Socialist Challenge No. 37, 16 March 1978

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Socialist Challenge FRENCH ELECTIONS:

STAY THAT WAY NEXT WEEK? Martin Meteyard and Gilles Giacomin report from Paris - pages 2&11

FIRST ROUND GAINS FOR LEFT

FAR

(LEFT

BUT WILLIT

MINORITY SO MAJORITY

INSIDE

Nuclear

Energy

Page 8

"Confidential'

Documents

from

Zimbabwe

Page 9&16

US Miners'

Strike

Page 12

British

Leyland

Behind Closed Doors

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Editorial 01-359 8180/9. other Leyland plants." top bosses In Leyland

Pat Lowry.

on a national scale,

the House of Commons

of this and a number Callaghan and Varley. But a cove lest British Leytand's credibility is seriously affected demand access to the company's books. are at stake.

viewer, Robin Day, constantly deferred to him. Powell called for the repatriation of 1 million blacks.

arena of oebate was shifted yet further to the Right.

Issues at stake.

companies certainly

neutrality on racism racist leaders (Ludovic Kennedy and Martin Webster

the

capitalism. Not the economic crisis. social services.

partles argue. my area.

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British Leyland behind

closed doors

WAS THE closure of the Spoke factory In Merseyside deliberately engineered by the top brass of British Leyland? The Runcom Guardian, a local weekly paper, suggests so. The paper quotes top management sources as saying that the Speke plant is being used to set an example against

It should be recaried that the dispute at Speke started when Levlend alemoted to raise production fmm 12510 17.5 cars per hour. The Runcorn Guardian claims that it is

hichly confidential document which reveals that 2 203 TRT cars oroducad at Srake were uneaid in the showrooms when the dispute started last November.

The implications of these allegations are obvious. Local managera at opens ne to munco weekly That ine.

deliberately bypassed normal disputes procedures in order to provoke a strike. In addition British Levland Informed is local managers Inat they would be satisfied with nothing loss than an unconditional

elations, was toponcary treatened the Speke management with disciplinary action if there are any more leaks to the press. The services of a well-known law firm (headed by Lord Goodmani have been bought lo prevent further leaks

What these new revelations indicate is that Speke has to ge axed so that Michael Edwardes can pose as a strong and hard boss. This could help to get more public money from

CAN SCHOES

The whole way in which British Leyland is run is an utter scandal. The secret plans to axe warkers go hand in hand with ne not so-secre proes which nave been paid to notables in many countries. We have Indisputable evidence

COT Watsh newspadors have already the racis are in the possession of -up has been carried out

shop stewards and workers in belish Leyland must now

They have every right to know what is baing cooked up, It is their jobs that

Racism and the media

THE BBC had a special programme on immigration' last week The star attraction was Enoch Powell The inter-

As a result the central issue discussed was repatriation. was opposed by Merlyn Rees and William Whitelaw, but the debate was structured in such a fashion that the whole

Many of the well-meaning participants from the studio audience have registered a formal complaint against the programme. They are right to do so, but there are broader

Should the medie be neutral and "balanced' where the question of racism is invalved. Most of the press and TV

appear to think so. They are not neutral or Da arced on the Question ol terrorism, Or or the question of strikes in British industry, The bulk of the media displaye a blatant Tory blas, Why then the misplaced

yuny me band intereows with Tonight)? Why the equation of racists and those whom

In fact the main argument which Labour leaders utilise in reply is in itself raciat, "There's no need for concern, says the social-democratic Tweedindee because we're not letting any more blacks in." You're letting in a few, replies

Tory Tweedledum, and these should be stepped. Black women should find husbands in this country, Surely there are anough black laces to choose from here aiready.

From this it is only a small step forward to repatriation The problem nas been identled. I Is black people. Not

Not the cuts in the Not the urban decay in Britain's cities. the massive out a defence. No, It is none of these. It is the blacks. That is how the politicians of the major poiltical

Anti-racists who are fighting them must at the very least not fall into their trap and accept the limits which they seek do unpose on a mal discussion of the issues at stake The media constantly forces us to do that. We must equaily

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enclose 50p to Send 1o Socialist Challenge, 328/9 Upper St, London N1.

THE MAJORITY of the

The clearly defined parties of the left percent of the vote, divided this way: Socialist Party (PS) 34.7 per cent (of which 2:1 per CORE candidates offered positions on PS ballot slees 3; Communist Party (PCF)20.5 percent; far left 3.7 per cent.

The parties of the government Tory coalition right bold about 47 percent, SERIE

Rally Republic (RPR) taking ner cent. the tilscardiar Baroi

for French Democracy 21,5 per CLUE and other candidates some 3 per cent.

The remaining 4 per cent was divided among a variety otber candidates the ecologists (1.5 per cent) of whom about two thirds can probably be counted in the lett

MARCHAIS

For the first time since the CHISE BACH COTE republic in 1958, the outgoing He minority of the

The Gaullist party suffered a sasht techne in its vote from ahaut 24 per cent in 1973, the

the hasr clections. More President Giscard d'Estaing's projcct of creating a large

iberal bourgeois' failed wtcerly.

His Union Democracys hostily patched together coalition parties centrists and radical within this coalition Ciscard's own party gained only 12 per cent of the vate. While this is an increase sections here takine elections, modest one for a party whose leader is the French President.

been unable to broaden their

political instruments able

the Gaullisa.

On the left, the result of the PS was disappointing. ir did succond a it cost of outdistancing the PCF, it Tell well short of the 27-28 per cent

French elections

float away

especially the workers, want a fundamental change in government. The mood in the factories is one of disappointment at the small size of the majority. On the streets the talk is concentrated on the public display of sectarian bickering by the leaders of the Communist and Socialist parties in the run up to the first round. This sectarianism and disunity could well lead to a defeat for the left in the second round. GILLES GIACOMIN reports from Paris.

predicted in the

Left Radical achieved

Showing of the Ps

has retained its

to lead 22.6 campaign against austerily.

for the far left, due 10 rightist advance made of - Including distrust of

tional parties.

for Although

STIE

vote un clection.

CELIVE importantly,

for French

tbree the Republicans, and

the Republicas.

is a strikingly

parlies have

new

crisis

While

OUR POLICIES

* Te build broad-based class struple beadenties in opposition o doo-cullaborationom in

non exciesive In churacier grouping logethe militants bolding a wide mage of politics * Ta hrein to fight for the creation nf a uni-

inpanbation which can, through an epplicacion vi united front lactick begn in be veer d an aliernative hy humorads of workers ragsund in Such an unpanbation shoeld be based on the

Victory could

population,

night.

arianism previously

of the vote that had beer

polls. The discrepancy between the 52-53

Communists. per cent ine polls had predicted

For the left and the 49 per cent

garne! You chtirely froin the disappointing

capitulating

The PCF, on the other hand blackmail!

traditiona] share of the vote, which ma be considered a victory for the harry appareas. But tantalit

VIDETOU! answer.

A low vote had been expocted

the polarisation berween tbe PS and PCF. Its vote confirms the

in last year: municipal clections, and shows

sections power. workers towards their tradi

To case victors agate tat right in the second round, it is essents that the elt take shens

united

1

MIHIC WE JEEPEIR ARCH MERIEN He bosses milk that uf ather oppre srd layers of societ —women, blad

This vocalism can baly be achired by cacating

2

owner lin miles mentin Indus, with ful rights for all political pantin and rienis thai do mot take up omns ogeinst the socialist scare. The stalinhr modd of socidise in the LSAR and Easters Pampe have discredined sociabom in the tys nif

first reached between the PCF, PS,

and Real one had

much damage already been done.

The text of the agreement underlines the reckless

of the course adopted by WELL PCT, since it resolves none of the questions uround which the Union of the Left split Tast September. Yel now the PCF hails it as a great victory!

That

*You are prisoners of the

Georges Marchais is the master of the

can preserve the unity of the left only by

10 Communist These were the words the representatives of the bourgeons parties addressed to the socialist leaders And the round PS leaders found it difficult to

Teal differences between

PCF would have been to admi that the mass workers nare are split, not over principles but simply over the division ol

there were Important differences and that they would "stand up to the Communists would have been

Jeft and thus reduce its chances in the second round.

power almost

Never.

3

THE snu bus.

4

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 18 March, 1978 page 2

The spectacle of division on the left which has been such 2 feature of the campaign now threatens to limit the number of first round votes that will be TransFerred to lell candidates on the SeCONd round next Sunday. With such shim majority for the left on the rouad, the bourgecis parties could easily be handed a victary on Sunday

NEXT

The vote for the workers parties constitutes an appeal for unity in struggle against tbe evasions of the CP and said Alain Krivine in Mon day's Rouge. the daily paper of

the Revolutionary Communist

Lenge ILCR). French sectian of the Fourth Internationa] A statement of the CR's political burcau underlines the

now absolute

minority, and the right can be

ousted on the second round.

no% depends on the

uniled discipline of a class vote

on the second round...

Thar is why we

united all the

organisations that took part in

the far left lists in order to

launch ETHI appeal Lor

automatic and unconditiona

withdrawa second

favour of the

ance to the working class that

ran alicad on the find round.

But even if such withdrawale

occur, the previous unneces

sary divisions mean that I is

not at all clear whether the

workers will for crity can be

mobilised strongly enough

doring the mock before the

second round.

THE FAR left Fole of 3.7 per

cent represents three main

forces: WinE Self-management

Front [FA], dominated by the

Uniled Socialist Party PSU

Workers Struggle [1.O]; an

the joint sule For socialesm

to the workers',

consisting of the Revolution

ary Communist League (L.CR].

LOU BURIS Workers

Organisation JOCT], and the

11I9T

Self-management CCA). The

fieure aisa lucindes a

number of Maoist groups.

The exact figures for each

group were not mailable at the

time of going to press, but it

seems that L.O. which stood in

every constituency,

polled about 1,7 per

less than its sole in the 1974

Presidential election. How-

leader, Arlette

Luguiller, polled 8.5 per cent in

Ber construency

The FA did not stand in

nearly as muny seats. It seems

to have polled neurly 3 per cent

with its figure

rising lo 5 or 6 per cent on

The lude For sacialism,

stood in 250 constituencies,

In general it picked up about

a many poles is bo

though in Pars the too groups

The interests of workers and capital. Ide an irricancilable on worl scale. Capilsion has not enly create I maria marset, i his cooled warie

actalorships they seatain in Lalis Americs In Briimn it imple domanding the immedate withdrawal of Hellish coogs from Ireland

WEIS WE SUN TEMS CLUE SIFA

mine farmarabir than ever the procodine three decades, Bul such partine ran unle be haile lis rejecting sextarianion and seeing anema demons not an a lusue bur as a mile - This means the right so organis

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to vote again.

Terry Duffy unplied on Thursday 9 March that elected he would try and AUEW. He threatened: if the with democracy in ВЛЕ ОПА! that they wished in dispense

periodically put

would see an immediate end to

berween the two political groupiogs?

He went on to say that if victorious he would iry ant changethe union's rules so that the number of elections fought

roduced' Duffy argued: know that the majority of our officials would wish to discard ТАРТАТЛЕ ШОЛЕТЕ ЯНИ again (in elections). I would like |

HOME NEWS

TERRY DUFFY is currently standing in the election for the presidency of the Amalgamated Union of

Engineering Workers. 870,000 workers have the right

to vote in this election. They should use that vote

wisely, for if they do not, they may never have the right

to use my influence co find a better method" do It is only too true that trade union officials moderates like Duffy like to do away with clections.

It would mean they longer responsible actions to the rank and file.

They could then find it much caster to pursue the type of policies

CO-OPERATION

CITE co-operation with the cent Dors and. prottised. co-operation any stage four of the Social Contract.

Dafty and his friends do not appear in the least concerned

WARNING TO ALL

ENGINEERING

WORKERS

If you vote for this

man

YOU MAY NEVER

VOTE AGAIN

that these policies are currently being followed by the ADEW executive against the wishes of - especiaily the -would who voted conterence 1o: жете по return ta free for bargaining.

Or if perhaps, tiey have decided that the best Wasy problems that arise from union 2O9ULa democracy is so apost-Li democracy. This is why Duffy In his sheech slowingly neteriod so the electricians union led by these 10 рег president is Dutty bas for life Duffy, ta possible alternative" to the present system in which officials have to face periodic LICCLICI Duffy is supported in his

unimportant cank BRANDED of the AUEW

the anion's

an immediate freedom of speech

collective

they are concerned,

extent that deal

and see evil triumph'

Standing which the elected for life

was. said no hesitation

right to vote!

to start

Statesman

deny that

editorship

Johnson,

complete.

Johnson, Page

would course.

Renee about

*But

campaign by such interfering pundits as Bernard Levin who in a recent article on the ADEW election in The Times prattled on about 'che not altogether

Trotskyist hands off freedom

It seems Likely th

evin will back Duffy in h required

abolish dence reedam to vole in the AUEW Every otber ruling class naper is complain also campaigning for Dulfv.

union,

equality

This is what they mean by

- freedom

Birminghum Evening Mail 10 distort the election to such an

they recently their branded Dutty as lone good man who is not poing to sit back

Union indeed one inge

'evil' thing.

Bab Wright and engineers have against Dufly is teacher until 29 March to vote for him.

Socialist Chullenge has differ ences with Wright but we have

in calling for a vole for him. Not Icast because a vote for Wright means the

News

nowhere

What a way

THE NEW Editor of the New Ms'.

has been busy writing letters to the press to The ovens communis, he as merat Wills ever inauspicious his

He should constandy remind himself of the evolution of one of his predecessors, a Mr Paul

The latter's move to

last Sunday's News of the World, Jobnson healed. Some members revea. told the paper's readers: "Most led the extent sensible people in this country prejudice are not unduly disturbed by the FroM more serin

view antidemocratic threat presented by the Extreme Left.

Exactly what the readers of that paper wish to be told. And racist? It does not

Will the NS under STEEITSSIEIE describing and analysing: transformation of Johnson? I abhorred by God, It caused

be a useful start.

+

Bad Ms.take

NUT leaders went along to a Commons sub committee bearing last wock to argue movingly for more help to be given to gir school leavers. They knew, af

that the sub commitlee's ENTERIE Mis

Short, feels strongl diminishing job chances for girls Short's car on her way to the meeting. so Maureen Colqu boun took the chair. Knowing whose face they'd like to see that Mrs Colquhoun has even more passionate views on the Theperson who cume top of th subject, the NUT men thanked their stars that they ready to say the right thing

*Mrs Colquhoun, however, She

more tangible ol sincerity. Sbe

complain that speeches

that subcontittee has so far seen very few women representing the

and wiggested they should try practising some

themselves The winesses six meltes orth executive and one official, fell over each other trying to assure God on Their Side Mrs Colquhoun that there was complete equality for warnen in ZIONISTS broke up a meetins

ranks, "Right", asked of the Mrs Colquhoun they, then!"

"In fact, there was one woman with the NUT team — 27 seat members old Kay Carberry, a graduate Herut,

works union's education department. underway and announced to the sis was tacie to carry our tac sanan aomeoce car fey wen wontan's traditional role on going to start it with u minute's such occasions — sitting in the silence for the Israelis killed in corner taking notes."

