Socialist Challenge No. 6, 21 July 1977
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Socialist Challenge BUILD A SOCIALIST OPPOSITION FOR A UNIFIED REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATION
NO!
FOR US Cuts in Living Standards
10% wage limits 1.5 million unemployed 17.7% inflation $3.5m cuts in public spending
21 July 1977 No. 6
IT'S NOT
ON
HEALEY
FOR THEM Unlimited Profits 76-71
Four Big Banks = £700 millior
ICI = £540 millior GEC = £278 millior Assoc. British Foods = £80 millior
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Why Sid French
split
"We haven't left a party, we have joined the main
break from the Party and found a new one.
of argument.
mal has been precipitated by
cad long decline of the CF JENCeNEIDSOCICIES
to press ahead with the new haft of the British Road to
mcribes as a 'social democratic "*There are
probably -TIST1 cr ihe working class movement layers and other opponents
ES UTEREE beginning of the end for British eghty mistaken. They have seen are thor-
IBARESTEE
r easy days and must now pre-
ane themseives for the beginning ORL HE InKOWI HACS
lather's time and growin, more powerful chai said Mir French.
French who has been 1 National Secretary of the panty developed his argu- SUEUIE The old party has put MOTE OBLIITE BAWeEr the balk of the world ist parties in an attempt popular Tarour- t ar uom doser to winning a workrevolution in Brituin ae urer Toman kn0 than before. of an MP, for all their il work a hundful of loca! vE. Star cireurashing. virtually Even the berty trade anion hase
avolved In the CP.
YANGUARD PARTY
In a statement the new com mitted to
Inself sati-sovietism whenevee berever it appears. A van
15 Leniot ie needed to ded
wit to revo ution. Working
Combet on to and, can
Ttip Lenim a proletarian dicdoa't said French. provide a viable proach that will succeed cimbing on the humad handwagon and seeking to the kind of soft option
Soviet ideas that come from KECOC HEECATTLIO CE E SOTO
The full programme and per-
anent title of che new party
orarily
ded by a faundation congress. In
seantime, meetings araund
e country will be told not only а поволь тог te Dreak and
end to win new members, rom amongst the many opponCOL IC LC OMCTSD WOL emain inside the party and from he labour movement at large but
Capitemars nsrte Pad edine te solulions that are in the interests, nur of the wirkers, hat af the cap Socialivt Chellenge belfeves that the coo sisl TUNES LOHETEHERDS IC OOMAT 3EC0H3IS ESO
CE IH ОНЕ O CIS-CIH OME IDISI LE the labour meoscavem nun-esrlusive in chararter aruuping ingetber militants bolding i wide runge of policis
* Te begin io Tight fur Ihe arcalion nf u uni fied and democratic revolationan socialise
HE MICI STIME EHINS WRE HR NYI SNO alternative do thnusands of workers caangod in
are an arpartiatin shomit he baed wi lcd
anderstanding shas:
COMMUNIST PARTY
battle'. That was the comment today from Mr. Sid Freoch, Surrey District Secretary of the Commusist Party, on the decision of a national meeting to
the campaigning plans. The chancellor's hope for : 10 per cent wages beiling will be fought. mass uncauptoyacol CHrorEs u reverse public ending cuts will . With support for pe stepped up. the new Party being particularty strong amongst miners and enworkers these DAN WI LEN ONTE HER The stark contrast berween the crisis in the capitalist world and TIe SOVIr Tenu mle Ie socinlist couniries will be a reCuETIaE cIc TOMe RIDOn TIBaC ration that has been made for the break is given by the announcement that the first issues of its
OPEN FORUM No to
Against new draft Tann Tt 5 Sourh SIMD
OUR POLICIES
and the trades anioas offe 1
These shanllhe SulC.
SPEAKOUG
by the New Communist Party
weekly paper will be published in time for the TUC at the beginn. will ing of September. A chain of WOTKCES PSTOSPODOCTES throughout the the trade unions and their reports will be a particular feature of the publication. cam- YOUTH WORK leden hip have been parheulacty The opponents of the T eTOSE0U WOrk
to sucoess in Congresses.
5,000 nine paying dues today.
The meeting in Merton Town Hall was a perilous affair. It reveals
The CP nearing a split
Londe sir Forsdi
anproaches
Flashback to Socialist Challenge ol 16 June The struggle for seciabom secls 10 ESE EHE UIIE OFEP MOFAGS DEUIS! arlhe birok wIrs Inal HaInEE HarEssed lagrrs uf vociris — women, Hack
new orgnes uf powrr and ieersary mesis the power of the capnain!
Cur soculom will he infiniliis mor
say, wi ut nae to l moti
parlies and curnents that de ap arme agsited thr secialise stele. The Stalinhd MOCHOARSMIR WC AZE ADUEARETU •irnnF nitr nsrrFHeOCHTHsIISEEL milliuns nf wurkers Ihroughout the world. We art oppised to thes and will offer full sapport tu all thuse lighring for surialist demurrec»
Complete Text of press release issued
unemployment amongst
CAISES country and in
the Dew Party s watement
for have come diose
of YCI
to 430 IAr TOGaYThe intereste ef warkers add capital
wurhd warker, il hes created world Thus we Beht for working clais anil n an internatiomal srale, This unity will le th ling run be draine imperialist reaimes in tne Afnca and Ava. le Heitaio lt Implles demendong the immediale wichdrawal of Fritish troops fram Irelend and sening the tride peoule desermine their own 4 The aCU CHIH nur Iur ihe wwerhe e at she capialist stale: let rernlulionary socialist parties are innre nece.
drmecrac nol is n luxury hur socesily. This mesas the right ln organio Facnons pad tendencis
Party!
is clearly justitled. The beavy
youth and the scant atrention to trainJI BEE JUSL EMO TEASOES WIN LIE future must be changed and the youth mobilised to help to do it. "The butidine oE effective. ganised cammunity youth movement 15 a primary task, doclares
neeting that the new party would delend have an initial 65 branches, 'and I mean branches of activists" he
sumited
nited work that is going to put thin country on a new course
Can
greats. more Yesierday ALAH WIL REVOLUTION ME PROLETARIAT skyism do
in The
TANEOU.
He Tyndale tue
difficult Wesl s
Ther sustuin in Lasio America.
Crimmunist Parlic in Enrop
thr pri-Mescor ICARNKTBE SEOE
Conditions toda) ane
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
News
nowhere
Enlivening The
NEIL AITKEN, one of George WAPRES NOTU AGVEETS HUS INU 121 reiased mood at a seleer purty in London not lone ago. Ainken WE TUTU OCCATA AES VIEWS on the Grunwick strike. Thiene атошлів 20:
lel He rhought that if Ward
he'd definirely ciase down rhe faczory. 1b| Airken thowgh. HOE CRE МА AD RELE LOMP SOT on the pickers. They showid hgve 'smashed" them. Iel In order No
aFWANTaL) DOTLE showld be armed and the press should be censored.
And in cose vou te Interested Aitken occasionally goes yuchring with Ted Heark.
this Gunn be fired?
IANGUNN is one of the ald-time
He could he editor in a belcaguered garrisan town in the American Wild West having to contend not caly with gangsters in his own town, but WiS Te OnS DIWUIY
Gunn is editor of a journa called Edocation Today Tomorrow (in fact it saould De
apily named Educution nad Today) which minished by the educalion A0Wiory Commicree of the Communist Party. As such it has an offical status, though clearly it ls too outragoaus to be seen efeczing the viewa of the post-fil HEHEC OLr ICuCUCI
In reality the journal is totally immune to the Eurocommunisa fighting old batties against Trot sel prinin dhe sanders terned plt and the 'ultra-lefl' by Moseowl
Tendany, Tus Aprilie wilch
8 pscHaonsiabus auc tres to poke fun at the ides of women 8 caucuses: 1 have no JEW WIETES WOHRIS ICLE CHUMIS is, bur 1 expect it has something
with that marvellous SEOOIiSS SOSE
It published articles by Max Morris after the later's witch NOTT SELSCKS OL CSUOVHSLES
Times and the gutter presa. In facr Gann is an out-
old reactionary. A relic of the old school of Stalinism.
refuses to defend the he frowns ECHCLS upon all rank and file activity Like his hero Max Morris, hr yearns for the old days ('sive mc that old-type Stalinism, good enough for Stalin it's good enough for me").
Why he in sill oditor of the Communist Party's official jour sal remains a mystery, Hopefully CP teachers will atlemipt lo eltber cetrol over him. IE bath prove Gunn exercisE
The could always exported in a ginss care Museum of Socialist-Realist Art in Moscow North-east. WANT TO KNOW MORE? Moor agtee witb shese pilaciples and want fo, te insolved in acilviies br Socialist Chaluser supporfeis in goprerkd, Slhla the form belon wasenpp turuta
Blues io my sren,
to cover costg.
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ADDRESS
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21 July 1977 Page 2
from
Trojan horse IN HIS RECENT well-publicised Interview, the former Metropoli-
TFOLCE SOUSS. KDner Mark; admitted a number of things such as bow he had left a WC CEI SECaUaal mEI CID go unchallenged.
More interestingly, he told us aboot n cerlain homse: She w thi Brigilte Bardot of the 230 borses
possess" Sir Robert phlicingly informed us. IS TAinen TO Simnre BATTn te word of comimand in front of a Ty camera his 1s the waw ie make sure that the police image which the British people like 1 nave is masntamned
WuS Mark C0 001 S8y w3 that many police officers hav been trained to do the same thing. Reports of police casualties which adorn the front pages are grossly exngacrated Even a cap who has a slight brusse is reported as 'wounded". Since moel polioe victims prefer lo go ПОМЕТГ NOOOORE OU gatalties are never filly report-
But we should he prepared Fex Increasing police violence against demonstrators. Mark also said TAHT DC COUTO mOS MAO CmoIOy Sampeiua ban ee tere more dangerous tban munderers. te Tesiar perpetaators or pou tical violenos" are the police, we are waiting for Mark to name tbe MILY CuBIC It's a crime IN THESE DAYS of Grenwick fever, standing on the steps of
shops waiting for arrested sisters and brothers to come eut
becoming CUCLU pation not jusd for pickets
Two corsrades were waiting at Pailnuton Green nolice stabim on Monday afternoon, 11 Jaly. when a policeman came in trail-
TUSa DEnO ha tha M wicking a motorcycle.
'You'll have lo take him to HarTow Hil' masned ihe dot oflicer. 'We're wot dealing with reul crime bere today becuese o EHEY LATUESINE TIT .....
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GRUNWICK MUST CLOSE ON 15 AUG
Union leaders come to Ward's aid again
GRUNWICK
A large advertisement appeared in the Daily Mirror last Friday. It was headed "Statement agreed by the Officers and Grunwick Strike Committee of APEX'.
The main message was: 'No further demonstrations, marches or large scale picketing will be heid during the court of inquiry which would divert attention from the facts that we are submitting ...
GEOFF BELL reports.
Speaking members of the Grumwick Strike Committee co the day the advert appeared, it was tvious the statement did
They are continuing to call for mass picketing during the Scar-
appeal for trade union delega
one to come to the Grumwick
CrEET The scabs as they go to On Monday I1 July. when 3 ДАЛАВГЗА ВІВШИ Grunwick mass picket, postal workers in many areas were discovering post TOTES Grunwick mail. It had heen posted over the weekend by members of
Freedom.
In Oxford, where NAFF recently
ced mail. Deford
of the UPW had previously declared its support for the CrickleWOLE SOTLCIS.
So on 12 July I told local
that branch 1127 would not handie te Grunwich mail. At that time management accepted the situarion because the
Then at 5.40 in the evening I received a telephone call froin the UPW headquarters telling me to sort the " hlacked' mail I did nothing about chat verbal instruc повесера ротастос sceretar
the postmen' (delivery) branch ofibeunion.
Wednesdny written instructions were received fromthe UPW hendquarters. But
calling for is a repeat of the 11
remaining two weeks of the Scar-
minter is maintainine iscal for g repest of 11 July on 15 August.
TREMENDOUS
Indeed, Jack Dromey, a mem-
secretary of Brent Trades Council, hopes 23 August will be ever bigger
The said, is a tremendous mobilisation. confidently expect that have mote people on 15 August than on El July,"
Drocey also made it clear tha
unlike 1l uly - th pickets on 15 August will be asked to stay outside the factory Jor
mail.
the head postmaster immediately
Grunwick mail on the basis of telex instructions received from
thad no alternative but to call all BIENOETS meeting. My branch decided to continue tbe baycoll
the UPW head office. tunately while our meeting was in INTES CACHO OCC MATE ers had started sorting Grunwick mail.
* For national strike action on 15 August
* Build support committees for the Grunwick day of action
* Organise factory, town and labour movement meetings to
Grunwick Strike Committee [phone 01-451 1125
* No reliance on courts - mass action will stop the scabs
gates througbout the day. ' The call will be for an all day picket" the BIC SHI The statemen.
Mirror
genera 1008 Grantham -atriende, "All that won't be a day of action between nos and next week."
But August was still being made and that, in the The view on how this dispute will be We would PORCEN has not changed"
mas Wand seems deternined to hang on as long as he can, bur we ll
SABOTAGE!
Tom Jackson and the rest of the executive of the Union of Postal Workers continue to bail out Grunwick boss George Ward by trying to outlaw the boycott of Grunwick
GERRY CASEY, secretary of the Oxford PHG branch of the UPW, describes thissabotage in his ares.
Following the meeting the head Black on the branch and on me, posimasier Jaunched saying was umposing may will oc the branch. He GPO had a file on my activities which included the (Talse) allega tion that 1 was expelled from che TUC in 1976. until it He tried everything to shake me and the branch down. ButI rang tbe LPW head office to convey the They rang me back almost ar once, instructing me to bift the
divers'
in the Baily strike. * They drawn up hy APEX
did not reflect this
means,
either the Grunwick
call for
words of Dromey:
Email. by industrial
few
exactly that.
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we would discuss theissue,
the Peace
to my bitter office instructions.
added thar the
infoactiue.
turned steward,
don't want wotks. union inside - there is no doubt about it. We have been told Di managersent that if the union comes in, this place will close. 15 Augusti
dampened the determination of
strikers
wood sorting office where postal CORRECT workers have been locked out for ECEUSING CO BAROS CURRICA B
Ar Cricklewood, UPW branch secretary Dand Dodd said that for his members the boycott was picketing a moral issue'. He added:
everybody to give the Grunwick strikers and APEX the maximum
action,
TUC march. stands.
