Socialist Challenge No. 4, 30 June 1977
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Socialist Challenge INCORPORATING RED WEEKLY BUILD A SOCIALIST OPPOSITION FOR A UNIFIED REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATION
30 June 1977 No. 4 GRUNWICK:
GOVERNMENT SPECIAL PATROL GROUP STEPS IN INSIDE: Split in Swedish CP…....IMG reply to SWP on unity. ...Soweto leader interviewed….
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The scab carrier
GRUNWICK
The bus drives off up Willesden High Road, past Willesden tube dation and up to the roundabou at Cricklewood Broadway. 11 takes a side turning into Temple
For the next 20 minutes the bus is driven found in arcies up and down side streets. At the wheelisa дагк-патсо опуст, 10505, 80 unshaven sandy-haired passenger. They finally realise they are being followed.
Story by Geolf Bell and Jonathan Silberman Photos by Ezra Nethan
SANDY MAICO COMES LO LOS BACK of the bus and takes down our car
numher 1s 3000 CD. He moves back so the front of
two-way radio and speak
dodge us, then gives up and come
in Park Avenue Nort NW10. We go up to the bas and show our press cards. We ask the driver and his guard who they are. They don't answer.
With one exception they avoid or refuseto answer every question. The exception comes when camera appears. We want a fee far those photos, they say.
They finally giveup hoping the will be left alone, and drive off This time the route is more direct and in 15 minutes they have
destination, St UCOR
Tha driver of the bus
Grumwiek direator Pearson
On the trail of the
bus of shame
It is just after 9 am last Friday. The blue scab-carrying double deckerleaves Grunwick to a chorus of abuse from the pickets and protection from the "George Ward renta-mob' police. They have just let off their first load of
Andrews Road, The bus stops ar the top of the road and the dark-haired of the street where another bur and a couple DE van oo or cope a waiting. The dark-haired one goe starts a long conversation with a selor cop.
The door of the second bus is open and standing there are members of Grunwick management and their helpers. In the bus no more than fifteen scabs sir.
The bus driver mishes conversation with the police. We ask a cop who he is. *Just a passer-by expressing his feeling. "But he was driving the bus."
No comment.
In fact the Pearson and he is the son of a director of Grunwick.
Wegotothesecond bus and ask the whites by the platform who
Weall work for Grunwick."
Who is the sandy-haired bloke in the other bus?"
"What radio?"
They contradict themselves and CLE COUC They sist that nobody ever comes on to the bus who decan't work for Grunwick or the press. But they don't know who the sandy-haired guard is.
The guard doesn't work for Grunwick. "Who do you work fort'
This Nobody/ 'Are you self-employed? "You could say that, he says with a grin. 'How much are you being paid? "That would be telling."
At the second bus the man SEEICAL CHEI reporter from the American TV network, CBS. "We have had no trouble from the preis," they tell him.
baired, curity officer Woolent. He is and a he chase, belon direce the police, the special relationship Grunwick have with the cops Is self-evident. backsipping and shared some Eventunily th between the Grunwick manage himself says be ment and the cops cods. They are
pesting ready to move off. A cop comes over to us and MyE: Tou rounded by Securicor and police van the bus waits in St. Andrews Road to carry its second load of acads to Grunwick. Secuity Oilcer Woolet pets on the bus as the cop walks away safisfied
Complate with what he later admitied was a walkie-fattie, the guard on the Grunwick bus — he claimed he was "free-lance'
trouble with the press
are talking to a
this convoy
greyergeant ank nember of the infamo
"What for?" 'Obstruction"
bumber Piss off.
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police
shed up shoulde't take photographs'
But when the press cards are sbown he breaches a sigh of rebel.
He too knows they 'have bad no
The doors of the second bus close. The police get back into people? their van, They prepare to move off. A sergeant in the van opens his window and says Don't follow
Again the press cards are
'Who are you from? the
scialist Challeng
*If you follow this bus we will
We ask for his name and
The tin pot army of manags ment, scabs and police drive oli together, one for all and all for
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A touch of rank
TOP POLICE officers are not only class conscious, they are als incredibly rank ponscious. Ontbe Grunwick picker line last woek the following conversation wa overheard hy a reader in the middle of a mass scuffle with the
A PICKET: Push that inspect or through the gates
A POLICE OFFICER (squa
against the Grunwick ratel: I mnot aninstector. I'mE chief superintendent.
PICKET: You'll do."
Coppers v The People OVERHEARD ON smother morning of mass picketing st Gruawick:
A POLICEMAN: "How mAny were here yesterday?
ANOTHER POLICEMAN "What do you mean, coppers or
Strathclyde adventurers
THE KEGIONAL Council in Strathclyde has once again dem onstrated its humanitarian approach and solicitude as far as small children are concerned Leading councillors visited ad-
enture playgrounds in Easte house and WOLSIU DEE most deprived areas in the whole of Scotland.
Their verdicr: the playgrounds were a danger to children who played in them. Tbeir solution: to
withold 210,000 earmarked fo staff wages at the playgrounds
The result: after October the playground will cease to exist. Remember COm mander in Vietnam who claimed thatthe only way they could save
particular village was to destr admirers on the Strathclyde Regional Cauncil.
The real scroungers READERS WILL recall the fuss which s geoman made a Luc unfree press about social security
"overpaying" claimanus
that the DHSS annually saves 1598
million (or nearly 60 times what is
"overpays") in anclaimed benefits.
More interesting is the lack of COVERAge RIVELONG TRET SORE CITE
-normally most judic
ious in collecting taxes, rents, rates
and the rest — are a bit alipshod
30 June 1977
from
when it comes to collecting bug sums of money owed to the Stal by private industry.
Westland Helicopters, for in tance, currently owes the Go crament E700,000, Civil servar E53,000. In another military equipment was sold by th Government at less than co price Is it purdly socidental that th relation to firms engaged manufacturing arms and defen of the Asian family and t five-star hotel.
Worm eats worm
HE FOLLOWING was pro
ported by the Daily Telegr on 16 June
*One of 300 pupils at Le
to turn iato a profit for the Pri
of Wales' Appeal, made 231 eating wornis.
'Sam Andrews, 14, explaim atting words. Tele bi afterwards but it wasall worik It The school raised £1,117 for t appeal, Wild Bill Montgomery LAST FRIDAY, as the were raaln on about las order' and their words were beadlined in the raling clum the tollowing news item was *Tory Me Willam Monty
CUST ery, former Pariamentary Se tary to Opposition leader M Margaret Thatcher, was yester further remanded on 650 ball
London, accused of stealing
The Times apologises
THE POLICE attacks
lockshire miners last Thurs
followed a recent bumiliation
the police's main backer
National Association dom- at the hands of the Nt
John Gouriet, NAFF'S lead
in an interview last January
The Tires alleged that the N
In the courts and another hig
and LECTORIE
concerning picketing.
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that one was a lie, and The Th
has now been forcod to prin
groveling apology to the NUN JUBILEE MEANS ВЕРАТІОН
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The all-out need to slam
GRUNWICK
by MICK GOSLING
of the clerical union, APEX.
Treasurer of the Grunwick Strike Committee.
The battle lines have been hows at Grunwick. The State
its police force
in the trade union move unt in an attempt to smash a
eck strike for union recogni-
1 In a series of bruising
ontations, over 250 pickets ave been arrested in the past
now other lines are being - inside the labour move The leadership of APEX is back-pedalling. i at any straw in an to end the mass picketing has brought the strike to i attention.
Rear Entrance
COOPER ROAD.
DUDDEN HILL LANE
WILLESDEN
Scargill,
and
By Steve Faulkner
IT'S NOT EVERY DAY Mou get roughed up by the police ang chatto Arthur Scargill ar well. Bur
a Thursday this happened or
he Grunwick picker fine to Steve
Iner, TGWU shop steward
the 1/524 brunch. Steve
was standing on the pavement ether pickers after the scabs
Bring to move away when the Patrol Group arrived and bushine us, Three or ms pushed over a garden wall ckily missed heing crushed
The pickets responded by link-
arms to allow the injured to be up and belped. The SPO
en began snatching people from
a picket and dragging them into
isreet. Oneminute I was linked
o the nextfour SPG officers had
peed me out of line by my hair
Punching and butting me they
ground and they started kickingme — they kicked my arms
no 1 couldn't roll Into a ball to
the gates
We as a union have never refused to accept the findings of any mediator' — Duncan Lapish, Executive Secretary
*I have no faith in the legal position. I only believe in the power of the trade union movement' — Jayaben Desai,
Last Monday the success' of their efforts was demonstrated. several nunured pickets 300g of while scab coaches entered the front and back gates of the firm.
In returo ALCANIC granted the services of an indep endent mediator whose findings
recognition or reinstatement for the strikers.
What sort of " mediation' is it where one mde mance all lac concessions Sayı Mr. Desi:
I think it's rubbish. All the pressure is going on the strikers
Dollis Hill Sta
,GRUNWICK FACTORY
CHAPTER
Pickets
The police,
protect myself.
I was loaded into a van and Surprise, surprise, 1 was charged with assaulting a police officer. just been arressed in the palioe van. He was obviously very cave us a boost when one of the inst things he said was that what WIL CONCIWAS BENNET BALLEL He said be would do his best to organise it.
Atthe bobcestation some otthe olice were openly hoselle to Sargill especially the younger who interviewed him-and bey. in the words of another miner, 'were bucane around him Ike
Other police weren'1 sure what Scargill on tbe bus Tanked a been. replied. and we got that bloody Scargill bloke as well. We nearly Scargill barted in Aye, you've CARETA WATERIESEA
Miners name 11 July
placed on management. Manage ment are making the condition on the mediators and they are making the conditions on us. By contrast the APEX execu tive is falling over itseif to hail as Ward that he will accept mediation corpse as life itself Unlike the trade unson bureau crats, the ruling class knows just what is at stake. The National
Gorst, has forsaken the rigours of parliamentary life to become personal adviser George Ward.
Against the violence and intimidation of the ruling class and their lackeys in the labour movement the minto at Grunwick and their supporters throughout the country have only one answer - the strength of their numbers
We want the mass pickets to continue, says Mahmood Ah
COUNCERY Committee. what I mean hy mass picket', he
This is a call which must be taken up throughout the Inbour movement. Roger Griffiths, who was part of a delegation trom East Birmingham the Grunwick picket on Monday. puts it like this: A lot of peopie Main Gate don'i know about the picketing -come down, Buses down. This is why we should organise for one big day. should mobilise around Scargil's call for 11 July:"
Griffiths attended the Famous mass picket which sale For the frat few days thi coppers were kicking shit out of us at Saltley. came out togetber, chose a day to close the gates
different kettle of fish.
et the last word go to Mr Desai: * 1 have no
egal position the power of the trade union movement. Nothing happened
for 44 weeks. We played cricket. issue to a head, and the mass picket will win it."
speakers include 'nest mandel quintin hoare denise avenas robin blackburn
michael
being
any indication from
mortis in a
Ward of the Strike It July — that's
engineers on
what is happenin when t whahat to come
We
depot in 1972, and
but them we al
and i was a the
Many 1 only believe in runwick
mass picket brought the
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There are other ways of helping
Grunwick strikers beside
urning up on the mass picket
The mos obvious 1s noc li use
of the films processed b
*set of Grunwick's business is
spain The
resolurion revolutIon-
strategy were not at the SE "ENS
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Ltd chemists Grunia. he sending stuff to
The Grunwick Strike Commitree have asked trade unionists to
favourably to such a request.
Class struggle v
class collaboration
General Secretary, limiting the pickets: We want to recince the temperature so no one else gets hurt.. We dow't want a thousand Yorkshire miners here because they will nor assistan the
of this dispute... Far the suke of peace shay away.
