The Political Background

roland "There are no troops in the world who could have done the job that has been done by the British Army better'James Callaghan, Home Secretary at the Labour Party conference in Brighton last week. second of two articles chequer of about £130 million annually. This is always presented in government publicity as some sort of gift from Britain.

It is of course a great deal smaller than the annual amount extracted in profits by British and international capital each year, not to mention the advantages gained by British capitalists from the flow of Irish emigrants suffering under a 75 per cent unemployment rate in Northern Ireland.

We saw in the first part of this article that, with the growing world economic crisis, the retorm programme of 'civil rights' could not solve in any way the jobs and housing problem for the workers in the North, which must get worse for the Protestant workers as CALL VVAAU up with the international offensive not Burntollet Bridge ambush of a civil right: march by B-Special thugs (above). well as the Catholic.

What is the prospect for any such reform in the South?

As already outlined, the Fianna Fail government is already preparing anti-union laws, let alone 'democratizing' and 'reforming'. Behind these measures are two factors.

In the first place, the low level of capital investment in southern Ireland, compared with any advanced country, cannot provide the basis for any advance in the economy.

The heritage of British imperialism, involving generations of literally wholesale destruction of people and of productive forces, ruled out any possibility of a capitalist solution.

And yet the Irish capitalists face a working class whose anur " vassarro