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LOYALISTS STEP UP SECTARIAN ATTACKS DUNGANNOY-ORADOWN

Red Weekly No. 113, 21 August 1975 · p. 12 of the scan · 588 words

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unteers on one side and British army and Loyalist snipers on the other. The shooting followed two to be cheering from the side-lines.

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an end to interment nowand the release of all sentenced political prisoners. Eight thousand people at a rally in Belfast's Dunville Park Sinn Fein vice-president, when she said: "We don't give a damn about today.' istance of the anti-Unionist population has not been matched by the Despite the fact that there are still political prisoners are held in prison camps, efforts to achieve a united protest failed. Both Sinn Fein and the Official-backed iation held their own exclusive OT'OLESIS. OAPs which also took place in this area a fortnight ago.

But tens of thousands of demonstrators all over the North demanded applauded Maire Drumm, Provisional Christmas, we want them home now, Unfortunately, the militant resmajor anti-imperialist organisations.

next month. 230 internees cooped up in the wire cages of Long Kesh, and some 2,000 Northern Ireland Civil Rights Assoc• LOUGHGALL The notorious 'death triangle" where so many sectarian killings and attempted killings have taken place, as recently documented by two priests. Not marked are the Miami Showband ambush and the attack on a minibus of Catholic betrayers are toying with this idea in their current talks with the United Ulster Unionist Council.

Speaking on Southern Irish radio a few months ago, SDLP leader Gerry Fitt agreed with lan Paisley that an 'Ulster identity" was emerging. 'It is much too early to attempt to negotiate an independent state or UDI, but certainly the trend is there', said Fitt. And in order to give the Convention parties more time to cook up a deal, the Assembly which was due to re-convene on 19 August-has been put off till Whatever deal emerges, one thing is sure. The aim of any new structures for the Loyalists will be the smashing of all political opposition along LANCASTERwith stepped-up repression gainst the anti-Unionists The only effective way in which such a development can be resisted is through the united action of all anti-imperialist groups, and the preparation of the anti-Unionist working class for the defence of their areas against Loyalist attacks through the creation of local united front defence committees. Militants in Britain can make their contribution to the anti-imperalist struggle by building a mass movement for the immediate withdrawal from Ireland of all British troops-the shelter behind which the Loyalists are preparing their offensive.

From JOHN MAGEE in Belfast

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