Lone Voice of Principle
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-10-15Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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JUST ONE Labour leader had the courage to speak nut anainat the chorns of VUL LILU official hypocrisy.
While the people who gave Ireland partition, internment, Castlereagh interrogation centre, Diplock courts, and deadly plastic bullets, rushed to try to justify their stand on the hunger strikes with all the moral indignation they could summon up, Labour GLC leader Ken Livingstone asked us to think more soberly.
"While I deplore the viólence that has happened this weekend" , he said, "as I deplore all violence — people will continue to let off nail bombs in London while a British presence is maintained in Ireland.
'There is a major war going on and the longer we fail to understand that the longer the violence will ge on• If Thatcher had made concessions to the Maze hunger strikers when they began their campaign, we would not have suffered this attack and others"
He pointed out that the IRA - and the mass of their supporters in the Catholic community in Northern Ireland. - 'are not criminals or psychopaths.
'People in Northern Ireland see themseives as subject peoples.. they have a motive force which they think is good"
And for this the Sun -the most odious newspaper in Britain — denounced him as 'the most odious man in Britain"