Wednesday 11 December 7.30pm Council Chamber, County Hall, London SE1 Chair: Joan Maynard MP (Nobel angle Maeace Prize winner)
Mitchel McLoughlainn, Sinn Fein Derry City Councilor Ken Livingstone Leader GLC does not end partition.
a means of assisting the clear to be the opposite.
the six counties.
Finally I listened carefully to those in the Labour Party who argued that this agreement is a step towards the party's policy of reunification. anc that the loyalist fury proves this.
But my view is that the agreement in this sense achieves the worst of two worlds. It mobilises the loyalists but The argument is similar to that used in justifying sending in the troops in1969. The measure was defended as nationalist British politics has been accompanied and catalysed by a crisis over the Irish question. Today the occupation of part of Ireland by Britain remains the most acutely unstable contradiction built into the structure of the British state.
It has resulted in sixteen years of unrelenting mass struggle, armed strug gle and political mobilisation by the na tionalist community within the North of Ireland statelet and has created, in Sinn Fein, the most advanced mass political force in Western Europe.
The fundamental aim of Thatcher's labour movement with the 800-year-old • struggle of the Irish people for national self-determination.
cord was accurately summarised by the Financial Times: 'It commits Dr FitzGerald's Dublin government to supporting actively the northern state presently constituted.' governmental The essence of the Anglo-Irish acthe The Dublin between Dublin and London with a permanent secretariat based in Belfast is established. This will discuss policy on the North but, as the Financial Times explains: "Dublin would not. however, be able to intervene directly in the government of province, or force ministers into particular decisions.'
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