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(Tel: 01-359 8180) Socialist Action. London "i 2XF. recognise that 'Britain out of Nato' is national CND policy • unless bruce Kent succeeds in playing it down.
More power to your elbows and best wishes.
CHRIS CHURCHWARD, Exeter.
Chris's ?? =:= he replied, The state of the labour movement in the North of Ireland has always baffled in Britain. is coultciDali The Cause of Ireland is a documentary film which looks at the history and background to this confuit is an. incisive ana moving account of a community divided, where feal and insecurity have been cynically rostered by Unionist hierarchy protestant ascendency.
features intertilin: mines Lord Frank Longford in the days when he was a young Conservative once asked a Unionist leader how his party dealt with socialism. 'Oh, that is easy,' 'we just ran up the Union Jack'. achieve basic democratic the North how this led to a situation of Silar per between the two communities cycutual tion by the British troops in August 1969.
The British Army far solving the crisis in the North unsurprisingly became fundamental part of it. Early The early 19-0s mark. the beginning nored, even though at the time the average personal income In Northern .28 per cent below the U.K. average.
This film is very much concerned with the politics Northern because while there are real tactors which divide workers in that part of the country the deprivation and despair are experiences which cut across those divisions.
Loyalists The British ment's attempts to normalise the conflict in ine .o..n nave repeatec Tall machiner! 3-sm corpus, 'there'll be identity cards. next everybody will be fil computers, before they've time to say socialism thev'l all be til ed and they won't be able The threat of loyalist violence against Catholics put forward as reason why British troops have IO stay The NaOr is on.
too these threats But the majority Catholics do not see British troops as their protectors, any more than republicans see Pro testants as their enemy Champior underlines this whet says, 'I would like :.: we were commg 10 as2s Fact all being conned being used'
Socialist Action: 7 October 1983 • CND National Anti-Privatisation • Wish you were here - an THE National Society of Metal Mechanics have called a picket GM Plastics, Redditch, Monday 10 October. The picket has been called in response to local labour movement horror at the nours this factory the victimisation of nine Asian workers who initiated union organisation in the plant. (See SA 30 September for background)
Coaches leave from the Hall of Memory and Colville Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham Ham, Monday 10 October.