Parliamentary Question for Priority Written Answer on Thursday 27th November 1986
Question 160W
MR. KEVIN McNAMARA: To ask Mr. Attorney General, if he will prosecute Mr. Colin Wallace, former senior information officer, Psychops, Army Headquarters, Norther Ireland for revealing details of secret service operations against Her Majesty’s Government in the period 1974 to 1979 in the magazine Lobster in April.
Member’s Constituency: Kingston Upon Hull North (Lab)
Answer: the Attorney General:
No.
Anti-Labour leaflet
Much reduced, this is the front cover of an anti-Labour leaflet put out by Information Policy in Northern Ireland. The text, on the other side in the original, is now rather indistinct and not worth reproducing, but it says at the bottom: ‘published by Merlyn Rees, Stan Orme, David Owen, Paul Rose’.
Text:
ULSTER IS BRITISH
- Internment
- Special Powers
- Discrimination
- Intimidation
- Assassination
British capitalism has long exported its violence to its imperial possessions: it does so in full measure to its nearest vassal territory – the police state which it maintains in Northern Ireland. Irish workers and peasants have, however, a revolutionary heritage, both of class struggle and of combat against British imperialism. This tradition has powered the civil rights association in the North, a movement whose radical component – People’s Democracy – is attempting to transform a sectional fight for elementary civil rights on the part of the Catholic population into a class assault of both Protestant and Catholic workers, peasants and students against their exploiters. Such a development threatens not merely the maintenance in power of the Northern Irish client regime – it menaces the equally reactionary ‘independent’ regime in the South.
The struggle in Northern Ireland has attained a higher level than on the English mainland. The Left there has traditionally failed to win any important section of the working class to anti-imperialist positions, even where it is subjectively anti-capitalist. The situation in Northern Ireland highlights the urgency of doing so. If effective solidarity action is to be achieved, a considerable work of propaganda and demystification in Britain will be needed.
VOTE LABOUR
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