Workers Press no. 737

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JENKINS DESERTS:

A VICTORY FOR

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BY G. HEALY, SLL national secretary THE RESIGNATION of Roy Jenk Shadow Cabinet is not to be rated hi from the sinking ship of reformism.

Let us make this point clear.

Contrary to what the pom- pous Fleet St leader writers may say, the resignation constitutes not a defeat for the labour movement but a victory. Everywhere, the working class is pressing ahead with its offensive against the Tory government.

MINERS have won wage increases.

ENGINEERS in Manchester and Ox- ford have occupied their factories in their determination to protect their standard of living. DOCKERS are challenging the Indus- trial Relations Act. WHITE-COLLAR unions, who have for months vacillated as to whether or accept the Act and not they should register, are joining the main body of trade union movement and de- the registering. The more the resistance of the working class grows, the more Tory crisis. This crisis rule is thrown into into the transmitted is immediately heaps of bureaucracy and its dung miscellaneous organs of class collabora- tion such as the Shadow Cabinet.

These are the traditional mechanisms of class rule which today reflect the rapidly-approaching open confrontation of class forces as the seismograph re- flects earthquakes. this atmosphere of It is within gathering storm that we must analyse the real causes of the bale-out and not pen drippings of the gentlemen from the capitalist press. Victor Feather and the TUC sold out the fight to prevent the Industrial becoming law at the Relations Act last Croydon conference March 16 and file, however, The rank year. irresistibly leftwards in the moved campaign against the Common Market.

This resulted in an overwhelming defeat for the pro-Tory right wing at the TUC and Labour Party conferences in the autumn of 1971. But this did not prevent Roy Tenkins and company from voting with the Tories when the Com- mon Market issue came before parlia- ment. Tust as Feather ran away from a fight with the Tories over the Indus- Wilson and trial Relations Act, So Company run away from a fight against Jenkins. working class have But now the called both Feather and Wilson to order. The resistance to the working of the Act has produced a legal crisis of gigantic proportions. Indeed Feather could easily find him- self in the same court as Jack Jones of the T&GWU. After all Tones is only carrying out Feather's and the TUC's boycott policy. The resistance of the working class

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY APRIL 12, 1972 • 1

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST

oy Jenkins and his clique from the rated higher than the first desertions forced the Labour leaders to persuade

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the Labour Party by a narrow majority to vote for the proposal of a when this Common Market referendum comes shortly before the House of which Commons. It was this decision blew Jenkins off his perch.

Now, attempts of all the cowardly Wilson to avoid disciplining the pro- Marketeers have come to nought-the big birds have flown. League has The Socialist Labour continuously fought for the mobiliza- tion of the working class to create conditions which would make the Tory government resign. We call upon the Labour working class to elect which they then government must force to carry out socialist policies.

the course of this struggle It is in that will demonstrate to experience need for the working class the real revolutionary leadership.

In the struggle build such the Socialist Labour League leadership, is in the forefront of the struggle to the working class politically in Tory struggle the main against the enemy. The resignation of the allies of this Shadow Cabinet pro- enemy from the vides proof that the overwneiming under working class revolutionary leadership can defeat the Tory govern- the purge abour movement of ment. its agents and go forward to the taking of power.

FROM DAVID MAUDE IN OXFORD

negotiate the WORKERS at British-Leyland's refused to body- claim, simply offering them plant Oxford, car-body Cowley, for the £2.20 day-shift workers 65 for plant yesterday voted and those on nights over- recently accepted at the nearby whelmingly to continue their assembly plant. sit-in strike over pay. Trevor Sharp, a direct produc- tion worker at the former In a 2,300-strong mass meeting, Fisher Pressed Steel factory, only 20 hands were raised against told Workers Press the men were maintaining the sit-in. fighting for their not just pay claim, but for the existence of men are fighting a f10 a The the Transport and General Work- week increase under an annual Union branch as a fighting arc' review and hours reduction in force. in line with the national engineer- ing claim. It's not so much that there's Also they are against a claimed a great gap between our claim management breach of an agree- and the company's offer, but that ment signed last year. wants to we know the comnany have all future pay negotiations They the has say company No. 737 4p

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round the table with the officials in London. "That would mean the end of shop-floor democracy,' he said.

another sit-in Commented striker, Perry Day: We'll win this one. I am convinced of it. This is the most important thing that's happened in this factory for a long time. *But the sit-in just seemed like the natural thing to do. We can't relax for a minute, however. If we recognize its importance, you can bet that the company are going to fight to the end as well.

THE . AMALGAMATED Union of Engineering Workers' execu- tive yesterday officially supported more than 10,000 members in- volved in pay disputes in the Manchester area. Men can now draw £6 a week strike benefit.

Strike- breaking together FORMER Tory publicity man Geoffrey Tucket (r) and Sir Trevor Lloyd, Hughes, Wilson's publicity man at 10 Downing St, are now publicity men for Together which Working launched a Elm cam- The paign yesterday. two men watch the plat- form perform: (l to t) Sir John Reiss, Associated Portland Cement; Sir Joseph Kagan, Gannex; Sir Anthony Bowlby, former GKN board member; Frank Taylor, Taylor Woodrow; Michael Ivens, Aim Industry director. Sinister references were made to with communist dealing fanatics. • For a fuller report see р. 12.

workers press

JENKINS DESERTS:

A VICTORY FOR

DAILY Of BY G. HEALY, SLL national secretary THE RESIGNATION of Roy Jenki Shadow Cabinet is not to be rated hig from the sinking ship of reformism.

Let us make this point clear.

Contrary to what the pom- pous Fleet St leader writers may i constitutes not a defeat for the labour movement but a victory. Everywhere, the working class is pressing ahead with its offensive against the Tory government.

MINERS have won wage increases.

ENGINEERS in Manchester and Ox- ford have occupied their factories in their their determination to protect standard of living. DOCKERS are challenging the Indus- trial Relations Act. WHITE-COLLAR unions, who have for months vacillated as to whether or they should accept the Act and not register, are joining the main body of de- the trade union movement and registering. resistance of the more the The working class grows, the more Tory rule is thrown into crisis. This crisis is immediately transmitted into the of bureaucracy and its dung heaps miscellaneous organs of class collabora- tion such as the Shadow Cabinet.

These are the traditional mechanisms which today reflect the of class rule confrontation rapidly-approaching open of class forces as the seismograph re- flects earthquakes. of atmosphere It is within this gathering storm that we must analyse the real causes of the bale-out and not pen drippings of the gentlemen from the capitalist press. Victor Feather and the TUC sold out the fight to prevent the Industrial Relations Act becoming law at the conference last March 16 Croydon The rank and file, however, year. moved irresistibly leftwards in the campaign against the Common Market.

resulted overwhelming This an defeat for the pro-Tory right wing at the TUC and Labour Party conferences in the autumn of 1971. But this did not prevent Rov Tenkins and company from voting with the Tories when the Com- mon Market issue came before parlia- ment. Tust as Feather away from a ran the Indus- fight with the Tories over Wilson and trial Relations Act, so Company run away from a fight against Jenkins. But now the working class have called both Feather and Wilson to order. The resistance to the working of the Act has produced a legal crisis of gigantic proportions. Indeed Feather could easily find him- self in the same court as Jack Jones of the T&GWU. After all Tones is only carrying out Feather's and the TUC's boycott policy. The resistance of the working class

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY 'APRIL 12, 1972 • 1

AILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST

y Jenkins and his clique from the ated higher than the first desertions forced the Labour leaders to persuade Party NEC by a narrow the Labour majority to vote for the proposal of a shortly comes "decision which Commons. It was this blew Jenkins off his perch.

Now, attempts of all the cowardly Wilson avoid disciplining the pro- to Marketeers have nought-the come to flown. big birds have Socialist League has The Labour continuously fought for the mobiliza- tion of the working class to create conditions which would make the Tory We call upon the government resign. working class elect Labour to which then government they must force to carry out socialist policies.

the course of this struggle It is in will demonstrate that experience to need for the working class the real revolutionasy leadership build such struggle Socialist Labour League leadership, the is in the forefront of the struggle to the working class politically in Tory the main struggle against the enemy. The resignation of the allies of this from the Shadow Cabinet pro- enemy that the vides overwhelming proof under revolutionary working class leadership can defeat the Tory govern- of ment, the labour movement Dulge its agents and go forward to the taking of power.

