Workers Press no. 56

"MURDER SCHOOL'

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• PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 56

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U.S. government responsible for G.I.s IN VIETNAM AS THE campaign to stop Wilson going to Wash- ington mounts in strength the most sickening account yet of the US imperialist murder machine has been given by two ex-army lieutenants, Francis Reitemeyer and Michael Cohn.

Their evidence shatters once and for all the myth, Jury by

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sustained brown. Stewart and all the other apologists for imperialism 'inquiry within the labour move- ment, that toe massacres in Vietnam do not result trom oncia us govern- into ment policy. When Browns, yesterday stated deeds' thee then, they lawyer Villiam Panther their they Hial Lidl were a Us training strucied al camp to nre United States actor the wno were then to kill sup murders posed NLF sympathisers. i die are ensen resort to and crush By our forelgn correspondent pressing taste. to The necessi

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Kill orders down in their sum adart- Cook ment ten days ago, Anti-Semitism COUnTV coronel AnaTeW one Toman said yesterday. Thave not pretests at t me or the lied ties in Prague phe most blat ciepture JUDGING from the statements emanating given ement from the Interior Ministry in Prague, it seems fensed to seven , had cha if another version of the Slansky trial is imprisone slacking is tolerated pro-Moscow being prepared by the new ved the shoc erings to take lie from detector tests. 1 coll 1952 →2 a By a foreign correspondent spectre Campaign denied or the theon Police one at he mice hatren i ate Reitermeyer on cocal chen conscientious These The Fil has o They were discharged from the army. Bohemian newspaper. of its director, Systematic Panthers Nopes and died toi Without comment of the givings It is interesting showde prepare brined exo not the State Bank Tec.

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BY PETER READ

TWO MAJOR deals-in banking motors and announced yesterday be- tween British and South HOW, Mrs Barbara Castle ha African companies empha- Union Congress and the La size the depth of British you get expansion without ir capitalism's commitment to through the government's i Vorster's apartheid regime.

Each half of this question British-Leyland has received is as false as the other. Her £7$ million contract to 'opponents', nevertheless, 2,800 vehicles--includ- supply have no answer. and 1,600 440 buses Ing trucks specially designed for Both the trade union leaders final local conditionsfor and the 'left' MPs object to assembly in South Africa.

Mrs Castle's *Productivity Prices and Incomes after 1969: order alone is worth This total business White Paper in the same more than its opportunist terms. so far this year. there would con- The other big deal is for 'Incomes policy tiunue to be based on statu- the financing of a big Durban tory interference in collective paper mill. bargaining, complained the The deal has

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General Council gone to on Lazard's, the City merchant Thursday. bankers. noticed that there was a marked disparity between the It includes contract to emphasis given to wages and f4 million-worth supply over and that given to of British equipment. salaries prices. No amount of liberal pro- testing against the Springboks Different approach going smash the basic interdependence of the British said Mr Victor and South African ruling The TUC. Feather, had 'a different ap- classes. erve gas escapes in establish- chemical warfare British ment--the equivalent of Dugway-played a part in seal the recent outbreak deaths Cornish along the By our science correspondent coast. Though inquiry has from the testing station, after the seal concluded that 'routine' weekly test spray- due to natural deaths were March ings of nerve gas in causes, many people are not 1968. convinced. In the Skull Valley in- gas gas was carried by cident the Menace winds right over the top fortun- a local town, though Nancekuke, like Dugway, is ately it did not settle. only the This time, chemical warfare menace not to lives health of people neutralized the leak a no experts living locally, but to the and claimed there was *no entire world. living danger' to people The fiendish perversions of locally. After two hours, scientific knowledge, in which production at Dug- nerve gas specialize, full swing again! these centres are was in incident fol- of world capitalism's The Dugway part global for lows widespread suspicions in preparations war Nancekuke with the working class. Britain that the The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE ed.

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NUMBER 56•

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1969

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Palestine and the Arab revolution

WORKERS' PRES!

