Socialist Challenge No. 47, 25 May 1978
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Socialist Challenge ZARE BRITISH PRESS ATROCITIES
IMPERIALIST TROOPS OUT NOW!
EXPRESS BF
tons tell
250 Емгореаля
..and a refuge
OUR READERS have been shocked read detailed press reports of the massacres in Zaire. The only question is: were they true?
British press coverage has been model of Journalism. Just change odd word here and there and liches which date from 1914 HOTHES BLAS ONE USE have been going on. their bellies split open and so
TESTIMONY Their faces were seeillen and new one has been added: distorted from smoking hashish. When they do that they simply go mad?
That was the testimony of a Belgian factory owner who is
from African bloodbath
Baily:
(MASSACRE, MASSACRI
THE WHITE
will obviously not a student of
to medicine.
His W3.5 refugees! accounts reported in the British press. Like all the others it appears in different versinns depending on which paper you huy ake the case of the American
gutter
the Bill Starkey who, on his own testimony, was variously in the chish, stomach and back, But each time he is empbatic be only received one wound!
Many of the unattributed Raped
reported by eyewitnesses, are French military sources. reported ent For CANDLE Saturday lender M' Bumba had said: "We must kill all whites', It does not add thai the reporl came from a leading official of the Zairean ruling party-
DRUNKEN RAMPAN
Daily
oh action na Paras Fied
SPELLES -tims Tined up and shot
THE
IN KULWEZI
Guardian and Standard, the OT could not be bothered to look at reports from US and refugee sources that a large part of the killing Molutu's troops.
The relugee accounts in the popular press clearly staled tbat shot the killings were prompted by the French attack.
Briton Kevin SOBEL CRET CAC TEACH BHALCU quite friendly until the attack.
INVASION
The other Sun nobody made much of was the that attitude of the local populaNathaniel Lian. Only
reported that paratroopers people cheered, thinking they were Cuban!
The French invasion (with With the exception of tbe Belgian and British back-up)
kill ALL whites
Worker Evening investigative civilians, British journalism
carried out by
Kolwezi.
Press
aspect which
the Guardian
dropped loca
were disgusted.
Fr Mortin
Guand put on white pupils in path of the re
'SAVE THE
CHILDREN
wise Evening Standard
Troops fly in after F FRENCH
PARAS
had little to do with rescuing the
The defence correspondent of Le Monde, the French daily: that explained that the operation
as not a typical comman BASEBAS
scue raid but was aimed recapturing and consolidating
We do not deny that these killings took place and that they WETE TRIMY CEDACO COLO IC rebels. (Though the disgruntled Belgians clam 11 European LIES deaths at French hands.)
Even more recaling is tbe testimony of a Belgian mine recboician: "This was revenge.
We knew they were going to come back after what happened
What the government troops did to the population down here after that was unbelievmassacred. Even the able. One whole village was Moroc- *What cans (sent at the French behest)
They always
AT AUGHTER
Daily ace Mail
massacre said they would come hack and they have."
Several refugees confirmed
the rebels specifically soughr French and Moroccan
It is also worth remembering that the Zaire killings cane only a few days after a large scale massacre of civilians by Rhodesian troops. This was virtually ignored by the press.
It is difficult to communicate these facts amid the bysteria of lies and balf-truths. But cbe truth points in one direction.
If the killing is to stop tbe imperialist troops must leave Now. And so must the brutal Mohutu regime
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1 won because of my stand against racism
EDITORIAL
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THE HIGH Court case of Joan Paton, whose husband is sosking an Injunction to prevent her having an abortion, raises several vital Issues. Primarily It shows that, following their tellure to change the law in Parliament, the new anti-abortion forces is going to come through the courts.
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-ree oriol THE JAILING of Yurl Orior Is a contemptible crime socialism. By crushing civil rights campaigners like Oriow the Kramlin simply highlights Its own utter historical bankruptcy Labour Lefts and the CP leadership to condemn the jailing of Orior.
But what do rights and sociallet democracy in Eastern Europel Not In the slightest. The Lert bureaucracy otters no programme orgaan e Labour Lefts have a record of trying to avert their gaze from victims of Stalinist repression in the East.
Union Assoclation, the Lefts have been dragging their fast. The CP leaders have played the same role, notably in Its refusal to lili
Socialist democracy in the East.
- and they have really hammered it over Orioy -And afterwards, back to silence.
rights. The work of "Labour Focus on Eastem Europe' and Campaign gives a framework for such activily fighting for democratic rights in Eastem Europe, and in doing so
MOCTLY I BE CUE
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Distribution and
White and Benyon failed to reopen the discussion on the 1967
Even if the judge does not find in William Paton's favour, he Is
Meanwhile Joan Paton is staying
Secondly, It is necessary to differentiate between the demand
Many sense decide that a woman should start or continue
against
The Orlov case also casts a sharp light on the attitude of thi interesta in Eastern Europe. On one side they have moved awiltly
those condemnallons represent? A serious. principled stand on the side of those struggling for democratic
struggle and with one or two exceptions like Erie Haffler, the
Even in the case of Klebanov and his comrades in the Trade
• finger for the defance of Bahro, a Marcat lighter for socialist democracy In East Germany. And Iike the Lefts, the CPGB offere not one line of programmatic perspective for those struggling for
Instead, by their silence they leave the issue of workers righie In Eastern Europe in the hands of Thatcher, the Foreign Office and the bourgeois press. Than, when these people bang the table
the Lefts and the CP leadership fall over nach other to deplore the reprassion,
Socialists should demand the immediate release of Orlov and other jailed ciell rights activists in the USSR. They should also campaign systematically in defence of ail in Eester Europe who are repressed for trying to exercise democratic or working class importantly of the recently formed Easier Europe Solidarity
in addition we must seek to engage in a dislogue with those we must put forward a clear programme for a struggle tor socialist
Such an interationalist approach on the part of the labour movement will bring us an added bonus: Its progress will aiso undermine the Cold War lobbies in the West that feed greedily of
Rights under attack
IT IS TYPICAL of this pusillanimous Labour Government that it
extend police powers over demonstrations but that it would glamot to do so in a clause buried in proposed legislation supposedly updating local
if senior police officere and the Home Office get their way. days' notice of the route and nature of the procession', and the
There is already an array of police controls over demonstrations AND OCIRS TO ARE TO ECCA DOUNDS DUDE CONOMI Govemment continues to display its contempt for the democratic
HOME NEWS
IN THE MAY council DONNELLY, a Labour Party candidate and Socialist Challenge supporter, was elected to the Hounslow Council in London.
hopes to achieve in her local area, where Hounslow hospital is still occupied and where there is a large Immigrant population.
Why did you decide to stand for the local council?
The main reason is that E wanled to draw alennon to Iwa major ISSICS Hounslow area. One was the Hounslow Hospital defence campaign, which has been in existence for three years and has generated wide opposition in the arca to curs in public expenditure.
The other wasthe question of racism, which particularly significant in Hounslow because of the high Immigrant population and the fairly active here — they stood -17 candidates in this borough
My ward and the constitu ency party has had formal
68 and 71 Immigration Acts for the past
affiliated co the local anti-racist
11 am. opposed lo all
because think they are inevitably racist and I have made it clear thal 1 would use my position on the council to light against this legislation.
What was the response to your views on racism and immigra-
when you were out canvassing?
Unfortunately a fair number of white working class people were convinced problems uncisployment and the rest are due to number of immigrants in the country. Al the same time, the Asian community was tremely WATTICU the
implications aT Thatcher's Eccal promosure sca and I think appailed at the ACIELI Committee Report
The latter most disturbing to anti-racists be cause it reinforced the view that immigration is the problem and it was signed by five Labour MPs, including Sed Bidwell, sho hears a special responsibility towards the Asian coctibenity in Sochall, andis a member of the Tribune group.
госнагу AnISHIs UrC
Sach an urganisation should he hawed un the andendanding that:
Pears mese the pouce ef the capitalist state.
HOUNSLOW LABOUR COUNCILLOR
elections, ENDA
She talked to Socialist Challenge about what she
How mach effect did your election campaign have on the
It is difficult to assess. I think the local elections are always coloured by national politics, and people tend to vole for the party as opposed to individual candidates Nevertheless, the fact that we won three Tory seats suggests that people voted for because against racism and the fact that we were ommuniled 1o the te opening of Hounslow Hospital hospital.
Inthat seose, it was a positive us. F might also ado that the NF vote in Hourslow was an average a little over 100. a significant drop ол 4008.5 resulls. demonstrates the chcolar a computen ake sac Anti Navi League can have in a time
What do you hope lo achieve on the locul council? And what do you think seeds to be done
I have been active in the Haunslow Hospital campaign for some bee, and at the moment weare launching a new initiative with specific PrOposals for the development of a community hospital. 1 intend to ensure that the Labour commitment the opening of the hospital through its representatives on the area beaith authority and that these proposals get the attention they
lar racism concerned, there are a number ol ways in which, councilor, can fight against it.
Obviously, will oppose any discrimination that might occur ar the levelef services which the council provides, for example, RUINSTI More positively, 1 would like to sec the council adopt a policy positive discrim nation towards ail minority groups, along the Enes of Camden couscil's in relation to blacks.
The Hounslow Anti-Racialist Continitree which is sponsored by both the trades Capitatiom is in tricia. The leaders of the Labour Part and the trades unions offersalutiom that une in the interests, nut of the workers, burial the rapitaliss Sain Challege believes that the no viol Indi coafraing
To build broad-losed daw srupale leadencin in apposhion to class collabrationiom in the lahour new ciest, Their dond lic inn excisive in chararter eruping negether militals bolding » wide rangr af polinical vius *Te hegia to fight tor the creation of a unitied and democratie manutionary socialist organisation which can, through an application of endled freet tactics begin to be area as an alternalive by thorands of warkers engaped in struciles.
The strugsle for socialism seeks to unite the fight of the workers against black prople, arts - sreggling for their liberation. This sacialion can unly he achiered by cronag new urgans of power and detrating with wil
council and the local commun-
COUNCH present considering proposals for a localesaval in lar sumater as a follow-up to the
together with the local ANL
le building such a festival we will be attempring to get the broadest possible involvement and sponsorship from labour movement, political. and community organisations to take the next steps in
However, it is also necessary
La tient ms the Labour Party against the view that immigration controls are in any way a solution is the problems of this society. For this reason, I think the Labour Party as a whole should reject totally the proposals of the Report of the Selcot Committee them and will slive full support io alt sone fighting for socialed de micency HEEIRLTEEBESNE BEE
America. Africa and Asia From Ireland and beleing ihe Irish people determine their owe future
The Communist Parties in Furope are: Here Strniegy for the averthrow ef the rapitalis site.
pration There exists an emura DE this kind of opposition it the Action Group that noods to be generalised on a national lovel.
It is stendine to launch a campazen against racist immi. gration nas in preparation for the next Gencrat Elecsion Needless corsay, I belleve that represcitatives possible from constituency parties should get involved in of which wil be held on 30 May in Surrey Hall, SWE Through this campaign, we can ensure that the question of Immigration conrols it a key debare ar the next Labour Party confesence and, at the very call on the Labour Coverament to repeal the 68 and 71 Immigration Acts
SOCIALIST UNITY STEERING COMMITTEE
Sunday, 5 June 1pm 328 Upper Street, London N1
Our sacaliem will he infinitely mire democratic than what criste in
sucialien in the USSK and Fastem Europe have disretel -ocialism not worken thronghout the worid, Mr are upposed le
The interests if workin and capitalists arr amecoacliable un a work warld politics. Tinia*r fight for working clice waits on as internating! Val. This anily will in lac long run be decisive in deteating both the impertalist regimes la she Westand the bretal dietatorships thes sustain in Latin - In He itain I Implies demanding the immediate withdrawal of Brish Insps
Laro commis Hor the pro-Misue winge fine any mranincla New revulnionary sucialist parties ane more necesar ihan ener befone, Contitions Iodas ale more tatourable than ever the preceding home decades. Hat such partice vas cal he bullt by rejecting sectarianism and weins internal demeric t 30lears beat as a vital necrosily, This mean the right to arganise faction, and
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CLOSE GARNERS
HOME NEWS
Four hundred people turned out last Saturday to support the Garners" Steak House strikers" solidarity march through Central London, reports MIKE TAIT.
Now in its 16th week, the SEBAC STOLOCEINSLEHICTEOE 84 workers sacked for joining Ine- Transport and Workers Union. The workers are demanding union recognilion and reinstatement.
Arthe Trafalgar Square rally afler the march the chairperson of the strike committee reneated the issucs which have made this dispute the Grunwick
CURCUHNE (28.49р TUIE 55-hour week; the sacking of an employee for the unauthorised cating of loialo, complcte refusal by management to accept the union.
POLICE
Grunwick was very much in
whe Trades Brent Council told of an incident on the Carner's picket.
A police officer said to him: *1 am against the union and
WANBSWORT!
bakered omen
Nfuges
kosing
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PAM Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London said in a park outside Euston station last Friday:
*Tell your Triends the news, spread the word, the EGA is still open and is staying open."
Pam Jones was speaking at Ex c o a accusand demonstration whid showed the determination of the boA workers and their supporters to resast the latest attempr to close the women's hospital.
Seventy-tW0 haurs eurher the Labour Goverument'Health Minister, David Ennals had said the hospital would be closed ou 21 Juty.
The nexr day a joint meeting in the hospital involving unians NN NAL.CO de COHSE, ASTMS, and
Scene from last Saturday's ULC strikers.* The cop insisted on
TEHEC CaIUS presented to him allowing people to join the picket.
But the most iluminating Tom spont Was he onedelivatid bay
Todd, new organiser of the TGWU and number twa to Moss Evans. He had clearly learned a lot about Grunwick and was reminded of
NOW
EGA workers and thair supporters block Euston High Road. JONES of the | clared: The EGA will continue 1 bealth service.
могк normally, 10 ассерс
ments for the Tature.
This expression of opposilion caused Ennali to SCBL AL a mocUDE or he Parlamentary Labour on Thursday he indicated he was willing the date of the closure, altbough he laber made it clear that as tar as he was concerned sooner or later the hospital would close.
