Speeches and Songs of Protest & Revolution St Mary's Hall Bernadette Devlin
Free Citizen1970No public scan is online for this item; the text below was read from a privately held copy.
Machine-read text, not corrected. Cut from the scan by machine, by the size of the headline type. Where columns were set close together, lines of a neighbouring article can run in, and a headline can be missed so that two articles share a page. For anything you quote, read the scan.
Scan page 1
er-Clark, Faulkner and Bradford realise that the events of the last two years have left Northern workers angry and militant. A vicious attack on their living standards -like this - could drive them together, regardless of religion, anda united working class movement could shake Clark and Faulkner till their bones rattle like castanets. So the Unionists so far have postponed decision on introducing these measures in the North.
Meanwhile, resistance is building up. A national one-day strike has been called in Britain for Tuesday December 8th to protest Against the anti-union laws. Shopstewards in Belfast have called for a token strike here as well on De‘ember 8th. The purpose is to show solidarity with the workers 3.00p.m. to protest against the introduction of Westminster's social services cuts and anti-union laws in N.Ireland. All other socialist and working class organisations are invited to take part.
December 8th will only be the start. British workers intend to call another strike early in the New Year which will paralyse the country for a day. Here in the North of Ireland that gives time and demonstration which will bring Stormont can be beaten. Already islation here. Faced with really militant action they will scrap it immediately.
learnt. It will not be enough for
Scan page 2
FREE CITIZEN 4th DECEMBER 1970