Workers Press no. 651

workers press THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE McGarvey 1972-1972-1972-1972 sees Decisive year Breaksea Jan 10

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Presi- dent Danny McGarvey is to meet officials of a Houston, lexas, company wica las expressed a vague Interest buving the Clydebank yard of upper Clyde ship- builders.

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

1972 will bring even more vicious attacks on the working class by the Tory government. Spurred on by the inter- and the een he men at UC economic crisis, encouraged by the rat they wil are no man growing unemployment, and taking confidence shipbunder the Labour and trade Dard of Gossi from the treachery of union leaders, they want to defeat big sections of the working class in strikes and press home the attack. 1971 ended with a million unemployed ras and conditions soon and prices increasing at a faster rate

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sonia coord than earnings. N Ireland, where In unemployment is higher than anywhere admone ss al Britain, interned wit civi trial and interrotead civilians shot dead, UCS divisions and job The sometime in the maddre livin the policy Clydebank is iless guaranteed. Labour camp appeal labour engineering oreign docorrest ended to orrespondent: sad they that the en orences fore bet they were sentenced cells lact die to spleene in to termer ded Pin student and several workers. Wartime efforts to stifle the Trotskyist press-Cabinet papers wartime as well

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discussed plans "advising Communist tos areas Party, intern + 8.00-1000 cens sp. intended stra die for Tear Hear. et papers on show at the net paper antoined and ot They did so with precisels rapacious the Stalin Hithe 180 degrees and became the detailed ycal, The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JANUARY 1, 1972 • NUMBER 651 Ulster Strike if no new offer by march next Wednesday defies —Daly ban Pits showdown

BY ALEX MITCHELI

THE

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Coal Board had son on er a pay. yesterday wond improve its latest £2 offer to avert a national miners' strike due start on Sunday week. Speaking on the 25th anniversary of the nationalization ot the mines, nees at to to it. official said the Board was ready to face a strike We demand that eakers Mr tora ads unibenther Orange We have gone as far, Social can ear no more discussion with.

and eneral secretart a am at is final up National Union of WIne- ay that in the pre-strike meeting next Wednesday.

right wine toe Gormless dan usual eding orne or stile court statives Dublin, in. Tast official expressed the crisis this to a Tory deal is will be approaches tom done hink Labourites' co-operan comen is elis it to do. gir Reactionary Westm wison sita leader what will bents defeat the Irishe Nixon Police raid Tim Labor depury relying the has no hop Cope and the A 308 on deal halts Waterloo Browne or them 10 * the mat in Peking Dasa nizes maggots mus instructions to : to live out

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OFFICE staff were manning ticket barriers Nixon's visit February at London's Waterloo station yesterday after bombing raids on N Viet- the entire 450-strong uniformed workforce nami DebT sharinge against police raids on struck in protest ssories workers' homes. ray scale a call mus- angratt.

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building liquid gas tankers.

bring even more vicious attacks will 19/2 on the working class by the Tory government. Spurred on by the inter- national economic crisis, encouraged by the party they wil have no growing unemployment, and taking confidence i the from the treachery of the Labour and trade ank is assured urur or Codban is surger t union leaders, they want to defeat big sections of the working class in strikes and press home hat as sernment has warne uld be brough to an end it und the attack. unions 1971 ended with a million unemployed and prices increasing at a faster rate N Ireland, where mise able than Meanwhile callings. promis unemployment is higher than anywhere Britain, civilians shot dead, se conte enter had to loved he se alc interned without trial and interrogated under torture. The sone contention ne kin MeGarvey could This on destroying every basic with Breaksea right of the people. guaranteed e Relations Bill Labour camp sigh reactionary appeal shot to me Built camps sincer and pro detent she totes,.

abounleague appeals for a seeking Labor red improve their package god, has haged the Tones to m polic ratch Factor, comic and The document, handed sought Were pol teal. of the 30 prisoners who part !! 5 of deprived punishmen measure have hardy begin supplemen heir diet sountries® Wartime efforts to stifle the Trotskyist press-Cabinet papers

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coation anscussea olans to bar the communist wo baker, Party impose bare he bet they, i corres- intern its leaders total press and he from New censorship. This Defence Ex- ublic Record London from Monday The records were opened Ofice, which in advance contestably morphie which min thi war ose to vict This was the period when Home secretay that I Herbe at actres pot They did so with precisely Coalition had c a thats the shad Party 1 of that peer, that the main wor of est To degrees and became the detailed strike a more The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JANUARY 1, 1972 • NUMBER 651 Ulster Strike if no new offer by march next Wednesday defies —Daly ban Pits showdown

BY ALE MITCHELI

THE

CIVIL

KIGHTs Association 'White-collar' an is near tomorrou witti internment emarch in defiance on rallies dation Organizer Kevin McCorry,

BY. STEPHEN JOHNS

or gokuping in uster.

