Workers Press no. 913

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AS SCRAMBLE TO RAISE PRICES STARTS

THE STATE PAY

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY NOVEMBER 6, 1972 • No. 913 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

EDWARD HEATH will do today what no other Tory Prime Minister has attempted in history-introduce strict laws to control the wages and therefore the living standards of every worker in the country Heath's legislation is not just "wage freeze mark two', as the Tory Press would like workers to believe, but the most decisive step ever taken towards the corpor- ate state by the most reactionary ment since the end of World War I. vern- From today state wage control will be added to the anti-union laws as the second plank of the corporate state. The implications are plain and startling. By the end of the week it will be illegal for workers to win the wage increase they deserve, just as it is illegal now for unions and their members to fight freely for standards and conditions.

For the class struggle Britain it means the point of Not return has been passed. the most servile even can shift leaders he situ- unon DaCk cays negotiation and compromise. Major political struggles lie medlalcly ancau. But the working class must be warned of the web of conspiracy the Tories are weaving for them.

A be expected tom today int from today. expected can take weeks Win Wasc increase, but only seconds to put the prices of food, fuel and up clothing. Already reports from Marks and Sainsbury's a al •Dencers for have exposed The ScramDe higher prices. Now the big whole- the touch- are waiting on sales like une-basic commodiues wheat, wool, coffee, cocoa and copper, will all be jacked up by the speculators Second trick Luck Involve Victor Feather Praise for TUC chief Victor Feather came yesterday from Anthony above, He showed his on bocracio interview ne wo men are seen rodener. spoken about the tripartite state pay talks most responsibly, he said.

Friday, day after Cae he Tories for a joint effort' to manage the economy.

declared war The Workers may have seen their and tails with 'leader' his tie both and the bulk of the TUC are faces months or struggle out of his mouth preparing to head off the mass the government and the He ne Minisher at tae BBCs the movement developing against the TUC rotten leadership Prime Minister the BBC's ex- anniversary dinner. Tories and their plans. DY Con- Wage fights will automatically clusive 50th the tac homes to snatch kers escalate InTO ponucal contronta- had hopes snatch this Just in case the Tories tions with the government.

These the fire Feather will link directly with the battle nOt tot une messake.

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OnCe forke out on Saturday at Brad- more. laws anu union which threaten to break out this The breakdown Wednesday between the Indus- "This is not a time for provo- re impotent Ta vic ry or Hugh Seanion and Court and the trial Relations said. It time to cation,' Cha: Deen engineering union. keep level-headed and keep Jones. what Councils of Action tempers and hope nobody, must be revealed alarming nobody, will take any other view.

is the built in every area of Britain really lengths went all sections of the working Doin Sanese men unite out looking 'We shall not go towards the corporate state.

class in the hght on prices, rents If trouble comes our for trouble. and wages. They agreed to control over way we shall have to coDe WIlD it like we always do. But we are Then ories are present simpl wages and to drop tel demands not the ones to stir it up: for legal sanctions of price rises.

working class simple Only the knowledge that it would *Accept They say: the choice This kind of grovelling is no- principles of the impossible to sell such a fory corDorate state thing new from Feather. Indeed to package sive ve us from office rights, or your basic their mintant mem- would be amazed if he workers bers stopped them signing.

in this But acted any Ole Way. This is the political challenge The working class therefore situation it is a signal that 4p ER 6, 1972 No. 913

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arber, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a owning Street last week). Feather had aid. On Saturday Feather pleaded with the working class must pick up.

This government has no mandate for wage control, anti-union laws and measures to give the specu- lators millions. It must be driven from office and replaced by a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. There is no other way to defend wages and democratic rights. This political battle demands revolutionary leadership in place of the bankrupt reformists of the

TUC.

This is the call the Socialist Labour League makes today. The task of the hour is to campaign by for the resolution passed over 2,000 trade unionists at the Birmingham conference of the All Trades Unions Alliance to transform the League into the revolutionary party of Britain.

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STEWARDS from major industry on Merseyside are to meet at the occupied CAV factory in Liverpool tomorrow. Plans will be put to the meet- ing for stepping up the campaign to keep the factory open.

Occupation leaders say they are confident that if their plans are adopted they can force the Lucas combine, which owns CAV, to reverse its closure decision.

Dockers, railwaymen, road- transport drivers, carworkers, engineers and even miners have been invited to the meeting.

But for the 1,000 and men women who are now in the fifth week of their sit-in strike for the right to work, the key to success as the transport is now seen • situation. *It is vital we make our black on 'all Lucas products watertight', said a spokesman for the CAV stewards at the weekend. Lucas has now laid off the 450 workers at its Industrial Equip- ment factory . .. on the same site as CAV following the imposi- tion of the black. This morning, pickets from the will occupation be on duty at Standard-Triumph's, Ford's and other Merseyside car plants in a bid to stop possible alternative supplies from Lucas's Midlands factories. Following the lay-off of all transport from the Fazakerley site, particular attention is being to the combine's Victor paid aerospace works at Broadgreen.

they The CAV stewards say have received assurances of sup- port for their action from national engineers' and officials of the transport workers' unions.

They will be pressing both unions this week to make their pickets of car and other factories official.

workers press

AS SCRAMBLE TO RAISE PRICES STARTS

THE STATE PAY

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY NOVEMBER 6, 197

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOC

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

EDWARD HEATH will do today what no other Tory Prime Minister has attempted in history-introduce strict laws to control the wages and therefore the living standards of every worker in the country Heath's legislation is just 'wage not freeze mark two', as the Tory Press would like workers to believe, but the most decisive step ever taken towards the corpor- ate state by the most reactionary_ govern- ment since the end of World War II.

From today state wage control will be added to the anti-union laws as the second plank of the corporate state. The implications are plain and startling.

By the end of the week it will be illegal for workers to win the wage increase they deserve, just as it is illegal now for unions and their members to fight freely for standards and conditions.

For the class struggle in Britain it means the point of no Not return been passed. the most servile trade shift the situ- leaders can negotiation and compromise. Major political struggles lie im- mediately ahead. But the working class must be wame• orkre wed or consolacy the Tories are weaving for them.

A big rise in the cost of living be expected from today. It can Can take weeks i Will want increase, but only seconds to put prices of food, fuel and clothing. Already reports from Marks Sainsbury's and Spencers and the have exposed scram ole

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higher prices. Now the big whole- waiting on the touch- salers commodities -basic like nute coffee, cocoa wheat. wool, and copper, will all be jacked up by the speculators. Second trick

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Praise for TUC chief Victor Feather came yesterday from Anthony Barber, Ch He showed his ob¡adio Interview me two men are seen togetner, spoken about the tripartite state pay talks most responsibly, he said. Friday, the day after the Tories for a "joint effort' to manage the economy deciated wat The unions. Workers may have seen their 'leader" his tie and tails with In and the bulk of the TUC are montns or struggle a cigar poking out of his mouth preparing to head off the mass with the government and the He was on the top table with ine TUC rotten leadership. developing against the movement Prime Minister at the BBC's ex- Tories and their plans. By clusive 50th anniversary dinner. COn- Wage fights will automatically fusi fuc and demoralizing workers escalae into bouca contonla- has messa e, fe her had the hopes snatch this Just in tions with the government. These the fire once will link directly with the battle nOL miessare forke out on Saturday at Brad- more the anti-union laws The so-called left' in the TUC Where e to ore our bos The breakdown of Wednesday between the Indus are impotent. toni ine said. me is time to trial Relations Court and the talks has time cation, veer bollaveo a. a victory for Hugh Scanlon and keep level-headed and keep engineens union Jack Jones. But what it has Councils of Action tempers and hope nobody, built in every area of Britain really revealed is the alarming nobody, will take any other view.

unite all sections of the working Tenores Canes 'We shall out looking for trouble. f tr go towards the corporate state.

class in the fight on prices, rents trouble comes our and wages. They agreed to control over way we shall nave to cope wild The Tories are presenting the it like we always do. But we are wages and to dron their demands not the ones to stir it up.'

legal sanctions of price rises.

class simple Only the knowledge that it would the choice say: This kind of grovelling is no be impossible to • sell such a Tory principles of the corporate state thing new from Feather. Indee package to their your basic give up militant mem- workers would be amazed if ers stopped them signing.

in this acted any other way. But This is the political challenge situation it is a signal that he The working class therefore ER 6, 1972 • No. 913 • 4p

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arber, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a lowning Street last week). Feather had aid. On Saturday Feather pleaded with the working class must pick up.

