THE LABOUR Committee on Ireland's plans to in. vite Sinn Fein Councillor Tommy Carrol to speak at a Labour party conference, and its promotion of a tour of Sinn Fein councillors to local councils in Ocmittee on Ireland reply to press criticism and address pertinent questions to the party leader.
Dear Neil Kinnock, and hoped that a report would be brought forward been the for culei cle LADOH HA -The Dal Ly Blackpool. signed November. The overIrish Post, that PLP collference unlikely to division with the The Daily to indicate guverlticuy their The LCI argued ed up on unattributed comments the that for Senior figures Committee on were seen SLUILS sceptical intentions, the Telegraph which make the task unity easier. readiness of left wingers We have the legal system in the Irish You are Republic to satisfy futher saying British government that Ill, Republic to Dreakle by the demands more In SulaLs . Ias We pumped border regard Northern security. should violence acalcsl which Lne of the WCUlue Irish not ministration.
recognise. the decision of the Buil. lie the plied Com•ICul ICoUll of the workMany peo- ty which removes the ourselves took great care to present options for the But as 1aw working group to consider Since the signing of the Accord, nationalist people of the North live under greater L cal nul tarian violence. Provocative Orange marches have been allowed parade straight through vulnerabnle nationalist Ten people have cal Cas . fallen O valsI sectarian assassinations.
WUHAU ACO promised been put 'Diplock' Deel victims 01 stead of accountability security forces, wellt given the the selective kill' initem of on the RUC icies Prevention Terrorism ACI plastic bullets, strip nothing has lury courts for the Accord SuDUULl admit was mistake?
start lo clear which has confounded British for generations.
such be How can this be put inknown as 'Cointelmost ment on.
this year's between DUL esperson nounce Oliver African gress'?
If world's would be In around IStS, the fruits end who Party's different Northern has violence'.
is his .this no dif'deConof solve the there TaCIILL 11U socialof repressive Many always to find the best ways to end injustice and inequality wher the status quó being preserved with brutailly, LOLIC murder and state terror. It is morally offensive to denounce the struggle of the in circumstances. Our duty is to find a way to help.
Listen The Labour leadership above all has a duty listen. It is a fact that the hard-pressed naNUSI tionalist communities the North of Ireland, who have borne the brunt military ocupation by Crown torces and today face the savagery ovalsi Icalhion, have elected Sinn Fein violence. I'hev hope tha the when politicians like Conservative politicians saw only the military saturation o1 nationalist areas and torture of prisoners as adequate poncies are over.
There can be no military solution to problems in the North of Surely we have learned that through bitter experience.
You have been to the north of Ireland and said publicly refused talk to What did that achieve? What message did that give the thousands of nationalists • Sinn who have voted Iol Fein representatives?
What hope does the We share the conviction of the majority of people in that only by withdrawing British presence can this cneved Violence in thi North of Ireland is Britain's responsibility. we have a responsibility to end it The Accord has produced reforms. It has not found a mythical 'middle ground' Nor will it. Labour has to grasp the nettle an alternative policy. We can not do it without talking
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tober has provoked a big controversy in the press. In this open letter to Neil Kinnock, the Labour Com-
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