The Gmanwick Strike Committee's reply Last Thurday: We
consulted about the statement and we totally reject Roy Granshum's view about the
Today's violence war comed by the Special Putrul Group They will sit he there "inreserve" tomorrow and the coacht will still being able to speak zo those inside The proposed tactics will lead to the vetmisation of trade unionasts on the picker line.
chemise bad dealing with Grunwick on the picket ine
* We congratulate our friends the and other trade unipmists who have given us such excellent support, and we call fo them to come in ever and seet mumhers tomorrow next week. They SHTURE AROTE AR welcome in this critcal fight fo Desir trade union rights
George Ward has today once again snubbed Albert Booth and confined Als intention nor to mainsiere He Cinems we escalat the picketing and the blacking of vital services to the company,
trapped in o legal wilderners for anather 10 months
This is a fight now for the whole trade shion mownent and
wil not salerate any bernardi of the goals thor CHP supporters have fought for so hard and so long
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Journalists battle for closed shop Policebring out coshes
mas picket at North of Eagland
Perde sign te to 15
Pd to prev meek e picker
occupying the lond
sembers of a welled
Electri Em-
rington who afterwards com
that the police unnecessarily egressive T
ponse of the Darlington a
orter typilles the class drawn in the paper's columns: *Normally we present Mayon with an album of photographs taken during their year of office', he said we won't De taking any of Mr. Spence from now on",
The campaign to defend the so
Filliam Tyndale teachers, sacker by the Inner London Education
Anthority for going on strike, is parciane sirenan
appeared in the lungton Gazette Last advertisement
fisting 200 nomes of those prepar
eu to support the relastarement of
ers. 4 similar advertise
Ac Times Educational Supple
beat has so far collected E600 anc
CALLS TO LOBBY the Trades
Unson Congress have been issoc by the Right to Work Campain
and the Number 20 District Committee of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineerin Unions. The Manchester CESU
call for a lobby of Congress on
Manday, 5 September, bas been
backed by the Number 10 Division
alled on the North-west Region
af the TUC to organise the event
the ceversal of the TUC': collaboration the Government's
HOME NEWS
for press freedom
Natiomal Coal Board ? office copy to actress Pr
dispute is over a major trade union principle and will only be labour movement on the picker line. The TUC print industries comintee mer last weet hut did nat call out its members stil WILLIAM TYNDALE TEACHERS NO SACKINGS
FELE
Defend Tyndaleteachers
educationalisas.
The teachers" appeal agatasr their sockings is scheduled for u week's time, but ir has ail the makines of a farce, The three Labour councillors hearing the appeal are thate who brought the and who vored ar a Labour group meering to sack them. drena prome 0-20-2588m
Only one lobby needed!
Lighly regrescable that the Com munist Party-initiated call for the Monday loboy oy ine mancheste CSEU Follows the Tuesday, Warkers Party-inspired Right to Work C Readers of Sociallet Challenge
are unged to combine campaign in support of a lobby with calls on the olisoers of the
01 17003031331 0 301003 organise a united lobby around Fighting polcies.
- in line consistently denies the relevance of this vital question to the closed shop battle.
Westminster Press is a subsid ary of the Pearson Longmar multi-nationa which has no hesitation in dressing news and comment to sait its interests. Tbe Fleanchu anes pRIT of the conglomerate, sup pressed its
by On Saturday, 2 July an oper conference takes place Birmingham for members of the National Teachers. Its parpose is to develop the fight-back against education cuts.
to the cuts by members of the NUT is
Hunter, President of Wands worth NUT, traces this resis tance.
started a ten day official strike last Thursday. reaction to the escalating cuts in
Orfordshine which will reachers. the sacking of
11050200160
jobs through "natural wastage, a to the TES utting back in nursery provisic
class sizes.
NUT mieekly accepted. Now their
day strike rather consideret y many in ford to in the
be 'too late and too little
pertencente pl beh of the Nu
endership to thu
Oxford the teachers
official action after refusing to
take classes
Autbority there have agreed tha
chere will be no classes over 15!
cimb-down from the Educatiot
Authority's recent threat to serve
Market ICHS editor included
Sped work for the night
closed shop
journalista can
Darlington journalists.
0325-50282
Lombard" columin Gordon Tether Support for Oxford teachers" 10-day atrike: from parente and children
Teachers move
to blunt theaxe
in Union of only cut [2.9million!
As It meets, the resistance Oxford
growing. Betty education
to fight,
Teachers in 35 Oxford schools
Thei Seven comititted to
compulsory
All this the leadership of the
action CONC and is
But this limited and late res
cuts. While in 0n action.
over 30 in secondary school
puh, 1, 75pm on 30 June.
This limit is somewhar of a
of his and-Common And when printworkers carnings but deleted those of
by the Royal Commission on the press last year National GraphA M5300O IDUS 30!
preciady by linking the strugle with the fight to confront the censorship
as and distortion which is the daily diet of the mass media that
win hearted support of the workers
It is vital that all trade unionists in the North rally to support the
All are welcome from opm cach Friday. POS ACES OI DUEL DIRSS COCALL: NUJ Strike Committee, 9 Victoria Road, Darlington. Pbone
additions
DAVE CARTER and GEOFFREY SHERIDAN writs on teachers who refuse to laxc classes over 35. But the nicians, extent of the NUT 'victory" is that insead of cutting E3 million Trom cducation the counci wil
Such a 'what is a victory in Birmingham must be tought in
Approach flows frons t
Eusal of the NUT leadership (
wage a national campaign on the
cuts, and even on a
local basis the union is relutant
It has thus been left to the 1aken a teachers on the ground in Lon-
don to organise rheir awn action
strike action in
their area on 5 July over cuts and
meeting planned for 30 Jube hopes to extend this support
But the overiding need is for a
national campaign and the open
conference on 2 July provides the
oportunity for launching it. The
type of class size action raking
place in Oxfordshire peeds to be played and encaran facies
and education facilities
In short it means opposing the
cuts locally and narionally, and
national strike
*The planning meeting for
London strike action on 5 Jub
takes place at the Ear! Russell
St. Paneras Rd, NWI di
London NUT members going
travel by the coach lerwine from
Kings Cross ar 7,30am. E2.50
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Building Worker
LAST SEPTEMBER, as a result of disagreements over several issues with Communist Party members on the London Joint Sites, which is also the London Building Workers Charter group, a number of building workers decided to set up a London Building Workers Rank and File Committee and to produce a bulletin. Inicially four duplicated pages priced 2p, we progressed to a four-page printed paper comin
latest issue (ao. 7) has Increased to cight pages at 5p.
At present the editorint board is based in Landon, although salles and articles for the paper are comine Iron severa Dars of
. At a conferenos to be beld in London on 1 Octobe we hone to be able to lo lay th base for a national buikling workers" rank and file organisa
The agenda will include the election of an editorial board and ment "What we stand for which was produced Iby the London Building Workers' Committa
Entrance to this conterence wil will voted be by a union card Further details will be announced late
Here ane iost & lew topics that have been dealt with in previous Issues of the paper.
AS THE ECONOMIC crisis worsens it is essential for build ing workers to be able to fight ALLE DEI DETER industry is dificult to organise but with an unemployment rate other industry, making almost a
building workers unemployed, the prob
The Communist Party, which among building workers, is in a state of confusion. The Bullding pust was responsible for the surg of militancy in the late "60s anc
170%, has. anly appeare twice in twelve month
This is due to the CP policy o
: union leadership in the industry che bebief that a few words in th
are more effective than ata activity by the working clas.
TGWU Y UCATT EVEN MORE unprincipled is the increasing rivalcy in the industry between the Union of Construc
and the Transport and General Workers" Union
The right wing in both unions are more than happy to find someone to fight instead of the emplovers, but king Street has
down and has beet the side of responsible for a great deal of bitternes between trade unionists.
members of the CP in the building industry have refused to take part in this sickening oportunism and have
DIRECT LABOUR
DEPARTMENTS DUE TO the cut-back in Goyernment spending, together with
the Tory victories in local govdirect labour departments are coming under attack. With the lack of work, the private sector is
In next week's paper: -* Santiago Carrillo: On the Soviet Union. * Surplus Value: On the Roman Catholic Church. • Open Forum: Big Flame critique of Trotskyism. * Reports on TGWU and NUM Conferences Our extended Grunwick coverage this week meant that some features were beld over.
30 June 1977 Papes looking to the Tory-controlled councils to take wark away from direct labour departments and hand it over to private contract
Already Birmingham has an sounced that their direct works wil heshorand this wilb followed by other Tory council enger to hand out contracts in the bame of Masonic solidarity.
BLACKLISTING
NOW THERE is no longer a abour shortage, employers ca take more time on the hiring o workers and the blacklist can be more effectively applied Birmingham Counci was anle to sack Phil Bever
ment. After going through th industrial tribonals machiner Mr Justice Kalner-Brown uphek the right to victimise trade un descris de aces onists for active, justifiable embargo against his (Beyer's) employment resulting from his (union) activites'. Only • decasualisarion scheme con trolled by the unions will elimin ate the blacklisting of active trade unionists.
THELUMP
WITH THE introduction tighter tax regulations this year although the increasing unem noyment in ine industry Played a part also. Certainly little or no credit can be claimed by the trade union lendership.
The eminlovers however have still retained the system of sub contracting with only a handfal contractor. On a number of site in has become extremely dificult to organise workers split up umong half a dozen subbies, so that a demand for direct em
with the main con O CERIE Tracter starting on the basic things such as wager and conditions.
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19 Red Pos Hill, London, SE24 * London UCATT shop stewards met on 21 Jose und pat eu
the call to local anthority build Ing workers to down 100l el Пу To cute in direct ator prote
departicents.
been workers employed
balding 5 Jaly, Manchester counci workers are assembling
if the Mancunlan Way, Orfor
Road, at 12,30pm the sume de They will be marching in
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Last week Socialist Challenge published an article by Duncan Hallas, a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party, on left unity. I will try and answer his points systematically.
What is the purpose of a joint electoral slate?
We agree with Duncan Hallas that tbe success of revolutionaries in elections cannot be gauged simply by the sumber of votes won. However, to say that our success or failures can be judged simply by 'memhers recruited, contacts made 5H readers gained and so on, is quite upside-down way to see things
The starting point in elections, as in any policy, is not whether the organisation grows froen it but whether it takes forward the class struggle. For example the German Communist Party reacbed it height of membership in the 1930% as Hitler came to Third Period prevailed, Furthermore, as is divissed in the excelent OOOK BENIC German Commanism, (published by Plo10), morlein the German CP was very hieh because of that growth. Would Hallas therefore conclude that the tactics of the German CP of the Third Period were correct because of its recrultment rate?
OF course, if the needs of the class. struggle are correcily understood then an Does the IMG merely organisation does grow-and indeed this is the onlylong term basis for growth. Hut the sarting point is the needs of the class, not the organisational growth.
If we turn to electoral tactics, did the electoral division of revolutiomaries in Stechford take forward the class struggle?
Put in those correct serms the answer is obvious. Ie would have been far better for L singie revolunonary cancocale su th lection. The effects of such a division wil be worse in aneneral cection. ta from this starting point, the needs of the class struggle, that the IMG calls for electoral agreement amongst the revolutionary left.
Of course it doesn't follow from this that the eternational Marsis Group is any less meresica in ouame as own cocansanon than is the SWP. The difference is that we a long-term hasis in contradiction with the needs of the class struggle. The SWP, by rejecting those needs, on this issue, hinders building a revolutionary party.
