The Newsletter, vol. 6 no. 270

EDITORIAL Support China! V the border dispute between India and China which has now flared into armed struggle, there can be no question where socialists should stand. We must suport the Chinese workers' state against India in every way possible. le patriotic rubbish put out by the Indian Communist Party, backing the defence of 'their' employers' government, is treachery to the Indian workers and to the international Labour movement. The Russian press and radio remains completely silent on the question. ehru, who talked not long ago of peaceful co-existence, now shows just what the term means. He defends the frontiers drawn up under the British rule in the Ladakh area of Kashmir and in the North-East Frontier Agency. In these regions, his government engaged in preventing the national self-determination of the Kashmiri and Naga peoples. le Congress leaders, who were prepared to allow British imperialism to chop the country in half in 1946, now risk war with the Chinese Republic over their northern border regions. le Chinese have forestalled this operation. The Indian appeal for arms to be supplied by the United States and by Britain will be sympathetically heard by the imperialists. But some of the weapons and planes at present in use against the Chinese forces came from the Russians. ehru and Menon posing as 'progressives' and peacelovers, nonetheless remain the political representatives of capitalism. And this means that they are tethered economically and politically to imperialism. enon's description of the fighting as a 'peoples war' is a lie. It is a war to protect the state power, which maintains the exploitation of the Indian workers and peasants. le duty of socialists is to fight for the overthrow of that state and replace it with the power of the working class. Only when the Indian workers have completed that operation will imperialism have been eradicated from the subcontinent. le fight for socialism is inseparable from the defence of the Chinese revolution. Hands off "FLORIDA Miles MEXICO Key West.. •Miami GULF Pinar, del Rio Matanze: Los Villas Havana Matanzas oelRio Las Villas 0 MIs. 500 New York ANDS Camagüeys Nov Showdown NOV looms at Fords By REG • Y 5,879 votes to 86 against, the workers in the paint, trim and assembly plant at Fords Motor. Works, Dagenham, have hit back at the attacks made against them by the Fords' bosses.

In seven days their strike against the sacking of shop steward Bill Francis has been subjected to a constant barrage of accusations and threats.

Not only have they been accused of irresponsibility, dis ruption and of ignoring correet procedure, but have also been intimidated by threats that many of them will not now be re-employed.

Contrary to the normal practice at Fords, where the smallest stoppage of work in the past has resulted in laying-off the whole labour force, the mana-. gement are striving to keep as many working as possible in order to create divisions amongst the 45,000 workers employed in Dagenham.

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This policy has been taken to the extent that skilled engineem have been kept occupied sweeping the floors and cleaning the machines.

This get-tough policy of Sir Patrick Hennessy and his managers is a repetition of the stand made by Rootes at British Light Steel Pressings last year. It should be seen as part of the preparations of British motor manufacturers to meet increased competition upon entry into the European Common Market.

In their drive for increased efficiency, motor bosses require a docile, disciplined labour force which will accept speedup, rapid changes in working schedules, transfers and curtailments of working conditions.

The figure given by Fords last week of £3 million loss per year through inefficiency was undoubtedly calculated on a computor where the worker is classified like a machine and is expected to work with robot-like precision and consistency.

ON THE CARDS The sacking of Bill Francis has nothing to do with the calling of a meeting. It is part of Fords' plan for a showdown with the shop stewards which has been on the cards for many months.

When Francis was first sacked, he was accused of calling a meeting in worktime. This wa: i amended later to a back page, col. 1

the USSR!

• RE you ready tor invasion of Cuba and La nuclear war? The American imperialists decided to risk one. did not consult they did not even ilt their allies in the government. They conspired behind backs of all the numan beings thIs planet to take steps which may eventually lead to the end of life as we know it.

Kennedy's blockade of Cuba is an act of brutal aggression against the Cuban and Soviet people which must be universally condemned and fought against by the international working class.

Do not underestimate the gravity of the situation. The Daily Express of Wednesday, October 24 reports:

•President Kennedy spent the day by his emergency "red phone" as he brought the US into readiness for the big showdown ...

