Ireland and the Fourth International

Papers, journals and pamphlets of the Fourth International's supporters in Ireland, 1969–1996

West Brits infiltrate Senate

In Socialist Republic: Vol. 4 no. 8, 1981 · scan page 6 · about 436 words

The Southern state and its parties

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Knives. Wolf is the plaything of Ernst Rohm whom Hitler has just had eliminated.

The year is 1934, 15 months after Dachau concentration camp first opened its gates for what Heinrich Himmler termed ‘the extermination of degenerates’.

Greta, a lonely transvestite, gives the pair money and advises them to leave Gays march in Belfast against H Block Berlin. The Nazis rule now and all those not fitting the ‘master race’ stereotype are ‘treated’. By 1935, 56,000 homosexuals, schizophrenics, epileptics, drug addicts, blind and disabled people had been sterilized.

Without work permits or identity cards, of ‘Bent’. Max and Rudi take to the forest, living Women March In under a totalitarian regime. The lesson of resistance is well made. It shows clearly that unity in the defence of all oppressed groups is essential. Fascism sets people against each other. The only answer is to fight the denial of democratic rights to any section of the population. This is the main point SEAN 0” LAOIRE. is a rubber-stamp. Leinster House, the Seanad (Senate). It has become, as its founder Eamonn DeValera intended, a tool of the sitting government, composed mostly of politicians who failed to get into the Dail. In fact this tool, precisely, Formally it mi ht be thought that Senators elected by University graduates of the National University of Ireland (NUD) and Trinity College Dublin (TGD) would be more independent than their colleagues elected directly by politicians or simply ,, nominated by the Taoiseach. in saying what many of the other bourgeois politicians really believe. This _ is hardly an impressive or representative ive team. Their importance is that they say publicly what other Southern politicians will only confess privately to prominent Unionists. We can confidently expect therefore to see Messrs. Kemmy, Murphy and Ross pushed forward and publicised favourably by powerful forces in the upper reaches of Southern Irish Society. They will receive a status totally out of proportion with their real significance. Most of all we can expect to see and hear them at length on RTE.

The anti-imperialist movement will not be defeated by these methods. But we can not ignore our enemies. We can begin a campaign against the Unjonist Senators right now. As many people as possible from the Irish intellegentsia, and the student movement, should be encouraged to stand up for Irish Unity. A new Seanad election could take place in the near future. We should try and ensure there are University Seanad candidates who support the prisoners, and who are endorsed by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI).

Anti-irnperialists must continue to resist pro-British manoeuvrers until they fleur

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