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NO SALE! 244/246 GRAYS INN ROAD, WC1 Sustentation Fund YOU Might Think That £326 Is a Good Figure-Until We Tell You That It Covers Two Months >r FOUNDED 1939 / Organ of the CoaaoDy Association BUY BOOKS WHILE YOU CAN! RAT The Tories are planning a 15% VAT on books so as to spread their cult of Ignorance. No 490 DECEMBER 1984 30p BUY NOW at the FOUR PROVINCES BOOKSHOP NO SALE! 244/246 GRAYS INN ROAD, WC1 Sustentation fund YOU might think that £326 is a good figure-until we tell you that it covers two months. We could paper a fair-sized wall with bills and reminders and we MRS T. WANTS IT really need £300 a month. For there are wages to be found, rest, electricity and water to be paid for, plus the materials required for political activity. If you figure that out you'll see that £300 a month is only part of what we need, the rest having to be met in other ways. FOR NOTHING However, we keep going, and our thanks to: M. Brennan £5, S. Clarke £2, C. LONDON SUMMIT FIASCO Remember O'S. £5, J. D. Bolton £15, S. S. Watts £10, G.Ward £1, J. Mavanagh £3.20, A. Noone £4, C; They'll go on chattering Republican Moloney £8, South London CA £55,1. Linehan £1, J. Harmon £3, FROM all accounts the London "summit" (other people have meetings, big shots have J. McDonald £11, R. J. Tolhurst summits) between Mr Fitzgerald and Mrs Thatcher, produced a big nothing. But they'll go on prisoners £5, Anon £50, I. Moody £5, B. Farrington £2.50, M. O'Donnell chattering, and things will go on as they are, which will suit them fine. IF you sent a prisoner a card like the one £10, E. O'Dowling £20, D. illustrated on this page, you couldn't be The only thing they are agreed on is to continue the repression of sure that he'd get it. O'Connor £1, C.C. £2.60, J. Irish people and their friends republicans. should therefore be vigilant. Kavanagh £3.20, H; Robson £5, C. But you don't need to send a political Moloney £1.50, K.C. £3.75, C. The IRISH DEMOCRAT has never advised republicans to pursue a American patience is not message. The main message is that the Qtrinn £1.08, South London CA policy of violence, which has political disadvantages a man sees clearer inexhaustible. The Thatcher prisoner is not forgotten. government kow-tows and £25, East London CA £9, M. when he gets older. But has it ever occurred to the British Tories that if The "Irish Democrat" has never recom- genuflects in or Jer to keep its Brennan £5, C. Leslie £5, T. Egan what they are doing in Ireland did not provoke violence, then human mended the offences of which republican £2, C. & G. Findlay £10, D. nature would have undergone a miraculous transformation? stewardship, but how long will prisoners have been found guilty. But for McLoughlin £6, C. Pamment this last? one thing we are not convinced that all of MERCENARY them are guilty. And for another even if £3.20, G. Sheilds £5, R. Rossiter So the two big-wigs filled their protecting England's border, the their actions were unwise their motives There are signs that some £9, P. Horgan £2.60, R. bellies and got their heads Tories would be suing for terms were not those of personal gain. Searchfield £1.20, supporters in Americans have lost faith in a together and decided to hot up within a month. Here is a list of them, got out by Soath London £9.25. British solution and are "security," though if the Republic considering the possibility of an Northampton' Connolly Association: total: £326.08. were to refuse to waste its money ABYSMAL American solution. If British William Armstrong (119085) Gartree, Mr Fitzgerald belongs to a class troops were moved to Shannon Liam Baker (464984) Hull, James Bennett which regards itself as "west the country would go mad. But if (464989) Parkhurst, Stephen Blake (507953) Wakefield, Martin Brady British," and the abysmal the, Yanks decided on a big naval performance of the present (119087) Long Lartin, Eddie Butler base at Bantry, southern shop- (338637) Leicester, Eddie Byrne (873453) government in the opinion polls keepers and chambers of Long Lartin, Bobby Campbell (B32954) arises not only from the economic commerce would be overcome Hull, Anthony Clarke (726381) Parkhurst, position, which presents with mercenary enthusiasm for Martin Coughlin (507955) Hull, Anthony difficulties outside government Cunningham (B03106) Long Lartin, Gerry the stars and stripes. Or at least we Cunningham (132016) Long Lartin, control, but from a widespread fear some of them would. Robert Cunningham (131877) Long belief that its allegiences are non- And if they were brought in on Lartin, Hugh Doherty (338636) Parkhurst, Irish. Vincent Donnelly (274064) Gartree, the discussions, some of the Brendon Dowd (758662) Leicester, Harry Republicans might accept a Duggan (338638) Parkhurat, Noel Gibson There is a feeling that Mr united