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schools under Once again the continuing war of liberation in Ireland has been brought into the headlines by a statement from leading US bourgeois politician "Tip" O'Neil, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

O'Neill; whose ludicrous remarks on Ireland being a 'political football' in British politics were angrily refuted by both Labour and Tory politicians during the election campaign, this time hit a more sensitive point by pressing for a US State Department ban on arms sales to the RUC.

He argued that the RUCpart of the armed backbone of the Loyalist sectarian statelet -was seen by many as biased, and that for the US to sell arms to the RUC would look like support for 'one of the factions in Northern Ireland' This stand has, more surprisingly, been supported by Michael O'Kennedy, the Foreign Minister of the pro-imperialist Irish Republic, and by the SDLP's spokesman on 'law and order' Michael Canavan.

The arms in question include M1 carbines and Mauser pistols -known colloquially as the 'Dirty Harry' gun, from the savagery of the injuries they inflict.

But it is significant that yet again the British military and police repression of the nation. alist population in the North is highlighted by sources outside Britain, and met by a wall of silence from the leaders of the British labour movement.

The stopping of arms supplies to the brazenly sectarian RUC and to the occupying British army should not be left in the hands of US bourgeois politicians, but taken up as a task before the British working class.

Such a struggle is an essential part of the fight to force the withdrawal of British troops and open the way to the self-determination of the Irish people as a whole.

-torture Bourgeois spokesman- "Tip" O 'Neil The all-round offensive by the Tories against the education of working class youth was highlighted at last week's conference of the National Association of Head Teachers.

Education Secretary. Mark Carlisle whose first move in office was to reprieve existing grammar schools and the reacpictures of the leading police officers convicted on corruption charges in order to convince school students of the case for "law and order"

Organise now!

It is more important than ever that school students, teachers and manual andagdministrative workers are fully organised now into unions and wage a joint struggle for action to halt the Tory war on working class education, on jobs and on the basic rights of youth.

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