Socialist Challenge No. 99, May 1979
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Socialist Challenge NO CUDDLING UP TO THATCHER
END THESE SECRET TALKS
Rank & File Conference Manchester 23 June
THIS WEEK
TORIES ATTACK...
Our pockets
Chancellor of the Exchequer's despatch case that will be battered when be delivers his Budget package on 12 June.
John Row writes on the world economic recession which is closing the Torles' options •page 2
Abortion With a reduction in the time limit for abortion the next hope of the Right to Lifers, we publish a personal account of the whys and wherefore : of a late abortion... page 5
Jobs
The school days of tens of thousands of youths end next month, dellvering a new generation to the dole questes... page 6.
Meanwhile the silicon chip is gobbling jobs, particularly those of women clerical workers. page?
Zimbabwe It's no flag. no anthem, and no change in Muzorewa's Rhodesia, which was quietly reported in Brituin so as to not embarrass the Tories who hope to accommodate the new regime...page 12
OUR RESPONSE Unions The Rank and File conference on Defend Our Unions is on 2 June, The sume day as the SE Region TUC's conference on unemployment where Tony Benn will be speaking. We interview the organisers of both events...pages 8 and 9
Black rights Rich Palser looks at the role of the Amti Nasi League and suggests a scorched earth policy against racism...page 4.
Steve Cohen explains how anti-semitism led to Britain's immigration immigration page 13
FEATURES
• Why the leaders of the Charter 77 group of
Czech dissidents have been arrested...
page 11 • What is going on in Iran...page 11 * Funny how American oil companies have
profits of between 144 to 389 per cent during
the oil "crisis. page 13 • If you think that cricket is a boargeois game,
you'd better find out how it's developed in
the West Indies... page 15
LAST Thursday Len Murray had talls with Margaret Thatcher.
Mr Murray is general secretary of the Trades Union Congress. He represents over 12 million working people. His job is to defend their interests, protect their rights sad fight for a rise in their standard of living.
Thatcher is a Tory Prime Minister. She has promised to artack a number of traditional rights ol trade unionists. Her government is drawing up a budger with one of the most swingeing attacks on the working class seen in post war years.
Thatcher is presiding over a prices explosion which will hit working people parlicularly hard. And her government is about to announce large salary increases for judges, top civil servants, and, incitubly, cabinet members and members of parliament.
So why did Mr Murray have talks with Mrs Thatcher? What possible common ground can the two have? What did Margaret Thatcher and Len Murray say to each other?
We do not know the answers to these
he made no statements.
running jump. calks with Thatcher on the budget.
'Secret' talks
The exercise just
1930s was for him incompatible
questions because Ten Murray has refused to provide them. What happened at these taiks was secrer, Murray retused to give any details,
I any of the trade unionists in whose nante Murray went to see Thatcher last week want to know what was said on their behalf, then as far as Murray is concerned they can go take a
back pocket
There is only one possible reason for these
- and the previous ones the TUC had steward.
muent bave bern worthwhile if immediately the meeting had ended Murray had outlined the exact delails of the Tory's plans to attack working people; explained what the TUC would do in defence;
with the most right-wing government since the
with his applies → position as gencral secretary of the TUC
No. 99 7 June 1979 15p
In doing none of those things and instead insisting that the talks were "privale", Murray did more than show gross contempt for the people he is meant to represent.
The mose inexperienced shop steward could have told the TUC general secretary that negotiating on a basis of 'what can I give you' is like walking into a jail with handcuffs in your
But Murray doesn't see things like that.
After all he bas never even been a shop
Accordingly, it is up to those of us who are shop stewards and those of us who are rank and file trade unionists to insist that the trade union leaders immodiately cease their private, cosy chats at 10 Downing Street.
Their job should be quite different: to organise a united fight back against the Tories.
If they refuse to do that then other means of performing the same task will bave to be found
Whichever way is chosen the same principle
- no talks with the Tory juiler, but break out of the prison.
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The remarkable battle behind the budget
OUR POLICIES
Capitalism is in crisis. The leader
I the Labour Purty and the trad unions offer solutions that are in the interests not of the workers but of the capitulist class.
Socialist Challenge belleves that the two vital tasks confronting revolutionary socialists are:
• To build broad-based class strugale tendencies in opposition to class-collaborutionism in the labour movement. These should be non-exclusive in character
grouping together militants hold ing a wide range of political views.
cuton begin to liniteder the creation unified democratie revolutionary socialist organisation which can, through an application of united front alternative workers engaged in struggles.
Such un organisation should he based on the understanding that:
seeks to unite the fight o
workers against the bosses
with that of other oppressed layers al society - women, hluck people,
sruggling for beration. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new orguns of power and defeating with all necessary means the power of the capitalist state.
Our socialism will
than what exists in Brituin with Fall rights for all political parties and currents that do not take up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist modeb of "socialism' in the USSR and Fastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eyes of millions of workers throughout the world. We are opposed to them and will offer full support to. all those fighting for socialist democrucy, 3s wont was Capitan The Interests of workers and
on a world scale. Capitalism not only created a world market. it has created world politics. Thus we fight for working dass unity on un international scale This unity will in the long run be decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in Latin Americu, Africa and Asia.
I immediate with dewarding
immediate Withdrawal British troops from Ireland and Jetting the Irish people determine their own future.
The Communist parties in arage are in crisis
socialist parties - Conditions necessary than ever arable than dier the sodas ding three decades, But suct
arties can only be built by rejecting sectarianism and seeing
Tual democracy not us a hicury but as a vital necessity. This means the right to organise factions and tendencies.
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EDITORIAL
scandal
MULDERGATE, like Watergate, has finally toppled the country's head of stute. But press comment has only scratched at the surface of the issues surrounding Vorster's resignation.
The Erasmus Commision has not questioned the need for the unauthorised state financing led to the scandal. On the contrary. The attempted takeover of the Morgan Grumpian pahlishing house, for instance, is described as a bona fide effort to foothold in foreign media with the object of promoting South Africa's interests'.
including unspecified campaigas in Namibin and Soweto — aren't challenged because they were and are needed to counter the growing threat to the apartheid regime posed by the black population and the world unti-imperialist movement.
Vorster lauded by Erasmus as late as last December -had to be sacrificed in a bid to end the affair and stop speculation about premier P.W.Botha's own role in allowing money from his former defence
WHEN the Cardinals hid away to select the successor to Pope John Paul I lust year, they must have had a chuckle at the idea of enthroning an East European Capitalist recessions are never healthy the anything which can distance the workers in the West from the alternative offered by the workers? states helps to underpin the bosses" solution to TECTESS,
The millions who have greeted Pope John Paul Il in Poland are an eloquent testimony to the
FIRST WORD
By John Ross
IT IS not often that the Labour newspape Tribune has good to say about the Treasury, Last week, however, that journal looked to the mandarins of Whitehail to save US Iron the Tory budget presented on 12 June. According to its economics correspondent:
*A remarkable political barrle has been going on in the Treasury. It involves an attempt to win the hearts and minds Tahi Min 10a IN economic future that
pposite of that which Margare Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph have portrayed."
The pages of the Financial Times and the City column of the Daily Telegruph have also been spattered with leak and counter-leak: first that the Tories. had clection manifesto budget plans to cut taxes and slash public spending. then that they intend to press on with these curs no matter consequences.
This type of speculation has cren found its way onto the pages of the 'popular" press.
Deathbed
What on earth is going on here?
Can it be, as Tribune believes, that *the Treasury; repentance of the monetarist policies which it forced on the rovernment... & dreading the impac if unreformed Tory policies'? Ha Whitehall now embarked on the road to socialisen upainst the evil axe of che Tories?
In reality, what is going on is much simpler. The struggle in the Treasury and it is obvious there is a fight going on — is not over the nature of the Tory budget. There isn't, and never has been,
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The Muldergate
presently
projects whose
Again a
These projects — more than 130 in all, and
whose "unisemished, integrity WAS
- hus
The Pope in a workers' state
Vutican's investments, and qualitative difference between policies of Tory Geoffrey Howe and Labour's Denis anything Healey.
Healey
standards through wage controls and Howe wants to do it through VAT to be increases to put up prices.
ELLE CAT
capitalist class as
work.
Treasury of Britain's more or less daily information that is quite th streaming in to the revealing male or the word conomi influential business magazine
abandoned their DEMONSTRATORS will be
protesting at the Marylebone
defence of leading squalter Plers what the Corbyn.
underthe Trespass Law, altbough sentencing was postponed.
of the vicious police raid carried out by the police at the Huntley Street mass squat last summer.
death bed cers' union, NAPO, which opposes Labour the Trespass Law, advised its member assiened to Corhya not to report as the case was cleads "political • It's doubtless been left to management of the Probutim Services to produce a report on Wednesday.
Many
hudget to he used in financing the secret projects. Vorster's likely replacement, Louwrens Muller, Is pushing the Advocate-General Ball through Parliament to prevent forther newspaper exposés of the scandal.
But much of the damage has already been done. The confidence of the apartheid regime and its supporters has been budly shaken. advantage is increasingly ours — If we care to take it by bullding a worldwide solidarity movement that can topple the system as well as its idois. barren social and cultural life folsted on them by the bureuneratic leaders of the workers" states. It takes bleakness in daily life for the rituals of the Catholic Church to hold any charm, and the suppression of political debate and opposition for millions to put their trust in the reaction of the Vatican rather than the trunsformation in every sphere of life that revolutionary Marxism would muke possible.
Far from informing the Pope of the untold misery that Catholicism has brought in its wake.
the Chancellor Sit
WAITINE wanted to cut
Berween THE TOIS a whole would overcast by rising Denis
Marted in the heart What is creating a problem is the
The gloom government the rapidly deteriorating The The
Hands off Piers Corbyn!
Magistrutes Coert nest Wednesday in
Corbyn was found guilty on 1 May
Corbyn's crime? He was a victim
The postponenient of sentencing has arisen because the probation offi-
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The bureaucratie rule and privilege.
Economist speit out the situation in the following blunt way last week:
The seven leaders of the free biggest coonomies...will meet at the end of this month to try to stop economic growth slipping through their fingers, Oil prices and shortages have added their stagtationary pressure to a prospect
inflation every. where — and now also of a real tear that a recession may at last have
of the world economy, the United States.
expressed in this statement was positively optimistic
that are doing the rounds, The most Important international economic
gorid. office,
and
the Polish leaders shook his hand. Better to appease the followers of God's representative on Earth than risk organised resistance which could spill over into a repetition of the strikes by Polish workers in the early 70s and again in 1976.
When fear of the masses is at the centre of the policies pursued by the Polish regime, lt is mot surprising that they would prefer to accommodate Catholicism than risk the self-organisation of the
would pu an end to their research body, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developinient (OECD). predicting simultancous rising inflation, snaring unemployment. and a collapse in growth rates by the begining of 1960 The OECD notes that in four of the seven largest economies in the captalast world price rises are a ready running at over 10 percent a year Meanwhile economic growth is predicted to fall to 3 per cent a year in the capitalist world in 1980.
