“jas. O'Brien's defeat is particul= arly sienificant; he raised…”

jas. O'Brien's defeat is particul= arly sienificant; he raised the re= Preteion Lagde §0 7s te attack the alleged Republicanism of Fianna Fail's Charles Haugher. Haughey topped the poll in Artsne while O' frien lest his sest in the (lanCarl constituency wich had been desiened for his particular convenience. In addition, Jame Gellester, whe hed been cebuked during the campaign ter pledzing Aigeel? te eppece the Ee rrecic?

Pow:r= Act and, initially, the Offences arginst the State Act, was alee returned te the Dail, tn the other hand Pianna Fail will net be influenced oy the results, Uyieb has Braised Cagnevy's record, In the new sil, when Keil Blaney tried é te get time to move the repeal ot the Emergency Powers ict, {opposed by Figmna Pail}, Dench decldred that his eovernnect would not mayer pPrecipitately but wanted, Cirstly, (6 examioe Che flatter, FIANKA FAIL? S RECUAT In this, Fianna Fail iy merely Erue to itself, Ewen allowine for ite periad in office being three time: that of the Coalit= Lone, ite record is censiderably worse than theirs, After a orie!l abtenpt te win to itself v1] militant Republicans in the @acly thirties Fisnoa Fail esc= eablisbed special tribungl= ta sentence them, Leter it was resmonsible for the it feocen Ageinet the State Act. fram whieh -skL shi quent repress ive lews hove been develaped.

Fianna Feil introduced and Opergtec internment in the fertics gnd fifties and would have done go again, ip Dorr, had it considered it peliticalls feasible. Fianna Fail was | the Last geverngent ta fame any= noted that if was anly papular agitstion that atopped the Last Caslition fram evening the score,| [t was also Fianos Fail that last imprisoned striking telephonis ts maid electricians, This inheritance 1s nov sétte Fiano Feil “ardeliel sin except in ga far as it aceepts capitalian. Ih Ire= Tend this ds a werk seni-colonigl force woiech hes never been able te salve either its econamic praklems or to unite the councre, Aor seriqus attempt co achleve el ther of these cine canflict: with capitelico’= needs: Lt cannot afford ta end unemployment because it feeds it in order to discipline ite workers: it cannot oppese imperigligm becouve it shares ite interests, In particular, the current struggle in Horthern Trelacl fas show its petential foo atimglus for action a ecislly werkine class action in the Republic = most mocably in the 1972 General Strike pratesting against Hloady Sundar. This is the context far intengified repression regardless of ¢hatiges Of aghernment ar Ministers of Justice. Tt ravi, Micheal. 2 Morgin [Hamember the Crimingl Justice Bill and the RTE Seven Daye investigation?) was repleced te Beamend O'Malley amid siens of popular reliefs Ma | bey tout=repressed” his predecessor with hi= Prevention ef Forcible Paye t, = Grimins 1 Caurt and Offences AgSiiet the 30a te Amencment} Act, When Piaone Fail was defer ted Inet expected mich tram Sis suc teaser, Patriek dooney, wha head neuriched « vaguely denmerstic cep= tation wotle in appositian, voanev allowed prisen canditiong te wersen erentually, took responsibility tor the Criminal Law (sugisdictian} det cod the Enereeocy laws . Mw Geaney is succeeded by Geery Collings, Fobads [outside Flanna Falll expects Huch of fin, Tt mir be that peaple recagnise that after sll the Minister one, oven after the first itber- far Jugtice is tc ane oemker of arty fovetnment had hanged no= a collectively responsioale evercment, hots, (It should af course be Hore likely it is teased an Callins! hove aiid proven fecard, as a hatenet ersen (within Fianns Fail after the Tis Trial and against RTE in [72), Whatever the regsan such auspicion is healthe, .

