IT WOULD be a brave person who confidently claimed to understand what is going on within the Palestinian movement. Or [more likely] a foolish one. gunning each other down worldwide has had a disasterous effect on the Palestinians" prestige and bewildered their followers.
resolving differences among the movements of the oppressed. Neither is the convenient "moderate-radical" label used by the press much help in disentangling the present situation. death sentences to a number of Communist Party members. It has become notorious for its attempts to buy its way into radical Arab circles. within the Palestine Liberation Organisation for its own ends. this didn't worry Syria's imperialist backers because the trouble didn't spill over onto the streets of the Western capitals. faction in Fatah — has been only too ready to preach reliance on the 'radical" Arab regimes when it suits its own purposes. • strategy of independent mobilisation and alliances with the oppressed of the entire Arab world. This leaves the way open for someone like Abu Nidal, the leader of a dissident faction of Fatah to project a strategy which ultimately has me more chance of seccess and to enlist the support of the Truqi secret police to do It. defence of the Palestinian movement. The main beneficiaries of the present struggle are bound to be the Zionists, It is therefore especially important to step up our solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people, to ensure that our support is not predicated upon the adoption of any purticular strategy by the Palestiniun organisations. won by classes and movements of the mass of she population. It does the Palestinian cause a great disservice to reduce theis to the gun warfare of cliques and sectet police.
Baying for Thorpe HYPOCRISY is the name of the game when bourgenis politicians are the players. And that applies even when murder is one of the ay relationship. The same Fleet Street hacks will bay with deligh f Thorpe is found guilty on the charge of conspiracy to murder yet the alleged target is the source of the story about the gay relationship. Clearly, you can't win either was. windfall in their campaign to bring the Tories back in Detober. They may even come up with more cholce and strategically tinied revelations.
Thorpe's arrest throws up many things into question poses the possibility of a renewed Lib-Lab pact and a spring electien. Even if the Liberal Party manages to distance itself from Thorpe's plight its electoral prospects have been dealt a serious leader facing a charge of conspiracy to murder. In this particular Instunce, the blow to the Liberals" fortunes happens to coincide with the Tories' election strategy, Not confident that they can smaich votes from Labour in the urhan strongholds, the Tories are out to smash the Liberals and overturn the narrow parlismentary margin that way.
compared with the methods used by bourgeois governments even democratie ones — to stay in power.
who have found themselves on a CIA target list.
of the 'democratic" security services just the midnight knock and a lead headache.
relatively clean their public and privute lives.
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NAME ADDRESS Send la Socialist Challenge. 328/9 Upper Socialist Challenge 10 August 1978 Page 2 The sight of would-be supporters of the Palestinian cause Whatever the differences, violence is not an acceptable way of It was radical" Iraq, remember, which recently handed out Iraq is only the most recent bourgeois regime to use a faction Syria has tried a similar operation with far bloodier resalts, but colonial mentality of the British But the PLO leadership — that is, primarily the dominaat The root of the present problem is the P'LO's failure to advance Having made all these criticisms, we must still be on our guard in But we must still point out that social and political struggles are Jeremy Thorpe was hounded by the press because of an alleged But, more to the point, the papers will gratefully accept this - It even No party can be happy going into an election with their farmer Murder is a serious crime. If there was a conspiracy to shut Norman Scott up permanently those responsible deserve all that's coming to them. But a conspiracy to mander one person is nothing Ask Kenneth Lennon what he thinks about political murder. He won't say much, because he was un Irish police informer whe ended up in a ditch with a bullet in the brain. Or ask the politicians Or the countless numbers who have actually died at the hands - either in a military coup or This is the less poblic side of how the state maintuins its power. Of course the politicians themselves try to keep their own hands - or else they are masters of the cover-up.
Innocent or guilty Jeremy Thorpe is a fall guy, a sort of unwilling atonement for the crimes of bourgenis politicians in both substance HELE by the Nothern Ireland ClE reply was that it was "the prisoners themselves who have made conditions whar They BLIC correctly the rises it Formally the statemen: