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The bombs themselves did not produce the statutory howis of rage from the ruling class. Its obsession with union bashing has pushed all other matters aside Nevertheless, here we are, Ene cigntn anniversary Derry's "Bloody Sunday', and still Ireland will not got away.
Indeed it is a fair guess that if Thatcher comes to power then the present offensive of the IRA in this country will develop into blitz proportions.
For that, as with most other things associated with the Iron Maiden's support, the Labour Government bears most responsibility.
Last week a member of the Government could stomach it no longer; assistant chief whip Jock Stallard resigned over the decision to increase the number ol Ivorinern irelana seats a Westminster.
And for all the common assumptions about the inability Irish question to oerco ae me consco sior WITH the Labour Government pathetically slithering into its twilight hours, it desperately needs the type of audacity shown by last week's gas and fuel depot Alas, such imagination is beyond the collective pleas from the NCCL and Amnesty investigations into various aspects of his policy.
He sums it up by his H-block policy. Mason not only defends the spectacle of 350 political SUPPORT IRISH POWS Ireland since the foundation of the Northern state Such is the legacy of this tottering Labour Government to the people of reland.
Yet the majority labour movement remains unmoved. One might note the following, for example.
Barnsicy Is Ilason s con He is sponsored by stituency.
STin er National Union of Mineworkers.
BARNSLEY Arthur cargill, one of the most left of the NUM's leaders, 1s the uncrowned king of Barnsley labour. But cargill's statements on Ireland have been very few and very far between.
Yet it is seless to denonce or criticise without offering a means of channelling indig. HaLS Es The possibilities are there.
Although the International Tribunal on Britain's Presence in has suffered number of delays and set-backs, it remains a useful walv rocussing greatet attention on Ireland in the labour movement.
Tribunals by themselves are insufficient. It is the United Troops Out Movement which, by offering a variety of activites and non-