Lynch crackdown
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The Southern Irish Tories of the Lynch government have made their expected move to join hands with British imperialists against Republicans North and South.
The military agreement announced between Michael O'Kennedy, Irish Foreign Minister, and Humphry Atkins, British. Northern Ireland Minister, will give official blessing to many military practices that already exist on the basis of a wink and a nod.
British Army helicopters are now being given permission to overfly Southern airspace by six miles in 'pursuit of suspects'.
Intelligence Joint operations will be carried out between the Garda and the RUC and full exchange of intelligence information will take place.
In the north the appointment of Sir Maurice Oldfield, former head of MI6 is the signal of a massive increase in surveijlance in what is already one of the most effective police states in the world.
Sinn Fein activists for LeTT Dear Comrades, It is clear that in many towns and localities where education facilities are threatened by Labour and Tory spending cuts, nursery campaigns are among the first to get underway. In the Accrington area the Clayton-le-Moors Nursery Action Group has been formed despite the obvious inability of local Labour Party members to offer any principled lead.
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Oldfield example at present under surveillance for 70% of their lives will now have a watch kept on them every moment of their day. Oldfield is also to have responsibility for breaking down 'misunderstandings' between the police and the army.
These measures, coming in the wake of the Pope's visit to Ireland, are the bitter pill that the Pope was designed to sweeten, By failing to denounce the Pope's visit the IRA and Prothe Action Committee have been to great trouble to restrict action to the submitting of a petition to the Lancashire County Council Education Committee last month, accompanied by only a token demonstration.
A proposal for a mass demonstration outside the threatened nursery class at the Mount Pleasant Infant School, calling for support from other local nurseries, playgroups and from local trade unionists, was visional Sinn Fein (who have asked for 'clarification' of his position) have left the republican workers in the north rudderless at a crucial moment.
The object of the Pope's visit was to strengthen all the most reactionary forces l in Ireland-the Church and the Lynch government in the south and the British Army in the North.
A revolutionary leadership would point to the connection betweęn the fight against the repression of women and the upholding of reaction in the South and the anti-imperialist struggle in the North.
The nationalists of Sinn Fein have done no such thing.
The military agreement that the Lynch government has agreed obviates the need for the British Army to make its well known 'map reading errors' and demonstrates that for British imperialism there can be no territorial rights for any part of The overflying helicopters, which will be used not to chase suspects, but to spy on the border region of the South, are the visible symbol of the relationship between the vassal state in the South and British imperialism. defeated by the right wing, who argued that this "might upset the headmistress"!
Nor has a suggestion of a demonstration outside the local education offices yet been acted upon.
But Labour have not held tub-thumping denouncing the insisting that must be kept up' Such rhetoric if not backed councillors back from speeches closure and "the fight is of little up by conSOCL ILIS PRESS, Wedne. day !001 tobe rage: