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SATURDAY JANUARY 8, 1972 • NUMBER 657

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

FISHER-BENDIX OCCUPATION

AUEW retreat would be What It's our A stab in we think plant say Miners go into the back battle sit-in men ttle since

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

union DOCKS, building sites and factories throughout for miners the country will be canvassed for support during week by sit-in strikers from Fisher- the next Francis gave this message: Bendix at Kirkby, Liverpool.

The 1,000 strikers met yesterday and voted enthusi- astically to continue their Briefly occupation General Strike of 1926:

BY DAVID MAUDE

Even safety Works marry companies a sel ENGINEERS UNION leaders will recommend regret it for the rest of hi with 50,000 their members virtually Monday that on on as acron abandon any fight at national level for their men join six months on strike. : their latest pay claim. ment we Britain's 280,000 strike. cretar transport © PAKISTANI presiden miners are striking for then coal strike 47 per cent claim, the Amal- to see what they can do. the Fisher-Bendi gamated union or engineer® be thrown on the ing Workers executive will advise that the engineering

BY PHILIP WADD

claim is pursued at com• pany and plant level. COAL PRODUCTION in Britain will come to travel raisin Liverper dock miners launch their first supplements

AUEW

Hugh • DOCKS union leaders a halt today as the Scan® yesterday verbal support ef the ma bers official strike since 1926.

• three day m to get dee strate called neeting yesterday tons that the men News from Coment spoken a fo Third BSC are percent behind the million- Yesterda cabinet tog - conditions, Spokesman *was for tuaranteed vealed that t closure 1 xpes mone policy-makinree derisory une coal boards from the TUC leaders. BRITISH STEEL Corporation oner ana proceed wiln une resolved. action 20. 0 the year. This would mean

UNEMPLOYMENT

Hal co conduction or a code di already And lore mile, • boor in His employ: trial Registers Acr USSR 'sick from illustrates Stalin fear'- Two thousand January Fund reaches £182.61 the 'Tosie miters could be hint chaurabs in work-study Bukovsky usly", Scanion said.

THE MINERS'

decision, on the dispute or prosecu Hots on pay Speaking the even ad walk-out SOVIET society is still 'sick from fear which rute, Coal Board has come down to us from the Stalin era, Vladimir Bukovsky told his judges assenter before being sentenced to seven years' jail and committe onion day onl

TWO THOUSAND

workers at one of the To 47 pers are demanding Lumpur starting on Sunday.

biggest factories of its kind in the world walked Now grim-faced Courtaulds after management at out yesterday Ltd, Greenfield, Flintshire, tried to introduce a KeeP LefT work-study team. claimed, that for ers mead in a mapor victor that Norm weism and help the Toes to cal at re resent ties Federation: of tomploys ant yeserday i me to bes the sid. at the factory at d while

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arting the sta he an at all Fe Transport union branches behind sackings 'Right to Work' campaign the abandonment in Coventry over-pa engineeriness in organized members. Tack love AT LEAST 150 workers at expected to ment Trades Councils also support Telectory, Shep on h, with car would happen pership o set package deal in Linwood be forwardedito the ow arepointing AUER was derated bal last yea proposal in April 0 walk-out Special Evening Attraction paint m, representing 7.30 p.m.-10.45 p.m. 'at national Prison break in Karachi Bassadors soon. exchange Done lave up caming a PETE BANKS SOUND and

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and more towards th Bre reing fend sape the statione TIcketa 40p (Including Meeting and Dance) gates to try a mas escape. Avaltable from 186a Clapham High St, London SWA.

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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JANUARY 8, 1972 • NUMBER 657 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

FISHER-BENDIX OCCUPATION

AUEW retreat would be What It's our A stab in we think plant say Miners go into the back battle sit-in men battae sinte

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

DOCKS, bulding sites and factories throughout for miners the country will be canvassed for support during naneis gave redis massagt FeneRNee D SikeR duasidı Bendix at Kirkby, Liverpool.

1 ne 1.000 suikers mel : yesterday and voted enthusi- de ary ed te sar r. NCB chairman Derek Ezra (1) with his astically to continue their rielly at yesterday's press coould be withdrawn.

occupation.

