Socialist Challenge No. 50, 15 June 1978
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No 50. 15 June 19
Socialist Challenge
Amnesty International report on Northern Ireland confirms
BRITISH
TORTURE
BRITAIN'S TORTURES:
Beating in the face, stomach, head, genitals, back.
Choking until unconscious.
Cold liquid poured in ears. Plastic bag placed over head. Thrown against walls.
Organic brain damage.
Karate chops, bending of wrists, lifting up by the ears.
Burnt with cigarettes.
Men's trousers pulled down, women's skirts lifted.
Teeth knocked out, beaten with chairs.
Spreadeagled against walls for long period, spreadeagled on floor and jumped оП.
Threats of death. Light switched off and threatened with rape.
*There is consistency between the alleged maltreatment and the signs. — Amnesty International End The Torture:
Demonstrate 9 July, London
BRICK LANE: EYEWITNESS REPORT P.2&3
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Apartheid housing
EDITORIAL
Socialist Challenge, Editorial 01-369 8180/9.
conference
of building the campaign. This is as it should be. was the child of that campaign. participated in its activities!
credentials.
STRUCTURES
Committee responsible for the
control und are not being manipulated.
practical importance.
But their intervention at the ANL Carnival was
involvement in the ANL STATEMENT OF AIMS
vital importance of mass netions to defeat fascism
Some of the experiences
confereace mere, to put it mildly.
frank discussion on the way forward.
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Build the ANL
THE FIRST national conference of the Anti Nazi League is scheduled to take place on 8 July in London (for details see p.7). the task of the conference is to discuss ways of further building the campaign and taking it forward. The political direction of the ANL and its structures will be discussed within the overall context
The ANL isa good example of a single-issue united front. It hus succeeded in involving large members of reformists both as sponsors and on the local level. At the same time most of the grassroots activists are more sympathetic to or are members of between the way the ANE was conceived and launched and the way Nice are definite in which the Communist Party launched its Civil Liberties campeign in the Thirties: the National Council of Civil Liberties
We reject infantile descriptions of the ANL as a 'popular front' For those of our readers not in the know, a popular front represents a strategie compromise between a working class and a bourgeois party, It is a programmatic alliance. To put the ANt. in that category is to live in a dreamworld. We would remind such purists that the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign had members whose polidical affillations were to the Liberals and the Tories. There were not many of these, but they supported the SC demands and
The ANL conference will be attended by delegates and sponsors from all over the country. Each branch will be allowed to send two delegates but large branches (Manchester and Bristol ure two clear examples) will be, in Peter Hain's words, allowed to send "more representative delegations'. In addition, trade-union branches anu anti-racist bodies which sponsor the ANt will be provided with
We have consistently argued that the structures of the ANt should be made uccountable. This is not an abstract notion. It is a way of drawing the greatest number of non-aligned people inte regular activities. A National Steering Committee, representing the geographical spread of the movement, should be elected to meet twice a year. This Committee should thee elect a Cumpaign
day-corday running campaign, At the sume time local stractures should also be made more accessible so that activists at the base feel that they have some
This is necessary if it isintended to build the ANE as a long-term campaign. If it is going to be dissolved after the general clection, then clearly the question of structures is irrelevant. But no-one believes that the ANL can be wound up so soon. It has an important role to play and there appears to be virtaul unanimity that it has to be built as a serious ongoing campuign. It is this reality that makes its political direction and its structures of some
la vor opinion, the alliance between left social-democrats and revolutionaries against the fuscists represents a real step forward at the present time. We ure not for disrupting this coalition in any way. But it is necessary for the ANT to devote more attention to anti-racist propaganda, as it is racism which wil be the problem during the elections and after. Clearly if the SWP had Totally dissolved itself into the ANI on the level of propuganda ne would have been forced to make some extremely shurp criticisms. opposing all immigration controls - a clear indication that
Independent socialist propaganda is a necessary complement to
It is obvious that it is only the far-left which campaigns today against Immigration costrols. It should carry on doing so, But to make its rerolutionary positions the busis for a united front with reformists would clearly be a self-defeating process. Nonetbeless the original ANL 'statement of aims" should be expanded to take account of the needs of activists in combatting racism, stressing the
The main activity being organised by the AN In the coming
months is Carnivals. This is escellent, bet at the same tiate the
different components of the ANI (SKAN and Students Against schools, polytechnics and the camposes. A full discussion i the Nazis) should be discussing ways of taking initiatives in
needed on such initiatives at the forthcoming conference.
of the recent CARE/ARAFCE extremely negative. We eun sympathise with the desire of the AN Steering Committee not to
allow their conference to become a repeat performance. Bat it
would be tragic if this were done at the expense of an honest and
Socialist
similarities
Alf Garnett country.
in London's East End.
introduce apartheid in SHERIDAN was there.
The three teenage skin heads sitting nervously in the back of a police car the National newspaper visible in bis pockel - were indeed fucky They had fed into the estate chased by a couple of dazen young Asians in the company or white militants, some of the
Worker or Socialist Challenge But the
TAJ STORES
centred on
AFTER the rampage dasi revelationer socialises are!
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- i a * Spitalfields, East London
plan fuels
YOU FUCKING bastards. You're fucking lucky you've been arrested. " The speaker was a white woman in her fifties, whose appearance suggested a resident of
The location: Chicksand Estate, just off Brick Lane
It was 2pm last Sunday — just a week after the disclosure of the Greater London Council's plans to
the area.
the empty milk bottles one with a copy Front's
THUGS
young thues charging
(unusually) SUNLES
purely a rampage -undertones,
Although incidents
market
expensebood before.
shop windows.
THE SEC
SMASHED
serving customers
"There's rhete
chap front
SPITALFIELOS Y knocked joined required hospital
only three WHITEGHAPLL
Caplintion d la crisis. The leaders of ibe Lahour Parts and the lodes unlon.
after solelions that are in the intereds, pot of the warker, hat of the copitalis
Socalisi Chailse helieves that the twe yial laska postronsing
•To build broad-hised cae
case-collaborationive in the libmir morement, Their dould be non-eclusi
Ill characler grouping togetber militants Bolding a wide range of polltiel views.
To begin in fight for the creacion of a unified and demoratic scenlucioner?
socialise organication alich con, chrough an application if nailed Front incies
hegin lo be sernas an shernalive by shonsms of warkers enpaged in smuggles
Such an organisation should be have un the soderstanding that. The strugale for socialisin serks to unite the fight of the workers against the boses with that if ather oppressed lavers of sacely black peuple, gate sirating fur ibeir lilierotion. This only be achievnil hy orcareg new urgan of poserand defeating with all
mar recans the power of ihe aspitated state:
racist rampage
of Jean Chairperson
Bongalis (or
in Spitalfields GEOFFREY
prompt arrival of the police
Fund plan staves gripped by the Asians while-only and anti-racists would no doubt have united with the skin heads marked lor
habitabson
To the police, two hundred that the
along Brick Lane screaming Kill the mack Dastards wasa matter l coincidence. "There is nothing The
that they were organised", the police stater attempled to
been a nasty case of vandalism with racial
PRIORITY
Overtones was more like it.
allack CROE TEET
occurrenes during the Sunday
With NE paper sellers and speakers in operation noting on this scale had been
Tones
Two hundred youths, many with skinhead hair styles and wearing NF hadges, wrecking
jumping on curs, and assaulting Asians as the mob marched 12 deep along
to go on That
Abdul Monaf, a grocer, was
when -his windows were smashed. He heard one of the thugs shour:
three bastards in Then a hall of scopes and bricks came through hi murders
Monat was hit on the arm Gourished and back and in the mouth, and
unconicious. He nighttall. who treatment.
The police arrested just 17 of the racists, eventually charging The
Two aspects of these events rudely contradict the thoughts
3
upposition la
Tory the GLC housing management commit- who
Tatham has declared tbat the
properly Asians, since Gujaratis are aiso part of the community) demanding rba: blocks of fat
the SILE surrounding Brick lane - be turned over to their exclusive
The resull, a GLC ghetto thugs
for Beopali-only and Already nine estates have been car-
exclusive black
The supposed justification:
Asians are seeking accurity From racist attacks, and return to the area when (her they are re-housed elsewhere.
reluctant benevolence - with which the has
dress apartheid policy slipped out of sight when Tacham was quotec in the Sunday Times as saying:
9 will give priority to any of
white who are who wani transfers from blocks that are predominantly non-white.
The Image fostered by the
and sections of the here media is stark enougli: Aslans seeking a gheito fortress from implacably hostle whites image straight out of the
propapanda of Powell and the
National Front, and one whic very likely stimulated the thugs
the rampage on
underlines the first absurdity of the GE.C's plan.
Far from being a sanctuar from racist attacks, Spitalfields has probably willessed more than any other part of Britair
attacks which include tw
in the past tew months. Mini-cab firms lave
on journeys barely a hundred yarus after
AGREEMENT
Tory plan, which received the racit agreement of Labour councilors, could not have been better conceived to
Cher socialism will be intinith mure democrnlic than what esist in de not inke up arms against che sicialie sinte The Stalinist modek of •socialism in she 1.SSR and Fastern Earope hase disemolited social-m
in the sees in the milliune of workers thronghout the warid, Se an apposed io
Them and will offer full support lo all those fishing for secisies democracy
The interests of workers and capltalists are in scale. Capitalism has mut wels created a world market, it hos creased well politics, Thes we fight for working can eat, on an interst scale. This units wal in the lodg run be deciase in defeating beth the
imperisibirgimes in she Westand he bratslicialerships thes seetain in 1atil
America, Africa and Ado
In intaie it implies demanding the immedinte willifrewst of Brith snops
from Ireland and lettleg the Irish people determine aeir own hotere
The Comments Parties in Lurupr an in cris Fura-command nor the pro Moscow wiegs hake any meaningful straing for the merthrow of the copitalist state. Sen resolutinmen socialis pariles are man
we more farmaNdethan over the preceding three decades. But such partie- can
only be bolt los rejecting sectarisaise ond seeing internat democracy nut ag
luxury has as a vilal necesols, This weans the right he aronte Factions and
dig a moat between local Asians and whites, Yet if the skinheads
fled along Chicksand Street on Sunday afiernoon
anticipating welcome, they were in for a nasty shock.
PURSUING
It was white by-standers who poulted the pursuing Aslans in the direction of the young
and it was middle-azer and elderly wilte women who
vociferously expressed their hostility to the thugs waen they had been arrested
if vou wanted to be a Nazi, you were born it the wroDe country one woman shouted through the police car window
anti-fascism mingling will national chat-
*I have worked here for 30 years, said a white shopkeeper after the rampage, and find the Bengalis quiet and peaceful people, #HAIDEIS 30 HEPHE themselves and their families." better neighbours. conuneated a altite woman. Some of the white people don't like them. but I thin it would be silly to
learn s0 together, And things would be hetter around
when police stop the bellies FURORE
The Tory plan has caused a furore in the Asian community
Spitalfields, with several meetings called to discus their response. At one niceting last week, attended by a hundred Bengalis, The proposals were unanimously rejected. Dr Mohammed Harris Ali and Nerul Haque were selected as mokespersons to explain the community's position
Both are adamant that there
desire whatever for exclusively Bengali escales. The Bengali Housing Action Group, with which the magazine Ruce Today associated, and which was originally quoted as supporting this idea, has since denied that it expressed this view:
"The GLC is telling the local while people. some of whom.
