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many cases of murderous sectarian activity by Loyalists within the UDR have been uncovered. But when the loyalists get the official covering, on a large scale, of the RUCR and the UDR nothing less than a pogram situation can be expected.

LOYALISTS WIN THE DAY It is not only at the level of security that the Loyalists have gained ground. They woman who joins the new expanded ‘power-sharing’, thus blithly casting aside security forces will be acommitted Loyalist —_ the pretensions contained in Ree’s White and not merely “a non-political Protestant”. = Paper. At the same time, he also bid The Catholic population has already farewell to the prospects of a Council of experienced the murdering tactics of the treland, “The aspirations to belong to a Loyalists while they were outside the foreign state could not be combined with security forces. In fact even before now, that of the majority” he said.

POLARISATION The new found Strength of the Loyalists is not only bringing. the British ruling class to Its senses, it is rapidly Polarising the situation in the North. The loyalist camp, which was a rag-bag of political oddities, has now been welded into a solid compact Paper is in fact a non-policy”. At the same time, the SDLP has pushed Devlin, their most demagogic “Republican” out as their front runner and have demanded the intervention of the Southern government.

But the SDLP has no policy to protect the Catholic minority from the Orange backlash. They can only rely on their own strength. And this necessitates their self-organisation in each area into local committees. Only by doing this can they hope to withstand the physical and political challenge that is coming. It is the tasks of revolutionaries to make Catholic workers aware of this and give leadership where Possible in setting up these committees