The case for withdrawal | Socialist Action 1983

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IT IS now widely acknowledged that the Labour government which troops to Northern Ireland in 1969 was not acting upon a considered long term policy apitself as taking measures to "keep the lid' on the It was a policy of containment' or 'crisis management'. OCCl From that point on, and with the insuccessive governments have lurched from crisis to crisis, whilst maintaining a bi- been most or le period. It is clear that unless it adopts a clear strategy, a future Labour government would find itself maintaining the guaranteed by direct rule and enforced partition OI with Since partition was imposed upon the Irish people against their wishes expressed in the 1918 elections when 70

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