UNITED IRISHMAN AN tElREANNACH AONTA UIL (JULY) 1977 Vol. 35 No. 7. lOp (30c) Monthly Newspaper of Sinn Fein The Workers' Party

A new generatioFiannn of voters made itsa difficulFait task inl re-establishin cannog itself as tessentiall delivey this is all Brownre cathn offere, whicgoodh for workerss woul d mean a return voice heard loud and clear on June a party of the working-class. The party Workers will also be looking for To the 'guaranteed Irish' hardship of 16th last. In throwing out the which failed to add even a social- something more than a sudden fit of the Thirties. 'Government of all the talents' hun• democratic flavour to the Coalition socialist fervour from Labour leaders. So, while the 'nationally-minded' dreds of thousands of young voters Government will be hard pushed to Already the unseemly scramble to the Provisionals and IRSP celebrate the showed they wanted jobs not excuses. convince workers that its' 'soul' is 'Left' has begun as the O'Learys and victory of Fianna Fail, the organised And they will be just as decisive in socialist. The debonair Michael Halligans brush up their old working-class must prepare for victory telling Fianna Fail that promises must O'Leary may cut a fine figure as a socialist speeches. But it will not go in the years ahead. The response to be kept. socialist in the rarefied environs of unnoticed that the Labour Party is socialist policies in this election was This worries Jack Lynch. Fianna Grafton Street but it won't wash with 'socialist' only when in opposition. encouraging. And as the population Fail's dazzling array of promises will the Dublin working-class. Neither should it go unnoticed that grows, so too will the recognition of haunt him during the lifetime of the The working-class vote which Fine Gael in defeat is prone to un• the need for a planned economy. In next Dail. For he knows that his party Fianna Fail undoubtedly attracted in typical bouts of honesty. The votes addition, an increasingly young has raised hopes that cannot be this election will not automatically were barely counted when Richie Ryan electorate has shown that it is con• realised within a gombeen-capitalist revert to the Labour Party in four years declared himself in favour of a move to cerned more with the future than with economy. Yet, with a massive twenty- time. Even In the unlikely event of the the Right in a speech which harked the past. This is a most welcome seat majority, Lynch will have a dif• maverick Noel Browne gaining any back to the hey-day of the Blueshirts. development as it sounds the death- ficult task explaining Fianna Fall's significant influence in the party, Not to be outdone, John M. Kelly knell for traditional civil-war politics and opens the way for a growth in inevitable failure to the electorate. workers will be looking for something called for a return to the halrshirt spirit class politics. So too, the Labour Party faces a more than a one-man band. And of Arthur Grifffth and Eamon de Valera Party vote Sean Cronin

The massive swing to Fianna Fail in the General Election leaving them as It is difficult as yet to come up MAR& THE IRISH QUESTIOXN the party with the largest number of seats in the history of the State has with any positive analysis of the somewhat overshadowed the excellent performance of Sinn Fein The reasons behind the unique swing to Workers' Party. Fianna Fail. Clearly the politics of The Party polled overall 27,203 Party vote was a very credible the Civil War played almost no part increaseFirst Preference votes; the final in the votingd. As the Iris h Times 27.5%. And in the three vote i.e. including all transfers was constituencies of North East Cork, opinion survey had pointed out prior 31,745. The average for the 16 Waterford and Louth the Labour to the Election there Constituencies contested was Parly were defeated easily. was a degree of cynicism about the roughly 4.4% of the total valid poll. difference in the policies of the But there were the dramatic rises in Contesting five seats in the Dublin Coalition and Fianna Fail. Efforts Cork North East, 9.47% and in area the total votes gained was 6,201 also to make the North a key issue Waterford. Paddy Gallagher gained which in fact was better than the failed and it is unlikely that this :i).56%. national average. Although if played any part in the decisions of Some interesting pointers for the examined as a percentage of the voters. future emerge when the voting "Left" poll it was considerably Two of the most interesting, figures are broken down and lower. The fact of fresh candidates rejections which may have had comparisons made between the in the field like Eric Byrne and Ray more political content than the Party's performance and the McGran had some effect on the overall %'oting behaviour were that This new Repsol is by Sean Cronin, Labour Party. For example in the 16 of the former Ministers O'Brien and former editor of the United contested constituencies our total; both however took over 4% of Cooney. Both of whom in their own Irishman. Currently working in the percentage of the cornbined the poll. A reasonable performance way had alienated large sections of USA he contributes a weekly 'Letter Labour and Sinn Fein The Workers' on a first contest. the population. from New York' to The Irish Times. Marx told a meeting of the Cllr. Joe Sher• Cllr. Donncha Alderman Pa• General Council of the International lock (North East Mac Raghnaill ddy Gallagher that "he considered the solution of Cork) who in• (left) who polled (Waterford), his the Irish Question as the solution of creased his vote 1,900 first pre• first time to run, the English, and the English as the by 80% over the ferences in lasted until the solution of the European." 1973 election. A Louth. Not dis• last count having History has altered the form of the spectacular ad- missed until the gained a total of Irish Question but this does not V ance. Joe would 8th count Mac 4,500 first pre• lessen the relevance of Marx's now seem cer• Raghnaill de• ferences. Like thoughts on Ireland. This present tain to take a feated two Sherlock, Galla• study provides ample food for seat in any Labour Party gher should win thought for both the student and future election. candidates. next time round. practitioner of politics. Solzhenitzyn is amplified on page 12. •Editor's comment It has been established Letters In last month's issue due to absolutely that the CIA pressure of space an recruit agents among Death Comrade, in make-believe journalism, or editorial comment on a letter American foreign I refer to your lead article you have read the material in (J. Harrison) was ommitted. correspondents and that entitled "War of Nerves" in which case you could not have Mr. Harrison quoted ample funds are available to the May issue of the United been in any doubt whatsoever remarks from a member of assist the efforts of of veteran Irishman. In the course of a about our position in regard to the Central Committee of the 'dissident intellectuals' in piece on the UUAC strike you Ulster independence. If that Is Italian CP. and the smearing the achievements suggest that an 'independence so, then you have qult& Secretary of the Spanish CP. of the Socialist countries and qroup' in the UUAC en• deliberately lied in in support of his defence of the Soviet Union in couraged in this belief by misrepresenting the B&ICO. Soviet 'dissidents.' He also particular. Republican (those) members of the British Indeed, It Is difficult to believe speculated as to the sources The "United Irishman" and Irish Communist that you are not well used by the United Irishman has no intention of engaging Organisation who can exert acquainted with our literature for what he described "as a in any disagreement between some influence in those since your publication, the puppet-like reiteration of the members of Western quarters. Irish Industrial Revolution, on Official Line". Communist Parties as to the If you had actually read which your reviewer in the The sources of the article degree of freedom in Eastern what the B&ICO have been same May issue, waxes lyrical, were certainly 'official' if Europe. But we could not saying over the last few years bears a most striking that can be understood to agree with the quote instead of wildly speculating, resemblance to the B&ICO mean that they were not attributed to the member of you could not possibly have pamphlet the "Economics of taken from the "Daily the Italian CP. Central come to the above conclusion. Partition", published in 1969. Telegraph" or the "New Committee as to the Soon after the 1974 Loyalist Nevertheless chagrin should York Times". reliability of the Socialist strike, the B&ICO discovered not be allowed to get the Does Mr. Harrison Press. We can only base our and subsequently publicised better of truth and objectivity. seriously believe ^hat the opinions on the knowledge the fact that the Northern Yours etc. Western media, in particular that in Pravda there is daily Ireland Office were Eamon O'Kane, the wire services would print criticism of aspects of the assiduously promoting the 10 Athol Street, the truth about criminals Soviet Union in the form of idea of an independent Ulster Belfast, such as Solzhenitzyn and the readers' letters. among the Protestant others? The evidence on paramilitaries. This was after Merlyn Rees discovered • Frank McGlade something called 'Ulster It is with deep regret that the Editor's comment CRAA week long Cfestiva l'7 of music7 , SuCCeSSfu nationalism' and decided that One of the boasts of the B & Republican Clubs learned of the dancing, & debate, films and it might be a useful way of ICO used to be the extent of death, following a heart attack, of theatre in the Handsworth area of levering Northern Ireland out their influence within the veteran Republican Frank Birmingham culminating in a 2 of the UK state. This strategy, ranks of the para-military fundraising McGlade, on June 7. "A most successful fun• day Folk Festival Satur• such as it was, failed to gain Ulster Defence Association. draising" was how the In• Mr. McGlade, who was 66 day/Sunday August 20/21 at any support whatsoever for As a group they actively ternational Affairs Bureau of Sinn years of age, joined the Lozells Social Development the Independent Ulster notion encouraged the idea of a 6 Fein The Workers' Party Republican Movement In his Centre, Lozells Road, Hand• and the recent local govern• County Trade Union described their IRELAND DRAW early youth and remained an sworth, Birmingham,. ment elections showed the Congress thereby promoting which took place on Tuesday active member of the total derisory vote which the the sectarian division of Irish Artistes Include: 31st May. Cash and counterfoils organisation right up,,to his death. independence party, the workers and aligning Dominic Behan; Sean came from as far away as During his long struggle for the Dominion Party, was able to themselves with the right MacLoughlin, Traditional Namibia in Southern Africa; Republican cause, Frank was generate. wing ideology of Paisley and musician; Sean Cannon (a Guyana in Latin America; continually harassed by State Powell. leading ballad singer on the Far from advocating the Jamaica In the Caribbean and Forces, North and South of the English scene); The Fantastic from many of the States in border. 'independent Ulster' idea, the The shift within the B & Lagan Folk Group from Glasgow; America together with good B&ICO have consistently ICO to an "integrationist He was interned from 1938- Pascal Dwyer — many times returns from Britain, Germany, opposed It, maintaining in• position" is nothing more 1945; during the fifties he was Bodhran champion, with his Brittany, Australia, New Zealand stead that the only way in than a rediscovery of their interned in the Curragh and in neo-Walkerite roots. family of entertainers; Also Irish and Sweden. 