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MOVING FOR 1/- A UNITED DEMOCRAT No. 289 SEPTEMBER 1968 IRELAND APPEAL TO MANY ORGANISATIONS LONDON IRISH MARCH People of six counties at end of tether FOR CIVIL RIGHTS ^J NLESS something is done soon to end the injustices Which exist in British occupied Ireland there is going to be an explosion there. Cheers from onlookers The people are getting to the This is the message of the great in Camden have undertaken to end of their tether, with end- meeting and parade from Coal- join with the Association in poster island to Dungannon on Saturday, less unemployment, low wages, parades. They see the struggle for August 24th, 1968, a date to be QNLOOKERS the pavements when members of the shortage of housing, all backed on cheered remembered. Irish independence as on a par ^ Connolly Association, Clann na hEireann and the Republican up by religious discrimination, with the struggle against the dis- Party walked from Manette Street, Charing Cross Road, to Marble gerrymandering and police dic- This is the message that has graceful war in Vietnam. Arch to demand the introduction of normal democracy into the tatorship. come from Ireland to the Connolly six counties of north east Ireland- Association in London, and to which the Association intends to CONFERENCE The parade took place on Sun- react as its duty is. In order to get the new campaign day, July 28th, and was followed under way Central London Con- by a meeting in Hyde Park, at which the speakers were Sean Red- INITIATIVE nolly Association is calling a con- ference on September 11th of mond, General Secretary of the Central London Branch of the Connolly Association; Desmond interested organisations in the two Association is to take the initia- Greaves; Robert Heatley and Jack central boroughs of Camden and tive in a new campaign which it Henry, the building workers' ste- Islington. ward. is hoped will snowball throughout INTERVENTION England, and perhaps spread to This will, it is hoped, be followed A resolution was passed demand- Scotland and Wales. by similar gatherings in Brent and ing that the British Government Hammersmith. take action to guarantee people The idea is to call local confer- Accent will be on action. The living, whether they want to or not, ences in different parts of the under the British flag, the elements country, and to invite to fchem purpose of the gatherings will be of civil liberty. representatives of British .demo- to plan action. Speakers explained that there cratic organisations. *. • was no wish among Irish people that Already Hampstaad Young Libe- WOLVERHAMPTON ttw British Government should in- rals and other youth organisations tervene in any part of Ireland, but The campaign will then be taken sinoe they were there we were deter- further afield. Already Sean Red- mined that as far as possible they mond is booked to address a con- should be made to behave them- ference in Wolverhampton, called selves. on the initiative of the Young The Prime Minister to whom the Section of the Civil Rights parade. resolution was sent gave a formal Communists, but with the co- acknowledgment but promised no operation of Young Labour, Young action. Liberals and Clann na hEireann. The meeting was large and en- thusiastic, especially when Mr. IRISH CP. STATEMENT He is also organising a meeting Henry explained the connection be- in Coventry early in September. tween the struggle for democracy The Movement for Colonial Free- In the six counties and for a united Ireland, and the parallel struggle of ON CZECHOSLOVAKIA dom has agreed to make its annual the workers In Britain for decent meeting at the Labour Party Con- wages and conditions. ference a demonstration for civil DEMOCRAT PRINTS FULL TEXT rights in the six counties, and for freedom for Ireland. rPHE following statement was Czechoslovakia were threatened DUBLIN MAN TO issued by the Political Com- by imperialist forces we cannot One of the speakers is 8ean support any form of intervention. mittee of the Communist Party Redmond, general secretary ot the HEAD BBC. in Belfast on August 21st, and "At this stage news of what is SEAN Connolly Association. Flans are Tj^ROM April 1st next year, the as far as we are aware the actually happening is still very in- also under way for a Scottish con- -1-' Director-General of the British "Irish Democrat'' is the only complete. We ask the members of ference at the end of February, Broadcasting Corporation is to be paper to publish it in full. It our party and the the people of 1969. Northern Ireland to remain calm an Irishman, Mr. Charles John Cur- runs : MANCHESTER ran, who was born in Dublin forty- and avoid being influenced by ex- The Association will shortly be six years ago. "The Communist Party has treme