Socialist Challenge No. 16, 6 October 1977
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Socizlist Cha lenge GRUNWICK:
OCT MASS PICKET this time let's finish the job
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The IMF's-blue eyed boy
HOME NEWS
the dirty by committing sulcide.
Nowhere" Indicates. cures.
will reveal all those who are recsiving
Iabour movement
the general secretary is elected for ille!
register accessiblo lo all trade unionisis.
Soculisi Challenge belleres that the too vital
To built bruss-hoed ciew struckle lenden-
• To legin to fight For the creation of a uni sed bed democratic resolitioner socialist arganisation which can, through an application uf unised frunt locties, begin to be seen a se Irmaide by thausends of worken agased in ch an organisation should be hasel un the
Editorial
Socialist Challenge, 328/9 Upper Street, London N1.
Editorial 01-359 8189 News 01-359 8180
The Top-hatted
Philanthropists'
HAROLD WILSON ended his political career in a blaze of unsavoury publicity. Even the Honours Committee, a body whose members are not chosen for their keen critical facultles but merely to rubber-stamp peerages and knighthoods, felt constrained to reject some of Wilson's choices: It must have been an Intolerable snub for a man who takes these things very seriously. But even the Honours Committee was not to know that one of Wlison's new knighte, the property tycoon Sir Eric Miller, would de
Miller's decision abruptly to terminate his life forced even the tame Fleet Street press lo comment on the corruption in British society. It would be trite to remark that capitaliam Is corrupt and leave it at that, for what in ralsed is the widespread corruption in the British labour
This exists at every level. It is a cancer on local poramment as the Poulson case and numerous others aince have revealed. Labour counciliors are invoived in deals with small and big businesses In Scotland, Wales. the North East and elsewhere. Trade union officials are not exempt either, as our story on Gormlay in "News from
Jack Jones' speech highlighting the extent of the corruption and the Ilfe-style of the present Labour isaders (Healey has just bought on a new house for the paitry sum of E65,000] is Interesting, but doesn't lead anywhere. Moral exhortations publicise the disease, but offer no
As far as the labour movement is concerned these curee do exist and we will try and enumerate them. in the first. Instance the oft-derided demand to 'Open The Books should be fought for by all trades unionists. Not only will It reveal the profit margins of the rich and near-rich, but it
nana Dus.
Secondly, the current revelations raise the question of accountability. The recall of all full-time officials in the
starting with Labour MPs and extending to local counclliors and trade union officials -by those who alected them should be vigorously fought for and incorporated into the demands of all bodies of the labour movement. If he wanted to be consistent, Brother Jones should and the abeurd situation in his own union:
Thirdly, all full-time labour movement officlals should
declare their assets, which should be recorded in a
Numerous
allegations have been made regarding Callaghan's linke
with the Welsh banker Julian Hodge. This man
well-known as a thoroughly unscrupulous boas and his
Involvement In the pyramid selling schemes"
bankrupted thousands of West Indiana in the Midlands
has already been documented in Private Eye. The national
press knows of Callaghan's links with Hodge, but prefers
to keep silent because those who own It are members of
the Club and it Is not the done thing to rel on a fellow
I Erie Miller's sulcide generates a real movement to root
out corruption in the labour movement then the dark
knight who while alive made his millions by ruthisaaly
exploiting others will, in death, have done Britiah labour a
service - the only one for which he should be rewarded.
OUR POLICIES
The lenders of the 1 unins offer
Thou Would be stole.
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they're all applauding?
First, Inflation is slowin failing August saw the smallest monthly rise for 18 months in the factory gate prices charged by the manu lecturing industry and the quarterly rate of increase is down by nearly one take time to which The struggle for nile the fight uf the workers agains the horses with that of wiber uppres sed lasers uf vocien — women. back
sensears meam ine power af ine espicilist
Car sucialism will be annaiseiy, moc democratic chan what raise in Britis (oday, with full rights for all peliciral partin and careers that do nut take modeb of socialism in le USSK and Lasern
millioes of workers throughunt the world. Wit are opposed in them and will offer full support o all those fighting for socialist demurrass
So Denis Healey is now the blue-eyed International Monetary Fund. Only a year ago, there was • dramatic dash from Heathrow in response to the collapse of the pound on foreign exchange markets.
The IMF conference has just been and gone, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer has flown the Atlantic twice to receive pats on the back from everybody. So what is it
prices in the shops
Use reflected in the
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polites. Thus we fight for working chas unio un teleternalionst scale. This waily will in the lung run be decisive in defesting bosh thr taint me in sette Me ace Amelia in Briain in implies demanding the imme aule withrawal of Brilish troups frun Irelan and Siting the Irish people desermine their owe
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nor the Tor the overthron of the capitated revelalionary weisier parties are mer sary than Eer before. Conditions today art mure fandurable than uter the preceding hres - Bit sach parlies can onh he bait by Heinranium and seeing
has been
SO VILET being with this
since 1970, total boy of the cent.
Healey?
Unemployment
Rut inflation was running at a rale of 14.9 per cent in August compared to 15.9 per cent in Jul employment and a percent ast a bo tr rate of increase in retail prices is Falling, and this is expected to Mr. Henley? Did people haven'T seen much economic opturn: Pensioners heid a 46-nour vigil outside the house of Socia Services Secretary David Ennals last winter. They demanded higher penalons aod lower beating ooats
iney sustain in Eatis Amedica
pre-Moscos
SHEENE lasury but as it vile means the right to organise
continue. Well done, Healey!
BALANCE OF PAYMENTS Secondly, the United Kingdom
increasing its share of world trade and last August saw a repond surplus in trade in good
North Sen •g. production is increasing and the prospects look good for a con-
balance of payments surplus for some years to corne The pound is firm on the foreign exchanges and interest rates are al their lowest level for several years. Bravo Henley!
Thirdly, Government spending and the money supply are both
firmis and successfully held within the IMF-Imposed limits, restoring Britain's finan cial credibility. Isn't Healey bril
STAGNANTECONOMY
There is just one small problem
picture produclion is at a lower level today than it was a year ago, and, more significantly, manufacturing production has fallen by 2.3 per cent Since last May. In the seven years
I production has risen by the grand total or 1.s pe
So real economic activity has been virtually stagnant since 1970. Not so pood, is it Mr
Aud since productivity has heen growing worly, less workers are needed to produce the output
in mid-Sepcem ber stood ar 145m 6.1 per cent of the workforce. Uner ployment has risen for the fourth montle in succession 33,000 a month. What's more notified vacancies have fallen i by just over 4,000 a month. Un-
is definite
rising trend. But it's best not t talk about these things, isn't it,
WE DEMA
DECENT PENS ANDA ARM HON WANT TO KNOW MORE? 1 you agree with chose principles and went to tie Tarafved in activides by sochalist Challeage sip porters in gnur uree, fifis the for belon andsond ic
am interested-in-niore informelton about net sities in ney area would like additional lin ratine unat enclose 30p to pover cosis.
Delere I met applicable)
DRESS 0
Nepd to Socialist Chullenge, 32% 329 Upper Streel. London NI.
Socialist Challange, B October 197T. p2 What is the renson for rising employment and stagnant pro duction? There is no point in th capitalists increasing beir output and hiring more workers when it is unprofitable to do so, rofitability of industrial an sommercis compas ID 19: (allowing for inflation on the basis of replacement cossi aver aped les chan 1. per cent, much the same as in 1975 and less than hail the rate for 1470.
profitability af British Industry has Fallen sharply since 1972, and many Bictories are only profilable becouse of the lik relief they get for stock appreci The truth is that, far from its troubles being over, British capit alism is in the same old mess. A made a sinlar point in thi bourgeois press. However good the financial Figures are, 1 1s real production thal matters. And in the present economic system tha means private produceor private profit.
When production is unprofitable, people lose chair Joba. The
they coald have produbed, If employed, is lost for ever But that is of no importance lo a system which is not geared to the production in order to meet be real needs of people
DIFFERENT WORLD
That is why attempts are made to make it profitable by attacks on the working clasa. Linder this systemn it is the workers who are
required to pay for the mess i
wbich capitalism periodically a inevitably gets into.
Hur naturally, Healey will no Labour Party COLLECTEr. the world he lives in is a very
hy SEC
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The family that lives in fear
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demanding a long-delayed operation.
DAVE WALKER and GEOFF BELL report.
and a friend saw a large piastic
picked n up and nut it 10a dustbin. Janetthen wenthome.
bers of the CID called
the 1
were brought to the CIE BETTE police said they were sending for a bomb disposal squad. Janet marched over to the from the bin and threw it at the assembled police. They dived with rotten fruit, tin cans, and other rubbish released from the * This incident was one of the rare opportunities the Ward family police, Against it must be set two suicide altempts by Janet. ConHE HEAR HAS TABACICED the family over the past three
suicide soem surprisingly little. Want was returning from fretand DEMOICES CHERISH OTTE n 23 May 197 than 24 hours in Ireland, and this and her three male travelling police suspicious. For whatever EDDIE WARD ourside the iocal police station.
