Workers Press no. 735

workers press

A CALL TO THE

WORKING CLASS

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

on the second day of their 12th annual con- Scarborough ference at yesterday carried an resolution. emergency from their national com- mittee on the present stage of the fight against the Tory government. The resolution warns that behind the screen of apparent concession to reflation in the budget and the removal of Stormont in Ulster, the real face of the Tory government is revealed in: • The £5,000 fine on the Trans- General Workers' port and Union. • Changes in police and judicial powers in the proposed amend- ments to the Criminal Justice Act. troops in • Internment and Ireland, and the recent raids on members of left-wing groups in Britain. The resolution calls for the stepping up of the fight to make the Tory government resign and pledges full support for the trans- formation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party in the autumn of 1972. Support for the resolution was unanimous at the conference, was the largest in the which history of the YS. One thousand hundred and delegates seven visitors filled the floor of the hall to capacity and much of the up- stairs gallery. For a report on the conference proceedings, see page 12. This is the text of yesterday's emergency motion: youth and the working-class movement that the struggle be- tween the working class and the capitalist class in Britain has reached a very tense and dan- gerous stake. Behind the scenes and dominating everything, the world capitalist economic crisis is plunging into deep recession, all-out trade war and mass un- employment. The capitalist class can an- 2 swer this crisis only by pre- paring counter-revolution and against the working reaction class. Entry into the Common - Market is to join hands with the reactionary and neo-fascist repre- sentatives of the big monopolies of western Europe. The Tory budget was part of these plans.

Its measures for temporary re- flation were a fraud, to assist the reformist trade union and Labour leaders in their betrayals.

main forms, and it is being stepped up every day. Unemploy- ment, already over 1 million, will increase at a rapid rate as the flight of big capital into Europe gets under way in the Common Market. of Repressive strengthening the state machine against the

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

John Simmance, YS national secretary, a working class, particularly in the other weapon. courts, Changes in the Criminal Justice Act strengthen the hand of the police and abolish basic rights of persons. Raids on accused the national Socialism, Of the Inter- homes of members and other are made without charge groups and without Cabinet statements.

In Ulster, hundreds are in- terned without charge and with- out trial, many of them subjected to torture. Finally, and most important of all, the Industrial Court is im- plementing the Industrial Rela- beginning with the tions Act, £5,000 fine on the T&GWU. This is the real face of the Tory gov- ernment. The YS must lead the against every one of struggle these repressions. The miners' strike was 4 a defeat for the government's wages policy, but because of the of the trade union treachery leaders it became only a tem- porary setback and the Tories remain in power to prepare the next attack. The reformists, Stalinists and revisionists completely have opposed the campaign of the YS and the Socialist Labour League to create the conditions for forc- ing the Tory government to resign. Their treachery is to oppose the bringing down of the Tory government by the work- ing class' own actions, thus leav- ing the door open for the Tories to prepare a snap election when consider situation they favourable. ... 5 Conference warns that in this very tense political situation there will be no compro- mize, and no settlement without the victory of one class or the the other. •

E NEWSLETTER

MONDAY APRIL 10, 197

ENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

ecretary, addresses the 1,700-stong Scarborough Conference calls on youth 6 and workers everywhere to redouble the fight to create the conditions for forcing the Tory government to resign. In this context, we salute the advance of the NLF in Vietnam. Every blow we strike here against the Tory government is a blow against the main ally of US imperialism. In the same con- text of struggle to bring down the Tory government, we call for the end of internment and with-

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

A MAJOR confrontation between one of Britain's most militant groups of workers and the Industrial Relations Act may be only days away. The flash-point is the docks, where shop stewards in lead- threatening a ports are national strike if dockers who are blacking' a road-haulage firm are faced with court action. Such a strike is the most likely outcome following meeting of port leaders in Liverpool on Saturday. And dockers yesterday Merseyside became the first to endorse the stewards' decisions at a mass meeting in the city's boxing stadium. It is on Merseyside that any trouble is likely to break out first. 4р 1972 No. 735

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

KERS PRESS

THE ONLY REVOLUTIONARY

DARY PAPER

carborough conference drawal of all troops from Ulster.

7 Conference calls upon all trade unionists to answer the soaring cost of living by fighting for wage increases, recognizing that the wages fight cannot be separated from the struggle to make the government resign..

Conference pledges to redouble the efforts of the YS in the fight for the right to work, around the central aim of forcing the Tory government to resign and returning a Labour government Dockers there have been blacking container lorries from Heaton's Transport Ltd, a St Helens haulage-and-warehous- ing firm. Two weeks ago Heaton's obtained an order from the National Industrial telling Relations Court the Transport and General Work- ers Union to stop the action.

It subsequently fined the T&GWU €5,000 for contempt.

But at the weekend port stewards extended the black nationally and broadened its scope to cover all the cargo of Heaton's and two other North- West haulage firms. Heaton's is expected to ask the NIRC to act again on its behalf today or tomorrow, as- suming no compromize formula is arrived at in talks today. If this happens the strike could begin. tween dockers" meeting be- Last Friday leaders Transport and General Work- which will be forced to nation- alize without and This is control. the programme of the hour, and on this programme we will fight in order to launch the revolu- tionary party which will lead the working class in its struggle for power. Conference pledges itself, there- fore, to work for the transfor- mation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party in the autumn of 1972. ers' Union branch secretary in St Helens, Henry Hull, failed to settle the issue. Heaton's have given dockers in Liverpool until noon today to lift the black. The man at centre of the storm will be T&GWU leader Jack Jones, who has until Wednesday to explain to the NIRC why his union should not be fined for contempt. If he fails to do this, or pay up, the assets of the union will be seized. Also on Wednesday the NIRC is due to decide finally whether the black is an unfair industrial practice, which could lead I to an unlimited fine. A Liverpool full-time official of the T&GWU and two docks shop stewards still face black- mail charges. They were arres ted at Gladstone dock, where main blacking action the against Heaton's has taken place.

workers press

A CALL TO THE

WORKING CLASS

YOUNG: SOCIALISTS

on the second day of their 12th annual con- ference at Scarborough carried yesterday an resolution emergency from their national com- mittee on the present stage of the fight against the Tory government. The resolution warns that behind the screen of apparent concession to reflation in the budget and the removal of * Stormont in Ulster, the real face of the Tory government is revealed in: • The £5,000 fine on the Trans- Workers' port and General Union. • Changes in police and judicial powers in the proposed amend- ments to the Criminal Justice Act. • Internment and troops in Ireland, and the recent raids on members of left-wing groups in Britain. The resolution calls for the stepping up of the fight to make the Tory government resign and pledges fuil support for the trans- formation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party in the autumn of 1972. Support for the resolution was unanimous at the conference, which was the largest in the history of the YS. One thousand hundred and delegates seven visitors filled the floor of the hall to capacity and much of the up- stairs gallery. For a report on the conference proceedings, see page 12. This is the text of yesterday's emergency motion: youth and the working-class movement that the struggle be- tween the working class and the capitalist class in Britain has reached a very tense and dan- gerous stake. Behind the scenes dominating everything, the and world capitalist economic crisis is plunging into deep recession, all-out trade war and mass un- employment. • The capitalist class can 2 an- swer this crisis only by pre- paring counter-revolution and working the reaction against class. Entry into the Common • Market is to join hands with the reactionary and neo-fascist repre- sentatives of the big monopolies western Europe. The Tory budget was part of these plans.

Its measures for temporary re- flation were a fraud, to assist the reformist trade union and Labour leaders in their betrayals.

3 The Tory attack takes two main forms, and it is being stepped up every day. Unemploy- ment, already over 1 million, will increase at a rapid rate as the flight of big capital into Europe gets under way in the Common Market. Repressive strengthening of the state machine against the

INCORPORATING THE NEWSL

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

John Simmance, YS national secretary, ¿ working class, particularly in the is the other courts, weapon. Changes in the Criminal Justice Act strengthen the hand of the police and abolish basic rights of accused persons. Raids on the homes of members of the 'Inter- Socialism' and other national are made without charge groups and without Cabinet statements.

In Ulster, hundreds are in- terned without charge and with- out trial, many of them subjected to torture. Finally, and most important of Industrial Court is im- all, the plementing the Industrial Rela- beginning with tions Act, • the €5,000 fine on the T&GWU. This is the real face of the Tory gov- ernment. The YS must lead the struggle against every one of these repressions. The miners' strike was 4 defeat for the government's wages policy, but because of the of the trade union treachery leaders it became • only a tem- porary setback and the Tories remain in power to prepare the next attack. The reformists, Stalinists and revisionists have completely opposed the campaign of the YS and the Socialist Labour League to create the conditions for forc- ing the Tory government to resign. Their treachery is to oppose the bringing down of the Tory government by the work- ing class' own actions, thus leav- ing the door open for the Tories to prepare a snap election when they consider the situation favourable. ... Conference warns that in this very tense political situation there will be no compro- mize, and no settlement without the victory of one class or the other....

