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The consequences of maintaining partition also affect working people in The cost is not merely a very financial one it involve the political violence, repressive legislation, introduction the technology of repression and techniques of control developed in the North police tactics during the miners' strike bear testimony to that. It promotes and maintains anti-Irish racism, the attendant disunity the British working-class. In compromising Irish neutrality, it weakens our fight for peace and disarmament in a European The maintenance of partition, whether through direct rule from Westminster or by any other mechanism, not only runs counter to our long term objective of support for the re-unificiation of leland (wich Is lne only way In wnick national sovereignty, independence and political democracy can be reclaimed); it also implicates the Labour Party and, automatically, a future Government to and stances which run counter to the whole philosophy of liberty, democracy, equality, justice and peace upon which we wish our party to be based. These values, and the continued partition of Ireland, have to be recognised as mutually exclusive.