boasting of We where nationalists are sentences by non-jury courts on the sole evidence of highly paid informers. But even this policy has under fire from the legal establishment both in Britain and would discredit British justice. that Prior will, after a decent pause, join the long line of discredited Northern Ireland supremos with their discredited policies.
The Southern Irish government has joined in the manhunt for the prisoners with a gusto that has repelled even the most ardent of its supporters, by willinguess ingratiate government Garret FitzGerald, the prime minister for the Fine Gael/Labour coalition government, has also had his policy for excluding Sinn Féin from the All-Ireland Forum exposed by Sinn Féin's vote in the British general election which reconfirmed позно о Хино colyolCLl political scene. which further bolsters Sinn Féin's standing.
The reaction of the British labour movement has been discern.
Concannon, the Parliamentary spokesperson on Ireland, manhunt 'godspeed' from the opposition benches had Parliament been in session, but there are signs that he is speaking for a diminishing number of the Labour rank and file.
The visit of Labour MPs to Belfast last month, the serious debate at the Labour Party conference this week on endo uno we dovals velo and have talks with all Northern Irish parties including Sinn, rein, are sIens ment starting to break from Concannon's craven Or policy in Ireland.
But we are still a long way from the day that the British workers will see the events of last week not as murderers from fighters from Colditz. success of the supergrass policy sentenced to as a device that Now it seems likely with the British of the Irish They are dismayed by anything Undoubtedly Don Labour Party's would have wished the of the labour moveAlcatraz, • NEW INFORMERS CAMPAIGN New issue of Labour and Ireland. 40p Copies from LCI BM Box 5355. London WCI N3XX.
I am sure that Leon Brittan is a very well-meaning young man...
but he seems to have no concept of the conditions in British prisons.
The overcrowding, for example, is simply atrocious!
Socialist Action 7 October 1983