Workers Press no. 700

workers press

PAY RISES HELD TO GOVT 'NORM'

TRADE UNIONISM

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTI

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

THE TORY government's Industrial Relations Act which comes into force today marks a new stage in the Tories' offensive against the working class and its trade unions. The chief purpose of the Act is to tie the unions to the state. Simultaneously, the state is attempting- with some measure of success-to regulate wages.

Thus, with the aid of the TUC and the trade union leadership, the Tories are embarked on a blueprint for a corporate state.

With the government dictating wage settlements and tying the unions legally to the state, the whole institution of trade unionism is at stake. If the trade unions let the Tories get away with enforcing the Act and setting the 'norm', what becomes the purpose of trade unions as independent bodies representing the working claimed 15 per cent have been class? offered 7.5 400,000 per cent; TUC's fight the The against teachers who claimed 13.7 per of the been introduction Act was cent have offered per only a token. sham affair. In a 800.000 building workers cent; who claimed 50 circular just issued by Jim Con- per cent have of the 7.5 general secretary been offered per cent; way. Amalgamated Union of Engineer- 2,500,000 engineers who claimed Workers, the level of 40 per cent have been offered ing 80,000 ship- 'opposition' to the Act is clearly 7.5 cent: and per Conway tells his mem- who claimed 40 revealed. building workers *Wherever possible cent have also been offered bers: we 9.5 cer cent. to must encourage employers the the Act and treat ignore The trend is clear. The union whole thing as one large party leaders are falling in line with political irrelevancy.* the dictates of the Tory govern- On the wages front-with the The ment over wages. miners a courageous exception miners were an exception because their the unions have collapsed to the determination, the plus over- as this table shows: 'norm' whelming for them support throughout the working class, 250,000 hospital ancillary swept beyond the TUC's conser- workers claimed 12 per cent and their union accepted 7.5 per cent.

vatism. But the employers have seen 770,000 local government the warning light. manual workers claimed 12 per Engineering Employers' Fed- accepted and their union Č. eration President D. Bamford 7.4-7.8 per cent. declared last week that his Fed- face eration was ready • 120,000 electricity supply and that his strike members workers claimed 10 percent and would 7.75 not invest unless they their union accepted per were assured of profitability. In cent. other words, the bosses want to • 165,000 bank workers claimed enforce low wages while wield- 8 and their leaders per cent ing the unemployment stick.

accepted 7 percent. The working class fought to build unions in order to be able • 350,000 nurses claimed up to to regulate its wages against the 25 cent and their union per wishes of the employers and the accepted 8 per cent. employers' governments. Now its leaders are throw And Tom preparing to Jackson, 200 years of Union away the fruits of of Post Office Workers, working-class struggle. 8 per cent increase accepted an for his members last week.

Because what is the point TUC endorsed every one of trade unions if they cannot these settlements, beyond the state's go alloca- declared tion of wages? 'high wage' policy. The has been pattern The TUC itself claims that low 23,000 London busmen who wages Yet cause unemployment. "increases' wage of 7 per Teachers to cent are wage-cuts in real terms.

Not only is the TUC not fight- ing on wages, it is not fighting unemployment either. That is being left to the Young Socialists' Right-to-Work from Glasgow, Liverpool, Swansea and

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ue this, week this talks continue 13.7 Deal. over the 430,000 far Trotsky pointed cent claim answered so out that, in per Their the epoch of imperialist 6-per-cent offer. decay, by the Burnham the trade unions *can either negotiators on Committee may try for 9.5-per- serve as secondary instruments of imperialist capitalism cent award won by the university for the and disciplining lecturers. subordinating of Meanwhile the 11,000 teachers workers obstructing the and for in Colleges of Education- revolution, or, on the contrary, -most of whom are in the Association the trade unions can become the of Teachers in Colleges and De- instruments of the revolutionary partments of Education (ATCDE) movement of the proletariat. reached To the -have provisional preserve unions as the Pelham Com- working-class instruments of agreement on mittee on a 7.7 per cent rise.

struggle against capitalism, to independence pay offer is expected today maintain their from the state, requires the build- 41,000-strong Association Technical Teachers of revolutionary in ing cadres in Institutions (ATTI), the unions as a matter of urgency.

MONDAY FEBRUARY

HE NEWSLETTER

E CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

MINERS FROM

FROM IAN YEATS

IN KENT

THE FOURTH Young Socialists' Right - to - Work march got off to a flying start yesterday on its 15-mile first-day march from Deal to Ramsgate. About 20 marchers set out from the National Union of Mineworkers' modernized Deal headquarters where they spent the night-despite opposition reveals little EVENTUAL American with- drawal from Taiwan is fore- shadowed in a joint communiqué marking the end of President Nixon's talks with Chinese leaders in Peking. The com- munique details agreement on further diplomatic contacts, but gives no indication of agreement over Vietnam. • See PAGE 2. Playing cards close to chest. • 4p

AT STAKE

YOUNG SUCIALISI?

WE DEMAND THE

RIGHT TO WORK

DEAL TO LONDON

1972

STAL UNKIN DE MINENCE

SOWDOWN

MINERS FROM SNOWDOWN PIT, KENT, ACCOMPANY THE FIRST DAY'S MARCH Flying start to YS Kent jobs march from Communist the Party members who control the three-pit Kent coalfield.

Permission was given after Deal secretary La Doul rare Dave Johnson intervened. Said Young Johnson: think what the Socialists alt commendable. very would like to see the Tories out and I think that any working Clause 4 *What we need Labour Clause 4 back covernment with in its constitution.' Miners and post office workers turnce our with are banners to support the marchers through Deal on Saturday. Men from Snowdown and Til- monstone pits marched with a delegation from the London branch of the overseas telegraph of the Unior operators secuon Workers. rost Umce Afternoon shoppers choked the narrow the Low centre are were was some applause as the 20-strong march

•ITE

ACCOMPANY THE FIRST DAY'S MARCH

wound its way to a meeting at St John Ambulance Hall, Mill Hill. Sixteen year-old factory worker Bill Hicks watching the march with a group of his mates told me: It's definitely right what they're doing. There's a lot of unemployment round here and if you got the sack you'd be on the dole 16 months, or more, even.' Betteshanger miner Alan War- man commented: I've never seen anything like this round here,' he told me.

*Betteshanger would certainly have supported it if we'd known.

*The trade unions have never been more together than they are now. We could clear this lot out* of government. The miners' strike showed what can be done if the working class stick to- gether.' Warm praise came from Mill Hill pensioner Mrs Ellen Dearden as scores of neighbours came out onto their doorsteps or hung down the windows of their homes to watch the march go by.

'Good luck to them', she said.

It's up to the young ones now.

My husband's done plenty of marching in his time. • BACK PAGE Col 3

workers press

TRADE UNIONISM

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTI

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

THE TORY government's Industrial Relations Act which comes into force today marks a new stage in the Tories' offensive against the working class and its trade unions. The chief purpose of the Act is to tie the unions to the state. Simultaneously, the state is attempting— with some measure of success-to regulate wages.

Thus, with the aid of the TUC and the trade union leadership, the Tories are embarked on a blueprint for a corporate state.

With the government dictating wage settlements and t. ying the unions legally to the state, the whole institution of trade unionism is at stake. If the trade unions let the Tories get away with enforcing the 'norm', what becomes the purpose of trade Act and setting the unions as independent bodies representing the working claimed 15 per cent have been class? offered 7.5 400.000 per cent; the. TUC's fight against The teachers who claimed 13.7 of the 6 introduction Act was have been offered per a token, sham affair. In a 800,000 building workers only cent; circular just issued by Jim Con- who claimed 50 cent have general secretary the been offered per cent; way, Amalgamated Union of Engineer- 2,500,000 engineers who claimed Workers, the level of 40 per cent have been offered ing 'opposition' to the Act is clearly 7.5 cent; and 80,000 ship- per Conway tells his mem- who claimed 40 revealed. building workers Wherever. possible cent have offered bers: we also been 1.5 per cent must encourage employers the the Act and treat ignore The trend is clear. The union whole thing as one large party falling in line leaders with political irrelevancy.' the dictates of the Tory govern- On the wages front-with the The ment over wages. miners miners a courageous exception were an exception because their the unions have collapsed to the determination, the plus over- 'norm' as this table shows: whelming for them support throughout the working class, 250,000 hospital ancillary swept beyond the TUC's conser- workers vatism. But the employers have seen • 770,000 local government the warning light. manual workers claimed 12 per Employers' Fed Engineering and their union accepted eration President D. Bamford 7.4-7.8 per cent. declared last week that his Fed- 120,000 supply eration was ready to face electricity that his strike and members workers claimed 10 per cent and would 7.75 . not invest unless they their accepted per were assured of profitability. In bosses want to other words, the • 165,000 bank workers claimed enforce low wages while wield- and their leaders per cent ing the unemployment stick.

accepted 7 per cent. The working class fought to build unions in order to be able 25 350,0 cent sed aimed unito to regulate its wages against the cent their union wishes of the employers and the accepted 8 per cent. employers' governments. Now its leaders are to throw of the preparing And * Post ochcen Workers, away the fruits 200 years of of Union of Post Office working-class struggle. 8 per accepted an cent increase for his members last week.

