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strike, and is the ecr is inte create we THE ATTACK on building workers' pickets by Commission on Industrial Relations chairman Leonard Neal, is part of the lory government's offensive against workers' rights.

Speaking on Tuesday night's Radio 4 programme 'It's Your Line, Neal alleged that money from "dubious sources' was being used to finance flying pickets.

He went on: 'I am not talking about Red gold from Moscow. I am saying it is not trade union funds which are being used. It is money being acquired from other sources and 1 am not prepared to go any further at this stage.' Neal also caimed that the flying pickets were "invaders' who were 'miners today, dockers tomorrow and building workers next right to picket, like the right has been won over years of struggle essential to the working class. As nomic crisis worsens, Neal's slander ided to alarm the middle class and a climate favourable to further Tory Gun-law patrol against left? THE ISRAELI demand for international action against terrorism is nothing more than a blueprint for civil war on an international scale.

In the Knesset debate on the Munich shoot-out, premier Mrs Golda Meir stated that Israel would 'smite the terrorists wherever it can reach them'. . She added: 'That is its national duty to itself and to peace.' Opposition leader Menahem Begin-a former leader of the Zionist terror organization Haganah, which operated against the Arabs and the British under the Palestine mandate-went even further:

'Israel must safeguard the lives of its citizens wherever they are and such precautions do not violate the sovereignty of the nations where the terrorists operate. If there is a need for a special squad to be set up for this purpose, let it be set up.' Last week Labour leader Harold Wilson put forward a similar proposal, calling for the establishment of special units trained for 'anti-terrorist' operations at British airports. inroads into workers' conditions and attacks on working-class organizations.

There is no doubt that Neal and his masters in the Tory government are encouraged by the capitulation of the TUC and union leaders to the Industrial Relations Act and the government's wages policy. (Neal himself is an ex-T&GWU official.)

The more these leaders. back down, the more aggressive the ruling class becomes. Yet some workers' leaders lend themselves to these attacks. According to yesterday's 'Journal of Commerce', this is exactly what Jimmy Symes, chairman of the Liverpool dockers' shop stewards has done.

Symes is reported as having attacked Bies never ne guestion wind i picketing at a meeting of the English noil. the •What your opinion of the methods used by dockers in picketing?' the 'Journal of Commerce' quotes Symes as saying:

'I did not agree with the picketing at agree with the picketing Hull, and do not support picketing at all. not support picketing at Kissinger stays in Moscow PRESIDEN IAL adviser, Henry Kissinger, held his third day of talks in the Kremlin yesterday and is due in London today.

Obviously some important questions were involved in the Moscow talks as Kissinger had been expected to have a day off for sightseeing. After visiting London, he will go on to paris, where it is likely that a secret meeting will take place with North Vietnamese Politburo member Le Due Tho.

A deal may have been made with the Kremlin to force the In West Germany, Federal Interior Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher has already approved the formation of a special anti-terrorist police unit to act as a federal emergency reserve for all ten state governments.

Trigger-happy West German police recently murdered a British businessman in the course of an anti-terrorist manhunt.

The atmosphere for these measures is being intensified by a huge witch-hunt of Arabs all over awestern • Europe. West Germany is changing its immigration laws to introduce tighter controls over north African immigrants and a manhunt is under way for Palestinian commando supporters.

The German social-democratic government with their British colleagues close behind is proving itself a worthy heir of the Scheidemanns and Noskes who set right-wing military murder squads to kill Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in 1919. The question of terrorism was also high on the agenda of the Common Market Foreign Ministers' meeting in Rome. They decided unanimously to take a Ten possible. JOHN SPENCER The cost of workers

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govern EEC summit BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT ALL THE BASIC problems surrounding the enlargement ket are still left in suspense-even though the Rome agree! pean Monetary Co-operation Fund now makes the Octob North Vietnamese to make compromise peace in return for some US concessions to the bureaucracy on other questions. The calling of a European Security Conference, possible troop cuts in Europe and trade probably entered into the talks.

As the bureaucracy faces mounting economic difficulties, it becomes more desperate to settle differences with capitalist states on the lines of peaceful coexistence. The Vietnamese revolution will be willingly sacrificed to' this end.

joint stand on the topic at the United Nations and strengthen co-operation among their own security forces. Kurt Waldheim as the himself UN called for international action against 'increasing terrorism' and the question is certain to be discussed at the session of the General Assembly starting next Tuesday.

The unanimity among the imperialist powers on this issue is a clear indication of the break-up of capitalist stability and the stepping up of gun rule over oppressed peoples and revolutionary organizations.

It elevates the sinister methods long used by the US Central Intelligence Agency to a worldwide system, under the phoney slogan of maintaining law and order internationally.

The spokesmen of big business condemn the 'terror' waged by the dispossessed Palestinians, but glory in the vindictive terrorist so-called counter-measures taken by the Zionists against the wretched refugees driven • from their homes to enable the state of Israel to exist.

They support the I also disagree with violence. All meetings where voting takes place have concluded with with assurances that decisions will not result in violence or intimidation.' Later Symes, a Labour Party member, repeated: 'Picketing is not justified' While Symes was lending his assistance to Neal, the 'Daily Mail' was announcing a confidential intelligence service "to screen Trotskyist militants who apply for jobs'.

A spokesman for the far-right Economic League told the 'Mail': 'If a member-firm approaches us for private information we would tell him what we know. Our purpose is to oppose subversion.' The 'Mail' also quotes a building execu. tive who said he gave the Economic League a list of 18 building workers who had applied for jobs with his company. 'Within 24 hours they were able to tell me that eight of the men had been involved in disruptions at other sités.' of living is rising for millions the 'fair rents' Act The Ministers of Finance and Foreign Affairs of the six-member and four applicant countries meeting in Rome were under pressure from a number of factors to reach some kind of an agreement. The situation has changed since June when French President Pompidou began to cast doubts on the utility of a summit.

Failure to continue talks and hold the summit would have precipitated an open split in the enlarged European Community even before Britain's entry. and brutal terror-bombing of North Vietnam by the Americans in flagrant violation of international law. These actions have the stamp of respectability because they are waged with the backing of huge state machines with limitless destructive resources.

Under the new post-Munich regime assassination is to become a routine matter for the 'security forces' and the so-called counterterrorist units The shoot-out becomes the norm in the pursuit of There are great dangers in squads demanded by Begin, eil. son and Genscher will be used against anyone who dares to challenge the master class.

The political assassination of working-class militants, already seen in Ireland, is foreshadowed in these sinister imperialist In many Latin American states —Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil among them-such actions are already an everyday occurrence.

In the course of Uruguay's recent 'internal war' against the urban guerrillas dozens of working-class militants were gunned down in cold blood by the police and military. CIR chairman Leonard Noal and will soar still more with entry into the Common Market. Yet the TUC leaders made it clear at Brighton that they are anxious to co-operate with the Tory government.

Under these conditions, workers have a greater right than ever to fight for wage increases. Talk of 'subversion' when workexercise their established rights is a clear sign that these rights themselves are Neal's suggestions must be rejected and who give encouragemust be repudiated. of the Common Marlent to set up a Euro. ir 19 Summit of the It would have opened the way for a fresh round of currency speculation of the kind which brought down the pound in June.

It would have greatly weakened the hand of the European countries at the International Monetary Fund meeting to be held on September 23 in Washington.

The uncontrollable inflation now sweeping every country, and the strength of the working class which lays behind it, has impressed the Community governments with the need to do something. The hope that some kind of international action can succeed where every government has failed utterly is another symptom of crisis.

The Americans continue with impunity to pump thousands of millions of unwanted dollars into the world market. These dollars, no longer backed by gold since the measures taken by Nixon on August 15, 1971, are convertible into other currencies and no country has yet beer able to do anything about it.

The antagonisms between European and American capitalism, which this flood of dollars represents, become more acute every day. Both sides are preparing for an escalation of the trade war with the Japanese forcing the pace.

The haste in reaching agreement did not mean that the deep differences between the European countries on monetary questions had been resolved.

The new Fund will be administered by the central banks and merely replaces existing, less formal arrangements for cooperation to deal with balance-of-payments problems and changes in exchange rates.

The differences between the European capitalist countries are too deep to have been bridged by a get-together after the holidays, in Rome or anywhere else.