a Communists say: 1OT CIVIL AR, UT CIVIL NITY! 1 Bast — A powerful call €s unity to defeat Tory mont repression was a Irish Communists at th Congress here last “are not here to advocate %, but to promote civil , paid their general sec- j, Michael O’Riordan. . &e here to establish 4 Protestant nor a Ca- i, Premacy, but to estab- » ‘Cading role and supre- »% the Irish working i) hning those who “plant N public places,” he said: iy, west explosive weapon, * Can destroy the old and »¢ the new, is people’s fling the theory that the s, Of Ireland had internal i Mr. O'Riordan indicted ty Petialism for partition- brite but stressed that: 4 -tln of 1971 is not the a: ) "Perial power of 50 years he vorkers Suffer lyinssame time, Britain is i t to act in the old way, iy; he Tories are trying to ty the Irish question in “ney, namely, by repres- ay if that does not bo "g repression.” \ thetordan showed graphi- of extent to which the » »! the present strife was , othe by the working i : Northern Ireland. bs 4 those killed were og of the 300 detainees y the working class. It is iy fees Workers who are be- hy Cted, on the streets and Omes, to police and atoning. W porkers and their fami- ip, BFE being intimidated i ©mes and jobs. OR; all the difficulties, said Nop an, the Irish Con- as Tade Unions remained ’, a national trade union tin ering both states and ij, © both Protestant and ~ Workers, \ New readers... ’ ace f Or j nk year Mion (Only $2.50) communist lewpoint lage sctiPtion Service ' Prog © St. W., Toronto 133 ' nly till Dec. 31, 197! “What is needed is the lesson of working-class politics to move this giant to action.” United Labor Explaining the party’s policy of building the unity of the peo- ple behind the demands for democratic rights, Mr. O‘Rior- dan stoutly condemned those “whose tactic of planting bombs in public places has created more explosive fissures among the working people, and so helps, in fact, to keep together the shaky edifice of the Union- ist administration.” The policy which is the basis around which this unity is being built was expressed in the poli- tical resolution which was adopted unanimously by the Congress on Saturday. Stressing that the Civil Rights Association, which began the present struggle, “stands as the unifying and rallying centre of all the anti-Unionist forces at the present time,” the resolution suggested a common platform which would demand: v¥ The immediate and uncon- ditional release of all those de- tained under the Special Powers Act and the immediate cessa- tion of internment, arrests and detention without trial. v A public inquiry under the auspices of the International Red Cross into allegations of brutal- ity by the armed forces against the detainees and against peo- ple in areas subject to recent British Army action. v The withdrawal of the Bri- tish troops from these areas and and end to their role as an Op- pressive force for propping up the Faulkner administration. v The enactment by the Bri- tish Parliament of a Bill for Northern Ireland which would contain the legislative basis for democracy and the removal ol all forms of coercive legislation, such as the Special Powers Act. The suspension of the pres- ent Stormont administration and its replacement, pending a democratic election, by a demo- cratic administration composed of representatives of the peo- ple’s organizations to adminis- ter the above proposals. v Immediate talks, condition- ~ al on the release of the inter- nees, should be held between the London and Dublin govern- us representatives of organizations in the North, to ensure that the demands out- lined above are implemented. Mass Campaign On the basis of such an agreed program @ united anti- Unionist movement could be developed that would fully sup- ments pl Led by MP’s Bernadette Devlin and Frank McManus, members of the Anti-Internment League in London march to Fleet Street to protest the failure of the daily press to report the brutalities to internees in North- ern Ireland. port the Civil Rights Associa- tion in the carrying out of the organization necessary to the success of mass resistance ac- tions such as the civil disobe- dience campaign. Around such campaigns, local democratic people’s administra- tions should be elected in all areas. ‘In this way the basis would be laid for a really representa- tive anti-Unionist front that would further develop the mass action of the people. Speaking on the civil disobe- dience movement, Edwina Stew- art referred to the government’s threat to break the rents and rates strike by evictions and de- ductions from wages. “Let the government try—to collect the rents of 25,000 peo- ple!” she declared. “Let Faukner be chief tickman and see where it gets him.” The spirit of the people, she said, was indicated by their ac- tion in Armagh when the troops recently blew up the road. The people filled up the craters com- pletely level again, and then had an “official” re-opening of the road, cutting the tape and nam- ing the road “Taylor’s Folly.” Congress rose to its feet when two handkerchiefs which had been overprinted and smuggled out of Long. Kesh camp were displayed to the delegates. One carried a reproduction of a re- cent issue of the front page of the Party paper Unity. The other carried the words “greetings to congress, fight for a united so- cialist republic. The report in the Sunday Telegraph which tried to make a spy scare out of the presence of fraternal delegates from 13 countries caused great amuse- ment among the Irish delegates. They gave a great ovation to all the visitors, who included rep- resentatives of the Soviet, French, Italian, Czechoslovak and U.S. parties. The delegate from the British Communist Party, Jack Woddis, declared that his party would continue to campaign so that the British labour movement put pressure on the British gov- ernment to end its repressive policy, introduce vitally needed democratic reforms, and with- draw British troops. (Morning Star) wit { ray { AN Ni At i \ X nixo IN VIETNAM CANNOT BE ACHIEVED OVERNIGHT.” 2s TV ADDRESS TO NATION — MAY 14, 1969 x eS & 4 fees vy Nek 4 a’. tas We. ¥ AS : NOSE Wa Ace Be ete RG : ; nthe ea Ng : oe Pad ' DALY Were PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1971—PAGE 9