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Workers' Liberty 3/62: Fighting left anti-semitism in the 1980s
Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/27901
Submitted by Anon on 23 June, 2018 - 1:15 Author: Sean Matgamna
Fighting left antisemitism in the 1980s
When the facts came out
Gerry Healy discovers the World Jewish Conspiracy (1981)
Who were the heresy-hunters in 1983?
Download whole Workers' Liberty 3/62 as pdf
(Note: by mistake, the printed copy is numbered WL 3/61. It should be WL 3/62).
Supporters of Solidarity and Workers' Liberty find themselves especially unpopular just now [2003] with certain sections of the pseudo-left, because of our attitude to George Galloway MP.
The hostility which our stand on Galloway has aroused reminds me of the heresy hunt organised against some of us, who were then publishing the weekly paper Socialist Organiser, by the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) and its friends in the labour movement.
The issues in dispute were pretty much the same as those raised now by the Galloway affair: the connection of certain ostensibly socialist "anti-Zionist" groups and individuals in the British left with anti-working class Arab governments, and how others should regard those who have such links.
The large-scale campaign launched by the WRP and its Ayatollah, the late Gerry Healy, was an incident within a broader attempt by the WRP and its friends, such as Ken Livingstone, to force our paper Socialist Organiser out of publication.
In 1981, the actress Vanessa Redgrave, on behalf of the WRP, of which she was the best-known member, had sued John Bloxam and myself for libel over things I had written about the WRP in Socialist Organiser and John had repeated in a circular letter to supporters of the Socialist Organiser Alliance.
The WRP embroiled us in expensive and potentially ruinous legal processes for four and a half years. If we hadn't found a friendly solicitor who helped John and myself do the legal work cheaply — John did most of it — we would have been bankrupted and Socialist Organiser forced to cease publication.
Why didn't we take the easy way out and issue a tongue-in-cheek apology? We explained why:
''We live in a labour movement grown spiritually cross-eyed from the long pursuit of realpolitik and the operation of double standards, a movement ideologically sick and poisoned. In terms of moral ecology, the left and the labour movement is something of a disaster area because of the long-term use of methods and arguments which have corrupted the consciousness of the working class. The most poisonous root of that corruption was the Stalinist movement". (Quoted in Socialist Organiser 447, 10 May 1990).
The parallels with the Galloway case are striking and strong. In the Galloway affair we first raised the cry that Galloway should be driven out of the labour movement in January 1994. BBC cameras had recorded an "audience" which the fascistic Iraqi dictator had given to the Labour MP. The representative of the British left stood before the mass murderer of Iraqis and Kurds and praised him to his face for his "strength", "courage", ''indefatigability''. We called on Galloway's local Labour Party to throw him out as an MP.
Politically, his exact motives did not matter. What mattered was the politics of a pseudo-left Labour MP championing, defending, and fawning on the head of a regime that was grinding the working class, the Kurds and others in the Iraqi state under the iron heel of a dictatorship as totalitarian as Hitler's regime was. A Labour MP who did what Galloway was doing for the Iraq regime should not be allowed to remain part of the labour movement. Honest socialists and George Galloway belong to different species.
He was, we are told, being "witch-hunted" by the bourgeois press, "victimised" because of his opposition to the recent war on Iraq.
The duty of "solidarity" with Galloway against the bourgeois press, we were told, supersedes and overrides everything else. No it doesn't! Solidarity with the Iraqi working class and with the Kurdish and others of its victims against the quasi-fascist Ba'th regime and against its paid and unpaid admirers in Britain — that was the first priority of socialists.
If the first pillar of socialist wisdom is the understanding that "the main enemy is at home", the second is an understanding that the bourgeois enemy at home is not the only enemy — and the third, the understanding that sometimes the enemy abroad is worse than the enemy at home. The last is the most difficult to grasp by people engaged in day-to-day conflict with that enemy.
The WRP-fomented heresy hunt in 1983 shows the effect on the collective sanity of the British left and pseudo-left when it tries to operate on the basis of belief that there is nothing on earth worse than our own, at that time Thatcher-Tory, rulers.
For years before 1983, Socialist Organiser had been saying that an ostensibly Trotskyist organisation, the Workers Revolutionary Party, was kept afloat by Libyan and other Arab government (including Iraqi) money. You couldn't read their press and not know that.
They fawned on Arab dictators, publishing a glossy pamphlet about Iraq and Saddam which could have been issued by the Iraqi Embassy in London and which Iraq certainly paid the WRP for publishing. Their paper, Newsline, carried reports on Libya and its ruler, Gaddafi modelled on the stuff which the Communist Party Daily Worker (now The Morning Star) once published about Stalinist Russia.
They raged against "the Zionists". They identified and denounced "Zionists", that is Jews in prominent positions in British business and other institutions, for example, in the BBC. They singled out for special abuse prominent Jewish Tories and Jewish Labour right wingers. These were "the Zionists". "Zionists" were at the heart of the "imperialist" "conspiracies" all over the world. "Zionists" fomented anti-Arab feeling everywhere.
Socialist Organiser was part of a "Zionist" plot against the WRP and the British labour movement. We were, naturally, "anti-Arab racists".
They published a raving — in fact Hitlerite — editorial in Newsline asserting that there was a Zionist conspiracy stretching through, and linking, the Tory government, the editorial board of Socialist Organiser and Ronald Reagan's White House!
In 1981, they had sued John Bloxam and myself for libel when I compared them in Socialist Organiser to the Moonie sect and the Scientologists. I had reported — part of it based on my own adolescent experience of them — that they used systematic emotional, political and physical violence against vulnerable young people.
The libel case was a pretty obvious attempt to "smash" SO and thus clear a competitor out of the way of the paper, Labour Herald, which they had just started in tandem with Ken Livingstone, Leader of the Greater London Council, and others.
In response to the libel writs, we launched a political campaign in the labour movement, calling for a labour movement inquiry into the funds of the WRP and into our dispute with them.
As part of that campaign I repeated again and again in SO that there was "circumstantial evidence" that they were in receipt of funds from one or more Arab governments. Repeatedly, I challenged them to sue me on that. They never did. If they had we would have been entitled under the legal "discovery" rules to examine their accounts... It was a tacit admission of guilt.
We were not isolated. We had, for example the support of Tony Benn. And a lot of people in the labour movement had had experience of the WRP....
When, in April 1983 the BBC, in a low-audience early Sunday evening programme, repeated a mild version of the "Libyan gold" allegations, I wrote a short review in Socialist Organiser saying that the BBC had told some of the truth about the WRP. I protested against unsubstantiated statements in the programme that "the ethnic press" was, like the WRP, financed by Libya.
Those who were using the libel laws against a labour movement paper now launched a political campaign in the labour movement against the BBC... and Socialist Organiser! It was a typically vigorous campaign.
A sizeable number of trade union branches and trades councils were persuaded to pass resolutions condemning "the BBC and Socialist Organiser", sometimes adding the name of the present writer to the list of those being denounced and condemned.
Frequently the resolutions demanded that Socialist Organiser or I, or both, "retract" our "slanders" and discharge our working-class duty to stand by those being attacked by the bourgeois state by way of the BBC programme.
The WRP's daily paper, Newsline, devoted a page or most of a page every day for 50 (fifty) issues over nine weeks, to printing (solicited) letters and formal statements denouncing us from people holding office in the labour movement and well-known theatrical personages. As well as that they published feature articles, editorials and a large pamphlet to tell the labour movement what dishonest, unprincipled scoundrels, "Zionists" and agents-provocateur for the bourgeois state we were. They tried to whip up a lynch-mob atmosphere against us. They urged that we — and the writer by name and photograph — be shut up.
Meetings were held to denounce us all over the country at which local shop stewards and convenors, secretaries of trades councils, and occasionally a Labour councillor, and one Labour MP, appeared on the platform.
For example, the meeting held at the Conway Hall in London featured the leader of the then Greater London Council, Ken Livingstone, and the leader of a famously "left-wing" borough council, Ted Knight, amongst a large number of well-known platform speakers.
Meetings held in Scotland featured the Labour MP Ron Brown, a sincere political idiot later thrown out by the Blairites, who believed that Libya and Russia and possibly — I can't remember — Iraq were socialist states.
