Workers

going to fight for this within the British Labour Movement. The for those who want the Brits out and rail workers.

Thatcher — the common enemy of country. Some successes have been scored in bringing workers into active solidarity action with the Hunger Strikers. Work stoppages on the Day of Mour-— ning for Bobby Sands were fairly widespread. The impact of mass response in the North brings home very sharply in the South the growing alienation of the Northern community.

We must build on this impact and the mobilisation of antiunionist workers. Northern delegations should lobby key Southern workers for solidar— ity action, The major and central focus should be the trans— port workers: dockers, road Particular emphasis must be placed on direct action against British goods by the blacking of their movement into the This focus, already taken up by American dockers, can activate and consolidate wides— pread international trade union support. We can turn their words into real pressure on the British.

At home, throughout the 32 counties, the campaign to organise to ensure that labour movement bodies, trades councils, branch committees issue a direct call to other trades councils and organised workers to take action. It is they who are the recognised ieaders and who have authority among wor-— kers. The campaign should also concentrate on motivating rank and file workers to take direct action themselves. This has begun already to pressurise those at the top who are sitting on the fence, The power of movement from below must sweep away that fence,

#e1 SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 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 imperialism 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 our 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, com— bining its economic strensth and Its strength of numbers.

We accept that workers have the right to defend themselves against imperialism. However, we do not 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 central—ism.

The organisation is international—ist. It commits itself to holding an organised discussion with representatives of the Fourth International on the question of affiliation to the Fl. Members of the organisation may hold individ— ual membership of the Fl. the polls, us money. Peoples Democracy has stretched its resources to the limit in the H-Block/Armagh campaign. WE are participating at every level of the campaign and have helped to build and support the initiatives of the We have produced pamphlets, leaflets and bulletins giving our our views of how the campaign should be built. We are now engaged in confronting the enemies of the prisoners at All of this costs money which we republican socialists have in short supply. Only you, our supporters, can supply the shortfall which is always left after our accounts are done, The election campaign is an especially heavy expense which we need money for immediately. We appeal to you to help us Wales: drive the British back from their present oppression of the Irish people and to build a united Irish working clas voice against imperialism by sending Socialist Republic is coming out in a special 12 page issue in August, marking a further stage in the development of the paper. The SR will be typeset and there will be a second colour on the front page besides black and white! Two major articles will be written to launch the re-vamped paper. One by Michael Farrell will deal with the 10th Anniversary of internment. The other, by veteran journalist on the anti-imperialist struggle Gerry Foley, will deal with the meaning of the Irish struggle against imperialism.

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