FOUNDED 1939 * Organ of the POLITICAL STATUS Connolly Association IRISH FOR LONG KESH MCOAT PRISONERS No. 436 NOVEMBER 1980 20p JOHN BOYD ON E E C Page 2 PEADAR O'DON NELL SPEECH Page 5 SONGS Page6 CARLE TON Page 7 WITHDRAWAL GOOD DAYS IN THE FIFTIES Page 8 WOMEN AT * NNE BOYLE and Maire O'Haire ' * were arrested at Heathrow pur- port on their way into Britain on 24th October. Miss O'Hare was released on Sun- day, but Miss Boyle is being held at the time of going to press, after a writ of habeas corpus to free her was adjourned till the following Thursday in the High Court. " Under the Prevention of Terror- • • w - - . ism Act anyone can be held for up to seven days without being charged and need not be granted campaign access to a stflcitor. Two more women, Miss Rose Mc- J^T the 300-strong meeting Tony Benn told the audience "1 was brought up to believe Allister and Miss l$a|garet Mc- very strongly from my father that the Partition of Ireland was a crime." Nulty were-; detained at H«athrow ni*ghtheir * ^ ®niida7 "I believe," he went on, "that the work of the LloyLtoyd GeorgGeorge "These factors," he said, "lead Miss McAjuitea*> member of Government et al at that time was one of the blackest episodes me to the conclusion that what the Long It^llelat^Action in British imperial history." \ -^ItlSSS Committee and came to Britain to ists ls t0 mahe a declaration of take part in a 24 hour tok&h fast in «w MUSVsay quite clearly and tion and independence." intent ... that it is our wish Downing Street to draw attention * f, thoro „ x to bring about a united Ireland." to the conditions of Republican pri- plainly that in my view there Benn drew attention to the soners in the Six counties. is no future for a policy based use 0f the, six counties as a Benn concluded by saying: "I An average of seventeen people on partition. training ground for future re- believe that the continued pre- are detained every week at Heath- INDEPENDENCE pression in Britain, sence of theBritish as a politi- row on their wa" y' to and from Ire- <'"ThereThere isis nono futurefuture forfor peacepeace HeHe referredreferred toto thetne lacklacn ofoj calcai andana militarymilitary forcejorce inin Irelandireiana The PTA has brought misery Into andJ co-operation" """ in the whole previous discussion on Ireland is themecjorbarrierthat stands thousandihds of Iristf fcomes. « - of Ireland that did not include at OtiM^Wtm, mpOmr the *py of/trojte tmiomand We must emurensure that this Fascist a clear presentation of can alter- „goverm^:y^%i0^wef, - ft „ __ 1»»at Act is not renewed 'ih Ffebruary.The native persp&dtiveonreunifica- was handled like no other issue. presence must be withdrawn.' Co. police have amp!e .ixhvers without ' -ig', !- '•>' "- •'' " 1 .'''•.."" '. '"' ''.. " ' ; * 1 It" - '"•^V:^- %/p The Connolly Association petition . will be presented befQ^ the Act is renewed,,, Send, for a copy and get Mi it filled' *u,p.. ''," .; ": IF the seven men on hunger practised against them and their 1 : regg^^P^using^. v: be the responsibility of thfe Brl- 60 pi: rf tish Government. ".' T^^ave>ot been convicted : S Si- „; • : inncnTMdcoffrtsOflaw. f^mi- rwgm m: Aiy^pe .ywni menhave fessioiis fa^ exWacted ^JS * •ootaty WhlCh ... after ihhUtean and/degrading J*^w , treatment, puppet state f ••^^V^MiiiU deriiMwtr^ion .1, MR , has been ^ authorities are which is to put »ri- mands, "NO" TO sone BWBwVfc i'suri "m [ havii •petuates the t 1 {accused of. £ I The six- p sc v • 13 ^mM • • i November 1980 THE tRlSH DEMOCRAT November 1980 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT BRITISH LEADERS IN COVER UP BETTY Interrogators fear War Crimes Tribumri' port that the Bennett Committee SINCLAIR AVOID REFERENDUM TRAP NO RECOVERY was set up. JAMES CALLAGHAN, then a major cover-up in 1977 when THE strength and weak spots of Attorney General, Sam Silkin, A.LL this is revealed in a new Prime Minister, and Roy Ma- warned by senior officials that * the anti-market movement. and the Director of Public Pro- book "Beating the Terrorist" CELEBRATES BY son, then Secretary of State for I.R.A. suspects were being ill- secutions in Northern Ireland, (Penguin, £1.50), by Peter Taylor, What are the major questions Northern Ireland, were guilty of treated by detectives in Castle- Mr Barry Shaw, that the bruta- facing the anti-market movement in INSIDE MARKET a well-known B.B.C. journalist. reagh, the notorious interroga- lity at Gastlereagh should be in- Britain? What is the best way for- It is also revealed that even IN LONDON JOHN BOYD tion eentre in Belfast. vestigated they refused to set ward and what will the pro-market