issue. in the sir Counties of Northern ireland. 10 per cent for the Labour Parti established election machinery built over the years. That this is due very much to Sinn Fein's record of campaigning on social issues, like the anti-pusher campaign, can be seen by comparing the votes in working class Dublin to the republican' areas on the border where their vote was only around two per cent.
At the same time as voting Assembly, Irish voters were considering a referendum to extend the franchise to all residents of Ireland. Portrayed largely as a reciprocation of the right of Insih citizens to vote in Britain, this was passed by a majority of three to one.
Wolfe Tone the authors of the sew rermanaah Whereas a defeat for on the EEC VULC "break-through? ballot. Over the last vear SUDITO.
VOLE west of Paris, where JeanWas Giscardian While the right wing opposition parties led by Not une charismatic tigure among Immigrants march from Marseille to Paris to protest. against racism WiLl rise cannot PUll HOSI successes and resolve thei man who drew voters awar on the road to the 1986 Parliamentary elections. Unless the present course of the Mitterrand government is rolled back by an resistance to ration laws and French military intervention in the third Pen himself as wel against Le then the 1968 election will produce an alliance of the what the SP-CP goverr ment have begun.
Socialist Action 29 June 1984
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Ireland votes Republican Now:
Simone Veil maintained their vote at 42 per cent this time compared to the last EEC elections in 1979, the total vote of the right wing parties in France jumped enormously to 55 per cent. The biggest gainer was the neo-fascist Front National (FN) which increased