Socialist Challenge No. 175, 3 December 1980
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Challenge Irish hunger strikers NOW IT'S TEN WHO FACE DEATH
WORLD IN CRISIS Pages 6-12
Socialist
BEFORE ARMAGH THOSE who do not understand why ten Irish political prisoners have gone on hunger strike should take a look at the pictures on either side of this article.
On the left is a young healthy woman. Her name is Mairead Farrell. That picture was taken four years ago. On the right is a woman prisoner in Armagh jail. She looks ill, gaunt and degraded. The woman in that picture is also Mairead Farrell, as she looked six months ago.
Today Mairead is on hunger strike - one of the three women prisoners who, at the start of this week, joined their seven male counterparts in Long Kesh prison who have been refusing food for over a month.
All the political prisoners in Armagh and Long Kesh were tried in 'emergency', juryless courts All were interrogated and convicted by methods condemned by Amnesty International. All are asking no more than to be allowed to live under the conditions in which such prisoners were held in the north of Ireland from 1972-76.
In Long Kesh and Armagh they have lived the type of appalling existence illustrated by the picture of Mairead's cell. Eventually they could stand no more, and so began their hunger strike 'to death if necessary'.
The prisoners' demands have been backed by tens of thousands of people who have. demonstrated on the streets of Ireland. As yet no
No. 173 3 December 1980 20p
VICTORY!
WE
THANK
THE
PUBLIC
THE BUILDING WORKERS FOR
ITS
SUPPORT
Victory to the firefighters THE Fire Brigades Union have inflicted a humiliating defeat on the Tory government. On Monday evening the local authorities agreed to give the FBU most of what they had been demanding. The six per cent pay limit, announced by the Tories just a couple of weeks ago received, a roasting.
The FBU won because of their threat of national strike action, the support promised by the TUC, and the solidarity shown by the working class movement - a solidarity particularly evident on Liverpool's unemployment demonstration on Saturday.
This stirring of power has sent the Tories cringing. If the FBU can do it, so can the rest of us.
IN ARMAGH
similar movement has been built in Britain. The leaders of the Labour Party - including the leftwing leaders - have been conspicuous by their silence. That silence could well prove fatal for Mairead Farrell and her comrades.
Every reader of Socialist Challenge is urged to do all they can to ensure that such a tragedy does not occur. For a start that means demonstrating in London this weekend.
Don't let the Irish prisoners die. All out 7 December. Assemble Speakers Corner, 1pm.
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150,000 demand
Editorial
Socialist Challenge Revolutionary socialist weekly
PO Box 50, London N1 2XP Phone 359 8189/8180 (editorial and distribu-
tion)
His for Hush
THE first national demonstration to take place in Britain on the issue of the Irish hunger strikers is an appropriate time to review the progress of the campaign of solidarity with these strikers.
in the north ot from the nationalist community have taken to the streets than at any time since 1972. In the south, too, there is evidence of a growing mass sentiment of support.
Irish premier Charlie Haughey of the 'Republican' Fianna Fail party is still trying to avoid the issue; presumably he doesn't want to say much before his forthcoming meeting with Thatcher.
Support is also being expressed on an international scale. MPs and trade unions in Australia, Spain, and the Basque country are particularly to the fore.
The weak link is in Britain itself. There have been successes in the student field and an increasing awareness in the women's movement, tough nut of organised labour has yet to be cracked. The and ideology of British labour remains a formidable obstacle.
Hush
Only a couple of MPs - Joan Maynard and Ernie Roberts - have put any effort into the campaign. Kevin McNamara was the only MP to differ trom the bi-partisan condemnation ot the hunger strikers during the debate on the Queen's Speech.
What of the rest, the left-wing Labour MPs and the oh-so-left national executive committee of the Labour Party? For them, H is for hush.
Last week the NEC refused to discuss the question, despite attempts to raise it. One leading left MP, a very leading one, has said privately that "Ireland doesn't need martyrs', while another has explained, again privately, that he supports the prisoners' five demands but wouldn't say so publicly because he fears it would cost him his paramontary soat.
Criticism
Perhaps, when the hunger strikers start to die, these MPs will re-discover a few shreds of political principle, even simple humanity and politely ask Thatcher if it would not be possible to seek some compromise.
For the moment the leaders of the Labour left are peeling the flesh from the hunger strikers as vigorously as is Thatcher.
And yet in the recent past the Labour NEC has stated its criticism of the conditions in which the prisoners are held, and individuals such as Tony Benn have declared their support for Irish unity, the denial of which is the reason why there are Irish political prisoners.
While such people can express general sentiments, when it comes to the question of their practical application these people choose to identify with all the repression and nastiness which the British state has pursued in the H Blocks and Armagh.
Remember
For those who do support the demands of the prisoners, there needs to be a re-doubling of effort to raise the issue wherever we can, especially in the trade unions and CLPs.
Remember what Sean McKenna, one of the hunger strikers, said when he wrote to Socialist Challenge a couple of weeks ago: speaks clearly is support through action.'
Sacialist Challenge: 3 December 1980 Page 2
Ireland more people
but the
chauvinistic traditions 'The only support whiteh
ABOVE the speakers' platform on Liverpool's Pier Head a huge digital display showed the result of Thatcher's Tory policies — it registered one more worker made redundant every 15 seconds.
For years Merseyside
sutTereo TrOM unemployment. after factory has closed Kirkby have been turned to moustal deserta
It was the people 01
who turned that made the march on
success.
They came everywhere to join the
From the and pubs, they spotted
nearest Liverpool Came The and on they came. Merseyside
Ford Halewood plant had tousanas behind their banners.
even Wit mas. unemployment inere was no lack of militancy from Liverpool's
different world normal labour ovement marcu coming trom all over the North and Scotland, thousands people
would never come to London marches.
At Sefton Park, the assembly point the
was obvious at as was cone too: one of the biggest labour demonstrations for years
Labour Party banner:
everywhere, VOUT marched with _The LADOUr Party Young Socialists.
Unity
In each section of the march party. trade union, and socialist organisations mingled
reinforce the desire TOT UnIL whole movement against the Tories.
Pier Head the the labour
nuce rary. Muchael rool the new Header от Ine Parliamentary Labour Party, was he appeared on the platTonit. wans nearey AST LABOUR Chancellor, was booed,
Some people still
STRE
THOUSANDS of youth joined the march
remember the failure of the ment to save obs with its
Line wirst sobaker wa Jor charoson. on une Labour cary nationa • ex ecutive, •who said that 'the only person I want to
the dole now is Thatcher. • I hope sitting friahtened by the ot inis demonstration
'We all know so meone who now
PRE
THOUSANDS of demonstrators crowd Liverpool's city centre unemployed, we musn't forge that women have a right to a •• as well as evervone else. natcher also throwing women out of work through cuts
"The next government will renew our resources by ding money welfare
it is our money taxes that finances these projects, not hers.
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MERSEYSIDE dockers led the march
ON THE ROAD T
When Michael Foot addresed rally disappointed many r of the
stating Chal , une only wa to derear шле • lories was by walting …TO The next election and voting Labour then thousands
queue rioner, central sorean oT Ine-Duolc employees
general election,
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general strike
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planning Sorte regional demonstration
against the Tories
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the right to work
YERPOOL
BOUR PART"
'KILL the lie that there is no alternative to mass unemployment.
That is what this demonstration is about.
'Banish the despair that mass unemployment brings in its train. Of course, we can stoo the whole wretched process of industrial ruin, if we have the will.
Prepare to destroy at the ballot box, which is the only place they can be finally defeated, the party of unemployment, the government of unemployment.'
MICHAEL FOOT, Labour leader
THE next Labour Join the fight for
socialism
Socialist
area
Name...
Age...
Address.
LIVERPOOL PIER
'Get the Tories out of office at the
earliest possible moment'
government must not go down as another one that tried to administer capitalism better than a Tory capitalist government, but as one that began the re-building of British industry. along socialist lines...
Build a greater mass movement that will get the govern. the earliest possible
Ensure that the fight inside and outside Parliament is waged in both places.
ERIC HEFFER, MP
'MRS Thatcher is determined to rule by fear in the hope that she can break the power of the labour
I would like to be put in contact with
Challenge supporters in my
...Occupation.
movement and drive us all back into a new serfdom enforced by the police and army...
The Labour Party must become a mass party again. Our objectives are:
'To halt ministers in their tracks by the strength of our C0O... To compel
tion... win support for socialist policies in a constructive way...
