Reagan/Thatcher talks WARMONGERS SUMMIT CARN EACTION

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strike action throughout the 32 counties of Ireland in support of the hunger strikes, the Thatcher government had offered what appeared to be a formula for conceding the five demands of the prisoners.

But once the mass pressure had been removed, so too were the concessions. Thatcher and torture chief Atkins made statements repudiating the deal-and the prisoners have been forced once again to desperate measures in their fight for recognition as political prisonersjailed for their struggle against imperialist rule in the six counties.

The renewed hunger strike comes at an awkward time for the republican movement, which in the aftermath of the previous hunger strike had the family unit-through which millions of women less well-off than "Lady Di" find themselves reduced to economic dependence upon a man, chained to the home, and confined to menial domestic tasks.

*The church service will boost sagging interest in religion and the marriage ceremony. Mrs Whitehouse will be pleased.

*The ballyhoo began half-anhour before the new unemployment figures come out: and it should last almos and 3e 3 million figure is resto. Te Tories are delighted.

*Ghastly souvenirs are already being mass produced to give a lift to bankrupt potteries and offer a brief reprieve to a few doomed plastics factories.

*Aristocrats and bourgeois parasites from all over the world will arrive to patronise London hotels-to the delight of Sir Charles Forte and his reactionary colleagues.

The ceremony will be a focal point for reactionaries of every stripe. Not least the fascist thugs of the British Movement, one of whom -the leader of 'Hounslow 55* _expressed his support to a TETE seased I married HETE tie fight for the flag, Sieg Heal!" al aggression.

Thatcher declared her enthusiasm for the neutron bomb, for a combined Rapid Deployment Force to intervene against liberation struggles in the Middle East and South East Asia, and received the Wild Bill Donovan medal for warmongering and anti-communist rhetoric.

She offered British troops and naval forces to help Reagan begin again the task of policing the world which the US imperialists have shied away from since their defeat in the Vietnam war. tration -for weakness!

Failure

Us a Treasury Secretary Donald Reagan slammed the Tories' failure to control the money supply, her inadequate tax cuts and her cash subsidies to industry.

More annoying to the US warmongers is likely to be the fact that Thatcher's spending cuts have also cut her ability to offer them significant military support in their plans to attack workers and peasants in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Central America.

*President Reagan is likely to be faced soon by a national strike of miners, called in protest at government plans to axe the scheme that compensates miners suffering from Black Lung'.

The UMWA has called upon its own members and also on the large nonunionised workforce in the American mining industry to mobilise in joint action against this attack.