with its Loyalist majority. achieved by Provisional Sinn Fein.
Sinn Fein emerged as the fourth largest party in the north of Ireland winnscats with 10 percent of the vote, shattering the British government's lie campaign that the nationalist struggle result of ISUIRICU criminal fringe.
On closer examination the Sinn Fein candidates VOIC IS even more specWest Gerry Adams finished top of the poll with 9,740 first preference Owen: Carron in Fermanagh THE RESULTS of last week's elections for a Northern Ireland Assembly are a major blow against the Tory government plans and a victory for the oppressed nationalist population.
The original intention of the poll was to attempt to capitalise on the end of the hunger strikers' campaign by paving the way to the reintroduction of the old Stormont parliament This plan now lies shattered as a result of the spectacular vote Tyrone also came top of the poll with 14,025 and in Mid Ulster Danny Morrison and Benedict Mellwee 11,690 FUEL Sinn Fein ran on position of boycotting the Assembly and for a British withdrawal. ATICT LETS Sinn said that Ten Canadas they were prepared to meet James Prior, the Northern Ireland Secretary. only il the question of withdrawal or brinsa troops was at tne top of any agenda.
The Social Democratic Labour Party, the main bourgeois nationalist partv in the norin, were also forced by nationalist to boycott the emergence of Sinn Fein as a revolutionary nationalist alternative on the political level ends their claims to DOUBLE representative of the nationalist population The only parties unal will take their scats in the Assemblv are those of the middle class Alliance and Loyalists.
lan Paisley's Democratic Unionist Partheir COnSOOICE dramatic gauns made local BUY CLER ment elections without yet becoming the largest Pay a posames held James Molyneaux's Official The overall results of the deepening polarisation. seen Assembly e 36cl way Tep Hume, leader of the and John Hume, SDLP said, is now as dead as a dodo.
The Sinn Fein ran political campaign Hun dreds of workers the streets imperialist propaganda This was also the ap Gerry Adams canvassing during election campaign proach of Peoples Democracy, the Irish section ol the Fourth Interna who ran PD candidates in West and South themselves and Sint ein. Fergus O'Hare wor 298 votes for a revolutionary socialist platform North Bellast McAnulty won 144 votes in South Belfast
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