Workers Press no. 76

Round-the-clock action for more pay Striking teachers picket govt. offices INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 76 • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1970 What we think THE CAPITALIST press on Wilson's Washington', organized by the Socialist Labour League ana loung social- IStS. Thee lence was shared by By David Maude STRIKING London teachers yes- morning oldr Abe forgine bor vendering might terday began pickets in support - Vietnam by of their fl35-a-year pay claim outside the Department of Em- - ployment and Productivity, the Department of Education and Science and 10 Downing Street.

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Nationally, close on 5,000 members of the National camp

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national Socialists Union of Teachers were in the second day of their fort- night-long strike at a total of 345 schools.

The round-the-clock pic- ket outside Mrs barbara

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creat ally with castie's headquarters was started by placard-carrying But never of on the sc Failed strikers from Walworth NUT executive.

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School, Southwark. *Ever the long-awaited tess the attention will be Fart is tond of ryne to not so far emergedtion, have school in the camden Militant of trying Although no discuss branches from pie Greated 'Trotskyite' activity claimed Socialists 27-54 per cent pay Whe asion the silence on this Clan. Referend me concrete

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wave of sekeuring this All the chiphase si London Certain 1 carrier Viet

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scheduled to take place o

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We 1967

SUPPORT

CZECH Ministry are, to

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of the fickle stars say the leeches announced Monday Emphasis Interior on "Trot- uncoveredd all the skyite' organization which had CP silent on allegedly Over throw of the political system'.

Kremlin's The claimed statement Biafra role Inal me oreanizamon almed at creating a political lutionary Stalinist Czechoslovakia. and had attempted to build ADDING its feeble falsetto to the massed chorus of the cells throughout the Pres, day he standst por capitalist press, the Stalinist trike rise of t real here t is as lis *Morning n-backed a te it- er bis is this solidly for the executi discuss No comment imperialist-sponsored break- paper as a deussie factor Just yand and other leadin These array fought on Rootes pretely under the political the arty men Entrench sacking No any's adstand secret ind restore capitalisovernment Party 'Protest'

LINWOOD'S

Rootes Motors winthemselves the sie-day-old o the strike is a the oficial leade o with the tacit that teachers a nobod any wider action full Sipe i coates Win. Carly howe Only I Soviet artis played the Nigerian aration to Organization Sust Portugal at also be opposit por Caousness in the working • coula also Di France. • understandance is Unprincipled Do cosmissa, the he thras radical Protest even facelet to change Ret orted to have worked principled. Union so in order me fused to meet inese de out work mobilization yAt its peak last Saturday, Free entic owed ma

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militancy The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

STOP WILSON'S VISIT

TO WASHINGTON

THE EXECUTIVE council of the Amalgamated and Foundryworkers Engineering has again asked-this time by been one of the union's London branches—to officially endorse the cam- paign to stop Wilson's January 27-28 visit to Washington. the Workers Press, po ALris tenorted committee Swindon dictrict already called has executive's backing which has now been the

AGNEW DEMONSTRATION:

Battersea No. 1 branch Tottenham hortly Now alter US vice branch Australa vesterda already it president

O DITO

Agnew Was the canall jeering demonstrators unanimously approved the against the Viet- nrotesting following resolution nam war. 'Considering enormous began damage the done bour continued the Britisi and American governments mr of his visit. Vietnam war TunCuOn the so. called detence of south.Hast The vice-president, who we call A sia near- the conneit nails of ing the campaign to stop Wilson's extended South-East Washington neighbouring countries symbolic gesture Four members the union's executive have already

DEMANDS

STRIKE :

their

WANT

signatures novich right

BETTER

police to strike Ene worker Pres and

ONDITIONS

Day conditions WIll petition. which is on similar demanded Scottish ines

STUDENT

Police rederation s annila

FURTHER

support for the conterence in Mav.

NURSES

camparen come trom Police Ine OrP Shields. Tailors calling and committee Ters' ninn memhors John Collier's clothing factor parliament change Anna Gardie and Communist including ne present regulations whic bat pollce trom striking.

the mem-

BORDER TALKS RESUME:

ers of the local NUR No. 1 Russia China nave sumed their border branch-incuding haanch car tars in the retary Alee Mehaddon tolowing return of the Russiar There Chiet negotiaton denutu foreigr Among the Gateshead AEF minister Vasily Kuznetsov.

secretary T. G. Ands sor members branch week ago unit dicial cothma- returned more than petition has sensened in Newcastle by tion of the resumption came the presider on y he tairs are vesterdav Mechanics' now in their third month Associa- tion and secretary of Blavdon Labour Partv es Allen. om munist memhe and BLe Burton

PROFITS

UP: panuenor tailoring Laws. Burton Groun Council delegate and chairman announced Newcastle Hospitals cord bre-tar protts tor the

ASTMS

and Vickers in arena Elswick works 11.6 per cent on the previous

BY ROBERT BLACK

year. Six members of Sunderland Trades Council - DATA branch, analysis to the ideas of secretary Trotskyism Commun- precisely to halt and FARE INEVITABLE': Sir Price, G. rariv members crush this Richard Way chairpan of tha W. Vincent. and R Dunn Termentatior intelled London have signed the netition.

working class that the Transport Executive said ves In Reading, more than 100 took its terday that the minimum tube trade unionists. tenants. voung decision to intervene fare stroture mul. based WOrKATC and chicante have The excuse that Crechoslo- tiples of Is would have beer signed the netition vakia stood on the verge

THIRTY-TWO

PTU

currency was not coming lottar to memberc from Wtor ide militant-sounding cove site have signed the petition.

poimad tha fares as a whole under, this for the Among them wer against system than convenor Marsha, and POT Grace. would he Marshald th Czech state and working class.

other because venor P. F

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costs would be lower. AT Daniel Nilan Doncaster's engin plant, Sheffield

GREET

workers signed Included were three

WORKERS PRESS

pennon Communist Party member. shon and steward Hi Parker. Quarterly Other Chothold cionataniac eight workers Tempered Springs Beard

AEF

attending

A SUCCESSFUL

meeting. campaign b nttingham Young Sonialist support hrought tho landlor Platt. Challand and See the flm of the first issue being prepared and Reid; fall-time

MONITTI

T&GWU

official Mason; printed and the flm 'Young Socialists, 1969' 5/91 branch chairman]. tom: Stud, ournalist presiden Sunday January 25, 2-30 p.m.

