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pointed out and traced to its roots the political rottenness and incredible servility of the CPGB leadership.

In the open letter which the Socialist Labour League addressed to the 3lst Congress we said that • "Stalin lives" in the leadership of your party'.

We did not have long to wait to prove that, despite the muted criticisms of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia and the liberal posturing that went on at the Congress by people like Monty Johnstone, the CP leaders remain, in fact, unregenerate Stalinists whose political depravity grows increasingly monstrous.

The proof comes in a series of remarks made by John Gollan in reply to questions from the floor at a public meeting in Leeds over the weekend, the same meeting in which Gollan defended and supported Wilson's trip to Washington.

Trotsky's ideas, said Gollan, 'were a menace to the Soviet Union'. Trotsky, he said, had been for the defeat of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany in the Second World War and 'whether he got money directly from Hitler is open to question'.

Concluding his reply Gollan then went on to attack British Trotskyism as a wrecking organization 'and not a genuine part of the labour movement'.

This is the real face of Gollan, the authentic voice of Stalinism in Britain speaking. No matter what differences separate Gollan from Dutt, we can safely conclude that they are all united in their inveterate hatred and fear of Trotskyism. And no wonder !

With an ageing leadership, a falling membership and a declining circulation for the 'Morning Star', not to mention a youth movement which is in a state of collapse, the despair of Mr Gollan is not surprising. That is not ill. Not by any means.

The w. rld-wide crisis of Stalinism, reflected in the Sino-Soviet wilsis and the splits and expulsions from the Austrian, Italian and French Central Committees, which are directly attributable to the unprecedented upsurge of the European working class and the hammer-blows of | the colonial revolution, r has seriously and inSTOP WILSON'S VISIT TO exorably undermined the monolithic unity of the Stalinist apparatus. NIXON-MOTIONS PASSED "peaceful Coexistence and The whole socialism in one country' is being rocked to its foundations. Naturally its inUnion of Engineering , and against the Vietnamese mates are feeling sick — Foundryworkers On Mon- people. It calls on Coyentry incredibly so! day nignt passed the rollow- da.. 6-11-...

Their debility is aggra- ing motion: vated by the fact that "This branch is appalled Trotskyism, far from obey- at the reports of atrocities ing the prophecies of inter- by the United States troops national Stalinism, is in in Vietnam and condemns fact growing and expand- such acts. ing with a vitality that is in "This branch will send a direct proportion to the letter to the Prime Minister decline of Stalinism. Harold Wilson • demanding All over the world the that he cancels his intended new generation of workers visit to President Nixon in who are now coming into Washington which we feel conflict with imperialism would be an act of associaand Stalinism are looking, tion with the alleged and will be looking, not to atrocities. the counter-revolutionary 'We call on the district and degenerate policies committee to do the same' and leadership of Stalin- Coventry 54 AEF branch ism, but to the programme has passed the following and banner of the world motion: revolution - the national Committee of the Fourth International.

It is not our intention to reply to the crude combination of rank falsehoods and gross misrepresentation which constitutes Gollan's critique Trotskyism within the limited compass of this editorial.

We have done justice to this task many times in the columns of only the Press but also in The WITH AN almost unanimous voice, the world's press has condemned the atrocities committed by the US forces in Vietnam.

The main question is however: whom should we condemn?

A former member of the company that wiped out the village in the 'Pinkville' area, has described in a letter how his unit had turned into wild animals, beating up children and stamping a peasant woman to death.

According to the letter, written by Sergeant Gregory Olsen, the peasant woman was working in a nearby field.

Not guilty A group ef soldiera fiist.. shot and wounded her, kicked death and finally emptied their rifle magazines into her lifeless body.

These are terrible acts, equal in barbarity to the worst US imperialism's brutal war Trades Council and the executive of the AEF to demand that Wilson's visit to Washington in January be stopped.' 70 PEOPLE, including students and technicians at University College, London Holborn College of Law and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, have signed a petition condemning the brutal atrocities committed by the Americans in Vietnam and demanding 'that the Prime Minister does not pay his visit to Washington to express his support for the war against the Vietnamese people'. ost unanir mned the Vietnam.

atrocities of German and British imperialism in their rape of defenceless nations and peoples.

But however brutalized these soldiers might be, they are not the guilty ones, no more than the German soldiers in the last war were in the last analysis responsible for the crimes committed under the Third Reich.

Who has trained these men to behave like wild animals?

What social system has SO perfected its murder machine that the destruction of an entire people can be programmed by computers?

Decades of anti-communist, racialist and chauvinist propaganda in the United States are now bearing their bitter fruit.