Neither th
e necessary than ever heinre. Condisins Inla
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THIS IS not the result of racist wreckage, but the GLC's housing polley. Brady Street Dwellings, now squatted, with a virtually all-white tenanted tower block in the background.
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C G.M. COOKSON IS
like the Jewish people, have been here for years, that we're trying to push them out, says All. "But we want a multi-racial community. We want the mix
"They want to disasions in the workine class. Haque explains. We worked together and be NURUL HUGUE accepted. Separate housing is not only impracticable, dangerous.
The Asians are under no illusion that segregated housing -or the present concentration
Spitalfields, witere estimated 20,000 Asians make up almost half the population presents detence from racist attacks.
Quite the reverse. "Every place is vulnerable to these attacks, says All. It is no solution for everyone to come here. If anything, the Asians are less vulnerable outside, because they are less easy to find
What the community tainly wants is physical safely. which is what the GiLC plan ss Needless to say, the council ha: to exploit. done nothing practical to meet the need for that security.
Its "dispersal' policy; the Labour-controlled: Tower Hamlets has not resisted, has consisted of dumping Asian families in ones 300 M06 01 decrepit estates like Blackwell
whites at the bottom of the pile respond to racist agitation with persistent harassment.
SLUMS
Asians who turn down such tempting offers are informed that LILY have refused re-housing. *If they are placed
with reasonable number of other Asians, they will not come back to this slum
arca, Harris Ali explains.
And that is the crux of the community's position, though views: constitutes a reasonable namvary- For All, it is 15 create families together, Nurul Hoque
umber and addr that be sec
ПОНЕТ РОССЕНИЙ
way 1o achieve a measure of
Harris All favours organised self-defence within the Asian community: "Patrols can save
La ropomble for attacks, and if necessary physically deal with the situation.
PATROLS The patrols which began in Brick ane a year since ended, throuch lack of but organisation and finance. All
considers that the should back them Harassment by racist neighbours, and initiatives by Front - such as snashing local any cer- Dr. HARRIS ALI
windows and wrecking furniTure — is a fcature of estates in Spitalfields as well as else-
A year ago, a Bengali family which
HOYLE SLEELAL DISMELLOTES Front. Now they bate mothe TO Do De more back in, after
door discussions where residents over the
months, The all-white blocks suggested by Jean Tatham are already a reality in Spicalfields, thanks to the council's discriminatory policies. Asians make up 47 per cent of the population in the area, yet a mere 5 per cent of council tenants; and there are virtually none in tbe post-war
While life in Spitnifields offers the Asian their own
alwhat
iness as the
warkplaces. social centres, and family and friendship networks, Harris Ali acknowledges that it is also a circle of oppression.
Housing is a scandal. several lo drainage or baths is a common feature — and not just for those who bave been forced to squat. ago have The community is demanding
develops local facilities, and Tower Hamlets
council coines the encroachment of the
Cily office blocks in the west ol the arca to boost the rates.
SINC SWEATSHOPS
For Bengalis coming to Britain, the option is farming or tailoring
main employment Blany - Asians. be united." All says, "to talk out their problems, We are trying to pet them into political parties and unloas."
Montefore school which mos of the Asian students allend and which hospital facilities closure, there are no Asian teachers.
Asians and WOMEN
with the Forthe past 12
insecurity bas meant that & is men who do the shopping.
their homes.
The indications are that the furious response to the leaking of the GEC's apartheid plan is causing the
so again bee plan Hare now
Oppose the GL.C plan and the Brick Lane rampage!
Demonstration called by the Anti Nazi League
Saturday, 17 June
11am at the Naz cinema, Brick Lane, E1
mosque
exploitation
in Spitalfields and in with
a room, and no
council wel
With the absence
the
owned by The workers need to
Robert
like the local - is facing
Tories to back-
GOAD
discovered its racist implica- even futher.
If it is dropped, it will make concentrated no difference ot the black and white ghettos that already exist
other areas; and it didn't need exactly SKINHEADS trapped in Chicksand Estate al
the Tories to create those.
Labour's Tory policies of attacking working class living standards and its refusal to challenge racist immigration controls provide ammunition enough for the Thatchers of the Tory front bench to stir up the racist rampages.
On Saturday, Enoch Powell дет со со додо пс воліс
*The inhabitants where the proportion (o blacks) is already high although only half as high as it wil be it 20 years tire - know
what is meant by
"swamped",' he announced
Why, he wanted to know had the Tories been silent for two months on their proposals about "controlling strictly any future immigration'.
Among those who have not been silent are the Lahour MH who put their name to the Select
the Labour Party ignores policy ebo immierator controls, and the Government allows bans to be imposed on
who would actively confront the fascists on the
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The Socialist Challenge Trade Union Conference
PO Engineers call to labour movement Let's fight for the
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01 Duffy. The
confidence in the unions.
At the same time,
Union
Government and trade union leaders.
Why I'm coming
widest possible forces on class struggle
The POEU conference saw i big advance for the left. forced the executive to step up industrial action for the vital demand of a 35 hour week.
Although the conference accepted a pay offer within Phase 3, we sent the executive straight back to management with a demand for ay per cen effective from I August this усат
We also forced the executive to call a special conference 10 discuss our policies against the fantastic implications of the PO's modernisation
CLIQUE
Our ution has been domimaled by a right-wing cliqu called "The Bloc' for almost 24 years. Bur tbis year, the vote increased substantially in BC cAccane Comand y won an outright majority on our umon's deleuntion to lie TUC and Labour WNTCTEAEES
In my option this advance was. due only to the increased feeling of militancy among the membership, but to the fact that the Broad Let has started to come out into the open and involve the rank and fil part of the reason for this is that under our rules the issuing
for Canvassing is forbidden. sul hawan taot woat we vitally need —-a national journal of the
RULES
We can start to change this now by drawing up clear policies through a democratic conference of the whole left in the union. This will prepare thie way for a big campaign to our rules levison conference wareh is coming up soon.
We anxious to learn from the experience of other left formations in the unions. Se war Mean of the Stewart McLennan CPSA civil set rants Broad Left to speak at a mecting of our Broad Left at the POEU conference
that these militants received
ampaignin! democratic
sroad Left in our union is on
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 15 June 1978 page 4
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE supporters will be meeting in Birmingham on 1 July to map out a strategy for rebuilding the left in the unions. The left in the Engineering Unions has taken a blow with the election
apparent success of anti-working class measures — however short-lived it may be — has given the right-wing a new authority and
militants within the Civil Servants* Union and in the Post Office Engineering
- as articles on this page indicate organising to confront the alliance between the
Pat Hickey, shop steward at Rovers' Solihull and an DAVE WARD was a delegate to the Post Office Engineering Union conference last week. Standing on a slate backing the policies of the Broad Left, he came close to being elected onto the executive.
He sees this as part of the advance of the left in the union, and recognises the need for democratic left tendencies in the unions, which would involve the
That's why Dave Ward is coming to the Socialist Challenge Trade Union Conference. He explains:
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It also showed thas there is lett definitely need exchange of expenences octween militants working different unions.
This is not to say that there Party ditticullies building a Broad Left In the POEU. The first problem is the Bloc.
MACHINE But there people an the Frightened of organising the left in a more systematic was, an case il appears we are merel building a left-wing version of We machine, -STEINS Socialist Challenge supporters in the union will be fighting with others for campaigning Broad Left which draws in the membership in the branches. Tha journal, and democratic conferences.
Il incans that ail political tendencies must be tenresented on the leadership of the Broad Left - we can't light for one thing in the union and organise our own house dilferently.
POLICIES Above all we mood policie that can deal with both offensive on POFU memheri and the problems facing whole working class. So I will he coming to the Challenge Trade Uoion Conference to contribute experience in fighting for these things and Listen experience of others.
10.30-11.00
11.10- 1.30 Labour's
3.00- 4.30 41-4.97 4.45- 5.00
10 Socialist policies, 3 action in their history.
STEVE
strong POEU, together with a claim by Ford workers which puts equal emphasis on pay and a reduction in the worki for week,
Congress in September may be forced to turn pious resolurions into mass action against unceployment.
The Government bas alrendy 10 engineers" action.
Minister Eric announced a under Lord McCarthy to look into the POEU's seven-ycarleft who are old claim. untoes action will continue Irrespective of this, along tbe lines of a radical propramme produced by its election 'moderate exccutive.
Since last oguipment has been hanned, and the programme calls for SUPPOIL ITONE COACE WIDES LU extend the han to all sectors of the Past Once means
PROPOSALS POEU branches have heen invited to proposals for include overtime bause regional and wark
targets could be the Stock Exchange, airports, and television. the A weekly levy of 25p from each member will help those the suffering any suspension as a result of the Socialist action
There was massave enthusi-
delepates to conference. Most had expected
the executive to continue its
AGENDA
Registration Opening remarks by Tariq All Rebuilding the left in the unions.
Lunch supporters from
Fighting racism.
Summary.
organiser of the Trade Union Confereace, explained
Challenge: 'We want to use opportunity of the conference to exchange experiences UNANIMOUSLY, delegates at the Post Office Engineering Union's conference in Blackpool last week voted to begin the most militant programme of
Their aim is the 35-hour week, to beat the threat of massive job loss in the telecommunications indusiry.
POTTER reports from
The decision of the 125,000| Nocking of a militan: cam
Tendership. means that the TUe Dismay
The WHEECE
headait
Varley Industey has DOCILE spocial revLeW Before the the country.
October, new docility in message.
their future,
submit further Strawger exchanges action, which to rule. clectro magnetic
Potential
Hardship
Increasingis DIETNUTH
last week's neers with
of different sectors
formations
the unions. the
35 hour week
provide
Blackpool. Michael
pan burme pressure proveu too much for even the most die-hard right wingers on the
at the mood of action by militancy was only too plainly witten on the faces of Post Office management observing
TCH SCOREE
scotanianisni
campaign action started last soar, Gerald Kaahuan, Minister of State ar The Depactment of Industry, referred to Post Office statfar: "The most orderly, one migh: abso say docile workforces in
There was no sign of that Blackpool The SPLIT mrough to every seepate that had clearly the new technological revolution in tele-conmanications meant the gravest threat to
The major feature of that modernisation is the phasing exeputive our of the electro-mechanica
and the the introduction of TXE 2 and 4
switching
This is only the start of the process. Computer technoiog Will be the main feature of a ratically new system, known
For Post Office engineers, this is as sinister as it sounds
changes 1s will be made
nstructions from a compute the
eritinal instead of b engi-
soldering iroes.
Only one worker out of six 1 our decisions to the member-
and to try and aid militants to take up the political problems which they confront daily.
The real weaknesses of Broad Leftism and rank and filism — as two political currents within the unions — need to be discussed. The conference can't pretend to be an organisational alternative to these groupings, and that's not what it is designed to do.
But we have to see how we can fight within these
for democratic, tendencies within the unions that are ready to fight for class struggle policies and to tackle the leadership of
If you are a trade unionist who sees the need to I debate these issues, register for the conference today!
and hundreds precauty employed would sur viveto work on this new system The PO has already refused to
guarantees of jobs beyond the next five years, and the Government has appointed
William Barlos the MP.
