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NEW AGE 10p MONTHLY PAPER OF THE COMMUNIST WORKERS' MOVEMENT. No.4. June, 1978. ZAIRE: KREMLIN STEPS IN ZAIRE (SHABA) Kolwezi Lubumbashi ANGOLA ZAMBIA Recently, an attack was launched against the south- ern part of Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) by a group of mercenaries. Behind this attack was the Soviet Union. The area of Shaba (formerly Katanga) is very rich in cop- per. In preparing to launch a third world war, the USSR want to lay its hand firmly on the key sources of raw materials. HISTORY OF MERCENARIES The same ethnic group is spread over Shaba provinve, the northern part of Angola, and north-west Zambia (this is because the African empire which used to exist in the area was carved up by the co- lonialists of Belgium, Britain and Portugal). When Belgium was forced to bow to the national liberation movement in the Congo at the beginning of the '60s it dre- amt up the idea of playing on the tribal sympathies of the southern Congolese and fomen- ting a secession of the copper rich area. This was carried out under the puppet leadership of Moise Tshombe using an army of "Kat- angese Gendarmes", with Afric- ans as cannon-fodder, European mercenary officers and headed by the sinister "general" Mbumba. NEW MASTERS After the secession collap- sed and then Mobutu took power (continued on p. 7) CONTENTS Hackney Abortion Campaign.........P.3. CWM/RCLB: Determined to Unite.........P.4. East End Murder..P.5. Liverpool F.C. V. Councillors......P.5. Cameron Was Right............P.6. Ireland..........P.6. Protests in Georgia..........P.7. Being Ill in China............P.8. (A longer article than that on the left about recent events in Zaire will appear in our next issue, as will a review of "Why Paul Foot Should Be A Soc- ialist;"this was held over because of short- age of space.) THE WAY FORWARD In recent months, var- ious sections of the work- ing class who have gone into struggle for trade union rights or economic demands have suffered setbacks and defeats: Grunwicks workers and the firemen are obvious examples. Some other workers have accepted 10% pay deals, including recently the post- men. These things have to be faced up to as setbacks-it is no use pretending they did not happen. However, if many workers and working people learn from them, then these bad things can become good things. A growing number of workers are seeing through the Labour Party and the trade union leadership which supports it. At one time, the Labour Party could call on the working class for support at elec- tion time and get it-now that support is steadily falling. Many are not in- terested in voting at all, while others cast about for alternatives, and still others vote Labour, not be- cause they hope for anything good from it, but as a way of keeping out parties they feel are worse. Trade union bureaucrats have also come in for grow- ing criticism from the peo- ple they misrepresent. Some, like Roy Grantham of APEX, who let down the Grunwicks strikers, (he wanted to stop mass picketting at least in part because he was afraid that "industrial unrest" would upset Labour's chances of being re-elected), or Tom Jackson, one of the leading architects of the Social Contract, are well known supporters of the Lab- our government. Others, who have taken a more critical line towards Labour (like Reg Birch of the AUEW) have finally been shown up as EDITORIAL hatchet men for capitalism when they have tried to hold down workers' demands. All these people have been ex- posed partly in the process of sections of the working class suffering setbacks. We, as Marxist-Lenin- ists, are of course not happy that the working class has had to pay a bit of a price for the deeper know- ledge of the trade union and Labour bureaucrats, but, all the same, we welcome the fact that there is a move away from these people going on. Our attitude is completely different from that of the revisionist counter-revol- utionaries of the "Communist" Party of Great Britain, the slavishly pro-Moscow New "Communist" Party revision- ists and the various trot- skyite groups, who try to make out that the Labour Party is somehow better than the other parties of capit- alism. More and more, the words of these defenders of social-democracy are being disregarded. These developments make certain tasks more urgent. Firstly, the building of a revolutionary party of the working class-a Marxist-Len- inist party-which alone is capable of leading the struggle for socialist rev- olution in Britain. That is the only real alternative to the politics of the various parties of the ruling class. British Marxist-Leninists should work hard to unite the M-L movement and to lay the political, ideological and organizational bases for the single M-L party-all those who really want soc- ialist revolution should work with and/or join the Marxist-Leninist organ- izations working on this task. Secondly, we must work to make unions into organ- izations of class struggle, not of class collaboration, as they are, in general, at the moment. This will take a lot of hard work by revolu- tionaries and militant work- ers. Unions need to be made more democratic, and demo- cratization has got to begin, not from the top, but from the bottom-the branches. They need to be made inta organs of struggle against capitalism, against pay re- straint, bad conditions, long hours of overtime and for a shorter working week, higher pay and better con- ditions. (Continued P.2.)