In that affair we were spectacularly vindicated — and comparatively soon. In late 1985, the Workers Revolutionary Party imploded. They expelled the aged Gerry Healy, charging the 72-year old with the serial rape of members and other such things. The two initial factions splintered into a dozen pieces, all flying in different political directions. Its warring fractions fell over each other in the rush to spill its secrets, including the secrets of its lavish supply of funds.
One of its "historic leaders", the academic Cliff Slaughter, denounced the WRP's leadership, of which he himself had been a part for 25 years, as "fascists" for their amoral attitude to politics and for their deeds. We, who had regarded them as no longer part of the labour movement, had not gone that far; but you could see his point.
The Galloway-SWP business spurred me to go and look at a file of Newsline, where that heresy hunt is luridly recorded. It has much to teach socialists faced now [2003] with the moral, political and intellectual collapse of the pseudo-left before political Islam, of which their attitude to Galloway is a putrid symptom.
I will now expand on the bare bones of the story above.
On 20 March 1983 BBC TV The Money Programme carried an item investigating the WRP's financial links with Colonel Gaddafi's Libyan government.
They concluded that the WRP had got large sums of money from Libya, suggesting a figure of £1.5 million. They noted that Labour Herald (a Labour Party weekly nominally edited by Ken Livingstone and two others) and a paper published by George Galloway, the Dundee Standard, were printed by the WRP. The Money Programme suggested that money from Libya was channelled to the WRP by way of spurious printing contracts and, perhaps, that some of the benefits were being passed on to others in the same way. There were vague allusions to "the ethnic press" receiving Libyan money.
In fact it was common knowledge that Labour Herald was subsidised by the WRP. Though its nominal editors were Ken Livingstone, Ted Knight and Matthew Warburton, it was actually edited by Steven Miller, a member of the WRP Central Committee.
I had been invited to appear on the programme but, thinking it would cause more trouble in our own organisation than it was worth, declined. I wrote a 400-word review of the Money Programme in Socialist Organiser. Over the next two months Newsline would devote a page or two pages a day to denouncing that review and the Money Programme — two pages or more for every sentence in the article!
I wrote: "There is need of a thorough investigation into the links of the 'Workers' Revolutionary Party' (WRP) with various Arab governments. There is a lot of circumstantial evidence which suggests that the WRP receives sizeable sums of money from Libya, and possibly from other Arab governments.
"Not long ago it was putting out Iraqi government public relations handouts with the imprint of Newsline on them. One glossy Newsline pamphlet, for instance, carried an account of the career of the butcherous Ba'thist dictator Saddam Hussein that was sycophantic enough to be an official Iraqi handout. At the same time the wretched Newsline hacks wrote articles justifying the shooting of members of the Communist Party of Iraq by Hussein's regime...
"Last Sunday's BBC Money Programme carried an investigation of the financial links between Libya and the WRP. It established a circumstantial case based on the fact that the tiny WRP has a vast printing press, and a daily more lavishly printed that any Fleet Street paper, with a tiny circulation (they said 10,000, probably it is a great deal less...)
"The programme was both shallow and under-researched. It talked of the revolutionary left in general as possibly linked to Gaddafi by chains of gold. It talked about the left and ethnic press, but said nothing about the ethnic press.
"The programme suggested that as much as £1.5 million may have been channelled to the WRP by the Libyan government by way of overpayment for 'commercial work'. It did not investigate the financial side of WRP films like 'The Palestinians', which are popular in Arab countries.
"It left a great many avenues unexplored. But it did plainly allege that the WRP gets money from Gaddafi. Will the WRP sue the BBC?...
"There is still a need for a thorough investigation into the links of the WRP with Arab governments — a labour movement investigation".
The WRP had been invited by the makers of the Money Programme to comment but had declined. It made a pre-emptive strike on its front page of Saturday 19 March, the day before the programme went out. The headline: "We Expose BBC Witch-hunt", and the strap-line: "Attack Due In Sunday's Money Programme".
A "statement of the Political Committee of the WRP" "unmasked... the instigators... in the highest levels of the BBC and Thatcher government". The programme was said to be an "anti-communist" and (anti-Arab) "racist" build-up to a general election (which came, in fact, in June). It had been "prepared in collaboration with the Zionists". Proof of that was that the Jewish Chronicle, "mouthpiece of British Zionism", knew about the programme in advance (as did the WRP and Socialist Organiser!)
The "witch-hunt" was based on "slanders and lying allegations of so-called foreign gold". As recent defences of George Galloway demonstrate, such statements virtually write themselves. "It follows in the ugly tradition of the Zinoviev letter"[a forged letter in the name of the leader of the Communist International, which brought down the 1924 British Labour government]. The Newsline had been "singled out because this paper cannot be bought politically and stands shoulder to shoulder with the working class and the oppressed masses of the world".
On the Monday after the programme went out, the whole front page was devoted to a "WRP Political Committee" statement on it, under the headline: "A Crude Frame-up". The programme was "a lie from start to finish" and an insult to the WRP members who had to struggle to raise money for the organisation.
Next day, all of pages two and three were devoted to the programme, and the first of what would be over two months of a page or half a page a day given over to testimonials appeared.
Over the two months, in 50 issues of their daily paper, Newsline, they would publish statements, or resolutions of support for the WRP from one union conference, nine Trades Councils, 29 trade union branches or shop stewards' committees, and 214 individuals. The individuals included many trade union convenors and branch secretaries, some well-known actors, one union general secretary, one MP, seven Labour councillors — and future government minister Patricia Hewitt, then general secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties.
The first statements were from Liverpool docker and long-time WRPer Larry Kavanagh; from Des Warren, who had served a 3 year jail sentence in the mid-1970s as one of the "Shrewsbury Three" building workers jailed for picketing in their 1972 strike; the Midlands regional secretary of the builders' union UCATT; and an ASLEF branch chair.
On 23 March a middle-page spread headlined the question: "Who was behind the Money Programme attack?" Answer: "The Zionists played a leading part in its preparation". So did the Labour right wing.
A new theme now appeared. Editor Alex Mitchell: "Revisionists and the witch-hunt". ("Revisionist" was by then a meaningless term of abuse for anyone outside the WRP calling themselves Marxist, in this case for Socialist Organiser and the Mandelite Socialist League). Mitchell insisted: "Revisionists do the dirty work for Zionist imperialism". The revisionists were the "first to put forward the lying slander about the WRP and 'Libyan gold'."
This was a theme that would get much stronger. Testimonials appeared from a Dundee branch secretary of the health workers' union COHSE; the leader of the Labour Group on Lothian District Council; the deputy TGWU chief shop steward at Vauxhall Motors Ellesmere Port and vice-chair of Ellesmere Port Trades Council.
Testimonials the next day, 24 March, included one from Jack Collins, secretary of the Kent miners; the chair of a London branch of NALGO; an executive member of Aberdeen Trades Council; and the secretary of the Labour Group on Lothian Regional Council.
On the 25th: the deputy leader of Camden council and the treasurer of the GMB branch at Ford Dagenham testified for the WRP. The latter wrote proudly, as a WRP member: "I know that our paper and party need no foreign gold".
Many, testifying to their faith in the WRP leaders, would repeat this in the weeks ahead. It was one of the saddest things in the whole wretched business.
The central note in the whole WRP campaign, the basis on which they solicited support outside their own ranks, was this: the BBC says it; what is said is against the WRP, which is part of the labour movement; therefore, it can't be true. The prevalence of this idea, its power to shield the WRP, was one measure of the state of political morale in the sizeable section of the left that was drawn into the WRP's campaign.
The testimonials now had a regular logo: a photo — of the BBC cameraman and reporter outside the gate, vainly trying to get the WRP to answer the bell! — taken from inside the barbed-wire-on-high-walls fortress, a one-time factory, that was WRP headquarters. It would appear every day for nine weeks.
On Thursday 24 March Socialist Organiser appeared with my review of the Money Programme.