Edwardes COT IDE electrical copincering industry
to bead the Past Office
The employers are gearing themseives up Some delegates considered that
suspending thou provoking national strike action by the
One of the chief weaknesses of the POEU leaderstip is it
towards the 195,000 members of the Union of Past Office Workers. These and workers are also tbreatened by the new technologs, because the more information that can be transcutted in prioted form through phone lines the less will ce the acco for the be transported by mail workers.
Yet the exccutive success fully motivated a proposal li split the Post Office into two seperare corporations, a policy which one delegate described at gift wrapping the PO for having off by the Tories. The
argued that the corporation could not afford
35-hoor week for boch engineers and postal workers.
This identification berwoen the interests of the bosses and the workers is further reflected in the neck deep commitment of the NEC ID Bullock-type participation in the industry.
Arthur Simper, trade union member of the board, who is on the POEU executive. lias explained: "We recognise that we must be directors with
samie responsibilities existing directors. We must carry the can and we mus seil
broad based left ship.
The engineers will also run ino the firm opposition of the
union inembers lobbiod John Guidine, a POE-sponsore:
their claim, he
that the 35-hour week would Increase The pice Di COll and cause Further unemployment as Brian's comperty position declined on the world
SAVED
Ofcourse, the unpact on unemployibent DC tER opposite. Hundrods of thousands of jobs would he created
saved thraugh the
shortened working week without loss or pas
Whet woud be hit is the profits of the employers, wic will wage a sigantic struggle susiest the measlite with th Government their side.
Dinosime the 35-hour wock Boods the mobilisation of the whole lahour movemet caployed and memplayed in nass action, This mus b the policy keynote al the Septeinber TUC Congress, together with the rejection o Phase Four
But a further step needs to be taken. What is posed in the Post Office, as in the steel indusity, that 35 hour week can pely be the fiest step towards wark-sharing without
La measure which will entail a shorter working week than 35 hours if all jobs are to be maintained.
-Post Office workers fighting in the largest and onc of the most ruthless employers in the countr
They are in the vanguard of real action against unemploy ment. They must campaign Jor, and the labour movemen must respond with, the most
practical support.
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What's behind Basnett's plans
Scottish teachers say
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way out of warfare over pay.
strike. reports on what followed.
Basnett's original proposals were for the setting up of a Public Sector Commitice of the
His first proposal on
EIS Conference
IN EDINBURGH last week delegates
local authorities.
PAULINE TIERNEY,
reports.
The demand to open the files | comes as a result of a scandal brought to light by the Times Educational Supplement. concerns five teachers, members of Rank and File,
compulsory transfer from their
Although no explicit reasons for this have been given by Fife regional council, The leachers have been holined that il is because of their political views. and they have been refused access to their personal files.
The vale al the conference came despite the altempts of the executive to prevent the issue
Public sector pay war
LAST DECEMBER David Basnett, Chairperson of
he TUC, wrote an article in the Sunday Times on
Two and a half weeks later he showed just what he meant by a way out of warfare when he voted at the General Council against supporting the firemen's
Al the time there was little public response by other union leaders to Basnett's proposals. However behind the scenes, union leaders were scurrying to discuss his proposals within weeks of the firemen's defeat.
On 9 February, at what we believe to be the first of several meetings, the leaders of seven public sector union met to discuss Basnett's proposals. included Drain of NAEGO, Christopher of the IRSE Fisher of NUPE, Jarvis of the NUT, Spanswick of CORSE, and Thomas of the CPSA. RICH PALSER
what this should do was to establish even more regular COLLECT WELS the
'Open The Files'
conference of Scotland's largest teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland, called for the opening of all secret files held by head teachers and
• Socialist Challenge supporter and member of Rank and File Teacher,
This victory by Rank and File Tenchers deiceates = all pronounced right-wing dinection which the executive has been taking in recent months - Dot least in its acceptance of COCONCI WATCHERSIS and public expendicure cuts.
REDUCTION With over 18,000 teachers graduating Scotland, delegates EIS fully fought for a reduction in classes to a maximum of 25, and for teachers in their first being two years of service to have drastically reduced time tables.
SOCIE
STRICERS At the Bank of Encland's orinting works in Louchton Essex, at a mass meeting last week. 520 woman and 70 men, all membors of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, have been c strike for a monito domano a closoo shop in procominanty
discuss economic policy
For Basnett, as he made clear
the
conference, whilst there will be
'no agreed phase 4', the unions
must not abandon all general
responsibility in reaching wage
agreements.
For: him
and the government will still act
ment as it did in isolating the
renen
The meeting of the They sector endorse in principle such a
TUC Public Sector Committee
with broad terns of reference
of the creation of a united
Tocus for public soctor unions
for pressure on Govertment on
and cash limits'. This would be Governmen! HOE BOTE TALE BAUEAU crate pressure group almed at to the If these resolutions implemented, teaching jobs created
The conference reflected a growing mood among women
position in education should be
improved, Delegates voted in favour of an inquiry into sexist literature in schools.
improved maternity conditions the
The growth of the National Front and it bronanands to dehealer minds school
malerial in schools. However, a motion calling for affiliation to the Anti Nazi League was defeated.
Although the rightward drift within EIS has not yet been halted. I was clear that tor the first time since 1974 Rank and File teacher is ence me as a crodible laTE policies of the union leader-
OF GRAPHICAL AND ALLIED TRADES
the strike,
departments to cconomic beiween the unions
public decided
David BASNETT
expenditure the cuts under TUC
public are | ship many more would be
in a good
seeking
in minds when they racist
who
List Union come
Hickey, alternative to conference unionised sechions offhe clant. Ashsosment sevidently keen on unions, Union notices are repeatedly tom down, and just before
three SOGAT women were transferred from a unionised suction to be replacoo by non-union workers.
by other
control, and discussine Day Dolley in the
with the line with proposals.
Its ability to group those Public forces fighting for such ar
democratic manner, will put in
in the OVER half the militants Socialist
have applied for credentials to the Social-
Challenge Trade Conference have from industrial unions. That's what Pat
one of the USELECES told the first meeting of
promoted
recent supporters'
UNITED coverage -lemher. which call
Basnett's second proposa]
Synchronisation of principal
stacost dates and a revice
of negotiating machinery. This
securing united action on pas
public SCLEME and
wages. It is airned at creating a
united response by the union
Tenders in negotiating with, and
pressurising, the government, idea.
and in settling the agreements reached by their memhers.
COMMON
According to our sources the
public
leaders do not as yet feel able to
go along with this, and have lef
open how the Public Sector
Computtee should achieve its
objectives on pay.
But they have spelt out common objective on pay in
Busnett's original They agreed the Committee should develop
means of ensuring that pahl
service pay is not treated more
detrimetray or more recide! than pay in other soctors of the
In orber words that public
proportion to wages in the
private sector. Basnett had
originally proposed permanent
bodies to establish
and private sector pay.
Whatever the CHICCICHE and disagreements between the
union leaders on how the TUC
Sector Committee should achieve its objectives,
and there seem to be many, oue
thing is clear. The discussions
are aimed at strengthening the
Summer plans for
Socialist Challenge
Challenge's National Policy Committee last Saturday.
Hickes explained that the conference wold be mainiy white-collar trade union sup porters of the paper. With the militants from Indestrial and mamast unions as well, it will be un important advance for the puper und the policies it has
The NPC - elected at the
Challenge conference discussed the direcion of the puper in the summer months.
It agreed on the need to
election, and for a campuign to
UNSELL Intervention, Stephen Murks, from the International Socialis July. Alliance, proposed a broad public appest for a united slate
The meeting discussed the need for improved trade union
- including u series of articles to analyse developments in the labour mosement
and accepted an Interna-
for a debate on intermation-
the fortieth anniversary of the
The NºC discussed the mest steps in the project for u new two united rerolutionury aGon. Stephen Marks referred to a resolution he and Richand Kaper will be putting to the ISA conference this weekend
for a common
negotiations and discussions with the government, through the TUC, so that wages in the public sector are not ailowed to fall behind the private soctor.
They are not aimed forging united action by public
private sector WOrkErs against алу wages limit, and
Particularly dangerous is the
which tempting public seclor workers who lear being isolated and defeated Like the firemen that wages can be defended by negotiating for increases in line with the private sector.
LES IS dangerous firstly bocause it divides workers in the public and private sector.
Jeaving public sector workers inactisely waiting for the private sector to achieve their wage increases, lisa restore differentials strategy. which has aided the ment in isolating the Leyland toolmakers.
ACTION
Secondly. with the toolroom workers, if does not allow public sector workers to 'go round" any wages mit, The firemen were promised SOMONTIOn AT WAR of other workers —ouly to find
refusing their promised shorter working week and threatening the renewed use of troops.
It is only by demanding an end to all talks with the government, and appealing for united action on pay with other
defend living standards can be ation, outlines policies for Joint work. plus meetings .10 publicise the policies and a campaige for them.
The resolation confereace after the elections 'to draw up a balace sheet of the campaign and either to found a new unised organis alien, or to set out a time table for moving lowards it. If the ISA conference agrees to this, the NPC will have to diseuss how such a campaign can be reflected in Socialist Challeng
STURBEH suppuriers" groups.
The NI'C agreed the need to pet more resources into locul grouie as u precondition toi balancing the paper's bowsks. It will Cake turtlier proppedis K speaking fours, Tand raising events aild oller measures lo regularise the toning at its next meeting in
also discuss the election of the editorial boand in light of the ISA conference
CORRECTION
Bur last Saturday's meeting agreed that if the IS A decides lo participate fully la the editorial board — as Kuper and Marks prupas - Ime ISA members should attend the meetings.
Correction: Last week's
errors. Alan Tichard of ibe Warrineson Socinist Chal lenge group should have been included in the fist: Kis Cleve from Cardiff is a Labour Party SETIRE SEE HISS
Puper. She is net a member of
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found at the hodom of a 40-50 foot cliff at Pennard in the LUWCE WALIC TESTYC Swanses caused armed police to raid thece houses in swansen Int eche toca lean wten polter Ina Te Chilean COMmUn
The Chileans have heen tangled up with a supposed
bombs conspiracy, despite the TANTIEMAC SUTE ! evidence was found, very little W TomOnu au nO CIarCwere made.
RAIDS The raids hit the houses of lacing trail. Socialist Challenge and Big Flame supporters, as welf as the home of Hilary Crock, jailed in the 1971 'Angry Brigade" trial and now on parole.
The Special Branch must be rather stupid if they think that FOR the first time Socialist Unity hopes lo contest cieciom in scottand. year's regional elections showed the fullure of the left ln
to present alternative to the policies of wca me Lanour tarly and the SNP. PAT KANE reports,
The Crosshill/Prospect Hill seat of Stratbciyde ropom
Soçialil Unity opeting to contest its firt seat. bocialist Unity will stand Chris Bambery, a trainee leacher and local militant. The Communist Party has also ansounced =
Socialist Unity campaicn lor an out-patunt abortion cinic in Glasgow, and to help to establish an Anti Nazi League in the Crosshill arca. will also campagning lor an end to army recruitment in schools, and the withdrawal of troops from Ireland,
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THE mystery of a Flat 124 car | Hilary Creek would bring all |
thix upon herself by pushing a car over a chiff near to her parents" house on the Gomer.