Because what is the point The TUC endorsed every one of trade unions if they cannot each of these settlements, beyond the state's alloca- go own declared of violation its tion of wages? 'high wage' policy. The been set. pattern has The TUC itself claims that low 23,000 London who busmen wages Yet cause unemployment. "increases' wage of 7 to per Teachers to cent are wage-cuts in real terms.

Not only is the TUC not fight- ing on wages, it is not fighting That is unemployment either. being left to the Young Socialists' Right-to-Work marches from Glasgow, Liverpool, Swansea and

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this talks continue week over the 430,000 teachers' 13.7 Deal. Trotsky pointed percent care answered so far out. that, in 6-per-cent offer. Their the epoch of imperialist decay, negotiators the Burnham the trade 'can either on unions Committee may try for 9.5-per- serve as secondary instruments of imperialist capitalism cent award won by the university for the subordinating and disciplining lecturers. of Meanwhile the 11,000 teachers workers and for obstructing the in Colleges of Education- revolution, -most or, on the contrary, of whom are in the Association the trade unions can become the of Teachers in Colleges and De- instruments of the revolutionary partments of Education (ATCDE) of the proletariat'. movement To the -have reached provisional preserve unions as agreement on the Pelham Com- working-class instruments of mittee on a 7.7 per cent rise.

struggle against capitalism, to independence offer is expected today maintain their pay by the 41,000-strong Association from the state, requires the build- Teachers Technical ing of in of. revolutionary cadres in Institutions (ATTI), the unions as a matter of urgency.

HE NEWSLETTER

MONDAY FEBRUARY

= CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

MINERS FROM

FROM IAN YEATS

IN KENT

THE FOURTH Young Socialists' Right - to - Work march got off to a flying start yesterday on its 15-mile first-day march from Deal to Ramsgate. About 20 marchers set out from the National Union of Mineworkers' modernized Deal headquarters where they spent the night-despite opposition reveals little EVENTUAL American with- drawal from Taiwan is fore- shadowed in a joint communiqué marking the end of President Nixon's talks with Chinese leaders in Peking. The com- munique details agreement further diplomatic contacts, but gives no indication of agreement over Vietnam. See PAGE 2. Playing cards close to chest: , 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

AT STAKE

YOUNG SUCIALISI?

WE DEMAND THE

RIGHT TO WORK

DEAL TO LONDON

1972

A IN NEW OF MİNİNG

HOWDOWN

MINERS FROM SNOWDOWN PIT, KENT, ACCOMPANY THE FIRST DAY'S MARCH Flying start to YS Kent jobs march from the Communist Party members who control the three-pit Kent coalfield. Permission was after Deal secretary raTE Dave Johnson intervened Said MI Johnson: what Socialists the Young commendable. cone very would like to see the Tories out and think that any working Clause 4 •What we need Labour is a •Clause 4 back overnment with in its constitution.' Miners and office workers Lum our wear anale bannero ro support the marchers through Dealen tra on Saturday. Snowdown and Til- monstone pits marched with a delegation from the London branch of the overseas telegraph of the Post Office Workers. Afternoon shoppers choked the narrow the cavelcals LOW HEre applause as the 20-strone march rE

ACCOMPANY THE FIRST DAY'S MARCH

wound its way to a meeting at St John Ambulance Hall, Mill Hill. Sixteen year-old factory worker Bill Hicks watching the march with a group of his mates told me: It's definitely right what they're doing. There's a lot of the dole 16 months, or more, even.' Betteshanger miner Alan War- man commented: I've never seen anything like this round here, he told me.

'Betteshanger would certainly have supported it if we'd known.

'The trade unions have never been more together than they are now. We could clear this lot out of government. The miners' strike showed what can be done if the working class stick to- gether.' Warm praise came from Mill Hill pensioner Mrs Ellen Dearden as scores of neighbours came out onto thein doorsteps or hung down the windows of their homes to watch the march ro by.

"Good luck to them', she said.

It's up to the young ones now.

My husband's plenty of done marching in his time. • BACK PAGE Col 3.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday February holidays a M WOMEN political pri- guard attack the Kory- at soners prisoners dallos prison near during the Athens began a hun- A delegati ger strike after they soners tried had been severely prison direc beaten at Christmas test haviour of ti last year. the chief gu Their struggle is re- acteristically ported in the latest is- only did he sue of 'Ora Tis Allagis', talk to the the Greek Trotskyist he used viol The report newspaper. its members. was delayed because the prison administration While the has introduced an in- tinued her b tercom system to censor director visit prisoners conversations soners to gir with visiting relatives. customary During the Christmas greetings. By JOHN SPENCER

THE UNITED STATES

affirmed in a joint com- muniqué at the end of meeting summit the between President Nixon and Chinese leaders that its ultimate objective was the withdrawal of all US forces and military instal- lations from Taiwan. The communiqué, issued on the eve of Nixon's departure for home, said the US would progressively reduce its forces and military installations on Taiwan as tensions in the area diminished. The US defence treaty with the Chiang Kai-shek government

THE ITALIAN

government collapsed at the weekend after only nine days in office, pre- cipitating the first premature.

General Election since the fall of fascism 26 years ago. Prime Minister Giulio Andre- otti presented the resignation of his minority Christian Democrat government after he was defeated 158-151 in a Senate vote of con- fidence. President Giovanni Leone asked Andreotti to stay as care- on until the elections take taker place. The likely date for the elections is May 7. This the Christian means Democrats have achieved what they wanted from the formation of a minority government-con- trol of the 'levers of power' dur- ing the pre-election period.

The break-up of the previous centre-left coalition under Emilio Colombo was brought right-wing the about when Republicans withdrew their sup- port, accusing the government of being too soft on the working class. Waiting in the wings are the fascists of Italian Social Move- ment (MSI) whose position has been vastly strengthened by the reformist treachery of the labour leaders, particularly the Italian Communist Party. / February 28, 1972 lidays a woman chief fronted him again wi ard attacked and beat their demands, for singing called in guards ring the evenings. again beat up certa prisoners. A delegation of pri- Later the ners tried to meet the authorities warned th son director to pro- if anyone tried to ref against the be- to the beatings in ti viour of the 'nun', as visiting rooms, • chief guard is char- tercom would be cut o eristically called. Not But in the visiti ly did he refuse to the room • the committee, yelled loudly from b used violence against hind the thick windor members. 'Don't leave us any for While the 'nun' con- -we're not eating!' ued her brutality, the Angry guards rush ector visited the pri- in and immediately em ners to give them the tied the room.

Similar protests we Christmas They made last year by mo con- AMERICAN B52 bombers at- tacked alleged troop concentra- tions and base areas in S Viet- nam close to the border with Cambodia and Laos, the US command reported yesterday.

The heavy bombers made five sorties against the National Lib- eration Front forces at the week- end, the command said. 4,000 S on Taiwan is to stay, however.

If the Chinese gave any con- cessions in return for the US pledge on Taiwan, both sides are close to their keeping them chests. On Vietnam, the, otner key issue in negotiations, the communiqué gives no indication of any narrowing in the gap between Chinese and American positions. Nixon's adviser, Dr Henry Kissinger, said the war had been discussed during the talks and had expressed the Americans their concern over prisoners of Clashes in the streets between workers and fascists are an almost daily occurrence as the crisis worsens. nine arrests There were on Saturday in Rome and Milan where fighting broke out between left-wing students and fascists.

In Milan, one of Italy's most in- dustrialized cities, police used tear-gas grenades and repeated baton charges to disperse 200 youth from a local technical in- They were holding stitute. a meeting in defiance of a police ban. There have been big demon- strations throughout the week against the frame-up trial Pietro anarchist Valpreda, charged with a bomb outrage.

• The crime attributed to Val- lur- preda is widely thought to have been perpetrated by fascists in collusion with the police.

• Satur- In his closing speech in day's confidence debate, premier of the Andreotti again warned danger of a drift towards fascism, saying his party was determined to prevent a return "terrible times', of to the Mussolini. But there are clear signs that former big business many backers of Christian Democracy are now turning rapidly to the right and throwing their sup- port behind the MSI. again with detainees, which pro- so he voked international out- who rage. Minister of Justice Tsoulakas said at the up certain time that these reports • prison were 'communist fabri- warned that cations'. ied to refer No doubt the same ings in the will be trotted excuse the in- out this time as well by d be cut off. the vicious colonels the visiting who prove their bravery prisoners by beating up women. be- As 'Ora Tis Allagis' 'No ck windows amount of says: us any food protest against the tor- be sufficient. tures can Every ards rushed denouncement diately emp- must be a trumpet call organization and • under the banner 'otests were action of socialism.' ear by men Vietnamese troops are currently engaged in an operation across the border in S Cambodia.

The Saigon command also re- ported the use of huge 15,000-lb "daisy cutter bomb against NLF forces 40 miles east of Saigon.

five The bomb kills "every living thing within a radius of half a from the centre of the mile explosion. war held by the Hanoi govern- ment. China's position, stated in the communiqué, is that the Vietnam war should be settled under the seven-point proposals put forward by the provisional revolutionary government of S Vietnam. Both sides agreed, however, in demanding Indian that troops behind withdraw their own frontiers or the ceasefire line with Pakistan. They both sided with dictator Yahya Khan in the recent war between India and Pakistan. Both countries agreed facilitate the progressive develop- ment of mutual trade, but the communiqué does not mention the establishment of a permanent US trade mission in China-one of the points the Americans are believed to have wanted. However, the communiqué does provide for further consult- , with a senior US repre- ations, sentative visiting Peking from time to time to engage in 'con- crete consultations to further the normalization of relations be- the two countries and tween continue to exchange views on issues of mutual interest'.

