IMGpapers 1968–75

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

Ireland and the elections

Red Weekly No. 70, 3 October 1974 · p. 2 of the scan · 426 words

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"I would like to see us announce the date for withdrawal. And 1 think that we ought to withdraw not only in a military sense, but in the political and economic sense too.' (St Pancras JOCK STALLARD Northl The Irish question is missing from the election, but it is actually a very important issue. The real problem is partition, and we must work towards the reunification of the Irish nation:

Red Woekly 3 October 1974 Page 2 Dear Fed Weekly.

Alan Jones's article in Red Weekly 112 Sepramberi smacks of chauvinism. Great Britons of left or right have no business lecturing the frish how to vote-especially net for the Labour Party.

The Labour Government has carried put a great fraud on the irish. power in the February election with the support of Irish voters, making a fisthat of promises about ending internment, send ing political prisoners back to Ireland, and so on, All these promises have gone up n smoke.

Instead more women are interned than ever before. Rees allows the British Army to call the tune, he caved in completely to The loyalist rebellion at Easter, and he is now busy re-arming the B-Specials as fast as he can under the guise of the third force' Enoch Powel nimseif scic / few woek: we true she Lobour rarty s renord an In land was better fie. more chauvinist, more unignist, more brutal, more impenis istl than the Tories. port the Labour candidate in North Ising ton, a renegade Irishman called O' Halloran. It came to He says Or Hallaran shot id be supported because he is a 'British constitutionalist ed by the 'extreme and subversive Irish Cr vil Rights Association.

sranes pa on the same pistibrm as Sta inists ard fascists like Devonard Lewis in opars ing I CRA.

orial comment on the Irish struggle in Red Weekie of 27 July 1973, whích sa d: The tack of the British eft s not so pratte his lor cel nonsense, or to moralise. it is to soi ism against the lish was the sctret of the frish camp A fascist called Devorald Lawie, who stood as Tory candidate last February on a for Ireland? back Powell-halt immigration-bring back hanging ticket, is now arging voter to sup And what about the ING? The IMG is lE macis a bitter mockery of the aditWhat is your solidarity now?

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