'To secure Labour majorities in Parliament and on all local authorities... We have it in our power to do all this in 1981.
TONY BENN, MP
THE people to suffer most from Mrs Thatcher's policies are the country's most vulnerable workers -racial minorities, women, unskilled workers, the low paid and the young.
ALEX KITSON, Labour Party chairperson
'BITTERNESS and anger among unemployed youth are reaching ex. plosive proportions.
'It should be made clear to this government of bankers and industrialists that this tolerate the level of ::
A BIRMINGHAM woman gets her message across Gardners sacked us, backed us, and WE WON'. The slogan on Gardners' placards.
unemployment exporienced in the "20s and "30s. 'LET'S demonstrate in the Midlands and in the North-east and have the same TONY SAUNOIS, Young Socialists chairperson
Hemloriam
JOBS
the nation
message wherever we go - let's call for a general election now. Let's test the feeling of the people of Britain about the way this government is performing.
ALAN FISHER, general secretary
H is for...
of the 12th century, and who thus
ever since.
sion and bribery.
to rule because of his unpopularity: always Kings of this land of Ireland.
15
to resist English conquest.
English monarchy
rebel against the British Crown.
land.
100first 600 years of occupation:
of the p spoke of Irise from those which. original inhabitants of their country. desire to exploit.'
#-BLOCK
& ARMAGH
• ENRY II the English King wh Linvaded Ireland in the middi
began an occupation which has lasted
declare himself fing of Ireland. He ENRY VIll, the first English ruler to managed to extend the territory in Ireland under English control by a policy of repres
Local Irish lords were either executed, if they didn't accept Henry's rule, or were bribed. Henry VIll must have been one of the few rulers in history to explain his right
'Forasmuch as... the Irish men and in. habitants within this Realm of Ireland have not been so obedient to the King's Highness and his most noble progenitors, and to their laws, as they of right and according to their allegiance and bounden duties ought to have been... be it enacted, ordained and established by the authority of this present Parliament, that the King's Highness, his heirs and successors, Kings of England, be
TO Ell, whole mar rebellion against the English crown in the 1690s. Hugh's base was in the pro vince of Ulster, the last major area in Ireland
When he was finally defeated in 1603 and driven into exile, the rebellious province of Ulster was ruthlessly 'planted' by the
Whole areas of land were confiscated from the native Irish and given to English and Scottish settlers who were brought in to ensure that never again would Ulster
By 1641 around 100,000 settlers had been planted in Ulster. The native Irish either fled or were reduced to living on the poorest of
All pictures P Grant & S Lazlo (Socialist Challenge)
The transfer of land ownership: 1603-1778 #TILL. Christopher Hill, a leadin contemporary historian who ha summed up the attitudes towards the Irish displayed by the English ruling class after its
'A great number of civilised Englishmen
Apes in the 17th century cones not far removed Lazis used about Slavs, or white South Africans use about the
in each case the contempt retionalised a
Socialist Challenge " 3 December 1980 : Page 3
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Ford workers reject
By Bill Alder 'IT SHOWS good senso' was Joo Gormley s comment on Monday when the result of the miners' pay ballot was announced.
For the right-wing presidon of the NUM the Coal Board 3 victory
the ballot, miners narrowly votad to pay por indice omployers' his members had 'a sense of realism.
Just how realistic this FORD's new disciplinary code will increase productivity and reduce satety. By Joe Broughton THE victory of the Gardner's workers against management's plans isn't just a punch on the nose for Thatcher, but a fundamental challenge to the right of multinationals to switch capital and technology from one country to another.
Hawker Siddeley, have been buying and selling companies like Malcolm Allison bought
and sold footballers. But unlike Big Mal's
team, Hawker Siddeley are topping the UK
engineering league table, with £120m profits
Photo: Pote Grant (Socialist Challenge) this year alone. Gardner's have nearly £12m in
undistributed profits in the bank.
Already this year 350
gone bankrupt in
Hawker's claim
and investments are responsible for
redundancy plans doesn't hold water. During
the
Gardner's engines increased to 94 a month.
come from the
perienced a 10-12 per cent increase in demand
for diesel engines this year.
So what has Hawker Siddeley been up It's now
alliance is with the multinationals against their smaller UK rivals.
celerating pace of take-overs of smaller com-
panies
Gormley's plan to
of the pay ofter would help save
replied: 'It allows me to have discussions with the government minister.'
58 Dei cont Yes vote in the pay a margin which
tion of a majority on the GALGULVO
After Gardner's victory, Hawker
Siddeley plans for the future
redundancy
For five years Gardner'$ parent company
companies have the North-west, but that plummeting markets their
eight-week dispute the order book for
What's more, these orders may well have
US market which has ex-
ronce bown tne ac
for example, Gardner by Hawker's
Socialist Challenge 3 December 1980 Page 4
Home News-
What good sense
means to Joe Gormley
the Tories' policios.
claim
cent, but the increase in
basic pay is only 7-10 por
cont. The rest is suppos
changes in the
schemo.
But this extra money be received pits whore produc. 1050
tivity
fault of the By Mick Drake, Ford Dagenham ALL OVER the country, Ford workers have rejected the company's 9.8 per cent pay offer. After the new National Insurance increases the offer is worth only f5 a week for manual workers.
While asking the mass theen's TOT SINDON more talks. our national
have failed to actions they va agallot the company.
will labocl Wilchl rorerenses union claim for 20 per cent shorter hours, and fringe
The present state 'non-cooperation' with the paper has ended the current •roccoutal colla provide tne Dasis 1o an effective fighting polcy into a campaign to break the
disciplinary company code. This code seeks to imDOsC ucs or lwu uays pay every me a subcavisor su struction refused or mostops for : 10 minutes
Management also
involvec off Lays any plant affected by these suspensions.
and the recent rebellion of UK firms at the
CBI conference. Thatcher is sacrificing small firms on the altar of monetarism.
Hawker Siddeley's long-term project for
Gardner's is still very likely that of stripping it
of its assets and selling it for a profit at a later
date. Today the machinery and stock in the
Gardner plant is valued at £29m than Hawker's paid for it in 1977!
In this sense the struggle at Gardner's
bears a greater resemblance to the Roberts
Arundel dispute in Stockport in 1967 or Imperial Typewriters
mentioned 1971 work-in at UCS - a genuine-
ly bankrupt company.
Other Hawker
have been confronter with 900 redundancies.
When a multinational decides to play ofi
one subsidiary against inter-prest combine committe A piner inter-plant combine committees.
movement can board by generalising the struggle inside the
multinational.
The recent opening by Hawker of a diesel
engine factory in Bangladesh with wage rates
only about eight per cent of levels paid in its
Western subsidiaries shows the direction the
bosses intend to go in.
organisation of workers must surely stem from the need to combat the international plans of the multinationals.
And wher the bonus the Coal Board which will achieved wor't • 8: . Holo. They D6 themselves at a cost ol riak of accident and in extra
'Gormley's gift to the NUM. It's a good
Conton o bing he tr
Wales between
calling for nariona halt the •closuros.
pay deal
Last week the shopfloor at the Halewood plant Nerse siee gave answer the new code.
When 22 workers from the
: shop press
for rotating boring jobs,
300 workers struck in support
The the management sent Tound a
Estembly and body plant
tle for DOLA Alter SIX-WCCK Haewoo har wortengu "to rotate jobs with no conditions attached. Ford has invested £207m in the last year, and £135n went on the new robotised ascort lltes
It wants to use the new End stop stek ards and of
shop stewards and productivity L cae was mitrouuccu or 17 November it was openly flouted.
Ford claimed last Thursday in the Daily Telegraph
'Halewood - £15m more
1974 than the oft-
subsidiaries are hitting Workers at Mirrlees Blackstone,
another, the ideal
developed across-the-
The international
have not 'met production targets since the plant open
so that it can push through
recumeances as a result o robotisation.
press shop workers shown the way 1ir luaca what nov
• DalliC between. unions for shopfloor power.
such
lear lead has come from th
lational negotiators. Whh
full time officials and con-
• have shied :away from that rejecting the company's otter means we must prepare lor surike action.
There is no way in which Ford will make an pay offer unless it is forced
Hkoy Clal the company wike len leaf out of the Leyland book
going over the heads o
putting increase in ine pay packets
doptng a new offensive policy cooperatior ung shop stewaras commil tees to support for strike action in January will Ford be defeated and our claim won.
