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AN tElREANNACH AONTA AIBREAN (APRIL) 1977 Vol. 35 No. 4. lOp (30c) Monthly Newspaper of Sinn Fein The Workers'Party BRUSSELS AND HEALEY PUSH Prices sky high The celebration of the twentieth birthday of the Common Market was to roughly 4% or £2 on the British should not go unnoticed by the understandably muted in the light of the widespread unemployment and near average pay-packet of £80 per week. Loyalists who raised the issue of an uncontrollable Inflation, particularly in food prices, in almost all the E.E.C. Independent North but without countries. Ireland's membership of the Community is twice more difficult for But the same fate awaits the reference to the financial control of the average worker, given the conflicting policies which the Southern pockets of British and Northern Westminster. Government and Britain bring to bear on the vital question of monetary Ireland workers as has happened in returns to farmers. the South as the farming pressures increase towards the equalisation of The devaluation of the Green is based on meat prices It is difficult Elections Community food prices. Within a pound, for the benefit of the ran• to see any other than the ranchers month or so Healey's Income tax chers, is going to eat deep into the benefiting. Recent estimates of While the British Chancellor cuts will have lost their value. pockets of Irish workers. The list of profit from meat show that the claimed that he was not presenting a vicious price increases, and more butchers chalk up a massive 30% pre-election Budget, the reality may Apart from the fact that such cuts well be that the Left of his own party threate-ned as soon as the profit. So the benefit, if It can be do not work in Northern Ireland to Agricultural Ministers reconvene, called that, passes to a small per• will be forced into bringing down the the same extent as in Britain, wages Government as it persists in policies reads like a wartime table of scarce centage of the community. being substantially lower, the but essential foods. Rationing designed and dictated by the In• overall result of the Budget is bound ternational Monetary Fund to without the ration cards with a to Increase a wide range of prices vengeance. Butter up by 5p per Mountains mollify industrial and financial and could seriously damage in• interests. pound, beef by at least 6p per pound, dustrial growth. Increases in fuel Mr. Clinton, whose Party's in• bacon by 3p, cheese by 3p and milk and road tax are more significant terest lies with the large scale by i^p. A further wide range of for Northern production than in In the South a general election is private farmer, attacked the policy goods, including cereals and frozen Britain, pushing up both import and due in a matter of months. The proposed by Britain's Minister of economic problems' are similar to vegetables, will soar in price, some export costs. by as much as lOp. Apart from the Agriculture who was seeking to keep that of Britain and the lack of increase In adult foods, babies are down prices and put an end to the solutions from the Tory Parties also under attack, all baby products meat and butter mountains. A policy Unemployment equally obvious. Both the Coalition being subject to some Increase. which derives from the fact that and Flanna Fail cannot hope to A conservative estimation of the Britain is an industrial country and The fact that most observers see settle the inflationary spiral, par• effect of the devaluation is an is concerned with the votes of the British Budget as indicating a ticularly in food prices. The need to overall jump of at least 4p In the workers at election time. slow expansion of the UK economy expand the public sector in pound in the price of food. This just will not benefit Northern workers in agriculture has never been clearer. after the Irish Congress of Trade However, due mainly to the so- any way. None of the Chancellor's Unions had agreed to accept a called Common Agricultural Policy cuts or changes in taxation are Policies for cheaper food based National Wage Agreement which prices in Britain have increased by designed to deal with the chronic on expanding State companies in has by now been already eroded. almost 80% over this past three structural unemployment in the Six Bord na Mona and the Irish Sugar Fine Gael's Mark Clinton, 26 years. And. certainly in his Budget, Counties. Nor was there any in• Company as advanced by Sinn Fein County Minister of Agriculture, Chancellor Heaiey gave some dication that he Intended later to The Workers' Party \yi\l be crucial reckons that farmers' Incomes will recognition to the fact when he in• make more public capital available issues when the country goes to the increase by 15%, but as most of this troduced tax reductions amounting for the region. A matter which polls. Belfast and Dublin togetherness Belfast and Dublin have much in common, as has been recognised by the exchange trips of councillors and council officials. The two pictures displayed here illustrate how important it is that those new links should be strengthened as quickly as possible. On the left is the advice centre of Republican Clubs Councillor Jim Sullivan after it had been visited by the Paras before completing their tour of "duty". On the right is part of the Dublin Trades Council Right to Work march last month. Dublin has no Paras but they have all the other problems which can be found in Belfast, unemployment, bad housing. Time for joint action.

INSIDE Americas secret mmy mid the multi-imtional compiaicy THIS Fiskinq limits fimco Page 12. . 'i , A new Student columv MONTH Labour licks its left Page L Page 8 AIBREAN State government, and even on the Teamsters to stick to this new agreement. Letters But we are decisively on the road to victory. The United Farm Cabhair Dear Friends, and the many friends who Workers, and our supporters, Irish Republican Prisoners Defence & Aid Fund On behalf of the United Farm organised meetings and offered have continued to move and Workers, I would like to extend hospitality in Drogheda, Navan, grow even when all others 30 Gardiner Place Dublin 1 my warmest thanks to the many Newry and Sth. Derry. I would thought we were fighting a losing readers of the United Irishman like to thank you for all the time battle. Again, I would like to Funds urgently needed for^Republlcan Prisoners Welfare whom I met during the recent and effort you put in to make the thank you from the bottom of my UFW tour in Ireland, and who are tour such a success, and for the heart for joining with us, for the •Aid for Dependents*Legai Aid doing so much to win support for deep sense of commitment you love and the solidarity you have our Union, our strike, and our have shown with our struggle, given us. The motto of All Contributions Acknoyvledged international boycott of non• especially when you are involved farmworkers used to be "Sal si union California grapes. iasuch an important one of your puedes" which meant "Get out B'fheidir grub e seo an fath Labour Party Youth in Dublin, own. Not least of these friends is of the work if you can", but the Because we learned very early gur thogha se Udaras ar March 29. the United Irishman itself, and I United Farm Workers has on In the strike, that it would not RTE ina bhfuil truir daoine Merrigan flayed all aspects of would like to thank the staff for changed that to "Si Se Puedel" be possible to win our battle in ar a laghad a bhfuil dubh the leaderships current policy all of the publicity and coverage which means "Yes, It Can Be the fields of California alone — namhadas acu don teangan. accusing them of the sell-out of you have continually given the Done". And we are sure, so very because of agribusiness control our natural resources wealth over the police, the courts and UFW. sure, that with your support, we Ce'n fath freisin ar fagadh can win! Radio na Gaeltachta bhiain "when the party policy is full the media in rural America, we I am very happy to be able to state ownership and control. So With our best wishes to you iomlan gan ceannaire. Cen have always tried to reach out to tell you of some good news, contemptuous of the and to your work, Venceremos! fath ar dheineadh iarracht get support for our struggle from which your support has helped to government are our erstwhile Elaine Elinson, am na gclararcha a athru ar workers In the cities of America bring about. On Friday, March partners in the smelter project United Farm Workers, 110A Radio na Gaeltachta. An e go and around the world. 1, and 11, the United Farm Workers and that Mr. O'Rourke, New Jersey Brooke Road, raibh siad ag deanamh many thousands of UFW the Teamsters union signed a Zinc said on radio {March 27} that London N16. iarracht an aer bhanna a members, have been "on the jurisdictional agreement — which usaid i gcoir rud eigean eile. his company would accept even boycott" in many towns, and basically means that the a 45% state stake In the smelter cities in the U.S. and in the key Teamsters have, given us their and still feel that his company countries where the growers try Polasai assurance that they will no longer A Chara, had little to fear in presumably to sell the scab grapes. We have break our strikes, raid our maintaining effective control of always found friends who are Deanaim tagairt don alt Cen faith go bhfuil an t- contracts, or try to "organise uaibh ar an abhar sec ^ire aris ag iarrai an B.B.C. the product and the profit." willing to help us. But never, in farmworkers''. This is very Impiriulachas agus R.T.E. Is a bhru ar an tir le cabhair It would seem that Mr. my experience, have we had important news because, as docha go gcainfeadh Conor eagraisi lucht seoinin i Merrigan, Secretary of the such an outpouring of warmth many of you will know if you saw Cruise 0 Briain an t-alt sin gCorcaigh, Port Lairge, A.T.G.W.U. is on a head on and solidarity from so many bur film or read some of the U.I. agus go nglaofadh se 'left- Luirnneach agus Gaillimh? collision course with his national people in such a short period of articles • on the strike, the wing sociology' ar na Dhein do thuairisceoir executive, for he claims, time as we had on the weeklong Teamsters. were the growers tuairimi a nochtadh ann iarracht cuid des na "Obvious attacks and tour of Ireland In February. .main/ strike-breaking force direach mar rinne se cheana ceisteanna sin a fhreagairt manoeuvres to oust committed against the farmworkers. Their ar tuairimi a nocht "Citizens go ginearalta. Ni feidir iad go socialists In the hunt for strong-arm tactics of beating for Better Broadcasting" ar leir a leiriu ins an litir seo. Ta parliamentary candidates In pickets with clubs, knives, guns, an abhar ceanna. gear gha le Polasai Artane, Rathmines W., Cabra leather whips and baseball bats, Is flu machtnamh gur Craolachan o iomlan and Finglas." Mr. Merrigan also of running farmworkers' cars off nduirt se freisin go raibh eagraisi polaitiula, iomlan states that this "stems from the the road, of sniping at UFW polasai suarach R.T.E. i leith eagraisi teangan, iomlan same constraints that a organisers caused hundreds of na Gaeilge "overbearing, eagraisi culturtha a continuation of the Coalition injuries and even death to UFW domineerirfg. and no longer thacaionn le nosanna. bandwagon imposes on the members. acceptable". Sin an breith a dearcadh agus cultur an parliamentary party." thug se ar an 2% de chosmhuintir. Ba cheart dos Teamsters chlaracha a bhionn as na heagraisi seo agus a n- In the course of the remainder of his speech Mr. Merrigan Elaine Elinson with Patsy Colgan, Gaeilge! irisi; 'cosuil leis an t- Sinn Fein The Workers' Party. It seems that public opinion, B'fheidir go gcuireann se Eireannach Aontuithe a accuses the Labour Party of and particularly the sgeoin ar go mbionn, mar ngloranna a ardu, na ceard having joined with Fine Gael in a massive con-trick on the Trade The many trade unionists, condemnation of the leirigh do thuairisceoir an chumainn a spreagadh agus Unions over the National Wages students, ' activists, and international ^ trade union oiread sin suim ag an phobal an pobal i gcoiteann a Agreement. This open fracture In Individuals who pledged their movement, is in great part ins an lion beag claracha dhuiseacht ar an gceist the Labour Party is bound to support of the boycott and the responsible for this agreement.. Gaeilge ata ar fail. prainneach seo. For, as even the New York Times have serious repercussions for UFW was overwhelming. The Mise, the Left Liaison. very generous contributions wrote {March 13, '77) "The M. 0 Cuilleanain, totalled over £300.00 which will Teamsters were also said to B.A.C. 6. go to our Strike Fund to help us believe that the struggle, in carry on the with our work. Many which they had often been gifts of solidarity wiU remind our' accused of using strongarm Union members often of the tactics, was not enhancing their friendship of the Irish people; one reputation." Merrigan especially will hang very proudly Of course, the struggle is not lObituaryl in our UFW offices In California: over. The main conflict — a beautiful wooden painted between the growers and the plaque that has the farmworkers' workers for fair contracts — is slams Another link with the flag on it and says "Sinn Fein The still on. But the growers have Independence struggle was Workers' Party, Ireland, United now lost their main strike• broken last month when Farm Workers, AFL-CIO, breaking force. Trade union Coalition Bridget Gouidlng (nee SOLIDARITY 1977". This elections will start again in the Costello) died (March 30) in precious gift was made by the fields during the coming harvest Senior trade unionist and left St. Mary's Hospital, Phoenix prisoners at Long Kesh. ^ season In California, and the wing member of the Southern Park, Dublin. I personally would especially growers will be bound by the Labour Party, Matt Merrigan, like to thank the members of the results of those elections. But the launched the most vicious attack Sentenced to 6 months In United Farm Workers Tour boycott must continue — to keep so far on the policies of his party 1918 at the time of the alleged Committee In Dublin and Belfast, the pressure on the growers, the when he spoke to a meeting of German Plot, she was active in both the Tan and Civil Wars. Republicans extend their sympathy to the Gouidlng family, Falrview. From Our Bookshop RECORDS AND CASSEHES BUILD A SOCIALIST FUTURE!