anti-socialist pronounce- issuing an appeal for funds to It could hardly be said however noted the reports that troops of ments used as propaganda." SALES CRUX carry through this campaign. that he had a strongly national the five Warsaw Pact countries background. He was educated in have entered Czechoslovakia. In rpHIS may be the last month the Yorkshire, and obtained his degree a tense situation like this it is "Irish Democrat" is on sale in at the University of Cambridge. He understandable that conflicting Manchester. APPEAL FOR reports will emanate from dif- IRISH WORKERS' then went into the British Army Reason? The sales have been on while it was still oppressing India, ferent sources, many of which are hostile to the ideas of the shoulders of one man, Michael DERRY HOUSING and left it to go to the India Office, Crowe, for some time past. the headquarters of that oppres- socialism. PARTY ON sion. Now Mr. Crowe is moving to PRISONERS Nevertheless the possibility of "The Communist Party wishes Sunderland where he will continue fairer broadcasts from the Irish to reaffirm its stand on the prin- CZECHOSLOVAKIA his efforts on behalf of Ireland. LETTER has been received point of view has thoroughly ciples that govern relations be- A from Mr. G. p. ODoherty tf tween socialist countries and alarmed the six-county Unionists |-|~AVING discussed the situa- But who is going to take over his the Derry Bousing Action Commit- fraternal Communist parties. In who are gunning for the B B C. work in Manchester? So far nobody tee, requesting urgent solidarity connection with this our party tion in Czechoslovakia the already. has come forward. action to secure the release from firmly supports the declaration of Political Committee of the Captain L. P. S. Orr, M P. for imprisonment of two yoong people the eighty-one Communist Par- Irish Workers' Party issued the It may be possible to maintain a South Down, and Imperial Grand who refused to sign a bail bond to ties which met in Moscow in 1960 following statement : limited sale by volunteers from Master of the Orange Order, has refrain from further political agita- and which declares: 'Every party Liverpool; but since British Rail protested to the exiting Director- tion. is responsible to the working class "We deplore the intervention of started running down communica Oeneral, Lord Hill, about a dim on and the working people of its own the Soviet Union, East Germany, tlons between the two cities it is They are Niall O'DonneU and the Orange order. country, to the International Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary In becoming very hard to get home Rod die Carlln, both twenty years He claims that the film was an Czechoslovakia. It Is our opinion working class, and the Communist late at night. old, and both serving one month's attack on the Orangemen. that this Intervention far from movement as a whole, imprisonment In Crumlin Road Jail. The questions he was asked when serving the cause of Socialism can Will one of our readers or sup- he appeared were hostile to the "The eventt; as reported would do It Immense damage unless it Is porters, or better still several of Resolutions of protest should be Orange order, and they were more appear to be in conflict with this speedily ended We therefore call them come forward, and help as to sent to Oaptaln Terence OWtttl, hostile the second time the film was principle. The Bratislava agree- for the withdrawal of the forces keep the "Democrat's" flag flying In Stormont, Belfast, copies should be shot, because the interviewers knew ment was welcomed by our party. of these five countries from Manchester. Communicate with 383 sent to the "Irish Democrat* for what his replies were likely to be. Unless the frontiers of socialist Czechoslovakia Grays Inn Road, London. publication and were not satisfied by them September 1968 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT September 1968 WORLD COMMENTARY By PAT DEVINE WAUS1 CLAIM Success story from County Cork THREi PRONGS Legalizing the murder of patriots ing bulk commodities, such as oil JT is good news that the cam- PROM time to time in Cork we scheme was substantially completed BY and pig iron and exporting the hold- paign for civil rights inside the j HERE is a moment in his- HELPS YOU * are subjected to this dreary in 1963 and the plant now installed ing of our people w: Ii COW Us. Connolly Assoc iation ings' products. JIM SAVAGE six counties is now moving into a tory, associated with yreat * affiliated, the illegr.l reuime and the insti- HE engineering employers, that monologue from local and imported enables the holdings to produce It will only make us •r. Wliut- passed a resolution ingots, blooms, billets, sections, mer- VOW let's go back to private en- new more militant phase.