THE IDEA OF organising Labour Party in the occupied six counties of Northern Ireland is a strange anyone with any sense knows that it doesn't stand a chance of getting off the ground.
Yet it allows everyone who suports reactionary loyalism to pass variant of socialism. Nothing could be further from the truth Labour representation in the North must go to the Much of the crealt for British and Irish group that split off from the Irish Communist Party because they thought Krusche's criticism of Stalinist repression was unfair. Of course, barmy idea that the loyalists got a national identity at the same time as the Orange State does not carry much sway with the likes of Roy Mason. He just draws a balance sheet of his years of torture and intimidation in office and decides that if the Labour Party is not to fall into the hands of the 'troops out' brigade, have to be presented in a more circumspect manner.
Frank Allaun asks in childlike naivity Orange versus Green Labour versus Tory stuggle we know rest of Britain?' He says that if the British Labour Party were to open shop in the North ... 'everyone knows that our party is supported by Catholics, There would be no suspicion of religious domination' So, they all trooped to Belfast on a consultation exercise. Some, like Labour Barry had talked to loyalists before. His is said to have hidden behind a table in the departure lounge Belfast with Ken Livingstone and councillors Kathy and Steve Bundred, who were over talking to a rather different set of people Ireland representatives of several trade unions, the The Person SDLP, the Sticky' Workers' Party, Paddy Devlin and the Northern Ireland Labour Party. The Nor thern Ireland Labour Party has been described as 'near-comatose'. This tragedy should not now be repeated as farce. Paddy Devlin — like his former pal Lord Fitt - is only interested in organising a party based on himsell.
Both the Workers' Party and the SDLP would not welcome the competition' of a third party there 'bread and butter' issues as it is. are the trade unions who, naturally, would be expected to provide the funds for any new party.
Most would seem quite happy to allow a conference to take place in the summer on the subject of labour organisation, but their view that it would be better to 'have it all out in the open' and drop the idea completely.
The powerful Orange Lodges which double as meeting places for the loyalist unions would be 'up in arms" if anything serious was on the agenda. As it is, they are happy enough to leave the Militant and their supporters prattling away about how and how the voters of the Short Strand should ig nore the soldiers kicking in their front doors and start to protect the job prospects of their Protes tant brothers threatened by the shipyard closures.
Jobs which the Fair Employment reported are being barred to Catholics by the proloyalist umous.
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THERE IS A POSSIBILITY & THAT TONY BENN WILL BE DEFEATED AT CHESTERFIELD... YES, YES, ITS A POSSIBILITY! AND SHOULD SUCH A DISASTER OCCUR WE WILL EXAMINE THE SITUATION IN A COOL AND RATIONAL MANNER
THE INVASION of Grenada on 25 October 1983 was the first US military intervention English-speaking Caribbean. Fifteen thousand military personnel attacked a population of only 108,000 people.
In December a labour movement delegation went to discover the full extent of the impact of the invasion. variety of unions and Labour Parties were represented on the eight person delegation.
TREVOR SHELDON
RUPERT DOWNING, chairperson of the Friendship Society, and a delegation member, i about in the Tasks their finSocialist Action 24 February 1984 posters wearing headscarves. that the torn down angrily by Grenadans and people quite openly Maurice Bishop badges recently produced and revolutionary What role has the British governmen played in the invasion and subsquent It is important to understand that the Us invasion was planned a long time ago and they have had dress rehearsals like the 1981 Amber Amberines exercises.
clear the Thatcher alliance on foreign policy Thatcher government was volved. Indeed we now have information that one hundred Plymouth were flown to the