Published by tbe Communist Party of Britain (,Marxist· Leninist) No 25 Nov 26th 1977 5p

THE Labour Government stands isolated as the firemen· s first national strike gathers support from all sections of the working population in Britain. The Government's wage restraint policy stands discredited. The only support for the Labour Government comes from the equally discredited Tory 'opposition'. Labour and Tory leaders alike have been heckled by firemen everywhere in Britain. In Bournemouth one fireman told Thatcher that there was little to choose between the parties.

The firm and principled of the strike. In Wembley a stand by the f\remen has won poster asking passing the admiration of everyone in motorists to sound their Britain. The 'backlash' hooters if they supported the encouraged and actively firemen was taken down when whipped up by the Government residents objected to the and the mass media has continuous tooting. turned into its opposite - so The National Association much so that the Government of Fire Officers reaffirmed is conducting a campaign to its instruction to its member$ entice the public against the not to cross picket lines at firemen's just demands. The fire stations. And London Government has the imposs­ Fire Officers decided to rake ible task of showing that a stronger action against those take-home pay of £4 7 is officers crossing picker lines. luxury living. The Government has Messages of support have shown the bestiality of cap­ been coming to the firemen's italism by its readiness to headquarters from trade allow people and property to union branches everywhere. burn. It is only the humanity Thousands of signatures have of the firemen that has so far been collected outside fire prevented some of the worst stations and in factories, tragedies from raking place. schools, and offices. In Already the damage to prop­ Battersea, £1000 was coll­ erty would pay for the fire­ ected in the first four days men's claim many times over The AUEW National Public support for the firemen grows to meet this latest Government attack on the working class. Piciure john Sturrock (Report). Committee clears the standing all their hypocrisy this is but a mimmum and industrial muscle. The regarding the need to correct members in the factory shall shorter working week has anomalies. The decision pursue direct domestic been on the agenda for a long decks for a wages fight calls for the direct mobili- improvement over and above time and now, when no-one sation of the membership to this. related to their actual is even predicting a reduction THE decision of the AUEW wage for skilled men from achieve the demand and an earnings. It has the merit of in unemployment, is the time to present to the Engineering £42 to £70 and pro-rata for immediate recall of the Nat- simplicity and is uncluttered ·tor employed brother to join Employers' Federation a other workers, the so-called ional Committee in the event with a long unachievable with unemployed brother in clai.m for a basic £70 weekly semi-skilled and labourers. of rejection by the employers. shopping list. The decks are an arrack on this monstrous wage and a 35-hour week is It rs a partial attempt to The claim should be cleared to attain by nego- capitalist injustice to our the first major· essay in the remedy the ahomolies in the understood as modest in the riation or, in the case of class. new collective bargaining differential problem caused extreme, for few earn as stupidity by the employers, The claim must be dis- period of national importance. by the absurd Social Contract little as £70 a week. The direct action. cussed at factory meetings It affects 3 to 3! million and Incomes Legislation. It achievement of the claim The struggle for a higher with fellow workers, at union workers in the engineering is the first clear rejection: would give little direct gain base-rate for all will help branches and in district industry and will undoubtedly no more income policies: except in holiday credits and those who have not, for committees to involve the be endorsed by all the unions The Engineering Employers overtime pay where worked. whatever reason, been able whole membership in the in the Confederation of Eng­ and the Confederation of · This has been taken care of to supplement the national fi!>;ht for a living wage, more ineering and Shipbuilding British Industry, are already hOwever for once again the rate, strongs~ .localities leisure for those in work and Unions. It lifts the minimum sounding the alarm, notwith- engineers have insisted that uniting with those lacking in jobs for_rhose unemployed. page 2