MONDAY, JUNE 5,

1967. In Tel Aviv, an Israeli spokesman claims that Egyptian tanks have begun moving into south- ern Israel. General Moshe Dayan, newly installed as Defence Minister, tells his troops: 'Soldiers of Israel! We have no aims , territorial of conquest. Our sole aim is to bring to naught the attempt of the Arab countries to conquer our country..? At the United Nations, the Israeli delegate gets to his feet to make a passionate denunciation of the United Arab Republic for its in- vasion. In fact, of course, most of the Egyptian Air Force had been destroyed in Israeli bombing of the airfields, and Israeli forces were beginning their invasion of Arab terri- tory. General Hod, the Israeli Air Force Commander, was to go on record later as saying about the air strike : 'Sixteen years' planning had 80 gone into those initial minutes. We lived with the plan, we slept on the plan, we ate the plan. Constantly we perfected it.' The planned nature of the contrasted Israeli aggression with the makeshift policy of Nasser's regime, and his total lack of preparation. The Israeli commander-in- chief, Yitzhak Rabin, has acknowledged that there was no evidence that the Egyptian forces in Sinai were prepared for any offensive action.

On the morning that the Israeli planes attacked, the commanding officers of Egypt's were not available. playir air force They were recovering from an all-night party. The masses had to suffer for the failure of their rulers.

of Egyptian Thousands soldiers, mostly raw, underfed fellaheen torn from their vil- lages and thrown into uniform, were captured by the Israelis, had their boots taken off them and were turned out into the desert without water. The Palestinian people once again suffered the deliberate brutality of Zionist conquest.

On June 12, 1967, at the village of Zeita, about 30 miles north-west of Jerusalem: 'When all the villagers were assembled, Israeli guards climbed on to the nearest roof- tops and trained their guns on the crowd. It was about 6.30 in the morning. No one was the allowed to move and villagers stayed where they were until 6 in the evening.

'No adult could go aside to relieve himself, no child could go and fetch a cup of water.

While they sat there, Israeli soldiers carefully and system- atically blew up 67 houses, in- cluding a school and a clinic maintained by the International Council of Churches' ('Sunday Times', June 16, 1968). It was the same at Kalkilya, Beit Nuba, Yalu and other villages. For those who re- period of mained, new à brutal oppression had begun.

Inside Egypt, and elsewhere, part of the aftermath of the war was a new questioning by the Arab masses of the prestige and authority which the Nasser regime had been accorded.

The war held up a mirror to reflected Egyptian society, and in it were all the faults of the regime and the ruling class.

Nasser tried to find scape- for He his regime. goats blamed the army, arrested the air force officers, accused Field of plotting Marshal Amer against him. In February 1968, mass demonstrations of workers and students took place; and from saying that the sentences on the air force officers were too lenient, the demonstrators went on to demand a new offensive against Zionism and reaction, coupled with political democratization within Egypt.

The students demanded the right to unions independent of the state. What if the workers put the same demand ? • Nasser and his colleagues must have regarded the situa- tion as ominous; recalling how the defeat of 1948 had precipi- tated the downfall of Farouk in 1952, and the coup with which they had launched their own revolution. Nasser might blame his officers, but as boss of the lot, the chief responsibility for Egyptian unpreparedness rested with Nasser himself. As a matter of fact, on the eve of the war, when he visited the forces in Sinai, Nasser was frankly criticized for his hesitancy by a number

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Isracli Air Force Commander Hod. '16 years of planning went into the first 80 minutes?

of officers, who younger warned of the danger of an Israeli surprise attack and urged offensive action. Nasser's failure was political.

It was the failure of bourgeois nationalism, and the Bonapart- ist regime and neutralist poli- tics which it created, which meant 'running with the hare and hunting with the hounds' regarding imperialism and the struggle against it. Radio Amman was not far from the truth when it com- mented cynically on Nasser's demagogy : 'We are used to hearing curses against America, and America's response to the curses by granting more loans, aid and wheat and surplus supplies.' As Nasser's own spokesman, Mohammed : Hasanein Heykal remarked : 'For Egypt, foreign policy is one of her largest invest- ments ..? The more Egypt extended influence in the Arab region, more demagogic the anti- American speeches Nasser made, the more dollars might be extracted from the Ameri- can imperialists. What Nasser did not realize was that they were no longer playing the game. On the eve of the war, he was hoping that the US would restrain Israel.