FROM DAVID MAUDE IN OXFORD

WORKERS at British-Leyland's refused the body- simply offering them plant claim, Oxford, car-body Cowley, for day-shift the £2.20 workers plant yesterday voted and £5 for those nights over- the recently accepted at nearby whelmingly to continue their assembly plant. sit-in strike over pay. Trevor Sharp, a direct produc- the tion worker at former In a 2,300-strong mass meeting, Fisher Steel Pressed factory, only 20 hands were raised against told Workers Press the men were maintaining the sit-in. fighting for their not just pay claim, but for the existence of The men are fighting a £10 a the Transport and General Work- annual week increase under an ers' Union fighting branch as hours review and in a reduction force. in line with the national engineer- ing claim. much that there's 'It's not so Also they are against a claimed great gap between claim our but that management breach of an agree- and the company's offer, ment signed last year. we know the company wants to the company has have all future pay negotiations They say No. 737 • 4p

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round the table with the officials in London. 'That would mean the end of shop-floor democracy,' he said.

Commented another sit-in striker, Perry Day: We'll win this one. I am convinced of it. This is the most important thing that's happened in this factory for a long time. 'But the sit-in just seemed like the natural thing to do. We can't relax for a minute, however. If we recognize its importance, you can bet that the company are going to fight to the end as well.'

THE . AMALGAMATED

Union of Engineering Workers' execu- tive yesterday officially supported more than 10,000 members in- volved in pay disputes in the Manchester area. Men can now draw £6 a week strike benefit.

Strike- breaking together

FORMER

Tory publicity Geoffrey Tucket (r) man and Sir Lloyd, Trevor Hughes, Wilson's publicity man at 10 Downing St, are now publicity men for Working "Together which launched a flm cam- The paign yesterday. two men watch the plat- form perform: (1 to r) Sir John Associated Reiss, Portland Cement: Sir Joseph Kagan, Gannex; Sir Anthony Bowlby, former GKN board member; Frank Taylor, Michael Ivens, Aim Industry director. Sinister made to references were with 'communist dealing fanatics'. • For a fuller report see p. 12.

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BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

trimmed its 1971 divi Its 1971 dividend will be DM 4.50 compared with DM 9.25 paid in 1970. The com- pany is paying its dividends from its income on 'other operations and from foreign subsidiaries. Other big names in W German industry are also cutting back result of recession and as a falling profits. Zeiss Ikon, the announced makers, camera few days ago that its Stuttgart plant is to close in 1973, making than 3,000 workers re- more dundant. The Dutch-controlled Enka- Glazstoff AG, which « Produces» synthetic fibres, also announced last week that it is phasing out its Wuppertal production at plant, placing another 3,000 out of work. Other European firms are in Announcing • difficulties. similar "considerably reduced profits" for year, Johan Holte, the current president of Norsk Hydro. Scan- dinavia's largest chemical com- pany, said: 'We are now in a terrible cost and other crisis with wages costs going up sharply all over Europe • and this situation must be reflected in lower current year earnings.' Norsk Hydro profits for the second half of 1971 were 10m compared with 46m kronor same period of kronor in the 1970. Alusuisse, the Swiss alumin- ium monopoly, this week re- per cent fall in corded a 52 profits as a result of world over- production of aluminium and dwindling demand in Europe.

Net profits dropped from 129m francs to 62m francs and total sales were down ll per cent on last year. recession is also The world taking its toll in Japan, where electrical giant, Hitachi. the on Monday that net announced consolidated profits had dropped cent orders both down, the company were said. Jail march arrests POLICE arrested 15 people who marched on two Barcelona jails political carrying gifts for student sources said prisoners, yesterday. those held were Most of medical and science students.

The outlawed Communist Party of Spain distributed leaflets last week calling for the protest and dozens of people queued outside the men's Modelo prison and the women's jail in the Catalan city to hand in their packets.

During the day undergraduates philosophy faculty at the Barcelona's autonomous univer- sity boycotted classes in sympathy' for those arrested. day April 12, 1972

BY OUR OWN CORR

SOVIET President Nikolae Ankara, Turkey, yesterday f visit and talks with leaders He was met at the airport by President Cevdet Sunay, Prime Minister Nihat Erim, Foreign Minister Haluk* • Bayulken and military and parliamentary leaders. Though Turkish oflicials say *that a new Soviet-Turkish treaty would be untimely for domestic and international reasons, it is expected that economic and trade agreements will be enlarged. has Soviet-Turkish trade in- creased from f6m worth in 1964 to f35m projected for this year.

Under • aid the agreements Soviet Union is assisting Turkey to the value of fl4lm in estab- lishing major industrial projects Italian left clash with fascists®

POLICE

clashed with demon- strators in three Italian cities Monday tension late , as increased in the campaign for the country's general elections on May 7. In Bologna, heart of the coun- try's 'red-belt, 12 people were arrested and at least one police- man hurt when left-wing demon- fought briefly with strators police following an extreme right- wing meeting. On the W coast in Genoa, Italy's biggest port, five people were arrested and one released on bail and seven hurt in other clashes between police and left- wing demonstrators after a meet- ing held by Giorgio Almirante, head of the fascist party.

Meanwhile two police stations in Genoa attacked with were petrol bombs, but no one was hurt, and there was little dam- age. N. in Pavia, Farther near including a Milan, nine people, .communist councillor and a socialist alderman were arrested ' during clashes with police follow- ing a fascist election meeting.

motor company, has mestic operations.

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in Vikolae Podgorny arrived' erday for a week-long official caders of the military state.

in oil, steel, meat and chemical complexes. President Sunay recently asked that Dr Erim's government be given wide powers to rule by decree to strengthen law and order in Turkey. But so far his proposal has been rejected by all four major political parties. The Turkish government is trying to smash the workers' movement following the kidnap- ping of three NATO technicians by the left-wing Turkish Peoples' Liberation Army. Dr Erim has blamed 'an international com- munist plot for unrest among workers and peasants in Turkey.

A WAVE of resignations it by directors of major industrial concerns in Slovenia, the Yugoslav. republic, is further evid- ence of the deep crisis in the country's economy. According to the official news agency Tanyug, the directors are handing in their resignations because 'under present business conditions they are in no position . to secure a profit-making operation' Behind the resignations is the "self-managed, each struggle of autonomous enterprise to corner foreign contracts and the lucrative foreign exchange which they bring in. claim that The managers 'unfair competition' among the has reached various enterprises such proportions that foreign capitalist firms involved in joint enterprises 'laugh at us and use THE 'Journal of Commerce', the newspaper of the port employers and big traders, yesterday devoted a front- page editorial to the legal jungle which has ensnared Transport government, General The editorial says: 'It is time that the trade union leaders made it plain—very plain-to their rank-and- file members that although the union movement as a whole is opposed to the Industrial Relations Act, the Act is the law of the land and as such cannot be ignored with impunity. There seems to be some con- fusion on this point among dock members of the T&GWU in Liverpool.' The paper then quoted Mr Lew Lloya, the union's district secretary, who said: 'I advised that they should not black the job against the law of the land-but the dockers feel that they are not breaking the law because their union does not accept the Industrial Relations Act.'

The editorial goes on: 'An interesting point this.

It confirms what a lot of people have felt for a long time-that members of powerful unions accept that they are citizens of the United Kingdom when such citizenship confers rights and benefits, but they are members of an alien and sovereign state when United Kingdom laws are not to their liking.'

This crudely-constructed opinion is worth studying because it explains, in a reactionary way and from the ruling class's point of view, what the law is all about.

Capitalist laws are based on the protection of private property. In relation to these laws workers are mem- bers of an 'alien' state.

The working class is the dispossessed class. It has no property; workers' function under capitalism is to produce surplus value (profits) in return for wages.

