TONIGHT-The BBC's 'inquiry A RIGGED ULSTER DEBATE

SHEIKH Mujibur Rahman, leader of the Awami League ana present of the banga Deal government, is expected to fly to Dacca from W Pakistan within the next few days. MUJIB's party expresses the requirements of the Bengali bourgeoisie, which Is now trying to impose capitalist law and order on the armed workers and peasants.

His biographer Kazi Kamal writes of Mujib's hostility to the National Awami Party of Maulana Bashani, his chief rival on the left:

'[Mujib] feels that extremist political parties stand poised like sinister men to pick up the country to disaster There stands a party iNAP] lean and hungry, frothing within itself a massive plan to overwhelm the country by a soulless and monolithic rule, discarding whatever Islam and Quad-e Azam [Jinnah] stood for.' • The son of a well-off retired civil servant, Mujib began his political career in the Muslim League as supporter of partition. Soon after partition he was imprisoned for his part in the language movement against W Pakistani attempts to impose Urdu throughout the country.

When the Awami League was formed as a breakaway from the Muslim League in 1949, he was elected to its secretariat from prison. He served as Minister of Commerce and Industries in the Awami League government from 1956 to 1958. His political mentor, Shaheed Surawaddy, then premier of Pakistan, supported the Suez invasion against Egypt and became notorious for his crawling to the imperialist powers.

CEYLON is to stay in the Commonwealth when it becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka this year, parliament lecided this week. The move to leave the Commonwealth was proposed by a right-wing former premier and opposed by Dr Colvin R. De Silva for the ruling coalition of Stalinists, renegade revisionists and Mrs Bandaranaike's Sri Lanka Freedom Party. THE BBC's extravaganza on Ireland be transmitted tonight is a shameful farce. The two-and-a-half hour debate is completely contrived by the Tories at Westminster, Stormont and Dublin.

Arrangements for the programme and the list of participants demonstrate in a monumental way that the Tories are calling the tune at the BBC.

A BBC press release which could have been written at No 10 Downing St says:

"The inquiry format has been chosen because it permits proper scrutiny of the widest possible range of partisan opinions within a balanced framework, which is nevertheless not neutral towards violence and disorder.' Called "The Question of Ulster-an inquiry into the future', » programme claims to be 'a major television investigation into ways of ending the violence and bitterness in N Ireland'.

Statements

This is how the rigged Prise poincial represent t politicians 'representing the main bodies of opinion both N and S of the border' will each read their own prepared statements.

These statements will have been circularized among the other participant: before the programme starts.

Having read their statements the MPs may then be questioned by the threeman 'judiciary' made up of Lord Devlin, Lord Caradon This is the 'balanced' list of Irish politicians taking was reported to be con- IRA? part in tonight's sham debate:

Rev Ian Paisley, Democratic Unionist Party - right-winger.

Mr John Macginnis, Ulster licensed firearms and Unionist—right-winger.

Mr Michael O'Kennedy, Fianna Fail minister— right-winger. mas recess. Mr Neil Blaney, former Fianna Fail minister right-winger.

Mr Robert Cooper, Alliance Party-liberal. offenders. Mr David Bleakley, N Ireland Labour Party-rightwing Labour.

Mr Gerry. Fitt, Social Democratic Labour Party —Labour.

Miss Bernadette Devlin, independent-left-winger. pist weeks.

and Sir John Foster, QC, a Tory MP. government.

After all the submissions have been heard, the "judges' sum up in turn on each of the propositions.

The ludges can also call so-called expert witnesses to assist their deliberations.

These 'experts' also show about 250 men. the heavy hand of political selection. They are:

General Sir John 1 Hackett, by March. former GOC N Ireland. and an outspoken rieht-winger who described the torture allegations (before the Compton inquiry) as the wild imagination of people who. watched too much Sir James Robertson, former Chief Constable of Glasgow. Eire government's new moves on THE IRISH government sidering tougher measures for the possession of unin N Ireland had accepted the leadership and 'protection' of explosives as it reassembled the IRA against the British yesterday after the Christ- army and the Unionist regime.

But, FitzGerald warned: 'Priests who seem to conIt had been suggested that done sectarian murder and the 1971 Firearms Act may be priests who denounce the evil amended to make prison sen- of internment without trial in tences mandatory on N Ireland without, at the same time, denouncing acts Also among the more important items believed to be which provoked such internment, no doubt believe they on the day's agenda was a are acting in solidarity with report from Minister for Justice Brian O'Malley, on an oppressed group... But such solidarity is selective and developments involving the therefore chauvinistic' IRA S of the border in the He also warned priests against seeing the Provisional Some observers say that recent incidents involving the IRA as a 'shield against the extreme socialism or comIRA could lead to a really tough approach by the Lynch munism of the official IRA'.

Irish Defence Minister Aberdeen and L ronin, announced on the eve of the re-opening that he hac for YS jobs decided reduce the strength of the Irish contingent in the UN peacekeeping : force in Cyprus by DETAILS of widespread support for the Young Socialists' 'Right-to-Work' The remaining 140 troops are expected to be withdrawn campaign are coming in every day.

THE CATHOLIC Church and Members of the foundry the right-wing Fine Gael party workers' section of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers at the ment and British troops in N Aberdeen engineering company, Henry and Cook Lta., Speaking at a two-day con- have expressed their support for the march by taking Irish Priests in Maynooth - a collection in their section the church's training centre of the factory. in Ireland-Dr Garret Fitz- A motion passed by the Chiswick, W London, AUEW on Education said the minority branch states:

strike in doubt LEADERS of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers are unlikely to call for strike action over pay after a three-day meeting in Croydon, starting today.

A majority of the union's 14-man combined executive seems committed to the view that the union cannot afford an all-out stoppage.

The weight of the AUEW's 1.5 million members will presumably be thrown in favour of some form of more limited action when the leaders of all the unions in the industry meet next week.

Besides wages, today's special meeting is expected to discuss the changes in union financing required by decision to remain unregistered under the Industrial Relations Act.

'We have made completely clear that talks have broken down' ;, Hugh Scanlon, AUEW president, said yesterday. 'But what action we will recommend has not yet been decided.' 'REBEL' Merthyr Tydfil council yesterday abided by the Tory law and did not give free school milk to schoolchildren between seven and 11 years. Last term the authorities defied the government by continuing to distribute free milk.

KRAFT

STRIKERS GET AUEW BRUSH-OFF in London yesterday.

After standing in the rain for three hours, union officials told the men not to bother to wait around.

Councilman and union secretary Jim Conway told shop stewards and militants that their case was 'hopeless' and would not be included on the EC's agenda.

The men had travelled the 200 miles from Liverpool overnight to be at the meeting.

An angry Eric Staniford, AUEW convenor at Kraft's, ater told Workers Press:

'We feel disgusted and lét lown. What the El wants 1s for us to accept an Industria Relations Act settlement -compensation instead of reinstatement.' He showed us a letter from the EC which continued a key ondon support campaign 'This branch welcomes the backing given by the Liverpool district committee of the AUEW to the - Young Socialists' "Right-to-Work"

committee and calls on the district committee to support the marches which they have organized against The Union of Post Office Workers Garrick (London)

International Exchange Committee has agreed to provide accommodation, donate money and support in every way the campaign.

INSIDE TODAY Part two of an interview with BERNADETTE DEVLIN MP