which are worth mentioning.

First of these concerns re- lations with other capitalist countries. The Japanese government has so far obsequiously fol- lowed the American lead on external political questions while resisting penetration • of foreign capital into japan.

The home market has been highly protected but, under American pressure, some liberalization is now taking place. Foreign capitalists eye with interest large internal the market and hope to cash in on it more in the future than they have been able to do in the past. More intensive competition in their own preserves does not, please many industrialists as high-priced home sales en- able them to keep down export prices. Another trend is for foreign, especially American, capital to demand a bigger share of the * surplus value extracted from the Japanese working class.

Although there is some foreign investment in Japanese industry, government policy has been to prevent it getting larger. Some proposed investments have been prevented. Now, however, there are also signs Wales: 6.15-6.45 p.m. Disc A Dawn.

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and Martin's Rowan Laugh-in. 11.25 News Summary. Line-up. 11.30( that, responding to US pres- sure, the Japanese government will permit American firms to establish or extend connec- tions with industry. Secondly the continued growth of the Japanese economy reduces the 'catching up' factor in the successes of the past decade or so. The pressure to find new outlets for capital will in- crease: it must thus find new products and new technologies if a barrier is not soon to be reached to the continued in- crease in investment which has fed the boom. Several thousand housewives demonstrated increased cost of rice. The average rise of pi last five years is 6 per cent, which is the hig Conditions for growth on this score alone are likely to become more difficult. Thirdly, like all capitalist booms, that in Japan has been accompanied by inflation. With the inherent weaknesses of the financial structure and depend- ence upon remaining price competitive in the world mar- ket, inflation is a major focus of anxiety about future pros- pects. It is closely linked, of course, with the prospect of raising wage costs already referred to. To counter balance of pay- ments deficits and maintain the external value of the yen,

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In these periods growth has been slowed by a few per cent, not halted, but the warning lights have flashed. There is no guarantee that one of these slowdowns, im- posed by world market con- ditions, could not spark off a serious and curtailing more credit. Still more dangerous from Japanese point of the view would be attack in- an on flation and the balance of pay- 9-73 il es demonetrated recently against the average rise of prices over the which is the highest in the world.

ments problem in the United States. About one-third of Japan's exports find their way to the United States. An unknown proportion of the remainder depends upon US spending and investment in other countries.

In other words, Japan's boom has been closely linked in the past decade with the uninterrupted growth of the US economy and would be exposed to anything which brought this to an end On the whole, despite the growth and the size of the Tapanese economy today, the this analysis conclusion of would be that rather than I independent channels as Lond V except at the following time CHANNEL: 12.55_ p.m. National News.

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Japanese events having an effect on the capitalist world market, the reverse is the case.

The collapse of the boom in Japan is most unlikely as an isolated national phenomenon; only temporary recessions of the kind which have periodic- ally occurred in the past 20 years without having wide Japan repercussions outside are likely. On the other hand, a con- traction of world trade, or even a failure to expand, a recession in the United States or in Europe - or even a marked improvement in the competitiveness of other coun- tries (say through competitive following a devaluation monetary crisis) - could have serious and uncontrollable repercussions in Japan. Japanese capitalism is highly dependent upon outside forces.

It is deeply involved with the world market and liberal- ization of import trade and capital investment will only make it more so. Its new - found strength, which causes so much wonder, has roots which are not too difficult to explain. Its maintenance depends upon many forces which are not under the control of gor- ernment or business in Japan.

Antagonisms The economy will have to run faster merely to stay in the same place. The boom has enabled many problems to be stored away or postponed: but during its course there is no doubt that it has created many which are coming up for resolution.

As this happens the old traditional structures and re- straints which have helped to keep social antagonisms in check will be undermined.

No one would be wise to redict a smooth untroubled future for Japan on the basis ol past economic achievements and the present prosperity.

On the contrary, as the struggle in the universities and subordination against to American policy shows, Japan- deep ese society reflects currents of disturbance which show themselves first and most strongly in the most sensitive sections: students and youth.

The working class, restrained by leaders no less corrupt, limited and ready to betray and compromise than their European counterparts, is now one of the largest and highly organized in the world. Much of it is new to in- dustry and is still absorbing the improvements in living standards which the boom has made possible. There can, however, be no doubt about its capacity for combat given the leadership and the consciousness.

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Saturday, November 29, 1969

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London and Birmingham Tories Another Power workers to Saigon continue attack tenants pay fight 'spy trial' RANK - AND - rIL Fight rent rises with Council SOUTH VIETNAM'S latest, and biggest, 'spy trial' began in Saigon yesterday.

to the US puppet dictator, 43 people face charges factory action 'President' Thieu. ranging from high treason Vat By a Workers Press to acts 'harmful to nationa arrested last luv for alere Reporting Team contacts with the vietcong Others include women The main defendant is a former speclal assistant JUST TEN days after their courtroom victory over er in the indurry: at work ors from the the four Poplar rent strikers, forces.