K. GOsin Communis: mem. R. Town Hall. High Street MeNillan Mock, Chane Cran

ACTON

and F Sinolaton Thamesmead Speakers:

SHEILA TORRANCE

Ropnis Collar ACI Too steward and Com- mead site (National Secretary of the Young Socialists) Party

MIKE BANDA

signed Workers Drace petition. (Editor of Workers Press)

G. HEALY

plant, Amona (National Secretary of Socialist Labour League)

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Round-the-clock action for more pay steam Striking teachers picket govt. offices workers press PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 76 • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

What we think march THE CAPITALIST press on Monday operatea a total news backout dav's demonstration Wilson's ton by the Socialist Labour League and Young Social. Their silence was shared by By David Maude the Communist Party's 'Morning Star'.

OLINDALE

STRIKING London teachers yes- innocent observer terday began pickets in support -

OSPITAL

of their tl35-a-year pay claim Vietnon Solidarity Built upees were yi vene outside the Department of Em-

C.O.M

Andi, claims t0 paS attention ployment and Productivity, the in politics

URS

Department of Education and

SEP

Science and 10 Downing Street.

Nationally, close on 5,000 members of the National Union of Teachers were in the second day of their fort-

APPORT N

TENT

The round-the-clock ket sarbara headquarters wad hat the started by NUT executive. from reeve the walworld School, Southwark. withdra mationa strike action, ba strike action, have not so far emerged.

BASE

oh to dar discuss ion 'Trotskyite' activity claimed Socialists. 29-501 the silence on this Czech attack concrete

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reason heralds new D 1307

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'wise so i ace calculate one

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basis. -are, to

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CZECH Ministry of the Emphasis Interior announced on Monday that it had "Trot. uncovered scares and nom * They have sc Skyite' organization CP silent on allegedly been 'urging the over- the educatink its executive throw of the political system'. Kremlin's claimed that Biafra role aimed at creating a political Cureaucracolutionary Stalinist the ADDING its feeble falsetto had attempted to build The bus stered bourporation to ine massea chorus or tne Cells ІгоцепоцІ capitalst dress. the stalinist Counties on January 4. country. plumps Morning star' effect Stalinist with bac oldly tor General Diukwu's uti discuss No comment doubt, the i lost sinister. imperialist-sponsored break- at to mere none Slansky aad and one lead.

1 133 On Rootes mined to sangerous trains Entrench sacking antonate demands and aspir.

Novotny's old friends in th are aratus 'Protest' ana restore capitalism Spy Yugoslay President to wa i along the in the tenther

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the and absentee ret, of the Societ Pare e sech. akia is too absur e could Trotskyist ạ fight * wards its appeal build the carsis of Czechoslovakia Frise is elbes 'of 1936, 1937, Our after and 1938. British weapons 1 privileg workinte committee meeting. interests o, of course, it hides the Organization Striking Spanish miners parati for Biafra e coat also be ours pos and class. Therefore and Tradence. is Unprincipled change tactics The Communist pelled to change then 3 The min are demandin tast Czechoslovakia, is entirely un- leaders an is contained thin. Died to maintain beesor on soly in order to ent bond basic wease s9, and has no Tears Being pee La" The company and ha Once in on response to the has But evol ivory bilization these class, same middle-class pressures.

owed much

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The militaney of the The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

STOP WILSON'S VISIT

TO WASHINGTON

THE EXECUTIVE council of the Amalgamated Engineering and Foundryworkers has again been asked-this time by one of the union's London branches—to officially endorse the cam- paign to stop Wilson's January 27-28 visit to Washington. previously reported committee distric for has a readu calledi executive's backing - a which annoy on lored by the union's Battersea

AGNEW DEMONSTRATION:

arrival Now Tottenham No. Australia yesterday Us vice. branch— self Agnew was demonstrators approved the met peerink following resolution: protesund une viet- namn War. Considering The damage dong demonstration i a wreat Mr Agnew When Australian memorial, ( official and the war defence of South-East The vice-president, who Call executive on a two-dav council 0C181 endorse ing the of of South-East une campain to ston wilson's tour Asia and to Washington which we neighbouring countries. VSIt symbolic consider to Nixon.' Four members union's executive have already

STRIKE:

WANN

BETTER

The right police Workers over and petition, which is on similar demanded ha Police annual

STUDENT

FURTHER

for the conference in May.

NUASES

has from Police Glasgow and 20 A perceen are to nut torwardi Tailors' and Garment Wor- calling on the Federation's motion Union menders Irom press Collier's clothing factor JOna the regulations Incued ShoD Steward Anna Gardie and bar police from striking.

Communist Party member l. Riddle-have the Workers Press signed petition. catachaadi

BORDER TALKS RESUME:

bers of the local NUR No.

have Rarecia Ching t sumed their border talks Peking follow chief the mister Vast Kuznes Russian foreign Gateshead AEF MenDers He returned Anderson more than secrelar • u The petition has been signed week ago but official confirma.

came tion of the in Newcaste bv i G. Herron.

only yesterday. talks nresident The burhom Colliery their Mechanics A connia. tion and secretary of Blaydon Labour Party; Les Allen, Com- Party Thermal

BURTON'S

PROFITS

tailoring Kurton Groun company announced ewcastle cord pre-tax profits year August 1969, £7,290,000- 11.6 per cent on the previous

BY ROBERT BLACK

year. Six members of Sunderland Trades Council - including E.

of its analysis to the ideas of Ennew, secretary drine socal DANA branch enocommun. It was preciselv to halt and

"INEVITABLE:

members Price Richard Way, chairman of the crush this termentation Vincent. and Dunn- GLC . controlled London have signed the petition.

ideas among intellectuals and working that the ransport Executive said +he coca In Reading, more than 100 Soviet bureaucracy took its erdav that the trade unionists, tenants, young decision to fare students have

WORLAPS

and have been signed the petition. even decimal

THIRTY-TWO

ETU,

counter-revolution currency was not coming in.

T&GWU

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system than • Marshall and PTU Grace

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czech state and working cass because the

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costs would be lower. AT Daniel eering

GREET

plant, workers signed bave petition. Included were three

WORKERS PRESS

Communist menDers shon Quarterly Other Sheffield signatories eizht workers from incude Tempered Springs amons Beard i. anands. member

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meeting. SUCCESS camacilit at. a public meeting The sunnort Trades (Council memhers Platt, and Challand See the film of the first issue being prepared and Reidi. full-time

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Mason; printed and the film Young Socialists, 1969' 5/91 branch chairman J. Bur- 10. Smith; lournalist , Students' Unior Sunday January 25, 2-30 p.m.

Town Hall, High Street 2. Mock

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and 5. Sinaleton. Speakers: Thamesmead

SHEILA TORRANCE

Bernie Fuller. ASW Thames.

member, press ment site Steward and com. (National Secretary of the Young Socialists) Party munist has the Workers

MIKE BANDA

Signed petition. (Editor of Workers Press) om the South Crow. Ford shop tAnu steward from

G. HEALY

don plant, among (National Secretary of Socialist Labour League)

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THE VIETNAMESE REVOLUTION AND THE

PAGE TWO

THE FORMATION of Communist the Third, International in March 1919 made huge inroads into the ranks of the reformist parties of the Second International in most capitalist countries.

