Socialist Challenge No. 12, 8 September 1977
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Socialist Challenge BUILD A SOCIALIST OPPOSITION FOR A UNIFIED REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATION HUGH SCANLON (R.L.P.)
7 September 1977 No. 12 Socialist Strategy Communist Party argue for Western Europe their stralegies for social-
ism in Western Europe.
Mandel v. Fri 9 Sept. 7.30 pm Johnstone St. Pancras Assembly
The debate not to miss. Rooms, Bidborough Rd.,
Ernest Mandel of 'the London WC1. (Opp. St
Fourth International and Pancras station) Tiekets
Monty Johnstone of the 75p at the door.
INSIDE:
DAVEPURDY &
MIKEPRIOR CP members who favouran incomes policy -p.8&9
HUGHSCANLON died last week in Blackpool after a protracted illness, He had been suffering from what is krown in the trades-unions as "Carron's disease, a particularly virulent form of cancer very common amongst trade-union officials who reach the top. Last-minute attempts to save Scanion by members of his executive failed miserably. He was determined to die. In the end one of his oldest political friends, the Morning Star had no option but toannounce that he had ocased to breathe.
Scanion was born in Australia in 1913, the son of immigrant workers. His father died soon afterwards and Hugh and his mother returned to England He was greatly influenced by Jack London and Upton Sinclair and many years later he admitted that it was this type of utopian socialist writing that mpressed me rather than any high-soundine theorelical works, a factor n loubt in hisinability loresist tie onslaught of "Carron'sdisease
le left school at 14 to start an apprenticship, as an instrunent maker
detro-Vickers and was impressed byshop-stewards there who won him to! union
Atthe ageof 23 in 1938 he was clocted a shop-sleward; in 1947 he was clected divisional ALIEW organiser for the North-West, a position he held for sixteen yeurs. His position in the Union was further strengthened in the coming years but it was not until 1963 that he was elected to the Executive Council
Inthe 1960'sche President of the Engincering Union was the notorious Bil Carron, Right-wing to the core, a cold war anti-communist and lot more besides, Carron used to take a delight in riding roughshod over democrati decisionsarrived at by national Committees and conferences. asit camero be known was that the President had the right to cast the Union vote whichever way he thought fit. This was strongly attackod by the left in th union. Scanion fought the election for the left on two basic planks: oppositios to Labour's incomes policies and as he himself putit: The second point wa that of internal democracy within the union. This is founded on three broad principles the right of every member to clect all officials from shop-stewards to the president. Secondly, the right of the National Committee to be the policy-making body. Thirdly the inviolale right of the final appeal courtagain a body of rank and-file members - to adiudicate on any dispute berween the membership and the Executive Council - and for these decisions to be binding on the executive.' Yes, this is the basis on which Scanion defeated Carron and raised the hopes of thousands of militants in the engincering union
'In the first flush of his clection victory in 1967, Scanlon stated his clear opposition to Labour's policies on more than one occasion. When asked why the Labour government of 1966 had opted for right-wing policies, Scanlon
onmenied: The problem is not that the government fell for these polic but that chetrade union movement fell over itself to endorse them. Buc has
more difficult. But what is the difference between a reactionary Labour governenent in 1966 and a reactionary Labour govermment in 1977? Nonc Theonly difficulty is the failing political health of union bureaucrats
By thetime the miners' strike of 1974 had returned Labour to power, Hugh Scanion was well on his way to being described us a stalesman'. Wilson, who loathed him personally, was to describe hin on the television as an extremely Intelligent and responsible trade-union leader, Carron must have been chuckling in his grave. Scanion, together with Jones, hacked Labour's reactionary policies to the hilt, They defended the Social Contract in no uncertain way. It seemed as if though the circle had curned full whee Scanlon's friends in the Conmunist Party headquarters still did not give up hope. After all we live in the ageol transplants
Blackpool 1977 was to shatter all these illusions, Scanion did th unmentionable. Herejected an overwhelming vote by his engineering section delegates to the TUC to prevent him from casting his votes at the TUC for the 12-Month Rule. Scanlon walked out of the meeting having refused any discussion on the subject. The Morning Star headlined: *Uproar over Scanlon's edict on 12 Month Rule'. But they could not explain the whys and hows. Why was Scanlon reduced to "edicts"? Why had he evolved inthis way? Why nouricicismof ham beforcon a consistent basis: Tothese questions there were -по replies from King Street Scanion had done a Carron.
In this fashion he killed off his own left origins. Like many other utopian sociulisis. heended his political life as a reactionary. Whether he will end up in Hell or the House of Lordsis besides the point. The struggle against Labour's policies und against the likes of Scanion must be continued if the Labour movement is to he in a state to resist those for whom Labour is opening the door: the Torics,
CLIVEGOODWIN VOTEFOR BOB on TV censors — p.15 WRIGHT! by Mick
Rice - p.6 Grunwick and the TUC-p.3&16
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Labour paves the way
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Editorial
Socialist Challenge,328/9 Upper Street, London N1,
Editorial 01-359 8189 News 01-359 8180
Hands off
Zimbabwe!
THE OWEN/YOUNG proposals offer nothing that is new either to the racist settler regime or to the black nationalists In Zimbabwe. Were it not for the medla coverage carefully orchestrated by the Foreign Office, they would hardly have raised a single eyebrow. The aim of the proposals is 1o wean support away from the armed struggle and If 5mith had decided to play along this could have represented a serious danger. But the settlers' leader is aware that even a tew concessions would weakon his position and he ls therefore going to utilise his recent electoral 'victory to remain
The aims of Anglo-American imperialism are fairly atraightforward. They would like to lower the 'colour line'
- that is from Rhodesla to South Africa. This entalla a neo-colonial Zimbabwe. Owen, Young and the military consul-designate Fieid Marshal Lord Carver have all sung the praises of Kenyatta's Kenya as a model regimel Such a solution is favoured by all the
The Tront line' states, despite nuanced differences, favour a quick settlement because of the economic and political dislocation which the present
South Africa wants the Kenyan solution because of the obvious im pact of a protracted liberation war within its own borders. There is littledoubt that the militants of Soweto were greatly encouraged by the victories of the
Smith rejects the plan because he belleves he can reach a separate and more beneficlal 'Internal' settlement with & nationalist grouping not involved in the guerilla struggle. The Patriotic Front's main political base is the guerilie army.
solution which seeks marginalisethat army, though it is criticaily weakened by its
Britain to carry out its 'colonial The British and Americans wil now attempt to influence Vorster on one hand, and the frontiine states on the other to pressure their respective allles
The proposals are a none too subtle attempt to deny the people of Zimbabwe their right to total selt-determination. The presence of a UN Force (remember tha Congol) and
1o nelo a black bourgeolale to take power are obvious indications of this fact. The legal basis of the plan is that Britain still has its responsibilities and the UDi of Smith was illegal. Thus a new
We should not forget that Kenya in Its pre-independence period was the scene of numerous brutal massacres by the colonialist forces. One was forcefully reminded of those brutalities when reading about the tortures inflicted on Zimbabwean blacks by Smith's soldiers. Furthermore, the
is dominated by multinationel widespread brutality against workers, students and all political opponents of the
ROWOVEr well-disposed towards white plantation owners who stayed behind as they
and 'gifts' are regularly sent to the
The Owen/Young plan Includes the creation of an army which Includes Smith's forturers and the nationalists. Furthermorethe entire judiclary and police force will remain
transition. Carver, MES EBIE Commissioner, will have untrammelled control over this apparatus of repression, with accountability to no-one but
Wecondemntheseproposalsasawhole. The only solution in Zimbabwe we favour at the present moment is th at allowa for the Zimba buean perpie to determi ne toeir
Immediate election of a Constituent Assembly on the basis of one person one vote and the dismantiing of the entire machinery of the white settleretate. Imperialism cannot guarantee this in any form,
Imperialism: Hands off Rhodesia: No British Rule In Zimbabwe. British Labour should help the liberation struggle by all means necessary.
OUR POLICIES
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IS THE British ruling class reaily losing its marbles? Has the sustained effects of the economic crisis and the grim realisation that Britain is no LEOEC HARA OCEHE rate imperialist power finally driven them to despair? It is
questions in the affirmative, AUSLLSICLCEEIHYSEIT old ruling confidence appears evaporating. This is expressed not just within the judicinry, the army, the police and the intelligcoce services, but also in the Tavoured ruling sarty of British capital → th OSCTIYC L.
Party, to give it its proper title.
ACIM JOSOn S OUDurSt agalnS the Scarman report on Grunwick is merely the Intest indication of the dedinine political quality of
Me SteuRE sCan's TCEInEK were in the immediare interesis of the British ruling class. If anything MMS D UC SATaI Wa defended these and showed hin
self to be a shrewder chan Joseph. Even The Economist, which canrr oe accusco ora pro-union hias, commented: "But above all the report provides an abjective acoount of why Nared up:
to autboritarian management paye
SM WCEIO TEC nCYIECI Asian Tertier and navised ward to weel accept the report before the mass picketingre commenced
PROVOCATIVE petty Why then
Coilc BE atruck on Scarman and re-echo the remarksof Ward and his advisen З0оП LOIEEHH KONCIE BRIG the National Freedom' (NAFF)? And are the a sora simuas mina uaaas ask Thatcher to appoint Ward as her advisor on industrial relat answer hes In relatianship of loroes within thi Tory party isself. overthrow of Heath, the party ba risted rapouy mgnswarg vumber of Heathites bave lef parlaibent and are seeking their fortunes COSCW nEIC. lights another interesting feature of contemporary Tor)
Some of tbe more talented and younger ruling class careerists are not being attracted ta Tory politics orto Parliament, buttothe City of London and to the multinationals. There has dedine Hs 1he qunlity lesdership over the last tew years: only a rhoroughly philistine and frustrared party could have electHOSESIET preferenceto Heath.
And yel despitcall this, thereis a pertain logic to Thaicher's victery in the leadershlp stokes. It helpedi to move the Tory party inexorably well to the right and thus renew it appealto those lavers of tradition-
bises wish ihat of oiher oppre ind lavers of soriety - wisen, blach pir, eos stricaling for sheir bberation This socialiun can waly be achieved by cralim se organs of power and defeating with all "ensary means the poser of the rapitalist
Dur sociall - will be infiniiey moor demacratie than what esists in Britair today, with toil rights for all pollical parties aed cornents that dn sot take @ arus sesimst the socialisi state. The Sialiaisd dola of socialiom" in ihe ESSR und Fastera
third.
answer these
class 10 be Unionist politician
insensitive,
women then did Keich Joseph with hs provocative
Association for
LT311S
areally Influenced b the
Since the
politics regularly
been a noticcable
of Tery
25S CLCI
hope of winning them
Scatland and Wales.