THE

NATIONAL Coal Board it would said yesterday not improve its latest f2 offer to avert a national miners' strike due to start on Sunday week. Paisley's Democratic Union.

ned the Speaking on the 25th anniversary of the nationalization of the mines. if Stormont official said the Board was ready to face a surike ave be the best premie d when circumstances, he said. possible offer in We hove greens in ais situation there men at Dungiven." haven't been any approaches from the miner executive or any move from us.

The erse leaders break of no more discussion with Lawrence Daly, National Union of : Mine- ener politeal wok nizatio ight-wing eight grouni towards compromise. nem with " plan standing hold later month representatives One NUM official expressed the 'crisis thi and Westminster. way yesteraay "The strike think • the a Board is Reactionary think Transport unions Nixon Police raid promise relying home and santa instite, on deal halts Waterloo Treassun and Genera in Peking in whic he or Her to fire ou specific one hal

BY IAN YEATS

WHSTERN

dinlomats say Peking Present Nixon's visit in February OFFICE staff were manning ticket barriers ahead despite the bombing raids on i Viet- at London's Waterloo station yesterday after wise pokerren. Shouldng IRA men injure the entire 450-strong uniformed workforce mall that he diplomed told Reuter's protest against police raids on struck in somes to Lion VSt. workers' homes. and plain

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PAGE TWO Workers Press, Saturday January 1, 1972 Top: Stalin and Voroshilov. Centre: Vyshinsky, th Prosecutor-General. Bottom : Kirov, whose murder wa planned and used by Stalin.

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Or Full subscription (six days) for months. Name Address Amount enclosed f • But Stalin also had to wipe out every living representative of the old revolutionary movement in case they became the leaders of a neu one which would sweep him and the whole bureaucratic stratum from power. ' Revealing the method and nature of Stalinism With enses an apronation of the ru t & Yelinsky: What did it Ithe Centre's activities express them.

activities consisted mainly in the preparation of Zinoviev: terroristic acts. Vyshinsky: Against whom? Linoviev: Against the leaders.

trusty atrials Stalin chim rei lam that he late hoped to pove Zinoviev: Yes, by our Centre.

contusco. Smirnov, Mrachkovsky and Ter- Vaganan belonged to men a re Tered, a Salled. Brine ber Revolution Zinoviev: Yes Kishinsky: That means that all of you organized the killing of preserved depte the talist ber Realtion zinoviev. Ies. Vyshinsky: So, then all of you murdered comrade Kirov?

Zinoviev: Yes. Vyshinsky: Sit down. a Tens and other passion aerobious to prearranged questions ben sorted it the el • ат ван і до го ос сту мід гережн. о A mystery of the confessio Shachtman was in 1936 to resolvin he mystery Union and oWing we hathe padntor one of d of the a, hissel at the tim le have had the admissior • Some containin disposed of in some other way.

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Behind the Moscow Trial by Max Shachtman New Park Publications 75p the old revolutionary movement in case they became the leaders of a new one which would sweep him and the whole bureaucratic stratum from power. In the perspective of history, Shachtman's book is only dated in a few particulars. Its whole analysis and main conclusions not been rearmed since and revealed by the bureaucrady itself at bas remain the methods of Stalinism and the nature of the purges.

Shachtman has little difficulty in showing that the derived from the confessions was itself contradictory.

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review by Pay rise for John Crawford Hirohito too

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£500,000 the her Queen and offspring has created something of a precedent.

Latest news from Japan shows that Emperor Hirohito and other members of the imperial family are to receive an 18-per-cent in- crease in their annual living expenses trom ADril £14m This means a total of has been allocaied to Hirohito and impress Nagako. as well as the family of Crown Prince Akihito. Four other families will share a total of £812,000—which means about £203,000 apiece. The government said the in- creases had been made necessary by sharply rising prices. But while the . Tory govern.- Japan awards gigantic family, increases it to the roval is demanding that workers' wages down. be held Sounds just like home, doesn't it?

LEXANDRA

Above: The Tsar and his famlly go Into hiding. Below: Michael Jayston Nicholas. as Bottom: Splegel's view of Bloody Sunday.