Firstly it delays the mobilisation of thousands of people who won't join any revolutionary organisation in the present state of division of the left, bus would rally 0 lee aar -and would Join revolutionary groups in the process,
Secondly the SWP, by its sectarian line, totally miseducaresits own memhership for dealing with internal differences and those with other forces. What we criticise the SWP for is not "party patriotism' but for ariemptingto bu d an organisation against the interests of the working class on this issue. That, we believe, is deeply sectarian два сестаго партасоа.
THE NOMINATION of a Socialist Unity candidate
will be discussed at a public meeting called by the
Merseyside Socialist Unity Election Campaign on 3
July. Edge Hill is the constituency of Labour MP Sir
Arthur Irvine, who is threatening to resign after being
rejected by the local Labour Party for his totul
The Socialist Unity Campaign's initial meeting
earlier this month was supported by Liverpool Big
Flame, Merseyside International Marxist Group,
Liverpool Revolutionary Marxist Current, and
the Workers League, as well as independent militants.
The Socialist Workers Party has declared its intention
of fielding its own candidate and running its own
campaign in theevent of a by-election.
The 3 July meeting willbe open to all those who agree
on the need for a united campaign. It will discuss and
amend the programme.
ground for a
organisation...'
Hallas.
want united action and not the buil ding of a unified revolutionary organisation?
Indelitoral agrees it leG an electoral agreement with the comrade Hallas present the proposal as one of simply a manoeuvre. He says, 'the basic difficulty. is that most of them do not want unity only "unity manoeuvres" to try and strengthen themselves at our (the SWP's) expense.
Unfortunately here comrade Hallas! sectarian starting point shows itself in his cule arument He spparently doesn't consider that the IMO may stand for unity because i takes forward the class struggle. We see increased joint activity in clections and on other issues as a way of resting the ability of revolutionary organisations to collaborate in the class struggle-resting our the ground for a united revolutionary
Thisisno, tosey of coisrsethat our abilts to reach agreement over a joint state in elections, to offer a socialist alternative to Labour would automatically lead fusion of thest oratisations-election arconly one aspect of the class struggle, and •i Duncan Hallas quite rightly says, by no means the most important. We think more is required to see ifa unified organisation is
Comrade Hallas questions the IMG) organisarion, which is placed in question by DIOCESE HOLD GESTUKS WILS WILE Internacional Socialists in 1968/9, Webav debates and wish to have serious discusslons to find out whether such unity is indeed
Liverpool sees
Socialist Unity in
action
by JACK BEAUMONT class, women and black people.
Manchester 1.
Edgehalf meeting,
Socialist Challenge is a paper open to all those aiming forrevolunlosury unity. Our pages are ope
To contriburiour from other organisations and individuals on this debore
'We see increased joint activity In
elections and on other Issues as a way
of testing the ability to collaborate In
the class struggle - testing out the
Rich Palser, a member of the IMG
Political Committee, replies to Duncan
possible. Whilst comrades of the SWP may feel that this is because of the failure of the IMG to 'overtake' the SWP in numerical growth, we can only ask the contrades to opening up discussions with us. We will be very happy to explain in full detail the reasons we favour revolutionary unification -we explained it many times in the Red Weekly:
Another difficulty which Duncan Hallas revolutionary rears tens do not revolutionary organisations, glorify factions and tendencies when they exist, but we are proud of the right of these Tacions and tenacoces no etu where different groups of comrades feel the need to organise for their politics inside aur organisation.
Such rights are essential in our view for maintaining the unity of any socialist Di karlaN asthe CP are now finding to their cost. We would therefore agree with Duncan Hallas that internal democracy would beamajor item on the agenda of any talksto escablish the possibility of unity of the two organisations.
Duncan Hallas also points to another ares which he regards as a difficulty: The differences on Russia cic. are, in principle, contananie wusin a since democrat centralist organisation provided there is an agreed approacho building the party in the working class.
Here he has in mind not simply electoral work, but primarily work in the trade ations and th mass struggles of the working class. Here again we agree with Duncan Hallas that there is a 'difticulty" to unity-and it is on this that we now wantto concentrate.
What do we see as the tasks of revolutionaries in the labour
Even if Irvine does not resign before a General Election, local militants will be organising against the policies of the ever-more anti-working class Labour Government and its supporters, such as Sir Arthur Irvine. Their fight will be based on a comprebensive programme in defence of the interests of the working
Planning meeting for Socialist Unity condidates in the next Generai Election: Saturday, 2 Jub, Golden Eagle, Hill Street, near new Street station, Birminghum. Begins at noon. Supported by internationai Marxist Group and Big Flame. Correspondence to Planning Committee, 3rd Floor, 14 Piccadilly
Sarday 3 Лу Spm. A2 Greason 's Well pud, Brunswick Road, Liverpool.
united revolutionary
movement today?
The labour and trade union bureaucracy has Lied workers, through the Social Contract, to colaboratine with bo cab italist class in solving the crisis at the expenae of the working class This an organised left wing or opposition must be built, uniting all those wishing to fight that class collaboration by fighting for policies Which can solve the crisis ar the capitalists" expense. This opposition must base itself upon mass extra-parliamentary struggle to
We realise that building such an utransed let wine as necessary becamer there are wide layers of workers, who whilst wishing to fight class collaboration, have not yet broken with all their past illusions in the labour and trade union bureaucracy. we wish to unne man inese workers, including those who are sill reformist, to
that of the Minority Movement in the "30s,
huild,
Like the Minority Movement, we must build in every union an organised tendency which groups all those prepared to fight the policies of class collaboration and seck to replace the leaders who follow much policies. These tendencies will achieve this goal by campaigning and organising to extend new sen organismo ou cne rank and file in the unions to carry forward their
Movement fought to do this by campaign-
up to a general strike, concils of action in LOIT BECA
As workers begin to organise in their unions and mount struggles against che policies of the Lahour Government, some of the inhour and trade union burenucrats
of that rising opposition, to prevent the leadership of it passing to the revolutionaries.
This again is what happened when left bureaucrats like Purcell and Hicks associaced themselves with the Minority More ILICHE
Does this mean that we think that the party can be substituled for by a bloc, whether with independents who have official positions" which Hallas talks of, or even involving left bureaucrats?
Of course not. On the contrary, any unired action with reformists reinforces the need for the party always to retain is right to independent action and propaganda, its right to criticise these left leaders, and to break with them the moment they become an obstacle to continuing the struggle,
It was for failing lo do thas that Tronsky criticised the carly CP when it dissolved irs independent face into the Minority Move ment. To engage in such united fronts and coalitions, bureaucrats, flows from the need for united action to advance the class struggie-but it is nor a "non-aggression pact.
It is procisely in the course of united action that revolutienaries can best challenge the leadership of the reformist leaders -by showing in practice that the left reformists fail to wage a consistent fight for the interests of the working class:
What then is our attitude to SWP sponsored rank and file groups? Duncar. Hallas argues that such united fronts are only possible around single sues. We rhink he would be unlikely to
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argue that the Minority Movement was an incorrect venture of this reason, vet this wal builtion many of the key issues of the day
the SWP rank and file groups, which are
practice, and despite occasional words te the contrary, the 5WP see 'rank and file organisations sadily growing tothe point at which they involve the mass of workers under the leadership of the SWP, without having to engage either other forces of the left or the refoctnist leaders in united fonts and organisations for common action
Thesis the perspectiveof the untied front from below which attempis to involve the rank and file reformist workers withou having to confront the reformist leaders otber than by denouncing them. This is the real balance sheet of the decline of the cani and file groups —not that it is necessary to 'work harder, build better in the work. places, and all the ather solutions pu forward by the SWP leadership
So too they must become democratic. MAKE COC UNIS CORTES DISDIS I the uncoos cannol be "bentral berween col tal natties Hopeser. revolutionan socialists have to atrempr to win these groups la volumtarily submitting themselves to be party's leadership and that can only be done through democratic debate and political struggle.
The IMt will continue to work in the rank and the groups and tent to remare them towards intervening in the broader
impose united fronts on the left retormist leaders. We are currendly fighting in Redder Tape in the Civil and Public senios Asociation for use such orientarion towards the Broad Lef However impossible becouse of the undemocratic charscier of these groups, as in the National Union of Teachers, we will Join with other militants in forming groups such as the Socialist
Aliance which car stimulating the development of broader
In Conclusion
It is not 'party epoism' which makes the SWP sectarian, but their idea that their size makes them qualitatively ditferen ent from the rest of the far-left. fo educating their militants in the spirit of the SWP being the sule nucleas of the party This leads to an inbuilt sectarianism because that is not the real situation today.
We believe that a party can best be bails through a struggle for united action, by / mansing ine tames be the anited iront because it is only in this way that the massof workers can be won from reformism. Fora party to exist it has to be recognised as such
The number of tamacks" the SWP makes on the IMC in Socialist Worker is besides the point. Sectarianism is not only manifested by big attacks, bur also by igmoring the activity of "rival groups'. The Morning Star specialises in this. Obe example is its taslure to mention Riley's or Thornet's sore in the TRGWU clections or
Worker tends to do the same!
We in no way see why our consistent campaign against the united front from below tactics of the SWP invalidares ou Tight Ter a united tevolubonary organisa tion. We are sure Duncan Hallas agroes
political differences. On the contrary, we should begin a serious discission ascertain the CATE breadth of these differences and whether they are ar obstacle to a principled fusion of our organisations,
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The Left in Britain's Lar NO PHASE Tr
- Сале да 30 June 1977 of the Labour Government policies to the Tories.
bosses. Look at the figures.
as fast as wages,
one and a half million.
cent growth per annum.
Labour pact. "look like tea parties'.
Transport General Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers
bargaining' formulas.
not be opened up for twelve months.
And when 1978 comes
17.5 per cent.
workers will face savage attacks this winter.
workers against the pay policy could expect * across the board claims the drop in real wages under substantial increase in living
* for a E50 minimum wage;
income.
Solidarity with
against wage controls.
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Editorial
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the social contract
LET US take a hard look at the facts and figures of the Social Contract. Denis Healey accused the two left MPs, Jeff Rooker and Audrey Wise, of delivering up the gains
The only gains that have come have been for the
The Government's Central Statistical Office show that in the last year living standards have declined by five percent. Prices have risen over the last nine montns twice
Profits have soared by 26 per cent.
Dole queues this summer will number in their ranks
Far from trade union sacrifice leading to growth, production still stagnates at one per
The electoral disasters that have beset Labour as a direct result of these policies have forced them to shore up their parliamentary position through the Liberal-
But thereal foundations of the policy, the twin support of Scanion and Jones are beginning to crack. Ben Rubner of the furniture workers union described their dilemma very well. Speaking to a resolution at the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Workers Unions for'an immediate return to free collective bargaining at the end of the second stage of the Social Contract he said that If the resolution was not passed there would be disputes which would make the toolroom and Heathrow strikes
The resolution was passed by the thane million strong nord witter ind
Workers
The top leaders of the trade unions know they cannot openly canvass for a further round of incomes policy. So they cloak their intentions with all sorts of 'free collective
The real content of such manoeuvres lies in what the TUC is promising the Government. Murray, Scanion and the rest have heavily emphasised that wage contracts will
That means for many workers there will be no increase until 1978 and for some the summer of 1978. This means enduring another year of rampant inflation with no compensation.
even the best-organised workers face a declaration of intent by the TUC to keep wage rises under 10 per cent when inflation is running at
Butthis generosity will not extend to the low paid and public sector workers. Faced with wage controls, Tory councils, cuts and rail-roading trade union leaders these
The big-business magazine, The Economist, calls for the next step in the attack on the working class to be the taking on of the public sector and crushing them.
