Workers Press no. 989

workers press

PHASE TWO LAW

CAN GAG PRESS

INCORPORATING THE NEWSI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

'Further erosion of the fre

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE PHASE TWO legislation now before r powers which could close down sections of the sition of unlimited fines.

Any newspaper which calls on trade unions or sec- tions of workers to fight for decent wages can be hauled before the criminal courts and fined out of existence. Warning of this legal noose, Labour leader Harold Wilson said: 'If this were happening in any other country the British Press and international bodies would be rushing to denounce it. Yet, in this country where this is happening, silence.'

There is silence in the capitalist Press because these Tory organs have already given private assurance to Heath that they will not be urging workers to defy the state pay laws.

As Workers Press reported a week ago, the editors of Fleet 10 Downing Street have been to Street and agreed to restrict news of workers' defiance of Heath's corporatist legislation.

Speaking to the Press Club in London last Friday night, Wilson pin- pointed the Tory attack on the Press: "The Press itself-and it should not have been left to a politician to point this out- -can, under a Bill 1ow before parliament, and supported by practically the whole Press be called before either or both of two new administrative tribunals, meeting in secret, enunciating their own laws, laws which will never be put before parliament for approval.

*These tribunals are expressly mittee stage beginning on authorized to prosecute those it Monday. Shadow Ministers are considers to be in breach of the no more desirous than laws it has made and seek in the government to delay the pass- financial courts penalties liter- ing of the Bill.' ally unlimited in amount against 'THE GUARDIAN': The Oppo- the Press or any section of it.'

Wilson It is sition does not intend to went on: not difficult to envisage circumstances obstruct passage of the gov- ernment's Counter-Inflation BIllI in which a Press undertaking.

through the committee stage might feel it right to take action which Monday. starts on which could lead to the closure There will be no attempt to and further newspapers filibuster the Bill. This policy erosion of the freedom of was being described as opinion. controlled militancy": Wilson's warnings are correcu Workers Press 'DAILY TELEGRAPH': The Op- -they echo what has been saying in position has devised relation to a pro- both Phase One and Phase Two gramme which has the appro.

the same laws. At time as the val of the government for a of wage 45-hour committee right negotiations and stage over two weeks. The the right to a decent standard of intention of living the the Opposition is obvious are whipped away, right of the Press to not to delay proceedings and condemn held the laws and be responsible for pro- to encourage "freeze"! longing the workers to defend their rights is also threatened. But we have to ask Wilson what he and the Parliamentary Labour Party are proposing to do to stop these laws getting on the statute books. Read what political correspondents were PICKETS will be out this writing in Saturday's capitalist giant Vaux- newspapers: morning at the

'THE

TIMES':

Labour's wrath hall plant at Ellesmere Port, at the measures Liverpool, demanding the will against infiation be dis- unconditional reinstatement closed as an exercise In con- of a shop steward. trolled militancy the when battle on the Counter-Inflation Mr Billy Wale, a shop Bill is fought out in the

HE NEWSLETTER •

MONDAY FEBRUARY 5, 1

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

he freedom of opinion' fore parliament contains of the Press by the impo-

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

In other words, the Workers Press article of ten days ago is absolutely vindicated: Wilson and his friends will not impede the Tory timetable of getting laws for the three-year control of wages onto the statute books.

The open collaboration of the Labour Party leadership is in line with the co-operation they afforded the Tories on other pieces of anti-working class legislation: • The Industrial Relations Act.

• The European Communities Act (69 Labourites led by former Roy deputy leader Jenkins voted with the Tories to take Britain into the EEC and there- by saved the Heath govern- ment). • The direct rule in Northern Ireland Act and the so-called "fair rents' Act. steward in the axle production department, was dismissed a week ago following an incident with a foreman. Men in his department imme- diately walked out creating dis-

JARY 5, 1973

No 989 4p

E SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

A week ago-on January 29, 1973—we tween Heath and Fleet Street editors t working-class opposition to the Phase Harold Wilson says the Press not invol supporting workers' wages struggles c Phase Two tribunals and fined so he close down.

IME OV.

Derry massacre march in Going hand-in-hand with these measures has been stricter cen- sorship: • The

IBA

has banned two World in Action' films—one on Ireland and another, a week ago, on the Friends and Influ- ence of John L. Poulson'.

• The political police harassed both the 'Sunday Times' and the 'Railway Gazette' over publica- tion of a Tory document to de- cimate the present rail network.

• Sir Lew Grade's ATV has just announced it will not transmit a film on Irish patriot Michael Collins. • Sir John Donaldson, president of the National Industrial Rela- tions Court, has warned indus- trial correspondents and the BBC about their risk of commit- ting contempt of his court.

ruptions which, spread to the Luton plant. Last Thursday management presented extraordinary terms for reinstating Mr Wale. The com-

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1973—we told of a conspiracy be- editors to play down the growing he Phase Two state pay law. Now not involved in this conspiracy and ruggles could be taken before the ed so heavily they would have to massacre The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, has banned publica- tion of a 14,000-word article by the 'Sunday Times' on the Dis- tillers Company and thalidomide.

The struggle to defend the basic democratic rights of the working class must have as its central demand the removal of the Tory government from office.

But in the course of that struggle the Wilsons and the Feathers must also be exposed as reformists who are unable and unwilling to defend these rights.

Inseparable from this double- edged battle is the campaign to transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party in the coming weeks. Last Saturday Workers Press published the draft political pers- pectives of the Central Commit- tee for the party. This is the way forward for the working class. If the legal attacks on the trade union move- ment at the turn of the century forced trade unionists to build the Labour Party, today's more repressive measures call for re- volutionary action. This is the next stage along the Road to Workers' Power, the title of the pageant of working- class fight for basic democratic rights which the SLL and the Young Socialists are presenting at the Empire Pool Wembley, on Sunday, March 11.

workers press

PHASE TWO LAW

CAN GAG PRESS

INCORPORATING THE NEWS!

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

'Further erosion of the fre

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE PHASE TWO legislation now before f powers which could close down sections of the sition of unlimited fines.

Any newspaper which calls on trade unions or sec- tions of workers to fight for decent wages can be hauled before the criminal courts and fined out of existence. Warning of this legal noose, Labour leader Harold Wilson said: 'If this were happening in any other country the British Press and international bodies would be rushing to denounce it. Yet, in this country where this is happening, silence.'

There is silence in the capitalist Press because these Tory organs have already given private assurance to Heath that they will not be urging workers to defy the state pay laws.

As Workers Press reported a week ago, the editors of Fleet Street have 10 Downing been to Street and agreed to restrict news of workers' defiance of Heath's corporatist legislation.

Speaking to the Press Club in London last Friday night.

Wilson pin- pointed the Tory attack on the Press: 'The Press itself-and it should under a Bill be called before either or of two new administrative tribunals, meeting in secret, enunciating their own laws, laws which will never before parliament for approval.

be put 'These tribunals are expressly mittee stage beginning on authorized to prosecute those it Monday. Shadow Ministers are considers to be in breach of the no more desirous than the laws it has made and seek in the government to delay the pass- financial courts. penalties liter- ing of the BIl!.' ally unlimited in amount against 'THE GUARDIAN': 'The Oppo- the Press or any section of it.

Wilson •It sition does not Intend to went is on: not obstruct difficult to envisage circumstances passage of the gov- ernment's Counter-Inflation BIll in which a Press undertaking.

through the committee stage might feel it right to take action Monday. which starts on which could lead to the closure There will be no attempt to of and newspapers further filibuster the

BILL.

This policy erosion of the freedom of was being described as opinion.' "controlled militancy"' Wilson's warnings are they echo what Workers Press 'DAILY TELEGRAPH': 'The Op.

has been saying in position has devised relation to a pro- both Phase One and Phase Two gramme which has the appro- laws. At the same time as the val of the government for of right negotiations and 45-hour committee stage over the right to a decent standard of two weeks. The intention of the the Opposition is obvious living are whipped away, right of the Press not to delay proceedings and to condemn be held the laws and responsible for pro- to encourage "freeze"? longing the workers to defend their rights is also threatened. ask Wilson But we have to what he and the Parliamentary Labour Party are proposing to do to stop these laws getting on the statute books. Read what political correspondents PICKETS will be Saturday's capitalist out this writing in morning at the giant Vaux- newspapers:

'THE

TIMES':

'Labour's wrath hall plant at Ellesmere Port, at the measures Liverpool, demanding the against Infiation will be dis- unconditional reinstatement closed as an exercise In con- of a shop steward. trolled militancy the when battle the Counter-Inflation on Mr Billy Wale, a shop Bill Is fought out In the com-

IE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY FEBRUARY 5, 1

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

he freedom of opinion' fore parliament contains of the Press by the impo-

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

In other words, the Workers Press article of ten days ago is absolutely vindicated: Wilson and his friends will not impede the Tory timetable of getting laws for the three-year control of wages onto the statute books.

