Socialist Challenge No. 20, No v, 1977
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Socialist Challenge GRUNWICK: 7 NOVEMBER THE DAY OF RECKONING
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Special feature in next week's Socialist Challenge - four pages on The British Road to Soclalism, the draft programme to be debated at the Congress of the Communist Party. The Congress will be heid 9-12 November.
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Support for Socialist
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It was the dog that died The sooner the truth is revealed the better,
importanty.
general attitude remains essentially Victorian.
alone.
have been an important
defended has been under attack in the national press.
supporting gay workers who face discrimination,
Street in determining exactly what is private'. Labour Party in Birmingham, information Mariner and some National Front leaders.
Labour Party and The trades unions offer
solutions that are in the interesti, not of the
tasks cosfrunting revolutionary socialists are.
• To build broad-based class streggle lenden-
the labour moscment Thei should hr
man-esciasive in charurier grouping together
militants boldina • wide range ut political
* To tein i. Tight Tar the crestion of a an
and democratic resolutionars scinte
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alternatise hy thousands of wurkers encapeal in
•ruggles
Such an aryaniation -bould be hard un the
understanding that:
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In the difference between Norman Scott and his dog? The dog, It so happens, was shot dead. Mr Scott is
Koch alive and therein, as they say, hangs a tail. it is alleged, was shot dead as the first item on a The main course was to be Norman Scott he cook panicked and couldn't bring himself he hors d'oeuvre stage. As a result, the Liberal lurther mess — and if the cook, a Mr Newton, pill any more beans the crisis could get worse. ery useful to speculate as to whether the Tory have published the details with the same wish if Steel had not been backing Callaghan. The fact is that some of the details of this murky affair are now out.
E TO SU 40 043 04000 5819984 10400H more fundamental character. There are two central points and they are both related. The first is the night of Jeremy Thorpe or any other individual to his or her personal life without an invasion of privacy, But secondly, and equally
towards homosexuality are raised. Despite the fact that it is no longer a crime 'between consenting male adults' the
The victimisation and harassment of gay people in this country is well-known. Here was an important opportunity for the Liberal Party to stand up and say that Jeremy Thorpe's personal sexual preferences were a matter for
doing they could have unleashed an offensive against the reactionary and bigoted sections of the press and those bodies which aid them in adding more fuel to the fires of hypocrisy. It could
Paria educative campaign.
But instead of doing this the Liberals have retreated. attempted to deny a number of facts and connived to get rid of embarassing evidence. It is this which is the real 1088488WL 0880000 80 18NW 18NW 00880U808 course gone along with this and in the process done both himself and many others a grave disservice. It is for that and that alone that he should be subjected to criticism.
in remarkable contrast to Thorpe and the Liberala, the Labour MP for Northampton North, Maureen Colguhoun was open about being gay some time before the campaign to remove her. There can be no question, but that she
that front against all her detractors, It is of course not accidental that the national press has victimised her for that reason and not because
While we will defend Colquohoun against all the attacks on her personal life we can in no way, because of that, ignore or underplay the racist remarks she did make and because of which the re-selection procedures were set into action. The final resolution which removed her was couched in general terms and spoke about her recent statements and public behaviour. Phrases such as these are unacceptable, but we cannot in any way campaign for her to be re-selected as an MP even though her lesbianiam
But the best way to fight against attacks on gay people is to involve Labour Party members in the campaigns which aireddy exist in detence or gay nonts, the Labour Party should be committed to defending Gay News, to
campaigning against state intervention in sexual relatlons, and to a positive campaign to defend the right of any person to adopt the sexual orientation he or she wishes.
We inslat that the private life of everyone should remain private. But we have quite different standards than Fleet
Quiet financial deals between the business world and public servants are not private. Nor are Incidente of woman battering or rape private affairs even though they may take place within the hallowed sanctity of family life, For these reasons, even during our successful campaign to expose Peter Marriner, the fascist agent in the Ladywood
we treated as irrelevant which we had on the sexual preferances of
OUR POLICIES
1
irves that the twu sitat
sinie.
2
Socialist Unity bas contested two elections: the parliamentary by-election in Ladywood, and LOCAL Spicalfields, East London, last month. Both conrests were sig-
proportion of the wore which wat
CE CalLE SHIPPO 2U ICE SCOT OF ENG DOll defeating the Tories National what attracted the attention of those left of the Labour Party was the difference in the vote for socall Way - 334 - compared with that of the Socialist Workers Party — 152 Compared to performance of the SWP indeed
the IMG bave done relatively well in winning votes:
Southall last Mas in the GilB elections being the highest
CP VOTE
The decline in votes cast for the Communist Party bas been striking. In 1959 the ancientes in The Elis ree vin 30m But in the last
17,426 votes.
Such a decline, added to the sincere apologies so ing toge
appeared in this
checking the proofs newspaper suffered last week as
stretching of the staff in light of
to the avents
nation of Sir Richard Dobson.
We therefore made the serious emor of identitying these trace
The three
that they are satisfied with the stepe that have been taken to COTTECE MISS CTOR blacking out the photograph ir all issues once the mistake was disovered, Inserting a leaflet of
Soolalist Challenge and trade unionists themselves, and rinting this correction Geoff Revall and John Hanser are both members of the NeesThe srupee for socialism seeks to unite the fight uf the worbers agains! the bosses with that of other oppres and laven, of saciet
nectary incans the power of the capitalist
coday. with full right for all policical DENY SO CEASE DO RUE CHE LETS IDIOM TE SOME NARE ARIS!
Europe have discredied socialem in the eyes of
and will offer fall support so all those fighling for vocialist democracy
Unity grows
All it takes is for the Labour Party to draw level with the Tories in the next Gallop opinion poll and we shall have talk of a snap election in the air again.
It seems unlikely Labour will risk such a contest immediately, but the apparent upsurge in popularity for Labour provides a useful backdrop to the Socialist Unity conference to be held in London on 19 November.
meant that the party has
as the far lefL.
Lambeth Socialist Unity
and CP's.
In Ladywood, LEFT MP'S
Party
electoral and Communist Party,
1000
the CP have problems by
bers openly worked for the CP Fielded General
election total involve rank and members in Socialist Unity.
A Public Apology
pholographs space last SUSURE CAR In TE of the
loading to the resig.
concerned have
including
orarch Di ine jointly by the POWer -iS g
Than actively
Uaf the dispute.
3 The interess of workers and capital
are irreconctable balr. Capulation has mut oaly crewin a world marker, It his created world
on an Interotional scale. This unity will in the
imperialist regimes in the Misd and the brubil dictatonhip the sustain in Lane Americu 4 The Communbe Pardies in Europe Neither
for the puribrow restlutionary socialist parties are more neces
decades. Hue such parties can nals he huilt hs rejecting serturianism • luxurs
farneds and tendenries
Prepare for 19 November
members
LICITHO
general crisis in the CP ha
000 decided what to do in the next whatever
concerned with (what is for the CP) the rather galling fact that in electCECERS IS HE BEG SHLIC CHAM
Indeed in the Central constituency BUTE BEY COUT COES the IMO candidate defeated the fields
cued by lascists.
The quandry the Communist
now faces is understand.
ANCES TCHATEC ON KEADOU MPs makes an independent polirical strategy extremely difficult.
Tion banner.
The party canool bo seen to br leaving opposition to the Goyernment to the far left. On the
that the far left will actually beat 'building the CP where both are standing
Some meisdus members ol
answered such backing Soialist Unny. to boll Ladywood and Spitalfields, individual CP mem
SU when candidate. The leadership of the CP would never countenance such a move — the programme i far too left for the CP; but there is certainly a real opportunity to
file party Gooff Revel!
National Martin HE SEE union a raddingion branch. Al
supported the picket une since ine occinning
the
Fine capitalist state. Non
and seeing interna wital
means the wight to orgase
by TOM JONES
Nor does this only apply to
of political parties BOTAN LEANS SEEMEDI support of many independent militants, including members of
movement. But it needs to be emphasised that at least as far as
against seeking affiliations from such organisations. This could
in the organisation
Socialist Unity's small successes nave aiso nad coeir errect or the Soclalist Workers Party. In 1ast week's bocalme Worker. 1 was reported that be SWP had
La vate for SU in Spital. somerling they have nor done before. Local bombers of the SWP also came to the aid of a SU meeting when it was threat-
Supporters of Socialist Unit will be hoping such co-operation WIDE WILTENSEE NO CRCOUTAREL by the SWP. Ultimately the aim of Socialist Unity is to involve all
ar left groups, under one elec
The SWP is not y Inclined to go so far. Its argu ment Is Enat I 15 not rouly Interested in votes, but only in
party'. But this TOMAS TO BE SORACES.E eported, for camople that the SWP lost practically all the fift recruits the party claimed to have nade at Stetchford.
Certainly the SWP is correct
it says votes are
made it clear in all its campaign that it sees elections as a way of
Labour's right-wing policies and most important of all by militant local fight backs.
Mornnau
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This stress on unity of the fa left is probably the most impor ant single reason why SUPs track record is so much berrer to that DI CANE
Many in Socialist Unity have also made it clear that they do not see a joint election campaign as an end in itself, but ratber as a means as establishing in practic and cobracing regroupment of
That SU is composed both of Fame and the Pid, ad t such as Bis militants who are in neither of those organisations augur well for the future. The 19 Novembe Conference is the first chance to discuss that future car lend. All render.
Challenge who believe that far left unity is no longer a luxury — Dul a Decessan
THE BATTLE
OF
GRUNWICK
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Hull: one candidate proposed
why d'you think
Socialist Unity got
20% of the vate?
Don't ask me!
I'm not interested in
these ultra- leftises.
and discussions are in full swing.
turther details.
Should me stand in Hull?
Well, we don't think there' any spoil reason tor noc stand
Gainst any of the Labou andidates in Hull. All the sea are sue Laopur scals, ang can a frastic swing to the Tories woul let them Although Ma and Prescott even more so, they will both, after the election, be line. Neither will be arguing for a consistent fight against the reacfuture - Labour Government.
needed
to meet independently
Flame, SWP, CP and the Labour Party
Socialist Unity.
socialist feminists.
We meet separately from the bich we send delegates. because we WHELLO TOCK OUT as women. Several women in th group are not micabers of bel
Rising Free, Bax 15, Upper Stree, London NI.
HOME NEWS
for elections...
They aren't?
THE LABOUR Party leaders are at the moment
engaged in engendering a phoney optimism about
working class living standards. They belleve that if
they can last it out for another year they might just
be able to win. What should socialists be doing to
prepare for the next General Election? Well,
Socialist Unity is calling a national conference of all
Its supporters on 19 November in London. In the
meantime, in a number of localities preparations
We publish two local reports this week from
Yorkshire and indicate where Socialist Unity will be
standing nationally. Active preparations in these
areas will begin after our national conference
Including the selection of candidales. If you live In
any of these areas and are interested in attending
the conference or want more details, then write to
Socialist Unity, co 14 Piccadilly, Manchester, for
The Hull Socialist Alliance was fotmed out of the Counly Coun cil 'Socialists Against the Cues"
seats. On balance we Central Hall, which contains SILE TAME WOESLIE CILE SELES and is where the left has the strongest base (3 of our candidates were mn Centrall. Kevin MacNamara is typical of the Labour MP who talks in a lett About a dozen members of the Leeds Socialist Women's Action Group who are commited to Socialist Unity began
several months ago. continued their involvement with Leeds SWAG socialist feminist women's group including a majority of
non-aligned women as well as members of IMG. Big
would he divisive to try to commit SWAG as a whole to
Below, the group explains why Socialist Unity needs
wing organizations and do not wist to pe, but toes welcome bus chance to work in alliance with groups on tbe belt provide il Boes not involve compromising our autonomy.
We saw our task as ensuring
Socialist Unity National Conference
The Garuge, Uaiversity College, London WCT.
Credentials: El for emplosed and students, 50p for unemployed and
mean - they aren't
supposed to be u
favour of entering
wing way but supports the Gov emment on all major issues. His reactionary stand on abortion will enable us to campaign on the Issues of women's rights.
HSA at present contains the Favour Working Womens Group and quite n bumber of Independeot s weicome affiliation from DONCE SOCIREEL, WOUCH'S DT trade union organisation, and individ. unls. We hope that groups wish-
Leeds: socialist feminists
that the Socialist Unity clection
in its orientation, and thar the question of how various policies affect women should be raised througbout the campaige just added as an after thaught.
We see ne They socialism and feminism. On the contrary, we see them as drawing SCIENTO GUN BUILT YU SEE women's issues are inseperable from issues that affect the workrealising it
be included at every stage in the creation of a programme — and
"Women'.
We saw Socialist Unity providing a much broader forum
sections of the left movensent TEEN EM MOSELET HEr
to Socialist Upity soibe of Propertes and Basign or th women's movement lacking from left politics.
We hopod that SU would offer a platform for feminis politics ДЕХ ИСПО НАНОНЬ IO COE C
the TRiBing Feminist issues in a socini-
Hmmm...
Have to wite to
King Street for our
time on their line on that.. in a
• London (4)
Birmingham (3 Livarpool (3) ocialists. We woub
HEIT OUT SUTOLULELS
Contact conflict helecr
recruiting hinges, ar
"leadership" unity between
the pessibilities of Stage
for socinlist fem
'and the -10 work
which are
picase contact
possibilities
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larges.
These dusbt lie The Key Seats
general election пнів:
hound,'
Peter ing to take part will attend the national Socialist Unity conference, where the programme and HO TO ME
traditions will be decided. Contact us if you wish to go, or if you would like ments. After the conference we leasy will call a local meeting to discuss weeklies. to choose a candidate - this will he done at an open meeting of all
For 67 Salisbury Street, Full (phone 492773).
warcontext in our Breal politient
Traditionally some feminists have beca rightly suspicious of Challenge the incursions of the left into the paigns, seeing these at best as Issue:
om to and orer toe move Testersh the guise of ve ria
relieve tha tion the top: thi women's
that our lovolvement in SU wil papers be the first step in this direction
and every level Tottenham development, incorporating gen toe Teenist perspectives.
For these reasons, we think that
those codlinue to meet and organize separately as well as going along 1o local SU meetines. We hope The that women in other groups will the Tory rake up this position too, so thar we can get togemer to work bul our socialist feminist perspective ar a national level as well. Otbe
porters, sistera maine along these une
Leeds Socialist Unity Women's Committee, c/o
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What the woodwork reveals A BUNCH of Fleet Street's colemnists and leader writers predictably sought revenge for Sir Richard ('T'd say It again") Dobson's quick-fire depurture, with Socialist Challenge and in
Sample epithets
emprihle creep' (Th Sun)
to sit familie (Daily Telegraph), Ingether with similsriy sober thoughts from the Sireet of Shame's bystericul duo. Wyati and Levin.
well-fed hacks will delhied al. the sponse their scribblings evoked among some of the more stable elements in our society.
Samples Peter's
swine fuckin dirt stinkin little hloody sedrin spy...
you live.' "Mr. Wog Lover... If
see sou around Hatterses SILALK TOU AROL ON SITE MALL livered mose you horrible has tard. Up the National Party.
The hucks might care to mode that some of these anonymou
written around the edges of clippings of the hacks own poison-pen contributions
latory letters sed telegrams from numerous vermin haters What other left papers said Socialis: Worker; To their grear
Socialist Challenge pud Wished the text of the speech.... New Statesman: Meren Jones Mote in London Diary: that our 'ambush of Sir Richard Dobson,
of guerrilia journal am. /hope ir brings new reader to Socialist Cha lense wink n chapung to be the seveliest an
doctrinaire of the ridicu
Tribune: "Turic All and Socialis Challenge, the weekly paper of the Internarional Marxir Group are certainly lo de congratulated
publishing the text or Sir Richard Dobson's speect.. News Line: The fact thar All is now being donised by the Fisan-
La clear indicetion that the IMG's moliries suit the requirements of this powerfu section of the emnloying class,
Morning Star: in a from pago articie stop-lined Storm over a rocut speech, Martin Gaszwick reported: "The
Has humded 20 Socialist the internationa Marxi: Group's weekly, which carried extracts in pesterday's
Socialise Press: 4 half-page ar
Dobson's speech, did not men. say.
For where it had first been published.
