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	Sunningdale Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Council of Ministers was to be composed of seven members from the power-sharing executive, and seven members from the Irish Government.
		In January 1974 the Ulster Unionist Party narrowly voted against continued participation in the Assembly and Faulkner resigned as leader, to be succeeded by the anti-Sunningdale Harry West.
		The Ulster Unionists formed the United Ulster Unionist Council as a coalition of anti-agreement unionists with the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party to stand a single anti-Sunningdale candidate in each constituency.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sunningdale_Agreement (1241 words)

	CAIN: Events: Ulster Workers' Council Strike - Chronology
		This is a draft of the chronology for the Ulster Workers' Council (UWC) strike of May 1974.
		In Northern Ireland the election was in effect a referendum on power-sharing and the Council of Ireland.
		The UWC criticised Merlyn Rees, the then Secretary of Sate for Northern Ireland, for not meeting with leaders of the strike.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /events/uwc/chr.htm (2196 words)

	The Ulster Defence Association
		This became known as the Ulster Workers Strike and the Ulster Defence Association had a pivotal role within the strike, but their role was not that of violent intimidation as has been alleged by various Irish-Nationalist politicians and political commentators.
		During the time of the Ulster Workers Strike the support gained for the strike had resulted in the reduction of the output of one by one of the various electrical power stations.
		This was not a victory for the “constitutional” politicians of Ulster politics, although many of them were active within the strike or supported the aims of it, but without the leadership of the Ulster Defence Association and coordinating bodies such as the Ulster Workers Council it is doubtful that the strike would ever have succeeded.
	loyalistcommissionforideologicaleducation.00freehost.com /ulster_defence_associationII.htm (1990 words)

	DEMOCRACY AND POLITICS
		Ulster people are largely ignorant of history and their political spokesmen are not as astute in using well articulated, simplifying political spin.
		Again the Ulster people mobilised against this threat to their national freedom and a workers' strike - the Ulster workers Council General Strike of 1974 defeated this diktat.
		Again the Ulster people mobilised against this and it was unsuccessful in being a serious threat to the position of Ulster.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/ulster_explained/politics.htm (1169 words)

	News (16/05/04) - 1974 Ulster Workers Council - Loyalist stoppage brings down the government
		The Protestant workers’ fear of being coerced into a capitalist United Ireland is exploited by reactionaries in the leadership of the UWC and the likes of Craig of Vanguard.
		Glenn Barr, chairman of the co-ordinating committee between the military groups and the UWC itself, is a leading member of Vanguard and the UDA, both of which organisations have taken part in and encouraged the random killings of Catholic workers.
		In Larne, one of the leaders of the 'Workers' Council' was a garage owner, who happened also to be one of the few with the concession to remain open during the strike.
	www.socialistparty.net /pub/news/uwcreprint16-05-04.htm (4265 words)

	BBC - History - War and Conflict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shortly after the result of an Assembly debate on the Sunningdale Agreement was announced on 14 May 1974, Harry Murray, a Belfast shipyard worker and chairman of the Ulster Workers' Council called an industrial strike.
		The Ulster Workers' Council was a group of loyalist trades unionists opposed to the power-sharing Executive and the Council of Ireland.
		On the first day of the strike most workers turned up for work and it appeared as if the UWC had neither an effective strategy nor the support of the majority of Protestant workers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/troubles/powersharing/strike.shtml (406 words)

	The UWC Strike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In April, the Ulster Workers' Council met Rees and demanded new Assembly elections and an end to the Council of Ireland.
		The UWC was a group of loyalist trade unionists which was organised in all the key industries throughout Ulster.
		They represented the political views of loyalist workers in a way that the official Dublin-based Irish Congress of Trade Unions leadership could not, dominated as it was (and is) by anti-partitionists and communists.
	www.ulsternation.org.uk /uwc_strike.htm (1159 words)