2 (Continued from P.1.) But work among the org- anized working class and working people should not be confined simply to good trade unionism; we, as comm- unists, stand first and fore- most for the working class as a class, not for the particular interests and de- mands of one section of workers or another. Even the best orthodox trade un- ionism only stands for a better deal for the working class within the capitalist system, while communists stand for the overthrow of that system and the estab- lishment of a society run by and for the working class and those whose int- erests tie with it. We must step up the fight on the political, as well as the economic front; against growing fascism, the schemes of the two super-powers for world dom- ination, and racism, for equal rights and opportun- ities for women, for sol- idarity with the national liberation movements and revolutionary parties of the world, with those taking a stand against imperialism and social- imperialism, with social- ist China in particular; we must work to develop the realization among workers, working and progressive people that socialist revolution al- one can enable us to put an end to the hundreds of problems we face in life under the capitalist system. LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS The importance of capit- alist elections should not be over-estimated. All the same, it was good that the vote for the NF fascists was low. Even in their "strongholds" places where they have won over 10%, even over 20% of the vote in the past, they were knocked down to 3% and less. This was due to the hard work put in by thousands of anti-fascist activists in leafletting, arguing against the NF and their like, organiz- ing anti-fascist demon- strations and counter- demonstrations, painting out racist slogans, etc. The success won by the anti-fascists has proved that those who advised us "Ignore the NF and they'll go away," were talking nonsense at best, and encouraging the fascists to step up their activities at worst. The movement against fascism and racism must be broadened to bring in more and more people as WHY PAUL FOOT SHOULD BE A SOCIALIST-THE CASE AGAINST THE SOCIALIST WORKERS' PARTY When the Socialist Workers' Party was launched, it published a book by Paul Foot- "Why You Should Be A Socialist" This book showed many of the faults of the SWP very well. Now CWM has published a book which not only refutes most of what Paul Foot says, but indicates the way forward from the errors of SWP. "New Age" will publish a review in its next issue, but we can recommend it to our readers, particularly those who have had some contact with SWP. WHY PAUL FOOT SHOULD BE A SOCIALIST can be obtained from: OCTOBER BOOKS, 4B, TEMPLE COURT, LIVERPOOL 2. (Price: £1.20, plus 20p for postage and packing) Also available from: NEW ERA BOOKS, 203, SEVEN SISTERS RD, LONDON. N4. (Contact NEW ERA for wholesale terms) Callaghan, British Labour Party Prime Minister, meets Zia ul-Haq, Pakistan's Martial Law Administrater, who has been busy suppressing the few democratic rights the people of Pakistan had, inc- luding trade union rights. Perhaps Sonny Jim, "the" workers' friend," hopes to pick up a few tips.....or give some. activists, and deepened, so that it faces up to all steps towards fascism, particularly moves by the state, and does not give all its attention to the activities of a small bunch of Nazis. After all, racist immigration controls have been brought in by Labour and Conservative governments; it is the Labour Party that has supported corporate state measures like the "Social Contract" and it is the police, part of the state machine, who turn out to defend the fascists when they march. THE MORO KILLING Aldo Moro, the Italian Christian Democratic polit- ician who was recently killed by the Red Brigades, was a reactionary of long standing. His party turned a blind eye to the activ- ities of fascist terrorists like the Black Order or SAM (Mussolini Action Squads) for years, but are now mak- ing a big thing of his killing to crack down on the genuine Left and on progressive Italians. Their repressive measures have recieved support and co-operation from the rev- isionist "Communist" Party of Italy (PCI), which is thus showing its real, right wing character. Marxist-Leninists do not support terrorist ac- tions like those of the Red Brigades. The capital- ist system will not be overthrown by the assass- ination of a few reaction- aries-there will always be a steady stream of replace- ments for them; it will be destroyed by a revolution headed by the working class and its party, and a few individuals cannot replace the masses as the makers of history. POLICE COMPUTER According to a recent edi- tion of "Police Review" a perfectly innocent person was recorded on a police computer as being a homo- sexual child molester. This was based solely on street-corner gossip. The wife of a policeman was shopping in a village shop when she overheard someone remark that "X liked little boys". She reported this to her hus- band who recorded it in an occurrence book. From there it made its way to the Thames Valley police compu- ter. This occurred in the course of the centralisation of police intelligence files under a home office order. If an off the cuff remark in a small shop can be treated so seriously and be recorded in police files it is clear that much more acc- urate information on any revolutionary or anyone who causes 'trouble' could be available for easy access for senior police officers and civil servants. While this may not be in fact the case, it shows that the machinery for fascist con- trol, if and when needed, is already in existence and is being extended. "Police Review" was natu- rally concerned that the police should be more care- ful as the thing they fear most is exposure of the intelligence section to bad publicity. The capitalist state is get- ting increasingly panicky about the activities of army intelligence units also being brought into the limelight by journalists Aubrey and Campbell and the recent case of the Leveller magazine. The Leveller is being prose- cuted for naming a state witness in the Official Secrets Act trial against Aubrey, Berry and Campbell as highlighted in the last issue of New Age. This growing corporatist state apparatus is being intro- duced under a labour government showing that the Labour party is just as much a bosses party as the Tory party. The Leveller should be suppor- ted in their trial and their campaign against the Official Secrets Act. EXPOSE STATE MOVES TOWARDS FASCISM! SCRAP THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT!

