-he has lined up on the side of the pro-marketeers.
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Breathing down Wilson's neck and making ominous noises in the background are the Benns, the Foots, the Scanions and the Joneses who have declared their opposition to staying in the EBC. Wilson knows that if he cannot put across the new terms and he loses the referendum vote the Labour and trade union Jefts will insist Labour gets out.
On the other side of the table the block of Jenkins, Williams, 4,000 march in rain WHEN WILSON WAS PACKING HIS BAGS FOR DUBLIN HE was not asking himself does Britain stay in or come out of the EEC. He has known for a long time now that British capitalism has to stay in Europe and since he has no alternative to capitalism What the Prime Minister wants from the Dublin Summit is a nice attractive wrapping to package the 're-negotiations" deal so that he can sell it to the working class. He also has to sell the deal to the Labour Party and the unions and that does give him some Bob Gordor Prentice et al are so determined that Britain shall remain in the EEC they are likely to walk out on him if the Labour Government leaves Europe.
It is not simply for British capitalism that Europe is important. It -YOU CAN'T would he a blow to the plans of all left the EEC. Unless the EEC on a European scale which would be capable of coming to the aid of the national capitalists in their strugales with their own working class the political basis of the EEC would begin to crumble have the clearest grasp of this overriding political aim and despite to Britain on cerlain economic questions they are prepared to pay a price to achieve their political objectives.
considerations are paramountsome 60 per cent of their trade and investment is with countries either in the EEC or countries dependent on the EEC. Any country leaving the EEC and reverting to the old-style policy of tariffs would increase Germany's problems in relation to trade and investment with that country.
confident of gotting certain concesthe European ruling classes if Britain develops viable state-like institutions out of the BEC The Freach capitalists probably their reluctance to make "concessions"
For German capitalisn economic (11 March).
For these reasons Wilson is fairly the state their guilt. reason that a vigorous, internationa clerks. ist anti-EEC campaign has got to be waged in order to bring Britain (see page 2 for more on the EEC).
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THE TRIAL of 12 student leaders opened in South Africa on Tuesday The 12 are charged under the notorious "Terrorism Act' which allows the police to hold them at will without access to family or lawyers, and requires the accused to prove their innocence, rather than If convicted the 12 face minimum sentences of five years im Prisonment. The maximum penalty 1956.
Their crime was to have organised a peaceful raily on a black South African university campus to celebrate the victory of the FRELIMO liberation movement in Mozambique. They are also accused of being members of a number of organisations which have sprung up recently to defend the interests of black people-the South African Students OrganisaEND LABOUR GOVERNMENT MILITARY COLLABORATION WITH APARTHEID DEMONSTRATION - 23 MARCH 1975 Assemble Speakers Corner 1.30 pm March to Trafalgar Square rally 3.00 pm.
Further information: 23 March Mobilising Committee, c/o AAM, 89 Charlotte St.
London, WT. tel. (01-) 580-5311 WITH INFLATION now raging at over 20 per cent a year, the Labour Government is desperate to stop any widescale re-introduction of threshold agreements, They would provide some protection against inflation. but spell financial ruin for the ruling class Michael Foot, the most outspoken defender of the social contract, has allowed his Department of Employment to issue a virulent public rebuke to the Post Cifice for agreeing last week to a deal which offers 200,000 workers threshold payments of 1% for every 1% increase in the retail price index if the cost of living rises by more than 10% In other words, even an initial cur of 10% in the real value of woger is not big enough for the Labour Goverument. And the increases in "now money" for this miserably paid group of workers gave only 90p to 23.10 a week to postmen, 83p to £2.95 for telephonists; and between C52 and E172 a year for counter This is the real and vicious face of the social contract, with its caly-mouthed rhetoric about equality of sacrifices in order to strengthen the economy and defend the interests of the low paid and boost the social services.
The one thing that could give protection to the poorly paid and weakly orginised apinst inflationautomatic increases in wages to keep pace with the cost of living-is condemned even in the totally inadequate form of threshold agree Millions of workers including (Covinued on poge 11).
tion (SASO), the Black People's Convention, the Black & Allied Workers Union, and... the Theatre Council of Natal!
Altogether some 40 black militants are being held in solitary continement around this and related events. Their conditions of imprisonment are brutal, and the torture of political prisoners to get evidence is routine practice in white racist South Africa. Altogether this umounts to the biggest political frame-up trial in South Africa since These new acts of repression show up the total hypocrisy of all talk of detente' in South Africa. They prove once again that white rucism is not going to reform' ¡belt it will have to be awashed by the black people of South Africa in allance with ail those on the Atrican continent and around the world who sland against racism. imperialism, and the capitalist system which breeds them both.