Irish CP gives up the ghost | Socialist Action 1983

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towards violence and terrorism, successive British governments have been given the perfect smokescreen to detract from their out-of-sight out-of-mind policies which have left a legacy of neglect, poverty and deprivation. It has been said that our old men see visions and our vonne man attention on the north of Treland directed the C 89-338 fo fewer year's tuenci North candid (Fortnight, June 1987).

mediate future' Every north, up the movement parcel create a new Dublin, the SDLP.

READERS of Tribune will know of that newspaper's regular eulogies to the bourgeois nationalist Social Democratic Labour Party (SDLP). Tribune presents the SDLP as some kind of socialist party to the left in Britain. Tribune has even given SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon a regular column in Tribune.

One thing you will not read in Tribune, however, is the call by leading SDLP spokesperson Austin Currie for support for Margaret Thatcher in th British general election: 'I am sorry to say it but -from the point of view of nationalist Ireland — a continuation of Maggie Thatcher in power, for a limited period of time, would be to our advantage.' In case that isn't clear enough, Currie added: I believe that, while we have a strong Conservative government, that is a reason for optimism for the imIF anyone thought we had problems with the line and activity of the Communist Party of Great Britain, they should note the latest turn of events in Ireland.

The Communist Party of Ireland has issued an open letter calling for the IRA to give up the armed struggle for national liberation and independence.

"The Communist

Party of Ireland is a revolutionary socialist organisation pledged to end British imperialist rule and all imperialist influence in Ireland, perspective of building a united socialist republic in our island, the 'Our declared policy is to work for the creation of a united political campaign which would force the British government to declare from all inteference in military and economic • by a specific date From this celestial political height, and from 'the sum total of our experience and our knowledge based on positively Paisley.

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CONTINUING our series of analyses from the left on the way forward for Labour after the election Socialist Action Socialist Action 10 July 1987 chair of the Campaign Group of MPs.

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