US imperialism trained the Calleys and the Medinas.

It taught them that communism and 'non-white' peoples were theit including that any mass murder, baby-killing, torture, rape, crop and food poisoning and wholesale detruction of peasant villages were justined in the fight to defend US imperialism and its corrupt servants in Saigon.

Their system US Congressmen and Sentors might well be horrified by what they see in Vietnam. But it is their capitalist system that commits these barbarities.

In their anxiety to exonerate capitalism, they scramunior ficers or rank-and junior file soldiers in the forces. If necessary, they will even sacrifice one or two of the 'big brass'.

But at all costs, the capitalist system that produces the war must be preserved intact.

That is why it is essential that we fight against the political confusion created by the professional liberals and protesters.

The US armed forces do not pursue an independent policy. Their actions and strategy, are based on the demands of US big business and are determined by the same strategic aims as those of the giant US monopolies and banks. nous voice, the world's atrocities committed by Belgian and Dutch dockers back London container ban LEADERS of the Dutch and Belgian dockers' unions pledged after talks in London yesterday that their members would resist any permanent transfer of the Tilbury container terminal from Britain to the continent.

This international solidarity follows threats by the chairman of Overseas Containers Ltd. to transfer its container terminal—which has been declared 'black' by the T&GWU —from London to Antwerp.

Yesterday's announcement came at the same time as new attempts were being made to break up the solid front of London dockers on the container ban.

The owners of Victoria Deep Water Terminal Ltd.

Scene at yesterday's meeting of BRS parcels London We don't want "strings' with rise SAY B.R.S. STRIKERS CALLS for official backing and for all BRS (Parcels) depots to be called out on strike were made by 600 London and Home Counties BRS workers yesterday, as the T&GWU executive met to consider the management's rejection of the claim for a substantial increase in basic pay.

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SPRINGBOK ARRESTS IN ABERDEEN POLICE arrested 30 demontrators who invaded the pitch luring the Springboks' first match in Scotland yesterday.

600 police on duty Aberdeen's Linksfield stadium stripped off their tunics and ties to carry away demonstrators sitting on the pitch.

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

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JOHN NOLAN (Young Socialists) CANTERBURY Monday, December 8, 8 p.m.

The Cornwallis Bullding University of Canterbury Briefly TEACHERS CAMPAIGN: Teachers have begun a big publicity campaign to win public support for their £135a-year pay claim.

In many of the 81 areas where teachers are striking for two weeks, a massive leafleting has been started.

The London Borough of Brent's National Union of Teachers branch has rented a shop in a busy area to distribute 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 'Broadcasting in the Seventies' are being pushed through with disregard for proper consultation which was as ruthless as it was irresponsible, the Corporation's Bristol staff 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 CONTRACT: A £22 million contract has been awarded to an Anglo-Argentinian construction • consortium to design, supply and erect the power line from El Chocon power station in Neuquen province to Buenos Aires.

The consortium consists of three British companiesbaltour, Beatty and Company, BIC Construction Company and Painter Brothers-and the Argentinian Adelphia SA.

SECOND BOEING EMERGENCY: A Londonbound Boeing 707 airliner with 84 passengers and 10 crew aboard had to make an emergency stop after beginning 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 runway after hitting a flock of seagulls and ended up stuck in some mud.

HEATER STRIKE: Peterborough busmen have threatened to strike on Friday because of the standard of heating in their vehicles.

Drivers and conductors have told the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company that they will stop work unless steps are taken to improve the heaters.

QUARANTINE 11: A tear in a glove being used in the examination of lunar rock samples in Houston, Texas has resulted in l1 men being quarantined along with the three Apollo-12 astronauts.

The rocks were being handled in an airtight box when the tear allowed its atmosphere to escape into the room where the men were working and possibly contaminate 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 normal. Maximum C (48F). E Midlands: Mainly cloudy with occasional rain becoming brighter. Mainly north westerly winds, fresh. Rather cold. Maximum 6C (43F).

W Midlands, NW and Central Northern England: Mainly cloudy, becoming brighter with showers. North westerly, fresh or strong winds. Rather

sham of bourgeois democracy.

This was never more true than in the case of Miss Devlin's role in the debate.

She correctly said that the proposed Ulster Defence Regiment will be a continuation of the hated 'B'-Specials.

She pointed out that the phrase 'Ulster Defence' is indelibly associated with Protestant organizations, usually right-wing, extremist, anti-Catholic bodies.

But for Miss Devlin the problem is not the repressions in Ulster and the imposition of military rule, in all but name, but that the news Defence Regiment will not attract Catholics to join it!

Miss Devlin proposes to alter that by changing the