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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 74 • SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1970 Rouse the trade unions Against Wilson's Washington

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By the Editor SINCE WE launched the campaign against Wilson's visit to Washington, support has been coming in day by day from trade union leaders, union branches, factories, university staff, writers, actors, ilm producers and of course, the youth, especially the Young Socialists. There is the widest agreement that the time has come to take the campaign against the Vietnam war into the trade unions and factories.

Our demonstration this week-end nas to de con• this context. It is a subordinate but important part of a larger campaign to impress upon the working class that the problems they face are related to the heroic struggle of the Vietnamese people.

We want to make the fight socialist internationalism Split widens

BY DAVID MAUDE

in Soviet leisupers, BLILDING-SITE stewards' the bureaucracy teals the Tory Party pay-and-productivity settle- Action ment signed by their

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of the union leaders were con- official newly published Board the Editorial firmed this week when- Workers Press calls history of the Soviet Com- for the first time-they munist Party with follows: version printed and then were issued with copies of hastily suppressed in Octo the full terms. Carry the campaign against Wilson's visit the Washington every aisagreements Mrs Barbara taste not Into and ever, I that per sely not satis Stalinist bureaucracy. SeCTIOn or tie aDour oundwork trade union movement. It appears that the original as red Day edition espress bars Work scheme the maxi- Mobilize because it Wd. consigerea to industry is sufficiently expression criucal or stain. working opinion are considerab imperialist milder than those in the 1904 gainst war She is to meet the building published under edition employers union leader Khrushchev. deal. discuss the fight to remove few copies of the Wilson reddersnis edit are the ultra Inement socianst poncies.

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 74 • SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1970 Rouse the trade unions Against Wilson's Washington visit INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATUR By the Editor SINCE WE launched the campaign against Wilson's visit to Washington, support has been coming in union union leaders, day by day from trade branches, factories, university staff, writers, actors, the youth, especially There is the widest agreement that the time has Vietnam war come to take the campaign against the into the trade unions and factories.

Our demonstration this week-end has to be con.

sidered within this context. suhordinate bit important part of a larger campaign to impress upon the working class that the nroblems they face are related to the heroic struggle of the Vietnamese people.

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of the union leaders con- newly - published official were The Editorial Board of firmed this week when- Workers calls no history of the Soviet Com- Press for the first time-they every demonstrator to act ac munist Party with follows. version printed and then were issued with copies of hastily cunnressed in Octo the full terms. Carry the campaign ber last year reveals sharp against Wilson's visit Washington disagreements within the Mrs Barbara Castle, how- every section Stalinist bureaucracy. and ever. 1s apparently not cans. trade union movement. It appears that the original hed that the groundwork lays for a full edition suppressed considered to down ot Stalin, Maacured. Day War, Mobilize the maxi. in the industry is sufficiently expression mum considerably working class oninion are imperialist mulder tian those • in the Che is to mast the buildino edition nublished unde employers and in car. 'Wilson Khrushchey. Tuesday to discuss copies suD- A tw tho deal. are in circu- implement socialist policies.

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PART TWO:

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JOHN MCLEAN,

Scottish socialist school- teacher, as Lenin des- cribed him, came before the courts several times during the First World War. As the first part of this article described yesterday, the pressure of the Clydeside • working class was such that he served only a small pro- portion of the sentences handed down to him. He was, nevertheless, out of action for the greater part of the last two years of the war. most famous of The McLean's trials was in the High Court in Edinburgh in May, 1918. Here he made his defiant statement to the Scot- tish bourgeoisie: not here as the am accused: I am here as the accuser, of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot.

An account of the trial was subsequently published by the Workers' Propaganda Clyde has This Defence Committee. republished by recently been International Marxist the an introduction Group, with by Bob Purdie. At first sight it is difficult to understand why. McLean's statement to the jury is diffi- cult to follow, and seems to contain as many confusions as and it contains courageous defiant statements. Taken in conjunction with evidence - McLean's other newspaper articles, etc. — it help the historian to may of McLean's analyse some weaknesses, for theoretical example his view of imperial- ism, mentioned above. And it contains specific references to incidents on the to McLean's own Clyde and experiences, especially in the appalling conditions of a Scot- tish prison. But as a contribution to the working-class movement today it is difficult to see what pur- Much it serves. pose McLean's defence was con- fused. At times he seems con- with individual self- cerned justification: I have squared my conduct with my intellect, and if every- had done this one SO war clean for my act squar *.id principles. Materialist Such taken a statement, face of seriously, flies in the everything Marxist analysis fights for--a materialist under- standing, as opposed to the ex- idealist view that the tremely war could have been prevented by changing 'everyone's' ideas.

