THE MURDEROUS attack on the funerals of the IRA members killed by the SAS will increase opposition to the British presence in Ireland. But the consharply different tactics that have to be pursued in campaigning for British withdrawal in Ireland and The Labour Committee holds AGM on 9/10 April in Manchester. The National Council are proposing.
departure to significantly broaden the movement for withdrawal from Ireland.
After the Enniskillen bombing Kinnock tried to outiaw the policy of British withdrawal within the Labour Party. But this failed. the PLP discussion which followed Enniskillen was best on Ireland in the Instead of ostracising Ken Livingstone it established the legitimacy of the minority which argues for British withdrawai.
Having weathered that storm movement now has to face hard choices in broadening it support.
The basis step forward has been laid by the work of the LCI in the labour movement since 1981. The NUR, the NUM, the Group.
Labour students, the National Union of Students, the organisation, London Labour region, a probable CLPs Labour Left Liaison have called British the ed. HaVe started to such onestors one or two LICS There also been ingham provoking very they were to stamp cultural the Irish the the the murder the members at Loughgall last year ('kicked down shot in the back of the head').
It is not yet possible to win majority withdrawal in the British movement. But what is possible is to make withdrawal much policy of the left as, for example, support tor Black Sections represenTaLO Have become. requires Group, forces and going Irish tivity, British withdrawal.
But this interest the LCI joint the Čammeetings paign Democratic Labohis STUC conferences.
work for people like Clare Short call for vote Anglo-Irish against Agreement to work with those Britain. Opinion polls con jority of people in Britain want leave Ireland. But Sinn Fein is virtually non existent. The minuscule supporting hunger far less virtually BITSE the three IRA members Gibralta:
Monday the LE C to Britain remaining. Ireland and The National full steering twentieth movement will in a national August 1989 with the twentieth of troops in the six counties.
The year of action will highlight the continuing injustice, discrimination and denial of civil liberties in the north of Ireland and call for British withdrawal It will be organised around charter British The steering committee Co-conne the ycal d events is beinone or Short Preparatory meetings have beer attended by John McDonnell, Peter Hain, Maeve Sherlock the president of the NUS and individuals from the Irish community radical The steering committee will in clude Ken Livingstone and leading trade unionists.
The aim is through the year of action to extend an understanding of what is taking place in Ireland should leave tar wider areas than previously been possible. This will then the festival cumulate DC. the post war instead broad the acmemoration.
the to from Ireland Women for already 1n011 broaden thereve movement In HEALY BELFAST coincided with a clear political change direc tion at its recent AGM Enormous problems remain. Most unions will members in the six coun ties continue to avoid th issue of partition. Freeman, Northern of the TGWU has even tried to claim in a letter to Marxism Today that the proven religious political discrimination in the six counties can be ex plained away in terms the geographical distribu tion of jobs SOC mS that not even the govern.
Dawa Will Negotiating these obstacies to winning trade unions like the TGWU to withdrawal building a popular move ICHI inking the Irish community and the left of the abour movement are the issues that the LCI Will address in the coming year.
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trast between the mass demonstration of condolence when the coffins arrived at Dublin and the gloating by the British, media and government illustrate the
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