WITH fourteen Sinn Fein contesting the 17 North of Ireland constituencies the battle is on for the political leadership of the naNo doubt the British and Southern Trish ruling class along with the media will desperately attempt to bolster the fading morale of the middle pro-British Social and Democratic Party (SDLP)
The Catholic Church hierarchy has been forced to intervene in the election more directly than it has done for forty years. Bishop Daly trom Down and Connor called a journalists' briefing to express the Church view that Catholics should not allow their vote to be associated with 'the men of week launched a campaign of clerical denunciation of Sinn Fein from the funeral of a soldier's wite.
While the army steps civilian murders to discredit the IRA, Sinn Fein's views will be 'interpreted' on the media by dubious 'experts' nt its own views on British or Southern Irish T Irish socialist organisations Democracy argued for a unified anti-imperialist electoral slate for the North. Now they are joining their efforts to build the largest imperialist vote through support for Sinn Fein's campaign and for resistance to Prior's Northern Iretand Assembly.
There is no doubt that Sinn Fein's decision to stand can strengthen anti-imperialist organisation just as did the victories of Bobby Sands and Owen Carron.
Despite the split voting of the nationalist com nunity created by the SDLP and government pro. paganda departments walcH number of massive vote of support.
Labour left As John McAnulty, Peoples Democracy councillor from Belfast says:
Whatever government is returned in Britain the Labour left will find itself with a government wedded to the continuance of the sectarian Northern Ireland Assembly in a situation where the natinalist opposition to that Assembly is stronger •Unless Labour breaks its support for the Assembly it will find itself once again cheering on a new wave of repression aimed at quoshing opposition to British rule. Labour must prepare for this and reject the Assembly and all other trappings of For or against the Assembly is the key politica ine of divide in the elections in the North dear to everyone, except it şeems the Irish Militant SUWTIC.
simple anti-Tory one.
The recent 'anti-Tory' conference they prompmemory Callaghan, Mason perpetrating some of the worst military excesses against the people of the North.
wing and trade union leaders.
«to would be only too happy to do deals with the U'nionists jusi as they did in the 1970s.
icsetf. In Ireland the opposition to Tory policies is coming from Sinn Fein.
apport the anti-imperialism of the Sinn Feiners ind dessand that Britain gets out of Ireland.
Thatcher's Britain Ta_NE viC er: not entorsine ts arguments - particularly those sare = roma up its campaign of and reactionary politicians like Gerry like Peoples possiDie anliCulct the winnable seats, Sinn Fein expect a This is They claim that the struggle Is a leaders Concannon This Militant line is identical to that of the right The same leaders Socialists need to remember that the election is fought wherever the British state has planted The Labour left should general editorial policy we wish to name i sesar = a by printing extracts trom Thatcher's d.
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