Rita Ward made the headlines a couple of months ago when she occupied a bed at Northampton Hospital.
As a way drawing attention to cuts in the National Health Service it was an amusing, plucky exploit. But there is nothing humorous about the Wards' other story; a story whose details are frightening and whose implications terrify.
reason. Rita was questioned for
of the Special Branch.
According 1o Rita. and during a visit to her Northampton home in November 1975 by the London Special Branch, che was offered EIDO to inform on the IRA. She reports one
"If you don't play ball
your children. remarkably similar to the kind of threat made by Special Branch officers against Maurice Jor editor al the NUM paper, after his arrest atGrumm July 1975 Janet Ward is arrested, taken into a police car, and accused of stealing eye shadow.
She explains soo was aiwen the eye shadow as a present. Eventwally the police release her saying
another Janer Ward.
WENEMINT 1975 The family complain of noise from the bakery opposite their A melée develops in the between Rita, Janet, and Louise Ward and bakery workers. and she went to her aid. in Rite! -We got the better of Rita The police arrive and say Rita will be charged murder. SIREC rievous bodily harm for which the three women are fined small sum of 125 each.
bakery later moves its premises because of further complaints about the noise lesel.
of 21 October 1975 Janet is arrest-
Led on a shoplifting charge. witness is produced says the police forced her to aigs a statement implicating Janet. In charge. The case is dismissed.
VOICETEST March 1976 Janet Is arrested and accused of telephoning a both bomb warning. She is taken to
asked to make a voice cost. She
women reverse the order in which
charge Janet after the test, bu then the changed the order of the test Kita Is accused. The case is dropped November 1976 Yorkshire Louise are attacked after collect-
Wing money for charity. Louise punches one of ber The police later call at the house and accuse Janet of grievous bodily barm. Louise protests that I was she who struck the blow and that anyway they were only defending themselves sill charted The case is cismssed in court.
January 1977 Janet gets into Ward row in a ballroom
dance is over she is attacked house with a kaife.
DANCE hut
hand and twists the
Rita wards them. The assailant is then
When Janet arrives home she Pater They arrive three bour tells her father, who phones the charge with attempted wounding with UNCICO LI April 1971 Sanet gets into a raw
the at a social security office
The arrested and taken to Menray
JANET WARD
wilful damage who later
repeats the
I found guilty of
condition that her to be innocent
they intend to ditiona charge women reveal they ha
guilty of
Janet and
attackers. palice station.
She is charged with damage. damage.
Janet is SURVEILLANCE
is cut on ber the
kaife to-
this" and "Paddy that'.
Janet with intent. She la of the feeling
was working.
She is
чаге not roaL. does Eddie try
written
ceived from
traml Economists:
have
olice station, The family say sh as beaten unconscious. Sbe charco with the incoen at tha SS office and is later accused of
- scratching Up the IKA' on the wall of her police Finally the police charge ber win a arcara or common bew public order for resistance she
i up during her arrest. She in the diden, be sety of the pu ICEIEMISES
Capital. order change. In other words she atTEsted Protesting right!
May 1977 Louise is charged after a similar incident at the S5 office. As with Janet, an adThe public order le inter added under common
pattern is the same: the origisal charge, WHY DIE SURCEUCE SI July 1977 Innet is arrested or
another bomb boax charge. She is taken to Campoel square drngged in she kicks at a window.
criminal bomb charge made. She is found guilty of the
urticle
By no means is this the whole these story, The Ward family say thes have been under regular surveil
spotled a Special Brunch officer looking into their back garden. They say that throughnut the urnesis and the other rains the police have culled them trish
Janet lost her job during one of T DEM the bomb hoax episodes hecause
the accusation aroused in the factory where she relased how he was stringently questioned after a bomb explo By police standards the Wards
compliant cit- Eniue Gormley's TRUEL ONE NECRET and hide his sympathy for the cause of Irish served nine years in the British Army. But none of chis is n has happened to the family.
They have protested — Rita has
the SHICLE According to a letter Chey. re-
the Home Office
'pending". None of the protests has resulted in any redress, and Socialist Workers Party hecause they felt the SWP was not taking
It is all this and more which leads Eddie Ward to say: This country is a police state.
For many of us that mighr he with an exagperation. For Lie Ward
Arrow
News
nowhere
The mature Purdy THERE HAS HA conloversy in our cans
Party intellectuals Dave Purdy and Mike Poor. A reade has sent in the following quote
Purds written just two question: When did the
break take become senibe?
Anyway here is the quate from a review of Tony Chifts hook or the Social Contract in the Octo ber "75 issue of the Bulletin of the
SHES
A whole chapter is devoted to the 'exposure' of inpomes policies as unfair in their treatment of Lord Longford and Ray Mason wages and profits. Now this may but it is essentially subsidiary to the main point that working class comes policies, no matter how seemingly fair, Mexible and gen COUs The Ties or the polc amounts to an exercise in respon sibility without power.
Without directive power over the sconomty. class to accent capitalist incomes policies deals a fatal blow to its ability to assert its own priorities
struggle for command over real resources and
Yes. Dave. That's
James Fox and thegoose
JAMES FOX is a nice, well-meaning ournsist. He recentl wrote an article on the National Front in The Observer colour lack lustre, but pointed out hur there were fascists and racists in
Then Fox made a botaily gratui coas attack on sections of the fa Jeft who fight the fascists on all fronts, lacluding a cheap smi meaningless jibe against the edi appeared a bit out of place in the
We have now discovered that the "expert" who briefed Fox on
matters mus none othe than former Sunday Times hack und now editor of the daily Newsline, Alex Mitchell. Quite bourgeois press attacks on the Socialise Workers Party and the Internalual Marine Groog te Justify his own secturiumism.
There is a cerlain irony in this.
WHERE HE CRACK on the Sunday Times in the sixGormley's Canadian connection JOE GORMLEY is a right-wing lender of what is troditionally a
of role during the miners' strike of 1974 was atterl despicable. He was secret meetings with the Tor
leader Edwund Heath, the con tents of which were not divulged to the NUM executive.
Recently it was unnounced that GOTTEN MELT BECUE BETELLOR ship of a Canadian compuny.
Vancouver Wharves Lad. A aum tresely anansed and did not see has phil to the nee mind with HEEDENHEA short unswer is that it con't
The miners will be even more ungry when they realise the con-
nections of Vancouver Wharves.
Seventy per cent of the compun
Group Lad, a British compune
interests Construction
director of the latter concern is a
Socialist Challenge, 6 October 1977, pl
from
material of dubious sort on what was then s
the Vietnamese people, the Vietnum Solidarity Campaign. This used to he reproduced with gle by Newstine's predecessor. Thi more it chunges, the more remsins thesame.
Absentfriends
THE LONDON Evening Sian dard's diary page on 30 Septem Der reported the banquer given to
the 'anniversary Colonel Gandati's socialist revo How he e The hangue
LAyer Embassy 2250,000 (the price of a modern up-to-date press?). guests were Reginald Maudling
What the Evening Staodard dic
and what we are warring for the daily Newsline n tell ws, is wherher its editor Ales Michell, and regular contribu
NANTEL Heady, and Mike Banda wer present. And if nos, why not?
Christ's warrior
DID YOU Know that Marciser
new form of Jewish prophecy This timely reminder demonology is among the many marie from the Armaid Lee
noting from the
Gentiles' in the world have a lo
about Leane who founded the Imperial EUPHe snow cloth his thoughts live on.
NATO is a con played on a
under communist control. The
FBI communist controlled, 0/ cowse hained Mardin Luther King enroll 64 Jewish-communist franz organinations, and shank to me pengen morence or nor Marx| 'real mame Moses Mordeca
Leve] the IRA and the Orang Order are both in newty fighting for Judaism
Arnold's outpourings are in Join the Narional Front, whose own official organs are increas the Ne dear is all Tense the NI describes all Jews PLATESTS
unforrunately made by the Jen ish Board of Deputies, who told Socialist Challenge that Amold's crap is regularly found amon the tumps of excreia deposie outside sundogues.
Teddy Nuneurow who i in
down centre in North Shields.
Tyne and Wear.
Nancatron and friends wet
finding it difficult to raise the
necessary money. But money
Come to the rescue. The leader ol
came to the rescue.
the North Tyneside council b
• J.
old friend of Germley's and
former miners' lodge secretary
He is kowd to be a ereat enthu
slast for the new town centre
Could it be that Bomborough
had a word Gormles
who provided foot from the pen
We do know that Gormly wes
photographed with
on the town centre e site itself an
the time of ibe NUM conferenc
in Whitley Bay, on 7 July the
Shortly afterwands he be
came a director of Vancouve
Wharves. It is clearly caster for a
trade union leader to become a
giraffe to as
UOTECORHEADTA
through the eye of a needle.
