Britain: Hands Off Free Derry
The Irish Citizen1972Loyalism and unionismSolidarity in BritainRepublicanism and the IRALoyalism and unionismSolidarity in BritainRepublicanism and the IRA
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Since the beginning of the Civil Rights movement in Ireland in 1968, one of the tools used by British imperialism to achieve its aims has been the ‘impartial’ report.
First we had the Cameron report on the origins of unrest. Then.McRory on local government, Cairncross on the economy, followed by the ex-Flying on the police murder of Sam Devenney.
More recently we have had the Compton report on the torture of primuch torture could be got ewey with. And finally the Scarman and Widgery reports.
Remarkably, all these reports reached conclusions which coincided sik the immediate interests of British ality of the situation in Ireland.
The change of strategy of British imperialism arose from its inability to defeat the IRA without first isolating it from a sizeable section of the Catholics in the Six Geunties. When Stormont stood in the way of this new policy the British Government hed no choice but push past it.
And im pushing past Stormont, Britain hes started the process of disintegration of the Orange monolith.
IRA it is necessary S> ’ no-go areas, such as Free Derry. wing organisations.
at (Comserwetve comsensis to the right on the iets question and if he puts such pressure om Heath as to force him back into an old style confrontation policy with the Catholic community. The high point of this campaign will be a demand for an attack on the This is the meaning of the Loyalist rallies in Britain. Behind the megalomaniac pretensions of Craig lies the expertise of the Faulkner apparatus, which is drawing together the National Front, the Monday Club, and the other British rightSupporters of the Irish struggle in Britain must organise a counter-campaign to these moves. The two immediate points in Geen together in Protest agamnst the Loyalist Unionist propegenda. And this must understand the key importanceof Craig's British intervention, and theneed to draw the British labour movement intoop position to it.
A good start in this process can be made by organising tours of speakers involved in the resistance of Free Derry and any other liberated areas. This will help to explain to. broader sections of the labour movement the importance of protesting against the Loyalist rallies. The Irish Solidarity Campaign is willing to play its part in such united action. Gery Lawless