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BY A STAFF REPORTER ABOUT 500 members of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign chanting "Civil rights or civil war." marched from Hyde Park to the Ulster Office in Berkeley Street on Sunday after a rally in support of the civil rights movement.
The marchers, mainly youths. carried banners of the
Ana r ch i s t, International Socialist and Marxist movements.
At the Ulster Office they were confronted by a police cordon and sat down, chanting a verse about the Royal Ulster Constabularly with the refrain,
"Burn, burn, burn the bastards."
In Hyde Park, Mr. Gerry Lawless told the marchers: "We want civil rights, not civil war, but if the Government ot Northern Ireland blocks the road to full civil rights now. if they face us with the threat of civil war . . . then I say to them that the fighting youth of Derry gave them their answer last week."
Mr. John Palmer, of the International Socialists, said: "The violence of those who are deprived must not be put on the same level as the violence of the . oppressors."
Apart from one scuffle, the march passed off peacefully.
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