legislation throughout the south of Ireland. You have no jury courts, you have Section which keeps Sinn Fein from the media.
Internationally, the Irish
lassies are completely subservient to the British embassies. An increasing incursion upon Irish neutrality and a subordination of Irish foreign policy to the interests of and wishes of NATO. The government is the best ally the British ruling class stabilise the six counties.
It's interesting to note that when we talk about the Anglo-Irish deal, more correctly we should be talking about an Anglo-Irish-American deal.
The first thing that will be done when this accord is pushed through in the South, and the British parliament, to send it to the United Nations for the full approval of Ronald Reagan, for ratification at an international level, and for the promise of money being held out in the future.
The accord defies the Irish constitution.It will only serve to prepare not be safe until the British ruling class has been defeated in Britain as well as in Ireland. › Why should the Dublin government do that? Among other reasons, because of financial pressure. The 26 wellites economy in western Europe thoroughly hock bankers, and open to pressure from the IMF who prevent loans being called in.
The southern suffer because the threat of political anstability, represented by Republican movement, strikes at the very heart of stability in the 26 Counalies • where the national question is still the most important political issue going.
In the latest Anglo Irish talks another new word has been invented. In the conference they are going to set views tionalism.
Adams -nationalist fruit of victory'. of British oppression are doing it already.
This and see where it gets them.
indebted by any kind of sell out.
UnIC British diversion.
the Unionists have interest also people, the concare represents, because off the agenda is the notion of justice, the disbandment of the UDR, the question of plastic bullets, strip searching of women prisoners, and the censorship which is used to repress the republicanism naI'll finish with a quote from Gerry who's looking forward to the possibility of concessions being made to the nationalist people from the Anglo Irish summit. He says 'such concessions are not attributable to the people as minor petser on the road to tasting the full That is the way the nationalist grip people in the north will look at the Anglo Irish deal. They will not come out on the streets to propose the smashing up of this deal. They will wait and see what this deal means to the people who have borne the brunt The nationalists don't need permission to stick up Irish street signs, or display the Irish Tricolour. They is retrospective legislation, making legal something which the looking at, and measuring up the performance of the SDLP against the aspirations of the nationalist people These points have been put onto the 'agengoing to be removed from the agenda So these talks are not some kind of Just because lan Paisley doesn't mean we just sit back. We Inem in fighting for an alliance with the Irish opposing these inings ourselves and making sure that people who support the cause of Ireland are won and convinced that they have to oppose this deal. We have to organise around what it's something new, something we have to pay attenIt's something we have to fight. LAST WEEKEND'S annual CND conference saw the national leadership more previous years. But the activists are still strong in CND.
reports.
'A WEEKEND away from politics' delegate described his first to The Canissues facing the anti-missiles movement were kept well off the agenda by a leadership whose on the campaign was clearly stronger than in previous years.
For instance, the British Defence Charter. which a number of leading members of CND executive are cobblSATURDAY DEC. 14th 1985 ENCLOSE THE BASE WIDEN THE WEB AND CARRY GREENHAM HOME EMPOWERED AND STRONG - firmly in control than in ing losette present politicians with a soft option was never discussed. When CND asked why mention of their opposition to this charter had been removed their report the answer was that the charter organiser, James Hinton did not wish to win CND support at this conference so we need not think about But despite the stageEMBRACE THE WORLD managed vitality par• ticularly acactivities, actions also voted give top Clearly which for I COUL everything Vul dia the real about direction to the Basic Case in ans or SOme means which success n won public opposition to cruise and Trident but made little its central aim.
It became clear however that to others it can be used as a wal of dropping the question of NATÓ and US bases by concentrating only on British deterrence. This interpretation be endorsed by when it rejected an amendweekend continue with:
• Mare Wadsworth • Ann Pettifor ....and others ment to include the bases and NATO.
Significantly, this was the only mention of NATO on the agenda But numerous motions referring to NATO originally submitted by CND groups showed that a section of paign realises hampered in progressing unless it tackles the central pillar of British defence and foreign policy - which will require reversing the shifts registered at this conference Perhaps the spectacle of Bruce Kent supporting a motion to dilute the Thet the stitutional objects campaign will at last show the members that the leaders whom they have followed uncritically bottling out. They would rather shift ground to accommodate the needs of Alliance leaders than con front the Labour Party's allegiance to NATO It is no coincidence that their 'non-nuclear defence strategy' looks remarkably like the Labour Party's 1984 defence document.
After a conference like this, the left will need to ge its act togeiher if it is not to waste the opportunities presented by the mass missiles movement.
Narendra Makanji • The FDR of El Salvador
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for a co-ordinated offensive against the Republican movement and the na- fionalist resistance that lies behind it. " Democracy in Ireland will
efforts of establishment politicians. They can be claimed by a struggling
security forces have no power to pre- vent anyway. People are going to be
da' by the struggle of the nationalist people of the north and they are not
MATTHEW CREIGHTON, Labour CND executive committee member writing in a personal capacity,
¡DENING THE GREENHAM COMMONFO
reinstating unilateralism at the centre of the campaign
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