	Ulster Defence Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		During the protests against the imposition of direct rule from Westminster the UDA campaigned with Ulster Vanguard and the Loyalist Association of Workers (LAW).
		However, it was during the May 1974 Ulster Workers' Council strike that the UDA carried out its biggest operation.
		Early in 1988 Andy Tyrie was removed as leader of the UDA and control passed to an 'inner council' of six members.
	www.scottishloyalists.com /paramilitaries/uda.htm (776 words)

	In the Spotlight: The Ulster Defense Association (UDA)
		The Ulster Defense Association was formed in 1971 as an umbrella organization for the various loyalist factions in Northern Ireland.
		In response to the broken ceasefire, the Ulster Democratic Party was suspended for several weeks from the Lancaster House talks that led to the Belfast Agreement (Good Friday Agreement).
		As a result, the UDA was deemed a current terrorist threat and the authorities declared its ceasefire agreement null and void on Oct. 12, 2001.
	www.cdi.org /program/document.cfm?DocumentID=2991&from_page=../index.cfm (1653 words)

	Solidarnosc: Acid Test for Trotskyists (1988)
		The role of Trotskyist organizations in the deformed and degenerated workers states is to mobilize the proletariat against the bureaucracy in a political revolution to shatter the Stalinist apparatus and establish the direct rule of the workers.
		Solidarnosc was born in August 1980 as a response of the Polish workers to the profound economic crisis engendered by the Stalinist regime.
		Yet the workers councils remained an important political factor and Janos Kadar, who headed the regime imposed by Moscow, was forced to meet with their leadership to try to negotiate an end to the month-long general strike with which the Hungarian workers had greeted the Soviet invasion.
	www.bolshevik.org /Pamphlets/Solidarnosc/solidarnosc.html (16259 words)

	Accord: Striking a balance. The Northern Ireland peace process (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A strike by the Ulster Workers Council leads to the collapse of the power-sharing executive after only five months and the Assembly is suspended.
		The Ulster Defence Association (a loyalist paramilitary group) publishes its Common Sense document with proposals for a form of power-sharing in a new Northern Ireland Assembly.
		John Reid announces that he is "specifying" the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF), and the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), meaning that the British government considers their ceasefires to be at an end.
	www.c-r.org /accord/ireland/accord8/Chronol.shtml (7216 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sunningdale Agreement
		The British government would retain control over law and order, and a Council of Ireland would give the Republic of Ireland and the six counties a voice in each other's affairs.
		This assembly was to replace the suspended Stormont parliament, but it was hoped that this assembly would not be dominated by the Ulster Unionist Party in the same way, and would thus be acceptable to Irish nationalists.
		On 10 December, the day after the agreement was announced, unionist paramilitaries formed the Ulster Army Council — a coalition of loyalist paramilitary groups, including the UDA and the UVF, which would oppose the agreement.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sunningdale_Agreement (1065 words)

	Eire-Ireland:Journal of Irish Studies: The limits of "New Unionism": David Trimble and the Ulster Unionist ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		What follows uses the Ulster Unionist Assembly Party as a prism through which to analyze the undoubtedly radical shift in unionist strategy initiated by the leader of the UUP.
		In a party as bereft of intellectual ballast as the Ulster unionists, it was no great compliment to Trimble to point out that he was by far the most cerebral of the candidates for the leadership.
		As such he was involved in the popular Protestant uprising, the Ulster Workers' Council strike, which destroyed Northern Ireland's first attempt at cross-community power-sharing in 1974.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FKX/is_1-2_39/ai_n6150066 (1321 words)

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		One of the major successes of the UWC was their shutting down of virtually all of Northern Ireland's power generating capacity.
		These demonstrate the potential of workers' unity in the north, but for this unity to become lasting Protestant workers need to be won to a clear anti-imperialist position and opposition to the British presence.
		Jimmy McKurk was a very militant worker in the ODR strike from the Falls but wasn't in the group.
	www.textfiles.com /politics/SPUNK/sp000418.txt (3132 words)