E NEWSLETTER • MONDAY APRIL 10, 197

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

ecretary, addresses the 1,700-stong Scarboroug Conference calls on youth 6 and workers everywhere to redouble the fight to create the conditions for forcing the Tory government to resign. In this context, we salute the advance of the NLF in Vietnam. Every blow we strike here against the Tory government is a blow against the main ally of US imperialism. In the same con- text of struggle to bring down the Tory government, we call for the end of internment and with-

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

A MAJOR confrontation between one of Britain's most militant groups of workers and the Industrial Relations Act may be only days away. The flash-point is the docks, where shop stewards in lead- ing ports are threatening a national strike if dockers who are 'blacking' a road-haulage firm are faced with court action. Such a strike is the most following likely outcome meeting of port leaders in Liverpool on Saturday. And yesterday Merseyside dockers became the first to endorse the stewards' decisions at a mass meeting in the city's boxing stadium. It is on Merseyside that any trouble is likely to break out first. • 10, 1972 • No. 735 • 4p

E SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TE ONY RIYOUTIOHARY

carborough conference drawal of all troops from Ulster.

7 Conference calls upon trade unionists to answer the soaring cost of living by fighting for' wage increases, recognizing that the wages fight cannot be separated from the struggle to make the government resign. ..• Conference pledges to redouble the efforts of the YS in the fight for the right to work, around the central aim of forcing the Tory government to resign and returning a Labour government Dockers there have been blacking container lorries from Heaton's Transport Ltd, a St Helens haulage-and-warehous- firm. Two weeks ago ing Heaton's obtained an order from the National Industrial Relations Court telling the Transport and General Work- ers' Union to stop the action.

It subsequently. fined T&GWU £5,000 for contempt.

But at the weekend port stewards extended the black nationally. and broadened its scope to cover all the cargo of Heaton's and two other North- West haulage firms. Heaton's is expected to ask the NIRC to act again on its behalf today or tomorrow, as- suming no compromize formula is arrived at in talks today. If this happens the strike could begin. Last Friday a meeting be- tween dockers' and leaders Transport and General Work- which will be forced to nation- alize without compensation and with workers' control. This is the programme of the hour, and on this programme we will fight in order to launch the revolu- tionary party which will lead the working class in its struggle for power. Conference pledges itself, there- fore, to work for the transfor- mation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party ent in the autumn of 1972.

ers' Union branch secretary in St Helens, Henry Hull, failed to settle the issue. Heaton's have given dockers in Liverpool until noon today to lift the black. The man at centre of the storm will be T&GWU leader Jack Jones, who has until Wednesday to explain to the NIRC why his union should not be fined for contempt. If he fails to do this, or pay up, the assets of the union will be seized. Wednesday Also the on NIRC is due to decide finally whether the black is an unfair industrial practice, which could to an unlimited fine. lead A Liverpool full-time official of the T&GWU and two docks shop stewards still face black- mail charges. They were arres- ted at Gladstone dock, where main blacking action against Heaton's has taken place.

Trade crisis hits the starving PAGE 2 Workars Prosa, Monday April 10,

AROUND THE WORLD

PRESIDENT Nixon has thrown 30 Marine Corps jets into the Vietnam battle, raising American air strength to its highest level since 1970 in a desperate bid to stem the North Vietnamese advance.

The jets bring the number of US planes involved to 530, not counting 50 B52 bombers out of Thailand and the fleet of converted helicopter gunships.

With all this air power at their disposal the South Vietnamese have been beaten in battle after battle of the nine-day North Vietnamese offensive. The North Vietnamese have in bringing their succeeded surface-to-air missiles south of DMZ, bringing down at least ten planes over the weekend. President Thieu has ordered his palace guard into the fighting North of Saigon as the situation defending army grows for the more critical. An Loc, the provincial capital 56 miles north of Saigon, heavy fighting was in progress as an estimated 2,000 North Vietnamese troops closed in on the town. Tank battle The North Vietnamese have cut the road between An Loc and Saigon and are also laying of Chon the siege to town Thanh, 20 miles nearer Saigon.

In the extreme North, close to zone, South the demilitarized Vietnamese units fought a rear- outside guard tank battle just the strategic city of Quang Tri, where several Saigon units and their US advisors are bottled up.

North Vietnamese units have swept far to the south of the beleagured town, and are re- ported in the countryside fring- city of Hue, the the traditional Vietnamese capital.

The North Vietnamese offen- sive has put both Nixon and

BY TOM KEMP

THE

so-called 'Marxist' President Allende of Chile will be host to some 3,000 and economistsha politicians gathering in Santiago next Thursday for a marathon discussion of the problems of the underdeveloped countries. This will be the third United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); and for the first time representatives of China will be present. They will meet in an expen- sive new conference centre and, although one of their main sub- jects will be the malnutrition which afflicts two- thirds of the world's population, Santiago's luxury hotels, bars and restaurants are expecting to do a roaring trade. In a 96-page report prepared for the conference, the secretary-

UNCTAD,

the general Venezuelan Manuel Perez Gerrero, points up the complete failure to face up to what he 'the central issue of our calls times'. The gap between the 'rich' and continues "poor' countries to widen and the problem has, peen aggravated by Nixon's August 15 April 10, 1972

JORLD

Vietnam freedom fighters like these are puppet regime the in jeopardy. The South Vietnamese army can- not fight even a limited war, let alone an all-out struggle.

mousands are are full of demoralized remnants of the original units defending the DMZ. If Nixon intervenes a on suffcient scale to save Thieu's his chances ot government, winning the presidency in November look slim. But he could face a right-wing backlash if South Vietnam collapses under his presidency. Assassins shot SECURITY • forces yesterday of killed two fleeing assassins Zanzibar ruler Sheikh Abeid Karume and i third killer is alleged to have shot himself when he was captured. measures and the currency re- alignments which followed.

Representatives of the "poor' resentful of the countries are fact that they had no voice in the hnancial measures. which sts. *have increased the burden their debts and worsened their position. trade Their share in world trade continues to decline.

made as The promise far back as 1961 that the advanced countries would devote at least I per cent of their national in- come to development aid has not been fulfilled. Average expectation of life of someone born in Asia is only 35 years, in Africa 40. In the advanced countries of Europe, the USA and the Soviet Union it is 70. Imperialism In many of the underdeveloped the annual countries average income is less. than £50 and in Latin America it is only £150.

Birth rates remain at a much higher level than in the advanced countries. What the report does not say is that this state of affairs is the product of imperialism, which plunders the resources of the exploits their peopluntries, and less-developed these are now pushing towards Saigon TWO more radical Ministers trom haye nated ho resigned President Allende of Chile's government last week. A general takes over as Min- ing Minister. He was a member the managing committee of of Chuguicamata the state-owned copper mine." Allende has vetoed a constitu- tional amendment which would have prevented his government from nationalizing more private firms without the approval of Congress. The Senate, prompted by the opposition Christian Democrats, have called for an investigation by the Supreme Court into gov- ernment charges of a plot against Allende's life. Against this background of There is no solution, or even any prospect of an improvement, as long as they remain dependent of the capitalist world parts market. Their underdevelopment is the obverse side of the development which has taken place in the advanced countries which exploit their raw materials. Political independence has done nothing to improve the situation as far as the masses of peasants and workers in the colonies and semi-colonies are concerned. The national •bourgeoisie which will be represented at Santiago •is tied to imperialism only seeks a greater share and of the surplus value extracted their people. They from own cannot fight imperialism but only seek to bargain for better terms.

governments The of the underdeveloped countries have banded together in what is called the 'Group of 77 for this pur- pose. A programme was worked out in Lima, Peru, last October and to the November to present advanced countries asking for more aid, an end to discrimin- atory trade practices and prefer- ential treatment for their exports.

With the capitalist world in the grip of a trade depression the is just the reverse actual trend • of this. SOVIET premier Alexei Kosygin has at relations between the Iraqi go Communist Party, Baghdad Radio

SECRETS LAW

AS JAPAN

RE-ARMS

THE Japanese government is taking another step towards remilitarization with a pro- posal for an Official Secrets Act. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato told the National Assembly at the weekend that a new law was necessary to protect the secrecy of classified documents follow- ing the 'leakage' of information on a secret deal with the US.

A secretary at the woman Foreign Ministry and a popular newspaper journalist were arres- ted on Tuesday for leaking three secret documents about Okinawa by the Americans.

At present Japan has no official secrets legislation, just as-con- stitutionally-it has no army.

Sato's government, however, is frantically rearming the so-called Self Defence Force and plans stiff new secrets laws to protect the army from prying eyes.

constitutional crisis and a grow- regime, ing challenge to his Allende is due to open the UNCTAD conference on the this Thursday monetary crisis (see separate story, this page). The right-wing parties are plaongs amass demonstration through Santiago on the eve of the conference and Allende is now trying to divert the march so it will not pass near the con- ference hall. Acting under powers granted by the constitution for the regu- lation of public gatherings, Allende and his Interior Minis- ter Herman del Canto have ordered the marchers to take a route five miles from the city centre where the conference hall stands. Trade barriers are increasing and hard-pressed producers of products textiles and are demanding further plastics restrictions. Equally idea advanced countries should donate to the 'poor' countries a substantial propor- tion of the savings resulting from towards progressive measures general and complete disarm- ament'. Self-interest In fact, of course, the govern- ments of the advanced countries are fully behind the giant corpor- ations which make yast pronts out of their activities in the underdeveloped countries.

which • Philanthropic gestures do. not. conceal self- some interested design-such as buying off local politicians, or prevent- ing mass unrest-are out of the question for them. There are, however, some hopeful members of delegations from underdeveloped countries who hope that the the Chinese will presence of strengthen their hand. This will no doubt prove to be one more illusion, but it will be interesting to see what role the Chinese will play now that they are respectable members of the UN. sygin has expressed his satisfaction Iraqi government and the local 1 Radio reported yesterday.