On Saturday 26th the Newsline responded with a middle-page spread under a headline: "Socialist Organiser joins the witch-hunt". "Joins"? They had already, three days earlier, said that we, "the revisionists", were "the first to put forward the lying slander about the WRP and 'Libyan gold'." Surely we were pioneer "witch-hunters", if witch-hunt it was?
The line they would take — and get a large number of labour movement bodies to take —was that once the BBC had said it, it was everybody's duty to say it couldn't be true, and thus to "defend the WRP" from "the state" and its "witch-hunt". All thought about the substantive issue was now ruled out. Whether true or untrue, the charge was by definition a''witch-hunt'' and "a frame-up".
A WRP Political Committee statement dated 25 March responded to my review: "One revisionist group has publicly stated its full backing for the BBC state frame-up". My "article provides resounding proof that this is a group which responds directly to the needs of the capitalist state... It serves the state's interests and not the working class... Socialist Organiser has flagrantly betrayed [the] principle of working-class solidarity. It has crossed the floor, joined the class enemy, and is now adopting the role of prosecutor-in-chief on behalf of the Thatcher government and the Zionists".
Entirely ignoring the articles I had published in Socialist Organiser over two years challenging them to sue me for saying they took Libyan money (they, who, through Vanessa Redgrave, were already suing us... for writing that they were "like the Moonies"), they went on: "Socialist Organiser has taken courage from the BBC to publish its article. It is not opposed to the witch-hunt. It supports everything that the Money Programme said. Its only disagreement with the BBC is that it did not go far enough".
The concept here of "witch-hunt" inverted the usual meaning. Any hostile outcry against the WRP was a "witch-hunt". Facts became un-facts, and anyway were irrelevant. For what can one do with a "witch-hunt" but resist it and "defend" its victims?
Quoting me on the ethnic press, it turned the meaning of the words around. "In other words Socialist Organiser wanted the state witch-hunters to persecute Britain's tiny ethnic press as well" (!)
They had printed a photocopy of my article, so for the first time they had to answer Socialist Organiser's long standing call for a labour movement inquiry. In my piece I counter-posed to the BBC inquiry the idea of a thorough labour movement inquiry. Socialist Organiser had been calling for that over the two years that Vanessa Redgrave's libel case had been in train.
That, said the WRP Political Committee, is "implicitly [to] call for the capitalist state to commence an inquiry into the WRP".
"Socialist Organiser's call for a 'labour movement inquiry' into the finances of the WRP is a bogus cover for the capitalist state... It is designed to encourage further witch-hunts against the party and its daily paper in which the forces of the state will be able to call upon Socialist Organiser for justification of its repressive action".
"Will they sue the BBC?", I had asked in the article they reproduced. They couldn't, they said, because the BBC had been careful to "cover its legal tracks".
Now they reached the nuttily self-righteous punchline. "Socialist Organiser has come along and stabbed us in the back. Its article has put us under the direct threat of attack by the capitalist state" How, exactly? The state would listen to us, but not to the BBC? But the damage could be undone. They demanded that the article "must be withdrawn forthwith... We ask readers to take immediate steps to demand that the 'Socialist Organiser' article is unconditionally retracted by the paper's editors. Please send individual letters as well as resolutions from trade union branches to Newsline for publication".
Blatant facts about the WRP became un-facts when the BBC reported them. Important issues raised by the BBC report became reasons for denying, on principle and in the name of working-class solidarity, the existence of any "issue" other than the BBC's "attack" and Socialist Organiser's comments. The "implications" of something determined whether it was true or not.
Would this tissue of illogical nonsense influence what attitude people took? Would it? It already had.
28 March: the AGM of ACTT, the film and TV workers' union, "repudiat[ed] all state-orchestrated campaigns of fabrications, smears and outright lies such as BBC TV's Money Programme... deliberately intended to discredit organisations in the labour movement". And if there was truth in the allegations, who then was "discrediting" the labour movement?
Central to creating the psychology into which the WRP tapped — if the BBC says it, then it can't be true — was the decades-old need for the pro-USSR left to deny and discount honest reports of the Stalinist societies and states. That belief could only be sustained by denial, lies and hysteria. By the 1980s, with the deepening of the "Second Cold War" triggered by Russia's invasion of Afghanistan, this need to resist by denial and automatic discounting of unfriendly reports had again become very important, and was second nature to much of the left.
Lesley Hammond, chief whip of the ruling Labour group on the Greater London Council, declared her faith in the WRP's integrity. The then prominent actors, Ray Marsden, who played a fastidious upper-class detective in a popular TV series, and Polly Hemingway, were on the front page with a picture: "It is evident even from the programme that no truth existed in the allegations that the paper and [the printworks] were supported by Libyan money". There was much "dialectical" gobbledegook in the article after that.
Many statements were obviously indebted to some common "model resolution" which the WRP had put out. Only a minority of labour movement bodies would include Socialist Organiser in their strictures, but many did, as did individual statements. The demand that Socialist Organiser, and this writer by name, "retract", would be shouted at us by a sizeable chunk of labour movement bodies and office-holders.
Lambeth Trades Council passed an unanimous resolution denouncing the BBC and Socialist Organiser. "Organisations within the labour movement have a right to expect that when the class enemy attacks one section of the labour movement, the rest will close ranks in defence of the threatened organisation".
Precisely! The point, which Socialist Organiser had made again and again, was that the employees of Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein and other such scoundrels were not part of the labour movement, but stooges of its bloody class enemies.
Dennis Barry, former AUEW convenor at an engineering works used Newsline to address us directly: "Socialist Organiser, you have got your priorities wrong. The workers of the world have enough battles without fighting each other".
Brian Pringle, the secretary of Leicester Trades Council, wrote: "Socialist Organiser is even more despicable than the BBC..."
Film producer Roy Battersby: "It is striking that... Socialist Organiser goes even further than the BBC in its provocation against the WRP". SO's article on the Money Programme had shown that it "is a group whose one role is to help the Thatcher state in trying to smash the proud political and technical independence of the working class and its vanguard party".
On 2 April: Ron Brown, Labour MP for Leith, found the programme "shocking". For him, it was even "worse to learn that Sean Matgamna of the Socialist Organiser has jumped on this reactionary bandwagon".
From now on much of the comment was directed at me by name. Some of those making statements would repeat the demand that I "retract".
Brown was a political fool, but not, unlike most MPs, self-serving. He really believed in Gaddafi. The Labour MP was the only testamentary — apart from WRP Secretary Mike Banda — to express positive belief in Gaddafi. (He also believed in the civilising mission of the Russians in Afghanistan, on which subject I had debated him on his home ground, at a very big, very unruly, and very pro-Russian meeting). "We can disagree with one or other aspect of [Gaddafi's] policy, but in general he has given encouragement and support to left-wing movements all over the world". But not in Libya!
Brown probably took it for granted that Gaddafi gave the WRP money. WRP members didn't.
Steve Drury, "a lecturer in Earth Sciences" and ASTMS and AUT member. "Every penny results from the respect in which the paper and the WRP are held by many thousands of politically conscious people".
Steve Cowan: "As a prospective parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party, I find Newsline invaluable... Sean Matgamna and his mistitled Socialist Organiser have nailed their flag firmly on to the reactionary mast..."
Les Harrison, a TGWU shop steward: "I want you to know that I am absolutely incensed after reading about the article in Socialist Organiser.
"The two [the Money Programme and Socialist Organiser] absolutely complement each other".
Ivor Demibo wrote that the Cumberland branch of UCATT "has condemned the BBC and Socialist Organiser". "This branch recognises that an attack by the state and its media on any section of the labour movement threatens the whole working class and its organisations. We therefore condemn the article in Socialist Organiser... which joins in this despicable witch-hunt and call on the paper's editors to unconditionally retract the article". That sort of stuff was typical of resolutions where the WRP had strong direct influence.
But there was a wider catchment: on 5 April a member of Plaid Cymru "defended the WRP".
Mike Gill, acting chair of a TGWU branch, wrote that: "this was an attempt by the British ruling class in collaboration with international Zionism to discredit a good honest workers' paper".
On 6 April, Rich Lugg chair of the South East Airports committee of the TGWU: "As far as I am concerned a measure of Newsline's correctness was the attack launched by the BBC on behalf of the Zionists and big business".