3 The interests uf workers and capita
Lists ane irreconcilable on n wur scale. Capitkünm hax mol unly encitei wirld market, it has crewted worle polilics, Thus we fight for working clain unily on an intersatimial teale. Ths snity will in th Jona run he dechioe in delraing huth th
Telure,
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resolunoary surialis partie ary than ever hefore. Conditions loday ar derades. But sucl parties can ealy be baile b rejectins: sectorianism and demucracs not ae a lusug hur es o sira necnsilg. This messs the right to organis aclions and sendencie
for Tory dinosaurs
*Even hough the skull of Josaphathus W38 huge, vou can soo trom its shape A DOI IEU CHRWIO NAIK HIL DUR not much room for a brain." supporteis wno acr disaffected with consensus politiesand wanted a hard line with the
It is no secret that Thatcher is
the pro country after bouboements of NAFF. In fact, a NAFF ideologue, Robert Moss, is mne of her speech-wrilers and sh ias graced a numher of NAFF But he "social" occasions. ln that sense loseph's remarks are designed to stress Thatcherite thinking am TSALCT LO BE MOre TenDoT WICK CEN OLIN sectors of the population, those inho need by baetshs Bally Mall
agitational paper tor middle-cinss/perty-bourgeois lay- who ers, embodyinga right-wing populisin which is tboroughly nasty.
The hig question is whiethier this extremely is all bot air designed to win votes or whether it is an indicanion of what Tory policies will be after the bex: clections, even chough Geofirey Howe is begining to lose
All the indications arechat the only Union ne ORES WUETe0IWHa1 vigoar is the Union of England
The ecoDome ine pomc Cr0s co0. lead chem to unleash a political
sur abr pro-Moscum
ETHY banas.
ECHAHUS
SELSDON offensive agRinst the trades anions. esnecially if Labour's parbamentnry strength is deci mated in Scoiland. Thus a lot will depend onene polan map orsu
the next gemera elections. Joseph Is certainly ou af touch with immediare malin class interests at the prescot Lime
could well be floating halloon for the future. In whic case the sooner it is punctured by mass action to nationalise Grus
SHORT-SIGHTED
The British trade-union leaders
gat bered STETE Gardens in Blackpool are, alvavs, provina themselves 1o b
STOLT SULU O68U Joa's decision to back the 12 mouth rule could well prove to be the last straw which will ensure more warking ciass abstencions in The next elecrions. Forif the Torics NEO LEITSS KICOAUIC offensive, we have to rocognise that the grounds for thi coetiCente hase bace brenared by the retrograde policies of the Labour goverticient. The usterly reaction art character if these policies and
WANT TO KNOW MORE? If you agrve sili rlienc pr nelples atid adar to le Imsalved ap wovirle b Sacinhise-Chalhinice sup puctersür yodrares J0i lor the form bielene wod ende Tami Intersred, in sor infurmaliun about aud vities in'my atea 1 wugld libe seditanal interature nd vaciese sop ter cover cos, (Delere i nor applicable)
Sead-te sucislin Cosilenes: 338-/320-0pper Stime Loadnn NC
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE, 3 September. 1977, page 2 "In contraat, the testh of Thabchosaurus were long and strong and as sharp a knives. They wore a great help In killing
and stricoinc the mest off tne
THATCHOSAURUS the decision of Foor and Bena to endorse them by scaying in the Lore ans oemeaiss tradi Ional Labour upporiera in th sousands. Il is hardly surprisi tar Lanour Pary mem nersn
Labour's policies give them litcle TOOL LO maDOUYTe The cals Ibes can butflank Labour is by a sharp moveto theright.
Forir ia the Labour goverumeut which is loday interests of the British ruling ciass.
tas o the ed aly ord t
BELIE early zonbernenanAeSSALerI secepted wage-restraint Labour could not stay in power. This was always an incorrect argument Today its reverse is true, It is owly by lighting Labour's policies thai the trade unions could possibl keep Labour ln power, The TUC in Blackpool failed dismally co de Lhis. The problem is that its failure Socosowinmarei marecithCil to combar the Tocy dinosaur when they return to power. Jones cocaron, rootand benn wul sav a lot to answer for over the next CENTOTCER
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TUC and the 12 Month Rule
Put your pickets where
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by GEOFF BELL
by
acceptance.
own union's policy. The policy, carried by a 50-2 vote on the AUEW's national committee in Mas resus
This national commictee instructs the executive to call for an
ive bargaining at the end of the second stage of the Social Coe-
made to have this adopted by the TUC in 1977.
an orderly return to free collective bargain
immediate return to free collective burgaining — not the 'orderMUCH apparent anger, much rhetoric, many fine words were present at Blackpool on Tuesday when the TUC debated Grunwick. To nobody's surprise Congress adopted the APEX motion calling upon all affiliared unions to continue and to intensify their financial and practical aid to those in dispute.
But for the Grunwick strik-
Challenge at the
No recognition for
Scanlon's law
The 12 month rule was passed by the TUC on Wednesday
one of the most amazing breaches of workers democracy the trade union movement has seen for a long time. Hugh Scanlon committed his 1.2 million votes in favour of the 12 month rule, and thereby secured its
ly' return Scanion wanted and which the 12 month rule reproSETTES Indeed the engincering workers' delegation at the TUC DY AT LO NO WIER ERECE SLOWEE ions and two absent) challenging Scanion's right to dictate the But Scenlon refused to allow a discussion and refused to recog
Subsequently the 12 month rule was passed and now meant lo be bind ton us all. No doubt trade unionists will he told such is "trade union democracy when the votes of the secon "YOURE WANTED AT THE TOP TABLE, HUGH."
TUC and Grunwick
your mouth is
TUC Grunwick lobby on Monday, We think the motion is not strong coough.we should include the cutting off of all services.
HE AS CONCE PCIC HI to the APEX leader Roy Grantham when be ding to strike cormittee member Jack Dromey the strikers had Toe unions to cut off all supplies This Grantham refused to do. and as a resul concoele aDo practical ways of winning the Granwick dispute were hardly The TUC motion is a starting Bar more than that is
largest union in the country are cast in direct contradiction to the wishes of the members, then such march ind hat of atte deserves no respect, по тосовBON NEED OCCUILT
The real feeling at the TUC rather than that manufactured by Scanlon and the other lackies of IDE MOSE Can wing Gosernment gives the groen light
up country to immediately begin the fight to regain the
Already the stewards committee has announ-
pursuit of their demand for a 20 per cent increase seich promises to drive a tanker
through the Government's pay policies. It is true this committes is "unofficial' — Issue of union democracy foe the Iris pommittee is clecied by rank and file dockers throughout the coun Whether in the docks, in the engineering industry or on other factory floors a way forward is
needed if the strike is to win:
This means mass action to
re-establish the mass picket
Crunwick with the aim of stop
ping the scab bus.
It means mass action to cut off
a suppers to worse trora" was drawing up put the utmost pressure on the
Trade union leaders
such action - and if they don't,
tortbeir rank and file so do the job
And i means
answer George Ward's threats to
close the factory with an occupa
tion and a demand that
Labour Government nancinalise
Grunwick under workers con
trol, without compensation
hamlesh handhi said on Mon
day that the Grunwick strikers
and of tyrants.
union bureaucrats.
Labour
the war
for trade
down
they
can start the process.
One which rises as leflation rises
a dema paid wurker in the future.
bet again it is an
DUCE CITAL!
Hows LTD.
all very
action
sanction before
mass action to
the to the Keith
TEWAPE SOUTE BEEN HER Ful fight can be waged to reverse the decline of living srandands
opportunity is there for a fight. the ng unity of all those willing to suicies of the Labour Gover the fisht-wine
and the scabbing trade
of the
which demands no Immediate E15 increase to make
see them.
gives would moment. protect both the lower and higher
A national minimam wage und immediate equal pay for women, would farther protect those whe have been hit hardest by the
These are the policies which Merthsr can spearhead the fighthuck.
Scanlon and obers in the rish wing of the labour movement do not like it, the rising workers offensive can sweep them aside.
apology. have 'received a lot of sympaiby"
ANILE LE AEEUMERLESLI
well, scrike
2BOS DO SEES O8OBE0W ned in sympathy but thursted tor
Desal was right and she and the ocher strikers have been right
-on the issue of mass Dickeline on the issue of lic
postal boycott, and now on the
Issue of the cutting off of all
»Nonly remains to offer a repl
larest threar of Joscph and company. Let
where their mouths are, and let the Nag 'under worker control
News
nowhere
Duffy's daily mail REMEMBER the long article in Socialist Workers Party after Lewisham? An article full of slurs racisin. Well at leust one section of that sort of self. The right-wing
Engimpering Birmingham lapped it up and had photostals made. Theat were left lying around in ALEP offm where more active members could
Some were probahly SONED INE DOS M MCD WOULDNI cannot confirm this al the In normul circumstances we would have assumed that this was u run-of-the-mill incident. cold war, after all, I still being talks with the reporter con fought in the ACE.H. Calhulic Action is atill alive and well. An adven in a new publication of Pioneer, placed by right-wingers, urges readers got to vote for episode cond well he part of u imilar cumpaign to discredit the SHP condidale for he ALEV Presidency, Ian Morris.
All the news thatstinks REPORTSOFcomplaintsagainst
dealt toothless Press Council often reveal just hav unworthy some readers are of the unimpeachable
show thar the London Evering Frenchhasapoint!' News is chemplary in chis respe
Tan reckless complainis (both one of the surhors who now unaccountably upheld had been
SUMICISS impeccahle ar-left ha record of the capital's comoerns.
Mr. P. Cazaly of Bramley, Ken obicct 10 the Tact thar remarks atributed to him on the subject of whether women wark harder than ten hore no relation to whar he had said on this subject.
Cazaly was surprised that ace isstill incomplate reporter Martin Turner shauld only have noted down bis name, address, ag: and occupation in the course of the interciew. And was pearled to find — when he
To the other men ques
ioned for the war pop feature that they sil sunstantial y asreec with his complaint. Naturally the Evening News die not trouble its Rand Daily Mail
Another surfeit of press free dom in tbe News upser Maria Lavender. farmer TECHSHEI
Sporting Staffordshire Bul
who faund on these animals that she had never made and to which she arongly objected.
Lavender that
auld be Journalist of the Ye THe DE WE ASE Or SOURCI
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FORGE
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i especialy concerned to protect, rose of married women, whom
driven back land the home in shese time of crisis.
the Deportmentay Epiumor willemine alf worseners that our
Government is the strunches defender of women's righis. In thin
SUTHP OWE IT CONICAL
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE, B September, 1977, page 3
from
To be. and was unitoressed b this reporter's explanation that shie had Tung number she voice at the other end agroed with the quotes.
Cormoisseurs of Press Council
wiseiy treated these complaints virtual contempt, is Associated
cablemare ferent attitude. lic complain bro pain agains quotatiens, had apparently led to
irreral inquiry by ma Who tall t Council be'd made a thorough investigar son" and had 'severa here a metin with e hauntente ner the connection with
Out of the Ghettoand up the ladder IN THE centre-spread this weel
we give readers a flarour of som of the undertood discusson wich are shaking the Communis Party. During the recent Commu nist University. Bert Ramelson saw a weH-known pany un Sectua. Alan Hunt, with a copy af Out of the Ghere. Alter Cong Hunt as to why bo reading such nonsense, the CP's Industrial Organiser exploded: The latest adjudicacions that you begin to feel that mayte
What iseven more ironical is tha caricatures the positions of the
distinguished pedigree. Dave Punde member of the Incernationa
in 1968. later joined 1972 in the Communist Party. I bisnew pamphlet is any indication
Shell shock THE PICTURE of a peacefu -South Africa name fully puined by thar motion's especially free pres i supported. the following Horice pinned up by monegemen in the Johanneshurg ofice cf the
Wehave rently hodu shooting
ineldent in zhe banding. Thavealse
been informed of orher incidem
wich have taken place in the past
legime ugainst the righr of maly
members to corn weapons
would like so make it absolutely
clear that amy person dispioning.
pointing or shooting a gir on th
premises will de subject co inson disenissul." We imagine that the
white unions will be vigorously
opposingris, 1 Boden 100 0 rAghra for wumen's rights of cowar h
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Women Lead Revolt To End Strike': Lucas toolmakers are fighting for: Lucas toolmakers first negotiased a bonus scheme 12 years ago. Today it stands at E7.58. On 1 July this year the toolmakers decided the most fraicful way they could defend their living for a substantial increase in their bonus, Their thinking was that this tactic would not brine them into conflict with the Social Contract.