Kosygin, who arrived in Bagh- dad on Thursday for an official five-day visit to celebrate the opening of the northern Rumay- lah oilfield, made the statement during a meeting with Iraqi CP officials. The radio said he had wel- comed the level of 'national co- operation' in Iraq, and stressed the importance of good relations between the CP and the ruling Ba'ath Party. Ba'ath Party came The to power in 1963 after assassinating president Kassem and immedi- ately undertook a murderous purge of his supporters. The already-decimated CP was again purged • in after а соир 1968, and its remaining leaders thrown into prison. Soviet Under pressure its leaders have now agreed to col- laborate with the Ba'ath regime, though many of their former comrades are still in prison.

Last November, ruling the national pact party proposed a with the CP and the Kurdish Democratic Party, representing the persecuted northern national minority. The , November pact ties the Communist Party hand and foot to the Ba'athist regime, which is liable at any time to undertake further repressions against the remaining CP members. Kosygin, who is negotiating a 'strategic alliance formula' with the government of president Ahmed Hassan Bakr, is laying foundations for • another Sudan in the Middle East.

THE Ceylon government has received a gift of four Bell Jet-Ranger helicopters from the United States under a $3m counter-insurgency pro- gramme. The helicopters were handed over at a ceremony at Katun- ayake airport, 20 miles north of Colombo, at the weekend. The US also gave 60 VHF radio sets to the country's armed forces.

The latest gift brings Ceylon's helicopter strength to ll—nine US Bell Jet-Rangers and two Soviet-built KA 26s. Soviet and US aid were rushed to the island last year to help suppress an abortive rising by the young guerrillas of the Peoples' Liberation. Front (JVP). More than year after the revolt, 14,000 JVP supporters are still in prison awaiting trial be- fore special tribunals with ex- traordinary powers. Results of Ceylon's latest cen- at the weekend, sus, published show the grinding poverty in which many of the islanders live.

More than nine million of the 12.7 people country's million earn no income at all, according to the survey, while only 175,000 earn more than 400 rupees (£25) a month. 600,000 people are unemployed, most of them in the 15-24 age- group from which the IVP drew much of its support. arrested THREE leading members of the of the outlawed youth wing Spanish Socialist Party-includ- ing two girls-have been arrested and charged with illicit associ- ation in the Basque town of Bilbao. They are Justiniano Barranda (26), the wing's secretary; Alicia Ayala (25), treasurer; and Blanca Pera (20), a party militant. The arrests are said to have followed a tip-off by informers who attended a recent meeting the Socialist Party in Tou- of louse, France, where the party holds regular meetings. Five other people, believed to be members Basque Nationalist movement ETA, are also being held by police follow- ing a series of strikes in the Basque country.

Amalgamated Union of Engineer- Workers' ing president Hugh Scanlon will rise to his feet in just seven days' time at about 10 the union's a.m. and address national committee. What he says to the commit- union's teethe key policy- making body—will set the tone for what will possibly be their most important debate yet.

For what the 52 delegates decide will shape," if not deter- mine, the pay fight of almost 3 million engineering workers. And workers are under their these fiercest-ever attack. week in Workers Press, Last we published a three-part investi- AUEW president Hugh Scanlon Three alternatives for the pay struggle were placed before engineers' union policymakers on January 10.

In his usual keynote speech, union president Hugh Scanlon condemned the 'totally unrealis.

tic reply union negotiators had received to their £5-f6 claim the previous month. Something had to be done, he said, about the 'completely abor- negotiations' with the tive Engineering Employers' Federa- tion — 'this so-called "organiza- tion" , which, in my view, is com- hardest- prised of some of the individuals faced, unrelenting that ever masqueraded under the name of an organization'.

His alternatives were: with the Accept the offer 1 proviso that local claims could be pursued. 3 Abandon the claim at national level and go for plant bargain- ing. The previous night, Scanlon had brusquely slapped down left- wing opponents at a private fac- tion meeting. national committee At the itself he was more verbose. By the end of his 12,000-word expo- sition of the alternatives no one was in any doubt where he stood. he said, would Acceptance, skilled rate of only mean a basic €20.50 coming into operation from July and remaining in force for at least 12 months. This was tion even worthy of considera- National action was a more proposition, which serious good two-thirds of this section was devoted to attacking.

gation of how

AUEW

the national committee came to aban- don the fight at national level for the pay claim it drew up exactly 12 months ago. We did so in the context of struggle for alternative, revolu- tionary leadership in the work- ing-class movement. And because it is vital that the forthcoming national committee reverse its January 10 decision. At that time we had not seen the full text of Hugh Scanlon's speech to the January meeting.

We have now. And as a post- script to our series-written in the same spirit—we must com.

ment. I must remind you, of what Scanlon told the 52 delegates, you did when most of you were "wearing your other hat""-that the question the was on union's rules and their relation- ship to the Industrial Relations Act. 'You will recall that executive council was mandated to "pre- serve the fabric of the union" Irrespective of whatever provoca- tion we have had from govern- ments who feel that the econo- mic boot is now on their foot, and despite from provocations and the employers, it was them our job to preserve the fabric of the union and, therefore, we were instructed to set up funds of a protected and unprotected nature.' Then he came to the crux of his argument: money and the Industrial Relations Act.

The unprotected fund avail- able for strike pay amounted to £1‡m. Once that was used up it could only be supplemented from future contributions. His discussion of the Act's implications was a typical piece of Scanlonism. First look at it in full. Then think about what it means. 'I am talking of a national without strike, with the or Industrial Relation Act. And let me say, in case people get the impression, executive wrong council's view is that which was expressed following our three-day amalgamated executive meeting last week: we must know and understand the Act, but, knowing and understanding it, we then Engineers at Metal Box Co. Ltd., Timper of their pay claim. proceed to ignore it and continue to operate as we have done pre- viously, so that, in that connec- motivated bynthe Industriat Rela- , our thinking has not been tions Act, it has been motivated by the decisions made at rules revision and by the best possible in our view, of achieving way, some type of understanding, bear- ing those things in mind.

'However, whatever the circum- stances, if we enter into struggle, shall be in financial diffi- we culties ... 'We are fully mindful of the fact that what the postmen had do last year, and what the to miners are having to do now, may well be the position of engineers. take industrial action, 'If we it will be in the knowledge that this union cannot finance it. Now, that is a point you must take into consideration when making your decisions today, but it is a point that we are clear in our minds will come; it will come whether you take national action or any other form of strike action! 'Whether it will come with the rapidity that it will with national strike, is a matter for executive judgement. In your council's view it will come rapidly enough as to make it almost inevitable that, from the start, have to advise we would nur members that the likelihood of paying dispute benefit was, from practical purposes, not possible, apart from the first flim and, thereafter, when we could again strike would be very finance a much in jeopardy. When I say , I do not mean a national "strike" T mear the day-to-day one, battles that will go on in any case.' Several points arise immedi- ately. The AUEW president was clear about the essentials of the situa- tion facing the union. He pointed out that the employers it con- fronted were hard-faced employ- ers and a hard-faced government.

He drew attention to the fact the miners were on strike.

He was also well aware what rank-and-file union members would think of his arguments; that they meant retreat in front of the Tories' union legislation.

You can't accuse me of being motivated by the Act, he was Workers Prose, d., Timperley, Manchester began a sit-in of thei telling decided to committee. We've to ignore it. All I'm doing is pointing out the impli- cations of what you decided at our rules revision conference last year. Of course there is one vital omission here; that rules-revision conference took place in the wake of a specific warning from Scan- lon that by the time the pay struggle took place the Act would be law. But this opportunist logic- chopping continued throughout Scanion's January 10 address.

There were also complete red herrings like the possible out- come of a ballot. Ignoring the urgency of going to the miners' aid, Scanlon insisted that the rule only allowed national com- call a strike without mittee to ballotting the membership if there was not time to do so. Of course the executive were not generally in favour of ballots. 'If we did have a ballot vote of the members in the present industrial atmos- political and phere, and with a million unem- ployed, what would be the atti- tude of our members in such a ballot?' he asked. 'What would be our if the position answer was "No"? 'Executive council feel that an adverse decision in a national ballot could only mean that we accept what he has been offered.'

And even if AUEW members voted for strike action, would the other follow them engineering unions real flavour of Scanlon's The reformist, defeated pessimistic, perspectives did not fully come across until the last section of his speech; that dealing with the arguments for plant-bargaining.

The AUEW president admitted that the executive's thinking here was backed up not necessarily by any working-class logic, or by any particular philosophy, but by the present circumstances'.

this admission was fol- And lowed by a series of perhaps even more startling statements.

he said, The

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were 'spoiling for a fight'. The execu- tive could be accused of passing ora Prese, Monday Aprll 10, 1872 PAGE 3 -In of their factory on Friday in support the buck with its plant-bargaining but strategy, such thought has ever passed through OUr minds' (in that case, how did it get into the speech?). A national strike would be 'easier' than plant-bargaining. A national strike would even 'far more emblazoning and be far more in accordance with pre- sent-day circumstances when the miners doing it and the are is that the railway- likelihood men will'. Why then, not call one? Here came the real stab in the back for the miners—a stab which was, remember, _accepted by the whole of the Communist Party faction on the national commit- tee: "These circumstances, Scan- lon concluded, 'are generating general political some sort against the battle government and its wages policy; in fact, its whole approach to industrial legislation. Whether or not that is realistic thinking is, in execu- tive Council's view, very much open to debate. . .. 'I earnestly commend to you that the third alternative of fight- ing the issue in the localities is the one which should be adopted by this national committee?

