09- i/-.. i . FOUNDED 1939 Organ of the LONDON Connolly Association MEMBERS ALL paid-up members in London and the South- east are entitled to attend the meeting in Marchmont Street Community Centre (Russell Square) at 2.30 pm. on Saturday March 14th. This is to continue the process begun last month of trying to draw all members into the work of the No. 517 MARCH 1987 30p Association. There will be a political discussion on The General Election results. The attendance on February 14th was modest, but there was a good feeling about, as if the Association, the oldest Irish political organisation in Britain was going to take off again. THEY DONT The E.C. will be held a fortnight later. TRUST HAUGHEY BUT ABOLISH THE —LUMP— WONT HAVE FITZ THE importance of the conference to be held at the Marchmont Street Community Centre at 2.30 pm on March 21st is thrown into relief by SO FITZ CLIMBS ON HAUGHEY'S BACK -events at McCarthy and Stones in Sutton. Surrey. This firm sacked their directly employed workforce and brought in SPRING WINS BY FIVE VOTES "self-employed lumbers." STATISTICAL man, supreme have promised to back him if he If this were to take place the Government of the Republic has mould of Irish politics would be refused to consider. The result was Union action. But adjudicator of aspiring politics puts through a tough monetarist the High Court issued an injunction has given his verdict on Charles budget, with implied emphasis on truly broken. But while The merest chance that Mr •gainst the workers and compelled the ley and Fianna Fail. reduced public spending and sppkesmen of the Left persist in Haughey will refuse to play ball is TGWU and UCATT to cease backing • privatisation. regarding the most progressive justification for supporting him, the men's picket. It is that though they are the potential Taoiseach as Enemy even if there remained some There is no way in which the Number One, the whole balance best of a bad bunch, the people do smaller parties could dislodge doubts about his ability to stand The allegation is that safety not trust them an overall majority. of politics is thrown into disarray. standards have plumetted and workers what would be in effect a National firm. British Imperialism thinks There is more safety in a hung Coalition directed against the he is the worst choice. Therefore are lugging cement to the site in their Meanwhile, evidence accumu- •wn cars. parliament. ordinary people. he must be the best. lates of constant British • Conference has the support of Mr Fianna Fail has eighty-one In this situation, the Labour interference and Mr Haughey is Eric HefTer, MP, who writes as seats, but for an overall majority, Party, whose leader secured always at the receiving end of the follows: The Taoiseach requires the election by four votes, is talking sneers and insults. suffrages of Neil Blaney and Tony about a "Coalition of The Left." Gregory. The Labour Party are There are revelations of Dear Desmond, putting up their own man, and the There is no such thing as a attempts to plant Whitehall Thank you for your letter and I Workers Party now with 3 TDs, "Left" in Ireland that does not agents in the Garda Siochana. The would like to say how much I are supporting nobody. include the demand for National British Armv recently planted a WANTED welcome the Conference that is Independence and the re- listening device across the border A DUPLICATOR, preferably being organised concerning the The danger of this situation is unification of the country. Roneo or Gestetner, for use by the Construction Industry which was in County Monaghan. that Mr Haughey may become If James Connolly were alive Connolly Association in Liverpool outlined on page two of the Irish dependent on Fine Gael, who i Democrat for January. today and leading the party he A file on "Dirty Tricks" in ansence of full facilities in It is vital that Irish and other founded, there is good reason to operations against the Republic London office. Has anyone got one workers, including British think he would urgf Labour to by MI6, has been sent to Mrs that is not wanted, and would be workers, should unite in their support Fianna Fial on condition Thatcher, and we have the ironic prepared to donate or sell at a appropriate Trade Unions, to that there was no weakening on situation where the British reasonable price. Get in touch with fight for better conditions in the Nottingham Neutrality, public industry, and Government is investigating Connolly Association, 244/246, Construction Industry, and progress in the direction of ending "under cover" operations against Grays Inn Road, London, WC1, especially against the Lump. partition. the Republic which the telephone 