In correspondence with Johnson he was urging that vice-president Humphrey visit the Middle East, while vice- president Zakariah Muhieddin would visit Washington. The way in which Nasser has been to seek prepared diplomatic 'solutions' of the Palestine problem might serm in contradiction with some of his more militant speeches. On May 28, 1967, for example, he was quoted as saying, 'We will Field Marshal Amer: Used as scapegoat for defeats of June war. not accept any possibility of co-existence with Israel'.

the explanation However, given to Eric Rouleau of 'Le Monde' by an official of the Egyptian broadcasting service, just about sums it all up : 'We committed the mistake of connecting the microphones of Cairo broadcasting station together, so that Nasser was addressing and masses. world public opinion at the same time'. Palestinians wage For 20 years, as refugees in the camps or as an oppressed Israel, inside the minority Palestinian people suffered be- cause of Zionist colonialism and because of the failure of the Arab governments, whether feudal or bourgeois, to smash Zionism. guerrilla The Palestinian movement is an expression not anly of the Palestinian masses' resistance to Zionist conquest, and their determination to their homeland, but liberate also of their determination to shape their own future in- dependent of the demagogy and double-dealing diplomacy of the Arab ruling classes.

In asserting this right for the Palestinian the masses, liberation movements arouse the mass of support from workers and peasants, and particularly the youth, in all the Arab countries.

RYCHARI DARINA

If there was any tendency to demoralization after the debacle of June 1967, it has been offset by the guerrillas' successes. In March, 1968, in the de- fence of the village of Karameh against Israeli attack, the guerrillas held out against tanks, aircratt and paratroops and inflicted heavy losses on the Israeli forces sufficient to defeat the object of the attack.

This resolute stand not only restored Arab confidence, it helped to transfer it from the governments to the guerrillas.

In November, 1968, when the Jordanian government sent to Wahdad refugee forces camp to suppress the guerrilla organizations, refugee the youth rallied to stand by the guerrillas against Hussein's orces. In Lebanon, workers and students took strike action and came on to the streets to oppose the government when it moved against the guerrillas.

The Lebanese government's repressive moves were in line with those taken by other Arab governments such as the to assert their Iraq regime, authority by restricting the movements and Palestinian attempting to enforce their subordination to the govern- ments. governments were These joined by Nasser in securing for the Lebanese deal authorities. There is evidence that US imperialism was pressing for moves to be taken against the Palestinians. Shortly • before the attack was launched on the guerrillas, the US government had ex- pressed concern about Leba- non's 'territorial integrity' be- ing respected. "The Economist' on October 25 commented that the US statement 'has been generally interpreted by a hostile Arab as a blast at the world Palestinian commandos - and as an encouragement to the Lebanese, and other govern- ments, to take action against them'. Knowing the resources and methods of the Central Intelli- gence Agency (CIA), it would not have been beyond them to have initiated the attack on the guerrillas themselves via contacts in the Lebanese army establishment. Palestinian To some extent, the Pales- have tinian leaders shown recognition of the line-up of as a mouthpiece for Nasser, published an editorial praising the courage of a Palestinian commando. An Al Fatah leader remarked: 'Look carefully at this article.

