International Bhutto: meets Mrs Gandhi in India but expels Tariq Ali from Pakistan It is also stated that 1 am guilty of having written a book against Pakistan. It is true that I wrote a book directed against the Pakistani landlords and capitalists, but here again it is not the Pakistani masses who decide, as the book, Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power?, is still banned and only recently permission was refused for it to be published in Pakistan. Once again I repeat: I stand by every word in the book which was written in the interests of the oppressed and toiling masses of Pakistan. Banning the book or its author will not prevent revolutionary ideas from being disseminated in the country as ideas are not great respecters of frontiers and policemen. 1 demand that the Pakistan government immediately lifts the ban imposed on me and enable me to return immediately to my country. If there are any charges against me then let them be brought out into the open so that 1 can defend myself before the people of Pakistan. My political views will not change. I have been and remain a revolutionary militant, a member of the Fourth Communist International and regardless of whether the ban is removed or not l will return to Pakistan one day.
Tariq Ali 27 June, 1972 RED CIRCLES Weekly meetings to discuss revolutionary politics.
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Theoretical journal of the International Marxist Group SPECIAL OFFER: 25p (post free) 1971 issues: Vol.1.Nos. 3, 4, 5 Articles include:
Connolly by Rayner Lysaght Background to 1916 Trotsky The Paris Commune Terrorism Latin America Imperialism by E.Mandel Uruguay: The Tupamaros Send to International, 182 Pentonville Road, London N.1. A new thirty minute colour documentary film about Irish political activity in Britain, Bringing It All Back Home, is now available for showing. A Goodtimes/Time Out Magazine production, t focusses on the activities of the Anti-Internment League carlier this year, particularly those leading up to the March 26th demonstration for which the use of Trafalgar Square was banned.
Bringing It All Back Home is a well-made film, with some welcome light interludes such as the interview with a Special Branch man, but its main effect unfortunately is to reinforce the real weaknesses from which the AlL is only now beginning to break. In some cases, for instance the statement in the accompanying brochure "The campaigners stated that the way to find an acceptable solution to the Irish problem would be by bringing the crisis back to the seat of political power in Westminster", what was merely implicit in the AlL's failure to take up a full solidarity position (and its resultant confusion when direct rule was introduced) becomes an explicit position. And generally, the film tends to concentrate even more exclusively than the AlL at one time did on the question of internment. It thus deals with Irish political activity in Britain purely at the level of protest (at one form of British oppression), Ignoring almost completely the fundamental issues of national self-determination and even British troops, and those who have consistently campaigned on these.
Despite these grave weaknesses, however, this film can play a useful part in our activity in Britain-but only if it is used in the right way, as an introduction to a discussion on the kind of Irish solidarity movement we need to build and the considerable mistakes on this score that have been made in the past.
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A year ago few seasoned observers of ruling class politics in America would have predicted that by summer '72 George McGovern would be in the lead for the Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. After all it wasn't long ago that he was debating neither Hubert Humphrey nor Muskie, but Linda Jenness, the trotskyist Presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), on important issues such as the war in Indo-China, Nixon's domestic policies, abortion laws, ete. Since then George McGovern, the "non-serious, fringe candidate", has become a frontrunner for the U.S. Presidency. And this despite the hostility of a large chunk of the Democratic Party machine and the unprincipled combination Humphrey, Wallace, Shirley Chisholm and Muskie created as a last desperate bid to try to harness this hostility and prevent McGovern from being nominated at Miami Beach next month.
McGOVERN: CHILD OF INFLATION AND VIETNAM There are two interrelated reasons for the rise of George McGovern. While he himself always was and still remains an extremely clever capitalist politician, the overwhelming support he has obtained in the primaries reflects, to a certain extent, the dissatisfaction of the electorate with the continuing inflation and the war in Indo-China.
McGovern's consistent opposition to the war within the framework of bourgeois politics has undoubtedly won him enormous support. This USA: Election *72 Muskie and Humphrey exchange pleasant ries with McGovern (right) while in reality linking up with Wallace (above) to organise some of the dirtiest infighting the Democratic Party has seen in recent years.
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