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Behind campaign on terror

By Cliff Slaughter

Workers Press no. 874, 21 September 1972 · scan page 13

Topics: Middle East

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On the same day ference in Frankfurt law in every country.

Brickback the reason for the complete unanimity yesterday in g violently the bomb attack which killed an Israeli Every single capitalist paper made this its main Tory government denounced 'this underhand act of And of course Harold Wilson chimed in against what he called a 'murderous and outrageous attack'. Wilson could not open his mouth against the vicious and murderous reprisal carried out on the Palestinian emigre camps by the Israeli air force after the Munich killings.

He has nothing to say about the thousands incarcerated in Israeli jails, or the hundreds The Israeli Ambassador, the Chief Rabbi, geois leaders, added their voice.

Behind all this is a plan of imperialist reaction on an international scale.. Those who join in the chorus are adding their weight to these plans, with which imperialism in Europe and all over the world is whipping up the hue and cry over terrorism and hijacking in order to devise entirely new, legalized systems of terror against the working as the Embassy assassination, the Interpol Conwas discussing strengthening the police and the ALL THE 7,000 London Brick Company men-99 per cent of the workforce-who walked out over a pay claim nine days ago, are expected to be back at work today.

Some of the men had claimed a 16-per-cent increase to bring them in line with a recent percentage rise for men who stack the bricks and load them, but struck when offered 4.4 per cent on the basic rate. After national negotiations, shop stewards from all the yards—in the Bedford, Bletchley, Bucks., and Peterborough areas—heard that the London Brick Company was offering 4.4 per cent on differential and piecework rates as well. SLAUGHTER of Arab guerrilla fighters of thousands driven off and other Jewish bourThey hope to use police repressions beyond anyone's control to deal with the working class on the grounds that anyone who fights capitalist governments is a 'terrorist.

Mr Arie Schurr, head head of the Israeli CID and delegate Interpol Conference, said:

'A killing is a murder in this field and murder is a crime which should be dealt with first. The motive is of secondary importance.

Delegates are hoping that the outcry around the London bombing will enable them to press successfully for allowing police free reign, internationally, to deal with political offenders.

Reformists Brandt and Wilson have taken the front rank in preparing the ground for this.

These are not lone voices. The Interpol conference follows : last The Israell Embassy after Tuesday's bombing week's meeting EEC economic Barber, of the ministers.

While they met, a sub-committee from all ten countries agreed to submit a working paper on international measures to coordinate their actions against The Israeli ambassador gives an invaluable clue to the thinking of the ruling class and its servants.

He says:

'What is required is vigorous action by the British and other governments to combat terrorism and hijacking of planes, which have become an international menace.

"These terrorist groups now find it much easier to operate in western countries, generally because of the traditional freedom and tolerance in these countries, and the difficulties they have encountered in the Middle East.' What is actually being prepared is to transform the capitalist states into Bonapartist dictatorships. Within these countries, workers and students from abroad as well as the native working class will be subjected to crippling surveillance, and an atmosphere will be built up where imprisonment, exile and even legal assassination will 'justified' on the grounds suspected terrorism.

The position of the Trotskyist movement against the method of individual acts of terror is well known. We consider that it is no substitute for the mobilization of the masses against imLATEST POCKET LIBRARY of the docks and transport industry SEA//LAND SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE POCKET LIBRARY NO 5 By Stephen Johns and ian Yeats Price: Thirty pence perialism. It condemns devoted and self-sacrificing heroes of anti-imperialist resistance to frustration and defeat.

The working class in Europe and America, however, has interests identical with those of the Arab workers and peasants in the Middle East-and with those of the Jewish workers.

The social-democratic and trade union leaders of the Jewish workers in Israel are tied hand and foot to imperialism just as are Wilson and Brandt. The common struggle is to expose the reactionary plans of the shouters against terrorism, to build the international unity of the working class in the major capitalist countries and in the Middle East, and to win from the most devoted fighters against imperialism those elements who will build revolutionary leaderships of the Fourth International in every country.

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