01-833-3022. Some years ago I attempted to Social get a Bill through Parliament NOTTINGHAM members of The which would have outlawed the Connolly Association are holding a Lump, but did not get enough social at the EARL MANVERS support. Also, the Labour pub, Manvers Street, Sneinton, on IRISH SEA POLLUTION CONFERENCE Government in 1970 was putting liked to keep quiet about h but a through a Bill which would have Friday, 27th March, with live music SOMETHING legs than two environmental groups, etc. It will marginally helped to combat it, from one of the finest folk groups in years ago Liverpool Connolly meet at the Prince of Wales Hotel, communications buoy was but it was lost when Labour lost the Midlands, PATTI O'DOORS, Association pioneered the first ever Sov.ihport on Saturday and detached from the submarine and the election. 7.30 pm start, admission £1.00 on conference to discuss the pollution Sunday 14th and 15th March, and gave the game away. We need, action in the country the door. By public transport catch and militarisation of the Irish Sea. particulars can be obtained from Simultaneously under pressure by the unions and workers to the number 20 bus outside the main Miss Hilary Smith, at the from MPs, the British government Combat the Lump, but we also Post Office in Nottingham. Plans The conference took place at the Department of General Practice, need a future Labour are also underway for an Easter Shaftesbury Hotel, and was rushed out in proof form a massive Government to introduce public talk in Nottingham. Further attended hy representatives from University of Liverpool. The report on cancer deaths near the legislation to deal with it. details available at the social and in Cumbr'j in the north to address is Box 147, the telephone nuclear installations. This showed Safety is still a vital question, number being 051-709-6022. that numbers of people aged under as are many other issues, and so I next month's Democrat. Local Meiri nydd in the wesf. The report contact: J. Logan, 78 Lenton is still available price £1. 24 contracting leukaemia in the wish, the> Conference every BUT the militarisation aspect success. The real need is to build Boulevard. Now one of the aspects pin- must not be lost sight of. On vicinity of Windscale/Sellafield the unions, get properly pointed by the Association is being February 19th, an Irish trawler was was substantially above the normal. Organised, defeat the Lump, taken up by the prestigious Royal hooked by an American submarine This is the main pollutant of th ensure that the Working rules are Irish Sea and there have been observed and that the laws on College of General Practitioners, and dragged ten miles before being Health and Safety are not only Merseyside and North Wales freed. The 57-foot Summer Morn demands in Ireland that it be closed kept to but improved. Faculty. with a crew of four had been fishing down. It has moreover over- All the very oest, They are calling an International about fourteen miles north-west oj reached Its projected period of life Youfs fraternally, ' the Isle Of Man. and there might be a serious RICS. HEFFER, MP conference of General Practit- ioners, other health professionals, The U.S. authorities would have accident any minute. IRISH DEMOCRAT March 1987 Page Two March ,1987 IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Three LAST COPY FOR NUR PLEASE NOTE I BOARDED a train at NEXT ISSUE Manchester Oxford Road Jo go t« Liverpool Lime Street. It had come T'S THE B!G BANG March 15th I believe, from Cleethorpes and LONDON JOTTINGS there was a clear notice to th« effect that refreshments were available on LETTER A NEW day centre for single with the increase in numbers of Tom Reynolds recounted the it. I needed something. I had come A chara. homeless people in the area is the people coming for help during the efforts made by the organisation from a funeral. FARMERS LAND IN EEC MUCK 'I 111 London Strategic Policy priority of Cricklewood Homeless week and the need for a daily club to obtain joint funding from But there were no refreshmepts on BY JOHN BOYD I mi in conjunction with Format Concern in I9R7- the International facility, it is obvious that we need Cricklewood's three surrounding it. I complained to the guard. "Those people are nothing to do with British THERE were great shouts of joy Photographers lias produced a Year of Shelter for the Homeless - our own day centre." boroughs - Barnet, Brent and hardest. The problem is Rail. If they want to stop at over another British 'victory' portable I 2 x A I panel and the organisation is to step up its Camden - and the delays and fundamental decisions and far Photographic exhibition with text Parish priest Fr.