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YS THE IRISH CARD By BRIAN CLYNES

Red Weekly No. 66, 5 September 1974 · p. 5 of the scan · 294 words

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with Britain cuts across the other platform of the Labour government that of the Ulsterisation of the war.

Powell provides an answer which topether with his already considerable political weight could unify the boyalist forces and overcome their continuing fragmentation after the brief unity they had enjoyed in the flush of the general strike victory.

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Such a unified base would take Powell from the fringes of British politics back into the centre. His block of Uister MP's in the presently disorganised state of purliamentary politics would make Powell an important factor, This would be people inside the shadow cabinet.

The fight against this new and dangerous development must begin Dow. The whole manoeuvre depends on a strong base in the Six Counties and the support it gets inside the working class by the use of anti-lash fought by winning the working class Lo solidarity with the Irish struggle for self-determination. This would undermine Powell's base which depends for its cohesion on the force of British imperialism to subjugate the nationalist population. It would also combat the weakneas in the political armour of the working class - its backwardness on Ireland.

the extreme right on Ireland.

The next step in the anti-fasciat campaign is to extend the forces of the re-emergence of PowelL chauvinism. It can only be effectively / to support Irish self-determination.

Irish issue. This despite the fact them. involved and to take up this much more serious and immediate danger This means warning these forces SCANDALOUS This is why it is so sundalous that the other main forces involved in the anti-lascist movement, partic ularly Liberation and the Communist Party, have refused to raise the that the NF is making explicit links with the Loyalists by marching with

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