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Events in Northern Ireland are now maving rapidly towards a new and potentialiy even more dangerous climax.
The Piections to The proposed Conta bral Convention are likely to res ult in a majority for supporters of the United Ulster Unionist Council The Government will then be laced with a choice between handing over power to Messrs Paisley, Craig and West or continuing with Diract Rule. Either very mean cortinued valence ang repression.
A chonge in policy is essential. The Government must broak with the trad itional approach of Britain to Ireland Autory repression and repressive Ica islation will not work -whether in ire land or in Britain. There can be no more British-made solutions'; the people of Ireland must decide their own fisture.
But such a change with not. come about unass ine labour movement Degins to come to grips veen the proo ler, formulates a policy, and having done 11g. makes its vorce heard The National Conference of Labour Movement Desegates on 24 May: called by the Troops Out Movement. i do important apportunity for all sections of the labour movement to discuss the role of the British army in Ireland, and the way forward to a just and lasting peace based on the right of the Irish people to seif-deterIn nation.
We therefore urge the labour move ment to support this conference as one step towards developing an infor med policy wich will ensure a progr essive solution to the 'Irish problem.
As the campaign around the Common Market referendum begins to wans up, most of the running on the anti-Market side has so far been made by the 'Get Britain Out Campaign (GBOC). But although this broad front body is the campaigning vehicle for most of the anti-Market trade unions, and is indeed largely funded by them, some distinctly odd figures have already distinguished its meetings.
At Folkestone, for example, Clive Jenkins of ASTMS was joined on the platform by that well-known fan of the trade unions, Enoch Powell. At Bristol the speakers included both Tribunite MP Kon Thomas and Monday Club MP Richard Body. As for the audiences, they alist class, capitalism itself is naturally unchallengeable, because if there was no capitalist class there would be no capitalist politicians. So they are agreed that there i only one solution: the working class must pay for capitalism's crisis!
The trade union icaders in the Get Britain Out Campaign and their brother in the Lahour left, Communist Party and Cooperative movement are not half so clearsighted. By allowing the capitalist politicians into their anti-EEC campaign, they are hitching their wagon to people who have no strategy but to reduce working class living standards. By fighting the campaign on the basis of 'sovereignty", they are strengthening one of the most important ways in which the ruling class dive Ides the working class: by suggesting ou
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The following letter in being circulated to potential sponsors of the National Conference of Labour Movement delegates - Ireland and the Labour Movement in Britain' -planned by the Troops Out More