"A better life for all' — CP's ill-fated substitute for troop withdrawal.
Britain democratic ill-treatment impossible'.
can endorse which Britain Northern accountable and Britain and. Northern of Ireland for years. is already "ill-treat' Labour's assur- already innocent people, Megal to shoot TRADES see that they are carried out as quickly as possible to make by The same hope of making "impossible' the nasty things has done in Ireland for the last 800 years is contained in the Communist Party's solution of a Bill of Rights to ensure 'full democra- member tic rights and civil liberties'.
That the Communist Party still comes up with the Bill of Bill of Rights' Rights solution suggests that it has the same bland disregard Party, as the major parties for what right of the has been going on in the North THe SE ten illegal prisoners, is illegal shoot It is even Republicans unless there is a life at stake. barracks But all these 'illegalities' are committed day in and day out the British in Northern Just what do the authors of the Bill of Rights solution imagine would happen? Per haps as a prisoner's eardrums about of the burst, RUC will OLIC La warning. "Hey can't do that, it's against the To be fair to the Communist it does recognise the ot the people of Ireland to rule their own country. But it does not say just when it intends to recognise that right in practice.
There is of course the tired old formula of the withdrawal of British troops to barracks. says But the British Army was in its the Norti of Ireland from the end of the Second World War until 1969 when one order from James Callaghan sent them onto the streets again.
A final comparison between the manifestos can be made The couple of hundred words Communis Party's coverage of Ireland, and its eight paragraphs the heading "Defend and extend democracy', do not include the words Prevention of Terrorism Act Nor do the words 'H Block' appear in its section on the North of Ireland.
The Communist Party shares that omission with the Liberals, Labour and Tories. There are times when silence more than a dozen manifestos can.
Yet even after the election, insists Gallagher, he will be "tapping Mason on his shoulder. Anyone who has ever met Brendan would say that 'tapping' is somewhat of Socialist Challenge 19 April 1979 page