Aberfan in W Virginia AT LEAST 37 people are known to have died when a coal-slag dam holding back 20-foot deep water collapsed after heavy rains, flooding a remote mining valley in W Virginia. The death toll was feared to be as high as 100 in the disaster, authorities in the American state said yesterday.

Many victims were drowned and others buried alive by the wall of mud and water which gushed from the collapsed dam.

The mining community of Laredo was virtually wiped out with only • a few houses left standing. About another ten hamlets in the valley, some 30 miles SW of the state capital of Charleston and in the centre of a major coal-mining area were badly battered. THE RIGHT-TO-WORK marches, like every other campaign which the Socialist Labour- League embarks upon within the working-class movement, has got to be discredited if at all pos- sible by the capitalist press.

We're not complaining about this, because in its own way it is a backhanded compliment. Something would un- doubtedly be wrong if our mortal enemies began to praise us. And to be scrupulously fair to Fleet St and the tele- vision gents, they invariably get absolutely no assistance whatsoever from the SLL either in the form of oral or pro- grammed interviews. What we have to say in public we say in our daily paper, pamphlets and speeches.

Generally speaking in past years the press either ignored Young us completely or just did a snide job. When the trade Socialists last year mobilized 4,500 youth and unionists in a 'Make the Tory Government Resign' cam- paign at Alexandra Palace, it was ignored.

When the Young Socialists organized a similar number in a demonstration (last May Day) Fleet St sent along men blind in one eye who reported that they could only see 300 or 400. But if a liberal 'left' blows his nose in a university, the noise tremors will prompt the press to warn about the danger of revolution'-(the safe kind).

Recently this technique has been changed. The new stance goes like this. 'We know the SLL is active and has a daily paper, but have you ever heard of the International Socialists?' In the middle of the miners' strike, when the Tory 'Sunday Telegraph' was dividing its time seeking ways and means to break the strike with its distortions over Ulster, write about the 'state capitalist' (IS it found space to group as follows: 'In any "Which?" type report of the New Left, the Inter- terms of satis- national Socialists would deliver most in faction, doctrine and. sociability, and would undoubtedly be the "best buy"? And if you want to know more about the kind of chaps who lead this 'best-buy' sociable type of outfit, why just read on a little further up the same page.

In terms of leadership, the International Socialists are probably better endowed than their rivals: Mr Paul Foot, for example, a highly accomplished propagandist whose energy is prodigious, covering issues like the contradictory statements of Mr Harold Wilson over the year, the politics of Mr Enoch Powell and the Hanratty journalism, books pamphlets for IS? 'Interesting', you might say, 'but why?' Let the 'Sunday Telegraph' further enlighten you.

"The philosophy of IS differs significantly from both the orthodox Trotskyists and the Communist Party. IS regards the Soviet Union as a "state capitalist" society, and would support a revolution against Russia's new "ruling class"?

Here is one of the main reasons for all the Tory en- thusiasm over IS. For the foundation principles of Trot- skyism are based on the inability of the Stalinist bureau- property relations the nationalized destroy cracy to established by the October Revolution in the USSR in 1917. The IS claims that the forces of international capi- talism have accomplished this and that the Soviet Union is a state capitalist country.

Such a major victory endears them to the professional anti-communists of the 'Sunday Telegraph' because there is nothing they would like more than to be able to con- tinue smearing Marxism with the crimes of Stalinism, while at the same time writing off the October Revolution.

Fortunately, the real situation is different. The basic advance of the international working class is still preserved in the nationalized property relations of the USSR and these are a powerful force on the side of the working class today. By writing them off and conceding victory to capitalism the IS reveals its true colours-a wretched group of middle-class liberals dabbling in left phrases.

That is why the Tory, right-wing Labour and liberal press are so keen to give them a political boost against the unmentionable, microscopic, three or four dozen, at the most, who together with the Workers Press constitute the SLL. The 'IS as it is known' croons the 'Sunday Telegraph', 'has the deftest publicity machine?.

In the 'New Statesman' February 25, 1972 a certain John Drake becomes so enthusiastic that he writes as follows: "The IS weekly Socialist Worker" has increased its print order to 30,000 since the (miners) strike."

In the 'Socialist Worker' of February 26, one day later, the editor claims : 'Twenty seven thousand copies of "Socialist Worker" were printed and distributed last week."

Now just how deft can your publicity machine become gentlemen?

Australian businessmen are worrying about the accelerat- ing pace at which overseas interests are gaining control of business. Leaders in commerce who fear widescale takeovers of Australian firms not be to the may country's advantage, say invest- ment is flowing in from abroad almost unchecked. Foreign investment reached figures in 1970-1971 of record $A1,493m (over £700m), about 50 more than came in cent per during 1969-1970. Most of the money is going into mining, quarrying, banking, finance and property firms, some of which are finding it difficult to raise money from Australians.

Mineral and oil exploration in- dustry sources believe economic uncertainty in Australia is one major reasons of the why Australians are not putting up • enough money to counter the overseas financial invasion.

'At one time Australians were prepared to subscribe risk capi- tal, but since 1956 the incentives to do so have been progressively reduced, until now there is the prospect of all of Australia's petroleum resources falling under overseas control', says the chair- man of one exploration company.

Oil exploration in Australia has begun to taper off. Accord- ing to one source there were only • 15 oil rigs operating in Australia at the end of November compared with 37 in 1969.

Oil companies partly blame this on the price for Australian crude of $A2.06 a barrel (just under fI). They say this is artificially low. It is about 25 below the price cent per Middle East oil entering Austra- lia and about 50 per cent below the domestic price in the United States. Few Australian exploration mining and companies have enough cash left to complete their own exploration and nearly

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AND FILE

If. we are to survive in our struggle against capitalism, we must first oust the Tories from office and return a Labour government pledged to true socialist policies-the All Trades Unions Alliance Draft Manifesto.

As the Tories have now won the vote on a second reading of the Bill to take Britain into the Common Market, they are going to get a full term in office. That is, of course, unless the

TUC

calls for a General Strike.

The mild backing that Feather, Scanlon and Jones gave to the miners in their fight leaves us to look to the rank and file of the trade unions to carry out the job. This is the only way left for • us to get out the Tories and make the Labour Party do its job properly. I wholeheartedly • support the Draft Manifesto as adopted by the ATUA and also Young Socialists' Right-to- the Work marches. Mrs Phyllis Starkey, Micawber St Liverpool. Workers Press welcomes this letter from Mrs Starkey. She is absolutely right in her mis- trust of Feather and the trade union 'lefts'. The miners' strike could have been won in full and much quicker if the trade union leaders had mobilized the force of the working class behind them.

The question is, however, what exactlu is the role of the rank and file? Nobody could have been more mili- tant than the rank and file miners and the other workers who helped them to stop the power stations and fuel depots.

all have sought links with big overseas companies. In Western Australia, where the speculative mining boom was sparked off by the big Septem- ber 1969 nickel find of Poseidon Limited, there are now more than 300 known joint ventures between overseas and Australian prospectors. Major American partners in- clude such companies as Ameri- can: Metal Climax, International Nickel, Anaconda; while British groups include Anglo-American and Selection Trust which also have big interests in Africa.

Japanese companies like Mit- sui, Sumitomo and Mitsubishi also represented as are are Belgium's huge Union Miniere and the French Societe Le Nickel.

One incentive for overseas business is Australia's currency according to the chairman of a Sydney finance company who claims the Australian dollar is undervalued. Australian shareholders and investors, disenchanted with seemingly perennial fluctuations in the stock market, have been reluctant to contribute more funds to exploration. This forces some prospectors funds by to such conserve devices as surrendering claims of uncertain potential or seeking ventures for their com- joint panies. Some seek diversification in less hazardous activities like real estate. Industry leaders point to several other factors contributing to the tapering off of exploration activity, such Western as a Australian government decision to double annual rental on mineral claims staked in the state to $A150 (about £70) 300- acre (121 hectares) claim.

Local bodies in the state are also making substantial rate assessments on claim holders.

Top: Sydney stock exchange. Right: Copper plant in Bougan- vllle, New Gulnea, financed by Australlan and foreign capital.

Nevertheless, although they a substantial victory, scored they did not win their full demand and the Tories are still there. is political leadership organization in the fight to make the union leaders call a General Strike to force the Tories out. In the course of this political struggle, the consciousness of workers will be raised and a revolutionary leadership built in the unions.

That is the purpose of the Right to-Work marches and of decision the to launch the Socialist Labour League as a revolutionary party later this year.