	Ireland: history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the same time, an inquest was started in the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), a locally-recruited, part-time British Army regiment, which is dominated by Protestants, over the death of six IRA members in 1982.
		Sinn FÃ©in, the political wing of the Provisional IRA, which supported the immediate withdrawal of British troops, the disarming of the RUC and the reunification of Ireland, was excluded from the talks due to their refusal to condemn the IRAâs campaign of violence.
		In 1993, with the reduction in workers in the rural and traditional industry sectors, unemployment reached 20 per cent, while the GDP grew due to an increase in exports, especially high-tech goods.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=53 (3098 words)

	:: Ulster Defence Association :: :: Quis Separabit
		These brave and loyal volunteers have stood on the front line in defence of their beloved Ulster for the bloodiest years of the troubles, and no amount of Republican aggression could prevent these young men from taking up arms and protecting their communites.Quis Separabit.
		Catholics regarded the peaceful resolution of the incident and the ease with which the UDA could paralyse the city with massive demonstrations as evidence that the British government was adopting a more conciliatory approach to loyalists.
		Its biggest and most successful operation was the 1974 Ulster Workers' Council strike that forced the power-sharing Executive to resign.
	www.freewebs.com /ulsterdefenceassociation (912 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Northern Ireland \| Fall of Sunningdale recounted
		The story of the Ulster Workers' Council strike which brought Northern Ireland to a standstill 30 years ago is to be told in a BBC documentary.
		The UWC committee which ran the strike included paramilitary leaders from groups such as the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force.
		Initially, little attention was paid to the UWC but staff at Ballylumford power station in County Antrim were persuaded to support the strike.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3706449.stm (1002 words)

	The revolutionary dialectic of Republicanism - Part nine
		In the future the workers of the Six Counties will find a more productive use for this power, once they are led by men and women who represent their true class interests.
		During the UWC strike, car bombs attributed to Loyalist paramilitaries were exploded in Dublin and Monaghan in the South of Ireland, killing 27 people (though recently revealed documents have suggested that the MI6 British intelligence forces may have actually been responsible for the bombings).
		Opponents to this position in the OIRA argued, at the 1973 Ard Fheis (national party congress), that this position was unrealistic considering the 400 years of sectarian intransigence in the North, and that instead the armed struggle must be maintained and channeled into a socialist direction.
	www.marxist.com /ireland/republicanism9.html (3098 words)

	Keesing's Worldwide Online - Hot Topics: Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The elections, held under the single transferable vote system of proportional representation on the basis of the existing 12 Northern Ireland constituencies for elections to the UK House of Commons (as under the Northern Ireland Assembly Act 1973), were contested by 184 candidates.
		James Patterson, a member of the UWC, arrived at Stormont and told reporters that as a result of the vote electricity workers would reduce the power supply in Belfast to an extent where industry would be forced to shut down.
		The strike became intensified on May 16, widespread intimidation being again reported, although the UWC later that day ordered the immediate dismantling of barricades in Belfast; the closure of all bars, clubs, hotels and betting shops was ordered by the UWC to conserve power.
	www.keesings.com /hot_topics/no_ireland (2672 words)

	Socialist Party archives - Workers Break the Stoppage
		Three years ago it was the trade union movement which was put to 'rout' at the hands of the Ulster Workers Council.
		It was this action, not the heavy hand of the state, not the condemnations of middle class politicians, and not the prayers of the Churches, which won the day.
		Through it the workers' movement could lay the basis for an ending of the violence and also for the eradication of poverty.
	www.geocities.com /socialistparty/Archive/77StoppageIntro.htm (1603 words)

	Ulster Loyalists - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The UDA is the largest of the Loyalist paramilitary groups in Ulster, comprising at its peak in the mid 1970’s of over 30,000 members.
		Its role in the early years of the troubles was to protect Ulster’s protestant communities from attacks by Irish republicans, and ultimately to preserve the Union with Britain.
		The 36th Ulster Division, as they were known, fought bravely on the battlefields of the Somme in 1916 where they suffered terrible casualties.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=121810 (2215 words)