Nevertheless Lucas resisted, Over their shoubder they were ansiously looking at the claim of 10,000 production workers who they koew would be influenced by the success of the toolmakens* claim. when toe toolmakens SЯНСТ Wor-o TLIe manzee ment immediately suspended the whole of the bonts.
INSULTING
The following Monday:
the 1,200 AUEW ALCHA ALLA too makers struct in defence o_ their bonus and their living standards. Contrary to press reports differentials.
The first offer Lucas came up with. an insuline 490 Incesse was flatly rejected by the too)
Subsequently
SUPPORT
HOUNSLU
HOSPITAL
WORM IN
LAnDOR AS AuDa.
number
pearly 100 heds by Christmas
Lucas toolmakers
A suitable case
for press frenzy
If all else falls, the ruling class press can be relied on to attack strikers with the type of front page headline the Evening Standard employed last Friday. It read: "Lucas
The press report failed to mention that the 'women workers" were no more than a handful employed at Lucas. Nor did it report that next day after seelng union officials the women concerned said they agreed the union had done everything in its power to end the dispute and that, "We agree with what the men are fighting for'. JOHN GRAHAM reports from Birmingham on what the
TARAReMeNt set SotaL IrVIE 1o
with British Leyland, whom Luca: supply, and it b suspected with the aid of the Engineering Employers Federation spare parts incliding South Africa,
LAID OFF These altempts to smash the strike were not as successful a the employers had hoped and workers at British Leyland began to he laid off.
Then came # new offer from Lucas. The press claimed it rep resented an increase of E3 a week 1100 bonus thingy were very different. The T Cs Urenc 0 a orEmue tivity deal, It was not to be added to the bonus, and the toolmakers HE TO BuTC AC Lo ки aI mare bonus claims. It was also up for review in six montis, and had to be 'seif-financing' is, the worker bad to produce more. As for the E100, aller tax deductions, the loss of the bonas TWINTO TICI TOC HIC ACCK ERID to the strike, the two weeks holiday pay it was deducted from, the butions, the toolmakers would
ARMS ' •- CUT
ELL Five nundned anti-cuts campaigners marched in support of the work-in at Houns/on Hospital, Wes Women's groups, ioca/ mades anlonists, and scores authority seid re were cotarget, Hahn lew hospi would a w have any 20 flie ee has telc1 hal demonstrated their opposition fo the arta health authority'& plane to ciose the 65 bed hosp/tal.
thanks to the work-io. Atte Sourh Middlesex Hospital, a work-In has justbegun to prevent a cut or
Again precisely nothing.
Si DOt subTising y the cHiet wa rejccied at a mass meering ALEW official and candidate for the presidency Terry Duffy. who attempted to persuade the stewards to recommend a return TO WOEK-
SCABBING
Instead Lucas shor int now calline for a tipit apain' he employer bbive launched They are tourine lactories, unior branches and district conEe in search of financial support for their official strike.
ENRO TREES BSCHCHU donared (250 ta the Lucas strikers' fighting fund, Shop stewards are also approaching dockers and airport workers, asking them to 'binck" the scab being slipped Into the country, If this strategy is successful, then hent Britsn detin antti he oppe Engineering Employers Fodera ion can he swept aside and th toolmakers can achieve their aim
In reality
WOMEN
* While the press invented the 'wonen sirike revolt slorr, thei have not reported the 400 women workers who are siting in at the L.UAN ET COmONCOL LECTUT Mere Lane In Sutton Coalfield neer Birmingham NANC OCCI BO DIE DA EIC CACE3 of the boomaners strike. ene are reporting to work every du and demanding a guarantce o work from management.
HOUNSLOWI
ML HOSPITA•
SUPPOMI
1U016L0M 1SPITAL
SERVICE • US SPORT SARPORTS
anoeyance
arrested outside dhe TUC.
stewards
British
component
COATBRIDGE: government he lase Thursday.
The
ICAL HULI
dancies. by JIM BRADY
castle members
las wel artes
agninst
Equity Council executive body -
win and thentre Eritrin, 1
entertainment industry,
Ringmaster
Sanderson's
anti union
circus
IN BRIEF ped. NALGO
the strikers.
James Calla-
chan was groeted by 150 angry
drie, Scotland. arrived in the Monklands district of Coatbridge in Scotland
• The workers werd from the housing departent a LHE CHENI-COAHO CABElCI who have bees on strike since the council announced a re organisa that tion plan two months ago.
Claiming that couneil workers STrIKE
ere responsible for poor loc
UC HEI
anted 50 redundancis in 1
departnent. The discrict branch of the local government workers! union vated unanimously io favour of sirike action of member:
ul Lie housite department, and The chis was followed by a strike in the finance department, baling
With NALGO's regional branch alsa being brought out, the council has begun to hack down. nOw MEEBOus rC TOILn-
The attacks Dil clie continuitg lo efficiency of workers have stop- oversize classes.
Newcastle theatre
occupied
to press PLANS ARE underway to Teopen the U'nity Theatre in New:
under worker control.
The theatre has been occupled by
perorere OEROUEEL DO anion Equity following ihe lgui-
The theatre's trist, which roosted in ciasare und the
Arts Council
well-arrended public meeting
hw Pauly an 130 July rescived to occupy the sbeatre Renie of pob lin in tndutty with liquidaror. Tbc 30 per cent unctplosment is of obvious importance, as is the London WT. need to prorect, by occupation. the rheatre as a workplace.
the union's has declared the occupation official abd ls nd ely seeki nabour moverent effect
wider trade
SurnoT The Occupabo orA
unprecedented marks a significant For stet forward for workers in The speakers,
MAnUN
lt in hoped by Equity that th tion.
heatte will be opened to the
PUCH BRI TO OPE John Deason, centre, ar a meering af the right to wonkt marchers on their way te Blackpool. Upon arrival fast Monday, marcers песких на дова ноог родео со дотом одося голив флет wi голи сом we
is righting the victimisation of the three work
7s, demanding no redundancie
Callaghan had nothing to say b
Messages of support and dens-
Whelan, Presi Monklands NATGO bra nch, 14 Departiment Office, Air-
OXFORDSHIRE: Teuchers here have been gien an undertakcins
there will be no redundancies after the county-wide carlier this summer.
The esecntive of the Nutioanl - Union of Teachers Junaped st the hope minke seton. hae ao
strike uction lt han al ended ite mensbers boscotl school meels supervision.
leaders have drazeed their beeks throughout the wurusgle. Thes bave failed to penvide amy lead in liaking the resistance to the cuts put up b bechers to other puhlic sector action. Oxfordshire teachers will celebrate their partiul victory by
reluse Do
public under the union's control
i the very near rurare. As we po
negotiations ZOCHCCI
antion officials and the university
authorities are in progress. How
ever rhe reopening of the tbcatr
ou a permanent basis will br
beine released Tyne and Weir sufficient fund
trust's
funding hodies
council, Northern Arts, and the
Resolurions af suppor and financial donations are argenb
aouired and will be rareful!
acmo windged. Please send fo
Trirish Actors Equity (Newcasti
NEE FINGE OSHIMY DHEE
Pressure on. Tyne and Weir
concil so releasé funds ir essen
TIT DO ERO SHEDESTEE PHECOC CJ
rhis fight. Resolurinar to that
Trom labour showid be sent fo:
Hief Execuriw, Tune and We
andyfon
Archbold Ternace, Newcsrle 2
furrher information coMfaCt Archie Mac Equity Offelal Occup University Thearre, New
castle. Tel: 21873
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE, B September, 1977, pege! by NOEL HIBBERT GEORGE WARD'S obstin acp has produced un array of fi-pot intifator around the country. Take the example of Roy Sanderson of Skegness. When the majority of workers in his forklift firm decided to join the transport workers" union last October convenor Phi Gillat came in for immediale herassmenr. On 16 Alay he was removed from the factory with 0 minules notice. For the pust 15 weeks, 43 workers have been on officia strike and the conciliation body, ACAS, has found as favour of the unÃon.
The cards are stacked heavily agaibst the strikers. Skegness renowned аз з convalescen hotte for miners — is being hi DY Ie FE SirIKe 10 1 DIory bur the workers are isolated from thie big bartalions of the working
Sanderson's tuctics are straigh trom the 1877 conscienticias em ploers" bandbook. He has user lateir. Phil dilat sags Two labour. workers went for a job, One was n sen amer tomor Hn and the ather an experienced trade unionist. They were bott ASCI ADEmT U D00 ution. The senl ramer was taker on Immediately trude untenist was told to get Jost.
*Ringmaster' Sandersan has
put hir scaba through the hoop
PEACES d BOW IBICEA
hologranbed. and all relevan
tacts about union activities are fied on the employers" blacklis
ior 'fraternisin *with pickets.
A number of th main com nonenE subdits for Sanderso are being haycotred. But produc tion corrinucs. Sanderson deren deep nArES-LUE BUERE materinls within a 20-mile radius of Skogness, while the striken lack the resources to trace the suppliers-
Organised gangs of scabs have intimidated pickets on night duty.
Two weeks ago a photographer for the Mittent newspaper was HOUTE B SHOSOLSCaHs rammod the picket line. The locai
cess is in Sanderson's pock
C STACa PREVEI ILCLIT front pege treatment, and all
etters published are from
alled independents" who pu Sanderson 's ense Dave Carus, TOW nedE
promised
strangle Sanderson into suhen
nn thraugh extenaive bay
IHE OOIE AE CUC BEBECD ITOI wDADC nC elastic band, racher chan a rope Cairns seers to be tripping over
Ros Grantham
hedging his bets on the outcome
HLIN CAUC DE SEURAICA SM all, ir Sandersen was buried alive
through mass action, there would be a practical example of low to smash George Ward!
The Hull Socialist Allinnce i
fighting to extend the boscott :
Sanderson's, Grunwick/Sanderson Suppor Committee le demands tha
Whea Jendeis Pur WICH Wor
inta action to build the mass
picket.
mancial domstions and sapport to: Phil Gillat, 27 Lady
Murida's Winthorp
kegness, Lines. Tel: 0754-3512
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32 COUNTÍES once again ?
"The British Road to Disaster'
7 DAYS
by TOM MARLOWE, Dublin
statement saying he was
The boring banality of Carter's remarks was illustrated by the 57
Unionists, Irish nationalists, the British Government, UU-UITKL CEI DIE T'CL dl expressed some degree of satisfaction with Carter
OnSY feature of it wasthat the American President acknowledged the 32county nature of the Trish situanon wnen ne salo that any ust
olution" must have the support of he trish Government
Il nothing eise. Carter swimming with the tide. In the last coom has been increaingly ret-
hao been inten ele el
ind to Throughou
irtitioned counties of Irelan
The mainly Catholi
on party in th forth, the Social Democratic and Labour Party. has issued a statement puttins increased emphasis" on the Irish
tresied under the Prevention of th
Mne told try a erger in Potent
coupled of days? by DODIE WEPPLER
The long awaited meeting 'Against the draft, against the split" organised by the political opposition remaining wiemen Ine Communist Party of Great Britain opened WIth& Dunco-oD and ended with one. Despite this. Ihe 430 coopic wao atenaca the Hammersmith Town Hall meeting last Friday heard hard-hitting contributions and, however bankrupt their ponces ine speakers BISplayed a political agisty not evident io caic from the ranks of the New Communist Party.
