LONG DNE THE BRITISH IN PERE BLOOD DEBTS MUST BE AND RELAND ment some realisation is beginning to emerge of what is going on in Ireland. Some trades councils and trade union branches are now moving to call for the withdrawal of British troops. Hopefully this will be a prelude to moves within the Labour party. We call upon comrade Heffer, and the whole Labour left, to come out openly for an end to the bipartisan policy with the Tories, for an end to internment, and for the withdrawal of troops. action on these points is imperative for the left.
Racism Recent months have seen a new height of openly racist actions and laws in Britain. The We all know that capitalist democratic rights are a sham. It is nonsense to talk of "freedom' when the operations of big firms can throw hundreds of thousands out of work. It is a fraud to talk of 'free speech' when three or four men control the press on which millions depend for information. But we also know that even what capitalist democratic rights there are were won through struggle, and that without them the struggle for socialism would be far, far more difficult than it already is. Laws such as the Industrial Relations Act and the continual police harassment and raids on Irish and socialist militants, threaten eyery hard-won
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