estigated crines in Vietnam and Latin Amenca and is now enpaged in the praiscworthy task of defend ing the victims of the bureaucracy in the USSR and Eastern Europe, should also turn its attention to mattens nearer home and set up such After all, the men leading the security forces are the enomies of both the Irish and the British working people, As such they have to be fought, exposed and defested in the Jabour movenient. The blanket support given to the Jenkins measures by the Labour Party conference last week showe that this task conironcing socialists will not be an easy one. Parliament has voted unprecedented powers to the police and the capitelist Ha te.
The cowardice of the Labour MPsperticularly those on the 'left'-in refusing to fight against the appalling conpiquences of the Jenkine" Bill will rebound on the entire labour movement.
As the Tories, the media and the racist organisations like the Nationel Front have fanned the flames of chauvinism the majority of aven the left MPs hive stood idly by, impotent in the face of nationa The police have been given swasping now powurs. The right to hold without cherging for seven days is a step towards BICTIITICIL Orgenisations can te proseribed on TUM DUOAUR DUE SUSHAT I0 TOIL I1 trines tret will just be resiricted to ina IRA or Irish immigrant organisations is au eiY IVH The Act is designed to smash any opposition in Britain to Imperialisen's war in the sin Counties. But it will do more than that. It not resisted it will autos cimauOt oDanon wiee internment becomes 'normal" and the proscribing of left-wing groups becomes The Labour Tufts" and the "progressine lnadors of the trade unions in thew great majority have opted out of fighting the Bill. This places an enormous responsibi lity on the shoulders of the revolutionary left who have to take the fight against the Bal into the lebour movement.
in the summer of 1u/3 the Workers Ravolutionary Party, the International Socialists and the IMG signed a joint declaration in defence of basic democra tie rights. The IMG considers that the time was never more appropriate than now to put that declaration into practice Yie have therefore iritten to the IS and the WRP asking for a meeting of the campaign to fight the Bill. In aur opinion unless the full forces of the revolutionary loft, the Communist Party and all independent militants opposed to Jenkins's measures are united in a strugple against the Bill the only people to gain will be thu fiilna chen
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