12 July,
the end of
DE LIC JaW
the morningol Thursday 14Juls. written instruction from the UP#
not the only to esume bocal morsiog ar rived. The head postmaster was Tines also in reccipt of ibe instruction
Fi san la Grunwick mail. I refused, relling himt I had arranged a meeting of me mem pers al unenume woer
The postmen's branch secre
miceting with his sembers co the boycott, decided not to support immediate
The PHG branch continued to tos the recientes are cant:
recommendarions branch voted 13-6 to obey head
Tfeel certain that had other UPW
Oxford posimen's branch beld oet, the Oxford PHG branch cod. wooldhavecontinuedibboscolt NAFF has won a temporary, hut major triumph, and they must be won't respect il.
executive has so many spineless memhers. B proves once ugein that workers ore let down wher their leaders have to put fine wonds yestenday
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
It is now obvious that neither thip cobe sue militar-
MELLUISU Une lany minor advert was dear evidecios of the roal actitude of the APEX bosses.
I was por inserico to impres the Scarians of this world who are not inclined to read the Dully Mirror. Kather it wns there to
the paper's working class readership — the type of people who have
uP Grunwick picket throughout the past five
Grantham" s aim was to reduce the mass picker to BIDIOSE DO ming: lo spreau conrus over
lo gise in to the demands of the Government, the
mass picketing must cense
But ratber tan such picketing tending tD divert in Grantham' s
AFECARON from the dispute, it is the mass
which has brought Grunwick to the atlention of the mass media, and a court inquiry. So the Strike Committee
mistinenance of the mass picke and to organise another day ol
In fact is position on 15
when after a lot of pressure they decided to disperse and join th
But given the view of the APEX acabersaip, tme main buruca to organising 15 August les with rank and file
i0 ra Covine County
Forkshire district of the Nationa
Moral victory
not enough
Lord Chief Justice Widgery ruled last week in favour of the Grunwick strikers, conciliation service ACAS. Was this proof that the law Is on the side of the workers?
That mass pickets and other forms of solidarity action are unnecessary to win strikes? That Instead workers instruggle should rely on the wisdom and gemerosity of the law?
Amids all the legal comings and goings the Labour Gavernment nas mude no secret anere LI
*The law is made to be observed. There is no doubt abour thar, said Secretary of State for Indusury Eric Varley on
Cricklewood affair.
When settiog up the bourt of inquity on 30 June, Employment Secretary Albert Booth called for chese it miticad to breaches picketing bo
It is likely that Booth, Varle and Rees welcored last week's Fin Court sudgement They are
The congratulated Widgery And the reason this top people's paper" did so is very interessing.
SIGNIFICANT
It assured its readers that "as TAr 1, runwick's seif is COc corned' the judgemens "has no
dramatic 00080union did not win very much. But the benefics the judgement gave to the foroe ot inw and order sere semi
Widgery Thas refrained frea tucine on ACAS a ludica! stigana which would have good far towards destroying its credit
esefulness," The Times annoud-
In ocher words the law must be seen lo be imparcial or people
The Wails Mirror's cintorial DI 13 July took up the same theme
commented "The trades unions won a significant hatile
This Victory for industrial democracy contaios an
21 July 1977 Page 3 Union of Minemorkers is likel to back the call for 15 August, as 1L dic on 20ls and Landol printworkers base also indicated their willingness to come out in force any time the strike conmit-
The workers" movement must
organise bchiad moves. Readers of Socialist Challenge are asked: lo mano rosasecr wick strike solidarity committee wherever they work or live *To approsch members of every political organisution on the lef to build joint activity for
* Te arge trade councils to back the mext day of moss netion. •To coaches and cars for 15 Angust. HEIM their union APEX, and the important lesson for the unicas They do nol gel unfavourabl treatment from the courts.
Another welcome move is the promise by Emploment sere cary Albert Honth to reform the
antiquated laws op The sponer this 1s dono the beiter, Perhape now, peace, order and will prevail in the bitter Grunwick
di There in a nursbell is the rater
af the Widgery judgement for the ruling class. It can be used lo prove the "law" is impartial, and then the "law" can be used to take away the right of mass picketing
So against the 'victors' of the Widgery judgement weiched, all the arrests, all th 2WACAS КУ TR МОНСС СС TO of lepal action lo scop the boycot! of Grunwick mail, and now the
picketing
The more immediate reasan #hy Widgery found in the SEUNEE
following comment by Arthur Scargill: It may be co incidental, but wica peone ant in dispute and puting pressure oi, colets of inquiry bave a habit
favour than when things have gose back to normal.
The Granwick strikers have
Widgery changes litrle, except to present the strikers with a 'mora PALOTY
But morn victories are. Little good when a bus load of scab drives TOUSENC Grunwick procected by the law every day. What is needed in tha stunrion is pickers, thousands o thean
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NUPE members fight expulsion threat
Moorgreen Hospital far old people. Bullt in 1837 as a workhouse, its redevelopment grant never appeared because of the cuts, so it has to make
HOME NEWS
do with one ill for 250 beds.
health service unleashed by the local leadership of the
the cuts.
BECAUSE OF staff shortages at the Royal South Hants, hospital sends home at least five balleats a week who shoald be going into the operating theatre.
The from the Royal South Hants Hospital who told me this went on to explain that
variably means a two and often three ycar wait. One woman, I was informed, waited two years tor a gal-bladder operation. "Finally, when she got to hospital they seat IF THERE'S one good thing about the large police presence ar Grunwick it is that black youth in North London have been able to walk the streets in safety these last few weeks.
But once Grunwick is Over
here is little doubr that Hom
Secretary Merlyn Rees will con-
timue to permit the attacks on
black youth to proceed
The whole policy of the GorThe London Seals Teach o
he London Socialis
Alliance in response to the in
tiative taken by the STA for a
united left slate of candidates in
the National Union of Teachers
• position which was over-
whelmingly adopted by the Oper
Conference held eurlier
month.
The post referred o la thi tter is for the General Secretar the 15,000-sLt0Ng
London Teachers Association.
representing all NUT members in
Inner London Education
Authority Area.
Dear Comrades,
London Rani and File haw
decided to srand only one cund
date in the forthcoming ILTA
elections instead of the
LATED This will he
Rosembers for the post of Secre te hope this will make ir
BOB PENNINGTON reports on the drastic state of the Southampton and the
employees' union against members who are fighting
her home because they were short of blood." 1 then visited the Mootgreen Hospital for old people. Built ir
E400,000 in 1972. It was schedul- redevelopment grant ed for completion by the end of 1975.
By the time the actend, cuts had made sure thai no money was available — so the work wils never done.
Dickensian hospita now geis by
Lobby Labour against racism
cresent on immigration is in direct defiance of official Labour Party polic ast year's Labour Party co ference agreed a comprehensive policy against support for black against racist atlacks and for the repeal of the 1968 Immigration Acts. This has been JenDred not OnlE Dy th Labour Government but
R & F respond to teachers' unity appeal
possible for there not to be left candidates standing against ench osher, Despile the fact that there ure deep differences berween our organisations which
and Where vore candidates standine for a position. you will reciprocate in this.
Yours fraternally, Inner Richard cos,
Chairperson, London Rank and
A spokesperson for the Socialist Tenchers Alliance snid: "We wal come Rank and File's reply to our suggestion of a uniled left response int elections. We don't think that the difference belween our two ochChanie anisations are so
preclude a common platform. vinced that this is preciscly whar Indeed, we que con
As Southampton health service crumbles
with one lift for its 250 beds -attack and a hope that one day thing public mignt act nete Next to the Moorgreen stand:
Allingion House, built and now wed by te NHS. buses old people who are not fi nough to look after themselve TAL BOL SHE COLLE LO admitted to a geriatric hospita.
This is be total of 150 beds taken out of this kind of accomodation in South ampton in two years The ambulance shortage in th city is becoming desperate. Re cently, an ambulance carrying a plan was natient with caoce on the bram
received an emergency call to go to a woman who had just had an This other ambulance was avallahle
Party executive.
Now there are moves to labby the next confercoce to insist that the Party and Government Implement that policy. An ad hoc self-defence so-ordinate support from local
ca-ordinate support from ponstituency Labour Parties and
polic abb-racists. The committee can Corns He Middlesechara
by Lie
the vast majority teachers want. We shall therefore be replying to RaF suggesting that we should go beyond
make non-aggression pact which they Impossible, propose,
the left farces in she union in a joiot campaign.
We hope
* This Monday the appeal oj of_the Williams Tyndale School, sacker Jor gole on strike, pos namen do wine rice and Earlier down by the AnthorRy, A decinion on the orher twe tenchers — naw almost ceriain to coming NUT
next week, An energency meeting of the areat as to Tradaie Defence Computies e
being held on 21 Til: at 7,30pm Prince Albert, Wharfdale Road Landan NI.
113
H HILLED
LsD they journey
In 11939 pital closed
be
health front and X-ray services.
EXPULSIONS
of NUPE's rale bonk ubout the union the union
of sell-wing
the and attempt to unite all to change the rules."
five teachers ar ARTHUR MILL
Case still had to break their and collect the despite having a terminal case.
The Eastleigh Maternity Hos
Tate 1976. Tbe presumably demonstrate the health sathor ty's determination to hit the old and young win savage part ality. But all is not gloom on the STEVE ROSE
lo Chandlers Ford there is abe brand new Nutfield privace hos
aL. Getting a bed there is mu the cuts.
Fact that we
whlic and private sector, It get
is blood from the Southampto one man General Hospital's transfusion
unit and relies on it for pathologs
managerent
FIVE MEMBERS of the National Union of Public Empleyees
lave been threatened by expulsuns froth the usion. They have been charged under Rule 18 [lI
'circuTune mascaling or tae sopore
- In the pay
f Challenge, a rank an news-sheet committed to fighting against attacks on health care.
The five have been culled on by
of Challenge and a recommenda-
Lion for their expulsion has bees
sent to the Execulive Couneil of
Arthur Hill, secretary of th
branch, considers that Chellenge
is against the members interests.
commenting on mc paper s cul
cisms of the branch leadership
he says: "You don't join a club
of the
Dun he said.
Local
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
Hill strongly objected to the remarks in Challenge about his handling of a wage claim bally suited on behalf orine relephonists at Southampio General is 1974, when Hill firs ippeared on the scene
As far as we could see in n way could we up their wages b Roine on sinke, Hill says. e
negotiating matter,' All the telephonists let NOPE and loined the C.onteder ation of Health Service Employ ees (COHSE), bitterly pointed at the way their pay claimi was handled
Sudrey Holme formerly a hop steward in NUPE and no 4 CORSE steward, has no doub
bere the blame lies "Hill div. against another, she WOEADE
*Both Hill and Sean Hiliard, is we couldn't break the Socia Contract, As Tar as we were concerned, our claim was simply about re-grading
Steve Rose is the NUPE con venor at Tatchbury Mount hos
out of tbe *was the demand for more dentocracy in the union and a fight against the Social Contract and
Our eyes were opened to d
Acre part of a larg branch which involve all its memhers. Meetings were nat properly publicised and
Arthur Hill represented us on union commit fees, at national conference, and did most of the negotiating with
cane to the hospital ali sever
new sewards were ciected two
demobuilt up taking up issues affect ing our members which were never taken up before.'
Journalists' leaders
scab on strike
THE LEADERSHIP of the Nacional Union of Jonmalists is determined to break the strike In defence of a closed shop by 10S journalists at North of England newspupers in Darlington.
only conclusicio that can he drawn from actions of top officials over the past fortnight.
Ken Morgan, general secretary
NUJ, told Darlington strike leaders that if the mass picket planned for. last Friday went ahead he would dissociate the unton from 1t Anyone who was arrested would be on their
In the light of these astonish
ing statements from the leader-
ship of their union, the soakers
took the weak but understand-
nble decision to substiture a rally
militants were faced
with the heart-breaking task of
nhanine would the nive to
Sundred supporters around the
21 July 1977 Page AUDREY HOLMES
as the growing opposition to UPes acceptance of te Social Contract and is failure to really act against cuts in the NHS which brooght Hillined into ailiance with the branch's right withe witch-huat in the Southampton hospitals branch shows what is ar stake in the light
cuts and the Social Contract.
ATTACKS
If it succeeds, the way is ope for artacks on all rank and fil papers. But the defence that is growing for the five suspended members may well give the right Farchoury Mount, NIPE mem
is have passed a reaclution
micence in shop seward f agnise. The meeti _one vote agninst. forty memhers fully support the five member: accused, and support the right to organise opposition inside tbe andra, dimminghamp support from don. On the coaches going to the
signatures, and tradi delegates have promised to raise
meeting in holar bl
with
508850 from Chellenge and
Inbour movement papers to contact us and take up our case
Socialist Challenge endorses Paul's call for a solidarity cum
26 Tennyson Road, Portswood, Southampton. Tel. 0703-551135. by DAVE CARTER
country who had pledped to turn up ca Friday
Jackie Leviens, NIJJ father of the chapel at Durlams, told tbe rally: For every one of us, there are five who would have been here. I have bad to phone up miners from Boltor y and Monk HUSTLICE to tell bem the picket was off.
Ironically, even the 150 who attended the rally outnunsbered previous pickets. A disappointed Let of the NED, gio thre organBill Keys and the rest of che TUC print industry's committee don't
action withis the next seven days, we will put a thousand people on these gates in a fortnight's time.
For father details af the Bert picket ring the Strike Committee sat Darlingten 50282
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Women occupy strike factory
PUBLIC SECTOR CRUNCH
MARION WEIR and CHRIS BAMBRY meport.
AFTER mime weeks on stribe 130 workers, all but 20 of whom are women, have occupied the Essex International plant in Kilwinming, Ayrshire. The strike started shees sectrical parts for ford
electrical parts for and Chryster, Introduced a time DOG MACION SHES WITH MENCE
One woman was told if she wouldn't work to a stopwatch,
used by our company", is how Esses describes their stopwatches and timesheets.
voted to strike till the time and motion study was withdrawn. DOL DICE ON SErIE, IDE WOULD found two other issues. were receiving E1,30 to (7.30 le than workers at the sister plant lo Derry. In addition, the wage for wotten was (2 les thar hear breach the Equal Pay
The plam was occupied two weeks ago when it was found that out at night. ACAS, the arbitra-
had already been
Jnion, but as the strikers staced Essex won't listen to them." The
out as long as Essex can, after all
they've as much to lose as us
Ta SEC 1as * Manchester Gillian Frost and Kevin Warner ure full-time teachers who face
council-run Abram Moss Centre for secon-
Fund adult edactica in Manchester. They are unahle
load that the authorities are trying to place on their doorstep
teachers have been hunded their over two hundred adults a year.