Increased THE WEEK WE READ that of the 2246 regis­ grants ore tered independent schools attended by 6 per cent of Britain's children, all of which are subject to inspec­ a nght tion, only 1299 (58 per cent) arc recognised as efficient by the IT seems that the bourgeoisie is Department of Education and not content with the cfrorts of the Governmc1ht in its r{ttnck on educa­ Science. That is why the private tion. Tncrcnsccl tuition fees. redu­ sector of education will have to go . ced facilities, staff sackings do not satlrfy thE' lhir.~t for destruc­ tion. AT the Bellman Bookshop (see The rcccntl\· published Hobart PUBLIC l>IEETINGS) a speaker Paper 'Payment by Degrees'. wri ­ from the floor was denouncing tten by two uni\'ersit.\' lecturers, acts of individual terrorism and strongly condemns the existing going on to explain that revolu­ method of financing students in tion was made by the mass of higher education. They argue that workers. 11 Give the workers 'the direct grant system is ineffic-, ient- one woltld have thought it sticks and muskets •: . . she began at which point an interjector sco­ iJlSUfficient - and pt·opose that ffed, "You're a bit out of date, 'education vouchers' be issued lady". The forceful reply was in­ which students would 'cash in' at stantaneous. 11 Maybe, but ('d a c0llegc. These vouchers would rather have a million sticks than not meet the full cost of the course one bomb, usually in the hands undertaken: the shm·tfall would be of an amateur, and often in the met by a loan repayable through a hands of a policeman in disguise!" graduate tax on future income- ,.,. ith interest~ Of course this pre­ supposes the graduate will find a job in the first plrtce: The idea is IN Washington Senor Carillo, sec­ that such a system would release retary-general of the Spanish finance for new resources and im­ 'Communist' Party was denounced fhis t'\ovember marks rhe .1;)rd Annivcrs.Jrv of the Albnni~ln Revolution. The establishment prove the prospects for young pea­ as a scab by striking maintenance of the dictatorship of the proletariat in Albania proved to be a trail blazed for workers piC' wishing to enter furthet· and workers at Yale University when throughout the world. The pic(urc shows miners.from Vnlias ncar Tiran;l. discussing the higher education. As the authors national newspaper of Albnni.:L (Picture \T.\) he crossed a picket line to give a no doubt realise. this will certain­ lecture. Senor Carillo said "the ly not be the case and even further opp01·tunity to speak should not be education 'economies' will cer­ denied." tainly resuli. Europe,Japan take up revolutionary tasks There is no douht thnl the pre­ SC'nt grant system is imperfect . 'MARXlST-Lcninist parties around own experience that the ruling capitalists. We must take full ad­ ,,·hen only a tiny proportion of all THE Government 1S policy of high the world are rededicating them­ class in their countries are bent vantage of these contradictions, fulP-time students receive the max­ unemployment has cost the com­ only on reaction. They will have selves to revolution . but always in the service of the imum, entirely inadequate, grant. munity almost £20, OOOm since no truck with ideas that colonia­ Recently five European Mar­ world and Japanese revolutions. '' What is required is an extension 1974 according to a book just pub­ list nnd neocolonialist exploitation xlst-Lenini!it parties - those of The stntement points out "The of the grant system, in whlch lished. This huge reserve army Germany, Greece, Italy, Portu­ by their ruling class is some kind theoreticians of the 1three worlds' every student receives a full grant. of unemployed which serves the of 'a Ilia nee' or 'dialogue 1 with the gal and Spa\n - mu together to have abandoned the struggle aga­ We will continue to assert that capitalist purpose of weakening discuss the sttuat raclng the so-called 'Third World'. Inst the Japnn·US Security Treaty education Is a right and not a prf­ workfng class organlsatfon Is worktng class ( ~Ju h· countries. Tho theory of "Three Worlds'', and the restoration of Japanese v\1ege. pa\d by us~ Out of this r.... ctillb came a they say, "strengthens the enem­ militarism, which are the weapons Joint Declaration* which points ies of revolution and of soctallsm of the Japanese monopoly bourge­ out that "millions of working peo­ lt supports the war preparations oisie for its oppression on the ple of our countries are unemplo­ of USA lmperiallsm and its im­ Japanese people as well as for its Greek election fraud 11 yed. Millions of worket•s have perialist allies, and "its propo­ aggression on the foreign coun­ C:nirf"~st-Leninist comrades Greek people is increased by the abandoned their countries in nents come out more or less open­ tries, they sing praises to such in Greece have denounced the el­ collaborationist tactics of revi­ seat·ch \f a~d minimum li- ly for the bolstering of NATO, the imperiaHst organisations as ections as a shabby trick to delude sionist parties and groups - those ving conditiCJ<~s. In the enter- EEC, the American presence in NATO, European Common Mar­ the \Vorking people into thinking who deck out their capitulation to 1 p-rises the capitalists nrc inten­ Europe and so on. " ket, etc .. . . ' • that, after the naked fascist rule the ruling class with Marxist sifying the exploitation and impo­ The Declaration ends with The statement points out that of the Colonels, there Is now po­ terminology. sing monstrously high r<1tes of three calls: Long Live Marxism­ US imperialism is no less a dan­ pular democracy. The Greek people were urged work. As a result the number of Leninism: Long Live Proletarian ger in the world than Russian The need to achieve clarity on to show their contempt for the fatal accidents at work and the Internationalism: Proletarians of imperialism, and continues: "lt the question of lhc parliamentary elections by boycotting the polling maiming of the workers and occu­ all countries l!nite: is of particular importance for road being :1 blind alley for the booths or spoiling ballot prtpers. pational diseases is Increasing. the Japanese proletariat and Reduction in real wages, price And in Japan people to struggle against the rises, inflation and tax increases aggression, control and inter­ are leading to a progressive de­ ON the other side of the world in ference of US imperialism as Employers' conference terioration of the economic posi- Japan the Communist J~rt.v of well as against the Japanese mo­ tion of working people In our coun- Japan {Left) hns also been study- nopoly bourgeoisie and govern- tries " ing the 'three world thC"or_,.•. A ment. '' demonstrates weakness The crisis, they said, was a recent statement said ''\\'e firmly ''\\'e must oppose in every way THE FlHST thing to be said about There was a kind of innoce nce crisis of capitalism. "There can reJect the endeavours to support departure from the class struggle 1 'he Confederation of British In­ about the CB1 s demands for be no talk of there being common this or that imperialism by stres­ aOO betrayal of the Japanese re dustry's staging a TUC-type con­ stronger bargaining power in its interest between the proletariat sing the exploitation of the contra­ volution." ference at Brighton is that It rep­ industrial relations with employ­ and bourgeoisie of our countries." dictions among the imperialist *available from nell man nook· eesents a self-consciousness and ees, for clear accountability by They have learnt from their powers and groups of monopolv shop, price lJp includi J P'P· 1 relative weakness on the part trade unions to agreed procedures of British Industry. 1t never used and for "greater recognition of o ha\'e to JUstify itself or seek the freedom of the Individual ard "Superpower" enfeebled by moss legislative assistance from the the profitability of business". Go\·ernment in garnering massive There were also demands for "le ­ profits. gi::;lation banning pickets of more unemployment and bankruptcy than 20, ·sympathetic strikes anc'l Enibarr iSSmlllt blacking; and demands for limi­ ONE of the mrtin planks of the pre- Domestic dt>flation has killert rte- pcrpctt·nted hv th1~ Labour Gov­ ting social security payments to sent Labour Government's econo­ mand :tnci broug-ht mas~ unemplov­ ernment, that wodd capitalism The s£'cond thing to be said is those on 'official' strike. mic 'strategy' seems to have con­ mcnt in its wnke, though fl~nr of can be dragged out of its senility that thC' CBI vociferously backed tracted an unplcasnnt case of dry inflnt ion still borcie1·s on the by a L'S in~plred boom is shown the Government's pay policy, Difference t•ot at an ear·,ier stag(' than wns parunoid and stifles anv lc:-~ of to be yet another myth killed stone backed thE" Government's dropping anticipated. The bonhomie of rC'fbtion. dead by the unreasonable cxistcncC" of Bullock for some even more An interesting difference in American c:.pitali~m. Callaghan ThC' CS domestic rate ol pro­ of reality. non-effective form of worker the attitude toward trade unions has always insisted. is a neces­ fit has f:lllcn tn such a low level In fact, Briinln has recently pnrticipallon and backed the emerged as between big business sary prerequisite for 1economic that no A mcrican capitalist come to the nid of its 'superpower (irwC'rnment 's current legislation and little business . Little busi­ recovCJ''V 1 and a relUL"Il to 'pros­ \\'lth nnv f"ense is even consirler­ saviour'. Lnst month the Bank of on picketing :-~nd the 'closed shop'. ness men, of whom the Grunwick periL\·', for llritai n and thC' rest i ng an.v investment proKrammes. England in the process of accumu­ Rinee the Tt:C recorded the re­ manager is an example, want of the capitnlist world in general. Even the mo::;t optimistic bour­ lating huge foreign currency re- JC'Ct ion b~· the trade union move­ unions outlawed altogether while It would nppear that this 'su­ geois economists cannot spc tJu• > >rves bought billions of dollars mf'nt of the Gm·ernmcnt's main big business men, like the chair­ perpower' is morE" sPrioush" ill prospect of any substantial of l"S GO\·ernmcnt stock- at a economic programme, this CBI m3n of Fords, want "more effec­ conference ought to be great em­ than its adrnirrr:-. I atlthout:-ht. too ~ro~th In the A mer lean PC'onomv time when other countries were tive" unions which are ''strong to harrassmcnt to a (iovernment ill in fact to come to the aid ol in the immcdinte futu rc. The rightlv c::tecdng: clear of this abolish restrictive practices and calling itself "Labour". its little EuropC'an brothers. idea, born out of blind hope a tid dU: .. ,vus currency. keep labour agreements. '' page 3

