WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! No 1437 Week commencing 11 May 2007 Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain 50p HISTORIC DAY IN IRELAND IN ONE of the most historic days of the Peace killed 20 years ago today at Process, power-sharing in the North has begun be- Loughgall. Days like today tween the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and must be about ensuring that • October 1994, start of the peace process – Gerry McLochlainn delivers the letter Sinn Féin. DUP leader, Ian Paisley, and Sinn Féin’s events like Loughgall are from Sinn Féin to John Major. Martin McGuinness took their pledge of office as never visited on another generation. HISTORY was made in the first ceasefire between the allegations that Sinn Féin First Minister and Deputy First Minister in a north of Ireland last Tues- IRA and the imperialist forces was engaged in spying “I genuinely believe against other parties in the power-sharing administration on Tuesday. Ten that we are all shaping a day when Democratic but this broke down within a ministers of the power-sharing executive were then Unionist Party leader Ian year or so because the British first, short-lived, Northern real process of national Paisley joined forces with government refused to meet Ireland Assembly, when in appointed. reconciliation and building Sinn Féin’s Martin Sinn Féin at the negotiating fact they were the victims Irish Prime Minister Adams said: “Today is a new relationship between McGuinness as First Min- table. of spying. There have also Bertie Ahern, and British another significant land- the people on this island and ister and Deputy First The peace process was been unfounded smears premier Tony Blair, were mark in the process of between Ireland and Brit- Minister of the Northern revived in 1997 when Tony that Sinn Féin was involved among the guests in the transforming life on this is- ain. There are clearly Ireland Assembly. Blair was elected Prime Min- in a major bank robbery. visitors’ gallery. Formal pro- land. It’s a good day for many challenges ahead but This was the culmina- ister. There was a second These smears were the ceedings at the event were Ireland, it’s a good day for have no doubt that all these tion of the peace process ceasefire – which still holds – reason given by Ian Pais- all of the people of this is- challenges can be over- that began in October 1994, and a long negotiating proce- ley for his former intransi- delayed by 30 minutes as a when Sinn Féin representa- dure that produced the Good gence in refusing to engage mark of respect to the late land. come. tive Gerry McLochlainn de- Friday Agreement. That agree- with Sinn Féin in a function- DUP legislator, George “We, as Republicans livered a letter from his ment contained major conces- ing elected Northern Ire- Dawson, who died on “I think that Sinn Fein can develop and build and party’s executive to Prime sions by all parties but it was land Assembly. Monday after a short ill- has delivered and I want to work and seek support for Minister John Major, pro- emphatically endorsed in a But now that Assembly ness. commend the DUP also. our vision of a united Ire- posing measures that referendum throughout the is functioning, Paisley’s in- Sinn Féin President The talks between Sinn land, of an Ireland of equals would lead to “a lasting whole of Ireland. transigence is gone and the Gerry Adams speaking at Fein and the DUP, and the where everyone has rights. peace”. Nevertheless much of the prospects for continuing Stormont said “Today is agreements between us, “We have the right to a The Tory government GFA has yet to be imple- peace are high. Sinn Féin have opened up the poten- society where citizens are of John Major took the pro- mented and it has had heel has in no way abandoned another significant land- posal seriously because the dragging and attempted sabo- its ultimate aim of a united mark in the process of tial for new beginnings. treated on the basis of armed struggle of the IRA tage since it was signed. This Ireland, free from British transforming life on this is- “I want also to remem- equality. We want to was taking too great a toll includes opposition from occupation. But, for the first land. Today is a good day ber everyone who was hurt change the political land- on the British state and its what Sinn Féin describes as time in history, it is able to for Ireland. I want to thank or killed in the conflict. scape from here on out. We occupation forces in the the “secureaucracy”, who pursue that policy peace- and commend everyone Over the weekend I spent are going