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THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE No action on coal supplies Leaders vote 47-4 TUC rats to drop engineers' national wage claim siving Support committee on miners amateorkers was doing at A he en state nant my vote tot with abstention. figho abandon its national pay A motion calling for a ballot defeated navi 42 votes to 10.

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

We're treated like THE MINERS got their first stab in the back yesterday-from the leaders of the Trades Union muck'-Welsh miners Congress. A meeting of the TUC forward for the Finance and General Pur- Miners The ners ent a new Lab poses Committee offered sympathy over the strike picket at power after rom retreat. station must miners.

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miners will power sociabst programme. picket three kev stations at nearby Ferry bridge on Wednesday in Tom Jacksleader bid orker day called on 1 Whelmale strike strong no% thes about ce trade n future; Jackson said. Soverment and force them to Blaenserchan miners meeting to discuss their committee's proposals

BY IAN YEATS

workers were and food do us by the lodge EIGHTEEN Welsh committee. throes of a uniquely they is hey in so more he res were preparing to enter Board, Mos and hit a te rest of use ae nation were stop they page were there i sacked. them in ding off the General Str men work for the anonleft the miners to figh Blaenserchan at Ponty- pool in South Wales. Be control. Coal Board officia advantag bend o keep pits gro words! support miner at Blanserazar they ike Everyone thry t's their policy to shu shed at the he day ange and asthe and wages done stop against government. is most decided to o state he sad s Torsh Boe minerst absen themselves and aio Gormley: "disappointed' Mine- going on. retreat

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Safety scare fails gainst tes 51925 drive them dowr dogs: said Mr Smit They Weir holes, espect for anon

BY ALEX MITCHELL

in coalfields and told ONLY day of the sign on the dole. national miners' strike Contire winders to the the witch-hunters have launched dan rocident needed then ton aske - the deate rate in the ther workers return to рлодеу campaign salery scare. £1,250 Fund sacking wase T 1971° fors ta man was 'Many reaches £262.15

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men out. explanation the rest of his tda attitude orders tom the whatever or the men a lice nue. siy thin will support that by practical action over C He gave the Tory guns ork In one of ln attacks from uminess are righing More shipyard jobs cut on Tyne We've got man ker, the Tyneside prosit yards are i could for the cks are righ The Wallsend The repair not china. now te union Teal are on main- repair e springork is wed their cowardice tenance work jobs cut, p. 4.

The daily paper that leads the Tory government BANKERS in the City of London are refusing to accept some Yugoslav bond issues because workers press they fear they will not be honoured when they fall due for payment in three or five years' time.

Other bonds are being And the miners' strike. accepted-but only at hefty

BY JOHN SPENCER

discounts. Worried bond- holders reluctant More revealing still is the OUR VERAGE of the are difficulties news from Portugal that publicize their miners' fight against the of a five- Yugoslavia for fear the bottom mav Tory government will be to integrate out of the round drop industry Mediter- the most comprehensive and altogether. detailed in the country. "The Gee, They are now-suspect partners Many of the lan Yeats 111 bonds camar to London from pall of the from Wales Germany Yugoslavia's reese aresthe Yorkshire largest capitalist trading the Tite trom socialisil Scot- Stephen from country. on , The wily land. In leadership bases itself. their yi have

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maustra Stalin at the end of the 19405, dumper wy nen broke correspondent Daway dude London marketaper Titoites considered that ship and the TOO! the miners renter could they Stalinist The bonds are in the form degeneration by of negotiable bills of exchanee Special will guaranteed Dv yugoslav banks and the history of the party means of raising credit miners struggle abroad. TacIes was opportunist adapta- expo lanon Since the constitution. in the pits, the historic 1920 groups symbolized revised last battle by Yugoslav STrIKe. The SuD the com- United Nations nationalization.

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10L Lue batman a a Korean set up a large number of Ine nas and today's demand strengthened the forces within workers' control want major Yugo- I ugoslavia which has its restore capitalism. own LUtH with he emergence of extreme Special photo-reports will ank, Union right wing nationalist tenden- oviet be a feature our dnd Я S0 cies instading a revival of the European were ine coverate. Ustachi Danking nien with Each day will also kept centranzed hierarchy the line a column devoted tigot rein Carly scene for Tory lies against inevitable Yugoslav bankers in Britain Lu t savinist police off Tito's give an were unable to maners figure for the number of banks These tendencies must come Yugo- editorial We to con columns get the crass. a balals! already badly hit by unemploy- debunk thesee LO expose slanders. freedom of opera- ment and rising prices The revolution witch- tion for these financial institu- nolitica 400 K against the corrupt and bank both inside Yugoslavia upt Tito bureaucrac ay the casing of restrictions he only road for tr of restrictions six-part series by pack to defend the conquests of th on toreen vestment ame to Loosenine or currency controld uale the history • ot thi new freedoms have also con building the working class in Ireland.

sources that Trotskyist revolutionar. leadership in Yugoslavia tributed corruption threaten the foundations the