Times Educational Supplement as they attempled to leave the (24.2.78]. The TES, it should hull.

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 16 March, 1978 page 3

from

be noted, is one of the few newspapers which does not ucknowledge Colguhoun's in sistence on being addressed an

next time?

AFTER A heated debate, the members of the Libraries comunillee of the Aberdeen

they could not refuse an offer of Gay News The debate was extremcly

which exists Scotland by voting against. The National final tally was 1l for and 3

doubt ceged on by worthies such as Harry Harch who madi in appeal to keep out tbe Ms Oslena Stott, a woman exist for with a direct hot-line to pod

warned the committee from the outside: Homosexualicy is not

•the a sickness but a vile sin utterly

God to destroy Sodom and Gomorrha and neigh cilies committes announced ins decision Ms Stott declaimed t the press: "They will be guilty before God without a doubt. The Lord will judge and they will receive at just judgement. problem is that the judgement in question could easily be delayed.

If Ms Stour wants quicker our old friend, James TATEDEN He is the Chicl Constable of Greater Man chester and an acknowledged authority on the subject.

Whiter than White

someone stole Mrs THE GLASGOW Sunday Mai

organised a competition a few weeks ago. I asked its readers plastered with a custard pie

poll was Margaret Thatches vere all The winning suzpestion cam

from Mollat of Fife wrote:

Margaret Thatcher for a dark chornlate cake right heiween

to the eyes. It might do something

son E10, but the Mail artist stil COINS problems." She BUSINECE showing her face splashed with a white custard pie Isee pic whovel.

British Anti-Zionist -Where are Organisation at Conwur Hall

Central Londun.on Sunday, About 45 Zionists, including right-wing entered the ball in. Ine betore the meccing man get

the bes hijack Anti-Zionists were obstructed

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The fight is onl y in

East Moors steel plant closes

Engineering Union last Confederation of Unionsfor 20and 21 March.

It was only a matter of time before this strike too was

The employers had previously spreed that the mummum rale for skilled workers should be Increased to E57 now and 260 in August. The sticking point bad been their insistence that these new could implemented in cases where thin

more than 10 per cent.

When the bosses agroed on Monday. IT BICEUCE increase in full subject

approval, unions immediately responded by calling off the strike.

This settlement, if approved, would give substantial creases to several thousand low

AS THE "McCarthyite disciplinary hearings of nine Transport General Workers" Union militants from Cowley contnuc, lightback agasst the threat democracy in the union begins, reports PAT HICKEY.

We are on the same side of the fenoe! This was OCHO IC UI LaErCL

Tast week's AUBERT Times mugsbots of Jack Jones, Hugh Scanlon and director Michael Edwards to illustrate their joint STEELAIL

It may be something of a surprise lo Speke workers Io know that *the. world throughout the steel industry.

April.

Agreement on the ciosure follows one disgusting displays of selling by union bureaucrats, with workers receiving what is in cality # UTn LOE d

place on the ever anoreasing ERECTETE

The deal means ibar the 1,300 workers will receive in all about 610m before tax. British

Stecl rockon chey will save

120m by closine the plant now rather than in 1980.

FIGURES

Despite Fleer Street's much

trumpeted figures of workers

HOME NEWS

Engineers' pay claim

quiet rooms

BY 27 VOTES to 24, the national committee of the

week ratified abandonment of the national engineers' pay claim. reports JOHN GRAHAM. The crucial vole came on a proposal from Broad Leff delegates opposing any settlement with the employers without demands for a 35-hour week and longer holidays being met in full.

In its place, all that was passed was a resolutiion supporting the proposed two-day strike called by the

Shipbuilding and Engineering

paid workers expense of creating divisions inside the unions.

By backing down o0 the onemal denian coda zn weekly minimum wage and a reduction io tie workins week.

Scanlon and his new right-wing cronics STAVO beneficiaries of the national claim to the very worst paid.

The majority of engineering workers already more than che agrocd minimum to average basic rate for skilled the workers is presently 066 a weck.

These rates have been secured through local wage claims on top of national settlements. But Scanlon's insistence that the new natia dea is comparinis

and

warching Leyland geting better all the time' to WORK TOGETHER

The ad said that Jones and Scanlon agreed on the basic the boed for management unions to work together* For the membership with the membership redundancies and spood-up.

democracy in the union to prevent any opposition emerging.

This is why the Transport

The not-so-golden handshake

THE DECISION last week to accept closure of the

East Moors steelworks is a bitter blow not only for

workers at this Cardiff plant but also for workers

MICHAELJONES explains what is still in store for

steelworkers after East Moors closes at the end of

Getting 113,000 pay offs, the • mQs! will work job between t4.000 and £6,000 And that before deductions and is dependent because of Common BELCH Markel rules, or being aut of work for the next twp years.

The deal absa threatens about anather 1,000 jabs in trades WYTHET STATEL ES UURS platt. Overail it couid Blean LESL TELERIUVECILLE SILL - which is P'rine Minister Jins Callahan's will rise to abour 1t per ceor. about 20,000 workers on ibe dole.

The deal is also a major

with the I0 per cent pay limit the will leave any local claim in

excess of thir limit oul on a limb.

What's mone, the new den! scepts that the 12-mooth ru ill be applied. so increnses wa come into effect at dittereni times in different arcas a year after their last settlement.

Scanlon and his friends have only gor away with such gross manolevres so far, because — fine speeches and special issues - but at the

of the Engineering the officials have contined che light around the claims to the quiet rooms of the exocutive counci and the national committee. While it would be an obvious restricted the advantage if a left-dominated

National SOrTIEEC Executive could he achieved. the key receive far "moderates lies 11S0T31 mohstion br lhe rank and rale; the file independently of the union

macHu It is the fallures of the Broa Left leadership on this secon which incapable of effective campaing apaiast the retreat to secure the tuil claim. and General Workers Union is witch-hunting militants in the union's Region 5, based on Cowley works including convenor Bob Fryci who WAN ONOPEU anionisalion of the plant, and Workers Socialist and League member

bent means

FIGHTBACK

But on Saturday a meeting in Birmingham of T&C members from the arca who oppose the Victimisations began to organise the fighthack:

A further meeting of T&G breakthrough for BSC boss Sir LarOS CS SIMONT Secretaiy Eric Varley in Thei carpaign to put as many steet workers as possible out of HOrk.

Basines: News put E: "Villiers and Varley must bave heen delighled event:"

For the closure is a key part of the plans to slash steel a committee headed by Leed UEBES Beswick in 1975 plans wuch were hitterly apposed workers al the Lime.

THIRD DEAL

Torea touch by Britsh Steel H is the third closure recently, The tirst cae were a Clyde Hron in Scotland and in Hartlepco LEUEHERDISEESSUL agast a cicion recommsen-

STAELEL

Broad Lelt

and

cocteang

in

leave tiem

leading an

Defend the Cowley 9

Oxtord,

Cowley victimisations coming a reality.

Alan Thar-

which has widespread union.

Catipn

an averare 00 received compensation.

Sunday Times

NEXT HIT

last week's

Jobs pur forward by

by

in the Beswick report-

TAE MESTIES DRIL

CATC.

SITE 2

Pickets outside the Spoke No 2 plant mehers is being called for s April in Oxford to bring the full Facts of the case before union the embers, and lo discuss way: of preventing the serious chrem to union democracy that the

represent be-

willit end?'

The basis for the Oxford meeting i to be a statement

already support in the

It suss: "We believe this marter is of great concern to all activist and geruine democrats McCarthyice within the T&GWU and we burcaucrac!,

Jo accept a pay-off.

At Hartlepool, workers with 30 years or more service carning

E77 week, pitiful 12,000 rOT aS

Already BSC have appouroed their intentiont. to end Iron and Steelmeking ar Shelten : Dear Stoke, BSC plants ar Ebbe Vale and Shatten in Wales are the likely mest victims of manage ment attemptsto axe 6,000 joas as quickly as possible. All were carmarked for substantial cuts

Floshed with its job slashung success, rhe corporation abso scems likely to try to go beyond

working on what is dubibusly

La wark micasurenacot incentive scheme". This means

Chast a ten-person team coold he

leld that if they get rid of three their indusiry:

last

Had

ISA.

Rover

JOINT STEW

COM MITE

OFFICIAL

PICKET LINE

believe ir is vital that Whs maximum pressure he pul on

national bodies to make sure relevant regiona. RUTTC shop

of this kind are caken apains these iocotbers, t this sort o action starts in Region 5, where

DELEGATES

Sociulist Challenge sopporters in the TaCi are urged to get

Oxford meeting on 8 April to fight the

tactics of the

HREL

they the reminder can share one person's pay betweco them

i a threat to all steel workers.

tisc Time Business News admits: Failure

campaign to cut in its tracks ani CoM 1l 1 b9r23 19.El0m in redundancy paymentr against a t20m saving front carly closure.'

The only way to stop the BSC aa l tracks and lo preveni union collaborators indagins in a mass jobs seli-out. af the expense of their metabers is to activare the local steel unica actiea committees which have existen in the past. -are CONFERENCE

A Rational conference of rank and file activists would be ong way to plan the fighiback and sop steel workers paving

for the crisis of capitalism n

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 16 March, 1978 page 4

Speke:

time to

fight

back

A Defence Committee to fight the proposed ciosure of British Leyland's Speke number 2 plant on Merseyside was set up

week, MARK TURNBULL reports.

Ata meeting organised by an

boc combLittee with supporters of the IMG, WSL

Big Flame SWP and Solihel! shop steward Par Hickey said the closure was

the beginning for Leyland'y sapremo Michael Edwardes

ALL JOBS

The ficht must be to defend all jobs on principle. argued Hickey. This could he done by declaring # date For occupation of the factory tor six to mine weeks time which WoLd Pronacc 0835 100 3 lightback throughout Leyland and in the Mersesside labour movement,

Leyland workers could produce their own plan production to counter Ed. wardes' job losses and closure: proposals. and demand shorter working week to keep cvery job,

At Rover Solihull there l a waiting list of ycar to achtsen monis fur the Rove 3500 and the Range Rover', be said. And the shop floor bas

neen lightin ; the incroduction af a nighr shift for pas year.

can't those cars be produood at Speke?

He suggested that Speke

stewards organise conference Tor all Leyland stewards and provide regular information to the membership through bulletios and mass neelings

Tony Ryan, a shop steward

Tactary, had different apprpach. He said that those wanting redundanes should go, and a part of the factory be pul in mothballs — a view held by some of the shop stewards who waut to save the Factors

But Pat Hickey explained

manaceren!t are interested in keeping anyone in Speke number 2 plant. PRIMU

will eventually close Canicy, near Cosenlry: where they intend in the short teems to transfer TR7 production.

LEADERSHIP

One of the major obstacles to such a united lightback is the leadership of the shop stewards committee which is onwilling o Incapable of leadine this fight he said. And Hickey concluder that these stewands must be repinced hy workers preparel to lead a fight in the factory ant HI TOE HEDE LOHERE COTEAEL

•The Stondurd, Delence Cammsleg tneeis every T'ues day al 6.30pm in the Garston -EUPICI Mary's Road Gurston. Send messages of SLIPOLTE 8032 L005 etc. fo: Standard Defence Committee BOx SOC, C/o 100 White chapel, Liverpool l.

erie to Biete Eris

urged ip asvite Deyland speakers co thele nett meeting comact Socialist Chullenge sor speakers.

bould be the firs step towards

SA Up.8 Spek= Suppor Conniee in your town, And dost torer to rish tenaris o

suppor activities to the paper

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Oil rig electricians fight on

Ruling protects women-

New moves against transport cuts

Aberdeen.

open support committee

KANE.

The decision by the strikers

exiend - the picket

this dispute an issue in the local ATOUE MATEMCEU

The scab labour recruited in the last two weeks has to travel out to the Notth Sea rigs from

and the pickets have now successfully drawn antention to this fact

With the strikestiil unofficial it is vital to win supporl lor these workers in the local trade union movement. Failure to win Aherdeen Trades Council

Charter

human and democratic right."

month. SARAH ROELOFS reports. The National Abartion Campaign decided to draw up an abortion charler as a way of promoting its demands around

specifying the facilities that the health service. has to provide for women to vain ihs mesure or COntrOL, the charter will strengthen the campalgn for day care abortion

The charter will also include the right of women to choose the method of abortion they prefer: to be given all relevant facts so that they can make fully informed deciions; and

reler Cheasselves ANMI TSENLE SET CALIIR EU abtain permissien trom GULLUIS

Ir will also challenge racist practices. whereby women are "encouraged' to

£1000

Equal Pay

award

THE EXTENT ta which employers still munage to evade the 1970 Equal Pay Act was revealed very CEMIY industrial tribunal in Birminghaus last week.

Triples, the gisat glase firin AnILI MALuy windows ardered to pay thine sas amONg ether things, wark at its foundry in Tipton coual pus und io backdate the agreement.

The company dug up the old frauduleat arguicut that the men working at the foundry did heavier work. But the tribonal Tound in favour of the women.

The result of the hearing was an astonishing €1,000 buck payment to esch wemun worker, and an immediate rise of E1l a weck. Other emplogers disegarding the Equal Pay Act in such u flugrant way must be forced to comply, although

tribumals may well side with the

FOR THE first time, the situation of workers on the oil rigs in the North Sea has made an impact in

Sixty Mather and Platt oll rig electricians travelled to Aberdeen on 7 March to picket the airport and an

for theit strike redundancies has been set up in the town, reports PAT

backing for the dispute at its meting on 8 sented a teal setback, not only the Mather and POTACTE DUL TOr AH MOrACES 10 the North Sea fighting for

The Inter-Union Offshore Commiec hes been ust ainactive. This committoe is well placed to organise soldarity with the strikers since it is based an all the unions involved in the orIn Sca.

But committee -laum that they are unable tr organise boycott action or

debated

*THE NATIONAL Abortion Campaign deciares that it is the right of every woman to control ber own fertility in her own interests. Thisright is a fundamental

This is the introduction to a draft abortion charter to be proposed at NAC's fourth national conference nest

accept a bortion or sterilisation.

The charter, which will be OCUSE OC 008-I9E can DOR SErEBIC nuRE CIna DT During the local and national cicctions, for example, it would provide a focus for ATAE H L OGE DE DOSELYL legislation on abontion. It can діво establish a basis for discussion about the content of a future pro-abortion Bill.

CONFERENCE

The NAC conference, to he beld in Sheffield April, will alsu trades union conference for abartion schedufed Tor autumn; work among students: and the internacional situation on abortion.

The NAC conference is open black to everyone who supports pur DS MOREnS raUas groaps, trade unions, student union, Labour Party warser's and Everyone who attends can vote.

For further NAC a1- 30 Camden Road, Loadon NW1. Tcl. 4303.

Southend Social

support for the picket hocause the dispute remains unofticial.

TES UnH CONC ES nuC strike, the EETPU, still refuses LOBke grounds dat Over WES LOL TE1UN Union officials inside the Mather SISLESALL Manchester have latchod on to TIs 05 an

March repre- failure to build any support for

the strikers.

Platt A factory gate meting at Park Works was held on 13 March, but without support memgbers

A WOMAN beaten up by the man she lives with has the right to exclade him from their shared home even if he has property JUDE reports.