This government has no mandate for wage control, anti-union laws and measures to give the specu- lators millions. It must be driven from office and replaced by a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. There is no other to way defend wages and democratic rights. This political battle demands revolutionary leadership in place of the bankrupt reformists of the

TUC.

This is the call the Socialist Labour League makes today. The task of the hour is to campaign by for the resolution passed over 2,000 trade unionists at the Birmingham conference of the All Trades Unions Alliance •to transform the League into the revolutionary party of Britain.

SHOP

STEWARDS from major industry on Merseyside are to meet at the occupied CAV factory in Liverpool tomorrow. Plans will be put to the meet- ing for stepping up the campaign to keep the factory open.

Occupation leaders say they are confident that if their plans are adopted they can force the Lucas combine, which owns CAV, to reverse its closure decision.

Dockers, railwaymen, road- transport drivers, carworkers, engineers and even miners have been invited to the meeting.

But for the 1,000 and men women who are now in the fifth week of their sit-in strike for the right to work, the key to success is now seen as the transport situation. It is vital we make our black on all Lucas products watertight' said a spokesman for the CAV stewards at the weekend. Lucas has now laid off the 450 workers at its Industrial Equip- ment factory • . . on the same site as CAV following the imposi- tion of the black. This morning, pickets from the occupation will be on duty at Standard-Triumph's, Ford's and other Merseyside car plants in a bid to stop possible alternative supplies from Lucas's Midlands factories. Following the lay-off of all transport from the • Fazakerley site, particular attention is being paid to the combine's Victor aerospace works at Broadgreen.

The CAV stewards say they have received assurances of sup- port for their action from national engineers' officials of the and transport workers' unions.

They will be pressing both unions this week to make their pickets of car and other factories official.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday Novembe TALKS between Poland and the United States on a major trade agreement have opened in Washington.

The Polish delegation, headed by Foreign Trade Minister Tadeusz Olechowski, arrived in the Us capital on Friday for talks with Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson. Peterson recently concluded a very large trade pact with the Soviet Union. He met Polish officials in Warsaw in August to discuss trade, commerce and industrial and technical co-operation. Now that a deal has been signed with Moscow, Polish negotiations are expected to move rapidly towards agree- ment. The Poles will no doubt ask for an agreement similar to the US-Soviet deal, involving thousands of millions of dollars in US bank credits. THE UNITED STATES is ma namese armed forces while stall governments of Iran, South Ko fighters and C-130 transport a force into one of the world's si Simultaneously the Ameri- cans are said to be demanding that Hanoi pull most of its troops out of the south as a ceasefire condition. The US is clearly determined that the puppet regime will con- tinue as a bastion of counter- revolution in south-east- Asia, regardless of the ceasefire terms.

President Nixon reportedly feels secure enough to win the election without previously signing a ceasefire deal. He will then be able to impose even more pressure on North Vietnam to settle at worse terms than the draft agreement drawn up by Dr Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho which the Americans have refused to sign. Hanoi has said the agreement could collapse if Nixon insists on But it renegotiating basic issues. has also indicated a willingness to meet Kissinger again talks if he is sérious' further about them. In the background of these sinister diplomatic manoeuvres is the attitude of Moscow and Peking, where the Stalinist leaders appear eager for a Viet- nam settlement at any price.

nothing They want to jeopardize their close relations with President Nixon. Not_only do they want the butcher Presi- dent re-elected, they also want an end to the revolution in Indo- China whatever the cost to the workers and peasants of Vietnam.

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Air build-up Pressure on Czech in Vietnam intellectuals

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

BY JOHN SPENCER

GUSTAV HUSAK'S regime in Czechoslovakia con- THE UNITED STATES is making strenuous efforts to build up the South Viet- tinues to put pressure on intellectuals to conform to its namese armed forces while stalling on a Vietnam ceasefire agreement. Helped by the rigid Stalinist requirements.

governments of Iran, South Korea and Taiwan, the US is sending supersonic F-5A At a central committee meeting on ideology last week, hard- fighters and C-130 transport aircraft to South Vietnam to make the Saigon air Kremlin supporter Alois Indra expressed dissatisfaction line with the work of the heavily-purged intelligentsia.

He implied that there was 'false professional too much solidarity' with people who had Odd claim by Allende of the Party been driven out for supporting the Alexander Dubcek tendencv. Indra added that there would amnesty' for be 'general Dubcek's The

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, on for being 'purely After putting Chile those who Strike ледо en sonal responsibility every Villarin, President political. under military rule and member of the inrel ensia are destroy une support There is euphoria in the government Owners red. forming a cabinet with sne onry ticularly scholars, eration, described with ruling-class circles leading army judged even more sunneenuy. generais, the meeting Chile. Clearly Allende- At end of the The campaign's course was re. President Salvador with the help of the first full 'extraordinarily Prats vealed by the old Stalinist Pavel cablel meCl Allende broadcast this new cordial, Alende s Tendl calledl CommunIsl who made anti- optimistic at Ministry of the Interios positive'. Party already Micosase h.a c speech semitic unael une gulst He the dropped more than his nie week-enti CIA-trained added that of attacking Zionism. Minister the nationalization policy. 'We have had a great new We could by thri ee le CarOS see victory have was confident that the Interior was imposed. secas evei of citizens laly defeated the lorry owners evised list of demands 'peacefully and demo- 1968 Jewish origin, even Derore vhich Allende's previou cratically settled this We would be aned the perio zioni cine that the

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dictatorship. defeated sedition and week. Zionism, false, coveranent dau reccicu Hlllilaly clan- chauvinistic. lntcilaliulal ship of all Jews, operates within the socialist countries as a class Bolivian escapees seek asylum alien infection. The most outstanding wave Stalinist anti-Semitism in Czecho- slovakia prior to 1968 was gene- around frame-up his Ministry had Liberation Army whose extra- reporters that lalcu FIFTY-SIX political prisoners of 1962, which demanded ausky being not vet received an omncial report altion who escaped trom a Bolivian of the 14 defendants were Banzer. on the prisoners request ana ne Jews. the Coati camp on could not say whether it would prison Peruvian I ore la Flor told Minister The defendants were subjected Titicaca, ( Island on Lake Miguel be granted. Angel de to exDicty

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abust the Andes mountains, have and the charge of Zionism was asked for asylure in Peru.

indictment Explosion deaths protest prominent speech The prisoners were all victims

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Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International

THE REPRESSION IN CEYLON

The political trials involv- ing about 14,000 youth who are being held in the so-called 'rehabilitation camps' are now in pro- gress in special law courts in Ceylon. These camps were specially set up by the bourgeois coali- tion government when the mass killings and arrests of youth started 18 months ago.

The government also recently brought in new statutory laws to set up special judicial proce- dures for the hearing of these political trials. These prisoners political were arrested during the abor- tive uprising in April 1971, led by Janatha Vimukthi Para- mura (JVP). This organization, which came into the open in 1968, was mainly composed of university and rural youth who had experienced long periods of unemployment. No doubt these youth could be an invalu- motive force for the able socialist revolution if they were trained and organized on the principles of Marxism and the traditions of Bolshevism.

But from the very beginning the JVP opposed this perspec- tive of building and training an alternative leadership in the working class. In fact they condemned the working class and its traditional organiza- the trade unions, tions, as reformist, and abandoned any fight to transform the workers and their organizations into cadres and organs of revolu- tionary politics. They believed in a revolu- tion from the country to the believing that the town, workers in the towns would join the revolution spontane- ously as they saw the rural masses fighting. In this way developed they a conception completely hostile to Marxism on the development of revolu- tionary consciousness in the working class. They showed this hostility towards Marxism concretely when they attempted several times to physically beat the members of the Revolu- tionary Communist League (RCL), the Ceylon section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), who fought uncompro- misingly to build a revolution- leadership among the ary workers and peasants on the basis of Marxism. The crisis-ridden bourgeois coalition government provoked these petty-bourgeois romantic revolutionaries of the JVP to a battle in March 1971 and with the aid of all the centres of imperialism and Stalinism perpetrated a massacre on the militant youth throughout the country: The responsibility for these youth who were thrown into a struggle unprepared and iso- lated, ending up in a blood lies with the Pabloite bath, revisionists of the Unined Sec- retariat in Ceylon who covered for the petty-bourgeois up politics of the JVP. They encouraged the JVP in their suicidal attempts by their theories about "natural Marx- ists' , after the example of Castro. It also must be stated here that the conscious treachery of the Unified Secretariat is un- pardonable as it deliberately covered up for Bala Tampoe, the secretary of the Pabloite section in Ceylon. On the one of hand he encouraged these nal youth for blind terrorism and on the other hand maintained close relations and made him- self a source of information to worst reactionaries, like the MacNamara, the head of the World Bank, and ex-Nazi Kis- singer, West German Minister.

Today these same Pabloite revisionists abandoned have defend these any struggle to youth in the jails. Instead, starting by writing petitions to Prime Minister Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike preaching to her de Workers Press, Mol about Buddhist principles and appealing to her to pardon futile one-day hunger strikes in the worst tradition of paci- fism. Aided by these policies of the Pabloite revisionists, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and the Stalinist Com- desper- munist Party (CP) ately attempt to maintain their counter-revolutionary alliance with the bourgeois party of Mrs Bandaranaike. But the working class of Ceylon, with powerful trade union its organizations, has come for- ward today to oppose this con- dition in all its struggles to defend its basic rights. This is the central political issue involved in all the major strikes which have occurred in the The bank last year. employees have shown their determination not to bow down in front of the govern- ment's threats or strike-break- ing attempts, by carrying for- ward their fight for a wage demand now over a period of more than ten weeks. The International Committee of the Fourth International demands that all the political prisoners in Ceylon be released immediately and all the demo- cratic rights of the workers and peasants be restored.

It believes that these demands can only be met by Press, Monday Novembor 6, 1972 PAGE 3 Top: Ceylonese Prime Minister, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike (right) with members of the present government which re- cently passed statutory laws to set up the trials of thousands of youth arrested in April, 1971 the struggle for a workers' and peasants' government which will take the political power the bourgeoisie. The from mobilization of the working class and the peasants for this political task can be achieved today by training a new alter- native leadership in the work- ing class and the rural areas, by breaking the grip of the reformists LSSP and the CP who try to tie the workers to the bour- and peasants geoisie. That is why the fight mobilize the masses to to force the LSSP and CP lead- ers to break from the coali- tion and fight for their own government has become so vital and urgent today. Only through this mobiliza- tion of the mass movement for its political independence can we train a new leadership.

The RCL, the Ceylon sec- tion of the ICFI, fights rigor- ously against all the revision- ist elements who try to divert the workers and peasants from this central political struggle to build an independent Marxist leadership in Ceylon. October 30, 1972

WILL THE AXE FALL AGAIN?

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday November 6, 1972

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Is a major carve-up of Rolls-Royce on the way? This is the question that every Rolls-Royce work- er must consider follow- ing the recent Press re- port that the Tory gov- ernment intends to cut the labour force by half.

"The Engineer', in its October 19 issue, quoted the American aircraft industry 'Aviation journal, Week, which stated: 'Rolls-Royce's new managing director, Mr Kenneth Wilkin- son has been given five years the government to cut by force Rolls-Royce's labour from its present 63,000 em- ployees, down to 30,000. has a 'Pratt and Whitney 30,000 around payroll of people. And it is anticipated these will that measures enable Rolls-Royce output per to match that of its man American counterpart 'The Engineer', then quotes from March an interview in this year when Rolls-Royce's then Mr managing Ian Morrow, said: Royce would not make any more savage cuts in personnel, but would aim to achieve in- productivity creases These extracts throw new light on Morrow's sacking in October and the appointment of Wilkinson from Decem- ber 1. drastic The campaign for reductions in the Rolls labour force has been under way for The 'New Scien- sometime. December 9, 1971, tist' on had this to say: It's full steam ahead again Rolls-Royce. But the at inherited overmanning prob- lem remains. Total unemploy- around 62,000; em- ment is ployment at the giant complex Derby factories is some 34,999 - down 6,000 from February and 10,000 less than early 1970. «Yet the underlying orob. lem is still overmanning.

f the US General Electric, the com- pany's most direct rival in air- craft propulsion, is taken as a yardstick, at Evendale, Ohio, bas has a bigger engine out- a labour force of put about 11,000, with roughly the same degrec of sub-contract- ing. 'Rolls has roughly 22,000 working the RB211 on (TriStar engine] alone. At a cost per employee of around £4,000 per year (inclusive of overheads) some idea can be gained of the British firm's financial handicap.' May 23 Although between Morrow and December 1971 was able the Rolls- to turn £6.5m Royce losses into a this profit before tax, was achieved £170m only with worth of government assist- ance for the RB211 project.

Now, with the pound at its lowest level and the economic crisis gaining momentum every cannot minute, the Tories afford such cash hand-outs.

And the RB211 is not the white elephant only in the Rolls-Royce It stable. also houses the Olympus engine for Concorde. Concorde's esti- started at £150m and mates by the time of the first proto- flight, it had reached type Top: RB211 (TriStar engine) in prod £885m! Royce, Derby workers. 22,000 are emp In fact Olympus costs are so gigantic that Aerospace Mini- Corfield told Frederick ster House of Commons in the February 1971 that 'to reveal cost of the Olympus the en- gine for Concorde [believed to be nearly double that of the for the highest estimate RB211] would not be in the commercial interests of Rolls- Royce. (Flight International', February, 11, 1971.) emerge is What appears to thought Rolls- that Morrow Royce could sell aero engines.

But now the Tories no longer think so. Wilkinson has been put in to butcher Rolls-Royce —a 'bloodletting' as 'Aviation Week' calls it. "The Sunday Times' said on October 8 that since Michael Heseltine has become Minister for Aerospace, the govern- ment tendency to intervene in Rolls-Royce had been increas- and that the government ing had refused to give Morrow the independence he wanted to continue as managing director. The report went on to say that Wilkinson has no manu- facturing experience and very little commercial experience; but as a lifetime nationalized he would industry executive, be less likely to rebel against government intervention than Morrow. further indication of A the government thinking on aircraft industr wilkinson's and explanation for be gained appointment, can 'Sunday Telegraph's' from the feature article on the Farn- borough Air Show in its issue September 10, 1972: on "The aircraft industry is in a state of decline and the The problem is world-wide. in production at Derby. Above: Rolls include reduced are employed on the RB211 alone. reasons expenditure, higher defence productivity, longer product over ordering by the life and airlines? Because the aircraft indus- try was being deprived of its original life-blood of defence contracts on a cost plus basis, it has turned to the civil air- Lockheed, with the lines. TriStar, its first civil aircraft for years, is a typical example.

competitive nature of The capitalism forces each airline aircraft types, to take new through fear that a rival might gain an edge on them. This applied to the theory was turbo-prop aircraft, then jets and now Concorde. been that The result has airline after airline has bank- rupted itself-so the theory will not work any more. Sabena, the Belgian airline faced with an estimated £6m loss, was the first to cancel its options for two Concorde aircraft. Now United Airlines, America's largest domestic its carrier, has cancelled options for eight Concordes.

due The cancellation was mainly to financial difficulties.

more American air- Two lines, Pan Am, with eight Concorde options, and TWA, with six options, are openly expressing reservations about Concorde's operating costs.

In its December 11, 1971, issue, the 'Economist' said: 'The more Concordes an air- line flies, the more money it could expect to lose.' So desperate are Con- corde's makers to get an American contract that they have offered Pan Am a special price for early reduced an firm order. It was in this way - and through government pressure--that BOAC and Air France bought five and four Concordes respectively.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

EUROPEAN POLICE

ATTACK EMIGRANTS

On November 11 and 12 the 3rd. Congress of Spanish emigrants will be held in Zurich in Switzer- land. As there are over 2 million Spaniards work- ing in Europe, one would have expected the Com- mon Market to figure high on the agenda. But it does not, since the reformists and liberals who are organizing the conference accept the EEC as a given reality and are in favour of Spanish entry. organizer of the A leading Congress, Señor Montero has said that the most pressing problems are pensions, edu- cation and the emancipation of women. for the class struggle, As is fully in Señor Montero favour of it, provided that the local police are brought in.

'We demand that no special structure of repression be set up against the emigrant worker.

If somebody commits a crime, they should be judged by the juridical procedures same which deal with nationals.'

But Montero must surely be Spanish that the aware emigration authorities signed a bilateral agreement with the French government which ex- workers in cludes Spanish France from social benefits, such as they are, which are enjoyed by French i workers and their families. Doesn't he remember the visit paid by the head of Spanish Police, Inhiesta Cano, to his French opposite number last year to draw up a plan for joint police activity against they all 'trouble makers', be Basque nationalists or militant Spanish trade unionists? This police co-operation is work in Germans also at against immigrant workers. The fascist police and the German police united against a recent strike of immigrant Libya's President Muammar Gaddafi chose a symposium of intellect- uals held recently in Tripoli to unveil his answer to communism and capitalism — the Third Theory. Details of this massive con- tribution to human thought were left rather cloudy. But Gaddafi did tell his audience: 'The Third Theory means that in our Moslem faith we need neither capitalism nor com- munism We are only slaves to God.' He added: 'With respect to the details of the theory, it is the duty of every educated thinker and research man, worker to explain the military, and economic legal, political provisions in the Koran ..?

Which leaves precious little room for education, thought and research! One immediate Above: Immigrant workers on strike outs workers in the Opel factory in Bochum. The strike began when Opel sacked a worker elected as the representative of the Spanish workers in the factory. This had spoken at a mass worker meeting calling for the unity of immigrant and German workers, the abolition of Saturday shift-working and equal wage increases for all.

The day after he was sacked.

According to paragraph 7 of the law agae st for contract the 'law end of the also means the permit to stay in Germany', for all those who do not come task he set the meeting was to combat 'a communist encyclo- pedia composed of tens of volumes which attacked the Holy Koran and Islam and tried to connect it with im- perialism, reaction and under- development'. existence of these The volumes was a 'very important and grave' Gaddafi matter, and said. Moslem priests thinkers should reply to it and expose its atheist fallacies.

All of which sounds very much like the old anti-com- masquerading munism as a break- philosophical new through. But Gaddafi had the word: We should last con- front capitalism strongly to show the evils of money when it is accumulated and used for evil purposes.' Reports of panic among the Libyan bourgeoisie are said to be much exaggerated'. Right: Libya's President Muam- mar Gaddafi.

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Above: Immigrant workers on strike outside a Frankfurt engineering factory.

from countries which belong to the Common Market. Eighty cent of the per Spanish workers at Upel im. mediately struck work and set pickets outside the factory.

One picket was attacked by a group of Spanish fascists and the German police allowed the fascists to leave while they told the strikers to return to work: their strike was illegal since it was not recognized br the leadership of the union arrested worker were when the strikers refused return to work. German police and foreign fascists had been united against Workers Press, Mone 1512 immigrant workers only a few previous to the Opel days Turkish fascists joined strike. the police in an assault on a demonstration of Turkish and Italian workers in Russelsshein, near Frankfurt. The Zurich Congress and the activities of Señor Montero are a complete diversion from the struggle of the European work- ing class against the monopo- lists. Any attempt to put liberal pressure on the men who are setting the foundations for the dictatorship of capital in Europe is a blow against such actions as the strike at Opel.

ess, Monday November 6, 1972 PAGE 5 The plenary assembly of French bishops met at Saturday Lourdes last and adopted a resolution on 'The Christian prac- tice of politics. This pious document called 'action against injustice' for and for an end to the impasse of 'industrial civilization'. Not enamoured of revolutionary solutions, the French Episco- pacy pointed out that man cannot be reduced to his class position. The weekend conference was held in the midst of rapid price increases throughout Europe and a financial crisis which threatens the whole of the working class with rapid impoverishment. Workers in two strikes at were showing their least willingness to defend their living standards. The workers in the potash mines in Alsace were well into their second week of strike. At the Big Dutchman in Saint Brieuc, a strike for a wage increase of 55 centimes an hour had entered its seventh week.

Event Communist The French Party decided that the assembly of bishops was the most important event of the weekend. 'L'Humanité' devoted its front-page editorial last Monday to the Bishops and their towards move socialism! Above: Marchais, Chief of the French Communist Party. According to this editorial, hierarchy longer the no defends as 'an expression of will the existence of divine the private ownership of the means of production' Indeed, 'we have often said that we want an alliance with Christians. We have the same ideal of justice and dignity. We have the same interests and the same enemies' The French Stalinists' iden- tification with 'anti- the capitalism' of the church hierarchy also extends to the Protestant Federation and Catholic Action. No wonder the circulation L'Humanité' is falling of drastically!

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BY JACK GALE

One of the features of burning napalm: some 35 per cent cent of these die in about US imperialism's aggres- half an hour. sion in Vietnam has been 3) Of who those survive, some 50-55 per cent die dur- the extensive develop- ing the course of the next 40 of ment weapons to days due to shock. cause burns. 4) Some 10-15 per cent sur- vive require The first large-scale experi- and extensive medical treatment. the of ment in use such North Vietnamese doctors weapons was, of course, drop- standard ping Atomic-bombs Hiro- treatment on schedule in Nagasaki. While four phases. The shima and first (shock) phase of three imperialist and Stalinist papers to throughout the world shrieked four days; a second phase, 30- phase, from 40 days; with joy, 45,000 people died in a third the 40th day to the formation Hiroshima on the first day and of the fourth 22,000 in Nagasaki on the day scars; phase formation of scars to a bomb was dropped there.

trom healing. Sixty-two per cent of Not only is immediate deatn the who reach the high from heat and flame, but persons the of third period die. The fourth chance recovery is stage is reached by only 10-15 much lower than trom any of the other of Of per cent persons wound. type affected. 41,992 burn-wound survivors Napalm makes up 8-9 per of Hiroshima Day One 9,776 the fighter-bombers' (23.3 per cent) subsequently cent of died. of American tonnage mun1- badly-burned body tions in Vietnam. A can- But it is, of course, used in the not maintain optimal with fragmenta- temperature of 37 degrees combinatior tion bombs, high-explosive necessary to maintain human life, bombs, phosphorous bombs, nor can it prevent the fragmentation and phosphorous evaporation of moisture, which rockets, rapid rate-of-fire also causes death. Treatment machine-guns etc. to increase of serious burn lethality The wounds is dangerous and agon- the overall chance of only being hit by The skin can only regen- izing. and from napalm surviving is erate intact portions. extremely small. This means that skin-grafts are In addition, Vietnam is sub- and this necessary requires repeated operations which are jected to the most massive bombardment in The lengthy, tedious and history. excruci- chance of wounded being atingly painful. evacuated and receiving treat- The skin contains millions of nerve-endings which ment is therefore slight.

feed After napalm, the most com- sensations to the brain. If the used burning is skin is removed these sensors monly agent white phosphorus. are removed with it. There are immediate The skin contains more two main of white - phos- levels the sensitive lower phorous and burns because its level protective outer the body is usually level. As the eitect on sensitive level is White-phos- well localized. being regenerated, dressings however, phorous burns, are, are required to out the deep and slower function unusually to protective normally done by the outer skin. heal than most third-degree These Victims dressings have burns. require an to be changed average of 5.8 operations each.

day and the every experience Secondary effects of such is equivalent to being system- atically skinned alive. burns include contracture of the joints, complications of the In addition to this there are and eyelids, psychologicalcom- eyes pneumonia, enormous upper gastrointestinal bleeding, plications caused by the dis- septicaemia, acute renal failure figurement resulting from burn wounds. and extensive damage to the kidneys. Obviously the longer the White phosphorus has skin is in contact with burning material, ( low ignition and melting point the more damage is and therefore done. continues burn in the skin until air is The American military chiefs Vietnam, excluded. in therefore Clinical reports from North arranged that incendiary have thickened Vietnam frequently refer to agents should be phosphorous wounds smoking with such substances as rubber, for polystyrene hours or even days. asphalt, soaps, particularly and polyisobutylene. These gruesome effect of white-phosphorous materials extend burning time difficult shells, grenades and bombs is and are to remove from the skin. of The main burn- that particles phosphorus into the deeper agent used is napalm— penetrate Ing jellied petroleum. tissues of the body and body There they Very few napalm victims cavity. continue to burn in the muscle tissue.

