*bipartisan policy' noW followed.
This bipartisan policy is in fact a tripartisan policy shared Labour and Tory leaderships with the Ulster Unionists. the tripartite Irish policy is vividly analysed in a new pamphlet, Labour and Ireland Geoff Bell, an Ulster born journalist. This provides a plentiful supply ammunition to any delegate wishing to take part in the debate on these resolutions, if a debate is allowed.
Stormont We all remember that the present conflict was sparked off by the civil • rights demand for equal treatment for Catholics, an end to discrimination.
Britain abolished Stormont, the sectarian 'B' Specials, the hated Special Powers disarmed the RUC. We also abolished local government, avoid discrimination in housing and orner mallers.
But the 'B' re-formed the Uister Regiment, as sectarian as before; the RUC, as sectarian as it ever was and responsible for the widespread torture prisoners, was Special Powers Act was replaced by the Emergency Provisions Act and the Prevention OI Terrorism imprisonment Socialist Challenge being by Tne The development of 1969-79, eventually multiple vote and the Act, and supposedly to Specials were Defence re-armed; the request.
deportation without trial.
Act; replaced without trial, indet4 October 1979 Page 6 Partisanship the case for troops ou À new pamphlet by Geoff Bell with cartoons by Cormac, which analyses the costs of bipartisanship over the last ten years. Available from The Other Bookshop, 328 Upper St, London N1. Cost 40p plus 10p post. Bulk rates on inite imprisonment on remand', and And as if all that wasn't enough, we gave the Ulster Unionists extra seats at Westminster; there are now three cartoons by mac times as many people in prison in Ulster as there were in 1969; last year Roy Mason announced his intention of selling off one third of all the council houses in Northern Ireland; Labour parliamentary who have shown, as Mr Bell rightly points out, more anxiety to get the approval of the Tories and the Ulster Unionists than that of any section of Troops case 101 Ireland now, Bell I don't think he has done this. He has given us clear proof, if such proof were needed, that all British policies in Ireland have failed abysmally their own stated argument forces us to the conclusion that the cause lies in the nature of the union of Britain and the Protestant statelet as it was defined in 1921. But that is a case for ending the union, not immediate forces.
British troops would not by itself end the conflict. discrimination and the conflict lies in the guarantee that British sovereignty ovel the Protestants that whatever they do to the Catholics will be backed British military power; that is what "sovereignty' military withdrawal would inevitably result in the further militarisation of the RUC and an Ulster Defence Regiment, financed by the British tax payer. provide a strong leadership, of Harcourt The pamphlet sets out to prove the pulling the troops out but with respect to Mr only govern on all. terms, • and his The point is that the withdrawal of •The root cause of the Northern Ireland provides for by simple extension of the This would reason -for the Provisional IRA to stay in the field since, once again, all the forces of "law and order' would be in the hands of the Protestants. with everything that has meant in the past.
by ending forever British Northern can that guarantee be removed and be seen to be removed. Only then will the understand that their dream of 'a Protestant state tor a Protestant people was a hideous delusion sustainable only on the basis military power, taxes and British blood.
I hope conference delegates and Labour Party members generally will read Geoff Bell's pamphlet; it is a reminder of Lord told Gladstone in 1883: 'We hold Ireland by • force and by force alone, as much as in the days of Cromwell... we have never governes and we never shall govern Ireland by the good will of its people.' If we can wortner Ireland by force we should not be governing it at Dundee Demonstration In protest against the training of the Ulster Defence Regiment Sat 13 October, 11.30am.
Assemble: Tofthill car park, Lochee, Dundee.
THE MEN who wrote The Third World War: A Future History are not cranks or harmless speculators. The chief author is Sir John Hackett, once Commander in Chief of the Army of the Rhine, foremost military historian. collaborators this professionally written book include top NATO figures like Air Marshal John Brigadier Kenneth Hunt, Admiral Sir lan McGeogh, and Major General John Strawson. Macrae. deputy editor. Economist, is also one of the authors.
In the 1960s the Americans, aware that the Soviet Union could rival each US advance in nuclear adopted a policy of flexibleresponse'. The opening of hostilities should not have to trigger an escalation to all-out nuclear war — the "trip-wire' theory.
Limiting the growth of strategic arms, through the SALT talks, the US is building its conventional armoury, and encouraging its allies to do the same. Hackett's book explains what the "non-nuclear variant' would look ilke in practice In December 1984, riots break out in Poland and East Germany. These revolts have been encouraged by the and Britain's His vivid and Chief Barraclough, Vice Norman of the immediate anti-Soviet 'human rights' MOST people believe that there can never be another world war. The dispelling First, Vietnam.
foment fronts.
Europe, US influence penetration the ranian Pentagon, invariably tried to solve its problems by war. Its growing difficulties today are well-known. Hackett's book, by the myth of inevitable exchange, seeks peopie think once again about what has long been unthinkable Since Hackett wrote his book, in 1978, two important developments have taken place.
the Chinese invasion of . This, the first war between wolkcoslalo. warl ballaDioxy wa between China and the Soviet Union US friendship with the Chinese and the sale of arms to China (through Britain) are undoubtedly intended to Sino-Soviet war. In Hackett's book, Moscow has to fight World War Three only on its Western front. Perhaps if he were writing now, he would have it fighting on two Secondly, the Iranian revolution has occurred. This is a massive blow to US domination of the Gulf. Triumphs Hackett insists that to fight a war in NATO SHIUS supplies of oil and minerals from Alrica and ine viacle cast. Loss or and growing Soviet of these areas threaten