1971 he was iniernea in Long which this war will be brought Dancers, Pipers, Theatre group, to an end is by the British Interestingly enough it The prizes in the IRELAND Kesh for 9 months. children's entertainment, side Apart from long periods of government making It ab• brings them closer to Dr. DRAW were presented to our shows, and refreshments. Films internment, Frank McGlade solutely clear that Northern Paisley who after the closing International Affairs Bureau by and Seminars arranged. served shorter spells in jails for Ireland will remain part of the of Stormont adopted this Irish political prisoners and the Poem (any length English or activities such as selling Easter UK. We believe that the position almost immediately. following won prizes: We must also apologise to Irish) £25. 1st Prize: No. 30667. Lilies and having Republican process will be facilitated by Piece of Investigative Writing, literature that declared the right some British comrades who African National Congress Integrating Northern Ireland of the people to use physical did not fully grasp which maximum 2,000 words, in English (Youth). fully within the UK, and that or Irish, £25. force in self defence. setting up separate state organisation we were 2nd Prize: No. 29925. New Ballad in Traditional Only months after being institutions in Northern Ireland referring to in the "War of John King, New York City. Style, Dominic Behan Shield. released from Long Kesh in 1972 may tend only to exacerbate Nerves" article. The B & ICO 3rd Prize: No. 18169. Frank was brought to court and the tensions within the derive their intellectual Pauline Loughrey, position from the pseudo- For further details of com• fined for failing to complete community by making it petitions write to CRAC '77, 173 Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. scientific British philosophy 4th Prize: No. 4081. census forms. Frank was a appear that the constitutional Lozells Road, Birmingham 19. candidate for the Republican empiricism which is in total William Norrls, future of Northern Ireland is (Organised by Clann na Clubs in the 1973 Local opposition to the Marxist Kildorrery, Co. Cork. still an open question. philosophy of dialectical and hEireann). Government Elections, and Whatever Influence we have, historical materialism. campaigned actively for the that is the direction in which successful Republican Clubs we brought it to bear. BUILD A SOCIALIST FUTURE! candidate Seamus Lynch only In view of this, the assertion MARTIN O'LEARY weeks ago. COMMEMORATION in your article can only be Join the Irish Democratic Youth Movement interpreted one or two ways. Sunday, July 10. Frank was a member of the N.I. Either you don't read anything Assembly: "To enable young people to play a full part in the struggle Civil Rights Association from Its of the groups or people you Ballyphehane Church, 12 Noon for the creation of a United Democratic Socialist Republic formation ten years ago. purport to comment on. In Social Saturday, July 9, of Ireland in which the people of Ireland will own and A fluent Gaelic speaker, Frank which case you are merely Ballyphehane Community Centre. control the wealth and resources of the country". promoted all aspeots of Irish expending hot air by engaging culture through-out his life, Name particularly in the Oldpark district where he lived for a life-time. Address As a dedicated Republican From Our Bookshop Socialist, Frank McGlade was RECORDS AND CASSEHES Age one of the people who strongly iUIster Outcry; Ar Leithidi £2,75 Smash Internment i £1.99 Applications To: resisted the Fianna Fail overtures Men Behind the Wire £1,99 General Secretary, Irish Democratic Youth Movement, 30 to the Republican Movement in iBlack thorn 1 £2.40 Gardiner Place, Dublin 1. 1968 and 1969. 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determined vote against the abandonment of the Irish Coalition fell Into their laps language. UNITED because the voters wanted a Llam Cosgrave's government change of Govemroont. was probably the most hated The now famous Fianna Fall government since W. T. IRISHMAAn tEii eannach AontaithNe promises In relation to car tax, Cosgrave's which he tried so house grants, etc., did of course much to emulate. His close MONTHLY NEWSPAPER OF SINN FEIN THE WORKERS' PARTY shake out a few thousand votes lieutenants Cooney and O'Brien chance on the one you are not sure which may have affected paid the price by losing their of. Many a vote In DubHn was marginal seats but In fact without seats. decided on the basis of the price of any such promises Fianna Fall In the midst of this landslide to UNDSLIDE a head of cabbage — 34p on would still have gained an overall Fianna Fall, Sinn Fein The With the Election results to Polling Day! majority. Workers' Party got an excellent hand the question In many peoples Any Government which allows It would be a mistake, however, vote, 70% higher than in 1973. minds was how could any political such a situation to develop In a to think that the election was While there was some commentator have thought that rich agricultural country such as decided solely on the basis of disappointment that no seats were the Coalition would win? ours Is clearly not governing and prices and jobs. The image of the won, they were close to winning in Certainly, If they had canvassed deserve to be tramped on and Government In the public mind both Waterford and Cork North at the doors rather than listening humiliated as the Coalition was. was one of arrogance and East. If seats are to be won here to political gossip they would have Unemployment was of course, aloofness. People were concerned or in Louth, Donegal or elsewhere clearly got the message "we need another major factor In the vote about the serious encroachment at the next election a second a change". The massive size of for change, especially lack of job on civil liberties, the gradual candidate will need to be the vote for change took everyone prospects for young people. Very politlclsation of the army and nominated as the necessary by surprise. many young people did not vote at police to make them an arm of the transfer to reach the quota will In urban areas the decisive all but those who did voted In the Fine Gaei Party; the fascist not be got from the other parties. factor for change was main against the Coalition. The tendencies disclosed In Cosgrav*s Unless the Labour Party undoubtedly prices — especially significant thing Is that Fianna speech, the attempts to equate the becomes as much an opposition to food prices! If you cannot feed Fail had nothing positive to offer actions of Pearse and Connolly Fine Gael as to Fianna Fall, your family then you will throw the voters either on the issue of with the squalid sectarianism of Labour transfers will still go to out the devil you know and take a prices or jobs. Nevertheless the the Provisionals, and the gradual Fine Gael. Council for Civi. Liberties settles

down to serious Marv Robinson (Chalrpt-rson). St-an Redmond (Sec.» and Brigid Wilkinson (Treasurer) at theA.G.M.ofthel.C.t.L. emergency legislation. Colm Kenny, academic staff. It was suggested proposing the resolution said that that this action highlighted the need contrary to popular belief the Courts that institutions financed from OveDusinesr 125 people attended the sfirst Contributions to the debate on had not ruled on the validity of the public funds be governed secularly Annua! General Meeting of the Irish prisons recognised the futility of declaration of an emergency. with internal democracy and Council for Civil Liberties in the expecting a high level of The Union of Students in Ireland tolerance for diverse viewpoints. Shelbourne Hotel. It was a rehabilitation from that form of delegate Peter McEvoy proposing a The chairman of the ICCL Mr. workmanlike conference and the treatment but recognised that resolution on the British Prevention Kadar Asmal resigned from the esoteric suggestions and pet reforms are important in the short of Terrorism Act as it affects the body on grounds of ill-health and schemes that characterised the term. It was pointed out that the movement of Irish people said that it appreciation of his work for the exploratory meetings last year were Council had set up a sub-committee was, in fact, the duty of the Council in its formiative months was almost totally absent. There was a on prisons and that more detailed Department of External Affairs to expressed. The incoming executive high level of awareness of the and specific recommendations keep a close eye on the operation of consisted of nine members from the problem facing the Council and a would result from its deliberations. the Act and to immediately make outgoing executive drawn by lot in recognition of the difficulty representations to the British accordance with the Constitution maintaining and increasing the It was pointed out that the Government in cases of and nine elected members. The full impetus of the first year. Council had not engaged in any kind harassment and unwarranted Executive Council now consists of: Resolutions were passed of litigation on civil liberties issues detention. David Brazil, Una Claffey, Arnaud demanding an impartial enquiry so far although such actions would In the absence of such scrutiny by Cras, Colm Kenny, Rev. Terence into all prison conditions, serve the double purpose of bringing the Government the Council should McCaughey, Sean Redmond, Sen. monitoring of emergency measures, public notice to the work of the undertake to carry out this Mary Robinson, Brian Anderson, calling for a Freedom of Council and achieving some of the important task in liaison with the Robert Cochran, Joe Costello, David Information and Privacy Act and objectives for which the body was NCCL. U.S.I, also proposed a Kavanagh, Michael Kelly, Mairin de suggesting a campaign on the rights set up. resolution of concern with the action Burca, Patrick McCartan, John of refugees with particular Particular reference was made to of the trustees of Maynooth College Maguire, Sen. Michael Mullen, reference to the Chileans. laws on family planning and the in dismissing two members of the Anthony Walshe and Naomi Wayne. Vocational Schools under the title, the size of the sample used to The lUSS conclude, "That the "Discrimination against the compile their statistics, at the same students who chose to attend Prejudice Vocational Sector of Education". time they are justified in claiming Vocational Schools (25.