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UNITED political gangsterism were well time they had been on the right made. However there were In• track. On the same occasion Mr. teresting side themes hidden in Currie attacked the politics of IRISHMAN these well publicised speeches. Sinn Fein The Workers* Party, for An tEireannach Aontaithe The Reverend Faul Is now on their secular, socialist com• record as stating that the people mitment, which he described as MONTHLY NEWSPAPER OF SINN FEIN THE WORKERS' PARTY of the North had never supported "atheistic communism." the Provisional campaign of Mr. Currie who supports the EASTER of our people, not simply because violence as far back as 1971 and grossly sectarian concept of of the failure of successive 72. It is unfortunate that many of power sharing clearly wishes to That famous Irish trade governments in the South to his fellow churchmen by their hunt with the hare and run with unionist and radical Mother Jones translate its promise of social attitudes, conveyed to the the hounds. Sinn Fein The described part of her philosophy ownership and equality into Provisionals at that time and Workers' Party has maintained as fighting like hell for the living. reality, but because so many who since that they had the support of its total opposition to any sec• In Ireland it often seems that the claim to be in the Republican the Roman Catholic people and in tarian solution to the Northern memory of the dead has displaced tradition are clearly seen to be fact depicted them as 'national question, if this is now to be our concern for the ongoing political gangsters. liberators'. condemned in Mr. Currie's terms struggle to enable the living to If they are to be located in any Some future historian may then how is he to maintain any create a decent human future. At tradition then they spring from uncover their political motives distance from the Provisionals. this time of the year in particular the loins of Hitler, Capone and but it is certain that linkages deep We will continue to remember we are treated to ritual displays Arturo Ui. into the centre of Fianna Fail will the Easter Rising for Its real and declamations which at their Last month leading members of be easily established. meaning. It is in spite of those who worst border on militaristic the SDLP, Hume and Currte were Mr. Currie following on the sneer or who have insulted its worship of dehumanised symbols joined by the Rev. Dennis Faul In murder of the Roman Catholic ideals the modern watershed In and reincarnated supermen. a concerted attack on the solicitor Rory O'Kelly asked the Irish history. Connolly and Pearse The 1916 Easter rebellion is Provisionals. Much of what was members of the Provisionals have earned an honoured place in increasingly becoming said was undoubtedly justified. where they were now being led. that history; nothing can alter meaningless for the vast majority The accusations of terrorism and The implication being that at one that fact.

The purge of the Left in the threaten their power. Labour Party is on. As far as Minister for Justice Cooney, possible no one with a streak of Labour Party purges its Minister for Foreign Affairs, socialist principle is to be allowed Fitzgerald, and Minister for Posts become a candidate for the General and Telegraphs, O'Brien, have Election. already started a campaign through Dr. Noel Browne will not be which they hope to discredit Sinn ratified by the Administrative "left wing candidates' Fein The Workers' Party and, more Council, although he was selected by important from their point of view, an overwhelming majority in his* distract attention from the issues constituency, Artane. Strenuous — joined the party. Now, she looks like are showing signs of similar Sinn Fein is raising and will continue and sometimes very curious — being selected for Rathmines West recognition of betrayal. to raise. efforts are being made to foist the against the wishes of long-time But as the politicians of Leinster Nothing that these Ministers — or former general secretary, Mr. Labour activists and despite the House prepare for an election, which Cosgrave and his close political Brendan Halligan, on the unwilling work put in for many years by Dave now seems likely to be held in May relations in Fianna Fail — can do Labour workers of Finglas. Paper Neligan of the Liaison Committee of or June, more attacks on the Left will meet the inevitable demands branches are springing up all over the Labour Left and Mick Collins, of and deeper betrayal of the working produced by a rising population the constituency. the Workers Union of Ireland. people of Ireland can be expected. seeking improved living standards, Attempts to block the candidature The most embarrassed member of No one will be fooled by the flow of the right to work and the freedom to of local councillor, Pat Carroll, in the party ought to be the Whip, Mr. announcements — hand-outs, as if to determine their own destinies. Cabra are proceeding with the Barry Desmond, who has been charity — with which the As the electoral battle lines are connivance of the party leadership. making up for his criticism of Government will try to fill in the drawn, the struggle has begun for Newly recruited Senator, Mrs. Mary Coalition by becoming Labour's time between this and election day. the control and ownership of the Robinson, was promised a choice of hatchet man. Mr. Desmond was the The truth is obvious to Irish wealth that belongs to the people of seats by Halligan before she even TD who attacked Fianna Fail for its workers: the Labour Party whichr Ireland. lack of democracy in allowing the by definition, origin and constitution party leader to impose candidates in ought to be aiming at progress local organisations. towards a 32-County Workers' So much for the democracy of the Republic, is so involved in clearing social democrats. So much for Mr. out the people who might support Desmond's principles. So much for this aim, to make itself a those who have tried to remain loyal respectable and supine partner of to the promise of the 1960s that the Fine Gael, that its leaders have no Seventies would be Socialist. time and no inclination for The trade unions have belatedly progressive struggle. discovered the hopeless sham of a Fine Gael and Fianna Fail are national wage agreement followed trying to outdo each other in support by price increases that wiped out of private enterprise and opposition any benefits their members might to state involvement on behalf of the have hoped were about to come their Irish people in productive and way. The building workers are the profitable enterprise. Either party, first to have recognised the reality with the compliance of the Labour that all they can expect from the members of the Dail and Senate, is Cosgrave Government is restraint prepared to introduce even greater today and vague promises of repression to prevent any increase something on account tomorrow. in consciousness and democratic David Neligan disappointed. The leaders of the general unions activity that would disturb or Labour Party leader Cosgrave. National Commemoration Easter 1977 BELFAST: Assemble WARRENPOINT, CO. DOWN: Chairperson: John Kelleher. EASTER MONDAY Beechmount Avenue 2.30. Parade Assembles 11.00 a.m. WATERFORD: Assemble G.P.O. ARMAGH CITY: Parade March to Mllltown Cemetery. CO. DERRY 3.00 p.m. Assembles Moy Road 2.30. Oration by CATHAL COMMEMORATIONS: March to Ballygunner GOULDING. March to Republican Memorial, Oration by MICK RYAN. Cemetery. Culdee. Chairperson: Gerry McDonnell. DUBLIN: Oration by TONY Oration by TOM MOORp. NEWRY: Assemble The Mall Parade Assembles Custom HEFFERNAN. 12.00 noon. House 2.30 p.m. Chairperson: Paddy Gallagher. LIMERICK CITY: March to Republican Plot. March to Glasnevln, 3.00 p.m. INAGH. CO. CLARE: Republication Plot, Mount St. Oration by EAMONN Oration by TOMAS Mac Assemble 12 noon. Lawrence's Cemetery 3.30 p.m. SMULLEN. GIOLLA. BROSNA. CO. KERRY: Easter Monday night: Public Chairperson: Jim Rowntree. Chairperson: Prolnslas De Cemetery, 12 noon. Meeting on POLICIES and ARDBOE, CO. TYRONE: Rossfl Oration by SEAMUS COFFEY. OBJECTIVES OF SINN FEIN Assemble 3.30. CORK CITY: Parade Assembles Chairperson: Tommy Foley. THE WORKERS' PARTY. Chairperson: Des Gourley. 2.30 p.m. TRALEE,CO. KERRY: WEXFORD TOWN: ROSTREVOR, CO. DOWN: March to St. Flnbarr's Rath Cemetery 5.00 p.m. Assemble 11.30 a.m. Crosstown Assemble 'Head of the Road', Cemetery. Oration by Seamus Coffey. Cemetery 9.30 a.m. Oration by SEAN Chairperson: Johnny Connors. Oration by'JOHN HUNJER.. O'CIONNAITH. AIBREAN 5 Local Government Election Craigavon — Derry — Tyrone May 18, 1977

