The language of Bonapartism

yesterday took a further step in his legal battle to get a final ban on the ITV documentary about American pop-artist Andy Warhol.

Solicitors for the right-wing journalist and broadcaster delivered documents to officials at the Attorney-General Sir Peter Rawlinson's office in London.

He will study evidence given at Tuesday's Appeal Court hearing before deciding whether to take action to make the Independent Broadcasting Authority ban the Warhol programme.

McWhirter was hoping yesterday to arrange a meeting with the Attorney-General's office for early next week. to discuss the matter.

The IBA, despite its early Jack Gale comments on Ross McWhirter's legal moves protests, has so far made no plans for a special Board meeting, which would be necessary to sanction any legal move against the ban.

Neither Mr McWhirter nor the judges who banned Warhol film had actually seen it. Renault contract would restrict strikes Stalinists greet speed-up deal COMMUNIST leaders of the CGT unions have hailed the new Renault contract as a victory for its 'common programme'. In fact the contract is labour contract as a intended benefit to benetit the employers through speed up and restricting the right to strike.

Men will be able to retire at 62 and women at 60. A lower retiring age has now become general in the advanced sectors of French Older workers are put on pensions of from 40 to 75 per cent of their previous earnings. Their place is taken by younger workers able to stand the increasing pace of the assembly line, often at lower rates of pay. The additional cost of employers is more than Yugoslavs defy wage-cuts APPLICATION of the wage-cutting law passed by the Yugoslav government in order to liquidate debts accumulated by many factories and businesses is leading to considerable turmoil.

The law imposes 10-per-cent wage-cuts on workers in all factories which are in debt. In addition the salaries of managerial There can be no doubt that the statement of the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians that the ban created a 'frightening precedent' is absolutely justified.

It opens the door to rightwing censorship and is a part CORRESPONDENT leaders of victory for 'common programme. the employers through speed up and Around the world made up by higher productivity and bigger profits.

Workers generally have to have been with the firm for 20 to 25 years to qualify for a pension. The scheme helps to ensure a docile labour force.

Renault proposes annual wage increases linked to the cost-of-living index to give a 2-per-cent increase in purchasing power. This will not meet the loss in real wages already brought about by inflation.

It gives the employers and office workers supposedly been frozen.

However, there is widespread evasion, as in Slovenia, where nearly 800 factories withdrew too much money to pay their wage-bills last month. The accountancy service complained that 248 factories had taken out enough money to pay twice their normal wage bill.

In Croatia, office workers were of the wholesale attack from the right on basic democratic A significant aspect of the case is not only that one man could use the law to stop a programme being transmitted to millions of people, but the speed with which he could do it.

Usually the law moves slowly-defendants in the recent Angry Brigade trial were held in jail for. up to 16 months awaiting trial.

What emerges is that, though normal cases may take years to get to court, the High Court and Court of Appeal Judges have wide powers to dispense • 'instant justice. Several judges are available each day to give immediate attention to 'urgent' applications.

If this can be done to ban a television programme, it can be done to ban other activities as well. It is in fact the ailed In fact the contract restricting the right tual guarantee against strikes and strengthens the hands of the trade union bosses; particularly the Stalinists who dominate Renault, against militants.

Renault employs 95,000 workers and generally sets the pace for large-scale private industry, especially in vehicles and engineering. The Stalinists are using the proposed agreement to hold back the working class and to maintain an image of class-collaboration on the eve of the election. paid a bonus amounting to an extra month's wage in defiance of the law and there were complaints from student organizations, some of whose members have had their grants stopped completely as an economy measure.

According to the Croat student organization, nearly 2,000 students and schoolchildren, mostly from the poorer areas of the region, have had their grants stopped for this reason. In Split, 600 students have not received any grants this term.

Some firms, however, are still not satisfied with the arrangements for debt repayment. In Zadar, the power station is cutting off electricity supplies to all its debtors who do not pay up after 90 days.

The company is owed over 13 million dinars (about £4m) by a total of 537 debtors. They include the town planning institute which owes over a million dinars. The nearby municipal assembly at Pag owes the firm money The Tito government's efforts to resolve the economic situation by cutting wages are already leading to discontent and anger among • the working class. To eliminate the vast accumulated debts in the economy still further at required living standards will recuired Bonapartist method so dear to the hearts of the Tory Cabinet.

Increasingly, right -wing forces are resorting to private actions to infringe on democratic rights.

Not long ago, the right-wing lawyer Francis Bennion-now parliamentary counselcould take out a private prosecution against anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain.

The climate is being created for a whole series of 'private' actions against artists, writers, demonstrators--and the unions. This gees hand in glove with the legal attack on the right to strike contained in the government's pay control White Paper.

This makes it all the more urgent to build up massive support for the Socialist Labour League's national campaign in defence of basic democratic rights, which will culminate in an Empire Pool, Wembley, rally, on Sunday March 11.