SIX LABOUR MP's will be in the froat lines of the October 27th demonstration demanding British Troops Out of leeThis demonstration is being called by the British Peace Committee- Troops Out Movement ad-huc committee, Already it has gained significant support from Trades Coun çib, Trade Union branches, student unions and socialist organisations.
The IMG is mobilising its supporters nationally for this demo and considers it an important step towards building a mass campaign for the immediate withdrawal of British troops from Ireland. In our view the urgency of this task Increases daily. The election results spelt it out clearly. In the Six Counties, the United Ulster Unionists TUUU)
- the right wing loyalists -have consolidated their political support. Encouraged by this electoral success they will undoubtedly intensify their campaign to have political authority in the North handed back to them.
With Powell now among their ranks they are poised to bring their reactionary politics right into the heart of the British political arena, The Labour Government, faced with this political bandwagon, make pious promises about reintroducing the Tores policy of power sharing between the Catholic popuation and the Unionists. ceive enough support in the North to work.
In reality, Wilson's policios give him only two choices: ether to capitulate to the demands of the Unionists, or to continue the present direct rule' set-up by stepping up the use of British troops, tical timebomb in the North of Ireland.
Socialists must campaign for the labour movement to act and force its leaders to abandon these reactionary policies, which are not in the interests of workers in either Britain or Ireland. UNCONDITIONAL, IMMEDIATE WITHDRAW AL IS THE ONLY SOLUTION.
New opportunities exist for carrying this message into the Labour movement. Successive failures by both the Labour and Tory governments to smash the IRA and make their solutions work have led to growing doubts in the working class about the "bi-partisan" policies, supported by both parties. Many workers now question the role of British troops in Ireland.
This has already led to growing trade union and Labour Party involvement on the issoc of Ireland: it must now be organised to ensure à massive labour movement turnout for the 27 October demonstration. But such a scheme could not reEither course will build a poli-