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IMG
the
International Marxist Group? In the first instance we reject the social democratic and Communist Party assessments of the ban. They see the ban as substituting
mass anti-fascist actions. Joderlying their positions is the
Sef that the bourgeois State is
te capable of dealing with the
Era is compuseiy wrongand nas the objective effect of demobilisng anti-fascist militants. It chus prevents a real awareness of the problem from being debated,
cussed, acted on by
But from this can we proceed and say that we are in principie pposed to any bans imposed by he bourgeois democratic State on
aciat or racist activity?
ABSURDTIES
Wereply clearly and say: No, we
specifically directed apaine the fascists, any more than we are opposed to anti-sexist laws or the laws on industrial safety or child labour.
Opposing such bans in principle can lead to manifest absurdities,
NO! ILLEGAL
IMMIGRANTS
London's East End
on the road
LONDON'S EAST END symboles Labour's Britain. There are
arts of it which are in a state of otal decay. There are trendy DOIS 30 100 daises. The Jewish gbettoes and shops of the Thirties have become
und as in the Thirtles there is acist-dominated Hoxton. There
ed down bospitals. Every
Is emerge from their sewers to Bengalis in Brick Lane.
TESTE COE MOSE LEONYEU SELEOE
-election on 20 October . Social# Unity candidate Hikla Kean is determined to take the fight for
ialist polic es into the heart of
be Spitalfields Ward. The last
councillor. Irving ki, has heen in the United
ade unionist, was born and bred
far as the people of Tower Ham etr and Spitalfields are concernco, soczynskı migne as well nave taken therest of the Labour Cuncil with him. The council has im plemented massive cuts in homes,
social services and
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bans
The use of the Public Order Act to ban the fascists from marching in Tameside has led to a wide-ranging debate on the left. Naturally this debate has been reflected in the pages of Socialist Challenge. What is the attitude of the
such as arguing against local councils disallowing the use of meeting halls. The point we stress is that any ban should be in defence of the democratic rights of
minority) and not an overall law hanning 'all processions"
Why has the far Teft been demonstrating (abstracting the moment the question of its growing mumbers since the Red Lam Souare Darlie in June 19047 Precisely because we recognise faschum aerepronal politica. current which has the ultimate aim of destroying all working class organisations.
The fascists are not in Tameside to defend free speech, but to SELACKLIC nghts minority today and the workers"
reason a specific ban against the fascists under a classe of the Race Relations Act or an anti-racist clause of the Public Order Act itself cannot be opposed on the hasis of some abstract principle. This is not what has happened in Tameside. A not-specific clause has deliberately been used to ban
AMNESTY!
NATIONAL
FRONT
Socialist Unity
Hilda savs that her will be linked to all the important against cuts, against racism, and against poor amenities. She told cent support to against racism and fascism the use of council rooms and by supporting the Brick Lane camfascists, 1 will campaign for the abolition of the racistimmigratino Jaws whoch divide black familes. and 1 will be marching on the anti-racist demonstration Horton on lo Jerober *The policies that I stand for can only be won by mass action. democracy, which isn't limited to voling every three years, but is isent of working people in the crucial decisions *Asa lirststep 1 want tojoin with all militants to organise a common fight back opposition to Labour's policies, both locally and ancionally."
Socialist Challenge wil be supporting the campaign and urges London supporters to hein, For further Information ring Alan on 01-226 0577
position on
everyone. Now obviously the ban is a response to the growing MODISSEE labour movement against the unionists were expected in Tameode The'state war concerned that they might take the "law into their own hands by anti-racist laws from below.
In that sense the buo is a partial and limited victory because it is a racial sy recognition of the growing
Danger against the fascists. However, as Socialist Challenge pointed out, we must unequivocally reject the ban on anri-fascists. The ambivalent actitude of the Moring Star on this question is both disgusting and short sighred. Irisdisgusting beenuse by giving Implicit support to the ban on the Socialist Workers others on ene tar lert they twe right-wing social democrats withattempt to isolate militant antifascism from the mainstream of because similar laws could be used For that against them in the future.
PICKETING
So in Tameside demand that the fascists are ahwe tomarchsowe can try and stop them. We angue that because marching cohorts will be turning up to watch hall from which this fascist leader intends to speak. At the same time se argue that we are not for any confrontation with the police and that after the picket we should havea meeting to seriously discuss liow best we can construct a broad national anti-fascist and antiracist movement.
We are banning of under a non-specific clause of the Public Order Act will not stop the fascists. Nor will an overall ban. But it would imagine that we cannot utilise such a development to further isolate the fascists and portray them as whatthey really are, In short there are no simple ready-made answers. A concrete analysis of the concrete situacion has to be what determines aur position. case.
campaign
the strugsle by affecting their
NATIONAL RANK AND FILE DELEGATE CONFERENCE
implementing
chat Merlyn Rees Party
Demos, arrest counter-demonstrator:
marches WE do not
Remembrance Parades.
film of demos to
police violence!
quite aware that the recommendation
one fascist march
RETODIST
Church?
FORD WORKERS SUPPLEMENT Socialist Challenge this week gives over four of its pages to militast workers in the Ford car plants lo state their
This is the longest "Speakont' we have ever priated. Naturally we do not agree with every article in the sapplement, but we felt that it was particularis Important at this time fo allow the Ford workers to
TENTES DO CARR helping prepare leaflets, etc.]. They would in particalas welcome help on the work they are doing on a History of Ford Struggles mad Health and Safety.
WEST MIDLANDS
REGIONAL PUBLIC SECTOR SHOP
STEWARDS CONFERENCE
SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER
10am Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth, Birmingham
Saturday 26 Novembe in the Co-op Hall, Manchester
Sislers Road, Lendon, N4,
Police
demand
extra
powers
County Durham
RIOTCONTROL. shields are all very well, but their new toy has given the police a taste for more
onstrations. In the same woek
look at' the 1936 Public Orde Act, twodifferent police bodies implement the Chief Police Officers Asso
intendents" Association, put in theit shopping list of of wage
Top of the list is the extensic
fritals of morthern Irelan
control routes, close "provocative" ban placards and restrict the playing
Other steps to combat "politi cal violence and hooliganism nctude ine selective nanning o
the Tameside bar was limited to five weeks, racher than the three months maximum Falon's because such a ban would bave interfered with the 13 November
Some police are also seeking
ew law enabling press and T
seized, ti detect orience prosecute those invalved'. wasn't made clear whether such photographic material would be
available for delenci purposes, to provide evidence o Durham.
af the Police Superintendents, But Peter Hawkins, presiden Piessey came up with the most bizarre political, trade union and reli pious leaders to scay away trom demos in Jurure because they were unwittingly being 'used by mob cicicots As an excuse 1c
reater violence and atracks o
he police". Whatever happene
ocial democracy and the
WOMEN'S been pur
nalists
group,
manageiticht.
sixth in line.
the bobine
News
In
Brief
by DAYE CARTER SEVEN HUNDRED workers are oscupying Eaton' Axies lactory in County Durham on a rota basis
management have refused to
wage agrecment because of the 12-month rule. The Engineering Union had negotialed a progressive consolidation
rates in the basic grades two and ahalf yearsago, but it was delaved by the Social Contract.
The workers say that since the Contract ended en 3l July. the agreement slould sow be put into
Management wants to use the 12-moih rule to cost the agreement again, as part of a 1978 wage negotiation.
In a struggle which is seco as a test case by both sides, a work to rule led to lay offs, a lock-out by management, and now the occupation of the factory.
The shop stewands commitroe at
beeo a leadiog supporter of two recent confer ences in the ares against the Social Contract, as well as answering th Darlington jourmalises" call for mass picketing in their light for a closed shop. The occupiers nos deserve the widest support for their own struggle
Messages ro: Shap Steward Committee, Euton y Axles, New tom Apolffe Trading Estale, Cu occupied SIX HUNDRED workers Plessey hydraulies factory Swindoo occupled the plant last week to forestall attempts br manapement to songe a lock-our
Management had threstene to close the factory if the workers continued ta take industrial action over honas pasments. reach o the a ude. claim is in
But Transport Union senior shop steward Des Moffar exa pay claim at all. All we have been demanding is that hold-ups caused by management incoa petence should nor be paid for out of our packets
"Al present we are losing at least E4 a weck of our bonus. We are nor taking issue aver a nen bonos scheme, simply demand ing the implementation of th existing one, The plant is Dow barricuded and the oocupaton 1s
ecred action committ in by a democratical
dustrial Estate, Swindon. Women's equality
EQUALITY has firmly in its place during pensions negociations at
Three Natal Union of lour
nepotiatars, representing one of the largest chapels in the
set down their own list of priorities for the meeting with
Two of them ranked equalit
ether alaced ( ninth in his list of 12 objectives. And this although the dants of a woman contributor lo
• pension on her death. while dependants ol male contributors teocive suhstantial sums.
