Hunt Of Sinn Fein
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have. forward gone annual conferences of Ireland’s and Dublin areas, Government to delegations.
WORKERS PARTY The Coalition witch hunt is being aided and abetted by anti-republican elements in the unions. A consistent letter writing campaign has appeared in newspaper pages, spearheaded by members ofthe DSP (Democratic Socialist Party). The Workers Party seem to be abandoning defence of democratic rights — as in one union, the CGPSU libraries section, they abstained and in FWUI No 15 Branch (RTE), voted against similar motions presented by PD supporters.
Having got the bit between the teeth, the ‘two-nationists’ in the unions won’t let go that easily. And the Coalition is running scared of Sinn Fein'’s potential in the coming EEC elections. A oo0od showing would cerResolutions protesting the Coalition witch hunt against Sinn Fein elected representatives and its members in the trades union movement debate at the two main industrial unions. In the ITGWU and FWUI, PD members and supporters, in the Limerick proposed the motions which condemn the attempt of the Coalition censor delegations or exclude from union negotiations, democratically elected representatives. The FWUI motion also calls on the union to abstain from censored Zlem for FitzGerald. How Sinn Fein builds for that campaign will be very important for all socialists in the anti-imperialist movement.
UNITY AGAINST WITCHUNT!
Building community action on the drugs issue has certainly been a major step. Building a fightback must now be extended into the unions on-all the major economic and social issues and immediately on the witch-hunt.
PD believes more consistent and organised unity among anti-imperiialists in the trades unions is a priority. We will be discussing with trades union activists and Sian Fein members how to develop that work and the possibility of fringe meetings at the union conferences.
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