Reagan Plots All-Out War

ponte. Not only that but is £1 Selvedor and Guat: yance in Latin Americs demand an end ta the oom = mphilisatians naeded to the contras work hand in glove with the Honduran army whoth hao even provided artillery cover for ihe “contras’ border bnqurstons inte Nicaragua, The appaintrant of Henry Fesinger, tne INTERNED cmata but alto by the powerful working clas in Brazil, Chile and Argentina.

If the US succeed in their campaign of intimidation it will set back the proe pect of working class adand boost the US war drive waorlevide ; That why itisin the interests ol [rish workers ad the anti-imperiaiist MOvVEMernt bo gine Full wipport to the campaign to get the US out of CantTal America. We should On August $th, twelve — age, British roops burst inte working-tlass homes all over the North and dragged Nationalist workers from their beds; most were to spond the next few years in concentration camps, but first they had to run the gauntlet of savage beatings and brutality, and a number of “eu ineapigs’ were reserved for even more savage and syatemath: torture and sensory deprivation, this year's August Sth, the world will commem orate this criqve against the Irish people. But the last round of internment was the latest in along plicrty of tha Irish government with US aggressican revealed inthe permitted CIA sabotage of a recent Dall debata on Central America.

Qund we should gtart rc to ensure that the national line of such atrocities. What we will be comm emoraling even more will be the fact that it didn't work * that after an initial hesitation, the mass struggle against imperialism became even stronger and more determined.

That mass struggle has not yet defeated impertalism and built a workers’ repube ic. So we remain interned, interned by partition, bay the imperlalet exploitation of ourcountry, amd by the wariaua methods that the British installed at thelr laure to replace iibermmant -special laws, Mor jury courts, Torture, and Was tecentiy aed tragi -cally shown in both Lurgan and Armagh, the license ofthe UDA, AUC ane end that complicity begin to be built in readiness for any stepping up of US or Honduran moves agains! Nitaraqua Ciaran Mach amidhe BRITS to shoot te &illl when dealing with the Nationalist population.

But these farms of Intam = ment heave not broken our ‘spirit, Tha massive vote for Sinn Feln shows the level of condinuing rasistanoas to British rule, and the H-Block movement dioved the power of a united move = ment in action.

The challenge today core not fram Briteh brutality or our ability to encure it, but fram the political chaienges thrown up by the struggle iself, The failure of internment lod eventu -ally to the fall of Stormont neni’ the Assembly repre -sents the fl rst toe-hedd in a Britich push to restore it.

But our response now must bean all-lreland one, and LS HANDS OFF CENTRAL AMERICA!

SOLIDARITY WITH REVOLUTIONARY MUSt take inte account the increasingly open collaboration between the 26-County capitalists and the British. It must ao take inte ace -Burt the major ecoHomec offensive of imperialism, and achvance & class struggle answer to the cuts, the Glosures and the coe queues. .

Wo doubt thia August,cnoe again, Nationalist youth in, the Six Counties will respond violently te the Brit id prosenos, Vite sympathee with this reaction, and recognize that it is youth whoa can provide the lead for a militant tightheck, but after the demonstrations of ren iment cones the mead to build , organise id fotye a massive move -meant that can secure. the right of self - determination Tor the whole [rish people,

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INTERNMENT 12 YEARS ON. IN THE NORTH WE ARE STILL

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