Page 2 - H-BLOCKS SCANDAL Page 3 - GENOCIDE by Joe Whelon Page 4 - LABOUR CONFERENCE No. 451 SEPTEMBER 1981 Page 5 - LABOUR DROPS PARTITION Page 6 - IRISH SONGS. Page 7 - IRISH BOOKS. LABOUR TO Page 8 - DONALL MacAMHLAIGH DEBATE IRELAND IN BRIGHTON NEW POLICY DEMANDED OIL BONANZA GET OUT, THE ONLY ANSWER IN IRELAND pROSPECTS of an oil bonanza __"J"HERE are no fewer than fifty-four resolutions on Ireland to be debated at the forthcoming set stock markets in a J Labour Party Conference in Brighton. flurry after reports of finds on the west coast of Ireland. This is a magnificent development for which (he Connolly been needed in this country for Association can claim its share of the credit without denying ytars, a rt.al Labour Party. Speculators from London others theirs. At the same time it is of vi;c.l moved in and hundreds of thou- importance that the Labour sands of pounds changed hands ATROCITY The centre of our policy for tendencies in some of the trade Party should net lose its ma.-s and big windfalls came the way twenty five years has been to unions. character. Now that the Conser- of the lucky ones. make the Irish a political force, vative Party has every prospect of being annihilated the inter- The discovery of oil in com- CONTINUES to direct that force towards con- MASSACRED national firms who suck the nercial quantities — so far it 'THE tragedy oi' Long Kesh con- vincing the Labour Party of the The odds would seem to be blood of the ordinary people has not been found in sufficient * tinues to unfold, scene by need to return to the anti- that at this conference the^e will be wondering what to turn quantities — would transform scene. One after another the the Irish economy, and we imperialist policy of sixty years will predominate. to next. The Social Democrats young republicans go on hunger are being boosted. The British might find the orangemen beg- strike against prison conditions. ago, and finally to bring such a ging to be let in. Those who stand for Irish working class are many of them reformed Labour Party into extremely backard in politics, Tory spokesmen talk merrily freedom should fight hard, but and many of them take their So far the oil that has been about suicide. They do not care a office. fight wisely. The odds are that found has been in deep arrd snap of the fingers. opinions from the television The recommendations of the there will be another conference box. stormy waters, and it would need to be present in very sub- As for the lady who resides in working party, which are dealt before the next general election, Every care should therefore stantial quantities to merit the Downing Street — not usually in- with in the middle pages of this at which we can expect the Con- articulate, words fail us! servative Party to be massacred. be taken that while sound prin- expenditure of large amounts :f issue, are not clear, complete or ciples are fought for unremit- capital in recovering it. There must be no recrimina- Is she mad? totally satisfying, but they tingly, these principles should The British "royals" daren't Set represent a step forward. tions or splits if things do not be presented in a reasonable Another important result of foot in the United States. There go our way this time. manner, and every trace of Atlantic oil would be that the are demonstrations outside embas- Whether the most forward- crankiness or extremism should international plot to foist an sies and consulates. Nobody in the looking resolutions will gain ac- What can emerge out of all be cut right out. Go ahead of atomic energy station on Ire- world supports the British Govern- ceptance is another matter. the current debate and heart-i the people, but not too far land in Co. Wexford would be ment attitude. Only the Turks and searching is something that has ahead. Don't get out of sight. foiled. South Africans have not condemned There are strong conservative it. ILLIONS of pounds are flowing M into the coffers of the "pro- THE IRISH IN BRITAIN MUST ORGANIZE visional" IRA. Nationalist feeling qrHERE hat never been a time criminals are those who impose growing up In favour of a united It is particularly important that the Irish should be organised new is rising every day in Ireland — ' when the Irish In Britain were those conditions. Independent Ireland, ie another im- and to be frank we are not sorry portant factor. that British political parties are more united In sentiment than they about that. To us the men in Long Kesh are declaring themselves on the Irish are today. political