&% of the The conclusions reached as the that : ''These statistics second level student population) result of a survey make stark covering all aspects of have to put up with facilities which reading and demonstrate school life (academic, leisure are, on average, of a much lower conclusively that the Vocational and sanitary) prove beyond doubt standard than those available in against the schools are the poor relation in that the Vocational Student is in a secondary schools is an indictment almost every sense with regard to considerably inferior position of both our whole educational the rest of the secondary system. It compared to those attending system and especially the method of shows also that the Irish technical Secondary Schools. It is only financial allocation within the Vocational schools lag far behind comparative necessary to examine these system." schools anyplace else in Europe. statistics in order to see that, as well The fundamental Published by the Research and as being disadvantaged with regard recommendation of the Report is, Publications Committee, the to available facilities, the Vocational "That the present system of sector of function of the Report was a) The Student is also at an educational Secondary, Vocational, survey of educational, recreational, disadvantage and that this situation Comprehensive and Community sporting and sanitary facilities has a strong and direct effect on the Schools be replaced by an integrated available in Vocational schools at future occupation and social role of system of Comprehensive education Education the present time; b) To examine the the student." under community control in which status and structure of Irish second- What is most striking in the all subjects, in so far as this is The Irish Union of School level Vocational Education, and c) Academic section of the Report is possible, would be provided for the Students, which is the To propose and recommend changes the almost total absence of students' choice. Schools in this representative body for Second and reforms in accordance with the Language Laboratories and the system would be open to all Level students, last month published findings of the Report. impoverished nature of the students, irrespective of class, sex an impressive indictment of the Although the authors do not quote Vocational School Libraries. or religion." IrelandlUIL - NATO and the CIA The approach in this series to the Central Intelligence Agency has been from the premise that the C.I.A. is now, or will shortly become active here. Inevitably because of the huge U.S. investment and because of the presence here also of the extraordinarily high quality and large quantity of valuable mineral deposits and substantial oil and gas off our coasts as well. It would be definitely in keeping with U.S. foreign policy to initiate or expand C.I.A. presence and activity in such situations. Demonstration at U.S. Embassy, Dublin, against attempted genocide In Vietnam. The question of the C.I.A. imperialists designs were given That presence and such a joint The US sees itself as the vanguard therefore, is not just of passing formal blessing then in the shape of "defence" pact cannot and will not in the war against Socialism. And as interest to the Irish people, rather what is now known as the Truman benefit the Irish people. It is US National Security Managers see has it become a question of concrete doctrine. The British did request US designed essentially to protect US it, a country which is not within the positive concern to us and a matter intervention in Greece but mourned capitalists interests and the orbit of US control or influence is a therefore which should have the and regretted the fact that they interests of its capitalists allies in possible candidate for Soviet widest possible airing and needed to do so. Europe. It is essentially exploitative friendship. It cannot be allowed to discussion so that our people and all It is a strange but true fact that economically and cares not at all for drift in that direction since that is those groups or organisations many people assume wrongfully, national culture, custom, rights or construed as being not in the concerned with the welfare of our that Secret Services of all nations aspirations. It is the US need for interests of US global strategy. people should be fully aware of the act more or less on their own economic dominance and control serious liklihood of a significant initiative without the sanction or that is its primary and overriding Automatically the USA reserves C.I.A. US military presence with knowledge of their Presidents, imperative. the right to intervene in that obvious grave and detrimental Premiers or Governments. Likewise "The United States for hundreds of country's affairs to 'protect her consequences such a presence will the impression is given that the thousands of Irish became the lesser interests'. mean to the Irish people. C.I.A. was acting on its own of two evils until eventually not Apart altogether from the Most readers will in all probability initiative when it carried out many alone did it provide sustenance for foregoing, it should be remembered have noted the re-emergence of the of its activities in the last couple of those who worked there, but many that while the US might have no anti-neutrality, pro membership of decades, and that it did not have the thousands of them in time were able direct economic interest or control NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty official blessing of the United States to help those left at home by sending in a particular capitalist state, it has Organisation) lobby recently. The Executive. their suplus dollars. This in turn a definite interest in ensuring that as campaign was kicked off with a If the Irish people are to have a meant that virtually thousands of much of the globe as possible statement by the Fianna Fail ex- proper appreciation of the dangers homes in Ireland came to depend on remains within the Capitalist Minister for Defence, Michael of US intervention here, then it is the Dollars from America to system. That is in itself a very Hilliard. The call by Hilliard was vital that the carefully fostered maintain themselves. definite economic proposition of more than mere coincidence illusion that the CIA acts without the Thus developed the myth of indirect benefit to US Capitalism. It particularly when we realise that permission and knowledge of the US America of the land of plenty and ensures the preservation of X according to a NATO Council decree Executive, is shown up for what it is generosity. The facts were millions of consumers for either US of December 1956 the intelligence — an illusion, a lie and a whitewash somewhat different. Unfortunately or US related interests and service of the USA is the directive for US Imperialism. This we have those at home would never learn the conversely prevents the Socialist body for all intelligence services of attempted to demonstrate in appalling hardship endured by their countries from adding X millions to the NATO countries and similar previous articles. relatives in order that they could the market for goods produced in the agreements are in force for all other send a few dollars home; those in the Communist or Socialist bloc. military vassals of the USA. Whitewash States were too proud or sensitive to history of Imperialism, but it could enlighten them. be said with a fair degree of A diabolical influence of US And so the myth endured. There certainty that it was in or around foreign policy as is evidenced by the are signs that people are becoming 1947/48 that it formally replaced tens of thousands who have been somewhat more enlightened as to Britain as the 'world's policeman' the Irish American connection and killed or maimed in Chile, perhaps they may not be as easily and with the connivance and active Guatemala, Dominican Republic blinded to the real nature of United support of the British; we are and Vietnam. The brutal, callous States capitalism today. Obviously speaking now about the post-war nature of United States imperialism the United States and those vested period starting with the request by has been emphasised in an attempt interests in Ireland who support the the British that the US help in to bring home to the Irish people the idea of our joining NATO will not putting down the Communists in stark reality and the consequences talk of military committments and Greece in 1947/48. which will result from a formal US the possibility of Ireland and Irish While US imperialism goes back a political/military pact or presence people becoming a definite target in long time before that period its here. any future global conflict between the US and whoever she choses to THI CHAMriDH OF HUMAN IIMiKn define as her adversary. That the US has replaced Britain Holocast as the self-appointed policeman of the world is a phrase often used but Military commitments and the in the context of an examination of danger of Ireland becoming the activities of the C.I.A. is well engulfed in a nuclear holocaust or worth repeating. The US foreign ALL absorbing the first salvo of ICBM's policy strategists see the US as the because she is part of the US bulwark against the spread of (NATO) defence system (or rather socialism throughout the world. WASHTSi C.I.A. personnel are the aggressive system) is a possibility stormtroopers in this battle. The which will be mentioned last, if at world-wide struggle between the all, to the Irish people. forces of social and economic What will be advertised of course, progress and conservatism and will be the extra jobs created, not reaction is sharpening. just in providing services for NATO We in Ireland are involved in this (US) bases but also from the jobs struggle. These articles on the C.I.A. created from the extra US hopefully have helped to identify a investment which will automatically face of the US imperialist enemy result from the increased confidence which they prefer to keep hidden but US investors will have in Ireland, which from the experience of other because its investments will now be countries may well be the decisive guaranteed and protected by the factor in the success or failure of our 'stability' the presence of NATO struggle for economic, social and bases and forces imply. cultural freedom. 6 Bodenstown Commemoration 77

• Paddy Whelan, President of the Bricklayers' Union, laying a wreath at Wolfe Tone's monument.

In New YorNek thwe Annua Yorl Commemoratiok Irisn hto thHonoue grave of Mathildr aMathild Tone also took placa e oTonn June e19t h The oration was delivered by Kevin Coleman Joyce. A section of speech is carried below.

Comrades, today in Greenwood Cemetery, in the heart of Brooklyn we commemorate a brave Irish woman whose outstanding loyalty to her husband's ideals serves as an Inspiration to us all. But we also pay tribute to those same ideals proclaimed by Wolfe Tone and the United Irishman as exemplified by Sinn Fein The Workers' Party, in Ireland today. One of the greatest lessons we can learn from studying the period of the United irishmen is that they achieved a unity of urban and rural working class, right across religious barriers and held together by democratic, republican ideology. In our time, Sinn Fein continues to work towards this ideal, as in Northern Ireland where they have, for the past four years, conducted a broad based campaign against sectarianism under the slogan "SECTARIANISM KILLS WORKERS". The United Irishmen drew their inspiration from the struggle of the American colonists to free themselves from despotic English rule. They also were influenced by the Ideals of the French Revolution. They preached the necessity of uniting Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter In an effort to end the corrupt rule of the English in Ireland. Tone was the first man in Irish history to seek support from the common people. He was the first man In Irish history to preach the twin creeds of democracy and republicanism. He was the first man In Irish history to speak for the people and to demand the establishment in Ireland of the Rights of Man. In Ireland today those In power attempt to persuade the Irish people that, in this age, Republicanism Is outmoded — that it no longer applies to the political and economic realities of our time. These same propagandists are busy selling out the economic resources of the Irish people, others assist in maintaining the divisive, corrupt sectarianism which contributes to ever growing misery and death in Northern Ireland. Sinn Fein The Workers' Party, alone of all political parties in Ireland today insists, in the tradition of Tone, on the fundamental unity of the Irish people, on achieving the common goal of the working class — full employment and an end to poverty. Sinn Fein also demands the common ownership of Ireland by the people of Ireland — of her natural resources, the wealth of her seas, the produce of her soil. And also, firmly in the Tone tradition, Sinn Fein stresses the international aspects of the struggle and forges links with other progressive and socialist movements across the world. Irish history is too full of heroic failures. Sinn Fein The Workers' Party has done with heroic failure — there are no dead end military adventures for them, no campaign of tit-for-tat killings the end result of which can only frustrate the aspirations of the Irish working class. We members of the Irish Republican Clubs in the United States and Canada salute our comrades in the Republican Movement at home and we pledge our support for them in the continuing struggle for a democratic and socialist Ireland.