But nowhere did the new Communist Parties succeed in winning a majority of the working class. After the subsiding of the revolutionary first post-war wave the Communist Inter- national had to face up to the reality that, while it com- manded only minority sup- port in the working class, there could be no question of a struggle for power. This the lesson that was Trotsky Lenin and drew not only from the experiences of Bolshevism the Russian 1n Revolution, but also from the attempt "communist the leaders of the German Party to artificially convert a sharp but still partial struggle of miners in central Germany into an insurrection, while the bulk of remained working class passive after previous defeats. This theory of the 'offensive' was condemned by Lenin and Trotsky adventurist as an short-cut to power that evaded the vital struggle to win the confidence and leadership of the majority of the working ... we say to you: 1 class. you do not yet dare to This is the historical back- the fight for ground to the tactic of the for struggle United Front. dictatorship, While democracy hands; you social launch the great maintained its grip on the bulk the citadels of world of the working class there But at least rally for could be no talk of revolution for bare prospect of and little even partial succeeding struggles one without the backing of reform- the proletarian ist-led workers. the class of exploiters. Both the unity of the class "Tear down and the struggle against social erected between you a into the ranks, democracy demanded a change munist OT of tactics the Communist by anarchist or in Parties those countries fight for the needs of t where the Third International ... When you had won significant, but not you will see decisive, support. the sword of The limits 'and possibilities you are to of united front agreements know that this between the parties of the possible only majority of Second Inter- and Third it through their reach nationals were carefully laid perience, down in many documents pub- Communist Internatio lished by the Executive Com- the communist mittee of the Communist Inter- patience and national. to march other proletarians, eve fight on the basis of democracy.'

LM.G.S CAIM

This then front; a fighting agreen tween the main of the working class, We must refer to these by the documents when evaluating where they had sufficie International Marxist the following to compel th Group's claim that they are democratic applying tactic the such proposals seriousl United Front in the work of Such conditions the Vietnam Solidarity Cam- applied in paign. and Italy at the December 1921 In documents were writte Directive on the United Front' of most certainly do not the Executive Committee Britain today. the Comintern made the fol- If there is any doubt lowing points: point refer "The vanguard we communist Trotsky, who wrote ir can only gain if new sections of workers are convinced by 1922 : experience of the cases where t their own illusory character of reform- munist Party ism and compromise. organization basis for While: insignificant minority, accepting a action, communists must retain of tion its the unconditional right and the mass-struggle possibility of expressing their assume a decisive prac opinion of the policy of all organizational significa 'In such working - class organizations exception, only without not actions remain before and after action has leadership been taken, but also, if neces- izations during its course. In no their still-powerful t sary, circumstances can these rights continue to be surrendered.' Similarly the pr role. So even within the terms of the United the Pabloite conception of the arise in countries whe Bulgaria, united front (which of for we, Communist Party Leninist reject) this course, leading principle of maintaining the toiling masses. broken right to criticize was 'But wherever the i by the VSC, even though our ist Party already con attacks were aimed at a ten- big, organized, dency that had been excluded but not the decisive m - from the campaign the wherever the on grounds that it had refused to organizationally, let us fourth, one third accept the position of solidar- larger proportion ity with Vietnam. ized vanguard, it is co In the Comintern Manifesto with the question of th the United Proletarian 'For Front in all its acuten Front' of Tanuary 1922. the First Five Years tactical nature of the United munist International, page 92, emphasis ad Front was made still clearer:

WORKERS' PRES!

we say to you: All right, not yet dare to take Lne new. une power, Tor the with arms not great offensive on word reachon. Tally or tie neit for bread, for against the barriers 1 between you and com social-democrat, vincicanst or the needs of the nour /hen you begin the fight need dictatorship = But we dictatorship is the great ineir oleta rat and that is

A SERIES OF THREE AR

Intersauonal did parties, fraternity, n WISh

BY ROBERT BLACK PAR

all proletarians, even if the n the basis of capitalist was the united fighting agreement be- main organizations vorking class, initiated impossible menace' (emphasis added).

It 1s absolutely What described as the to pretend that in Britain any Communist parlies hey had sufficient mass party or tendency claiming to united front here is the old Stalinist blue-print for defeat, g to compel the social- such •e communus commanus leaders take class to make ine ta kick int the Popular Front! It posals seriously. tactics was precisely this alliance Class make certainly the united front applicable.

liberals, democrats, Germany, France not 'Stalinists'] munists [note, So, from its very first issue.

the time these 'International' undertook the strangled ane socialss They the Spanish Revolution and written. It carried revision of Leninism rtainly do not apply to where 'The Week' left off. handed the working class and on over to the The united front is applic- peasantly re is any doubt on this able only the struggle for tascists. to readers within For good measure, the same leadership the mass wrote in March with identical results, the formula, organizations working was applied by the Stalinists in class. the Com- France. where

IMG

this The transposes still remains an Messrs Jordan, Purdie and tactic into the middle-class numerically Ali also know that it was pre- that Cries • student protesi Incant minority, te ques.

dominate the political life of conduct perpetrated the Stalinist the VSC does Trotsky e a decisive practical an And they go further than popular front that In - sisted on the foundation of the zational significance. this. Fourth International in 1938. When the National Council conditions. Mass of the VSC But Pabloism has long re- under • published its state- the organ- nounced the struggle to build ment or poncy, it made eno- mous concessions to the Stalin- Trotsky's international. traditions, Instead it devotes its ener- ist revision of the united front: decisive the blay 'Our campaign recognizes its gles to revising tne programme une proben of the Fourth International, by own historical precedents [this does not Stalinist countries where- -as in 1930s, united fronts Composed least correct], SUDSONe conces- example tions such as the 'popular Party the front carefully dressed sole liberals, democrats, com- the Leninist language of the orcanization Une and socialists were munists united front. forged to oppose the onslaught wherever the Commun- of fascism, and International political force, bricates were oreanwed lend material the or te decisive magnitude, republican party emoraces heroic let us say, one Spain defeat the fascist Interventioll "These struggles were joined confronted and supported people ne quesuon or tne united diverse political views, from The 'historical precedent' of in all its acuteness' (The diverse parties with political the VSC's 'united front' Years the Com- 1s the International', Vol. two, programmes, united only rightward turn of the Soviet 92, emphasis added). their opposition to the fascist alliances bureaucracy towards with capitalist 'liberals' after the German the victory Nazis in 1933. Lenin and In winding up his previous Trotsky denouncile from the democrats 'social fascists', experience of enemies of the working une berman greater insurrection class than the real fas- cycl in 1918 (left) cists. Staln returned not to the that it was united front but to oi Lenin, necessary to popular front now revived the win the the Pabloites, here and in confidence and the United States. the majority of The essence of the Stalinist the its support popular front Was working class TO1 class conaboraton. before making VSC policy statement rightly 'composed says. Was power. liberals, democrats, collall Ists allu sullalist This turme Stalinist icy was proclaimed Communist Congress the 1935. International August 611T peacer French Stalinists, had already applied new opening negotiations with the bourgeois Radical Party earlier the same year. the 7th Con- His report • to gress puts the VSC statement in its true Stalinist perspective: nune _eve eace two congresses OT toe Party Nantes October and March, the Party organized -ommunist o1° meeunes waere reoreschld-