Warnings about the council's moves came at Easter.
only a half of this year's 32 places on the prepatory course
The National Association of
Education brasich at the centre is opposing the sackings and inad counte staffing levels. Now the task is 10 ensure that there is maximum unity in defending all bose opposing Bic cuts so Eat individuals are not picked off one at a time. A vital way to do
levels which meet existing needs. This means more teachers, not less. messages of supporte Further Logue, Secretary NATFHE Branch, Abram Moss Селіте, стеспі коші, спир sail, Manchester.
MARTIN SOLOMON
* Birmingham THIRTY-FIVE teenagers in BirFar preme for a cut came for premises for a youth club. group, mostle unemployed school leavers, says: We need somewhere we can ger together in a Jendly sumosphere and descus our problems with people out own
We live in a highly lazed area with very few place WISHES ENDON there's lots lying
- that's why we havetooccupy a building toget what we need'
The troup call tbemselves Independent Youth' because. their basic aim la to organise mulependent of adul patronage.
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fashion. In order to boost productivity they put up a board.
ominating the production lines
Kiwienng and Deny: to go to the toilet, women had to ask thei foreman. Canteen facilities were
vorkforce getting less than hal
ind hour dinner break
ie company's rules stretch
offences", others "ininor fencel. One of them in that it
together that constitutes a meetinst
Already the occupiers have won support. Massey Ferguson in Kilmariock, just back from a strike sent money from their hardship fund, and the Derry plant in running a boycot. Attempts are being made to vet Ford Hale wood and Chrysier Linwood to boycott Essex parts.
The AUEW bave made the strike official, after some delay, and the local district is paying for babysitting. With the possibility
is vital Send donations 1234652 of support lo: Cilmore, 430 Sauchiehal Street Glasgow G2.
SAVE
GLAN ELY
aron hospitais st
*Cardiff FIVEHUNDRED heulth workers
Cardiff last Friday to protest the proposed closare
cumpaign to save this old peuple's habilitation centre notched up s JESUCCESS IDE authority extended the time ser side for "public consultation" by
Glan-Ely is the Jatest victim of the South Glamorgan area health
cutbacks. The AHA i making Thecars in al ductions - GRE Ely is only one of four hospicals in the Cardiff area on their current chopping list
But hospital workers and the community aT e see just how devious autbority is. The district commit-
union, NUPE anis motion ot to lense in
speaker aller apeaker from th olatform BEN BICAROLE meeting held on 11 July condemned the plans
Durman, chairperson of the South East Wales Pensioner called the AHA's documents deliberately confusing Her fictitious.? Speaking on Cardiff Trades Council, exocutive massive demonstration in support
plause for her call for not the loss Bedie hospital, not the los of one
The packed meeting mously passed a resolution pledeIne total oppostion ro all health service curs and calling for all those who share this opposition to join in a South Glamorgan action
standing
and Nan
SAVE OUR
N.H.S.
Week to march against the closure of the
committee. A group of workers from various bospitals stayed hehind to hammer out the detai of this on-going campaign.
Hazel Wright, chairperson of of Glan-Kly
the Clan-Ely Action Comanitle told me: The area geriatric facilities we provide. The Els they he playing with Had an auribary nurse, added that "th staff's moral was high and they would occupy if necessary to keep the hospital open."
The campaign agpinst closure is
Tures were handed into the Wels Office
that workers from at lenst three Cardit bospitals walked out to
cover only. rlayed a leading role. employee's Further united action of thi
kind, and the creation of a strong South Glumorgan action commi
service and defeur the AHA.
Mesanges of support and dona
lee, c/o Ms. Martin, Treasure 8l-year-ald tan-Ely Hospital, Cardif
Association, PAUL. SELIGMAN
* Liverpool behalf of
FIVE HUNDRED bealtwork ers ints CATC LiverpooL authority is persistent in refusing to bl on workers stated a one ay workers staged a one willingness io bow to Govern ment pressure to impose cash BILLS JE CAL TUBUL SECTORI Unemployment in Merseyside stands at over 10 per cent. Bur
sot content
service,
NUPE's divisional Colla Barnett, has
SEEI SOMEO ne patric
nocds
ROGER SCOTT needs goes int nod out, lans on the A sold
public.
shitt of one to lour
work-in, the bealch
on Friday's march. A
COHSE branches
mounted!
campaign to nee
Fi seminar on local fomay doctors.
under threni but the area health *Bristol
ancillary strike AHA's
-with "Hatural the health
ing to shut down Liverpor
officer
- only to he confronted
with a big attack launched by che
complete lack of understanding' 5 of the need to rationalise ob
are clearl Birmingham
NUP and he A New to
3 unions must demonstrate that the
of working class women LOIL come before any cuts which the Government is trying to enforce, were revealed.
WORKERS IN occupation at Hounslow Hospieal in West Lon-
support on their picker line as the hospital's closure date draws near.
to collect signatures for the petition deman-
gency departments are re-opened and to hand out the regular new bulletin produced by slatt for the
Pickets are asked to arrange
Bour Because Hounslow is staging a
workers themselves con only rocket but ol work hours. Trade union branches and labour movemen: organ-
resolutions committing members to specific hourson the picket line.
viral. Ensure a strong picker is
* new development in she
gren the Bizabesh Garrets Anderson hos putal hes been cuneed as a newit of
women 3 healsh organised by the EGA sett in co-operation. with the Jocal com
Theseminar passed o resolution colling for a women's health advisory service to be established at the EGA in coordination with
LAST TUESDAY three hundred nursery nurses and other anciliary workers in Bristol lobbied Aven
of voluntary redundancy SOURSLICE BLINDIA
In the last throe years,
authority has not touched one penny of the money allotted to them for nursery expansion.
* Birmingham
THE CAMPAIGN to maintain
mingham's old people has scored a limited victory with the area TO LIE SECUCEL Ol Monday that new purpose-built accommodation is on the cards.
Management s salement came in the wake of a public campaign launched to save the Quinton Hall old people's home against closure in a situation where no other provision had been made.
The campaign against closure was huncheu by NorE soda services branch and backed by
STELE Council ALSO RESCUE DEMO TOm have been firm in their opposi
and 15,000 signatures were quickly conected to suppon w stand as soon as closure plans
The closure of Quinton Hall comes at a time when
unable to care for themselves, are on waiting lists for places in
tree hundred women rallied in Trafalger Square to view the'trial' of Lab
nistere cerried out by Women Against Ra
21 July 1977 homes. The queue for Quinton doubled over the part two years,
The decision to close the home for Birmingham if the Tory controlled social services depart ment goes away with it planned curs. The E750,000 from the department's hudge last sear and the 1900,000 axec this year are considered as too lenient" by the Tories who have forced the head of social service to resign for being "too soft" council by Note and be cie city direct labour department suc ceeded in persuading Labou councillors to leave the cooncil meeting, which the Tories were then forced to abandon.
The back-down of management continuing determination of the NUPE branch to confront the Tory council's onslaught ilgainst public spending.
MARTIN TOLMAN, NUPE shop steward, CHRIS BIRD NUPE member.
So Womans Age
te ge out
chart
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and voted on. It was a close call.
Pro-abortion Committee members were not helped by the defection of two of their number
- Labour MPs Renee Short and Maureen Colguhoun
try conster voting bor
the fairly Labour MP Roland Mayle with the ogles performance was no opposition.
urpose. Un Cabinci instructiot
e had earlier tried to arrange compromise deal with the anti-
the Bill through, Benyon and Co were asked to exempt the charity clinics from its provisions, and only reduce the time limit to 22 weeks in pregnancy instead of 20
three women Labour MPs
Madonald And a Richardson
- refused to accept it.
OPPONENTS
But even had the deal gone through, opponents of abortion have no intention of giving up until abortion is ourlawed for almost al WOIDOI
Benyon's Bill has not yer been defeated just because the Hill did THE LAST In a series of four one-day conferences organised by the London socialist Teminists was held on 10 July. It attracted over 200 women to discuss the meaning and Implication of socialist and it provided a clear indication of the changes taking place in the Women's Libera-
Movement.
MARGOLIS explains.
The major concern of the day
organisation of socialist feminist current.
socialist feminism there
socialise
heary and practice collectively
ilure of the Women's Libe
ion Movement to organise el
there was a strong emphasis on every
Benyon Bill
Supporters of William Benyon's anti-abortion Bill suffered a set-back last Friday. They had successfully manoeuvred in the Standing Committee on the Bill to get it to the floor of the Commons. But the lack of parliamentary time meant the Bill could not be debated
not get time last weti.
Mott already put their names to a motion calling for extra time 1o of Parliament for a debate in the voting
In the light of past experience of Labour's promises on the abortion issue, no reliance can be Government will not grant this time. Activity must be stepped up HE CONCCRA EO CIE I more deals or sell outs.
This need for continued activity ut across at the packed eme ency meeting held by the Nat ional Abortion Campaign on 15 July, Mary Vreede, speaking fo
Donach NAC, stressed the need to carry
broad support already won by the campaigo.
Publiciry actions initiated NAC women over the past few days had clearly demonstrated port. Sixty women had tured evening vigil ourside Parliament, And their and similar numbers bad suc
LOSELY CAUSE CAC WICHEDI the press with ait occupation of Westminster Roman Catholic
looking outwards to tbe social Organisationally, some women obviously saw the socialist curCEMENS NO SELLING DOLTA HIC left and the WLM. Others, lectuding members feminism.
that the socialist current should be a tendency within the WIM, alist forces and trying to win the
KAREN women's movement to Vor he socialist steele. Ath
wiew was that the socialist current bould be a very loose network the While ing WLM channels of communication rather than setting up its
Since this was the first time many of os had debated these positions colletively, it ArCISES TO DARE US. the plenary session agreed hey should be discussed in loca aroups in preparation lor national socialist feminist con
160 MP, have idea that
abortion campaign.
Catbedral.
of the ordinary the a woman's right to choose by
Midlands:
that
positive егепое next уса.
few hours: we simply
the Inter
economic
The discussions were
sister put it,
feminists and socialises*.
AUTONOMOUS
seemed
1118 symphony
closed.
but despite equal pay
members are women
music colleges, it
A well-planned interruption by turned to NAC members in the audience of the David Frost TV debate on abortion on 14 July prompted Frost to sound out the opinsons of the government
public present. They voted by ar impressive majority in support of
The forthcoming events planscriber to protest at the lack of in Birmingham on 29
service racancs 3n enc "caravan' with group and publicity the cerional day schools to discuss month; and
legislation throughout feminists
The scope of the workshop thany 01 1
we bad seen detinitive lines in the space of s
skimmed
crisis, IATE DESSER BULLULLE:
seriously attempting to come to grips with DELESL tions; everyone is here, as cat
because of the contrndictions posed by DeibE
of a theory
early
It emerged during the day tbat these contradictions are experi
the level of practice, and the Grunwick strike was ciled frequently as an issue of the kind concerning socialist meetings:
DELEGATES TO the Musicians
the week overshelmingly passed major resolution against sesun discrimination in the judasers reports Central London branci
legatle LENDSAYCOOPER.
The conterence voted to peess Holland.
orchestras major sector of pon-casual musi-
to introduce screened auditions for a year's trial period, so that the geoder of
The union's anti-discrimination petey dates back to 1955 branches of the profession, equal
Only 9,8 per pent of the union's BLE DONIE
simply a
Since orchestral players are trained for the most part by
is casier to discover the fate of trained worseh that those involved ie jazz and SCLECLOT
opular ciusic. Hail che stadent
n London's music colleges an women out ons te per cool o full-time orchestral players And
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
NATIONAL ABORION
CAMPAIGN
Marchers set off following the emergency meeting - Friday evening in London to map out the next stops in the a
All attention should now be
tbe execurive meeting of the Labour Party called by NAC on Wednes day, 28 July. It will focus attention
SALE which has CULCISE ently allowed Labour MPs ta follow the dictates of their own conscicnees on every vital vote over the past two years.
Ir has accepced wholesale the restrictive recommendations af
and despite Labour Party and TUC conference deci
quest, MPs have been left tu
viewpoitis on the picket line ind encountered sexisto as well as solidaricy, and
how the high
the factory had been neglected as • central feature of the struggle
But witle they remain critica of the existing socialist move
and convinced of the Jor BD women's movement, a signilicaot number of feminists proT ased support for the building of a revolationary purly, on the basi that this will assist the creacion of socialism as a precandition for wolben's biberation.
In every worksbop there was
the feeling that the developmen
CATACULE socialist feminism is at a very
As TOO MANY OTS CO BO
have sufficient knowledge on
which to hase conclusions. The
anise a series al educational
'an idioc's guide to
Screening out sexism
only one woman is employed by
botoriously discriminatory
London Sympbony Orchestra
Screened auditions are already
standard practice in at least nice
major US orchestras and in 1be
Concertgebeow
All player audition
chind screens and the best li
See Than poes wait and
have abroady demon general skill and
suisability for the job
Proposing the motion at the
Jenny Fisher from
crihed how unproductive the two
meetings betreen the branch
communee and orcosta casna
pers and board representatives
Their attitude was
Elisaoch Hambledon, former
the Working
Women's Charter Camosien
emphasised thar screened audi
tians would prevent discrimina
21 July 1977 Paged Government has savagely cut ducing even the limited abortion facilities which exist today
No time for Beyon's Bill in the Commons! That should be the message that local campaigns loudly prociams. Er coupied with intensive campaigning aetivity for a woman's right to choose
will he in the strongest positior
not only Benyon's Bill DELICIL attempts to restrict women's abortion rights
Picker Transport House in Smith Square on Wednesdry, 27 July al Sam. No time for Bermon's BIll
Lobaur MPs on abortion pores! economics, pleaded one woman
Psychoanalysis, low pay/equal
struggles HE LOU nationally and ideology and the state were among the other topics sugaeed The workshop an the
later this month. The plenary also supported the decision by march as a contingent under the banner Women Against Racism and Fascism on li Jur
The series of Landon work shops has been useful in drawing London socialist feminists ro gether and mapping out & terrain and theory of practice.
This augurs well for the building of a strong, united socialist
Women's Liberation Movement.
A Monting meeting for mex January's national socialin fem inist conference is to be hold or Sanarday 23 July of Ipm. 34 Piccadilly, Manchester.
yur alsa of race, age and partie disablement. Many women, ab said, simply don't apply for job because they know bow criminatory the present selectors
Encouragingly few voices were raised against the marion, though a Midlands delgate ar-
change their selection methods to get around the scrocaed proce
reminded conterence of the higher proportion of women employed in regional orchestras
which is bardly surprising since the pay and competition fol
London.
After a long debate ou Line motions dealing with the Social Contract, the conference coboilded by weakly resolving not to be associsted will tHriner ray re: traint unless there is a prostise of Goverument price control emeruent moton to sulport the Grunwick strikers was passed and a collection made for the
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Gays under attack
'An ideology that dares not show its face'
The
state
of
the
press
man with mankind as be leth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. That is what the Bible has to say on the subject of homosexuality. It is abo the favourite text of Anita Bryant, the anti-gay rights campaigner in the USA.