Deadly cargoes

It is from this 'red phone' that the call to end the human race may be given. This telephone connects the vast fleets of nuclear bombers which circle the Soviet Union and its allies and can summon them into action, with their deadly cargoes, at a moment's notice.

We could well be near this moment now.

The Daily Mail writes:

Washington and Moscow are now set on a collision course with virtually no room left on either side for a face-saving withdrawal' Correct, but the responsibility rests on Washington. It is US imperialism which is the aggressor. Kennedy's arguments for war are a mixture of falsehood

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FLORIDAS •BAHAMAS CUBA PANAMÁ and hypocrisy.

Even the Daily Herald of October 24 is able to expose his claims. In an editorial statement it says:

' Kennedy claims that the Russians are building rocket bases in Cuba which can be intended only for aggression.

But America and her allies have for years ringed Russia with bases in Britain, Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey and Pakistan.

Castro could equally claim that any Soviet bases in Cuba are defensive -especially in view of the armed attack encouraged by America, to which he has already been subjected.

Castro has as much right to choose Russia for his ally as the NATO countries have to choose America.' Precisely!

False information

And what about the pictures which the U2 spy planes have provided? The Times also of Wednesday, October 24 warns against the danger of false information. Its editorial remarks:

' In judging whether President Kennedy is right in militarily blockading Cuba, almost everything de.

pends on the accuracy of the evidence that the Russians are in fact building missile bases on the island. Past American mistakes in coping with Cuba, the violent emotions which possess so many Americans when Fidel Castro and communism are mentioned, the wrong information which was served to the President before the invasion fiasco eighteen months ago... all these things were bound to make people in Britain exHolguin aracoa CUBA Oriente Gui ranamo Santiago HAITI E AN tremely wary on first hearing the news.' (Our emphasis.)

Who knows in what part of the world these pictures were taken?

On April 17, 1961, the Kennedy administration almost plunged the world to disaster when it launched an attack on the freedom-loving people of Cuba. This ended in a total fiasco for its mercenary forces. In a matter of hours the remnants of the invasion were driven into the sea at the Bay of Pigs.

One step further It has since been admitted that the information supplied to the US government by renegade Cuban emigres then was false. Far from learning the lesson, Washington has decided that it will go one step further and take on the Soviet Union.

The present crisis proves once more that the theory of peaceful co-existence is a fraud. It disarms the working class and deprives them of leadership at a time when they should be concentrating their efforts to get rid of world capitalism which is the cause of war, and replace it with international socialism.

The fake Lefts of the Labour Party who together with the Communist Party have shouted "peaceful co-existence' from the housetops must take their share of the responsibility for the startling suddenness of the present crisis.

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demonstrations Instead of preparing the working class to develop le dership which would strengthe the class fight against war d ring • back page,

American States, and without consulting any of the international bodies, showing contempt for one and all, the United States government takes unilateral decisions and continues to engage in activities which flagrantly flout and violate the principles of the United Nations Charter.

On the one hand, there is the policy of the Alliance for Progress, a policy of opportunism that is set up in this continent only because of and in view of the example of the Cuban Revolution. On the one hand, a decision is proclaimed to support the development of the backward countries because of and in view of the case of Cuba, which also has an underdeveloped economy, whose people are filled with aspirations for economic development and cultural development.

On the other hand, there is an entire policy of creating economic difficulties, of trying to stifle and strangle the forces of the revolutionary government of Cuba. And to all that has been done are added these official decisions — officially proclaimed— to use coercion and reprisals against any shipping firms whose ships carry any cargo to supply and feed the Cuban people: raw materials for WRITING before the recent linguistic riots in Brussels, the Belgian paper La Gauche took the view that the demonstrations to be held by the Flemish regionalists were of little importance.

'The march in Brussels,' it wrote, 'promises to be a simple repetition of the preceding one. A hundred thousand demonstrators, a few skirmishes between chauvinistic elements on both sides, but above all the background of an almost empty capital as on every Sunday, totally indifferent.' The problem is, of course, more serious than that and the federalism recommended by the paper is no solution.

