this of the Ulster Defence Regiment.
Labour the anti-Catholic pogroms in 1969.
A UDR member was one of the notorious 100 per cent Protestant. THE British Government is to issue a stamp to commemorate ten years The UDR was originally formed as a 'non-sectarian' alternative to the B-Specials which were forced to disband because of their open involvement in The regiment was put under the direct command of the British Army and it soon carried on where the B Specials left off. Extreme loyalists flooded inta she UDR and many of its members were later convicted of a whole range of crimes, cuding murder. -Catholic after Catholic in a sectarian assassination campaign. Today the UDR is almost The issue of a commemorative stamp would, therefore, be rather sick if it were not for the fact that the government is issuing it on I April — April fools day. Whether this is a rare sign or numour trom the brush administration In the Norn of Ireland Of whethe it is another of its many bungles is not clear. Whatever, the Irish revolutionary organisation Peoples Democracy have produced special postcards offering their own "commemoration' of the UDR. Copies of the cards, which should be sent to Thatcher on 1 April, are availabie from: Connolly Bookshop, Avoca Park, Anderstown, Belfast or Plougt Book Service. 38 Clanaries Road. Killester, Dublin 5. Cost 25p pop.
The legacy of imperialism is now the inheritance of the Patriotic Front government.
ALLE enormous political
economic problems which face the people of Zimbabwe and their new government are not simply the result of the revolutionary war, as the mass media would have us believe.
The new government is saddled with