Fighting for Irish solidarity
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has set the pace in passing an anti-imperialist motion on Ireland for debate at this year's Labour Party conference.
Carried by 20 votes to 5, the motion was forwarded as the constituency's resolution to the conference as a result of the casting vote of the Party chairperson after a tied vote with another motion..
It reads:
"This conference deplores Michael Foot's statement in the House of Commons on the death of Bobby. Sands and his slavish following of Tory bi-partisan policy on Northern Ireland.
Conference endorses and supports the efforts being made by Labour MPs to break the bipartisan policy by fighting for political status for prisoners convicted by the Special Diplock Courts, and the withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland."
*In Oxford, Socialist Press supporters leafleting to publicise a Workers Socialist League public meeting on the H Block struggle were harassed by police last week.
Works police at BL's Cowley Assembly plant called the cops in a bid to exploit the hostility of some carworkers to the leaflet, which argued the case for supporting the hunger strikers and for the immediate withdrawal of British troops from Ireland.
Despite the fact that they knew no crime was being committed, police insisted on taking the names and addresses of the militants giving out the leaflets.