FASCISTS IN THE SQUARE AGAINTI The National Democratic Party intends to hold a rally at Trafalgar Square on the afternoon of Sunday 28th March. This is the first Fascist rally to be held in London since Mosley's in 1962, which was stopped by anti-fascists.
THE NOP CAN BE STOPPED TOO!!
What is the NDP?
The NDP was founded in 1964 by Dr. David Brown, who was also a founder member of the Racial Preservation Society.
The policies of the NDP ate similar to those of the National Front-they are both FASCIST. The NOP is also neo-Nazi, and is in contact with foreign Nazis.
The NDP has strong links with the East Anglia Forum, led by the neo-Nazi Baron brothers. Kevin Baron was described by John Tyndall of the NF as "a staunch devotee of National Socialism."
Carty Renford of Forest Hill, South London, is now in hospital suffering from multiple burns received when four petrol bombs were thrown into a house on January 3rd. Two youths, both members of Fascist organisations, have been charged.
The growing climate of ropression and racia lism is encouraging fascists like the NOP and the NF.
STOP THE NDP RALLY, MARCH 28. Issued by the Anti-Fascist Committer of Great Britain, S.E.3.
ECONOMIC STAGNATION A recent "expert" review of the economy, signed by the country's leading acadentic economists, states "To turn to aggregate demand, the gross domestic product has shown little growth over the past 12 months Output was flat in the first half of 1970 and in the second hall seems to have been a mere 15% bigher than in the second half of 1969''-from the "London and Cambridge Economic Bulletin" for the last quarter of 1970, published February 1971.
WHY ACCEPT CAPITALISM?
The Tory Party pressure grosp called the Bow Group has just pablished a "memorandom on pay, inflation and incomes policy" They call it "The Hages of Feer". Poorly produced, it calls for a statutory incomes policy, and cond he totally ignored except for one interesting admis siem- "Unfortunately, for reasons which we shall discust shortly, it is impracticable to operate a capitalist system unthout such large-scale inequalities. Thas we have a dilenna People want capitalism, aç least in the negative sense of not wanting the only feasible alternative, but racy are unwilling to accept one of its essential feazures" Your emphasis). The document is daled Jaruary 1971. It helps to explain how prominent Tory politicians view the popularity of the system they operate.
ISKACET BLACK PANTHERS A group of black fove in trael who sec the selvis when Black Mother grop and hate are esciting sil che tered of thie Zienie. 3s Black Poochee leadore were remely anested in Jerusalem for she micencion of holdo denia, rogether ael Mateuen Se we will report detail: Nowhere are middle-class politics more pathetic than in the North of Ireland. The irish Times on February 23rd reports that the Alliance Party (a huddling together of middle-class Protestants and Catholics), in Queens University Belfast, had condemned the displaying of the Irish Tricolour and Starry Plough Flag by members of the Queens Republican Club, who were wearing combat jackets and black berets. They say:
*Black berets and combat jackets are now universally seen as symbols of Republican militarism. A public display of the same can do nothing but perpetuate Protestant fears of an IRA bloodbath, while encouraging the Unionist establishment in a further swing to the right." They are also quoted as saying that the right of the Republican Club to organise should not be a cover for "the activities of fascist gangsters fomenting sectarian warfare."
AD the craven fear of biberalism for revolutionary action is expressed here. The Queens Republican Club, although technically illegal, is the spearhead of the left within the University, they have succeeded in getting the Students Union committed to the policy of an "trish Workers Republic", and have been in the fare. front of struggles for student democracy and against the University's links with South Africa. They display the flag of the heroic 1916 Dublin Rising, and the flag of the world's first workers" militia. For this they are called "fascist."' The North of Ireland is now under perma nent military occupation. The Catholic national minority in its ghettoes is fighting back against the British Army. More and more young people will be donning the black beret and green com bet jacket of the IRA, "Official" as in Queens, or "Provisional as in Ballymurphy and the Andoyne. It is the uniform of the armed vanguard of the oppressed minority.
The Red Mole hails the Queens Republican Club as the vanguard of a new generation of Irish men and women who are now opening up another stage in the struggle for national liberation. We express our solidarity with them, and know that they will not stop until the Tricolour and Starry Plough fly over, not just Queens University Belfast, but a Workers Republic of They will be remembered when Irrelevancies like the Alliance Party are forgotten forever. PRICES AND TAXES TO GO UP?
