picketing being thrown in the dustbin even before they are introduced.
SOLIDARITY Equally important, the determined action by the steelworkers has proved a rallying call to thousands of other workers who know only too well that if the Tories win this one, their necks will soon be on the block.
Railway workers have refused to transport steel and dockers to handle it. Miners have 'instructed' the NCB not to buy steel during the dispute and have (in S. Yorkshire) held pit-head collections. Carworkers in Rotherham have blocked steel entering the plants and nurses at Stocksbridge have visited the picket lines with tea and sandwiches.
The climax to this mounting solidarity was clearly the minigeneral strike called by the Welsh TUC on January 28th. They offensive in its tracks. Not only can they win a decent wage but also ensure that jobs are not lost through plant closures and the introduction of new machinery.
One of the key demands now being raised among militant steelworkers is precisely the need to shorten the work week through 'worksharing'. New technology can be used to better and not worsen working conditions and throw men out of a job. It is labour which creates the wealth, not capital, so why on earth should steelworkers accept any redundancies?
As Brian Molyneux (member of the Stocksbridge & Tinsley Park Strike Cttee) put it recently: are for 20% index-linked, with no productivity strings at national or local level, and no more redundancies. We've sent telegrams to the EC explaining this"
LEADERSHIP The real problem with ensuring that both wages and jobs are safeguarded remains the leadership of the ISTC - and its allies in the TUC. In the past, Bill Sirs has been only too willing to accept redundancies as plants close and worse working conditions in exchange for a little extra cash.
In 1976, the union pledged itself to support an agreement which called for 'streamlining' manning levels, ending the guaranteed Over the past month or so, Carter has tried to fire up hatred of Iran by claiming that "innocent Americans" were being "abused" by the Iranian students holding the US Embassy. Ignoring the students' claim that the Embassy was a hotbed for CIA activities, the news media has tried to portray the US personnel as normal men and women caught by the Iranian "fanatics".
: "We Direct Action (an Australian socialist paper) analyses the The Americans being held hostage in the Tehran Embassy have been brainwashed, according to Carter's Press Secretary Jody Powell. Powell said the hostages had been "subjected to very sophisticated and very subtle techniques..."
students occupying the Embassy have clearly made a breakthrough.
trying -up with a reliable brainwashing technique. And now Iranian students have done it. apparently without spending a cent. No wonder Carter is so mad at them. TOUCHY US Presidents have grown increasingly touchy about brainwashing over the years as the evidence has mounted that the "enemies of freedom" have behind.
the Chinese Communist Party brainwashed hundreds of millions overthrow capitalism in direct defiance of Washington's better judgement. Not long atterwards, Castro did the same thing to the Cuban people so thoroughly that not even the Bay of Pigs and the could unwash their brains. and Nicaragua, from Ethiopia to fear of poverty and the governlook after their welfare.
GALLING Iran is particularly galling, for Iran was the scene of one of Below Allen Myers. writer for If this is true, then the Iranian After all, the CIA. as is well known. have spent millions and millions of dollars over the past 20 to 30 years without success - to come mastered the art while America lags In the early 1950s, for example.
overseas banks. of peasants and thus forced them to SAVAK opportunity to buy Coca Cola again The same thing happened in Vietnam, and today the US government is certain that the Vietnamese are brainwashing the Kampucheans to dislike Pol Pot. From Angola to Mozambique, the evidence mounts.
Hundreds of millions of people are being brainwashed into an irrational ments Washington has appointed to The brainwashing now going on in Washington's most ambitious antibrainwashing campaigns.
Beginning in 1953, when it discovered a Communist plot to brainwash the Iranian people into disliking their amiable Shall. the CIA went all out to unwash Iranian brains. Atter removing one of the dirtiest washers -- Mohammed Mossedegah, who had brainwashed many Iranians into accepting the absurd notion that Iranians should own Iranian oil - the CIA helped the Shah set up a vast antibrainwashing operation.
The CIA experts had discovered that the first step of brainwashers was often to get people to dislike extreme poverty. They therefore advised the Shah to teach the Iranian people to love poverty. which could be done. of course. only if they had the opportunity to experience it. This is why the Shah found it necessary to deposit most of the proceeds from Iran's oil in But the central feature of the CIA's campaign to save the Iranian people from brainwashing was the creation of SAVAK. Under the direct control of the Shah, SAVAK set out to counter the "sophisticated and subtle" brainwashing techniques mentioned by Powell.
Obviously, the most effective opposition to such techniques could only be unsophisticated and unsubtle. Borrowing heavily from the pioneering anti-brainwashing techniques of the Nazis, the CIA helped SAVAK perfect its methods. These included electric shock, rape. pulling out nails and burning. A particularly effective means of dealing with washed skulls proved to be crushing the skull in a vice. On the theory that it was best to get to people betore they had been brainwashed, these techniques were often used on children.
But, despite these humanitarian The Ayotollah: brain-washer in chief?
citorts. the brainwashers ve and the Shat was deposed. Now. to add insult to injury. Americans are being brainwashed 1oo. How else can you explain some of the hostages saying that the Shah should be extradited to Iran to stand trial DILEMMA Jimnly Carter now faces a real dilemma. He would. of course, be fully justified in a military attack on the Iranian people who have repaid Washington's 25 years of devotion to their welfare by allowing themselves to be brainwashed.
The problem is that large numbers of Americans are also susceptible to brainwashing .. as shown by a recent US poll in which nobody said they loved the Shah enough to die for him. There is therefore a real danger that brainwashers could use subtle and unsophisticated techniques to play on this sentiment if for example. the Marines were sent to Iran.
Thus Carter is in a "no-win" situation. Around the world. and even in the US itself, Washington's every effort only seems to result in still more washed brains.
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