H is for
Under Grattan, to demand, and sometimes win,
Britain, and more rights for the native tionalism had their limits.
tant community.^
Wolfe Tone rebellion against British rule.
rule from Westminster. grown food was exported to England alleviate the suffering, which made famine inevitable.
the years progressed
Rule.
Lords
Irish self-rule under British control. tain.
their deaths re-established Irish
supported cause.
#-BLOCK
& ARMAGH
photo. Andrew Ward (Renorf)
HaN Protestant Irish ha lamer of the
-all-Protestant Irish parliament towards the end of the 18th century.
that parliament began
greater freedom from British control.
Grattan sought more indopendence from Catholics. But both his liberalism and na-
As he told members of the Protestant Ascendancy in Dublin: 'I love the Roman Catholic. I am a friend to his liberty, but it is only inasmuch as his liberty is entirely consistent with your ascendancy, and addition to the strength and freedom of the Protes
The half-way house to Irish freedom and oquality was, for many, too little. In 1798
first modern armed He was easily deteated and two years later Britain passed the Act of Union which abolished the Irish parliament once and for all, restoring direct HuMen tre the Gosa Hunger of 1845-48
when Ireland lost at least a quarter of its population through famine and emigration. More than a million died as home-
The Westminster government did little to having previously established an agriculture system in Ireland
" OME ROLE, the aventual political
response by the Irish to British misgovernment of the country. The demand for Irish Home Rule began to be voiced in the late 1860s and grew louder and louder as
Home Rule envisaged the return of an Irish parliament but with Britain still retaining overall control. In election after election in Ireland, the Home Rule party won a majority and eventually British prime minister Gladstone agreed to a measure of Home
But Gladstone was blocked by his own Liberal Party and he was outvoted by the permanent Tory majority in the House of
Eventually in 1912 a new Home Rule Bill was passed in the House of Commons. But this did not come into operation until 1921, when a new limitation had been placed on
- the partition of the country with the north-east of Ireland remaining
PEROES — the heroes of the 19 5 Irish
• Rising, who took up arms to demano that all of Ireland should be free from Bri-
The leaders of 1916 were all executed bi the British authorities, but their action anc
Republicanism as a modern and mass-
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Two weeks strike action
to a halt
By Martin Eady, NUR UP TO 50,000 jobs on British Rail could be lost in 1981, a crowded meeting of railway workers in London was told last week.
National Union Railwaymen executive
Geoff Revell told sense. me meenue wal al sectors
ed. He said that the crisis we
political in nature, therefore demands a pontical response
get • membersio to understand the necessity for prolonged struggle political tion, Revell HE NUR
ecutives decision to rise ine
referred
full power of the union defend the membership
means LOR. This fighting mood was
taken up by many speaker:
the , TOOT.
Hemsby, seranar
said: is be for the NUR to take the lea
By Pat Kane
The Tory cuts will mean
thousands 01
across the public sector, and
everal unions representing
TOT IWO Wacks vi sula
action against lie governs
ment starting 2 February.
Alf Sherwood, convenor
of the building unions in the
plications of the cuts:
we're playing USE DON
a cat and mouse game with
We can't be sure where cuts will
Deal reduc-
TONS in the Whitehall will
grant irom
least a Inousan
redundancies
borough. We're flatly refus
Have anything to do
with redundancies. Pressure
"This is why industrial
action needed right
the Lully.
DICSSUIC Call
hronent to bear me codes
will not be able to ignore us.
Our members would rather
lose a fortnight's wages and
hoht me covernment mad
lose their jobs altogether.
Hands off students'
unions
By Ann Henderson,
NUS executive (in personal capacity)
OVER 20,000
students marched
in London and 5,500
in Glasgow last Fri-
day to demand:
Hands off our
unions.
demonstrations June
were orcaused •y lae la-
tional Union of Students, in
Tory cuts grind railways
in suppe will have to Col struct a new triple alliance miner rs, steelworkers, and railworkers. sailuld be broadened outhis
La general surine. But member from
Wolverhampton want the union fight for us before, don't sell us out now.
Stephens, Caroine assistant secretary moved resolution that the executive shona socciy a date strike members at the meeting renained stoneyfaced as declined to pu the resolution to the vote Many 11UC meetings ke uns one u wonuul alc needed to organise lo save rail fory and services from
against the Tories
THE massive attack on local government
services announced on 'Black Monday', 24
November, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer came as no surprise to trades unionists in the South London borough of Lambeth.
redundand Lambeth
parim unIons
plan
"This is what everyone has to work out in their own mind. 'The Lambeth recall conference on 17 January is very im on their one an their enough seopl can answel ambet's cal taere will l opposition to the Tories' for studen union financing They were the largest marches in Britain on student issues since 1972.
If the government has its way, from next September students unions transformed a depart each college, their funds directly from the local receivie
-Home News-
Pier Head last Saturday.
WHOS NEXT
FOR KEITH
JOSEPHS
CHOPPER?
PENSIONERS?
SCHOOLS?
HOSPITALS?
YOUT
Factional cort asl mcal local action, action The Fire Brigades Union Strike and weil be be part of a
the Tories.
Lambeth all the unions are joining together
education authoritie This will effectively deny student une organise on political issues have the right to decide how students spend their money Man stuacis demonstrators HaSI WeCK recognised that this is. attack on their in dependence. Many raised anti-Tory slogans.
The high point in Lon don came when ine marce passed a fire station: loud the Chants of Smash the with cent
of furLarce numocis •ther education and technical
RAILWAY workers marching towards Liverpool's under the one name. This is what happens when you le attacked wouldn't be against the
It will be against the government.
'Raising rates is just punishing the ratepayers for
The
CONCIC Although many students demon
have yet them
organise autonomously in their colwould put a stop to this te ones •robusals
development
Throughout the last term students have begun to orcanise • Dorca Issuck
There was a
CND demo in Ocfor A speaking tour on the hunger SUIINCID has from the Student Coa. This held WIt! socakers Against Repression group a student of the hunger strikers las week.
councils are facing restrictions from the government
ratepayers in their for minc . Lat massive rates "The policy Hci case the government HICK
, from Take the 590nd • Ine • like. the that they are taking employers' • hereasel I shey can caise that they can raise that
Know merry, anded it
KnOW LICy shouse finance blems!'
Welcome
The white collar workers
Lambeth town hall
building Tolowing unions in opposing cuts. Al
packed meeting
21 November voted support militant policies to prevent redundancies
curs inse richelar,
OI Ine local executive described this • as couraging. meeting reverse earlie.
mass meetings, and decided to take militant action.
earlier meetings, the CACCULIVe
members went out and con-
vinced their members
the need to came a stand
insed to take a
against CULS. really
repared for th meeting,
nd it voted for actior
NUS's national con-
ference • It should place this
reject any
WeCh idea of negotiating a bette
Instead it should decide
ed on mass action against s it should sets students'
rights, and
trom
movement in that fight
such a Igulback mical.
rejecting the 'Developmen
Plan put forward by some
executive member
transform the NUS into an apolltical organsanion Nus leade ship did and
leadership loud and
clear: fight
the Tories pro
Dosals
H is for HAnnister vito sent British e back onto the streets of the north of Ireland in 1969.
the Civil Rights Movement to win equality for Catholics in the north of Ireland.
working class in Derry finally rose up in August 1969.
James Callaghan explained:
formed the United Kingdom government
vent a breakdown of law and order.!
and socialist opponents of the British.
Ireland in 1971.
British Army killed 14 anti-internment
demonstrators in Derry in January 1972
presence.
Ireland today.
ment four years later.
as is not the case with ordinary
tain.
of simple human rights.
the
tion.
* rights and the irish to win thei
freedom.
contacted by phoning 01-287 2004.
H BLOCK
& ARMAGH Dhoto. Data Grant (Socialist Challenael
minister who sent British troops
This followed a year-long campaign by
Continually beaten off the streets, the Catholic
It was to defeat this rising, rather than, as the myth has it, to protect Catholics, that the troops were sent in. As home secretary
'The government of Northern Ireland inthat as a result of the severe and prolonged rioting in Londonderry it has no alternative but to ask for. the assistance of the troops at present stationed in Northern Ireland to pre-
HEATH, Edward Heath, the B introductio
minister responsible for the introduction of internment without trial of Republican backed Loyalist government in the north of
Heath was also in power when the
These two events confirmed the vien hold by many Irish people that the ultimate answer by Britain to the demand for civil rights in the north of Ireland was repression.
