COUNTRY grovelling of the Southern Irish ruling class The Loyalists are hell bent on te paining their privileges and untrammelled rule over the Catholics in the six counties. The nominal leader of the United Ulster Unionists, Molycaux, pointed out in the debate in Parliament last wook that the Layalists would not tolcrate any form of"power sharing' with any force which 'wished to destroy the state" How uncompromising the Ulster Unionists are can be gicaned from the fact that they view even the mealy-mouthed Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) as an enemy of the state.
THE CAT Rees himself unintentionally let The cal out of the bag in his speech to the Labour Party Conference last week. We want to have a planned withdrawal of British troops and their replacement by the police' he wittered on, 'but I tell the conference bluntly -and I do not think I have ever used words so carefully chosen -that a premature withdrawal of British troops would lead to civil IF I COULD HAVE GOT YOU ON A BOMB CHARGE I WOULDN'T HAVE ALLOWED TOU TO LEAVE THS REFUSED DEPORTATION EXIT IK.
vas mendy a cover for in those areas where the British Army is not allowed to operate Derry, South Down, Fermanagh occur, The British army simultanweakens the self-defence of the Catholics.
ARRESTS team finally decided to move, and 18 people were promptly rounded up. Bur 16 of those arrested were Catholics! Clearly neither the Gov ernment nor the army is interested And little wonder -for sectarian killing ald the policy of Rees and Co., and provide a 'useful' outlet for Loyalist frustration.
This is the reality of Labour's policy in Ireland. It is ebsolutely vital for the Government that the Catholic masses are tumed before the Constitutional Convention is called in Spring of next year. Othto which Rees clings will provoke a big protest from the Loyalists.
the ruling class can feel which way the wind is blowing, and are trimming every sail in a desperate effort alist murderer is ever apprehended.
Contrast this with the situation and so on. Here no sectarian killings cously gives covet to the killers and Last week Rees and his direct rule than the British".
in doing anything about the killings Sure erwise even the watery power-sharing Meanwhile, in Southern Ireland Some of the applications of the new anti-terrorist measures look on the air of the theatre of the ahsurd last week.
Take the case of Gerry Doherty, a Tormer national organiser of Clann na h Fireann (Chu organisation in Britain which supports the Official Sinn Fein).
Here is an organisation which is totally apposod to the Provisional IRA and its strategy and tactics. It hasa't got anything better itseif, but it is without douht oppbood to the Provos, the bombing campaig and anything else they do or don't do.
Why then expel Doherty? The answer ties in the way in which the new laws are designed to ald harassment of the Irish political community as a whole However, while we will defend Doh orty and others from his organisation unconditionally against these attacks, we cannot hut deplore the statements he has been maxine lo. tho press On arriving at Dublin on 4 December afler being deported, this spokesman of the Official declared that ho bore no grudge against the British Government" He was more angry with the Provos To carry sectarianism to this extent is unfargiveable. The fight which has to be to get the wind behind them again.
la the wake of the Birmingham bombings the Southern Irish ruling class look the opportunity to introduce an almost unheard of meas'extra-territorial" courts. These new institutions will allow the Southern ruling class to try suspected "offenders' in the South for act committed in the North. Never has their prostration before Brilish imp erialism been more complete.
by Brian ne grudge aganst the British Gorerwaged today is for the total repeal of th repressive Ines passed by the Labour Gov emment and for the complete withdrawal of Hritsh Imperialism from Treland. Yet Dolerty chooses this time to say that he is "more angry' with the anti-imperialists than the imperialists; ie. he regards sect portant Chan the struggle against British inperialism.
Clano an hEireain should publicly dissociate ibself from Doberty and the implications of his statements. They have a perfect right to criticise the Provos - as do the other left-wing groups In this country- but to equate the actJons of the oppressed with those of the oppressor is unacceptable Terry Kelly TAN COLEMAN, a member of the member of the IMG was imprisoned fast Friday by the Leeds Crown Court for 18 montis He was jailed ior allegedly causing "actual bodily harm' to a policeman at a demonstration organised by the violently racist National Democratic Freedom Movement (NDFM). This outfit is a breakaway from the fascist National Front. The NDFM members
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