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WHITE PAPER: Extra Time for Whitelaw

The Red Mole Vol. 4, No. 64, 31 March 1973 · pp. 1-2 of the scan · 271 words

The scan: v04n64-mar-31-1973.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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North London. As political commentator Peter Paterson noted in the London Evening Standard last week: "Of all the disputes over Phase Two .. this is the most dangerously combustible for Mr Heath.™ But if the ruling class is treating the situation as one of some urgency, the same can hardly be said of the so-called leaders of the working class. Feather's main concern is to get "a full hearing of the case for a public inquiry"-what used to be known as 'talks about talks'. But the response of the Government even to this mild proposal was openly contemptuous. After going along with Feather to see Heath, John Cousins of the T&GWU admitted that, "the meeting was pointless and I don't know why we bothered to come"

Clearly the Government does not intend to From GERY LAWLESS After Bloody Sunday and the suspension of Stormont, British imperialism formulated its strategy for the coming year. This was planned as a combination of repression in the crucial Catholic ghetto areas, and enough concessions to the middle class or middle aged Catholics to win them away from the IRA, but not enough to pose une treat or a serious back-lasn trom the Protestant Ascendancy. Paper. The White Paper was to signal the end of the year of direct involvement, and a retur to peaceful exploitation North and South. TIME IS UP One year later, time is up. Whitelaw's White Paper, far from showing the way forward for imperialism, or to be more accurate, how imperialism sees the way forward for Ireland, is a belated appeal for extra time,

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