prisoners, and that Is that. Well, what does this a!! mean? It question. But what does Mrs Thatcher hope means that the Irish in Britain to gain from it? The poiionous anti - national UT this Is only part of iL The should turn their unity of senti- It is not to asperse them to the brain-washing of the last twenty B Prevention of Terrorism Act ment into unity of organisation. If slightest degree to say that their The weak spot is that Labour years has been water off a duck's has turned the Irish In Britain Into that Is done we wHI be Invinoible. interest Is not the freedom of Ire- is afraid to come out clearly and back. second class citizens. We are com- An organisation of all the Irish land, but the position of their own say these men are political prison- pletely opposed to terrorism, gov- should be set up for purposes of organisations In the context of Bri- ers. None of their arguments are This was true before the H block ernmental as well as anti-govern- political action. tish politics. They are Englishmen convincing. It is just that they are issue came to the fore, though that mental. But opposition to terror- first, and nobody is entitled to afraid that the Tory propaganda FEW simple principles should has had an important effect. ism has not saved the hundreds blame them for It. agencies would in some way asso- A suffice. For example, the de- whose homes have been raided, or But there Is one thing that w:it ciate them with terrorism, and they mand for a complete and uncondi- The majority of the Irish do not the thousands who have been held keep them steady. That is the or- would lose votes. support or advocate the taotics of inoommunloado although only a tional withdrawal of the English from Ireland, and the eetabllshment ganisation of the million-strong the I.R.A. But they understand tiny fraotlon have been charged Irish-born and the several million They should put a simple case. very well that the reason why with any offenoe. of a united Independent republic. Plus the repeal of the Prevention of Irish descent whose sentiment is Three hundred men have got spe- young people turn to violence Is still fundamentally Irish. The faot that at long last there of Terrorism AoL Apart from that cial category status. The others that they are confronted with In- Is a sizeable English public opinion let there be free debate. What about It? should have the same. tolerable conditions and the real September 1981 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT September 1981 3 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT MRS THATCHER LABOUR WILL H-Block relatives refute THE BLOCK FOR GET BLAME EVERAL htoired close rela- that the Provisionals would give S tive of t^.-e H-Block hunger- anything to have the hunger- FOR BUDGET strikers ha»e c;me out unani- sttrike called off. slanders TO PROGRESS GENOCIDE ALL mously in support of their pro- HE men in Long Kesh are 1 test. This wii after attempts "We find them clear, respon- THE H-Block hunger-strike j i-'K Ci>.il't:ou s B; d*e: was a s.i. now In eflect dying for one were made lait month to divide T sible statements. We find the would have been settled by now is only a third of the cost of one ' _ i'lie It w. F lie Gaol another. They have been in ter- BY the relatue-s a^d induce some British Government guilty of Trident Nuclear Submarine. Just . : w.th l a', out t •- •«§ .ilon- rible conditions for the past five if there had been any Prime of them to b' n^ pressures on the most callous cruelty and 60 per cent of the total annual j — 11111 from d:iv t ta\ to • 11 - years. Those on hunger-strike Minister in Britain other than the H-8'0l* REN to abandon lack of responsibility, care and military expenditures is sufficient • ''ion wh.en add :<-4 know intimately those who have JOSEPH WILLAN their fait. Same well-meaning compassion In the present Mrs Thatcher, said Mr Michael to build 600.000 schools for 400 ' lit to the r.ite mianon already died, who were their but misguaei clergy were In- hunger-strike crisis. We the O'Leary, Irish Deputy Prime Minis- million children, or 30,000 hospitals Bio-engineering - il away B is i .res. postal friends and comrades. The sacri- volved in this with the tacit relatives stand in full support of ter and new leader of the Labour (NOTTINGHAM MINERS' for 18 million patients, or 50 mil- IJ EADERS may have noticed in s and ESB charges go up fice and extraordinary courage support cf »wr« politicians in the protesting prisoners and the lion modern flats for 300 million the media two new labels: ' .