BY DAVID MAUDE

Even safety ita ch ENGINEERS UNION leaders will recommend Monday their that members virtually on on tis taciry men join abandon any fight at national level for their men recen fil n ceived shap.

• ayng re oot te AUEW president Hugh Scanion latest pay claim. Today's s longer, •oBake to Ine oro& Asturian Britain's 280,000 Gen miners are striking for their coal strike

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*Some businessman is going un see whất thy can dò 47 per cent claim, the Amal- enc Fiser-Ben be oho for gamated unon or engineer- ahe ing Workers' executive will Postad aside tor advise that the engineering detea without chi ali property us o mind ee aid We dont want t

BY PHILIP WADE

claim is pursuea at com- pany and plant level. COAL PRODUCTION in Britain will come to or erisesident The fiying squads who Fethibal suppo miners launch their first he OCK hist a halt today as the sit Limoney desas official strike since 1926.

this yester- cit Aamler ang e abe 4 1.5 milin News trom the coalnela: Third BSC yesterday was that the men Yesterda c biner t

TUC

strong union solution ether are 100 per cent behind th the e for trened decision to reject • we closure Board's derisory York, shere inclu desalin ranspor e TUC leaders. and proceed with the sesterday STan Coeporatio alsciplin action. Thye pen y the mini ton o7 the United States T Wales the nounied e Co. conaucl. parate or ann ane eoining te serike. Messages a lane the Tory gov Docan® Appleb- Prodg cent mared ag ernment down. tw orke u.p otene in. Certainly da tr he Bord red of reh ae ir tell here bal adise monts was 5.2 milin. to close any more pits employs miner story. His threat tea retsto under. Tersda USSR 'sick from sack. (See p. 4.) Mr Dt classad th at coa Tha ira wal elere zad eh Two thousand nat hat mău) nece Stalin fear'- January Fund y wouid tur so erash them aetermination short very quickly. it and contine to wan, in al reaches £182.61 to work in all The stes e erll asto gire Bukovsky in work-study resusiy, Scanton said. seresed to more®

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decision Bor factor in eh cir deci walk-out so de umans nd beced SOVIET society is still 'sick from fear which in their nanola cor. Lord Carineron Sec etave has come down to us from the Stalin era', miners with sympathetic these dissenter Vadimir Bukovsky told his judges Lan hon urar con orer yas before being sentenced to seven years' jail and Peser are te no mis us ss ee TWO THOUSAND workers at one of the up to 47 pers anur starting on Sunday ly tưte+ demanalng biggest factories of its kind in the world walked hat is • the fotrike Aor a onmeta tal inclaise out yesterday after management at Courtaulds Now rim latirels Ltd, Greenfield, Flintshire, tried to introduce a KeeP LeFT backec work-study team. would the Above manater ot Contaud visas tance ne doneri Seniny to face Norm đie tac, De nos d not be the trouble to visit red by the mold , Swa igh sund Worke SPapham Higal again. yesterday. Forward to a weekly 'Keep Left' in 1972 !

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Workers Press, Saturday J FEW PEOPLE venture onto the night streets of Belfast. In the Catholic Ardoyne and the Protest- ant Shankill darkness imposes its own curfew. Winter daylight exposes Ulster's capital as one vast industrial slum. But after 6 p.m. Belfast becomes a city of menace. patrols slide Then the army out into, the 'areas'-the Catho- is ghettos like destroye heir Falls Anderstown. faces blackened, they search for the men of the Irish Republican irmy, both official and provi.

ional. Their aim is generally to terrorize the working-class com- munity. Gun battles are a matter of course. I arrived in the Ardoyne hours after a fierce attack by the army had ended. Gun battle In their characteristic unemo- tional fashion the people will describe the fighting: "There was a group of them over there by the corner firing . off the SLRs and someone was down our entry shooting off a Thompson. We were down here waiting for it to end'-so an Ardoyne housewife, eyes ringed from a night without sleep, sits on the windowsill and points out the battle from her living room.

