Workers Press no. 905 (906)

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY OCTOBER 27, 1972 • No 906 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

AS POUND TAKES POUNDING

TORY PAY

HEN YORN SPOT

TRAP IS

SPRUNG

BY ALEX MITCHELL

AS THE TUC General Council marched into Heath's parlour at No 10 Downing Street yesterday, the Foreign Exchange markets opened with the pound plunging to record low levels. The pound opened 40 points down on the overnight rate. Within minutes it fell to $2.3535, which was 70 points lower than overnight trading.

In three consecutive days' trading the pound has plum- the mass action of the working class. meted to all-time low levels.

Since the decision to float on • The talks began in Heath's June 23 the pound has drop- London ped from $2.60 to $2.35-a most cheery circumstances. It was Stock discovered that

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presi- devaluation of almost 10 per Hugh Scanlon, Exchange dent,

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certain to defeat the power strike. which will pay plan give week

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SOCIALIST

LABOUR LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETING

BEHIND THE

ASSASSINATION

OF TROTSKY

a reply to Joseph Losey's film

WEDNESDAY NOV 1

'The Three Legs' The Headrow

LEEDS

7.30 p.m Speaker: Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) admission 10p

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY OCTOBER 27, 1972

• No 906 DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

AS POUND TAKES POUNDING

TORY PAY

TRAP IS

SPRUNG

BY ALEX MITCHELL

AS THE TUC General Council marched into Heath's parlour at No 10 Downing Street yesterday, the Foreign Exchange markets opened with the pound plunging to record low levels. The pound opened 40 points down on the overnight rate. Within minutes it fell to $2.3535, which was 70 points lower than overnight trading.

In three consecutive days' trading the pound has plum- the mass action of the working class. meted to all-time low levels.

Since the decision to float on • The talks began Heath's In Tune 23 the pound has drop- parlour in the morning under the London ped from $2.60 to $2.35-a most cheery circumstances. It was Stock discovered that

AUEW

presi- devaluation of almost 10 per dent, Scanlon, was Exchange cent his 59th and TUC Draling yesterday. sides- -Tories, CBI and Later the As one commentator said: "The spent the opening minutes passe Tories alwavs claimed to De pound tell Tne Brother good party of devaluation. They Scanion! even further. the great defenders of sterl- WeLC Now they are aevaluing every single day of the week.' but the poweriul bankers who stand behind the Tory govern Power unions plan pay action ment want sterling devalued still They have joined munner. been by "The Times' in demanding a 'realistic' figure between $2.20 to S2.25omewhere The bibe dev will

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trade unions to lead an

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support their And the huge all-out fight against the top increase in the cost of imports, claim. working-class have Yesterday two unions The lengthy DrODOSal Value Added Tax (VAT T contend the electricians and stresses that the unions which the general and munici do not want 'any un- comes into operation at the time pal- -joined the engin- necessary escalation' of of British entry into Europe and the eers transport the wages struggle.

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they are ferociously devaluing should the pound. been •OWer subones. anere nave to unleash yet another plan the economy will be black-outs and thoroughly made. blast of slanders against Buckton, who properly. The TUC has no depending mandate to power cuts; Simply because elec- talks with the

DWCIWOIKCIS

Lue pres these on its severity the cuts trical supply is the most conunue TUC - Tory - CBI presses will ent Tories let alone sign any pledges.

could cause widespread make the 1970 hysteria talks said e Tories im- poweriu OI Strikes, As a consequence workers in interference survive would offer mild by possible compari- for industries must repudiate any dustry. the greatest advantage.'

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hole they are reacaca. At the last round of As Ray Buckton, the down oices Have

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said yesterday ish millions workers by devalu- Call instructions from the powermen must not be Election with this government to General and hold down allon Wakes should be held to elect solve this vexed government. Isolated voluntary means. fused to make an offer. Fleet Street is ready a government willing to problem, he added. there only one answer- -they must be removed from office by

SOCIALIST

LABOUR LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETING

BEHIND THE

ASSASSINATION

OF TROTSKY

a reply to Joseph Losey's film

WEDNESDAY NOV 1

'The Three Legs' The Headrow

LEEDS

7.30 p.m. Speaker : Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) admission 10p

Death threat letter sent to Palestine representative PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday October 27, 1972 ZIONIST terror organizations Liberation. Organization, told Workers Press he had received have been issuing death threats from the "World to Palestinian representatives letter and ambassadors Organization for Welfare and Arab Individual Security' threatening Britain following Israeli premier to murder him if he Mrs Golda Meir's promise to stays in Britain. crush the Arab guerrillas wherever they can be found.

Similar threats have been issued Said Hammami, London rep- Arab ambassadors TO off resentative of the Palestine warning them to break NORTH VIETNAM yesterday made a stinging attack on the Vietnam peace negotiations and published the text of the Americans have failed to implement. Hanoi Radio said willing to sign the agreement in five days' time, but accuse behind 'so-called difficulties in Saigon' in order to sabotage The nine-point agreement provided for an immediate cease- fire and withdrawal of all US and other foreign troops sup- porting the Saigon regime within 60 days. Prisoners were to be exchanged while the withdrawal of US troops was under way. It provided for the formation of an 'administrative structure' from with representatives the present Saigon governments, neutralists and the NLF. This tri-partite administration would 'genuinely free and democratic general elections' super- organize vized by an international commission.

In addition, the various will be intensified fol- alr war involved, including lowing the election and will con- governments the US, pledged to respect the tinue right up to 1976. The fact of Cambodia and Laos Vietnam has neutrality that North pub- 1954 in accordance with the lished what was supposed to be Geneva agreements. All foreign treaty indicates that

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Hanoi troops were to be withdrawn now does not expect from these countries. America to sign. Nixon presumably considers According to Hanoi, Dr Henry Kissinger, the US negotiator and that once his backing is removed Le Duc Tho for the North Viet- from South Vietnam the cor- namese, had originally decided at rupt Thieu regime will collapse their secret talks in Paris to sign like a house of cards. This iS the agreement on October 26.

also what the North Vietnamese think will happen. Under revised timetable 'national sought by the US it was They consider that agreed concord' can be re-established in that signature should be delayed the to October 30. Washington again south bourgeois- democratic basis. But this and could proposed a new timetable of chel wai in the few re.

was accordingly set for the basis for a new outbreak signature October 31. The Vietnam war has never 'But its contrary commit- fO been for struggle simply ments on October 23, the Ameri- national liberation but is above difficulties can side invoked en- all social revolution in the countered in Saigon and asked countryside. Any regime in Viet- for the continuation of negotia- nam which tries re-establish tions to solve new problems, the landlordism and the tyranny of statement said. capital will over the peasantry be a stepping stone to a new Following talks with Kissinger war. Saigon, South Vietnamese in president Nguyen Van Thieu opposed the draft deal and went on television to denounce the idea of a ceasefire. The Hanoi said statement 'everybody knows the Saigon government and supported by the merely tool formed by United States. The above- mentioned situation proves that the Nixon administration does

JAPAN

not have a attitude and yesterday unveiled serious olan for 20 per cent across-the- the good-will to negotiate for an end to the Vietnam war but only board cuts in import tariffs on 2,000 items including wants prolong the negotia- to nearly tions with the aim of deceiving cars, electrical cameras, public opinion.' domestic appliances and liquor.

The cuts are part of a govern- Van Ly San, the National Liberation Front ment programme to avoid revalu- negotiator at ing the which has the peace talks told pressmen in yen, been at its parity ceiling on the foreign Wednesday that Paris on Thieu exchange markets since July.

was in office thanks only to US Japan's foreign competitors, bombs and dollars. alarmed by the country's massive export offensive in European and "Thieu cannot resist the United American markets, have been States and if the United States demanding a yen revaluation for end the wants to war we are months. some that it can.' He asked: certain They had hoped that Japanese *Are these serious negotiations exports would be curbed by the or a manoeuvre US to deceive 16.8 per cent revaluation yen public opinion?' imposed at the Washington mone- tary conference in December last With the presidential elections year. only a fortnight away, Nixon's Over the past nine months, has 'peace offensive' all the Japan's however, have of a exports marks vote-catching gim- risen to their old pre-revaluation mick while the preparations for level and the balance of the war are carried pay- continuing ments surplus is running at out behind the scenes. $950m a month. Pentagon officials have told The Tokyo government is very Pressmen in Washington that the reluctant second to revalue a relations with Mr Hammami face assassination or selves. The threats are being taken seriously by Scotland Yard. Last week the PLO repre- sentative in Rome was mur- dered outside his apartment by unknown has since been a spate of letter- ack on American bad faith in text of a ceasefire treaty which lio said North Vietnam was still accused Washington of hiding abotage the deal. The Director General of Imports at the cuts the tape to open the exhibition in time and has carried out a num- ber of window-dressing opera- tions aimed at giving the impres- sion that they are tackling the payments situation. The cut in import tariffs is the latest of these moves. Accord- ing to Japanese government offi- cials, it will increase imports by $300m. But the Common Market countries are not impressed.

EEC sources in Brussels said the tarifi cuts would boost the Common Market's exports to Japan but this was not the immediate problem at issue. EEC JAPANESE car exports are run- ning at almost twice the record 1971 figure. This year 350,000 Japanese cars are likely to be sold in Europe and next year the figure may be up to 500,000.

Manufacturers are concentrat- ing more heavily on the Euro- market and shipments to pean bomb attacks on Palestinian militants Algeria, the in Lebanon, Libya and Egypt.

Mr Hammami said yesterday he will not be intimidated by the Zionist campaign terror into leaving Britain: This is part of my work, he said.

'We are fighting against Israel and Zionism and this is a part of the fight.? FASCIST police shot at a group of youths giving out leaflets out- side a factory in • Villaverde in Madrid on Wednesday. One of the youths was hit and he died later. A young girl was arrested by the police. The leaflets called for better conditions in the factory and for the removal of Franco. More than 50 women demon- strated in Bayona, near Vigo, on ts at the Spanish Ministry of Commerce, Seno ibition in Moscow. exports to Japan have been rising ra- satisfactogily anyway, they said.

The real difficulty for the Com- Market lies in the extra- mon ordinary growth of Japanese exports to the European market.

These have nearly tripled in the past four years, totalling £642m in 1971. In fact, the Japanese move puts the EEC in greater difficulties— now that the japanese have cut their tariffs, it becomes more difficult for the Common Market countries to raise their duties on EC goods from Japan. the US have levelled off. Japan- ese penetration of the market has been highest in Finland, Portugal and Greece. Sales to Britain and Germany have also increased. Only 18,000 cars were imported by Japan last year, mostly in the luxury cate- gory. Hammaml: Not Intimidated Wednesday against the lack of water. They marched with buck- ets full of dirty washing in front of the town hall and demanded to see the town council. Their only supply of water, the local river Bahina, is now restricted to use by local farmers as the result of an agreement ratified by the provincial gover- nor. rce, Señor Basabe y Manso de Zuniga, THE SPANISH Cortes set up a committee on Wednesday to work out details of protocol for the establishment of rela- tions with the Soviet Union.

The committee will include don Jesus Fueyo Alvarez, a national councillor appointed by Franco himself. Without waiting for the proto- col, the trade expands. It was revealed yesterday that Russia will export one million tons of crude oil to Spain within the next year. Already more than 10,000 Moscovites have visited an exhi- bition of Spanish craft-work which opened in Moscow on Tuesday. Visitors include the Presi- dent of the Moscow soviet, Vladimir Promislov and Alexei Pavlenko, director of Soviet exhibitions. The exhibition got a big boost.

from the weekly supplement of 'Izvestia' which described it as 'a glimmer of Spain shining in the autumnal grey of "Lenin's hills"! ABRAHAM LINCOLN Brigade of American volunteers which fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War has been removed from the list of sub- versive organizations by the US Court of Appeals. For the past 24 years it has been listed as a organization communist-front under reactionary legislation.

Reception for launching of Trotsky book Call forindustrial action to

BY PHILIP WADE

ALTHOUGH West of Scot- land trade unionists will demonstrate month next against the Tory Rent Act, their leadership has stopped short of calling industrial action to back up the defiant Labour councils. In fact it was Communist Party members who opposed the call for industrial action at a meeting of 150 delegates representing dis- trict committees all over the area. Stalinist chairman at Monday's meeting was Hugh Wyper, vice- chairman of Glasgow trades council. Replying to an amend- ment to the motion calling for industrial action in support of the 22 Scottish Labour authori- ties defying the Tories, he said: 'We cannot specify industrial action as it would put some dis- committees in a difficult trict position. We should stick to sup- porting local authorities because it would be impossible for us to any individual support tenant eviction." The 22 have all received letters from the Tory government giving a month to fall in line and im- plement the rent increases due under the Housing (Financial Provisions) Scotland Act.

Several delegates, notably from the Renfrew district committees of the AUEW and the T&GWU, called for industrial action to back up words of support.

But another Stalinist, Sammy Barr, boilermakers' convenor at yard at Govan the Scotstoun Shipbuilders, also said industrial action was not on because 'un- fortunately although our society has pledged support it does not specify such action'. Eventually the meeting, repre- workers senting about 150,000 agreed to go ahead with the de- monstration on a Saturday, Nov- ember 18. The motion passed merely "pledges the fullest support' and uselessly calls on Edward Heath to receive a delegation to hear our objections to this Act being implemented', But the Tories intend to move Housing Commissioners in if the Labour councils do not fall in line with the rent increase, so depriving workers of elected local councillors. By refusing to mobilize the working class against the Tories the leadership at the conference in fact ran away from this fight and decided to confine the cam- paign to one of meek protest.

the British

CRAFTSMEN

at Steel Corporation's Port Talbot works have withdrawn a threat of strike action over pay. Officials of the three unions involved are to hold talks with management about a productivity deal. The talks are expected to be held within the next three weeks.

Workers Press, Friday October 27, 1972 PAGE 3 Socialist Labour back Centre Wednesday the publication date of Gerry Healy, national secretary of the on Wyndham's and King's large-format paperback documen- League (left), speaking to Francis Wyndham (centre) and David King (right) at a reception organized by the Paper.

tary of Leon Trotsky. A CALL is to go out to Lucas workers back CAV sit-in on Merseyside to back the occupation at the combine's Fazakerley plant with industrial action. 1,100 Meanwhile there are few A one-day protest strike with the spreading This is a challenge Outside The the shop stewards' commit- Lucas workers

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Fazakerley result. workers sitting-in at iS the

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persuade the Lucas group the combine complex planned for November 10. Factories likely to change its mind are sele asked baCk

ACION

1 1t be affected include Girlings at Bromborough, the occupation by blacking Acton management has Closure, due next April Lucas and Lucas already Monday national Aero Space, Netherton normally produced at parts officials all the unions 'black' work. Industrial Equipment at Fazakerley.

the razakerlev plant the involved occupation will meet razakerlev shor The call for action was stewards and Lucas man- endorsed Wednesday But the £36m investment planned by Lucas group bo thetle or obe Amat duallalll the committee Amal- crosure gamated Union En- This is despite the offer are taking 15t tinves gineering Workers. growth of the car industry and of help the grou noW from govern- £36m He said the £36m would another look at home. invest that well. uncerstand Liverpool Trades Council be wildly enthusiastic ve deputy spent throughout Tory Trade Minister neXT 1uese are also expected to call a Bernard Scott, the group. considerable statements the Lucas Christopher Chataway shop stewards chairman and amount would be spent on chiefs have hollow offered Lucas money meeting managing tron when look: at the Mersevside area director has announced. "ame government, Speakin London Ments viding discuss what action can new Fazakerlev duck' fund when he heard machinery lo : sit-in, London increase production. where the combine's of the proposed shut-down.

Show, Scott said huge vehicle factory is company spokesman pump

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Ils lucie was also anoner later told comestence in the continued Press: 'Wi occupation losses for six unre week. livestmen based

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underwrite The campaign also have spent a lot overseas to resist closure. months. support to the British

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government Lorry firm not going to NRC shipbuild. financial 977.197 £42m for the 1973-1974 inancial

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director of "blacking' granted by the said she hoped the Transport the Minister for Industrial was yeal. and Workers' Development, Christopher Chata- last week, Liverpool Limited, General Howitt Transport said He said in dockers continuing to turn WOlO l Mrs Olive Howitt, says the that away Howitt's lorries. io lift the black in the next few written days. these company has no immediate Torecasts covered On Tuesday, two lorries were support already announced to the halted and this was referred to plans to return to She added: 'We do not intend Govan Shipbuilders Ltd, Cammell Howitt's lawyers. more vehicles to the Laird Shipbuilders Ltd, National Industrial Relations to send any Harland and Wolff Mrs Howitt said that a cocks una we nave bee com and The Court. sion about a return to the NIRC the unions. It is like throwing a Liquidator, as well as construc- dog a bone.' Although an order forbidding was being left in abeyance. She tion grants. And the new

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THE BEN BARKA

By Tom Kemp. The Story of a Political Murder PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday October 27, 1972

AFFAIR

PART THREE:

THE WHITE-

WASHING

CAMPAIGN

The small-time crook Georges Figon made a 'confession' of his part in the Ben Barka killing to Jean Mavrier of 'L'ex- press' on a tape recorder belonging Edward to Behr, 'Newsweek's' man in Paris. The tape proved to be inaudible, but the French weekly published an account said to have October 27, 1972 been made from notes. Figon told a similar tale to several people of how he saw Moroccan Interior Minister General Oufkir torture Ben Barka. He told different and con- tradictory stories to other journalists. For about ten weeks, while the affair was holding the attention of the front pages, Figon remained at large. He even had a photo- graph published which showed him standing by the window of the chief of the Criminal Brigade of the Paris police.

Lemarchand's part in the affair is also obscure. The Paris Bar removed him from membership for life for un- professional behaviour, but on appeal he merely was suspended for three years.

It seems that Figon hoped that his knowledge of the plot would enable him to black- Moroccans. As it mail the happened they did not even pay him the sum agreed for his part in bringing in Ben That was his motive Barka. for publishing the account of how Oufkir had tortured the opposition leader. By the middle of January 1966 Figon's luck was running the evening of out. On January 17 a police squad closed in on the ground-floor flat where he was living. He was packed and ready to flee —but he was found lying on the floor in his overcoat, shot dead by a revolver bullet.

Suicide, the police said, but there was no shortage of scep- ties to say that an uncomfor- table witness had been 're- moved'. So Figon's story died with him, leaving nothing but an inaudible tape and a lot of suspicions. 'Figon commits suicide with a pistol he has had fired at him at point-blank range' ran the headline in the satirical weekly 'Le Canard Enchainé'.

The complicity of French government officials and even ministers in the affair shook the Gaullist regime, which had boasted of its capacity to restore the authority of the state. People of all opinions were asking how it was that a political exile could be spirited away in the middle of Paris and murdered by the security branch of another , albeit a former government, under personal direc- colony, tion of its Minister of Interior.

What is sometimes for- that hundreds of is gotten Left: Cars wrecked by bombs that were aimed at Hassan's plane by Oufkir's conspirators. Bottom left: Hassan. Centre: Oufkir. Right: de Gaulle. Algerians were illegally arrested and tortured and killed by the French police the period of the during Algerian war, and that the French police stood by while gunmen of the FLN shot down their political rivals on the left wing and leading trade unionists. To quell speculation about the Ben Barka affair, President de Gaulle, who was facing an campaign, election held press conference on February 21, 1966, in which he said, in effect, that only minor officials had been concerned and tried to free his own government of any blame or responsibility.

'Nothing, absolutely nothing', de Gaulle uncon- vincingly maintained, 'suggests that the counter-espionage ser- vices and the police as a whole knew about the operation, and have thus they could not covered up for it.' In the trial which followed the 'vulgar and the subaltern', as de Gaulle described them, prison sentences. received Lopez got eight years, Souchon six; not for kidnapping or complicity in murder but 'for making an illegal arrest. The rest of the defendants, includ- ing Bernier, the doubtful left' in the affair, were acquitted.

There were still the Moroc- cans-Oufkir and his security men-and the gangsters who were in flight. They were all sentenced to life imprisonment —or could be re-tried if they This, gave themselves up. neither Oufkir, Moroccan strongman, nor Boucheseiche, the brothel tycoon, were likely to do. The trial was the occasion for a torrent of false testimony aimed to prevent the truth from being discovered. The affair was made to appear more incoherent and complex than it really was by the well- used technique of covering up the tracks and letting subordi- nates take the rap. The blame was pinned on a few indivi- whitewash the ser- duals to vices which employed them and the regime as a whole.

With remissions,. Souchon was released from jail at the end of 1969 and then sought a re-trial on the grounds that he had acted in good faith on instructions from an agent of SDECE. He claimed that the order had come over a special police line and that his own chiefs had instructed him to keep silent about the affair.

Before as well as after the trial, despite the condemnation of Oufkir, the French secret service continued to maintain its relations with its Moroccan opposite numbers with whom it had co-operated during the Algerian war. A top French secret service man was aboard Hasan's plane when it was at last summer by shot Oufkir's conspirators. The shady activities of the SDECE, its connections with the drug traffic and the crimi- nal underworld, continued.

The Swiss and other police inform continued to Paris about the coming and going of political exiles. SDECE scandal Another broke in 1971 when a VW minibus consigned to one of its agents in New York was found to be stuffed with drugs.

This affair, like the truth about the secret service's role in the murder of Ben Barka, has been hushed up. Other scandals have shown the con- nection between the Gaullists, the secret service and the poli- tical and criminal underworld which proliferates in the Fifth Republic. The Ben Barka affair, like the treatment of thousands of Algerian other foreign and workers before and since, was warning to the French a working class of the corrup- tion and savagery of its class enemies. The lessons should be learned.

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The for mer Chinese president Liu Shao-chi, deposed during the 'cul- tu ral revolution', is spreading of accused anarchism in a recent issue of Notes on Study' issued in Peking. Above: Liu Shao-chi, the former Chinese president who is now accused of providing a breeding ground for anarchism. Liu is usually depicted as 'treading the capitalist road' finds himself but now denounced in company with Proudhon, Bakunin and Kro- potkin. The notes also speak of 'a handful of sham Marxist political swindlers who wanted to use the spectre of anarchism to stir up disorder and poison the masses in order to oppose the revolution'. The attack on anarchist theo- ries of absolute individual free- dom and no subordination to directed authority could be against some of the 'excesses' of the 'cultural revolution'. The article is an argument for dis- cipline and authority. Liu Shao-chi and his com- pany is alleged to adopt the bourgeois method of controll- ing, restricting and oppressing the masses and thus to have provided a breeding ground for anarchism. They then . went over to an 'ultra-left' position 'to destroy thoroughly socialist labour dis- cipline, to bring about the dis- integration of socialist produc- tion and to weaken the econo- mic base of the dictatorship of the proletariat'. The article claims that Liu went all out to incite anarch- ism in order to prepare the way for the restoration of the power of the bourgeoisie. It warns that although 'swindlers like Liu Shao-chi have been swept into the garbage heap of history, the anarchist trends of thought they incited may emerge again in new forms and in new appearances' The point of the article seems to be that there are among the masses those who are under the influence of 'anarchism'. The notes are intended to enable Party offi- cials to oppose its influence with a correct ideology.