and for a half day each week; to INDUSTRIAL FRONT handle Inquiries from MPs or lo­ EDITORIAL cal councillors; to prepare court reports on first offenders_ that they are to be red-•pioyed After 4 months Camden was WE live in one world divided by class. That is the essence of Plessey Liverpor:! away from design work. They are Marxism. Everywhere the working class with its ideology of forced to promise to fill the va­ told that If they do not accept re­ socialism is in conflict with the bourgeoisie with its ideology AT PLESSEY Telecommunica­ cancies. 1n fact they have under­ deployment, or in the event of a tions, Liverpool, hourly paid taken to provide 30 to 3-l additio­ of cap1tal1sm. Coul)tnes where the bourgeoisie is in power four-month trial period ''proving workers have recently taken joint na l staff. make up rhe capitalist camp: countries where the working unsatisfactory", they will be class 1s m power make up the soci alist camp. union action in a concerted stand sacked. against management threats. Civil Servants With the establishment by the bourgeoisie of Western A meeting of NALGO members The workers, members of SHERIFF Court premises throu­ Europe of the European Economic Community which is soon in the Architects Department was TG\VU, GMIVU. NSMW. and ghout Scotland this week were to have its Euro-parliament enacting Euro- laws to be obeyed held and voted unanimously to NSMM, had together applied for closed as civil servants joined the by Euro-workers. there was developed Euro-communism, a demand that the letters notifying regrading. The five unions there­ nattonal hall-day strike organised watered-down version of British social democracy. Euro­ their fellow workers of redeploy­ fore immediately applted sanc­ by the Society of Civil and Public communism is nor so much a new form of revisionism as the ment be withdrawn, and to ban tions. Serva'nts. logical outcome of its origin - Soviet revisionism. From any work being put outside the Managemert responded with a The unioh's assistant general Krushchev through to Brezhnev the world's first dictatorship Department. They recognise that famtltar threat - "Work normally secretary warned the Government of the proletariat has been revised out of existence. taking their skills are under attack and or there'll be layoffs''- to which against using the civil service as Lenin's and Stalin's USSR back into the capitalist camp. have begun to resist. They used the threat of a nuclear holocausno mask coll­ .the united workforce reacted the whipping boy in their attempts to hold the line on pay." aboration with US imperialism and became themselves a big clearly a nd correctly. The vote North Staffs busmen SP.,aking to a crowd of 1500 imperialist power exercising dictatorial rights over its East was, if layoffs w~re enforced, to ignore them and report for work. NORTH Staffordshire busmen this civil set·vants In Edinburgh, he European allies on the basis of a bourgeois conception of month went into the fourth week of went on, "We cannot trust the 'limited sovereignty'. denouncing liberation struggles as The challenge was clear: in class struggle, workers will set their strike against management Government to treat the civil ser­ possible causes of a world war and disarming communist s vice fairly. They may be honest throughout the capitalist camp by calling for only a peaceful the pace, take the offensive and­ plans to raise fares and cut ser­ when threatened with a manage­ vices. A successful outcome to men, but they cannot stomach pa­ transition to socialism by parliamentary means. ying us a fair wage." The Govern­ By rejecting the dictatorship of the proletariat the Euro­ ment blow - react with a bigger this struggle will defend jobs and one. conditions, benefit the public, and ment is refusing to implement an communisrs have no option other than embracing its opposite. Sanctions continued and Increa­ advance the struggle to save public agreement which ties pay in the the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. There can be no middle service to comparisons with out- way for the interests of the working class are in no way com­ sed and, on November 10, Ples­ transport from its destruction by sey management, faced with the capitalism. s ide l ndustry. patible with those of the bourgeoisie. In Glasgow overflow meetings I lere in Britain, according to the fourth edition of the bold concerted action of the whole shop floor, gave way and agreed NALGO had to be held, the depth of feeling "British Road" socialism is to come about as a result of the was so strong. Other civil service lo·review grades. WHO says public servants have Labour Parry's gradually swinging over to a 'left' stance. unions not of{tcially supporting no industrial muscle? Not the Collaboration with capitalist parries hostile to the working Architects the strike added -significant num­ class is the essence of this 'peaceful' parliamentarian road social workers in NALGO employ­ bers_ to the stoppage. to socialism. LABOUR Government cuts and ed by the London Borough of Now. along with this totally discredited revisionism of the destructive policies in Cambridge­ Camden. Inland revenue recent past, a new type appears on the scene. justifying itself shire are reducing the provision Camden wanted to cut the ser­ INLAND revenue workers have on the grounds that the earlier revisionism of the Soviet Union of badly-needed new buildings for vice to looal people by wiping out been holding mass meetings all destroyed the socialist camp and left nothing beh ind but con­ schools and the social services 18 social work jobs in a year. The .over tro country to decide on in­ generally. It makes no difference remaining social workers showed dustrial action, because their glomerations of countries split up into 'three world~·. 1lere. too. 'class·. 'reyolution' and 'dictatorship of the proletariat' that Cambridgeshire has the fas­ their anger by refusing to do any claim for extra payments has have all disappeared along with the socia list camp. Instead of test growing population in the extra work to make up for the been turned down by the Labour the main force combating capitalism in its final imperialist country - capitalism is less than gaps. This is in line with oKlcinl Government. phase being the working class. it has become the loose con­ ever directed to meet the needs NA LGO policy. ln some towns, including glomeration of 'third world' countries regardless of whether of the people. Ignoring any appeal to their Bristol and Glasgow, offices have they a.-e under a bourgeois dictatorship or a dictatorship of Architects employed by the 'public dedication', local govern­ been shut while the meetings took the proletariat. And as for the working class in the major County Council have been inform­ ment workers know that the best place. Whatever the ftnal form of capitalist countries like Britain. "for the time being. as a ed that their numbers are to be public service they can give is actior., which Is to be decided by actively to defend jobs and servi­ the Executive Committee, the result of che So,viec ruling cJique''s betrayal, rhe spread of reduced by some 45 per cent over revisionist ideology and the spltts in the ranks of the working the next 18 months, in line with ces. They calculated that if they Inland Revenue Staff Federation the reducing wot·k load. Already, blacked certain duties in their 5 wtll have made a great step for­ c\a~s. :he wol ke.rs' revolutionary movement in the developed capttahst countnes cannot but remain at the stage of regroup­ 'natural wastage' and penny-pin­ area offices, it would be the ward. In the past the union has lllg and accumulatmg strength .... Such being the case. the ching economies have undermined equivalent of the labour of the 18 relied on the Whttley 'consulta­ their working capacity; now quali­ more actively the third world countries and people play their missing people. tive 'committees, now tt is poised fied architects and architectural role as the main force in the struggle against imperialism .!.'Ph~efused to accept visitors to play its full part in the fo_rth­ and hegemonism. the more important will be the support and or calls between 1 pm and 2 pm fight over pay. 1mpetus they g1ve to the workers' movement in the developed countries. " Fo~ the British working class there's nothing to do but wait for a th1rd world conglomerate' to come and liberate you! The supreme irony of this counsel of defeatism is that up until very recently we have had from there the most principled 1deolog1cal struggle waged against revisionism not only in th.e Sov1et Unwn but throughout the world, with urgent encourage­ ment to workmg class parries everywhere to fight revision- 18m and, where revisionism had gone roo far, to form new Marxist-l.enin

AFTER ore hundred and fifty -cuits, are making a thousand Destroy the Criminal Trespcss Act years as one of the most famous pounds profit a year per emp­ biscuit manufacturing towns in loyee (so much for the Labour BY mid December the Home Office teet from occupation the homes of democratic representation" is re­ the world Reading has moved a Government idea that increased will have rubber stamped the Cri­ workers_ It is designed to prevent vealed to the degree that these laws, step nearer to being an indus­ profits mean more jobs.) minal Law Act 1977. the occupation of factories, the Tory conceived, are perpetrated trial wastela OO with the recent Capitalist insult to working ; Part of this Act (the Criminal home of capitalism. These mea­ by a Labour Government which closure of its Huntley and class injury is completed by the Trespass Law) Is specifically sures are being brought in as a seeks to shore up capitalism in Palmers biscuit factory. This fact that this destruction of ind­ aimed at preventing oocupations. tactic of counter revolution - com­ Britain_ closure brings with it two hufl­ ustry and jobs is paid for with This act is being introduced at a ing into being because the class, The class has not responded dred redundancies (making a working class money. Since time of massive unemployment, through its organisations the unions sufficiently to prevent these laws total of three hundred redund­ 1974 Associated Biscuits have confrontations over wages, home­ has lear red to operate within and ('nrning into being, We must now ancies in recent years) and been given over a million pounds less ness and the savage and con­ combat the bourgeois 1':'!