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tives of the Central Committee outlined our conception of the addressing Front, People's the Radical themselves to delegates ... At the end of May the Party decided to ex- tend the People's Front still further: Upon invitation, the Socialist Party associated with our initiative. The Radical Party, the Republican Socialist Party of Party, the Socialist France [a section of this Party, led by Marcel Deat, was to fascism pass over to very the Group of Left rapidly], Independents and the Pupist from composed use Partes our Communist Party) replied to our call.' This is exactly the alliance proposed by the VSC. By its very class and politi- cal nature, the programme of such a combination automatic- excludes a programme based on the requirements of Hellel A Popular Front demonstration in Spain ( strangled the Spanish Revolution.

the working class, because in drawn the the alliance are spokesmen for the political liberal bourgeoisie. This was precisely the inten- tion of the Stalinists in begin- 'popular front the ning manoeuvre, and of the Radi- cals in France and the Repub- licans in Spain supporting it. Trapped in this way between Stalinism, social democracy and the 'liberal capitalist' the working class was stifled and led to defeat. For this reason the experi- ences of the popular front are recorded in the "Transitional Programme of the Fourth International' adopted at its founding conference in 1938.

The IMG claims to adhere to this programme. What have they to say on its indictment of the alliance of liberals, communists and democrats, socialists'?: 'Under the banner of the October Revolution, the con- ciliatory politics practised by the "People's Front" dooms the working class to impotence and clears the road for fascism.

• "People's Front" on the one other : hand-fascism on the these are the last political re- sources of imperialism in the struggle against the proletarian revolution' (Transitional Pro- gramme', pp. 9-10). reviving *Popular In the Front' under the guise of the United Front, the IMG thus "Leninist' gives a 'left', even to the betrayals of the cover Stalinists, who shortly after the launching of the 'Inter- national' joined forces with the VSC to turn the campaign towards pressure on Wilson.

The theoretical justification for this turn had already been mapped out by Pat Jordan in his article 'Marxists and the Labour Party'. (International', Vol. 1 No. 2.) : 'Activities such as the Viet- nam Solidarity Campaign and the workers' control campaign together unorganized keep militants in meaningful activity and exert pressure on local labour parties.' more 'left' This is just a version of the Stalinist line of requir pressure on Wilson. And as we shall see, the two theories converged during the prepar- ations for the October 27, 1968, demonstration. earlier demonstrations organized or supported by the

VSC,

the Stalinists were at- tacked for opposing raids on various 'symbols' of imperial- ism or for favouring different routes of march to those pro- posed by the VSC. Much hot air was generated in the columns of 'Black Dwarf' over these questions, and it seemed as if there were important differences between the rival factions. For example, in a three- cornered debate in the 'Black Dwarf' of August 14, 1968, ation in Spain organized by the Stalinists. The Popul Nicholson, between Fergus National Student Organizer of the Communist Party, Paul Gerhardt and 'a Dwarf Corres- pondent', the merits of demon- strating in front of the US embassy in Grosvenor Square were examined down to the most minute tactical detail.

'Dwarf correspondent' The excelled not only in miltary strategy, but the most empty- headed bravado, which at bottom was nothing but the old British contempt for theory dressed up in an adventurist garb: 'Apart from the March 17 revolution the marches them- selves are a complete em- barrassment. The fuzz are again in charge, the slogans sound dumb, initiative is with the gawking goons on the side- defeat How walks: again. about "Marchers' Control"?

'A bit of organized activity, whistles, masks, movement, drums, props. action is more a reality lately. Right now the kids In the are angry. stomach not in the head. It's that easy.? With the 'brains' of the 'Black Dwarf' guerrillas firmly embedded in their stomachs, it certainly was 'that easy' for the Stalinists. When it came to resisting the Stalinist take-over of the VSC in relation to policies, the ranters of 'Black Dwarf' were mere babes-in-arms. In the July 1968 number of 'International', the glad tidings were announced, the YCL had 'solidarity' adhered to the position of the VSC: 'So far as we are concerned we are extremely pleased that the YCL has changed it posi- tion on the struggle against the war in Vietnam.. we must recognize this as a step forward.' So behind the bluster and bravado of the 'Black Dwarf' over military strategy, the IMG was extending its hand to the Stalinists. The political line of the pro- jected October 27 demonstra- tion was also being carefully tailored to meet the reformist requirements of the Stalinists.

all, insisted 'Inter- Above national', the main blows of the campaign must not fall on the Labour government: It must be around a militant policy of support for the Viet- nam people against American should, imperialism. It of course, have as a secondary the of the target, exposure British government's role. But this is not best done by blur- ring the issue into a general anti-Wilson government demo- stration. We are in favour of that of demonstration type but it is not the job of VSC to organize it? (emphasis added.)

For the IMG solidarity with the Vietnamese people can be expressed and developed with- out a struggle against the enemy at home-the British ruling class and its agents in nists. The Popular Front successfully the labour movement. The political content of the demonstration was anti-Ameri- canism, a variety of reformism developed to perfection by the Stalinists. No wonder Gollan gave the YCL the go-ahead when the target was expressedly not to be Harold Wilson: "If 50,000, 75,000 or 100,000 assemble around some easily indentifiable symbol of Ameri- imperialism, the can whole be brought to a area will spandstill. The retreat before Stalinist 'popular frontism' now turned into a rout. Just before the actual demonstration of Octo- ber 27, Tariq Ali wrote in 'International' of November 1968: In this situation, the fact that this demonstration is going Wednesday, January 14, 1970 to be the largest ever reveals phenomenal the growth political consciousness among militants throughout country. Two facts show how the press campaign has failed: organizations have continued to join the October 27 Ad Hoc Committee (two recent but welcome, unexpected, additions the Student were Movement and Slant, the left- Catholic group).^ Tariq Ali should not have been surprised by the entry of the church into the campaign.

Once the Stalinists were brought in without any firmly agreed political and class lines, their baggage train of assorted liberals and clergy were certain to follow and after all the policy statement by the VSC quoted earlier sung the praises of this type of alliance.