The nature of the movement in Ireland
changed to one of getting rid of the British
The rights of these prisoners to
be treated differently from those found guil ty of 'normal' crimes is what is at issue in.
The H Block prisoners, or those similar
to them, were given such rights in 1972
These were abolished by the Labour govern-
The prisoners are tried in juryless courts,
'criminals'
in either the north of Ireland or Great Bri-
Fis for HUNGER STRIKE, the latest
weapon used by Irish people to win
some justice from a British occupation of
reland which for over 800 years has produc-
nass repression, death, starvation, and a a right to run your own country; Vco have equality of treatment,
whatever ane's religion; the right to be
treated as political prisoners when those in
prison find themselves there because of
specific political conditions then in opera-
Is for HELP the prisoners to win thei
The Troops Out Movement and the cam.
'paigns in this country to win the demands
of the H Block and Armagh prisoners can be
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issues at stake
IN CRISIS
gle for self-determination.
From
tionary links with the Fourth International.
ple Undefeated.
newspaper.
The hunger strike to the death by the seven H Block prisoners marks a new and crucial phase in the battle for political status.
What hangs balance now is not only the lives rignts prisoners but the issue partition itself legitimacy of all forms of opposition to it.
The British government has shown itself completely callous and intransigent and is determined to lengths, including collaboration in assassination, to avoid making any significant con Cession.
Force
Only one weapon is great
lo Iorce the British back — that is the mass force of a risen Irish people organised in a mass movement.
All the elements sary for such a movement ex-
If we unite and agree programme of action which strikes at the enemy's weakest points, the elements o1. an historic victory over perialism will be in our hands.
Why does the shadow of the H Blocks dominate Irish society? People's Democracy believes that the issue is a central one.- that the outcome will affect the life of everyone in Ireland.
Partition
A victory for the British would threaten the legitimacy prall orms of oppositionid partition would strengthen all the forms repression on which partition depends: the special laws, the
Support THE National H Block Committee Ireland has asked for messages of support for demonstration outside the Decener and on
December, series of activities planned for December, Intornational Human Rights Day.
Individuals and
should send tolograms to: Na. tional H Block Committoo. Mountjoy Sq.
IT would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the hunger strike or how its outcome will affect the whole progress of the Irish strug
Belfast, JOHN MACANULTY amines what is at stake. John is a leading member of People's Democracy, the revolu-
socialist organisation in Ireland with
He is the author of the PD pamphiet A Peo-
The article here is a shortened version of one in the current issue of Socialist Republic, the PD
the
the of the
all y torture and 1COICOSOl. the British collaboration with the Loyalist killer squads.
The pressure will be on for Haughey to increase even further the repressive apparatus in the south, which he needs no encouragement to do.
The massive dose of confidence that the would get would mean that the ColOnie and struggles of workers would be beaten back north and south. imperialists would have quai. victory importance. new movement would have establisnea would united and filled with of
-BLOCK
HUNGER STRIKE
Page 6
# Block: the
ex-
and fidence and be in a position to
move against other aspects of DOESN oppression State collaboration.
The British would have seen the ruin of their main plans and LIC. wilnarawal imperialists become real
Above all, there would be the social possibility of a unitv of all the
political, social struggles of the workanti- ing class and the forging of
revolutionary mass that will finally been perialist and capitalist rule in
be con- All the events of the past
Ireland
and Free
manner in
the question
would
possibility British
and can defeat
properly. weapon destroy im- It has
throughout
months have backed up this analysis: British collaboration in the killing of H Block activists, the use of the SAS in sympathy the anti-Unionist areas, the
which Thatcher has gone out of her way to put
Crept tation behind way.
British intransigence and the
campaign against the H Blocks. Social
strike is generating forces tha laborationist
Britist strategy, if we can apply them
a00ll with platitudes. mobilised thousands of H Block militants
the country. has speeded up to some extent
We lied.
Smas
beaten,
history.
You Irish,
mirrors;
Ireland hits the screen IT HAS been a long time coming but at last it has arrived: British television is to discuss, explain Ireland. Or rather that's the promise. episode ot BBC-23 television history The show Next Monday Panorama will feature a debate on
Democratic and Labour Party and ex-Irish premier Jack Lynch. Against are Bill 'shout to kill' Craig and failed politician Conor Cruise O'Brien. starts. This looks the likeliest to be banned because the publicity material suggests an excellent effort.
H Block on film All pictures on this page are stills from a new film, # Block Hunger Strike The film can be used for meetings, fund raising, or information. It is available from The Other Cinema, 79 Wardour St, London WIV 3TH. Tel 01-734 8508.
Rental: £20 colleges, £15 others. A review of the film will appear in a
subsequent issue of
socialist Challenge. the unifying of all the forces involved in the H Block struggle, and it has sharpened the
and concern of produced a willingnes to an ordinary COUC and port the campaign in some
Above all, it has produced a fear in Fianna Fail and the
Democratic and Labour Party that their col-
policies will be exposed, and it has generated a frantic desire to keep quiet
the issue or cover up and
In order to put together all the elements to ensure a vic. tory we have to look back at The H-block Hunger-Strike — A Brit Response
By non-jury courts
you were 'tried",
having been questioned,
sensorily deprived.
We pronounced: you are common outlaws and so belied
retired? by Britons decried, must squat astride
29/10/80
, debate, and Tuesday with the first of Ireland.
For unity will be John Hume of the Social
On 5 January ITV's history series, The Troubles,
the : successful campaign 1 for
political status in 1972. . There
were three central aspects to
that campaign:
•It was able to hold
hostage the SDLP and to a
much lesser extent Fianna Fai
and limit the amount
negotiating and collaboration
with the British
• The campaign was able,
by sheer force of numbers, to
prevent the free movement of
The British army and the RUC
in the areas and thus limit
their control of the areas.
Sympathy
• It was able to depend on
the sympathy of the mass of
support prevented British from attempting
any repeat of Bloody Sunday.
new mass campaign
must be built in a similar was
It has to present the British NOWA
with a worse option than that
of giving way polluca
status. It must focus on Fian-
na Fail and SDLP collabora-
tion and demand:
'No talks with British tor-
turers! "SDLP and IIP out of
the councils and British
government institutions!'
The prisoners and
Block movement are locked
in a literally life or death
struggle will determined
and vicious enemy,
examine our resources we can
see that they are much greater
than we had supposed.
we organise properl
the the Irisi
working class and all the op-
pressed layers ot our society
can be drawn into struggle.
Problem
For all their strength and
viciousness, the British have
one grea they
have to confront the rising
strength of the Irish people
We must learn from
prisoners how to resist
show that we too are unwill.
ing to be ruled and coerced in
the old way. Only in this way
can the lives and rights of the
prisoners be protected and the
eventual victory of the Irish
revolution be assured.
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have rectums pryed, are degraded, abused, your rights denied so your captors can deride crack your pride.
Isn't it time we Brits tried to realise the irish own Ireland and at last
Pat Arrowsmith
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SOLiDARNOSi
Polish
workers
win again
By Davy Jones ANOTHER victory has been won Poland's independent trade unions.
was forced to release Jan Narozniak and Piotr Sapelo, who publishing a secret document on the opposition. after the threat of a general strike by the independent union Solidarity.
Now Solidarity wants an inquiry into the Torces following the tions LIC warsaw prosecutor-general s docu-
government has been forced to negotiate on unis acllallu.
makes dramatic reading. It details the development of the opposition then explains the steps taken
forces scouilty counter developments. 1 lic measures include:
Strenuous attempts take court action over onerces Wlal mlay Have ucei committed in the course of 'anti-socialist' activities.
• Detaining activists beyond the
through MILICa ivuire erse did caral Iv arrest techniques.
activists with concerning of printing presses publishing without a permit.
I HC document regional also reveals Lilal police departments ale cut-
ently preparing 15 cases inool ne 'criminal activities'
members 'antisocialist groups' in 14 cities.
Among wildl il uesuriues
'I'VE SAID on many platforms that socialists cannot have double standards when it comes to the question of human and civil rights.
We quite rightly protest and organise
against the fascist regimes and dictator-
ships Chile, Argentina,
South Africa, and many other parts of the
world.
