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The Plough
Vol. 3- No 29
Sunday July 30th 2006
E-mail newsletter of the
Irish Republican Socialist Party
1) Editorial
2) Statement on white line vigil
3) Still Protesting In Middle Age
4) The Myth of Irish Wealth
5) 'The oppressor demands loyalty'
6) Facts about the occupation of Iraq
7) In support of Republican prisoners in Maghaberry
8) From the newspapers
a. Stop the war in Lebanon and Gaza!
b.
9) Letters
a. Gibney, O’Rawe and the missing evidence
KEVIN LYNCH COMMEMORATION SUNDAY August 6thrd at 2.00pm Dungiven
County Derry.
All comrades to attend.
Editorial
The state of Israel backed by its USA/UK allies has declared war on
the people of Lebanon. The USA supplies the bombs, the British
facilitate their delivery and the Israeli state uses them to
massacre men women and children. The pretext for the invasion of
Lebanon, the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah, has long
been forgotten and it is now clear that Israel is acting on behalf
of Imperialism to re-configurate the Middle East to conform to USA
interests. The armed aggression against both the Lebanon and
Palestine people is a war crime. The IRSP unequivocally supports the
rights of both Hamas and Hezbollah to resist the Israeli onslaught
by whatever means are at their disposal. For no one should be under
any illusions. The events unfolding in the Middle East are part of
the offensive waged by Imperialism against progressive forces
worldwide.
Israel simply could not exist without the billions of US-dollars in
military and financial aid it receives annually from its masters.
Israel has been the world’s largest recipient of U.S foreign aid for
thirty years. For the 2005 fiscal year alone, it received $357
million in economic support, $2.2 billion in military support and
$50 million in assistance for migration and settlement. In addition,
to help Israel out of its economic slump, the U.S. provided $9
billion in loan guarantees until 2008. . (Source
FifthInternational.org Global Newswire 15 July 2006
This is not a war on terror. The USA is losing control in South
America where there is a notable swing to the left. Struggles in
Nepal and the Philippines are weakening the allies of Imperialism.
Both in Afghanistan and Iraq the USA and their British allies are
finding themselves under increasing attack.
We call on all republican socialists to support all protests against
USA /British aggression and we openly advocate victory to the anti
imperialist forces fighting against Imperialism without in any way
endorsing their social or economic policies.
Statement on white line vigil
Daly/McNamee Irish Republican Socialist Party Cumann have called a
white line vigil to honour the sacrifices of 1981 hunger striker and
INLA Volunteer Kevin Lynch. The vigil will commence at 5 pm sharp
outside the IRSP national headquarters at 392 Falls Road on Tuesday
1st of August.
It is paramount we do not forgot the sacrifices our comrades made
twenty-five years ago to be recognised not as criminals but as
political prisoners. The only genuine way to honour our hunger
strikers is to struggle for the political status our comrades are
deprived of today.
Republican prisoners were no less criminals in 1981 than today,
political offenses should treated by the British Government as such
as long as Irish men and women are prepared to fight against
capitalism and imperialism. The IRSP call without reserve and
without compromise for the reinstatement of the political status
signed away with the Good Friday Agreement.
PRO,
Daly / Mc Namee Cumann
Irish Republican Socialist Party
STATEMENT ENDS
STILL PROTESTING IN MIDDLE AGE:
It was a rainy Saturday afternoon, and there I was, standing on a
white-line picket on the Falls Road. I never though, even in my
wildest dreams, as a teenager, that I would still be protesting
about prison conditions as I entered middle age. As I stood on the
Falls Road last Saturday, I could not help but think back to those
dark days of 1980/1.
I remember the protests, white-line pickets and picketing the local
British Army/R.U.C. barracks. I remember walking to and from
meetings with other youths from our area, we walked as there were no
private taxis then, plus, like most teenagers, we were always short
of money, but if my memory is correct, we didn’t mind walking as we
chatted away about the H-Blocks. During the Hunger Strike in 1980,
we had to put up with the dark nights and drizzle that soaked us to
the bone, but this didn’t seem to annoy us either. I remember the
enthusiasm we had; we really believed we were making an impact on
the people in our area. It seemed we up to something every day.