Now, with the aid of the Stalinists, the alliance was beginning to take shape, with the 'Trotskyists' of the IMG right in the middle. Ali rounded off his explana- tion of 'Why we are marching' with the ill-advised boast that: 'October 27, whatever hap- pens, will be a momentous dav in the history of the British left. Those on the revolutionary left who participate [the Student Christian Movement?] will be the core of a new movement. (Those who stay away will be consigned to the proverbial dustbin of history.)

• It will continue to grow • • until a revolutionary left socialist movement strong enough to settle accounts with imperialism British emerges. That is why we are marching.'

(emphasis added.) That may have been why Tariq All thought he was marching, but it was certainly not why the Stalinists joined the march. This was, of course, understood by all con- cerned. Ali claims that the march of October 27 was a step to- wards the construction of the revolutionary party in Britain.

Yet how can this be reconciled with Pat Jordan's statement in issue the same of "Inter- national': •Very suddenly the Com- munist Party changed its line and the YCL has been active in the preparations for October 27. This change of line fills us with great joy and we look for- ward to seeing members of the Communist Party breaking with other aspects of their Stalinist past.' (emphasis added). Since when has support for the popular front involved a break with Stalinism? Trotskyism Betty Reid's anti-Trotskyist pamphlet "The Ultra-Left in Britain' reveals that satis- faction, if not active joy, was also felt in Stalinist circles as it became more and more clear that the IMG not only were breaking, but had broken, from their Trotskyist past : In March 1968 an Ad Hoc Committee initiated by the VSC held a demonstration in which Communists and mem- bers of the Young Communist League took part as a con- scious and organized action. [emphasis added.) Other activ- ities initiated by the Ad Hoc Committee culminated. in the very big and successful October 27 demonstration in 1968..

'The character of the leader- produced, ship and material and • the co-operation of the non-socialist forces la reference to Ali's warm welcome for the Stalinists' clerical allies] was a great advance the very previous demonstrations they had organized . : . the tone •.. was positive, and resulted in a high degree of unity of all forces excluding the small lunatic fringe. 'Even Ernie Tate of the Group International Marxist wrote an article on the lessons of the demonstration which was a far cry from the days when he launched into a similar article onst desoni bing a previous demonstration gleefully retailing the number of police casualties as the first results record'. positive to (p. 56.) Jordan claims that Com- munist Party support for October 27 was the beginning of a break from that Party's Stalinist past. Yet Reid, a hard-line Stalin- ist, claims that it was the IMG that saw reason, and dropped its noisy leftism to settle down in joint with her harmony 'non-socialist forces'. It lies beyond the scope of this article to go into the de- tails of IMG's current the the liberal' move towards wing of the British Communist Party, headed by Monty Johnstone. Bob Purdie, who with Jordan is the main exponent of theory that the term Stalinism is no longer applicable to the British Communist Party, will nO doubt find the appropriate excuses for the 'anti-Stalinist' Johnstone's refusal to sign our petition demanding that Wilson cancel his visit to Washington. It was this agreement on the question of pressure on social democracy that had brought together the Stalinists and the IMG in the campaign for the October 27 demonstration. Far being, from Tariq Ali as claimed, the beginning of a new movement, the demon- stration proved to be the death agony of a very old one: radical protest.

Wednesday, January 14, 1970 His own record is that of a THE PERIOD leading up firm Party-liner for many to the National Congress other years who, amongst things, wrote an orthodox, ie.

of the French Commun- Stalinist, thesis which earned him a doctorate from Moscow ist Party is witnessing an University in Stalin's day.

unprecedented campaign Garaudy was able to square against the ideas of Roger his conscience with the needs of the Stalinist bureaucracy Garaudy, leading spokes. Thorez for many and with the 'dialogue' man in years. with the Church and His pen was always at their Marxism disposal to opponent of the Soviet and cover up their tracks.

military intervention in many of his old He saw denounced Party friends by Czechoslovakia in Aug. hacks, expelled forced leave. He accepted the Soviet ust 1968. Hungarian version of the Re- Although Garaudy has volution just as he swallowed other things about many been permitted to have his which, in his position say in an article published in Central Com- of the member the Party daily, 'L'Humanité', and a frequent visitor mittee to Russia and eastern Europe, a methodical attack on his he could hardly plead ignor- position is being carried out.

ance. It for his now easy Contributions enemies in the Party to show that the rightward course was These include contributions visible many years ago. from Party members in the Whatever his personal con- same paper and a 20-page there is doubt tribution, no that in the main he was faith- the monthly critique in Party fully interpreting the journal directed to party line. Even over Czechoslovakia intellectuals, •La Nouvelle he only carried the official Critique'. criticism of the intervention stage further. Garaudy for long time enjoyed a licensed position to The important thing now is to destroy Garaudy politically; in discussion with engage task which is rendered all reverend Jesuits and generally 'flexible' the easier by the nature of his to show how the Party could be. political position.

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESP(

upward

'THE

GENERAL

although recently an increase has played human errors in trend in train accidents of its part.' all types is continued,' says On for the the reason the chief inspector of rail- derailments the report states: ways in a recent report to 'In recent years the increase in goods derailments has been the Ministry of Transport on wholely the result of increases the safety record of railways those in which the first in in Britain during 1968. vehicle to leave the rails was two-axle short wheelbase The most alarming Increase (SWB) wagon i.e. one having was in derailments. with an a wheelbase of 10 feet or less.

cent in incred train deranments increase alarming trend Another over which continued into 1969 was the four years up to 1968.

of the increase in buckling welded rail: seven This of accident is type continu serious as the pos- cases in 1968. doubly sibility always exists of other Plans to install this exist running into the de- type of line at the rate of trains 500 miles a vear with all the railed wagons. line and major main i completed my The figure of total derail- muter routes ments for 1968 is given as 1974. (31 and 336 367 passenger The number of fires in goods). The report states that: from 157 in trains also rose the upward trend in 1967 to 208 in 1968. and some caused of locomotive train accidents is types were mainly by technical defects withdrawn from service. Before the Party membership he can be denounced as an unreliable intellectual who has broken with Marxism. The 'dialogue' with the Catholics, treated sceptically by many worker-members any- way, can, by implication, be used to discredit him. At this time, too, the Garaudy affair performs a useful function. It draws criticism away from the Party leaders and tocuses it on one deviant individual.

Tactics There have been many occa- sions in the history of the French Party when similar tactics have been used: against the famed 'Barbe-Celor group' in the early 1930s, then against Doriot, and, since the war against Auguste Leceur, André Marty and others. It is not surprising that Garaudy is unable to make a Marxist critique of the Party's past or of its relations with the Soviet bureaucracy. Instead of turning towards the working Garaudy class, sees a special role for intellec- technicians and other tuals, the sections: very clientele courted by 'new left' tenden- A Czechoslovak youth attempts to reason with a Russian soldier during the Stalinist invasion. Garaudy's denouncement of the invasion only carried the official Communist Party criticism a stage further.