You sit listening to a woman mother, who could be your neither believing nor disbelieving her words, neither angry nor sad at her predicament-you're fresh from England and things don't happen that way... yet. The incident warrants a para- in the Sunday morning graph paper: About 500 of the troops Queen's Lancashires went into the Ardoyne area of Belfast last night. Several clubs were invaded and five leading IRA men detained' (these days the detainees are always "leading' IRA men). The old and the 'new' Ardoyne is an area trapped at the top of the Crumlin Rd, one of Belfast's three main throughfares that cut through the city. "Their' side of the Crumlin, down far as Flax St, IS Catholic territory. Beyond this and across the Crumlin is Pro- testant land. The terraces facing onto the road are blocked off by ten-foot corrugated iron bar- ricades erected by the army.

Martial law Both sides, the slum streets aré the same-dirty, damp and gloomy in the winter mist. But the Protestant workers make a distinction and hang pathetic tattered Union Jacks from the blackened walls of their homes.

Slowly Belfast begins to infuse your psychology. You begin to walk without looking at passers- by. As you pass the camouflaged army outposts, you begin to get an inexplicable feeling of fear.

You don't stop to look at don't lean against shops, you a lampost, you get from A to as swiftly as possible. As harassed journalist one from the 'Daily Mail explained: "The city's really under martial law. You realize after about this four hours in Belfast. But how do the people face up to this kind of oppression?

ress, Saturday January 8, 1972 A special report by Stephen Johns the and The Ardoyne, smaller than the Mothers rush up stairs from their sleep Falls area, has nevertheless children been TOUsC the scene and them while o1 some of the most bring down bullets fly it's safer crouching on bitter fighting the the the living-room floor. escalated internment. The army can, and often does, Over 70 men from the 12,000 crash through the tront or back population from the old and new door at any The time. man Ardoyne are interned. It was the charge will bark: 'We're taking scene of the Holyrood dance hall this house' (another 'privi-

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incident, when lege' of the Special Powers Act), one night troops invaded the premises the soldiers command first floor

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windows to pick off the snipers.

Defence Ardoyne Citizens Com- mittee in Butler St and shot The streets are pitted with named Parker. His tall let out of Long Kesh craters from the nail bombs and tather was the pavements crushed from the to attend the funeral. The bitter weight of armoured cars. irony was that Mr Parker served 23 the that Despite all this, the spirit of murdered his son. Its Regimental these ordinary working-class Sergeant-Major was his corporal. completely people unbroken. They talk with sorrow of the dead ones and then make a joke Challenged about some of the more ludicrous aspects of their predicament. It's In of the area's little slightly bewildering to observe.

one Dutch wooden social clubs Father Aquinus, a priest at the Doherty-famed for his escape Catholic church that dominates from the Crumlin Rd jail was told of Ardoyne, me the And now the kids, when EN e arrested. progress of feeling on the estate.

the are out of the estate's streets, ple IDA are tee modern heroes "Dutch versus army. At first, he said, the army was welcomed. of the young. They came in 1969 when the It of was down the entry B-Special police launched an George another club that armed invasion on the Ardoyne McDade met his end. (similar incidents occurred. the city and in He challenged but olel balls was ran. Derry). Behind the 'Specials' The soldier fired and he bled tO came the Protestant extremists.

death on the ground leaving his pregnant wife behind him.

'Our people utterly

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defenceless. We were just targets.

The local priests went out that The men and the women of the the night to sooth men and will never Ardoyne forget that as Pat stopped more killing, but day. From then on the IRA, who McArdle, member of the Defence had only been a handful up until Committee, says: then, began to make recruits.

'This is the kind of thing they will never wipe out. The young lads will never forget that, Recruits no matter what government is in He occurred power. says change July of the after the election Since internment, and the open In August 1970, the Lories. it brought, normal social wat troops launched a brutal search life has broken down completely.

Falls that of the Lower area People are afraid to go into the caused a lot of resentment. This city centre for entertainment. All mitigated troops the Rd the Crumlin on helped in the floods of October. DuDs blown by Protestant were up extremists when they invaded That Christmas the army Catholic the in August helped with transport and enter- aleds at the local old folks' 1969. LaunCHT concert. Then there was a change The street lights are smashed again. wrecked by the army or men who the fuses to make In February 1971 there was WalL bombs. particularly brutal search of the Ardoyne. Some say it was a par- Half of three streets at the tor ticular regiment, but I don't think na ot the естатес ате ne шіті this was crucial the orders gutted houses. The scene is some- came from above." thing like the aftermath of an air-raid. These August 9, were Protestant After internment on fired their 1971, the Ardoyne people literally houses by when internment was introduced. rose-up in one violent mass.

