Ireland and the Fourth International

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Join US in the Fight!

In Socialist Republic: Vol. 2 no. 1, 1980 · scan page 16 · about 484 words

Loyalism and unionismPartition and the national questionInternment, repression and the courts

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committee, The alma of hee ee, of British Imperare the logical continuation The conference thought th t OF ee ees rast year, ended by that working-class unite ereanisation, helped, political strength, The build we believe, to increase the ing of a united 32-county s Relate er mation OF at of the Irish revolution and a ilar {Initiative this year party will have a major role in the P-Slocks, Everyone should cet involved are confident in our basic For further information about a . Republic and the Peoples AN acy cam . “ . organisation under the banner or 38 Cl . Continued of the People's Democracy, DUBLIN Poad, The Last Lap t Bi k B bh’ Movement for A Socialist Meanwhile Overend has no regrets, He boasted on Radio Eireann that his rifle was for shooting vermin and that he regarded the Burntollet marchers as vermin and. he has since proposed a motion at Magherafelt District Council condemning Mason for > letting the march take place at all, It was passed by 7 votes to 2, No-body mentioned Overend's own activities, This wasn't Overend's first shooting foray, During the loyalist stoppage of 1977 he and other South Derry loyalists tried to block the road at Toome with tractors, When the local people chased them Overend fired several shots but the RUC did nothing about that either. force of a united movement at led us auaaeetied a Soctalist Republic is the that led c sm a j organised by the R.A,.C.'s could brinz even more people People's Democracy today is a Marxist organisation with firm roots in the anttmperialist movement. A lot of our policies have been learnt the hard way through join us. mistakes and splits but we ideas and this confidence was P.D. contact us c/o shown by the fusion in October of two groups, the Connolly Pookshop - Avoca Park The fusion conference It was P.D.'s belief in the affirmed our belief that the greatest single barrier to 4 n milltanoy of the population and = m@ement ts the central task Action Vomimittees strong revolutionary Marxist © play in it, into the fight against repress- She solidarity and spirit of ton and walld be a major those who n.arched showed gain in the battle for political the crowinz support for the status for those svfferin’. stru.:le a: ainst repression, in that strucgle by joinines their local FP, 4.C., and by fishtin,, in their student untor and trade unions, Those who support the aims that P.D. are fighting for should ?

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prompted the original march, working-clas d while, not lead to a using their economic and all over the North, A sim- art ill .

ound Repression", "Troops loyalist minowtty hn ro ang. ut" and "Political Status" right to ti le partition. of the demands which ; the oppression of the Irish The Coalisland Conference fcular Ot women can be

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