The cleavage between Walloons - French-speaking Belgians-and Flemings has social roots. The cleavage is perworking class petuated by the inability of the Belgian socialist movement to develop a militant policy and leadership able to break the influence of clericalism in the Flemish areas and attract to it the Flemish workers who now provide cheap labour for Belgian capital.

The right-wing leaders now in the government, not only approve of increased funds for the strike-breaking gendarmerie but prepare laws which can be Failure of the General Strike is at the heart of the present used to hamstring the workers.

If anything, divisions on linguistic lines within the socialist and trade union movement suits their book.

The failure of the General Strike in December 1960 is at the heart of the reactionary trends in the Labour movement today. Federal slogans provide a substitute for re-grouping and rebuilding a strong opposition to the entrenched Right wing, whether Walloon or Flemish. reactionary trends.

He said that the average homeless couple were between 20 and 40, had two to three children and earned £10-£12 a week. Most had unskilled and insecure jobs. Many worked for small builders.

ACQUIRE DWELLINGS He suggested that the solution was to be found by recognising that private landlords could not solve the housing shortage. He stated that the survey were recommending that the LCC should strengthen its welfare department and that the LCC and the borough councils should acquire at once all dwellings which are due to be replaced over the next 10 years and request money from the government for this purpose.

He also urged that a vigorous and strong policy in relation to the distribution of industry was needed from the government.

The audience which included several homeless people, were not very satisfied with chairman Peggy Jay's remarks that the LCC were doing all they could to solve the problem.

1 from a speech made by THE following is an extract Dr. Dorticos, President of Cuba, to the General Assembly of the United Nations on October 8, 1962. This very clearly exposes the preparations for war which have now entered a stage of open and undisguised aggression not only against Cuba but against the Soviet Union.

Everyone can see and watch the manoeuvres, the activities that are being carried out under the tutelage of this climate of anti-Cuban hysteria and aggression.

For example, not in the. United Nations, but with obvious contempt for the United Nations, an invitation is sent out to the foreign ministers of Latin America to meet at the State Department. They are invited to conspire, to join in the domestic subversion of my country. Once again, the so-called inter-American system is wielded, that system which the United States government itself has been good enough to disdain. Why was the system not invoked at the time of the aggression? Why was the system sidestepped at the time of the invasion of Playa Girón? Doubtless the same system will also be overlooked in the case of a new armed aggression against my country.

We have noticed that the Secretary of State of the United States is not even present at the United Nations. He has not shown any concern for disarmament, peace and tranquility. He has been outside our organization, taken up with his work of subversion, of conspiracy against my country.

We also know full well that at the meeting of Latin American foreign ministers respectable representatives of countries of Latin America, despite their ideological differences with our revolution, defended the principles of nonintervention and the self-determination of peoples. From this rostrum I praise some of those foreign ministers. I challenge them to tell us what was discussed at that meeting, and what was discussed outside the meeting, too, so that one and all may know that it is not Cuba that is upsetting peace in this continent; it is not Cuba that is attacking sister republics; but it is Cuba that is the victim and doubtless will be the next victim of interference and new aggression and new obstacles to its development.

Outside the Organisation of our industries, fertilizers and tools for our land. Reprisals and coercion are used to force a naval blockade of our island. In full daylight, openly, pressures are exercised on the countries of NATO to make them stop their ships from carrying cargo to our country.

And if that is unsuccessful there is still another tool: reprisals against ships that do carry cargo to my country, even to the detriment of the interests of shipping firms flying flags of countries friendly to the United States.

This, in the first place, is the most obvious and tacit confession of failure on the part of those who predicted the economic collapse of Cuba. It was said that because of the historic roads that our revolution was following, our country woula be lea to nunger, amaranteer 11 la- 1a1 ta larian. famine and disaster. The fact that they now have to use these manoeuvres, these reprisals, this repression, to cut off maritime trade with Cuba proves that those predictions were wrong. Now they have to destroy the Cuban Revolution by the artificial establishment of economic difficulties, fully aware as they must be and are that the economic development of mv countrv depends. and will depend for a long time, on the TICON LARREVOLUCIÓN Revolution against American aggression. strengthening and expansion of our trade relations with other countries.

This pressure for blockades, this carrying out of unilateral acts to force blockades: I ask myself, and I ask you, gentlemen, whether in a time of peace these are or are not acts of war? I ask you, gentlemen, whether the United States government is entitled or empowered — outside this international organization, showing its contempt for this organization— to take such unilateral decisions with such repercussions?

I ask you whether this can be made to jibe with the purposes of improving and widening international relations that led ultimately to the setting up and establishment of the United Nations. I ask and I wonder whether the United Nations can impassively watch such events take place. And I wonder and 1 ask whether this blockade against my country is or is not an act of war, preparatory to war, facilitating war, and whether, in view of this fact and event, the United Nations can remain silent. Cuba asks the condemnation of such aggressive acts, a condemnation from the United Nations.

The guiding principles of the freedom of trade are attacked. But these principles are an ancient victory of mankind. NaturalIv. no one would dare to suhmit nuer ou Navirere to an international organization (PATRIA «MUC!

FIDEL: the right to exercise a duty or a privilege that is not theirs. Without such a right, without such privilege, they act as though they had it—and naturally, this being the case, the representative of the United States has not brought this matter up to the assembly. But it is our responsibility, it is our duty, to refer to it—to violation of the principles guaranteeing freedom of international trade and commerce, the carrying out of an act of war in times of peace, and the absurd and haughty adoption of measures of this nature by a great country against a small nation.

But these efforts will fail again, as they failed in the past. Cuba does not stand alone. Cuba has friends. It has the international solidarity of peoples. And Cuba has friendly governments on its side, and they will allow Cuba to enjoy international trade.

(This extract is taken from The Militant of October 22, 1962, an American socialist weekly. Any of our readers who would like to obtain the full text of Dr. Dorticos' speech should write to THe NEwSLETTER for a copy of The Militant [8d. post paid].)

become homeless each week. There are now nearly 5,000 homeless people in London. These facts were stated by John Greve, B.Sc. (Soc.), at a talk given at Goldsmith's College, London, last Saturday.

He pointed out that these figures did not give the full picture, as only couples with children under 16 were registered as 'homeless' and couples with no children or children over 16 were excluded.

Unlike the national average (nearly 50 per cent) only 10 per cent of London's population could afford to be owneroccupiers. Approximately 25 per cent live in council dwellings. The majority, approximately 65 per cent live in privately rented property.

The figures for London's homeless had jumped in 1958 when many dwellings ceased to be subject to rent control as a result of the Rent Act. Each year 10,000 houses now ceased to be rent controlled and another 10,000 cease to be available for rent as a result of being sold or demolished.

LANDLORD BLAMED When the homeless in 1957 were questioned 1 in 10 stated they had become homeless as a result of the landlord requiring the accommodation. In 1961, 4 in 10 had given this reason.

It was estimated the population of London would increase by one million in the next 10 years. More and more land had to be allocated for roads, industry, and for open space.

Mr. Greve said that the number of wage earners in London seeking rented accommodation was increasing while the number of rented dwellings was shrinking.

AT the time of the imprisonment and subsequent suicide of Dr. Robert Soblen certain newspapers mentioned his early connections with the Trotskyist movement. As a result of this we have received a number of enquiries to which we hope the following statement will serve as a reply.

Dr. Robert Soblen and his brother Jack Soble, who has recently been released from serving a five-year jail sentence in the United States for spying, appeared in Germany as university students early in 1930.

They joined the Communist Party of Germany and soon after became active in the German Left Opposition, which was part of the international movement founded by Leon Trotsky during his struggle with Stalin in the late 1920s.

In the German section of the Left Opposition Dr. Soblen adopted the pen name of Roman Well and his brother Jack was known as A. Senine. They were extremely active in the Opposition during 1931 and contributed a number of articles to its publications.

During 1931 they were appointed to the leading committee of the section and to the International Executive Committee of the movement which met frequently in Paris. One or other of the Sobles was always en route either from Germany to Paris or from Paris to Germany. They had full knowledge of all the activity of the Left Opposition.