A tale of three local Short story com-
The Hoensey Journal and the
and Wood Green Weekly Herald have a circulatior
part of North London. The Jowmal has cam
Himaid as campaigned against
LADIESE
campaign aguinst
Journal's report exposed councillor who manded tbat Cooper be sacked from the Torrenham law cence.
with Quotations from TEE LODGET and ober sup
The Herald simply re printed the whale of the Tory person's absurd statement. in a frost-page 'splash'.
3 November 1977 Page 3
from
Meanwhile, the South London Press — more subtle in its racium chan most local rags
• WaS LOCO Is pan brand of fun and games Last Friday the Press generously published front-page article
he all me shot le pro
vacy.
Among Peter's complaints were the faer the Press had published his full address in Battersea in its
issue *Whatever the intention, Peter his statement, 'it amounts to "fin seria coals de le people like myself whe
physica danger from the fascists. Ob viously this matte Press then repeated the full address.
Fascists attack Asian police
DILAWAR Paul Benning is n
constable stationed Seatford Upon Avon. He is also an Asian.
Last Saturday be was the victim of u racist attack in the Queen's Bar in Bradford.
in Bradford first heard of the incident
when iney were leafletting in the town'y shopping
SAUCE ME DOLLUS BELCHEDU
distrier organiser of the British
National Party, bragging ahout
had done over thre Pakis at the Quecos Bar'
The anti-fascists immediatel went to the pub where they met Dilawer Paul Benning talking to the anti-fascists Benn ing gave them this statement. 1 am a police constable at the Warwickshire Constabulury presently atationed at Upon Avon. At about 2.15pm on Saturday 19 October 1 cume to Bradford to visit my brotber in
2,20pm I was walking along Bridge Street with my brother in law. I saw three youths coming towards ine from the opposite direction them ruised his right hand and hit me on the wose ... with my nose bleeding I followed these youth into the Queen's public lose.
As i walked into the Queen's, I saw a south standing at thi counter. I shouted ut the barman to call the police, T poisted m finger of the routh. As I did this the saine boy picked up ar emply beer дінь from the confer and hit me on the face Benning followed the south but of the pub and later identi fied his attackers to the local police. Fred Harris is, as the
helping palice with er quiries"
petition Socialist Challenge is announcing a short story conspetition for ou Special Xmas issue, due ou 15 December. Readers are inviter lo suhmit short stories (maximim length 1,800 wordsi bo Decenaber plan ced should hi
Iriple-spaced plain paper. Hand-written mususcript cannot he considered. The pane of judge will include Joh Famies, author of The French Lieutenant s Woman Collector', and the just published Daniel Martin'. Other Judges will he amnownced shorily, as will the prize » PO BA 30. London Entries to Com
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Whatever happened at
HOME
BRISTOL
d Wednesday in protest agains CROZIER reports.
91) leschers an
moned to the dole queue am
are has been a 40 per cent cut i
спот 2 30 рорі. на роко
agned by 20,000 people. 1 salame ton sestigare Sites Education Secretary Shirley cats and to press the government
maintain its rale support
organising committee of Avon Campaign Against Cats in Education — who organ
snd the protest
They were told would sabmit CHEONE before sould even consider an enquiry. The demonstrators were rectived CAROL REGAN reports. with just as little encouragement when they met local MPs Ron
Thomas Tony Benn, Arthur
On the lobby were a contingent of mursery marses who are facing ME Proso a osne au 0E. These nurses have been particalarty active in the campuign, but they have not had the support they deserve from some sections of the local trade anion movewthetle shop steward • local Beneral Moriers Taien refused ranch Transport and
back the nurses campaign because they were "naly women".
MIDDLESEX STUDENTS AT Brunel Uni. versety in Middleser Have been
the administration ing for a week in opposition do racist fee incredses.
The occupation marks the firs step in building en all-London off the education authority's racist quota imposed on overseas siu-
The students" union at City University is organising a con ference for London colleges on 9 November to fich the sociale a camSidents Alliance is colline for metropollian-wide co-ordination
November.
LIVERPOOL A SPECIAL general meeting on 27 October the Liverpool branch of the Nationaland Local Government Officers" Association voted im favourof a eational wage cinim which would inclede a E15 a week Incressefrom 1 January 1978. The resolution which also week, is being campaigned for nationally by the NALGO Action group. It needed the support of 50
anches by 1 November for the NALGO executive to call a special conference on the claim.
NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAM Trades Council last week contributed £30 to the strike at Sandersoas (Forklifts) Lad., Skegness. The strike, BOW la its 25th week has ground similer to the Granwick
The workers were sacked after a majority of the work force decided to join the Transport and General workers Union, und ACAS ha UNE TUNI la favour the
Unlike Granwick the rural Lincolashire, which mabes practical solidarity with the strike more difficun. ewertheless the Sableros workers are cumsidering mounting a mass picket.
NEWTON AYCLIFFE
THE MANAGEMENT of tbe US-owned Eatons Axies factory al Newton Aydiffe, County Durarak the back of union organi sation in the company's plants in
NEWS
Union news in brief
Britain.
Lacy nave lockeo: ool the
workers at their Ayeliffe factory
Tor working to rule in pursuit of a wage demand. Similar disputes bave broken out af the comdecathis cuts in Bristol. GILE Manchester a warrington anc
Last week, when management announced record profits, the
Cette of tos Engineering Union refused
dispute official. The bureaucrats compain waac une strisers clain
is in breach of the 12-month rale.
Consequently the workers are
ployment beverl"" Funds
benefit
burn Drive, Darlington.
WOMEN TEACHERS
TEACHERS MEETING in Nott-
ingham on 8 October volced strong opposition to their union's
to take the fight for rights
Since a memorandum on equal opportunities - matout to union taken by union leaders has been to withdraw from the TUC This is u decidon which most delegates
Militants-attended the conference from London. Thirty-five
united In sinst women's oppression in th union will not remaia a dead issue. NUT spoke from the platform to encourage the formation of local WORES OUOSAEIORIOT policy. Brown explained that these groups are totally limited by the meetings to attract new members
- but as delegates pointed out, even they are being blocked by the right-wing. Sheffield is a case in malve aguinsi borh the fees and point where teachers have been *Vanes sett h amie. form Dave Picton
reinforces women's oppression Jean Farrell, the union's Womwith the rest of the platform in her rigorous defence of the union SEUEENT.
Despite her paltry justifiestlons, conference was united in submitted to the nest national NET conference.
•зос тоннишо шсось вегес ment with the TUCs Charter for Women, a document that takes a DUMEYE DOMEON OB EDODOn -the Issue which has sharply divided the NUT national conference in the past three years.
DARLINGTON
THE ENORMITY for the National Union of Journalists of a Darlington has at last impressed isell on the whole executive of SHERIDAN. Only one member has voted against an escalation of shop, and the NUJ lendership meets agrin today to plan
SURE Westminster Press newspaper
But the journalists have hec left to fight virtually alone. The
of the print unice Darlington members to scab, and while the NGA and Eine, neither union is expected to suppart the extension of tbe
The Westminster Press bosses, backed by the financial resources which includes the Financial Times and Penguin Books, now mercastey connaco! retaining their right" to scab journalists. They have the support of the Finencial Times NUJ chapel, which has mously opposed strike action.
make the
There has been an overwhelmin
offer. Why is this?
Apart from assembly-line work angry about the deal, most of the rorkers had nothing substantia left to fight for asking for very little. Even The Economist called it unasually
The unions were asking for 15 per cent Important teine benets Bat it plas a number
per Cent -given all of it — would have been SCHUSSE
our sccond wage cut in two vears Last year accept a Phase 2 deal of 415 pe cent under the Social Contract Inflation was running at 19 per cent. During the last 12 months prices have gone up another 1: per cent, so tbe unions weren't trying to make up what we'd lost
Midiands So what was Ford's final offer?
Ford was very clever. delegates
their Government guidelines
Against the expectation of most of the workos. And the orter wa véry divisive: the top grades skilled workers and maintenance
Her cut in everyone's standard of by PAT HICKEY
SDI shop stewards
their secret ballot.
production workers which rejected tbe package averwhelmingly.
Manageront bad refused permission for a mass meeting on
thermi cette mer mitig
SOU BRAC without pressure say what they intended to do press and television who are blackmailine workers into acceptance b CHAISS if the accepted.
Transport and Genera Workers' Union convenor fo SLADE
CANT DILS DES MESH
of employ
only one police oflicer was.
Motor Industry
Fords...
living. short of what tbe union
You said that the deal That's true.
Ford. even if Ford's had ance or lay-off pay. we were forced to the shorter working woek. tany
period
With the did it without their steward, broke the
co-ordinste between plants
willing to go it alone.
....and Rover?
They called a
N. They did nat
calling fo deal is
PAT HICKEY We want 1o press, the Fire Brigades Union was holding crucial talkg with representatives of local authoritles on ils claim for a 30 per
Alleady members of the union in South Wales have voted for strike action if their claim is not met. Conditions in the fire service compar vory umavouraory win toue in tne police toroe — wnicr the Tories are insisting are a 'special case Uniike the police, fire brigade workers get na shift allowance; and while five members of the union were killed on duty last year,
12 per cent offer.
Oil meant that skilled sections mere only | per cen
were 3 pr 4 per cent short.
many of the VENDETICIE lineworkers are mot happy with Dagealam
There's a strong
been treared worse than secondsecond louest cash offer: il per cent and nothing on line allow-
Yet they're
be Inid off without pay if there's -policy,
L dispute. They also Jost out on
Ford plants lineworkers are a minority. And retien. Many individul 1e3 ions, especially at Halewood and
a walk out. At Halewood on
did walk out. But the dropped.
And overall, the line stewards refused to take a lead, refused to
with another, or to co-ordinate action
eeling among other worke
ho had quite literally sothir Lean astice so mon baly strongl
Harris refused
vote in the hallor.
car shop stewards meeting
ателоса by
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
Socialist Challenge Interviews a Ford worker — a member of Big Flame - about the next steps following the acceptance of Fords
Why was the original clailm from The woons so small?
The brains" bebind the claim was Sid Harraway. denuty con
plant ar -and a member of the Communist Parly, Way back I coray вou Marca when the claim was first discussed — it was already clear that a major
wages The Ford claim was crucial. 1i the Government WIE COE USTE ATE! end of Phase 2 of the incomes
Soit was to keep Labour in office that the Communist Part put its weight behind a very moderate claim, Sid Harraway put tt lo the Convenors Commit
Wasn't it put to mass meetinge? of all Ford shop stewards. Bu the Standing Orders Committer
The next hardie was mass maties in evers clant. With thi exception of Ford Langley, no mass meetings were held. And at the Solihull site, CP member Joe
call meetings to discuss the, issue. mined to secure a yes vote.
Despite this, SDI stewards passed a resolution calling for a no
The revalution aiso called for o delegate conference of Leyland
and recommended a claim for 6/5 across the board, consolidation of suppie ments and inder inced wages This resolution was passed by the mass meeting with enly 20 or 30
8i a specialConteceranon
which includes all the unions on the Solihull site
500 shop scewards, the SDI resolution was
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Ford Langley, a resolution from
LEOD COR INTER SMERE
the 3% hourweek was aimply
ruled out of order.
How can all this be avoided nest Militames have to start organisine now — both on the shop floor
and in the union branches - [O
ty discussed al every level before It's agreed al a national level by the unions.
We have to r start building a national organisation of social
ists in Ford. And we have
doing to strengthen dence, power and solidarity of
the shop-Noor, and particularly of tbe lineworkers at Ford's
Thar's the importance of the Ford Workers Group at Dagen-
ham, the Ford Langic Action Committee and the Big Flam Groub a1 Palemond
Dues the vote indicate that Ford markers are demoralised
Nol ac Al. In the dast weel there have been important strug
al Dagenham, Halewow: and Langley. At Dagenham As semhly Plant one section bas just won a major victory. A successfül strike has removed a bullying foreran. At Langley there bave boeb solbe ususually militant struggles over safety agnin passod. Chairman of the Confed., Joe Harris, who vored for the package -In LOndon attempled to block the resolutiche anored the TaC officials as saving the country does not need your'. If the money were invosted un petrochenucals returned ten fold. He assured the Confed that this was alse the opinion of the NEB and that he wanted a yes vote because he was.
ot prepared
The tried to say that the details of the package were sill negotiable nod that nothing bad been agreed. IC tbe vole went in favour the trade union negariators would win a good deal from the company and might even put the tinal package to another ballor.
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How we can halt hospital closures
The tasks that lie ahead
HOME NEWS
5 NOVEMBER sees conference on cuts and hospital closure called by the Hounslow Hospital occupation committee. The conference organisers want lo hammer out a programme to defend the hundreds of hospitals now facing Healey's bulldozer. Our correspondent RICH PALSER argues for national campaign against hospilal closure, and deals with questions now being raised by health militants.
Uter seeing whar happened a
foursion, should other hospit
work-in tactic?
Yes, If the objectives of the work-in are clearly understood. Its main purpose must be to stop
Доріан hospital exert total control over patients, and all other internal
Winning support from the local labour movement to maintain the hospital running order, persuading als to col tinue to nomit paisents organising other trade unionists to maintain a detensive pocket are the kind of ractics required to achieve this
The work-in can also provide an organssing ccowe lorra cald paining ali the worker in re against hospital closure. aspers or soc campaign mongo
egular mass meetings and an elected action committee
But Of there are 30, rather than stewards into those of national officials.
to take the steam our of their wage claim.
how.
IDe Tesus of these two ballots should sound the alarm bells
the labour THOUS пел. The Leyland result virtually commits the workforce to accentine lo per cent incrcase In wages this year and next year despite the massive voles substants may neresses in cant after plant year.
The fact that the miners ballo took place at all was a defeat for the left and for the democracy of
then given the he N
Conference in Tynmouth this sumbiber.
Nor can these results he writt en off as an exception to the rule. Since the decision of the TUC Congress to back the 12 month rule there have been a bumber of important set-backs in the fight LUE 10995 9489
One of the first was
Southampton dockers of a Phase 2 deal. All the major ports were lined up hehind a secret dare for strike action
which CYNCH INC Coverument's provisions. That vote defused the rest of the port
HELCHCE
In Sourhampton Jack Jones personal intervention secured a
Hounslow Conference
RE
HO
HO
Clearis not Esch work-in may be a thorn in the side of the Labour Government, but the these thorns out low, then the EGA, and so on.
The test of any work-in must be whether it prepares the ground for a mass response when forced casure is attempted. SErike action must be won from industrial workers in industry, Aler all 10 15 EOCIE heath care which is at stake
possible if hospital workers are not organised to demand beir supporl. This means workers in the hospitals in the same district as the hospital facing closure
Preparing for Rank & File Conference
Leyland workers suffered a major blow this week after they had voted 2-1 in a secret ballot to accept a document taking wage negotiations out of the hands of shop
At the same time, miners were expected to accept a productivity deal by a small majority in another secret ballot. The object of that deal was to split the unity that miners built up in their great strikes of 1972 and 1974 and
The Rank and File Conference meeting in November has valuable lessons to learn from these set-backs in determining its own way forward, STEVE POTTER says
ENCI TECHECICU Longbridge plant when Communist Parry spring strike action on his membership. Even though Robinson got mis majore for such actan for t took ouly 400 right wingers to demonstrate and Rabinson backof thousands of workers who bad vated the other way. waw. theFord claim (analysed on p.6) was not discussed by mass meetings, with ONe SION CATHER EITHE any plan of action developed b tbe union leaderships concernec beletion comine from he plast leaderships, of a bad job by voting for the deal. the But this is only one side of the story. Substantial IN INCHNINE NO BOIS Strike statistics show the simmer. ing anger at the fail in living deals, the Scottish Torry drivers being the latest example, scitled for to percent ma. the the fact remains Above all,
refusing to accept the transfer of patients, resources, and equipment from the sure. This should be backed up - first Houns- by selective industrial action in
those hospirals, such as working
Once a forced closure is allmpced. squ
boch to defend the threatened
Hotels and to in action be
Act and regional shop steward odies are also required in th NES This wit 3Ran 150wn 31 Hounslow, ( Hotorion atwards body he where
CLASH which was vital i organising even the one-day prothat shop stewards and plans leaderships will pot acceps tha the rerusal DE DOr nanoon leaders to organise action means that wages struggles are off for another year.
