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By The Editor Following HAROLD WILSON'S 'Labour' gor. Friday ernment has joined hande with 3.t4erpual the penple of Later - Catholie and teing the 1.800 mortess tand Protestant alike. of from the swu actones Moved in boder try coal al Ampleturn ge the meroin Chiches Cape Tory-Labour support RECORD Thursday, Anguet 2, & pus Paternalisten in the steel n U.S. Rachee chem b whar tbe Finance Greme Lasce EDITORIAL proposal These demands could also have opened a way to win Protestant workers by centre of Derry provoked full scale roting ın the Bogsidealso tested this leadership.

The RUC besieged the area but were held at bay for three days by stones and petrol bombs.

This challenge to the Northern state machine by the Catholic population threw the Chichester-Clark government into chaos.

The Southern Ireland government under Jack Lynch was forced by the strength of support for the Northern Catholies to demagogically warn Stormont that:

"It is clear .. • that the Irish government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse."

However he merely established field hospital on the border to look after the injured.

was at this point, when the Catholics had actually won a temporary but important victory over the RÚC and 'B' Specials, that the Wilson government-fearful lest all of Northern Ireland erupt in struggle-sent in the imperialist army.

This was done not to protect the Catholics-who had just shown their ability to protect themselves- but to stabilise and defuse a highly volatile situation where the old forces of 'law and order' had broken down.

The introduction of temporary breathing space in which the defences of the Catholic community can be strengthened."

Tacit support

The IS went on to carry an interview with a Mr Ray Burnett, saying:

"When they [ the troops] arrived it was marvellous. I mean they were a lot better than the bastards of the RUC and the 'B' men"

This tacit IS support for the army intervention involved them in almost comic reversals of policy.

In the period before the military intervention in Ireland, Socialist Worker carried ing in Ireland in 1969 was to -4-0 44 4 44 WA relate this principled position to a concrete practice of intervention around a series of transitional demands which would have brought them into head-on collision with the demands and tactics of the Civil-Rights leadership.

Little different

Outside of the development of demands for class solutions of the jobs and housing questions, their case for workers' defence guards, although formally correct, seemed little different from the existing defence organisations. Chichester-Clark to declare war on On Tuesday night, August 19, the General Ofticer commanding the 6,000 troops now deployed in Northern Ireland was given fuli control of all security and police operations in the British imperialism and its agents are preparing for civil war.

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Withdraw troops NOW!

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