George Downing of NUPE wrote that: "Socialist Organiser should be condemned for their disgraceful breaking of the United Front".
In some of these statements you can see the word "Jewish" through the very thin cover given to it by "Zionist".
The WRP had by now announced a "meeting against the witch-hunt" at Conway Hall, in London, to denounce the BBC and Socialist Organiser. An ad for it occupied the top right corner of every Newsline front page.
Tom Kempinksi honed his words: "No one buys us. No one, gentlemen, because principle cannot be bought. We are the proud, independent WRP, and we march under the banner of Karl Marx".
That sort of thing captured the underlying tragedy of it. Most WRP members were people who thought their leaders were honest communists, because they themselves were, or wanted to be.
They rationalised from that, and really believed things like Kempinski's credo here. A good credo, honoured only in the breach by the WRP.
I wrote in SO on 14 April:
"Newsline has continued in its ridiculous campaign of bluff and bluster against the BBC Money Programme…
"Much of the denunciation of SO is extremely shrill and hysterical, lynch mob stuff. It is also extremely sad. People write expressing their faith in the charlatans who put out Newsline.
"Letter after letter testifies to real sacrifices and devotion. People who couldn't possibly know the secrets of the autocratic and conspiratorial leaders of the organisation write to testify from their own experience of struggling to raise money for the paper that it could have no financial link with Libya. Playwright Tom Kempinski writes in ringing tones, 'We are not bought' — rhetoric that rings pathetic and false in the circumstances.
"As false as have always been the hopes and wishes of those who have devoted themselves to Healy's 'machine for maiming militants.'"
The WRP got knocked back sometimes, of course, as when the National Union of Teachers conference refused to debate the issue.
"Anti Zionism" had been central to the campaign against the BBC and SO. From now on it would take off into the realms of political lunacy.
On 9 April Newsline gave the whole centre page to "the witch-hunt". The issue of the paper included the craziest of all the things they published at that time, an editorial asserting that there was a Zionist conspiracy stretching from Socialist Organiser, through Thatcher's Cabinet, all the way to Reagan's White House.
Across the page from that editorial, Ken Livingstone, Leader of the Greater London Council and joint nominal editor of Labour Herald, gave his tribute to his benefactor the WRP.
This was the once-Red Ken in crank mode.
"The Money Programme attack on Newsline, Labour Herald, and [George Galloway's] Dundee Standard was gutter journalism... smear techniques used... against the labour movement press".
Livingstone "value[d] support to the struggles of the GLC by the Newsline..." "There is certainly a case for suspecting the hand of the forces opposed to the Palestinians. The Zionists were particularly upset by the role the Labour Herald played in winning the Labour Party to an official policy of support for the recognition of the PLO. The fact that smears about me appear on a fairly regular basis suggests this. Agents of the Begin [Israeli] government are active in the British labour movement and press [Socialist Organiser?] at present...
"It is important when these kinds of attacks are made that the labour movement stands united and fights back as one".
It is improbable that Livingstone would believe the WRP denials on "Libyan gold". He certainly knew that his Labour Herald benefited from the tiny WRP's mysterious wealth.
For SO too this editorial marked a new stage in the conflict. The abscess was open. Only those who didn't want to see, or smell, could ignore Newsline's lurch into Nazi-like "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" raving.
I responded in SO (14 April) with an article, "Gerry Healy Discovers the World Jewish Conspiracy" [see page 8 of this pull-out] and a reprint of the Newsline editorial.
Livingstone wouldn't have seen the editorial before he made the comments that seemed to endorse it and give it credibility. He ignored Socialist Organiser's request that he say where he stood on it, thus deliberately maintaining his solidarity with the mad editorial and those who published it.
Livingstone and other "left Labour" people played an irreplaceable role in the WRP's campaign. They helped give it a credibility it would not otherwise have had, way outside the influence its own comparatively small numbers gave it.
A lot of people in the labour movement knew the WRP, and had long known that what Socialist Organiser said about the Libyan gold was probably true. Yet the instinct to back even the WRP "against the state and the BBC" rallied people to them. The backing of the Livingstones helped discredit what Socialist Organiser said and helped the WRP get off the hook by turning the issue into a small labour movement referendum for or against "Thatcher's state and its media".
Livingstone was at this time trying to displace Reg Freeson as Labour candidate in Brent East. (He would win the seat in 1987). Freeson was Jewish. Denunciations of "the Zionist Reg Freeson" occupied much space in Newsline. Re-reading that stuff now what strikes me is that the sense of these denunciations of the Labour right winger Freeson — SO supported Livingstone against him — would better be conveyed by "the Jew Freeson". Almost all of SO supporters had the same formal position on the Arab-Jewish conflict as Livingstone, "a secular democratic state" (a tiny minority only of us were for a two state solution, and a much bigger minority was rabidly "anti-Zionist", Alan Thornett and his supporters). SO did not comment on this aspect of the anti-Freeson campaign.
On 11 April, Alex McLarty, a long-time WRP militant in Glasgow, someone for whom those of us who had encountered him had some personal respect, wrote:
"One just can't be a socialist and a supporter of the witch-hunt at the same time. The thing is impossible. Who is this character [Sean Matgamna] operating within [his emphasis] the labour movement, speaking on various platforms and on various subjects? Stripped of socialist verbiage, just what is his game? Just what is the role of Socialist Organiser?... Trade unionists! Members of the labour movement! Be warned! Depending on its substance, a small dose of poison can do a lot of harm. What is the substance of Matgamna and 'Socialist Organiser'? We know enough now. Time will tell even more!"
This is a good illustration of the mental world of a serious old Trotskyist militant who had come that far with Healy. I remembered McLarty 22 years earlier as the only person at an SLL [proto-WRP] annual conference to — vainly — try to get a real discussion about a contentious issue (Castro's Cuba).
Richard Price, who is still politically alive, typically missed the point with an analogy between SO's call for a labour movement inquiry into the WRP and the evasive call made in the 1930s by Fenner Brockway, secretary of the Independent Labour Party, for an inquiry into the Trotskyists at the time of the Moscow Trials. This call for a labour movement inquiry had in fact first been made two years earlier, when they sued us. Prominent labour movement people who had then put their name to it included… Ken Livingstone (before he allied with the WRP)!
The "Newsline sellers" of Belfast made a collective statement: "Newsline readers, Republicans and activists will be politically incensed by the article in Socialist Organiser which openly supports the BBC slander and especially by the hate filled remarks of a revisionist called Matgamna who tries to pour scorn on the security arrangements" of the WRP.
On 14 April John Biggs-Davidson, Tory, and David Ennals, Labour, raised the BBC allegations in Parliament. It was new wind in the WRP campaign's sails.
Dave Douglass, a miner and one-time Posadist, wrote an open letter denouncing Socialist Organiser. [The Posadists were a strange sect that believed in flying saucers and advocated that Russia launch the Third world war in order to hasten the coming of world socialism].
Ex-BBC Controller Stuart Hood, who — it seems — had long held private and platonic "Trotskyist" opinions, and, I guess, must at some time have been a member of the Healy organisation, waded in for the WRP. So did Gerry Caughey, secretary of St Helens Labour Party.
Dave Thompson, AUEW convenor at Vauxhall Motors Ellesmere Port, threw in his weight against "the witch-hunt", together with other trade union office-holders there.
As well as the daily page of testimonials, there was additional coverage. On 15 April a middle-page spread: "Socialist Organiser has capitulated to the Tory class enemy by supporting the 20 March programme on BBC2. That is why they are now in the company of such ultra-Tory MPs as John Biggs-Davidson".
16 April: Ted Knight Labour leader of Lambeth Council and a Healyite for thirty years, declared: "The article in Socialist Organiser endorsing the witch-hunt and the Money Programme is outrageous". For "Red Ted" too, it was "the Zionists". "The Zionists have not forgiven the Labour Party and TUC resolutions last year which recognised the PLO".
The eminent thespian, Sir Timothy West, wrote a long statement of support against the BBC. His was the sole contribution that, gently, distanced itself from the WRP's pro-Gaddafi politics. He did not attack Socialist Organiser.
By now the WRP was holding "broad" labour movement meetings on the issue all over the country. Denunciation of Socialist Organiser was a big feature of all these meetings, to go by Newsline's reports and those of SO supporters who attended them.
In Liverpool, Michael Banda, National Secretary of the WRP, spoke beside Bobby Owens, chair of District 6 of the TGWU, Bill Kerrigan, chair of the National Union of Seamen North West Panel, and a Labour councillor.
On 20 April four Socialist Organiser people — Mick O'Sullivan, Pete Firmin, Jane Ashworth and I — turned up at the WRP's central "anti-witch-hunt" meeting at Conway Hall, in London, to give them an argument. They wouldn't let us in!
Of the billed speakers only Peter Tatchell, then a Labour Party PPC, showed any concern at our exclusion from a meeting that would be largely given over to denouncing us; but he too took his place on the platform.
"Red Ken" and "Red Ted" and others joined WRP General Secretary Mike Banda on the platform to listen to him praise his paymaster Colonel Gaddafi, and Libya. Gaddafi, he said "has become the symbol of the struggle for national liberation… ." Libya was, he said, like a watermelon: Islamic green on the outside, but red inside!
We gave out a leaflet reiterating our stance to whoever would take one. A photograph of us doing that would henceforth be a feature of the press campaign against us.
Ted Knight endorsed and justified what the WRP leaders were doing. He said "When Socialist Organiser endorses the propaganda and continues to spread its lies, they are working alongside the class enemy and place themselves outside of the labour movement… if they persist in their attack and persist in their defence of the BBC, then frankly we have got to direct our resources, too, against those who aid and abet the class enemy."
We should not "defend" the BBC for saying some of what we'd been saying for years? No! For "the revolutionary party", the self-proclaimed and self-anointed "revolutionary leadership" of the WRP is the measure of all things, amen…
Michael Banda said, "We will expose these people for the charlatans and slanderers that they are".
The Conway Hall meeting — they claimed it was 700 strong — including the platform speakers, "unanimously" passed a three point resolution.
It included: "We condemn the weekly SO for repeating and extending the BBC slander and call upon SO readers to demand that its slanders are retracted unconditionally."
This formula of "retraction" in fact had nothing to do with the alleged BBC "witch hunt" and everything to do with the campaign to discredit SO. It spilled over into the public domain from the WRP's internal practice, in which a member showing any independence could be confronted, humiliated and degraded at a moment's notice with arbitrary demands from the leadership to "retract" or "apologise" to the meeting" for something or other (like being five minutes late).
The meeting "unanimously" "denounced" the BBC Money Programme "as a state-organised and Zionist influenced witch-hunt".
The audience at Conway Hall and the platform speakers (they included the theatre producer Thelma Holt) who voted for this stuff present in themselves a terrible picture of the state of at least part of the left then.
They knew what they were against but had only a vague idea of what they were for. That condition has since spread to sections of the left who were then relatively free of it, notably the SWP. Theirs is a political world of make believe, dominated by demagogy; by raw feeling and the manipulation of feeling; in which fact, inference and logic are whatever you want them to be; in which desire is proof; in which reason and sense, common or dialectical, is at a massive discount and in so far as it would trip up the political tango dancers dancing to feeling and desire, is an enemy.;
On 22 April Nupe Branch Secretary Frances Fallon's testimony was headlined "They try to silence the voice of the masses." If you thought about what Gaddafi and Khomeini — the WRP supported the Iranian Islamic regime — and Saddam Hussein did to the "masses" with the WRP's vocal support, you saw the tragic political confusion of those who sincerely "defended" the WRP in such terms.
On 23 April Bill Bowring, Lambeth councillor, practising barrister, former WRP member and a future secretary of the Socialist Lawyers' Association argued "So called 'left' newspapers which crawl through the same sewers as the Money Programme, thereby condemn themselves…"
My response (SO 14 April 1983) to the blatant antisemitism of the editorial about SO's "Zionist" conspiracy with members of Reagan's government and Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet was petrol on the fire! Charlie Pottins, long-time WRPer, one-time Zionist, and later member of the Jewish Socialist Group, wrote an indignant rebuttal of this article over three pages of Newsline, which ignored all the important points.
This would be the centre-piece of a pamphlet which they now produced.
Brent Council's Joint Staffs Committee, representing 12,000 workers: "We condemn SO, who have abandoned all pretence of socialist principle and sided with the capitalist media and state in calling for an investigation into the WRP." They too demand that we "retract". This is a quasi Stalinist world, where the question of what is true and not true does not exist in its own right. There is only "our side" — as if an appeal to the elementary principle of working class solidarity can answer for an investigation of such issues: as if there is such a thing as "class truth", "class facts".
Eddie Roberts, TGWU organiser and former convenor of Fords Halewood, found it "inconceivable" that any socialist paper, on the basis of this BBC programme [!] can support the attack on Newsline.
26 April headline: "Libyan Magazine slams frame up!" The London segment of the Libyan People's Bureau! "The Zionists [i.e., Jews] are allowed to work against Britain's political and economic interests free from the attention of the press".
These were the people who employed the WRP — it came out in 1985 when the WRP fell apart — to provide reports on Arab political dissidents in Britain and on prominent British Jews. The politics of this statement should have given socialists pause for reflection.
Now a new theme: SO is out to "get" Ken Livingstone. There is an indignant half page about SO supporters in Brent, where Ken Livingstone was publicly asked by SO supporters to account for his part in the WRP's Conway Hall meeting.
Glasgow District Labour Party — an ex-WRP turned reformist, Chic McCafferty is in the chair — condemned SO in the pages of Newsline.
Patricia Hewitt of the National Council for Civil Liberties , later a Blairite minister, when questioned at a meeting, commented that the Money Programme is "a further example of how left wingers are grouped together with criminals, squatters and terrorists as being people who disrupt the running of society." [!]
Newsline on 2 May quoted Alan Stanley, the Finance Secretary of Lancaster Trades Council, one of those willing to take the WRP's word for it that Libya was another socialist fatherland far away: "The Money Programme attacks the Newsline from outside the working class movement. Socialist Organiser on the other hand, plays the insiders' role of a fifth column, using its fake socialist credentials to confuse workers and isolate Newsline before the state and media attack. I put the question to Sean Matgamna: if support for the Libyan revolution means Newsline is paid by the Libyan government, does your support of Zionism mean that you are in receipt of funds from Zionist sources?"
The Joint Shop Stewards Committee at London Hospital condemned "fabrications and lies and innuendos" by the BBC and "calls for SO to withdraw their backing from this attack".
The Newsline articles now become incitement to violence.
On the 4 May, Newsline editor Alec Mitchell, the ex-Murdoch journalist, responded to my review of their pamphlet on the affair under the headline "More ranting lies from Mr Matgamna".
"Mr Sean Matgamna of the Socialist Organiser group is a political provocateur who is determined to serve the forces of the capitalist state. His ranting lies against the WRP have made him a pariah in the workers' movement."
Wish fathered that thought.
"In his latest outburst Matgamna shows what an unprincipled scoundrel he is. Matgamna's reprehensible lie that the WRP is an antisemitic party, and that we are 'potentially pogromists' against Jewish people."
Mitchell continues: "Matgamna's original article [in response to the world Zionist conspiracy editorial] took lock, stock and barrel the reactionary and ultra-reactionary argument of (Israeli Prime Minister) Menachim Begin that to be an anti-Zionist is to be an antisemite."
Mitchell ends: "This group will not shut up nor will it go away. It is a sustained service that it renders to imperialism and Zionism. We have a duty to clarify the role of Matgamna's group in the working class. In turn, the labour movement has the right to keep it at bay and shun it wherever it attempts to raise its head."
To add point to this lynch-mob stuff they reprinted the picture of me outside their 18 April Conway Hall meeting.
This hysterical self-righteousness in people who had recently printed the editorial about the world-Zionist conspiracy, and who functioned to filter Arab anti-Semitism into the British labour movement, probably indicated their own tensions and confusions. As SO had said it: their past must have made some of them ashamed of what they had become.
