to support a desperate attempt by a Unionist clique to hold on to power against the wishes of the great majority of the Irish people."
These were the words of Coun cillor "Paddy" O'Connor, former mayor of Camden and the Labour Deputy Chief Whip on Camden Council addressing a public meeting called by the North London Troops Out Movement on Monday.
Councillor O'Connor went on to condemn the failure of the British Labour Movement to act on the A sit-in by 200 printworkers at the IPC. Meanwhile, Briant's Inow Binarti, pre owned Beymard Press in Clerkerivel!
came to a rapid end last week when man, has been closed down egain by its new massive campaign to demand that the troops get out and allow the Irish people to face up to their own problems.
Jim Kemp, T&GWU building workers convener and a member of the IMG, spoke of the necessity to raise the issue of Ireland within the Labour Movement, and the close relationship between the ropression in Ireland and the growing repression in Britain.
Bob Purdie, also of the IMG, described the current situation in Ireland. He stressed the need to campaign against legal repression (with the conspiracy laws as the central point) and Army viously the scene of a protracted work in, owners, Locked out by security patrols the workers' only hope is for solidarity action which hits the printing bosses where it hurts them most on the big papers published by the Essex and East London Newspapers group wal ked out after their editor-in-chief told them that they must come to work properly washed. However. management at Southend, who had locked out not only jouralists but also printers who supported NUI ne Lon over the claim, were forced to cimb down and remstate the whole workforce without conditions. This week the NU.J Has muncned a further round of selective action to persuade the NS to lift its ban do horse apreements, which the union has made a precondition for negotiations on the main clim. But such tactics, and the inevitable ragpod skirmishes which they produce at a local level, threaten more and more to lead simply to demoralisation in the absence of any fur ther perspective for strugele. The need for journalists to forge links with other trade unionists for a jolat ficht to break through Phase 3 becomes ever more imperative recruitment finking it with unemploymenti, and for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the British Army from Ireland, and self-determination for the rish people.
The meeting was part of the build up to the national Troops Out demonstration, which takes place on Saturday, 1 December. The demonstration assembles at Shepherds Bush Green at 1.30 p.m. and will march to a rally in Hammersmith Town Hall, where thu main speakers will be Jim Kemp, Frank McManus MP Althe Jones la leading black militant), a Belfast housewife, and Dave Bolton (Vice President of the Scottish NUM).
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