Workers Press no. 48

The 'murder machine' country allows Stalin, samders U.S. WILD ANIMALS

ON THE LOOSE

The daily organ Central Committee of Socialist Labour Lea

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1969

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

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NUMBER 48

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

What we think

BY ROBERT BLACK

IN THE series of articles which he wrote on British and international Stalinism. Comrade Robert Black the political pointed out and traced to its roots

CPGB

WITH AN almost unanimous voice, the world's of the rottenness and increatole servanty leadership. press has condemned the atrocities committed by letter which the Socialist Labour Ine open said that the US forces in Vietnam.

League addressed lo une ›Ist congres. we stan ves in the readersmo or vour party We did not have long to wait to prove that, despite The main question is muted eriticisms the Soviet occupanion Czechoslovakia and the liberal posturing that went on however: whom should at the Congress by en e like Monty rate Sali, ists we condemn? CP leaders fact, unregenerate s nations Dutch dockers stalinists political depravity grows increasingly monstrous.

A lormer member of the back London company that wiped out the village in the Pink- container ban neeting in supposecu ville' area, has described in Wilson's trip to Washingtor Trotsky's ideas, said Gollan, 'were a menace to the a letter how his unit had LEADERS of the Dutch an Soviet Union'. Trotsky, he said, had been for the turned into 'wild animals', Soviet Union by Nazi Germany in the world yer and wnetner ne cot money airectv Iron beating up children and Miter is open to question stamping a peasant woman Concluding his reolv collan then went on to attac Irom British Trotskyism as a wrecking organization and not to death. a genuine part of the labour movement.

This is the real face of Gollan, the authentic voice According to the letter of Stalinism in Britain speaking No matter what differ- written by Sergeant Gregory Olsen, peasant that veterate hatred and

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working in a nearby hedinas Falling membership Yesterday's and a declining circulation for here me tim Morning Star, no ca Front if : which is in a state of amar is not all, Iot Dy any meads Terminal Ord Ine y. rio wide crisis of stammism, renected in th eep sino soviet cisis and the splits and expusions from the

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Austrian, Itailan and rrench central Committees. which eTh in barbarity to be worst Scene at yesterday's meeting of BRS parcels workers in Londo ore directo patriorable to the unprecedented upsur ge of the European working class and the hammer-blows the colonial seriously and

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Their system

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US Imperialism's CALLS for official backing and for all BRS natch in scoland yesterday debility that hiton (Parcels) depots to be called out on strike were Counties BRS "of ven made bv but london and Home duty workers yesterday, as the lagwu executive By our industrial reporte consider the management's rejection o GROWING dissatis- the claim for a substantial increase in basic pay.

strators sitting on the pitch decline of Stalinism. with faction meeting called by Al a month's strike settle.

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ine unomcial stewaras anc took shape professional liberals and ment delegates in coming protesters. this area, week al steward CulO Hunt's Cross 00l's told the men that they had atre call on the district been offered 'no more than Standar‹ Triumph the with the plant. e of Stalin committee to Washington demands of US bit of further talks has ovenssed t departmental severa motion: the Vietnamese per pleas and banner meenues nave laken place US guideline for discuss Lilat Fourth International of offer of the British-Leviand Is relusin: to grant any before par creases in pay unlinked to Stalinist In any case, basi more tantial increase oF mited compas to apply a pres- See the film of the first issue being prepared and genocide. printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969 this task Refuse Resteder. We min that it is not od not resort to not —pleads Miss Devlin slander matter of First offer Wednesday, December 3, 8 p.m.

exerting, nore pr use unline Gollan a and offices of Wilsoo offer he do bar THE PRAISE given by the press to Miss Bernadette The comparised to Students' Union, Leeds University do not Commons' • Ou speeches in yesterday's Devlin for hel • help debate on the Ulster Defence Regiment Bill is very Kor fisher boni

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(Central Committee member, significant. meet the " Wilson refuse t Socialist Labour League) ay, only It shows that without mass analysis NECt JOHN NOLAN (Young Socialists) vithout dithculty she is tallino into strings on the

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the well-established pattern Challenge of the witnes

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this challengen toe Gollans The Cornwallis Bullding 'workers Press University of Canterbury dered Troosky and hi Saturday December 6, 12 noon argument

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workers press The 'murder machine' country allows Stalin, Slanders U.S. WILD ANIMALS'

ON THE LOOSE -

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1969

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 48 •

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER O

What we think Collan defends Trotskyism IN THE series of articles which he wrote on British and international Stalinism, Comrade Robert Black the political Donted our and raced to us roots WITH AN almost unanimous voice, the world's incredible servility of the CPGB rottenness and press has condemned the atrocities committed by leadershiD. letter which the Socialist lahour the 3lst Congress we said that the US forces in Vietnam.

The main question is Belgian and Crocheslovakes by the lie take our Johnstone, the however: whom should we condemn? Dutch dockers congress CP Stalinists leaders lach A former member of the wnose pollacal depravity grows lucreasintly monstrous The proof comes in a series of remarks made by back London company that wiped out Tohn Gollan in reply to questions from the noor at a public meeting in Leeds over the weekend, the same the village in the 'Pink- container ban neeting in defended and supported which rollan ville' area, has described in Wilson's trip to Washington.

rotsky's ideas, said Gollan, "were a menace to t) a letter how his unit had Soviet Union. Trotsky, id, had been for the defe turned into 'wild animals', he foe money airetty from sed y that their whethe World War beating up children and to question' stamping a peasant woman 'oncluding his reply Gollan then went on to attack wrecking organization 'and not to death. computers? arcades a genuine part of the labour movement.