On the surface it is a senti- to our cause, mental eulogy but this is simply for the masses to show that Egypt is 100 percent behind the Palestinian resistance. 'If you look further on you will see that Heykal is argu- ing that the Palestinian resist- ance is secondary in import- ance to the Arab governmental policy. If this policy is to wait indefinitely for the Arab states to prepare for a new confront- ation, then we must wait; if they accept an expedient dip- lomatic solution that requires our operations us to stop "temporarily", then we must We do not accept Mr stop. Heykal's ideas. We are direct- ing the liberation struggle, not the Egyptian government; these governments will work for us because they know that their people support us' (Quoted by Hudson, •Middle East M. Journal', Summer 1969). Following the agreement Arab arrested by Israeli police in Tel-Avi police persecution. ARKINS - PARI Tiktl with the Lebanese government, a statement by the largest of the guerrilla movements, 'Al Fatah', claims that: 'Most of the points agreed upon by the Palestinian and Lebanese representatives in Cairo follow the pattern drawn , by the Palestine Revo up lution. It goes on to say: 'Our struggle against the Zionist enemy is a common one and no doubt our valiant brothers the Lebanese masses will act as a bastion to protect our Revolution and will ensure its continuity' (Al Fatah state- 'Free ment, published in Palestine', November 1969).

In effect, this is acknowledg- ing that the Cairo agreement was a compromise, open to interpretation, and that the way it is actually implemented will be decided by the balance of class forces in the Lebanon.

However, in the next sen- tence, the Al Fatah statement says: 'Unlike our previous agree- ment with the Lebanese Arab refugees ousted from their homes afte new road to Kallia. authorities, this present agree.

ment has been guaranteed by official Arab third parties, who interpre- will supervise its tation'. So it seems from this that Al Fatah is swinging between reliance on the masses and reliance on Arab governments, and avoiding a real analysis of the role of these governments.

This may also reflect differ- ences between various elements within Al Fatah. The Al Fatah movement, while insisting on the dependence of the Palestinian struggle, also insists that the Palestinians must concentrate on their own struggle to the exclusion of other struggles in the region, and in this way it observes the connection the struggle against tween Zionism the struggles and against imperialism and Arab reaction. Interviewed in Free Pales- issue, tine' August 1969 Yasser Arafat (also known as Abu Amar) stated : 'We will not interfere in the internal affairs of any Arab country that will not in its turn put obstacles in the way of our Revolution or threaten its continuation' Not only has Al Fatah not gone further than bourgeois police in Tel-Aviv. Since the invasion every Arab is au Saturday, December 13, 1969 nationalism, it has declared for neutrality, indifference, be- tween 'progressive bourgeois nationalist states and pro- imperialist feudal reactionaries such as the Saudi Arabian monarchy. It is asking for support from the masses, yet not aligning with their struggles. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait contribute money to Al Fatah, but these states are as much allies of imperialism as Israel The reactionaries are pre- pared to make demagogic play with the Palestine issue so long as they can use it as a diversion from the class struggle in their own countries.

This fakery was exposed, to cite one example, when King Feisal of Saudi Arabia used the argument of unity against Zionism to call for support for his 'Islamic Alliance'. This alliance included Persia, which has been Israel's chiet source of oil! The recent Saudi Arabian provocations on the frontier with the South Yemeni repub- lic, following that country's nationalization of British com- panies, are conspicuously of the reminiscent sort of aggressive acts that Israel has carried out on behalf of im- perialism. of im- Certain upholders perialism, both in the Tory and Labour Parties, have been ex- pressing sympathy for the Palestinians. No one should be taken in by these people. They had very little when British to say troops were brutally repressing their homes after the June war work on a the people in the occupied South Yemen. They are chiefly interested, behind their 'humanitarianism', in revivifying the old alliance between the Foreign Office and Arab reactionaries. In an article praising Al "Sunday Times' Fatah in the on November • 30, former Tory Foreign Minister Anthony Nutting says: *... the PLO as a whole Fatah's rule that accept Al ! interference in the affairs of the "host" countries should be avoided, and that, until liber- achieved, ideological ation is differences should be put aside.

Arafat himself enjoys a close relationship with King Hussein and other Arab rulers of every political colour. And, from what King Hussein told me in Amman on this visit, whatever misgivings the Resistance may still have about other leading Jordanians, he personally now deeply committed seems supporting the Palestinians, if only out of despair of Israel ever agreeing to withdraw from the occupying territories' (Our emphasis. So Hussein has become 'con- verted' to the guerrillas' cause, the only because wants Israelis to withdraw from the West Bank, but to smash the every Arab is automatically a target for

Baturday, December 13, 1969 Raw Arab youth recruited from the villages and trained in the Egyptian Army (r shape their own future independent of the ruling class.

