• HACKS of the ruling class i prattling on abour the terLed times we live in. One write topics of late is the miational terrorism': . these scribbling lackeys had anything to say about ernational terrorism' of e imperialist death-machhas sown misery and across the globe throughpest century.
ENOUGH but it is true that as the world capsystem lotters, more and more t exploited say Enough and a foght back. Nor should we mised that those who have sufder the imperialist heei do rays feel inclined to conduct ht in a polite and gentleman REAL VILLAINS ly fashion.
We must base our attitude to such struggles on an absolutely clear distinction between the violence of the oppressors and that of the oppressed. No matter what tactical disagreements we may have with the latter, we must always stund four-square beside them in the fight against our common enemy- the world capitalist system.
The ruling class will do whatever it can to break this unity. No dirty trick" is too low in its book. Among the measures which it adopts is the secret provocation of acts of violence designed to discredit and divide its opponents.
Whenever a violent political act is not publicly claimed by some anti-imperialist or anti-capitalist group this must always be considered a possible explanation (after all, a violent political act would not usually bombings had been carried our by the right-wing. What he didn't add members of his own party, whom it suited to have a witch-hunt raging against the left.
tries-Canada.
"FINGERED
tycoon. Something had obviously containing a finger on the scene of the 'crime soon turned up a likely suspect -a man suffering from burns on his body, mis sing one finger, and whose blood was of the same type as that found on the glove turned out that the suspect was a memher of the Royal Canadian Mounted Po. lice (RCMP-the "mounties") of seven planation can be rejected in principle Years' slanding known that this was no ordinary cop, but a member of the RCMP's equivalpolitical life of Italy and given the pol-ent of Special Branch -the well-named SS (Security Service).
to dismiss a charge that some violent act or other was a police frame-upthink again.
RAY ALEXANDER ley bombings was that they bad been aided and en couraged in this by scores of respectable capitalist politicians, including Another revealing incident comes from that most "democratic of counIn late July a bomb went off outside the home of a Montreal grocery gone wrong police found a glove still A quick swoop on local hospitals Then something else went wrong it The plot thickened when it became So the next time you feel inclined As we so to press no one has yet claimed responsibility for last weekend's bombings in Guildford. On all previous occasions the Provisional IRA has given warnings of bombs they were responsible for. Of course, warnings may have heen given in this case. It is not unknown for the forces of the State to refuse to publicise such warnings, as happened with the Old BaiIf the Provisional IRA was responsible, the IMG and the Red Weekly wish to make it clear that they unconditionally defend the right of the Irish Republican movement to carry on armed actions against British imperialism. Such armed actions are an integral part of any revolution ary strategy for the Irish revolution. There is no reason in principle why such armed actions should be confined to the other side of the Irish Sea The response of the Labour Government, Wilson and Jenkins-not to mention the Tory Party and the mass media - has demonstrated their tra ditional hypocrisy. Profuse crocodile tears have been shed over the fact that four of the people who have been killed are adolescents. But those who shed them have never shown any concern over the fact that these young people were being recruited into the army to do one thing-to kill.
No matter how young they were, British imperialism was quite prepared to put them in the firing line. British imperialism would have had these young soldiers doing the same dirly work as the rest of the British army in Ireland - repressing the Catholic minority, harassing them, intern ing them, becaking up their homes, exacerbating sectarian murders and supporting other loyalist attacks on the Catholic minority in the North Nor have these hypocrites shown such concern for the dozens of young Insh militants murdered by the British army. However, Of the Provisionals are responsible for these bombings, we think they have made a tactical mistake. Armed actions are correct insofar as they fit into an overall strategy to mobilise mass forces against British imperialim.
At various times in the past, the Provisionals actions in the Six Coun ties have fitted into this category. The present bombings in britain do Such actions do not correspond to the present stage of strugale of the nationalist population in Ireland, nor do they contribute to the huilding of a movement in this country in solidarity with the struggle for self-determination of the Irish nation.
But these are tactical differences. We stand unconditionally by the Irish people in their struggle against British imperialism, whatever form that struggle might take. This also dictates our attitude to the pes trials going on in Wakefield. Failure to stand alongside Judith trial for the so-called "M62 bombings" will simply aid the Brit class in their efforts to use the trial to whip up anti-trih h Indeed, this whole trial is being stage-managed so as to mbers of Sinn Fein militants and provide an excuse for inn repression against irish people in this country. If such move they would split the British working class movement and weaken i the face of ruling class attacks.
We must turn such manoeuvres against the ruling class th ilising large forces in defence of Republican a movement in this country aid the irish revolut