IMPLICATIONS

In your notebook item about O'Callaghan resigning from John 'The Guardian', you end with a jibe at John Palmer of the Inter- national Socialists which reads: 'Far from quitting the capitalist media, Palmer has recently taken to writing on—-wait for it-the economy." paragraph has The several implications which seem dubious to me. 1. You imply that O'Callaghan's resignation was an example to be followed. I regard it as a'set- back. O'Callaghan was Father of Chapel at The Guardian' the and had taken a courageous line "The in trving to change Guardians' N attitude , the Ireland situation through collec- tive journalistic action within the paper. He gave good leadership on other important union trade matters too. He played a very progressive role in the Central London branch of the

NUI,

which is not over-supplied with radicals. Now he is out of work РОВТ in • a shrinking labour market which still has 30 journalists un- employed resulting from Associa- ted Newspaper clear-out of 12 months ago. 2. You imply that the correct line for every opponent of the capitalist system who works as a journalist on a capitalist paper is to resign. Why just the journal.

ists? Why not the compositors and printers as well? What good would it do and where would we all work if we did resign? Is it not better for all workers who are forced to work for capitalist concerns-the majority of us—to fight through their unions for greater justice and for socialist consciousness? Or is such a fight only to be conducted at the Labour exchanges. 3. The humour of '—wait for it—the economy" is puerile. And anyway, I would much prefer Palmer write about to the economy for "The Guardian' than someone who was less aware of the problems of capitalism, whic applies to 100 per cent of the rest of the 'economics experts' of the capitalist press. RE. Mr B. too much into our 'notebook item on John O'Callaghan's resignation. Our purpose was simply to point out the contradictions in Mr Palmer's position as a leading 'state capitalist' and 'Guardian' staff writer. final for Mr B objection, Mr Palmer can hardly be said to be more 'aware of the problems of capitalism' than the rest of the bourgeois press pundits.

He has long subscribed to the revisionist conception that capitalism has stabilized itself on the basis of the so-called "permanent arms economy'.

Workers Pres Make the Tory government resign! Return a Labour government pledged to restore full employ- and repeal all ment laws arainst the unions!

WILLESDEN:

Monday February 28, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour Hall, High Road, NW 10. 'Labour must force a General Election.' E LONDON: Tuesday February 29, 8 p.m. Toynbee Hall, Com- mercial Aldgate St, East. 'Bangla Desh and the fight for socialism'. W LONDON: Tuesday Feb- ruary 29, 8 p.m. Prince Albert, Wharfedale Rd, off York Way, Kings Cross. 'Crisis of capi- talism'.

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YOUNG SOCIALISTS

NATIONAL

RIGHT-TO-WORK

CAMPAIGN

There are now well over one million people out of work in Britain, the highest joblessness for a quarter of a century.

These huge levels of unemployment are as a direct result of Tory policies. The Young Socialists' Right-to-Work cam- these policies and, therefore, the paign is a challenge to continued rule of this government.

MARCHERS

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SATURDAY MARCH 11

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By our Spanish correspondent One of the most striking cases of Stalinist opportunism and degeneration must have been the speech made by Dolores Ibarruri ('La Pasion- aria'- "The Passion flower'), 75-year-old leader of the Spanish Communist Party, at the Congress of the Polish United Workers Party held towards the end of 1971. The Polish government has fore in cementing been to the diplomatic and commercial rela- between Franco tions and the Stalinist in bureaucracy B Europe. This collaboration with fascism reached a peak with the sale of Polish coal to the regime break the Asturian miners' to strikes. Santiago Carrillo, secre- tary of the Spanish CP has criti- growth of these rela- cized the tions, but 'La Pasionaria's' speech shows that behind the surface criticism, the leaders of Spanish Stalinism remain as tied as ever to the Stalinist politics in which they were trained in the Popular Front and anti-Trotskyist purges of the 1930s. After the obligatory praise ot Polish workers and intellectuals who fought in the Spanish Civil War in the International Brigade —with no mention of those who were liquidated on their return to Poland for being under-cover agents of 'Hitlerite-Trotskyism'— La Pasionaria launched into a eulogy of the Asturian miners for the bureaucrats who had been instrumental in breaking their strike: "The Asturias, miners of Asturias of such great revolu- tionary traditions, challenging the HUNOSA monopoly, the govern- ment and police repression, have paralysed coal mining for more ten weeks and have main- than tained the strike despite the threat of the closure of the pits, which threatened them with star- vation.' 'La Pasionaria' continued with a hymn to the developments with- in the Catholic Church, especially a recent meeting clerics which 'publicly proposed that the church asks the people's pardon for its attitude of sup- the fascist uprising to port against the Republic. This change the Spanish Church in is revolutionary change which we appreciate in all its transcend- ency ..?' Her speech ended with praise for the bureaucracy's efforts for a European Security Pact and the suppression of NATO and the Warsaw Pact : 'A struggle for peace... which requires a constant realization that the continued existence of Franco's, fascist like regimes Salazar's and the Greeks' con- stitute potential threats to the peace and security of all peoples.'

Yet 'La Pasionaria' knows full well that the Polish government, along with the rest of the bureau- cracy in E Europe, has always wanted to bring Franco into these talks which constitute the preparation of the counter-revo- lution against the working class in E and W Europe. The growth of militancy and working-class organizations in Spain has made this counter- revolutionary alliance all the more necessary. the wake of the Seat In workers' strike and in the midst of. national student repression, a delegation from the Polish For- eign Office, led by a Mr Stani- szewski, met a Spanish delegation led by the Director General of Foreign Policy and issued the following communiqué: 'In these talks have we examined the present situation and the development of relations between both countries, as well as other subjects of joint interest, especially the projected European Conference for Co-operation and and its multilateral pre- Security paration' The Spanish Communist Party press which published the full text of 'La Pasionaria's' speech Dolores Ibarruri, speaking has made communiqué These the Spanish completely policies described every conspiracy of The same Bilbao in 1930 condemned as "leftist' Peasants Bloc of the

POUM,

She rapidly Stalinist ladder. War July 1935. down the tional the Popular sharp turn intern policy the meant the tion the comed had already policy sequently, arrurl, speaking at a mass r rruri with Russian cosmonau comment on this or these joint talks lies and aimed at disorienting working class, the traditions ol naria', a founder men Spanish ommuni ded at every stage th Stalinish and criticism Catalans founders ts by una ed sis Triat- estao- in 'important sections lass women', was to the e Comintern held in interna policy Front. his meant : Pasionaria", • been recommending Spain LOr. he was elected as an a mass meeting in Ovledo, 1936. She welcon cosmonaut Titov, Santlago Carrillo (second fro alternate delegate to the Comin- tern Executive Committee.

On her return to Madrid, she began an amazing campaign to retain support of petty-bourgeois democrats throughout the world.

Madrid Republican was government seat during the early stages of the war and constantly a prey to Fifth Column spies who often hid in the robes of the clergy. Apart from this immediate threat, there has always been a hatred in the Spanish • working class and among sections of the peasantry for the Catholic Church, a big land and property as well as a big business owner, enterprise which controled the educational system. The burning of churches and have convents accompanied all insurrections in Spain, from the early 19th century. The Spanish Church had certainly not changed in the 1930s. A circular signed by the bishops of Spain was soon published, giving full sup- port of the Church to Franco's 'Crusade against Communism'.

Lacking any elementary class hostility to the Church as an exploiter and hostile to Marxist principles, 'La Pasionaria' took on responsibilities in the special Party for defence of nuns-such the political stance and was activity of a delegate to the EC of the Comintern in the midst of a revolutionary civil war-all in the name of defence of freedom of religion. In her autobiography, she rationalizes her actions in the following way: "The Communist Party did everything it could to normalize the life of the people even if it meant incurring the Workers Press, Mo no welcomed the Stalinist policy of the Popular econd from left) and José Sandoval wrath of the charlatan Trotsky- ites and FAI-ists [Anarchist Federation]'. She describes how the Com- munist Party worked to protect initiative nuns and took the situation in ending the : where were automatically impri.

they soned: "The next day, at Party headquarters, we discussed prac- tical ways to help the nuns, many of whom were aged and unable to work.' On her own particular missions of mercy to the daughters of the Church 'Before she • comments: going, I asked them, "Don't you have any statues or crucifixes?

I'm sure that there are sisters here who are devotees of the Sorrowful Virgin, the Virgin of Carmen or the Miraculous Virgin.

• "How would you like it if I also brought you some pictures and a crucifix tomorrow?"

'We spent the morning in the shops buying wool, percale and white cotton fabrics. In a children's asylum on a nearby street which had been bombed, we found a beautiful crucifix and images. several religious We took them, carefully packed, to our new acquaintances. 'Surprise took their breath away. When they unwrapped the crucifix and gave it to the Mother Superior, she looked at it with full of tears, kissed the eyes image's feet and passed it around to the other nuns. "God bless you!" she said as we left.'