Arab masses to in Syria and Jordan (left).

Guardian' by David Hirst, Zionist state altogether and 29, it with a Palestinian August 1969, entitled replace democratic state! 'Down among the pragmatic guerrillas'. It was Hussein's grandfather, A movement that can give King Abdullah, who annexed of being the impression 'prag- West Bank in 1950 as part the of being matic' and 'Marxist- of a deal with Israel. Leninist', a movement that can Abdullah from was assassinated attract praise both for his with the Anthony Nutting and the Mao- complicity Zionists in dismembering the ists-'uncritical support', note Palestinian —really is pragmatic ! homeland. Now Hussein would like to recover Its military Al Asifa, wing, the West Bank. has been the main guerrilla force operating, and the most However, if the Palestinians effective so far; but however succeed in establishing a state effective its Al Fatah tactics, of their then the West OWn, lacks a revolutionary strategy.

Bank will not be restored to the kingdom of Jordan, be- The Al Fatah leaders have cause it will form part of the shown no intention of de- republic of Palestine. veloping a political alternative to the existing Arab govern- So if Hussein supports the ments. guerrillas at all, it is unlikely Consequently, the way has that he goes along with their been final aims. left for these governments to attempt to re- It is more likely that he is impose their authority and to prepared to back them as far betray the Palestinians again. as pushing for an Israeli with- drawal, in the hope of using Of the other groups in the them as bargaining counters liberation Yasser movement, which he can trade for another Arafat has explained (in 'Free deal with the Zionists. Palestine, June 1969): In attempting to subordinate "The other reason why the Palestinian movements groups beside Fatah exist to to- their own policies, all the Arab day is that many of these groups do not recognise that governments are Id pastern of tọ restore the old pattern the present stage of the Pales- tinian relations which facilitate the struggle is that of imposition of a "political solu- national liberation and rely on tion' on the Palestinians, that deliberately limited support is, a diplomatic betrayal.

within the Palestinian popula- tion.' The Western imperialists and Soviet the bureaucracy are both pressing for this. The only people who don't want it are the Palestinians, who want to determine their own future.

That is why the guerrillas are fighting. Al Fatah was the first of the the guerrilla movements in field, and it is still the main It has attracted one. to its ranks large numbers of Pales- tinian youth, and its fighters probably inflicted have the main blows at the Zionists so far; but however effective its Fatah tactics, Al lacks a revolutionary strategy. Although there are some left-wing elements inside the its leadership has movement, shown no intention of develop- ing a political alternative to King Feisal : Makes magogic the existing Arab governments.

play on the Palestine issue to divert class struggle. Consequently, the way is left open for these governments to to their attempt reimpose authority that they can In other words, the left of betray the Palestinians again. the guerrilla movement does not accept the "stages' theory Of course, Al Fatah is not of revolution, and they are not the only Palestinian liberation prepared water down their to although hear programme in order to be able some people one might think to hob-nob with King Hussein.

SO. The September issue of 'Free They prefer to rely on the Palestine' reporting the visit 'limited support' they can get of British students to Al Fatah from the masses. Arafat's re- camps in Jordan says: shows how mark superficial is the Al Fatah talk about the Marxist-Leninists 'people's war' and 'revolution'.

taking part in the adopted a resolution declaring A spokesman of the Pales- "unconditional uncritical and tinian left, quoted by Michael support for Al Fatah"! Hudson the in summer issue of 'Middle East Journal' says: The report goes on to quote someone called Paul as saying: 'It is not enough to wear 'Al Fatah mobilized the has khaki and shoot to have Marxist- people in a classical revolution, and the Palestinian eninist wav'. youth are not giving their lives In the same issue of very just to restore the oppressive Palestine', 'Free there is rule of landlords and big quote from an article in 'The businessmen in Palestine.

