The deaths and injuries resulting from the bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton will provoke no tears in the Catholic ghettos of the North of Ireland, nor in the mining communities of this should they!
The Tory cabinet, whose core came so close to being wiped out, murderers in the most literal sense. They are the of Prentinian sailors to death when they sailors torpedoed the Belgrano. health, safety, have been killed in the entire then year than the troops went into the North of Ireland The Tory Cabinet are the people - and they come from a long line — who every day organise the military and the killing and repression that flows from it.
If someone wants to weep violence can list to start with than those who died at Brighton - any pensioner dying from the effects of Thatcherism would do for a start. It is pure hypocrisy of the press that they present organisers of violence as martyrs Needless to say this same Fleet Street press, and the government, have moved rapidly to exploit the Brighton bomb in their war against the British miners. In this they are greatly helped by Neil Kinnock and the right wing of the labour movement. about 'all violence' pass herself off as a defender of democracy. He which it exercises daily in the North. the government And those who most rapidiy 'terrorism' are those in the British Labour move ment who most readily themselves. Gavin 'Even although we actions needed to perpetrators of this foul outrage. position on Ireland at the Labour Party conference was courts and the use of plastic bullets -course in the name of non-violence!
While the leadership of the labour movement takes the positions of Kinnock and Laird Ireland will continue to be an achilles heel of the British hundred per cent with the Republican. tion of the North of Ireland and not with the Tory Cabinet who received just a minute proportion of their own medicine.
But in addition to the moral question there is also a straightforward political issue. On that the Brighton bomb was a big mistake waging a mass campaign for British withdrawal retreat from Sinn Fein's from Ireland.
It needs to be said honestly also that there are illusions in Sinn Fein if the statement attributed to Danny Morrison in the Observer that. 'If the IRA had wiped out the Cabinet that would accelerate moves towards withdrawal, is true.
In the North of Ireland it is undoubtedly true that the armed struggle has mass because the majority of the nationalist population see the British government and its army as an illegitimate occupation force.
In Britain these conditions do not exist. As a result the political effect of Brighton bombing is to allow the true criminals to portray themselves as the victims of 'terrorism' and 'attacks on democracy'.
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