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WARSAW

Three Polish radio com- gathered mentators round the microphone of Warsaw radio the other day to discuss the week's events, beginning the United Nations de- bate. The discussion went like this: First speaker: I have to with complete satisfaction that even some countries of the so- called third world, which not wanted long ago the whole world upside down and on their own pluck the sun out of the sky, have taken on a new temperance.'

Second speaker: "Excuse me but there was one exception.

China' First speaker: 'China'. Third speaker: 'And Albania.'

First speaker: 'Yes, there were two, I beg your pardon. I had forgotten the Albanians be- cause, I am sorry to say, not attention is paid to them much in UN. But the Chinese speech was so dangerous, because it the typical did not contain Chinese abuse and rebuke. It was a cold, one can almost say, cynical, strategic plan, calculated over many years to om- sabotage all forms of co- • ed operation, understanding and co-existence' e of The only blood-curdling ther of the pronouncements ek's Chinese delegate concerned with criticism of the proposed European Security Conference de- and a guarded welcome for the sion enlarged European Economic Community. There was nothing to sug- • say gest that he wanted to 'turn that the world upside down' or do e so- anything which could disturb not the status quo or give a single turn UN delegate a sleepless night.

Lown Workers Press, F Plinio Salgado, the would-be Brazilian führer, has gone onto the offen- sive with a recent rally in the city of Belo Horizonte to celebrate the 40th anniversary of 'Brazilian Integralist Action', his 1930s-style fascist movement. Those who thought that Salgado commanded a handful of nostalgic Nazis were sur- prised by the list of new all of them sympathizers, eminent members of the Gar- rastazu Medici government.

Salgado, who upheld the Nazi banner in the period of World War Il, does not hide his role as a theoretician of the present regime and he boasts a long list of govern- ment personalities who 'share his ideals. In fact, the fascist leader was until recently a lawmaker for the regime's official 'Arena' party. Emergildo Alves Ramos, one of his followers, claimed that the present military dictator- is guided by the 'inte- gralist' programme and that the ideas defended by Salgado in the 1930s are now being put into practice., Another, Nicolas Senize, went even further. He outlined a strategy for the conquest of full power with no middlemen suggested that the Inte- and gralists infiltrate Arena, fictitious party which is really represented by ourselves'.

This is no idle boast. Arena's Top: Brazil's president Medict Nazi sympathizers in his govern- ment. Lett: War Minister, Orlando Geisel. Peasants and small farmers clashed with the fascist Civil Guard in Valencia in the early of last Saturday hours morning. The monopolists and specu- lators are moving in on the fertile land which peasants and farmers cultivate, where crops of rice, oranges ano beans have enabled them and their families to subsist for years. 'Mercavalencia' com- The pany has taken over their plots of land ... with the kind permission of the provincial governor. Six months ago, their irriga- tion water was cut off and access roads were torn up.

The 300 families who live on this land have waited OL, s Press, Friday October 27, 1972 PAGE 5 second-ranking leader, Deputy Raimondo Padilha, was con- sidered Salgado's right-hand man. Padilha is an Integralist who is proud of his fascist past. His name appears in the 'white book' published by the Allies in 1945, as an efficient Axis spy. He channelled funds provided by Count Caleazzo Ciano de Mussolini, the Italian Foreign Minister, to the Brazilian fascists. Perhaps the most important old Integralist at the present time is Filinto Muller, the chairman of and Arena 'political arm' of dictator Medici. Filinto was police chief of Getulio Vargas during the 1930s. His 'feats' include the return of several Jewish im- migrants to the Gestapo, Olga Prestes, them among whose husband is now general secretary of the Brazilian Com- munist Party. Clad in brown shirts, goose- stepping to old Prussian marches, Integralists the recently paraded through the Belo Horizonte, of streets capital of Minas Gerais state.

The Brazilian Democratic Movement, opposition the party tolerated by the regime, complained in the Chamber of about the fascists' Deputies activities. General Aluizio Guedes Pereira, army training chief, applauded the Integralist call when he spoke recently with War Minister Orlando Geisel.

'We must provide the nation with men who are psychologic- ally ready for war, since only will we be constructing then Brazilian power. This must be incentive for the young Brazilian men today, he said.

hoping that their appeal to the local court would be accepted. Then last weekend the bull- and the pneumatic dozers drills of 'Mercavalencia' appeared. Old boundaries were destroyed; trees were up- rooted. Groups of Civil Guards accompanied the workers who handled the drills. When they turned to open- -ing up a new entrance for the Anohuers roadway across the land of one family, a peasant woman and her daughter stood defiantly before the gang of men with drills. As the woman and her child shouted, the neighbours came and formed a human wall in front of the advancing drills.

The Civil Guard attacked the peasants and their children and arrested three peasants.

The peasants only dispersed finally when the arrested men were released at midday and when three jeeps of Civil Guards arrived. This brutal expulsion of peasants and farmers from their land is one of the first shots in the rationalization of Spanish agriculture in prepara- tion for entry into the Com- mon Market.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday October 27, 1972

BY JOHN SPENCER

A cut-throat trade war is The basic reason for this is that the bulk of Japanese capa- under in interna- way city has been built up in the tional shipbuilding which and past seven years designed specifically to handle is one of the first victims the largest orders at low of the recession in world cost and with maximum speed.

trade caused by the Japan has also set in motion of the post- breakdown grandoise pro- expansi gramme which would enable it war capitalist monetary to build 65 per cent of all new system. 1975. This strikes shipping by terror into the European ship- The post-war boom in ship- building is definitely over. Not builders, who currently are bombarding their governments only is world trade declining, but the bulk of cargoes are with demands for action to being concentrated on fewer prevent Japan winning a mon- and fewer main routes as the opoly position in the ship- building world. share of the underdeveloped The West countries in world trade plum- Association European Shipbuilders and the mets. Organization for Economic Co- more efficient utilization A operation and Development are of capacity made possible both sending high-powered by the development ot con. delegations to plead with tainerization, and roll-on, roll- off ships which are able to cut the Japanese government and turn-round and thus shipbuilding employers. times The confrontation is likely than transport more cargo In a state- earlier ships of similar size. to be very tense. According to the shipbuild- issued last month, the ment AWES accuses Japanese ship- ing employers within the Com- mon Market there is a funda- builders of trying to dominate mental trend towards the world with the aid of their surplus government. capacity in sea transport sup- plý. Order books are shrinking The AWES statement gives throughout the Common Mar- the lie to the Communist Party leaders of the Clyde ket, they say. upper Much of the European ship- work-in who claimed that British shipbuilding building industry is backed by Britist future in front of it. it world standards and the ship shows conclusively that owners are complaining vehe- not the inefficient mently about Japanese compe- only are tition. On present trends, it is badly-placed Clyde yards estimated, will have doomed, but with them the Japan majority of yards in Europe.

cornered 80 per cent of all new produced As Workers Press repeatedly ships by 1980, pointed most of the European during the

UCS

driving out work-in, i shipbuilding is grip- yards to the wall. ped by a titanic international The European employers are 'dumping' crisis brought by the screaming about by on the Japanese shipbuilders, but anarchy of capitalist produc- despite the massive yen revalu- tion. This stand is ation in December last year amply con- the Japanese producers are still firmed by the shipbuilding employers themselves who give able to undercut European chapter and for the prices with ease. Top: The Swan Hunter shipyards on the Tyne in the industry crisis situation not only in Britain but inter- nationally. No capitalist government, let alone the present Tory govern- ment, has any power to resolve crisis. It be this can only tackled by the nationalization of the yards without compensa- ion and under workers' Con- trol. This demand is inseparable from a campaign to mobilize the working class as a whole to force the Tories to resign and to elect a Labour govern- ment pledged to socialist poli- cIes. The ship-owners themselves have no answer: they end their statement with a plaintive plea to European governments to to stop their expansion. Such • shiovaros on the ryne Newcaste Let level as "lose are as the came the Stalinists' nine or ch nrec surizing hutchers des- that Europe 'many vards of all size have gaps in their order 1 1905. for deliveries in 1974 and 19 even for come cased goes on to attack the Japanese not 'playing the game' by international rules. It refers to the activities of Japanese price cutting causes Eur I: A Japanese super tanker.

