ANL in action Front. it indicted the Jews.
people. Few who watched the period.
set in motion.
both is vital for the ANL's future. THE PROGRAMME screened by Granadu's World in Action last Monday couldn't have come at a better time. It detriled the crimes committed by the British Nazis and interviewed the black, white and Jewish victims of fascist terror. Esing the sworn testimony of a Special Branch informer active in the National instigating and co-ordinating a campaign of harassment, The informer stated: *Activists have told me that they wonld not repatriate immigrants because it would be cheaper to kill them here like Hitler killed the None ef these revelations will come as a surprise to readers of the left press. Their importance lies in the fact that what we have been saying for many yeurs is now being accepted by a broad range of World in Action' programme would be left in any doubt that the NE is a Nazi front.
This makes the campaign conference of the Anti Nazi League this weekend even more important. For if there was one thing which the TV programme demonstrated, it was the need for the broadest possible opposition to the NF. This already exists in th form of the ANL. What we have to map out at this conference i how to build on the excellent work already done by the League.
For if the ANt is to be built as a long-terin rather than an 'emergency" operation, it will need local and national structures which con effectively service such a campaign. The growi attacks on black people in the ghettoes have already seen the ANT responding with demonstrations and pickets of support. Activities on this front will have to be further developed in the coming With an autumn general election in the offing, the nest major activity of the ANL must be to organise meetings and actions in all the major industrial centres of Britain. The NF are standing 318 candidates and their propaganda will have to be combatted in an adacious way, If, however, the elections are postponed until nex aring, the ANE shouid plun a massive intervention at the Labou Party Conference, An Anti Nazi Camp should be organised outside and a massive rally, carnival and demonstration should be The ANL has both to maintain its broad character and adopt • perspective of mass actions against fascism and racist attacks.
There might on occasion be some tension between the two, but sey are not fundamentally counterposed. For the success of 1 NI has been due to its ability to mobilise tens of thousands young people. This must continue. However, for building in the Inhour movement, an equally important task is to cement the alliance with members of the Labour Party. A combination of prisoners i boring After the uprising of 17th June The Secretary of the Writers' Union government To dissolve the people ON Saturday 1 July. Times told its readers Rudelf sentenced imprisonment by CRET LILALI court. beadliac Economist jailed" the tiny news item was tucked away as the bottom of a column on an inside page. reader must have missed the Most of the report (though no other daily sentence). And why not? What possible interes Pete is helier nami Market ideologue nor a religious freak. He certainly does not wish to emigrate to Israel.
SALVATION Nor. for that matter, does he insist that the road to salvation for the East German workers lies through a restoration of junker militarism He i a communis. anti-Stalinist and a left critic of the Honecker sympathies Be Eurocommunice trend within the worki must MOVe Hud leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people had forfeited the confidence of the By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier BERTOLT BRECHT: The Solution (1953)
The Bahro is or why lie has been STRI jailed. had been years *an Bader DILEMMA could top attracted by Havemann in the West an Encounter His WELE the was the this current Alternutive and publication.
The next few the! therefore DO headlines in the (rom questions Trom House, по the Foreign Possibly in a few weeks time majority of Capilalism Win erisk. The leuders of the Tahour Part and the trades union:
offer solutions that are in the inserests, not of the workers, but ne the capitalis!
Socialis Challenge belleves that the ton shed tasks confranting • To balld broad-laved dass strugek sendences im class-collaborationise in the lahour movement. These should be non-euchal in character grouping legaler millants holding a wide range of political viens •To hegin in Light-for the coration of a saified und demneralle reybludionary socialist orankation which ran, through an application of vailed Treat theike begin in be seei as an ellerative hy thousands of workers gaged is srugsle Such an enganisation should be haved on the understanding that:
The strugale for socialismn seeks to unite ile fight of the murkers pains biacs. peuple, gave - struagling for their sheration. This socalism car hall be schleved be mating dew organs of power and defeating with all perimary micins the power of the capitalist sace.
agony West Est earthe tere Increasingly they remain loyal to the ideas of Marxism, while Rudolt Bahro, the powers and privileges of the bureaucracy.
