INSIDE THIS ISSUE Page 2 - TWO DIRTIEST WORDS Page 3 — SINN FEIN ARD FHEIS Page 4 - MILITARY PACT Page 5 - LAGAN LIGHTS No 502 DECEMBER 1985 30p Page 6 — IRISH SONGS Page 7 - BOOK REVIEWS SALE OF THE Page 8 — DONALL MacAMHLAIGH Dear Disgraced smoky again CENTURY! Dublin A RECENT survey shows Dubli as the smokiest capital in the EE< ONt would be tempted to echo the words of W. B. Yeats at the Abbey riot, and say to the with levels of pollution that ar British Parliamentary labour Party "You TAOISEACH ACCEPTS PARTITION causing widespread alarm. have disgraced yourselves again." The personnel may be different, bul the Forty years ago it was tui spirit is that of Attlecund Morrison, cxcept smoke, and you got the whiff of i that they perpetrated the crime oftryingto the moment you touched down a make partition permanent, while the THATCHER DITCHES UNIONISTS present brave warriors climbed on the Collinstown. bandwagon without even troubling to think where it was going! Now it is smoke from open cos Well, they're saddled with it, and we By THE EDITOR fire, but above all from motor ca won't let the public forget. Messrs exhausts. Thatcher, Kinnock, Steel, Owen, Fitzgerald and Hume (we don't blame him so much; he has problems the others do not THE Fitzgerald-Thatcher agreement is one of the most squalid and contemptible pieces of What is deplorable is th; face) may declare that the unity of Ireland hypocrisy since Lloyd George swindled Michael Collins in 1921. Kilkenny anthracite, recognised ; can now be forgotten about. You see! Just the finest in Europe, and on! see if it is forgotten! What's it for one asks? Will he advise treating the inferior to the Pennsylvania Of course the whole thing is a fraud. To get peace, of course, comes the reply. How will it get peace? By Under an umbrella ol temporary euphoria, nationalists more gently? He product is not exploited and tf Dr Fitzgerald is expected to sign European stopping thp IRA. How will it stop the IRA if they choose to go on? Now probably will, and that's to the mines are closed. agreements that tic Ireland in to the war- that Garret Fitzgerald has given up the Irish claim to the six counties, preparations of the USA. good. But one would hazard a everybody on the nationalist side (if we treat them a bit gently) will support guess that there'll be plenty of What a bunch! To abstain, yes. but to the SDLP. vote with the Tories against Irish unity, ground for disagreemenf. And gratuitously and with total disregard of when there is, England's word Did you ever hear such a series of He may say the national conlcrence commitment! goes. breath-taking non sequiturs? One demand for a united Ireland is Good luck to the handful of Laboui This means on the English side simple answer disposes of them. If "out". It is not out to republicans. MPs who stood out. Their names also that it is admitted that the six Troy honours should be remembered: the IRA is blowing things up It is not out to Neil Blaney and counties cannot be ruled without Tony Benn, Robert Clay, Harry Cohen, because Mrs Thatcher won't get out Kevin Boland who is challenging the help of Dublin. Will that help Jeremy Corbyn, Tam Dalziel, M. of the six counties, why should they the agreement in the courts. It is Redmond, Ernie Roberts, Terry Fields, be sufficient? Feicimid! Connolly stop when Hume or Fitzgerald say not out to Fianna Fail. And we do James Lamond, Joan Maynard, David So the Unionists have lost their WHEN James Connolh Nellist, Robert Parry and Dennis Skinner. OK they can stay? not believe it is really out to Mr The thing is so ridiculous that Hume, heavily europeanised as he"' monopoly, just as England has decided to settle in the USA it Ask any ordinary person in the country why, given up her monopoly. And this despite all thai-Mrs lliateher has done against its presenters can't believe it is himself. He's the Collins of the 1903, he headed for the city o them, they do not feel like voting Labour at the themselves. Number one reason deal, tragic rather than is a real change and may lead to Troy, NY, where he had relatives next election. The reply will be "You can't irust developments not envisaged by them." 1'his feeling is more telling than all the for thinking the deal may be about blameworthy. This was the "collar town" aru party finessing that is supposed 10 win votes. either of the high contracting he was doing well as an insurance something else altogether. What does Fitzgerald get for Fortunately the whole Labour party is not the parties. agent until a strike paralysed tin TREACHERY the national demand? He gets a same, lite Libour Committee on Ireland has The negotiations have been a industry and after a spell in Nev