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slales In which Slavld nave already ween aravely undermined une policies the bureaucracy. sUrFuki for the young -rights which are being

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Socialists by this vicious Right-to-Work They that the last vestiges of the state monopoly campaign is nowing in from Copies of the resolution are all parts or the country trade and exchange being forwarded to the loca From Sheffield comes news are benarwusly. udues coune, to me Auc • toreign that the joint engineering shor astrict comettee ane to thi firms are being encouraged to sue wal us commutice secrelary or tae to Kg-to Work campaign South AUEW the stee works 1 uzoslavla al which Nicadownal decided The ondon Concessions to support the branch is also Unanimo y would have been unthinkable campaign. and a new vers ago. committee top firm. American and motion continues: were last week reported to be will talking with the Tues ave their next mass support to equip the marcherd about investment as majority at meeting on January 15. Yugoslav Shareholders in 1000 Officers and members of the industry. mealca sudoues ane to loin latest Leicester No 17 Amalgamated thel campaign for the remova Union of Engineering Workers and ot tne ory government convertible its replacement by a Labour branch support the campaign currency. This must expose the Yugoslav | right, workers' basic st primes or eation to social In detence ot of the right currency to tae lu lorce speculation world

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currency marker devalued ov zu per cent. It is to be made convertible at the new rate and the banks have been instructed to permit with to convert it into hard cAll these moves go hand-in- with a marked the right in the Tito regime's for Sudanese

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• TUESDAY JANUARY 11, 1972 • NUMBER 659

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE No action on coal supplies Leaders vote 47-4 to drop engineers TUC rats national wage claim sup all-im committee, amoring Workers was don® to hatre discusion at plant on miners brief statement released dis- stone can said: A no natiolin strike ballot defeated at 02 votest 10.

• discussed

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

'We're treated like THE MINERS got their first stab in the back muck'-Welsh miners yesterday-from the leaders of the Trades Union Congress. A meeting of the TUC Finance and General Pur- Miners The Bat the fories and bring poses Committee offered will establish workers co sympathy over the strike picket in the mines- but nothing else. benefits of natio y issue y the first time in 25 years.

betrayea on d they at power station Workers on ized behind thi The aim should be to force CASTLEFORD miners will resign picket three Key said: stationis bridge on Wednesday Ill a Post ' The minerg wanted leaders the ola strengunen unel strike. Wheldaleting of the shing abou and uplies and breaking future lackson said mittee wits inner supportin saidower mer met A in erect oute solution o support ommittee member bee meere power men. arrange a meeting of Blaenserchan miners meeting to discuss their committee's proposal: cretary of the Atan- general secretey

BY IAN YEATS

hey do Barkers lours EIGHTEEN Welsh to us by the lodge havest the miners are in develope of the of throes uniquely but it would ha they bitter fight - as se creatory If they win, so can the rest were preparing to enter raises two questions the TUC if the national pit stop- forties and with aral" all page they were sacked. General Strik The eft the miners to fight men work lor the at Ponty- Diaenserchan bit. pool in South Wales. Col and car backed Gold. Isaias asanto bend heir acards habeen sperded ork ha: aside and wages stashed a the strike are against nove Tory Its their policy to shut zovernment s and their toge edited the Too Everyone he spiners that th been themselves orat Mine Gormey dismointed everyone one ninows

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- Satety scare falis in 1926 drive them • down their holes. respect for anyone?

BY ALEX MITCHELL

in coalfields Listen right wing ONLY day three of national miners' strike Corelie Wide s the age 4. He launched ortant, Mr Heati unlikely striking campaign less ctory, shor safety scare. £1,250 Fund really and reaches £262.15 Shiving leaders Fund we mus this never they asers e coy work in one of the He save the rory gui unionists createne Irade More shipyard jobs cut on Tyne battle for them. worker, Weve the Tyneside resee yards i weeks before backs. the there chance 'Teo make Slan it Not the mon his brings the ting trades such an • left the trades He Things to a vi Tynes ren are showed their n Vil delail these the is this ingo. three • See "6,000 jobs not due until the spring.

yesterday. montis cul, po 4. that leads the BANKERS in the City of London are refusing to accept some Yugoslav bond issues because Workers Dress they fear they will not be honoured when they fall due for payment in three or five years' time.

