More Hot Air from Lynch

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Following close on the heels of his recent speech about British withdrawal from the North of Ireland, Eire Premier Jack Lynch has made another opportunist gesture against British imperialism.

At the recently held conference of Fianna Fail, he announced the setting up of a committee which will study the relationship between the North and the South and PHOTO: Andrew Wiard. Report whose recommendations will be included in a future White At the same conference he also called on Britain to 'actively assist in seeking Irish unity'.

While Lynch was making these empty gestures the main opposition parties in the Dail, Fine Gael and the Irish Labour Party also announced their conversion to the cause of Ireland's self determination.

Not to be outdone, the wretched collaborators of the Northern Social Democratic Labour Party, obviously seeing the myth of 'power sharing' crumble before their eyes, declared themselves in favour of a federal solution to the Irish' problem.

These opportunist scrambles by Irish politicians North and South should not of course be taken seriously by Irish workers who every day face increased attacks on living standards and jobs and a whole battery of repressive legislation against those who dare to speak out against British imperialism.

Only last week the Lynch government set up an elite anti-terrorist task force, clearly designed to increase repression of the Republican movement and socialists.

The 40-man squad will be on continuous standby, and will be headed by a former Dublin Special Branch Superintendant.

Meanwhile the war in the North continues. The tragic deaths of twelve people at the Le Mon roadhouse as the result of an IRA incendiary device once again highlights the futility of individual acts of terrorism and the lack of any political perspective by the IRA.

Needless to say the British press and media have been shedding crocodile tears over the twelve victims and have used the tragedy to increase repression against the nationalist population in the North, as evidenced by arrests and increased SAS activity.

Individual acts of terrorism will not defeat British imperialism.

Lynch A revolutionary leadership must be built, capable of mobilising the working class on both sides of the border in the fight to drive out expropriate toalign capital and establish a workers' republic in which democratic rights for all are guaranteed.

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