An editorial on 5 May titled "Jewish Chronicle — Matgamna ally" dealt with a Jewish Chronicle article discussing Libyan influence in Britain: "All the slanders and lies were served up in the Money Programme. They have since been adapted and expanded by pro-Zionist [i.e., Jewish — SM] MP Reg Freeson and Mr Sean Matgamna's Socialist Organiser group... when Newsline raised the Zionist connection in the witch-hunt, Mr Matgamna made the disgusting accusation that the WRP and its leadership were antisemitic and 'potentially pogromists' [in fact I'd said that the Jewish Chronicle's interest in the WRP was hardly surprising: the WRP must seem to them to be 'potential pogromists'].
"This is the basest piece of slander ever [!] levelled [!] against the Trotskyist [!] movement [!] since the Stalinists in the 1930s accused it of being 'agents of Hitler'. [SO] stands with the state media arm, the BBC, and with the Jewish Chronicle." The Jewish community paper is the equivalent of the "state media arm"? The BBC has no autonomy and is only a "state arm" for propaganda?
They call on SO supporters — in fact on the group of former WRP members around Alan Thornett, and Tony Richardson within it — to "publicly repudiate the highly reactionary ranting of Mr Matgamna, withdraw the slanderous statement that the WRP is 'antisemitic', and join with other sections of the labour movement in condemning the Money Programme's lies."
Socialist Organiser was then divided between relatively recent former WRPers on one side and the rest of us. In fact, the Thornett group considered the two states position, still very much a minority view in Socialist Organiser, to be "Zionist". But the WRP attempts to invigorate this SO minority failed entirely. All they got was an indecisive attempt by one of the minority leaders, Tony Richardson, to publish a letter in SO rejecting the idea that the WRP was antisemitic ("the idea is laughable", etc.).
On 6 May, Swansea branch EEPTU: "We therefore demand that Socialist Organiser withdraw its treacherous support. Will it continue to side with the BBC and the state, or does it stand with the working class?"
There are now many public meetings against the BBC and SO. In Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, etc., etc. In Glasgow, with Ron Brown MP; SO features in many resolutions now.
Wigan Trades Council, whose Secretary is another unreconstructed WRP drop-out, Mike Farley, condemns SO, "who not only support the witch hunt but actually went further in their allegations."
A resolution from Manchester no.1 branch of UCATT denounces SO: "As we expected, the most vile slander emanated from the pages of Socialist Organiser...'' Sean Matgamna "accuses the WRP of being antisemitic — the oldest and foulest manifestation of racialism... Matgamna in his frenzied anti-communist hatred has broken every tradition of working class solidarity and socialist principle."
Evidently the writer did feel strongly about antisemitism. There is no reason to doubt his sincere hatred of antisemitism, which he will have bracketed in his head with Nazi persecution of the Jews, with Tsarist Russian pogroms, the anti-Jewish campaign by the Mosley fascists in the 1930s, etc., etc. He evidently can't even entertain the idea that the writers of the recent editorial on the "world Jewish conspiracy" are now a quirky variant of what he hates. He rationalises from what he wants them to be. Such people couldn't let themselves see antisemitism where it was rampant. When they themselves were wading waist deep in it. The term "Zionism" here served its camouflage purposes well with people who didn't want to understand.
Ron Brown MP told "70" people at the WRP Glasgow meeting: "Matgamna of Socialist Organiser is doing the dirty work for the Tories."
Now another new turn: they devote a lot of space to denouncing SO for its alleged attitude to Ken Livingstone, seeking the Labour nomination for Brent East.
"Mr Matgamna of Socialist Organiser has begun a 'stop Livingstone' intrigue — he is so pathologically opposed to the WRP that he will try to destroy anyone in the labour and trade union movement who appears on our platform. Recounting when Livingstone gave Newsline a principled statement of opposition to the Money Programme [the statement across a page from the crazy world-Zionist conspiracy editorial — SM] Matgamna went into a rage. Matgamna accused the WRP of being 'antisemitic' and 'potential pogromists'. These hateful calumnies were extended to Livingstone with the flourish of a Vyshinsky [prosecutor in the Moscow Show Trials of the 1930s] or a Senator McCarthy.
"Matgamna attacked Livingstone's statement to the Newsline, adding "He hadn't then read the antisemitic editorial. What does he think of the editorial? Does he think we should just shrug and accept antisemitism as a feature of the far left?" (Socialist Organiser 4 April 1983) That'll teach you, Mr Matgamna, to ask awkward questions!"
A whole page is given to the still popular actor David Calder-then a cop in a popular TV show — denouncing the BBC: "Newsline not only earns the hatred of the ruling class and with them of those who declare themselves to be of the left but, in their heart of hearts, believe the working class to be defeated.
"Of all the groups the Socialist Organiser now stands exposed as the most insidious and treacherous of them all stooping to a racist attitude on the Arab struggle [!] accusing the WRP of being anti-Jewish, places them outside the workers' movement and exposes them as an instrument of the state in its desperate black propaganda campaign. It is only the Newsline and the WRP that fights for the independence of the working class"!
On the 16 May one hundred people were reported to have attended the Liverpool meeting.
NALGO Grampian branch: "SO breaks ranks to invite further attacks — we call on all trade unionists to repudiate such provocative behaviour and demand that a full retraction be made by SO." The internal authoritarian voice of the WRP keeps breaking through....
Aberdeen trades council passed a resolution on the lines quoted. The Newsline printed the speech, evidently written up by its author, that had introduced it. This gives us a rare account of a typical WRP speech on the subject then, that is, of how the Newsline's "anti-Zionism" translated into the work of the WRP in the unions. The speech ranted, carrying the words in the Newsline editorial on the world Zionist conspiracy, about "Mr Stuart Young, a well-known Zionist" [that is, Jew] "being chair of the world's largest radio and TV company" the BBC: "It should not go unrecorded, thought it went quickly through the news." This is the sort of thing into which the Newsline's rantings had translated "on the ground" — agitation against a Jew being appointed governor of the BBC.
On the 15 May Albert Hodge, Secretary of the London Direct Labour Co-ordinating Committee and senior steward at GLC EEPTU: "By its actions SO is in favour not only of an 'enquiry', not solely by right wing Labour, but by the Tories, police and state at a time when they are in the middle of the greatest attack on living standards since the 1930s. They have finally nailed their flag to the capitalist flagpole."
On the 23 May the Islington 523 branch of COHSE "calls on SO to rethink the stand it has taken and join the rest of the trade union and labour movement in condemning the attacks on the labour movement newspaper."
On the 25 May, in another editorial: "Freeson's Bagman" [guess who]. This is an attack on SO because its supporters campaigned in Brent East in the upcoming general election for the re-election of the official Labour candidate, Reg Freeson! "A Trotskyist-baiting Zionist" [read Jew].
But the General Election campaign is now starting and the WRP's campaign dies down. Over nine weeks and 54 issues, there have been more than 50 pages of testimonies and much else besides.
The statistics of it can't tell the number of individuals and trade union branches and trades councils who voted or nodded through the "down with the BBC and SO" resolution.
In fact the campaign achieved none of its objectives: we gave as good as we got, and continued to comment as we thought fit.
The experience educated and toughened SO supporters.
Vindication of the sort that was ours when the WRP imploded two and a half years later — one of the casualties was Labour Herald, Livingstone's' paper which collapsed when the WRP did — is rare in politics.
None of us who knew the WRP were unduly alarmed by the lynch mob atmosphere they tried to whip up. They had a deserved reputation for small-scale thuggery but they talked a better fight than they fought. They made a few clumsy gestures-a couple of flats of SO people were broken into and nothing taken although political papers were rummaged through.
They sent a couple of "agents" into SO. They were too obvious to get away with anything: the WRP could train its people to rant in trade union branches about the "Zionist" chair of the BBC, but subtlety it couldn't teach them.
An unknown quantity was what their alliance with Libyan state personnel and others meant for their "lynch SO and Sean Matgamna" campaign. Someone in the Libyan Embassy about then shot dead a police woman Yvonne Fletcher. In fact nothing happened.
One of the most disappointing things about the affair was that when, in October 1985, the truth about the WRP came gushing out from its warring factions, not one of those who had denounced SO, neither an individual nor any of the labour movement bodies which had passed resolutions denouncing us and demanding that we "retract", felt they had anything to apologise for. Not a single one.