The Night brings the battles. thrown gun barricades across From five to ten years old children play IRA games in the street. From ten to 15 years old they throw stones at the troops. At secondary school and high school they devote their time to helping the IRA-one young Ulster fighter is caught by the British army.

the district and the guns came out. 'The IRA made about 100 recruits in one day', he said.

the "Really, now army has replaced the B-Specials, or at least Faulkner is using them like the B-Specials. Ninety-five per cent of the people are against the and there is this army terrible polarization of the com- munities. Father Aquinus can't even drive across the top of the Shan- kill district in his vestments. He changes his robe for a red and white pullover-'better to be alive and helping the people than be a dead hero', he smiles.

The church only survives as far as they back the struggles of their 'flock'. Priests admit in confidence that criticism of the

IRA

would be to empty the church. Almost all Ardoyne people identify completely with the men who fight-from the little child- ren who play IRA games, to the secondary and high school child- ren who do everything they can to help the Republican army.

Army lies Pat McArdie who serves on Belfast's Com- Central Defence mittee for the Ardoyne, explains: 'In 1969 if a man walked down the street with a gun, people would have got alarmed Now he could walk up the street, kill a soldier and the army could come in every house and not a soul would tell worked in the small Pat Shankill Rd factory for 13 years, but after internment he left.

At the Ardoyne Citizens' Defence Committee Centre detail after detail of army brutality and lies are chronicled. One case will suffice to illu- strate why the people of the area cry out for their own media.

In October last year 22-year- old Michael McLarnon was shot dead by the He army. was a gunman, said the authorities and so was a lady Mrs McRandles who helped him and was wounded. The residents tell a different story. Michael, they say, was mend- ing his bike in the back yard. He heard the army whistle for a raid and walked through to the

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Farringdon Gardens on the edge of the Catholic Ardoyne The hated British army patrol past houses once occupied who fired their homes and fled the estate when internment came to Ulster.

There he caught a land barons, the bullet in the stomach in Ardoyne i spoke to hatre Viter They ity but keeps his the Lynch in change i the BROTHERS ir Republic. Shankill Road. s of the horri ad seconds to lid. and sheir servants tics of Ulster the way forward dabour movement, hets ilsons tor trish work th Ulster- what about the de. working class,

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Workers Press, Saturday J FEW PEOPLE venture onto the night streets of Belfast. In the Catholic Ardoyne and the Protest- ant Shankill darkness imposes its own curfew. Winter daylight exposes Ulster's capital as one vast industrial slum. But after 6 p.m. Belfast becomes a city of menace. Then the patrols slide army out into, the 'areas'-the Catho- lic ghettos like the Ardoyne, the and Anderstown. Their Falls faces blackened, they search for the men of the Irish Republican both official and sional. Their aim is generaily to provi- terrorize the working-class com- munity. Gun battles are a matter of course. I arrived in the Ardoyne hours after a fierce attack by the army had ended. Gun battle In their characteristic unemo- tional fashion the people will describe the fighting: 'There was a group of them over there by the corner firing off the SLRs and someone was down our entry shooting off a Thompson. We were down here for it to end'-so an waiting Ardoyne housewife, eyes ringed from a night without sleep, sits on the windowsill and points out the battle from her living room.

You sit listening to a woman mother, who could be neit words, neither angry nor sad at her predicament-you're fresh from England and things don't happen that way ... yet. The incident warrants a para- graph in the Sunday morning paper: 'About 500 troops of the Queen's Lancashires went into the Ardoyne area of Belfast last night. Several clubs were invaded and five leading IRA men detained' (these days the detainees are always 'leading' IRA men). The old and the 'new" Ardoyne is an area trapped at the top of the Crumlin Rd, one of Belfast's three main throughfares that cut through the city. 'Their' side of the Crumlin, far as Flax St, down as Catholic territory. Beyond this and across the Crumlin is Pro- testant land. The terraces facing onto the road are blocked off by ten-foot corrugated iron bar- ricades erected by the army.

Martial law Both sides, the slum streets aré the same-dirty, damp and gloomy in the winter mist.

