NIST MORE STALI

COMMUNIST Party secretary John Gollan's speech at Friends' House on Monday night is a remarkable specimen of reformist evasion and bureaucratic double think.

The 'Morning Star' headed its report of the rally as Fighting lead from Communist rally-Time Now to Black No. 10'.

This phrase sums up succinctly the incurably reformist radical outlook of the Stalinist leaders whose principal objective in the last two years of Tory rule has been to save the credibility of the 'left' union leaders by re-routing the political struggles of workers back into the channels of industrial protest.

In the agitation on the Industrial Moscow casts its 'X for Nixon THINLY-VEILED support for the re-election of US President Richard Nixon has been expressed by Moscow Radio following the summit talks in Moscow earlier this month. forth the coustions, lementator dalen in osio expressed the view that the results of the Moscow talks 'are on the credit side of the Republican Party' and that this 'naturally' aftected the election campaign and 'may affect its outcome' Nixon's potential rivals in the election intended to exploit 'what they think [our emphasis] to be the weakest points in the activities of the Republican administration, namely the continuation of the war in Vietnam and the deterioration of the country's economic position', Zorin said.

Clearly the Moscow Radio spokesmen do not share this positive trends in the activities VIAW and тесту, TY NAIL Zorin went on: "The of Washington's influential circles are irreversible, they do not depend on the results of the election campaign and on whether the Republican leader will stay in the White House or whether a nominee of the Democrats will replace him.' In other words, the Soviet bureaucrats are not concerned CP play into fascists' hands GROWING unemployment in Europe is the inevitable consequence of the breakdown of the international monetary system and the division of the capitalist world into mutually-hostile trading blocs.

Italy is the country hardesthit by unemployment within the Common Market. Total unemployment is well over the 500,000 mark and regarded as serious by the government. At the Council of Ministers' meeting in Luxembourg on Monday, the Italian government complained of unfair discrimination against Italian workers by the other Common Market countries.

It charged that when other countries find their unemployment rising, the foreign workers are the first to be sacked, and the Italians the first foreign workers to go. In addition, the Italians complained that Germany and France prefer to employ Yugoslavs or Turks rather than Italians.

'The Times' comments that this is because such workers are easier to employ for short contracts and, 'most probably demand less through trade union activity.

The Italian request did not tions Bill and in Upper Clyde shipbuilders the Stalinists were in the forefront of the struggle to prevent the exnosure of the union leaders' politics and to persuade militant unionists that the Tories were amenable to pressure.

Brieflv summarized the noliev of the Stalinists was that if the employers and the government could be forced to give wage concessions then they could also be induced to make basic political concessions.

The sinister corollary to this wretched argument has been and still is that a fundamental change in leadership and policy in the unions is not indispensably necessary and that, moreover, the Tories need not be forced to resign; in fact they with the genocidal war in Vietnam, nor with the fate of the American working class faced with Nixon's viciously anti-union administration. They consider that 'US ruling circles are becoming increasingly aware of the realities of the world today'.

The Moscow broadcast is a clear. signal to Nixon that the Soviet bureaucracy will not stand in the way of his reelection. It spells out the message which was implicit in the decision to continue the summit talks despite the mining of harbours and the bombardment of North Vietnam.

It bears out to the letter Hanoi's warnings about the subordination of the world revolution to the national requirements *The Times ympathetic hearing.

commented: 'Italy's partners have not given much sign that they appreciate these difficulties, or, if privately they admit the force of the argument, that they intend to do very much about it.' The big monopolies which control the Common Market are in no mood to involve themselves in attempts to overcome the chronic crisis in Italy where there is a growing threat from the fascists and the extreme right.

In an editorial on Monday headed 'Fascist Threat in Italy' the New York Times' spoke of the 'rude feminder' from fascist leader Giorgio Almirante that 'the election last month gave... only a reprieve and not a solution to a nagging national crisis.

'On the day President Leone designated Guilio Andreotti premier-elect, the leader of the MSI... threatened a fascist takeover, which he hinted might get support from elements in the nation's armed forces.' The paper outlines Andreotti's so-far fruitless search for a stable coalition and adds the pious hope that 'Mr Almirante's outburst will help bring the democratic majority together' A similar line is being rudle by the Italian Communist Par* Nixon 1- la a of the Soviet leaders. On May 23, the North Vietnamese army newspaper 'Quan Doi Nhan Dan' made: the following statement unmistakably condemning the Soviet leaders:

'Communists always consider the revolution of each nation as an inseparable part of the world revolution. They never set national interests against the interests of the world revolution nor place an individual nation's above the common interests of the world revolution, much less serve national selfishness at the expense of the world revolution:

The Soviet indications of Andreotti : Searching desperately which has said it will support (from outside if need be) a 'government of the democratic turning point' based on a majority composed of the 'three historic currents'-the CP, social-democracy and the Catholic Church.

Growing unemployment and the impotence of the Italian parliamentary system to produce any solution acceptable to the big bourgeoisie is the reality can De orcea to abandon the Industrial Relations Act, the Housing Finance Bill, etc.

