small businessmen's policy for Northern Ireland'. It condemns disunity between the UVF and UDA. The criticisms of the lur coat brigade strike a chord in the loyalist working ciss.
The National Front cannot mount independent mobilisations, as the lack of response to calls for opposition to recent Republican marches in Belfast have shown. But the influence it bolds within the loyalist parn-military orginisations is discernible in their presses.
The papers of militant loyalism. Combat (UVF), Uister Millant (UDA), Lavalist News etc,, all have a close relationship. Articles and ideas visibly circulate quickly around them, and the vows of the National Front are among them. The ideology of the National Front is prescor in the 'Russian Sca Forces Increasing' type scare stories in Comber, and even in the editor's disclaimer of signed articles appearing in the same paper, which is copied directly from Britain First, a National Front paper in Britain. Similar articles appear in all the loyalist papers, such as the regular attacks on socialist.
The National Froot has not yet gained a decisive hold on the contradictory and confused politics of the loyalist groups, But the NE's ideas are being sown in fertile ground There is only one strategy socialists can follow to combat the strength ening of the influence of fascist orginisations within the loyalist working class, by taking an unconthe fur coat promising stand on the national question and by working to build a mass anti-imperialist morement to further fragment Unionism and ultimately to break its bold on the loyalist working class.
Front, as revealed quite cleariy in their press statement published in Red Meekly No. 60, is thar they quite clearly identify with and support both the Union with a "Greater Britain' and on terms compatible with her lUistor's| interests and self. respect lin other words the maintenance oT protestant ascendancy, As a perty organised both in Britain and in the Six Counties, They would be the only party which could credibly hold out the illusion to protestant workers that they could turn back the clock and British capins poncies to be soon shree was rio contradiction between Union and asognancy. This fact - that they hold out the laise promise of solving the workers - it the main reason why they could become an attractive thriving Yours fraternally. KEVIN TODD Red Weekly 1 August 1934 Page 5