Other bonds are being And the miners' strike. accepted-but only at hefty

BY JOHN SPENCER

Worried discounts. holders are reluctant More revealing OUR COVERAGH of the ctilli 1S the news from Portugal that miners' publicize their difficulties against Yugoslavia five- bottom Tory will be for fear the may integrate government the industry round Mediter- the most comprehensive and •rOD altogether. detailed in the country. are Many l ot the now-suspect 1 lc Ian Yeats will and bonds came SpaIn to Tandon. trom Philip the from Wales Germany. Yugoslavia's licese are the fruits orkshire and largest capitalist trading policy 'socialism One the Tito from Scot- partner. country. on which Stephen wily W Germans have leadership bases lana mausural with dumped much of Yugo- when thei oroke corres wonder Dave Maude London paper Stalin at the end of the 440s Will the acavites market. the toltec concidered that miners

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they avoid ship and the TUC The bonds are in the form comic Stalinist degeneration by decentralizing of negotiable bills of Special exclanet writers will guaranteed by Yugoslav banks examine history of the the party and tue means ol raisine credit miners strucele barbarism opportunist adapta- exploitator was Since the constitution. world in ine dis. the mistone lyre groups revised last year, the ized Yugoslav strike (co - operatives. by sup- institutions com- 1810nЯ178101 The factories, etc.) Yumoser of or Nations Coal Board the War, Dosition of the have set up a large number Has today's demand strengthened the forces within banks. workers' control the A to mery Yugo- 1uzoslavia

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wan pits. slav capitanism bank, une emergence ot extreme. Special photo-reports will Mont wing nationalist tencen- also be a tenture where cles (including a revival of the aloveal countie. coverase. sentiments highly ustachi system. the Each will centralized and kept Croatia with catholic day in devoted also hierarchy pulling the strings carry Tory column ural rem. the Yugoslav bankers in Britain hehind.l lies the for Tito's inevitable miners. were made to cive an exac Stalinist policie vigure for the number of hanks tendencies must com Already the campaign ha current v onetatino Yuan. begun the editoria We will have to con- Slavia. columns capitalist get ract Relorade to details,' they said. expose Increased freedom of opera- ment and rising prices. slanders thes political revolution The witch- tion for these financial institu The hunters. tions against the corrupt and bank.

and abroad has Tito bureaucracy is now ruDI STARTING toda easing we ony road tor the workers six-par series by Tac to cerene the conquesto ot the Gale oosening of currency yugoslav revolution history the COnCrOIs. building that

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working class in Ireland.

sources say [ne of a revolutionary "freedoms' have also con.

new leadership in Yugoslavia.

trouted mighty the corrupuon ol bureaucrats and unculonaries who have liner their own pockets as a result ot come at the degic These «AVAlAnmAntO foundations threaten the workers' states in +ho slavia which have been gravely undermined the policies bureaucracy. work- -rights which SUPPURi for the Young are being

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Socialists Right-to-Work vicious taken away ThiS Torv government' Copies of the resolution are They that the last campaign is flowing in from vesuces or me state monodor all parts of the country.

the being forwarded to or torein trade ano exchange trades council, to the

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rrom Sheteid comes news are being swept away. that the joint engineering shop district committee al and to the Simultaneouslv. toreigr committee of the Right-to- stewards hims are heino encouraged tr Lees decided Work campaign invest in Yugoslavia the at Meadowhall has South AUEW price concessions which branch is also supporting the would have been unthinkable to support a few years ago Calpalen anc une mass Talli committee Ten st week American represents wender Pool on Mare 12. were last men ane motion continues: talking We nledge to raise financia' enzineers and will take sharehes int support to equip the marchers Yu mostay conection at their next masc meeting on annary cinthing fond medical supplies and to mediat pain for the to boat Oncers and memhere of th in The latest the "ecester No l? Amalgamate move Union of Engineering Workers decision to make the dinar branch support the Tu V convertib e currency government, pledged to social- basic of | right, the right Currency to the till torce the world sneculation currency markets.

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The dinar has already been It is to be made convertible and the • banks tore сть permit slavia to convert it into hard currency All these moves go hand-in- hand with a marked turn the right in the Tito regime's for Sudanese We will be marching from sunport dictator Jaafar Numeiry speaks

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In this special series JACK GALE breaks down the lies and distortions that surround the Irish question with a thorough examination of the history of class struggle in Ireland.

•. 1972

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Workers Press, Tuesday Januar; • In this special series JACK GALE breaks down the lies and distortion: In every historical epoch the prevailing method of econo- mic production and exchange, and the social organization neces- sarily following from it, forms the which alone can basis upon political and be explained the intellectual history that epoch. —Karl Marx. POLITICALLY, Ireland has been under the con- trol of England for the past 700 years. What this has meant was explained by Lenin, in "The British Liberals and Ireland' (1914): Britain has 'For centuries enslaved Ireland, doomed the Ireland has wit- generation in Irish peasants to unparalleled rebellion nessed an antennoted The fighters against english rule. suffering and gradual extinc- in these rebellions have been the city workers and the tion from starvation, "driven poor. them from the land and com- apart from Larkin and But Connolly -their leaders have con- pelled them to leave their sistently excluded the class inter- country in hundreds poor from the aims to native ests of the be achieved of thousands and millions...

instead, They sought, to W0O destitution "The unparalleled the Irish bourgeoisie to the and suffering of the Irish peasan- Needless to say, national cause. try are an instructive example of this bourgeoisie clung stubbornly the lengths land- which the its property under une

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lords and the Liberal bourgeoisie tective powers of England.