But the Protestant workers make a hang pathetic distinction and tattered Union Jacks from the blackened walls of their homes.

Slowly Belfast begins to infuse your psychology. You begin to walk without looking at passers- by. As you pass the camouflaged army outposts, you begin to get an inexplicable feeling of fear.

You don't stop to look at don't lean against a shops, you lampost, you get from A to B as swiftly as possible. harassed journalist As one from the 'Daily Mail' explained: 'The city's really under martial law' You realize this after about four hours in Belfast. But how do the people face up to this kind of oppression?

ress, Saturday January 8, 1972 report by Stephen Johns A special The Ardoyne, smaller than th the district and the guns came Falls area, has nevertheless bee rouse out. of some of the most the scene, and bring them made about 100 The IRA ullets fly it's safer crouching on bitter nonting since the recruits in one day. he sali afte the living-room noor escalaled violence • ne "B-specials, the has cathe front er bac arily i ne army replaced 12,000 from the over lu men Dal Faulkner is using them like man populanon mom tae B-Specials. per Ine Ivinety-nive was first floor com- Defence Ardoyne Citizens Com- windows to pick off the snipers.

mittee in Butler St and Sho1 craters from the nai boes ind with of the sh Parker. His •The young man named tonis out of Long lalnel avements crushed trom t attend changes robe eight of armoured ca and white pullover- -'better to be alive and helping the people than Desnite all this. the snimt be a dead hero', he smiles these ordinar working-cass The church only survives sorrow the as they back struggles their "flock'. Priests admit Challenged of that the church ould the of the one little wooden social for b Dutch at doman the -famed his escape all Crumlin from jail- progress of feeling on the est the.

told arrested. And now tne kias. wner the are out of the estate's streets, h smoot o the who the modern At first, he said, the army was and high heroes welcomed Ten who everything they can do of the young. to help the Republican army.

entry ge Army lies (similar incidents occurred other parts and e bled to ot. the death on th and leaving his Behind 'Specials Derry). McArdle came the Protestant extremists.

wife behind him 'Our defenceless. Ope were were just targets he locaoriests went out tha walked night opped more killin IcArdle, member of the Defenc a handful up until Committee, says: then, began to make recruits eT wil never wind the kind of thing they out. Recruits young lads will never forget that, or 13 years Shankill Rd factory fo no matter wnat government 1s in but after internment he left power. Since internment, and the open Citizens' Artee Centre detai social Defence Committee area after detail of army brutality and caused a lot of resentment. This hes are chroniced helped in ate floods the toops mitigated troops one case will sure tot illu- Stratery but for their olen media strate hat Christmas the armi nelped with transport and enter canceet. Then there was a change year 22-year rainment local old

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"The street lionts are smashed -wrecked by the army or men In Febry brutal 1971 there was the fuses wno to make bombs. wounded. Jalf of three streets at the to The rêsidents tell a different ena Of ine estates are unea wit The scene is some- came from above. story. Michael they say, wak atter internment or the drin le heard the army whistle fo Night brings the gun barricades were raid and walked through to thrown From five to ten years old children play IRA games in the street. From ten to 15 years old they throw stones at the troops. At secondary school and nigh school Iney devore their time to helping i the IRA-one young Ulster fighter is caught by the British army.

front door. There he caught a bullet in the stomach. They laid him in the living room and to stop the fountain of blood Michael bent double.

Eventually he was carried out to a neighbour's taxi ready to take him hospital. Mrs to McRandles helped the lad who had seconds to live. Meanwhile troops invaded a neighbour's house. Two rushed and fired shots. Mrs upstairs McRandles got a bullet through her hand, it smashed her hip and lodged in her stomach. The soldiers came downstairs and the neighbour says she heard one say: 'I missed him and got a woman'. Mrs McRandle's husband was arrested and detained under the Special Powers he Act when came to see her in hospital.

Both he and his wife are now free. The Défence Committee points out she was not arrested as a gunwoman when she came out of hospital. She walks the Ardoyne now-with a limp. Confusion This is only one of the scores and scores of cases of iniustice the people collect and document.

They vary from murder to a minor beating up by the army.

So the war in Belfast goes on.

of the working The resistance class Catholics is truly heroic.