The open collaboration of the Labour Party leadership is in line with the co-operation they afforded the Tories on other anti-working pieces of class legislation: • The Industrial Relations Act.

• The European Communities Act (69 Labourites led by former deputy Roy leader Jenkins voted with the Tories to take Britain into the EEC and there- by saved the Heath govern- ment). • The direct rule in Northern Ireland Act and the so-called 'fair rents' Act. steward in the axle production was dismissed department, week ago following an incident with a foreman. Men in his department imme- diately walked out creating dis- No 989 • 4p

JARY 5, 1973 •

E SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

A week ago on January 29, 1973—We tween Heath and Fleet Street editors 1 working-class opposition to the Phase Harold Wilson says the Press not Invol supporting workers' wages struggles c Phase Two tribunals and fined so he close down. Derry massacre march. ind Going hand-in-hand with these measures has been stricter cen- sorship: • The banned two World in Action' films-one on another, Ireland ago, on the 'Friends and Influ- ence of John L. Poulson'.

• The political police harassed both the 'Sunday Times' and the 'Railway Gazette' over publica- tion of a Tory document to de- cimate the present rail network.

• Sir Lew Grade's ATV has just announced it will not transmit a film on Irish patriot Michael Collins. • Sir John Donaldson, president of the National Industrial Rela- tions Court, has warned indus- trial correspondents and the BBC about their risk of commit- ting contempt of his court.

ruptions which, spread to the Luton plant. Last Thursday management presented extraordinary terms for reinstating : Mr Wale. The com-

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1973—we told of a conspiracy be- editors to play down the growing he Phase Two state pay law. Now not involved in this conspiracy and ruggles could be taken before the ed so heavily they would have to lassacre The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, has banned publica- tion of a 14,000-word article by the 'Sunday Times' on the Dis- tillers Company and thalidomide.

The struggle to defend the basic democratic rights of the working class must have as its central demand the removal of the Tory government from office.

But in the course of that Wilsons and the struggle the Feathers must also be exposed as reformists who are unable and unwilling to defend these rights.

Inseparable from this double- edged battle is the campaign to transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party in the coming weeks. Last Saturday Workers Press published the draft political pers- pectives of the Central Commit- tee for the party. This is the way forward for the working class. If the legal attacks on the trade union move- ment at the turn of the century forced trade unionists to build the Labour Party, today's more repressive measures call for re- volutionary action. This is the next stage along the Road to Workers' Power, the title of the pageant of working- class fight for basic democratic rights which the SLL and the Young Socialists are presenting at the Empire Pool Wembley, on Sunday, March 11.

Nixon lets the PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday Februa EDWARD HEATH'S visit to about the intentions of the ( Americans have not yet fina coming trade and monetary t But the fate of Concorde, the development of the in- ternational monetary crisis and the continued spate of denunciations of European trade practices by Washing- ton officials leaves in no doubt the general lines of this policy. With a balance-of-payments deficit of over $6,000m lasti year, the United States is in no mood to compromise with the Common Market. Nixon's aides have already expressed their opposition not agricul- only to the common tural policy and the formation of industrial agreements with non-EEC states in Europe, but

BY AN I

THE UNITED STATES will prop up the dollar. This was the European and Japanese c crisis.

BY A FOREIGN

CORRESPONDENT

SPANISH

police political claim they have smashed the Communist Party's propa- ganda machine. They say they found an illegal print shop in Elipa, a Madrid work- ing-class district. CP members have been arres- ted and thousands of pamphlets on the struggle in Spanish in- dustry seized. The repression has also spread 'the universities. through Val- ladolid campus in Castile has now been closed down by the authorities. Mass students meetings were broken up violently last Thurs- day and Friday after the Dean described his 'desire to protect the right to education'. Barcelona students demonstra- ted through the centre of the city against the closure of the univer- sity. Groups threw Molotov cock- tails at the armed police.

Three hundreds research workers at the Supreme Council of Scientific Research in Madrid organized a pay protest on Saturday. The East European Stalinists these continue to weaken struggles by their continued fêting of Franco's police chief Iniesta Cano. lay February 5, 1973 visit to Washington can have left him with few illusions of the United States towards Europe. He learned that the yet finalized the details of their strategy in the forth- letary talks with their overseas competitors.

BY FOREIGN EDITOR JOHN SPENCER

also to the preferential trade in particular-have always Trojan with former colo- garded Britain agreements nies of EEC countries and to United States. norse for the the for De Gaulle long opposed British ambitious plan Mediterranean free trade area.

the

EEC

entry into on just these grounds. They have indicated that all these issues-together with the Their fears will have been of further question upvalua- both Nixon's confirmed by tions of European currencies flattery of the Tory leader and and the shouldering by the by Heath's sycophantic grovel- EEC countries of a larger share ling to the. US. costs in Europe- of military must be treated single Though Heath careful was with of the man am Chility not to make any concessions on Europe making accessible to which might trade cuestions manufacturers and American have ' offended his EEC allies, bankers both as a market and he was also plainly angling for as a sphere of investment.

of Britain's some continuation Heath's 'partners' in the 'special relationship' with Common Market-the French America.

BY AN ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT

S will not intervene in international money markets' to is was the unmistakable message from Washington as anese capitalists prepared for another week of financial The dollar has been extremely weak for days and European and Japanese central banks have had to take in very large amounts of the US currency to prevent their own currency being revalued.

of the In Germany, one But with more than $60,000m dollar-holders' targets, prime of unconvertible in the paper the government was forced on Euro-dollar market alone, there Saturday to introduce stringent no practical way the govern- exchange controls to maintain can prevent the threat to ments the mark parity. every time there their parıty 1S In particular, the Bonn a crisis on the markets. gov- decided block ernment has The United States' action in non-authorized foreigners from standing aside from the crisis on dealing its stock markets- on the money markets is an unmis- Euro- attempt keep out dollars from West Germany.

takable declaration of war on its competitors: This will: throw even more of Devaluation the dollar of a burden the which iS on -уси, increase the would competitive- most vulnerable regarded as the of US goods abroad and ness of all. The fear that currency make it more dificult for revaluation may be imminent has sell in foreign manufacturers to already created panic conditions protected US market. the already the Tokyo stock exchange, £7,000m and more than was It is a means of throwing the wiped off share prices last week.

burden of economic crisis onto Europe, which can only intensify of The governor of the Bank the class struggle and increase unpre- Japan has warned in an the likelihood of major commer- that cedented statement an up- cial crashes in the near future.

ward revaluation of the currency is not ruled out. Until now the idea has been stoutly resisted by Japanese officials. With intervention either no US or from from the the Inter- national Monetary Fund (which THE COMMON Market's Agri- has also indicated it will stand on cultural Commissioner, M. Lar- the side-lines) the stage is set for dinois and his director general, crisis from which currency M. Rabot, last week attended a US can benefit. only the two-day conference of top-level It appears that President Nixon British agriculturists and food put an end to the has decided to trade leaders. 13-month-old Smithsonian Clu- It has been revealed that the realignment agreement informal conference, held at the which has signally failed to re- Civil Service College, Sunning- American balance-of- duce the dale, Berkshire, was convened by payments deficit. Mr Tory Agriculture Minister, has The Smithsonian system Joseph Godber. crumbling been for months-at Among leaders in Britain's food Britain floated the least since Sir industry who attended were pound last year. Barker, Uni- James chairman of Mr Kenneth Durham of gate; Since then, most of the Euro- pean countries have either floated BOCM-Silock Ltd; Mr John chairman of J. Sains- 'two-tier' foreign Sainsbury, or introduced Viscount Trenchard, exchange bury Ltd; systems in an attempt of Unilever; Viscount to protect their parities.

chairman HEATH... Trojan horse? Heath's position is further confirmation of the extreme weakness of British imperialism and its absolute inability to play any independent role. En- try into the Common Market has settled none of the basic historical questions facing the British ruling class. The Tories want to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. But this is not a ten- able position. Nixon will stay 'good terms' with Heath on only as long as he can hope to use Britain as a means of un- dermining the Common Mar- ket and destroying the pros- for capitalist monetary pects union in Europe.

THE

PROBLEM of the drastic shortag socialist' Chile was highlighted by a ment: I'm not a foreigner, but I stili ne the promises of the Popular Unity g for every family, many are left Ilke !!

residents with dollars get housing. Lan the inflated escudo. Its official rate the flourishing black market, this rang THE CHILEAN Movement Left of the Revolutionary (MIR) has announced that it will participate in the forth- coming parliamentary elec- tions. 'revolution- These Castroite Schweppes Ltd; and Mr G. i Roberts, chairman of the Agri- cultural Division of ICI.