As il takes an armal growth rate of four and a half per cent merely to keep pace with the rate at which new technology and productivity drives are throwing people out of work, this rapidly lengthening dole queues throughout the capitalist It is this coonomic situation which is causing the problems in Whitehall and the disputes in the Tory Cabinet Thatcher was elected with a promise of higher wages and an expanding economy through tax: cuts and
Terrified Instead, within six months in she will be presiding over falling real wages through inflation, soaring unemployesent. The Treasury is terrified this will Tead to a massive struggle to defend real wazes next winter, and demands for huge Increases in public spending to provide jobs.
With i government becoming increasingly unpopular, that is a recipe for disaster for Tors policies How Treasury und Sir Geoffrey Howe sort out their budger problems we will soon see. Whatever the outcome, it will be bad news for the working class. But we can try to make their fears for next winter hecome a reality. That will tum the present disputes in Whitehall into a real crisis.
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SOCIALIST EUROPE International rally denounces Market
MORE than 200 people attended a rally on the EEC elections last Friday organised by …InE Marsist Group. The IMG is standing Tarig All in the West constituency as part of a common revolutionary campaign organised by the Fourth International in all nine EEC countries and the three (Greece Portugal, Spain) which have applied to join.
The platform internationalism. Helow some of the main contributions.
TARIO ALI: The role of the FEC is to co-ordinate capitalist efforts repress the working class and all struggles against imperialist exploitation. We can only fight the EEC by lighting alongside our brothers and sisters for a common goal.
We need a European congress of labour. And one item that obviously wouldn't be on the agenda of such a meeting would be import controls!
We also need to fight the division of Europe through solidarity with the struggle for democratic rights against the burcaucratic regimes in Eastern Europe.
It's possible to fight now for a free confederation of socialist republics on a European scale. But one of the main lessons of the last ten years is TRILE need organisation to lead that light.
ANNE SPEED (People's Democracy): The national campaigning was shown for us in the British election campaigo. The systematic efforts of the Make Ireland an Issue' campaign and others were really important for the morale of the nationalist people in the ghettos and on the blanket in H Block arendette for which to the campaign for election agent in Derry marvellous opportunity forward the central Issues: support
RUC/Army torture, withdruwal of British troops, and for the self-determination of the Irish peopie as a whole
In Crossmaglen, for instance, old Republicans have been coming up to
ERNEST MANDEL speaking, others (L.to Ry Tariq All, Belan Grogan, Anne Speed, Barbara Green, Val Coultas
London reflected this
we report
ANNE SPEED of People's Democracy at the rally
H Block.
Ireland -
Only the
supporting the FI's campaign.
revolutionary
of inter-
агу unity, and is to put
Fourth International,
campaigo.
working ciass has
NO TO THE BOSSES NE
FOR A UNDED
usand saying that they ve never voted since 1918, but this time they'll be dot
lor the men or
We say that the repression in
the doorstep of Europe must be raised throughout Europe.
Fourth International is doing that in these clections. That is why PD, many campaign activists, and Bernadette McAliskey herself are
VAL COULTAS (IMG Political Committee): This is a particularly appropriate time to deal with the role of the abour lefts. because it was the EEC referendum debacle which most clearly showed the need for a socialist alternative at a national level - herce the IMG's campaigo for revolution-
fight initiatives such as Socialist Unity.
But it's not just needed nationally If you look at the insular traditions of the British revolutionary movement, it'sabsolutely clear that you also need a framework whereby you can look at the British situation from outside -
That's why the IMG is part of the
and why W'C appeal to you to join with us in this
BARBARA GREEN (Revolution youth paper): One section of the with
been at ine
BARBARA GREEN from Revolution youth paper
forefront of the struggle since the year
youth. We've scen it Zimbabwe, we've seen it in Iran, as well as all over Western Europe since May "6H.
Yet youth have no rights. We make up 40 per cent of unemployed in the EEC - yet the labour movement bureaucrats don't lift a finger for us. Youth aren't allowed to organise at school, they're harassed (particularly black under "Sus" and similar laws all over Europe, they're chained to the family, young women are denied acceas to abortion and contraception facilities.
Our comrades in France and Spain have already set up youth organisations. We're hoping to do the same carly next year out of Revolution. But finally we need to
for a revolutionary youth intersational.
ERNEST MANDEL (United Secretariat of the Fourth International, candidate in Belgium): The working class in Western Europe temporarily caught off balance by the economic crisis which began in 1974. For years it had been misled by the reformist leaders into believing that a steady rise in its living standards was guaranteed through the cconomy, the welfare stale, bourgeois democracy. And now these self-same leaders were going along
even initiating austerity policies.
It took the working class some time to react, bur its recent struggles have sharply limited the evential results of the bourgeois offensive and revealed the real relationship of forces The possibilities for an international struggle in steel symbolise what it means to be for a workers" Europe against the Europe of the bosses. They underline the need for overall socialist sotutions. The Fourth International is proud that it has been able to mount such a campaign: not only against austerity. women's rights, against imperialist repression of the type we sec in Ireland, against the nuclear threat.
Pro-abortion
campaigner
in
on trial
the PORTUGAL
applying for EEC membership - ha no legal even illegal to give the faets about
youth) Since mid-May
campaign laws has been gaining momentum. This is because a worun journalist -Anionia Palla — has been on trial for incitement to crime and offence to public research and introduce a television programme revealing the facts aboet DECKSUELL SUOTELUL Antonia Palla goverument of protecting the medical profession which makes fabulous profits from illegal ubortion. She also defends herself freedom of the press. was There is a picket of the Portuguese
tourist office, London i a Spain Thursday,
June, to show solidurity Portuguese sisters and to call for the dropping the mixed Aatonia Pallu. This has been called by and the International
Abortion Rights, issued an appeal for a woman's right to choose on the occasion of the EEC elections.
International
EEC
distinguish
based represents the
its parties.
Below
on the left.
THE mid-May
elections only the committee by ences" internationalism. vote but for - one of the countries constitmency.
abortion whatsoever. It's
against these reactionary
campaign.
European
the CLOSES
Yet the
grounds atticude LUCIOUS 1 New Bond
with our Denmark Market
charges against
tried to get a Campuign for also Fein in
WHEELIN
that part
EUROPE The left on the elections THE main sponsor of this paper, the
Marxist Group, calling for a vote for Labour in the
elections except in West London, where Tario All Is standing
Ali told us: The IMG doesn't anti-Market candidates. We call for a between sote for Labour not because of it bankrupt policies, but because it is
in the working class and need lo organise independendly of the ruling class and
DODIE WEPPLER reviews the positions of other forces
Morning Star
meeting of the Communist Party's executive com mittee called for a vote in the EEC
for those Labour candidates opposing the Common Market. It concluded that it was impossible to operale" an earlier decision to stand CP candidates
Yet one week later the Morning Star announced that CP member
Hil was contesting the Middlesbrough seat with the support
CP's Northern MISTHIE against Labour pro-Marketeer. Only attentive readers of the party's fortnightly journal Comment learnt about the EC's regret at this action.
A letter to the Morning Star argued that official CP candidates would have meant 'a rare opportunity to. advance our alternative policies' But the kind of policies put forward
Hill (standing simply as "Anti-Common Marker" candidate) offer no real alternative that working people can fight for
His contribution to the local Evening Gazette's columns simply contained familiar calls for import controls, vague appeals to 'develop lechnology, and "support for developinz countries at UN confer
La piece of token
His real Little England' approach
- uniting bosses and workers - was typified in his statement that the EEC has plans to grab our ou and gas. Since when did British workers have control over these resources? Socialist Worker 'HOW we vole on 7 June doesn't matter too much [but it you de vote,
Labour- What really matters," argues lan Birchull in last week's Socialist Worker, 'is to get on with the job of building the only alternative to the Common Market.. Thrwaghout Europe we have to make links with the fighthuck.
Despite the lack of importunce attuched to the EEC elections by the SWP. one of its leadems, Duncan Hallas, did call from the platform for a vote for Tariq Ali and Bernadette McAliskey at a recent Make Incland
Issue" meeting in All's
Big Flame THE June edition of Big Flame explained that it supported 'voting
everywhere, except West London where we support Turiq Ali's
The article went on to explain that Big Flame is a signatory of an against
bosses Ешгорс' manifesto supported by various groups in other
countries. Big Flame's participation is explained on the basis of 'how can we on the far left strengthen our links across Europe'.
manutesto appears to represent little in real terms. The signatories disagroe even on what
to adopt towards the
Big Flame call for a vote for Labour and the IMG, the VS in
have entered an anti Muracos party; Le PST in France electoral with
joint slate with the bourgeois Left Radicals: while Sinn
Ircland is advocating a boycott, Sinn Fein also refused to sign
of the manifesto which supported abortion rights.
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importance of the conference.
Labour!, they'll ask.
considered the need for such an allernative.
elimination of private practice and so on.
lightback.
'Health -
Camden Rd. London W1, Tel: 81-560 3431 ext 679,
ly Mick Archer
Member NUS executive
THE outcome of the special open
conference" for students held on 26
and 27 May was nothing less than
predictabile.
A 'new left alliance in the NE'S was
formed after two days of frank und
sometimes healed debate,
project of the Broad Left leadership
La 'bine" of the Communist Party Party, ALCOC LUCIES
Liberals → came into being-
It has been clear for some months
that the Communist Party students,
und those independents
around them, were intending to form
such an alliance.
Nevertheless, the debale at the
conference revealed the reservaloons
of somesections of the old Broad Left
and the fragility of the
reuched.
The divisions were helween those wanted retain
commitment to a socialist strategy
and these who
remove any obstacle to unity with the
Liberals-
Close
A close vate succeeded in retaining
a senteace in the progrumime of the
new alliance STEE
international
anti-Imperialist perspective
But a phrase HESTEEL
programme is a socialist one
deleted in fuvour of saying it's one
That is supported by both left radicals
and socialists.
Although these differences did esist
Health cuts-fighting back
Fightback is holding a national delegate conference against the health cuts on 30 June, KATE TRUSCOTT, a leading activist in Fightback, explains the
In building a movement against the Tory attacks, we have to present an overall political alternative — a vision of the sort of health service we need. Without it many people will be demoralined. "Are we fighting the Tory attacks, Just to replace them with crosion of the health service under
Al the Fightback conference we will be drawing on the experience of militants involved in campaigns against hospital closures, to see how they've
We will look at struggles for community hospitals, for facilities to meet the needs of the community, for the particular needs of women, for the
It will be policies like these which will form the basis of a real anti-Tory
not cuts' Fighthuck conference to be beld on Saturday 30 June at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1. Details etc from: Fightback, 30
and
grouped!
agreement
This strategy HUGE
anxious chuncellors!
of Thatcher and the Torics.
approached government. that for an alliance
abortion off."
voice. pill Sick
Students' fragile new alliance
there was general agreement on the usu whole. strategy underlying the new alliance
- The "strategy for democratisation.
involves secking
within education - whether they be
expense
It was urgued that this had become even more necessury with the election
vague formulations and evasive policies of the programme do not muke it an adequate fool to tuckle the real dangers posed by & Tory
Socialist Stadent Alliance memhers through at the conference argued consistentis
Phased on socialist policies to meet the day to day issues facing stadents, linking them to the clus nature of education and sociely which Lie ahead.