They are very ordinary people, fighting for their lives and what they hope will be a future free from oppression for their child- ren. • Bolivia o Lukacs power Farringdon Gardens on the edge of the Catholic Ardoyne.

The hated British army patrol past houses once occupied hv Protestant workers who fired their homes and fled the estate when internment came to Ulster.

no end to the • she de talking the Callaghans who nod to tune demagogue Ulster answer. died to put s nationalistic, Tory ike lynch in charge of the rich, the Tories and the Unste But beyond that, I thought of the the The horry, the evil masters

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For the latest in military intelligence — 'The Institute is very accurate' The staging of costly television shows is the latest step in a propaganda campalgn by US generals for Increased arms spending. This report from a special correspondent. more A HIGH PRESSURE lobby comprising important mem- bers of the US military has begun a campaign to increase America's nuclear armoury.

The campaign begins at a time when the US has enough destroy atomic weaponry to the entire planet. In launching the propaganda campaign, the sponsors say that 'the Com- munists are widening their lead every week'. The group calling itself the American Security Council has letters asking for sent out money to finance the campaign, 'Operation Alert'. The goal is for $450,000 to television shows, pay for full- page advertisements in 200 news- papers and 1 million letters.

John M. Fisher, president of Security Council, the American said in the fund-raising letter: "There is still a little time left for you to do something to help .. America is in danger. save us . Please, let me hear from you— while we He said that. liberal senators of both major parties, such as Edmund Muskie, Jacob Javits, Géorge McGovern and William Proxmire, mean well, but their policies are suicide'. Support sen Earle G. Wheeler and Gen Lyman C. Lemnitzer, former chairmén of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and now both retired, are supporting the drive, and Harry Treleaven, President Nixon's tele- vision adviser in the 1968 cam- paign, is writing the script for the television part of the cam- paign. Gen. Wheeler, who retired as chairman of the Joint Chiefs in confirmed that he July, 1970, supported the drive. 'Our relative position' in mili- *is getting less tary strength favourable' with respect to the Soviet Union and China Gen Wheeler said in an interview.

*And I decided to join this effort to persuade members of Congress about the needs of national defence.' He said that he did not con- sider himself a critic of Nixon's policies. we wind as former Chiefs. Treleaven policy 'or doing it.' ing anybody. 29, said, when Nixon scheduled to

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ropulation: 244.00.000 mvolve a revisco re-entry system Military service: Army and Air rorce, z years.

LU Do-I (Dadaler, and so-o (oasin) Navy and Border Guards. s years Estimated GNP 1969: $466 billion.*

SOLID-FUELLED

Detence appropriations 19/0: 17.9 billon roubles 40 SS-13 (Savage). 0.40-0.J roubles = sl." IKBMs ana MRBMS Operational IRBM and MRBM: total about rouble figure epresents th declared incide certain expenantures suen as ne cost or Missie pratio and rediane Range Balistic nucicar warneads, rescaren ana aevelopment ex penanture on advance weapons systems, and une hich are emieved to be in duded preme programm military clements of liquid-fuelled SS-5 (Skean) and expenditure Development continues of the or olner ministries. lolal muntary could be of the order of about $51.7 billion.t missile, and the Ss-14 mobile MRBM system, of used to replace total strengin or the regular forces is estimated some of the existing force. IRBMs and MRBMS at 3.303.0 men. In addition, the para-military forces. Including the security and border troops are sitea near ine soutern, castern and western of the Ministry of the Interior, have about borders of the USSR: 70 cover targets in China 230,000 men. ana Japan and oju largels in western curope.

Air Defence Strategic Rocket Horcer Total strength: 350,000. The Air Detence Command (PYO-Strany) is a separate command of anti-aircraft artillery surface-to-air-missile units, early- CBMs Operational Inter-Continental Ballistic Mis- warning system based on radar fighter- • and siles (ICBMs): total about 1,300.

squadrons for identification Total peson et in the Po is hobsil 500,015, of which ground elements account for 250,000.