There were two competitors for the chair, when the meeting
arty tiff. Fergus Nicolson had he upper hand as the microthones were hastily arranged in the hall itselt, to drown out John Gould's efforts to covene the
LIC DESLOCH!
Gould is the chairperson of the Hammersmith borough district
IRELAND/ HOME N
in the
After many false starts Jimmy Carter finally spoke on Ireland's British question last week when he issued a short
"deeply concerned" about continuing conflict and violence in Northern Ireland".
-en tom eden e orta i ies
British from Northern Ireland". • The recently elected Fianna Fail Covernment in the 76 Count
e V S EP polle and mad t
harsh treatment for its republican prisoners. *Even the new Catholie Primate O AJI Ecland Thomas O'Fiaich said on his appommmen: I look terward to the day when Treland will be a united country.'
NO REFORMS
When the Catholic Church, SDLP, and the Southers trist Government с ПаЛа Іс 100 ground, you can be sure some
Thetis B Te simeo he
Britsh Government. It appean
Ireland's
British
Question
tede be fak Jadet Fin Tode Crui s planete
Britsh crimes in Ireland.
CP opposition debates:
sIn the midat attibe chaos In the midst of Gould was roughly dragged be hind the curta ns by the steward The rocro phine to k ta as tine microphone to warn against LH THCCH" midst of the crisis of the CPGB, appealing for Freat cadera like Harry Polle tradition of the Party's and R. Palme Dutt.
MINERS / MUSICIANS
The policies expounded by the New Communist Party. ON Communist Paryges sent to the meeting fron
Scottish area the union), Juck Collins (executive
Alan Bush, the composer. called for urmosr unity Taco or lhe prevent -NITT STEET inuing further down che 'British Road to Disaster ANIE BETHEL Surrey Commitree peined it in his con tribution from the ficor. Harsh
New Communist Party who had
ETHE LHERH SHELD. finally kulls of the 'moderate" nationa IE-TALN CNOCO M UCHE that the Labour Government has not the slightest
- even if this were possibile.
between the Labour Government
nent SDLP member Hugh Logue complained: молото всівой віс порошо for another day in impoten s makin office.
The SDLP is alse aware of the refutable evidence of the ster ping up of the torture of repuhli
Archbishop ing to Paddy Duffy,
member of the SDiP practising soucitor: bere arc ow abour ten doctors in North ern Ireland who have been dealing consistently with injuries inflicted
phettoes cain from best shea ce in
with the "haring", the nationalist 'moderates" have little option but to move in the direction of an all-Treland dimension Chose who resist are principall; he dwindling band of supporter for the line of the Northern Irish trade union continue to crawi to the Isrutest Beter LieFer Alle Paddy Devil Government another leading memoer oi tne COLp who has entiased hi party's new policy → is one of those near extinct animals DEVLIN Healso attacks the SDI.P for Dot being socialist enough. 'socialism" for Devlin, as for the Trish trade union bureaucracy be serves, in to avoid any stand on th hathoy Loyalit worker - a com- question letecapitulationto Orange ideol Militants in the republican areas OE TC Wonn ac key toD impressed by the intest changes in direction of the nationalise moderLUCS. TACY ICLOMUSCE OREEE that Beitain was their enemy. Ye such changes remein signiticant. LEEST BC BIOI OYETLUC ICLON nition by even the most insipid
nationalist-minded laders Britain has noching left to offer "eft a dronning ship" Nowed as freely as those against the draft. The carefully prepared platform speeches presented a TOUr ded view policies of the •IIC Davis
LAnTIE. dret's concepcion of the broad democratic alliance. Althaugh an ImerOnCn OVere aR-mA opoly alliance of past animes, Davis argued SCHLaICO HIC volved in the allianoe — inclad ing, the black, women's, TUTE HATOHS TOIYCIAE Mess- working class inseif. She rejocred
charges of walasIT miDers party bur held op with contempt
La members" semark that equated the importance of the gay-str sight issue with the class seruggle in the Crisis T0 fuelled this view.
speaker from the London District as Bill Laith- Committeecentred hisremarks on
provide a manes the prenat of the decisive
unity was esscotial, but Pinder
EWS
have got it through the thic
intention of the North of relanc
recent pact a senior and
bureaucracy.
which might that simmed at doing justthar. askod hew SEnieler
of the bureaucratic
positio theoretically weak dratt. f the London Distr
organisations.
LUNATIC FRINGE
SAPCICCS IE
and the the meeting came
fashionable in the
WENSERSIE
factory floer'. The draf!
black CHILTE ULUIE
*The SWP. the • black lunatic fringe'
Ireland: a nation
Jimmy Carter with an 'England Ger Out of Ireland badge'
This report shows the increaning meeting for opportunites for building a mowe ment to support the removal of Britih troops from Treland, The dish
Holding ocon ference in November
this was lob jan, He felt tha natan SnEE eL NI
ractice of party members ob this other LLUIL TaS SOUTe LUCSOm.
Pinder was best received whon he made : derisory appeal to the many NCP members present to stop sending intellectuals. him letters and to end arsempts to sow discuty in the ranks or bad
Macy of the strongest wands in
trom Terr by the NiSS SnO DOE OnuC SOrg TOILEUEKI ers Lilon. The splir was nothin less than an act of treachery. And
thoroughly demosd the failure of the CPGB to draw the lessons of Chile wiere oolde or compronust and appeasement" have had dire consequences for the South Am-
she bad heule Timeto hose woD nwe DeE E most insistent on the need to learn these lessons: the far lett.
were dismissed
John Foster, the social histor-
this conference on Serurday 17 Seprember ar Ipm in the committee rooms of Caven
House at the Polytechnic WweRs UNion AT Seind Mun chester. Attendance is open to ail shose who support troons our
apologised for being e penker chalmed domin- w-hich aled King Stroet — in the final nuor na naldon euere
ess he called for "creative Marxism', semething which coudn" oo lo tae pansy s s0-auleu
Teis of te sty to, Foster called fo In a highly sophisticated an urgent distinction to be made
hourgenis democratic rights and bourgeois institutions, Drawing on historical examples be denunced the illusions sewn
draft n the Britsh
Al the end of the meeting. a brief glimpse was caught of wha oppositionists in the thirties must have experienced. Stewards rouahlu at oed B of the roen: removed atonal marxst croup, to pre
enten omi the meee
stateibent outside the bal. In marsed contrast lo other répent meetings of the CPGB -
Ike the Communist University SOCIWISE CHALCO KIRSHCS told by stewards that "we Stalinists are going to get rid of Trots
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE, 8 September, 1977, page1
Anti-
racist
Struggle
"Jewish bastard' BRADFORD: Fascists have bee CATCHC DEIVE bookshops in Bradford. Book burning is. of course, activity with an old pedigree
teuben Goldberg, who works a
Idea, was visited at the shop by a
ed Frederick Harris. Goldberg former president of Bradford ETTELIS DELETE recognised Harris as a forme
The fascist was Formerly in the National Front but left to join the Leeds-based BNP -
sther NFers. The evening afle
-TI OUma CES WI dees were broken, following phone-call to Goldberg from man who said: 'We'll burn you
ground, Jewisli bastard, Heil Hitler
sho
George the Bradford NF.W ly told the Telegraph
SAEL BENN
"You're next'
NORTH LONDON: The of The Other Bookshop Upper Street, danbed by fasciat a
You 're Netr NF. Co does after the guttin headeuorer, These not be laken lights. The Socialist Bufor Richard Carrer been couber, and fascin ams have chanted Nat outside iz.
Rock Against Racism YORK: Rock Against was started in response to remarks made by severa
around the slogan 'Love knowa bands whieh havet Hate Racism'
For it are Aswad, Sex-Pisto Carol Grimes
RAR recently hired a d LK UC LICOd and an extension for licence was applied usual way. Applicarions : sidered by the pellice end wually a formality. The TCHISL
The case came
the police objection was up roc poucc nau chaleu Cha Bna had inadequate arrangements, In reality METCHE FaCISM In MC OCH was coming out again Concil and the GMC of Delegates to the Jocal Labour Party have exp ed astonishment at the po and have promised to issue in their respective tions. A RAR spokeipe will continue and the
September will po Front Rally READING: Aher a Corma Ihe alIOna oOn wete boeted metee week by Reading and open te delegates | Party
ln the
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Two members of the Communist Party have taken Road' to its ultimate logic. They argue for a 'socialis
In this extract David Purdy and Mike Prior argue that:
The Left should support an
ALIST CHALLENGE, B September, 1977, page &
The issues can best be set out by CARmInIne the bocal Coolaci: This has been widely rejected by denice trick, In agrecing to two pay restraint, it is argued, the vie strategy of capitali rep to vided an indispensible prop
CONOMSDIE. autonomy and defused the combative potential of the working Cass: Onlv through reststance 10 a further round of pay restraint and a resumption of normal self-imposed afflictions be cast
There are two decisive weakMICSSES HE IS POOD DE 15 H
night-forward consequence
depressed conditions of t hegemony.
Contract victory. At the economic level the farce of this assessment depends
about the movemen of money
wages in the absence of any
ormal incomes policy will mak
arle overall ditfereso return to normal collecte bor painter feel for tredua
waits and allow some widening of previously compres ed pay differenrials according to elative bargaiting strengths anc market conditions in differen
broader reformist strategy.
BRITAIN HAS a richer experience in the application of incomes policie than almost any other capitalist country. There have been only a few year in the past fifteen when the government of the day has not sought to exert some form of direct control over the movement of prices and money incomes. In part this has merely been a consequence of the critical condition of British capitalism over this period. But it also testifies to the advanced state which the socialising tendencies characteristic of post-war capitalism have attained in Britain. Neither of these aspects of incomes policy has been properly recognised by the left and used to achieve political advance.
There is certainly some limited scope for such reactustments. En
large export markets proved their profitability as a sterling in 1976, There is also a much smaller margin of slack to commodate pur rock, a enc public sector to the extent that the state now holds that public done and is prepared to envisage some marginal reflation
Such fine distributive calculations are the very stuff of normal conceive bargains, but a per spective of wringing the mum practicable sectoral wage within the narrow limits set by sire ten this tradition view, with a pedigree dating bac and Engels, has truth for the formative stages of capitalist development ar for groups of workers with no back and strugee, What it ignores a he ambiguous social function
mobiled and ar the some ua
tional lines ir acts as a barrier te of collectivity. Similarly the wage struggle offers a channel for the expression of Tell material deprifirms economic and social structures of
collective bargaining represents a
comprehensive maxieffect the for
and living costs. Foreign
domestic order continuall
INFLATION
generally permissive
other social rou consump-
Hainis Enue indelinitely and
reireat from the difficult task of finding ways of resolving these
The relevance of a
usually advanced as part of a
alternative e00
appreciate that in an economy whose real output is undergoing
surge in wages would inevitabls competent if tore no reachine mencirer. In order to fix ideas it is worth spelling our in some detail the chain reactions which a wages push would ser in
There is first the "confidence"
hehaviour foreign and domestic capitalists
burburst
contro sanks would agree to support th
Whether
Hack mai or as the rachel u
attle in the first place asn..-.
