A series to look out for on school library shelves - and to throw out if you find it — is the Let's Visit. series published Burke. A few quotes give the flavour.
From Let's Visit Vietnam: What were the Americans doing летЕ anyway? Probably they had come for them. selves, the simple people thought •they did not realise that such were heads by Vietcong agents'.
Meanwhile, in •Hanoi Prestdent Ho Chi Minh sat with a sinister smile ... surprise us because North wetnamese are an eastem as well as a Communist people and are quite unpredictable, but like all peasam peoples iney nave woncenui memones.
Atrica is explored in the same depth. Poor schooling for blacks Gould explains, LIOT -combuIsory. because or amniculties in reacning a school." [Let's Visit Rhodesia]. Oh that's all right then Africa? some or our newsoapers mar the Bantu or Souin Atrica Bre in a state of revolt. This is not so. They say lettes is South Are tore Watch out for these books!
RICK HATCHER (Birmingham) raising the issue in the labour Winchesterschool books by the majority of bruisn confused. comrade does not Southern appears that the resistance Dunningdale solution often organised by John Magee's article 1976 — Year of the Tug-of-War' (Red Weekly, 13 January) put forward a position held TrOTSKYISIS imperialism has no strategy in Ireland. The comrade's arguments to support this were unconvincing *Certainly it was a year in which the nationalist workers of the North of Ireland had their fair share of negan to crumble ine boumnem Governmenl mention ine Dosinor bourgeoisie But from these nobody gained any. Is it possible that the can be eroded and british imperialısm will not beneti Unless we take literally the 'stance' of the Labour Government in 1976 as standing back in confusion we say that British moenalism nas significant gains in 1976. What it has been unable to do is pull together these gains into a revamped However the events of 1976 have laid the grounds for a series of poltical alliances between outs!
the Orange bloc, the camolic micole class in the North and the Green bourgeoisie in the South. These alliances form the basis for a devolved government in the North in the very near future which events in 1976 that have made this possible are: the introduction of the State of Emergency in the rapprochement Labour ranty movement. ine reassertion situation tor te mory quotes t Made initiative or not. South; the acceptance by the majority of the Loyalist organisations of the necessity to have some sort of Democratic and the demoralising effect of the bi-partisanship Britain: ine taiwe or me rae union ourcaucacy i the South to defend Southern workers' living stan the failure of the Provisionals to make the political turns required in an increasingly difficult John Magee, in writing of the Peace Movement following recognises a discernable trend in British intervention In tailing to see tnis Uisterisation and the security initiatives as a part of a strategy the comrade risks made it easier for British imperialism to gain a breathing space and open lines for itself is the puny nature of the anti-imperialMet struggle in armain. i seems mar waine Tortie upturn in Ireland has become a political position in Britain. With a genuinely critical situation developing in Ireland, the left in Britain finds itself in a very poor The struggle around political status in Ireland is a tect of strenath ine oucome or wrien wireetenne whether Britain is in a position to pose a new political It is not too late for British revolutionaries to fight in detence of tne resistance, but we must arop an notions that 'our government and 'our army are
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ground and falling into political passivity
steering along without a rudder. STEVE BELL [Cardiff].