DWARF In Old Street, Islington there sits a magistrate who goes by the name of Neil McÉlligot. The atrocious behaviour of this imbecile towards unfortunate victims of class justice was manifested once again in the last week of November. An unemployed young worker, 19, appeared before our friendly magistrate and pleaded guilty to "dishonestly handling a pair of shoes, knowing them to have been stolen". He had been seen with them on at a meeting in Trafalgar Square. McElligot decided to give the 'young man" a chance, but he warned him: "Don't get yourself involved with those poor half-wits who one sees demonstrating about this or protesting about that. I see vou have got yoursel involved in the protest racket. away from it. Go home, do your work and keep out of trouble. " With these -words of wisdom the victim was given a year's conditional discharge. We have somewhat different advice for him: "Get thoroughly integrated in the revolutionary movement; join a trade union and stir up constant trouble at your factory. If you're declared redundant, get together with some of your mates and ock up the boss in your loo and guard it in turns. Deny him food and water till he is prepared to capitulate to your demands. The next time you appear in court start pissing from the dock and drench a few policemen."
We must apologise most profusely to all comrades for not publishing an article explaining the situation in Italy. This is being prepared and will appear in some detail in the next issue. The struggles being waged by the Italian workers have led to running battles in a large number of industrial centres throughout Italy. There have been a series of nearly-General Strikes and the situation in Italy could without exaggeration be But, as Marighella frequently said, the real leaders emerge spontaneously from the struggle.
"I don't have time to be afraid" is an often quoted remark of his. His courage was obvious: surrounded in Sao Paulo's Alameda Casa Branca by 50 police and called on to surrender, he chose to fight. Before falling he killed one cop and wounded another-probably helped by the fact that some of them were busy gunning down an innocent dentist who drove through the ambush.
Marighella's political activity began in 1932 when he quit the 3rd year of his engineering course-already a CP member to start intensive agitation in Salvador, in Brazil's poverty-ridden NorthEast.
In 1936 he was jailed for 2½ years for distributing propaganda, and in 1939 he was sentenced to another 5 years. But in 1945, with the legalisation of the CP, he was elected a Federal Deputy, and was one of the signatories to the 1946 constitution. In 1947 the CP was again forced underground, and Marighella was declared "cassado"- deprived of political and social rights.
He rose through the Party Central Committee to the Praesidium and Secretariat. By 1964 the Party was able to work openly, until the military coup when Marighella was again hunted. May of that year he was trapped in a Tijuca cinema and seriously wounded three times betore being captured. Tough Party lawyers waited for his recovery before springing him with a Habeas Corpus writ, whereupon he immediately went aground again.
In August 1967 he disobeyed Party orders by attending the OLAS conference in Havana. From Cuba he attacked the passive Moscow-line men for trying to play the election game, and demanded the start of the armed insurrection.
The Party naturally expelled him for this Castroite heresy, and he founded the Revolutionary Communist Party of Brazil (PCBR), taking with him the young militants he had recruited.
With the VAR and MR-8, the PCBR began the urban campaign of propaganda, bombing, raiding banks, sacking police stations, taking armouries, kidNOV-DEC: The Watts films show which helped open he New art neatre ooooste sercester sauarc tui starting on 2 November, intends to preser which haven't been seen yet and older films LUMS Woicn nave oeen nemicctcd or roreollel First series: consists of 5 nights of recent films from USA, Britain, Italy, , Germany, large proportion seen before; the others are shorter films nave not DeCl mostly made with simple means.
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DECEMBER 15: Last day of RSSF National Conference, Imperial College, London. Further details: RSSF, 59 Fleet Street. Tel. 01-353 5735.
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