on the borders of German territory. revolutionarles.
atrocious.
right to communicale with their lawyers. There people who have In the past beon active Nazis.
East Germany as a more serious threat.
doubt following Nazi 'legal' prisoners attempted 'suicide". "sulcide". It is deliberate and cold-blooded murder.
groupings in German politics. terror can pressurs the the picture.
Spaln, Italy and Portugal. to be at the moment.
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THE HACKERS hava all been killed bar one, who Is seriously wounded. The tones of rejolcing In the capitalla! press of Westem Europe are understandable, but disgusting nevertholess. Unit 9 of the German Federal Border Protection Troops has carrled out a useful operation for German Imperialism, Its name should now be altered as Mogadishu, the Somallan capital, Is not yet As revolutionary marxiata we have made It clear on many occasions that we are totally opposed to terrorism as & strategy for the socialist revolution. We would strongly urge raders to read the article by Günter Minnerup on Page 13 of this newspaper. In It he spells out in delail the consequences of such actions. His article, written several weeks ago, has unfortunately become prophetic. Its lessons neod to be absorbed by all There can be little doubt that the West German slate is the most undemocratic of the West European bourgeois-democratic states. The laws on the statute books deny democratic righta to political minoritles. The conditiona for political prioners in West German prisons are Prioners are at the recelving end of psychological torture. Now they have also boen denied the funciioning Nazi cells Inside the West German army and there are numerous state lunctionarles and businesscreation of a proper bourgeois-democratic state was hindered because the 'democrats' regarded the USSR and The appalliing conditions Inside the prisons led to the desth of Ulrike Meinhof. Her comrades say she was raped and killed by prison guards. The German Judges, no precedents, refused a post-mortem by independent doctors. Now her friends and collaborators Andreas Baader and Gudrun Enslin are reported to have committed 'suicide". Two other political We refuse to call this social-democrats who hold power in West Germany today aro the guilly ones. Having leamed no lessons from history they are paving the way to their own removal and the victory of the most reactionary and backward political We can understand the frustration and dospair of many. many young students and intellectuals. We can understand their anger. But we must insist that their methods are wrong. They are nothing else but an extreme version of liberal pressure politics, which, in reality, betray illusions in the ruling classes. Because they believe that an act of latter Into lasting concessions. This Is wrong. It lesves the masses oul of It panders lo the absurd view that social revolutions are made by acta of Individual heroism or al best by conspiracies and not by the movement of social classes. However angry supporters of the Baader-Mainho! grouping are, they must re-assess thair whole operation.
Thair actions have only further Isolated the entire socialist latt from the masses. The portrayal of those who carry out such actions as communists, Marxists and aven left-social-democrats is not accidental. If is designed to keep the German working class insulated from the breezes of revolution and socialism which are blowing in France, On a more sinister lovel we have to note another fact. This is the first military operation carried out outside its borders by West German Imperialism since the War. It will no doubt give Joy to all those who want the West German army (considered to be the most rallable European relay of world imperialist interests] to act as the gendarme of counter-revolution in the West. Mogadishu could well lum out to be a much more significant opisode than it appears North Sea oil will not save British capitolism, no malter what Jim Callaghan says. His statement to the Party conference that oil will ensure the next 20 years will be uniike onything Britain has seen since it first became an inciustrial power" is pure deception.
British capitalism is in crisis becase of the low proficahilit af British industry.
Sea oil is no cure for this.
BULLDL BAC income from oil regenerate British industry and make it more profitable by restructuring Labour left? We say: It can try. but it won't make much overal! differeace. ,simply not large enough.
The value of the produced ail Gross TNAEECEJGUCE-L3r in 1977, and increase po 3.2 pei cent by Bre OPEC-determined price is high enough for The BULLOC HULEDES! receive a large profits (up 10 LOKES SAL UFULIES!
We can therefore assume that by 1980 the State will control as ICYCIUC araund 2 GNP (E2-2.5 billion) as a direct result of North Sea production.
o1 coltse, if the con panies don't find any new tar opholes to further their taxes, as they so often have dane in the pass.
The PHENOMENAL ISbu i aso the vers eunieu that the State will control such The thei: Income auer nEOeucdOn scars,MIE COE State bas to wait. This ensures that the companies panoricsal proner field wil be In CING TARA IWD CIS S rull prodution, eiving a prori are of round 40 per cent comparcd with the curtenr aver age UK rate of 5 per cemt.
Taking the argument one ster furier, It l extremely doubifu channelied There would be great temptaDons fas weil as presniesr tor any government TETER muc Du aware u North Sea od, to derease direct For even ment expendture in areas ake henicb and education. I: is therefore unlikely that most shibbom labour Covern menl dedicated lo the restructuring of British CICEL BEOLILAOIBES TOUSG HILLI end by left with more than one per out on GNP purpose The final problem in using oi revenucs for restructuring would LC UW STE TC BuC u would bave to be done selocLabour And North Government's The revenes are per cent of the 1980. Oil is a specia exceptionally larg:
of these 65 per cent from CETE decreas:
Immediarely will get Petroleum's Forties completely paid la as would be (and indusry.
wishing 10 Britain leons, Det us even the disposal to restructure rowards industry for such a per cent of GNP).
ideologically difficull allocation of fandi. Alrernativel) brought E is more likely ry government) it co three-filths mould go abrond where profitability pencrally is higher than is But putting aside these probassure thai the gavernment in 1980 will have one GNP wide scale.
BOW ImODs OIC pent of GNP? If wlal matters foe a restructuring of industry is an eilect INTONER IETS THI BIEL this figure represents a mere 6 per cent increase in the annual gross TOGUDCE TaC STORE J0 LO-L.
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PHISCENE Given that tently had an investment in GNPBritish industry addicion lo lavestmen abou by the profits from the private oil pompiles may abso contribu tocal investment. Bar since ove the North Sea are foreign, the chances ane that they will repatriate their profits with no signifi ment or investment. The same pes for Britist companier like HP which operate on a world The porential increase in cither Slate or prieste wisunent will in case have no perceptibic bit the number emoloved, as it is hikely to h carmarked for bigh-lochnalogy. capital intensive industries Is the whoie Nort Sca Bi story pure fantasy? Not totally.
WANT TO KNOW MORE? Of you agree with chest phticiples aod witit, to be hovedred in vetiides lix Sociallst Challenge bunportersoryporares, fitto the form odon and sendet fo us: an Ietereitod to more intarnation shout aud Sile fr my aris 1 waula e addriunal literstuee und endoss 90p UTE 5053 Opere is nos spplicablel ADDRESS: CO Send to Sectais Challenge 328/329 Leper Biper Todor NL. The ronin tangible and short-run impert erin atl se see • Hatair will be sufficient ie oil by 1980, and car ерост a consistent balancı payments surplus. While this wil agnens a the part, the palie crixis, as so oller elects are by no menos automatic persistent balance of pay BEIES value of the pound and thar sepius may urine up the make ancompetitive. Alternatively i - as is happening at the momen - the State attempts to stabilise the value of the pound, ther forcign reserves accumiuinte (they re naw a stagsering C20 billior ind thracen the control of thi domestic money supply So the oil-honansa will noe solve ether the long or the short term crista of British capitalism Touch luck, Sunny Jim by CPS
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