The massive deployment of police at Grunwicks shows what sort of treatment any prolonged struggle by such
The ruling class aim to divide and rule, by smasning up the low paid, giving concessions to the strongest of the strong and isolating the rest. By putting forward policles which further divide the working class through their agreement with a Phase 3 'by the back door' the Scanions and Murrays are aiding Callaghan, the Tories and the employers in this attack. Faced with the manoeuvres of the TUC the reply has to be clear and to the point: * an immediate return to free collective bargaining;
for full compensation for Phases 1 and 2, and tor a standards;
* for equal pay for women with no strings attached;
* forinflation proofing of all wage deals to maintain real
all those going Into combined with these demands should be the basis of organisation for class struggle militants In the fight
conditions including:
fulfilied, and yet Jones
behind the 5 per cent pay limit. RESISTANCE pay policy can carry
free collective bargaining.
ES LOCONE that:
a total social programme
ory Service.
of the bargain. own union beadquarters!
illusion that "neutrally" arbitrate between agement and Employment
struggle and the long
Lodge for Jones the le.
pounds shifting his delegates across the Irish Sea.
Jack Jones, architect of the Social Contract, will have a bit of explaining to do. He sold the Social Contract to the last conference in 1975 on tight
lower unemployment, massive public spending Contract, by increases", and 'strict price controls'. None of these conditions have been
used that motion as his "authority" to put the TGWU's 1.9 million votes at the TUC One brief and terse motion at this
SALLOEU rear's conference from the powerfu London Region Car Trade Group committee sums up the membership's sense of betrayal at Jones and the TGWU General Executive Commitice'sconduct of the last two years, The resolution proposes That this con ference ensures that the 1977 BDC policies are upheld and pursued to the benefit of the membersof the TGWU'.
Along with the miners" conference, the TGWU is one of the last major union conferences of the summer Union conferences over the last few months — especially NUPE's - have shownastrong rank and file resistance to the Social Contract. However, in four branches, most cases the burcaucracies have conceded certain ground, but beld on to the central terrain of agreeing to discuss with the Covernment further
Murray and Healey are twiddling heir thumbs in 'low key" discussion: al present, while they await the conference decisions. Exactly how far they can push a third year of wage restraint will depend very much on whether the executive of the TGWU
their principal motio abelling the third phase of the Socia Contract as the orderly retura to cent rise
. As can be seen from this motion, the orderly recurn makes a lew concessions such
differentials, but in reality it is lictle different from the 1975 catalogue of unkept promises Jack Jones argument for his policy will not be perely defensive. He will be saying, as he wrote in the Februar issuc of the union paper, the Record,
developed... not as a pay policy but as In chat article he cited pension increases, cqual pay, the success of the Arbitration, Conciliation and Advis-
and the Employment Protection Act, as evidence that the Labour Government had kept its side
These cynical arguments are not hard to expose pensions have failen by 18 per cent in real terns since the last rise. If equal pay has been won, then why was it necessary for the women at Trico to strike for 21 weeks, and the Yardley equal pay strikers to occupy Jones
The ACAS machinery rests on the
state body сал that:
InSE workers. As for the Protection Act. the Grunwick strikers. could explain the Tailure of that piece of legislation
strugale of hotel in work opportunicy. workers at the Randolph and Linton The
union recognition gives Jones' social programme is capped
AT THE VILLA MARINA, Douglas, Isle of Man on 4 July delegates asser for the Biennial delegate conference of the Transport and General Worl Union. It seems that the leader of Britain's largest union is concerned eno about the possible mass lobbying of the conference to spend several thous
off by the Bullock report, where under the disguise TOUSICI democracy". Jones attemps to extend the binding of the working class
Social workplace-by-work-
place integration into management
asture power destructre o full-timers responsible to him or her Committee welcomes the Bullock report. Unfortunately there are no
motions tabled in opposition to
To denounce Jones' programme 1s not cnough. The call for a return to free collective bargaining by itself fails to answer the arguments that the
Social Contract is a total social
programme'. It fails to overcome the
divisions between lower and highe
Jones argues in the
Record that under the Social Con tract "millions received the highest
pay award in their lives'- Many
ow-paid TGWU workers accept this line of argument.
That is why it is encouraging to see a number of motions from branches around the country that put forward elements of an alternative programme, a real "social programme in the
interests of the working class.
Nine branches put down motions
calling for a sliding scale of wages, Including motion 25 endorsed by
which instructs the GEC to break off all support of the Social Contract, to return ta free
collective barganing and to give no support to incomes policy whether
voluntary or statutory' and goes on
*Instruct the GEC to work together
with the membership to light for substantial wage increases to restore living standards and to fight for the inclusion of a sliding scale of wages clause in any wage agreement, so that real after tax wages are increased monthly by I per cent for every 1 per
issessed by elected communes o
trade union members.
Several motions also call for a
Since the last TGWU conference, a
number of isolated struggles have
been fought by TGWU members.
Many militants in the union have registered their disgust at the union's
policing of their struggles on behalf
But right wing & bureauc
ONE BRANCH of the transport union which will be leading the figh class struggle policies at the isle of Man Conference will be the Co 5/293 branch. And it seems that this is one reason for its threat dismemberment by union officiaidom and the right wing.
Alan Tharnett, ai branch delegate to the isain opposition resolation.to the Social Contruct palicies of the Jones" leadership.
This year, as well as fighting alongside other branches proposing an anti-capitalise wagepolicy fortheunion, the branch has pur doun motions which include the declaration
in view of the failure of the Sex Discratination Act and Equal Pay Act 1c achieve suanly Jar WOnSEn workers, Conference resolves to ensure chat equal pay for egant work is conceded at all rimes and will strive toaholish the cootinuing inequality
Conden apartheid, 'supports the African liberation struggles" and cails for a total bluck on al trade with South Africa.
SOCIAL
of capitalism's "Social Contract
57,000 votes received in the n
General Secretary clections by
candidates Riley, Thorett and
nett signal an emerging leit op
tion to the leadership.
The TGWU is very casily contr
by the General Secretary throug
historical power of a structur
full-timers responsible to him or
and through the divisive wa
which the differeat trade group
played off against each Lothe
organised opposition will be dif
across so diverse a union
This conference provides an or
tunity to start to construct suc
opposition around the linked
tions of union democracy anc
Social Contract. The delegates
those branches which have t
motions for the sinding scale ne
organise together at the Villa Ma
fiercely resist being composited
and offer a real way forward:
mass of TGWU members who
their votes and their motions
Jones new caltion o1 the
Contract.
Class Bet
Thal hle condarence curiedo
movertent collestivaly has misde
1o the laht against inftation and no
Ing teet Twormears supports the y
that tice tor all which
the communiy and wich coulc
Jonc lann obecises, in-arut
bargaining le tellowing hutter
(ai the recognition and parti-ar
от зкій correction of bihir anomalies and
ibi a continuad and dayaloping
workors on low pay and implamni
minimum wages oolley
(ch mesures to eneure that the
paymonte by resulle, ahit paymen
,i on expansion of sound inuti payment by tesult surames ar
tal massuies to oitsal unempi
*orang Poure-and tor cartief retin
The fight for these sort of polic presumably whar David Buckle, D Secretary of the TGWU in Oxlord di so much about the branch.
According to him it is controlled by P of extreme political viens'; these peop to extremis branch members to policies they don't talking abour (Vietnam" and abon (Sodulest Press 22.6.37)
Buckle spoke these forthright wor which surmouriled him with a high bar lo prevent access from the obr 1 meeting.
The right wing in the plast bad calk meeting with che intention of railro trouet mans to sot up a new branch! TOWU in the factory
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The Ford workers aim:
ONTRACT
REE!
Council to Ereah economia crisis of
ror leopardise par
actory dirferantiais
Is on Improvemenis a in order to asalet as Union Congrees
e supplemoris peit on a phased baste
trued incentive and ruine productivity t including shorter
line. l Executive Concll
The aim was clear to many of the workers at
the meeting: either to break up the 5/293
branch completely or drain
MEDIOLIS
The proposals bave beeu preceded by a
ateady propaganda campaign which culmin-
ated in the Regional Committee report on the
C2SE DE JOSE stewards victimised by the
company last auton. This came to the
conclusion that. something was wrong with
the branch!
Strong opposition was manifested to the
"re-organisation" when it was put to a meeting
of 150 stewards at the plant. Ar the day shifi
meeting, Reg Parsans, right-wing convenor
and Buckle'sally, puta revolucion on Whether
or noc the proposals should be put to the vole.
Amidst confusion over che result, be titea
carried. It was thesame story of rail-roading
the brasch's leaderstup being permitted to
speak on the chriges which were Jevelled
agasus chem.
Now betioht sonto menherstokeenon
of the stooge oucft set up by Buckle and
est Union says
BY
RAYBURNS
Want To
TOiN THE
ROYAL
E CE
yal.....or Class Struggle
That this conterance instructs tha Ganarai Executive rafum to free Collective bargaining and lo give no support to
out members" ving standards over the past twd years of incomes polley thie logeiner with the membership te fight for substantial wage
by 1 pel cant for every L asseased by elected committees of frade un Aino labior hy: Branches Nos. 11562, 1/1900 and 5/833
The TGWU leadership faces strong opposition to their so-called orderly return to voluntary coilective bargaining". Over 150 bodies of the union have put down motions against the Social Contract. Only 4 branches follow the Executive
's move to chop this branch
remain in the 5/293 branch. The stakes are amay its to fight for class struggle policies in Britain's
louro on the horizon, Even if Buckle succeeds in his artempes to confine che lett in a rump 5/293 branch, he cannol avod & determined intervention by those forces for the leadersbip uf the plant in the electians for senior steward in Desember.
There are aiready indications that Buckle intenda to take union disciplinary action against individual milicants. thore is a growing belief that Leyland have a list of militants who they will urg to sack ander any pretest before the end of the year.
Sach amovewould be a serious blow to the hight throughout the whole industry to fight back against the boises offensive.
A broad-based united campaign that can cancel our such a treat, combat the malignan: growth of bureaucratisation in the union and rein force the growing militancy in Brilain's car plants will he a number one consideration io tbe coming months.
agreeing to more "procedure"
COOLING-OFF
Prolo: DAVE EVANS (IFL)
the work fonte of Ford.
up at being treated
shifts
of tea, etc.,
has respected the pickets.
OCUPATION
sing-songs too.
This picket unique Furtberbore
from the Foundry, KD.
divided), strength in the future.
A Guaranteed
" When everything eise fails, direct action is the only answer, that is what this strike proves. Had negotiators used the power of the shop floor which is now being mobilised, undoubtedly job security could have been won some years back."
So reads a Communist Party leafler picketing roca. distribured at Fords. Dasenham, Jast SENTE ITE Thursday. Yet even as pickets were reading hese militant words, leading CP members, Dan Connor, and Sid Harroway (respectIvely convenor and deputy-convenor of the body plant) were actually voting for an agreement not only falling short of the claim of 80 per cent pay lot time laid-off. but also putting workers jobs at risk hy
plants.
Partofthis "procedure' would beto agree to take no action for one clear shift where workers are suspended and for two shift: where they are sacked The ain is 1o management institutionalisea cooling-off period. This ia oothing short of an attempt to demoralise workers into taking no action to defend the foremian.' basic conditions. With the support of the CP the Dazenham Panel' (composed of
TREMENDOUS officials) voted to put such an agreement to
The next day, howeser, the real voice of plant) agreed: the shopfloor was beard loud and clea when a mass meeting of 1,500 assembly
endorsed the recommendation of their shop stewards committee toreject the agreement and hold out for the s0 per cent lay-off pay demand.