Neither can the seniously suspect IMGi militants
peniy conducted in the loc: bour movement and whos DO CMNZAL MarECHS the politics of despair of the Meinhof, and the Angn DULLES.
Brigade.
Swansea socialists art convinced that the people raided
alleged conspiracy in London for which two people are now
Iris Miller and Ronan Bennett were arrested on 24 May under the Prevention of Terrorisn Act and have been charged with conspiracy to cause explosions.
Socialist Unity contests
Scottish by-election
From this by-election Sociaan list Unity hopes to prepare the Thi way for a successful campaign in the general election.
Contact Socialist Unity at the campaign headquarters in the constituency al 209 Calder Street, Goven Hill, Glasgow or Scottish ( the be hallengo, POBax 30 Londant. asn to 3 pm ae 1 9131
chet mery Salamy sr oo Mas lorday s ear er emer una, dre TC) 12-13 Hannelta St. Londor SOCIALISTS lecking for im. igne wick pr 20a a301
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Explosions to charge them with But there have been - only "chemicals and wiring)
Found in their Bayswater Nat, Malice Both have been arrested before under the PTA, but activity is TERASCO PIEMOUE CHaTCS
DOUBT Militants in Swansea believe
badaci that the DYCHE
Character of last week's raic cass doubt on the charges against Miller and Bennett, A defence group for the Iwo are not connecied with the har been formied to expose the
blanket *conspirac) wnere ponce neco no chlocoe to trame up anyone they want and to expose the nalivities a the Special Branch as Britain's Political Police.*
The defence group can be Upper Street, London NI.
Books, 64 Queen St, Tel. 221-7481.
Socialist Unity filmshon, Tes 20 June. "Home Soldier Home a film about Britain's role in Ireland, Primary School, AvE,
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The campaigo lo media treating
party
THACKARA.
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and Media The Nazis
Ability of an NF broadcast'
Election.
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Glesmor Tory Gles, Glasgow,
THE Anti Nui
saturday B July roup
Sould Anti Nazi League.
London ANL Northern Carnival
July. Since the London, groups have
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Front as a legitimate political
received s powertul boost lust week, reports JOHN practice
meeting of nearly hundred in Fleet Street, a Prin
Workers Against Tellow suit. (PMWAN)
LOlLI paign was launched to unite
printers and broadcasters against the possi
party politica General #gains
SOCA Pfeience of Bill Keys
Getry Fitzpatrick
throughout ANL Conference England.
League b holding a national conferenc in Porcheiter Hall, London or
All ANI , anti fasciit committees dictions ind labour movement bodie sapl
Jazzencks send delegates. Cre dentials are available from the OLDeE
-PO Box WCZH 1J0
with a ways PLANS are well underway for
Northern Anti-Nazi League Carnival in Maocbester on 15 the Nazis
Carnival in Nazi League sprung up
MOZAMBIQUE, ANGOLA and Gus
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the limited but unprecedented cooperation developing among media unions ob this aspect of editorial
The NGA and NUJ have atready agrood a code of
race reporting which inchudes provision fo the withdrawal of labour and blhet print wions could nou
With the unions affiliated to the ANL (or considering it) now including the TV unions
an ABS the basis exists for a powerful education
propaganda offensive such programmes as the inlamous Ludicrous Ken nedy "Tonight" interview with
the north of All. of them are aiming to make* the Manchester carnival a successful
there pre that over :10,000 HW EBO TO hear the Steel Pulse and bands in Alexandra
Sponsors inciude the Nort
Neu TUC and the Miner Union, which will behringing lodge hands. The day will start
march from Strange"Prisci at 12 Students Against
STUDENTS Against the Nazis have called a day of action on ! to wear ANt hadges.
SOCIALIST FEMINIST Gresach aeg wm Hing Merge
racism
ANL and NUSS. Detala CARE.
Harald St, Presdwich, Manchoster 25
South Bank Pal Eleonant and Cascle London. 2 F:
FIGHT RACISM' badges and T-shins SOWETO COMMEMORATION MARCH
Friday, 16 June, 5.30
Malet Street, London WC1
March to rally at Central Hall, Westminster
Called by African Students' Union
Backed by Anti Apartheid Movement
Webster,
The Campaign Against Kocim in tu Media RATLe PMWAN have already agrood mectings to discuss rbe modia LUBECE SELLUL publicising NUI/NGA igreement, and against the NF getting Limie.
The results of CARM'S monitoring of the BBC and ITV, now gelting underway. should photoC extra infor-
matioi and ammunition. PMWAN planning delegate conference for mid to lale swomer lo work out a plan of action, s0 local groups
speakers or inforTUTEJDS mation should contact PMWAN at the ANI. address, or through CARM at PO Box 50, London N1 2XP
Wednesday 28 June. That day supporters will be leafieting schools and colleges. 100,000 Icallets will be •distributed nationally.
Oldham SKAN
AFTER the suspension of two school students for ANL badges, Oidham School kids Acans the NETS ATE planning a series of modest achisilies, bieht schoots in thi area are involved, with at least 60 school students taking part in the activity.
Planned so far are a Rock meeting at which Tariq All wil Apainst : Racisan social, speak, and a mass petitioning of schools to demand the right
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Pate Hn da Gma THNCIT NI a demonstration for. 24 June organisin
Park In Ilfoed to Pleshet Pars n Eus SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 15 June 1978 page 7
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IRELAND'S TORTURE A
IRELAND
Last Thursday
Amnesty Report
AMNESTY British Army.
Despite all this, the report unreservedly confirms the various allegations' it investigated, In the process it all but
Nonhern Ireland Settelary Roy Mason of covering
•ISC authorities in the North of Ireland lied consistently; and accuses the Northern Ireland judicial overseers of disregarding even their own liliberal rules' concerning the treatment of suspects.
The Amnesty mission looked at 78 cases, a random sample and only a very small proportion of those who have said they were beaten up. mentally assaulted by the RUC. In half of these cases medical evidence available and, says Amnesty, report places great emphasis on medical evidence and in particular the reports of doctors who examined the complain-
Amnesty adds that "in no case (was there) reason to disbelieve any ot the medical reports".
EVIDENCE
The report details a number of the cases examined for which there was corroborative medical evidence. CAROU *Case No 62: Mule, arrested 1977 and
brought to Castlereagh Holding Centre and detained for three days before being released withour charges Multreatment alleged: beating in face, stomach and head. Bending af wrists. bending of arm against his back, being thrown against a wall, choking to the extent that he became unconscious. bair pulling.
Signs: haemaloma involving the pinna of the left ear, traumatic perforation of the left eardrum with blood staining in the auditory canal:
Several bruises Over sternomastoid misscle left tip. right forehead, surrounding LTER right muscle, right shoulder, right elbow, left elbow, ceoth rib in the left side, ninth rib at cternni end, upper abdomen and below left knee. Conclusion: There is between the alleged maltreatment and the siens.'
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 15 June 1978 page B
something
happened. Television technicians working on the
Thames Television programme This Week went on
strike in protest against political censorship.
They refused to put out a
programme after the Independent Broadcasting
From brain
damage to
rape threats
International is organisation. It does not enjoy taking 'democratic' countries such as Britain to task for their behaviour. It took a long time before it decided to investigate the persistent reports of torture by Britain in the North of Ireland, and even then limited its 'mission', and did not, for instance, investigate allegations against the
- up the and inen releasod police
HILI
tortured or
WILI this
bang himself After: "There is
the case studies.
For Case No. 71 in which the
with a chair."
BRAIN DAMAGE
alleged the procodure, shoukder left cyclid modical evidence, trapezoid 'strongly corroborates on the back maltreatineut took place
consistency of organic brain darnage
Case
quite extraordinary
substitute comedy suicide. hospital.
busband conservative
The effect this type of 'questioning' had on the individuals is illustrated in case No. 74, in which the man arrested - held for three days in Castiereagh
stated he had received the following treatment:
physically exhausting procodures.
General beating. Fingers pressed under cars. Was spun round and round, head banged against a wall. Threats to kill
One of the interrogators rode on his back as if he was a horse and foroed him to count holes in the wall. One of the interrogators forced him to eat mucus from his (the interrogator 5) nose.
Symptoms: patient stated chat while he was in Castlereagh he was mentally unbalanced to the extent that he tried to
examining the medical evidence in chis case Amnesty conclude:
consistency between alleged maltreatment and the signs And this phrase, or a similar one, is repeated often in the vast majority of
It is the conclusion to the study of
Following supported: tbreats, beating, hairpulling, direct trauma 1o
he head, head banged against a wall Kicking. Thrown to the foor, one of the interrogators jumped on his back, Choking. Penis and testicles twisted. Beaten ib kidney area and on his back
Five cases "were cxamined in detail by the mission's medical delegate The subject in one of these, Case No.3,
psychologically exhausting threats. beatings, humiliation, atlempts to suffocate him'. The
says Amneily, the case that
In this case the consequence of the treatment was esnecially serious, with the victim suffering from some degree
which during
Week questioning, the victim tried to commit
He ended up in a mental
Women prisoners were also subject to psychological terror. The woman in Case No. 12 alleged! "Threat of rape. Threats that her child would be taken away from -MOLIE -ALL be told Threats she 1131 unfaithful him. Threats cectroshack. Degrading treatment Cher skirt was lifted),
the light interrogation room was turned off and she was threarened with rape
The small HUMOLE of inflicted" injuries were caused, Amnesty out of desperaiion -hope that the would transferred Ameesty spoke to confirm that simulation of injuries for the purpose of defaming the police was very rare:
The Amnesty mission also severely criticise the North
Enquiry farce
language.
The present troubles have produced a new pbrase heard in the North ot Ireland; namely, to do a 'widgery"
The term rocans to 'whitewash is derived from the public inquiry Lord Chief Justice Widgery held into the events of Bloody Sunday, January 1972. That was when 14 civilians on an anti-internment march in Derry were gunned dawn by British
coopers.
Vidgery's enquir aroduced re
markable conclusions, He agreod tha all 13 (the fourteenth was later to die in hospital) had been killed by British
Former Army officer Widecry could oly suenest that it the most three al the 13 had ever heen in contact with a firearm, and that even then the evidence was far from canclusive.
And yet. said the lord Chie Justice, There is no reason to suppos that the soldiers would bave opene fire if they had not been fired upon fist'. (Not one soldier received any injury f •Soldiers who identitied gunmen fired upon them in accordance
with standing orders. There was no peneral breakdown in disciptine. he concluded
One of the more truthful journalist
who has covered Nortbern Ireland The Goardian's Sunon Winchester.
was an eye witness to the events. Indeed ne was shot at himself by the
rmy on the da
He disagreed violently with Widge
and was later to comnieni (not in the Guardian of course), "Bloody Sunday. thanks to the propaganda merchants
report detailing
authorities for blatantly disreparding ¡odpes rules in that the denial of access to solicitors to persons arrested...is SIDER T DISCULE is the sostem by which the police bandle complints against them. These, says Amnesty, are deficient in practice While Amnesty chose their carefully, wbile theis recommendations
of are somewhat mild
including the demand public coquiry, have been rejected by
the Mason-
discover. - Britain 1s
sell- opponents in the North of Ireland on a
say persistent in the disregarding even its own limited legal
be safeguards and is policy makers have Doctors lied to all aod sundry about what has
been going on.