2C0PE FOR FIGHTING Back Bit what is eve Booce Hope Dil is that such mistrust represents something orester than either of the above ceoses, Teeth it sod the «nti-eereromeat ydte wore ATM ekpres* Lon a2 2 weteral unesse. The Gaslitian’s repressive pecksar was met with working cless gebilisation= in eereral places, Tt Woe unable te reslige the full com plement af repressive laws oes by reviving capital ponish= ment, Minky because of the : Fianna Fail — wolf In sheeps clothing This bedy and other civil riches eroups will have to move if their Miteotial ais mat ta be frustrated, The peisans of Lreland remain ‘ell-heles, In the “Republict aneine remuing on the statute “dae, Phe southern statatys fepoeseive powers remain grester thin the excessively restrictive Offences Againat the State Act Parthertare the Sritish Sc cupe tlor as etill the basic couce end ing vertive for repression Narth anc Sauth, In the Nerth thece ere veecial courts. “erinine lisatiant oF politics! priconeres, and now inteoctitied persecution at sutin Imperialist orsanivetiane: [Feaples? Democracy and the Bed Republican Ferivd wooge ToePfence™ is ta tre ard oreahise Base action aysinst Vibpartere of civil Literraes can Hel, init themselves to she Lobby ing beloved of the Irish C unei] far Civil Liberties (ICL), Their UWhedse shout repression mat ae tureEL It actian, Al] tirqde unionists should be enedaramad ta jeda TUGhAR, Hembars af the Trade Uniens AM tenants aod cultural orvanisardens fist wark te involve these bodleg do building an independent onm quiry inte prison conditions, In the meantime tacre should be a big mobik dsation fer the RAC March an Aucust 7 Only through such initdatives wail] Trish Civil Liberties be Strencth= hed and Maintained, @ongQee r,t *. LS ng LYS 4-HT

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PLAST nal RPE ee i REMT DRG) SPB Ros Lea ET Fea TY Ine MATRA PT RUG LUG PISS AED RERE ORT TRE FRI AL PEROMERS a Tet OOMAITTES PSO RCED DCM DATE PUR A Chara, The Trish Front in Derry City wishes te inform your readership that a mreh and rally will take place on YVetniesday Aucost I0th., assembling st the Greegean Shops at Zp.m. This detanetratian has been called by aur Ceantes] Camittee which mep— resents six siti@imperislisat enup= ings in the city, ta celncice with the erelysl in the Marth ef Elisal= eth £0, Queen of Envland. It is aur intention to merk thie« Gute as a fey of protest ageinst the visit af the cametitutional bead of the Bcitich State, amd as an act a solidarity for our buodceds of canpytriots incarearated int British and ‘Irish! gaale and camps. We feel that this weit tr a foreien fonarch, merely add. ingglt to injury at a time wheo repression against the natlonalist population is om the increase, political status has been denied to aur political Priseners, and her Governient ar ite agents have Li receot days been found guilty of torture at the Hunan Rights Court at Straaboure. In addition we can never forget is escalating its campaign of harassment psgainst the Catholic ninarity in the Horth, It ig Wiere a strong resentmenc af the flourishes. campaion seeinet repression, to «mesh People's Democracy. this year » member of PO, Denis Murphy, wes lifted ¢urimg a mass Tion of a rifle and some illesal documents, Now, four months Pessesaion of the sam documents!

the RDC that they had wery little c/a 3 Meenan Square, Dogside, Derry City, that this persthase Was Mespons— . ible fer decorating the COMMANDER ~ of the Ist, parachote regiment :* which carried owt the botchery on Bloody Sunday, January Jlat., 1972, when fourteen af our fellow citivens were killed during a . pescetul Agmanstratian organised -by the Civil Rights Moreonnt te anpace interment wi tent charge or trial, We hereby request and expect the full eo=eperatian af sll anti- : be imperiolict Creshleations, wha cere are invited ta sttenod and display : their respective banners, Desde which cre avallatle would be most weloame, gs indeed would megeners expreszing eelidarity with our endeavours tor Ireland and its people an this occasion, ALL carTespandence should be sent to the undewsioned, Thanking rou in anticipacion, Is mine, Le meas mor, SECRETARY, Tish FRA, Haney. As promised durdog the Pyisleyite strike last Mey the British Arny mt longer a fiatter af combatting te Proves - bat, ag the Levalists demanded = intimidating the ghettos British Arey and British mila «till Already this policy has led to a get ies of qanfraotations in ardas such as St. Jamogts and the Turf Lodge, Sore recently the British arn hap extended ite field of operations inte the South = the moat recent exefiple ae the S45 kidnapping in Oa, Louth, How it seme the escalation of Britbeh doroy horassment is te Ageia redewed attacks do sacieliet orca ieetions whoer sole Scrdael! is co This Le shew by the emerging CRG Already feid sod charged with the possess— later, after several days of interragation, POts General Secretary, John Hcdnmulty, has been charged with the “art bei Although the Judge in the case told 2 Nroodwery, Belf-=t. 27 chine Tat?