Leading civil servants present included Sir Alan Neale, per- Ministry manent secretary, Agriculture, and Sir Con O'Neil, chairman of the intervention Board for Agricultural Produce.

On the farming side were Mr Henry Plumb, president of the National Farmers' Union and his deputy, Mr Richard Butler.

RHODESIA lifted its border blockade on Zambia yesterday, but the Zambians scorned the as a trick and an move nounced that their own block- imposed three days ago, ade, would stay in force. Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda adamantly denied that there had been any deal be tween himself and lan Smith, white supremacist Rho- the desian premier. In announcing the ending of the blockade, the Rhode.

sians had hinted that Kaunda had backed down on his policy of aiding black nationalist guerrillas who have launched series & new attacks into Rhodesian terri- tory. The Rhodesians closed the border on January 9, promis- ing that it would remain closed until they got 'satisfac- tory from assurances the Zambian government that they will no longer permit terrorists Rhodesia to operate against from their territory'. emphatically de Kaunda nied sending any assurances: 'I want to say to the whole world in a very solemn man- ner that 1 have given no undertaking to Mr Smith and have been in at no time him, contact wịth either directly or indirectly, he declared. fact that Zambia is The keeping the border closed strengthen would appear to Kaunda's denials. If Smith has unilaterally reopened the considerable border, it is a admission of weakness by a man whose regime is becom- ing less and less secure.

Ic shortage of housing in 'democratic- recent newspaper advertise • I stili need somewhere to live. Desplte 'a roof • Unity government to provide left like the family above while foreign using. Landlords are refusing to accept cial rate Is 46 to the dollar, but on this ranges trom 250 to 300.

aries' are to support the candi- President Salvador dates Allende's Socialist Party and the Movement of the Christian Left.

MIR leader Miguel Enriquez, justified the abandonment of the 'armed struggle' by the need to protect the Popular Front gov- against threats from ernment more bosses' strikes. Enriquez warned of the dan- ger of 'the splintering of the armed forces and the defeat of the working class' The MIR, the ideal of cen- trists internationally, now fini- the shes up camp General Carlos Prats, weeks the ng workers, worse ankee millionaires 01-720 2000 01-622 7029

C. T. Bowring and Company, world's largest finance, the insurance and shipping group, has appointed a new chairman.

Mr Edward Bowring is to take over the two-century-old firm trom Mr lan Eaward Bowring Skimming, who died suddenly on January 20. The new chairman of the £150m group was previously joint deputy chairman and chief executive of C. T. Bow- ring (Insurance) Holdings, the company responsible for all Bowring's insurance broking and reinsurance broking both here and overseas. He was born in California and in the 1939-1945 war he served with the 143rd (Kent Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA, finishing as second in com- mand of his regiment. He com- manded a field battery through the 1944-1945 campaign in France and north-west Ger- many and was awarded the Military Cross and mentioned in despatches. Bowring After the war qualified as a solicitor and was a partner of Cripps, Harries, Hall & Co, and was in private practice until 1955 when he joined C. T. Bowring & Co (Insurance). Until last year he The textile union has the Oldham area. Included in the claim for a 'substantial all-round increase' is a guaranteed minimum earn- ings clause of £20 a week for adult workers. The £20 claim is only mar- ginally above the national assistance minimum. But even this meagre de- mand from one of industry's sections of most exploited workers is outlawed by the state pay laws. Has the union informed its members of this situation? Is it mobilizing in a campaign for wage justice? Not at all.

Mr Joe King, general secre- tary of the National Union of Textile and Allied Workers, said last week that he was ex- negotiations pecting to go ahead. He says the claim was tabled before the announcement of the Phase Two proposals. 'We appreciate we shall now i have The Chadderton Council, near Manchester, is to pay its bailiff a commission of 5 per cent for rent arrears he collects for the council. This followed an ultimatum to the : council by the bailiff that unless his fee improved, would not do any more business for them. Mr R. Greenwood, the trea- surer, told the finance com- mittee that the only alterna- tive was to get another bailiff or try to recover the arrears through the County Court.

was President of the Insurance Institute of London. Bowring has a long associa- tion with the county of Kent, having been brought up as a boy in the village of Goud- hurst. Since moving to his family firm in the City in 1956 he maintained his contact with the country by first being Deputy Commandant of the Special Constabulary in Tun- bridge Wells, later Command- ant and finally Commander of the Special Constabulary for the whole of West Kent. He resigned from the Spe- cial Constabulary in 1971 as, he felt unable to give as much time to the service which he, because of his business duties and the fact that he had been appointed President of the Insurance Institute of London, felt it required. At the end of last year Bow- ring's became the first major British company—it ranks 30th in 'The Times' league table to obtain listings on the Com- mon Market stock exchange.

In recent years the company has made a series of sweeping takeovers: Bowmaker, a lead- ing credit finance company, Co and Singer & Friedlander, a merchant banking house. to take this into account,' he added. He most certainly will! The new legislation forbids any in- creases above the £1 plus 4 per cent laid down by Heath. Any union or section of workers who defy this state 'norm' face unlimited fines and even imprisonment. • The right wing will have a very difficult time trying to control the Oldham workers if their indignation breaks out.

Mr John Foster, a researcher at the Department of Politics, at Strathclyde, has just given a lecture in praise of the part Oldham played workers founding socialism. Foster says that the fight for socialism parțicularly was powerful in northern towns the 70 like Oldham during years from 1790 to 1860. The fervour of the working- class movement in the town during 1834 was such that a senior army officer firmly be- companies of lieved that two infantry were insufficient to deal with an uprising, Foster added. He was opposed to the court procedure, however, because it could take six to eight weeks to get the case entered in the lists. And County Court fees are very heavy. The result is unsatisfactory order an which defers payment initially.

'In the end the amount of arrears has grown so large that it becomes almost impossible for people to pay up.' He said that arrears were already steadily rising to £50 and £90 in some cases. On his advice the committee agreed to pay the 5 per cent commission.

FOOTNOTE:

Councillor B. Wright opposed the increased fee for the bailiff. He said it was against the 'freeze' im- posed by the Heath pay laws!

Workars Press, Mc ingly embedded in the manage- The British Steel Corpor- ment structure'. ation has altered its rules One of the worker-directors, regarding worker-direc- John Slater, has just received tors. From now on the an enthusiastic write-up in one of the northern newspapers.

employee directors can This is perhaps unfortunate, sit on the board of BSC because it is in this area that 'reorganization'

BSC

and still hold union the is going to have devastating a office. effect. This has been agreed follow- paper describes him as The ing a two-year study by both 'one of the rare breed of bosses the BSC and the TUC. -the employee-director' and Until recently the 16

BSC

his. humble begin- emphasizes directors from the shop floor ning as an apprentice. He is now a director in the had to relinquish union office once they joined board. corporation's general steel divi- the "They were seen as individuals, sion. than Since the renationalization rather representatives bridging the gap between man- of steel there have been more than 30,000 agement and shop-floor work- jobs lost. What ers, has Slater, a so-called workers' one newspaper report said. representative, to say about The TUC-BSC study showed, that? 'There have, of course, been however, that by giving up union office "proletarian' very bad times when the we have director 'lost touch with the been involved in decisions to men he was supposed to re- close steelworks that we know and increas- personally. present became Writings of leon Trotsky

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"The whole scheme is a good one and should be adopted by nationalized and private in- dustry because more worker participation is on the way.

can see the time when workers will be involved in all I won't use decisions. the "worker's control" be- phrase cause it's too well used in the Let's just say participa- past. tion! In Slater's statement is con- tained all the dangers of the 'worker-participation' slogan and 'workers' control' when it is used by types like Jack Jones and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. By workers' control these individuals mean, literally, con- trol of workers. They mean a style of corporatism in which labour bureaucrats carry out the functions of capitalist man- agers and foremen. Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage reet, London SW4 7UG able, free, on request.

CP BACKS WELSH NATIONALISM

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday Februa While students up and down the country • are finding it impossible to manage on inadequate grants, their universities are also feeling the effects of economic crisis. While inflation worsens, both and the government other sources of cash are getting tighter. Take Lancaster University— one of those bright new places in the 1960s thrown to usher in the Wilsonian 'tech- nological revolution'. Recently it was reported that a large number of Lancaster graduates could not get jobs.

Opportunities for further research are not so good these days, either. One of the univer- sity's science lecturers com- plained to Workers Press the other day: I've got some really excellent students, doing first- class work, and I simply can't get grants for them!' What made him particularly bitter was an advertisement he showed us, which the univer- sity is intending to publish shortly. It is headed 'Informa- Press Officer', and tion and invites applications from suitably-qualified persons for this new; post. The salary will be in the range of £4,000 to £6,000 a year. Not bad for what the uni- versity usually refer to in their internal publications as a "period of financial stringency'!

