Bernadette Mcaliskey
Socialist Republic1982Economy, the EEC and EuropeBritish troops and the occupationThe Southern state and its partiesPrisoners and the hunger strikesElections and electoral tacticsEconomy, the EEC and EuropeBritish troops and the occupationThe Southern state and its partiesPrisoners and the hunger strikesElections and electoral tactics
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Irish people.
Browne, Jim Kemmy and Joe Sherlock for the attacks inflicted on Irish people Charlie Haughey has no answer other ° real interests of the entire Irish people. © PEOPLES DEMOCRACY is spensoring Bernadette McAliskey in Dublin North Central because of the close association that has developed between PD and Bernadette over the last number of years, especially since the start of the hunger strike campaign. Bernadette is known all over the world and throughout Ireland as a staunch and fearless defender of the rights of the Bernadette first came to prominence in 1969 as a leading defender of the Nationalist minority in the Bogside against the sectarian RUC and the notorious B-Specials. She served as Mid-Ulster MP from 1969-74. From. 1968 onwards she has been involved in every struggle to defend the National-ist community against the RUC and the British Army. She was present 10 years ago on January 30, 1972 when the British Army murdered 14 people on the streets of Derry on Bloody Sunday. She expressed the rage and anger of the Irish people when she punched Reginald Maudling, the British Home Secretary, in the British House of Commons when he attempted to exments, | VOTE GREG honorate the murdering paratroopers.
Bernadette has been to every part of of Ireland, most recently as PRO of the National H Block/Armagh Committee. Because of the outstanding role she played on behalf of the prisoners, — she was herself the victim of an assassination attempt in January 1981. If elected to Leinster House, Bernadette pledges herself to help lead the fight against austerity measures of both the Coalition and Fianna Fail. She will show how Irish working people and their families cannot get justice in our partitioned country, how the economy is at the beck and call of the multinationals, the politics of high finance and the EEC. The fight by Irish people to take the wealth and produce of Ireland into our hands will be a central part of her campaign. Unemployment, high taxes, denial of rights to women and youth, lack of social facilities, denial of civil rights and repression will all be exposed and combatted by Bernadette.
Give her your No. 1 vote.
McALISKEY, BERNADETTE — No. 1.
IN ALL the activity around the General Election don’t forget the Shannon Town Commissioners election on March 10th. The local problems in Shannon are a vital part of the problems facing the Irish economy as a whole.
Peoples Democracy’s candidate is GREG DUFF who will use the election to create an awareness among socialists and republicans of the need for unity against the bankrupt and collaborationist policies of successive governIn a statement, Bernadette McAliskey joined PD Belfast City Councillors Fergus O’Hare and John McAnulty in calling for support for Greg’s campaign, “Unity of the anti-