the Sanko Steamship com- pany, which has ordered 50 tankers of 80,000-90,000 dead- from Japanese weight tons yards. These are being built for $11m-$12m each-'far below for the recent world prices such ships', according to the European shipbuilders. To add insult to injury Sanko is then chartering the finished for long vessels periods at low rates to Euro- owners, thus evading pean international agreements on export credit terms. Similar arrangements are being made for very large cargo vessels, the AWES warns. that despite It complains the repeated assurances Japanese shipbuilders that their will be kept at rea- prices cutting causes European employers to cry out for government pi sonably acceptable levels', the Japanese yards have cut their prices by 10-15 per cent over the last nine months. The Japanese are frantically building up their capacity for production of ships. new Twelve years ago, their yards turned out 1,839 million gross of registered tons shipping against 5,566 million producec in western Europe. By 1970, however, Japanese output was 10,100 million tons, leaving European shipbuilders trailing behind with only While 8,481 million tons. Tapanese increased output nearly 450 per cent over the decade, European output was only just over 50 per cent up over the same period. In addition, from now until ut for government protection. Yet continuing Japanese 1975, yards nine new are planned in Japan adding a total of 4.6 million tons to the coun- try's annual capacity to pro- duce new ships. addition, expansion of In is expected to existing yards add another 1.8 million tons to production capacity by 1975.

A further addition to Japan's shipbuilding capacity is pre- dicted through increased pro- ductivity, and could amount to as much as 2 million tons a year. 'The Japan Times' has esti- mated that by 1975 Japanese shipyards will be able to turn out 18.6 million tons of new shipping every year. Total world production of new ship- ping in 1970 was just under 21 million tons and even in the ontinuing Japanese expansion will mean that by 1980 it w unlikely event of an expansion of demand ships, new Japan will have at least 65 per cent of the world market by 1975. Projects which will add at least another 4 million tons to annual production capacity by 1980 are already being plan- situation is'bad The ned. for enough the European employers overall, but it is if anything even worse at the top end of market with the the very big vessels. By 1975 Japan will be in a build up 80 position to to ships a year of over 200,000 tons deadweight. West Euro- pean yards will have the capa- about 70 such city to build ships in 1975. But current Workers Presa, Friday an that by 1980 it will have cornered 80 per cent of the estimates of the market for such vessels are that only about 100 a year can be sold.

To make matters worse, yards capable of building very large ships are being con- structed in Korea and behind stringent tarifi walls in the United States, thus further reducing the eventual market to be divided between Japan and the EEC. The result of this cut-throat competition can only be what

AWES

the describes as 'massive unemployment prob- lem aftecting shipbuilding yards in most, if not all, West Euro- countries'. It calls for pean immediate action by European governments against the Japan- ese threat. akers Presa, Friday October 27, 1972 PAGE 7 80 per cent of the world ship market.

The European governments, it says, should take immediate steps a ioint action and make it absolutely clear to the Japanese government that the financial support given to its own expanding shipbuilding industry is the basic reason for the present crisis in the West European shipbuilding indus- try. The Japanese are hardly likely to be unaware of this obvious fact and it is safe to predict that they will take no notice whatever. Appeals like this from the European employers are likely to have about as much effect as the appeals of the UCS Stalinists to the Tory govern- ment.

THE GERMAN COMMUNIST

PARTY UNDER HITLER

PAGE 8 Workers Press, FrIday October :

BY TOM KEMP. PART 1

When Hitler finally took power at the end of Janu- ary 1933 the German Communist Party (KPD) leadership com- was pletely taken by surprise and showed suicidal com- placency. 'Hitler's rise to power hastens the revolu- tionary • crisis' was the theme of its policy. During January there were a few joint meetings and even joint demonstrations with the Social Democrats (SPD) in some areas, but this was con- trary to the official Party line.

leaders Most of the Party view shared the that the bourgeoisie would never hand over power to Hitler. The leader of the KPD's Reichstag group, Torgler (who later went over to the Social Democracts) claims that when general secretary he asked Ernst Thaelmann on January 29 to declare a state of special emergency in the Party his re- 'You are mad. The ply was bourgeoisie won't let Hitler anywhere near power. Let's go to Lichtenberg to play skittles'.

Thaelmann had 12 years in concentration camp to re- a flect on his folly in blindly following Stalin's directives. Whether he did in fact spend the evening before Hitler was appointed Chancellor of the playing in a bowling Reich alley is not certain-but it would not be out of character.

Thaelmann is now held up in the German Democratic Republic and, indeed, through- out the communist movement, not only as a martyr, but as an advocate of the united front who somehow antici- pated the line adopted by the 7th World Congress in 1935.

Reality was very far from this propaganda picture. Many of the KPD leaders to the managed escape clutches of the Nazis and reached the Soviet Union. The fate of a number of them was as tragic as that of those who behind. To all appear- stayed ances in 1933 and 1934 there was no essential change in the policy of the KPD in exile or in that of its underground workers. At its 13th Plenum in De- cember 1933 the Executive Committee of the Communist International (Comintern) maintained that the KPD's policy had been correct at all times. Indeed, how could it do otherwise without repudiating the whole Stalinist policy of the 'third period' which had caused the German defeat?

However, a phrase in its revealed that the resolution German leadership had been by no means agreed about this policy. It noted that Remmele and Neumann belonged to the 'right opportunists and defeat- ists in their appraisal of the perspectives of the German revolution'. But, together with Thaelmann, they had been the KPD leaders for main number of years; in fåct they theoreti- had been the main cians in the leadership. Trotsky commented: As 'Now we are informed, in a fleeting remark, that two mem- bers of the triumvirate October 27, 1972 Left: Herman Remmele (top) and Heinz murdered by Stalin's secret police. Right rectly" before and during the overturn accidentally turn out "opportunists and de- to be featists". . Only the thick walls fascist jail shield of • the ‹a m third member against such an accident.' Trotsky this in wrote January 1934. Three years later Remmele and Neumann arrested by the KGB, were Stalin's killed, probably were bullet in the back of the neck the cellars of one of its in prisons. More will be said about the fate of the later communists in the German Soviet Union. The Comintern resolution of December, 1933, from which Neumann and Remmele had at least the to dis- courage sent, asserted that 'the growth of fascism and its assumption of power in Germany, and in a number of other capitalist countries, imply a growth of the revolutionary crisis and in- creasing indignation of wide against the hegemony masses of capital. As Trotsky bitterly ob- served: "Commonly, this is called covering one's up tracks.' Not a word of honest examination of the reasons for Hitler's triumph: the KPD (i.e. Stalin) had been right all along. And Trotsky goes on: 'It is an old story by now that the growth of fascism would have been impossible without the social crisis of capitalism. But Hitler's victory ("the assump- tion of power by fascism") did not at all arise from the 'in- dignation of wide masses against the hegemony of capi- tal", but from the impotence and Heinz Neumann, two leaders of the KPD lice. Right: Street fighting between the fascist S masses, who have of these ben paralysed by reformism and adventurism, by the lack revolutionary leadership by the despicable and and criminal policy of the Comin- "No Stalin—no victory tern. for Hitler". No bureaucratic subterfuges can cover up either the depth of the Ger- man defeat or the responsi- bility of the Comintern'. Trotsky, (Writings of Leon 1933-1934, pp. 209-210.) While Manuilsky was draw- ing up resolutions for the Comintern pleasing to Stalin, the more subservient of the German exiles like Wilhelm Pieck writing make- were believe accounts of the revolu- tionary upsurge taking place in the Third Reich. It was claimed that hundreds of thousands were active in the communist resistance. The that the KPD had view suffered a disastrous defeat was dismissed by Pieck as a stupid and wicked lie con- cocted by the Social Demo- crats, still characterized with 'third period' zest as 'social fascists'. According to Pieck, Walter Ulbricht and the other time- servers-later to turn up as Stalin's men in East Germany -Germany was ripe for revo- lution if only Social Demo- cracy was destroyed first. The impression was given that it was only a matter of time be- fore the crisis-stricken Nazi regime gave way to a Soviet who escaped to Russia after Hitler's • fascist SA and KPD 'Red Front fighters.