CELSID
If the state were prepared to Inflation
of inflation by adoptin
foroed to step up their monetar
Viral would con
accelarate in pace as to anticipate future began setlements
pricing policies
tion is profoundly stabilising sooner or later tine o
the links in the inflationar
5222 would be broken,
In contemporary Britain it almost cerlain that a governmen which which permitted ang teneral o
Many length would Inflacion d resented par cularly after The case price spiral or me
NATAIS
for a tough expenditure and
COMMUN
KING
STREET wc.
traint has b establishes and WILH It l therelore tha having rejecter discipline of unions would suhjezed to
playment as th
the rate of bankruptcie
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ST PARTY
and redundancies.
sophisticated government could cien fura the situation 1o ideological advantage hy deplaying the seductive logic of free
WOIKEE
nemploymen Whether eventual level of unemployment the rate wane and noice incresses could he beaten down by this painful roure would depend on how stern
prepared to be and on the responses of capitalists, workers
What is certain isthal neither the interim accelera-
unemployment would be in the interests of the working class
The left's counter to this grim SECTO DO VIRE XLI policies which would interrupt che chain of evente, Thus it is ENCE CONS CLEOSTEE could stem the ride of price rises at source by introducing a month boot frocze followed D' stringent price controls. In tbe context of a wages offensive such
would force capitalists into bankruptey or evasion of the controls: in the ensuing crisis the government would acquire further intervention in the pri vale secior leading to ourright public ownership. Sumilarly it l recommended that the spillaver from higher real wages and levels
privale into higher averted
Over tation ol sweep mational t CUBEELE
current left COMATHA
barric......*.-.-.
AGREEMENT
In principle a social contract is nouns more man an cconomywide agreement botween tie government and the trade union nwwement under which rules are drawn up to regulare pay sertlenocals within lower level bargain-
commitment hy the government o a particular set of coonomi
an ongoing
of collective bargaining conducted at the level of the
al this level falls by definition within the domain of politics
are the policy of the state itself. Nevertheless a social contract
spocies as more familiar ibodes o collective hargaining. In prin ciple it involves no greater
he new draft of the British
social contract' as part of a
Incomes Policy
smaller compromise of
and action than any other collec-
agreement agreement may be more or less unfavourable to the unions.
voluntary
of the terms, or, for that matter, to refuse to enter any agreement at all and rever reliance on bargaining,
It is this feature of a social contrast which provides the linh with the experience and tradi tions of the trade ment. It is accepted that union
PARC bargaining
Industry level factors as prodoctivity, profitability and employ
eeneral faciors such as the past, and perhaps movement of the cost of living.
BREAK WITH PAST six
Ai the contract introduces a break with the past. This is mol
поста
іпрове social regulation on the charac teristie anarchy of pay deter mination the associated income classes This is a feature of ment of a social contract is th ruid pro que principie
thai unions should not accept or and for the performance economy without a correspond ing extension of power to in Nuense national witholding of corporate econ mic strengch on the wages
conditional cherefore a vital means of achies 'The sala pro geo principl
quid presents a major apportunity
the bsuds of pay and infation with those structural issues - the
investiment, the patter of production and consumption scale. direction and compositor of forcian trade, the character
consequences innovation
ally as the oulcome of privat eton and decision beyond the NOCO SINE COMO COICEES sed a social contract becomes a estrument for the assertion of :
for the national offers a level for
of public
trade welding together
particular quid pro quo
As
the unions
cessions on CACINE normal collective
into
anticipated future, in the
because of same time a social
definite
GUIDELINES conscious
ander capicalism ans involve
distribution both between and within
974 Election
The novel
that Is
privale democratisation
ment policy. The
front Redged afte
Contract debated and
Many ment, the the sention and
of technical which ander capi
foreign development
social
economy. shifting the MILAUSEN
progressive
he risks in the exchang
are precisel the
gaining in general. The trade manoel redor steined be for leadership majenre. The process of match ing concessions on pay for cor
policy may сая degenerate into a hard hended corporatist exercise in the mutual
of demands
cconomic sudes quo. Il is also
progressive potential of a social contract will
But reason in principie why artempr to realise this poteatiai should not be made whatever
Fi in office. The political value or a social con ract lies as much in the going a are real Thi must be arriving The risk Taccd. But to reject the principio
these is condemin the working class to a permancal role of debant sut
bourgeei:
found
arty's 1973 Programame and
unifesce These the role of che
tional Ecterpri Board, the corporal insustal EL policy formation and manage
The policy to be stressed in the present context is that these iden
of a fully programme • Labour 100k offic Contracte bald of e Ste
have beer negotiated and alliance mobilised They offered a method of pro
Ing into the centre of nacionia political life as the conditions of
extention working class power ut order k resolve the persistent failures at Bridsh capitalism in the apheres
and in order
demoralisarion which the left har
alsered over the past tao pe
tinuing necessity to develop thes Lheres into a hegemonic econo
Duvid Pardy
cated so different to eurs.
to procese
serious
chiess
cal conclusion
social-democeais Fabian
brick*
rendy quile strong-
Their
worked out
Moreover it rejects cally the cupucity of the DUMENS.
capitalism.
capitalism ruptare from the tem', but
that supposed to meun?
Out of the
ghetto,
into the
quagmire
MANY OF OUR readers will b outraged and angered by th Paria Partin and e Per Both suthors are members of th British Commenist Party. The
itself part of a 116-pagr dupli
ook-pamphit entitled Our of the Ghetto: The Road 1 Socialisr Renewal. The pamphlet
not being sold publicy but
(see News from Nowhere) in CP and left social-democratie circles We felt that some of the riches contained in the pamphiet should
made avallable to a wider
of the Communist Party iself whose reaction we feel will aot hi More importuntly we are of the opinion that Pardy and Prior aibeit in em extreme fashion, cRke the The new draft of the British Rod
Its ultimate ing In the
chey prostitule Gramas and distur Tenin us part of t
alteriapt outflanh from ibe right. For the merit of Out of the Ghetto bes in precisely this facti it explores the ferrain of "Eurocomnumisa" lo Sown and Naly. uneanho num craus mugaeis of wisdom and brings them back to the insulsied Pelos prendes in peepted in of Punds must socin democral mn tis
intelectuns would no worry then in the sliehiest. l
Thal e Taudion tetar
for huilding socialism 'hrick In
Macdowsla
retratar and the neces to
sons an utter contempt for ll
urking cler of thb comnis
anequivo- sion independent political working dess Iself. Purdy aed Prior ane both, lo their credit, exponents CPCB. And yet they fail to s he contradiction betmeen Ua ind denying workers demweruc to the oroletanal hoth le tradi tonal and white-collar sectors. Workers control is escluded.
Everyching can be left do unios
and enlightened eco the reformist
of Our of the Ghetto inhabit.
positium policies Nows quite logically out of their global analysis of Bridsi
bellere deveop out SHOU without a solent political snwish
stra-
prohabilistic judgement inform ed by sober ansiysis of historica experience'. What on earth in
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE, 8 September, 1977, page 9
OUT OF THE GHETTO DAVID PURDY MIKE PRIOR
The alm of Purds and Prio appears to be lo develup creative" reformis project on
model of the Italian Com munist Party (PCB) for Britain. Why theo do they leave
should be arguing for a Nutional Government
TCHHT! crisis. And set Pardy and Prior refruin frum advocsting the need for a Labour-Tors coalition in
breuthing spuce to better prepure
estobillshing working class "hegenony'- Why do they shy away from such an Hanlysis Could it be that they are embur raseed because even right-wing sucial-democrais sensitive to tb
mury of the inbou novement do not ial shoul
te ings except priva
aions with the like
and the Editor of Th Tines,
such irrelevancie Tore nord to explain this curious
Trom Intermaily consistent document
Since the strateny which the two CP members propose caanel in
ny event be pet indo practice
e CPCB (exeept Imsofur that
belp to police a new verof wage-restraint nallonal scale and not isolated cases such as the took
dispute in Birminghum earlier this year), why stay in the purly at all? Surely the should arque for the dissolution of the CPGB iato the Lahour Party
awuy from leftist excesses. Their
for staging la the CPGB & their major inconsistency and is in any case totally enconvinch Finally nalse agsim the vitel question of wh Purdy and Prior canmot circula
: important document inside
conference debatel doubt it woald creste an impor-
divide and force INM) supporters of the 'New Draft" to define their position clearty. The fact thar document such an this camnot be discussed sends to mauke a mockery of ull the party's claims to a treo and
reply from the CPGB lenders to sach document is essential. byJAMES FRANCIS
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The mechanics of transition
by ROY ALEXANDER
Marshal Lord Carver as "British Resident" under the Owen/ Young
population by sending in a top military man to oversee the opera:
Very revealingly, it connects the
successful of British neo-colonial
LENO LICENSE HUBELS! "Man Whin" rebellion in the earin 1950s, in order to prepare for =
impenals black mie. Benyd cur now celebrate les 14th year of independent rule but it is still as much a victim or impenaug
Carver followed the usual course tor an upper class cancipalc to: military office: from Winchester public school to the elite Sandhurs academy, and thence into the tank cops (which he saw as an cary life with a quick financia
After the war he took a f0t looking after the Minhtry of TONY SOme METECIM DO to do much the same thing on a bigger scale, as Assistant Quartermaster Generalto the Allied Land Forces OLIVER MACDONALD looks at a little known part of the USSR where, reported last week. Brizish student Andy Klymchuk has been arrested.
Which country has the highest steel production per head in the world? Answer: the country
here Trotsky grew up. No, no
tussia: the Ukraine Quibbling over names? Absolutely because behind that name lies a country whose workers are likely to play the mole of pivor in the strucile tor socialist democracy throughour both Eastern Europe
and the USSR
In 1968, a Western observer or MONEY SEENW Pact a me of Crechoslovakia noted: *One WILL AND U. tbe invading
radio scation in Presov.' He was TeleTie to the station broadcasting for the Ukranian popula tion audible across the border in te castern Slovakia, Soviet Ukraine.
The Soviet troope knew what they were doing. Shortly before
bourgeois
Sore ukrain pros for the
press past two months shows that the public - above all the intelli Bloodless realisin Creto - is in sympathy with the slovakia and is closely following the various events which have opcarred as a result.
BRIDGES
Little wonder that the Soviet
remer, Kosygin, called the mar
serall responsible for the Preso
Kriegel, Jew" Kosygin understood
in the Czechoslovak struggle forsocialis democracy the Likrainian masses could "For 49 milion Ukrainians
INTERNATIONAL
Zimbabwe Resident' appointed
Then, in 1954, Carver turns up As Deputy Chief of Staff in Kenya, LICE OLE WILL MOTELEOd lorries, whose efficient repair and servicing seems to have been his BILLO COLLIE
JOE URDANG 1907-1977
IT IS with great regret that we announce the death of comrade Joe Urdang. Joe was an active member of the South African TrotskyIst movement in the 1930s and since his arrival in this country some years has been great assisience In the South African IMO. dauchtor Sioohania is leading member of the anti-apartheid movement in the United States and author of forthcoming book women and the Bissau revolution. We send our warmest sympathies to his wife Rose and
If, however, Carver
combustion engine. the British
Europe's
Forgotten
People
inhabir industrial republic with huge and agricultural sources We Comania nd are thes arged Czechoslovakia, Hungary the
somber a or aussia proper s far as the river Don explosive political situation in the
bridge between isolated national upsurges in Eastern Europe and a democracy throughout the entire not. region.
