THE SIMPLE TRUTH Chelsea bomb was given by GLC leader Ken Livingstone on Monday night. 'As long as we are in Ireland, people will be letting off bombs in London,' he said. 'We are in a colonial power holding down a colonial people. Violence will recur time and time again as long as we are in Northern Ireland.' burst into a social club in the Ardoyne district of Belfast and randomly fired a hail of bullets. Their target was anyone they could hit, for they assumed all in the club would be Catholic.
For these would have done. in the Laurence member of the Anti-H Block Campaign.
ABOUT the At 11pm last Thursday, two masked men gunmen any Catholic victim event, they killed Kennedy, a Belfast councillor and 05 GJ924 ment describing human. The British media did ret moral indignation at the attack on the Ardoyne club. That is hardly surprising.
After all, Laurence British establishment, just another Irish rebel, and his killers shared with Margaret Thatcher and most of the British modia the view that the by the Provisional IRA on the British soldiers in Chelsea on Saturday was to the silence over the killing of Laurence Kennedy, is one aspect of the hypoe after the Chelsea bomb.
A second aspect is that anyone Margaret Thatcher did not issue any stateKennedy's killers as 'sub pour out Kennedy was, for the North of Ireland should, at all costs be kept But for Thatcher and the media the attack coach-load of sub-human'. Such condemnations, in contrast Itsy so evident with the happen about starving the hunger strikers to death.
against hunger strikes of her hypocrisy over the Chelsea bomb.
The Tory leader oversaw she even tried to 'Iron Lady IRA would hit back.
troop withdrawal in Britain more difficult.
may also now recede nationalist community government, the been given added fuel by the Chelsea bomb.
IRA's action can be called into question.
the one-sided, which has greeted the Chelsea bomb. Instead we should be saying, now more than ever. Britain should get out of Ireland. way the killings, whether in Ireland or in Britain, will end.
Laurence Kennedy Laurence Kennedy, a Belfast city countillor who, last Thursday the latest victim of Loyalist terror gangs in Belfast. The previous week the Ulster Freedom Fighters had threatened to launch a new campaign of assassinations. The Ulster Defence name. But British governments have repeatedly refused to ban slightest knowledge of the Irish situation knew full well that something similar was bound to once the Tory government had set To anyone not acquainted with Irish reality that might appear a harsh and callous reaction, but what it shows is how deep the hatred Britain now is in the wake of the And it is Thatcher's determination to kill those hunger strikers which is the third aspect the slow and agonising death of ten Irish political prisoners, glory in permitting those deaths as part of her self-styled image as the It ill-befits her to now lament what happened at Chelsea: she has done much worse and she must have known that by doing worse the Undoubtedly, in Britain, the Cheisea bomb will make the task of building a movement for The world-wide sympathy the Republican movement attracted during the hunger strike The harshest critics of the IRA in Ireland's such as the Irish Catholic Church and the Social Democratic and Labour Party have also In that respect the tactical wisdom of the But no socialist should be associated with hypocritical condemnation That is the only
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