RRESPONDENT

The government's drive for 'efficiency' and a profit at all only result in a costs can deterioration in public services whatever safety precautions are taken. Productivity deals give speed-up and priority to staff reductions; all else is secondary. In this situation it is com- paratively easy to load rail- with workers work way sequences and • schedules be- yond normal capacity, ther proclaim 'human error' wher they fail to react like machines to abnormal circumstances.

Safety officers concerned with the welfare of all railway workers and users should certainly expose the use of ancient and out-dated rolling stock, but would do well also to closely examine the clauses of the August 1968 produc- tivity deal agreed by the NUR executive.

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cies such as the Unified Social- ists (PSU). Perhaps it is in the Party of Rocard that Garaudy will find his next political home. Garaudy is a product of French Stalinism which he has done so much to make palatable to the intellectuals.

It is significant that when he began to remove the blinkers which the Party had with equipped him for so long, he moved instinctively towards the position of reformist socialism. In a negative way he ex- the hypocrisy of the poses official line which has long pointed out and cautiously followed the road which he pursues at break-neck speed.

Criticisms The official criticisms of Garaudy's writings are value- less as contributions to Marx- ism, correct as some of them may formally be. It would be necessary to carry the criticism much fur- ther, to take in all the re- visions of Marxism which the Party has officially encouraged for the past 40 years. Criticism of the Party is probably more ready to break

BBC 1

9.15 a.m. Schools. 12.25-12.50 Nai Zindagi-Naya Jeevan. p.m. 1.00 Disc A Dawn. 1.30 Watch With Mother. 1.45-1.53 News and Weather. 2.05-2.50 Schools. 4.20 Play School. 4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Tales of Tsar Sultan. 5.15 Tom Tom. 5.44 Hector's House. 5.50 National News and Weather.

6.00 London-Nationwide. 6.45 The Doctors. 7.10 Laugh Parade: 'Merry Andrew'. With Danny Kaye. A timid schoolmaster be- comes involved with a travelling circus. Main News and Weather. 8.50 9.10 Wednesday Play : 'Mille Miglia'. Play about Stirling Moss.

10.15 International Football : England v. Holland. 11.00 24 Hours. 11.35 Weather.

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All regions BBC-1 except at the as following times: and East Anglia: 6.00-6.45 Midlands Midlands Today, Look ).m. East, Weather, Nationwide. 11.37 News, Weather. North of England: 6.00-6.45 p.m. Look North, Weather, Nationwide. 11.37 News, Weather. Wales: Today, 6.00-6.45 p.M. Wales Weather, Nationwide. 6.45-7.10 Hed- diw.

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CHANNEL: 11.00-11.57 a.m.

Schools. 1.40-3.00 Schools. 4.04 Puffin's p.m. Birthday Greetings. 4.11 Hatty Town. 4.20 Finders Seekers. 4.55 London. 6.00 Channel News and Weather. 6.10 Crossroads. The Pursuers. 6.35 7.00 Treasure Hunt. 7.30 London.

8.00 The London. Saint. 9.00 11.45 Epilogue followed by News and Weather in French followed by Weather.

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As Channel except: 11.00 a.m. -3.00 London. 4.02 p.m. 4.04 The Gus Honeybun News. Show 6.00 Westward Diary. 11.40 Faith For Life. 11.46 Weather. ANGLIA: 11.00 a.m.-3.00 p.m. London.

4.30 Newsroom. 4.35 Romper Room. 6.00 About 4.55 London. Anglia. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 London. 8.00 Marcus Welby MD. 9.00 This Tom Jones. 10.00 London. 11.45 Reflection.

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Lon- don. 4.18 It's Time For Me. 4.25 Mr Piper. 4.55 London. 6.01 Report. 6.20 Batman. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 London.

8.00 Marcus Welby MD. 9.00 London.

11.45 Weather. Harlech (Wales) as above except: 3.25-4.18 p.m The Prisoner. 4.25 Inter- lude. 4.29-4.55 London. 6.01 Y Dydd. 6.26 • Castle Haven. 6.51-7.00 Report.

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11.00-11.20 a.m. Play School.

7.05 Square Two. 7.30 News and Weather. 8.00 Man Alive: 11 Plus, part 1: The Old Way. 8.50. Solo: Jeremy Brett as Byron: 10.55 a portrait.

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out in the rank and file than at any previous time. There is the obvious question of the Party's role in the May-June events in 1968. The leadership must avoid a fundamental discussion about the general strike and whether or not there was a revolution- ary situation. Its position on Czechoslo- vakia also evokes criticism both from those who regard it as retreating from its initial stand of opposition to military intervention under Soviet pres- sure and that from those old- timers who regard the original opposition as being a betrayal of the Soviet Union. 'Orthodoxy' In directing all its fire on Garaudy's open revision of Marxism, the Stalinist leader- ship of the French Communist Party is able to make a great parade of its own orthodoxy.

But more and more workers, and especially the youth, are realizing that this claim bogus, and that the French Communist Party has been the home of opportunism ever since it embraced the Stalinist tactic of the 'popular front' in the middle-1930s. It is to this period of Stalin- ist degeneration, and its roots in the reformist theory of 'socialism in one country' , that advanced workers in France must now direct their atten- tion.

ITV

11.00 a.m.-3.00 p.m. Schools. 4.17 Tingha and Tucker. 4.30 Cross- roads. 4.55 Lift Off. 5.20 Red- gauntlet. 5.50 News. 6.03 Today. 6.30 The Ghost and Mrs Muir.

7.00 This Is Your Life. 7.30 Coronation Street. 8.00 The Champions. 9.00 Kate. 10.00 News At Ten. 10.30 Lonnie. With Lulu and Miki Antony. 11.00 Professional Wrestling.

11.45 What The Papers Say.

12 midnight The Best Days Of Your Life. Scotland: 2.30-2.50 p.m. Modern Studies. 6.00-6.45 Reporting Scotland.

10.15-11.00 Sportsreel. 11.37 News, Weather. Northern Ireland: 6.00-6.45 p.m.

Scene Around Weather, Nationwide. Six, 11.37 News, Weather. South and West: 6.00-6.45 p.m.

Points West, South Today, Spotlight South- Weather, Nationwide. West. 11.37 News, Weather. 9.00 London. 11.45 Pulse followed by Weather. ULSTER: 11.00 a.m.-3.00 p.m. London.