Republican Clubs in County Derry will face next month's Local Government elections with justifiable confidence. They are aware that the work done by them over the past years has been recognised by a grown number of people who prefer getting things done rather than watch other Parties manoeuvre for "control" of District Councils. The people are not unaware of the as "alarmist" and "rumour• fact that they have been ignored by mongering". Unfortunately the such as the SDLP and the Loyalists Strategic Reports, published some once the hullabaloo of the 1973 weeks later, proved Councillor elections faded. Representatives of Donnelly and the Clubs only too these groups, where elected, took their correct. seats and that was that. Until now, a Only when public feeling was made few weeks before another election, known did the SDLP and Loyalists set when they pop up again expressing about campaigning for a halt to the their "concern" and their "desire to hospital's relegation. They launched help the people". Of primary concern, petitions, which, they had previously however. Is the desire of these Parties told Francie, were "meaningless" and to gain control of the District Councils Councillor Larkin (SDLP) even went so — in other, words, reinforce sectarian far as to table a motion identical to that divisions. The voters once again will be of Councillor Donnelly's and which Councillor Francis Donnelly (43) regarded as mere pawns to achieve Larkin had, with his colleagues, Pete Merron (above), (41) (above), married with two children. A these unworthy ambitions. refused to support. When the belated married with eleven children. farmer and life long Republican. Republican Clubs will face the campaign got moving it was no Presently unemployed. Especially Particularly interested in the struggle of electorate with a clean record. They surprise to local people that the SDLP Interested in the housing situation in the small farmer and strongly opposed to have constantly worked In the interests and Loyalists should argue as to which Maghera and surrounding area. the present rural planning regulations. A of all the people and have sought to of them was responsible for this Also concerned at the serious lack of member of Magherafelt District Council, unite rather than divide. No issue "public-spirited deed". recreational facilities for children in affecting the people has been elected in May 1973 and again In a by- Loyalist and SDLP Councillors have the estates. Merron has a good considered too slight or not deserving election in November of that year when reduced the Council chamber to an reputation locally for agitation on of serious consideration. Work by the unseated through the machinations of the arena in which they fight to score these and other issues. Clubs on these issues has been for the SDLP. Donnelly has remained aloof from sectarian and Party points. The people A former election agent for advancemerft of the people — not for the bitter religious/party squabbling and their needs come low down on the Gouncillor Donnelly he now joins party or personal progress. Such work which has become such a feature of list of priorities. The annual and him in contesting area " A" will continue until control of people's Magherafelt District Council. degrading haggling in regard to the TMagherafelt. Pete feels that he can lives rests where it belongs — in the As a councillor he has consistently Council chairmanship is, perhaps, the make an important contribution to hands of the people. worked for all his constituents. Through best indication as to what the SDLP jnproving the District Council and his efforts a playground is under MAN IN THE MIDDLE and Loyalists stand for — Party ending the political/sectarian construction in the Lisnamuck area and control, sectarian division. bickering so as to ensure that the he Is involved in attempts to improve the FRANCIE DONNELLY, elected to 'Council acts in a more responsible deplorable water supply in areas such as represent Area A (Magherafelt District ELECTION TEAM fashion on behalf of the people of the Tirkane, Tirnoney. Council) In May 1973, unseated by the area. SDLP and re-elected in a by-election The confidence and strength which later that year, has proven a worthy the Derry Republican Clubs feel is representative. He has, also, been a expressed in the range of candidates thorn in the side of those who which they are putting into the field. advocate party (Sectarian) control of As well as the three pictures on this Magherafelt Council. As such, he has page the Clubs are running Maurice had to meet continual rebuffs in his Dorrity and Michael Scullion in Areas attempts to ease the burdens on hard "B" Magherafelt, Gerry Mullan in Area pressed and neglected people. "A" Coleraine and James McLaughlin A typical example was when SDLP in area "C", Limavady. and Loyalist Councillors united to As Councillor Donnelly stated In a reject Francie Donnelly's motion aimed speech in early March: "Each vote for at preventing the run-down of the Mid- Republican Clubs is a vote for working Ulster hospital. He, and the Republican class progress. Voters must ask Clubs in the county, had been made themselves what the candidates offer. aware that such a run-down was Is it a record of work or are they imminent but his warnings were seeking election to bolster up one rejected by the now united opposition sectarian body or another".

Councillor Frank McElroy (above), 33, Kevin Murphy (above) 39, works married and* employed as a welder. Frank as a farmer. Has been in the topped the poll in the last local Republican Clubs since the early government elections and currently sits sixties. Still very active on the Civil on Omagh District Council. He was the Rights front and a founder member founder-director of the Termonmaguirke of the N.I.C.R.A. Well known Credit Union and is active as treasurer of throughout the county for his the Tyrone Prisoners' Dependants Fund enthusiasm for the G.A.A. and Committee. cultural bodies. Kevin joins Donnelly and Merron in Area "A" Magherafelt. Undoubtedly a strong Ivan Barr (right), 38, married team. with six children. Currently unemployed. Narrowly missed Malachy McGurran (left) Chairman of winning in the last election. the Six County Executive of Republican- Extremely active on all local issues Clubs. Has contested Assembly, including housing, repairs, social Convention and Westminster elections in security claims and queries. Ivan is the North Armagh area. This is the first a former Chairman of the Northern occasion he will be standing in the Local Ireland Civil Rights Association. He Government arena. Malachy is contesting will be joined by a second candidate, Area "A" in the Craigavon district. Two Gerald McCafferty. 24-year-old other candidates will be going forward for founder member of Strabane the council here, Roger Monteith and Community Council. Patsy O'Malley in Area "C".

Unfortunately we have neither the space nor all the details on McGee. Tyrone will also have Councillors Jim McQuaid and Eugene hand as to every candidate going forward In the elections. Belfast Lyttle with Ronald Scullion in Dungannon Area "B" while Patsy are now putting forward an additional two members in East Belfast McGurk wiU be fighting Area "D". and in Newtownabbey, respectively, Terry McGrattan and Jim Covert Intelligence Agency — a series of articles on the U.S.A.

A map showing the extensive range of illegal activities carried on by the American Government. secret army The main role of the Central need for a Foreign Intelligence Service continuing attempts to sabotage radical Today's Central Intelligence Agency Intelligence Agency since it was formed and many believed that collecting and and progressive movements and originated in the military Office •• of at the end of World War 2 has been in the processing information was the C.I.A.'s governments. To a large extent therefore Strategic Services (O.S.S.) during World field of 'covert action' or 'clandestine' sole function. intelligence collection and analysis have War 2. The O.S.S. was a top secret operations, as it is often referred to. It was accepted as part of the realities served as a cover for the C.I.A.'s now intelligence, clandestine, unit operating 'Covert Action' is the C.I.A.'s official term of 'big-power' politics. What they didn't revealed primary work — clandestine mainly behind enemy lines and for its intervention Into the internal affairs realise was that the political masters of operations. The C.I.A. is the hidden (until specialising in destabilising operations.. In of other nations. the C.I.A. within the U.S. Executive and recently) wing of U.S. foreign policy. Its the context of total war such 'covert Such action is not aimed at the routine particularly within the U:S. military covert action is a necessary instrument of action' activity was considered necessary collection of intelligence but at actively establishment had a very definite political that foreign policy "between a diplomatic and desirable. Only a few intelligence manipulating events within the country to role for the C.I.A. That role was simple' protest and sending in the marines," to professionals and military brass conceived the advantage of U.S. foreign policy. This and straightforward . . . the C.I.A.'s brief quote William Colby, an ex-dtrector of the that 'covert action' might be carried over is of fundamental importance in was to infiltrate and destabilise any C.I.A. into peace time. understanding the present furore in the country's political institutions which To understand how the C.i.A. operates The C.I.A. created in 1947 at the U.S.A. concerning C.I.A. activities. posed a threat to U.S. foreign policy. we need to examine briefly its history and beginning of the Cold War period was the Many U.S. citizens feel that there was a In practice this meant continued and structure: chosen vehicle for peace time 'covert