'And we make it absolutely clear that irrespective of whether the people who
are fighting against those regimes are
communists or Catholics or just ordinary
bourgeois liberal democrats we are with
them in the struggle to eliminate
fascist and authoritarian
tatorships.
'We cannot say with regimes that call
themselves socialist or have a socialised
base for the economy system, that when
oppression takes place in these coun-
tries; when the
that we and our forefathers have tought for for generations are not in existence;
when people are put
hospitals for the terrible and simple crime
of speaking out and organising for their
political principles, we cannot then re-
main silent.
We cannot say we must have a blind
spot •eROSC they talk
socialism.
'I believe in fact that what has hapEast Europe and the
•ece n
Jnion has put back socialism for genera-
tions, not only
throughout the world.
workers in countries like ours who have
fought hard for basic democratic rights
by
Last Thursday the Polish government
were accused of
The government action came
'revisionist' suggestions in the programmes or lic opposition
creation trade independent of the unol. stass the right to strike, ang giving working
unified party of the working severa Dal Lica with each other.
Solidarity desperately
printing facilities
countries Uruguay,
against
the coin.
military dic-
VOU
ordinary human rights
psychiatric
in of
world.
Soviet
the West bat
Particularly
Solidarity members were hormtieo ov ne cocmmacul and at the arest of she ite
following
A The Polish workess are
learning that free incompatible IILORS alC Will nuce COverCal controlled security TOrCI undermine hence the calls for an Threat
In particular the workers have demandec ALIUW unose responsiolt events whet thousands of workers were
and a few died at the hands or lic sccunily lorccs Ine inrea sion by the USSR persists.
November Pravo, conluls drew a parallel between cur-
rent events TOCIte Czechoslovakia 1968, 'after all possibilities had been exhausted there but
War sar
paci allies. This artIcic ila. LUW been Tevanlea m une oovict babei Demand
Workers Britain should demand that there is Warsd racl litch youmon in roand needs better have looked at i • situation in these
'If cne sar socialism means the
'Therefore we havi counted in the same v to be counted in relation to our struggle
I'm not equating TesCSN. system of society in East Europe
There are some people fascist societies. who say they are two sides of the same
I argue contrary to that because they do have a socialised base but-the real point is that with a socialised base or not
have socialism cannot democracy, without freedom, free expression of opinion, without the right of workers organise without a free press in the best sense of the word.
I've found a great deal of unpopularity even among some of my friends for saying some of these things.
they are afraid, historically rightly afraid, that maybe we might be used and manipulated by enemies of the working class movment throughout the
'But I say to them that we have to point out the opposite view; that if we don't stand up to be counted we are assisting the enemies of the working class movement.
'To come to the real issue: the ques-
tion of the Polish workers organising to
International,
Polish
solidarity
appeal
BIRMINGHAM engineering workers have endorsed an appeal for closer links with Polish workers and a financial drive for a small press to print the newspaper.
A quarterly meeting of the Birmingham south district AUEW shop stewards last week passed an appeal, which calls for a national solidarity committee with
Eric Heffer on Poland
that is what don't want it."
and up and be
we stand up
the with other.
Wing class to Uniolls.
WtAOUL without
freely.
them in that right.
Because and quite do in Czechoslovakia. with their what the
now Czechoslovakia 'But
Victory! Two Solidarity supporters are released after the threat of a general strike by Solidarity
Polish workers. Its aims would in• Developing an understanding in the British the problems workers after the strike settlement. • Establishing practical links with Polish workers in the struggle to build their own organisations. • Co-ordinating "twinning' between factories shipyards and other plants in Bri tain and Poland.
ting press to print the new union Solidarity journal.
journal.
clude the the individual capacity:
create free trade unions separate from the state apparatus and from party control. It is vital surely in any socialist socie
don't have one bureaucracy with total centralised control, but you have many areas and centres of power which can offset each
'The most important centre of power must be the independence of the work-
create independent trade
Democracy
'If sections of workers independently wish to organise separately free trade unions, even, incidentally, if these were Roman Catholic unions, they have the right to do it and we have to support
I hope the Russians are not gong to
Poland what they when they moved tanks and guns to destroy Czechoslovaks had actually created. Because if they do, it will be much more dangerous to world peace
than when happened
why do they think in terms? If you have a socialised base in these countries but with real democracy and real working class power then the
L'arry
shop labour movement of member facing Polish district Allen, sec. tional
links mingham mines.
Whiskens, OISONCL deputy • Raising funds for a small prin-
Rover AUEW Solihull • Raising funds for a small printing press to print the new union
Signatories to the appeal in- al c
fiths following 137 6DR. vast Eric Heffer
bureaucrats in the
That is why we have to say,
those
in October
WORID IN GRISIS
OLA
Connolly, chairperson, Birmingham senior stewards; Roger Griffiths south committee AUEW; John Birmingham east district AUEW; Mike Towey, committee for division 16 AUEW; Bro Blakemore, pres. Bir district AUEW SOHL and convenor Triplex plant; Bob Birmingham south committee AUEW and AUEW convenor Land Tyseley; Steve Griffiths Convenor, SDI Rover
Copies of the appeal for circulation to tne labour movennehi available from: Steve GrifPolish workers appeal, c/o Digbeth, Birmingham B5
Photo: GM Cookson (Soclalist Challenge)
Soviet Union, the whole bureaucracy, will fade overnight.
'They will be under the same pressure because they fear their own privileges in their own country. That is the truth of it
"Stand Off". and why we have to give our support
From a speech by Eric Heffer at a fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference
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CENTRAL AMERICA •
Nicaraguan
capitalists
walk out of
Council of State
By Lars Palmgren, reporting from Managua ALL THE Nicaragua's bosses' the Superior Council Enterprise (COSEP) and of capitalist parties staged a walkout from Nicaragua's. here on 12 November.
Joining them were the delegates from two small trade union federations whose leaders identitv with the canitalist forces.
The walkout was planned well in advance. KORe representative Montealegre even read and distributed a printed document that explained why the bourgeois delegates bureaucrats were leaving the council.
The Council of State is a consultative and legislative body, subordinate to the executive branch of the revolutionary government, їле Junta
Reconstruction (JAN). forces were allocated a minority of seats in the council when it was set up last May.
Banning
The 12 Council of State had begun in the usual way, with being read by the presiding committee. Amona the letters received was one trom each of the capitalist parties protesting GrEASE INe banning Democratic Movement (MDN) rally and complaining about demonstrations that had taken place outside the MDN's head'quarters in Managua.
Another letter from Interior Minister Tomás Borge explained the considerations involved in prohibiting the MDN rally.
MDN representative demanded the response to Borge's letter. denied by the Council president, Commander Carlos Núnez.
At the top of the Council's agenda for the day was an important discussion on proposed improvements and working conditions of farm workers involved in the coffee harvest. Núnez explained that the need to come to decisions about these proposals before the beginning of the harvest urgent than the MDN's complaint against Borge.
Suspend
In addition, the Council's own bylaws prohibit alterations to the agenda once it has been adopted.
Taking a flexible attitude, Núnez proposed includina quest as a special point at the end of the
walkout occurred.
As a result, Núnez decided to suspend the session.
The dominant sector of the capitalist class in Nicaragua is on the warpath. But they seem to have forgotten that there has been a revolution here, a revolution made not by them but by the workers and peasants. As Eloisa chemical worker, said:
we fought once homeland, we will struggle to the end to defend this process, because it has given us the opportunity to participate in the government that represents workers.
The fact that the delegates from the Confederation (CTN) and Confederation of Trade Union Unification (CUS) left solidarity with the bourgeois representatives has evoked strong reactions from the ranks of the unions that make them up.
Following the walkout from the Coun-
Sandinista National (FSLN) quickly organised demonstrations, and towns throughout the country to reject the capitalists' provocations.
Socialist Challenge 3 December 1980 Page 10.
representatives of
organisation, of Private the
Council of State and UNON the US
ment
of up by The capitalist troops America.
They
operation overnments November session of the
situation the week's correspondence
time when struggles Nicaraguan Conflict
The Nicaraguan tion
Alvaro Jerez subsequent floor for an immediate
This was that the
in El In the wages
tionary struggle.
the cratic
Lu lous There
Nicaragua which
however, short term Jerez's
And that was when the
Corrales, a
for a free
all
of Nicaraguan Workers
their seats in Liberation rallies, and meetinas in citiest
in Nicaresua
By Paul Lawson DISSIDENT officials in
State Departrevealed last week that contingency plans have been drawn
the American government to use US
in Central
disclosed this would be done in co-
with unnamed In Central America in the event of the
Sava on 'getting out of control'.
