Tito policies workers' gains

VKERS in the City of London are refusing ccept some Yugoslay bond issues because • fear they will not be honoured when they due for payment in three or five years' time.

Other her bonds are being ted-but only at hefty unts. Worried bondalscounts nolders :rs are reluctant to cize their difficulties publicize fear the bottom may drop out of the market which have already ravely undermines by policies of the Tito lucracy.

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Thi ey mean that the las vestig es of the state monopols of for reign trade and exchange are b Sin firms invest t in Yugoslavia at the 1 have been unthinkaisie would a few • years ago.

Ter top nerican fir • week reporte talkin 18 vestment with the about share] holders in indus tr latest move the on to make the dina decisi fully convertible This 1 most expose the Yugoslay currel specu curre: devalı More revealing still is the news from Portugal that Yugoslavia is part of a fivenation consortium to integrate industry round the Mediterranean.

The other partners are Greece, Turkey and Spain.

These are the fruits of the policy of 'socialism in one country' , on which the lito leadership bases itselt. their Yugo- When they broke with London Stalin at the end of the 1940s, the Titoites considered that they could avoid Stalinist degeneration by decentralizing the economy and separating the party and state bureaucracies.

Tito's opportunist adaptagroups tion to world imperialism, symbolized by Yugoslav supYugoslavia port for the United Nations in the Korean War, has strengthened the forces within Yugoslavia which want to restore capitalism.

The emergence of extremeright wing nationalist tendencies (including a revival of the old Ustachi sentiments in Croatia, with the Catholic hierarchy pulling the strings behind the scenes) is the inevitable pay-off for Tito's Stalinist policies. operating in Yugo- These tendencies must come into head-on collision with the Yugoslav working class, already badly hit by unemployment and rising prices.

The political revolution against the corrupt and bankrupt Tito bureaucracy is now the only road for the workers to defend the conquests of the Yugoslav revolution.

This requires the building of a revolutionary Trotskyist leadership in Yugoslavia. YS jobs march SUPPORT for the Young Socialists Right-to-Work campaign is flowing in from all parts of the country.

From Sheffield comes news that the joint engineering shop stewards' committee of the Arthur Lees stéelworks at Meadowhall has decided unanimously to support the campaign.

The committee represents 200 maintenance men and engineers and will take a collection at their next mass meeting on January 15.

Officers and members of the Leicester No 17 Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers branch support the campaign 'in defence of workers' basic right, that of the right to And the miners' strike.

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lan Yeats will report from Wales, Philip Wade from Yorkshire and Stephen Johns from Scotland. In London, industrial correspondent David Maude will follow the activities of the miners' union leadership and the TUC.

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STARTING today on page 2: A six-part series by Jack Gale on the history of the working class in Ireland. work—rights which are being taken away by Tory government: this vicious Copies of the resolution are being forwarded to the local trades council, to the AUEW district committee and to the secretary of the YS Right-toWork campaign.

The London South AUEW branch is also supporting the campaign and the mass rally at Wembley Pool on March 12. The motion continues:

"We pledge to raise financial support to equip the marchers with clothing, food and medical supplies and to join their campaign for the removal of the Tory government, and its replacement by a Labour government, pledged to socialist policies of nationalization'.

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