Such is Britain in Treland in 1978, as it has been for many years previous and as it will be for many years to come Until, quite simpiy, they ger out, ELLATE
Who's for a
Widgery?
SOME SAY Britain has only contributed starvation, death and torture to Ireland. This is not true. British presence there has also extended the English
and a half dozen lazy hacks, was now a closed book with the Irish fully to blame'
- and Widgery WAIS
trodden nath, another British Government enquiry headed by Edasund Compion looked into Army and police brutality agains the carly victims of internment
para-
relied upon 143 witnesses, all but caree from Army, police or prison staff. Not surprisingly. there was no brutality. discredited by the European Court of Human Rights, failings did say that Britain was saint HE CATHCHE degrading Rights. This Compton had vindicatoo
Latest enquus will he tradition.
Histories, bur only And according in the Northere Frelan office ir is unlikely that the coquiry will even consider whether this "procedure is adhered to in practice to be held in socret, will he chaired by a British judge. Bur even this Jatest cover-up has Widgery, Derek Willord of Sunday was awarded an OBE afler th Widgery enquiry. certain Michael McAtamney was awarded an OBE:
Assitant Chief Constable of thc Roya User Coustabulary
Authority had banned the transmission of a Thi
programme on the Amnesty Internation
the treatment of suspects
Castlereagh interrogation centre near Belfast.
This action of the technicians was the first time an
such political protest has been held by televisio
Similarly attacked
words
although even
the truth is not hard to
torturing its political
and regular basis. It is Gournalist) has
following a well The previous year
casting
For its 'evidence the committee
directars the conclusion W1L11310 Conner Li The findings were 1o be totall
despite mens
inhuman and al Charter of Human For the same practices regiment,
There in already evidence that Un background. fallawing this It will not lock utte case CABAL "police procodune
Mas medictable of all the coquiry. aciou-busting
already our-done Bloody was one
bur last week a
McAtamney Is impartant.
How
cens
This
BILLY BLEASE becan received a baronage in What, you may ask has ti of This Week? Quite a bil
Blease was formally the Norther Trusia Cheer dele In Congre of Trade Unions (ICTU) and has bee a loading aflicial In Northern lis trade unians for more years that man trade unionists in the North of Irelan care to remember
His governorship of trade unions in Ireland has born prodictable rui Unemplasment at bree or four time the British average", wage rates ar le than two-thirds the British average strike rates the lowest in the UK, Catholic unemployment two and a hal Sumes that or trous
No-one could accuse Filly Blease o having the imagination, the ability, o the power to be responsible for all this Bit he had done little to change it or t fight against it. During his Icadership trade unionion in Northern Irelan
avoided taking 18013 politica position on the national question o the activities of the British Army
Such is the rooord of Billy Bleas with one Quission Hense 15 8150 director of the Independent. Broa
Authorily. abd onl member of that body who lives in t North of Ireland. He is looked 1o c the IRA as the Irish expert - And n
banned This prograntme on the Amuesty Repor
Another director is Tom Carbur
Colonel in the •Pabl Relations directorate of the Briti
Aruy in India; there is Christophi Bland who as a former director In 17 Government's Northern Ireland
foren nance corporatn officer in the British Ammy's List
the Royal logiskin
Dragoons, has an impressive Loyal
There are the usual bunch of Lor and Ladies and he whole cabal headed by Lady Plowden •Tacit director of Trust Houses Forte who
activities have becor something of a legend in right win
ingredient in
example of censorsitip on Ireland, b It would he wrong to rbink that it w the oniy bue, SEVEN the mc
Both the IBA and ti
Northem Leland Office told Sociali
Chullenge there was no direct conta
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workers. Their action was later supported by the Report, the action of the technicians is not surprising. technicians' union and by the National Union of It is a truly damning document confirming that the Journalists whose executive bitterly attacked the police in the North of Ireland have indulged in all IND BRITAIN'S SILENCE
they
red
Neek
e a Lord last week. he Birthday Honours list. s to do with the censorship
between them over the programme. They ate probably telling
As far as the Northern Ireland Office is concerned the need has long cone for such direct interference. This Week has been a favourite target for TIC BUSA soverlinent opposition for some time. Its reporter
irammes towards the end of last year: Dil the Queen's visit, on conditions in Long Kesh and on lan Paisley. Only the one on Paisley escaped virulent criticism by the Government censorship and delay by
But the programme which angered the authorities most was treatment of suspects in Castlereagh screened last Octoher. number suspects detailed the type of treatment witch Amnesty has now calareed on. The reaction of the authorities to the programme was immediate.
"VERY ANGRY'
Northern Ireland Secretary Mason sent an official letter of protest to the IRA, und a statement from the
Northern Ireland Office added that b was very angry indeed. In parliament Mason elaborated: reporters or television should operate in this fashion. Television are members of the BA who have a code of conduct.] am sorry they (the BA) allowed programme to go out
The RUC joined the altack, saying
We all fel that Thames Television is
nas pur the lives of policemen here a
aditional risk. Our Chief Constabl will not ler them get away with it.' Cuber public condenmations followed lions Aircy Neare Biges Davison of the Tories, and in the next couple ol weeks the on Thames Telerision and the fBA was
acreased
On 2 Novemher, Kenneth Newman, the Chief Constable of the RUC, had a special meeting with Lady Plowden on the Thames programme and tire days Tater Aires Neave had
Hose meetus. Taken will the official letter of
STASCHE clearly apress on the bosses of the fRA that such a programme should not
censorship and has called for the resignation of the IBA's chairperson, Lady Plowden. But upon reading the Amnesty International
the programme Keport. had
ineptitude. The report
statement the whole pepic knowicuse
future tane be
will be then old news.
But were only instruments.
He
Amiesty
the IBA.
on the in which and Black and Tans!
following week.
in the last decade.
Roy media for of the North of Ireland in Brigadier — now General I do not think Kitson became commander
producers Beifast arca carly on in the
Thames In his book
the propaganda battle mUST promote its DECLETITE
By February Joli more than 40 press officers
pressure fuil-time press Government bad puhlic relations officers. shown when lan similar protest from designed to
the 5 February, 1977 Guardian,
The official excuse for not screening
- that the Amnesty not. been officially published — is a cover up of stunning
was due to go our after Mason had made a public statement on the Report and by this
affair became
Neither can the IBA excuse that the
SLOWEE any justification.
Acording to the BA the programme will not be shown this week when the report does officially" come out, and decided any tuture programme can only bave a minimal impact as the Anesty Report
despite the fumbling excuses of They were ment and Roy Mason in particular,
Censorship-
the record
GEORGE GALE, a columnist on The Spectator, published a bloodeurdling IRA oath on 15 May which he claimed came from an army source. When it was pointed out that the oath was entirely bogus — it had, in fact, been faked in 1920 to justify the activities of the
Gale 'regretted" its publication the
LIZ CURTIS reviews how the media has been manipulated thanks to the efforts of the Government and the Army
The Army began to manipulate the
propaganda purposes as soon as soldiers arrived on the streets
1969.
Frank of the war.
Law Intensity Operations, published in 1971. Kitson torture
for winning the
own cause спету by disseminating its view ol the situation, and coordinated campaign of what for want of a better word must regrettably
called psychological operations
1976 the Army had in the North, with a back-up malf of over a bundred. lo addition, the RUC had 12 up.
officers and the 20 Belfast-based
The et fectiveness of their elforts was
Smith c needed propaganda bartle Zimbshwe liberation forces (VIBIOE Staaniard. From 1973 to 1975. Staboard
issue of The masterminded highly
suspects. who for over 18 months have beer threatening television authorities with all sorts of reprisals if they dare to question British propaganda machine which operates in the North DE UNBELI
threatened BBC with imposition of "D-notices", whereby thic Government woeld impose blackouts on newspaper, radio and TV coverage
events in the North of Mason reminded the BBC goverines Ireland. that he was one of the people who
whether Corporation should get a new charter and what its Future income should he
Those less knowledgeable of trish condered What have the gove, lent until last week, have go to hide? Last week the Amnesty Report gave the answer, but answers are pily effective if they can be heard. succentul propaganda campaign this high level press contact for off nen journes base -mixing close
Belfast?
The pressure exerted by the Army and the Government on the media has had its effect. When the BBC recently consored the seven-part series Irish Way' - resulting in producer Colin Thomas' courageous resignation - one of the scenes they cut was, significantly, a shot of a mother placing flowers on her son's grave. The
was inscribed 'Murderod by LOUISE SHELTE
Among the films that have never
ten HonKener Orgiest
Hang Brightest ahout Michael Collins and the 1920 War of Independence made for ITV. and a reccot play made for the BBC. "Willie is the true story of a boy now io Long Kesh, convicted in the North's no-hury courts for a crime he never committed.
late 1971, 200 leading journalists came losether in London to protest against the censorship of disclosures about
HITE the programmes about the IRA
al the meeting was Jonalhan Dia:bleby another was O'Callaphan of The Guardian, later to resign over the paper's editorial policy on Ireland,
A long public silence on the question
following years was only broken in 1976 by Jonathan Dimpleby and the subsequent formation of the Campaign for Eree Spooch on Ireland. This ycar the issue has really opened
Thomas and Thames TV producer David Elstein have resigned
on Ireland was passed by a two-tbirds
the NUTS corTerence And now last listes TV technicians took anti-censorship strike siction.
Media workers are bally breaking tree of their retone and inhihetions, and ate at last prepared publicly to stand up for the right to report Ireland as they see is.
on the censorship of This Week. mecting,
PETER TAYLOR Journalist on This Week who was responsible hanned programme.
Socialist Challenge action.
It was a disgraceful act of political censorship. This is the third Ireland which I have had banned or interfered with, but this is the We did the oricinal investination. into Castleresgh last October and received a huge amount of political Mak for it. But what Amnesty has said not only programme. went The Northern Ireland Office got wind of our programme, and then Isned a 12-page statement. Thin was hefore the programme had gone out and before the Amnesty Report was
85
The
The Arrackey Report bes abri been attacked Government and there is no sign that elsewhere will be sopped.
This is not because Roy Mason is a
One of John THE ACID
TEST SUPPORT
FOR THE
HBLOCK
PRISONERS
annual wock
manner of physical and mental assaults on political
GEOFF BELL reports on the Amnesty findings and
Censored journalist
"It stinks'
the
for the He told Thames his ге- strongly, throughout.
programme on Is Happen! censorship
most serious.
whole situation.
our beyond it. although
of the week."
What you
can do
the Irish War
public refused by status.
readers of the union branches.
To bone a statement in this contest is unprecedented. The Independent Broadeusting Authority then banned the programme without even seeing
Television protested They have stood hy us
The whole thing stinks and it's u
huge concern.
People just have to wake up to what
regard and to Castlesengh.
