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NEW PARK

By Robert Black

Workers Press no. 314, 28 November 1970 · scan pages 3, 4

Topics: Italy and Germany

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BOOKS GERMANY 1931/32 paperback L. IRUISKY:

cloth WHERE IS BRITAIN GOING?

HISTORY OF RUSSIAN

REVOLUTION 3 vols AGE OF PERMANENT REVOLU REVOLUTION BETRAYED paper cloth PROBLEMS OF CHINESE REVOLUTION paperback cloth PERMANENT REVOLUTION, RESULTS & PROSPECTS STALINISM IN BRITAIN paperbacl cloth PAMPHLETS TROTSI DEATH AGONY OF CAPITALISM (The Transitional Programme)

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ADVANCE NOTICE SUNDAY, FEBRUA ALEXANDRA PALACE Green

FIFTY YEARS ago this week ten workers were the Italian city of Bologna in a massacre by fascis and the militiamen of the 'liberal' government.

ssacre 28, - EAST & • WEST ' Their deaths marked a turning point, and underlined a lesson that the international labour movement must now urgently grasp: all conceptions of peaceful road to socialism' benefit no one but the employers and their hired thugs.

Bologna, lying in the South of Po valley in what is still Italy's 'Red belt', was chosen by the fascists as the place start in earnest their 'preventive counter-revolution' against the working class.

The immediate background to the murders was the betrayal of the factory occupations which had swept the country in September 1920, a betrayal carved out by the reformist Italian Socialist Party and trade union leaders.

Lockouts

At the beginning of September 1920, Milan metalworkersof whom over 100,000 are at this moment locked bitter struggle to enforce the contract Fascists fired at the balcony (arrowed) in Piazza Nettunoand sparked off the massacre of ten workers.

Va EVEN THE fertile imaginati Franz Kafka would have be script for a programme recen reaction ON NOVEMBER 8, in the middle of the night, the Dusseldorf offices of the 'Falkenheim' German Social-Democratic student organization, were wrecked by 'Action-Resistance'-the Nazi front leading the campaign against Social Democratic Chancellor Brandt's diplomatic approaches to E Europe.

The attack was part of a long series of similar outrages against offices of the W German Communist Party, trade union organizations, and left-wing publishers.

Apart from discovering some arms caches, Brandt's police have been 'unable to move against the On November 7, a young Nazi Ekkehard Weil, wounded a Soviet guard at the Red Army's memorial with two pistol shots.

of the great Czech novelist hard pressed to devise the broadcast by Prague Radio.

PAGE THREE He was captured, but subsequently escaped under the most suspicious circumstances.

Escorted by two unarmed policemen, and without handcuffs, he wriggled from his jacket vanished into an underground station by Tempelhof airport. Emerging from the subway he jumped onto a bicycle and disappeared.

Klaus Schütz, mayor of W Berlin, (the post previously held by Brandt) was irate at being unable to keep order in his own house. Though Weil was subsequently recaptured, he declared the incident 'so scandalous, that it's not excuses but explanations that are required'.

Having for years had the most amicable relations with the CIA and all manner of right-wing provocateurs, it was clear that the Berlin police chiefs were not over-eager to restrict Weil's individual freedom.

AS IN their British equivalents, reactionary politics and money find a ready reception in W German universities. Ten days ago, in Bad-Godesberg, 1,500 assorted dons, solicitous of academic freedom, met to form the 'Alliance for Academic Freedom'.

Among the leading figures were Gerhard Stoltenberg, ex-Christian Democratic (CDU) Science Minister, and now a Krupps' manager, CDU deputy Hans

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