'MORNING STAR' PLAYS DOWN NIRC

publisher's THE BODY of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, the millionaire left-wing publisher, found in a mysterious dynamite explosion near Milan two weeks Milan cemetery early yester day for burial.

Police would not confirm that the body had left the mortuary until nearly three hours after its departure.

It had been the object of an extensive post-mortem examination to establish cause of death.

The hearse was escorted by four police cars and a car containing Feltrinelli's close relatives and friends.

On Monday Milan magistrates refused permission for a funeral procession through Milan, claiming it would provoke incidents by political extremists.

At the cemetery itself there was a large police cordon and only family, close friends and journalists were allowed to approach the graveside. Bigger role for Spain FASCIST Spain should have a bigger role in western defence, President Nixon told a White House gathering on Monday night.

'Spain is a European and Mediterranean power and has a role to play in the deliberations that have impact on those two areas, ; Nixon said.

'My administration continues to encourage closer Spanish relations with the rest of W Europe and supports an increased role for Spain in western defence.

Spain, which is not a member of NATO, has close military ties with the US. Under a bilateral alliance, US forces are stationed in Spain and the US gives considerable military aid to General Franco. We demand the right to work!

RIGI LIVERF TODAY the trade union movement faces its first major challenge under the Tories' Industrial Relations Act, when a Lancashire road-transport firm seeks to have the Transport and General Workers' Union declared in contempt of court. If the union is found to be in contempt it could face an unlimited fine or its leaders YOUNG SOCIALISTS 12th ANNUAL CONFERENCE Saturday & Sunday April 8/9 Grand Hall, The Spa Dance to 'BRAVE NEW WORLD' Saturday night 8 pm Cost approximately £4.50. For tickete apply to John Simmanco, National Secretary, could be sent to prison.

The task of a socialist newspaper is to rouse, educate and prepare the working class for the struggles ahead. It must at all times tell the truth about the situation facing the working class.

In reporting the challenge facing the T&GWU yesterday, the Communist Party's 'Morning Star' for the umpteenth time betrayed that responsibility. Readers were told—deep in the paper's last news page—that the union had been declared 'within its rights' in staying away from the National Industrial Relations Court.

The words are those of Sir John Donaldson, NIRC president. They were uttered during his judgement on applications from Heaton's Transport (St Helens) Ltd and Bishop's Wharf Ltd, of. Warrington. But what the 'Star' did not report is the context in which they were said.

As Workers Press told Smith bans ANC cards THE Rhodesian government has banned the African cards-only hours after the Council had announced National Council (ANC) from issuing membership La big recruitment campaign.

The ban could be a prelude to outlawing the Council, which has campaigned against the Smith-Home settlement terms and enjoys wide support among the country's 5 million Africans.

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WE DEMAND THE RIGHT TO WORK SOUTHAMPTON TO LONDON 1972 ARP TO WORI DEAL TO LONDON 1972 YOUNG SOCIALISTS RIGHT TO WORK SWANSEA TO LONDON HUND THE 1972 YOUNG SOCIALISTS SOL TOLONDON WEDMAND THE GLASGOTO LONDO 1972 its readers in first CORRESPONDENT the President; Clifford Dupont, had decided that membership cards for the ANC, or any publication which purported to be a membership card, should be prohibited.

The government was of the opinion that the membership said cards would become 'weapons of intimidation' if issued now. The first batch of 60,000 cards were seized by security police from the ANC headquarters, a council spokesman said.

'I suppose they thought the issuing of the cards would lead to trouble-I don't really know,' the ANC spokesman said.

'But I can only repeat what we said earlier that we intended to conduct this membership campaign peacefully!' The government. statement issued on Monday night said since the date of its inception, the ANC had made extensive use of persons well-known for their associations with organizations banned for terrorism, violence, intimidation, subversion and rioting.

A statement from the ANC later condemned the ban as a 'Barbaric and cowardly act,' adding that it was common knowledge that all members of the ruling Rhodesian Front carried membership cards.

'In spite of these obstacles placed in our way, we shall not waver from mobilizing our people to continue their just struggle for self-determination,' the statement said. graph of a prominently-displayed article, Donaldson went on to warn of possible proceedings for contempt of court if the union continued to stay away. Within a few hours of our going to press those proceedings had started.

