According to this man who is responsible for the education of black immigrant children 'the quicker that Davis creature is removed from Society the better. One should note that description of Angela Davis as a creature. One thing that Carter's pupils will be taught, and that is to use simple, down-to-earth Anglo-saxon words, even if they do have racialist connotations, and not to get involved in euphemisms such as woman, black and person. After all if black people can be designated as savages, creatures, etc., their removal from society is of nothing like the same consequence than if they happen to be civilised white Copies of Carter's letter have been sent to the local press. The West Indian Afro Brotherhood and the International Marxist Group have produced a leaflet in English and Urdu which has been distributed to the pupils of the Usher Immigrant Centre and this calls on them and their parents to demand the resignation of Carter. Militants in the Yorkshire area willing to help in this campaign should contact either the WIAB, 44 Harehills Lane Leeds 8, or the IMG, Saville Place, Leeds 7. While the role of a majority—of the bourgeois press on the struggle in Ireland has been fairly well-documented, not least in the footnotes section of Private Eye, there has been a grave omission namely, the role of Private Eye. When a section of the journal publishes tairly. accurate reports one week and another section of the same journal publishes Tory propaganda (disguised as humour, of course) then those who give the magazine a 'left' image have to question their own function.
The issue dated 19 Nov. '71 has a full page "satirical' advertisement (see above) which contains a vicious attack on the Provisional IRA and a whitewash for the British Army. Apart from the fact that the Provisionals specifically denied that they were responsible for feathering and tarring Irish girls going out with British soldiers and actively obstructed militant women from carrying this out, what is more disgraceful is that the Editor of Private Eye, who wrote the fake ad knew perfectly well that the Provos had issued this denial before the Eye went to press. The fact of the matter is that the nice gentlemen who run the Eye are a bit upset by violence and this makes the Provisionals "bigots" "fascists" ete., in their eyes. There have been other occasions on which the journal, in its colour section (sic) has carried anti-provo material and therefore this full-page lie is only the culmination of an anti-Provo campaign. In that sense we can say that Private Eye has reinforced the slanders and distortions of the Fleet Street hacks. The fact that Paul Foot, a leading member of the Inter national Socialism group, is also responsible for the production of the journal means that as an individual he aquiesces in the publishing of pro-imperialist lies. Foot should make his position clear. If his bourgeois employers refuse to let him publish a rebuttal in Private Eye he should use the facilities of the weekly newspaper produced by his organisation to make his own position clear. Or could it be that there is something more to it than meets the Eye....