lidarity avy Jones the promidissident. has come fire the Polish brities. His flat was raidast weekend when ing was taking place of ins involved in the Clubs Self-Governing Republic, mbryonic political lis clampdown by the arities against political ity comes as the indepenunion ssing contesting elecagainst the Communist next February's municipal dional elections draw near the indent movement 15 nging the right of the ruling Tomise Early to draw up me us! ndidates. In both Silesia and w regions Solidarity has called : union members to nominate own candidates for the elecc prospect of popular canthe ruling bureaucrats.
suggested party cans would receive as little as two nt of the poll in open elections.
Communist Party is h trouble already without such lations. Party sources have adthat it has lost as much as 40 at of its membership since the trike wave began.
nsor le national talks between the nment, church and Solidarity also raised the question of cenp and union access to the mass week the first of a er of union members went on or allegedly breaching censoregulations.
activist from Czestochowa ed a one year suspended jail ice and a fine of 3000 zlotys equivalent to two weeks ge salary) for publishing illegal rs in the union journal. was known as the Teddy Bear as the offending poster 1 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev piant teddy bear.
the arity's national conference callr the establishment of a second ber of the Polish parliament, a I and Economic Council based he workers" self-management The government responded Tering to set up a consultative :il comprised of hand-picked adents hile most of the strikes around over the food queues now ended, in the last few weeks nts have led major struggles st the government. There has a wave of occupations and across the which i at Radom Engineering Colembers of the Independent StuAssociation (NZS) and Solidariaff members there were prosliege rector Michal Hebda. The nts wave of protest has now lened to include the demand for education law. 'hile the bureaucrats desperately some form political comise to draw Solidarity into consibility for the crisis, the Polish ers, farmers and students are oping their own solutions to the In the developing clash betthese two competing powers, bour movement in this country d line up full square behind the h workers. list Challenge 26 November 1981 executive passed at the conference, agreement and consent."
Unionists.
to Irish unity.
is munity, North of Ireland 12 years ago.
tion 1,820 per households cent of Protestant families.
such rampant intimidation.
the troops were in tacking the Catholics.
ghetto in district in Belfast.
and in August without munity.
were killed by death of a British soldier.
always backed this majority:
POT- clusively Protestant 'B' Office.
For the On the has been British labour Conference itiative.
Ireland and the 11 MPs, conference and trade and delegations.
Further ference End Rd. London W4. THE LABOUR Party national policy on party, declared: wish to see unity between the two parts of Ireland, based on This expressed the common view that Irish unity can only be achieved if it is acceptable to the But as recent events have shown the Loyalists are part of the problem, not the solution, It was the sectarian reaction of the Loyalists to the democratic wishes of the nationalist com expressed in the civil right movement, that led to the British Army's intervention in the In the run-up to and immediately following that intervenfamilies fled their homes in Belfast. Of those, 82.7 per cent were Catholic. In all, 5.3 of all Catholic in the city were displaced, compared with 0.4 per The arrival of the British Army was supposed to signal an end to But within five months of that arrival, themselves atspecifically the Ballymurphy Prior Within a further five months the Army had imposed a curfew tary in Catholic areas in West Belfast, 1971 the troops were used to implement interntríal, aimed clusively at the Republican comA total of 15 nationalist people Loyalists and security forces before the first The nationalist community has always suffered such repression because the North of Ireland state was set up on a sectarian basis. day. being artificially created to ensure a Protestant majority. Britain has In 1922 the RUC and the exspecials were given arms and military personnel by the British. In 1950 RUC members were trained in the techniques of repression by the British Army, and supplied with ment automatic weapons by the War past 12 years the presence of British troops in the North of Ireland has done nothing to bring about a peaceful solution.
contrary, in the form of and ad THONEY ministration, the British presence Trish used strengthen Unionism and to bolster partition.
But unfortunately many in the movement rema to be convinced of this argument.
That is why the Labour Movement on February next year is a valuable infcared This conference has been called by the Labour Committee on Committee for Rule Withdrawal from Ireland. Already including Tony Benn, have sponsored the conference.
The present situation in Ireland is a good opportunity to raise the in the Labour Party union bodies, suggesting sponsorship, donations details of the conConference Arrangements Committee, 1 North The Loyalist private army the Tories backed - The Ulster Volunteer Force parade with guns in 1913.