Sinn Fein's election campaign | Socialist Action 1983

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ON 11 JUNE the test of British policy in northern Ireland will be the vote of Sinn Fein has been directed to the goal of eliminating mass supBelfast.

Sinn Fein's campaign was manitesto entitled For Peace. This argues that the the war in Ireland is British withdrawal and Irish self-determination. Within this framework, Sinn Fein supports every possible step to improve the living standiscrimination suffered by the nationalist population in the six counties.

Sinn Fein takes up specifically women's rights - the only party campaigning for British withdrawal and a united Ireland. Britain's entire policy over the last two years port for Sinn Fein. In the general election they had hoped to see this reflected in a collapse of Sinn Fein's vote and, above all, in the defeat of Gerry Adams by the Social Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) in West Monday 1 June reported on the start of Gerry Adams campaign in the Ballymurphy area of West Belfast as follows: this small republican enclave, which boasts wall graffitti, new murals urging cover the gable walls. The echo the surcel pavelnents same message and every seColil lias brand new Adams poster in the window. He didn't have lo canvas his face was enough to contirm the vote.

Gerry show it is holding and even slightly increasing Ils vole gaining support the register for the first time. Action The SDLP's appeal in the election was to have neen naser on une bere ils the Anglo-Irish Agreement was to produce tor the llai tionalist community. But these have not materialised. The promise steps towards disbanding of notoriously sectanan UDR reform of the Kut nave ocen exposcu as completely false.

The and UDR treatment of the nationalist not better since the agreement signed Y au something exposed by the ruthless harassment and inrepublican funerals. constituency win material concessions. Sinn Fein's responds that what concessions the nationalist community has extracted Britain have been a result of mass campagns and the republican struggle not the SDLP's lobbying Sinn Fein do take up O'Hara, chair of Derry Sinn Fein, being held by the UC for the best part of week; Eamon IcKenn having his nose broken by British soldiers whilst putting up posters for Sinn Fein in North Belfast and so on.

More Wo vie sut way that Sinn Fein workers are being made the targets of sectarian assassination attempts. Normally, loyalist astarily selected catholics. assassins down But in these cases they are specifically targetting Sinn Fein workers.

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