After the 1980 Strike ended and we believed the prisoners won, we
were delighted for them and relived that none of them died. But as
time passed I realised all was not well. As the talk started about
another Hunger Strike I remember feeling that we will not be able to
get the support that we had on the first Strike, I actually felt
that the prisoners had let us down in some way. At the rally at the
Busy Bee to mark the start of the second Strike, I noticed the
crowed was smaller. Had people been “burned out” protesting, did
they think the prisoners were bluffing? I didn’t know. Starting the
white-line pickets on the Shaw’s and Andersonstown Roads again I
noticed there were fewer of us and we were not getting the same
response from the public. I think even our enthusiasm was waning.
Some of our pickets at the barracks we so small, less than ten of
us, I thought we would never get things back to what they were
during the first Hunger Strike. All that changed with Bobby Sands
being elected as an M.P.
Overnight everything had changed, moral was up no end, we had a
spring in our step again. The prisoners were going to win and now
that one of them was an M.P. none of them would die. Of course our
beliefs were brought back to earth with a massive bang when Bobby
died. Even then I thought that that was it, Britain will see that in
the eyes of the world, the prisoners are not criminals and give them
the 5 demands. No, I was wrong again. Frankie, Ray and Pasty were to
die over the next few weeks. April and June came and went, we were
still protesting away, but we now knew that the prisoners were
determined to see it through to their deaths. There was no room for
doubt, we were protesting to save prisoners lives.
Our protests were no longer full enthusiasm, just a gritty
determination to do what we could for the prisoners. As Joe and
Martin died it seemed things could not get worse, we kept up our
pickets, Kevin and Kieran died. At this stage I think we were all
just overtaken by the sadness of it all. As Tom and Mickey died we
wondered where it was all going to end. Ten prisoners dead. The
Hunger Strike ended. I believe by now we were just relieved that it
was all over. No matter what Britain said, these prisoners had
proved for once and for all that they were not criminals.
Now 25 years later we remember them up and down the country. Even on
T.V. there are shows marking the Hunger Strike in a way that was
unthought-of back in 81 when the whole of the media were against the
prisoners. Prisoners who were involved in the prison protest and
people who led it outside the prison were being interviewed. I am
not sure if this is progress but it is where we are today.
So as I stood on the protest on Saturday at the ripe old age of 43
my thoughts returned to those days of my youth spent protesting for
the prisoners. Little did I think then that I would spend my 20th
birthday in prison, or be in the Blocks myself, or even end up in
prison a second time?
But I am sure the last thing on my mind was that at 43 I would still
be on the Falls Road protesting for prisoners. And that those who
were leading the protests outside the prisons in 80/81 would not be
out with me in 2006. Then again to my youthful mind back then, I
never thought that they would end up in Stormont. But no matter what
else was going through my mind in my teens, it would have been
impossible to convince me that the people, who we followed in 80/81,
would be the ones responsible for signing away the demands that the
ten Hunger Strikers died for. The protest brought back many memories
for me. I looked for the youths, who protested in 80/81 from the
Upper Andersonstown area, middle aged now like me, and I saw none of
them.
Has the grind of daily life dulled their enthusiasm, maybe they
believe in the Good Friday (Dis) Agreement? Or worse still, they now
no longer care. I hope it will not take another Hunger Strike to get
people to care. But as we begin protesting again I believe we lack
enthusiasm, but there is a gritty determination to let the people
know that there are prisoners being denied the rights that the 10
Hunger Strikers died for.
And that when Provisional Sinn Fein signed the G.F.A. they were the
ones who signed away those rights. If this is progress, let P.S.F.
keep it, I can do without this type of progress. I would rather
stand in the rain on the Falls Road protesting for prisoner’s
rights, than belong to a party that signed away those rights to get
into Stormont and to placate a British Government that allowed ten
prisoners die.
So it looks like I will begin middle age life the way I spent my
youth, protesting against prison conditions. Some might not see this
as progress, but given the choice between protesting on the Falls
Road and “progressing” into Stormont, you will find me on the Falls
Road protesting.
(Gerard Foster)
THE MYTH OF IRISH WEALTH
According to various news bulletins on the evening of Monday 10th
July 2006 ‘Irish people are the second richest in the world’. If the
media is to be believed only the Japanese are richer than the Irish.
However on closer examination this claim does not hold water.