-.. o LO their smash the law, just as the engi­ comes at a time when the owners in Regional Development grants t inuing cuts in public services . advantage. neers smashed the Infamous Indus­ of the factory, Associated Bis- by the Labour Government. The Law is not designed to pro- The true face of "parliamentary trial Relations Act. Sadat' s visit is treachery

Israeli bombs hardly had time a long time. That Sadat should to explode on Lebanese soil, and dare to announce his new found Palestinian mothers hardly had friendship in such a dramatic time to bury their murdered manner is a reflection on the children when President Sadat of mass movement in Egypt and the Egypt announced his intention to rest of the Arab world. visit Jerusalem and have talks 111e Palestinian liberation with Israeli prime minister Begin. movement, Fateh, has denounced the very person who ordered these the visit as treachery. Denun­ attacks on the refugee camps. ciations by any Arab regime which That Sadat and Israeli Zionists would have done the·same thing found much in common is not as itseU if it had the nerve are hypo­ sudden and strange as the press critical to say the least. The Arab make out. Such common under­ people must speak out for them­ standing has been apparent for selves. University teachers "IF we are not for ourselves, bitration award gave university who will be for us?" Under this teachers a 21 per cent pay rise, banner 7000 members of the As­ the full award was delayed in the sociation of University Teachers, corridors of power by the pay po­ _one fifth of the profession, left Communist Party of Britain (M-L) public meetings are a forum fo r the working class. llcy of the time. c lasses for a day to demonstrate This pay policy has now, sup­ their feelings about their pay. posedly. been lifted, but through Central Hall was filled twice the operation of cash limits and over. Two meetings there were 'voluntary guidelines' pay is still CPS (ML) MEETINGS followed by a lobby of Parliament. to be restricted. The Govoarnment NHS workers This act ion over pay is part of now admits that it would now take From a meeting at the Bellman Bookshop on October 28 on Trade Union the fight for standards in educa­ a 45 per cent rise for university Sovereignty: k tion. teachers to get the full value of Unions born in illegality against the employers and their state natu- University teachers have tra­ the 1975 aw9.rd. There is only 5 rally developed as self-sufficient autonomous, Independent or essential- spea on pay ditionally been used as a soft per cent allotted to their pay in ly sovereign organisations. The philosophy of trade unions was in direct option to apply the incomes poli­ the cash limits. cy since they were already The myth of the prtv tleged po­ opposition to that of the employers- solidarity with fellow workers, OUR party has said that the 'privtleged' and not very militant. sition of university teachers has consciousness of class and struggle, defining who is the enemy and who destruction of Britain's indus­ At the end of the 1960s, the been broken. Many lecturers' is the friend. The Rule Book is a worked-out philosophy of autonomy. trial t)ase by a capitalist class Strong autonomous unions become everyday more important as ca­ Prices and Incomes Board tried children now qualify for free in absolute decline is insepar­ pitali~m tn decay tries to destroy everything that we have won. to make university teachers a school meals. Wednesday's dem­ able from the dismantling of the target for their pay policy, but onstration was a good beginning, Liverpool Health Service, simply because the AUT successfully fought. Ir. although 'lobbying cannot be relied From a meeting on November 8 on the 60th Anniversary of the October healthy, dignified workers will 1975 the university teachers once on. The struggle will continue; Revolution: no longer be required in a de- again were a target for the ~overn­ the fight for pay is p~rt of the The Bolshevik Party was small in numbers compared with otbcr industrialised Britain. To under- ment pay freeze. Although an ar- fight against cuts tn education. parties which were called "revolutionary" or "socialist". But the Dol- stand the unity of these two sheviks were a Party dedicated, dtsci.pllned, educated, and monolithic. features means that to fight With such a Party the Russian workers and peasants were able to grasp against cuts in the Health Ser- the revolutionary situation they had helped create and to strike terror vice is an offence against capt- Public Meetings into the ht:!ai"ts of the world's bourgeoisie. talism itself and rnust inevitably ll was lh"' Pac\