of "dominant" nation will go. "bril- her Britain based largery Heroic liant" economic development, the "prosperity" of her industry and such commerce. on Ignoring the petty-bourgeois the Irish peasantry as of classes' pleas 'union recall those of the Russian feudal England, Irish aris- against the tocracy and (landlords).' bourgeoisie pursued the Irish their oppression of 1649 order Until the social and with workers peasants that prevailed England which threatened to ruthlessness replaced the feudalism- -had not depopulate the country. Ireland. So to tribal system the Irish, the struggle against the While the Irish middle class foreign aggressor was also produced many individual heroic struggle against private property such movements as Young Ireland and the Fenians, in land. they strove leave as a class untouched the basis of national External and economic subjection. The English forcibly broke up It is essential to grasp this in clan This order to understand modern Irish the system meant that the replacement of history, which has been coloured the communal ownership of land for more than 300 years by the privately-owned system of conflict between James by a did William, ( capitalist-landlordism not England and Prince of develop through the operation of Orange the who adventurer internal economic forces, but via claimed his throne. external military oppression.

Neither James William Since the Irish aristocracy was in the slightest were concerned foreign either origin about the needs of the Irish with foreign oppression, alliance people. The Irish Catholics fought the leadership of the Irish patri- but the reason is not or James- movement fell entirely hard to seek. otic hands the middle class as such, became the ideal- The Catholic noblemen and and, possessed considerable middle-class gentry ized expression of property on which the peasantry interests. had been reduced to impecunious The emphasis of this leader- They were the descend- ship has always been on 'united national movement' which ants of men who had confiscated the ignored the class interests of the their property as spoils kept it they as Irish workers and peasants. conquest the fruits of co-operation with Religion, language, patriousin. reform, have all the foreign oppressor. In support- political even been used to prevent the devel- ing James, they were acting as an English faction. opment of class consciousness by the working class. Despite their conflict with the Orangemen, they had one funda- For the last 150 years, every Funeral of a famine victim in the early 19th century.

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the representanve of the property Its con- owners. Connolly right. The SO- flict with England was not in called 'Patriot Parliament' of the interests of the irish masses, itself a collection of Dublin was but to protect its own spoils from land thieves and their lackeys.

their fellow-tyrants in England.

when the same token, and his followers had Central William finally secured victory in Ireland, they acted according to the same The English ruling class, in its class feelings as their opponents.

turn, was anxious to maintain William confiscated million of Ireland in order control to and distri- of Irish land of the claim a share of the fruits buted it to the aristocratic toil of the Irish workers. So, the supported who had plunderers English sought keep the nim. Dublin parliament subordinate to through the London parliament Poynings' what was known as Common Law. Once the question of political Passed in 1494, this made the decided, both incapable of supremacy was Irish parliament Catholic Protestant and tenants discussing any meeting or med found themselves suffering one sures without the oppression. Certainly, King's Council. common approval of the received Catholics much rich It was not repealed until 1782.

'understanding' from the more It is this that was the source Protestants than the rich latter Protest- of the 'patriotism' of the Irish extended to their eVOT ant tenants and workers. ruling class—a which sought to rob the Irish people in Few tears were shed by either the exclusive interests Catholic Protestant or gentry native-born band of oppressors.

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These "patriots' always claimed both denominations for as, Union famine of 1740 that the Legislative example, in the 400,000 Great Britain and Ireland (passed estimated when people died. Moreover, the Irish destroyed trade in 1800) Irish of the Union and that repeal landlords took the aftermath of such famines to would lead to prosperity. This intensify evictions, break up was nonsense. and village see There was only one period in common lands. history Irish manufacture wnen That The fought back was really prosperous. was peasants through secret societies which when inventions like Arkwright's water frame (1769), Hargreave's tore down the enclosures, =3 SM

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amination of the history of class struggle in Ir An Irish linen print of 1782 showing a collection of land thieves and their la spinning jenny (1770) and Crompton's mechanical mule (1779)—plus a temporary period a short- of free trade-led to lived boom for the Irish linen and cotton industries. But with the advance of capi- talist production, particularly its dependence on coal, Irish indus- try was left behind. In 1830, for the one Scottish port example, of Dundee exported more linen whole of Ireland. than the industries all Irish Rapidly, declined-the leather trade, the woollen trade, the fishing indus- try, the iron trade, the milling trade, etc. etc. In fact, it was not the Act which weakened Irish of Union capitalism, but the weakness of the Irish capitalist class which made possible the Act of Union.