LATE abortion b Ilkely to be the anti-abortionists next target. They talk about the foedus's right to life in emotional language.
This B the story of one late
we leave it to you to judge the effects If the HOTELA concerned had been forced to go through with her pregnancy.
Anita Bennett spoke to Harriet.
sunlicht smiling and talking about he Harriet sat in the afternoon arl. She is 25
I've finished my apprenticesh:
nd now it's just beginning to tal
She b a serene and friendly person, totally without a trace resentment or depression in
Which comes as a surprise when you learn that she was a victim of medical bungling
Something which led to her having a late termination, months pregnant.
Ironically she fell pregnant in February 1975, the launching time of the infamous James White Abortion Amendment Hill.
*You know 1 felt terrible on the
Jeft permanent piguientation on my skin. It happens to lots of women - they should all be we bed been off the pill for 5 months when I made love for the last time with the man I had been going with for 6 years,
I must have been that last nigh that E conceived.
*1 went Tor months without an relationships. Then I began to Tee
and was sick every morming. boobs got bigger.
*My periods continued normally for the same length of time. After four months 1 went to see my Gr who had training in gynaccolony
By this time I was living at home
and planning to leave the country.
"Well. least уви те пос pregnant, he told me. "Take some
The rejection of clear socialist policies, in favour of a superficial. "consensus' obscuring differences, poses new dangers for NUs and the student movement.
In the struggles In come sach 'unity" will only be maintained at the
union organisation, democratie rights and standards of students as a whole.
Notionally the SSA has to continue the ficht unity of socialist ferces opposed to the new ailiance and to the policies and record of the Broad Left.
By confronting these developments
debate action we can begin a national fight back agrinst the Tories and against any attempt fo disarm or neutralise NUS in the major political battles
Late abortion is our right
& BERY
of her LD
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dark
of these pills for your lumny." mother waste see way. She didnt I didn't feel any bigger. even look pregnant when she was seven months along.
*And periods are no indication either. A friend of mine continued to have her periods even when she was pregnant with twins. It was quite a shockl
*I took the pills that the GP gave me. I asked him again if he was sure I wasn't pregnant?
Off i went for another month By that time I was feeling alright, but still not putting on any weight.
Then I went to a Harley Street gynaecologist. In a very clipped tone he said to me: Young lady, you are five and a half months pregnant, Good luck to you.
'He didn't believe my story about continuing periods.
By Tessa Van Gelderen THE first teachers? union conferenc since the general election was far fro being a rallying point of opposition to the Tory govertment.
Delegates to the conference college lecturers and in particular the Broad Left, who (NATHE, seemed unwilling to face the consequences of the Tories in government
Indeed, the Secretary of Stale for Education, Mark Carlisle, making his first speech. after the President, Peter Knight, had been at great pains to point out that the invitation was to the office not the individual'.
We Carlisle a chance: despite the face that a freeze on all local government posts had just been announced. opposition to tbese cuts was passed
overwbelmingly, but there was very Sile debate and certainly no passion
Bureaucratic
The Broad Left seemed far more living concerned to use its bureaucratic
procodures to stop the far left, and
Rank and File in particular, from Faising important questions of pobitics
and democracy.
not take place on our prescot salary.
begotiacions and ruied out of order all
amendments of uny meaning on the
main salaries motion for next year
which comes from
Executive Committee (NEC).
The NEC/Broad Left largely won
the day.
through my GP.
helpful.
TIC WAS
VERY
2 D charged Relieved
to showvery nice
can't tell you. my parents.
June
He said
College lecturers conference
Long struggle
Campaign. of Title in teachers.
CHILLULUU Maternity
was politely received bas
BUTCHC
another year. encouraged lo give
resolution
resolutions
unemployment.
highlighted They ensured that debate could NATHE in
implications
the National
Broad
NEWS couldn't get rid of it now and he told me to book in at the ante-natal clinic
*I felt desperate, desperate. And synecologist. He had always been so DOESES
Harriet's voice warmed as she spoke about her final gynaecologist, someone she had known previously. She didn't want to ask him, because
going on holiday for two weeks. So she went to four or five gynaccologists over the next week.
"They all said they couldn'! do it I don't know whether it was because of their consciences or hecause of the law. There is one man who will do anything if you pay, he would have
E1000 -TOT whole
*I couldn't tell anyone, not my parents nor my oid boyfriend. It was all over. Finally, when I couldn't get anyone cise this nice man told me to stop worrying, that he would get me a late abortion on the NHS as soon as he came back from holiday.
At this time I was just beginning
•I went into a regular gynae ward and was told not to say anything to the otber women. They didn't ask
*There was a strict little sister who treated me like a slut until she learned what bad happened. Then she was
• was in bospital for three woeks because there was some infection But I felt so relieved scraightaway, 1
Of course, 1 feel badly about it sometimes, but there was no way that I could have raised a baby under those circumstances,
*Mayhe now it's different, but then I would have had to depend on
• The National Abortion Campaige national conference ls on 9 and 10
at Meadows Coramunity Centre, Queens Walk, Nottingham Detuils from NAC. 374 Grays Inn Rd, Loadon WC1. Tel: 01-278 0153.
The last two conicrences have passed long and detailed resolutions on wolten's rights, and, again after a
the union has finally affiliated to the National Abortio
But the union has achieved very
real terms for women
One particularly worrying aspect been the complete lack 4213 maternity leave Perhaps pregnant Teachers could postpone having their babies for
NATHE, proud of its condition of employment, has worse conditions
whose member work alongside NATFHE Inembers
The vital area of lo-19 education was discussed and although motions along the right lines were passed. consterenoe's heart wast Lin it,
There's little use in passing
onl education training when most young people will face a choice of training for the job or
This area of discussion yel again
the inadequacy of understanding the of change
NATHE will be forced to decide
between professionalism and trade
The middle COULSE. where the
Leil has been steering
NATHE, is now a blind alley
Sociallst Challenge 7 Juse page!
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HOME NEWS
Fighting for jobs
policies
By Jonathan Soberman
WHEN Chanceller Ceoffrey Howe arrives at Westminster next week all of the more
picasam surpnscsin mus budget bricicase wil have the effect of forcing even larger numbers on to the dole queues.
The Tory decision to freeze all civil service cecruitment is just the bitter beginning. In July, thoorand, of school students who have never had a job will face a dreary, penniless summer.
And the jobs shake-out is relentless, thanks to the cffects of capitalist rationalisation and closures, and of the new technology.
Competition
The Tories want to improve the competitive position of British industry on a world-scale -at the expense of the working class. This isn't easy, espcially
mperialist competition is hard
Their efforts are in the context of a more
eneral trend of capitalist re-structuring on
European-wide basis so that loss-making firms can be eliminated, and the average rate of profit raised.
Unemployment Is a big weapon that can weaken the fighting strength of the labour movement. If there's one thing a large "reserve army of unemployed can do, it's to deter militant struggle.
The Tories have a big job in front of them.
The fighting spirit of the working class has not heen destroved despite official unemplayment
gures of 1.3 million. But in some areas, lke
erseyside's Speke, the numbers of jobless has
grave loll demoralised and pessimistic community. As one Speke wer erated at a sent local meeting, umemployment, then we are certainly going to be incapable of defending our other basic rights".
Struggles
During five years of hard "Labour", it's not #ruggles against unemployment. Yet under the Tories the memories of those struggles looms
UCS, Fisher Alexandria, BSC River Don.
Why has there been such little resistance to the growing dole queue in recent years? Especially in a situation where some of the most
ike Leyland, have been affected.
MAKE 122.000
ENGINEERS THEN
BUZBY
CAVENES:
First the past big struggles were part of u broader movement HERITSE government which culminated in the miners! strike or 1974.
Furthermore, unlike under the recent Labour Government, the working class saw a clear alternative.
Sociulist Challenge 7 june page 5
"Little England
won't work
intergrowing
structural Bendix, Plessey
HAPPY
the Heath
The vision of that alternative
•Defend the right to work, and on socially
*Occupations to defend jobs. A campaiga of
mass action for the 35-hour week with no loss
of pay. Nationalisation without compensation
and under workers" control of all firm
declaring redundancies. cut hours not jobs. A
campaign of unionisation of the unemployed
*Defend the publie sector. Abolish the cash
limits system and protect public expenditure
from the effects of inflation through automatie increases.
For a public sector alliance as a first step to
mass class wide uction ugainst the cuts.
Aholish private practice in the public sectos
and nationalise without compensation all socia
services supply industries. Complete oppo
sition to ull dentionulisations.
many leading struggles against unemployment
-One eator, homelete same Tony
Under Labour, however, Been who had marched arm in arm with Jimmy Reid in previous times became a (silent
hember ofthe Cabiner. In addition, the whole collaborationist machinery installed by Wilson and Callaghan under the Social Contract and through legislation like Protection Act undermined militant struggle on 811185125
The most important reason for the absence of struggle on the scale of those in 1971-2, however, was the qualitative deterioration of the world economy in the crisis of 1975.
In 1971 workers felt they could win through occupations and other actions. A. benevolent Labour government or another firm would bale them out
Alter 1975 this was not the case. British Leyland said there was no moncy — and it was believed by workers, because it was the truth. With Labour's Tory policies, there was little hope that the government would come to the Tescue.
Similarly, - in tbe
sut of money aureed, all that's left ti
aggle over is how to divide it between wage jobs and service-provision. Catastrophe
Today, any strategy to teckle the Jobs crisis has In COTTONE prospects for the economy. To date the absence of such a strategy has de-railed the jobs fight.
Benn's solution is two-fold: a programme of import controls to protect the British economy, pius government intervention demand (and to counter investment strike by employers).
This ignores the strategy of the ruling class to massively, increase unemployment, weaken the workers' organisations.
A socialist strategy can't start from the need to convince the employers to invest or for import controls. Its beginning has to be the need to prepare workers already unemployed — for a massive united struggle against the employers and against any government which sanctions the actions or doderer redubdancies icelf.
It's not a defence of the British economy
capitalist chacacter. policy, but one based on international workers' action.
toy labour movement leader who oppose
ob losses can't genuinely act in the interests o the working class unless they back a fighting policy, committed to job defence through mass action. But our fight can't be left in the hands of the leaders. Wehaveto scart orpanising now.
Consequences
For instance, labour moverment-based public coctor action committees (waich already exist in places like Preston) can develop broad workers' unityro meet the Tory attacks.
The most massive lobby of the TUC in September is a second task for militants in the conting months. Remember, It we can't give a lighting lead to youth, history has shown the disastrous consequences when it's left up to DUCES
the Employment
some, catastrophic
stimulate
the long-term
and to
including those
bosses
assault on its Not a Lole England'
dole', sector,
By Redmond O'Neil
IN JULY another generation of school leavers will hit the dole queues. They will join those who left school at Faster and even
like Mark from Birmingham, who "celebrating" their First anniversary of life on the social security.
explains, After three months the demoralisation Signing
DELUMES ritual telling you you've no Tuture.'
Unemployment of youth under 18 years of age rose by a slugzering 1100 per cent in the five fears between July 1973 and the same month in 197H. This compares with an Increse of 250 per cent for the population as a whole over that period.
Worse
With Thatcher in power the sitation for youth can only get worse. Already Labour government poli-
I fouth unemployment as a specifie, structural aspect of the economic and social crisis.
Trade union leaders. who bleat about the "waste of young people on the
Slave made position of youth worse by accepting natural wastage
agreements.
The Tories aim to cut johs further in the painie
thereby limiting opportunities entrants onto the labour market. And they are out tostep up productivity und rationalisations in private TECHNETY.
The Youth Oppor-
CENTRE
Another generation
joins the dole queues
tunities Programme introduced by the Callaghan
tempt to mask the startling development of muss youth unemployment.
Youth on the schemes TELL BUSES HEEHEU In cases, they provide cheap labour for employers, and at the end of a few months four out oi live find themselves back on the dole. Abysmal
aren't
nothing.
the aver16 to 19
dole, the rule for
conditions are generally The
factory, wouldn't supply
ALL I more than two
for
PISSETS
to go and
the dole.
In of London
youth sane
women under 25 made up 57 percent of the total leinale unemployed in Jammary 1978.
was Vouth no future by capitalism in crisis who took to the streets with the Anti Nazi League and Rock Against Racism last summer. Hat it was white youth in the East End who became prey for the of the National Front that the solution to unempioyment is import controls and repatriation
So part of any strategy
enemployment must be a specific struggle for johs for youth. That entails a united campaign lo mobilize youth, munding the anien leaders act to fight enemploy. ment.
Policies are needed to break the Isolation oF youth on the dole, and to link the fight for jobs with the fight for training und education open all youth with a guaranteed level of muintenance.
The trade unions themselves should open their doors to the unemployed
permanent movement of south HELESS enemployment could force them to do TOTE
Unity
This could unite the existing cumpaigns around a programme for action. It could abe draw together all sections of youth unemployed, students,
to fight round these policies and Tor other issues that confront south on the dole: a place to meer,
wani training
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Needed: Operation Fortress to def THE SEARCH UNITED ACT A conference called by the South-east Region of the TUC JONATHAN SIBERMA
JACK DROMEY, secretary of the SE Region TUC, and Kent miners' leader JACK DUNN on the conference on anemployment in London and the south-east.
Why have you called the conference?
Dromey: First of all, we should make clear that the conference was called when the Labour government was still in power. It is an attempt to bring together trade union organisations in London and the South-East develop an industrial and political strategy to deal with the question of unemployment.
The conference will be seeking to develop a series of demands around which the trade unions" industrial muscle can be mobilised to achieve industrial political objectives. Which demands?
Dromey: They roughly come under wo headings/ First, industrial. There
all levels for the 35-hour week and the reduction of overtime, This would aiso have to involve a movement upwards of basic rates so that there would be no loss of earnings in the move to a 35-hour wock.
Then there's the political. The delence of government intervention in the private sector and an extension of such intervention. Of course, we're under no illusion about the objective conditions under which we put this
•a Tory government - but TOTALL B we feel it's advance the need for such policies.
Dune: We need to change from a "lame duck" strategy of government intervention to a positive political philosophy. This means the need both for strong defensive action and Tor strong offensive action as well. WIll there definite action coming out of the conference?
Dunn: We're hoping within constraints of TUC policy to get some action at grass roots level.
Dromey: A measure of the success of the conference will be if major unions im the South-East have the 35-hour week in their next claims and take action over it; if we can get greater public expenditure in the region. The objective of the conference will be to say. 'Here's a programme of demands -now, how can we translate it into practical activity?'
Dunn: Take the civil service. They're suffering the Tory freeze on jobs. There'sa need to get the unions in the civil service to act in concert over Jobs.
On education - this isn't only a matter for teachers but for us all. There's the need to get the umons in education to take the lead in fighting back.
How does the present leadership of the labour movement fit into this?
Dromey: This is where disagree. It's not a problem of the rank and file versus the leadership. It's a probler that the donnant ideology at all levels has been in favour of the mixed coonomy. Dunn: Weive got to galvanise the rank and file for new policies. One Would hope that this would reflect itself in a change of leadership.
Benn is speaking at your conference. What role do you see him playing in this new direction?
Dromey: We would welcome the opening up of a debate about the mistakes that were made over the last live years. Tony Benn has done a great service to the socking to promote this debate in
Socialist Challenge 7 June page 8
*No government has the right to render the labour movement defenceless
saying that the cause of the clectoral deleat was not the discontent" (for which the unions were not responsible anyway!
between the left and the right within the movement about a change In strategy, Shouldn't he have spoken out a few years earlier electoral defeat were being sown?
Dromey: At a key time historically, he's done it. I'm not prepared to make a judgement on the past.
Would you agree with Bean's position on what is involved in such a change of strutegy?
On collective instance, Benn only criticised Phase 4 (not 1,2 and 3) in assessing the cause of the defeat.
Dromes: I don't want to put it in terms of what Bean says. I would put the problem in terms of the economic crisis in 1975-6 with the pressure by the IMF and the abandonment by the Labour government of the policies on which it was elected. ln doing. government laid the basis for a shift to the right in society and paved the way for the Tories: I think that the Labour government's positions on pay and public expenditure were particularly important in this.
continue to pledge to an 'irreversible shift in the
favour of working people and their families A
the necessary politics and organisation to prevent it, we will have the endless cycle of cynicism, followed by disillusionment amongst bers, followed by defeat of Labour at the clection.
the What do you mean by politics and organisation?
Dromey: The labour
got to make up its mind, is us strategy to prop up the mixed economy or is it for the creation of a socialist, planned economy!
forward,
of ideas: the idea that guarantecing placing workers private enterprise.
public sector. we would
TTELLAD
got to win the
to take away our rights.
away our inalienable rights.
No governmenr, movement in
labour movement defenceless.
"winter
And he has encouraged discussion
when the seeds of the bargaining, for the Labour
Wehad a government clected on a
BOU RUCT
Until such time that we develop
our memmovement has
We're for the latter, It's the battle of ideas for the latter that must go
There are certain areas in this war
• Defence of the public sector, We must explain that the public sector does not mean bureaucracy, but that it's essential for any civilised society.
• Nationalisation and government intervention. We've got to get over
the best way of freedom at the whims LISTE by of
It's through the increased public accountability that comes through the extension of the menE
We must break down che myth that nationalisation is an attack on
Oak.
•Free collective bargaining. We've Todd
recognition that whilst we live in the jungle, we need the means to stay alive in that jungle.
And I'm utterly opposed to the New — put forward by Callaghan and others - that we take a supine view of the Tory attacks. They are attempting
Lnion.
Just as we would not concede the right of any government to torture and murder, so we will not concede the right of this government to take
whatever its majority, has the right to render the
conferences take up these themes.
Conference on Unemploy-
London and the South-East Saterday, 23 June, 10am-4pm
Porchester Hall, Porchester Rd, London W2. Tube, Royal
Speakers: Tony Bean; Ron
TGWU: Arthur Latham: Bob Wright, AUEW. Chairpersons: Lomas, London Co-op: Jack Dunn, Kent miners
London TGWU, London trades councils, Shipbuilding and Engineering
Defails, creleuilals etc from: Conferenc
Unemployment, c/o Loadon Co-op Political Committee, 116 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 2RR.
A TASK for the trade union movement: how to blunt the Tories* axe on jobs and union rights. On 23 June, two
will discuss the problem of unemployment in London and REMEMBER the Standing Commission on Comparability? Set up by Cullaghun, it was to have been
the low-puid workers in the public sector.
Ome of Thatcher's first election pledges was that the Tories would honour any recommendations from the commission's benevolent chairperson, Hugh Clegg
the commission which persuaded muny workers to accept offers of around 9 per cent over the past few months, with week account" to tide them over until the commission was due to report.
Well, surprise, surprise, One group of workers at least might end up even more out of pocket than they'd expected. According to NALGO, the report on murses and midwives will be delayed beyond the 1 August deadline when the El on accoont expires!
Earlier this week, the Office of Manpower Ecocomics.
The shape of pay to co
houses the Cleer could mat say whether this delay would upply to all groups referred lo il.
It seems that the commission would like to revert to its original terms of reference - providing material for negotiations rather than making specific recommendations. This arrangement would
greater Rexibility in applying its wages policy.
Mesawhile the teachers' pay daim is the latest to be relerred to the commission, on which basis NUT leaders will be recommen-
offer amounting to only 10.8 per cent.
The Tories gave some indications this week of the shape 0l pay 10 Increases have heen agreed for those top doctors. dentists, judges, ranking army officers, and senior
the South-east; another, ca theme 'Defend Our Union As part of our discussi
commission, civil servants.
MPs in the pir But some have shown thi to passively policy of big pr and a pittunce
The nation Transport sad much Union's cons
against the national Henderson plovers' 12 pe The Nut Railwaymen h indefinite stri Loaden and June, and call clear with the em
Substantial cent offer. O now deciding Pay talks high- engineers and continuing aft
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'If we can't defend basic union rights, the rest is academic
id our unions
FOR
ION
by Rank and File, centres on the
on the fight against the Tories, poke to the organisers of both
Photo: CHRIS DAVIES (Report)
le
iage rises for latest offers. The power workers
threw out the employers' offer in a of workers national ballot last- month by do not intend 66,162 votes to 19,254, and the the Tories powerful unotficial autional shop is for the rich stewards committee is eulling for le poor. Industrial
substantially Improved offer mittee of the made. ral Workers!
aad civil Post Office engineers roted by 2-1 threatening industrial action from sendation of 1 July in pursuance of their claim
George for a 25 percent rise. pt the Meanwhile thousands of Post
Office divil servants have takes Union of strike action over the past week. In en notice of Glasgow, a walk-out was staged tion on the after managers smuggled cheques nd trom 18 past a picket line
who have ever pay. ln their 10.3 per 10,000 workers took strike action
last Friday osition. the claims of r workers are from other accounting centres ection of the over their 23 per cent clains.
JOHN DEASON, secretary of the Right to Work campaign leading member of the Workers Party, on the Defend Our Unions conference.
Why was the conference culled:
The conference was called four woeks before the general election because we realised that whichever government was elected a central platform of its strategy would be attacks on trade
Under Labour, Concordar. Under the Tories, as now, using the principles of the Concordat but applying laws.
One of the demands in the conference appeal is around the right to work. What part will this play?
A session of the conference will be given over to discussing redundancies, cuts and closures. number of sponsoring bodies will be relating their experience in this field.
discussion about resistance to redundancy bas been at such a very low ebb. For example, we need redundancy Employment Protection Act and the 90-day notice period are undermining struggies.
Why do vou think resistance has been so weak:
I's another example of the price we've paid for the past five years of Labour government Social Contract with the trade union leaders which breed the idea that co-operation with the employers is the way to solve unemployment.
As a consequence, around profitability have had a major effect on people's confidence to fight.
How do we overcome this?
unless In a redundancy situation we must
peopic to attitude or not it's profitable. At the same are time. we rust me imaginative tactics which can really mobilise people.
more prepared to struggle against redundancy under the Tories as they fec. more angry, just as with UCS. although ir's not certain.
to be done among the rank and file, of striking which relates to the objective of the 23 accounts stuff who are in dispute June conference. London. neurly
develop in a significant way against prolest if the the suspension of hundreds of civil characterised them were three things. servants who refused to do work First, the sectionalised character ol
the struggles. Second, that the rank and file organisation within each
Defend Our Unions
Rank and File Conference
New Century Hall, Manchester
AGENDA
THE AGENDA will deal with the four major areas
of the Fory attack:
* Picketing and the right to strike * Recognition and the closed shop * Redundancy and the cuts * Rank and file organisation and Socialist through the fighting
Icadership
DECO IS why CISSOR!
political rebellion the provisions
There is,
the whole leadership
legislation in the autumn. the
all the viability and an anti-capitalist - the right to work, whether
sules.
It's possible that people will be
There's an elementary job of work
When strugeles did start to
JOHN DEASON: "Sociulist Challenge Is distarbing section was not strong enough to overcome the sell-out antics of the
Thirdly, even when thousands upon thousands of workers were campaign encased in struggle, this did nor express itself in terms of a generalised
The present Tory goverrument is quite clearly launching a generalised attack — the difference with Labour being that they're quite open about it.
after all, a difference between the 'voluntary" Concordat introduced with the collaboration of
of the trade union and the more abrasive approach of the Tories, who promise
The danger is that because of the weakening of the movement under is academic. Labour and the speed with which the Tories are moving, there's not a lot of time to prepare our defences. This is tbe central question to which the conference must address itself. Tory attacks.
HOUSING IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS
Conference on Saturday, 30 June Sponsors include Shelter and Housing Action Among the discussions: the defence and extension of direct labour • lenants' rights • council rents • no to council house
At the Botany Dept, University College, Gower SL, London WC1. Details from Joan Halbert, Housing Shelter, 157 Waterloo Rd, London SEI. Tel 01-633 9377
THE CRISIS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT Conference on Saturday, 16 June
Called by the Socialist Campuign for a Labour victory and sponsored by 40 Labour concillors in London.
Workshops Include: the lessons of Clay Cross und Poplar • rates, finances, and where the money goes • democracy Iubour groups, and the working class • direct labour 10am-5.30pm at Hampstend Town Hall, Haverstock HIll London NW3. Tube: Helsize government conference, c/o 5 Stamford Hill, London N16.
SPONSORS
Acton Works London Transport AUEW Shop Stewards Committee CPSA Manchester DHSS branch Dunlop Speke Joint Trade Union Action Committee Gardners, Manchester Joint Stewards Committee Gamers Strike Committee Hackney Council Joint Works Commitlee (GMWU, NUPE, TGWU) Heathrow Airport Joint Stewards Commitlee Massey Ferguson, Kilmarnock, Joint Stewards Committee Nanigarw Coke Works NUM Rone Vickers, Kirkby, strike committee Royal Group Docks Shop Stewards Committee Sandersons TGWU strike committee
TRANSPORT FOR delegates arom LONDON and the SOUTH EAST theres special fruit it leaves Euston at 3 Sam and nicks upar Watfara al 8.00am. Tickets ET return, Available from 127. Dynevor Road. London. N16. Phone 01-254 5915
What do you wast to see coming out
of the conference?
Broadly, we want to start the
against the Tories'
proposed anti-union laws as a focal
point for defending ourseives against
every aspoct of the Tory offensive -
cuts, new technology, wages, perhaps
even a future wage freeze.
The key ching will be to draw the
attention of militants not only to their
own sectional problems, wbich of course are very important, but also
the general problem that if we can't
defend the right to picket, the right to
strike, the right to make democratic
decisions without enforced SECICI
ballots, then discussion about now to lefi?
defend ourselves against other attacks
Those at the Defend Our Unions
conference will not be the only people
discussing how to fight against the
on
Conference : c/o
Park. Detuils from: Local
On the same day, for instance, there's a conference on unemploy meat called by the SE Region of the TUC, at which Henn will be speaking What should our attitude be to suc forces?
It's very unfortunate that the dates of the two conferences clash. It's almost inevitable at this time of year, though, that national conferences will clash with sectional or regional ones. we would recommend that trade won bodies send delegates to both.
As to Benn, he is obviously putting on a left face at the moment. trying to further his career. It' sa great pily that Bean-was not prepared to speak al these sorts of conferences when he was the Miniter involved! Will you be seeking unity with such forces, arquad the themes of your conference?
I'msure that a great many — perhaps the majority — of delegates at the 23 June conference will have illusions in Benn, or at least in tbe idea thal what's necessary is to change the Labour Party
1. like every otber SWP member would disagree with this. But the best climate for discussing such differ ences is one in which we are working together around issues on which we agree such as defence of basic trade anion rights.
Does such unity also apply to other organisations of the revolutionary
The conference organisers welcome support from all sections of the movement, although it must be said that Socialist Challenge didn't mention the conference until three woeks hefore it was due to take place.
What a lot revolutionary socialists have to learn is thar the most Important unity is the unity forged in struggle inside the trade UNION movernent.
What about after the conference? Will there be a basis for waited activity, both locally and nationally.
of trade union defenee?
What 1 want to say about unity is that I find it very disturbing that Socialist Challenge is preoccupied by socialist unity at elections, but when it comes to defending hasic trade union rights
sometbing that goes on for every
day of the year for five years, and is noi just a cross on a piece of paper once every five Challenge is painfully slow to come out and support this initiative to build a united rank and tile opposition within the trade unions. But baving said that I'm pleased that you are supporling us now
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By Mark Jackson
TEN key leaders of the Charter 77 civil rights movement were arrested at 5am on 29 May by the Czech political police. The following day, two of the three official spolespersons Charter 77, along with the editor of the Charler information bulletin and a leading representative of the Czech CHIuROCE ROLnu Charter, were charged with subversion.
Subversion
The gravest charge has been brought against Charter information bulletin editor Petr Uhi. He has been accused of subversion of a dan 2 of
character under sub-section 2 article 98 of tbe Czech criminal code.
This charge carries a minimum of three years and a maximum of ten years in jail.
The same change, but of a less serious kind" (sub-section 1), carrying the threat of sentences between one and fate yeree babet ta r irl against three Chartists, Dienstbier, Vaclav Benda and Dana Nemicova.
Those arrested represent a range of different political and ideological currents within the Charter. message is: if you are an activist you will not be safe, whether you are a Trotskyist or a Catholic.
Petr Uhl has openly expressed his political sympathy International, and has compared the demands in the Charter 77 appeal to chose in the Transitional Programme, in the sense that they get people movingIrau's Prime Minister, Hazargan
Czech Trotskyist arrested
New attempt to
break Charter 77
the tactical
to bc opposition
prominent journalists
within the party tor CAUS
continuine the tractons
The could "Eurocommunist".
Vaclav
philosopher and secretary
arrested are members.
figure in the underground,
Expulsion
The Czechoslovak
The Charler Savala.
fortheoming trial with the Fourth the Chartists'
could not defend the accused. take
Uhl has made many contributions
political discussons which nave taken place inside the Charter, and has recently contributed to a book on the East Euronenn civi rishis inovensent S0OB
published by the Polish KSS-KOR.
Jiri Dienstbier was one of the most
working for Prague Radio in 1968, He was sacked from his job and expelled from the
OpPosIon Fo (the post-invasion 'normalisation regime.
He is a supporter of the tendency within the Charter which sees itself as
of the
De coüte party edetipd 15-
described
Benda is a Cathalic of the Commilterto Delend Those Unrustiv Prosecuted (VONS), of which all the
Dana Nemcova is a well-known
Czech cultural a movement which involves hundreds of young Czech workers and has repeatedly been the target of repression by the police,
authorities have been encouraged by the poor response to the jaling of another
spokesperson, Jaroslav
The regime also prepared for the
by getting the official Lawyers association to capel
couragcous defence Lawyer Dr Josef Darise, so that be
The arrests have had almost no publicity in the bourgeois press. After
By A.Hamzeh
IRAN's Islamic regime cancelled its previously announced plans for a democratically elected constituent assembly last week. This lafest and potentially the most dangerous attack by the Khomeini-Bazargan government on the gains made by the Iranian masses as the result of the overthrow of the Shah's regime in February.
Instead of democratically
proposing to set up an apponted body of 40 CUUNELLUCEL assembly the people to discuss the new constitution, which soems already to have been drafted.
Once the new constitution is ready it will be submitted for "public discussion'. then be a referendum which, Islanie Kepublic. ikely government and the Moslem clergy using the full weight of the state apparatus and the mass media to push tbrough their position without even pretending to give critics and opponents a chance to express their views.
The reason is obvious: the government's fear of growing mass disenchantment with the new Islamic Republic.
Workers who made
insurrection possible through their massive senenal strike are nOw unemployment and altempts by the lemman Committees to militarise cheir factories and over their anions, Women who came out bravely throughout last year at the head of the mass mobilisations against the Shah have been attempts to force them back under the veil and into the home.
Oppressed nationalities who were among the fiercest opponents of the Shah have had to face tanks and helicoprer gun-ships when they have called for autonomy. First it was the turn
all the hoo-ha around the Helgrade détente conference last year, Western verments bo
crest in the whole human rig business, since it no longer serves their inmediate need to put diplomatic pressure on the Soviet government.
The fate of the Charter movement
verefore depends greatly upon th
esponse of th Western movements to these latest arrests, The Labour Party, the TUC and the CPGB have all expressed their solidarity with Charter 77. Now they must turn words into deeds: Release
• They must demand the Immediate release of those Chartists who have been arrested.
• They must prepare to send their own official representatives to any trial that taker place.
They must circulate memberships on this attempt to crush the Charter and urge their members to send telegrams of protest to the Crechoslovak government.
