IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

NOEL JENKINSON'S LAST LETTER No Peace New Ireland

Red Weekly No. 178, 9 December 1976 · p. 11 of the scan · 493 words

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: ANDREW WIARD (Report The hypocritical support of the NI 'Peace Movement' by the Brit press and government continues and I don't cease to be astonished at the gullibility of those I'm charitable enough to assume are ordinary decent people. How can the people of Ireland, after so much sacrifice, and death, even contemplate wnile one brit soldier remains in wreland. reace will only exist in a society of free men.

Peace to me means the richt to live a decent life with a promise of the future. It means to me and rewarding house, a good school for children, good hospi tals and care for the old. But will this peace movement build one house, make one job (except for the organisers], build one school or hospital or do anvthing for the old except teach So long as anvthing to do with it. it will simply be a recruiting organisation for informers.

The Brit supporters of the Peace Movement' are the same people who have been convicted before the world as torturers and who even now are training a new intake of torturers. We know from our experience of them that they would rather lie than speak the truth: all over the world they are recognised as untrustworthy. But the great inue icelandic peopie nave peace prisoner framed for the Aldershot bombings, who died two months ago in Leicester prison. The letter, written on 4 October, has only recently come to light. In reading this letter it should be remembered that Noel's information on the situation in the North of Ireland was rather limited by his prison conditions. Certainly the support for the 'Peace People' of which Noel writes is in a sit idly by while you rob us blind'.

I see in the Sundav the drum.

gested the struggle would be Cal Brits have Ireland must also play its part.

sooner we will all have peace Noel not VENCEREMOS DONT AGREE WITH WHAT THEY SAT'S because they bent the knee, but because they said get our or our waters - we will no longer Times that the 'Peace Movement' has a 'healthy' bank balance. course it has and for hundreds of years in Ire land the level of the bank balance has always been in direct proportion to the level of colla boration; but we should remember this *if you take the Queen's shilling you must follow Of course people are tired, but who sug La short one imperialism will be protracted but the impor tant thing is it will be successful. Imperialism is suffering heavy blows all over the world and We will build a new Ireland and it won't b like the old one where a million farm workers died in order to keen alive the thinds for which the army of occupation stood and still stands. The harder we work for the new Ireland, the With kind regards and comradely greetings BUT I WILL DEFEND•• AN

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