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An IRA salute party consisting of two girls and two boys fires a volley in Abercom Street, Belfast, during the funeral of Rose Curry and Gerald O'Hare, on 27th September.
the Stormont government and are in active defiance of it.
campaign, It is they who control the family budget and can determine whether the rent is paid. The passive resistance campaign has involved the participation of practically every housewife in the main nationalist areas in the North.
In Derry , barricades prevent the British army of occupation from entering the area freely, while road signs have been taken down by local people to confuse outsiders. Hatred of the British army now embraces all sections of the population. The housewives of Derry who welcomed the British soldiers with cups of tea now know why the army is in Ireland. The only cups of tea the soldiers now get are thrown in their faces. Women and children stand continually at the barricades hurling jeere and the Catholic communiLies.
Women have up to now played an important but largely supportive role in the armed struggle. They have helped to protect tleir conmunities against army attack, their most publicised activity being their warning given to the I.R.A. fighters by clanging dustbin lids.
Women have led some of the most militant sit-ine and marches on army positions, in support of the men interned. The Women's Action Group, organised by the Provisional wing of the l.il.A., led a march on the home of the Catholic Bishop in lie Belfast area to protest against his attack on the I.R.A. But the death of lose Curry denonstrates that women are coming into the struggle on more equal basis. This symbolises the role which women have achieved in the struggle for national liberation in Ireland. Her funeral was attended by thousands of women, with dozens of girls marching behind the corlege with wreaths. Some of the women in the crowd demanded that British soldiers on the streets bow their heads as her coffin went by. The entrance of women into the struggle marka turning point in the battle for national self determination. It is when the struggle has become truly a ma s movement that historically women have played an equal role in that struggle - as in the NLF in Vietnam or the FLN in Algeria, Whal this shows is that the vast majority of the Irish population is determined to struggle for national As long as British soldiers are in Ireland Lo prevent them from gaining that freedom, more Republican soldiers like lose Curry will be killed, more innocent Irish men, women and children will die at the hands of the British army, and more British soldiers will come home in coffins.
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As socialists we must support the right of self-determination for which the Irish people are fighting, and demand the complete and unconditional withdrawal of British troops from Ireland.
We must show our solidarity with the Irish struggle by supporting the demonstration on October 31st called by the Anti-Internment League, supported by the Irish Solidarity Campaign and most itepublican and Civil ilights Groups.
The demonstration is demanding the withdrawal of British troops and the release of all interпеса. We must do everything in our power to ensure the maximum support for this demonstration.
ALL OUT ON OCTOBER 31st;
LETTERS OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES...
Asking 12-14-year-old working-class children in West l'addington to write about how they see each of the sexes in a variely of situations, you get some of the following:
Pairs "Men eat a lot and women cook" "Men are bosses and women are lackeys and serfs" "Men are strong and women are weak" "Hen are working hard and women are sharWing the bome and part-time" "Men make love and women don't do nothing" "Men are hansome and women were wigs" "Women are nagging, rude, showoffs, ete.
EXCEPT for my mother"
The Church "The men in my chuch do the colections and they can becom bishop and preasts. Wemon only sit there and watch them they can only be muns"
In Employment "Men go to work and women do the cooking and washing up" "The men get driving bu(s)iness, Building and women get mading shops pertises babysitters mothers" "Men go out to work and sometime women go out to work but most woman do the housework" "Men go to the pub and do things like Changing up the wallpaper"
In the Family "So(me) of the (men) gamble, smoke, go to dance hall. The women stay and work by doing the washing, cooking, springeleaning" "The men in My family Does Nothing the woman Works" -Rosemary Sales And in the Future?
Q.E.D.
FASHION FOR SOCIALISTS?
them as follows : are among trash!"
Yours, Paula Strickland, DEMONSTRATION, 31st OCTOBER, meets SPEAKERS CORNER, Hyde Park, London, 3 p.m. Other details to be publicised.
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"The woman does all the washing up and the cooking, iron, washing" "Women get breakfast early"
"Most men and women want to have a filmstare' life and want to change their luck."
- J.L.M.
As you may or may not know, MORNING STAR carries a fashion column. I felt that this was inconsistent especially as it features the products of expensive fastion houses. I therefore wrote to "Comrades, I believe that one of the aims of Socialism is the abolition of status. The fashion world would find it hard to exist in the absence of status for it depends on people expressing their insecurity through the buying of clothes, Socialism, hopefully, would remove this insecurity by the abolition of slatus through public ownership and workers control. It is odd therefore that the MORING STAR "Fashion make- large profits through planned wastage, the same fashione being repeated every en often. The clientele come from the capitali-t classes, the only people who have enough to pay the outrageously inflated prices. The Pari- Fashion Houses exist as a luxury industry for the very rich. Surely, Wherefore, they the first enemies of sociali-m.
Please don't defile your pages with such I posted this letter on the 29th August and I have still not had a reply.