At other times he seems con- cerned to 'justify' the Russian Revolution to his bourgeois judges. He offered no analysis of the way in which the working class had taken power in Russia, but concentrated on the argument that the Bol- sheviks had been responsible for far fewer deaths than the Tsars. This method of argument seems to have led him into confused, and even reactionary the question of arguments on revolutionary violence. In arguing with a witness he claimed that the Russian Revo- lution is the most peaceful revolution the world has ever it is the biggest. seen, and Don't you know that this war is the most bloody that has ever taken place, and that revolution and bloodshed don't go together'. The witness, a mining in- spector with the Fife Coal Company, who had been sent along as a spy to one McLean's meetings, replied, correctly enough: 'No'. Confusions and inconsisten- cies of this sort might possibly have sprung from tactical con- siderations. McLean's statements as a The Easter Rebellion (seen above) and the John McLean only when he began to argu revolutionary on trial in a court should bourgeois per- not be taken at face haps value. therefore to One turns Purdie's introduction to this new pamphlet for some clari- fication of what McLean's speech can teach revolutionary workers today. It is not very helpful. Indeed he hardly mentions he is supposed to the speech be introducing. He says simply: 'In the tradition of all great McLean used revolutionaries as a tribune from the dock which to the war denounce and capitalism, and in the tradition of vindictive bour- geois justice penal servitude.' Either Purdie considers the significance of McLean's speech and to be self-evident, its or else it arguments correct, has been republished as a peg upon which to hang a general estimate of the significance of John McLean. The second possibility seems more likely. Introduction Purdie indeed devotes the major part of his introduction to the last period of McLean's life-from 1919 till his death in 1923. He deals with the two key questions of McLean's last years; why did he not join the of Great Communist Party Britain, founded with the sup- port of the Third International in 1920-1921, and why did he to a nationalist turn instead perspective, seeking to estab- lish a separate Scottish revo- lutionary party? It is in his treatment of the second question in particular that Purdie's intention be- comes clear. Purdie makes the point that McLean lacked any conception of la determinedly revolution- ary party which had separated itself from the reformist ele- ments in the labour move- ment'. John McLean and others at Parliament S Edinburgh, before his trial.

But beyond saying that McLean should not be criti- cized for this, he offers little explanation of why this was so.

He neither relates McLean's failure to weaknesses in the revolutionary British move- ment as a whole, nor does he explain its relevance to his analysis of McLean's national- ism. Purdie's argument is, indeed, self-contradictory. Misleading McLean's refusal to join the CP was, he writes, 'a tragic mistake'. He then gives a quite mis- leading account of why this that if was so. He argues McLean had joined the CP 'the Party could have achieved great things. Instead the CP relied too ~ ahove) and the ideas of Tames Connolly became im le began to argue for a separate Scotland.

much for its theory on Mos- cow and was caught up in the developing influence of Stalin- ism as a result.' To suggest that McLean could have saved the CP from Stalinism is to avoid the whole question of the nature of the Stalinist degeneration of the International after the Third early 1920s. It was precisely the lack of real internationalist perspect- ives (over-reliance on Moscow in Purdie's terms) which was a major weakness in the British movement, reflected McLean's failure to understand the nature of the Bolshevik Party. McLean could see weak- nesses in all the sections which went into the CPGB. His experience with the • Clyde Workers' Committee had taught him to suspect the of the Socialist syndicalism Party members who Labour were prominent on it. He was able to see that a man like William Gallacher ('undoubtedly great', according 'the tragic to Purdie, despite of his justification spectacle' of the Moscow Trials) under- of the Marxist stood little method. Gallacher was no more a militant worker who than had been attracted to syndical- ism, and the explicitly even bourgeois ideas of guild social- ism, before visiting Russia and to be, returning claiming as McLean it, 'the mouth- put piece of Lenin'. Weaknesses McLean could see the weak- nesses in these tendencies, but was unable to transcend them to build a see the need to British Communist Party Third Inter- linked to the Purdie's national. argument almost be stood on its can head. Far from the links of the CP with Moscow being too great, it was McLean's lack of con- Inter- with the Third tact national, and his inability to at Parliament Square, see the importance of such contact, that was his essential weakness. But having argued that McLean should have joined the CP, Purdie contradicts himself apparently justifving McLean's nationalism, and his attempt to fight for a separate Scottish Workers' Republic.

It is this has revived in- according Purdie, which terest in McLean at present.

And it emerges from the relatively lengthy concluding section of Purdie's argument that this is the reason why this pamphlet has been • re- printed. Purdie proceeds to attempt equate McLean's demand to for a Scottish Workers' Re- public with Trotsky's definition transitional demand', in of a 'The Death Agony of Capital- the Tasks of the ism and nolly became important for

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He quotes McLean, writing in 1920, in "The Vanguard': 'Ours is the duty to formu- late an immediate programme that will appeal to all the workers, and so prepare them for united action. We must a programme that have no capitalist government can con- cede, one that necessarily must bring about the downfall of the dominant class; a programme that may not immediately in- spire the workers to action, but in a crisis might so one that rouse them that by effective spontaneous efforts they will the capitalists out of sweep power!' This, says Purdie, is basically which the same conception explained in the Trotsky Transitional Programme: *It is necessary to help the struggle to masses in daily find the bridge between pre- headlined

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Capitalism' for 'Eugenics Press, January (Workers 2), written by FC was a criticism of a 'Scientific World' article on December 4 ('Middle class shudders at superman spectre'). According to FC, the earlier easily dis- article had too missed the implications of current scientific work in mole- cular biology and biochemistry and the concern about them expressed by people like the the scientists themselves.

particular The scientific advance in question was the isolation of a group of pure genes (the factors determining inherited characteristics from a living organism). the issue be- FC takes up cause, he says, it is important two angles. First, these from discoveries 'offer the pos- sibility of man controlling his life for the better'. But at the same time 'They will give to a desperate capitalist class new and completely untried tech- niques for repression'. Experiments To illustrate the latter point, he refers to the Nazi experi- ments in concentration camps and the possibility that by in- troducing human chromosomes into an ape egg, '... great of man-apes could numbers be produced--a new labour force? More docile, less de- manding of a human share of the wealth of the world, un- aggressive, bred to defeat and slavery'. Several questions occur immediately. Did the Nazis succeed, ( could they have Or succeeded, in producing by biological methods a Nazi?

