bureaucracy.
Now that Britain's entry is more or less an accomplished fact, the campaign to take Britain out of the EEC looks as if it will continue along the same lines to distract and divert the Labour left and the Communist Party from the real issues of the class struggle. Such a campaign would be deeply reactionary - reactionary in the most literal sense of the term. A return to capitalism in one country has no advantages for the working class. The real alternative to capitalist unity in the EEC is the struggle for a Red Europe.
If entry does indeed weaken the traditional political instruments of class rule then this will be an unmitigated advantage in the task of creating an independent working class politics - - independent, that is to say, of bourgeois politics, above all of bourgeois politics in their parliamentarist and chauvinist Once again Israel is on the hunt for Arab D0OG. Golda Meir is brandishing the threat of full scale war to try to force the Syrian and Lebanese regimes to clamp down yet again on the Palestinian guerrillas. Meanwhile the Israeli government is waging a campaign for the stepping up of the struggle against terrorism everywhere. It is threatening to do the job itself if the US and West European bourgeoisies wont co-operate. To strengthen its pressure, the Zionist authorities are seeking to mobilise the big Jewish communities in the West.
SUITS CAPITAL In fact, the Israeli initiative suits the book of the West European regimes very well since they are finding it necessary to strengthen their own repressive machinery against home grown socialist and revolutionary currents. It is highly convenient to use the Munich furore as a cover for this transformation. Nobody on the left should have any illusion that the 'anti-terrorist' machinery will retrain from attacking the labour movement and political activists within it when the need arises. Already Newsweek and the Economist have started preparing the ground for attacks against the Fourth International by printing absurd slanders against the Trotskyist movement.
By placing itself at the head of this international campaign, the Zionist movement comes full circle: it started out by presenting a haven from reactionary forces in Enrope; it has now become one of the buttresses of the same reactionary forces in Europe, (To page 8) cracy: the whole history of the trade union movement shows the complete inability of the bureaucracy to subordinate their own narrow interests to those of the mass of workers.
The present period requires more urgently than ever a new rank and file leadership for the struggle in every industry and locality. The type of class solidarity action shown in the struggle to free the five must now be turned into solidarity organisation -committees for the defence of trade unions in every locality throughout the country. In the past such bodies have been used by the Communist Party simply for gathering sympathetic militants together to exert pressure on the trade union bosses. Now they must be turned into bodies which can generalise the demands and struggles of any section of trade unionists throughout the class as a whole.