Gerry Adams campaigns for Sinn Fein in West Belfast. Would Socialist Organiser support Sinn Fein in Loyalist East Belfast? WHAT THE working class of Britain and Ireland need is a mass revolutionary party of the working class. What they have got is the British Labour Party and Sinn Fein respectively. In both countries we have to spell out the next steps to advance towards our goal.
In Britain revolutionaries call for a vote for the Labour Party, in Ireland a vote for Sinn Fein. The British Labour Party is based on the organised working class, but no one would accuse it of being a revolutionary party.
is a revolutionary without a developed programme for the organisation of the working class. gramme is being developed in the The enthusiasm and dedication of its workers in this election contradict its own recent policy statement that only the military struggle will defeat imperialism. Meanwhile the Assembly in the North continues to justify partition and provide a basis for a restoration of the old Stormont parliament.
The Southern capitalists reply for a New Ireland — defined its purpose in the first hours of its existence by the council sat Nicky Kelly, falsely imprisoned by the Southern courts, was on hunger strike and be. ing treated by the Southern government as the H block strikers were treated by the British.
The constitutional amendment on abortion being put to referendum in the South would have the effect of welding into one weapon the ideology of the church and the power of the state.
At the same time we have witnessed a massive economic offensive by the Southern labour movement for higher wages and against the taxation system, union leaderships to defuse protests.
The Northern Ireland Congress too are trying to sell the right to strike in exchange for a flimsy guarantee that minimum wage would apply there.
In this election only Sinn Fein are any where near to addressing the root of all these problems the imperialist Democracy are confident that electoral gains for but one But Sinn Fein's proclass strugale. the Council excluding Sinn Fein. As against the attempts of the traditional domination of Ireland. Peoples ADAMS I election isherie Ta can dide castandie on the Muriel 'Labour and Trade Union Group' in East Belfast supported by the Militant.
ing the campaign Muriel replied: 'The army do not bother with the Protestant areas of Belfast. They are in and out of the Short Strand area of my constituency ... We go about our campaign very politely and quietly... and we've been very well received.' It makes you wonder how anyone claiming to be a socialist can fail to denounce the presence of an army of occupation their constituency - but if your main priority is favour Loyalist areas Muriel making sense.
Every LUlllmentator from the Sun to DUBLIN "натрірана candidate When asked if she has suffered harassment durthe Financial Times knows that what is at stake in the election in une North is the battle between the pro-imperialist Loyalist parties the Social Democratic hand and in Fein on one Labour Party the one But Socialist Organiser has followed in the wake SDLP leader Hume dreams of Westminster of the Militant by declaring that there is no difference between Sinn Fein and the SDLP, 'they only differ in their methods' John O'Mahony goes on to assure us "It is simply not true that the SDLP is not concerned for the unification dependence there is On that level there norning to Croose DeLweCli the SDLP and Sinn Fein.
Demands O'Mahony then goes on to note truthfully, but inexplicably in the light of his own analysis, thai Sinn rein is tne clearest expres sion' of the legitimate demands and aspiration: of the oppressed Catholic Subscribe to the only paper with a revolutionary Marxist analysis of current events in Ireland, North and South.
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Send to Connolly Bookshop, 6 Avoca Park, Belfast. community. Catholics should therefore vote for them As for the Protestants O'Mahony considers that it would be a giant step for them to vote for ... the O'Mahony tries evade the duty of socialists absolutev unambiguously that they are on the side of those fighting British imperialism whether through the mass struggle, the armed struggle or the ballot box.
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finding an increasing dience in the left of the labour movement for the argument it the British ruling class which is responsible Advertisemen I WHY SOCIALISTS SHOULD VOTE SINN FEIN tarian divisions in Ireland, buttressed by partition.
The fight for national independence TOI socialism go hand in hand question you are ducking the main battle against im perialism its allies whether they are in the Loyalist parties, the capitalist parties of the South the collaborationist SDLP. Quiet Socialist Organiser in their ridiculous ecleticism unfortunately have taken another faltering step down the 'polite and quiet road already trodden bs the Militant.
NO MORE PARTITION SOLUTIONS ERL ORGANISE IN THIS ISSUE:
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