THE WEEK of clashes between youth and police in Derry, Northern Ireland's second city, has further demonstrated the failure of the Tories' attempts to subdue the nationalist through repression.
withdrawal to be placed at the centre of public debate. This should provoke a necessary discussion on the alternative policy that the labour movement must develop if it is to pursue its aim of a united Benn's statement came after a week where security forces in the North suffered their worst casualties this year and reactionary Loyalist mobs forced Catholic familes their homes in Donemana near Derry auer week's sectarian Orange pardues. Advances The Tories' response will combine a stepping up of repression with new ad vances to the Southern Irish government to achieve joint collaboration security initiatives.
Southern Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald Margaret Thatcher are due at the end of the year to this end.
In the North Sinn Fein have continued to make population of the North Tony Benn has called for the question of British gains for their message immediate British withdrawal. These developments have had their infpact on the labour Resolutions his year's Labour ference from Brent East. Islington North, Oxford Hast, Birmingham dington and others call for dialogue between the Sinn Fein, and lor a break by the Parliamentary Labour Party from its traditional bi-partisan support for the government's policies the North.
Clarify Some resolutions like that Hackney also call for the Party to clarify that it will not abide by the principle that the British government accept unionist veto on its policies for the North.
Kensington CLP has also put forward a resolution Their delegate the Party conference this year Tony Benn, who therefore likely to play a prominent role in the conference the topic.
Benn's article in the Guardian last Monday applauds those who have British withdrawal against charges thev supported terrorism.
His own five point plan for withdrawal calls for The setting of a date for withdrawal 'two or three years ahead' • A United Nations peace-keeping force • A tripartite agreement between the DELUSI governal, the South Army snatch squad Tony Benn Northern Ireland government' • An amnesty for prisoners • Financial aid to the new government from Britain.
But Benn's policy thoroughly deficient. The call for withdrawal after a period of 'two or three' years concedes the right of British troops to be there first place. Opponents of his plan will reasonably ask why two or three years. Why not five or ten?
Secondly, the proposal for Ireland government would inevitably, given • the artificially drawn boundaries of the North, mean Garret FitzGerald Loyalist government with interest in dissolving those borders in the cause of a united Ireland.
Thirdly, the proposal for United Nations peace-keeping force in this context would be to learn nothing of the lessons of the Lebanon where such a force was completely inetfective in preventing the terrible consequences the Israeli invasion, worse the reactionary role that such troops have playea i Counse like Cyprus, the Congo Korea.
debate in the • movement only a policy which starts from the fact that British has no right to be in Ireland in the IrSl place ane supports as a determination can begin to wrongs done Ireland in the name of the British people That's why the alternative policy that the labour movement should develop to the cause of a united Ireland should be:
* Troops out Now! * Self determination for the Irish people as a whole • A carnival of reaction - see page 4 Sandinista Soldier NICARAGUAN interior minister Tomas Borge reported earlier this week that 12,000 Honduran troops had been assembled along the border between the two countries.
Claiming that among them unit of the US Special Forces' - the 'Green Berets' - he said that 'war is noW inevitable'.
Sources close the the counter-revolutionaries in Honduras claim that an invasion of Nicaragua is being timed to coincide the Nicaraguan revolution - 21 July.
A sure sign that the US intends to step up its destabilisation attempts against Nicaragua is the appointment of a special invasion imminent ther sign of the stance of the British government is the visit to Britain this week by Salvadorean expresident Napoleon Duarte, who being given the red carpet treatment by foreign office.
The imminent threat 'to complicity of the Tory government must be raised immediately in every movement body and in the peace movement.
The latest threats to Nicaragua underline the need for a massive tur nout for next September's demonstra tion in solidarity with the people of Chile and Cen• Fourth Anniversary Nicaraguan revolu tion - see page 8.