As significant as the vote were the hundreds who put their names down on the Speakout FORDWORKERS
GROUP
What do we want? 80 per cent lay-off pay! That's what the fightis all about in the PTA, the Body and the whole
Don't believe what you read in the pre barbage you read in the papers - lay-off pay is the issue, not about one man holding the whole of Ford to ransom. People are fed
like casual labour - a guaranteed weekly wage is what we want - the right to live!
The picketing is going well. It's
pickets, equiped home made tents, camp-fires, pots
have been putting ir lots of hours at various key points on the Dagenham Estate. Almost all transport (lorries, buses, elc.)
The occupation in the body plan is going well too. Many people are involved; a lot of discusions on many points have taken place; and
and occupation is in the history Ford Dazenham, After years of divisions between plants, we now sce workers
PTA, Engine, Body acher on the picket lines. 11 we can mecing caco continue to build this unity (against all attempes by Ford and Union officials, like Murphy, to keep us
give great
For three years since 1974 (the October Press Shop Strike), Dag picket line: enham workers have been forced to held their tongues and swallow
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mecling, Mick Firmar (AUEW shop steward in the assembly
What we'rereally after is 12 weeks work and 50 weeks pay. The su per cool Cal is only a compromise. Its aim is to prevent
disputes as a way of splitting the sockforce The joint shop seewards committer voted almost unanimous support for the strike. This reflects the roal unity that's grown up between different shifts and even diferent
"This is the first time in nine years chat I've seen such solidarity. After two weeks of struggie we're in no mood to givein. The agreement thar's heen cooked up between
OCRE takes no step forward on the layoff claim, and what' smore it just gives more power to
Raz Razvi (T&G shop steward, assembly
*In Fehruary we passed a motion on the assompis Pam soop wewaras comance that in the event of a layoff, "A' and B
was necessary to ger 80 per cent pay. When we proposeu suas actony secas -8o every section had meetings and there was tremendous support on both shifts— my Mock graves oulaide Fords, bury management and officia/s many insults and indignities. But now we have found new strength. In the words of one brother on the
'Ford's have been kicking us for three years, because the situation
30 June 1977 section wai unanimous.
on the whoie ouricias arc Do good al representing our interests, they are not on the factory floor, not really involved in the struggle. They ser their pay wharever --we huve got more at stake than they have
'Of pourse all officiais shouli be elected, but they must also be responsible to those arganising the strugele—in this case to the shop steward's committees.'
The company are artempting to use the clash between the vote of the majority of the Dagenham Panel and the decision of the assembly plant workers as evidence of
its real significance is that shop lobr
the tradeunion bureaucracy means that the union oficials are baving difticuty in keeping cootrol of the raak and file, This is
bat also for the furure.
The line of the Communis: Party is to effectively coumerpose a struggle on the waRes Question aTound 1hl September negotiarions) to that of layoffs. But as Chris Topping (T&G shop steward in the body plant) explained, this world be desastrous.
The unity that's been acheved berween different sections of the workforce is only
organise the rank and file lo resist the anemais or ine managemeat sao lac Laur union officials to break the new momen lum I we can win the 80 per cent densand
not only will that increase our confidence generally, but it will in effect be amassive blow agains, the Social Contract
"It will pur us in the best possible position to smash any attempe by the Government to impose a third phase of wage controls.
Photo: Newsilne
was in their favour. But now the
situation is turning. and turn to do the kicking.
The PTA workers are clear that
mothing less that 80 per cent luy-off
pay will get theis back to work
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Women Against Rape
How to build a Troops Out Movement
DOIE WEPPLER
Women need financial independence and social standing to defend themselves from their husbands or other individual men and from any judge, police officer, or doctor who is biased against them. Women have the right to defend themselves by any means at their disposal.
TECHLIE in the
emeni of aims of the ne Women Against Rape group
wich held its first meeting
social manue in Conway Hall in
ondon last Friday.
bed in the pages of the Gaard. an and on national television used excessive zeal in interrogation'.
a London replying to charges of
amare of Arabs in the occupied erritory in the Middle East.
The charges were publicised in four page special in the Sunda Mimes. No such 'special' is likely so appear in the Sunday Times on torare and "excessive zeal' in me and even though brimin tal been condemned at th Erie to Centelainu Humar
bour's Northern Ireland Roy Mason is not for his dinlomacy i
ling allegations of torture.
reacts two ways by telling
wake of the
valist strike. Mason gave more
more concessions. After incing the increase to ten
errorist" offencer - such as
providing information which
hi he useful to a terroris organisation".
REPRESSION
In is because of this increase of repression that the Troops Out
estion in this country; a move-
at that alms above all else at
If the need is greater chan eve 0 too are he possibilitie
thin the movement have le
• to demoralisation hut to a CASE DE Me DUMECES MICE! in rebuilding the movement.
he outstanding question no
HOW LO CONSULE HE 1 crease this enthusiasm and curn it so a positive arca of activitie:
CNEOSATOCATIOUTNOT
ELAND RAPE
mcellent call to anek Tudes eil, Rosal and Stunn These were the Appeal Court judges
Two Views
This weekend, 2-3 July, sees the open conference of the United Troops Out Movement,
designed tore-launch and rebuild the movement in this country for self-determination for
the Irish people and the immediate withdrawal of British troops from Ireland, The
conference takes place at the White Horse pub, Church Road, London NW 10, starting af
10.30am. The aim of the meeting is to plan how the United TOM can be taken forward. The
International Marxist Group and Big Flame pur forward their views.
'There is absolutely no truth in the charges of torture, burning, electric shocks... Every case of alleged torture is investigated very thoroughly by the police and by the courts..Some cases have occured where the police was found to have
This is not Roy Mason white- Britain's Crimes Against the
Irish People Already by a number of Irish organisaBons au wil kroups is. an obvious means of challenge. The United Troops a Movemen snould see this tribunal as a priority. It can gather evidence for the tribunal by the difterent campaigns its supporters are engagedin- those on the issue of troops, on free speech on ers, on the Prevention of Terror: ism Act. Such evideoce can be a feature of United TOM Tally
MOVEMENT
How do we begin to fight it?
who reduced the 3-year sentence Tape charges Colostreamn Cuardsman Holdsworth, to a six-month sussupported the triest between how an But the potential of the Triounal must be wrasped th meeting this renewed debate on human rights troughout the world vive ai opportunity to built mainly in this country, but
audience than has been reached For a long time.
Such exposure would open up
TROOP: OUT
LONDON BRANCH
WORLENINTE HAINT RAPE
awarded 10 Tom the army. meaningful forces
"But one further
involve as individuals ing and Obviously it will be
can be grasped.
IMG Irish Secretariat
TROOPS•BUT
* MOVEMENT
8 TELULL.
distributed
mising activity on Ireland in th one area where all pass initiarives
- the working class organisations in this cous-
Has to be tilled in tuc
he Tribunal, the United TON and other related activities on the
people, This imples the planting, bine and
attendence st such activities should be nob-exclu
The idea of some activists ir the movement that all activitie sbould be only based on dele. strategy.
trade union branches, in theory seems a sensible way of giving the
practice it limits the number o trade unionists, Labour Party membervand other militants whal while wishing to be invalved, cannat win a majority in their groop for acion on Ireland olutionary
List League
The bovement this weekend
TOM national faces new opportunities. If the guiding principles adopted focus Di wants an opening car Ble movemeat Lose opportunities
the
arianians,
support DE lic
encouraged.
suppress local to which
Socialist Challenge
It was in opposition to this kind of judgement that the called a picket at the High Court
Tuesday. But heside this action, little perspective emerged for caking up the plight women who are victims of rape The speakers at the meeting arc all openly identified with Wages
for Housework: Wilmette Brow
of the Black Women's Wages fo Housework group in New York Giovanna Castello from the Ital ian women & movement. Orach O Shea from Ireland and Jeany Smith from n bartered women's
The statement of nine aims
al the beeting purs response on taese m
prevent and eliminate rape, but concretely reduces the solu tion to rane to the demand for
women's domestic
ers that power in society comes from money in the pocket and
not the ability capital leads to further confusior
1 Еве гарс 185
lany of the demands rais bar tram ering designe a pe
fram being designed
seeing the question as a social issue, fall into a trap which has BITTENNIS GITHER IN CHEC countries. By demanding heavitt The history of the Troops Out Movement has not been one of total failure. Despite the chauvinism of major sections of the working class, TOM in ils first year grew rapidly in size and influence. It Isid down a network of over 30 active branches. Through media coverage of a series of mational events, it created a national presence.
it won some support in Par Cainent and a lochold in a fee trade unions and Labour Part branches and some trades coun cis. And the revolut nary el begne to take TOM serious!:
But these successes have beer
ceased to be a brosd iront ai
mpted to win control order
ANTAGONISTS
le has to be said that the SWARMISS WETE HITISINS groupings. At least two Iormal oreanisations - the Kev
commonist trout and the Litternational Commun-
- and another was ai informal grouping based on the
officers and led b ex members of the Internations Marxist Group I is this last
ine bat in became
battles and CSTaDI5000 ASHT DE C
Against these displays of sect-
Big Flame pressed the
front — in which all activity in
TOM la ser the troops our of Treiand should be
Unfortunately, the bistory of TOM is litrered with attempts by these groupings to
activities which for PCTCHOLSHUIR The result was a paralysis of activity: members hegan to leave
The policies of the "leadership' bave themselves been a major cause of dedine. It has become clear that the leadership rejece the original concepion of TOM
to build a scrame network o
branches, reinforced by national initiatives, which would hear the task of creatine presence for anti-imperialist polițics in the working class.
PRESSURE GROUPS in
Instead, their conception of
TOM is as a small London-based DONUTE TOUD IONCE TO CIOUS
of Commons and Fleer Streer, which would sporadically organ-
sections of the labour morencal
through various revolutionary organisations they have acoess.
This is at the heart present differences la TOM We
30 June 1977 Page 10
prison sentences — an idea which came up several times in the
issue between individual men and women, not a vicious statement & DOUT WOUND TO SUC PAS DEa class society in deep conomic and social crisis.
Wages for Housework doese' t
rovide an adequate basis t
egin 1o comba even the dis
playa few wick over the dit-
stream Guardsman affair let alone the wide range of other
If wotien had money. could take taxis lare at night argued one of the campaign's supporters. Bur surely a campaig: tor voca councis lo provide
late night hacked up by the weight of tbe workers movement as a whole -
direction of collective action, rather than individual solutions
Nevertheless, the atrendance at the mectina was a nositive indics tion that women are less and les
prepared to tolerate their role i this society It equally expressed a determination to take rape out of the closer it used to share for too long with other issues such as abortion. believe that TOM mast be based on a steng network of acove Jocal branches — the only way to
creating
workolncer and working chas cortmunities up and down the country:
SIMPLE SIMON
In their recent letter to Re
Weekly the leadership' of TON described these ideas as Simple
withbeld support from their major iniatives in the lahour movement.
it was Big Flame militants who built mong Labour MPs for TON se origine
Phone Concene inter
land; and that we pur major
esounces into sending six del
Delerian ta hakra
Ve are nor againse worl Parliament the labou moversent. Work in the reformist organisations of the class will be one component or buldin TOM's presence in the working class. Bur equally important 1 WITE HADIL tions of the class in strugsie -during strikes, occupations, rent
-Ir is no accident chat the first working class TOM branch devconed on the Lower Hill esenri in Kirty at the end of the longest rent strike against the Housing
ESSENTIAL
And is is essential thar TOM should build a presence for antiinperialist politics LENE men's movement, in the student bovenient, and among sections bE the MIDTAIN CI1SS These perspectives lave not beca ac Depted by the TOM leadership In the wrong for TOM to ignore work
the Irish section of the
So these are our conclusions: thai socinlists working on the EST BUE OO JOUS CULOW work together as a broad frontfor unity in action. Secondly, the
branches, carryins out sustained propaganda in all sections of tie
series of minor naciotal initiatives, such as the International
Big Flame
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National Union of Students. Soweto and the Mashinini.
