unions are asked to submit their views.
deal with the third question, Northern Ireland be governed?
The consultative document asks:
government? • Should tegrated into the UK?
tent to withdraw?
people there?
in the Government of Northern Ireland?
negotiate an independent Northern Ireland?
HISTORICALLY, the view of the Labour Party has been to favour the unification of Ireland.
This was the position of the party at the time of the partition of Ireland was propoșed by Harold Wilson during the period of the Heath government, when the then enter OT the Labour Party proposed a policy involving withdrawal the north of Ireland over a period of 15 years.
this policy unrortunalely and that both of dRu-DUHOS. pIuwithdrawal, which was adopted bv the partv in 1920, were forgotten once Labour tormed a government.
obvious that most of the other options proposed in the discussion have been tried and failed.
Devolved THE Labour party has produced a consultative paper on its Irish policy. A series of questions are posed and CLPs and affiliated Socialist Challenge is running a series taking up these questions, and this week we 'How should • Should Northern Ireland have a devolved Northern Ireland be fully in• Should Britain make a declaration of in• Should it be prepared to withdraw from Northern Ireland without the consent of the • Should the Republic of Ireland have a part • Should Britain encourage and attempt to Northern Ireland The next steps? the Catholic community were the consequences If the Loyalists were again allowed be 'masters their own house with, as would be probable, lan Paisley as president of an indepenNorthern e and the consequences for «ouc vouc be lod horrific to imagine. nese unree options involve, to one degree or anoler. a surrenaer LO on which it is based should be ended.
This would involve handing over to all the people the right to determine the future how that country should Whether this would involve a centralised unified leland, a federal any other constitutional arrangement in a 32-county context would be left the people of reland to lan Paisley - one Labour option would hand him power decide.
To say, as the Labour Party discussion does, that this would mean the 'expulsion' of Northern the UK, or as the paper implies that the Loyalist maioritı should have some inalienable right to veto any decisions, 1S t0 accept the legitimacy of a Daru On and the Loyalists majority in the artifical Northern Ireland state.
needs to adopt the socialist principle of self-determination for all the Irish peo ple. To give such a principle practical effect it has to declare its support for an unconditional withdrawal the north of Prince Charles and Allibar Justice must be done BUCKINGHAM Palace informant tells me that Liz and Phil are doing all they can to stop an inquest being held inlo ine dealn or taelr son s horse Allibar. They are trightened that the great British public will found out that it was murdered The New Standard let the cat out of the bag wien admitted that Charlie had spent 'many talking to the horse alone' if you had a Okay, family like Charlie's, you would prefer talking to horses than to your mum and dad Nor can you Diall the socialising with his intellectual equals.
But he had no right to do he did Allibar. Clearly his Royal verbal inanities bored poor old Allibar to death and the horse just crumpled up and died.
Why should Charlie be allowed to get away with this? Supporters justice must demand he be brought to the Old Bailey IO account for Allibar's cruel death.
Democratic claret THE trickle of former National Union of Students stars joining the Council for Democracy is threatening lo become a flood. Sue 'I haven't changed my politics' Slipman and her colleague Penny Cooper are off in the direction of good claret.
Limehouse crusaders are dene new cs n yesterday's rebels.
The grapevine says ex-NUS president, by Bob Pennington Trevor Phillips eportin for London Neekend Television, an eX- VICe soeni Alan Christie - are just dying to join Britain's best-feo and we suspect shortest Related member CSD says: 'We have recruited the first woman president of the NUS, now we can get its SOLOCK president.
What is to stop us getting ls /I/sl-ever president? Told he was dead, the guy replied: Well that did stop George Brown joining, did it?
Sorry about that NORMALLY lan Paisley is about as fun my as that other boring Ulster comedian Frank Carson But did ripple of laughter when the revereno claimed that the Ulstel Unionist Party were threatening to bump him off Plan has never likea violence and murde was just coin cidence that one of the EnTree men convicted in 1966 of murdering Catholic oermar Belfast said when ar terribly restca. sorry I ever heard of that Paisley decided to follon him Like his follower, We oe dre sorry. The announcement by the UUP that it is not sending a hit man after the priest is neither fair to lan nor to humanity in genera Why disappoint the re incarnation of Tutan Carson, ex-pharoah of the Orange Empire?