jmm@bonnie.UUCP (Joe Mcghee) (09/13/84)
Nottingham, England - The Nottingham Trades Council has called for immediate British withdrawal from Northern Ireland and for the scrapping of the Ulster Defense Regiment and the disarming of the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary). In a resolution adopted by an overwhelming majority of delegates from Nottingham and surrounding areas recently, the council said that "Ireland will never be at peace until she is free" and that Northern Ireland is a gerrymandered entity "maintained by institutionalized state violence against the nationalist people." The resolution says: "This trades council totally condemns the brutality of the sectarian paramilitary force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, against the nationalist people of West Belfast commemorating the introduction of internment without trial on August 12. This council recognizes the gerrymandered Northern Ireland entity is founded upon and only maintained by such institutionalized state violence directed against the nationalist people and further recognizes that Ireland will never be at peace until she is free and enjoys self-determination for the Irish people as a whole." It concludes: "This council therefore reiterates its call for troops out now and a total British military, political and economic withdrawal, involving the disarmament of the paramilitary RUC, disbanding the sectarian Ulster Defense Regiment, and the abolition of all the sectarian and repressive paraphernalia used to prop up the Orange state."