Ready for Hitler

THE MAROUESS

of Bath is opening a Hitler room at his country seat-Longleat. It's not opening so much the - that intrigues us, as what he had to say about the timing of the will contain The Hitler room paintings by the Fuehrer and relics of the Nazi regime.

Lord Bath said he would be opening about two years' it in time 'when the public will be ready more to appreciate an exhibition of this sort. Planning to co-star in... STANLEY KUBRICK mean any- thing to you? He made the films Strangelove' and *200l: A Space Odyssey.' Both very unsettling films.

Alexander Walker, film critic of the London 'Evening Standard' is a man of right-wing views.

Surprise, ( find that he is writing Kubrick's biography. No surprise at to find in 'Evening last week's Standard' article Kubrick by- on -you an guessed it-Alexander Walker. And he managed to get in plugs for Kubrick's film, 'A latest Clockwork Orange', and his own book. He describes writing about 'exhilerating Kubrick exhausting as and and lavished the frenzied director with much praise Rut the interesting comment down comes way the article: 'He insatiable film an viewer, screening features at his home cinema one after the other; together we took of the propaganda and many of the films made in Nazi feature Germany: partly they because with his fascination with tied 1n the way that film absorbs, stimu- influences audiences, lates and partly because evil, the power to do ill has a strong pull his imagination.' really. Oh. Walker describes dinner talk Kubrick's house as ranging Goebbels' from 'Dr role as film publicist' the noneer Right's inability produce to dialecticians to match the Left's.

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Workers Press, Saturday January 1, 1972 Convertible dinar endangers

GEORGES

of secrelary property relations Communist Party, has been 'Le Monde' bourgeois call Yugoslav to detend his farty's new programme. has programme the publicity which the economic the laws of the pariamentary Marchais loses open house a dee ne earlier contributor emphasizing partiche nations by your

BY JOHN SPENCER

YUGOSLAVIA has announced that its national currency, the dinar, will be made fully con- vertible with the main capitalist currencies.

The in Belgrade on announced Coalition Thursday by Foreign Trade Minister Muhamed Hadzic, is a major breach in the state monopoly of foreign trade and a big concession to foreign split due capitalists investing in Yugoslavia.

Tito's turn to President Right to Work Committee the the face Iighl mounting unrest among the country s national minorities Wedneed lanuary 5 now threatens the rounda in Italy tiony established ned eh.

S premises, Portobell nomy established by Yugoslav revolution. workers press

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Meet kersior * will sad tealsoy. THE COALITION government of Emilio ene dinars party he Natio Colombo may face a serious political crisis

LIVERPOOL

when it reconvenes in parliament in mid- Monday panuary 3 January if it cannot meet Republican Party from the Sand on tod demands for new policies.

Th threatened Chilean to the ful

COVENTRY

agrarian Sunday anary 9 demands in more open allack on une Pole Hotel, right-wing

LEICESTER

area The mary told ante the Nednesday January 12

GOVERNMENT

currency, left-wing the parties Queen's Hotel (Left Revolutionary Cal for coloma Movement have steppeu un Spears their agrarian rerora with cramme in Linares. a ront wing stronghold in SChile.

NEWCASTLE

were it to con The document calls for class Thursday p.mary 13 amangation premieres operatives. Baylors Rd MIR has Westgate Democrats in opposi and claims to lex Mitchell party Imperialismuebe and with Briefly..

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Sunday pamuary 16 Linares the Quare in Finte Christia D has erday Bid 1, are right ward come h Steppeaker hen Johns Yugoslova

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Sunday 0 p.nary 16 the strike action from today.

tionar 1o Premise Western Works Longbridge Stephen Johns wever betweense d

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to condemn state and public morals. NEARLY 500 l diellectuals, Greek personalities Pret London. nmercia weekend cinemas this by General de Gaulle, which of bourgeois property vague and intended to relations. is by the workers He deals with the matter of clude action themselves where to take over the money is coming It means that they from industry. with the side-stepping can elect representatives to statesmanship worthy of many joint boards like those In a reformist. sections He says the kind of govern- some of German the pro- industry. envisaged In Marchais maintains the pro- gramme will make it possible gramme stands for new to increase the national in- national minimum wage and come, reduce wasteful new pay structure to be expenditure and raise more collective determined by money in taxation. bargaining. His particular type add demagogy leads Local authorities should him have the right to control the that more taxation will be sale and price of land, he says.