And It is those rank and fue leaderships who are the main
bossies with the collusion of the trade union bureaucrats.
With productivity dealing major component every teet they sive l gelting clearer every emplaying class and the goserment are stepping up their offensive to use the Leyland's buresucracy as a wedge between
the convenor, ed workers and the rest of the WELLELLED working class,
organisation and strangling the
The need for a centralised fight back against this offensive never been more argent. demands alternative which can start to come to grips with the depth of the oconomic crisis in Britain, SEAL LO taclics of workers control.
But bureaucratie manoeuvres CAN SOODIESE DIE OLEL OL TOWAR
allowed to take land's comorate package overwhelmingly rejecte he deal. The secret ballot doe minorities case to be put at the time when STEENT
workers are making up their CHEES
Toss netinet must be the
of mass meetings must be have Branne to defend workers de HENCE
cent norm.
auntability of all strike committ-
threatened clo enough?
union leaders.
action Strang dist-
workers.
Photo: ANDREW WIARD (Report)
of virtually
trade union
both by under
democracy which keeps
officials
policies
policies which make the case for the
six months.
opposing
this lesson
Manchester This must be accom
the RAF.
RE-OPEN
HOUNSLOW
HOSPITAL
test strike by heath workers Jons more than 10 London bospitals.
Is organising the rank and file
The pre-condition for any fight against hospital closure is that rank and file health workers organise themselves for action. Ultimately: But it is aiso necessary to make very concrete demands on the
Demanding automatic official support, with strike pay if nec
ssary, to any workers carryin out i work-in against bospita
he so leaders mad all that
for further selective industrial action in the event of a ces; for all negotiations to be
meeting sions of the rank and file from start to finish; for the election and right of recall of full time
For these policies to have any
which lights for them must be listed on-going, capahle of swinging its
behind these localised
trugales on wages which will br the most nrominent fencute Di the industrial socoe over the next
That's why an organisation which wants to scart the fight back itself must be a mode of workers democracy ibself. I is therefore extremely unfortunate that the Rank and File Coordin
to heart in the of the upcorning Conference on 26 November in
Last week Socialist Worker, chael Pent bad been deted announced that
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE must he committed to approschine indastrial unions
support in fighting closures.
Doer this mean thar local campaiens are enough?
each individant hospital will only finally be saved when the cuts as a whole are withdrawn and pumped into the health service. This
national campaign to achieve it.
A centraised campaign agains hospital closure could produce s
develet to beg stored of
defence campaign informe
tactics that are being adopted, It could produce joint propaganda
of sponsors for conference. No public appea was ever made for sponsors. Neither was the meeting
given of how many sponsors of the hundred o
in Socialist Worker
still no provision for the clection of a committee for the Rank and File with only four wecas to go ti the conference.
If the Rank and File Con ference is going to he capable of taking decisions both now and in the future on action, its support ers must be convinced that this t a completely different kettle of fish than the Liaison Committer for the Defence of Trade Unions, only brought out from uade wraps by the Communist Party
and when t sulls their sectarian purpose.
Defence of workers democ racy, given the events of the last (wo monchs, is not a luxury foe any genuine rank and file tendency: it is its life-blood.
3 November 1977 material to campaign for suppon in the labour movement and se up a nabona land drive national campaign which demo
craved in the hat again
hospital closure could do more.
It could provide the necessary
rank and file bospital workers to mount uniled national protest aloo, wage a cause mad the unions for action, and con
greatly 1o building
all cuts. Such tactics will not be
y to implement
Homever it is the only strateg Which Proves a CalLic Do
for haking all closures and all cuts, l was Ony D BAKE THE SLEEKY 8S A SETONI
oint that the one day action b
ondon hospitais to Hounslow was won.
Emergency
Flehiback Conference Saturday, 5 Nov.
London School of Economics,
Houghtan Street, WCI.
Workers' League
8 Socialist Challenge
WORKERS LEAGUE
welcomed the launch of Social
1051 mont Members ware called on to contribute news and discussior to the paper, which could play
regroupment as a forum discussion, debale and 8x-
change of intermation on the
The welcome came an part of
Laague's position on regroup-
contral to the bullding revolutionary party: but this was
rocees of relation
between existing loll groups.
Joint work with other group
outward" tha stabement
healthy basis for clertying
the considerable political ditf
In this context, the aggregat resolved to follow up or develos
other especially
oint work with the SWp 0840188851 opportunities fo
There was less agroement
would Identify the organisatio
too closaly with the politica o
the ING the work or hate comrades me The aggregate
arg selling Socialist Challenge
and working with readers group
alod. And it was agreed that th
canin
role of dilferent ergenisations he
Background of their contribute
and relevance, and the extent of agreamant in practice.
The meeting also decided t
sand delegatas to the Sociallet
Unity conference
Correction: We omitted to men tion that it was Jonathan Silber man who Interviewed Arthur Scareil in ast woek's issue Apologies also to Arthur Scargill for attributing to bim, part of s
posed by the mict viewer. (The first two paragraphs of Scargill's reply to penul. misie Queston were sn tact par of the question).
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HOME NEWS
wage claims.
the working class is a bit more 'equal'.
in Britain more highly taxed than in other Bad top Popular item Britain more tax than they
answer to both ash that the these questions is a resoundin
Indeed, the i of till
propaganda in the next general
campaign to show they will reverse these self-evident trends.
But it is by no means obvious
tal popula wisdom is correct
directly on incomes — for example, on people, income tax, on firens, corporation tax. Thes taxes are called direct taxes'
Secondly, there are taxes which accied not on incomics out or
penditure. Examples are Val
dded Tax (VAT), taxes on a tobacco,
vehicle excise duty. agricultural levies. These taxes ane called 'indirect taxes.
REGRESSIVE
The main economic difference between direct and indirect taxes BUT JOELL LUNGS HITCHICA sive', This means that, for any given purchase, a poor person will pay as much as a rich person Further, more tax will be collected if more people buy the com
So to maximise tax revenue, it makes sense to levy taxes on those goods which most people
Denmark
Sweden
UK
USA
W. Germany
Source: Economic Trends, November 1978 Direct central government taxes on income indirect central government taxes
Mates National insurance contributions: - employers
Total taxation
udget Report 1977-7E.
Healey's mini-budget
Behind the tax cuts
THE MINI-BUDGET Denis Healey revealed last week has been dubbed an 'election package" by the media. But it is also a strenuous effort by the Labour Government to put money into working class pockets in a way that is designed to dampen militancy in the struggle around
Below we examine what lies behind Denis Healey's attempt to juggle tax figures and conclude that the only thing Healey has given us is equality of sacrifice — but
huy. If we consider two people, one of whom earns twice as much as the oiber. it is obvious CABl th ricner person wul not purchase twice as much food much tobacco or alcohol as the so ine poore person will pay a much greater indirect tax as a propomon of their income coal will richer person.
IT RACE BIC CAECAINE.
DRAMATIC
Contrast this situation wan direct taxes, which are potentially "progressive'. This means that taxe can be avid on incomer accordIng 1o abily Richer people not only can WALE ME TECH LODIED they can also percentage of their income is tax people.
redistributing incomes egalitarian manner in a way that and пото такся сапао!
Now let us look at the situation today. First of all, how does the
indirect taxes) as a percentage of gross national product in Britain compare with other countries?
Table A shows that it cannot at all be calmed that the burden of taxation in Entain is heaver coal. comparable
However, what has happened over the last few years is that the components of the tax burden in Britian bave altered dramatic: ally. This can be seen from Table
Tax burden as a percentage of GNP at factor cost, 1974
Including social Excluding social Secunt contributions contributions
$3.4 52.4 49.1 34:4 24.9 SH.S 32.0 32.0 24.3
42.5 38.0 31.4 20.0
TABLE B
Composition of the tax burden (excluding taxes on capital|
1969-70(N) 1978-77*
39 44
39
100 100
ace Annual Abetract of Statistica, Financial Statement and
This change in The composition of the tax burden has occurred because of inflation. As mone
allowances remain many more people find them
2,000,0K0 pay income tax today who paid none in 1973-74
FISCAL DRAG comes rene, tee do pay lat Furthermore, find that an increasing propor tion of their income is taxed and
reasingly high rates or twice as: in 1071.73. heloren XKENO 1n0 400,000 people paid surtax; te 1975-76 wel over
if tax, But because prices wer rising rapidly, this Thus THLTENSILE mean that people were becoming better off Bere off ite taxed more: Thi in real terms e
effect of inflation is known as 'Gical drag'
Turning to indirect taxes, many taxes are levied at a fixed sum per quantity of the commodity pur CASCE LILLI pay. alcohol for example. As prite pay rise, the Fixed sum decreases Proportion Di the Dose Ol commodity in process of erosion of fined sum Thus *fiscal boost'
Now despite increases in per-
olds, and in rates of duty, these increases have not been sufficient to offset the effects of inflation. LUCE PANE been shifting strongly towards CITELL PAULION. indirect taxation.
Because direct taxation is progressive and is regressive, this tendency continues lead to a structure of taxation when truene cerence in ould have eal incoone distribution of Encome thing thind be a and thing
But capitalist economies do on run on equity. order to revive the epopomy to create a climate in which vestment is seen as worthwhile One af the ways of doing this is to make it clear that capitalises wil pet richer if they invest, that the return they get will not just be taxed away. In this way, the class nasareof Britain willcontinueto be TELECLETE huge
incomes and living.
MORIBUND
That is way Healey's budget
last
alowances rather than reduced
VAT. That is why the clamour in the Tory press and Parly has focussed on our ruinously" high rate of income increasing burden of direct taxa
live to effon. And as long as the
abour Government is commit-
cribund capitalist
pril's budg
equalityof sacrifice — but the poor are more equal than the rest.
Sports.
sip ana sound poncis.
the sane, the candidates
right-wing contenders
Thus
1,500,000
education spending: picture since and
This
these
and way from
indirect taxation
- it would eventually
That is, we
more equitable iccompanies it: "They"
stand
It is necessary in
come ... and so on. in-
real reusons why
part in their union. differences
standards
11A 51S childhood
IncrEased persona
fomile why the STEREOTYPES
the strongest force
trade unions.
Campaign sition in the family position at work
man performs two Jobs:
Teachers' union election
Members of the National Union of Teachers will be voting in the next zwo weeks for the posts of senior and junior vicepresidents, positions from which the national presidentey automatically JolloWs. BERNARD REGAN of the East London Teachers Association reports.
There are three right-wing is the continuation of the status que: Firm, responsible leader.
necessary, firm res ponsible action, to quate one of
Of the other candidates, Jim Murphy is a leading contender and has the support of Commun ist Party teachers. His platform in no way differs from that of the
At a time when the left needs "We must to unite to fight for an alter TAVE TO ReTURE inaction over the curs, its abject betrayal of 50,000 unemplosed SURELS
Murphy
divert astention from the cuts in
THE DOmEs IS OD SurDESC
Murphy is one of the central architects of the NUT: scandalous policies. As the leader of the union'steam on Burnham, the body which desermines teach48803 8820058 153838 sable for personding the NUT al
myths'
When the question of women in the trade unions is ruised, a
rhule lot of nonsense usuall
won't meccings come to meetings; "They" won' there tonsider in hit us positions: tendance even when they do
In other words, most men an quite a few women fail to see the free, under-represented inside the unlons, and why women rurely duke
amy actise — let alone lading -
their
The Working Women's Charte
Campaign seeks to expose l
women are steere
awar from active and aggressiv
here centred way of life. Wo-
m are trained to shop, to cook.
domestic needs of men. Our first responsibility, we are toid, is the
And it is our own family which vision to
leave
The Working Women's Charter
links women's powith their The campaign recognises that the working wo
one al work and another in the home We call for union meetings to be
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
A real alternative
DAVE WHITELEY
all ins recent annual conferences LOSER WOEELEREEOE
seek to improve Siving standards arter the detel joration of the last three years. Murphy has the audacity to
it lus curion progr amme. It's like asking a condem ned person to support the exe cationer in a campaign tor En abolition of the death penalty
There are, however, two car Fatback against the wretched lidates who do stand for record of the NUT leaders, and one of then — Dave Whiteley — bas a clear alternative strategy to thatof MurphyandCo.
Whiteley, who is supported by the Socialist Teachers' Alliance
Charter trade union school
y the Nalional Secretariat of the Working Women'
Charter Campaign
held during lunch times, though
even then most women have le
do their shopping so unicin
bould be our main demand.
HOW ELSE?
unions to take up see on demand tom the is SHIE legal contra-
equni pay to become a reality: le
us abolish the accond-clas ро-
sition of women which still exist
espite ine equate iceistacion
We demand a national mininum
wage of t60 to protect low paid
A TO CAMONTIS TS
prices, the WWCC recognises tb
need to ensure tha: wages rise at the same time. These rise must be calculated by committees of trade unionists and housewives. We campaign for equal access to jobs, and no discrimin ation in education and training. Won to beney reti
Facing or sate ener ro
children must be well cared for while we return to work. To this end, we must uba win palernity
Unemployment is rising Faste for women than men Womei are heing laid off at a faster rare than men, and many ament credone tas, believing
That of their 00 aer than
LUI ALLETS should the working class binme
3 November 1977 Page B is calling for a t20 a week Mal rate increase, the prorestion of salaries against inflacion by auto-
and a special salaries conference to decide the best method of
Whitely's platform provides a clear Ine of advance for teache
kind of fight which should be taken ap in every other union
He has also consistcolly can paigned for unity on the left, and
calline for a number two vote
North,
ed by Rank and File teachers One positive development is that North bas recency reciprocated
The weniness of North's platform is that he presented be Fight against education curs salely in terms of NUT action and Tails to outline cancrete steps to
ganise the tight. In concra
•ILLICY DEALS DOUSE COSE apen and democratic organisat Son of all struggles, and for tamited action betweent the NUT
a sep to united action by the labour movemen: against cosb
and in defence of the
ecial service
While Whiteley has consister
ANCE BE TO MORE!
Il his clection material, in ag dourly an seror tbat this call did
version of his clerico address learnal. The Teacher, last weal which union's.
Hopefully this can be corrected through Setters Whiteley bas already sent The Teacher, the Times Fabcation Supplemen:
left press, including Socialsr Wonker.
Itself for the crisis of capitalism
LIC CEME
which actually divide it? Strength
an anly come from a unite
rade union movement. Th
inlists would
truggles are already being cake
the unions We have th Charter of Alits
Women Workers'. Many af our
bents of "positive discrimin
ation", and go on to call for the
aboblion of wolDen's
is based on a fallaci
The Charter campaign seeks 1c
ordinate and direct the light fol organise women
women's equality at a rank and
file level We do not demand
women's soloms in the wood
simply to have talking shops. We milan male rale nicest women an
Jarm their bus organisations
around the derands
harle
a Reading on 26 November the computen is holding i dup achool on these inues Speakers have
wwwed from Trico and the Austow Hospital Action Com minee. Workshops on the speciJa problems of women in diguie are planned. The main aim of the school is to doom the sation and compater of Homer and men trade unioniss around the demands of the Charter For more details conract Anita Turmbelt, Fin Ruad, London Na. Tel: 0134R Colenide
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Crossman diaries reveal Labour's Irish policy 'On the side of reactionaries'
IRELAND
Labour's policy in the North of Ireland.
troops.
GEOFF BELL examines the record. The thinking Harold Wilson's crew is best summed up when Crossman quotes the views of Jim Callaghan, then Home Secretary and responsible for the North of Ireland, and of Denis Healey in August 1969:
Callagnan and Healey bou reminded us that whole interest was to work through the Protestant Government. The Frotestants are unc mory and we can't affood to alienate them".
Such attitudes rilled cut
The and by Whom that pur
by Wilson Lahour Government should ab olish Stormont and set up direct rule - a policy that was eventu
1972.
CRAZY
Healey was one of the main
pponents of such intervention
He told Crossman in April 19h9 The ruin Maisie was aleas demanding, carly on, with this crazy desire to
should side with the Roman Catholics and the civil
Government and the Royal Ul
Wibon had always been rather less reactionary in his views on
Labour cabinet, but his opinions appear to have had little in-
to what their role was. As carly as July 1969 the chief whip, Bot we find ourselves with British troops fighting on the side of reactionaries?"