It was the decline of Irish indus- decline of the Irispossible the which made parliament the other way about. and not (The Irish ruling class was SO weak and vacillating that its parliamentary representatives openly accepted bribes to vote for the Act of Union.) Property This class was so treacherous that when a powerful military force, known as the Volunteers, was tormed, the Irish capitalists, under the leadership of Henry Gratton, used it to pressurize the English government into granting then commercial reforms, but turned on the Volunteers when they for democratic strove reforms in Ireland. Caught between the land- owning aristocracy on the one hand and the working masses on the other, the weak Irish capital- threw in its lot with ist class the aristocracy. At that time, Laws-statutes Ireland was under the Penal of unequalled ferocity ostensibly designed to convert Catholics to Protestantism. But in reality they were intended to convert Catho- lic-owned property into Protest- ant-owned property. Catholics were debarred from fessionlic office memberst pro fessions. Any member family Catholic could take possession of the family's entire simply by making property an affidavit that he embraced the Protestant religion. Fixed prices were placed on certain items of property and any Protestant could claim the items from any • Catholic by offering that price. But class lines were ever strongér than religious lines.

There are innumerable instances of the most fervent Orange land- lords evicting Protestant tenants and letting the land to Catholics at higher rents. Working-class Protestants suf- fered as much deprivation ot democratic rights as did Catho- lics. Catholics were barred by struggle in Ireland.

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1782 showing the Volunteer militia which suppo res and their lackeys. the religious laws and the Pro- the property testant poor by qualifications and the dominance of the Irish parliament by Pocket Boroughs (seats whose represen- tatives were nominated by the land-owning aristocracy).

The three great grievances that then, concerned the Volunteers, were: (1) The English parliament had prohibited Irish trade with Europe and America except through an English port, thus crippling the development of Irish capitalism. (2) Représentation in the House of Commons in Dublin was denied alike to Protestant and Catholic workers and to all save a few Protestant capitalists and the nominees of the aristocracy. (3) All Catholics suffered under religious disabilities. The Volunteers, with arms in their hands, won free trade. But when they demanded popular representation in parliament, they were deserted by their own leaders. When a Dublin Convention was called to plan e campaign for parliamentary reform, Volun- teers' commander-in-chief Lord Charlemont repudiated the Con- Henry Gratton vention and denounced them in parliament as "an armed rabble'. When a second Convention was called, its instigators were arrested. The English government sent large forces of troops and the Volunteers, deserted by their leaders and abandoned by the capitalist class who had got what they wanted from them, were defeated without a blow. Disarmed The Volunteers, in fact, were organized on clear class lines.

There were three corps: the Liberty Corps, recruited entirely from working class; the Merchants Corps, recruited from and the the capitalist class; Lawyers Corps, which speaks for the Irish itself. When govern- ment disarmed the Volunteers it did so by secret agreement with the Merchants and Lawyers Corps-but the Liberty Corps had to be disarmed forcibly.

The Irish working class, inspired by the success of the revolutionary movements America and France, was ready to fight, but the Irish capitalist class feared the workers more than it feared the British govern- ment. So the apparent gain when— after England had been weak- ened by the American War of Independence — Poyning's Law was repealed in 1782, was no réal gain at all. The real value of 1782 was assessed by one of Ireland's legendary heroes, Wolfe Tone: a which supported so-called 'Patriot Parliament' of Dublin— 'At one stroke it doubled the this difference, that formerly we value of every borough-monger in had distresses,

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antagonisms are threatening the unity . of the Yugoslav the state, nationalized property relations and plan- being ned economy are undermined foreign by capital invited by the Titoist bureaucracy. The whole rightward turn since 1950, which has acceler- ated in recent years, leaves the country wide open to Tito's statement changed our whole attitude to investment there'. capitalist influence and pre- pares the way for a restor- ation of capitalism. Every week brings reports of new deals concluded with foreign firms for the invest- ment of capital in Yugoslav industry. Ever since 1967 foreign investment has been permitted in to participate Yugoslav enterprise up to 49 per cent of the capital. includ- funds. This that foreign plus value from Yugoslav workers determining what should happen to it. more than its to business in at abroad, establishing in the mers Milwaukee. an interview our ment there. Shifts Allis-Chalmers would manu- facture hydroturbines i n Yugoslavia for sale in the world market, particularly in S America. Work would be shifted from there its plants Britain, France and Australia.

A team from the firm will discuss the possibitiest to Allis-Chalmers has now reviewing prospects. Clinging IN THE series of scan- dals involving members ruling Gaullist party, the Union for the Defence of the Republic, none is more sordid than image that revealed by the flight of businessman Charles Lascorz, known 'Monsieur Charley'. of the It establishes a direct con- nection between leading ano amazing underworld connidence men and racketeers acting behind a respectable business underworld cover. The Tom er estad isthet The head of the French counter-espionage service resigned recently. Pictured here his while rectors Making ing in a rare photograph is the successor to the post, Alexandre de Marenches (right) been seen since. has not nient clubs has Red to Israel. with President Pompidou (left).

from to line Tricolour business. a who в сосете ched so in end he Polices the Pow nationalist leader d' Action Ben Barracan Colique. Beatings Lemarchand is a lawyer; one beatings number • or special. the Fith Republic. ch. 1969 he late President of who Etudes a police informer. Terrorism and Stalinism A YEAR after the Burgos Brisis in thas ee part nationalists, trial or basque there have been a series of the Mart s ana ot altacks ana exploits in the -limitations in the Basque provinces carried out Mary chen tought rogether in the members ol the basque nationalist movement. Te gho tobbed and bombs Basque's fight warfare degree ere originaith planted was planted it well-moyo trial, a central government in Madrid.