Like Anita Bryant, Mary Whitchouse says that she does not oppose gays. Like Anita Bryant, Whitchouse. SUCT against Gay News through the Courts, is spearheading a camp aign in favour of the morality of the family which, on the was threatens to strip gay people of
their lives without discrimination.
only the punload anaces oo gays in tal
has been the series of harrassments that gays have encountered from
Bradford police, after a series of raids, have boasted that they have enough evidence ta bring charges against & thousand gay neonic. INSINS SUCH A WAVE DI police prosecutions against say
In the North of Ireland, the Royal Ulster Constabulary have seized over a thousand documents
Ibe more dangerous since under the laws pertaining to the Six
uality remains totally illegal.
Discrimination against homo-
being rectified through incustrial relations machinery as the dismissal of the anpeal of Louise Boychuk, sacked for wearing a "Lesbians Ignite' badge, has rec ently emphasised
Further the Whitehouse trial has itself acted as a
physical attacks suffered by gay people. The scene of particularly
has been the Women's Diseo held in South London.
The lahour movement should add its weight to the defence of Gay News, to defend all labour
WHICH P
MR. JOHN SMYTH, the prosecution counsel in the Gay News trial informed the jury that it was up to them to set ine ATARATE quarter of the Iwentieth con tury and perhape beyond...'
MARIAN SHAPIRO SIMON WATNEY ask which "standard' and in liose Interest?
Mary Whitehouse, Hon. General Secretary of the National
OPEN FORUM
JONATHAN HAMMOND ON THE
Royal Commission Report
and the journalists union forward the views of the oppress
But a more positive approach is
nasan was met with the segest Viewers and Listeners Association, has claimed that she would have prosecuted any paper which published a росл like Kirkup's The Love that Dares te last Speak its Name. The fact that she
has not (yet) instiated proceed3ng5 i Done and Suers of and
vila. whose poet
equally erotic socialist papers which have rebribleo the poem, suegers ocher wise. 11 should be obvious that the
THE ROYAL Commission on
the Press. set up
drearily predictable conclusions.
Its £730,000 cost has not oaly
produced such illuminaring gem!
as that The Times and the Doiv
Telegraph devote more space to
editorial matter than the Dail
can in the one fre reing
Carrac
course by the meticulously fair
And hal aced media coverage of
Dally Mirror industrial corres-
pondent Geoffrey Goodman, has
oration, with sufficient funds to
help small
Wint actics
many NUJ
because — although undoubtedly
mobilisations in the LISA since the
anti-war demonstrations. During
a week or international acton.
massive demonstra
place in France, Spain and Ttaly.
GAY NEWS
Snapshots of Anita Bryant's better-known face in America - sa Hollywood star and as Miss Okighoma
Steal subject underlying the trial was homosexuality. phemous libel is just a legalistic sleight of hand by some most reactionory forces in thi country. recent failure to manipuluce the 1CTCSa:01 describes country.
After heen drawn Judge King-Hamilton's literary
in 1974 by hus come ic
Tory in their politics
Inost
Lists members.
per want pose sops
MINORITY
Trapped
groups gain access to aper
militants for years
The recourse makes it clear that this
of the bourgeois ideologyThe Gay It also reflecis their
trial Whitehouse religious puritanism was lasr
and a limit set roalities.
LILOOSEE defence witnesses and precedent
reformist — it would start to make a reality of press free
excusive preserve of live or six NUJ newspaper groups in London and The
overwhelmingly
The Commission's findings on the closed shon and the rested issue of press Ireedom' are o is.
significance to rank-no could continue Tie Nabona Union o Joacosl
In its carefully worded draft, the Commission's
for the present NUJJ policy of backing chapels which want 100
the
A vocal and widely-publicised minority of (NUJ) members ar
using "lighly coloured language' in pursuit of their aim to change society and the role of neas
within it. Neverthciess
he Commission reluctantly re
NUl was the only union ni allowed to form closed shops
In Britain, the gay movement s heginning to reorganise and dis cuss strategy, Resisting the offenSIVe In JaVDUr Or LIC FirtUCs Or taC family and the capitalist order liberation
by TARIO ALL to censor.
instance,
LAKY WUTR
utilised by the
private capitalists
workers.
Raped,
situation,
Tefuses to
happened
Mr. Smyth's lurid panderings to
prejudice
simply defines the delences of
News trial had no middle classes.
ebat of a Palestinian camed J
Christ, on the same charge, some ality or scars ago. in poco case
the ideolorical expression of political tion
Not the least of the verdict's implications is chat it sets a
TALE
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
would be anomalous, mending two "safeguards"
_- IL view unacceptable-to the
first is that no member ary should he in ans waw disciplined for writing according to his or her conscience. This means that
For anti-trade wion cop to do so wit
code of conduct, the editor of the
Newham Recorder has just been
and complaints against other members are pending.
The second "safeguard" is that
union must accept into
membership any journalist, irres
pective of what they write. If this
bad been enforced in 1975 for
inscanoe, the NUJ would have
admit into
membership David McCalden
National Front journalistic col
leagues on that paper.
M.Calden" application
was rejected by Magazine Branch ame cole accision narrows up
held by the national executive means huilding the widest support for Gay News. It also means giving every aid to the building of movements for gay and worsen s
tive
FREEING
UNFREE
PRESS
LAST WEEK Socialist ChulJenge was forced to publish in supplement form the contro versial poem from Gay News. The poem was published in this form after our printers had blanked out the poem.
Contrary to earlier reports, we now understand that it was management and not the prin workers who made this decision
on legal advice.
Nevertheless, the whole
LIBERIA press freedom raises a number of important questions for
WHY printworkers make their views known on the papers on which
In our opinion the method
Cuban printers tial sHer the revolt bion - bur while the press was still controlled by correct cample for all pri offers a
When reactionary Cuban editors wrote fanatically ters inserted tails" Just below
putting their views forward. A
CHICH HIRE PIECE ACYC
pade e tails became the
We are in a very different
but the metbod should be she same . It presents coolive chares of censorship and threats to press freedom, and at the same linse strength
of the unfree press. If the sditor
print the "ail", only then should material be blanked out with an explanation of what i2ainse liay Weas are alreadi pending - to silence any voice which is understood to challenge
world-wiew of thi
Behind all the familiar appeals to "normality", male bomosexu-
is being attacked in thar it challenges the valuca of that most basic unit of capitalist produc
A least, the love that dares the family; not speak irs name draws out an Idoology that dares not show its
21 July 1977
The publication of the repor comes at an interesting time for the NUT. Thent his inse boon ai secto reine enlarge
to replace Morga about to join the Press Council which the Royal Commissicn is aLcious to see strengthened. Ken Ashton, generally considered to be the mosr right-wing of th candidates to succeed Morgar scored a Convince win 1o So
He was helped by the enthu
an ABILE DESIREES ionary Bernard Levin in Th
who implored his NUI readers, not just once but thre times, to vote for Ashton and four other candidates in descending order of preference (on the single transterable vote system) to emit Michael Bower -0 and TOUTE WHOSE HER LUISE Levin's eyes, appeared to be that he opposed Levin's conception or "ores freedom' This
course, encails using acres of Th
Times to promote bis candidate
A right-wing backlash, master minded by Levin And fen sypaphantic cranies in the NUJ's London Freelance Hranch, has undoubtedly takco place within
making the need for a genuine rank-and-file movement particularly in the lower-paid area of magazine, book and provin cial newspaper journalise, all the more urgent. Up until now Journalists Charter - tbe NUJ raok-and-file grouping has failed to fulfil its potential in this respect.
EFFECTIVE
It has been wondertully effec
organising around the union's annun conference, bu oF curiously little account during
theres and dynamism of th
and namEs former secretary. Aidan White, now an executive member. This his in between ember an been because of sectarian might be expocted to form its
There are those, led by White who mould lice to see the Charte become a democratic, based alliance of rank-and-file NUl auditsots → hoth those witl and without a specific politica
Charter's origins die hard. There are other:
Workers Party members (though it is certainly nottrueto say that all or even most NUJ members share this outlook),
ideais they may pay lip service to really want the Charter lo be ai outpost of the SWP in the NUJJ, with a few non-aligood milkcants and fellow-travellers tacked on to lend it a surface reapectability
Lns this contramclion is res
Charter can really make much progress in relation to its poten
constituency The SWP attitude to it is not dissimilar to the one enjoyed by the Inter GAUS VAIIS LIAR CIA tion to Socialist Challenge: that
la, it remains to he seen whethe L can really take a back sear 1 the halance of forces demand it
* Jonathan Hammond is ember of the NUU's mariona crechive, representing the
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10p.c. norm, 12 monthrule, cashlimits A THREE FRONT OFFENSIVE
CALIST CHALLENGE 21 July 1977.
by JOHN ROSS
WHEN DENIS HEALEY rose to speak in the House of Commons last Friday there was a general expectation of a relaxation of the policies which have sent living standards plummeting. As he spoke, Enoch Powell nodded his head furiously in agreement. The package is a wolf in sheep's clothing. An offensive on three fronts.
1. 10 PER CENT LIMIT THE TEN per cent norm is for average carmings, this means that the proposed increase on basic rutes is only five per cent. Subtract from that the effects of an expected rate of inflation of fifteen per cent and the end product is a wage cut of between five to ten per cent. 2. 12 MONTH RULE THE EFFECTS of this wage cut bid will be heavier if the TUC and Government enforce a gap of twelve months between wage claims. Many workers will not receive rises until well into 1978 when inflation will have slashed living standards further. The second intention behind the rule is to divide up the working class struggle.
They are trying to separate carworker from carworker, docker from docker and white collar local government worker from manual workers. For example manual municipal workers have their claim in November, but white collar workers not until July 3. CASH LIMITS THE CORNERSTONE of the whole policy is the 'cash-limits system" in the public sector.
These limits are the amount of cash any council, nationalised industry or government department are allocated by the government, irrespective of any increased need in services, increased costs and so on. This is how Labour have already imposed 13,500m cuts in this year alone.
This is how they are going to try and use it in the future. The CBf demands that there are no increases over ten per cent for public sector workers. The Liberals will annonce they will vote to bring down the Government if there are any settlements over that figure, The new Tory concils and the nationalised industry bosses are backed up by the cash limits system.
Any public sector workers who starl to fight will be told that there is no money. They will claim that if anything more than the ten per cent norm is paid then thousands will have to be sacked and services further cut, The system is planned to defeat and isolate the seven millson workers in the public sector.
Covernment expenditure will also be used to police the private sector through the vast buying power that the state possesses in industry. The plan is to place orders with firms that hold the line on wage increases and withold them from those who meet union claims.
A second method, more indirect but extremely powerful, is through strict government restriction on the money supply as advocated by Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph, The idea is that claims over ten per cent would cause such a shortage of credit that firms would cut back their ordering, lay off workers and ultimately cause a rise in unemployment.
THE GRAND PLAN BY COMBINING control of the money supply, cash limits and the use of government buying and price powers Healey aims to tie togetber the whole of the ruling class power into a single bioc. Through the use of the twelve month rule and the refusal of the TUC to wage a united struggle Healey aims that the working class will only be able to fight as individual groups.
In a strugale between a united ruling class and a divided working class the CBl and the government calculate that the labour movement will be defeated and cuts in living standards imposed.
The Government has rejected any socialist way out of the present crisis, In consequence it was forced 10 'make capitalismn work' through the slashing attacks on living standards imposed by the wage controls, cuts, and unemployment of Phases 1 and 2. This led invitably to electoral disaster and the loss of the Labour majority in Parliament.
Desperately seeking to avoid che consequences of his policies, Callaghan rurned to the alliance with the Liberals. continuation of pro-capitalist strategy entailed by the Lib-Lab ETEAOSETNH greater lectoral disasters such as those al Ashfield and Saffron Walden.
Healey's budget is another step on the same suicidal course. The rigid enforcement of the 10 per cent wage controls and public spending cuts accepled by the Governmient and imposed as a condition for continuing the Pact br the Liberals means a head-on confrontation with the unions. This will make the Government yet more unpopular.
The Liberals, Tories, Ulster Unionists and all the rest can
Page 8 Public sector: 28,000 Britieh Siee star.
sector: arg. a, 000 pum . co0 pumers in Engla Waker 3,000 Kodal acriers.
ЕРТЕМВЕР
'ublic sactor: 116,000 poliee; 90.000 dockworkar:
Private sector. 00.006 in clothing manu/scture; 5,00 "НИНІ ЯТКНЯ ІСТН manual workers in Eritish Oxygen igsnes dhision)
4,500 browOry worbore
Publlo sector: 20,000 € 1500 menus The Lk Atomia
Virala sector: 55,000 manual workers and 14,500 sla
O'R DOO BARKHA ALHIE MEEE RD manual wcrkere at Britiah Nuclear Fue-t.
sector:1 083,000 koal authority merual and cra workers in Englend 888833333:880088039258339000008833S008 choose their moment until the peak of unpopularity of the Government and then tura Labour out of office. To be jecred by the miners and applauded by the CBl is Callaghan's policy.
But st is the miners and the rest ot the working class and not che employers who represent the interests of the labour movement and provide votes for Labour against the Tories.
Healey' statement and the Lib Lab agreement is a suicide pact which Callaghan is asking the labour movement to share with the Government.
FIGHTING BACK THERE IS no way the Labour Government can be kept in office by accepting its present course and wallowing Healey's package. That road leads only to slashing living standards, the return of the Tories, and the consolidation of the control of Callaghan,
Wage claims to come
ZR MEL wome aca bitten Orns Hos e 10 Leyland car Wrens at Longir idoe
5,000 manua and crat workers in the weter sarce tor: 238,000 ancillary workers in the NHS
JANUART
16,500 British Stoct manua workem; 50,000 Brills alrays marual workers: 43,000 cae supply workers 10,000 maintenence workers in the NHS, 24,000 bus W LINET
nua orvers al burtos,
E CONUANT
blic auctor: 30,000 aeciriciy supply technical sh
,001 British Leyland worker in Onfo
sector: 100,000 manual acrera in electricity
the 12 month rule.
against Phase Three.
BOUTEILLE
HEALEY
supply;
beachers:
33.300 London Transport worker Prestat car workers 25, ode evenee bee baidla PANL SOMEr. TBS.LU
Publie sector: s20. coa cestretty supply etat Private sector: 75,000 rampeciiding and reprinng JUNE Private sector: 600,000 building workers; 175,000 civil SOHEM-
pat in gas supe ,0 r alar sere 90, 0 incust al warkar in t%e Cill Servle
Healey and their supporters over the labour movement.
