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...revolt, but then had stood aside as it became evident that the uprising would fail. Communists nevertheless denied complicity in the affair. "It is clear that my party disapproves of the happenings as they turned out," said Communist Party Spokesman Carlos Brito-to hoots of laughter in the Assembly. Socialist Leader Mario Scares demanded that...
...arms, there has been a widespread effort to organize trade unions or soldiers' committees within the armed forces. Last month a group of soldiers in the 19th Engineers Regiment at Besangon in eastern France tried to organize a clandestine local with the support of a chapter of the Socialist-dominated Confederation Franchise Democratique du Travail, the country's second largest trade union.* Also, a group of enlisted men wearing masks to hide their identities held a press conference to announce the creation of a similar union at Chaumont, 140 miles southeast of Paris. Since then, other illegal army...
Irons laughs, a little embarrassed about the number of organizations in which he seems to have been an active force--the Student Peace Union (a draft resistance group he helped found in the early 60s), the Socialist Party, the Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His FBI files, tucked into his Law School course catalogue, are an accurate record of the meetings he attended, the times he was arrested, the dates on which he spoke at hearings. True to FBI form, all names except the subject's own are deleted--including J. Edgar Hoover's, which is faintly visible through...
Irons is involved in other activities outside the Law School besides the Hiss case. He is director of a university without walls program in Boston, part of UMass-Amherst. He teaches a course on the American socialist movement there, but plans to resign in January to become more of a full-time law student. He is also the chairman of the New England branch of the Committee to Repeal Repressive Legislation...
While he sometimes refers to himself as a "political chameleon," Irons basically considers himself "a cross between an anarchist and a socialist," with what he calls some Ghandian pacifism thrown in for good measure. He doesn't really offer a model for the society he'd like to live in; he concentrates instead on the society at hand...