Troops out now!
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put down motions demanding Labour MPs break from the Lib-Lab deal and campaign actively against it.' In particular those left' MPs that claim to oppose the policies of Callaghan and Healey must be called upon either to launch a campaign throughout the Labour and trade union movement for the breaking of the coalition and the removal of its supporters from the Labour leadership, or to stand aside for those who will.
Tanker drivers
Those sections of workers like the tanker drivers and power workers with outstandTwo marches will be held this coming Sunday to commemorate the sixth anniversary of British imperialism's brutal slaughter of 14 unarmed Irish civilians in Derry on January 30 1972.
One will consist of the motley crew of talkers that describe themselves as the 'revolutionary left' The other will consist largely forces mobilised by Sinn Fein, which is the main force currently struggling against British imperialism in Ireland.
The Workers Socialist League has fundamental political disagreements with the political positions on Ireland' put by the organisers of both marches.
We insist that the correct central demands are for the immediate withdrawal of British troops from Ireland and for self-determination for the Irish people as well as the repeal of repressive legislation such as the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
We reject the tendency of left groups to regard this fight as a "single issue"' detached from a thoroughgoing struggle for a principled leadership in the British and Irish working class.
It is on this basis and to make the case for this position that a WSL contingent will be participating in the Sinn Fein march, which will assemble at 2.00 pm on Sunday at Speakers Corner, and depart for Whitehall at 2.30 pm.
Socialist Press readers are also urged to attend.