Nothing could be clearer than that. What Scanlon has subsequently admitted 'may have been a mis- calculation' was from the out- set a conscious, deliberate and unashamed retreat before the Tory government. Yet did Les Dixon, the CP executive member from York- shire, rise to dissociate himself angrily from this approach? Did or the the Maoist Reg Birch, Labour 'left' Bob Wright?

They did not. And neither did Arthur Gibbard, leader of the CP faction on the national committee, or any other CP mem- ber denounce it in these terms.

They won't do so in public now, either. Time is short, much shorter than it was on January 10.

The April 17 national com- mittee must repudiate not just its but January decision, the political method by which it was made. National action aimed at forcing the resignation of the Tory government is now the only realistic forward for way engineers.

SAGE & Wenaro Proco, Monday April 10, 1872) Have you read the Draft Manifesto adopted by the All Trades Unions Alliance at the national conference at Birmingham last November? Have you expressed your views on the document in a letter to the Workers Press?

The Manifesto calls for the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party. This historic and vital task must be fully discussed and understood throughout the workers' their families, movement: trade unionists, students, the unemployed and people in the professions are invited to express their views on the Manifesto.

If you want a copy of the Draft Manifesto write to the Workers Press or contact branch. Today we present further correspondence in the Mani- your local ATUA festo discussion.

ALF GOODLIFFE

who are comfortable now want to united Europe so that they can stay comfortable. If the Tories get all their soldiers together A 46-year-old lorry driver, he is and create a third power between on taking things away, the also chairman of the Stockwell will people who are poor get Russia and America. poorer.

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• I want to really emphasize that about tenants two The Tories have not done any- it. is not me about entral London housing estates. class- thing tor working much as the young. Lilt so-called tair rents scheme school out, dental trying future milk went to cause IOt Ol 1o gulls charges went uf and enormously feeling among tenants. wife says all the prices have My has they going to say lily daughter just got How alc gone up. what is a 'fair rent'? If a persor married and I have had to tell A fifth looked after his home and of the tenants on this five years before you ner Wait have children some spent money on decorating it, rents' plan starts working. government inspector Is gong round and say 'this ine lories will nave everyone on Nor nave to coma. and the social security before long. youngster today nice' put up rent. • carun. Why about £20 a week €10 to look should anyone have can pay it will pay tenants not then he after their homes. of that we Will all De going back to slums. It is like having to beg.

left with nothing. There is It seems to me that the Tories Most wife and working men are putting young these lats 50 So week when She has worked out how want to take as much as they call wIls shouldn't they be entitled to a much she has spent on shopping of the cream? cries. stage now Nothing the Tories are doing have worked my three children have where grown up and I am working and manifesto. was in their election nara all their lives tor wnat they wife's working and can Look at the Common Market. have hot to taw the are got afford some of the things should have had a poll on hang they nght to Labour always wanted. the Tories read got THaT i ne oiner day nave … [O want to take it all back. one of the papers that 78 per government. cent of the people were against We should not have to go They down to on . to drag us WallL struggling like generation what it this think it is just to get The people on this estate after generation. ago.

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WILLIAM HUGHES

railway A 38-year-old worker born in the S Wales coalfield with the bitter fruits of class war easy to see on every side. He spoke to us his Wimbledon, at London, home. I. would join the head hunters if it was Tory heads they were hunting. Some people are worried about the SLL's credentials because the it, Labour Party has proscribed but they should be more worried about the people in the Labour Party. need tor a There is a real revolutionary party, but I think bit pessimistic people are about its chances of taking over.

The need is to convince them.

They don't know their own strength. There Is a great to urgency BEIN Sutia panget view of the crisis of capitalism. It is class war now. and no holds barred as this Tory government has amply demonstrated. Governments everywhere are hardening their attitudes. The Labour Party has betrayed us a bit too much recently and we must have a new leadership.

I think the Labour Party full of traitors. It needs a good but I cannot purge, see any credible alternative the at moment. We have got to get them into government and then start working on them. Roy Jenkins and the others who voted with the Tories on the Market are contemptu- Common ous of the electorate. They are not socialists at all.

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| Conference I am not quite sure what to think of the Common Market. It.

is something by the financiers for the financiers. I suppose they want to strengthen their hold over the working class by the free movement of workers and transferring capital from one country to another. Whatever it is about, I think it will affect ordinary folk adversely. A lot of Labour Party people don't particularly want to get into power, but I think if they do the left wing in the party will pe strengthened because of the pressufe they will be under from the electorate. If they don't act, they will have to get out.

The Tories are nibbling at everything from • school milk to They are running phone rentals. true to form like all Tories.

They have taken off. the -kid gloves now and the depressing thing is 'that they are getting away with it. The National Union of Rail- waymen are teaching us now how to function within the framework of the Industrial Relations Act, but any worth its union salt would reject it completely.

I like Workers the Press because it has got the guts to what other people only print think. A lot of workers think the same things as are printed in the paper. I think the SLL is honest and after being cut off from the Labour Party, they have got a lot of guts. The Manifesto is concise and to the point. It is what we need and it has. got to be achieved..

When the Zionists were cast- ing about for a homeland about 50 years, the suggestion was made that they should try Africa. In fact it was generally agreed that the most agreeable spot was It is ironic, therefore, Uganda. that last week several hundred Israelis should be unceremoni- ously kicked out of the country that was almost their own.

The decision to heave them out of Kampala was taken by the military leader has 'shocked' General Idi Amin. The decision the editorial writers in London and 'The Times' pompously ad- monished Amin for being 'prone to impulsive action' But there is nothing impulsive about Amin's action. It is based on a lethal cunning and the -particularly ruthless requirements of his military dictatorship.

Israel's days were numbered in Uganda from the moment Sudans ruler General Jafaar Numeiry began his negotiations with the Sudanese rebels who border with live along the Uganda. The rebels were armed and trained by Israeli intelli- gence who wanted to maximize the amount of unrest within the Arab world. On the face of it, Numeiry has achieved some sort of deal with the Anyanya rebel movement.

Immediately this dubious agreement was reached Numeiry and Amin decided to end their border tension. To do this, the Israeli influence: in Uganda. had to be ended. It should not be surprising that the two leaders got together so quickly. They share many common character- istics. They are both self-appointed generals, they operate viciously anti-communist regimes and they share the Moslem faith. Amin particularly plęased was with Numeiry's settlement with the African rebels because fact belongs to one of the border tribes. The sudden ending of Israeli have influence in Uganda will enormous repercussions through- out the other African 'independ- ent' states where the Israelis are operating. The Israeli diplomatic offen- sive in Africa began over ten ago. Considering its own years limited resources and the small amount spent, the Israelis won a number of important diplomatic allies in Africa. They did not lavish the with and countries dollars promises, which is characteristic ot the Us aid programmes. Ihej chose specific projects in which they had expertise and which bring pretty immediate would results. The project workers tended to drive jeeps-and not Cadillacs- and lived with the local inhabi- tants-and not in air-conditioned bungalows. this hard- During slogging period the Israelis built up a stock of goodwill in countries like Zambia, Uganda and Tanzania. Their aid appeared 'non- aligned', and their policies: were generally considered to belong to the arena of the Third World.

The aftermath of the Six-Day War in 1967 demonstrated, how- ever, that Zionism was bent on the subjugation of territory of the neighbouring peoples.

And it was not until the last year or so that it became public knowledge that the Tel Aviv government enjoys excellent trade Top: General Idl Amin. Above: Sudan's ruler General Jafaar Numelry. and military • connections with Vorster's regime in S Africa.

For a while Israel has been able to rely on the votes of friendly African states in the United Nations. With the expulsion of most of their diplomatic staff from Uganda, Israelis' of era opportunism in Africa is coming to an end. Workers Pres Abandoned by US President Nixon, Japanese businessmen have launched a determined bid to crash into the markets of S America. èager •Regimes there are for "Japanese capital and technique with an eye to lessening their dependence on the US. Plunged into crisis by Nixon's August 15 economic measures and the American volte face on China, Japan wants to diversify its markets and raw material sources. the US is hostile But to investment in Japanese those countries whose governments have nationalized US firms with- out 'fair' compensation. Japanese Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda has turned down US requests not to do business with these countries. He told Chilean delegation recently: - "The Pacific is the Ocean largest public highway in the worid and must serve to create new situation in the relations between our two countries.' Mexican President Luis Eche- verria was the first Latin Ameri- can visitor to Tokyo. During a six-day visit at the beginning of March,_Japanese premier Eisaku Sato offered full co-operation for the economic development of Mexico. Echeverria asked for help in development docking the of facilities on Mexico's Pacific coast and for the floating of yen credits. The Japanese Import- Export Bank granted credits for buying equipment to modernize the port . Manzanillo and promised long-term, low interest credits. Some of this may also go into constructing a steel plant at Las Truchas with a capacity for 250,000 tons production every year. Inostroza, head of the central bank of Chile, and the Presidents of the state copper corporation and the nationalized Chuquica- mata mining firm, were the next Latin American dignitaries to pay rkers Press, Monday April 10, 1972 PAGE 5 a visit to the centre of Japanese capital. This delegation • was offered full economic co-opera- tion which will be shortly worked out by, another delegation Chilean banking economic experts. Currently in Tokyo is Carlos President of the Brignone, Argentine Central Bank. Brig- none is having talks with Tadashi Sasaki, governor of the Bank of Japan, and Tadashi Ishida Sasaki, president of the Export-Import Bank. Brignone has asked for credits to the tune of $30m from Japan- ese commercial banks. Indica- tions are that credit will be available. Earlier this month, the influential, 'Nihon Keizai Shim- bun', spokesman for business circles, disclosed the signing of an agreement between Japanese companies and Argentine state railroads for the moderni- zation of their facilities.

