The recent wave of bombings in London has brought out all the hypocrisy of the British capitalist press.
The first bombings came at almost the same time as the Derry coroner spoke out, describing the actions of the British Army on Bloody Sunday British newspapers found no difficulport for the actions of their butchers in the North of Ireland.
The revived image of Bloody Sunday was a timely reminder of what the 'gentlemen of the press' in this country have always preferred to forget: that the peace and quiet of the English countryside has always depended upon the blood-drenched spectre of British imperialism abroad.
when hundreds of thousands of blacks death-to fill the coffers of English merchants and fuel the fires of the Industrial Revolution, English capitalist society has been nothing more than a tarted-up murder machine.
The activities of the Fenians in the ing off in London last week. 11870s, the IRA bombing campaign of David Tettodoro 1939, and the present attacks represent nothing more than a few chickens coming home to roost from the three centuries long history of murder and brutality inflicted on Ireland by the English ruling class.
No matter what one thinks of the bombings from a tactiçal stand point, as 'sheer unadulterated murder". Most it is impossible to avoid remarking that the British left have been due for ty in combining frenetic denuncia- a reminder of their responsibilities to tions of "IRA terrorists' with full sup- the Irish struggle. If the British labour movement had given the Irish Republican movement even a fraction of the solidarity to which it was entitled, the present situation could never have developed. Nor can the revolutionary left afford to be self-righteous. Their guilt is less only because their influence is less. Their record is just as seriously blotted with the stains of British chauvinism.
Those who are really concerned to From the days of the slave trade, put a stop to the present bombing campaign have a simple course cut out were torn away from their native for them-to work for a mass move. homelands and sold into bondage-or ment in this country against the pres Hence of British troops in Ireland, and for the right of self-determination for the whole Irish nation. If the British Army was not at this very moment occupying the Six Counties of Ireland there would have been no bombs goOver 400 workers at the Adwest Engineering factory in Woodley, Reading, are now in the second week of their sit-in strike.
They have demanded that the management stop with Adwest