Tows threats by tse chaiy follows racialist alls Is tne real lace or collar, le autaenuc voice Accoraing to me letter. of Stalinism in Britain speaking. No matter waat diner. written ov sergeant Gregort aruit. ences separate wollan trom out. we can satev conclude Ulsen, the peasant woman that they working in a nearby are al united in their inveterate hatred and was field. US tear of rotskvism. Ano no wonder.

Medinas. ageing leadership, a falling membershi came deat Withan and a declining circulation for the 'Morning Star', Not guilty to mention a youth movement which is in munism air of Mr Gollan is peoples nether Il. Not by tainer i cord. reflected in the Bosnia and wholesale. ' Water Weet Terminal Deep Sino-Soviet and xpulsions tron

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'entral Committees, whic Austrian, cual in barbarity toble acts, attributable to directly unpreccucuca upsurge working class and the hammer-blows of More revoluon serousy and Their system

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ed the underunned unrest Stalinist apparatus.

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in Vietna they sheir •peaceful come elite and barbarities. Amalgamated agS imperialism's 1 u This at Condemns dations. Natu Vietnamese meredit deline capitali me people. It junior spicers & motionassed the follow.

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ated Trotskyism, far fro acrifice one be stoppedston mational Stalinien etnam and condemn: By our Industrial reporter costs, tne capitalls that produce system GROWING dissatis- deline or alism. m Shat is resey it faction with last against ta generation of wad the that month's strike settle- All over the workers ment took shape imperialism week at Liver- this pool's Hunt's Cross and sillie are ooking, Standard - Triumph call on Coventry S4 ABE branc plant. departmental following the he Vietnamese meetings epakes pace people'. and banks. is refusing Fourth International. we be to perm saints l further Let Catholics Lu srall any Ily to one ride commit- creases in pay unlinked to mistersonatod proauculvity. war with its main strate.

join new limited compass They Wilson Standard Triumphis 1.150 of this editorial. exponent ot this 'B'-Specials his ta same done justice genocide. strikers • 1450 Refuse Pressieter. We • or ering more prede slander or inue des. -pleads Miss Devlin resort i First offer tin through rese e did ne collar, be can hour lied to offe THE PRAISE given by the press to Miss Bernadette speeches Devlin for her yesterday's Commons' the international in ductivitements of the strike, • Run som rooking this debate on the Ulster Defence Regiment Bill is very shows that without Perim of 9d. an hour Nixon. difficulty she is falling into

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'Workers Press' French capitalism still split Heal out sher slandered Trousky Saturday December 6, over Britain's E.E.C. entry 12 noon argument. Ship Inn Integral part Marketof British entry in th or Deer Common Markee

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BY ROBERT BLACK

Scene at yesterday's meeting of BRS parcels workers in London

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POLICE

30 demon. arrested and for all BRS CALLS for official backing strators woo invaded the pitca the Springboks' first (Parcels) depots to be called out on strike were Scotland yesterday. made by 600 London and Home Counties BRS 600 police duty as the T&GWU executive workers yesterday, Aberdeen's Linksfield stadium met to consider the management's rejection of stripped off their des Cann away the claim for a substantial increase in basic pay.

strators sitting on the pitch.

At a meeting called by

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the unofficial stewards and the London cererates steward Elliot area, told the men that they had been offered 'no more than original 15s. with the tne possibility of further talks on productivity. explained the talks guideline Tor these was oler based creased output, but that ine pay- in any before June down basic • he Toe said, 'we issue once more, want a substantial increase on our basic pay.' Being used See the film of the first issue being prepared and Citing cases where men printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' ceivin basic e claimed 13 h

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olitical pawns beingy sed PIB and the government. Donutal pawls .. Their case for an increased Wednesday, December 3, 8 p.m.

basic was based on neea ano The 'Old Bar' caste 'on what some- Students' Union, Leeds University Speakers :

CLIFF SLAUGHTER

(Central Committee member, productivity the Socialist Labour League) oner. He claimed this had been a JOHN NOLAN (Young Socialists) measure' part on une m, he sathe men to stand said

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Monday, December 8, 8 p.m.

The Cornwallis Bullding 1 still split University of Canterbury Despite other Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m.

promp Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant French capitalism mains deeply divided over the Speakers at Liverpool and Canterbury will be: MIKE BANDA (Editor of Workers" Press) quesuon. 'Summit', which une Con- SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the cluded its business last nient.

has done little to resolve these Young Socialists) problems. of the ittee of the our League PRICE 6d.

TEACHERS

CAMPAIGN:

Teachers have begun a big publicity campaign to win public support for their £135- a-year pay claim. In many of the 81 areas where teachers are striking for two weeks, a massive leaflet- ing has been started. The London Borough of Brent's National Union of Teachers branch has rented a shop in a busy area to dis- tribute literature. A number of teach-ins are planned. The largest of these is at Sheffield today where more than 1,000 education students will meet striking teachers.

BBC PLANS: The BBC's plans outlined in 'Broad- casting in the Seventies' are being pushed through with a disregard for proper consul- tation which was as ruthless irresponsible, the as it was Corporation's staff Bristol committee said yesterday.

The committee, representing 600 BBC workers in the South and West, is calling for a public inquiry into the whole structure and functioning of British broadcasting. • It is seeking an 'assurance that radio and television time will be given to the regions which should be allowed to continue to produce high- quality programmes.

ARGENTINIAN CON-

TRACT: A £22 million con- tract has been awarded to an Anglo-Argentinian construc- consortium to design, tion supply and erect the power line from El Chocon power station in Neuquen province to Buenos Aires. The consortium consists of three British companies- Balfour, Beatty and Company, BIC Construction Company and Painter Brothers-and the Argentinian Adelphia SA.