,The United States, although it organisation which includes Presidents comprises less than 6% of the world's Eisenhower, Kennedy and Nixon. Part of population controls over 40*^'o of the their activities brings in Arthur D. Little world's resources. Hence the high and Co., who play an insidious role for Inter-national consf standard of living that many Americans the U.S. in their dealings with small enjoy, many though not all, bucause the underdeveloped nations on behalf of the wealth is highly concentrated. 70% of U.S. controlled World Bank and U.S. wealth is controlled by 3% of the International Monetary Fund, they "Ulster Connection". Andrew, Rebecca multi-n population. This great concentration of dictate ruinous terms of trade, currency and their son, Thomas led a poor rural wealth is controlled by twenty principal exchange and resources price in return for existence in the County of Tyrone and financial groups including the funds to service U.S. development plans. decided to emigrate to the New World in the year 1818. Since then the Mellons setting up an oil terminal. This can now Rockefellers, the Mellons, Texas Interests These terms keep the countries in debt be seen as stupid, as we gained nothing (the Murchisons, the Morgans) and the and dependence and greatly contribute to never lost contact with this country, ardent supporters both financially and from this decision by Mr. Jack Lynch's Humphrey — Hanna interests of exploitation and human misery. Fianna Fail Government for this handout. Cleveland. Everything is mapped out to the very last otherwise of the sectarian Orange Order. They were tied up in the entire history of When it was suggested that a Harbour detail by the most evil people in the world, Authority at Bantry Bay be set up by One of the major causes of the great Ulster Unionism. in the interest of profit. Cork County Council, Gulf Oil hinted, depression of 1929 was a battle between Their bigotry began by old Andrew the Rockefellers and the Morgans for Mellon and his ilk has today resulted in through Mr. Finnigan, Irish supremacy. Rockefeller's eihpire was the murder by paramilitaries of thousands representative of Gulf Oil of a closure. based on oil, Morgan's on coal, of our people, both Roman Catholic and This stopped any more talk on a Harbour Rockefeller won, but the resultant Protestant. Authority. disruption in the economy caused untold This is in keeping with Gulf Oil's world human misery which stretched beyond wide policy as a number of prominent their borders. Emigrants people in Gulf were compelled to resign because of bribes paid to foreign Last year the descendants of Thomas Governments. Dollars Mellon who left Camphill, Co. Tyrone as The Venezuelan Government ordered a a boy in 1818 visited their ancestral home, high oil official implicated in alleged The Rockfellers are the most powerful they were led by Matthew Mellon, now bribes by oil companies to cut off a of the various groups. They control 20% 80, Larimer Mellon and their wives. Nine Middle East tour and fly back to of U.S. industry and banking and half of years ago the family provided funds to Venezuela. Mr. Perez, a 53-year old U.S. investments in the third world, (as restore and maintain the old home, a few Social Democrat in that county led a little as 5% of a company's holdings is miles outside Omagh. Over tlje past four vigorous campaign against Government effective control). In all they run 250 years the homestead had become part of corruption since taking office in March billion dollars worth of- corporations. At an old Ulster village while a short walk 1974. In May last year, Mr. Perez gave the apex of the U.S. empire sits David away, there is a log settlement of the kind Gulf Oil 48 hours to clear reports that it Rockefeller, the most powerful financier built by typical emigrants to the New had paid bribes in Venezuela or shut in the world. He is chairman of the Chase World, called The Ulster American down its operations. Manhattan Bank and the Council On Exposition. Foreign Relations. The C.F.R. is • Rockefeller, senior Half a million pounds has gone into composed of 1400 of the most powerful this, one-fifth of the money came from Notoriety men in America, Corporation Lawyers, Then there is the Mellons, the second the coffers of the ever present Mellon The Mellons' Gulf Group controls Investment Bankers, Economists, Top richest family in the U.S.A. The Mellons family. About 250 guests attended the more of Canada's Natural Gas than any Politicians, The C.I.A. and F.B.I, the made Gulf Oil in 1901. To-day it is the opening ceremony, preformed by the other group. Not coincidentally, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Rockefeller fifth largest oil company in the world and Marquess of Lothian. former U.S. Ambassador to Canada Foundation Officials. The purpose of the the seventh largest enterprise in the U.S. Two major Americal Oil Companies Adolph W. Schmidt, was appointed in C.F.R. is to staff the Federal The Mellons are doing not too badly have a stake in the North Sea Oil project. 1969. A member of the Council on Governments of the U.S.A. and to plan themselves either. Their names occurs Gulf Oil and Conoco. Mr. Harold Lever, Foreign Relations, he is married to Helen its foreign policy. often in the roster of American's rich. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster S. Mellon. He is therefore related by Ever since World War 11, this invisible , They were tied into Watergate and the announced that these two major, marriage to Richard Mellon Scaife. Scaife government has been planning the world's string of illegal Nixon campaign companies had reached an agreement and was a research associate of the Mellon future, economically, politically and contributions from the cream of U.S. that five significant finds have been made. Institute for industrial research in militarily. Three out of four top business. Gulf's man in Washington It is now history of the handing over of Pittsburg from 1953 to 1957. executives government officials are Claude Wild was caught handing over Bantry Bay for nothing (the second best He was co-ordinator of the Gulf Oil members of this all-powerful secretive 125,000 thousand dollars. This raised the. harbour in the World) to Gulf Oil for Corporation in Pittsburg from 1957 to r

AIBREAN actions'. The new Agency's declared Function: Scientific and Technical purpose was to co-ordinate and analyse development in foreign countries. foreign intelligence for the President. No Directorate of Management and mention was made In the Congressional Services: 5,300 employees and $110 hearings in the public debates or in the million annual budget. 1947 National Security Act which formally Function: Administration, supplies, false established the C.I.A. The C.I.A. claims identities, etc. . . . 'the technology of that its 'covert actior^' policy was spying in support of clandestine services.' authorised by Clause 5 of the 1947 Act Directorate of Operations: 6,000 which authorises "such other functions employees and $440 million annual and duties related to intelligence as the' budget. national security council maylrom time to Also known as Clandestine Services (CSI. time direct." This Directorate is divided into It is hardly surprising that no specific operational area divisions with the largest reference is made in the 1947 Act to being in the Far East (1,500 employees), political destabilisation of another country followed by N. Europe, L. America, Near as a legitimate intelligence agency East, E. Europe and Africa. pursuit. Each area is divided into station bases. The actual charter for 'covert action' Each station can be as small as a dozen was written only In highly classified people (Quito, Ecuador), or as large as a ' National Security Intelligence directives few hundred (such as Bonn, West issued inside the executive branch. This Germany). Total manpower is based secret charter was not shown to any overseas usually under State Department member of Congress until 1973 — and cover. then only because of mounting public Clandestine Services (CS). Operations criticism, and to this day is still concealed divided into three types: 1) Foreign from the U.S. public. Thus 'covert Intelligence, 2) Counter Intelligence, 3) action', originally a tactic of total war, Covert Action . . . Defined by R. BIssel, a was secretly adopted for peacetime former Directorate Chief of the C.I.A. and activities. architect of the Bay of Pigs, 'Covert The C.I.A. has made abundant use of Action' as political intervention in the Clause 5 as the map on the left shows. affairs of foreign countries which could The Central Intelligence Agency is Include: headed by the Director and his assistant Political advice and counsel, subsidies Deputy Director. The Headquarters is In to an individual, financial support and Langley, Virginia. The C.I.A. is divided technical assistance to political parties, into four main groupings called support of private organisations including directorates. The following is a labour unions, business firms, black breakdown: propaganda, private training of Directorate of Intelligence: 3,500 individuals and exchange of personnel, employees, $70 million annual estimated economic operations, paramilitary or budget. political action operations designed to Function: One Third of budget spent on overthrow or support a regime, Intelligence analysis; remainder for The total U.S. Treasury annual foreign broadcasting rnonitoring and allocation to the C.I.A. is $750 million. photo reconnaissance processing. The above breakdown of budget Directorate of Science and allocation shows the 'Covert Action' Technology: 1,300 employees and $120 sector is the largest department within the million annual budget. Central Intelligence Agency.

Another 400,000 went to "a high- • Paul Mellon, oil-king. placed official of a Latin American Government". This turned out to be the liracy by the Yankee President of Bolivia, but not before Peru, in a huff at the possible slur on its own ethics, had nationalised all Gulf's local assets. Before the Exchange Commission ationals had finished putting Gulf through the legal wringer the company has admitted that between 1960 and 1973 illegal pay• offs totalled 5.1 million dollars. These 1969 when Schmidt, a member of the Operations" came from illegal campaign were passed through Bahamas Council on Foreign Relations, received contributions. Exploration and emerged as anonymous his Ottawa post. Richard Mellon Scaife In the U.S. the news of Gulf Oils dollars in directors' discrete briefcases, to achieved some notoriety by packing a misdeeds has reinforced the oil industry's bribe top Politicians all over the world. million dollars in illegal funds in a already diastrously poor public image. suitcase and delivering it secretly to Big Oil is under attack as never before Nixon's goons after the closing date for since the days when Rockefeller's political campaign donations before the Standard Oil Trust was broken up. Not Syndicate 1972 U.S. Presidential elections. only Gulf's reputation has suffered. McCoy (John McCoy a prominent New The McCoy findings show that York lawyer) reveals that among the cash including legal gifts in Canada, Italy aa^/f Watergate drop were 5,000 dollars each month to Sweden the slush fund total came to £6.i businessmen as Richard Mellon Scaife the Senator Hugh Scott. Scott is elder million not £5 million. Also In the U.K. Pittsburg Banker and John Hay Whitnew One of the scandals associated with statesman and former "Mr. Clean" in the Gulf gave £7500 towards taking a party of owner of the International Herald "Watergate", that Nixon was desperately Mellon state of Pennsylvania. Now he MPs to Alberta. Prime-Minister Tribune. trying to keep under wraps was that may not run again. He was asked to Mackenzie King's handpicked successor Mellon Scaife and Whitney have purchase of ambassadorship. One cannot confirm or deny the story but specifically was Louis St. Laurent director of the previously declined to comment on this help but speculate if there is a relationship avoided doing so, and instead claimed Rockfeller controlled Metropolitan Life situation. between Schmidt's continued tenure in that he never knowingly took money from Insurance Co., and a director of the Bank Ottawa and the Million Dollars. It has Gulf or its corporate agents. This has all of Montreal (Allied with Mellon's B.A. been established that much of the money come as a real shock in Pennsylvania and Journalists used by Nixon's people In "Watergate oil, formerly Gulf. Gulf Oil control's its grimly conservative industrial capital most of Canada's natural gas and it These are the ruthless activities that Pittsburgh. refused to sell to the Canadian characterise the Mellon family, they work Government ownership of some or any of in conjunction with C.I.A. who financed Boardroom • the shares in return for financing the journalists abroad working for El project. Mecurio, the Santiago Daily newspaper, Apart from Gulf and the Mellon Bank, the largest in Chile. The C.I.A. sent to Mellow interests dominate this industrial The President of Mellon's Gulf Oil in Chile more than a dozen operations town. Little local oil company Gulf fell to Pittsburg declared flatly that he would posing as journalists. They secretly under 18% of the £3,500 million capital, never sell gas to a pipeline that was financed the publication of books and down from 27% in the early 1960s, when partially Canadian Government owned. essays that became source materials for Richard "The King" Mellon really called The Government capitulated and news' article. The most famous charge the shots in the company. Even so. the financed the cartel composed of the was that on the Penkovky papers, the family still held five of the 12 Rockefeller controlled Tennesse Natural story of a Soviet official who worked as directorships. Gas Co.. Mellon's Gulf Oil (soon to be an agent for the British and American These five united to demand that a Mr. B.A.) and Morgan's Hudson Bay Oil Co. intelligence services. It is now Dorsey, a former chairman who handled understandable what happened in Chile. the slush-fund (bribes) should go. Led by Until July 1975 the C.I.A operated American enterprises like the Mellons James Mellon Walton they battled in "Forum World Features", a news are to lead the way towards realising "the Gulf's 32-noor boardroom and in a clean syndicate in London, which bought total promise of the world economy". sweep the Mellons took over the Gulf articles from a wide range of journalists The world economy in other words, operations. The Mellons were fully aware and placed them in English newspapers. should be geared towards the enrichment that Dorsey was involved in a 4 million The syndicate was registered as a of the U.S., at least the rich of the U.S. at dollar handout to the repressive president corporation in Delaware and at different the expence of the vast suffering majority 9 Tricky Dick Nixon of South Korea, Park Cheung He. times included such well known American of the world population. AIBREAN Councillor Gallagher