Air defence weapons now in service include:

SANTI-AIRCRAFT

14.5mm, 23mn barrelled anc 250-234 Four-barrelled SP guns on tank SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILES: SA-l Guild remains in service and is deployed in large numbers for SA-2 Guideline: aircraft missile with a slant range of about 2: on ure used for an explan ex or the, 3,000 and 80,000 ft. About 8,000 are thought to intended for for age The whole 100 or so pages of the Institute for Strategic Studies document 'The Military Balance' are packed full of information like that above. There are facts and figures for each country that has military forces as well as estimations of the resulting 'balance of power'.

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12.10 Who would be interested in details of the nature, size and ‹ tary forces of every country in the world? Someone at No I PHILIP WADE investigates.

IF YOU walk down the Strand from the Aldwych and turn left at Adam St just past the Savoy Hotel you'll find a row of hand- some Georgian Houses. On the fourth floor of number 18 you'll find the office of the International Strategic Institute for Studies. Harmless enough you might think. Another of the many researching institutes away, publishing an occasional paper and rarely making the news.

But what sort of organiza- tion is behind an institute which claims more than 1,300 members and whose end up on the desks of every government, both E and W?

For example, a colonel who runs a section of Israeli intelli- has said the figures on gence Egyptian tank strength must be right: 'That's what the they and Institute says are, the Institute is very accurate' Report The Military Balance, the institute's annual report on the world's nuclear and stra- tegic forces, for example, con- tains extensive detail about the nature of the armaments of every country which has military forces. Soviet Union you Brigadier Frank Kitson— For the can find out how many long- a member of ISS. range missiles they have, there the deploy- characterisucs, ment of surface-to-air missiles Just who runs this institute?

around Moscow, the number "Herald The Tribune' and of ships the types in clue when it says: "The office Soviet fleet and the place- the Institute], 1OT modest to ment of every division of the the point of austerity, has that Red Army. vaguely amateur atmosphere associated Britain's In fact the whole af the with 100 or so pages is packed full Secret Intelligence Service known to its members as "the like this with estimations of the "balance of old firm". power' and so on. "Despite this superficial According to the 'New York similarity, which has encour- Herald Tribune' this organiza- aged romantics to see a con- tion only has a staff of 32 and there link nection, no a budget of £100,000 plus to between the two organiza- accomplish all this work!

tions.'

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Workers Press, Saturday January re, size and deployment of the mili- cone at No 18 Adam St certainly is.

Of course the institute would hardly have confessed to be in the pay of MI6 Névertheless, one's interest is renewed when you learn other than none Brigadier Frank Kitson is a member. Kitson considers himself one of the world's leading authori- ties on counter-insurgency. He is in charge of intelligence operations in Ulster. And any deficit on the annual accounts is made up by The Ford Foundation, the Founda- Rockefeller Brothers tion and N American and European industries. It wouldn't be the first time groups have of these some financed intelligence tions for the free world era- The Institute itself has not found the quest for informa- tion as difficult as it might seem. Survival According certain to a Louis-Francois Duchene, the Institute's director, govern- ments prefer to have accurate assessments of their military strength made public. Oh yes! You can just imagine the glee in the Kremlin when the leaders of the Soviet armed forces get a book through the post one day telling them how many they where missiles have, they're kept, what fuel they use and so on! Such vital information for the war-preparations of world imperialism can surely only be obtained through the activities of intelligence networks like the CIA and MI6. If you don't believe our account of the Institute's acti- vities you can always take out 'A "Survival" Subscription'.

This monthly journal is offered to non-members for a mere £3 a year. •"Survival" is the primary journal of the international security community' (whatever that might mean) we are told.

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Putting Nader on sale WE'VE all heard of Ralph Nader, the dynamic all-American con- sumer-spokesman whose recent battles include the famous one with General Motors over the safety of cars. His criticism of every type of product earned Nader the wrath of big US corporations. On the other hand, his liberal gestures were always preferred to those elements seeking revolutionary change in the US. Now the boot is on the other foot as far as this crusading lawyer is concerned. him, A biography of called 'Citizen Nader', is due this has already been spring (it bought by a national magazine and a book club). You would have thought Nader would have welcomed the publicity to his cause. No. He says he has 100 objections to its contents and has been put- ting pressure on the author, Charles McCarry and the pub- lisher to make changes. So far no sale. Extending the club THE UNITED STATES plans to follow up their smashing victory Japanese over European and capital while the rivals are still in disarray. It's the Group of Ten they're after now. At the moment this 'club' of leading world capitalist nations includes seven European nations. The Washington view is that hings should be a little more favourable to the US. After all, isn't Europe one big trading bloc now? The Nixon administration plans to start discussions soon to extend the Group öf Ten into the group of many more nations. Ideas for new member nations include Mexico, Indonesia and ather countries over which the US has some sway. Solemn clowning THE GRAND Orient of France, the oldest Masonic order Europe, is preparing to celebrate its 200th anniversary in 1973.