AMBULA

London Council has announced another swingeing

WEAKNESS

Jails full all-round increase in rents for their 100,000 tenants.

to bursting The average rise, accord- ing to Tory housing com- Broadcasting

BEST

mittee Horace chaleman Cutler, will be 7s. 6d. and

PERSONN

trouble hits

CAUTION AMBULANCE

the maximum increase is Sie 13 were the West months ago.

MARSENNEL

1000 about tens beneas of the Gilt already rement with

POPLAR 100%

and eree to sleeping

CHARGE

or witness for such to Thi A that over Whose sen

STATION

.:.... Motor- brief release within two years r of great mICH into toward seir ens going pre rise an all-out fight against cycle plant Shipowners Profits reaped to close Wage cut company was over bonu. to be liable pay. more than

SAVING

ot That alone must not be left part of the are an in- *50.000 in the hirst ful year may be made by th for oil claimed fairs closure Redditch of RA's plant in Worcestershire, the pollution compe and work transferred to Ambulancemen determined • to de snu ine Serenites had been tuls 1 Feath, nants these sover mist Draconian attacksanst to win £2 claim Birmingham opened those of Redditch's 450 Out at the working class.

S prepared to work which will double the present Controls farce miles from the rise 'above strict liability for pollution on mingnam

AMBULANCEMINNA

and conditions were discus- PROFIT RATES on cars may be the in London the norm' after a week in which their Car ever, say government economists on the Motor determination ess than a f2- Pilot. Industry National Economic Development Council.

YEMEN OIL

Builders BIRMINGHAM City Council is to apply to the Minister figure could well of Housing for permission to increase rents of the City

TAKE-OVER

profits drop fall below that for 1967, Council tenants above the 7s. 6d.

proposed by

SOUTH

YEMEN

itself a record bad year.

FROM PAGE ONE

yesterda the government. firms In 1967 the rate of return to fight back against such a i on schedule amnes Announcing the proposed i buing of a new tea i capital rises on Wednesday of this May be worst ever involved to hold • per cent. refineries week, Alaerman Dark, tne Such a policy is no answer the lose get senion with 10rv Housine committee reached a high eight foreign chairman, predicted that at ana order incentive the present rents, council i greater peshare the BankerteS holders would show a housing de- and council tenants. National deia dent would of exploita

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GREET

home salestictions in interest e will syphon them -sena sill

WORKERS PRESS

slum sens Productivity drive after 1967, attacks Sites Committee. Slar voiced Another already being charge rent is moshe employers are now out a the government's intervention de the urred on to

OPPOSITION

produc- policy action to back thei This nune cost. No increase in rents or A more ge neral warning on neve He case wit position of all merest pay muspension Immediate Vis , a leading en Wils Labour gincarded te told the Institute service, their rate on Compay Production he counci at public meetings who cover up to that in part by workers' and raleicipa See the film of the first issue being preparca and printed and the film Young Socialists, 1969' C.P. blames teachers grants

NEWCASTLE

Leeds Labour for education crisis Sunday, November 30, 7.30 p.m.

County Hotel, Neville Street leaders condemn practices in educationoductive

LEEDS

The Seven Mr SAlan in its ment viliked concession to not rectify these short- government spokesmen, Wednesday, December 3, 8 p.m.

The 'Old Bar' come under sniper hire from claim hinder A for dar

ORDER THE DAILY!

the Communist Party. our educati teachers "universally Students' Union, Leeds University acceptable'. TreSoonal employees for going on would certainon Wilson government

CLIFF SLAUGHTER

(Central Committee member, Conflict

LABOUR

COUNCIL

NOW

Socialst about Legge Countries item mist leaders in Leeds JOHN NOLAN (Young Socialists) wonder that students • condemned the into which My i Le as ts cial the A 3,000

CANTERBURY

system the ed ait half Noo dayal Novem- the maintaim ber 24 when they went on OR Monday, December 8, 8 p.m.

Mr Allan, statement Et for threia monthe and strike teachers. The Cornwallis Building In conclusion trolled col University of Canterbury ng to mobi- Mid-East attack Press for I would like to suoscribe to workers' cerned pay tae

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IRATAn anitary teas in re allowed to tudy cocon on, the Stalinists Sovertine , с on, по 1 ine All group Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m.

Name ever 2 she bern the Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant Unionce of the author of Teache week. make his analysis Speakers at Newcastle, Liverpool and Canterbury will and munist Party who MIKE BANDA (Editor of Workers' Press) said: ap, SWish Street, SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the apharm High Street, London, swa. Ket: O.720-260 utterly ridicu- all the a8 authority should pay i Young Socialists) economically in. -despite evidence to the contrary.