James Connolly Folk Group Sugawn Folk Group Michael O Duffy and other artists in the Arsenal Tavern, 179 Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park - Wednesday, 25 October from 8 - 11 p.m. - 50p.
FOREIGN SUBS: Asia/Africa/ Australia/N. &-S. America: £6 per year (airmail); £4 per year (ordinary). Western Europe: £4 per year, The Munich attack carried out by the Black September group has been used as a pretext for a massive international anti-terror campaign' against the revolutionary and socialist movements.
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL At the same time, a number of bourgeois journals have seen fit to use the occasion for an attack on the only strongly organised international revolutionary force, the Fourth International. On 18 September Newsweek carried an article asserting that "according to some European specialists, the founding of the Trotskyist Fourth International in Brussels two years ago represented the most ambitious current effort to set terrorism firmly into a multinational frame". Apart from this 'specialist's gross historical inaccuracies - the Fourth International was founded as long ago as 1938 - the allegation is a vicious lie. But the Economist (23 - 29 September) goes further: "The trotskyite Fourth International with its headquarters in Brussels, is said to have helped with transport and supplies and to have co-ordinated the complex operations that flew Japanese terrorists from the Red Army Fraction around Europe and supplied them with the Czeen weapous tney used to mow down passengers at Lydda airport in May." In the face of this witch-hunt we re-affirm our political support for the struggle of the Palestinian masses against Zionism and imperialism, and declare out intention to contribute what we can to the strengthening of those forces, in the arab world and in Israel, which are struggling for a socialist revolution in the area. Within this perspective we support all actions, armed or not, which reinforce the mass struggle, at the given stage of its development. Actions such as those of the Black September group and the PFLP - and most especially the Lod massacre which by its blind violence constituted a considerable disservice to the Palestinian cause — do not in our view bring this goal any nearer. Nor do these actions strengthen the struggle of the masses. Though we solidarise with such groups in the face of imperialism, we do not support their tactics.
TRADITIONAL POSITION In this we are simply re-affirming the traditional position of revolutionary Marxism on acts of terror, a position which has nothin in common with the disgusting hypocrisy of Newsweek and the Economist. Despite these gentlemen's fantasies, we consider that there are more efficient ways of pursuing the struggle against bourgeois rule in Europe than through arms smuggling for actions like those at Lod airport or Munich.