They could mutilate human beings, and no doubt the man- heredity ipulation of can mutilate offspring, but is there a single ideological or political characteristic which is known to correspond to any particular trait, biological inherited or otherwise? There is not. The Nazis believed there were: they were racialists, and therefore considered that in- characteristics born racial gave rise to different qualities capacity of personality and for civilization. There is not the slightest foundation for such a belief 'more docile' How would men be bred? Nobody knows anything about biological characteristics which, if

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sent demands and the socialist programme of the revolution.

This bridge should include a of transitional de- system mands, stemming from today's consciousness of wide layers of the working class and unalter- ably leading to one final con- clusion: the conquest of power by the proletariat.' Home Rule Scottish Home Rule was, says Purdie, 'a widely popular demand': witness the fact that the ILP MPs introduced Home in the House of Rule Bills Commons in the 1920s. So he argues McLean's for a Call Workers' Scottish Republic was in the nature of a tran- sitional demand. The implica- tion is that it still is.

There are several not very intellectual well - concealed sleights of hand in this argu- ment. changed, would affect 'docility' impairing all sorts of without other traits. where 'docility' is Except associated with backwardness due to damage or physical defect of the brain, its pre- sence is socially and ideologic- ally caused and can be socially and ideologically modified (by learning, agita- organization, tion, provocation, etc.).

What would be the point of a 'half-ape half-man' for the capitalists? Presumably to lower the in- telligence of the labour force and perpetrate its exploitation.

But capitalism constantly socializes and the spurs on means of production, because of competition and the need to accumulate capital and off- set the tendency for the rate of profit to fall. Are these ape-men to devise, develop and these operate means of production? they If on the other hand are to be used (assuming they for unskilled can be made) jobs, the fact is that the jobs labour-supply for such will continue to increase and give rise to surplus population under capitalism. Will the ape-men be bred to increase the reserve army of the unemployed? These queries suggest that FC may be missing the point in relation to the great advances in biology, genetics and biochemistry. In context ike other strides forward in science, they must be firmly placed • in the context of the social-economic relations in which they arise. It is inadequate to consider them only in relation to (1) the uses to which capitalists may put them, and (2) the to which under uses man socialism may put them. I do not think that Martin Zarrop in his original article (December 4) was being 'mis- leading and simplistic over certain fundamental questions', as FC asserts. On the contrary, he raised an essential point when he char- acterized the middle-class fear of the consequences of scien- tific advance as an individual- istic response which could see the advances as only external forces. FC, on the other hand, does mistakenly over-simplify, be- cause he elaborates on these consequences without making

TO PURDIE'S ANTI-MARXIS!

Firstly, the quotation from towards an understanding of McLean comes from an article the link between 'the present which Scotland consciousness' of the workers in not specifically mentioned. McLean and revolutionary demands. He had, it is true, begun to flirt rightly pointed out the fact with nationalist demands in that the of the programme 1919; but it was not till after Bolsheviks in 1917 had been defeats for the first 'Peace, Bread, Land'. post-war working class and the recession in the revolutionary movement No lessons isolated from that McLean, all the main tendencies in the But he failed to draw out movement turned, in 1922, up the lesson that the Bolsheviks of seeking the blind alley to able take power on were to build separate Scottish these demands because of the Workers' Republic through his theoretical and practical work Scottish Workers' Republican that had gone into the building Party. of the Bolshevik Party. Purdie avoids This is, of course, a crucial Secondly, McLean's of difference between taking the question up that the conceptions and Trotsky's.

McLean's conception class can take power working For Trotsky's 'transitional 'by effective spontaneous demands' were linked with the effort'. of parties linked to building Fourth International. the article the McLean, in indeed working McLean never went beyond quoted, was by the associated producers, social-historical or class any there is only the turning of analysis of what is involved.

this productive force into a Science, including biological destructive force. science, is part of the produc- Because the victim of bour- tive forces of man in his col- geois ideology cannot go be- lective struggle against nature.

yond the horizons of the cap- Under capitalism, it separ- italist order, he therefore goes labour-power and ated from on his knees, paralyzed with as a dis- the labouring class fear consequences of at the tinct productive force, and so • science! the labourer's comes into it But the same large- very weapon of capital life as scale organization of produc- against him. forces, productive Both and labour-power, science become capital before must at production can take place all under capitalism: scientific research and application is capital, paid for by constant and labour-power by variable capital (wages). Only when this investment and the (desired by profit conditions for its realization) has taken place, do science become and labour-power "social productive forces'.

Contradiction The historical crisis of cap- of the epoch italist society, socialist revolution against it, because these produc- arises tive forces come into contra- diction with the above capital- and form of production, ist press for 'their actual recogni- productive tion as social forces'. various ways it becomes In manifest that 'the productive forces have outgrown all con- trol other than that of society itself' (Engels: 'Anti-Duhring').

'Noble Aryan' Nazis picket Jewish-owne of this socialist Nazi scientists mutilated countless conc Outside victims in their fruitless experiments des solution, the control of science Saturday, January 10, 1970

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his essentially propagandist method. Finally, Purdie crudely con- fuses the 'consciousness of the working class', thrown into trade union struggles by the crises of capitalism, with a 'widely popular demand'. A 'widely popular demand' may, of course, be extremely arising precisely reactionary, out of the backwardness of the working class: racialist de- mands for example. Nationalism in Scotland to- day indeed belongs to this category, but Purdie's argu- ment attempts to conceal this.

To use the attempts of the ILP to introduce Home Rule bills in parliament as evidence is a very reactionary method of argument. The ILP leadership repre- sented a centrist, petty-bour- geois tendency within the working-class movement, as Lenin and Trotsky both showed. Its demands for Home Rule belong to this tendency, and in fact stand in direct line with similar demands made in par- liament by Scottish tibcral MPs in the period 1890 to 1914.

