Unite and Smash Stormont! Build a Free United Ireland!
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VOTE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRACY No.|
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The Assembly which will be elected on October 20th will do little or nothing to change the misery of poverty and repression which passes for life in the British occupied 6 counties. The plan behind the Assembly is to create a new Stormont -a tarted up version of Orange rule. It offers nothing to the nationalist workers - no guarantees against discrimination, no progress towards a United Ireland.
The right policy for anti-unionists is to refuse to have anything to do with this ‘rolling devolution’. That's why Peoples Democracy fought hard Tora total boycott from the moment the Assembly plan was announced. We argued for united action by the anti-imperialist movement to rebuild a mass movement of working people which could halt the British plans. Now that the SDLP and Sinn Fein La ae OUR are participating in the elections, Peoples Democracy is taking the fight for anti-imperialist unity onto the election hustings, We are determined to prevent the SDLP past l4 years and to make every effort to see the anti-imperialist than divided and weak.
we like it or not, the British and these elections as a referendum on the anti-imperialist struggle. They are hoping for a massive victory for the SDLP in the nationalist areas which will allow Thatcher to dismiss the massive hunger strike campaign as a temporary emotional wave which no longer has to be from selling out the sacrifices of the movement united and strong rather noses.
The position of the IRSP in continuing to call fora boycott cuts across the fight for anti-imperialist unity. Whether the media are determined to portray NO. | NO. 2. reckoned with. Any vote not cast on October 20 will be not just a vote lost to the anti-imperialist movement but a lost opportunity to put the SDLP leadership on the rack and make it difficult for them to accept the carrots which the British will dangle in front of their A good showing by the anti-imperialist parties, Peoples Democracy and Sinn Fein, would be a tremendous morale boost for nationalist workers and take forward significantly the fight for anti-imperialist unity and anew mass struggle which can, bring this new Stormont crashing down. 50 on October 20th VOTE PEOPLES DEMOCRACY VOTE SINN FEIN
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WEST JOHN McANULTY