4.30 Romper Room. Ulster News Headlines. London.

UTV

Reports. 7.00 London. 6.35 Crossroads. Marcus Welby MD. 9.00-11.45 London.

YORKSHIRE.

11.00 a.m. 3.00 London. 4.00 Houseparty. Troop. 4.55 p.m. 4.15 News. 417 Hatty Town. 4.30 London. 6.00 Calendar, Weather. 8.00 The Saint. 9.00 This Is Weather.

Beverly Hillbillies. 7.00 London. Tom Jones. 10.00 London. 11.45| GRANADA: 11.00-11.57 a.m.

Schools. 1.40.3.00 p.m. Schools. 3.45 Encore University Challenge. 4.15 News. 4.17 London. 4.25 The Short Story. 4.55 London. 6.00 Newsview followed by Octopus. 6.30 The Beverly Hillbillies. 7.00 London. 8.00 Laredo. 9.00 London.

11.00 The Papers. 11.20 Wrestling.

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1.40-2.55 p.m. Schools. 4.10 Newsroom. 4.13 Sean The Leprechaun. 4.30 Women On The Warpath. 4.53 Newsroom. 4.55 London. 6.00 Today At Six. 6.30 Focus Youth. 7.00 London. 8.00 Man In On A Suitcase. 9.00 London. 11.45 News. 12.02 a.m. God In Good Season. SCOTTISH: 11.00-11.57 a.m. Schools.

1.40-3.00 Schools. 4.20 Scotland Early 4.30 London 60 Scot cond followed by Police Call. 6.30 Raw 10.30 Scotsport. Deal? 7.00 London. 11.00 London. 11.45 Late Call.

GRAMPIAN: 10.58-11.57 a.m. Schools.

Town. 4.25D.m. 1.38-3.00 Schools. 4.17 Hatty Castle Haven. 4.55 London. 6.00 Grams cro News. 6.10 Grampian Week. Crossroads. 7.00 • London. 8.00 Gideon's Way. 8.55 Police News.

9.00-11.45 London. 9.10 Show Of The Week: The Morecambe and Wise Show. 9.55 Europa: Woman's Place in the World. 10.30 My World ... And Wel- come To It. 10.55 News, Weather. 11.00 Line-Up.

'THE RECKONING',

directed by Jack Gold and written by John McGrath, now showing at the Plaza, is, I think, a dangerous film. At the outset I must say that this is not due to the intentions of the makers, but there are elements in the film which are confused and ambiguous which turn their intentions against them. It is worth examining these weaknesses because I believe they flow from a basic political and theoretical confusion and they provide at the same time some insight into their sources.

First, let's see what is the film's narrative. Mick Marler is a pushing, ambitious, ruthless sales executive. He has energy and quick responses, an asset to his boss, whom he is able to manipulate. He has a large expensive house in Virginia Water, drives a big Jaguar like a maniac, and has an upper-class wife, with whom he has a violent and aggressive sexual relationship.

At the outset he is involved in fighting off an office coup.

His boss is up for the chop and he manipulates to defeat the opposition. In the middle of this comes that his father is news seriously ill in Liverpool.

He drives there only to find his father dead and later, that he was beaten up by some young thugs. In short, that he was murdered. Mick Marler, of Irish working-class descent, is ex- avenge personally pected to his father's death. The journey back to Liver- pool and a brief affair with the doctor's receptionist put him back contact with his working-class origins. He begins to feel that his life in London, his job, the society he now moves in has reduced him to nothing more than an actor, someone unreal.

On returning to London he can't stand his wife's upper- class indifference, her social cool, so he gets drunk, breaks up a party she is giving and slugs a member of the firm.

For this he is suspended from work and his wife walks out on him. Funeral From Liverpool it is con- firmed that the police aren't interested in the old man's death and it is clear that Marler must avenge it. He returns for the funeral, and, providing himself with alibi, kills the murderer an who turns out to be a fright- ened boy in a leather jacket.

He then buries his father, says goodbye to his aunts and mother, and leaves. He wonders whether to receptionist, contact the but he sees her in the street with her kid, the drab council flats behind her, and drives on.

Is it. this that determines him? Is it the death on his hands? It isn't clear, but he comes back to London full of fight to retain his job. He takes his boss's secretary to bed, finds out the 'dirt' on him and promptly goes to the managing the next director day with a file full. Jack Gold director of "The Reckoning'. He is promoted to his now ex-boss's position and his wife comes back to him. her, he Driving home with shoots the red light of a road works signal. He hurtles along the one-way traffic line with lorry approaching head-on.

a Miraculously he gets out of it.

As he says: 'If I can get out of that, I can get out of anything'. By his actions, his oppor- tunism, his ruthlessness, ambition within the capitalist system, he stands condemned, and this is finally the judge- ment that the film would have us opt for. But there is equally an ambiguity about this. His role is fixed within the context of hero; his energy, fast cars, etc.

all add up to a certain glamourization. As played by Nicol William- By Brian I Nicol Williamson in a scene from "The Reck showing at the Plaza cinema, Piccadilly.

son, he is a compelling and irresistible character. A further confusion is that all coherent criticism of capitalism, its exploitation and of workers, comes oppression from Marler's mouth. At his wife's party he savagely denounces the fraud- ulence of their parasitism, and audience the identifies sympathizes with him. Similarly the crisis that he through in Liverpool goes when he feels his own fraudul- ence we are meant to warm to.

I'm not suggesting that characters are without their ambiguities and complexities, that such contradictions or cannot be contained within one person, but at the same time they must be placed by the film-maker. In a way there is a random exploitation of Marler; at one moment he is the mouthpiece of the film, then at another sympathy is yanked away from him and he stands condemned.

We get the impression that his 'left' outpourings directly connect with and flow into his final ruthless stance.

For sure, the history of the labour movement is richly studded with left postures that become right-wing opportun- ism, but it is the responsibility of the maker to analyze and place this. If his left outburst merely a sentimental ranting, which it would seem to me to be, then it must be evaluated as such. don't get this because We there is an overall lack of a coherent conception of the subject matter similar confusion is reflected in the attitudes to- wards the working - class characters in the film. They are presented in a totally sentimental way. We are given the by now cliché image of the late 1960s of working-class life-the club, where it's all knees-ups, punch-ups and bingo. At home it's the muted round of tea and tears. In this way the film draws

PAGE THARE

/ Brian Moore from "The Reckoning' currently on simplified stereotypes and not on the rich variation of life itself. The Irish emigré community in Liverpool is a special social but this wasn't community, really explored. Instead we had a sentiment- alized view of backwardness, and the line between senti- mentality and patronage is a very narrow one. What we have is a roman- ticized middle-class viewpoint.

this Nowhere more striking than in the character- ization of the doctor's recep- tionist played by Rachel Roberts. She is a preposterous character, a literary invention, both in her dialogue and her posture, a sort of symbol of a working-class emancipation.

