We shed no tears for the end of Ross Mcwiirter. abartirom nis wel-known activities in raising huge sums against the Irish freedom fighters, campaigning for the death penalty, and taking to court workers involved in strikes. this au was aso avo vca bi or uaniscu viet antes to attack railworkers and organising He was a fasist in sinke-breaking squads. the surictest sense.
But those who shot Mcwhirter - no matter what their intentions - - aided not the working class or the Irish freedom struggle but those who stand for reaction. A tremendous argument has been given for the restoration of the death penalty, the fasists have been given a martyr, and a despicable swine has been given a halo of respectability.
Hatred and contempt for Ross McWhirter were totally justifiable. But the cimes or caprausm are too seat o merely individual acts to be any recomDeRSC. UnV mC TOREdesTCtOn OLElIS system and its national and class oppresSon W sunice -hose who saoi Mehirter put off that day rather than bringing it forward.
Red Weekly 4 December 1975 Battered Wives 11