INO. HANGING HER the assassination had been instigated by the Special Air Servic "Which Way to Peace?".
Rival opposite occurred in strike the first project. THE DEBATE at the Student Movement Conference on Ireland in Canterbury this weekend seems likely to be a variant of one that has raged in the nationalist areas of the North of Ireland in the last ten weeks. Summed up, it is simply this:
One option is the one offered jointly by 'peace woman' Mairead Corrigan, Daily Mail, the British Government and tion. the Morning Star. As Red Weekly reported in September, the Broad Left leadership of the National Union of Students came out in support of the peace people at the Teacher Training Sector conference of the NUS. However the "movement' is not in a happy state.
So desperate is its plight, in fact, that the Irish Post reports that it has publicly threatened to bring court action against critics like Ivan Cooper of the Social work. Democratic & Labour Party, who recently attacked it for being 'part of a conspiracy by the British Government to isolate the SDLP and restore "majority rule".
Whether or not the lifting of the ban on Trafalgar Square for the peace people or their association with the wife of the assassinated colonial butcher Ewart-Biggs represents a conspiracy, they have never taken up a single demand in defence of the democratic rights of the Catholic people. Nor is that an accident, or an unconscious mistake on their part When Betty Williams was told that her *Peace At Any Price' march in Belfast recently was to be challenged by a rival one organised through the nationalist ghettoes calling for "Peace With Justice', her response was to tell journalists: *We the Chilean Junta or the Greek Colonels will have little response amongst "liberal-minded people' in Britain. This is because the source of violence and repres sion in Ireland lies in the existence of the Six County state itself. That state requires British money and guns to maintain it against the will of the Irish people and their democratic right to self-determinaIn short, the Orange State is simply the bloody expression of the occupation of six Irish counties by British imperialism. The only way in which ongoing and mass support can be won for a campaign which places demands on the British Government to end repression in Ireland is on the basis of the ending of the occupation. The themes "Britain Out of Ireland', "Troops Out Now' must be the ones that guide its As a first step the conference can unite with the forces involved in the Peace Through Freedom Committee, which is mobilising against the peace people on 27 November on the slogans Ireland Unfree Shall Never Be At Peace' and First Step to Peace, Troops Out Now'.
By coming out with a clear position on British withdrawal, and by taking it forward in action on us minauve students at Canterbury this weekend can lay the basis for ongoing activity in solidarity with the struggle of the Irish people against our 'own' Government in every college and campus in opportunity is one they cannot afford to miss if they sincerely wish to help the ending of and repression l Ireland once and for all.
AILEAN O'CALLAGHAN STUDENT MOVEMENT CONFERENCE ON UNIVERSITY OF KENT CANTERBURY, 13th NOV 1976