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If you agree with what we have to say, you can help. Become a supporter of the Socialist Organiser Alliance -groups are established in most large for more information, write at once returned a 73% majority of MPs pledged to set up an independent Irish parliament. This is a risk Prior is taking.

The divisions in the Protestant ranks make it improbable immediately. Yet the OUP is as viciously anti-Catholic as the DUP. It may bappen.

In this' situation the antics of the INLA, which is loosely (perhaps very loosely) linked to the Irish Republican Socialist Party, must intensify sectarian bitterness and help the Paisleyites. They are a million miles from socialism and scarcely less distant from Repúblicanism — the movement that 200 years ago took as its goal to unite Catholics, dissenters, and Protestants under the common name of Irishman.

While the Provisionals' military campaign focuses on the British Army and its auxiliaries, that of the supposedly left wing INLA focuses more and more on representatives of the Protestant community. This is either stupid beyond credence, or else a deliberate attempt to stoke the fires of sectarian civil war, from which nothing good can conceivably come.

The INLA is a tragic example of what the sectarian bearpit in Northern Ireland, created and maintained by British force, has done to tho people of the Six Counties -. even those who call themselves by the honourable name Republican and the working class name Socialist.

And that's why nothing good can ever come of that sectarian entity, or of tampering with it instead of abolishing it. THE FUT (United Workers' Front) of Ecuador has claimed -total success' for its 48 hour protest general strike on September 22-23. Other reports (Latin • America Weekly Report, October 1; Latin America Regional Report, October 8) describe the strike as a 'very limited success' ', saying that more than half the factories in the industrial belt round Socialist Organiser is not just a We fight to organise workers struggle for a new leadership labour movement.

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To 'Get Organised" in the fight, us at 28 Middle Lane, London N8. Name Address the capital, Quito,were unaffected. There were street clashes between 'strikers and troops and police.

Meanwhile, Ecuador has finally demanded rescheduling of its foreign debt. Payments due on its $6,6 billion total debt would amount to 122% of Ecuador's export income this year.

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aternational News Socialist Organiser no.105 October 21

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