It is clear therefore that these demands arose not out of the needs of the working tion, research and development by giant international trusts the necessity of state with (usually military) budgets, as well as threatening mass ter- is also creating the ror, working modern international class and the necessary con- ditions of its unification.

If this is lost sight of, then scientific socialism is thrown out of the window in favour exhortations of moral to quickly carry out historical duty. Death agony Certainly a serious and con- sidered sense of the dangers to humanity arising from the prolongation of capitalism's death necessary agony 1s a part of our revolutionary con- sciousness, but it is not our starting-point. The desperation of middle- class consciousness, including that of the scientists, must again not be taken just at face- value. It is indicative of the break- up of capitalist ideolosy, the intellectuals crisis which heralds the demise of every social system. These middle-class intellec- tuals perform the task, on behalf of capitalism, of con- ditioning the masses to the be- lief that the capitalist system, ket Jewish-owned shops in Germany.

1 countless concentration camp experiments designed to justify racialism.

BOB SEATON REPLIES TO PURDIE'S ANTI-MARXIST ESTIMATION OF JOHN McLEAN

WORKERS' PRESS

los- the alin- , can rom hole the the the k of ect- coW was itish in tand evik eak- hich the ittee t the ialist who at a cher rding ragic ation nder- arxıst more who lical- icitly ocial- 1 and e, as outh- veak- , but them ild a arty Inter- Fourth International' (1938).

ment He quotes McLean, writing n its in 1920, in "The Vanguard': 'Ours is the duty to formu- le CP immediate programme late an great, appeal to all the that will con- so prepare them workers, and Inter- for united action. We must programme that no ty to have a capitalist government can con- cede, one that necessarily must bring about the downfall of the dominant class; a programme that may not immediately in- spire the workers to action, but in a crisis might so one that that by effective rouse them spontaneous efforts they will the capitalists out of sweep power! This, says Purdie, is basically which the same conception in the explained Trotsky Transitional Programme: It is necessary to help the in daily struggle to masses find the bridge between pre- THE LETTER headlined *Eugenics Capitalism' for (Workers Press, January 2), written by FC was a criticism of a 'Scientific World' article on December 4 ('Middle class shudders at superman spectre'). According to FC, the earlier easily dis- article had too of missed the implications current scientific work in mole- cular biology and biochemistry and the concern about them expressed by people like the the scientists themselves.

such particular scientific The sential advance in question was the isolation of a group of pure genes (the factors determining that ed the inherited characteristics from himself a living organism). the issue be- tifying FC takes up cause, he says, it is important nd his two angles. First, these parate from 'offer the discoveries pos- sibility of man controlling his to ng life for the better'. But at the red in- same time 'They will give to a 'esent'. desperate capitalist class new m the and completely untried tech- cluding niques for repression'. rument n why Experiments en re- To illustrate the latter point, ttempt he refers to the Nazi experi- lemand ments in concentration camps s' Re- and the possibility that by in- finition troducing human chromosomes nd', , in into an ape egg. '. . . great Capital- numbers of man-apes could of the new labour be produced-a force? More docile, less de- manding of a human share of the wealth of the world, un- aggressive, bred to defeat and slavery'. Several questions occur the Nazis immediately. Did or could they have succeed, by succeeded, in producing biological methods a Nazi?

They could mutilate human beings, and no doubt the man- ipulation of heredity can mutilate offspring, but is there a single ideological or political characteristic which is known to correspond to any particular biological trait, inherited or otherwise? There is not. The Nazis believed there were: they were racialists, and therefore considered that in- racial characteristics born gave rise to different qualities of personality and capacity for civilization. There is not the slightest for such a belief. foundation docile' How would 'more men be bred? Nobody knows anything about biological characteristics which, if Firstly, the thes quot ton from towards understanding sent demands and "the McLean the link ros bridge should clude all drucit the •colland

CORSCIOUSICS

specincalv mentioned. MCLear and revolunionary acmanus it is true, begun to flirt rightly pointed our une lacl demands programme working class and unalter- that the the 1919; but till after Bolsheviks in been ably leading to one _nnal con- first 'Peace, Bread, Land' the clusion: Ine conquest or power working class and the recession ov une prolelarial. No lessons in ine revoluuonary movemenl Home Rule that McLean. isolated all the main tendencies in the But ne lalled to alaw movement turned, Bolsheviks Rule in 192z, up the lesson that the Home Was. of take power Scottish demand': witness the fact that Workers Republic of the Inese demanas because the ILP MPs introduced Home theoretical and pracucal work House Republican that had gone into the building Scotusn So he Party. of the Bolshevik Party. McLean's for avoids argues call Republic Secondly, Ihis is, of course, crucia rurale McLean's Workers' taking question of difference between was in the nature of a tran- conceptions and Trotsky's. McLean's «tona demand ine imonca- take 'transitional workins Class call ГОГ

TOLSKY S

tion is that it still is.

were unkea wiin tie enrecuve soullalcuus demands There several not very effort'. building ot parties unkea intellectual the Fourth in the international sleights of hand in this argu- McLean, McLean never went beyond quoted, was indeed working changed, would affect 'docility' without impairing all sorts of olner Walls 'docility' Except wnere associated with backwardness due to or physical defect its pre- and ideologic- sence is socially ally caused and can be socially and laeologically organization. learnine. nrovocation. etc.). 'half-ape half-man' i capitalists! Presumably to lower the force telligence of the labour and perpetrate its exploitation.

