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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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Britain’s dark history of collusion

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

Editorial

Jeremy Corbyn for leader

JEREMY Corbyn has won the nomination of 36 Labour MPs to get on the ballot for the new Labour leader. The veteran Islington MP is now officially in the race for the Labour leadership.

Corbyn crossed the required 35 MPs nomination threshold just as the deadline passed at noon on Monday. But those MPs won’t all be rooting for him when the campaign starts in earnest. “I fully recognise that those colleagues who nominated me may not necessarily agree with me on the pitch I’m taking,” Corbyn declared.

Some of them were long-standing members of Labour’s left social-democratic trends. Others were clearly swayed by last week’s massive on-line campaign amongst the rankand- file lobbying for support to ensure a full debate and a democratic choice for the new leader of the Labour Party.

“I will take part in that debate and hope that at the end of it the Labour Party emerges stronger and more resolute in opposing the principles behind austerity and impoverishment of the poorest in Britain,” Corbyn said. That debate will now take place and for some that’s a victory in itself. But getting on the short-list also means that there’s every chance of Corbyn winning.

John McDonnell MP, the Labour Representation Committee leader and Jeremy Corbyn’s agent, says: “We’re in it to win it and I think we can get that support. I think you’ll be surprised, if not shocked, at the scale of support that we have.”

Corbyn is the only contender opposed to austerity and the Trident nuclear weapons system. He voted against the Iraq war, ID cards and increasing tuition fees. He supports the restoration of the public sector and social welfare and the demand for a £10 minimum wage. His rivals are three Blairite has-beens, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall, who have little to offer apart from the same old class collaborationist policies that cost Labour the last election.

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Jeremy Corbyn for leader