They LIUSE demand the immediate reinstatemeut of Charter lawyer Josel Danisz.
• They should raise a fund to help the families of those in jail.
They should cancel official interchanges of delegations between themselves and Czechoslovak official BERBE EEROUS, until the authorities show in action relcasing these (hartists and the others at present in jail — that they will allow the Charter to operate. It is not possibie for the left in this country to be in solidarity both with Charter 77 and with its jailers.
Both the Committee in Defence of Czechoslovak Socialists and the
Constituent assembly
now key issue in Iran
is the TSEEBCH
Khomeini enormous prestige.
elected
government is
There wil
like that on the
to sec the
were threatened.
the country's
to this the
the February
faced with
national
Placed with
Oil has no solution
the lost
labour their
Trunsitional Progrumme Eastern Europe Solidarity Campaign will be taking up the cuse. meantime the largest possible number telegrams should Czechoslovak Erbassy, 25 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8
The sent to:
Upper Street, Czech forwarding to the Charter in Prague. by Messages of solidurity can also be sent to: Anna Sabatova, Prague 2, Czechoslovakia.
STOP PRESS:
Charter activists_ Jarmila Belikova, Jiri Nemec, and Otta Bednarova been charged with subversion under sub-section 1. of the Kurds, then the Turkomans, and now the Arasants whosaw the revolution as a chance to seize back land taken from them under the former regime have faced arracks from
It would be wrong to assume that the
prestige. Widespread Busons Mill has already lost exist arong the masses. But at the same time a clear change in mood is taking place. There is less enthusins for the utopian dream of un "Islamie socicty , and increasingiy the masses are beginning to look for alternatives,
One recent example of this change of mood was the victory of the left in the confrontation with Khomeini over press freedom. attempted to close down the leftist daily paper Ayandeyan by calling for a boycott. Gangi of thuns attacked the paper's offices in a number of towns, and newspaper sellers who sold it
Bur mass support meant that fortnight's closure Ayandegan was able to restart publication, and it immodiately becume
most popular paper circulation of nearly one million.
sales of Kayhan country's most popular daily have dropped catastropbically since pro-Khomeini journalists recently staged a coup purging all the Jeftist Journalists on the editorial board.
The government realised chat elections for a constituent assembly would ust as a major
focus for the grOWIng discontent. It would mean public debate anc discussion of many problems which it has been trying to brush under the carpet and to which
The government would also have to end the present ncither-legal-nor-iBegn] eft organisations by cither banning them o recognising their legal status by slowing them
PETR UHL — he's compared Charter 77's demands to those of the Press movement protest
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Press/Inprecor
Copies of all such protests should *CeCondn nel 328
London for
Anglicka 8,
Four other Vaclav Havel.
- have also now
to participate in the elections.
bare minimum. opposition.
The Lawyers DOE 4 conteren
and liberal organisations
the pro-Peking Sazman Enghelabi doubt follow
prescot authorities fail to intercats will also CELSIUSL
Khomeini
head soon despite the recent calm.
In Kurdestan.
after a
with a In contrast despite threats by the government.
once the HEN IOT
the future
masses
say no to any attempts hierarchy or anyone else to MESS future for them
Socialist (tbe Socialist
starl Icoming ever clearer.,
INTERNATIONAL Intercontinental
THE Intest issue of Infercontinental (Vol. No. consists entirely of the majority and minority resolutions ou Indochins recently discussed by tle United Secretariat of the Fourth Inter-
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So the government has opled tor a closed non-elected assembly and a referendum as the way to preserve a semblance of democrac) while actually reducing democratic EEDSE around the future course of the country to a
But already it faces
Association, which wals at the tiem of the announcement, immediately passed a strong resolution attacking this project. All the left
with the possible exception of the pro-Moscow Tudeh Party and
will no suit and launch a vigorous campaign on this issue. Many workers who are increasing/y conscious of the faet that the
represent their join the opposition
The oppressed nationalities who have been demanding that the country's new constitution should grant them autonomy will do likewise. Al the moment Arabs demanding autonomy in the south west are in bitter violent conflict with government forces. The situation in Kurdestan and Turkumansahra is also likely to come to a
'bere Kurdish forces continue to hold most ol the region, the Kurdish leader Shellh Husseini has threatened to cinte nee aaseter in turkomansn the Turkoman farmers have said that they will go ahead and harvest crops which they have seized back from members of the former regime
democratically elected constituent assembly is going to be crucial for
development of the Iranian revolution. Around thit struggle the oppressed
workers, oppressed nationnlities. peasents and wonen — can begin to unite to
by the. religious determine their
The Iranian Trotskyists of Hezb Karegaran
Workers Party) bave made the call tor a freely clected constituent assembly as the revolutionary way forward for the masses one ol' theit central slogans trom the
lis enormous importance is
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INTERNATIONAL I
Muzorewa's Rhodesia
No flag,
no anthem,
no change
THE state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia" came into being with surprisingly litile fuss last week. Where we might have espected the British press to play lan Smith's triumph for all it was worth, they instead decided to consign the story to the inside pages.
The problem wus that the story was rather uninspiring. The celebrations were almost deliberutely calculated to show how little had changed. There нУ ВО Селениниа RAstERE Ot Enc new flag — because there is no flag. No singing of the national anthem for there is no anthem.
Instead the Union Jack was hoisted in a curious symbolic appeal to the Tories for recognition.
The vulgoing Prime Minister, lan Smith, deliberately and contemptuousty underlined the Indicrousness of the occasion in his farewell broadcast. He snoounced that he was not in favour of black majority rule 'based on race or colour as if that had been in doubt.
And be expluined that the future of the new state still rested on the white population since it was they who controlled the armed forces, If he had added that they contend the police. Judiciary, civil service, land a00 a large chunk of the government. he would have given a full and accurate portrait of "Zimbabwe Rhodesla".
Accommodate
This is why the launching of the new siale was wiven saich SUITSC coverage, so as not to embarrass a Tory government BOW trying accommodate to Bishop Muzorena's regime.
The lint move wall come from Washington. recent Senate derision overwhelmingly recommended President Carter 10
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recognise the Muzorews government within ten days of its taking office and lo it samelians. the recomm codation is not binding but Carter B still obliged to say what he will do within that ten day limit.
After the talks hetween Secretary of Male Cyrus Vance and Forcin Secretary Lord Carrington if seems clear that witever Curfer decided to do will be indicative of Tory policy
The Best nances remain in harmony for the moment in their slow drift towards recognition.
Nuanced
It is most Improbable that Carter will recognise Mazurewa outright. To do so would place intolerable strains
British and sabotage the Tories soft sell approach at the August Commonwalth conference.
For, contrary to most predictions, the Tories are still not rushing into recognition. For the moment their policy is only a nuaaced version of their predecessors". The despatch of Lord Harlech to talk to the leaders of the Patriotic Front liberation movement is of a piece with Labour's olicy. This was to split the Front and iring a section of it - possibly is CHINE leadership into independent government.
The plan was obviously worked out at the very highest level of East-West negotiations. The end result would be a politically pro-Soviet state which nevertheless Фреп capitalist investment.
Such u carefully worked out plan kill not be abandoned just like thar iren Smith in his final broadcast left open the renegotiution of the present coastitution in collaboration with the Patriotic Front. In this contest the
THE "petrol shortage' is a fraud. The oil companies are simply bolding back supplies fo drive up prices and boost profits even more This practice has become commonplace in the United States. The American Trotskyists of the SWP recently measures to deal with the crisis.
PRESIDENT Carter says the cnergy crisis is 'the moral equivalent of war?. That's the way the oil trust sees it American working people. now grippune the country is the latest offensive in that war.
The rip-off at the petrol pump has outraged workers. That anger has even forced some sections of the governmear to lift a bit of the curtain on what's going on.
Profits
• Senator Thomas Eagleton said on 15 May that sixteen major oil companies had made profits on domestically produced crude ranging from 144 per cent to 389 per cent of the cost of production. • The Federal Trade Commissiop admits it has evidence that oil companies have not made full use of available supplies of crude oil and that 'the current shortage may be contrived' Bur Carterinsists that working people are to bame for the crisis and that the only thing to be done is to give the oil giants the profits they are demanding. Workers should 'use less and pay Despite the refusal of the government to act, the measures needed to meet this crisis are simple, The first thing we need to do is to find out the truth about what is happensne How much of and gas are really in the
announcement -East week of sew moves towurds the unification of the two parties which make up the Front is especially positive.
The broad lines of Anglo-American polics now being clear, the need for solidarity has never been more urgent. The demonstration in Landon on 30 June, called by the Zimhubwe Emergency Campaign Committee, has to be supported by every socialist with the maximum possible endorse-
Fixing the fuel fraud
operation" incustry 1s making! outlined the following
Secrecy
-as a war against the
The petrol crisis On these vita Rockefellers,
DEl ownership. industry LUBLING
lan Smith and the reverend Sithole in Washington fast October, being received by US Senator Hayukuwa
from lahour movement organisations.
However, the actual lines of Tory policy indicate that the demonstration's political slogan, No Tory sell-out in Timbubne! is not adequate.. The Tones show every intention of logically extending the policy of the Laleur leadership — which is the whole problem.
This is why Socialist Challenge is approaching other organisations to
ground? How much oil and gas are in the p pelines or storage tanks right now? What is the real capacity of oil refineries already in
What are the real profits the
Under the code of capitalist secrecy working people - and even the government crisis are expected to take the word of the companies
tacts. Every statistic the Department of Energy has is provided by the oil industry — often on the cundition that it not share the data with other government scencies
The labour movement should demand that movement. the books of the energy corpurations be opened to pubic scrutiny. Let's place cvery aspect of tbeir operation under a magnifvine glass!
Lahour should call on the government to take the industry our of the hands of the
Gettys, DuPonts, and other private owners and place it under public
The petrol shortage is brought to us by che same system of private profit and public misery that brought the skyrocketing meat prices in the pring of 1973; the gas lines in the winter o 1973-74; the natural gas shorlage in Januar and February 1977; and most recently, the nuclear nightmare at Three Mile Island.
25 WEN demanding that the government candidates nationalise che energy industry, lahour can place no confidence in Carter or any government bureaucrat to administer it in accord with our needs. The fight for public ownership should include putting the energy
managerent an independent board directly clected by and responsible to the American people.
support a contingent marching on the unequivocal basis of "Hunds off Limbative and to propose that all future activities he organised on that hasis.
