THE CURRENT issue of Ireland Socialist Review (no 6, winter 1979/ 80) features two major articles on the debate on Ireland at the 1979 Labour Party conference, and on the position of Ireland in the world economy.
In Ireland and the world economy Marie Smith examines the reasons for the relatively high rates of economie growth experienced in Ireland the last three decades. She asks if this can be accounted for government policies of regional aid to ndustry which might have encourag ed private capital investment.
She argues the greater importance of low wages and labour as the main factors attracting multinational capital to ireland.
The consequences of this for an anti-capitalist strategy for the Irish working class are drawn out in detail and the importance of ite unresolved national question to such a strategy is clearly stated.
The second feature analyses the debate on Ireland which Socialist Challenge 17 January 1980 over through abundance article conference in Brighton.
price took place at the 1979 Labour Party Written by Don Flynn, one of the delegates who participated in that debate, the article describes the background pressure and lobbying that took place to force Ireland onto the conference agenda.
Flynn assesses the prospects for continuing the battle to get Ireland raised in the among constituency activists provides the best opportunity for building a 'Troops Out' current for a decade. Party also iscusses a full transcript or discussion of the Labour the debate itself, from the speeches of the rooDs Out supporters to the replies from the National Executive Committee.
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RHODESIAN ARMY •By Richard Carver John Banks,