Towards the end of 1932 they proposed a policy which was tantamount to capitulation to the German Communist Party. This gave rise to suspicions by other members of the German section of the Left Opposition and they were expelled as Stalinist agents towards the end of 1932. The announcement of their expulsion appeared in the Trotskyist paper Permanent Revolution.

The brothers then disappeared and as far as we know engaged in no public activity either for the Communist Party or the German section of the Left Opposition.

They were next heard of during the first and second Moscow Trials when their names were quoted as evidence against some of the defendants, notably Berman Yurin. In these trials they helped to denounce German Communists who were involved in the trials but who were not Trotskyists.

Some time in the early 1940s Dr. Robert Soblen made his way to the United States apparently via the Vladivostok-Japan-CanadaNew York route. He was then placed in charge of one of the GPU rings operating in New York for the purpose of spying on the Trotskyist movement. He continued with this activity until the late 1950s.

During the war years he worked with a Mr. Floyd Cleveland Miller who was instructed by the GPU to associate with the American Trotskyists. This man adopted the pen name of Michael Cort and edited a journal for the Seafarers' International Union.

While working for the GPU, he participated in the seamen's Trotskyist group and at that time a number of young members of the SWP were torpedoed and lost their lives on the way to Murmansk.

Miller ultimately gave evidence against Robert Soblen in a US Federal Court and explained that during the war Moscow was worried about Trotskyists. shipping to Murmansk and Archangel as crewmen on American vessels.

Some time in the late 1940s, Soblen engaged as an assistant a man by the name of Mark Zborowski. Zborowski had previously been active as a GPU undercover agent in several European capitals, particularly Paris. During that time he worked with Jack Soble (A.

Senine) who was in Germany.

It was Zborowski who was responsible for the murder by the GPU of Trotsky's son Leon Sedov. The arrangements for Sedov to be sent to the White Russian hospital where he died were made by him.

Another collaborator Zborowski at that time was Jacques Mornard, the assassin who murdered Trotsky in Mexico in 1940. Mornard and Zborowski worked as part of a murder squad organized by the GPU and there is a considerable amount of evidence building up that it was they who were responsible for the murder of Trotsky's secretary Rudolph Klement, whose headless and legless body was found in the Seine in 1937.

Mornard was released from prison in Mexico early in 1961 and it is believed that he is at present living in Prague.

The newspapers carried the story that it was Jack Soble who was responsible for denouncing his brother Robert Soblen to the FBI, but there is fresh evidence to hand which seems to indicate that both brothers were denounced to the FBI by Mark Zborowski.

We are informed that Mark Zborowski now teaches anthropology at Harvard University. Presumably the directors of education at Harvard believe that the employment of an assassin is useful for providing their students with an all-round view of life.

THe NEWSLETtEr will from time to time issue statements dealing with the activities of the GPU which is still, we believe, extremely active in a number of Trotskyist sections in different parts of the world. meeting addressed by Cliff Slaughter.

A number of leading members of the Conservative Association, who came to heckle the demonstration, protested loudly at a banner inscribed The Labour Movement must say " Out with the Tories. Labour to power to defend the Cuban Revolution"?

They were joined by members of the Communist Party who also objected to this banner. In their anxiety to oppose the Marxist Society and avoid any mention of the Labour movement, the Communist Party members openly aligned themselves with elements who were in favour of the Kennedy approach to Cuba and marred the unity of the demonstration.

STUDENTS 'CUBA DEFENCE ' WEEK NEARLY a hundred Manchester University students and Young Socialists aroused the shoppers with shouts of 'Food for Cuba', 'Hands off Cuba' last Saturday atternoon. At the American Consulate a letter saying 'We, students of Manchester University and Young Socialists deplore the attempts of the American government to destroy the achievements of the Cuban Revolution by means of military invasion and economic blockade' was read out and delivered. The police had banned any meeting.

The march was the climax of a 'Cuba Defence Week'. , organised by the Labour, Arab, Socialist and Communist societies at the university.

