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Red Weekly No. 190, 10 March 1977 · p. 8 of the scan · 570 words

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page 8 of the scan

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How the Assembly, themselves in such tions? It arises as Decis ornenaivsis. quite rightly reject what comrade Purcie aptly desribes . On 'diversions" inev recoonise wilamson statec today it is necessary to link up with , the mobil- this profound desire However, they seem to be continuany looking over neir snoulders at Inese ser-same mootent umare by proclaiming their support for a rather OSCARGREGAN (London)

You write (Red me cierer recime Star and other is confronted with the comrades land self-contradicinev comrace WeeK!

goruary mat ine brtish com munist Party presents Poland 'as a model of socialist democracy and 'turns a blind eye to the persecuon or workine class milants o A search unrouon the Mornin.

publications Party, expressed severe centra cern'.

trade union Not a hearing speakers? Do nounce untonunately. enough to defeat the bloc calling for an immediate end to the occu We feel that the ending of the but making So- strike action! called 'left' will destroy the tuition weaken the stu t union, and open the way further advances of the right wing Caro Haveen •ounamoon uni Exec Occunation Sian Jones (Tuition completely refutes this statement and it were you derived is from interesting wHen barliculariv liketo commen on the report appearing in the Star on 14 September last "The execu tive committee of the meeting at the weekend -ITS concema -InE • sentences bassed Polish workers arrested after the of food price increases. General secretary •commitee Polish United Workers' Party expressing the British Party's con In the same column yor revon tavouraov on ine shouting down and pelting with stones and paint of the Italiar Communis I leader Luciano Lam by ultra-left students. Does this mean mar you aoorove or onysica violence against, and tne denying to Communisi you approve of th "left-wing terrorism' that you port Lama ds naving come to de It will be interesting to see whether you have the courage t print this letter and give a straight answer to is cuestions SIMON SIDNEY [London].

Comrade Sidney omits to mention that ine cuore ne ores is me rexe of the whole article, tucked away at the bottom of page five. The da after the strikes began, the Morn ing Star carried a report of some nan oozen ines. savine mat une price increases were - suspended no mention of the nis onvious emoarassmen. was cleared up in December, wher series cist what really' happened last June we areter to rev on mis —a lord of come tive thousand words rather than one paragraph, as an Talking to Turning poin the workers arrested for striking [6 December]. he craws inis conclusion. wa not, however, "weakness" that in the face ially from the factories, the prices deal was drawn. Rather it was a respons by the country's leadership to flexing of democratic muscle. [10 December Comrade Sidney is correct to criticise ine one-siceoness or ou repon on mne events a homi University We are Commuor werence i such a cast wner we saronoweve we stand by — is that the failure of the Italian CP to support th students' struggle against fascist terrorism meant it was 'not surprising inat Lama gor the recep tion he did The burden of his speech was to make no distinctior and students' self-defence. Remember that i is Lama wno nas cone o record as supporting the Christian Democratic Government's attacks

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