strike, and solidarity action already appearing in other parts of Spain.
Under strong threats from the regime, they have now been forced back to work. The SPLIT IN MATZPEN A split has occurred in the Israeli Socialist Organisation (IS.O.) which published the newspaper Matzpen. The majority in this organisation had for some time been sympathetic to the ideas of the Fourth International and were continuing to win more support. The minority was quite explicitly anti-Leninist. Thus the old division between Marxism and Anarchism has been reproduced within the ISO and when the Leninists are in the majority, then, of course anarchists find the situation intolerable. The majority argued that an analysis of the Arab Revolution was euningful in the contest of the theory of sanent revolution, that the right to selldetermination for the lews only had a meaning within the framework of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and that an internaoften enough. The response must be the formation of self-defence units in workers' strug gles, the first step to the building of the Spanish workers" militia. tional Leninist organisation was of key importance.
Between Marxism and anarchism lies the 'marsh' into which the centrists usually stumble. Unable to see political issues for what they are and attaching more importance to personal friendships, juridicial formalities (i.e. how can the majority continue to use the paper when the ownership is in the hands of the minority supporters, etc.) the centrists proclaim their adherence to Leninism but end up in the camp of the anti-Leninists. Now that a split has taken place The Red Mole wants to make it clear that it regards the Leninist comrades as maintaining the real continuity of Matzpen and will continue to aid their work in this country. Just under 10,000 people took part in the Anti-Internment League demonstration on Sunday, 26 March. Marches from five different parts of London linked up in the Strand betore proceeding to a final rally outside the Temple tube station on the Embankment. The use al that Irish marches were likely to provoke violence, but in fact the demonstration passed off completely peacefully, thus exposing the entirely political nature of the ban. At the final rally all the speakers emphasised that direct rule changed nothing bit simply a sign of weakness which we should take advantage of to the full by intensifying the campaign in this country.
NUS AND THE Trafalgar Square for the rally had earlier been banned by the Government on the alleged pretext indicated the depth of the crisis in which British imperialism found itself. The Heath initiatives did not mean that we could now be complacent about the situation; on the contrary, they were Their only attempt to deal with the political
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ARMY DESERTER SEEKS ASYLUM IN SWEDEN Photo by George Snow