Whitelaw's Monday statement still attempts to maintain the facade of British "justice". "At the same time there have been killings in all sections of the community and a state of lawlessness which cannot be tolerated." The 'impartiality" of the imperialist administration does not of course extend to an actual balance sheet of sectarian murders. Since the end of March, according to the Catholic Ex-Servicemen's Association, 42 Catholics have been murdered by Protestant extremists. 17 of them in July. This far exceeds the number of alleged IRA executions security forces). Among recent victims of the Orange gangs and assassination squads WCTe *a 15-year-old Catholic boy, David McGlenaghan, mentally retarded, who was shot by gunmen who broke into his home on 12 July. and assaulted his mother. *Rose McCartney and Patrick O'Neill, a young Catholic couple found shot in a car abandoned in the Glencairn estate after they had had an evening out together. *47-year-old Francis MeStravick, recently returned to Ireland after 25 years working in England, found dead in a bag near Sandy Row on 27 July. *Joseph Rosato, father of a former internee, shot dead by gunmen who came to the house looking for his son.
OFFICIAL INFORMATION The UDA gunmen, at least, are being helped from official sources in gaining information about the identity, addresses and relatives of Republican and civil rights militants. The trial of UDA men in London recently revealed that files on Republicans were kept in the home of Charles Wilson, UDA chairman the August issue of United Irishman reports that they came directly from RUC officers.
While the UDA have been patrolling the streets of Belfast side by side with the British Army and the Orange murders increase in number, Republican and Civil Rights militants are still languishing in jail. They include men like Malachy McBurney, Republican Clubs leader, who was active in organising aid for internees and their families before his own arrest in December. Like countless others he was subjected to the wall torture by Special Branch officers who added the final touch of removing his artificial leg. Other internees who put up any resistance like the Provisional hungerstrikers have been allowed to become dangerously ill.
TERROR Terror is being used against a whole people in Northern Ireland —the terror of the British Army and the Orange mobs against a people who have been struggling for their freedom. The invasion of the no-go areas will involve a new phase of this terror campaign: the Army has gone in explicitly to "do a job" on the Republican militants. At the same time the imperialist propaganda campaign against IRA terrorism" will be stepped up here as well as in Ireland, It is a campaign which sucialists in Britain must be ready to combat.