NO RETURN TO 1931! Fight the Tories and Wilson

WILSON, Brown, Callaghan and the Labour leaders have announced their real programme: the working class, which returned them to Westminster, must be made to pay for the economic crisis.

Unemployment and the means test will return, deliberately encouraged by the Labour government. In this way Wilson hopes to convince international big business that Britain can be kept safe for capitalism, the pound can remain as one of the supports of the rickets world financial system, and the British Empire will stay part of the military and political system of imperialism.

To Wilson and his collaborators in the Cabinet, every one of these things is sacred, and must be preserved at the expense of the working people. To save the pound' millions of people are to condemned to poverty.

Gone is all the talk of anew plan, productivity and prosperity all. This was the cover behind which Wilson and TUC general secretary George Woodcock set out to tie the trade unions to the state in the Prices and Incomes Bill. They knew their plans could not be realised unless they took steps to weaken the organised strength of the working class.

The capitalists and the rightwing Labour leaders knew that their main defence against the workers would be the bureaucracy of the trade unions, which could be relied uDon to hold back, confuse and divide the working class.

Leadership built

But the employing class policies it a socialist pose these socialist leadership developed to give direction and unity to the struggles of working class.

Everywhere, in wages fights, in rent struggles, in the battle working-class youth in the Young Socialists for socialist policies, and in the campaign against the anti-trade union legislation, workers have fought and will fight against the reactionary policies of the government.

The bloody imperialist war in Vietnam is arousing more and more opposition. The slogans of the Socialist Labour League and the Young Socialists-'Victory to the National Liberation Front, 'Arm the National Liberation Front'-are becoming the dominant slogans in the fight.

Behind these slogans of international class solidarity, a new revolutionary fighting force is being built, a force which reiects the reformist and class-collaborationist calls for 'peace' and 'conferences' with the imperialists. Stalinists, pacifists and reformists will be defeated and left behind by this movement of the working class.

Lines laid down

Similarly on the domestic issues: here the seamen's strike laid down the lines for the struggles of today and tomorrow.

In the end the right-wing on the executive of the National Union of Seamen betrayed the strike, and men returned without the 40-hour week, saddled with 'efficiency' agreements which worsened conditions.

But above all the seamen's will to night, and their expressed determination to change the leadership in order to fight successfully next time, changed the relationship of forces in the labour movement.

Trade union leaders like Sir William Carron of the AEU and Leslie Cannon of the ETU tried to use the seamen's strike to combine with Wilson in a massive witch-hunt to clear out the militants from their unions.

Seamen fought it out not only with the shipowners but also with the Labour government. Only the right-wing leadership called off the fight.

Continued page 4, column In doing this, there is, in fact, no difference between the government of Harold Wilson and the Opposition of Mr.

Edward Heath. If, in fact, they participated in a National government today, the situation could not be much worse.

crisis of capitalism. This is not an economic crisis solely related to British capitalism. It is a world The dollar, today, is just → the pound.

There is an international shortage of money and bank 'ates have risen in one capialist country after another We are just on the verge of another 1931, but with a big difference.

We are on the unes hold of a catastrophe far the history of capitalism.

The harsh measures introduced by Wilson on Wednesday, July 20, are mere chicken-feed so far as this desperate economic situation is concerned.

They cannot resolve any problem. All they will do is to create:

At least three-quarters of a million unemployed by Christmas A high cost of living The bankruptcy of thousands of small business people, and A legal wage freeze backed up by the anti-trade union legislation of the Prices and Incomes Bill. inued page 4, column 6→ Greek army attacks peasants Abandoned tractors, road - builders, stones, spent shell cases and bricks litter the streets of Salonika (left) following a final tear-gas bombardment of demonstrating peasants in the city. Many arrests were made (right).

Hundreds of peasants, who had been joined by workers and students from the city, were dispersed after a day of clashes with; first the police and then the army -who were ordered 'Shoot to Kill'.

The peasants were protesting at the price of wheat.

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Ho Chi Minh

answers the pacifists By JOHN CRAWFORD 6 The war may last another five, 10, 20 or more years; Hanoi, Haiphong and other cities may be destroyed, but the Vietnamese people will not be intimidated. 9 SO declared Ho Chi Minh, President North Vietnam, last Sunday. On the 12th anniversary of his government in Hanoi, he was answering not only the American imperialists, now sending still bigger forces to batter Vietnam into submission, but all those in the labour movement who call for "peace in Vietnam'.

'Let the US end its war of aggression in Vietnam, withdraw from this country all US and satellite troops, and peace will return here ai once, he said.

"The • Vietnamese people cherish peace, genuine peace, peace in independence and freedom, not sham peace, an "American peace".

people will sto rebuild our country. When comest and endow it with bigger and more beautiful constructions' While US imperialism steps up its offensive against the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam and the bombing of targets in the North, the Wilson government continues to declare its solidarity C with the imperialist murderers.

But merely to protest against Wilson's backing for US policy, to evade the real questions. Vietpresent struggle in South nam arose directly and inevitably from the 1954 Geneva "peace' agreements. Russell a These chopped the country in half just when the French forces Kosygin were being thrown out after their defeat at Dien Bien Phu. The