in Ireland, THE NEW TECHNOLOGY OF REPRESSION. LESSONS FROM IRELAND' BSSRS pamphlet. 30p.
Nevertheless it can play a vital role. Events since the collapse of the Sunningdale agreement show a greater and greater growth of discontent in this country with the continuing war This pamphlet will be invaluable in explaining the Irish struggle to British workers. Massive sales will here. help to build a movement for the withdrawal of British troops from Ireland. Every individual and group concerned with aiding the Irish sturgele should get hold of this pamphlet and ensure that its ideas are spread as widely as possible in the British working chess. "The dominant theme of this pamphlet is that what Ireland saw yesterday is in store for Britain tomorrow", is how the authors introduce this important pamphlet.
It expiains in simple terms some of the weapons and techniques used by the army, some of the lies of the British press and brings out the political ideas which underpin the use of repression.
The worsening of the economic crisis in Europe will lead to clashes between the working class and ruling class on a scale not scen since the thirties. The army and the police in Britain are already making their preparations, We car be sure that the leasons learnt in Ireland and described in this pamphlet will be put to use There are important omissions in the pamphlet. It fails to deal with the situation after Direct Rule, when the repressive role of the army emerged in ats most sophisticated form. It does not deal with the role of any assassination squads which were used to spread sectarian hatred, and the modia, as carrier of propaganda and as a part of the army's inteligence netwotk, is left out.
Dear Comrades Fascist Committee.