mediately, boost support for the pro-Anglo REDMOND O'NEILL reports.
WHEREAS in Britain the key question in the election will Albours vote and secure a can for Thatcher. In the six for Thatcher. counties ruied bv Britain in the north of Ireland the issues are quite different. For a start, none of the British parties even exist in Ireland, and the unionists will, as always, win. As Hilda MacThomas writes in the 14 May edtion Republican Lne : Fein' rymandered six counties, here won't be any surprise: the inbuilt unionist majority will, as always, get most of the seats.
"The elections will focus, as always, on the national question in its present dạy manifestations: unionists will ask for massive unionist VULG Hillsborough (Anglo-Irish) Agreement and against Sinn Fein; the Social Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) will ask for a massive nationalist vote for the Hillsborough ment and against Sinn Fein ind Sinn Fein Will ask for the vote of at those who want the British to leave the Irish people determine their own future as a unit.' Sinn Fein will be slanung canuidates In constituencies in the north of Ireland.
Atipresent a of the sit counties' SaLA Westminster are held by unionists, two are held by the SLP and one, West Belfast, is held by Sinn rein's president Gerry Adams. The chief goal of both the British and Dublin governments in the election will be to defeat Sinn Fein and build up the main supWHILE THE British parties are carrying on their battle in the run up to 11 June a totally different general election will be going on in the north of Ireland — one of the best indexes that no part of Ireland has any place within the British state. Here the battle by the British government is to deteat Sinn fein, prepare the ground for future deals with the unionists, and, most imIrish Agreement Social Democratic and Labour Party.
porter of the Anglo-Irish Accord — the SDLP. That means the decisive contest will be in West Belfast.
LIC MIP. vOte Cane Over Recently is has been putting pressure on Dublin to speed up a "West Belfast development programme" through the inter-governmental con Terence aseL up by the Anglo-Irish Agreement)
SHIC DOC WINI included a speedy demoliDivis and Unity flats, the creation of a fourth college of further cancanion and an enteronse zone, has been designed with the declared aim boosting the SDLP's electoral chances for West Belfast.
The main problem for the SDLP. that thẻ credibility of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in the nationalist communities in the six counues Is al all all time low. It has delivered no improvement in the lives of the nationalist population. The RUC'S disruption of republican funerals, followed by the Loughgall has outraged nationalists.
Seamus Mallon, deputy leader of the SDLP, will aiso nave to contront lnest issues in defending his narseat. Here the main fruit of the Accord is 'cross border security cooperation' which means in practice increased repression and a line of British army observation posts along the border whose construction has angered local farmers, The unionist parties, the against the combined SDLP, the /unionist British government.
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more votes than Margaret Thatcher got in Finchley — but thev still let him and nine others like him starve to death, in a vain effort to criminalise a struggle that has gone on for 800 years.
at Loughgall?
As Martin McGuiness put it: 'What happened at oughgall will forever be remembered renusands and thousands Those people shocked and angered at the wanton murders young Irishmen by the soldiers of a foreign army holding no legal or moral right to bear arms on irish soul.
'Our position is quite clear those young men who were there, in their hands, had every right and every justification to be there. They were there for us the Irish people. And those young peo ple who laid in wait the people who murdered they are the ter'There are some people Official Unionist (OUP) and lan Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party or have agreen s pack. even Enoch Powell's 548 vote majority for the Official Unionists in South Down is danger. According Republican News 4,000 new voters, mainly nationalists, have registered in the constituency since the last The unionists are hoping for a hung parliament in Britain so that they can try to cook up the kind of deal the Callaghan government agreed in 1978 which inStation at Westminster from 12 to 17 votes. Stuart Bell, a Labour spokesperson has already indicated he would be interested in such a deal though this has been denied by the leadership.
The SDP/Liberal Alliance have indicated on a they would consider further concessions to the unionists including "devolution' for Overall the aims of the British establishment in this election are to defeat Gerry Adams In west Belfast, to maximise the SDLP's vote and, at a later stage, to pull the unionists discussion with the SDLP aiming at further undermining supbackground will be stepped tor sinn Fein. The uD mintarv operations and repression, carried on with Dublin's support policies in the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
averse cir ELECTION FUND SINN FEIN is contesting 14 constituencies in * the forthcoming Westminster election on 11 forces of the parties (including Alliance and the Workers' Party) and the Money is urgently needed to enable Sinn Fein to contest this election and funds are low after the 26-County election campaign. We are appealing to the Republican Movement at home and abroad to help us in this All donations (which shall be acknowledged) should be sent as soon as possible to the Sinn Fein was oe me new rans volunteers deserved it. The it! The volunteers lived in tnis countr and the peogays rights launch ON Friday 29 May, lesbians and gays will be lobbying Labour headquarters in Walworth Road between 12.30-1.30pm.
The object of the exercise is to present the Labour Party leadership with a charter for lesbians and gay rights. he charter will be Charter for lesbian and drawn up this weekend at a national conference organised by the Legislation for Lesbian and udy Kigills Campaign The conference takes place on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 May, at the Camden Centre, Bidborough Street, WC1 (opposite St Pancras station). It is an open conference