places a heavy responsibility on the shoulders or Britisn socialisis. it means that by championing the right of the Irish people to determine their own future - concretised in the demand for the withdrawal of British troops - they can seriously contribute to the outcome of the struggle. Building a mass campaign calling for the immediate withdrawal of the British army would have a major morale of the army and give renewed impacte It would help undermine the courage to the oppressed minority more recently, increasing demoralisation and lack of perspective.
Such a campaign should set itselt the task of forcing the government to withdraw the troops - or of bringing it down - as did the mass anti-Vietnam war movement in the USA. Responsibility It is a major condemnation of the British left that, entry of British troops onto the streets of Derry and Belfast, still exists no mass campaign calling for their withdrawal.
The failure of the left to unite in building such a movement is not only an example of their failure to give concrete aid to an fighting for its rights. failure to grasp the self-evident fact that this struggle has a direct effect upon the class struggle in Britain itself.
It should not have to be pointed out that the repressive laws against the minority are made and enacted by Westminster. direct threat to the civil liberties of the British people as Roy Jenkins! Anti-Terrorist Act proves. campaign in defence of the right of the Irish people to determine their own tuture Is, in this sense, an integral part of detending democratic rights in Britain.
It is true that such a campaign will have to confront the decades of anti-Irish propaganda deeply rooted in the labour movement. cannot be avoided or skirtea around. It the britisn labour movement passively tolerates its own government's brutal oppression of the Irish people today, it will just as passively tolerate, tomorrow, ot blacks or discrimination against women.
It is for this reason that building the Troops Out Movement (TOM) into a mass campaion remains a centra task for British socialists.
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