Five Law Lords unanimously / decided on 9 March thai the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceodings Act, 1976 can be unmarried woman from her male companion.

TE LENS TOMENL the proviso that this could only: be done on a tem porary basis No definite time limit has been set, but Lord Salmon (one of the five), mentioned a period of three months as a reasonabic maximum time that could be excluded from his own property: play It is undoubtedly a step

Alter a lull in activity against the cuts in London's public transit sysiem, there is Iresh hope that effective action can he built to oppose bus und train

MARTIN EADY reports on new initiatives coming from the Dn 29.30 London Transport Jolnt Acdiscuss the ton Committer against the Cuts. the TDILLLIULL February, the decided to produce a bulletin to spread information and organise a fighthack health cuts in publio transport. The committae aims lo organise London BEETHE individuals, warkers and baild Baks with Irades councils and passenger

denils contact organisatons.

One of the major gains che 01-485 CHIC ITS AAUR IS CO SHer come the traditional suspicions

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL SECURITY

CLAIMANTS

UNITE

Sacunity offices were occupiéd for 35 hours b the local Claimants Union last week. The staff at the oftices wer perusing to anow ine clalmanıs oton to reprebon pistona contrary to the policy of their own union, the CPSA, which is te coperale with Claimants Unions. So tar they have won some concessions from the management, but the struggle continues. Contact Batty of Southend CU: Shoeburyness 4567.

CETELE

DIMISI C HRC union procedure

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Cacuse tor ineir

Teacheis" Union.

this time

who

rights.

WOODWARD

used to protect

iLn

added

total victory.

La man this case transport sengers in Landon.

WEE DEPOL

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against

Transport claim

occunations of GEC

Vol al t00r

ASENS GEC

the courts to end if.

Thursday-

Turced to adopt SECUNIY BELASUTC»

SELULILY mentbers of APEX

TOm SC UnNu MECaLs are finding their joh much

The probleme on the tigs led somie merkers la aocracea te set up Blow Our Tast summer.

ITICI THE fight unionisation on the rigs, which is supporting the open strike committee in Aberdeen. commitlee is also supported, so CLE BI CR TDC uROmS from the white collar union NALGO and EIS. the Scottish orward for woren that the that SMACUNK MELOE CELELI by a County Court to exciude a

man trom his coungl flar. He had been making life hell for the woman he lived with and her two year old child. But we should not regard it as a

Althouch the Law Lords reachod a satisfactory verdiet in

women have no guarantee that County Courts will take this view of all cases

and hostilities that have split| transpoct workers. It has united different umions and the bus uton and rail socbions of London Transport against the cuts.

The bulletin can provide an imuportant means of reaching workers

,morkers ATOTALS But a lot editoria] policy, wllch should be as open as possible with different viees

Communist Parly, whose delegates dominate the bulding committee, see it as no more l against the curs, circulating NEARL Y 400 storekeepers ar GEC Telecommunications in Cam ore sta k

E2.A8 weck backdared to Fehruary 1971.

Their action has led to two

and could bring a total closure

GEC Coveatry, HANNA KHAMIS

group representative Stoke, Coventry

The personinel office and the computer room were accupied g company son an inunction in 5 and arly vacated when the

Ise met militans ocupied 1

the CEC toplroom, forcing the company to get anorber injunc

The company has also been

ludicrous which hasled to a dispute with over 50

TUSTUS who

These disputes are the most advanced of many involving both shop- floor and affice

IENNIFER DAVIS and her daughter whose situetion led to the Law Londs' decisio

before NOTEUETEK CEN LORE OLUS case a greal deal of symplathy WAS DEDUK DUA DEH situation of the child.

This sympathy is needed for all women who find temselves

jon at the mercy of viblent men, regardeless of wbethet they have children or not.

Finally, although the law now allows men to be esciuded from their homes to protect the

than a pressure group on the Greater London Council and

leaderships. Socialist Challenge supporters and other revolutionaries consider that the committee should organise

and passengers to SErtebie temsiresa se Cols and for a better sasten pcme o canc va councillors or union leaders.

In the coning months there will be a great deal to do.

industria!

Unity at GEC

morkers, which are beginning to stimilate a much needed TORY CC.ACER COC aSE U3003s- tary

Messages of support, und THE WOMEN'S TUC, which met for its SOrDrOuOn ons ano MEmn CISCus!

HITEHE HISNA OT ARIDE DEDI O CECE unanimously passed a motion calling for im the TUC to organise a pro-abartion demo

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 16 March, 1978 page 5 women und children, the man LI CCI US HAZCI TOHUE Aslong as the present situation of housing shortage continues il may take a lot longer than three months for a woman to find alternative accomodat-

And she is still in the situation where she салной •GOLLUS SuDa ib Ud ber home unless she is married information, mobilising sup Pranpot and necatar mas HIEUE

build eflective campaign

ELENURI the action comunittec is appealing to thuse

the Grealer ELH London Council to retas Information aboul zuy pro posed transport culs. Further details of the commuttee anc meelings from the Secretary, McQuade, & Locas House action | Albion Avenue, Londen SWR. casll, cao be sent to the sirikers. through Brlan Sketchiey, secre

ASTMS branch, GEC Telecommunieations Lal. Stoke, Coventry.

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2500 march against police harrassment

and the police pounce on the chief steward

RACISM

-TFE response to the recent knifings, burnings, and threats.

repotation.

THE campaign against the two month ban on demonstrations in London is well underway.

The success of International Women's Day marchers in defying the ban is now to be followed by a rally on 22 March to be addressed by speakers well-representative of the left, reports DAYYJONES.

Wednesday's falty to fight the The platform blanker ban on marches will bring logerber members organisations only too rarely to be found co-operating on issues which affect the whole labour

Speakers al the secting, to be held at Carden Town Hall in Fuston Road, London, include: Alf Lomas of London Co-op Policical Com mittee: Tess Gill, from National Council for Liberties: Tarig Ali, editor of COCAINE Smith, a national oreaniser 10

Wolverhampton demonstration

and racists' attacks...

The call by Woverhamolon Anti-Rucil Commillee for u mass demonstration avainst racel allacks and police harassment was met by over 2,500 people last Saturday.

Black people from Wolverhampton and Handsworth made up over half the march and it was their chants which let the police knone what the black community thinks of the police's "We see no evil'

An Engineering Union banner joined the sea of plucards held by members of the Communist Party, Labour Party, International Marxist Group, Socialist Workers Party and other organisations - in the largest demonstration ever to be held in Woverhampton.

The march was to end with ten arrests, which included seven blacks. The following photographs show the main incident and the determination of the West Midlands constabulary to live up to its Within moments the police took the opportunity to storm into the front lines of the march.

Rally against the ban

the Engineering Union; Gerry Cohen from the Commuust Party:

Holhorrow, organising secretary of the Anti Nazi League. the In the chair will be Ernie Roberts, prospective MP for Hackney North While TAH public starting at 7.30pm, is likely to be large, and is backed by a petition and a further week of action after the NCCL lobby ol Parliament on 11 April, the response bureaucracy has so tar been next

of the the Civil

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and

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selectively banning the fascists.

and those who call for hans are

unfortunately playing into the

hands of those who are only loo

anxious

mobilisations to confront the

NF

Only the strength of the

labour movement can put paid

to the fascists, and only thar

strength can now overturn a

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that the labour Icaders support

the campaign to lift the ban and

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An emotional white (left in photo) is led off afier attempting to grab the anti-racist committee's banner. It was a brief incident. And houl off, among others, Dave Stevens (above), treasurer of the anti-racist committee. A Socialist Challenge supporter and well-known as an anti-racist militant, Stevens now faces three This could mean a prison sentence. Stevens had been elected hy the march stewards as the police bason officer. Pickets already being organised for the trial, which starts on 13 April.

Write c/o Students Einion.

Stafford Street, Wolverbiampton.

A SPEAKER from the Briston and Croydon Collective, a local black revolutionury group, wams a Socialist Unity meeting in Brixton last Thursday of the need to take up the fight against racism in defence of the working class as a whole: We, the black people, are only the tinder to light the fire, You are the ones who The warning was a timely one. for soon afterward police arrived to breuk op the meeting on the grounds that there were support too many in the hall in contravention of fire regulations! Neurly 10, including many West Indians, had turned up. So the meeting was unable to take any decisions, but decided to reconvene on 22 March to decide whether la contest the

CANTIF and needs SWE Wolverhampton Pols, angled out for prosecution

(the

statE.

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 16 March, 1978 page 6

Rochdale marches FIFTEEN HUNDRED people murched #guinst racism Rochiale on Saturday, with a large contingent from the local Asian community

following the called by Rochdale Lerner who received the loudest

when called loudest applause when he called for no platform for. the NF, and for hluck self-defence.

Leicester picket FOUR HUNDRED militants picketed fascist paper sellers in Leicester on Saturday 1o boost the weekly pickets held by the town'santi-racist.commillee

Salaa say included backing from the

"the Indian Warkers Association. Socialist Student Alliance, the Unity Against Racism campaign, and a number of trade union

Trial of Lewisham " instigator"

KIM GORDON, co-editor of Flame, a black socialist paper. is on trial at Camberwell magistrates court, London. as the 'main instiLewisham during the National PTUE BRTTNSNUEBS

He is supposed to have incited groups of demonstrutors Clifton Rise. Deptford Church St. at 3pm and Lewisham clock tower 4.30pm

Those with any information or photographs ane arged to write South Lambeth Road, London SW8. Tel: 01-7205171. Anti-NF leafleters charged FIVE anti-fascists in Norwich are facing charges under the Representation of the People Act following the distribution of anti-Natinnal Front leaflets

posters durine loca

The five. . all members of the Socials orkers Party are Hocused distributing material withoar a poblisher's lor printer's name and address

heing Brought by Norfolk police Tollowing a complaiar by an NE candidate

Although -inembers of number ol lelt and women's organisations took part in the lealleting operation,

members bave They face heavy lines and possible imprisonment arising from the trial, which began on Wednesday.

Messages of support and

Norwich Detence Committee, 14 Edin bergh Road, Nerwich Occupation against Apartheid cash HUL. UNIVERSITY was the scene of a massive occupacion by students last week, in protes!

Highl Investoient in South Africa bi the collene. began on 8 March following a vote at the University Council in favour of retaiming their shares -1E1 South Africa

The University Council is chaired by Basil Reckict of Heckim and Colmans, whuch reccives the bulk of the university's f2m investments.

Over 150 police maved on to

cannus students, but last Friday a union mecube voted over whelmingly for reoccupation

from symparhetic who are Polis mobilise wide involvement in Messages to: Student Union Cortingham, Hull. Tel 0182 42431.

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Replying to misconceptions and fantasies

capitalist world. sentiments they express.

No Nukes!

CARL GARDNER's defense of nuclear power (2 February) on the grounds that developments in science and technology are neutral and free of ideology, and only progressive or oppressive character depending on the prevailing social relations, is as devoid of understanding as the ecologists he

Science and technology are not merely s distaisongie scarco tor nowiedge, but are an integral part of LIE SOLICLY SUCY ICAIE IRE most research and development is funded by, controlled by, and used to strengthen and perpetuate capitalism.

Genetic and ExamDles: the neamt bach e cdsay

blacks technology to suppress (in depth interrogation, riot control equipment): CDC DUI drugs for prisoners and the mentally ill.

These and many more examples are notang morc mnan scicacine nu technological solutions to different aSPOCS O1:CaDICASDECNON contain absolutely no potential social benctits. principle that we will take over and hui d on 'all technical. Scientillc 90d cultural developmenis of previous SAECULA I

Nuclear power Prooucng energy an aspect of capitalism's crisis — the need to venerate and consume logarithmically increasing amount of energy, and the 'energy crisis" this contradiction ereates.

Contrary to Charlie Young's wild assertion in the same issue, nukes do not have an excellent safety record. What they do have is an excellent propaganda machine on their side,

which has skilfully covered up the hundreds of hair-raising mear-disasters which have occursed, constant irradiation of the environment which is caking place. The masses of safety precautions, warning devices and security arrangements around nukes testify to their danger, not their safety, No process can be made foolproof, even in a workers" state, so there will always be the risk of a catastrophic accident.

Come the revolution, government wonld publicise all the accidents, risks and investigate the environmental damage, and re-assess energy needs in the near tulure. Al the

creative potential of the masses could

he turned lo rescarching safer, casier, more environment-conscious methods of energy production, it is highly

unlikely — io me inconceivable desirable proposision after tas sort al that nakes would still

scrutiny.

But right now we live under a less democratic, more oppressive social

system, and we sre wilnssne ns

headlong rush into exploilation ol ooc of the nskiest

least controllable arcas of tecbnology

lbere is. his a8scsstent of risk Is not

based on 'guilt by association' with

COlOS HUILE evidence

medicine and pbysics. If we don'!

expect the capitalists to suddenly stop

killing industrial workers or polloting 1

NUCLEAR ENERGY

Nuclear Technology is not neutral

*T'M NOT very keen on reprocessing', said Callaghan to the military dictator Zia, on a recent trip to Pakistan. But Justice Parker has decreed that Britain is keen on reprocessing nuclear waste. The Labour Government has indicated that it will back Parker, Britain will become the nuclear dustbin of the

Socialist Challenge is in favour of unilateral nuclear disarmament by the Labour Government. We are opposed to the further expansion of Windscale. We do not believe that science and technology are 'neutral'.

We publish below further letters from readers on the nuclear debate. In general we agree

conservation before profit?

assume regard

«PODUcu MS TENESOCSREC DE POT!

Just because the

hecause "high

bioloeical equally vacuous every country where nukes gays:

GESSCIE supporting the

mobilisations against thems. modifying woke

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slogan: No Nukes!

CHRIS PITTS (Tokyo]

means of Crazy Maniacs is a solution to

opening lines ecologists Andi U CEBEC

best ecologists are

and the International Marxist Groun Rothman's

ecology which

сліге analysis

questions a workers" power.

.dangers;

same time, the (depenerated)

defend itsell

appear

Angolati.

