FOUNDED 1939 Organ of the | | BiH| ~ Connolly Association Page 2 - THE TERRORISM ACT Page 3 - SCIENCE. MANCHESTER M OCR AT Page 4 - E. P. THOMPSON IN DUBLIN Poge 5 - UNIONIST BLAMES CIA No. 458 APRIL 1982 2Gp Page 6 - IRISH SONGS Poge 7 - O CASEY LETTERS 53 VOTES Page 8 - DONALL MacAMHLAIGH Book this date MAY 8th P.TA END PARTITION SHADOW MINISTER RESIGNS DEMONSTRATION KEEP THE CAMPAIGN GOING PRIORS IN LONDON OLLOWING the passing of the renewal of the anti-Irish Prevention of Terrorism Act, F when 53 mostly Labour M.P.s refused to accept front bench instructions to abstain, PLAN IS and the resignation of shadow minister Clive «6oley in protest, the Connolly Association Details from has announced plans to continue the campaign they started in 1974. Robert Jones The main proposition is that pressure for repeal of this issue of Ireland. Two or three Box 353, N.W.5 4NH years ago Mr A. W. Stallard re- REJECTED obnoxious Act should be maintained with a view to preventing signed as a whip because oi the any in interest. EPORTS are current that Mr fall proposal to increase the number of — [ The 'Irish Democrat" will pub- R Prior proposes to impose his pet unionist seats at Westminster. lish material about the working scheme of devolution on the six of the Act throughout the spring, It is no small matter for an MP counties. summer and autumn, and hopes to risk, his career on a matter oi that all other Irish journals will principle and Mr Soley deserves the This is for election ol a chamber do the same- fullest support of his constituents like the European Assembly that and especially of the Irish in Ham- DECLARATION would have the right to chatter mersmith. Instead of a petition signed by but none to act. All the officers of state would be Englishmen ap- individuals, which was presented The present leadership of the pointed from Westminster. to Mr Clive Soley on February Labour Party are mercifully not the 17th, a declaration against the hatchet-men we had a few years Act will be sent out to Trade ago, but it is still remembered that The scheme has met universal Union Branches, Trades Councils, Herbert Morrison, after calling opposition Paisley has condemned Professional organisations etc, Hugh Delargy a "young pup" for It. The official Unionists have con- I and these will be Invited to give opposing the Ireland Act (which demned it. And now a joint state- their official endorsement. By this made partition permanent) told ment of Fianna Fall and the means discussion of the evils of him that he would never get a gov- S.D.L.P. has condemned it. the Act will receive wide promo- ernment post. He didn't. tion. The idea is to present these Despite the fact that the Jellicoe The trouble is that the British declarations at a lobby of Parlia- commission is a bone thrown to a Government needs something to ment on Wednesday, February snarling dog, Irish organisations wave In the faces of International 16th- 1983. are not advised to boycott it but to criticis. But there is only one submit to it the best evidence they policy with a chance of success The reason why the Labour front have available. united Ireland. bench agreed to abstain, though Mr Hattersley himself was said to favour opposition, was the Home Secretary, Mr William Whitelaw had announced a commission of enquiry into the working of the Act under the chairmanship of Lord Jellicoe. According to the "Finan- cial Times" Mr Hattersley felt it would be "churlish" not to accept a proposal that Labour had made itself last year. "Guardian" comment was that the front bench were anxious to continue a bipartisan policy in re- lation to Ireland, although this was supposed to have been abandoned last year. This is the second time there has been a Labour resignation on the r Community T.D. stages bloodless coup •i PONY Gregory is almost cer- workers and community activists Hence the Gregory Deal which tainly the best and most prom- who fought the causes of the inner promises to revitalise the heart of 18u.,t person to be elected to the city poor, campaigned for better Dublin City and reverse the dere- 23rd L>a'l. housing, opposed speculative devel- liction of the past three decades. He is a young Dublin social opment and continually needled It means this young man of 32 worker who has been active in the the Corporation bureaucracy. He already has his place in the histoiy North City Centre Community stood for the Corporation in 1979 books and will be remembered when Action Project, one of the com- and by a happy accident the bal- most of his fellow TDs are for- munity development schemes ance of the parties in the current gotten. For generations Central funded by the Combat Poverty