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Besides Al Fatah, the main movements that have emerged are the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Democratic Front.

The PFLP developed from the Palestinian wing of the Arab National Movement, Qawmyun El Arab, which aims at the unification of the Arab region, and has contacts in various Arab countries. Unlike Al Fatah, the PFLP has declared for the overthrow of reactionary regimes such as the monarchy in Jordan. Initially Nasserist, the Arab National Movement later adopted a more left-wing ideology, at least in phrases, and the PFLP leader George Habbash was sometimes ге- ported as being a 'Marxist'.

However, the left-wing ele- ments have now split away to form the Popular Democratic Front, led by Na'if Hawetmah, who is contemptuous of Hab- bash's claims to be Marxist, and characterizes him as 'petty-bourgeois'. The PFLP has gained a great deal of publicity for itself by such actions as the hi-jacking of Israeli airliners, and it claimed responsibility for the fures at Marks and Spencers' stores too! In fact, it looks suspiciously as though Habbash, whom some Palestinians regard as one of the 'old politicians', has been using young liberation fighters to carry out raids with little military value, but designed to bring maximum publicity for his own movement. Heroism wasted in publicity stunts is a substitute for a real struggle. The Popular Democratic Front, on the other hand, has worked to establish cells for popular resistance inside the occupied territories, and taken part in a number of guerrilla operations against the Israeli forces. In April this year, the PDF joined with Al Fatah's military wing, Al Asifa, in forming the Palestine Armed Struggle Command, for joint operations.

At the same time, it main- tains its own political identity.

The PDF is committed to developing a revolutionary political consciousness among the Palestinian people, and believes that the • Palestinian liberation movement must ally with two forces - the Arab masses and the Israeli working class—to achieve its objects.

Support for national libera- tion struggles is mandatory for Marxists, irrespective of the leadership of these struggles.

At the same time, we have the right and duty to criticize and make some assessment of the movements concerned. From what little knowledge we have, it seems clear that it is the Democratic Popular Front that comes nearest to providing the sort of pro- gramme and leadership needed by the Palestinian revolution.

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Because it lacks the stability and homogeneity of a ruling class and stands at a low cultural level, the bureaucracy is extremely sensitive to any minority group-political national—which in any way impugns its social status or threatens its stability as the ruling minority in the USSR.

This is particularly true in relation to the Jews in the USSR, who constitute today the largest community of Jews in the world, and the most gifted and 'rebellious' national minority in it. Referring to this aspect of the bureaucracy's policy relat- ing to national minorities, Trotsky wrote: "The more considerable the level of development of a given national group, or the higher the sphere of its cultural crea- tion, or, again, the more close- ly it grapples with the prob- lems of society and personality, the more heavy and intolerable becomes the pressure of the bureaucracy.' He concludes: '. .. since the Kremlin is the residence of the All Our Yesterdays. 1.55 Fireball XL5.

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Sunday Talks. that a group composed mainly of men who fought in the par- tisan bands during the war has been struggling against a group whose members returned to Poland in the baggage-wagons of the Red Army, and in this struggle the fact that the latter includes a number of group Tews has not been overlooked by their rivals-any more than the fact they they were asso- ciated with the worst excesses of Stalinist repression in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The exploitation of preju- dices by Stalinist bureaucrats takes all sorts of forms, of During the frame-up course. trial of Lazlo Rajk, held in Hungary under Rakosi in 1949, the wretched victim was obliged to recite, as part of the scenario written for his public performance: I wish to add that I am of Aryan descent, and genuinely too, because on one side I am Saxon'. Prob- ably you remember, as I do, how this item in Rajk's 'evi- dence' was used to quell doubts about the trial in left- wing circles in the West: 'There you are, you see, the fellow makes a point of his "Aryan descent", so he must be a Fascist hyena, after all'.

When the Germans attacked Russia in 1941, measures were taken in many areas threatened by the invaders, despite the chaos confusion and that reigned, to evacuate all the Jewish and children women (and quite a few men too).