RUBBISH For over two years.
Labour Goveranient has been attemptina to close the EGA -one of iwo hospilals country for women and run by women. As the latest isue of EGA Neas put iti "Taey say we dou't noed a the women's hospital in this day
and age; they reckon there are enough women doctors in the
that dispute by heckling from the crowd before Todd said that the TGWU
had made every endeavour lo gct management round the table', Garners was an aurack on the Employment Protection national Act, he declared, omitring to
mention whether it was also an aftack on the Garners" workens. me went bito sa) that ne did not believe the action to
OPEN THE EGA
•Tlas IS
women surgeons In the whole CUREIWUCEU
think EGA. And we need a women's
hospitel that will treat women Party sympatieticallyand
understandine. reconsider
The real reason they want t lose che EGA iscash. The are bealth aurhority in Camden and Islineton instructed to cut their spending hy s third, *The money needed to gel tlc EGA Tully the E120 CN because they want the hospital closes they are not prepared lo in the spend it.
Over 300 people arended the hasily arranged Friday. The main road sutside Euston was blocked for minutes by the demonstratons. Al the meeting afterwards,
trolled picketing'
ago, the LIUSCE
Whip say that if the such
Cinrners
all unions.
STEM TIDE Socialists as
chance of organised labour
Forte
Committee Henriettu WC2.
HoSpI
NUPE rubbish, Chirchley
this by he said.
with with the
to save tie hospital.
has been OFFICIAL
functionasg peanuts. But
July
prolest No.
ASTMS 15
21 July
Toid wanted effectiee cog mias mas: picketing
The TOWU is paying f6 week strike pay. Over a month
union bureaucracy TLUOILSE
Apparently the union leadei
imposed menters ofelie union curethey 9,000 other can in dispuie might-demand the will
- ignoring the fact that STRKCT 101 recognition and that this is traditionally given priority ir
and
state by well must recognise that unless we take the Garners seriously there is no £35m
pushing the movement into stemming the tide of the recent sethacks at Grunwick, uroges anu lna mogk
Unless we have the strength af purpose, there is bttle poin Ostensibly in laving the blame elsewhere.
Donations and messages of
CAPReTS c/o 12/13 Streel, London
story,
Missi es. terrain
company',
dest launch
ACTOSaREE poldshausen.
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article
shop steward Arthur indicated that this was cois tbe first example of such tactics. "We will only wir
creating distibances. and
The EGA workers together
representing London health shop stewards are now calling for strike action Wilson
London NUPE has given Penthouse's official hacking to such action were from and al a health shop scewards conferenee planned tor 10 June munity! resclutions will be pur entting for rolling srikes from 5 Jul and a nationai stoppage on 2
squatters s divisional council of StrOsed.
Tepresenting co-founder westero and centra London - Bureac, is already pledued ro sirise on
News
nowhere
King of Shaba IF THE Shaba rebels in Zaire
find their way paste Kolwezi, to the north west they
discover the strangest territory in Africa. On the maps it looks like any old bit ol Zaire, Dut the 10,000 square miile are to the north of the teoth parailel
bordering Lake Taoganyika 1s run like a sovereigr
OTRAG, a West German missile comany.
Zaire dictator Mobutu Jeased
arca in 1976 for around Espresadented contract. The
11 31 population is subject to the company's legislation and law enforcement. The company can exclude anyone it chooses from the concession, bich is also a free customs zone.
CHIC company's husiness is testing cheap rockets for communications ar weather satellites for sale to the Third World countries.
The West German Government, backed up by Washingtob, has always repeared this
but top Washington OTTICIRES TOIO PEDEROUNC ТCПОn er Tad Szule thar the company was Jeting cruise masaics ano Intermediate Range Ballistic
It seems thar west Germany is using OTRAO to circumvent the 1954 ban on its development of nuclear wea-
They have yer to cxplain wh • photographic blow-ap of CHEC BENIEAEELITEEOITIC stand at the 1977 Le Bourgel air show. US specialists reckon the missile was flying over African
taX exemption in West Germany
And why the finst OTRAG
was proceded by teste at the German national
The second major launch was due to take place this month. It woLld De such 9 ouly iil wefi delaved becamse of the political
Foreign Legion THANKS to Penthouse (not a journal we are in the habit of thanking) and other paper: (inchading our own) extensive details of the OTRAG concess-
have already been pub LILIE
One paper which has been less enthusiastic is the ubserver The day before the Penthouse
the AIDOCHE Observer published a furious rebuttal of the 'rocket hoax"
Its only substantial argument was chat bocause of the weight of fucl the OTRAG rockets would only he ahle to carry i small payload. It confronted none of the crucial questions, 13030
particularly lailed explain why such a large patch of ground was needed to launch orbital racher than ground-togroune masC
Instead the authors, Andrew
and LOIM LERUDE concentrated on expesing the Penthouse article as Soviet and Falt eman rop se hil
flat since major sources the Washington defence and intelligence com-
Before he came ta Britain Legum lived and worked South Africa. In the 1940 he was a city councilior whien the
camps LITEL deI 1952 he was a of the Airica an organisation used by black nationalist leaders and for a time the CIA ID ever.
from
pressurise the British Empire to decolonise.
One author who submitted a
riece to African Contemporar
Record, edited by Legum, wa surprised: 1o SCC the article
appear with all references to thi
CIA CHI
Legum has acquired considerable reputation as an objective commentator o0 Africa, and Is the Observer's Forcign Edicar. As a token of that high esteem he has addressed the US Senate Committee on Foreign RelaHoDs AEDcan BuD-comunICe the Royal Defence Collegc, the
College the Military Acadery in Camberley and the NATO Defence College Rome.
LALWD WAS DOC DE INC sournalists who usod material from the bow-defuoct Information Rescarch Department - a government propaganda agency used to spread dirt on
Fastern Europe and the left
MUUULT 10E papery including the Leveller, carried Stonec on the ik when it was wound up recently. So did the PIX LENC SURUE reason they didn't bother to inclade the Leveller's list of journalists who had received IRD material.
All of which leads us to conclude that Legum has an axe To Ernu, wnose 1s uL!
Will Zelda Curtis be Next?
A5 IF the Communist Party dido't have enough problems with the crisis of the Morning Star, the recent CACLUEEST committee of the CP reported that membership has nOW falilen to 21,145.
This is a drop of 4,148, or 12 Pet cent, t toe мх was Trom the 1977 Congress when the party's LDLTSID 25,293- The adoptin; , of the new British Road to Socialisn seeins to he having a drumatic effect.
Spot the piper THE CAMOUFLAGE nei which the mass media has throwa over thie Irish strugale bas evidentl: not escaped the attention of Derek Jaracson, editor of the Dally Express
mistakes and distortions in
LISINE Inelanu! Jameson, former siter of the TULIT Commums Leacuc's Tais Firemn ester atis
Eireann carlier this month,
That is due to histarical reasons tied up with myths abou what the British representlo the Irish and vice versa" hie added.
Readers of the Daily Express are likely to have to wait a long
belore such sentiments find their way into the пежрарег. Even if Inmesnt and the rest of the editorial S VUIE LU SUICE : any sie 0i challengieg the Tory propaganda that the paper chuto! oul, they would meet a small obstacle it the shape of Express Newspepers chairperson Victor Malllews.
The latrers's view of pres freedem (RIP) was being speled out about the same tote as Jameson's on frish coverage CIC LITIHEE MCIMO SHE propnelor. nar necessarity ine
said Machews.
CEILUI should the editor and the joumalisis bave the necessary autbority that we have to acept wha: theysay?
*The proprietor, whose mon ey is on the table, must have the authorits..l will stand by it for
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 25. May 1978 page 3
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CIVIL SERVANTS?
Government cutbacks, warnings egainst the communist threat Madership of any union in Britain, and the tasks now facing it.:
HOME NEWS
attrilated to the TUC.
offices than with their employers.
Viv Lacey IMG
•Wemust
be fully
Challenge supporter.
Al the last Trade Union Congress, the righr-wing leadership of the CPSA cast the union's 235,000 votes in favour of wage restraint, breaking the
1977 conference.
LULL WAS TO LEOLEETEL leadershup on this year's pay
on askance at major struggles. BULLDOZE
The witch hunt of Terry Adams, a full-time officer and member of the Militant ECLUCILS DATICULAC repulsive - as were the right's BELCIESE Dulldoze postal ballots into the union.
The campaign of socialists in the CPSA has been considerably strengthened by the fact that wer the past 12 months the Broad Left has emerged as an open and democratic organisation.
It was an open Broad Left
list of left candidates for the
elections, which marks significant break in the practice of the Communist Party in the union.
CLEAR
The Broad Left manifesto pur a clear line on: pay, cuts. johs, and on conditions of service and hours. It also took
democracy, and women's rights.
the union's affiliation to the
Over the past yenr, the left has wared acive against the assoult of the right, helped by the establishment of the Broad Lett's bi-monthly newspaper, which has gained a circulation of 3,300.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 25 May 1978 page 4
HOW WILL THE
THE CIVIL and Public Services Association grew out of being a professional association for civil servants into a trade union
Unlike the Society of Civil Servants, which organises the higher grades, the CPSA organises among the growing army of cierical workers and typists who increasingly have more in common with workers on the dole queve at the Department or Employment
The dramatic changes which have taken place within the civi service are reflected in the political debate inside the union
The right wing, drawing much of its base from the Ministry of Defence, is financially supported by the employers organisation Trued, andits main policies are wolous red bailing about the left being financed by Russian Gold, rather than any positive
With thousands of cil service jobs now being lost due to
accountable'
THE MAJOR electoral gains made by the left in the Civil and Public Services Association have much to do with the membership's revulsion at the activities of the right wing, which up to this month's conference 'led" the union, writes VIV LACEY, newly elected to the national executive of the CPSA and a Socialist
Too Issues now racing the union present the left with clear 12L505 shackled by the Pay Research Con a sostein or so-called tan comparisers by which our pay is determined cliccovely re moving all negotiations from the hands of the rank and file.
The left has to fight for the best possible settlement within the Tramework search, mounting campaign on pay at all levels in the union, because tbere is no
agreed to by the Government BEAR CHI WHETTESDE
OPPOSE The left will have to actively
departments tying 1o imple NELS especially fortnightly signing-on for the unemblowst. and these only be effectively prevented by
action. priority this year is to really start the struggle for women's Tights. ursery provision and abortio rights. There bus to be a figh
represented at all levels in the
sexism of male trade unionists.
DelePates at the concence called for a national meeting of women activists in the CPSA.
ACTION
Building rank and file action against racists and fascists is ahotber priority, and campaign will probably take the form of building Dit the Widest possible basis Servants Against the Nazis as a supporting group in the Anti
LEFT LEAD THE
rank and file group,
the national executive.
one Socialist Workers Party
describe how 13117 OF Pay Re-
big
THE LOCAL
League badges.
THE THAL
• Government
the The staff involved - soled lu dets turned up
including
Tully that is that. It will be carried out.
- I am opposed to the political neutrality' that is enforced on civil servants, curtailing almost any public political activities.
I think the left national executive will face an assault two fronts. this from the hill-time officials who already have a stranglehold on
membership tbrough their rigid
committe — a body which has
in the past few years open and public groupings of the left and right have emerged in the union - with the stroggle for different political positions taking place openly before the mambership.
This was capped at the CPA's conference earlier this month by the newly-formed Broad Left, in alliance with the Redder Tape
Drama roar revEre majority on the union /nadership to win 20 out of 26 positions on
The twenty positions held by the left include five members of the Communist Party, four supporters of the Militant tendency, supporter, and three militant left wingers
On this page, three members of the CPA's national executive
Give servants canne to elect ene most rem-wing
so everyone wore one...
employment exchange Holloway. North London, Is threatening to lock out any of its workers who wear And Nazi
warning came on Friday when management in the shape of benefit manager Ms Wolsey said that the lour or five members of her staff who were wearing the barges would he sissmended at the heeinninu of this week
memhers of the CPSA the ban. When Mo Wobses Monday morning she was confronted hy 15 members of her statf wearing the badges of the AN and a 30-strong picket staged by the Islington Anti Nazi Leagne.
As Socialist Challenge went to press the tbreatened suspensions had not yet heen curried oul, hul a spokesperson at the Departeens of Employment said: "If a ruling has been made,
Apparently the suspensions were threarened
action. This
all officials. on the First, aiming to execulive from the nei We will have to fight for negotiations issues. the rank and file.
Industr ai
by
ISt Party. member, one Socialist Challenge
They said no Anti Nazi badges,
because thie badges "political", und local munagement said the? might offend some of the claimants. Bad argued the sub-branch CPSA secretary at the employment office, comment we have had from claimants was "Where can we get the badge, mate".?
Athis month's conference of the CPSA, the anion voted fo affiliate to the Anti Nazi Tengne and an emergeney mecting of the CPSA executive to be beld later this week is expected to huck their members in Hollowas.
CPSA executive member Mike Duggan suys: *We see this as an attempt by management to stop our meanbers campaigning
Left in the union, intends to pursue these suspensions, they will have to suspend our entire conference. Almost the entire platloris was wearing ANL badges.
underlines the without a importance of fighting for the clection and accountability of
Secondly, the right wing with Their Truemid financiers a 1l be
isolate the eLs. pen militants major make the union leadership fully accountable to
struggle
Having a left NEC is useless
Peter Coltman CP
'An opportunity to
deliver the goods'
THE immediate task is to repair the damage done
the right wing, considers PETER COLTMAN, vice president of the CPSA and a member of the CommunPETER COLTMAN
were deemed lo be
Ian Muir: "The only agaitst broad-based well oransed rank and file cuts. whom we are accountable. The rights. critical question is how the Broad Left organises cam paigns among the members.
