Tightest control since WW 2

Britain's new Security Laws ban IRA

The British government pass-
ed a bill on Nov. 28 which puts
the country under the tightest
internal security laws since
World War Two. Introduced by
Home Secretary Roy Jenkins,
the bill is the Labour govern-
ment’s answer to two years of
bombing in Britain by extremist
Irish forces such as the Provi-
sional Irish Republican Army
after its climax last week when
19 people were killed and 184
injured in bomb blasts in two
downtown pubs in Birmingham.

The new security laws outlaw
the IRA and give the govern-
ment power to ban any other
‘terrorist’ organizations. Mem-
bers and supporters of illegal

groups are liable for up to five -

years in jail. The bill also allows
police to arrest suspects without
a warrant and hold them for up
to seven days without charges.
Control on travel between Bri-

tain and Northern Ireland has.

been tightened, giving the Home
Secretary power to expel sus-
pected terrorists and prevent
their entry into the country.
Immigration officers at docks
and airports can search, detain
and arrest suspects.

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Meet says no to Indian Ocean base

NEW DELHI — Participants
from all the countries of the In-
dian Ocean coastline as well as
delegates from the Soviet Union,
the USA, France and Portugal
were in New Delhi to attend a
conference held Nov. 14-17.

The meeting, called by the In-
ternational Conference Against
Military Bases in the Indian
Ocean condemned the U.S. gov-
ernment’s decision to construct
a full scale naval base at Diego
Garcia Island in the Indian

The day the bill was intro-
duced into parliament, Nov. 26,
bombs exploded in downtown
London during rush hour.

Protests over the bombings in
Birmingham have been nation-
wide. The terrorists were con-
demned by the Communist Party
of Great Britain which in a state-
ment charged: ‘“‘Whoever ordered
this act to be carried out, it can
only serve the most sinister and
reacticnary forces in our society.

“In their justifiable anger
against this senseless outrage,
the British people muSt not al-
low themselves to be led astray
by those who are now calling for
still further attacks on civil
liberties .. . Years of repression
(in Northern Ireland) ‘by succes-
sive British governments have
only resulted in an ever-worsen-
ing crisis . . ..To suggest that
measures along. these lines
would help in any way if they
were brought into Britain, is to
ignore. their total failure in
Northern Ireland .. .”

The statement demanded that
the British government end all
repressive legislation in North-
ern Ireland and that a Bill of
Rights be passed by the Com-

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_Ocean and called it a “threat to
the sovereignty of countries in
that region as well as a threat
to detente.” :

Attending the conference

"were: General secretary of the
National Front of Iraq Naim Ha-
dad, Iraqi Communist Party
Central Committee member and
cabinet minister Amer Abdulla,
Mauritius minister for economic
planning and development Kher
Jagat Singh, Pakistan Péace
Committee general secretary
Manzar Ali Khan, Sri Lanka

‘Just a coincidence’... but

ANKARA —. Navy spokesmen-

from the U.S. fleet called it
“just a coincidence” but one day
after the International Confer-
ence Against Military Bases in
the Indian Ocean completed its
meetings in New Delhi, the

‘largest maritime military exer- ~

cise ever held in the Indian
Ocean, began. The _ exercise
grouped naval units from Bri-
tain, the USA, Pakistan, Iran
and Turkey.

A communique from the Cen-
tral Treaty Organization (CEN-
TO) said the Pakistani navy is
host for the exercise, called
“Midlink 1974.”

“This exercise is part of the
annual CENTO military training
program and provides excellent

opportunity for naval and air .

units of member nations to co-
operate with each other,” the
communique said.

The exercise would continue
until November 30 and wartime
conditions would be simulated.
Anti-submarine, air defence,
anti-surface and mine warfare
operations would be exercised, it
said.

Vessels participating include -

two nuclear submarines and an
aircraft carrier.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1974—Page 6

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mons guaranteeing democratic
and civil liberties. Internment
under the Offences Against the
State Act must be halted, the
statement said, and all internees
and political prisoners be releas-.
ed. Under this act, ‘suspects’ can
be jailed without trial or proper
investigation. Over 600 people
are now interned under the act. -

The bombings in both coun-
tries have also been condemned
by the Northern Ireland Civil
Rights Association and the Com-
munist Party of Ireland (CPI) as
sectarian actions aimed at split-
ting the working class and lend-
ing the British government the
opportunity.to run Ireland as a
police state.

“It is no accident that the
present wave of sectarian assas-
sinations is being given ‘direct
encouragement. by a leading fig-
ure in the Right Wing Unionist
Alliance QUUUC),” said James
Stewart, assistant general sec-
retary of the CPI.