She is direct, earthy, sensual She has the 'common etc. vulgar touch that fires the imagination of Marler. It is with her that he realizes his life is an act. She real thing is 'the most I've met in years'. And it's here I think that is the key to the fundamental source of the weakness and film. The polarization of classes is seen terms of what is more 'real'. The working class "real'. It would are more follow that the middle class are 'unreal'. Working-class experience is more 'valid'. Submission Here we have implied a total idealization of the class, which, in political terms, means an adaptation and submission to its backwardness. But the class struggle is not fought out by greater or lesser 'realities' of life style, but by the daily conflict which the contradiction of primary capitalism creates The fight is for the con- sciousness and leadership of the class for revolutionary ends. This means a conscious fight against backwardness. It is precisely at this point that Marxism breaks sharply with idealism. "The Reckoning' has all the tensions of confusion charac- teristic of a lot of the work of the 1960s. It is someone trying to grapple with something that at that point they can't resolve.

This accounts for the creative patchiness of the film, the lapses in concentration, and that indecisiveness which pro- duses confusion. At difficult moments it tends towards oversimplifica- tion, as though the shutters have been brought down over too-difficult questions. It contrasts quite starkly with 'Comrade Tacob'-a later work of John McGrath-which is much more resolved, confi- dent and coherent.

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Sheffield Productivity and the busmen engineers laid off LEADERS of Britain's 70,000 municipal busmen No are at present negotiating for 45s increases on their Daniel Doned phant a po -submitted in the middle of now is unis clamm- have December—to be won ? Low pay, long hours and the threat or producuivity deals and service cut-backs have dogged the busmen Called to mes over the last few years. Last month's ignominious backing-down forced more in nathan sicky on London's busmen -who. worried by the implications been ni the re croanization of the canita's transnori agreec ystem, had threatened to strike on January 1 going to fight now than they did in 1968.

unave recommender The men to retreats Uniembean this recommendation. By an Industrial correspondent Press SINCE JULY 17, 1968, union leaders have been running with the demands silence Stop Visit headlong to made by the bus employers and the government for

• FROM PAGE ONE

more productivity and one-man operation.

wise deal involving the sale July 17 was the date on They eagle be re to prevented which representatives Britain's 70,000 manning has been introduced _Dusuch called at a special delegate rages demand at the conference for a national editorial board, this reat.

strike against the freezing of their fl pay award by into oddition the Labour enormous delays drivers becomes insterable.

The strike, as a result of send the following letter the union leaders man- oeuvres, never took place.

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Tor anyone two days OR i for hire monithe I would like to subscribe to Workers' Press for Wednesday, January 14, 1970 It's no use asking Wilson cession they can clamp dowr ing to do with them. at any time. Trade But the government to do anything. ists to tie The CP got to come positive do socialist outlook. with some • American state that ut wa Vietna do The campt to stop something Wilson's Washin carry out the war in Viet- take plays part Lucy Husl

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if the YCL and CP

TOOK

the June trom RussIa S4.) not giving out-and-out The the spade-work campaign brings nas nOU backing Vietnamese people out i lie brancies Deen done or suci a cam. and makes them think about paign. they have nad ample the people opportunity do it over issues Most laylor (AEr), think that the war is past ten years. Birmingham. says Coventry shop steward Communist calls for visit Washingtor and trade unionists on the shop among the nationalist de- PulS the mand. Yely It is this movement which when Stalinist chair- Britain, the nation where CHu is respons be ror use ranure Warlan. relused employers and workers nave or tie incomes poncy. lnal take an amendment to Ine problems can has resisted wage cuts, and n attorm resoluTion Nationast demands pushing Tine only lead to the deleat ol • were the working class. 1UC proposals which could not to be special con- The Communist Party, SiWe are the

TUC,

with the get here to together such method of consultation, mands. Remember Colt Engineer- unal suca mecuss are entitled make decisions, une trace move started Dacking or to instruct sioo stewaras ment. britain DY aSKIng workers actions to take That inis conterence was to work overtime ior non• variance in No doubt with the return with Union intended

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tional fight of the Trades Council dele- and left Labour MP Orme, against capitalism, the gate, Coventry. U.S. crisis hits aero-space programme THE DEVELOPING recession in the United It has been estimated that this will mean a drop sales States economy is now raising the spectre of from 1,200 t the mass unemployment before the working class in civil ace capitalist country. every with avlallul States itself, as reported in Within the United unrear or reduncancy attacks

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Friday's Workers Press, sharp increases in the cost of answered. Already the road living and the threat of redundancy now face haulage members the every Teamsters' Union have section of the working class.

96.4 per claim, Two more recent announce-

BY MARTIN ZARROP

thane begin ing of the 19705.

fight wages. that ments 1cvcal skilled workers and tech- a rapid intensifica- This rules out the construc- now sees nicians who, in tion of the class the past, tion of 'orbiting workshop struecie the very centre of imperialism.

1972-a have considered their jobs The fight against unemploy- now acherine Dermanent SDaCt ment and the rising cost secure ale station,

WHOUL

under attack Nixon's bringing future space exploration *emanding Marie read possible. to curb inflation uneasures first begin to bite. rurter curs must toererore tast Officials at the National place the entire NASA pro frame fibs da tho and with of this Aeronautics and Space development 1 It jobs thousands

(NASA)

leadership have within the Ameri Administration workers. stated that the Apollo-13 can trade union movement central to the construction of Not restricted a Labour Party for the expro- giant cor- However, the porations. is not @ululill revised schedule will All Trades Unions L ne tallie ental consideraoe curs in toe indications There are nOW Alliance meeting overume Davents to assem that the Nixon administration bly and launch crews at Cape 1s having second thougnts Kennedy.

DAGENHAM

consplant to go ahead to he construction Boeing Lessons of the 1969 Ford More involved 2707, supersonic strike and the fight for more is loweve much avolved than thi direct parity Soviet that the challenge 1 He sussestol Wednesday, January 14 delavs will and Anglo-Frenc give space scien- Concorde-has been estimated 8 p.m. Lists more ume derween misers to name say an embl Marsh Green Schoo do cover upe us so slewing Ninety per cent of the cost New space pro- of the stage is to be Arst Dagenham Lost their tes with

, NORTH KENT

Iready unequivocal administration sitio and more *Lessons of the

YAOL

will certainly follow. Grangemouth strike' aircraft The present cuts will 1020 mercial super sunil allowed fly Thursday, January 15 the cancellation WIll De Apollo DoDulate• areas at Doom-oro 8 p.m. Apollo-19 set se thunched while ducing speeds'. until 1974, Rose and Crown the postponement of over two restriction must London Road possible market for the STT. Dover years.