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for Ireland Taking advantage of the massive and chronic unemployment created by capitalist rule in the North of Ireland, the depressed wage levels that flow from this factor, the presence of British imperialist troops to protect the "security" of their investment and huge British government grants and tax concessions, a new US car firm is to build a major factory in Belfast.

Centuries of British colonial rule has ensured that conditions in Belfast compete favourably for the US capitalists with appalling poverty prevalent in Puerto Rico.

And the Labour leaders have agreed to provide state finance to cover nearly two-thirds of the £65 million investment in plant and equipment.

The factory will be sited in Belfast, where Catholic ghetto areas are thought to contain anything up to 50% unemployment.

As the international economic crisis forces the capitalist class into further attempts to exploit workers in the underdeveloped •and colonial countries, there is no doubt that Ireland-North and South of the imperialist drawn "border" will remain a tempting target.

The struggle against unemployment in Ireland must in no way rely on the arrival of "benevolent"' capitalists or the charity of the British imperialist rulers.

It must take up the struggle to open the books of the multinational and Irish capitalis firms and banks that reap super . profits from the misery of Iris workers, and show the need tr nationalise them, without com pensation.

This must be connected witl the struggle on both sides of thi "border" for a planned pro gramme of public works tr create now jobs under thi control of trade union commit tees, with the perspective of al all-Ireland socialist planner At each point the exploita tion of Ireland must be showr to be linked completely to thi British military occupation o the North as a buttress o counter-revolution, and thi fight taken up for the self determination of the Irist people as a whole as part of the fight for a workers' republic.

SINN FEIN has called London demonstration on 1: August, the seventh anniversar of the Tory policy of intern ment in Ireland.

Though internment itself i nominally dead and gone, i lives on in the kangaroo court and prolonged remands nov used against republican anc socialist militants in the North and the bestial condition: inflicted on the prisoners in t Block at the Long Kesh concen tration camp.

The August 13 march leaving Speakers Corner. at 2pm is based on the call for the release of those imprisoned for their fight against British imper. ialism.

As such it should be fully supported by the British labour movement.