A group of ten companies will provide $170m worth of goods and technicians, rolling stock and signal equipment. Japanese capi- tal is determined to challenge US imperialism in Latin America as the trade war intensifies.

Above: Japaneso promier Elsaku Sato; full co-operation. Below: Luis Echeverria, the first Latin Amarican visitor to Tokyo.

Apoll 10, 1872 In preparation for the Fourth Congress of the Inter- national Committee of the Fourth International, the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League are publishing the four main documents of the Inter- split with the national Committee covering the French Organisation Communiste Internationaliste.

the in-

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look when encountering tractable realities of the early 'anchored' 1920s. became Statement by the Internationa the definite the interests Fourtl Committee of the bureaucracy, and could nave dominance only on the come to International (Majority) Marcl basis bureaucracy and of thic 1, 1972

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the social and cultural conditions Stalinism Revisionism & which sustained revisionism, and the bureaucratic the OCI whose interests adequately represented, to suc- The excursions of the OCI ceed, was necessary 1t hrer into historical questions of the achieve what Trotsky called the movement in this connection are 'inner corrosion' of the bolsnevik very instructive. So anxious are Party itself, and that process was they to refute the Essen amend- above one ensuring ot ment that they contradict even of the theoretical destruction writings. their own rarent basis of the Party (in the camn. According to the OCI document, paign against the theory of per- by errs the Essen amenoment manent revolution and the atc. that revisionism be saying rediting of Trotsky as a previous development found he her honing opponent of Lenin) of Stalinism. 'No.' say, "be- The dialectical relationship be- hind each development of oppor- ideas and the classes or tween tunisin the workers moveme classes whose in- fractiona there is they serve is entirely terests of the (rejection) form revision wined out by the OCI's mechani- reality of Marxism, there ic the cal and 'sociological' theory that social forces in conflict, the of changes are simply connora! class struggle eynressed in the "justifications' of social interests.

centre of the working-class move- Revolutionary consciousness both the ment itself, which veloped in a struggle grasp to and the stakes in the terrain occurring through the changes This created justifica- struggle. the struggle of opposites in the in the form of a ee visior form of a revision objective world; this struggle and of Marxism. change is fundamental, whereas Stalin's revision pretation, Stalin's ree interests the identity of opposites is tem- Marxism porary and transitory. bureaucratic caste of the which be recorded political It chould at least taking • ar in this discussion that power... Defence of Trot- Just's Once again we have develop- hone skyism', published earlier in 1971, ments in ideas interpreted purely which contains many of the mis- of as expressions of the interest theories which recur in taken th 'social forces'. This general truth did at document, he role to the the is used to deny any. least state a correct position struggle for theory. conscious matter. Answer- the re- this Trotsky once compared particular ing the Pabloites, who 'explained' party to to a "labora- volutionary 'objective' the rise of Stalin certainly which tory', in conditions, Just replied: be, temporary and must 'It is not so-called "objective" of cer- but definite abstraction conditions which lie at the origin changing of the tain elements of the Russian of the isolation definite theoretical reality, and and of the Bolshevik proletariat before understanding of effort. Party, of the degeneration of the struggle the reality the slace could be taken further in revo- lutionary practice, the results are 1 Human knowledge is not to further enrich theory.

which revisionism, straight line, but a curve. On the other side, series other idealist develop- endlessly like any anproximates spiral. Any has theoretical of circles, frag- ment.

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of this segment, epistemological in un- ment, section roots curve can be transformed (trans- traditions. resolved one-sidedly) into an in. only under certain con- formed, etc. and straight dependent, complete, ditions thace trocitione _Got which then (if one does not chance to develop and be- line. the wood for the trees) leads "anchored', come coo tho into clerical definite class interests.! into the quagmire, it. in (where it is Stalin's revisionism (the doctrine obscurantism an- of of socialism in one country) was chored bu the class interests classes.' Vol. Stalin's (and the ruling the product limited theoretical out- 38.0.363.) others state and of the Bol- The struggles of the proletariat workers' but so-called "sub- and its organization feed in their shevik Party, jective" conditions turn the social, political and which lie at contradictions the origir of these so-called ideological and bourgeois within 'objective" conditions. antagonisms Even though the use of the society. The proletariat maintains complex relations with all the "so-called' reflects adjective ex- traordinary (as we other classes in bourgeois society, confusion their struggles, the their antagonisms, shall see, Just obliterates their political and ideological of subjective and opposition There is nothing more relations. objective), this quotation is quite stupid than lasese onsciousness these symmetrical origins of correct about degeneration of the workers' brought into the proletariat form this since the state. point, "good struggles

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promises another document outside its prophets", bourgeois intellectuals, on disputed questions, class-consciousness of the will make one specific request: proletariat monopolized by horny- let them categorically, say handed workers who produce dialectics the theory of Know- with the "good" surplus value, ledge of Marxism or not? And bourgeois if it ences, in Latins tory and what were the con- petty put themselves humbly having to sequences, at the disposal of these workers practice, of his, mistaken concep- them. and to imitate this score. We do tions not nas all view these systematic expect considereds to be favour- the reveal con- considered, the tempt of the petty-bourgeois for "author of the OCI document has the proletariat: they make fact already embraced a for- working class a present of their mulation by Stephane Just which, others consciousness referring allengeni without to Lenin imagine a mythical working class directly his such, workers who made basic idea. • incapable of going beyond the of their immedi- narrow horizon Stephane Just corrects ate exploitations. Fighting against break Lenin exploitation, trying to based their social relations on The OCI document tells of exploitation, search ways of the us: and organizing, 'As S. Just to skys in recalls his proletariat builds and develops its "Defence of Con- organic consciousness sidered as a historical and Or- historical process fed by all lis the formation of previous history and the relations ganic process, the class-consciousness of it maintains with all the other social classes, their contradictions, proletariat depends analysis of the development their antagonisms, the political, the class struggle ideological struggles and ends social and metaphysical discussions on developed there. Thus petty- whether class-consciousness bourgeois and bourgeois intellect- brought in from the outside can break with their class, or uals not, and on whether the van- join the proletariat, participate in guard is self-appointed or not"? the formation and development Here we have arrived at the its class-consciousness, by crucial link between the bringing the acquired knowledge philo- sophical of he the deleil and of other classes and social layers.

on the But the latter are radically they hand, and their centrist political transformed when are the of tendency on the other. Stressing integrated into struggle the unity the the proletariat which they enrich.

opposites, The of the proletariat theory and exploited struggles Marxist give them working class, they ignore the a new content and a new historical dimension struggle these opposites consists. Just's Because the proletariat's role which the unity is related to everything else that 'organic' conception serves very happens in bourgeois society, and help recognize well ally emerging 'allies' as more or less because sease concourses of this is dependent on the end-result of expressions all Just organically developing conscious- interconnections, forbids any study of the living An extended quotation ness. struggle whereby the this question from Just's book tradiction between the working shows how, by a series of ration- as object and the working formulae to 'integrate' all alistic class as subject is overcome! No the different aspects of the class then that dismisses struggle, the actual dialectic the central idea of Lenin's 'What achieved how consciousness is to be Done?' as a 'metaphysical is abolished. discussion'! abstraction but it Is TO Nose against the struggles and organiz- was sider the precisely of 'organic theory of outside type ation ot the proletarial by of the social, consciousness forward the totality

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Just that Lenin insisted very political and ideological relations They born and firmly on the fact that Marxism society. are science was developed on develop as one of the components as a of the whole history of humanity.

the basis of a conscious theoreti- cal effort by bourgeois intellectu- They are fed on all this history they als to grasp reality mains in the become. The leve WhOSP of the relations between all the struggle The proletariat and not at the level against exploitation, the forms of classes, of the experience existing which adopts, organization concretize the basic contradiction consciousness of the working If Just's 'organic' of point in bourgeon societ forms within but this were correct; why would expressed VIeW want to insist that left to all and social layers classes itself the proletariat can achieve through con- bourgeois consciousness, tradictions which derive from the only trade union of and that this bourgeois that production relations consciousness? Because, although from TrOn reasor 1rCA t 'mom beauti integr standi practi strugg consc impos its ag In insiste Marxi maTe selves dismis this o back from delibe staten histor specif theor quote attem 1S fighti revol <110n transf neces of ness can practi revoli sophi Th tionai Marx Just dismisses the central idea of Lenin's Above: Lenin. Stephane conso 'What is to be Done' as a 'metaphvsical discussion'.