I WROTE last week about the way rates of profit are falling, due to heavier capital concentration and higher depreciation charges.

What solution does big business propose to arrest its declining profits? Much of the increased capital expenditure of recent years was to increase the capacity of output. But this does not mean simply increasing the number of machines. It means introducing machines that dispense with the need for labour.

In other words an increase in the concentration of capital can only 'pay dividends' if it is accompanied by a pro-rata decline in the amount of labour required.

Much of the machinery introduced in recent years is capable of dispensing with a great deal of labour. In the printing industry, for instance, work that could only be done by skilled craftsmen can be done now by automatic electronic machinery using only one-tenth of the former labour required.

The snag for capital, however, has been that workers-as in the printing trade, for instance—have shown that they are not in the mood to accept 'redundancy'. Talk of the need for workers to understand that they must leave dying industries because they are

Leeds march against US aggression 350 Leeds University students marched in protest on Tuesday against a war on Cuba. The march was led by the Marxist Society following a packed FROM OUR ECONOMIC CORRESPONDENT HE shadow of unemployment creeps over wider sections of British industry. In South Wales, Merseyside, Scotland Now in the South of England also, parts of the engineering industry are slowing down and youngsters are still looking for school.

The stagnation British of industry is part of a worldwide trend. Economists in both Europe and the United States predict a slackening of production and trade and the possibility of recession and deflation. This is the economic background to the Common Market.

The report to the National Economic Development Council, prepared by its staff of economic experts, is not concerned with such gloomy prospects, however.

Published last week, it says that if the annual rate of increase of exports is raised to 5.7 per cent, and if investment goes up to 6.2 per cent a year, then personal spending could rise at about 3 per cent.

This message is delivered at a time when investment is dropping and exports meeting fiercer competition. The calculations of Sir Robert Shone's bright young men have therefore produced so much eyewash.

NEDC was set up as part of an effort to use the TUC leadership to control the trade union rank and file as the monopolies prepare for the Common Market. The idea of a wages policy, discussed by the TUC at Blackpool and accepted also by the Labour Party leaders, involves the agreement to hold back wage increases in the 'national interest' , ie., to maintain profits.

NEDC yet

wanted in new ones should not deceive anyone. Some of those 'dying' industries have invested heavily in automation in recent years.

Although the Tory government can by its own action increase public investment, it can only encourage 'private industry' to carry out large reinvestment programmes, which entail heavy capital expenditure plant and machinery.

But big business is hesitant to spend money unless it can be sure that its expenditure will effect 'economies' by massive sackings.

The Tory government by bringing out its ' Workers' Charter', hope to make the sack more palatable. And they are hoping to get the union leaders blessing for their measures.

Recent speeches of Cousins and Greene would indicate that they object more to the way in which men are being laid off. Many obs, three months after leaving around to raising this delicate matter, at least not in public, but it is implicit in every line of last week's report. What is Development Councillor Cousins going to do when this issue comes up for discussion with his Tory and big business fellow members?

Messrs. Douglass, Cousins

and Woodcock, who discussed the unemployment situation with Maudling on Monday are reported to have been 'impressed' with what he had to say. Apparently they consider a friendly chat with the Tories is an adequate line of action.

Far from planning any rise in the standard of living, Neddy is concerned with getting ready for a showdown with the Labour movement. The tactics of the Fords' management is the shape of things to come in British industry.

As THE NEWSLETTER has been warning for some time, the employing class began an offensive against the Labour movement in order to cut wage costs. Whilst Gaitskell makes speeches about the 'terms' for entry into ECM, unemployment rises and is already being used to split the working class.

A political and industrial campaign to unite employed and unemployed workers in the battle to throw out the Tory government must be begun at once. redundancy is to be carried out than to redundancy itself. "The problem basically was one of human dignity,' said Cousins at a conference of the Institute of Personnel Management.

The true connection, however, between the 'Workers' Charter' and the needs of big business was illustrated last week, when Mr. John Hare, Minister of Labour at a businessmen's dinner spoke of the need for 'certain minimum standards' so far as a worker's contract of service was concerned.