Ireland is the most sensitive of the lot. But people have the right le know what's going on in Ireland. There's been a cover-up about the
When we try to shine a chink of light we are immediately pot under
UTES UTE the Amnesty Report vinicated war andas position. the banning of the programme shows the
The setion of the lechnicians was
That was the best news sadist, but because through beating and torturing suspects this is the only way Britain can gel the confessions necessary to prove' they are winning
Fortunately there are already plans well under way to hold the type of
Amnesty ha: been This is the
Interciational Tribunal on Britain's Presence in Ireland which is backed by leading trade union orpanisations in Treland and Britain, as well as a host of international figures. Socialist Challenge asks all its readers to buld thes
Tribunal, which can be contacied c/c 18Z Upper Street, London NI
More immediately on 9 July i demonstration takes place in London on the treatment of Irish politica prisoners and on their right to politica
The Amnesty Report gives all Socialist Challenge groups and
ewspape a great
opportunity to build this demonstra tian into the largest protest against British policy in Ireland wluch thus country has seen for a number of years.
ael tor me demonstraon, greet coaches, pass motions of support in trade union, Labour Purty und student
Ent the Shence
End the Torture!
Britain out of Ireland Now! SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 15 June 1978 page 9
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hunger strikers
Chile
HUNDREDS of Chilean hunger strikers around the world have won the first round of their struggle to discover the whereabouts of their missing relatives. The junta has told Chilean bishops that it would look into the cases.
In a press statement on B June the hunger strikers in Santiago announced that they were suspending their strike for 3D days on the strength of this.
Argentine CP
for junta
THE following interview with Roberto Vallarino, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Argentina, is reprinted from the French magazine Nouvel Observateur'. It was carried out Bernard-Henri Levy.
How relationship of forces inside the
army?
Very briefly. I mould say that on the one hand there are Pinochet-type clements, ultraзастолав elements on the otber,
says:
useful'
THE French team in the World
selves by a high standard of play. distinguished SHEET TESON EMPER WAHOR ness to listen to opponents of
Videla and commit themselves to iry THESE the repression while in Argentina.
The boycolt campaign anast lake much of the credit for this, as the Trotskybt daily Rouge discovered when it spoke to one of France's leading players,
INTERNATIONAL
Round one
the world, including those in Britain, have followed suit BuLl the BOUNCEREL stressed that they accept anything less than a full Enquiry into the 'disappeared risoners which would place the blame where it belongs The Manuel Contreras, head of the secret police, as one of those
'Critical' support
tendency is democratic. That is the basic reality which no analysis can avoid Who are these progressive elements?
If you want names, I would say,
* Le Suarez Mason, for example CUTELE 19Or05. TIME Irading apparatus of the junta? by specify that it's
tendencies.
That means, all the same, that trend government of Argentina is progressive?
It's a government where there exist progressive elements who 088S in
French footballer
'Boycott
campaign
has been
| DOMINIQUE ROCHETEAU SIST -he Argentina.
You ure avure of the situation inside Argentina?
Yes, I think 1 know about it. It Is clear char human rigbts aren't respected there. the reccived a dossier on the subject from Argentinian exiles.
In March you said to us that u hescott of the wasn't a solution. You haven't chunged your mind? 1 have always thought that the
Other hunger strikers around the disappearances had been the
sanctioned by the Government. The hunger
also thanked the Church and the will not international solidarity move-
ment for their support. soldanly in gained an important victory with Foreign Secretary David named Owen's support
BE CHICHI investigate human rights in Therefore you support the Junta:
Not cractly. Let us say rather. critical support.
The equation that Videla equals fuscism is therefore an error in your opinion?
A classically adventurist error, which can only Acosti, Argentinian people back.
Back in relation to what?
CANTE
In relation to the rocent gains of the workers and democratic a qucition of movement.
Such as?
Argentina today accepts tradpresent MaL canons win an counte
their
don't elements who are opposed 1o curren lly
French team in training objectiveaf a boscolt wouldn't actieve its aim. But what I'm
that's undeniable I POSCOE THREE E8s been able to enlighten people
The players have been left tor
didn't know Naw they where it is they're going.
I's perhups u gonel opportunity for the players to demonstrate their support lor loe premich
have citizems wIDO
imprisoned in Argentima...
We'll see when we get there. I don't know if I would feel able
Cup 1O do 50 on mr own
several players, one could try to no sonicining It would he necessary for the
to
strikers
SEEIKerS. hunger
Britain has
WECK emphasised
for delegation to
inside Chile Chile. Speaking to a meeting of 1 strength.
Progressive nature
peacetul coexistence.
Yes, of Seventy-one
thousand.
Amnesty International
dividing line. the right-wing approach question
left-wing approach?
ideological But there are also, Pinochet-type Pinochet clique?
obscure names.... certainly possibility for contact
effective than made i. Mans of them
the of the plasers.
have been
imager
with SILL World
Parliamentary Party, he also agreed to meet a
hunger
strikes London, weak from their two
nevertheless the need continue with the maximum international solidarity at moment when the opposition
therefore means trading with the USSR?
In the circumstances, it means
on the basis of the principles of
And the violations of humun rights, that doesn't menry you?
does. af COUL militants have disappeared.
Out of a total of at least fifteen
according
doesn't correspond to Besides, this question of human rights, one to l1 must also be careful to draw a appositionists
There is Argentina to. this and left-wing vez, a miners"
When the USSR opposes any condemnation of Argentina at granted a
the Swedish the United Nations, that is a
Of course, for to do otherwise would lead to the isolation of our people. And a rainlorce ment of the Pinochet clique.
Tell me who makes up this
There follows a list of totally compaign
junta the
working
raised olivers al several teams Ic agree to act together. Bur ac
won't have much
action undertaken by several players would be more
October. an individual action. You understand: every- Controls thing depends on the reaction
All eyes will be facussed on them. It will be difficult, but I hoperhat we will be able to act.
Don't you think, finally, that you ure going to take part in a competition which the regimie intends to use to referbish its
Yes, that's certain (a long
matrald that the Cup will benefit the
That's how it seems to me.
Videla
releases
Blanco
THE international campaign for the release of terusal Trotskyist Hugo Blanco ended HITS MECENCHARIC plane for Sweden earlier this
According to an Argentinian Government communicuc. Do litical asylum has been granted
of the 12 Peruvian deported with Blanco. A thirteenth, Ricardo Diaz Cha-
union lawyer.
Even after Blanco had been with
special passport by
13 were still held in the infantry barracks at San Salvador de
"lodged under the protection of the government" was the official description.
The release was lestimony lo the strength of the international
rather than generosity of the Argentinian
French
Government
catches chill
THE defest of the left in
French electiens encouraged the Government and bosses to step up their attacks on the
class, writes MARTIN METEYARD.
A series of measures have
charges for public services such as transport and electricity by 10 to 20 per ceat. Controls on industrial prices have been loosened and will be
altogether by 15
have only been maintained on one item: wages. With inflation likely to reach 12 the per cent or more by the end of 1978, and a 20 per cent leap in unemployment also predicted, a big cut in living standards is dearly on the cards.
The leaders of the major union federutions, the CGT and the CFDT, have preferred
chat to President Giscard
challenge to these attacks. But kick
afford to shrug them off so
The 13 were deported from Pera amer last mossa s genera strike against price rises in essential goods,
In Britain the campaign for the restoration of democratic rights in Peru wont let up, despite Blanco's release
It looks unlikely that the elections Peru. nOW DOstDoned to 38 une. ahead. Even if they do they cannot possibly be democranc
opposition candidates imprisoned or in exte
Comes of the sopca fai restoration of democratic rights are still available from SOCHIN Chaisenge Latest signatories include Yorkshire miners leader Arthur Scargill and the following MPs: Dennis Skinner, Joan maynard, stan Newens, Martin Flannery,
Neit Kinnock lightly, Last week they started lo light back, occupying two plants of the state-owned Renault motor corporation.
The Renasht workers, the majority immigrants, are demanding a big rise in the minimum wage fe keep pace with Infiation, a
WITH. longe holidays,
Realising that these demands could catch on elsewhere, the Coversment sent the pulice in lust week to evict the strikers at
plant. They quietly hut then cume hack on Thursday to reoccupy the plans!
Latest news is that strikers at
Cléon have also been evicted by police.
The saying goes that when SELETUNE catches a cold. The question is whether SUMEN ustion Federations And the
Socialist parties are prepared to resort in NICHINY LONE ABBED SO
out the Giscard-Barre КОТОНИ ГНИ CALEAR lamentary strugale.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 15 June 1978 page 11
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Garaudy spills
INTERNATIONAL
ROGER GARAUDY was a member of the Political Bureau of the French Communist Party [PCF] in May 1968. However, he cume out against the PCF's line on the May events, the mildness of its critieism of the Soviet invasion of Czechosiovakia. and its stance on a growing number of other questions. In Apn 1970 be wis expelled from the party.
On the tenth anniversary of May 108, the French Trotskyist daily Rouge asked Garaudy to recall the
interview, published in its 25 May Issue, caused an immediate storm.
Next day's Issue of 'Humanite, the PCF daily, carried a prominent reply by the Political Bureau which
inventing differences inside the leadership. The
completely then. and still was except for handful of Intellectuals. charge that the PCF had any control
Interview WITh Roger Garaudy, member of the Political bureau of the French Communist Party in 1968.
Translated from Rouge, 25 May 1978.
Did the existence and strength of the May movement greatly surprise the French Communist Party (PCFY?
Nobody foresaw these events, Therefore one cannot reproach the party for not having done so. However, Its racho was neure roots ourse
That was not accidental, even if certain events afterwards justified it The party had not (and still hasn't) made a serious analysis of what i call, to paraphrase Gramsci, the "new historic bloc It did not analyse. * between the the particular between working class and social layers who have the same histors goal. 1 am thinking of white collar workers. technicians, and engineers. Aren't
Discussion at Féte Rouge
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 15 June 1978 pape 12
May 68 - inside the French Communist Party
the beans
over what happened in the CGT union federation
DE TALES DAEEN INSURESTED was forced to respond immediately to
newspaper shows internal crisis. What really enraned the PCF Political Bureau was thut Garaudy added fresh fuel to the disputes which have flared since the March election defeat.
Can the leadership really claim that the party is united when the number opposition petition has shot from 300 to over 1,200 In two weeks? When a growing number of militants are asking why it was that the supposedly "unanimous Central extended for an extra day, and why made available to party members?
Foually, enincidence that the CGT came out
students the future white collar workerst mistake. The party still retained the
ance, the all-inclusive coalition, a sort of 'block of antis*.
Tes animosity towards the student Juquin had been pushed out of a Haly or ene ar he time ont window Nanterre and Roland Vins (both were Central Committee members - cds).
When I was invited to speak at the Sorbonne the Political Burenu sent me a strict order, even when I was at the gates of the faculty, not to speak. Having discussed comrades, who taught in the faculty. 1 spoke a toe sanc..
This was the first row. The reason I could speak at the Sorboone was no accidental. In Democratie Novelle,
magazine died by Ducios, I had just published an article contradicting the official line on the student movement.
Its central theses analysed the common denominator between the
so strongly in support of the PCFs
the depth of its leaders who are members of whowst rany nud to keep incur mouths shut?
these questions, the Political Bureau Statement completely enored Gar andy's basic charge; that the PCF
1968 generul strike as quickly
workers.