republic. Doubtless Stalin be- lieved not a word of it, but, if he did, events soon convinced him of the utter falsity of this picture. Publicly the Soviet Union commented little about the new regime in Germany and the Press gave little information about the persecution of the Jews and the arrest and execu- of socialist and com- tion munist workers. In fact there was more outrage expressed by the foreign bourgeois press than by 'Pravda' or 'Izvestia'.

In January 1934, almost exactly one year after Hitler came to power, Stalin made a lengthy report to the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in whichhe-scarcely made men- tion of it. He explained it 'not only as a symptom of the weakness of the working class and a result of the betrayals of the working class by the Social-Democratic which paved the way Party, for tascism; it must also be re- garded as a symptom of the weakness of the bourgeoisie no longer able to rule by the old methods of parliamentar- ism and bourgeois demo- cracy . . • In other words, Stalin working blamed the German class-preparing the way for his wartime policy of holding the German people responsible for Nazis-blamed the Social Democratic Party but had not one word to say about the KPD's role. How was it that this Party, so often called 'the best section of the Communist International'. had not been able to mobilize the masses to fight Hitler? Stalin did not r. Hitler's coming to power, only to be raise the question. On Nazi foreign policy Stalin noted 'there have been some changes in the policy of which reflect Germany growth of revanchist and im- perialist sentiments'. . His plati- were punctuated with tudes 'thunderous applause' from a hand-picked audience, many of whom were not to survive for more than a few years be- fore falling victim to for their alleged purges "Trotskyism'. He claimed that Rosenberg, not Hitler, was directing Ger- man foreign policy-with the aim of preparing a racial war of Germans against the Slavs!

Dealing with the view that Soviet foreign policy had been affected by the rise of Hitler, Stalin declared: 'Of course, we are far from being en- fascist thusiastic about the in Germany. But regime fascism is not the issue here, if only for the reason that fascism in Italy, for example, has not prevented the USSR from establishing the best re- lations with that country' So, in 1934, one year after the crushing of 'the best sec- tion of the Communist Inter- national' by a fascist regime, which Stalin was far from being enthusiastic about it, it was quite in order to make a deal with it because the USSR already 'enjoyed the best of relations' with fascist Italy!

Who said that 'peaceful •co- existence' was invented by Khrushchev? And who would dare to say that Lenin would have countenanced a policy of this kind?

CONTINUED TOMORROW

In the hippy circles police Vir D. R Rooper, managing officers are called pigs.

It's a lirector of the Bowring Steam.

nickname introduced from the Company, didn't know ship United States. But Sir what he was letting himself in Desmond Heap,_ president of for when he wrote recently to Britain's Law Society, has told The Seamen' newspaper. officers of the law that they In lyrical terms he described magnificent life on should not be ashamed of this the the tremendous title. ocean waves, the • At a recent Society confer- of the team spirit chaps as and ence he sang. the praises of they hoist the mainsail 'these splendid keelhaul the mate. Back wrote people, the policemen'. In the of Joseph Rourke, boatswain case on British the MV "Tua'. lawmen, he said, pig admission, stood for Pride, Integrity and 'By your own Guts. Bowrings have been ship- Heap chief 1818 Sir, was assistant owners since one solicitor for Leeds and does not need to have attended the Leeds assistant town clerk. the LSE to know how you have Presumably this was when he accumulated the amount vast developed this of capital to have diversed and glamorous view of the force, which invested, eventually to control has been twice subjected to Home industries distinct SO many Office from shipping. investigations in the 'You made it over the backs 20 years for corruption past and low morale. of British merchart seamen during the 150 last years. hasten to say that you are not of alone: many your com- great patriots also enjoy wealth and power via the same route. 'We also helped to create that wealth, investing not by investing but by our money, limbs and in many our health, I our lives. One thing cases have become aware of-ship- owners and Bootle bookmakers have thing one In common; all the time, they both, cry poverty' Over to you, Master Rooper.

The 'Morning Star' delegation of the to last week's meeting Labour and Industrial Corres- abrupt General Idi Amin's pondents' Group was split on the issue of whether to admit admission to hospital is not all that surprising. Over the years David Maude, industrial cor- of the hugely and respondent the Workers overweight Press. burly Ugandan president has Mick Costello, the 'Star's' been dogged with gout. field, Every now and then he has senior man in the and abstained the issue. He hospital to go into be on of taken off alcohol and rich thus aided the defeat Maude's application by a 17-14 food. The ex-heavyweight boxing majority with three absten- champion and rugby player is tions. introduced to a rigorous But as chairman of the then Group he played a much more of keep routine exercises to direct role in the defeat, justi- his weight down. One thing about this latest fying the committee's recom- mendation that Maude be not bout of illness is that he has admitted. not, as in previous years, lett other hand David the for treatment. On the country he Turner, who recently joined (Last time went to hospital in Cairo). the 'Star' as second-line indus- Amin obviously believes that trial man from 'Tribune', sup- to leave his army government ported the application, he as had done consistently while now might leave the door open with both papers. for a coup to oust him.

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The Bolsheviks faced sabo- tage and obstruction at every turn. Former owners, anarchists and other counter-revolution- aries sought to stir up griev- ances among the tired workers and foment strikes. Moscow's 16,000 municipal employees went on strike for four months. The old admini- strators, petty-bourgeois and sections of the trade some union leadership did all they could to halt developments. Officials of the Ministry of Food struck. So did the staff of the State Bank. In every government department func- tionaries disappeared, taking with them the funds and vital files. The , operators of the Central Telegraph Agency re- fused to transmit any of the despatches of the People's Commissars. The anti-revolu- tionaries at the head of the railway union refused to col- laborate in restoring the trans- port system. The Bolsheviks also had to fight the backwardness of the masses themselves. Machine- gun guards were placed at the wine-cellars. Hastily-assembled workers' tribunals dealt not only with saboteurs, bourgeois ards. In these conditions, Lenin called for 'miracles of pro- letarian organization'. And these were achieved. Compared with the years-even decades required by western Social Democracy to legislate even the most minor boom-time reforms the Bolsheviks achieve- ments were monumental. The Decree on Land was issued on October 26. Clause 1 declared: 'The landowners' right of ownership over the soil is abolished forthwith, without compensation.' Two days later, to deal with the problem of homelessness in the cities all municipalities were empowered to requisition and confiscate properties.