Capitalism is a system of legalized robbery. These are the powerful class considerations behind the resump- tion of the Heaton's case in the National Industrial Relations Court today. Both the chairman of the court, Sir John Donaldson, and the Attorney General, Sir Peter Rawlinson, were not fooling when they said the whole body of law the law of the land. was at stake in this case. What they're really talking about is the preservation of capitalism. And some deal was hatched to even supposing dampen down the Heaton's case, the court and the law is only too ready to go to work on another complaint. With the TUC's non-co-operation policy in operation, does anyone expect trade unionists to stand by and watch their unions milked of assets by fine after fine?

the 'Journal' gives a In concluding the editorial, clear indication of how it would like the Act used: 'The Act is not designed to penalize 5,000 dockers. But it can be used against their leaders-in this case the shop stewards who organized the meeting and encour- aged continuation of the ban.

'Contempt can be brought against proceedings individuals. And unless the T&GWU advise their mem- bers to observe the law, even though under protest, they will allow their members to place themselves in extreme financial jeopardy - for there is also the the matter of civil damages to be considered.'

unable: to supply demand and it to our disadvantage'. director of the Ivan Atelsek, to import. Gorenje household goods factory, The firms also complain about was the first to resign. He took the price situation. Having con- this step after a sudden change tracted work for foreign Con… they are hit by in government regulations had increases in the price of imported materials.

fulfilling barred his factory from 400m while the price of their goods on foreign orders worth the home dinars. market is frozen by of 'pressure, Allegations con- law. cessions and favouritism' are fly- Without a centralized plan, the is subject to ing around, that the Yugoslav implying economy government. bends the in the- concentrated of rules pressure favour of certain factories at the world capitalism. Workers of Gorinje have expense of others. refused to accept Atelsek's resig- In some cases this has reached ludicrous proportions. The Skopie They nation. will be driven into Tanyug, conflict steelworks, according to and open has of Yugoslav with the bureaucracy as the situ- the monopoly tinplate production, yet it is ation worsens. Police fired first defending

LAWYERS

black faces murder, kidnap and Davis charges. Angela militant were yes- planning to attack She is accused of smuggling terday pro- evidence about who guns into the court as part of a secution first fired in the to take hostages to barter 20 months ago which for the freedom of the 'Soledad 'shootout' Brothers'. cost four lives. fired The defence says police • Miss Davis, a Communist Party the first. shots which • triggered member and ex-college lecturer, the 'shootout'.

BY AN INDUSTRIAL REPORTER

WITH THE National Industrial Relations Court poised to seize the assets and property of the Trans- port and General Workers' Union, TUC leader Victor Feather will today meet the new Secretary for Employ- ment Maurice Macmillan. Macmillan takes over from Robert Carr as administrator of the Industrial Relations Act.

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

COVENTRY: Wednesday April 12, 7.30 pm. Elastic Inn, Cox Street. SE LONDON: Thursday April 13, 8 pm. Deptford Engineers Club, New Cross Rd (nr New Cross stn). Report back on YS conference. N LONDON: Thursday April 13, 8 pm. 'Bricklayers Arms', ENGINEERS in E Birmingham are planning a mass picket tomorrow outside the Kings- bury Rd works of the Daytona Engineering Company. AUEW members have been locked in a recognition dispute with the firm for more than 15 months and are bitterly critical of the attitude of their union's national executive 'A few months ago the com- pany agreed with the divisional organizer to recognize the union, but not to take any of the strikers back, claims shop steward Dale Brierley.

FOR THE

past four weeks, the 300 striking engineers at Birmingham Battery and Metal Co have been hoping against hope that management would increase their offer in response to the men's £6-a-week pay claim. They have not. When the factory opened its gates after the Easter holidays, management was confident that some men would drift back to work, since it was clear their strike would win them nothing. But none did. The strikers are now every bit as determined as the management.

Quinn, a fitter's mate, Keiran said: If we accept less than SEVERAL Midland branches of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers are demanding that district and national action be introduced in support of the national pay claim. Coventry No. 25 and No. 8 branches and Nuneaton Central and No. 4 branches of the have passed resolu-

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calling for 'supporting tions action' for the Manchester en- gineers, who are currently locked in struggle with the local employers. The newly-inaugurated court is a creature of the Act and has een given the legal status of : ligh Court The talks at the Department of Employment and Productivity will be informal. A spokesman for the department said it was a 'getting-to-know-you' meeting.

Throughout the Tory adminis- tration, Feather has consistently kept up formal and informal con- tacts with senior Tory ministers.

His most recent publicised meeting was with Heath following the miners' strike. Tottenham High Rd (nr White Hart Lane). Report back on YS conference. E LONDON: Tuesday April feldy St, Blackwall Poplar. YS conference and the fight against the Industrial Re- lations Act. CROYDON: Thursday April 20, 8 pm. Ruskin House, Coombe Rd, E Croydon. YS conference and the fight against the Tory government. "The executive council recom- mended that we accept it.

'As it was, the district com- mittee did not accept the recom- mendation, and the strike is still 'But the strike should have been pushed in the beginning.

The executive committee wanted to let it drift on and on. Scanlon has said nothing about it.

original the longer it's allowed to go on, we're going to be in danger of losing it. I've been to the district com- mittee meetings and told them £5.25 in our factory, we can con- we have been defeated.' sider In the three years he has been with the firm he had had one 60p rise. He said: 'We have got claim.' No to go for the full short cuts. We won't have any short cuts. 'In my opinion we have been messed about too much with half promises. Now we the national claim, are going for Price rises under the Tories are at the root of his determin- ation not to give in. married 10 months Mr Quinn ago. 'When I first moved into this flat a year ago, it was possible to exist. I was bringing .

home £21 a week. Then the firm began to cut back because the of trade was falling. There level was no weekend work.' His tax return for 1970-1971 showed he earned £1,092 gross of which £178 went on tax. In the current year, which ended as the strike began, the return showed he had earned £1,090 gross and paid £117 tax. The branches urged that there be no return to work until wages are increased. by £6 a week, without strings, and working hours are reduced.

Meanwhile Coventry No. 49 AUEW branch has passed the following resolution: "This branch calls on the district committee to initiate district strike action in sup- port of the engineers' national claim and also to call on the forthcoming AUEW national committee to organize natlonal strike action for the claim?

MORE than 1,700 of Britain' workers are to lose their jobs Post Office has confirmed.

The announcement-result of a massive computerization programme-has thrown a bombshell into the flimsy argument of the Union of Post Officé Workers that 'natural wastage' would pre- vent anyone actually losing their job. At least 460 jobs are to go by June this year- 420 of these will be lost at London's Electra House cable headquarters.

One third of the cable workers' jobs in London will have gone by the end of next year if the what I think; and now they've organized a mass : picket every Thursday: morning. Last week we had 150 and you could see till the company was worried.

"The union abandoning the national claim doesn't surprise me. We know what's happening.

be 'But there could still national strike. Last week our the

1&GWL

migat do over the. Industrial Relations Act.

'A national strike could topple the Tories, and this management -and I'd • be the first one here next morning to let them know about it.' 'Out of this I am expected to pay £6.84 a week rent for unfurnished flat, £1.50 on an electricity, bus fares of £3 and about f8 a week on food. "Then there is HP on the record player, the rent on television, insurance payments and so on. 'Let's face it, there is no chance of me having a family until my wages go up f6 or £8 a week. 'At the moment I am living off my wife's earnings. But should a man have to live off his wife like that? It is immoral and it should be illegal.' His wife works at a hair- dresser's and sometimes she is there until 7.30 in the evening.

She said: 'Six weeks before Christmas, the boss at one job I had said he would have to sack because there was not me enough trade. I knew there would not be much chance of another job, so I agreed to work part time. •Prices today are shocking and saving is one big joke.' Mr Quinn added: 'At Christ- mas we paid £2 for a turkey, but the other day I went into the market and the same size bird cost nearly £2.50. That is in three a 25 per cent rise months. Said his wife: 'This is the first year we have not bought an Easter egg.' Mr Quinn said: It is quite clearly to hold Tory policy wages down while prices go up.