Two years ago a productivity deal was agreed between fights to the third level teachers T.U.I, and the Department of Education. At the same time the T.U.I, had a claim in for additional payment for the setting and correcting of exam papers. When the productivity deal was concluded and the problem of exam paper payments was being processed the win... Department claimed that the exam problem was covered by the productivity agreement. It refused to pay for the setting and correcting of exam papers. As a result of this When Alderman Paddy Gallagher Wars. And was a distinguished volunteer in between January and May of last year teachers refused to headed the poll in Ward Three for Water- the famous Pickardstown ambush; later, he set or correct exam papers for the following summer. ford City Corporation in 1974, he began a served as a staff officer to General Liam Lynch. Negotiations came to the stage whereby the Depart• campaign which seems certain to take him ment conceded the principle and agreed not to argue into Leinster House at the coming general Currently, local concern is for the siting inability to pay at the Labour Court. Teachers then election. Gallagher (30), married with two of a national smelter in the Waterford proceeded to set the papers on the basis of this un• children, fought in the biggest city ward and region and here Paddy Gallagher's record derstanding and the examinations took place late, causing collected an impressive 700 votes. The- is second to none. He has been foremost in inconvenience to many students. question facing his supporters and Sinn the campaign to have the nation's natural In February of this year the Department pleaded Fein The Workers' Party activists is, can resources brought under State control and inability to pay and naturally enough negotiations broke this firm base be turned into a launching: as a member of the Planning Authority he down. U.S.I, launched a campaign in late February pad to collect the 6,000 or so votes needed to' won Corporation support on this issue and through March in order to start negotiations so that exams put him in the Dail. for the smelter to be built in Waterford. might start on time this year. This campaign succeeded In Director of Elections Mick Dunphy is How sober an assessment is it possible to getting the negotiations going. The national student totally confident of the Party's ability to win make of Alderm'an Gallagher's chances? movement postponed a demonstration in the light of the a seat. " Gallagher will get the votes of the On the one hand, neither the Fine Gael new T.U.I, ballot on the new Government proposals. These workers in the city. His record speaks for government nor Fianna Fail present proposals included the concession in principle of payment itself. He campaigned successfully for the genuine solutions to the unemployment for the setting of exam papers and a sum of £30,000 was creation of and rigid implementation of bye- problem, the North, food prices, etc., and on offered for this purpose. However, the proposals put laws on flats. Over 40 were declared unfit. the other, Gallagher Is fighting well-heeled forward by the Government further confused the issue by He beat city hall big business which had election machines. Mick Dunphy sums it up, putting the question of correction exam papers in rezoned land for a shopping centre and won "We are in there to win and the con• abeyance. national recognition for his efforts", said servative parties are in for a shock. Paddy The T.U.I, ballot rejected these proposals two to one. A Dunphy. Gallagher will be a Sinn Fein The Workers' meeting between the Minister of Education and U.S.I., Paddy comes from a strong Republican Party T D with the support of the working though long sought, was only very recently granted. Barry Socialist family. His father was a member people of Waterford." says that he is prepared to talk but didn't say that he had of an active service unit in the Tan and Civil £Lny fresh proposals to make. In the middle of it all are a lot of angry and discontented students who don't know what Is in store for them this summer; If the matter is not solved now considerable hardship will be caused to an already GENERAL ELECTION DUE SHpRTLY financially Impoverished section of our youth. Sinn Fein The Workers' Party have already selected candidates for Dublin, Louth, Cork, Carlow/Kilkenny, Donegal and Waterford. PETER BARRY'S THOUGHTS Wicklow, Monaghan, Galway, Mayo, Limerick, Kerry are other areas in which a spirited attempt to elect the Sinn Fein alternative can be expected. In an address to the Cork Rotary Club recently the Minister for Education, Mr. Peter Barry gave some in• Help the fund to publicise the Sinn Fein alternative during the general election. teresting Insights into the thinking of the Coalition on HELP NOW education. In the course of a mediocre apologia for his Government's destruction of the educational system he Ail donations to: said, "An average increase of 5% per annum in real terms THE ELECTION FUND SINN FEIN THE WORKERS' PARTY, 30 Gardiner Place, Dublin over the next five years for the educational services would 1. do no more than maintain the level and range of services Name as they are in 1977. This summary appraisal of the situation should give us all some cause for reflection and Address ? perhaps concern." f At the beginning of his speech, Barry stated that "a I enclose £ Minister for Education must always be an optimist". A shudder runs down the spine of the student movement — the Minister for Education is reflecting perhaps concern but basicallyy optimistic.

STUDENTS MARCH WITH TRADE UNIONISTS

On Saturday, March 12, members of the Union of Students in Irela^j^ participated in the "RIGHT TO A not so national smelter WORK" march organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. Officially this was the first time that the student The announcement by 26 County Minister for smelting capacity and both to the development of movement and the trade union movement have joined Industry, Mr. Keating, that a smelter is to be manufacturing industry. constructed in conjunction with New Jersey Zinc together to combat the dominant social crisis in our "Such a programme requires the state to act has been greeted somewhat sceptically by the society. Students are rapidly realising that the official as entrepeneur and controller, just as it did in the Resources Protection Campaign. Although the unemployment figure of 116,000 is a gross underestimation case of Bord na Mona. As long as it remains RPC can interpret the decision as a minor victory of the actual figure as it does not include such categories purely a participant, and its particlpation'through for that organisation since they first launched the as unregistered school leavers, graduates and single provision of direct grants and cheap electricity far proposal in 1973. women. outweighs any contribution It may make as junior The realisation of the enormity of the unemployment A spokesperson for the RPC claimed that the partner in a privately dominated consortium, we problem and of the overall seriousness of the economic Minister had released only the scantiest details will see piecemeal development with low level job crisis has led over the last few years to an increasing about the project. This was in keeping with the creation," the statement concluded. amount of contact between U.S.I, and the organised Minister's general reticence on the whole question working class. Such contact has been a maturing Influence The Minister is also certain to be accused on of natural resources. "We have still not been all sides of electioneering on an issue vital to the on the student movement particularly of recent times with informed of the price we will pay for our Kinsale the declining academic services and non-filling of vacant development of the Irish metallurgical industry. gas, we are still in the dark as to the exact nature The smelter will not beconr)e operational for at posts, pushing up the teacher/student ratio. Added to this, of the government's deal with Bula and now it part-time and vacation jobs, which many students depend least another five years; it will only process a seems, we are not to be informed of the details of percentage of one mine and Tara are expecting to on to finance themselves, have virtually dried up. one of the most important industrial ventures What is most heartening of all Is that the student comnrence exporting raw ore through Dublin undertaken in the history of the state," the sometime in the next few weeks. movement and the trade union movement have found spokesperson claimed. common ground as to how the country's economic ills are In other words a general election sop is being to be solved. Demands for State control and development Asked as to the attitudes of the RPC on the thrown to workers by Labour Minister Keating of natural resources and the planning of the economy are participation aspect of the Minister's policy, the Instead of a comprehensive programme which now almost as frequently made at student meetings as spokesperson replied that Instead of state would h.Tit the export of raw ore, establish not they are at trade union meetings. participation the government must develop an only a limifed smelter but would seek to create a overall resources exploitation programme, which set of downstream industries based on smelted in the case of base metals, links extraction rate to ore. - AIBREAN "Caithfidh lucht na Gaeilge oneitn comn giic le sionnacn Mairtin 0 Cadhain