The decree on peace was passed on October 26. The decree on the rights of national minorities—including the right to self-determination and the abolition of all national and religious privileges — was issued on November 1l. In less than three months the entire civil service hier- archy was abolished, supplies were requisitioned for old regime army, all the and diplomats ambassadors a Supreme sacked, were Economic Council was estab- lished, the state drive against counter-revolution and sabo- was opened and the tage Brest-Litovsk talks began. Decrees were passed institut- ing workers' control in industry and making banking a state monopoly. The eight-hour day was enforced on the railways, education was taken out of hands of the church, the ranks in the army were abolished, the major electrical companies were confiscated as were the Putilov works and the Metal huge Russo-Belgian Company. Civil marriage and divorce were instituted, a code for the revolutionary courts . payment of interest on bonds was stopped, Russian spelling was simplified. The Institute for the Protection of and Mothers *Children was formed, the Russian Federation of Soviet Republics was pro- claimed and a decree was issued for the organization of the Red Army. 3 Press, Friday October 27, ' Political both outside Party. T Bolshevik Constituen for the at 13 cent of the bourgeois to the cent tionaries. Mensheviks the Bolsheviks. The rural the SRs, but th for cities and the parts of the Bolsheviks Sverdlov, for the proposed that the Assembly accept programme of the When this was Bolsheviks Constituent Assem on until the rostrum and d guards are tired- hall. The following d Assembly solved. This sation abroad, but noticed in issue clearly the either revolution had to In April, 1918, th had to disarm the adventurers, counter-revolutiona had formed called the Staff. The Allied Wa vention and Their plan was Czech rising in th Volga regions and to coincide revons near Mosou Japanese landed at and the British within Party itself Some decision. members government of la coalition of which the Bolsh hold only half from which Lenin would be The non-Bolsher within such would have Tevotonate consequent would menu Bolshevism and door counter-r Nevertheless, Zinoviev, and Milyutin the Central Comm issue. The Brest-Lito negotiations severe more threatened between apart faction' ultra-left 'Revoluti position. Lenin his position the negotiations in German revo of a But after this direct and persona posea. int lad always been the Brest-Litor the Socialist aries broke Bolsheviks and ti assassination assis and Trotsky Lancels Serge claims time an anti-Bolshe was employed chauffeur. course, wounded terrorist Fanny Ka But the revolut leadership due dangers will of th tionary and Partv Marxist theory Year One of the ended as the Ger tion appeared But here the leac hence the different. Tomorrow a speci discuss the connect the anti-communi tional Socialism gr tor Sergean av ent of the Fourth cne 58 per Revolu- the decisive army for the the entire rejected, the out. 1 ne walked to dis- a sen- the or criminals and armed body General be defeated. organize a with the

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ANCILLARY staff at London's Westminster teaching group of hospitals are to stage a 24-hour unofficial strike today over their pay dispute. The hospitals involved-Queen Mary Hospital, Roehampton and the Westminster Hospital-say they will have to cancel many non-emergency operations.

A spokesman for the group governors said the staff likely to take part are catering and workers, domestic switchboard operators and sterile goods packers. The spokesman added that all staff representatives had given them ample warning of the strike and did not intend to prevent the hospitals using volunteers to keep essential services running.

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still remain to be overcome for Arms, Birmingham Small the Midlands motor cycle manu- facturer, says the chairman Lord Shawcross in his annual report. The annual accounts revealed that the embattled BSA group write-offs suffered losses amounting to £3.3m in the year ended July 1972. The previous losses year totalled £8.2m. Shawcross had promised to eliminate company losses by this year, but he admits that he failed— a great dis appointment'-because of lack of finance. He said the company needed more risk capital. But he adds that 'interest charges on borrowed capital represent too large a prior charge in a business of this kind'. A good deal of further capital was needed, he said, to replace outdated plant and in retooling for new advanced products.

BSA was rescued from liquida- tion a year ago when Barclays Bank rallied with a £10m loan.

Forecasting that losses would not be reduced until next year Shawcross said the motor cycle division remained the most difficult. Nine-tenths of output is exported and the home market is threatened with tough Japanese competition. THREE HUNDRED workers at the Babcock and Wilcox tube factory in Dumbarton are to re- turn to work on Monday after a 17-week strike for a £6-a-week pay demand. On union advice, they have accepted a long-term deal giving them week now and a another £2 in 18 months' time.

Ian McKee, district secretary ULSTER Vanguard yest- erday gave full backing to their leader, William Craig, for his 'shoot-to- kill' speech last week. The extreme right-wing loyalist movement also stressed they had complete confidence in the Vanguard leadership as a whole-a move clearly de- signed to indicate there is no split at the top over Craig's now-repeated warning of civil war. Soon after reports of the speech-made to members of the far right Tory Monday Club —reached Belfast last week, a Captain Austin deputy leader, Ardill, described the remarks as 'unfortunate.' Since then, however, Vanguard has explained the initial that reaction was based on miscon- ceptions of first reports.

SUPPORTERS of the right- wing British Campaign to Stop Immigration were on duty at the Lancashire cotton town of Rochdale yesterday as electors registered their votes. Seven members of the cam- paign had been granted permis- sion from the town hall to sit in polling stations • throughout the constituency. They were con- centrated at polling booths in districts, immigrant noting the numbers of immigrants voting.

Mr Jim 1 Merrick, the anti- immigration candidate who is THE TORIES have launched a carefully prepared public rela- tions exercise aimed at dis- crediting the powermen's pay claim. This Tory back- week benchers circularized were with a 'fact sheet' which sets out information for them to use at public meetings. The statistical information will be used by the Tories in speeches and down the .up country in à bid to isolate the powermen's struggle. The accuracy of the docu- is immediately under ment question Frank because SENIOR ENGINEERS and technicians in the electrical power industry struck work throughout Britain yesterday.

It is the first major strike in the history of their associa- tion, founded in 1920. The one-day strike involved between 10,000 and 12,000 mem- bers of Association who are protesting against the present salary structure for headquarters staff at electricity generating boards. Association chairman, Mr_Bob Blackburn, told Workers Press yesterday: 'The object of this strike is not to hit the consumer one little bit. It is just a demonstration to our employers that the nego- of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, says that neither he nor the shop stewards are satisfied that the deal fully meets the claim. But he justifies the decision 'Shoot-to-kill' Craig The Rev Ian Paisley said yesterday that after his latest meeting with Prime Minister Ed- ward Heath, he believed it prob- able that a multi-religious Home in Guard would set up also the campaign's national chairman, said he had made the in his because experi- move ence' immigrant electors voted than under more once or assumed identities. Mr Merrick stated in his elec- tion address that, if elected, he would support Enoch Powell, the right-wing Tory MP for Wolverhampton. Other candidates in the by- Chapple's is spelt in- name correctly. The document is being sup- plied by the Department of Trade and Industry headed by John Davies. Recently Davies took on a 'political secretary', unique appointment for a Minister. He is Mr John Pope, previously personal assistant to Anthony Barber when he was chairman of the party in the run-up to the 1970 General Election.

It is understood Pope was tiating machinery is not work- ing properly' Negotiations on the salary structure have been going on since 1966, Mr Blackburn said.

'At present,' he continued, 'there are lots and lots of differ- ent grades of engineers who, unless they do secure promotion, remain on a certain salary grade for a large number of years.

'What we want to do is first to increase the size of the annual increments and to raise the salary ceiling for top expert engineers.

We want a more flexible pay structure and better prospects of promotion for the top •grade engineers.' Yesterday's strike by EPEA members was the first strike by a registered trade union since the introduction of the Indus- trial Relations Act. to recommend acceptance on the grounds that 'the men were out for so long and because of the situation of the economic country. This is the third strike in the we talks and the threat of a statu-.

tory incomes policy. Northern Ireland and the army removed. Paisley, Protestant Unionist MP for North Antrim at West- and leader of minster, the Province's Democratic Unionist Party, said: It is not for me to judge how Mr Heath reacted to our pro- posals, but I think that they will be the basis of a reform of the defence of Ulster.' Speaking at Heathrow Airport before flying the United to States 'to do some preaching', he described his meeting with "a forthright and full Heath as discussion'. • Northern Ireland faces a half- hour strike by protestant workers today in support of Londonderry bus drivers. The drivers have refused to take their vehicles into the former Republican no-go areas of the city's Bogside and Creggan. The 80,000 strong Loyalist Association of Workers claimed yesterday that the drivers had been threatened with dis- missal. election caused by the death of Labour MP Mr Jack McCann are Mr Lawrence Cunliffe (Labour), Mr Cyril Smith (Liberal) and Mr David Trippier (Tory).