However, the charity of 'La Preas, Monday February 28, 1 e Popular Front. Pasionaria' and her P: avallable to those in the slightest degre of subordinating the to the figh geois democracy. She describes the Dance ond 'counter-révolution'. The May place when the munist Party anarchist workers Iro Exchange phone The their retain Exchange, TOr to control and monito cations in Catalonia of some trace manoeuvres to elain. sition. Anarchist Walde i Inreatened thi the Popular Front and the posed socialist alternative. However, the cowa tunist leadership of th Popular movement to defeat. T their leaders were rou the Spanish

GPU.

very often executed agents "La thus: the strength of t felt izations when defeat... The time offices document German from the Faupel which give the ties of the with the enemy' Pasionaria' and leadership Communist Party in: friendship for of physicat tid point opponents. ried out leaders Kamenev others, being agents then executed. Who the fascists are is now bureaucrat Pasionaria' and the diplomacy in cities whose prisons are and fought for their rights and her Party was not those wno opposed policy , the fight for bour- movement orkers from th the Tele. they it enabled them nd monitor communi- Catalonia and keep Party to elminate all oppo broad conilict tened the power Front Catalonia in possibility of the ne cowaraly, oppo ship of the anarchist executed as fascist onaria describes Anarcho-Trotskyites the training of 'La the Stalinist the Spanish Party in the 1930s- and demo- against the Bolshevik party, and many • made to confess of the bureaucrats secret Madrid, full of trade heir rights.

working class since growing

BY PHILIP WADE

periods imposed, secret ballots took French revolution, pushed through and the right The Tory government action at the first signs to treely combine lakel away workers combining together. It today brings the remain- with only organizations recog- the was not until 1825 that sections of the In- ing nized by the state being given laws were repealed. the status of unions. Relations dustrial Act The Industrial Relations Act So the repressive apparatus They outlaw into force. aims to take us back along that created by the Act will then be Faced with a re- sympathy closed shops, position to begin its same road working class and in the trade surgent strikes and action in sup- Trontal their deepest economic crisis, union movement in Britain.

other trade port of government has had the ori In Peter Paterson's book 'An attack the unionists. the In- guide employer's resistance—-the organized trade The law picketing on dustrial Relations union movement. changes, with it being 'unfair' nature emphasizes the leaders have Trade union to picket a scab's home. An of the changes wrought by the said, in an effort to divert the enshrined right not to belong Act. struggle also Like all revolutions-for the agalnst trade 1S and against the Tories, that the brought into effect. measure without work Industrial complex to

ACT 1S

An attack is also launched revolutionary-the and fort inas Aot happened sent Relations working-class newspapers. Act In lIs naivety Whether Clause 97 makes it an unfair these "leaders' fail to night, however startled those not, industrial action to take action the real intentions of the Tory chiefly affected may appear.' unfair in support Act is com- government. The practice. It (p. industrial plicated precisely because it is There is that this Paterson is right. generally agreed all intended destroy a revolution in full swing, a clause could cover articles in previously existing rights. Ab so- counter-revolution class back supporting newspapers possible loop solutely every the working class take called unfair strikes. hole is matched with another Acts of Combination The other provisions of the provision closing the door.

1799 and 1800 which illegalized Act are, of course, well known previous Act confer- Every trade unionism. to trade unionists. The right to rights on certain The Pitt government of the ring Tract strike is demolished, unofficial unions, such as immunity from period, in dreaded fear of the barred, cooling-off actions damages following a strike, the independent nature of then has organizations been repealed or severely cur- tailed. the Take, for ex Apt 1906, Disputes Trades is completely repealed. reversed the Taff Vale decision of 1901 in which had union pay a railway out considerable damages following a strike. The a moof thie Tories wil indicate how proceed the Act and to the the Wiene institutions they have created.

Paterson perceptive the 'One of the says: surroest "In Place between differences proposals of Strife" anot from the date of the was seen Document consulaure October 1970 was the intention much less in the and power vested in the state the operation much more of institutions 0I a network the conduct and operation (p. 19.) relations. of industrial What are these institutions?

them? Who starts Who runs The cornerstone of the Act Is the Industrial Relations Court. Employment secretary the proceedings? On what basis is a verdict reached? How can to all under workers pe SCul their auspices? These are some have of the questions see how the Tories answer to on their will initially proceed main strategy trying destroy trade unionism in Britain. The cornerstone of the legis- National Indust- lation 1s the rial Relations Court. It is an entirely new creation and has the status of the High legal parlance Court in of Record. Superior Court independent the first such court to created since the Court of Equity was established by latter part of the 18th century. is the first court

BUT IL

British history to be able to when it. Ikes and it likes. For example, there court for Scotland. The

NIRC

fully-mobile Certain unique features make the court a devastating instru- ment in the hands of the ruling class. There is NO APPEAL fact. is the questions it of first in- Cons Only on questions of stance. the of law interpretation can there be an appeal to the Appeal and further to the House of Lords.

2. The members of the court are not lawyers, except for who is a High Court Chairman Instead, expert relations' are industrial appointed for three years (re- mployment secretary, Robert Carr (above) appoints the judges newable) by the Queen who follows the recommendations of the Employment Secretary, and the Lord Robert Carr Chancellor, Quintin Hogg.

Although these men have no legal qualifications they become JUDGES in the fullest sense of the word. That is to say have the and they status rivileges of judges in, for contempt of court example, questions. Three judges from the High Court have been nominated and have accepted positions in the NIRC. Their function is as chairmen and advisers on questions of law. of the bench The majority is always made up the 'experts' who will sit in num- bers of not less than two and not more than four. Decisions are reached on a majority basis.

OF

RULES

3. Normal EVIDENCE used in the High Court DO NOT APPLY in the NIRC.. The underlying prin- ciple in rules of evidence is that nothing can be introduced as evidence which cannot be proved. For example, so the story goes, there was a case in which the judge asked what a game of cricket was. The point was that the same judge had played for a university cricket team. The idea behind such a move is to facilitate the introduction by the judges and witnesses of so-called 'experiences', , making the NIRC a very flexible court in decision-reaching. The court will deliver judge- 1972 H Left: February 21,1971 ratardo Trafalgar unionists rally the Industrial agalnst Square Relations Bill. Above: The Act and sym- makes closed shops, pathy strikes Illegal and opens the door to arrests and jalling of trade unionists Involved actlons to defend thelr basic rights. ments on several of the so- called 'unfair industrial prac- tices' which are mentioned throughout the Industrial Re- lations Act. In general, the NIRC will deal with cases other than those relating to an individual. Some idea of the range and power of the NIRC can be gained from looking at the 32 application forms available to an employer who wants to start an action against a union.

They deal with the ending of the closed shop and its re- placement by the so-called shop; the power to agency impose a procedure agreement on an industry or part of an industry considered to have a bad industrial relations record; strike unions applications to off the Registrar's list because their rules don't conform to his wishes; applications from employers alleging breach of contract by, for example, un- official strikes, action' against strikes, sympathy against declared picketers, strikes national' emergencies' by the Tory government, the ordering of a cooling-off period of 60 days in such. cases and the implementation of a ballot.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday Februar Not even the most acute economic crisis is by itself a guarantee of the victory of socialism. For that a revolu- strong in tionary leadership, theory and steeled in practice is required. Without this, the working class cannot win.

This series of articles shows how the German working class paid the price for the absence of such a party. The price was fascism. As Germany faced defeat in World War I, a coalition was formed (September 1918) under Baden. Prince Max of pleaded with the Social Democrat and Scheidemann Ebert leaders to join it—and they didn't need much urging- The Prince knew what he was about. On November the sailors at Kiel mutinied, strikes broke in Hamburg and workers and soldiers' councils were formed on the model of the Russian soviets. On November 9, a General Strike broke out in Berlin. Prince Max resigned and handed over the of reins government to Ebert. The Kaiser fled to Holland —although Ebert was, in fact, in favour of retaining the monarchy.

The Social Democrats came to the in rescue of capitalism Germany, and hence in Europe.

place in Bloody clashes took Berlin. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were killed in the streets while under arrest by the soldiers. As one bourgeois historian put it: "To subdue the revolutionary workers, the provisional govern- ment (i.e., the Social Democrats) had to co-operate very • closely with the military authorities.

'It had to use the armed forces and volunteer bodies of ex- officers to The Social Put down the mob.

Democratic leaders had before them the example of what happened in Russia; they realized how Kerensky and the moderates of the first revolution had been overthrown by the second revolution of Lenin.

"They determined to were prevent any second revolution in Germany. They were ultimately successful. But success meant retaining most of the conserva- tive forces of the old Germany; the influence of the generals, the former imperial civil service, the industrialists and the great land- lords Prussia still was strong." Karl Liebknecht was forced to the German army's serve in 'Penal corps'. as Scheidemann put it Or, himself: I saw the Russian folly staring me in the face—the Bolshevist tyranny, the substitution for the tyranny of the Tsars! No, no, Germany should not have that of all her other on top miseries." The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919. It was dictated by the Council of Four —President Wilson of the United States, Clemenceau of France, Lloyd George of Britain and Orlando of Italy. Under its terms Germany lost Alsace and Lorraine to France and also the ownership of the Saar mines. The Saar territory was put under the control of a League of Nations Commission.

Germany lost several small frontier territories to Belgium, Posen and Silesia to part of Poland and N Schleswig to Den- German colonies mark. were placed under League of Nations' mandate. German armed forces were radically reduced, her fleet had to be handed over and the Rhineland was demilitarized and occupied by Allied forces.

