The Crisis

rights that women enjoy now are being pushed back througt the reactionary ‘Pro-life’

Solidarity More than 700,000 people took to the streets of West Germany over the Easter weekend in protest at the deployment of U.S. Pershing -2 and Cruise missile. In Britain some 130,000 joined Fem.

demonstrations and there were large marches in many other European countries. In Ireland, Irish CND organised smaller protests in Dublin and Belfast. hoy it was that reactionary standing that there was no initatives could be taken, real solution to the problems witi some success, despite faced by working people | the obvious militancy of that did not confront the working people. It took acc- domination of British rule in ount of the divisions within Ireland. the Irish working class and the ifact that many struggles remiained isolated within that’ section of the populatio A complementary task +n who traditionally have decided by Conference was to supported these issues. The campaign for anti-imperialist Conference decided that it militants to take up methods was a major task of ravolut- of struggle that could involve ionaries to find ways in all the oppressed sections of which these struggles could Irish society and reject the be united into a coherent elitist methods such as militchallenge to imperialist rule. arism which simply serve to exclude the overwhelming Most importantly, the Conf majority of working people erence concluded that it was from the struggle. an urgent task to develop the influence of anti-imperialists politics within the ‘Socialist Republic‘ will aim working class and particular to assist these tasks. Our goal ly within it's mass organisat- is to be both ‘A Workers ions, the trade unions. To Voice in the Anti-Imperialist this end it decided that P.D. would focus its politic~ al activity in the coming period on the winning of radicalised workers to an underThe latest US plans - a fantastic scenario for mobilising the scientific community to construct ray-guns in space, laser beams and the rest -may sound a hilarious follow-up to ‘Star Wars’ and ‘The perialism is so central a part of the Irish revolution: the role of the Irish working class and why and how a revolutionary party must be built. We will be promoting the central campaigns of Peoples Democracy; for a national fightback against austerity, building opposition to the right-wing ‘Pro-life’

Amendment, and campaigning § for 32 County elections to an All Ireland Assembly; and we will be promoting the international campaigns of the Fourth International, getting out the truth about the imperialist war drive, the revolution in Central America and the struggle against the bureaucratic regime in Poland This internationalist commitment of People’s Democracy was recognised at the Confer ence by greetings given by ers Movement*. We will try to national and the Britisk revolto explain the nature of the utionary organisation, the Finally in reaffirming the capitalist crisis, why anti-im- .Socialist League. up. In fact, every significant this would provide the most new technology of nuclear massive escalation of the warfare, i.e. nuclear submararms race, as the Soviet Union ines, MIRVS, cruise missiles, would be left with no choice the neutron bomb and now but to join this frantic search the planned ‘ray-guns’ have to build weapons of the most been introduced into the destructive kind. arms race by the United states. The real objective is The immediate objective of to attain first-strike capability -the imperialist powers howagainst the Soviet Union with:

Never, is not nuclear war but out the possibility of significlegitimising their military intervention against revolutionary struggles throughout Reagan’s latest plans, if the world. Not surprisingly achieved, would give the US Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ plot to invulnerability to Soviet “make nuclear war impossible attack, while of course leaving was unveiled simultaniously the Soviet Union open to US with the latest US backed attack - the plan involves agression against the constructing a ‘shield’ around Nicaraguan revolution. The the United States. In reality, Nicaraguan revolution has been a beacon of hope for the peoples of Central America and the US ruling class is determined at all costs, to stop another country freeing itself from economic and political domination by imper ialism.

A big problem for US rulers in the period since the Viet) organisation of revolutionary who see the need for an antithe James Connlly Society as James Connolly Society will a forum for discussion and _ be set up initially in Dublin, need to build an independant united activity by militants Belfast ,Limerick and Cork.

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Movement' and ’An Anti- representatives of the United JAMES CONNOLLY marxists in Ireland the Con- _ imperialist workers party in Imperialist Voice in the Work Secretariat of the Fourth Inter- SOCIETY ference decided to relaunch “Ireland. Branches of the