IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Callaghan pledges 'cut in living standards' UNION CHIEFS BACK LABOUR SELL-OUT TUC Labour unveils new scheme for repression in Ireland

Red Weekly No. 66, 5 September 1974 · p. 1 of the scan · 360 words

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AUEW almost certainly has a higher number of political workers than most unions, Its method of electing its district committees, divisional councils and national execurive makes these bodies more susceptible to rank and file moods than some Scottish NUM A vital part of preparing for these struggles is to reject the social contract now. The election of a Labour Covernment is just one of the meuns-albeit an important one-of creating the best conditions for taking that struggle forward.

ALL OUT FOR CHILE!

SUNDAY - 15 SEPTEMBER - 1 pm Assemble Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park: march to Trafalgar Square eponsored by: Labour Party NEC, AUEW, NUPE, ACTT, South Wales and peskers to includer Jaci Jones, Ron Hayward, Taria Ali and Hartonsia Allendu, widow of the late President Allande Labour Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees, having started down the helter skelter of capitulation to the loyalists has nowhere to go but down the chute.

the speciul reserve of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

This is simply legalising the presence of an unofficial third force. In a more ur less open way recruitment of this force has sal very welcome The only way ahead he can see is increasing repression, This is the reality of his proposal for creating been going on for some time In so far as the Loyalists are dissatistied, this is because Rees has not yet legalised the whole lot But in general they find the propoThe proposal for raising tie reservists around theit own homes suits the Loyalists down to the ground. But it is no more than a transparent manoeuvre as far as the Catholics are concerned, to get these forces of the secturian state inside the Republican strongholds.

In other words, it is a ploy to crack the resistance of the RepubNorthern Ireland Secretary, Mertyn Roe lican masses, starting first with the IRA which defends them. This was the traditional role of the B-Specials and this is what Rees is trying to re create. As lan Paisley has put it, the Government has at least realised that 'only Ulster men and Uister women could win the war against the IRA.* BRIAN GHOGAN

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