BUILD A SOCIALIST OPPOSITION FOR A UNIFIED REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATION of an SS past".
conspiracy? We say the latter.
The Sunday Times ran Schleyer's past.
censored at the request of a foreign government?
The Fleet Street editors CEOWE THINE When Schleyer entered the University of Heidelberg In 1934 he already described hinter, He was 19, and had himself "an old Nazi Joined the Hitler Youth three before. He wore the black 55 uniform, with the The nearest the British press has come to telling us anything about Hans Martin Schleyer, the head of the West German employers' federation kidnapped by the Red Army Fraction, is a mention in The Observer of 'murmurs The British genius for understatement or a deliberate La whole page "Germany's latest victim' without mentioning a word of We stress that this is not a Socialist Challenge 'scoop'. Every editor in Fleet Street knows what we know. What hope is there for press freedom in Britain when news is number 227014, and awarded the golden Ehren• He became the head of the Reichsstudentenwark In Heidelberg. entrusted with the task of Nazitying universities.
• 29 May 1937 he denouncThis man was a friend of Goebbels ed the Rector of Freiburg University to his superiors.
• 15 Juna 1937 he became 'political officer' to the 30th SS cavalry regiment.
1938 he headed the Reichsstory on occupied Austria.
Afler the Czechoslovakia he went fo Prague to head the Reichsstudentwerk there. By now he was a Doctor of Law.
Because of his persona friendship with Goebbels he was able to avoid visiting the front. He stayed in Prague lining his pockets accounts the fore the arrival of the Red Army.
• He was head of the Democratic Union:
Invasion and Eberhardt Taubert.
Daimler-Benz. general was a by the Long Knives! until days bement ls These tanks are out on the streets again Zentralverband der Industrie fur Boehmen und Meehren which entailed the employmont of tave tabouE tone sHe concentration camps for the During this period his which collaborators were men who later became the core of the the tanks lunctionaries of the Chrislan men like Fritz Ries, Arthur Missbach oblige.
Neither • After three years interment by the Allles he joined SUUUOlI His promoBOT WAS DE a TOGE Co former SA them who had obviousn forgotten about the Night of German left Why has all this information been suppressed? Be cause the Schmidt Govern turning the full forces of repression against left-wing opposition to the Any whisper of this Nazi past might draw too many parallels in the public mind.
And the British press operates conspiracy of silence about on the stroets of the Six Counties is only too happy lo Socialist Challenge not the Fourh International gives the slightest the terrorist methods used by the kiddon't thank for provoking this against the But we will not shed single tear for Hans Martin Schleyer. Who are the real "Hitler's Children"? • See page 2 lor our Editorlal Comment. THE EMPLOYERS in the baking industry une a shabby lot even the duhinus standurds of British cupitalism. of England and Wales this week Ei because these emplayers refuse to do what the vase majority of other emplosers have done for -give paid leave on bunk holidass.
The emploren omplain thi his would cost them E300,00I year. How little this would mean in the lurgest bread piant - Rank is shona, by the Esh million prufit that com pany made last sour Compa That with the waces their heavil wowkforce receive The current Stands supplement from slages 1 and 2 if the Sociat Contract.
And yet the bukers are not even out for a rise in the basic rate all they one usking is the right to toke off Hank Holidays with pay *We are says Sam Maddox, general secre tury if the Bakers I-nion. He B right, all they are asking for are a man's tahle.
Democracy and Revolution in Indo-China by Ta ig All ****** & the TUC p. 2, 4 & 5 ****** Tameside by Anthony Barnett p. 8&9 ******
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