The £ in my pocket is now worth about 75p. Decimalization was another racket, another grab for the racketeers. 'Our attitude is that we won't go back employers until the money. I think we offer more. would be justified if the claim was for £12. We are not going won.' back until we have Workers Press, Wed Britain's 4,600 overseas cable ir jobs by autumn of 1974, the ...Post Office is allowed to get away with its plans. Leaders of the UPW overseas telegraphists at Electra House meet tonight. The union branch meets on Friday. At both meetings it is expected that the job-loss figures and the leadership's

UPW

complete failure to fight the threat will be the major discussion. John Healy,

UPW

branch at Electra House, is secretary understood to have resigned following the announcement of the figures. • The figures were announced on the same day as Healy received a letter from the UPW general secretary Tom Jackson. A meeting with Jackson had been sought following a redun- dancy agreement with the Post •Office taken over the heads of the branch. As a result engineers are now dividing Electra House into self- contained units under the com- puterization plan. Floor-to-floor conveyor belts are being removed. 'You can see the place being pulled to pieces, one UPW rank and filer com- mented. All this has increased the anxieties of the 3,500 overseas *telegrapnises* work there. Jackson • claimed in his letter that the UPW executive's agree- ment for this work did not take "any powers from you'. And the sought-after meeting?

•My diary is extremely_full at the present „moment,' Jackson 'and I am in wondering wrote, view of the foregoing explanation if you really wish to press for a meeting with us' His reluctance to meet the telegraphists is understandable.

Estimates of the number of jobs cut by the computerization programme have been in Jack- hands since November son's 1970. Present figures correspond with those almost exactly estimates. Yet no fight has been waged by the union on this question. A policy of blocking recruitment and encouraging people to leave the service voluntarily was expected to do the job. The union leadership has meanwhile remained sublimely indifferent to the rocketing national unemployment figures.

See Post Office hiving off land, 1l. po. ross, Wednesday April 12, 1972 PAGE 3

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

HOME SECRETARY

Reginald Maudling has received a copy of the Widgery report on the Bloody Sunday massacre in which 13 civilians were shot dead by the British army. He received the report a week earlier than expected.

Publication is due in the next two weeks. The tribunal, headed by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord boycotted by Widgery, was many of the relatives and wit- nesses because of allegations of 'bias'. Widgery was a former colonel in the Territorial Army. The National Union of Stu- dents has just received a reply from the Home Secretary on the question of Ulster. The union had forwarded to Maudling a copy of a resolution on Ulster which will be debated at this week's annual conference in Birmingham. The reply, sent by Maudling's private secretary, Mr Boys-Smith, said: . "The Home Secretary could not accept your view that the current difficulties in N Ireland constitute a situation colonialist imperialist crimination, Oppression

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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' movement: trade unionists, their families, 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 your local ATUA branch. Today we present further correspondence in the Mani- festo discussion.

GEORGE MONTGOMERY

Shop steward, Massey Ferguson, As regards the Right-to-Work I think it was mendous acnievement take part people of that age to the march. when they From what I saw came through Kilmarnock, the march was very well organized disciplined. There and well Was support quite a bit „Toe march in Kilmarnock and with there would more communication read the statement in the Workers Press regarding the attitude of UCS on the question who sponsorea ine marco think the answer which was pub- lished was clear cut. very believe that Timmy cannot Reid and James Airlie are know who the not who organized the •eoole were right-to-work camp Ucs -such committee would never give shop the stewards was knowing

YOLING SOCIALISTS

did not under- they

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say

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seemed to me to be highly un- likely. such naïveté assume

GLASE

bear ridiculous it doesn't just doesn't thinking about in these committees. lappen that the doubt withdrawing

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Partv. When Lne started their right-to-work cam- paign they got enormous support, should deny other they 110L all y wage such a campaign. Unemployment divides the WOrKInK Class. nave never agreed that simply ownershiperson. through of capital, be able to juggle others should about. No nerson in anv class society should be poor or hungry: I don't agree with this system. basic aspects of the Manifesto. a lot trade annoyance all olest unionists the

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une Con- at all, that with the le tons set-his don't let forget will be particularly hard hit in perned back it. B se see the Labour this respect. Party back Wilson and something stinks to high heaven don't understand how some are extreme right-wingers.

Co. Common With the of the Labour and trade union the vote trade Along with other Market a golden opportunity was redders me becomes co pressures unionists I met Wilson when we missed to put the Tories out. The Labour Party avoids expel organized a demonstration a few Labour be ling Jenkins, afraid he would In my opinion must Kilmarnock montes party. the opposed to tory rule ana lt was lal against unemployment, but we the duty of Labour to get the Act is con- Industrial relations nowhere with him. got Tories but the opportunity cerned, of the rank and out, most If back has Labour in. it they was missed. file feel the same way, al c the basis to socialsi leadership from One of the basic things walling

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The nature of the campaign of Mandel and the Pabloites on this the flowing the Workers Preas, Wedneaday April 12, 1972 PAGE 7 tial part of this oppressive state No wonder, having thrown out concepts, -impossible for a Marxist-that his exclusion from Germany con- travenes 'the rule of law'! What free- dom under a proletarian dictator- senseless to exclude the bour- question fits in with these poli- from the interests of the mono- programme of socialist expropria- tion of these monopolies. Only movement on polists, Marxists fight in Against political tendencies geoisie from elections! Marxist conceptions. law? Whose law? complete working-class basic reactionary machine. parties these tical the expressed in the her Singes German under- My de: Minister or the racion cratic rights and freedoms of European citizens, and as a blow Mandel's agreement to give this interview struggle on democratic rights. For question of and speak- individual 'citizens' as possible, and not of making the issue one on which conscious- ness of the working class can be advanced in a revolutionary way.

relations' expert would be a good idea for One of Mandel's answers in the interview, however, is extremely stand this action by the Minister as an attack on the basic demo- forms conception How do you see from the organization and 'public 'maximum publicity' many entering the and only background to sor, you have of the Interior?' "celebrity'. interview also: informative, can it is Republic. Perhaps We what from him, this ing Ernest Mandel is one of the an tendency the basic programme of the Fourth International in 1952- now goes under the name of the of the Fourth International' and is supported by the US Socialist Mandel is always presented by his own supporters as an eminent 'well-known' exponent of Marxist impeccable (Pabloism) which broke from

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PAGE 6 Workers Press, Wednesday April 12, 1972 boldest initiatives against reactionary tide. In such a period, of before shaken out of their democratic the right. They will respond only to the strongest and most resolute lead from the working class...

support capitalist property can stem the it is fatal to make the appeal to The middle class who are fondly supposed to respond to such a programme (as in World War II) are in fact being illusions by the same crisis which around such a workers' mobiliza- to the monopolies Instead of building democracy in general. Fronts or to the fascists. Popular 'democratic' pushes the the Mandel apparently wanting to defend his democratic rights, but at the same time accepting the main strategy of the European monopoly capi- talists-the "political integration of Europe', i.e., the development of the Common Market, entry of The very development of the European monopolies, which con- stitutes the threat to the demo- cratic rights of all workers, is appealed to by Mandel as some- thing which will suffer if he continues to be attacked. We against the preparations for the political integration of Europe' that have assume only we Britain, etc. Here can and political idendeed is nowadays entirely a matter of his impact as some sort of celebrity descending on various and university cam- puses. This is undoubtedly con- nected with his own theory that been replaced by 'neo-capitalism', requiring a very innumerable are published in journals of the 'new which like to appear very open-minded by having an to their general revisionist output.

flavour articles seminars different political 'style'.

academic qualifications. Mandel's 'Marxist' and his at appears capitalism has capital cities international left' type occasional colloquia He of method. You cannot equate the moon-landing with astrophysics, which created the scientific pre- requisites for it. If you analyze the universe, it doesn't mean you have the conspiratorial intention Spiegel. Back to the earth. What does Mandel the revolutionary down Mandel. An interesting question.

question of landing on the moon. in order to bring but a bourgeois society? phrenia, do your Mandel. I write articles, take draft resolu- tions and submit them for votes.

and educational classes. The Fourth not a conspir- atorial organization. I am not a counterfeiter. Our activity is not weapons-dealer; I am not meetings am are nor meetings, What International is open bomb-carrier; activities? hold national. ¡ part in secret. interview with Ernest Man- we reproduce that interview, On March 6 this year the W German weekly magazine 'Der Spiegel' published an del, a leading figure in the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. Here Slaughter of the Socialist plus a comment by Cliff Rade sately ben topsed ny the the Pabloites are distorting defend se moting to lone the pries the class return, finally, to one we made earlier in passing.

