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Negotiations over the fate of the De Lorean car company are still going on. Shorts engineering has announced redundancies. The effects of the recession in Northern Ireland put a lot of strings into the hands of the British government.

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The stick - as far as the Unionists are concerned -comes from the threat - in the longer term, if Prior's plan fails - for dual British/Irish nationality for those who want it in the North, and in the even longer term joint administration between London and Dublin.

Prior has already discussed this with the SDLP and is likely to keep it in the background as a threat/ promise for the future.

Another aspect is put succinctly in the Guardian: 'One thing which is seen to govern the outcome is the security situation, and there are fears that any political progress could be impossible unless new steps are taken against the 'Such action by the British government would certainly improve the chances of a political venture being TRENT Polytechnic Labour Club has called a one-day conference on Ireland on February 13, to remedy the scandalous situation where NOLS, the Labour student organisation, has no position on Ireland.

Clause 4, a Tribunite organisation, holds on to NOLS with a tenuous majority. Although they are prepared to talk about the anti-imperialist struggle in Palestine, this 'anti-imperialism, Generous considerably as it approaches the shores of England.

The draft statement to the conference, however, reflects the position on Ireland of the Militant tendency.

It avoids the call for an immediate withdrawal of British troops, and stresses the establishment of a Labour Party in Ireland as a cure-all.

The document indicts 'low wages, slum housing, unemployment, sectarianism and repression and the past tactics of the British ruling class' , but it underplays the role that the partition of Ireland has played in imposing widespread discrimination against catholices and leading Protestant workers to identify their interests with the maintenance of the Union, rather than with Catholic workers.

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In denouncing 'sectarianism', the document equ. ates the forces of reaction such as Protestant paramilitary groups with anti-imperialist organisations, such as the IRA and INLA, which arose from a background of brutal discrimination and repression against the Catholic community by British imperialism and Protestant bigotry.

The document also fails to point out that the 'past tactics of the British ruling class' have i been carried out as viciously by Labour governments as Tory.

Labour's 'bi-partisan' approach to Ireland must be changed, and the likes Advertisement At Trent Poly Student Union, Byron Building, Shakespeare St, Nottingham. Social in evening.

Visitors' credentials 75p on the day: delegates' credentials £1.50 from TPLC, address as above.

of Labour spokesperson Don Concannon, who went to the dying Bobby Sands MP to gloat over his lack of support', should be removed.

Bobby Sands, according to Militant, should presumably have waited for a 'labour movement inquiry' to deliberate whether or not he deserved to benefit from prison reform.

NOLS members who stand for solidarity with the fight for a united and independent Ireland need to make our voice heard in this debate.

The statement is open for amendments [no longer than 350 words], which should be sent to Trent Poly Labour Club via a Labour Club by February 5.

The deadline for delegates lone per club] is February 10, and the fee is £1.50. Visitors can register on the day, and as long as they are Labour students or Labour Party members have speaking rights.

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