Socialist Challenge 4 Juhe 1982 :.By Martin. Collins i* where the weapons are the armoured cars, plastic bullets and prison camps of an occupying army.
No state of war has been declared, yet over 2,000 have been killed in the past 13 years. For the Irish, the cost of this war is measured not in pounds, but in the grief of a whole community, currently re-living the hor fors of last year's H-Block hunger-strike, through the anniversaries of ten lingering deaths.
The battlefields of Ireland concrete is Paratroopers they No guilty repression soldiers are brought to justice skulls ed nor submit.
As in the It is a war where peace journalists and politica government Colonial justified solutions employ thousands tain's of paramilitary policemen and republican parasitical politi- be the cians. But they have achieved and neither peace nor solution. In reinforce the of results people who will not be sileno. difference South Atlantic, even try to present a view of the other are branded as traitors under mining the national interest.
war can only. by lies. by management and distortion They say it's a war against lawlessness and anarchy. know it's a war against the Irish people to maintain Bri grip. defeat resistance it will British establishment Western which is strengthened.
They say it's a war that petty religious We know it's to ensure that workers do unite as class - North and South, and across the sectarian divide Our demand that Britain get out is not just the road to peace in Ireland, but is step LOWEDE weakening imperialism everywhere. premier. Boyd George, said. years Britain's Suppose we gave in to them it will lower the prestige and of this COUTE and reduce British authority to a low point in Ireland It will ost our grip, that the Empire has no further force and will have an effect in India and throughout Europe.
Change the time, and it's Thatcher today on the Irish Change the place and that's her on the Argentinians.