Troops Out Support Grows

Gaughan, and the bowing to Loyalist reaction. independent initiatives, such as the South Shields $00, Was harrassed and hoanded by interventions However, within the broad Labour Movement, = Anti-Recruitment Campaign. Increasingly, from the IMG at meetings in Britain; in Qne case strong currents of opposition to Britain's meetings on the demands of immediate withdrawal he was prevented from speak ing at all, imperialist policy are beginning to stir. At the of the Army and self-determination for the whole The New Year will see a major crisis of British May conference of the Troops Out Movement, it of the Irish people have drawn in speakers and strategy in the North. The British government is . was evident that important sectors of thewarking | audiences from the trade union movement. committed on the one hand to some form of class were beginning to take up a position in In addition to the work of the Troops Out power-sharing, and on the othér hand to holding, Lenin was appalled, in 1921, at the support of Irish self-determination, where before. | Movement, the British Peace Committee, and the @lections to a Constitutional Convention, which backwardness of the British Labour Party _—SUch 4 position had been largely restricted to the © Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign, Will returns eCity of Cyst) en on the question. But the recent record of the °Xt"eme Left and students. Since then ireland has _ independent actions of the revolutionary Left are — fbi Caught ip tis Gan yAaleie Usbour Partyias the Ware? di tis’ hist been raised more and more widely within the forcing the question of Ireland to the attention _the strength of “Troops Out’ support within the ' , / Its Orry history, work ing class. of the British working class and confronting the Labour Movement will be a crucial factor in including as it does the putting in of troops In its work this year, the Troops Out Movement Labour Party with its role in government. determining the moves of the British government. in 1969, full support for the murderous has received the support of 14 Trade Councils, Throughout the recent election campaign, With 60% of the British population favouring course of government policy under the 74 trade union branches, and innumerable tenants | Members of the International Marxist Group troop withdrawal (Daily Mail Opinion Poll), and Tories, the continuation and stepping up of associations, student unions and socialist denounced Labour policy on Ireland and forced —_ with army morale at an alltime low, a real the policy of repression and internment organisations. Some Trades Councils have taken Labour candidates to speak on the subject that Possibility exists of bringing about a break in the the supervision of the death of Michaer they were most eager to avoid. Enoch Powell bi-partisan policy in Westminster.

THE PLOUGH PAGE 8 Printed in Ireland and published by the Revolutionary Marxist Group on the o r yA i i j i j the 16th of Novembe. The Scottish revolutionary soctalist, John MacClean, referred, in the title of a pamphlet, to Britain's role in Ireland as ‘Irelands Tragedy, Scotland's Disgrace’. It is also the disgrace of the entire British Labour Movement.