THE IRISH ISSUE wa the election arena again last week The most important success was the disruption of the Powell meetand for means for demonstrators and pickets to identify the police spy photographers who are basily illustrating the estimated two milion Special Branch files.
Dick Brinsley For further information comes: ACD, cio London Freeinnce Branch, Aaronal Union of Journalina, 314 Grays Jan Road, London, WC/ Black press paragrapher Caudiley George was one of those attacked on 7 September mg by Troogs Out"s Manchester. This forced the euce tially working class audience to come to terms with the fact that Powell's "Irish turn" was not simply one of his eccentricities, but a basic part of his "solution" for the ills of british capitalism.
in the week that "Ulster" MP's under Bet in Powell had made it clear carlier A touching, jolly picture of bosum buddies, lan Paisley and Enoch Powell, sharing a joke..... no doubt, at the expense of the working-class ming woul selves with much more than the pro blems the loyalists face in the six counties. As he so movingly put it they would take part in the politics of the kingdom. In other words, Powell was announcing his intention to employ the reactionary loyalists as a erate. base for attacks on the working class ment. in Britam To do this be must be sure of lis base in the North of Ireland. He bas therefore taken positions which, as the Observer newspaper commented make William Craig look like a mod His description of the British an my's actions over the past five yean as pandering to the tiny minority within the minority" is almost bey belief, If arrest without trial, tration camps, torture, inti killings, beatings up, smashing up of homes, and so on, is Powell's idea of "pandering then we have a pretty good picture of what he must have in mind for the British working class Powell is clearly a serious threat, and the concessions made to his loyalist hase by the Labour Govemment are a scandal. The campaign of interventions into meetings promoted by the ING was a useful means of ex posing these facts. But it will take a lot more to defeat Powell or stymie the intentions of the Labour Govern Powell depends on the anti-Irish feeling amongst British workers to gain success for his strategy. We must grah this particular bull by the horns and work to build up a move ment inside the working class for the immediate withdrawal of British troops.
For the sake of the British work ing class and of the Irish revolution All out for the national Troops Out demonstration on 27 October.
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