ALONG WITH the police, health officiats, and top table Thursday's raid were the fociliries of the Private Ambulance Company Lid.
The company operates nation-wide service mE 2D Grunvile Gardens in West London. ficer of converted Volves, Cor anas and Marines are in creasing demand, and not just for the scabbine.
Heathrow airport is one af largest customers, Now airport stewards are threatenmerchants are allowed to ply their trade ar Heathrow:
The same day wit see a mass lobby of the area health suthority which was responsible for the raid on the hospital. Delegates also voted to call on the national officers of the hesith service unions to arganise national strike action. The calf for action has beer teken up by ten London hospitars who have piedged strike ment to strike action hy workers outside the bealth service in that area be built for through a local defence committee such as tha set up at Hounslow.
Thirdly, it means demanding that the union leaderships commit themselves to making such pay to maintain the campaigning for that action a mong the membership, and calling solidaricy suike action by workers in other arens on n regiona, and national basis.
All the fine statements of local MPs nothing unleas they contribute to bulling this commitment to acon - so that any acempe a Hasure is met by a wave of strike action backed by street demon health subority to concede the demands of the workers.
It is this action which is now essential for Hounslow Da be ker The task of the EGA an other hospitals working-in aKauns cosure must be to make sure they are ready for when the commandos pet round tD them
This transformation occurred as it the end troops, or about the murder by those troops of 14 civilians one afternoon in Neither were they drawing attention to the acts of rape committed by British troops or its employment of assassination squads. They were not even protesting about the refusal of Britain to grant self-determination to the Irish people as a whole.
Since 1968 there have been protests about such things; the more Britain has become directly involved, We are now into year ten of the present Irish "troubles'. It was on 5 October 1968 that a small civil rights march was batoned off the streets of Derry and when the facts of "John Bull's sium became Since then the civil rights struggle has been transformed into a liberation struggle aimed at ending British presence in Ireland.
'reformed' problem, years dead forever."
When the civil rights the Isolation beating.
Provos, more casualties the recognise Drumm peopie... economic greater bas been the abrogation of the democratic rights of the Irish people.
There seems little chance that the present Labour Government will cease this involvement. Recently Northern Ireland secretary Roy Mason stated; 'The myth of British withdrawal is There have been many prepared to resist such diktats. Over the last seven years the resistance has been led by the Provisional Republican movement, a movement Mason now claims to be There has certainly been a decline in the military activity of the altbough its main target British military personnel — has hac this year than last Nevertheless it is clear that the simple policy of bombing Britain ou of Ireland is not working, and there are signs us chang in me crossons!:
this. In June this усат leading Belfast Republican Jimmy stated: *The isolation socialist Republicans around the armed struggle is dangerous... We need a positive tie with the mass of the Irish "We need to make a stand or issues and struggles of the people. The forging of strong finks berween the Republican movement and the workers of Ireland and radical trade unionists will create an irrepressible mass me Espocially in Belfast, of the last nine yea socialist politics amon cans in a real way. Whe it is difficult to tell: ot leaders remain tied to of the armed elite worki the peopic But even among l ticians the eventual re-united Ireland is agai of. Both the new Fiann ment in the South and Social Democratic and in the North have rece position. The words are transformed into acti importance is that th pressure these politiciar One of the main seum re-unification remains community in the North evidence of astitudes 1 'moderate Alliance I week they no longer sharing between the Unionist Party. CalLs Loyalist bero Gusty Dister Defence Associ talks with the Provos w with the comment: Gu been in jail too Jong. Independence The only new idea t the Loyalist camp in years advoca independence. That or advocates is the extrem John McKengue says motives behind such McKeague and his k North of Ireland of p Britain interfered' wi
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