But capitalism constantly socializes spurs on the means of production, of competition and set the tendency tor me rate of profit to fall. Are these ape-men to devise, these by the associated producers social-historical If on the other hand they class the analysis of what is involved.

turning Enere Is Only are to be used assuming iney Science, including biological this productive force into a be made) tor unskilled science, is part of the produc- destructive force. obs. the fact that the Because the victim of bour- for tive forces of man in his col- such jobs geois ideology cannot go be- lective struggle against nature.

increase and will continue to of the cap- yond the horizons Under capitalism, it separ- give rise to surplus population therefore italist order, he ated and under capitalsın from labour-Dower with on nis knees, Dalalyzeu Will the ane-men be bred labouring class as a G1S- fear • ate consequences to increase the reserve army tinct productive he labourers , and so science! of the unemployed? But it comes into the very same large- a weapon of capital These suggest that scale organization queries of produc- be missing the point rC may against him. the forces, Both relauion nroductive advances in biology, genelics anour-Dower. and biochemistry. before take place can producer scientific In context all under capitalism: research and application paid for by constant capital, ike other strides forward in and labour-power by variable science, they must be firmly capital (wages). placed the context of in this investment Only when social-economic relations profit and (desired by realization) wnen uney arise conditions for It is inadequate to consider has taken place. science 'them only in relation to labour-power become the uses to which capitalists put them and (2) the may which under man USEs Contradiction socialism may put went think that Martin i do noti Zarrop in his original article epoch (December 4) was being 'mis- italsu sociely, leading and socialist revolution against it, because certain fundamental questions', these oroque- come into contra- as ru asserls diction with the above capital- On the contrary, he raised an production, and form essential noint when ne coar- actual recogni- acterized the middle-class fear of the productive tion soclal tific advance individual- forces'. could In various ways it becomes manifest that 'the producuve the advances as only external have outgrown all con- forces. forces trol other than that of society FC, on the other hand, does 'Anti-Duhring) muon• Nozic nicket lewish-own‹ mistakenly be- itself' (Engels: socialist itists mutilated countless co he elaborates outsiae solution, the control of science consequences without making Saturday, January 10, 1970 his essentially propagandist method. Finally, Purdie crudely con- fuses the 'consciousness of the working class', thrown into trade union struggles by the crises of capitalism, with a 'widely popular demand'. A 'widely popular demand may, of course, be extremely reactionary, arising precisely out of the backwardness of the working class: racialist de- mands for example. Nationalism in Scotland to- day indeed belongs to this but Purdie's argu- category, ment attempts to conceal this.

To use the attempts of the ILP to introduce Home Rule bills in parliament as evidence is a very reactionary method of argument. The ILP leadership repre- sented a centrist, petty-bour- tendency within the geois working-class movement both as Lenin and Trotsky showed. Its demands for Home Rule belong to this tendency, and in fact stand in direct line with similar demands made in par- liament by Scottistr Hiberal MArs in the period 1890 to 1914.

It is clear therefore that these demands arose not out of the needs of the working tion, research and development trusts by giant international of state the necessity with (usually military) budgets, as well as threatening mass ter- is also creating the ror, modern international working class and the necessary con- ditions of its unification.

If this is lost sight of, then scientific socialism is thrown out of the window in favour moral exhortations of quickly carry. out historical duty. Death agony Certainly a serious and con- sidered sense of the dangers to humanity arising from the capitalism's of prolongation death is a necessary agony part of our revolutionary con- sciousness, but it is not our starting-point. The desperation of middle- including class consciousness, that of the scientists, must again not be taken just at face- value. It is indicative of the break- up of capitalist ideology, the of intellectuals crisis the which heralds the demise of every social system. These middle-class intellec- tuals pertorm the task, on behalf of capitalism, of con- ditioning the masses to the be- lief that the capitalist system, ket Jewish-owned shops in Germany.

d countless concentration camp • experiments designed to justify racialism.

Saturday, January 10, 1970 class, but came from a section of the ruling class. Elsewhere, Purdie refers to the influence of James Connolly's ideas on McLean.

McLean, in this last phase of his life, did indeed refer back and to to Connolly's example, the Easter Rising of 1916 after which Connolly was executed.

But he failed ever to analyse in a Marxist way the reasons Connolly's defeat - his for failure to see the need for working - class revolutionary working within the party nationalist movement, but in- dependent of all reformist and bourgeois tendencies. Nor was he able to analyse the differences between Irish nationalism, rooted in the pro- gressive demands of the Irish bourgeoisie to throw off their subservience to British im- At the Russian front the Bolshevik Party of Lenin demanded 'Bread, Peace and Land'. perialism, and Scottish nation- alism, rooted in the decadence of the Scottish bourgeoisie, whose progressive role was played out in its part in build- industrial capitalism in ing Britain in the 19th century.

The analogy he drew be- tween Scotland and Ireland was impressionistic, and repre- sented the abandonment of the fight for Marxism by McLean.

It is understandable why Matan, broken by bourgeois . prisons, demoralized by all the betrayals he has witnessed, isolated from all his former comrades, should have made these mistakes. given a little democratic pres- sure and empiricist 'common- sense, continue inde- can finitely to meet humanity's needs. And yet, confronted with the greatest conquests of human activity and genius, they can predict only disaster!