Rapist
judge
rejects
appeal
Only those who have any faith
in British Justice towards Irish
people would be surprised at
ast week's dechion in the Old
Hailey to reject applications for
leave 10 appeal made by
four people convicted of thi
Woolwich in 1974.
The application was made on
THE DHSK ERREDEN EVENTEE TAU
emerged on the homhings. The
Street
snotner inan pouncur prisoner
Brendan Dowd
admitted that they were respon-
bad denied that those convicted
Patrick Armstrong, Pau
Carule Richardson
plased any purt in the bomb-
Even at the original trial the vidence ased to coarict the
four
hasis was confessions' which
the four were alleged to have
mude, But maich tne wuBurew
The latest volume of the diaries of Richard Crossman strikingly confirm the reactionary thinking behind
The diaries cover the period 1968-70 when the civil rights movement was at its height and Britain sent in the
The picture that emerges is a Labour cabinet basing its decisions on ignorance, opportunism and determination not to alienate the Loyalist majority in the Six Countries.
And when the troons were eventually sent in there was no suggestion that they were there to
peace between the two communities. Crossman notes:
EXHAUSTED
*Jim (Callaghan) told me he had been down to today to see Harold and they had
Nation. It was obvious that the troops would have to go in because the RUC exhausted to move'
The RUC at the time trvine to contain the risine in the Bogside area of Berry - there was no sectarian violence insolved and it was a straight clash between the inority. In coming to the aid of the RUC the Labour cabinet was fully aware what type of "law and they were
asked: What does law and order mean? And he noted in his
the Royal Ulster Constabularly, who are Protestant Orangemen,
Crossman also revenis that the possibility of appealing for assistance from the United Nabion: was raised, It was ruled because, says Crossman: "1 don'
United Nations has the right to intervene in an internal affair
CYNICAL
Combined with all this was a cynical attitude tawards whole question, When the troops WEIL IN CAMOLES WELC OUTSKID dead on the streets of Belfast. in court. One of those con-
the alibi of a photograph taken at a dance at South London
before the Guildford bomh exploded.
The reason offered for turn ing down the appeal by Lord Fustice Ruskill was incumsistencies in ise evidence given hi Brendan Dond. Hat it is hardly surprising if Dowd had dirtiCLINE TESTINIE had detalls. He has been in solitary
confinement for well ever u
less heutings by police and prison warders.
Justice Roskill was the judgi had who released the rapist Gunks
man Holdsworth so the latter's
A fall analysis of the GuildFord and Woodwich appeal will appear in the nest issue of irish Prisone available soon from 182 Lipper Street, London NI
Cornwall
WEIL IDU
Crossman observed: Neverthe helping to from the point of view of
1033. the Ciovernment. at has its au vantages It has deflected attention from our own deficience and the mess of the pound.
For his part, Jim Callaghan saw the events of August 1969 as an
God, belancelor. This is that 1 1a0 being Home out
doine takina decisions, and 1 had to take the decision to pur the
by JOHN MAGEE Theit outrage was shared by Roy DISSON HODUES MUSEO Northern Ireland, who is busily attempting to brand these same republican prisoners as criminal gangsters, Helfast's answer to the Matia.
Such myths have always played a key HELE treatment of political prisoners,
in particular Irish political pris oners. Engels writing to Marx in 1867 about the execution of three rish republicans in Manchestet complained: "Every thing is being
weekly
every law Faciate the Brital represid in force had been Ireland. He wrate: 'Not content with depriving them liberty, the English Government
most savage way imnginahle! L new pamphlet, Prise Strus le, written by republican pri
107 years later listle has changed Frankie Dodds, beaten to death
plane on Cornwall:
enjoyable briefin Secretary every day.'
Prison
struggle
"A terrorist university" was how Airey Neave, Tory spokesperson on Northern Ireland, reacted to the recent This Week documentary on life in Long Kesh. Neave and the pundits of the capitalist media were outraged at the determination of republican prisoners to organise resistance even behind the wire.
Moyne and Patrick Teer
Britain's existed.
TORMENT
done to transform a political the daily grind of prison life, th
brutal assaults on the
except that of brute suspended
of their British Labour
crew with
human"
Callaghan and Hegley: our whole interest was to work through the Protestant Governmant. The protestants are
the troops in while 1 was in a
the way back from
on which Callaghan based suct decisions is also revealed by Crossman. In the entire Home Office there were only two civil
When the problem of the lack of information was raised, Callag
am seeing Chichester-Clarl Orangeman's
ration"
Chichester Clark was the Uo-
and the
farce by Betish soldiers. Paddy Craw-
under duress -
after being refused medical ar
without warning by British sold iers. That's Long Kesh's roll of death; one tor every year it has witnesses.
defense ol
Ppe
The repoblican prisoners detail sabulary
absence searches and accompanying
: inmates, the insence of medical faciale the degradation of relatives and friends who visit theis. One brief status.
mell of being a prisoner of
Government: Call an a suery ell
medical officer; they call this
camp
They also call themselves in-
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
Sonist Prime Mindster at the time.
But when it was suggested in the British cabinet that a less partial source of information was lord ed, Crossman notes that Callag han resisted the idea, has four and hate finb
ern Ireland Government would
crosman hate inte
fully shared ignorance and partiabity. He get a date wrong in his diary mixin
So Patrick's day
mn 12 day.
He also succested that one answer to the
7 DAYS
in the
32 COUNTIES
partial, particularly when thes are talking about the rule of law
independence of tbe courts. But the pamphlet reveals Indicial trial in the North of which Ireland. Of the 17 judges some 14 are loyalists and members of the Orange Order, six are torme
ex-SAS. And 'confessions CASHE
torture are admities evid
ence: the judge sits alone anc refuses to hear any evidence that
carefully tabricared stories of Army and polic
The rule of las an 'impartial court" means simph an old lalist hack for s
and wowavering
the Royal Ulster Con-
A gap in the pampbler 1s the
Many reference to th condition of the women repub
who themselves are actively of posing the reicoval of politica
tachopes bacol
Laited Troups Out Movement
Open Conference 10/11 December In Sheffield
Open to all who support self determination for the Irish poople as a
whole and troops out now. Details: UTOM c/a Rising Free, 162
Upper S1, LondonNE.
3 November 1977 whole question woald bet "stimulate the ensigration Catholics:
Ta the contrary. The sanes conclasion to be drawn from tbe information Crossman gives or LOUSES would be the pursuance of a policy which would stimulate the emigration' of Britain, the British Army, and Her Majesty' ministers from Ireland
The Crossman Diaries, 1968-71 i published this week by framin Hamilton and Jonashan Cape ar E/2.50, omission will shortly be recrified. perhaps with a paimpoice Leon the Armagh prisoners themselves A further gap which will not s
easy be rectibed is tbe gosenei
of any strategy to advance th
struggle outside tbe prisons i defence of polical status.
Of particular concern to work. ers" organisations in Britain is the
MR He Macau MC
bers on bebalf of che republic prisoners held in British goals
how
International Tribunal on Britis War Crimes agninst the Trish FLUOIL COD COULILDULC TOUL defence of Irish prisoners in British paols.
rison Struggle: The Stery Contimuing Cesistance: Behin the Wire, published by Belfast Kenublican Press Centre, nrici 60p. Available from left book shops, and the Republican Press Come Jore Pans Koad, Belfas 12.
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Their new man at Leyland
OCIALIST CHALLENGE MICHAEL EDWARDES, the new chairperson of British Leyland, lists in his entry in Who's Who his membership of the Rand Club in Johannesburg. South Africa. Edwardes nOt Dobson's choice, but his record shows that he WHERE Q5 well have been. GEOFF BELL examines Edwardes sordid past.
Michael Edwardes was educated in South Africa and spent his formative years there. His membership of the Rand Club is a fitting symbol of his years serving apartheid, It is described in a glossy magazine currently on display in the South African Embassy in London as 'very rich, very exchisive. for those who move in the right social circles*
So not only is it an all-white club, it is the drinking hole for the very dregs of the South African establishment. Founded nearly a hundred years ago by a number of leading colonialists. including Cecil Rhodes, it was the club where British royalty stayed whenever they visited the land of racism incorporated. The Prince of Wales, later to be Edward VIII was just one of the guests at the Kand.
It is possible that Edwardes patronage of the Rand played some part in forming his prejudices, which he has frequently displayed in his career in Britain. He is on record as opposing any price control on the basis that *Industry will not be able to improve its profitability. He has criticised the level of taxation of the rich because it "stifles entrepreneurial flair', and described workers' control as 'nonsense'
Such attitudes characterised his time as head of Chloride Batteries. In May this year Edwardes attempted to sack one in ten of the workers at Chloride, despite the fact that this workforce made a profit for the company of nearly E20 million the previous year. The company was also breaking an agreement with the unions by which Edwardes and Co. had agree to limit imports from Chloride subsidiaries throughout the world, Included in the countries with which Edwardes was secretly dealing was, of course, sunny South Africa.
The workers at Chloride occupied the plants over Edwardes' arbitary decisions. After nine weeks Edwardes backed down. But the dispute received little publicity at the time in the national press. The official strike circular offered this explanation for The National Association for Freedown is very reluctant to be labelled as right-wing, so if was something of ar Joumalisticcoup when Robert Moss, the writ-happy director of NAFF, told Socialist Challenge we could describe himesaright winger.
This "hevelation" will not be so surprising to those who have had the misfortunetocomeypagainst the kindof freedom NAFF revels in: the Grunwick strikers, the postal workers who called a boycort of Soath Africa, the Onford hotelstrikers, or the parents of Tameside who pur equality in education above "freedomofchoice.
The significance of NAFF is that it is not part of the iunatic fringe. It prefers the sate Terrain of the bourgeois courts to the bluster andbravado of the private army. For the first time in Britain it has succeeded in bringing together a number of fringe right groups -Aimsfor Freedom and Enterprise, the Income
Introducing Michael Edwards Esq
I see they've got
to replace
Dobson... the lack of press interest:
Michael Edwardes, while being managing director of the Chloride Group, is also a member of the National Enterprise Board and as such is using his influence in order to stop the press
Edwardes" position on the NEB - a government agency — did not prevent him from personally breaking Phase I of the Social Contract. At a time when the norm for wage increases was meant to be f6 a week, Edwardes awarded himself a rise of approximately £10,000 a year - over three hundred times the E6 limit.
Edwardes has been a member of the NEB since its inception by the Labour Government in 1975. No doubt he got on well there with the recent chairperson of the board, Lord Ryder. For he is also a leading apologist for South Africa. Ryder is a member of the UK
Trade Association, which describes its objective as to
What is the NAFF?
Tax Payers" Society, the National Federation of the Self-Employed and the Vaice of the Indepcodent Centre - and built a bridge betweentben and the Toryparty.
NAFF's council includes seven Tory MPs. two of them front-benchers, while director Robert Moss is well-known as the author of Margarer Thatcher's 'Iron Maiden" speech What is disturbing is that the association represents an increasingly important current of thought among the capitaliss class. Top businesscenresentativeson the NAFFcouna includeSir Frank Taylorof Taylor Woodrow whoisalso an Almicouncil member, Land De L'Isleof Phoenix Assurance, Tan H. Gilhertof Wilkinson March, Lord Brookesof GNand Ernes Smith, president of the National Federation of Building Trades Employeis
It is no accident that NAFF sbould have chosenthereseatborels' dispute in Oxford for involved was the Randolph, owned by Trust Houses Forte. THF director the Hon Hugh Astor also happens to he a NAFF council member Koben has nime 215o na bosiness connezions. He is a director of Sproat Communications Led, a security
Yes. This one's
even better-he's
actually FRon
South Africa
promote trade and investment between the UK and South Africa'. When we contacted the organisation carlier this week, we were told by its secretary F.J. Kump that 'we work behind the scenes. We make sure that people who are anti-South Africa don't interfere with trade'.
Such sentiments would no doubt po down very well ar the Rand Club, and indeed at British Leyland whose management has a long history association with the apartheid regime J.H. Plane, a chairperson of Leyland when it was still in private hands, is on record in 1970 as saying that South Africa was 'one of the most promising countries in the world'. Leyland's heavy investment in South Africa has reflected such optimism.
Edwardes whole history - his links with the leaders of apartheid his anti-union practices at Chloride, and his public attacks on any marginally chernesty security tell ger. is id thermopathic security techniques. rather appropriace, sincerheSproatof thetille is none olher chan lain Sproat MP, the man who launched the campaign against social socuricy scroungers:
If his extreme paranoia is shared by his clients we can assume bat be is not short of a quid or two. Miss himself has a highly developed sense of freedom. Even before NAFF'scourtaction over South Africanmail, he had distingulabiod himself as an ardent defender of racism in sourhern Africa. Moss Las wristen a seemingly interminable series in the Sunday Telegranh which serves lo justify the South African invasion of Angola on the grounds of the Communist cbreat. He denies reportsthat the Economist "Foreign Report'. which heedics, bas reprinted broadcasts from Radia Voice of Free Africa in Umtali, Rhodesia. But be admitted to Socialist Challenge thar ic was possible chat the radio station, which broadcases mainly in Portuguese to Mozambique, could have relayed some Foreign Report' material.
This admission is interesting since the station is run by Antonio Batica, a former
FOR FREEDOM
They should have
kept him un
"Chloride"- maybe
it world purify hum.
progressive aspect of she Labour Government's policy • make him a
successor to Sir Richard Dobion. Once again the Labour Government, through the NEB has sclected someone with a reactionary record. They have made the appointment without any consultation with the workers or unions at Leyland, and although the precise details of Edwardes salary have yet to be fixed. Leyland workers will be expected to pay OVEE £50,000 a Vear for the privilege of being bossed by Edwardes.
There is one small comfort. When Edwardes was appointed he said: 'I do not know much about their (Leyland's) industrial relations, Compare that with 'I don't know anything abour motor cars; I don't know very much about labour relations. was made by Dobson, on his appointment as chairperson of Leyland. An omen for Michael Edwardes?
member of tbe fascist National Assembly in Portugal, and hakod to coe Free Atrica Organisation wlich hassrong links with the European fascist Internacional, Moss prob ably know! bobing of these people's backaround but chew obsiously toe an affinity with the contents of his magarine.
Moss's record on Chile is just as glorious. His book on Chie's Marxist Erpenitens, commissioned by Forum World Features, was bought up in hulk by the Chilean embassy in
London. In its 20 March 1973 issue, SEPA, a Clean magazine sue at tHe maory carried this front page headline: 'Robert Moss. AnEnglish Recipe for Chile - Military Control'. Curiously, the National Library of Congress in Washington, which has a full set of SEPA, is missing just one issue: 20 March 1973.
If all this gives the impression of an incestuous lictle group on the far right, this is not so lar from the truth. Prominent among the counter-insurgency experts is Brian Crozier, director of the institute for the Study ofConflict. Crozieris predecessarol Moss at "Eoreign Report and farmer chairperson of Forum WorldFeatures. Masshas contributed Studiesseries. Crazier says: "Ire-read NAFF's week. I shall not rest content until they are enshrined in a Bil ol Richie coforceable at law
'One
TH
WH
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The National Associa capital 'I' — for the b two documents ths CHRISO BRIENreg sympathisers in his t Fourth International
A tissue of lie
What
BRUSSELS: GI Widespread recruling b
ROB
He, too, bas coexplain how this suppor freedom of speech and all the atber p platitudes squares with NAFF's backin South Africa: To insist on majority ru acertain recipe for tyranny in Africa. South Africa is a society with a press and an independent judiciary', c mented TheFreeNation
The Marxist and radical academics na in the lostitute for the Study of Confi Gould Report might also feel that ROBERT MOSS
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Anti-Apartheid agrees Zimbabwe campaign Boycott racist goods
Germany:
RICHARD CARVER reports.