He was followed by Sir Hugh Fraser, chairman of the House of Fraser. He forecast a change in industry that would mean more amalgamations and very considerable expenditure, which, he said, would be in many cases beyond the capacity of a single company or community.

The scale of amalgamation that Sir Hugh has in mind, will mean wholesale sackings. But the motto for the rank and file must be as ennunciated by the AEU-'redundancy is not a word in our vocabulary. There will be no soft-sell of the so-called 'Workers' Charter' to us

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the period prolonged Cold any form of vel War, they have concentrated on enjoy the full HEN students at Leicester the organization of harmless the organised University returned from non-class demonstrations which summer vacation, a rumour be absolutely upon the was circulating that Max useless. union leaders to stop Mosley, son the of Union We have that tantly appealing to Macmillan and get action the Massey-Ferguson Movement's leader, was to the fight the taken on with the job of forcing him in declaring 230 men redundant, despite speak at the Opening Debate. factories stewards' ind shop and his government to resign. of many years of work, was met by strong Officials of the Students' Union committees • organi- through thi Action by British Labour can workers. on October 11. refused either zation of action industrial serve as a powerful stimulus to the day after was declared, they that deny the against nuclear war. But the the American working class middle-of-the-road leadership in their heart of hearts do short-time be In orde to thwart any plan of CND and its Tribune allies When this was rejected by provide Mosley's son, the Marxist Society, public platform have gone out of their way to time Frank the management, the workers Labour movement hammers out Socialist Society and CND pro- condemn people who have even speak The time as a form of protest banned piecework and while over- policy to fight the attacks of t employing class. that the duced a invitation to Mosley be joint leaflet demanding shouted anti-Tory demonstrations. general executive The main points of the Transport and the union officials negotia At a mass meeting, ted. policy must be: withdraw As a n immediately. result of this, and learned from the p If there is any Workers' Union should that the TUC immedistewards from Coventry Manchester pledged 100 per obvious Mosleyite ideas, students to the propagation of opposition of many an Emergency such people should from the leadership a one-day general the Tory governsupport including strike General Meeting of the Students' movement. backing Kennedy. if the pay-offs took place. Union was called in order to dis- The Labour Party Right wing cuss the invitation. who are now busy licking MacAGREEMENT millan's boots and urging him At a packed meeting which Despite the mandate from lasted 24 hours, students voted to visit Kennedy, did not think must not, however, be approximately 7,000 workers, 268 to 223 in favour of withdraw- diverted by a spate of crude the AEU Divisional Organiser An ing the invitation. This was in anti-Americanism. There are made an with the spite of several confusing speeches, two Americas just as there management for compensa- some from so-called 'left-wingers' two Germanies in the SE tory payment of f21 ) for each who demanded free speech for World War. There is the employee dismiss ed redun- Mosley and the far Right. Despite America of the working dant. the narrowness of the vote, the and the America of the This was rejected by workers With 85,000 unemployed result represented marked Families. and a was agreed by an overwhelming the other lactories in support 11.- decision to - 11. -.. strike and call Scotland the formulation 100,000 unempl and of such a policy yed by January, a forecast victory for the University. Left in the two Britains These two are icas, like divided majority. becomes daily more vital for class lines which This rank and file action pro- the Labour mo in result of Emergency the eradicated. voked an immediate reprimand land. General Meeting and the rapid Peace C saved; the from the trade union leaders, who growth of the Marxist Society in imperialists can be defeated; demanded that the workers the University has provoked the Soviet Union can be deimmediately return to work and frightened reaction from extreme at the fended; thi e freedom of Cuba condemned the action of the un- official Joint Shop Stewards' right-wing elements. In conjunction with the local con- maintained - but only if class Committee. Under this pressure com- the Electric Company, Whitton, Bir- 6,000 workers the General up a movement to stamp down on press, they are attempting to whip taken by the Labour movement. action is immediately underbine committee wilted asked and mingham, commenced a ban on the growing interest in Marxism the workers to return to work to all overtime on Friday, October in the University. common agreemen t beallow negotiations to proceed