SECOND

BOEING

EMERGENCY: A London- bound Boeing 707 airliner with 84 passengers and 10 crew aboard had to make an emergency stop after begin- ning its take-off at Sydney airport yesterday-the second near-disaster to a 707 taking off in Australia in 24 hours.

The aircraft had to be pulled up after warning lights showed a fault in the number one cabin. On Monday a Pan American 707 overshot the same run- way after hitting a flock of seagulls and ended up stuck in some mud.

HEATER

STRIKE: Peter- borough busmen have threat- strike on Friday ened to because of the standard of heating in their vehicles.

Drivers and conductors have told the Eastern Coun- ties Omnibus Company that they will stop work unless : taken to improve steps are the heaters. QUARANTINE 11: A tear in a glove being used in the examination of lunar rock in Houston, Texas samples has resulted in 1l men being quarantined along with the three Apollo-12 astronauts.

being The rocks were handled in an airtight box when the tear allowed its atmosphere to escape into the room where the were men working and possibly contam- inate them. There are now 28 people in quarantine in Houston with astronauts Charles Conrad, Alan Bean and Richard Gordon.

WEATHER

Outlook for Thursday and Friday: Cold with showers falling as snow in the north. London area, SE and Central Southern England: Mainly cloudy with occasional rain, becoming clearer. Mainly north westerly, moderate winds, locally fresh. Near nor- mal. Maximum 9C (48F). Mainly cloudy Midlands: with occasional rain becoming brighter. Mainly north westerly winds, fresh. Rather cold. Maximum 6C (43F). W Midlands, NW and Cen- tral Northern England: Mainly becoming cloudy, brighter with showers. North westerly, fresh or strong winds. Rather cold. Maximum 6C (43F). Channel Islands, SW England: Mainly bright with occasional showers. North westerly winds, fresh or strong. Near normal. Maximum 10 (50F).

Edinburgh, Glasgow area, N Ireland: Bright periods with showers falling as snow over hills. North westerly, strong winds. Cold. Maximum (39F).

MINERS SINCE NATIONALIZATION

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the quote above sounds like a de- mand raised during the strike, it recent miners' was in fact spoken by the late Mr A. Machen at the Council of the Barnsley National Union of Mine- (NUM) in workers December 1959- -just ten years ago! And Mr Machen went on: 'Now we have plenty of coal, stacks of it, mountains of it, could did when the What miners control of made through workers' the seven-hour day is econo- wOn struggle, never with possible abso- DItS. and

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official backing of the lutely necessary. What happened? The lead. HeadersniD. of the National Union But it is obvious now- Demands disappeared for both Labour and, indeed, it was obvious and Communist Party months necoualine rarty Only machinerv' unomicia then- -that a government act- encouraged actions won substantial long hours Incline ing on behalf of the employ.

Saturday and shift. ing class had not stockpiled operated fully with the (The Grimethorpe strike management productivity 1947 for stopped in coal in order to prove the speed-up and the but to use it miners case. as a weapon against them.

Now. ten vears later. miners are having to hoht harder than ever before to improve wages and insult. Dream What happened the golden dream nationaliz- ition of a Labour government- older generauons miners as their onlv savation! The mines were not nation alized the interests „ot the but in the interests of For day, needed great by cemand. urgenty bid business rebulld plant after the war And they got their coal che the House even in could an Commons alls wel tound to one simple question _how much did brivate incus.

try pay tor coal from the nationalized pits? capitalism did well, did the Those days the seven hours were there for the pits, such as the introduction of automated power su could the taking. wher Moves to mechanize have been pushed up with ease to widesnred redundancies.

ON TUESDAY,

November mainly brought about consider towns. l sources are limitlace, 25, the third All-Union Con- certair economic conces- cione to the working class. gress of Collective Farmers This remark is doubtless an was made none that the Khrushchev's polic opened in Moscow. This was this year could not attack or over blamed for all the difficul- of shreading cultivation the first such gathering ties and shortages existing.

as great a sown area as pos summoned by Party sible, irrespective of the poten- the tial yield and conditions of the Production this bureaucracy since 1935. around least generally at the central Then nuernde for the last tollr vears.

W9 C The leading question was the Discredited how best to feed the working and the land, its efficient and fertilitv As privileges This was the now-discredited bureaucracy's Raphnay contenty nointed nower thinhing hehind the out: land' schemes The main report at the Con- tha part 1960s. However the 'same 'We presented none gress gress was presented me me people' referred that exnansec OUl include Brezhnev motherland are boundless But and all the apologists some people draw After pointing tho arro Stalin to the rist "consumption neous conclusion from this and in food „in one countri bureaucratic mismanagement, Soviet agriculture bas Owing forced collectivization when crops and cattle were destroyed by of Stalin's

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fillers' strike of 1955 won new price-lists all over Yorkshire, negotiated while the strike was still on.) Throughout this time the Communist Party-then in a powerful position with Arthur Horner as general secretary, Will Paynter in the leadership Wales, the Moffats 1n Scotland, and big influence in the Midlands, Kent and York- shire-urged the miners to co- nated power support units, have only led Brezhney: Blames Khrushchev.

who sermonized on the in- exhaustible resources of the Soviet Unon as providing the basis for a socialist society.

Brezhnev goes on to show that such attitudes ignore and in fact colossal encourage and cripple wastage any attempts to raise the produc- tivity of the land. What he ascribes to the erroneous conclusions of some people is really the incapacity of the bureaucracy to develop an efficient agriculture.

