This conference is just a start. A big battle with the right wing is needed to make opposition to plastic bullets a permanent part of union policy.
It won't be enough to show how plastic bullets will be used strikers. rights anti-repression struggle which begins to be effective.
Being effective means challenging the Northern state. It is the nationalist population victims of state repression, who are SERG and it is they who protest most strongly about civil Igns, pontical status. or plastic bullets. This gives tarianism. The union bureaucracy always BELO this. Union headquarters in London don't hold back their Northern Ireland members from ex• they support the Loyalists by supporting a which upholds secIf we are told to build on the gains of the Plastic conference, our campaign in the unions must take account of these wider issues. Giving into the blackmail and walkout threats used by the union bureaucracy prevents trade the victims of state repression in the North, and to Irish workers as whole. dreds of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Chatilla camps followed the brutal war launched against the Lebanon by the Israelis. It soon became Clear that the war, far from being a defensive action as the Begin government claimed, was design ed to smash the Palestine Liberation Organisation once and for all.
Once having smashed
the main organised op position to the Zionist they could then SOCCE colonisation on the process of West BankPLO The Unites, infantile leftists thought, comrade of a disorder.
choice I suppose.
views but different tactics
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ALAN FREEMAN The massacres of hun-
Yasser Arafat, said that chap, gave the thumbs down