fighter, Benjamin Moloise, during a last visit by his mother, said: Tell the world freedom is at hand.' The following day he was hanged.
Against the background of daily news reports of black people, some of them children, murdered by the terrorists of South Africa's apartheid regime Thatcher succeeded in preventing the imposition of sanctions against Botha's administration. The Foreign Secretary African National Congress to renounce violence.
Thatcher was accused of being the only apologist Dr Botha can depend on in the outside world. She is not. Dublin government also refused to impose sanctions.
Winnie Mandela correctly described the British government's attitude as an insult to her country's black majority. The Dublin government's attitude on this issue is not only an insult to the black majority of South Africa, it is an insult to the Irish people whose feelings are epitomised by the courageous Dunnes Stores strikers.
The Dublin governments' attitude is disgraceful. Indeed, I have no doubt that Nelson Mandela, Portlaoise prison, would be speedily extradited by Fitzgerald and his cohorts.
Sinn Fein's attitude is straightforward and well-known. We hypocritically call upon the ANC to renounce violence'. We stand shoulder to shoulder with them in their fight to develop their struggle by methods are forced upon them. We call upon those responsible for violence to We condemn apartheid as immoral.
We condemn Dublin's refusal to enforce immediate and total sanctions and we congratulate the Dunnes Stores strikers. To the ANC, we extend our unconditional solidarity. To our black brothers and sisters in struggle we send government finds STOL ot Its presence in this country.
being British called on the in opposition to The the attitude of of the far-off regimes.
Unlike of SUOS if he were in earth as is Central America.
do not solidarity to whatever throughout the in our own country.
the Irish Fheis this struggle.
Sovereignty Since the tirst surrendered so long ago.
It is no accident that the Dublin titude to liberation struggles. Dublin's attitude on these issues is but an extenattitude to the British The natural and logical place for Ireland is alongside the Palestinians, the Chileans, El Salvadoreans and the Nicaraguans. A government which truly represented the Irish people would be in opposition to Reagan's backing of repressive regimes in Central America, Israel's policy genocide against the Palestinian people, and in opposition to the British partition and occupation of this conSinn Fein reaffirms its support for those struggling for national liberation and an end to exploitation throughout the world. In that regard it could be suggested that our position is not unlike countless otherwise who periodically vocal in the denunciations This is most certainly not the case those hypocritical organisations, we have that fundamental grasp or geograpny wach tens u: that Ireland is as much as part of this There is an even more fundamental difference. We are anti-imperialists and the acid test of one's anti-imperialism and political integrity is in one's attitude to the struggle of national liberation in this country. So in extending freedom fighters we extend solidarity also to the freedom fighters To the men and women soldiers of Republican Army, republican prisoners of war in Free State, US and British prisons, to their families and supporters, from this Ard we extend solidarity, and we rededicate ourselves to match their efforts and sacrifices by our continued endeavours to popularise and politicise Poverty in the heart of Dublin attitude to the talks and their political are not about Irish inre-unification, or on-federalism, or other the governm clean When the F COUL MOSC ched, we asked w hat the Forum parties were going to do when Britain said Margaret Thatcher said Dublin withdrawn from a process which was
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IMPELLED BY the growth of Sinn Fein, establishment politicians from London and Dublin are the closest they have ever been to signing an agreement for an 'internal settlement' in the occupied Six Counties. In his presidential address, GERRY ADAMS stressed the need for a clear understanding of the social forces at work in creating this situation and a clear political response from the republican movement. Set in the global context provided by the patently terests of the British govert not withdraw because terests.
Forum The talks are abour London political climate in which Sinn Fein car be isolated through a mix sion and appeas the repression will depend on how successful we are in developing our party 'No!' and expanding our support. have On that count ourselves for a lot of repression. ProFree State guardai attack nationalist protest: 26 County taxpayers bear even greater burden in supporting partition than the British.
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scription, attempted ostracisation, new laws, censorship, the banning of ou imprisonment (with without trial), even summary execu tions, have never defeated us in the past Nor will they now.
Unionists London-Dublin collaboration is no new thing. The nature of this statele and the ethos of the ruling class ensure!
its dependency upon, and subservienc brusa government Neve however, since British gun:
were used to bombard the Four Court:
has the collaboration been so public and so unapologetic.
The duration of the struggle, the failure of the British to defeat us, and the short-sightedness of the unionis leaderships are all factors which con to the British government need to involve Dublin more and more in the task of stabilising their interest can afford to offend th unionists. After all, there will be n constitutional changes and, for all thei protestations, the unionists have faile opposition partitior use of discrimination gerry-mandering coercion, couraged by the British for as long a they succeeded in fulfilling the Britis need to neutralise opposition to thei rule in Ireland, are now to be refiner More sophisticated methods are to b The predictable unionist utilised to exaggerate substance of whatever concessions a But ordinary nationalists will judg these talks not by the rhetoric of its su porters or opponents but by the substance, its effects on their lives its relevance to the struggle of the for self-determination establishment have made mistake of believing their believe that flourishes in conditions of de