1972-1972-1972-1972 Decisive year for workers will bring even more vicious attacks 1972 on the working class by the Tory

sees Wartime efforts to stifle the Trotskyist press-Cabinet CHURCHILL'S wartime coalition discussed plans to ban the Communist Party, intern its leaders and impose total press censorship.

This is revealed in Cabinet papers on show at the Public Records Office in London from Monday.

The records were opened for press preview three days ago, but the Cabinet Office, which organizes these facilities, refused to allow documents in advance.

We applied more than two months ago to take part in the preview.

In fart WA have more даLL MaYY right than any other daily to view the papers since our wartime predecessor"Socialist Appeal'-features in them prominently.

A Press Association теport shows that Labourite Home Secretary Herbert 'Morrison was so concerned about the nature and scope of Trotskyist activities that he devoted a special report to them at a Cabinet meeting in 1944. otokyists said thats ome Trotskyists share' in a Tyneside apprentices' strike of that year, national economic crisis, encouraged by the growing unemployment, and taking confidence from the treachery of the Labour and trade union leaders, they want to defeat big sections of the working class in strikes and press home 1971 ended with a million unemployed and prices increasing at a faster rate than earnings. In N Ireland, where unemployment is higher than anywhere in Britain, civilians are shot dead, interned without trial and interrogated under torture. This is the price of the most reactionary on destroying every basic right of the people.

In the early part of last year, Ford and Post Office workers put up a heroic fight which proved tha: all the samore of the working class were prepared to struggle to bring down the Tories. Millions of engineerworkers struck against the Industrial Relations Bill.

At the end of 197., the miners have forced their leaders to official miners the point of the first national strike since 1926. Coventry toolroom workers showed the same militancy determination. workers and steelworkers have shown their readiness to fight. world has been led by men who have crawled to the Tories. Their acceptance of speed-up and productivity, especially in package deal, has helped the Tories to increase the unemployed figure. By refusing to lead any fight they leave the Tories free to attack.

The results are plain for everyone to see: mass unemployment and growing poverty, price increases, the successful conspiracy, achieved only with Labour votes, to get into the Common Market and repression in Ulster.

Stalinists of the British Communist Party -especially at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders— have given the Labourites every assistance.

This year new tasks face the working-class movement. Unemployment, resulting from big closures throughout industry, is certair measures have barely begunzons August 15 The oppressed colonial masses, as in Bangla Desh and Vietnam, are coming together in their fight against imperialism with struggle of the workers in the main capitalist countries. This creates the most favourable as well as in other wartime strikes. Their main activity was 'advising and encouraging strike leaders'.

The fortnightly , 'Socialist Appeal' , he added, had a circulation of 8,000-10,000 copies and its propaganda was intended to stir up class teeling.

In June 1944, four Trotskyists-Roy Tearse, Heaton Lee, Jock Haston and Ann Keen—were jailed for up to • year under the 1927 Trades Disputes Act for conspiring to support the Tyne apprentices' strike.

Morrison's comments show incontestably that Trotskyism was the only working-class trend which consistently opposéd the reactionary Colition of imnerialist war and the Toryism, social-democracy This was the period when Morrison and Ernest Bevin, vith the unsolicited aid of the Stalinists Harry Pollitt and D. N. Pritt_tried to suppress the Trotskyist movement.

They did so with precisely the same legal weapons the wartime coalition had considered using against the Communist Party in the period of the Stalin-Hitler For a more detailed conditions for the building of an alternative revolutionary leadership-the main question facing the working class.

This crisis dominates everything. Unable to resolve it, capitalism can promise working class nothing except poverty, unemployment and war. Are we then to have a further series of betrayals in 1972, with even worse consequences than followed the early 1930s?

By the second week in January, miners, railwaymen, power workers and engineers will be locked in struggle with the employers and the Tory government. To win these battles means to defeat the government.

The refusal of the Labour and trade union leaders to fight the Tories has left them free to work against the colonial - peoples ..in These leaders are also responsible for the butchery in Ulster. Not only have the Labour leaders refused to campaign for the withdrawal of British troops, they have actively assisted the Tory governments at Westminster and Stormont.

The controversy over TV and press censorship shows that Ulster, with its concentration camps and shooting on sight, is being built up as a base for more reactionary measures in Britain.