Committee turn against its own supporters like this? We think all CP members have
answers.
demanic of the workars and the aspirations of the students. It could be
and what were later called qualitative LEE BES Political Bureau to such an extent that the maoazine was suppressed...
Your disagreements with the majority
numerous arguments. At the time the
Roland Leros prominent PCF intellectual -protested against the policy adopted towards the intellectuals.
Tew
Leroy's hostility to my proposals..
in Nanterre in July,
Jacques WELCEBUIC
the German Cohn-Bendit
very violent.
like
TOILE
capitulating
3 June.
WITh TREET
the
me.
TLITLIL.
The
revolt sufficientiv
as completely scandalous.
The second came over
Champigny
the PCF Central
December 1968
There, 1 was
right-wing leftist
veneral strike?
position after the split in the Union of the Left last September? And why was GT leader Georges Seguy able to call publicly for a vote for the PCE in the elections while local CGI
leadership tried to call off the May possible against the resistance of the
How could a Communist Party
Interest in searching out the
We therefore reprint the bulk of the interies with Garaudy helow as an importaat contribution
This article enraged the
of the Political Bureau gave rise to
and Louis Aragon (a eds).
Iam not a historian. But there is one thing 1 recall perfectly, and that is
At the Central Committee meetin
when 1 attacke Marchais for his editorial on 3 Mas
'the activities o pseudo-revolutionary grouplets" and strong.
•ods), Leroy was the first to reply. He was Political
opponents stopped. propapanda against Marchail. As fo Aragon, he said nothing in particular
I sbould also cire what happened ann wemen: melectuals on 1 090
They sent a letter to the WOTACTS Central Commitlee on 26 May. A delegation, of which 1 was part, met the events
In the course of this meeting, in a very undisciplined way, I sided witl
intellectuals. There again, Leray and Juquin unanimously disowned
The liberalisms of Leroy is a pure
revolt of the intellectuals the hardly reached the base of the party, who were tied up in the strike. But this
bothered the TIENCELE leadership for this mecting to take place, My attitude therefore appeared the
This was my first important break.
Crechasla- chough. vakia and brought a public censure.
The third was my criticise or th
Manifesto Tadopted by Cuntmittee jD ods). completely sone Marchais case up with this definition which I find admirable: You are a
were in dire
Whut discussions occurred on the
What happened with the COT leaders was much the same as with the
ibert Hercet (Unified Socialist Party), Roger Garaudy, and Alain Krivine (Re
union leaders mos
It is necessary to be exact. The
Bureau, and notabl)
Marchais, said to Seguy (the CP leader of the CGT - cds) 'You must tind a way out. The strike must be
done, that the cot hat sure ne
the CGT had sufficient authority, but that they would lose some militants. His relation to the
him clearer understanding of the importance of
And in fact some militants were lost, In absolute terms the CGT wan some new members, but these were generally from the most backward Jayers of the working class, such as the that Textile industry in the Norh
Against that, the COT lost out in
tracitional Vanguard layers. especially in the Paris engineering industry. This is very significant
HANU WOLKCIS could perhaps find some positive aspects in
butoome of 1968, hut the professional workers, for example, realised that we had not gone far
Wasn't Marchais's position discussed on the Political Bureau?
We met every day and the meetings were often very beated. Those wha
concact with the movenient never censed explaining that it was not possible to get people to go back like that - under a pretext
On this point the two Georges (Marchais and Seguy - eds) opposed cach ocher. 1 remember That even a year later Marchais let sip at B
meeting: Perhaps we Hopped the strikes too soon
Seguy gor very angry: -Well, it was decision of the Political Bureau Tol you that shoulde't blame the lendership of the CGT.
And he was right. For Marchais, to continue the strike would have beer an adventure
According to bin, tbe students were isolated, and the working class if i went on, would be equally Isolated. It therefore bad to stop a soon as possible
The difference betweer Marchais and Seguy is that Segu knows what a mass movement 15 Even 1, an intellectual, led strike among the miners in 1947 48; we have all been denounced many times for
We have been in contact with the masses, Marchais never. It is the first time that this sort of militant has led the party. Since be has taken things in hand has very Strongls personalised authority. He lays dow the line.
1968 was also the year of the Wargan Pact's intervention ngainst the Prague spring. A very important date for th party
At the time 1 was in the USSR.
As 1 was a member of the Political Bureau, a member of the Central Committee of the CPS came to give me a communiqué announcing the Warsaw Pacintervention, "called for by the majority" of the Chechoslovak people.
1 demanded to return at ooce. In Moscow I met Jeanietre Vernteersch who had telephoned Gaston Plissannier (bot members of the
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SOCIALIST CHALLENGE EVENTS
COMMENT
Heads, I
lose
Congratulations on your predictabilityl You've done cxactly some of my less naive friends told me you would do.
I received a copy of the Bahro appeal the day belare the Sociulist Challenge issue artacking CommuLISE BICHECS responding to the appeal. already signed- and Expected some form of apology in the Not a bit of fit Instead 1 find in last week's issue (1 June) that in company with Geoff Koberts apparently been stung signing by your reproaches. The whole thing has the air of a cleveri worked manoeuvre of the 'heads 1 win, tails you lose" variety. Searching around for an explanation, I see that this business coincides thing of a propaganda offensive against Communist
This offensive contains two main predicament. The first is that anti-CP elements that perhaps explain opportunism reflected Pennington's article, 'Vote Labour, but fight Labourism", where he states that candidates should not be stood against the CP where this may be seen as sectarianism.
Th ehet to Pechint on, the :
whether Socialist SCUZIZR ML WACLAEE CCIl
stris tipe of logi would justily anf
type of logic would justify any nitpick distortion, becomes small wonder that the Socialist Workers Party nothing to do with it.
The other element, also present in Pennington's apology 471219313. 1318 stratege sim oE *taking advantage of the crisis in the
ht tus contert. the above mentioned opportunism requires that ACC C ACRIBICI
natters such as Bahro, or that w
pool), so that we can vilify 1
seem thal Socialist Challenge, after a coalively bright sart, is sinking back into swamp politics. My recommendation ivone asked1o sen an se apocal or join in an SC campaign is: don't be surprised if you find that your part in it all is comewhat different from that advertised.
DAVE AARONOVIICH [Maschester)
If readers refer to the 1 June Issue, they will in our opinion
agestion that comrades Agron
itch and Roberts were 'atung inte
igning the Bahro appeal (certains none was Intended] We stated the undenishle fact that two CP members had signed the appeal since wur-previous report and 10at none of the prominent CP members approached bnd done go. Happily many more rank and tile NORTH WEST
WHAMINGHUM 900H7
GREATER MANCHESTER Socialisi
- 255 0947 or write 1o Manchester BC
ntre, ela 14 Picadily CHesTOr saciliat Challoa яи:
be conlacted by ringing DOL Speke Socialist Chal-
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SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 15 June1978 page 14
members have since signed!
fact that
hardly makes a Wil Manty
what
Nothing
1 Horine to say
sent it off
have
into
with some-
in Bab
in everyday life."
'class
and
want I have long
for an certain of lt.
JUAN AGUIRRE (Batterses)
Savage
NAFF-LYP
abuse
WHILE supporting Four to
pitiful neglect exploitation in Britain today
circuses, zoos, and in the hunting field.
convinced that
find no
on.
simply
animals undergo GREENWICH/LEWISHAM Sociallel Cealie noneay a
LONDON CPSA Seilllet Cha CP
Rih lenc to beclent chitangee arite te Landon SC organise /6PD BokS0, London NI RMDEN SOCulEi ChalanUe OUi oala nest on Wednesday 21 Jun Tom ai the Cook pus. Diana PicH
make both meetingel
23 on the Garners picker at te 11-3pm. Jein ua avery Sutundas
But there is another undeniable
comrade Aaronoritch overlooks. Yes, we are very much in favour of 'unity over matters such as Bahro'. But two CP signatories out of a purty of some 25,000 members. neither of them from its lesdenhip
united campaign.
Johnstone sign appeal — or Gordon McLennan, for
who is politically sectarian.—EDS.
Johns CONCRA page Teodine" adverts
- a page "decoding" adverts.
Sadly the product didn't match up to the concept. I just abour managed to work out what the article was on about - and it was totally banal,
Two hundred words of pedantic explanation did nothing to iluminate Ine Te SEsE H URBOn was even worse. It moved from bland BISNIACHRE TENATPTNTR the products advertised" (how?) — to
complete gobbledygook:"...advertis
ng also produces ideological value
And what is ideological value (since it certainiy isn la Marxist concept)? IE seems to boil down to the profound discovery that "advertising is constant boen
Then we are told, out of the blue that tads are the stroneest cement o capitalist society. " Not the state, not bourgeois ideology as a whole, not the political system...but advertising.
suspected that incomprehensible verbiage conceals a lack of anything to say. Now I'm
excellent coverage of capitalism's exploitation of workers, we feel you have shown
of a huge area of - the abuse of animals in factory farms,
VIVULTDI aporatone»
You might argue that capitalism is ary responsible for all this, hut we are not
Coc isi re even aware of the sickening cruelty and its scale. Go to your local abbatoir or broiler-house and find out what goes
You won't, bowever, be allowed into a vivisection lab to see the LDSD teat, the standard test for toxicity. A batch of animals is Iorce ted wilh lipstick or shampoo until half of them die - which can involve up to threc animais undergo ive aperiments Five million
Monday s
5-850 15
SOUTH-MEST S alie Challena Street, SWA CAMCHEIO SE CIH HEME ICT DUSUO D acortion facilities • СРЕД HACANET S00 HS1 Cange 1 porters meet nest on Weereschy, :
apan atha dt organ on zair
HACKNEY Bociaiist Challonge
YORKSHIRE
Puro Trendiy ndl Tradas Ciub,
ticn), Beang a Toi: р
every year.
ATTETHSIREDDVO protest, so it isall the more important for us to fight needless crucity. But Socialist Challenge seems reluctant to take upissues which have not been specifically mentioned in the wocks of trotsky and Marx — such as turlear powes and animal exploita-
A brosder approach would drag Trotsky out of the past and show the commitment of socialists to a world free from explottation of humans and other animals.
Sona Calge "ReaDErs GrOP: SAVAGE.
College Oxford)
World cup
politics
I AM disgusted by much of the left's
ompletely apolitical analysis of the SONOLB.SBEO do attempt to consider football as it is — a commercialised, escapist
the bourgeoisie for cultural domination of the working class — but they actually encourage us to look at it as a pro-proletarian sport, othe cal for a boycour
For a boycorr has hard raised Chullenge. Yet this call has received much support internationally in the workers movement and bas allowed
intervene in a political way against the
The idea expressed agamst th
IOVCEHEE TIAESTYLHEECHS IUM against country because repressive, you'd never play anvone", could equally be expressed on thr economic field: "If you refuse to trade with a country because it's repressive (South Africa), you'd never trade
A victory for the strugele for a boycort noed not even necessitate the retorta Cupi Tehe ampaien secaed to the extent that it raises the question of repression in Argentina, interna tional working class solidarity, an
dds more legitimacy to the idea o boycotts in sport, economics, or any other plane on which we're lighting
If we are trying to train a cadre ; this country nd internationally t lead the working class in revolution, we noed far more politics. Orberwise we'll have to conclude that much of the left thinks that us workers are blockheads, incapable of revolutien
consciousness and understanding of all phenomiena in our society including how to make propaganda through tacties like the
In case some haven't got the point yet, how do we leel about Atrican or other countries that refuse to play South Africa in the Olympics? Or about the Black Power salutes which LWC DAES ABCERH made magnificently in the Mexico Olympics, for which they were victimised?