Firstly who are the Irish people? Are they the 30,000 Irish
millionaires who exist in Ireland? if the answer is yes then it may
be true to say that Ireland has more millionaires per capita than
almost every other country! However, this hardly constitutes the
Irish (26 county) people does it? that is unless the other, upwards
of 4,000,000 people majority working class are ignored. Then they
tell us that this wealth is based on the property boom and
economists warn against a lowering of property prices. Is this a way
of keeping property prices artificially high? so high that most
people can’t afford to keep up and those that can or, more to the
point think they can, do not actually own the house they are pleased
to call there own, the mortgage company or bank do. This nation of
property owners, that is unless the nation consists of the mighty
aforementioned 30,000, is a myth. With property prices running at a
vastly inflated rate these same economists, via the ever reliable
media, tell us that inflation in Ireland is among the lowest in the
European Union. Of course these calculations do not add up, inflated
property prices and low inflation? What next? It might be an
advantage to tell the population what barometer these inflation
statistics are calculated by because if, as suspected they are
worked out on wages alone then a false figure will be arrived at.
Wages in Ireland, according to a recent trade union report are, in
real terms among the lowest in Europe. If this is the case then how
can ’the Irish people’ be the second richest in the world? unless of
course wage earners are omitted from these statistics.
If this economic claptrap bears any truth, we in Ireland should have
goods and services second to none, which we most definitely do not.
There should be no need for street collections to raise money for
hospitals, or people selling scratch cards to raise funds for asthma
and other serious illnesses. Imagine we are part of a country which
boasts the ’second richest people in the world’ and we have the
second worst health service in the European Union. The fact is it is
the way this bullshit comes across which fools most people. The
media tell their viewers, listeners and readers a diet of severely
rationed truths like a pie with no filling. On the outside it looks
very appetizing until the unsuspecting dinner tries to find the
filling and, guess what, there is none.
I wonder if these people who are making these fictitious claims
about ’Irish people being the second richest in the world’ have
actually done a survey among the population as a whole, that is
those who for five minutes every four or five years at election
times, are classified as the Irish people when they are required to
vote. I am sure if they did they would come up with a very different
set of figures. If, for example the whole population was surveyed,
and the question was along the lines of “ do you feel as though you
are part of a people who are ranked as the second richest in the
world” what do you think the answer would be? Yes, no, or don’t talk
rubbish I can’t even get a hospital bed when I am sick. On the other
hand, if we accept just for a minute this diatribe of rubbish where
is the population’s share of this phantom wealth?
Recently the free state government announced a windfall of 900
billion euro above expectations from tax revenue. Sounds great but
if this is the case, once again, why are our goods and services so
poor and real wages so low? Why are so many people living on the
streets or in the case of the lucky ones temporary accommodation?
Remember these are, according to statistics, the ’second richest
people in the world’; the mind boggles at such tomfoolery.
So if the property market collapses, and by this they mean the
prices coming down to a figure where people can genuinely afford to
purchase and own (as opposed to the mortgage company being the
lawful owners) their own property our erstwhile economists would
refer to such a scenario as a slump and would start immediately
scare mongering about an impending recession.
The moral to this short story is no matter what they tell you always
question, no matter what you read always question and no matter what
you hear always question, because in this liberal democracy they
will only tell you the bits that serve their own class interests.
(Kevin Morley)
'The oppressor demands loyalty'
Bernadette McAliskey, socialist, republican, community activist,
spoke at Marxism 2006 event in London. Here is an edited version.
The 30 years of armed struggle and mass resistance against British
rule in Ireland began with the struggle for civil rights. The
struggle was about fighting against second class citizenship.
For people today it is perhaps incredible that Britain, which is
terrorising Iraq and Afghanistan in the name of democracy, did not
have equality in voting as late as 1968. In order to be able to vote
in Northern Ireland you had to be a property owner. So landlords
owned not just property but the democratic process as well. Northern
Ireland was constructed on massive discrimination. Discrimination is
not just about blatant prejudice; it has a rationale that argues
that people are disloyal. It was assumed that Catholics were
disloyal.
We are seeing this process repeated. Under the war on terror it is
assumed that Muslims are disloyal. Because someone is Muslim we are
told they cannot really be truly British. To prove that you are not
disloyal you have to overtly express support for the most right wing
activities of the state. Only then can you be considered truly a
proper citizen. This was the position Catholics had reached by the
1960s. The Unionists opposed the post-war reforms, such as the
welfare state. They showed foresight in doing this. The poor got
healthier and educated.
At first the Nationalist community had an element of gratitude about
the reforms. It is similar with immigration. People coming into
Britain are expected to have a perception that they they owe this
country something. People are encouraged to come here so their
labour can be exploited, but they are supposed to feel grateful.
In Ireland some people had a certain gratitude but they hit the
glass ceiling. The next generation came along and argued that it was
our right to have a decent standard of living and democracy. he
reformists had exhausted all the peaceful means of change. There was
nowhere to go but the streets. All movements seem to start with a
reformist saying, "Come to the streets and follow me." They think
the street is an extension of the places where they hold authority.
