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Socialist Press no. 249, 4 June 1981 · scan pp. 1–2 · Socialist Party Presi- · about 459 words

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meal of the funerals of apologists for the British That the five British soldiers ruling class who insist that M blown up in South the army must remain in strikt Armagh. recruiting confused and conc Nobody had anything unemployed youth into the are f against these soldiers person- forces. and of an occupying army -and shouldn't have been socie were attacked as such by Ireland. They shouldn't have T members of the popular been in Thatcher's army. W The British press was at from the war-any more the a once full of crocodile tears than any other British Britis for the soldiers families at worker. Instead they should home. have been in a union, fighttion tor those unemployed now.

All served up more of the usual tedious nonsense about "winning hearts and minds" and forcing the Thatcher government to "change course"

Communist Party leader Gordon MacLennan claimed it was "very important" that the March had been backed by sections of the Church, while a succession of Baptists, Methodists and Anglicans got up to deliver irrelevant sermons on the in struggle It was not the TUC or Labour leaders, but representatives of workers who have actually fought in defence of jobs who made the only down-to-earth statements on the way forward from the March.

pation secured a partial victory against redunuancies, pointed out that for all the talk of "unity", real unity is Th vainful fact is that struggles in defence of jobs like Gardiners and Lee Jeans and the occupations of St.

Benedicts and Longworth Hospitals have been deliberately left isolated or, like the Ansells brewery struggle, sabotaged by union officials ally: they were just members determined to avoid a frontal challenge to the employers or the Tory resistance movement.

Elsewhere-as in British Leyland-union leaders have formed a more or less open alliance with management to But it is these same ing fi or policies to defea cher government. leanwhile, four hi ers continue Ireland-and who go out strug gle in the Long entration camp. ighting in the int with the support o The five soldiers most oppressed layer ty in the six counti heir fight is our 1 Te have a common They had nothing to gain est in i defeating Thatche Firmed repression o sh state.

Political status now Troops out of Irela anger their Kesh They erests if the s of es. fight! interrand f the nd! it the Support the Irish _prisoners' five demands!

Stop the deaths! Saturday 13 June, 1.30 Assemble Finsbury Park, march to Hyde Park Called by the H Block/ Armagh Committee

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new cab age The new French government assembled dent Francois Mitterand consists of 5 Ministers of 1981

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Tom McAfee, convenor of Gardiners, where an occu-

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