A CAMPAIGN of resistance to the use of paid informers looks like opening up a new stage in the struggle in the North.
It is now two years since the hunger strike, and although the five demands of the hunger strikers are still to be acheived, the lasting effects of the mass movement built behind those demands still remain.
The republican movement continues to move leftward and lessons have been drawn from 1981. These lessons include the necessity for mass action; for a campaign on a 32-county basis; to campaign internationally; to involve women centrally in the struggle; understanding the value of using the electoral. unions and working with the left in Britain to build a broad-based troops out movement.
In Britain more and more Labour Parties are inviting Sinn Fein representatives so that the 'wall of disinformation' created by the government and ine medla can De broken down.
Unionist veto, and the removal of Labour's supBritish intelligence might not be very good, but one thing thev do realise is that the problems in the North cannot be solved by military superiority. After all, a couple of Harrier Jump Jets could resistance in an afternoon if political conditions.
It is for this reason that Thatcher was intranwhat clothes the men of H-block wore, important was to that they were criminals, and that campaign failed. Since the H-block struggle, initiatives have floundered. The Assembly could not even gain the credibility offered by participation of the SDLP who would normally accept any offer of collaboration.
The British will not consider withdrawal until the nationalist population Call be thoroughly defeated. Criminalisation offers the only possible short term strategy. So now they comb the overfilled jails trying to buy off prisoners who will betray their comrades in exchange for fabulous riches and a place in the sun. It is an ideal breeding ground for every kind of undercover agent and secret sevice operator.
These paid perjurors can only operate in a system where non-jury courts have thrown every sormal notion of justice to the winds. Sinn Fein re now starting to organise resistance to this latest They go into a new campaign with lessons partially or wholly learnt from the H-block/Armagh struggle.
Already the so-called allies in the church have taken their distance. Civil libertarians from Britain in the form of Lord Gifford and the Cobden trust vil gile me mora Issues, In Drilal, the abour caistance. The last time round, confusion was rife he ca sa! issue. time de the witch hunt and retreat of the left — The figures tend to indicate growing trend toward later marriages according to the report by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. The accine in une birtn rate should not have affected 1981 umber cs, although the number peopic or Ilathlagcabie age will decline in the future.
In the Queen's Speech this summer the government promised to introduce a new bill in the next session 'reform the current divorce law in the hopes that such a bill would 'improve family life' It will be based on a private member's bill inHammersmith, been hailed by the press as a 'quickie' divorce bill, a bill to give more help to children and so on.
It is none of these - it is in fact is mpt by the Tories to at- another attack women. to make them responsible for the break-down of the family and to penalise them.
One proposal sell er vide fixed-term maintenance to end the of divorced women, and another will allow for conduct to be taken into acwhen defending financial settlements. Divorce will be permitted after only one year of marriage the bill says of the children must be paramount, though it has no proposals on how to ensume las.
The aim of the first proposal for fixed-term maintenance is supposedly to allow the couple not like the They relied on divoice down to two sample right!
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A JOB break' more provided that encouraging family system of culc the whereby WHEN I FALL ...IT WILL FOR EVER..
..TWO KIDS A BOY... A GIRL..
AND MAYBE SMALL PART-TIME IN AN OFFICE..
there will now be two households instead of one The husband will have to go out to work all day and mus cer sone woman o look after house ries, or a housekeeper if he does not provide TOI The wife will not, employ . She will de 1USL of will merely strengthen ideology other matrimonial of fence. It was believed that a woman should forgive a husband's adultery whereas a husband could not be expected to do the same Until very recently, womer have had LICH them they slept someone other than their husband. In this case the children would go to th husband who probably done the same thing.
Lesbian women still have great difficulty in getting custody. 'misdemeanours' are still seen as worse than men's and women are 'punished' for the breakdown of the Manage. Is cal la the proposals of this bill aim to bolster the family at women's expense.
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