They don't realise that when you are on the street a qualitative
change takes place. You have space away from the physical
constraints that remind you of your place in society. People look
around and think that on the streets we are all equal.
Next, the police arrive. The police are great levellers. The
reformists say to the police officer, "We are law abiding..." They
never get to finish the sentence. The reformists then spend all
their time trying to get us off the streets.
When the police charge at you, whether you're Irish or miners or
whoever, two things happen. The reformists get scared and the young
people, in particular, get radicalised.
We were looking for very small things. We had no one to vote for,
but we wanted the right to vote, to jobs and for somewhere to live.
The state used violence. The mass movement became reactive to what
the state was doing. They threw stones at us we threw stones back.
The state repressed the rights of the people.
The police have killed a man getting on a tube. They have kicked in
the door of two Muslim brothers and shot one of them - for nothing.
British police have been doing that and worse in Ireland for 30
years. They will do it here if we do not stop them. This is a
consequence of a system that does not allow Muslims to be "really"
British.
People are slowly being asked to pick their side. To be British you
have to be uncritical of the government because the government is
fighting terror. That is the important lesson of what happened in
Ireland. There is a new left, but there is still some life in the
old left.
(Bernadette McAliskey)
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Facts about the occupation of Iraq
• British firms have made at least $1.1 billion profit out of the
occupation of Iraq alone
• US Vice President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton alone has been awarded
contracts in Iraq worth $20 billion
• $8.8 billion of Iraqi and $1 billion of Afghani aid money has not
been audited properly and has gone “missing”
• A quarter of all “reconstruction” aid has been spent servicing the
occupation
(FifthInternational.org Global Newswire 11 July 2006)
In support of Republican prisoners in Maghaberry
On Friday, July 14, 2006 Republican POWs both in Maghaberry and
Portlaoise held a 24-hour fast in protest against the regime in
Maghaberry and the attempts to criminalise Republican prisoners by
enforcing sub-standard conditions on the segregated landings.
Republican POWs in Maghaberry have been engaged in a prison protest
since June 19, 2006 and there are now over thirty POW's
on the protest.
They are fighting to improve conditions for segregated prisoners in
Maghaberry who are in effect being punished for exercising their
right to segregation from non-political prisoners. They are
demanding that their five demands be addressed.
1. RIGHT TO FREE ASSOCIATION
2. END TO CONTROLLED MOVEMENT
3. RIGHT TO FULL TIME EDUCATION
4. SEPARATE VISITING FACILITY
5. RIGHT TO ORGANISE OUR OWN LANDINGS
POWs in Portlaoise have been acting in solidarity with their
comrades in Maghaberry during the prison protest and 19 POWs in
Portlaoise took part in the fast.
Letters
GIBNEY: O’RAWE AND THE MISSING EVIDENCE.
In his column in the Irish News, dated the 11th May, Jim Gibney gave
his version of events during the Hunger Strike of 1981. He used the
same column to rubbish Richard O’Rawes version of events leading up
to Joe Mc Donnells death. Some of his points are very valid. Like
Bik Mc Farlane saying there was no conversation. And that no other
prisoners on the wing “heard the conversation”, or that “For 24
years he was in regularly in the company of ex-prisoners. He never
mentioned the rejected “set of proposals” to anyone”. He also made a
number of other points, but I believe the prisoners on the wing with
Bik and Richard are the most important. If what Gibney says about
the other prisoners is true, then O’Rawe is obviously lying.
O’Rawe wrote, in response to these claims, in the Irish News on the
15th May making a number of claims of his own. As for Gibney’s
claims about the other prisoners, O’Rawe said, “At no point have I
sought to enlist my cellmate’s public support for my position… but
now that Jim Gibney has brought my cellmate into this, I strenuously
challenge him to provide the evidence that my cellmate heard no
conversation. I am confident he won’t or can’t.
As all of this was written nearly two months ago, and I have been
waiting on Jim Gibney to produce the evidence from O’Rawes cellmate,
or any other prisoner come to that, to prove O’Rawe wrong, I am
beginning to wonder why he has not done so. It could lead to the
belief that maybe there is some truth to O’Rawe claims. Gibney
should not let this challenge, to produce evidence, go on much
longer.
As all of this has taken place in public in the Irish News, I
thought that pages of the Irish News would be the best place for the
evidence to be produced. Surely I am not the only one waiting for
O’Rawe to be rubbished?