It is no accident that the 'Star' plays down the story. Neither can it be explained as a 'mistake', some slip-up in its news gathering or editing process.

There are good political reasons why the Stalinists of the CP misinform the working class about the threats which face it.

Having helped the union leaders abandon the fight against the Industrial Relations Act last year, they must now seek to cover up the consequences of their actions. To continue peddling their vicious policy of the peaceful road to socialism, they must disarm workers in the face of the authoritarian threat.

To provide a cover for the reformist union leaders' current attempts to cuddle up to the Tories they must lie, lie and lie again.

All this is entirely in line with the history of Stalinist betrayal in every country in the world. If allowed to continue its consequences will be equally bloody in Britain ... and in Ulster. The 'Morning Star' pursues reformist policies which can only lead to the defeat and political disarming of the working class.

Chile 'plot' right winger arrested A RETIRED army general was placed arrest in Santiago yesterday, accused of in a frustrated right-wing plot to overth Popular Unity regime at the weekend.

The government announced in a brief communiqué late Monday night the plot had been foiled.

It said the attempt was organized by the extreme rightwing 'Fatherland and Freedom' organization to coincide with a march middle-class women planned for Friday evening. The march was banned by the government and did not take place.

Police raided number of 'Fatherland and Freedom' organization branches, uncovering arms caches. ( Its president general secretary were charged with violating internal security laws.

Yesterday retired general Alberto Green was detained and a warrant issued for the arrest of retired army Major Arturo Marshall. The government claims that serving officers 'rejected approaches made to them by the conspirators, but we have only their word for it.

The Popular Unity regime in Chile-a coalition of Radicals, Social-Democrats and Stalinists, headed by reformist parliamenarian Salvador Allende-is the chief source of the danger of a right-wing coup.

It is a colossal political fraud carried out at the expense of the Chilean masses. Far from carrying forward the revolutionary aspirations of the Chilean workers and • peasants, the Popular Unity regime did its best to break the copper miners' strike for higher wages, and turned its troops on peasants who occupied the land.

It came to power in November 1970 promising socialism bi the "peaceful road'. Allende and the Communis Party cynical government alliance with the so-called 'left' wing of the Chilean exploiters, expressed politically through the Radical Party.

hey proclaimed this to be a lliance hetween the middle clas and the workers.

The Popular Front regime in pre-war France made similar claims. Trotsky wrote in 'Whither France':

elementary axiom of strategy reads that the alliance between the proletariat little men of the city and Fund r close nvo. rement row Chile's country can only be realized in the irreconcilable struggle against the traditional representation of the petty bourgeoisie.

'In order to attract the peasant to the side of the workers, it is necessary to tear the peasant away from the Radical politician, who subjects the peasant to financial capital. the people's abo the conspiracy 'In contradistinction to between the labour bureaucracy and the worst political exploiters of the middle classes, is capable only of killing the faith of the masses in the revolutionary road and of driving them into the revolution the arms fascist counterThe Allende regime is not a road to socialism but an ante-chamber to decisive class struggles. Allende tries to balance between the reactionary Stalinist and trade-union bureaucracy and the pressure of US imperialism and the Chilean bourgeoisie.

Meanwhile, backed by the CIA Fereated mist revealed that International Tele- and the big American companies (US columnist Jack Anderson has phone and Telegraph Corporation was plotting, even in 1970, to keep Allende out of office) the Chilean employers have been preparing to dispense with Allende's services.

Faced with huge foreign debts and a sharp decline in world prices for copper, the staple export, Allende's Popular Unity government is in deep crisis. His talk of the "peaceful road' disarms and lulls the working masses at a time of danger. But the. Chilean reactionaries have still to defeat the decisive and strongly organized sectors of the labour movement.

This will not be done by a few thousand middle-class housewives marching through Santiago. Neither will the fascists be defeated by the corrupt and compromised bourgeois state machine with its police and armed forces. What will decide is the development of revolutionary leadership to • take the working class forward to the conquest of power and the overthrow of the Popular Unity fraud.