experience Republi raised s will lead own house epubucan hilosophy i behalf of cois poliion of a ng spoken Il Governreformist our Parly tated this kely to be but their ion would have frightening effect the cnces for t land, and indeed in Brita blocks to Protestant ere is even ning. The said last or power former i to the - LO have lenounced the UDA, pence has lerge from nine Ulster f its main ralist bigor about the uggestion. ook to the nionist renise king down struggie en's groups perate were ly women's in Belfast minists were ialism. ca's groups way. LEIL Derry. The those existing elsewhere in tivity on a Europe.
abortion, child care land is coonomically he involve-Imperialist men's issues.
welfare benefits are school leavers.
Britain:
has been Autonomous ers. In the south, roocht telephonists strike. pression of the northern minority.
hey are quite happy to ditch thei cloved British link', in order to b masters in what they regard as their As for Britain itself, at least until after the next General Election, the Labour Government appears to have so policy but continued repression. As the Irish Times commented recently: solution apes for the para-mitary The dangers of such a 'solution' do lot need spelling out. Although It I not as likely as Mason pretends, the Provisionals defeat of the Provisionals is a possibility, and such a victory for repressconseworking class in It can be avoided. The type of mass resistance offered to the British Army movement.
The development of these small and fragmented women's groups is itself a reflection of the problems of taking up the oppression of women in a country dominated north and south by imperThere is no mass feminist the movement because conditions in Ireland are fundamentally different from Western Due to imperialist domination, Ireand socially Church and State in the south, and Unionist ascendancy in the north have ensured very little progress on woAbortion is illegal north and south, and contraception is available only to a limited extent. In the south, divorce is illegal, women workers are generally super exploited and un-unionised, and denied female While much of the legislation on women's rights won in on abortion, divorce reequal pay and opportunity blocked in the north.
Women are in the forefront of the fight back. Some of the most militant struggles in the anti-unionist areas in the pust 18 months have been led by women. It is women who have led the fight to get the troops out of Turf Lodge and St James in Belfast, and it is women who have led the struggle for political status for republican prisonwomen bave also played a key role in the developing trade union struggles, such as the While the Belfast conference discussed these issues, it didn't reflect the involvement of all these women, in such areas as Turf Lodge in the last year will in the long run worry Britain much more than bombed cinemas.
The contribution to Republican and socialist unity in action made in the last six months by the Irish Front ir Derry and the Relatives Action Com mittee in Belfast are major gains for the Catholic minority.
The moves towards unity now taking place among the revolutionary left in Ireland are as timely as they are welcome; and the spread of socialist ideas among many of the younger could have tremendous implications for the future.
Year ten is unlikely to see the rictory of the Irish struggle for liberation, but if such fragile steps are consolidated and multiplied they have in them the seeds for victory.
7 doing here? only those committed to the feminist Am autonomous women's move ment is an absolute necessity if women's issues are not to be relegated to second place in the anti-imperialist struggle, but such a movement will not grow spontaneously as in Britain It will be best built by linking up with women in the forefront of the anti-imperialist struggie, and indeed the trade union struggle.
The relevance of women's liberation anti-imperialist shown by the treatment just handed out to two 15 year olds in Belfast's New Lodge Road. During questioning Thursday at Musgrave police station these young women were made to strip - it was the socond time that week such a form of "questioning" was reported. After the first instance an Army office said such stripping was "normal procedure.
THE IRISH SCHOOL of the International Marxist Group on 15-16 October Speakers from Ireland, USA and Britain Include:
Bernadette McAliskey.
Fergus O'Hare, Brian Grogan, John Ross, Geoff Bell, Brian Lyons ..and a surprise celebrity from the Socialist Workers Party, USA.
Registration tee: 21.30.
A tew places open tc porters. Details:
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