Chairman at Bodenstown was newly elected Councillor Seamus Lynch. In the course of his address he said, "The Wolfe Tone Commemoration should be a time when Repubticans review the progress of the past year. During that period we have warded off attacks from both the Ultra-left and the Right. We have advanced our Party politically by campaigning strenuously both in the Northern Local Government Elections and in the Dail Elections In the South." "We are the only Party organised on a 32 County basis, having public representatives and speaking with the authentic voice of the Irish working class," he said. "We are vitally concerned to find a democratic solution to the violence in the North and we again demand of the British Government that they provide a Bill of Rights to enable real politics to begin. We call for an end to the vacuum which Is dominated by both British militarism and para-military terror." Cllr. Lynch stressed that the enemy of the Irish people was Anglo-American imperialism which recognised no Border in their exploitation of the vast mineral, oil and gas resources which rightfully belonged to the Irish people. Concluding his remarks Lynch asked for an intensive educational drive among the working class to demonstrate the extent of both foreign and native exploitation. lUIL

strength on the future with the tenacity and the honesty of Tone, our greatest revolutionary. Irish society is again changing and questioning its traditional values as it changes. We accept the changes now taking place in Irish society with enthusiasm and excitement. We welcome with all our hearts the growing numbers and power of the Irish working class • We are, without a shadow of doubt, the main working class party in Ireland. In numbers, now being increasingly employed in larger and organisation, ideological clarity and discipline we have laboured to produce a party capable of larger units. leading the Irish working class to power and to victory. We welcome with enthusiasm and excitement • Our country has been cursed by the existence of class and section which "enforced its rights the predominantly young labour force free of the with a rod of iron and renounced its responsibilities with a front of brass". Our party does not, old hatreds and divisions of the civil war and free will not and cannot support such people. This principle applies with particular force to the use in of many of the tribal taboos and traditional the public interest of our great natural resource in land. religious and social bigotries. • "The land for the people was once regarded as a revolutionary slogan in Ireland. Some The new work-force differs from all previous people interpret that slogan to mean "the land for some of the people". There is no place for a Irish work-forces — it is larger; it is growing; it doctrine of a divine right to property in the philosophy of our movement. There is no logical is being concentrated in larger and larger argument which can put an individual "right" against the general public interest. Anyone who numbers. It depends on wages and on wages claims that an individual right should take precedence over public well-being is not presenting alone for its livelihood. The creation of this new reasoned argument but quite clearly making a statement in support of vested interest. ^ work-force is, without doubt, the most • We say that it is a crime to have 90% of Irish agricultural land under grass when at the revolutionary development in our long history. same time the urban need for vegetables is met by supplies from Israel, Texas, the Canaries, People of conservative outlook — some of Cyprus, the Channel Islands and God knows what other far-away field. them people who do not profess a conservative • Giant American Corporations are being allowed to carry out a robbery of this country on a political faith — fear this new development. scale never imagined by Strongbow or Cromwell and the Irish capitalists are helping them in this They look back to some "better time" and wish robbery. We reject with indignation the suggestion that Irish capitalism can be harnessed in any to turn back life and time. They see the new way to the cause of winning economic justice for Ireland. generation of property-less wage-earners as • In the North our party policy has been justified by the passing of time. We, from the very gathering dark storm-clouds and they fear a start of the present difficulties said that full democratic rights was the issue in the North. We deluge. We rejoice in the certainty of the coming said that decent housing for all the people was the issue in the North. We said that jobs for all the deluge; we know that it brings new life and new people was the issue in the North. We are practical revolutionaries and we do not bay at the growth; we know that Irish society badly needs a moon. People whose activities divide the working class are not revolutionaries, are not anti- deluge. imperialists, no matter how extreme their actions or their expressions. We, today, have our eyes fixed firmly on the 0 The State company is now being recognised in progressive circles throughout the world as future; we reject all political ideas and relics the best shield for an underdeveloped economy against the activities of large predatory that are not of practical political use. We reject corporations. Our party recognises the importance of the State company and say that it is on the attempts to marry the slogans from past basis of our State companies that Ireland should be industrialised. historical circumstances to present-day political • It is important to stress the handicaps we faced in the recent elections in order to measure and economic needs — revolutionary needs. We the degree of our success. Some of our people will, no doubt, be disappointed that our success are Irish revolutionaries of our own day and age was not greater. We have established our credentials as a working class party and the working and we proclaim loudly and clearly the vital class — the growing force in Irish society — will be doubly disillusioned when Fianna Fail fails to revolutionary need of this day and age — solve the all important questions of employment and cheap food. industrialise, industrialise, industrialise. • We have emerged a well-tempered instrument to help revolutionary change in Ireland. We We call for big, modern, efficient industry; are sometimes told that we lack charity when we speak of the opinions of others of those who we want as many power units available to Irish have not experienced the trials that we have endured. It is indeed sometimes difficult not to be workers hands as the worker has in the United impatient with people who spend more time inventing terms of abuse for aspects of our policies States, in Japan, in West Germany and in the than they do in studying the policies. Soviet Union. Our Party has told the Irish people that traditional Irish industry produces commodities which are expensive and of poor quality — commodities which will not find buyers in any market place other than a of the ruling lew, between capital and the value of human life, the protected home market. Republican Movement will take its stand with the people, to educate, We reject the sweat-shops and the casual organise, agitate and fight so that the people may go forward in labour which has been, and still is in many dignity and consciousness to the final success . . . ownership of their places, the most unpleasant face of Irish ret^ources. control of their destinies." (IJam Mc Millen Boden• capitalism. We will put an end to a situation in stown. 1978) Ireland where the appearance of a foreman on a For further information write to: shop floor or a building site on a certain day of Sinn Fein Sinn Fein Headquarters. ID Gardiner Place. Dublin I. or 10 one of the following addresses, the week means the sack for someone and all The Workers'Party Balllna: P. KllcuUen. Kilmore. Belfast: Republican Club, 40 Cyprus Street, Belfast 12, wait to see where the blow will fall. This is long Bray: D. Tobin. 77 Q-Byrne Road. drawn out tormenting of honest, exploited people Cork: Thomas Ashe Hall, Fr. Matthew Quay. Drogheda: Forresters' Hall, North Quay. in the interest of profit — often mean, petty Kerry: Breandan Mac Gearailt, Ballyferriter. Co. Kilkenny: The Secretary, Sinn Fein The Workers' Party Office profit. Airmount, Slieverue. Our revolutionary party cuts through this Limerick: F. Reynolds, c/o 19 New Road, Kileely. Newry: ITrevorHill mean life full of constant anxiety and petty Strabane: Ivan Barr, 224 Ballcolman Estate. tyranny; a way of life which puts the meal on the Waterford: Daithi Breathnach, 30 Ard Mhuire, Ferrybanh. Britain: Clann na hEireann, 173/175 Lorells Road, Lotells, table at the mercy perhaps of an irresponsible Birmingham 19. Italy: Uflifii) Stamiw Irlnnda Libera. Via Delia Uogana individual. Employment in company of hundreds VecchiH 5. Rama. or thousands of other workers means not only the USA & Canada: Irish Republican Clubs. 160 5th Avenue (Rm. 604) NEW YORK lOOlO. U.S.A. creation of more jobs but the creation of working Auslraliai'New Zealand: |uhn McGee. 