own campaign of hate, AS MEMBERS of the delegation to Belfast on 5-7 Ăugust, we should like to support the appeal by the Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood, Clare Short, for British troops to be withdrawn from the six counties of the North of It is now 14 years since the British Army was sent to the North, and Clare Short is only echoing what many on the left of the Labour Party have been saying for most of that time In fighting for their self-determination, the Irish people are only demanding what has already been won in India and, recently, Zimbabwe. NUTE We were able to see at first hand the reality of colonial armed rule only an hour's journey prowling around suburban streets with loaded rifles, convoys of amoured cars
Socialist Action1983Socialist Action No. 23, 2 September 1983
Troops Out delegation
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