This revelation came at a
the revolutionary LIC reaching a turning point.
sections
walk-out by ine bosses' federa- private COSEP from the country's Council of State and the
shooting of COSEP leader Salazar,
Nicaraguan bourgeoisie is now coming into in-
Government creasing conflict with the Sandinista government.
At the same time the junta is making a Sabotage Salvador determined effort to drown in
IevOllLast week Two they murdered key leaders of
Revolutionary Demo- operation.
Front which
brings together all the opposi- of struggles
WORKON are daily Ganes around between the junta's army and the revolutionary guerillas.
It is above all the events in
will deter- peasants. mine the course of the Central
revolution in the bourgeoisie
Following the victory of least
the dictator Somoza in July 1979, in Workers and peasants rally against counter- revolution
Showdown
approaching
Militiamen prepare to defend the revolution the FSLN adopted a policy of FSLN. including in the government were
of the ruling class which had fought Somoza.
This involved important concessions to the interests of
industry and agriculture, in an attempt to involve these sectors in the process of reconstructing the badly-damaged economy.
Various bourgeois politicians were given positions in the
National Reconstruction.
developments saboted the Sco
The forced to take sides in a series
by agricultural and poor peasants demands for better extension of state control. The FSLN the
workers and up
Secondly, it became increasingly apparent that the
Was not in bit interested in the 'reconstructing' the economy
conjunction with the
Government plans sabotaged by private enterp se.
time the FSLN pushed ahead with the formation of militias and vast political mobilisations which accompanied the literacy dominance of the FLN was litical 'consolidated
This conflict came to a head last April, when leading bourgeois politicians Chamorro and Robelo, walked out of the Government of National Reconstruction. But the Council of State set up the following month still included representatives of the employers' federation and small trade union grouping. which sided with the bosses.
In recent weeks the Nicaraguan capitalists have the intensified their attacks the FSLN. The mouthpiece of
bourgeoisie, the daily paper La Prensa, has stepped
its attacks on the FSLN and the revolution in Central America and she Caribbean.
The mair a purgeois party,
Natior Democratic Movement N, planned a Olg pollica " against the
NUES IRO
government on 9 November,
was banned by the FSLN.
Much more seriously there has been a series of incursions into the northern part of the country from Honduras, carried out by former members of Somoza's National Guard which was broken up and destroyed at the time of the revolution. Invasion
Honduras has recently signed treaty with EI Salvador 'defence'.
It's no secret that Panama the United States has assembled a force of 10,000 including former members of
Nicaraguan national guard, Cuban exiles, and ever disatfectec Vietnamese which could be used as an in-
force against the revolution in El Salvador or Nicaragua
There are two crucial factors in determining how far the bourgeois opposition to the FSLN will go. lo wha degree will it achieve unity,
DEBER LA• DEFENSA
and will it be prepared to b associated with a Somocist come revoluonal in bringing down the FSLI government?
So far the opposition ha been split into several group: including the COSEP th MDN, and the Democrati Conservative Party.
If these forces were unite behind project counter-revolutionary inva SiST government could bel north, serious trouble
The FSLN might then b brought down without
tor the direct use American troops.
There is every sign that th FSLN
awale possibility of a link-up bet ween international revolution and the bourgeoi opposition Nicaragu itself. Everything points to consolidation and systematis ation of the power of th FSLN
To defend itself the FSLA government is having to mak
break with bourgeoisie. A , new stage o the revolution is opening
F5L
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REVOLUTION UNDER SIEGE
The revolutionary war has already begun' Interview with Ruben Zamora
MEXICO
BELIZE
GUATEMALA Pacifie Ocean
175 Intercontinental Press on Bloomington, Indiana, conference of the
the Augus general in Salvador. We have received TO VItO
the
rather aimed at
further,
How have the
been terms popular
and preparation for sharper
with the regime?
As you the main
was a political-military one. 1 lal is, to lake a look al unit level of preparation and development of the people's militias.
As a result of the strike, we can point out the most important aspects of struggle. In the first place, the deve opment of the people's ¿ militias: extended further. have been
They had their test of fire in the strike, and have continued to grow quite substantially:
Secondly, in terms of the people's confrontations are becoming generalised and there al C more every day. this our important to point because the so-called serious news media either
covering it ur or else is publicising only the statements of the repressive salve this that the
The truth
Ser
HONDURAS
NICARAGUA THE following interview with Ruben Zamora, secretary of the External Commission of the Revolutionary Democratic Front (FDR) of El Salvador, was conducted by Fred Murphy of
19 October during a •national Latin American Studies
people's a into Earsal and
going Daltie confronting the army, and SCCUTELY paramilitary bands of military/Christian Democratic dictatorship on a
of the country.
What we have seen since August is an upturn in the armed Salvador, through actions in which up to 120 members of the security forces and the ally nave fallen. confrontations have five or seven hours
shown its superiority in terms of the morale and quality of its combatants. This contrasts tremendously with the morale of the regular forces of the government, despite all the military apparatus and despite the supplies the United States has providing.
So it could be said that the revolutonary war has already begun in El Salvador?
Certainiv. We see the war process as a long one, various stages. in this sense. the revolutionary war already began quite some time ago. w nal monster pointed now is that we have entered a new stage in the the stage harassment the forces.
We might say that the ob-
the enemy, to immobilise the regular army and the securit! forces by means 01 systematic harassment
in El Salvador
THE El Salvador Army
has unleashed an of-
fensive in the Morazan
district, the north
east of the country,
against revolutionary
guerrillas of the -MLN new
military co-ordination
ot the resistance
The Junta sanny advisers, and supported by accompanied
1cav
Like the US army the Salvador
government a strategy
of indiscriminate attacks or
villares with are cassiuca
as rebel.
During the latest offen-
of Salvadoran FDR
in
and
the
the
the
EI
Some lasted
army has
low
been 4/1
the people's army is carrying Vul.
What is the situation of the economyr
with In fact,
situation of struggle and war, the economy. of El Salvador is through crisis in its parable only to the crisis ot 1930. generalised Private investment has not regular only come to a halt this year
there
vestments have out of the country. tober of last vear foreign in
the vestment has dropped by
that
Civil war intensifies
sive it is estimated that as thousand • Densams dave been cace or wounded governmen Fifty thousand peotryside, either neighbouring Honduras, to escape the ar My SlaTor.
Despite the ferocity of the army's attack, there is the FMLN resistance from , guerrillas. Since
killed in pontical violence Some 85 per cent of these were 11il- Was vaulcic The military iunta in d Salvador came to power ll October 1979 through CIA-engineered coup. So This, of devastating
because of the factory harvests, and so on: possibility
the worst As history, com-
year's figures there has even been Earlier
1111 been taken per
Since Oc-
economic 46 • International
far this year US military and civilian ai Salvado totalled population of El Salvador SIxty per of the peasants living in utter 1977 at 35 per CCI Calc with 38 per or natura ceos resung from infectious and diseases comared with 2.1 per cent in
people of el Salvador is in- out for the surrector Savage response of the military junta shows that the "fourteen tightly-knit of wealthy families who collate tae country - are prepared to go to any lengths to defeat the opposi tion.
In right-wing circles there is open talk of the need for '200,000 dead' to defeat the revolution. since ine about
deposited
disinvestment, capital. been
'agrarian Salvador.
crete TOOTHS famine
harvested,
The majority population.
course, has make effect on the whole: cessioe •Last unemployment has risen by 15 per cent this year because of
carrying out tavos (1
for government revenues through taxation, if we compare what the regime has taken in this year with last
we see ina been a drop of 20.6
or a percent so ne
cent. situation is really
banking We
El Salvadoran
FIVE important members tionary opposition found murdered last Friday.
rightist thugs been strangled and then shot.
the murders.
tion and a member of the the Revolutionary Democratic Front.
through insurrection defeated. fee
army
sources have calculated that
beginning 1979 $1.5bn the country. This has taken place in we was on one land.m come from exports does not
in banks in the United States or in Europe
On the other hand, there is what we pointed to earlier
removal Even machinery has taken dustrial plants of the country.
Much is being made in the US news media of the
reform in EI But I have also seen reports that the con-
effects OT these could mean this year - that. are not being..
