visit to Fi ne press Knock North.
worid :teply to this.
Africa TiSTE пОг for than ever The Irish today are built by in - the condition of the Stormont involved Socialist Challenge Attempts were MOTE and the use of force.
Conscience removing presence in Ireland. ence has DESPITE the acres of space that! repressive the press has allocated to the Pope's newspaper bothered to publish the IRA's statement on the subject.
particularly concerned to praise the Pope's calls for peace when he preached from near the border with the It was widely interpreted as direct call to the IRA to lay down their arms. The IRA issued a statement in Lne Republican Army restates its position in regard to its use of force to bring about political change from the British government.
Firstly, the roots of the present troubles go back into history, but have, in the last decades, their source economic deprivation suffered by the national-.
ist people. Responsibility for the poor people rested and the government at Westminster.
resoive those problems peacefully met with brute force from the state, and people who exasperated organised and fought back with civil disobedience Immall conscience we believe that force is by far the only means of the evil of the . Their interferdivided the people and caused untold hardship:
One should not talk about men of violence' and ignore the 33,000 strong armed forces in the Six Counties, their occupying areas, the proven, cases of laws, the army torture, and of course the situation in the H-blocks.
Whereas we the british government to cease interfering in our affairs, they are out to exterminate Republicans, and violently repress the claims being made self-determination.
Furthermore, we believe that our orospects for victory are supported by struggles, by our continued existence Callue other giyen the duration of the repression, and by the widespread support which we know we command and which our operations prove.
We know also that upon victory the Church would have no difficulty in recognising us.
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forts establishments are bankrupt and have Church leaders, also failed to resolve the massive and economic suffered by our people and created by British interference. Indeed, it would be correct to say that many of them haven't even examined possible ways of solving the problem.
Irish They lack the courage to honestly identify the problem. will continue to deal with it, untli the colonial British dimension is witharawn and a climate for real peace with justice can be created.
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truth in this statement. It is certainly absolutely clear that the church and difference to the population of the calls for peace North of Ireland. been the slogan taken up by Unionist ultras, but the NF laced with assorted anti-Irish slogans. 'AVENGE Mountbatten, kill the Pope' may not have tried to come up with the next best thing last Saturday. was the main demand of a the demo.
and ! politicians people problems final and people.
We have, and We believe there is considerable mobilisations will make that SMASH SMASH THE /.R.A 200-strong fascist march through Central London, well Counties significant step towards peace is the decisive withdrawal British troops and government.
It is also clear that Britain is not going to withdraw unless it is forced to by the militant struggle of the irish So the statement says: "We believe that force is by far the only means of removing the evil of the British presence.
The only quarrel we would have with the IRA is that force is not just a MY FIRST AND LOVE WHERE CHRIST AND CESAK HAND AND GLOVE:
matter of guns • there 1s alSo lI force that arises out of the mass of the population on the streets. It is this latter type of force will be finally decisive in the North of Ireland.
Two thousand
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cops, including the SPG, marched with them, while 300 responded to a call from the Anti-Nazi League to oppose