The greatest of all produc- tive forces is the class of pro- ducers itself, under capitalism the working class. Capitalism in its early period inflicted this class upon the inhuman mutilations, most through long hours of work, back-breaking toil, a ruthless division of labour and the ex- ploitation of and women children. But from this class arose the organization and the con- enforce sciousness to the working day, the right to organize, the abolition of child labour, and other 'victories of the political economy of the working class over the political of economy the capitalist class' (Marx). Science in the hands of the capitalists has necessarily been one of seen not as man's essential powers, but as a.

danger to life. Modern biological advances, thrown into the maelstrom of monopoly competition and imperialist war, take on this same appearance. leading member-is evidently But this does not explain Purdie's concerned to conceal this and desire to cover up move closer to nationalism these mistakes and present the to period most of in Scotland because it regards Tohn McLean's heroic life of it as a 'widely-popular de- example to mand'. struggle as an the working-class movement of to- John McLean's well-deserved great revolu- day. reputation as tionary fighter is thus mobi- He fails to explain the weak- lized in the service of those McLean's in analogy nesses who fight against Marxism.

between Scotland and Ireland, or even to give any evidence for his assertion that Connolly Crucial influenced McLean. McLean's weaknesses were It is not enough to say as those of the British many, McLean referred simply that revolutionary movement at this back to Connolly when he period were many. It is crucial began to argue for a separate they should be that under- Scotland. stood. When Connolly was in Scot- Those who seek to conceal land before the First World them, the most de- to use War, he was a member of the moralized and reactionary Socialist Labour Party, rather of McLean's life as period than the British Socialist Party justification for their own anti- of which McLean was a mem- working-class politics, fight ber. against everything for which And when the Easter Rising McLean sacrificed his life.

occurred McLean McLean devoted his life to was in prison. No evidence has been the working struggle of the produced therefore to show class against capitalism, and "boundless that McLean had thought at all through his cour- deeply about the relationship age', as Lenin said, kept alive Irish and Scottish between the best traditions in the Scot- nationalism. tish working-class movement. It seems likely that when he But forces of bourgeois driven to a was reactionary society - physical and ideo- nationalist he perspective, logical - ultimately defeated simply grasped at any straw him and prevented him from which seemed to justify it.

taking up the fight for Lenin- The crucial point, however, ism and the Third International is to grasp the essential nature in the period 1919-1923. of Scottish nationalism as a nature tot ais and conceal the bourgeois tendency which has defeat in the nothing in common with the name of uncritical hero-wor- needs of the working class.

shipping, is to desecrate the The International Marxist of a name most courageous Group--of which Purdie is a revolutionary, John McLean.

But we from understanding of start always the natural the actually developing world. As FC national contradictions and the points out, many preparation of the forces to more scientists being overthrow capitalism. forced to the need for a dia- The laws of development of lectical instead of an empiricist and the this struggle ability understanding of nature. we have to decisively affect it The isolation of pure through of knowledge these gene (shown in the electron- laws; these stand higher than microscope photograph accom- any abstract scientific dis- both FC's and M. panying coveries, military innovations, Zarrop's articles) is of course etc. further nail in one the coffin of all theological and idealist Social laws views of the nature of life. The fact that within capital- Capitalism is not just a ism, as a necessary outcome of of waste and destruc- system the needs of production and tion against which the workers associated research, this must revolt. or else. knowledge develops and shakes It is a social-economic for- the foundations of all fixed, mation subject historical metaphysical interpretations of laws development whose of the world, is once again part of the irresistible progress fate depends upon the ability of the proletariat to grasp the of the productive forces, above nature these class of producers laws in the struggle, overthrow capitalism itself, which lays the basis for and establish the planned the consciousness necessary to economy of socialism. remove by revolutionary means Finally, there is the question the outworn capitalist rela- of the actual tions of production. recent discoveries our C.S.

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Saturday, January 10, 1970 IN OF JOHN McLI class, but came from a section of the ruling class. Elsewhere, Purdie refers to the influence james Connolly's ideas on McLean.

McLean, in this last phase of his life, did indeed refer back to Connolly's example, and to the Easter Rising of 1916 after which Connolly was executed.

Analyse But he failed ever to analyse in a Marxist way the reasons for Connolly's defeat - his failure to see the need for a revolutionary working - class working within party the nationalist movement, but in- dependent of all reformist and bourgeois tendencies. Nor was he able to analyse the differences between Irish nationalism, rooted in the pro- gressive demands of the Irish bourgeoisie to throw off their subservience to British im- At the Russian front the Bolshevik Party of Lenin demanded *Bread, Peace and Land'. perialism, and Scottish nation- alism, rooted in the decadence of the Scottish bourgeoisie, progressive role was whose played out in its part in build- industrial capitalism in 1ng Britain in the 19th century.

The analogy he drew be- tween Scotland and Ireland was impressionistic, and repre- sented the abandonment of the fight for Marxism by McLean.

understandable why It is MeLcan, broken by bourgeois prisons, demoralized by all the betrayals he has witnessed, isolated from all his former comrades, should have made these mistakes. given a little democratic pres- sure and empiricist 'common- sense, can continue inde- finitely to meet humanity's needs. And yet, confronted with the greatest of conquests human activity genius, and they can predict only disaster!

The greatest of all produc- tive forces is the class of pro- ducers itself, under capitalism the working class. Capitalism in its early period inflicted upon this class the inhuman mutilations, most through long hours of work, back-breaking toil, a ruthless division of labour and the ex- ploitation of women and children. But from this class arose the organization and the con- sciousness to enforce the working day, the right to organize, the abolition of child labour, and other 'victories of the political economy of the working class over the political economy of the capitalist class' (Marx). Science in the hands of the capitalists has necessarily been seen not as of man's one essential powers, but as a danger to life. Modern biological advances, thrown into the maelstrom of monopoly competition and imperialist war, take on this same appearance. Rauit nicht bei suben!