They were taken eastward in special trains places of to authorities, and the outlying territories compelled to are keep step with the centre, bureaucratism inevitably takes the colour of an automatic Russification, leaving to the other nationalities the sole in- dubitable cultural right of cele- brating the arbiter in their own language' ('Revolution Be- trayed' p.177-178. New Park Publications). Indeed Soviet anti-Semitism does not take on the strident and violently pogromist character of Hitler's anti- Semitism which served a vastly different purpose from that which animates the Soviet bureaucracy. Comrade Pearce mentions example, the fact, for of communities being Jewish removed from the areas threatened by the German advance. That is true. Not only that.

Stalin even secured the help of leading Jewish personalities, like Erlich and Alter, in the struggle against fascism-and then liquidated them. Even more significant is Stalin's policy in the post-war period. Is it not a fact that in the period that Stalin same sup- ported the formation of Israel and the partition of Palestine, he was concocting the busy Slansky Trial, with its crude anti-Semitic overtones, and the 'Doctors' Plot', whose terrible logic was abhorrent to sections of the bureaucracy itself?

I am not indulging in 'pro- pagandist phrases' when write this, but am only trying to point out, however complex the relationship may be, that the bureaucracy and not just a section of the people, as Pearce implies, does resort to anti- Semitism as an instrument of policy. The presence of Jews as technicians, scientists and ad- ministrators-and even police- men—in the bureaucracy does not alter this fact by a scin- tilla. It only demonstrates the im- possibility of trying to solve the problem of the Tewish minority within the framework of 'socialism in a single coun- try'-a country: moreover, which was only just emerging from medieval backwardness.

As Lenin pointed out on many occasions, the bureau- cracy's policy, and this was the infantile version of later Stalin- ism, based was on the criterion 'administrative con- venience'. Stalin's attitude to the Jews is the most vivid proof of this non-Marxist and reaction- ary approach. His first attempt to solve the problem. in a purely admini- trative way was the creation of Birobidjan-the autonom- ous Jewish territory.

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safety. This is largely why, in of the Nazi massacres, spite such a considerable number- about three millions-of Jews are still to be found in the Soviet Union, attracting the covetous attention of the Zion- ists. Many of them left their evacuation areas after the war to return to the western regions-there was, of course, no restriction on their move- ments such as still applies to the Crimean Tartars!- but a good few have remained, in and around Tashkent. This is why the proportion of Jews in Communist Party of Uzbekistan is so much higher than it was before the war. My example illustrates how much more complex is the relation- ship between 'the bureaucracy" and 'the Jews' than is implied in the propagandist phrases which are so handy-but the use of which plays straight into the hands of the Zionists.

You point out, in your piece headed 'Wilson's friends are our enemies', taking the ex- Eric Heffer, how ample of Zionism, semi-Zionism and crypto-Zionism are being used nowadays for "Trojan horse' purposes by the enemies of the working-class movement. The Workers Press is doing a great deal to expose and combat this menace, especially through the invaluable articles by Charles Parkins. The pernicious hum- bug of Zionist propaganda needs to be shot down wher- ever it appears. Brian Pearce. the Editor This was a total failure because the Jews were a large- ly urban community who found ample scope for their talents when the Revolution des- troyed the ghetto and gave an impetus to the development of of science and the arts. From one extreme, Stalin swung to another, administra- tive solution: forcible assimila- tion into Russian society. This assumed a complete ignorance of the cultural background of Soviet Jewry and produced disastrous results. All avenues of Jewish cul- tural expression were shut down and the best exponents of Yiddish literature and art were silenced. Not accidentally this policy coincided with the so-called irrevocable triumph of social- ism' and the political reaction which followed it. This policy encouraged anti-Semitism in the USSR. Post-Stalin policy towards the Jews has changed the em- phasis, but not the reactionary content. Hyman Levy pointed out the untenable thesis of Kremlin policy some years ago when he stated: Instead of trying to_force Jews into a strict, non-Jewish category by physical elimina- tion of their cultural leaders, Jews are being encouraged to merge themselves completely by offering them almost, but not quite, every facility for integration, except in the poli- tical field, while at the same time no assistance is provided to express and encourage their own specific literary, artistic, and dramatic forms. "The expectation is, presum- ably, that on this basis the Jews as such will vanish.'

