Paisley, FitzGerald, Kemmy. One Notion: Two Nations!

Fi. 7 ABOVE: Armes haul from UDA HA. RIGHT: Councilor Lary Ken nedy October the 5th, 1981.

Larry was well known for his fearless support of the Td Bleck anal Armagh priseners ane their fight for Political Status. In fact Larry and his‘comrades were the target of a Lavyalist attack only weeks before his murder as he took part in a Seven Day Token Fast in support of the husiger strikers. He was also well known for his consistent efforts to enrich the life of the community in general.

This murder was quickly followed by another, that of Bobby Ewing whe was uid down as he sat walching the funeral of Larry Kennedy on television With his wife and children on the eening 0 October the 12ih And then by what can only de described as the most vieleus in the recent spate of Leyvalist killings, pensioner Mary In a year which has seen literally hundreds of sectarian attacks (many ending in death and mutilation on the Nationalist people of the Six Counties by UDA murder gangs this month has seen a vicious e4calation. Councillor Larry Kennedy was gunned down as he was leaving the Shamrock social club in the Ardoyne on the might of McKay was murdered ashe liry in her bed beneath the blankels. The murder gang, havitie gained aocess oo the howse by forcing an entry, ruched up the etairs and isuest in on thedeyvietom leaving her litth: chance of cacape, a tactic frequenth aed by the Loyatist pares.

These thyee murders are only the most recent in what clearly a well orchastrated murder campalen intented to terrify the Catholic population.

Although auch attacks have taken plice all ower the Six Counties one of the arcas hardeat hit is the Ardoyne in Belthis Nationalist enclave. Ketaess tn font, Adtecks hun iiken round Deerpark Road, Alliance Avenue, Berwick Road, Flux Street, Wheatfield and Mountainview have feft six dead and many injured this year, ination campaign from 1969 to the " present day. Hhmdredsof ordinary a A most horrific manner.

think that our fate in fife war to be expect our lot and net sey a word about it.

murder campalen onder way in the clergy and politicians came ou! and aid so, no matter whe ff offends”

SILENT TOO LONG the viclimns of Loyalist attacks.

The aims of the organisation anp te an organisation whoae leaiiers haw heen cooght with guna in their possystern in the Six Counties.

tllective way of combating Loy alist ferroriam by exposing the sectarian. nature of the state and its “security the proseription of the UDA. hac boat her husband ino sectarian attack pointed out that North Belfast had bore the brant af the Loyalist aneizsCatholics had been mundcred, some in “What amacee me” she poe) ~ is the ait ltude adopted by our cen peliticiars and clergy te the killings. ‘You would fatted for the kill and that we should “There if a-vicious and anticatholic Ardoyne area and it i boul time ihe Lt was reported in the best eve of SiDiCLALIST REPUBLIC that on organisation culled Silent Too Long had been formed, Itis composed of relatives of carmpaien for the banning of the UA esicn and allowed to walk away scot free. This fact abo highlights the sectiri nature of the RUC and judicial Such groupe as Silent Too Long are an forces’. ‘This is helping to bulld # campaicn foranti-unicnist self defence and iss the Boat The news that Jim Kemmy was forming his own party, the Democratic Socialist Party, | comes a5 no surprise. The forces | éhat will join fim in this new | venture are the Socialist Party and members of the British & Trish Communist Organisation, his old buddies from the proBritish “Socialists Against Nationalism” group.

Besides their unti-Republicanism, these people also have the distinction of being leyal followers of Joe Stalin. The ‘Socialist Party? also gives uneritial support tothe deformed workers states in Eastern Europe. The following is a press fatement Psapkes Democracy! (Incidentally ui mut by the Limerick branch of why don't they take their pro— Paisleyism te ils leeical comeusion and simply call themselves the Democratic Unionist Party) The formation of Jim Kenuny': new Democratic Socialist Party. incorpuratints, a wide range of Lrish stalianBU, #ill ol anewer any ol Uae pro bietis or questions facing Irish workers today, A party that turns ita back on the just strogeles of the Catholic population in the 6 Couotirea und mich dees tot streaa tha need for advance’ in the Six Counties is held back solely by the Provos military campaign. “Their alternative, untortunately, is exactly the saree as that of the pro-Linionist Republican Clubs, They call on us to campaign instead for a “Devolved Assembly” and a Bil of Rights"! The practical effect of this policy i as follows: (1) A return to Stormont under Loyalist control A direct rejection of the biggest pain of the anti-[mpecialist (2) Aginefiectoa) law with the same practical effect as the RUC police omMnplainte procedure The Six County Statelet ida bywerd for sectarianism, Any one wit thinks democracy of any kind can be attained within its borders is deluding themaches und miseducatiog others, The CPV ere formiann pocognises this in i negalive way by oot raising any immediate demands whieh direethy challenge Loyalist sectarianism, The signs are not all bad. The Connolly Youth Movernent — the independent workers’ action will inevitably Find itself on the tight wing of Irish polities in the same may a5 Air Kemmy has found hime voting tor umti—worker measures in While the new party will make much play on the influence of the Catholic church in the 26 Counties it will comtique to refuse lo draw the neces gary cooclesiun that the existence of tac: sectariaun states in Irckand is a part of British imperialist nrategy in Irelanel ard is a disaster for the working Glas. Cosy anrangenvents with “liberals” (of dublows background capecially where civil liberties are concerned), will not change the sec tarinn nature of the two stales in freland, Only the ending of partition and the departure of the British can achieve this, Mr Kemumy"s politics are based on getting piecemeal reforms without posing a socialist alternative to the present system. Tbe fubure ot brish workers will revolve around the ao much faith on. In short, there is no ream for another purty that accepts British deamination of Ireland.

The CPI perspective la ually commbined with culls for Working Class Unity and support foc the Northern Iecland Trode Union Committes’s "Better Life for All Campaign’, Untortunalely, or fortunately {roe aur point of view, few people lave ever heard of it since il wus set up ten VEATS age.

ECONOMISM This hopelessly useless fon of econmii woukl make Lesio teen in hes Mawzoloum. WM igaesos che centrality uf politica and the National Question.

im the Six Counties we ahould be nising the slogan “Unify the Lrish Working C! lags’ which directly chal enges Partition and allows us to bring as bread and butter reforms in a solitics ta the working class, Cabling purely Novthern Ireland context is not a socialist strategy worthy of (he rane.

Our conclusion fran this analysis is that PL} gest itmers or less right in the H Block ‘Armagh Campaign and the CPI waa lett speechiiving from the sidelines, As the short article on the dehale within the CPI shows, there are chee) in party tanks who want tn pel Che alow back on the tnils.

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Rather than raising the partiticnist inspired. Slopan ua! “Workers Unity”