They obviously hadn't understood
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the line, Enjoy the EIHHUECSHIE acted positively
sadly
PAUL ANDREWS (South London)
Vote for
the CP?
BOB Peoningion's article in last
Group. week's Socialiist Challenge was very
good, However, it is a shame toat he committed the unilateral position on voting for the Commutist Party in elections.
Bob correctly argued thar it would be wrong to call across the board for a vote for CP candidates, as the party in this country is nor a mass party which millions STR IMEIC TOE SOCIAITSER However, it is one thing to refise the CP watomatic support and quite another to say that in no situation woL wE VOle 101 This is surely implied when Bob says they bot that in certain circumstances we might
not stand against the party if activists
culture would see it as sectarian, yet we would
the still not call for a vote for the CP candidate. himself dividing line for socialisos in electora. work today should not be the genera. one of "reform or revolution" but the Sociulist particular
bosses" offensive? Surely this implic toat whic the CP bas a reformist programme we mighe vote
for individual actually organising political activity to defend workers' interests?
There is today a very lively discussion going on within the Communist it's TAL. Some mcOCs nONcE aTe the days of Sid French, otherslong for the status of Herlinmer ochers tead Gramsci, collect lecturers" wages, and are merely en roate ior the Laboul Party and Parlament.
However, mixed in with the chaff there are many honest intellectuals and workers atracted by democratic face' of the CP and the verbal radicalism programme In this situation, it is inconceivable that there will be no forces in the interested in joint work with the far left. Surely no reul fightback against Ene Doses poDcics wa lasc pac withortc sot today plasin a teading without the role in it.
a class
196R woRnAR soculst nanenge s lers Croup. For taiails pontsel:
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of bustants i lhey are
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surel such.
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Remember
the shop
stewards
YOUR article The bureaucracy not just misguided workers' (l June reinstates the worst vulgarities of the organisation of which 1 was until recently a member (Socialise Workers
Beds).
To discuss trade udionism simply in terins of bureaucrats" and rank and
misunderstand the complexity of unions today, and thus to suggest dangerously inadequate strategies for socialist involvement in the industrial strugele
The wage curbs of the last thre years bave been able to bite, not Just because of the machiations of the
brass, but because most ordinary members have aoquiesced in the official policies and because their :relations with the national leadership are mediated by an elaborate network
local representatives who have tauled or retused to mount a serious and concerted resistance
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TOLBEUSELE. effects of reformist
deology (whether of the Labourist or CP varieties) on trade union action as
To make the bureaucracy" the scapegoal for all the problems of
unionisit ratber than recognising it as merely one of the
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UNDER REVIEW
Images
of
Chile
A DOCUMENT ON CHILE is an eshibition which has just opened at the Half Moon Gullery in the East End of London. The photomontages,
Ric Sissons, trace the recent histury of Chile, They show the economic. political, and social structures surrounding the military coup of September 1973, giving birth to a
The thirty works of photomontage
years prior to the 1970 presidential clection victory of Allende: the three years of the "Unidad Popular'
of Allende culminated in the armed forces seizing power through u coup d'etat; and the years since the death of Allende which have witnessed terrible repression against the Chilean workers and C328889
The works selected here deal with the attitude of various international companies and governments to the post-Allende military dictatorship. They show their comphicity in the activities of the ruling junta.
The eshibition is showing until 5 July at the Half Moon Gallers, 27 Alle Street, Landon El. Monday to Saturday, 1Tam to 6pm. Admission is
After July, the eshibition available for hire at a small fee. It is eavy to transport and mount, and b ideal for display in schools, colleges. libraries, factories and clubs. For Tali details contact: Ed Harher. Half Moon Photography Workshop, 119 Roman Road, London E2 DON. Tel 01-980 879R.
that
MULTINATIONAL INTERVENTION (above)
OF ALl, the multinational firms which actively sabotaged the Chilean Government in the three Allende years, International Telephone and Telegraph always forthright.
After Allende's election victory, it offered the CIA a million dollurs for an ad hoc grouping of six important been nationalised in Chile, to lobby for and organise economic sanctions the "Unidad IT 5350,000 to campuigns in Chile
is
firms such as bE prepared toc ground for the military September vestment in Chile was estimated at
THE LIMITS OF SUASION' (below|
Chile: safety zone
for foreign investors
It is safe to invest in Chile
the most
whose interests had
Popular' further
The action
1976 IT
MORAL
BRITISH COMPLICITY (above)
has no reason to be proud of its sance
Stained close lies.
pares.
in Brituin
to Chile totalled 39.4m. included fruit, vegetables,
are landed pearly Liverpool and London.
British press
and Investing in Chile.
Seriously damaging This comistently
allowed to go through.
upholding Internationel Law, ever others may do."
the Chile Solidarity Campaign.
THE BRITISH Labour Government
in relation to Chile. The Chileun and
In 1975 British shipyards were building the Chilean Navy two submarines, repairing two frigates and delivering 11,000 spare
The Labour Gofernmeet refused to block their despatch. Officers of the Chilean Armed Forces are still trained
Trude continues with the dictutorship. In 1977 British exports
Imports shoes and copper. One fifth of Britsh copper Imports come from Chile, 85,000 tOnS
In Aronmouth,
The Times, on 13 September 1973, welcomed the coup d'état. Since then, with the scale of the repression. the
has distanced Itself from the junta. However British firms have no qualnis about trading with
*The Government helieve that the propusul to prevent the Chilesus frons taking delivery of their submarines
oversteps this line and could b
why we have said that the existing contracts for daval sales would be
"To seize or to refuse to permit the export of the submarines could not be justified in interostional lam, quite
part from exposing us to allegation political refugees.
LOSSO THSTHHELOSII nationg, we have a strong interest in
Ted Rowlend, Labour Government Under Secretary at the Foreign Office, November 1975, in a letter to with the mentary
increasing
CHINA LENDS A HAND (alre)
THE CHILEAN janta has found friends in The most whikels. ouarters Following the coup, China - - unille the East European states - refused to break off diplomatic relations. The Chinese went still further by rejecting
This diplomatic culminated with the removal of Allende's ambassador in Peking and his replacement by a representative of the junta.
In 1976, despite the repression in Chile, China stepped up its trade
BIR ENOCSmUP its copper imports.
-a brighter sharper picture from ITT
Discussions were also enderway for a 558m lean from Chine. In its stand against the too world "superpowers" and in its efforts to end its economic Isolation, the Chinese burenucrasy has been prepared to deal with one of the world's most brutal repimes
*China has behaved well, said Pinochet, the Chilean dictaior.
"Chilean Deputy Interior Minister Enrique Montero declared September 12, 13 and 14 as days of official national muraing for Chairman Mao Tselung with fags on public heildings to be flown at half-nnst.' Hsinhua, the official Chinese news service, 10.9.76.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 15 June 1978 page 15
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EGA STILL
last Saturday.
Health Minister forced to retreat in his attempts to close the EGA.
Just three weeks announcing that the hospital would definitely be shut on 21 July, he has now announced that it won't!
Ar a conference of 40 shop stewards mom caine series unions in London on Saturday. called by tho BOA stewards. NUPE steward Arthur bospital described how Ennals had been obliged to back away from a head-on confrontation.
UPGRADE
No doubt the run up 10 a General Election was not the
El.100 in three weeks. That is what Socialist Challenge needs 1o make this quarter's fund drive. The fate of your paper to lies in your hands, Weappeal to all our readers and supporlers groups to dig deep into their pockets and rush donations to Socialist Chalenge need on average nearly E400 every week:
(ver this last seven E240.50 came previous standards is a good That
week - but is still not good enough. An American led the way be sending 3250 for four subscriptions. which left
Our regular financial backers
Ennals retreats, but
HAS TO
STAY!
THE BATTLE to save the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson has yet to be won. That's the view put by militants from the women's hospital at a conference.
DOMINIC COSTA, chairperson of the London health shop stewards organisation CLASH, reports.
David best time to take on the forces determined to save and upgrade the EGA.
after EXAMINE But the setting up of a working party to alternative accommodation — without any commitment to accept its recommendations spells danger, argued.
A speaker from St Nicholas Hospital in Plumstead.
London, explained just how much Ennals promises are worth. in December, spread strike action CATALICE promise to reverse Lhe closure PIEs CONCI aTLE authonity. Now
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close hospital's 350 beds.
WEATHE HSIAL SLEE
Shop stewards at St Nicholas campaign to save che hospital.
The lessons are clear for the EGA. As supporters we will be fighting on the working party to demand thai the lift which long ago put the upper floors of the hospital out of mended before
сатіве The campaign to build for
LOSSE out-patients are removed has to OL ULTEIDOLU
COMMITTED SE In London, the COHSE branch at St Pancras Hospital has already committed itself to all-out had divisional council Ennals ASTMS has set up a committee
so organise support, tollowing
bealth its call for the Minister action.
The battle for the EGA also
Stamp Collectors THE IDEA of our Leicester a regular supporters to collect stamps
and sell theis to philatelists for the fund drive has been a greut success. Hundreds of stamps have poured into our office 10.00 which have heen forwarded lo the East Midlunds. ders donated their entire caders donale collections. Two albuias are on their way sale. John Fitzpatrick have example.
Have a look in 4.00 drawers or in the allie. Maybe you will get a pleasant surprise?
Karl Marx
ELIZABETH
EÇA
STAYS
OK
three-quarters of the means
together Last Saturdas' s
rebuild the
stewards health workers.
SUSPENDED
discussions
supporters at the Bed Service EGA inutediately re-instared.
La lock-out ol women's bospital
suspended, threatened A picket And disciplinary held yesterday.
national strike in the
hospitals, features the two
for valuation and
Adrienne set IN JELY,
vour old September
post for just
afford to miss. taking
Name Address
GARRETT
ANDERSON
strengthening union organisation within the NHS.
conference cailed for the development of district and area shop sewards committees into an all-London
organisation Tor
*BEFORE THE EGA stewards agree to Ennals working party, they are demanding that their
should
For refusing 1o co-operale in
patients at the SIX COHSE W2 Adm members at the EBS have heen
and the with disciplinary
first proceedings was.
SUPPORT the Ei
Unless the EBS workers win
future to threatened the frent 0 Brege Si. closures will lose one of its
This week's Socialist Challenge
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¡GARNERS WORKERS
SAY 1 SLPPOREERS of the Garners strikers demonstrating in support of thei demsed For union recognition. On Tuesday. a depulacion of Labour MPs led hy Jo Richardson joined the lunchtime picket at the Garners Stea House in the Haymarked in London's West End.
A reporthy the Low Pay Unit sava: 'Figures on the level of the minimem wages und earnings for the catering and bote industry confirm that the anion'stask of erndicating luw pay in the indestry isa massive one.
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