On all these issues, haltling ic out in a single union b not sufficient. I am arguing that
should attend che Socialist Challenge Trade Union conference on I July, jo
far n cias left wing in the IUVELICHLUAEMHOIL
By and large the right-wing leadership did nothing con structive at all, We have to suppor members" interests which has not been done at al over the past 12 months,
I see the outcome of the clections as giving an opportun ily to the Broad Left to deliver The goods It gives us a chance to show that we can lead the
The Broad Left in the CPSA is a development from the usual Broad Left clection machine. Wehad our own conference for LISTENCI LACE members catablish policy, which was very open in terms of members participation.
Individuals have a right to attend, speak, debate and vote. The concept of the Broad Left conference is to identify rank and file aspirations and pur them into practice
Broad Left members on the executive are members of the rank and file, not an elite, and
ourselves accountable to the Broad Lef conference.
Mike Duggan
SWP
'United
front is
required'
THE CPSA election results do not mean an acceptance of socialist policies, argues MIKE DUGGAN, who is newly-elected to the executive and a member of the Socialst Workers Party.
The central light has to he over living stardands.
There will be a major battl over pay this year, whichever system is used to determine the
claim. This means gearing op the membership for the hattie, and improving the organsation of the union.
LEFT
in the iS a very a here
of the CP in most other unions and have ollered the rich o Redder Tape to be inside tho Broad Left
This has not been summaril rejected. There is a discussior among the SWP and other members of Redder Tupe nhou involving ourselves far more closely in the Broad Len Without necessarily commiting ourseives poticies.
We recognise the importance of this involvement from the need to build a united front on certain issues.
LINKS
The caphasis has to be on building links locally as well as nationally with those prepared to fight on issues such as pay
racism, and womer's
In the National Union of Teachers there's a big possi bility of united action between SWP and International Marxist Group comrades because peo ple have woken up to the need for this.
In the CPSA there has never been riotent, socratian disagreements, bur frateraal discus sion over differences.
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JANET MAGUIRE, a delegate
The caecutive
Staffs is against unempioy ment, opposed to wage control, Tavours equal tights women, wants a better NHS. and rejects racism.
But do not ger too excited. The umon lesdershin die not put forward one single practical
these sentiments into practice.
ENCESNCTEAEN DUS office, we have had a resolution
control. Every year we have finished up with the amount in our wage packet HUSSaOu boyetiacn decided we could have. Thix
exception.
CORONARY
Cieneral secretary Jenkins - hand on heart eposct ted te freee. Thiere
pointed the consequences of confrosting the Government, saying how
cas pecn sections of the labour movement.
experience in the health service.
KOOCOEEN the London sion of NUPE calculated thai by 1986, 40 per cent London's bospitals and ether hen th care instrutions wil te closed, : This means a loss of 20,000 heds and 24,000 jobs in the capital alone.
Despite
TWE closures. with higher waiting ists and increasing pressure or staff, health workers remained
The violent raid on Hounslow Hospital began to
iot thes melaiene of
The cocu pers Hounslow beuan to co-ordinate and LAIU resistance, by drawing together CHUCEICUUG to ald SLEUELEES elsewhere. It was our of these needs and exmeriences that Fightback was born.
NETWORK
Fightback is a nerwork of workers and milicants actively mented in tehrad the cin
the trade unions theaselves MLAST the Simited experience of the revolutionar.
etis suficient to fill the need
Fightback is growing rapidly because at does atlempt to till
ASTMS Conference
WONDERFUL
CLIVE, BUT
WHERE'S
THE ACTION?
to last week's ASTMS conference, reports on what happened.
the bolated and smashed. the members do not want to be smashcd or solated!
But a public sector alliance based on an across-the-noard for increase inctation and heip to build a could break
united fight back
CYNICALLY McCusker, the assistant general cynically dismissed the struggle Speke, explaining sometimcs you have to go loa funeral'. Policies like occupaШ0ES, WOLE-SIAEIR loss of pay and strikes by out members in other industries were ignored.
The crecut герост mestily ears of the NHS! And to show MOWSCTOUSNCKES HEI Clive againse hosputal closures and
leadership dire that for the third year running conferenice discuss any resolutions on the health service.
Build the fightback
The Socialist Challenge Trade Union conference on 1 July is receiving an enthusiastic response from many
CARL BRECKER and KATE TRUSCOTT, both active in the Hounslow Hospital occupation, discuss the need for a rank and file organisation based on their
divi- this need.
Any trade utionist knows hOW hard it is to organise anything in co-opcration with other unions. Health workers in a single hospical can belong to any of at least eight different unions. of COMMUNITY Moreover many trade unionists often do not see the need JOT JULAS WIA TAM-CISOC Unaa bodies. But for the the Sosia o be crecuve Ie must draw in support from PUUS S 1IUUOS organisations, and all health service users.
FELIL hiegest organising within che unions is LIC ILILEN with the Labour Goverament: In the health service, as clsewhere, such as Leyland and the steel industry, the trade union leaders prefer Eoveramen" shore upthe - even it the cost af lowering living and the loss of johs than throw their weight hehind a colloctive working class fight back.
There las boen tremendous
However, the union TaEC DOL wHoou soBe BgnuE spirit. Reg Bird, the officer responsible for the NHS,and a member of the Communist Party, launched unto a spirited atlack on the London Health Advisory Committee This is one of the union's committees involved in organising action against closures like the EGA -in the annual report.
Women's rights, a vital issue
union's secretary. TITUC ARY CORE EBOL. ASTMS that
that ers, pot its usual short shrift Last year the delegate from my branch moned back of the NEC report on this solidarity question.
CLOSED This Veur we could nat ever de that, because conference did
agenda before the chairperson made sure CLLOCUETE
япоспег усаг. unable The executive will continue
along its present counie - long on thetoric, short on solutions.
Socialist Challenge TU Conference
Lalk in the healthi service unions agaiast cuts, bur talk alone is not cnough. The overall cifoct of the unjons" strategy bas been to entrench sectional interess.
FRONTAL
Ai present, with Labour's austerity programme lenting a full frontal allack on the warking secticnal responses around pay Sia tn neded ia korting condicions ciass response.
We noed to start torning the descriptions and expericnce of strikes and AMOEIOTR ERE CE AIA TCMIRIS press into strategy and ractiesto SIUL WINE Rank and file organisations
health have come to mican fronts Toi
олс political
ane heo Therends ofth slacs
are 100 urgent COLIUEL sectarian fronts.
For ux a class struggle rank and file movement mus hindrance to
LEDO BEseO MIIOCEaE nou-soctarian. This meaus that i must be open to all those prepared to organise together, directedtothe diess needs nt the mass of people.
Labour
RECALL standards
All committees should be subject to control and recail bi TEDSC WEYMNCOAAEIT SOOHL Bol he dominared
CLIVE JENKINS
CIRCULATE
a struezle ignored
MESI DEMISE
high the union.
the reference around
fine TE MELIST
begin national opposition.
Collar proceodings
00UK3 Oxford All militants
outside гертеreputation tor
class, such
are Limited.
0H-0-02 work.
struggles thai POSITIVE
build such SUEE PE LIC
tendency
spending,
health service.
For
bulietin —
slow. Middlesex.
ference,
by onc labour held.
conference.
Line campaie.
Despite to continue.
The Lask now is to build a socialist opposition inside the
their
Next year the conference will be discussing rules revision. We
inside branches to fight for matters like the clection of full-cime direction by officials, the right to circulate material, and to organise inside
A fight also must begin
implementing TnOSE but often simply pious graphical basis. we keep passing every year. Red Coflar is one of
constructing such
ASTMS members are therefore urged to attend the Red these
conference in Conway Foober intaowey o Ead, And SELE 1S
LUTIL Road, and revolu- men who tiomaries should light for their politics inside each strugsle.
People are won to politica ideas wher they prove to be effestive, not when they are foisted on the struggle from
The revalutionary lett has a
dabbting and then dashing off to the strike down the road. Let's bury that once and for all by showing a commitment to the
UTERTTAANOI
Fightback is an attempt to
effective co-orchnaring organisation preresist ail cuts. Wewant to huild 1esilanee lo iculs in Dub
and to spread positiue ideas to exiend the
more informution afteliation; copies of Fightbuck
contact: Fightbuck. c/o Hounsiow Hospital Occopation, Staines Rond, Houn-
For details of the Socialist Challenge Trade Union Con-
held Birminghum on 1 July write to: DLISIS SCTL Conference, PO Bos 50 London NI. Please inciude details of your union and any
novement positions London E.8.
Working Women's Charter
Newspaper
needed
THE 1978 Working Women's Charter conference takes place on 17 and 18 June.
CELIA PUGH discusses some of the problems raised, and what she hopes will come out of the
The forthcoming national Working Women's Charter Contererice books lice beins fairly decisive for the future of
notable achievemenis os the campaien in the past, in particular in campaigning to force the unions to adopt policies to meet the specific needs of their women members, some people now question the need for the Charter campaign
Since the early days of the Coma in 1934 wi ma unions were forced to at least pay lip service to the needs of
women memhers by adopling the 10-point Charter or similar policies, and since the drafting of the Women's TUC • Charter in particular, there has been a need for a change in
campangn.
BUILDING concentrated asn the TE BRE
on building 4narter groups b ane tocaiues
grouping activists trom man:
ITTLTLALUIOEI on a peo-
Ar a time when the unions had no official policy other than a paper commitment to equal pay, and when there were
lew activists campaigrne on these issues within the unions,
groups played CATCaeICuTDIC
The Charter was important,
Incans DE explaining the links berween issues like abortion, contraception and murseries, and the more traditional Iabour move ment issues such as equal pay and sex discrimination.
CLOSE LINK
Through sbe Charler, the close link between women's
at home and al wark could be explaiied trade unionists. Women in the woinen's movement and wo-
gue primarily trade UEOO MULSIS CATEC ARAI
S. HASILCI ICHSIMS importance despite the adopr-
The Working Women's Charter: Where do we go from here? 17 and 18 June anchester Pulrieckn: Sokets Unicn. Carndish Huuse, Carend Wt A Smo HaRnEa
NGAMET SUUEmOTAn women and men mnenhed thraugh
Aney on Saturday lo demand that the local council provide an extra 1,000 nursery places this
The demonstration Hackney Under Fires, t CES OTOSNISEO C
teran ae harata A 1,000%
voluntary group that
lacilities. The march was supponeo by паскпе)
Trades Council, communily relations LOUnCI ARO SOC HIST leminists, as well as local branches of NALGO, NUT, NUPE, UCATT, the sheet metal warkers union and
CntrSHORAOOU Hackney Under Fives can be obtained irom |38 Kingsland High Street,
ion of the TUC Women's Charter.
iocludes trci abortion on request and has moved trom iis rendency to seek to ease rather than challenge women's dual role. FOURTEEN
But the major advantage of the WWC is that it already has the support of a large sumbe ofactivists, both insade and out of the trade udon movement. This means that it stacts our with a base for instiating campaigns in localities and particular unions.
Fourleen major unions bave
adopted the Charter but this is onis of limited use il they aren't foroed to start
The tact thas these unions de pay lip service to the Charler gives activists a base for initiating debate and activity in their unions.
What has changed since the launching of Working M7U1 TULST CUCISI-UOM are now thousands of women SULSS WELa COSISLC batrle within the official structures of their unions for action on the wide variety of issues contained in Charter. EXCHANGE
More than ever before they need trom the Charter campaign the exchange of experiences that can aid them in that fight, whether they are most BIOE hranch, woren's sub-comnTILKE DEKA woLLas uouD. or women's liberation
It is the paper of the Working Women's Charter Campaign which must provide the link between these militants whereever they are active.
- Iransronung the pRign's paper into a forum of DENSE CTHI STMUVESESN - CEC Unions and the MON CINCI MAAKTM HIE weapon for those who support a real fight around the Working Women's Charler - chat is
activists of the WJLLS campaign must be tuirned.
MAKE
HACKNEY
S CHILDREN:
HAPPIER
DAY NURSERY
PLACES THIS YER
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 25 May 1978 page 5
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committee, reports.
The conference will take
place at a very important time
for anti-racists. When Powell
made his "fivers of blood"
peeches a few year ago, his
coom against blacks brough
widespread condemnation
from the political establishment. Now of course he claims to be the man who was right all
RACIST PATH
Es bot hard to see why. Trailing along behind him on his racist poth is the whole
spectrum of
fame the or supper 10
some Labour supporters. documentaries now openly discuss repatriation. A local Tory Loanci In Buckinghamshire offered incentives for black poopielD get out of the country in order to avoid hoesing them.
Defend
news. JAMIE GOUGH reports.
WH Smith agreed to stock Gay News last year in selected brunobes for a trial period. in February. Smith's abruptly terminaled this arrangement.
The immediate reason sected to be an orchestrated lenerNational Femalen git Thin writing campaign was combined with atmosphere of reaction assoc WELL WITnE Gay News prosecution by Mary Whitehouse
The reason given by Smith's Jetters in Gay News supporting free speech for the Paedophile Information Exchange.
REACTIONARY
In fact, Gay News's editorial position on secual orientation towards children reactionary as thai of the hourgools press.
Smith's took up the aspect of
WHAT'S LEFT
Falls: 3p per rond. Dispiay E2 pr column in Deadline: Jpm Salurd a To Me Tal. 00325 1333 TRADE UNION Abortion, 7.30.
- 0-0 30 Parter dealis SPORTY Nursery Campaig
bon agains the Cuts Roll
Som. LESS EXON Princes 1
#im.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 25 May 197B page B
Anti Racist Conference
THE WEEKEND of 3/4 June will see a national conference of anti-racist and anti-fascist organisations. Called by the National and London Coordinating Committees and CARF paper, it is attracting a lot of interest and support from local antiracist groups as well as trade unions and other organisations. Oliver New, a member of the conference organising
Racist murder has become an established phenomenon.
I reanne a maste Tich lo organise a massive against racism Every locality now has its anti-racist group. A variety of organisatons are being ser up in workplaces, unions, schools CUILLES The conference on 3/4 June is an attempt to set up a national structure to co-ordinate and develop some of this activity and to discuss what tasks face the movement as a whole.