Recent news from South Africa moscates that the strugale
Recently we heard ahout the serined. The pe have
ice thought tha
whole thing was going to.
Fone had already spread to the
to go on and lace the
The people themselves think
has corne to a stage where they can't tolerate it and they are IF THEY want trouble they will get warned the Sowero police chief. And get it they did. A testetu demonstraton 1,000 to the Johannesburg police -building Inst Thursday in protest at the amt of sowero suisdent catons are By the endar the leaders, was met by tear
Sowero itself and 146 arrested.
This supposedly marked a
rained' attitude when the dedi Thursday...
Bricish press thar the demonstrators are snared.
of young blacks with stones in their bands. "Smiling faces of nate st was captoned More Wian 600 were down. in
INTERNATIONAI
Interview with Barney Mogatle
Why should they
stop now when
so many have
beenkilled?'
BARNEY MOKGATLE, the former secretary of the their bberation, and liberation is soweto Students Representative Council, left Britain going to come
former leaders of the SRC by the Executive of the thing shout bow they see the
After the exclusion of Soweto representatives from in cole are still maliants, and we the platform of the 18 June South Africa solidarity are still demonstration, Mogatle spoke on an alternative they shouldn't stay out of th platform which won the support of the majority of the country for a long time, in case demonstration. Before he left, Mokgatle spoke to Socialist Challenge about the present situation
NUS Executive's
prepared to fight until liberation comes. Because why should they 1 you stop now when so many students have already been killed? They must also embark on the road of violence language the white man in South Africa will understand is the barrel of the This reminds me of the vision
sEntury Africa chief, Founder of century the Zulu state). He said that the nots showed him the white mar coming from the sea, talking the anguage of the sea, and that b s going to grab the land and th aple are going to resist ight the foreign intruder. Thi shows that this is not a struggle that only started now, tarted in the age of Shaka. Jus going lo come, and he cane, so he said the people will fight unti
MoreSoweto murders
Someto lase year. Anather 13 have died in the last week, Stones ripped up from the streets are af What worries the apartheid regime is the growing political success ol the soweto students Already the hared Urban Basti Council has become letter, Now the African Teachers Association of South which represents the majority of black teachers, has come our in support of the Sowero students campaign to end Bantu educaTIon - mars to end all diserimination against educarion.
This is particularly aimed at colcattoo soendu. cach the Government spends E400. each white pupil and only €26 on CHI DECK
struggle developing?
The students who we have met
What they are afraid of is tha
they might geT in caught in of forgetting the strug DUSEKE LENE DURANCERS attacks
back to the country and heig those who are still there. Because the students still in the country say that they are going to carry on the struggle until those who have left come back and rein-
only
don?
Firstly 1 would like to say that wben 1 came I thought that I was
going to speak to the whol
who said they were pledging their
South Africa. But it seems that some of the organisations use the South African struggle to gain
their own needs, because they are
not yet prenured to unite them-
selves with other organisations so that they can be one and fight the
TERImE In South Alr
What happened on Saturdas was to build solidarity and show
people in South Africa that there
CIL COULSICH concerned about them. But there were organisations who were not prepared to withdraw their insults and allegations Mashimini in order
Students. I said, "if these peopl are prepared to pledge solidarity
and agree that we must unite,
why can't they withdraw thei
were to speak on the plarform from which Mashinini was withTHAT I MOUL DENT LOSE U ere breakine my solidarity ai Mashinini and splitting us into
IND HIS BEY COME TEETH!
who I war fighting with in South Africa, how with him when I come nutside? But most of the people became aware of
thought that poople were only a dead blacks in
ПОДА ЗЛІМ ПОЕ СЛЯИ
year ingration to register ter
LACCO LOS SER
Find preparine lo
were on a platform that
Their main priority is 10 go
going by what the thing. the people
to work with
and decisions.
who
Lula Continua'
you to tbe SWP
organise boble m
could 1 not stand ings
what side they abould students who come.
CSE Annual Conference 1977
July 2,3,4 Bradford Theme: The Restructuring of Capital, Class Strugale and tie Scale. The Cunlinence will start mid morong on Senday 2ne luke a Bractioed plenare sisiam, daccasions will be held in warchops arenged in sequence
Topics Include. Economic Policy, Crisis and the Coa, PuElic Secior Siugales Social Policy, Homing Secial Democic. Trace Unices, Labeur Frocess S Science, Changing Forms al Working Class Sease, IdiciogrThway al thr Ster LaR, Post-Mar Recartructen, ornatonciation of Capital and the FEC
Kein lumares Cente for Latin maican die, Bet Beted 1 Sola, commodat on
going to follow their name, but the majority came to pur side, because they were nor just interestod in who carne froen South frica but who was determine
peopie were not going to come to my side because was speaking
Was nor official. But the people "official o official but by the truth o
Is there any message you'd like te leave before you return to Afri The mesage a like to tel
cople is that they must never ! Fight. They ent be spare that
They must be sure that something is going to happen What we believe in is not how many people there are, bur how
najority of people can be ther and doing nothing, and a ming Ity can be there and doing something. And it is those peopis
South Africa are only prepared
who are So they must keep to their course
Those people who put thos around didn't get them from the horse's mouth; it wat only people who are not in favour of us. because they are not ready to
- and we are ready to o home. The struggle continue
as they say in Portuguese, "P
We don't know whether we'll be coming back to Britain, since
seems now that our place 1s it Aluca, so l'd like to say thank
and the TMO because they are the people who made an effort to support us an
meerings CHAISSE LOT
: were not in the ANC SWP and the IMG were prepared to assist us and organise meet Blain today betate at he m what we and I wish to say bank you to them. And we hope that they are
versity
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BELT AND BRACES politial thantro
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Parties of Government or parties of struggle?
parties which stood a chance of winning.
their successes and failures.
On the face of it the far left night have expected more votes, pariculary un Basque country where it had heen in the leadership of important strug dies, against the scabbing of the retornist parties. the Socialist Party
PSOE) tried to make the strug gles their own → a manoeuvre which failed at least once when leading members of a Barcesona strike committee declared their support for the Front for Workers Unity (FUT), the revolationary slale.
Nevertheless, the ides of the menton ate perpetle Begality: no official status on the ballot paper, lack of television time and so on.
The Demoratic Left Front problema. The PTE (Labour CYCECORIC these Party of Spain) set up the siate
cons and only officially joined it after the siate had been recog-
OBLIGING
1960s and has spent most of ita fife being obliging to its parent. It
LAST week we published leading politicians* comments on the elec-
lons, This week a more perceptive roup or commcaatos ca-
*et metand Shint ibe electioe
are OK because voting never did sayone any harm.' (Maria Bjena)
* For me
vote communist so they have to mork. (uan Javier, 10)
of 18 are
win becease la a poll done by the newspaper they foond out that 7 per cent supported Felipe Gomz-
Italy
workerspoorer
RE ComTTmIse that great victory for the italian worline class-nas come a stec nearer with the toralanoo or a draft agreement belween the Communist Party [PCI). Christan Democrat and four other parties
The deal includes an extension
tap phones and question suspects without defence lawyers being present, as well as plans for the
reduction of labour costs"
It is just a year since the election
in which the PCI made big gains
making the prospect of the histork
with the Christian Democrntsseem that much closer, In that year the PCI has shown its willingness Detapeng in the Chamber br abstaining in the Chamber UCIUL OO CYCEY BRDOEOL
INTERNATIONAL
Far leftin Spanish elections
"Useful voting' was the order of the day on 15 June. The bulk of the Spanish working class was convinced that after forty years in the electoral wilderness they had to make their vote count by opting for one of the mass working class
So, with one or two exceptions, the showing of the far left slates was uniformly poor. RICHARD CARVER discusses
was originally called the Interbational Communist Party, bu when Carrillo's gang claimed copyright on the name it politely CARTAI L CO MC LSEC CAlE It now claims chat 'the PTE does not consider itseif to the left of the PCE' e considered as a true party c overnment". The self-descri tion is quite apt. In common with the other major "Maoist' groups it shares the PCE's "stagist theory"-
STAGES Worken Organis Roni speary ORT out most cleariy: the achieve-
pments whose implications go rar bevond the mere restratis of capitalist democracy — are a dangerous
Despite these pretensio
latively Large sice (12,000 Jor U TE and 10,000 for the ORT) the
pointing. The ORT claims a
Babes and sucklings
alez, 70 per cent Carrillo and 69 per cent Fragu." (Carlos, 9)
Tm going to rote for Communist Party and for workers and the king.' (Conchấta 9) * "If lcoald vote l'd vote for the PSOE or the Authrotle Falange.! (Miguel Angel, 10) * The elections are partly a waste of time because you kaow the resuits beforehund. rich people vote for the Popula
Norkers World vete for Demo eradic Saarez, the workers vole for the PCL and people vole fog Felipe because they think he's Nashy." (Andres, 12)
Historic compromisenearer,
Issue. That is the only reason the Gaverument has stayed in power.
The mase recent product of the ISTOTC COmTEOMEE delcat of a Bill proposing liberalthe isation of the Althoueh the PCI voted for the Boil a latee senate aled to and a large number appear for the vote. It was bardiy poincidental that the PC1 was Involved in talks with the Gavernment a tae tiaue On "law and order' the party has given is full support to police TCATCH OE CENNELOE acions. The latest deal takes chat collahoracion in attacks oo the EPOLE MOVCIIA WCE NInACI e Pict nes reny elceea is really excelle *Reduction of laboge costs Ls police talk for wage cuts. The PCI abstained on che Government's
membership of 100,000 in its own EnSER COnCECLOE DIL SOEE bow it only managed to get 40,000 of them to vote for the party!Bat LIC HANCHA MIOC DOSL BISEFO! have to lie.. to give the masses confidence"!
The PTE' s results were littl better, except There it roped in two of the Damon ma ia c BG
suceeded in getting one deputy from the Esquerra (Republica
parly which had a major respon
ibibity for putting down the 1937 Mach naw Talla to call for the righr of self-determination SENCHAH
Popular Unity slate, which the main party was the MC (Communist Movensent).
more success at the polls, with a
deputy and a senator elected in the Basque country.
ATENEUMHY
Basque nationalists,
Etne datamt tare seroton
the distant future. By dif ferent transaliy ca-
very different, Ironically
devel-
Klientes cle e dalec
Trea metion was Otelo de Car The model for th
valho's dynamising groups in
Portugal.
NATIONALISTS
The number of social demo
ed a number 1
groups, and, most unportantly.
some radical Basque nationalist
It was representatives from this
latter group who were clected, or
a progranume which tactfully lel
out any demands related to the the Contad of had onl the Instead
Independence
regramm
panish stas Boundanies of the satel present autonomy within
Latine ty an h de -
tionary Communist League sympathisers of the Fourth Inter-mationsD and tne OC Commu-
nist Left Organisation), groups
usterity pian last Ocrober anc
ater proposed a scheme whereb: some ucis wowe navc a scoucco
TENUT ICHNE ditoton of the weal rate of inflarion and a cut in wages linked CO TM ILLN
ciano Lama, general se abortion laws. y of the PCI's union fed tian recen y mmounc0d EBRI *austerity is not a concession made to the
KISINC SIATEC E LOE CICI A
sur economic structures and fe changing sociery profundly*
The point was lost on handreds of thousands of workers who have suffered a drop in real-vage TSC OL INGER OSIECIN year, as well as a PCI unotficial strikes. agreement will probably be signed this weck, batir does not represent the historie compromise
Civen the lenins to which Lie PCL ha3 zone 1o sci ouc mn interests of the people who voto
vote for the FUT!
in Catalonin
araund the
Esquerra was the
were
CICESit w fede eo aten tor
working class.
