Release Eire's political prisoners McStiofain, O'Bradaigh and

Two of the leading Republicans recently taken by Lynch's police.. O'Bradaigh (top) and McGuinness.

'Sign now' pressure covers CP betrayal THE PROTEST merchants of the British Communist Party are claiming the credit for the suspension of the American bombing of North Vietnam and the resumption of the Paris 'peace' talks. of "pressure, Planning to continue their campaign 'pressure' on the US imperialists, appealing to President Nixon to sign the October draft treaty with North Vietnam immediately.

Not content with this fraudulent demand, they are also calling on Tory premier Edward Heath to "speak out' against the policies of the US governrefusing to denounce the bombings'. It called on Socialist Labour FORCE THE TORY GOVERNMENT TO BUILD THE REVOLUTIONA SUNDAY JANUARY 14, 7 p.m. The Everyman, Hope Street, LIVERPOOL A film made by ACTT showing the five Right-to-Work marches from from Glascow Liverpool Swansea Deal and Southamoton to London ending with a huge Rally at Empire Pool, Wembley on March 12. 1972. speakere DOIDIDOM • H G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) CHRISTINE SMITH (Young Socialists) In a personal capacity:

CONNIE FAHEY (Manchester Tenants) ALAN STANLEY (Vauxhall Shop Stewards) BRIAN GEENEY (U.P.W.) WALLY FOUCHS (CAV Occupation British masters. le second act of repression was the arrest of Ruairi O'Bradaigh who has been charged with four offences said to have been committed on September 23 and November 26 last year. All of them refer in various ways to the allegation that he is a member of an illegal organization in Eire and that he is raising or attempting to raise an armed force 'contrary to the constitution'. lese charges are not only reactionary and an insult to the conscience of every anti-imperialist Irishman, they are grotesquely cynical and proof of the cowardice and prostration of the Irish bourgeoisie before Whitehall.

O'Bradaigh in statement to the court said that similar the trade union and labour movement to This typically chauvinist tone is deliberately adopted by the Morning Star' to prevent the expression of genuine working-class internationalism against the Vietnam war.

It spreads the infamous lie that Nixon is susceptible to 'public opinion' and that the role of the workers' movement is not to fight for the overthrow of imperialism, but to use pressure to make it more democratic.

Worse still, it generates the illusion that Heath, as well as Nixon, can be forced to change his spots through this nebulous pressure-presumably by bigger vigils and more signatures of petitions.

To reinforce this line, it devalues the resistance the Vietnamese fighters, giving it second place 'the world-wide storm of protest' as a cause Britain ... by League North West Rally 'RIGHT TOIWORK FALM charges were preferred against lim last June and were disnissed by the district judge in Elphin, Co. Roscommon. He concluded by asking the court: low often can a person be subject to arrest and prosecution on the same charges and still be regarded as a free citizen?' rhetorical question! ace June 1972 the Irish capitalists, together with their overlords in London, have been • manoeuvring frantically to enter the Common Market and—as a precondition to entry—to liquidate the Ulster war by every conceivable means. To do this they have not only resorted to direct rule, internand lakano maramant to out this shame on Britain's name' Nixon's decision to stop the bombing. From he sovie Union in modern And it the Soviet Union in modern LOLLI air defence systems'.

In fact Russia supplies less aid to North Vietnam than it does to capitalist Egypt and much of the 'aid' is obsolete or obsolescent.

The Kremlin bureaucrats hope to get the revolutionary war off the agenda as it is an embarrassment to the development of better relations with US imperialism.

The Kremlin's policy is a policy of treachery to the IndoChina revolution. The British Stalinists' protest campaign designed to strengthen the hand of the Kremlin and cover up its counter-revolutionary betrayals. ment, massive intimidation by the army and the setting up of kangaroo courts in the north. They have also recognized that no campaign against the IRA can be successful without the support of the southern Irish bourgeoisie.

lat is why they arrested Sean MacStiofain. That is why they organized—with the complicity of British imperialism - the bomb outrages and provocations which 'persuaded' the opposition in the Dail to vote for the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act and, at a stroke, overturn the concept of the 'free citizen' and enable the Gardi to seize O'Bradaigh and McGuinness.

is not Lynch who Spanish fascists' with China THE SPANISH Minist licences to Aceros de Fabrimetal to export 25 to China.

The Ministry hopes China will become a leading customer for Spanish steel in the footsteps of the Soviet Union.

It could help redress the imbalance in trade between the two countries. The fascist regime suffered a 900 million pesetas deficit in 1972 which was nine times the 1971 figure.

Trade at the moment is conducted through Spanish trading agencies in Hong Kong. As yet there are no Peking commercial delegations officially resident in Madrid.

Foreign Minister Lopez Bravo recently attended a reception given by Chinese UN representatives and speculation is rife in the Spanish Press on Bravo possibly visiting Peking.

Trade between Spain and the bureaucracies in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe doubled in the first ten months of 1972 compared with 1971. Spanish imports to COMECON countries were worth 7.107 million pesetas. mind that guides these oppressions is that of the Tory government and the Minister for Northern Ireland mim stand Whitelaw. Behind stane the general of the army of occupation who are determined to smash the IRA and all resistance to military might, north and south.

le struggle to free these political prisoners is inseparable from the struggle ta build a revolutionary Marxist leadership in the Irish working class. Workers Press calls on the trade unionists of Ireland and Britain to demand the immediate release of all political prisoners in Ireland and, as a part of this campaign, to force the trade union leaders to break off all contact with the Tory oppressors in Ulster.

steel deal ry of Commerce has granted Llodio, Forjas Alavesas and million pesetas worth of steel Poland and the Soviet Union handled 50 per cent of this trade.

While 'peaceful co-existence' proceeds, the Spanish secret police have jailed leading members of the illegal, CP-dominated Workers' Commissions and over 20 Maoist Marxist-Leninists. The sentences demanded range from six to 22 years.

Some leaders of the strike in the Citröen plant in Vigo are still in jail awaiting trial while the local labour court has ratified hundreds of sackings of workers who were active in the strike for a 44-hour week.

• Ford's are pressing ahead with their plans to establish a plant in Spain. The Spanish Minister of Industry, Lopez de Letona, has just received draft proposals for a $310m car factory to produce 240,000 cars a year.

Ford's estimate they will employ 6,400 workers in the first year of production and that the eventual labour force will be 7,600. Iwo-thirds of production will be aimed at the European market.