Formed by bourgeois of the 18th century enlightenment in opposition to the old regime and the Church, Masonry is now a reactionary movement hostile to the working class and to Marxism. The Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France is a M. Fred Zeller who, as a student in the 1930s, was a leader of the socialist youth and joined the Trotskyist movement. Now addicted the solemn to clowning which is an integral part of Masonry, in a statement on the 200th anniversary he has shown just where he stands politically. He speaks of the modern world being in a permanent state of change in which men are un- abe scientis than protechn of scientific technical revolution. Like many renegades before him Zeller proclaims that Marxism has been contradicted by facts. 'Progress' has not brought the expected benefits nor a reduc- tion what he calls 'social in tensions' - can it be that he means that old, exploded notion the class struggle? Progress was, of course, the watchword of the bourgeoisie in its period of ascension when it itself was a progressive class. Zeller now reflects its decay and despair. In platitudes worthy of Prince Philip himself, Zeller calls for a new faith and a new philosophy to being prevent man over- whelmed by his own creations. Ignoring altogether capitalist exploitation

Workers Press, Saturday January 8, 1972

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Fisher-Bendix occupation British CP's silent March and support of Bukovsky IMPRISONED Soviet opposition- sentence ist Vladimir Bukovsky has been picket may viciously attacked by the Moscow newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva',

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

which described him as a poison- ous political speculator.

in a trade or abuse whici UStwists the insults and recals levelled the back sit-in canderc defendants Moscow 1930s Japan's Bukovsky рари the Soviet an enery sale anu a bicacenary. Bet police mental hospital arm

BY DAVID MAUDE

Young apprentices at the Oakdale pit, S Wales, will also be out secret po vladimir bukoveky SHOP STEWARDS from all over the Kirkby Pit strike will be a Treasury

AMERICAN

industrial estate, near Liverpool, will meet tita ve. Secretary amesent Party its terring W German onn Connally tomorrow to discuss action in support of the big scrap' in S Wales sale vesterdav he had asked Mikio Mizuta, the Japanes economy Fisher-Bendix sit-in. seven years imprison Finance Minister. to make may worst since Hans ine ude many trade concessions so token strike, a march for THE HOUSE OF THORN: An investigation I believe there'll be ready sup that the United States could die ind space in his job and toass special 1950 into the firm which owns Fisher-Bendix will port from those unions with wage verin to tear cown the huge special appear on Monday. coler MPT Be attack balance-of-trade deficit with THE GERMAN economy faces stewards' meeting claims in the pipeline, because shee was irritated Trades and banking by the Liverpool employed and fll I sort out stinkir + Con nee they realize it's important for us party's 'pro Council for next Wedries- tend misto day. to win this battle? Lessins other grip se pouse when different, the fight - Britist Day three or the sit-lo capitalism. cent of started vesterdar with full de, and.

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ELEE

shaustrial with the yen agreed in Washington last puts Allende d with the Us the panes or are nor to go y that a 10t that; intarialiss shoulder in trouble with the free uni weaknes BoAS far as we are con- PRESIDENT Salvador Allende's government exolosions. In this ser with Chile has technic "This is a test for of an parliament following the passage oppo. the lot - wages, Minister censure CONROYPrimitive conditions José Toha. Industrial Rela- tions Bill, every- of Allende 1 nousands supporters ringed the parlia- HOLLOWAY prison, one of and censorship thing? workers oress ment building as the lower the oldest prison ourlaings in Hollow standise the N nouse voted ona's suspen

READERS' MEETINGS

Holloway Kise sion by 80 votes to 59. London. Jackson and Washore Rid tate, Meet Editorial Board speakers. Discuss your arencespri Ideas for expanded te ratythin voter to stop tion of constitutional rights.

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