toes, the first GM product to reach the English market.
The tomato stavs fresh longer, but contains genes from a bacterium which resistent to antibiotics. The genes are so-called markerthe genetic modification industry to indicate that the U83SIOH been successful.
The markers are necessary not in the end-product. It is possible to remove the genes but the companies have not bothered to address this the prooleh.
Theoretically, is not impossible the resismarker-genes can be spread to bacteria in thc intenstines oi numans as tacy cat tnc Zeneca's tomato is just one or many exampics The issue of genetic food is the long run it will also have social consequences.
multinational companies control the market for genetically John Mc Anulty As with so much around the Good Friday what is not included in the debate around the RUC is as significant as what 1s. ditional demands of socialrepublicans. demands supported by the vast majority of Irish workselves are far from revolu tionary and simply add up to a demand for democracy;
Disband the sectarian RUCI • Repeal repressive legis• End Diplock Courts!
From this standpoint the agreement dealing with the police the Patton Keport never began to deal CYCH with the issuds of democracy Rather than the reality of RUC repression and sectarismall-scale influence • 50% recruitment from the camonc community Overall Patton held out the promise of sharing out As with the Good Friday XRISH Agreement as a whole, the ignobie goal or a snarca sectarian privilege in running EYES - there would, after all, be no point in sectarian privilege if After two police bills, the cold light of reality shows A column from Socialist what looks suspiciously like Democracy, Irish section the old RUC. of the fourth international The British retain absolute control, unfettered by decorative committees they was "perceptions".
was ruled The state will retain the • RUC emblems right to suppress investigaIndependent investigaWhat is left is a new unition and monitoring • Shared control (with a nationalist politicians who hint that former ki members would be co-opted to climb on board will be able the new force)
Local boards giving promise that recruitment will be sure catole.
O Eventualiy become s0% Catholic it would be a different force, but to get to that to support the actually existing RUC It is totally implausible to suggest that a savage bigoted force, able to resist reform now, will not subvert this last hurdle.
The Sinn Fein leadership have demanded that the policing debate be reopened, and we are now well into Secretary that the new structures will September.
he recruitment campaign has besun. New statt have been appointed to the RUC leadership. The new police but it has the certainty of Dublin expresses impatience that the "new" force is not up and running. Seamus Mallon "certainty' it. Even the self-proclaimed progressives of the Women's coalition come out of the closet to support the RUC.
A sectarian state needs a sectarian police force to preserve it. That's what the new with their slogan the nity"senior partners the nationalist family are saving workers need of unremitting opposition to the sectarian state, the secthey need to defend themselves against the forces supporting the vood Pnday agreement 1 those seeking ism and imperialism rather than smash them.