Scottish situarion type of organised warking claes atrength TaT CRe WN rUSSW sOE Heaam tobiems af Scoriand ern bu tachied Teachers' Action Committees could launch workers" enquiry into social axpenditure quate Lanin). Of courre thir intolerabie situacion may exist in Scorland in the eyes of comrado Esscon, but it has to be argued out in terirs ofa concrete analpal of the The last problee conceras the reel wey forwerd for the working ciase in Scotland, During the resevt strike wavo, thousarids of warker wenr through the excenence of aha democratic control, regular mau nod class aize. meetings woth recailable deregeres, eected strike carmiteos, and mam involvemenr in sproading the striker. It is by using tos -COLIN MCPHERSON. into social expenditore, Giuee the Jikaly pelime or te Houuhlan Enduiru ta ratior ale of the curbacks in education) the local Trachers Actian Camvttee cauld organie e real enguiry into the crisiz in Scottish cducation, it could be done by Action Camnictnes coilaring information gathered ia the loca/achoels by the teachers themselves, dealing with the cuts, conditions.
This type of initlative doer start to con région, and slarte to pose a peraplectine which goes beyond the traditional ilmits of sacial democracy and wage miftancy. tinue its repressive policies in Northern Ireland, and they had to be taught a lasson. The answer? Bombs.
Of course Maraists must recognise thO backwardness of the British working class on the question of Ireland, Bue their response is to take up a vigcrous campaign againet anti-trish chauvinism, and build a political campeign inside the workers MiwainHnTTOt EnE WitRoSa or troOg This has been a major priority of the ING. The bombing campaign can only make this task more ditficult.
Tne Rew Domona CmDK SIV exectly the same failure to understand ciass politics as ICRA's terrible line in the elaction, whan they failed to call for a Labour vote and stood candidates in marginal Labour constitubncies.
Naturally, whetever tha tacties used by tha Provisionals, socialists must def. and their militants ageinst repression from the police and courts, and expose the hypocrisy of those who denounce the violence of tha Republicans without mentioning the violence of British rule in Ireland.
But solidarity must not be confused with an apologetie tail-anding of the Provsionals. The present compsion Will have such sarious results that Red Weekly must combine defence of the Provisionals, exposure of the Labour hypocrites who denounce the violance which their policies Provisionals. -MICHAEL WINSTANLEY Next week Red Weekly wil be publishing an analysis of recent trends in the Republican movem ent and ubere iAG stands in rel srinn to tham
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