Data issued by the North Vietnamess Napalm, white phosphorus North Army indi- cates four categories of napalm and other burn weapons are the used extensively against victims: Those who are incinerated civilian population of North 1) of heat in the initial Vietnam. They are known as or die fireball (no figures available).

'area' weapons. They are not of specific military 2) Those on the periphery used against targets but against areas - a the fireball who are splashed by village or a town-which may, or may not, contain a military target. Burn weapons depend for their effectiveness on the fact that the incendiary agent it- self, or the heat, flame and noxious gases produced by it, spread bevond the point of impact and large • envelop a space around it. This is the great attractiveness of fire, a characteristic which it shares with biological weapons. As one of the advocates of war by fire — Colonel Zanetti -wrote in the United States during World War Two: 'The small size of these bombs may appear almost ridiculous, par- ticularly after considering the gas that are required tons of to produce lethal concentra- tions. 'But here comes the essen- tial difference between gas and incendiaries that makes fire far more dangerous to a large city.

Gas dissipates while fire pro- pagates' types of incendiaries The used by the Americans Vietnam spread in several ways. In liquid or jellied form, Ibs may they pour or drop into build- ings, tunnels, foxholes, ventila- tion ducts, through branches of trees etc. The ex- plosive charge of a typical 750 Ib napalm tank, combined with the terminal velocity, causes the agent to spread over an area of approximately 90 by 30 metres. The effects of these weapons also spreads in the form of heat and noxious fumes and by fire. An American army man- ual dated 1960 declared: •The maior use small of metal incendiary bombs is to ignite many small fires with the intention that these should combine to form a general con- flagaration.' American imperialism • has been making concerted efforts to burn down the forests of North Vietnam since 1965. In 1966 two studies on extensive fires in tropical forests were commissioned the US by Department of Defence. That year 'Operation Sher- Forest' wood attempted to burn the Boi Loi woods, near Saigon, an area of 60 square miles. The forest was bom- barded with World War II magnesium incendiary bombs.

An area the size of Phila- delphia destroyed and was 6,000 people lost their homes.

But the enterprise failed in its main aim-the tropical forest not burn down and back in the guerrillas were area within a month. In 1968 a third and much larger episode took place, in the U Minh forest (the 'Forest of Darkness) in the extreme south of the Mekong Delta.

Seventy to 80 fires were started over an area of 800 square miles. US jets roared down over the Delta to feed the fire with napalm and white- phosphorous rockets while US long-range Navy ships and artillery maintained con- stant bombardment. The fire raged for six weeks.

'Time' magazine claimed that '20 years of communist build- ing and hoarding' had been destroyed and that 'it will take at least a year for the forest to turn green once more and five before years anyone, the Vietcong, can including Workers Press, Monday N hiding hope to use it as a place again'. ('Time', April 26, 1968) In less than a month, Libera- tion Front units launched a major attack on Saigon, only 90 miles away. Despite the inhumane and indis- brutally criminate fire-raising no mili- won by tary gains had been the Americans. But that makes their ruling class and military chiefs no less determined to destroy their opponents, regardless of the cost in innocent lives.

The imperialist, military out-

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look has never been so clearly expressed as it was_by General Curtis E. LeMay. LeMay was Chief of Staff, US Army Stra- tegic Air Forces in the Pacific in August 1945, with a major responsibility for the atom- bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. of He was Chief Staff, US Air Force, 1961- 1964. Vietnam, he said: 'My On solution? Tell the Vietnamese they've got to draw in their horns and stop aggression or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.'

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A review by Tom Kemp. The years 1938-1939 PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday November 6, 1972 The volumes of Trotsky's writings so far published for the period after 1935 differ in several respects from the two already reviewed. They are printed on a large format page and consist mainly of facsimile reproductions of articles which appeared in the Trotskyist Press and other journals in the United States, together with a few items translated into English for the first time. The selections are grouped under headings according to country or subject rather than being in chrono- logical This makes it possible to follow through order. Trotsky's thought on a particular topic, such as the Moscow Trials. On the other hand, the notes do little more than indi- cate the source of the articles, thus leaving the reader to find out for himself about the many persons, organizations and events which are referred to. In addition, there is no index. Apart from the faults of editorship, these volumes are still to be highly recommended because they bring together writings which are otherwise virtually inaccessible or, in certain cases, have never been available in English before.

This volume of Trotsky's Stalinism. These defeats, Trotsky pointed out time and writings includes again, were the consequences period when war almost of the treacherous of policy result people's fronts' adopted at broke out as a the 7th Congress of the Com- of Hitler's demands on munist International in 1935 Czechoslovakia regarding on Stalin's instructions.

the Sudeten German min- The Stalinist policy at this time was to rally the working ority, only to be post- class behind the 'peace-loving' poned with the signing of democracies in a front with the Soviet Union against the the Munich Agreement fascist powers. Stalin hoped at in October, 1938. Hitler's this stage to block It gives path to conquest in the east Trotsky's assess- by lining up with the old im- ment of these events and the perialist satiated countries, counsel which he gave to the powers satisfied with the international movement on the status quo and fearful of the war question. consequences of revolutionary In face of the great dangers a new war. opening up before the working class with the approach of a new war Trotsky was acutely conscious of the need to and develo intere the strengthen In accordance with Soviet Fourth work of the diplomacy, the communist which had been national, parties preached unity with the 1938, and founded in August, 'democratic' bourgeoisie against a firm policy for a establish fascism and war. But while war situation. Stalin was prepared to support The first section bourgeois of this governments in volume contains a number of for an alliance return against important articles the Hitler, for their part they did on the least war which are, not in trust coming fact, closely related to those in Soviet Union which still the second dealing with prob- remained their in eyes Inter- of the Fourth dangerous revolutionary force. lems supported The third They had Hitler's national. section deals with the murder of his rise to power as their champion Rudolph Klement 'against Bolshevism' and they secretary his son Leon Sedov by would have preferred him to and Stalin as an ally, if conditions Stalinist agents. section is devoted A had made it possible. whole Trotsky upheld the Marxist to Latin America and particu- those larly to the Mexican national- policy on war against British-owned taken in by the ization who were Stalinist policy of support for wells. 'democracies' There is a section on Stalin- the and the of Front. All these ism, which includes one Popular analysed theoretical interest questions at enormous were of 'A Fresh length in the article called "Three Conceptions the Russian Revolution'. Lesson', as well as the social- There is a section on France patriotic position of the parties continues the struggle of the Second International which the and the pacifism of the centrism by șup- against Inter- of the Fourth centrists. porters At the same time, In- in the national in that country. appendix Think', he cluded are article "Learn to as an letters from two leaders of the opposed the ultra-left positions centrist organization PSOP to in brief, opposed sup- which, Trotsky. port for progressive wars and Ever since the defeat of the put forward which policies "same' for class in the all German working were January 1933, Trotsky had in- countries. sisted that war could only be That for example, means, a question of time. Nazi Ger- that they would not support many was bound to go to war China's war against Japan and Union and would oppose help given to a the Soviet with imperialist rivals, colonial revolt by another im- with its Britain and France. War was perialist country. Trotsky stated his position the only way in which German could seek a way in this article for imperialism clearly as, following of its intolerable contra- example, in the out Only diction. revolution passage: 'The policy of the proletariat forestall another im- could all automatically perialist war. is not at In France in 1936, and then derived from the policy of the during the Spanish Civil War, bearing only the bourgeoisie, would opportunities for a revolution opposite sign-this spread which could have to make every sectarian a master countries and rekindled strategist; no, the revolution- other of the each time the fighting capacity party must ary the fascist orient itself independently in working class in destroyed by the international as well as the countries were Chamberlain, Mussolini, Hitler (signing) external situation, arriving at those decisions which corres- pond best to the interests of proletariat. This rule the applies as much to the war as to the period of period peace.' And later he concludes: 'Defeatist policy, that is the policy of irreconcilable class struggle in wartime, cannot consequently be "the same" in all countries, just as the policy of the proletariat cannot be the same in all countries. Only the Comintern of the epigones regime in has established parties which the of all countries break into march simultaneously with the left foot. In struggle against this bureaucratic cretinism we have attempted more than once to that the, general prove principles and tasks must be realized in each country in accordance with its internal and external conditions. This principle retains its complete force for wartime as well.'

