SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

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Socialist Action No. 176, 11 December 1987 · pp. 6-7 of the scan · 179 words

The scan: 176-dec-11-1987-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 6 of the scan

Ian Paisley MP, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and Jim Molyneaux MP: Unionist Party, in their sectarian regalia in 1985. 1975. An armed sectarian security force was established, numbering more than 10,000 and ex- thern clusively Protestant in composition.

These were the injustices highlighted by the civil rights movement in 1968 which won the catholic population of Northern Ireland worldwide sympathy an again brought the question of Ireland to the attention of people in Britain.

It is a matter of historical record that the violence of the last 20 years in Nor Ireland was initiated by the Unionists in response to the peaceful civil rights campaign. It was the scenes of peaceful civil rights marchers being beaten off the streets and B-specials o the rampage in catholic areas of Belfast and Derry which first shocked the workd in 1969. The official Cameron Commis

page 7 of the scan

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