Stalin- rebuke for the Sonal Demon siothing after filer's fall, let alone the and I not social Desertil so easy! staked his whole future in the mention of Social-Democrats do not wish to by talking about a united front • d ba cerato of ens capitalian Germany, has around such a workers' mobiliza- united front. but is very similar 'popular fronts conflicting with the Stalinists!

behind which campaign division working earlier victorv of fascism.

Mandel nowhere attacks the 'democracv' in Germanv the Stalinists, Trotskyists Social-Democrats. apart from party in wants to USSR ie., to the 19a0s, t were prepared. of all those betraval of government. Ostpolitik', Chanceller Trotskyism Stalinism because Ouite 1 murder Let issue Brance or bor de bond is start i a late As a member to she Mandel: Given nesting mass societyr nature tally eep asin general doceand for the Here we have the true content they revolutionary signa having own spurious 'United Secretariat') vanguard at She proletariat as a vanguao lead see the sear is set ugh do you in the factories, in the univer- iN remark in the Der Spiegith ., in other no developmene (my emphasis, (Mandel's of the Pabloite attack on Trot- revolution and socialist solutions, but there can be no question of the Fourth International (i.e., his missionary change is only to lead it to success. Thus the political some far-off socialist solution.

lip-service revolutionary movement, our were persuade his readers that conscious vanguard, how want cannot there capitalism paid to he idea of is not revolutionary imply hie reiew: We present 'preparations 'neo-capitalist in W Berlin! democratic must interview: mononoiv simply a selves as workers Mandel: society. with. that| road to the how far Pabloism has gone in this Free University of W Berlin. He assistants Da German ainst the action of the Socialist Labour League is for the defence actions by excluding Such centrist forces cannot be 'nea capitalism'!) moves rapidly into and political crisis, it must desperately middle-class tical force to deal with that phase masses orandel ics atch it the bilkind way only as a dictatorial show reformism. he Bern Senate which bars at the to take up this post cam- enter W Berlin when he recently tried and But is a matter of noli- are thrown into political struggle.

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middle-class ele attacky theseric rents of the rights of all persons against a decision hit the bill. restriction, to some centrist everwhere are are to Note a case tere corial chair in Economics not and and ther arbitrary imnerialism the bankrupt the of course, and step fascist this Essentiallv. it further. without worst-ever on vorking class. intelligentsia elements to centrists in politics German repression. appealing Pabloites against the course, there. short suck he there has not been a revolutionary western country that did not begin peace.

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which you restriction freedom? Soild be Social Delain ary is the attempt to strengthen the society through reforms. rike Way 19%8 in Prare, or tall Spiegei, And foul teant to lead start ...but you hope to stir it a little. As a member of the an existing mass neurotic the con- the populatis neo-capitalist society is propa- Mandel. No, Social Democracy mentaly, tealter society e dar objective Italy, the revolutionary the preconditions for the workers to sork or the an i douge conscious vanguard, how do you people rous participation one masses hange the proletariat as a vanguard?

case create task is only to lead it tot, Mandel. Given an existin conspiracy or agitation, attitude of defenders ossible only through cannot must be there when that crises majority erase Republic must even nentally, Thus, evolutionary organization | workers in crisis-free. Spiegel. activities Mandel. existing 1969 in Spiegel. Federal society. future. that under Fourth work Mandel. Only in countries where Federal this Spietel ithe Federal Ministry of and barredy cares that you mae Germany complete several years wrote some news.

For not the only Berin from star to finish. The Secre many did not here is no democratic freedom freedom for the workers' move- the Interior, which declared you conspiraci been re- even intend to move to Germany German wanted intend movement. legally. subversive articles under the Sandet. That's ain name? one. You also published ierre Gousset, that's all.

after your appointment? xample, that you have people, not just me. J under fictitious names. also Fourth International composed Yes. ves. Spiegel. That was Doesn't Until or the workers' active This langerous International Sepublic. In territory, ! bsolutely beatediv worked Mandel. allowed Sniegel. paper tariat use his teaching Certain difference between teach Spiegel. Mr Mandel, are you a their renunciation of the principles of Mandel. Neither can a Marxist physician separate his profession permanent revolution. It was not my intention to give lectures on a Marxist, as opposed to a social a Maicest readies Labour League Central Com- Mandel. I didn't want anything.

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the permanent revolution at heatre he does not practice is a unity physician, wante appendectomy. Spe basis of Were rene There There is no such onstitutional government.

teach testifies. the which economic officials and practice. approached me and or nolitical practice. political You were wanted Marxist science political ut would also Marxist there For professorship Nevertheless. political tainly not rofessor, bourgeois, Sniegel. i politics, mittee. course. ations ants ‹ such a parhow Husak Mandel. Sure, that is in our pro- broaden Brounds that in disten on the Spice. As 3. Manch Than die no bid moe of my lectures were purely historical. my life have I disavowed my con-

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday Ap nding up cattle on the pampas in Part 1. By our foreign correspo ARGENTINA developed in the 19th century as a colony . Sp of British imperialism. It has.

been dominated by imperialist since. Its exploitation ever landlords and capitalists are in their hatred and united repression of the masses and their subservience to foreign masters. beginning of World Until" the War II, British imperialism was the main exploiter of Argentina's and It bought grain resources. meat and in return sold railways.

products and allowed finished credit for development concen- trated around Buenos Aires and the surrounding Litoral. This structure, imposed on the Argentine economy, remains to day, little different from this that described by Lenin in his work on imperialism: 'The division into two power- ful groups of countries-posses- Inc sors of colonies and colonies—is of not the only feature this period. There is also a variety of forms of dependent countries which formally are politically independent, but which are in fact caught up in the net of financial and diplomatic depend- We have referred ence. to one of the forms-the semi-colony.

An example of another is pro- vided by Argentina' the landlords and Although their 'gaucho' armies successfully resisted the armed intervention of British expeditionary forces under Sir Home Popham and put nesday April 12, 1972 ampas In the late 18th contury orrespondent. an end to the Vice-Royalty of ny, Spanish imperialism in 1810, they willingly bent to the power of the City of London and its representatives. While slave revolts were put down in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the era of capitalist free trade hit the pampas. Britain bought hides, meat and grain and exported textiles, steel and iron. British capitalists brought credit to Argentina. In 1824 the Baring Brother floated a flm loan nominal value for the Buenos Aires government and • numerous joint-stock com- panies were launched for mining, colonization and industrial pro- duction. Those who benefited were the large 'estancieros' who proceeded to build up large blocks of land introduce disciplined methods of farming. They also built railways to reach large areas of land, in the course of which they • destroyed the Argentinian • Indians. Their representatives in govern- ment were also 'estancieros', true grit frontiersmen trained in fight- ing Indians and the arts of horse riding. General Rosas, elected gover- nor and General of Captain Buenos Aires in 1829, adapted this ruthless toughness to create Mazorca. a party 'disciplining' his opponents.

'estanciero', successor General Urquiza, continued the tradition, also opening up , the floodgates for the flow of more foreign capital. 1888-1889, between one In quarter and a half of new issues on the London capital market were on behalf of Argentinian enterprise. Argentina was now fully subordinated to the world capitalist economy and its crises.

This soon became evident in the famous Baring Brothers crisis of the 1890s. Baring's had been the first to raise money in Europe for development in Argentina. In the 1880s they the leading bankers con- were cerned in marketing Argentine securities. In 1890 they faced bankruptcy.

Quite simply, they had agreed to pay the contractors who had built the Buenos Aires port in exchange for $25m worth of bonds from the Argentinian government. Unhappily they found they could not sell these to the in- vesting public, which had lost its confidence in the capacity of the Argentinian government to pay— it was beset by inflation, bank- ruptcies and the growth of mili- tant trade unionists. However, Lord Rothschild signed agreement with the an Argentinian Minister Romero on July 3, 1893, in which Argentinian aband- government oned its claims on the Buenos Aires Water Supply Drainage Co, which had been underwritten by Baring's. Then the Argentinian govern- ment was sayed by enormous ex- pansion of the market for wheat, etc., and capital cattle, wool, flowed in again. The Depression revealed Argentina's continued depend- ence on world trade: the highly specialized market it supplied was hit by the sharp decline in food prices and raw materials.

