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Nevertheless, if the kidnapping of Moro and the sight of the Italian state being made monkeys of for two months was a show of strength by the Red Brigades, the final killing: was a Sign of their weakness and lack of perspective.

Recovering from their hysteria the bourgeois media tried to find 'sociological' explanations for the Red Brigades. They came up with the standard cliche; children of hourgecis homes revolting against their parents. They then give this a Mediterranean flavour with a few remarks about political instability, rural poverty the legacy of fascism, and so on.

But the Moro kidnapping has far more specific roots in Italjan politics. It, took place on the very day when the new government ,backed by the Communist Party (PC1),was to have been inaugurated. Moro himself was the architect of centre-left coaiitions,and his corpse was left in a street betwen the Press reaction to the killing of Aldo Moro, the Christian Democrat leader kidnapped by the Rod Bridades, has been predictably hysterical. In death the most cynical and intelligent. capitalist politican has become the Mr Nice of Italian politics.

This touching humanitarianism would be more convincing if it had applied to all those killed in Italy recently - student two major party headquarters.

The symbolism was deliberate and obvious.

‘The government agreement signed by the PCI includes an austerity programme that makes the Social Contract look mild and gives the police sweeping and almost unlimited use of firearms. The Red Brigades grew up in a decade of closer class collaboration by the traditional party of the Italian working class,as well as utter chaos on the far left.

The Red Brigades were dis gusted by what they saw. The irony is that their solution only makes things worse. -f the PCL was worried that it would have problems selling the new government package to its supnorters it can rest assured.

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Maguire, who played a leacing role in organising last year's "Workers Against Repression" march dicd while urder interrorgation py the RUC Special Branch. Shortly after Maguire's death the badly decomposed body of IS years old Jake McMahon wes fished out of the River Lagan. McMahon was last seen alive four months before in Musgrave ocarracks where he also was 'questioned' by the RUC Special Branch.

These summery executiors provokeé. a storm of protest throughout the anti-unionist districts of Belfast. It also angered Maguire's fellow workers at Strathearn Audio who downed their tools as socn as news veached them. Along with the Strathearn workers TUCAR orcanised a march on the following Thursday. Some 1,500 people set out for Transport House to demand that the trade union leadership take action to halt the increased repression. But the march never reached Transport House as its way was blocked by the British Army and the RUC.

Following this blatant denial of democratic rights both TUCAR and the Relatives Action CommittThe last month has seen a new anti-repression orgenisation take to the streets in Belfast. On two successive Thursdays the red banner of the Trade Union Campaign Against Repression (TUCAR) lea hundreds of striking workers down the Fails Road in demonstrations against repression. The immediate focus for these protests was the death of Brian Maguire by hanging in the infamous Castlereagh See resolved to organise an even tigger march the following week.

The next week some 3,000 people joined the demonstratior and this time succeeded in reaching Transport House. The sight of so many anti-unicnists marching past Belfast's City Hall enraged both RUC and loyalists alike.

For those on the march it was a victory over Britain's repressive policies. For the first time in many years the City centre resounded to chants of "SS RUC" and other arti-repression slogans.

At the rally outside Transport House speakers made it clear that the trade union leadership would no longer be allowec to get away with their meek silence about RUC and British Army atrocities orc their shallow demands for a "Bill of Rights". An official of the National Union of Puslic Employees condemned the hypocrisy of the trade union leadership who condemned torture and repression throughout the world but were struck dumb about the same things in the North of Ireland. Welcoming the setcing up of TUCAR he said . that the fight was now on to get the trade unions to oppose torture and repression and appealed for support for TUCAR's demand for a trade union based enquiry into H-block.

Transrort House Rally: Maguire's déath and the situation of the political prisoners in Support for this demand has also come from the Dublin and case.

Derry Trades Council as-well as the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and the Socialist Labour Party. North and South of the border, TUCAR is pressing ahead with the organisation of workers within the unions and workplaces. It has a long way to go but the response to the recent demonstrations provides a solid base on which to build. As Jog Edwards from TUCAR's National Executive told the "We are in Belfast city centre and this is a victory for us. We will be back time and time again until our demands are met. We are sick of torture and repression; there will be no more Brian Mgguire's, no more dawn raids on working class homes ‘and no more bodies fished out of the Lagan." All workers should support TUCAR to make sure that this is the The recent attack on Royal Victoria Hospital workers by Bradford makes clear how necessary it is for workers in the North to organise in their own defence. TUCAR offers this possibility and already exists as a 32-counties' organisation. It's up to workers to join TUCAR and work to bring the Union officials ‘1 book in the fight against Belfast TUCAR meets each Saturday at 4.00pm in the Workers' Resource Centre, 52, Broadway. A creche is proviced.