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THE NATIONAL FRONT is busy trying to give itself a facelift.
For years their leading figure has boen John Tyndall-expert Jew-baiter, para-military force, But Tyndall has now been swept aside as chairman of the Front, And lie only managed to hold on to the post of deputy chairmatt by one vote.
Tyndail's demotion is the result of the enormous outery against the National Front in the labour movesent. Thousands of workers see the mark of Nazism on the Front, and too many facts confirmn the image. Tyndall's paba temust and cus widely Known synagogue-burning, and Ku Klux Klanin of the British fascists in the sixties. and their Mosleyite and Hitlerite prede cessors.
WORKERS
The comes son time when the kH needs to increase its influence in the working class. To be of any uso to the capitalists, the tascists in Britain today must Ley to mobilise sections of workers as well as the middle class onto the streets in support al racist and chauvinist policies. This would assist the rise of fieres like Enoch Powell who nove deep niservoirs of support among wotkers.
Red Weekly 31 Oclober 1974 the armed forces The recent hullsbaloo over the visit of the British Navy to South Africa raises some fundamental questions in relation to the armed forces.
We know that the army is not a neutral force, but on the contrary acts consciously to preserve and safeguard the capitalist state.
This, however, does not mean that the officer caste- which effectively runs the British army —has no views of its own. Not does it mean that even within this framework it necessarily accepts and attunes itself to the The truth of this was first seen in the army's refusal to follow the pollcies laid down by a Liberal administration in relation to Home Rule for Bucked by reactionary politi cians in Britain and Orange leaders like Sir Edward Carson, the army officers mutinied. The Curragh mutiny, as it was known, led to abject capitulation by the Liberal Government and the abandonment of moves toThe links between the Orange landed gentry and the British army have always been close. The former still supplies many officers to run the army today. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that when the loyalist workers recently launched a general strike for totally reactionary objectives, the British army made it quite clear to the Labour Government that they were not prepared to tangle with the mass base of Orangeism.
A similar consideration undoubtedly played an important part in the 1964-70 Labour Government's decision not to react militarily against In other words, even when a Government wishes to carry out meas ures which are perfectly consistent with maintaining the credibility of parliamentary democracy, the army can put its foot down fairly decisIn the unlikely event that a Labour Government attempted to carry out measures such as those of the Allende Government in Chile, we can be sure that the mistrust with which the army always treats even the most reactionary Labour Government would translate itself into some form of action. The Economist was brazenly proclaiming not so long ago that "Ulster" had changed the character of many army officers, and they were now much less inclined to tolerate nonsense from WestminsWhile it would be bizarre to talk in terms of transforming the existing army into a pure democratic army which would serve the interest of the working masses, there are nonetheless certain basic democratic freedoms which should be extended to the armed forces as a whole. The right to form trade unions, the right to belong to political parties, and the right to publish their own newspapers are some of the more elemenThe military bureaucracy in Britain will fight a hard battle against any such moves, The hysteria which greeted Mick MeGahey's reference to In the 1964 election campaign, while speaking in Putney, Wilson rocalled the famous debates which took place on Putney Heath soon after Cromwell's victory over the Royalist armies, What he should have remembered was that a number of these were concerned with the rights of soldiers in the army, and that most of those who took part were ord.
It is not a pure coincidence that one has to go back nearly 400 years to find instances of democratic discussion in the army. And surely it is not asking too much to insist that the labour movement fights to make To do this they may wall try to get a 'united front" with the Labour Party and trade union bureaucests on the EEC. There is nothing better the NF and lowell would like than to march alongside workers demanding that Ba tain "get out on a chauviiss political basis. But men like Tyndall are an ubstacle to this. His widely-known Nazi past would make it difficult for the Labour Party to keep such compriy.
Already Labour spokesmen have refus ed to share joint platforms with the NF allay the General Eleadian Tyndall's rocent obsession with making the NE's anti-Jewish ciews public are exactly what the fascists don't need with such a strong zionist sentment among Labour MPs But Tyndall's resipnation will not do much for the Front's image Nei ther does it represent a change in the basic orientation of the Front.
The populist' wing which depased This is just as keen la whip up mass agiration for racist, sationalist and anti-frish measures as those with a Nazi past. They are just as anxious lo take such movements to the point of organised street violence, creating incidents which cao really spur Powell and some takes on then aal. and ter are must as prepared to deal qut bows to the labour morement if they are given the chance.
therefore, launch a large-scale cam pain to show that Labour's propo sals can in no way deal with thes As a first step in building this campaien, the 1MG proposed that = public meeting should be orpanised during the Labour Party conference to protest at the usclessness of the proposed Act. The IMG also called Lor a demonstration, organised wtih trade union support, to draw together all those
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views of whatever government happens to be in office. Ireland in the carly vears of this century.
the troops during the last miners' strike shows this clearly. inary rank-and-file soldiers in Cromwell's New Model Army.
Nazi gunslinger, and an organiser of the now definet "Spearhend" fascist para-