(Even in 1962, 93 per cent of exports were agro-pecuarian and only 2 per cent were manufac- capital guipment and metal equipment and metal goods was imported.) Investment reached a crescendo the early 1960s: 1958-1960 $270m were invested in petro- chemicals, motor cars and petro- leum derivatives; $186m worth of machinery was imported through direct investment and $345m worth to be exported through loans through international development banks, which are covers for American imperialism.

British imperialism's hegemony over Argentina, has been replaced by the United States. The growth industry has depended on foreign investment, which con- trols the decisive sectors of industry. For example, in mining the Union Minera Argentina, backed by foreign capital with high mechanization, produced 77 per cent of mining production, the remaining 23 being percent mined by small firms backed by Argentine capital. Farming is still dominated by the large landowners as it has been from 19th the early century. The following was the pattern of ownership in the 1930s: in cattle farming: 84 per cent of cattle-farmers owned 25-100 head of cattle- 17.7 per cent of total. 14.4 per cent of cattle-farmers owned 101-1,000 head of cattle —29.2 per cent of total. 1.6 per of cattle-farmers cent owned more than 1,000 head of cattle 43.1 per cent. Today in Argentina, 50 per cent of agropecuarian producers or share-croppers, tenants are the land most of who work themselves with their families. Together with seasonal workers they make up 400,000 working to feed a parasitic group of land- owners—1,200 landowners own a quarter of the land in the pro- vince of Buenos Aires where the richest land is; 2,100 own 53₺ million while 160,000 hectares, chacareros (small farmers) have only 1t million hectares.

Many landowners have invested money in industry and the coming together of industrialists and landowners is evident in the landowners who participated in the setting up of the Union Industrial Argentina — an em- ployers' association - such as Ayerza and Saenz Pena. The political regimes tolerated in Argentina by imperialism have been usually authoritarian and military. During the Golden Age of investment, the landowners prided themselves on i their love of democracy and tolerated the trade growth of unions, a Socialist Party and the Union Civica Radical--a radical petty bourgeois party. But it was a love which soon vanished.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

This book does not contain a systematic examination of the problems of the transition to socialism, but reproduces a discussion between Paul Sweezy, editor of 'Monthly , and French econom- W ist Charles Bettelheim, which began in 1968 after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Neither of the participants has exactly unblemished an political past, nor do they reveal all they about the past can from their own experience.

Although Trotsky had a good deal about the to say very questions which are under con- sideration, even Bettelheim, no stranger to Trotskyism, carefully avoids any reference to his con- tribution. Likewise, Sweezy, who was for some time a fellow-traveller of the US Communist Party, is less than frank about Stalinism its influence on and the com- munist movement in the period in which he knew it best.

Such omissions make the dis- cussion a little unreal. What we which begins with the events of in fact, is a discussion in Czechoslovakia. Sweezy 1968 explains the invasion as arising from fear that if Novotny could out, so could the be kicked Soviet bureaucracy. But he sees the bureaucracy itself as relying increasingly on capitalist methods and practices • as 'the discipline of the such th incentive of market and profit' in order to maintain its rule. Sweezy left open the class of the Soviet Union. nature Bettelheim, in a comment on his article, came forward with a finished theory: 'The proletariat [Soviet or Czech] has lost its power to a new bourgeoisie, with the result that the revisionist Communist the leadership of Party of the Soviet Union is today the instrument of this new bourgeoisie.' This, of course, is the position of Peking. • then explains that Bettelheim what matters is not the degree of market relations existing in whether the pro- but a state, letariat exercises power.

pick Sweezy is able to up from Bettelheim's past writings -though he only goes back to about 1964— an evolution to- wards the view that a new bourgeoisie has taken power in

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reasons position. The bureaucracy it leads revolution 1101 theory the • has been able without of role of and never precisely washed his and taker neat formulas he has theory of be found, dis- the certail chiefly shift cor- articles hav which Review'. waich pre analysis of the from the Rus- explain or Like version of the bourgeoisie and authority that the certain other 1i1o call of communist second-in-command to Mao Tse- Lin Piao. Workers Pross, Wednesday Aprll 12, 1972 PAGE 9 recommended that special temporary accommodation for ten families be set up where Some people may have thought they could stay a month and that the stubborn refusal to. sort out with the help of social retire of Merthyr Tydfil MP • workers whether they want to Mr S. O. Davies-nearly 90 stay in London any more. years when he died recently Because has been dis- it -had its comic side. 181 covered that of out families admitted to temporary But that is nothing compared to what is claimed to be hap- accommodation in the area the constituency over the last year, 67 pening only now. were regular Camden resi- On the eve of last Thurs- dents. Plaid Cymru further 55 came from day's by-election, -the Welsh nationalist party of London and other parts -claimed to have made some about one third from Ireland, amazing discoveries about the Scotland,. the N, the Midlands electoral roll. or were from overseas. They claimed some So, what a terrible thing. people Fancy had three votes, two year-old having to help those haven't Camden infants had them and who got a man who had been dead 17 years ancestry. Repatriate them! had one. The nationalists' campaign Glyn Owen manager com- mented: of I feel the whole system democratic election is gravely in jeopardy'. Merthyr's clerk and town acting returning officer, Selwyn Jones, said he had no power add or delete names from to the electoral roll. Nobody could say the 'Sunday Times' was not in tune with In fact there Tory thinking. are times when they are well in advance of it. leading In article on Minister of housing, Julian Amery December 6, 1970, the paper notes: If after 'consultations' with 'If the choice in Ulster is social workers it was decided Harland and between keeping these people would be better Wolff in business and forment- off returning 'home, Camden ing a looming civil war in would get in touch with other depressed province, we would local authorities to see if they not choose civil war' could find them somewhere to Last Monday the Tories live and a job. announced they were plan- Probably one of the main ning to give the Belfast ship- reasons these families came to builders £12.5m. London was precisely because they couldn't find work or decent to live in somewhere their own towns. Camden Council, London, Often the poorest sections always claiming to be one of of the community, they face the leaders in providing wel- the prospect of being shunted fare services, has come up with around from town one to one of the most notorious and another, unwanted by any local sinister schemes ever evolved authority. for the homeless-send them It is clear that this policy back to where they came from.

has the implicit blessing of the The man behind the move is Last government. year the of Kenneth Unwin, director council submitted a request for social services of Camden a Home Office grant for special Council, who has prepared a temporary accommodation for report for the councillors.

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IT IS an acknowledged fact that the productive forces of society cannot be developed any further on capitalist foundations.

The capitalist class has become an absolute fetter on the development of human culture. And wealth and since 1914 it has tried to plunge humanity into the abyss of barbarism. The decline of the capitalist system, which now threatens the entire world with cultural and economic decomposition, has made the socialist revolu- tion unpostponably and un- conditionally necessary for the salvation of mankind. But since revolution signifies a living class struggle, it is nowhere stated-except in reformist circles defeat of the capi- -that the talist class is automatically and mechanically predetermined.

The capitalist class, far from conceding the judgement of his- back with all the tory, fights means at its command. Hitler- like, it disregards all the signs of impending catastrophe.

It is pure idealism and alien to Marxism to recognize the fact that history creates the basic premise of the revolution, yet ignore the ruling-class prepara- tions to defy the laws of history and smash the working class.