Urging an all-out campaign for conserving and fertilizing the land, he called for yet expansion of the fer- further tilizer industry and branded farmers reluctant to use new methods of soil improvement as 'anti-social'. A series of large irrigation schemes in arid areas like the North Caucasus steppe region were reported on at the Con- gress. Brezhnev related the plight of the middle Volga region, a grain-producing zone. Here production has been hit re- peatedly by severe droughts leading to heavy losses. Irrigate Moreover, the state, as well as losing "considerable quan- tities of produce' from the drought-stricken areas, had to assist these areas with seed, forage, food and financial aid.

Brezhnev finally drew the conclusion : 'In order to

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'''1, 1. with and the work with a firm of mining operate job Coal Board and the consultants whose main _govern- was making claims against the ment. Board (over Meanwhile, big business Coal subsidence, was well looked after. Massive etc). compensation was paid out and This, the result then, was the industry still mining of leadership's the union crippled every year by interest and 'moderation' 'co-opera- due on the money borrowed to tion'. pay it. And where did the money go? like Cory It to firms who received nearly Brothers. Cheap coal for big business £16 million in compensation big money when it needed it, valued £12.6 for at compensation and interest in million. good profits out of payments, £11 This firm distributed coal distribution and mechani- shareholders and million to of the of zation pits, plenty invested the rest in high-profit jobs in the nationalized indus- oil industries (including re- try for the former owners fining). Today, more than ever, the nationalized mines are at the mercy of large-scale industry and big business. The largest single market for Cory Bros was one of the coal is the electricity generat- biggest coal merchants in the a profit which last year country, ( making on ing stations, took 74.5 million tons. every ton of coal they handled.

where did the deputy Nuclear-powered generating And stations used the equivalent of Cory Bros serve chairman of nine million tons of coal.

his country? Where else but on While the National Coal Board! the Board is aiming of But rich pickings were to be for continuity of supply had from interest coal from long-life and low- not only distribu- cost collieries, there are at payments and coal tion, but also from the exten- present no long-term contracts for the coal consumed by the the sive mechanization Central Generating Electricity mines. is One firm engaged in mining Board and competition also linked growing from nuclear power.

machinery was The second important mar- with a pit. which After nationalization the ket is the coke ovens, last year used 25 million tons firm's head remained as of coal, mainly for use in crude manager of the colliery, and later became an NCB planning steel production. The NCB is working closely engineer. Another pit owner worked with the British Steel Cor- Coal poration to identify lower cost for the Board for eight years after nationalization and coals introduced into to he coking blends. then left to take up full-time several such Already com- bined factory-farms specializ- ing in particular food products had been set up in the Ukraine and Moldavia. This type of organization is assist these areas there is only designed one answer: irrigate the land'.

presumably gear closely food production The question of grain pro- moto the demands of thei to duction was passed over with COn- sumer and provide a basis for little comment. more rapid mechanization of This silence seems to further processing. substantiate the rumours of a It would also that new deal for importing wheat appear the policy of the present lead- from the West. ers of the bureaucracy is once The other problem empha- fost- orientated towards age-old one of again sized was the Soviet cattle are far ering and handing out conces- livestock. sions to the industrial manag- too thin, Brezhnev reported.

erial sections of the bureau- More to be attention had cracy. paid to improving feeds: in of this connection production Greater role hay had risen only 9 per cent, but it had been decided that a In this case the technician minimum rise of 35 per cent in and the food-factory manager of for the production grain are given a greater role in the fodder was vital. direction of the collective farms production had de- Silage a far cry from Khrushchev's creased. A further two million policy handing tractor of meat could be pro- tons stations to the farmers. the average duced if carcass Side by side with these weight of cattle was increased organizational proposals were 350-400 kilos. to the political ones of setting up Soviet stockraising has never Councils of Collective Farmers recovered from the entirely and an All-Union Council of disastrous effects of Stalin's Collective Farmers. forced collectivization. These are clear attempts to The problems explained by get the farmers under central- Trotsky in "The Revolution ized bureaucratic control and Betraved' in 1935 have ate. to facilitate their acceptance of markable echo here. the new line of subordinating In 1967. million 97 Soviet the collective farm organiza- cattle produced 4.3 million tons tions the industrial and United to of beef, the while in technical bureaucrats. States 109 million such These agricultural policies animals supplied more than are a swing away from Khrush- 9.5 double the quantity: of chev's line boosting the million tons. local collective farm managers as an independent force. They are an attempt to stave After 35 vears of 'socialist' off the growing crisis in Soviet agriculture. beef vield is about bureau- farming by another the half that of capitalist cratic technical shift, this time farms of the USA. managerial in favour of the Brezhnev dwelt at length on lavers already favoured in the what he considered to be the factories by the Brezhnev- main remedy for these prob- Kosvgin leadership. the chronic lems: eliminate Trotsky's comment summing of technical cadres shortage Soviet farming is highly send soil experts, and more relevant here: agricultural chemists, engineers 'In agriculture immeasur- the farms to establish to an ably more than in industry, improved scientific and techni- the low level of production cal standard in agriculture into continual comes conflict which would increase yields the forms of with socialist all round. The bureaucracy, property. Also launched as a new solu- which in the last analysis of tion to the inadequacies grew out of this contradiction, farming were the Agrarian- deepens it in turn.' ('The Revo- Industrial complexes. lution Betrayed', p. 135.) Next comes the domestic market, which last year took 21.8 million tons of coal. Here, too, there is increased competition from alternative forms of heating. Coal consumption at gas works last year totalled 9.2 million tons. This is a drop of 4.4 million tons from 1967- 1968. There is a trend to increased production of gas from oil- based plants and, of course, from the use of natural gas. North Sea imported and natural gas accounted for 24 Robens: Calls minimum wage of f15 generous! per cent of total gas avail- ability last year compared with 13 per cent in 1967-1968.