The NUl's policy is for non discriminatory pension schene and the chapel had already beei inforned by a pensions expert that the schemie was extremely unfair to women and should be drastic ally improved. To the credit. these facts bave just been disclosed in its journal.
Soclailat Challenge, e Cetaber 1877, p4
Scottish socialists join IMG AT ITS annual conference last weekend, the Scottish Socialist League pert of the expelled left-wing of the Scotish Labour
Group 'as a step towards huild.
piedged to support the National Rank-and-File delegate confermembers will be seeking dele-
Reading
AS PRESSURE moents. the borough council in Reading Is huvins second thourhis un
lase the town hall on 29 October
of the poisc'y comitter has said that they are seriously recoesidering the deciMean while preparations by antifascists are well anderway. Reading Trudes Council is orgunising a mas bicket and varlous bigek organisations have expressed their hostility to the scheduled meeting.
Socialists from the Workers Party. International
Workers Power have set up the 29 Oetober Commiltee do co-ordinate Leir work and are preparing a demhas been pledged by Onford and Basingstoke anti-fascist committees, as mellas by a new anti-fascist committee formed by Brucknell Labour Parly In lust week's Socialist Challenge we misreported the time af the picket. Itis at 1lam and not in tintive taken to call u united left meeting for 6 October was by Reading Trades Council, not the IMG.
Bradford
FOLLOWING a wave of fascist
tracks on left bookshops an
ther buildings in Bradfor those was organised by the local anti-fascist committec. Over two
Contreunist Marxist Group as well as black organisations, both sections of the indian Workers sociations and the Bradford Women's Group
The metine was chaired by an official representative from the Trades Council, It was agreed to set up a broad-based anti-fascist organisation in the city including all those who attended
A further boost for anti-fascists
apie when the local fascis bos
Fright (wbe owns a small bail: ing firm and a restored castle un Speiat) and his henchman Smith from the National Front were caught in a get-amay car by the police after a attack on a left bookshep
The regional lendership of the NF (leader Andrew Brons of Stechford fame) asked themn to de the proper thing and resign before their tris! began, NF has. however, asked them to continue as members and offf cials. But Smith refases to come back and has resigned in disgust
A NATIONAL FRONT nEWTpaper seller atracked a left-wing shopping precinet on Seturday
Workers Part, was stabbed str moinher of the rimes and is now in hospizal in a
gularly aned by the NF and ti
ii for piper sul
Party physically assalter militants selling Socialist Challenge and Socialist Worker in the shopping precinet in Bury rHy
This follows an Reface by the as foi ate left-wing meering in menthers in the arer have also ДИСРСЕ Saturday. SWP recelved threatening teleptone
The poice lew made ar arres bar if is not Reown wiether any charges have been inad.
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abortions in the country.
control over reports.
Two medical students training in the area presented a submission to the inquiry, but unable to present their owe evidence for fear of victimisation
itself a testimony to the anti-abortion Mafia's reign of
Professor Peter Huntingford provide out-patient units on a national scale and pointed out that only 10 per cent of abortions in Birmingham were on the NHS.
Birmingham Ciry Councillor Theresa Stewart maintained that South Birmingham was the worst
tries in the country, provid and 13 croons in 15
Because of tight contro
y two Roman Cathotic gynat cologists. Way an he provided by the British Pres have to rely nancy Advisory. Service: working class worrian has to find E66 to ger an abortion in this
7 DAYS
John Magee reports from Belfast
The Royal Victoria is sited at the junction of the Falls and Gros enor Konds in the heart of Re ublican West Belfast. For som time the Army has ased the
ospital tower hocks to spy on th surrounding Carbolic district
demonstration
Broadway end of the hospital in which it regularly and brutalised people lifted in the Catholic Falls The Broadway complex faces the notorions "Village line
TEn LITOWI "suspects" onto the
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neutrality the hospital has been furthe
rolated by the Army and the
B'ham Day of Inquiry exposes
Anti-abortion mafia
The stranglehold by anti-abortion gynaecologists in the Birmingham health area has won the city an unenviable place in the Guinness Book of Records. It is the area with the lowest proportion of National Health Service
A Day of Inquiry on 1 October, organised by the Birmingham Rational Abortion Campaign and attended by over 100 people, aimed to expose this record and present the positive alternatives to the consultants'
women's fertlity. SARAH ROELOFS
In January the Area Health Authority agreed to the provision of an out-natient ani and in creased NHS facilities, but pro gress is being blocked by the medical hererchy and administration. Dr. Condee, erlagist from Dudey Hospital.
services should be removed from abortion gynaccologists and envisaged a SLEE OT OUTSECULOOSE staffed and maintained by sym patbetic general practitioners.
Women from BPAS, Brook Centre, National Union of Pub с Етріоусс Radica wives, City NAC sad Sour Birmingham NAC save evidence, as well as persona testimony from women attending he Inquiry. One nurse said: sed to throw aborted foetuses it Car less of a crime than seeing a child unloved and unwanted in supports a crime...
in the
6 COUNTIES
The Immunity enjoyed by the Health and Social Services Board in the North of Ireland throughout the present conflict is inserious jeopardy thanksto recent actions taken by the British Army at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.
RUC using it for rendezvous with informers.
Consistant warnings from th rovisional IRA th
workers to rid themselves of the the belfast e
interrogated ation calling for the immediate vithdrawal from the hospital.
Lion was immediately disowned by the local NUPE bureaucras: answer.
FELL
surrounding
wire. They administers British evoked the there, ist remember fuge for the sick and injured being used to facilitate the cam Ban of men here the Repub Better will, place resolutions at
Ireland.
build for the 29 October.
ted the lobby of the Party conference
own AHA
ingham, Ten Years On.
Trafalgar Road, Moseley, Midgroups als
SING TEME Morement]. action
of British soldiers
This resoluyou hear
dest the Brirish An
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country.
Yvonne Taylor summed up for Birmingham NAC, saying that they had positive solutions to offer women through a campaign for out-patient facilities, to force MC MINO CANDY OUT abortion gynecologists, and to
NAC
Birmingham NAC has suppor
Labour on 5 October Campaign, and is pleketing its
on 27 October. Birm in ham NAC's new pamphiet, 1907-1907-Aboruon 10 tArm
25p, car NAC, 133 Bir-
The National Abortion Campeign has hired a train to take itr supporters from London to Bir mingham on 29 October. If yo are marchine in Birmingham and will be travelling from or through
and lo
cost El return. Buy now from CUTO HOTEC WAS ATTAC NAC. 0 Camden Rond, London
SWANSEA NATIONAL ABORTION CAMPAIGN
1. NAC Caravan and display in Neath and Port Talbot
Steelworks. Seturday 8 Octobe
the Working Women's Charter Show by the
Cisco: Tuesday 11 October 7.30pm, Swansea Univeralty Union
coffee-bar. Creche. More details from Swanse 59508 or 14
Bryn-y-Mot Crescent, Swanses,
SOCIALISTCHALLENGE Public Forum
Ireland: the struggle continues a socialistperspective
Juest speakers: Bernadetle MeAlisky [Independent
Socialist Party]: Brendan Kelly (Movement for a
Socialist Republic]; Fergus O'Hare [Peoples Demo-
cracy]: Alistair Renwick [United Troops Out
Friday 14 October, 7.30pm, at NUFTO Hall, Jockeys
Fields, off Theobalds Road, near Holborn, WCI.
Admission 65p. All welcome.
IRELAND'S OFPRESORS
UNITED
NIVFMENT
Defend Peter Grimes
from the Terror Act
A Pie Cour on Deter Creed der or Minin A PICKET of Old Street ugl
eing mounted in protest spalas
is arrest and charying of Pai
Let Ine Lara Ur D
the Irish Republican Socialst
Party support groups in the
NOT THE CHURCH - NOT THE STATE
NAC caravan
on the road
THE NATIONAL Abortion Campaişn caravan is now on tales to set rie and strict road touring England and on women's abortion rights
min cham on 29 October.
Pirate Jenny Il, the London-based theatre group, will be and ERNESCUT Members of the United Troops Out Movement plakted the meeting Callaghan and trish Premier Jock Lynch Ja Wednesday. The mooting oppoors to have been a nop event. Certaini CAch Showed no sions of tro ganou his party's official policy or a 'British commitment io an orderly withdrawal" from the Six Counties.
