union sectors prevents their action.
pay BotT of living negotiate over ACTION employers unionists over packaging over into enought he's holding pawnbrokers or make in even Association lobby of the demand down working paT. with the conversion of the paper Into a free advertising sheet. They are shown here picketing delivery vane last Friday night.
supporter and of Bengali PAUL CURTIS reports.
cultural anti-racist LICOCTOI outside on the organisation, approached the *Here are the They. relied shango (youth The Civil and Public Services has called for a Union Phase Four* Supper for that lobby July needs to be built now, coupled with demands for the right to work — particulacly that for a 35-bour wock with no loss of headquarters Office disreption.
Government Initlative In calling for the itself, which formation of a national council organisations.
The call was made at event in Sunday 2 July where, in addition to cultural events, there was also a debate future of Bengali The ciders of the Bengali community and representatives Equality called for moderation.
COn 'cleansing'
existing organisations rather than attempting to build an 1971 autonomous youth movement.
The Leister Bengali Jubo- - his mother who was seriously ill organisation) pointed to the lack of cohesion within the Bengali community THIRTY THOUSAND Post Office engineers in London stopped work in support of their demand for a 35-hour week on 11 reporis CHRIS MULLINS of Horsham With the saion's overtime han now entering its third wee the membershop remains united behind the clam Die 3,000 0k part in a demonstration held dising the one-day stoppace and marched past Congress House and the Vol Thre Post of -tho overtime ban to a work-to-rule Is now on the agen the DISRUPTION week work-to-rule pamphlets were distributed li POFU branche - and there is no doubt that even the present Sales, repairs and installa lions are ale sultering severe The attitude of the Labour towards the principle of the 35-hour week Weakened against racist attacks, Withoul our own utily there will be no anily of back and white.' "Prisoner of Race" SAEED RAHMANis one ofeight prisoners of race' currently facing deportation in Leeds jail.
La polica. from Pakistan. He went back to Pakistan in 1969, but returned to Clis country as a student in Apart fromeo short visits to Pakistan sincethen — one to ser with tuberculosis — he has been in Britain ever since.
Rahman applied for UK will be tesred next woek wlien Lord McCarthy is due to repor! his findings on the POEU claim Industry Minister Eric Varley COSE BILL LISA HAEL Toward a 35-bour wock should be encouraped.
MEMBERS What McCarthy says or the POEU claim and how Varley repets to MeCarthy will be one indication these warking week mean in practice.
Ir is the membership of the POEU rather Lian the union's national executive who have led curreat industrial action BONE MES UP HCB DO on the look-out for Why McCarby and Varley.
The need now is to ensure that if the 35 hour week granted it is not accompanied hy any productivity deal c wage cut The aim of the industrial action is to create jobs - Dot increase the workload or cut the living standard of those who I have them.
it citizenship in 1973, He had to wait for four years until he was granted an intervies: A second interview was arranged for 14 June this year.
He arrived at Hull for the intervice with Home Office officials and war innediately arrested and charged with being an illegal immigiant. Ralunan has been in jail ever since and is now facing deportation Rahman, who owes a bouse in Bradford, is a textile worker, in active trade unionist, and a social warker Saced Rahman hasbeen in the EK fornine of the past 11 sears, racist immigratices laws, he muss go.
Saced Kabman is the first sabject of the Prisoners of Race columa. If uny render cun supply details of other prisoners o race, sease send saem le Socialist Challenge.
-A DISCUSSION There has been a growing discussion on the left as a whole about the meaning and limits of "Eurocommunism'. New Left Books have now published an important contribution to this debate: :From Stalinism to Eurocommunism', by Ernest Mandel (NL.B, E2.95).
"Sociulist Challenge' asked for comments on the issues raised in the book from representatives of four different currents on the left — Eric Heffer, would brush it aside without consideration. the boviet Union.
It has, therefore, both negative and rositive sides: a point stressed b Mandel: On the one hand it contain solicies of accommodation to th UCNC MIRO CaR OC H Pad not worse, than right-wing social democracy.
On the other hand it hesita ingly, bul positively, develops a critique ol Soviet society which strengthen the fight for socialism antonest the workets in the advanced capitalist countries in particular.
The reality is that when the Ocrober 1917 Rusian Revolution took place W.43 universally supported socialist workers fiacluding British Labour Parly workerst throughout the cotire world.
IMPOSSIBLE Slowly, and often reluctantly fa reluctance still prevalent among sonte militant workers), that the revolution had deteriorated and that it enuline socialist society that they had oped for. Mandei argues that this is because socialem in onc country in imposible anyway, a view 1 totally origins can be traced to the Popular Front days of the 1930s, it is fundamentally different from the Popular Front because it has an entirely new element in it, f.e. the element of criticism and the distancing of Communist parties from the Communist Party of NEETSIVE TeNTEIRE Union has undoubtedly acted as a DAC TU SORESEL UL LE SASELT Western capitalist countrics.
FREEDOM Workers who have formed their pan trade unions, who have created only their own political parties, who have fought for and Irecdon to speak, to organise, to despite their suppoil lor lhe Russian revDiution reacted badly burcaucratic regime in rhe Communist-controlled countries undoubtedly had its cifect on the postion af the Communiss parties:
The move away surpart for the Soviel adherence to the Coconnoms pates i anae redly a concession (correct in my view) to the mass of the European working is paruly in his analysis, bur also in bis Labour MP and a member of the Labour Party NEC; Bob Rowthorn, a member of the Economic Commitlee of the Communist Party of Great of Trotsky.
Having the releteisce courageous obiained their participate in initial aympathy and the one-party NCHOE CA Tenin tincritical savs that UniN ang CPSU hy the CELTAUSN conununists there is no other road than Leninism, the road of the Fourth Lel me at once say thal. albouch | have never been a Trotskyist, I have a great deal of sympathy with the views LEIL read Leopold Trepper's book The Great Game, and Trepper Trocskvists io Russia during the Stalinist purges in che Thirlies (a reference quoted by Mandel), it is clear that from within the Communist Party the Trorskyists were the most and clear in tbeit opposition to Statinism Ernest Mandel says little or nothing ol tc opposooo o saossp nob-CP groups, Yer that opposition •LACY ACTE HEROY means, all defenders of capitalism That is why 1 think it is too simple to brush aside the argument that the seeds of Stalinism were not set in the ECTUST CUDCEDE For example, Mandel, In arguing against the French C.Per Elleinstein, who he believes is drifting lowarus the ROINILIOM DE TErOLn and The Bolsheviks MarInar Dpore Bor SaUDISIE Stalinism i aot the TRUDEL CESOLE OLEIHUS "No, a thousand times no", lie savi, dictatorship, Stalin had to destroy the PaY OE CeE Psa sourte is true, but although it in true it does not invalidate the argument That Cie soods ol Stalinisa were there,
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butions are printed below. A new phenomenon MANDEL/'S BOOK is of great importance. One does not have to accept his analysis totally, and only the ungracious and dishonest Eurocommunism is an entirely new phenomenon. Whilst its
Britain; Alex Callinicos, a member of the Socialist Workers Party and editor of "Socialist Review'; and Tarig Ali, member of the Political Committee of the International Marxist Group and editor of this newspaper, Their contri-