For a Free United Ireland!
Socialist Republic1982Partition and the national questionThe Fourth InternationalLoyalism and unionismLabour, the left and left unityIrish history and its commemorationPartition and the national questionThe Fourth InternationalLoyalism and unionismLabour, the left and left unityIrish history and its commemoration
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NO TO THE ASSEMBLY - 5. The formation of an anti-impertatist slums in Europe, the highest infant mortality rate, the highest prison populations, low wages and repressive laws that intrude into every aspect of @ citizen’s life - Today's Ireland!
The cause of these problems that face Irish working people is British Imperialism - whose domination is supported and protected by Irish capitalists, Orange and Green. None of these people, the Northern Unionists or the middle class nationalists of Fianna Fail and the SDLP can be part of the solution. Neither British nor Irish Tories can end partition,’ provide jobs for the unemployed, create equal opportunities for all or bring about peace based on respect for democratic rights rather than repression.
Any progress in Irish society depends on the efforts of working people under the leadership of the anti-imperialist movement. But today that movement is divided and demoralised which is why in the first place, the Thatcher government has been able to proceed so far with its plans for a new Stormont through Prior’s Assembly.
Peoples Democracy is standing in these elections as part of our campaign to re-unite the anti-imperialist movement and end the demoralisation that is eating away at our freedom struggle. Like Sinn Fein, Peoples Democracy is committed ta building a new Ireland, free of imperialist intervention, based on justice rather than exploitation, But we differ from Sinn Fein and other anti-imperialist organisations over the method of achieving this new Ireland - the Workers Republic of James Connolly and Jim Larkin, Connolly and Larkin viewed the Socialist Republic as a society organised and controlled by working people. Like them, Peoples Democracy is convinced that only the organisation of Irish workers in the factories and communities into a mass struggle for Irish freedom will make the Socialist Republic a reality. This requires the leadership of a mass revolutionary party of the working class, the party which 2. Disarming and disbanding of the UOR/RUC. Peoples Democracy is committed 4. Immediate elections throughout to building. freland for an All-treland Assembly.
END PARTITION government of workers and small : farmers, Peoples Democracy is not prepared to help make partition work, Our 6 The confiscation of al! British candidates will refuse to take their commercial and industrial firms in seats in the Assembly but will use compensation for their exploitation their position to denounce British of frish labour ard resources. plans for the return of loyalist rule, to oppose the increasing repression In this election our candidates will of nationalist areas, and to promote be putting forward a plan of action aunited mass campaign for an end to go from where we are now to to partition, the winning of the Socialist Republic Peoples Democracy calls for: . ist enue . aN wheel and dea!
. politicking ot the SDLP, They will I, immediate withdrawal of the fight tooth and nail against the British Army, attempts of the SDLP leadership to 3. Amnesty for all political prisoners They will be arguing a radical socialbarter the rights of anti-unionists for seats in a British puppet administration. Our candidates will also argue this socialist programme as an alternative to the militarist
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