Victory for Barbican strikers

MEETINGS NO LEGISLATION AGAINST THE TRADE UNIONS!

Cliff Slaughter, Editor, 'Fourth International' of the portworker, John Robertson, Young Socialist and engineering convenor exported.

BELFAST Devlin says the opposite 7.30 p.m., Sunday, Nov.

International Hotel, Donegall Square South Speaker:

Healy, National Secretary, ployers.

ownership essentially LIVERPOOL strictive in the p.m., Sunday, November 21 Lecture Room, Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street Speakers: will, without 7. Healy, National Secretary, SLI Cliff Slaughter, Editor, 'Fourth a whole.

International' Kerrigan, Liverpool most anti-social anad BIRMINGHAM 7.30 p.m., Sunday November 21 Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth Speakers:

Aileen Jennings, Editor, 'Keep Left' Mike Banda, Editor, Newsletter Jack Gale, Central Committee Member, SLL plans tor the trade unions NEWCASTLE procedures deaiing .30 .m., Sunday, November 2 Bridge Hotel, Castle Square against unions.

Speakers:

Cliff Slaughter, Editor, 'Fourth ments with the emplovers International' Jack Gale, Central Committee Member, SLL Chairman: J. Willamson, Youn Socialists National Committee unions. Hands off the Indonesian Communist tnat wnat we need is a growth THE counter-revolutionary ownership and control on • docks and forces led by the Generals the the small and incited by Islamic fanatics and medium-sized port em- are rampaging through Java and Sumatra.

Under capitalism monopoly An unprecedented campaign of violence and terror against profit-making. By concentratCommunists and trade unioning greater and greater power Lists is in full swing. Houses into lewer ana lewer nanas, tne of Communist MPs, including way 1s open tor tols powertu handful to raise their costs at the residence of D. N. Aidit, leader of the party, have been ransacked.

supporung the Devlin District and provincial offices of the Indonesian ComKeport. the Labour government munist Party (KPI) have been comes down on the side of the burnt down. Wholesale arrests group of monopoly capitalists. and executions of Communist Party members and sympaare the people who are thisers have been reported from Lue ical wreckers ana not the many areas.

NOW TORIES DEMAND: Colonel Untung, leader of the palace corp, has been captured, FINE REBEL UNIONS and many of his supporters disarmed. Sporadic fighting is reON Wednesday this week the ported in East Java and parts of Conservatives outlined, at Southern Sumatra. their dar party comerence Brighton. unelr reactionary FEEBLE UNITY CALLS The ailing Sukarno-now a resir keith Shadow luctant hostage of the GeneralsMinister of Labour, said that issues feeble calls for 'national procedures por deals to with unity' which the generals use to repress the Stalinists even more dispires enforceable fiercely.

The KPI adds to the confusion Trade unions would be fined and helps to strengthen the position of the reactionary Generals if their members Droke agree by shamelessly supporting the appeals made (supposedly) by The Labour government pre- Sukarno for an end to the fighting pares pares by it declared sutention and for 'national unity against imperialism'.

The KPl a statement reprinted in Daily Worker' (7/10/65) calls on the working class and toiling peasantry of Indonesia to:

*... increase their vigilance, to strengthen the front of national unity in order to achieve the realisation of the five principles of the Revolution to foil the joint British - American project of Malaysia and also step up the struggle against neo-colonialism in general' This at a time when illegality, imprisonment and summary execution is the lot of thousands of Communist Party members!

‹DAILY WORKER' SILENT The 'Daily Worker' remains inscrutably silent on these events, even Kosygin is forced to protest against the murder of KPI members.

This is where class-collaboration has led Aidit and his advisers in the international Stalinist movement. For over 10 years they laboured to support capitalism in Indonesia under the spurious political banner of 'national democracy'-the brainchild of the Soviet leaders.

At the same time they gave full support to so-called policies of 'non-aligned peaceful co-existence' of Sukarno, who tried to walk the diplomatic tight-rope between the workers' states and imperialism.

This policy, needless to say, disarmed the working class theoretically and disorientated the KPI politically. Sukarno by involving KPI leaders in his National Council compromised the KPI still further.

While everyone knew that the enerals were plotting to take the ›wer for some time, the KPI aders looked imploringly to OUTSIDE the gates of Turriff's building site in the City of London's Barbican re-development area, many of the 380 men sacked by the firm attended a meeting last Monday-the day of settlement (reported on page 4 of this week's Newsletter).

The men, from the West Indies, Asia and Ireland, had stood firm on the picket line for three weeks.

They have won their way back on to the site and must now take up a struggle for 100 per cent trade unionism.

Early in the strike, mounted police moved the pickets on after there had been scuffles with men employed after the sackings. Six of the strikers were fined f5 following this action.

The men were on strike for two weeks before the three unions involved, the Transport and General Workers' Union, Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, and the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers, recognised the action. indifferent and the party remains hopelessly divided.

Now the uprising has been crushed and the white terror has begun.

World labour cannot stand aside while the butchers in Djakarta slaughter workers and peasants with impunity. We demand that all executions cease forthwith, all political prisoners be released, and attacks against the KPI and leftwing groups be stopped.

immigrațion policy in Britain has itself encouraged racialism. The new Tory line will be correspondingly strengthened as a result.

The denunciation of Smith as a 'traitor' (by the 'Daily Worker' among others), and calling for his arrest as an 'enemy of the Queen' is so much rubbish.

The examples of Carson in Ulster in 1913 shows that the state will never act against opposition from the right.

Socialists must expose Wilson's compromise plans. " We must support every move towards the building of the workers' movement in Africa, which is needed if imperialism is to be defeated.