Part of her merchant fleet was given up. Enormous reparations pay- ments were enforced, so severe in fact that P. M. Keynes, then Treasury Representative at the y February 28, 1972 Above: a workers' demonstration in 1917, part of mass strikes against German war effort collapsed. Below: 1917, armed workers man the A five part series by JACK GALE on the rise of German fascism the Versailles conference resigned tants of the Reich enjoy complete liberty of belief and conscience'.

the ground that Germany National would never be able But, to pay. while the The Versailles Treaty Assembly was meeting in signed in 1919, and just Weimar, revolutionary outbreaks June, over a month later the constitu- in Berlin and elsewhere tion of the Weimar Republic was tinued. March, Noske- -the drawn (Ebert had chosen Social Democrat Minister of De- up. Weimar the headquarters of fence-again down as com- Dut Civil war the new National Assembly. be- munist rising in Berlin. broke out in Bavaria. On May cause he felt that it could not the 'red' atmosphere of brutally meet in government troops Berlin.) crushed a communist rising in Weimar The constitution Munich. declared 'All Germans are equal The crushing of the workers before the law'-'Personal liberty did Social not prevent the inviolable'_ 'The house of Democrats in 1920 calling on the German everv is his Berlin workers to defeat the sanctuary inviolable'- and Kapp is 'Every Ger- right-wing nationalist has a movement with a General Strike.

man right to express his freely'-'All Germans But when Ebert opinion returned to have the right to form Berlin— the city was safe associa- societies. 'All tions or inhabi- enough-the strike got out of inst the war which took place as the the barricades on the streets of Berlin hand. communist risings And took place in W Prussia, Bavaria, Württemberg, Liepzig, and-—most serious of all—in the Ruhr.

Without hesitation, the Social Democrats once again turned to • the the military to put down workers who had saved them.

They could not, however, halt the crisis. The mark had stood at the rate of four to the dollar at the end of 1918. By the summer of 1922 the rate was 400 marks to the dollar (by the beginning of 1923 over 7,000) and Adolf it was Hitler-inspired by the success of Mussolini's 1922 march on Rome-could declare: 'There are only two possibili- ties: do not imagine that the people will for ever go with the middle party, the party of com- promise. The will people turn either to the left-and then God help us, for it will lead us to complete destruction, to Bolshe- vism—or else to a party of the right, which at last, when the people are in despair, is utter determined for its part ruthlessly to seize the reins of power' The German working class did turn to the left. In repeated revolutionary struggles, it sought to overthrow capitalism. It was not only betrayed by its Social- leaders, Democratic it was literally mown down by them.

How did the German Social Democratic Party — numerically and organizationally, the strongest party the working class anywhere-become had created the hangman of its own followers? Trotsky explains: 'History has been so shaped that in the epoch of imperialist war the German Social Democracy proved to be the most counter-revolutionary factor in world history. The German Social Democracy, how- ever, is not an accident; it did not fall from the skies, but was created by the German working class in the course of decades of uninterrupted construction and adaptation to conditions pre- valent under the capitalist-junker state. "The party organizations and the trade unions connected with it drew from the proletarian most outstanding, milieu energetic elements, who were then moulded psychologically and politically. The moment war broke and consequently out, when the moment arrived for the greatest historical test, it turned out that the official working-class organization acted and reacted not as the proletariat's organiza- tion of combat against the bourgeois state, but as an auxiliary organ of the bourgeois state designed to discipline the proletariat. "The working class was para- lysed, since bearing down upon it was not only the full weight of capitalist militarism, but also the apparatus of its own party.

The hardships of war, its vic- tories, defeats, broke the paralysis of the German working class, freed it from the discipline of the official party. The latter split asunder. But the German proletariat remained without a revolutionary combat organiza- tion. 'History once again exhibited to the world one of its dialectic contradictions: precisely because the German • working class had expended most of its energy in the previous epoch upon self- sufficient organizational construc- tion, occupying the first place in the Second International both in as well trade union party as apparatus-precisely because of new epoch, at the this, in a moment of its transition to open revolutionary struggle for power working the German class proved to be extremely defence- less organizationally" The other side of the contra- had revealed itself in diction Russia. Here the rich history of the pre-Marxist revolutionary the underground agita- groups, tion of the pioneer Russian Marx- ists, the 1905 'dress rehearsal' and the theoretical struggles of the Bolsheviks prepared a revolu- tionary leadership, experienced in struggle and bound together in a worked out revolutionary pro- gramme and organization. Such a leadership was lacking in Germany. The Manifesto of the Com- munist International to the Workers of the World, adopted at its first World Congress in March 1919, declared: If the First International presaged the future course of development and indicated its paths; if the Second International gathered and organized millions of workers; then the Third Inter- national is the International of open mass action, the Interna- tional of revolutionary realiza- deed. the International of the The greatest task facing this International was the construc- tion of a Bolshevik leadership in Germany.

CONTINUED ON MONDAY

1 T. L. Jarman 'Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany, p. 69. 2 Ibid p. 73. 3 Leon Trotsky 'A Creeping Revolution', April 1919. In 'The First Five Years of the Com- munist International' Volume 1.

pp. 44-47. 4 'First Five Years of the Com- munist International Vol. 1, pp.

29-30.

By JOHN SPENCER As President Nixon and Mao Tse-tung Chairman drink their rice-wine toasts and hold their private con- sultations in the Chinese capital, the workers and peasants of Vietnam are brought forcibly up against one of the blackest betrayals in their history. Behind all the mutual con- gratulations and the high-sound- ing phrases about the future of mankind and peace on earth, the central issue of the talks is the fate of the revolution in Asia and in particular of its highest expression, the struggle of the peoples of Indo-China. Nixon, whose government has expended billions dollars unsuccessfully trying to crush the Vietnamese revolution in a rain of airborne death and wants the Maoists' destruction agreement to a settlement in Indo-China which will leave his puppets in S Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. He has been encouraged by the Chinese government's support in other for counter-revolution parts of the world-particularly its fulsome backing for the sup- pression of the Sudan Com- munist Party and its support for dictator Yahya Khan against the people of BanglaDesh. knows that itself imperialism is powerless to de- feat the revolutionary upsurge in Asia. The eight years since American troops were sent in force to Vietnam have proved beyond all doubt. this The Vietnamese workers and peasants have stood up to everything the might of American capitalism could throw at them. It is here that the full treach- ery of the Stalinist conception 'peaceful co-existence' with of imperialism comes into operation.

It was under this slogan that the Soviet and Chinese leaders banded together in 1954 to foist the Geneva agreement on the Viet Minh. In this way the Vietnamese were robbed at the conference table of the victories they had won on the battlefield.

The fall of Dien Bien Phu at the end of April, 1954, sealed the fate of the French attempt to restore colonial control over Indo-China. of the French The defeat forces was decisive because the entire strategy of the occupation forces had been centred around the defence of this key base in the thick jungles of NW Vietnam.

• The American government of the day, headed by General Eisenhower, considered even using nuclear weapons to stave off the defeat of the beleaguered garrison in the Dien Bien Phu fortress. :. The idea was rejected, though schemes for immediate American intervention. — including dispatch of 15,000 Marines—were seriously considered by the Eisenhower cabinet. The French position deterior- ated so rapidly, however, that decided intervention the US would be impossible and would only compound the consequences of defeat for the French. This was the background to the long- •drawn-out negotiations at Geneva in the months that followed.

'peaceful : The idea of co- existence between with states different social systems' follows inexorably from the conception of socialism in a single country Soviet with which the Chinese bureaucracies justify their continued rule. It means subordinating the revolutionary struggles of the the capitalist working class in world to the national require- ments of the ruling caste in the deformed workers' states. is precisely what hap- This pened at Geneva. The Chinese and Soviet representatives- Chou En-lai and Molotov-were determined that asettlement would be reached not on the basis of the military victories won by the Viet Minh, but on the basis of dividing the area into spheres of influence. The agreement provided for French troops before defeat, on a hill at l the division of Vietnam along which was the 17th parallel, "provisional and should not in any way be interpreted as con- stituting a political or terri- torial boundary. It provided for 'free general election by secret ballot' in both halves of Vietnam to be held in July 1956 to decide who should govern the reunited country.

As for Laos and Cambodia, the agreement provided for all 'take their place in citizens to the national community ... by participating in the next general elections ... in the course of the year 1955'. deal, in thoroughly The reformist fashion, subordinated the conquests of the Vietnamese the ballot box-and people to under conditions where all the participants knew In any case, the US govern- ment refused ratify to Geneva accords and proceeded forthwith undermine the to agreement. No elections were ever held-as it was clear from the beginning they would not immediately be-and the US stepped into the breach left by the French departure, sending 'advisers', military money regimes in Indop the crumbling The Geneva agreements con- demned the Vietnamese to an- other 18 bitter years of war and bloodshed to come within range of grasping the gains they were robbed the conference table. The Stalinists around the for world are still campaigning "peace in Vietnam' under the slogan of a return to the Geneva accords. Their position is graphically illustrated by the 'Morning Star' of the British CP. In an organ editorial commenting on the Nixon-Mao talks, they claim Nixon's visit 'underlines the failure of US imperialism . .

to isolate China from the rest of the world'. The purpose of the visit is attributed entirely to Nixon's I a hill at Dien Blen Phu desire to catch votes and the editorial that 'China's states leaders need no lectures warn- ing them about the trickiness of their guest'. In that case, one might well ask, why did they invite him at Was it simply to give a all? gratuitous boost to his chances at the presidential elections in November this year? 'Morning • Star'. does not elaborate on these points. But it makes it clear that 'peaceful co- existence'-with the commander- of world imperialism!- in-chief is the visit's main purpose.

