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Britain’s dark history of collusion
by Daphne Liddle
IRELAND’S Taoiseach is being urged to press the British government for a full inquiry after a documentary, Collusion, was aired last week by the Irish broadcasting company RTé, which showed the link between the loyalist murder squads and the British security forces in the occupied north of Ireland in the 70s,80s and early 90s.
There have been many revelations on this subject before. In 1989 former British Intelligence Officer Fred Holroyd published a memoir, War Without Honour, in which he exposed collaboration between the British intelligence services in the north of Ireland. The young Ken Livingstone took up his case in his maiden speech as a Labour MP.
In an inquiry headed by Mr Justice Henry Barron during his inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings of 17th May 1974 Holroyd said: “The bombings were part of a pattern of collusion between elements of the security forces in Northern Ireland and loyalist paramilitaries.”
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Voices of Novorossiya heard in London
by New Worker correspondent
SCORES of anti-fascists gathered in a basement lecture hall at University College London last Saturday for the annual general meeting of Solidarity with Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine (SARU), and to hear from anti-fascists of Donetsk and Lugansk by computer link.
Among those present were comrades from Bristol, Newcastle and Southampton where other protest groups had sprung up spontaneously as SARU had done after the horrendous massacre when fascists set fire to the trade union building in Odessa where anti-fascists were sheltering.
The official death toll from that fire was 48 though local witnesses say the real death toll was more than 150. The Kiev regime put the figure at 48. Had the official number been over 50 it would have automatically sparked a United Nations inquiry and investigation.
The first speaker was Andrew Murray from the Communist Party of Britain and Stop the War. He spoke of the bitter and bloody war in East Ukraine and said that is was a country of diverse cultures that could only have been held together but recognition and mutual respect of all those cultures.
Now the current Kiev regime that came to power to try to drag the whole country into the European Union is a degraded regime where all languages are banned except Ukrainian and it is now forbidden to criticise Nazi collaborators and forbidden to display and communist symbols — in a country that for over 70 years was part of the communist Soviet Union.
Jorge Martin told the meeting that the United States House of Representatives has voted to ban the US government sending arms and assistance to the notorious openly pro-Nazi Azov Brigade. This has given Washington a headache because the Azov Brigade is totally integrated into the Ukrainian government army and is regarded as its spearhead.
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Voices of Novorossiya heard in London