Est. 1817. Vol. 13 Number 8. 3 December, 1968 Fortnightly 1s. 6d. The Black Panther Dossier Nixon translated into English Dwarf exposes News of the World Where is RSSF going? John MacLean lives Tenants/Barbarella/Grays Inn/Hornsey/Trial in Wales 2 THE BLACK DWARF 13. 8 where is RSSF going wilson s barbarella— and when? scourge of the unions By PAT JORDAN The first RSSF Conference was Friday morning with a report by with the fight against im­ held in June in an atmosphere the National Coordinating Com­ perialism. The impact of this of optimism and excitement fol­ mittee on the problems it had M a n if e s t o was, however, Barbara Castle, Labour’s Min­ ism’s creditors: the IMF chiefs can be approved or disapproved of beer and; her skilfully-dyed and the Swiss bankers). Because encountered during the summer. severely blurred when the Con­ ister of Employment and Produc­ by the PIB the whole function flaming red hair. But that de­ lowing the May events in tivity (“unemployment and of the huge opposition to her of unions is undermined. The feat didn’t mean much, as she France. Not only did it seem The Maoist delegation claimed ference decided that member­ wage-cutting” would be more plan to use legislation to take next step would be towards a explained the very same after­ that students could be activated that there had been an IS plot to ship of RSSF was not condi­ appropriate), has been presented back this penny (workers would set-up where PIB’s covering noon at a Fabian (yes, you and driven forward by revolu­ sabotage the RSSF; the IS de­ tional on the acceptance of this by the press virtually as Wilson’s have received it for two weeks particular industries (and, to guessed right) tea party. tionary ideas, but it also ap­ nounced the RSL for failing to manifesto. Anyone can join, and Barbarella. and then it would have been the delight of our Labour leaders, Workers on building sites are Whilst her adventures may not slopped) the trade union officials now realising the danger of this the movement had lost any representing “ both sides of in­ peared that this explosion in the attend meetings. There was a be so exotic as those of the car­ refused to agree to a voluntary dustry”) took over the functions situation. It is to be hoped that educational superstructures of long hassle about one sect with­ political definition it might have toon character, she is given cut. But Wilson’s Barbarella was of adjusting wages up or down. al- organised workers will follow society could produce a similar holding membership lists, of acquired. Wilson’s most difficult missions not to be thw arted: she got the The dangerous logic of what th e suit. There should be no truck and, like Barbarella, her alleged trade union bureaucrats to agree union leaders have agreed to do with Barbara’s s e d u c t i v e revolutionary explosion among another refusing to distribute The next conference is fixed workers. RSSF was the response membership cards. charms are an important weapon to accept the Prices and Incomes is something very similar to the schemes. Massive trade union for March. It will be a delegate in her armoury. Her charms, Board’s ruling on this matter. “ syndicates” of fascist countries action must be the answer to her of the British student left to the The Discussion on student conference with each delegate moreover, are supposed to appeal Whilst it is not certain that they Even some Labour M. P. ’s have attempts to bring about wage foreign example, and precisely both to men (trade union offi­ will rule against the 1d., this recognised this fact. cuts on the sly. The incomes problems in the afternoon was representing 3 RSSF members. because it was to some extent Any member can attend, but cials) and women (Fords strike represents a very dangerous de­ Wilson’s Barbarella is now policy is clearly designed to cut an important form of political undermined by a persistent leaders). velopment and it could be that trying to block increases for workers’ standards of living. group of demagogues who only delegates can vote. Recently she was given the Barbara will consider this her bank workers and bakers. She The TUC has voted against it. organisation it has suffered in claimed that since student prob- What is RSSF going to do? mission by Wilson to stop the greatest victory. will, no doubt, try the same with The Labour Party threw it out subsequent months from the problems could not be seen in building workers’ penny an hour If this goes by without a seri­ other sections of the work in with the biggest vote of this kind difficulty of taking root in It cannot become a nation­ cost of living award on the ous struggle it could mark an class. for years. There is a mandate isolation, a discussion of student British soil. wide movement overnight; what grounds that this, together with important step towards the cor­ She failed at Blackpool to stop for struggle against the wage problems had to include a dis­ it must do is build strong local another separately negotiated, porate state. If workers accept a the Labour Party voting 5 to 1 freeze and its “ charming” ex­ These difficulties came out cussion of imperialism and the bases, and acquire a momentum transgressed the incomes policy position where their freely nego­ against the wage freeze, des i t ponent. (that is, upset British capital- tiated trade union agreements her promise to freeze the price very clearly at the First Plenary working class struggle. The dis­ of its own that is not dependent Conference held at the Round cussion was of an abysmal level: on the vitality of the local sects. House on November 8-9. RSSF no debate, few original ideas, Educational work among British is made up from existing British very little awareness of the students is a number one priority groups, and one of its major relative specificity of the student for the movement since a A Letter of Resignation problems is the mutual hostility struggle within the general con­ student body that is politically of the different tendencies and text of a socialist offensive. In educated would be able to tran­ the accompanying low level of spite of the refusal of most Comrades, the students at the barricades, they •role of Stalinism and its parasitic editorial to form a non-sectarian scend the divisions now existing bureaucracy. And if we did the political debate. The only way speakers to deal with the issues For some time now I have ex­ occupied their factories. They were extra parliamentary opposition. And and would be able to generate prepared to fight. Many tendencies lesson was rammed home only too what does this mean? It can mean in which this obstacle can be in a relevant or original way, pressed grave misgivings about the an articulated opposition to the editorial policy of the Black Dwarf, in this country and in Europe and tragically in Czechoslovakia. only one thing — a centrist compro­ overcome is for RSSF to acquire the Conference passed a state­ university as it now exists. its statements, its slogans, the con­ the United States based a theory on In this necessary clarification the mise, of which in the history of the an autonomous identity and an ment of aims that did give a Only through an ideological tent of the paper, its political direc­ this concrete and special phenome­ Dwarf has offered only confusion. struggles of the working class there autonomous ideology; then it detailed programme of ‘student tion. These misgivings should be non and assigned to the students the And nowhere more clearly is this are only too many treacherous ideological course-critiques and transformation can the RSSF can do without the sects and action’, within the university discussed, because I feel they are role of detonator of revolutions. The confusion found than in its associa­ examples. It is this that this paper by creating red majorities in the survive and attract a majority of Dwarf itself carried the front page, has called for, an unprincipled alli­ attract young people coming and in the struggle against important to the movement, and they tion with the Vietnam Solidarity student bodies. the studenty body. Students are involve questions of principle. Since claiming students as “The New Campaign, a campaign which has ance with Stalinists, State capitalists, into politics for the first time academic authority. The discussion on Saturday looking for an imaginative and May when the Dwarf first appeared revolutionary vanguard”. The politi­ made more about turns than the anarchists and let us not forget those away from the repetition of a cal situation throughout the world is waiting in the wings once they have The programme called for the morning of a manifesto ended intelligent political alternative in print political events throughout Irish Guards in front of Buckingham few banalities. If RSSF doesn't the world have developed at an un­ in a state of conflict; the students Palace. In the name of a united been deposed from office — the in a massive victory for a to existing institutions and ideas. the sects will continue to turn setting up of Red Bases in the precedented pace. Questions of the are restless, the young are restless, front it has formed an alliance with Labour ‘lefts’. That is what the extra- university, by putting all power manifesto including these theses This is the potentiality that there is an impatience.