A NEW ERA OF IMPERIALIST CRISIS

Nixon's second four-year term in will be marked by intensified trade war On the home front workers' living with Europe. standards and attacks.

He made this clear at his inauguration ceremony on Saturday in a speech which was hailed by Alabama governor George Wallace-darling of the US rednecks and fascists - as embodying 'the philosophy of the average American citizen'.

The speech reveals that the United States is right at the centre of the world crisis of capitalism. Its rulers, through the increasingly dictatorial Nixon, intend to force the rest of the world to pay for their economic crisis.

Nixon is the man who severed the dollar's link with gold in August 1971 and precipitated the breakdown of the Bretton Woods monetary system. Since then all efforts to arrive at international agreement on monetary and trade questions have failed.

Nixon, who had earlier faced a barrage of rotten fruit and tomatoes from antiwar demonstrators, gave no guarantees about ending the Vietnam war. But he referred specifically to his visits to Moscow and Peking as laying the basis for 'a more durable pattern of relationships among the nations of the world'.

The basis for these relationships, however, is to be radically changed. No longer will America shoulder the political and economic responsibilities of its allies, Nixon indicated.

What this means in practice was made clear at the weekend when three of the largest US airlines PanAm, Continental and American Air lines announced the cancellation of their options on 17 Concorde supersonic airliners. Trans World Airlines is also known to be considering cancellation of its six options to buy.

These cancellations come on the eve of a projected visit to peace a Washington by Tory premier ing aw: Edward Heath. They are a cal- have fi culated step in the trade war era at with the Common Market.

It remains to be seen whether Concorde production in Britain and France can continue following this concerted body blow. The British Aircraft Corporation and its French partners could be left producing as few as 15 aircraft in total.

The Nixon regime's efforts to turn round its balance of payments and its trade talks with Europe and Japan planned for later this year are a clear warning that trade is highly dependent on US goodwill.

Nor does Nixon intend to spare the US workers. He called for 'new ways' to tackle education, health, housing, transportation, environment and welfare problems.

Tust as building basic rights will come rights will EDITOR JOHN SPENCER Broad has required turn• from old policies that led, so building a new home requires turning away from old policies that failed,' he said.

He appeared to be giving Congress notice that he will soon be coming forward with specific proposals to turn around the Keynesian so-called Great Society under enormous programmes of Kennedy and Johnson.

This means the wholesale scrapping of welfare, health and education programmes and the systematic erosion of constitutional and basic democratic rights won by the working class.

Nixon's policy is a programme for counter-revolution, as is abundantly demonstrated by Wallace's welcome.

Nixon plans to go to war the working class.

He can only be answered by building a mass Labour Party based on the trade unions and organized around socialist policies.

The urgency of the fight for the Labour Party in the US "is underlined by Nixon's inaugural speech, which must serve as a warning to the workers America and Europe. staff photographer Martin Mayer have been to Rome to report on the annual conference of the MSl, the Italian fascists. In Italy, the first country in Europe to go fascist under Mussolini in 1921, the extreme right wing is on the march again.

In a special series of reports, starting Some of the 100,000 anti-fascist demonstre • SEE STORY PAGE 2.

THE TRIAL starts in Athens today of 17 Greeks who are charged with plotting to overthrow the regime and establish communist rule.

According to legislation passed in 1947 against 'subversive' activity, the maximum sentence is death.

The accused are charged with organizing an illegal print-shop in Athens and building an organization for the Greek Communist A STRIKE of 75' millwrights at Chrysler Rootes at Ryton, Coventry, has led to a shut down of the plant and lay-off and walkouts by workers. The millwrights IL FASCISMU Trial of 17 opens with a picture spread tomorrow, Workers Press will produce the results of their investigation. Who are the fascists? Who backs them? What is the context of fascism within the Common Markel? Who is fighting the fascist revival and what are the implications for the British working class? tors marching in Athens Party_ led by 68-year-old Demetrios Partsalides.

The five women • defendants include Mrs Zoe Vei, wife of Professor George Vei, of the Athens Technical University.

Workers, an agronomist and an antiquities department official are among the male defendants. • See Panagoulis trial pages 2 and 5.

ose Chrysler are asking for pay parity with electricians and have imposed sanctions to back their claim. When the firm suspended two millwrights the others walked out in support.

Press Monday 1973