THE 'Pumps might sound a pretty inoffensive bunch, but in fact they represent the latest sporting link between Britain and the Argentinian militury dictatorship RICHARD CARVER reporis.
After the World Cup campaign. at is hardly necessary to spell out why the junta is among the most obnoxious of regines and how sporting recognition only shores it up.
The World Cup showed that shoelis not aD eirective way af "building bridges". Although repression cased off slightly while foreign journalists were around, more than 500 oppositibnists have since arrested.
It might seem surprising that South Americans should play THE SECOND part of un overview by Ernest Harsch on Ile Easiopian revolution so far is the main feature in this week's issue of Intercontinental Prese/lapeccor /Vol. 16, No.
Other articies cover the asragby But for decades Britain was the main imperialist power in Argentina and it has left behind it an Anglicised upper crust which enjoys such pursuis as lea-drinking and polo.
That clique has long since decayed and been replaced by US imperialism. But British economic interests persist. The holdings is British American Tobacco CHaRENCES Richard bribing wogs' DobDespite clear Labour Party and TUC condemnation of the been Junta, the Labour Government has said nothing on ArgenLITTH TREES SuCTS and continues to remain on such a stiff upper lipped game, cood terms in the hope of arms Intercontinental Press Camp David summit, massacres carried Somoza in suspension of the misers" strike in Peru, the austerity measures Colomhia, and background to the recent coup ins Mauritanin.
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The British Argentina Campaign is calling for protests to reject that policy of collaborabon. I suggests pickets of the bealthy matches and leueis of protest Rugby Association and the ForcienSecretary In Oxford there has already heen a successful picket of one of the lour matches, the biggest Gourdian estimaled the manber of pickels at 100.
Sir Matches still to be played: 4 Oct. Headingles. Leeds. 7.30pm. 7 Oct, Moseles: Birmingham, 3.00pm. 10 Oct, Glovester, 7.00pm. 14 Der, Twickenham, 2.45pm 21Ocl, Dublin, 3.00pm.
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THE LAST ten years have seen the most loteese and sustained strungle against British imperialison in Ireland since the War of Indepeadence (191921% And, despite the increased repression and Roy Mason's bousts about a return to normality the anti-impersist enormous gains in the last ten vears in Sion Fein, the Workers Party and the Communist Party of treiand are Tond of complainite that we are worse off now chan in 1968, but that only lustrates their concern with incidental details racher than the essentials of the problems.
Tonged by the yardstick of whether British imperialism's gripinthe North of Ireland is stronger or weaker and by the sireneth of the anti-imperi alist forces, the gains have been There were few places in the world in the mid-1960s where the ruling class scenied more secure than in the North of Ireland, The Unionist Party virtually unchallenged for over 40 years and their formula guaranteeing Protestant privilege in an arca carefully drawn to ensure a Protestant majority seemed beatable. They looked set to rule for another 40 years.
The IRA campaign haul petered out miserably and the British though always present, hardly ever had to intervene. The were so demoralised that WEETSTE most of the scats of the loca parliament were not even contested. The rest of the world barely knew that Northern Ireland existed.
That has all chanped sinoo 1968 The police attacks on the 5 October march in Derry unleashed a torrent of pent-up aneer and tristration from tbe Catholic minority wmich found expression in a had ruled the early civil rights movement.
was significant for more than its de Army, mystifying effect. It was the greatest it so years Britie Carholic Northern Ireland through Stormon and the monolithis Unionist Part with the minimun of troudle and inconvenience.
Now Storment has gone and all allempts lo replace it miserahly. Beirain is left with the unstable and unsatisfactory expedient of direct rule which exposes cleariy the colonial nature of its relationship with the North of Ireland and bring the (rish protest pouticar nic As for the anti-imperialist forces. THIS WEEK sees the tenth anniversary of the civil rights march in Derry 15 October! which sparked off un explusion of discontent in the North of Ireland and led to the continuing crisis there. It ivalso the tenth anniversary af the founding «f Peoples Democrucy, un organisation which provided much of the driving force of PD begun as a radical student organisation heavily influenced by the ideas of thi "New left? and movement of 1968, But PD has since developed into a revolutionary Marxist organisation und is corrently in the process of Fusing with Northern crisis.
SD years Britain bad ruled 1968/9 bave failed of reforming it question into the centre of analyses and strategies which have heen advanced in connection with che The collapse of the O'Neill beforens much mure Caborate Sunningdale structure in 1974 demonstrated conclusively the -inherently sectarian nature of the Northern state and the imposs bility The intervention and role of the ArEN Dublin government's collaboration with it imperialism in the coeflier and the all Ireland nature OEs control