What can you tell us about
military/Christian Democratic junta's supposed agrarian reform is certainly having some negative effects on production. The country is going to suffer a severe shortage of beans this year.
Along with corn, beans make up the basic diet of the peasantry.- that is, of the
of the Salvadoran The price of beans has reached levels that
them practically inacyear a pound of
beans cost between 70 and 81 centavos; this year they have reached 2 colones and 40 cen-
16p). there has been a tremendous drop in bean production with a corresponding shortage. and price inflation
As for corn, the situation is not so serious.
terms of agricultural export products which provide the bulk of the country's foreign currency income, cotton production has dropped by around 30 per cent.
don't yet have the
WORLD IN CRISIS
leaders murdered
of the revoluin El Salvador were
They had been kidnapped by junta-backed
before being killed They had
- The Revolutionary Democratic Front accus ed the National Guard of being responsible for
Among those murdered were Juan Chocon, one of the most important leaders of the opposi-
People's Revolu tionary Bloc, and Alvarez Cordoba, president of Cordoba was a member of'ane of the 'fourteen families' which dominate the Salvadoran economy. He had become convinced that only
would reaction be
figures for coffee since the harvest begar September. What can be said certain is that in some regions of the country — particularly around the volcanoes where the best cofproduced the landlords are not harvesting Rather it is precisely the forces of the people's army that are located in those zones that are harvesting the coffee. • They sell the harvest in order • to provide for the people's and for the peasants who live in those zones
Finally, I would like to
most important tasks for the movement of solidarity with El Salvador the coming both in the United State:
The Revolutionary Demopointed five fundamental tasks for the solidarity . this period In the first place, it is important to denounce and oppose the growing military intervention by the United States in the internal affairs of El Salvador In the second place, it is necessary to continue to de Hould human rights in El Salvador the violations of
The third task of solidarity is to publicise the refugee problem that is arising in El Salvador. At this moment we already have . some 40,000 CHUCCES both those inside the country and those who have fled to neighbouring countries who are facing really horrible conditions and who are sublect to abuse bi the security forces This is a very serious pro blem that is growing week by week. Only in the past week for example, we learned that 2,500 more refugees resultec from a military operation by Pro ine ally vince The fourth task is to denounce the military junta and expose the true nature of the government - to explain that it is not a centrist, progressive government, our a. counter
what there is in El Salvador.
And, finally, the task is to publicise and seek support tor the Revolutionary Democrat as the expression •of the broad alliance of all the democratic, progressive and revolutionary social sectors of our country, and as the only progressive •powel that can provide stability, peace, and justice to our homeland Those are the five tasks.
Socialist Challenge 3 December 1980 Pago 11
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No love for Charles in India
'STOP harassing In-
dians at British air-
ports' the slogan of Indian students demonstrating against Prince 'Charles at Delhi University on 25 November.
Since arriving in India met by demonstrators who
trial
MAO Tse-tung's widow; Jiang Qing, uttered her first words in the trial of China's Gang of Four last week when in reply to the numerous Charges against her she declared: 'I don't know.'
These sentiments must be shared by many socialists in the West who can only gaze in amazement at the example. of revolutionary justice' now being handed out in Peking.
It is all too reminiscent of Stalin's purges he sover Union in the 1930s, although unlike then it is difficult to feel much sympathy with the victims of the Chinese purge.
The leading _ Jiang Oin Hongwen four. dants Chungiao Wang and Yao Wenyun - nave all wielded considerable power in the past and in many ways they are the victims of the very conspiratorial methods that they themse ver against political opponents.
Charges
Which is not to say that the charges have any bearing upon reality. During the
increasingly Mao.
But the accusation that they plotted to murder him, or were responsible tor deaths of tens of thousands is ludicrous. The trial is the culmination of a struggle inside the Chinese leadership going back 20 years.
That struggle began in the late 1950s with the launching by the leadership of two immensely important movements - the People's Commune movement and the Great Leap Forward. Collectives
These were directed, organised and inspired by Mao. The People's Commune move-
create, rapidly, 26,000 aniculula corecaves. of which would have well over 10,000 members.
The productivity of the communes would be increased by 'moral incentives'
Socialist Challenge 3 December 1980 Page 12
Indian wonen virginity tests Heathrow airport.
The scandal over virgini› an inquiry
renry rerowees dings were Secretarast day of disclosed Home Whitelaw on the the last parliamentary SCS sion, lo ury ane avo orem uproar would cause.
While virginity tests have been stopped, tones Have approved the Dracuice -ravine
subcontinent as a means of determining their and consequently their right
Behind the
Chinese purge
By Phil Hearse defenZhang
may very huge some
From top: Zhang Chungiao, and Jiang Qing.
•practice was condemned World Health Organisation for exposing
cessary It has
been reliable. Many experts claim that such tests are only acCurate To within two years either way!
Campaign Against Racist Laws will be discussing these new immigration procedures as well as Tory
a national delegate con posals It calle January.
information from: CARL, c/o Lansbur House, Camberwel Grove, London SES.
work hard, to build socialism octer. 1ms went nane-ma-nano with the Great Leap Forward
ive Leapes a huge o
ductivity drive, agriculture and industry, aimed at driving forward the process China's together agricultural productivity.
Crushing
The campaign ruins. While pushed up for two years, Chinese masses could not sustain the arbitrary and the harsh prescribed Great Leap and the second fivePlan: Soviet aid and expends in 190. blow Differences methods leadership broke out Plenum of the Chinese Central Committee in Lushan dual demanded a retreat from he methods of the Great Leap Forward He followed in this by Mao's most celebrated opponent Liu ShaoXiaoringe whose main ally was Deng The conflict various factions continued during the first half of the 1960s. It came to a head in 1966, when Mao found himself in a minority within the tee.
Mao went outside the off channels mobilise millions youth, the Red Guards, a amst his enemy.
Rebel Mao said headquarters' rebel. movement, ed up by his chie Lin Biao rhetoric of egalitarianism anti-bureaucratism.
Mao said, quarters ; ne meant the headquarters of Liu Shao of bureaucracy. not rebel against all forms Mao's move to launch the 'Great Proletarian Revolution' into chaos.
China Wang Hongwen. Yao Wangun youth and workers started to
rebel against
Internationa
SAM Nujoma, the leader of Namibia's national liberation movement, SWAPO, will address a rally in London on December.
He will do so amidst signs of a growing panic
Tine prospects for friendly settlement' the Namibia issue.
Latest to get in on the act of hing for calva d out of the Namibia war is The wan both
with stimulation of
ended, in
productivity was
the
rates mobilisation by the the withdrawal of cultural revolution.
withdrawal
methods and injustices. within the Chinese over these still
the arbitrary the party_ bosses lonall still 1959 the conference. Peng Teh
Was rapidiy
between the factions manipu ated sections
ends ral Commitopponents, The
bureaucrats They agreed
powerful,
called in to lead the whip- one' lieutenant was awash with the
and But when The bombard the head-
'bombard fectively Revolution to a hạlt. not the outright winner, out of the Cultural points: Thousands 1966 threw Students, normality bureaucratic gradually
SWAPO leader for London
Henry Kissinger
meeting in Lisbon with the South African foreign minister.
At the same time UN secretary . generar •Kurt a helm issued a call for an all Mamble con ferenci ter held in anuary. to
Final WBOu discuss rangements' for the 1978 pian arawn up by Davic • Young TOI UN-controlled dependence elections in Namibia.
Mao Zedong and Lin Biao at the time of the
The managed widespread poverty, and methods of the victory locally and awai provided fertile
round for dissatisfaction an
mediator,
rev friticism of everything
and everyone was the order of
Shanghai in 1967, a virtual in
bosses; Wang Congress of the bureaucracy But mass movement for their own
ensure bureaucratic tendencies emerg-
Edith rejected all sides. than Hongwen: rebellion students and workers reached Themes such proportions that al the
began to panic. compromise, which lett Mao's faction the
white the People's Liberation Army was
'three in committees which LOUK ailing and over power in those areas where the mass movement had wrecked the official party structures.
bureaucrats' compromise, and the use of the ar 1976, my to repress the rebellions, ef- was able to
BIC tory.