Other important markets are overseas. Last year the Coal exported 3.4 million Board tons, European mainly to power stations. There are also big deals with the giant monopolies.

Associated Portland Cement takes a million tons of coal a year. to Alcan (United Sales Kingdom) Ltd are also ex- pected to rise to a million tons in the near future. In these circumstances, to talk of a 'National Fuel Policy' without a socialist policy of nationalization is complete nonsense. The coal industry is at the mercy of huge monopolies which exist on super-profits.

Without nationalizing the oil monopolies, the private firms which are connected with the construction of the new power stations and the big businesses in steel and cement etc., there can be no security for the miners. We consider it is reactionary to talk of 'defending' the coal industry by restricting oil, nuclear power and natural gas.

socialist planned Under a economy all these alternative means of power will be de- veloped to the full. production is What coal will be fully necessary automatic. Human beings will not throw away their lives and risk their health crawling like half-blind animals under- ground. Cheated But this cannot be done by miners fighting alone. It is a political programme for the expropriation of the entire capitalist class. As such it requires the unity of all the working class be- hind a revolutionary organ- ization. It was because this was missing that the miners were cheated after nationalization.

For who now doubts that they were cheated? What has their reward been? Hard slogging for ten years and then—when the demand slackened—pit closures, sack- ings, uprooted homes, wages being progressively more and more depressed in relation to the rising cost of living; all accompanied by a persistent efficiency, dis- cipline. Any resistance and the big Wednesday, December 3, 1969 whip of pit closures came cracking the miners' over heads—over 600 pits have been closed since nationalization.

55 collieries were closed in the last financial year-more than in any previous year.

Miners will remember Wilson's flamboyant gesture in 1967 when he intervened to postpone the closure of four pits due to go then. Every one of these were closed the following year-so much for that bit of showman- ship. The Coal Board's Report for 1968-1969 was analysed fully in "The by David Maude Newsletter' September 16, 1969. Only a few of the main points need be stressed here.

The Board made an operat- ing profit of £28.6 million turned into a which was deficit of £8.9 million by the payment of £37.5 million in interest charges-but the in- dustry 'can't afford' an eight- hour day for surface men!

Productivity . 42.5 averaged cwt per man shift—an increase of 3.5 cwt or 9 per cent over the previous year. Costs per ton attributable to wages and related expenses went down by Is. 8d.—on a production of 160 million tons, this represents a saving of £13 million. Run-down With this level of pro- duction 27,300 men lost their jobs. Yet the government's most recent White Paper on published Fuel Policy, in November 1967, calls for only 120 million tons by 1975.

This compares with Labour's in clearly implied promise 1964 election year to the at 200 maintain production million tons per year. What is involved now is a rundown in manpower of 10 per cent a year-or something less in the like 30,000 jobs year ending March 1970. At the same time pro- ductivity is to go on increas- The Board wants an output of 75 cwts per manshift by the mid-1970s. This will be mainly achieved by an extension of major long- wall mechanized taces operating treble shifts. In the words of the Report: 'As production is progres- sively concentrated at collieries and on faces where mechani- zation ensures the highest out- put rates, a substantial part of the output will be at low cost.'

But ask about the eight hour day and seven hours underground! And Robens calls a minimum wage of £15 on the surface and £16 underground 'generous'! The Board boast can 'Despite the heavy closure programme and the high rate of manpower rundown recent years, the Board have, by close co-operation with the in maintaining unions good industrial relations, avoided major industrial disputes.'

In other words, the leader- ship of the National Union of Mineworkers has continued its policy of co-operating with the employers while their members go down the road.

Political Could there be a more out- spoken condemnation of any trade union leadership? But this is not just a trade union leadership. have always The miners been political from the days of the first Labour MPs, and from the time when the support of the South Wales miners con- tributed in a major way to the formation of the British Com- munist Party. The mining areas are the most solid in their support of the Labour Party in elections, and the mining group of MPs is the largest single trade union section in the Parliamentary Labour Party. Throughout the years since nationalization, the leadership of the National Union of Mine- workers, nationally and locally, has been largely shared Labour between right-wing men and Communist Party members. The right wing has con- sistently supported every measure taken by the Labour government against the miners.

In every strike struggle, the miners came up against this type of leader. too, (In other struggles, miners got to know the right wing. Glasshoughton miners lobbying parliament over un- employment were told by their MP that Labour pit closures were better than Tory pit closures, because they were planned!) Continued in tomorrow's Workers Press

Wednesday, December 3, 1969

A NEW SLANDERER

of Trotskyism took his bow last Friday in the Stalinist 'Morning Star'.

His name should be noted by all our readers. It is Mick Costello, ex-leader of the Young Communist League and now a Stalin-trained man working for the Stalinist press. a man in a Costello is hurry, anxious to win his Stalinist spurs. Writing in last Friday's 'Morning Star' on the recent National Union of Students conference, Costello remarks: 'There was almost nothing in the conference of the some- what sterile battle that used to be the order of the day, between those who wanted to consider problems in the abstract, and those who would "broader" political discuss issues without finding the bridge that would show the link between the two. "The only abstract philo- sophers of this kind were a tiny minority (perhaps half a dozen) of supporters of the Trotskyist Socialist Labour League. They received no sup- port from delegates who took seriously mandates from their local organizations.'