Information', a condition
Peter's 03.000 bail Tas been th he makes no coatset with alber 1KSP members. Detend IRSP) right l0 attending this picken testine bo
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE • October 1977 page 1 WOMEN MUST DECIDE THEIR FATE
joining the caravan in many
iowas with its highly amusing
ing Back, The first week of the
tour is being spent in the South
followed by a week in Lob0on
The caravan will then move
up to the North, visiting Liver
CHAMELEET HOLDE
cities. The final week leadin
Mila ne mact will be in the
Look out for the caravan and
theatre group in your area!
an Dont ace track
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Weekend school
THE INTERNATIONAL Mar
ist Group is organising a week
end school on Ireland on 15: an
16 Ocloner. It is open to
members and syre parhisers of th
IMG and invitations have abu
senl to Workers League
Big Flame, and a number of Inst
al Societ Cellege
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The Basis For Re
Ppe, 8 October 1977. p6
INTRODUCTION
Socialist Challenge has consistently campaigned for a
unified revolutionary organisation. We do not belleve
that such a unity can be brought about simply by
agreement on the immediate tasks confronting us
today. Nor, on the other hand, do we belleve that only
Trotskylsts supporting the Transitional Programme of
the Fourth International, which was adopted in 1938,
can be considered as revolutionaries.
revolutionary can ultimately only be determined by how
It acts in the greatest tests of the international class
struggle. What side it takes in the clash of contending
social forces.
between revolutionary currents on the one side, and
reformist and centrist ones on the other, cannot be
determined by simply verbal support for historical
programmes, leave alone by all the clauses and sub-
clauses in a full revolutionary programme.
or opposition to class-collaborationist governments,
opposition to the bourgeoisle of one's 'own' country in
Imperialist wars, the necessity to destroy the existing
State institutions of the bourgeoisie, and so on.
for discussion in the paper and within the left. We
welcome contributions and amendments on the draft.
A discussion on the draft and alterative contributions
the paper's supporters to be held In the new year.
The constraints of capital
1 The material basis to begin to liberate humanity from hunger, misery, and the drudgery labour already exists. For the first time in history, there is the possibility of destroying racism and national oppression, achieving the liberation of women, guaranteeing democratic rights, and achieving the freedom to develop culture, science and all human capacities. mmodiato withdrawal from Irelandi
The character of an orgnaisation claiming to be
Thus the Marxist method of drawing a dividing line
It has to be determined on such questions as support
Socialist Challenge Is putting forward an initial draft
and amendments will be taken at the first conference of
Editorial Board 2 What prevents these achievements is the existence of capitalism and the activities of those who defend it. Two world wars, tascism, racism, sexism, and the threatened destruction of the natural environment are the price that has been paid for the survival of this system. It offersthe world nothing more than increasing coonomic crises, imperialism, the distortion of science and culture, and ultimately the threat of
nuclear annihilation. Capitalism threatens human civilisation with catastrophe.
The road to liberation
3 The social force capable of leading the struggle for the establishment of socialism is the working class. Every movement for the defence and extension of: human production, values, and democratic rights: national, sexual, and racial liberation; culture, and science can achieve these aims only by linking itself to the struggle of this class for socialism.
The working class for its part can achieve its liberation only by fighting to destroy not only economic oppression, but all forms of sexual, national, racial, and cultural oppression. The socialist
and the socialist reconstruction of society itself represent the fusion, not merely of the conomic and political expropriation of the ruling capitalist class, but also of the struggle for the liberation of all oppressed people.
What we light for
4 As part of the struggle for socialism revolutionaries defend every historically progressive gain which has been made, and support every struggle for the interests of the exploiled and oppressed. They do not counterpose thestruggles of today to the socialism of tomorrow, but understand that the fight for even the most minimal needs will increasingly clash with the interests of capitalism.
Only those who reject strategic compromises with the capitalist class, and are prepared to fight it to the end will be able to defend the most elementary needs oflife. In theescalatingstruggleot social classes, revolutionaries advance those necessary demands and forms of struggle which - to meet the needs of the exploited and oppressed - will increasingly clash with the bases of capitalist power. Britain the present time this includes the following: * The struggle for a decent standard of living; the protection and advance of living standards against inflation; the right to a job; the defence and extension of welfare state provisions; the ending of commercial secrecy; the establishment of workers' controlof production; the nationalisation of all major banks, firms, and industries; the establishment of a democratically planned economy, through a socialist revolution. * Against sexual oppression and for the liberation of women; free abortion and contraception on demand: equal educational and training opportunities; free 24-hour community-controlled State nurseries; an end to discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation; the socialisation of domestic labour; the building of a mass women's movement. * Against racism; abolition of the immigration laws; defence of the black community: self-defence by the working class and oppressed against fascist organisations; full self-organisation of the black community. * Defence of democratic rights; repeal of repressive legislation; total independence of the trade unions and all mass organisations of the oppressed from the State; release of all political prisoners; abolition of the monarchy and House of Lords; the right of all employees, including those of the State to join a trade union or political party; support of all democratic rights of members of State forces, which weaken
the cohesion of these organisations, in preparing for the disbandment of the Socist revolution or Ine stanciag army, capitalist police, and other repressive forces; self-defence of workers and the oppressed against capitalist violence. * The struggle for workers demo cracy; the clection with an automatic right of recall of all officials in the working class movement; no labour movement official to be paid more than the average wage of a skilled worker; mass democratic organisation of all struggles; therepeal of all political bans and proscriptions and the right to form opposition tendencies in the trade unions and labour movement
Internationalism
5 The struggle for socialism is international. The only reliable ally the working class and oppressed of one country have is the struggle of the exploited and oppressed other BABOOS The great victories against imperialism won by China, Cuba, and Vietnam have internationally weakened capitalism and its supporters. The struggleof workers and other oppressed people in Eastern Europe and other bureaucratically dominated States weakens the bureaucracy of the USSR and the international Stalinist system.
The victory of socialist revolution in an imperialist country would have immense repercussions on a global scale. Following a successful revolution
any State, the construction of socialism could not be completed in a single country, but only as part of the international extension of the revolution. The working class of Britain and every otber country can be victorious only through linking themselves indissolubly to the international class struggle.
In Britain our necessary internationalist tasks include the fight for:
• Immediate and unconditional British military and political withdrawal from Ireland and the right of its people to self-determination; the release of all Irish political prisoners and the repeal of the 'Prevention of Terrorism' Act; the creation of a mass solidarity movement to help those fighting against British imperialism to achieve these aims.
• Immediate withdrawal of all British forces from abroad; independence for all remaining colonies; unilateral nuc lear Bricain and withdrawal from NATO and all imperialist alliances; breaking of all links with the racist white-settier regimes of Southern Africa; support of all struggles for national liberation; support for all exploited countries in struggles against imperialism; defence of any States which successfully overtbros CaDEts 35m
* The right of the people of Scotland and Wales to determine what their relationship to the British State should be, including the right to their own independence if they so wish.
* Support and defence of all struggles for buman, social, and democratic rights in the USSR and other bureacratically dominated States: support for the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the Stalinist burcaucracies.
*Support of all international workers' struggles; total opposition and defeatist in imperialist war.
BATTLE
A Draft State
Against stralegic alliances w
Capilal
6. The struggle for the needs of t oppressed and exploited is in irreconc able contradiction with the interest capitalism and its supporters. The fig for even the most basic human nigh involves an increasing clash with ti structures of capitalist society. It is th reality which determines our actions revolutionary socialists. The struggle of the working class and oth oppressed people independently of t capitalist class is the only road success. Neither in the imperinl countries nor in the colonial world there any fundamentally progressi section of the capitalist class with whi the working class can ally to solve t problems facing society.
While the working class will engage temporary practical action with a
DUTH LONDO
AGAINST
RACISM
Ada/net racism, tree abortion on deman
force prepared to wage a serious strug to achieve the goals of the oppressed, strategies wen Sock to a tac bus with sections of the ruling class - wi controls, coalition governments w parties of the bourgeoisie, limiting t goals of struggles in colonial countr to capitalist ones — serveonly to weak and finally defeat the struggle
It is solely the independent fight their own goals by their own means t the working class and its allies colonial countries above all in alliar with the peasantry — which can bri victory.
The Labour Lieutenants of Capita
7 The chief organised force within workers" movement in Britain hold back the struggle against the capita class is the bureaucratic leadership
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volutionary Unity
FIDEAS
ment Of Aims
the labour movement. These labour lieutenants of capital attempt at all costs to contain the struggle of the workers within the limits of bourgeois rule and bourgeois democracy, but do not hesitate to hand the working class over to the most vile and barbarous forms of dictatorship if they fear that capitalist rule may be threatened by working class resistance to the ruling class. In Britain we have had eight Labour governments, all of which have supported cuts in living standards, imperialist wars, racism, attacks on women and a wholearray of reactionary policies. The supporters of these Labour leaderships in the trade unions have prevented the Tabour movement carrying out any serious struggle for the needs of the working class and oppressed.