The Munich Agreement in- flicted a heavy blow to the 'peace Stalinist hopes for a front'. At Munich Britain and France, together with Musso- lini's Italy, agreed to Hitler Germany's carve-up of Czecho- slovakia and to exclude the Soviet Union from any part in the re-division of the European map. As Trotsky put it: 'If until now Czechoslovakia was con- sidered a military bridge for the USSR into Europe, it now becomes a bridge for Hitler into the Ukraine ... The col- lapse of Czechoslovakia is the cóllapse of Stalin's inter- national policy of the last five years? As Trotsky saw it, and he was soon to be proved right, Stalin would now have to seek with Hitler. What is a deal more: "The terriffic blow at the the international position of (signịng) at Munich: Czechoslovakla was now : the USSR is the pay-off for the continuous bloody purge which beheaded the army, disrupted the cconomy and revealed the weakness of the Stalinist regime' Coming on top of the events in Spain the whole policy of the Kremin was in ruins. It was reaping the fruits of its counter-revolutionary role; war had now become a nightmare for the bureaucracy. the Fourth The section on International includes the report of dis- stenographic cussions on the Transitional Programme adopted at the Founding Conference August 1938. As Trotsky put it: "The pro- the must express gramme objective tasks of the working class rather than the back- wardness of the workers. It must reflect society as it is and not the backwardness of the working class. It is an instrument to overcome and vanquish the backwardness.'

These discussions were directed mainly to the prob- lems of the American working class, especially the need to fight fascism through the form- ation of defence squads. The general point which Trotsky insists on is that the pro- gramme must be based on an objective of the analysis objective situation: 'We must give a scientific explanation of society and clearly explain it to the masses.' The decision to launch the Fourth International had met with bitter opposition from the centrists. Trotsky deals with a critic who wanted the move- ment to call itself 'Movement for the Fourth International'.

In this the unnamed critic resembles the French Organiz- ation Communiste Internation- in was now a bridge for Hitler Into Ukraine.

aliste (OCI) which split this year from the International Committee, which it always 'for the insisted should be reconstruction of the Fourth International'. Trotsky pointed out that not only did enemies of the move- ment never use the word 'for' but always spoke 'of the Fourth International'; the pre- fix was a sign of indecision and lack of self-confidence. Not 'modesty' in the use of a name, but firm and correct policies could attract support. In his message to the Founding Con- entitled 'A Great ference Achievement', Trotsky pro- claims: 'The Fourth Inter- only national is now the organization international which not only takes clearly into account the driving forces of imperialism, but is armed with a system • of transitional demands which are capable of for a uniting the masses revolutionary struggle for power. 'We do not need any self- deception. The discrepancy between our forces today and the tasks of the morrow is much more clearly perceived by us than by our critics. But the harsh and tragic dialectic of our epoch is working in our favour. Brought to the extreme pitch of exasperation and in- dignation the masses will find no other leadership than that offered by the Fourth Inter- national' Only. the Fourth Inter- national could • resolve the crisis of revolutionary leader- ship in the working class which was the starting point of the Transitional Programme.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

The article dealing with the years 1937-1938 will appear in Wednesday's Workers Press.

We apologize for the change in sequence.

Union of 'The Clerk', National Students APEX's states President Digby lacks is to monthly paper. APEX is planning to get the Stirling University this visit He government to cut several years Tuesday. will probably off the working life by..'a have to address a students' This, national they outside, petition! union meeting since the students are still banned their members, could assure 'cause the government to have from using university buildings after the second thoughts uproar about inci- on opposing earlier retirement'. dents during the Queen's visit But then, APEX President last month. Denis Howell has always been Communist Party member Jacks will also presumably a great believer in trying to discuss change the Tories' minds in- the question of the He was stead of fighting them. charges being brought against one of the 69 Labour MPs who 25 Stirling students the in voted with them. on the Com- aftermath of the Press and TV Market and helped witchhunt. mon to Stirling students' keep them in president DOWel until of ployment strategy, and all.

Jack Carter, the 25 one due to appear before the university's disciplinary com- said the mittee, charges were 'extremely serious'. And in the meantime every- one in the Tory Party and in the Department of Education Science and who want stu- dents' unions registered and their funds the hands of in college and university author- ities has used the occasion to speak out. But when Workers Press first the

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He is Mr Ivan Geffen, mem- puter it was announced that 7,000 ber of the national executive over committee of the British Legal members had been lost, mainly due to redundancies the Association. says it is in well-established practice that engineering industry caused by factory closures. only award courts costs to acquitted people in exceptional This staggering loss in union with a total membership circumstances. 20.000 only around In an resolution was emergency fought for the BLA's conference, Mr all by the never at leadership, which concentrated Geffen notes that even when only securing higher costs are awarded the amount on redundancy payments. is often quite small, leaving Now, however, they have the successful innocent defen- come up with a revolutionary dent heavily of pocket. out scheme for fighting unemploy- His resolution adds that it is ment. Lower the retiring age- almost unknown for a motorist and Bob's your uncle! awarded the of to be cost 'For the official each year briefing leading counsel, except is retirement age lowered, in cases which raise novel or are released, 250,000 jobs complex issues of law.

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since Lenin, has been stant oppression an basic rights after the October lution. None of these by dealt with Soon after the Bolshevik gove down a declaratio base to matter of the nati Russia principles: • 1. Equality and of the peoples • 2. The right of Russia determination, independent stat and nat nanonal ous privileges a tions. Free national minoriti groups in- habiting Russia But with the bureaucra Soviet gan to change. what was to could minorities the Instead Georgians unificatic terms with the exis Union, Stalin had them his so-called plan, Georgia's being sw by Moscow in style. In his last but before his final Trotsky wrote to leorgia on Party's Central against Stalin an hinsky. But the aband Marxism - and i with the theory' o in one country' truly along Russian chauvinis attacks on the man which lay outside self. And then, in 1930s, the was the period of The language struggle became an ment for the Kren of collabor period the ruling class of cratic' powers, democracies Europe.

