Cooney's Pound of Flesh

normal prison cell — sixty miles from the specialist treatment he needs.

The re-jailing for 15 months of Tomas for the same offence as he was recently jailed for and served his sentence has stripped bare any pretence of justice in the 26 Co. Special Court.

To say that Internment does not exist in the 26 Cos. is to fool oneself, for what is internment if it isn’t keeping Che Guevara, continued from Page 2 help bring about a US controlled dictatorship like Chile today.

Here Guevara cut his teeth as a revolutionary helping to orgenise arms for the workers. He narrowly escaped assassination by the ClA and had to flee to Mexico where he came into contact with a group of Cuban exiles led by Fidel Castro. He became a close friend — of Castro and joined in his preparations for armed struggle against Batista, the Cuban ruler who governed by butchery and terror.

Eighty of them set out with arms for Cuba by boat, but on lending were caught — in an enemy ambush. Only twenty survived and Guevara was among those wounded. The remnant headed for the Sierra Maiestra, a mountaineus region, from where they continued their struggle with the help of local peopte. Their ranks quickly swelled with those who resented the Batista regime and finally Belfast Republican Joe Cahill was given a three year jail sentence in early 1973 for his part in Claudia gun-running to the Co. Waterford coast. Since then he took part in the long Mountjoy hunger strike along with‘eleven other Republicans. That took a considerable toll on his health by the time it ended on 10th October last year. Following on that Joe was admitted to Baggot St. hospital in Dublin after a heart attack and only left there earlier this year. He was again admitted to hospital in August with the same trouble, in a very bad condition. But for no apparent reason he was suddendly transferred back to Portlaoise Prison at the end of September — to be left without proper medical attention in the It is clear that Joe Cahill’s condition alone, merits his release, but it appears that Cooney is prepared to save face for the Dept. of Justice rather than save the life of this man.

someone locked up permanently by jailing him again and again for the same offence! ; Yes, the 26 Co. regime in its own clever way is equally as repressive as the 6 Cos. where atleast the British gevernment don’t deny that they are interning people. after a long and bloody struggle of four years they won their victory.

STRUGGLE TURNS SOCIALIST In the process of this struggle Castro and his followers had become committed socialists and the regime which they set about establishing in Cuba was a socialist one. Che Guevara was given the task of running the island’s economic affairs, but he tired of this, preferring to be involved_in the running of the People’s militia — the armed working class.

The C.I.A. at this time were operating a sabotage campaign against Cuba because the island was important to America for sugar and Castro's socialist government would not allow American business to control its production.

They bombed Havana the capital of Cuba in much the same way ¥s the Loyalists in the North bomb Catholicowned pubs; in one bomb-incident below and send it to:

resistance and defeated them.

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if Venceremos! CHE alone a hundred workers were killed. Finally in 1963 the CIA landed an invasion ‘force of U.S. marines and mercenaries in Cuba on the Bay of Pigs and Guevara was among those who put up a heroic Still intent on fighting for the liberation of all Latin American oppressed peoples, Che Guevara decided that the central position of Bolivia made it an ideal position from which to begin. In his own words he would create “one, two, three Viet Nams” to bog down the US troops.

Tragically he was killed in that struggle on October 9th 1967. The struggle in -Latin America still continues, for, as in Che Guevaras own words — “You can kill the revolutionary but not the revolution”.

Pm by the British Army. And as part of the ‘ ‘handover’ of power to the RUC the . ‘pigs’ have been given a coat of grey paint — the RUC’s colour. ; This is one of the most ominous signs yet to for the Catholic population of Belfast. For it comes only four weeks after Merlyn Rees announced that the Loyalist demands for a third force were to be met by vastly increasing the strength of the RUC Reserve and UDR. This is the real meaning of British withdrawl — the , handover of military equipment tc the uniformed Loyalists of the RUC and UDR.

It can only convince the Catholic working class that the thfeat of Civil War is real and it emphasises the necessity to PREPARE FOR DEFENCE AND RELIEF NOW. 6 Wherever death may surprise us, it will be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, reaches some receptive ear, that another hand stretch out to take up weapons, and that other men come forward to intone our funeral dirge with the staccato of machine guns and new cries of battle and victorv. | Each and every one of us will pay on demand his part of sacrifice . . . knowing that all together we are getting ever closer to 9 3 the new man, whose figure is beginning to-appear. t 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 wer of resistance against British contro} in the North and have aQitated 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-Ce. 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 treland. We consider the anti-imperialist struggle should be fought to gain the support of the working-class people of Iretand and the People’s Democracy pledge themselves to achieving through. the struggle for National Liberation — a Workers Republic of ireland.