REACH INTO YOUR POCKET TO HELP MAKE ZIMBABWE AN ISSUE COMPARE these two examples how unemployment:
1. The Party in country A Fights for controls to protect imports from country B and so save jobs. The Party in country B does likewise with imports from country A. fight 2. Workers in country C learn thut their multinational employer based in country Dis planning to shift its operations buck home, making thousands redundant. They contact the workers at the multinational in D and oreanise Chinese froops in action — the impact of Socialism in One Country campaign against all redendancies.
Both are real instances. The first refers to the 'alternative economic left question we can ask them is: Joint can we count on your solidarity workers imports?
Flat. Trotskyist the Fourth The only the workforce.
strategies Common Market enlargement: defends Fou IreS on 8 common Laited States of Europe.
against Parties The second example refers to workers at SEAT, its parily-owned Spun ish subsidiury, discovered the redundancy plans and, through 'good contacted their counterparts in Turin and organised a joint campaign among the mass of Or consider these alternative For fighting the Which is likely to be more effective?
1. Your Italian, Belgian and Spanish parties are in favour of the EEC und cumpaign for its your French party favours the EEC but als the British *French national interests" and is opposed to expanding the community: your British and Irish parties are related against the EFC and campaign for their countries' withdrawal.
пошн • joint campaign in all FEC member and prospective member con- ism tional platform, which includes the destruction of the EEC and the establishmeat of a Sociulist It is Again these are reat instances and again the alternatives are offered by the Communist and the Fourth The point of these exumples is not to blow our own trumpet but to show how international. ism is not just an abstractly thing but the most practical road to socialism.
We should learn the lessons of the Labour Purly discussed shove. The reformism of the Labour Party flows not from any lay which says that mass workers partles are bound to betray bal from the circum stunees in which it cume into being - In other words the and particular position of British Similarly the degeneration of and every other Communist Party was not the result of a sudden transnational coincidence but was intimately to the counterrevolution in the Soviet Union:
And that counter-revolution itself had as its explicit Ideologs the rejection of international.
the policy of 'Socialism in One Country '. The socialist cause still suffers the tragic impuet of such a policy - in the wur in Indochina for example.
relativel! Simple lo sufline the sort of measures # workers government in Britain could take: material wid to liberation movements. monopoly of foreign trade and Comeron, embargo on the racist regimes of southern Afries, and so on.
Similarly we can argue, as we do elsewhere in this issue, that the indispensable instrument of WALEM IS revolution revolutionary party. But Internationalise i reducible to neither a single organisation nor a putative future programime.
The real test for revolutionuries in Brituin is how far here now they solidarity with the liberation strugeles of southere Africa or how far they too fall prey to that insinuating British imper iulist ideology.
How far they fight on an level against unemploymeat and austerity or far they pose national solations lo these ecenomic problems nternalionally againsi the EE or how far they give in lo tempting chouvinist answers These questions need practi Canswers. The choose will in lurge measure determine the sort of socialism we are going to build.
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Act of Union, passed in both the British and Irish ends Irish all say on Irish affairs to Westminster. The Act is never voted on by the Irish people - and only bribing of MPs secures its passage through the Irish parliament.-Catho. lics remained banned from political life.
Attempted rebellion led by Robert Emmet. A total failUTE BAIS CB UTEL TICOIO TELELU Legislation passed ar Westminster allowing ihe seizure of the crops and livestock of frish rural tenants for non-payment of rent.
Under the leadership of Daniel O'Connell the Catholic Association is formed to press for the repeal of all anti-Catholic laws Catholie Association is banned:
Catholics finally permitted to stand for Parliamcht. O'Connell introduces a Bill in Parliament for the Repeol of the Union. Defealed in the House of Commons by 529 TOTeTO.
D'Connell and others establith the Repeal Association ena organnc a senes c aass demonstranonsro press tor Home Rule. 1844: O'Conneil and other leaders of the Repeal Associa:
tion are jailed for "conspiracy'. 14S: 200,000 people attend a meeting in Ireland demanding repeal of the union. 845-6 Between October 1843 and January 1846, 30,000 osen, buils and cows, 30,000 shecp, and 100,000 pis are esported from Ireland to England: 1846-8: Successive lamines depopulate Ireland through starvaand-a-haif million people. 147: Crime and Outrages Act passed at Westminster. Several Irish counties put under semi martial law.
Leaders of the nationalist Young Ireland movement charged with sedition. 347-58: A total oF 12 Coercion Acts governmcnt special powers, suspending a whole range of civil fiberties such as habeas corpus, the right of association, and freedom of assemhily Young Ireland movement stage rehellion. It fails, and its ДОСТА ДЕ CALLED 1849-50: Over 36,000 tenants are evicted from their boldings.
221,000 emigrate from Ireland to the United States. 'home rule and transfers are passed, giving the Fumine in the 184 Fenian Brotherhood. The execution of Robert Emmet, 1803 1916 James Connolly. 1918:
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laration of independence. 1919:
Anny and British forces 1920:
dence. 1920:
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tween 1919 and 1921. 1921:
the Kepublicans.
1922:
1922-24: Interument in North of Ireland.
tren next five sears. 1932:
1933: 1935:
1968:
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B Specials and RUC 1969.
troopa Lo aid police. 1969: Faster Rising in Dublin. Irish Republic is declared. The rising is put down within two weeks and the leaders are executed. They include beading revolutiopary socialist Ceneral election. 73 out of 105 sears are won by Sinn Fein. Many Suun Fein leaders remain in prison. In acpordanice with the election result the Sinn Fein MPs establish an Irish Parliament in Dublin and issue a decHosilities break out berwoen the Irish Republican Government of Ireland Act passed at Westminster, partitioning Ireland and timniting the degree of Trish indepenNorth of Ireland Loyalists launch pogrom against Catholics: 62 die, over 200 ase mounded. British launch Full-scale assault on tbe Irish Republic;
epuhlican suspects murdered, crocusea, and intern O TRA members and civilians killed by the British Aul aar in tho Sounh of lrdand sota the defeat ol, In association with the British povernment, the newly establislied North of Ireland government forms che B Specials, an exclusively Protestant paramilitary foroe, 1o back up the Royal Ulster Constahulary Special Powers Act introduced in the North of Ireland This allows for internment without trial, closuce of bewspapers, execution withour jory trial, and Mogeing. The powers are to run for one year only.
Special Powers Act reneaed Special Powers Act renewed Special Powers Act renewed al-a rUwCl AErCaciau Special Powers Act renewed Special Powers Act renewed and extended to cover the Unemplayment march atcacked by the police in Belfast two demonstrators shot dead hy police Special Powers Act renewed and made permanen: Loyalists launch anti-Carbolie pogrom . Nibe Catholies dr. When the events are tawed io the Horse af Com mons at Westminster discussion is ruled aur of order. 1938-45: Internment re-introduced in the North of Ireland
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