AGE seek membership This conference beginning of the month.
the Movement Fourth International.
important role in a of Ireland. was an the organisation Gus has.
for The march in Gus, the Six Counties.
to which THE IRISH revolutionary socialist organisation Peoples Democracy is to of the Fourth unanimously-supported DUODULL decision was one outcome of PD's Dublin at the It is just nine months since the new Fein PD organisation was established as a fused organisation of the old PD and for Socialist Republic, the then Irish Section of the VOLES Since the fusion, PD has played an whole series of activities both in the North and South initiative which led to the establishment, at the turn of the year, of the United Burntollet Committee whose main activity was to organise a march which coincided with the tenth the anniversary of the civil rights protest.
committee attracted support from the majority of anti-imperialist organisations in The RACs are the main focus for the campaigh for political status for the H-Block and other prisoners.
Building the RACs was one of the bernacelle Devlin-McAliskey canditature in the ment. EEC elections. PD was the only political organisation to sponsor the campaign, although many RACs as well as individual Republicans and socialists gave their to the anti-repression platform on which Bernadette was standing.
Unfortunately Provisional vigorously opposed DevlinMcAliskey, advocating a boycott.
Despite this, EIC Y RACs established out of the campaign and this, plus the 34,000 received did more the imperialist movement.
The election activities also gave a powerful boost to the PD campaign for an all-Ireland conference against repression.
This 32-county perspective was one of the main themes running through discussions PD's conference, particularly in relation to the women's movement.
The organisation has fought for a mass action response to the attempt of the government in the South to cripple the activities of the tamov panning clinics in opposing severe restrictions contraception facilities. PD has also argued for a 32-county wide of the women's movefederation This 32-county approach has also been marked in PD's attitude towards the student movement, in which the Student Campaign against sion had scored significant advances in all the major irish colleges.
HECHIDels nave contributed to this development. Sinn major discussion conference was crisis. The main theme of this was the need to challenge the working class's Were reformist leadership.
The main area than increased attention building an alternative in the unions wages agreement with the Fianna Fail governet.
This priority was not confined to the South. A rise of militancy was noted Northern particularly those service.
Speaker after speaker stressed that work in the unions had to be on a 32-county basis and had to include, in pride of place, campaign. around such a campaign was the main critique at the conterence concerning the Socialist Labour Party.
This party, ago as a split off from the Labour Party by number including MP Noel Brown and trade union leader Repressignificantly union struggles. the the economic SLP activity single out for by PD was Limerick, supported national higher government workers, in the public the anti-repression The absence of activiti since the organisation , established two years of people suggest equipped to take.
Matt Merrigan, had promise Deggs Supporters of PD's paper Socialist Republic had tried to win the party to active role in building action against repression, on ine women s movement and in support of trade While some of these positions had been formally adopted, in practice the leaders had sabotaged such in tavour of vote-catching stunts. This strategy failed dismally It was noted that Socialist Republic supporter Joe Harrington, standing scored qualitatively votes in the recent local than other candidates who had adopted the SLP leadership's approach and who had all received dismally low votes Accordingly, shortly after the PD conference the Republican Socialist Tendency in the SLP, led by Socialist Republic supporters , resigned from the SLP and joined PD.
Peoples Democracy has increased its size and geographical implantation fusion, and although the . continues to face problems it also faces the type of opportunities which the confidence and unity displayed at the conference the organisation is well
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anything to establish PD as a force to reckoned