'The bourgeoisie,' as Trotsky pointed W European out to Communist Parties 'even though it finds itself in a complete con- tradiction with the demands of , progress, nevertheless historical still remains the most powerful class. 'More than that, it may be said that politically the bour- geoisie attains its greatest powers, concentration its greatest of forces and resources, of political and military needs of deception, and provocation, of coercion, i.e., the flowering of its class strategy, at the moment when it is most immediately threatened by social ruin... This has ren- dered its instinct of class self- preservation sensitive in the extreme... In his speech Trotsky had a special reference to Britain and to Lloyd George, who he called a superb strategist of the bour- To the: Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Joint Shop Stewards Committee Clydebank Division Clydebank Dunbartonshire March 30, 1972 Dear Sir and Brother, Following the Empire Pool Right-to-Work marches on March meeting of the 250 12, a unanimously decided marchers we return the cheque for that Shop which the

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£100 Stewards' Co-ordinating Commit- tee donated to our funds early in January. time we felt grateful At the for this act of solidarity which we MANY road hauliers are facing a 'grave danger' from rising costs, the chairman of the Road Haulage Associ- McMillan ation William warned yesterday. rose be- haulage tween 12 and 14 per cent last THE YORKSHIRE-based Elec- tricity Supply Union has applied rights at the Ferrybridge at Knottingley. power station nesday April 12, 1972 YS national secretary John Simmance ad geoisie, threatened with his- torical ruin'. Both Trotsky and Lenin warned the British communists not to expect the same kind of revolu- tionary development in Britain as took place in Russia. In Britain the struggle would be more protracted--and more ruthless because of the historical • of development class relations unique in Europe. 'Let us not forget also that the bourgeoisie finds itself face to face with mortal danger, after having accumulated colossal political experience: The bour- geoisie has created and destroyed all sorts regimes... All this varied and rich experience which has entered into the blood and bourgeois ruling marrow circles has now been mobilized by them to maintain themselves in power at any cost. 'And they act the more cunningly, resourcefully, ruth- lessly, all the more clearly their convinced the represents are viewpoint of the overwhelming majority of UCS. The Right to Work is a basic right affecting all members of the working class irrespective of what political difference exist between may them. When our Scottish contingent was on the march just over • issued week, your committee statement which implied that you persuaded into giving the were donation by some of our mem- without you being aware bers, that they were members of the Young Socialists. which is the youth organization of the Social- ist Labour League. This, of course, was untrue.

he told Association year, are luncheon at Nottingham.

At one time the operator who was unable to increase charges to match increased costs used to "tighten his belt'. McMillan admitted that some road hauliers would postpone ast delivery of a new vehicle, make is a direct The application challenge Frank Chapple's to electrical and plumbing trade union, which at present shares joint bargaining rights on the industrial council. *:2r.

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mance addressing the conference leaders take cognizance of the threatening danger.' ('First Five Years of the Com- munist International'. New Park Publications. p. 5.) this standpoint the From the. Young Socialists, adopted by emergency resolution conference on Sunday was not only correct --but absolutely necessary to re- emphasize the warning given by Trotsky 50 years agor Lloyd George may be dead, but his spirit lives on in the political manoeuvres of the Tory Party in its attempts to out- flank the working class. Only the Trotskyist movement -because it bases itself on the strategical and tactical contribu- tions of the First Four Congresses.

of the Communist International analyse Tory policy in a -can correct way and provide an alternative strategy. As the YS resolution points ore out, the Tory attack takes two forms. •..By the creation of chronic Those members who addressed members of the Glasgow YS who had sold Workers Press continuously outside the ship- yards. Indeed, they were specifi- they sold the committee Press, to which they Workers replied, of course, in the affirma- live. Your repudiation of our march strengthened the right wing of who the TUC and Labour Party had banned and proscribed it. It was tentamount to a stab in the back of unemployed youth Glasgow and to the young people who marched for five weeks on the road to London. last longer or reduce tyres maintenance bills. Under new legislation cutting standards could be fatal through suspension or revocation of the operator's licence. Furthermore many customers were putting transport costs at the top of the list when seeking economies. rgaining The council negotiates with the electricity boards on wages and conditions of power workers.

Knottingley 'C' was the scene of intense picketing during the miners' strike.

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unemployment which will be intensified with entry into the Common Market and by the strengthening of the repressive powers of the state. Demoraliza- tion by unemployment will be supplemented by wholesale intimidation through the courts and the police stations.'

Attack is always preceded by diversionary moves and the reso- lution shows exactly the nature of Tory manoeuvres by drawing attention to the conscious and of Tory credulous acceptance plans by the TUC and Labour leaders. from succumbing to the Far mood of euphoria, the YS resolu- tion gives a sombre warning to the working class not to fall in behind the illusions which are deliberately created by the trade union bureaucrats: "They [the Tories] use the reformist leaders to create the confusion maximum political before the big battles, by reviving nic momentarily the old. reformist Unemployed youth hate the Tory government and want to see it forced to resign. Your action not only strength- ened the enemies of the work- ing class but it showed a con- tempt for the plight of the unem- ployed youth in the W of Scot- land. In returning your £100 we feel sure that trade unionists every- where will send donations to cover it. The campaign for the Right to Work will go on with renewed vigour. Yours fraternally,

CLIVE NORRIS,

National Secretary. Costly tot THE PRICE of most big brands of whisky is expected to go up by as much as 15p a bottle from May 1. A spokesman • for Distillers Limited whose brands include Haig, Johnnie Walker and Vat 69, said yesterday its wholesale price was going up by 10p a bottle at the end of the month.

The increase was necessary "to recover increased costs in pro- . to maintain margins in the UK marker, profit duction Distillers has 60 per cent of the home market. pipedreams: regional develop- ment, state subsidies to industry, Ulster, "peace" in moves Cabinet reshuffle which appears to replace reactionary ministers with Tory nonentities, but is reality a preparation for battle.'

So while the Stalinist-domin- ated Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions was once again trying to revive the corpse of the protest movement and avoid a struggle to force the Tories to resign, the YS resolu- tion rang out like a clarion call for real political struggle against the Tories: "The only answer to the grave dangers from the policy of the employers and the government is the fight to force the govern- ment to resign. This fight has been pioneered by the YS and the SLL and no other tendency can or will carry out this policy.'

As the Right-to-Work song proclaims: "There is no one who us, there's no one now can stop who can. This does not mean in any sense that the YS ignores or belittles the struggle of workers their legitimate economic for demands, such as wages, rents, etc. On the contrary, it is only by tying these demands into the general strategy to replace the Tories with a Labour government pledged to socialist policies that these struggles can have any real significance. This is something the Stalinists, reformists and revisionists pointedly refuse to do. In the words of the resolution: "They tail behind the spon- taneous militancy of the working class in order to avoid and obstruct the political struggle. • "left talk" Their conceals their absolute passivity in face of the preparations of the ruling class.

Nothing illustrates this bank- clearly than this ruptcy more week's 'Socialist Worker' - the International Socialists' weekly which calls on the T&GWU not to pay the £5,000 fine imposed by the National Industrial Rela- tions but remains court, inscrutably silent on the ques tion of what to do about the Tory government! Their evasion of this issue is explicable and predictable. None of these revisionist groups have an answer to the Tory govern- ment, because their reformist theory and their middle-class leadership inevitably doom them to prostration and servility before the capitalist class. While these groups wallow in their political impotence, the YS, by endorsing the decision transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party, and by its campaigns over the last 12 years, has shown that it is in the forefront of the struggle • for. a socialist Britain.

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Epilogue. Workers Pross, Wednesday April 12, 1972 PAGE 11

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

THE POST Office is the latest million pound speculative project in a line of public at Hay's Wharf. bodies Altogether, throughout Great sell off queuing to up Britain and N Ireland, the Post valuable assets to property Office owns or leases over 13,000 buildings. speculators. Bernard Thorpe will advise the When news broke last week PO on 'the best use of redundant and, that it had hired one of the sites and buildings where the development biggest names in property con- appropriate, on potential of sites in at present sultancy, Bernard Thorpe and operational use', said a spokes- Partners, it confirmed a trend man. which has been gathering pace short list of 50 properties over the last few years. has already been drawn up.

They range from the S coast to Scot- Now all the public nearly land. Three categories of suitable bodies are involved in selling off for have been properties sale property bought over the years drawn including redundant with taxpayers' up, money the •to town centre premises. land-grabbers. the The PO puts position From these sales, speculators bluntly, in the jargon of the best able to are redevelop sites at property men: enormous profit. British Rail, the Most opportunities for profit- biggest landowner the among able development are likely to nationalized industries, has for the business occur in postal been selling off years where, for example, new sorting office develop- station sites for release good offices town-centre ment. sites, or where counters occupy Another state industry moving valuable high frontages street profitable into the property business is the and redevelopment is National Company, Bus which practicable without detriment to and the service.' has city-centre depots bus stations ready for 'development'. Opportunities for hiving off are One of the most rapacious also expected the telecom- on consumers of its is munications side of the business.

own office buildings the Port of London Authority. Surplus space in Last November it sold other its City might be rented to users or sites redeveloped when offices head office building for just £9.3m. are moved to new premises.

round the It is a valuable, prestige site So when you go disquiet there corner to buy that postage stamp and was in the City that the 250,000 ft of few months' time don't be sq building went so cheaply.

