by racist mobs. They have not been blind to his racist policies all along. Such comments only serve to underscore the intense black disaffection from the two party system.
A massive anti-racist demonstra tion called for 24 April in Boston had to be cancelled because of the racist hysteria prevalent in Boston at the time. This received not a mention in the British press. Yet Mayor Kevin White's 'Procession Against Violence" on 23 April, 95 per cent of whose participants were white, did receive The only presidential candidates to incorporate bussing and equal rights in education into their programme are those of the Socialist Workers Party. Their stand has resulted in increased coverage of Trotskyist ideas in mass-circulation black newspapers amongst others.
Abortion is the only other issue to have embarrassed most of the candidates so much. like Richard Nixon, believes in the sanctity of life'. Another candidate, Ellen McCormack, has turned her West German Lawyers was formed by West German authorities to interfere with the free defence of members of the Red Army Fraction, the so-called Baader-Meinhof gang.
that is to say, that she committed sui cide - it is right that at this time the the following tactics:
finement.
plete sensory deprivation.
neavy armed guard, surrounded Dy But Reagan, with the concept of a fair trial by The Action Group For The Defence of lawyers concerned at the efforts of the The Group learns with distress of the death of Ulrike Meinhof. Assuming that the reports of how she died are correct -pressures which led her to do this should not be ignored. Those pressures included * Ulrike Meinhof was arrested in 1972 - but her trial began during the latter part of 1975, and up to the time of her death she had spent four years in jail, most of the time in solitary con* For a period of approximately two puroled TOr years she was kept in conditions of com* Her trial itself was being held in a specially constructed courtroom, under barbed wire and all the accoutrements ot a top-secutity establisnment = con ditions which are wholly incompatible her.
ULRIKE MEINHOF * Her defence was severely restricted, her lawyers were harassed, their offices • privileged defence documents, and some of them subsequently disbarred from the profession, on unacceptable and unjustifiable grounds.
* She was deprived of her right to a joint defence with her co-accused by the hasty passage of laws fundamentally in conflict with internationally accepted precepts of human rights.
* The same laws permitted the Court to proceed with her trial in her massive battery or charges and yet wa. unable to attend much of the hearing and, indeed, unable to hear, let alone answer, much of the evidence against The lawyers she trusted were not allowed to conduct her defence, and in their stead there were appointed by the Court lawyers who were manifestly out of sympathy with their client and in whom she could not conceivably have placed any trust. She was being held, and tried, in concentration camp conditions; and if she finally formed the view that there was no prospect of otherwise leaving that place, then that is a view that it would be hard to condemn as unreasonable Whatever Ulrike Meinhof may have done, she was entitled to a fair trial and the right of reply. It is unacceptable that a so-called civilised society should de prive any accused person of these rights. But in her case the West German estab lishment went further than that. The planned and calculated assault on ner psychological integrity comprised of the conditions of her imprisonment, added to the method of trial referred to above, combine to make out a damning indictment against the authorities for what - even if she did perform the act itself - has already been described as a cas of murder. - DAVID WATKINSON (on behalf of the Action Group).
women's oppression much more DAVE WIMHURST reports Silva. This in itself stands out in a completely male dominated society, and will allow the Portuguese Trotskyists to take up the question of This programme will be a continuation of that presented during the recent general elections, calling for the formation of a CP/SP Government, and demanding that these VOTE FOR SP AND CP