The paper's only objection is that the Soviet Union isn't taking its full part in this treacherous "There would alliance as well. be better grounds for hope from 'Star' says, 'had the visit,' the the breach been healed between and the Soviet China's leaders This doesn't chime with the Kremlin's own well public Moscow declarations. Radio, for example, in a lengthy by correspondent commentary Anatoly Ivanov, Sino- cited American collaboration against the revolution in Bangla Desh, and went on to state that: 'Peking was not in the least when America resumed upset the bombings [of N Vietnam] although the Chinese leaders for years claimed that China many the rear of the embattled was of Indo-China peoples Chinese leaders even pose before cameras with people whose col- leagues are at that very moment dropping their deadly cargo on peaceful villages in Indo-China' The Soviet Stalinists, of course, have never been known to do any such thing. Those pictures of Khrushchev and Kennedy or Stalin and Ribbentrop are not to be believed. But these historic considera- tions, like the Chinese Stalinists' treachery in inviting Nixon, don't worry the 'Morning Star', either.

For them, 'peaceful co-existence' justify is a formula to every counter-revolutionary kind of treachery. Workers Press, Monday February 28, 1972 PAGE 9 Forthwith, ine other officers opened fire pointblank on the crowd, some of whom returned Seven police the shots. were Constant bomb attacks on a killed, and three times that Chicago statue have forced the number of workers. authorities to move it off its The massacre was the signal pedestal to a sater position— for massive witch-hunt head- the foyer of police "aharchists' and four against quarters. German-born workers were Since 1970, when it was the sent to the gallows on framed- target of two bomb attacks, the up charges before a jury later statue has been under constant admitted to have been pre- police guard at an estimated judiced against them. of cost to Chicago taxpayers Haymarket and The trial something like $68,000 a year.

of the four the martyrdom Mayor Richard Daly said the workers' leaders set the pat- bombers were 'evil creatures frame-up and of anti- who work in the dark. tern working-class violence that has The statue shows a police- continued to this day in the man in 19th century garb with United States. his hands upraised apparently Its latest manifestation in of halting an oncoming stream Chicago was the brutal sup- traffic. of the anti-war pression fact, it is supposed to In demonstrations outside the commemorate the seven police Convention in Democratic officers killed in the course of 1968, and the subsequent con- the Haymarket massacre on Seale spiracy trial of Bobby May 4, 1886. and the 'Chicago Seven'. There is no monument to the workers who died in the massacre, though more than 20 are known to have been killed.

The massacre itself was the outcome of a deliberate provo- cation on the part of police, who tried to disband a peace- meeting ful of workers. The meeting was called after police had opened fire the previous day on strike pickets demand- ing the eight-hour day, killing several. When police arrived to close down the meeting, a provoca- stick of dyna- teur threw mite at them, killing one out- The statue right. motor insurance, is particular, as safe as houses. Safe as which house? you The City is engaged in a big might well ask. The table we drive to prove to the public at print, below is scarcely that insurance, and in assuring. large

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Brandaris 0,00 0,00 Gibraltar Irish American 70,000 120,000 London & Cheshire London & Midland 65,000 100,000 Metropolitan & Northern Counties Fire, Auto & Marine 300,000 35,000 65,000 10,000 (est) London & Wessex 40,000 75,000 American Military 17,500 South Yorks Craven 70,000 (unknown) Carriage 120,000 Midland, Northern & Scottish Vehicle & General (est) 800,000 20,000 Competitive 30,000 Total 2,047,500

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BY IAN YEATS

Church halls are not usually very comfortable. They are not meant to be. amid a marked hardly be described de luxe.

But every night scores of tired, cold and wet Young Socialists marching on London from Glas- Liverpool and Swansea gow, stumble in among the wooden chairs and trestles for soup and sandwiches and a camp bed rest.

Next day, on the road, over- taken by silent Rolls-Royces with bowler-hatted and fur-coated pas- smugly to hurrying sengers cocktails, lunchtime they will march behind their Right-to- Work banners 15, 20 or 25 miles.

marching from the They are drab, stone tenements of Glas- gow, the century-old, industrial Wales, terraces of S the Vic- torian squalor of Liverpool.

Marching from closed the factories, shuttered shops, dole and slum houses which queues increasingly haunt the working class, like a spectre beckoning across the years to the back 1930s. Marching to demand from the soft-handed men in 100-guinea suits and £20,000-a-year jobs the Right to Work and to a decent standard of living. On the same day that all three the road, YS marches took to and in a blaze of publicity appro- priate to the launching of the Titanic, the world's most luxuri- ous and exclusive hotel opened its doors in London. Workers Press was there. From the moment Queen Vic- toria built her empire on the blood and bones of Asia and Africa the London Berkeley has served as a country house in the heart of London for nobility and gentry, and quiet Americans.

Ushered from his gleaming £10,000 limousine by uni- formed chauffeur the guest is helped through a revolving door porters in by fawning brown derbies, light-brown overcoats and white gloves. They ignored me. People of and quality definitely do wealth not approach on foot with a used bus ticket in their ungloved hand. Inside an antique clock, on a marble shelf above a log fire, lazily chimes the hour into the hushed, drawing-room atmos- phere, where everything from the voices to the colour porters scheme is subdued and timeless.

It would be indelicate even to give ones nose a good blow.

The reception desk is so dis- creet a stranger has to look for it, overcome with that apologetic when feeling have you you intrude, unannounced, into the privacy of someone else's home.

'Good morning sir, sorry to keep you waiting sir, we hope it's sir, please sit not inconvenient down sir'. • A suit, an overcoat and an accent cover up anything.

The 300 guests do not hurry.

They chatter lethargically in the cushion-sumptuous ante rooms, over brandy or coffee, depend- ing on the time of day, or glide unobtrusively to writing the room for a swift check on Mid- dle East oil prices flashing over the telex. According to the hotel's man- agement it was considered that the new Berkeley would be 'the last really de-luxe hotel to be built anywhere in the world.'

'This way sir, your coat sir, through the double doors sir' and into a circus of monkey-suited flunkeys sharing the limelight with efficient yet courteous con- tinental gentlemen in dark jack- ets and pin stripes. ay February 28, 1972 •Whisky sir, ginger, say when sir, sir, biscuits are you sure you're being taken care of sir, have you seen the press kit sir'.

The Berkeley is not so much a hotel as a home. Not as large as the Savoy or the Hilton and built to old-fashioned is a non-industrial specifications it place of 'elegance and good taste' where, as Italian manager M Paolo Zago explained: 'Anytime you press a button you get anything you want.' We go off in highly personal, little groups of four or five writers, journalists or travel agents mingling with modestly, but expensively-dressed guests, and sweeping past small groups of cynical and abused workmen still putting the finishing touches to furnishings and decor they never dreamed existed. who stay Of course those there have to be able to pay for all this glittering luxury and obsequious attention. For about £60 you could stay the night in the Wellington Suite and throw a party on the paved patio adjacent to a tennis- court-size drawing room over- looking Hyde Park. .... watch their Family men can daughters out for an early morn- ing canter along Rotten Row before going on to their music lessons. The apartment includes a bath- every conceivable with room gadget and aid done out in mock marble and a bedroom lined with soft, quiet, carpets, cushions and drapes. Wellington's crest adorns one suitably inscribed 'virtue' and two resembling closely statuettes charity peer satirically out at their opulent guests. For a suite like this you'd need to be royalty or Aristotle Onassis.

Your average run-of-the-mill mil- lionaire would stay in the less expensive, double or single rooms costing from £45 down to £12 a night, plus extras. head up the decidedly We Oriental, bamboo-lined lifts to the unfinished swimming pool on the roof. M Zago apologizes for the mess. 'That's all right' mumbles one of my travel-agent companions.

I feel more at home in the dust and cement'. We take a quick, rooftop view of London and take the lift down. 'It is, of course, a highly per- service we offer, said sonalized M Zago. 440 staff, from boot boys to ceremonies, minister masters of to the slightest whim of their luxury-loving guests-68 of them below ground in kitchens the size of Euston station. The idea is that the rich should do virtually nothing for themselves. You can phone any- where from New York to Mos- cow, listen to the radio, switch three-channel, colour tele- on • vision and summon room service (waiter, valet, maid) all without moving from the bed. No room opens directly onto a corridor and all windows are double-glazed to avoid noise and maximize privacy. And all con- necting doors are thick and to exclude neighbours' double obtrusive snores — not that the rich do snore, of course.

Above: The Berkeley Hotel.

Left: One of the rooms with Its gilt, cut glass, leather and timeless quality. And every room with its old-world mock, sumptuous, furnishings in quiet but rich occasionally set off by colours, bowls of red roses carna- tions, is air conditioned with two alternative heating systems.

Materials and ideas for the seven-storey building have • been brought from all over Britain, from France and as far away as Thailand and Honduras. The Clipsham stone cladding was carted from Rutland and the green roof tiles from Westmor- land. Some of the textiles came from Asia, the curtains are Toile du Jouy from France. Panelling is of cedar, elm, yew, laurel, dyed leathers and even pony hides.

Chandeliers, some from the old Berkeley, which once stood in Piccadilly are of cut and moulded glass. Antique furniture, gilt light brackets• and marble fire places were brought from the old Berk- eley too and mix in with luxuri- ous new, period-style furniture.

"The aim', management claim, 'has been to create an elegant and timeless quality very rarely met with in expendability age of speed and an Ballroom, restaurant, bar, swimming pool, sauna bath, night club, hairdressers, telex 'and sten- ographers services are all on tap for the rich-all provided for by undisclosed but undoubted millions. Not even a power cut can dis- rupt their comfort. A standby juice diesel alternator pumps through 160 miles of cable to the hotel's 5,000 outlets. man responsible for this The obscenity in the midst of grow- ing mass deprivation is 64-year- old Sir Hugh Walter Kingwell Wonter, chairman and managing director of the Savoy, Claridges and Berkeley Hotels group.

