[Another good week for the Special Fund has…]
Socialist Press1979 1979-07-18Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: expect misread words, and now and then a caption or a line from a neighbouring story. For anything you quote, read the scan.
Scan page 12
Another good week for the Special Fund has put us in striking distance of our target of £2,500. Our first-ever London Summer Fair (complete with escapologist!) made £140 and readers and supporters have responded well to our appeal for donations to the fund. So the total now stands at £1932.55, leaving us £567.45 to find.
An all-out effort is now needed to ensure that complete the fund on time by the end of this month.
Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 All donations should be sent to: Socialist Press Special Fund 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR broken down" and that "it was assumed that this intervention would be short term"
That is untrue. The army went in to defuse the emerging republican opposition in the working class areas of Derry and Belfast. It stayed on to break the back of that movement through shootings, torture and repression. In ten years it has not succeeded.
The statement says that the cost of the British troops has been a burden to the British taxpayer-a reactionary nationalistic argument.
It ends by declaring support for Lynch's call to 'bring the Unionists to the negotiating table'. All the sponsors have signed beneath a sentence which