1061 organised Blackpool on the eve of the Con ference in October. Two videos have been produced for the campaign, one a осинс ole sacked miners, and the other a :90-minute recording of the Albert Hall concert.
Reports also taken executive members and a number of NUM areas.
one wake.
piton, vice-president George solton, the Scottish area, reported on plans for a lobby of the TUC. Maurice Wood of the Yorkshire area executive, Bill Smith of the Northumberland area executive, and Frank Duffy of the Durham area executive, said that their NUM areas had undertakch to contuc regula meetings of their sacked 1111CS. Terry the South Wales executive Jim Coughlan, secretary of the Midlands both welcomed the campaign pledged continued support miners in their area.
AlIC Suddick, delegate national Women Against Pit reported on the national the resoluțions passed supporting the Justice campaign and prioritising campaigning victimised miners.
Roger Windsor, of the NUM national office, stressed the importance of lottery with the He also proposed that campaign publish was agreed to publicise Case around the coun Lasliv. he urged the with the against the This prowas well-received, given the adMike BritSOGAT NEC and two sacked to the The 13 April meeting turning in the campaign's Labour Party conThe Albert important develop In support of the To step up its work and to organise at each national UTION Concence this summer, it was agreed general meeting within four weeks. The AGM will elect the national council of the campaign and its officers will be submitted for reelection.
council THIe will be composed of twelve delegates elected by the NUM areas, twelve from WAPC, twelve regional Justice campaigns twelve others luding representatives NUM WAPC Dick Withecombe, of the North West Callball. and one of the organisers of the Albert Hall concert was elected as an officer of the campaign with responsibility for organising the AGM establishing Justice campaigns in each Labour Party region.
Regional campaigns currently exist in the South West west Yorkshire Notts, Part of the constitution campaign is guidance that such regional campaigns should formed in conjunction with the appropriate NUM During this week a new national leaflet for the including standing order form TOT the victimised miners will be prinlea During the next month this wil distributed throughout the movement. to win new atfiliates to the campaign. Contact the National Justice for Mineworkers Campaign c/o Durham Mecanics Offices, The Avenue, Durham DHI 4ED (phone: 0385 61375/6). anniversary week's Ireland Unfree' over to it. the Irish Volunteers together. controlling body of the pathetic to the class struggle In its special issue commemorating the 70th of the 1916 Easter Rising An Phoblacht/Republican News, the paper supported in Ireland by Sinn Fein, printed an account of the details of the political preparation of the rising — and in particular the role in it of Marxist socialist James Connolly of the Irish Citizens' Army and Sean Mac Diarmada of the revolutionary nationalist Irish Republican Brotherhood. We are turning this JAMES Connolly and Sean Mac Diarmada, men of keen intellect and tremendous energy, were actively involved in the preparations for a revolution in Ireland for several years prior to 1916. Their different paths to the revolution finally converged in 1914 when the two men were instrumental in bring. ing the forces of the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) and Mac Diarmada, who had a long history of involvement in the Irish Republican Brotherhood which he joined in Belfast in 1906, was present at the inagural meeting of the Irish Volunteers in the Rotunda in Dublin on 25 November 1913. There he was elected to the Provisional Committee, the Volunteers. Two days previously, Captain Jack White and James Larkir had founded the Irish Citizen Army as a defence From the very outset there was friction between the Citizen Army and the Irish Volunteers and this was only resolved in early 1916 due mainly to the efforts of Connolly and Mac Diarmada.
The Citizen Army's antipathy to the very idea of a volunteer force had been voiced at the in. augural meeting of the Volunteers in the Rotunda. The opposition was founded on the belief of its motivation behind the Volunteers was unsym-