Gerard Foster
Andersonstown.
From the newspapers
Statement of the Israeli Communist Forum (20.7.2006)
Stop the war in Lebanon and Gaza !
The Israeli communist forum strongly condemns the barbaric attacks
of the Israeli army in Lebanon and in Gaza Strip. In those attacks
many innocent people, including women and many children, have been
killed. A lot of houses have been demolished, as well as airports,
various roads, bridges, electric power stations etc'. As a result of
this destruction hundreds of thousands of people are in dangerous
situation and lack basic products, including food and water.
The refusal of Ehud Olmert's Government to conduct any negotiation
with the Palestinian elected leadership, including on exchange of
prisoners, was main cause for recent escalation in the region.
Olmert's government is continuing the old principle of past Israeli
governments - which failed during all history - according to it
"with our neighbours we shall 'speak' only with force, and what we
can’t achieve with force, we shall achieve by using more force".
This policy inflicts not only great losses to the Palestinian and
Lebanese Peoples, but also to Israeli citizens and to its economy.
The northern part of Israel is nearly paralyzed.
From the history of the conflict in our region we know that neither
mass killings, bombardments and destruction of huge areas nor
liquidations of military or political leaders in any degree can’t
achieve for the long run the aim of their perpetrators.
The pretext of the Israeli government for initiating the new war was
that its aim is to recover an Israeli soldier who was captured by
the Palestinians, and later to release the two soldiers which were
captured by Khizballa near the Lebanese border, (the declared aim of
Khizballa was to use the Israeli soldiers in order to exchange them
with Lebanese prisoners in Israel, and it was also kind of
solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and with the Palestinian
prisoners.) If the real aim of the Israeli government indeed was to
release the captive soldiers, it could have been achieved through
negotiations, as it happened in several occasions in the past,
including in recent years. But it was just excuse for realizing
military aggression which was prepared long time ago.
There is a dangerous attempt to drag Syria and additional countries
in the region into the new war. The implementation of these schemes
is enabled at this stage by the total support of USA. USA
automatically supports all the barbaric acts of aggression conducted
by the Israeli army. USA is trying, through the Israeli army, to
score some achievements in the region, which will mitigate its
recurrent failures in Iraq, which weakens its status in the region.
It is very regretful that the international opposition to the
Israeli aggression was very weak in the beginning of the war, but in
last days its started growing in various parts of the world. The
current policy of Olmert's government is disastrous for both the
Israeli People and the other Peoples in the region.
We call to enhance the struggle against this policy, and for maximum
unification of the forces, Jews and Arabs, which are persistently
opposing the war and occupation as well as the racism inside the
state of Israel. We congratulate the first acts of protest, which
took place in last days and call for their continuation and
increase. We call to all peace loving forces in the world to raise
their voice against the barbaric war of the Israeli government and
to express active solidarity with the Palestinian People, the
Lebanese People and the persistent peace forces in Israel.
What’s On
Remember Des Warren
Out of the pickets jailed at Shrewsbury, following the national
building workers strike of 1972, Des Warren served the longest
sentence. His trial on conspiracy charges was part of the attempt by
the Tory government of the day to destroy basic trade union rights.
It is now 30 years since Des was released from his three-year prison
sentence. Des suffered permanent injury to his health from drugs
administered in jail, and this ultimately led to his death in April
2004.
3pm, Saturday 5 August 2006
at the Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool Contact details: 0151 709 9948
Justice4pickets@yahoo.co.uk For further information see:
www.billhunterweb.org.uk <http://www.billhunterweb.org.uk>
Please find attached info on Annual Royal Hospital/Féile lecture
-this year's lecture is 'Good health- Where there's a will there's a
way! A unique look at ethnicity, health and healthcare by Dr. Rafik
Gardee Director Nataional Resource CEntre for Ethnic
Minority Health Scotland. Will be looking at issues and concerns
relating to the needs of the multi-ethnic communities in our
multi-cultural society, including keeping pace with rapidly changing
political agendas and the diversity agenda.
It’s on Tues 8 Aug at 5pm in St. Mary's College. Falls Road Belfast
Details of the funeral of Ted Grant –Marxist Internationalist.
Here are the details of Ted's funeral arrangements
It will take place at the South Essex (Corbett's Tey) crematorium in
Ockenden road, Upminster RM14 2UY on Tuesday 8th August at 1.15pm.