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PAGE 6 Workers Pross, Monday April 11

BY JOHN SPENCER

As S Vietnam's forces reel back under the sledgehammer blows of the invading N Viet- namese army, Workers Press recalls the greatest victory oi the long struggle against imperialism in Vietnam: the battle of Dienbienphu. Dienbienphu was the culmina- tion of eight years' bitter warfare against the French colonial with British power, reimposed and American aid at the end of World War I!. It began as a demonstration of the French commanders' con- tempt for their revolutionary adversaries; it ended in the most crushing and humiliating defeat a colonial power has ever known.

Dienbienphu is a fertile valley among the jungle-covered moun- tains of N Vietnam. It lies on the border with Laos, and to the French command it seemed, in 1953, an ideal place for.

fortified encampment to straddle the route from Vietnam to Laos.

Isolated it might be, but the French had absolute mastery of the air, and the Vietminh would surely not be able to storm a heavily-armed camp of 10,000 men. So the French command reasoned as the crack paratroop brigades and Legion battalions the dropped from the sky into Dienbienphu basin on November 20, 1953. ву Аргі 10, 1972 They reckoned without the revolutionary determination of the Vietminh and the military genius their commander General Vo Nguyen Giap. When he learned of the French para- chute drop, Giap began to prepare the war's decisive battle.

His troops were concentrated in the Red River: Delta area, N of Hanoi. They had to trans- port their weapons and supplies impassable through the almost jungle up to the Laotian border..

His soldiers, peasant equipped, ill-fed and relentlessly disciplined by a burning hatred were to be of colonial power, pitted against the flower of the Legion, hardened veterans of the SS and World War II. French author Jules Roy gives this vivid picture of the Viet- minh marching towards troops Dienbienphu, 50 miles by night or 20 by day: Each soldier carried his weapon, sometimes a non-recoil gun or mortar tripod, a bag, a 30lb bundle of slung shoulder, rice over one shovel, his individual water- bottle and a little salt in a bamboo tube. 'He marched from dawn to sunset and vice versa, with ten minutes' rest every hour. At night the distance covered was arrival, he dug exhausting. On trenches in which to take shelter after washing his feet or sleep in a bowl of hot salt water.

'Not all the soldiers had foot- wear; many of them, like the had only sandals porters, =•+= out of tyres, which sometimes hurt them." • The porters with even smaller rations, performed the hardest task of all. In endless columns, they pushed adapted bicycles, carrying up to 12 times a man's weight, over the rough country roads, up hills and over ravines, constantly harassed from the air by the French planes. Huge teams Vietnamese peasants built roads in the mountains around the camp, set up hospitals, dug emplacements and made meticulous preparations to take the fortress. • Inside the perimeter of Dien- bienphu, the French waited complacently, hardly even bother- ing patrol the surrounding area. Their aircraft spotted few signs of the feverish activity in jungle as the the surrounding Vietminh prepared for battle.

Their planes failed completely to discover the 24 105mm guns which had been hauled up from .. the Delta region, manhandled across the mountains and set up in concealed emplacements over- French looking the camp. The breezily con- gunners were so fident they left their own guns in the open. When Giap's 105s began to bark from their hidden emplace- the French ments, guns were wrecked in a matter of days.

commander The artillery at Dienbienphu crept into his dug- out and blew himself up. His colleagues might as well have done the same. The battle itself began on March 12, 1954. Before it started, the political commissars among the Vietminh units read out Giap's order of the day: 'Officers and troops, the battle of Dien- bienphu is about to begin : .

it will be an honour to have taken part in this historic battle.

*Determined to destroy the keep in adversary, mind the "Always attack, always motto: advance". Master fear and pain, overcome obstacles, unite your efforts, fight to the very end, annihilate the enemy at Dien- great victory!' bienphu, win Carefully planned and ex- the Vietminh began ecuted, systematically steamrollering the French defences. The outlying posts were the first to fall. The planes on runway were destroyed and the camp virtually cut off from the air. outgunned and the completely French could only sit in their dugouts and watch their 'allies' Vietnamese and the Thais, the melt away to join the Vietminh.

Algerian and Morroccan The soldiers refused to fight. One by the French strong points cne fell. In Paris, among the govern- circles of the Third ment Republic, the mounting debacle horror. watched was with France's big brother, the United States, which had put up much of the money for the Indo-China discussed dropping atomic war, surrounding bombs into the Top: Ho Chi Minh. Above: General Giap. Left: The fall of Dienblenphu, 10,000 French | prisoners. Below : John Foster Dulles. jungles to annihilate the com- munist troops. But John Foster Dulles, author of this barbaric plan, was over- ruled. On May 7, 1954, the Vietminh broke through the final French perimeter and overran French command the post, capturing 10,000 prisoners and an annihilating victory. winning the event, it was not the In atomic bomb but Stalinism which enabled the imperialists to salvage a position from the ruins of the Dienbienphu debacle.

While the Vietminh fighters were tightening their steel noose round the fortress, the Chinese and Soviet diplomats were get- ting around the table in Geneva with Britain, France and the US The result the Geneva was agreement of 1954 which parti- tioned Vietnam between the N, where the Vietminh were able to form a government, and the S, dominated by US imperialism.

Geneva betrayed the victory of Dienbienphu and laid the foundation for another 18 years of bitter warfare. The current offensive of the N Vietnamese is conditioned by the legacy of Geneva. In 1954, Chinese leaders, together with the Soviet Stalinists, con- nived at the division of Vietnam.

Eighteen years later, Nixon was invited to Peking, fresh raising fears of a new Vietnam sell-out.

Today, as in 1954, the counter- revolutionary politics of Stalin- ism poses the main danger to the Vietnamese revolution.

World capitalism's desperate search for a way out of its monetary and economic crisis is being followed with touch- ing solicitude by the Soviet Stalinist bureaucracy. They want to help in every way they can to restore capital- ism's vanished post-war 'stability' and 'solve' the monetary crisis.

Their attitude to the monetary crisis is a integral part of the counter - revolutionary bureau- cratic policy of 'peaceful existence' with imperialism.

de- The Soviet bureaucracy pends on the continued division of the world between imperialism and the workers' states. The revolutionary implications of the economic crisis-leading to an unprecedented intensification of the class struggle and posing the question of power before the workers of the main capitalist countries-have not been lost on the Kremlin. The communist parties of the W studiously ignore the implica- crisis. tions of the : monetary They come forward, as in Britain, with claim that what needed is reflation'—a high- wage, high-productivity economy; capitalist of course. their At the time same Kremlin masters try to rescue the capitalist economic system their schemes for with own 'solving' the crisis. This explains the statements the made to Cuban press agency Prensa Latina by Sergey Shevchenko, leading func- tionary in the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade. He was outlining the proposals which the Soviet government plans to put before the United on Trade *. •Nations- Conference •and Development, due to be held in Havana, the Cuban capi- tal, later this week. He said 'the present serious monetary problem' would have at a truly inter- to be solved national meeting on the basis of a return to gold. Shevchenko added that the Soviet Union felt one currency or even several currencies from countries could not be several the basis for international trade.

World trade must rest on a more and solid foundation, he said, could only be that foundation gold. For the present we see no other possibility. The question is how to bring it about. One way another, we shall have to or achieve this, for we are con- vinced that gold should be the basis of everything.' The monetary crisis since the US suspended the dollar's con- vertibility with gold had hit the 'developing' countries worst, Shevchenko said, though they least responsible for the were currént state of the dollar.

'In the current situation, one country-the USA-or, if you like, the ten richest capitalist countries, discussed made and decisions on the dollar problem and that did not satisfy the rest of the world. The USSR's view is that all countries should partici- in solving monetary prob- pate lems, he said. 'solution' Shevchenko's to capitalism's monetary crisis is Utopian and reactionary to the core. In order to restore gold as the basis of international trade, the employers would first have to restore value to paper currency.

The only way this can • be done is by forcing the working class to work harder and eat less.

It cannot be achieved without the most ruthless counter- revolutionary struggles, which is precisely why the present crisis revolutionary tasks in poses front workers' movement. the international Stalinism, on the other hand, rests its hopes on the reform of imperialism, overcoming the anarchy of capitalism by a series of 'genuinely international' mone- tary conferences. Shevchenko's remarks are simply 'peaceful co-existence' transposed from the political to sphere. monetary economic is equally plan as treacherous as its political .counterpart. Hungarian Premier Kadar: shortage of rav The Hungarian economy is facing serious difficulties due to a shortage of fuel and raw materials. Both Premier Janos Kadar and Prime Minister Janoe Fock have paid visits to Moscow in the last few weeks. Fock commented on his return last Tuesday: I tried to call the attention of our Soviet partners to the fact that-being a country with shortage of raw materials—we cannot make plans without being with the most import- provided ant fuels.' Hungarian industry has been built on a narrow raw material • the ambitious base. To realize plans upon which the bureau- cracy has staked, its future sup- plies of energy and raw materials from the Soviet Union will be indispensable. But-Fock gave no debails, of lage of raw materials and fuel.

deal with Soviet steps to Hungary's fuel problems. The Soviet Union is faced with its own fuel problem as some oilfields face exhaustion and con- sumption rises. There is a need of to open new sources supply, which involve heavy in- vestment. In fact the E European countries have been told that the Soviet Union cannot guaran- tee to meet their growing oil re- next 20 quirements over years until the new Siberian oil- fields are developed. Soviet officials have been dis- cussing with Japanese business- men for some time the joint de- velopment of the Siberian oil- fields with Japanese capital.