‘Dest Comrede, Toure Sincerely, The Secretarr, Qearge Beadersoo, BETEKRRAL AFFAIRS Ly evidence. they oppeged ball, Then wHen Mednulty was remanded in custody until deptenter the EOC interjected to say thet it wuld take rather longer ta prepare their case, How Loew does it take to make 2 frame-up stick]?ythe errast of Itis clear that*"“cdmulty is nathing more: than a legalised farm of iotecn fient. Protests have already Leen made abaut the abuse ef remand, Representatives af the Movement foro Secthlist Republic, Peop— Lefs Dengcracey and the Trdlependent Secielist Partr sre currently io the Ondited States takine up the meee OL Mesimlty aoc the reman iesuc with praminent civil litert— arise there; <Imbl-, moves are efeok in Britein where Left-wing Letaur MP1s are being eppraached oo the mMattecy ami in Bublin the Melnulty Defeono: Canmitte: Ls seeking suppert fram democratic and Republigan—minded members of the Trade Uniens, the Doll, ete.

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DEHAND THE KELAASK OF .POHN MUNULTYE $end meesares at solidarity and supp— People's Democracy, oa Commolly Kagkshap, Andersonstown, Helfast, Workers’ Research Vat, ‘we wanld Take te inform you et | “the setrinbe up of : korkars? Ho ecarch Unit in Dellast, sod thrown wou etelooKitgr support far our works fur pim is te predoce -quertecLy bulletin which will tale up cane af the sociel issuns wich offect w= in our day te day life, such as the crisis in the bealth service, housing etc, The other main aim ef the eroup will be co provide a research: -service for those who osed it and do not have aceress to the information aince it is mooopolised by the authorities and the employers, Thus we alin to help workers fiehting for better conditions,: atalnst layeatta ete. and other gragups such 2s coumunity and tenants! associations, j The tasks we Have get durselyes are quite ambitioug, hut ther can and will te realised if we pe= onive suppart fram the arranisat— “Loans and individaals who recagztise the teed for this service. | ke oneee financial help of courage, but we olsa oeed people ta help and mirve their time, rspecially ta pravide information on the acess we ore deshine with.

Warier:st Aesaearch Onit,

Fianna Fail's massive election victery haa forcibly reminded everyone that since [932 it has only been eut ef office fer ID years and that oo Coglition has held office ence it hes geome to the polls, The ocoeplaints of Fine Gael and Labour that they were turfed out because of the econemic recession do Little to explain this aed other re uted facta, Fiantis Fail is a party of big b= inese bot continees to support of the ga jority ef the urban work= ime class, the small farmers, and a wide cross=section of «5 nunber of other classes = in shert a classic Bogaperti=t party. Tt was formed after > split in the pnti-treaty wine of Sinm Fein in the [90's and won ite wide social bese be pursuing » policy that wos relat= ively more independent of Dritich Imperialism than Fire Gael while crushing the Republicans. Tt was distinguished from Fine Gael and Labour through its "Republican rhetoric and Gin the [9otts, wheo it becan ta tone this dow and belp Britain to tighten its arip an the Southern ecomomy, may thaacht that the National Questian was so Long er relevant and were taken in by Fite Gael's "Just Society and Labour’ Neu Republic™, These trends were interrupted as the fight ef the Worthern minarity to smash the § County etetelec, which bad selves fram the draconiso efforts at the Candition, This waa seeo moat far 7 dev detentlan, which cultinated in the O Delaigh=lonegan affair when the President resigned and the Law wes Partially curbed in the Supreme The besic thing aiant the election result then ig the fact that it fits in neatly with the fey tactical turn kr the ruling class - in a survey af Hajar business firms ayer G0 wanted Fianns Tail buck, anly 202 favoured the Coalition, and the peat wate undecided.

BO G47k6 POR FOINNA FAIL Aut Bow cam weosay Chis after an clection calpaign coucht weindy en ecemaiic issues, and just after tae tomger-strike at Partlagige bad failed ta fore elesrly in the row aver the "Ene rs- ! enor" Jecislstion and the proyisien enguiry? After all there hes rarely Been Inss ioterest ia the North che the Sepublican myvemrit is becoming stendily more isolated, Omar: liser by the evglenche of reore:sion, menplesment, occ geehip ete. thet they pre only bewinniag te roslive what has “it them, «lowly seeing that there ds a rengon for all theae thing- bappeoioe at anos. und Chat they are bere bo stay — mit same tetpersry period al Aifficules,.

This axtrenely uneven sud con— fused respatise fos eteadily. warseniig sacial crigis 4Te easier ta eee Le breaking dow Of the 350 of go candidates who con tested the Geoe ssl Kleecian, the ‘umber the wlecth Fianna Fai firat pref oreqgge af eactien in er their b the gorectemeot inte even a token Such peinte show ur that the mj= ority of pewole linve been 5a de

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