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Britain.
Revenge'.
Ireland but 'Law And Order' whatsoever can be given to the bombing. in Ireland but for the resistance to it.
tactics adopted by Irish freedom-fighters, Airey Neave; what we say ACCORDING TO Margaret Thatcher, Airey Neave '... was one of freedom's warriors, courageous, staunch, true'. Clearly she has lost a friend, but the workers movement certainly has not. Far from being a fighter for democracy, Neave was one of the most outspoken reactionaries in favour of curtailing democratic rights.
While shadow spokesperson on the North of Ireland, "freedom's warrior' demanded that the SAS be sent to the Six Counties, that Provisional Sinn Fein be banned, and that all legal restraints on house-to-house searches and the questioning of suspects by th speech to Conservative women in hi:
Abingdon constituency in May 1977 he went further, calling for the reintroduction of internment and saying: "The public should not be misled by the woolly propaganda of the left that detention can never achieve its objectives. Nothing could be further from the But whether Neave was killed by a revolutionary nationalist or by a provocateur, the end result will be the same. A wave of repression, directed primarily at the Irish community in Britain but with the aim also of smearing and isolating the supporters of is already The Daily Mail editorial, the day after the assassination, called for increased security checks and for identity cards for the Irish in Britain. Eldon Griffiths, Tory MP and political adyiser to the Metropolitan Police, demanded 'more and better equipped units' of the SAS, and for them to be used to back up police operations in Yelping like puppy-dogs at the wheels of this cart of reaction can always be found the Labour leadership. When James Callaghan said that 'No effort would be spared', he was correctly understood by the Daily Mirror when it headlined his statement, Jim Vows The campaign in the press is designed not only to increase the election chances of the Tories, but to turn whole sections of the working class rightwards and tie them to the reactionary schemes of the ruling class. The National Front's campaign will be given the biggest boost it could have hoped for. Not self-determination for possibly Terrorists' has become an issue. For all these reasons no support But that is not to give any credence to the reactionary campaign of hysteria. The Morning Star did just this in its editorial on Saturday when it expressed utter and total condemnacon or lnose who brutally and cold-bloodedly murdered Mr Airey Neave'.
Andrew Murray's front-page article in the Star confined itself to applauding Neave as a 'hero' of World War II and a major opponent of troop withdrawal (just like the CPGB?). His personal role in aiding state repression in Ireland went unreported. The term "barbarism' was reserved not for British imperialism's operations However much we disagree with the strategy or the particular socialists have a responsibility at all times to defend the right of the Irish people to fight back against the primary violence of the British state.
The best way to do this in the election campaign is to be prepared to mount detence campaigns for all those who will inevitably be lifted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act in the next few weeks, and to demand publicly that Labour candidates, particularly the "lefts', commit themselves to such defence campaigns and to the fight to repeal the PTA. They should be hounded by people reminding them of the fact that, whoever planted the bomb, it was primed by this Labour government's policy on Northern Ireland.
Socialist Unity candidates will be calling for "Troops Out Now' as a major part of their campaigns. Furthermore, Pat Arrowsmith (standing as an Independent Socialist against Jim Callaghan in Cardiff) and Brendan Gallagher (standing against Roy Mason in Barnsley) will concentrate on making the reality of Ireland an issue By a CPSA Newcastle CIVIL Servants continuing the action over our pay clamn, aespue une general If Callaghan were to meet the claim in full, Labour to decent minimum throughout the public he would be in a much better position to win.
Not that our union leaders are keen on continuing the being action. Ken Thomas, secretary Public Services Association, is strong supporter of the Concordat and has consistently limited the fight to selective action.
It's the pressure of the membership which has forced him to reject the offer of 9 per cent now and pie in the sky later.
A good example of that pressure is the meeting we had at Newcastle Central branch, to which CPSA assistant general secretary John Raywood came along.
He argued that up till now press reports have been good and that we should not threaten *Hanging for supposed escalating action Department of Social Security, lest we be seen to be attacking the unemployed and sick.
Raywood also made it clear that any real escalation of the dispute by militant branches such as our own would not get official support. Speaker after speaker from the floor attacke this, saying that one-day strike and selective enought.
As one striker put it: 'We don't want any striking by proxy. Selective action means the battle we should all waging."
Barry Fudge, the secretary, argued: way to force the government to make concessions is to force the issue in to public attention. The miners, lorry hospital ancillary understood this, and we should too.
A way of unofficial action has been the rumour that where such action is taken, official action will be called off.
We are finding out that it's not enough to be prepared to take action locally to build different branches and strike member in will be and commit implementing rise WaLC sector, general Civil and support by in the Health and brolly brigade, portrays action IS nOl support.
branch "The only drivers, and workers discouraging • we have links between the Upper St, N1. 20p. Foot wishes the civil servants strike would go away — we have to help them win committees so that this sort of sabotage can be prevented.
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