соловістсіві Union to ditch nuclear

from

CETOB with the

the air and seas, why should we expect them to operate nukes with safety and

Thus it is no more 'anti-technology то оррое пикея шав зе в во астрало that thalidomide, asbestos, or nerve Has are banncd. cron ur nc suy

suspocted ситстокс, we mouse takc tc poson

we aren't prepared to take the

vanguard of orcankcd renistance to the nucicar threat is a little light an politics at the moment is no reason to dismiss is as a bunch of cranks and utopians. Just

technology - alic- Tew. nation" is a picce of meaningless analysis is no reason to substitute the

siogan high technology - potential liberation'. In

of widespread usc, the organised lelt is

growing popular

Ir is aboot time the left in Bricain involved in it as a matter of urgcnicy. to this issue and became For revolutionaries, the question of nuclear power is indeed a politica]

-namely how to build and educate a mass movement around the CARL GARDNER aptly summed up what is wrong in his approach in his

debate between Marxists CUnuUC. what overdue is the recognition that the

Marxists and existi despite comrade Gardner's obvious ignorance they have been around for some time, By far the best book on ecologs published in Britain is by Harry Rochman, nor only a Marxist but at one time a member of the

book Murderous Province 15 a brilbant essay

does not spare the crimes of the Soviet bureaucracy in this arca. I don't wans to go into an

LEUIUS question, so T'll restrict myself to two

TC SENTEIS CER EEEICa

Carl Gardner is quite correct to separate these Two lisues. Unforsunately he still gets them both wrong. Should we support the possession of a nuclear arsenal by the Soviet Union, a

workers state? Absolutely not. While we are certainly for the right of the Soviet Union to

against Imperialist aggression we do so bocause the socii guins of the Russian revolution are a

gein for the workers and oppressed of

the whole worid (Caba, Vietnam,

The ability of that same state co wipe out the workers and oppressed

the whole word s & caln tor nobody. We should call on the Soviet

along wich chemical and biological

ones. The Soviet bureaucracy will not

do so because it has no faith in the

American workers ability to force the USA to follow suit. just as they have no faith in the revolutionary potential

of the working class in general. We lo, and that dispute * one of the ССліга Шо 3 BI0 between revolutionaries and supporters of the wwelim Eoe if oe pese th beleat arsenal — why do they noed to be able to wipe the USA off the map five times. The answer is that in any real military terms they don't. Neither side could start a nuclear without devastating the entire planet. and they both know it. They also know that neither side can get a first strike potentiai which would prevent the other side from hitting back. The real perpose o the srins race 1 different, inthe USA it is economic (to MiIneCa HC ELEOORI political (to boliter the bureaucracy).

"Splitting the atom.. was probabl: the most important practical scientifio

liscovery of the twentieth century

Why? 5 far its results have heen (9) an additsonal source of energy, wisch isn't really necessary (ür weapons (iil) hundred, of thousands of tons of radioactive waste which Wet s DUcDIDe arewcss tor cenunes (vi) a lot of leaky nuclear r reaclors

his critical (sic) faculties in the face of

amesome potential of nuclear reactions. Ler's look at some of the

Is nuclear power dangerous? 11 certainly is. Charlie Young asserst the "excellent safety record' of nuclear plants. Not true. There have leaks in reactors in Britain, USA, tew. No large scale disa tens have vei Italy, India, to name bur a occured, which lulls people into a ESESESECITEL The nature of nuclear plants mean chat accident- will be relatively trivial-

terrilyung proportions. really have to wait for the first major spillage of radioactive material to kill and maim thousands of people hefare we recognise the dangers.

Nuclear power is necessary as a

ource of energy. Untrue. There an

umple means of producing energy -Fossil fuels, wave and lidal power hydro-electric, wind mention a lew. Onhy the first has major pollution problems and thes can be controlled. Unfortunately they don't all fit a5 ncatly into military-industrial complexes westera and Soviet societies.

Should we oppose the developmen of nuclear power? Yes we should. The less class-conscious Spenons ecology movemeni want to close the book on nuclenr power lorever. WE think that is short-sighted and doesn't recognise that there is a possibility of the safe use of nuclear power. Today however such a possibility doesn"

Weknow the record of the mansacs who control our sociely when il comes to nuclear power. Anyone who thinks that we can saleiy leave them to play mith their nucleur toys is crazy. Oniy a genuinely rational, planned, nologically advanced socialist society

safely vestigate power. Till then the book shoukd be shul- lightiy.

COLIN TALBOT (London] Six Theses Against Nuclear Power IT IS GOOD TO SEE some of th British lefr taking the politics iust teono ae sie lill 10 nucicar

assue with

argumenr abour technology whiel

cems to be common on the left

Thie argument suggeits that, in contrast to the bourgeuis concerns of the coo-freaks, we "real" socialists know that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with any techoology, Ir all depends who uses il, ou whom, for whnl. Thes nuclear power is bud under capitalism. - good socialism. The argument foften called the ine/abuse model) tries persuade us that technology is neutral it iseif, be it nuclear power, farn sprays, tin openers or assembly limes So science itseli i fine, problem je who owns andror controL it: whouses it and who ahlses it. aily for a mamber of reasons. baln 1 think that chis position is

distingalshing logy and its human context (Le. its uscs, its ficancing) the use/abuse approach encourages us to consider cither one or the otier. Way cannot socialists consider botb? It is rigid, nuclear arrogast imd CHlsE

complexity of such issues. use/ahuse model falscly implies that the social relations of any technology are separate trom that technologr. Technology doesn't just happen. Peoplemakeit. So the very process of producing a technology caertain aums are omin. Chlen Du COl always (tim openers). Anyway what are these asms!

First: profit. But not always, or obviously. Consider financing of germ warfare or riol control technologies.

Second; the control of people's lives. TV doesn't commmunicate, but dictates one-way Third: making it cheaper, meaningless ant nucicar alien,

Fourth: the teciinalogy, not to make life and work more sockny.usctul, Dor Eu poiaclahour (hence mnemo osticar) and to increase me productivity of the retained laboui

This creates major and new contr dictions. For example, on farms agri chemicals replace hand or macbine bocing. Hoeing is no picnic, but what do the new 'scientific" sprays do to your food and to the person who dae: been the spraying? Why do we have to

assube era ooc acod Is Jocu sically more progressive other!

Fifth: the use of technology as an Instant, technical "tix fundamental social breakdowns, In'l this Do se nuclear power for the cow-you-see

it-now-you-don't Energy Gap? Ton't this why antibiotics are given to bens in batteries where disease is rife? Yet those antibiotics bacteria to the workers who don't even cat the stuff, lel alone to the person who carcase. Neutral" Progress? to Sixth: in all

singulariy anti-human, anti-socialist definition creeps in. Cost-benefit analysis, Crass the econonLisns.

salely against productivity and profit. The result: humans are made to fit machines; unhealthy, repetitive work. shifts.

You may call all that lot neutral. I don't. You may believe thar collectiVIS TR problems factories

improve work, bur doesn't transform it. In other approach is in key respects conserva tive. Ie's similar to telling a socialist feminist not to be so silly, The persona! isn't really politics, Or telling a car worker: don't Revolution you'll still be doing tbe same work, only it'll be for all of us. tech- How ahsurd. How uncritica..

TIM LANG [British Soclety for IUIHCEE

Social Responsibility Polund St. London W'1] Technology and the Strong State PVE RECENTLY READ the page oi letlers on maciesr energy (Socialist Challenge, 2 February) and it appears of Geoffrey

what is poie on. As for the rest theit contributions are verbose parading of tined which ace hardly distinguishable from Stalinism and sheer Tantasy (Charlie Young)

Carl Gardner labours under the misconception that technology arc politicaily neutra., and thas che debare is purely and simply over whio has control. Thus he is able under to assume that the revolution

whenever that happens somebow magically traisforni nasty caputanst Beaicat wire lato cican socialist nucleir waste. Maybe p-es will fly as well! the ool He then goes oi to attack, or

spurtous TUBO0IUOS concerned with SHUTCCS CITE CLICI utopians, and that such sources are

betaoen the lechno-

the face of reality

to deny 2) Thi the total consumers

means thar

BUIWI

the State' caite.

the deskilling of work

introduction of members

so-called structural

power than the considerably

windmills.

IOr- MOTE

economic windmills the role of

spread TELENIL

vltimnately cats the creation

Obese processes

of efficiency and value

Weighing up -life and

technolngy

ends such a stroke! lt migh

words, the use/ahuse

worry, after the Honorary

in Science, 9

recordilg

dimensions.

TaRT KnOW TrIASITS

old theories (Carl Gardner) TROIT

UVI DOWEE.

science and nucicEr

will direction.

alternative energs truly enormious.

luddites

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 16 March, 197B page B con Bar its cohy derelye

In the first place the small scale energy policy is completely in keeping with a capitalist economy in that i allows a de socialising of a portion ol

energy arocuehon making it the responsibility of the

SoAr-panci,ncu pumps, windmills eic coatmodities wisch are coming on to the market ul increasing numbers. This is further in keeping wilh a capitalist coonomy in that it has as its counterpart the run-

of energy production and its concentration in the hands of a tiny nucelar

Secondly it is to fail to sce that Chere alternatine energy advocates, manelt major division amonest berwoen those who favour small scale low technology. and those who fasour the development of very large scule high technologs. The latter policy has been best expounded by

of the Conference of Socialist Economists WOTKIA conjunction with members of TASS ina jointly produced pamphiel.

Init their main argument is that the strugele against redundancies in the

is only Likely tO succeed if it is linked to an aggressive strategy simed al radically chanping future energy policy in the particular direction oL ware and wind pomer Interestingly coough this has heen made a practical possibility as a result of technological developments which spliting witch Carl Gardne CLON

Carl Gardner • culo. unstruction of a aridht offshthe advocate

of massive dimensions.

This can ooly bc đone bự comh ning thri me st s eei seene of the mor latest techniques off-shore advanced technology from the aero space industry. Such a policy would lead to both the production of energy from safe renewable sources, and the

very considerabli number of new jobs

Charlie Yourig praises the satet recordol the nuclear industry. Well il may he true that there has not been a calaclysmic disaster yet, but we are dealing with a technology which has the potential for such a disaster to ine-span anging ome tundreds ol Sat any -mOCH MILE Tousoos of years. which ustss extremely

in that it demands the creation of an Armen nuclea power polloe torce ie guard the eternally poisonous nuclear waste. Such a force is already being crealed, but it goes further than thi because it lays the foundations for the argument that the status quo should be mainrained indefinitely in order to protect us from the abyss of environmental eatastrophies. Robert Jungk,

Professor of Future Studies at the Unaversity of West Berlin, stated these implications vers clearly in an article written for th Austrian magazile Neues Forurs Insl Sear. Jungk wrote:

Under the pretext that technica developments inust be safeguarder againsd "reactionaries and tadicais it is becoming necessary to erect =

abd AL TURNE SS ETE hitberto ubknown precision and

Conld the nor be thi actual motive for the all too basty development of nuclear energy? The maint af hetae tich ne

much maintaining light and warmth for

CINZEAS but more abou concentratine and perpetuatine their

No. Carl Gardner, science and technology are not politically neutral We canmol leave the question of

рояс unti 'after the revolution". It is the task of Marxists to make a serjpus intervention in the anti-nuclear power UEHCIIC order to give it a clearer politica]

SUE SUCE SIE DECECETEE can only be made from an infermed

position rather than from tired ole ideolegical dogipa. If we can mante revolutionars potential of chis issue is -LO nISEU SUCIraR BICIYCTRPI, CheD Cit

JON WILLIAMS (London WI2]

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Thirty pieces of silver

talks. United

(Chief Chirau).

ours. We may be the first to face the firing squads.

This terror-stricken appraisal of the political situation by GM. Magaramamha of the Zimbabwe United People's Organisation i remarkably accurate.

And when the minutes of the internal settlement talks come known it will be a matter

negotiators dream world Their ruminanons are frequently rupted by solemn cups of tea.

to remark:

*It is enjoyable to sit conference and hear politicians argue.* 'Speak for yourself is lan Smith's testy response.

Or take this little exchange at the start of one of the sessions;

'CHIRAU (ZUPO): Interjeelion Mr Chairman, I noticed that in all our deliberations we forget. ching. We forgot to start these up the time meetings ward prayer.

Bishop, couldn't one of them lead us in a word ol prayer before we start. 'SITHOLE TANCIE Chairman, the religious men here are not neutral.

INDIWENI (ZUPO): Can we start with a word of pruyer as has been suggested:

SITHOLE: If this is suggested and accepted I suggest we ask a chaplain from outside this conference, someone who will be neutral and pray for all of DIWENt: May be Mr Smith

сан!

'SMITH: 1 um also not neutrul Mr Chairman!"

And these are the people who daim responsibility lor country future!

Sometimes the proceedings are friendly. The Goverament delegation wishes everyone a NiPiTy Christmas and

CAME

selllement aroposals.

INTERNATIONAL

Zimbabwe documents

The Africa in Struggle group takes a close look at the secret minutes of the Zimbabwe internal settlement"

Taking part were the Rhodesian Government, the

African National Muzorewa), African National Council (Rev Sithole), and the Zimbabwe United People's Organisation

nationalists" return the com pliment, hoping the whites will "prosper in the new year Sometimes things friendly, At one advises Bishop Muzorewa of the United African Council to go and 'swallow his head if be wants to.

But this untortunate banter doesn't upset the anticable proceedings. black delegations behave like Smith's public relations advaeel the selement, Witness this suggesting the best way to exchanue: *SITHOLE: What about the Patriotic Front (who control the guerilla armiest, have you inviled them? *MITH: I invited them in the same general way that I invited 'SITHOLE: would helpful for your credibility to make sure in some way that they got invited and to let the world know about it. 'SMITH: Point well tuken.*

It is this problem of how to sell the whites and blacks which takes After all there 1 an the fundamentals before the talks man. At one point the Sooner he pete tee aid Mr change!

..you talk ahout u revolutien.

What we are doing here is not a revolution!

Sithole of the Alrican National Council poses the problem:

*We have to sell the selflement to people inside and outside this country.

VIDA TONE KINE AKE WHI he considered a sell-out by the country. It will be a sell-out GET In DAU, EN, USA, the these are the facts. It is no good lo think that we ignore the rest of the world, we are at odds with the world.

Bishop Able Muzorowa addresses a rally in Tralalgar Square in 1972

Council

need a type of selflement that removes sanctions, stops the war and give us international

Tess status of a free country!" point Smith

Smith approached the talks with the offer of adult suffrage exchange guarantees. Sithole

generally approach:

*..the absalute demund is on e man one vote: everything else is negotiable.

The first item was what was meant by who was allowed Chikerema of the UANC argued that:

we must be prepared to see that are conclusion of these talks to the

be very people who are fighting in

the bush, it will be difficult to do so when 18 year olds are disenfranchised. It is she 15, 16, 17 and 18 year olds who are doing the fightingDavid Smith was douhtful and ventured some homespun psychology:

*..It is a known fact that at 21 apreement children become more serious

minded and more mature.

David And Van der Byl exclaims in

horror:

Does the 18 year old limit apply to women!

But fan Smith sees the sense in Chikerema's argument:

•This is a minor problens. If all

enfranchisement of the 18 year olds I will not stand in the way of progress, I will go alongAny settlement

The Angle-American settleproposals include the enfranchisestent of anyone under 21 UK. This The

safeguards demanded by the

of the judiciary all agroed with Sithole's proposal:

We "There shall be un independent

Then he was speaking against

(Bishop delegations" adult suffrage

vote?

internal settlemont

sell the Influence.

high appointinent of judges.

judges be? present anes.

The UANC

appeul"-

Van der Byl:

step? decided

the whites.

do not

all white. constitution

and are replaced The whether che 'entrenched' in the

so will the defendants. judiciary free from political

ensure competent bench there shall be

qualifications for the

One small point: who will the

States:

One can only assume the

who have executed an average of one Hack a week for the past year.

had been even worse to start with: tion.

*We accept the principle of an independent judiciary with the proviso for the addition of the t...it we are

council for the final

Which drew the reply for

Doesa't the Bishop's delegation think this is u neocolonial

BISHOP: We thought this the might give added protection to

talks.

which controls the civil service The Public Service Board whites. consists of three government appointees. At present they are

Under the present agreed the appointees elected by serve lor a three year period

participants board should he LISTSCE maaranteed

constit- These

you

to well. longer

fran

for fron!!

