• pecifist. He belined the army should be used exclusively against strikers.* In 1919 President Wilsor was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize... while US troops were still in Russia trying to crush the Bolshevik revolution and restore the Czar.' The Greeks invented democracy 400 years BC but in 1946 Truman decided they wereny t tor tre, by sor me areeks nad backslid so far that they were no longer fit even for monarchy, so Papadapoulos became the first CIA agent to head a European state.* A lovely witty debunker of the bourgeois history books. The kind of history we and our children need.
THe SCRees INVENTED PERPOCANCS TRuMAN DECiDED TWiV waleNt FiT FoR IT. Red Weekly 4 January 1974 Page 6 excellent little diary, which includes a compilation of most of the important dates of revolutionary history. is therefore a timely blow in the process of re-educating the working-cless and its vanguard in this hallforgotten tradition of struggle. Bestifully designed and illustrated, with two-tone sepia and red photos, cartoons and silhouettes, it counters the ruling cler's view of history with dates, quotations and brief details of those events which go together to make up this tradition. We should carry it in struggle in the New Year, in which perhaps we will carve new dates on its pages.
HEAD A EJECARAN STATE who knew him, es well as quotations by Lenin him self. The project is a misguided attampt to show how human', likeable and moral he was, seemingly as an apology to the liberal inselligentsia who find his politics a bit hard and uncompromising to swallow.. after all, he was such a nice, cirilised chapl And so we are treated mainly to a series of disconnected fragments telling us how Lenin paid for his library hooks or played chess or what he thought of Mayakovsky's poetry (though there are one or TWO good passages, mostly from Lenin's Collected Workal A silly, expensive collection which should be avoided.
BY 1967 THE GREEKS HAS BACKSID SO FAR AW AWW WERE So PAPADePoLeO! SECAME THE FIRST CIA AGENT TO BENGALI FRIENDS in Europe and eistatore, for Bengali books and Larai I Trotskyist paper contact Bergall, Mulladen, Box 3274 • 10385 Stockholm. Swuden WOMEN IN THE MINERS' STRUGGLE: Socialis: Woman Forum, Wednesday 9 January at 8 am in Room 3A, University of London Union, Malet St WC1 (Warren St, Gooda: St or Euston Square tubel. Speakers: women involved in the 1972 strike from Keresley and Kent. "THE IRISH TRAGEDY: Scotland's Disgrace. Pamphlet by John MacLean reprinted by Contral London AlL in conjunction with Troops Out Move ment. Available price 12p plus paip from RED 8DOKS, 24 Houndary Foad, London NViS NOTTINGHAM RED CIRCLES: Wide ranging series of discussions based on the politics of the Fourth Incarnational. Every 2nd and 4th Tuesda in the manch at & pin in the Lion Hotel, Clumber St HARD TIMES |Harlescen/Brent community paper! readers meeting, Wednesday 9 January. 7.30 pm in Willesden sAnction Hotel, WORKERS FIGHT public meeting. The Let Opposition and Trotsky sm Today,' speaker Seen Matgerine. Sunday January at 8 pm in Golden Lian pub, Kings Cross Ro "SANITY, MADNESS and the Femily' —Northwod Harrow and Ruislip Socialist Woman Graup forum, Monday 14 January at 8 omar Baptist Church, Callege Ruad, Harrow, For further information, phone Sue at 01 863 2294.
Red Weakly 4 January 1974
Interview with Michael Warchavsky, a leading member of Matzpen-Marxist