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warned about the opportunist and thoroughly unprincipled character of the British Communist Party's 'opposition' to the Common Market.

Their opposition is based entirely on the bureaucratic interests of the Kremlin ruling clique. It has nothing to do with requirements the working class in its combat with monopoly capitalism.

Leonid Brezhnev's Moscow speech last Monday indicates that the Soviet Union is prepared to recognize the Common Market in return TOr agreement from the W to its counter-revolutionary plans for a European Security Conference.

This marks a major turn in ously refused to have ae Stalin- Soviet policy, which has previings with the EEC. The Stalinist rulers of the Soviet Union have clearly come to the conclusion that collaboration with an enlarged Common Market against the revolutionary workers of Europe will be more profitable than continued opposition.

It is the price they must pay n trying to achieve ratification of their detente with German capitalism and their goal of 'collective security' in Europe.

Brezhnev. told the Moscow meeting that "certain forces' in the W were opposing the detente and inventing 'various pretexts' to avoid it.

In otherwords the bureaucracy has met various obstacles in its pursuit i of the Security Conference. Brezhnev slammed the 'absurd idea that the proposal to hold the conference and our policy in Europe in general are directed at laying a mine under the European economic community or as it is usually called the Common Market'.

This idea, he said, evidently required certain clarification. 'The Soviet Union is far from ignoring the actually existing situation in W Europe, including the existence of such an economic grouping of capitalist countries and its evolution.

'Our relations with participants in this grouping, naturally will depend on the extent to which they, on their part, recognize the realities existing in the socialist part of Europe, specifi ally the interests of the Counci for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon). We are for equality in economic relations and against discrimination' The European monopolists who dominate the Common Market would have to be blind as well as deaf not to recognize the elements of the deal Brezhnev is pis sosech in this key passage of speech.

He is saying: we are quite prepared to conspire with you against the workers of Europe SO long as you agree to recognize our arrangements over here.

This is the authentic voice of Stalinist counter-révolution. Having spent gallons of ink and tons paper denouncing the EEC in the most virulent terms, Brezhnev suddenly discovers the virtues of collaboration with the Common Market monopolists.

At a stroke, the Kremlin has made the British Stalinists'. hysterical anti-EEC campaign a back number.

But from the point of view of the British CP leadership, turn will make little difference. For them, it was always a question which section the bourgeoisie to support.

The character of the CP's opposition' to British entry was well shown on October 24 last when the Stalinists marched through London alongside the National Front and extreme rightwing Tories. Workers Press carried the following story the day after the demonstration: Members of the British Com munis rightmarch lay s non delega Comn Comm swung flutter by t FAILI Front signs preser warne turn-c reds politi‹ them' Thi s vary ar RAIDERS Worried about crime in New York and London? Well they won't even let me rest in peace in Warsaw!

It seems a well-organized gang, operating under cover of darkness, is specializing in thefts of tombstones from the cemeteries there. The stones fetch high prices on Poland's thriving black market.

A particular target for the tombstone snatchers is the Warsaw Jewish cemetery, which contains some 800,000 graves, and covers an area of ten square miles. It is looked after by one caretaker, 81-yearold Pinhas Sznicer, known affectionately as 'Pinie' According to a correspondent of the Dutch Jewish newspaper 'Nieuw Israelitisch Weekblad', the cemetery is also being raided by individual operators who desecrate graves to look for gold teeth, or for money. and jewellery which they think might have been hidden during the wartime occupation.

Meanwhile, because of a shortage of marble, the gangs can get between 20,000 and 40,000 zloty (about £1,900 to £3,800) for a tombstone load, from the black market operators.

Tombstone raiders generally operate in the newer parts of the cemetery, where the stones are in better condition. Catherwood, former boss of NEDDY, now managing director of John Laing; Lord Shawcross, one-time AttorneyGeneral, now a director of companies including BSA, EMI, Shell, and' Thames Television; and the Hon Angus Ogilvy, of Lonrho, Bank of London and S America, and the Rank Organization. (His missus, Princess Alexandria is Chancellor of Lancaster University.)

As reported in last Saturday's Workers Press, students at Lancaster University have taken strike action to demonstrate their backing for some staff in the English department, who they feel have been unfairly treated.

Starting in the English department, strike has spread right across the university. To make it really effective, the students did not rely on a general union meeting, but held a series of meetings, department by department, for students and staff to discuss and vote on strike action.

The result resounding 'yes'. By last Friday, the majority of university depart. ments had come out, ranging from classics, and sociology through to chemistry and physics. And, as the students' radio station, "Radio Bailrigg', in- an atmosphere reminiscent of a General Election, gave out the results from each departmental "constituency, in between discs, whoops of amazed jubilation went up at the news that the 'Financial