Everyone, Government pposition, realised that the stat-
nt of the 'suicide who failed" ould well be crucial, If Moeller, who in meant to have shit her hroat with a bread knife, had
firmed the official story, the bready difficull task facing the
lers of democratie rights would have become near imposs-
But Moeller said the exact
and that wasn't sent. She said that, despite the mundproofing, she had been able to shout to Jan Carl Kaspe
Mogadishiu raid. A little later she It consciousness, and woke up
It took five days before she could see her lawyer, and, despite
have insisted on moving her. Could ir be that they want ber to ma ine saine way as per coa
There has been no let up in the cice tresence on the SLICCIS Police with machine pistols staff
ighway, ostensibly to search for
In fact it covement of et wingers, or of tracking the now. Not Vorster,
On 22 September a Brisbane demonstration of more than 2000 opposing this ban was met bs more than s0o police — specia Branch and uniformed — drafted in from all over South-East Dueensland. 32 were arrested. On 12 October there were more arrests when police outnambered a further march of SUU,
This big show of strength for 22 Octobe when 416 were arrested from a 3,500 strong march calling for a natioowide moratorium on unium mining. There were more arrests when the 416 ap peared in court while solidarity marches in Melbourne and Sydп Pasca mou mauca
pression by the Queensland Government — a traditional bunker
- comes in the context of a
owing: response from the
Noyment and a drop in real
power workers' strike in was met by a scate of
Fronted the prowine moves while violence har
sphinst uranium mining. Et
crucial to current investment
and the Queensland
overument in particular is
Union action on this directly political isaue has led to stepped-
TEC OHAL irganise. New "right to work' egislation in Queensland outlans
INTERNATIONAL
the cover-up
Police have handed out millions of photographs of the alleged killers of Hans Martin Schleyer, with descriptions in seven languages. Every newspaper carries a page or two of details a day to help track down the "terrorists". It is hardly surprising that none of them could find much space for the testimony of Irmgard Moeller.
For "terrorist sympathisers as they are now known.
Spying on your neighbour is licenced by confidencial phone lines to police headquar ters. The impeccable logic of the witch-hunt demands acnounce Encen octore wey ou the same to you,
VICTINS
OF STATE
TERROREN
Australia: clampdown on opposition
Government boosts
anti-union powers
*The day of the political street march is over. Anybody who holds a street march, spontancous or otherwise, will know they are acting illegally. Don't bother fo apply for a permit. You von't get one. That's Government policy
but Queensland Premier Bjilke-Petersen. SYLVIA INNES looks at the most repressive state in an increasingly repressive country.
The CoreNn laws, backed by Petersen, coable tbe Government to deregister a
Koch Petersen and Prime Min ster Malcolm Fraser have calle 1o Famber terein of who the famibar terrain rales-the-country? Coming on two years after th overDor-General Keit put t right wing back in power, the Federal elections are designed to consolidate the Covernment s yet power before the labour move- ment makes any further advances
Nation.
The Queensland Government is ideally placed to lead the current nichtse. electoral system ensures Petersen's return oo 12 From this impregnable position Petersen has built up his model of the state? In 1976 be sacked the Police Commissioner who called for an inquiry into corruption instead increasins police power of detention without arrest and abolisline the righe to sience The dependence of the Queensland economy on mining of Petersen himselt od mining
issue of che right to organise A demonstration has been called for Il November, supported by militant workers, black, wo-
The West German police force is hardly undendevelaped.
wond that borussi the Bes Africa. But the Interior Minister mas seszed the
terrorist force, which is only the most recent way of bypassing restrictions on the powers of the police Despite anti-French murmsurs
tele- dies, the inbabitants of the region
around Mulhouse, where Schi-
That you Strasbourg can have bule doub
of the closeness of international polioe ce-operation.
Ploket of Helmur Schmidt's Institute of Strateglo Stdlues meeting in
men. and student activists the ucensland Trades and Labo ouncil, sections of the Labo Pany and conservationists. demonstration, by
John marches In
bouroc. a al picke Jueensland House in the Stran n London from 12-2pm, will b a key creal in the development of while Foderal the Australian class struggle, and
in the defence of the democratic
class. It deserves your support.
coup by
THE Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) saw same welcome de-
them the proposal to work local labour movement bodies to boycolt South African goods during a weck of action next November. March
Equally positively, and acting on a suggestion from the Interstate-within-a-
AAM win De uncing a camp aign in the labour movement co explain the meaning or
right-wing nationalist regime ir Zimbabas But the AGM also showed up - and ularly laral resolutions with sperifie its failure to back
proposals for campaiens maditionally take up issues ranging from the boycort
the defence of Namibian political prisoners, but tend to rely on a. sanall core of activises to lobby
opportanity to
ment of assassins oram from all quarlets.
The which WIE solidarit Sydney and Me
DIESICH by JOHN HYSLOP
annual general Marxist Group. the
the lees and not the AAM UDOQUIVOCAl SUDDOTE SATION
oreanisamons nacked Soviet Litien.
ress conference launches the Bertrand Ri
with Ethiopia.
S extradition
oceedings. As he points c
ie Governitient which asks my extradition is responsible lor the death of my clients. 1 cannot defend myself against a Govert-
For the West German Covern- should
its finest hou Helmut Schmidt, ar a meeting of
Strategic Studies in Landon last
TRIBUNAL week was a0le to poie as In: vanguard of the civilised world defending its peace against ferr-
Ger-
cace was better illustrated by the arrival in Mogadishu of a
markings, delivering arms for the MPs, church organisations, trade union officials, and the United Nations, never providing a clear
480787
be drawn inco a mass campaign on southern Africa. The campaign which came nearest to doing so, the 1970 Stop the Tour campaign led by Peter Hain and
Hespons hility bies wirh th British and South African Communist Parties whose memhers
there.
Inance is the AAM's lack
solidarity committee. Instead of
LOTINE SEUR HAL THESE TEUE
liberation moveitent with chose
the African National Congress in South Africa, and rends co agnore
seil Tribune/ on Germany.
Somali Government for ils war
The need to fighr this brazer resurgence of German imperial Man u narticularly urzer Britain, Schmidt bas boco caren o make sure that none of hi implied criticisms of the Fresch handling of the Schleyer affai
rub off on his socia
with good reason.
As we reported last week, it is largely British expertise, laboratory tested in the Six Councie of Ireland, which suscains the growing international 'antisubversive brention. Whereve a copitalist stare feels the need to
URANIUM MUSHRE
• the tole of other sections of thi recently emergod mass move
conditional defence of the right of the Zimbabwean, Namibian
determine their oen future, Tree from imperialist intervention
the AGM ar a criticism the Patriotie Front in Zimbabwe.
of self-determination for the peoples of southern Africa
door open to suggestions thar British imperialism might have same promesstre Toi to pla.
The AAM nevertheless groupa
militanls active on southern Africa. That is why the
ero Africa Solidarity Campsign wille educating people in Britais
port beyond the raoks SWP Inself. Joint AAM-SASC
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 3 November 1977 Pape 10 throw its weight around from
in the Netherlands Mogadisbu - it is the British Specia. Air Service which is called
Will suppert should be given
• Third Bertrand Russell T bunal, which was formally con stituted lust week to investigate allegations of German human rights violations. Former Chan cellor Willy Brandt has proJudged the Tribunal': conclus ans by calling on social dem
oo-operate. He should know SIMETE 15
Tribunal include playwrights Howard
Trevor Griffiths Steven Lakes of Hallio College,
Gifford and Jo Richardson MP. activities are clearly desirable,
building
action in March. to Cheen/Young pro-
of Vorster's repression thas preparing the ground for a mass
struggles of the southern African peoples, and against any
*The National Ginion of Students
the Middlesex Hospital Medical School al 7.30 en 3 November
naumane, generei secretary of the South African Studenr Moves ment.
Maharaj (African /azional Congress) and Mike Terry of the Ала-Араявій will De followen hy a rorcaliger aracession to Downing Steet. The roi war de coldae for natienal sradeur diey of action on South Africa on I Navember
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How South Africa got the
bomb
Government's human rights record.
The big NATO powers have been holding up their hands in horror over the past few weeks at the nrospect or somnAirca developing and testing a mucicar device. Yet at least four of the countries, Britain included, bave actively collaborated with the racist regime in expanding its moclear canahity, This has oing on quite openly since 194 when South shan research rector from the Africa 1
US firm of Allis Chalmers Since then both West Germany
agreements for the sale of plant recently that the tall extent of But it i
known, It is now widely acknow ledged that South Africa - like Israel out in experimental nuclear ex-
PLUTONIUM
South -Africa's path to the
bomb began twenty years ago
when the United States and other
HOW CTS operated in the training of nu-
dear physicists from the Soutt ANCE ROCHE ENCES
The 196l racior, Safari 1, buib at the National Nuclear Research
esbur
enriched uran
ian, some
Britain, reactor produces
plutonium, but according to the
try, all of this has been
returned
Altbough plutonium can be used as a secondary explosive in
H-bombs, it is the uranium route
the past two years the US has
withholding further plies of uranium for Safari-l
because South Alrica has refused to allow an inspection of its awn
started production
The Valindaba enrichment
plant in the Northern Transvan
based on a process developed by Dr. Erwin Becker of Karls
rube, lor the
Although
STEAG officially withdrew firancial participation
construction in 1973, secret dec
African National Congress' bau
From the South African embassy
I GOTTA MORES LESION
that West German collaboration
has continued. Under the cover
OT RENEMIC SHENIE
West German and South African
scientists have exchanged visits le
LINICAT
ments and weapons factories.
NOTHIN the downers show that West German firms
hase consinued to supply naclea
egipment, so official
West Gerian Government policy and a pierhora of UN DELUNY COMALIE TELLINS she arms embargo of the past 14
wears. In particular
отраду MAN
supplied the Valindaba enrich ment plant with lurbo compres sors nod the stares department of the German armed foros furnished the supplies with NATO code numbers
MAN, together with AEG and Siemens bave also supplied
Advocaar rudar installation. is astensibly used for civilian
INTERNATIONAL
Jimmy Carter's stated support for a mandatory arms embargo on South Africa has been greeted with hostilits in business and Government circles in all the NATO powers. But, on the evidence of South African nuclear cooperation with the Western powers, the embargo will be nothing much to worry about. As JOHN DOHERTY explains, Carter's call for an embargo is every bit as ironic as West Germany's criticism of the South African
purposes to maintain the safety of chipping mund the Cape. But the instailation is now described in the Bond embassy's orsal publication as the navy's new The ANC doeu-
La team of South African officials from the Armaments Board vis ired West Cernsany in connection with certain manuals for Advocaal.
MISSILE
Ir is clear that Advoraat is being aned busically for militory burnoses ond is primary role i my maclear development wowld for missile guidance.
South Africa system called
rocket and Brac illegal arms sales is that South
commercial plant for the enrichment of uranium of the raw low ISSUETES trade uranium are plentiful, witl of the world's SABE TENCICS BE ME ON was exported to the US and the UK as uranium oxide. But it is nOW erd me be because
production figures from the giant Kossing mine in owned by Ine baust cochpal RTZ.
EXPORTING
A mission from the LIN Council for Nami bia alieged in April that South Africa was ploiting uranium from Rossing Гов the building or weapons. The Vorster Govern ment has refused inspectors from the International Atomic Energy uthority permission t Africa was expelled from the governing board of IAEA on the WaLIC SCE Given such close co-operatio
the with the Western nuclear club
LANT TICKI eactors have been ordered for the 1980's remarkable thar it was the Rus slans who list alcited the woric in August to the constraction of buclear testing: sile Kalahari from the US, Britain. France and
West Germany are NOVC 10 prevented ground test. But the facility. according to latest Having boistered the military and economic sinews of aparthi tor so many Job, the Torc trotests from aborators are little more tha
Sheen handed HE HUR PSE West ability on a plate.
Foreien Minister Pil. Botha says about *peaceful purposes' it is certain chat South Africa's determination to resist outside. pres sures for change will be immeasurably strengthened.
French
Damn. will
disorhsd about He This protection for their bloodstained
BEDLES
'Arms embargo' announced
simple actu stockpiled for
South the
Namibia, part illegally ex-
policies and a course
enter
ALEXANDER reports. lo the pase
stock of tbis change of course - it is The politica division
in the ment's turn unfold in the coming Protestation:
claimed to INUTER What is troubling the Govern
ment's ruling fact that
intelligence amount to a virtual admission of
the bankruptcy of ins velopment" policies, the cent rita political strategy for thr decades.
As weekly: The Sunday Express pu South Africa bas it last week: "Wednesday's fero
cap- cious actions were not those of a And whatever SEE 55UEEN
ment. Tbey were the actions of a jittery and uncertain one ... of people who, power and promises, had linally lo contess: *We
what eke to do We don't know
The and German
regime corce to crenre a seis mentality
SHUTTER.
result or to TeRressive concE will not long be able to atford the
The repression
that won't work
The decision of the South African Government to impose an almost total ban on all independent expressions of black political views represented a break with previons
resistance and repression. The lukewarm threats of a mandatory arms embargo will do nothing to dissuade the racist regime, since years of Western arms supplies have put it in a position where it can now export arms! ROY
week the Sauth
debate neffects
class critics is the its recen actions worries. "separate
FERMENT Englisb-Janguage But Government has CORDI COPER
will not work.
Silent perforce.
Certaiole bot dead. among whites as
leading towards deepening
WHALES national
luxury of bourgeois denocracy day, wUun the while tortess more than it can within South African society as a whole.
The inclusioo or breral white newspaper editor Donald Wood in the list of banned individuals and rumours that the white Ram Daily Mail (which broke Govero ment-suppressed derails or to the autopsy on Steve Bike) would bi sext on the chopping biock, gives a salid foundarion to These fact that
In what troubles the ruling class critics the most in that the
committed the oppressed As the Sunday Express remarked, The Covern ment has virtually ensured that township dissent will be driven
undereround darknes where it will fertient unscen
But not dead
A fearure article elsewhere in the same issue gathers the view
scientists and bistorians to bea our these fears.
Attacking the View [pro-
Minister Vorster) that the Gov ernment is simply replaying the sucersful operations of the curl 6l's, they comment' economic conditions here and abroad are
NICE attitudes South Africa have hardened immeasur any. In back moons lo
cording to some expert also have a broader base suf
baking it "inconceivable" tha their activities will cease. excep perhaps in rbe very short run
Is remains to he seen whether
forthcoming elections. These will he insulated from the Lan Jore or tis argument oy soe
these strategic dilTerences actoally cot across party atonist Party as well as Nationalist well as between it and the leeble Parlia mentary opposinon
Many event it is worth recalling Lenin's Famous Formula
the suffering and the want of th
Classes hav
considerable increase in the act Ivity of the masses and 1. crisis m the oolicy ol the ruline class leading la a fissure through which the indignation of the
The first two conditions have been developing apace through
appears as if the third is starting to assemble itselt.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 3 NovomDer1ST F20811
In Brief
PALESTINE: 2000 demonserated in London last week in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The march from Hye:
Park to the Israel embass supported by the General U ion of Palestinian Students, the Insernational Marxist Group. the Socialist workers Party
and Israeli Socialist organisat1015. 11 3 Boped to use the
lu son up Palestine Solidarity Committee, whase firss cask will he to organise appositon to the im pending visit to israeli Premier Begin to Britain,
Government is to prosecute estate aeents for sellibe bouse
in white-reserved
SAHARA: French Foreign Le sion paratroopers have beer SEEL ME SURED COE HERE EEMI against the Polisario Front, the Sabaran liberation organisat-
YUGOSLAVIA: A senior Party official has announced an amnesty for most political prisoners. He said "We will pardon the big mouths, but we will not pardon criminais and terror-
AUSTRALIA: The British Minister of State for Emerge:
TO STAIR ced his support Ice Australian mining and export of uranium. has condemned his statement as an interference in domestic
SAN SALVADOR: Police kElled at least two people when LE WANCE THE SIR ACIDERstration of coffee-pickers manding higher Last WEEK
ICELAND: The publie socto
rike is over. It is expected tha
pay demands for 30-35 per bent riser with index linking
APOLOGY: Last week renoried that the Cieneral LIn ion of Palestician Students had
declared its opposition to the
fact the GUPS bas not taken any position on
inprecor
Spain
¢ Against
Mobilization
The Firal 100 Diss of The Reign Covemmest
"In the present economic and
KILL HIS TUTTISS polities lead to betrayal even of LUC most elementary interests
cation in practice even of ibe
"minimum programme"." This
Migact Romero in the lalest Isue of Inpresor through ownlisis of the recent Moocios pect berween the Spanish Carcrament and the reformist morkers parties.
