Bernadette MoAliskey addressing the successful rally organised by the Bloody Sanday Commemoration Committee in London on 11 December. The task facing British socialists now is to build for British army succeed in smashing the Irish working class and smashing the national struggle in Ireland, then the British working class will be set back at least a hundred years as a result of the repressive experience gained in Ireland by a massive demonstration on Sunday 1 February to help ensure that there are no more Bloody Sundays.
the ruling class and the mentality created among British workers over the Irish question. The British left must counter that by making the Irish situation central to their programme.
of the problem, and that'British workers are actively supporting it because they are unaware of the nature of it. It must be rammed home over and over again that Iney must face up to the question | every lesson learnt, every gain made that British imperialism is at the root tomorrow.
Q WIARD by the establishment in Northern Ireland will be used in Britain There are those in Britain who say that the answer is to press for a Bill of Rights to be passed by the British Parliament. What do you think of this approach?
A. I think there is no harm in a Bill of Rights - like there is no harm in a lot of things - but there is no good in it either. I am not saying I would be opposed to the kind of ideas that are incorporated in the Bill of Rights - I would love to see a situation where there is no religious discrimination in Northern Ireland. But even the most reactionary young Provo, who just knows that the Brits have got to be got out, knows that legislation on paper in the kind worth the paper it is written on.
There is no point in offering the people in Northern Ireland a piece of legislation which says that you are all going to be treated humanly, and if you are not then you can go to the courts, when these are the very same courts that are putting us away for life at every available opportunity. They ask us to support and actually divert our energy into fighting for a Bill of Rights supposedly safeguarded by the very institutions which are strangling us at the moment.
The same applies to the demand for the withdrawal of troops to barracks. They would just fall about laughing on the Falls Road at such an idea, because the barracks - well that's the end of the street. So what's going to happen when the crunch comes? Are the soldiers really going to sit there twiddling their thumbs, when all they have to do is to open the barracks door and three minutes takes them back down These demands are all contortions of the mind so that elements within the trade union movement and the Communist Party can appear to be both respectable and revolutionary at one and the same time. Within themselves they are contradictions. If you are going to withdraw the troops to barracks then why not be honest and say you don't want the troops withdrawn at all?
• BULLETIN ALL OUT Last Thursdav's meeting addressed by Bernadette McAliskey marked an im portant step for the Bloody Sunday Commemoration Committee, which is organising the "Troops Out' demonstra tion on 1 February. Not only did it draw together supporters of the campaig but it attracted numerous people who were keen to help by taking sponsorship appeal forms and by taking bulk orders of the new 'Bulletin' produced by the campaign.
In the last week Middlesex Poly Students Union and the Magazine branch of the National Union of Journalists have joined the list of spon sors. The Poly students have followed this up by donating f50 and the NUJ branch us This is the model that must be tollowed. The Bocc appeals to all readers of Red Weekly and ING branches to write in now for new sponsorship appeals and for bulk orders for the "Bulletin'. The latter is -an attractivery broducea brodasneet designed for sale in the trade unions, Labour Party, student unions, women's groups, and so on. You can get yours at bp a single copy (plus 7p p&p) from BSCC, c/o 1 North End Road, London