Clearly the labour movement has to commit itself to a serious campaign to stem the growth of racise. All to often in the past the issuc of tacism has been ruled out of order in union meetings as a political matter which was not the concern of
Gays under attack
Gay News
THE Gay Activists Alliance has decided to step up the campaign for W H Smith to revoke its ban on Gay
sexual politics
sclf-confidence: children's sexmality. The attack has taken various forms, from that on lesbian parents to the speedy DOSSHEL superfluous Child graphy Bill the THEME The constant theme is that tbe "permissive gone too lar heral attitudes inevitably lead to excesses, even the last bastion af 'innocence". childhood, is under attack.
In this way, any liberal sexual moralicy is sacared, and at the the sexual general repression of young people is reinforced.
However. although baoning of Gay • News presented as a childhood, in reality it was a direct attack on gays.
MUSICIANS VOCALISTS. Lead gu briarter decking
workshop on ireland -6pm Bolton Instiule of Toch Desce Road Belsoni rom Rus. BP Venice Si, Baltan. concert for buliders on strive at he Farenatrer alle, Wandsworth Bit ring Kevin Coyce and ed Porse Las
Discusaian, 01-3286255
Anger is rising
the movement
be swept away. Sonte steps have been made. Two weeks ago the conterence af the CPSA, one of the civil service unions, voted to support the Anti-Nazi League The conference of the ASTMS white-collar follow the lead of the railworkers NUR in deciding that racist activity is not compatible with union membership. and fascism. WOMEN anti-fascist Similarly the gay and the
women's movement need to take on racism and fascism
and Already Women Against Rac
ism and Fascism groups have been started in many areas.
Recent attacks against
have alerted them to the threat Within the black commonilex. anger i5 mounting.
to a demonstration al 5,000 people in the London only a few days larer. All these developments need to be strepethened through the estahlishment of organisations. -LAC
Guardian carried similar letters an paedophitia, banned, Gay News, despite its WESLIESE many gays. For them the ban is a severe blow, Smith's owns many of the most important relan outlets and influences what the inde pendent newsagents are willing to stock. Thus the can on Gay News nanditul of managers to control what we read. called Tor Smith's by ers. The NUS bas called student unions to order their papers elsewhere. Dilier insti tutional users, libranes, are also being asked to order elsewhere.
These collective methods are more effective than pickets 1o Whitehouse's prevent indiyidual buyers using
mich's. The struggle is to get Smith's to extend its distri bution, not to apply moral prcasure to stop people boing into the shops.
Information Smus — which should be the character of those called for 27 May, can publicise
Tahour movement.
GAA MEETING
and
The GAA & calling a meeting of left and pro-gay neaspapers, to the discuss how they can help the was defence of
Although papers distributed The by Smith's could withdraw in
LOng Kushit! Hands of Republican
Detaile Vorsal e
posale scar at date Both ability an socialists.
Haule Ten. Minos: 58 Tet: c1: 2208422 91-20 5000301.
Such complacency must now
voted to the modern Nazis
anti-racist. each other.
June conference
says
East End of
INDEPENDENT national conting conference is therefore a major. | to le independent anti-racist,
CUTE
is a life-line for raises the right of a
Activists Alliance a haycon; of pickets B:
and from The meeting. •H-Block. the Tribuna alaming committee a Halter lemm -shirts, E2 Rach plus 15o p3p
Racisme
opportunity for anti-racists to anti-Fascist
develop such a structure. WARF
Clearly there is no aim to
duplicate or compete with the
ANL, with its startling suppess
in popularising the light against
especially
Hain said in Sociulist Challenge
The anti-racis At Tash
anti-fascist should complement Relations, It is hoped that there will be good represen tation of ANt groups at the 3/4
The aim is to achieve a wide-
spread representation of anti-
The North-East
and ALEW are all circulating literature to build the conter Broadside coce, and it is also receiving
support from the London Coop
Education Committee and various political organisations in cluding the Communist Party
gate. 12.50
The main participants in the Treat conference, however, are likely FINES totalling E1200 have been Imposad on three mogazinen fo contemptof court following the naming of the well known Colone
I you're not a mind reader defendant — because the gulity verdicis came despite the fac that Tottenham magistrates had merely "Implled' the Colonel's name should not be reported
The Aubrey Berry Campbell Defence Commitiee remains on the offensive. A picket-nic' is being held in Cheltenham this Sunday,
al noon, to focus attention SIGINT [signals Intelligence] operalion In the town. Ring 01-83F 1411 lordetails. An appeal for funds for the Leveller, Peace News and the Journalist has beer launched
solidarity, the damage done to 1 these papers compared to that dune to Smith's make it an ineffective lactic, After all, it is first place.
by the vemena Sub-Commitie cr
STRIKERSabsur
hacombe St (Legester Squarei.
mary Saturday at necr
"FIGHT RACISM" barges and T-shirts Ibadges brace on while, whirls biack FOUR SOCIALIS TRUE SHOOTE TEE OH ILMENIS
Vienn you trang dunng the long
organisations, 50835
Jewish and gay organisations.
Detads of the Conference
confercoce will be in
London on 374 June. Speakers
include A Sirsoandan. Direr-
of the Institute of Race and David Edgar, author of the play Destiny'
There will be discussions on Tascism, immigration and the labour movement plus a series of workshops Accommoda tion and creche will be available if needed — book in advance There will also be a Saturday night social with sounds and
Mobile Worker's Theatre Gritin Most labour rovenient bodies are entitled fascist groups to two delegates
Venue: Middlesex Polytechnic,
Park, Cockfosters, Barnet, North London (Near est tuber Oakwood).
West there.
beware,' commented one
aids on the officially secret
issued because of the danage done to Gay News by the South's ban that we are campaignine in tbe
issue. 127 My. 5pm and speakers from in Talber Ro London N7. •TEMPORARY. CARNIVAI Rock WITH: Pau
Bus
crews
fight on
By 810 votes to 190, Leeds bus workers roled lust week CURLENE five-week-old strike.
JAN MacDONALD, member of the srike commit-
talked 10 •Socialist Challenge
The strike was called over Leeds •Metro's plans 1a introduce new schedules in ShE ELES
It's a question of a basic negotiating right, lan MacDonald explains. -We have an union and management which states thar if either side wants to change the status que, then they've pot to go tbrough the
Management accept this.
The procedural agreement covers the whole of the Wes Yorkshire area. So the Leeds LEVATAL ubportant support in surrounding towas
The recently Trampor & General Workers Union entral commillee which covers the whole area of the
Yorkshire Passenger •ransport Exocutive (PIE) called a one day stoppare a tortoistan
" was absolutes solid', lan MacDonald says. Now we are trying to huild on this, working towards all-our covering all four Metro arcas We've already heard from chairperson of Bradford PTE. Pai Donoghue, that he's goi phans to call a mass mecting to
action off the proud
I's not only the procedural agreement which is connion co ail areas. There is aiso the Tary county council': tion plan in the pipeline, to follow the revised scheduled it WW Dads
Theic's no doubt abou: in Tan MaDonsid points out They're planning to cul 48 hus area, involvion a cut of 14 drivers. And this is just the tip of the jerberg.
Bat it would be wrong to place all the responsibilin the doo Totes,
It sas the previcus Labour control ed council wich tastigated the reorgaatsation proposals, and Labour
voiced pub ic opposition to the Tories placs
two days before the loca elections, the Labour Party
pamphile: which neither apported aor opposed the scrike. It just blamed the way he Tories are handling the
Hearing 15:5W phone Ortond 435-
CHARTER • Wan-
LINGTON CAMPAGN AGAIN:
BENEFIT BOP Caro Henry MoGu
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1968 THE YEAR OF THE GREAT DRESS REHEARSAL
CHRONOLOGY CHRONOLOGY CHRON
This is she fest major international gutherieg of revolutionuries from Western Europe since the war. The venue has been curefully chosen: the showcase of Westera capitalism.
The occasion is a conference against United States Imperialism und in solidarity with Vietnam, The hosts are the internationaiist students from the Germen SDS (German Socialisa Stidents). Rodi Dutschke, Christian Semmler, the Wolf brothers greet their comrades from abroad: Alnin Krivine apsine 300 JCH delegates Trom F Ace, Ersest Mandel from Belgiul, Tarle All from the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in Brituin, bluck Americans from the United States.
Speeches interrupted constant applause and chants of 'Ho. Ho, Ho Chi Minh', The Amerieans tesch a new chant: "I sin't gonnu go to Vietnam, 'cos Vietnam is where l am. Hell no, Tain'i gonna go." More applause. More speeches.
The mood is caphorle because of the news which is secping through from the hattlefields of Southern Vietnam. The Natonal Liberation Front is celebrating the Vietnumese New Yeur (Tet) by launching a simultaneous JANUART:
National Liberation Front launches its
Year offensive Vietnam. The puppet army crumbies. American public opinion is traumasised.
FEBRUARY:
gatnering of In Nest Berlin, conférence in sondarily
imperial capital of Hué has bern liberated. Fighting Is golng on in Salgon Itself. The grasshoppers ure humbling the elephantsThe internationalists in Berlin weep with jos. Afler their speeches they march on the streets. 10,000 voices in unison hall the victories of Vietnamese. Portralts Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the revolutionists murdered in Berlin in 1919 by the armed social-democracy, head the processlon.
It is a highly symbolie affair. They ure aghast in West Berlin and puzzied in the East. For histery is heing turned upside down.
For us it is the fint glimpse of a new
by fulure. The message of Vietnam is
loud and clear. We need whisper no black longer. Imperialise Is not invincible.
If the Vietnamese can de it, then so con the workers and students in the West.
Naturally there is not unanimity on this proposition. Marcuse is dublous, many stadents incredulous, but both Mandel and Krivine insist thai without the workers there cun be no revolution in the West.
CHRONOLOGY
MARCH:
Southern demonstrations
(25,000
solidarity with the NLF. Demos also in every major European city. March 22 DoVeMETT European France, Audi Dutschke is shot by a
at fasciat and serioualy wounded with Viet- MeST COn: HDa EnTou out yEs
Germany.
venor Square. The mais speakers are Almin Krivine. Tarie All, John Pulmer and Christian Semamler from the German SDS. There are batiles olside the US Embasy.
The Sonth Foreign Minister calis a press the conference in Saigon to denounce the of Grosvenor Squure demo as belng
"Inspired by communists'. True, but not by British Communists, who ure squads of that atage estremely bostile to VSC.
Vietnamese British representatives attend YSC conferences and give nessages of solidarity! The Morning Star reports the 17 March mentioning the orguntuticn which orgaeised it.
Puris there are also demonstrations. The victories of the Vietnamese hare brought a new luver of militants onto the stage of history profounily internutionulist.
They reject polities of suciul-demecracy and the traditional Communist Parties. They favour revolations in tbe West, even though they have no clear ides as to In Britain in March 1968 there is a | how these will be brought about, The
APRIL:
bullds
rEDISCnEn or oTonY.
Stalinist bursaucrat, by Dubcek in January.
Britain
SOUArA. MAY:
state. On the night of •anterre all their demands.
develope. Within
strike. 10 million workers occupy their Tactorles,
International.
with
Vietnamese •puppet The Inspirution comes from the
commemists, the berricades.
demo without quite, bur aliost.
In Rome, Milun, Turin, Brussel. "Mammas" hays",
who яге
the compromised JUNE:
Mass pressure for democratic retorms
up in Prague. The Prague Spring' begins to take shape after the
alive and well.
LIG TISEEU Alexander
Franci state. On the night of 10 May they win against ine
ASABINEREE weeks the country is throes of a massive general election
In Paris a movement of solidarity
Vietnam by EDESIICHS provokes a serles of clashes with the Canlist sute. Mindents unleash y strike to demund the releuse of their lesders. The state refuses.
On the night of-10 May 1968, the harricades go up in Paris once uguin. Behind them are young students, determined not to allow the hated CRS riot police to break their strike. Bricks and cars are used to construct
No-one is spared. Ernest Mundel observes his cur going up in flasnes on
: This la beautifal. It ls the repolution. Not
The students win. Yer, iney min.
Eu the CRS had shouted, even though a quarter of the sudents were women. Now the CRS retreni. The 'ortbodox" groups that hed marched off rather than fight can't beliere their eses.
Within the next weeks a wave of selidarily demonstrations and strikes by workers escaistes into a massive Socialist general strike. 10 million worker occupy their factorles. Ir is the lorgest The general strike in France continues. The European bourgeoisie is horrifled The goste of 1789, 1848 and 1871 are
JULY:
When the finger points at the moon. the IDIOT looks at the finger. Chinese
Unis sogan onarans wall t a reference to the French Communist WE BarCoworo SoDa OTCHS the Fitth Ropublio (Wa are a party o
The strike, lacking a political focus. tinalas out. Gaullism wins the connea C vot
which followe Reaction Trot heaves a sigh of rellef. But it will not. he BD8 10 S88 cown BG
capitalist system, and it surprises and sbocks the Communist Party and is trade maion leaders.
"This time we will go all che way. whout the morkers. When workers shout this*, explains the CP undon leader Segus, 'they mean in reality that this tine they will not he satistied with anythieg less thun a 30 per cent wage rise. Daly the atropaied mind of u bureuscrat could draw thal purucuiar cocusUn.
But the strike lucks u political focus. Although it reaches far beyond economic deminds, the wenkaess of the revolutienry left in the tactories menms that there is no political perspective ayailable lo worker. Spontaneously they go mo further thaa factory ocempations.
The events in France chat year were a dress relearsal. Tbere were others as mell, but sone so inteese as in Paris in May/Jame 1968.
The eroptions in Czecboslovakia in Agust that year had a different 'character. But they were a different chopier from the sume book, and
Challenge will commesorating the Prague Events in its :Agast issues.
CHRON
In Czechoslovakla the reformers are beginning to feel the pressure of th:
they are told to and the experiment and retum to nermal.
SUT Ur dnsmic s berond thell
trol. hey make a fow concessions.
Yes and discussions continue kina Communists rehabilitatt tasac Delscher's works are serlalised. Czechoslovakia has never COPAR aS uCAns boramı
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 25 May 1878 page 7
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ALAIN KRIVINE 1978
Black Dwarf
WE SHALL FICHT
WE WILL WIN myth that the
PARIS
LOND co-existence.
revolutions such as the Chinese couldn't avoid the problems indicated by Trotsky in The Revolution
class saw to that.
containment revolution had become a worldwide crusade. Its standard hearers were the United States. The foot soldiers were supplied by the Western European ruling classes.
