OVER 200 people turned out Sunday commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
The rally which ariginally by Pen. the organisers no ene Commemoration, march, was marred by the fact moment refused forced to address the crowd through a hand-beid hailer.
Speakers included sestatives. of Sinn Prisoners Aid Committee, the and a number. of lell-wing exists.
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effective disguise, This is not said in sympathy with the thankless" task facing the troops occupying Lebanon, but because a hal and a laurel bent. emblen does not change a French para-trooper.
These are the LIN shock troops, the first from a security couniTy Marshal Carver led "our lads" into Cyprus.
The paras, led by a veteran of the anti-Algerian war, tound themscives in a scrap as soon as they arrived. Much of the treated incident with amusement but there was not much to laugh about.
The French — who imagine their previous colonial occupation of Lebanon, gives them privileged status kick a Palestinian garrison out of a fort in Tyre and replace it with the near defunct Lebanese Arab Army.
Palestinian refusal erected with cold steel, which The French, with impeccable the marives understand.
THREAT The incident & important because it reveals the threat posed by the presence imperialist troops.
The Palestine Libcration organisation avoided serious COSTA LIES ELTER Invasion. It would be ironic if dispersed by the KELILIS The other side of the UN is pathetic weakness. As long as the force stays at the present level and the PLO leaders don't give in to pressure, it will be incapable of stopping Palestinian mibtary resistance in the occupied zone and into Israci itselfEqually the UN can bring no military pressure to bear on the Israelis. In short it has no The ice-blue headgear of the United Nations troops may be elegant and becoming, but it is not a very writes RICHARD CARVER. function other than selective repression of the population as part of a wider diplomatic blue game ACRIMONIOUS That contest has thrown wide open tensions within Israel society.
Prime Minister Begin': Washingron visit where Lebanon was hardly discussed Begin now faces a challenge the (doubtless tacit government. The opposition to contines ol the (parament)to a large section of the population sick of Begin's popularity was at its peak al the lume ot his tais with Egyptian President Sadat, when an embattled and warwcary. population glimpsed an alternative.
The trouble is that it is Regin, not his opponents, who is the consistent Zionist. The Zionist theory of the state of Israel is based on the most obscure of biblical justifications for the ocupation Palestine — there is no other modern Zionist realpolitik genocide against stinians - beneath traditional biblical Israel extending to the His consistent Zionism too explains his obdurate defence of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai settlements against any US commentators have tried to present Begin's failure in Lebanon in military terms:
the failure to use lightning tank strikes or the absence of commando and raide to cut off the Palestinian •retreal.
been by the was US Kr.esser finally But militarily the operation SOULOCE mood of the Israeli populatJ0n. Heavy Lebanese Inhabitants to pulp, to avoid LAC SUMIL Israel opposition has nothing to say on the murderous attacks on civilians. What it is warried about is the eftectiveparalroop ness of the operation and the continued combativity of the Palestinians.
artillery noundeu villages and their the Arab ruling class.
List" Syria top. stood Israclis northwards Regin's real failure was not on the battlefields of Fatahland" but round the negotiating table in Jerusalem and Cairo A separate peace with Egypl is imperialism's preferred solution, leaving the Zionist state ago. intact and assigning a role to The Arab states themselves still favour such a solution - IE they not just Egypt, but 'rejection- occupation Syrian troops by and watched the murderous manch night ponder the fact that it was the Syrians who drove the Palestinian camps down into southern Lebanon where the were exposed to the attack which finally came a fortnight been And it was the Syrians who imposed the partial disarmament of the camps, to resist the of Lebanon by Estaca a imperial troops the Palestinians will have to set repairing the badiy fraved links with the Lebanese SOUTH AFRICA: March is the trade union month of action against apartheid, and in some areas there has been impressive rank and file support.
In COWLEY the TGWU 5/60 branch at British Leyland body plant, supported by tb ALEW blacked all CKD exports to South Africa. The branch called a meeting on Jenflet through the whole plant.
AT the GEC Traction plant which has extensive South Alican interests, the Shop Stewards Committee demanded a information on the conditions and trade union rights of GEC's black South African workers.
The local APEX hranch supported this action and called on its national executive to convene a meeting of branci deleeates firmas will Souch African connections Ar ROVER SOLIHULL, as in Cowley, there has been a Wack on South African exports and in MANCHESTER there L a public meeting planned for 30 March, with local trade union speakers and a speaker from the South African Congress of EGYPT: Panic in the City of London last Wednesdas as the came through tha: President Sadat of Egypt had assassinated. The dollar fell 1.25 cents apainst the Swiss franc and the price of copper jwoped by 14 pounds a metric Order was restored when it was discovered that someone had misbeard the name of Jesus Haddad, the Madrid .prisen governor killed by GRAPO