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FROM SARAH HANNIGAN

IN BIRMINGHAM

THE LIAISON Committee for the Defence of Student Unions yesterday failed in its bid for National Union of Students president. Communist Party member Digby Jacks re-elected president with an increased majority on the second day of the NUS Birmingham conference.

Opposing Jacks for the pre- sidency was Jeremy Fitzpatrick, a member of the 'Militant' Group in the Labour Party. Fitzpatrick told Workers Press that he saw the result as a "success' since the vote had shown that at least one-third of the student delegates were prepared to vote for a 'fairly revolutionary hard' socialist policy. 'We have got a political base on which build the we can policies of the liaison future committee,' he said. During election speeches, Fitz- patrick attacked the executive for the failure of their campaign on student union finances.

He himself, however, failed to mention how student union autonomy could be won with the Tory government in power.

for the first time yesterday the student body formulated its policy on the Victoam secretary Miko National proposed a resolution supporting in "struggle of the the Vietnam' and calling for the withdrawal of all American It was carried over- forces. whelmingly. Addressing conference, Jacks 'made claimed the union had the government pay heavily for their devious maneuvre (the Department of Education and Science consultative document on student finances). And. he added: 'Mrs Thatcher's reputation discernibly tar- Wils nished, the DEs civil servants the held up to ridicule and to suller government was scen an initial ... defeat.' This concept of successfully 'pressurizing' is the the Tories illusory and dangerous sime policy which is peddled be Jacks' mentors in the Communist Party on the question of the Industrial Relations Act last year and at UCS today.

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FROM PHILIP WADE IN LIVERPOOL

TALKS broke down yesterday the transport firm which ha Relations Court against the T Heaton's Transport (St Helens) Limited once more refused to accede to the dockers' demands and walked out of the talks. After the abortive talks jimmy Symes, chairman of the Liverpool docks stewards committee said: "This could be the biggest fight in the history of dockers and road transport workers. It's a fight we're prepared-to go through to The blacking the finish with. continues.' ; that the are saying Dockers packing and unpacking of con- tainers should be carried out by registered dock labour and that drivers should be paid no less than {21 to £24 i week. But while the talks were in yesterday. Liverpool progress dockers turned back the firm's Lexandra order issued two weeks ago.

And for the first time the 'black' extended outside Wils Liverpool is Preston dockers also turned away Heaton's con- tainers: follows Monday night's This national porte decision by shop stewards committee to give" full support to the • blacking and to extend it nationally. Yesterday's fruitless discussions between T&GWU 100k place officials from both Liverpool and St Helens, docks stewards and Mr Robert Heaton and his son, joint managing directors of the firm. 'li's back to square one again I suppose. said docks stewards' committee chairman 1. Symes.

The scene moves today to the industrial conrt in London where the T&GWU faces a, £5.000 fine for contempt of imposed; court when the union continued the 'blacking' in spite of a court order.

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AT £242.43 LET'S not waste a moment In the struggle to raise our Fund this month. The use of the Indus- trial Relations Act against the T&GWU could result in a major confilet with the working class.

As the political situation Workers Press has a changes, vital role to play. The working everywhere must be class warned and prepared of the nature of the great changes that are now taking place. We urge you all-light back now against the Tory alfacks. Go into action today and raise as much as you for our April Fund. Post all can donations immediately to: Workers Press April Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High St London, SW4 7UG esterday between Merseyside docke lich has brought an action in tl t the Transport and General Work Robert Heaton (Jr) partner in transport firm. THE COMING N Vietnamese highlands of S Vietnam is e current drives near Saigon and S Vietnamese forces and their American advisers, in the highland region around Kontum city are bracing themselves for the shock of an all-out battle in the area.

The S Vietnamese claim to indi- have captured documents cating that the second phase of the 13-day-old attack is about to open. 'This makes nonsense of their previous claims that the N. Viet- "fully extended' namese are on the two main fronts they have opened since the fighting began.

The Saigon government becoming panicky the N as Vietnamese push from the Cam- bodian border moves closer to the capital. The city was shaken by a huge Front sapper National Liberation ammunition dump blew up only Il miles from the city centre. Vietnamese rushed troops line from towards the front Saigon did not prevent the fall of another government base on Monday night. They lost the base, at the border village of Bodup, despite the nresence of two S Vietnamese battalions. battlefront. The northern below the demilitarized zone. was again the scene of heavy fighting lesterday as S Vietnamese troops tried to recapture one of the firebases they lost on Sunday: The base. Camp O'Conner was overrun after its garrison had fled from the N Vietnamese ad- vance. American ground forces have so far played little part in. the fighting. but yesterday • units of US forces airlifted and were driven into the northern town of Bai. to protect remaining Phu US installations there. The mave indicates that the N Vietnamese forces are still shows moving southwards, and the Americans' lack of confidence • dockers' representatives and 1 in the National Industrial I Workers' Union. Symes, Jimmy chairman port shop stewards. namese offensive in the central m is expected to dwarf their gon and the demilitarized zone.

in the defensive capacity of their puppet army. Nixon, President who has ordered the giant B-52 bombers into action over N Vietnam for the first time since 1967, came under heavy criticism from Peking again yesterday. A Foreign Ministry statement said it was absurd to describe the N Vietnamese as 'invading' S Vietnam: 'as is well known, S and N Vietnam are one country. The statement pledged reso- lute support' for the N Vietnam- ese in their struggle against the 'new military adventure of US imperialism'. ROY JENKINS was described as one of Britain's most brilliant politicians by the ultra right-wing pro-Cathole Belgian newspaper 'La Libre elgique yesterday. tionapraised him for his excep- success as Chancellor of the Exchequer and for the 'scep- ticism he has shown the to Marxist-leaning theses • dear to the left wing of the party.

Lord Chalfont yesterday resigned as Labour spokesman on Defence and • Foreign Affairs in the House of Lords. After today's Parliamentary labour Party meeting about ten Shadow ministers are expected to resign. Socialist Labour League and Y

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A flm CAMPAIGN called Working Together was launched by right-wing busi- nessmen at London's Savoy Hotel yesterday amid sinister hints of dealing with 'com- munist fanatics' The organizers say they will mount a massive television and press publicity campaign over the next three years, supplemented by films, discussions and mass leaf- leting of areas where workers live. So far no trade unionists have agreed to join the five-man Work- ing Together committee. But campaign director Michael Ivens, also a director of the right-wing, anti-nationalization Aims Industry, told about 50 journal- ists: 'I believe we are going to get some really good, brisk, trade union leaders on the committee fairly soon.' While the non-political char- acter of the campaign to 'harness workers and management in a prosperity drive' common was repeatedly stressed, it seemed clear from the remarks of deputy chairman, Sir Joseph Kagan, that its aims were much wider.

'I have worked under Stalin and Hitler,' he 'and I said, believe that two philosophies are today contending for the soul of man and for the world. "The strength of the economy today is the defence of our very way of life just as in two world the army and navy have wars been.' Committee member Frank Tay- lor added: If the 500 or 600 anarchists in Britain who say they are trying to take the working class to power succeed, it will mean communism and the end of our free way of life.' Taylor, of the big construction firm Taylor-Woodrow, said: 'No one has spelled out what these fanatics are trying to do and I think it is important that we make it clear that we are pre- pared to defend our way of life.'

Committee chairman and ex- Guest, Keen and Nettlefold's Sir board member, Anthony Bowlby, said the public were fed up with disruption in industry.

'The time is ripe for this kind of initiative,' he said. 'Conflict in British industry has led and is a performance in leading to international markets which can only be described as disappoint- ing. 'Now we are about to enter the Common Market, the chal- lenge of a deeper sense of work- ing together is one that we must work together, face. If we Britain can achieve great things.

if we don't, shall be But we unable to face the problems that lie ahead.' campaign's massive pub- • The licity is being jointly handled by the former director of publicity at Tory Central Office Geoffrey Tucker in conjunction with Lab- Wilson's our leader Harold former press secretary, Sir Trevor Lloyd-Hughes. Sir Joseph (Joe') Kagan, the millionaire head of Gannex Rain- coats, is a close personal friend of Wilson and is believed to have subscribed Labour money to Party funds. le and Young Socialists

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