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No. 45, November, 1982 No 45 November 1982 20p BRITAIN Down with protectionist, poison! faCing yet another round of redundancies and closures, know that they must either save the Miners, steelworkers, NHS jobs they have or never work again. The miners, who have se,en sixteen pits close in the last two all out to smash Tory attacks! years and 22,000 ,jobs go out the window, are balloting over strike action for a 31 per cent The spectacle of Labour Party leader Michael wage rise and against a new NCB 'hit list'. Foot and TUC general secretary Len Murray Their leaders give them only one answer: wait ambling along like aging Sunday school teachers for a Labour government that will try harder to at the head of the 22 September 'Day of Action' put Cold War depression British imperialism on demonstration speaks volumes about how these its feet again. For the Labour/TUC bureaucracy, messenger boys for the bourgeoisie intend to 22 September was organised not as a springboard 'resist' the Tory onslaught. Next month, Tebbit's for class struggle, but as a vehicle to cement bill becomes law, outlawing all solidarity the unity' of the Labour traitors at Blackpool action, aimed at smashing the closed shop, aug­ the following week. Whilst the Labour right wing menting the already viciously anti-union Prior went about its job of crippling its erstwhile Act. The new Tory 'think tank' report promises left opponents, health workers were paraded an end to indexation in social security and around the Blackpool conference centre to rap­ pensions, an end to state-financed higher educa­ turous applause. The siren call of the trade tion, death to the already miserably inadequate union bureaucracy echoed all the way down the National Health 'Service. And minority workers 'Golden Mile' and beyond -- vote Labour for face everything from deprivation of social ser­ NATO-loyal Social Contract austerity! vices, to deportation, to death by fascist killers. Buoyed by the Falklands war, the decline of From the Labour/TUC leaders come .. , sp,eeches. the Liberal-SDP Alliance and Labour's faction Hat'red for this government runs deep. ASLEF fight, Thatcher now looks forward to winning the strikers last summer were prepared to stay out next election even with, and over the backs of, even under threat of 'PATCO treatment' sackings more than three million unemployed. Her confi­ from the Tories. Health workers have been wait­ dence says a' lot about the state of Britain -­ ing seven months for a barely minimal wage rise and about the state of the trade union 1eader- and have been told to drop dead. Steelworkers continued on page 11 Blackpool's promise: Cold War Social Contract The trade union bureau­ in order to be available for 'responsible' cap­ crats came to Blackpool, in italist rule. With Militant constitutionally im­ the words of David Basnett, paled, Benn politically prostrate and the with 'grim determination' to National Executive and Shadow Cabinet solidly see the return of a Labour stacked with right wingers committed to aus­ government in the next elec­ terity at home and a nuclear-armed NATO abroad, tion. After three years of Labour's promise at Blackpoo1 was a the most turbulent factional government of Cold War and Social Contract. warfare in the Labour Party for decades, this year's an­ Defeat the witchhunt nual conference saw a com­ To the dyed-in-the-wool social democrats of plete and utter rout of the Militant, the witchhunt must have seemed like ,a left -- with the TUC calling supreme injustice. Their record of service to the shots. From the over­ the party leadership is long and inglorious -­ whelming vote for a witch­ refusing to demand imperialist troops out of hunti~g register and purge Ireland, falling into line behind Thatcher's of the Militant tendency on Falklands war with their 'socialist policies' to Monday to Tony Benn's path­ defeat Argentina, inviting the racist cops into etic oath of unconditional the union moyement, dropping any defence of the loyalty to Michael Foot on thousands of youth arrested in the inner-city Thursday, a set-piece battle explosions of summer 1981 after a reprimand from was played out whose outcome the Labour leaders. Their' stewardship of the was never in doubt. LPYS has helped channel the disaffections of The right wing's reasser­ thousands of youth into ,the dead end of Labour­ tion of control was a message ite treachery. They achieved their modest Len Murray, Michael Foot "lead' 22 September Day of Action into to the ruling class that success over the years faithfully playing by Labourite diversion. Labour is putting its house continued on page 10 Pacifist patriots in a' panic Student eND leader won· to ·Trotskyism When Alison Pont, founding president of joined CND when