6 Railway Road, class power. Working class power — the strength .VlaravonB, Sydnev 2148, N.S.W. of numbers employed in large modern plants — JOIN SINN FEIN - THE WORKERS' PARTY. puts an end to many of the insecurities, uncertainties and petty tyrannies even under capitalism. NAME. ADDRESS. lUIL Trade Union Congress In miiitant mood at News from round the councils naturally focuses on the North this month following on the recent elections. Frank McEIroy chalks up another first for the Republican Clubs in Co. Tyrone. Narrowly defeated for the Chairmanship of Limerick Omagh Council, there was only one vote in it, Frank was • John Carroll, Vice-President, l.T.G. W.U. elected as vice-chairman. He is the first Republican to The mood of the delegates to the and members, the tone of the hold an official position in the new Northern Council Annual Conference of the Irish Conference was set by President John chambers. Congress of Trade . Unions was Mulhall. Belfast's three Councillors have been extremely active undoubtedly militant as was reflected Mr. Mqlhall stated quite inside and outside the City Hall. New man Seamus Lynch in the narrow vote which rejected the categorically that good relations attended a one day conference on Young People in motion to end all future National between the incoming Government Northern Ireland organised by Lord Melchett. There were Wages Agreements. The tone of angry and the Trade Unions would depend four themes for the day— Economic and Social Problems, discontent of the Trade Unionists with largely on the degree of effort put into Education, Courts and Prisons and Voluntary Bodies and the past Government and their solving the country's chronic Youth. warnings to Fianna Fail was reflected unemployment situation. Melchett who has £2 million to spend in helping to deal in the speeches of the President Mr. Equally he ruled out another Wage with youth problems has been invited by Councillor Lynch John Mulhall and by John F. Carroll, Agreement which did not take account to visit the North Belfast district to study the problems at vice-president of the Irish Transport of drastic changes in price levels as firsthand. and General Workers' Union. had occurred over the past four years. In that constituency Lynch has also been active on the Carroll stated that under no threat to working class areas from the proposed roads circumstances could the Trade Union Mr. Mulhall demanded that "full programme. Two highly successful pickets were set up in organisation commit itself to employment be made the first priority the Lower Falls and North Queen Street in which local accepting a 5% annual ceiling on wage of National policy. In support of this residents demonstrated their opposition to putting lorries increases. objective, we shall ask them to carry before houses. "First of all no union is mandated to through the establishment of a An important feature of this campaign is that Cllr. approach wage negotiations on that National Development Council to use Lynch has been elected to the Town Planning Committee. basis. More important than that, no the resources at the disposal of the Cllr. Bernie McDonagh will also be able to make his voice union — and certainly not the Irish State to engage directly in job creation heard as he sits on the Leisure Centres Committee. Congress of Trade Unions — can at this and the development of new areas of Likewise Jim Sullivan from the Community Services. point in time gaze into a crystal ball industrial expansion." The three Belfast Councillors headed the first delegation and say what the state of the economy of the Clubs to meet Under Secretary of State Ray Carter is going to be over the next three years, In-depth on June 21. They were joined by Belfast Clubs' Chairman even with a subscription to a moderate "I would be very pleased if the Brian Brennan, PRO Mary McMahon and Sth. Antrim wage increase programme." Government joined us in in-depth Chairman Kevin Smith. "f think the time is now opportune discussions on this subject in the near At this initial meeting, others are envisaged, the Clubs for the Trade Union Movement and the future," he said. Conference also raised a variety of issues ranging from housing incoming government and the passed a number of resolutions calling redevelopment to the controversial Poleglass-Legmore employers to determine whether or not for the introduction of a fully scheme. They received assurances that the latter project a national programme for economic comprehensive National Health will continue in spite of Unionist pressures. A promise development will be evolved." Service. Mr. Matt Merrigan attacked which should mean 3.000 jobs in the area. "If it is, then obviously the resources the private consultants whom he of the nation will now have to be claimed were the only people standing outlined. The possible development in in the way of free hospital care being extended. "We ought to take the the resources area over the next few consultants by the scruff of the neck years will have to be 'guesstimated'. and tell them that trade unionists will Negotiations refuse to give them services for their private patients in public hospitals "Priorities in respect of the unless they remove their embargo on cost of jobs and in the provision of the provision of free health services for social benefits will have to be all," stated Mr. Merrigan. determined. And against that Other speakers stressed the need to backdrop, policy on wage increases end the discrimination which existed may possibly be negotiated. But there between manual and non-manual is no way such a policy can be workers in relation to the Health determined now," he said. service. A sizeable number of delegates, The ex-Minister for Labour in his however were in no mood to listen to a last speech to the Congress announced soft line on wage negotiations. And a the establishment of the Employment • will Dublin Housing Action demonstrations of the early '70s be motion calling on the ICTU National Equality exchange. Mr. O'Leary said repeated In Belfast? Executive not to take part in any that it would be concerned with the future national wage agreement was ending of discrimination against It is likely that the present Divis Flats tenants will take defeated by the slender majority of 31. women. up the bulk of the new housing in Poleglass. An interesting (163 for and 194 against.) The agency would also be footnote by the way is the fact that the Republican Clubs But while the question of the rate for responsible for monitoring the working proposals on the demolition of the Divis Flats complex, the job must certainly occupy the of the Equality Employment Act and once considered so radical, have now been accepted as attention of all Trade Union officials Equal Pay legislation. essential to the future development of the area. The Clubs delegation stated that they saw the resolution of the housing crisis in the development of an expanded Direct Labour Organisation. Mr. Carter promised to see to what extent this could be achieved through the medium of KEEP THESE DATES FREE! Enterprise Ulster. On the same issue the Clubs pressed for the extension of industrialised building but it would seem that the Under Secretary would prefer to see the outcome of the present 60th Anniversary of the October Revolution scheme in the Cullingtree Road, Belfast. Concern was also expressed by the delegation as to maintaining a proper balance between rehabilitated housing and new homes. Dublin: Thursday, 27th October — Showing of Eisenstein's great classic OCTOBER, A surprising footnote to the Belfast Council elections Belfast: Friday, 28th October — Showing of Eisenstein's great classic OCTOBER. centres around Councillor Jim Sullivan. It is reported that Belfast; Saturday, 29th October — Commemoration Dinner & Social. a failed SDLP candidate Tom Lappin has issued a petition Dublin: Sunday, 30th October — Commemoration Dinner & Social. against Sullivan alleging "corrupt election practices". Lappin however has disclaimed any responsibility for the petition which was made in his name. Further details from: The Clubs have placed the matter in the hands of legal Counsel but the full story is unlikely to be resolved until International Affairs Bureau, next month. Sinn Fein The Workers' Party. Athru Rialtais! ce'n t-athru? Plus c'a change... Imeasc moran gealluinti eile a agus lena cheart a thabhairt do ni Niall Bleine. Ta an Gaeltacht is mo thug Fianna Fail i rith an doighe go raibh fhios aige fein. sa tir i nDail cheantar s'aige suid toghachain duirt siad go mbunofadh Eisean slanaithoir amhain a thug ach nior chuir se oiread agus posteir siad — san Udaras Gaeltachta taobh muintear na Gaeltachta cul a Gaeilge in airde. Chuaigh se ar istigh de bhliain. Ce thogfadh geall mboise do. Ba ghnathach leis na Radio na Gaeltachta agus labhair se ar an gealluint sin? Bhi siad iontach nuachtain buaiteoir an larthar do ar feadh leathuair a chloig le curamach ins an mheid nar innis Fhine Gael a thabhairt air ach is muinteor na Gaeltachta i mBearla. siad duinn ar choir ar bith cen cineal bocht a bhuaidh se suiochain do fein. Chain creatur bocht a phost de bharr Udaras a bhi i gceist acu. Is iomai sin geall a thug an an eachtra aerach sin. CRAC Choir a bheith nar dhuirt Bobby Domhnallach ua agus e ag sodar Chuaigh dream a dtugtar Tionol MoUoy in agallamh le Radio na thart ar na Gaeltachtai le ceithre ortha thart ar iomathoiri i mBaile Gaeltachta cupla mi o shoin go bliana anuas ach ba daor a Atha Cliath le ceistneoir agus bhi na Failte roimh mbeadh Fianna Fail agus e fein go cheannaigh Fine Gael an geall a freagrai o lion mor acu baidhiul, an hairithe i fahfabhar Udaras thog siad ar a chuid gealluinti ag gcreidfea. Dar le Tionol go bhfuil an daonfhlaitheach don Ghaeltacht le deireadh an lae. dul chun cinn deanta acu. Lucht cumhachtai leathan aige. Taobh amuig de cheist an Udaras Se firinne an sceil no go bhfuil fear Ta fhios againn go raibh suil ni raibh moran le radh ag an da i bpriosun i lathair siocar cuir in chraosach ag Bobby choir ar votai phriomh phairti faoi cheist na aghaidh stait scannallach na Chonnemara ag an am agus ta fhios Gaeilge agus na Gaeltachta ach Gaeilge ar an telefis. Ta fear eile ag polaitiochta againn fosta nar thacht an breag amhain an sean dilin, tirim, caite, togail cas costasach san Ard Chuirt ariamh e ach niorbh mhiste a chuid doighte a bhi a spalpadh ariomh acu ag iarrai an bun cheart le casanna focla fein a chuir i gcuimhne do in rith na blianta fada a faisceadh an cuirte a bheith i nGaeilge sa anois. beatha as na Gaeltachtai. Ghaeltacht. Ta gach bac curtha ar Lucht Bhi Tom 0 Donnell ar ndoighe scoileanna Ian Ghaelacha ag Roinn gabhail a chuir Udaras ar fail fosta Polasai an Oideachas. Ta an Ghaeltacht ag gan mhoill direach mar bhi le fail bhais go foill agus gan cumhacht ceithre bliana anuas. Ni raibh fhios Siad John Kelly agus Jim Tunney ag Pobal na Gaeltachta rud ar bith a Xeamh- ag duine beo cen saghas Udaras a na h-Ard Easpail agus na priomh dheanamh faoi. Ca h-uair a Udarasai (ma mhaitheann sibh an thiocfaidh an t-athru. bhi i gceist ag an duine bocht seo focal sin duinn) ar an cheist seo sa polaitiochta Rialtas a d'imigh agus an Rialtas ata ag teacht agus ta a dtuairmiocht Sibhse le go caol ar an cheist le dha sgadan sgeithte sa teorann farraige nach bhfuil ann agus Ian go cosuil le creidimSibhse gah n cheile. Ni raibh faic le radh ag Pairti an Lucht Oibre ar an cheist mar nach creidimh bhfuil, nach