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Stalinists their gurgitated falsifications of as the 50th anni. of the founding Union of Soviet Republic nears. fortnightly revien , editor Paul Oliv n a commemorative full of so many lies could that written by Stalin seet •ester Stalin's home state. offering unification on equal the existing Soviet alin had foisted on so-called 'autonomi- which Involved being swallowed up Tsarist last but one letter final stroke, Lenin urging him the defence of the Communist Commitee Dzherz- and abandonment of revision its theory' of 'socialism _ led Stalin path the of chauvinism to and the many Republics outside Russia it- en, in the middle attacks began. eriod of the Popular oreign policy. of the class marass Kremlin in this collaboration with class of the 'demo- the bourgeois of Propaganda showing Yet under him t It was replaced phraseology, in the Soviet great Russia pure ism Soviet historians rated for neglectin figures of Tsars. Nationalism of anti-Semitism Stalin to assist his f Leon Trotsky's tion and to help in Moscow Trials 1938 Out in the Soviet the bureaucracy se writing Tsarist empire national national struggled against t Were tions of the while the tion 'progressives'. the Historians prove the sufficiency' OI fit in times 'socialism in a sing line. Russian therefore become Stalinist ideology, justify ine the national minor Yet within four taking Dowel issued the (Moslems of all F tars of the Vol Kirghiz ar Crimea, Siberia and and Tartars of Trar Chechens and sacks! All you, and shrines stroyed, whose customs have the by Tsars and of Russia! Henceforth your your customs, cultural, institutior clared free and invi Build without is your right. your rights, the peoples the protected by Revolution, Soldiers' Workers' Peasants' Deputies But by 1938 October the been slain by tion gangs. Marxist principles the minorities liquidated with During World the treatment of th by the Stalinist reg barbaric. In 1944 an entir 200,000 people from the Caucasus Asia. They were the N a group living in sus. A Moslem na people language. But 1944, without them, they against to Kazakhstan and Placed Workers Press, Mo they were persecut replaced by liberal and. patriolismn Union itself, by Russian chauvin- historians be- neglecting the great past- Russia's -the ionalism in the form was used by ssist his fight against tsky's Left Opposi- • help in the frame. w Trials from 1936. he Soviet Republics, history and its national minorities. heroes who against the Russian relegated to posi- counter-revolu- Isars became attempted to 'purity' and "self- of Russia at all with the in in a single country chauvinism had part of become oppression al minorities. weeks of hin four the Bolsheviks following procla- s of all Russia, Tar- f the Volga and the of irghiz and Sarts Turkestan, Turks 's of Trans-Caucasia, mounț ns cos. whose mosques been de- and violated ars and oppressors rth your beliefs and and national nstitutions are de- and inviolable! life national without hindrance Know that of all ike those s of Russia, will be by the might of the the councils of 1938 the leaders of had Revolution Stalin's execu- And their fight for rinciples in relation inorities had been World II, ent of the minorities linist regime became an entire nation of eople was deportec Caucasus to centra ere the Meshketians, ving in east Cauca- these any charge they were sent stan and Uzbekistan. brutal the Press, Monday November 6, 1972 PAGE 9 'Great White Father' of Moslem minor.

persecuted and their rights denied.

'Special Settlement' control of the secret polie, 50,000 died. Between 1941 and 1944 1.25 million Volga Germans, Karachai, Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingushi, Balkars and Crimean Tartars transported were across the Soviet Union. Today the Stalinist perse- cution of the minorities, the denial of their rights to self- continues in determination, the Soviet Union. The Tartars are still fighting for the right to return home, nothing less. One of their champions, Major Pyotr Grigorenko, has been pushed into a mental asylum. In Lithuania, where oppres- sion by the bureaucracy, and the destruction of local customs and religions, has led serious clashes with the to police and army, any opposi- tion is put down ruthlessly and the youth described as 'drunken hooligans'. And once more the Stalin- ists make use of anti-Semitism against the Jewish minority, driving many of them into the hands of the Zionists and giv- ing every anti • communist ammunition for attacks on the Soviet Union itself. Of the Soviet Union's 232 million citizens, 105 million live outside Russia proper in 15 Republics. In every case principles the Leninist which they joined the USSR have been trodden into the dust by the Kremlin bureau- crats. For Olive, however, this is not noticeable: 'Socialism has banished the criminal waste of human re- sources and the dreadful per- sonal suffering which it in- volves, he writes on the question of the USSR's 50th anniversary. Those hundreds of thous- ands who perished under Stalin and the rest who re- main oppressed would not agree with that. In two pages Olive con- trives to jump from 1922 to 1972 without a word of what happened in the period be- tween. That is real Stalinist history-writing for you! Undoubtedly gains great have been made in the Re- publics because of the nationalization of the means of production. But that does not flow from the bureau- cracy, but from the changes wrought by the October Revo- lution itself. At the same time, however, the persecution of the minori- ties by the Kremlin always the Re- threatens to drive publics i into hostility to socialism. Only the political revolution now against the bureaucracy can sweep the Stalinists aside and restore the rights granted the Republics after 1917 under Lenin. In that struggle the hack British Stalinists like Olive will also be driven out.

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Geologists have found enormous quantities of lead, zinc and other toxic metals in the Rivers Tawe and Neath and at The findings from University College, Swan- Tawe it- sea, show the River self as one of the main sources of metal pollution in the Bris- tol Channel and say the pollu- tion is caused by industry.

Lead levels in the sediment from the Tawe are samples phenomenal and range up to 2,850 parts per million, about 100 times higher than in natural background. In the River Neath the lead level was 420 parts per million, still 20 times the normal value. Samples collected from three points in Swansea Bay showed the lead level to be 220 parts per million. Lead is hardly less danger- and, known to cause accepted symp.

ous than mercury in toms of lead poisoning children, is similar that at low intake levels it can selectively High levels were copper also found in the Tawe. Some damage the brain. It accumulates in bone even samples contained much SO copper-up to 2,215 parts per in its inorganic forms and has million-that they could almost been shown to be damaging in biological classified as low-grade ore.

every system in Zinc, cadmium silver which it has been examined.

and Lead has no known natural readings ranged from 1,650, 60 and 24 per million role in biological processes, and parts therefore is damaging to living Of respectively. these metals, things the existence of cadmium is in whatever form it the most sinister. appears. Natural lead mobilization It is highly poisonous and as a natural component of soils amounts to about 150,000 tons and a year. Industry unleashes over water it is present only 4 million tons a year. in very low concentrations.

But Of all the known chronic to contam- exposure lead relatively large amounts (i.e. a inants, the levels of -as measured in the blood of few parts per million) may after a number of years lead ordinary people-are the high- painful and commonly fatal est. In fact, the range of levels to affliction in which the skele- found in urban populations is ton decays and collapses.

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BIRMINGHAM: Monday Novem ber 6, 8 p.m. Lecture Room 5, Digbeth Civic Hall. LEICESTER: Tuesday November 7. 8 p.m. Southfields Library.

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ANGRY TENANTS in the Ardwick district of Man- chester have been • told by their MP, Gerald Labour Kaufman, they had to wait at least two years to end the rent rises. Pro-Act Labourites face expulsion

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constituency Labour Party meets tonight to consider the expulsion of two councillors who voted for the Housing Finance Act. The two men-Treasurer R. Banks and Cllr W. Wallace- defied a Labour group meeting to vote for implementation.

A motion was put on the agenda of tonight's meeting following their action. The town | 11-10 council voted against the Act. At a meeting last Friday Kaufman tried to cover up for the Labour councils who have

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implemented the Tories' 'fair rents' Act. 'It is an unfortunate fact that Amery (Housing Minister) has the - right to increase the rent under this Act of parliament. With a wage freeze to be announced on Monday the 92p rise is wrong,' said Kaufman. Then he told the tenants they could expect no help from him or other Labour MPs. 'You have my personal support, but I cannot invite anyone to break the law of the land.'

There was answer, he no FOLLOWING negotiations in Tirana with the pro-Peking Albanian government, the Greek Ministry of Foreign announced agree- Affairs has ment on trade and payments.

The Albanian Maoists, headed by Enver Hoxha, are on extremely good terms with the repressive military dictatorship in Greece.

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IRELAND. Green, 11.35 White and Gold. 12.00 Weather. added, to the increases. And Labour councils had 'very good reasons' to implement. They had accepted the law to 'protect their tenants and make sure the limit on the rise was reasonable'.