As Workers Press readers will remember, there was a bit of trouble up at Lancaster last alleged political year, over victimization left-wing of teaching staff. Enough trouble in fact, to cause a long strike by students, industrial action by some teaching staff, and a bad reputation for the Lan- University authorities caster among students and many uni- versity teachers throughout the country. The inquiry commissioned to look into the Lancaster situa- tion, was conducted by Labour of councillor Tom Taylor, Blackburn. It produced a report which was described by Lord Greenwood of Rossen- dale, (former Labour MP Anthony Greenwood, pro- Chancellor of the university) as a 'model of clarity'. In fact, the Taylor Report was rejected both by the stu- dents' union and by the aca- demic staffs branch of the Association of Scientific, Tech- and Managerial Staffs nical (ASTMS), and the two com- produce a detailed bined to counter-report. The Council of the Univer- sity, however, over which Lord Greenwood presides, refused to discuss this detailed report and preferred Taylor's." page 7 of the Taylor Report, among his recommendations, comes Item 4: appointment of an Information Officer'. Cllr Taylor emphasizes: It is vital that the post be filled by a of wide first-class He also recommended that the Information Officer should have charge of a new official university newspaper. The advertisement says: 'The person appointed will be to the vice- responsible Chancellor.' Besides mantaining relations sonality to establish good rela- tions with senior and junior members of the university' and must understand issues of academic policy. He'll cer- tainly have his work cut out!

ay February 5, 1973

BY IAN YEATS

Members of the Com- munist Party are backing the setting up of a sepa- rate Welsh TUC. A special conference of delegates from trade unions and trade councils will be held at Llandrin- dod Wells a week today. Prime movers of the plan are the Welsh sections of the National Union of Minework- ers and the Transport and General Workers' Union. Welsh Communist Party executive member and Welsh NUM secretary Mr Dai Francis told me: I don't think we, as Welsh workers should be precluded from the same rights and privi- Irish Scottish and leges as workers' I asked Mr Francis if any- thing specific had prompted the plan. He told me: It was the struggle the miners had 12 months ago and the tremendous support we got from trade unions and trades councils. 'All Wilson and, what's that other fellow's name, Feather, could do was to suggest to our leaders that they meet the gov- ernment for eyeball-to- an eyeball confrontation. I think that means that they wanted a compromise.' that the English This idea TUC, and indeed the Labour Party, does not care about Welsh workers (and presum- ably workers generally since any 'compromise' would have applied equally to all miners) is central to the move to form a breakaway congress. T&GWU. leader Mr Tom Jones—-not, in fact, a CP mem- ber—made the point in rela- tion to Welsh workers' other big current fight-against steel redundancies. He admitted in his Cardiff office: "The TUC steel commit- tee has failed miserably. The feeling in Wales is that the English TUC has more or less said "yes" to the closures' In the same vein there are major criticisms of full-time officials who are responsible for implementing British TUC policy. Mr Francis told me that they had called on the Welsh Re- gional Council of Labour to ly• back them during the coal claimed the strike, but he council — comprised of trade union officials—refused to act.

Both men stress that it is rank-and-file action at the grass roots which alone gets results. This leads us to another concept held out to workers as having the potential to guaran- tee they will not be sold short in their struggles with em- ployers. Tom Jones put it this way: "The transport workers and the miners want to set up a demo- cratic TUC for the whole of Wales and it will be the rank and file who take part in its affairs instead of full-time officials.' With the closure of pits, railways and steelworks and almost no new industry coming into the Principality, Mr Jones claimed • support for nationalist elements was grow- ing. He said Welsh workers would fare no better under a Labour government than under Heath. He told me: 'Labour, Conservative, it's all the same.

It does not matter which. It is all state capitalism!' Plaid Cymru (Welsh nation- alist party) general secretary Mr Dafydd Williams said they were delighted about the move to set up a Welsh TUC. Political parties, as such, will not be participating in next Saturday's conference at Llandrindod, but their mem- bers will. the assembly finally When meets at the Hotel Metropole, include communists, it will nationalists, Tories and Lab- ourites. British TUC general secre- tary Mr Victor Feather sent a circular to all affiliated Welsh organizations on January 24 advising them to boycott the conference. The circular said that the 'sponsors' should be summoned to their respective union head- quarters and asked to deter any action until the General had completed its Council examination of regional mach- inery. There was 'no case' , it de- 'uni- clared ominously, for lateral action', but went on to admit that in some circum- stances there might be a case for an all-Wales trade union body. Mr Francis said there was no possibility of the confer- in one of Wales' tradi- ence tional towns being called off.

He added: I don't think Vic Feather was within his rights to tell us to call it off.'

It is no longer a surprise that virulent nationalist senti- ments of this kind come from a Party which has shared platforms with the Scottish nationalists and has marched with the National Front on anti-Common Market demon- strations. But the fact that they come from the Communist Party presents such a danger to the working class. There is no doubt that a mood of doubt and cynicism about the performance of the next Labour government has been present for some time in industrial South Wales. But instead of trying to carry this frustration and ques- tioning forward into the dis- covery of revolutionary Marx- ist politics, the Stalinists are throwing their weight behind something that can only lead to demoralization. By backing Welsh national- ist sentiments, they pander to the most backward ideas of the Welsh middle class. The setting up of a Welsh TUC can only split and weaken the British working class just at the moment when it needs to stand united against the attacks of the employers and the Tory government. The prospect of Wales, or Ulster or Scotland faring any better in a UDI situation is a lethal fantasy. These nations are inextric- ably caught up in the teeth of the world capitalist recession and the sole hopes of workers everywhere lies in their ability and determination to destroy that system. There is not a shred of a suggestion that even if the separatist dream could be brought to life, all industry would be nationalized in a socialist economy under work- ers' control and without com- pensation. On the contrary, their poli- cies are tied mainly to halting the rundown of the Welsh eco- nomy and summoning all those regard themselves who as Welsh-workers and employ- ers—to try to build it up again.

Capitalism and the closure of obsolete plant in the pursuit of profits is an international phenomenon. The Communist Manifesto is clear: "The working man has no country. The way forward for Welsh, Scottish, Irish English and workers lies in building the Party revolutionary Marxist... which alone will enable the working class to take power.

This is the only way to de- feat the attacks of the Tories and the cowardice of the Labour and trade union re- formists. Communist Party attempts to throw a spanner into that development by channelling grass-roots militancy into futile nationalist demands must be fought and destroyed.

Phase Two the of Yugoslav 'stabilization' scheme comes into opera- tion today with an outcry against sharp meat price increases. Under Phase One workers' wages were cut. Trade union chiefs, under rank-and-file pressure, have demanded that those respon- sible for the price rises be called to account. The Yugo- slav government has promised to act. It went into emergency session last Thursday night and declared that the price rises per cent could of up to 50 jeopardize its entire anti- inflation programme. Nearly a million workers in Yugoslavia had their wages cut by up to 25 per cent in order to pay off the accumulated debts of their factories and offices. The cuts took effect on January 1 and companies which tried to evade their full effects by paying extra bonuses have been sternly ordered to get their the money back from employees. The salaries of office staff and non-productive workers (this is the coy name which conceals a multitude of bureau- crats) have been frozen in an

INTRODUCING

TITO'S PHASE TWO

effort to spread the burden and appease the workers. Federal BDUL CNCOe trade unions have declared the "stabilization' programme hitting workers hardest, forc- ing down their standard of living. They had originally promised full co-operation with 'stabilization' scheme; but are hurriedly back-pedalling, indicating working- growing on class anger al lne their living standards by the Tito regime. The Federal government spokesman told a Press con- rises that the Terence OrICC would be cancelled because imposed before they were guidelines for national per- missible increases under tne stabilization programme. Belgrade trade union chief Iliaj Dobric told Federal and Republican union leaders: "The are shocked and dis- workers contented. I do not have the courage to face them. Mr Marijan Rozic, Federal de- trade union secretary, manded that those responsible "The LaKeni accoulll. demand explanations workers about who is carrying out the price policy and how. 'It is impermissible to freeze and at personal incomes same time allow the innation of prices and living costs. Personal . incomes are already burdened enough and it is not realistic to place the entire load Tito: Phase One meant that nearly a million workers suffered up to 25 per cent wage cut.