annihilation. This cannot be done the Castdereagh interrogators IJERE are some of the benefits Instead of heeding the advice up a special inquiry. It was camp be up to? " to Britain of pulling out of the while she is an EEC member. THE POISON have no faith in the stability ISS BETTY • of such important men as their only after a critieal Amnesty re- There are of course other major Common Market. of the British system, or the M SI NIC LAIR, Undoubtedly in the current policies on the agenda with some in 1971 Heath's White paper Government's ability to protect veteran Trade (1) A burden of £4,000 million NOBODY period all anti-marketeers should in the final stages of discussion. backing British membership of the them from prosecution. They Unionist who was would be lifted from Britain's bal- EEC said that "the Government l» for years that feel ten feet tall. The signs from These include a common fisheries have kept all their own notes all sorts of quarters are that the policy (CFP) and directives under ance of payments — that Is £4,000 confident that the effect on the JUST A FRIENDLY CALL seem countless in case there is a "war crimes majority of people have come to the Steel Treaty on restructuring million which must be paid out balance of trade will be positive and HE Gornlshman, printed in Pen- secretary of the over what Britain earns. substantial." In fact a trade sur- MEDIA CENSORS NEWS ON SA6 RAID tribunal". realise that Britain's membership steel production throughout the T zance carried the following Belfast Trades of the EEC has been disastrous and EEC. Both these policies will be plus with the EEC Six in 1970 hftd ,f Council celebrates (2) Food prices will fall because ,news item in its October 9 th |F the passage (from THE GU-Aft- Gastlereagh is political dyna- will continue to get even worse. bad for Britain and have already deteriorated to a deficit of £R$M tioned in Northern Ireland . ." h er seventieth Australia, New Zealand, Canada issue:— mite—a powder-keg if ever the nearly wrecked the fishing industry and the USA are alkwaiting te sell trriMon by 1979. If even half of DIAN 51 October) is re-read under the heading "There's more birthday on De- The TUC Congress in September and helped to carve the steel in- Britain feed at abeut half the this Hs dm to EEC membership and "Balloons released from three omitting any reference to the SAS, news in the EXPRESS." Just so! lid is removed," one of them is cember 3rd. found an anti-market resolution di- dustry to a fraction its size a few EEC. price. Also, outside, Britain one'adds in the*net contribution te sites in Cornwall, any of which may things ean be seen ,somewhat from The SUN, DAILY MSRROR and quoted as saying. - years ago. : • the EEC budget and the higher-cost 'be chosen as the site of a nuclear DAILY MAIL carried not a word. verted by an amendment into the could buy the subsidised EEC food tfce>4Mfnt (Of wew ef the members This book will be reviewed at "£T could be said that with this red herring area of another referen- of buying food from the EEC, then power station, have been returned If she wished even more cheaply as of the Relatives Action -Committed This self'censorship was also dis- event that the doyenne of Bel- dum. The proriaatketeers instead a balance of payments deficit ef from as far away as Eire and length in our next issue. ""I1HE pro-camp • will claim that the Russians do. who were subjected to this act of played by British radio and tele- of running against the tide of £4,000 ratMbN" caw fairly be sug- •Beading." Cornwall Anti-Nuclear fast Trade Unionism attains the life. Often, the symptoms of Bri- these effects along with the (3> A -mile exclusive fishing terrorism:— vision wtth no mention by BBC1 opinion and isolating themselves 200 gested. Alliance set off the balloons offer- "age of indiscretion." Not that her tain's rapidly deteriorating position alarming and mounting trade ("Nine O'clock News" and have resorted to deflection1 taetics. zone would be attained automati- ing £5 reward for those returned. 11.55 voice was ever muted when it was in the Community are incorrectly deficit with the. original six in the News Headlines), BBC2 news Although this position of the TUC cally on withdrawal. Facts like these need to be put "Masked SAS men, wearing plain (7.10 interpreted and the rampant EEC EEC are not the fault of, the Com- One came back from Reading the and "Newsnight"), ITV ("Mews at a matter of speaking up for the has been overshadowed by a (4) Withdrawal would enable the before tte country by the Labour clothes, wielding sledgehammers disease remains undetected.