This photo was smuggled out of a Rhodesian courtroom. The judges will stay the same under th

'SMAKANGE (LANCI ..W are agreeable to the retrench-

(the) outgoing administration.

He added that he dida't want the a situation like the United

where there is the attitude throw the rascals away and let the new faces come in. This is nor pood for smooth tramsi-

So Smith generously conceded:

agreed, 1 will commit myself to appointing tal black when the time comes to replace someone.

This was gratefully acoepled.

After skipping over small questions like the composition of the judiciary, the structure

civil service and

deferring the question of thi

antied forces to the future, thi

went ou discuss constitutional safeguards for

After much posturing they

20 scats to be whites, to be whites only and a further eighr whites from the

roll are be

20 guaranteed because, as Smith

suggest that whites be elected on a common roll when they are outnumbered by 30:1,

can't wouldn't be the starter. will he lunghed al.. well

'SITHOLE: ...This Is difficult

A blocking mechanism agreed. whereby So affirmative votes lout of 100 are needed te change the constication or 14 nepative vates to

This arcangement is to last for either ten years or the life of two periments, which ever Li

His hard to see how the

could ever be removed their entrenched posi

this aside. the frags enracion of the black vote and the 28 reserved while

seals almost cosures a plurality

the ruling Rhodesian

It may scem incredible that

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 18 March, 1978 page @ the khodesian From: is still able to dominate the politica spene. Bur the issue of white confidence was the stick with which Smith was able to bea

black delegations, And with the lurking threat of the freedom lighters in the bush, Muzorewa and company seemed to take a masochistic pleasure in it:

SITHOLE: I think it is Importunt to make progress.. We ure under pressure from people in this country and from the boys in the hash.

And another member of the Sithole delegation explained why Smith (and imperialise) has nothing to lear from them:

There are many situation where the common man na want nationalisation und we want to say from the sturt no to such pressures the government of the das... There are those whe think that mutionalisation is proper. we feel not, and we want to ensure the rights of the individnal to property that should happen.

The Government delegation

with the feeling 17561 that they could rels on these people to make responsible black leaders, in the mould al orber neo-colonial states.

•VAN DER BYL: ..In the case of kenya it hirned tui

after bud Man. Batswana prinilive SITUALIO where a whileman

was brought to administer the

goverument. The best example

comes from the Ivory Coast where there

That's just the sott of sales

That would appeal to

David Owen and the Labour Cion crument

Our job isdo make sure the

labour movemert in Britain is

made what

internal settlement micans, nod

its similaris te Cheer's plan. for the country.

For, A lan Stith repeatedly

remarked: My information is

Britist will

along. We must not let tha

-TH COOLINE LUMINEE

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Exposed! US interference in Latin America unions

explains.

The documents, from the ALLAPSTEE TOE PIEC Labor Development (AIFLD), SIDE THAT OCEANE TICHOE 1977-1981 the US Government Hooting most of the bil. le AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor — Congress for Industrial Organisation) and major US multinationals are and will be spending over 20 million dollars to subvert trade unions and bring them into line with United States foreign policy.

The budget for AIFLD's Washington headquarters alone is over three million dollars.

The nominally independent

training programs" and "social MOTED COE ERECUEDOU! the American continent with Ene you ol cocourasing the growth and development of free. demperate trade unions'

These trade unionists, having

responsible trade unionism' in their own country and at special cognise the dignity of labor courses in a free society' and consequently obstruct any efforts to rock the boat in their

break with US imperialist policies.

VETTED

Ostensibly, labor leader training" and social welfare projects' seem innocuous, even laudable projects. However.

money never frittered away and maximum

the US will get value for money.

cants for the training programmies, leged' ones who will he trained at the AIFLD's Front Royal Institute in Virginia, are vetted by the US Labor Mission at the embassy in their own country. He or she is with permission of his

The conditions for training also include the stipulation that the trainee will become full-time official or important leader of a trade won when he or she returns. In this way the AIFLD has succeeded in havine its trainees in the Jeadership o THE MOST Important strike for 30 years" is the view of the 3-page lead article on the lis miners' strike in this week's LEONE SELLEE precor (vol 16, No. 10).

on the Coalisland Conference

French elections; an amalysis of CINE Parly's rightwurd drift; an

• Nicuruguar Trotskyist; articles-on Jumuicu, frun Peru, Canada. Ciermany: un anulysis of Carter's drive to

INTERNATIONAL

short leash

Documents that have reached Peoples News Service in London reveal the United States' comprehensive plans to stymie opposition to its policies and those of its client leaders in Latin America. A PNS correspondent

trade union confederations In Ecuador Hine and E Salvador, for example, over 90 per cent of the leadership of the "democratic" trade confederations are trained. The same is true for just about every will Latin America.

Social welfare projecte are no less controlled. apent through AlFLD, the US own Agency for Development (AID), and the AFL-CIO (known to many in Latin America as the CLAI on bcalth housing projects and workers' credit membership of the appropriate

In this way, workers bribed into belonging to kept unions with the express purpose of undermining the mobilisation by HUUCOCUUCHE HELLES AIỀLO startling example 'social welfare' action is document Guatemala.

February 15 • gigantic earthquake destroyed thousands of homes, smashed businesses and led to disease her epidemics.

In response to the disaster the AFL-CIO donated dollars, This money by through the CTF (Confederacion de Trabajadores Federados the major

cration) for food, blankets,

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Guard dogs on a

GUATEMALA Earthquake. US aid went to pet trade unions

tools and roofing materials.

This aid criminately handed our and the hands were usco to renair the union damage done to the CTF, and

AIFLD- to increase the prestige of the

'Irce, democratic' country in 10120129

NOTORIOUS The mone

The vast majority of the International finance is donnied in

form by the AlD to the ATFLD.

Thence the cash 1s donaled in AFL- "sub-grants" to US unions to the

facilities. AFL-CIO.

ed in nosey ording

used in this way American Federation of Musi-cians (AFM), the Communicaare tions Workers (CWA), the American Federation of State County Municipal trade LAFSCME), Federation of Teachers (AFT), of and Airline Clerks (BRAC), the ded in the

In Cass Bolle Blowers Umon (GBBA) and several others.

of to the recipients through their Enternational deration the internstional Free Teachers Unions for the AFT In which the was National Union of Teachers AIFLD belongs) or to the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) for the BRAC (to which "free, both the Transport and General Workers Union National Union belong).

not take favourable

siX

subscribers

19

situation.

Box 50,

miade out to

La union and ITS

that show

International Petroleum Workers (IFPCW).

operation.

AIFLD

centre of activities).

document signed by

we sec that GABA will AIFLD and

adopted

indis- this fact.

inceresting

trade Stale Department) as

provided officers.

America

and Employees American

Railway Foderation

British

and the of Seamen

plans the AIFLD announces in detail how much it will be spending in such and such a country through such and such

Through this tortuous mare some examples can be traced

up sinister associa Lions. In 1975, for example, the

Federation of Chemical was disbanded since it had beer exposed by prominent American trade unjonists as a CLA

It has been discredited and exposed too extensively to be of any further use elber to toL

the CIA Tan organisation never far from the

the AIFLD's

However, all was not lost, and from a State Depertment

Kissinger in November 1975,

- in 1576 the Teplace the

The idea was that the GBBA AIFLD had should begin the groundwork for recreating an international

replace Following IFPCW, reaffiliate the unions that used to belong to it and thus continue to be used by the

the The Iskelibood of the scheme being

depended amount of publicity given to be

SUES A

The CIA's connections with it remained. the AIFLD can be gicaned from

altercations this between the AIFLD and the local US embassies (under the

well labor

Agee'stbat the AIFLD haslong

cover Above and below: In the Guatemala earthquake of February 1976, aid from the AFL-CID was distributed through the 'kept'

dare

and ignore

else could pressure?

United

Information

In Brazil in 1968, a senate investigation revealed that the able

been using money in clectoral activities. In spite of widespread pressure

massive publicity, the AIFLD did not leave

May 1977

semorandum noted that the US ambassador in Brazil had free maintained for two years tha the Iocal AFFLD office should

ciosed. AIFLD representa-

however ensured tha

From the same memo comes

operate in most of the problem comes, supportay archas

leaders, primarily

which include discussions of trade whoo and hungo Tients without specifically cricicisine the host government. Some of our embassies in these countries Daveraised pobey objections to AIFLD's continuing support of NUEL BUN UPLICAL THISIS to operate within government

programs have been terminated

this

In this and other examples wo see an organisation that can go over the head of an ambassador

him. One such organisation is the CIA; whe

exert much

The presenoe of the CIA LI these affairs is one aspect of the unified global strategy of the

government presented variously through thi CIA, The AIFLD, AID, the US

Agency. US embassies and the AFL-CIO (in

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 16 March, 197B page 10 this contest barely distinguish-

from government agency):

All these stand four square in the defence of United Stares multinational interests all over the world.

Whereas the AFFLD and the AFL-CIO purport to stand Tor

where they are commitred to

even semi-feudal, regimes since any kind of reform or genuine social progress is reginded as the first step towards social revolution.

To Tate 1958, members of government, busincis peopie and trade unionists gathered for a conference at Cornell University in the USA

Developed Countries John T Dunlop. Harvard Economics Deperiment. out Load the altitude that is the present policy of AIFLD

On trade unions in the Third World, hesaid, "When we go to a country like Trag or Ghana, mayhe the hes advice we can

free trade union but masbe to tell them not lo bave any trade union or to have a controlled trade union

EXPLOITATION

He went on. 'We have to be reconciled to the fact that for a

OT these unions are going to be kept unions. It is complerely CODsistent to say that, on the one hand I am in favour of free and independent unions, while the other hand i recognise that in the face of the Communist CUTER may S0Dd reasons for the unions to be kept unions.

The AIFLD and its counter

Alrican-American Labor Con

Free Labor Institute, pivotal instruments in keeping the fice world' open for the fullest exploitation imperialism and the maximum quiescence of the international working class.

The workers of the world meust organise internationaliy just as their opponent does; the struggle cannot be confined to nationa. boundaries.

The first step must be for all trade unions to rid cheir own

agents and cliens of imperia].

maIn

* For further information AME WATER ME SUT TAG AIRIE mentioned documents, contset Peoples: News RETTILL -Upper Street, London NI [Tel: 01-359 3785)

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French CP won't break links with Chile "National independence' or workers' unity?

Don't trust the party leaders

he told the Brazilian paper Jornal do Brasil.

RELICE Moscow - with Communist Ministers the policy of France will be decided in France' says.

France's nuclear strike force at

The position of the Socialist Party (PS) is more ambiguous, but it too continually harps on the of "national independence"

French troops are dotted all over North and Central Africa. In recent months they have

Djibouti and Sahara.

independence of many coun

area 1s barely maintained; the economies and state apparatuses are so closely Finked to France that they are at the mercy of their imperialist masters.

WITHDRAW

Any true socials government would immediately withdraw troops from these territories, dismantle all the end to this harassment.

JACKSON writes on Petr Uhl.

THE NAME of Perr Uhl first found its way into the news in Match 191 when he gent on trial with IN others accused of

Revolutionary Youth Mave

ary Socialist Party: during 19c at ps These originated

at the Philosophy

University-

The post-68 leadership set to work to root out everything and LYLEYUBE COELLED WILDLIC Prague Spring both inside and outside the Communist Pay. In particular a massive party

eventually led to the expulsion of half a million members from the CPCS, a third of its total

CHALLENGE

The formation of Revolutionary Socialist Party was a challenge to any ilusions 111 Inc benevelence section of the party leadership.

project an alternative prog

GEORGES MARCHAIS, leader of the French Communist Party (PCF], has announced that he is not in favour of breaking diplomatic relations with Chile. *We want our own freedom to be respected, we cannot interfere with the internal problems of other countries".

This may come as a surprise to the British left. But, as MARTINMETEYARD reports from Paris, it sums up an election campaign in which the left has tried to outdo the right in advancing nationalist solutions.

colonial oppression, and give generous aid to the struggies of the masses. Neither the PCF the PCF. They want to keep nor P'S propose these things.

France also

overseas "departments'

ENSLAVED Over a million people are costa co m us lason French Guiana. of Martinicae Guadeloupe. the Reunion in the Indian Ocean. and the Pacific islands that go.

LUTONE up New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futana islands.

Their dependent status is laid down in -Statute

right in 1946. appears divided question, the SOONE CHELONY In Guadeloupe,

that 'Autonomy

Czech Trotskyist Petr Uhl:

Two leading Charter 77 supporters are under 24-hour police surveillance in Prague. They are Trotskyist Petr Uhl and Dr Frantisek Kriegel, a Praesidium member under Alexander Dubeek. We don't know what the bureaucracy plans to do with Uhl and Kriegel, but we intend to influence those plans by campaigning for an

In this and the next issue we look at the careers and political outlooks of the two men. This week MARK

Gramme to that of all wings of the Communist Party and saw 1081 only the activey of the Crechoslovak masses selves could put it into practice.

Ta do this a solid and independent organisation reguired.

SOLIDARITY The RSP consciously identilied itself with the international struggles of the oppressed. declaring its solidarity with the French workers and students who had risen against French Capita sin 17 May 1900 800 WEILLE with the Viernamese poople against US struggle

aperialism TEE WANTED HELLE 40 being independent burcaucrats, bul ol every Jorce in world positics other than the

RSP worked •Tha official trade union commitrees. especially the workers' and university any ployees and Prague students. One of their nig sucpesses was the production of a leaflet for the

Mitterrand siebily indenendence but an original form of decolonisation in the Tramicwork of the French Republic.. an Guadeloupe would be Freen.

In other words, the left's the Caribbean insistence

dependence for France means island the denial of independence 10

the oppressed and exploited masses of thesc

Sand the HARASSMENT

Racism has always

voted major problem in For Migerian independence.

Today the PS on Police harassment of min-

PCF grant workers goes on non-stop som Duis have to use thE PCE Paris Underground at night to see the constant checking and CUBIIECE does BUL questioning.

them- Soviet tanks in Prague.

second.

Soviet invasion

In January 1970 the group was broken up by the work of informer provocateur, It was another 15 months before the RSP was hrought to trial.

The indictment made a torcuous attempt to link the RSP so world SION CHOCEE DETACS ARES TE contacts with SIGHTESTS of tbe Ar

defendants, himself, openly attacked the Tabric

of the insinuation

indicement was based At the opening of the trial challenged tionalry: pointing contacts

metal- judges with the secret police.

and the complicity of some of the them in the show trials of the 1950g mass Another Frolik, admitted taking part in

the country

grants are foethereit of the country:

RIGHTS

HELE

in future.

autonomous ests. "national in said last December:

colonies.

HATEHES

been a

Algerian independence. of

country afarigin.

In other

Any immigrant anniversary of the

and agent indictment saying,

imperialism and to INTEREST

Western far The tria!

falsebood and which the

conslitti the cul the overflow maintained by the

out at thetrial.

defentiant.

without the right paperi immediately thrown out of

Physical attacks on immi

increasing several have been murdered by fascist gangs in recent months

Immigrant workers get the

jobs, the lowest wages, and the

much if not more is at stake for them in the French elections as

There i just one small problem: immigrant workers

allowed to vote. politics.