Phase Two means further price increases. of stabilization on the con- sumer,' Rozic declared. The increases, announced last Wednesday, caused shock and confusion among con- sumers and institutions when they took effect. under Firms, managed Yugoslavia's self-management system, feared they would have to close their workers' canteens. Hospital spokesmen said that patients might have to go home for lunch, while restaurateurs predicted massive drops in business. Local officials, asked for an explanation of the increases, said they had been given authority by the Serbian government and although in- creases were to average 20 per cent around the Republic, the exact amount was left to them to determine. They said much of the in- creases would go to producers to stimulate domestic produc- tion, while the rest would go to taxes and retailers. The stabilization programme, which enters new phase today is intended to slow the rate of inflation which for the past two years has averaged over 16 per cent a year. Workers Pross, Monday February 5, 1973 PAGE 5

ONCE AGAIN

ITS THE

FUEHRER CULT

The Hitler cult lives on 28 in West Germany years after the once all- powerful Fuehrer had shot himself in a bunker under the ruins of Berlin.

thousands of com- Among fortably off and mainly middle- class Germans there is profound nostalgia for the glories of the Third Reich Germany the when was .on road to world conquest. The glamour of the uniforms, the marching feet and drums dies hard and is recalled in secret deep in the forest All the insignia are ola the uniforms of brought out; Hitler: out come the uniforms the SS, the Nazi élite force, became known. The story goes donned and middle-aged aure men hoarsely the that Hitler had two children sing out marching songs which inspired Eva Braun, Shis SOSUIeSS daughter in 1941 and a son in them in their youth. The corps which was once a state within 1943. Germany, a state in Hitler's The reporter who claims to Byd re add sore, id stir e ruled conquered Europe have tracked down Hitler junior says that he only learned called with pride by these of his parentage five years ago.

of fanatics. father his JoUS nenones They were of 'a kind man hope that their day many ways. Arter being adop- will once again dawn and that ted by an Austrian couple the swastika will tiv over a re- born Reich goose-stepping out war orphan, details of his childhood came back to him, conquer more world. Not without he following mental reason, says, they claim that they have sup- breakdown Whether his story is true or port and protection from with- in the existing establishment.

not, it demonstrates once again The man the fascination which Hitler's who believes he is Hitler's son is not so optimis- demonic personality still has: tic. He fears being ostracized however, More dangerous if his relationship to the dic- the fact that as long as capi- talism survives it will be tator who spread death and cap- able of producing other Hitlers.

suffering throughout Europe

THE OLD SCHOOL OF

FALSIFICATION

The visit Chancellor Willy of Brandt to Communist Party secretary Leonid Brezhnev was the occasion for smiles and con- viviality all round—at least that was the which the impression Tass photo distributed to the foreign Press seemed to show. The smiles were broad and there was no shortage of cigarettes —or alcohol. Three bottles of wine (or beer) made an appropriate centre-piece for the photo.

In the same scene as depicted for 'Pravda' readers the broad smiles had been toned down and the bottles had disappeared altogether. A against alcoholism is currently being campaign waged in the Soviet Union which would not have been assisted Dy gvins a sumat mecuns le alr or a arinkiug party.

The art of 'doctoring photographs has long been practised by the Stalinists. In one famous case Trotsky was erased altogether which Lenin from his place in front of a platform from was speaking. In a more recent one Dubcek, the Czech leader was erased from photograph which had previously been published-leaving only his foot.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday February 5, 1973 British Steel Corporation.

East Moors Works

STEEL

Part three. East Moors: Fate sealed

BY IAN YEATS

On January 14 the public re-rolling plant at East Moors, virtually heard for the first time takes steel made in the neighbouring that the linchpin of all British Steel Corporation fur- the plans to save East Halco. Although the new rod mill Moors Cardifi, Works, would not employ extra men, was dangerously close to at the the action committee being knocked out. doomed BSC plant had hoped the Guest, Keen and Nettlefold demand for steel it would bring chairman Sir Raymond Brookes about would at least justify announced that his Cullically the mini-steel works new might drop its to build Plall announced by the corporation.

the city. a new rod mill in There Is some doubt The mill about that because in his state- was to be an ex- Cardiff City Hall, tension to the existing

GKN

ment BSC chairman Lord Melchett said the mini-mill, employing 500 men, would be built in the first instance by GN or, fail- ing that, BSC.

GKN

shown has little enthusiasm to build the new super modern plant equipped with electric arc furnaces.

Worse, Brookes has now said that unless Cardiff is given development area status— which means government sub- sidies for the company's rod mill-it may not be built.

And if it is not built, he all, added, there would be no need for the new steel works and GKN might consider abandon- ing its re-rolling activities in the city altogether. If all this came to pass, instead of the 4,100 men due to be sacked over two years as a result of the shut down of BSC's open-hearth plant at East Moors, up to 8,600 men could be thrown onto the dole.

It would be difficult to dis- guise the size of such an employment disaster not only for the city, but for the 'valley' travel-to-work areas as well.

The hopes of both the East Moors works Action Commit- tee and the City Corporation pinned to the flimsy pros- are pect of the new mini-works and an expansion of the GKN plant which it services. The Action Committee is basing its strategy on co- operating with the City Action Committee to win development area status for Cardiff. With 5 per cent, or 7,500, unemployed in the city, Cardiff already benefits from inter- mediate area status. Development area status would kill two vital birds with one stone. First it would give GKN the necessary state sub- sidies it wants to maintain its operation and open the new Ta rod mill. And secondly, both Com- up mittees hope it would provide the enticement to industry to settle in the town. Committee leaders told me they were not considering any- thing militant such as a sit-in halt the of the Closure existing works. still not The works has received formal of notice closure and the run down seemed likely to be phased over three to five years, they 88E0Z say The whole thing might be done any redundan- cies at all, Mr T. Davies, the chairman, told me. an East Moors is a first genera- tion works and Mr Davies told de there there were who could remember it open- glo ing in 1937. alr This means that during the next three to five years there na are certain to be a large num- ber of men eligible for early

COI

mo

OPTIMISTIC

pla Natural wastage could claim do 1,000 men. 500 more will be ste employed at the new mini- works. And the

BSC

giant Llo plants at Newport and Port

British Steel Corporation.

veneral Steak Divisio East Moors Works

Talbot are expected to absorb up to 1,000 workers. But even if these optimistic forecasts were all to be realized, there would still be 2,000 men out in the cold and prospects for them are the bleak. Hence both action commit- tees' insistence on top priority being given to the attainment of development area status for the city. Part of the 220-acre East Moors site will eventually be cleared by the Corporation for industrial development and in addition it has just opened two other estates at Forest Farm and Pentwyn. The problem is that these developments take place against a backcloth recording the gloomy fact that since 1969 almost no new industry has gone to Cardiff and some firms have actually closed down.

Whether recession will allow the Corporation's dreams to come to reality, therefore, is more than debatable. But there is an alternative plan—although one which will do nothing to help displaced steelworkers. Town Clerk Mr Stewart Lloyd Jones told me he hoped to see the city develop all the services appropriate to a regional capital. He said Cardiff's future pros- perity hinged on an expansion of white-collar the sector, which already employs 74 per cent of the town's labour force.

In the next 20 years the Corporation looks forward to a doubling and trebling of the university and technical college student populations. In 1973 and 1974 the government and British Rail are expected to provide new office jobs for 3,700 men.

On the surface, with 3,700 new jobs in service industries, plus 2,000 more from new manufacturing industry moving onto the industrial estates, the future looks bright. All, of course, hinges on the course of the slump and none of it solves the problem of workers made redundant from manufacturing industries.

Manufacturing and extractive industries are in steep decline in Wales and more redundan- cies are still to come. In the past decade 26,000 jobs in the mines and 13,000 in manufacturing have been axed, giving Wales unemploy- ment figures until recently running at double the national the average. As the Town Clerk admit- ted, of the 4,000 to be sacked from East Moors works, there will be a 'very substantial hard core with steelmaking skill'.

Said Mr Lloyd Jones: 'For them and their families to see the bottom drop out of their existence is stark tragedy?

It certainly is. Many of them must, without any shadow of doubt, join the 7,500 others on Cardiff's dole queues. For the time being the works' 20-man action com- mittee, representing all trade in the plant, intends unions to explore, responsibly, every possible avenue of either saving it or alleviating the worst effects of shutdown. Said Mr Davies: 'We don't want to hold a gun to any- body's head.' The opening salvos of the committee's campaign will be directed almost exclusively at pressurizing the Secretary of State for Wales and the Tory government into granting the coveted development area status. In addition it will use the time between now and eventual closure to 'challenge' all the BSC's proposals for the future of the works, in a last-ditch bid to force a change of heart.

Workers Press, Mon This will include taking up Corporation's offer to the scrutinize their books. •In this they will be helped by the town action committee, which includes Labour MPs James Callaghan, George Thomas and Tory MP Michael Roberts. But if the worst comes to the worst and 4,100 men are made jobless, the situation will be extremely grave. And if GKN carries out its threat to withdraw the re- rolling operation from thẹ city, axing the mini-works plan, Cardiff would approach being declared a disaster area.

Not only would 8,600 jobs be directly lost in the iron and steel plants, but contractors, hauliers and dependant engin- eering plants would also suffer carrying possible redundancies up above the 10,000 mark.