The Socialist Labour League appeals for a united struggle of miners, railwaymen, engineers and power workers, together with the unemployed, to defeat the Tories and elect a Labour government pledged to socialist policies.

When the 'Right-to-Work' marches start from Glasgow on February 5 we call on every union branch, factory committee and Trades Council to organize the maximum material, financial and moral support. The fight against the scourge of unemployment is the responsibility of every worker and every section of the labour movement. We must bring thousands of unemployed and employed We call upon every reader and supporter of the Workers Press to fight to expand the paper, our main weapon in the struggles ahead. The great support for the Workers Press and its consequent increase in size is itself the surest sign of the changes coming about in the working , class, the growing realization of the need for alternative leadership. We ask every serious worker to read and discuss the Manifesto agreed at the All Trades Unions Alliance Conference, as the basis for the alternative revolutionary party. account of this period we would recommend Chapter XIII of Robert Black's 'Stalinism in Britain' (available from New Park Publications, price £1.25). The cabinet records, however, contirm in every way the imperialist character of the war and the monumental treachery of Stalinism in supporting it.

The records. reveal that wartime security chiefs were seriously considering the internment of CP leaders in the period from the Stalin-Hitler pact to the Hitlerite invasion of Russia.

They did ban the CP's 'Daily Worker' from this périod.

The authorities falsely claimed that the Stalinists wanted to "destroy' the government's authority.

Leading the security committee was Sir John Anderson, the man who masterminded the preparations for breaking ; the 1926 General Strike. Under him were Bevin and Morrison.

Information passed to this committee from the Home Defence Security executive.

This information suggests that the main worry of the Rhodesia, the Middle East and Asia. workers together in this campaign. ruling class was the vanishing credibility of the trade union leaders.

If no action was taken, there was likely to be 'an early crisis in their affairs and the help they can give the government will correspondingly diminish'.

The Home Defence Executive revealed the extreme vulnerability of the coalition regime when it requested that, in the event of further action against the CP it should be proscribing of the party as an illegal organization and internment of a small number of leaders'.

Morrison correctly féared that such action might have 'serious repurcussions. He recalled the mass strikes on the Clvde during World LAAN николо War I.

Morrison's fear of Stalinism was unwarranted. at the time, Athe time, phis sudden defeatism [of the Stalinists] was not storted vary m but a distorted variety patriotism • . . the political content of this courage was smirched by their embellishment of the rapacious policy of the enemy [Hitlerite] camp'.

The moment Hitler attacked Russia the Communist Party swung round 180 degrees and became the

Police raid

halts Waterloo OFFICE staff were manning ticket barriers at London's Waterloo station yesterday after the entire 450-strong uniformed workforce struck in protest against police raids on workers' homes. war's most ardent supporter.

The Stalinists, as the 1944 trial of the Trotskyists was to show, became the most strident supporters of the Regulation 18B and Order 1305, and the 1927 Trades Disputes Act, the hated precursors of the Industrial Relations Act.

They demanded that the government make the Trotskyists illegal.

The other aspect of wartime policy which concerns the labour movement today is the extent of censorship considered by Morrison in 1941 and 1942.

Morrison told MPs that under section 2D of the Defence Regulations the government had the power to suppress a paper which 'systematically published matter calculated to foment opposition to the successful prosecution of the war'.

The same spirit is now being invoked by the Tory government successfully to prosecute the undeclared war in N Ireland. .

Although papers have not been suppressed, the present crisis in the BBC and the actions of the government in Ulster indicate that this is not as remote as liberal protesters would believe.

'White-collar' worker

(left) collects tickets at Waterloo station, London, yesterday, during a strike against a police raid on two workers' Inspectors and plain clothes clerical stafi were were called in moment's notice to cope with • the station's 70,000 rush-hour travellers.

Ticket collectors, porters, parcel handlers and shunters staged a 24-hour protest strike after British Rail police visited the homes of two porters as part of a search for stolen property.

Trouble flared on Thursday. night after police questioned two men at the station.

The night shift walked out and the day shift refused to start work until British Rail guaranteed payment for the night men.

Congestion and delays were expected last night as Southern Region cancelled 20 of its 171 services. new offer by -Daly