NONSENSE

Who is Costello trying to fool with this nonsense? Can it be his own Party members, several hundred of whom attended their recent Party Congress, buying the Workers Press on their way in and reading our reports of its pro- ceedings the next day? Whatever they may think of the League politically, these Communist Party members know that a movement able to launch successfully its own national daily paper has noth- ing in common with 'abstract philosophy' Once again we must ask : Who is Costello trying to im- press? Is he the latest in a succession of Stalinist journal- ists whose speciality has been the slandering and distortion of the policies of the Trotsky- ist movement? Costello certainly has all the facilities for developing into such a writer. With him on the staff of the 'Star' is the author of that notorious pamphlet 'Clear Out Hitler's Agents'- Assistant Editor William Wainwright. This scurrilous attack on Trotskyism, written in 1942 and never repudiated by its author, concludes with the following advice to its readers: 'Expose every Trotskyist you come into contact with. Show other people where his ideas are leading. Treat him as you would an open Nazi.' unrepentant Stalinist This now assists in the political training of Costello. Judged by his latest journal- istic effort, the pupil is re- sponding to Wainwright's tuition. As we have pointed out many times before, the British Communist Party adopts its questions 'liberal' pose on such as • Czechoslovakia, only to draw closer to the Labour 'lefts' and, in the final analysis, through the Labour bureau- to the British ruling cracy, class. But all the old hostility to Trotskyism remains.

SOLE ATTACK

This is brought out clearly in the case of Costello.

The Socialist Labour League is the only organization that he attacks in the whole of his For JackStraw, article. the new reformist NUS president, he has nothing but gushing praise: 'Mr Straw's words correctly measured the mood of the students. Students will expect that a clear-cut action pro- be carried out, gramme will notwithstanding the anachron- ism of still having a majority on the union's executive com- mittee which fought against many of the policies that were decided upon.' Then comes the attack, not on this unnamed majority, but the Socialist Labour League ! This is the essence of Stalin- Hiding ism. behind phrases about 'ultra-leftism' and 'ab- , it draws stract philosophers' closer and closer to not only .

right-wing reformists elements, as represented by Straw, but openly capitalist organizations, such as the young Liberals, Stalinists with whom the joined forces three years ago to form their Radical Student Alliance*. Costello follows in the foot- steps of not only Wainwright, but younger Stalinist pros- pects like Monty Johnstone, who combines ultra-reformism a steady stream of with slander the Fourth against International and the Socialist Labour League. Costello also, . doubt, no draws on the experienge of Fergus Nicolson in matters relating to 'ultra-leftism' amongst students. Unlike the Stalinists who hide behind refc to prepare a politically principled leadership i party to lead the working class.

By Robert Black Nicolson's first job when he became National Student Organizer of the Communist Party in 1962 was to close entire branches of down students and initiate a witch- hunt that led to scores of ex- pulsions throughout Britain.

Johnstone's role in this par- ticular affair was to play game of 'loyal opposition' to the Stalinist leadership, hoping to win the confidence of criti- cal students by his frequent references to 'that lot in King Street'. He failed miserably, and many students developed from a critical position towards Trotskyism and the Socialist Labour League. Now, at a new and entirely stage in the more profound crisis of British Stalinism, the development of the Socialist Labour League finds these same people playing a leading the fight against role in Trotskyism.

CUT NO ICE

The tricks that they have learned from their old-guard Stalinist tutors are faithfully by Johnstone, reproduced Costello, Nicolson and com- pany, but they cut very little ice with the politically more serious and principled . Com- munist Party members. Take, for example, George Matthew's demagogic admis- sion at the Party Congress that he 'suspended critical faculties' during the Stalin era.

Coming from a long-estab- lished and leading member of the Party, this was a highly- significant statement, if indeed it was meant seriously and not 'for the record'. We took Matthews at his word, and gave prominence to his statement in our report of the Congress. But Matthews is not only a Communist member of the Party National Executive, but of the 'Morning Editor , and it was in this latter Star' capacity that he presumably saw fit to exclude his admis- sion from the report of his speech made in the Monday edition of the paper. for One "self-critical' face his own members within the confines of the Congress, an- other 'orthodox' face for the readers of the paper that he edits. This is Stalinist double book-keeping at its most dis- honest.

BLATANT

It seems that Costello is learning the same method.

When we come to his treat- ment of the student movement, his opportunism becomes blatant. Costello creates the illusion that students can contribute to the struggle of the working class from the outside, as student radicals, in which all students of goodwill take up a number of 'good causes' and protest about them for all they

WORKERS' PRES

DOWN WITH

DE GAULLE &

WILSON!

* THE

aide behind reformists like Jack Straw, the Young Socialists have campaigned pled leadership in the student movement around the fight to build a revolutionary for revolutionary politics and the working class. Costello writes of the work- class as if it needed the ing 'good works' of the NUS to overcome the excesses of 'capi- talist inequality'. Middle-class radicals have been protesting about the In- equalities of capitalism for while at the same generations, time not missing the oppor- the privileges tunity to enjoy that this inequality brings.

Unlike the various charity activities lined up for the next year, the fight on grants and student rights demands firm and principled leadership.