CRUSHED
The Ukrainian people have hac more than their century evils. Brutally crushed by
La tumultuous national and socia revolutionary upsurge in 1917
occupied not only by the Whites by the German Anny, th also Polish Army and the French
Atter a brief period of peace and cultural flourishing in tb
visation brought death and starvation to millions of NIC DE COMPELS TECH cultural regions. At the very time Stalin was proclaiming the story of socialso, the Ture Sav Communist reporting cannibalism in Ukrain lan villages The consequent Stalinist terror was most savage in the Ukraine. 1937 the Ukrainian CF was dec months after August mated: out of 102 Central Cont mittee members 3 survived; all 17 LICIDOCES DE LAC BOVCHIRCUL, LI whole secretariat and argburo every single regional Party secre Lary and Lik bulk of city 800 district secretaries were dated. And between 19t7 tae Ukrsinian colturaliste ligentsia was almost complerely annihilated.
Then came the brown plague of Nazism. The land was
ago
His
foroes as a whole had much dirtier on Guinea- blocked the offensive of LECTIONI
nationalise Land and Freedo Almy (mainly based amons the Kikuyu people of Kenya) they se about the rooting the
This they did through the rather unsubtly naived Operation Anvil.
STOWE SERE Tones -re
And the
stated. milbions died, 2.5 millior
pondered a plan to finally solve
share of 20th by shipping the entire populatior
off 10 mally crush Ukrainian gueri
resistance to Statist rule will
And as the Medveder brothers point out in their Intest book or Khrushchei 1956-57 about 710 people were released and allowe ro tourn to theit homes Fron the labour camps, peasants in did not extend to those
STULIOSL Nationalist' movements: tinal In 1960 a Man Ukrainsan was Peasaars' Union was arrested fol advocatine and something guaranteed in the Constitution
scocenced 10 squad, inter reducest to 13 years
of the Ukraine will lind a britn Russian chauvinist
Ліциі 1963, John Kolasky 1933 and member of the
munist party for 30 years gaines the rare privilege of sodying a the Ukrainian COLLIES
deva School in Kiev for 2 years. In
CARVER: love affair with the internal combustion engine.
Having the
secutity: difficult task of
nationalists
Meanwhile Stalin COE
"bourgeois nationalism'
Party felt the
UMILIA
310 1 million
the mile
Ukrainia:
called the perished in
socialise democracy 1930 ligure.
the secede from the LiSSR EDUCATION
Lukyancoko,
exist there.
policy a veleran ерол ше окаао Canadian Con Kies.
Party Centra
Higher Party
into the
ty arrested every male Kikuyu
irobi. One sixth of the cir
Hail were need in read
серіви The armed forces then turned to
ind Freedom units from the ALTE BLIS foremos strongholds, by a com bination of bombings, ambushes. 1965 be was arrested by the KGH and cbrown out of tbe USSR and
Communist movement for PILLAGE
Though amongst the more ob-
need to send an vestigang delegation lo the 00 Ukraine in the lare 1960s. When roubles net it returned the Party publisbed its
officially.
Moscow let fly and within a few days a terrified Candian Pact dollar). lendership tried to retrieve a
Census, Just und
0 per cent of Ukrainsans in th resented Kepublic gave Likinian as their First language. Yet in 1960 the atticals
toral number of copies of book
cent lesa than the numbe 1930. The : number of titles published was half the Union
Prime ago.
Over 3 million Ukrainians liv
When a Ukrainian educational conference demand
authoricies responded by barming publication of the conference
Yet lo the Ukrainian cupita
percent of the 147 L0 year schools were Russian in 1960. Only 54 were Ukraininn
and the organisation of small mobile patrols of the 'search and
infamous in Vietnam.
By the end of 1954 Carver was the mechanical hand-maiden of a
ered ten thousand black nationalists and sel up concentration
30,000 out of a population of 6
Thenceforth Carver's rise was swift, as be accupied sensitive political poss in the Far East and Cyprus. In che mid-Sixties, as the
General, he established a reputation as one of the most sophisti. Calcd of a bea peneration ol political generals, propelling him
highest office on the
the early 1970.
This, no doubt, was uppermost in the minds of Dr. Owen and the Labour Government, when they considered their plans for Zim babwe — nottomention bis publi endorsement or brigadur tran Kirson's notorious theories counter-insurgency and peace
end him an old lorry to keep hin ascfully occupied. worsened since.
According to a unique Ukrainian Academy of Sciences study
Jess than 11.700,000,000 were withdrawa from Ukraine to Moscow during the 3 years between 1959 and 196L. LA BLUIC IS SHILLO OL ILL LIL E
Medveder's 'Politien
Flop Ukrainian
They declared outright that haly placed train offend robbed. One ВАНІССЯ ТАВЕ ПЕ ПОЕ ОСО for the Ukraine's exccasive All
contribution, the • Republic's housins problem would have been solved n long
Giveo the huge housing prob lem throughout the USSR, this is a saggering clain. Such facia
save produced growing unrest it the Ukraine during the Brezhne era and an increasingly ferocious
bureaucracy in Moscow,
* Next week Oliver MacDonald areston in the rene ne loner at the mois national the likely consequences.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE, 8 September, 1977, page 11
In Brief
PORTUGAL: At least 70 peo the Alentejo, when members ol peasant cooperatives tried to from returning expropriated land to its foriser owners unde
demonstrator was arrested. Wher peasants pro tested outside. and court Republicar Guards again wens Into action SOUTH AFRICA: The Gov task force to combat turban querillas. H will be hand DILACE TOIL SOILS WILL EI perience of repression in Nami. NAMIBIA: South Africa has Walvis Bay; . This is believed to be part of a project to give wizard of ine ko Klux kil intends to inflicrate and disrup
Tars had been working Bainst the movenient
people were killed and more than 40 woun ded when armer bobo tried to demolish buildings in a shanl awn ou the outskiris of istan
. This bring AUSTRALIA: EnoR have demanded a referendure
inces to compile dossiers
bave protested
inst Australia's uraniur
SE a CAn Descent:
Parties nave broken the Jons pelitical deadlock and agree to form a coalition govern
heale storion has em
Foalise ation
deferred tor consideraton Dy tbe Cabiner. The Christian Democrals oppose any abortEAST GERMANY: Five dissi engrave to the West but 10 regime has taken the oppos tunity created by thia public
beer use are at Mor under bouse arrest iast the expulsion of the dissident singer and poet, Wolf BierPOLAND: A wave of panic
г = disastrous harvest bes led the Polish part prisa to coltspend British "stei
+ the lace of had a
ing to difficult sicuations and paring to terms with necessit lo tbose moments we wish with envy **Would that we could he like Communist Parly of Great Bricain please note. CORRECTION Last week's articla by Chris O'Bner pal the manengu
Apala Banque sialed that the Spanish Social relused their support. This Is canted for Apare relete. Both have
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Tribunal on British Crimes in Ireland Basques give their backing
ORT: Under the gaze of Uncle Joe
What's
Left
Saturaly Before:
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France:
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resistance, commemorating the 4th
sara of bitter struggle of the
music. At Fulham Town Hall, Fulhem Broadeny, London SWe.
NUCLEAR POWER. Special saus Peace Nows gios Cull Qoverage
News, B Elm Avenue, Nottingham, оКИ нон запінник іВ л
Assemble:
Kings (berwoon piaral 5 Cosaber, 12 noon,
LOT DADOES
lona at 10.00 unher details and booking contact:
trid Lavar, 57 Trinity Rd., London
TROOPS OUT Movement Forum:
STUDIO SOAKER! CHEET STANSE MENES Baptember 8.00pm. Roebuck, Tetlennam Court Rd., London, TRADE UNION and Co-op Esperanto
language Esperanto
derel Road, Hounslow, Middx.
INTERNATIONAT
THE IRISH struggle attracted increasing michabona:
current worldwide debate on
the European Court that Britain
was guilty of torture are two DOUS TONS TOE THE CHEWIN interest.
On this hasis we
assemble reputed fighters and activists, recognised internationally
for human and democratic rights into one body commonly indict the British Government
Already the planning committee for the Tribunal has establisbed comact with orgamsans un the USA, Norway, Holland, France and Ireland, and on the basis of our activity in the Basque country we have begun to scope and impact of the Tribunal as it was onanany conceived
My country began with a sponsorship are Wi Teles menone ments from a number of prominent lawyers, 2 deputies to the
Bondres) and some well known
iterary figures such
Communist Party (PCE).
Pinilla was so enthusiastic about the Tribanal that be immediately took me to tre biono Dranca of
the or take brimily with
one of expressed his support for the Tribunal and prom at the next meeting of the PCE his look at the Spanish far left.
The congress, the first in the party's seven year existence, was conducted in a blaze of publicity
something of an embarrassment when, amid the ORT's Trenzied
the expulsions were plastered over the front pages of the national
The ORT grew out of a Catholic
han accumulated sapport among the working class
Pampiona meet Tom dish dents on upe port from dissidents from
is the only major far left group to be an indigenous working class
group of student origin. 89
WELL-IMPLANTED
Aten year gestation gave birth to an organisation which is the best imolanted of the far left parises particularly in its home territory
Pamplona, DOW 16.000 members - which 15 1D1 too much of an exaggeration, though the 200,000 is claims for its 'Unirary Trade Union' can probably be reduced by the power of Or all the Spanish parties the DEL DOW DOSENCEROSCS, BRES WIEN Peking — though the Chinese are anxious nor to srir chings with the sing its an at sen T ideological coherence provided by
since it tends to innoculate the organisation against the latent
But that is not to deny the ORT's
Last month two representatives of the Student Movement Campaign on Ireland were abroad in the USA and Spain working on the Internations Tribunal on British Crimes Against the Irish people. One of them, BRIAN LYONS, has just returned and has sent us this report.
has The most important commit-
last year, The organisation called REPSA — the pro-Amnesty Commission of the province ol Vicusa. LEPSA gam its unconditional support to the Tribunat and promised to raise it at a full delegate meeting of all the pro-Amnesty throughout the Basque the with the aim of building a Basque
lation dailies. Subsequent reports would appeared in these daily papers, a two-pase illustrated interview in a
has a circulation of 50,000 and a 15-minute interview by a Catholic-owned Bubeo radio station.
It is obvious there is a huge reservoir of support for the Tri realise the bunal in the Basque country. which wehaveonly begun to tap in
the Basque Baboo.