at 19. This was their answer to An article in the Leicester the Left and the Right national level. This was accepted after rowdy mass meeting. the firm decision sacking 65 workers. taken at a mass The Evening Mail stated that, 'Leaflets which were circulated wing, this was postponed until of the United Nations. Fidel meeting at which 3,000 yesterday at Leicester University the last day of the conference. Castro is absolutely right NIGHTMARE workers present. by the Marxist Society have It was entirely overshadowed by he refu ses to agree to an inspecpossibility of the develop- The action of the GEC workers angered some students. ... Today the sham debate the tion of Cuba for missile bases. ment of any action of the rank in the fight against sackings is a the society invites students to its Common Market. The United Nations was and file to unite the workers in principled one. The general rise first meeting of the term and a Yet a few weeks in the it helped Scotland and England against the Tories and the employers can of unemployment in Birmingham makes it essential for the unions lecturer in Social Anthropology at talk given by Cliff Slaughter, war is right at conference the threat the top nuc of of Luonly be a nightmare for those to campaign for a general ban in Leeds University on "Marxism, officials who signed the agreements the district and a real fight for the world's agenda. This is with the motor car employers that 40-hour week. Fascism and the Student" ' "Moderates" •.. are saying example of how the the rists the wage rates in the new factories would be approximately half those that Whitton workers have shown if the issues are explained by that Cliff Slaughter, who speaks 'peaceful the Labour movement. co-existence' disa ot in operation in the Midlands. the stewards, they will respond today, is as extremist and anti- democratic in his way as Mosley? The Cuban revolution the It is quite obvious that there and certainly answer the pessi- continuation of the great can be no real fight against redun- mists who say 'You'll never colonial revolution. Its defence dancies and sackings until the the workers to ban overtime.' cannot be organised within the student interviewed by the framework of 'co-ex: stence with paper said, The Marxist Society world imperialism'. were the prime movers in getting by the the invitation to Mosley withessen charge of calling a meeting on not co-operate in plans drawn. They now display the aved Fords' property, which the firm to maintain profit levels which intolerance and dogmatism of a To defend the Soviet Union claim they have agreed with mean unemployment, speed-up Fascist.' to fight for the extension of union officials, during the last and attacks on working con- The development of the Marxist the revolution which Society into the largest left-wing wage settlement, shall ditions. society in the University and the to it in the first place. happen. But the lessons British high attendance at their meetings The Cuban revolution just We urge you to As one shop Light Steel Pressings must be suggests that the 'lunatic fringe' such a revolution. That why and shop meetings marked at a mass learne The vacillation of which the reactionaries fear so US imperialism wants to destroy Labour and tr. Monday, 'This is union leaders over the Fords much developing into some- it, and in doing so hi IS noW leaders to act meditated showdown.' strike could well turn into the thing far more significant than a decided to Soviet general The 'Fight to the end' atti- treachery which helped defeat 'fringe'. The growing interest in Union itself. Get 1 jut on the streets and tude the management must of the BLSP strike. students entering the Universities Marxism, particularly among support demonstration every be answered by the whole The Dagenham strikers for the first time, of great against war. Work to transLabour movement. The stand must not be left to fight alone. significance. form them into a mighty of the paint, trim and assembly The statement of support made paign to bring down the workers in demanding the re- by the Fords national joint government.

Only resolute action instatement of the shop steward convenors meeting must be international working Force Gaitskell to break before they return mr be more than mere words. against the imperialists can now all relations with the Tories. given the full support engineering workers. all FORDS WILL ONLY BE save peace. This action must If tens DEFEATED BY EFFEC- be class action designed to The engineering employers must be told that the working TIVE WORKING CLASS bring down the Tory governACTION. THIS CAN BE imperialists ment and the American will not will Registered at the G.P.O. as a newspapor DONE BY RAPID EXTEN186A Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4 Published by The Newsletter. SION OF THE STRIKE TO follow them of nuclear suicide. 180 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4 Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), r.o. ALL FACTORIES. Every meeting,