it was Liverpool University CND, distributed a state­ reborn as a result of ment on the first day of Freshers Fair announc­ I the renewed Cold War ing her break from CND pacifism in favour of the following the Soviet in­ Trotskyist politics of the Spartacist League tervention in Afghani­ (SL), it threw CND stalwarts 'into a frenzy of stan. I supported the confusion and elicited considerable interest Soviet action simply on from many students. The first meeting of the the grounds that it held university CND was 'not going to be the usual more hope of a better old CND meeting where we talk about how terrible life for the Afghan nuclear weapons are', she said. Her statement people, especially the argued that the first meeting of the CND society women, and that the Red later that week debate out a resolution to 're­ Army must be preferable ject any support to CND, which channels oppo­ to the religious fanat­ sition to the war drive into support for the ics opposing them who capitalist system' and to recognise rather that were reminiscent of the 'the Soviet Union must maintain the utmost religious fanatics in nuclear vigilance against the NATO threat .... Iran. The road to peace lies through class war and thE Like the majority of struggle for workers revolution .... ' people who join CND, I There followed three hours of heated arguments was paralysed by terror and bureaucratic manoeuvres which.included at­ of nuclear war. This be­ tempts by CNDers on campus to get the student came a block in my mind union first to suppress and then to censor the obliterating all other SL contingent at anti-Cruise march: the communist alternative to CND leaflet. This having failed, the small-time issues so that I felt pacifism. patriotic pacifists on campus contacted Mersey­ that nothing could be side CND, who in turn contacted national CND, solved until we had 'got rid of the Bomb'. That had a point! It was suggested at the same con­ who in turn empowered a Merseyside CND heavy to CND depends upon this fear for recruitment is ference that we should have a CND symbol visible simply disaffiliate the university group if it evident in the continued use of the film The War for TV cameras to pick up during the pope's got 'taken over'. Needless to say this blatantly Game, and its slogan 'Protest and survive', visit, as 'the pope is the biggest peacemaker anti-communist measure has never been necessary which er,lphasises that the campaign is primarily in the world' . against the numerous fake-revolutionaries like concerned with survival, that all you have to do the Communist Party, Socialist Workers Party or is 'protest' in order to achieve this. I be­ 'Classless' pacifism serves the bourgeoisie International Marxist Group, whope aims are lieved that nuclear war grew daily nearer be­ qui te compa tible wi th those of Msgr Bruce Ken t cause of 'increased international tension', a In fact, CND is not classless, but a campaign and the other preachers, patriots and pacifists handy phrase for CND because it operates as a which attempts to tie the working class into an who run CND. catch-all which evades the issue that there is a alliance with the bourgeoisie, ie a popular Shortly before the meeting began, a handful military confrontation between imperialism and front on a bourgeois programme. Unity is the of campus CNDers planted theltlselves outside the the workers states, and that one must take a watchword for CND but occasionally someone's room to distribute a statement calling on side defending those workers states -- despite politics would emerge and I would find myself students to boycott the meeting, reiterating degeneration under the political control of horrified by the reactionary company in which their commitment to dismantle nuclear weapons in parasitic bureaucracies -- against imperialist I found myself. For example, it emerged in a 'all countries, East as well as West' and throw­ attack. CND seemed like the perfect answer to discussion with a fellow member of the Univer­ ing out the standard CND slander tha~ the me at the time; I had been involved in si.ngle­ sity CND that she was not only anti-abortion, Trotskyist SL is some sort of Kremlin surrogate, issue campaigns before -- pro-abortion, anti­ but believed that the National Front had the , pro-Soviet'. This did not stop more than 35 nazis, fight the education cuts, boycott Bar­ right of free speech. On another occasion I heard people from attending the meeting (as compared clays etc -- but this one seemed to override all some companions complain on a Hirushima Day to the 20-25 who attended the meeting called-for others because it was about the survival of the march that even.the slogan 'Maggie out' (which those ' who share' CND's aims the foilowing week).
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