Muncaran revo utonar wwHod nal iası week s wrote mnal contriouted .to ine nunganan Fanys teoreticar loumnai Derween 194 - Inis snouic nave Tede DELWCCH IOME aIG 2. In Paul Mitchel's report on the struggle at Eu Covent. aso in at wownssucd Labour Party. I think the question of real workers cemoclacy mentary democracy, has to be one of the main planks of any class struggle election candidate, in theory and in practice.
The IS campaign in Walsall has untortunately paid little attention to this issue. Jimmy McCallum (in his interview in Red ne nau Weekly) makes no mention should socialiol answerable to the people who voted for him or her, and when asked this in public meeting, he merely said he'd give his salary to Socialist Worker mnar means d OI nOW d immediately spelling out that such a candidate.
returned to West Belfast in triumph. But after a week state institutions the peace movement wants us to support 'peace at any price'.
Saturday 23 October was supposed to be the day the peace people which started with sentences being handed out to members of the Ulster Detence Regiment for the Miami Showband murders - the UDR is one of those question was how the people of the Falls would show their hostility to • was decisive. Provisional Sinn Fein made a call for all anti-imperialist forces to join in a demonstration which would coincide with the time. route ano venue or ine peace maren. over b.ovu antiUnionists marched up the Falls Road in pouring rain behind banners British Army. Speakers from all groups, including the was Suesse as Me WavIo exPOSE movement. aftermath of internment presence, followed by large crowds to drive the Army out demanding the retention of political status and the withdrawal of the Movement for a the huge audience on the need for unity in the anti-imperialist camp. The importance of focussing mass activity on the central issue of the Army of the peace The inability of the peace march to compete with this mass militancy and nold neir rav on ine rais koad lustrates neir own and more importantly, Britain's dilemma. Despite official attempts to maintain a 'neutral' attitude towards the peace movement, it has become clear to the ant Unionist vancuaro inat ine oniy uncion or ine beace movemen in their own areas can be to clear the way for increased Army repression.
Nowhere has this been more understood than in the Turf Lodge area in West bellas. were ine innabitants nave seen wacine an oncone baltie against British troops ever since the vicious murders and woundings in the area by the Army three weeks ago. Turf Lodge has been declared a no-0o area a boley which nas operateo win a non decree or success for over a week at the time of writing. According to the Northern Ireland Office, the Army has been keeping a 'low profile' in the area; in reality, they have been kept out by the use of mass tactics developed in tne bin-lid bashing to warn of the Army's The people involved in this struggle have cleared away a lot of the confusion originally created by the peace movement - they are stating clearly that the cause of violence is British occupation, and that peace equals surrender. The 23 October demonstration confirmed the position of the revolutionary left MSR, People's Democracy] that the peace peace movement is now rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
Detinitely not a tning or the past peace at any price brigade Noel and Marie Murray in the 26 Counties.
for action to save them. everywhere on the Falls Road in support of the Murrays a test for the State of Emergency in the 26 Counties.
and Newry.
Deltast over the operating; Ireland Polytechnic and the New University of Ulster.
drawn: the peace labour movement in the face - TROOPS OUT NOW!
Mike Pinter RED WEEKLY 4 November 1976 11 movement cannot be touchi with stones but oniv ov cevelooino a mas combativity. As far as the people of West Belfast are concerned, the except or me noocnes or in is the threat of execution hanging ove speakers on the 23 October demonstration stressea me urcency or ine case ano une neer Banners, placards and leaflets were evident Sections of the anti-Unionist working class increasingly understanc the significance of the case, both as a test for capital punishment and as Committees to mobilise support for the Murrays are in the process of formation i neeD or one students in the campaignin Queens reming last two years for maintaining its reputation as a political wilderness, a Murray Defence Committee is similar committees are also springing up in the Northern From all this renewed upsurge in activity, one crucial lesson can be people are dying amid the contradictions of the Sis County state, and by their impotence they are more and more exposing ine real nature or minary occupation and tne correct targets for the anti imperialist struggle. Yet again the solution is staring the international
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In last week's issue Geoff Ryan rightly criticised the lack of democracy in the CORRECTIONS 1. In the introduction to our interview with
against parlia- JIMMYM-CALLUM