As Levy remarks: "Today there is not a single Jew on the Central Committee, and indeed, no Jew in any high political position' ('Jews and the National Question'. Hill- Publishing Company. way 1958. Emphasis in original).

Far from solving the prob- lem, this attitude has only aggravated it--and this situa- tion has been further • com- pounded by the creation of Israel and the desire of certain Jews to emigrate. In this sense the Stalinists and Zionists are no antipodes -but twins. Neither of them can solve the Jewish problem. The existence of this reac- tionary parasitic stratum can- not be reconciled with the genuine and unfettered devel- opment of the Jewish minority, as well as all other minorities.

The affair of the Crimean Tartars and the persecution of Grigorenko shows that only a political revolution by the working class can establish the conditions for such a flowering of culture.

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tenants, a teasers face are engaged in common gambling or privately-owned houses struggle. governments + nates os in fascist and union. vo tall terest Hitler TWO HUNDRED press operators at Coventry Radiators have decided to continue their three- week strike over suspensions and will be ing again next Thursday. "gamble' paying off. By our industrial correspondent with or henan. ine strike, aramst man agement attempts to intro- Possible deficit indystrial unrest at the sasse battle duce arbitrary speed-up under the terms of a new productivity deal, has week from April seriously hit production at the factorv and is now Slippery slope affecting other firms in the Midlands area. Replying do Forine's December 3. rs' conveno In a statement to the 'Coventry Evening Tele- m. He should exer ON THE same day, increased director Housing Con however serious the position is, he is not prepared to give Housing in Smethwick, near Birmingham.

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LEADERS of 3,500 production workers at ICI Fibres, Pontypool, are divided in their reaction to the new productivity deal being introduced by the company at their factory and throughout the combine. But at least 12 months From our own correspondent will be needed before the of the new consequences Staff Agreement' Weekly steward re-negotiating job and will become apparent, they bonus rate for the said Mr this was easier,' Workers told Press re- Jackson. porters this week. Less strength 'My advice to all ICI wor- kers faced with this scheme is 'In other words I think that make sure they have the

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offers schemes certain basic weekly pay immediate advantages to the has on age risen from £22 to £26 in workers. return for an 25 But ICI have introduced the anticipated per cent productivity increase.

deal solely to raise produc- tivity. Worked out on the basis of In this case, the 25 per cent the latest techniques in job- increase is expected within a the places evaluation, plan year. workers in eight grades. To move up one grade and Costs slashed get more money worker Administrative and super- must prove that the quality of visory costs have been slashed his job has changed. and the new output is only Wong achieved once besis of For he has example, to and breaking prove there is speed-up more respon- down job-demarcations. sibility or more mental effort involved. Workers must consider two The things. old bonus system has been scrapped and, in addi- First: would they have done sickness tion, better under the old system? an improved scheme introduced. Second: if demand for ICI ICI-always famous for its products slumps, will the paternalism- -also company's current benevolent claims to attitude change to. have given workers more in- a tougher their line on grading, and will their terest in jobs and the by allowing them promise of redundancies company still hold true? extra responsibilities. Critics There are, however, strong critics of the scheme on the T&GWU Fibres Committee. 'Traditional bargaining This new methods are better. of scheme total involvement the floor means from ShoD that the management gets of the worker by more making him believe he is taking responsibility, more said Mr Don Jackson. 'Once a deal like this has been signed, there is nothing If do for 12 months. we can within that time any depart- ment wants wage increase the by grade moving up a every- thing has to go back into the melting-pot and the manage- of has to be given proof that the job should be re- graded. 'This is a difficult and com- plicated thing for workers to do. 'Before it was just a case of and 'Phoney war'

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