raibh, agus nach mbeidh polasai go deo acu ar an teanga agus ar an Gaeltacht. Daoine Dfheadfai a radh nach bhfuil polasai acu ar rud ar bith feasta ach saibhir amhain greim daingean a choinneal ar iorball an leine gorm agus cuir suas leis an boinneach a thig amach as faoi an iorball ceanna. Seanchai Agus goide fen fior Ghael, fior Ghaelach, fior Phoblachtanach, fior Lucht casta Bobby Molloy Chaitliceach, fior naisiuntach ud Neil Blaney ceoil thiocfas puinn duifir do pholaitiocht I mease na fadhbanna ata le an dha Phairti. reiteach ag Lucht Oibre, ta ceist Fili agus D'reir cosulachta ta triur san ceannaireachta acu fosda. Dar le iomaiocht i gcoir ceannaireacht an furmhor scriobhnoiri polaiticiula Ceannairi Lucht Oibre, Frank Cluskey, gur an fear a bhfuil an seans is fearr amhranai Michael O Laoghaire agus Jimmy aige na Frank Cluskey. Ni docha go Tully. I gcas Fine Gael ni nglacfaidh na baill len a leithid Tully amharcann bunus daoine thar tar eis teipeadh ar a Gearoid Mac Gearailt ach ar an eite "TuUymander." Ceol nua ar eile ta John Kelly a bhi ag moladh da Ach seachas ceist na Phairti ar na mallaibh thiontu ar ceannaireachta is eigin do Pairti an pholasai De Valera 1 gcursai Lucht Oibre sochru anois ce acu an Rinnce eachnomaiochta. Comb maith leis bhfuil siad dhul a bheith na na Lucht oibre an smaointiu saoifiuil seo duirt se freasura ni amhain d'Fhianna Fail gur choir d'Fhine Gael theacht nios ach d'Fhine Gael comhmaith. Duine Amranaiocht deisedoGhluaiseacht na Gaeilge. . ar bith a chaith seal a pie na torthai Deirtear ag an am ceanna nach le "dushraith" Lucht Oibre is cinnte bhfuil dushraith an Phairti (Fine gur chuala se go leor a radh nach Caint agus F. Gae" Gael) tughtha do Mac Gearailt; ta bhfeadfadh glacadh le comhriqlts Thainig athru nach iontach ar se ro-intleachtuil do mhuintir na acoidhche go deo. 14u—21u Lunasa chursai polaitiochta na 26 Condaethe tuaithe, cnamh druime Fhine Gael. Pe athru a nitear i Lucht Oibre is tar eis an toghchain. D'eirigh dha Ar an adhbhar sin ta seans go eigin do Sinn Fein Pairti na n-Oibri Handsworth Birmingham cheannairi Fhine Gael agus an gceapfar ceannaire sealadach go dti chinntiu anois go mbeidh siad san Lucht Oibre as a gceannaireacht. Is go sochraionn an Pairti sios tar eis iomaiocht i go leor dail-cheanntair le Eagraithe ag docha nach ndeanfaidh cibe athru a an toghchain. cruthu gur iad an t-eite cle feasta. Clann na h-Eireann

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Sinn Fein The Workers' Party are Republican Clubs Councillor Jim the R.U.C. If Mr. Fitt Is not referring to responsible for the making of another film Sullivan, declared that SDLP Catholics when he speaks about 'the in Ireland. The making of a film in Ireland spokesmen's efforts to portray them• minoritv community' perhaps either he, by Irish people on matters concerning this selves as a non-sectarian party flew In the Mr. Haughey or Mr. Devlin could clarify country is a rare event. Sinn Fein The face of their declared stand on devolved exactly what minority they mean? Workers' Party have been responsible for government. "Power-sharing is the policy around two films in little over two years. "Quite clearly the SDLP care not for which all other SDLP policies rotate. Can The Government's attitude to Irish film• the basic principles of democratic Mr. Haughey deny that power-sharing, as making is to equip Ardmore at Govern• government. Their stubborn insistence on detailed by his party, means anything ment expense and then hope that The power-sharing aside from any guarantees other than sectarian power-sharing? To someone — preferably one of the British of civil liberties, proves their deter• attempt to link, as Mr. Haughey does, the or American giants of the film industry — mination to Institutionalise sectarian SDLP with the anti-sectarian working- comes along to make a film there. Party politics in the community. The corrupt, class politics of Wolfe Tone, is a sordid The Sinn Fein The Workers' Party discriminatory practises of the orange gesture at further dis-service to the feature film Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoire will junta cannot be ended by merely Republican philosophy. be shown, with the few Irish films the changing from single-party junta to "That philosophy, based as It is, on the country has produced, in the Irish Film Platform multiple-party junta. concept of placing the men of no property Theatre during the second part of July. "Spending so much time of late in in control of this country Is totally alien to The new film made by the party will attempting to dis-associate themselves Social Democratics and their support for have its first public showing. In the South, from a 'Catholic label' the SDLP have, in the national bourgeolse. on July 29th at Liberty Hall. It Is a the same breath, tried to woo support "Sectarianism is no less despicable, not documentary film, in colour, on the from this section of the community for less an enemy of working people and their robbery of Ireland's natural resources and objectives just because It is non-violent. it runs for 35 minutes. Indeed, the sectarian para-militaries have The difference between the making of 4- welcoinec been bred by the well-considered political the Film "Going, Going, Gone," and RepublicaAbolition Clubs spokesman o n on Education gears its curriculum to utterances of those who dis-associate C.A.Ui L. is the fact that the new film is themselves from violent deeds only when made in the party's Cinema Workshop. Education and Chairman of S. Antrim catering for the needs of a developing Executive of Republican Clubs, Kevin industrial society. The Republican such deeds do not serve their specific This is a unique development in Ireland ends. and is certainly evidence of broad nature Smyth, has welcomed the abolition Clubs are firmly of the opinion that and growing technical ability of our party. of the 11 plus and the introduction of there should be only one type of "The only unit that is meaningful in this comprehensive education. comprehensive schooling for 11 -F - country today is that of working people. That is the only unity that can dis-arm the Development "While Lord Melchett's 16-1- supplemented by a number of announcement this morning would 6th form colleges. These colleges para-militaries and rid the community of the personally motivated power-hungry "Going, Going, Gone" traces the appear to be more a declaration of should be established in close co• intent than a positive directive to operation with existing technical politicans that seek to pick up the crumbs development of Irish mining from early from Westminster. But the SDLP seek to times to the present and kills the carefully ensure equality of educational colleges and training centres. opportunity. Nevertheless that "Only by adoption of a broad-based delay that progress by deliberately fostered story that it is necessary to bring avoiding the central political issue today, children have now been rid of the curriculum can comprehensive in giant American mining companies in that of democracy for alt citizens. They scourge of the 11 plus should remove schooling hope to break out of the order to "find" our rich natural resources. realise that to Insist on democratic one of the biggest barriers to the Ideal strait-jacket of "streaming" pupils The film shows early and nineteenth standards before any talk of devolved of equality as well as removing an century mining sites — Avoca, The Gap Into good and bad classes and government would be to deny them of Wicklow and the nineteenth century intolerable burden from both parents offering the widest possible choice of partnership and power-sharing. As their smelter at Carrickmlnes. and children. The Government's con• subjects to pupils. recent out-burst over the election ot tinued failure to rhake any mention "The 2 year interim period will All that this country has gained from Chairman and Vice-Chairman of of Integrated schooling, and apparent obviously Impose severe strains on our "mining industry" is shown by shots Dungannon Council and the elections of passing of the buck into the hands of teachers, particularly at primary of huge holes in the ground slowly filling committees in Belfast City Council Area Boards, in many respects makes school level, but with Increased with water. proves, the SDLP concept of power- nonsense of the comprehensive ideal. parent participation in their children's sharing is that power-sharing only Do you know who owns the land and This issue was largely Ignored by the educational future, it is to be hoped happens when they agree to distribute the draws royalties from our latest mine in Cowan Report. The Republican Clubs the burden will not prove too severe. spoils, when they are a party to it. Sligo? See the film and you may be will be demanding that neither the "Today's announcement should not surprised. You will also see the faces of Area Boards nor any of the three be considered to be the end of the "I am in no doubt that their attempt to those who sell out our natural resources working parties to be established to Education Debate but rather the un-seat me in F Area is but a squalid effort — the establishment political parties — examine the comprehensive options beginning of a new era in Education. to cover up the very serious personality the owners of this and that. be allowed to by-pass this crucial Public debate will play no small role split in their own camp. I was elected on The few people who have seen our aspect of education. in formulating the correct curriculum, the anti-sectarian policies of the latest film were favourably impressed by "In a situation where schooling for type and control of comprehensive Republican Clubs and a conscious class it. To make a film on natural resources too many of our children is schooling that Is in the best interests vote. I will not surrender that progressive means using material which is by its Increasingly becoming a prelude to a of the whole community here, which stand for the community, to quieten the nature "dull". The film is attractive and life-time of unemployment it is for too long has been a by-word for yellings of the SDLP sectarian dogs at my easy to watch; this is an achievement. essential that comprehensive out-moded concepts of education." heel."