Stalin's crimes and blanders hac propaganda theme io the holy war of provided thein many the so-called "Free World" against the totalitarian menace of communism, As with all hypocrisy, this invocation of biberty and freedom by the exploiting classes in the West must he understood as the homage which vice pays to vittue. The Cold War had cast its spell throughout infecting number of semi-Marxist currents as well. The Filth Republic in France appeared as a solid rock. De Gaulle was much adatired by other leaders in the West. His benevolent larianism wasthe ensy of politicians in Germany and in Britain May 1968 did not come as a bell trom a cloudiess sky. Caultism had created
conditions for the specific forms which it took. A ten year wage freene coupled with an antiquated educational system proved to be a powerful
For Trotskyisti like ourselves. the
appeared as an incredibile vindication of central teneti of out programune. Describing the last fortured decade of Troisky's life, bis biographer Isaac Deutscher wrote (paraphrasing Marx):
This was a time when... "the iden pressed towards reality ,but as realiry did not rend towards the idea, a gulf as set Delween mem, i yu marrowe yet deeper than ever (The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-40, p. 510) 1968 was a year when at last reality began to tend towards the idea again Thousands and thousands of youth bypassed the traditional reformist
rganisations of the working class
What is more, they were joined by millions of workers Or course they
quid not politicully bypass the Fren Communist Party PCF). bu their
beyond the wildest dreams of the PCF leaders.
And their demands were not simply for higher They began 1o question the averall oppression of capitalism. There Wiss global contestations and we can still see als effects.
The movenient women's Iberation, the fight for gay rights, the laree number of votes rained by the ecologists, the anti-nuclear moveof what was started in 1968, Therefore we refuse to allow May 1968 to be strait jackeled into a very marrow There were three basic stages of the struggle in France In May 1968. The first and the best-known was the explosion of the student movement. This led to solidarity actions from the working class.
The nest phase was the quantitative growth of the movement. Alpest every
ver of society except the ruling cla ecome involved. What emerged fror united uchions against repression was the most massive general strike in bistory. The question was posed of averthrowing the governanent and offering another political alternative. Here the working class could nor depend ou the scudents. They had prear confidence in our ability to mount street demonstrations (many building
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 25 May 1978 page B
The year 1968 shattered many illusions, It ended the United States imperialists were all-powerful. It destroyed the idea that the road forward was through the blind alleys of peaceful
It re-affirmed the growing crisis of Stalinist rule in Eastern Europe. It showed that even popular social
Betrayed. And most importantly it shattered ruling class complacency in the West. The French working
workers even complimented us on the CRS thugs review one barricade, quality of the barricades!), hut they did not sec us as the political alternative They did not believe that we could form an alternative government.
They were, of course. important to understand this fact: what
DEBILI 14.83 overthrow of the Filth Republic That could have been the starting point for ant assault on the bastions of French capital.
When the later question was posed, the French workerstumed towards their traditional organisations, especially the PCF. Ondiscovering that the latter was not going to take struggle ans further, they did not prolong the strike
Or'course, to the blind worshippers of spouraneity. spondalo Erical Leninisa pears this explanation scream We plead guilly. More io the POINE, explanation and nothing coberent emerges. We do not regard the Red Brigades or a pastoral existence as a satisfactory alternative
What is important is not to accept the traditional commentare ore bourecnis journalists. 1968 was not a flash in the
For us 1968 still exiscs. All the conditions which created 1968 have multiplied, It was the beginning.
The struggle today & more comples mare varied, but its goals remain the same. A large bulk of the far lett imagined that alter 1968 reformism wa: linished, bat this is clearis not the case
The illusione in bourgeois democracy are very strong. and this is handly sarprising. understand the objective hasi fer these them, and appear ierelevant.
the rebirth of revolutionary ideas, but this rebirth was made possible because there existed
hose who fought for them throu
ifficuli moments. The JCR of 19: curviveL becauseil was atachod to th Fourth International
Ten years ago we had 700 members Tenere Fredch sta branied members sympathisers. The latter are organiser in Red Mole factory groups Chu working class implantation (in manua and white collar workers) has increaser
In the occupied Boulogne-Billancour phenomenally. Only 13 per cont of tbe organisation are students
Itis a picasant icony that almost ten years to the day later we have felt the nood to launch i youth organisation, again called the JCR
History pere pealle. Tentears
called agents provocateurs in the service of the bourgenisie. Today they are prepared to discuss wich us. The CP-dominated union federation, the CGT, has ever called on the Government to lift the ban on Daniel Cohn-Bendir!
The last ten years base changed man! things. The growing split in the PCT is af the utmost significance. The alternative poles of Elleinstein and Alihusser are not the result of petty-bourgeois discussion clubs. They reflect the growing politieni unease felr by the working closs base of the Communist Party
Naturally we are extremely interested in che evolution of such a debate. More to the point, we think YURIVE AL important role to play in clarifyin many of the issues which are at stake May 1968 was a gigantie dress-rehear sal. The final act is still beine preparec Paris, May 1978 In Place San
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ERIC
WHAT HAS happened in France is MUTYCOUR CRIESCOLU course to The Times which naturally
conclusive evidence breakdown of civilisation. For us old members of the fan-club, it proves that Paris still has star quality
# s more than a place three-star Michelin * they captured aftar a day's fighting traffic jams, cleaned buildings and the kind of dress shops the Duchess of Windsor goesto, I can still put up the barricades, often on the SEE ALTE LILL 1871 and in 1944
It is a great moment for sentimental Francophiles. But even sentimental wonder whether the whole husiness is merely a gallic freak. Does it show the way to the rest of the world? It would not be the first time that Paris has done so. 1 think it may do so now;
The events unexpected dented. That is the first thing to grasp THE COCHI
Practically all serious observers of politics have long taken it for granted that classical revolutions longer happen the western countries there is unlikely to be revolutionary discontent, or because such discontent is
is students and blacks, isolated from tas to or toe poopie
Exceptions mere conceivable, ber
_present LET LEARNTAILE
rather successful In is International affairs, with a stable goverument. solid finances, and prosperity, which means that the poor were at any rate not notably worse off usuaily expect to be
A revolution has never broken out THISCI such Paris it did. happened which might quite well have turned into a revolution.
More precisely, two things which are remarkable enough.
the students rebelied and forced the LOVE LUCUL TELECEL workers followed their cample.
Student rebellion is fairly common these days. sicuation lies in a), mass mobilisation of the students (not to mention their teachers and parents) and bi, the extent of public support for them, which eventually forced the unions and the Communist Party, reluctantly, to line up behind them.
in this situation there was not much the government could have done the problem! the formation of workers councils.
iiself."
it the CRS. Plerre Rousset JCR] is in foreground.
ERIC HOBSBAWM 1968
'Nobody expected that the workers would imitate the students. But they did, once again in spite of the feet-dragging of their unions and party...
HOBSBAWM, Marxist bistorian
member of the Communist Party, writing in the first issue of Black Dwarf, 1 June 1968:
with restaurants,
very same went up in 1848, in movement.
the most them muLst details tradition,
are totally unprece-
one themselves. will no advanced either because massive likely to be such society prizes
seemed to have much holidays
seemed at peace. didn't
are than they зосі they ar
circumstances Yet in Or anyway something (and women They Though 1D become a
SCIE the
about it, The novelty of the Paris extent of the
TOM NAIRN 1968
*The old grey mares of Stalinism are currently apologising for their existence by saying that "no revolution was possible" in May, that a successfil Insurrectionary coup was out of the question. As if this was
•Whether or not success, a selzure of power, was possibi. (a problem one could debate), there is absolutely no doubt that the Party of Revolution could have at least recognised its own, in May, could have generously welcomed the beauty of May, and advanced the real process of revolution in a thousand ways. It could have reached out to The new workers instead of shutting them off from the old workers. T could have tried to rise to the level of the Itallan Communists of fift! ycars ago, by leading the factory occupation movement and urging All that could bave been asked of these apostles of reasonableness was to exploit the situation in a reasonable, realistic fashion. Instead, they spat phlegin at the revolution until the harricades, and spent the rest of the month beilding their own harricades against the revolution
Tom Nairn: The Beginning of the End, France, May 1968
and a
short of starting to shoor; and it is an increasingly well-recognised fact of politics that massacring students is much trickier than massacring blacks WEETLE WAHE WORKERS REVERESS nobody expected that the workers would imitate the scudents
But they did, once again in spite of the feet-dragging of their unions and party. It was the young workers who ждал сле оссиралов of factories which has since snow-balled into g general strike. And though the unions have taken it over, it was and still is essentiaily a spontaneous, grass-roots
Could it have happened anywhere else except in France? In its specitic
no. No other country bas revolution as part of its national
circuistances it comes as natural to put up a barricade as to raise the red flag. The French workers may be no more revolutionary in their practica demands than the British, ancestors for live generations back have made revolutions, and they have
Hence it is possible for the students by example, to put the working class traditions back into the working class? as someone has said
On the other hand, leaving details aside, the students rebelling against a
which offers them all its
their HP debts to establish, by their
action, that life is
nore than overtime carnings and
in Palma these are no French but potentially international
We knew + though the politicians
that people are ented. They feel tbat cheir lives amingless in the consumer
Somfortable (which many of them are bot lu are abo mon powerless than before, more pushes around by giant organisations foo whom they are items and not men
Beds). know that the mechanisms for representing them elections, parties, etc - - have tended
set of ceremonial ristisutions going through ticuals, They do not like it but unt recently they did not know what to do
a00 1039 have wondered whether there was anything that they could do about it.
What France proves is that when somcone demonstrates that are not powerless, they may begin to act again. Perhaps even more thar this: that only the sense of impotence is holding many of us back from acting like men (and women - eds) ind not zombies
An attempt by the leadership of the Franch CP to divide and isolate its critics has blown up in its face.
of dissent inside the party after
he central committe THIST MOMEN decided to fire 'left"
Althusser and his supporters.
TWO DOITICE DUTERU MO
Paul Laurent, openly attacked Я ПИЗЕ ИЛИА ARY ORIY L'Humanite. Chambaz went so far as to state that the attack on busy bodes composig mond logues at their desks made by
secretary MATERIC SET CENTECON mittee moeting was aimed at Ahhusser and no-one aise
opening to the "liberal' critics For the first time one of their
certain Jean, was given forum" in May. At the same time the historian Jean anotherleaderof thiewing. was vut thei LIVE AURORA NECTAYD rich would late he t critica
But this manoeuvre had the opposite effect. Eileinstein lef
that there was nothing for it but to seek to ally all the critics
cratic discussion in the party
Last weekend the bon arrived.
Althusser and Elleinsteir
bourgeois
working class and cemand пол greater and party
This is not the only sign that the opposition inside the party Is beginning to organise. Als published in Le week was another
specifically leadership's twists and turns official during the election campaign and demanding a really demo cratic preparation of the next party congress
Below we reprint the text of empty statement BRUSSEL more than 300 other CP mem
Ishing further texte from this debate along with analysis of
The undersigned Communists, belonging lo all socio-profassional categories, cannot hide Sir Salomaniantal a Go air number of formulas and asser lions contained in the report by Georges Marchals.
We will proceed, other Communists, to a thor ough analysis of the whole of this text; serious statoments call forth
Under covor of a reference to the theses of the 22nd Con
formal, a number of summary positions of Communist Intel-
lectuals who have expresse
COUTSARE organs of the because of their rejection by
choice fled to our conception
of pluralism
points of view in relation to
these contributions, but that Is
precisely the richness of our
To treat
which doesn't come from the
leadership which has gone adrift, to taik in this regard of a desire for a penacea in the liquidation of
Ise pany: me tonundiation ol
being Communist', or a retum
THE STRUGGLE
IN THE PCF
CONTINUES
simalllension The
Be meeting In the Cr leader concentrate their Louls
Jacques Chambez and
Georges necessity
reduced
intellectuals.
TOYNPOR
'open L'Humanile on 12
Elleinstein,
to understandin which now 300 including both
Le
freedom of criticism
the сансатино
Monde last text by 100 billty of the denouncing the
signed by CHENS HIN
In future Issues of Social
lion
like the base but a number
STUDIOS Party
workers,
because of a
our cause.
Of course we have varyin The
opening pointed
thought the 23rd
to the dictatorship of the prole-
represents an extreme
lact that comrades local or factory cells, sections
demanding a discussion forum
i an axceptional period, and that they gously want lo de bate ways of urgently perfecting democratic contrailam, is #kened to an allempt to cig mantle the party in the name of
petty-bourgeols
The fact inal bey mand Be bold as to criticise the role of the full-time party officials which isnt lo queston troll
and the danger that these full-timers could bi
real life, from the masses, is
to an intellectuals. This workerist reaction shows a great tomol for the working class Il's ridiculous — particularly as a large number of workers share these concerns.
Beyond references to the
alliance of Intel: lectuals and the working class.
seem thase assertions are evidenge of a real regression in relation to the gains made by our party
sphore, under the influ ance of Maurice Thoraz in the
teull central committee meet ing tweive years now a regression at ete They
the role and activity of Com muntat Intallactuals and no as to their very place in thi
and, beyond that, l terms of the alliance batween Intellectuals and the working class. How can one not undor line the contradiction between such language and the polic of alllances thai we envisage?
Contrary this fantastic
what is Involved is in no way a challenge to the achievemenis of the 22nd Con gress, to which we are deeply
estimate the political responsi-
Socialist Party in the daleat of March 1978. Wa with our complacency emine. concerned to THOU MAN CINEMENS IN able to maintain this unily on the objectives lor changs why
WITH H powerful popular current. The
examination lastles on co lonsive altitude, lo a lack ol confidence In the masses and
of our party, whom they persist in not treat ing as adullis.
