Overcoming the handicaps of this past, developing the programmatic basis for the building of an internationalist, revolutionary socialist organization in Greece will inevitably lead to an irreconcilable clash with "radical" neo-Stalinists of the Kappos type. But without such a clarification and refinement of program, NAR will find itself completely marginalized by events.
The responsibility for success or failure in such a project rests entirely with the comrades of the NAR majority and of revolutionary Marxists outside NAR. * 2. Indicative of this is the decrease in delegate numbers at this conference compared with the 400 odd delegates at the February conference. NAR seems to have around 1,500 to 2,000 members and a similar number in their youth section (KNE). Prin, the NAR's weekly paper, sells around 4,000 copies. 3. This phrase was used by Batikas, a co-signatory of the minority document, when introducing their report to conference. It was clearly aimed at the majority who, amongst their other sins, organized a big rally on the crisis in Eastern Europe, with Emest Mandel and Josef Pinior among the main speakers. 4. Pouliopoulos, who served as the KKE's General Secretary, brake from the party in the 1920s and was a leading member of the Left Opposition in Greece. At the time the Archeio-Marxists were the Left Opposition's official section. It is not exactly clear what the reporter meant by "...but the Trotskyists were wrong" but in any event it is a major step forward to admit that Pouliopoulos, a Trotskyist, was right. 5. Since early December a massive explosion has occurred in the student movement in response to govemment edicts and a new education bill. Well over 2,000 high schools (nearly 50% of all secondary schools in the country have been occupied by students and most technical colleges and university faculties are following suit. Massive demonstrations have been held and May '68 slogans are appearing on banners. Interestingly this wave began in the country regions and gradually spread to the cities.
British "justice" in the
IRELAND could only have been known to police officers. However, she had seen a TV documentary about brutality in a British Army regiment. In this case also people who had witnessed thuggery stayed silent —but eventually there were tragic consequences.
In the circumstances Lynas again took the stand, changing her evidence. Essentially she confirmed the men's own ver-
THE Birmingham Six - John Walker, Richard Mclikenny, Billy
Power, Gerry Hunter, Paddy Hill, and Hugh O'Callaghan - have spent the last 17 years in British jails, falsely accused and convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings in November
1974. Over 20 civilians were killed in these explosions, an action carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
For many years, the plight of these men was ignored. The campaign waged on their behalf was small, and the governments in Dublin and London felt able to ignore the
Issue or maintain the lie that they were guilty.
However all that has changed dramatically, especially in
Ireland, in the last few years. Nowadays the British administration is severely embarrassed by the case, and the
Dublin government begs them to sort it out.
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The following article —written in mid-December 1990 - looks at how this change has come about, and the nature of the campaign waged on the men's behalf. On December 17,