The experience outlined above tells us nothing about current disputes except that it is always a good policy in such affairs to follow the advice which Karl Marx, speaking in the words of the 13th-century Florentine, Dante, put at the beginning of Volume 1 of Capital. "Go your way and let the people talk." Decide what you think and stick to it until someone gives you reasonable grounds for changing your mind.
• Footnote: It is phrased like that because in fact the WRP had not raised that cry. Some members of the Thornett faction in the Socialist Organiser Alliance had.
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Households are spending more on discretionary items: Economic Survey
By Abhishek Waghmare | New Delhi | Last Updated at July 05 2019 00:33 IST
The Survey noted spending on services was rising vis-à-vis goods
Indians are increasingly spending more on discretionary items and less on basic necessities such as food, according to the Economic Survey for 2018-19.
Private consumption forms the biggest chunk in the gross domestic product (GDP) basket. Changes in consumption pattern are crucial to the growth dynamics of various sectors of the economy.
The last two quarters of 2018-19 saw growth slowing in private consumption — contracted auto sales and subdued FMCG sales — pushing down economic growth to the lowest in 20 quarters. Private final consumption expenditure, the way it is defined in national income accounts, forms nearly 60 per cent of India's GDP.
"Although the share of private consumption in GDP remains high, the pattern of consumption has undergone some change over time — from essentials to luxuries and from goods to services," the Survey said.
The trend is important as it gives a hint about the outcome of the Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES), which will be released by the National Statistics Office within a month or two. The CES forms the basis for deciding the sources and weights of private consumption expenditure in the national accounts; the data that is used for GDP formulation.
"From food and beverages, transport and communication, which are more of necessities, the spending has been shifting towards clothing and footwear, health and education, and housing and maintenance," the Survey said.
The data from the NSO shows the share of food and beverages has reduced from 33.2 per cent of private consumption in 2011-12 to 30 per cent in 2017-18 — a reduction of over three percentage points.
As more children are attending school and college, incomes are rising. Spending on health and education has started occupying a larger pie in the consumption mix. Their share increased from 7.4 per cent in 2011-12 to 9.2 per cent in 2017-18.
"This shows an increase in discretionary spending by households, compared to necessities," noted the Survey.
Spending on housing, its maintenance and basic household necessities, such as electricity and water, reduced as a share of overall spending, from 19.6 per cent to 17.3 per cent, over six years.
The Survey noted spending on services was rising vis-à-vis goods. In another chapter, the Survey found inflation in services in recent times has been higher than that for goods.
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Uber Eats workers join general fast food employees strike
Posted 4th October
Uber Eats riders and a small number of workers from JD Wetherspoon, McDonald's and TGI Fridays are striking over pay on Thursday. Walkouts will be held in several UK cities, along with a rally in London.
The industrial action is being taken in tandem with strikes by fast food workers on four continents. UberEats, JD Wetherspoon and McDonald's have defended their record on pay, while TGI Fridays had no immediate comment.
Uber Eats workers want to be paid £5 per delivery, and a further £1 per mile for each delivery.
These latest strikes follow a series of walkouts by UberEats drivers last month sparked by the company reducing its minimum payment per delivery from £4.26 to £3.50.
Uber Eats defended its pay scheme, arguing that the majority of its couriers used delivery work to supplement existing incomes.
"Last week couriers using our app in cities across the UK took home an average of £9-10 per hour during mealtimes, with many also using other delivery apps," the firm said in a statement.
"The fact that Uber Eats drivers have decided to strike on the same day as us shows that low pay is an issue that affects people across the industry," said a spokesman from the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU).
Workers at JD Wetherspoon, McDonald's and TGI Fridays want to be paid £10 an hour. McDonald's said support for the union among its staff was "diminishing" and "any suggestion that this activity is widespread and growing is not accurate".
JD Wetherspoon has previously said it had announced pay rises worth £20m last year and £27m for this year. TGI Fridays had no immediate comment.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady told the BBC's Today programme that the strike was "small but growing".
She said some modern hospitality employers and technology firms were "using a very old form of exploitation".
"We need the public and communities to support us," she said. "We are seeing growing public concern."
She said the firms could afford to award a pay rise "and should".
Where will strikes take place?
Strikes by Uber Eats drivers will be held between 5pm and 6pm in London, Bristol, Brighton, Newcastle, Plymouth, Southampton, Glasgow and Cardiff, according to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union.
Workers at two Wetherspoon pubs in Brighton are expected to strike, BFAWU said.
They will be joined by workers from McDonald's outlets in London, Cambridge and Watford, and TGI Fridays staff in Milton Keynes and two London branches.
A rally will also be held in London later.
The strikes are being held to coincide with industrial action over pay by fast food workers in Chile, Colombia, the US, Belgium, Italy, Germany, the Philippines and Japan on Thursday.
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Links page. Vinny Pinto is a remote (non-local) spiritual healer, also sometimes known as a metaphysical healer, esoteric healer or mystical healer. This is remote healing, also known as distant healing, distance healing, non-local (or nonlocal) healing.
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The Written Works of Joel Goldsmith
As mentioned in the pages on my spiritual roots, I feel a great resonance with the written works of Joel S. Goldsmith, the Christian mystic and healer who left the physical plane in the 1960s. I feel that Joel Goldsmith describes his experience of the God connection and the actual act of spiritual healing perhaps better than any author he has encountered. You may learn more about Joel Goldsmith's work "The Infinite Way", at http://www.joelgoldsmith.com and also at http://www.infiniteway.com
If you wish to learn more about Joel Goldsmith's life, you may wish to read this excellent brief biographical article online. If you wish a fuller biography of the life of Joel S. Goldsmith, please check out the excellent book entitled "The Spiritual Life of Joel S. Goldsmith", by Lorraine Sinkler. You may purchase this excellent and inexpensive book at Insight Books online.
The Teachings of Lester Levenson
As mentioned elsewhere in this site, I feel a strong resonance with the works of Lester Levenson, the American spiritual master, and particularly his description of the enlightenment experience -- an opening to love and joy. The Release Technique, offered by Larry Crane, and The Sedona Method are the two teaching systems carrying on Lester Levenson's work since his death. Links about the Release Technique and Lester Levenson (mentioned on this site):
Larry Crane's Release Technique, at http://www.releasetechnique.com
Information on Lester Levenson, at http://www.releasetogether.com/bonus/lester/#
By the way, as of July 2003, Lester's autobiography has finally been published in a more formal book form, and is now available at Amazon.com. You may already know that his autobiography is titled "No Attachments, No Aversions", and has been available for years, due to Larry Crane's efforts, in a pre-publication photocopied spiral-bound softcover form. However, that form appeared a bit "casual" or slip-shod to a few folks, but it was really a gem, because the main body of the book also contained some handwritten editing notes, penned by Lester after the book had first been printed. Lester's handwritten notes were a lot of fun to read, and sometimes cast further light on whatever topic was at hand. If you do have access to a copy of that pre-publication "casual" version, please be advised that the comments in the main part of the book which appear in handwriting are Lester's comments, but that some other editing comments appear in block printing in different handwriting, particularly at the end of the book. Those latter notes were not written by Lester, but rather by a later editor at the Sedona Center years ago, and I learned to ignore them when I encountered them...
One more thing... Lester, when he wrote the book, wanted to tell the story but very much wanted to remain private and anonymous, and so he used the pseudonym of "Lester Siegal" (and it appears that he occasionally spelled it a bit differently as "Lester Siegel"), as the author's name and also in context within the book when referring to himself. So, the name "Lester Levenson" never appeared in the first copies of the manuscript and on early photocopied versions of the book, but rather only the name "Lester Siegal". And, much in line with the tradition of terse dialogue so commonly found in newspapers and novels of the 1930s and 1940s, Lester often simply referenced himself in the book by his pseudonymous last name alone, as "Siegal". Larry Crane eventually went thru the book after Lester's death and attempted to change all occurrences of "Siegal" and "Mr. Siegal" to "Lester" or "Levenson" or "Lester Levenson", as appropriate. However, he missed a few occurrences, and hence my early pre-publication photocopied version of the book still has a few sprinklings of the surname Siegal throughout the book, which can be very puzzling to a newcomer.
