DUMP FITT | No to Boycott Ditch Devlin
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linked to agitation harassing and exposing its opponents and building newaction committees through the election campaign providesa way of really developing a strategy of mass action.
STORMONT People's Democracy last stoodin the Stormont elections of 1969 following the Burntollet march. We stood ona Civil Rights and militant leftist programme with the aim of exposing the hollowness of Unionist Prime Minister O'Neil!'s promises of reform and challenging the right wingHibernians of the Nationalist Party. Our strategy was successful.
O'Neil! failedin this attempts to fool the minority into supporting him and the NationalistParty, withits 'halfaloaf isbetter than no bread! was defeated. PD got a total of 23,645 votes. More importantly, in the areas we contested, there developedbothPD branches and militant Civil Rights action groups. After the campaign, the movement on the streets was bigger and more firmly based thanever.
to the campaign but we are opposed and militants.
to them on an even deeper level.
Recently, Fitt and Devlin made an electoral pact with the pro-imper-— ialist 'UnitedlL abour Party! and ‘independent socialist! candidates.
cannot standby andlet Socialism be dragged through the mire and the label used asa cover for suppthe prisoners anda capitulation ression of the Irishpeople. We call onal! anti-imperialists and socialists to help us defeat these gangsters andprevent themusing aspart of their sordid betrayal s.
THIS YEAR MY CAMPHIGN SLOGAN WILL BE:
“YOU NEVER HAD IT So Gaop”
an ultra-left position, calling for obligatory toparticipate ina most said the bourgeois parliament was masses. . You must call their -..., Ofall the toilingmasses...!!