Basque peasants defending a farmhouse during the early days of the civil war I French of in T9ele positions became clearer New order. two op mising groupTA split into exploded inhe Las Arena onl opposing groups. oMa described the thei for masque National Front (ENT).

class in Deember porking against maces by and employers worker to San And is i the church Also in Eibar on December 14 the Jata factory spended it or pay Tinie their strike Bibar user and in in run the and Recto Mecaina in 2zaaz strike he of then demand thrown rationalist movement into crisi Franco

REGIONAL

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CHANNEL:

OGRAMMES

ввс 1 012 Schle for. i Water: Weater: ti 205-255 Schools 1.53 News. the woll. 5.44 Magic Roundabout. 5.50 News

6.00 NATIONWIDE.

6.45 QUIZ BALL. Soccer stars in quiz 7.05

TOMORROW'S WORLD.

7.30 FILM: "THE TREASURE OF MONTE CRISTO'. Rory Calhoun Patricia Bredin. Thieves fall out over bounty.

BRITANNIA'S RULE.

10.25

7.30 FILM. THE TREASURE OF MONTE CRISTO.

LM 72. neview inclueingne way in ine LITe orivan

ITV

6.35 Report Weabove exrept: 6.01- HiT Wayed. as above exrept: 6.03-

MEDICINE TODAY.

11.32 10.20 Schools. 2.33 Toolbox. 3.00 Houseparty. 3.10 Tea Break. 3.40 ввс 2 Yoga. 4.10 Dr Simon Locke. 4.40 Once Upon a Time. 4.55 Sooty.

8% S3 a si. X7158 11.00-11.25 Play School. 1.15-1.40 Medicine today. 6.35 Handlina

6.00 TODAY.

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CROSSROADS.

7.05

OPEN UNIVERSITY.

0.5.

MIKSAND BERNIE

Sidney James, Kenneth 1.20 rILM:

"CARRY

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INTERNATIONAL TENNIS. Masters tournament trom Paris.

8.00 Williams, Kenneth Connor, Liz Fraser

COLLECTOR'S WORLD.

8.50 19.00 ovorn neasonable Doubl

A KING AND HS KEEPER.

Alan Badel as Charles I who DOCUMENTARY: "A WORLD OF THEIR OWN': Life on the Isle of Wight and puts himself Trom London to

THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TONE.

protection of the governor.

10.45 11.30

DRIVE-IN

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.

12.00 Workers Press, Tuesday Jant • resigned recently. Pictured here Alexandre de Marenches (right) like him are dangerous: they know too much and the Pom- pidou regime is implicated in a series of scandals at present. — property frauds, drug trafficking, tax evasions and phoney bank- ruptcies. Pompidou is trying hard to get rid of underworld image which attaches itself to the ruling Gaullist party. But the political Mafia is well entrenched locall / and it is doubtful whether even he will be able to do much about it. all the working-class forces in the Basque provinces. The former military wing of ETA formed the FNV with mili- tants from ELA (the Union of Nationalist Workers), of ECI youth movement of the Basque nationalist movement), a large number of exiled Basque priests and members of (ANAI-ARTEA, a group that gives aid to Basque exiles in France) and the APV (a of patriots, group Basque working under cover in Spain.).

The Basque Nationalist Party, which is Christian Democrat in its politics, has not joined the Front, although Front's leaders are dissidents from the party. The 'Marxist' tendency has not been successful forming. in united workers' front and has itself split into two. There is the Sayoak group which includes militants most who were active before the formation of ETA. It believes that the struggle must not be limited to the Basque country alone but extended to the whole of Spain. One of the leaders of this tendency made the recent state- ment: "The difficulties encountered in recent years in our struggle, the mediocre results obtained and the imprisonment a large of number of our militants have modified our perspectives and made us make a more realistic assessment of our possibilities.'

Sayoak has policy of a rapprochement with the Spanish Communist Party. The second group, Borriak, wants to limit its activity to the Basque country (in France and Spain) which it thinks gives sufficient for 'Marxist' scope activity. The Spanish Stalinists are hoping to reap benefits from the split through their organization, the Communist Party of Euzkadi, the Basque section of the Spanish Communist Party. It is clear that the crisis in ETA has only created a split between those who want to base themselves the "progressive' on section of the Basque clergy and small Basque property owners, and those who want an orienta- tion towards the working class, which they want to limit to a Stalinist perspective.

ULSTER:

10.20 Schools. 1.45 Schools. 4.30 Romper room. 4.50 News. 4.55 London. 6.00 Reports. 6.15 Daws explorr,. 6.35 Cross- roads. 7.00 Gunsmoke. 8.00 Dead- line. .30 Mike and Bernie. 9.00 ondon. I1.20 Short story.

