U.S. military attack Saigon rally

Apollo 13: record the movement of To report atrocity stories is one thing, but to the US troops against the war is clearly something else.

The brutal way in which the rally itself was attacked and driven off the 'John Kennedy Square' has led to US soldier Lawrence Guthrie writing to Senator Edward Kennedy protesting against the action of the US military authorities and their Saigon puppets.

Five arrests Saigon police arrested five Vietnamese civilians who had joined with the US soldiers in the rally.

Though not large, this courageous demonstration of head blunder?

deception correspondent united opposition to the war by US soldiers and ordinary Vietnamese, held right under the noses of the military top brass and the Saigon police, has tremendous politidal implications for the anti-war movement everywhere.

We can be sure that these soldiers acted on what thousands of their fellow servicemen are already thinkingthat the war must end and all US troops be withdrawn.

Strength

powerful movement in Britain against the war will give new strength and confidence to many others to speak and act these heroic soldiers and Vietnamese have done.

Much now depends on our campaign to stop Wilson's visit to Washington.

Stop Wilsons' Garaudy's book provokes new French Stalinist and international Stalinism.

Garaudy's book examines what the author considers to be the main factors in the development of Stalinism within the Soviet Union and the international movement, until recently dominated politically by the Kremlin bureaucracy.

His conclusions have proleague on the Central con mittee and Politburo of the French Party.

Garaudy claims that the Soviet Union is ruled by 'a bureaucratic - military complex' as powerful as the 'military-industrial complex' that rules the United States.

Outdid Stalin He charges that the leader of this 'bureaucratic-military complex, Leonid Brezhnev, outdid Stalin by ordering the Red Army 'to suppress Czech Communist attempt to create a socialist model corWEATHER London area, SE and central Southern England, E and W Midlands: Cloudy with occasional snow. Wind easterly, fresh or strong. Very cold. Maximum 1C (34F).

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Garaudy argues that Brezhnev 'went beyond Stalinism by applying to an entire people and their Communist Party the methods used at the Moscow Trials'.

On the origins of the present regime in the Soviet Union, Garaudy departs from the official Khrushchev-era explanation that the crimes of the Stalin period were due to defects in Stalin's personality.

The Stalinist perversion of communism was the inevitable outcome of the whole system, which arose, Garaudy claims, from the monopoly of the Bolshevik Party over all spheres of Soviet life.

The reproduction of Stalinist regimes in all the world's communist parties has led to a situation today, says Garaudy, where genuine revolutionary forces are 'bypassing' the national Commundry with a few bright intervals. Wind easterly, fresh. Cold. Maximum 3C (37F). •Glasgow area: Mainly dry with a few bright intervals. Wind easterly, fresh. Cold. Maximum 4C (39F).

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THE REPORT of the National Economic Development Council was bound to draw heavily from the lessons learned by the employers and the government at the Grangemouth site.

Whether planned or not, the nine weeks' strike by the boilermakers at Grangemouth became a testing ground for the changes construction site work which now appear in clearer outline from the NEDC working-party report.

Mr Patterson, as an exnational secretary of the Constructional Engineering Union surely cannot be naive about the relations between trade union leaders and the employers. During the Grangemouth dispute this reached such proportions that every militant worker in Scotland was sickened the stench of class collaboration.

Even TUC general secretFeather winced when the terms of the agreement were made known at meeting of representatives of unions held at York in November.

We can assure Mr Patterson that we are not exaggerating. Whereas the agreement which terminated the dispute offered jobs to 253 of the 500 boilermakers who came out on strike, up to one weel Company Ltd. had given work to only of a total of 60 boilermakers employed before the dispute (33 of whom were In their place welders and platers were started from other unions.

The fault lay not with the rank-and-file workers on the site, but with the union leadership. For example, in June 1969 an agreement was reached between members of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers and the Constructional Engineering Union shop stewards that work which was in dispute between boilermaker platers and erecors in the CE for 'flarins 1n' on round furnaces should ist Parties—a clear reference to the events of May-June 1968.

Garaudy himself has always stood on the extreme right of the French Communist Party, and has served the party bureaucracy well in pioneering the Stalinist 'dialogue' with the hierarchy of the Catholic He is notorious for his attempts to reconcile Marxist materialism with religious idealism.

Many of his ideas on the Soviet Union are consistent with this ultra-right-wing line.

The dialogue with the church, the alliance with the middle-class parties and 'left' Gaullists can be better consummated once the Soviet Union is disowned and the French Communist Party converted into a truly 'national' reformist party.

Familiar argument Some of Garaudy's criticisms of the Soviet Union are directed at Leninism itself— notably his references to the 'monopoly of power' held by the Bolshevik Party before the rise of Stalin.

This is a familiar argument, used by revisionist groups such as 'International Socialism' in Britain, as well as professional anti - communist writers and historians.

Along the way Garaudy says other things which hit the Stalinist target-the Moscow Trials, the invasion of Czechoslovakia and the bureaucratic regime in the French Communist Party. be 'blacked'. This job remained in dispute until the beginning of the strike, but once the boilermakers' strike began, erectors were instructed by their officials to do the work.

The breakdown of trade union solidarity was prepared by the signing of the site agreement for construction work at Grangemouth by the five major unions involved This was signed on July 1, 1968, and was given government approval on August 6. 1968.

In its letter the Department of Employment and Productivity stressed that the payment of bonus called 'productivity and interchangeability allowance' could only 'be justified by the measures the agreement which provide for the required productivity within a normal working week of 40 hours'.

It was against Section 6 of the site agreement covering productivity and interchangeability that the boilermakers fought and it was under this clause that the strikebreaking was organized by the union officials of the four other unions.

Section 6 is the clause governing the payment of productivity and interchangeability allowance.

Clause (a) provides for 'eliminating wasteful practices restrictions or customs likely to impede maximum productivity.

Clause (b) provides for the employment of workers from any union, irrespective task, trade practices or demarcation agreement.

Men could also be employed from certain other unions.

Clause (c) provides for the most efficient form of working, and outlines practices which unions agreed to accept. Certain tasks ancillary to craft work would be done by the craftsman himself.

The introduction of necescrisis In so doing, he undoubtedly voices the unrest of younger members of the Party, perturbed by its role during the 1968 general strike.

This is no doubt the main reason why the Party leadership has decided to discipline him when the French Communist Party holds its Congress next February.

As a spokesman for ultraright-wing forces within Stalinism, Garaudy defends the same political line as the British Stalinist Monty Johnstone, who also combines extreme reformism with demagogic attacks on Stalin's crimes.

Garaudy suggests that the French Communist Party bases itself more on technicians, engineers and highly-skilled workers generally, which will then form the core of a 'new historic bloc' that can challenge French capitalism.

(This also happens to be the programme of an influential section of the PSU-Socialist Party-leadership.)

The book is a symptom, not a Marxist solution, of the crisis in French Stalinism. Its main thrust is to the right, away from the gains of the October Revolution and towards an alliance with the liberal bourgeoisie.

Trotskyism remains the only force that can analyse and challenge Stalinism in a revolutionary way.

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It was, said the boilermakers, the best explanation of their dispute.

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