Paper of Peoples’ Democragy
Socialist Republic1984Internment, repression and the courtsTrade unions and workers' strugglesThe Southern state and its partiesPartition and the national questionInternment, repression and the courtsTrade unions and workers' strugglesThe Southern state and its partiesPartition and the national question
Read the scan at the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line (PDF, page 1) →Machine-read text, not corrected. Cut from the scan by machine, by the size of the headline type. Where columns were set close together, lines of a neighbouring article can run in, and a headline can be missed so that two articles share a page. For anything you quote, read the scan.
Scan page 1
OUTSIDE IRELAND 25p. The extradition of Dominie McGlinchy from the 26 Counties marks a new and deeper level of collaboration on the part of the Southern establishment with the British Crewn. It is a_ violation of the Constitution and a breach of both domestic and international law. It was because there was no legal way of delivering McGlinchey into the tee’ as part of its policy of appeasing the British Tories and loyalist extremists. The Supreme Court was employed simply to provide a legal gloss for the political order. That is why Jim Prior was able to confidently assure the British media that McGlinchey would be extradited even when a judge in chambers right in imternational law. It has been upheld by Free State governments of every political hue for more than 60 turbulent years _ despite intense pressure from the British.
The fact. that this ‘law and order’ Coalition has been not only ready but eager to cast aside this Constitutional right serves to emphaVOLUME 7 No. 2 to defend partition and British rule in the North.
The Coalition will want to use the McGlinchey case to drive a coach and horses through the political refuge of the Extradition Act. They must not be allowed to get away with this.
Already Sinn Fein has been organising public rallies against extradiAPRIL 1984 taken into ail the mass organisations, especially the trade unions. The Coalition and Fianna Fail must hear the message:
NO MORE EXTRADITIONS!
### SUPPORT
ANTI-EXTRADITION _RALLIES!
Letterkenny, Co. Donegal Saturday, April 7th 3.30 pm.
Cavan Town . Saturday, April 14th 2.30 pm,
----- pull-quotes -----
PRICE 20p. Lop. Unemployed and strikers. | tion’s ‘Security Commit-