We conlinue to think, ang will continue to say, that only such political courage not
Many quesis capable of reanimating political ille, of establish: ing the conditions for ine polltical creativity of our party, and of finally allowing the renewal of the Union of the Left througt patient and fratemal work al
Faced with a bourgeoisie which is mercilessly applying a liberaliam which will weigh very heavily on the wages anc conditions of manual and intel
actual workers, the roquisite
need a Communis wich Is powerul se It Is wide open to the needs and aspirations of thi
capa or tonias to them and aiso to its sup porters, whether they be work
to set the one *the other does not render any Alice to
delay of our party In rightly by Georges
Marchais on several occasions
cannot continue withou
. It Is very urgent the Congress takes
epheres, and the way in whit it is prepared will, from thi
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IT COULD HAVE TURNE INTO A REVOLUTIG
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social-democratic parties.
by Trotskyism and Maoism. and socialist democracy.
Looking around Western Europe, Japan and North America, one :s confronted by a somewhat bleak political landscape. These countrics have witnessed important polítical and economic upheavals. Bourgeois leaders have fallen prey to a diverse set of convulsions. countries have confronted pittevolutionary crisn: But ten years of strugales bave yet to produce a revolutionary party.
Elsewhere on these pages, Alain Krivine correctly stresses the novelty of 1968, It is true that we broke out of
toehald insic We We gained a modest
inside the organised working class. We saw the emergence of a layer of militants inside the factories and on the campuses wno werc and semim responsive to the initiatives of the far lelt: me saver descmbed accuraters enough as the "new mass vanguard' in the Jargon
ernational (FI).
Al nis marKca importane stups forward the movement. But inite ablat no mone io narn garte
Whist is more It CanTOE conjured into: existence
of magical JESUSU! formulae or by voluntarism or, for that matter. recruiting campaigns.
Revolutionary parties are when traditional workers parties are confronted with crises from which they cannot escape: revolutions have till most efficient midwives in this painful process. Others will emerge in the present period, The point is to he prepared for them
The question arises: Are the reasons for the failure revolutionary party to emerge rooted il the recalcitrance ol objective political conditions, or is there additional Tactor? Is it not also the case that there were occasions when a revolutionary OrAnISHEOH
AUGUST:
Like a Greek tragedy the Czech drama| Paco inVasion August e Wout Pact Invasion
commence8. The sorino iB over. Paris, London, Rome, Barlin it is the
who outside the Russian embassies.
In Chicago the Democratic Party's
tuma into
American President, Lyndon Baines
Johnson, has been forced to stay away because of the
demonstrators. Mayor Daley's police
only be pissed on for so long betore you realise its not rain', comments and
anti-war Democratic Party delegate at SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 25 May 1978 pege 10
THE POST-1968 years saw the flowering of a whole range of groups to the left of the Communist and
characterised as the 'far left'. The dominant currents on a European scale were inspired in differing degrees
The last ten years confronted the far left with a number of critical tests. It failed many of them.
TARIQ ALI discusses the reasons for this, and suggests that the ihree trump cards in our political arsenal remain the united front, transitional politics
davs 1975 twO Italian capitalism
left Tailed the decisive tests Fourth notion of popularised by
political nonsense in any event organisation with several
revolutionary the Socialist was missed. by thie political a combination of Maoism, taneism Stakhanovesque* born Continua 1968. The organisations had left WHITS and section of che Fl prior to now been the In the event both acquired radio stations.
even one YanTCO
an to communist workers.
Today LC could dissolvod itself coer trn SEPTEMBER: demonstrate H Is Olympic STUGHITS decide a rot. The democratic Bludents are of anti-war Seplember.
T DUSA
have the most universities."
They have been loosely
majority bave made a qualitative leap forward? We would answer in the affirmative.
The extremely favourable situation lelt. which opened up in Portugal after the fall of Spinola and lasted till the STOL BS ill-Fated purchism of the November
was one such opportunity. The prolonged agony of
and the continuous POnERE CHo O Is InstuIOns 8d parties was anther. And yet it was in Both Portugaland in Italy that the far
the
survived
In Portugal, the PRP-BR, a quaint mixture of syndicalist practice and ultra-left politics, ignored the small problem of winning over the masses. Its insurrectionist chetoric was very appealing, but wide off the mark. its
soviets" (also Tea de urRD was grist to the mill of Soares anu Portienese soch denkscy - and a
A correct strategic line applied by ar
thousand members and supporters would have
TATErE made some inroads into the base of
Party and the Communist Party That opportunity
JURER
In lealy, the dominant currents were
кропAno syndicali of them — Avanguardia Operaia (now BEMONSTE FOOIELUTS AID BOLU
were the products of leaders of both the Italian 168. and LC thousands of members.
Both had daily papers and AQ tro
The FL virtually collapsed and remains a rump in that country. The third organisation — I
uTeW Dul or a spll within Italian Communism and its central leaders, Lucio Magri and Rossana Rossanda, were wcil-known
no longer exists. lt into a "broader
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Year in Mexico.
Canton 1 rights. Foreigners and Indiscriminately attacked: rour munaroo peopio aro wildd In a battle provoked by the polioe on 23
The army occuples the univeralties A trade union militant comments: Wel
cultured army of all ouL uE uenbiuoo dEu вВшь uEn
position of attacking trade unions and trying to circumvent them towards an opportunist stance to the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and the union bureaucracy. Whereas the process of recomposition has seen a berger of a minority of AO with th
Manifesto organisation sees i itself as a pressure group on the PCI, Its likely evolution Es towards an ultimate merger with At the same time, a lew bundred militants despairing of both the PCI and the far CA BUYE O LEKEN Meenhet groupie in Germany. tor- terrorism Unlike BaaderRed Brigades do have a limited amount of support from the former members matty of the far-left Draaisuaons TECTE CESUUR EU the political collapse of the italian far It is mot a pure accident that the large
which have gone into political decline either emerged from
flirted with Maoist political positions else IE ESLE understand the primacy of politica in the struggle against the State
The organisations which bave held
For developed since 1968 TEIT IIWT have been linked programmatically to
POITIE International exception is the British Socialist Workers Party (Tormerly: IS) which
by avoiding excesses of its co-practifioners on the Contincot, There are specific rason for this fact, but they are best discussed elsewhere. For the moment it is necessary to register this fact
However, the ambiguities Sop on theue doene
SETSEIST questions of socialist democracy: its
LETSELU TICI revolutionary orgacisation. will be built by a process of aritmetical growt, continue to place a question
future
rganisatio
ull these problerns are reflected Chris Harman's text SEINSSI Review No 2. The contrast with Alain Kevine's prescriptions (contained in the same issue) is fairly clear
The central weakness af the far left over the Past ten years wa
inderestimare the resabence of th traditional workers* organisations. Many (incuding currents within the Fll felt that n leap over the head of the mass orgunisations wus a distinct and immodiate possibility, semi insurrectiol tided general strikes, situations, andso on. The lessons tha! we have learnt indicate that there will be no leaping over process withour a political com bat. This was revealed in Portural in the most siwid Tashic Thes the lactics of the united front. developed by the Communist InterOCTOBER: rights demonstration.
The bean cast and the Six Counties sever be the same agair The
ttacks on Catholics wili from now on surviv be answered in kind.
ls a massive
demonstrators march in solidarity with
demonstration
WEET-TUNI against the VSC and its leaders by the press, the demonstration is peaceful. the break-up of Pakistan
national and further developed by Trotsky in 1930-33, remain the ouly vibie approach in the bourgeois-democratic countries of tbe West. the West.
For without them, it will not be possible to grapple wich the twin problem of winning the masses and This combining
struggles. The concerned essentially with achieving united actions of revolutionary and reformist workers OD CeS,A c sunc anc. forees within it would retain complete ideological and political independence.
The modern significance of the united front lies in the fact that the central probiem of the Twenties and Thirites is still with us. How do we achieve a union between political and economic straggles? To refuse to sec the problem in this way is eiber to lapse into syndicalism or imply that the parliamentary struggle is the DOUCE SWUEIC DHE CAECHCHCE position rejected MEEUSE
The Our aim remains a rupture with tbc
institutions of the bourgeois State. atwas-to deal Worst problem that the
rinal bi thea Coto facit TOIR. transition from economic to political strugele gainst the bourgeois State and its institurions.
Such demands were not necessarily socialis. They were designed to be acceptable couvinced of the need for socialist solutions. On the other hand. united permanent integration into capitalism
was also impossible. Their Tusction was to create a desequllibrium in the political system. not The ultimate aim of cransitional
demands was to lead the creation of transitional institutions this STUBE would develop aguinst capitalism.
organs of a dual power and prepare the :masse: through experiences for a struggle against the State. This strategy France. Il was nhsent in Portugsl in 1974-75 today.
As far concerhed, we need net belahour point too much. newspaper arguments. Tt question. On every level it is poso with greater urgency than ever before. The development of the LUIDERS MULDOOLR IS AR HECHEP to anser CHOLES do accomodating to the hourgeuis State; though the emergence ol oppositions in French NOVEMBER:
On 7 November, Pakistani students Northern reland sees its first civil demonstrate gainst the Ayub military •RuC Gaull s colin The has CLEMEnHH which
confident But the escalates demonstion on 27 Octoder: T00.bye eortinue street battes, Arth talo After
Yamaton sino te Thirte?: Plays altentr nam in the anil yul
WII TEdE unieashed harvest.
moverent which will ultimately lead to
question.
party
economic and political
united front wAS take
for common
revolutionary
much with hy revolutionary
Party
the
demande saon of WTI WE
TUNE InternaMSS TO BACiLlATe the
on it now.
Dyer thei machine.
mas:
BODEL tawards becoming
their own
was ahsent in
And it is absent in Italy
as socialist democracy is
the KCNdCTS bf this are familiar with the
is not an abstrac
Euro-
the problem. The CP
abjectly
and Spanish. ruled ASIan Dt that he will demonstration the
DECEMBER:
The students have started a
Black Dwarf
WE SHALL FICHT
WE WILL WN
Communist Parties should convince the doubters of the centrality of this
In their own way: these currents have raised the question of how a
itself should function. Althusser's devastating indictment of
structures of the French Communist Party (PCF) should make lenders of a number of far-leit grougs
notice. Ironicajly enorgh Althusser's description of the PCF's internal regime could casily he applicd to the functioning of many far-left currents in Europe.
We have stressed thar no tea]
party crists roday However, the conditions in which such a party could be buile are very
us. In order to take advantage of them we have to pur politics in command. A soctarian approach could prove to bc tatal.
The divisions in the French and Spanish Communist Parties offer real opportumities to the far left in Spain and France. In Britsin, the possibitity exists to bulld a large revolutionary oranisation on the left of the Labour
But this will only soc the light of das if the traditional responses of the British far Jeft: a seccarian insularits
elevation T0S1 IRC UCH differeaces into geestions of principie arc decisively rejected. We bave
reached a stage of development
wil not be able t pit failures exclusively on the traditional musleaders of the working class. Fora lot will depend on us. That is the advance of 196H, and we bave to build
•Stakhanor was the 'model" Stalinist worker, He worked "extra lard". His productivity was 'above average" A: a result be was transformed into a cult figure by the Stalinist propaganda
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WOMEN. The Struggle
T
OK soyou've heard It all hefore OK se you're bored
We seill geoless pay for the same work as you.
which we have any responsibility. We areless likely to be educated less likely to be unionise
either we are strugeling to combine badly paid work with bringing up a family or we are unable to do work for which
The area of taboo on ont sesaulity is much more extensive and the double candard all pervasive. Some women still never esplegace orgasm.
so what are we enan
All this and something else hes A much less tangible so consciousness with no ship uddenly shoots to Lie sur code EXPLODE.
We wantto drive buses a We wunr men to tale the hortles or invited us wint cellaghane or senro//to committee.
Bat these are only Hellet Revolutions are made she WEE BUNILE DARI
Herethesebordinated rel Here discontent focusess
MEN you have nothing 1
You will no longer have noseo: creep away and peep at will thele knickers down, no one la flanet us the emblem of your vintity, state, l
mportance, no see who will tree amt
300,
a plastie blee sky, no great moipli up bundkerchief comforters to crawE into from your competitive, ego strat
There will only he thesed c
couch and become with, who will WEED HT EULEISE ME. emulate cach other", who will unide) stand you when you say we must make a nen workd in which wẹ do not ne each other us exploiters and used objects.
Where me love one sun being can which a new kind af bunsun he horn.
WE BECOME the educated house wife desparately struggling for dignif
CHEETE elaborate cooking recipes or constant.
defensive about wonten who are ubmarried or women who work.
Or the occupational variant of this Proopsiem doing a womany womannetsto a very male syle
These two perponjes are described as mature igtegratiots They ate of course simply avoidsit the lasac in e peculiarly complicit and false way.
woody sensibly shod battle axe with a severe hair style and a deep voice, advancing apgressively on the male world and board room corollary of this is the retreat into esbianism.
loch sband a profound, distaste fo the male. babcipation i withour men.
Sun bennet hate atoni
Becanise women heen deprived of the power to make "free choice, our bodies bave been part of somebody alse's belongings,
SEXUAL POLITICS
for Freedom...
i asmouldering, bewildered buttered diss slaction- which
whe beer mugs not glasses. want to be brought with una to be wrapped up in rahuffed into the social get empty stil, that se ated simply by focking.
lure only andage a pulsion of our real sub reacting
The expressing in ting alienation, who wil wrap southernet the labilly to meet and
communicate and love with a man or Pery level.
The same "free" woman could still expect men to pay for bet, buy he ExposiNive presents She necessity be exossively preeccupico with her appearance and reeard other wotpen's men as fuir game. lfter all, she needs constantly th cassurance that she is wante cautiful because onty throuch thies she capable of defining ber fre dom.
class and education, using the miannet and et end series colerate and accent of the rulers to erected dignity ar the expense of the if Class, and a protected liber ation Lored on the underpaid labou
Most dRus live a particular combinarion of these or run the whole gaut knowing them for subterfogs. brough and beyond them all, Bit it cuts tbar capitalism condemns g opleto lives -expecten to live clherwise / They have nothing to say to you if Poğ're camping E8 a mcek, or if you'r
doing
say we art. Wo never tell them Win: we are. We nosei-take hold of our -definitions. We constantly pur Failure to be whole
expressed. artientated, resisted — through the particulur. The particular pummels you gently into passivity.