MCLEAN

But this does not explain leading member-is evidently desire concerned to conceal this and Purdie's these mistakes and present the to move closer to nationalism in Scotland because it regards most reactionary period John McLean's heroic life of 'widely-popular de- mand'. struggle as an example to the John McLean's well-deserved working-class movement of to- day. reputation as a great revolu- tionary fighter is thus mobi- He fails to explain the weak- of those lized in the service nesses in McLean's analogy who fight against Marxism.

between Scotland and Ireland or even to give any evidence for his assertion that Connolly Crucial influenced McLean. McLean's weaknesses were It is not enough to say many, as those of the British simply that McLean referred revolutionary movement at this back to Connolly when he period were many. It is crucial began to argue for a separate that they. should be under- Scotland. stood. When Connolly was in Scot- Those who seek to conceal land before the First World them, to use the de- most War, he was a member of the moralized and reactionary Socialist Labour Party, rather period of McLean's life as than the British Socialist Party justification for their own anti- of which McLean was a mem- working-class politics, fight ber. against everything for which And when the Easter Rising McLean sacrificed his life.

McLean occurred McLean devoted his life to was in prison. No evidence has been the struggle of the working produced therefore to show class against capitalism, and that McLean had thought at all through his 'boundless cour- deeply about the relationship age', as Lenin said, kept alive between Irish and Scottish the best traditions in the Scot- nationalism. tish working-class movement. It seems likely that when he But forces of bourgeois was driven to a reactionary society - physical and ideo- nationalist perspective, he logical - ultimately defeated simply grasped at any straw him and prevented him from which seemed to justify it.

taking up the fight for Lenin- The crucial point, however, ism and the Third International is to grasp the essential nature in the period 1919-1923. of Scottish nationalism To and conceal the try bourgeois tendency which has nature of this defeat the in nothing in common with the name of uncritical hero-wor- needs of the working class.

shipping, is to the desecrate The International Marxist name of a most courageous Group-of which revolutionary, John McLean.

Purdie is a But we start always from understanding of the natural the actually developing world. national contradictions and the As FC points out, preparation of the forces to more scientists are being overthrow capitalism. forced to the need for a dia- The laws of development of lectical instead of an empiricist this struggle and the ability understanding of nature. we have to decisively affect it The isolation of a pure through of knowledge these gene (shown in the electron- laws; these stand higher than microscope photograph accom- any abstract scientific dis- both FC's panying M. coveries, military innovations, Zarrop's articles) is of course etc. one further nail in the coffin of all theological and idealist Social laws views of the nature of life.

The fact that within capital- Capitalism is not just ism, as a necessary outcome of system of waste and destruc- the needs of production and tion against which the workers associated research, this must revolt... or else. knowledge develops and shakes It is a social-economic for- the foundations of all fixed. subject historical mation to metaphysical interpretations of laws development of the whose world, is once again fate depends upon the ability part of the irresistible progress of the proletariat to grasp the of the productive forces, above nature of these laws in all of the class of producers struggle, overthrow capitalism itself, which lays the basis for and establish the planned the consciousness necessary to economy of socialism. remove by revolutionary means Finally, there is the question the outworn capitalist rela- of the actual meaning of the tions of production. recent discoveries for our C.S.

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STAGE ONE of our campaign against the TUC General Council's 'guidelines' on strikes and shop stewards, sent out to member unions just one week ago, has brought a quick response from broad layers of the trade union movement. Today, Communist Party member J. Hindle, an NUSMW member from Bir- mingham's BXL factory, writes : 'The proposals from the TUC are diabolical. 'Wilson has pushed the dirty work onto the TUC and they are stupid enough to accept it. 'The two leaders of the big unions, Scanlon and Jones, should make a stand and let us know exactly what side they stand on. The Communist Party and the "Morning Star" should also state emphatically that they will not accept the penal clauses in any guise and should campaign for a real programme of action to prevent this be- trayal by the TUC leaders.

I don't think that Feather and his henchmen will disrupt the factories too much. De- cisions will still be made on the factory floor, although un- organized factories could suffer.

'Wilson and Barbara Castle couldn't do it, so I fail to see how Feather and the right-wing can achieve success. 'Surely workers must retain the right to withdraw their labour as the ultimate weapon once negotiations have broken down through inadequacies on the management side? "The day that is taken away you might as well go back to the days of the "Ragged- Trousered Philanthropist".

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Bro. Hindle-like Bros. Quill and McLean (whose letter appeared in Wednesday's Workers Press) - have put their fingers on one of the central issues here. School. For All. 1.30 Ballet 1.55 Weather Trends. 2.00 Farming Diary. Sir. 2.30 Danger Man 3.20 University Challenge. 3.50 Match Of The Week 4.45 London. 5.30 The Owl Service fol- lowed by Weather. 6.05 London. 7.25 Star Movie: 'Marcus Welby MD', with Robert Young and James Brolin. 9.10 Strange Report. 10.10 London. 10.25 Frost. 11.25 The Baron. 12.20 a.m. Men Who Matter. p.m. MIDLANDS: 11.00 a.m. London. 12.15 Sunday Session: Doctor On Call.

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11.55 Weather. GRANADA: 11.00 a.m. 12 noon Service.

12.35 Taste and Style. 1.00 100 Years At School. ( 1.25 All Our Yesterdays. 1.55 The Doris Day Show. 2.25 Foot- Just what is the attitude of the 'left' trade union leaders -in_ particular Hugh Scanlon and Jack Jones-to the TUC's proposals ? Both Scanlon and Jones sit on the General Council and, presumably, attended the Dec- ember meeting at which the 'guidelines' were drawn up.

What is more, Scanlon has since chaired at least one meet- ing of his own union's execu- tive council and met leaders of other major unions at York.

The TUC's dangerous and far-reaching proposals should have been fully discussed at both of these gatherings.