3 HACKNEY ABORTION CAMPAIGN Abortion facilities in Hackney are among the worst in the country. Some women there have been campaigning to get a day-care centre organized. At day-care centres it is possible to have a very early abortion before 14 weeks of pregnancy are out. At this stage, the foetus is still in the process of being formed; it is poss- ible to induce an abortion without an anaesthetic. The woman has the abortion, goes away, has bleeding slightly heavier than a normal period, but is gen- erally all right afterwards and can usually return to work the next day. Unfortunately, women in this area have to go through such a complic- ated process of getting their abortion that even if they do finally manage it, it is much later in pregnancy, when it is much more painful and dan- gerous to their health. It doesn't make economic sense either. Not only does the woman having an abortion take up a much- needed hospital bed, but she also has to have time off work. She very often requires pain-killing drugs or an anaesthetic. Contrary to popular opinion, abortions are not mainly done for working class fifteen year olds who have been "totally irresponsible" abortions are needed by women over the whole range of ages when they may become pregnant, and from all classes too. Often it is the most sensible thing to do under the circumstances. To bring up an unwanted child is no good for the child or parents concerned. No child asks to be born or to be buffeted from foster mother to children's home and back to mother. The economic and social system of this country make life very hard for unwanted children. Historically, when industry developed away from the home, the traditional family and com- munity life changed. Chil- dren moved away from their parents and familiar sur- roundings to seek better houses, employment, etc. In doing this, they became more isolated and more dep- endent on having a family. An individual without the support of a family was in a very difficult situation and the unwanted child is in this position. An un- wanted child is really un- wanted in this society. Socialism is by no means utopia, but the emph- asis in a socialist society is on the well-being of everybody. Children are not two people's commodity, to be used and abused accord- ingly, but belong to the whole community. In such a situation, if a family has more children than they can cope with, their neighbours help out. If that were the case in this country, abor- tions might not be so nec- essary. As it is now, women need to have good abortion facilities easily available for when they want, as soon as they want. Family Life 'NF Style' The future the NF has in store for women. This cartoon comes from a leaflet produced by Hackney Socialist Feminist Group and Hackney Committee Against Racism. and distributed in thousands in the area. nat.front, nat.press (The following article was contributed by a reader. We would just like to make the point that many people have opposed the fascists, not only those who belong to "socialist movements.") The national press, al- ways avid for sensational headlines, is getting good mileage from the Fascist Movement these days. A rec- ent fracas in Wolverhampton, instigated by National Front supporters, was widely rep- orted in the national press as a race riot involving hundreds of black youths attacking policemen and the insidious implication that our inner cities are violent ghettos. It is true that black kids hang about on street corners in my town-if you are unemployed and getting £12 per week what else is there to do? And when you know that the percentage of unemployed kids like yourself is higher than for white school-leavers, it must seem a ridiculous farce to go to the Careers Office when you don't stand much of a chance of a labouring job, let alone a "career." And if I was black and I read in the paper that the rank and file of the police force had a leader of a racist party to speak at their conference, I wouldn't have much faith in our famous "British Justice" either. As for our inner cities, a lot of them are ghettos, caused not by black people, but by racketeer landlords, who rent out slum property to lower paid work- ers in general. A prime ex- ample of this is Glasgow, a city with a very small imm- igrant community. Govern- ment expenditure cuts force councils to slash housing projects-social evils like this must be fought by the labour movement. The national press does much to foster racial hat- red, with its sensational reporting and its reluct- ance to condemn outright the National Front. Bast- ions of capitalism like the Daily Mail and the Daily Ex- press pomtificate through their leader columns, "The National Front are entitled to have free speech" they say "Suppressing them is wrong" and then go on to condemn socialist movements who actively fight racism. This is the classic tech- nique of divide and rule, set worker against worker, play on his fears and prejudices and when he is weak turn on the screws. The National Front is a product of capitalist soc- iety, it is vicious and evil and must be fought at all costs. We should refuse to work with fascists and treat them like the scabs they are. After all, how can they do their jobs impartially, es- pecially in something like the benefit service? As ind- ividuals we must guard our- selves against their poison- ous attitudes, and collect- ively, through our unions, fight against fascism. A united labour movement can never be defeated. NATIONAL ABORTION CAMPAIGN July, '77. National Abortion Campaign march to Downing Street to protest against the Benyon Bill, which sought to restrict further a woman's right to choose whether to have an unwanted child or an abor- tion. Practice has shown that restriction of the right to free abortion on demand leads to many women being forced to turn to back-street abortionists, with all the dangers to health-and even life-that that involves.