titlocht mar bhun cheart ag an am Gabhadh an seachtar agus tugadh agus fosta ar larratas iad siud a bhi OS comhair na cuirte iad an alt Inar ag iarrai aibhneacha a cholmneal i cuisiodh iad fen Forcible Entry Act. lamha prlomhaideach. lompraionn an cuis seo tearma se Is cuimhne linn an chaint brea ar mhi prlosuntacht, rud a thaobh an t'saoirse a rinne an thaisbeannan an nimhneas agus an freasuracht ag an am go h-alrid fuath a bhi i gcroi an fhlr a thug Conor Cruise O'Brien. Ar ndoighe ni isteach e ag an am, Des O'Malley, raibh lomradh ar bith ar an Acht seo Aire Dll 7 Ort, Fianna Fail. a chuir ar ceal an uair a bhi siad feln Is maith an rud go raibh i gcumhacht agus fuair an Cruiser eagraiocht agus tacaiocht amach ce chomh h-usaideach agus a Gaellgeolri ar chul an seachtar seo bhi an Acht seo nuair a cuisiodh leis an cas a throid agus comhairle seachtar da namhaide feln ar na ceart dli a fhostu. mallaibh fe. Ar an 25u Marta thalnig an cas os comhair an Chuirt Duiche. Bhi an Gardai vhuirt pacallte le lucht tacaiochta (thainlg seisear o Bheal Feirsde an Bhi an seachtar seo balll de mhaidin ceanna). Nior eirigh leis an Chonradh an Gaeilge ag gniomhu in stat an cuis in eadan seachtar a • Dr. C. C. O'Brien eadan polasai an Cruiser i leith chruthu agus scaoileadh saor iad # Mairtin O Cadhain Gaeilge, ar RTE, le aird an phobal a Indhlaldh £2 a ghearradh orthu ar Ba in 1971 a tugadh Isteach an tharraingt ar an stat scannallleach chuis nios lug^a. AT an taobh elle de feictear duinn Forcible Entry and Occupation Act. ata ann faoi lathair 1 dtaobh an go bhfuil na h-eagralsi Gaeilge ag Is iomai Acht nlos measa na e laghad claracha Gaeilge (2 per cent Firinne deanamh agoid laldlre in eadan an t- tugadh Isteach o shoin ce go raibh se don am iomlan craolachan). implriulachas ar na meain dona go leolr ag an am agus mar Ceangal an seachtar seo iad fein le Duirt Mairtin O'Cadhain, cumarsaide, ag deanamh agoid thuar don meid a bhi romhainn. slabhrai de dhoirse Oifig an Phoist 1 '' Glualseacht na Gaeilge laidire in eadan breag udarai'si AT eagla go bhfuil d'^armad agus mBaile Ath Cliath. Glualseacht ar Strae" go gcaithfidh Gaeltachta, ag deanamh agoldl mathunas tugtha do pheacai Fianna Bhi am ann agus bheadh na lucht agoide na Gaeilge a bheith laidre ar son cearta duine a ghno Fail, do thlairbhe an drong Gardai sasta seasamh ar leath taobh chomh gllc le sionnach le theacht i leis an stait chorus a iompar tri mallalthe ata againn anois, is flu le feiceal nach mbeadh trioblold ar dtir. Ni raibh na cumhachtai dll ag Ghaeilge mas mian leis e. B'fheidir cuimhniu gurb Fianna Fail i mBaile bith go dtl go mbeadh an agoid thart. lucht rlalachain in am Mhairtln agus nach bhfuil an Glualseacht chomh Atha Cliath a bhi ag eiri eaglach Ach d'imlgh an t-am sin agus thainlg ata anois, rud a chuireann le firinne fada ar strae anois agus a bhi in am roimh na bochta a bhi ag eileamh an t-am seo. a chuld focla. Mhairtin Ui Chadhain.

Ba ag preas-agallamh ar 10 Samhain (a) Fuarthas gealluint o Shane Aontas 1976 sea d'fhogair Conradh na Gaeilge go Eireann go bhfuil selcleabhair Ghaeilge ar raibh Rannog Cearta a bhunu acu d'fhonn Conradh na Gaeilge agus fail d'aon chustaimeir da gcuid a deileaii le "gearain daoine a maslaiodh, no lorgaionn ceann. gur cuireadh moil! orthu no deachrachtai (b) Fuarthas gealluint on Oifig Chlaru ina dtreo toisc go raibh siad ag baint usaid na nGluaisteain de Bhardas Atha Cliath as Gaeilge agus iad ag deanamh gno le gearain tri Gaeilge go gcuirfear ceadunas (diosca) canach ar ranna no le holfigi stait". SI bunchuspoir fail i nGaeilge d'aon duine a lorgaionn an fheachtais seo na a chinntiu go mbeid Chlaraltheora; An RoInn Airgeadals; An Gaeilge a fhaii. De thoradh aitimh na ceann i nGaeilge. se chomh heasca ceanna ag duine gur Roinn Leasa Shoisialaigh (2); Coras Rannoige, solathraiodh an leagan Gaeilge Siad seo teanas na dreamanna eile go rogha leis Gaeilge a usaid, a ghno a lompair Eireann (2); Bord Sqlathar an den fhoirm chui i gconai agus gabhadh bhfuil siad I gcomhfhreagras leo i gconai: dheanamh tri Ghaeilge agus a bheadh se Leictreachais; Oifig na gCoimisineiri leithsceal lets an ngearanai toisc gur Cliarlathas na hEaglaise Caitlici; do a ghno a dheanamh tri Bhearla. toncaiili (4); Forsai Slandala na Breataine; cuireadh moilt air. Is mor leis an Rannog Coimisiun na Stat-sheirbhise; Roinn na On uair ar bunaiodh i cuireadh 44 Bardas Chathair Chorcai; Comhiacht Cearta an doigh cuiditheach agus cuir- Seirbhtse Poibli; Comhiucht Siuicre gearan faoi bhraid An Rannog Cearta; Dliodoiri; Bank Aontas Eireann; Bardas teiseach inar dheileail na dreamanna Eireann Teo; An Roinn Dli agus C'.t (3); sasaiodh 21 gearan diobh go dtl seo — mi Atha Cliath (2); Instltiuid Naislunta na thuasluaithe leo. Is abhar spreagaidh Health Education Bureau; Oifig na dobhta e an comhoibriu seo a fualr siad o na Marta ta na cinn eile ina chamanaibh Scannain Eire; Banc Talsce Chathair gCoimisineiri loncaim (2); An Roinn Polst institiuidi agus gnoluchtai go foill, Chorcai. agus Telegrafa; Bord Slainte an Oirthear; Bhain na gearain ar sasaiodh leis na I bhformhor na gcasanna sin bhain" an prlobhaideacha, ach go hairhhe. Bord Solathar an Leictreachais; Na Bainc dreamanna seo thios: An Roinn Slainte; gearan le deachracht a bhi ag duine gno a Seo beirt torthai sonbacha ar obair an Taisce; Colaiste na hOllscolle, Baile Atha Comhairle Chontae Chorcai; Oifig an Ard- dheanamh tri Ghaeilge no foirm as Rannog Cearta: Cliath.

Ghlac Cfolste Gno Chonradh na choras stait in Eirinn agus de choras Mar ghluaiseacht naislunta. na Gaeilge leis an run seo thios, ag a stait na Breataine, a Iniuchadh. Gaeilge eilimid go gcuirfear Cearta geruinniu mioaull De Sathaim 12 larraimld go mbunofar fiosruchan aiseanna ar fail do na priosunalgh Marta: neamhspleach poibli laithreach d'fhonn bheith ar a gcumas . an "Is cuis imnl do Choiste Gno chun an staid a scrudu agus chun Ghaeilge a fhoghlaim agus a usaid." Chonradh na Gaeilge e nach bhfuil celmeanna a cheartalthe a chur 1 bh- D'aontaigh an Colste Gno ar an priosunach ag eir leis na hiarrachtai chun feidhm. larraimld chomh maith go run a chur chuig an Aire Dll agus fiosruchan neamhspleach a chur ar mbunofar coras neamhspleach Cirt, chuig Runal Stait RlaJtas na siul chun staid cearta daonna cuairteoireachta ar na priosuin chun Breataine do na Se chontae, chulg priosunalgh polaitiula a,gus na sull a choimead ar iompar na bh- Aire Gnothai Baile na Breataine daoine a ghabhtar faoi dhlithe forsai slandala agus ar staid agus chuig an Chuirt Eorpach um polaitiula eigeandala, taobh istigh den da maireachtala na bpriosunach. Chearta Daonna.

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BELFAST Slieverue Queens' Rep. Club deplores A.G.M. discrimination in Education At a meeting last month of the Fintan extra-mural or evening class in the Six The annual meeting of Slieverue Lalor Republican Club, Queen's Counties and one can see that well over Cumann Sinn Fein The Workers' Party University, Kevin Smyth, Education half of the people attending these classes was held before a big attendance In the spokesman for the Six County Executive are women. Sinn Fein Headquarters, Slieverue, on the of Republican Clubs stated: The number of women in education 21st February. "The inferior educational opportunities and the types of courses they do reflect Outgoing Secretary, N. Haberlin open to women is to be deplored. There out dated attitudes to women still reported a year of immense progress by are still nearly two men, in 3rd level prevailing in the community. They reflect the Party In the area and spoke of the education to every one woman. ideas that women are not fit for jobs of increase In membership in the district. This numerical imbalance between the responsibility and that much of the Paying tribute to the members for their sexes and the concentration of women in education given to women only enables support he looked forward to their certain types of courses is to be found in and encourages women to be continuing support and extra effort in other areas of education also. Indeed the homemakers and to take low paid, election year, when Sinn Fein The opportunities in these areas is even more unskilled jobs as time fillers in between. Workers' Party would have a candidate bleak than in the University sector. Republican Clubs demand the contesting that election. The Secretary For women doing the Ordinary implementation of a policy to end this was pleased to announce the National Diploma business studies course discrimination in education. Nursery establishment of a branch of the it is still normally the case that they are facilities must be provided for pre-school Democratic Youth Movement in the area. expected to qualify in shorthand and children and play group facilities for Treasurer, Billy Doyle, in a detailed typing. For ever> one woman obtaining holiday periods. Bridging courses must be account of the cumann's finances day release from their employer there are provided for unqualified women at the reported that although expenses during considered the Clover position and the four men receiving the same. The number moment to afford them the opportunities the past year had been considerable a recently badly released figures by SERTO of girls getting apprenticeships as for higher qualifications. Realistic re• healthy balance remained. This was due showing that the South-East area had compared to men Is one in five in favour training facilities must be provided for to the efforts of the members and also the suffered badly through job losses and was of men, and even so, over 50% of the married women re-entering industry after general public who supported their fund- not doing very well in attracting new jobs girls in . apprenticeships are in hair- a break to rear children. Apart from raising activities. it was essential to continue to campaign dressing. fighting for these practical measures a - Councillor Sean Walsh gave an for the construction of a national smelter Of course, there are still some people great amount of work needs to be done in account of his activity on the Co. Council for the area on a site at Gurteens which who refuse to face up to the realities of changing people's attitudes and ingrained over the past year and dealt in detail with would provide hundreds of jobs in the the situation and would claim that the prejudices. regard to local issues, such as housing, construction of the plant alone. numbers of women in education just Republican Clubs are totally committed house repairs, roads, road repairs etc. This was the kind of "boost the area prove that women do not need or wish to to fighting these prejudices and urges all Referring to the present position at Clover needed to relieve much of the be educated. The answer to these glib other progressive minded people to join Meats Mr. Walsh said that when one unemployment In the region. tongued people is to take a walk Into any •us in this struggle.