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Argentinians • Dr. Hlilery The following message of protest was and the dates of the disappearance of 440 sent last month to the 26 Co. President, people. Dr. Patrick Hillary, by the International "The very Navy whose representatives # Gortdrum Mine, Co. Tipperary. Affairs Bureau of Sinn Fein Th^Workers' you are meeting have established a Party. torture centre in Buenos Aires and in this "Sinn Fein The Workers' Party Is centre they have been responsible for the MEDICAL SERVICE REPORT concerned by reports that you are torture of many innocent citizens in• The Report of the General Medical Services, published June 24, meeting a delegation from Argentinian cluding a number of Catholic Priests. The confirms many of the points made in the booklet by Dr. John McManus, Navy at present on a visit to Dublin. Fermoy bom priest — Fr. Patrick Rice was spokesman on Health and Social W^fare for Sinn Fein The Workers' Amnesty International, a prestigious detained, tortured and deported last Party. "Health Care: the case for socialist medical care" was published group dedicated to International human December by the junta. recently by Repsol. rights, have claimed to have 'over• 'Sinn Fein The Workers' Party The main point made by John McManus in this pamphlet is that whelming evidence that many innocents demands that no representative of this Ireland can only operate a partial and defective medical service for the have been imprisoned without trial and oppressive regime should be welcomed in public at a cost of 6.1% of our G.N.P. while England provides a fully have been tortured and killed in Ireland until full human rights and comprehensive service for an expenditure of 5.8% G.N. P. Argentina'. They have listed the names democracy are restored in Argentina." lUIL 1 ThellrMted

Dutch must face reality of sightseers Inspecting the bullet-spattered train engine following the release of the hostages by Dutch troops. South Moluccan problem In December 1975 when a group of South connection with the Dutch army and many suspect that NAMIBIA FUND-RAISING Moluccan gunmen burst their way into the world this is the source of the arms used in the recent headlines through the ht-jacking of a Dutch train hijackings. The only political groups in Holland to have and the occupation of the Indonesian consulate in supported the demand for the establishment of the IN IRELAND independent Republic of South Moluccas have been The fund to purchase Medical Kits for the South West African Amsterdam, the reaction of most people Peoples Organisation (S.W.A.P.O.) of Namibia which was throughout the world was one of puzzlement. Few those on the right, and in the light of Dutch public launched in last month's UNITED IRISHMAN has received a very people outside of Holland had ever heard of the opinion in the aftermath of the recent attacks, even this good response. The Fund, sponsored by the International Affairs must be in doubt. The Moluccans demand does not, at Bureau of Sinn Fein The Workers' Party has to-date collected South Moluccans and even fewer knew anything this stage, seem at all a viable proposition. There is little over £100 and many areas of the country and some people of their obscure cause. overseas have written to us asking for the special Collection Card or no evidence of support from the Moluccans still living printed by the International Affairs to help with the fundraising Indeed when the sieges had been ended the under the Indonesian regime, and in many respects the project. Moluccans seemed to fade rapidly from world attitude of the Moluccans living in Holland can be attention but last month's train hijacking and Donations received during May included the fa/lowing: Drimnagh, compared to that of many Irish Americans in the U.S. Dublin, Branch of the Irish Democratic Youth Movement: £1.50; school occupation which ended with the deaths of who are in their attitude to Ireland even more Provo Connie Green Branch of Clann na hEireann. Bradford, England: six Moluccans and two of their hostages, shows than the Provos themselves. £3.50; Carrickmacross Cumann of Sinn Fain The Workers' Party: clearly that the Dutch Government have a major 2.00; Lisnaskaa. Co. Fermanagh Republican Club: £7.80; Pater problem on their hands — a problem that is not Progressive opinion among the Moluccan Jordan, Bristol, England £1.00; Clann na hEireann, Leads, England going to fade away. community in Holland believe that a solution to the £10.00; Jamas McKeown, Monaghan, £4.00; Kitty & Rose Mickey, Co. Louth £5.00; Irish Democratic Youth Movement, Belfast Most of the 40,000 Moluccans who now live in Moluccan problem can be found only when the fascist £5.00; John Collins Branch of Clann na hEireann, Uvarpool. Holland are children of those who left their East Indian regime in Indonesia, of which the South Moluccas form England £4.00; Martin O'Leary Cumannn of Sinn Fain The only a tiny part, has been overthrown. According to Workers' Party, Rahany/Howth, Dublin .50p; and S. Corcoran Island home 27 years' ago, During the Indonesian war of independence after the second world war, the Amnesty International there are over 100,000 political Offaly, a.20. prisoners In Indonesia at the moment, and of course, Moluccans — unlike most of the other ethnic groups in Readers of "The United Irishman" wishing to help with the tens of thousands of socialists and communists were the area — had taken the side of the Dutch. Many had S.W.A.P.O. Medical Kits fund-raising should write to the In• murdered by the authorities there in the mid sixties. ternational Affairs Bureau, Sinn Fein The Workers' Party, 30 served as soldiers in the Dutch colonial army, and the Gardiner Place, Dublin 1 for a collection card. authorities in Holland had promised that they would Moluccan socialists believe that it is only when the reward them for their' loyalty' by establishing an Indonesian regime has been overthrown, that the independent Republic of the South Moluccas. But democratic rights and freedoms of not only the the Moluccans learned to their cost the promises of the Moluccans but of the many groups which make up the colonial Dutch were of no more value than those of the population of this most populous state, can be British or any other imperial power. When the Dutch guaranteed. The question of independence or some reneged on their promise, a large number of Moluccans, degree of autonomy for the Moluccans can then be examined, they believe. fearing reprisals for the collaboration, felt that their best hope for survival lay in emigrating to Holland. It is quite clear that the Dutch Government will do In their adopted home on the other side of the nothing for the Moluccans. Any attempt to help them establish a Republic of South Moluccas would world, they have kept alive hope of seeing established endanger the vast economic investments which the their independent Republic of the South Moluccas. Like Dutch still have in Indonesia, and which enable the immigrant groups in most countries they have not been Dutch people to enjoy a relatively high standard of treated well. Until quite recently, large sections of the living. As with all capitalist powers, protection of their Moluccan community lived in refugee camps and economic interest will be the priority. Equally it is clear disused army barracks, although it must be said that to that the Moluccans in Holland are not going to abandon a certain extent, they resisted integration into the Dutch their hopes for an independent state, nor are they likely community, as they believed that their stay in Holland to be silenced by repressive measures and long prison would be only temporary. In addition there has always sentences. The Dutch people must face the likelihood of been a much higher unemployment rate among the further violence from Moluccan activists. Truly, Moluccans than among the native Dutch population. Holland's colonial past has returned to haunt It. • Dutch Prime Minister JOOP DEN UYL The Moluccans have, maintained their close Irish welcome for RL.O. representative in Albany, New York The James Connolly Republican Club, in meaning of the term. Our association is with Solidarity Committee in New York in June. The African People's Revolutionary Party, Peter Albany, New York presented a message of Third World Countries who have suffered the main speaker at the forum was Zehdi Terzi, the Draper of the Irish Republican Clubs delivered a solidarity of friendship to Hassan Rahman, the same fate that we have suffered from the im• PLC's Permanent Observer at the United talk in late May to the "2nd National Black United States Director of Information of the perialists of Western Europe end America. We Nations. A demonstration afterwards, attended Leadership Symposium on Africa". Over 300 Palestine Liberation Organisation (P.L.O.) during understand what it is to be a subject people; by 400 supporters of Palestine was addressed by people attended the talk Including Stokely his recent visit to Albany, New York. Ireland is Britain's oldest colony. We understand Tom Hayden of the Irish Republican Clubs. He Carmichaei, Organiser of the A-APRP; and Mr. Rahman was speaking at the College of what it is to be murdered and plundered, to have expressed the Republican Movement's solidarity Ambassador of the Republic of Guinea, Saint Rose in Albany at the invitation of the Third our lands robbed from us while we were driven to with the Palestine Liberation and the Palestine renowned pan-Africanist Dr. C.L.R. James, World Students Association at the college. the bogs and mountains. We understand what it Revolution. and a representative from the Embassy of the United Republic of Tanzania. Ann Hess, from the James Connolly Irish is to see our children dangling, screaming on the "In Ireland", he said, "we fight the same Republican Club and editor of the College swords of conquering soldiers. imperialism representing the Exxon Corporation Addressing a political-cultural rally at the'end Newspaper Inscape '77 read the solidarity "The Irish people have a common experience and the other multinationals which exploit our of the Symposium in the Malcolm X Park and message: with the Palestine people which makes us natural resources — we fight the same kind of attended by 5,000 people Peter Draper said that "The James Connolly Irish Republican Club brothers and sisters. religious sectarianism which divided Palestinian the Irish Republican Clubs is in soildarrty with welcomes the representative of the PLC to the "The call of the Irish Republican Clubs In and Israeli workers and, in Ireland, Protestant and African liberation both from a revolutionary College of St. Rose and to Albany. America to our Palestine comrades is: Our fight is Catholic workers; we fight the same reactionary sympathy and through the rational analysis of scientific socialism. He said that the IRC support "Irish Republican Clubs across the U.S.A. and your fight — your fight is our fight: On to victory! and counter revolutionary elements, such as the the just demands of black people in North Canada welcome their comrade in the struggle Zionists in Israel, the Phalangists in Lebanon and the Provisionals in Ireland." America and opposed any attempts to use Irish for justice, human dignity and the rights of small NEW YORK: ethnicity as a cover for white racism. nations to be free, And in New York members of the Irish "We in the Irish Republican Clubs regard Republican Clubs National Executive attended a WASHINGTON: Ireland as being a Third World country in every forum on Palestine sponsored by the Palestine In Washington D.C. at the invitation of the AIF JOIN IRC. 