Partition, Unemployment, Womens Rights
Socialist Republic1983Partition and the national questionWomen's liberationEconomy, the EEC and EuropeLoyalism and unionismLabour, the left and left unityPartition and the national questionWomen's liberationEconomy, the EEC and EuropeLoyalism and unionismLabour, the left and left unity
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The FORUM for a NEW IRELAND has accomplished nothing for unity, after almost a years work In the last month it has become nothing more than a platform for stooges of the British Government and fellow travellers of the Northem loyalists. Not surprisingly people like Sir Charlies Carter, head of the Northern Ireland Economic Council and John Biggs-Davison of the British Monday Club have brought the message to Dublin that British rule ain’t so bad and anyway unity won't work.
The Forum was established to ease the pressure on the S.D.L.P. at “to the Northern Stor-— mont Assembly. It was to allow the S.D.L.P. to sa) to nationalist voters -Paisley to prop up partition with American capital. The fact that his visit undermined U:S: trade unionists fighting discrimination in had North just didnt bother Mr. Hume. ‘Look, along with our good friends in Dublin we are taking a real step towards a United Ireland’. It was hoped that this would block the rise of Sinn Fein.
But, as SOCIALIST REPUBLIC argued at the time, the Forum had a much more dangerous goal - not advancing towards a United Ireland but instead building up the barriers to Irish unity and starting to popularise the idea that far from breaking the connection with England, the future fer Ireland as a whole is in closer rclationship with Britain and its imperialist allies.
For all the splutterings of Charles Haughey and his expressed reluctance” to accept that a United Ireland won't work the Dublin politicians are