Lester was also very private and reclusive in other ways, always wanting to remain anonymous and allow only the message of love and acceptance to be broadcast, minus and personal appellations. In addition to the use of "Siegel" as a surname, he also tried very much to avoid being photographed, and, as a result, the folks who studied with him in Sedona at the Center thru the early 1990's have only a very few photos of Lester from that entire 30-odd year span of Lester's life when he was teaching.
Along the lines of the above, I received an e-mail last week from my friend Don, who had worked with Larry for years and had helped Larry to compile the pre-publication photocopied version of the book, and in his letter he touched upon the same topic or Lester's reluctance to be "known" as a teacher or guru-type. Here is an excerpt from Don's e-mail to me:
".....You know, an interesting thing happened when I was helping Larry with the cover of that book. Lester *did* say hello. I was putting Lester's picture on the front cover and my computer kept crashing. It just wasn't coming together. Then within about an hour or so, I got a call from Larry saying that Lester came to him and he didn't want his name on the book! You may or may not be aware that Lester referred to himself as Siegel, not Levenson, throughout the book. Larry went through and tried to correct all those references, but missed a couple. What a cute and beautiful thing! For the discerning reader, there were still clues that Lester wanted it to be about the method, not him."
You may find the book at Amazon at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0971175519/qid%3D1059216656/sr%3D1-2/103-3744678-4328637
Jean Kline
Jean Kline was a Western master, a Czech-French musicologist and doctor turned mystic, who passed on in the late 1990's. Several of his books are still in print, and I especially recommend "Ease of Being".
Pam Clements, Remote Energy Healer
Since I'm a remote spiritual healer & researcher, folks often ask me to recommend remote healers for them. While I know many remote healers, there are few whom I ever recommend to others. One of the very few remote healers whom I ever recommend is my colleague Pam Clements, a remote energy healer who resides in western Michigan. Pam's website may be found at: http://divine-heart.org/pamclements/index.html/
Recommendation for a Very Powerful and Effective Remote Energy Healer: Jerry Wills
As you may already know, I wear several hats, and, in addition to being a consulting scientist, a mystic and an intuitive, I am also a remote spiritual healer, and this website has been devoted to my spiritual healing work since the year 2000. Largely because of this website, I have made the acquaintance of a great many remote spiritual healers and remote energy healers from around the world over the past 15 years; some of them have also performed remote healing treatments on me.
And, as some of you may recall, for many years, whenever I had been approached by people asking for my recommendation of the most powerful and effective remote energy healer for physical problems of whom I was aware, I always recommended Australian energy healer Ron Wilding; I also had a recommendation for Ron's remote energy healing work, along with a link to his healing website, on several of my websites.
Well, Ron Wilding was quite advanced in years, and he passed away in October 2013. Since the time that Ron Wilding became essentially unavailable for remote energy healing work, many people have asked me if there was some other remote energy healer in the world whom I could recommend as strongly as I had recommended Ron Wilding. For a number of months, I was unable to recommend any particular remote energy healer to these inquirers who stood out in my mind as a suitable "replacement" for Ron Wilding.
However, in each case where I was asked, I promised that I would continue looking for a remote energy healer whose work was at least as powerful and effective as Ron Wilding's had been, and I surrendered the entire matter to Divinity, asking to be guided, at the right time, to such a remote energy healer; I was, in turn, advised by Divinity and by my angels that the matter would be taken care of by June of 2014.
Well, Divinity came through in fulfilling my request in early March of 2014. Through an extremely unlikely and circuitous route, one filled with bizarre synchronicities, I became aware recently of the existence of a remote energy healer in Arizona named Jerry Wills, who also happens to be a very colorful character (he became well-known at one point as a UFO and alien contactee, and he also leads guided tours to sacred and mysterious places in Peru).
Once I had learned of Jerry and his remote energy healing work, I was nudged by Divinity to approach him to ask him for a remote energy healing session, which I had in early March of 2014 (he does his work while talking with his client on the phone for the duration of the approximately 30 to 90 minute session). I can tell you that Jerry's remote energy healing work is, in my estimation, even more powerful and more effective than was that of the aforementioned Australian remote energy healer Ron Wilding.
Now, it takes a lot for me to make such a statement, for I know, or have known, hundreds of remote energy healers, and many of them have done some work on me over the years. However, the bottom line is that I feel, based upon my own experience, and also upon inner guidance from Divinity, that Jerry Wills is a remote energy healer whose work is at least as powerful and effective as was the remote energy healing work of Ron Wilding. You may find Jerry's energy healing website here: www.jerrywills.com
[For full transparency, I want to note here that I never receive any kind of compensation, commission or remuneration in return for my recommendations from any of the remote healers or intuitives whom I may recommend on my websites.]
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MERCERSBURG, Pa. - State Police investigators confirmed Tuesday the fire that destroyed a historic building in Center Square Friday began inside the second-floor apartment of a man who jumped from a side window of the burning building.
Investigators also confirmed the resident, William Hamilton, suffered carbon monoxide inhalation, burns to his hands and a broken leg from the blaze and his ensuing leap.
The fire, which gutted the inside of the 16-apartment building and destroyed much of its roof, erupted at approximately 6:10 a.m. Friday at the Carriage House Hotel, 5 S. Main St. Police said a cigarette ash from an ashtray left in the area of a love seat was the cause of the fire, which caused approximately $500,000 in damages.
During the blaze, two firefighters rescued a woman from the window of her apartment, which was nearly completely engulfed by flames, atop a ladder.
Hamilton was flown to the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, where he was listed in good condition Sunday, a spokeswoman said. A spokeswoman could not be reached for additional comment Tuesday.
Chambersburg-based Trooper Skip Sydnor, the fire marshal investigating the blaze, could not be reached for additional comments Monday or Tuesday.
The structure, originally a log house built between 1821 and 1827, housed several families and businesses, including restaurants, grocery stores and bakeries, in its 175-plus years.


In a jam-packed classroom at the University of Southern California (USC) last week, five-time Grammy Award nominee Akon and ONE's Director of Government Relations, Jay Heimbach, kicked off the first #PowerProject Campaign Lab, a student innovation incubator aimed at producing ONE's next social media campaign to combat energy poverty.
In sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 600 million people lack access to basic electricity. This severely hampers modern hospital services, job opportunities, and the ability to get a decent education. Energy access creates opportunities for development and is of critical importance in the global fight to eradicate extreme poverty.
ONE is thrilled to collaborate on this campaign with Akon, who recently founded "Akon Lighting Africa," an initiative aimed at bringing power to 1 million African homes by the end of this year. Through the #PowerProject Campaign Lab, ONE and Akon are engaging and empowering USC students to help create fresh ideas and new approaches in order to raise public awareness and drive action around energy poverty.
During Dr. Steven Lamy's International Relations 210 class, students pitched their ideas for viral social media campaigns and received immediate feedback from Akon and Heimbach. Submissions are open to all USC students and the best proposal will be part of ONE's upcoming nationwide campaign, The Power Project.
Akon, whose parents came to the US from Senegal, said: "It's hard to imagine living without basic electricity, but that's the reality for 600 million people in Africa. Imagine giving birth or having an operation in a dark hospital with only a flashlight and no other equipment. Want to get a vaccine? Forget it, there are no refrigerators to keep them cold. Pretty much everything you and I take for granted cannot function without power – schools, hospitals, factories, farms, and businesses.
"That's why I started my initiative, AKON LIGHTING AFRICA, and it's why I'm working with The ONE Campaign to let Washington know that Americans care about this issue.
This June, ONE will launch the #PowerProject – an online letter-writing tool that will allow people to send letters to their Senators in support of bipartisan legislation to bring modern energy access to more than 50 million people in sub-Saharan Africa for the very first time – at virtually no cost to American taxpayers. The campaign aims to generate 50,000 letters.
Jay Heimbach, US Director of Government Relations at ONE, said: "To meet our goal of 50 thousand letters to Senators, we need great ideas for getting the message out. That's why we're thrilled to be working with Akon and USC students to generate social media campaign ideas in support of The Power Project.