Candidates selected for Dublin North Centra'. and Lisburn Counci' • Ray McGran, Dublin. • Gerry Dunlop, Belfast.

The Ard Comhairle of Sinn Fein The Workers' Party has ratified Ray McGran, For the first time ever the Republican Clubs will be standing a candidate for a 27 year old Dublin printer, as the Party's candidate In Dublin North Central. the Lisburn Council in the Local Government Elections. Ray, who is married with two children, has lived In the constituency all his life The candidate chosen to stand Is Mr. Gerry Dunlop, a life long Republican and firstly In Marino, and presently In North Strand. a man who has shown throughout his life that Republicanism does not mean Green Nationalism, but Socialism. Gerry makes no apologies for this as he sees He has been very prominent in local affairs and is a founder member and the social, economic and political questions of to-day as class questions. One of former chairman of the North Strand / East Wall Rd. Residents Association. He is his major platforms in the election will be that of anti-sectarianism and building a also a member of the Vocational Education Committee's sub-committee for class front. North Strand Technical College and has been nominated as an assessor for Social Welfare appeals by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. Gerry has been active in this field autumn. With the Housing Action Group, before and hopes that his experience in he will be meeting the Electricity Board to the Old Park Road area of North Belfast have the lighting situation on the estate As a printer with a national daily, Ray described as the "most depressed in the will help him in his work in Twinbrook and fixed. has been very active in his trade union, country". Ray McGran, and Sinn The the surrounding areas. As part of North Gerry welcomes the fact that the Irish Graphical Society, and was a Workers' Party, know that this trend can Belfast Housing Action Group for many Twinbrook and Aremea are part of the member of its executive for three years be reversed. Dublin North Central needs a years, Gerry worked with both Protestant one development as he sees this as an retiring this year. He is also an executive comprehensive port and docks plan and* and Catholics and is continually opportunity to develop the class links and member of the Dublin Council of Trade Sinn Fein The Workers' Party is the only emphasising that their common problems smash the sectarian strife which is futile Unions, and was responsible for party calling for such a plan. can only be worked on and solved by a and diverting. organising the successful march against common approach. On his nomination Mr. Dunlop said, "I unemployment in Dublin last month. A Ray will be hoping to improve on the am very pleased to be standing for the member of the Resources Protection solid basis of over 2,000 votes won by Gerry is a bricklayer by trade and was a Party with the real politics in this country Campaign he Is the Secretary of the Mairin De Burca the previous candidate. shop-steward with A.U.B.T.W. Now he — Republican Clubs (Sinn Fein) The RPC's Trade Union Support Group. With a worsening unemployment is a member of the combined situation, in the Minister for Labour construction Union U.C.A.T.T. Workers' Party and that's exactly what The Dublin North Central constituency, Michael O'Leary's own constituency, he With redevelopment Gerry and his wife we will be raising In this election; the which Ray is contesting, is the most is confident that the Party is on the verge moved to Twinbrook where Gerry quickly questions that face workers of this area densely populated and industrialised area of a significant breakthrough, Ray is set himself to work on the needs of the every day of the week — unemployment, of Dublin. It also comprises a large part of available to the people of the people. As chairman of Twinbrook housing, health facilities and social the 'port' area. This area has seen many constituency at the Citizens Advice Housing Action, he has been on a facilities plus the broad political questions changes over the past decade with Bureaux in East Wall School {St. Mary's successful deputation to Lisburn Council such as a Bill of Rights. I am quite employment steadily declining and with Rd.) on Saturday mornings and in 30, and the Department of the Environment confident that with our politics and the no alternative jobs being provided. Little Gardiner Place on Friday from 7.30 p.m. to have the new Stewartstown Rd. built. work of the local Republican Clubs, we wonder that the constituency has been to 9.00 p.m. Work will begin on this in the early will take a seat on Lisburn Council". AIBREAN TheUnited _ , ^

Human Rights Commission Indicts Argentina's Military Government March 24 was the first anniversary of the military take-over in Argentina. In the 12 months of the military regime of General Jeorge Videla, FREEDOM FILM WEEK 2,300 people have been killed, there are 10,000 political prisoners and between 20,000 and 30,000 DIXON HALL, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN people have been kidnapped, many of them certainly murdered. 17tli - 33nd April, 1977, at 8 p.m. Kidnappings are carried out by armed civilians identifying themselves as belonging to the SUNDAY, 17tti APRIL: military or police forces. The regular security There Is No Crisis (South Africa) 30 minutes forces decline all knowledge of such incidents Attica (U.S.A.) 80minutes • Moses Garoeb, administrative secretary of SWAPO. and refuse to intervene. It is all centralised in the hands of the military government. MONDAY, I8th APRIL: The following is the text of a cable sent by the The Argentina Human Rights Commission Caoineadh Airt UI Laoire (Ireland) 60 minutes SWAPO df Namibia Department of Information and reports that the military authorities refuse to To Die In Madrid (Spanish ClvU War) 85 minutes Publicity to Mr. Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General of publish lists of political prisoners. the United Nations, and Mr. Wilhelm Haferkamp, The Ireland/Argentina Solidarity Committee TUESDAY, 19th APRIL: EEC Commissioner for External Affairs. organised a protest picket at the Argentine Chilean September (from Chile) 40 minutes It follows the decision of the South African Appeal Embassy in Dublin on the anniversary last month Namibia — The Lost Colony (formerly Court on March 17 to uphold the Appeal of SWAPO of the military takeover. More than 50 people South West Africa) 60 minutes leaders Aaron Muchimba and.Hendrik Shikongo, and supported the picket and the following demand of the two women sentenced with them: was handed In to the Embassy; THURSDAY, 31st APRIL: "Today is the first anniversary of the military take• Salt Of The Earth (from Mexico) 90 minutes We wish to convey a message to you from our compatriots Aaron Muchimba and Hendrik Shikongo, freed yesterday from over in Argentina. Public opinion all over the world Hasta La Victoria Siempre (Che Guevara) 19 minutes South African gaols. has been appalled by the excesses committed by the We would like to thank those governments, international forces of repression during the past year. FRIDAY, 33nd APRIL: organisations and individuals and all those associated with the "Paramilitary groups such as the AAA have been Blood On The Grapes (U.S. United Farm campaign for our release. Their support goes a long way in contributing to our liberty and the freedom of the Namibian people. acting with complete impunity — kidnapping and Workers) 60 minutes While SWAfK) rejoices in the freedom of these our comrades, murdering workers, students and priests who have Fidel (from Cuba) 96 minutes | we would like to draw your attention to the dark cloud that still no connection with subversive activities. hangs over these men as It hangs over all our people under the "The systematic torture of detainess has become I Admission: 50p per evening or special ail-in ticket (five j South African occupation. standard practice. Many people detained have not . evenings) £1. ' Moreover we would like to officially record that we have received information stating that when the South African been recognised as prisoners by the Military Tickets available in advance (Phone 786053) sponsored Turnhalle interim gofjernment is established there will Government, and their families live in a state of be a large-scale round up of SWAPO leaders and activists in a uncertainty and anguish. Special showing of Mise Eire and Saolrse desperate bid to weaken the nation-wide opposition to this ethnic "The Ireland/Argentina Solidarity Committee calls Sunday afternoon, 34th April, DIXON HALL, neo- colonial plan. We urge you to do everything in your power to unmask these. on the Government of Argentina to suppress TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, 3.30 p.m. tactics of aggression of the dying South African regime that is rightwing terrorists groups — close the torture (Admission 60p. Children/Students 30p.) trying desperately to escape the tide of history in Namibia and in houses and release all political prisoners." Southern Africa as a whole.

The 34th Annual Congress of the Movements suppbrt for this struggle The News Service which is sent General Union of Arab Students held against imperialism is in our fight free of charge to the straight and WORLD BRIEF in London recently was attended by against Anglo/American underground media on the East Sean CuUen, Executive Ciann na Imperialism in Ireland. Coast and is well worth while as hEireann — the Irish Workers' "We are encouraged by the many of Its clear principled stories Organisation in Britain. advances of the Arab, African send on Ireland are being reprinted there. The Cymru Goch Conference held Asian peoples successes against A recent report on the Sinn Fein the in Aberystwyth, in Wales recently Among the solidarity messages received by the Congress were ones imperialism. Victories in Vietnam Workers* Party 71st Ard Fheis passed the following resolution on and Angola inspire us, progress in reached a media (exclusive of the Ireland: from the International Affairs Bureau of Sinn Fein The Workers' the Arab world give us heart, wire service) with a circulation of "Recognising that the continued Party and the Executive Committee particularly the struggle of the over 10,000,000. sectarian violence in Northern of the Irish Democratic Youth Palestinian people to free their Ireland is totally opposed to the- Movement. homeland. A similar News Service put out by Interests of the working class, "The people of the world must the California region of the Irish In this address to the G.U.A.S. Cymru Goch supports all genuine control its own destinies and noj be Republican Clubs is sent to the Congress Sean Cullen in expressing efforts to bring about peace. dictated to by the big media on the West Coast of America. fraternal greetings from the "Peace, however, is not simply Anglo/American multi-nationals. Both these news-services are doing Republican Movement said that it is the absence of violence; it's also We fight for unity, freedom and valuable publicity work for our only the mass struggle of a united social and economic progress and democracy in Ireland as you do in struggle among the peoples of the people that can bring us freedom. must therefore involve the tackling the Arab world". U.S.A. of all the underlying evils that help "This mass struggle is not confined to foster the continuation of to our own small island but is part of • • • Readers of The United Irishman in violence. the international struggle against The Irish Republican News North America wishing to contact "We therefore call on all Imperialism, against Zionism, Service put out by the James the Irish Republican Clubs can do so progressives and particularly on the against Racialism, or in the case of Connolly Irish Republican Club in by writing to: IRISH REPUBLICAN Welsh T.U.C. to support the "Better Ireland — against Sectarianism. Albany, New York is helping to fill CLUBS, U.S.A. and Canada, 160 Life For All" campaign of the Irish "We believe that the best the gap on the East Coast of Fifth Avenue, Rm. 604, New York, Trade Unions. indication of the Republican America with news on Ireland. NYIOOIO. TELEGRAM TO U.D.B. Congratulations to our comrades in the Democratic Union of Bretony on your success in the- INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER municipal elections — Tomas Mac Giolla, Uachtaran, Sinn Fein The Workers'Party.

