FOUNDED 1939 j KEEP THE DATE FREE Organ of the AT a conference in June 1987, organised by the Connolly Association Connolly Association there will be a discussion on the democratic right cf the Irish people to unity and independence and the problems trade unionists face in generating support for this aim among other trade unionists. Before June there will be a number of meetings in which there will be preparatory discussions. The first of these will be on Saturday, 1st No 512 OCTOBER 1986 November, at the Marchmont Street Community Centre at 2.30 pm, chairman, Noel Harris national organiser of ACTT, main speaker C. Desmond Greaves. Many Trade Union Leaders expressed WALL STREET sympathetic interest at this year's Trades Union Congress. For further information write to or phone Connolly Association, 244, 246, Grays Inn Road, COONEYWANTS MEDDLES London, WC1. Tel: 833 3022. BIGGER LIES Teachers furious GOEBELS, Hitler's propaganda minister advocated the Big Lie. The historians have already been told to IN IRISH AFFAIRS play down the crimes of Britain in Ireland. That means the historians are already distorting history. The leaders U.S. SHOWS CONTEMPT FOR IRISH PEOPLE in'1916 must not be treated as heroes. Not content with that Mr Cooney Irish Minister for Education, wants teachers to introduce further distortion under his The cat is out of the bag good and proper guidance. In his circular he urges teachers to denounce "the evils of the IRA." THE cat is now out of the bag. Good and proper! The circular, sent to all post-primary HARRY COULDRING schools at the end of August, drew A prominent feature article in the prestigious Wall Street Journal, megaphone of the attention to the naming of 1986 by the multi-millionaires, argues that American policy towards Ireland should concentrate on one R.I.P. United Nations as the International Year of Peace. thing and one thing olone, that is getting the Republic into NATO. AN Englishman, and a real Londoner "It is envisaged," the circular says, This blatant interference in Irish affairs is advocated by military journalist Mr William Kennedy, who says when Harry married Liz Dunne fron "that a main focus of attention would that the USA should establish a "secular, all-Ireland government" within the EEC and NATO. Co Louth he became a loyal member oi he on the promotion of peace and the Connolly Association, Soutl reconciliation in Ireland, with The expression "secular" is the war to begin. They want Britain to has yet fully to come to grips with London Branch. 'Harry Boy' greatl) rtkular emphasis on the evils of the key to the divorce memorandum, undertake this responsibility. the new factors introduced into the enjoyed the CA's delegation to Dublin E A, while also taking into account which is now revealed as having But, the article explains, the overall political situation by this in 1984, and indeed he and Liz were on wider international issues such as been brought about under US equivalent of a whole division is holiday in Ireland when he so tragically disarmament, the problems of intensified American pressure. Will died from thrombosis on September developing nations and human rights." pressure with a view to the NATO deployed in the six counties, and Ireland be Cuba or Puerto Rico? 5th. All our sympathy goes out to Liz The Fianna Fail spokesperson on scenario. No doubt Garret the three and a half thousand That's a question! and the family. education, Mrs O'Rourke, said she was Fitzgerald got his orders at the million dollars spent every year amazed at the selectivity in the circular Bilderberg conference or the would equip an extra aircraft and queried why it did not list all trilateral commission. parliamentary groups who contributed carrier battle group. to violence. It was wrong she said in an The sixty million dollars being RTE interview, "to introduce into a Why do the Americans want this? given to the Anglo-Irish The poem below was written by an innocent man in history of civics class any note of Because they've got to pay for their Conference is a very small sprat for dissent which would be completely one- mission in Northern Norway from catching a mackerel like that. Wormwood Scrubs, doing life imprisonment for a sided." which they expect the third world crime he did not commit. The intense agony of his She took exception to the circular The Irish Republican movement because it breached "educational situation is conveyed through his words. The poem principles." Hie Minister, she said, had it made a tactical error in only naming the Nuclear cul-de-sac says more than a hundred political tracts. IRA. ACCORDING to an editorial in the The suggestion is that the better Father Paul Byrne of the Conference New Scientist of August 22nd, the system is that based on extracting heat of Major Religious superiors said that Chernobyl accident could be repeated by means of an inert gas such as any move to lecture students on the evils any time, anywhere, because safety helium. This was the technology EACH MORNING of the IRA would be counter productive controls have to be manually switched developed in Britain. People in the and would not prevent teenagers from off when maintenance work is Trade Union movement should be supporting republican paramilitaries. undertaken. The presence of highly asking why this was stopped. Was it By Richard Mc llkenny The president of the Amalgamated reactive steam in the vicinity of another example of Mrs Thatcher's (One of the Birmingham Six) Society for the Teachers of Ireland, Mr graphite always carries the possibility groveling to the Americans? Chemists John White also said the circular could of a water gas reaction if by any will be wondering what is wrong with be counter productive. The TUI mischance the two come together. The Argon, which is totally inert and' Each morning I awake Lord Mr Sean McCarthy said the extraction of heat by means of water is composes one per cent of the I give you thanks and praise ive been on political thus fundamentally unsound and this atmosphere. But nuclear energy may For adding yet another procedure to achieve change ratter re- on particular groups. jneans that the nuclear industry has still be saved if there is a complete To my span of days Ia reply Mr Cooney said on RTE that been ted down a disastrous cul-de-sac. think. In times of anger and frustration Lord biggest single obstacle to You have given me your peace peace in Ireland." In this approach to And filled me with your love and joy Irish politics Cooney follows In the BOOK THE DATE! That I pray will never cease footsteps of Thatcher and Fitzgerald. Through the good days r And the bad days Lord It has become unfashionable to use SATURDAY, DECEM ,^R 7th :: 11.00-4.30 You have carried me along the terms Parition, occupation forces, And put in my heart your patience or Imperialism hi certain circles. And on my lips your song. GREAT BOOK SALE Continue Lord to guide me SUSTENTATION FUND . 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Totaf: £74.21 OCTOBER 1986 IRISH DEflQpRAT Page Three Page Two IRISH DEMOCRAT OCTOBER 1986 i A threat to us all ALL TOGETHER NOW Campaign for Release of Innocent Prisoners LAGAN LIGHTS THE British Government's failure to ageing leader, whose fitness for office inform the Irish Government on the of the chief of the world's biggest ALL strands of organised Irish political favouritism, resolved at a campaign, Father Faul cited the 30,000 gallon leak from the Wifla military machine, must more and opinion in Britain are convinced that General Meeting in London on recent publication of "Error of power station in north east Anglia more be called into question. Then, of the six men now serving the twelfth September 13th to campaign on all Judgement" on the Birmingham BY S. O. DIOCHON shows contempt for the people of this course Reagan is convinced God year of their life sentences for the three cases. For a start the Federation bombings trial by British journalist country. An international ban on the speaks with an American accent and Birmingham bombings are innocent; is to book a Committee Room in the Chris Mullin. (Father Faul is himself disposal of nuclear waste has been in learned how to dispense justice on a that the three men and one woman House of Commons to brief MPs and co-author of "The Birmingham Hollywood film set. serving life for the Guildford bombing media on the evidence that Framework" published in 1976). operation for the past three years.