More right-wing pressures in Ulster

Excluded again week by guerrilla leader Yassir Arafat this context.

mony of his movement to resist any sell-out of the Palestinians:

'We 1 snution that the peaceful solution not ass, thanks to our guns PAGE FOUR uS plots, all 'hert are serious CASTLEFORD, YORKSHIRE Party, last Sunday announced his resignation from the Party whip. •My self-respect does not of Pilkington s allow me to take part any longër in the charade that is the Unionist Party', he said. 'Only a new government can save us from the abyss.' McCullough is only speaking for the most impatient section of the Unionist ruling majority, whipped up over the last weeks by the right-wing ex-Minister William Craig.

Craig and his supporters are Iron fist pressing for the resignation of Prime Minister ChichesterClark, the ditching of the The locked-out Pilkington promised civil rights reforms and the building up of an extreme right-wing Protestant armed guard-from the most reactionary elements the middle class in the first place —to discipline the working class in the name of 'law and order' Brian Faulkner, Clark's Minister of Economic Development, is now being touted as a possible alternative candidate to Craig. This would of course be entirely acceptable to the extreme right, for Faulkner accepts all their basic positions.

The talk of intervention I us that and direct rule from Westminster by Maudling is intended to give the impression that the Unionists are not going to be allowed'to get away with their attacks on the All Trades Unions working class, when in fact the British government and its Alliance Conference troops are the main strength behind the Unionists, and MINERS the Tories are hell-bent on identical attacks in Britain.

In this context, it is necessarv to warn against the danDanum Hotel gers represented by the talk about a so-called 'united oppoHigh St sition' to the Unionists in DONCASTER Northern Ireland.

Gerard Fitt, MP at both WRITE TO: T. PARSONS, FOR FURTHER DETAILS said on Monday that he had Westminster and Stormont, DERWENT DRIVE, been approached to take the FERRY FRYSTON, NR leadership of this opposition.

This 'united opposition' will include liberals and 'civil rights' leaders like Hume and Cooper, notoriously opposed o the independent action and policy of the working class.

Fitt was quite explicit that this parliamentary move is intended to put an end to a situation where: 'His colleagues on the opposition

benches felt that a number of organizations that were self-appointed seemed to be speaking for the people. But none had a vote cast for them in an election.' Right at the point where the bourgeoisie reaches the height of its political crisis, and above all the independent mobilization of the working class is essential, Fitt and his friends move to try and confine everything to parliamentary procedure.

Their next move will be to collaborate with some new-found 'progressive' or 'moderate' wing of the Unionists on the pretext of keeping out Craig and the extreme right. They would thus help the capitalist class with a move to the right, making more inevitable the open leadership of of elements like Craig and Paisley, meanwhile paralysing the emergence of a real working-class opposition.

This is the classic role of lets' like Fitt, and their Stalinist supporters.

What is necessary in Northern Ireland, as in the Republic in the South, is the building of a Marxist movement orientated to the independent action of the working class, carrying out principled struggle against British imperialism and partition.

All the conditions for building such a movement now exist. All the other tendencies, from Fitt and his liberal friends in the North to the 'Green Tories' in the South, are opposed to such a struggle and are divided only on how best to collaborate with Westminster in 'restoring order".

The Middle East is just the beginning.

Once again we insist that full working-class solidarity must be mobilized behind the Arab people; in the same way as the Liverpool dockers struck on May 1 against Nixon's war on Indo-China. Those who remain silent now after Arafat's warning will stand condemned as frauds and accomplices of imperialism.

CP members must demand of their leaders that they_repudiate support of the USSoviet 'peace' agreêment and that they unequivocally recognize the right of the Palestinians to self-determination.

The Socialist Labour League will do its utmost in the next period to warn against the consequences of a defeat for the Arabs, and win workers for class action in solidarity with the Palestinians. This is our internationalist duty.

Down with Zionism and its Stalinist accomplices !

Long live the unity of Jewish and Arab workers in the struggle for an independent socialist Palestine !