in the talks with William Whitelaw and Ted Heath. The purpose of these talks was to establish the condi support for Under mass pressures the SDLP urged a boycatt in the referendum in March 1973, but then they participated in the local government. clections May; accepced the Government's White Paper out Uning the power sharing scrat June they urged support for the elecrions to the 1973 the SDLP pation in the power-sharing Exas deputy lender of the Precutive. served directly under the person responable for the decision to introduce Paddy Devlin SDEP. was responsible for the directed against thousands of rent anc unhappy saga of th Semi-Detached Labour Part continued. When internment was the 1975 another name truce berween the Provisionals and the British Government, the - SDLP leade SDLP raised no objection to the ment still remained on the statute boaks. More importantly, it saw nothing wrong with the Bricish state's new mechanism to eflec tively cootitue internment under For the SDLP, the mass frameups of republicans and socialists ever was fine in principle - as long as done "Regnity'. Merlyn Rees Minister Tor the 6 Cauti ies, promptly obliged by institu ting the Diplock Courts to try SU50CICT LETOELELECETUT counts, operating under the old Unionise judiciary woD full support from the SDIP an they semenced hundreds men and wanies on the Rinsies Tbe best way to suo un Gerr: Fit's present stance is by report ng a conversation which occurs A CASE WEEK CELLUL PULL BIE prisobers welfare representative being asled to go to Long himself as the ciscred representative for West Belfast, Filt replied tbat be had never been in Long Kesh hefore, and that he didn' intend to start now!
credibility among us constructs, rat bH pubicly declined an invitation t pay bomage to th Queen ier state visit on 10 Autust. The attitude oF anti Unionist sopulation to this Royal tour dicated by the latest slogan i appear on the Fails Road, t reads: "Will Lizrie visir H block? We should perhape make ane small cbange 'Will Fits ever visir H block?*
*REVOLUTIONARY Marxsetback can he found in the rejection of the other measures country.
ba the bureaucratic We conclude our series on the Italian far left with two articles. In the first ANNA LIBERA takes a look at the views of the Italian Trotskyists. Then RICHARD CARVER discusses how the experiences of the far left in Italy can help clarity the debates and problems facing revolutionaries in this
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