MEETINGS
The MC, a
assumptions of the
country.
Do aspiratoos to meetings all but saw the main
, construction
-the reference to and atu in B 0
role
elf-management
Socialise Party (PSOE).
simply that
nist rany
today'
only
CONASUCT Centre within a few montbs. both adversary but an indis-
LUCIANO LAMA Ea on The present
TRYCIEIE
angry workers.
af about 8,000 and 5,000 respect» ively. A third group, Communist Action, withdrew from the siate
claiming that it had never intended to call for a
The FUT waso' t out to become I roverament pany or to sit sections of the ruling class to its programme. The twofold aim of
propaRan revolutionary programme and the involvensent of workers in struggle. Its candid
people like BUTLAC
caders and former political pris-
history of leadership among the
The programme centred on th
CLOOIOTIC WIDIC BURDEL reformist and centre parties: the
'social pact" for the implementa TO DE BUSC NYMACCOR tional pact' for the preservation of stronger,
the structures of the dictatorship and the 'autonomist pact" for the denial of self-determination to Catalonis, Galicia and the Basque tionary
The campoign organised mass
over the country, pecoonnany ordousa work
inciuding 15,000 in Madrid
Felipe's three conditions
SANTIAGO Carrillo, the man the Soviet Union loves 10 balc ditions for had little suceess in his chosen
matchmaker w cEl cannot meet: Adolfo Suarez' Centre and thi
For Carrillo the main polot is en. idee, Cario oni DCIEICTOAHYBDE
LEOSE would bt prepared to enter the Covernment on condition that its proumme Tosce TuHauO to the problems of the country
Hut Suarez is going alead with his courtship of the Basque and Catalun nationalists and Felip
Not the 13OE proved a reluctant ibarringe part-
dicinguishable from that of th The PSDE', aim is
capitalist demokracy in Spain the stabilisation of but while the PCE is suriving for respectability the PSOE doesa't want to tie itself too closely to a
wacO usar tail sper for them, it is ironic that the MICLENLCUCIELAS HAYE I intention ofallowing them isto the
happ enough
a reap the benelits of PC1 polic they know that behind the party are hundreds of thousands of very
Sociallst Challenge Front for Warhors Unity posters demand and to collaboration in Govemments pollaies.
The balance is not one of completo sucoc En tros for example, where the OIC anc Communist Action are relativel)
ITaLIY adorned with the flags of the boargeois Republic of the 1930 -hardly a great victory Tor rewolu-
tonered brone Lick, sTich hel
IES DWA EI WO SANS aKCEL explain clearly its policies of independent warking class orgsosabon ur aso shows that the strugale for principled unity of
Gonzalez has laid down con-
entry into Govero METT WOCH IC NILOWA TAC LEHLE
realisation of demo crafic freedos and the legaliso dom of ail political parties; 2. that a sew consriruens process is opener we conr Denere In the reform of the Constitution because to reform something 1
London IMG
Battle of Ideas public meeting SPAIN AFTERTHE ELECTION Speaker: Richard Carver [International Editor, Socialist Challenge] Tues. 5July 7.30pm Conway Hall, Red Lion Square London WC2
Portugal
Government
threatens
refuse workers
THE Portuguese Sociabst Parly has threstened sirikine Lisbor
refuse morkers with the sack if
hey don't call off their strike ove
resort it is even prepared to cake a
leaf out of Franco's book and
LIHUE LIL WOTACE INO LIG SOEY
which would make them liable to
military discipline
Theie moves follow demon-
stracions by mare [ban 200,000
workers, organised by the Con-
farerstion ol Portupiese Work:
end to the ts per tene wage rise which last week demanded an
Tr OS HORTE DIC
of 100,000 in Lisbon, showed the
increasing opposition within the
workers' movensent to the auster
ity policies which have been at the
30June1977 Page12
Spanish revolutionaries will be a
detenir oni
But the campayt • ICH LOD
on 15 June LCR launched a nation wide series of moctings to. build upon th
programme of the FUT and b CHMADC mANY OT LOS NOCKEE contacted during the campaign to join the organisation
But nolike the others st shl doesn't expect to be offered a portfolio in the new Govern TOLTE
there is mothing to reform. There is nod a Constution which is a product of the wishes of the popic bur ower the wanes Ty u dictator, 3. economic policy must be on ENE COSTS OS HAE WE DOJONO owserve We are nod prepareu to see an economic policy which HOO CH NRDOR O TAC CrIT Jall on the shoulders af rhose who have almays had to bear it. centre of Socialist Party polics since its election
The economic situation is continaing to wersen — prices have risen between 25 and 50 per cen
dewalusbon in reoruan The larest demonstrations rep resent a growing rift berween the Socinhist and Communist Partia in Parlament The A MOLOD confederaticn which organise the marcbes is controlled by th CP - huttheCP basstill shown its willogness to support the Goi-
bousing and public sector policies.
At the moment, howerer, it has everything to gain by bringiog
out on the streets in defence of their living scandards
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The Swedish Road to Socialism
reports from Sweden.
Twenty per cent of its members split from the VPK. The differinces are longstanding Ineb Stalinist" faction has always bac a daily paper, and they have criticisms of the leadership
But during the last three years mainly because of the attitude of the leadership: spectacular expulмоля, готова то дус сос оррод tion an adequate representation on the national leadership and so
•The political
questions nave been raised by the development of Eszocommunisn"
*K leadership condemned 1 ina, Sache City explain Czechoslovakia from the Soviet Union, and has
doesn't want to break links with the CPs in the East, bur it has expressed views which are to a certain
stent opposed to those of the
astern Europcan burcaucracie
ABANDONED
The political framework for this was already outlined in the mid 19r0s when the VPK anandoned the conception of the dictatorship of the proletariat perlin and o Poli propagating a DOES Leonid Brezinev know amething we don't? The 200 nile an-bour Matra Bagheera is probably the best getaway car in the world. And at E15,000, one of BEC DOSE CTE0ES The first secretary of the Soviet Appointed President had a we- Communit Panty and Citien Materi Anather he Mercedes years in office and be could solve the Soviel transport probiem single-handed. of his visit. His talks ar Rambouillet produced a joint Franco Soviet declaration which is not worth the paper it is written on It is packed with pious phrases about human rights (which dipomatically avoids the real sitaalon in the USSk and Don intervention in Africa (rememher che French paratroops in Zaire?).
NEW FRIENDS
But the trip also gave Leonid the hane the caution cade champagne and caviar and to attend a dinner at the Elysee PRisce, where ne wore a whe tie and tails and ate off goid plate. f social engagements didn't giv
im time to visir Georges Mar chais, the bead of the French Communist Party, an omission which Marchais dismissed as quite a stir in diplomatic circles. Marchant one of die crier coincidence Ideologues of the dissident Western CPs. His party recently
dererrent. missiles are programmed to land on Soviet cities - in fact there is
INTERNATIONAL
Recent developments in the British Communist Party are not an isolated phenomenon. Scandinavis, for example, has seen similar tensions. The latest example is the small Swedish CP (VPK] where a pro-Moscow faction broke from the party in February and launched a new party called the APK [Communist Workers Party]. BO BERGMAN
Though equally committed to the "parliamentary road", the oldвізи заднінь орроей L15.
They argued that the leadership had adapted its needs of the vouth and student and had thereby turned into an intellectual, petit-bourgeois parLEADE TO SEEDECES!
Tuence in the working clas INFLUENCE
has steadily year's trade union elections the only factory where the VPK made gains in comparison with ie Socialist Party was the hug Colvo plant in Goteborg... an there they had a united slate with the : Trotskyistst Above all the VPK has no answer to the crucial problem of How of the so to dealers t Have proved untie to take sa. vantage of the fact that last year Come in severent for the firs time in The APK has a more serious attitude to this problem, though their answer is one of opportunism May Day it politely refrained from raising its own slogans on the
Not on speaking terms
probably one pointed straight al Brechnev's garage The French Covernment was anxious not to stir things. Paul Laurent, a member of the Comdo with a bunch at roses
The APK has failed to understand the importance of any of VPK an aodience among the radicalised students and youth WE Benon. power stations and ideological
and cultural questions in general. LOC WOUL CHICEMAITS TA CICA so tiny of middle get e old workers, the VPK of much ounger people, many with a
backgrour APK's implantation is limited to the north of Sweden
policies to the absence of any democratic proce the ving dierence and mone of have been discussed in an ergan political sed way intide the party — so it the party have never received any clarification of the issues.
PREDICT
The APk's future is easy ti
redict. In its present form it is party with no future. It will die two. For the VPK the perspecchallenge th tives are more complex. It coD tendencies.
One — left radicals — is very
which was running a campaign on pole Tar leibeers in allance
Another current is concerned above all not to let the party fall below the 4 per cent needed to win seats in the next parliament ary elections, and thereby lose a la appear on a television pro gramme interviewing East Euro television company rescheduled iDe programme to appear arter Breziney s visit.
Brezhnergore Matre degheera, but Forsign Minister Gromyko had to make
the APk con
was marked by th
questions
far left.
At
SANTIAGIY
Ists don't piron display
mile's book,
ambiguiry book 1s-ch
"STALINISTER!
lot of subsidies from the state ments. The To do that it wants to cut all links with the irritating and offensive
The thind - which is dominant in the leadership — puts all its faith in international develop-
Communist Parties:
Each Other's
Throats
Cairo, echeral Secretary BE Me Spaniel Comi manse Parp we arguments that pie most reachina publ
thic spectaculur artack on Cer
Eurocommunist and ite State, was quickly answer
ed -nociusi by the Sparish party
who sajd bet chemicle could give
soundstepting and
ning and the an a se
Timesdaicibed Carille truly
ast year, which now places him in 7 Ps. URe the Briti
The vicioliness of the retpons
Stroppition that carrule's
many of the salenient ah th Sovin lion made he hu
Trom all toe oavious gonclusion: on die need for a petitical revolution to eventhis the hur
1177
Eurocommunist
VPK to forces for "social change
Europe as a whole. And
this, they think
save the credibility of Swedish Communist Party. gresight anticipis of the Keem
Even thes theretical deselop real does not mesh an eithe nue warso make a compiere honk Ergin the ather. Bot tise
their mastum portant distinuishong Teeture Sominuer to be their seintionship te the Sovide Unsin And Mascon Swedish sail, in the mans Wetterh European parties When in trice t jo Spain in 1900 the result was a
Allaham
Moscows role in exacerbating
hsiade Si the amaler Europe
ta ratier South that is hopes ta use these Jensons on mornine to the bia
*Next week Sitals Chit lena: will print extracts from Barcarunanim and the Statt
30 June 1977
IN BREF
MOZAMBIQUE: The Governor of Tete province has said that Rhodesian troops have once again invaded the country in the Chioco area. The Rhodesian Minister of Combined Opera loos maintains bis Govern ment's right" to stad troops into foreign territory. British For eign Secretary David Owen has warned the Mozambicans bot to "rock the boat' over the invasion
Jeopardise a settlensent in Zimbabre.
SOUTH AFRICA: Twelve blacks came up for trial last
hers of the 'main machinery' of the African National Congress. During their firs appearance beforethe Supreme Courtall but one of the 12 were wearing leg irons. Breyten Breytenbach, the writer jailed for nine years, now faces & furtber 17 charges. ZAMBIA: Police used tear gas to quell a riot of 2,000 squatters in the copper belt. They were protesting at the demolition of their homes. President Kaunda has banned opposition political campaigning.
