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LONDON FIRE-BOMBINGS

Red Weekly No. 15, 24 August 1973 · pp. 1-2 of the scan · 595 words

The scan: rw-no15-aug-24-1973.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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military dictatorship, and have supported them accordingly.

character.

their struggle.

SOLIDARITY WITH THE IRA! go on until they are withdrawn. movement to carry on armed actions against British imperialism. We do not hold that, in principle, such armed actions have to be confined to the other side of the Irish Channel.

Those who complain about violence in Britain forget that 'peace' in this country has always been based on violence against others overseas. The British tradition of 'compromise" and social harmony rests upon the barbarities carried out by the British Army in India, Malaya, Cyprus, Aden and Ireland, to name just a few. Just this Tuesday the coroner in Derry admitted that the shooting down of 13 people by the British Army on Bloody Sunday was an act of 'sheer unadulterated murder.' Only the spokesmen of the capitalist class could place the attempted burning of a few stores on the same plane as this act of wanton brutality. Armed actions in Britain, and the use of armed activity generally in the course of just struggles, can only be judged from a tactical point of view - i.e. on the basis of whether or not they carry the struggle forward. When, for example, the Quebec Liberation Front kidnapped a cabinet minister in 1971 in pursuance of the just struggle of the Quebec people for national liberation, we criticised this action because it failed to advance concretely the struggle. In Latin America, however, we recognise that the armed actions of groups like the People's Revolutionary Army in Argentina have played an important part in bringing about the downfall of We think that the present bombing campaign in London is mistaken. The armed actions which took place before the downfall of Stormont took the mass struggle forward and produced splits in the ruling class because they were part of an integrated, overall strategy of struggle. The present actions do not appear to be of this We may differ with sections of the Irish republican movement on their tactics, but we will never condemn LONG LIVE THE ARMED STRUGGLE AGAINST BRITISH IMPERIALISM!

Bloodly Sunday in Derry: the fighting has stopped but the corpses remain. This is the scene which Derry coro ner Major Hubert O'Neill described as 'sheer unadulterated murder' on Tuesday. His courageous statement exposes the whitewash job done by Lord Chief Justice Widgery last year, and shows up the hypocrisy of those who choose to denounce "IRA terror'. The real terrorists are the British Army, and the struggle in Ireland will schedule at the beginning of this month has hampered the flow of money into the Red Weekly Fighting Fund. With only one more week to go until the end of the month we have received only £100 - only a third of our target. Last month's success in reaching our goal was a big step forward - but we must repeat this achievement every month. Readers and supporters are asked to make make an extra effort to send in as much money as possible in the next week so that we can once again reach our E300 target.

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no black operatives were trained for skilled positions. Gutzmore interviewed black people who had spent periods of up to 12 years at the plant and who had been regularly refused training. "Now, few bother to apply' The report concluded: "As time went on, a shop floor alliance apparently grew up between white operatives and white supervisors to maintain supervisory and skilled positions in white hands. Such informal arrangements

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FIGHTING FUND LOW!

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