We intend to extend the cum paign to other parts of Spain and Europe, but the success of this will depend largely on our ability to UNTE ETE build the Tribunal in tbe British labour, student and as Ramiro movements. * The next meeting of the delegate planning committee for the Tri Sunal will take place on Tiesci
Northumberland who Crass Road, The commizer need
Alised to raise it norget pourself delegated or come along as on individual in the TEMPTATEE Under the genial gaze of Uncle Joe, the first congress of the Revolutionary Workers Organisation (ORT) staked its claim to be his legitimate successor by expelling four delegates who dared propose an alternative to the leadership'spoliticalresolution. RICHARDCARVER continues
staggering political poverty. The Congress "vindicated" the party's previous political line by unan-
sions). The fact that their highly sectarian election campaign onl brought in 40 Eul votes in filth of the cinimed union membership) wasnot even a cause for comment The question of fusion with the PIE (Labour Party of Spain) was which considerable
the ORT ciaims
Commissions transmitted women's a ponsistent exponent of debate at thi Popular Front
TRABAJADURES
Apoyado por Euskadiko
Eaguerra Tribunal sobre La violencia en el Ulster
Spanish far left
which war to ignore the central question in the ORT's future per-
The main topic of discussion was a series of helpful hints to Senci UTCO 8 8 6008L02 44107 LISALLAE cratic constitution should look like. Under Francoiser and in the nre electoral period the tRans
the fram the people
the "democratic' baurgepisie for
Para denunciar las brutalidades bri-
tanicas en Iranda del Norte
Jovenes ingleses bus-
can apoyo en el Pais
the implemencation of the first stage of the revolution.
The stunningly bankrupc constitutional document is wortly of examination only hecause it shows changed one iota. Spainis defined sace in which all powers emanate
-SULE TOW 1581 mysterious as the transubstanti ation of water late blood
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE, B September, 1977, page 12
Theconstiturional documents of
Socialist Communist Parties dodge the problein of the monarchy by making no mention of It. The ORT uses dodge: put it to a reterendure Unfortunately for the ORT that one has been tried befare by General Franco 30 years ago
Col democratic rights guaranteed by the constitution seems admirably egalitarian -discriminabion on erounds cl se or raot — until you read tbat there is to be no discrimination on tbe
mably, is wher is meant by powers emanating from the wbole people.
FOREIGN POLICY
The intercations report hab little more to recommend in, since it was merely a digest of current SHADE OLIONIN modified for local conscropcion Most inferesting was the call foe the European couminer to unice coonomically apainst the United States and enslicacils against che USSR. The logical conclusion o supper, for the EEC and NATO is now drawn. Inscend the ORT makes socourse to its faithful ally.
With its ideological caberence strang proletarian and
the ORT is better placed than the larger PTE. It would be surprising It irs recent erowth is nor extender in the coming boaths.
Alrendy principal inter ustionalsignificance of the OR Tis that it is the largest and siest influential pro-Pekine party Western Europe: • The lagic of its main neare of retal
guarantee stabilicy. is coward:
TImL just 'democratic" bourgeoisie hur to the giants of the EEC and NATO
Socialism in One Country Mac style has no more to recommend it than the variant poddled by the COPER DEAR CORErEs
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The Conference of Socialist Economists
SURPLUS VALUE
MORE THAN four hundred Bradforden hus, a he cople eighth annual conference of the Conference of Socialist Economists. Over cighty
were presented in workshop
contingent from there were comrades from
apan, the USA. France
candinavia, Holland, Italy and cisewhere. All this was ample evidence of the vigour of the CSE. How has it developed, and what are its aims today?
The CSE was formed in January 1970 at a conferenor called by
economists. The aim ser out in
conference was to develop the critique of political economy within the socialist movement. From the start, the CSE was avowedly non-sectarian, drawing its membership from socialists o all parties and groups and of none. It was also international,
bership outside Britain, and contacts with similar groups in other
In the first few ycars, acarly all CSE members were "practising economists", lecturers and students in universities and colleges: most looked to CSE as a forum for progressing beyond radical or critical Cambridge, school of lett- economic Keynesianism, towards a Marxist critique of bourgeois economics and capitalist society. Not surprisingly, therefore, most of our work had a rather academic and introspective slant, and tended to be eclectic and politically rather confused,
EMPHASIS
From ahout 1972 the emphasis shifted, By then, CSE had about 250 memhers, with a growing Bumber bI noD economists An Internal Bulletin was launched in December 1971, and activities
CSE to develop more practical, politically relevant work, but the real shift in emphasis was towards a chorough seudy of Marx's critique of political coonMarxiat tradition into field in omy, and the creation Britain. Old debates were revived, and new ones launched -on value theary, crisis, produc tive and unproductive labour, money, imperialism Many members took part in Capital developed Marine wong reading contacts Germany and Italy, In sddicion,
the gehen of for bean ot
change, with the formation
working housing, worsen and otber topics.
By 1975, membership had grown 10 around 500, with a there of mind The minority of economists.
only circulating within CSE.
MEE MISTLIEE but CSE remained a rather shadowy
the left at large, and administered rather amareurishly by a very small group of dedicared volun-
A growing number of mcmbers fel that we were geiting
TRIEDMAN:
PANNEROEK bogged down in the re-hashing of traditional debates aver Marx's critique of political coonomy: discussions were seen as 100 anora, and amica in scope This led to a decision to hold the STO COALLTENCE DO LAE SUE LOLOR labour process, covering both
and to organise it on the basis of collective work over the pre ceding year. The result was a very successful conference of 250 or
members in July 1976 Coventry.
Mared cole by cal
prepared collectively by groups or working groups. topics covered included historical studses in the labour process in particular industries, analyses of the mator industry today. domestic labour of the
lationalisation of capital labour, as well as more theorerical discussions. The 1976 conference niso decided to transform the Bulletin into a
mal and Class, to be linked closely
collective work going on m CSE.
COLLECTIVE
Tele, Sane and he
Struggle, the State Restructuring of Capital, be culmination of a much mone developed process of collective work: in the yeur leading up to it, there was a prepatory dayschool on seane topic nearly every week-
od local cse Broug
aced. At a result of this wor and energin Cape na Ciars, membership around 1,200. CSE continues to be successfully non-sectarian and international; the administration is now more formally structured,
CAPITAL
& CLASS
MELLITE OF THERE OF SIXTALENT
Suren Worken in Murder
pher i Simple labor DEBATE involves more
tions?
there is no
in
тагтож sese).
views an a comradely basis.
Interand
otencial servicing role ti
properly in analysing specitic
with tbe
both these areas,
was
LИ0 8 0006 series of titles in 1978
partici one has yet pome
THECHEESE between "intellectuals' "workers', Obviously,
A personal view
then reen theon
tomationel picn
state capital & class struggle
FA workers' inquir late the motor industry 2: thearies of
by Hugo Radice
members, and manages, so Jar, to remain reasonably open, democratic and bon-eitist. But how is it likely to adopting the (SE's Tole he in relation to the
First of all, CSE is not, and will not be, a polițical party:
sign of any disagreement with this view among CSE memhers, and secondly, in consequence of this, CSE provides an apen forum for Marxist debate. There is no artempe to suppress or avoid the taking of political positions, but since CSE
Thindly, the list of CSE working groups shows thar it collective work now offers a vital
the ACTIVITIES
lovement at large, particular
areas of state policy, particular firms an industries, etc. Related to this is
potential develaped, involving doser links educational rale, as yet much les with tha The crisis of groups and adult eduation. it community
the expansion of CSE's publishing activities play an important part. We plan
club-hased Deyschools
Siali cunamiss is increas a Conference of ingly a misnomer (altough no-
up with milet to brat do the dati rs, not only berween differen
1S0DID.S and annot overcome the effects o
CAPITAL
& CLASS
Pee andexchange the capicalist division of labour overnight, bur we must 00Bsciously light against it, witho
anti-intellectual posture so common on the lett, whose main effect is to disarm theory to dogma, and undersanding to blind Caich.
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Martin Shaw and Socialist Unity
Martin Walker's book
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know that the latler proved a very brief and farcical affair, une a made conditonal First.
issue PAUL FOOT'S review National Front, neatly exposes Martin Walkers contradictory atlitude towards
Nevartheiess. the Walker's book will subetentially issist the advance of main fascist party
sense. nem almost
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them 1o lascism, on ino ole
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does this by providing delailed
PURDIE ('Comment Auquet) may or may not ba night lo judge James Kirkup's poem The Lava that Daros to Spusk 113
gious beliel. But he is certainly mistaken in on Neil Belton's article
ue, T Julyl.
ned rationalism which starts out
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people believe
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contain three explicit reference
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actual
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SOU TES this resolution only three dayt conference and Martin Shaw's bility with them, the Hull branch
Shaw and recommends his exto pulsion."
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tor the SWP's Marxiam 771 | had
Deste ancor mine atal
nere seus
them. When informed of my new suspensor, wroto to tro 1o0d reinstatement in branch,
protest at this fouting my elementary rights and of conditions imposed at the time
Now, two months after my new suspension, I have received no official notification of evidence of their Involvement in
last 25 years. Fountaine, Jordan. acumulated a wealth of experi CESSIANO totally opposed to their politics
as Foot does) as mere 'oats and Into nasty bogeymen.
and despise them but we should
leadership
the so-called populists, but he
Ides Inal thore are stranes or currents within fascist mousment Thasa difter ences are evidentiy not worthy of consideration
fascisti True, but also untrue Police with riorsh/eids protecting the fascistdemonstration in Lewisham
The Catholic Church
porary persistence and organised workings
Purdie is quite right to insist that the objective fact of religious beliet Belton's articie did
understand that
whose unmistakeable purpose
short politico-cultura of the Catholie church in tha agr
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of his discussion, Beltan seemBelles,
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Taking inta Only tactical diferences?
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approclated that these are of g actical rather than fundamente
the willing mental it is thia ness to work with you in ans
ther the struggle for socialism'
'Open they may seam in this parlicular 0. 0 1008 1003 1389 1889
Tor me out tor oiner socialists
whom the SWP's difter workinge?* only thing that can prevent it wi
of the revolutionary laft as a CRIDICH
gidemble foroes
equate, Walker's Populiet versus
characterisation
the NF flo diferences about the best
what we are fighting in order to
analysis should be extended not
central leature of the NF pro-
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not the
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page. But the good Lord walls
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a less in disagreements among
FRANCIS MULHERN [London]
A though 1 hope that the SWP
form pan of a socialist party in this country, it will have TO CRANGE CONSIDE N 10 00 84 and the nature of the tion makes it very dificult to below. It is clear trom experience that any Depositiona grouping wi Da coanWiSt D: organisational mean VENENT
ndeed, if any issue in fundo
the contempt of the SWP lesdership for Challenge democracy both inside the org
I repeat the chalsange el Sacaria unanswered: will the working class belleve in a fight democracy 1od Dy s i party which showe lew signe oft in. its owi
Support Socialist Unity!
For my part, teol there is no
the Hong tha groups and
present coerent positiors
inflation. housing, the EEC, the
agosal lo the nation and 1o the
tamily ties, elo seem altractive 1° me reaciet notion et a ratural
divisions or cla8s and
vestad interests' is illugory but it
undoubledly appeals to thos
who see their old tamiliar world
crumbling around them
mably Foot would see all this a:
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SOCIALIST CHALLENGE. 8 September, 1977, page 14 SWP seaking to bulld a unitied BORRIE SORRIA ment fighting for and based on Hor Sacatel Alla aclive ir
which IMO, the Working Women's Charter, #x-IS /SWP comrades and in
se nave feriad the in
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and particulary for the Socialist Unity campaign
social-
ta support bath these initiatives Whatever doubte and we may etill have of the
considerable
Ist unity which are needed, and
responsibility as wall to see that these are suonesstul MARTIN SHAW (Hull|
Bias compared lo 10 in 1970, 54 In
10741 and with a hard core of
The majonly o1 tneir members HII HI MORTES
it is vital that we do try they
It is obvi ausly not onough 1o simply call the NF Hitieritea and
approsch that mates our anti
and simplistic than C. THOMAS (Leeds
of space. readers that maximam length of
moros — Eo., salver, so
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Censorship in TV drama
UNDER REVIEW
Sconde Semite cosing out al the EVENTEEN YEARS ago 1 sat near
editor, solemnly crossing out all the "My Gods' in a Dorothy Parker script and substituting "My Heavens". Later 1 took my courage in my hands and complained to my immediate superior, Derek Granger. But he would have none of it and condemned me for being a moaning minnie. What I was doing was not censorship, he claimed, but merely the application of good taste.
