of Northern Ireland. It will meet with Ulster members representing Ulster people. It offers a great chance for peo- to impose this. ple here to work together to produce proposais which can be a major step on the road to lasting peace. Such an Ulster solution would be the best solution.' REALITY But the reality behind this statement was made very clear in a statement from 10 Labour MP's and one independent MP (trom the north of Ireland), calling on the British labour movement to support a national trade union delegute conference on Ireland. This statement said in part: 'Events in Nortbern Ircland are moving rapidly towards a new new and potentially even more dangerous climax. The elections to the Con stitutional Convention are likely to result in the claction of a large number of supporters of the United Ulster Unjonist Council. The Government will then be faced with a choice between handing over power to mesirs Pailsey, Craig and West or continuing with Direct Role. Bither way means continued vilence and repression'. This is the reality of the democralic sounding clarion call of Harold Wilson that the Convention will allow the people of Northern The Constitutional Convention comes in the wuke of the victory of the loyalist generat strike last May which kicked the Sunningdale "power sharing' assembly into touch. This forced British imperialisnt to make u sharp turn to the right to regain control of the situarion, and the Labour Goverament embarked on a policy of compromise with the Inyalists.
In his speech in Belfast annourRed Weekly 3 April 1975 Page 2 power sharing, no irish dimension and the return of the B-Specials. And the loyalists have the strength TRICKY The Labour Government is attempting a very tricky manoeuve. Every onc of the attempts at a the past period has floundered on the rock of the resistance of the minority Indeed any solution proposed within the framework of the northern six county state can succeed on one condition and one condition only-that the nationalist minority in crushed. For the six counties is a totally artificial unit, It can exist only on the basis of preserving the privileged position of the Protestants at the expense of the Catholic minority. Any move by the minority to throw off their oppression throws into question the very existence of the six county state.
The Convention can only be successfulif the defences of the nunority are broken down. For the Lahour Governent and imperialism. this means getting the RUC into the Catholic communities to enforce the rule of law"
For a whole period, no force withIreland to sort out their own future. in the Catholic community wouk! ever think of going along with such tion for the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) may encourage.
question. Meanwhile the RUC is already probing the Catholic areas under cover of the Provisional ceasefire and the protection of the troops.
This was the meaning of Wilson's Catholic areas. But the entry of the RUC means the possibility once more of recreating the Protestant ascendancy.
Such is the reality of the new Vister soluton, by Elster people:
The Constitutional Convention, then, is just one more of a long line of British solutions' to the problems "solution' by British imperialism over of the Irish people It can only be successful through repression of the minority. This is the role of the British army: We in this country must fight for the army to be immediately withdrawn, as it alone can guarantee the success of the British Government and loyalists.
BRITISH SOLUTION seives to experience the "peacekeeping' role that the army plays in disputes such as that in Glasgow. What's mote, the whole opcration of the troops is bringing home to British workers what this means in Ireland Too. The upooming trade union delegite conference will allow the spreading of this understanding to wider layers inside the working class There is an alternative policy for the Irish people: British imperialism must get out and allow the Irish people to determine their own future The Constitutional Convention cannot ullow the will of the Irish people to be expressed. When Harold Wilson says, "Perhaps the reason some of the solutions broke down was the a muve, the hostility of the Catbolics feeling in Northern Ireland that they to this secturian force is so great. But bad been imposed from outside', he the carrot of some sort of "participa is referring to the "feclines of the sectarian loyalists. British workers must reject the framework of the them to change their position on this six councies, and respond to the real aspirations of the Irish people is a whole The condition of this is that British imperialism and British troops get their nose out of Ireland's affairs.
Brich Grogan British workers are beginning theminside. people said. IN ORDER to join the Labour Club in Southall you have not only to be a paid up trade union member you have to be white as well.
Although the club's management committee ouly voted recently, by 5 votes to 3, to exclude blacks oxplicitly, the polcy has existed implicilly for years, Even when an Asian or a West Indian entered the club as a visitor there would be a sudden quiet and all eyes would go towards the door. The message from white club members was clear, and it was not a friendly one.
was no formal colour bar the local labour movemont was able to turn a hlind eve In fact the Labour Party eron reats norm there, despite an incident a couple yem ing theit annual diner and datoe in the club because some of the guests were non-white The fact is that this club has such long standing relations with the local labolt moraint that nobody wanted any fus 'We'll change it from the BOYCOTT CALL Now. at the initiative of alembers of Southall's large immigrant population, Ealing Community Relations Counci has called of the trade unions and tho Labour Parly to take a stand Under the wal threat of losing many immigrant votes the latter will probably cut their Links with the club. But it is still up to trade unionists to take do task their white borisors and sistors in the cluh.
We should act agnost any racist club. It is procisely on the divisive issues such as racism agninst blacks and trish, such a the oppression of women, that socialists alld trade unionists cannot allond any compromise. The Ealing Community Relations Council is calling on unions to stop deliveries to the club and for union members to boycott the club.
It is a matter for the trade union branches to discuss', says Jimmy Harry, secretary of the Afro-Carlobuan Assoclaton. Docause ovory traile union is on record as saying that they appose the House of Lords decision on the question of private clubs, right? And if they an so sincere that they disagree with the Lords decision, why can't they instruct all members not to obey?
CAPITALIST LAWS
"Il is a call that we had to make, bo CHIse for Vens when the Liste union lovement sat down and said they coulla't do anything they were only just playing with words... The laws of this country bave never been made for the working man, and it is not own up to the hack people.
When we talk about this it is not just a black people's struggle, you know. be cause tomorrow it is going to be the poor whites, It's going to be the Irish. it's going to be the Welsh, it's goine to be this, it's going to be that you know it's the working class that we are on about *And if any mauber of the labour movement of the trade union moveinent bave rot any Wusions dist we shoulde t worry about dis club hecause it is only die black poonle, they don't know whal they are tälking abnet. Te's the same thesis that allows us to beconte wage waves as we are toc it's the same patronising stalement that they are
THE PAST WEEK has brought anoth er flurry of moves from the Labour Icadership to prevent any kind of democratic expression of the opposition of the workers" movement to the EEC.
The date of the referen dum has been pushed forward to 5 June in order to try and block any real campaign for a 'no' vote from getting off the ground, while the Government has been churning out vast quantities of a new White Paper backing the capitalist EEC to the hilt, all to trumLEY. NELSON A DISTRICT LEXTILE WORKERS S UNION HOREIGN TEXTİLES OU JOLTON DISTRICT MEAVERS DICT imports from parts of the world under the heel of imperialism, it means trying to export our economic problems onto the backs of those who can least afford it. But even that sort of reactionary project would backfire -because other, more powerful and efficient capitalist countries would do major means of production and coonomic planning. Part of the planning o a socialist economy would, of course involve control over imports and foreign trade in general.
But the aim of this would not be to create some crazy "British' econom cut off from the world economy and