The latest issue of Encounter expelled sumsupthe dilemma of the cold (Biermann) and imprisoned its 18-year-old Max (Bahro)! escapee from East Berlin writes youth in Fast Germany are the and Biermann. communis and now a lending dissident, The second is Fast Germany's Bob Dylan, whose outspoken lyrics are a Marxist critique of the bureaucracy:
Havemann is still in the East though under constant Western veillance. Biermann is in exile charge serously.
Our young contributor to Sunset by the popularity of both these men.
And he explains the reason for this: they are the only ones who i German state intends to deport Encounter s longer subsidised by the CIA, bur this has not affected its ideological stance. It remains the unofficial voice of an intelligentsia much loved by the British Foreign Office and the State Department in Washington. So Its and columns retlect the anxieties of officialdom in the Naturally we can only rejoice that Hascmann apd Bieriann Fas German youth. A third ligure can now be added to the list:
A member of the East German establishment recently told a French journalist (off the recordi that East Germany had Mayakovsky they For Biermann and Bahro have been communists since their yourh. Both are staunch opponents of capitalism. to the East rather that live in capitalist West Germany.
INTELLIGENCE Rudoll Babre is accused of being a see t intelligence No-one believes it in East Germany and even loyal party hacks know it is a barefaced lie.
It is possible that the East Our socialiem will be intinlich mur demomile than what eten ha . Heimin today, with full rights for all policicut parties and currents th nelson in the USSR and Lastern Demope have decrodied yesun Is the ese of the milions of workres thronghout she wurld. We are opposed to them and will ofter tull suppurt an all those nahcing for scialet democracy The interests of workers kid copitaliste are irreconcilable un a world scale. Capitalism has not only crated a world market, it has erealed wurkd politics. Thus we Fighs for working clace salty on an internation sale. This unity will in the long ren be dectise in defeating both the Imperialist regimes is he West and ihe brutal dictatorships Ches snothis in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
In Britain it impiles demanding ic inmediate wiharama of Britsh troops from Ireland and ling the trish people determine their own Tutere The Communist Parties in Euru-communis* sor the pro-Misens aings have any scaniastil ] strategy for the overthrow of the capitalist sinte. New mesolutinnan socialist parties are more secessary than anet before. Conditions toile are more fas durable than aver the proceding three decades. Bet such parties cant only he built by rejecting sectarianism and sering internat democracy not we s luxury but as a vital necessity. This means the right in eranse tections an that he is exchanged for some East German spy in the West.
In any event, a vigorous defence campaign is needed Bahro's arrest. Imposonment, secret trial and sentence i a sap in the face of the Eurocommunists in the West ether SENTENCE Bahro's sentence coincided complete rehabilitation of the late Stalinist boss sary of whose death wis recently commemorated o the bureaucratic establishment and its press The Communist Parties in Western Europe must answer Honecker's challenge. For it capeble of defending *their Fastern Europe their credibility will be seriousty affected on their own hense ground Many CP intellectuals have associated themselves appeals being circulated thr oughout Western Europe, but officially taken up such a CEILIE A number of actions are planned in Britain. Socialist Chullenge has initiaLetter Honecker which circilating within the labour movement. Wewill presensit to the East German when SENTES published in this county in At the same time the Rudolf Bahro Defence Committee has been plannine a number ol more active and immediate The Committee is supported by the Bertrand Russell Peac the National Organisation of Labour Students and various well-knowr socialists They have called Bahro's arrest socialism. They are calleesh German embassy with tele grains and resolutions All protests should be sent to the Embass of the German Democratic Republic Belgrave Squure, London SWIX 8QB. the Delence Committee c/a Min nerup, 14 Folkestone Road, Copnor, Portsmuth, Hante The 'Open Letler' is available Bahro Defence socialist Challenge, PO Bas 50, London NI: -Europe ure in crisis Netther the