Bureaucratic planning, based on the Stalinist conception of 'socialism in one country', leads the countries of E Europe into of an impasse, Workers Press, Monday April 10, 1972 PAGE 9 for the closed shop, ments blind to the turning a eye Act's opportunities for taking You could say Tory MP Sir "unfair workers to court for Gerald Nabarro has reached a industria! practices". turning point in his Oh, were they? Presumably career. Heaton, Not so long ago there was Samuel the road- the case of Sir Gerald's Daim- haulier from St Helens who ler going the wrong way round the

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took to the roundabout, for which he National Industrial Relations Court, isn't was fined and disqualified from exactly a regular of driving. reader 'Labour', he SO didn't know what he was sup- posed to do. The of the piece is rest more nauseating: even 'More and more managers are coming to realize that the beyond the Act will not last return of a Labour govern- They acting ment. are accordingly! Black Rhodesians are not being kept waiting to find out what life will be like after the Tories' 'fair-play-for-all' settle- About 5,000 Africans,

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women and small chil- Now his 21 - year - old daughter, Sarah Penelope, is in officials tore down their shanty trouble with her driving.

She was fined £4 at a W cardboard on mission land out- side Salisbury. The land is to be given to a Kensington handful of white farmers side street against a 'no right turn' sign.

they pose a health and problem and should therefore return to their reserves.

In the light of the £5,000 con- Many families were able to Transport the retrieve their possessions only tempt fine on and General Workers' after their shanty homes had Union, piece in last month's issue been pulled down. of

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African who stood by the broadsheet 'Labour' begins to look rather his hut was torn sick. Smug, complacent and leav- ing union members totally un- I've got to live somewhere.

prepared for what was to it noted that February I find a job come, nowhere to stay in Salisbury?

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a, blonday Apoll. Papadopoulos, Greek milltary diclator, w Statement of the Inter- national Committee of the Fourth International. Hands off the démocratic rights and the right for self determination of the Cypriot people! World imperialism, and par- ticularly American imperialism, dictatorship as with the Greek instrument, its executive the right of the stamping on Cypriot people to self determi- nation and is turning Cyprus into a NATO base policed by ' Greek and Turkish troops.

Military base The imperialists intend to transform this Mediterranean island into a military base against the USSR, the Balkan countries and the Arab peoples. colonels' This is why the in Athens has sent to junta Cyprus General Grivas, an old hangman Nazi collaborator and of the Greek working people. He is gathering all the island's reactionary forces for the mili- overthrow of President tary Makarios' government. masses abolimina the working democratic rights and by extending the Papadopoulos dictatorship into Cyprus, the im- perialists intend to impose appli- cation of the old 'Acheson plan' whose aim is the dismemberment of the island between the Greek and Turkish bourgeoisie, and the transformation of the island into a logistic base for US Sixth Fleet. The International Committee is the only organization that has, from the beginning, revealed the plans for a coup d'etat by the Athens dictators; the only or- ganization that had denounced Stalinists- to the -contrary Makarios' long and disastrous collaboration with the Greek junta, which resulted in control of the Cypriot National Guard by Greek officers. day Apoll 10, 1072 dictator, with Makarlos who fears the masses mo The International Committee is the only organization that has is fighting for fought and socialist solution to the Cypriot peasants teement kers" •and government in Cyprus. the This iS only government capable of solving the problem of national minorities and of uniting Greek and Turkish against working people the Cypriot bourgeoisie and im- perialism, and for the defence of democratic rights and for self determination. The Cypriot people's struggle has reached now most crucial turning point in its his- tory as the attack of the Athens •military junta reaches its climax.

Archbishop Makarios, defend- ing the interests of the Cypriot clergy and the Cypriot bour- geoisie, opposes the junta and defends in his own way the in- dependence of the island. But the only force that can prevent the junta prevalance of the military is the workers and peasants.

Makarios, however, cannot summon the masses to a struggle.

He fears the masses more than the junta. No confidence the Cypriot The IC warns •working people to place no con- fidence whatsoever in Makarios.

He is ready to become the Papandreou of Cyprus and to compromise with the junta.

Makarios has imported arms from Czechoslovakia in order to defend himself. But because he gave in to the ultimatum from Athens, he did not give arms to the people, but to the UN forces, imperialism's Trojan horse.

He has taken what- no measures disbanding Grivas's soever for armed gangs. Now Makarios is ready to re- sign, giving in to the junta's demand stated only through the three Cypriot bishops. Leading the struggle of the working masses in defence of more than the Greek junta their rights is the obligation of Communist Party Cypriot (AKEL). But its Stalinist leaders stand behind Makarios and re- fuse to take the initiative and organize independently of the bourgeoisie. The AKEL falsely reassures the people till the last moment that Makarios will fight on the ramparts and that he is going to defeat the imperialist conspiracy.

This Stalinist policy, which does not take into account either the bourgeois nature of the Makarios government or the bears recent Greek experience, the most deadly threat for the Cypriot working masses. It is disarming them politically be- fore the enemy. It is paving the way for dictatorship and dis- memberment. Under these conditions, victorious perspective of defence against the Athens junta and its imperialist patrons, can only be realized in the struggle the building of alter- an native revolutionary leadership in the working • class — in the struggle for the building of the Cypriot section of the IC of the Fourth International. This can be done only through a struggle against the rotten AKEL leadership, whose central slogan must be a call to its mem- bers to demand that their leader- ship break from Makarios and that they defend the democratic rights of the masses. Hands off the democratic rights of the Cypriot people and their right for self determination!

Down with the Athens mili- tary junta. Disband the armed gangs in Cyprus. No confidence whatsoever in Makarios and the other leaders of the bourgeoisie. Arms to the people not tr the United Nations! Forward to a socialist govern- ment in Cyprus! Unity of Greek and Turkish workers against imperialism and the Athens-Ankara conspiracy!

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IF the GEC electrics TENANTS fighting the Tory combine swings its jobs 'fair rents' Bill got no lead axe unhindered at Kids- from the southern regional grove, N Stafis, there will council of the Labour Party at be one more unemployed its annual meeting on Saturday.

worker chasing each Housing dominated the meet- available vacancy in the ing as far as the agenda was concerned. There were no less area. than 13 resolutions on the sub- Already there are six job- ject, most on the Tory Bill.

less to each unfilled job. But the spineless policy finally Without an effective fight adopted didn't reflect in any against the threat of 555 way the movement of the work- redundancies the

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ing class against the government's at attack on right to housing. Elliott computer factory there will be seven. asked The motion composite Last Thursday as Labour councillors not to oppose company the rent increases due in April officials announced the phasing- out of these jobs over the next and October.

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Sir few months, chairman 'However, do not instruct we Arnold Weinstock was basking in them do since this final the sensuous cadences of Wagner to SO decision should be made by the Salzburg. at a music festival in local council themselves in the Not the of for him worry circumstances,' local light of where find work the to atter said mover Mrs Jean Crow, from announcement. Labour Party. Abingdon Profit figures for the financial Good ended which VCal Fridav expected to be close are £80m before tax. Last year to they were £63m. Meanwhile shop stewards and local union officials at Kidsgrove The national executive of the are still in a state of shock.

was told Labour Party for- *It's less than six months since 'radical' mulate policies in the Kids- the last redundancy at These included the Tom housing field. grove, Slater, district devising 'a fair policy truly of the Amalgamated secretary for rents' and the setting up by Union Workers, of Engineering each local authority of a register told Workers Press at the week- of all accommodation for rent end. or sale in the area. 'Then it was 230 white-collar jobs. We thought that would be Apart from a call for public the last. ownership of land, there was no Don Groves, regional officer of other reference to nationalization.

Scientific, the Association Technical and Managerial Staffs, Indeed Mrs Crow, many of the which organizes parliamentary candidate white-collar workers, plant's Guildford, nationaliza- opposed described the decision as tion of the building industry disaster'. grounds He pointed out that many GEC efficient'. had been subjected plants workforce law, reductions in recent The Bill is not yet The decision to cut back despite the of the months. assumptions Tenants at Kidsgrove could put the whole Labour leaders. must demand that they lead a fight to future of the plant in jeopardy. Tories 'We will fight this in any way force the resign in- he said. we can,' stead of adopting empty resolu- Lack of orders, a fall in invest- tions.

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Name Address While Weinstock basks in Salzburg, 1 ment and a serious work short- •age are blamed by the company for its decision. But in the past 12 months, GEC has announced redundan- 5,000 cies involving over employees. A block on recruit- ment has reduced the company's labour force still further.

In the year up until May 1971, GEC cut its workforce back by about 11,000. Since the

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merger four years ago a total of 35,000 throughout obs nave been cu the combine, most or them in th 'rationalization' name of and 'corporate restructuring'.