imposed on the super-profits This was: criticized in 'Le of the big monopolies. Monde' as being unclear and The essentially reformist the bourgeois journal asked nature of the programme 1S where the money was coming by its shown of from anyway. Marchais deli- economic questions. Whatever cately avoids the real issue— it says about nationalization nationalization of the land.

of the monopolies and the All he says really is that redistribution of income, it there will be powers of com- goes no further than the purchase traditional pulsory quite social-democratic sistent with the maintenance

FOLLOWING

visit to Statement Peking by Spanish Com- munist Party Secretary San- issued tiago Carrillo, at the head of an important delegation, relations have been resumed after Com- with the Chinese munist Party. Peking In an interview with the Party daily 'Mundo Obrero' his Carrillo said on return, visit that while differences between the two parties still exist, they have been moving closer together. retical questions. there. has Each recognized it been a 'convergence'. party simply should find its road to The agreement that Carrillo will socialism and that means not party Peking's policies and had the right to impose its criticize will the Maoists presumably point of view on another or interfere in its internal affairs.

have support his pro- This was an obvious refer- gramme for the restoration of bourgeois democracy ence to the methods employed in Spain. by the Soviet bureaucracy to policies What will happen about the impose its on the Maoist Communist Party international communist which has been movement. in existence 1964 since and which has Especially since the invasion tirelessly denounced Carrillo of Czechoslovakia, Carrillo has and his 'clique' as among the moved away from Moscow deepest-dyed revisionists?

and hopes now to receive No doubt Peking is ready some moral and perhaps to drop this party, which has material support from Peking.

never won much support He had the pro-Soviet either inside Spain or among faction drummed out of the emigrants in Europe. after the had The Spanish Communist party majority criticized the Party distinguished itself situation in has Czechoslovakia 'following the by its rightist course. August 1968 Warsaw Pact In article published in an invasion. 'Comment', the British Com- Carrillo suggested that other munist Party organ, last April, communist parties might also Carrillo called for a dialogue with an understanding with the in order army to Peking. find ways of bringing about a He should know that, peaceful transition to a bour- according to the Maoists, the geois parliamentary regime in Soviet Union has returned to Spain. capitalism under the leader- The evident class-collabora- ship of a new Soviet bour- tionist of Carrillo's geoisie, headed i by the party does not prevent Peking revisionists Brezhnev and from dealing it as with Kosygin. great fraternal party. No reference is made in the Maoist In fact, practice Spanish statement the does not differ in any funda- on agreement with Peking, mental i from or in way that of Carrillo's interview, to prin- Carrillo. cipled such questions as the The policy it supported in of Soviet Union. nature the Indonesia, and which led to There discussion is of the massacre of a million Maoist policies what Communist Party members or on political and precise theo- showed that. Vickers overtime ban BARROW shipbuilding The dispute is expected to workers plan to ban all over- become the pacesetter in time at the city's Vickers national pay fight of Britain's yards from January 4 in sup- 150,000 shipyard workers a £5-£6, 20 per cent of port next year. Vickers' offer is suspiciously cost-of-living claim. The plan seemed Tories' unofficial certain to close to the be implemented yesterday as and norm for in creases. the 12,000 knocked off Leonard Redshaw, men the from the last shift before is this year's pany's chairman, Tuesday with no company president of thei Shipbuilders' improve its offer of move to and Repairers' National £1.75. 6.4 per cent. Federation. CPers lose NUS seats TWO Communist Party mem- But CPers Joe Kenny and bers have lost their positions Gordon Norris - - from Liver- in the leadership of the S Shields pool and respec- National Union of Seamen.

tively-will lose their seats as from next Monday. Voting for an executive The union's right-wing top reduced in size from 24 to 16 brass are proposing to place returned for the first themselves on the full register time London's Phil Ballard, re- under the Tories' Industrial admitted to the union in May Relations Act and to make a 1970 after approach expulsion for Joint with the distributing anti-fascist leaflets shipping employers to the in Greece. government for a closed shop.

THE ENTIRE British motor The deficit compares industry is in the red, with after-tax profits of according to figures pub- £38.6m in 1969 and €55.6m Motor in 1968. lished by the Manufacturing Economic Downward on or Presente Development Committee. the has rate profit dramatically sharpened. Last year's f4m after-tax Return on capital employed loss foreshadows further fell cent last year, compared to los per spate of redundancies and cent in 1968. short time. she maximile, Marchais articles typical • spitalion is me tie nationalist. It ormid middie alass l position is real May-June 1968. ises were granted to th

SPANISHI

tascism ended 1971 on better terms than ever with the E European Stalinists Europe imported yeads from Spain worth 1,192m pesetas (£7.1m). on the void. own economy. verame it returr visited er secretary, necessary to cover these gains'. The programme is both serious and ambitious, Marchais proclaims. To carry it out it will be necessary to change the present system— he does not say overthrow the existing mode of production.