I soon learned two things about censorship in TV drama. One: that it goes on all the time. And teo: It i not a question of censorship is the pirase obe ears most often in censorship struggles. | don't apologise for the slightly gossipy nature of this
f such petty encounter:
The unwritten rules and the various ways around the rules become a kind of idiotic game. There s something quite absard about a group of men sitting. around a table and seriously discussing the nature of the verb "to fuck But censorship is a great oeal more than the crossing out of taboo words. The first problem is to try to define it and to know when it is lappening. All writers will confirm that the latter 15 often quite difficult. As one put it to me, it can be a biod of "whittling away aver a period of monthi" In drama there is a crisis — there has been a huge cut back in theactual numberof plays produced. There producers and directors. Department heads who used to beleft aloneto salve their own content problems are
Everybody wantsto get in on the act. And there has been a severe attack of censorship, most apparently from the BBC. I requested an interview with Aubrey Singer to discuss censorship from his side. 1 received the
lyou wish to talk about censorship, you are asking to see the wrone person.
Censor programmes: 1 am the managing editor of a channel (BBC-2) and I make editoria occurs when the pubishers interfere with what the creators are trying to say: when the suggestions (rulings) from above impede or tamper with the meaning. But censorship does take many varied and insidious forms.
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1. Direct
By this 1 mean the overt removal of words, lines. scenes, and (sometimes) whole productions from the screen, Take, for instance, the following BBC plays. Me por cas rencarse po mos, our De transmitted, Article Five by Brian Phelan: a moral tract about the widespread use of torture as a respressive weapon
ensored Scenes from King Kong by Hawan Schuman: A once radical journalist learns sical scenes of vinlence and Jove were cised Jrom the original print of King Kong (which is true). He builds a paranoid fantasy about why those scenes Mere c: eventuals involving the covernment aud fascism." The irony here is that the play is very much about censorship. The author maintains that he was never confronted direcrly by the BBC about the ban and all his information was innuende and hearsay.
Prowling Offensuve by Howard Barker: "A Tory Hoibe Secrelary 2-1a 8303 demeanour by a class-conscious pimp.' This was an enjoyable play that offended Christopher Morahan's cood laste. He rerected Dar coacncion or
by Clive Goodwin
his motivation insisting that the "production was not UD LO COL SUMACAS hears as a cuphemism for censorship. If it is an excuse it must he nailed as such.
The Balcony by Cener: This is the most recent crample we bave. It was an Open University roduction in a series with other plays including Ubi
on Sunday, but the BBC insisted on changing chis to war eligity more incine case tie because it Balcony was thought oe disgusting even for dawn viewing although the Open University have since been unheipfully informed that it could go out after 9pm. They don't have any slots after 9pm
Tarry Dan by Peter MacDougal: This ghost story and the author says that he has been given ten diferent datea for transmission but cact time he looks in the Radio Times it's not there. 1t banning Is something of a mystery, but something to do with the minerield I bave nor ventured into in this article marked Not suitable for Another form of 'outright" hanning is the rejection of completed scripts. This is rather more difficult to evidence because of the sheer volume of exhibits script rejected. Of course perhaps it was just not good enough. But there ane cases of rejected scripts on ditticult subieras and a sosnicion or censorship arises. One example comes from Barrie Keefe who submitted a play called A Rave Complicarion (three characters. one sell. The play was basically an interrogation play in which attempted to break a black on a murder charge using racial hatred as a weapon to swiftly break the man and gain a quice comession 1o sno chimo ne nao no!
ATV replied classically: We found the subject matter rather distasteful.
2. Application of common sense principles of good taste
There are always good professional reasons for turning scripce down. Every day editorial judgements are made that ane genuinely believed to be instinctive but are of course the products of the training and social grooming that the mind has under. gone. Decisions are made by executives very mindfal of job security about scripts writlen by authors who
The taste consensus Jades cannot or will not touch. osmotically downwards through the TV chain of conmand. Every producer "knows' what's expected expected.
Personally 1 have never seen or read or imagined anuthine that Ido not think could be shown on television. Experience has taught me to trust the authar not the cesor. So ofen it rurns out that it was the censor who misjudged the degree of public offence, not the artist 3. Self-censorship
Overt censarship can be opposed overtly but ensorship can subvert the writer looking for success to paper, This can and does work subconsolously on the writer's work and obviously we carnot expect to tesin much about That. But T did ask a dozen television writers whether they had ever not written a play because they felt the subject matter would porcul productor One writer replied: "Those are the plays I write" But aix said Yes and gave exampies. • They raoged
The desh olle moler de carty o Peter
The denth ASETEND MaeDougal's belief that there were several plays be could not write including a sympathetic portrait ora violent crasgow your
There is a view chat self-censorship is the most reliable and repressive form of pensorship we bave. Ir is believed that the medis are emertly Tun br cultural managers on behalf of a stable non-elected proup esentiaily reflecting middle class ches are insitutionalised. In ober words che media reflect the society me have and can only be changed by changing that society. This in a commitred writer can leno to over-dererminist CTIC imposibility of doing naything useful encept joining the nearest and most symparbetic political organisation.
Certainly it one tries to generalise a description of the massive drama output sou can end up wich a view of society por dissimilar from The Tumer
errespondeno columns. Some congratulation is due to television for shaking off the middle clase thuainical heritare it heran with and butling oato 1ne screen a working class concent that was totally new. But it is sill true that TV reeks of solid city father virtuc, It is full of brave cops, but when d you bast sce a brave trade untonist? Leeds Cinited (rejected by
Brave copsgalore -butrottrede unioniers
Granada as too expensive") would be a good answer. But that was in 1974 and the director, Ro Battersby, has somewbat mysteriously not directed a pias fother than ome J0-mnulos) since
4. Appointment
Control of content with the leas fuss means gettin he right people into the right jobs. The law of libe makes it impossible to giveexamples. We all know men and women who have the qualifications for the haghest ranks of the BBC hierarchy but we also all know that hey will never be offered those jobs. But the BBC as opportunity and does go through periods in its histor; (usually short lived) when anstäing appears to be nossible. some IV companes are run uke cis family concerns and as far as dramatic possiblity is concerned are just blackholes. 5. Political censorship 1f politics isabout the way we live sogether then there is a sense in which everything including all censorship is political. But when peopletalk about political drama they usually (and i think quite wrongly) mean left wing dramn. that the BBC checks some of lts appoistments with view it has boen established heyond doub Sola Enred anden Traia ba a me te l Special Branch and disturbin cocon al thetimie — there was another case recentl: when only the prompt action of the producer saved th
and apparently only with the BBC, ITV dees not bave the same connecrions with the Yard This kind of political discrimination must be starspec out immediately. It should of course - like race and gender — belllegal.
here is in Drama Departienes a relactance r ecognise political facto E am told the situation | ditterent in Talks and Fentures where a politicall iterate minority audience is assumed. This misonty t
ever assumed in drama. It would be much besitt for the left if it started calling spades spades anc asserted its right to a share of air time. There is a tendency to pretendi to ascept the prevaling view shit drama and politics have very lirtle to do with sach otber and then lo imagine one is smuggine letr wing opinionsontothehearthrug.
One area of overt censorship is the Nortbern Ireland conflict. It is a fact abat the average Sunday Times reader 15 tar belter incormcd aboal Erciad Enan Ene mos avid TV viewer who absurdly will have a far better idea of what Los Angeles lookslikethan Belfast British Isles and the freest television service in the world has swept it under the carper. The record of am referringto Talks and Features. There weren't aay
6. Scheduling and financial control
Many writers feel literally constrained by the ike lumps" and it has been sald most forcibly by Robert Muller that rhis isa forinof censorship. fagree HETE MISIS lines on the subiect inal LEevOl Griffiths" play The Party
'Joe (checking watch): Do you wanttotalk ahour the
"Sloman (reclining, eyes closed): Jesus Christ, Joe, I sometimes wonder if there exista a background you coulde't adapto. It's a play, Joe. Somehow orocber aben it's written, it will be squeezed and tugged and shunced and fattened and primpted ontil it finalls surpe and slithers into the ninety minute... bole. your masters have graciously reserved for it. (Pause)
Finanoeis one of the many professional reasons chat will be given for not doing hardthings.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE, 8 September, 1977, page 15 7. Preferred models Jobn MoGrath's MacTaggart Lecture presented a superbly argued Naturaliam and opened up au important debate. The anti-naturalist position as far as censorship goes is that there is a rectived idea of what constitutes a television play. Writers whotransgressthat model bave a much harde time getting on than writers whoconform. It is claimed that the dominant characteristic of the preferred modelisnaturalism: chat ahthough Crossroads may be the oppositeeod of the pole from thebest of Leach and Garnert, it is still the sace pole.
But the actock on naturalism goes even further and it is at this point that temperatures start to rise. It has heen pur to me thel nacaralism is not the dominan mode by accident. It Nourishes as a virile political cool for mediaring reality: for softening and toning it down. Naturalismis, ina word, reactionars
As one wriler pur it: "It is the child of cineteent pentury racionalism that belleved the universe was composed of matter. Il relies on well-counded investigating in scenes of observable reality what the HERCES everything they do and world is actually like. But encept on a level of fuzzy snapsbots it fails to communicate anything except a romantic emocional fudge
To quate MoGrath: "To taketao examples, recento transmited: Dais of Hope and Bil Brand, I would estimatethat if Dassof Hopehad said, clearly, what it makers wanted to say, it would never have boen made
- certainly never shown. Why then was it made and shown? Simply hecause the naturalistic form allowed it to imply, but never to say what they meanc-ut meaning couk become blurred, mediated. It could indeed, be excused, passed off as something else . Bill Brand suffered the same ambivalence: was Bill Brand in a fictional world, the values the author admired; was he just another tsme from the gallery of modern
nan an interesting, maybe significant, speciben of
eft-wing failure? Or was be a confusion of both? Th naturalism of the form did not allow the author t distinguish between Brand's politics and his personal life, or to make his actitude to cither at all clear. There was a political debate going oo, and a personal saga the author was ohiously trying to say somerbing about both - bur what!'
1 don't know if this argument is correct but if it were true it would be a most damning case of censorship by imposition of form. It is curious tbat with one esception allibe banned plays mentioned earlier could
When television drama began it raced abead of the
than caline dato fo Bat adiary lee
industry and siene T industry asustanted miden workt n maye constandy science te-examine and question the forms it is using - the way it does things. 1 ara not convinced of the case aguinst naturalism but 1 am sure a place must be found in belevision for new forms of writing.
The cheatre is full of styles and celevision should Sur tea ratin whiter si leis Arden the de ol our twa greatest writers: John Arden Bond, Television drama should be as ries and varie
- and may have boto rint -think No - -and may be wrong. But if am right thar is perbaps the ultimate in censorship.
heen a literary agent.
From King Kong
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