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AIBREAN A special correspondent writes PEOPLE about the real story behind the IN ;'ishing limits war of words POLITICS

RAYBESTOS As the parties struggle to sort out their election machines, potential candidates and programmes before Liam Cosgrave springs a surprise poll date, there is a strong rumour swirling round North East Cork that the Labour Party are hunting The failure of our so-called representatives at Brussels to support the case for extending Ireland's territorial waters wildly for a strong man to oppose Sinn Fein The Workers' to the 200 miles limit that is now being widely adopted throughout the world strikes a blow at men who daily face the Party Clir. Joe Sherlock. oceans and coastal waters of Ireland in boats totally unfitted to the dangers of their work. Vessels fitted with radar are In the last bye-election Joe knocked the Labour Party cold still a minority, and ocean going craft a rarity. and most observers now see him as a hot tip to be backed in the general melee whenever it is announced. Labour Party The men who pretend to rule this developed technologies to recover mining multinationals to exploit our Secretary Seamus Scally, anxious to pull back from that country probably don't worry all economically. off-shore wealth in the same way serious mauling is reported to favour persuading that much about losing the votes of that the mlrlerals under our land Independent Councillor Noel Collins to fight as their man. Not only that, but surveys that fishermen's widows, but years of have been pawned to the highest It is unlikely however, that he will outpace the dynamic have been carried out show that the Sherlock as Collins voted against planning permission for the neglect have left Ireland without a bidders. When Ireland has been sea bed between 5 and 250 metres Raybestos dump. A matter of jobs which will not be forgotten fishing policy and without a well- drained of her riches — in the plans by the local voters. — the depth' at which existing equipped fishing fleet capable of of our gombeen boyos — and mining techniques are possible — is landing enough fish not only for the neither work nor industry nor people KLUKLUXKLAN far richer than has ever been domestic market but also for disturb the green and pleasant An American comrade takes us to task quite severely over Imagined. At least half of the total processing and export on a major desert on the western edge of a piece which appeared in this column in January, under the world reserves of petroleum lie heading "Seamy". He objects in the strongest possible terms scale. Today, just as a hundred Europe where tired imperialists go under the sea. But in the just over to our description of Irish-Americans as a 'minority group'. years ago, our fishermen go to sea for a bit of peace and quiet, what one per cent of the oceans that has He states. "Unfortunately the Irish are so well integrated in vessels that transform a day's few Irish are left will — we are into the White Christian majority that they take part and lead yet been surveyed it is estimated work into a daily battle with death. encouraged to imagine — look on In anti-integration demonstrations in Boston and other cities that thousands of millions of tons of against bussing. But more than fish are at stake wide-eyed and simple wonder at the mineral in highly extractable form "In South Boston, the Irish Northern Aid Committee leads in the battle for the extension of riches being lifted from their seas. are present. Including reserves of the anti-bussing with the tricolour and Irish banners. territorial waters — much more. manganese and cobalt at least "Perhaps the greatest evidence of Irish, and other White ,Our gombeen masters know this Christian acceptability is the recruiting drive put on by the equal to all other known terrestial well enough, but they have not yet Imperialist Ku Klux Klan. Unfortunately the success has been gratifying deposits. Vast deposits of copper to the bigots. Many anti-bussing and openly segregationist uttered a word in public. Not only are known to occur, as well as lead, groups display KKK insignias. the Italian and Irish tricolours the EEC but also Norway and When it suits them the Industrial and the green shamrock. zinc, uranium, titanium and Canada extended their limits to 200 nations of the world are good at "I hope this shows the danger that portraying the Irish as diamonds. talking about common interests, but miles at the beginning of this year. a minority in the USA can cause. The bigots portray the Irish at this moment they are staking out as the oppressed minority, with the 'niggers' getting The United States did so this their claims to bits of continental everything." We apologise for our slip and assure our month. China and many African and Resources shelf with the same greedy glint in comrades in the USA thai we are pleased to have this Latin American countries already important correction. They know our feelings on NorAid and On the basis of such studies. their eyes as drove men to murder In other fascist groups. apply a 200 mile limit. Within a year United Nations experts predict that the Klondyke, and as drove or two at the most, recent meetings imperialist armies to mass murder in the next few years may well witness CLASSWAR indicate, the rest of the world will the vast spaces of Africa, Asia and an economic transformation on Denis Faul, the controversial Roman Catholic priest from have done the same. WHY? And Latin America. Dungannon hit the headlines last month with an outspoken why is Ireland an exception? earth as profound as that wrought attack on the current murderous sectarian activities of the by the industrial revolution. The Provisionals. In the course of a long speech he stated, "The oceans have been called the Sixth The first imperialist mass murders Catholic people objected to the 1971 campaign and reject this were in Ireland, and now Anglo- one with still greater force." Petroleum Continent, and since 1967 a series of international conferences has American imperialism — much Unfortunately Rev. Faul describes the current wave of The extension of tertitorla! waters killings as "class war", which is just simply not the case. The underlined the great importance of more cunning — has its avid eyes killing of individual businessmen is an act of ultra-left means an extension of the national its mineral resources. fixed not this time on Ireland's green terrorism; dressing these acts up in socialist language does territory. In a period such as the and luscious pastures, but on her not mean that the Provisionals and their fascist supportrs present when the earth is facing a So the nations of the world are even more luscious off-shore abroad have suddenly become interested in class war. waters. The time for the whole Although it is clear if their journals are anything to go by that serious energy crisis and industry battling for their share. The they have been well and truly infiltrated by trendy English faces shortages of vital mineral raw extension of EEC limits to 200 miles working people of Ireland — not style Trotskyists. materials, the sea bed opens up rich opens Irish waters to the only her fishermen — to make sure new sources of mineral wealth sovereignty of the EEC. It leaves the these waters and their wealth VETERANS easily within the capability of newly- road open to German and other remain Irish is NOW, The "toing and froing' of leading Irish politicians last month in the USA did not pass unnoticed in the media. Half- truths in particular received a fair amount of coverage. And as usual Republicanism was attacked as the source of all evil in Ireland. Naturally the politicians were careful not to of t/io ruling few, lietween i iipital and the \aiue uf human life, the differentiate between Republicans and pseudo-republicans. Kepuhiican Movement will take its stand with the people, ttf educate, That problem extends to Republicans in the Slates. So the organise, agitate and fight so that the people may go forward in Clan na Gael and I.R.A. Veterans (District 1) have asked us. dignity and ronsriousness to the final success . . . ownership of their to point out that their 61st Easter Week Commemoration at resources, control of their destinies." (Liam Mc IVIillen Boden- the Loftus Restaurant, 228, East 8^th Street._^New York City stown. 197;i) has no connection whatsoever with the Provfslonal Alliance. Guest speaker at the breakfast-luncheon is Liam Kelly F(ir further information ivritc to: (Tyrone) and tickets can be had by calling: 367-4860 in the Sinn Fein Sinn Feln Headquarters, 30 Gardiner Place, Dublin I. evening. The Commemoration being held in co-operation The Workers'Party or to lint.' of the follomnp addre-ses. with the Irish Republican Clubs of the USA and Canada is on Balllna: P. Kilcullon, Kilmore. Sunday, April 10 and the organisers stress that it begins at 12 Belfast: Republican Club, 40 Cyprus Street, Belfast 12. noon sharp. Bray: D. Tobin. 7" O'Bvrne Road. Cork: Thomas Ashe Hail, Fr. Matthew Quay. Drogheda: Foresters' Hall, North Quay- UNDERGROUND Kerry: Breandan Mac Gearailt, Ballyfcrriter, British Regional Seats of Government (RSG's) are once Limerick: F. Reynolds, c .o 19 New Road, Kileely. again in the news or to be more precise they have not been in Newry: 1 Trevor Hilt. the news when they should have been. Strabane: Ivan Barr. 224 Ballcolman Estate. Apparently Tory M.P. Airey-Neave had expressed his Britain; Glann na hEireann, 173 175 Lozells Road, Lozells, BirminEham 19. intention of putting down a question In parliament as to the Italy: Ufficio Stampa Irlanda, Libera. Via Delia Dogana security measures which were put into operation during the Vecchia, 5 Roma, construction of the Birmingham underground complex at the USA&Canada: Irish Republican Clubs. 160 QUi Avenue Bull Ring and at the Victoria Line, London. (Rm. 604) NEW YORK 10010, U.S.A. He also expressed himself as "concerned" re the current Australia New Zealand: Irish Republican Clubs. P.Gorman. work in Liverpool. Mr. Neave's worry was about the number c/0 111 Sussex Street, Sydney, 3000. N.S. Wales. of Irish navvies who might be working for a foreign power. Apparently following a visit from some gentlemen in G2 JOIN SINN FEIN - THE WORKERS' PARTY. he has been satisfied that there is no cause for alarm. Navvies, he was told, only saw parts of the operation and that NAME in a very confused building situation. Beware Paddy, Alrey- Neave Is watching you. ADDRESS^ Printed and Published by Cle na h-Elreann, 3S Plas Gardnar, B.A.C.I.