What he re- formed capitalism headed by a coalition in government, 1944-1947, with communists holding portfolios. And out all the he trots well-worn • phrases from the Stalinist dictionary of class- collaboration-'the anti-mon- 'popular unity, opoly front', 'the of interests community between the working class and other layers who are victims of the monopolies'.

Marchais dares to call this 'the emancipation programme of the workers by the workers

GEORGES MARCHAIS

themselves'. better It would be described as the ultimate But Marchais claims the Stalinists actually of the to concessions assisted attempt working class into delude the capitalism they were that demands followed by 'an believing Its economic up- realized without which made it possible can be surge revolutionary struggle. the to release resources LEADER of the Nationalist Movement Revolutionary h a s Dr Paz Estensoro returned to Bolivia after a seven-year exile in Peru.

MNR,

As leader of the which has five ministers in Col Banzer's government, he signed a pact with the has armed forces and the Socialist Falange of Bolivia. At a welcoming rally in La greeted Paz, he was by Falange members wearing the of Bolivian white shirts fascism with enthusiastic fascist salutes. Estensoro, Paz who was power in 1964 by carried to the insurrection of the Bolivian had tin miners, been an adversary of the Falange for 20 years, was always a but lover of order in the nation.

In interview with Le an Monde' the he recognized help this new with alliance the fascists would from get his old friends in the Soviet bureaucracy: 'We are in a difficult period The MNR's of transition.

SANTIAGO CARRILLO

build up the priority is to economy and finance and then begin development. Capital will come back. who "The Soviet experts had concluded an agreement with Torres to look for petroleum on the Altiplano their work... have started (Our emphasis.) Miners

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trial practice under clauses of the Industrial Relations Act.

ratify International coalfields six Militants the on Labour Agreements recently are also criticizing the internal adopted in the Spanish Cortes strike organization established (parliament). These include by the executive. laws relating to hours worked Liaison committees of 50 to in coalmines and the medical 100 should be elected at every examination of young workers.

pit to run the strike and keep day-by-day contact with all ratified 89 Spain has now trade unionists in the area.

of of the the agreements The big transport unions Office, International Labour should stand and together more than any other member- their specific intention make state. regarding co-operation with Presumably the Inter- the strike clear. Labour Office The miners, and all unions, national now should that the that workers have recognize considers strike is a political issue in- more freedom under Franco's the survival of the fascism than anywhere else on volting Tory government. the planet! Socialist Labour League Special Course of lectures following ATUA Natlonal Conference decision to prepare for the bullding of the Party

SUNDAY JANUARY 2

Historical Materialism today

BEAVER HALL, GARLICK HILL

(Nr Mansion House tube) 7 p.m.

given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary)

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

MEETINGS

CROYDON:

Thursday Make the Tory government 6, 8pm. Ruskin January resign House, Coombe Rd, Croydon, Right-to-Work Return a Labour govern- campaign. ment pledged to restore full OXFORD. Joint meeting employment and repeal all with Young Socialists): Sun- Cape of Good' Hope, day January 7.30 p.m laws against the unions! The Plain. 'Right-to-Work' cam- READING: Monday January paign. 3, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour

WILLESDEN:

Monday Hall, Minster Trades Discuss January 10, 8pm. ATUA Manifesto. and Labour Hall, High Rd.

Support the miners.

BIRKENHEAD:

Tuesday

BRACKNELL :

Tuesday 4, p.m. Music January II, 7.30 p.m. "Red Hall Hotel. 'Right-to-Work Lion', Discuss High campaign. ATUA Manifesto. SW

LONDON:

Tuesday

BEXLEYHEATH:

Tuesday 4, 8 Small January p.m. 'The January 11, p.m. Hall, Clapham Manor Baths, Trade Upton', Crook Log. Clapham Manor St, ,SW4. unions and basic rights. Tory government conspiracy.

DAGENHAM:

Wednesday W

LONDON:

Tuesday January 12, 8 p.m. Room January 4, 8рт.е 8pm. 'Prince 11, East Ham Hall. Town Albert', Rd. The for socialism struggle Make the Tories resien. in Bangla Desh.