The capitalist press often turns to forecasting the economic future. On 22nd February 1971, The Times carried an article by Wynne Codley*untit last summer, he was deputy director of the Treasury economic section, where his special interests were econome forecusting..." Now an academic at Cambridge, this exgovernment adviser states "... on the most favourable assumptions about the initial cost of EEC membership, the growth of consumpLion between 1969 and 1974 will have to be constrained to an average of about 254% a yeur * personal consumption will, on our assump tons, have to be reduced by at least E550 million... It seems clear that a substantial proportion of the reduction in personal consumption below trend will be brought about by the increase in food prices which is partly the result of higher import prices, partly of import levies and partly lower subsidies Nevertheless, we conclude that enen allowing for this the net burden of teration ail have to become headier rather than lighter taking the period as a whole." (our emphases) MORE AND MORE MILITANCY A capitalist nightmare is turning into reality. A year ago, Prime Minister Harold Wilson said, "We see all over che industrial world an increasing degree of industrial militancy of international proportions.., the strike problem is going to be for all of us one of the big problems... as we enter the 1970s*- speech to New Vork audicace (Times, Znd February, 1970). Today, those fears are proved to be correct, as more and more workers rake action in the struggle for better conditions and wages. The Department of Employment Gazecte" in Britain, for January 1971, shows:
"Number of Working Days Lost in Strikes and Stoppages"
1968 4.690,000 1969 6,846,000 1970 10,970,000 Number of Strikes 1968 2,378 1969 3,021 1970 3,888 And abroad, the workers" struggle also grows, as The Times reports to bosses in Britain: "Danger Sigas in Holland and Belgium Docile Workers turning to militancy" (11ch February 1971) "France may, 1968, still casts is shadow over workers... it is one of the fundamentals of modern France that this sort of explosion could happen again" (9ch February 1971).
LESS HOUSEBUILDING "During 1970, 319,000 permanent houses and Nats were started and 351,800 completed in Great Britain, compared with 343,500 and 366,800 in 1969'-quate from "Housing Report for 1970"; Department of the Environment The statistics in this report show a steady decline in houseburiding since 1967-68. Also, the same report statesLESS SLUM CLEARANCE *The tozal number of houses demolished or closed in England and Wales as a result of slum clearance action in 1970 was 67,800, compared with 69,200 in 1969. "* BRITISH IMPERIALISM *overseas investment is the seed-corn of our future prosperity. and private investment overseas is at present running at about 6600 to 2700 million a year. This is investment for the future, and it is good for the future of our country" from speech by Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber to the Overseas Bankers Club Banquet of Ist February 1971. Why Europe?
Howerer, in the very samo speech, the Chancel lor had to confess that British capitalism alone could not survive in the face of imperialist competition of modern dimensions-"T tum now to the single most important event of 1971-the outcome of the negotiations for British member ship of the European Communities..- none of us acting alone could gain the things which wa desired for our own people in terms of physical security or economic or social adyance... economic growth and technulogical develop ment today require that we integrate our coo nomies and our markets." A clear admission of the decline of British capitalism as an independent force.
A number rumours are circulating about the fate of Tribune, whose /inancial problems are more than usaally acute. One plan to saltage the paper encisages a more or less formal merger or fie-up between Tribune ond the Morning Star, os part of a more ambitious alliance between the C.P.-end the Labour Party. The pitiatie prob lems of the Labour Left during the hast goernment discredited it even in the eves of reformist trade union leaders Now that the C.P. has so thoroughiy accommodated itself to acclal democracy, what could be more returni than a C.P.
attempt to lend some semblance of reality to the fast-disappearing jake Left of the Labour Party, and what could be a better instrument for this strategy than a Morning Star-Tribune merger? The hopeful result would of course be o formal application by the C.P. to affiliate to the Labour Party. Marriage broker for the alliance of decrepit reformism and senile Stalinism is reputed to be none other than The Spokesman magnzine achich we beliere has some connection with a Mr. Ken Contes of Nottingham.
ПІНИНИНИ!
Fleet Street gave page one covenge to the death of no ROC men in Belfast on February 27th. It needed a search of the inside puges of the same papers to reveal the reason for the deathsthe arrest by the REC of almosz 40 Belfast Republican women Nowhere will you find a report of how these women were treated by the gallant boys in bottie green.
Nowhere does it mention that the two poor innocent policemen who were shot were memBers of the Special Branch. One, Detective Inspector Porterson, whom the unfree press piayed up an a sort of Iris Dicon of Dock Green, has in the post been the bodyguard of such flustrious parasites os Jacqueline KennedyOnassis, racist Jim Callaghan and his wife, Tory Armstrong-Jones and his wife. etc.
The American invasion of Laos has hardly lived up to the hopes of the Pentagon. Possibly because of that, sections of the liberal press have been willing to admit that it is in fact an American invasion, despite the fact that the bulk of the forces involved are Vietnamese.
There has been surprisingly little comment on the fact that in spite of the 1962 Geneva Accord, which decreed that all foreign forces were to leave Laos, America has maintained a 40,000 strong mercenary force in the country since that time. Known as "armee clandestine" this force of mercenaries is recruited mainly from the Meo community, and is headed by a "Major General" Vang Poa, known to his American advisers as VP-he is an ex-sergeant in the French army. The "armee clandestine", run by the CIA, is based at Long Ting. just South West of the Plain of Jars, where it has a 3,000-foot-long all-weather airfield, complete with T28 single engine bombers, reconnaissance helicopters and transport plains. "If I could desise a split in socery which assured me of the support of the mujority of the working people and by far the greater part of the profcasional and administrative classes, and also some of the tradicional leaders of the community with the success with which the government of Ulster bas accidentally been blessed, then our Empire would stretch towards eternity." -Mussulini, 1929.
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