But there is anther road. Fighting the 10 per cent norm and
Defending living standard; through wage claims designed to compensate for Phases I and 2 and protected by automatic cost of living increases. Unifying the struggles
Fighting for a t50 minimum wage.
Abolishing the cash limits system and replacing it with automatic cost of living increases in public expenditure to compensate for inflation. Fighting for the Right to Work. These are the beginning of the road to defending the working class. defeating the Tories, and changing the policies and leadership of the labour
A united struggle to fight Phase Three, a united struggle to defear Callaghan and Healey, a united struggle for a socialist alternative; that is the task in the coming months.
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SOCIAL CONTRACT '77
SPECCH
Jan
have been 27 per
Apr
Jul
netite month rule 1 being tair
* Price rises 16 per cent. Distiler's Group profits rise asment of the Labour Government. Gloomy of the sustained propacampaign that led to the mccaf the Social Contract impaign maintained that creases lead to inflation i therefore workers, orghrough their trade unions, same for the crisis. yearsof self-imposed wage t by the unlons have since by. What has boe the
rament figures show thai Andards fell to their lowest.
TOUCHES A CAC TITSE TIECE of this year, They had Paper at Jower tan al of 1974. of this decline has cocurelase year. The purchasing if take-home pay feir by rcent in the lust qunnier of Dy two percentin the Dest
wook council worke James Ford sacked and fined to conomy:
year. Real Taka stancards by agreeing per cent norm while Inflation is still rising
submit demand for 20 par cent whited pay
/hat makes
lealey run?
ETTERED collective bargining from 1 August'. That in of the transport workers" conference has led to a chorus gleeful and gloomy in the mass media. Gleeful at the
at prospect of a wages explosion led by the miners and car
N MOHEN traces out the path to Healey's announcement
Who is not surprisine that toid spending in the shops in April was al its lowest level for nearly five years. Prices have soared, Al the beginning of 1977 food prices wen rising at mine per cent above the general level of price increases, fuel by eight per cent ahore and housing by nearly cleven per cent above. The first result of the Social Contract was to decimace living SLUEARTS.
PROFITS
The second result is increasing profits. In 1976 company profits rose by 25 per cent.
Marxists should not be surprised by this. Capitalism is about profit-making. Profits are best increased by raising producrivir; either by using more machines or fewer workers, Since it is workers
Feb
* A lacelift worth 21,00 high society geests at a ball at th
profits by 1979.
May
do over E7 million
sampany to reconnect ne electricaly
Aug
?
and not oncluis who creste the prop tac test 15 a tal in profitahility. When these Tails become so large thar capitalists stop investing How do they try to orercome the crisis?.
They must increase profitability. But his can only bappen if copitalist industries are reorganisod so that inefficient firms are driven into bankruptcies and the more efficient cabled to in-
Iversion
A 000 ng i was til for.
Mao arto malaisie Tor PurchasTer Hot
Real wages fall to 6 per doubling of
short carom the a lot
his stately home. Receipts come
supplies got no eleciricity, and her baby
cious.
is scurs
profitable again.
could set underway.
...
Mar
Overlooking Hyde
• A 8T-year-old woman living aione on social sacurit Talled for 3 months for stealing food valued at C1.4 al 17 per cani. Unemploymant si 1,348,000. ICI announces increass in proflt in 1976 ol da per cant to E540 million. Cuts in public spending OF E3,500 million announced for 1977-71
Jun
to give me a good time'
Helicopter smoked salmon and roast beef lunch champagne and hire of morning cost and topper. • Inflation up to 18 per cant. Company profits average 31 per cant higher than a year earlier. Wages fall to stronger.
thal crease the scale of their opern
lack of investment in a crisis led
of large numbers of seemployed enabled contrallars to recuce tod wages of those who sill bad Jobs.
The process of reorganisation
With the t0 come
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE throom penthouse apertme
Park dovel oped by Trafalger House Invest-
to the Sun: Two weeds ago my husbend took me to the 2ирuтите18л0 300 mо 10c1
buying the thinge I love but could no longer afford. like
his overtime money for months
Facts trom Labour Research
restoration of wapes could he allowed to rise cain — until the next cris Today tbings are somewhi different. The trade unions are The state plays an active role in the cootery, by acting as a caralyst to the role that the market played on its own in the ninereenth century The state engineers the fall in wages by letting prices rise faster WALES creating unclaplogisent through cutring Together with state intervention in indus try through the National Enter prise Board, chis fall it wages provides the impetas to capitalist reorganisation.
IMPORTANT
That's why the Social Contract
ment. If it can't be renewed, then Ile Government wil have to operate a lough public sector
privare sector employers to 10Fuse "excessive pay claims. monet in Briain. The Tank of Profitability is not terly Bulletin, that profits in the солома ной mOUs SocED were clearly belew that required
ment", and that, unless profits
vestment is unlikely to be ad
State of growth'.
No-one can say that me have not been warned of the offensive
21 July 1977 Page 9
The
5 per
cent
wage
cut
HEALEY proposed
will be in single figures by next
Inflation is at present 18 per cent. This makes un annual inflation rate of 13-14
lving standards would fall by 3-4 percent.
• In fact no serious economic
Nation will be beluw 10 per cest by next summer than Healey kept his promise to
get it belo 10 per beat in
Phuse 2. This means an amnua
cent or more when the sturting level is 1S per cent as ar present. In rentity, therefore, Hewley proposes u 5 per cent cut in Iving
of the 5 pe saffered under Phases 1 and 2. * For many groups of workers
cut in living SEEDOESOS would be morse than 5 per cent, A 10 per cent average increase SCHEMES YOU ESCEIC target, only means 6-7 per cont
haste rates with the rest some groups of workers getting made up by CUTLEINE. and more than 10 per cent. For low paid workers, or those without opportunily overtime. bones schemes and the like will not even set a 10 per Increase. For these workers the cut in living sundards could be as mech as 7 per cent. ine steale "handouts' no
praised by the
Labour left, They aren't even worth the paper they are written 08. The 1Vip milk subsidy b made ap for by the Ip on i -Jarge lonE and the 3p on a pound of cheese which the removal of Government support will mean
The Increases on family benefits are also u simple
Field of the Child Poverty Action Groap hus shown that a tanily on tour -MYTHER eamings would get un extr
2.10 u child. Thut it world los 209 in chile lan alowance. but mel extra El in increased
charges. • The net CH TO BE ATETREE TAIL WIL be ip. A family with 3 calldren would actually be 15p a week WISE OT LOUI changes.
All Healey's proposeis •mount loss demand for a reinimum 5 per ceat cut ir working class living standardi HE BALCE BOULES MAHEICH Tal of doubting profia b?
Anal Personal Dispeeable
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Chinese bureaucracy loses some international friends
Damage to Catalonia
letter
whom they are in disagreement.*
Chinese Friendship Society.
THE accusation of an assempted soup d'état levelled at the Hour can in no way be considered CERTAIN SEE CLUELE TWO IL I those who have effectively carried out a coup d'état who declare
LICT eliminated wanted to seize power by force (--.)
in which the 'criticisms" of the four have been made and are being conducted has methine in common with the teachings of Mao. One cannot
Marxist what has been published, merely hbels and slanders, the low level
clearly, betrays the mability of the present leadership M The Lee CODUMS HEE (CCP) to critique of the points which modid nave tormed ine poonca line of the four (...)
In the last few months" papers
le It in said that Wang Hong
de new bootstomac. Funner I D affirmed that the four have clung obstinately to the positions of Landed Traprictors and bourgeoisie, that they are leaders 100 per cent committed to the Madrid'.
But not all the comic relief comes from Madrid. A few days
before last month's election the
Catalon Left, the electoral slate
by the forget of ahead of 900,00 the far
people Mootjalch in Barcelona OUTSIT
down again.
Not for not to demand clections to a sovereign Catalan assembly with powers to redraw the constitu-
ion, but to demand the return of the President of the Generalitat
the Catalan Government-Ib-
**Bizarre as it may seem, dep
Tarradallas, was to play a major
part in the central Government's
attempt to resolve the Caraian
problem
SUCCESSES
Even before the electoral res-
that some sott
autonomous governmenl could
b Mocked Out, On the evening DE
15 June a spokesperson for the
PSUC, the Caralan Communis
noW was to re-establish
among all Catalan forces; chose
BE IC COALL ILLL. those of the
centre and those of the right'.
When the extent of the workas cartes clectora: successes in
INTERNATIONAL
Bettelheim's
resignation/
• Itisimpossible to putany confidence in leaders who deceive the people while carrying out the elimination of those with
CHARLES BETTELHEIM, one of the most prominent intellectual supporters of the Chinese Communist Party, explains why he resigned as president of the Franco-
capitalist road.
They are presented 88 sworn enemies of the CCP, the working class, the entire people and the Chinese nation; they are said to be guilty of contact with foreign powers, servility to foreigners, The import of goods useful to the activities of their secret agents
articles. Equally they are said to lave purposcly squandered state ands to harm and to have praised material incentives. They are also presented as Kuomintang agents.
LE SUCH 84U303 ponded to reality, this could only raise the most serious doubts or ENCOMOSIO leadership and Ine viguance ou Mao Tse-ung himself. such conditions one could also
today's leadership will one day reveal themselves to be Kuominlang agents capace or poduston
1f, as 1 believe, these accu sationa do not coltipond 1o 1he truth, it is impossible to put any confidence in leaders deceive the people while carrying out the elimination of those with whom they are in disagreement.
HE cany anne be boss Some years ago the Franco regime celebrated its silver Jubilee. The then Minister of Information, Manuel Frage, had hoardings erected throughout Catalonia proclaiming '25 years of peace in Catalan. An old peasant saw the slogan, so. the story goes, and asked, 'Is this a film which is coming to Barcelona?* "No', came the reply, 'it's a comedy from
Catalonia became known leventos, leader of the Catala Socialists, called for a meeting of all Catalan depoties (including
by RICHARDCARVER and the tas arom Free discuss autonomy Real secreary Cera Lope CHETHER CHOU SHULare in a strong negotiate, bur me don't want to LUND OLESCIES OIL ALL SUPCIEU and have to engage in an eventual test of strength on the streets."
Of course no-one wanted cat!
Reventos, Prime Minister Adolfo
could never set foot oo Catalan soil until autonomy was restored Madrid," fixing thus WIT CORES MERCHAE TORTESCIE cive of the Republic of the 1930 after the largely unnoticed hara over THING CERA BOYCERICHE in-exile last month.
but the meeling had more than a
pandy faradas was cien
unity: ecause of the unexpected ele toral reverse for the Caralar Democratic Pact, the main Cata lan bourgeois platform.
No doubt Suarez would have felt happier talking to the Pact's
CUTEST guidance.
for such disagreements, burbs of the CCP resortine to standee
LD Dese CondItIons, doU Under
part formulated by Mao Tse-Tung is a
smokescreen flage a completely different line. In fact, a study published in China in the last fea months, together with what ong know of the actual course 01 events there, has led me to the conclusion that it l revisionist line which has carried the day. The critique of Teng has bech abandoned, abound giving primacy to proleader, Jordi Pujol, a banker so 'moderate" that he once moved even Fraga to declare: "1 am a convinced regiona st But Tarradellas" virtue lay in a political appeal which crossed
parties had made the demand fo the reture of the a centrepicce of their coctora Joan campaign. Now, after the Cara-
Plan eloctorate's TE HOR DE BOREDALS BAUDIA ism, Tarradellas. was the man to talk The talks were followed by the arnouncement of a provisionai Catalan administration*, pending
state lime made a ther
JSAUS LOTEECHES position Tarradellas, now tactfully rel
Turned to bis French exile, cond BON TESE ujol, true to his philosophy c (there's a bandwagon 1'0 jum a recover boatso suppo the work of recovery of the institutions of the Generalitar".
Only the PSUC, which bad noe been consulted ar all, was a litcle put out. This provisional body'. commented one of is leaders will not return to Caralonia the autonomous freedoms naking contac
central issue is not 'autonomy centrational anation, bor
whether the fors of governmen is to be desermined in Madrid or Barceloita.
All the bourgeois nationalist
parties the the merkis plane
for the former. capitalises a degree of adminisra tive independence must be temp cred by the mintenance of the
duction over revolution
KRUL conclude that the fidelity
the political line one's opinion,
desigoed to camou
HELENS
conjured away. calls old right winger
overwhelming
paradoxically,
marched up Montjuich LEUSIONI change. parties
weeks. •POC
domestic prices gods, sn authority of the Spanish
Meo'3 successors are criticised for revising' his politics, but present policy was all tormulated under his
* On
Discipline and order are praisquestion of tbe right to preserve
without speakin of the right and tbe dury to rebe against a bourgeois political Line position or vomen daring the The questions pased by socialist transition are simply no recognised. The struggle against bourgeois rights is practically no of the existence of the bourge oisie in the heart of the party is class struggle is replaced by the call to "strugele against the four For the workers" parties their Catalan cloctoral success was positively embarassing. On the mous government would be firmly under their control course with Madrid. That would hardiy fit in with their detente with Suarez on a national level Madrid will be pleased enough, for this is little more than a dress tencarsal for the stifler confroolation when the issue of Basque surerone 300,000 what
would say that Catalonia's reletion to Barcelona, not Madrid. But, as long as their parties are content geriatric Grand Old Duke of York, things are unlikely la
SPAIN'S spectacular twenty
per cest peseta devaluation last
week aroused greul enthusiusm
simalation of tourist trade
the ostensible object of their
GEE CUTOr
Iself through before next year.
The wrin point of the more b
The other mujor aspect of the
economic package was a more
snintoni policy of direct taxa-
lion. This is meant, at least in
aren" of the working clane incentive to
sccept. strict pay
control in an austerity package
expected within the next few
But one of the effects of de-
valuation will be to stimulate
of Imported marken will need
even fartber pay rises to keep
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
the international plane the scruggle ngainst the
brODressiVelY heen replaced by the struggle against social imperialism alone.
Americaas and their allies in the lives of other peoples are often considered posite Thor, tor example, was how the events in Zaire were treated However, when the two im otber there is no place for any support to one side or the play into the hands of social imperialison. (...)