As the poll got under way yesterday morning Labour Party officials forecast a 75 per cent turn-out. Labour agent, Mr Paul Carmody, said that in . the first three hours between 6 and 7 per cent of the town's 66,000- strong electorate cast their votes.

A Tory spokesman, however, estimated that only about 3 or 4 percent had voted by 10 a.m.

Workers Press, F responsible for suggesting and preparing the 'fact sheet'.

In the 'battle for minds' another Tory appointment is mentioning. worth Maurice Trowbridge, political corres- pondent of the Daily Express', has just joined party head- quarters as deputy director of publicity. These appointments reflect the growing concern in sec- tions of the Tory Party that the government is not com- municating well enough with The case for nationalization of the docks and transport industry

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The Headrow, 8 p.m. CLASHES between the Chilean army and right-wing demon- strators yesterday and Wednes- day were the most violent since the beginning of the lorry-owners' strike over two weeks ago. Tear- gas and water-cannon were used against groups of demonstrators and who were stoning shops brough the street Santa, Army patrols. drove the capital, on the look-out for snipers.

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BY STEPHEN JOHNS

CLERICAL STAFF and copytakers at the Press Association news agency returned to work on Fleet Street yes- in a mood of bitterness terday and despondency, convinced management have ictimized successfully their militant leader John Lawrence.

Mr Lawrence (57), the father of the NATSOPA chapel at PA, was left standing in the street after the strikers voted 40 to 20 to return to work.

Their decision was taken under a manage- ment sack them if they did not inreal to immediately report for normal duty.

'There is What nothing I can do. there said нете ев Mr Lawrence. outside conn Lawrence: Len standing As they went back to This effectively blocked work each of the strikers the considerable The pay which crunch point aylil® ceal shook with Mr which offer minimum increases on Wednesday Halusi baLsene came Lawrence who was fired was bulding up in the of f4. The only manage- the strikers when 1C° the second day early stages of dis- the from meni oner ceved! erte the strike which was NAISOP A members management giving them VuLC. The NATSOPA leader- Negotiations Natober Is £1.50 and 48 hours over pay. report on the pay claim began ship also they decided work sack Tanueo the yesterday. PA challenge threat unanimously to strike. NUDaT arlee also Street consider that here great the strikers and an lo llre But the battle they have insisted important battle ander over une role on became one over alleged su lei by union Lawrence's case not has been lost orincibic officials, led PA branch when PA.

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his case. 'wilfully' ceased to do sacked for leading Kers to ave ge sırikers was neither moral nor finan- Trouble Now began at PA work for which he strike. has cial assistance. after had been employed. lost ine ligat to work. Lay-offs 10- 15 per cent at Govan fares rise- GOVAN Shipbuilders- -the com- which the bulk pany inherited shidbuild- DalıkiuDt ing consortium laid off 1,500 yesterday because of a strike 50 bilermakers' BEA claim The dispute. which is the first to hit the company since it went into operation last month, is over pay. Ihe TorCHen elected British European, Airways and other airlines are to go ahead a f2 wage offer. Discussions on the dispute are with plans for big increases in domestic air fares. The airlines being led London by applied to the Civil Aviation Authority yesterday for allice rises vurav. Done makers •CoL- averaging between 10 and 15 per cent from November I.

tish officer, with the Shipbuilding Lord Boyd-Carpenter, Employers' Association. right- Tory of the wing chairman agreement negotiated at inl cae Govan by the Trepper libel Stalinist-dominated CAA, made great play of ad- stewards' the hearing tor an oulls committee, the unions undertake hour after urging delegates to the Teconne URDOlLaCe give very greal weigal to ut case heard avoiding 'unconstitutional' action proposed 5-per-cent govern- while national workers pro- ment price ciling. cedure But James Scarlett, commer- Govan Shipbuilders visions ea in absence cial relations manager the old

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has refused permission for talks the Tories lands during the day. Eastern Leopold Trepper, former were preparing the grouna Ior a Scotland will be mostly cloudy further assault on the unions'.

head of the Soviet spy ring with pe emperat rain later, Woir eekly® today's SUlIIC lalil of Europe, isoun wester wil be 'Labour he says that if the 'Red Orchestra', to leave near normal. talks policy breaks down The Outlook for Saturday and Sun- the country to take part in could Eritainy "Who a libel action he bring- IS dave nall al unles. somle sullly periods. Rather cold. guycils Calli alll French ing against a high the walce unions

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official. blamed 'for every failure such Foche, and Security chief Jean as unemployment, inflation had accused Trepper German breakdown aleced In lan with the and order'. Non-political trade operalls unionism could not succeed when counter-intelligence fell into their hands in 1942 against such a political campaign, and betraying his members of ben savs. esmenare cureober that he deceived the Germans CHRYSLER of Coventry laid off Tle has citeds was thus able to escape. 1,400 production workers vester- tenwumesses a day because or a surke Dv Ine case, inciuding the authol workers at the Ryton on Duns- of the successful book "The assembly Red Giles car plant Orchestra', Perrault. hiuic The began Inles awdy. sunike s over ine nedas manning proposals. yesterday.

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A SECRET ballot among just over 1,000 Walsall tube workers will this morning give its verdict on a plan to speed up half their factory, shut down the rest and send 300 out of the gates with a promise of first option on any future employment there. The plan has emerged after lengthy negotiations between the Stainless Tubes factory's parent Tube Investments, company, officials and the shop union stewards' action committee set up to fight earlier plans for a total shutdown. It was being put to a secret ballot, convenor Alan Colpitts Workers Press yesterday, told because voting at a mass meet- ing had been close the stewards could not get a clear decision. was nothing else 'There we could do', said Colpitts, a Com- munist Party member. Of the 1,400 workers origin- ally threatened with the dole, 190 have already left the factory 'voluntarily', 200 have been placed in alternative work near- by and 278 have been offered alternative work. Under the TI plan between 350 and 400 would be kept on and given a £4.50 a week pay increase in return for measured increases in productivity.

This would leave 300 workers without a job. These would be placed on what the stewards 'extended lay-off, describe as paid an average £23.50 a week for up to 12 months and put first in the queue if any new employer opens up on the site.

If there was still no work for them at the end of 12 months 'that would be matter for a separate negotiation', Mr Colpitts said yesterday. He thought the stewards would demand a lump sum payment. The 300 workers would have to collect their money from the factory each week 'so we would not lose contact with them'.

Mr Colpitts said yesterday that 'not what the plan was we would have liked to have seen', but made clear that he and his stewards are giving no firm lead against it in the ballot.

'It will depend on the mem- bership whether we continue the fight', he said. 'We are prepared to fight if we've got the forces to fight.' He claimed the outlook for finding a new employer to start up in the closed-down half the factory was 'very hopeful.

Two firms were interested: one • small tube firm, the other a manufacturer. motor components Earlier this year the Commun- ist Party was claiming a member- ship of 20 in the factory.

AN ORDER in Council is to be introduced soon to provide for independent procedure to an consider, among others things, the cases of people now interned and detained in Northern Ire- land. This was announced by under-Secretary, Northern the Ireland (Mr David Howell) in a written Commons reply yester- day to Mr Albert Stallard (Lab St Pancras North). THE SOVIET Union may already have begun to deliver fresh mili- tary aid to Egypt, according to statement made by Prime a Minister Aziz Sidky on his re- turn from Moscow. Sidky said that he was given a pledge that the Soviet Union would honour its commitments and strengthen Egypt militarily 'within its capa- bilities'. Soviet military advisers were evicted last July after his failure to persuade Moscow to supply more offensive weapons.