Thus the nolitical consciousness of workers is blunted and t the reactionary VNIVANAINUN political plans of the Tories are facilitated.

Gollan's speech showed that, in this respect, Stalinism has not changed its theme by one quaver. With one eye on Scanlon in Hastings and another on the CBI-TUC talks, Gollan made abundantly clear that the home and foreign policy of British Stalinism would remain firmly based on reformist protest and the most cynical forms of class-collaboration.

Referring to the Industrial Relations Act, and deliberately ignoring the recognition of the NIRC by Jack Jones, Gollan approval for Nixon and their praise for US 'ruling circles' is the clearest indication of the counter-revolutionary character of the Moscow summit and the deals-described by Moscow as 'historic agreements'-reached It makes nonsense of the hypocritical remarks_by British CP secretary John Gollan, who told the Stalinists' London rally on Monday: "The crux of the situation is Vietnam, as sharpest disagreement between the Soviet Union and Nixon shows.' This is an outright lie: the Moscow summit and the broadcast remarks demonstrate conclusively that the Vietnam war is an entirely secondary issue for the Kremlin bureaucrats and that they are in the process of supporting the re-election of the chief butcher of the Vietnamese.

In the wake of the NATO decision to support the calling of a European Security Conference, it will not be long before Gollan himself begins to discover the 'credit side' of the Tory government and the 'positive trend' of Edward Heath's foreign policy.

If the British CP can swallow the camel of support for Nixon, why should it strain at the gnat of support for Heath? behind Almirante's bombastic threats. The monopolists of the EEC are already demonstrating that they will not come to the rescue of Italian bourgeois democracy.

The Italian Stalinists' frantic efforts to rescue the bankrupt parliamentary system play right into the hands of the MSI and pose a grave danger to the workers of Italy. said: 'It can be made inoperative. It can be destroyed. And the splendid Liaison Committee Conference showed the way with its call for solidarity and action, both official and so-called unofficial including industrial action.' This is a monstrous deception. We say that because it detaches the against the Act from the struggle to force the Tories out.

To make the Act inoperative is to make the Tory government inoperative-and to make the government inoperative means an unsparing struggle for new leadership and policy in the unions and a tremendous increase in political consciousness.

Both Gollan and his Liaison Committee reject such a struggle in favour of so-called *industrial action' - one-day strikes, protests and individual defiance of the Court. This is the surest way to betray the union militants to the trade union leaders.

The reverse side of the 'industrial action' coin is a more pernicious form of collaboration between trade union leaders and employers.

This is precisely what is contained in Gollan's call for Blacking No. 10'. As he explained it:

It is essential, however, to stop all attempts to change TUC policy and to create new misnamed "conciliation" machinery to get the government off the hook. Downing St should be blacked and the right-wing retreat ended.' Gollan's demagogic demand in relation to Downing St is but a miserable cover for his support of Scanlon's conception of conciliation which is hardly different from that of Feather.

Scanlon's plan was revealed in the same issue of the 'Star' by Ken Graves thus: 'On the question of conciliation machinery advocated by the government he said: •" If conciliation machinery is to have any degree of success, it would need to be totally independent of government"!

What Scanlon was telling the Tories at Hastings was that the union bureaucrats were as ready, willing and able as ever to deescalate the demands of workers and avoid the kind of national confrontations witnessed during the miners' strike. national strike on the engineers • Scanlon's retreat from claim, covered up all along by the Stalinists and the 'Star' , is ample evidence of the bureaucrats' fear of the fighting potential displayed by the British workers. The last thing Gollan or Scanlon want to do is to unleash this force. Boycott No. 10-but collaborate with the employers!

If this is true in relation to Britain today it is trebly true in relation to the international scene.

Gollan's speech, coming SO soon after the 'visit' of the Soviet Union CP delegation, was devoted largely to covering up the Soviet betrayal of the Vietnamese people. He praised 'the peace policy • of the Soviet Union' carefully omitting to mention that 'peace' with Nixon and Brandt means death and devastation in Vietnam on a scale never before seen in Asia, or the world.

Dykes, power plants, hospitals --every trace of human habitation is being systematically destroyed while the people are denied food and raw materials by a vicious blockade and Gullan dares to pay tribute to the 'peace' policy of the Soviet oligarchy! 'Vietnam', he said, "was the crux of the situation as the sharpest disagreement between the Soviet Union and Nixon shows'.

Disagreement or not, it is public knowledge that the Soviet leaders are in complete political accord with this modern Attila and are doing their utmost to secure his presidential election victory!

So when Gollan talks of 'stepping up solidarity with Vietnam' he fools nobody except the reformists in the CP leadership.

We are confident that the Vietnamese people will win and throw imperialism out of IndoChina, but they will do that despite Moscow and British Stalinism, not because of them. British workers must draw the appropriate lesson and put an end to Stalinist treachery by building the Socialist Labour League and transforming it into a revolutionary party.

Press, Wednesday 14,