So we don know bow to find one anotber or ourselves.
We are perhaps the mostdiwded of all oppressed groups Dinsided in our real sitarions and in our understanding and consciousness of our condition.
scone another P'enancipston Basbeen often merch abestrigale at
fuse work hit class hem aln the exploited of the exploite appresed a workers ud oppressed as women.
Wear with Jamilies and without them
Hence ye distrust one another.
The wokun with a home and children is suspicions of the woman wit toro fies, seeing her asa polenrid threat to her femitoria!
Thesingle woman feels the married women is subtiy critical Dotiruse she is not fuifilling her role as homemaker, her SEES CHUE BELTE he feeds she is accused of being unable ro be a woman,
THEY tell us what we should he Le pe grow up, especially from puherty, we are under intensi pressure to be 'acceptable" — notte put ourselves outsid the safety net of murriage.
From small girls we are taught that failare means not being selected by men ofintelligence und subtlety is a contractual bargaio as wetand over our virginity for a marriage document, a ring, and the obligation ol financial support. Orgasm Is a matter of merchaadise. Andremember. THEY don't like asto be loo deter. Well she might go to Einiversity but men want someone
stressed that the
devouring process entramelled in a
through a transtormation We may not
ironically ships
But this has !
Fund quietism. the descructive
ouf your equality llen.
concedes — remember.
brat
Tumilies, They like them, therefor
Isabe. and
tahour Watchete behind le pete WOrse the repolution will sort it all
radical change.
Lagers
spenton on to estate
findin, ou really ghat people resent ceitfully. How cam
an undecstending of their discontent.
sconomically
family are unauthentic.
beyond
sitting
the shame of being a wallflower. The sign
Martists havo quite rightly alway
subordination of strunge sag ritual women is part of the total mutun somatic Inesses,
called capitalism No one group can he liberated except women
of the whole structure of social relation-
misled into a rather glib justifiestion for inactivity
1. Wait until the revolution we'll dole crucial.
BUTLE
2. Uf course we know the bourgeois family exercises a conservative constraining force and through its strue-
street and flat cialis. But people won't give up thei ite liberation of momen is a dead
washing up flopts, serab
bout showing thousands of wome
True wo won't get far withour really
True there is gie of. tob structure. deep cutural pre-
Meanie Shal', wrong with
wedne with presenting them with alternatives welch spring from
do not speak
soone would isten.
Don't ask wonen if they regard bemselves as victims of an exploita fire capicalist sobiety, don't ask them if they think their relations within the
Pay she hide pissed argued r
cork, about beim patronised as
luffy little things, abour always bab
by SHEILA ROWBOTHAM
who cun conk
Ele emphasis in our education tends to he much r Idlebration, the cocouragement of active criticism, g vicer is rare. The cautious virtues prederinate atellectual double bind, We are assumed to have Ond it difficult fo assert that we want to say soup ervedro say nothing, are assumed to have noth
type presented to her can De condemned y wink. There it is still the whole dirty. romisine world behind sint, fars, aid plast astocking words have no male equivalend
great gulf, which grows wider, whole most perilous and lonely condities, Ticketeen kies lie finds bersertes endeate trom Interested in ideas she finds herself loso other sirls and inclines naturals H more interesting things, discuss
oring-passive and accepting. Sh of them. The social contempt in whicky confirms tbis. She is constantly being tale she is quite good for a girfi. Femininity beco stupidity and narrowness. It seeins ohmudy better to be a man Doesn't she feel like a man, do theirthin Call their talk, Bt is. natural for her to define her sitestino la perms of a kind of
enough to get a laugh..
thi
fatigue, the desolateness of
happen under capitalism bur would would help illustrate what iCon And ware dominate
For example, the campaign far equal pay and ecopomic independence
As for the fumily, the workplace of both the bother and ather we line or ron were to pary with the children, who would gol know botb parents too. Or numerons
co-operatives. for
sifting and visiting the old.
of poking after old people Certainly these would mean a ren iberation ter many women ubordmation is not an affic
i pree thened underined
status differmintion.
Secondariness happens in people" heads and is expressed every time the
every time they assume
le is located in a stroiture in whict both sexes are tragically trapped. The man is as rich as the woman, for each time he tries to break through, he meets the hostility of other men or the conflicting demands of chose women who prefer the tradicional sex pam:
Ir is only worden who can dissolv the assomptiens Iris only wome who can Say. what they feel because the experienceis unique to them.
Only worben san define themselves
, silly cow,
• peculiarly isolated position. She fids hopelE stradilled sera
The reully defines
Hirtesay to most use held besaysonym od with frivolity.
yourself you live 1
lotusclasa group before you can say
ww you regard yourself as a group
as a groop that you can
Ise itto the system through whic
(means in certain withdrawa integbe group and a realisation on che SOLUT CAL CIGOES COMMODIE tus niesus that just as the white why net cretesaddle class Cuban found be was t Sick and the hlack PHD chat he was a
the privileged woman has tr dent beyond her elite constiousnes learn the extent of her commen condition with unprivileged
NOCIAL.
The enemy is nor identified as wan student-worker copflicr
It is all people who are being erashed and twisted who want space and air and time to sit in the sin.
But the oppressed have to discove their own dignity, their own freedom they havetomake themselves squal
Tbey have to decolonise themselves
Then they can libesate the colonisers.
SHEILA ROWBOT AM WAS
La memberol the Blac. Dwar! editorial collective in 1968. She
wrode this siticle in December
1968, Te was polished in the
New Year 169 inse of Binck
Dwarf, which that paper
characterised an thie Year of
the Militaat Woman'.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 25 May 1978 page 11
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INSIDE THE BRITISH ARMY
Imperialism's copper
IRELAND
colonial wars and in Ireland today.
served in Ireland.
Troops Out -in British uniform.
I was sent to the worth the fine. day after my 18th birthday. We
SLUTOTEU Belfast. At this time Protestant paramilitaries were at the peak of their sectarian assassination and bombing campaign.
Nevertbeless all our activity wis directed against Republicans.
1 was stationed in Tactical HQ as an orderly for a period. Anyone arrested and suspecis were brought in there for screening.
SCREAMING
My room where 1 slept was right next door interrogation room and every night you'd hear people coming and getting roughed up, their heads banged against the walls screaming and everything. was more annoyed at losing my sleep than anything else at the answer is copper.
tungsten and manganese.
incursion into some much-needed perspective.
The Cold War rhetoric about Soviet imperialism in Africa conveniently masks the real source of Western concern over Zaire. Imperialism is terrilied of the polential mass opposition to dictator Mobutu.
Little mention has been made of uns woespecao support Tor
of Congo HUGO BLANCO (above) b one of 2,000 people arrested under the state of emergency in 7 Peru.
Strikes and demonstrations broke out afler the governetent
hud announced a 60 per cent report and basic foodstate ns in me THE КІВІРИ
general strike has heen declared
Illegal and already 13 people have heen killed.
Blanco, well-known
reasant leader and Trotskyist,
lad only just returied to Peru under a pre-election amnesty from the country's military Parkside Close, Hall.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 25 May 1978 page 12
On 10 June the United Troops Out is holding a conference on the role of the British Army in past
Included in the agenda is a new film on the Army and a discussion by a number of ex-soldiers who have
One such former soldier is IAN PHILLIPS. In this article — the full version of which is available in
- Phillips tells of his experience in Ireland
On one occasion I was told to North the were told to lean up against the wall, fingers on the wall, feet apart. I was told to keep wutch on them. One had a gunshot wound in his leg from a few days earlier and couldn't stand the up properly.
BAD PAIN
all I let him sit. The corporal screimed al and threatened me and made the bloke get up. Then he look me off the job. Two hours later 1 saw that they were still stood there in really bad the I saw lots of blokes who had been given a real hammering.
One of the first things I saw woes barrived aere was a tElle room called "The Box", It was
and a chair in it — and it was covered in blood.
INTERNATIONAL
What makes Kolwezi so attractive to France, Belgium, the US, Britain and West Germany? The one-word
Supplementary answers include cobalt, zinc, tin, diamonds, gold, silver, uranium,
RICHARD CARVER puts the latest imperialist
National Liberation (ENL). precisely because any anti-Mobutu automatically popular sympathy.
Mobutu & important to imperialisen for two reasons.
Strategically he represents a solid reactionary butfer in the middle of Africa
2000 arrested in Peru
rulers. Blanco was a candidate in the elections schedoled for 4 June.
Also arrested were Eduardo Castillo, trade union leader, SISTE ESSAR LETSTEN Communist Party.
Already a sumher of labour movement and figures in Britain have signed se appeal against the state of emergency and arrests. They
Heatrey and Ken Contes.
LET THAT SHE SHIT BRIE David
Other blokes said: It's just Trom nurex woo yet a working over'. There were pictures in the Intelligence Room of blokes propped BETTES. TENTS palpSMASHED
There wasn't a day went by when you didn't witness some incident of brutality, whetherit was someone getting dragged Sance sae corteor Dynas Dair or some woman
biggest guy in our unit once, Just for screaming.
The worst brutality that 1 witnessed were in the Crumlin Rd. during searches we did there. When ne Republican from my unit went round to
Individuals who
There was one
bee-line for his cell. He was pain. stripped and given a biding. You could bear the bloody
10p for postage.
Zaire
His army incompetent and badly organised. An incident from last Front year's war is indicative. SANDWICHES guaranteed
Troops southern Zaire threatened to desert. because received weeks. Mobutu responded by ordering 1,560 from a local hotel.
political counts for more than compe-
ASITe 15 recipient of US military aid and has proved its worth a number of times.
Imperialism backed Mobutu in the 1960s It was he who handed over radical nationalist Patrice Lumumba murdered by Katangan rebels. When the imperialises withdrew their favours
that they turned.
INVASION
2021030
egulars fought alongside th
Western backed FNLA aguins the radical regime. Mabulu sanctuary to the FNLA and the right-wing FLEC.
"liberate Cabinda enclave from Angola.
Just betore tbe 197 rebellion It was Tevealed that the West had plans -ILI invasion of Angola from Zaire, intellectusl cobenamed Operation Cobre 775. 1t was to have been led by a former US Green Beret callec Colonel Johnson (no relation).
Mobutu's strategic value is rein forced by internal regime. 220,000 efaBooth, gees have fled over the border Lo Angola just since the April
between warnings lo
unit.
Snipers
sight. So whe
Incidents of INTELLIGENCE Prison
seurched
had been British Kay. made u
For details of the conference on the Army contact UTOM at 182 Upper Street, London N1. UTOM's paper Troops Out costs 10p and is available from the Other Bookshop, 328 Upper Street, London N1, plus
startlingly
cal Ludumbashi
they had PLOVISIO IS
motivation
tbe largest the
revenge
were disgusted Zaire's feature is its resources. I is the
post-colonial WOrld'S CODRa still provides MANAGEMENT which aims Dil-Tich is not Moburn's
full-scale the world.
companies
imperialist brutal
state
screams all over the prison.
Under the Blue and Yellow card system strict regulations are laid down about giving
you suspect has a weapon, But while I worked in the office I wus ahle to reud the sniper file. In 1972, 17 people had been shot by snipers in our
are hidden positions and using telescopic
they can't give warnings und they can just
the road on suspicion; you have
of Intelligence photographs which they use to identify individuals. In 1972, they were hemping off people left right and centre
Most soldiers today think the
should Bel out of Northern Ireland. They don't see any solution at all. Only the real idiots think that something can be achieved. They see it as goleg on and on and an. alscard and Mobutu: lest of friends
And a Belgian refugee Irom Kolweri related the barbarous the
taken by Mobutu's the Moroccans
other attractive
world's fourth larrest cooper Troug and provides 60 per cent of tbe
Management of the economy
forte: the country is generally described as the noorest rich country in
But his policy ol Zaircanisa tion" of the mineral resource • the creation of state bolding
has had the desired effect of playing off one
power against
Belgium is still the largest investor, with 40 per cent of the
corporation.
HANDS
OFF
REPUBLICAN
NEWS
At a picket held in Downing Street on Saturday members of the United Troops Out Movement protested against the attemptec closure in Batest or sinn reins hoogoncan news. no basre editorial stalf of the paper as well as its printer are currently awalling trial. The picket also protested against the death. In Castlereagh police station of Brian Magulre.
Britain and the United Stale have considerable interests and
concession af a large West German rocker company well as having a considerable bubtary imporlance. (See News from Nowhere, page 3).
But now France makes the running. The Zairean economy has all but collapsed with the Tall in the world price of coppe and the Angolan closure of th Benguela railwas, This has given French investors the chance to increase their hold.
DIFFICULT
This process was speeded up by Freuch munary intervention on Moburu's behalf in 1977.
Tbe French Government denies that any such base considera tion entered il nund when sent in the paras this time.
the FNLC rebels is scanty and a political cvaisation difficull.
BRIAN
MAGUIRE
MURDERED
ASTLE REAGH
Katangan Those in tie 1900. the right-wing Moise
Their political aim can thus be roduced to the secession of Karanga, now Shaba province, Zaire's richest area.
This cananation his the virtue of beiny superficial you nanse snortin, as wel as showing up the perlidy of tbe
who are Deepare CO use such politically unsavoury forces to further their own
The truth, as always, is more complex. leader Nathanial M'Bumba was ouc
Tshombe's pendarmes. though a very young one
COLONIALISTS
After their defeat in 1965 the Katangan troops fled to Angola where they worked for the Portuguese colonialises against the Fiberation movements. The FNI.C. founded 1968. contatued thns cradition, for all its fine phrases about militant solidarity with the oppressed of the world'.
The end of Portiguese colonialism posed the FNEC with a dileroma. Prohably for opportunist reasons it lined up with the MPLA Government
The relation of the present Shaba rebels to the gendarmes is tenuous abc seems to centre whoLy the person of M' Bumba. If the press stopped to think about it, they would realise that this is at least partly because Tshombe's troops are now old men
SUPPORT
ENLC can be explained by the COUSCH JOCUISIT into Angola. Quite apart from any internationalist considera tions Angola has a clear and defensible interest in destabilsing Mobutu.
