into the North, and that British capital already invested here was being withdrawn. He was followed by Convention. members John Hume (SDLP) and lan Paisley (UUUC) on local television, citing events such as the steep increase in airlares, the closure or the sealink Heysnam-bellast terry. and the threatened closure of the Belfast-Ardrossan ferry as abundant evidence of Britain's isolation plan.
But the economic situation has one very immediate consequence for anti-Unionist workers. The economic branruptey of British imperialism is striking particularly hard at the engineering and textile industries, for long almost the exclusive province of Lovalist workers ers are now being made redundant with nil prospects of new ous ala cme when me vorsas unemo ovment levels running at more than double the level in Britain, in some areas as high as 25 per cent. Consequently, we are now witnessing large-scale attacks on Catholic workers as more and