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Intera 213 tie Nation 1t Epoch; im Lemie c cumulation, the Regional Pro 1 future GSE wor 110.00-8B1 Hughes or NO RETURN TO THE THIRTIES A benefit for the completion of a film about the Right to Work march 1977, to be held at The Other Cinema on:
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UNION MAIDS By Julia Reichert James Klein (USA). documentary about women organising in the 1930s (45 mins). Plus:
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Also extracts from the Right to Work film, and a speaker.
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meeting.
press.
leaders
attack
unions
Sootland. by REDMOND O'NEILL
ANYONE reuding lest Sunduy's papers coald hinking that the far the Torles sad the Broad Left marching the rights of Jewish against the wet-semitle 'red fascists' of the
TRIBUEIS BERCESU
her the past year, the lirec
plicit support fer Israc and exhibitions
thereby justifying Israci's policy of imperialist expansion.
In their response to chis provocation some of the lef have gose platform to Zionist speakers und cut off fueda to societles suppon me sule
SUSPEND
Al the sume time as making no attempt to open up a debate on the and ism. Che anssered the press witch-hunts im A • thoroughly buresacratie way.
suspend unions which infringe the democratie righti members': Tha could casity re-
by BAVID RAWIS MARIO Munoz Salas, a Chilean DITS SEULE IO CE MOTTAT
detained by immigration officials. at Dover for 13 hours on entry and sent hack across the channel. address the Wolverhampton and District Latin America Solidarity Committee (WDLASC), an invitation which had standing for oearly two months.
Instead he was held for shirteen hours, photocoples were taken of alf documents, Sesters, Argentine and Chile, porentially sensirive in the wrong hands).
the leader Workers' Union of eros" (bibers in the smaller mines who are paid by what they con sell to marketing in turn were in US hands). Under
Cratic Governetent, he crucial mobilisations which led to the workers' taking over several
Fists flew and Pakistani students were told to 'go home' af the School of Oriental and African Studies in London last week. Half a dozen Zionist thugs tried to break up a meeting called by left-wing students to discuss "Zionism and Racism', The speaker, Moshe Machover, had to be escorted home as the attackers hung around after the
REDMOND O'NEH.L and M. JAFAR look af the developments in the National Union of Students and try to dispel some of the confusion generated by the popular
Student
CLAMPDOWN democracy яво forgiven: left Im the and, within the
battle to defend students evolutionary left
constitutions of
lenflets OPEN DEBATE
MUS DE Bu
open debatewhich
cas students
brond question of Zion- conterence.
NUS Executive has booked through
of their London NI.
VILEAIE He had been trying to without
been outperialism and its allies
NETTESSES
Flounder and Interprovincial *Piriquinsorporation Eduardo Matt: agencies, which congress of the Councils.
Christian Demoled the
Zionism & racism -
debate in the NUS
by M. JAFAR scinian masses
who deny a platform to fascists, sult in the suspension of unions faise meetings — the Tories and many of the Broad Left leaders say tha
This is the most serious attuck on the sovereigaty of individust stadent unions since before the left won leadersbip of the NUS In the late 1960s. If it is not stopped at the coming NUS conferenc
could open the door to th sort of diampdown we've see recently in unioas like the teach
when the membership has gone beyond the bureaucracy!
Ce Recet aime ta diet dvice in taking action agains
discussion away from the thorny
Broad Left aims 1o win Jewish support Sor divisive problem of Zionism.
Its crusade to defend fuscists SUR TELSEUR COURTOY und to railroad any discussion on Zonism into a dehate on demo rades de acte rure Party, with their position of deaying Zionists a platform, haise hetped. the Esecutive to du
Our answer to the Executive campaign to defend union democracy and to fight te win NUS to lun strugale through the clearest
Birmingham Polytechnic Students' Union has orgamised = nutional conference on 10 No ember to Inench such a com
Left orgaaisations, overwomen's groups should be spornached for support and delegations for tie *Speakers to debate pro-Zionists or tor oublic meetines cin br
Socialist Students Alliance. Phone Colin Talbot at 01-960 4113, or write to Redmond O'Neill, P.O.Box 50,
Chilean miners' leader held at Dover
of these mines, and subsequently
The Allende Government. of Popular Uaity (LIP) put obstacles
their Chilenn the march were nationalisation
compensacion, under lo press reports at the time, for COURUT
of the UP Cavern arnied if ment from the atlacks of imThe Government tried to head off these mobilizations by selling up an organisation called tbe MPs
Michael Foot Munoz got the so-called Coubcils uoder way by organising the W'DLASC occupatico ol a ibiDe oWocd D the president of the state mining
the millionaire The maurita CrOW day: later, unanimously clected
Rate involved in.
After the coup, the junta sent out an order that Manoz was to photocopies DE SOEC UN SENSEAU
What is Zionism?
Revolutionary socinlists struggle against the Zionist state of Israel
colonial project in the service of imper
aBd continued existence is based on a
cratie rights of the Arab/Pale-
The first is th
vorld Jeany constirutes a natior
ACWINIL workers in Marocca, lor example, have more in common,
ADU CULLE. Bock and Polaed than they here with other Jews in New WILL CECI LEWOW DETOLLER MOL kers. This is despite the fact thar
maccan Jewcy could not c ish Jewry, much lesa be part of the same social fabric
The second premise is that anti-semitismo is an atl-pervasive phenomenon that is, so to speak,
tiles. This is ostensibly proven by MOSHE MACHOVER
also a miner, was hearen to death by troops in front of his family. HER TOS Le TOUTETS into Argentina to contione his work, but after the coup there in
junta's offer to cary out what
counterparts had HERS ER COMORE MIRESECO LE get out of Argentina belped by a world-wide solidarity campaign.
His camdaleus that one of the most distinguished leaders of the Chilean labour movement should
OTILLI. where the Labour Party is in power. In a
including Benn, and Eric Heller, and co the NUM and TOWD, the
underlines that to deny freedom af movement lo DE CANCS I TO TRACE T to add insult at injury. No political exile should be restricted DERe DODE PERICE DE BUS DONC body, in the solidarity work they
The restriction on Muboz must be lifted and the
of the documents taken from him returned
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 3 November 1977 Page 12 two millenia of history stretching from Babylonian times 1o Naz Gerciany. So the Zomist polit projec is gathering this nation ol world Jesty into a territory in the formation of a state that exclusively lewish
The natorious Law of Return'
Zionis constitution. it grant citizenship to an Amencan Jev stepping into the airport at Tel Aviv, while taking it away from the original Arab inhabitants of mained a pipe-dream, had it no This project been foc the social contradiction of late nineteenth century East era Burope. The rise of capital
uprooted millions of Jews from their tradicional occupations, forcing them to Nee to Western Europe.
DECADENCE
The decadence capitalism in the first half of thi
exacer
Jewish refugees from Europe was sharpened by the barriers-to interation into Brit-
n the United Star
Jonism and racism share
tunica premise - cbough 1
ok ar it from different aides consistent Zionise is forced to he
ari-semitism c
The anawer is emigr
n to Palesti
occasions Zionist
rates and etats collat
fostered anti-scmitisnt in ao att-
o7 les total the saperen
in Iraq in the carly 1950s, whici Zionise agents planted bombe in
tainly a form of racialisal.
VENOM
But Zionists are mot fascists. the clonist movement was neve crans eney of allait constituted Jmplacable
anisation and expression. That is why, in the imperialise countrie many confied socialises starlec
For remain, Jelt Zioniats,
The question of union demo Cracs is only secondary in ou
apposition to tbe denlal of
platform to Zionises Socialists
ists theit democratic right to specad their veoom because thei
tbe future of the working cinss and racial minorities. The quest
BUSHENREIN extension or restriction of union democracy to student societie
The Zionists bave led and Tourished on brawing an cquan sign belacen anti-Zionism and anti-sentitison. We must
the lusion that consistent antiZionisma is related to anti
blanket ban on the right of Ziomists in the student movement
against Zioniam itsell we shoul always be willing to debate witl the Zionises and the left Zionists particular expose the crimes of Zionism an the Israeli state.
The NUS should adopt a position that clearly condeains
Israel and Zionisnt, Once such a movement must insist that ins Junds are net abused and channelled to support israel directly.
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socialist aper, In neye lines, whether the drue die
soncerned e in London or
Sheffield or South journalism
soring and stereotyped (although
it can), but because most strug-
les are based on the workplace
nd most industries and services,
meiner rue by private corpor-
ations or by the state,
centrally organised on at least a
basis. The problems
countered by workers will be
be same from
beyond, Iternations
orkers in the same in istry, bur in different towns, will often have more in common than workers in different industries, but side by side in the same city.
Now think about the way leftwing groups are organised. Des pite some brave ON CE 5 AL work-place and industry-based organisation, they are still largely centred on localities. This can be put down partly to the weakness
and marginality of the left — many or our activiste are not themselves involved in the workplace, and there are few industries and services where any socialist organisation is strong enough to have a really viable set-up. But it is also because there are real ties between people in localities. Outside work people's lives revolve around connections which are mainly local - family and friends, pubs and clubs, sports and volantary activities. Reflecting this, many activists see the local ties as the Importaat ones - through the Trades Council or the Labour Party, rather than the national
Now go one step further. Ask say about all this? Marxists have always had a great deal to say about the geoeral, national theories have reflected the cenand governments are orginised We have had a lot of ideas about capitalism. Imperialiem, the stale, the ruline class, the trade union bureaucracy — all these general realities.
We have even, in recent years, had quite a bit to say about 'the family" in general terms, even though it is not centrally org anised in quite the same way. But we have produced little to explain
One could almost conclude that Marxists regard che places in which people Live as irrelevant, and any particular attacaments to incm, wheiher socially or politically, or through romantic nonsense, the products
Problems have arisen in recent wears for these soris of Marxisi perspective. In the first place, there was a phase, in the 1960s, when industriad struggles were impatient of the central union parcaucracies - IE CLACO highly localised, This phase was, beginning of the 1970s, when strikes became longer, more dirficult, more national and more often political. But it still left a more lively, grass-roots. shopMoor organisation in the local. ities.
Some groups on the left saw the end of this phase as indication of the need not just for mere centralised organisation by soc ialists, hut ultimately for a highty one-sided caricature OTЯ CHI tralised command structure. What they ignored were a numher of other trends which were quite central to the modern class struggie. Firstly there were the contradictions of a period of more contraasca and policess induscrial struggle. On the one hand, a successful generalisation of the industrial strugale requires
struggle, a broad politiciaation of the struggle at ils roots, which brings in ail the other social Issues to rein
SURPLUS VALUE
force the narrowiy ones. On the other hand, the lack of success in generalised, natIonal struggles - which is what we have been faced with since 1974 — forces workers back to
dimension of the struggie remains very important.
econdly, however, there an
new forms of struggle inberently more local in nature. On the one hand, movement are necessarily dec entralised, The strugcle are
directly, so fragmented th
urse, it does involve a who
ries of issues, economic, soci and and political, which ally. Then the sonen do bewerten e
concerned with consumption facilities and services, means that their struggles do centralised pattern. And finallly they are often relatively marginal to be less involved in centralised ивов вашус Lan maci, and relate their interests more to other worden's struggles al a local level.
Apart from struggles which are specifically women's there are bowever cinss struggles over suca things as housing. social services and transport tacilities, recreational amenities. etc., which tend to be localised in nature. They are local struggles partly because they concern all, or many, of the working people in a given locality as "consumers" ar users of the same 'product or Tacility, They are local because, despite the fact that national policy usually diciates 90 per cent of what a local council can do, the immense size of the local authorities and the range of activities they control give them a new Importance as the mediate coens in many struggles. and 'THE URBAN QUESTION'
What we need now is an understanding of the trends which 1 have just described: an explanation of the importance of local strupales. with our understanding of capitalisen and dass struggle as a whole, So far, as 1 have said Marst theory has produced fittle reflection on this subject.
Marxist tboory has indeed speot much of the last thirty years tryg to catch wp. so to speak, with the changes in capitalism -identifying and explaining the new features sănce the second world war. But most writing has been concerned with the processes of capitalist accumulation, and with the trends towards even greater centralisation which have been Involved. Attention bas been focussed on concentration of capital in larger and larger units - the multi-national corporation for example — and the crucial role of states in vastly expanding their spending and in 'plannins' ahole cconomies. In Terms ortne analysis, any interest in
SOIE The women's movement was vitally importans in pinpointing what it was, in theoretical terms, which was missing. This is not to say that other issues welfare -LiC EINEIT D higher education (which was posed by the srudent moscanent) — had not began to suggest the question. Hat whar the women's movement did, by forcing Marxista lo look at the amis and what women did in the bome, was to bring to the fore the missing dimension. This was the insportance of the way in which tbe workforce is developed and maintained for the system's use In Marxist terras, this was the issue of the reprodaction of labour power.
Women's "donnestle labour is in fact the oldest, most basic and most neglected component of the processes by which labour power
sectional initia-
industrial
which are
many of the women's
OVer
many
not fit a
because education,
1oo, is reproduced. It had been taken for granted for generations. But in modern capitalism, increasingly complemented by. combined with extent replaced by other processes - Indeed it is bighty arguable that the new wocertainty in the status of domestic labour was responsible for making it problematic, reproduction of labour power in modern capitalism is increasingly not just a question national of isolated women in individual
families, but a collective matter. the "Reproduction' is socialised parily by DeIne laken capitalist firms, becoming Ene ousiness state, on bebalf of the system as a whole.
Bur what has this got to do the with the role of localities modern capitalism and its class struggle? This is where a very book by Marxist, The Urben Question by Manuel Castells (Arnold E5.95), in. Castells started from within the tradition of the "urban social sciences", the large body of assunes that there is a separate "urban' social reality which can be analysed by special concepts.
Castells agreed that tbere were important problemis ban crisis' for example - but he did not accept either "tbe moralistic or integrationist occupations of the old urban sociology or che perspective of the new urban
A missing
dimension
Politics and Class Struggle
in the localities
by Martin Shaw
political science',
was
sote
labour power*
with modern urban areas, not, lor example, plain cities in ancient or eval societies which unty by bur mainly capitalism, OL Ine GITTOUTEN
in
out
academie work which
vice versa
from the pre- France —
technocratic
Fram the terms,
that as such. this brocess
from Instead be looked in the Marxist tradition for what explained the realities main described as urban"', and decided that cities or urban areas were above all defined as units based on "collective consumption'
They were "residential units of
Community
Castells is obviously dealing
and is trying to medi based on administrative-political and commercial activities. Tnis clas ical "city, he argues, was actu detail.
which created more the mately the great metropolitan regions of today. And although industry may have been tied, in ils early phases, by specific res materials to apecific locations, the nature of modern technolog and communications means chat there are generally few narural or with technical limits in industrial lo-
Manpower appears a the fundamental constraint of modern industry". It is the avaitability of labour power, and of the infrastructure which produces it, which ties industry to existing urban areas, rather tbab larger
From all this theorisin backed up by detailed studie
United States and • Castells concludes that the realicies of space, le the organisation of urban arcas or borough Bocalities in general, are not so
semiticant in terms of thi
economic system as a whole'.
point of new bi
property relations or techno-
logical relatioos, Marxist theor-
Ists may well have been right to
emphasise centralising tendencies
and to ignore the structuring of
localities. But from the point of
view of the reproduction of
labour power, "ciries" or "urban
as they can be defined in social
- are basically units in the
labour power, just as factories
of commodity production. The
city, urban area or region, is the
level at which the housing
education, bealth, transport, dis-
tribution of consumer goods,
etc., are organised in spatial
Ofcourse, Castells is aware that not all the actvities connected
with urban areas fall under this
heading, just as not everyching
goes 00 in factory -Production log the factory also helps to
reproduce the dominant social
relations). But be thinks be has picked out what is crucial to cities, or "sperial units" generally.
From this definition of che urban", Casrells can move on to define the nature of "urban politics'. This centres first of all on 'urban planning", which he seea as an interventioo of the political, i.e. che stare, in the
of reproduction of labour
The ams of this he further defines as those of assurille lurtber recroduction and the Interests of the dominant class in
Secondly, he defines turban social movements' as movements deriving both from general and
"urban' social relations, which tend towards changing either the urhan system or the general power relations in so-
ciety. While urhan planning is a fairly obvicus reality, the iden of "urban struggles can. Castells recognises, suggest & faise unity between struggles relating to diverse economie and social 15s wes. He sees them rather as a series Di struggles relatine to "secondary structural issues' (i.e. issues which are secondary to the main structural conflict between capital and labour in produc tion), which can however become
parclculer point in time.
'THE LOCAL STATE
One question which Castells does not deal with specifically is the nature of "the local scate", the
which the state intervenes in the process of 'collective consumption. English
EleC socialist writers have, bowever begun to focus on this. There was an excellent pampblet from the
Development Project. Local Government Becomes Rig Business by Jobn Beningron Now Cynthia Cockburn has written a full-length study, The Local State: Management of Cities and People (Pluto €2.95), which takes up this question in some
Local government conjures up
image of something vers
parish LUT. hall' — in the minds of most people, and many on the far left have been all too glad to evade thinking about it But in face it has become very big business,
Lib spending increasing even Faster chan the state's as a whole. The tighter beatral gor. ernment control over its finances tellects its enhanced role, rather than a decline. One aspect of this has beco the roorganisation into
units. Another, which Cockbarn analyses, is the de velopment of new, more centrai ised, management structures, based on the ideology of corpo rate management' adapted from private industry-
Local gavernment, at district/
кОртУ тедОю level, is not the sole represent
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 3 November 1977 Page 13
since there are numerous direc
government departments ete. ities But it ls the specifically local component of the naticaa state — the 'localstate". Cockhurn extends Castell's by pointing out hoa the local stare netos to reproduce the socia relations of production as well as the actual labour power of the workers. It is because of this, she points out, that the local state defines its popalation largely in terms of "families" ratber than mariouais, sod Enat more ollet than bot it deals with the woman,
COMMUNITY ACTION OR CLASS STRUGGLE?
The point of this analysis is to show (as Cockburn does in much more detail! that the commun ¡ty' approach is actually a part of the new "corporate management' proces of the local state. In addition, Cockburn several rensons for rejecting the idea of 'communicy action" In the struggle agninse the local state: I accepts a territorial, rather than social, definition, of the forces in conflict; it is tied up with a purely "consumer" approach; it is all too often defined in classless terms; and it is all too casily taken over by reformist parties for electoral purposes.
The alternative is to see the local class struggle, the fight againse the local state, as part of
the strugale in the field of capitalist reproduction'. This tie tagether the action of the usen of bousing, health and orher wich tbat of workers employed by che struggles, first with the struggles ot wonco in le home and second with the workplace strug gle — to the extent that workers ane seeing facilities outside work as relevant,
"For years,' Cockbura asserta "revolutionary parties of the let have reglected all forms action but those of the inctory Noor: because in the employer you come up against the real class enemy, directly, in person Not only is this crude (she adds). It is wrong. Whetber or not wha she says is completely true, as in practice tbe lett has increasingly related to areas of struzgle away tram the factory floor, it is certainly correct tbat our theory
DOE really reflected this change. "Industrial strugrie in the key industries is still the heart of the labour moveisent and will remain so, ' as Cockburit maintains, But acrion over services, by working peopie as nsers of thei, and local state workers- for whom the kind of ich they do affects the way they struggle is an increasingly vital
SOCIALIST UNITY AND LOCAL POLITICS
The Labour Party is so involv ed in the local sate that any reliance on its councillors in the struggle is, as Cockburn shows in che case of Lambeth, a ver wangerous business. Even th individual left-wing back beocher, however good his or her intentions, is - apart from being
subject to the pressures of the group machine. The ЧРЕ CO BISS LOU ДОТ ТО Cockburn) of how a new socialist strugale in the field of repro duction, can relate to the different kinds of strugale which are taking place and to the broces ses of local electoral democracs. One thing is certain: Socialist Unity's interventions in local cloctions must not be seen In real commitment to class struggle.
he Urban Queetion by Manu Castelle, €5.95, Armol
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Wanted in draft aims: the young and the old
COMMENT
Thanks!
THANK YOU for the transcript of Su Richard Dobson's speech Responsibility for enforcing the anti-racial incitemant provisions
Working
class
by-passed
First-rate
I WAS half asieep on a bus when (read of Dobson's remarks in the moring paper. As soon es POU-OE bought e CODy of
Oclas nserte nawa new read if befare, but the revel atona were terrilie - first-rate Journalism.
I wonder how many of these hink like Dobson: How abou
eorge Brown and Woodrow vyatr? irs a pity these acum
ant be recorded wher they've
Swine, gorging henseles on the woelth we
t appalle me to mink tha at the stroke of a per, animals like Dobson can destroy jobs and communities. His TM8IC-
him much. Ha should have to
The story was greet, bur/ ber you wont get any awards for It. Keep up the good work TOM NUTTALL (Leeds 6)
Socialist
Challenge
EVENTS
HOME COUNTIES
BASINGSTOKE a Chase House
SCOTLAND SOUTH/WEST
,Tourin Tuesday af the me bol213 Pate, Horsly R
Seree, tott argyo Siret), Sourieds
LONDON
of the Public Order Act rests
with the Commission te im
wish te Aomey wonoral no
therafore sending on
Atomey General your latte
enclosures with a copy of thi
DAVID LANE (Chairperson, Com
niesion for Racial Equality
TARIQ ALl's pursult of publicity
WHE TIH
completely by-passed the work
speech. II has served amy the Dobson
A OrOS-a or inG
Moralite coul eng the o hene ore
played direcily into the hands of
thw moo moararnasuo
altockine
In myopinion, bafore the presa
aign should have been
vanned and built up that would
and breedth of the labour move-
mant in the call for Dobson's
and. Representatives of ail those
DEUDIC
HINCKCO OV POOsOn SPOU 104
Deen invorved: Including repre
committee, the Arab states, and
NVaTSOO nOL SErOs.
Those who were not prepared fo campaign posed by SC. The identity of the
TOEV DORO GARU DROGR IMRANTJE
secretas//servedfoactonlyas a
diversion in the hands of the
course, the
rach or wu mowg ro oocieila
Challenge and Tara Alf would
have been a great deal inss. Bu
ar weight such a campaign could
лао пад ілоглаполалу, woug
this have been such a disaster?
JUDY BARKER (St Pancras North Labour Party)
EAST ANGLIA
COLCHESTER Socialist Chelle
an Poete s, epi Reo 3520
Her MiRo al ir Angina
aad, Whenho DOmacE YORKSHIRE
IDDERSFIELD Socialist C
Trios ti epate Huse ere
MIDLANDS
ICESTER Socinis NORTH WEST
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18 083 183 thon pe JN INE ISI MAMETWI
truck by iwo omissions fror ythe drast tate Heroit onary VILS-II worD-nO CHINTHI CHN OTRA DHEEOWO
ing class youth and old age
CI-OCEIUT 1050C01 CHNUIS SE TSE SOCIStN clutionaries are far from farent to the struggles of these sections of the working class.
The cuts in housing provision, health care, and social services together with tho dociine in the real value of State pensions have
VIC 007 0B7 CESICI
HUTS DIEINEIAUTKHSR douanetow cacao cases oo conte from hyperthermia will once
DOOM BR VESU DEANE NONS few hapless individuals, rather than extreme examples of the general social isaiation of netins
Be moir to enha oh el
importance work on no pay rather than face the lonelinass day on her own
Adverte featuring bikini clad VOUnE WEMOnLUAO sexist; thay ancourage any leel Ings of Inadequacy people have been driven into
Blackburn replies
IN HIS review of Revolution and Crass Stuggie: a Marxist. Pollics, Marlin Shaw has iwo criticisms to mako oi m'
points out that I did not include
ante cantilen erie y boe
DOSU
the "classical' Marxist politionl СОЛОН НЕ МАНі АЯ883591 which critically 2D3CU05 C00 ISI01
ine partisans or state capitalsm sintiding of world poplin he unfolding world such decisive
TolUEen. ana te incocmede
revolution because they deny the
contradictory character of the
Soviet Union
Thus Ernest Mandel's crucia laxt PaRcelul Co-nxistonco anc ora HOOULOn UnHe coherent analysis of the Soviet
rola in warld polltice in striking contrast-10 The
nom ona Cunan5on0H writinga of the Socialist tradition. 1 also believe
anatys af 51
focuses unduly on the 65317518 Poonamo cimenaion to gnar
or underplay its pecullarly re-
presten poitie ee coletl
Nuclear
power
position oni this sasue.
Info
Hing Man
Basis for Revolutionary
BERICH
SENSUAE UR
ae a s inie realie
the same oclalist Challeng
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major consequences Sociy a concomco.
mine. is
of spending all at. the Conservative
thal
rightly StreSsE.
duce the
on factions.
in in invariably
Lenary arauco
which David iccers SaCHSE
with lexis of 15 documents
Had in 196 the Cuban
TaCTIC" COTS
neglect or Labour government NE ПАНОПЯ force the making. No COUnt can bo
avance o1 his approch ROBIN London)
Hierer,
Thing on the cusanor
BEREDE
Betish Doemm
wanted 5a
WOTER. workers do not have an mediat oir prodean to he reckon that a part of the struggle TOE SORTIEST WH GR TO RHaUn
(EISSS control of State financed 'socia
the potential role of oid people is fer from Insig
RANA SLOn OSOUSOns Toro moralistic and face-saving rhet
of the likes of Jack Jones
Even the most cursory look at
урит посвіна тат ола огов
onontcon -UnIC revolutionary organisation must be that of guiding their potentia
leavers are left on the SHUI HERHUI ITTOE HULOU- HIRO get a stocking-filler job with the
as tar as succeeding in capitallst
-young
WILLIAM WHITELAWS spoec
lerenca urging the Govermen -lo heat (he nolleo ss n soocss CONO UNGAE TOR DOR RUmMIr tava.reca/ved.itlecommait in
•orce - SIH COHLICH conditions which helped to pro
ascendancy of Salin and which Stalinism Itself later sacananaca -iraauaoidabıan O SOvIO GEmOLrean IRE Dan
NASHEEOTH
inprat ty rugi eit sala
dãng arous implications for revolu
Osen Ties renTren! analysis of Stalinism in Revolu-
and Class Struggle with that readily avRilable phona of Penguin, GOT BIE ation ano the Pluto Press sarles
The second criticiam made b Martin Shaw was that the article
COTY INCIDE IN TOR MARDOE WR. somewhet out ot date articie was indeed tirst publish
but analysis of Labouriam has yet t0 LE DSLTe A DEELCON YuEUH UI Nain's text la that It does not explain the mass influence of
in Britain In purely aconomic terms (tho labour aris
burrate
To doubt Naima 2a- -PRINT correctad c red ban hun hit ng commentar
the originality and contemporary tel
WOIS SUNC BLACKBURN (Centra wno BElendec
exoopt fat Annal related ba Scaram/s custimony to the Wind-
-SNas ut Chat lbçer hon not putlisned any meant b
amounled to
tants.
Interesting,
BEE
of , wages
TAM WORKING ora book br he
Into based within aection pr echjet, to concarron
ND and Cor mitten of 11
vantion
AXS TAYLOR Erecte. s
hater/o Avenup Moriag Loede
workers have 'no future'. At 16 they don't aven get the bour geois democratic right of the
vote to register their opinior
have precipitaled this staba ana T Te sore Dr tas rostO! C WONK NO CIRNS establishment politica fi.e. soc lal democracy) glane at us the Intansity of the neon lights coverains mc tarcat punn toc
The virtual collapse of the Young Communist League ano
ЗАПИНИ ВИЛО МАЛУ МАМОНЕ О ine Labour Pary Young scola ists show the neod to build a
socialist CUSHIO AHUA IOS I SAMAIA WOLME helped considerably by Inform ative aspects of youth work from LOP DOLErC
Coppers on the breadline
Stan and Socia lat Woper fai substantial pay rocroases for Shin police. think Socialis, wls tenge shaula champign the onposition te this blind, icon
cauding a mines brodes fram the
The Sistes abil le proleet Inseinis de at Hyde te containi picketi is weekored by-thie. Just this mixed roception from the draw Later on that same day a pu
cammed full ol miners denie and othet pickets spor
Lewin потя yon ouma
CDLM weaknesses
THE REPORT by John Ross I
as1 woek's Socialist Chaileng
N INC LEIDUE MONTERT EO ference chaoses to omit an
on crucial weak nesses of that conference whic
obvious to at least a Bec ion of the socialist mililants
Firat, a greal dest of time was given over to reports on various
now io oneuRO SnoRre! on which the conference was
give a leac Indeed contribution: little -UTHE
volle ThEOR may
ship that is needed to launch a successful fignt against the Social Contract
beconols. Ine astu Coni Te ain ahernale prooramme centred around the sliding scale hanging in the air with no left entirely moncuc popss on te mesi
to begin lo organisa miltants hightinghe unions
organisations which can aclually turr such a pro
on tha company's corporate bar
IaTRO SCHO MIsrE rinted in part in the same issue
Socialist Challengei.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 3 November 1977 Page 14 vanced capitalist countries.
Fighting the super
and retinod worcers neede to be HL raO HO T DaE dIns aha noc juet by cocina aaism Ine long ist or the The existing mem K-HISIN-D
predominantly in their 20
NOLEnS-SCIOLn We Cur ar TIS OETH ressons for the
revolution: left, we should also note tha
couri, ot ie rovarusonar or
discouragas WANKEN D other age groupe from effective
opportunity if a new organis fuller OTERO discussian WIRDUS ot these MUCI questiers ANDY HIGGINBOTTOM (Bristo coaches passep apistie
role ol, pur poll Chại) oghct surte Suel ruga
police were ail on strik
stroels.
PAVL BROBKE (Manphen) central question tacing Leyland warkers haw to united respanse 10 comp any's centrali sec attacks MuC n MC SnOD aCura: momen wo not anver.
Insload the ineflet merely te affirmec the nend for plani-by plant bargalning which has proved singulariy incheoth In ned ent delending the position of Leylanc warkers. No
for uniting such as through WAIHETIN SOO SLUWEN CRONI nectan ot paed leec nections of the leatiet.
Implles the imminent abolitior of the shap stewards movemen In CUVIE SIE OSS DIO-IRAN tions 1o the present shuation
and represent a catastrophis
of the ant-back likely to be suftered at a result of the ballot
ores thet the GDLA conference
talied to provide any real lead 1 IHBCATECE -COASE O BIlE rH National Rank-and-Fle Conlerence. At the level The вота of огов necessary 16 actice to assembl turn the rice againsl the trade union burnaucracy and the Leb aur Government it provided nu
Snevena Cha hange spectr iha
VoT nOSS THone noca
ome ef these problem:
GHN GRAHAM (Binsincha AUEWE PATA/CK
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Very funny, but there's no real targets
about Fellini to his unlucky companion.
thought TV
against this jerk. So the asshole starts to argue.
After all, he's a lecturer in Communications at Columbia, and he reckons his 'insights into McLuhan are of some value
Bullshit, retorts Singer, ate your interpretation or bis wark. An interpretation
And zap! Into the real lobby -SHES IIE TEaVarna McLuhan himself creds to upbraid the pretentiou POE TO misunderstanding The Global Villege
Scenes like these have made Annie Hall a big grosser in the
-over 9 million dollars so far, more than most of his carbier
Eu silalees
bere; but when Hail was a hit al
United Artists not only changed their mind about releasing it, but
CORCEICE TOTTE campaign and opened it simultancously at five London cine-
Hall is Allen's Alice B. Toklas, the subject is not so much the
COMMENT
soul
PETER FULLER'S review of 1h0
exhibition BritIsh painting 1952-77 has proved IwO 1o mo a and Besicne wnO CEAS amount of work for the left. For
marvelled over
Ta. every tam or inr ton or a leaflet have equal prominence: the unleeling massacre of brilliinthe very list issue or ciatat by Steadman, LTa Hr bE This seams to be based on a
ratusal to believe that the major part of the procesa of perception
aspect of a design (good
•ASSUERO CRAMAaUE CEET
This much l've known for a
What sand wat could keep up this altilude while IN3 SEUEUA SEISHCSBHEH lem which poo a doris g ser-
advertising
packaging: But also the idea
my Prauua!
