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· Socialist Challenge No. 175, 3 December 1980 · p. 3 of the scan · 730 words

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'KILL the lie that there is no alternative to mass unemployment. That is what this demonstration is about.

'Banish the despair that mass unemployment brings in its train. Of course, we can stoo the whole wretched process of industrial ruin, if we have the will.

Prepare to destroy at the ballot box, which is the only place they can be finally defeated, the party of unemployment, the government of unemployment.' Labour leader THE next Labour Socialist area Name...

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government must not go down as another one that tried to administer capitalism better than a Tory capitalist government, but as one that began the re-building of British industry. along socialist lines... Build a greater mass movement that will get the govern. the earliest possible Ensure that the fight inside and outside Parliament is waged in both places.

ERIC HEFFER, MP 'MRS Thatcher is determined to rule by fear in the hope that she can break the power of the labour I would like to be put in contact with Challenge supporters in my ...Occupation. movement and drive us all back into a new serfdom enforced by the police and army... must become a mass party again. Our objectives are:

'To halt ministers in their tracks by the strength of our C0O... To compel tion... win support for socialist policies in a constructive way...

'To secure Labour majorities in Parliament and on all local authorities... We have it in our power to do all this in 1981.

TONY BENN, MP THE people to suffer most from Mrs Thatcher's policies are the country's most vulnerable workers -racial minorities, women, unskilled workers, the low paid and the young.

ALEX KITSON, Labour Party chairperson 'BITTERNESS and anger among youth are reaching ex. plosive proportions.

'It should be made clear to this government of bankers and industrialists that this tolerate the level of :: A BIRMINGHAM woman gets her message across Gardners sacked us, backed us, and WE WON'. The slogan on Gardners' placards.

unemployment exporienced in the "20s and "30s. 'LET'S demonstrate in the Midlands and in the North-east and have the same TONY SAUNOIS, Young Socialists chairperson the nation message wherever we go - let's call for a general election now. Let's test the feeling of the people of Britain about the way this government is performing.

ALAN FISHER, general secretary to rule because of his unpopularity: always Kings of this land of Ireland. to resist English conquest.

English monarchy rebel against the British Crown.

land.

100first 600 years of occupation:

of the p spoke of Irise from those which. original inhabitants of their country. desire to exploit.' bribed. Henry VIll must have been one of the few rulers in history to explain his right 'Forasmuch as... the Irish men and in. habitants within this Realm of Ireland have not been so obedient to the King's Highness and his most noble progenitors, and to their laws, as they of right and according to their allegiance and bounden duties ought to have been... be it enacted, ordained and established by the authority of this present Parliament, that the King's Highness, his heirs and successors, Kings of England, be TO Ell, whole mar rebellion against the English crown in the 1690s. Hugh's base was in the pro vince of Ulster, the last major area in Ireland When he was finally defeated in 1603 and driven into exile, the rebellious province of Ulster was ruthlessly 'planted' by the Whole areas of land were confiscated from the native Irish and given to English and Scottish settlers who were brought in to ensure that never again would Ulster By 1641 around 100,000 settlers had been planted in Ulster. The native Irish either fled or were reduced to living on the poorest of All pictures P Grant & S Lazlo (Socialist Challenge)

The transfer of land ownership: 1603-1778 #TILL. Christopher Hill, a leadin contemporary historian who ha summed up the attitudes towards the Irish displayed by the English ruling class after its 'A great number of civilised Englishmen Apes in the 17th century cones not far removed Lazis used about Slavs, or white South Africans use about the in each case the contempt retionalised a Socialist Challenge " 3 December 1980 : Page 3

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