Dail makes his vote the vital one Dublin was represented in the Dail Committee. Throughout the seven- for Charles Haughey and Fianna by some of the foremost figures in ties he was one of a group of social Fail. (Continued on Page Four) Agril 1982 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT April 1982 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 3 2 THE PROMISE I.B.R.G DRAFTS CONSTITUTION IfTTCC BY i (OULD you please give coverage SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY KAR MRS GREGORY. in the next issue of the Demo- ROY JOHNSTON m London there is a separate or- | N the aftermath of the election, ever) tended to be blocked at D It ;s al.sc> lnteirsted and con- anxious to work for a political crat to an important meeting we tal concern among the young Michael Foot has asked me t ganisation, and there is the imports in the light of the outgoing board level, as at least three mem- people. The arguments were ill- cerned about t vents in Ireland solution of the problem of pai are having in Manchester? It is thank you tor vour letter about the tition. ant Federation of Irish Societies at 7.30 pm on Thursday 13th April Government's decision to nation- bers of the consortium had to informed and specious, but they possible whipping arrangements It is neither socialist noi con- which some people might think agree, and to get the agreement carried the day, and the Republic It is strongly opposed to tin »t the Britons Protection pub. Ot. alise tiie Whitegate refinery, it is when the Prevention ol Terrorism servative in politics threatened by the new departure of their head offices. So White- was left to depend increasingly on Prevention of Terrorism Act. Bridgewater St., Manchester 1 The appropriate to outline some aspects Act come'- up for renewal in What seems to have happened is gate remained a time-capsule of imports of refined products and on l h It stands :or the preservation It holds that travel between speaker will be Pat Byrne, mem- March. I am afraid it is too early that the growing confidence of the of oil refining from the Irish point fifties technology, and its products the obsolete heavih -1< aded White- of the Irish way ot life. Britain and Ireland is being re- ber of the National Counc il of the tj discuss tactics to be used In the :;il •: • t .• i In leaI'll Irish in Britain has outgrown the of view. were increasingly ill-adapted to the gate petrol. It wants mo:c radio and Lei. - stricted by excessive fares. Labour Committee on Ireland and House of Commons This will be ; •• Iff. i.- ••-'. lui. more timid "non-political" stance of increasingly stringent quality and vision time for the Irish, also It hopes to stimulate greater he will be speaking about his days decided by the Parliamentary Com- ; <•»«! ii: :i >taU- the F.I.S In feu areas of technology i:re environmental specifications im- I don't want to go inlo the de- more Irish studies in schools and contact between British and Irish as secretary of the Irish Republi- mittee and the PLP much nearer What is surely required is that the interests of the multi-nationals posed by the markei and bv the tails of the environmental argu- i:il- limn Kick Hcn- luruier education young people. can Congress in the 1930s. The the time the F.I.S. should reconstitute itself so much in conflict with the in- State. ments that were used; suffice it to ok, .i- R..:„l Wit!! It, is opposed to the anti Irish meeting is open to Labour Party terests of small States seeking a IT is doubtful if a single Irish as the overall body to which all say that the Belfast refinery is en Meanwhile you have Mr Foots ru-host i racialism shown in anti-Irish jnembers only, and there is no road to independent economic de- ^ person will disagree with this Irish organisations, musical, cul 1)Y the mid-seventies Whitegate Belfast Lough and the Paris assurance that the policy pursued • points made are jokes. charge. velopment. The history of White- programme. On the other hand tural. local, athletic and political ''was supplying only about half market is served largely from a re- by the Parliamentary Labour ,:tr> loi t-mi>sl concern It is concerned with the mis- gate illustrates this. finery in Versailles; Whitegates it- there are organisational problems could affiliate. A political position Why is there not more cover- of the market in the Republic, and providing an instant market I'm the Patty in the House of Commons e-entation of the Irish representation of Irish affairs by self despite obsolescence has not The Manchester organisation is ob- like that Of the IBRG would surely age of LCI in the Democrat there was an increasingly pressing nas once brought ashore.