Experience has shown how the present leadership of the Chinese Communist Party uses intercrease its prestige in the eyes of the Chinese masses. Therefore, political line presently in com mand in China, or even to strike to be approving. is to render no service ar all to the Chinese for socialism in China
4 July 1977
MARXIST
SYMPOSIUM
sessions on
gramsci
speakers include
ernest mondel
quin tin hoare
denise avenas
robin blackbur
norman geras
michael lowy
21 July 1977 Page 10
Albania
takes
its
distance
by GUSFAGAN
inits official organ Zeril Popullit has for the first time launched a coupocanace onterorcian pol
It criticises the Chinese failureto
anti-imperialist and revolutionary forces on the one band, and be
pro-impenans and reconan
fascists' on the other. ' Accord-
ing to this theory', it argues, the
people
should even unify with reactict
ary regimes and forces in the third
WISH SHE BE HICHSIR.
other words, they are to renounce revolutioo,
But the line attacked by the
Albanians is not a product of the
Chinese leadership under
Hua Kuo-feng but of the
MOST TXUTEMULISEY ESCENDE
y the Mainst line, elabore til
Teng Haiao-ping after the
of Lin Plan, called for an alliance of the third world with the secon dary imperialisms
Emope) agalost the super powers
But in recent years Maoist policy
has shifted towards an open ism against the more dangerous
of the super powers, the Soviet - Union.
The explanation for the Alban-
way Chinese foreign policy con
Ricts with the nationat interests of
Chinese support the strengthening
of NATO, which is a direct threat
More recently Lhe Peking reac-
tomaries have called for a build-up
calling it a sacred right of
France" and praising it as the fruit
danie Pursued by General de dence
The Albanians have a long
standing dispute with Yugoslavin
DOLE DOTES SOU alongside
China, fought vigorously agains
the Mospaw rapprochement with
Now
the Macises are making a sintilar
rapprochementwith Belgrade, as
evidenced by an official invitation
to Tito to visit Peking.
THE EUROPEA
EVOLUTIO
'eurocommunism
spain poulantzas women s struggles
estem
europe
revolutioncary Strategy at the LSE DONE sept 9,10, lith DETAILS: RESTRATION 2209 Uper N Socialist Challenge
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NELLA FABER
their acute political and organisational crisis. holly debated here as well, albeit in a different form.
lessons of the Italian experience for Britain.
AT THE close of a stormy congress, Adriano Sofri called on
colnul way, ne was expressing the choice that the leadership of Lota Continua had made: not to
the youth to the marshals — but
the ground up.
INTERNATIONAL
LOTTA EC
•LL COMARO
The ftaian far left
and the risis
Lotta Continua
Living with an
IN THE DAILY press of the Italian left there is hardly an article on the far left groups that does not go into extensive detail about
A series of events have confirmed both the existence and deepgoing nature of the crisis. These include the mass resignations of women members of Lotta Continua [the Struggle Continues] and the PdUP ( Party of Proletarian Unity], the Lotta Continua congress last September and the multiple splits recently suffered by the PdUP and Avanguardia Operaia | Workers Vanguard].
For the British left this has more than an academic interest. Many of the problems raised — work in the mass organisations of the working class, the question of the " left goversment" — are
ANNA LIBERA begins a four week series on the strategies of the far left since the 20 June elections last year — ciections which gave the Communist Party its largest ever share of the vote and saw a drop in the far left's poll. A final article will discuss the
Evokir the need for the leading group to get back in rouch with the masses, he said: *Of course. people will tell me that Beerhoven was deaf, and yet he managed to compose magnihoven was a genius!' well calculared, in view of Lotte The choice
Today Loua Continua no longer exists as an organisation Last June in Turin, where it at one tibe had 1,000 members, the
earthquake'
LC comrades victory to get fifty persom to a meeting. Sofi, who had chosen to reintegrate himself into the hold of Turin, got kicked out a few months later by the 'workercities similar things have happen
This is not to deny that man activists in the student, you
identify themscives as members
tsacoce, this has more to do with sentimental attachment to Th
od the various movements' over the past eight years than political conviction.
Paradoxically: sales daily newspaper, drapped to a low of 6,000 copies at the beginning of the bo, ovo copies during the student upsurge of the last two months. However. as the voice of movement", its lifespan will be SUBICCI only as long as that
movement,
political endered to give any
and the unions into appendages
OL
SE
of the wate wench they had never
considered it a
dicting himself when sed,
"external' never In
still
But.
not actually
of which
school workers jumned fantastically September.
of the to which it
tents existed,
an organisation.
WOMEN purely suicidal logic.
that i wAs
movement against
inpact;
CONTINUA
apparatus', en back to the rigat m of Lona Continua tionship
departed from theoretically, of building a new workers movement
Sofri came close to contra-
The confes durInE one oi the lone sil-criticism sessions at the con
The fact is that while myself have always been a stern CERN OF LOSES COCON OTHE
vanguard, 1 have my life managed to be
of anything" While Safri could afford to make jokes ahout it, ering sire the
marting point for demoralisation
What really happened in italy
tomal correspond the least to the picture that the Lotta Continua leadership had
mealed with a wait-and-see atti tude, there was no eruption of "working class autonomy when
returned to work in
And when labour opposition buberin to surface in soon istent way this spring, it did s above all and primarily withi the framework of its organisa tions — unions and councils, a
Linging rebuff to Solri's tbeo
ST PIG CHOOSE CONCI more than a few activists.
integration into the awwements' this was carried ou to the letter where these move-
the point of dismembering Lotta Continun as councils at
the The women who had refused
tion's leadership bodies at the Rimini congress all weat off into tbe women's mowment. Wha the scodent movement erupted. members and former members of comrades LOHE ANUOUR LOOK CHL BLEW massive numbers, embracing its congress, apolitical characier and anti-
orientation with a the leading core of Lit tel ment; bu expresses its views in the news paper from time to time, farced to intervene and explain
important not confuse the autonomy of the tion
with a prohibition TOLE DORISREMES problems: utting forward their own poin of view. Rur this appeal had lite!
Stu- be sure, dents who identified with LC
The report presented to the las LC Ceniral Committee meetin tried to warn the student move
current, about this danger. The movement has defended irs own
HEROES stream,
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE tempts to conceive of the rela-
with the workers as a relationship with the institutions of the workers movement, even when these institutions appear in
Ten suise of the
Federation) or the plant councils
However, this does not mean that the movement should go seck relations with the automo mous vanguard of the working class. This i IOUS combat those theories, that ap pear to be the opposite side of the Pom or revisionst 1alk "ewo societies"", which, consid
*socially conscious (i.e. the unemployed,
vanguard of the proletarias in the crisis, then tend to identify the TACO WONG BE TEC SOU
representatives of the workers movement, and so corne SO TIL DISOR THAT TRE TAK er mass can only be won lo revohutionary struggle on an TEATE US ONSIS
'MOVEMENT-ITIS
While correctly debunking the Ebeories about the integration al the reporter puts Forward Do other perspoctive than that of tie
structures, siving the momber white manding the or of the ship absolutely means working class's attachment to ill mass organisations, and of u
the assembly of opposition plan
the Lirico theatre in Milan, the better to intervene in
Apparently the 1C Jeaderst
is tealised, somewhar belated
suicidal consoquences for their organisation of the cholce
The above mentioned report to the Central Committee ended h
*I think that "movement-itis" in Loca 0003010031 Continu
LET HIS HEIS tO LONG TE
this correct under standing tbat the nucleus of
rebuilt from within the move
reflects an unresolved dilemma over how re pose the problem of politica intervention of leadership. of
oflen passive, Fatalistic expecta
thar the movement is cap able of offering solutions to these
ring of a cry in the wildernes. Ta this conclasion hat
current will continue to exist, a longer tocre 15 no man pantin doweturn; bat in the presen political conjuncture, to be able ta envision the reconstitution of ine creamasation would meat having to swun against the
21 July 1977 Page 11
IN BRIEF
EUROCOMMUNISM: San tiago Carrio, the general set retary of the Spanish Comma nis. Party, said last wock tha Alexoder Dubcek was a Euro conseusist without knowing it.
There is very little chance tha BusSiAn Tanks will ever Teac Spain to: quash a possible Spanish experiment of the same kind, and in any case, if the
id the Spanish peopic woul
rendy to fighr then
DION MED IN LOEM Was
Drift hetween Moscow West European Com munist Parties.
POLAND: The Polish Parts leader. Edward Gierek, last week stressed thie need improve the working of 1h representative organs gradua ly widen the powers of the loc govertumient."
CZECHOSLOVARIA: The Charter 77 human rights group has launched a protest against discrimination against intellec
names lal writer: whose work is not publisted in Czechoslovaki for politica reasons and adds that there are many others in the same position,
SOUTH AFRICA: France Last week concluded teo-year
contract to buy 1,000 tons o natural uranium from South Africa Government officials are reluctant to comment on
the West Cerman authorities which have just carried out a credits to South Africa,
OCESS CIS liberation leader Sain Nujoma also has evidence German
SOUTE AMERICA: The Labour Party National Execu tive Committee bas put out a
tatement calling for the exte
Tinancial
gainst Chile and Argentin
he Government is reported divided over whether
Polivian timini Linan
after a Narional DEROELETS delegation port on miners" conditions and repression in Bolivia.
• Government's austerity package. The
which is to
includes spending astronomical price rises unions have called a 24-hour general strike foe 19 July.
ETHIOPIA: A spolesperson for the Eritrean Popular Liberation Front in Paris claims that the current Ethiopian of
spearbeaded by Israel-trained Commandos.
MALTA: Dom Mintaff' s Government is beading for an all out confrontation with the unions, after his attempts
dustrial action by public sector workers.
EGYPT: The Government has produced a draft law which penalty for Muslims who re- WHILE introduce the dear
nounce the Isianic faith and
USA: Three men have been
fighting San Quentin Jail after organise
groups altacked Binc Muslim prisoners.
UNA/SOUTH KOREA: The
etbics committee of che Hous
UNCLENE 18s 100I that I15 Conress members have repeived lavour from South Korea since 1970 The
Spect a he breedi
Whip, Democratic Speaker and and Morris Lidall, who ram for the party's presidential nomination last year,
Page 12 scan of this page
SPEAKON
GINIPUPURA, SRI LANKA
prisoners
THIS WEEK sees elections in Sr Lanks after the break ap of the
of the bourgeois Sri Lanka
reedom the former Trotskyist LSSP and de Com munist Party.
When Parliament was suspend-
which the Government has ruled
ace the mass upsurge of 197
NO AS TARO TA DO TELE monthly in Parliament. This threatened disloyalty to the British crown.
"papist"
On 12 July each year, Orange men from all over the North of 1E084CL0 100 1000 10000
Prince
INTERNATIONAL
Not someone you'd like to bump into on a dark night. This American Is ane of the 1,800 foreign mercenaries in the Rhodesian army, Including 500 Britiah, 1am here because this is the only worthwhile war going on at present, says one mercenary, Besides, It's commun/am we are
Free Sri Lanka
allowed the Janatha Vimakthi Peramuna (JVP), since 1971, to re-register itacif as a political party.
Out of about 20,000 people arrested in 1971, no more than a co trial. The majority have been released but are kept under constant surveillance. are just under 200 JVP political Rohan Wijewerra, one of the
Orange bigots on the march
At a meeting attended by lan Paisley in celebration of the victory of King William Ill at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 the chairperson of the Independent Orange Order
He said that if Prince Charles married Princess MarieAstrid of Luxembourg as suggested in the gutter press, the Independent Orange Order would not give allegiance to Charles, The reason is that the woman in question is a
But 12 July has a more serious side to it. RON DALY in Belfast reports on the celebrations there and from Glasgow MARTIN O'LEARY records what happened in Scotland.
A trend which ran though the speeches this year was a call fo of chine the in mel Ordered
have five Unionist
crisis of the Rhodesian regime.
One of the major strategies of me omn relue to try ang "contain" the spread of guerilla. bases inside the country has been
the 'Guard Force".
Some 300,000 Africans bave
to be imprisoned in such camps. Needless to say these have be-
activities of the natlonalists, and the Guard Forces are constantly
operating in these areas.
case, in the Sengwe Tribal Trust Lands, tne entre populaton ol one such village, together with its Guard Force, disappeared without trace!
State expenditure on defence has shat up lo 192 million for chis wear, an increase of some 20 pet cent over last year's figure.
Niger Word's
should have mad: The Labour
Party Aud lost control both
politically man OTEr
inadvertently omitted!
main leaders of the JVP. was sentenced to life imprisonment We are reliably Informed that both he and Lionel Bopage are suffering from which doctors have
an hospitals and have asked that hey be moved from the prison HOSTIC
The Government is refusing on the grounds that i poose scary tion the quality of the food they receive in jai
These measures against the JVP and in particular at its
marked by proscribed wave of strikes invoiving hospe
demanding, political prisoners.
We are for the demands which the most progressive sections of the work-
of many odds: *Relense ull political prisoners:
*Hands off the JVP.
Orange Order and leading to its splintering.
A medioval tone was added by Cesil Harvey of the LUM whò called for loyal Orange people to oppose any change in relating to divorce and homo SPRUSSY WHILE WOW! adelery end make lethe he sin tively give licence to the DE SOOn Donoran
Tan Paisley graced a meeting of the Independent Orange Order
breaking of the Fourth mandatent which set aside SunDay as Ine Lord a way - He mas of course other preventing the children of Larne
such as the province being 'betrayed by a Lundy leadership HE TECH ARE MCLON ME the Protestant Ieader who opened the gates of Derry to the Carholl i unity was army in 1689!
His than better when be iter of Ire- *While calli
equally
Zimbabwe:
JULIUS KARANJA concludes his look at the internal
the Alouette helicopters. heightening politica.
suitabl sembled in South Africa'")
mously: while
- least paragraphs interview
ГЛС CLU 7 The word lost' was
ailments For prescribed
would be a risk. In addE
has deteriorated From a correspondent
most
unprecedented frying pan apain.
Tlicy
the release of the
appealing for support
July sembiy.
shall also enjoy the same
The early date year
Park.
respec- Icooc to mainland Britain. members
imprisoned
ComRoddy
interests than "Supreme Commander"
scale gun running to
too? He was ace
The Strike
Racists on the run
The Government has difficulty oit the finding apare paris for its mili-
In the I crises thai
of military though South Africa has recencly
ledged a supply of Mirage 10
stamped teachers,
Toc death toll on the Rhodes ian troops has increased enor
in the whole of
continuca to grow (some 1,200 merent operate in tr
compared to the net emigration 1976 there was a net loss of 7,072 whites from Rhodesis; by May this year, the ne loss was 3,557
White males up to the age of 34 are now babie to call up and population ir is estimated that Rhodesino armed forces (includine the po-
•ATE TEST ALESTI honor, only one far of i 30,000 Including some
Turkey:
FOR THE Turkish people it was a case of out of the frying pu into the fire, and back into the
rejected the right-wing coalition led by Suleyman Demi-
the Republican
People's Party, a centre grou
Ecevit lose his first vote of confidence in the National As-
Evevil, who three weeks pre viously had described Demirel as a fascist, proposed a coalition
in Soarland the wetth celebrated on Saturday 9 July
was to enable - this sear Scottish bands to cross to the Six Counties for the marches there.
