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Saturday 27 January 2pm parkhill Park, Stratford Rd Organised by Provisional The tragic death of an IRA volunteer and two innocent civilians in an accidental bomb; explosion on a Belfast train last week highlights the bankruptcy of the IRA strategy.

Nobody can doubt the personal courage of those that take up arms and explosives in the struggle against British imperialism in the six counties of And it is of course correct to point out the deaths in the Irish war are all the outcome of the continuing British military occupation.

Evil Printers Ltd., London Isolation But the resort to individual clandestine • military actions furthers the isolation of the anti-imperialist forces from the mass of the working class, which must be mobilised in the fight, to drive out the British oppresSOTS. 'While there can not be a simple 'military victory' for republican fighters, selective action against military targetsarmy patrols, UDR, RUC and prison officers-can be recognised as a significant part of a struggle that of course requires the demoralisation of the occupying army and its agents.

But the campaigns of bombings against what are loosely described as "economic targets" carry the danger of increased nothing as advance the don- doing imperialist consciousness of the Irish working class.

The republican movement's rejection of Marxism leads it also to reject the necessary programmé of demands starting from the daily problems of the working class in the six counties and leading-through mobilisa--tion of mass struggles-to the fight for national liberation and socialist revolution.

While we defend all opponents of British imperialism against state repression, therefore, we continue to fight for a socialist perspeative and Trotskyist party in ireland.

LEAGUE

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Bring down the Tories!

Wednesday 6 February 8.00 p.m.

YMCA, Brandon Street Motherwell

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