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of two Irish Republicans, Eamonn Smulien and Every week we receive fresh evidence of another theory afloat that he was shot THE MOLES FORTRESS OHN MCLEAN AND SCOTTISH DEPENDENCE anions to the John MacLean Society Int publication, John MacLean and Dependence. context of a growing working class foe the Soottish National Party, the ras founded in 1968 to commemorate Bucational work, lenderup arian effort for the workers o orld, of John MacLean; to encourage ne research: to publish his writings, and speeches; and to relate his os to the circumitances of today. That i the S.N.P. upsurge to reawaken Interest Lean can only reflect the very low level (Scottish left over the last twenty odd e pamphlet consists of poems on MacLear sey Goodsir Smith, John Kincaid anc dence, which provides the most of the det. In the latter contribution, the train ¿ Mactan's attitude to the national question L making the point that it was only the situation pointed to the likelihood of evolution in Scotland before the Revolation that Maclean reised the Scottish Workers Republic: " In the Scottish Workers Republican armed under his leadership and it the Municipal Elections in Glasgow se a tevolutionary programme. The pucted from election addresses at this ald belle once and for all the int Party slanders that MacLean's in jail had affected his mind largely and Fi lost his international perspectives Jeft largely undiscuss of MacLean's attitude to organisation Id the Scottish revolutionary parties have nd the succemful Bolsherik example?
question and the whole experience of Clydeside" must be examined seriously the revolutionary movement today, for the that the revolutionary masses were in a few (channelled into the parliam ntary road of I democracy is the key to the making of the revolution in Beitain in the present period. The pamphlet is in fact an appetiser, and a ble one, to a debate of vital importance in stland and throughout Britain.
Ivailable from Mrs. Nan Milton, Atholl ottage, Westfield, near Bathgate, West Lothian. * postage. economists have established empirically that the higher the level of unemployment. the lower the rate of increase of the workers wuges. Waees are "costs" to the employers, The higner are theit costs, the lower are their profits and the less able are they to compete in a fiercely competitive international economy. Put simplyunemployment helps the employers keep down the workers" wages and this in cura enables them to be more competitive in export Comrades will have read in the bourgeois press about the trial and conviction at Loods Amines Gerry Docherty, What is not filtering through i the fact that thir is the first time any one har of the Israeli state: attempts have beer been convicted in a British court on the nature of this trial is underlined by the fact that a campaign was launched against the evidence of a tape-recording, The frame up this recording it of extremely poor quality, and is the only real evidence the fuzz have produced. Israeli state was preventing some of its The savage sentences handed out are a direct political act: Docherty is the President of Clann na h-Eirann, the British wing of the Republican movement. And Smullen, whos only contribution to the tape is "Good Morning", Is a life long Republican. His eight year sentence war imposed on the strength of a dower on his activities supplied by the Green Tory government in Dublin Smullen and Docherty represent the oldest ontinuour struggle against British imperialisen They are accused of trying to foment violence by buying arins, when it is British imperialism which has been slaughtering the irish for centuries, or setting up the sectarian Northern Irish state to set them to slaughter each other.
It it Britain which is guilty of violence, not these two "Felons of Ireland". Revolutionarles must not stint their support for the campaign for the release of these men: contact Donal Murphy, 61 Doris Road, Sparkhili, Birmingham I1, or Sean O'Cionnaith, Sinn Fein H.Q., 30 Gardiner Place, Ath Cliath 1, Ireland. to take tootE nidency has been observable for several yea intain the prese it rate of wage increase. This now -and only recently a group of economists from the International Monetary Fund warned painst the sharp rate of incrouse of wages-titis despite the record unemployment levels. Recent reports in the Financial Press ho suggest that the chief concer of the Treasury is with wages. As a result there has been a revival of interest and renewed talk about an Incomes Policy. In addition to ail this the IMF study said that the Balance of Payments Surpius was in no small part due to growth in worid trade. In other words, expansionary coonomic conditions in foreign markets has been increasing foreign demand for Britain's exports. Should conditions abroad tum less favourable, then the surplus mity aely occurrence: for instance, the vite rapidly disappear. In fact this 15 g American coonomy, which is an important market for British exports, is hoading towards rocession despite the efforts of the US monetary authoribes. year is, of course, not at all certain. It is possible would-be assassins, seeing Mararios What the Government will do in the dection that the Budget will include some tax cuts, and the Government will try to reduce unemployment to curry favour with tho electorate. On the other hand, as some financial editors have poinled out, the Government does soem almost paranoically set on its conso. What is clear, however, is that in the long nan the crisis of British capitalism is far from over. We can either expect higher and higher memployment levels andiur (most likely "and' attacks on the trade unions and the labour movement possibly attempts to revive the Incomes Policy. Against this, socialists must tonerving silence, one must rely on clearly counterpose their solutions, explaining what is happening in very concrete terns to the rumours.
labour movement as a whole.
rowing repressive hysteria on the par made to withdraw the passports of left- wing Israelis abroad; at the same time as Fearing that the ex-FOKS leader would restriction on travel of Soviet Jews, the own citizens from travelling abroad (one such case being Jabrag, the Palestinian Marxist who is now under house arrest) Amnesty International's timid report of torture in Israch prisons has begun the work of demystifying the "humanitarian" supporters of Israel. We Information: on March 30th of this year, whole affair with his image intact have received the following additional two Israeli citizens began an indefinite hunger strike. One, Sabri Jaryis, lawyer and author of Les Arabs en Israel (Maspero, Paris, 1969) had been under house arrest since 1967; three months ago he was served with administrative detention and has been imprisoned without trial or charges against him ever since. The other, Fawzi Al-asmar, the well-known poet and journalist, was have been brought against him. Both men are demanding to be charged and brought to court or released immediately. that he knew too much. OF THE RED MOLE WHEN UP POPS RED MOLE - ANOTHER FIGHT ON UP HIS TRUSTY SHOVEL.r• Since the attempted asso tion of Archbishop Matarios on 8th March and the shooting of Georghadjis a weelt later Cyprus has been a hotbed of rumour Yet, the British mass media ho assiduously cooided any speculations as to the significance of receni events Although no officiol announcement has been made by the Cyprus Govemment, it now appears certain that Georgiadjis was behind the attempt on the Archoishop's life. Relations between the two men had been very strained ever since Georghadjis" forced resignotion from the cabinet in November 1968 Since then, Georghadjis" followers both et home and chroed never concealed their desire to be rid of the Archbishop and to instal Clerides in power with the ex-Minister of Defence close of hand: There are also strong suspicions that once in control, Clerides would have looked to the US for protection. NATOisation of the island, as the solution to the Cyprus Problem, appeared to be in the offing This whole plot went aury when the helicopter plummeting down, assumed that they hed succeeded in their assignment and neglected to take the most elementary precoution, Tile disposing of their weapons, Up until this point the slory seems plausible (although admittedly there ane unanswered questions os to the role of various foreign governents). Howeser, from the time of Georghediis abortise attempt to flee to Beirut, to rus subrequent death and the present hearsay ccidence and conflicting While the British press seems to have favoured the theory that Georghadjis wan shot by "Greek officers", there is down by his own men. It is said that the men arrested after the attempt on Matarios had implicated Georghodjin.
talk when arrested, it was decided to finish him off before the police took him into custody.
What is certain of the moment in that the reports so fat emancting from the island are incomplete and often contradictory, The most inferesting development is Clerides rection: he has been frantically denouncing Georghadfis in an effort to absolve himself from any blame. Whether he will come out of this remains to be seen.
Our contacts in Cyprus tell us that it is widely believed that the assassination of Makarios was jointly planned by the CIA and West German and Greek intelligence forces The former becouse hey went NATO bases in Cyprus whic Makarios hes been consistently opposin and the latter because they favour Cyprus' union with Greece. The one imprisoned nine months ago. No charges person who could have confirmed these sfories Georghadis is himself dead, executed by those who were frightened
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