The biggest walk was in Gilas
at least 20,00
subsequent rally in Rouken Cile Pon of are indeed se prophesied an exten-
Ulster Volunteer Force in Ayrshire were
being covered with a car load of bombs Six months Ago Orangeman
MacDonald procinimed on Scottish television that he was UDA in Sporand. He said bis members were involved in large a time
the Six
Subsequently the Orange Lodge staged a "trial" of MacDonald for Drange
disrepute on the insti
The to left-over.
Unconfirmed reports of bomb
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE number can be mobilised.
the nel emigration and tbe death toll have subscantial effects on the COINTY ACC ACY ALL ASH GEST
labour force. Further more, they have a demoralising
popularion, who, on top of the Fear for there, and service and faced with a declining service sector as teachers and medica stall emigrate. In 199h some 85 "professionals" left, including
lected in the recent badget whic
cluded a sales tax of 15 per on and a 10 per cent surcharge an income tas, together with a freere to olliet increased militar! expenditure, This has contribured to the rise in inflation particularly for the black population. This sow stands at 30 per cent,
an inflation rate fo the wiltes of 13 percene.
Already there are signs that the African trade unions will he highline for wage increases o 50-70 per cent combined with a
The entrance of this sector or ltH
struggle radically deepen the crisis of the regime, and begin to lend a nev character to the struggles national liberation: they will also move a tes or the teal chatacle al tbe nationalist leaders.
Back in the frying pan
with the lotter's Jusrice Party -un overture which was not surprisingly rejected. Demirel is now recons as previous Coop
with the crypto-fascist National Action Party
The usual baticin or Tortis! polities would have allowed the offensive Boevir a fair perio
past his way of dealing with the workers' movemcal — co-opcion
- TAISAH have been preferred to Demirel's policy of repression.
•Bur the eisation wis carried Du in an atmosphere of threatened military intervention with the
Members of the Uister Derence Associal/on. The UDA Supreme Commander in Scoriand claims his members are involved in large scale gun running to the Six Counties.
altacks on Catholic churches and pubs have been current in the Glascow area for some time now
when the National Front is making a big etfont ti
revive its old alliance with the
Lodge the danger is starkly obvious.
No one can any longer regar
walk as a quaint historica
• An important new pulication on Ireland has just been pro duced by the Troops Our Move
21 July 1977 Page 12
Black gold
in Belize
hy CHRIS O BRIEN ONE WORD that was hardh mentioned during the British anny s recent excursim to Helizi was ou, But i you conson the following Footnote to the bet Belize alrlift In 1975 it becomes clear that it is a litte word which
A Canadian multinational, Tr ternational Nickel (inco), fighting to keep hold of offshore drilling rights in the very area where the were concentrared on the Guatemal: border. It tried to conceal its operations ay wam umour un name of two well-known deter
Ajax Oil and Petroleum! These two held bon cessions in the southern offshore area from 1967.
(AEC)
Houston, Texas, AEC applied to the Belize Government for thi Ajax and Ariel concessions
president, A. W. Duggan, clains that he re-
eived a letter from his local r
Be gna that. Bacy a week late
granted. Exactly a week later
cia! donation Lhe ruling People's United Party.
1975, Inco which also has a E125m nicke project over the border in Guate
who had set up a campaign called Americans for Belizean Independence
Around 4-5 November 1975
elize after Britain's support fr a UN resolution calling for the On 13 November Inco's drilling licence was withdrawn. dos acting to provoke since
ite talk of the rate cass
The bulk of the rolle considered that an Ecevit Glov ernment, with its promised liber rightist paramilitaries, could only stimulate the growth of the LOLO MUS pacties and the DISK. independent trade union federation with mass support.
i ate that problem Al
riot resolve that problem. ready union leaders have threatened a general strike against any Demirel Government. ment. Called simply Trish News Sheer", it is the
gives a deraried chronefogy of events in Ireland. Issue covers euents from Now her 1976 to June 1977 and as well
on British stase stras Reiman in the nort CLOWNSI CULTIVI There Marg and the chi to thin on the media
The neve sheer in nearly J0 pagen long and is available fron Troops Out, c/o 2a 31 Pawa Rd London NI. It costs 50p incla ding postage
Page 13 scan of this page
The National Front is a Nazi Front
TE
article of faith on the tonary left, and such a pro
not need to be fought for within the labour movement.
Trecently had a which argued for 1 non-controversial ; a theatre in London. The play called Destiny, was reviewed, these things are, in man democratic publication also, as these things after by the political column
Guardian, the Professo DO TE BKDo Cowee L0000 and the Editor of the
What these and many ober commentators agroed was that the thesis of equivalence, as a matter of historical fact, was not only incorrect, but, further, thar the holding of such an idea was evidence of a rather rank wickedness or mental retardation. 1
ras described, somewtat to m ure i ain eetoner *imn ture', Ituou
Give and 'paranoi se could observe 11 this device peopi with whom lisagrees of criminal or lunatic 1 endencies B, in a barmless form the tactic as that employed to silenc dissen t in the Union of Socialist Republics; bur that not the point. One could also argue that the reason for vebonence, from the democrars at least, mas be thai hese gentlemen realise that if the National Front ars
18592 then they face the possible destruction of their professions and their party, and they might have tb do something about it; bat that isn't really the point cither. The point, it seems to me, is tbat the slogan National Front, Nazi Frost' needs to be fought for, that there is an ideological hartle in the labour movement to be won.
DISGUST
And the reason for tbat is far from academic. There's dout. of course. thar al good social-democrats and true regard
with gesuine disgust, and it's probable that some of them would fight with some rigour against them, whetber or not they think that the NF ha anything lo do with pre-war fascism, on the grounds of cbc Front's stated policies. But why ir is so vital to identify the NF not just as nasty people, nor even as racist militants alone, but bat ano pur Ewoi, 25 arecsel in order to expose thase policies WEC BE MODESEIE which they in fact specifically
DE lensE Ln public, which can hesr be exposed by looking at the experience of the 1920s and 1930s, These unstared policiea inchude, to take but one small exemple, the destruction of the lahour moverent, and branch, in the interests of and often in direct callusion with The employing classes of society
Withou this perspective, the
SURPLUS VALUE
New same Savie
social
National. Front thugs attacking
charges.
Front not only looks quantitively lease iT you're a white socialacteeral, Dat auso te becomes d qualitatively different beast. 1f BERTHIEWEDNCIR HILI Tor despairing poor white racismi, or as a repositor tor the working class protest vole equivalent to the Liberals for the middle class, or as a gensine if unpleasant populist movetent against the establishment (all views are held by Mr. Marlin STACE BENe
as book The National Fronz and
eisewhere), shen it is, of course, a very different phenomenon from POEIE MIRS COULET TEDIL sonary sbockloroe operating in ZULIAT agalnsı the proletariat.
Particularly, If the NF's amiestablisment rhetorle is believed and 1s class lunchon misuder stood, then the obwious logical rool extension is for those opposed to
the NP to place happy confident reliance on the fores of the escublishment Press to Pa-lament to Lhe Police
is vital for the labour movement.
La supporter of the Lewisham 24 last month, as he held grimly on to the railings. There have boon a series of violent atlacks by the fascists on the South London campaign In defence of the 24 young black people who have been arrested on trumped up pollice
to control them if they get out of hand. Moreover, the accept ance of the NF at their Face value may middle class to Caost cobbsm bot it aves the despalring lower-middle and unorganised or unemployed work ing class wide open to their demagogEry.
EXPOSURE which The Jactual, detailed Guardian in bis painstaking exposure demagogery, and thus of cheir ideological equivalence with pre-
urgent task. It isa't cass, demagogery ia by definirion saying one Ling anober (cl.
Kamp/: Thetrade unions cannot be dispensed with9. Luckily, with the NF we need not (and should bot rely pictures of Tyndall and Webster and decked out in stormtrooper uniJorms in the barly 1550s, or from the
David Edgar, whose play Destiny excited a lively debate in the
national press, argues that a serious analysis of British fascism
that There is well excite the Ebera-lett SOTHE oppose their NI
adresman ast Juls: seerts lo nue TasCIst right-wing dictatorship" meaning A. Hitler in Mei
anion moverens, the NF's any more solely ob
unions", and the October
Mein said the following: wazI
Now the NF, National Party, and British Mavement have found a new basis for unity, rally lo be held in South London on ministers and a Labour MP have called for a ban on the NF march. Anti-lascists up and down the country should start preparing now fora massive counter-march
machines'). We can turn, instead, to Tyndall writing in March 1976
Jewish con- by puttin world UNTESE oudined in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion', and to the NF journal Spearhead', assertion (in
fune/July) 1976) thar the Nazi deah campe were no more than la bissae of lies... manufactured
poesis) from the persistent propaganda of the World Jewish Congress'.
Abd, even bore clearly, we can point to Jim Merrick (Bradford NF activisr and candidate) and marking: his open admission to the New
I don't abject a bit if you call me a and exercised
-This counlry needs a turned Britain
Ie's even possible to detect, benesth ali the chietorio about being lo favour of the trade
sonicching of TeSL Olang Tyndall admitted in September 1934 that 'our aim is to take over the trade
1976 demagoger edition of National Froes News
'The National Front is not
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
OTaCI
T BILIBI announcing the biggest ever
13 August. Two Agninst profits.. But profit is not HE Te absENC TEasE SEoE
an end ta industrial We CALTEL -LIU extreme left-wing influence in
coulpulsars secret postal ballot and by instituring the priociple of one union for one industry" (my
And all the NF's talk of tbe pensioners and the kiddies didn't stop the NF Deputy Chaicoan, ob 26 February this sear, re-
A Wellare Stare in Britain is a Farewell Scare... The Welfare State wich abandoned
capitalism ha:
natiooat pauper of the world'.
DEMAGOGERY
Bur even beyond what they openly come out with we must take care to expose the NF's men public and herefore disguiied
when it drops through the letter-box. One cr ample is the NE's attack oo the GEC Municipal Hosing Debr,
21 July 1977 Page 13 which played second fiddle paly to immigration in their CETHUI DOWRTOR STO ISLE that this campaign against propCT MCC MAS EUS TOS TIE classic thesis thar there is a division hetween good, healthy, weath prodecing national capitalism on the one band, and evil, parasitical, debl-creating, 'international finance' on the other. This absurd division of capitalisot allows the fascists to divert the anti-capitalist grievancer of their potential supporters inco an attack on the supposed financial
"parasite', that parasite in tur
beine racially identifed ax th Jewish financial conspirator
Thus what sounds like a pisc ol pseudo-radical populism is l fact much 1 more; it is hidde propaganda for the ceneral core of che Nazi ideological vision o the world. Only by understand ing and exposing this cynica hijack of "left-wing" rhetoric for what it is, can we understand and expose the underlying class func tion of Fascism.
IDEOLOGY
melt oe saren onur t neg
careful abour nating precisely how fascist ideologs operares, in OUT anti-Fascist propaganda. To give, again, one
sampie: it is just not true 1
he NF are blaming the blacks
e satte wap as tbe Nation
oclalists blamed ul (in faet the theory runs that Inter national Jewish Finance delibe ately promoted immigration in
ta destroy the ENCLI integrity of the nation from
lt is also important, I think. that the leit cakes seriousty
g ino (reas a vast int eo
apart from Europe in the
of the State to
well lead Britist
theless Fascist to mutate as spectacularly as Fascism mutated
power and Hinter's ten pear later. And there's room, 1 think, for much more sophiscicacion in
analysis the historie relationship between Fascian and a ruling class whose long. term interests it serves hut whose short-term activities it has ofter frustrated and, in political terms, suppresse:
It is still true that Fascism is a DAs miovenient iec bv the nelit bourgeoisie whose bistorle func-
the rond to it, the independent Inhour movement and the interests of the big bourgeoisie. Ie's scill true that Fascism is always a danger in times of capitalist crisis
But there are substantial sections of the active labour tovement — mosty but not all on its right — who don't belleve it ls true. There are substantial sentions of the working class, abow and beyond those who thise and vote for the NF, who dos't connect the respectable
of che MF with the BODUUSS jackbooted barbarans of the Thind Reich. The practice of opposition te the NF, physically on the streets or in clecioral interventions, musi aiways be allied, it seems to me with n continuous and rigorous theoret ical analysis of historical and contemporary Fascism, and with sustained and comprehensive exposure of their propaganda lor what it truly is.
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Grunwick- whys and wherefores
Sexism and The last note!
COMMENT
Socialist
Challenge
EVENTS NORTH EAST
Mate Ling, Targion.
NORTH WEST
Precede Cancheer Fit a
Manchester 1. солау 6-8pm, Thuraday -sable for meetings 10h Duplicating Foot
INCHESTER. Series of educationis for readers.
Socialem - Te Detate in the OP
hursday 4 August. The Crisia in the Thursday 1 September. "Hod for a
onary Party.
All at the Manchester Sociallet Chall MIDLANDS
Socialie:
st Economics
test bad heat ear tampin. SCOTLAND
* Informate Scale coma!
6.00pm. Wide
WEST & WALES
Friday
LONDON
13081 10-5р
OUTHALL
GEESE
HOME COUNTIES
1oec, Heading.
YORKSHIRE
K. Roaders group meeting. "
sness raising and rev
Sunday i every
faulty
performance
TOUM HEADLINE BODULL
11 July A Dress
more sening man the ache beneath it. analogy a little further.
their mistakes on the first night. CHICH OHH TRY GO NOL TOROS!
ur performance on 11 July wa laf from perfect: et I looked vain for Socialist critical assossment of this particular dress rehearsal.
Of course, all of Felt the ower and exalteme which this ta clearly the stuff of which expressed
Grunwick that day are a potent confirmation that ership, communication, and formation we cannot harness the
had intention the TuC deciaration that we were slaying
1W03888
and note that planned
fare.) We had no golocue win ine sine ci
of knowing
get the
target right
THE 11 JULY mass showed the potential strength of TASTE CASS back against reactionary force and the hold of the trade unior
comrades came away tram ir
even betrayed that the picket had around North west Londor
Think that if is importent that OUT TU SUCHON
whowersresponsibleforthat: the TUC and APEX inadership who are anly too keen to diffuse
including calling the secretary a
scab'l the picket is to misunderstand
OF COURSE Socialist Chal lenge must deleno ne nons 01 homosexuals and oppose con-
However, I do
as part of the task of this pape
print and circulate ровшу влетршуь те bojeculication and depersonalisalion of sex produced by a repressire and exploltalive soclety.