Their entire record and position in society shows that it is a reactionary and utopian illusion to see a transition to
S
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WE HAVE
THE RIGHT
TO CHOOSE
socialism achieved by a Labour govemment, or that these leaderships will carry out any serious struggle against capitalIsm. The influence of the bureaucratic leadershin of the labour movement over the masses must be totally defeated if the struggle for socialism be successful. This struggle involves creating new political organisation of the working class and building oppositions to the policies and position of the bureaucratic leaders within the trade unions and other mass
The Soviet Bureaucracy
* While the central obstacle to the victory of socialism in Britain is the national and international capitalist system togetber with the labour bureau. cracy tied to the working class, the
greatest international aid received by capitalism comes from the burcaucracy of the Soviet Union and similar States. The entire experience of Stalinism in the East has provided the most crucial ideological cement in helping canitalism to maintain its rule.
The system established by Stalin in overturning the principles of the Russian Revolution, murdered the Icadership of the Bolshevik Party, and liquidated millions of revolutionaries and workers. It carried out this entire policy in pursuit of its bureaucratic survival and in the framework of the reactionary utopian illusion and policy that socialism can be built in one
The Soviet bureaucracy today still exercises a complete monopoly of political power and represses all oppositions and moves for workers' democracy in Russia, the oppressed nations within the Soviet Union, and in Eastern Europe. This bureaucracy subordinates to its own interests of classcollaboration with the bourgeoisie all parties throughout the world which follow its line.
The defeat of parties which slavishly follow its line, as well of the "Eurocommunists', who seek to accomodate between the Soviet bureaucracy and the bourgeoisie of their own country, is an indispensible part of the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism.
Mass Working Class Organisations
9 Despite the reformist and counterrevolutionary character of the Socialist and Communist Parties they differ from all Tory, Liberal, and capitalist nationalist' parties in that they together with the trade and other formations → remain organisations of the working class. Furthermore a clear distinction has to be made between the reformist leaders of parties such as the Labour Party in Britain or the Communist Party in Italy and the millions of workers who continue to either support or belong to them.
Despite fundamental disagreements with the policies and leaders of these parties, revolutionaries defend these organisations against ruling class attacks and persistently demand that they break with the interests and organisations of capitalism. Revolutionary socialists fight for united action of all parties and organisations of the working class to defend the interests of the exploited and oppressed.
The struggle for State power
10 The victory of socialism can only be brought about by the working class winning and holding State power. The capitalist economy, racism, the family, and all forms of social oppression are defended and maintained by the capitalist State. All bistorical experience (Vietnam, Chile, South Africa) demonstrates that a threatened ruling class will stop at nothing to stay in power. Capitalist leaders are fully prepared to unleash violenoe and bloody repression against the oppressed.
The military bureaucratic State machine around which every capitalist State is ultimately based cannot be reformed, or transformed in its class character. wished out of existence. It has to be encountered, smashed, and replaced by a new State machine based on the
HEARNE oppressed and exploited. The central goal of revolutionary strategy is to secure the means to achieve this.
The road to victory
11 The victory of socialist revolution in the West can only come about through the creation of a system of workers' democracy which allows the masses to control their lives on every level. A similar system is vital to overthrow the bureaucracies in the USSR and the East.
Such a system of workers' democracy has its first embryos within the organisations of the working class and oppressed. But to confront and destroy ruling ciass power, and create new institutions of socialist democracy after the revolution, proletarian democracy has to be developed beyond the restrictive confines of the parliamentary system.
Only workers councils representing all sections of the oppressed masses can fulfill such a function. Such a system, to adequately express the interests of the working class and oppressed, must guarantee therighrof all political parties which respect the institutions of workers" democracy to function and exist, and must ensure the independence of the trade unions, women's movement, black and other organisations from the State.
A similar system has to be fought for in the USSR and in all countrics under bureaucratic domination. Such asystem is the only one which. with the International extension of the revolu tion, cnables the transition to socialist society to occur:
Consequences of Capilalism
12 The existence of a bureaucratic laver which constitutes the leadership of the labour movement is rooted not in accidental errors of policy, but in the fundamental conditions of imperialist society and in the case of Stalinist parties in the existence of bureaucratised States such as the USSR.
The ability of the labour bureaucracies to mislead the masses is rooted in the fact that under normal conditions, the mechanisms of the capitalist State based on imperialism continue to dominate
WE DEMAND UNION
RECOGNITION
UNITE • OVERCOME The sociatorce capable of leading the struggle for the establishment of socialiam is the working class
society as a whole. These mechanisms systematically prevent the majority of the working class from having a clear grasp of the nature of capitalism.
It is only in periods of massaction and profound crisis of the bourgeois system that the oppressed masses in their majority gain a clear understanding of the system which confronts them and the tasks necessary to overthrow it. If the masses have not been prepared long in advance to go over to a conscious understanding of a revolutionary programme, cach wave of action will b diverted by the bureaucratic leadership of the workers' movement; will reced like previous waves. and will leave behind the crisis of society unresolved. Itisthis central struggle for the victory of the working class and the establishment of its political power, involving the
FOR AN OPEN DISCUSSION
tor a revolutionery socialist organisation.
towards revalotionary positions.
in the light for revolutionary socialist unity.
year.
Socialist Challenge, 6 October 2977, p11 fight against theleadership of the labour movement, that requires the building of a revolutionary socialist party. It is this central fight for the creation of working class political power against the policy of the bureaucratic leadership of the labour movement that requires the building of a revolutionary socialist organisation. Such an organisation to maintain its consistent defence of the interests of the working class, and to be based in the real conditions under which it must act — can only be built through full internal democracy, including the right to form opposition tendencies and factions, and full unity in action Given the international character of the class struggle and the revolutionary process itself, such an organisation must seck to build and bocome part of a revolutionary international.
Socialist Challenge submits these posiiions as the basis for the construction of a unified revolutionery organisation. We believe thet, elaborated and improved through discussion, they constitute & principled basis
Such an organisation however cannot be crealed overnight, A process of comtadely debile, inlied work, and discussion of ideas and experiences has to be established between dilferent groups and thou sands of individuals who have arrived at or are moving Socialst Challenge alms to play a role in this by opening its columns to all those engaged in struggle against the capitalist class and bureaucracies, by providing space lor debate of different ideas in the struggle for soclalism, and by uniting through its editorial board and common activities those engiged
in that sense we see our paper ss an Important next step in the struggle and appeal to our readers to organise themselves in Sociallet Challenge groups. utilise our columns to aid their struggle tight for revolutionary socialist organisations to anify, and help In prepering the conference we will schedule for next
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Apartheid transplant in the
Indian Socialist Speaks
origin, will be emigrating to Bolivia this year.
This information was originally published in Bolivia by the Movemont of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), dated 12 Fehruary. Despile repression and strict press
spread quickly, astonishing many
Four days later it was picked up by Agence France Presse and published the following day in the Catholic morning paper Presencia.
On 18 February, in Paris, Le Monde broadcast the news to the world. The plan was welcomed by the Bolivian Government which initially backed the operation with $150 million.
he HOlA government had been planning the deal since April
Then the Minister Planning and Co-ordination General Juan Lechin Suarez, had talks with the Intergovernmental
Development Bank
D) with the aim nimigration to promotin
Bolivia to roceiving an unlimited number or ronuguese colocists
LOCALYS
visit it was apparently impossible to put any aureement.
POPULAR
But at the end of 1976, the resurgence of the armed struggle in Namibla and Zimbabweand the
Africa posed the European Governments with the problem of the absorption of the former white
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to visit a tighlet
Granwhile the West German Coverment has poded futcher meaning to ite ponsepe di dem tronch Parliament which cir bles theip to cur off mpriso
aucuide world, The worried car roomany defence
or is the alage landed to the cualtion putty, the Prer Being SE, is in turmed after Is gout
aiDed approcal to be Kall
He Chief Federal Prosci
so Suppe to the Come
INTERNATIONAL
heart of Bolivia
A hundred and fifty thousand white settlers from Rhodesia, Namibia and South Africa, mainly of German and Dutch
Alrica in the near future. Not being in a position to confront the wang social and cooponne pres lems preventing the integration of the settlers in their country orimit. the povertients of We Germany, and to a lesser extent the Netherlands and Britain, looked tot a sowtion to tae probica in Latin America.
So the West German Govern ment discreetly called a meeting in Costa Rica, attended by represen ratives of the governments Argentina, Brazil,
way and Venezuela. The
30,000 white families from the souther African offered a credit of $150 million Foo the operation, which would be caried out under the auspices of
Hrazil and Venezuela said they would only take professional an
echnically qualified people wh would be rigorously Uruguay and
dilficult political situation in their
ountries. Only th
Jovertinent accepled the nan as whole and appointed a high commission' to carry it out.