Worse still, neither the PCF nor PS intends to let them do so

The PC's justification of its position once again puts supposed national with obligations above class inter-

September

Jean Colpin, a member of the PeE Central Commulle

Equality increase shrinking of the immigrant's

cent, renunciation of their national identity. The right to vote in France. supposes duties, plications and behaviour which can contradict the attachment live together

the immigrants to their

words, immigrant workers should keep out of the politics of the French people — even though their whole lives the various activities mentioned revolutionary in the indictment, but rejected the notion that the activity was in any way anti-socialist. He denounced the absurdity of the

HOW Dare you say we are anti-socialists, centrably of when we lake our inspirator from Marx, Engels and Lenin?'

Eastern

tarianism aroused greal Pramie. Dit the morning of & March lawyers

the defendants this protested against the refusal of The presiding judge ro admit the demands public to the trial. The judge

repliod that, if all those who held corry tickets were allowed supports.

'courtroon would

Uhl received a four year atlacks sentence, tbe highest handed openly

skyist

Al the start of 1907. Uhl Frosty participated in the launching of Charter 77, socing the need for 1 pold douse

West Indian Women on the march in France

On the essential question of Immigration controls both PCF and PS agree that entry must remain limiled in accordance

the economs plan. puttished by the Correws -controlled council

Montreuil stated: "The consus has also Teveaied ar

in the immigrant population from 9.79 to 14.9 believes that ile while the council

should not exceed a level - OL ADOUL 1U per cent if the best conditions for the various communities to

to exist.

CONTRAST

Joint

This is in sharp contrast to the left's campaign. The final issue of the Trotskyist paper

The

Marxists involve theiselves in the movement for human rights

In an Open Letter to the Western Revolutionary Lett in March 1977 U/bl pointed our the

the ISSUE democratic rights in the fight

Europe.

He argues against any sec

on the part of the Western Ear lett over this issue

The

More recently be has restated

view of the Charter, comparing its programme of

with that of SCOT Transitional Programme of the Fourth International, which he

In another document, pro testing against the elements of anti-semilism in the regue's

on the Charter he Trot thus undercutting the accempts as term

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 16 March, 1978 page 1 contained two pages of report and analysis on the theme of ser determination a guest column by one of the

parties New Caledonia.

CAMPAIGN

The paper has also coverer the campaign of the candidates

section of the Fourth Inter Datonal in unacupe ang Martinique.

Similarly, while the PCF and PS have devoted almost no attention to the prablems D immigrant workers - because there are no votes to be there — the candidates of the

far slate, 'For socinlism. power workers', have made a special DOL! DE visiting immigrant residential areas and Tactories

In September 1977 Chl was held for 24 hours and his flar searched to present hin

EAC Chartists, Ales Machacek and Vladimir Lastuvka. His driving licence has boen removed and his phone cut off

The police even tried to sow divisions within the Charter movement by terrorist actions

rejection of these ridiculous insinuations by the rest of the Charter dissuaded the police from pursuing this tactic further,

Finally, in December 1977 Uhl lost his job as an engineer

informing bin of this mo c

in the Charter as the reason.

SURVEILLANCE

Policemen sit outside th door of his flar checking te visitors and sometimes -pre venting them from enterits

ERIL hour surveillance. is an bonour accorded by the regime only a Uhl and Frantisek Kriege

they have of Ubl's importaace HETC ДАНСЕ ВОРСИСЫ

It is likely that the authorities

against Uhl, possibly a trial it

To counter these possibilities the Weslern lett has to take the case of Pett Uhl and u demand an end to the haras ment and that he gets his b

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US workers fight back

This trick is the oldest in the NO OTTON TO TAS MEN! into a bureaucrat. But the

of the new mood rising in the RECTOR TOTALL class. Turning on their last phrase he said, "you don't understand. I already am somebody walked back to the shop floor. For years the radicalisation in America spread through inde pendent ITASS mavements which organised outside of, and especially in their early years in open hostility to, the organised labour movement.

POLITICS

The black movement was the

period of calm which METERRI enjoyed World War Civil rights

carly were only the beginning. By the carly '70s. Chicanos, women, and students had organised movements which were Having a social impact far beyond their own ranks. Organised protest came also from prisoners, gays and oppressed nationalities.

The most important independent movement, however, the anti-war movement, from which many of movements leaders and inspiration.

Much to the alarm of a poll financed hy America's richest

rights demanded by college students In Dy Dors. Contr

considered as rights by Voune workers as well.

THE International Women's Day Kally in Londonon8March was an overwhelming success.

The hall and balcony of the

Old Theatre were crowded with women who were there to sisterhood and to express their SODOHERE around the world suffering TOR ThE COES ASSAU racist societies.

AfterwamenDadsunesonesot sisterhood and struggle there were socakers TrOm groups. They all echoed the call for an international tribunal on the repression of women.

Women irom Iran and Latin

or try to!

GENOA was one of the few -lies in Italy where Internutional Women's Day bet celebrated this year. On the ave of the event, police armed with machine guns arrested sad badly beut 23 fensinists as They were decorating a local sqmure in preparation for the celebration.

The following weekend 1500 demonstrators marched brough Genor to protest this naprosaked attack and to demand the release of seven ol he women still in custody.

INTERNATIONAL

Behind the miners' strike

Last December a black steelworker in Houston, Texas was called into the office of the plant manager. Besides this boss and his boss from the steei company the union's local (branch) and district heads were in the office. Their offer was simple: stop your militancy on the shop floor and we'll give you a new car, a wage increase and a union post. Yes, they said: "We'll really make you somebody. STUART PAUL reports.

Blacks make up 20 per cent of union membership Industry (United Auto Work-

the largest government employees Federation of State, County

and AFSCME Letter Carriers.

Postal Clerks).

SCAPEGOAT As of 1977, the American worker is no longer an adult white male.

Barnes, leader American Socialist Prazy pile white milet have pointed out last slipped to 49 per cent of the workforce. *So it's hard to say what the MILLE average worker is darker than white. more remale than cych, and younger than Women, oppressed nationalitake up so per cent or 2e and workers under 21 American working class to. day."

Long before the national coal strike began, the miners in Stearns, was went on strike recognition. (A nearby mine other owned by the same company

underground explosion caused

trade unionists in San Antonio, being away) organised a support SECUEILOC the miners and contributed $500.

Women celebrate

their day...

Americaspokeabout thetorture

out the way scxuality frequently used. guards followed cither forced abortion or the London School of Economics refusal of abortion facilities is

widespread.

The issue ofabortion was also odebratetheirstrong lechnes of | raised by the speaker from the

National Ahortion Campaign, all WHO BALAEWLES abortion is the focus of attacks upon womens rigate troubl our the world "democracies. Black womens groups from this explained the difficulties they faced bringing up children and finding jobs with bad housing and unemployment.

Perhaps the best response was

Despile this show of force the seven were not releused Was until 13 Murch and all 23 w face charges of resisting arrest.

In other major Italian lowne TOILES gave out sprigs, used by women to

Middle This

somen flowers on 8 March

Communists as well as the

CELICA.

miners.

Supported Workers Action.

And follow I ASSIC

Metal

averand District Committee.

Jack Workers

growing radicalisation in the! SOONE TONE CUTS DEMOT strated in the the DEL

Last February

before, United

Americu (USWA) elected a new president. In the campaien a strong challenger

called "Steelworkers Back

current

RIGHT WING Kentucky for union Their candidate for

dent. constantly red-baited bourgeois media and attempts were made to discredit him recalling his opposition to the Vietnam war. He replied that it

movement to have supported the war. It should have stopped it and should stop a similar war The political origins of the | in the future.

Involved in work on women in Kape by Ireland.

by from Irish hrutality of British towards women attacks by the SOUR DICTAR Inthesumming up ar the cod of the evening the international tribunal on the repression repeated and it was decided to even in

nicetingstostart organising this.

country The many women at the rally

feltchatithudbeenanexampleof how effectiveh organise, SECTOO HERE HOTALSELSCI and necessary event.

To make the sharper many cumpaigners lied paper to their parsley sprigs.

The paper was a mock voucher awarding women free whort-

parsley lons If they were members of

the Communist Party [PCI. the The PCI has never promoted

gesture Tree STILISH

LOBEIONS unmen's right in its efforts to uchseye. Ibe promise with the Christian DEBULAIS

Picket the US embassy in support of the

Grosvenor Square, Wednesday 22 March, 12 noon to 2pm.

by Socialist Challenge

the example of Socialist Challenge supporters in Wilmot Breeden, a Birmingham car components factory, who collected signatures for a petition of support for the US miners. It was signed by members of the AUEW and the National Society of

Mechanics. Among signatories were 15 shop stewards and member of the Birmingham AUEW West

The Stirchley AUEW No 2 branch has also sent a resolution to the UMWA.

demands put Experimental BITTEN (1977) the steel strikes, Workers of

to the slate emerged Fight

Presi- steel' (steel SAD OWSKI in the

by

le 9000E They read evidence women on the troops and about Garda in the

call for an

wotten was

of HANDLEE

great show of sling even pro-abortion and bus compromised

historic

London, went on strike

and

range,

wage

the many

the NOTEMCH isolated to

Steelworkers Fight Back was buils sround opposition to the set

Negotiating bureaucracy Agreement (ENA) which bans

although the members were never allowed to vote on it. Nor can they vote on 1971. their contracts. However, in its the campaign it took a number militant positions which in this country the Cosmunist Party would not even contemplate.

Pretod

Sadlowski won a quarler of a

and in basic production) an DE UMWA

outright victory. A few months

mines, who bocause of industrial unionism

of the Steel Warkers Union,

TREACHERY the

Organised in the Mesabi

tbe strike took advantage of a loophole in the ENA no-strike pledge, allowing "local issue' strikes, to fight for

parity with other steelworkers. The Mesabi range had been solid for Sadlowski but the burcaucracy had support their strike What's more they won. The Joophole has been amended" our since.

showed a militant alternative to ENA and its fruits. This mood

American labour been Inst one campaign Following Fight Back in seel, a similar group has been set up in think

Miners For Democracy wat

when anti candidate for UMW president was murdered Wer Josg the ChE When theelection was declared invalid

the new elections and and of several union denied by bureaucracy Most important of these was the right to vote on their contract. They also regained delegate control

conference and t00.

Seems these here miners don't LIKE

Mah Edward Heath impression!

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 16 March, 1978 pege 12 membership control of the EMWA Journal. The union began an organising drive, its First in 20 years

And altbought many of the original MFD activists have been sacked or resigned since,

gains democracy are proving valuable today.

Sad owski, for all the progressive points of his platform. renta nod loyal to the capitalis Democratic Party. But there are signs, especially in this

strike, that this long-held American lahour movement is suffering the same crisis as the blinders of the fifties and carly sixties

SUPPORT Harry Patrick, who war until

ALLITEC UMW Secretary-Treasurer, said in the 23 December MilitanKUSt: 1

we've had enough. We've tried and tried and tried to work within one of the two major parties, and is is simply just not going to work. think a Tabour party put together with LETE ELECHU SIC programme could be a damn

The racist politicians are also losing supporters. A white coal miner in Alabama responded to an attack on a picker line by State Troopers : You learned telling black supporter: about Wallace before we did. but now we've learnt the lesson

Kigg

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GON!

JOte Sociaie Challenge ROSS's and 19 January) is a very welcome opening stalement in a discussion that needs careful consideration by

stands in marked contrast to the smug self-salislied tones of David Widgery 's letter Socialist

The article can be welcomed for rwo reasons: a) that it acknowledges the demobilisation of the working class since 1975, and b) attempts to come to berins with the crisis of the revolutionary left, The recognition of these two tacis is the tirst step

Tace tola Tobn Rost wiele

Ros's article could, therefore, be the first step along the road to reality and effec-

should be seen in the context of this overall appreciation and not as secking points of disagreement, rather they should be scen as an attemptat dialogue.

VALID

Ross locates the change in the stuBton ot Botain relace to 1

orking class in the period late 197

hrough 1975, and I feel that this is; valid estimate. However, I am not surethat heis correct when he argues that this demobilisation, and later defeats of individual struggles, wa not becuuse of the -strenyth bourgebis institutions but because of the betrayals (TETOFTEI burcsucracy. It secuns to me that this

question of bourgeois ideology and the institutions which mediate tl and the insitutiens Moreover, I reel there is an clement Lacking in his accoant of the year 1974. All. of these questions ure Finked.

What the article stresses in relation to 1974 was the very real victory of the minets in toppling the Heath Goretementandihe winningof their wape claim. However, what tacking is the recognition of another and equally important clement in LauT SHIman sc TRr TC-mereCE. of a large Liberal vote. In the February 1974 clection the Labour Party actually received less votes than in the 1970 clection, This was the paradox of February 1974, The polarisation of the classes — which began as far back as 1966 - - seemed to have reached its height in carly 1974, and to have real possibilities for a working class victory, hut in fact in clectoral terms it showed the beginoing of the dissipation of this polarisation. The emergence of the large1 Theralvote, plus the rise of the nati malsts in Scotand and Wales indicated the great instability of the bourgews order. And these event have to be set on top ef the batumerne sigb ly lad a read takeu from huge sections of the working class in militant industrial strugele,

What's

Left

NGUĞI DEFENCE holding a public mesting on 21 March

mimice s0 Protist at the impr anndetalle rom Cem Campsell PaTels boles teamielcura uca

BELT & BRACES Roadsson

CAPITAL AN

Mandel's •TLUUCHUN ILO Capital and of Tons

So, what we had was not the clear EUROUOW ORELLASTUEL for - seemingly- easy victory, but a paradoxical one of great militancy by large sections of the working class coupled with large soctions of th population backing away from boch

Labour and Tory Parties. This, alongside of the emerzence of the National Front asa nutional political force, indicated the dis-egushbrium of thesystem at that point.

apparent in H- Tornon namher ot ultra-riht cara-mutar! organisations during 1974, a feature almost wholly lacking in Britain for

However, Ross says that bourgeois institutions were not strong ar that period, but he correct, since le leaves cur accountthe Labour Government. To talk about the betrayal of the reformist bureauctacy makes it appear as some sort of deus machina which arriver in the nick of Lune iO pinE Inc chestnuts out of the fire. The reality IUS-LIC LAMUR OUNAIE WREM part of the bourgeois institutions.

something outsideof then.

The queston nere is why were the reformist bureaucrats demohilise the working 1974/757 And, surely, this is where the effect of bourgeois arises. For real, and substantive victories of the working class to have reselted fron the situation in carly 1974 ie wouldhavebeen tecemary for a differemt working ciass Jeadersh.p FOR SOCIALIS AFRICA

naparger

eligran at falcet.