POLAND: The Workers" Def ence Committee has announced that it has mat hundreds signatures on a petition de mandine tbe release of tic WDC members and sympathisers arrested last month.
USSR: Ilya Glazunos, oneof the most prome orcas 209 artists, is likely to bave bis
removes a surrealist painting UCE AT ATICE ACI ander Solzhenitsyn and Leon
EUROCOMMUNISM: US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance hastold an Italian journalist that it is possible that Communist Party electoral victories may create problems for the Sovie block that would more than outweigh tbe damage than Eurocommunist night bring to the NATO structure".
LEBANON: Christian militias,
massing troops for an attack on
ern Lebanon. Israeli sappers have built a road into Lebanoe to create better access for their forces. The Palestinian leaders are participating in round table talks with the other groupe to discuss the formation of join Palestinian-Chriscian militias to patrol the area!
KURDISTAN: Ten men arrested at random after an assassina tion attempt on the Governor of Sulamaniya have been execured by the Iraqi aurborities.
PERU: Last week saw 48-hour strikes in a number of Peruvian cities against the Giovemment's economic policies which have led to massive price rises. In Cuzco police opened fire on
have Imposed a curfew
GREECE: The Greek Government denies that the retirement of 126 colonels, nearly a quarter of all officers of thar rank, is in any way connected with recent plots to assassinate the Prime Minister and overthrow the Government.
BRITAIN: The Foreigo Office has drawn up a lengue cable of the performance of countries on
enough Britain comes near the tan of the table thoush thi judgment of the Strasbourg
Ireland didn't belp. One of the clera lo drawing up thi table was the right to leave the country, If i had included thi right to enter the country perhape Britain wouldn't have done as well
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Brass bands again
COMMENT
Combat
the
circle
spirit
THE PRESENT situation in the
working class movement am-
phasison the urgency of build•
Ing a popular class struggle
sewspaper, anchored to
theoretical hertage
Small circle politica
on of developing struggle 1
the negation of our programme
hope of addressing an ever
widesing sachion of workers on
HARRY WICKS [Middiesex]
Non-aligned
greetings
Becar ra comber met at that time tell marty left endlesaly discussed whether
a workara" state. We are giad to see that Socialiat Challenge has brokan out of this petty sectan are ab coronaro on one Important fact: the USSA
JanT what we want.
on occasion being should become stalle and a bar to unity
the International Marxist Grouc has broken from the stance of
IN AMBEREDECOR
Challenge is a useful and valu-
able step forward for the far left.
overall coverage are unquestion-
*i the arity of many foolut
arised 09 predecessor Red
Case is essential If they are
be overcome.
Firstly, and most obviously,
the coverage of 'cultural" Issues
almoat entirely contined to res.
accessible to a very amall prop- into our activities.
enouraging rates to as and.
encouraging
Imliod, 'Cuitural govarage must its
concantrato primary on leid-
ATE NOR WU0 D0 8 A0S
MOTH
much of what has so far appear-
ed in this section of the paper.
I HOPE NO-ONE takes seriously
Outer Danons nano. onan w of brass bands Sociall
Challence 16 June Pleasa note
the following paints about brass
They were formed by and ar I TA TO nausa Tran
Corsos urat the ones sane lond
to regiment their workforce out-
side the factory hours. The barid
I0BHD0,ana
The 000 moment asing
egrated in the 1950g, It's boan
artificially revived by the instru
ments industry (e.g. Boosey and
TOWNOS: 00010n00 000D
band tuition, which yleids quick
The middle class now holde
together the band movement.
from conductors la Elpar How-
managers such as the directors
*They operase as a chillan.
Discipline is enforced
through a atriet hierarchy (rank
brass blavers in the first division
bands, and only a handful in the
assuming that its complete proCome seen ortocion:
- an antude win exclude!
have Challenge.
We have nor boon very active
sargented let being tooled
in a amall way in the women'
movement en
inger apen the too and of Mine me re he mie
more involved and committed to spreading soclalist views.
HELEN REID and MIKE BAINES (Birmingham)
Disappointing
Surplus Value
rapidly becoming the intellectu
content. An important sin ot
and discussions to
notory talled to go tnis.
A further point flows from
uninitiated still contronted by a trightening
tempte have been clearly made to and this appalling and question ture far there break from the use t thare must
Ical activat, but which present a plays serious barrler to drawing others
No-one is Baking for Brad
to the paper's readers and potan-
gholto and ralale to the thous
EDDIE ASHBEE (Southampton|
see any blacks in thee
(and by implication endorsad)
main the a decan
petitions.
been
Contests
(under assumed names) in dit!
bande, advertises the adjudicator's back pocket ing the adjudicator the playin оговт, япо зо оп
A tow professional players are Musicans Union members,
the band movement is strong
exploited by TV, radio, concer
rights for a living wage.
Their basic repertoire is nos
Its only relation to the workin
an 'their music by the music
in soon, tee wasa band top resents the working class only in
sir is conscied by en prete humor test a
scratch in evaluating music'a
Collective, 8 Road. Nor 20
Applied for membership of th MG and that Tarig Is back: his old, bad habits of talking to
Bma it I would write about м the Labour Hany. C8 85кH should put up candidates for
Parliament,
thomselves of that ilk, Par
La poorage on the basis tha that is the best way of abolish ng the House of Londa
on's review of Mikios Janoso' everyca Private Vices, Public Virtues land
Three other triends went to see the
reader lowing review in Socialist Chal Common opinion of the rate lenge (16 June)
aler soning the flim - preten-
TOUS VOTE REO
The tian Cas er Prince and
this bertarlen rende united Austrian Crowi
physical and spiritual evercises
But deeply pot cal? Design-
ahalysis otlibertarian politics 7 DOIFIMDOS00
Shampoo (both the ilim and the
substance). A political lim has
a marily
CantonE and toval
Compass, Lenny). At beat Privat
Vices, Public Virtues hita politic:
La campaign
BOSSES
noney
They're
and thair employers musicians
Non-sectarian
sectarianism
revolutionaries
ould have put it. It depends
mean by revolu-
lament is a sham and a fraud.
Soft core
mare profitable
all had The reviewer
raver-ending secondi bored ma stift. every day doing
matters. neaithy ten one spir ot Sara suggests a gins! letter, a roview
understood politica one in no fails. The review is then
WANT S
FOR GOD RAND
arcise. Wall 1 wam you
which haa alerted to put u
:andidales for Parliamant ha
don't think you should really
When you have split into two
one which is still revolutionary other which deals with reform-
COROLLAC Parllamentary candidales. will be delighted to act as a neutral chaliman in the arguRICHARD CLEMENTS Editor,
disastrously Physician, heal thyself - ED.
JOHN at a tangent. But at worst, and in
good director recruited to the
soft-core market, which is incidentally
distinguishes
didn't make me think feelingly. I
aroused me. But in reality the
naked bodies iwoman naked first, man
T hope that Marxiat criticism
tha be of rat her not
Socialist in strikes me that randorship TO CITOR will be hardar to achlove if this
apirit of Sarah Hart'a at least contain an understandang of the
circumatances in which a flim
Pablo to situate the film in material reality ang. not in the circlor 8 1890 JOHN BORANESOUR CONDOLI
Sociallet Challenge
SUNBEAM J8.
'Not an easy
task'
IT'S NOT AN easy task we have set
would like to point out what !
the Sociallat Challenge meeling here in Man-
What seemed to be coming across, to me at legat, was the usual one we all know so wall Our paper was the only ann to...
thinking that we must get out of, however difficult The maintain those existing, is to BeST A 1O GUAR 20113
always rake up as a backing to
our present generalisation, how
were in the past Typically the attack on the socialist Heview group intos pos has caused folk to mach for their guns and close their minds to the
As for me, I've been wrong
some
SWP and Spain
123
June) seems unable to distin
guish between slander and fair
of the Socialist Workers Party
Sociafist Workercamed an article
вла новини і котакуті согаав:
of the LCR were being sectarlan
for not entaring wider
evolutionary slate than the on
Richard Carve
that the other three lar leit' slates
in Spain objectively supported
oneorother of the projects of the
reformist Socialist and Commu-
ПІВЕРНО ВИНН КАЗ. ТЕТО
fore, no basis for unily.
If geoms to methat the article in
designed carry the teles
stake in the spanisn elections
than to have a dig at the FI "You
all for a joint slate here, why
'in Spain' If it wasn't
sectarianty motivated the conclu
sion isovanworso - that the SWF
Furthermore, it la quite right for
30 June1977 cases, in the past. What I needed
to how right they were, but a COOCY COM HE B8T OU Seban the corner an aly
Justity somehow hisstanding se a
of our coming together is the understanding that we all have a lot to learn
bandency lowards bureaucrac
belleving as we do that It is the task of the working class 1o
of the revolutionary party. Wa are leaders. not teachers
strona spring trem the workers
In struggle not tho party. Sening
this tendency towards burnau
cracy. We are leamere precisel
(Ashton-underLyne] Socialist Challange to point ou
between SWP's call for a 'revolutionary'
avowed refusal to have anything to do wlthone in Britain. That thi contradictions "national' and International' posi-
column Inches is tributenot to tha supposed gratultous nature
aciatist Chailange's commenti butto the glaring Inconsistenciet
СТаВИ ДОЛО НОНИ ПІПКЕНЕН the opportunlat and sectarian practices of the SWP are to be ignoned while wo walt for four
Barious polemica which most of the current mom bership of the SWP will simply find mystifying
CR is the larges revolutionary organlaation
raistion as ene
you organisations with cantrint pro
tation to the reformist bureau
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BUILD THE PICKETNOW CLOSE GRUNWICK!
A flying start to the fiver' campaign
By Geoff Bell THE GRUNWICK DISPUTE began over the exploitation of women and Immigrant workers
workers to belong to a union. Two weeks ago the issue of police TATE HIS DICKCE DEDULE! be strike national attention. It is still about all those things But it is also about much more. I
shoul
Shirley Williams, the Govern
ent"s Education Minister and cader of the Labour right, posed the alternatives this way. In a speech last Friday she explained that when she attended the picker it was "wholly orderly and peace-
She continued; 'But I do deplore the intervention of the far right and far left who have no
has done no good to the cause my nion is fighting for.
The ridiculousness of Williams's claim that the mass picketIng and mass action has •done
ppearance on the picket line
hich brought national promi sence to the strike and sent Government ministers scurrying around trying to.get some set-
CONTRACT
Jut it ls the general poin
Villiams is trying to make that
aporderly tactics the seme
nd orderly' tactics -tactics of talks, compromise and
don't struggle" which produced the Social Contract, and with it a cut in real wager and rising unemployment. proaches with same attitude ll was Callaghan who advised APEX leader Ros Grantham to limit the number of THERES C CAPELICHE and Employment Minister Booth In particular, who offered concason after concession to Crun wick boss George Ward.
The final, pathetic cringin
Sunday night.
Booth offered Ward yet a further
When Ward that he would not be bound by any such finding, and that matter what happened be would
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Complete and retura to:
optimistic:
Booth considers it 'optimistic because at least Ward had to talk. And that, for Bootb, for Williams and for Grantham is a big victory.
Their whole political philos aphy is that the employing class and the working class have common interests, and provided sople art reasonable and s orted out. The mass picket wa en hy Grantham not as a wa of winning the dispute, but as way of pressurising Ward to be
the picket threatenod to from his control GramLam BEtempted to limit it. lut the Grunwick strike com mittee have rejected their lead er's advice. They bave rejected the use of arm bands and call for maximum picketing. The policy of the strike committee is a living example of the alternative way of Labour and trade union Jeadership.
The strikers rely bot on talks, Balding as sonia an compromises, means of forcing Ward to 'com-
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