Marchers flee on 'Bloody Sunday" in Derry prisoners held in Crumlin Road jail under the notorious Public Order Act. The promise of a referendum on the border offers no immediate hope of change, and is cunningly designed to split the minority; their struggle has been against the repression they have suffered in Northern Ireland, not a positive affirmation of ublic". The lower standards of welfare benefits and other social drawbacks will be used as propaganda to confuse the less politically conscious, and the resultant relatively low vote in favour of unification will be taken as positive backing for the existence of the Six County State.
But the most important factor will be the maintenance of that state. All the reforms are promised within that context. Thus the minority will remain prisoners, dependent on the good grace of Heath's local overlord. The basic contradictions remain the vast bulk of the internees will remain, the political prisoners will remain. the murdering British Army will remain, the State will remain. All that has been removed is the superstructure of Stormont. For all these reasons, we can expect no solution to the crisis, but that, on the contrary, the struggle will flare up in new, and more developed forms. The minority is not the same naive mass which gave the soldiers tea in August '69; they have learnt many bitter lessons since that time. They are not likely to relax their vigilance, or to give British imperialism the benefit of the doubt. While they will most likely want to wait and see, before launching into any mass resistance, it is most unlikely that they will accept