I am confident that
human communica tion and mutuality. In fact It Is COHEY CATOO OF DI TRO DOMLINI attitudes to sex which socialists should oncourage, since it in naives Intercourse with a dand
WHO CUS hal. on our own Mi
munson and coleci sion-making in the mass
00D0 10 10 0117 stration, and passing
and maist pressure trom tha TUC Chalienge s and the APEX officials
could born rom theis anti Going further, s presc
leam how to use mobile radio communication ts. And, despite the victory ov
police not control tactics - anc how to counter them Learning such as Grunwick is an essentia drawing most of the right conScargilFe clusions aboul the way the strike
should be won. lenge has neglected the catalied Hut at the tactics of masa picketing, and le
rumour. the ba He for victory other
che ol we omegler only caret
BasSHou can ensure But we
KAREN MARGOLIS (London)
flat the siriser
months, have laced, particularly in constanty coposing APEr гезтистоля ол дава рісковіпуi is nor just a moral question: attacking the strike committee
picke can result in
and pushing them into the handa of the buresucracy, There were probiams on that of
hands or unknown individuals.
MUST a march
before as to whether the mass Dickat was to be called at all on t1 July did not heip mallers
But Those ste lesson wiel both the strike committee and all those on the picket must inam.
lessons in may possibie, especiany aun those who are actually in the farafront of the struggle.
TESSA VAN GELDEREN [Brent]
necrophilia
Rather than Insert the leafiel
not see H an article about the dangers o
sexist companied by an article about
the cruelty and ficiac on homosexues in ou society - treatment which produces the allanated owarda 30x you osm, an attitude nothing to do with homosexu
sexual relations under capitalIsm and hierarchy Socialiel Challenge so far has
the first issue that | wIll not thoroughly enjoy selling.
JILL SIMONS, Workers League
far left
masa pick.
1 experience
struggle. While
the revolutionary exception,
Socialist Chal-
yet the need for such
•HEL
picket line for alaver
Intervention,
Other to
In such
police astacks.
the most fratema
walcomed
This oould be ac
petence by
altitude
ortrayed ir
which has the alleged
intervention
AT THE Grunwick mess picke on 11 duly the organise ors o
failed lo live up heir political responsibilities 1o
sation made a serious polltical Intervention into the pickel. And
an. inter vention was apparent in every Toature of the cay's events.
y the TUC diverled the mas
fortunately
was needed was a determiner revolutionary
using leaflete enc
people to stay at the gotes. This would hava made It possible ic ale. noid me games unt loie arter noon. Yet no organisation took
dissuade people from going on the demonstra
2
ONCORAN. MO HUER CORCHE
police onsumo chal there would be violent clashes.
circumstances revolu tionaries should have been pre
In detending the picket against
That would have meant the organisation of
example In action to other forces on the picket, of a coordinated response to the onslaughts of the
Instead, the revo-
MOR SUNG SCH DIGOR fusion and disorganisation. cracy had a monopoly of political bands, to bring a neglected cul- achievement. tural form within the focus of the
lell, seems to have had success, The response of com-
However, I atill find mysalf in
general disagreement with ther
on the issue, The attainment of
numbers a
working people within tle op
by braus a remarkable
achievement, not diminished by
That hight andred are her-
indication
'only a small minority of band
upon their and Witte on the fostering of the
opiatic alfecis,
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
RECOGNITION
UNITE + OVERCOME
presents oar than paper
a mooner Dum Drye
o the thousande of assemble trade unionists Surely tempt could have bear made to
tionares without coposino it, in.
1 ChinT 1 great pity that Socialist Challenge missed the 00D0Un Ty 1o seeklo Droanise a TO LONA IDENT ON HE with Is fight for revolutionary
contingent of forces from at least i stewarded
League, win tomi propaganda activities. Even If. as s unForused sericipation in the ca SWP lingent, It may have bean possible to mako an acroomont with them
will not be overcome ifit fails, as it did on 11 July, to lake bold initiatives in the
JOHN HUNT (Oxford]
YOUR PAGE 3 coverage of the 11 July mass picket last wonk at
Although the presorice 10-15,000 trade unionisis solidarity was
morning revealed • great dea about the woaknesses of thi
movement and the olutionary left, which deserves
Firstle a maseive position a strength, where the mass picket controlled the streets even the
what is a roa
Whilst I accept much of what was written of the genesis of
La kind which would like lo correct. He writes
lat', also Implying that thay are
players the best bands, but not that there ar
La handful In the an tire bands viawed at the Saddleworth
had le
under twenty-five (they inverably
society, not that of bands. And,
is as unreasonable to comment members at would be to mace
composition of steel bands.
21 July 1977
main road to Wemble
the police were forced to cinse
was abandoned at 11.00am for a totally
ECSTATE
cession?) round Willeeden
Mesriwhile the bue darling the
icabs, already turned away
times, was allowed to enter the
effect of demoratising many those prosant. Socialist Chal
lange cia carter al say soap
shall not pass on its front pagt
ahip of the picket, in
APEX and him sal dis
opposition (despite the eviden
mess or many presume
Chapter Road unguarded). Wher
• smal nucleus of demonsira
mainly revolutionarie
feminists remained behind and
coursuedusiv allemaled to gro:
the bus, were viciously
attacked by the police and ther
orbally disowned' by the APE) official present
During the whole episode, the
left. Inclucing the IMG.
revesled The presented
oppasit on 1o what many saw at
your Grunwicks cover on lasue
Despile the lact that there The pite and the majesty at e were
strikers are women, there is not
one woman in your selection o
cover photos A Hille more
attention to sexist ideology as l
presente itself in visual Images
w0010 oron 9818 0381
CARL GARDNER (Central Lon-
That the engendered by various varieties OT COTICIOUS CODESEC hardly credible. It is alleged that In the 1950g they clally revived by the instruments Industry', that INFUSE UPON LINI TONA SAN ПОС ОПІЧ ТА МАГА О
widesproad musical form
spiralorial theme which oppon-
CUnng
Nelther movement
Grimethorpe
way of their musical development. Other bands are experi
formal and their music. The development of Methodists, mill-owners and ГИНЬ ONE AUTURES bourgeois moralists.
PETER BURTON (Manchester]
Page 15 scan of this page
Bursting out of the Victorian
nineteenth century.
In her stouy ol nis ler 3neiln
describes in
the day-to-day preocupations and relationships of Carpenter's roup in the context of Victorian society.
pounter the traditional focus of labour history solely on how the working class has sought to take or tried improve its conditions, RowDOCEM LIS
"How did these early socialists try to live, how did they see and relate fo one another? What di they think and feel about love about their bodies and their
inentty of the post is a political choice based on a redefinition of
polical and what is personal."
Carpenter's homosexuality is
which turned him against capitalism — the capitalism in which to
despite the civilised vencer of dress-coar and classical educaHAVELOCK ELLIS
tion. How eise could the sons of the fuline class be bred tor domination OvEr workers, women and the empire?' THEY GIVE YOU free sticks of rock you go Into Bally Comnolly's concert. Red and
Iegend "Billy Connolly" running through it instead of "Black-
common touch is probably what they have in mind.
And a superstar Connolly andoubtedly is. The former wel der from Cilasgow's shipyards is reckonod to have made himsell 280,000 through his countrywide tour which ended at the Rainbow in London last week:
That is an awful lot of money but compared to the carnings of monarchs, company direciors,
ALAN BULLOCK
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Standing casually in front of his cottage, the sandalled and bearded Edward Carpenter looks in his photograph like the familiar stereotype of an upper-class eccentric. He was a member of the Fellowship of the New Life formed in 1883, a group which was just one of the strands in the loose-knit socialist movement of the later
by SUE ASPINALL her
The second part of Socialism ind the New Life.
Wecks, concerns Havelick Hils the sexual theorist who was a founder member of the Fellow-
The collected numerous studies of homosexuals,
widespread existence of homo-
WETWAASHTISCOS Desbian, Edith Lees, was sympatowards
tolerance for a wide variety of sexual practices. But both he ant BELICE vidual behaviour was the expression of inherent biologica TE TA DE SAIR RECES Ellis justified practice on the grounds that it was congenica. or"natural in some people. Carpenter adopted a theory that we evolve towards a "higher form of human sature
drogynous, including male and Temale characteristics
Ellis to a reformist position on homosexuality and a reactionary
quotes • particularly devasta ting" phrase of Elis's,
sense... in their wombs". penter, on the other hand, did
division of labour in his own life.
Rowbotham points male comradeship was the dominant force in Carpenter's group so much so that in correspondence events of considerable importane women, such as childbirth and the upbringing of children, rarely mencioned at sil She also
Billy Connolly - one of us
and tennis players, Billy Connolly is underpRid.
From a "professional point of
anyone elsc in this couniry. His originality, his spontaneity, his delivery mark him out as the
by Jeffney
which
bomosexuality homosexual
reminds us that if the world of wornen had heen documented as extensively as that of the men a sexually an-
very different picture might emenge Despite the limitations conservatismn of many of Car penter's ideas, his life in practice
Cartheir
are EDWARD CARPENTER saperstar. Not far him a galaxy of song, script, and gag writers.
The only material be borrows is working class Glasgow street repartee, His concert in London repeat ed the obsessions that made him:
strait jacket
and
turned towards women's movement vears, will be there is more to his in Blue', lis eborus runs:
pou iving
wilcess box Ta comer up for vou. as anti-hourgesi ConDolly the "impropriety"
is Connolly's
the collar turced up.
And that there are no
did constitute a stardine broak
with Victorian bourgenes
ШЕРВАЖИАНЬЯ WASCITEU tance to work out any strategy
for the overthrow of capitalism
other than through personal
.The consequence of this wa
Fellowenina lie test of th
movement which
with the formation of the Independent Laboar Patv n 1891-
parliamentary
socialism and questions of org
Although Weeks and Row
otham deny that their studie present lesons for now iri
obvious that the debate on the
ersonal and the political whi lock Elis. By
recent clarified by this Books,
book. The divisions Rowbotham
by GEOFF BELI
farta, drunkenness, "willies. Toi
cuerent concert performance than thar litted Connolly's performance 30033 far beyond the excedingly good sings fun they undoubredly are. Onc
poke of the criminality of tb
british army's presence in Ir land; another commented bitter
on the Stonchouse,
and Pouison scundals; and the third was caticled Boys
Do you think / mould leme
#hen I can lie just as well as alf arome squarts in the
We're two little boys in bite
The connection between this type of marerial and jokes and songs about bowd movements
conson theme can be described
deliberately LOLL fronts middle class values, from
of talking abour farts lo polico as anything other than paragons of virtue, li
contempl for such podioos which can allow socialists to go to bis concerts without having to wear a white mac with
Thursday
There are strong elements of sexism in his material, bur at ch antically of living wich women with wooden legs and black teeth
ades 01 seisen rule out of cour
or anti-Trish jokes in his performance makes Consolly excep tonal compared to the norma run of mindless mediocrity that
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE detiDes in 1ne carly socians movement scrongly resemble the divisions which exise today Doween moenanans and teman ists and the 'straight left'
It is largely the absence of any tradition of socialist culture and
sonalsphere which has caused this division between those who want
the revolution"- This polarisation within the socialist movement will
polil a real debate ia opened up between the warring factions.
* Sociatism and the New Life.
The Persoal and Sexual Polizic of Edward Carpenter and Have
Sheila Rowbotham and Jeffrey Weeks. Pluto Press
from Red 182 Pentanville Road, London N1. (Add 25p p&p) passes on pur TV screens for
In sbort, Coonolly is no reacLionary. It is to his credit that now, as he ales al the very top ol the entertainment pinnacle, he
and talks with greater
*He has not softened up as his
fume and money have grown; indeed the reverse has happened.
songs are bot of th
the police and he clearly comes the opportunity to tell o hat harred, for they capt react
Connolly is not a well devcloped, fully conscious revolu
nary socialist. He plays the rol of the individual superstar and he obviously enjoysit. But he that as it may, he is one of us. And sou can't say that about many with his money these days.
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21 July 1977
WEDGE
A NEW MAGAZINE of cultura practice and theory, Wedge, is
now out. Produced by Jounal
thegere-warkers, tenchers and studens, ir is an eremior to rais ENC GALHO DE CHEIOLA a amnEs me relaciona left, la drew together cultural theorints and practitioners and to evolue a sirmegy for cultural singgle in the revolutionary
The firss tome incides article
prant-aid and the crisis in political theatre; a debare on the mas medio, an introduction to
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On Saurday 30 July at 6pm there will be a benefir film show for Wedge or the Orher Cinema
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COMMENT
Remote
ALTHOUGH THE Under Review
issues, In that the Bound Glory reviow deals with a thim
the page slill remains out of context with the rest of the paper
provide
coverage waich is coonssidie co
Any review page must deal with media such as television
La far greater part in the ilhe working people thar plays or tilms which are onl
A clear example of the impor
the aspects of Joe Hit's life let
film ground to the growth of Ameri
inal Moncars of the vord: ho members of the ww such as
Cannon later formed the American Communist Party and the American mont; and finally how the State
Hil, was rocently 1ne irst s181e to re-introduca legal murder.
Coverage of films shown on
reviews of news cover age, and even arlicles on how such serles as Crosa Roads re inforce traditional Ideas would
advance
that is If they have any desite to GlOriter Review must he for the
London elite who follow the revolutionary high culture circuit.
MIKE TUCKER [Southampion) and Sacarday 23 July at 8.45pm
plus latest foocuge on
Page 16 scan of this page
The Communist
A split has taken place in the
Communist Party. H raises a number of fundamental political BITH organisational questions for members of both the old and the 'new" CP.
The statement soned by the Political Committee condemning the split states: The Communist
Pee of the met ente
most democratic of is programme ever organised by political party in Britain. We shall dis-
Inprecor
Socialist Democracy
and the Dictatorship
of the Proletariat
Tecludes maior USFI resolutior dealing with such questions as: the dictatorship of the proletariar: for a one-party or multi-peray avalam, POTATO COU ICIO
rights:
democracy and dual power in
he revolutionary process.
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SUME USE NETHN TENE Ing is that a few paragraphs lates we read of 'secret meetings" and executive Investigations of the same. We are aiso told that these 'investigations' might have accel. cratep Ene spilt.
This is not democracy. Why are these or any other meetings necessary in the first place? The question is not simply related to the Sid French group. Ing. but to other oppositional urrents that still exist in party. It is precisely the lack of cracy which led to the creaton of the bayle pumpilet,
the decision not to publish the party's journal for women. Link, [becuuse it contained two articles critical of ibe New Draft and the depurture of Sid French and his sapporters. Thus the question of [Poist i of "Our Policies" published on p.2] is not a fetish, but
cratic revolutionary organisation can be constructed.
Sid NCP:
preparing to adopt and enforce the rules of the CPGB so for them the question of inner-party or workers democrucy is not s issue at ail, be characier of the new organisation is not diffient to surnaise: Its tremelie party in Seeden ahe model is
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