Killer at Large
Unfree Citizen1974The Southern state and its partiesPartition and the national questionThe Southern state and its partiesPartition and the national question
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been followed by the police.
shots were also fired at him. in Ballyfermot’. cautious of unmarked police If you are interested in joining the People’s Democracy and fighting for a 32-County Socialist Republic, fill in the form Belfast: CONNOLLY BOOKSHOP, AVOCA PARK, ANDERSONSTOWN RD.,BELFAST 11.
London: P.DOHERTY, 134 - 136 KINGSLAND HIGH ST., Three weeks ago a Dublin youth John Doran from Ballyfermot, was shot in the leg by Special Branchmen in Chapelizod Dublin. He was shot as he ran away from a car that had Another man in the car ran in the direction of the river Liffey and Subsequently the river was dragged for several hours but nothing was found. No trace of weapons of any kind was found in the men’s car.
After this remarkable incident all the Garda authorities could say was that ‘‘A member of the forces discharged a single shot at a man Despite the evidence of witnesses the gardai have denied that more , than one shot was fired, and have denied that a second person was also fired at. It is still not known whether this man was hot or drowned.
The name of the ‘Branchmen have not been released by the Gardai and indeed they have not even been suspended pending investigation of the shooting. The whole affair certainly should make people very vehicles, for with at least one potential ae murderer on the loose who knows what to expect?
ARE THEY STILL IN YOUR AREA READY TO KILL??
THE PEOPLES DEMOCRACY — What we stand for The People’s Democracy is a revolutionary socialist organisation, _ fighting for the establishment of a 32-County Workers Republic in Ireland. In that fight we have learned through our experience of the struggle in the North that there can be no progress made until the age-old problem of the domination and exploitation of Ireland by British imperialism is.settled. _, We therefore support the war of resistance against British contro} in the North and have agitated and will continue to agitate, to back up that war — north and south.
Because both states, north and south, are capitalist controlled we recognise that the 26-Co. government — and indeed all the Leinster House Politicians — support: Britain in the continuation of partition in Ireland and actively promote this by their policy of repression in the 26 Cos. Consequently we see that the ‘Struggle for National Liberation and Socialism must be fought here as well. Our activity is based on our experience and Marxist analyses of the situation in Ireland. We consider the anti-imperialist struggle should be fought to gain the support of the working-class people of Ireland and the People’s Democracy pledge themselves to achieving through the struggle for National Liberation — a Workers Republic of Ireland.