The docks too, already dras- tically run down, would be dealt a fatal blow. South Wales ports director Mr T. S. Roberts disclosed that a third of Cardiff docks revenue and a quarter of its business depends on the steel works. rese, Monday Fabruary 8, 1973 PAGE T.

BSC's open hearth plant at East Moors in Wales. Its shut-down will put 4,100 men onto the dole over the next two years. 900,000 tons of coal and over 9 million tons of foreign ore pass over the quays each year. There is, of course, no likelihood that the East Moors works will be saved however arguments are brought many to bear to 'challenge' the BSC's decision. The open-hearth steel-making process is irretrievably doomed and the East Moors works is based on its seven open-hearth furnaces. According to BSC's general steels division in Cardiff, these furnaces produce 9,000 tons of iron and 17,000 tons of steel a week. By comparison modern Basic Oxygen Converters at the giant Spencer works near Newport turn out 5,000 tons of iron and 7,000 tons of steel a day.

This stark illustration of the obsolescence of the East Moors plant has sealed its fate. No of pressurizing amount any- body will change these facts.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday February 5, 1973 On January I1 the Communist Party's 'Morning Star' re- viewed 'Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital' edited by Ken J. Tarbuck. The book is a selection of writings by Rosa Luxemburg and Nikolai Bukharin. Workers Press will be reviewing the book in the near future. First, however, we must deal with the 'Star' review. Tom Kemp writes: Only the twisted mind of first disgraced and then mur- dered by Bellamy's mentor, a Stalinist hack could Joseph Stalin. have produced the review Bellamy then has a gratui- of a book containing writ- tous dig at what he calls 'the theoretical and practical bank- ings of Rosa Luxemburg ruptcy of modern Trotskyism', Nikolai and Bukharin which, he is not 'miti- says, which appeared in the gated by identifying the hand behind ice-pick the (see 'Morning Star' for Janu- Penguin's ary 1l. It begins with a reference Since Bellamy jumps to try 'Rosa and discredit book which to Luxemburg's argu- ment of 1911 and 1921'. The absolutely in necessary author, Ron Bellamy, an eco- order to answer- -as it does brilliantly-the half-century in the University of of nomist terrorism directed Leeds, does lies and apparently not Luxemburg Trotsky and Trotsky- know that Rosa against was murdered in 1919! ism by Stalinism, he will pre-, Bellamy makes the sumably not object if his own routine between Luxem- responsibility for this dirty comparison burg and Lenin on the theory history is mentioned. Bellamy of imperialism, without bring- As late 1957, as answered Communist Party ing out Rosa's own attack on members, concerning the death the revisionists contained in her 'Anti-Critique'. The reason of Trotsky, with the

GPU

slander that the assassin is that Bellamy is a revision- was of ist himself and his evocation member Trotsky's some Lenin of is completely own circle, blinded by persona spurious. jealousy in a love affair!

fact, like the Stalinist The dispensers of such lying In 'the movement as a whole, Bellamy concoctions are as much hand behind the ice-pick' has abandoned Lenin's charac- as of was the assassin himself. And terization of the epoch of wars this is what Bellamy does not imperialism as one like about the book by Wyn- and revolutions. Instead he and King: it identifies speaks about 'neo-colonialism', dham Stalinism as the killer of 'state monopoly capitalism *the and of all anti- Trotskyism and the betrayer unity of the October Revolution. monopoly currents'. Bellamy's attempt to pose as

A CHANGED

the defender of Marxist 'ortho- would be ludicrous if doxy'

CAPITALISM

it were not so serious, so typi- cal of that brand of intellec- Like Bauer and the Austro- tual who puts himself com- Marxists whom Rosa Luxem- at the service of the pletely burg so vigorously attacks, he bureaucracy. It was this same has explicitly abandoned the Bellamy who opened discus- idea that capitalism is driving sion at the Economic Advisory towards any kind of collapse Sub-committee of the Com- or 'breakdown'. As he puts it, of the Communist mittee minimum of conserving Party in October 1972. Marxist phraseology: pub- The speech he gave, The general crisis of capi lished in the January edition talism ?] and the relatio of 'Marxism Today', is worth between two systems, rather brief reference for an insight cataclysmic slumps and than devious mind of a into the "breakdown" of capitalism the Stalinist hack. have provided the actual con- Bellamy opens with a series text of real political struggle the point of of abstractions, over the past three decades.

which becomes clear only later.

Luxemburg's Rosa errors, His purpose is to turn certain though real enough, were be- Marxist basic concepts into ing compared with the revi- their opposite, in order then Bauer and Bellamy. sions of to be able to justify the latest Both accept that capitalism requirements of the counter- and overcome its CrISIS can in revolutionary bureaucracy has Bellamy that capitalism the Kremlin. changed into something differ- According to Bellamy, there from that conceived ent productive 'potential exist "classical Marxism' well as as capitalist forces' and the Bukha- by 'Lenin, Luxemburg, owners take decisions whether Trotsky'-according to rin, or not, and if them to use Bellamy. introduce they do, they stroke Bellamy junks At a 'changes in the actual produc- favour of all that old stuff in tion relations'. Kremlin-inspired latest the intended to justity

CARICATURE

nonsense bureaucracy's Stalinist the 'peaceful

OF MARXISM

for co- search existence' with imperialism. explained In fact Bellamy heaps scorn Lenin long ago on Marxism in every sentence.

(building on Marx and Engels) He denigrates Bukharin's con- that historical materialism un- of the theory earthed basic objective tribution to pro- imperialism, does 'do not just as he cesses in history which Luxemburg's. He should first pass through conscious- Rosa read Lenin's preface to Bukha- ness. and World Now along comes Bellamy 'Imperialism rin's once published by to explain that the capitalists' Economy' Party's pub- decisions are the actual means Communist the and which the economic basis lishing house then sup- by Bukharin of history is changed: pressed when was Rosa Luxemburg: Mr Bellamy choses to • in production It is men relations, possessed of inter- ests, who have decided to use the potential available to them, thus established a new, and different, set of relations between themselves. Given that they have interests, the deci- sion is not voluntary, but necessarily consequent upon those interests. That, it seems to me, is the way in which the famous law of conformity of production relations to pro- ductive forces operates.'

Marxism, it If this was would correspond exactly to the caricature made of it by bourgeois critic. But every why does Bellamy want to make such an elementary mis- It is in order that he take? can picture the capitalists of today as men who take deci- how to develop sions about economic system, and the whose decisions can then be influenced in the 'right' direc- tion, i.e. that decided by the Stalinist bureaucracy. He says: If therefore, to take a modern example, the new pro- ductive forces require for their utilization new forms of divi- choses to leave out Rosa's own attack on the sion of labour between coun- tries [Lenin and Trotsky thought they required social- ism and the abolition of the barriers of the nation-state] and therefore new forms of co-ordination, to say that is not to say what forms that co- ordination shall take.'

TRADE PACTS

WITH USSR

To cut a long story short, this rigmarole is leading up to Bellamy's real point: the Bri- tish capitalists are looking to the Common Market for 'new forms of co-ordination' to uti- lize the 'potential productive forces. What they ought to be doing is turning to trade pacts with the USSR! What a travesty of Marx- ism! Instead of an objective analysis of the contradictions imperialism to form the basic political perspectives of the working class, Bellamy starts from the counter-revo- lutionary requirements of his masters, the Kremlin bureau- cracy, and mutilates Marxist economics to fit the bill.

ck on the revisionists. Yes, the book on Trotsky evidently needled the discre- dited old men in King Street as well as their hangers-on like Bellamy in the universities.

They try to cover up the crimes of the past by an auda- cious forgetfulness which en- ables them to attribute to.

others the same faults of which they themselves are guilty.

As always a faithful time- server of the Stalinist bureau- cracy, Bellamy is contemp- tuous of theory and regards reprints of works by Luxem- burg and Bukharin as "anti- quarian revivals'. both Despite mistakes, made important contributions to Marxism. The reason why their works are only just being reprinted is nothing to do with antiquarianism but comes about because they were sup- pressed during the Stalin era.

Only in recent years has a complete edition of Rosa Luxemburg's works been pub- lished in the German Demo- where, cratic Republic' at least, such 'antiquarianism' has become respectable.

Charming thought from the Rev K. P. Bullock, the vicar is critical of Ainsworth. He of Britain's entry into the Common In his Market. latest parish journal he lashes the politicians who are 'crawl- ing after the Continentals.

DEATH

CAUSES

'Death by natural causes' was the verdict of a Salford coroner in the case of Augustus Naziebenegua Bandele (33), a Nigerian who died within a day of being refused admission to hospital. An inspector at the Regent Tyre Co in Broughton, Bandele did not go to work on January 10 because he felt unwell. He complained of stomach pains and the following day developed an excessive thirst.