Education at all is levels coming under attack from the ruling class, and the Stalinist Straw alliance with and the Liberals reflects their refusal to face up to the political im- plications of this fight. We do intend not to run away from the fight on student Wainwright: The 'Morning Star' grants. assistant editor, well versed in Costello's cheap gibe about 'abstract philosophers' 1S for Party's his cover own retreat from positive action to This leads inevitably to defend and improve student approach the missionary to conditions. working class :

FULL SUPPORT

"The inequalities of capital- ist society were recognized, The Socialist Labour League [on this basis, millionaires can and the Young Socialists gives all become allies] and broad all 100 support to percent terms of reference were given under students who come to the executive committee to from attack the government, take up in campaigning a local or college authorities on of fashion the more some questions of student rights blatant of these. and conditions. The Stalinists are preparing ' In coming months we to evade that fight. students should see the If the NUS is to play its part officially giving backing, to squatters, tenants' associations, in the struggle against the Labour and its taking militant action over ex- Tory probable tortionate rates, housing con- successors, lack of facilities' will have to be won ditions and students to socialist policies to meet the crisis in education. The NUS in other words is to become, if Costello and This means all-out dil Nicolson have of their eat for struggle against the type politics represented by Costello glorified protest movement class patronizing the working and company. and those students confusing They are only interested in who want to take part actively Stalinist winning their spurs in the struggle against capital- slandering and discrediting by ism. the Socialist Labour League.

We them The hostility of Costello to can assure that be Socialist Labour League they are going dis- the comes from Stalinism's hatred appointed.

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'ORKERS' PRESS

CROMWELL'S Revolu- tion broke once and for all the power of the King and the state and pre- pared the way for the vic- tory of the bourgeoisie and the future develop- ment of capitalism. It was the first successful bourgeois revolution: power changed hands: a new class emerged. But the revolution aroused not only the bourgeoisie, but many sections of the oppressed masses, who saw in Cromwell's for struggle a new future themselves. Revolutionary conflict re- leased a torrent of hopes, ideas and dreams for the new millenium. Only ultimately did the true class nature of the revolution reveal itself and the hopes of the masses dwindle into apathy or be ruthlessly put down by force. Among the many popular movements were the Diggers, led by Gerard Winstanley, a remarkable revolutionary thinker for his time, who set up a communistic rural colony in Surrey in 1649, soon after the execution of Charles I.

Winstanley and the Diggers alone represented the interests of the propertyless agricultural labourer. Although in some senses backward-looking, for he clung to the idea of the village com- munity, which capitalism was beginning to disrupt and dis- integrate, Winstanley under- stood that the root of social conflict flowed from the owner- ship of private property.

What he saw in the defeat of the King and the aristocracy the end of property was divisions. The land must now belong to all the people.

'The poorest man • hath as much right to the land as the richest man,' he declared.

'This is the bondage the they poor complain of, that are kept poor by their brethren in a land where there is so much plenty for everyone.'

Of course such demands were far in excess of anything the new ruling class had in mind. They met them in the way they knew best - with force and the military. The Diggers were brutally dispersed Winstanley and the Diggers of John are subject McGrath's new stage play 'Comrade Jacob', based on the novel by David Caute, which new theatre in opened at a Brighton, the Gardner Centre for the Arts. McGrath's Winstanley is a and take. . l'ings 433- The Royal Oake of Brittayne. Anonymou cut down by Republicans.

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5.50 News from ITN. 6.03 Today.

COMRADE

JACOB

John McGrath (left) and David Caute.

visionary, a man of conviction, clearsightedness and passion, who • believes wholeheartedly not only in the rightness of his ideas, but in the inevitability that they will be understood and practised. He is a man of profound moral; a faith; religious, . be- liever in the sanctity of human life, convinced that the revolu- tion has ended the barbarism of Esau and that the age of Jacob, gentle and rational, is about to be declared. The poor shall inherit the earth. He set about building the matter - of - factly. commune Jerusalem will be built. 'How shall we do • it?' ask his fellow Diggers. 'Dig,' he replies. He sets off to negotiate the purchase of seed and equip- ment, confident and unper- turbed, and it is here that he meets the arousing hostility of the local lord of the manor and the land-owning parson Platt. Inevitably their hostility for they see in Win- grows, stanley's ideas the total under- mining of the status quo. Platt complains Fairfax, the to commander of the urbane army, and Winstanley is sum- moned before him. Dignified direct Win- and stanley can see no problem. He aims to harm no one; why should anyone harm him. And it is this unshakeable belief in the reasonableness of that blinds Winstanley. men He is fearless because he is convinced that right is upon his side. His pacifist views can be of no threat to anyone, yet it is in response to his ideas that the real class interests emerge.

There can be no coexistence for the bourgeoisie with his communist views. They retali- ate with the force of the new state. The play is, therefore, a clarification of the class nature yne. Anonymous engraving, 1649. The oak, representi 6.30 The Ghost and Mrs Muir.

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LiSTS pore 520 Me. 4.25 High Living. 6.01 Moore of the • revolution and the inadequacy of Winstanley's idealism, particularly his non- collision violence, when in with the ruling class. 'Must there be then another bloody revolution?' Winstanley asks himself at the end of the play when the Diggers have been defeated. He is answered by his com- rade, Haydon, whose oppo- sition to the pacifism of his leader has grown as the true nature of the violence of the oppression is revealed. man that 'Freedom is the will turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he hath enemies. THE WESTERN must go down as one of Holly- wood's great contribu- tions to cinema. It is a form absolutely con- sistent with the idealism and individualism of American pioneering history. At its best the Western has all the confidence, assertion and simplicity of the American dream. In wild, untamed set- tings man's struggle for sur- vival and law and order, while trying to preserve his owr anarchic instinct, are high- lighted. It is only through the agency of a gun that these two con- tradictions are resolved, in a rough and ready approximation of what is "right'. Usually right is assisted by professional skill. It is this that separates the RF. cadente відти антиліл rollige we Fotted froSlaughter. wis e oak, representing Charles I, is being Batman. 6.35 Crossroads. 12.05 a.m.