to succeed.” north of Ireland. have repeatedly tried to un- fully within the elected As- who worked to achieve time in County Tyrone with That letter led to the dermine the peace with false sembly. this.” families of IRA volunteers Sinn Féin news FUND Our fund this week Iraq: put on your tin hats has brought us £467.70 by our Arab Affairs and raised our May total Correspondent mets while outdoors or in while he is in the region is to rally behind a platform of Unions on Tuesday. If it goes so far to £507.70 and unprotected buildings, fol- believed to once again be try- “reform and reconciliation”. ahead the strike is likely to leaves us with £2,492.30 US VICE-PRESIDENT Dick lowing a deadly barrage last ing to drum up support for an Some talks have been halt most production and all to go to make our monthly Cheney arrived in Baghdad week that killed four Filipino anti-Iranian alliance in ad- held with Sunni clerics and its exports. target of £3,000. on Wednesday for talks contractors working in the 3.5 vance of possible US air- Al Sadr is keen to position Needless to say little Nearly all of this with US commanders and square mile area along the strikes to try to take out Iran’s himself as a resistance publicly came out of the in- week’s fund has come puppet leaders as thou- west bank of the Tigris river nuclear facilities. But he will leader rather than the chief ternational conference on from bankers’ orders and sands more American in the heart of the Iraqi capi- also be trying to ensure the of a sectarian militia, which Iraq held in Egypt last week, we thank everyone who troops pour into Baghdad to tal. loyalty of his Iraqi puppets, is how many Sunnis and though the Americans did has contributed to this Baathists view him these have private discussions with beef up the “surge” offen- The Americans have knowing full well that many and we thank the donor sive. But as the imperialist failed to crush the resistance of them have close ties with days. But his bitter hatred of the Iranian and Syrian del- campaign enters its fourth in Baghdad despite all their the Islamic Republic. Saddam Hussein and the egations. And Abbas of a one-off £5.50 dona- month it’s clear that the only checkpoints and bunkers The puppet government Baath Party, whom he Araghchi, the Iranian deputy tion. “surge” has been the rise now dotted across the nation- is clearly on its last legs. The blames for the death of his foreign minister who at- It seems we are at in American casualties at alist areas of the capital. Am- Sunni Muslim parties are on father, and the sectarian at- tended the conference, enig- last coming to the end of the hands of the resistance. bushes, sniper attacks and the verge of pulling out while tacks on the Sunni commu- matically offered Tehran’s co- Blair’s blight over Brit- Earlier in the week the bombings continue relent- some of the Shia leaders are nity by some elements within operation to the US in devel- ain and over the Labour Pentagon announced that it lessly and the international also losing patience with the the Mahdi Army are huge ob- oping an “exit strategy” from Party and the prospect of has earmarked 10 more airport has again come un- sectarian Maliki regime stacles towards winning over Iraq on his return. a Brown regime seems combat brigades with 35,000 der rocket fire. Last week a which is completely power- significant sections of the The United States and no better. But outside troops for deployment in Iraq senior US commander was less and just a rubber-stamp Sunni nationalist community. Iran had the “same interests” this year, while White House seriously wounded while for the US army of occupa- Meanwhile thousands of in a stable Iraq and that di- Britain, in Asia, Latin spokesman Tony Snow told surveying one of the concrete tion. oil workers are preparing to rect talks leading to a “face- America and Africa, the the American public to brace walls the Americans are Militant Shia cleric down tools in protest at Ameri- saving withdrawal” were class struggle is making themselves for even more erecting to seal off the nation- Muqtada al Sadr and his can plans to privatise Iraq’s possible with Washington’s significant advances. losses in the weeks to come. alist neighbourhoods. Colo- Mahdi Army supporters have petroleum industry that have goodwill he declared. The Help us to oppose im- Cheney’s talks were held nel BD Farris, the com- already withdrawn their sup- been rubber-stamped by the American invasion “was a perialism in its heart- in the heavily fortified “Green mander of the 2nd “Falcon” port for Maliki and the maver- puppet regime.