“Following the murder of at
least two people by the assasin-
ation gangs of the Right, John
Taylor, in charge of the Ministry
of Home Affairs at Stormont
before ‘Direct Rule’ was imposed

minister for postal communica-
tions C. Kumarasuriar, vice-pre-
sident of New South Wales La-
bour Party (Australia) * J. Ben-
son, Women’s International De-
mocratic Federation secretary
Freda Brown, professor Mark
Ira Solemon of ‘USA, Nguyen
Mai and Vu Yuang of DRV, ma-
yor of Tananarive Andrimanjato
MP and Iraqi minister and lead-
er of AAPSO delegation Aziz
Sharif:

Also attending the conference
were leaders of African  natio-
nal-liberation movements ANC,
ZAPU and SWAPU, of Libera-
tion Front of Oman, and of Or-
ganization of African Unity.
The World Peace Council dele-
gation was led by secretary-
general Romesh Chandra.

A declaration to. the world
was adopted on the last day of
the conference in New Delhi. It

said that expanding coopera- -

tion among all Asian peoples
will” help frustrate imperialist
machinations and will enhance
the idea of collective security

aimed at Protecting peace and.

ensuring stability in Asia. An
action program of demonstra-
tions, meetings and political ef-
forts was adopted which desig-
nated a week of protest to be
held February 16 to 23.

in 1972, this week threatened
civil war if the Unionists did not
get their way... .

“Taylor’s statemevit gives en-
couragement to the killer gangs,
giving them an air of almost res-
pectability. It is the type of
agitation which could be ended
by a Bill of Rights for ‘Northern
Ireland’ . . . Those who have
been gunned down by the bullets
of the assassin have been 90%
or more from the working
class==.<

“For the politicians of the
Right, whether they be. from
‘Northern Ireland’, or come from

‘Imperial Britain, the assassina-

tions and the general terror of
daily life here is very useful in-
deed — it obscures the real
issues, feeds bigotry, and gives
the UUUC a ready platform on
which they can peddle their
tattered wares without too close
examination .. .

“What is essential now is an
immediate end to such actions...
Let’s mount a united struggle
for an-énd to internment and the
Emergency Provisions Act. Let’s
net be. sidetracked from the
struggle for the right to a decent
job, a decent wage and a proper
house by following: the sterile
path of reaction which the
UUUC leadership wishes to im-

tural development, an aspect of

‘Haitians. .

By ALAIN PATRIE
MONTREAL — Racism is. oné

of the fundamental weapons of |
capitalism. It is not, as one 8 4

sometimes led to: believe, a na-

human nature which constitutes
the dark side of man’s charactef.
Racism is an objective phenome: ©
non prompted and manipulated
by the exploiter state when it
serves its purpose, particularly
to diffuse or dismay class strug:
le. ;

Fully aware of the sinister
possibilities our Canadian gov-
ernment maintains in its atti-
tudes toward national groups,

‘ethnic groups and people with

skin color, other than white, 4
spectrum. of concerned Montreal
citizens invited Angela Davis,
ardent Black, militant, U.S. Com"
munist and co-chairperson of the”
National Alliance Against Racist
and Political Repression,
speak on Nov. 23 at this parth
cularly critical time for black

One of the organizers of th

meeting was Adelin Chancey; |

active as a spokesperson for the
Committee Against the Deporta-
tion of Haitians. In her attempts
to explain the mobilizing of the
activists, she told the Tribun&
“We are Black, we face racism
and we face repression.”

pose on us all.”

By TOM MORRIS

The continuing strategic diffi-
culties facing United States’ gov-
ernment and military planners
has focused recently on the vast
expanse of the South Atlantic
and Indian Oceans including sea
lanes around South Africa’s
Cape of Good Hope and the ap-
proaches to the oil routes of the
Middle East.

‘The United States and _its
allies in the military alliances

formed after World War Two
are beset with extreme long
term dilemmas as the world
changes rapidly toward indepen-
dence. Two other recent major
problems spots for long-range
American planners, the Carib-
bean and Latin America with the
crumbling of the OAS and fran-
tic efforts to prop up the corrupt
Thieu regime in South Vietnam
have accented the U.S. inability
to maintain its former military-
economic dominance at will.

Quickly changing events, how-
ever, in the Mid-East and on the
African continent have come to
light in a secret White House
report revealed in Esquire maga-
zine in its October 1974 issue.
The report shows how U.S. policy
toward this area has been shift-
ing since 1970 in an effort ‘to
respond. It was approved by the
Nixon administration in’ 1970
and calls for “communication
with South Africa” as a prelude
toward implementing military
contingency planning for the de-
fense of that area.

Since its adoption, U.S. policy
toward South Africa has been
relaxing and a quiet policy of
lifting United Nations sanction-
ed boycotts is under way, open-
ing the door for arms supplies

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