1 May 1997 Edition
Back issue: Mobilise
Should the Paisley-Baird controlled United Unionist Action Council order its men out of the power stations beginning next Monday, the leadership of the Republican Movement, in view of the gravity of the situation, intends to mobilise organised sections of the population for this contingency.
Work committees to take control of refuse collection, to set up milk deliveries, medical supplies and to take care of the aged or infirm will be organised along street and area lines, with a large degree of spontaneous leadership expected from the people.
The Republican Movement feels confident that the mobilised population will fall in behind its co-ordination, and in the event of mass-defence it is known that the entire auxiliary section of the Irish Republican Army will be on stand-by.
The power-station walkout will be the first step in the long-threatened loyalist general strike. The aim of the strike is to force the British government into implementing the 1975 Convention Report which calls for the Loyalists' major reactionary demand - a return to the old Stormont Regime (the ``Protestant Parliament'') and a complete handover of arms and ammunition and control of security to loyalists.
Despite disunity in the Loyalist ranks for support for the strike the republican population must remain on the alert. The last UWC strike commenced with much the same appearance of disunity, but as the strike gained momentum and commanded widespread loyalist support reluctant politicians eventually backed it.
Work committees to take control of refuse collection, to set up milk deliveries, medical supplies and to take care of the aged or infirm will be organised along street and area lines, with a large degree of spontaneous leadership expected from the people.
The Republican Movement feels confident that the mobilised population will fall in behind its co-ordination, and in the event of mass-defence it is known that the entire auxiliary section of the Irish Republican Army will be on stand-by.
The power-station walkout will be the first step in the long-threatened loyalist general strike. The aim of the strike is to force the British government into implementing the 1975 Convention Report which calls for the Loyalists' major reactionary demand - a return to the old Stormont Regime (the ``Protestant Parliament'') and a complete handover of arms and ammunition and control of security to loyalists.
Despite disunity in the Loyalist ranks for support for the strike the republican population must remain on the alert. The last UWC strike commenced with much the same appearance of disunity, but as the strike gained momentum and commanded widespread loyalist support reluctant politicians eventually backed it.