ON FRIDAY 18 April there will be a public forum on East-West relations at which two senior diplomats, from the American Embassy and one from the Soviet Embassy will be speaking.
This forum has been arranged by the international committee of the Chesterfield Constituency which was established last year.
The Soviet representative is Guennadi Shabannikov, first bassy, and the American Alexander Vershbow, deputy counsellor at the Dear Comrade Editor, correspondent Cath Potter rightly successful fringe meeting paign group and the CLPD.
cessful fringe meeting came about.
myself spoke.
hut at least it was a start. he tollowing vear. the council.
Yours fraternally, Michael Hindley MEP Member of the Campaign group and CLPD Amony Beba, MP for Benn.
Chesterfield, will take the Chair.
The mayor of Chesterfield, councillor Tom Whyatt, arranged civic reception for the distinguished guests meet local citizens before the forum which will begin at the College of Technology at 7.30pm After the welcome and an introduction by the Chairman each the guests will make their statements there will then be an opportunity for local people to put questions and make thei the principal guests will have the opportunitv for a response before the forum adjourns.
In her report on the North West conference your points to the organised by the CamHowever in saying that 'in previous years supporters of the Militant newspaper have been the only coherent alternative' she is doing a disservice to the CLPD and to the Campaign group. I am sure this is unintentional and based on an ignorance of how this year's sucAt the 1984 North West conference the CLPD put on a fringe meeting at which John Tocher and There was only a small attendance, CLPD organised a joint meeting with the Campaign group, with Allen Roberts MP in the chair and Eric Heffer and myself as speakers. There was a good attendance and the Campaign group and the CLPD decided to repeat the fringe meeting this year, this time with Les Huckfield MEP in the chair. We were delighted to extend the platform, at a very late stage, to comrades from Liverpool city Committee or to affiliate were already planning a rising. him of their detailed plans for a rising where they fought throughout Easter Week. also executed.
The adoption of John Redmond's nominees onto the Provisional Committee of the Volunteers in June 1914 widened the gulf between it and the A brief alliance between both organisations was achieved in September following the split with Redmond and with the arrival in Dublin of ConThe took direct control over the citizen Army following Larkin's departure for America. However, the alliance was short lived, frustrated by the refusal of the Volunteers to co-opt two members of the Citizen Army to the Provisional This was a set-back to the drive by Mac Diarmada. Connolly and Clarke to present a united revolutionary front and caused friction for many months but there was a reconciliation between the ICA and (Irish Republican Brotherhood) in OcAlready personally committed to organising an World War would provide the opportunity. In this he was supported by Mac Diarmada and Clarke, both senior IRB men, who, unlike the Volunteers, Following abortive talks between the Citizen Army and Volunteers, Mac Diarmada and Clarke organised meetings between the ICA and IRB but manoeuvres by the Citizen Army, it became clea that Connolly was contemplating a solo venture and the Military Council felt it was time to inform At a three-day meeting between Connolly and the Military Council (19-21 January) - during which time it was generally and incorrectly believed that he had been kidnapped - Connolly was told of the planned rising for Easter Sunday, 23 April, sworn into the IRB and co-opted onto the Both Connolly and Mac Diarmada became Government and signatories of the 1916 ProOn Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, Mac Diarmada and Connolly saw the pactical conclusion to their years of tireless organising when they marchwith the Irish Volunteers and Citizen Army to take their place with the headquarters staff in the GPO, Following the general surrender on 29 April, the wounded Connolly was taken on a stretcher to the military hospital at Dublin Castle. Mac Diarmada, along with the remainder of the GPO garrison, was taken to the grounds of the Rotunda At 3.45 on the morning of 12 May 1916, Sean Mac Diarmada was executed in Kilmainham Jail. Several hours later, the badly-wounded James Connolly was taken by ambulance from Dublin Castle to Kilmainham Jail, strapped to a chair and