material. The quotes below give the flavour.
Misht is still night. To tho Army, the solation of the Irish problem is the same as it always was. It is identical to the approsch we adopted in Cyprus and employed again in Aden.
For despite all our protests to the contrary, the war we are fiehting in the Narh. essentially il colonial one. Sucpessive army COTI HELE: and Secretaries of State have refesed to admit this.
And yer. the comparison with De Caulle's Algeria is still 100 cicar: we have settlers, nwves and now. of colrse. thE Ae Nor ahe boromin - Sadly the campaign in incteasnely more raciabst in The soldiers of the worlds moit vaunted democracy are unable to accept thal anyone exercising his , constitutional rights 1o disagree can susmician Dr -BOst likely, a subversive.
serving officer, January 1977.
Part of my duties consisted of being at the Reception Centres Holywood Curdwood barracks.
Here I saw many young men Brighered and bewidered, and brought the Army. as far as 1 could soe, their only crime being that they the game even when adversaries don'l.
showing.
Spearhead is not a decamentary or even a semi-documenTaTY. meTCE C Tacs oETe Ble don'i have to be faced.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 20 July 1978 page 14 an excellent new pamphlet produced by Information on Ireland. At 30p and with 32 pages packed with information and graphics, it is superb agitational lived in a certain area, and were af a certain religion.
I saw a lot of insustice and discrimination, but DUSOC IO COET HIEBO-UHE 1 could only help where wasn'i noticed and eventualls as a submission to my feelings 1 went ahsent to several days and returned on 1 was posted immediately to England to finish my remaining year there und I have watted over a year to he whiere 1 am haw on a the temoval from Ireland! fram ex-soldier in Fulhum Hall, London, October 1974 Ironly the Britsh public, especially the parents of soldiers serving over the water. be terrorise the local people. do CETEKI people. They homes nt 4 0 cinck in the morning, simply because they are bored with the foot patrol, or they just want to pass the and LUIL.
And, Last but nor least, they đo terrorise the communic because they are methodically brainwashed with propaganda of alltypes before they do their four-month tour ¿uty over there, WITH RECENT exposures reducing the image of the Brilish Army in the North of Treland to rock bottom. Southern Television has set out to reconstruct the always in the firing line, but bravely battling on, keeping the rules of The first episode of its new series, 'Spearhead', went out on Tuesday. JAN TAYLOR, who served in the Royal Signals from 1961-70, went to the What the producers have done is to crente ditomtet images that beat ln s resenhlance Royal Greenjackets, 1976 One of the most things I remember about Northern Irelanu was a chat 1 had with a couple of biber was black soldiers who had just returned trom a house scarch. They had felt and disgusted with the whole thing in Treland that they •Dublin For house they had just smashed up.
They had gone to this house. bursi dowe lhe trunt door. ripped up all the matresses on orlatron Tor floorboards, LL.1. TITOLU troops 9 cintern in the toilet, fooded the Towa had found wat a kidi caiapulr and a rubber ballet that was fired through the front window by a soldier.
This is the sort of thing that gocs on all the time. black person, no working class person, should he part of do smash up Lloyd Hayes soldier, May 1977 The pamphles, Soldiers Speak Out on Ireland, is available for 30p Catholic Outer, Bordon, or trampe publishers, c/o 1 North End Rd. London W14. Add 10p fo nackage and postini.
into situation. They have de-pol ficised the imperialist presence in Ireland and the #gainst it.
The first epispue concerned a sake-out by kalared farmhoute Antrin. A coung Irish wpeian h suspected of being a carrict of Beseb, for Frank the bonber. That is all we ever pet to know of them. speaks. onl saldiers. sullen; hardiy surprising when trapps She has no name, and there is no explanation of a relacionship berecen her and Frank.
ISOLATED only relation hup becween Frank and the woman, but they bave Bo relationsbip with the rost or the communicy. This is symbolsed Dy ane obca annobse Frank never press chnipse aum once, finle we get te know abort him comes oniy through the mouths intues, of hie pursuers.
tea British are slowa as indis ViVE so ashamed felr smashed the and no former black al The and personal identiy. struggle Ircops bi Th South IMAGES The womar to British She is agressive and rantacking nid even a hack undicr robbers and there п0 the truth:
in particular, speaks, produce a soldier and what tion these deprived the orner band, the : duals, cach with his nwn namie They relate to one shother tor attempr ro, the qualiy of acting is a bout one nolch aborc Crossmait-), and une even lias his wife with him to eire the ineritable romantic flacour.
All the personnel of a typical Arny barrack room are there:
ageressive bully, the guset one.
So the images are created, che Brits are the tea peone t bomhers are superficial, desoid The sincason is noe political, the hossbers could be bank the troops ordinary policenten. Just like in Kojak or Dixon of Dock Green.
-LITEU BCTEETSNILA Amty training in general, and infantey training ACHTE is designed to who dependent pr orders from his superiors, who doesn't quesBorders, who of his individualios and betomes one of the squaci. ask ed The Trish man or gomar plantine benebs is part of a mass arti-imperialist movenor Issatet trom the nationals community bia part oF that cominuniy Yel why they risk ther lives to plant homhs is a quescion Spearheud never answers indeed the question is mever It mould be tepling te disnes the series as hokum. Unforturately many working class prople in tims coontry wil and be lett w.tl. the PESCI TRE BECE DOIS IE uniform' are deate a thankles lask dea ine www psychopatiic killers"
LET SE ALDIE OLELSHUS be couttered at every opporsimplistic
- the allack Are they now mainstream| their acts of unspeakable
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