“THE PEOPLES DEMOCRACY bases itself on the following points:…”

THE PEOPLES DEMOCRACY bases itself on the following points:

We agree that the central political question for the Irish people is the political, economic and military domination of Ireland by imperial— ism and that the central task for the the Irish revolution is the solution of the national question through the ending of partition and achievement of political and economic independence, We are united in our rejection of the claim that any lasting solution to the oppression of the Irish people can be found within a 6 county framework, and in rejection of any "right" of the Loyalist minority to continue partition, AS Marxists we believe that the capitalist state must be smashed and replaced by a workers! state and that only the organised working class can provide the motive force for doing this, We believe that a crucial area of capitalist oppression is women, and this is especially so in Ireland, given the history of clerical power here, Women are oppressed as a sex and even a successful rev— olution will not automatically guarantee the elimination of this oppression, For this reason, we unconditionally support the right of women to organise independently to fight for their emancipation, As Marxists, we believe that the working class has the ability to successfully challenge and defeat imperialism, It produces the wealth of society without being able to control or distribute it. It is potentially stronger than any other other class because of its ability to organise on amass base, combining its economic strength and its strength of numbers. ism. national on the question of ual membership of the Fl, We accept that workers have the right to defend themselves against imperialism. However, we donot accept the Ideology of militarism -the belief that armed groups can substitute themselves for the masses and win freedom for them, We believe in the building of an organised and experienced leadership, in a Marxist party based on the Leninist theory of party organisation;: the central feature of which is democratic centralThe organisation is international-— ist. It commits itself to holding an organised discussion with representatives of the Fourth Interaffiliation to the Fl, Members of the organisation may hold indivicThe election of Brendan Dorris as President and Joe Duffy as Education Officer of the Union of Students in Ireland, coupled with the defeat of Jimmy Collins (a supporter of Sinn Fein = the Workers!

Party) Is a major defeat for the politics of Sinn Fein - the Workers!

Party who has bureaucratically controlled USI for the past decade, Despite the fact that the long-awaited defeat of S--WP was not parallelled with a recognition of the need for a mass campaigning union Capable of defending student interests, the victory of Dorris and Duffy should be seen as a gain for the anti-imperialist movement, Congress voteu to support all future activities of the H-Block/Armagh campaign to force the British gov— ernment to implement their promises to the prisoners, which they have reneged on, and called on all those people, particularly Hume, Haughey O!Fiach, who called on the prisoners to come off their hunger strike to now pressurise the British government into conceding the prisoners! demands, Congress also condemned the activities of the Special Branch in the South Continued page 7 tu Singer/IP Marian Bustin, a twenty-six-year-old coal miner, is fighting attempts by the U.S. government to deport her because of her membership in the U.S. Socialist Work ers Party (SWP) and the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA)

igence Investigation". The court assertion that the investigation of the SWP and YSA ended four years ago is shown to be a lie. The name of the file was simply changed from "domestic security" to "Foreign Counterintelligence", and the spying went on as before.

At the trial, the government will attempt to defend its 40-year-— investigation of the SWP, which has never turned up any evidence of criminal activity. Already they have announced their plans to call former FBI Director Clarence Kelley and former Attorney General Edward Levi as witnesses, On the side of democratic rights, the socialists! lawyers wil! put the victims on the stand to testify about the burglaries of their homes, the mail tampering and phone bugging and about the jobs they lost because of FBI dirty tricks They will also question ex-informers and burglars and are demanding a judgement that this activity was illegal, and an injunction against further disrupThe case has received massive publicity both in America and Europe and has attracted support from a large number of groups and individuals concerned with civil rights, The way in which the SWP has used the case has proved to be a mode! of how to expose the tricks and unlawful activity of the capitalist rulers of the U - Dueto the nature of US law it ts easier to compel the government to hand over to the victims all evidence relating to illegal activity on the part of the state. That socialists should use the opportunities provided by such laws is proved by the SWP case, It has aroused the anger of large sections of the US population and has shown the real nature of the "democratic" USA, Socialist Republic will be following the case as it develops and will cover it in forthcoming issues, JOHN O'LEARY