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help for small farmers to materialise-the boycott campaign can play an important role in the fight to break Ireland free of imperialist domination.

But to go further than a protest gesture the boycott campaign must be connected to a fight for a series of transitional demands pointing the way forward for the Irish working class and small farmers in their struggle with British, European and Irish capitalism.

Such demands must include the fight for the protection of living standards through a sliding scale of wages, providing increases to keep pace with inflation as assessed by elected trade union and housewives' committees. They must include resistance to all redundancies and sackings through occupation of threatened factories; and the fight for the opening of the books of Irish and multinational firms to trade union committees to show the necessity for them to be nationalised, without com‚pensation, under workers' management.

And unemployment must be challenged through the call for a crash programme of useful public works, creating new jobs throughout the 32 counties of Ireland.

Trotskyist party

Such demands, pointing to the need for a planned, socialist economy in a united workers' republic of Ireland, are of course unachievable without: the removal of all British troops from the occupied six counties, and the Lynch While the Sinn Fein campaign for an active boycott and their objective, which An Phoblacht describes as:

... acting in cooperation with kindred organisations in Europe, to dismantle the EEC totally" is in general correct, it is necessary to build Trotskyist party in Ireland capable of mobilising the working class in the struggle for a revolutionary socialist alternative to capitalism and thę Common Market. WSL Fourth Tasks: 'reunification' of 1963.

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