condemned Ihc agreement on the grounds that its We'll nbt waste time on finger in the six county pie. He will well-leaked secret. But the leaks York city he left for New Jersey. object is to isolate Sinn l-ein. and thai il will only Fitzgerald's treachery. He is be allowed to advise England on perpetuate ihe cycle of violence. were all the Unionists got. They Now the City Council ha Meanwhile we look forward loa lime when the essentially a rootless cosmopolite how to keep the six counties quiet. were not informed. They were not Labour Members of Parliament will have ihe- and would have done better like England will decide what is done, agreed to the erection of ; guts and ihc horse-sense to stand up. and be seen consulted. Gone are the days of his uncle, running a chemical but'he will be allowed to give it the monument to the great Iris standing up. for the interests of the undcr-dogihc "That is a matter for the Labour Parly was founded to light for. works in Woolwich. cachet of national officialdom. socialist-republican leader an- Government of Northern this is to be unveiled next August Ireland." The Committee, headed b And they have every reason to Thomas W. Gleason of th be alarmed. The agreement is International Longshoremai between the British government Union, and supported b and the government "of Ireland," distinguished Irish sponsors not of "the Republic of Ireland." including Mr Sean MacBride i There are legal arguments for appealing for funds, am thinking the Free State donations should be sent to M Constitution Act has never been Ralph Knight at the address of th< legally invalidated and that the "Troy Citizen and Irish Patriot" British Parliament by a simple 18 Cortland Street, Troy, NY. motion could set aside the The Executive Board that i: resolution of the two houses of the appealing for support has Jame: Northern Ireland Parliament that J. Devine as chairman, with co led to the withdrawal of the chairman Peter D. Durkes, am territory from the thirty-two Edward Connoll. county Free State. The treasurer is Anne 1-1 Of course the Unionists have Armao, the secretary Alic been betrayed, outrageously and Connally Fisk, together witl scandalously betrayed, of malice Brian Sullivan, Willian prepense and deliberate McGovern and Joseph Jamiso; calculation. of the Irish American Labou They can now reflect at leisure Committee. of the fate meted out to traitors by The venture has the sulppor. t o history. These are the moneyed Hibernians and others througthroughh interests whose fathers set out New York State. themselves out to pervert the If you're thinking of crossin; minds of decent Protestant people the briny ocean, wouldn't nex August n»* *> food time? December 1985 December 19® £ THE IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Three Page Two THE IRISH DEMOCRAT ACTIVITIES PAUL SALVESOM of Bolton THE TWO DIRTIEST WORDS Socialist Club s "People s History Group" tells me that This autumn Common Market Bernie Morgan fascinated his H AT the dirtiest expression SALE OF THE CENTURY panjandrums have been and invented the lie that there in the American language'' IN THE AMERICAN Those for whom the smell of audience on Wednesday, discussing the Dooge/SpineHi were two traditions in Ireland of American think-tanks represent it this is happening in the case ol Herbert I Schiller, Professor of imperialism is insufficient may November 20th, when he plan, nurtured in the shadowy equal validity. These are the By one of the most serious threats to Ireland's first colony and last ot addressed their meeting on the Communications in the ask for evidence of American sessions of the Trilateral people whose Nuremburg type democracy as they are wealthy any importance. story of the Irish in Liverpool. Mr University of California, LANGUAGE involvement, apart from the Commission, unelected Parlia- rallies kept hysteria at boiling THE EDITOR enough to exert influence at Morgan is chairman of the campaigner against "cultural extradition treaty and the promise The "Irish Democrat" has long bastion of state sovereignty. It "future in Europe", a foretaste of ment of Euro-American-Japanese point year after year while the government levels. And as many Liverpool Branch of the Connolly imperialism" and hammer of of the American administration to pointed out the process of fusion declines to have its economy which can be seen on Liverpool plutocracy. economic interests of the workers governments are composed of Association. Madison Avenue, has no doubt. invest thousands of millions in (Continued between the issue of Irish penetrated, permeated and docks or the steel cemeteries of they kept politically backwarc' semi-literate fools, that is serious.