SIX LABOUR MP's will be in the front lines of the October 27th demonstration demanding "British Troops Out of Ire This demonstration is being called by the British Peace Committee-Troops Out Movement ad-hoc committee, Already it has gained significant support from Trades Councils, 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 (UUU) - the right wing loyalists have consolidated their political support. Encouraged by this electoral success they will undoubtedly intensily their campaign to have political authority in the North landed 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 Governinent, faced with this political bandwagon, make pious promises about reintroducing the Tories' policy of "power sharing between the Catholic popuation and the Unionists. ceive enough support in the North to work.
In reality, Wilson's policies give him only two choices: either 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. whuch are not in the inferests of workers in either Britain or Ireland. UNCONDITIONAL, IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL 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 "hi 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 issue of Ireland: it must now be organised to ensure a massive labour movement turnout for the 27 October demonstration.
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