YORKSHIRE: 10.20 Schools. 2.34 Unit 1. 3.00 Pied 3.05 Matinee. 15" Crossroads. 3.35 News. Women today. 4.40 En- chanted house. 4.55 London. 6.00 Calendar. 6.30 Dr Simon Locke. 6.55 Film: 'A Thunder of Drums'.

8.30 Mike and Bernie. 9.00 Lon- don. 11.30 Communicators. 12.00 Weather. GRANADA: 10.18 Schools, 3.40 All 4.05 News. London. our yesterdays. Here's Lucy. 4.40 Origami. 4.55 6.00 Put Jewsdav it in writing. 5.25 Peyton Place. 7.00 Film: 'Wher Hell Broke Loose'. 8.20 Sylvester. 8.30 Mike and Bernie. 9.00 London.

11.30 Moviemen. TYNE TEES: 10.20 London. 2.33 Unit 1.3.05 Pied Pissews.

3.10 Play with a purpose. 3.45 Women today. 4.15 Crossroads. 4.55 London. 6.30 Dr Simon Locke.

6.55 Film: "Man of the West'. 8.30 Mike and London. Bernie. 9.00 11.30 Snooker. 12.15 News. 12.30 Going fishing. Schools.

SCOTTISH:

10.20 1.45 3.45 Cross- Schools. 3.30 Foo-Foo. 4.10 Dateline. roads. 4.55 London. 6.00 Dateline. 6.20 Horan's Heroes.

6.50 Film: Life for Ruth'. 8.30 Bernie. 11.35 Mike and 9.00 London. 11.30 Late call. British museum.

GRAMPIAN:

11.00 Schools. 3.38 News. 3.40 Nanny. 4.10 Yoga. 4.40 Once upon a time. 4.55 London. 6.00 News. 6.10 Survival. 6.35 Crossroads. 6.55 Film: •Call Me Bwana'. 8.30 Mike and Bernie. 9.00 London. 11.30 Living and growing.

12.00 Epilogue. ss, Tuesday January 11, 1972

PAGE THREE

War on the Peace Corps THE BRAVE New Worlders of the US Peace Corps have come unstuck. While Uncle Sam was pré- pared to foot their massive bill, these young idealists were able to roam around the world spreading dollars like they weré going out of fashion. Of course, quite a number of them did a bit of part-time spy- ing too. But the honeymoon is over.

Uncle Sam is no longer able to shell out to the colonial people. The US has just innounced in Washington that the corps is to cut its 8,000 staff by 50 per cent and cancel its programmes in as many as 15 countries.

Joseph H. Blatchford, director of Action, which oversees the corps, ordered that no invitations be issued to potential volunteers until July I. Applications will continue to be accepted, how- ever. Blatchford also instructed Kevin O'Donnell, Action associ- ate director for international affairs, to prepare plans for some 4,000 volunteers now working in 55 countries to return to the United States by the end of March. There are now some 7,000 volunteers overseas and 800 to 900 in training, most in host countries - slightly more than half of the total of the peak years of the middle 1960s.

Blatchford took action, it was understood, because Congress not to only failed appropriate $82m requested by the Nixon administration, but cut it to a level that one source described out of business alboge perting us O'Donnell said that he did not know yet which countries would lose entire Peace Corps programmes, but that volunteer forces may be reduced in all 55 countries. The slave trade [WO NEGROES are facing very erious — if bizarre -charges il Washington. ames Harris, moh Florida, James Harris, both have both been accused of hold- ing nine white labourers against their will and placing them in "involuntary servitude'. The maximum penalty is five years in jail and a $5,000 fine.

They also face conspiracy charges which carry five-year sentences and $10,000 fine. In the indictment the US Attorney-General John Mitchell Campbell says and Harris grabbed the white men, all during peach pickers, the S Carolina peach harvest last July and August. Mitchell, a notorious right- winger and former law partner with Richard Nixon, is making a huge song and dance about the case. Which is odd particularly when you consider the history to the sia A nerde in the southern states No prize for guessing 1. What is your attitude towards the proposal of the socialist countries to hold a European conference and security co-operation, what conference to prodexpect such a f peace, and outline the way n which they have done so Workers Press offers no prizes for guessing the winning answers which can be obtained by sending a stamped addressed envelope to 16 King St, Covent Garden, Lon-

PAGE FOUR

Workers Press, Tuesday January 11, 1972 Crunch coming Yorkshire pits defy closure threat A MEMBER of the Brods- worth branch on the Jack Stone joined the NCB Just arter une mines were also nationalized. Shle worked some time for the General Strike and of the Tories old owners, so ne knows made to call an election.

what they were like. comet ong In une Dubs une oder men retire recalled 1926, National Clyde -say nluie. children rick. man with three quietly to pur une cBaY which strike committee. oler E.S0. Doncaster police stayed biggest pit-and young miner from Dan McGarvey in their quarters throughout the strike.