Mao, ballic crisis ahead on of party been purged by the Cultural Revolution but
and : stability and the other returned, many
The South African regime has avoca commitment Oin. • 31 western powers at the United Nations imposition
occupation of Namibia aim of the diplomatic offensive seems to be to set ur Lancaste House-type CorTerence the sort that settled the Zimbabwe war It is a tribute • to the liberation war being wagto re-establish themselves in the party. Mao's
began to whittled and
Chou Enlai acted the implementing Liu the Shaoqi's programme, but using the rhetoric of Mao. tionally, China's foreign policy swung violently to the right.
The conflict was largely con fined to the upper echelons of
bureaucracy. The 10th Chinese Communist Party in 1973 resulted in when enou fac when Enlai fell ill in 1974, he was able to
that "moderate' Deng Xiaoping replaced him rather
radical Wang
never
out again in which all the old themes of the dispute were raised. Deng and the "moderates' wanted private land plots and bigger wage differentials. Mao
politically inactive, signalled his disapproval and refused to attend the 1975 Congress to discuss these plans.
But with Mao's death in
the anti-Maoist faction complete its i VI In April 1976, political riots broke out in T'ien-an-men Square in Peking. The identity
Cres or this and obse
these still demonstrations were aimed at Jiang Qing
'radicals'
Large sections of the masses
WORLD IN GRISIS
Led in Namibia by SWAPC that the Western powers
moves. any estern-sponsored con
Wave • dangers
Solidarity with the liberatior struggle task fo socialists in this country Tany next weenes
portunity to show solidarity It takes _ place at Friends House, Euston Rd, NW1 at 7.15pm. regarded Jiang and her sup porters, despite their 'radical'
'egalitarian' phraseology, as just as domineering and dictatorial as any other section of
leadership. Even if the Tien-an-men rioters were demonstrating for the 'moderates' against the so-called radicals', they reflected dissatisfaction with burcaucrauc rule Purges
The Chinese revolution, unlike the Russian, perienced a period of socialist democracy. The revolution was imposed by a highly disciplined peasant army, not by the selfarry broke workers, this
broke
Paradoxically, the Chinese masses have not been through a perioa of deleat and degenera tion of the revolution like the
Union. remain highly class conscious and politically
merely •tWO different methods of bureaucratic rule
Socialists should oppose the ludicrous purge trial going on in China, not because they support Jiang, because cr tract are totally alien to the practices socialist democracy. Getting rid of these methods will mean getting rid ot all sections of the Chinese bureaucracy.
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right to choose
By Bernard Misrahi NICHOLAS Reed and Mark Lyons face possible 14-year jail sentences. Their crime? Allegedly conspiring to assist suicides.
formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society - which has become the latest target of the police and Tory press.
ne overwhemmna ma jority of EXIT members are
and most are women.
renaves l . Lie BASI nave seen aner intense cut.
They want the
of 'dy ing with dignity rather being kept By Jude Arkwright
DESPITE the outcry against the Yorkshire Ripper, the fabric of our society. Striking evidence of this is the number of current films depicting violence against women which are cónsidered suitable as entertainment.
Since Hallowe'er which showed the rape and murdero wurce babysiters. a stream or such tims nave
General release. Hi Knows and alone, thereby boosting
Dressed to Kill which has the second nighest audience rating ou ide Londor the murderer even dresses like a women to make us teewe cannot evei trust other women.
group of films
on children or black Debe ur ever allials Wicke worle"•e a Kut these mims are a sn ® just how acceptable violence
reason why women took to the streets in Letas arter une last Kipper murder ang attacked the cinema Dressed to Kill. Women in South London held a Keclaim the
•emoistadon and picketed showing women films.
Sympathy
It's not just the media that perpetuates violence against women
amendments to
he rape laws,
sex lives; judges routinely • warn juries that
often lie still legally im possible suithin marriage
Rapists
often smodeny . Laose authority, Peter Swindel: He is accused
hen chopping her body to
Home News
EXIT - individual's
Reed and tyons are members of EXIT -
"alive' in such a pitiful con dition that death would be infinitely preferabl
Prosecutions seems Peter-
deter ScCl mined to put EXIT out Large quantities EXIT's records have been removed by police who have also taken more than When a Stranger Calls He Knows You're Alone violence against women is part of
pieces. murder charge has been withdrawn in favour of mulanslauzille ISIC) defence counsel remarked: "I don't want to say anything embarras as one to the lucie are coole. wil nave occ maol Women increasingly being denied We have no emer dependent income, a man's.
SPEAKON
300 statements for evidence
that the condition of some of the suicide 'victims' was very often sad and in some
cat the person Lyons is an
"murdering'
CusCu wanted to die
to une picture pais not try to convince
not try to convince opposes suicide except in ex-
obiect ' is 'to promote legislation would allow an adult per-
Dressed To Kill
time in their life
Women in Leeds protest anti-women films
property to dispose of as h pleases • WE sublected to the constant threat •violence
No wonder we're angry!
But the way to deal with violence is not rely on the police the kipper
10WS. Nor should we heed their advice of staying in-
Wome more verane isolated in the home.
We should be out on the see should deed
• demand better
son, suffering from a severe illness for which no relief is known. to receive an un. mediate painless death if, and only if, that is their ex pressed wish
Twinkle sucke nas see legal since 1961 before
could o tailed suicid it is still illegal give advice or in • any aSSIS person to
even I sn
individual's right choose to end their life
The Shining
One in every four women will
be sexually assaulted at some
lighting and transport
facilities at night, subsidised
transport home for women
WULACIS tres funded by the state.
Sexual harassment and
violence men do
issue
• vallada s TUC, LaDol
resolution protesting
sexual
on the job
That right includes access to
assistance if necessary, free from lega Lorents.
perts oably the main op ponents EXIT Church and medical
woman's no Choose Whener f have an abortion
: thạt you body belongs to God, or to doctors wao don lunk de tients are capable of taking such important decisions by
members • believe that life should I be lived to the that
Galle OCLe mecica conditions should be provided for the old and sick. . But thes
consider dividual should Riet 1 no dou pronge by severe illness
EXIT can be contacted at 13 •Wales Ter race, London W8 SPG. sis Centre estimates that Canadian
Crisis over 50 De Cal we PaCI sexual haassmen Work and that one in four
will face
assault at some time in their
Women should look their -L12I OWI the strength labour and move
male violence and harass-
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THE FIGHT CHOICE
By Jude Arkwright
TIMOTHY Sainsbury, Tory MP for Hove, may be the next MP to try and curb women's abortion rights. He came top in the
members' private ballot in Parliament last week.
Sainsbury can't make up his. mind whether to sponsor an anti-abortion Bill or a. Bill on 'indecent displays'.
Second in the private
Enact was Donald Stewart, MP for the Western Isles, is also a comminea anti-abortionist.
Sainsbury, Lord Sainsbury of shopping lanc. cons denne EWO clauses 1o restrict abortion rights. The first
the time limits abortion from 28
the would introduce a Consacuce cause lor docTors. International
Anti-fascist Rally
Monday 8th December
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ABORTION
RIGHTS:
IS ON
AGAIN
He has learned the Les orthon Bris, ious failed anti-abortion which detailed 2100 ener through parliamentary tactics The attack on late abortions follows the Denning Appeal Court rulprostaglanain lale abordons. No woman wants a late abortion, but unavoidable with Hauctuale facilities and culs in the health service.
For young women afraid to pregnancy facility of a late abortion is particularly Tories number of late abortions is rising - in 1979 1767 abortions 20 weeks, 1.46 per cent of all
The movement should now swing into analis a resine LOIS Of women's abortion The TUC should be forced to mount a campais did against the Corrie Bill. ainst any 11C W Bill, Campaign (NAC) has called The Naona bortion on all its supporters to start
ANTI NAZI LEAGUE
massive letter-writing Cameau to encoure ave Stewart to show the extent of the opposition they will PacCAC's national plannig meeting in January will
scuss the next phase of the
new threat to abor-
Speakers:
Renato Zangheri, Mayor of Bologna. Henri Buch, Secretary General of FASP. Autonomous French Police Union. Leo Heinemann for the VVN, Association of Nazi Victims in Germany.
Tony Benn M.P.
Paul Holborow, A.N.L.
PIONAL ABOR
WOMENS
CHOICE
NOT
DOCTORS
woman's right choose in law and in prac tice In March next year NAC Abortion Rights Campaign have ed a labour ference would alsu defeat new antiabordon ou National Secretary of
LABOUR Movement Conference
The fight for positive needs inst
vacau ul all sccuons orlte
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