Carrying the apologies, on Kaufman said it was wrong of their 'represent- tenants to ask atives to destroy their families', presumably referring to the possibilities of surcharge for those who stood out against the Tories. At this point a militant tenant called out at him: 'Vic Feather controls all the in tatives reported on Athens Radio 'most lavishly that they were treated, while the negotiations were held in a climate of cor- diality and mutual goodwill and understanding'. The deal itself provides for the exchange of goods worth at least $4m by each side. The Greek Foreign Ministry said the deal was "an excellent basis for the further development and broad- ening of Greek-Albanian trade Workers. Press, Monday November 6, 1972 PAGE 11

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and have all the 280 Labour MPs out too?' Kaufman rushed in to defend Heath. The Tories, he replied, 'a were democratically-elected

THE THEORY AND

government' and a General Strike

PRACTICE OF MARXISM

would only mean bigger Given by majority for the government.

We Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central must wait until the next election.'

Committee member) He also refused Building the revolutionary party specinc pledge that the next Monday November 6 Labout That would depend on the government would rents.

GUILDFORD HOTEL

situation.' The Headrow, 8 p.m. Thursday November 9 Basic essentials of Marxiam Thursday November 16 A theory of knowledge relations.' Thursday November 23 Deputy Foreign Minister Kava- Opponents of Marxism lieratos told a Press conference Thursday November 30 that the in Athens last week Marxismthe science of colonels' regime will be exchang- perspective ambassadors with Peking

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soon.

COMMUNITY CENTRE

He added that Greece was con- Lake Street, 8 p.m. tinuing the effort of developing Lectures given by friendly relations with other Balkan states, G. Healy referring particu- larly to Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and SLL national secretary Rumania.

PAGE 12 Workers Preas, Monday November 6, 1972 WE MUST not allow the campaign More for our Fund to slacken. than ever we must go out and as much as possible to raise develop our paper. Following the breakdown of discussions with unlon leaders, now preparing the Cabinet is a showdown with the plans for working class. Workers Press is needed to

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

been given a pay rise of less than £2 a week, it was rev the presen £22.10 and £1.55 on the unskilled rate of £18.35 a week.

The last pay rise won by this section of workers was cent in November 7t per 1971. SuPPORT and Meanwhile farmworkers

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teachers have reacted to govern- ment attempts to clamp down on 925 their wages and salaries. And the officers have sacked probation for 40 hours their following

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negotiators recent pay settlement.

WORKERS?

Reg Bottini, general secretary National Union of Agri- of the cultural and Allied Workers, said at the weekend that the proposed £3.30 farmworkers' _ increase In wages was not satistactory.

for original claim was The £8.80, taking the basic rate to £25. A two-hour cut in the work- also demanded. ing week was he warned the union's But Wiltshire conference: haven't got your f3.30, Farmworkers on a recent London 'You and you have a 50-50 chance of not getting it." prevented the Burnham in and Mr James Prior, agriculture Committee making any such offer.

had invited the gov- Friday the National Union minister, On ernment to 'put the wage freeze of Teachers rejected the £15 and wages'. on farm Mas- Saturday the Assistant on Lon- The conference went on to pass ters Association meeting in deplored 'the refusal of the resolution unanimously con- don demning any action by the gov- permit the man- government to ernment superimposing its policy agement panel to make the more realistic offer it wished to make'.

decisions on the Agricultural or supported the Wages Board. They unanimously rejection of the offer. independent This so-called Saturday of eight repre- At Birmingham body is made up. Britain's probation officers voted both the sentatives from their and employees and another five for the resignation government appointees. union's salary committee.

- Representatives of the National Another teachers' has union Officers insulting and Association of Probation slammed as 408 votes passed a resolution by the £15 London allow- derisory 346 calling for the commit- 'offer' made on Friday. to ance resignation. The national tee's 60,000 working The teachers committee now in London had expected an offer be considering thought to Its £60 and £80 a of between year resignation. to add to their £1l8 weighting Secre- The movers of the motion allowance. But Education of failing tary Margaret Thatcher stepped accused the committee

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nt London lobby of their pay talks to take into account members' views during recent negotiations interim pay which led to an award. One of their main grievances which the rank-and-file wanted abolishing. Under the interim settlement -due to be reviewed at the end of the year-rises ranging from 8 per cent to 25 per cent were awarded. A 60,000-STRONG Protestant the Loyalist Defence group, Volunteers, yesterday underlined its opposition to the govern- ment's Green Paper on Northern Ireland. In a statement, issued in Bel- fast, the LDV said: 'On behalf of the Loyalist Volunteers, the Ulster Special Constabulary Association and the Vanguard Service Corps, we call for an immediate return to basic democratic principles so a Gene- may be held and ral Election the voice of the people heard through their true representa- tives.' The LDV's message to the Westminster government and the Whitelaw administration is No appeasement, no deals and, most of all, no surrender'. The LDV is, together with Van- guard, the Loyalist Association of Workers and the Ulster Defence Association, part of the Ulster Loyalist Council, the hard- line Protestant umbrella move- ment.

BY ALEX MITCH

ROBERT MARK, the Metrop sioner, may re-open the inquir of Scotland Yard's Drugs Sc Inspector Victor Kelaher. K more than 18 months ago a regular duties. At the same ti leagues were taken off the Squ by almost a half. In a major investigation published yesterday, "The Sunday Times' INSIGHT team says that the Customs and Excise investigations branch had considered charging Kelaher as a party to a drugs smuggling con- spiracy. But in May this year, follow- ing a long inquiry by the then assistant chief constable of Mr Harold Pres- cott, the Prosecutions decided not to lay charges against the ex-drugs Squad chief. Kelaher's was placed name under a cloud during a lengthy trial at the Middlesex Area Sessions during June and July 1971. At the end of the trial four men and a woman were con- victed of a drugs conspiracy and sentenced to jail terms of from one to seven years. They were accused of con- spiring , to import or acquire possession of 24lb of cannabis.

On the London market this would have been worth some £5,000. Kelaher appeared as a witness in the case and dis- puted throughout that he had anything to do with the drugs ring. counsel, John Defending the jury Lloyd-Eley, QC, told that Kelaher corruptly involved with one of the defendants, 41-year-old club owner Basil Sands, who was described as the 'mainspring' in the case.

I cannot tell exactly what was, their purpose said Mr Lloyd Eley, I can only tell you it was concerned with their obtaining . . . cannabis for The their own purposes. obvious inference is that it was to be sold and the pro- in ceeds shared way some between them.' Kelaher denied these alleg- saying he had been ations, making his own inquiries with the help of his informant, Basil Sands. In his final speech to the jury, Mr John Marriage, prose- cuting counsel for the Customs and Excise department, warned the jury not to rely on the veracity of the two separate statements Kelaher had made to Customs. 'Mr Kelaher is not to be believed, he said. 'Do not in his circumstances use any evidence against any of these defendants.' This is the prosecutor talking about the head of Scotland Yards Drugs Squad!! Also in the closing stages counsel the defence one of remarked: 'The court has not the whole truth' And heard the judge promptly replied: 'That I accept as the truest thing that has been said Immediately the trial ended Commander James Crane was put in charge of an unofficial Kelaher's investigation activities. (Crane, head of the Fraud Squad, is now in charge of the investigation into the Poulson empire which precipi- tated the resignation of the Tory Home Secretary Reginald Maudling.) Crane's inquiry later gave way to a more publicized one by Harold Prescott who was brought from Lancashire as 'Mr Incorruptible' to handle a top-level investigation. It is

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Metropolitan Police Commis- e inquiry into the former head rugs Squad, Detective Chief her. Kelaher left the Squad ago and was reassigned to same time several of his col- the Squad and its size was cut known that Prescott's report went to the highest authorities the land-Maudling, Sir in Philip Allen, permanent secre- Home Office, Sir tary at the the former John Com- Metropolitan Robert Mark, the missioner, deputy commissioner, new assistant commissioner Richard Chitty, and Sir Norman Skel- horn, the Director of Public Prosecutions. No charges were made. But INSIGHT has now re- vealed the existence of tape of conversations recordings between Basil Sands, one of the jailed defendants, and Kelaher. But throughout the trial the Customs men were under instruction not to men- tion them. Sunday Following "The revelations there Times' certain to be mounting pres- of the sure for a re-opening Kelaher case. Socialist Labour League Greater London Rally

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