Workers Socialist League

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Sun We Did It, Say

Socialist Press no. 165, 5 September 1979 · scan pp. 4–5 · Lord Louis · about 279 words

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MURDER OF Mountbatten and 17 soldiers killed by IRA Iurm..

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• PROVOS MASSACRE SOLDIERS- Back Pose Even in the terms of British imperialism the press was unable to put forward a single coherent policy which looked likely to advance their cause.

Symbolic

Not yet ready to call for a pogrom, the press is reduced in the end to pictures of Thatcher in the uniform of the Paras, sight seeing the scene of thel successful IRA operation against the occupying army.

That symbolic dressing upi should tell workers all they need to know about whose army they! are supposed to be mourning.

TRIBUTE DAILY THE VOICE OF BRITAIN Horror Ki DeM SOILETS 2355 AS THE WORLD reraled much hoardt OPINION

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the Bakers Union.

Whether or not with the tacit consent of the union leadership, they singled out a Manchester branch • secretary, Paul Kennedy, for their third degree treatment-and, despite the fact that he has no authorthe union to drop its motion calling on the next Labour government to carry out Labour Party policies-declaring that it is wrong to "interfere in Empty moves not want trouble, they are pulling hard to stop the rank and file from being inflamed too soon.

"Everything has therefore been done in advance. to produce a critical but not avritahla Conarecs."

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Murdered by the IRA

EXPRESS THESE • Mount

EVIL darat death BASTARDS

← Contents of Socialist Press no. 165, 5 September 1979