The hypocritical response of the capitalist press and the politicians to the Birmingham bombings, carefully ignores the daily harassment and murder of Catholic workers in the North, and the figure grows each day.
Ever since British troops were sent to Ireland on a same. Cromwell began the process when his army massacred 30,000 at Drogheda. The terror of the British army 50 years ago, in the fancy dress costume of the Black and Tans, continued it. This gory thread of British imperialist history in Ireland, has been re-tied many times since - especially since 1969.
The same reactionaries who now scream for more repressive laws, hanging and shooting, conveniently forget the terror meted out by British troops against the Irish people. Ask the 11 children of Mrs Emily Grove, who was blinded and had most of the bones in her face broken by a rubber bullet fired at point blank range. Ask the families of those workers murdered by paratroopers in Derry on Bloody Sunday. Ask the internees and their families.