Run up le

BRITAIN 1978:

Crisis of Society,

Crisis of the Left

Some

comments

by

Ken Tarbuck

subservent lo borecos ideoloey

Instability in the system,

CWHS alSd of a

best bet

only formally of

derelacr usli

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commitmsc: 4 nocessily. sality an adastge Win

the main focus

SIMPLISTIC therefore IHHIEпEITI. to he in postion, one that was not tion

Given the actual relationship of forces at that time there were only Bricish two poss ble outcones to the general

either a Labour government which would derail the industrial maltancy of the working class, or the establishmen: bl some sort of aurhoritariar regime WICI WODE RAVE GISCASWu parlamentary niceties. Far fracn the bourgeoisie not having confidence in cause of the ability of' a Labour government to carry out thetask of de-railment, It was its first bet because it understood that in the circunistances if was its

This situation had its ronts in the political changes in Britain going back to 1966, when the Lahour of sectarapism Government was, and was seento be. the most clear sighted and coberent

The Fasco of the Heath Government andreated that in the present period a into Labour government can serse the TETE SUL COUBE USC ERC

why is it able to function as except to say such? Not merely hecause it betrays workers" stroggles, hat because it is

so and still relain its ideological hald on the vast majority of the working class. It is able to do thisbecausetbe working class itself is still — in the main — domucated by

Ross, in this sense, has only gone haif way to mappiag out thesicuation in 1974. Hourgeos hegemony which hadbegunto be wenkened, especially

1972-74. WES L

F.. LITHO LTD, 325/P Upper Stree exe ene TRUETE

the managerse the Roose adamess

bands e aco Detalis io be

established and procisely Ibrough that bourgeois institution Labourgovernment. This bourgodis hegemony iw mediated through a whole series of insticucions. but it would he wrong to concentrate a discussion upon only some of theat. What we have to understand is the cocality and the way that some insitutionsarerothe fore at one tinte while ar others different ones become

John Ross reduces this whole complex question to one of the working clas leaders being bouch alf. This Is too simplistic almost a mirror image of chose who argue that bourgeos Institutions are too powerful to be defeated, Ross s* Every single capitalit policy siace 1974 has been quite explicitly frumed on the issumption that the NUM cannot be defeated in stroggle and

Its leadership must be

Thistypeof argumentation reduces thequeshonto oncol bad or weak

Implicit is that good 'strong" men mast be put in the place of the cristing caders. 1 am sure that on reflection John Ross will see the trap he has laid for himseir.

The second part of thearticle in fact beems to recognise procisely the crucial importance of the domina-

bourgeois ideology Moreover, John Ross lays his finger an one of themost wearisome aspects

Marxism, i.e. its sectanansso. This is scen as bein; partially rooted in the attitude o Looking atter the httic tatnes and the higthings will look after themselves" Hispbnlanon trom Mart, however must he understood in the opposite sense to that interred in the article. The httle thiags" asentality is not che

sectarianisa: but is its product We have to look much deper for the roots of sectarianism than John Ross allows for. raising of small differences to the level of big ones is not the cause of sectarianism bulilseffect

John Roos well descrites the result

democratic discussion within the left groups but fails to account for it. He conflates a description of the discase with an explanation. I will not attempt to go

all the ramifications of this problemu here (I have dealt with it at leagth in Marxism, Method and Revolution" in Intersention No. 1)

that education and democratie discussion are inseparable. The ability of the 'leaders" of Tar lett sects to maistain their grip depends to a large extent upon the acceptanccof a velgarisod version of Markism by many of their followers. In this respect it is symptomatie of the crisisof thelef chat recently there has been a proliferation of grougs, most of them being formed by splits

Even more indicative is that there are langs numbers of unattached people wihc

HL-HAS TCHUHENE SELE Eoçar

EAST LONDON SeciEst

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 16 March. 1978 page 13

have been in one or more of the

Hand Theit number seems to grow while the groups either stagnate or deline. Unforunately, John Ross's preserption of united socialist activity does not completely fil the bal, Such united activice can only be brouchr about on the basis o1 aDl! understanding of what are the "hig issues". Cencine wity can only te roughi abour by real dialogue hetween varlous current-on the left, one thal refuses to be bound by the shibbolerhs of the past John Ross has nade several steps forware in this respoct, and we should all the willing to participute in the discussion so niciated. Howerer participátion in discussion does not automatically lead to agreement. sontetimes it clarifies the nature of the disagreements. Such ciacifications are, however, necessacy step on the roac to anity. No one should be demgrated beceuse they do nor agrec wilh ceraia propositions. In the final amalysis oniy the working class itself can lend substance to ans particular propositions by actua.is ing them in struggle

-ONDRUS posils that united action of revolutionaries and warking Tor a united revolumonary organisacion isn't an 'obsracie to building the party bura viral part of taking forward the stroggle of the working class One can certalnly agroc with such sepciments, howaver they in turn raise problems, Firsts, implicit in such a starement is that building the party is today on the svenda, whereas many, like myself feel thai we are onls in the preparatory sragcs of such a venture. i.e. of building a cadre for sech a party. The two ane not separated by an impenetrable wall, yer they do constitate quite distinct task;.

Secondly, I for one would question the asumptione/building the party.

лот a semantic difference. If — as the recent USFI resolution on socialis democracy does - we recegnise the need for more than one workers" parly after poses the question will not this feed subst helaresush an overchee0? theanswer wyes, thenthe question of TECU TUL WULKAN BUNS new and compelling logic If there is

than workers" involved in strugeles to overthrow capitaliem, it implies that the united front becomes a strategic necessity and nor atactical gambit.

These are some of the issues that need io be dealt with: in aby discussion about left uniy if we are te leave the old shibbaleths behind This in no way umplies that such discussoms should not take in currenl probiems, or bas-to-day quesciens, rather the resolution of the small problems will come abou: by a thorough understanding of the Ds quesounacco длист.

KEN TARBUCK is wn editor of

the Markist magazine Interven-

ROADGANG (Ecciaist Faminis aire ротрапут reguites ека HO- P sirar0 195735 Pule Miu DRiN e SasH

osicalise

REVIEW

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COMMENT

black

workers

THE centre spread of boel Challenge proposi dor et contine 390385 proposals include support for the

naspeuren womcu s moremcar, Dut at the same time make no mention of black workers.

The Anti-Nazi League, which you do menuon, 1s a propaganaa grog agasnat the NF, and the anti-fascist comatees are lareciy Jovolved in defensive work in response to fascist initiatives. In the intervening periods these committees are usually inactive. Alhough they have begun to broaden TE acuTc, MCr pcIspectves da not go beyond organising mainly

ee manhans agaltst fascist

Black workers are one of the mos

pressed sections of the working

lass and have been in the forefront of the fight against fascism and racism over the last two years. It is these workers who have first experience of racist and attacks, and who have organised the CECICE TO UCr own communies. Without the continuous mobilisation of toese workers apaist rascisnl, tc impact of the anti-fascist would not be WART T S TOUT ruling class has used the tactic allemplnr to integrale these worker into traditional politico and develop a black reformist leadership, but so far this has tailed.

Despite a significant mobilisation of black workers behind revolutionary banners on

and despite their readiness t0 get involved TEULIOR COCCHIA I E LEL tons, it is distressing to note that you

section of the working class. white working CASS had itself with the arganisations to the same extent as the blacks have, then would you have pur forward the same perspectives in your centrespreed? 1 would say definitels not. ALTRIS stage | revolutionaries have progressed much beyond the Fourth Congress of the Comintern when one oc canic compianco inar ne nag encountered race prejudice

really want to grapple with the negro BLOCN

This lack of perspective for black WOrKETS PrODADY OETIVES LOOI LEC traditional way of thinking of the left LEMBEE LICT OLEOEROSCRE EO think and organise at the point of production whereas the black workers tend to be involved in polities at a

This is especially true of black youth, necessary to point out here that the national organisations claiming to ILHELIL black. communities Totally bankrupt and do not represent SUT CIE The Tew who have credibility are locally based. organisations are mainty active in the Afro-Caribbean communities and are very suspicious of the revolutionary left, It is important that a sensitive

Socialist

Challenge

EVENTS

NORTH WEST

MaHRINGTE SOCUINi

Manch

pet modine Tr lai seal

Ches or arnar b 14 Fico IN TU THaTCHE T QU

PRESTON Socialist Challenge sup

Presion 54616" к у при

MANCHESTER

Challenge beween 11 30em and Tpm

Longsight Markel, 1 A055 Sidi

intorian trom

fionaries in perspectives for left unity.

unity?

These

LEISELE (smail s, small w, small p) rep

the Labour Party.

hand fascist on a big united organisation

would be force development, impact on its of

very

allow freedom

anti-fascist

motives. As with

real unity. they mosl -oppresc

If the al your expense.

involved useless just revolutionary

IDECOLECS

probably For ex-SWP

wonder apsept thar

adherence io majority

American

among doing so who did no faction light.

out with Jeffreys aver internal bulletins and a (WHOLEI

Ihe reasob! Tor 1 feel u is

for the aTe prepared to accept the any These

of the SWP membership,

mURY Socialist Challan

Whitelieid, auxi bo 31A1 G0 LIVERPOOL Socialist ya al cho Deiphin. Canning

YORKSHIRE

Challenge

- Watham Ciut, Norfol Siret.

HUDDERSFIELD Socialist Challange Nantomberland Street Laddor's alast pay. "Taking Our 226 4287

YORK Socialist Challange meeting.

Bartican 4co1, Yol Socialist NORTH EAST

DURHAM Socialist zullen noels regula-ly ut B a, ti Te Avenue.

1H019200 BARLINGTON Socialist Challeng

Saturdays outsid

approach should be made to these

an indepenac secon cr toe worku

class cannot be ignored by revolu-

GEWIRE TUD DE

RAGHIB AHSAN (Birminghum]

What price

AS A former member of the SWP, 1

was delighted to read your statement

Time lo Link Arins on icir uny, A

irganisation involving th

wescot saP iMG and former comrades would be a very powerful com bination, brine back into eclisits many of our comrades who have

allen by the way-side since 1968, and immediately pose the possibility of this new socialist workers party the CP as the main force to the left

This new organisation would be much more powerful than the sum of CENI its paris, and give a new perspective to many worker militants who have been through the revolutionary

ort a big united organ isation beins

created. You can bet your last penny that the Communist Party leadership

petrified ty which would have an own rank-and-file.

But there is a problem, and one you don't seem to recognise. Ie's all

SELV CENSERE new organisation must be democratie and

CT BEISI Fair enough. But actually the majority of SWP are deeply suspiciour of your MOLE LIE CAOCE DEIC that

Duncan Hallas said in the articie which you published, the utterly problem is that the IMG don't want reanoenies to strenghe themscity want unity

It's absolutely protesting your good You have to recognise thai al the beginning al least, and

La Jong period. Lhe current would be a lange jont- tou navelo be nesparco le

and guarantee Your UCCLES! within the framework of free debate.

Mareoyer, Vou haveto be brepared to enter a joint organisation without

705L ID Conde a VIcIans Because thar's what really scares the SWP leadership and memberslip alike: lhe thoughi of a long period of complete paralysis while Tariq All and John Ross slog it

Tony Chiff and Steve an increasing pile of rapidly The membership must clearly understand

members I've inet seen to agree with Duncan Hallas's view of the reasons

artemipts al ubity.

So be precise comrades Are you

discipline of ao organisation in which your views are in a minority? Are you prepared to make concessions to allay the fears

for do examplc some initial limits on the time periods of internal discussion?

Werthern Rose on High Row, discus Cea MISDLESBORQUGN utside Boota at Cieveland Cent Challenge 1'am-1pm ightl an Wen До ати ми та ПастІког"

WALES

.S pm in Si

SOUTH EAST COLCHESTER Socialist

•DITSCUL. Sn:?0. Banchno GOLLHE TER Socialet Challandi poup to be an up i town Il you an nerosled, sune alang to a meelin the Labour Party tall, Noth Cha

BRIGHTON Paum uemay cApli, Cmma

Are you prepared to stay in a new

organisation which doen't adopt your views and refuses to adhere to the Fourth International. Or are you

just planning a raid to eliminate ibe

LEERSS TAAIHE DU MEEDELEN read the response of the editorial board to enesc quesnoos

Keith Smith (Binningham)

Scandalous!

'SCANDALOUS! Outrageous! Un.

- Lagree — these are the words 1 would use to describe the behaviour SOMBRESES Challenge supporters on the small anti-fascist picket ar Iford. Justifiably angered by the police sell-out on agreed plans,

MEINE channelled denunciations Socialist Workers Party as the mon immediately obvious Anti League supporters.

The turnous was, by supporters in any case, feeble perhaps the thought of working at canvassing was less attractive than

punch-up.

Challenge does litle to disperse the MetO SWP/ANL corelio s Hopressipn. incorrect repeated in spile of repeated stress on the differentiation of the two and TREITO CELIVIS

The accusation of League complicity in calling for bams is reiterated in

pite of the presence of both Peter

Paul Holborrow co-signatories of Fight the Ban* oc the front page of the same issuc of rhe

sally, Brian Grogan's call for resistance to the police alternative to gaining wider support

apparently on the dubious ground

martyrs make good rallying is, in the circumstances, suicidal. One must ask contrade Grogan: Where is the mass support resulting from the martyrs of Only an initiative on the lines of the ANL can break the isolation of the revolutionary left heroies irrelevant.

T. NICHOLLS(SWP mensber, West London)

Three

cheers for

the bull!

1 WAS VERY disappointed with last week's letter from members of the London Anti-Racist and Anti-Fascist co-ordinating Committee concerning the Anti Nazi League. Essentially it suffered from the discase it was attacking - sectarianism, The basic question is: Has the emergence of the League helped the anti-fascist struggle? My answer is an oncquivocal Yes. Despite many cases

SH UNISO loward: existing anti-fascist committee which do have a Tea. base (and Lhere are a lot which

not), whar the League

DOSIS projecting anti-fascist politics on a national

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basis. While the League's positions are limited improved, the fact that they uniled 1o a very specific targe: (ch National Front) is no wrong. 1 believe it was Frotsky who said we should be prepared to unite with the devil himself if it belped build action agninst the fascists.

Although some of the reformist sponsors propaganda campaien alermahve lo mase street, it was the League continued with the mobilisation at ilford after sponsors and Redbridge CARF had run amay at Me MeNee's bidding. In spite of its wrong position on the ban there would not even have been two thousand people at Ilford but for the League. Certainly of the LIETE couldn'i mobilise that mumber — not

Nazi co-ordinating committee it could not

Bne ascon o moonisc asals Tr. ban which

YOuT CARE

acting like 'a bull in a china shop' Three cheers for the bull Socialist Because the League is a mass single

issue campaign political forces, it will not have an analyss or sexism, immigration controls and so oi. Howerer, by massively extending the audience for anti-fascist politics, it can help create a mass movemest within which revolutionary socialists can work to explain the origins of fascism in racism, sexusm and so on. The League has this reaching hundreds of thousands of people revealed in the moctings if holds. But ir as an realise this potential

democratised and committee accountable-to its base This does not buikling branches, as the comrades stale.

The IMG is aware of numerous instances of sectarianism by the AND towards existing. organisations makes abuses which will

prospects of both. But we will light sectarianism not simply in the ANL

MICK GOSLING [Landin Orguniser. IMG)

WE APOLOGISE for the fact that the letter last week members of the 10-member ARAFCC Secretariar did not indicate they were writing in a personal capucity. The error was ours. Ed.

Inadequate

ON 2 MARCH yoa carried a letter from Bob Purdie critical of Jour 'Troops Out' editorial about the Le Mons bombing. We consider that n was not your editocial bur his letter that was totally inadequate.