Ireland under American (879295) Gartree, Richard Glenholmes Fitzgerald would sell the country tutelage, though by no means all (B32952) Long Lartin, Patrick Guilfoyle (507956) Parkhurst, Patrick Hackett if he could get a price for it, but would do so. that Mrs Thatcher wants it for (342603) Parkhurst, Sean Hayes (341418) The alternative to a British Albany, Paul Holmes (119034) Albany, nothing. solution, which is no solution, and Sean Kinsella (758661) Wormwood an American solution which is no Scrubs, Brian Keenan (B26380) Leicester, Ronnie McCartney (463799) Gartree, The present impasse presumes a beMer, is an Irish solution, a John McComb (B51715) Parkhurst, Con factor that is never discussed. This united independent Ireland, and McFadden (130662) Gartree, Andy is the agreement arrived at in anything that leads in this Mulryan (461576) Long Lartin, Patrick ! 1921, that America regarded direction is good, anything that Mulryan (461575) Long Lartin, Mick Ireland as a "British sphere, of Murray (509534) Hull, Stephen Nordone leads away from it is bad. (758663) Parkhurst, Paul Norney (863532) influence." This was implicit in It must not be thought that time Gartree, Joe O'Connel (338635) the Washington naval treaty and is unlimited and that it is either Parkhurst, Shane O'Doherty (336143) the USA has respected it ever Thatcher or us. Big changes and Wormwood Scrubs, Eddie O'Neill since. (135722) Wakefield, Roy Walsh (119083) policy-reversals are possible in the Hull. present state of world affairs. The Prison addresses are: Albany, Newport, Yet it is becoming daily clearer effort to convince British Labour, Isle of Wight; Parkhurst, Newport, Isle of in Washington that Britain is weak and flabby though its Wight: Wormwood Scrubs, PO Box 757, totally incapable of delivering the leadership.. may appear, of the Du Cane Road, London, WI2 0AE; Long Lartin, South Littleton, Evesham, goods in Ireland, the goods being need to hand over the six counties Wore*.; Gartree, Leicester Road, Market the deep harbours of the twenty-six to ^Dublin and to get them in Harborough, Leics.; Welford Road, counties, and the* other military power with a mandate to dr it, is LdcNter, Love Lane, Wakefield, CMtffttt Cards hand-printed by the NpOaprntoa Connolly Association, facilities the Pentagon requires for something to be pursued ere Yorkshire; Hedon Road, Hull, North 25p each, 10 for £2, by post from 244 Grays Ian Road. Humberside; Jebb Avenye, Brixton, the third world war. worse befaH. London SW2 JW;' 1 ' v Page 2 IRISH DEMOCRAT December 1984 December 1984 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT Page 3 IRELAND AND WORLD PEACE FOOD MOUNTAINS THAT CAUSE FAMINE THERE has been a deal of heart- able to trade freely with the third world, rending about the EEC food mountains trading manufactures for food and other TEXT OF PAPER DISCUSSED AT LIVERPOOL CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 18th and the famine in the north east of By raw materials, Britain has to attempt to The Plough at The Abbey Africa. But there is much, much, more trade manufactures for manufactures within the EEC as well as buying dear to the hideous and immoral picture of WHEN the Easter Rising took loyalties, for which there is no Mil (INIRI M ["._• "lush quipjiori famine in one place and the food surplus JOHN BOYD FEC food. Its outdated and clapped out prive had to he pa; 1 De \alera alvvavs militarisation ol the Irish Sea where activists bu' in a wide stratum ot the he reunited on the issue that divides place Sean O'Casey was faced by an solution, is never iost sight of This - '.hi* disputed v,\ere;gnn ol I he v\ a few hundred miles away. The famine is industries are no match for the task, combined neutrality with support lor ships have been mysteriously sunk population There must therefore be them And this is in turn impossible is moreover a political production .••unties ,»l "N.<rthern" Ireland" IK- even if workers accept low incomes as acute dilemma collective security and tried to reactiv ate notably in the Tusker Rock area For grievances that are found intolerable while the whole weight of British policy not just due to a lack of rain or water, producing countries. The coffee price is v onnoftj -Wiciatinr. has from it* part of the 'get competitive' nonsense of He had been Secretary of the Irish which enables you to gain a deeper this at the end ot the war He said "I some ol these sinkings the British There must be a total lack of confidence in every aspect of administration and these countries have a legacy from actually decided in London! Inundation sought t persuade the lory theory. Citizen Army. His writings about insight into 191b think we have a duty as a member of the Government has been compelled to pay that any redress will be attempted.
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