Yet neither Scanlon nor Jones has said a word. 'As a lay member,' Jones wrote in this month's T&GWU Record', 'I remember nothing worse than being told about some union agreement by the management first (or even by member of some other a union): Does this not apply to agree- ments reached on what is sup- posed to be the leadine bady in the trife union movement?

Jones also praises getting the facts, speedily and accur- ately. 'The experts call it "com- munication" . Most of us would Hugh Scanion: Silence. it was "knowing where say you stand"' Where, Mr Jones, are your members to stand in relation to the TUC 'guidelines'? Bro. Hindle, quite rightly, demands that the Communist Party and the 'Morning Star' state unequivocally where they stand in this issue. ball. 3.15 The Big Match. 3.30 Please 4.15 University Challenge. 4.45 London. Time: A 5.30 The Owl Service. 6.00 Cartoon 6.05 London. 7.25 The Big Picture: Born,' Star Is with Judy Garland and James Mason. Holly- wood backstage story. 10.10 London. 10.25 Frost. Hop- 11.25 Randall and kirk (Deceased).

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This week, however, the 'Star' has surpassed itself in creeping up to the 'lefts'.

On Tuesday, we had a re- port of the previous night's BBC 'Panorama' entitled Jack on big challenge of Jones 'Seventies'. Then, on Wednesday, 'Morn- ing Star Reporter' gave us Mr Jack Jones (again!) leading the "fight for farm pay'. Jones's 'big challenge', ac- cording to the 'Star' , was 'the spreading of industrial democ- racy among working men and women'. But what did Jones actually say? 'If you are talking about productivity then it must be bargaining at the place of work related to what people do for what they get', he told an appreciative audience in- cluding the EPTU's Les Cannon, Courtaulds' Sir Frank Kearton, the National Coal Board's Lord Robens and the Confederation of British In- dustry's Mr Campbell Adam- son. I'm against the view that you solve problems by simply reforming the trade union structure. I'm not against reforming the trade union structure, as you well know, because I'm in tavour of trade union amalga- mations-providing they're in the direction of the Transport and General Workers' Union- but I'm sure that what we need is reform of our collective bar- gaining arrangements. "This is why I advocate agree- comprehensive ments, agree- ments, close to the place of whether you take Les's work- [Cannon's] view about a com- agreement or my view pany about a plant agreement-you want agreements close to the Pace of work, understood fully workpeople, explained to them, voted for by the work- people and then-I take Alf's [Robens's] point—it will be for to defend the trade unions those agreement and see that they're observed. 'I'm all in favour. favour of legal I'm not in enforcement. I don't think we need even talk about it as yet Lour emphasis]. 'I think what we want to do is give voluntary negotiation, voluntary agreements, a chance.

I'd be all in favour, in addition to the comprehensive and well- understood in agreements which the workers participate, of offering at the end of the road if there was a difference some form of local arbitration, voluntary arbitration and vol- untary conciliation.' Here is the full reformist flavour of the "left' politics covered up for by the 'Morn- ing Star' 'Productivity bargaining'. "re- form of trade union structure', 'amalgamations', comprehen- sive agreements, 'arbitration', 'no legal enforcement • • as yet. The opaque phrases are the stepping-stones on which the Tories will build their strategy for anti-union legislation.

As Bros. McLean and Quill wrote on Wednesday: *We should never forget the betrayal of the German work- ing class in 1933 by its Stalin- ist and reformist leaderships.

'The fact that it was the most powerful and organized in Europe did not prevent it being handed over to the fas- cists - to be physically smashed. "The British labour and trade union bureaucracy is treading the same path.'

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"Inspired leak' Ford pay offer ignores parity RUMOURS that the Ford Motor claim Company intends to offer a 15 per cent rise without strings when it meets the unions in two weeks' time are regarded with great

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SPEAKING on political-says Coventry have been brought to book.

Monday, T&GWU leader Jack Jones envisaged the continuation of this monopoly capitalist system allowing for better cide in Vietnam. of, geno local negoulating proceaures trade unionist which would alot greater productivity bargain- board rooms white ing at the place of work.

force capers brows sol the of 1970, with 3,500 responsibility. en British tell workers foat he ase es shood a so conis Hugh of productivity bargalning?

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thematives faced, at the ased on the had or do worth precisely 620 at Other 'Guideline' news shooting up cent every yeal viso much for Mr Jones's bell missed sol ton about the 'guidelines. omcial call-out arainst re nch:, Birmingham ABI beer duncaner IP workers their plac corned secret balone on men shop stewards y move- artials. imposed by ARTHUR HARP rich shop the sam talked he th factory talked to Workers Press 'the way it will stay.' New deadlock in Soviet-Italian trade deal Sino-Soviet border spells danger talks THE HONG KONG Communist newspaper Ta reported yesterday that the China.

Kung Pao' A BIG EXPANSION of trade with East Europe • has Soviet border talks now recessed for three weeks been announced by the Italian Foreign Trade Minister in Peking are on the verge of breaking down Ricardo Misasi. completely.

BY ROBERT BLACK

By a foreign correspondant deal newer he Serie too. The report claimed: techniques of secret diplomacy 'The Soviet side which ha - can which sorel g, blamed the nisake insists auring une benoc when te interests of imperialism.

near completion for a similar there negotation continuing East deep ana die not agree to nave The chief of the Soviet the armed forces (both sides withdrawn from any contact in the disputed which is 1 le newspaper, Resumption Wilson Closer links agreed to visit to the Minister ich acco sesumal leak in Warsambas Moscow Moscow, 1 alls. eday. in Moscow state spokesman?

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