SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

No return to bipartisanship! Reject the London- Dublin deal!

· Socialist Action No. 122, 22 November 1985 · p. 12 of the scan · 412 words

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Registered as a newspaper with the Post Offic mblished by Cardinal Enterprises, PO Box 50, London IN Printed By Laneride bla. (10), HaH Ma LABOUR'S COMMITMENT to the reunification of Ireland is being broken up by the front bench's fallen for the notion that if the Dublin government gets an office in the Six Counties, it's the first step towards eventual reunification. Their conviction is confirmed by the blood-curdling rallying calls of the "clockwork' Orangemen in the House of Commons.

Tony Benn disagrees. 'It's another one of these The said. 'where we are told we all have to pull Cases.

Ed. Labour and Ireland together. It's the same as when they sent the troops in in the first place. I'll be voting against the Accord when comes up in parliament.

Despite the 'rhetoric of the Irish constitution and the conclusions of the Forum Report which argued for a unitary state, the Dublin government is the best ally Thatcher has in defending partition.

The British will allow Gar ret FitzGerald a right to comment on the running of the occupied Six Coun ties only in return for an Accord which registers his partition - TOES! veto al the United Nations.

The Labour Committee on Ireland is calling for MPs to vote against the Accord in parliament, and organising a campaign of opposition and education against it. They point ou that even if the Accord like previous aimed at devolution, Is op posed by Unionists, it wil inevitably lead to renewed repression the nationalist population.

Exclusion of Sinn Fein is not just an attack on that party. It is a disenfranchisement of those nationalists who have suffered THOS discrimination by the sectarian state and repression at the hands of the army, RUC and UDR spokesper son Peter Archer dashed Belfast this week 'consult' with all parties and like his Tory counterparts snubbed Sinn Fein.

different Labour leadership's confusion to even the Daily Mirror which says: 'This is an agreement for politi Clails. Mrs Thatcher has nearly not the people.

all of Westminster's politiher side largely Clansol because all parties lave failed over Ireland in the But they failed because they refuse SIC recognise the heart of the problem, which 1S the British presence in Ireland We will not take the first removedpeace until that is step to See 'The biggest carve up since partition', p10.

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headlong return to bipartanship behind the conser- vative Anglo-Irish Accord. The shadow cabinet has

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