For all the doubts that can b raised about the FNLC, their popular support cannot questioned. probably onlya petty bourgeois
But against Mobetu and bis WINCISCORLALSLIGUOSO our unconditional support,
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COMMENT
Aggressive
socialist
journalism
1 RECENTLY RETURNED Cyprus where a population of 650,000 supports cleven daily newspapers plus assorted wecklies Every political party has its own daily newspaper and no political faction goes without its substantial journalSECTOILE In Britain we chanter blithely about the diversity of the press when in fact most of Fleet Street offers much the 30170 outlook on the serprising if you look interTing with hitchet he Col ownership, career structure, and full-time trade union bureaucracy that is so pervasive in our national and provincial press.
To get the truth about rank and file struggle, about Uster, about many international suc alternative set of facts from which truer deductions can be made — one has to turn to the socialist press.
The problem has been the formal party connections of the left-wing ress. Reading Labour focialist Worker is an enjoyable trea each week as one disentangles the party line from the reporting. though even my gorge rose last week when I read in one of the Labour Party orientated weeklies that there was some socialist virtue in Terry Duffy The treat has been extra-special in he efforts of the comrades who produce it to keep IMGism to a minimum. Toa large extent they have succeeded, and that is why Socialist Challenge is such a marked bonus on the left Journalistic scene.
They have scooped the world more than once. For my money the best journalist in Britain is Paul Foot, but
think that even Foot's Socialist Worker would allow that Sociulist Challenge has had a triumphant first
The Dobson tapes will go down in journalistic history. I can'i think of a Fleet Street paper that has toppled an
quivalent pillar of British capitalisn
I there was any honour in that of pals act responsible for dishing ou the annual Socialist Challenge should be top of the list for the Dotson story alone!
excellent that
to a minimum, especially in new-found suppor: for the Anti Nazi League. Militants everywhere take their cue from socialist journalism, and newspapers that sectarianism gournalistically sectarian division on the ground. 1 hope your advance Smiths. ground where Private Eye. Guy News and other left papers are DOL allowed tread, successful - though not at expense of combative journalism The moment a WH Smith lawyer tells oute spice a story you wobt to posts you should be out of its shops and back onto the streets exclusively
The past tweive months has been crucial for the rank and file of the labour movement from Grunwick 1o the Anti Nazi march at the end April. Workers are recovering their confidence and strength after the depression of TUC policed wage
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BIRHHESDOS
Socialist Challenge in
world. Not
at the
Policy Committee
paper.
- or at least an control.
about socialist ideas and theory.
Weekly or
future.
DENIS
personal capacity|
Style and
content
Socialist Challenge
photograpis,
working
Socialist expense of 'the issues
its seriously misconceived simply a lecimical one of emphasise there could be
breed
into WH
real problem
the
possible: but
discussed. The
of distance from
and
YORKSHIRE
Trans auD.
NORTH EAST
sales Nathan Here an High For
Chmeland Cartia, Socialist Challongo i
MEWEATLE SOARST CHORNED ICON sand 2 gn them, phane Pate an
Supporters Conference on Saturday? We hope so.
because it will be the first national meeting of the
paper's supporters, who will be discussing where the
paper is gring und where it should be going.
There will be reports on the progres of heap is of opportunity to discuss ever workshops and in generu
sessions of the conference.
Don't miss the conference if you support the paper.
We need four ideas about how it can he improved,
And if you're serious shont your commitment to the
aper, why not consider standing for the Nationa
body which will meet quarterly
and decide the averall direction and policies of the
Aggressive socialist journalism is a vital component in the fight. So too is serious and comprehensive debate
Any journalst who cares for a free and varied expression of ideas should welcome and be pleased at Socialist Challenge's successful arrival. I look
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MacSHANE, President, National Union of Journalists fin RICHARD KIRKWOOD argues that
is marked by "major faults of 'style" and 'content" which in turn reflect misplaced
mphases in its political orientation
Too many long articies, toc an intellect a b and hints of academic jargon' these, he soys, are signs that the paper addresses iisell to a narrow politica vanguard at the expense of advanced
class mulicans and over stresses degs sad bromance nine
and problems beine generated within the class".
These criticisms are in my view
no disagreement: needless "difficulty" is never a virsue, In academic journals any more than in tberevolutionary press. However, the
WHEE AU COULD piety can pray away — is that "style' and content cannot sampiy be se are language of socialise journalism should always be as simple as
the limits of the mossible are ultimately set by the injective demands of the problem
very revolutionary leadership implies both a relationshin with the class and a abstrace populariy can al Appeals to tus distance; they merely obscure it
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE EVENTS
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Besides, what is the touchstone of genuine popularity? There is limited point in citing the reactions of this or that "advanced worker': particular Instances can prove anything. On the other hand, impressions prove nothing - and the Workerexperience suggests that thosc who unilaterally decide what average worker is, wants, needs or is capable of, are liable to produce a militant prevating journalistic stereory pes.
The most reliable test al present 1s the historic experience of independent working class organisation experience that includes not onl unions and parties reading circles and newspapers of formidable range and difficulty.
The overtlion of capitalism
fundamcotally working class becoming more than capital requires' it to be. The political transformation of the class is, among other things, a process of learning Revolutionary intellectuals are sometimes reluctant 10 300ept "advanced have doubted it.
A parallel misconception occurs in comrade Kirkwood's remarks on the
and the living experience
course, revolutionary programme must be groanded in the experience of the working anything che would be an arrogant contrivance. But il does not Tollow that an adequate programme is one crealed Du! particular condicions of Britain in 1978 or that these constitute a decisive test of existing programmes.
The reservoir which programme draws contains generations of living experince'; and its final version would concentrate what
working class struggle, prost Bit i does late
Gc a relatively autonomous exisience, tellocied in a resolelionary paper in an
process political theoretical debare. Such debate is not an imellectual' laxury; it is a bind-
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berweer theory I would argue that to anempi to an Prower is terr endles ol workers) under conditions isolation and fragmentation for the revolutionary left is a self-defeating and incorrect tacle. Lenin's artitude to the sounding of a workers puper in the South Wales in 1921 may have bee excessively demanding, but reveals B deep scepticism nhout all forms o substitutionism:
If the CP of this district cannos chis: ellect a few pounds in order to publish small never beginning of the really proletariai communist newspaper every miner will not pay a penny for it then there is not genuine of the International galvanize a working class readerstup to forge a direct link between the vanguard and the working class, while real political influence over workers remales to be won.
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While deepering and improving its industrial intervention, such a paper should set itself the tusk of reaching workers and sections of the already politically-defined "vanguard
seeking overall political allernative — it should concern itself
Vision on polities with an Sision*
Comrade Kirkwood accuses the IMG of cquating polities with ideas
programme cather than with •Provisi COLLIE articulate response 10 the hold ol chauvinist and parliamentary-demo cratic themes on the British working
evoking" the concrete forms in which workers power can emerge and he realized. It is obviou that the INfC as presently constituted cannot achieve these programmatic 8085-90 contains wateres graspof ideas and programme Fused with active work in all areas of the
Nuovo under Gramsci's editorship during the occupation of the Tactories in N. Bials 1919 1920) was an attempt to claborate the nature and theory of a system of
discipline control rivalling the bourgeois state. As we so timeless formula for correcr political Sournalsai but Ordine Nuoso workers paper, remains a profoundly
counter-grain en comrade Kirkwood's notion of what a revolutionary paper can achieve.
li could be argued that these ambitions should not findspace in the weekly paper, but in other organs of the revolutionary press This would Richard's argument berween the rather dismalls absiract program fon the essentials of which, he is sure (wich is to be the rest of each others'
This failure to fuse action and programme raises scrious questions about the organical peal Tores of the movernent which might emerge from such a politics. invoked by the International Socialise Allante tends lo reproduct dichotomy berween propramme and
HE EDC division between 'activists and intellectunis
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Phil Derbyshire's interview with Tom Robinson concluded Im glad we put on that song... for the sake of the comrades committed to building a socialist alternative'
Do you think that Rock Against Racism and your own music reach a lot of people who are otherwise untouched hy left propaganda:
Apparently almost half the mail RAR pets comes from Tom Robinson Band leaflets, concerts and bulletins. RAR acts as an eye-opener to them: that the police are racist, that more than just the NF is racist, and it makes them think twice about Irish jokes.
It's a good starting point; a means by which people committed to the left can militate against the right, and in an entirely natural way through music.
There's been talk recently of a new wave of youth radicalisation. Do you
sense of that as you move THATS around the country?
No. frankly, Most of it is fashion. You have to be brutally honest about how much a band can achieve. If you think of yourself as a martyr bigtime campaigner then blown it alteady. yourself up. You have to be cynic about what you can do, but not of the audience.
It's casy to fall into the business cliche of patronising the audience. calling them teenyboppers, looking down on ansone who's fourteen and female
received one leller from a girl who put me straight. She said: Tread your
Well, a lot of my there and pathetic! Don't be so patronising... even 14-year-olds can think'. E wrote her an apology
You have to be optimistic about the audience. You couldn't even begin to talk about socialism
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gay.
like it they can fuck off.
And comparison, TRB has an we work a mi all agree on. I do
will.
I think you have to down and simplif talked about al TRB to work. together so each TESTS
were enefit then 1 say OK.
wh like Belfas
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thought that people had the integuty ATTTEIEMAICE IO BELEIICCTICI own destiny. But being a socialist rock
perfume manufactirer.
You're makinu a consumer produci What a can be pee tough, sout then if you do pet somewhere all we and good. A few bands like Henr Cow and Jam Today do avoid the system and their integrity is fantastic. But they miss a lot of people because they steer clear of the mass media. In Ine say new hot reaches nas the for interple to hate de
Canton They don't compromise closet at all. Sirietly gay and if people don't
I'm doing the opposite — saying. Yes, I'm gay, hut there's a whole lor
1 feel shabby by especially called a pay crusader when actually the Peaches are doing it a whole lot
'Glad to be Gay' Is the gay song you're Tamous for; but do you find if easy to write songs about being gay in other ways, like being in love with a man,
songs, that are not for the band and haven't seen the light of day, but they
concentrate for a band like We can lot long as we ai flexible to needs CLIE other members of the band certainly are to mine, and if they don't want to do a
If there was
omething that I wanted to do which they didn't then l'd do it on my
and I want to go and play. But if the
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band didn't want to go then I would and would bire musicians.. I'd have to be honest to my own convictions. 1 doubt it would come to that, though.
political direction as you?
They came into the band musicians. But I look Danny to the St George's Day March against the NF and he couldn't believe it. It's one thing to sing songs about the Ni anotber to see them right up clos
have heard him *Winter of '79' after difference was astounding.
He'd seen a possible tocure and 1 scared him shitless — as it does me.
Dolphin caine 00 the demo, and he rcalised that we were in it together and that we can always be together; that there doesn't have to be HE SUE ACROB TOT CUT OLUCE and chas we can change things. I guess they've hecome politicised joining the band.
Do you think there's much support for the right umong south?
In the same way as with the left, it's fashion -as in Germany where youth are turning to the NPD in rebellion against being told that they should feel guilty for a war that was over 15 year before they were born
But if you allow yourself the luxury of cybicism about youth mobilisation to the left, then you have to grunt yourself the same cynicism about a move to the right The more lasting mobilisation, such as it is, is on our side, People are gerring involved wit RAR and you just hope that they! stay that way in a year's time when i! isn't in fashion.
THIS STENCE, IS NOT MEANT FOR SPRAYING ON WHIC PROLENTY!!!
Have you had any adverse criticise about your having "sold out'?
Yes, and it burts,
Obe letter totally fucked me up for two weeks including gigs. It's anorber dilemma. Some criticisin is good, like the girl 1 mentioned before, pay attention. Other stuff is totally negative, like the time we wer zapped beration Front lebana over Righ on Sister" play patronising The One of them came up to the front of the stage and shouted you just give up?", which was the sump of her message to me, Why should 1especially wben women from as far awaras Japan are writing to say that the same song has positively helped them?
When it happens at a gie and you ge Faires, plies, pek or here eas since pensics, putts. stop the show, pur the lights on, and tell the audience to decide. We go oft stage for a while and it's up to them.
It's important to turn it over to them and leave them with the decision. If the majority didn't want us to play then we'd pack up. As you saw from
accounts it difference (TRB is [13,000 in debt).
What do you think of the organised left?
I wish they'd be the same only more 50. 1 mean. judgement on them? There's cough people doing that to me.
at 1 guess do get wored. al had a dilemms •Better decide which side you're on to the album. It's the bluntest sang; the
most directly effective.
side you're on -But so many
and you liberated just
Bradford
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•Why don't Africa OCTS COU past auto-da-fes.
wouldn't make any
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whether
political, and the least *If left is right then right i wrong/You'd better decide which
people automatically equate left with repressive regimes, such as the Soviet bloc. I went to East Berlin recently and 1 bave to admit I found a lot of my certainties shaken. Those people certainly didn't seem
TRB was invited to play at the World Youth Festival in Cuba bur at that point we drew the line
The first thing that Castro did or corning to power was to send ever queen in sight to Homosexuals cop it the world over and repression is still repression. be it
Spain, the USSR or Sout the band's establishment critics are at pains to point out that the directness of mo Iyries would never be countenanced in any existing 'Communist regime.
But that's like sayinte of Nazareth was full af shit because of the various atrocities that organised Christianity has committed during the
2000 years in bis Crusades the Inquisition, all that stuff
though have heer personally shaker I'm glad we
. for the sake comrades who support the band
actively committed TO building a genuine socialist alterna
I wish them well.
For every TRB and Clash
are a bundred bands on next to notbing music to small
audiences*,.in Under Revien
shortly, the life and times of
who don't have a
contract with BMI,
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WOODWARD reports: THREE tickets have been sent lo our offices for Bob Dylan's concert in London next month.
The supporter who sent them in sald he thought a rattle for
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