On Friday morning his doctor diagnosed influenza and pre- scribed some tablets. Later on Friday, January 12, Bandele became rambling in his speech and told Mrs Ann Feeney, who lived with him, he thought he was going to die.

The senior house officer at Salford Royal Hospital, where Bandele arrived by ambulance just before 4 p.m. explained this by saying that a high per- centage of people who pre- sented themselves at hospital felt sorry for themselves. 'His temperature was slightly below normal and his pulse was up a little, but blood pressure was all right and he looked reason- ably opinion the fast heart beat was related to the influenzal type of illness.' Bandele died at home at 4.30 p.m. the following day of pneumonia due to influenza.

The house officer, Dr A. J.

Banks, told the court: I am sure that if he had been kept in hospital he would have died because of the very rapid and virulent virus.' -was implicitly And this accepted by the coroner, who declared the hospital's diag- nosis that Bandele did not need hospital treatment 'correct' on the grounds the influenza could not have been detected at the time the diagnosis was made just 24 hours before he died

PACT

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The first test of the support the SNP and the Liberals can mobilize in Scotland will . be in the forthcoming by-election in Dundee to fill the seat vacated by Labourite European Commissioner George M. Thomson. At present both parties are running candidates.

Any alliance in Dundee or elsewhere could only be based the attempt to channel on similar forces to those which the Liberals mobilized in some recent English by-elections, and to marry them to any demoralized or confused sec- workers taken in by tions of the SNP's policies. This utterly reactionary movement is spending large sums of money on an adver- tising campaign claiming that the administration of the North Sea oil 'boom' by a Scottish government' would result in higher pensions, better wages and full employment. and Communist Labour Party leaders in Scotland only giving succeed in some credence to this movement by promoting similar illusions concerning the oil 'boom' and by participating in events like the recent Scottish Assembly.

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TV REVIEW BY ANNE BLAKEM

Deep in the bowels of the earth under Nebraska in the American mid-west a crew of American' army technicians and scientists man the strategic head- quarters. They control not only the powering mechanisms of 1,000 missiles planted in position across the earth, but the nuclear submarines, the air- craft and all the power which lies in wait for the moment when the red telephone, sitting at the heart of these head- quarters and elsewhere, is lifted to give the orders for a full-scale nuclear war. There are 46 of these bases, equipped and all identically manned, but in the event of war, there is also the such a that, built so far possibility underground though they are, the bases could be wiped out.

To cover this eventuality there are a fleet of planes (of flying) which one is always which are each manned by a crew of four—three radio oper- ators, two maintenance men, a battle staff of 1l and a steward.

These planes constitute the area of last resort and can command and launch all the missiles and any remaining power that. may exist in such a state of disintegration.

Each plane is in direct touch with the President's plant.

Each plane has its red tele- phone and its red box which is.

sealed and available for un- locking by only two keys.

In the red box, in code lie orders for President's the battle. And everywhere that the President travels, so too man who carries travels one code in its constantly this changing form. A few hundred yards from their deadly air- craft the crews sleep, eat, and work on average a 74-hour week. Theirs is a very special task.

At very frequent intervals aircraft are taken up and flown for a time (they are capable of 10,000 miles without re- fuelling) to determined points, always on the alert for the signal from the President which may come to alter their purpose and destination. откать Prass, Mor

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These extraordinary elabor- ate procedures and mechan- isms-and others like them- on Alistair shown were Cooke's penultimate episode of 'America' on Sunday night. They are the means by which the United States, the largest capitalist power of them all, protects not only all her property, her loot amassed in its various shapes over the years, but her position in politics, her international prestige, her status-if you like, her image. In other words a great web of myths and realities so interwoven that the Ameri- cans themselves are hard put clear what it is to make they would like everyone to see them to be doing. they. What are doing, of course, is making certain that if the United States senses threats and receives them from of the globe other quarters in then those power are equipped to retaliate with the last possible means-the possi- unleashing world bility of destruction. It's a very simple matter in the ultimate sense.

And no amount of propaganda can obscure it. Alistair Cooke is an adroit long old liberal and has been a significant ambassador for the US in his broadcasts and journalism over the years.

With immense affability and charm he conducted this pro- gramme as if he were running a dinner party. The smiling host took us through the past in easy fashion and showed us the democratic origins of the means of warfare monster which have been developed.

The Americans abolished their army after the War of Independence 160 years ago.

They had only a "citizens' army' which meant every man his mantle, with a rifle on every man for himself against marauders, lawbreakers, and, in particular, the Indians who created such a disturbance over the white man's invasion and property-grabbing that the US Cavalry had to be born.

Several million deaths and many thousand broken treaties later the Indians were put in their proper place-under the white man's boot. The Marines, that legendary body of killers, grew out of rary 5, 1971 the need to stem pira seas at a time high US didn't the rupted raping nearby building ploiting and in central and south pushing trade ever ur Mr Cooke revealer his friendliest ma did detract from tent of what seeing-he Nuclear War place for the chil fun with a broad pen across the face history did his Coll establish the best of stands humoured view of it with a little moral co With attractive fil Tensiting international kind, are clearly we which exist all's is in everyone affairs. That this last is obvious patently who understands the tum of today's crisis. liberal But like Cooke are danger gloss over, in subtle ways, the rea American major threat it repr all times. History is game, an entertainm passing hour or smashing away of the tive manipulat and niques can reveal beneath, can allow 1 how to de teach us system which militarism and war. The problem i Cooke tried to persi moral one at Laboratory where 50 pure research bei is taken and 50 per cen research'. It problem in that gros that sense Einstein come across e=mc" and like to mean, in our ter shima. It is a problem th solved only by tionary overthrow o ism. ту 5, 1973 рАСЕ в stem piracy on the a time when the vant to be inter. business of y landscapes, ex- colonies building Id south America, e ever upward. revealed all this manner. He really we were made the Museum into a r the children and of his sweep he face of Ameri- did his best to best of all liberal rational' good- ew of it all tinged more concend compilation this e clearly intended lespite the horrors well and control • last is true is anyone to tands the momen- propagandists re dangerous. They all of sorts the real stuff of capitalism, the t it represents at made into a tertainment for a the so—only ay of these seduc- nanipulative tech- what lies 1 allow history to w to destroy the gives rise to is not, to persuade us, a Alamos 50 per cent arch being under- moral that gross abstract scientists like ne across formulas it happens our terms, Hiro- oblem that can be revolu-

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When the Tory government was campaigning in the 1970 General Election its manifesto was called A Better Tomorrow'. For a handful of people in money-lending, property specu- and lation, asset-stripping banking, this, of course, has been realized. But for the vast majority of people, particularly the youth, the elderly and the lower- paid workers, the Tory elec- tion slogan has proved to be an utter fraud. Among those doing very well out of the Tory govern- ment's policies is Sir Charles Hardie, chairman of BOAC, and a director of the country's largest merchant bank, the Hill Samuel Group Limited (a big contributor to Tory Party funds). He also has lucrative chair- manships at the British Print- ing Corporation, Metropolitan Estate and Property Corpora- tion Limited and the Vokes Group, while he is a board member at BEA and is a direc- tor of the Royal Bank of Canada, British American and General Trust, the Melbray Group and NAAFI. This little lot manages to rake in fees of up to £70,000 a year. When his daughter, Alex- andra, was holding her coming- out ball a few weeks ago, Sir Charles and Lady Hardie hired the Café Royal in Regent Street for the event. This beanfeast cost £25,000.

The flowers alone cost £3,000.

There's no doubt that the Hardie family are savouring 'A Better To- the Tories morrow' today. Not so, however, Mrs Mary McCoy. On Christmas Eve she was found dead in her Hale- wood home, near Liverpool.

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SUNDAY FEBRUARY 11,

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Conway Hall, Red Lion Square London WC1. SOUTHAMPTON: Tuesday Febru- DAGENHAM: Tuesday February 6, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Avenue. 'Inflation and state control of wages'. EAST LONDON: Tuesday Feb- ruary 6, 8 p.m. 'Festival Inn', Chrisp Street Market, E14. 'Defend basic rights'. SHEFFIELD: Wednesday Febru- ary 7, 7.30 p.m. 'Dog and Part- ridge', Trippett Lane. A TORY Minister has warned Welsh ‹ the rent Actor else. The threat authorities at Merthyr Tydfil and Ber refusing to implement the Tory Act: rents. Speaking in the House of Commons last Friday, Mr David Gibson-Watt, Minister of State for Welsh Affairs, said the coun- cillors were financially liable for their actions. The appointment of housing commissioners did not absolve them from responsibility for loss of revenue. "They should delude them- selves no longer. The respon- sibility for the financial effects their failure is theirs, and theirs alone,' he declared. 'If any of them thought they were free of the danger of surcharge and disqualification, they should think again.' Turning to Mr Ted Rowlands, Labour's MP for Merthyr, Gibson- Watt went on: "The default of the council which you have sup- ported is causing considerable concern to ratepayers in Merthyr. def Tydfil. 'Your own front bench, who have not even turned up today to GOVERNMENT activities-such as Common Market entry and Value Added Tax-are placing ever increasing burden on an smaller firms, according to the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 'Commerce International', the Chamber's official journal says that although many small firms supported the introduction of rec

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February 7, 8 p.m. Quarry Bank Community Centre. WOOLWICH: Wednesday February 7, 8 р.т. 'The Castle' Street, basic rights' LEEDS: Thursday, February 8, 7.30 p.m. Peel Hotel, Boar Lane.

