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they want Adams been an attempt on the life of Gerry Adams.
good reason for wanting him dead.
in the six counties.
Adams was arrested in 1973 and not released until 1976. During the mid-1970s after Ine trauma of Bloody Sunday 1972 the Republican movement went through a period of a loss ot airec tion. The "power-sharing' ment negotiated by Northern minister Willlam wollelaw gave a lease of life to the middleThe Provisionals the ouner CONCCE trated on the economic bombing campaign in the Six Counties, and a bombing In which resulted in the Birmingham bombings in 1974. rrom prison Adanis called for a change in direction. His central theme was tha the military and political struggle had to be united.
EXpression ch we faven the ching of the relatives' camIT COMES as no surprise to anybody that there has Both the Loyalist paramilitaries and the British state have During the last decade he has emerged as the most determined and clear-sighted leader of socialist Republicanism more traditional right wing republican leadership based in Dublin, around Daithi O'Connaill Ruadhri O'Braudaich.
Adams has shown over the years an ability to learn from the experience of the struggle, the elect relation electoral tactic, ingly made Sinn Fein the dominant political force in the nationalist communihe cantone. of Bobby Sands, and ther Owen Carron atter sand's death proved Adams' effective strategic leadership of the Republican movement.
The presitge of the Adams team was used to reaffirm the democratic socialist orientation and change the programme of the organisation, for exblems of the local people.
An the Provisionals' weekly paper, was turned towards mass politics, concenwalng much less on simpic news of the military strugbut Talle. turning towards working issues and struggle.
The new mass strategy which led to the election of six Sinn Fein members to the Assembly and the elec. tion of Gerry Adams as the MP for West Belfast were consolidated by the 1983 Ard Fheis. Adams insisted on something which gave Republican strategy a new dimension turn southern Irish working class above all in the trade unions.
This is crucial to any socials strategy for Ireland — the understanding that the reunification of Ireland on a socialist basis can only be achieved within 32-county perspective, , and by breaking down the idea that the solution the national Socialist Action 23 March 1984
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