An anempt nas seen made to kill cat arino Garza - a candidate of the US Socialist Workers Party for Congress in the Lower East Side of New York. Garza's campaign had been attracting increasing support in this Puerto Rican and black area of the city.
The assassination attempt came on 16 March when a sniper fired a rifle Inrougn the window or Garza's apart ment - missing a campaign supporter, who had evidently been mistaken for the candidate, by only a foot. As usual the defenders of "law and order', the police, were totally uninterested in this attempt to assassinate someone who has campaigned against the social service cuts in New York and for the indepen Despite this de facto collusion of ponce and probabie rignt-wing tanatics the SWP s campaign - which has been tied to the opening of a bookstore and the establishment or a new branch in CATARINO GARZA the area - is having a real impact This new revelation of the character of American democracy will not stor unal camsalen
The bombing of the Ideal Home exhibition at Olympia, in which 84 civilians were hurt, has once again thrown the Irish question to the fore of British politics.
Whether or not the Provisional IRA or a splinter Republican group were responsible for the bomb is unc ear. But socialists should be clear about where any responsibility for these bombs STARVATION It wasn't the Irish who invaded Britain seven hundred years ago who's to blame?
the Catholic population under the heel of a built-in Protestant majority backed by the most extreme sections of the British Tory Party.
TORTURE And it hasn't been the British who have suffered an occupation army in the last seven years charging through their streets and homes, shooting up demonstrators, arresting husbands, sons, wives and daughters, and subjecting them to interrogation, imprisonment and But all that has happened to the Catholics of Northern Ireland.
What's more, it has all happened _Red Weekly 1 April 1976 bombings from the largest far left group in Britain, the International Socialists, supposedly argues for troops out but fails to mention the right of the Irish to self-determination once; while in one short side the bombings are condemned five times.
No wonder that a people fighting the combined might of the British Army, the RUC and the Loyalist paramilitaries, and faced with the apathy and often open hostility of British workers to their cause, Ruo more desperate east get the troops out. For that is the aim of the bombing campaign.