*30 June, 2.30, Sanithfield Market London. March past Fleet Street and Rhodesia House to rally in Trufalgar Square, Joshua Nkomo and Rober Mugube of the Patriotle Front have been invited to speak
Workers in the energy industry itself would police the functioning of such a board, making sure that it operated in the open and made all the faces about the industry known. It is these workers, after all, who are in the best position to know when refining capacits isn't being used, when storage tanks are overflowing, und when pumping rates are being kept down
Labour's programme 1o meet the cnergy
cannot be implemented without strugale, The oil trust represents the single most powcrfulsectorol the American ruline class. It i backed to the hilt by the capitalist government. Against that power. it is necessary to mobilie the power of the organised labour
The labour movernent can campaien first of all toget out the truth about what is going on to
American people. can organise discussions in union locals. It can publish literature, set up speaking lours, organise picket lines, and help build demonstrations.
Independent
Such a campaign will be opposed by the Democratic and Republican parties, which are owned from top to bottom by the oil barons The unions will lind it necessary to confront these capitalist politicians in the political arena
by running independent labour
If the union movernent stands up to the oil trust and tights the coerey blackmail, it will inspire millions both inside and outside of the labour movement. If it utilises the full power of labour — by forming a party of the working class based un the unions — it can take another giant step 1o the fight-for a society based on human needs, not profits.
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to immigration control
By Steve Coben
IT IS important for those of us who are Jewish to see how the same sort of controls which are imposed today on Africans, Asians and West Indians by the Immigration Acts were Imposed on us in 1905 by the Aliens Act. The only conclusion we can draw is to oppose all restrictions on immigra-
Likewise it is important for non-Jews to be aware of the nature and extent of anti-semitism in this
something National Front has tried to play on with its campaign to 'brand" the Anti Nazi League as a "Jewish conspiracy -
The background to the Aliens Act was the attacks on population in Eastern Europe at the turn of the century. As a result about 150,000 Jews fed to this country between 1880 and 1905.
There was immediate pressure to prevent further entry and to expel those already here. This fed on a long history of anti-semitism. from the
the population in York in the early Middle Ages, through the expulsion of all Jews from the country in 1290 (they were only readmitted under Cromwell. to such literary carica tures as Fagin in Oliver Twist.
The daily press began to wage # relentless immigration. Here for instance is a poem pubiished in The 909 Tour vears after the Act had already restricted entry:
Subversive
*1 would give them a chance, just one week to clear out/And if found in the land one hour later/ Then death without trial or fooling about/Whether Anarchill, Hanker or Waiter.'
As well as reflecting the later fascist wish to murder poem predates fascist mythology of the Jew as both capitalist and worker
and also general subversive.
One man, Arnold published a host of popular books and pamphiets against immigration. His main argument was a sort of combination of the present NF attempt to prove that no Jews died in the concentration camps and the present racist argument that black
state':
Thus he denied that Jews (the dregs of Russian cities') were fleeing here to escape pogroms coming because they are hungry and the English are charitable'
On top of all this, an organised para-military movement, the British Brothers League, was formed in 1901 1o fight for immigraton control.
In January 1902 it held a mass meeting of 4,000 at the People's Palace in Mile End Road, London. This rally, Jike those of the NE. today, was preceded procession decked with Union Jacks. under the slogan of 'England for the English 1
Sewage
At the described as "scum" and "sewage" and accused of being responsible for "knivings Gi.e. 'muggings"). After the rally the crowd went on a rampage
By 1905 the Brothers were able to present a petition of 45,000 signatures calling for control and threatening violence if it was not imposed (che issue can only be settled by agitation or revolt"). Demonstrations were also organised through the Jewish area of Brick Lane.
The Tories tried to put through immigration control legislation from 1893 onwards. Not surprisingly, their arguments were very similar to those used today by Enoch Powell against black people.
responsible unemployment ('taking workers jobs'). lowering living on the dole C'a charge on the rates"). spreading DISCUSE. overcrowding of an over populated country' 19051), and corruption (foreign women who carpet our streets').
Finally, one of the main 'charges against Jews was that they stirred up
which the
the Jewish
Jewish against Jewish
People in
Jews, this
White:
Jewish
*live off the
they were
East Jews were
working class organisation,
The Jewish socialsts bousing, hesitale to English wages; example, they
sermons on unemployment. sexual organise trade uncons there were One WIGnE
unrest and were "anarchists". This sugeests a very real reason why the Act was brought in — a fear of Jewish
which was often stronger and more direcily political than that of English workers
argue against the established Jewish leadership. For
large demonstracions round the synagogues in 1889 insisting that the rabbis gave
They also helped Jewish workers were their Jewish which 36 in 1902. Many waged successful
How anti-semitism led
Smashing the windows of a Jewish shop in Mile End Road, In Loadon's East End, in the 1930
strikes against their (often Jewish) employers, and helped to stimulate similar agitation by English workers.
It is no wonder that Jews saw a need for their own unions given the artitude of the organised labour movement. As carly as 1692 the TUC passed a resolution cang for the restriction of 'alien (re.
Jewish) immigration By 1893, 43 labour organisations petitioning Parliantent control: Among those campaigning for this object was the famous leader of theed many it the ev Even many
establishment supported the Aliens Act. They had been in the country a Jong time and wanted to be accepted "English'. namin Cohens several English Jewish Board of Guardians
latter was immigrant Jews, but in fact sent many of them hack to Russia.
difficult contemporary accounts show that in
for 1885 a protest meeting was held in the
Jewish East End to protest against the Heard of Guardians' reactionary artitude on Jewish imunigration.
reading Immigration
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to anything The activicy of Jewish workers is discover, althourh
Workingmen's Club in the
semitist of Zionist.
In 1895 Jewish trade unionists organised a mecting attacking the TUC's anti-semitism. In 1902 an Alien Defence League was formed, and in 1904 a public meeting of workers (apparently including non Jews) was held in the Labour Hall in Strangeways (a Jewish quarter of Manchester) against the Act.
In fact it was after the Act was passed that the campaign seems to have grown. Inus there were two large demonstrations in 1907 in Leeds and Manchester against the Act and against the size of the naturalisation foe (which made it too expensive for any Jewish worker, once here, to take our Britich citizenship).
The Act was intended to keep out the sick and the poor (first chess passengers were exempe!), and the toll in human tragedy can be seen by
the reports Boards, Jews were ruthlessly refused entry, deported, and raided by the police if they were thought to be harbouring relatives.
As immigration controls today
racisms against black people by officially labelling them a the problem', so the passing of the Aliens Act in 1905 led to an increase in anti-semitic agitation. When the Ac
amended in 1914 the fear of Jewish trade union activity led to thr insertion of a clause whereby an
jailed for causing "industrial unrest" (this remains the
light through the 1920, and "3 nti-Jewis control was advocated in Parliament. One MP
1925 of the absolute neceshits to preserve the purity of our
and to prevent contamination with the riff raff of Eastern Europe the stiffs of the Mediterrandan, and the dead beats of the world"
agitation had tragic consequences — concealed by English historians for 40 years, When Hitler came to power, thousunds of Jews
refused entry here groands that they could not suppers thinged Mary who did arive were were "tentine Then interned as suspected enemy
were also forcibly
deported to Australia. This briet
came to linhi in 1941 when the Britist
admitted that Jewish refugees had been shipped oll ic Australia on board the ship Dunera -and that Jewish women had been abused and their property looted, For This the officer in charge received a
Two main conclusions сал be drawn from all this. First, that
oppose all immigration
Some members of the Labour Party say that we should argue for "non racially discriminatory" control. But to exclude it person trom onc "state because they happen to have been born in another "state is to recognise that it is legitimate for thai state to interpose barriers between the
people of different
Furthermore, the only time the
of control is raised practice is to exclude particular races -be they Jewish or Asian, Inventing different criteria for control i not going to fighe this chauvinisen.
criticism of Zionism must also include a constant attack on anti-semitism, because it is this that provides the material basis for Zionism. It is no coincidence that the year the Aliens Act was passed
1905, saw the founding in Leeds of a Puole Zionist (Workers of Zion)
By the 1930s every major capitalist state had immigration restrictions against Jews. Thus Zionism came to be seen as an answer to persecution, even though it is not in fact a solution
Today the immigration
laws in the LISA and Britain similarly ensure that many Russian Jews sec emigration to Israci as the answer to their persecution
A vigorous fight against anti
therefore necessary
in order to unmask the false solution
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LETTERS
"Viability'-
whose problem?
STEVE Potter's article on "viability"
(10 May) correctly reaffirms that a
woman's right to choose is hers no
matter what her gestation. However,
it is insufficient merely to state this
without having a clear position on
what it means in practice.
which 15 frequently
abortion rights are discussed.
What anti-abortionists and some
people who campaign for a woman's
right often
recognise/emphusise
question of viability and how best to
manage a (late) termination does not
devolve onto the woman having the
abortion but the
workers carrying it out.
This b important distinction
sinceit allows for a clear position that i is a woman's right to have her pregnancy terminated at any time and
also enables health workers to have a dear policy with regard to the fate of the conceptus and management of the abortion procedure.
Thus the viability question should
be posed not as 'till what gestation
does i woman have the right to choose
to have her pregnancy terminated".
but how should a termination be
managed at any given gestation'.
Policy on this should be designed to
ensure that the abortion is carried out
with the minimum of distress to the
woman concerned, those carrying out the procedure, and the abortus. This
in turn requires a clear understanding
of what the procedure being carried out is designed to achieve.
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so to care taa tac conspous never experiences sentient state. if it is to end a
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instituted.
TIMOTHY LAMBERT (Manchester)
After Torness
I'Dlike to makea few brief comments about your article on the Torness occupation (17 May).
am an anarchist, shertant minority hot ope or there. not only anarchists but many others too, were
they saw as an attempt to back out of direct action by a small clique. They behaved badly in that they should have tried to work through allance rather getting adventurist individualism. 5 mat wee behaved Toes was: that behaved disorganised rabble. In theory all decisions were to be taken through delegates accountable to small groups meeting to arrive at
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dialogue urgently needed about how we can or
One major element in this debate must bethe structure we are trying to
•a decentralised,
ory consensus system which we stil believe in despite its rocent failures. Can you work through this system, or
prefer to organise from
Sport's positive
IN his review of Jean-Marie Brohm's book on sport (17 May), Ric Sissons reports its thesis that sport must be
state machine' these days? How about: the revolutionary overthrow
The transcendence of travel! The withering away of picnics,
Ric Sissons has the sense to densur al the above-quoted remark, but for the rest his review appears to endorse a wholly negative appraisal of sport, column,
its title, Sport masses? This: sport fosters discipline and respect for autbority", it is a source of profit. encourages their see ye be a
violence, sexism, Evidently a bad
thor course, sport is not sealed off
TOmI sociery inhabits. But neither are music, the
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INMIGRATION LAWS However, it can and does also embody more positive antithetical to capitalion, such as fairness, disinterested admiration and mutual enjoyment; and in certain circumstances, just because of its links to the wider social environment, i can become the vehicle for expressing progressive political aspirations.
Furthermore, there are aesthetic qualities to the play. They may be of limited range but they are none the less real for that. There is the drama of the contest and there is the visual beauty of its constituent movements As CLR James has put it, the publi of modern sport in its own way 'grasps at a more complete human existence!.