There are two main points in hi letter that Firstly, he says that the IRA are weak in relation to the security forees and that therefore they are only attacking

has 'soft" targets. In fact the reverse is tbe

case. On the morning of the Le Mons bombing the C.O.

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Jackets (the premier military unit) was killed when his Gazelle helicopter

according CHINON magazine is the "last word" in

- was chot down int an reminiscent of INL.F operations in Vietnam.

Since then there have been number of direct attacks on the "Security forces", in some of which the new M60 machine gun has been used

then, been an overall escalation of rhe military campaign. restting not only in more bombing of

('sofi") targets but abso increasingly in direct and successful attacks on the army.

Secondly, Bob Purdie asserts that the Provisionals" campaign has failed and thar herefore they should 'dump arms now". Bur it mast be understood that a war is being fought that onl one side can win. The Provisionals want a Britsh withdrawal: the British want to stay, Heither the British were forced to concede a withdrawal, or the Provisionals were forced to dump their arms, this would guite rightly be regarded by the other sade as a victory

of other colonial wars fought by the British shows that it is precisely when they have defeated a trocdom movement that they go in hardest. In Kenya it was after the fighters in the forests had been decimaled that some of the worst Bricish atrocities occurrel. The Hola massacre was just the lip bf the Soeberg and the British "rehabilitated the derainees in thie concentration camps. History shows that when you are lighting the British, attack is the best means of defence

If the Beisish were to force a defeat on the Provisionals their next step would undouhtedly be to exorcise the

republicanism from the ghettoes. The SAS would he given an

Tein L0 down republicans in the streets, republican prisoners would be subjected rehabilitation" rechniques and the RUC and UDR would be back with a

Finally, we repudiate Bab Purdie's

view overal?

The militancy of the Cathobic working class has been shown in the past two weeks by the buge turnout for the political status demo and for Paul Duffy's funeral In the south of Treland, Pianna Fail coming to power with an unprecepented majonts on a pro-Jrish unity and British disengagement ticket bas led to a siruntion where all parties in the south are openly expressing quasi-

This has been a major sel back for Roy Masom and the Britsh govern ment because ir is ooce again respec. table to he in favour of Trish units and Britsh withdrawal. In these ciceunstances what Bricish socinists should be discussing is how to build a campaign to mase this a reality

RENWICK. JOHN LLOYD, LIZ CURTIS

WE ARE RECEIVENG un average of 30 letters a week for the Comment page. It is obrious thar we cannot publish them all. However, Tromt now on give priority to those letters which ure 400 words or below. We reserve the right to cut oeber

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Punk on screen

the film Jubilce has to offer. FIRST THING, I don't think it's very funny when T have to pay a trendy entrepreneur E1.75 (yes one pound seventy-five) so ice a film about lamong other things) a trendy entrepreneur ripping people off

1 particularly don't bke it when I leave the cinema — Giate Twp in this case — with a nasty taste in my mouth and a sick feeling in the pit of stomach.

It wasn't s0 much violence — 1 mican, these days we're all so blasć abour mutilation as us ucE nosm And l'd been promised that this film had something deep to say aboul British society.

RAMBLE

Jubilee has a two-sided plot (if that's the word). We start at the court of Queen Elizaberh 1 with a long metaphysical ramble by court astrologer John Dee.

Apparently this is based an

phic Monad'. It doesn't matter. Only The TALNCIESESULE audience will understand what Il's about and there woien t many there the night 1 went.

We come back to this mong-

AFTER the premiere

performance of Eamonn

McCann's play Mad Micks and Englishmen an appeal for funds was

made on hehalf of the International Tribunal on Britain's Presence in Ireland, writes GEOFF

BELL.

The fundraier atroduced an

clement of cumperition feto his

ciforis by calling out the nannes

of: political erpanisations

International Marxist Group?' -Who's NICTE from

Be asked (calcalls). Fram the

Socialist Workers

(nomphal shouts). From the

Commanist Party? (groans).

Fram the Eabour

(inagluer)

Unintencioned thougit it was.

ths was a rellection ol sonte o7

the problems wilh Mad Micks.

The audience al the Lonton

School of Economics première

was an exceptional one, made

for the most puit of lar

lefties and Jrish acovests,

COP-OUT

Accordingly. Enes

and appreciare

Mud Micks.

the play were particularly weil

rebeied. One whon a character

in sarcastically cold: You can

discoser the to aations theor

and write to the Irish Tines.

The ather when ex- Vott 0]

Ireland premier Brian Faclkner

is seen niding piggy back on the

top of anether character.

But it is n restricted audience

that can grasp the relevance of

thesc POIRL

intellectual cop-oul of

HONOT- Ireland is Iwo

nations; and that Faulkner's

Brutality rules

Britannia

RICHARD CARVER pays a lot of money to give punk a last chance and is bitterly disappointed at what

mental ledium a HumDer times throughout the film, but the real action is elsewbere. Bod (played by the same actress as plays Elizabeth) reigns over a punk England, and post-Clockwork Orange. where brutality rules, women are dominant and ageressive tand Very ViDICaE a0d DEl passive and sexual. my

GROTESQUE

the

The population spends its time smashing up cars, making récords and policemen. Everything apparently is owned by Borgia Ginz, the camp and implicitly Jewish impresario:

He is played by Orlando of the Lindsay Kemp mime company, so we also pet treated to a grolesque COD-TILOERISLO mimue from that incredibly overrated gang.

The cast is split haif and holf hetween people with names like Little Nell and Adam Ant (that's their "rcal" names) who can't act, and aciors actresses who find the whole thing rather embarrassing and keep dropping their working class acoents. 1 went co see the film because

McCann's revenge

the

Party

could

favourite pastime mately the caase of bis demise, wis horse ridig.

There is notbing wrong with author making SanarMOUY CNNINONE ERINOOI af their subicet. But to do se in agil-prop theatre is a differen. csatter.

the Agic-prop is supposed to

simplty and cot through ruling clas: propaganda.

of

post-modern disembowelling

I thought punk was important The clothing und lifestyle hold no attraction and the music does grievous bedily harm to my aural and Jubilee 1 was giving chance to prove itscif. It failed.

Tobe fair, none of my punk Iriends bked it eilher. For them il wasp't "real' punk but a trendy bowalerisation. Or they thet it can he understood in /

ANO UNS

baDOd cuns anu bece baru bramches.

Mad tuaction.

To take another examnle. A Lovalist in che play performs tertal an opos dues arem Bact vanouS bipoted actual Loyalist jokes, but because ths is never CERCTCIS TINEE

JENNY RUNACRE: a punk image of the queen of England

Sebastiane apparatus speaking Larin).

punk at

"real"

hippses died authot.

La Derry couple,

wile,

sl the IKA.

FUNNY

the dramatic

disguised

play isn't lunns.

E abiliry he aşu-prep Mad performanoes:

Ir is difficult-to see

servine this PrEStOn

Maon. songs London: 3-6 April. Theatre songs and

dlear the wunitiated Park

Ashbury in 1967

extremse renction.

CULT

nunk an rascit

youth cult;

predecessors.

DICUY temember.

were

renne resistance.

VIOLENCE

ITUSICrocording

say it was a misogynist gay film

which is plausible since che director's previous track record

(nude men

But I don't believe there is

punk and tready punk any more than I believe thie people who tell me that the

Haigbtintersiew ed programime NTArCI Duke.

coald draw the conclusion that Tascist Isey are nothing but crude

the

The most effective part of the play is when MiCann portray

and expleres the evoluton of the greshound Tolowing husband and of his

who pains a formn of liberasion through membership BBC

Enfortunately the part af the wip wis couple his

couple has been getting trieumied by Pirate Jeriny and

and political posential of this sectinn is not Tullilled. Tostead mich af ile con versacion which takes place between the rwn is a thanly cconomism af the British left,

All this is not to sas that the not

It's worh secing and enjoyable it is just a pity that Eariono MeCenn':

cancot be hartessed B self play by him cenringon ile more eMfectively. An hour and a Derry couple he depiets could 7 be very good sadeed. It woul not be apit-prop: bar simpl Beaose MoCamn has wit and E tumour dnes rot necssanily

Fi any fit for

Micks and Irishman 16 March, Poly: 18 March Titchfinld Street Community Centre. Liverpooi 5; 19 March, Everyman Bistro, Liberty Hall,

Aldgate, SUENA Duke Of Wellingtor Pub Balie Pono Road, Londor Ni: 7 April, Folk House, 40

Street: Bristol 1.

Juhilee perfectly expresses punk with all its limitations Ami-authoritarianism which there's plenty in the film) PULIS is not the samne as class struggse or révolutionary politics. I1 can just as well oqual fascism and Losdon:

There's a strong (though wrong) current in the West Indian community that sees all

For all the Rock Apainst Racism badees and Right to Work marches. punk needs polities before it becomes anything more than a

We've had youth rehellions before. They all claimed lo be completely differeht from thenr

Hippies were en. They people too, love (including gay love), thes

opposed authority and all the rest. Buc it still 1ook a massive politicai movemenl before long hair

symbol or

Thisis a punk bleu. It shows a futare when Britain is turnod over 1o the production of punk

- Buckinghant Palace is studio - where violence is the rule and old fashianed ilusions like socialism have been swallowed up by the record magnates

The fils is not necessarily ip favout of this future: it simply VOL.

Why the BBC can't

deal with racists

A KLU KLUX Klan leuder was

the BBC-1 Tonight oil His name b David HEISWIHEMNnas blond hair. He has children who are white, have biond nair and blue eyes. He is proud of the fact that his entire family is white, writes TARIQ AL1.

He came to Britain to Meet

groups so that they COUL GESE S BUY to 'protect

Winte civilisation". He 'sipper

throueh' the imigration hail

Garwick Black readers please note: This KKK thug

slipped through', Irish readers please note: This KKK vanda

slipped through:

The question is: Why did the

interview this TERLIL Ansaer: He was "news". But he was news onl because the medis made ir a lie wory. On BBC-I the same Duke appealed to 'white people" in Britain to be on their guard. They were

swamped and theit

'culture' was being sulfied by

blacks, Remember the Brickh politician whe wsed a simiar

Thetoris nor so long ago

i lhe very leac- the BBC

should have invited a black

confron: Ibis

articulate hoodlum. They did

Testead

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says that this is whatis comsng If you want sometbing more hanefu vou will bave to ioo heyond this film.... and heyond

Jubilee is presently showing at Gale Two in Rassell Square,

ABC cinemas in Edgeware and Tuton: Seala, Liverpool: and Futurist, Birmingham.

Watch it

Under Review needs media watchers. In order lo estuhlish a regular Medin Watch column. we. ocen yoor coniTsoumous

If you huve something to say on uns ol the medis mochis productions • IV or radio programme that leks or clates sou: a local newspaper story Buyerlsembents chen miek up your pent or typewriter.

Medis Watch depends on ineffectual, neTrew the KKK. Apart from left to a iew abusive remarks to show

that he (Tuohy) was cough, he

could da litle cise. The KKK mite very Tact tar

fact that Tuoby

couldot TYLT deal with lus

argunsents i5. in itseit,

indication chat Brilain's Waike

tiberal facade has cracked.

Thes cant west won prorcs

sional taciss. bocause they've

half accepted theic case. Alter

all, people like Tuohy probahly

pet their ideas from pagers like

The Guardian.

And where does that paper

stand on rasism and immigra

tion? This excerpt from

editorial on the subject last

admirable

SEHUESUHS

'Liberals have

long. inglarious bistory bf

being wrong on this issue.

Liberals were wrong to oppose

imnngration controls in the

60s, They were wrong, 1oc, lt

pretend that the only reaseu

colmired people wanted

come to Britain was the large

mumber of job vacancies

Ir we had not closed che

doors, there wowld will have

beent a large fow of imm-erants

evea with our present rare o

1.5m unemploycd..

Toohy and The Guardian are

unfortunately, part of the

probleni.

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Secret Zimbabwe talks documents reveal BISHOP IS SMITH'S PAWN

Registered with the Post Office as a newspaper. Published by Relgoerest Led. for Socialist Challenge, 328/9 pper Street,, London NI

They are 167 pages of typed

minutes of the talks between the lan Smith Government the United African National Council (Bishop Muzorewa), the African National Council (Rev. Sithole), Zimbabwe United People's Organisation. The record wa ANCS Secrear orde kept J.M.

#the analogy with a chess

tournament inaccurate. Judging from the it was more like a boxing match

THOUSANDS OF teachers are taking action this week to further their pay claim. Many schools have been shut as a result of the leachers sanctions, which Include lunch time dutles after-school activities.

Manugement has offered 9 per cent plus 1 per cent to be used to re-establish differentials, The teachers unions are demanding 12 and a half per

The chairperson of the Burnham management panel has resigned because considers that the terchers" claim is reasonable.

OUR FUND DRIVE

OUR APPEAL on behalf of the Leicester Socialist Challenge supporters met immediate 1D stampi. Nothing unusual, except that these graphically illustrate the victory of the Vietnamese revolution.

The comrade comments:

*What a coincidence! Rooting around in old college Soc. Soc minutes I find these NEP stamps given to us by the then NLF representative Ms Binh,

I've tried asking the local DITSELES WEIR asking price would be, but the Birkenbead stamp market

THE BISHOP is Smith's pawn. Checkmate to the white racists. That is the only conclusion we can draw from the astonishing documents on the Zimbabwe

internal settlement talks now in our possession.

where

hardly bother to put up token resistance.

JUDICIARY

The conclusion of the talks is well known: the whites retain effective control over the armed forces, the judiciary and the civil service. There will be "protection from deprivation of compensation is Promis And there will be a blocking mechanism which allows the whites to defend these 'entrenched" parts of the agreement. One man ane vote" is revealed as an uttes farce.

But what these documents reveal is that the nationalist delegations caved in on every hardly the pretence of a discussion.

Only the blocking mechanism prompted any debate and that was OVer the question of how the whites. are elected. he We have devoted considerable space to these documents

be uninterested in the manifes. an cations of the upsurge of the from. world revolution.... But as the Birkenhead, A reader donated Leicester comrades have sug

gested — the Upper Street scene may be different.

We would urge all our readers to look around, in the atticor in old hooks, and see if you can find anything of value!

Meanwhile the fund drives

Socialist Challenge

conlestant had negobators

provide the perfect answer to those, David Owen, who are falling DyCr lemmselves to accomodat: to the 'internal sertlement".

We also think the documents show that Smith's deal hardly differs in essentials from the Anglo-American plan presented by Owen and America's Andrew Young If there is to be genuine self determination for the black people of Zimbabwe adequate both proposals must be thrown paid but.

INFORMATION

Parliament

According to the minutes Tan Smith says: *I have information to the fact that if we were to arrive at a genuine settlement there will be no objection by the UK, USA Western European countries as well us the UN. Most of these are reluctant to make publi one of these guarantees with prenouncements

what they would do for fear of peblic opinion and are afraid to come up against the views of the Front line states."

Smith's estimate may not be secondary

so wide of the mark, It's up to the labour make sure be doesn't get away with it. because we think the words of * Turn lo page 9 for fall story.

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