THE SICKENING hypocrisy of the Tories and their press knows no bounds. The two bombs attributed to the IRA that went off in London killing 10 British servicemen was greeted with the usual hysteria. Accusations of 'IRA cowar dice', of being 'bereft of humanism' abounded Dozens dedicated by Thatcher's Fleet St scribblers to gush about injured horses. sunk with the loss of 250 Argentine lives by the British task force in the South Atlantic, the Sun summed up Tory feeling by ls screaming headline "Gotcha'. sink thịs ship -'exclusion zone' men, was taken by pressed the button. One week after the London bombs. Thatcher was reported to be 'very angry' that her South Atlantic bloodbath was not eulogised by Archbishop Runcie in the memorial service. tributed to the IRA is that Thatcher's action was in aid of maintaining sordid colonial possessions. The IRA's action is part of the Irish people's struggle for freedom from domination, oppression and exploitation by Britain.
myriads of episodes in the history of Britain's etforts to and 'evil of page of print were When the Argentine cruiser, General Belgrano was The decision to - well outside the British imposed 200 mile knowing it was carrying nearly Thatcher's 'war cabinet'. Thatcher The difference between Thatcher's action and that atTen years ago this week we were witness to one of the snuff out the dream of Irish people.
Willie Whitelaw, Home Secretary in Edward Heath's Tory administration, 'Operation Motorman', as they called it, brought to an end the self-government that Derry had been enjoying. The people there had put up the against marauding Orangemen, put the barricades up against the British army. A new name had been invented: 'no-go area'.
Irish people. pogroms all have their anniversaries about now.
Irish people fight bombs. Socialist Challenge fully identifies with the aspirations of the same scale as the violence of the Thatchers of this world troops out of Ireland and allow Irish people to manage against Thatcher and her ruling class friends.
On 31 July 1972, sent in troops to destroy 'Free Derry' barricades not only who had terrorised the Catholic community for decade after decade, but also This time of the year is full of such anniversaries for the Bloody Sunday and Orange It is against the memory of those black days that the and against which the IRA plants its We will not friends. The violence of an oppressed people is not on the We share a common aim with the IRA: to get British their own affairs. Yet we do not think that the bombs that were planted help this common endeavour. We think they can only set back the task of building a movement in Britain which mobilises the strength of the working class IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON MICHAEL GERALD KELLY AGED 17 YRS MURDERED BY BRITISH PARATROOPERS 30 • JAN. 1972 One of the 14 innocent protesters shot by British troops on Bloody Sunday