IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

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Socialist Challenge No. 154, 3 July 1980 · pp. 15-16 of the scan · 494 words

The scan: sc-n154-jul-03-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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page 15 of the scan

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page 16 of the scan

Socialist Challenge AFTER months of and delay the Tory Government has finally announced its plans for the North of Ireland.

And although State Humphrey Atkins says he is still considering a couple of options, the overall principle behind the plan is clear — to hand over authority to the Loyalists.

Some limitations may be placed on this power but the Tories have once again decided to play the Orange card. ine people or we wort Ireland can now look forward to the establishment of a 'devolved' regime with the Rev Ian Paisley at its head.

The Tories argue that this is a 'democratic solution. that the rule of the North of Ireland majority must prevail. It. peculiar democracy which needs the protection of 15,000 British soldiers and the same again recruited soldiers and cops to survive.

And it is a strange concept of justice and equality before the law which this week speculation Secretary of sort of locally allowed a former Struggle Unfortunately some of the 'left' in the NEC have already back-tracked on the statement they voted for. The reverse should happen. The only socialist solution for Ireland is to allow the Irish people to decide their own future, and that is what the left in the Labour Party should be saying about the Atkins' proposals. A determined struggle needs to be taken up within the Labour Party to break once and for all with bipartisarship.

With or without such a struggle. the fight against the Tory 'solution and all British 'solutions' for Ireland needs to be stepped up. Three weeks ago the Committee for Withdrawal from Ireland called for a demonstration based on opposition to the Tory plans, and called instead for British withdrawal. This initiative was taken up at the Troops Out Movement conference last Sunday.

The date for that demonstration is

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