A KEYNOTE speaker at the Labour Committee on Ireland's fringe meeting will be Mary Manning, one of the eleven strikers in Dublin who have made South Africa's cause their own.
By the time Mary arrives she will have been on strike for one year and eleven weeks. The strike began when shopworkers at Dunnes' buoua store relusea to nandie curspan oranges of the decision by their union, IDATU, to boycott South African produce as part of an active anti-Apartheid policy Management suspended Mary indefinitely and, with full union backing, the shopworkers set up a picket which has been outside in Henry Street ever since.
The picket line has achieved world fame and has been visited by, among others, Arthur Scargill, Bishop Desmond Tutu and Gerry Adams.
Last week the strikers won an important victory when Dunne's management said it would 'phase out' South African goods from all Irish shelves. But management refuses to concede the issue on which the strike began, namely the right of shopworkers themselves to refuse to handle soul Alcan produce, m une wan walon policy.
The strikers have many lessons to offer the British labour movement - not least their refusal to accept the May Labour Court ruling protest in some other way.
The Labour Committee on Ireland fringe meeting will also launch Ireland After Britain, a collection of articles on Ireland's future by prominent authors and edited by Martin Collins. It is followed by a social In addition Labour Women for Ireland are holding a meeting on Tuesday, featuring Sinn rein councilor bodie NeGuiness and other women speakers. Dodie is also speaking at the Target Labour Government meeting on Sunday night.
Labour Committee on Ireland Fringe Meeting 5.30pm Wednesday 24 September Chine Hotel, Boscombe Spa Road Bournemouth Dunne's Strike FFIC vestiges of the apartheid system have been Derby South's resolttion to Labour Party conference bluntly sums up the only acceptable policy: complete severance economic, diplomatic and all other relations with the racist regime not "reform' it but to bring it down.
• Britai apartheid's it created it. It ran over a century lends South Africa half its money and owns half its investments with 1,200 ment' trying to perwhite racists will reform themselves • wo days atte Pretoria's vanuted 'reforms' were announced went on public record to explain that thes wouldn't make any prac tical difference Not "retormer' accents the on sustice to African peone step needed For person, vole governe s bear a heavy share of the blame Dast involve ment Apartheid. In 1975 Wilson tried to sack from the cabinet for even daring to speak out against naval exercises around South
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