On 9 January 1977, of saftening up public opinion, Guido Strauss, Immigration Undersecretary at the Ministry of the intenor burnco mis plan ic promote the entry of significant vroups of white immierants bE GEORGE FERNANDES led the Eumous ruilway workers' strike in India In 1974. He was a counsgeous opponent of the State of Emergency Imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1975 und wes impri-
Socialist Party into the predominantly right-wing Juneta Party and joined the new Goy-
He was recently In London. Tariq All spoke to him, G.M. Conkson took the photographs.
Dutch and German origin, pa ticularly from Namibia, Zimbab and South Africa. Bolivian public ornson, used to hearin different policy statements from Government spokespeople, did not attach much significance to Strauss's statement.
The project went ahead until, on 14 February, the Bollvian Gover mcut received a visit from Senor Leon, in charge of CIME in Latin America, clarity delals or ine plan. where the future immigrants were
Izogog, areas of the richest agricultural land and the huge oilbearing reserves in the Easter Uru- Department of Santa Cruz and West Beni,
ADVANTAGE countries, and
These areas have considerable advantages: not only those already mentioned but also the SISTER MOVES IOCHE infrastracture of roads, irrigation and services in general.
These same areas had originall selected. been designated for the interna
nigration of thousands of pe the
carest and most populated ares Bolivian f the valleys and Altiplane. Th
ment had ostensibly been to give these peasants an adequate stan-
The potential transplant thousands of white racists to
serious example of a solidarity between the right-wing You're best knowa for your tol IN BIC EVEN WINCES SWILCD 1974. In retrospect why do you think it was smashed?
Because of our own inade quate organisation. Most of 1b leadership was not prepared to visualse the kind or reoression chat would be let loose. This neant that ways of counterin
link up with the rest of the trade
portantly with the mass of the peaple. It became a pure an simple Industrial action by rallworkers. overlooked its revolutionary GEORGE FERNANDES: "Vanata hes accepted the socialist.idaa/.
the final The areas LTE mally link of
growing
'Caste and language more
important than class'
potential.
throw of the regime mus possible:
her regime. hot devel Secondly our fallure li
coalition?
We completely
brasil
BOLIVIA
Haste trur
nd America. The United State Argentina.
in the Kissinger crewas enthusiastic champion of the 'South Atlantic Treaty Organisation' (SATO), which would for
these right-wing "Toe change in US policy in Alrica under the Carter administration has placed the project in in Combate, abeyance, though it is still fondly entertained by South Africa and
Did you bellere when you were in brison thal un decioral over
Ladira Gandhi
did not believe it.
Seale caught here was n
1 thought there was chance of a free election under
Most people were surprised at case our ripid iratelden from HOUSE THE imprisoned trade union leader io a minister in a bourgeois goversment, way did you join lau
Well, in the circumstances in which we found ourselves, had
• SANTA CRUZ
paragasy And it cansor be ruled out that the Waited State or the European powers who have been instrumental in tbi good plan, may takc up co SATO cause again in the future.
This article originally appeared
the Spanish langu pepper of the swedishsection of the Fowth International aloof at first as I wanted to worl for the mass organisations of the
HENCE WerE people who felt thai my not joining the Government would
and probles. They insisted chat
we had all got rid of the dictatorshiD topether i shoud serve in the Government, In any
Janata has acopted the
But the strongest pole within Juista is the night-wing, comme nalist Jung Sangh. This organise ton has always opposed an been opposed by socialists and communata. Do you really
Socialist Challenge, 6 October 1977. p13
In Brief
CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Vladi-
mir Lasturka and Ales Macha
cek, supporters of the Charter
77 human rights manifesto
have been sentenced to three
and a half years in jail for sub
version'. The Charler demande
the implementation of certain
clauses of the Constitution.
FRANCE: The Goverument
has introduced a new scheme
for cash-induced repatriation
of immigrant workers, Indivi
dual letters have been sent to
50,000 immigrants, but only
3,600 have agreed to reparria
Bon. The plan, which was de
BOUTLOODY union and left-
wing leaders racist, came
only a few days after a report
try thems France ni
relations organisation
warned of increasing racis
attacks, 11 secims that the
danger does not just lie with the
racist fringe.
Leading let wine the
leading Jett winger
People's National
Party, has resigned as the
Minister
Prime Michae
Manley has recently concludes
nternational Monetary Fun
and imposed wage limits. Duo-
the first of a series of splits a
the PNP drifts rightwards.
MOZAMBIQUE: Voting
elections for village assemblies
last week began a process to
culminate in elections to the
National Poople's Assembly in
nominated by the ruling Fre
limo party.
POLAND: Stanislow Pietrasz
ko, a student who testified at
so inquiry into the mysterious
death of a dissident
carlier this cate one dead an ein
ed circumstances. A statement
by the Workers Defence Com
mustee reports that his bod
was found Boating in an artifi-
cial lake. show that the waite populion ZIMBABWE: Latest
tion, ar a rate of 9.000 a veer. If
this continues, there will he no
bet it's unlikely that the black WHICH I BY TIC CAE ME
population wants to wait that
jong
believe that Jean Saugh leader have chunged their spots?
Politicians keep changing everywhere and especially India In our conditions thi right-jell split doesn't maki much sense. Caste and language are more important than class
State repression is contimuing In the towns and the coentryside. What would It taice to get you out oF the Goveranent?
It's lifticult to fors
crent of future cinshes. I thi
sorkers appeciate the probler facing the country nd I don chink we'll see the same sort of Struggles that we've seen in the
. I don't visualise the situa ton you anticipate.
A mumber of Maoists have been released, bet what about th Nugas? Do sopport the right to self-determination?
Certainly not. No one in India Hans Ba smog 10c 1982 Jeaders tbemseives.
So George Fernandes, like his counterparis in the British Labour Party, has rapidly to the right. As Minister for Industry he is widely res pected by Indestrialists becaus he is a Ture satanal: no is so corrupt.
But moral fervour cannot dea with Indian capitaliom either
SEne indentlons are thai Fernandes and his sapporters wil be squeezed eat of office over the coming years, unless of cours they accept all the necessities' office such as olling workers ant pessoats, Imprisoning students and banning trade anioes.
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COMMENT
as With concern that a note Doubter the Labour Mea Nontrampion. We inink a mis-
FE
acked by ICL and Sociallai Challenge supporters.
Implications.
When, In the shirties, tha
demand arose for a govermen
ban on fasciet marches, this was
introduce legislation which
could effectivaly be used agsinst
And. Indeed workers
ocessions were banned in the
East End of London. cluded the traditional May Day
Socialist
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Workem and Left Action for real
The central question at issu
NF ban a victory?
MaTES OLD demonstrations in support of th ambattied Spenish worers and The er the Pite Dider All Me uns tree train che Petron the wan TBAS banned in several parts o LOndon cher of the Matara balan e Althouch those bans wors Fascists, what the ruling class really leared was the reaction of lion Time nd again the ben is 13. Pance 1n 100 hae been used age and a 12 month ban in rallies in Tratalgar Squam in order 1o
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We have scheduled an Interviow with Maureen Colquhoun for a forthooming issue — Ed. onlinen of Commi seri 100.
The last ban was in 1974, top the funeral procession James MeDaid. ite IRA man who died in a British gaol after a hunger strike.
It can be taken for granted that hich Had den the Matte Front the use of the town hail fo
not the see to ne
The forces of taw and order
will always concentrate their fir against the anti-fascisis, and 4h8 taek of clearing the streets of the
Team my the war e
mase picket at Grunwick.
eliminate
ILORED SAN GELDEREN threat
GARTER
Thursday
Wanted:
a
for
struggle
WE ARE surprised that An-
thony Barnett's articie (15 Sapt
ember) has provoiced no editorial
response. Wie feel that some
comment is necessary and en-
dorse his plea for honesty on the
CT5. This goes beyond the contex
In order to be honest as sociai-
ists we must develop and pra
of the economic and poiltica
situation in which we are workbegun this
are prepared to admit t
The first precondition is re
cognising seat ing surent siru
acion is not revolutionary
doesn't offer immediate revolu
tionary prospects.
we must work, through ope
economic and political changes
which would create more favour-
able conditions for revolut Tro
orkin
ions dreased up as a pro crate hope that the November Socialient Unity Conference
seen In this
BE POIE TO COFFE
one-off affair ratifying one or
NORMAN ANd SALLY WATSON
Tribunite MP we participate in
September) that
and revolution. vehicle for
Fuller.
