So do you think it can be finished off for good in the near future?
It's part of the total problem, just another initiative by long its presence in Ireland. No doubt when the Assembly goes, some other initiative will be brought out.
Just as if Britain were to ban plastic bullets from their arsenal, then they would come up with some other form of population control.
The Assembly could fall at any time due to the in-fighting of the various Unionist parties; or it might even survive to the general election. It hasn't any chance of success so long as the nationalist people refuse to recognise it.
What's your attitude to the European Court of Enquiry into Our attitude is to welcome any body which will try to highlight the situation character British rule in Ireland, and the false situation of contrived state. It's an 'artificially created state in Ireland which gives power to one section of the communiy over another.
But at the end of the day the only enquiry we want is one that will get Britain out of the North.
Who is behind the enquiry?
A number of Euro-MPs, Irish MEPs like Sile De Blaney and John Hume - those type of people — have forced this through the European parliament.
Of course the British government, ease arment.
and the Labour wont benen nave gone into nysterics that anyone should want voolizale Northern symptomatic of their attitude. britain to proNorthern o-county privilege and idea OI democratic parties'?
actively doing Northern Ireland, rule in the Irish Free State.
both the inThat's boost the SDLP.
Sinn Fein vastly increased its mass support during hunger strikes.
What's the meaning of Fitzgerald's 'a cross-border forum for He's trying to bluff the public that he something about whereas his vested state. interest is in maintaining British rule and in maintaining his own right-wing Gael o is he trying to undercut support f inn Fein and boost the SDLP Cass cent There's no doubt that he's trying to There's an attempt being made by both the British and Irish governments to boost the møral of collaboration and compromise anc that's good for Britain.
Even if Britain were to withdraw from Ireland tomorrow, they would be trying to do it on their own terms — the establishment of a neo-colonial The SDLP and elements like Fine Fitzgerald in the South would fit into that because they would attempt to hold Ireland, économically socially, for the British ruling That is why you have seen the redevelopment whereby Sinn Fein has taken a rather more left-wing trend. because thev see the need not just for Brits out, but for a socialist Ireland Will Sinn Fein be contesting seats in the coming general election?
Our position is that we will contest as many seats as possible. there are some seats that wouldn't be worthwhile at least 30 of the 78 seats.
the Republican vote Republican vote cent Assembly elections. If we got less, or Fein, Just lne same. problems, but we believe on the basis of the Canalyl work that we've done since then we to terms the there, the who've Photo. CHRIS STEFI F-PERKINS (Camerawork)
We and in tionalist grateful narrow What Obviously but we'll be contesting The idea behind it is to maximise • 60,000 or ten per There 1S the struggle. Republican al the we woule have come sLalt movenest to build an organisation which come with that situation, whic! can de-stabilise the southern state It's ripe for revolution, not just o national question but or whole economic climate that pertain severe budget that's beet introduced; mill workers in Dubli been imprisoned for LUL tempt of court; and the possibility o a general strike - there's tremendou potential in the 26 counties.
Unfortunately people are not full organised for it at the present time.
We've just seen the visit of Ken Lis ingstone to Ireland and lots of Labou Party support for the plastic bullet ПОЙ much interest i there in Sinn Fein in the • developmen of the Labour Party's Irish policy?
would see hope in these developments in the Labour the abour lett. The community would for developments in the labour movement on a broad level.
We would not see any hopes in a movement in Britain which has been the case for years. The hope of building the withdrawal movemen:
Will d movement, the labour movement.
would the statements made by Ken Livingstone have in the nationalist community?
Livingstone is seen in the nationalist community as a hero. People will say 'well there's a guy who cares about us - he's one of the very few nationa leaders who does There are many different facets to We need the development of a revolutionary movement in Ireland, to destabilise the southern and bring about the road to socialism in Ireland, and at the same time we need to build a withdrawal
IN 1914, when war of plunder slaughter to fatherland.
rulers.
JUSTICE can make but one reply to the Irish rebellion that is to demand that Ireland shall be allowed to govern herself.
Differences of opinion the ruling classes of Europe pitted worker against worker in a conquest, social democratic leaders led workers to the defend 'birthright Lenin called upon workers to turn the imperialist war into a civil war to overthrow the capitalist classes once and for all. The Irish put this into practice, rising in Easter week 1916 against their British The reason for sion of local government.
In the second place, Unionist rebellion, but British leftists in the main failed to understand why they should. Dogmatically insisting that workers had to unite to overthrow capitalism they lined up with the British ruling class in denying the legitimacy of the Irish claim to self-determination, and turned their backs on the real anti-capitalist struggle that was unfolding in front of their eyes.
SYLVIA PANKHURST -the discontent which nas caused ine rebemon are Cass clearly apparent. In the first place the Home Rule Act fails to satisfy considerable sections of irish men and women, who regard it as a mere extenthe Home Rule Act itself is not secure. Should a succeed. Revolutionaries at once supported the revoluIrish Republic; whilst the workingindustrial Larkin and Connolly, also set up its Citizen Army later than the Carsonites, and did so in the first place to protect peaceful meetings of the 1il-treatment by the police. tionary, feminist and workers' leader was a rare and honourable exception to the chauvinist British tradition. Thought on Easter Week published in the Workers' Dreadnought ment of her internationalism.
Socialist Action reproduce this short Pankhurst in commemoration heroic Irish freedom fighters of Easter 1916.
under Her is a clear stateis pleased to • work by Sylvia of the