	UWC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		United World Colleges, an international group of schools.
		Ulster Workers' Council, a grouping of loyalist and unionist workers in Northern Ireland responsible for the 1974 Ulster Workers' Strike which brought the province to a standstill and lead to the collapse of the Sunningdale power sharing Executive.
		This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UWC (131 words)

	[A-List] UK state: Northern Ireland & Monaghan bombings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is one of the nine counties of the traditional Irish province of Ulster, but not one of the 6 counties in the -- to use a recently invented term loathed by nationalists and republicans -- "province" of "Northern Ireland" (which is what the term "Ulster" has increasingly meant since the Twenties).
		The Dublin and Monaghan bombings occurred a few days after the start of the "Ulster Workers Council" loyalist lockout which closed the power stations as well as everything else.
		The Ulster Volunteer Force admitted 10 years ago that it was responsible for the bombings.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2004-May/030506.html (963 words)

	Civil Rights and the PIRA
		Ulster Workers Council (UWC) strike of May 1974: When British army chiefs refused to obey orders
		The Ulster Workers Council (UWC) strike of May 1974 was just one of the incidents that showed, far from being "impartial", the RUC and the British army did their best to prop up loyalism.
		The Ulster Unionists, who have held control for nearly half a century, make automatic denial each time this charge is urged.
	tomkinney.freewebsitehosting.com /irishhistorylinkscivilrights.htm (3304 words)

	The Spirit of Freedom
		Of course, Ulster Catholics, concentrated in the South and West of the province, saw little of the new commercial and industrial expansion.
		In Knocklong, the workers took over the creamery there, and set up the Knocklong Soviet Creamery with the declaration that "we make butter not profits." In September, the entire port of Cork was taken over and run as a Soviet.
		The partition was blatantly political: 3 of Ulster's 9 counties were dumped to ensure that the new statelet had an in-built Protestant majority.
	www.kersplebedeb.com /mystuff/texts/spiritfreedom.html (17864 words)

	Dublin's Doomsday plan (1974) - International Crime and Justice - Indymedia Ireland
		The power-sharing executive took office in January - only to be toppled by the Ulster Workers' Council strike five months later, and 303 people were murdered, including 206 civilians.
		TOP secret 'Doomsday' plans were drawn up by the Dublin government 30 years ago in case British withdrawal prompted a civil war, and - in the worst-case scenario - led to an Irish army takeover of Northern Ireland.
		Drawn up in the wake of the collapse of the five-month-old Sunningdale power-sharing administration - brought down by the Ulster Workers' Council strike in May - the report shows senior officials were not expecting an "abrupt" withdrawal.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=68140&print_page=true (888 words)

	Beyond the Pale
		In 1608, vast tracts of land in northeast Ulster were cleared of their native inhabitants in order to provide space for the "plantation" of English and Anglicized Scots.
		The departure of militants from the Army Council left the IRA more firmly in the control of conservative elements, while the failure of the Republican Congress to seize the initiative provided by the international economic depression and resulting rank-and-file militancy of Irish workers, forced the revolutionary current of republican socialism into retreat once again.
		The UWC strike provided an excellent demonstration of the ability of the working class to bring a system to its knees through their collective effort, while also providing a chilling glimpse of the reactionary ideology deeply rooted in the Loyalist section of Ireland's workers.
	www.irsm.org /history/beyondthepale.html (18271 words)

	The Ulster Defence Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Members of the UDA have, since 1973, used the cover name of Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) to claim the responsibility for the killing of republicans.
		In 1977 the UDA supported the United Unionist Action Council (UUAC) strike, but it did not support Ian Paisley's 'Day of Action' nor his 'Third Force' in 1981.
		Its current strength is probably several hundred with a few dozen being 'active' in the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) a covername used by the UDA.
	www.houstonpk.freeserve.co.uk /udapg.htm (783 words)

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