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PAGE THREE

'Comrade Jacob' is an im- portant dramatic contribution to the exploration of the revo- lutionary struggles of British history. It insists on both the con- tinuity and the necessary les- sons that must be drawn from it. Equally it insists that class forces predominate. As such it represents whole new turn by a writer who is now preoccupying him- self with such questions and is a distinct break from the con- ventional themes of drama.

To break from the tradi- tional idealism of British in- tellectuals and turn towards Marxism is an important step.

Obviously a play cannot raise all questions of historical analysıs, for it must remain predominantly work a of dramatic expression. But it be remem- must bered that the Diggers repre- sented the first, in some senses premature, signs of struggle of an oppressed propertyless class of labourers, for communism, which only a mature and poli- tically-conscious working class can take up the fight for and carry through. Winstanley expresses an early form of Utopian social- ism, taken up later by Robert Owen. But the vibrancy and origin- ality of his ideas are given dramatic expression in 'Com- rade Jacob' as well as their limitations. The period of the English revolution provides with us rich and important experiences and lessons. It is also a rich vein for the dramatist. McGrath has made real con- tribution both to drama and the present-day revolutionary struggie. By Brian Moore .... goodie from the baddie-in the last resort he is quicker on the draw. John Wayne is the apotheo- hero, sis of Western the lantern jawed, curt, direct, not much of a womanızer (women in black are either singers stockings and garters, or gusty pioneers who load guns, cook wounds, stews, and sew up down) when the chips are tough, stoical, not given to unanswerable sentiment, an right arm, and above all in- destructible. The more 'homely' aspects of US imperialism are to be found dramatized. Watching True Grit' this Henry week (directed by Hathaway and starring John Wayne) just two days alter the news of Pinkville, the connec- tion between celluloid myth- ology and brutalization was abundantly clear. in the film, At one point Wayne, older than he's ever black patch looked, with a over his eye, points his gun at a rat that is eating scraps on the kitchen floor. 'I'm serving notice on you rat', he draws, then fires.

There follows some phil- osophising about criminals who too are rats and should be treated in the same way. Actors often complain that they have to believe in their parts, but there could have been no grumble trom the man who thinks Ronald Reagan is too left wing. Performer and person unite.

'True Grit' is a curious marriage of two Hollywood conventions, John Wayne National Velvet. For meets into his brutish life comes a young girl demanding that her father's murderer be brought to justice. She is very much the pushy American heroine, but more, she is the juvenile spokesman for a new kind of property owner, officious, backed by her lawyer, a hard commercial bargainer, with a ruthless eye to economy and finance. She is also 15 years old.

They set off in search of the killer, assisted by a Texican and the usual girl-boy argu- ments take place. Can she ride? Is she tough enough? Can she stand blood? When they finally meet up with the murderer, the film takes a turn towards farce and rapid parody of becomes a predictable suspense situations that have appeared in every film since the Perils of Pauline.

The closing sequence re- affirms the unity between the property-owning girl and her thug. Yet there is a curious quality to this film, an ambiguity that is not exactly tongue in cheek, but leaves the options open.

For there is a grotesqueness about Wayne, something pre- historic that won't die. The world of the western is a violent charade, a tired irrelevant game. Hathaway the director doesn't seem certain. Is it a glamourization of Wayne preparing him for a new political image, or is it a send up? In Hollywood that's what's know as doing a professional job and Hathaway is an old hand at it. Don't reveal your hand. But in the week of Pinkville there's no place for ambiguity.

WORKERS PRESd

PAGE FOUR

Behind the Tilbury container Second of two articles on containerization in London and Liverpool ban

FOURTH RAID

LENORANT OF SEREAST

BY ISRAELIS

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Containerbase (Leeda) itd contrinorbase (Liverpool) Ltd.

(London East) Ltd. WHY IS the Communist Party containeros containerbase (ocora nar ba unable to discuss the real issues (8) THE RAN TO LeAD DAD YORKERS UNTO (hereaftor behind containerization? record that it has been agreed as followe.

As was explained in the first part of this * Tripe dachactor one one article yesterday, while the docks remain in capi- talist hands, containerization poses an immediate Unson in la threat to conditions, jobs and wages.

The only principled position that can be taken condation or alloyd s12 do a here is no co-operation with new methods of cargo handling until full nationalization of the docks under the control of those who work in them.

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1ACE

Congress of the Party and in "Il Manifesto" we pro- posed positions which are widely held in the Party, in Ine workers movement and amongst the youth We called for a sharpe fight all reformist against illusions. We said that it is possible to ngnt for socialism today, not in a distant future la reference rarty leadershp s ponc reforms" structural within capitalism said the great le steen of Long live the dictatorship of the Easiering workers in a recent Tolerair: Sucration a will rally to the C sower t0 Pensions S. Region to prevent pipe-dream and file of the Party. modernization will mean and also in other ways.' 'everyday

REAL LEFT

related more speed-up BRITISH RAIL'S Southern Region has warned left in this coto create a mast that its modernization plans are in danger if the forces. present investment rate is not increased.

in order Mr bance lodolson, unl is required chairman regIon's and general manager, has said •But today this organization omic lobos that to maintain orestill cis nicon the standards mak and 5. ten years would cost £140 ideas. million million speed-up The Manifesto will present Investinell rate is equal to tivo milllon will ana about taru milllon Will neeaed disciplining of ten-year improve- region S ment plan, he warned. he lead theopits Under 30 to cents od (sp) net. would be wamer deaner and Container ban more punctual.

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