Sissons speaks of Brobni's book as 'the first attempt to examine sport
La Marxist standpoint' overlooks James's Beywad Boundary, surely an outstanding, It not simply the most outstanding contribution to serious analysis of sport, I makes an eloquent case recommend it to all those interested in his subjec NORMAN GERAS (Manchester
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E. KONSE (Oxfond) Teeside -of vote CP?
FEW people have the chance to vote
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European clections on 7 June. So
what du we sav to the lens ol
thousands who may be willing to the discuss the Common Market with us?
Putting forward internationalist
and anti-capitalist policies
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for a Labour government in genera
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News from
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the EEC and normally
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I DONT KNOW!
How DC
THE DIFEMENCE and bosses' parties, but for or agains! the Market and the strengthening of Europcan capitalist cooperation.
In Europe as a whole, the
partses mas! working class support. bur disagree with each other on the BEC; here the CP is anti-Market, while the Labour Parcy is divided and has a pro-Marke
These factors must influence our tactics
The policy we would argue for is For a left vote against the bosse: Marker': That Is we should give critical support to labour movement/
Want Market candiates.
Here in Teesside, where the Labour candidate is pro-Market, that means a cote for the CP member who is standing as an Anti-Common Market candidate, despile the party small size, and its chauvinist defence of ALAN THEASHY, TIM GREGORY (Middlesbrough)
Destroy EEC
IF we vote in the coming election called by the EEC ratifying their right to call one, and thus strengthening and supporting the nascent EEC stare machine
We must work only 10 withdraw from, but also to destroy.
as it is a capitalist. anti-socialist combine. If we say vote for an anti-EEC candidate. we differ from the Hahan and French Communist parties?
JIM JOHNSON (Keele)
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By Richard Carver
THEY were the Iwo most unlikely
had played only two first class cricket matches. He was 19 years old and five feet four inches tall, Alfred Valentine was hardly older and no more experienced. Tall, myopic / fat-footed, he had the shell-shocked lonk of the bank clerk gone to war.
Vet in a single summer, 1950, the
West Indian spir changed the face of the beginning the West Indian dominance of the game which continues today.
The change was not as sudden as the bare evidence of match results might suggest. Ram and Val had been foreshadowed by players like Learie Constantine and George Headley; they were accompanied by the Three Ws batting trio, Walcott, Weeke and Worrell, But as the crowd surged back down the Brixton Road from Kennington Oval, Ramadhin Valentine were the heroes of their calypso: "Cricket, Lovely Cricket'.
The old colonial power was finally crushed in 1963 when Frank Worrell's side swept through the country. The English finally gave up any hope of stopping them by cricketing means
adopted more measures.
THE Lords pigeons are the
only furred and feathered
friends who still take part in
cricket. Yet in 1827 there was a
chullenge match between twe
gentlemen of Middleses" and a
man and his sheep-dog. The
DOE MORO SEND OY RC
bowler's side until the ball was
hit and rapidly field it. Their
opponents.could hardly score i
And when the MOCvisited
Australia in 1876-77 they found
That in one match the fielding
side wassepplemented by twe
kangaroos.
Prior to the next West Indian tour in 1966 the England captain, Dexter, a former Tory parbamentary candidate, launched a campaian of vilification against Charhe Griffith, the most successful West Indian bowler in 1963. Griffith was an unsmiling, aggressive man on the field ol play - not at all conlontine lo white ideas of how black should behave. Dexter, backed by a large section of the press, claimed that Griffith threw rather than bowled the ball.
But Griffith continued to take wickets, Dexter retired prematurely, and not even slander could contain the West Indian supremacy.
For the press and ruling class cricket is an English' therefore dominated standards and their favoured players. Many socialists have taken over that
to get che 'correct political response:
'crickel is bourgeois". reflecting the left's philistinism towards response is breathtakingly insular.
Allegiance
Australan football may be good
for the pools, but it is cricket which
commands public
Throughout the Indian sub-continent
CHICKEE
others. In the West Indies the tiniest
vacant strip of ground is turned over
to the national game. England and
New Zealand are alone among the
sport takes second place to another in
the public interest.
It was not always so. There was
never anything interently
class' abouta game which began with
shepherds patching a ball of wool at a
wicket gate. As
standardised it did come to represent
dominant Victorian values,
more so than the equally bourgeois
Fostball Association and League.
In many parts of the
especially the north.
cricket had precisely equal status
cach was played for half the year.
Even the smallest
community had its cricket league.
The dominancs, of the pubic
Schooks and triversities.
and
bowlers
game.
and scurrilous
Ted
athletes ricker 1. England not THE hardly game and century. The ruling body is by their the Test
Cricket International equivalent is the Internationul merly Imperial)
Apart from
are staffed by
ITCHUCHI sport, TAIS clique
Club. a body equivulent to the Tory Party or Guards as a prop of the -British state!
These
allegiance. uni Parers
have outlived It by years Cricket used to be divided into the
cnckel.
*ruling
English the game became
but no cricket in the 1920%.
steel apposition, foorball and
TOC A0
explode their bombshell.
The his
amateurs and changed" professional
Fund County affected Bourd.
(forCricket scorecard, Both bodies • smail Gentlemen organised around the sparkling Marylebone Cricket more workaday purts the idea smallest shred of truth.
The
fleeted the old Gentlemen
division but pale. Although governed
ruling class mere in
progressively squeezed the life out of lecayed so did its input of cricketers Increasingly repelled, many workers
dominance of cricket ended with the First World War. The West Indies was only admitted to Test
Like all Dea Test-playing nations it took time lo
international though its players were as good as any and only escaped due recognition by playing
1950 it was ready for Ram and Val to
the offered for this dew hipremacy is the
"CRICKET, LOVELY CRICKET
Gentlemen and players
(Gentlemen") class autionul teains, distinction even such things where pluvery changed for the mutch or how their and Sobers. manses were written on the
meR-Players
Mith had it that the
provided al butters, while the Players Filled the but also
appalling the
weekend league and dab cricket pluved locally and was heyond the
Fi was praying rules to membere the sume
Ghent excepted). practice not
"natural sense of rhythm' theory, The Marxist CLR James deale simply with that sort of racism Analysing the genias of Learie Constantine, WTOEC: was not due to his marvellous West Indan eye marvellous West Indian wrists It wa due, if vou must have it, to his marvellous West Indian brains.
Technique Ramadhin was the same. confusion he created among English plavers was because of an innovation in technique — a new way of spinning ball + that no one understand. The question is why thar
eligible for selection for Pucker.
Yet the standard was and is offen alternative high, with the participadion of West Indians such
Constantine, Worrell
In England the Gentle- Ner
distinction provide a solution was abolished in 1963. 1s effects continue not just in the archaic administration
in pluyers" wages (top players are meant to have munity. The private means, you see).
And the selection of the the Test England captuin still seems to depend more on the old locally-hased clubs school lie than on tactical leagues. sense (the present incum- competitions
The battle with Kerry from thut hasi.
"technological' revolution took place in the Caribbean, Why, for example, the 164 square miles he provided the Three Ws, born within If months of cach and England's hundreds of professional cricketers could offer no equivalent. involvement in the game. That in turn becomes cleares Kennington Oval when the West Indians are playing. hlack people, The menial jobs or stand in a Brixton dole queue, can gain a symbolic revenge a he while team is haminarco James reports waterfront in Trinidad is the slogan *Garfielt Sobers 365°, the ahiount bf
The CHIE
Georgetown, According foreign compelition. the Austrulian cupitalist who set up an
LETESSE LIBE tion, may have helped to for the shuke things up, but it will they bring lew benefits to the ordinate Packer
does
cricket's problems. His answeristo make the game more connercial, more professional. and more distanced from the com- Physique seeder destruction of reverse
and count: turn to structure und a return t
and Internationn CAN democratically argunise
of Barbados
other, when Britain?
The only explanation is mass cricket power
it visits
Thousands of shipped over to dr administrative
that on the
his record-breaking highest score
sumbolism is the same
Wist Indian cricker and pobitic are indissoluble, but neither detracts from the other. The fear of the political purist that cricket will sap black militancy is ridiculous.
Constantine, for example, was a passionate advocare of self-govern ment. Frank Worrell's team was so popular because for the first time it was led by a black. Thelatler case alsc shows the tensions within Caribbean cricket. Worrell', appointment was only the result of a long battle which reflected the continuing gulf between crowds and administrators.
FASI bowling is the reason
often given for women
cricketers noi competing on
equal terms with men. Yet it
wis A woman who invented
roundarin as opposed to
underarm bowling, Christina
Willes of Kents how led that
way to avoid getting her arm
caught in her crinolines.
Her brother John was
impressed with the idea and
tried to use it against the MCC
at Lordsin 1822. But the
umpires persistently ruled that
he was bowling "no-balls"
Willes ungrily left the field.
wat of history, Hissister's
invention remained.
Three of the Packer "Supertests" in
Inutes last WHILE! disrupted by crowd demonstrations. The bercest, at the Bourdu ground in
provoked spectators crammed into the (hot uncomfortable stands all day with no cricket In Barbados the disruption Came after the crowd had spent the morning listening to news of the left-wing takcover in Grenada.
to Frank Walcott, president of the Caribbean Congress of Labour: "This regional explosion s more than a sporting discontent to be identified with an unpopular decision by an umpire or the judgement of the administration of those who control sporting events. Thisis a growing sign of social discontent in the arca
Cricker watchers in the Caribbean evidently do not take the given social role of the pame for granted, yet their British counterparts seem to. For all the radical' talk of one-day cricket no-one really questions the national and county organisation of the gume The Test and Counry Cricket Board has even restricted the number of
players in LORDS
Chauvinism is rampant. When countries like East Africa. Si Lanka
Papua Cunes arrived World Cup this month were The source ot much amusement to the cricker writers
These countries are not up to Tes
standard, but only bepause of the lac
of top-rate opposition. Why should the most popular sport in Fiji be the object of racist 'grass skirt" jibes in the Daily Telegraph:
Why, for that matter, should the
game be male-dominated? Physique
is the reason most often piven, but in only one aspect, fast bowling, is
pure physique of such importano
Even there, there is a certain 1r00) for the modern method of bowling was invented by a woman.
For most English cricket fans the
idea of international cricket against
Fiji or the involvement or women or
an equal basis seems bizarre and luughable. But is it any more bizarre
and laughable than the visit of the first Australian aboriginal team to
-Thete were racist
aplenty, but these could not hold back the emergence of Australia as a world
Many more than chi
same methods could stop the tise o the West Indies nearly a century later
Before these changes can take
place the entire professional and
structure of cricket
will have to be smashed. Power will have to devolve to the leagues in the villages, the estates and the localities
But the game itself is a ready-made
strument for us to seize, The peg
The Caribb
social Challenge 1 Jime
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