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Para military A frequent guest of the racialist Rhodesiali regime is the much loved Col. Mad Mitch Mitchell. Now retired from politics he runs a company known as Garrison (Research and Procurement Services) Ltd. He is joined on the Board of Directors by his wife and former British Army side-kick Colonel J. D. L. Boyle. Apparently the firm provides advice on "security matters" to those interested.' During his visits Mitchell has had consultations, although he objects to the word, with Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Army of workers are remorselessly tossed onto the dole Commander, General Walls and senior officers of the Malachy McGurran, Vice-President, Sinn Fein The Rhodesian Army. Mad Mitch has described his visits as Workers' Party Delivered the oration at the annual queue, while our young people are given no reason to "personal" and in no way connected with business. Trade with Belfast Cofnmemoratlon at Milltown Cemetery before believe that anything other than signlng-on will be their the Rhodesians is proscribed by British law. On the other hand an audience estimated at almost two thousand. Mr. lot in life. the British Government has not banned covert military aid to McGurran in the course of his speech said: "While we have been innundated with facts and the fascist Government either in the form of ex-Paras and words of comfort from the former Colonel of the Argyll and "We have come here today not to pay some idle lip- figures on the extent of poverty in the North over the Sutherland Highlanders. service to departed comrades and friends but rather to last 12 months we have yet to hear of any Government examine and renew our committment to the Republican plans to eradicate it. The unemployed persons, the ideal. It is important therefore that no one should be In jobless school-leavers, the over-crowded families, the Meddling any doubt as to exactly what that ideal is or about the low-income households, do not need surveys and pious tactics we have adopted to make that ideal a reality. expressions of sympathy to alleviate their plight. They Recently the SDLP quite rightly condemned the In• " Our understanding of Republicanism today has been need work, they need homes, they need real wage tervention of Blaneyltes In the Northern District Council elections. Blaney supporters had flooded Derry In search of formed by critical examination of tradition, outlook and increases. Our Party was making these demands 10 votes for the Irish Front. Such behaviour, declared the practice; an examination that has been difflcutt and years ago. We make them again today. SDLP, was intolerable. Equally intolerable was the in• expensive. In the search for truth our members have tervention of two leading SDLP personalities in the recent been subjected to terror and aggression because they General Election in the South. Ivan Cooper publicly declared sought to end, once and for all, the poverty, ex• his support for Fianna Fall. And, In an attempt to sabotage Callous the campaign of SFWP Waterford candidate Paddy ploitation, emigration. Ignorance and death that is the Gallagher, Paddy Devlin spent a week canvassing for lot of working people. "Despite the fury of our enemies we have stood firm Labour's Frank King. In the event, Gallagher polled twice as "We have identified the issues that are of critical on Those demands We ^ave refused TO comoromise well as King. A statement from the SDLP Is eagerly awaited. Importance. Democratic rights, decent housing and jobs that position for anyone. We have activetv oppoeed at(- for all the people. The tragedy of the past eight years in those who have claimed to be revolutionaries and Pay-off the North have borne out the correctness of our Republicans but whose every word and deed divide the policies. Direct Rule has brought with it, as we working people. We have paid a very high price for Well, well who would ever have believed It. The darling of predicted, less democracy, fewer houses and fewer being practical revolutionaries. Too many of our the literary West. Solzhenitsyn, has turned out to be a multi• millionaire with a fortune in Swiss francs. When did he have it? jobs. We have witnessed the use of more repressive comrades and friends have been laid low by the hands In 1974 when he was expelled from the Soviet Union after legislation than even the Orange Junta of the previous of right-wing forces for anyone here today to go away having conducted a slanderous campaign against the Slate and fifty years dared to introduce. Brutality and torture of weak-willed or unsure of our path. the people. arrested persons have become the rule of law. In the "Having correctly identified the issues we have, with Historians will now be able to judge in a more critical light most concerted attack on personal liberty ever wit• the moves which led up to the expulsion. Clearly unable to take equal clarity, provided the answers. We have advantage of his numbered account in Switzerland nessed in this country, the RUC, at the promptings of recognised the dynamic potential for new economic Solzhenitsyn forced the hand of the Soviet authorities into Mr, Mason, have engaged in a barbaric ritual of torture structures In the economic dimension of the Irish banishing him. Russia's "loss" was not Switzerland's gain. The that offends against every convention on human rights. question. We have witnessed the 26 Counties Swiss are angry because he described them as "a Republic of Government betray, in almost scandalous and callous Lackeys". It lakes one to know one. "Let it be said loud and clear here today that their victims are, by and large, the totally innocent, the un- manner, the right of the people of Ireland to the involved, those least able to defend themselves. If in• ownership of Ireland, by exporting our vast reserves of Trendy deed any defence is possible, the young and the elderly, natural resources. Multi-national companies are rob• against this reign of terror. The RUC have learnt their bing this country on a scale hitherto unknown in its long Dublin's Community Councillors will try anything in the history of exploitation, with the active collaboration of absence of politics. There was the Watchdog Loftus; is he going tactics well from their fellow right-wing sadists in the to change his name to Sean Dublin Bay Watchdog Loftus? And forces of re-action, that pass for police, in Chile. The the native capitalist class. Thousands of millions of there was Kevin Byrne In Dublin North Central. Mr. Byrne phrase, 'the net is closing' is not to be taken as referring pounds have literally been given away to these multi• appealed to the voters in the following way, "Happiness is a to para-mllltary organisations, but it refers to every nationals while thousands of jobs in Ireland have been Community T.D.", "Love Is voting for Your Community sacrificed. Candidate." Now that's the sort of programme to put the citizen. No one will be immune from this sordid attempt country to work and it certainly must have pleased the to boost the figures for 'crimes'solved'. Anyone will "No border has existed in this country when it comes unemployed. do the RUC. to repression and terror. No stone has been left un• turned by either the British or Irish Government In their Solidarity sordid rush to stifle civil liberty and political freedom. Militarism But neither Government has demonstrated'any interest The International Section of Sinn Fein The Workers' Party in planning a new economic structure that would have sent a donation of £25 to the Grunwick strikers in London. materially improve living standards for working people. In a message of solidarity to Jack Dromey, Brent Trades "This conspiratorial directive from the NI Office Is Council representative on the Strike Committee. Sean O deliberately designed to create fear and apprehension In North and South. Neither Government has indicated a Cionnaith says. "Enclosed please find £25 from Sinn Fein The the community, to prepare the ground for yet another strong desire to involve the Trade Union Movement In Workers' Party and from the city of Dublin which helped British imposed solution to our political problems. We the creation of State Planning Bodies; no attempt has pioneer the struggle for Union recognition in 1913. Dublin got state now, as we have stated for the past 10 years, that been made to harness the natural resources off the help in that crucial struggle from British Trade Unionism and the fundamental source of all our political ills lies in the' coasts of Southern Ireland with the expertise and skilled the British Left. This donation cannot hope to return the labour of Northern engineering workers to develop and denial of basic civil liberties to the people. Responsibility gesture in volume but we hope that it does so in spirit. We wish process those resources to create jobs and wealth for all you victory." for that situation lies solely at the door of Westminster. the people of Ireland. All political parties here have agreed on the need for Bill Pieces of yen of Rights ligislation, yet Britain continues to ignore the "In re-iterating our political demands today for civil demand. rights, for jobs, for homes, for better living standards for A reader in Canada has sent us an interesting magazine working people we are but re-affirming our conviction in titled "Alive." A Maoist publication, they have devoted their "Is it any wonder then that British militarism and June issue to a rapturous analysis of the Provisionals. The sectarian para-militarism dominate the lives of working the Republican doctrine as enunciated by Tone and remainder of the paper contains a number of attacks on the people? How can it be otherwise, when Britain chooses Connolly. It was for that philosophy that Frank McGlade Socialist countries. to ignore her responsibilities? The smoke-screen of gave a lifetime of service. It was for that philosophy that Money seems to be no problem to the publishers and our violence, perpetrated for its own sake, provides a so many of our comrades and friends were ruthlessly source says that they "have endless reserves of finance." First gunned down by sectarian forces. It is in recognition of published in 1969 "Alive" has sought to promote what they call convenient distraction from the multiple socl-econornic anti-lmperiallst armed struggle, attacking all genuine deprivation that sorely presses on the community. the sacrifices of our deceased comrades that we pay liberation groups as "reformist" or pro-Soviet. Britain's failure to take the essential first step on the tribute here today. Let us continue that tribute every The pattern certainly suits the book of one group of "anti- road to any progressive, peaceful, political solution is day by pursuing, with their determination and- imperlalists" — the CIA. And they have been known to part primarily motivated by a decided unwillingness to take selflessness, that path, as we rally the awareness and with the odd dollar to keep people like "Alive" In business. any significant measures to re-vitalise the economy. The support of working people behind our demands for the 32 county Socialist Republic". British Government has stood idly by while thousands Printed and Published by Clo na h-Eireann, 30 Plas Gardnar, B. A.C.I.