HACKNEY: Thursday February 8, 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Central Hall (opposite Town Hall). 'Build Councils of Action.' WILLESDEN: Thursday February 8, 8 p.m. Labour and Trades Hall, High Road NW10. 'Victory to the NLF. Down with Stalinism and imperialism. BASILDON: Sunday February 11, 5.30 p.m. Barnstable Community Centre. 'Defend basic rights'.

WANDSWORTH: Monday February 12, 8 p.m. 'King's Arms', , Wands- worth High Street. 'Fight rising rents and prices'. WATFORD: Monday February 12, 8 p.m. Trade Union Hall (down- stairs), opposite Watford Junc- tion station. a Welsh councillors to toe the line on • threat is aimed at the two local 1 and Bedwas and Machen which are ory Act and thereby increase council support you, do not support the line you have taken.' The Tory attack on the coun- cillors defying the Act-they can be fined and removed from local sharp government office is a warning to the rebels and local tenants. with the Industrial Rela- tions Act, the Tories mean busi- They • have fined the two ness. unions in largest the country they have more than £120,000, jailed five dockers and now the Clay Cross councillors face court debts of almost £700 each.

The rent fight must not be single issue. regarded it as a must be taken up by the whole labour and trade union move- ment along with the fight against steel closures, the fight against the fight to unemployment, defend basic democratic rights.

At the centre of this campaign must be the removal of the Tory government from office. VAT, the tax needs constant at- tention, adding to administrative burdens.

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Half a million workers to clash with Phase Two, but 'Lefts' abandon state pay fight PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday February 5, 1973 AS 500,000

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move towards open defi- cess examno Will ance of the Tory state pay sympathetic Feather said that before taking on the government was Te mould plan, TUC leaders have said ting the would 'not possible'. Lachocive they are not prepared to COOk Tne imanea positon Victor General secretary industrial strength and the 'willing- take on the government. Feather had warned earlier at the have scrap unions Licou TUC-Labour Party Press joint which requested help. And the denial came conference that although they Since oniv the biggest andl

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would from the very men who are campaign for their 'alter- strategically-placed unions can hope native' counter-inflation plan, "it challenge the by supposed to be leading government the will not be the leaders araliol Lacnselves alla SulCt fight-Jack Jones and Hugh ment'. have already they won't, the sald TUC's advice is a foregone conclu- Scanlon. Now the so-called 'lefts' join hands sion. with the lul rignt wing in an un- After

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economic precedented political cow- While the une ardice and treachery. out the operation the most committee meeting at the week- laws the British end both went on record with Despite exaggerated reports in the victs Slalt ody Tory Press, TUC 'backing' for unions working class nas ever known, the view that the idea of the which defy the pay law is forcing whole sections of amounts

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entire trade union movement workers into battle. no 'more than 'examining any request Some 250,000 civil ser- bals wi sceneriIsi ever national strike when they stop work for one day •9 1 11∞∞1} ą1P Civil and Public the Services" Association. de-

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manding increases be £1.74 and f2.15 tween

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2,500 trade Clay Cross, said: 'In the WetK event that the High Court unionists, housewives and The 220,000 hospital an- disband tenants marched through decide to

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workers have been Cillary council, The We WIll Clydebank on Saturday in ecommerced be there and will have to 13 union to strike in support defence of the coun- the working physically selves mn line lor Ines ano Tren winote be ejected be- £4-a-week cillors refusing to imple- imprisonment. class of Scotland will be Tnem cause were elected bi part of the battle. We are Ciall ment the Housing Finance Clir James Reid, of UCS the people. The National Union of Act. legend and aswero e Public Employees will seek He urged the Parlia- only the court of the work- Communist Party's na- The councillors have TRe Party ing class of Clydebank. mendy

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Invove vé vrce ove tional executive, said: get off their backsides' and public sector unions at votea to dely a court order issued by the Court of Ses- If a hair special meeting Febru• on the head of David Skinner, one of defend councils not im- on sions, placing them- any councillor is touched, the rebel councillors from 70,000 plementing the lory law. al y workers could then otnet be affected. Unofficial action among 47,000 gao wOrACIN port ol lnelr ts.u a weer , claim is spreading and pay Lancashire 6,000 men and nume ees fitters have downed tools

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introduced work-to-rule pany said it would take him back nicaoulco Over 80,000 Co-op work- full pay from February 1 'new ers may now take action employee' though with this threat: on'. he worked there for eight years.

"Ihev are a licence to sac following freezing б. aren't they?' he added Any lurtner alsruption in pro their duction from this mass meeting tl-a-week arising of about awall 'new santer VI Ti wate dent result in government the would be subject to a six-month will The at the Liverpool weekend. probationary period. Friday, full support wilnarawing une onrer Wale.' was pledged for his immediate Finally 36,000 London He would also have to accept other words, management and unconditional reinstatement.

teachers plan four weeks of " TaRSTer IO anoraer Darr or Ine guerrilla action was polnune a run al une works weni hussel. 0171- strike factory and lose his shop March in support of committee's head and saying- sional organizer, will attend their steward's position. accept Mer itale or else! shop stewards' meeting tonight long-standing claim for The statement from the plant told Workers Press Á qczx the manager, Mr Bob Walker, ended yesterday terms were not the management. ance. MEETING of the Birmingham automotive group of the Transport General and Workers' Union decided on. Sat-

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urday to on the call TUC to mount a cam- clause document which just talk-talk about inton our time. paign in support of the been getting improvements in disgusted with nad previously Ford and Vauxhall wage T&GWU's job-security, wages and the whole affair. The conditions. feeling of Rover stewards the cans. SLe wi in- maintaining Sililasnxtit

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'No mention what- The final free collective bargain. Teolod! dustry. soever or a ngut agalnsı said that the Tory state ing and will secretary the Tory laws, no gestion opan laws should be George and mobilization Ignored in vursuins both national Ken away. mineral support ol Secien these important claims. Grant made it clear that But it seems to me now in dispute like the they could be British Road Services have given up thi 1• reluLON The motion

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(aIK These, they said, must The meeting also de. stewards full- about using strength. through cided to union send delegates

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Many stewards walked Hule DHCP Drapcies. planis ln burope out in disgust. A Rover steward said to study pay and con- Stewards the senu" afterwards: "They talked One of the five Rover ditions. Digbeth Town Hall told stewards, Pat MeQuade, The first visit would Workers Press the whole

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UP TO 25,000 Midlands car workers in nine big plants will be laid off today following the failure of talks between Trans- General Workers' port and Union officials and British Road Services. One thousand BRS drivers are demanding a £2.50 bonus for holding Heavy Goods new Vehicle licences. They are turning up at work at depots, their but they have handed their HGV licences to shop stewards and cannot move car components and vehicles in the Midlands car industry.

Renewed talks between the two sides have been called for Wednesday. After Friday's meet- ing T&GWU district officer, Alan Law, said grimly: 'We have made no progress.' BRS management is refusing to grant the bonus because it infringes the state pay laws.

Harry Shorter, secretary of the 5/38 branch of the union, told Workers Press yesterday: 'If the government does step in, we will have to take them on.' At the Walsall depot lorry drivers angrily insisted that their dispute was being distorted by the Tory Press. Shop steward George Palmer said articles about drivers re- ceiving £43 for 40 hours were absolute lies. 'We can drive a vehicle 40 feet long, yet our basic wage is just £24 for 40 hours. The most bonus we can get is 20p a day and to get that we have to vir- tually break all traffic conditions.'

Mr W. J. Lea, another driver added. 'I drive a 32-ton lorry. 1 get £33 gross for 50 hours' work.

And here's my pay slip to prove SHOTTON will become the Jarrow of the 1980s if the steel- works closes, Ald William Sefton of Liverpool Corporation told a conference at the weekend.

The conference of 30 local authorities, trade union leaders and representatives from the CBI heard Chester's Tory MP Mr John Temple say that there was of the finishing little chance plant staying open once steel- making ceased. He warned that all 7,000 jobs could be lost and Mr Morley of the Welsh Smith, chairman region of the CBI, said the reper- cussions of shut-down would be 'unbelievable'. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, London,

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