Labour and Ireland: the next step?

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consultative paper entitled, Northern and affiliated unions.

North Islington Labour Party and Labour Committee on Ireland.

THE 1920 Government of Ireland Act which established the partition of Ireland was, at the time, opposed by In January 1920 the Parliamentary Labour Party published the report of a special Commission of Inquiry into the Present Conditions in Ireland, outlining what the party policy should be. Malady The commission began report by declaring: 'Ireland is suffering today malady which has many civil effects, but only one The frustration of national social as well as political alialls has produced feeling of bitter resenttransmitted from generation against The commission went on to detail the justificanoted, for instance, that the British 'civil and military authorities bedave destroyed practically all the safeguards political and personal liberty'. The Labour Party has asked for a series of articles taking up the five commentary the introduction tative paper, which is also reprinted below.

United Kingdom questions asked in the consultative consulthern Ireland cease to be part of the without the con sent of the majority of the people livOn 8 March 1973 voting took place to determine the views of the elec torate on the constitutional status of Ireland. Some 60 per cent 600,000 in all voted; and 99 per cent 57 per cent of the electorate) voted in favour of remaining in the United However poll was Party and by nationalist ore anisations the Sunningdale which included the OT Council started to be with the election or ar and a power-sharing ExHowever, TAIS Executive was eventually brought down in May province wide organised and led by militant trade Since then alie Northern Ireland has been governed by direct From the Labour Party's consultative majority in the north of majority created out of the partition settlement originally opposed by Labour — a

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THE Northern Ireland Study Group, set up by the national executive of the Labour Party, has just produced a

Ireland, the next step? full discussion on the paper's con- tents in constituency Labour parties

aid to this discussion, Socialist Challenge will be running a

This week we begin with a tion The Bae consul-