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Revolutionary Communist Group No.1 2 0p 'I have already agreed that the work being done by the trade unions is first rate.... Mr Jack Jones was in Ireland last week speaking at th e annual conference of the T.G.W.U. What he said there could not be bettered. That shows that the valued support that the Government and the country get from the British trade union movement on the Irish question is first rate: Merlyn Rees, ex-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Han- sard, 1.7.76, col. 630. '~f the socia li sts of Bri tain do not re cognise and uphold Ireland's right to secession, . . . it is solely because they are in fact, imperialists, not socialists. It is ridiculous. to cherish illusions that people who do not fight for lithe ri gh t to self -d etenni na tion" of the' oppressed nations, while they themselves belong to the oppressor nati ons, are capable of practising socialist policies.' V. I. Lenin, Colle cte d Wo rks Vol. 2', p.294.