Man*
uncritically Fuller le able to
Given the Nationa trom
Wing him
reluciantly supported
cannot be lelt to
the fascist
programme boycott
of
Iran
SOME TIME
the lott has hardiy
task, although lew
called for a of the
Glvan or revolutionary inten-
light,
JOHN BERGER'S A Painter of our Timo is andeed a fine nove
in an article (22 doals so fully with the relationship betwoen art
Peter Fuller's praise for it is axclusively in political terms: that 'it raised the
of a socialist tuture' where contemporaneous novels
screamed tacogy or to lot
given meaning by their placing
n a fictional work, like the wa) in which Lavin the painter wrest
es with the problems of form in
painting, a guorou
By caricaturing all English
reactionary (Dorls Lessing? Jonn Ardenti and by reducine i all to a monolithic Angry Young
phenomenon (are Colin Macinnas and Alan Stilitoe really
entities at ale groat
thacnetical Storey and Keith Waterhouse?).
pluck Barger any cuttural context, mak dons this invoive?) of his time
Democratise
broadcasting
SHERIDAN many important issues in his
in panicuiet, nis roraranods Te
labour movement here has been
38888088883888333223333333
Cultural
Emitting.
you urging that a cultural boy we wrote to
cott be imposed on Iran because
writers and artists in that coun
This came to a heed last year
Shah's Shires Festival
and we wrole to a number of
supporting It. Now we
proposed boycott was highly
The western democracies did not participate and Mr. Bantley THODOO US A THINNI only one exception: an American
was the La Mama Troupe. The
the director was Andrei Serban
people has made any press statement, and
fram our pone cans, says mar.
KEN COATES (Bertrand Russell
The novels of
our time
and an exile from his country.
The assumption that a novel ideological correctnesa is a Talsification of the experience of reading: do we h ave to deny that much of Lucky Jim Is funny? it to understand that humour than repress it in the name of politice virtue. And what do we make o the great bourgeois writers? Are
LISTELA that few recent British writers have achieved any kind of world view and that moat recent novels have been
Ine bourgeors Aron FougH
painers sind by Marian attempt a fuller world view: the question of the extent of his achievemant is not simply one o
correctness but
creative relationship
If we do not see this, we will simply produce our awn New of broadcasting Is Gomands: slow to appreciate the potential
conservative
But I feel that Is roally too mild a
characterisation of the sitution.
movement in general has. e
Ignored the huge de
sas occurred in the last two ar
half decades. Not only has this
vera in the comed cast an
come much more postle and sountries, but it has als
cheaper in receiving and trans-
The processes used for the
transmisaion of Ideas by the
labour movement here, Includ ing the revolutionary left, are in
Socialist Challenge, & October 1977, p14 Left' novels as predictable and
Stalin's sociallet reallem. And if, like Fuller, we Inalst on treating our favoured novellats as some how delached trom our cultural
There are worse ways of finding working cless is not in a state why David Storey has not writter Marxiat novels and
Ethos 'ways
When I was in the Inter MONS SOCHISS CENTRI Socialist Workers Party, I once suggested leading a diacussio on Berger's G. One comrade said
road it (the meeting was solled uled for three months aheedi
nather suggested that I spok
Dout whatever it was that th Book was aboul and brought i In 'as an axample' Too much
alk like thal too many of the assumptions that Pete makes and we'll bo lucky to have anything worth reading after the Revolution
And A Painter of our Time le
TEPHEN CHALKI
. [London N.19]
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in the carly nineteenth century
mero were stamp taxes Impose
upon newspapers in this cour try, so that they
NUTE HOUS
relatively expensive for the work
spread The Imposition:
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socialists we *demanda to raise the
pening up and democratiestic
long are we going lo accept th
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The gay papers we need, and don't have
by PAULMARRIS
television and other entertainment" industries.
iffected the cinema. Politically production — and film viewing - has burst forth anew on a scale not seen since the thirties. The healthiest sector of the film industry as a whole recognise this, y independent of big capital, th i necessarily politically and aes
sector, because it is objectively (and predominantly subjective
struggle of
working class for a bew world.
In Britain one of the important components of the independent sector is The Other Cinema. It is posed of a dozen women and Cent This id one ones bage an усаг. work we've doing since Tortion has been d constant activity.
Distribution is the rough equivalent in the film medium to publishing in the printed media The Other Cinema distribute
feminist and socialist campaign taries, fearures from the Thind World, and British independent films.
by PHIL DERBYSHIRE
THE STATE of say journalise in Fritain is pretend Gay Left. front Gay News and Gay the only national gay Joumals, there: CSTE produced journals which appear erratically and are subject
changes of editorial
requent
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duced by Lancaster Gaysor and
COMMENT
SEOFF BELL's article on Do
levie's departure lo the Persiar Gult (Socialist Challenge.
Seplember slightly missed the
point. The thinly valled implica
of the "Godfather's attampt 10
bribe opponents was that Revie
nopped it becausehe mali sec that The Mieror wae on to him
Added to the fact that England
Ravie decidea to get out while he
still could. Of course the Mirror
aouldn't have exposed Revie It he
ad been succesarul, but i tnink
daserted English football,
Geoff saya 'is there really that
much differance between a tool-
hail club buying ho can wit
another tea
matchas and buying a player from
another team to lose? Well. yes.
here 1s
UNDER REVIEW
Speakout from The Other Cinema
If you've never been
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nemployment and calm hair are thin deline her a
everywhere are closing. Superimposed upon the general capitalist crisis of profitability is a shift of capital away from this specifie branch of industry, especially into
These are shown by filmt socie-
women's groups, and at political
local film theatre, & in a targe measure made up of films have been able to make available in Britain. endent Film-makers tion, the association that organLee the make patial and as film-makers who work out thetic constraints of the bourgoois film and TV industries.
Our cinema in Central Londor hows the films we bring into dis ribution and many others be ides. Film-makers discuss wit their audiences: there 81c socar on many different political aesthetic topics, campaigns bold meetings and benefits using film. We have recently installed a bar and opened up a clubroom The possibilities are vast. For Instance, with Music for Socialmusic and vilm performances We are currently showing film commercials for zine and Socialist Challenge!
But in the context of an ailing industry we suffer from a contra diction. While what is now the "independent' sector is the artistcally and politically most alive
Is now on to its fifth issue.
IT's exceptional 100 breadth of its content and it commitment to a left come tear to a to cal it, nals, They leaded to repeat old-style Gay articles and sentiments without trying to work them trying mays tele Four of Outcome has articles National Front: the development of left gay groups in France and haly, and the hassles of trying to
Football's real hooligans
eatenesty the Protes aional Footballers Association It is scandalous that a footballer should not have the right to sell his lit is still his skisla) wherever Leighton James, for signed a contract with Derby In eddition, alavars, 80 apportunity of seeing the skills of foreign players in the Englien League.
It is too simple to describe profesaional football as marely loes because At Danington It is said that they changes 1o the tram before thin can will
Vestige and power this often hem. The vast commercial bene ilta are generated as spin-ofte
healthy in the context of
recognise this. In 1973 the couterence of the film-workers union, the Association of Cine mograph and Television Te licians, adopted the policy This il for ted in a dealed report prepared by the union nationalisation makes essential reading for all
their militants
But the lack of a real fight for the implementation of this policy Acrile gain ground as the allowed the right in the nd led to the shelving of th reports film-makers in the inde pendent sector, we are left to Fight for the extension of State suhsidy for our work, while defending and independence in the use of such money. This latter issue was the cal content of the recent succes il dispute sendent Film-makers tion over the contract term offered by Institute Production Board for is tim-making grams State subsidy, in order to organised joint
bution and exhibition, The Otbe Cinema has launched a £25,000 Wedge maga fund drive to raise money from
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clude explicil aul-sorist and pro
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new light on the possibilities of setting up a new nacional paper from the game, rather than trom running the clubs themselves thousands of supporers have in all this? Very little. Only Notting ham Forest company, and it has merely taken reputed to have supporter representation on He
board ant prices to stand in stadiums in conditions which would disgrace denied she a cattle market, And yet
old men who run football wonde terracee!
taking part in a communal event
BROE
comment and analyce
La Saturdey afternoon.
THEMKOC
Bof...
just Like which CECITOU
waged by the Inde Associa
the British Film below.
struggle for around
kids comics, in the was
Emitted lo
rarely What voice do the hundreds of
The fans are charged exhorbit-
why there la violence on the
Ding to watch League foo
means
It is part of the lives of millions of vorking clasa people. Let's hope Socialist Challenge continues to
Far gays -me to sell the paper at 3 o'clock or
HAID
DAVECARTER (Middlesbrough). thanallusing,
Soul
Brain
SMEONES
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Gay New is the gay newspaper as far as everyone is concerned including of course the Mary Whitebouses. And so long as this outlook, is the case we have to defend it. since it is the one contact that many gay people have with the gay world. An attack on it is an attack on gas people, loutcourt
But Gay News is committed to profit and is explicitly not com
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Gay Left is socialist in
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erich can appeal to a broader orienied newspaper
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As we have indicated be
the ban would be utilised ny many poopic to argue that there was now no
mobilise forces against the fascists. This has now happened with a vengeance and must be firmly combatted. The fascists are still intending to make their presence felt somewbere 10
the existing coltfusion it would be futile for anti-fascists to run from one part of the city to another. It would be much more useful
THE BATTLE
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GRUNWICK
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