George Lennox, the man who revealed the facts about British Army torture in Aden, is still in Wandsworth Prison on a trumped up charge. It is perhaps not surprising that the Labour Government should be unwilling to hold an enquiry into the case of a man who so unerringly exposed the brutality of their colonial role, particularly now that there are growing demands for the withdrawal of British troops from Ireland as well. But George Lennox has friends outside In The Islington Campaign against the Common Market, a body which involves such local worthles as Richard Devonald-Lewis (ex-Tory candidate for Central Islington and John Score (National Front candidate in the same constituency), has invited Enoch Powell to address a meeting in St. Emmanuel's Church Hail in Hornsey Road on Saturday 22 February.
The disturbingly close relations which Score and DevonaldLewis have had in the past with right-wing Labour members of the local council underlines the dangers to the local labour movement of allowing Powell and his 'Ik to pose as allies of the working class against the EEC.
The Islington Anti-Fascist Group has called for a picket and demonstration at the Powell meeting, and has approsched local working class organisations in the hope of organising a concerted All militants in the area should fight for support for this campaign in their trade unions colleges and tenants associations, etc. For further details contact: Islington Anti-Fascist Group, c/o Box 24, 197 Kings Cross Road, Photo: ANDREW WIARD (Report to prominence in the anti-Common Market campaign after remaining remarkably quiet over the last few months is that infamous ex-Tory J. Enoch Powell.
Ever since his clection on a United Uster Unionist ticker last October, he has taken great care to avoid embarrassing his new-found Loyalist friends with hus previously habitual racist and pro-imperialist outbursts. doubt, be somewhat awward for Powell to meveal to his Irish constituents that he regards his seat in South Down mainly as a base from which to pursue ambitions in the British political arena.
At the time of the Birmingham bombings, Powell-who in his Wolverhampton South West days would have screamed for blood all the way to the BBC-restricted himself to asking the Home Secretary a polite technical question in Parliament.
A couple of years ago, the smallest report on immigants use of health faci speeches about the rivers of blood' which would flow in the streets of Britain if immigrants were not deported (or "humanely repatriated as this most kindly man would put il). Today he restricts his racist views to the considcrably more discreet and subdued confines of the BBC'S Any Questions' programme BASIC STRATEGY Powell's basic strategy remains the same, however. By exploiting the racist, sexist, and chauvinist divisions WILLET ERRE TEWILL British working class, he intends to carve himself out a mass base inside the labour movement. Powell knows very well that if he can win over a few million voters from the Labour Party and even split a couple of million members from the official trade union he will then be in an excellent position to put himself forward as the man who can resolve-at least temporarily-the cruis of leadership faced by the fuling When the Tories were convincingly this was a defeat not just for one polibical party, but for the entire political strategy of the ruling class. tional instrument through which they who are determined not to let his case be dropped. Some of them picketed Wandsworth Prison last Saturday.
The scene in Transport House, Bristol, ner adorning the rostrum. In big letIt would, no exercised power-the Conservative Party-had proved itself incapable of lities brought Powell out with demagogic ing class which was required for the imposition of a capitalist solution to the economic crisis.
the Labour Party to use its links with the trade unions to restrain workers struggles is also, clearily, incapable of fulfilling this role.
mic situation, the Labour leaders despite any subjective wishes on their part-are unable to grant the concessions which alone could secure the success of any "integrationist strategy' It is in this situation that. Powell contender for the role of a "Bonaparte, who by taking on the role of an arbiter apparently above the hur ly-burly of conflicting class interests can in fact lead British capital out of its apparently hopeless political predicament.
If his "Irish connection" has so far tended to act as a restraint on his public outbursts, it is only because he has been waiting for a suitable moment to re-emerge from the political wilderness And the Common Market referendum defeated in the last two general elections provides him with an excellent oppor tunity to do just teus.
The trut natural future leader of the Tory Party La couple of years ago, he clearly under inflciting the major defeat on the work- dissociate himself from the hated Their alternative strategy of getting campaign oilers him.
In the context of the present econoup with alarm -from Jenkins While Powell considered himself the SUOS stands now that if he is to build a base in the working class he will have to Tories. This was obviously in the back a campaign aguinst the EEC of his mind when ho gave up his Wolverhampton seat to stand with the Jess obviously pro-capitalist Layalists.
It is small wonder that he can't resist the opportunities that the anti-EEC Spectator.
What could better suil his objective bourgeois figures in an anti-EEC of hiding his anti-working class politics campaign is as insidious as that of behind a populist veil than sharing a Powell. platform with well-known lefts' in the trade union bureaucracy? When Powell Is able to speak from the same platform as Clive Jenkins. gencral secretary of the Association of Salaried Technical and Managerial Staffs-at a meeting organised by the 'Get Britain Out Campaign' in Folkestone last Saturdaythe working class movement should sit What has a man like Powell who off-handedly revealed to lobby cor respondents several years ago that 'often, when kneeling down in church think to myself how much we should thank God, the holy ghost, for capitalism, in common with the sims of the trade union movement? The *Get Britain Out Cimpaign, which apart Imperialism is in a weaker position to -DUESS ARE ILE supporters Jack Jones (TGWU), the before. recentiy ennobled Lord Baginshaw (NATSOPA), and ex-Labour cabinet of labour. ministers Lords Shinwell and Wigg. is itself'a prime exumple to the workipe clasa movement of how not to organis These "pillars of the trade union movement, in company with some 20 Labour MPs, share their places on the GBOC list of sponsors not only with Powell, but also with a couple of Tory MPs and the owner of the right-wing The presence of these CAPITALIST CRISIS The capitalist class has only one solution to the economic crisis, Despite the fact that it is the insane logic of capitalism itsell-which produced for profit rather than needs-that ss at the root of the crisis, the ruling class is not prepared to undermine its own existence and power by accepting a more rational system of production Kather, it intends to impose the same prescription for economic crisis which it used in the 1920s and 130s-a cut in the living standards of the working class in order to get capitalism back on the rails at least for the momen Undoubtedly, on a world scale, impose this sort of solution than ever The hunger marches of the weakened and defeated labour move ment in the 1930s stand in stark contrast to the strength of the workers movement in the imperialist countries today, On a world scale the victories of the world revolution in China, Cubo Vietnam as well as Eastern Burope have dealt hammer blows to imperialist domination Where the ruling classes of the unpe rialist countries previously considered the armed power of their own individual states to be sufficient to impose capitalist solutions on the indigenous working class, they now see the need to supplement their power through the creation of international bodies. In common with NATO and its counter parts in other regions, the Common Marker was developed, above all elsa, as part of an international system of alliances for the defence of imperialism WORKERS SOLUTION For the very reason that the ruling class has no solution to the coonomic crisis other than an anti-working class solution, it is essential that the working class puts forward its own indepen dent solution to the crisis. This solution can only be an internationai solution, not least because of the increasingly international nature of production and international division