It can be reached by public transport from Upminster Station (Tube/Overground)b
y getting the 370 bus going to
Gray's or Corbett's Tey.
A memorial meeting will take place on Sat afternoon. 9th Sept at the
friends meeting place, Euston London - more details later.
Steve Jones
The Chicago Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee are holding a 25th
Anniversary Dinner on the 12th of August, 2006 in memory of those
who
died on hunger strike in 1981.
We will be producing a unique commemorative journal for this event
and
would like to offer you the opportunity to have your business or
club
featured. We are expecting over 100 attendees, including several
prominent Irish-Americans, and we will feature two special guest
speakers,
plus an arts & crafts raffle.
All ads will be black and white. Ad rates are as follows:
8” x 10” Inside Front/Back Cover - $200
8” x 10” Full Page Ad - $100
5” x 8” Half Page - $50
3” x 5” Quarter Page - $25
The Deadline for ads is August 1st, 2006.
Any Group or Organisation can place an ad by following the
directions
in this e-mail, The monies raised go to the prisoners dependants so
please make a very important contribution.
Forms are available at www.wemustbeunited.com and if you need any
assistance you can contact us at (708) 655-2078 or (312) 560-9311,
or by
email: info@wemustbeunited.com.
Go raibh maith agat,
Colm Mistéil
CHSCC Chairman
www.wemustbeunited.com
Coiste na nIarchimí Summer School/Scoil Samhraidh 2006
Tí Chulainn Cultural, and Heritage Centre, Mullaghbawn, Co Armagh
16-18 August 2006
Admission to the full school, including accommodation and all meals
(breakfast, lunch, and 3-course evening meal) - £40.00/€60
Admission to one day, including accommodation and all meals -
£20/€30
Admission to one day, including lunch and evening meal - £10/€15
Limited spaces available:
book now on 028/048 90200770
or summerschool2006@coiste.com
Wednesday 16 2.00 p.m. The future we give our children
Duncan Morrow
- Community Relations Council
Linda Moore
- NI Human Rights Commission
Bunmi Salako
- Louth African Women’s Support Group
Bobby Gilmore
- Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
James Doorley
- National Youth Council of Ireland
8.30 p.m. Keynote speaker Mary Lou McDonald MEP
Thursday 17 10.00 a.m. Children of the '60s - Raising
a radical voice
Former civil rights activists
Fergus O'Hare
Mina Wardle
Inez McCormack
2.00 p.m. Children of the conflict - a generation imprisoned
Séanna Walsh
former republican prisoner
Martina Anderson
former republican prisoner
Billy McQuiston
former loyalist prisoner
Robert Niblock
former loyalist prisoner
Friday 18 10.00 a.m. A new generation -
following tradition or breaking new ground?
Toireasa Ní Fhearaiosa
- Sinn Féin councillor, Kerry
Philip McGuigan
- Sinn Féin MLA, North Antrim
Elisha McLaughlin
- Sinn Féin councillor, Derry City
Matt Carthy
- Sinn Féin councillor, Carrickmacross
Comrades,
Continuing with our celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the
Spanish
Civil War we are pleased to offer a reproduction of the Spanish
Republican flag with the International Brigades logo. The flags are
3
feet x 5 feet costing £10 each + postage and can be located on our
home
page.We also have copies of the 'Connolly Column' a book by an Irish
International Brigadier, Michael O'Riordan who recently died. RRP
£14.99
our price £12.99 + postage
Both items available on our website: www.socialistproductions.org
don't forget you can also purchase our International Brigades badge
and
t-shirt.
NO PASARAN
Robert
Catalan Solidarity: Ireland Committee
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practical support and solidarity to Catalan political prisoners,
their supporters as well as information on the continuing struggle
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As part of our work we aim to provide information events, pickets
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activities and to raise awareness of the political situation in
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We urge both Catalans living in Ireland and other non-Catalans
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them both continued solidarity and support.
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The Republican Socialist
Youth Movement have re-launched their website.
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An Glór / The Voice
News sheet of Belfast
Republican Socialist Youth Movement
January 2007
Circulation: 400
- Brit police never
acceptable
- Maghaberry Prison protest
continues
- Assets Recovery Agency, a
question of money
- Support the Turkish death
fast
- Ard Fheis rejects any
move towards INLA decommissioning
- Volunteer Davy McNutt
RIP
http://www.rsym.org/pdf/magazines/anGlor1.pdf
The Republican Socialist
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concerning Shannon airport and its continued use by American troops
and the CIA. The video can be viewed at
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