THE DECISION • to ban Sinn Fein leaders from Britain reveals stability of British rule in Ireland. The British government will do anything to prevent the truth of the Irish situation being put across to British workers.
Tory Home Secretary, William Whitelaw invoked an exclusion order the terms of the Prevention of Terrorism Act against Sinn leaders, Gerry Adams, Danny Morrison and Martin McGuinness. Two these had been invited for talks with a group of GLC councillors including Ken Livingstone. Livingstone has accepted a subsequent Sinn Fein invite to go to Belfast some time in the new year.
The use of the exclusion order against supposedly British citizens exBritain's claimed right to rule the North of ireland.
It also underlines the reality eland. Ali the in relation to excluded men are elected members of Prior's 'Assembly' they refused rights everyone else.
record rights pro-British elements, none for opponents.
The British 'free press' has weighed in in favour of free speech. In one of its graphically the continuing in periodic pieces intelligence propaganda, it carried as a supposed front page exclusive 'secret files' showent thathe armed senders.
the armed struggle against imperialism. Much better to get Sinn Fein's views from captured documents rolled up tightly and hidden in a pencil case'! than to near things trom the horse's mouth These documents sup posedly "blow apart the riction used by sinn reir that all they share with the Provisional IRA is a common political objective'.
Hard If what this scribbler is volvement in the armed struggle by the sinn rein leaders, then why has such 'evidence' LIUL CYCLI been used in the rigged Northern Ireland COULD A previous attempt to convict Gerry Adams as member of the IRA was thrown out of court through lack of evidence' But support of Sinn Fein for armed struggle is a matter of public record Not only did the last ard theis (conference) of Sinn Fein pass a resolution insisting that its candidates for office should be Ene! Danny Morrison, holding Whitelaw's exclusion order and wasted plane ticket support for the armed struggle. But recently Gerry Adams spelt the matter our in une following terms: •Sinn Fein and the a nave unc same ooted. tives. The IRA engaged armed struggle. sinn Fein would not only defend the IRA's right to wage armed struggle but have the job increasingly of popularising support He went on: *honestly see no other way by which the British can be forced to withdraw trom this coun try except by a mixture of struggle which involves properly controlled inter active armed struggle Tories double standards in banning Sinn Fein has scored this proposition once again. As Owen Carron, Sinn Fein CO-OPERATE Westminster MP explained there can be 'no electoral answer to the pro blem of Britain's domination of Ireland. As he went on: "This typica hypocritical British deci sion. The response of the government ever cince 198 has been to 19 nore democratic decisions in reland"
Given this, the response of the Labour leadership had been even more scandalous than its normal pro-Tory stance on the Irish question. Michael dorsed Whitelaw's Labour Concannon only opposed the action or the grounds of the obvious political credit Tory actior Ken Livingstone Good This, together with sympathetic mutterings emanating certain members of Labour's Northern Ireland group MIS should become focus for demands for Labour Party Fein at the time of Ken Ireland to mee Sinn Livingstone's visit in the This should lead to Labour Party backing the demand to get the troops out. A demand supported by a majority of Labour voters.