He is a Tory of the old school.

A man to whom the new Ber- keley comforts are an accepted way of life. He is clerk of the Royal kitchens and catering adviser to the Royal household. He served on the Coronation Accommoda- tion Committee, is an HM Lieut and did his bit for the empire on the home committees of the chambers of commerce for Burma, India and Ceylon. A man with an imperial past he does his share for law and order on the visitors' committee at Holloway Prison. His awards and decorations are from appropriate quarters. He has the Order of Cisneris from Spain.

Also among the prominent seven directors is ex-Labour attorney general the Rt Hon Lord Hartley Williams Shawcross.

Meanwhile, on the road, the YS march on...

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday Februa THE RIGHT - to - Work marchers can be sure of a rousing welcome when they reach the Midlands. Dozens of factories, trade union branches and trades councils have offered their assistance in accommodating and feeding the marchers and joining them at jobs rallies. In addition to the Midlands support we have already published, this is a list of new organizations joining the campaign: • Daventry Trades Council is asking member organizations to give maximum support for the they marchers when reach Daventry from Liverpool. Wolverhampton Trades last meeting and is urging : local members to give all possible help.

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WINSFORD, the Liverpool over- spill town in Cheshire, undoubt- edly gave us the best response we have had so far. The Labour Party, factories and trade unions supported us 100 per cent.

The town, which has doubled its population to 30,000 in five years, has 600 on the dole and there are fewer than 50 vacancies.

Thousands of workers were lured there from Merseyside with the bait of new houses and jobs on the trading estate. But hit the slump light engineering concerns. Three factories have closed and all the others have laid off workers--in May Tesco's plan to sack another 150. Support for the march came dozen factories and from workers in them raised almost £100 between them. And workers at. the Bass Charrington site, whom come Runcorn, most of from Winsford, raised £23 and told us the news as we marched into town. The transport workers' branch as did the march supported Winsford ETU. Party, who won The Labour control from the Tories last year, unanimously voted support and £5. Most important, they gave let us have the use of the Labour Club for virtually the whole day and let us stay overnight.

At the meeting speakers in- cluded Bob McEvoy, T&GWU and officer for Mid-Cheshire, Labour councillor Ernie McGee.

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Nuneaton central AUEW has donated £4. Coventry Trades Council has collected £8.50 at its last meet- ing. The council has already voted support for the campaign and is helping with facilities for the marchers. The Triumph Engineering motorcycle factory workers and Work taking esponsibility for providing : midday meal for the marchers when they reach Meriden on the way to Coventry. Collections donations from Rolls-Royce at Parkside will provide the marchers with breakfast and an evening meal in Coventry.

time officer to get a platform, but felt I had to come to applaud your courage and organization.

You are making it inevitable that there will be no return to 1930s and that my children the won't have to say: no return to the 1970s,' Mr McEvoy told us.

Councillor McGee, whose wife has been made redundant by Tesco, pledged the support of Winsford Labour Party in any attempt to force the Tory govern- ment to resign and • brought applause from the strong audience. He later told me he was en- couraged to see youth organized in a political way, something he hadn't witnessed for a long time.

Another person who went out of his way to help was John Welsh, club president. John was a Liverpool docker until he was lured to Winsford. But trade unionism took time to forge roots in the town, he victimized and blacklisted was for his part in a strike. He has been on the dole for almost four years, barring one or two weeks.

One of our marchers, Dennis Bahrans, who comes from Wins- ford, has been out of work four years and he is only 20. 'Unless we throw the Tories Winsford will be another out, • he Kirkby and it will perish, said. A word of thanks to Andy Davies, leader of Northwich youth club who put us up after Labour Party right wing blocked us in Knutsford. As a gained another marcher, who has just lost her job.

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Other factories pledging • sup- port and collections are Climax, Alvis, Standard Triumph, Her- berts-BSA, Lockheed, and Dun- lop. The most overwhelming of all is the generosity of the committee Coventry Co-operative of the Society. Committee members have unanimously decided to give Co-op hall on their well-heated Walsgrove Road to the marchers for the night of March 2-3 to sleep in and hold a public meet- ing. And the hall is made avail- able completely free of charge!

Support continues to come in from the Oxford area. Guarantees Support have come from the AUEW Oxford Morris district committee, the Motors joint shop stewards' com- mittee-where factory-wide collection is being organized- Cowley 203 AUEW and the branch has given £5 and the Cowley 10 AUEW has voted support. It's about time we had some- thing like this in this country.

They're selling us out all down the line. Look what the miners have done by sticking together.

If all the workers stuck together we'd get something new here.'

Speaking at the public meet- the march Snodown ing after miner Jim Bryan told the audience: 'The miners had the Tories on their knees and just at the point where the rank and file were to call for a General going Strike, Feather went to Miami.

We've got to get these people out and not only the Tories and put in people who will fight for social justice. And from what I've seen, that's why the young people this march are walking to on London. 'When you work in the pits you're strangled by capitalism.

We want the state to take over industries, but workers • more must have control nad the profits must come back to them and not go into private hands.' Alan Reed, from the OTO's head office branch, said nothing illustrated better the need for new leadership • in the labour movement than the betrayal of the postmen after seven bitter weeks. He "The miners warned: backed by the united strength of the working class has forced this government. a defeat on They've been beaten in one fight, the whole battle has still to be fought.' One more February fund over the top We knew you would do it. At the time of writing the Febru- ary Fund stands at £1,260.58 and we still have one more day to the end of this month.

There couldn't be a clearer answer to the attacks of the Tory government. There is a growing demand for a daily paper that hits out in way against every Tory polices. Their government must be made to resign. As you know we still have one day left. We are £10.58 over our target. Can you make it more?

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the UPW; Paddington No. 1 Branch. Scotlish miners increase SCOTTISH miners increased out- put last year by more than 10 per cent despite a drop in the labour force, according to figures issued today by the National Coal Board. Saleable output in Scotland in 1971 was 12,326,568 tons an in- crease of nearly It million tons compared with 1970. WE APOLOGISE to those readers — particularly postal subscribers — who may be experiencing delays in the delivery of Workers Press.

Despite the government's power-cuts policy, we are endeavouring to get your copy to you at the usual time.

ROBERT CARR, the Employ- turr ment Secretary, is suffering from a condition known as 'red jitters'. It is not uncom- mon among ministers of parlia- ment. The last outbreak occurred in 1966 during the seamen's strike.

On that occasion Ray Gunter, Wilson's Labour Minister, saw and reds everywhere. Gunter Carr are very similar specimens.

Apart from holding the same they have ministerial portfolio both served directors of as Securicor, Britain's largest private army. Now, in the aftermath of another powerful demonstration working-class militancy the miners' strike-the complaint has befallen Carr. Speaking to Young Conservatives at Malvern at the weekend, Carr hinted that there is 'a sinister conspiracy to over- Reginald Maudling has failed ved from the list of defendants ing heard in New York. Maudling and two other Viscount directors,. British Brentford and his son, Crispin Joynson Hicks, are defendants in a civil action launched by fundholders in Real Estate America, Fund of a Pana- manian-registered company.

Maudling was first president of the now-bankrupt fund and Brentford, a former Tory Minis- ter, and his son, a well-known lawyer, were both senior direc- tors. "brains' behind Real The Estate Fund of America (REFA), Jerome D. Holman, was jailed recently for two years and fined fraud £400 charges. admitted being involved in a scheme which defrauded more than 500 mortgage investors in REFA of £400,000. Hoffman who was sentenced on February 15, is now serving his time in a New York peniten- tiary. REFA was launched in mid- 1969 with the backing of some reactionary extremely inter- figures. The national inaugural list of directors contained such names as : Paul Henri Spaak, ex-premier of Belgium and then head of

NATO:

Robert Wagner, three-term mayor of New York and ex- ambassador to Spain; Holmes_ Brown, chairman of the New York Board of Trade.

Aides Apart from Maudling, Brent- fori and Joynson Hicks, the company also included a number aides from of prominent the Johnson and Nixon administra- tions. Late in 1970 the fund col- lapsed spectacularly and Hoffman left London in a hurry leaving behind scores of debtors.

Since then his name has been the subject of litigation in several countries. In a New York Federal court week Maudling's lawyers last argued that as he had left on July 18, 1969, he should not be regarded • as a defendant in the present litigation. But Judge Palmieri found there was legally insufficient in- formation in the record to reach conclusions. reliable ruled that the fact of Maudling's re- signation did not dispose of the question of jurisdiction. He said he would give a ruling later on the basis of their submitted testimony. When he left the company, Maudling issued a statement say- ing: 'In my judgement the Real Estate Fund of America is a good and sound investment.'

the structure of British loy- turn ing society. He went on: "There are active in our society small but virulent minorities who would like to see lia- the whole present structure of our society destroyed. The role I in of these groups is something against which we should be more ter, than ever on our guard.'

Presumably this is a reference and to the millions of workers, their ens. wives and families who are at ame present roaring for the Tories to be thrown out of office. 'Virulent minorities'? The only minority plaguing this country with unemployment, soaring costs of and murderous repression as in Ulster, is the Tory, clique of bankers and industrialists.

They are defying the huge people on majority of the questions like the Common ere Market and the Industrial ver- Relations Act.