Staffordshire has been hit particularly hard. Over the last three years more than 5,000 jobs have been destroyed in Kids- grove, Stafford and other parts of the area. Unemployment in Kidsgrove itself—a bleak industrial town a few miles to the N of Stoke-on-

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ers face the dole • A further 100 employees • on industrial engaged controls work will have their jobs phased out. As a sweetener from the com- are 'hopes' to trans- pany, there major part of its control- fer a components activities from Rugby to Kidsgrove, creating about 200 new jobs at the Kidsgrove plant.

But on Friday a spokesman at GEC-Elliott's Borehamwood headquarters emphasizing was that any moves in this direction are strictly in the long term.

A mass meeting of all 1,500 workers at the Kidsgrove factory has been called to discuss ways of combating the redundancies.

Several workers leaving the plant on Friday night expected the idea of a sit-in to bę discussed there. Local councillors have also demanded a meeting with the but no date will be company, fixed until the discussions with the stewards are complete.

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Young Socialists plan PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday April 10 realized the urgent necessity tionary party, Young Socialis John Simmance told their 12th Scarborough. He said the YS would be in the forefront of the struggle to transform the Socialist Labour League into the party in revolutionary November this year and to extend the readership of the readership of Workers Press and 'Keep Left'. Over the the past year activity of the YS had been higher than any other year in their history-culminating in five nationwide Right-to-Work marches and 8,500-strong an rally at Wembley Pool. But, said comrade Simmance, this was only the start. 'Our aim is to begin immedi- ately preparations for regional marches and rallies throughout months. These the summer prelude to a major should be a national action in the autumn'.

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ry April 10, 1972 importance that young people essity of building the revolu- Socialists national secretary eir 12th annual conference at thing comparable. to what we have achieved. He said it was becoming clearer every day to thousands of young people what separated YS from their reformist, revisionist and Stalinist opponents.. "They confine their action to protest, we call for the mobiliz- working ation industrially and woolitically Class class make this government resign.

'We problems of see releasing internees and with- drawing the troops from Ulster, against fighting the Industrial Relations Act, unemployment and entry into the Common market as inseparable from the force this govern- struggle . to ment out of office. • We have continuously endeavoured the to prepare working class and the youth to face the serious implications of economic crisis of world the capitalism. "The growth of inflation has beginnings of led to an recession, international trade which in turn has precipitated a trade war chiefly between European Comrade Simmance said that the rapid growth of unemploy- ment had hit youth hardest of all and he warned that worse was to come! spawne The Tories had done every- thing possible to encourage em- ployers to shed labour, he added.

'Speed-up and rationalization on the present scale must lead to world slump and the dangers of a'third world war. The creation of unemployment has gone hand in hand with attacks on the trade unions.

•This, of course, was assisted by the cowardly retreats by the TUC and the leadership of the trade unions as a whole' , com- rade Simmance explained. •The more they retreated from make the Tory the struggle to resign the government more government has this arrogant become. If given an inch, they will take a mile.' Reformism was bankrupt, he said. *The working class is left with no choice but to embark on the the road of struggle against capitalist system as a whole' Opening the conference, chair- man Harrs Lamb extended a warm welcome to all the dele- gates, visitors and trade unionists in attendance. But he had a special greeting for the Right- to-Work marchers. A YS national-committee mem- ber from Birmingham, comrade every decision Lamb said that taken at the conference would help drive nails into the coffin of the Tory government. a composite re- Speaking on solution defending the right to Norris. national work. Clive secretary of the YS Right-to- Work campaign, pointed out that power 20 since coming to the Tories had months ago increased unemployment by • 500,000. It is the intention of the Tory government to push the working class into poverty and starva- tion', he said. "They are hoping to drive the working class back to the con- ditions of the 1930s. They want the working class to pay for the to their own crisis.' solution He said the five marches had transformed a number of youth -new to politics-into a well- disciplined, self-sacrificing group.

He added: 'We must all make a. commitment to go forward from this conference to become fighters like the marchers. We must strike capitalism from the face of Britain' . was The composite, which passed unanimously, reads: 'We must transform the YS

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the Young Social borough Barrie, John Scottish march, announced donated by ards' co-ordinatin at Upper tee bullders nad last Friday. Advertisements the *Morning Star' 'conned' from He went on: that we have give €100. We have dirty at the Wembley ral John's drowned by a chori and clapping. Stab in ba Explained "By ments ting the Stalinist-dominated' ina committee stah inu marchers and the jobs by the They lineu un witt of working tha David Barclay, Glasgow Stalinists had consis sabotage the Clyde. chartered by press" to have tea with Scottish milto have split the unity yards. I before e retreated Edward Heath and ator. this this is not work Cal for by staging a r into a movement thousand. tens the Socialist revolulond defend the working class lutionarv overthrow talist system by socialist Speakers from joined the Les an conest. Kent contingent ther continued against the all that they march. 'We have we will not give ing gets rougn, fight to the working class talists of this count leader march. main fight during th not against been physical tiredness bu Labourite right-wing sne cald that at marchers were because a Labou deny witnorew to of' the 'Militant' the Labour Party opposed the trades cor LiverDool Mary Houlihan, of said: "The right the working class 'But out at Scar-

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leader of the shop stew- Clyde Ship- placed in both the "Tribune' and the donation comrade had implied money ste gids gives me hack the given back the was a deci- then Barrie: save ruse. press, the co-ordinat- the stabbed in the fight class.' said struggle for "Daily Ex- continually John Davies. to fight "No, say right fought or vould Labour League DalLy the revo- armed with the on the go- the capi- and asters facilities candidate sud-

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tion of the yards and a cam- paign to mobilize the working class in action to bring down the Tory government. *Everyone knows that the co-ordinating committee wasn't conned into donating £100 to fund. our "The real con has been that carried out by the Stalinists who have been given thous- ands of pounds by the work- ing class. Workers expected a fight which the Communist intention of Party had no carrying out. 'It's no coincidence that on day the Right-to-Work the marchers gave them back their £100, all of the speakers at the meeting - except the mass CPers James Reid and James Airlie-spoke out against the release of ships from the yards and against further concessions to the Tories.' In launching a conference Hannigan, Sarah collection, YS regional secretary, London called on the delegates and visitors to raise the £100 'to the Stalinists that they show can keep their money. A big collection, she said, would demonstrate that the working class completely dis- owned the Stalinist stab in the back. After only a few minutes, the total rose over the f100- mark. The final figure was £306.18. economic crisis, capitalism is tak- ing away this right. To take away the right to work is really to take away the right to live.'

Colum Brennan, for the Irish YS in Dublin, told the conference he had recently been made re- dundant by the local subsidiary of Raleigh Industries, Notting- ham. He said workers in Ireland were being Put out orwork on a scale perhaps even bigger than in Britain. •I support the Irish YS and their campaign for Irish and British workers to unite against the common the Tory enemy, government. Your right to work is our right to work. • steward Alan Stanley, a shop from Vauxhall Motors, Liverpool, said the dollar decisions taken by US President Nixon on things August 15 meant that could never be as they were be- fore. 'There can be no going back was as good to when everything as gold, he said. Today there the is no confidence in paper money?

Chris Wright, Doncaster YS, said the miners' strike wasn't a complete victory. "The only real victory is the defeat of the Tory explained. government,' he miners'-union The leaders had avoided the fight against the they because government not feared the Tories but because they feared the working class, thought comrade Wright. 'The only He said: way to achieve socialism is through re- volution. That is why we must go forward to build a revolu- tionary party' No talks with IRA —Whitelaw

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Tory supremo William Whitelaw said yesterday he would not negotiate with gunmen. Discussion was the only way forward, he said in an interview on the BBCs 'World This Week- end'. If more people spoke out against the terrorists they could be isolated and beaten. And Social Democratic and Labour Party MP Mr John Hume said in the same programme that he thought the majority of his Creggan and Bogside con- stituents wanted to see the Tory proposals given a chance.

In Catholic churches through- out Ulster yesterday priests appealed to the IRA to end it's terror campaign. Identical prepared statements read from pulpit said: every "Those who want Irish unity should be working hard to per- suade the Protestant people that future arrangement they in any will enjoy their full rights.

'Those assurances will never by killing be conveyed and destruction. Such measures only divide Protestant from Catholic, they lead to division between Catholics themselves.' Meanwhile a Dublin con- ference of delegates from the 32 counties of Ireland summoned Provisional Sinn Fein, by the political arm of the Provisional IRA, to test Catholic repubiican opinion, called for 'the people's resistance to British rule to go on'. Following last week's 'fight on' pledge by the Provisional IRA the Derry command has said it will hold a 'general election' in Free Derry to obtain a mandate for its policies. Right-wing Protestant leader Mr William Craig has said it is the duty of loyalists to over- admin- throw the Whitelaw istration and restore Stormont.

Engineers call for district pay action policy-making body of

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Britain's main engineering union will face a demand to extend the Manchester pay battle to other areas when it meets next week.

The two Greater Manchester delegates to the policy-making National Committee of the Amal- gamated Union of Engineering Workers are expected to call for district-wide action over the pay claim throughout engineers' the union's divisions. They will not, however, be ask- ing the National Committee to instruct the executive of the union to initiate national strike action over the claim abandoned at national level last year.

Tomorrow we will publish an of the interview with one Manchester delegates, Bill Anten, convenor at Hawker Siddeley's which Woodford plant was occupied by its 1,000 employees last week. Mr Anten explains in his inter- Manchester view why the delegation is likely to adopt this strategy.

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