The chief in France of the Iranian secret police, SAVAK, who had been posing as cuntural anache to une raman emoassy in Paris. was Shot and wounded November.
wich stated, nis action is in ine with out internationalism. We have delivered just punishment to an individual whose role was to repress and intimidate Iranlans in -rance They also said that the shots had been fired the same pistol used previous attacks. Oiner actions claimed Bolivian urucuayan embassies.
The statement was ignored by French De Doltical acive. TWo or mose aros: ted — Mohammad Takbiri and Nader Oskoui • are still being held, and have been charged WITN The assassination attempt.
The police claim that they have been centimed ov a sonceman wno was alse shot in incident. But the Mohammad Takbiri and Nader Oskoui - arrested by the French police. Brigade' have since issued a statement denying that the two arrested Iranians nad anvmine to do wiin the assassina. tion attempt.
Four other Iranians, including the wife of one of accused detence witnesses. were threatened, physically forced to sign a statement giving permission to me rrenca aumnonnes to depor them to Iran. They were then deported to West authorities refused to allow them in, and are now ins weden It is quite clear that the French authoand rities are simply using the incident to VICtimIse Doliticaly acave ranian sTudents. The French d'Estaing was in Iran last month making The Confederation of Iranian Students are demanding the immediate return of Ine Tour. ana ate oroanisino an inter national protest campaign. The Commitholding a picket of the French embassy in London 158 Knichtsbride. SW11 on •ana severd detained.
assaulted and German President Giscard in Iran will be
Ruling class politics in imperialist dominated Ireland have always had their own special brand of myth and deception.
Stormont administration peddled relatively straightforward lies:
lics were lazier than Protestants, carnorcs couldnt lake care often houses, therefore no jobs and fewer houses for the nationalist population. But since the collapse of Stormont and the intervention of British troops, the lies nave become more numerous and more subte Dear Comrades, In the Morning Star of 11 November you once more state your support for the *Peace People' of the North of Ireland.
Throughout the campaign of the 'Peace ted the activities of this movement, you and members of the Communist Party have participated in rallies of the 'Peace People" in this country.
Perhaps at the beginning of the peace campaign there was an excuse for your support. In the 16 October issue of your journal Comment you stated: "The peace movement has not, as the British government would like cemanded suboort tor the so-called "security forces", it has not supported the imperialist policy of peace through repression. But whether or not this was true at the time, it is certainly not me case any more On 17 October the leaders of the Peace People made wast ney cance a denni tive statement" on the movement's attiThe 50-year-old For example, the Press Association recently reported the text of an British ambassador to Ireland, who says she nas joined une movement to carry or my husband's work'. You do not need telling what the role of the ambassador in Ireland is.
All this evidence goes to show that this peace movement is a oro-impenast. reachonary orcanisation. as even the pouropois press in emis countr are now having to admit, the movement is losing support rapidly in the Catholic working class areas of Belfast. Even Ivan Cooper and Paddy Devlin, members of Ine FerOrmISE Social Democratic LaDOUr Party. nave CritiCIse in e their "hypocrisy".
But your support continues. When you march behind the peace through repression" banners of Longford, Williams, ine wrange order ane orners November, supporters of this newspaper will be picketing you. In so doing we will be remembering the words of a policy declaration of the Communist Party of Great Britain which stated in 1921:
The Communist Party of Great Britanonymous phone call received by the Royal Ulster Constabulary to the enect mar an rrotestants working al une nospitar where Maire Drumm was killed were now lecitimate targets ne Provisionals denied navinc anything to do joke. So who made it? We shall probably never know, but anti-Unionists will rontiv nave meir suspicions visited by soldiers who told her that her husband had just been killed in a car crasn. mey managea to take a note or air ner tamy cerals Derore Army told a deliberate lie to get information about the family.
myin or all - that the army's role is to keep tne peace. Hearing is ugly head in different forms according to the needs of the situation, this myth exercise tor tne last seven vears. oo wren ine anu-unionist dooulation hear the slogan 'Seven Years is Enough', they might well believe that the British have finally realised the error of their ways.
gangsterism. The bottom half attempts to point the way torward: While British People' TOI On dauntless fight of Irish with the call and dismissed the whole story as a sick Another example concerns Ann Cassidy, a Derry Catholic recently her husband returned alive and well. The Cassidys are certain that the At the root of the Army's daily run of the mill myths is the biggest has been at the heart of the British military and political public relations But no, the sick jokes continue. 'Seven Years is Enough' is the slogan of the latest public relations exercise by the Northern Ireland Office Centrina on the question 'Who's doing well out of the troubles? the top half of the newspaper advertisement pretends to provide the answer with an amalgam of press-cuttings levelling accusations at para-military thousands are being thrown out of work by violence, living in fear of violence, some people are living nign. ... i could be anterent. ne ca restore through the rule of law more freedom and hope for the future Where all our efforts and resources go into the search for new invest ment and more lous tell. John Concannon, overjoyed at the news that the strike rate here is only half that in Britain, periences tinancia or labour alticulties nere scores of factories that keep going with a happy disciplined workforce and with a profitable balance sheet and scores of factories are increasingly on men way out. They wer attracted in the mid-Sixties through a whole series of bribes, grants and tax tree only last a certain number or years - tey nave now run out, so u firms are quitting.
Britain's politica 'solutions'. the fight back is growing in other areas Firemen are to hold a ballot on direct strike action, ambulance drivers ir NUPE are banning all stand-by calls, students are to launch a struggle acainst me education cuts on the Falls Road sums it up: 'Seven Years is Enough - 700 years is tod MUCH MIKE PINTER RED WEEKLY 18 November 1976 11 Yet one Minister at the Northern Ireland Office has a different story to announced that for every company that ex nere are scores Fanc This is somewhat closer to reality except for one thing — the 'scores concessions offered by the Unionists. But these concessions The British facade is cracking. As well as the continuing fight against As for the British administration's latest publicity gimmick, a slogar
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