Walton, near Huddersfield.

mind was a Кінет, бо - lave been kept down and th THE STRUGGLE at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders inalete! een runnin ards comparable to : something

ILE

is coming to a new climax; very soon the liquida- like ow wev go tor is likely to demand delivery of a new ship He works three shitts in a • have to from the threatened Clydebank yard.

have Toi Now the No there we are nov.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

ELECTION

lefore and sont letit happee bollermakers leader Dan 'Plot' in McGarvey will meet UCS had ten to 15 years back o prat on ay Cidebase shop stewards Wara had te to report on his discussions * paltry increast miners the yards •We should have Sudan power-loadine Nowed ore JaCk bLOde with the mysterious break- lease industriai council diwick Labo agréement we've sea Tankships group who une Arlet giveis abois. unions Yorkshire ared interest' have shown an would tnen bulla ant

JAAFAR

Clydebank. neal "In anti-communist dictator of 32, Joe has, worked my opinion this 'opiniment want to

SLUNG OUT

+ what Brodsworth married the Sudan, publicly has plots bur they wil Ao say wackers complained of decisior hostile quarters' to under- one else. mine the country's 'ties of The 1928 ones bard sans to ap 856 Common mutual friendship and co- operation' with China. bade are wowe a broadcast stateme aid e had Lord Robens who Omdurman Rad sal unions oe defiantl and imperialist accuseda and agent news agencies Bitter memories of 1926 the press' of issuing falsi reports about the recent George Peking visit of vice-presi

FACE-WORKER

benehis strike weve begay.

spent 43 dent Babikar Awadallah. have underground not For "unes proud of it,' he said. George until with and last evo don en yean 5207 increases a miserable £15 a week acep told me. during Pos it event y eul. mical Kie Slove fulminated eoples Kind cricket ground to get make This, hairmai y the Chines our de couta not start fot at least a Portels Numer saco Hite au Broder Tici ose boods are tizens sudanese io ails are fon of his left- Opponents Drugs was cloak-and-dinter bann the Strikers gather in Doncaster's Wondlands Hotel

CSEU

Tonner states rime go To the doie for a tong 6,000 lose jobs in five weeks

MAIN SITE

SACKED

Britain are currently erdam pLo Hayeord, Kent be caled ont lodec he may occurring at the rate of , 1.000 ver week. more than , Ayr Triumph men 1ost i sabse meet today "pruning' on, Staffs

FETT

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of 1992, but in the, creasesest

NEWS DESK

the year are ben monce. Dublin last week show that 01-720 2000 76.454 beonle — almost 9

CIRCULATION

Thi pent is chose is per cent of the working on the tomplayer 01-622 7029 ployment unemployment employed on December si.

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MINERS' STRIKE

-DAY THREE

MANY

apprentices in, other working men will not are stand stappressed: It world be bound other workers being thrown into their first pit strike. But young to spread the strike. miners like 18-year-old 'Once the Tories Hudson from added Terence, Terence lesson-the working Walton, near Huddersfield, have to be respected.' are determined to go all the way to win.

SHIRK

Already he has had a taste But he was worried that a of battle; his pit called was Labour government might out on strike two weeks ago 'shirk its responsibilities to when management tried to get the miners. round the overtime ban. will have to make "This is my first dispute', detain the labour over e said surface-worker Terence, does what want, 'and I'll have to get used to stressed. it' We'll have to fight as long Terence disagreed with the the r 7 at way pits were necessary' as is present. The 47-per-cent wage claim 'Our manager lets you know has real meaning for him. His he's boss- -although you don't take-home is at present pay see him often. only £9.50 a week. 'But it's workers who do They should have a •the work.

CONFIDENT

say. At the moment you have 'Other industries will come one group having the cash and out. We'll get support and it another working like master could lead to General and slave. Strike', Terence told me.

Interest payments would be ended; the old mine bossés am confident the Tories had their fill of us. Will be out. don't have 'Ezra's £20,000 should be "They the strength to resist us and all cut. He should only earn what those workers who don't like bloke at the en Pit ie getting. 'In we'll their policies over school milk the win. Terence and other things. That's definite, said if they confidently. 'Even bring troops workers press

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Make the Tesign fovernment Centre. The Right-to-Work campaign. FaLO ON Tuesday Return a Labour govern- ment pledged to restore full Poplar. Miners Tuesday January Do iT ToNg January 13, Town Hall, Edmonton. Miners' pay struggle. BEXLEYHEATH: Tuesday

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SW LONDON:

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CROYDON:

Thursday January 20, Old Bedford Rd. 'Support 8pm. Ruskin Coombe the miners'.

CORBY:

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TUESDAY JANUARY 18

Essential Marxism

TUESDAY JANUARY 25

Economics and Politics

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1

Historical Materialism today Lecture Room 1 Digbeth Hall, Digbeth BIRMINGHAM, 8 p.m. given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary)