Locate a military solution to the Irish ituation rithdrawal. The IN WEST GERMANY, Green Party Laye scovered the police are ockpiling British-style astic for use ainst anti-nuclear DIUsters. How do arms anufacturers test out apons for putting down ›litical unrest. They need produce deos or stage dramatic constructions they ive a living advert on the reets of and erry. What better way to st out a baton round and curacy? 55,834 der bullets WE CALC it on Irish people. The ›date was the plastic let. By the end of 1981, had been tried ,669 times. Thirteen aths later there is a new odel LIC nich does job tter.
sting ground for many ads of repression knock out gasses, inter8110 torture, ychological warfare, techni'riot shields' and en the agressive style of SPG.
MARA stake, these will be used We've already en the SPG, the rest di C come. The Labour Left s every interest in putig an end to these tests.
IF Reagan can't put his use missiles in Britain, here trish ne neutrality, Irish neutrality, ready compromised embership of the EEC ider the itish and the Americans get Ireland into NATO. 1e Irish working class is sisting force a pressure.
sisting ley don't have any more terest in joining NATO an we do belonging to it.
workers have been ut up ane avidea by une itish through Partition nich weakens Irish CND well. To get rid of Partithe British troops ust be removed.
WHERE can AUEW embers be found dead in my barracks without the 1ion doing anything ›out it? Where can union embers raising political sues risk being taken out unnon premises oy armreactionar thugs and Id to lay off? The answer in the North of Ireland. nd the reason is that the tion bureaucracy in the of the North is the most reactionary the DELIVE UHOE bureaucracy whole.
are discuss in the because *alienates the Northern membership But the peoDie who arussienated most discussion about Ireland is ine rignt wing. They know they can count on a solid block of support for themselves, and do WaLL TONK LOSESS have heard of major union where an investigation cedures found one official into voting Lo De acting as a one person block vote filling in ballot papers for the entire membership. The left has everything breaking this cosy alliance between the union right wing and its loyalist counterparts. Committing unions policy of withdrawal Ireland would certainly de the trick.
4.THE Labour left says it no illusions the of the army if a CHE CLEV really left government started implement socialist policies. The dark figures around the right and their secret armies" have made their ingive a toss for parliamen work against them.
But one section of the already tried it out, in the class reactionary USICI Workers' Council strike in sevenues.
Unionists openly defied the British parliament using their own private arWhat is more, they mies. persuaded the regular army to let them get away with it.
These forces will be the stounter revolution in Brie troopers The power of the Irish civil rents movement made a start by splitting the ruling classes' political party into two - the Conservatives Britain and the Unionists in ine vortn Getting the troops out of Ireland is the only way itself and cut it the sass the ruling class port which Unionists have loyalist workers.
What better way of trying make sure socialist poncies coula be put to practice than by starting to fight to get the troops out now? 5. RIGHT from the early days ot 'democracy' Britain, we ve had our rights taken aWay the pretext that it was a 'temporary' uccessal y measure caused by the refusal of the Irish to play the game The Prevention of Terrorism Act which increases police powers to stop and search. to hold people for days without reason, to break into peoples homes without warrants, looks less temporary every time it is renewed.
These attacks democratic rights will go on as long as the Labour Party goes on backing Tory policies the oc6. WHO was the SDP membel who quit the party over its campaign against Prevention of withdrawal from Not reported in the British press, but widely covered posedly the Islington MP Michael O'Halloran.
leit the to the SDP when the struggle of the left for accountability him, of MPs only to find the SDP ZUE couldn't stomach him elmer. couldn't have been because of his strugSEESE because Shirles Williams said he hadn't been to a single SDP meeting.
The gross opportunisi O Halloran got his come uppance in the end. It is inconceivable any Labour Party would adopt hum as a candidate again.
But how many right wing MPs are kept in their positions they can make an appeal to the Irish the constituency who think the left says nothing about the Irish question or British withdrawal?
7. WHEN the British fleet sailed off to do battle in the South Atlantic, there was a big diplomatic camPlastic Bullets Conference fringe meeting 'FOR A SOCIALIST REPUBLIC JOHN MacANULTY who is a Peoples' Democracy councillor from Belfast talks about the fight for socialist policies in Ireland. He welcomes the campaign against plastic bullets and argues that British socialists should stop backing Prior's Northern Ireland Assembly and work towards getting the troops out.
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LABOUR COMMITTEE ON IRELAND ANNUAL CONFERENCE/AGM April 23rd, 10.30am, County Hall, London. paign to make sure they could count on the backing all the Western European powers.
weak link? In was Ene Ireland of course.
Level the read tionary Haughey government could cling to office if it was seen to back Britain against whose claim to sovereignty oveted in trelans win up ported in Ireland in same way as Irish ereignty against British interference. In Dublin, the Argentine consul even had volunteers asking if they could up.
The Labour left wanted to stop the fleet. da have been to heen should have been to -STIBES invasion diplomatically. The Irish share with WOrKCIS US interest in opposing British imperialism all around the world. If they could get the British troops out of their country, it would blow against the whose impact would be felt everywhere, CLOSE Datal Our fight for socialist policies gressively more possible to win as blows are struck against the ruling class from all quarters. Getting TOODS which we can help in, is an important part or tal.
8. WE hear lots about the lefts' alternative economic strategy. But what about the lefts" alternative foreign policy? policy unat alms not al restorig diplomacy Empire, but of altogether, just like the Trident missiles.
We have already seen that unilateral disarmament is a big potential vote Know that a boority of winner Labour. people want the Irish prolem solved and think Bri tain should get out.
Ken Livingstone dic second choice as man of the year because he kept his mouth shut on important questions like Ireland. He had something to say. Labour must say it too get the troops out now!
9. Did you know that it costs over every year to maintain the British military presence in BAN PLASTIC BULLETS CONFERENCE SATURDAY 26th FEBRUARY UMIST, BARNES WALLIS BUILDING SACKVILLE STREET, MANCHESTER 1 Starts 10.30am. Last minute registration on door.
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EXT SATURDAY the Labour Commit- te on Ireland's conference looks at the sue of plastic bullets. The LCI see nat stopping this or that weapon is not le end of the problem. Labour must be roken from Tory policies which ad-
lastic Bullets conference, MARTIN OLLINS explains why the left should rgue for troops out.
and start calling for British organiser