International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

IRELAND

Socialist Woman October–November 1971 · p. 11 of the scan · 175 words

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Death of ROSE CURRYFreedom armoury to "solve the I.R.A. problem". It can however provoke attack, with rubber bullets, like the one which struck a pregnant woman in the stomach on September 26th.

The behaviour of Irish women towards the array has been disapproved of by the British press, who prefer the image of a people openly welcoming ite army of occupation. The most viciously racialist attack has come from Anne Edwards in the "Sunday Express" who entitled her piece, like Helleats". In it she criticises the unvomanly behaviour of Derry women in involving themselves in polities. She has received protests for describing Derry women as "British".

The armed struggle, led by the Ioid. y is actively or passively supported by the majority of the Catholic population in Northern Ireland. The myth of the I.R.A. an a gang of armed terrorists unconnected with the majorit; of the population has been strained to the utmost recently, with the escalation of the bombing and shooling campaign by people working from inside and with the support of

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