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One of the effects of Callag_han's on and off Election pantomime was a marked increase in the activity of parliamentary parties in the North. One of the greatest bursts of activity was by Republican Clubs - The Workers Party. Since their formation almost 9 years ago the ' officials ' have been moved from a radical-sounding programme to a crude reformism. Their recent avtivity in the North shows that this process has not yet come to an end.
Perhaps the clearest example of this further shift to the right came in the election leaflet ' Jobs for West Belfast ' issued by Republican Clubs - The Workers Party. In it they said fhat the main reason for unemployment in West Belfast was ' Govt. neglect of inner city areas ' and that discrimination was a very minor factor. ied support for the De Lorean car Factory ( criticised as a confidence trick by even the capitalist papers ) and their recent meeting with De Lorean representatives when they demanded that jobs shouldn't just go to unemployed Catholics in Twinbrook but to ' all sides of the community '.
great deal of influence in the Northern Ireland Women's Rights Organisation. Recently NIWRO held a meeting in Ballymurphy to which they invited speakers from : Republican clubs, Cammunist Party, SDLP, and all the Unionist and Loyalist parties.
The effect was to give reactionaries a platform in an area
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