ToDom eTe T menES be bought through commodity
aee the light. The clue is
in Fuller's choice of the painting
IS OH
WHatS WrOnG WHh TECCNTSE
This painting is unusua
cause it can be read' almost
нке: tike a HUCS VICONHELAHHG PEA SOC AIST HOAHST Onr. Though Socialist Challenge reproduced
Fuller leit obliged as he
UNOCCatS CaUCEOUn"
ues of post-war British culture'.
and so
not going to latch on to the flaws in tniB reading le.g. why British culture? - Eivis and NOTOR WHIS AIRNLAI, TAH IIE and the car are German)..
ecause 1 dont like the
much myselt. But what 1 ti
the WALT. inst tM painting is ireaico as typical or
1s type and. secondly the way can be read' on the basis of its
UNDER REVIEW
Mandy Merck reviews 'Annie Hall'
ALVY SINGER (Woody Allen) and Annie Hail (Diane Keaton) are standing in line at an art cinema to catch Ophuls' Sorrow and the Pity for about the millionth time, when this asshole behind them starts pontificating
When he's finished with Fellini, it's why McLuhan
was an intense medium. Finally, the exasperated Singer steps into close-up to appeal to the audience of Anme Hall - the film we re watching
Iero s roDiarky with let, 35 AIV himself — a Brooklyn-born Jewish lad who grows up to become a LAOLOLN
denittedly, Anie is Tunni than most ICE & OECYIO films — -except Ser which was extremely funny, hut also extremely disconcerting Everyone 1 know is quot hich a ticle girl, speaking of the schoolroom scene herself 30 years later, declares "I'm into leather* That - and the unconscious delighted anti-semitism WITSI MIC SRI 2955D appailed Alvy: would say you're a ren Jew brought down the house night 1 went. Nonetbelest, riskwrath pretenticus prolessor, l'd ake 1a raise a few questions about the
Alvy Singer is obsessed with осата, д ральшаг дос оспосин murder of the Jews, Life, like romance, he points out, is paintul yet too short. You often can't
Art critics need
-Superici Ciments On the first point: Mosalkhlid though it us es a phota-realist painting style. I8 In CaLOT TdONOn CODATENS CHEM CONECUNUOUI juat so lar aa it's e celebration of consumer values,
ly or not! first made so well: the CHESDIO55 SIO ПАНТОПНЯПА ЯРІКИРИЯИНЯ: of the visual form those values had taken, PET Pop a or more typical would uncaver the lave-hate relIOCSHIE WAR CONSU TOr SICl ety.
This the Bink second point: it seama Fuller's approsch to all painting is to try TO Ha IS oocmica InInT. Tu TARCOC SOCRiISE needs to be told that a painting which is a single sheet of black try : That thare s no way lt coa 'mention соп паин. amonan wHICr we sue tha world' is all the same proposition. cause to objects labelled 'art' is a new скрепапов Iridy reroiulirie s ler the eeling for the core of the artiel's
stand iy put rou ooart wanti 10 end. The obje of Annw Hall seems to be consolation about 35135 and for us Hut this expressly Litude is, Siterallv tatalstic. Yoi can't challenge mortality in the elegy, only transcend it by pro
Nation heaven, of the natural world, the eventual
whatever And while 1 am COINO MIER PEERS CO0 E4 iot share his view of soci: relations. Paietul or not, OSUUUO VE DCICEOSEASRE TO lations under patriarchy aren't 'natural', Thes inevitable or immutable thar anti-semicism This isn't, however, something and even
Allen continually refases to poini the camera at any the anti-semites snorting record execs, the Hollyvood hedonists, and Professor Fone, are tar tre sacre boe how The audience is 'Grammy Hall CЛENA.
From any blame or exhortation to struggle, any all, Isu't the the Meluban episode to simultan cously Matter us, by showing that
and at the same time relieve our antiety about no understanding SCENEWDE UnEaAHE theories?
And isn't it more comfortable to view a conflict of the sexes in Mosalkblid No 1 (1974], Dy Peter Phillips: "Love-hate reistionshi
motivation, which is sell-incugonce... Oily the positive plessures of creation can mora or less the dec
InconsoIousIy WOnUco Ia suaof Arnericar tietiea
statement.
It misses the E anies duan
the necussity for visual truthfulness G SOOSOOIHEN
4 happen et Trom итв to тиле great art has pursult af this mpossible sionism): but it has LUCCO LOGBUSO IS ВПИЬСЬ E несін заЛиВ because of their Historic Mis
Cras Laon Trataky put it in his
with The
addrese which FOUnii GONTNE7CH Fourth acience do not find their funda
Quite 10Tbt Sstaens 191561a
Dan Intari NWS ORT En conscicualy serves social deverPoete,
only
tora, musiciens, will themselves
the masses clouds of scepticism simism which darkon humanity's
elegaic at-
the continuity
the pretly even?
ULILEAEBEU are ATOS OI
SLITL .
anti-naturalistic
real targets: like the coke effectively conservative
SUETCIR.
continuaily
discomfort, After of CITO. • TE
igware, Scree
Hext yeor. horizon todey.
of a complex visual
COMMENT considers
bean made technically goal (e-g. impres CoCIal
idee, not erature. The
GOLIIOU
International: Ait and ORUTH nature through patrons
Crealve dolivily has ita
cia Lloyds Bank artieta, sculp Square, Londen SWT PERRY MOVAMIRRE GAnT. dissipates the SRIC and nes JOHNSTONE.
DIANE KEATON and WOODY ALLEN
which the odds, for once, are
supremacy can hardly be a really
since the TONTLSE ANUNC spectacled, but cute and senParadonically: simi Alle's
techniques (split-screen, subtitles, diCLE AAOTESS TO BEE CUMET ETE
flattering us that we're watching hip
while never doing sel fair to what these devices cun dor revcal Fim as an ideological productior itself, not a window on Bf Eackudi.
in why did Alleo subtitle hi
- Leicester Gree, (slingzon: Odeon, Swis Cortag
the paper. film will be showing in saburban London and the provinces curly
the past six
promotion in tion.
sectors
Mea nitors
led by HUDSON PAGE (Loodon SWIs)
Deutscher Prize THE UNDERSIGNED membars of the Jury of the lsaec DeutSCOUTEO RCHR WISIN to the va ue ol eP his 19s
to thued lo s. Pro er Toren
book Karl Marx and morid Lir
Professor of German Language
of xteratune at the Univerity
The prize for 1978 will awarded in the aulumn of 1978 and a jury drawn from among the
will be glad to con-
be submitlod by next May to The COOC DEUTSCRUrMHDOSPrEH
88 Warwick
ANDERSON E.H.
TAMARA DEUTSCHER HUSSEA SH BAND, TOVAN NESLAR SILI RALPH
Launching a paper
with a difference
'EGIN" in Basque means io do or to muke'. It is abo the asm HaMewI SUaLICO DUSULE alaily, which enem before it come out on she streets last moeth was
LEKE HN fascist competitors huck into the gutter.
FRED FAIRBURN reports from
hundred people beard rwo intro ducions. briel and to lbe point before going on to ask question
discuss how they could support, build, and participate in
It was a scene that has heen
village of Spanish Buzkadi ove she per aulined the chier dim montlis: finst of the paper the defence and
of Euzkad rational reality, and of Eusker (Basque) as the national language: opposition to all forms of HOL SUI BEACH8 SH AI he provisicn of a Forum lor a political currents.
The second speaker, who spok
Spanish since th paper bilingual, went straight on to th organisational nuts and bolts This is what really sets the pape apart. and niaces it in a recen tradition of working class control Portu get and faly. Emsio ie media inanced by populi subscrip-
throueh 'participatic
onds' (a maximum of fifr El3 cacht. Its contents will b provided hy a network of locs abd industrial even po thaise with priority given •thase
in strugale, and these networks will elect regional co-
CATE U VUr I tandem with the ournatisc staff. The paper will be contro
assemblies af bond holders and participants.
EUSKARAZ ZER? HONA GURE HITZA:
EGUNORO ERABILTZEA. 01&X
egin
A street poster for Egin: No mere co-operative
TH-OTHER-CINEMA
25 Tottenham Street, London W1. Tel: 637 9306
BIRTH and THE CHICAGO MATERNITY CENTRE STORY.
O SINUO oM ouluOil o ooone Coo0 Duau DLu?
CMD T HIL SURUMA-SU KI LOR UMARUD DUCIRW HUHs
AT 200/4.15/6.30/8.45 weekdays (no matinee Set and Sunday; not
showipg Now 1-9).
Plus one acreening only of CONTINUAR A VIVAR [Living On] Sun Noe 6 pm. Now Ilim from Portugal about the Impaot of the fascist averthrow flahing willage. orgeriaed by the Porluguese Workers Co-ordinating
Commities.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 3 Novembor 1977 Page 15 "Did he know somathing about te queces?
Egin was not conjured up oul of a vacuum, bur stands in the tradition of popular working class opposition to Spain's bour
Popular boscotts last sear reduced a Pamplon Chiry core shile simtar se daily's circulation to tions koocked a third off a Sar
sete the capors had bolted T
fright over the French borde And the combative Rasques had
co-operative
But Egin is no mere oo-oper stive. It was alreade well know in advance of its first editice
present throug broadsheetsbn every major demonstration sinice March. Theye have rnised over E17am since th SLaL BEK IEs SaaL Du the cuphoria surrounding the paper was quietly levelled by one staff reporter 1 spoke to, pointed 1a the bontradiction berween what se want to do, anc what is possible". They hau march stolen on them by Deia (The Call), which y with similar slogans and forma: and am instant E3m from the Basque Nationalist Party W8S the streets by the June general clection.
Egin will he costly to maintain fascis e cmi nt ns le fascist bomb altack Barcelona satiricai weekly TAS STE HTE BINA SEDrO ecutions of jouralists so far this year clearly show. Epin's Turure is tied uo with the future of thi radical nationalist left → whese populisit and fear of definition it Snes e L W Rs Oveu Cuan into a eap in the provision and gathering of information, and will proside the Hasoue mas movernent witlt & vital Torum for dehate.
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Lobby to keep hospital open: 9 November Hound the Hounslow body snatchers
been called on 9 November by Hounslow Hospital. The resolution community health council
David Ennals, the
CARL BRECKER, Occupation Committee, told Socialist Challenge: becanise Ennals has made this "The focus on the DHSS ridiculous statement condoning
Hounslow Hospital when they carried out the raid to remove the patients.
the labour movemeat as a whole.
But focusing attention on Ennals must not pull too many people away from the lobby of the arca health authonity.
*Pressure needs to be main ained on the authority because they can make a mockery of the resolutions being discussed. The thority could try and find a
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Address
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Government's social minister, will also be lobbied at his department's offices at Elephant and Castle in South London the same day.
chairperson of the
formula to get themselves off the 10ok such as saying Hourslow will be re-opecied is mart dill ext year's plans; no dates, n ime limits, n guarantees. It is in A 1000S eep the pressure on them The lobby is being supported by Le pub emper London, which has finally made the occupation official ute 9 November NEPE Isa.so committed to defending the staff against dismissal. on 5 November Hounslow workers - supporter by the work-ins at the EGA
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Give Healey's Tax Rebate To Your Paper!
So Denis Henley has decided to give everybody a small Christmas precial word. Havine beat the word, Healey mait Class hand, gesture with his left. We all need help in the battle against inflation and slandards. bul Socion Char lenge needs it more than most. To see the new year your paper must boost its income by EINK from the fund drive. came into our coffers short after four weeks. So wha can be done about it? ocal supporters groups could follow the exampics of Oxford and South London. The Oxford Socialist organised a nember of fundrais10.00 ing events, ison and hock sal Sinthe
10. LE been our most consistent fund
raisers, Our south London supporter organised a sponsored swim in the local baths EI00 is on the way. One intrepid swimmer stroked his way to E50 a simple but effective way to help.
Published by Relgocrest Lid. Jor Socialiss Challenge,
are holding a labour
conference
people
We will
not happen to
he obtained
Challenge correspon
fundraising items: the CHUTPHEE
small being which they
Christmas presents. with his right While our ruling class what chastened
and
droppine
(362.98 reality is sadly different. $237.02
This
Challenge Group has muebhi,
latest was
sending in nearly E100,
portation.
They inform un
Riding the
setting, design,
15p Were appreciate the
sary.
(state amount)
Signed
Name
Address
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WOMENS
CHOICE
NOT
DOCTORS
CHOICE
And why not buy and sell our
Socialist thanks
forthcoming Russian Revolution souvenir issue? Both will help
make excellent
TEECENT by Dobson's nasty departure from Leyear:
no doubt frisking dinner puests, chautteurs, and
have convinced itself that Socia i Challenge is armed with all HENCE DISCLITOO SHONEL. LID
To be honest, we are anxious to
LOE BOOSE essentials of our techmological
Air our checklist a radio, TV, tape recorder Des we've got one, but it's not up to
typewriters fours and all paper, af other office paraphernalia. If you have any of
и герол bring them to our affice, or let us know und well acrange trans-
From the foregoing you will appreciate that we are not exactl
crest of capitalism's crisis. In fact, inflation has lifted all our costs — including type
and printing bills -and it is for this reason that we are obliged to increase our cover
our renders economics that make this unfortunately neces
from my tax rebate due at the end
November 1977 to Socialist Challenge.
Retum to: Socialist Challenge, 328 Upper Street, London
White trom
Finally, all our supporters
to the "penerosity of
helping hand. Show your con tempt for the tax handous and put
to Sorialsy Challenge. If only 500 readers donated the
another E10,000!
On this page we have printed a plodee Tone tor your tax re
Blitz on London's
health
Tace an econonile hitz. bifuls une intended for closune ol relocation hy 1986, accurding ke
J5 prepared tor National Union of Public Em
The Labour Government's cuts sill mean 20.000 fewer beds in London alone, and 24,000 fewer staff in the London region dan in 1975, the report sass
Health Minister David Ennal:
would never approve a closure if the case for keeping it open is Stone enough. What rubbish The case against hospitni closure could hardly be stronger.
In the past three vears th Labour Goverument has cinsec 123 bospitals in Britain and dozens more are in the pipeline.
.. (your namel pledge to give E..
SIX THOUSAND demonstrated
the largest pro-abortion march
sonn in Britain autside
and of a week in which the Labour Goverment committed
abortion rights.
At a secret meeting on 25 Dotober. Health Minister Roland Moyle brought togelher MPs to plan new atlacka on abortion. Most of the pro-abortion MPS D the Benyon Bill Committee were nat Invited. But anti-abortionists WHIH HIH IN CH Benyon, Leo Abse and James
The press were not allowed to attend the they given any information aftar-
But His discussion took
for abortions would be reduced
wonks:
chantable clinics would be made stricter: would ba i made easier NOT CUCES O THUH HET an the grounds of 'conscierice' and abortion counselling will be
larget
Judging by the mood of the
demonstration these propusals will be met with Tierce resistanon.
bale. Fill it in and send il oll co
us loday. In this way bath of us
will remember your contribucion.
And we won't forget to ask you
for it, when the
Show Healey what you think of
LET HUDUE DAISIE HE THE HIER
for socialisen and helping Social
in Chailenge
In the last two weeks 1279.98
come in to the fighting fund..
Ennals say: that the is OK
because facilities are jest being
moved to larger, more modern
But in adduion to the fact tha
this means massive impersona
hospitals mile s away from thi
CUMIIUEHLICE BILYAIE SUDLY
to serve, the curs and hospita
lose da stale dis beine tol
From tbe bealth service
An estimated 35,000 beds has
one from the NH$ since 1971
The waiting liste bave now abo
up lo the figure BE 600,000
Consulants freely admit today
that patients on the ordinary
bed unless are boo t
ULICS S
and go on the urgent waiting list
Now * the consultants are havine
sub-divide these
'ordinary" urgent and very urg
cut casest
Ennais pretends that all that
has to be done is to shorten the Telling offer than an attempt i bospital. This s
apply the technique of Henry
Fard to the NHS. Longer waiting
lists cannot compensaic for th
loss in beds! And nurses and
staff who have to cope with man
cutically ill patiens when their
awn numbers are being
drastically are placed under a
intolerable strain.
hospitali Eke the EGA. Houns-
kw Hospiral, and Plastow Hos
pital bave scarted to fighr back.
It's tine the rest of the labour
movement joined them.
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